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By JESSICA ALLENTHE DAILY NORTHWESTERN

On January 30, 1970, a Northwestern tra-dition began as Blood, Sweat and Tears took the stage in front of a crowd of 6,448 in Mc-Gaw Memorial Hall for Activities & Organi-zations Productions’ first concert. A group of

students had formally met and began plan-ning the event in 1969.

This year, A&O is celebrating its 40th an-niversary. The organization has grown from its auspicious concert beginnings into a pow-erhouse student organization that has brought major musical acts like Bob Dylan and Kanye West to campus.

Communication junior Barry McCardel, co-director of Promotions and Public Rela-tions for A&O, said the group didn’t realize it was its 40th anniversary until members be-gan exploring A&O’s archives earlier this year. McCardel said they discovered A&O’s inaugural board meeting was held on Nov. 22, 1969, several years earlier than they had thought.

A&O is still working on confirming the exact timeline of its inception, McCardel

By ANDREW SCOGGIN THE DAILY NORTHWESTERN

Northwestern administrators are planning for the next 10 years, this time soliciting the community’s input as to NU’s future.

The University released a framework ear-lier this month for the next University-wide strategic plan, which is set to take effect at the beginning of 2011 and run through the end of the decade. The Highest Order for Excellence , the title of the last strategic plan, and its com-panion piece have helped to set the course for NU since 1997.

The outline, available on the Northwestern Web site , is the first step in putting together a new plan. This is a proce ss Un iver s it y Provost Daniel Linzer said will run through 2010. A number of is-sues and quest ions are listed in the out-line, including global-i z a t i o n , s t r a t e g i c p a r t ne r s h ip s w i t h other institutions and t he NU communit y out s ide t he c l a s s -room.

“We’re going to be c om i ng up w it h a small number of items that really will take this University to the next level, things that are plausible,” University President Morton O. Schapiro told THE DAILY last week. “A lot of strategic plans either don’t differentiate a college or university from its peers, or they do, but they’re not practical.”

Linzer said those involved in the process so far include administrators, trustees and stu-dents like those in Associated Student Govern-ment . He said he wants to incorporate stu-dents, faculty and staff, and NU community members can submit comments on the frame-work online until Dec. 1 .

“I am quite sincere in wanting this to be a broad community process that everybody has ownership,” Linzer said. “What emerges is go-ing to be our plan collectively.”

ASG President Mike McGee said adminis-

See A&O, page 8

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Willie the Wildcat cheers as players sing the fight song after Northwestern’s 33-31 victory over No. 16 Wisconsin on Saturday. Fans rushed the field as time expired on the Wildcats’ final regular season game of the season. It was NU’s second upset of a top-20 team of the season.

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NU plans out next 10 years

π A&O’s history spans four decades and numerous concert produc-tions, ranging from Blood, Sweat and Tears to Kanye West

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Vacant storefronts in city raise questions of economy, crime

A&O celebrates 40th anniversary

See STRATEGIC, page 8

“I am quite sincere in wanting this to be a broad

community process that

everybody has ownership .”

Daniel LinzerUniversity Provost,

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By ALI ELKINTHE DAILY NORTHWESTERN

Seven empty storefronts line the block of Orrington Avenue b e t we e n D av i s a nd C hu r c h streets.

Evanston has seen an increase in vacant storefronts in recent

months “because of the recession we’ve been in,” said Morris Rob-inson , the city’s economic devel-opment planner.

“We are making every effort we can to bring in sustainable businesses,” he said.

Certain spaces in the city have remained unused for extended periods of time.

Uncle Dan’s Great Outdoor Store’s old location, 700 Church St. , has not been replaced since the store moved to 901 Church St.

last fall. The space formerly oc-cupied by Dr. Wax , 1615 Sherman Ave., has remained empty since the record store went out of busi-ness a rou nd t he sa me t i me. Barnes and Noble’s old location , 1701 Sherman Ave., has been va-cant since August 2006, when the store moved across the street to 1630 Sherman Ave.

Robinson said the city is em-ploying several tactics, including incentive programs and outreach init iat ives, to inspire business

owners to take root in Evanston’s empty storefronts.

“We don’t l ike vacant store-

fronts any more than anyone else does,” Robinson said. “We need these businesses. We do not sit on our hands.”

Some new businesses have emerged, despite the stormy eco-nomic times. Evanston city rep-resentat ives, including Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl, took part in a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Ult imate Chicken Bar ’s grand opening Nov. 13. Buffa lo Wild

See STOREFRONTS, page 7

π Evanston has recently seen an increase in un-used retail space

“We don’t like vacant storefronts any more

than anyone else does.”

Morris RobinsonEconomic development planner

Nov. 22, 1969 – first board meeting of A&O members

1970 – fi rst A&O concert: Blood, Sweat and Tears

1977 – entire board resigns over funding issues with ASG

1991 – Bob Dylan performs

1990 – Jerry Seinfi eld

1987 – Oprah Winfrey

1982 – Eddie Murphy

1995 – Tracy Chapman performs

2000 – Bob Dylan performs for second

time at NU

2005 – Kanye West performs

2009 – Ludacris performs in the spring, followed by John Legend

in the fall

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If Communication freshman Effie Yang could stay home from Thanksgiving through winter break, she would. It would save her money and the hassle of traveling from Chi-cago to California twice in a two-week pe-riod.

But Yang must return to campus to take three finals for classes in the Weinberg Col-lege of Arts and Sciences, which does not allow students to take finals early.

“Thinking about (the expense) is so de-pressing,” she said.

Northwestern does not have a consistent policy on final exams within its six schools; each undergraduate school has its own sys-tem.

Richard Weimer, a Weinberg assistant dean for undergraduate studies, said it is the school’s policy that all students take fi-nals at the appropriate scheduled time — during Finals Week. Professors are not per-mitted to allow exceptions, even for stu-dents like Yang, who are inconvenienced by the rule.

Weimer said there is a policy for stu-dents who face unusual circumstances dur-ing finals week.

“If students cannot take an exam due to circumstances out of their control, we allow a make-up exam early the next quarter,” he said.

Dorina Aguilar Rasmussen, assistant di-rector of student life in the Medill School of Journalism, said Medill professors decide individually what their finals policies will be. However, due to the nature of journal-ism courses, circumstances at Medill usu-ally differ from other schools.

“Most classes do not have finals, but for final projects and other assignments, it’s up to the teacher,” Rasmussen said.

Similar to Weinberg, the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science and the School of Education and Social Policy do not allow their students to take finals early. Like Medill, School of Com-

munication professors set the dates for their finals.

In NU’s quarter system, Thanksgiving and winter breaks fall within two weeks of each other. For students like Yang, this short return to campus poses difficulties.

“I really do think professors should take (the breaks) into account,” she said. “I don’t know how they could change it with Thanksgiving, but just make it a little easier because it’s just such an awkward period. You can’t fly home for that long.”

Yang said her professors addressed the concern in the beginning of the quarter, but were clear in making no exceptions.

“Pretty much every teacher was… really adamant,” she said. “Like, ‘You have to take it this day.’ From what they said, it just sounded like (taking a final early) wasn’t a possibility.”

In the Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music, if Assistant Dean Linda Garton and the student’s professor determine a re-quest is valid, the student may be able to take the exam at a different time.

Bienen sophomore Lara Korneychuk will not go home for Thanksgiving break be-cause she has multiple finals scheduled to take place during Reading Week. She said going home for Thanksgiving did not make sense financially.

“I like getting to go home earlier, but I feel like I could use the week of preparation (dur-ing Reading Week),” she said.

Weinberg sophomore Daniel Walco said he knows some schools on the quarter system, like DePaul University, take finals earlier and combine Thanksgiving and winter breaks. DePaul ends its Autumn Quarter on Nov. 24, and students return to campus at the begin-ning of January to begin their Winter Quar-ter.

Walco said NU’s system seems unavoid-able.

“It’s definitely inconvenient, and it would be better if they were spread out,” he said. “But that’s just how the holidays fall.”

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At Northwestern Community Develop-ment Corps’ final fall lecture, one of the panelists spoke about his project: “Topless America.”

The ongoing project — which raises awareness about mountaintop coal removal — features a documentary, part of which was shown at “Alternative Energy and the Amer-ican Worker: The Prospect of a Clean Coal Economy.”

“We named it that to get your attention,” said Parson Brown, founder of The Topless America Project, to an audience of about 75 students at the event Friday.

The event was held in conjunction with One Book One Northwestern, and focused on the prospect of a clean coal economy.

NCDC’s final installment of its fall lec-ture series on race, poverty and inequality featured Brown and fellow panelists Pamela Richart and Lan Richart, co-directors of Eco-Justice Collaborative, and Tom Conway, regional program manager of the Labor Cli-mate Project in Illinois and Indiana.

The panelists gave short talks about their stances on the issue of clean coal and after-ward took questions from the audience.

“Unless people raise to our attention these issues, we’ll all keep thinking there’s such a thing as clean coal,” Pamela Richart said.

Chicago currently ranks second in the country for cities most adversely affected by coal production, she said.

While the United States holds 30 percent of the world’s coal reserves, people must be-gin to take into account the question of “eco-nomic recoverability,” Lan Richart said.

“The decisions made over the next few years may shape future generations,” he said. “Our choices henceforth need to be guided by the watchword of sustainability.”

America’s problem when it comes to fossil fuels stems from its “voracious” appetite for resources, he said.

Brown said the effects of that appetite for coal can be seen in regions like Appalachia. The people who live there cannot afford to leave or not take jobs with coal companies, yet the coal production is contributing to en-vironmental problems, as well as health problems for residents.

“People need to realize that there is no such thing as clean coal so long as we are continuing to extract it in this manner,” he said.

Anna Kelly, co-director of the fall lecture

ser ies, sa id she was pleased with t he t ur nout by students for an evening event.

“We’ve never done a F r id ay night panel be-fore,” the Wein-berg senior said. “So I wasn’t quite sure if that would mean more peo-ple or less, but it seems like it defi-n i t e l y m e a n t more.”

W e i n b e r g sophomore Sean Emerson Gordon-Marvin said while he t hought t he panel ist s d id a good job introduc-ing the issues sur-rounding clean coal, it was limited in solu-tion specificity.

“I thought they were kind of expanding to a general audience,” he said. “I wish they would have focused more on larger alterna-

tives — if not coal, then what? At the same time, I don’t know if they were able to do that because they’re on-the-ground commu-nity organizers.”

One Book One Northwestern has been working to partner with various student groups across campus that further students’ understanding of energy and sustainability, said Jeff Henderson, the One Book project coordinator.

“The topic of the discussion as to the prospects of a clean coal economy is relevant and it is incumbent on students at a research institution to understand multiple sides of an issue,” he said.

In the debate over clean coal, under-standing the various sides of the issue will be necessary for a long time to come, panel-ist Conway said.

“We can do it the right way or the wrong way,” he said. “Either way is going to have a lot of impact.”

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forum“Women are only in college to earn their M-R-S degree and men are always looking for the easy, no-strings-attached,

one-night stand. Obviously, there are no exceptions to this.”

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During my time at North-western, I have learned something — pause for reaction — there is no

better way to get people all hot and bothered than to talk about how their peers are getting hot and bothered with each other, so to speak.

By delving into the well-embed-ded stereotypes of gender roles, I was able to extract the inner tantrum that resides within even the most intellec-tual people.

I must say I couldn’t have dreamt people would ever take me as seri-ously as my readers have week after week. But it seems I have struck a nerve in the NU student body.

Fortunately, as an athlete, I know very well how to fix a throbbing nerve: Just apply more pressure.

So let me clarify what I’ve been trying to say: Women are only in col-lege to earn their M-R-S degree and men are always looking for the easy, no-strings-attached, one-night stand. Obviously, there are no exceptions to this.

After all, why else would girls spend hours getting ready to go out, plotting emotional terrorism when they’re scorned and analyzing the non-existent subliminal message be-hind a “yep” and a “yes” in a text?

And what other reason could guys have for one-liners like, “I have a strict ‘no sleepover’ policy” or “I don’t believe in being exclusive”?

We can completely disregard the lessons we learned from Betty Friedan in “The Feminine Mystique” and Mary Daly in “Gyn/Ecology.” Women can’t go into the real world without men at their sides! How else would they get their fancy double ovens and top-of-the-line washing machines?!

And clearly all men are equivalent to Don Draper. No male could possi-bly resist the allure of a chesty blonde secretary in a miniskirt!

If we could all embrace the stereo-types and accept our destinies as men and women, we could live happily ever after.

Wasn’t it Shakespeare who said, “Frailty, thy name is woman!” Women are delicate and fragile. They can’t play sports or write insightful pieces of literature that contradict so-cietal standards. Mia Hamm was a phony, and Ayn Rand was actually a ghostwriter for James Dean.

Let’s not even get into this crazy idea about monogamous men. They simply don’t exist. It’s a myth, like unicorns and the social life at NU. Even the people we elect to run our government can’t stay faithful: Bill Clinton, Mark Sanford — even the be-loved John F. Kennedy was suspected of extramarital relations! The men we interact with on a day-to-day basis are mere mortals compared to these po-litical gods. How could we expect them to stay faithful?!

See, by drawing your attention to the controversy surrounding modern gender roles, regardless of my meth-ods, I have accomplished my goals. Take this column as serious as Kirstie Alley’s weight loss program and force a chuckle — I sure did all quarter.

MAHENJill

Holding onto ties with Israel ‘makes sense’

On Monday night, participants at a stu-dent-sponsored forum will consider whether the United States should end its special relationship with Israel.

Embracing this discussion, Wildcats for Israel believes a strong U.S.-Israel relationship mutually benefits both countries at strategic, technological and ethical levels. A few points to consider:

The Middle East ain’t Vegas: “With 9/11, we learned the hard way that the Las Vegas rule doesn’t apply to the Middle East: what happens there does not stay there,” wrote David Mak-ovsky of the Washington Institute and Dennis Ross of the National Security Council in their book, “Myths, Illusions, and Peace: Finding a New Direction for America in the Middle East.”

As the only democracy in the Middle East, Israel’s problems are America’s problems. The two countries share common threats, from state-sponsored terrorism to the threat of nu-clear proliferation. Long before Sept. 11, Israeli citizens were confronting terrorist attacks on their buses, in their discotheques and at their weddings. Thus the people of Israel empathized with us when senseless killing occurred on our shores eight years ago.

It makes sense, then, that Israel has been an unfailing ally in America’s War on Terrorism through joint military exercises, technology and intelligence sharing, and research and develop-ment cooperation.

We can make new friends without forgetting the old ones: A popular mode of political thought centers on the notion of “linkage” — the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is central to all problems in the Middle East. If America weren’t so close with Israel, the argument goes, the Arab world would like us more.

Support for the U.S.-Israel relationship is not mutually exclusive with reaching out to the Arab world. Countries like the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia don’t recognize Israel’s right to exist, but that doesn’t stop them from doing business with America (or in Egypt’s case, for example, accepting our military financing). And when we opened up a Northwestern satellite campus in the Middle East, Qataris didn’t seem to mind NU students studying abroad at He-brew University.

The U.S. and Israel are natural allies: Beyond the strategic value of the U.S.-Israel relationship, Israel and America are natural allies. As nations founded by immigrants fleeing religious perse-cution, Americans and Israelis have always been particularly committed to protecting free speech, free press and freedom of religion. Dis-sent is celebrated as a critical aspect of national political discourse. Both countries value human dignity and human life, which is why a fair judi-cial system is central to American and Israeli government. The two countries even share a dedication to going green — an August 2009 Je-rusalem Post article reported the Israel Defense Force has “taken steps to reduce its ecological footprint,” and a constant water shortage forces Israel to find new, innovative ways to conserve.

When students, faculty and guests discuss Monday night whether the U.S. should end its special relationship with Israel, we hope they will ultimately remember the U.S.-Israel rela-tionship is the story of shared values, shared threats and shared interests. Forsaking Israel only ensures we lose a proven, committed and strategically invaluable friend.

guesT coluMn

Medill junior Jill Mahen can be reached at

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Group effort makes H1N1 vaccinations successful

Thursday concluded the on-site, joint Evan-ston Health and Human Services-Northwest-ern University H1N1 vaccination campaign for eligible faculty, staff and students. This effort was part of the larger attempt to coordinate and implement the largest vaccination cam-paign in the history of the United States.

As the executive director of University Health Services, I want to express my great ap-preciation for all those involved in this effort. Evanston Health and Human Services has been a wonderful partner in this endeavor, co-ordinating the overall on-site campaign and personnel as well as providing vaccine and re-sponding quickly and assertively to daily varia-tions in vaccine supply. Constant communica-tion, collaborative effort, very hard work and good humor have been the order of the day, and I believe the City of Evanston and NU should be very proud of their partnership in this important public health event.

Similarly, my thanks go to the Loyola Uni-versity’s nursing program, whose staff and students administered more than 4,000 vacci-nations over the course of three days, and to the Evanston emergency medical technicians who so ably responded to those students who became dizzy or light-headed. The NU Office of Emergency Management and its Director Clement Stokes; University Police, including Chief Lewis, his staff and all the officers on site during the campaign; the leadership of

Norris and Patten who worked so hard to pro-vide the necessary space and equipment; and all those who serve on the University’s H1N1 Pandemic Task Force — all these and others who I may have failed to name — have been critical participants in this undertaking. I must also single out Katie Naliwajko, the Uni-versity Health Service’s infection control nurse, for her ceaseless efforts to ensure the success of the operation.

I also applaud all those — faculty, staff and students — who attended the vaccination campaign, sometimes (but not too often) hav-ing to wait for more than an hour in line, who similarly responded with patience and good humor. I know some NU community mem-bers were disappointed to be turned away, but most understood, given the shortage of vaccine, the reasons and necessity for strictly complying with CDC guidelines for H1N1 vaccination eligibility.

The threat from H1N1 infection is not over. Indeed, it is expected the number of cases will increase as the weather gets colder and we ap-proach the true “flu season.” Nonetheless, the significant number of individuals vaccinated is an important step in controlling the disease, and all of those noted above should be proud of their effort and participation.

— Dr. DonalD a. Misch Executive director,

northwestern university health Servicesclinical associate professor,

department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciencefeinberg School of Medicine

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The contributing artists of Evanston’s latest art exhibition, “Somatic,” color the walls of the Noyes Cultural Art Center with a var iety of inspirat ions. Among them: blood cells, viruses, skin, cosmetic surgery and orange fungus.

The exhibition, which started on Nov. 18 at the art center, 927 Noyes St., is all about cells and the human body.

One piece, “Orange Jel ly” by Renee Prisble Una, 33, has pieces of orange sweaters spread out in clusters across one wall of the exhibition, sometimes spread-ing to the ceiling and f loor, or, as Una said, “violating the space.”

Una, a Chicago resident, said she took the inspiration from bright orange fungus she saw by an El stop near her house two years ago.

“I think that fungus is really interest-ing,” she said. “When you’re sort of in the forest and you come across a really inter-esting specimen, it’s always sort of this de-l ight — ‘Oh, look at this crazy thing I

found.’”She took the material from sweaters

collected from thrift stores, formed it into little stuffed balls and stuck them to the wall in clusters.

“I l ike the notion that it ’s recycled, much like the fungus recycles organic ma-terials,” she said.

In nearby displays, Lindsay Obermey-er’s bead embroideries of virus, blood and cancer cells glint in the hallway light.

Obermeyer, 43, said her artwork re-f lects her struggles with cancer. She was first diagnosed with the disease when she was seven years old, and later battled thy-roid cancer at age 25.

“A lot of my w o r k r e v o l v e s around the concept of medicine, medi-cal ethics, how the body is imaged,” she said.

She sa id her virus embroider-ies of ten evoke c on f l ic t i ng i m-pressions.

“ W h e n y o u l o o k a t t h e m , t h e y ’ r e r e a l l y beautiful, you know?” she said. “They have this kind of double-edged feeling to them.”

Obermeyer said she used beads for met-aphorical reasons. “Bead” means “prayer” or “hope” in Old English, she said. Fur-ther, tiny beads coated with radiation are increasingly used to administer chemo-therapy directly to cancer cells as a non-invasive therapy, she said.

Similarly, Una offers a beeswax molding of bones she calls “Scoliosis” — an expres-sion of her struggles with the disease.

“I’m always amazed at how people can take a material and turn it into something, you know, that has a meaning,” said Evan-ston resident Barbara Blades, 71, examin-ing Una’s piece.

Finally, artist Loni Diep presents paper kimonos representing cosmetic surgeries like facelifts, acne treatments and eyelash tinting.

For example, one kimono representing waxing is full of steel wool “hair,” with strips of it missing, Curator Chie Curley said.

For Curley, who has been curating exhi-bit ions at the arts center with Barbara Goldsmith since 1983, part of the fun of art is getting inside the artist’s head and seeing how that translates into artwork.

“That’s what’s so interesting for me — to get to know what’s going on in their mind and what led up to the work that they do, which is quite extraordinary,” Curley said.

The exhibition is open Monday through Saturday 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sunday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. The exhibit ends Jan. 10, 2010.

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Noyes art show brings body-inspired worksπ Artists in the “Somatic” art exhi-bition drew inspiration from blood cells, viruses, skin and surgery

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around the con-cept of medi-cine, medical

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Wings, 1741 Maple Ave., celebrated its grand opening Sunday.

Ultimate Chicken Bar Manager Mark Miller said the business had some challenges after opening about a month ago, but has since seen improvements.

“The first couple of weeks were actually pretty hard because we were still training our employees,” Miller said.

He said one of the biggest challenges he had faced was getting people to take notice of the new restaurant and to make them aware of menu offerings.

“It is pretty hard,” Miller said. “The hard-est part so far has been trying to get people to notice there’s a new restaurant here.”

A chicken mascot named Cooper and free teriyaki samples are some of the methods Miller said he employed recently to spread awareness of the chicken bar.

Empty storefronts, in large and concen-trated numbers, can be a security risk, Cmdr. Tom Guenther of the Evanston Police Department said.

“It could pose problems, so you obviously want to have your retail alive, up and run-ning,” Guenther said. “If you have empty properties it could lead to people loitering more in certain areas, especially if that con-tinues in a concentrated area.”

He said Evanston’s current situation should not present any additional risks, since the empty stores are solitary and spread out.

“If its a strip mall, and a bunch of loca-tions are vacant, then we would adjust our strategies to circumvent any criminal activ-ity that could arise there,” Guenther said. “We as a department have not seen an uptick in crime in relation to storefronts being va-cant during merchant transitions.”

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said. A&O originated as the Activities and Or-ganizations Board of the Associated Student Government, according to Daily archives.

The evolution of A&O as a student organiza-tion is evident in the University Archives. And not only have the musical acts changed over the years, but the way A&O operates as an organi-zation has developed as well. While the annual A&O Ball held each spring used to be a formal event held at a hotel in Chicago, last year’s was a Ludacris concert open to students in Patten Gymnasium.

There is also a record of colorful footnotes from when performers came to NU.

Saved correspondence between A&O and Phish’s manager shows the band’s request for a gallon of apple juice, smoked ham and hum-mus. A post-concert evaluation by an A&O member discusses the delay in B.B. King’s per-formance after he slipped off the tour bus.

One compelling story McCardel and A&O

Chairman Adam Pumm found in the archives was an incident in 1977, when the entire A&O board briefly resigned over a funding issue with ASG. There is a picture of the board smiling and holding up a picture of headlines of their resignation.

Throughout its history, McCardel said A&O’s events have unified NU’s campus. Sometimes, he said, the unifying factor is students’ frustra-tion over not getting tickets to a concert, as was the case last spring when the approximately 1,500 Ludacris tickets sold out within minutes. This fall, however, he said A&O was able to pro-vide around 4,300 tickets for the John Legend concert in Welsh-Ryan Arena.

Pumm said it’s been challenging getting ac-cess to venues large enough to support the or-ganization’s increasing ability to sell out con-certs.

“There are constraints that we face now that we didn’t in 1969,” the Weinberg senior said.

Until the early 1990s, A&O hosted concerts at a bar called The Gathering Place in Norris

University Center. Today, however, the notion of a bar on campus is unheard of, and Pumm said the administration demands to oversee A&O’s actions.

He added that A&O hopes the lack of appro-priate venues will be a factor in the University’s new Strategic Plan, and that A&O will try to pursue these interests.

McCardel said another perk of the ongoing archival research has been seeing where former board members end up after graduation.

Former A&O chairman Syd Cohen, Wein-berg and Bienen ’09, is now working at William Morris Endeavor Entertainment, a talent and literary agency, and credits A&O for providing her with a professional springboard. She said most programming organizations at universities use middle agents or rely heavily on their fac-ulty advisers, but members of A&O get first-hand experience.

“What’s unique and fantastic about A&O is it’s entirely student-run,” she said. “There’s maybe a handful of organizations like that in

the country.”Cohen added people are always talking

about the “NU mafia” in the theatre or music industries, and that A&O alumni form a similar base in the professional world. She said there are several recent A&O alumni working at Wil-liam Morris with her.

A&O’s faculty adviser Judith Cooper said its alumni are just one indicator of the organiza-tion’s success. She also mentioned many univer-sities have dropped their film series due to the availability of movies on the Internet, but A&O still shows movies on a larger screen to bring students together.

McCardel said A&O’s review of its own his-tory has spoken to the group’s long-term suc-cess.

“One thing that hasn’t changed is that it’s al-most unique among universities,” he said. “It’s a self-operating producer and promoter run by 18- to 22-year-olds. I think we’re lucky.”

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NU asking for community’s input in planningtrators have made a point of getting the perspective of students, something he said the last strategic plan lacked. The final draft of the last plan says eight students were planning groups for The Highest Or-der of Excellence.

“What we’ve shown as students is that we care about Northwestern, and we care about its image, and we actively partici-pate in shaping this image,” the Communi-cation senior said. “I definitely think stu-dents should be involved in this process.”

Schapiro said he learns something new about NU every time he meets with stu-dents.

“To ignore the student input is crazy,” he said. “So you have to listen.”

The reason for this focus on students can be attributed to the administration taking students’ input more seriously, said ASG Student Life Vice President Matt Bel-lassai.

“We have a vested interest in where the school is going,” the Weinberg sophomore said. “Even after we graduate, we still have the Northwestern name attached to us.”

One item listed in the outline for the next plan details building a diverse and in-clusive environment, an objective which the framework says the University has only “partially succeeded” in accomplishing.

Freshmen Urban Program co-chair Maddie Orenstein said NU has made head-way in improving student and faculty di-versity, but added the University has a long way to go.

“We need to push ourselves further in emphasizing that we strive to be diverse in every way,” the SESP senior said. “The lack of socioeconomic diversity and racial diversity on our campus hinders the base that we have to talk intellectually about the issues.”

Linzer said the next step in forming a new strategic plan is finalizing an outline by the end of December using comments from the NU community, and then turning over this outline to working groups, com-posed of students, faculty and staff, in Jan-uary.

He said the makeup of these groups will be determined later in the process.

But those who will be involved in the plan will be encouraged to use “purple sky” thinking, which Linzer said is “think-ing outside of the box.”

“It’s trying to turn some people loose and not feel constrained about the current realit ies,” he said. “It should be a fun group.”

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“What we’ve shown as students is that we care about

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the end of the day — a win.Take away Clay, the Big Ten rushing

leader, and the Badgers would surely ex-perience a drop-off, but their power run-ning scheme would make another runner serviceable. Take Kafka out of the Cats’ spread offense, and they go from spread to dead. For proof, look at NU’s inability to get any semblance of its former offense go-ing against Penn State once Dan Persa re-placed Kafka. Whether it’s with his legs or his arm, Kafka is NU’s offense. And that’s

Fitzgerald’s whole point. There’s no player whose team depends on him more than NU depends on Kafka.

This makes breaking the 61-year drought and winning a bowl game even more urgent for the Cats this season. While Persa should evolve as a passer in the years to come, he is not gifted with the physical traits that make Kafka a complete quarterback. While Persa and Kafka are a lot alike — both filled in af-ter the starting quarterback got injured, both depended heavily on their legs when stepping in — Kafka started in NU’s first four games as a redshirt freshman before

getting injured. If he had stayed healthy, Kafka might have been a four-year starter. Who knows what else would have happened. In other words, he was a starting-caliber signal-caller from the outset.

“Mike Kafka is an excellent quarterback,” Brewer said. “It’s not just the tangibles that you see statistically … but the poise that he has, the leader that he is. He’s a great guy, and he’s done such a good job.”

It’s fitting that in Kafka’s final season, he’s getting an opportunity to showcase his talent as the unquestioned star of this team. The future looked rocky in the mid-

dle of the season, but Kafka and his team-mates never gave up. With a 3-0 Novem-ber record, the Cats set the stage for a trip to a Florida Big Ten bowl, most likely the Champs Sports Bowl.

Winning a bowl game is Kafka’s and NU’s priority, and would be a source of ju-bilation for Cats fans. But giving a deserv-ing Kafka the Big Ten MVP award would be cause for celebration as well.

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NU’s spread offense dead without Kafka under centerFrom ChaPPaTTa, page 12

A native of Rhinelander, Wis., Schmidt had extra motivation for facing the Bad-gers. His first big play came in the middle of the second quarter, when he stepped up and blocked a blitzer to give Kafka enough time to find senior wide receiver Andrew Brewer in the end zone. The 12-yard touch-down pass gave the Cats a 17-14 lead, and they did not trail the rest of the afternoon.

“Jacob is one of those hard-nosed guys from Wisconsin, so it was nice to see him go out and succeed,” Kafka said. “He’s been doing that all year, so it’s no surprise to us. … He does (his job) well.”

On the ensuing kickoff, Schmidt was initially credited with a forcing a fumble that NU recovered, though the play was overturned after further review. He fin-ished with three tackles on special teams and later teamed with true freshman Rod-erick Goodlow to stuff Wisconsin returner Isaac Anderson at the 5-yard line.

“He’s been one of our best special teams players since he’s been here,” Fitzgerald said. “He looked like a mad man out there today.”

Schmidt is also the second returner on kickoffs, and a penalty negated one nice run past the 30-yard line.

FALSE STARTS NOT A FACTORNU’s offensive line has improved dramati-

cally since the beginning of the season. But it shot itself in the foot with five false start penal-ties, three of which occurred in the second half when the Cats were trying to close out the win.

Normally, it’s the road team that struggles with crowd noise and can’t hear the snap count. That wasn’t the case Saturday, as Wisconsin’s tactics successfully baited NU’s linemen.

“Toward the end of the game, some of the Wisconsin guys started barking a little bit, trying to get some of our guys (to jump) offsides,” Kafka said.

The penalties also came at inopportune times. Three were on third down, and two happened on third-and-one.

As a result, it was harder for NU to stay in a rhythm and made critical conversions more difficult.

“We got third-and-one and we get hit with a five-yard penalty, that is going to hurt a drive and a little bit of momentum,” Kafka said. “If we stop hurting ourselves, we’ll be in better shape.”

The penalties didn’t come back to haunt the Cats. After four of the five times they were f lagged, they picked up a first down on the following play.

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Sophomore running back Jacob Schmidt steps up on the outside to pick up blitzing Badgers linebacker Culmer St. Jean. Later, Schmidt helped give senior quarterback Mike Kafka enough time to complete a touchdown pass to senior wide receiver Andrew Brewer.

Markshausen in the f lat. Markshausen promptly turned and nailed junior wide re-ceiver Sidney Stewart for NU’s third touch-down of the day.

A 38-yard field goal by junior kicker Stefan Demos five-and-a-half minutes later gave the Cats a 27-14 lead going into the locker room.

In one half, NU amassed 292 total yards of offense while holding star running back John Clay to 30 yards on the ground. Clay rushed for 100 yards on the game, his low-est total in four weeks.

“I bit (Clay’s) ankles all night,” Phillips said. “There were a couple times when I hit him up top, and I’ll feel it tomorrow. Going into the game, I knew I was going to hit his

legs all game.”With their running game grounded, the

Badgers went to the air in the second half. After rushing 13 times in the first half, Clay carried just seven times in the second. Mean-while, quarterback Scott Tolzien threw 20 passes in the final 30 minutes after throwing just 10 in the first half.

Seven minutes into the second half, Wis-consin scored 10 points to pull within three. After two NU field goals and a Wisconsin touchdown, the Cats’ lead shrank to two.

The Badgers never came closer. Davie’s forced fumble and Mabin’s interception ended Wisconsin’s final two possessions.

“The big turnovers there in the fourth quar-ter were critical,” Fitzgerald said. “We talk all the time about just keep fighting, keep swing-

ing, and I thought our guys did that today.”The victory was the Cats’ second over a

ranked team in three weeks. It also capped off a three-game Big Ten winning streak, the longest of Fitzgerald’s career.

“To go 3-0 in November is a statement about where our program’s at right now,” Fitzgerald said. “We’ve worked our tails off to get better. The adversity we faced at the end of last year, the amount of offseason surgeries we had, obviously led to a slower start than we would have liked, but to the young men’s credit and to the coaches’ credit, they just stayed the course.”

With the win, NU’s senior class became one of the most successful groups in a cen-tury. The seniors have totaled 34 wins since 2005, the most by any five-year class since

the early 1900s. In that span, the Cats have defeated five ranked teams, including Wis-consin twice.

“I can’t say enough about our seniors,” Fitzgerald said. “They’ve led us. They’ve battled.”

The victory puts NU in position for one of two bowls, the Champs Sports Bowl or the Outback Bowl. The bowl announcement will come Dec. 6.

“I assume we’re going to be playing some champion from some other league like we did last year,” Fitzgerald said. “And so 99.9 per-cent of the country will pick us to lose, like they did last year. So I don’t have to motivate our guys a whole lot.”

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they have surprised the nation with two wins over ranked opponents this month.

“I give Mike (Kafka) credit because I didn’t look at any safeties,” Markshausen said. “I was hoping no one would come in front of (Stew-art) and grab it. I kind of did the Brett Favre backpedal. That was my first-ever touchdown pass, so I can’t say I really knew what I was doing other than just practicing it.”

Since NU has multiple former quarter-backs playing other posit ions, wideout passes are in the gameplan most weeks. Markshausen is not one of those ex-signal callers, making the playcall even riskier, but he estimated that he and the rest of his position group still work on those plays “once (or) twice a week.”

There’s a difference between executing that play during the week and doing so on Saturdays. NU called a pass for Markshausen in the loss to Penn State, but the Nittany Li-ons weren’t caught off-guard and the play broke down, forcing him to run it.

“We’ve always been a great practice

team — that ’s been evident from Camp Kenosha,” senior wide receiver Andrew Brewer said. “But we just had trouble trans-lating it earlier in the season to game day. We’ve finally gotten over the hump, and we’re executing more consistently in all three phases. That’s making a big impact.”

The play also highlighted the evolution of NU’s deep passing game. At times this season, the Cats have struggled to throw the ball vertically, because a sputtering running game let defenses focus more on the pass and a struggling offensive line forced Kafka to check down or scramble.

That wasn’t the case against the Badgers. Kafka had time to throw and was sacked only once for the second consecutive game.

“All the praise and all that should go to the offensive line,” said Kafka, who com-pleted 26 -of-40 passes for 326 yards. “They’ve battled through injuries and a lot of ups and downs. … Our offensive line played great, and (our receivers) got open.”

That McCall and coach Pat Fitzgerald trusted Markshausen to pull off the game-changing play speaks volumes about how far

he has come, too. A year ago, Markshausen had one career catch to his credit. After reeling in three passes against Wisconsin, he vaulted into a tie for fourth on the single-season NU receptions list with 79, which is also good for second in the Big Ten.

For a guy who didn’t figure to factor into the Cats’ long-term plans when he first arrived in Evanston, it has been a remarkable season.

“Coming here was an opportunity for me to see how good I could be,” Mark-shausen said. “I don’t think I was on a (depth chart) string. It was just one of those things that was like, ‘Zeke just watch for awhile. Don’t do anything dumb. Don’t get anybody hurt.’

“Then I convinced them that I could maybe run a route or two, and then I got going with Mike, we started torching the first-team de-fense out there, and the rest is history.”

In six weeks, Markshausen will have a chance to etch himself even further into NU lore by helping the Cats win their first bowl in 60 years.

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Senior wide receiver Zeke Markshausen looks downfield in the flat before hitting Sidney Stewart.

By RoBBie Levinthe daily northwestern

Northwestern’s seniors put the Wildcats in the lead on Senior Day at Ryan Field, but a duo of underclassmen kept them ahead for good.

The seniors made their last game at Ryan Field one to remember: Quarterback Mike Kafka finished the game with 326 passing yards and two touchdowns, Andrew Brewer caught six passes for 102 yards and safety Brad Phillips recorded 12 tackles. But with Wisconsin driving late in the fourth quarter, it was junior line-backer Quentin Davie’s forced fumble and sophomore cornerback Jordan Mabin’s inter-

ception that gave NU its eighth win.

“(We’re) very happy and proud for our 21 great seniors,” coach Pat Fit zgera ld sa id . “I f you’re going to have your last game in your home field, that’s the way to finish.”

Much like the last t ime the two teams squared off in Evanston, Saturday’s game was an offensive slugfest. In

front of a season-high crowd of 32,150, NU and Wisconsin combined for 64 points and 771 yards of offense.

“There were big plays in all aspects for both teams,” Fitzgerald said. “(It was) just a tremendous battle.”

The Cats’ offense got going early. NU scored a touchdown on its opening drive for the first time since the Eastern Michigan game, a 26-yard strike from Kafka to Brewer. The Kafka-Brewer connection carried the Cats all day, and Brewer’s second score came 18 minutes later on a 12-yard pass. It put the Cats ahead 17-14 midway through the second quarter.

“This week with (Wisconsin’s) quarters de-fense, we were going to try and isolate me one-on-one with their corners,” Brewer said. “On both of those touchdowns I was able to take ad-vantage of my speed and get past the corners.”

Another senior stepped up on NU’s next drive. The Cats were on the Badgers’ 38-yard line when Kafka hit senior wide receiver Zeke

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One of the challenges of taking on a power running team like Wisconsin is try-ing to control the clock. Entering Satur-day’s showdown at Ryan Field, the Badgers led the Big Ten in time of possession as well as rushing yards per game.

Fueled by an inspired defensive effort, N o r t h w e s t e r n s u c -ceeded in its attempts

to shorten Wisconsin’s drives. The Badgers had possession for 31:06 against the Wild-cats, less than the average for their first 10 contests by more than two minutes.

“Wisconsin is known for running the ball with a lot of power offense and they’re

known for eating up the clock, and we held our own,” senior quarterback Mike Kafka said. “We kept the ball in our hands and that helped us.”

Wisconsin boasts the third-best conver-sion percentage on third downs in the con-ference, but it moved the chains less than a third of the time in Evanston.

“We needed to get off the field on third down,” coach Pat Fitzgerald said. “For the most part, it looks like we did. We held them to 4-of-13, and 1-of-2 on fourth down. I thought that was going to be critical for our defense to get the ball back for our of-fense.”

Preventing sophomore running back John Clay from taking over the game was also crucial. Clay, the league leader in

touchdowns and rushing yards, carried 23 times for 100 yards, which was below his season average of 112.4 per game. His aver-age of 4.3 yards per carry was also less than his normal mark by almost one full yard.

The Cats didn’t let Clay break many long gains — he had just two rushes of at least 10 yards, and neither was longer than 20.

SCHMIDT SHINES AGAINST HOME STATE SCHOOLSophomore running back Jacob Schmidt

usually doesn’t show up on the stat sheet, especially not since backfield mates Ste-phen Simmons and Scott Concannon have gotten healthy. Still, his impact on Satur-day’s game was palpable.

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If there was one play Saturday that best summed up the progress Northwestern has made this season, it was wide receiver Zeke Markshausen’s touchdown pass late in the

second quarter.On first-and-10 from Wis-

consin’s 38-yard line, offensive coordinator Mick McCall went into his bag of tricks. Se-nior quarterback Mike Kafka threw a screen to Markshausen, who had dropped back on

the far sideline. Instead of running upfield, like he has on many screens this year, Mark-shausen looked for streaking junior wideout Sidney Stewart.

“I was just trying to make it look better than (junior kicker Stefan) Demos’ looked,” Markshausen said, poking fun at Demos’ shovel pass three weeks ago against Penn State. “I saw that Sid Stew was open and launched it to him. I hoped it got there and hoped it was somewhat of a spiral.”

The pass was successful on both counts. Stewart speared it and ran six yards into the

end zone, giving the Wildcats a 10-point lead. NU extended its lead to 13 by halftime, and it held on for a thrilling 33-31 victory over No. 16 Wisconsin.

Markshausen’s pass was one of the turn-ing points in the win. It was a gamble — the Cats were driving with a slim lead, and a turnover on a trick play gone wrong would have allowed the Badgers to seize momen-tum. But luckily for NU, the throw was on target. The Cats fooled the Badgers, just like

Read tomorrow’s Daily to see what coach Pat Fitzgerald said at his final press conference of the regular season.

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Top: Senior wide receiver Andrew Brewer chest bumps senior superback Josh Rooks after Brewer caught his second touchdown pass. Bottom right: Senior defensive end Corey Wootton celebrates his sack of Scott Tolzien with his trademark axe chop. Bottom left: Senior quarterback Mike Kafka evades a blitz and rolls out of the pocket. He rushed seven times for 17 yards in the victory.

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Northwestern’s deep passing at-tack in the past two games has mirrored its postgame celebra-tions. If last week was its com-

ing out party, ref lected in the team’s fes-tivities with the band and Land of Lincoln Trophy, then this game was a riot, and the fans appropriately charged the field and mobbed the team at the end of the game.

The win solidifies the Wildcats’ position in the upper-middle tier of Big Ten teams, on par with Wisconsin, behind Ohio State, Penn State and Iowa, and ahead of Michigan State and Minnesota. Not to discount the rest of the team, but NU relies on a single player more than any other team to keep them in football games — quarterback Mike Kafka.

“I don’t think there is any player in this conference that means more to his football team than Mike Kafka,” coach Pat Fitzgerald said. “To me, that’s what an MVP is. Obvi-ously, there are a lot of great players in this league, a lot of talent in this league, but at the end of the day, I think Mike Kafka is not only our MVP, but an All-Big Ten quarterback and the MVP of the conference.”

Fitz may be biased, but his view is far from far-fetched. After throwing for 326 yards in the 33-31 win against Wisconsin, Kafka is averaging 241.5 yards per game in the air, which is third-best in the confer-ence. Factor in his rushing yardage, and Kafka is second only to Purdue’s Joey El-liott in total offense. Andrew Brewer and Zeke Markshausen were virtual unknowns heading into the season, and now Kafka’s top two receivers are both top-10 Big Ten receivers in receptions per game and re-ceiving yards per game.

The stats prove Kafka is at least deserving of being the All-Big Ten First Team quarter-back. Elliott is on a 5-7 Purdue team that isn’t bowling, so to give him the nod over Kafka seems unlikely. In terms of the conference MVP, Fitzgerald said Saturday “was a battle for the Big Ten Most Valuable Player, be-tween John (Clay) and Mike (Kafka).”

Clay didn’t have a bad game, rushing for 100 yards on 23 carries, but his yardage was below his season average. Kafka, on the other hand, eclipsed his average pass-ing yards and got the most important stat at

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Sitting in the Nicolet Football Cen-ter after Northwestern’s 33-31 vic-tory over Wisconsin, coach Pat Fitzgerald spoke passionately about

his team’s accomplishments. Hanging be-hind him on the walls were three signs with headlines reading: Wildcat Values, Play Northwestern football and North-western’s Objectives/Goals.

In 2009, the Wildcats embodied every con-

cept, accomplished every goal and did every-thing asked of them on Fitzgerald’s motivational boards. Except one thing. Win a bowl game.

That phrase, which has haunted NU since 1949, was covered in tape for most of the season. Only after this week’s game did the tape get re-moved. It’s official — the Cats are headed to a warm-weather bowl. And as the team posed for a photo in front of the scoreboard following the upset win, safety Brad Phillips turned to his 20 fellow seniors. Phillips and the others knew they have one thing left to do.

“We’re not done here, we’re not satisfied, we’ve got to win that bowl game and take this program to the next level,” Phillips said. “That’s the next mountain we’ve got to get over.”

That’s the same mountain Fitzgerald refer-

enced after the Alamo Bowl loss to Missouri last year, the same mountain Fitzgerald referenced in spring football practices and the same moun-tain Fitzgerald referenced Saturday.

“We’re a couple miles away from the crest of the mountaintop, and that’ll happen whichever bowl opportunity we get the great privilege to play in,” Fitzgerald said. “We need to get over (it) to eliminate all the naysayers and the nega-tivity toward our program … to be talked about and represented throughout the nation (the way we want to be.) It’s a golden opportunity.”

Not much has changed in terms of talking about the mountaintop, but NU climbed it one step at a time this season. Now, the Cats have po-sitioned themselves to ascend to the peak. The reason they’re here? Those very same ideals Fitzgerald preaches about and has hanging in the team’s confer-ence room.

First, Fitzgerald’s Wildcat Values sign takes the shape of a pyramid. The top point says, “W.I.N,” an acronym that stands for “What’s Impor-tant Now.” NU didn’t let fourth-quarter collapses to Syracuse, Minnesota and Mich-igan State lower its expectations for the season. The team knew where it wanted to be, thanks to the 1-0 each week mentality.

Beneath that are the words “effort” and “re-spond.” Let’s just say I never expected this team to be able to win three consecutive conference games, two against top-25 opponents. It took effort to do that. And for “respond,” Fitzgerald’s roster is littered with players who have re-sponded, most notably the seniors. They re-sponded to Randy Walker’s death in 2006. Mike Kafka spent two years watching C.J. Ba-chér after getting injured as a redshirt fresh-man. Andrew Brewer spent two years fighting for a starting spot at wide receiver after playing several games at quarterback as a redshirt freshman. And Zeke Markshausen ran track at UW-Parkside before transferring to NU, walk-ing on to the team and spending three years on the practice squad.

“Honesty”, “family” and “respect” are below

that, and the last row has attitude, trust, charac-ter and investment. But attitude and investment are shaded white, highlighting their importance. It’s safe to say NU’s senior class bought into Fitzgerald’s plan. The Leadership Council kept everyone tight-knit and in the right mindset.

The “Play Northwestern football” sign says to take football one play at a time, one game at a time and one day at a time. The Cats made play after play against the Bad-gers, and didn’t get ahead of themselves. In the big picture, Saturday didn’t mean much. NU could have been 7-5 or 8-4 and ended up with the same bowl destination. The seniors made it about something more: Pride, and winning their last game at Ryan Field.

Fitzgerald’s objectives for his team are to pre-pare for life, be a champion and earn a NU degree. The fourth-year coach will grad-uate 100 percent of this se-nior class. They’ve been prepared for the world through their turbulent ride and their NU education. Be a champion? I don’t really

know how you define that, but for argument’s sake, they are.

One of NU’s two goals is to consistently prepare for victory. Don’t look now, but the Cats could be 12-0 and smelling roses. With-out several starters, they lost on a last-second field goal to Syracuse. NU let Minnesota grab victory from the jaws of defeat, and it held a halftime advantage over Michigan State on the road. The Cats could have topped Penn State if Kafka didn’t get hurt. That’s prepar-ing for victory.

But there’s still that one goal remaining. The Cats will get a chance to chase the 61-year-old monkey off their backs in a little more than a month.

“We definitely want to go out and get this win, it’s something that we talked about a lot,” Kafka said. “It’s getting that win and finishing and putting that excla-mation point on our season.”

NU ready to make it over mountain, get bowl win

Sports editor Matt Forman is a Medill junior. He can be reached at [email protected].

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Coach Pat Fitzgerald looks on during the first half of Northwestern’s 33-31 win over Wisconsin. Fitzgerald showed emotion throughout the game, especially toward the senior class.

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