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By JEANNE KUANGdaily senior staffer @jeannekuang

Associated Student Government is considering changing the name of its Diversity and Inclusion Committee to the “Accessibility and Inclusion Com-mittee,” citing a more direct focus on resource accessibility for students of all backgrounds.

Austin Romero, diversity and inclu-sion vice president, proposed during the quarter’s first Senate on Wednesday to change his committee’s name because accessibility is a more feasible and defined goal than diversity, he said.

“I think it’s really difficult to act directly on diver-sity, trying to make the community more diverse,” the SESP senior said. “We need to make sure the Northwestern community is inclusive and most impor-tantly acces-sible to all

students, and in that way we can make sure the campus has a better chance of becoming more diverse.”

The name change would not affect any of Romero’s or the committee’s current responsibilities, which include working to improve “policies, practices, curriculum and engagement” at Northwestern related to diversity and inclusion, according to

the ASG code. Rather, Romero said, it would ensure the group focuses on accessibility.

“That’s not saying that I don’t value diversity or that I don’t want to continue fostering it, because that’s absolutely what I want to do,” Romero told The Daily. “I would say that’s even the ultimate goal.”

He added the committee hopes to build diversity in a way that makes it “valuable” and helps students of different backgrounds feel included on campus.

The bill for the name change will be discussed at next week’s Senate.

Romero said the committee is kicking off this quarter by working on a proj-ect supporting lower-income students by subsidizing their tickets to campus theater performances, which he said stemmed from an idea a student came up with in an NU class. Another goal for the committee is a training program for student leaders in inclusion and different issues of identity, including socioeconomic status and LGBT issues, Romero said.

Earlier in Senate, Chris Harlow, vice president for student life, reported nearly 2,000 in total attendance to vari-ous stress relief events held during exams last quarter as part of ASG’s new Take Time initiative.

Take Time, a mental health campaign that launched in the fall, encourages stu-dents to take breaks from schoolwork and exams.

Harlow, a SESP junior, said after the meeting that the student life committee this quarter plans to expand the initiative beyond Finals Week to include events throughout the quarter.

“We really want to start integrating with other departments on campus like

City responds to extreme coldBy JULIA JACOBSthe daily northwestern @juliarebeccaj

Evanston responded to Tuesday’s extreme weather and school clos-ings by ensuring that public facili-ties stayed open for residents seeking

warmth and childcare, city manager Wally Bobkiewicz said.

The Robert Crown Center’s hours were extended to midnight to serve as a warming center. Additionally, the Evanston Public Library’s Chicago Avenue/Main Street Branch will open tomorrow to shelter south Evanston residents, although it is normally

closed on Thursdays, according to the city’s website. The city also added open gym sessions in three Evanston recreational centers Wednesday.

Bobkiewicz said the city also encouraged residents to call 311 and 911 help centers in the event of

NU collaborates with UChicago on Obama library bid

The University of Chicago hopes to collaborate with 17 Chicago-area schools, including Northwestern, in its bid for the Obama Presidential Library.

University spokesman Al Cubbage said UChicago contacted NU and asked for support in both the bid process and the potential library development pro-cess if selected as the library’s location.

“Obviously when you’re putting together a proposal you want to make it as strong as you can,” he said. “One of the things the University of Chicago did was bring in support from other institutions, which we were very happy to do.”

Cubbage also said UChicago was specifically interested in NU’s Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications and its potential role in assisting the library development process.

“One of the things Northwestern can bring to bear is the strength of its journalism programs,” Cubbage said. “It was the idea of having Northwestern use one of its key strengths to bolster the proposal.”

He said the library could also serve NU faculty who could benefit from the

library’s documents in their research.The news of the potential collabora-

tion comes three months after President Barack Obama spoke on campus and almost a year after a video message from him was shown at Dance Marathon. Cubbage said although Obama is more tied to UChicago because he taught law there, the president’s connection to NU is undeniable.

“Northwestern has a large num-ber of alums who work in the Obama administration,” he said. “It’s a great opportunity to continue our association with President Obama and the Obama administration.”

Cubbage said NU never considered submitting a proposal for the presiden-tial library and museum.

However, Obama Presidential Library officials have concerns with the bid because neither UChicago nor the city fully control the proposed Chicago site. The proposed site might “invite controversy,” according to the Chicago Tribune.

The article said the officials are hesi-tant because they want the library to be built on time. A site not controlled by the university could hinder that.

The University of Illinois at Chicago, Columbia University and the University of Hawaii also submitted bids for the library.

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Nonprofits fight unemploymentBy STEPHANIE KELLYdaily senior staffer @StephanieKellyM

A partnership between two non-profit organizations, one of which is based in Evanston, started this January to fight unemployment in Skokie.

Childcare Network of Evanston and National Able Network, Inc. have partnered together to combat unemployment in Skokie. CNE pro-vides access to childcare services to families in Evanston and the northern suburbs, while National Able Network provides career training and services to individuals and business.

Because of a $5,000 grant from the Skokie Community Fund, the two organizations were able to “formalize” their partnership, said Andi Drileck, National Able Network’s vice president of workforce services.

“That’s what it’s really doing,” Dri-leck said. “It’s providing the additional services to this population and to focus it on the skills that they need.”

With the grant money, CNE and National Able Network will look to put 25 people through their different services, with probably 75 percent

completing full job readiness sessions that National Able Network offers, Drileck said. They are not expecting a large dropout rate, she said.

CNE will refer either existing cli-ents or new clients to National Able Network and provide case manage-ment services to the clients, she said.

CNE and National Able Network staffers will finalize the specific ser-vices provided for the clients in the next couple of days, Drileck said, but the project will focus on job readi-ness skills.

The two organizations met in December to start planning for the project, she said.

So far this year, CNE has been reaching out to the families they help and seeing what their needs are and if this will be beneficial for them, said Jamie Ferguson, CNE’s director of marketing and communications. As CNE staff members talk to the clients, they will refer them to services that National Able Network provides.

“(National Able Network is) going to have a direct tie for families in need, and we are going to be that bridge for them,” Ferguson said.

Ferguson said the partnership is mutually beneficial because although

CNE is located in Evanston and works with Evanston families, it also reaches out to families all over the northern suburbs. This partnership will give CNE a way to connect with Skokie families, she said.

“It’s a way for us to expand our ser-vices and have a greater impact on the northern suburbs,” Ferguson said.

The partnership is part of CNE’s plan to offer services to not only chil-dren, but their impoverished parents and siblings as well, according to a news release from CNE.

“We are very pleased to be part-nering with National Able Network to help our clients achieve a more stable future for themselves and their families,” said Andrea Densham, CNE’s executive director, in the news release.

Ferguson called National Able Net-work a leader in its field.

“For us to have them nearby and on board and excited about this partner-ship, we really wanted to jump into it and see what we can do together,” she said. “We were just impressed by what they do and enthusiastic about their mission and the feeling was mutual.”

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PLOWING THROUGH THE SNOW A plow clears snow during a period of extreme temperatures in Evanston. The city has responded to this weather by keeping facilities open for residents to warm up in and by encouraging weather-related calls to 311, among other practices.

“I think it’s really difficult to act directly on diversity, trying to make the community more diverse.Austin Romero,diversity and inclusion VP

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Around TownWe saw a need with bikes being left out in the cold all winter.

— Danielle Burke, an area residence director

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JAN 9 - 11THIS WEEKEND IN MUSIC

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City water cart conserves 99K bottles By KEVIN MATHEWdaily senior staffer @kevinwmatthew

In its first year, Evanston’s Mobile Water Station served 9,300 gallons of tap water while reducing disposable 12-ounce bottle use by 99,000.

The Mobile Water Station, a city-owned cart that provided clean tap water at 55 various events in 2014, will continue to operate this year and promote con-servation education, said Kristin Rehg (McCormick ’03), the city utilities management analyst. The cart has facts about water conservation printed on it.

Although few improvements are needed, the sta-tion could benefit from more publicity and from people requesting it sooner if they need the station at their event, Rehg said.

“That was a good problem to have,” Rehg said. “It was much more popular than we even thought it would be.”

Throughout 2014, the Mobile Water Station rap-idly become a staple at major Evanston events. The station could easily serve more than 1,000 gallons of ice water at major city events on hot days, Rehg said.

The station primarily promoted education while making conservation appealing, she said. Conserva-tion is an easy task when the tap water is just as good, if not better, than bottled water, Rehg said.

The water is portable and potable; it is routinely tested to meet the standards of the Illinois Environ-mental Protection Agency, according to the utilities department website. The 200-gallon tank saves on transportation fuel by filling with local Lake Michi-gan water at the Evanston Water Treatment Plant.

“It really is convenient,” said Julie Cahillane, sus-tainability and resource manager at NU. “You make a couple phone calls, you pay $100 … considering the cost of bottled water that’s pretty insignificant. It shows up, you do nothing labor wise, they set it up.”

With advance notice and only $100, any organi-zation can rent the station from Evanston’s utilities department. For individuals, Cahillane said the best way to conserve is to use a reusable water bottle.

Students groups, such as Associated Student Government, have used and promoted the water station. Christina Cilento, ASG vice president of sustainability, said the station has been used for large events, including the Deering Days barbecue and the Residential Hall Association spring barbecue.

The Green Events Consulting Team, a group within the ASG Sustainability Committee, has helped promote the station to other student groups.

“For all of the events that we consult with, we suggest that the people get the reusable water sta-tion that Evanston provides,” Cilento, a Weinberg sophomore, said.

In April 2014, ASG passed a resolution support-ing phasing out plastic water bottle sales at NU by April 2015. But change is gradual, and a reason-able alternative must be securely in place, Cahillane said.

Cilento said that while water bottle refill stations have been gradually installed across NU, the work is not finished.

“You don’t want to make anybody mad by saying no you can’t have any plastic bottles on campus and then there’s no reusable water stations,” she said.

Evanston bans plastic water bottle sales at city-sponsored events. Rehg said the Mobile Water Sta-tion acts as an alternative, and she has high hopes going into 2015.

“It’s just a matter of getting the word out there,” she said.

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Bullet hole found in garage doorA bullet hole was found Tuesday in the garage

door of a west Evanston residence.The woman who owns the residence, 52,

believes it may have occurred on Monday around 11 p.m. when she heard what sounded like a gun-shot, Evanston police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said.

She reported the damage , which is in the 2000 block of Dodge Avenue, on Tuesday, police said.

Several parking decals stolenSince Friday, three parking decals have been

stolen from south Evanston.

The first incident occurred Friday in the 1500 block of Hinman Avenue, the second occurred Sunday in the 1100 block of Hull Terrace and the third occurred Monday in the 500 block of Sheridan Road, police said.

Parrott said this usually happens because new permits are issued at the beginning of the year.

“People think they’re going to take permits and put them on their (own) car and park some-where where they normally probably shouldn’t park,” he said.

However, these are probably separate instances, he added. All the permits are num-bered, so the parking authority is “keeping an eye out” for them, Parrott said.

— Julian Gerez

Setting therecord straight

In Wednesday’s print edition, the story “1871 CEO discusses start-ups” misrepresented 1871’s accom-plishments. It has graduated 65 companies.

The story “City residents discuss book on race, history” in Wednes-day’s print edition misstated a par-ticipant’s name. Her name is Priscilla Long.

The Daily regrets the errors.

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 2015 THE DAILY NORTHWESTERN | A&E 3

By RACHEL DAVISONthe daily northwestern @razdav5678

The Orford String Quartet, well-known in Canada for performing and teaching in the summer at the Orford Arts Centre, disbanded in 1991. But, in July of 2009, Jonathan Crow, Andrew Wan, Eric Nowlin and Brian Manker performed together at the Orford Arts Centre, rehearsing as the New Orford String Quartet for the first time a week before the performance.

More than five years later, the New Orford String Quartet is making its Chicago-area debut Friday, as they perform the opening concert of the Winter Chamber Music Festival at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall.

New Orford is excited to open this weekend’s festival on the campus of a school with “a history of developing top-level talent,” said Andrew Wan, violinist and Montreal Symphony Orchestra concertmaster.

The opening night program includes quartets by Beethoven and Brahms, in addition to a newly com-missioned piece by Canadian com-poser Gary Kulesha. The quartet performed the world premiere of Kulesha’s new piece on Tuesday in Toronto, and Friday’s performance is the U.S. premiere.

The New Orford String Quartet prioritizes playing Canadian music and promoting new Canadian composers.

“We’re a group that has a Canadian identity and feels strongly about pro-moting Canadian artists and Cana-dian works and bringing them out onto the concert stage,” said violist

Eric Nowlin, also the associate prin-cipal viola of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.

The festival’s varied program has new work in between the works by Beethoven and Brahms, both of whom inspired Kulesha in his composition.

“There’s not a lot of groups that try to integrate new music into regu-lar programs. We know that some people won’t like the Kulesha,” said violinist Jonathan Crow, concertmas-ter at the Toronto Symphony Orches-tra. “They still have the Beethoven and Brahms. It’s our job in a way to open their ears.”

New Orford is also unique in that the violin seating varies by work, and all four members have full-time titled positions in symphony orchestras.

“We don’t have the luxury of work-ing together eight hours a day every day,” Wan said. “If you do something over and over again it becomes habit-ual and loses the spark. I think that’s what we would lose if we didn’t have our particular set up.”

When Crow brought the group together, no one knew what the origi-nal performance would lead to, with their jobs limiting their schedules. Wan and Manker were the concert-master and principal cellist, respec-tively, of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, while Wan and Nowlin knew each other from studying at Julliard. They were all in Canada, since Nowlin had moved from the United States.

“It was a bit of gamble,” Nowlin said. “As luck would have it, we got along quite well and had a lot of shared musical thoughts so we had a great time and played the concerts and had the discussion of now what,”

he added.The original Orford String Quar-

tet gave them permission to use their name and in their first year together, New Orford performed one concert. The original quartet members con-tinue to support the quartet and share advice with New Orford’s members.

“It’s interesting to meet these guys and know they’re the former incar-nation of the group you’re playing with,” Nowlin said. “Our job is made much easier by having their name incorporated in our group name. That’s been a benefit for us to con-tinue that legacy.”

Blair Milton, music director of the Winter Chamber Music Festi-val, had heard of the new quartet’s formation and was later impressed by their recordings.

“I wanted to give them an opportunity to play in our series and for our audience to hear them,” Milton said.

New Orford hopes to con-tinue performing at new ven-ues in new places.

“We decided to keep going and see where this went and five and a half years later here we are,” Nowlin said.

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Foods you loved abroad find a place at home

Artist recreates NU sunrise, sunset in Dittmar Gallery

Block Museum exhibition features Kashmiri artifacts

NU professors lauded for new books

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By ALICE YINdaily senior staffer@alice__yin

The Dittmar Gallery room will be transformed into a Northwest-ern-personalized map of the eve-ning sky, complete with rocks from around campus.

Called the “Night for Day” exhibit, the art installation will open Friday and be featured until Feb. 8. Jason Paradis, a New York-based artist and university profes-sor, will attend an opening recep-tion tomorrow evening.

This installation is uniquely made for NU. Paradis used a com-puter program to plot the position of the stars during Friday’s sunrise and sunset. He set the location to a viewpoint above Dittmar Gal-lery and crafted 16 paintings to be placed around the room.

“I’ve been interested in nautical twilight lately,” Paradis said. “That sort of moment when the sun is on the horizon … that moment between night and day … I thought that was an interesting juxtaposition.”

A pile of rocks, which was directly taken from NU’s construc-tion sites and old buildings, will rest in the center of the room, connected with yarn to stars in the paintings on the wall.

Paradis said the direction of yarn represents rays of light from the stars hitting the rock pile — or light spilling out of the rocks and into the paintings, depending on the visitor’s interpretation.

“It shifts as you walk around it, encouraging people to walk in and around and under the strings,” Par-adis said. “There’s this sense that nothing is the same.”

The setting also evokes an omi-nous feeling, Paradis said. Like the lone hiker at dusk, visitors should also have sense of mystery when they walk inside the collection.

Paradis, who does a lot of camp-ing, wanted his installation to emu-late the atmosphere of sitting under the stars by a fire. His paintings, which are an assortment of blue washes with stars and lines painted over, depict the shifting sky dur-ing sunrise and sunset. The pile of rocks represents something man-made — a campfire pit or a burial mound, for example.

“You feel like this small person,” Paradis said. “I guess part of it is I want people to contemplate what it is that they end up doing when

looking up at the stars.”For the color scheme, Paradis

used shades of cobalt and navy as the lightening and darkening sky. The canvases are built on mul-tiple layers as a mock imitation of nature.

Paradis said this color selection includes colors that everyone asso-ciates with the sky, but that they are still just representations.

“We say the sky is blue but it’s not,” Paradis said. “It’s gray, it’s all these other colors.”

Paradis arrived on Wednesday to begin setting up. It is his first exhi-bition featured in the Chicago area. He has been working on the design and paintings of this installation for the past six months.

SESP junior Darien Wendell, who serves as Dittmar’s curator and coordinator, assisted Paradis with setting up the installation. She said his localizing the work to Dittmar’s location is a unique concept that she hasn’t seen before while work-ing with the gallery, and she thinks students will love the display.

“People are going to have their socks knocked off,” Wendell said. “It was really beautiful and intricate — seeing how he took kind of the ethereal sky and brought it down and made it material.”

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Artist recreates Evanston sunrise, sunset in Dittmar

Foods you loved abroad fi nd a place at home

Portrait by Sean Su/Daily Senior Staffer

EARLY RISER Artist Jason Paradis’ “Night for Day” exhibit features a carefully constructed version of the sky as seen from Evanston.

You basically lived on meat and potatoes while you were kicking it in Copenhagen, and that kind of fun defi -nitely doesn’t have to stop just because you returned stateside. To fulfi ll your Scandinavian longings, check out Tre Kronor, a breakfast and brunch spot churning out your Danish favorites in Chicago’s Albany Park neighborhood. From traditional Danish pastries to a Kobenhavn Omelette, this spot will have you missing that amazing cur-rency conversion rate and the stellar Instagram photo-shoot you had with the Little Mermaid statue.

Denmark

When you told everyone you were going to Italy, they were probably some-what jealous of the amazing art you were going to see. Th ey were a tad envi-ous of your opportunity to immerse yourself in one of the world’s oldest cultures. But really, they were turn-ing green with envy over the food you were undoubtedly going to enjoy. From hand-tossed pizzas to mouthwatering gelato, Italy certainly takes the cake – or cannoli – in a lot of food categories. Th ough no location could possibly hold a candle to whatever quiet cafe you and your abroad besties called your favor-ite, taking the hike downtown to Eataly can defi nitely appease some of your marinara-based woes. Th e gigantic pal-ace of Italian cuisine is fi lled with so much homemade focaccia and gelato you’ll never want to say ciao.

Italy

Tapas Barcelona is the obvious choice to fulfi ll the needs of your patatas bravas-deprived taste buds. Located conveniently at 1615 Chicago Ave., Tapas Barcelona has been cooking up croquetas since 1995. Th e catalana paella will have you totally forgetting about the fact that you’re no longer legally allowed to drink sangria. Plus, going to Tapas Barcelona defi nitely earns you a siesta. And the stained glass on Alice Millar Chapel does sort of look like the Sagrada Familia (if you really squint and are looking through foggy glasses).

Spain

Luckily for you ex-Londoners, Lon-don’s lunchtime staple is literally right in Evanston. Pret A Manger, the most ubiquitous chain in the land of Royal Baby George, set up shop at 1701 Sher-man Ave. But even if you’ve lost your stomach for mayonnaise-fi lled sand-wiches and chicken soup, don’t fret. Th ough London may not be known as a culinary capital of the world, Th e Red Lion Lincoln Square will have you remembering all the great meals you ate in the shadow of Big Ben. Th e Brit-ish pub has everything from fi sh and chips to bangers and mash, and even though you may not be able to get a cup of coff ee from Caff e Nero, this dining experience will have you reminiscing about the Tube in no time.

England

Ah, Winter Quarter. A time of late frostbite shuttles, general cold-related saltiness and an impossible deluge of Wildcats who seem to start every sentence with “Well, this one time in Paris …” Th at’s right, Cats, nearly 400 students studied abroad in the fall, and many are back on campus for the fi rst time since summer armed with stories they can’t wait to tell the entire world. Between the sightseeing and “studying,” one thing every study abroad student did was eat. From mince pies in London to pasta in Milan, the cuisine abroad certainly pleased palates. And luckily, even if there’s an Eiff el Tower-sized hole in your heart where Nutella crepes used to be, there are restaurants nearby with their own takes on European delicacies. Th e fi ve most popular study abroad locations as reported by Northwestern’s Study Abroad Offi ce are below, and the Evanston and Chicago areas have enough international eats to remind you of the good old days of siesta and sangria.

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Aft er four months in France, your language skills improved, your propen-sity to roll your eyes at tourists sky-rocketed and your knowledge of high-quality carbs undoubtedly progressed. Although returning to Evanston may be a sorry reminder that not every street corner features life-changing pain au chocolat, a new cafe might just hit the spot. Opening in the fall in the spot formerly occupied by Cafe Mozart, Patisserie Coralie, 600 Davis St., is a French pastry shop featuring your favorite tasty treats. Hustling to class with a croissant in hand is basi-cally the same as eating one on the Champs-Elysees, right?

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Story by Hayley Glatter/Daily Senior Staffer

Art installation uses rocks from campus to create exhibit

THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 2015 THE DAILY NORTHWESTERN | A&E 5

By AMANDA SVACHULAthe daily northwestern @amandasvachula

With innovative literary techniques and unique perspectives on common topics, North-western creative writing professors Stuart Dybek and Eula Biss astounded the literary world in 2014, receiving many awards for their work.

Dybek published two books of short sto-ries that received praise from both national and local media outlets. The New York Times described him “as not only our most relevant writer, but maybe our best.” His book “Paper Lantern: Love Stories” was named one of the top books of the year by the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Reader.

Though both are books of short stories, Dybek’s two works, “Paper Lantern: Love Sto-ries” and “Ecstatic Cahoots” are fundamentally different types of literature.

“Paper Lantern: Love Stories” is written in a more traditional style and is filled with short stories of an average length. The book focuses on the theme of love.

“Ecstatic Cahoots” is written in a more experimental way, with a focus on form rather than just theme.

“Some of the stories are very short, closer to poems,” Dybek said. “When you’re writing something short, in order to give the reader some sense of completeness, (a writer is required) to make up a kind of new technique to writing the story.”

Dybek is known in his field as a writer who has been heavily influenced by Chicago, and the presence of the city comes up in a few of his short stories, not only in the setting but also the urban essence of the writing. Through his writing, Dybek aims to maintain a close relationship with the reader.

“You’re talking about trying to realize some-thing you’ve imagined and make it real for somebody else,” Dybek said.

Biss also achieved success with her 2014 book “On Immunity: An Inoculation.”

The book displays a new way of thinking about vaccines and whether or not they are worth it. Biss began writing the story after her own child was born, and it is written in a way that mixes memoir and hard science, making it very readable.

The work was described in The New York Times as a “spellbinding blend of memoir, sci-ence journalism and literary criticism.” It was also selected as one of the top 10 books of 2014 by many major publications including The Times.

The work traces Biss’ thought process as she learns about vaccines and comes to the conclusion that people get them because of a sort of societal need.

NU’s nurturing environment influenced the writers as they crafted their work.

“Northwestern’s deep respect for the impor-tance of the written word that manifests itself in its perfect English program and all the ways in which writing is incorporated on campus has deeply impacted me,” Dybek said.

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An 8th-century brass sculpture with cop-per and silver inlay, a masterpiece of techni-cal workmanship, sits in the middle of an empty room.

The display isn’t located in the Metropoli-tan Museum of Art or The Louvre. Rather, it’s part of Block Museum of Art’s new exhibi-tion, which includes two parts — Collecting Paradise: Buddhist Art of Kashmir and Its Legacies, and Collecting Culture: Himalaya through the Lens — opening Tuesday. Prof. Rob Linrothe, who is curating the exhibit, said this physi-cal set-up is an integral part of understanding the exhibition.

“We’re going for a different approach in isolating these objects so you don’t see them as a series, but rather you see t hem more individually,” Linrothe said. “You’re aware you’re walking into a different kind of space. That self-aware-ness enhances your openness, we hope, that you’re not going to see things you’re familiar with, but if you do look hard, look well, you’ll see amazing workmanship.”

The exhibition is split between two floors, one featuring art from the Kashmir region as perceived by the people of the West Himala-yas. Linrothe said this floor shows how the different objects have been or can be displayed by different groups of people. The religious aspects of the art are prominent on this level, to reflect the way people from the West Hima-layas have interpreted artifacts from Kashmir. The second part of the exhibition places the pieces in a Western context as seen through the eyes of Italian and American explorers, Block spokeswoman Joanna Gueller said.

Block director Lisa Corrin said the

exhibition was a departure from the museum’s past displays in that it features work from a different region.

“It’s the first major exhibition from India, and it’s the first exhibition of historic art from this part of the world ever at the Block Museum,” Corrin said. “It represents a new direction for the museum, which is a strong emphasis on global art across time and across cultures.”

The exhibition features sculptures, pho-tographs, textiles and other mediums. Since first conceiving of the exhibition to use in his teaching, Linrothe teased out the idea with the museum and the idea earned a National Endowment for the Arts grant, Block’s first ever.

Linrothe said seeing the exhibition come to life has been a remarkable experience.

“I’m delighted to be able to share these things that I’ve admired for so long,” he said. “In a way, this is the imaginary exhibition for me, because I got to choose all the (pieces) that if I could, I would bring together. And, my goodness! They’ve actually done it.”

The unique array of pieces features a region understood in a certain way by Amer-icans, Corrin said. However, the Kashmir and West Himalayan areas can be viewed through a different lens at Block.

“We read in the newspaper a great deal about the political upheavals that are taking place in this region, but it’s a place with an extremely rich and important history because of its location along the Silk Road,” Corrin said. “This exhibition will, for the public, fill important gaps in their understanding of that history.”

In addition to the rare locational focus of the exhibition, Linrothe said its focus on how the artifacts actually arrived at the museum is a unique feature.

“By exploring issues of collecting, we’re, if not breaking new ground, at least we’re moving in the same direction as a new move-ment in museum practice, which is to not pretend that these things just appeared in the museum by some accident of grace but that they were acquired, and sometimes by not very happy means,” Linrothe said.

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ART-IFACTS Block Museum of Art will display these two artifacts, a Crowned Buddha Shakyamuni statue (above left) and Thangka of Four-Armed Mahakala depiction (above right), along with more than 40 others when the new exhibition opens Jan. 13.

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ACROSS TIME AND ACROSS CULTURES Travelers from the West Himalayas and, later, the Western world, explored the Kashmir region. The different ways these explorers interpreted what they found there are featured in the exhibition.


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weather-related problems.Evanston’s 311 Service handled 410 calls and

66 service requests as of 5 p.m. Wednesday, Bob-kiewicz said in an email to Evanston media. There was one 911 call regarding a frostbitten homeless man, who was taken to the hospital, and there were about 15 referrals to overnight cold weather shelters by departments working with the police this week, he said.

City offices remained open Wednesday, whereas during a bout of extreme weather early last January, city government was limited to only essential staff for one day. Last year, the city encouraged residents to stay home during a day of frigid temperatures, but did not do the same Wednesday, Bobkiewicz said.

“For better or worse, we’re starting to get used to this extreme weather and so, at least from a city perspective, we didn’t take as many precautions,” Bobkiewicz said. “As this is becoming more of a normal thing, we’re, I think, all learning to live with it.”

The city moved some outdoor employees indoors Wednesday, but those who could not be relocated, such as police officers and public

works utilities employees, were given a word of extra caution, Bobkie-wicz added.

All recycling routes w e r e c o mp l e t e d Wednesday despite three nonfunctional trucks, Bobkiewicz said in the email. However, during the week of Jan. 6 last year, Evanston delayed recycling collection one day due to weather, the city’s website said.

Last year, there was an extended period, about four days in a row, of wind chill temperatures 20 to 30 degrees below zero, whereas this year has seen only a short period of extreme temperatures, said Carl Caneva, assistant director of health and human services. There will be above-zero temperatures tomorrow, although wind chill values are predicted to reach minus-25, according to the National Weather Service.

“The dangers are linked very close to expo-sure,” Caneva said. “If you’re out there for longer periods of time and you’re not properly dressed, you can experience frostbite, hypothermia quickly. The people who are particularly at risk

are those who are older or younger, … people who are on certain medications and people with disabilities.”

Evanston Township High School and Evan-ston/Skokie School District 65 schools and cen-ters were closed Wednesday.

District 65 schools and centers will remain closed again Thursday, the district announced Wednesday.

ETHS will operate on a late start day schedule due to the severe weather conditions, the school announced Wednesday.

Classes will begin at 9:40 a.m. at ETHS, according to a statement on the school’s web-site. All before-school activities and practices are canceled, but after-school activities, practices, meetings and events will continue as planned.

Unless a notification is sent out, schools in both districts plan to operate on their normal schedules Friday.

Although the city has no input in decisions regarding school closings, Bobkiewicz said Dis-trict 65 was right to be concerned for children walking to school and waiting for buses in frigid wind chills, potentially without sufficient winter clothing.

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NU offers winter bike storage for first time

Northwestern offered winter bike storage for the first time this year. Students were able to drop off their bikes at 1835 Hinman, Ayers College of Commerce and Industry and Sargent Hall in early December and early January. Bikes will be available to take out of storage beginning the first week of Spring Quarter.

“We saw a need with bikes being left out in the cold all winter,” said Danielle Burke, an area residence director. “We were able to locate some spaces and clear out room in the buildings where we thought it would be most beneficial.”

Burke said 105 bikes were in storage as of Wednes-day evening. She said storage was most popular at the 1835 Hinman location.

Burke said although this is a new program for the University, she believes some buildings, pre-dominantly on North Campus, had their own bike rooms available for residents. However, she said this is the first service that guarantees a secure space for students to store their bikes. Students must sign in when they bring their bike and sign out when they pick it up.

Burke said she also believes that in the past there were outside vendors that allowed students to store their bikes elsewhere for a fee.

She said the service so far has been “well-received,” and that Residential Services plans to continue the program.

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GOP bill would make failing public schools charters

MADISON — The state would convert failing public schools to independent charter schools and cut off all state payments to failing private schools for at least four years, under a draft bill offered by Assembly Republicans Wednesday.

The sweeping measure would create a new board to assign letter grades of A through F to all publicly funded schools in the state and then lay out eventual penalties for those receiv-ing D’s and F’s. In a shift from current law, the measure would allow private schools to use a different exam from the state test to measure student learning, though it would create a pro-cess for comparing those differing tests.

The bill would give public schools the same option, but in practice they won’t be able to use it because of federal law.

That proposal and another offered Wednes-day by Senate Democrats are the latest salvos in the divisive debate over how to accomplish a relatively noncontroversial goal: ensure strong results from all schools that use taxpayers’ money. The issue is closely linked to a sepa-rate Republican goal to expand the role of and funding for voucher schools statewide.

Republicans remain divided over whether lawmakers should try to include penalties for schools upfront in an accountability bill.

As laid out in their bill, Assembly GOP lead-ers want to spell out consequences right now for failing schools.

“We think there should be some account-ability with the accountability bill,” Assembly Majority Leader Jim Steineke (R-Kaukauna) said.

Senate Republicans disagree, wanting instead to leave the penalties to a state board to develop once new standards for evaluating schools are in place and considered trustwor-thy. This fundamental difference helped stymie passage of the schools bill in the previous leg-islative session, even though the GOP controls both houses of the Legislature.

Democrats object even more strongly to the Assembly GOP bill, saying it caters to private school interests that have donated millions of dollars to support Republican politicians in recent years.

Rep. Sondy Pope (D-Cross Plains) said that converting public schools to charter schools can benefit private businesses set up to run them.

“It’s a gift to the money makers, is it not?” Pope said.

— Jason Stein and Erin Richards (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel/TNS)

Student robbed at gunpoint inside Georgia Tech building

A Georgia Tech student was robbed at gun-point inside a campus building Monday night,

police said.According to a safety alert sent out to the

campus community Monday night, the victim was inside the atrium at the West Peachtree Street entrance to the College of Business building just after 7 p.m. when the suspect asked to use his phone.

The suspect went into a nearby restroom, then came out “and displayed a handgun,” Georgia Tech police said in the alert.

“The suspect told the victim to place his backpack on the ground and enter the rest-room and count to 100 before exiting,” police said. “The suspect stole the victim’s backpack and was last seen exiting the building headed towards West Peachtree Street. The student was not injured.

The suspect, according to police, is 5-foot-10, weighs 160 to 175 pounds, has facial hair, and was wearing a tan jacket, a light blue shirt, blue jeans and a black knit cap.

The incident was the second robbery of a student on or near the campus in the past week. On Dec. 30, a student reported to Atlanta police that he was walking along Hemphill Avenue just north of the Georgia Tech police headquarters when he was approached by an armed man who demanded his phone.

When the student refused to give the suspect his phone, he fired two shots in the direction of the student before leaving in a four-door sedan that was parked a short distance away.

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Obama plan makes it easier for younger, fi rst-time homebuyers

WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama moved Wednesday to make it cheaper for first-time and younger buyers to take out a mortgage.

Obama lowered the mortgage-insurance premium for borrowers who have a down payment of just 3.5 percent of the home’s pur-chase price and finance the rest of the purchase with a loan backed by the Federal Housing Administration.

The reduction is expected to save the typical first-time homebuyer an average of $900 a year on the insurance, the White House said. The insurance is required because they’re financ-ing so much of the purchase and the loans are riskier.

Existing homeowners who refinance into an FHA mortgage will see similar reductions, the White House said.

The White House estimated that the change will help 800,000 homeowners save on their mortgages and 250,000 new buyers save on mortgage payments over the next three years.

One top Republican in Congress called it a risky mistake.

“Such an action by the president would be a grave mistake that will end up hurting hard-working taxpayers,”’ said Rep. Jeb Hensarling of Texas, chairman of the House Financial Ser-vices Committee.

“It was just two years ago that taxpayers had to bail out the FHA to the tune of $1.7 billion, and just two months ago an audit revealed that FHA is still in violation of federal law because it does not maintain sufficient capital reserves. Lowering premiums now would only put the FHA further behind.”

Obama, expected to highlight the lower-cost mortgages Thursday during a visit to Arizona, has been under pressure from the housing sec-tor to help lower costs for borrowers seeking to buy with a low down payment—often younger buyers and first-time homebuyers, both a cru-cial link in home sales.

“We do not see first-time buyers getting into the marketplace. They don’t have a chance to get onto that first rung of housing,” said Chris Kutzkey, president of the California Associa-tion of Realtors.

While mortgage lending rates have been

near record lows for several years, that has benefited the most creditworthy borrowers, who are often the wealthiest of homebuyers. The middle-income segment of the market, with higher debt loads, has faced tougher lend-ing standards. Stagnant income has crimped its ability to put more down toward a home purchase.

“Mortgage underwriting standards have been overly stringent,” said Lawrence Yun, chief economist for the National Association of Realtors.

The premiums rose sharply after the finan-cial collapse and have not come down even as the economy and the housing market have improved.

“It’s almost as if government is ripping off the consumers,” complained Yun, noting that premiums were raised to minimize risks to taxpayers of borrowers defaulting on govern-ment-backed loans. “But what has happened is they were punishing current borrowers for the sins of past mistakes. Current borrowers did not harm the market, but they are paying the excessively high premiums.”

One consequence is the shrinking number of new homeowners. Over the past four years, first-time homebuyers shrank as a percentage of all FHA loans—from 56 percent down to 39 percent, he said.

First-time buyers are a key part of the real estate chain, needed so existing homeowners can sell and purchase nicer, perhaps newly built homes.

“Future homebuyers are paying a higher expense than is necessary and that is having an effect on housing,” said David Stevens, presi-dent of the Mortgage Bankers Association.

In a related move, former North Carolina Democratic Rep. Mel Watt, the new head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency—the regula-tor of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—took steps in late December to make it possible for Fannie and Freddie to purchase loans that had down payments as low as 3 per-cent instead of the prior limit of 5 percent.

The move, similar to lowering FHA pre-miums, was designed to spur more first-time homebuying, boost the economy and compete with FHA loans.

“This sluggish recovery in housing has to change course for the economy to continue

its growth trajectory,” Stevens said. “So in the short run, we would view premium reduction as a positive for the economy.”

House Financial Services Committee Chair-man Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, and Senate Bank-ing Committee Chairman Richard Shelby, R-Ala., have in the past opposed lowering the premiums. They want to see less government involvement in housing finance and fear lower premiums mean taxpayers are still on the hook if a large number of loans go sour, as they did from 2007 to 2009.

The Obama administration has the power to lower premiums on its own and wouldn’t need legislation or congressional approval to act alone.

— Kevin G. Hall and Lesley Clark (McClatchy Washington Bureau/TNS)

Swap of former Cuban intelligence offi cial at heart of US-Cuba deal

WASHINGTON—At the core of the break-through to normalize U.S.-Cuba ties was the swap of three Cuban spies for a former Cuban intelligence officer who sent information to the CIA that led to the exposure of agents who infiltrated U.S. military intelligence, the State Department and anti-Castro exile groups.

U.S. officials didn’t identify the individual who President Barack Obama called “one of the most important intelligence agents that the United States has ever had in Cuba, and who has been imprisoned for nearly two decades.”

McClatchy, however, determined that he is Rolando Sarraff Trujillo, an expert on cryptog-raphy who worked at the Interior Ministry’s Intelligence Directorate. He was convicted in 1995 of passing state secrets to the U.S. govern-ment and sentenced to 25 years in prison.

Sarraff ’s name appeared on a list of Cuban intelligence officers convicted of spying for the United States that the Miami Herald published in January 2009 in an article on the Castro regime’s push for a spy swap. His conviction date most closely matched Obama’s reference to his imprisonment of nearly 20 years.

A former U.S. defense official with an expertise on Cuban espionage confirmed that Sarraff was the intelligence agent released by Havana.

Sarraff worked for Department M-XV, the

unit of the Cuban Intelligence Directorate that maintained encrypted communications with Cuban agents in the United States, said the for-mer defense official, who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issue.

The Cuban funneled information about Cuban spy operations in the United States to another Cuban agent working for the United States, Jose Cohen, who in turn passed the material to the CIA, said the former U.S. defense official. Cohen escaped to the United States after learning that he was being watched by Cuban counterintelligence officers, but Sar-raff was arrested.

“Had his (Sarraff ’s) parents not been senior officials in the Cuban government, he would have been executed,” said the former U.S. defense official. “He caused significant dam-age to Cuban intelligence operations in the United States.”

The CIA and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence declined to comment on the identity of the U.S. agent released by Cuba, which has run some of the most successful espionage operations ever conducted against the United States.

An ODNI statement, however, said that information provided by the agent was “instru-mental in the identification and disruption of several Cuban intelligence operatives in the United States and ultimately led to a series of successful federal espionage prosecutions.”

Those cases included the convictions of Ana Belen Montes, a Defense Intelligence Agency analyst who rose to become the Pentagon’s top expert on Cuba, and Walter Kendall Myers, a State Department official, and his wife, Gwen-dolyn Myers, the ODNI statement said.

The Cuban agent’s information also led to the uncovering of the so-called “Wasp Net-work” of more than 40 Cuban spies who infil-trated anti-Castro exile groups in Florida. The spies included the “Cuban Five,” three of whom were those swapped for the U.S. agent.

In announcing the deal aimed at end-ing more than five decades of hostility with Havana, Obama said in a nationally televised address from the White House that the U.S. agent “is now safely on our shores.”

— Jonathan S. Landay (McClatchy Washington Bureau/TNS)

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By ALEX LEDERMANdaily senior staffer

No. 18 Northwestern continued its strong start to the season last week at the 52nd annual Ken Kraft Midlands Championships, with sophomore Jason Tsirtsis winning the 149-pound title and six more Wildcat wrestlers finishing in the top seven for their weight class.

“We made some great strides,” coach Drew Pariano said. “I like how we’re raising our intensity as the season goes.”

Still, Pariano said that although he’s excited, he’s “not overly satisfied.”

And just what could the Cats have done better in his mind?

“Ten guys could have won a cham-pionship,” he said.

Even so, NU’s results weren’t too shabby. Senior Mike McMullan and his classmate Pierce Harger each fin-ished runner-up, at heavyweight and 165-pounds respectively. Freshman Stevan Micic finished third at 125, while senior Alex Polizzi finished fourth at 197, freshman Johnny Sebastian fifth at 174 and junior Dominick Malone seventh at 133.

Malone moved into the InterMat national top 20 rankings with his performance and Harger moved up a spot to No. 7. Tsirtsis and McMullan are No. 1 and No. 2 in the country respectively at their weights.

The Cats finished third overall with 106 points total behind Iowa’s 189 and Illinois’ 130.5.

“Several guys did extremely well, Pierce Harger being one of them,” Pariano said. “He didn’t win the

champion-ship, but he beat a guy from Iowa that I think we were 0-6 against life-time, and it’s good to get over that hump.”

But it’s Tsirtsis who stole the show.

The sophomore has experienced incredible success early in his career, winning the Big Ten and NCAA Championships last year, several “Freshman of the Year” awards and now his first Midlands title.

A key to the Indiana native’s quick success is his boisterous fans, although — and this is the scary thing — he can stand to please them more.

“He’s got a really good support unit in his family, as they come out in large numbers and he’s got a lot of local support,” Pariano said. “The goal for him now is to win matches in regulation and not in overtime, because he’s been winning a lot of matches in overtime.”

NU is 8-2 overall and 0-1 in the Big Ten, but that conference loss was arguably the team’s most impressive performance of the season.

The Cats fought neck-and-neck

December 18 against then-No. 1 Minnesota, ultimately falling short 21-19.

In fact, NU almost tied in the meet’s final match when then-No. 8 Harger pinned then-No. 18 Nick Wanzek, but in a controversial deci-sion the call was overturned.

“Any time you go on the road and you’re wrestling the number one team in the country and you go in with two forfeits, I don’t think there’s

one Minnesota fan in the crowd that thought we would get a pin with Harger,” Pariano said. “We have to live with the call being reversed, but the match was extremely excit-ing. As much as a loss can get your guys motivated, this one got us more motivated instead of hanging our heads.”

Overall, Pariano said he’s extremely encouraged between the performances at Minnesota and at

the Midlands. He said his team is only getting better as the season progresses.

“When you take a step back sometimes, you get a little upset that you didn’t win more Midlands titles or whatever, but that’s not the endgame,” he said. “You want to be peeking in March. I really like where we’re heading.”

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REIGNING NO. 2 Senior Mike McMullan wrestles an opponent. Sophomore Jason Tsirtsis may garner the most attention, but McMullan is a three-time All-American at NU and currently ranks No. 2 in his weight class.

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Northwestern spent 11 days over Winter Break in Honolulu for a training trip, where the team focused on gearing up for a diffi-cult winter season. After a success-ful training session, coach Jarod Schroeder said he is excited to get competition started.

“As a whole, it was one of the best training trips that I ever experienced as a coach,” Schroeder said. “The training right now is at a higher level for the majority of our kids than it ever has been, so we’re hoping that bodes well for the second half of the season.”

The locale may have provided a relaxing background, but NU was there to work. Schroeder noted pro-gression as a key factor in the team’s training goals.

“You go into a training camp like that where the goal is to do some-thing you didn’t realize you could do before,” Schroeder said. “The more often you are able to do that throughout the course of the season as an athlete, the more confident you will be at the end of the season.”

The training trip also allowed for a renewed camaraderie among the athletes.

“It was good to have everyone down there where we do a bunch of team building activities,” junior Jor-dan Wilimovsky said. “Everyone did well, and in particular a lot of the guys that hadn’t been training at this level before really stepped it up.”

NU will head to Ann Arbor, Michigan this Saturday for a dual meet against Michigan and Notre Dame for the first competition since the training session in Hawaii.

And the schedule’s difficulty is apparent right away.

According to the most recent Col-lege Swimming Coaches Association of America top 25 poll, Michigan is ranked No. 6 in the country. And Wilimovsky admitted that the highly rated Wolverines are “kind of out of reach” to defeat.

If NU hopes to stand tall against this Big Ten foe, rust cannot be a factor. Schroeder said that getting a team back in competitive mode from

the get go after a long break is never easy, but he doesn’t see any alarming signs from his own squad.

As for Notre Dame, last year NU battled the then-No. 20 Fighting Irish to a 150-150 tie. It was a thrill-ing meet that included a huge surge from the Cats in the final event of the contest.

Schroeder said he forsees a simi-lar result this time around.

“Notre Dame is always a close meet for us,” he said. “Last year we tied them, and that’s hard and unique to do in a swimming setting.”

The Fighting Irish had a recent training trip as well and shouldn’t be lacking readiness as the team heads in for its tilt against NU.

Wilimovsky remembered the energy from last year’s competition against Notre Dame and is looking forward to racing this weekend.

“Last year (against Notre Dame), it was really cool watching from the stands,” Wilimovsky said. “It came down to the last relay and we had to go one, two, and we did it. Hope-fully we’re going to go out there and beat them this year. I think we can do it if all our guys swim well.”

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Wrestling

By TYLER KENDALLthe daily northwestern @tylerskendall

Northwestern will travel to Ann Arbor, Michigan this Saturday for a dual meet against Michigan and Notre Dame — the Wildcats’ first competition of the new year.

The swimmers went to Boca Raton, Florida to train in a warm climate during Winter Break.

Coach Jimmy Tierney noted the goals of the training trip included enhancing physical performance and team bonding, especially between upperclassmen and freshmen ath-letes on the team.

“I thought it was a really fun training trip,” junior Julianne Kurke said. “I feel like the team was really close and we got a lot of good work done.”

Tierney highlighted sophomore Lacey Locke’s training performance throughout the season, as well as her work in the recent training trip. The coach said she has stepped up her workout level and is training at pos-sibly the highest level in her life.

Camaraderie and Locke’s standout training were important develop-ments, but the trip also allowed for a change of scenery for the Wildcats.

“Just being in Florida with the sunshine made it a lot better to train and be in a good mood, not that we aren’t always are, but it was fun to switch it up, be in hot weather, be in the sunshine and work toward a goal,” Locke said. “The training trip is the hardest part of our sea-son because we do two swims a day, plus dry land, but the sunshine and the enthusiasm our team showed was awesome.”

The athletes plan to take what they

learned on the trip to the meet this weekend against tough competition in Michigan, which, according to the most recent College Swimming Coaches Association of America top 25 poll, is ranked No. 8 in the country. The Wolverines are a rising squad with one of the country’s best freshman classes.

NU will also have to face Notre Dame, a team that is no slouch itself with a defending NCAA Champion in the 200-yard breaststroke.

Top it all off with heavy dose of rivalry and familiarity, and the Cats will be in for quite an opening ride.

“Michigan has always been a traditional rival since way back, and Notre Dame, since we picked them up a couple of years ago on our schedule again, it was a big deal back in the ’90s and early 2000s as well,” Tierney said. “So we’ve kind of renewed that rivalry over the last several years. It’s been good they’re relatively close, we recruit a lot of the same people so I know a lot of their athletes very, very well.”

NU is excited about starting up competition again after a hiatus. It helps to have a coach who is an excellent motivator.

“Jimmy is all about team and enthusiasm, he does a great job about getting us pumped up,” Locke said. “Being Northwestern, we are sometimes the underdog against some of the Big Ten schools, so he says, ‘everything is fair game,’ and I think that’s a great thing to live by.”

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Cats begin winter with pair of rivals

Women’s Swimming

Daily file photo by Brian Lee

AVENGING THE TIE Jordan Wilimovsky comes up for a breath of air. The junior is realistic about NU’s chances against Michigan, but believes the Wildcats can improve upon last year’s tie against Notre Dame.

Northwestern vs. Notre Dame/No. 8 MichiganAnn Arbor, Michigan11 a.m. Saturday

Northwestern vs. Notre Dame/No. 6 MichiganAnn Arbor, Michigan11 a.m. Saturday

Men’s Swimming

“I like how we’re raising our intensity as the season goes...Several guys did extremely well.Drew Pariano,head coach

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