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2 Students begin Lent with reflection, plans to give something up for the season

Health care reform, like

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Guest ColumnAdd ASL as a foreign language to expand our cultural diversity

Jordan Fein

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Women’s Swimming After a long layoff, NU looks forward to Big Ten Championships

FencingCats struggle at Junior Olympics, look to rebound at NU Duals

Big Ten InsiderPurdue is streaking while Illinois is streaky

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Housing officials: Leaks are serious By Adam Sege The Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/evanston

Water leaks at 1900 Sherman Ave. , a public housing development with approximately 100 residents, poses serious health risks, the Hous-ing Authority of Cook County said Tuesday. HACC has an obligation to temporarily relocate affected resi-dents until the leaks are repaired, HACC said.

Residents in 27 units of the Jane R. Perlman Apartments learned last month they will have to move tem-porarily while the leaks are fixed. Residents in 18 of the units have signed a petition asking HACC to al-low them to stay in their apartments.

Multiple residents who signed the petition say the water damage in their apartments is minor and only occurs during the most severe rain-storms of the year.

But in an interview with THE DAILY on Tuesday, HACC Executive Director Lorri Newson said the risks associated with the leaks are serious.

“Even if the water’s coming in one day, that’s one day too many,” Newson said. “We know to have wa-ter come into the unit is unsanitary, and we have an obligation to keep (residents) in sanitary living condi-tions.”

On Friday, THE DAILY reported

City looks at relieving parking costs By Katie Park The Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/evanston

Seven dollars a day , three days a week. Add the $60 it takes to fuel a car driving from the South Side of Chicago to Evanston, and the cost is just too high for Diondria Williams to pay.

Williams, a cashier in Willie’s Food Court at Northwestern, said the cost of getting to work takes a toll on her $8.20 per hour salary. When she can’t pay the $7 daily fee to park on campus, she parks on the street or takes public transportation—options that aren’t much better.

“I take three trains and two buses to get here,” Williams said. “Taking the bus is cheaper, but it’s a hassle.”

Taking public transportation has caused Williams, a single mother, to arrive at work several hours late in the past week because she had to take her 7-year-old son to school.

At an Evanston Parking Commit-tee meeting Jan. 27 , members dis-cussed a plan to provide affordable parking and fill vacant parking garage spots by providing discounted rates to minimum-wage employees. However, the plan is being redeveloped after

Journalist, physician talk about aftermath in HaitiBy Maria LaMagna The Daily Northwestern dailynorthwestern.com/speakers

After returning from Haiti, jour-nalist Peter Slevin did not want to talk about the recent earthquake’s death toll .

“Let’s talk about the living: the people who are still there and what is happening to them,” he said. “It is the living who continue to face a very wor-risome future in a country that ran short on hope and dreams a long time before this earthquake.”

Slevin, who has worked as a foreign correspondent and is now the Chicago Bureau Chief for The Washington Post , spoke to an audience of about 60 students, faculty and community members in Hardin Hall at the Re-becca Crown Center Tuesday night. Slevin was invited to speak by the Ro-berta Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies .

Following the talk, “Haiti in Need: A Reporter’s Perspective on the Earth-quake and its Aftermath,” Slevin said he intentionally focused on individual plights and anecdotes.

“I decided to paint a vivid portrait and keep the talk close to the ground, telling stories of real people in Haiti,” he said. “The most typical thing after a calamity like this is for it to become more and more impersonal the farther out you get. My feeling is this is an epic emergency that won’t end soon.”

Joshua Lederman said he found Slevin’s style of speaking effective.

“The little anecdotes sort of take it from something that we conceptualize in terms of pictures of dead bodies and

death counts into being able to imag-ine what it would be like to be an ac-tual family member or an actual pa-tient,” the first-year Medill graduate student said.

While in Haiti, Slevin said he covered food and water shortages and the lack of shelter. At least 1.2 million people in Haiti are without housing, he said.

“For days Port-au-Prince seemed to be a city of corpses,” Slevin said. “There was no place to bury them, no place to have a decent burial or even a good-bye.”

When Slevin concluded, Heather Costello , an Oak Park physician who also worked for two weeks in Haiti, spoke about the devastation she wit-nessed.

Costello said before she arrived in Haiti, she had no idea of the catastro-phe she would find there.

“I thought, ‘We embarrassed our-selves with Katrina ; we did the tsu-nami; we know how to do this,’” she said. “I naively thought it was going to go so much better with the unprece-dented compassion and donations from the rest of the world.”

But this wasn’t the case, she said.Members of the audience became

visibly emotional as Costello described horrific conditions, including a camp of more than 200 amputee patients set up in a park with no one to check on them. She also spoke of a four-year-old girl who had severe femur fractures which began to heal incorrectly for three weeks before she received care.

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By Robbie LevinThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/womens-basketball

Whenever the Wildcats are looking for direction, all eyes are on Beth Marshall . The junior point guard commands attention in the Northwestern huddle. It’s not her size: at 5-foot-5 she is the shortest player on the Cats’ roster. It’s not her stat line: Marshall averages six points a game, the fewest of NU’s five starters. Rather, it’s something coach Joe McKeown describes as a “floor-general confidence.”

“People trust her out there,” McKeown said. “They feel like she’s going to get them the ball in the right place. She’s going to make the right decisions. She’s going to make pres-sure free throws. She’s going to do all the things that, as a point guard, you have to do at the end of the game.”

Although she hasn’t played a full season in three years, Marshall has quickly become

NU’s emotional leader. This is partly because she plays point guard, in her words, the “quarterback of the team.” It is also because the team trusts Marshall to help them over-come: a bad pass, a missed shot or a lost game. Those are petty failures compared to what Marshall has endured over the past two years: a fractured femur, a torn ACL and the death of her father.

“She is the ultimate survivor,” McKeown said. “A lot of people in her situation would have said, ‘I’ve been through hell and back, and I’m just going to finish school.’ But she has fought back.”

On the court, Marshall knows exactly how to help her team fight back. As the team gath-ers together, Marshall puts her arms around her teammates and says,“We can do this.”

“Even when teams make their runs on us, when we huddle during free throws I’m al-

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BY THE NUMBERS: NU STANDS WITH HAITI

$28,500Amount raised by NU Stands with Haiti

$8,000Original fundraising goal

$18,500Amount raised by students

$10,000Donation from Lewis-Sebring Family

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Students begin Lenten season with reflectionBy Lark Turner and Leezia DhallaThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/student-life

Today Northwestern’s Catholic community will observe Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the Lenten season.

During Lent, which lasts 46 days until Easter on April 4, students give up something they would normally take for granted.

At least 1,000 people, including 500 to 600 undergraduates, are expected at today’s Cath-olic services, said John Kartje, chaplain and director of the Sheil Catholic Center.

Religion major Joe Paolelli said the holiday remembers the 40 days Jesus spent fasting in the desert. On Ash Wednesday, churchgoers receive a cross of ash on their foreheads as a mark of the holiday.

“The ashes serve as a sign of a visible com-mitment to your faith,” the Weinberg junior said. “We don’t always have that.”

Kartje said the ash is not meant as a “mo-rose or gloomy sign.”

“For Christians, it sends (the message) that there’s a part of us that is eternal,” he said.

Weinberg junior Nikki Okrah said she will distribute ashes during services today as part of her job as a Eucharistic minister. She said she will try to pray more, be more positive and give up sweets during Lent.

“It does build habits,” Okrah said. “It gives us time to reflect and kind of look at our life.”

Students can attend events at Sheil throughout Lent, including a Feb. 23 fireside with University President Morton O. Scha-piro. The discussion, titled “The Impact of Faith in the Life of a University Student,” will focus on how students can integrate faith into their education.

“Faith gets left on the back burner,” Ma-ria Benson, a Communication junior, said. “It’s good to have a talk and recognize that and not let it get lost in the confusion once you come to college.”

Benson is a member of the Sheil Steering Council, which plans outreach programs.

The center will also host a hunger banquet tonight, during which each student draws a card with the name of a country before sitting down. He or she is then served a dinner that represents a typical meal in that country. Some students may have a large American meal, while others may receive a plate of rice, Kartje said.

“It’s meant to encourage solidarity with poorer countries of the world and have a real experience of the way resources are unevenly divided,” Benson said. “It gives you a really visual experience of the differences.”

The Lenten season has the highest par-

ticipation of any Catholic service on cam-pus, Kartje said.

Sheil encourages students to reflect spiri-tually, engage in some type of fasting and do-nate to a charity or get involved with volun-teer work, he said.

“Students do take advantage of the oppor-tunity to be a little more reflective of their own spiritual journeys,” Kartje said. “It’ll al-ways be some students who just have an awakening, and that will stay with them even after Lent ends.”

Lent is a reminder humans are mortal, and college is a time to explore faith and access a deeper education Paolelli said.

“People get distracted and get wrapped up in their own problems,” he said. “They don’t ad-dress the real problem in life: why we’re here.”

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Norris Poll:According to an informal poll of 100 students in Norris University Center Tuesday night, most Northwestern students don’t plan on giving up anything for Lent. Responses ranged from “I’m a Jew” to “I used to.” Of those students who did plan on giving something up for the Lenten season, the responses were even more varied. One student planned to give up french fries, while another wanted to stop biting her finger-nails. One student confidently said he was giving up alcohol, and one vowed to stop hooking up with people so much. One respondent pledged to stop arguing. Three were unsure. The overwhelming response? A simple “No.”

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incorrectly the affected residents will have 30 days to move. The “30 days” mentioned in a notice to residents refers to the beginning, not the entirety, of the relocation process, Newson said. City officials did not respond to calls before the publication of Friday’s arti-cle.

Still, some residents say the water damage is occasional and easily dealt with. Brian Pendleton , 71, said his apartment has only leaked about five times during the five years he has lived at the residence. Only one cor-ner leaked, and cleaning was a “mild nui-sance,” said Pendleton, who circulated the petition asking HACC to let residents stay in their homes.

Many of the Perlman Apartments ’ resi-

dents are elderly, which makes the water damage especially serious, Newson said. Residents with poor vision might slip if they do not see the water, she explained. Standing water might also lead to mold in vacant apartments whose residents are in the hospi-tal or on vacation, she said.

In response to a DAILY article on the pro-posed relocations, HACC issued a press re-lease Tuesday defending its plan.

“Reports of leaks occurring in a building that houses the elderly and disabled is not an issue that HACC takes lightly,” the release stated . “HACC officials are working closely with Mayor Elizabeth B. Tisdahl and Ald. Judy Fiske (1st) to ensure the smoothest tran-sition possible and will coordinate the efforts of architects, the building manager and maintenance crews to ensure that repairs are made promptly.”

To fix the leaks permanently, repair crews will “tuckpoint” the building, a process de-signed to prevent water from seeping in.

But as the 18 signatures on Pendleton’s petition suggest, many residents still have doubts about the plan.

“If they’re going to be on the outside working,” asked one elderly woman, who lives in one of the affected units and pre-ferred that her name not be used, “why do we have to move out of here?”

Asked the same question, Newson said it is the water damage, not the repairs that are causing the relocations.

“Because we know that there is a problem with the water penetrating, we’ve got to get them out of those units where the water’s getting in,” Newson said.

For residents who have to move, their new apartments may not be far away.

There are currently six empty units in the Pendleton building, which Newson said some residents may be able to relocate to. More housing is available several blocks away at 2300 Noyes Court .

Residents can choose to live in other pub-lic housing communities, and they can also decide to rent other apartments at a subsi-dized cost using a Section 8 housing voucher. HACC will provide staff to pack and move for each of the affected residents, Newson said.

Residents can move back in after the re-pairs, HACC’s press release states. But that appears to be many months away. With the design and bidding process still ahead, it is likely that the tuckpointing will not begin until the summer, Newson said.

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By Brittney Wong The Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/d65

Despite vehement disapproval from several members, the Evanston/Skokie School District 65 Board of Education “gave the nod” to Su-perintendent Hardy Murphy to cap kindergar-ten class sizes next year as a short-term solu-tion to space issues.

As a result, an anticipated 28 kindergart-ners who would have attended Dewey Elemen-tary School , Lincolnwood Elementary School or Willard Elementary School will not be able to attend their neighborhood school. Affected students’ placement will be decided on a first-registered, first-served basis, with time-stamped registration forms to ensure accuracy.

According to projections made by District 65 as well as an outside consultant, enrollment in the district will increase by 158-593 stu-dents over the next five years. In order to ac-commodate extra students, along with their

eventual conclusion of capping enrollment, board members debated enlarging class sizes and moving strands of two-way immersion classes from overcrowded schools to magnet schools.

Board members Tracy Quattrocki and Katie Bailey were strongly for the latter option, say-ing TWI classrooms are under-populated and could be condensed or moved to ease over-crowding.

The board will continue to discuss long-term solutions at its March 2 meeting.

“I have issues,” Bailey said. “I’m not done.”Parents and other Evanston residents lined

the walls of the meeting room to speak about their concerns with the inclusion plan and classroom-capping.

Sixteen of the 25 speakers expressed con-cerns about the board’s move toward inclusion of special education students into regular class-rooms. Many spoke of the fate of Park School , a facility exclusively for special needs children.

“Park School is not a place; it’s a haven that

cannot be duplicated in regular education classroom, not even close,” said Barry Minerof , a Park School parent. “There may be no plan to close Park School, but this plan, if continued, will have that result nonetheless.”

Others who addressed the board articulated apprehension about the limiting of kindergar-ten enrollment in some schools, as well as pro-posed changes to the magnet schools.

The Magnet School Study Committee pre-sented a report regarding their research and recommendations about the future of the two magnet schools in the district, Dr. Bessie Rho-des Magnet School and Martin Luther King Lab Magnet School .

The committee suggested themes for both schools and a plan to enhance those concentra-tions over the next several years.

Bessie Rhodes, the committee suggested, would become Dr. Bessie Rhodes School of Global Studies. It would focus on world lan-guages with daily Spanish lessons and interna-tional teacher exchanges. King Lab would

morph into Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Literary and Fine Arts School, with daily fine arts in-struction in music, art, drama and creative movement and an emphasis on writing.

Board members had several questions about plans to pay for staffing changes, new classes and programs. Members of the com-mittee assured the board the funding per stu-dent would be equivalent to general education students, yet these alterations would require “a district investment to make this happen.”

“I’m sitting on the finance committee, and all we’ve talked about is cuts,” Quattrocki said. “So if we do have money in the budget, we should decide how much that is that we would allot, and if we don’t then we need to be clear about that.”

The board decided to form an investigative team to look into these inquiries. Implementa-tion of the changes, if approved, would begin during the 2011-12 school year.

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We’ve heard it before. Conservative politi-cians complain about the federal govern-

ment “overreaching” to fix national problems with damaging conse-quences in every region of America.

In the southern response to Presi-dent Harry Truman’s civil rights speech in 1948, Rep. William Col-mer (D-Miss.) declared attempts to abolish segregation were a “usurpa-tion of the sovereign rights of the several States of the Union.” Segre-gation worked just fine in the South, many Dixiecrat politicians said, and the government had no right to force the region to support racial equality.

America is now debating whether all Americans have a right to afford-able health care, and conservatives are dusting off the old playbook.

On Dec. 23, Texas Gov. Rick Perry urged other governors to “stand up to this unprecedented in-

trusion in to our lives and the rights of our citizens.” States should deter-mine their own methods for provid-ing coverage, and Texas’s system should be the model, Perry said.

But just as segregation led to vast inequities in economic, political and social opportunity in the South, health care quality is worst in Texas and other Southern states. Texas has the largest percentage of uninsured residents of any state in the nation at 25.2 percent, and eight of the 10 states with the highest percentage of uninsured are in the South, accord-ing to the U.S. Census Bureau.

This lack of coverage has contrib-uted to Southerners being the least healthy Americans in the nation. The South leads the United States in in-fant mortality and lowest life expec-tancy, according to the Centers for Disease Control and a study by the Harvard School of Public Health, but Perry and other Southern politicians pay such statistics little mind.

In Southern and other conserva-tive states, the political will to expand coverage does not exist. Governors like Perry oppose expanding Medic-aid eligibility for low-income people and eschew the regulation of insur-ance companies that would drive

down costs for those most in need. Leaving health care reform to the states is a prescription for inaction.

“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice,” Martin Luther King Jr. said. Ensur-ing equal access to health care through strong action by the federal government is part of this arc.

The immorality of failing to re-form a health care system that leaves many struggling to find affordable treatment could not be clearer.

Liberals in Congress refused to allow obstructionist Dixiecrats to hold civil rights legislation hostage. In protest, Strom Thurmond filibus-tered the 1957 Civil Rights Act, but after 24 hours and 18 minutes, the Senate passed the bill, which re-quired the Justice Department to en-force suffrage for all Americans.

President Barack Obama has tried bipartisanship on health care, but conservatives are as opposed to reform as they were to civil rights. It is time to force a Republican filibus-ter of health care reform.

So, who wants to be the next Strom Thurmond?

Drug of the future cures bouts of existentialism

Every now and then a pesky feel-ing of meaninglessness strikes me, and I suffer the uncomfortable condition of doubting anything has a point. This condition never fully goes away; it just lies dormant until it flares up at unex-pected times. Like herpes. And like herpes, it’s not curable by religion, drugs or even consumerism—in fact, these “salves for the spirit” might actu-ally aggravate the condition. While there is currently no cure for either a hole in your soul or blisters on your crotch, there is medication to prevent herpes outbreaks, so why has no one come up with medication to stave off the feeling of meaninglessness?

Introducing: Whylenol. Serious re-lief for serious thoughts.

Find yourself repeatedly ponder-ing such irritating questions as “Why are we here?” “Where do we come from?” and “What does it all mean?”? Treat that recurring existential dis-comfort without the inconvenience of such outdated techniques as “philoso-phy,” “spirituality” or “religion!” With just one dose, fast-acting Whylenol re-lieves existential nausea and allows you get on with your life.

Directions: At first sign of an im-pending bout of soul-searching, take one caplet of Whylenol, and life’s mys-teries will dissolve. For the first dose or in the event of an existential crisis, take two caplets within the first hour. Drink a full glass of water, and avoid thought-provoking conversation for a minimum of 30 minutes.

— Hayley MacMillen

Monopoly schemes like real life, not just a game

At a recent get-together, we played an epic game of Monopoly. At long last, I found a viable clean alter-native to the “entertainment” of col-lege binge drinking and drug-using.

I quickly came to realize how similar Monopoly is to our real lives. In the diversity of the marketplace now, you can see how every person brings a different strategy to the board. Some seek equal trades at all points (imagine bartering), some people are willing to take loss during the initial trade in order to capitalize a more favorable trade later (imagine leveraged risk), others just throw their fate to chance, and the rest just want to have fun.

Some people cheat when their friend is the banker, quietly slipping $500 notes under the table (an ex-Treasury Secretary bailing out his Goldman Sachs buddy), and others count every penny, desperately try-ing to keep everyone honest despite not knowing what’s under the table.

People in Monopoly are out to make money and take over the board by not really doing anything! How people can get so rich by something so intangible a good such as a simple square on a cardboard board is ex-actly how hedge fund managers get rich buy moving tons borrowed money from one place to another and collecting some small percent-age of that. The actual movement creates no jobs but makes a few peo-ple insanely rich.

— Utsav Goel

millennials “onlyindreams:part3” By Steven A. Berger

The success seen by North-western’s American Sign Language Club and the associated student-orga-

nized seminar in recent years has prompted Associated Student Gov-ernment’s Academic Committee to push for the inclusion of official ASL instruction at NU. There are a number of common objections to the acceptance of ASL as a legiti-mate language for University in-struction, but the ASL ad hoc com-mittee believes these objections are invalid and advocates for the addition of ASL to the University’s curriculum.

The first misconception is ASL does not constitute a separate lan-guage from English. Within the community of foreign language in-structors across the country, a vo-cal group of teachers argues ASL is simply a visual form of English.

A single day spent at ASL Club or in an introductory course should be enough to convince any English speaker this is not the case. Signifi-cant differences in word order, the complete absence of the verb “to be” and meaningful visual use of eyebrows, lips, tongues and other facial expressions are but a few features of ASL that should clearly indicate it is equally as distinct from English as German, Russian

or Mandarin. The suggestion that ASL is sim-

ply visual English would likely be met with laughter or even anger in the deaf community. Signed Exact English is generally regarded as a slow and cumbersome form of communication when compared with ASL, which is perceived to be both more efficient and more beautiful than SEE.

Perhaps the more difficult ob-jection to address is the notion the deaf community does not embody a unique culture outside hearing American culture. While it can be difficult to conceive of a culture other than our own existing within the borders of the United States, there are a number of traits exhib-ited by deaf people that point to their representation of a unique culture.

While deafness is widely re-garded as a disability among hear-ing people, it is widely celebrated among the deaf as a positive char-acteristic. Similarly, the use of ASL is celebrated among deaf people as a symbol of unity among the deaf community as well as a symbol of the history of the American deaf.

As medical equipment like co-chlear implants increase the avail-ability of a “cure” for deafness, many deaf people are forced to

evaluate whether they would choose to be deaf when given the opportunity to change. A common view in the deaf community is deaf-ness is not an ailment to be “cured,” and deaf people who hold this view tend to view the proliferation of treatment for deafness as a threat to the existence of deaf culture.

Instruction in ASL provides ex-posure to a form of language that is in many ways more foreign than any other language offered at NU. The point of studying languages and cultures is not to recognize and cherish their uniformity; rather, we strive to recognize the diversity represented by the many languages and celebrate the com-plexity of our world. When en-countering the radically different manifestations of language and culture exhibited by the deaf com-munity, we should not be alarmed by their uniqueness and attempt to sweep them under the rug. In-stead, we should recognize the fas-cinating contributions ASL and deaf culture could make to our al-ready diverse offering of courses in language and culture.

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“My heart was in the right place, but there were some legitimate questions,” said Voss, referring to the discount proposed for lower-income individuals.

Ald. Coleen Burrus (9th), a committee member who supported the plan, said she has seen firsthand the struggle some workers have with paying parking fees.

“People who are making minimum wage, they’re really struggling to make it,” Burrus said. “We’re having them go plug meters with money, and it’s costing them more money.”

Williams said when she parks on the street, she has to spend her break moving her car.

“I would either miss my break to move my car or have to find the Civic Center and pay a ticket,” she said, “even for being six or seven minutes late.”

To avoid having to move their cars during the day, Evanston employees can purchase an $85 monthly permit for city parking garages. While Voss said the garage can be the most cost-effi-cient parking plan, he said it depends on how much time a person spends in Evanston.

Voss called Evanston’s parking fees “rea-sonable,” especially when compared to park-ing rates in Chicago. However, he said every-one has trouble paying for parking.

“In these economic times, it affects ev-erybody all over,” Voss said. “It depends on their circumstances or their employment status at the time.”

Jonathan Perman, executive director of the Evanston Chamber of Commerce, said the chamber supports a parking pricing plan based on demand for parking spots.

“We want parking rates to be based upon demand for parking, not set at a standard price,” he said. “Garages would fill up, and people who can’t afford parking right now would be able to afford it.”

Perman said he disagreed with the dis-count plan proposed at the Parking Commit-tee meeting because parking is not a neces-sity. Low-cost parking should be available to anyone, he said.

For now Williams is still taking the bus and the train to work.

“I have to get up at 5:45 in order to take my son to school,” she said. “In a way it’s bad, but I don’t have much of a choice.”

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Costello also warned of upcoming prob-lems Haiti may experience due to close liv-ing conditions and poor sanitation.

“In months it will be an explosion of in-fectious disease that is unprecedented in the numbers,” she said. “It’s not just possi-ble. It’s inevitable.”

Medill freshman Hannah Miller said she has a new perspective after hearing both Slevin and Costello speak about their experiences.

“I’m really interested in people who have been to Haiti because I’m thinking about go-ing in the summer with my church,” she said. “I thought that the U.S. had played a bigger part in crowd control and getting food and water. I didn’t know that after four weeks there were people without food, latrines or normal shelter.”

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Last season, Northwestern pulled off one of the biggest upsets of the year when it marched into East Lansing, Mich., and upset then-No. 7 Michigan State 70-63. But the Wildcats failed to capitalize on the momentum they earned from their remarkable victory, dropping their next game 68-59 at Michigan.

Illinois now finds itself in a similar position. On Tuesday the Fighting Illini (17-9, 9-4 Big Ten) made headlines with a 63-56 upset vic-tory at then-No. 11 Wisconsin, led by junior guard Demetri McCamey’s 27 points.

Heading into that game, the Badgers had won 18 straight games at the Kohl Center and were 51-0 at home against unranked teams under coach Bo Ryan. The Fighting Illini put an end to both streaks.

Like NU a year ago, Illinois was unable to carry that momentum into its home matchup versus then-No. 13 Ohio State. The Buckeyes ran over the Illini, jumping out to a quick 21-10 lead and never looking back in a 72-53 win.

“We came home against a very good Ohio State team who just took it to us right from the start of the game and never seemed to let down,” Illinois coach Bruce Weber said. “Somewhat like we did at Wis-consin, we just kept making big shots to

keep the crowd out of it, and that’s what they did yesterday.”

The Illini are now in fifth place in the Big Ten, but they stand just one game out of first. They received 29 votes in the latest AP Top-25 poll, the fourth-most of any team in the “also receiving votes” category.

Illinois has a bye week after the peaks and valleys of the last several days to prepare for its marquee Saturday matchup at Purdue.

“I didn’t know if the bye week would be a good thing at this time after Wisconsin be-cause I thought we were in a pretty good groove and rhythm,” Weber said, “But now maybe it will be a good thing to stay away from it, get back to practice, get their attention and see if we can have a good finish.”

After winning at Michigan State and falling to Michigan, the Cats won their next three games. If the Illini respond sim-ilarly, they may be the top seed in the Big Ten Tournament.

PURDUE PUTS TOGETHER ANOTHER IMPRESSIVE WINNING STREAK

Aside from a three-game losing streak mid-way through the season, No. 4 Purdue has been perfect. The Boilermakers started out 14-0 and are currently on a seven-game win-ning streak.

Last week Purdue (21-3, 9-3) picked up two

more wins, highlighted by a decisive 76-64 victory over then-No. 10 Michigan State at the Breslin Center.

Purdue had great success offensively and defensively last Tuesday, shooting 57 percent while holding Michigan State to just 32 per-cent from the field. The Boilermakers also out-rebounded the Spartans, an impressive ac-complishment against a Spartans team that leads the Big Ten in rebounding during con-ference play.

Purdue followed its victory over Michigan State with a dominant performance against Iowa, outscoring the Hawkeyes 34-15 in the first half en route to a 63-40 home victory.

“We had a good week of basketball,” Pur-due coach Matt Painter said. “We know we have got to rebound, we have to be solid defen-sively, carry out our assignments and just con-tinue to be efficent offensively.”

Purdue will look to exact revenge Wednes-day night against Ohio State. On Jan. 12 the Boilermakers blew a 10-point lead with 4:07 to play, falling 70-66 to the Buckeyes. That re-mains Purdue’s only home loss this season.

“A lot of that had to do with Ohio State,” Painter said. “The last 10 minutes of the game, they made a great run and won the game, and I think that’s the confidence they needed to get going.”

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“We missed layups, missed freethrows, turnovers. You name it, we messed it up.”

Purdue coach Matt Painter,on his team’s home collapse against Ohio State earlier this year

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ways like, ‘Believe in ourselves. They’re making their run, but we can do this,’” Marshall said.

After all, Marshall has come back from much worse than a 10-point deficit.

FRACTURED FEMURThree weeks before the first game of her

sophomore season, Marshall felt a dull ache in her left leg. She initially thought it was soreness, but the pain progressed until it hurt Marshall to walk. The day before NU left for its season-opening tournament, Marshall had an MRI per-formed on her leg that revealed a stress fracture in her left femur. Marshall initially wanted to play through it, but her doctors told her she risked completely breaking the bone. If that happened, they would have to insert a rod the length of the bone.

“It would have been a major, major surgery,” Marshall said. “I didn’t want to put my career, or even just my health in general, at risk.”

Even though Marshall was sidelined for the season, her biggest fan still attended almost ev-ery NU game. Marshall’s father, Tim, had made it a point to watch his daughter play during her freshman year. Even with Beth on the bench the next season, Tim habitually made the four-hour drive from Fishers, Ind., to Evanston.

“All athletes go through these setbacks,” the elder Marshall told his daughter. “It’s just some-thing you have to work through. God is doing it for a reason.”

TRAgEDy sTRikEsIn the middle of that season, the Cats were in

Michigan for a clash with the Wolverines. Sev-eral hours after checking into the hotel, then-sophomore guard Kristin Cartwright returned to her room to find Marshall, her roommate, missing. Cartwright asked around and soon heard the grim news: Marshall was on her way to St. Louis to visit her father, who had been di-agnosed with a brain tumor.

Already out for the year, Marshall had the time to support her father as he went through the preliminary stages of treatment.

“Looking back on it my mom and I say, ‘Maybe (my injury) was a blessing in disguise,’” Marshall said. “Because I wasn’t able to play, it was a lot easier for me to step away and take that time to spend with him.”

In February, Tim was treated by Dr. Allan Friedman at the Duke University Medical Cen-ter. Friedman, the same doctor who would treat former Sen. Edward Kennedy, determined Tim had stage four glioblastoma, the most advanced phase of a brain tumor.

It was also terminal.“It’s not easy to hear that my dad had an in-

curable disease,” Marshall said. “You don’t really think about the emotional side of it at that point. You’re just thinking, ‘That can’t be true; there has to be something we can do.’”

After five rounds of chemotherapy, the Mar-shalls voluntarily ended treatment in July. Tim passed away one month later.

nEw injURy, sAME REsUlTMarshall was cleared to return to the

court in August 2008. Five days later, misfor-tune struck again. During a pick-up game at Welsh-Ryan Arena, Marshall went up for a left-handed layup. She planted her left foot, but her knee gave out before she could take off, and she collapsed to the floor. Marshall was able to walk off the court with the help of the trainer, but then-sophomore center Amy Jaeschke and the rest of the team feared the worst.

“Everyone was just like, ‘No!’” Jaeschke re-called. “You could tell it was bad because Beth is a pretty tough person, she’ll fight through inju-ries. She didn’t stand up right away. She needed the trainers to come so you knew it wasn’t good.”

After several tests the trainers confirmed what the team had dreaded: Marshall had torn her ACL.

“It was really disheartening,” Marshall said. “I felt like I was there, and it got knocked back to a year earlier with one layup. It was really hard.”

Marshall was back on the bench, but things were different. A new coach was prowling the sidelines, and NU was implementing a different offense and defense. Marshall took advantage of her unfavorable situation, familiarizing herself with McKeown’s system and tutoring point guard Jenny Eckhart.

“I almost felt like a coach,” Marshall said. “I

definitely saw things differently. Jenny would al-ways come to me at halftime and be like, ‘So what are you seeing that I’m not seeing?’ And I could say, ‘It looks like when you’re driving, in-stead of dishing, you should be shooting.’

“I’ve kind of been able to take that into my own game. We run a lot of the same plays that we did last year. Watching those plays from the sideline, I already kind of knew what I wanted to do when I was on the floor.”

bACk in ACTionNow that Marshall has returned to the court,

she is making her presence felt.But it wasn’t easy at the start. Not only was

NU’s exhibition match against Robert Morris the first game Marshall played in three years, it was also the first since her father’s death.

“It was kind of like the elephant in the room,” Marshall said. “I was really excited because it was the first time I was going to play, but I was emotional. I really didn’t know if I could do it because he would come an hour before the game. That was hard because I kept looking for him. I still do look for him.”

Marshall has contributed in a variety of ways, but her biggest impact cannot be captured in the box score.

“What she gives us is an air of confidence on the court, a toughness and a leadership at that position that really has carried over to the rest of our team,” McKeown said.

Last year 17 of NU’s games were decided by 10 points or fewer. Of those the Cats won five. This year NU has played 14 games decided by the same margin, winning eight. Marshall is re-sponsible for much of the improvement.

“With (Marshall) there’s always a consis-tency,” Cartwright said. “If there’s a tight situa-tion, we all know that she’s going to handle her-self with poise and not get rattled.”

McKeown pointed to NU’s win over then-No. 15 DePaul as an example of Marshall’s late-game composure. After the Cats blew a 10-point lead, Marshall scored five points while picking up one rebound and one steal in the fi-nal two minutes.

She was also at the free-throw line late in both of NU’s wins over Michigan.

“In any close game I don’t think anything but, ‘We’re going to win this,’” Marshall said. “That is my attitude. ‘We’re going to win this, and I have to do whatever it is to make us win.’”

After her trio of setbacks, Marshall is playing with a newfound determination. For the first time in three years, she has the opportunity to make a difference.

“When I didn’t see people working hard, I was like, ‘Oh my goodness, when I have my chance back on the floor, I’m never going to let anyone say that about me,’” Marshall said. “I know how easily it can be taken from you.”

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‘Quarterback on the court’: (Left) Junior point guard Beth Marshall poses after Tuesday’s practice. She has brought stability to the point guard position, helping the Cats pull out a higher percentage of close games. (Right) Marshall looks to pass in NU’s 61-60 home win over Minnesota earlier this season. The 5-foot-5 floor general is averaging six points and four assists per game.

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Northwestern broke 12 school records in the last two Big Ten Championships. After an encour-aging 8-3 record in dual meets this season, the No. 23 Wildcats are gunning for more at this year’s event in West Lafayette, Ind., on Feb. 17-20.

“It really is a great place to swim well,” coach Jimmy Tierney said. “The pools are high-end pools, and we’re looking forward to a great chance to do something special at Purdue.”

Last year then-junior Genny Szymanski broke the school re-cord for the 200-yard backstroke in the tournament.

With another strong season under her belt, she is in position to repeat her feat.

“When I broke it the first time, it was great to be the best at the school,” Szymanski said. “Now it’s great to (be) the best than I can be. So I hope to do that again this year.”

A seventh-place finish in last season’s tournament failed to match the Cats’ high standards from the year before. In 2008, the Cats finished fifth as Andrea Hupman was named Big Ten Swimmer of the Championships and Tierney was named Big Ten’s Coach of the Year. Eight swim-mers made it to the NCAA Cham-pionships a month later.

In 2009 then-sophomore Ellen Grigg was the only swimmer who made it to Nationals, thanks to her performance in the Big Ten Championships. Grigg earned NCAA ‘B’ standard times in all five of her individual events, took bronze in the 200-yard freestyle and scored the most points for NU in the tournament.

“I know the ‘A’ cuts are pretty hard to get, so I’m just looking to swim the fastest I can, swim hard

on the relay I’m on and hope that those are good enough to get in,” Grigg said.

Although ‘A’ cuts, which guar-antee entry into the NCAA Championships, are a lofty tar-get, NU’s swimmers know they can compete with the confer-ence’s best. The Cats beat No. 17 Wisconsin in November but lost to Indiana, Purdue and Michi-gan, three of the five Big Ten

schools ranked above them in the CSCAA standings.

Still, Tierney said the narrow margin of those losses—156-144 to Indiana, 156-144 at Purdue and 157.5-142.5 at Michigan—bodes well for this week.

“No doubt it gives the girls a feeling they can race with peo-ple,” Tierney said. “It builds con-fidence and hopefully gives each individual and the relay groups a

belief that they can race well with anybody.”

The culmination of a season’s hard work, the Big Ten Champi-onships will be the last event of the season for many of the 35 squad members, since only a few will qualify for the NCAA Cham-pionships in March. Grigg said the tournament will unite the squad and end the season on a high note.

“Big Tens is the most exciting time of the year for sure,” she said. “It’s really exciting to have all your teammates around you; it’s just the greatest team atmo-sphere I’ve ever had. Everyone’s supporting you, hoping you do well. I think having that team at-mosphere is what makes me per-form well.”

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Men’s BasketballFind out if NU won its 18th regular season game to set the school markWomen’s BasketballRead about how junior guard Meshia Reed is embracing her reserve roleSportsSports

Patterson paces NU at Junior Olympics

Sophomore foilist Devynn Pat-terson’s 11th-place finish out of 145 competitors at the USFA Junior Olympics proved to be Northwest-ern’s only bright spot last weekend, as the Wildcats turned in a disap-pointing overall performance.

“Not such a good weekend,” coach Laurie Schiller said. “It could have been a stronger showing.”

Three other foilists competed in Memphis, Tenn. Sophomore Camille Provencal finished 52nd after coming in 20th the year be-fore. Sophomore Ariel Stein came in 65th after placing 32nd in 2009, and freshman Emily Bruhl came in 91st.

The two epeeists also posted worse results than they did in pre-vious versions of the event. Fresh-man Kate Cavanaugh came in 45th after finishing 17th in 2007, and freshman Kendrick Mooney came in 117th after placing 16th the year before.

Schiller said fatigue contributed to the team’s struggles.

“Partially, the girls are just tired,” Schiller said. It’s been a long grind, a long season. We’re kind of looking forward to an eas-ier schedule coming up these next few weeks.”

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Last Nu win vs. Penn State: A 53-51 win on Feb. 10, 2007, in Evanston, Ill.

Nu Player to Watch: Luka Mirkovic. After struggling at the beginning of the season, it seems the sophomore center is finally finding his stride. In the 10 games since his dou-ble-double in NU’s win over Texas Pan-American on Jan. 7, Mirkovic is averaging 10 points, 7 rebounds and 3 assists.

Penn State Player to Watch: Talor Battle. One season after leading his team to the NIT Championship, Battle is having a season to remember on a team to forget. The junior point guard is averaging 20 points per game, tops in the Big Ten.

Nu wins if: It doesn’t take Penn State lightly. Granted, the Nittany Lions are on a 12-game losing streak, but they pushed Wisconsin to overtime and lost to Illinois and Min-nesota by one and two points, respectively.

Penn State wins if: Someone other than Battle steps up. Containing Battle would be nice, but Penn State still hasn’t won a Big Ten contest despite his output. It has gotten close when junior forward D.J. Jackson has played well.

Daily prediction: NU 72-58

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Memphis Blues: Freshman Alicia Gurrieri qualified for but did not compete in last weekend’s Junior Olympics. NU had a tough weekend.

Daily File Photo by Minjae Park

Making the cut: For most of NU’s swimmers, the Big Ten Championships will be their last event of the season, though a few have a chance to advance to the NCAA Championships with a strong finish in West Lafayette, Ind. The Cats have historically performed well at Big Tens, setting numerous individual records during the past two years. “It really is a great place to swim well,” coach Jimmy Tierney said.

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