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By Peter LarsonThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/administration

Northwestern University Health Service will offer reduced services Feb. 16 to Feb. 18 as it moves into its new addition and renovation begins on the existing Searle Hall facility.

Construction of the expanded building will finish in August, said Donald Misch, executive director of health services.

“What will happen is we will all move into the new building so for six months, we’ll actually be crowded still because everything’s moving there,” he said.

During the move, the lab, phar-

macy and radiology departments will be closed. A nurse and physi-cian will be on-call to help answer students’ questions and determine if they need to be referred to area physicians, Misch said.

Students can make appointments by telephone with either Dr. Bruce Doblin or Dr. Robert Magrisso, in-dependent physicians in the area. Their offices will bill any Univer-sity-covered services to Health Ser-vice. Free transportation by taxi also will be available between the physicians’ offices or the CVS Min-ute Clinic, 3333 Central St., and the Evanston campus with a valid WildCARD.

“If they let them know that

they’re a new patient and a North-western student, we’ll fit them in,” Doblin said. “We should be able to see people the same day or within 24 hours.”

The expansion and renovation is the result of a $1 million grant made in honor of John Searle in January 2007. It marks the build-ing’s first major construction since it was built in 1960.

The project, which began fall 2008, will make Searle more accom-modating to students, Misch said.

“Students will be very impressed and see the benefits right away,” he said.

It’s an effort that is long overdue, said William Banis, vice president for student affairs.

“The Searle building … was de-signed for a different era,” he said. “And the old building is now very inefficient by modern standards.”

The existing building did not of-fer enough space, Misch said. Doc-tors had examining rooms that dou-bled as their offices before, but they will each have an office and two ex-amining rooms after the expansion, he said.

“Currently our doctors have a combined exam room/office,” Misch said. “If a patient is in the exam room changing, they need to leave the office. They can’t do any other work.”

The expansion will help improve Health Service’s efficiency and in-crease services, Misch said. The new building will have procedure rooms, which will make it easier to perform minor surgeries like cast-ing for fractures, as well as a health education f loor and some new ther-apy rooms.

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By ali elkinThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/police

Instead of a ticket for a fake ID or for public urination, one Medill ju-nior received a citation earlier this year from University Police for emit-ting “a heavy sigh.”

The student, who asked to remain anonymous due to “ongoing disciplin-ary procedures,” said he and a group of friends were walking down Sherman Avenue, speaking at a normal volume, when they passed two UP officers. The student said the officers forcefully told the group to quiet down.

“I sighed in exasperation, and the sigh was probably lower than the level that I had previously been talk-ing,” he said.

The student said he was issued a ticket for about $75 for violating an Evanston noise ordinance and was called in to the Office of Judicial Af-fairs. He said he contested the fine and won his case, which caused Judi-cial Affairs to drop the matter.

“It borders on the police state when you are literally ticketing some-one for voicing an emotional guttural sound,” the student said.

UP Deputy Chief Dan McAleer said he was not aware of the incident but thought it was not indicative of the rela-tionship between students and police.

The junior said his sigh was not just about the particular situation but also his long history of argumen-tative encounters with UP. Several other students said they had experi-enced similar antagonism in their interactions with campus police.

Some of this bad feeling comes from hazy and uncertain expectations of students’ rights and responsibilities in interaction with the police on and off campus, they said.

“I wish I knew more about my rights,” McCormick junior Michael Weiss said. “I don’t know how much of what (campus police) do is moral or follows police code.”

Steven Silverman, founder of Flex Your Rights, an organization that pro-duces media about constitutional rights in police situations, said such uncer-tainty is what he aims to eradicate.

“The information is for everybody, but primarily young people seem to be most in need of this information, as young people are disproportionately stopped and searched by police,” he said.

Silverman said students should be wary of “cooperating” with campus and municipal police, in that they are likely to incriminate themselves unin-tentionally and avoidably. Though per-haps uncooperative, students should always remain courteous and calm.

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unaware of their choices when a po-lice officer knocks on their dormi-tory doors. He said policies vary from campus to campus.

“When you’re in campus housing, its almost like you’re living in your parents’ house, and they can agree to let the police into your house,” Silverman said. “In a college dorm, students do have a lessened expecta-

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City officials said they want to keep Evanston’s $159 million pension fund deficit in the pub-lic consciousness.

Evanston must fill the prodi-gious gap by 2033, City Man-ager Wally Bobkiewicz said. The deficit was realized in 2007 when the city reevaluated its actuarial assumptions and learned it had been failing to keep up with state-mandated contributions.

“For many years this was not discussed on a regular basis,” he said.

Minhaz and Dilshad Lakhani responded to the city’s pension worries last month, donating $5,000 to commemorate the opening of their south Evanston convenience store and gas sta-tion.

“It was just the nicest thing,” said Ald. Ann Rainey (8th), who

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James Coughlin (McCormick ’82) came to Northwestern in a line of tradition. His cousin and three siblings also attended the University, studying journalism, busi-ness and engineering. The family contin-ues to remain involved with NU, and now the alumnus is trying to engage the Uni-versity. Coughlin, who has worked as a program director at IBM for 28 years, will embark on a 400-mile bike journey across Tanzania this July to raise money for or-phans’ education. With $5,000 of his $10,000 goal met, he hopes to get NU cy-clists involved in the process.

DAILY: What’s a favorite memory you have from NU?Coughlin: I did swimming and running through intramurals, but in the spring of my last year, I took a sailing class. I thought, “Right there on Lake Michigan, what a great chance to sail?” I got hit by the boon of the sailboat and knocked into the cold water. They had to send the speedboat out to rescue me. So much for my athletic adventure in sailing. And then I guess just the all-nighters. The camara-derie in that environment is very similar to what I’ve looked for or have tried to fos-ter in my work environment.

DAILY: How has your time at NU impacted you?Coughlin: The combination of very strong academics as well as the opportunity to participate in the (engineering) Co-op program and get job experience posi-

tioned me very well. I’ve been back at NU on a regular basis. One of my brothers ac-tually lives in Evanston. We go there al-most every year for Thanksgiving. Now I have three daughters, and I take them to visit campus. My youngest daughter talks quite a bit about going to NU.

DAILY: How did you get into biking?Coughlin: I actually haven’t been biking that long. I was originally a swimmer growing up. I switched to running in high school. In my adult life, I’ve done 6 mara-thons. I have arthritis in my knees so I had to give up running. So I’ve switched to biking the past 2 years.

DAILY: Why did you decide to enter this race?Coughlin: I got involved in early December. I was out picking up take-out food from a local Middle Eastern restaurant. I hap-pened to pick up a magazine I used to read when I was running, Endurance Magazine. The cover story was entitled “Meghann Gunderman Wants You to Ride 400 Miles Across Africa & Help Change the World.” I think I was hooked before I even started reading the article. The thing that has really stood out to me is the is-sues around girls and education for girls. Being the father of three daughters, it was the type of thing that really appealed to me and made me aggressive with fund-raising.

DAILY: What’s the most creative fundraiser you’ve done?Coughlin: I read this story about a little or-phan girl named Rosie, who was affected with a fungus on her scalp so she had to

go to the barber and have her head shaved. So on New Year’s Eve, I shaved my head. It’s going well. I think people are curious: “Why did you shave your head?” I’ve had donations through that work. I was able to get a local story written about it as well. I thought, “New Year’s Eve, kicking off the new year.” Timing is good.

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By Alexandra FinkelThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/student-life

University President Morton O. Schapiro will receive more than 45 Valentine’s Day cards this Thursday.

The cards are the Northwestern Living Wage Campaign’s newest effort to raise awareness on the issue.

“We wanted to make it a broader public dis-cussion,” campaign member Adam Yalowitz said. “We want to get the president back in-volved in the issue because we know it’s some-thing he cares about.”

Living wage is defined as the hourly payment needed to support a family. In Cook County, this amounts to $13.23 per hour, according to re-search done by the Northwestern Community Development Corps. NU food service and jani-torial employees are currently paid between $9 and $11, said Matthew Fischler, another cam-paign member.

Formed in Fall Quarter, the campaign has met with administration several times and cir-culated a petition, which has garnered more than 1,200 signatures.

“Entry-level cashiers and utility workers with one dependent are paid below the poverty line,” said Fischler, a Communication senior. “We didn’t think that was acceptable. If NU truly wants to have an inclusive community, workers should be included in that.”

The organization estimates an implementa-tion of a living wage would cost the University an additional $2 to $5 million per year.

William Banis, vice president for student af-fairs, said students don’t fully understand the implications of a living wage.

“There’s a lot of sympathy for the whole is-sue,” Banis said. “Most of us support the concept and want to do what we can. But there are harsh realities that all of us have to face.”

The University contracts outside organiza-tions like Sodexo to hire and pay food service and janitorial workers.

“We need to make a distinction between our employees and Sodexo employees,” he said.

But Yalowitz said it’s ridiculous not to con-

sider campus workers part of the NU commu-nity.

“It’s this myth of subcontracting that leads to substandard working conditions across the country and on our campus,” the Weinberg ju-nior said. “Its a myth and lie to say these people don’t work at NU when they’re making our sandwiches and cleaning our buildings.”

Still food services and housing are self-sup-porting enterprises, meaning they are supported by student fees rather than tuition or the endow-ment, Banis said.

If contractors choose to increase wages, an increase in cost means an increase in student fees, said Banis, who added the University is try-ing to contain tuition and room and board costs.

The University also faces a troubled fiscal en-vironment.

“In my opinion, the timing couldn’t be worse,” Banis said. “Our endowment is down. We went through budget cuts last year. Every-

one’s tightening their belt trying to contain costs.”

After falling $1.8 billion from its $7.4 billion peak in April 2008, NU’s endowment has since rebounded and currently stands at about $6 bil-lion.

Banis said there are trade-offs to the Living Wage Campaign’s goals.

“Education and research are the drivers for NU,” he said. “Then come quality of student life and student satisfaction. There are choices to make because we have a limited supply of money.”

The University will work to make improve-ments incrementally, Banis said.

“We’ll do what we can this year and as the economy gets better, we’ll keep chipping away at it,” he said. “We don’t make dramatic changes in this kind of financial environment.”

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Action regarding Great Room postponed until March 16 by zoning board

The Zoning Board of Appeals postponed action regarding the Great Room until March 16 at a meeting Tuesday night.

At that time, the board will resume dis-cussion on the fate of the Northwestern-owned building at 610 Haven St., which cur-rently serves as NU’s newest dining option.

Evanston residents George and Andrea Gaines, who live on the 2200 block of Or-rington Avenue, filed a petition in Novem-ber, saying the recent change in use violates Evanston zoning law, an infraction which could result in the closure of the facility.

Art Newman, the Gaines’ attorney, asked for the continuance. He said they just re-ceived a $1,342 bill from the city after re-questing the transcript of the ZBA’s last meeting and wished to apply to the Evanston City Council to waive that fee. They will ap-ply in the next few days, he said, and come before the council at its Feb. 22 meeting.

Although this delays the proceedings, Newman said he thought it was fair given rep-resentation for NU was also granted a contin-uance earlier in the proceedings.

“We don’t feel there’s any prejudice to the restaurant or any food service be-cause they’re still operating,” Newman said. “They were granted a continuance, and we think it’s equitable. We filed in November, and it wasn’t heard until Jan-uary so we think it’s reasonable.”

Howard Zweig, the attorney for NU, said “the University has no objection whatsoever to the continuance.”

Newman suggested they resume the proceedings on March 2, the ZBA’s first scheduled meeting in March. Zweig said he has a witness who would be out of town, and requested to wait until March 16.

Only a few people attended the brief meeting on a very snowy night. Board member Matthew Rodgers concluded the session “with apologies for everyone who cleared out their car to come out tonight.”

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Female student collapses in Tech, refuses treatment

A female Northwestern student suf-fered severe abdominal cramps Monday afternoon in the Technological Institute, 2145 Sheridan Rd., police said.

The student became disoriented and fell slowly to the ground before Evanston Fire Department officials came to the scene and the student refused treatment, police said.

Suspects charged after shooting vehicle Saturday

Two suspects traveling in a vehicle early Saturday morning fired shots at another ve-hicle carrying three victims whom the sus-pects knew, police said.

The shooting occurred at the intersec-tion of Emerson Street and Laurel Avenue, where the suspects’ car pulled up next to the victims’ car, and shot the door and rear of the victims’ vehicle, Evanston Police

Cmdr. Tom Guenther said.Earlier in the evening, the victims attended

a party in the 1700 block of Dodge Avenue, where one of the suspects revealed he was car-rying a handgun, according to a police press re-lease. The shooting occurred shortly after.

After the uninjured victims reported the in-cident, police began a search and apprehended the suspects. The suspects, Terrance Gunn and Christian McGee, both Evanston residents, were charged with three counts of aggravated battery with a firearm, Guenther said.

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By Lark TurnerThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/academics

As Northwestern in Qatar accepts ap-plications for its third freshman class, the search has begun for a new dean of stu-dents for fall 2011.

The current dean, John Margolis, agreed to a three-year appointment when he took the position. A former associate provost for faculty, he has been dean of NU-Q since its opening in fall 2008.

“Given that this was a new enterprise that had a tremendous number of un-knowns and logistical challenges, John was terrific in taking on the responsibility to help us set it up in a way that was suc-cessful,” University Provost Daniel Linzer said.

Linzer said Margolis has no relevant academic background in communication or journalism, NU-Q’s only subject areas.

“By the end of his three-year term, we would be at a point where it’s no longer a start-up venture but an ongoing academic enterprise,” he said. “We’d be able to hand over the reins to someone else who is probably more closely embedded within (journalism and communication).”

Though the search has only just begun, NU-Q student Nayaab Shaikh said in an Internet chat the new dean will have a lot to live up to.

“Dean Margolis has set the mark very high,” the Communication sophomore said.

What Margolis had accomplished with NU-Q over the past two years has been “remarkable,” she said.

“The cultural differences between the U.S. and here are vast,” she said. “He has brilliantly bridged those gaps and has constantly strived towards the betterment of the NU-Q community ... The new dean should be well-prepared to overcome and bridge those differences in the best way.”

Omer Mohammad, an NU-Q student, said in an Internet chat Margolis was an “inspiration.”

“He’s been able to help a lot of the stu-dents learn and get involved with many things,” the Communication sophomore said. “He’s given us the push to go for what we believe in, whether it’s something personal or community-related.”

Because NU-Q is so new, Mohammad said the new dean will need initiative to promote student involvement. He said Margolis is currently meeting with stu-dents to learn about these issues at break-fast events every other Sunday.

Mohammad said he wasn’t ready to see Margolis go.

“It’s sad,” he said. “We’ve all grown re-ally attached to having him around.”

The search for the new dean will take at least six to eight months, Linzer said.

Among other initiatives, NU will try to make it easy for students at both cam-puses to study in either Evanston or Qa-tar, Linzer said.

The dean’s job will change focus from growth to improving the quality of pro-grams NU-Q offers, he said.

“We’re already seeing a big change in the kinds of issues that have to be ad-dressed,” Linzer said.

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Federal HUD grant shakes up west Evanston housing plans

By Adam Sege The Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/evanston

As Evanston awaits specific instruc-tions on how to spend its $18 million af-fordable housing grant, the fate of a pro-posed 98-unit housing community in west Evanston remains uncertain.

At a conference in Washington, D.C. last week, two city officials learned new details about the funds from representa-tives of the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. The HUD officials asked Evanston to priori-tize the reopening and resale of 100 fore-closed properties in west and south Evan-ston, said Community Development Di-rector Dennis Marino, who attended the conference.

Evanston’s original grant proposal also included building a 98-unit mixed in-come community adjacent to Gilbert Park, by the intersection of Emerson Street and Jackson Avenue in west Evan-ston. But because HUD approved less than half of the $40 million the city ap-plied for, it is too early to tell whether the construction will proceed as proposed, Marino said.

“We’re not speculating on that one way or the other at this point,” Marino said.

The city announced last month it was

one of 56 cities nationwide awarded money from the Neighborhood Stabiliza-tion Program 2, an affordable housing initiative in last year’s stimulus package.

HUD will send the city a grant agree-ment letter as early as Friday, detailing more specific instructions on how to spend the $18 million. The city will then respond with a revised proposal.

In the meantime, Evanston’s elected offi-cials are still celebrat-ing the news it will be receiving the grant funds. On Friday, Mayor Elizabeth Tis-dahl walked with Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Rep. Jan Scha-kowsky (D-Ill.) through one of the west Evanston neigh-borhoods the NSP2 funds will target.

“Whether you’re on the southwest side of Chicago, out in Kane County or right here in Evanston, foreclo-sures are growing in number,” Durbin told reporters. “Eighteen million dollars will be invested back in this community to make sure that this street changes for the better.”

Evanston will have three years to spend the $18 million, said Eric Palmer, Evanston’s community information coor-dinator.

“That means there’s going to be some real changes happening really quickly,” he said. “(But) there’s a lot of work to be done.”

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Look out world, Sarah Palin is back. Bored of hunting wolves from helicopters, making

sure Russia isn’t up to anything from her perch in Wasilla and hanging out with “first dude” Todd Palin, the pit-bull in lipstick has returned.

In an interview on “Fox News Sunday” this week, Palin said she would run for president “if I believed that that is the right thing to do for our country and for the Palin family.”

As the keynote speaker at the National Tea Party Convention on Feb. 6, Palin sounded all the right notes (even if she read them off her hand), lecturing President Barack Obama to “stop lecturing and start listening.”

If Palin were to run for presi-dent, she would undoubtedly re-ceive significant support from the Tea Party movement, which gave her $100,000 to address the conven-

tion. The Tea Party Patriots are ded-icated to “grassroots organization powered by activism and civic re-sponsibility at a local level,” accord-ing to their Web site.

That’s all well and good. Grass-roots movements are an important part of our democracy, no matter which side they are on. However, to understand the Tea Party movement, we must identify the “real people” or-ganizing at the grassroots to promote their conservative philosophy.

The Tea Party movement seemed to be a genuinely populist uprising against Obama and Democrats, but it was in fact the brainchild of two Washington-based conservative think tanks, Americans for Prosper-ity and FreedomWorks.

These organizations developed strategies to “make the demonstra-tions look homegrown,” according to Newsweek. This method of orches-trating public outcry was deemed “Astroturf” activism by Sen. Lloyd Bentsen in 1985.

In a leaked memo titled “Rocking the Town Halls—Best Practices,” FreedomWorks detailed its strategy of intimidating members of Con-gress. The memo directs “Patriots” to “artificially inflate your numbers,”

“be disruptive early and often” and “try to rattle (the Congressman), not have an intelligent debate.”

Conservatives cry hypocrisy at al-legations the Tea Party movement represents Astroturf activism, stating Organizing for America, the succes-sor to the Obama campaign, is man-ufacturing public sentiment in favor of health care reform.

The key difference, however, is the Obama campaign was built on the backs of small donors: In January of 2008, 90 percent of Obama’s sup-porters gave $100 or less, and about 40 percent gave $25 or less, accord-ing to Politico.com. The Tea Party movement, which collects its cash from conservative foundations, can make no such claim.

If Sarah Palin is a favorite of the Tea Party movement, and the Tea Party movement isn’t really run by “real Americans,” as its leaders would have us believe, then Palin in fact pri-marily represents conservative foun-dations funded by wealthy families and their corporate interests.

All hail the Queen of Astroturf activism.

Limiting gun ownership doesn’t solve violence

Regarding Tuesday’s editorial il-lustration, “United we stand for a stronger city,” I am all for trying to decrease gun violence, but prohibit-ing civilian handgun ownership is not the way to do it. Sticking a flower in a criminal’s firearm isn’t going to limit gun violence in Chicago, Evan-ston or anywhere else, as the illustra-tion might have you believe.

Tisdahl is in support of limiting civilian ownership, but this in no way equates to limiting gun violence. Can anyone honestly claim a crimi-nal ready to rape, rob or murder someone is going to worry about a charge of illegal possession of fire-arm? Limiting civilian ownership of handguns takes firearms away from civilians and leaves them in the hands of the corrupt. Criminals will always have guns, legally or illegally, so perhaps we should be allowed to point one back if they break into our homes and threaten our families.

— Alex Agrons Weinberg junior

Publish humor, satire somewhere else, please

Is it just me, or is The Daily try-ing to turn itself into a lowbrow hu-mor publication? I always thought Forum was a place for informed, in-sightful discourse, not a collection of attention-seeking columnists who keep trying to outdo each other with increasingly ridiculous and gag-worthy satirical pieces. Killing off senior citizens? Showing canni-balism on television? Give me a break. If I wanted to read this kind of trope, there are personal blogs for that. This is supposed to be one of the best college newspapers in the country. It should read as such, not as a supermarket tabloid.

— Miriam Mogilevsky Medill freshman

Millennials “trebleinbed” By Steven A. Berger

If you’ve ever sat behind the east hoop at Welsh-Ryan Arena at a Northwestern men’s basketball game,

you’ve experienced firsthand how drastically fans can impact the score. When opponents toe the line at the charity stripe, fans raise their hands in the air and wait for the shooter to get to the top of his release. Then, in a flash, they sway their hands from one side to the other, creating the illusion of a moving basket. You can’t help but notice the frustration on an oppos-ing player’s face after a missed foul shot and the joy overcoming the student section at the sight.

Here’s why impacting basket-ball games matters: Now, more than ever, you could be a part of history. If NU tops Minnesota this weekend, for example, the team will have a better position in the logjam that is the Big Ten stand-ings. In turn, it will have a better position for the school’s much an-ticipated first-ever NCAA Tourna-ment berth.

Last weekend, the Wildcats shrugged aside Indiana, defeating the Hoosiers in front of a sold-out crowd. But the student section be-hind the baskets at Welsh-Ryan was anything but jam-packed. In fact, the student section was a damper on an otherwise electric

environment. The Cats should have celebrated their third consec-utive win over Indiana for the first time since the 1930s with their classmates in the stands. Instead they were greeted by a more-than-half-empty student section.

Where were all the fans? It was Super Bowl Sunday, there were in-tramural basketball games, and we’re in the middle of midterms. Those are all great excuses until you realize the game tipped off at 1:30 p.m. and shouldn’t have interrupted your studying or football-watching. Really, it was inexcusable.

Here are the facts: The Athletic Department sets aside 975 seats for students at every home men’s bas-ketball game, and Welsh-Ryan’s ca-pacity is 8,117. We’ve been given ac-cess to a disproportionately large number of seats, roughly 15 percent of the building. Few other schools in the country can make such a claim. And the kicker is that some of your tuition money is going to fees for tickets to athletic events.

Students showed up in large numbers for the Illinois, Purdue and Wisconsin games earlier this year, but there have been fewer than 300 students at every other Big Ten game this season. That leaves at least 600 seats empty on a regular basis.

Think back to the Illinois game two weekends ago when Brandon

Paul missed the first of his two free throws with just more than seven minutes remaining in the game. Af-ter the missed shot, NU went on a 14-2 run and never relinquished the lead. Against the Illini, the Athletic Department was forced to turn stu-dents away for safety reasons, some-thing that has happened only twice in the last six years. And over that same time span, there has been an average attendance of less than 300 students at men’s basketball games.

This is a problem. First, when something doesn’t work, change has to happen. By not attending games, we’ve forced the Athletic Depart-ment’s hand into deciding some of those seats should be sold to the gen-eral public in the future. Second, you’re missing the opportunity of a lifetime. For the last 70 years, NU students would have given anything for the opportunity to embrace a winning basketball team that makes a trip to the Big Dance.

This is what it comes down to: The 2009-10 squad is arguably the best in NU history. There are three conference home games left this season, the outcome of which will be the deciding factor in the selection committee’s eyes for whether NU makes the field of 65.

There’s no reason you can’t be there, swaying your arms to sway history.

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On Monday, a student named Jon Blough wrote a letter to the editor about my last column. If you

read it, I’m sure you were as con-fused and shocked as I was. There are people who disagree with me?

After skimming his letter, I dis-missed the substantive issues he had with my point of view. (I can’t argue with people who ignore facts.) But I couldn’t dismiss the personal attacks.

“As Brenna takes herself more seriously,” Jon wrote, “her logic be-comes troublesome.” Well, let me tell you something about logic—things are only true if you state them authoritatively.

Jon, you’re wrong.The thing is, I do take myself se-

riously, and that’s because I take America’s concerns seriously.

Some people (like Jon Blough) may think I’m an “egregiously offen-sive,” close-minded conservative, but I’m so much more than that. Believe it or not, I care about differing per-spectives. Which is why I’m inviting my readers to send me questions. I’ll help you untangle political issues; I’ll offer you personal advice; I’ll provide you with the morally right answers to all of your problems.

You can e-mail me or comment online. I’ll respond with a blog post to as many questions as I can.

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Coming to terms with my worst addiction

I don’t want to bore you with all the typical offenses com-mitted on Valentine’s Day. There’s already been quite

enough chatter that Valentine’s Day, by its very nature, only serves to illuminate who is single and who is not.

We coupled folk feel bad enough walking down the street holding hands and eating dinner at the window table of restaurants the other 364 days of the year—I guarantee the guilt we feel for flaunting our happiness so bra-zenly is only heightened on Febru-ary the 14th. It’s obnoxious. We know. And I’m sorry. But I digress.

Additionally, I will not go into the common argument that Val-entine’s Day, along with Christ-mas and Arbor Day, falls under

an umbrella of a whole host of holidays that beg the question, “But shouldn’t we be this loving all year round, not just today?”

No, my reasoning against Val-entine’s Day, plainly stated, is I like chocolate. And I see no rea-son why the price of chocolate should go up fivefold in the three weeks prior to this gratuitous in-vention of a holiday. I suppose I’m not paying the extra dollars for the chocolate—it’s for the bright red wrapping and the fancy pink cursive. Those things only serve to remind me I’m acci-dently supporting the very thing I’m trying to avoid.

For me, Valentine’s Day doesn’t inspire love; it inspires political activism. Of course, I’m far too lazy to go about fighting

Valentine’s Day, so instead I’ll just complain about it over a large coffee in Unicorn Cafe as soon as I finish venting about abortion rights and why a certain pan-Asian restaurant across the street from my otherwise perfectly lo-cated Hinman and Davis apart-ment ought to be shut down due to various health code violations.

I don’t need all the bells and whistles of Valentine’s heart-shaped chocolate boxes and teddy bears hugging bags of M&Ms. What I need is a dark chocolate Dove bar, and I didn’t factor the cost of “love” into my Winter Quarter budget to get it. On the other hand, I guess that’s a bene-fit of having a boyfriend.

—Brittany BookBinder

My name is Wyatt, and I have a problem. It started right around eighth grade,

when I tried it for the first time. I dabbled in the stuff here and there until my junior year of high school, when I started using regularly. For the last three years I’ve been hooked, having to replenish the supply in my body several times per day.

Once I started using seriously, my tolerance skyrocketed, and I needed to use more and more to achieve the same effects. Only re-cently have I begun to realize the intensity of my problem and the extent to which it has permeated my life. No longer fully in control of myself, I have finally decided to address the problem—my prodi-gious daily intake of coffee.

My coffee consumption started

out as an innocent enough habit, used to sharpen my mind a bit each morning, but it has since de-veloped into full-blown depen-dence. I usually drink a minimum of five cups per day, and it is not unusual on a particularly stressful day for me to drink upwards of 12 cups. Admittedly, this is nowhere near Balzac’s fabled 50 cups per day, but it is certainly uncommon and unambiguously unhealthy.

During high school, it was rare for me to be seen without my trusty black thermos full of a streaming brew in my clutches. I would sip a steady stream of the stuff throughout the morning and hope I drank enough to hold me over until I arrived home after school—when I could brew a new pot. If my mood was exceptionally sour or I had a dazed look in my eyes, my friends could instantly

tell I was behind on my coffee in-take for the day.

When I came to Northwestern this fall, my new group of friends had to get used to my habit. Around the second month of school, after my friends had fully grasped the severity of my addic-tion, my girlfriend challenged me to go a full day without coffee.

Needless to say, I was hesitant. How the heck was I just supposed to quit cold turkey? After much goading, I reluctantly decided that I would accept the dare—because a man needs to uphold his dignity.

I started the morning confident I would pass my test with flying colors. After I realized I had been staring perplexedly at the wall for half an hour, I was a bit less sure of myself. At breakfast, I cantanker-ously drank milk with my toast. Throughout my morning classes, I

had to force myself to keep my brain from turning off completely. My friends laughed at me when they saw me, a confused and grumpier caricature of my normal self. By suppertime, I had a raging headache, my hands were shaking vehemently, and it took an embar-rassing amount of concentration to remember my name. My girlfriend considered it a rousing success.

Ever since that disturbing de-bacle, I have attempted to rein in my coffee ingestion. Although I still drink more than a normal per-son probably should, I have be-come increasingly cognizant of this fact. I know I still have a prob-lem, but, at the very least, I can take solace in the fact that an in-trinsic element along the road to recovery is acceptance.

—Wyatt BrotHerS

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TOO MANY ASIANS. They ruin our GPAs. They study all week. And NONE are attractive!! ...

WHY DID I GO TO THIS SCHOOL, walking to class every day and seeing them all over the place annoys me.”

This is a post on CollegeACB, an online anonymous confession board for students. Anonymity, ac-cording to the site’s page of Fre-quently Asked Questions, is meant to encourage open and truthful discussion of topics that may oth-erwise be difficult to voice.

Some of you may be thinking, “Geez. That’s just a site where peo-ple go to relax and blow off steam. You don’t have to take these posts so seriously.” But you can’t deny the amount of hatred expressed by that anonymous person, and by so many people who posted after-ward. This one post generated more than 40 replies, ranging from insults to actual debate. The most recent reply was on Feb. 5.

—Commenter 23 said, “my only beef with teh asians is that they all stick together like herpes. they go around in packs of ten or more, and dont seem to care that they are self segregating.”

—Commenter 25 explained, “Coming from a black person, there is no such thing as self segregation. People that have similar interests stick together. When you are a mi-nority, keeping your racial identity but still wanting to socialize be-comes an interest. ... It’s not much different than skater kids hanging out with skater kids, videogame nerds hanging out with videogame nerds, or football players hanging out with football players.”

—Commenter 27 responded, “I don’t think you can compare peo-ple hanging out around a single in-terest with people hanging out with people of their own race all the time. That’s kind of messed up; in the 21st century, can’t people have personal identities not based solely on race?”

—Commenter 28 wrote, “Are you white? You know that feeling when you’re surrounded by black people and you get a little uncom-fortable even if you’re not racist and have a lot of black friends? That’s how minorities feel going to (exple-tive) class every day. And when you’re in such a small minority, that becomes a part of your personal identity, not all of it, but enough to want to share it with someone.”

There are two types of accusa-tions being made here: one against minorities sticking together in cliques and reinforcing stereotypes, and another against whites being insulting and unsympathetic.

The underlying problem, as I see it, is a general lack of understanding on all sides. As someone who has been educated in Asia and North America, I am caught in the strange position of being both an insider and an outsider. I frequently inter-act with members of the main-stream culture both online and in real life, and I can understand the frustration of not being able to pen-etrate minority cliques.

At the same time, I speak Man-darin fluently and can sympathize with Chinese immigrants who feel intensely lost in a foreign culture, who must reach out to other Chi-nese students for some social shel-ter. I imagine this kind of loneli-ness applies to other minority groups as well. Sometimes I won-der what it is like to have been brought up in only one culture; perhaps then I, too, would find it immensely difficult to understand others and would be tempted to give up.

What disappoints me most

about the online outburst is it came from NU students. All of us worked hard to get in here; all of us expressed in our application es-says an appetite for greater knowl-edge. Why is it despite all our dis-cussions on diversity, despite so many diversity-related courses available at NU, there is still so much hatred concealed beneath the surface?

“Race” and “culture” are such dangerous words in today’s society. Sometimes, for all our free speech, we are still dancing around the most difficult issues in our desire to remain politically correct. Nobody dares to make those types of raw, incisive comments with their real names attached to their voices.

We are making progress, but there remains so much to work for. Please, let us all continue to try and understand people from other cultures, no matter how insur-mountable those barriers may seem at times. Eat with a different group of people for a change. Talk to that intriguing person from an-other culture. We can improve our mutual understanding, step by timorous step.

—StepHanie lu

Online outlets reveal bubbling racial tensions beneath NU’s surface

It was Super Bowl Sunday again, and I couldn’t care less. I knew I could easily watch if I wanted to. I knew many,

many people on this campus could tell me not just who’s playing, but the records of both teams, who the quarterbacks are and who I should root for if I’m betting on the game. And it’s not that I don’t like watch-ing sports—I used to watch the Su-per Bowl every year with my friends. We weren’t die-hard foot-ball fans, but at least last year I knew who was playing.

It’s my fault. I know that. I live in a Northwestern bubble. News reaches me slowly here. It must pass through the soapy, bulbous barrier that protects this campus from feel-ing like the real world.

My main concerns everyday: not falling, not failing and not dying of hypothermia. I study for tests, and I shoot from one class to the next. At the epicenter of my life is this cam-pus and the daily challenges it pres-ents to me.

Like everybody else at NU, I’m so busy sometimes that a lot of things I used to like to do have slipped to the wayside. I don’t read for fun. I don’t really watch TV (at least, I don’t watch it when it’s broadcast). And things like football, which I was never really passionate about, have completely vanished from my life.

It’s a little sad, but it’s also part of moving on. It’s time to start doing what I want to do, when I want to do it.

And I guess it’s definitely time to admit I don’t really like football.

College: It’s like being alone in a crowd. It’s weird, not doing the things you did before. It’s weird breaking routines you’ve been keep-ing since you were old enough to set them. But it’s also important. What you do when you’re here at school, alone and changing alongside ev-erybody else, distinguishes what is singularly important to you as an individual.

Cling to whatever feelings of ap-athy, disgust or happiness occur to you. Break tradition if it feels right.

—cally trautWein

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In some housing contracts, universities reserve the right to search rooms or let the police search them, he said.

McAleer said this is not the case at NU. He said police cannot enter a dorm room without being let in by the student.

“If they want to enter, they either have to have a warrant or they have to have special permission from you,” he said. “You retain your constitutional rights as a Northwestern student, the same as any other citizen.”

Silverman said students often give police permission to enter inadvertently. Officers do not need to phrase the question as if the stu-dent has a choice so they are able to perform searches with the student’s permission. He said police often accomplish this by saying something along the lines of, “Do you mind if we take a look? You don’t have anything to hide.” In this manner, the searches that occur in residence halls are often consent searches, even if students feel pressured to comply.

The anonymous junior said an unpleasant interaction with UP in Bobb Hall his fresh-man year left him feeling intimidated.

The police were in the building looking for a student in a red shirt who had allegedly run out of a cab into the residence hall with-out paying. The student and his friends, one of whom was wearing a red shirt, were in a room drinking so they did not want to let po-lice in when officers knocked on the door. After moving the alcohol out of sight, the stu-dents opened the door and let the officers in. The student said the officers were acting “in-timidating,” asking where they had been that night and not accepting the answer, “On campus.”

“Basically that’s their tactic,” he said. “Be-ing really rude and unprofessional to the point where you think you’re going to be ar-rested because you disagree with what they’re saying.”

He said the police told the student in the red shirt they were going to arrest him and brought up the possibility of searching his room.

“The (Community Service Officer) came up and was like, ‘Uh, no. This is not the guy.’ Without any apology or without any sort of anything, they just kind of departed.”

McAleer said he did not know about the specific incident to which the anonymous ju-nior was referring, but added that police need to act on whatever information they have.

“The description may have been similar to such a point that we needed to further in-vestigate,” he said. “It’s not always easy, and sometimes we’re going to make a mistake. It’s not our intention. It’s hard for me to com-ment on whether we were in the wrong or not. It’s a two-year-old story. Two-year-old stories may or may not stay true.”

Silverman said students should not feel pressured to immediately allow police into their rooms.

“If you’re a student in a situation where you don’t even want to open the door, don’t,” he said.

Once the student is ready to open the door, he or she should go outside and speak with the officer courteously, Silverman said. He said police are allowed to imply they have

the right to enter, even if they do not.Students can politely refuse any requests

to enter, he said. “You must be prepared to say, ‘Officer, I

know you’re just doing your job, but I do not consent to any searches of myself or my dorm room,’” Silverman said.

THE PROBLEM WITH POTThe caveat is that police may enter a resi-

dence without a warrant or permission in the presence of “exigent circumstances,” or the potential for immediate danger, said Richard Dvorak, a lawyer for the Chicago-based firm Dvorak, Toppel and Barrido.

Dvorak, whose firm focuses on criminal defense and civil rights, said there is no clear-cut definition for these cases.

“The courts look to numerous factors to determine exigent circumstances,” Dvorak said.

Silverman said students need to be espe-cially wary of the dangers of smoking mari-

juana in a residence hall, since the smell of something burning, cannabis or otherwise, can be construed as an emergency.

He said his advice would be to go outside, close the door and reply to questions about the smell of marijuana by saying, “I don’t smell anything, officer, and I don’t consent to searches.”

“It’s important to appreciate how much you are putting yourself at risk if you’re smoking,” he said.

ACROSS SHERIDANOutside the boundaries of NU’s campus,

UP has jurisdiction from Lake Street to the south, Evanston’s border to the north and Ridge Avenue to the west, McAleer said. They can also have police power in any other part of the city at the request of the Evanston Police Department.

EPD Cmdr. Tom Guenther said the two departments work together.

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that the University might ask for our assistance in, we offer that assistance to them,” he said.

The two departments also collaborate in their weekend patrols in areas of dense NU population, he said. In the warmer months, a “party car,” in which police from both de-partments ride, will respond to calls about NU parties, as well as patrol for potential il-legal activity.

Silverman said students who live off campus can expect more privacy than those living in dormitories, but in situations of off-campus parties, students should closely monitor who enters their houses.

“If police are knocking at your door, they need to have a search warrant to enter unless you or a friend or a party-goer in-vites them into the house,” Silverman said. “A smart renter will always have someone out front who is responsible and attentive and who is keeping a close eye on who is coming in and leaving.”

Evanston police will enter a student res-idence if they can see legal violations from the front door, EPD Chief Richard Edding-ton said.

“If (the officer) sees people of tender years consuming what appears to be an alcoholic beverage, we’re coming in,” he said. “Also, if we’re bowled over by a wave of smoke that has the unique odor of burning cannabis.”

Eddington said police will usually ask first to enter when they smell marijuana.

“If we’re both hacking up lungs because there’s so much burnt cannabis in the air, I’m still going to be polite and ask if I can go in, but I know what the outcome’s going to be,” he said.

Both Evanston and NU police said in

most cases they issue a warning for a noise violation from outside the house and then do not have to come back. Unless it is a house where they have already issued several cita-tions, they will not give a ticket.

McAleer said the situations in which po-lice would enter an off-campus residence are “not absolute every time.”

“You open up the door, and you’re not the lease-holder, and there’s somebody passed out in front of the door; now the police offi-cer has a right to enter because someone’s in danger,” he said.

CONSEQUENCESThe anonymous junior said he would

much rather interact with EPD than UP be-cause Evanston police will not refer students directly to student affairs.

“Even though you’re off campus, you can get in trouble for things with the University,”

he said. “Basically the University has ex-tended its disciplinary jurisdiction all the way from Allison Hall to the furthest place on Ridge because of the NUPD.”

McAleer said every incident report UP writes is also given to the Office of Student Affairs, which makes decisions about further disciplinary action.

Because of this shared information, even if students do not get in legal trouble, they can still face serious consequences from their university , Silverman said.

“These universities have an extra-judicial system where they have additional penalties that exist outside of criminal law,” Silverman said. “They have extra-judicial boards that wield tremendous power.”

A similar system could be the same in any workplace, said Michael Helfand , a Chicago lawyer.

Helfand, who runs the Web-based refer-ral service FindGreatLawyers.com , said all records of arrests and citations are public in-formation. Just as an employer could fire someone for breaking the law outside the workplace, a university can discipline stu-dents for doing the same.

“The difference between the Evanston police and the University Police is who signs their paychecks,” Helfand said. “(NU is) never going to know about it unless someone brings it to their attention. On the flip side, University Police has the motivation to tell them because that’s part of their job.”

Eddington said UP has access to all of Ev-anston’s incident reports so the information

is already shared with the University. Though students may be less likely to be

punished by the University if they are cited by Evanston police, Eddington said EPD of-ten contacts landlords when there are prob-lems with student residences.

“We’ll try to contact that landlord if we see a problem develop or a series of calls,” he said.

Off-campus residences can also be desig-nated “nuisance premises” by the city if they cause persistent problems. Eddington said there are currently about two nuisance premises among NU student housing.

“It’s a big deal,” he said. “The fines go up exponentially.”

Helfand said students should make sure they are not in trouble with the law before making sure they are not in trouble with the University.

“The University could have separate dis-ciplinary policies where the right to remain silent doesn’t apply,” he said “But first things first: Take care of any criminal matters.”

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Off-Campus Patrolling: Evanston and University Police, while separate entities, often work together on weekends to patrol areas of dense NU population.

Scenario: Police are knocking on your dormitory door.

Experts say: Go outside, close the door, and tell them nicely you do not consent to searches.

“You have every right to refuse the off icer’s entry into your dorm room. Then you must be prepared to say, “Offi cer,

I know you’re just doing your job, but I don’t consent to any searches of myself or my dorm room.”

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Scenario: Police are outside your off-campus party.

Experts say: Go outside to have a polite conversation with them.

“If police are knocking at your door, they need to have a search warrant to enter unless you or a friend or a party-goer invites them into the house.” Steven Silverman, Flex Your Rights

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With 27 volunteers this year, Northwestern ranks 11th for medium-sized schools with alumni serving in the Peace Corps, according to the organization’s 2010 survey.

This is the 10th year in a row NU has ap-peared on the list, and 880 NU alumni have served since the Peace Corps’ founding in 1961.

“The interest level at NU is there, and it has been for some years,” saiwd Christine Torres, the organization’s public affairs specialist at the Chicago recruiting office.

Peer schools including Cornell University, with 46 volunteers, and the University of Chi-cago, with 30 volunteers, also appear on the list.

The acceptance rate for the Peace Corps usually hovers at about 52 percent, Torres said. Numbers for this year haven’t come in yet, as the application cycle is an ongoing process.

SESP senior Jorie Larson is preparing to de-part in July for her 27-month journey abroad.

“I applied to other things, but in the back of my mind, the Peace Corps was always what I wanted to do,” Larson said.

Larson said she submitted an application in Au-gust after studying abroad in Uganda last spring.

“When I was abroad, I realized how much I loved it,” she said. “It made me realize it was something I could do. I thought about it all sum-mer long once I got back.”

Larson said she considered other programs, but she realized they weren’t for her.

“I wanted something more community-de-velopment based,” she said. “I felt more con-nected with the Peace Corps culture.”

Because the application process is compre-hensive and takes six months to a year, inter-ested seniors should apply now, Torres said. The Peace Corps will have recruiting events on NU’s campus Feb. 22 and April 5.

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John Evans connects NU, University of Denver with historyBy Lark TurnerThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/student-life

In 1851, John Evans helped found a Methodist university just north of Chi-cago. In 1862, he headed west to do it again.

Both Northwestern and the University of Denver, founded in 1864, can trace their origins to Illinois-bred and Colo-rado-bound Evans, from whom Evanston gets its name.

Evans got on the right side of Abraham Lincoln early in his career, said Prof. Ste-ven Fisher, curator of special collections in DU’s Penrose Library.

“The way I always put it is that John Evans was a person who was in the right place at the right time,” Fisher said.

Evans fell in line with Methodists and converted to the religion early in his polit-ical career, said Kevin Leonard, NU’s ar-chivist. Leonard said Evans was probably the most prominent member of the group who founded NU.

“Without John Evans, of course, there would be no Northwestern,” he said. “He helped to f loat this place when it was just

a nickel-and-dime affair.”After Evans founded NU, Lincoln of-

fered Evans governorship of the Colorado Territory, Fisher said.

“One of his first goals when he got here was to found an institution of higher learning so that the citizens of the terri-tory would not have to go back east for their college education,” Fisher said.

Today the schools have less in common than their humble beginnings suggest. At DU, the weekend is more likely to be spent in the mountains than anywhere near campus, DU junior Mindy Stone said.

Still, commonalities exist: Both schools have a Division-I athletic program, oper-ate on the quarter system and are located in suburbs, Fisher said.

Furthermore, the two schools share similar social atmospheres. DU students like to head out on Thursdays, too, and hit venues that sound suspiciously similar to The Keg of Evanston. Stone said the three bars most students frequent—The Border Restaurant, Stadium Inn and Stick-E-Star—are popular for dancing, pool and beer pong, respectively.

The schools both have a f lagship ath-letic team. For NU, of course, it’s football.

In Denver, the biggest sport is played on the ice.

“We are a hockey school,” Fisher said. “We dropped football in 1961 because hockey was really becoming more prominent. We also had a chancellor then who thought that football made us less scholarly.”

References to Evans can be found on both campuses: at NU’s John Evans Alumni Center and DU’s Evans Avenue. Mount Evans, a towering mountain on the Rocky Mountain’s Front Range, is visible from DU’s campus.

Just as Lake Michigan acts as a naviga-tion point for NU students, these moun-tains serve a landmark for the DU com-munity.

“If they’re going west, I’d just say, ‘Head towards the mountains,’” Stone said.

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At one table a group of people grated zucchi-nis and mashed black beans. Another group mixed spices. A third group chopped mangos while squeezing lime juice.

The cooks were students at Dawes Elemen-tary School who, as part of a two-week program to promote healthy eating, learned how to pre-pare a simple and nutritious meal.

The school’s Cooking Up Wellness program began Feb. 1 and ended Tuesday. The partici-pants were in kindergarten through fifth grade at Dawes, 440 Dodge Ave.

The Cooking Up Wellness program was started in 2008, but the organization could not sponsor an event last year because it lacked funds, said Lynn Hyndman, the school garden coordinator. Hyndman said the cooking session is actually an extension of the school garden, or the Garden of Eating as students and staff call it.

Students in Room 19 were the final class on Tuesday to make zucchini black bean burgers with Elizabeth Thomas, a cooking expert with Nurture, an Illinois-based non-profit organiza-tion that seeks to teach low-income families to cook healthy meals.

“I feel passionately that we need to teach our children to cook so they can provide for them-

selves,” said Thomas, who helped the students cook in their classroom. “My passion of cooking healthy and cooking in general is something I can share with other people.”

Thomas started the one-hour session by telling the students about what they would be making and also made sure students kept their hands clean and sanitized. The students broke off into three different groups: one to shred the zucchini and mash the black beans, another to mix the beans with spices and an egg to make the patties and one more to work on the salsa.

The students worked as a team, switching off between different tasks.

“It allows students a chance to use a lot of the skills we teach, like measurement and reading recipes,” said fifth-grade teacher Renee Davis. “They get to utilize those skills in a fun and out-of-the-ordinary way, and it also gets students to think about vegetables and some seasonings that they’re not accustomed to.”

As the students waited for the patties to cook, Thomas had them do yoga and jumping jacks.

“It’s just another important part of life,” she said. “It’s nice having this balance (of eating healthy and exercising) without going to the ex-treme with just one thing.”

After the yoga session, the students were able to sample their zucchini black bean burgers with salsa.

“It seems like my daughter really likes what was made so we’ll make this at home sometimes,” said Rika Seko, who volunteered at her daughter’s fifth-grade class during the cooking session, as well as her first-grade daughter’s class. “I’m pleas-antly surprised that the children are equally hav-ing fun and participating at this age.”

Davis said the cooking session was informa-tive for her students.

“It was a delightful experience,” she said. “If we asked them if they’d do it again, we’d proba-bly get a resounding, ‘Yes.’”

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Deficit reduced slightly by personal donationsStudents will still be able to receive services helped broker the donations to the pen-

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a snowball effect,” she said of pension do-nations.

The fire pension fund also received a $1,000 donation from a Glenview man who was saved during a heart attack by Evanston emergency personnel, Capt. Ronald Brumbach said.

But pension funds are sustained pri-marily by property taxes and contribu-tions from police and firefighter salaries, not private donations.

“It’s not real common especially during these economic times to see private dona-tions,” Assistant Finance Director Steven Drazner said. “I would say if residents are interested in donating to the city, the pen-sion funds would be a good choice.”

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pensions totaled $13.4 million in the 2009-10 fiscal year.

A number of variables, including em-ployee benefits and changing investment returns, must be considered when pen-sions are funded, said Bobkiewicz, whose budget proposal must be voted on by the council before Feb. 28. The trick is finding a balance between property tax revenues and investment returns, he said.

“It’s sort of a moving target, but the council has said we’re comfortable with the amount we’re putting aside in prop-erty tax and money moving forward,” he said. “The council just wants to make sure (the pension issue) remains on the front burner, and I think we’re succeed-ing to keep it front and center in the pub-lic.”

Evanston’s pension problems require long-term solutions, Bobkiewicz said. With 23 years before the state-mandated deadline, the city has met 42 percent of its pension obligations.

“The bottom line though is our current retirees who have given faithful services to the city of Evanston are getting money for their retirement,” he said. “The long-term question is, ‘What else do we need to

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Although he expressed gratitude for the January donations, Sgt. Jeff Jamraz said the police pension board has not dis-cussed any formal plans to engage the public in a fundraising campaign.

Possible long-term solutions to filling the $159 million gap include reforming pension benefits or extending the dead-line to match the unfunded liabilities. Both initiatives require approval from Springfield.

Nevertheless, city officials will not de-ter citizens who wish to pitch in to the pension fund.

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Students will receive a bulk e-mail Wednesday or Thursday morning ex-plaining more details on the alterna-tives that will be available to them dur-ing the transition period. Misch said he thinks students will be satisfied with the result.

“It is just an enormous accomplish-ment, and it’s really going to help pro-vide care to students,” he said. “The temporary disruption is going to be well worth it.”

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All that, and Kafka might not even get drafted.

Or, look at Kafka’s go-to wide receiver. Zeke Markshausen ranked second in the Big Ten in receptions per game and fifth in re-ceiving yards per game. His reputation as a quality possession receiver led some to com-pare him to the Patriots’ Wes Welker.

But the only way he is going to land on an NFL squad is the same way he got on NU’s roster—as a walk-on.

The point is, making it to the next level is tough at any spot, and especially at such cutthroat positions as quarterback, run-ning back and wide receiver. Look no fur-ther than Tyrell Sutton. Though injuries plagued him late in his NU career, he was still one of the most talented rushers ever to don a Cats uniform. Yet, in his rookie season, he was undrafted and cut from the Green Bay Packers before finding a home with the Carolina Panthers.

Ironically, the player projected to be drafted the highest this season is another lineman—Corey Wootton. He dominated throughout his junior season, often breaking through double-teams on his way to 10 sacks. He was hampered for most of his senior year by a knee injury he suffered in the 2008 Alamo Bowl, yet he is still near the top of draft boards for defensive ends.

What’s more, the Cats’ top alumnus in the NFL right now is probably also a defensive

lineman. The San Diego Chargers’ Luis Cas-tillo got off to a strong start in the NFL, earning a spot on the All-Rookie Team for his strong play in the Chargers’ 3-4 defense.

The Big Ten led all conferences with 20 former players competing in the Super Bowl, including stars like Brees, Dallas Clark (Iowa) and Pierre Thomas (Illinois). So what does it say about NU that it gets ex-cited over having two relative unknowns in the Super Bowl?

It shows the Cats care about their former players, no matter what their role is on their NFL teams. It proves NU is able to produce NFL-quality talent consistently, and now that the team is making strides in the Big Ten, it might be getting even better. Gill and Strief embody the “Wildcat Spirit” Pat Fitzgerald always talks about, fighting day after day to maintain a spot on the roster.

The Cats might not receive the respect they deserve, and might never get it, but there has never been a better time to be an NU sports fan. The lacrosse team is domi-nating like no squad ever has at NU, the men’s basketball team is making a push for its first NCAA Tournament appearance and the football team nearly won back-to-back bowl games.

Even if Strief and Gill weren’t the star performers of the Super Bowl, it’s a step in the right direction. Change doesn’t happen overnight, but as both basketball teams are demonstrating this winter, small steps can make a big difference.

The same logic applies to the fervor over NU alums playing in the Super Bowl. It fur-ther cements the football program on the map, and is another rationale Fitz can give to potential recruits thinking about NU—the Cats are leaving their paw prints on the NFL’s biggest stage.

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This time around, the Wildcats couldn’t blame forfeits for their dual losses against the Big Ten’s second- and third-best teams.

Northwestern (5-10-1, 0-4 Big Ten) came away from its first conference road trip on the wrong side of two lopsided matches: 37-10 to No. 12 Penn State and 37-6 to No. 4 Ohio State. Though the Cats dropped six points in both matches by defaulting the 141-pound weight di-vision, neither forfeit affected the dual’s out-come. NU has now lost four straight Big Ten matches heading into next weekend’s road trip to No. 1 Iowa and No. 13 Wisconsin.

“It’s a frustrating thing,” sophomore John Schoen (197) said. “At Penn State I had to sit through our team getting handled. But it fueled my fire when I got out on the mat. At Ohio State it was the same thing—I had to watch my team-mates get beaten.”

Friday’s loss to the Nittany Lions (11-5-1, 3-2 Big Ten) came in front of more than 4,000 fans at Rec Arena in University Park, Pa. Two days later, the Wildcats fell even harder against the Buckeyes (16-1, 5-0 Big Ten) in Columbus, Ohio.

Senior Eric Metzler (133) was the lone NU wrestler to go 2-0, winning 8-4 against Penn State’s Bryan Pearsall and 3-1 against Ohio State’s Ian Paddock. Beyond that, NU got only three other individual wins: redshirt freshman Brian Roddy, Jr. (174) and Schoen against Penn State and junior Aaron Jones (184) against Ohio State. Schoen earned a 13-4 major decision over the Nittany Lions’ Clay Steadman, before falling 3-1 in overtime to the Buckeyes’ C.J. Magrum.

“Penn State was good even though my team wasn’t performing well,” Schoen said. “Then at Ohio State, we were just outmatched. It’s a dis-appointing loss, but I know when I see (Magrum) in a few weeks at the Big Ten tourna-ment, I’ll beat him pretty good.”

Junior Andrew Nadhir (149), who is ranked No. 13 in the nation in his weight class, had the toughest challenge in facing the No. 2 and No. 4 wrestlers in the 149-pound division. Nadhir wasn’t the only underdog: NU faced eight other top-20 wrestlers between its two matches.

“As we get closer to Big Tens, the guys are thinking more individually,” coach Tim Cy-sewski said. “They’re focused on getting more healthy, doing some extra pulls in the weight room and getting themselves ready for the end of the year.”

In some sense, the score line alone doesn’t indicate how lopsided NU’s losses were. The Cats were on the losing end of 12 major deci-sions, pins or technical falls.

The losses add more disappointment to NU’s season. With wrestling being both a team and individual sport, the Cats’ focus is shifting to-ward preparing for postseason tournaments.

“Every time I step up there, I have to be fo-cused on doing my part,” Schoen said. “That’s going to take care of me when it comes down to Big Tens and seeding for nationals.”

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By Jonah L. RosenblumThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/big-ten-insider

Eleven games into the Big Ten season, Penn State has knocked at the door many times but ultimately keeps getting turned away in its quest for its first conference win of the season.

“It’s important to break the cycle,” Penn State coach Ed DeChellis said. “We’ve been in every game we played in the league, but we just can’t make that one big play to get over the hump.”

On Wednesday the Nittany Lions (8-15, 0-11 Big Ten) rallied from 13 down against Ohio State to make it a three-point game with less than two minutes remaining. Once again they were unable to complete the comeback, falling 75-62 to the No. 13 Buckeyes.

After falling in Columbus, Ohio, Penn State returned home to take on Minnesota. This time the Nittany Lions completed the comeback, tying the score at 64 with nine sec-onds remaining, only to suffer heartbreak again when Golden Gophers guard Lawrence Westbrook hit a buzzer-beater to give Minne-sota the win.

“Give them credit,” DeChellis said. “Westbrook hit a big shot at the buzzer to beat us, and that’s how our luck, or non-luck, has gone this year.”

The Nittany Lions have struggled on both sides of the ball in conference play.

On offense they’ve averaged just 59.9 points per game, ninth in the Big Ten. They’ve had particular difficulties shooting the ball, ranking ninth in field goal percentage and last in free-throw percentage.

On defense Penn State forces just 8.8 turn-

overs per game, last in the Big Ten, and gives up the highest opponent field-goal percentage in the conference.

After 11 straight losses, Penn State now has several days to gather itself before No. 10 Mich-igan State visits Saturday.

“It’s good for us to step away, take a couple days off and get our legs back under us,” DeChellis said. “Our kids have fought and have done some good things but not good enough to win a game yet. So we’re going to continue to battle and get ready for the last stretch run here in the Big Ten season.”

HOOSIERS HOpE tO Halt REcEnt SkIdThere was a time when it seemed like Indi-

ana had reclaimed its winning ways, upsetting Minnesota at home and then taking care of Penn State on the road. With a 3-3 conference record, the Hoosiers were emerging as one of the conference’s great surprises.

Instead Indiana has lost four straight games, including two defeats in the final sec-onds. The Hoosiers had a chance to pull off a road upset at Illinois, tying the score with 22 seconds to go, but ultimately fell 72-70 to the Fighting Illini. Nearly one week later, they al-most upended Purdue, but were unable to pull it off, losing 78-75 to the Boilermakers.

And if the Hoosiers are going to halt their losing streak at four, they’ll have to do it against the best of the Big Ten. On Wednesday they host No. 13 Ohio State. The last time these two teams met, just over a month ago, the Buckeyes won by 25 in Columbus.

“We’re in full preparation mode right now for Ohio State,” Indiana coach Tom Crean said. “Their starting five is as talented as any in the country.”

Ohio State has been strong on both sides of the ball, and currently has the second-best in-conference scoring margin. The Buckeyes have outscored their Big Ten opponents by an aver-age of 6.3 points this season.

On offense Ohio State has shot 46.9 per-cent, tops in the Big Ten. On defense the Buck-eyes force 14.2 turnovers per game, second in the conference.

“They’re so efficent, and they get so many things done on both sides,” Crean said. “They’re creating a lot of issues with the turn-overs they cause, with their disruption of an-other team’s offense. They share the ball, and they’re playing at a very high level.”

Indiana will need to improve defensively if it hopes to beat Ohio State. The Hoosiers have allowed 70.4 points per game in conference play, the highest number in the Big Ten.

“We have to make more stops,” Crean said. “We have to eliminate some of these brain freezes we have, when it comes to getting a hand all the way up on the shooter, or a late ro-tation. We want to continue to improve, but at the same time, we have to continue to prepare for one of the best teams in the country.”

Indiana will also rely on the continued strong play of guard Verdell Jones III. The sophomore has averaged 14.9 points per game this season, and has scored 20-plus points in each of his last three contests.

“He has continued to improve at a very high rate on all sides,” Crean said. “These last five or six games, he’s not only our leading scorer, but our leading assist guy. He’s doing a very good job of moving the ball—we have to continue to find more ways to utilize that.

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tEllIng StatSpoints per game from Buckeyes guard Evan turner since returning from a back injury

20.6SOundBItES

“Last year we had great success so our student numbers were off the charts. This year, not having success, our student

numbers are a little down and understandably so.”penn State coach Ed dechellis,

on decreased attendance at home games

“He can score from so many different areas. He can score at the top of the key. He can score from

post-ups. He can score from the corner.”Indiana coach tom crean,

on the challenge Evan Turner poses for his team

pOwER RankIngS

1. Ohio State (18-6, 8-3): Buckeyes take four-game win streak on roadtrip through Indiana and Illinois.2. Purdue (20-3, 8-3): After a brief midseason losing streak, Purdue is back and remains a contender for the league title.3. Michigan State (19-6, 9-3): After two full games without Kalin Lucas, it’s become painfully clear how important he is to the Spartans.4. Wisconsin (18-6, 8-4): Shocking loss to Illinois hampers Big Ten title chances, Badgers must regain home dominance versus Indiana.5. Illinois (17-8, 9-3): No rest for the weary. After beating Michigan State and Wisconsin, Fighting Illini host the Buckeyes on Sunday. 6. Northwestern (16-7, 5-6): Following convincing wins over Michigan and Indiana, Wildcats need to continue success against inferior teams.7. Minnesota (14-8, 5-5): Big week with Michigan at home and NU on the road; Gophers need wins against both.8. Michigan (11-12, 4-7): No. 15 in preseason rankings; now .500 would be a stretch.9. Iowa (8-16, 2-9): Hawkeyes have not fared well since big win at Indiana.10. Indiana (9-13, 3-7): Four-game losing streak could get worse with tough upcoming schedule.11. Penn State (8-16, 0-11): Could very easily run the table, but not in a good way.

3-point shooting percentage this season for golden golphers guard Blake Hoffarber

.500Penn State, Indiana scramble for comeback

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iowa, 2-9

michigan, 4-7

illinois, 9-312

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ohio state, 8-3

16 | Wednesday, February 10, 2010TOMORROW IN SPORTS

Men’s BasketballCheck out how the Cats fared on the road against the HawkeyesWomen’s BasketballFind out how NU is preparing to face Illinois in Champaign, Ill.SportsSports

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Chalk up Super Bowl XLIV as another victory for Northwestern. No offense to the Indianapolis Colts

and Pittsburgh Steelers, but they’ve had nothing on the Wildcats these past few seasons.

With the Saints’ win, NU’s streak of having a player on the Su-per Bowl-winning team extends to five years in a row. This was guar-anteed to happen, with defensive lineman John Gill playing for the Colts and offensive tackle Zach Strief suiting up for the Saints.

Yes, Strief committed a false start penalty on second-and-goal from the 3-yard line that ended up costing the Saints a chance at a touchdown. Gill didn’t fare much better, failing to record any defensive statistics.

Yes, the Big Ten connections were probably more noteworthy for Purdue, which had two quar-terbacks representing the school: Super Bowl MVP Drew Brees started for the Saints, and Curtis Painter backed up Peyton Man-ning for the Colts.

And yes, none of the NU alums in the past five seasons played memorable positions. Trai Essex played on the offensive line for the Steelers when they won the Super Bowl in 2006 and 2009. Matt Ul-rich battled the Bears’ defense in the trenches in 2007 as an offen-sive lineman for the Colts. Barry Cofield was a Giants defensive tackle in 2008 when they upset the Patriots.

Put all that aside, though, be-cause this is still a feat worth notic-ing and a trend worth monitoring.

Super Bowl ties are sign of success

By Rodger ShermanThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/mens-basketball

More than 5,000 miles from home and faced with learning a for-eign language, the last thing junior Ivan Peljusic needed to see was a stack of books almost as tall as he was.

“I came here to the states, I couldn’t speak at all freshman year,” Peljusic said. “My first quarter, my adviser told me to take Russian Lit. I

went to Norris, they gave me five books, 900 pages each. I said, ‘Oh my God, what am I going to do with these?’”

Peljusic, a 6-foot-8 forward

from Croatia , is one of two players on Northwestern’s roster to hail from the former Yugoslavia, along with Serbian center Luka Mirkovic . It’s a recruiting pipeline the Wildcats have gone to repeatedly: Mirkovic and Peljusic are the fourth and fifth play-ers from the basketball-rich region to play for coach Bill Carmody .

“We got involved in Croatia when I first got here,” Carmody said. “Now, it’s another place you have to look. Just like you have to look at Califor-nia, you have to look at Europe.”

The Balkans contain some of the best basketball in the world, as Mirk-ovic was quick to point out Serbia’s silver-medal run at the recent Euro-pean Championships.

“We live and die for basketball, to be honest,” Mirkovic said.

For the players, it’s a difficult transition. Though Peljusic and Mirkovic both took English classes in their native countries, neither were fluent speakers when they came to the U.S. Peljusic arrived in America as a freshman in college, Mirkovic as a senior in high school.

Right off the bat, the pair was ex-pected to be on even footing aca-demically at an elite university with students who had been speaking the

language their entire lives. “In Europe there are no sports as-

sociated with the high schools,” Car-mody said. “Johnny Quarterback doesn’t get a ‘C’ just because he’s Johnny Quarterback. It’s more rigor-ous over there. When you get a kid from Europe, they’re prepared.”

Better access to the best incom-ing talent from the Balkans is one of the reasons Carmody added assistant coach Ivan Vujic to his staff last year.

“They practice five to six hours a day, and they’re good students, not troublemakers,” Vujic said. “It brings a different flavor to your team.”

The European style of play is slightly different from the way the game is played in the U.S., from rules and regulations to training methods. Those around NU believe this makes Carmody’s incoming in-ternational players better suited for NU’s Princeton Offense.

“When you see a practice over there, the guys who are 6-foot-8 do the same drills as the guys who are 5-foot-8,” Carmody said. “But over there the big guys do all the dribbling, all the passing, and that kind of lends itself to having more skillful guys.”

Mirkovic, who shoots well from the outside and is third on the team in assists, looked like he would fit into that mold, doing drills meant for the guards in practice.

“In order to be a successful cen-ter in the Princeton Offense you have to be skilled,” Mirkovic said.

“You have to dribble, pass well. You have to run.”

Despite his 6-foot-11 frame, Mirk-ovic looked out of place banging on the block earlier in his career. As of late, however, he has been more as-sertive, including a double-double against Purdue and a strong perfor-

mance down low against Michigan’s DeShawn Sims Tuesday night.

“You have to flip it and get them used to playing five feet from the basket, with their back to the basket,” Carmody said. “Even in the begin-ning of this year, he was getting pushed, and he was allowing himself to get pushed. Now he’s fighting back, which is really key for the cen-ter of our offense.”

Mirkovic and Peljusic may have been stepping up for NU on the court, but basketball is just part of what they have to worry about.

“It’s hard being away from home,” Vujic said. “But you know your goal, you know the reason why you’re here. Ivan and Luka have a mission to get a college degree and get to be better basketball players.”

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Serbian swat: Sophomore center Luka Mirkovic blocks a shot against Texas-Pan American Jan. 7. The Serbia-native has had little trouble adjusting on the court, recording a double-double against the Broncs.

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Men’sBasketball

ON THE BUBBLE: NU’s Tournament chances

Average RPI: 48.1; NU RPI: 66A team’s RPI (rating percentage index) is one of the most significant

factors in determining its tournament chances. RPI is a combination of a team’s weighted winning percentage and that of its opponents.

Currently, the Cats are well below the average RPI for bubble teams, mainly because they lack high-end wins. A victory over Purdue, who has the 11th-best RPI, is NU’s only win against a top-50 team. One positive is the Cats don’t have any embarrassing losses to teams with low RPIs —all their defeats are to teams with an RPI of 72 or better.

Average Record: 19.7-11.7NU Record: 16-7

This is where the Cats can make up ground. If they win the games they’re sup-posed to against the likes of Iowa, Indiana, Minnesota and Penn State, they will be 23-8 going into the Big Ten Tournament.

It’s rare for a team from a major confer-ence to be left out of the Tournament with that many wins—Florida, who went 23-10 last season, is the most notable exception. While the Gators’ situation was largely a product of the weak SEC, the Big Ten fea-tures four teams currently ranked in the Top-15 of the AP Poll.

Average Strength of Schedule: 29.3

NU Strength of Schedule: 72Though the strength of the Big Ten helps

NU, its weak nonconference slate is weighing this part of the equation down. This affects

the Cats’ RPI since their opponents have such low winning percentages—they have played seven teams out of conference who have an RPI worse than 200, and Chicago State will be the eighth. NU did beat four teams from

major conferences (Notre Dame, North Caro-lina State, Iowa State and Stanford), but only

the Fighting Irish have a realistic chance of getting a Tournament berth.

ConclusionNU doesn’t have many opportunities left to notch a quality win. A home matchup

with Minnesota and trip to Wisconsin are the only two games against teams that might go dancing. That means the Cats need to avoid stumbling against the Big Ten’s bottom-

feeders. It would also help NU if some of the better teams it beat (like Purdue, Illinois and Notre Dame) finished strong, because the winning percentages of those teams

would increase and thus raise NU’s RPI. The Cats’ path to their first-ever NCAA Tour-nament appearance is clear—now they need to continue to take care of business.

With eight games to go in the regular season, Northwestern is on the verge of earning its first NCAA Tournament bid in program history. THE DAILY’s Danny Daly crunched the numbers from the last four years, looking at the profiles of the five lowest-seeded at-large teams invited from major conferences to see how the Wildcats stack up.

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