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Brennan, Wilbon join new Medill sports program
USA Today sports journalist Chris-tine Brennan (Medill ’80, ’81) and ESPN sports journalist Michael Wilbon (Medill ’80) will join the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Mar-keting Communications’ new sports journalism graduate program.
Th e former Daily staff ers will teach part-time at Medill’s Washington, D.C. newsroom.
“I see this as a continuation of being able to give back to Northwestern,” Brennan said. “Anyone who knows me knows that mentoring students is the number one thing I do in my career. Th ere’s no place I’d rather be than Northwestern.”
Brennan and Wilbon are on North-western’s Board of Trustees and mem-bers of Medill’s Hall of Achievement
for distinguished alumni. Wilbon also serves on Medill’s Board of Advisers.
The pair have connections to both Medill faculty and people in the journalism industry, said Medill Prof. Charles Whitaker. Whitaker is a board member of the Students Pub-lishing Company, Th e Daily’s parent organization.
“We think that they’ll continue to be strong members and counselors,” Whitaker said. “Th ey’ll help to guide us as we fl esh out our curriculum and
provide more opportunities.”Brennan has started mentoring and
speed-networking events for Medill students and student-athletes. She also started a summer fellowship that supports Medill students doing unpaid journalism-related intern-ships, according to a Medill news release.
Brennan and Wilbon have long provided students with career coun-seling, advice on reporting and advice on launching a career in journalism,
Whitaker said. He wanted to formal-ize the relationship Medill had with Brennan and Wilbon.
“Christine and Mike care deeply about educating and inspiring the next generation of sports journalists,” said Medill Dean Brad Hamm in the news release. “Th ey are ideal role models for our students, and I appreciate their strong commitment to the excellence of Medill and Northwestern.”
— Emily Chin
By MARIANA ALFAROthe daily northwestern@marianaa_alfaro
Activist Jose Antonio Vargas spoke Wednesday night about the role the media and the government have in defi n-ing the lives of undocumented people who consider themselves American, but don’t have the right papers.
Vargas visited NU as College Demo-crats’ winter speaker. About 80 people attended the event in the McCormick
Foundation Center Forum.Vargas revealed his status as an undoc-
umented immigrant in a 2011 essay for Th e New York Times Magazine and has since spoken widely about the rights of undocumented immigrants in the United States. Today, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist leads Defi ne American, which aims to create dialogue about the criteria for defi ning who is American.
To Vargas, presenting facts as they are is a way to improve the conversation about undocumented immigrants. He said that news sources sometimes don’t
include certain facts in their stories because they don’t fi t their narrative.
“Who we are is framed by who we talk to, who we watch, what we see, what we listen to and what culture, what the media, what television, what radio, what fi lm, what they tell us who we are,” he said. “Th e real question is, who are we? And when we talk about immigra-tion, given the fact that immigration is always in the news, do we really know what we’re talking about? Are we really on the same page? My argument is that we are not.”
Vargas said he was surprised when the federal government’s Immigrations and Customs Enforcement didn’t deport him aft er coming out as undocumented in his NYT Magazine essay, and he decided to fi nd out why.
“I called the editor of Time magazine, and I said ‘Hi, you know, I think I want to write a follow-up story about why I haven’t been deported,’ ” he said. “In that year alone, President Obama’s adminis-tration deported 400,000 people, and I wasn’t one of them. So I actually called ICE myself and I said ‘Hi. I haven’t heard from you. What are you going to do with me?’ ”
Th e government told him they had no comment on his case.
“You know, that’s like a metaphor, actually, for what all of you think of us
In FocusMore than a mythTisdahl brushes off student criticism
By CAT ZAKRZEWSKIdaily senior staffer@Cat_Zakrzewski
A purple Northwestern football helmet sits on the corner of Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl’s desk. While browsing her email, she talks about how she loves bringing her 11-year-old grandson to games and sitting on the sideline with University President Morton Schapiro.
But when Tisdahl took the fi eld this year, she was met with boos from students, still angered by her 2012 decision to revoke the liquor license from the legendary student watering hole, Th e Keg of Evanston.
“I’ve become something of an urban leg-end,” the mayor said. “I don’t know that that will ever change.”
Since the Keg’s closure, students have paro-died Tisdahl as a prohibitionist. Th e rumors have gone so far that the city’s website even included Th e Keg on a “Fact vs. Fiction” page, where the city dispels local lore that
NU students party too much and bowling is illegal. Th e city writes the rumor “Tisdahl forced Th e Keg out of business” is a myth, clarifying she revoked the liquor license and the business subsequently closed more than a year later in March 2013 when the property’s owner refused to renew the bar’s lease.
But almost two years later, many students — even students who had not yet applied to NU when the Keg’s doors (and fence) were open — know only the myth, not their mayor.
On a recent aft ernoon, that same mayor took a sip of champagne at an aft ernoon groundbreaking for the Evanston Art Center on Central Street. With a playful smile, she joked she could pen her own profi le.
“I can write the headline for you now, ‘Mayor who shut down Keg drinks cham-pagne in the aft ernoon,’” she joked.
Despite fl are-ups over the so-called “brothel law,” Th e Keg and
By ALICE YINdaily senior staffer@alice__yin
Th e Panhellenic Association and Inter-fraternity Council have set new positions for diversity and inclusion in motion this quarter.
Following winter recruitment, all 12 PHA chapters either added a new diver-sity and inclusion chair or added similar responsibilities to an existing position, said Medill junior KK Doyle, PHA presi-dent. All PHA sororities released applica-tions this quarter, Doyle said, with the goal of each sorority reaching its fi nal decision about who will take their posi-tion before spring break.
Doyle drew from weeks of round-table discussions with presidents from each PHA chapter and PHA adviser Karen Pryor to determine what would qualify someone for the new diversity and inclusion position, Doyle said. PHA sent preliminary emails to the chapters with recommendations on what would make someone a good fi t for the job, she said, but the decision is up to the individual sororities.
“When people try to talk about diver-sity and inclusion … (there’s) the com-plexity of 12 organizations who operate
diff erently,” Doyle said. “Everybody picks these people diff erently … We really are just trying to fi nd someone with energy and enthusiasm about having diff erent conversations and sensitivity towards varying levels of engagement.”
Although the new position will focus on diversity and inclusion, Doyle said the offi cial title of the position varies among the chapters. Some sororities decided to establish a committee instead of one chair because they had multiple people quali-fi ed for the job, Doyle said.
Aft er all decisions are made, PHA will send guided questions for the new chairs to refl ect on “where their chapters are at now,” Doyle said. PHA plans to set up meetings with them aft erward to discuss their hopes for the new position.
“Th is is a new position and it’s impor-tant. It’s got to stay around,” Doyle said. “It’s only as strong as the eff ort you put in putting it together. You don’t want to rush this and have it be a hasty project.”
Doyle said she spoke with students and faculty outside of PHA as well, including SESP senior Austin Romero, Associated Student Government vice president of accessibility and inclusion, and Michele Enos, assistant director of campus inclu-sion and community.
Vargas talks immigration Greek groups start diversity initiatives
» See DIVERSITY, page 4» See VARGAS, page 4
» See TISDAHL, page 8
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DISCUSSING DOCUMENTATION Jose Antonio Vargas, activist and Pulitzer-prize winning journalist, discusses his nonprofi t Defi ne American. Vargas came to Northwestern as College Democrats’ winter speaker.
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Blaze Pizza to open in EvanstonBy TORI LATHAMthe daily northwestern @latham_tori
A new quick-service pizza restaurant will open in Evanston on Thursday, adding an additional pizza option to Sherman Avenue.
Blaze Fast-Fire’d Pizza, 1737 Sherman Ave., uses a build-your-own, assembly-line format, which allows patrons to customize their pizzas with several different toppings and ingredients, including gluten-free dough and vegan cheese. Each pizza is cooked in only three minutes and costs less than $8.
“Blaze Pizza delivers a customized pizza experi-ence with the artisanal quality that Chicagoans have come to expect, but now without the wait,” Larry Levy (Kellogg ’67), the founder of Levy Family Partners, the group developing Blaze Pizza in Chicago, said in a news release. “We believe this will be a game changer in town.”
The Evanston location will be the chain’s fifth in the Chicago area after Blaze Pizza first came to the city in December 2013. It initially launched in Irvine, California, in August 2012 and currently operates in 15 states, as well as Washington D.C.
To celebrate its Evanston opening, the restaurant will offer free build-your-own pizzas on Friday to anyone who follows Blaze Pizza on Instagram, Twit-ter or Facebook.
Mark Muenzer, the city’s director of community development, told The Daily that Blaze Pizza is a good
fit for Evanston because it introduces a new restaurant concept to the city.
“It’s gourmet food prepared quickly, and it’s some-thing that we’ve seen has done well in other com-munities,” he said.
One of the co-founders, Elise Wetzel, graduated from Kellogg in 1992, which contributed to the chain choosing to expand to Evanston.
“Evanston holds a special place in my heart and I couldn’t be more excited for Blaze to be a part of this community,” Wetzel said in the news release. “The restaurant design incorporates touches of purple and white, proudly displaying our school pride.”
Paul Zalmezak, the city’s economic development coordinator, told The Daily he hopes the restaurant will specifically draw in people who might not have much time for lunch or dinner and are looking for a quick bite to eat.
“It is really good pizza, really fast, and I think that will appeal to workers as well as students,” he said. “Hopefully, it will pull more students to eat off cam-pus and try out the space as well as the other retailers downtown.”
Zalmezak and Muenzer both also mentioned how Blaze is reoccupying a long-vacant space, which helps to bring more activity to the area.
“It really speaks to the fact that restaurants are choosing to open in Evanston,” Muenzer said. “We still want to reserve space for retail, but it’s good for the city.”
Woman arrested in connection with retail theft
A Johnsburg, Illinois, woman was arrested Sunday in connection with retail theft, police said.
A loss prevention agent at Jewel-Osco, 2485 Howard St., observed the suspect place six 1.75 liter bottles of liquor in her cart at about 10:20 a.m., Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said.
After she covered them with a bag and walked out of the store, she was detained.
The 38-year-old woman was charged with retail theft. She will appear in court March 20.
The liquor bottles were worth a total of $283.80, Dugan said.
Man cited in connection with expired registration, driving with suspended license
An Evanston man was arrested Friday in con-nection with expired registration and driving with
a suspended license, police said.Officers observed at about 2:30 p.m. expired
license plates on a vehicle heading westbound on Dempster Street near Asbury Avenue, Dugan said. After police stopped the vehicle and checked the driver’s license, they found the license was suspended.
The man, 34, was issued citations for expired registration and driving with a suspended license, Dugan said. His court date is set for March 20.
— Stephanie Kelly
Adnaan Zaffer / Daily Senior Staffer
OVENS ABLAZE Blaze Fast-Fire’d Pizza, 1737 Sherman Ave., will open Thursday. The quick-service pizza restaurant uses a build-your-own, assembly-line format.
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On Campus3 ASG Senate seats change handsBy SHANE MCKEONthe daily northwestern @Shane_McKeon
Associated Student Government revealed the 15 student groups that will hold Senate seats for the 2015-2016 school year at its meeting Wednesday, with College Republicans and College Democrats losing their seats, and A&O Productions, Mayfest and Niteskool Productions losing their shared seat as well.
College Republicans and College Democrats introduced an emergency resolution — one not on the agenda before the meeting began — to call on the Student Group Apportionment Committee to allow the two groups to continue holding seats. Senate voted to refer the resolution back to committee.
“It’s important that every voice on this campus is represented,” College Republicans president Domonic Burke said. “When you take away the two most prominent political voices on campus, this body certainly loses a crucial aspect of student voice.”
Chief of Staff Andrew Green called it a “very competitive” year for applications.
Quest Scholars Networks and Students for Eco-logical and Environmental Development will each hold their own seats next year. College Feminists, Sexual Health and Assault Peer Educators, Men Against Rape and Sexual Assault and Title IX at Northwestern will share one seat as well.
Student groups vice president Kenny Mok intro-duced his committee’s plan for B-status funding, which Senate will vote on March 11. The plan out-lines how much funding B-status groups — orga-nizations that receive only a few hundred dollars or less from ASG per quarter — will receive for Spring Quarter.
Funding requests totaled $38,706, which was $10,000 more than for Spring Quarter last year. Most student groups will receive less funding than they asked for, Mok said.
“This is not going to be a funding cycle where we just go through and approve everything,” Mok said.
Some student groups might attend Senate’s March 11 meeting and ask for additional funding, Mok said.
Before Mok presented his committee’s plan, senators discussed potential problems with ASG’s current funding system. ASG allocates $1.4 mil-lion to groups every year, and most of that funding comes from the $56-per-quarter ASG activity fee students pay.
ASG will hold a town hall on its funding practices at 8 p.m. Thursday in Norris University Center.
Senate also passed a resolution calling on Gov. Bruce Rauner and the Illinois state legisla-ture to increase funding to the Monetary Award Program.
Throughout the past five years, the University received $2.4 million annually through MAP for grants to in-state, low-income students, with more than 500 current NU students receiving aid from the
program, said executive vice president Erik Zorn, the resolution’s author.
ASG joins student governments at several other Chicago-area universities that have passed similar resolutions, Zorn told The Daily, including at the University of Chicago and DePaul University.
In April, some ASG members will travel to Springfield to meet with state legislatures, Zorn said. Now that the resolution has passed, those members will advocate for increased funding on behalf of all NU undergraduates.
Two students who helped develop a mobile appli-cation to replace ground flyering spoke on progress since the app launched in late January. Pvmnt, in part with an ASG-funded Wild Ideas Grant, com-piles campus events on its website and its mobile app for students to view.
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FIGURING FUNDING ASG President Julia Watson hears comments from senators on ASG’s funding system during Senate’s March 4 meeting. Vice president for student groups Kenny Mok introduced his committee’s plan for B-status funding, which Senate will vote on March 11.
Across CampusesUC Santa Cruz students shut down Highway 1 in protest over tuition
SANTA CRUZ, Calif.—Six UC Santa Cruz students brought traffic on Highways 1 and 17 to a standstill for hours after they chained themselves to bins filled with concrete and blocked three lanes of traffic for the better part of Tuesday.
“The disruption was pretty massive,” Cali-fornia Highway Patrol officer Brad Sadek said, adding that the delay affected countless com-muters. “So all those people are running late for work or school or any number of things.”
The actions were aimed to protest UC tuition hikes, police brutality and racism, according to student organizers.
About 9:25 a.m., witnesses said a group pulled up in a U-Haul truck, stopped south-bound Highway 1 traffic at the Fishhook, and unloaded garbage cans and steel pipes before the six formed a single line across the road. Stu-dents linked arms using chains wrapped around their wrists, attached to metal rods inside the steel pipes, with some pipes embedded into the concrete inside the garbage cans.
For a time, traffic moved slowly past the pro-testers using the shoulder of the road, but for hours traffic was stopped completely to detour around the site.
“Authorities only pay attention to us when we disrupt business as usual. We are making our presence felt because the issues of tuition and violent policing are too important to ignore,” said Ben Mabie, a UCSC undergraduate.
Officers from the CHP, Santa Cruz and UCSC police and the Sheriff ’s Office were on site all morning but were unable to move the students as they were connected via pipes and chains to six garbage cans filled with 700 pounds of con-crete, wire, rebar and steel plates. CHP officer Sam Courtney said the concoction hindered removal efforts, prompting officials to request a special team to dismantle the contraptions.
— Calvin Men (Santa Cruz Sentinel/TNS)
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in general: No comment. I mean, so long as somebody is babysitting your kid, and mowing your lawn and serving you drinks, you’re good, you’re comfortable,” Vargas said. “Its just a bunch of illegal people anyway. Why does it matter to you?”
The follow-up story published in Time is the proudest moment in his journalism career, he said, because he managed to get 36 undocumented people on the cover of Time magazine.
“For me, writing this cover story, and what I’ve been doing in the past four years, reporting on immi-gration, using myself as a vehicle to tell a much more personal and much more pointed story on what being undocumented means in this country … As far as I’m concerned, I’m practicing journalism,” he said.
He then referred to details that often go unnoticed in worldwide media, like the fact that undocumented laborers have paid over $100 billion in taxes in the last decade and that since 9/11 the U.S. government has invested more than $100 billion dollars in border and immigration control. Vargas said that when people start learning these things, they start seeing undocu-mented immigrants in a new light.
“Can you imagine if we actually told them that we pay billions in taxes and social security, that we are actually responsible for keeping social security sol-vent? How many people would actually change their minds if they knew that?” he said. “Again, it doesn’t fit the narrative, so they don’t know that.”
That is why Vargas founded Define America, he said, to bring facts like these to light and to focus the discussion about undocumented immigration on the humanity of the issue: the families broken apart by deportations, the laborers mistreated by employers.
Quentin Heilbroner, president of College Demo-crats, said people like Vargas and their stories make people realize that the issue is much more complicated than how the media frames it.
“He has an incredible life, an incredible career and incredible stories,” the Weinberg junior said. “And more important, an incredible and important message.”
Shilpa Reddy, who attended the event for a class, said Vargas’ speech made her aware of how big the pro-immigration movement is and the important role undocumented people have in the U.S.
“I honestly had no idea how much these undocu-mented people contribute to society, and he was able to lay down the statistics and the facts and illustrate that they actually do,” the Weinberg freshman said.
“It would be so, so counterintuitive if this becomes an exclusive club for a conversation on inclusion,” Doyle said. “This is an open door for different com-munity members, student leaders and other faculty members.”
A push for emphasis on diversity and inclusion began last November under former PHA president Frances Fu, a SESP senior, following the canceled Jail N’ Bail philanthropy event. Amid criticism that the fundraiser put on by Kappa Kappa Gamma and Zeta Beta Tau was racially insensitive, Fu initiated a plan to address such concerns as she was wrapping up her term as president.
Meanwhile, IFC added a new director for community engagement this quarter, officially appointing Medill junior Andy Linder on Monday. Linder, a member of Alpha Epsilon Pi, will serve as IFC’s contact for the rest of the NU and Evanston
community.The initiative for this new position started in
the fall, according to IFC president Mark Nelson, a Weinberg junior and Sigma Nu member.
“It’s a very exciting time to be part of the Greek community because so many changes are made,” Nelson said. “I think we’re very cognizant of that right now. We’re progressive minded and recognize there’s a lot of things wrong. We need to work on that.”
Linder said one of his main goals of inclusion is to “break down barriers between Greek and non-Greek students,” and to increase interaction with Multi-cultural Greek Council and National Pan-Hellenic Council. He also said he hopes to grow community service opportunities in IFC, “both on and off-cam-pus, between Greek students and non-Greek.”
In the past, IFC has focused on relations among different chapters and with PHA, Linder said. Now, he said it hopes to go beyond the Greek community.
“Why is it some people have a negative view of Greek life?” Linder said. “I think one of it is the exclu-sivity of the Greek process.”
IFC also met with executive director of Campus Inclusion and Community Lesley-Ann Brown-Hen-derson, Nelson said. The executive members had a dialogue with her on what it means to be Greek and its effect on the rest of the campus.
“She was so incredible,” Nelson said. “She under-stood the passion that we had which is always tough to convey. Walking out of that, we realized all these things we never thought about before.”
Linder said he envisions a future where being in a certain organization doesn’t define anyone.
“This is why I’m at Northwestern,” Linder said. “I love to build community. … We do have six dif-ferent schools and there are a lot of different people at this campus. But there’s one official color at this school.”
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A new after-school program about the media’s influence on health concluded Feb. 26 with a ses-sion spent making a video that highlighted what Evanston elementary school students learned about nutrition and fitness.
Two Evanston Township High School juniors ran a program called Media-Smart Youth for fifth and sixth graders at Oakton Elementary School after applying for a $1,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health. The culminating video involved students reporting information about the healthi-est vegetables and minerals, demonstrating fitness activities and sharing their favorite moments from the 11 lessons, said Miara Handler, one of the ETHS student leaders.
“At this age they’re really making choices that will affect them for the majority of their lives,” Handler said. “The goal was not to force them to make choices but to inform them. It’s easier to make a change when they’re 10 and 11 rather than 22 or 23.”
Miara Handler said she learned about the pro-gram through her mother Arden Handler, a profes-sor of community health sciences at the University
of Illinois at Chicago, and formed a partnership with the nonprofit Youth Organizations Umbrella, Inc. to get the program running.
About 11 students already in the Y.O.U. after-school program at Oakton, 436 Ridge Ave., consis-tently attended Media-Smart Youth twice a week starting in early January.
The NIH first released the Media-Smart Youth curriculum in 2005, providing a set curriculum of activities meant to build students’ media awareness, media production skills and knowledge of nutrition and physical fitness.
A main focus of the program was how media affects health choices, said Loie Gilbert, the second ETHS student leader. One activity involved students making a collage of magazine images as part of a lesson on body image, Gilbert said.
Worksheet-based activities were broken up by breaks for physically-active games and snack breaks, where the kids helped prepare healthful food such as yogurt parfaits and flavored popcorn, said Katrina Stumbras, the adult adviser of the program and a public health researcher at UIC.
Stumbras recalled that during a snack break after learning about ways in which food advertisements hide information about the product from consumers, one student in the program noticed that the informa-tion on his apple juice’s nutrition label revealed that
it was not actually “100 percent juice.”“I hope they’re a little bit more aware of the differ-
ent ways that we’re all influenced by different media sources … and are able to better decipher through that information and make healthy decisions,” she said.
The students, leaders and Oakton representa-tives from Y.O.U took a field trip to Jewel-Osco, 1128 Chicago Ave., on Feb. 10 for a scavenger hunt for the products with the highest nutritional value, Miara Handler said. Students searched for items such as the bread with the most fiber, the greenest vegetables and the milk with the least amount of fat. Throughout the program, Gilbert and Handler made it a priority to keep students engaged with activities and discussions rather than making them work independently on the worksheets provided by the NIH.
“We knew that they’d already be in school for six and a half hours, so we tried to keep it as much hands-on as possible,” Handler said.
Next year ETHS will consider bringing back the program and involving more student leaders if anyone from ETHS decides to apply again for the grant, she said.
Teens lead after-school health program
A&E arts & entertainment
By KEVIN MATHEWdaily senior staffer @kevinwmathew
From “The Vampire Diaries” to “Teen Wolf,” there’s no question fantasy shows are televi-sion’s current specialty, and two Northwestern students are adding to the genre with their own production.
Sam Freedman and Summer Benowitz recently finished filming the supernatural portion of their dark comedy “Ghouls,” a three-episode miniseries. The Communica-tion juniors said they always planned on an episodic format, even before the script was written.
“We were both really drawn to the idea of fleshing out our characters and fleshing out our narrative and our storyline,” Freedman said. “The sort of depth you can get into with both your narrative and your characters is
something you can only accomplish with epi-sodic television and sort of a longer form.”
Freedman said short-films are much more common at NU, but their project needed the extra freedom of television to cover detailed characters and a transformation from absurd comedy to tragically realistic drama.
Yet the production has not been too seri-ous. Benowitz, who co-wrote the series with Freedman, said that in many ways the story is a self-parody. Originally, the series was about writers who couldn’t write, but they settled on writers who didn’t understand what they were writing. The narrative framing allows Benowitz and Freedman to explore their own creative process and the fears felt by college artists who will soon graduate.
The story follows two college seniors tasked to make a story similar to “Twilight,” but they decide ghouls are more interesting and have more potential for depth than vampires. No one really knows what a “ghoul” is, so the writers
are able to focus on strong characters, with each ghoul focused around a few emotions.
Benowitz said her favorite ghoul was Sylus, a clever killer with appetites and urges he can-not, or chooses not to, control. Communica-tion senior Sean Foer, who plays Sylus, said he was drawn to the part because villains are always shocking, detailed characters, and the hungry ghoul was no exception.
“We had a fake arm that was stuffed with actual meat that was dipped in the fake blood that I had to eat on camera,” he said. “That was an experience.”
Freedman highlighted Winona, the wife of Sylus played by Communication junior Jessie Pinnick. Winona is a more dramatic ghoul with high standards, and Pinnick enjoyed the freedom playing a ghoul allowed.
“You can kind of make that however you want it to be,” she said. “So basically our char-acters are just over the top.”
The cast is rounded out with Communication
junior Sophie Neff and McCormick senior Rick Fromm. Neff plays Kate, the human who, consistent with most young-adult stories, is unexplainably attractive to the supernatural, the ghouls. Fromm plays Desterion, a ghoul “hunk” willing to ignore his ghoul urges to eat humans and starve so he can be with Kate.
The writer’s storyline will film in May, and the 22-minute, full-length episodes will be released in Fall Quarter 2015. The series was produced through Northwestern Channel 1, the only production company at NU that supports episodic narrative pieces. Foer said television is not the most common format at NU, but the Ghouls script made him want to join the project.
“Really, it’s always the script. It’s never really the format,” he said. “If it’s something that looks exciting, or looks like fun to do, that’s what makes me audition for something.”
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Choreographers evoke family in Danceworks ‘15By RACHEL DAVISONthe daily northwestern @razdav5678
Exploring familial and community con-nections through dance takes center stage at “Danceworks 2015: Ties that Bind.”
Dance lecturer Jeff Hancock is the artistic director of the show, which is the dance pro-gram’s annual Winter Quarter production fea-turing choreography from faculty, alumni and outside choreographers. The show is entering its final weekend at the Josephine Louis Theater with shows on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
This year’s theme, “Ties that Bind,” looks at family, community and connecting with other people. Hancock connected to this theme through his life as a gay man and his exposure to the gay community, he said.
“You have what sometimes feels more like your family by choice,” Hancock said. “There’s a slightly more expanded notion of family that I thought of.”
Hancock was inspired by exotic birds of para-dise and his experience with the Chicago drag community to create his piece for Danceworks 2015. Called “B-Tracks,” he co-choreographed his piece with voguing veteran Darrell Jones. It features the vogue style, as well as movement with fans and animal-inspired movement, all to a varied soundtrack of music and dancer-produced sound.
“Ostentatious displays are present in all these different ways,” Hancock said. “It’s an interest-ing kind of hybrid of all of those things living in the space.”
Sophomore dance major Vatsala Kumar is performing in Danceworks for the second time and is one of the nine dancers in Hancock’s piece.
“We have a really great sense of community, it’s all about affirming one another, and open-ness and vulnerability,” Kumar said about the dancers in “B-Tracks” and the piece itself.
The show, lasting an hour and 40 minutes,
includes other new works from graduate stu-dent Amy Swanson, faculty choreographers and lecturers Amanda Lower and Joel Valentin-Martinez and alumni Sophia Rafiqi (Commu-nication ’13) and Kevin Durnbaugh (Commu-nication ’06).
The show opens with Rafiqi’s piece that was choreographed and performed while she was a senior.
“(Rafiqi) made this work of three women that I personally read as a family study,” Hancock said. “I was thrilled to be able to call and ask her to bring that piece to Danceworks.”
Despite the common theme, there is a diver-sity in the styles of choreography. There are varying styles of modern dance in addition to jump rhythm and jazz techniques.
Dance program director Joel Valentin-Mar-tinez choreographed his 20 minute work, “On the Radio,” to music from the 1970s and 1980s to tell a story of coming of age and coming out, and express his experience as a queer artist.
“The piece is looking back at my personal experience listening to this music growing up,” Valentin-Martinez said. “What tied it together was I used music connected to gay themes and gay culture.”
Valentin-Martinez says he tries to do work other choreographers have not done, and felt the dancers were comfortable and open to work with the queer narrative in the piece.
“(Dance) usually stays in a very hetero-normative presentation,” he said. “I felt I was interested in focusing on themes that are some-times neglected.”
The works in the program look at themes of family and community in different ways, though all with a shared theatricality and tie to the title, “Ties that Bind.”
“There’s a common use of theatrical use and props that makes the show hang together in an interesting way even though the vocabulary is not shared,” Hancock said. “Within this very short time, you’re exposed to completely whole responses connected to this one theme.”
Source: Joel Solari
IN REHEARSAL Dancers rehearse for “B-Tracks,” choreographed by Jeff Hancock and Darrell Jones, a piece in “Danceworks 2015: Ties that Bind.” The work features a vogue style and fans as props.
RTVF prof discusses Spock action figure collectionBy PETER KOTECKIthe daily northwestern @peterkotecki
Radio, Television and Film department chairman David Tolchinsky owns a collection of nearly a dozen Spock action figures.
Tolchinsky watched Star Trek as a kid and always had an interest in Spock, he said.
“He’s a really interesting character that is partly very logical and controlled, and he’s also kind of both cool and nerdy,” Tolchin-sky said. “Nerdy in that he’s smart, but cool
that he has funny lines and also he has unexpected physical powers.”
Tolchinsky said the figure that means the most to him is a model he bought in an Evanston shop, because his wife painted it to make it look like Spock.
RTVF Prof. Debra Tolchinsky, David’s wife, elaborated on her connection to David’s Spock col-lection in an email to The Daily.
“In terms of Dave’s Spock collection, I only painted one. On a whim Dave bought a model Spock from Tom Thumb, the hobby & crafts store that used to be in Evanston,” she wrote in the email. “He diligently glued Spock all together and then dreadfully real-ized what painting entailed. Dave proceeded to beg me to paint Spock.”
Debra Tolchinsky, a graduate of the Art
Institute of Chicago with a Master of Fine Arts in painting, agreed to paint the model but did not have the proper colors, she wrote.
“In the end, I mixed in some old blue nail polish that was in the cupboard,” she wrote. “I believe my interpretation of Spock is quite glamorous and a bit Lladro. Bottom line: Expect your education to pay off in unorthodox ways.”
In addition to the origins of his collection, David Tolchinsky also discussed the simi-larities between Leonard Nimoy and Spock. Nimoy, died Friday, had a lasting impact through his character, he said.
“I think it’s not a tragedy because he lived a long, interesting life,” he said. “I think he created an iconic character that has stayed with all of us through the last 50 years.”
Tolchinsky said Nimoy initially rejected being seen as Spock, because the image of the character was goofy and silly.
“He wanted to be much more high brow, he wanted to be a poet or an artist, and then later in his life he actually embraced this part of himself and continued to do the role and actually enjoyed the art of it and enjoyed the popularity,” he said.
Nimoy’s dilemma with embracing the iconic role he played closely paralleled the fictional life of Spock, he said.
“Like Spock was at war with two sides of his personality, I think Leonard Nimoy had ambivalent feelings about being Spock, but ultimately he embraced the character — yes, Spock was goofy, but Nimoy must have seen how Spock had meant so much to multiple generations,” Tolchinsky said. “And at a much simpler level, Spock gave him fame, admira-tion and a very lucrative source of income.”
Source: Chris Sweda/Chicago Tribune
PROSPERING RTVF Prof. David Tolchinsky sits with his collection of Spock action figures. Tolchinsky’s favorite piece is one his wife, RTVF Prof. Debra Tolchinsky, painted.
By MADELINE BURGthe daily northwestern @madelineburg
This week, world-famous pianist Garrick Ohlsson visited campus for a three-day series of events at the Bienen School of Music.
Ohlsson led a piano master class Monday where three Bienen doctoral students per-formed pieces by Beethoven and Chopin. On Tuesday, students perform a trio by Beethoven in a chamber music master class led by Ohls-son, and Wednesday at noon, a Q&A session with Ohlsson was moderated by Prof. James Giles, the director of Music Performance Grad-uate Studies for Bienen.
“Garrick Ohlsson is one of the top pianists performing around the world these days,” Giles said. “That’s why it’s a special opportunity for us to have him here and to interact with him. He’s not a teacher by profession, but his teach-ing with our students has been unusually per-ceptive and helpful and very honest.”
Last March, Ohlsson received the 2014 Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in Piano Perfor-mance, an award made possible in part by a
Northwestern graduate’s donation to Bienen. Ohlsson received a monetary reward and must spend two or three nonconsecutive weeks in residency at the music school.
Ohlsson is an expert on the music of Fred-eric Chopin, a Polish composer of the Roman-tic period known for uniting meticulous tech-nique with emotional expression. As well as repertoire from the Romantic period, Ohls-son focuses on works by Classical composers including Beethoven and Schubert.
Sean Yeh and Jialiang Wu, doctoral students in Bienen, were two of the three performers at Monday’s master class, a chance for music students to be coached by a professional in front of an audience.
“He’s very smart and very talented and the philosophy he was talking about was really insightful,” said Yeh, who was impressed with Ohlsson’s ability to the incorporate the audience. “A lot of times in master classes, the pianist is not so good at speaking to the audience. (Ohlsson) was just really good at explaining and talking about the music with everyone, sharing all of his insights and his knowledge.”
According to Wu, there were some good
performances at the master class.“Apparently, Mr. Ohlsson was impressed by
the level of playing in general,” said Wu, who had performed at a previous master class at a different institution with Ohlsson. “We chatted a little bit afterwards and he did remember that I took a master class with him.”
At the Q&A on Wednesday, Ohlsson, a tall
bespectacled man who had no problem leap-ing from his chair to demonstrate things at the piano, enthusiastically regaled the audience with personal anecdotes about his relation-ships with other major figures in the piano world, as well as giving practical advice — “hot tips” as he called them — about being a musician.
Bienen senior Lara Saldanha was pleasantly surprised by Ohlsson’s folksiness.
“Musicians spend a lot of time practicing, and sometimes even the really great ones are not the most engaging speakers, but (Ohls-son) is so engaging,” Saldanha said. “It was a wonderful mix of him speaking so anecdotally and being so open to talk about his experiences in the past and his teachers.”
Giles agreed that the less formal setting was a unique opportunity.
“It’s good for the students to see these well-known people in a more casual atmosphere, because usually you see them and they’re up on stage and you’re down here, but here, (Ohls-son) is just talking about his own life and you realize you have some things in common,” Giles said.
Saldanha said she appreciated Ohlsson’s candor.
“One of the things that kind of stuck with me that (Ohlsson) said was that when you play a piece, you have to be in love with it to make it convincing,” she said.
World-famous pianist Garrick Ohlsson visits Northwestern
“Spock was goofy, but Nimoy must have seen how Spock had meant so much to multiple generations.David Tolchinsky,RTVF professor
“It’s good for the
students to see these well-known people in a more
casual atmosphere. James Giles,
Bienen professor
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ASL Idol to feature signing performancesBy HAYLEY GLATTERdaily senior staffer@heyhay94
Ryan Seacrest and Paula Abdul have never seen performers like these.
For the fi rst time, Northwestern’s American Sign Language Club will host ASL Idol on Saturday, a public event inviting performers to show off their signing and interpreting skills.
Club president Katie Lalla said the event will be a nice gateway for the NU community to learn about sign language.
“Deaf culture, but also the experience of ASL, is very diff erent from any language you usually encoun-ter,” Lalla, a Weinberg senior, said. “Having the experience of seeing some-body interpret something and understanding the diff erences … is very interesting.”
Performers are encour-aged to pick any medium, from poems to monologues, to showcase their skills, but Lalla expects songs to be the most popu-lar choice. Performances must include both signed and spoken components, and the top three winners, as determined by audience vote, will receive gift card prizes.
ASL Club’s incoming vice president Chanel Var-gas, a former Daily staff er, will perform at ASL Idol, and said she is currently choosing between two songs to perform.
“I think in general people are just in tune with music,” Vargas, a Medill sophomore, said. “For me, music is a big part of my life … what started (sign language) for me was signing along with songs, so I think that’s why I chose a song, because it’s what I connect with.”
Incoming ASL Club president and Weinberg junior Marie Peeples will also be performing a song at ASL Idol.
“In the club, a lot of my favorite meetings have been the ones where we interpret songs, because I feel like ASL is really conducive to performance in that it’s really expressive,” Peeples said.
And that expressiveness is something that cannot be separated from sign language. Facial expressions are an integral part of ASL, Lalla said, and without it, the language is far more diffi cult to understand.
“It’s not just translating, it’s part of ASL,” Lalla said. “When I have vocal infl ections, you would know if I was asking a question because of the way my voice sounds. And the same thing goes for sign language. It’s a grammatical thing; it also gives you more con-text about stories.”
For Vargas, this aspect of the language has mani-fested itself in non-ASL contexts, and she is cog-nizant of the non-verbal habits she has picked up
through sign language.“I’ve always been pretty
quiet and shy, but in learning ASL, I’ve
learned to be a lot more expres-
sive facially,” Vargas said. “When you learn ASL, you gesture more when
you speak … So I think it’s
really cool that it just seeps into what
you already know about language and gels with it.”
Vargas said ASL Idol will likely be the largest audience she has ever performed
for, and both she and Lalla said the event is an important step to introduce sign language to the broader community.
“Unfortunately, Northwestern is not a particularly deaf-friendly area just because, fi rst of all, we don’t off er any sign language classes,” Lalla said. “Th e sign language club is basically the only means of reach-ing out to the deaf community in any way around Northwestern.”
And by reaching out, Vargas hopes audience members will gain a broader understanding of what ASL is and what ASL club does.
“Our purpose in organizing the event was to make it appealing to everyone so they all feel included in learning ASL and being a part of our community,” Vargas said. “A lot of people see it as this foreign language or group that they can’t be a part of because they don’t know anything, but we encourage people who have never even tried sign language to come and join us.”
New barre fi tness studio looks to empowerBy AMANDA SVACHULAthe daily northwestern@amandasvachula
Dance, kickboxing, fi tness and yoga thrive under the same roof at Th e Barre Code, the new-est of Evanston’s specialty fi tness studios.
Th e Barre Code, which opened Feb. 27, joins Pure Barre and Fit Girl Studio in off ering barre, yoga and dance to the Northwestern and Evanston communities. With positive mantras involving “strength” and “beauty,” barre classes, which focus on using ballet-like movements to tone the body, off er a unique, empowering alternative to tradi-tional workouts.
Th e classes focus on “isometric holds and heavy repetition” to increase muscle endurance. Diff erent studios off er diff erent variations of barre workouts, but each type of workout off ers unique benefi ts.
Th e Barre Code, 604 Davis St., off ers a 50-min-ute starter class. Th e Barre Code holds variations of barre classes that also feature kickboxing and yoga. Th ese use a more intense version of beginner class movements.
“Th ere is the word ‘barre’ in our name, however only one of our classes is a standard barre class,” studio owner Kate Dacalmo said. “We try to make this a one stop shop. It’s not just cardio, it’s not just barre. It has everything you need.”
Th e Evanston branch of Pure Barre only off ers barre classes, which are structured similarly but diff er based on the instructor.
“It’s defi nitely a challenging class,” Pure Barre studio manager Brynn Samp said. “It’s a little faster
paced than a lot of classes our clients have taken before.”
Besides off ering a space to workout, barre classes off er customers a safe space to physically improve and meet others with the same mission. Instructors at both Pure Barre and Th e Barre Code are trained to off er modifi cations in class if some-one is not comfortable. Participants can adjust the workout to what they want it to be.
“We know it takes a lot out of your day, espe-cially when it’s cold and snowing, to come here and workout,” Dacalmo said. “We’re here to feel good about ourselves. I think when you create that environment, you naturally see people connecting and making friendships. It’s just fun. It’s bright and not too serious. Th is is supposed to be your break from life.”
Weinberg freshman Emma Wynekoop attended her fi rst barre class this quarter at Th e Barre Code to bond with friends. Th e environment surprised her.
“It’s extremely important to have a positive workout environment,” Wynekoop said. “I know a lot of people who don’t go to the gym because they feel like they’re being judged.”
In a judgment-free zone, barre classes off er an alternative to traditional cardio in an environment that empowers women to be healthy and fi t.
“(Pure Barre) off ers a really positive environ-ment,” Samp said. “We spend time trying to get to know everyone. It’s more like a family when you come, and you just happen to be at a fi tness facility.”
Source: Kate Dalcamo
CORE VALUES Customers practice conditioning and strength exercises at The Barre Code. The new fi tness studio opened Feb. 27 and joins Pure Barre and Fit Girl Studio in offering barre classes in Evanston.
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Challah for Hunger group to help feed DM participantsBy SOPHIE MANNthe daily northwestern@sophiemann
It’s no secret that 30 hours of dancing will burn a lot of calories, and Challah for Hunger will once again do its part to keep dancers nourished.
CFH, a Hillel student group that bakes fl avored challah each week and raises awareness for social justice causes, will be providing 175 loaves of bread for the Dance Marathon dancers, a tradition ben-efi ting both sides of the collaboration.
Julia Rudansky, current Hillel president and for-mer CFH president, said CFH strives to provide
more than just delicious bread to the community. Philanthropy and giving back is a large part of the CFH mission, aligning well with DM’s goals, she said.
“It’s a combination of wanting to support stu-dents and DM as a whole, but it also aligns with Challah for Hunger’s mission of serving the com-munity and supporting great causes,” Rudansky said.
Th e Weinberg senior said many members of Hil-lel are active in DM, making the partnership even more worthwhile and personal for CFH.
“We have a few exec members participating, as well as other student groups members,” Rudansky said. “We defi nitely have a lot of people involved
in it.”Current CFH president and Weinberg junior
Rachel Hirsch said partnering with organizations on campus, such as DM in the winter and Alpha Epsilon Pi’s Dog Days philanthropy event in the spring, helps introduce people to CFH.
“Our donation gives us exposure at DM to people who have never heard of us,” Hirsch said. “Doing things like that in and out of the Jewish community brings awareness to our causes and help us connect with more students.”
Lauren Goldstein, incoming CFH Vice President of Marketing, is participating in DM this year and has wanted to since before she came to NU.
“When I was writing my early decision
application essay, I wanted to include something about extracurricular activities I wanted to get involved in,” the Communication freshman said. “I knew coming in I wanted to participate (in DM).”
Baking is a stress relief for her, which is why she got involved with CFH, she said, and it has become staple in her weekly schedule. Th e collaboration has made Goldstein more excited about each event.
“It’s a really nice thing that Challah for Hunger is doing for the community, and I think it is an eff ec-tive marketing technique to spread the word about Challah for Hunger on campus,” she said.
Dillo Day, many believe town-gown relations have improved under the mayor’s tenure, which has been marked by a strong relationship with Schapiro.
Kevin Harris, Associated Student Govern-ment community relations vice president, said the mayor has always been supportive of NU and receptive to students’ concerns.
“She always goes out of her way for us,” he said. “Yet she’s blamed for things she never actu-ally did.”
Making the myth
Tisdahl said she felt obligated to revoke The Keg’s liquor license after receiving repeated calls from parents complaining about their high school students flocking to the bar. Whether they slipped by the bouncers posted at the front door or jumped over the fence in the alley to sneak in the rear entrance, underage drinkers knew The Keg had a reputation for letting them through its doors.
“It was a life or death situation,” she said. “I did it to save the lives of teenagers.”
The Keg, previously located at 810 Grove St., was featured on more than one list of top college bars. Tisdahl said she knew closing a university’s favorite bar would never be popular, but she never expected the response she would receive from students — or even their parents.
“Some students even had their parents write to me to say that closing The Keg was dangerous for their children because they would have to go farther from campus to drink,” Tisdahl said.
Students also lambasted the mayor over the city’s “brothel law,” an occupancy ordinance that bans more than three unrelated people from liv-ing in the same unit.
The law, which has been on the books in some form since 1960, became controversial in early 2011, when they city said it would begin enforc-ing the policy on July 1 of that year. These plans stalled after 500 students protested at a town hall meeting.
Tisdahl and others have touted possible changes to the law. Ald. Don Wilson (4th) is working on an alternative proposal to update the code, she said.
Tisdahl, who said she doesn’t read satiri-cal campus publications, does not even know how far the students went. She was profiled and
lampooned in the publication Sherman Ave so frequently that at one point the website ran a post with the headline “Sherman Ave Goes One Full Month Without Mayor Tisdahl-Themed Column.”
Tom Aunins, the current editor in chief of Sherman Ave, joined the publication at the tail end of the Tisdahl coverage. He said the website published dozens of columns mentioning Tis-dahl because she seemed to embody the ongoing strained relationship between Evanston residents and NU students.
“It was more of trying to find a scapegoat for what was going on at the time than actually hating her as a person or anything like that,” Aunins, a
McCormick junior, said.Beyond campus publications, fake Twitter
accounts describe her “attempts” to take under-age communion wine drinkers off the street. She only recently became aware of the fake accounts when she won a national award for creating youth jobs. Mayors of other towns attempted to connect with her via the social network but instead were contacting the fake account. She rectified the problem by starting to tweet herself last month from @EvanstonMayor.
Tisdahl brushed off the antics, joking the par-ody accounts “make me feel important.”
“Sometimes I read them and think, ‘Come on you’ve got to be more clever than this,’” she
said.She said she feels there’s nothing she can do to
change students’ perception of her.“It’s much more fun to be angry with me,” she
said.Although the mayor may feel it’s impossible to
change the myths about her circulating campus, Harris and Aunins said they already see a shift occurring.
Aunins said Sherman Ave has not published an article about Tisdahl in more than a year, likely because there have been fewer incidents involving the mayor. He said most freshmen and sopho-mores probably don’t know who she is.
Harris said many underclassmen are
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oblivious to the reputation she built among upperclassmen.
“There are plenty of freshmen and sopho-mores who don’t even know what The Keg is,” Harris said.
An advocate of the ‘most vulnerable’
Harris said he believes few students know much about the mayor because many of her policies don’t directly affect them.
Despite criticism from students, Tisdahl has proven popular among Evanston residents. She won her position in 2009 in a landslide with more than 62 percent of the vote. In 2013 she ran unopposed, securing her second term.
Tisdahl admits NU students aren’t necessarily her top priority, largely brushing off their criti-cism with a smile.
“A lot of the things I’m doing don’t impact students directly,” she said. “Voters ask what are you doing for me? Given the needs of the community, I spend a lot of time on the most
vulnerable people.”When Tisdahl first entered office in 2009, she
said minorities were leaving Evanston because they were priced out of the housing market. Early in her first term she secured a stimulus housing grant worth $18 million. She said more than 100 families live in new affordable housing created since.
The mayor has been particularly passionate about curbing youth violence. Tisdahl said she visits the grieving families of every homicide victim in Evanston. At one home, she spoke to a victim’s younger brother, who told her he was afraid to go outside. She said no child in Evanston should ever feel that way.
In addition to a gun buyback program, Tis-dahl has specifically focused on youth engage-ment to bring the crime rate down.
In January she gained national accolades for her youth summer employment program, which provided more than 500 jobs to Evanston teenagers.
“She just has a wonderful vision for the young people of Evanston,” said Kevin Brown, Evan-ston’s youth and young adult program manager. “I don’t believe most of this would happen with-out the mayor. I do know that young people are extremely important for her.”
The Evanston mayor isn’t backing down from these goals. This year, her staff wants to increase their progress from last year and create 600 sum-mer jobs for youth.
Her reach extends beyond the city, particu-larly in her role as the Northwest Municipal Conference president, in which she represents 43 municipalities and one township. The mayor has had a busy introduction to this role, particu-larly in lobbying in Springfield against Republi-can Gov. Bruce Rauner’s proposed budget cuts that would halve the percentage of state income taxes allocated to local governments.
Additionally, she is working to address pen-sion fund woes. The same day she attended the art center groundbreaking, she said she was scheduled to have a call with Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. He canceled after he failed to secure 50 percent of the vote in the Chicago mayoral primary and had to instead campaign for the run-off election.
Despite Tisdahl’s progressive goals for herself and her staff, her expectations for Evanston’s temporary residents aren’t very high.
“Sure it would be great to engage,” she said. “But students have an obligation to rebel.”
Improving but imperfect town-gown relations
Even if students are only here for four years, she said they contribute to the diversity she loves about the city.
“You are all a plus,” she said.On the whole, Tisdahl said she feels the com-
munity’s relationship with the University has improved in recent years, repeatedly telling stu-dents and campus media the “Hundred Years’ War” between the University and city is over. In 2012, The Princeton Review ranked the NU-Evanston relationship the 4th “most strained” in the country. The University and the city dropped off the list in 2015.
The change in the relationship is the result of gradual initiatives for the University and city to communicate with each other more, Tisdahl said.
For example, the University has been on board with her jobs plan. In the first year, NU committed to four summer jobs for Evanston youth. This year they committed to 24.
The mayor said the University does much to support local business, and some NU entre-preneurs bring new business to the city. The city reciprocates at events like Homecoming, when downtown Evanston storefronts display their purple pride with Wildcat-themed displays and spouting purple water from the downtown fountain.
Harris said the mayor, along with the alder-men, have been largely receptive to the ideas he’s brought to them on behalf of students. He said the city and student government have worked together on initiatives that will bring the Divvy bike sharing service to Evanston and increase the scheduled Purple Line Express trains in May and June. Both ASG and the University have attempted to increase programming with Evanston Township High School, ranging from special events for prospective students to pairing student groups from NU with student groups at the high school.
The mayor specifically pointed to Wild-kits Days, where students from ETHS visit campus.
“Every kid in Evanston deserves to at least see a college campus,” she said.
The city has also formed a partnership with NU’s Center for Civic Engagement.
Although Tisdahl didn’t make many friends in the student body when she took away The Keg’s liquor license or considered enforcing the
“three-unrelated rule,” she has a close friend in Schapiro.
“I just love her,” Schapiro said with a broad smile and bright eyes to The Daily. “She’s such a great mayor. She’s such a great woman. She cares so much, she’s just an inspiration to me. I just adore her.”
Tisdahl echoed the president’s sentiments. One of her most memorable achievements as mayor came when she scored the stimulus fund-ing to create affordable housing. Shortly after, she got a call from Schapiro and told him she was having the best day ever.
“And he just said, ‘Why, because I’m calling you?’” Tisdahl said.
Later that day, Tisdahl said she received a fruit basket from Schapiro with a note, “For the party.”
‘You ain’t seen nothing yet’
But other parties make her life much more difficult. She said she was having a pleasant Dillo Day last year, even stopping by the beer garden on campus. But the next day, she had the most complaints she ever had about the event because the stage and speakers were facing a different way due to campus construction.
“People who had never heard Dillo Day before suddenly had 3 Chainz (sic) piping into their living room,” she said.
Schapiro subsequently wrote a letter to Evan-ston residents apologizing.
Tisdahl said age-driven conflicts like these are unavoidable. She said problems often arise when students are partying late into the night.
“Students are, on the whole, wonderful,” she said. “Unless they’re drunk — then they’re not so wonderful.”
Still, she acknowledged relations in Evan-ston were better than other university towns, saying people have told her it is “paradise” in comparison.
She said she will do what she can to con-tinue to cooperate with the University, attend-ing sporting events and student government meetings when asked. She said she expects her relationship with the university to improve, say-ing “you ain’t seen nothing yet.”
As for trying to change her reputation?“I’m sorry it’s been that way,” she said. “But
you can’t take everything so seriously all the time.”
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My last name, Johnson, is not indicative of my ethnicity, my “roots” or my identity. What it does tell, however, is a story that I think is worth adding to a necessary and ongoing discussion about identity, names and feelings of belonging.
I am a second-generation Korean Ameri-can. I am 100 percent Korean, at least in terms of my ethnicity. So why is my last name John-son? It’s a fair question that often comes from confused people who interact with me.
In the 1970s, my paternal grandfather immigrated to the United States and realized his Korean last name, written as Choi — this spelling differentiates it from a phonetically similar but very different Korean last name, Chae — was a problem. It was the source of ridicule from those who didn’t know or care how to pronounce it. He wanted “absolute” assimilation, and legally changed his last name and my father’s last name to one of the most common last names in the phone book:
Johnson.As someone who was born and raised in
the States, I initially thought all immigrants from Korea did this. I thought it was normal to have a legal, “American” last name and a separate Korean last name until I interacted with other Korean-American families that simply wrote out their Korean names into English.
For the longest time, I resented my grand-father’s decades-old decision to replace our identity because our last name was the one thing that connected me to my roots. He chose a last name that only symbolized, in my opinion, my grandfather’s failure to fight for his name. And I believed this until I came to Northwestern, because something important happened on this campus that changed the way I viewed my last name.
During the last four quarters I have spent at NU, I have been asked if I am half-Korean, adopted or Filipino. In the eyes of other students who had a certain image of what a Korean American looked like and what names they had, they saw me as anything but just Korean. I fit none of the “requirements” of a Korean neatly, hence the variety of questions. Even my first name, Naomi, became a point of contention, because my parents made my “Korean name” Naomi, but they spelled it out in Korean Hangeul. This means my Korean name is Hebrew based, has three syllables instead of the common two and carries no traditional Chinese meanings. So do my
Americanized last name and Hebrew-based first name make me any less Korean, whatever that means?
The answer is a resounding no. I speak Korean at home, read the Bible in Korean and eat Korean food with my parents. This does not, however, make me “more Korean” than other Korean Americans who have retained their original Korean names but do not speak Korean. So the question becomes, at least for me, why are certain people rushing to fit me into categories? Why does a Korean last name legitimize someone’s Korean-ness but not their American-ness if they live in America? Why does a non-Korean last name obscure the nuances of my family story?
The best answer that I can muster is that names carry a great deal of meaning, espe-cially in terms of identity for humans who live in a multicultural nation. A variety of questions stem from the issue of names and what they mean in America. But what I want to point out is that people have a striking urge to assume and categorize based on names alone, which is part of the reason names are so significant.
I will always be the daughter of Korean immigrants, but I do not feel compelled to give up any of my Korean culture in order to be “more American.” There is no trade-off of identities, meaning that choosing to empha-size certain aspects of myself does not negate the distinctions that may “other” me from the majority. My legal last name, for example,
does not replace the fact that my ancestors came from the North Gyeongsang Province in South Korea. I especially do not think it’s necessary to give up my Korean-ness for the sake of the categorical continuity — and the conveniences that such continuity affords — that people have imposed on me time and time again.
I admit some of what I am saying is self-serving in that these thought processes have helped me minimize the hurt I have felt when others told me I was either not Korean enough or not American enough. Just 12 months ago, I would have had no problem listing out the reasons I disagreed with my grandfather’s decision. Now, I see my name and the chal-lenges that it creates for others as an opportu-nity. It’s an opportunity for me to share a story of my family’s immigration. It is also a chance for me to confront the fixed ideas of lineage, race and belonging that drive the questions I receive. What has become clear to me in the last couple of years is I have never experienced a clear schism between “identities.” I am not a collection of discrete characteristics, but rather a blend of these characteristics, thereby making me American.
I am an American because I am Korean.I am enough.
Naomi Johnson is a Weinberg sophomore. She can be reached at [email protected]. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to [email protected].
On Monday comedian Jimmy Kimmel weighed in on the childhood vaccination debate after he faced backlash on Twitter because of his earlier commentary on the subject. Kimmel stands firmly in favor of parents vaccinating their children and said he doesn’t think it is appropriate to present both sides of the argument “for the same reason (he) wouldn’t present both sides if a group of people decided that pancakes make you gay. They don’t. And there’s no point in discuss-ing it.”
The issue is back in the spotlight after a measles outbreak revealed the disease is not wiped out in America, after 644 cases in 2014 and more than 170 cases in 2015. General sci-entific consensus says vaccinations for young children are the reason many infectious diseases have been eradicated in the United States. Vaccines have decreased infant mor-tality and increased life expectancies across the globe and revolutionized public health. Despite this, vaccination is a very sensitive topic, and I want to be clear: My intention is not to insult anyone with this article or ques-tion their parenting skills or personal beliefs
and choices, but rather just to put forth my opinion on a public health issue I think is very important. I believe the safety and health of all children should be a priority.
Some people believe that vaccines are detrimental to their child’s health and could even increase their chances of being on the autism spectrum. Specifically, the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine is administered to children around the same time that signs of autism begin to appear, leading some to be concerned about the side effects of the vac-cine. However, according to experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Academy of Pediatrics, the MMR vaccine is not linked to the increases in the number of children on the autism spectrum. The British study that claimed the vaccine-autism link has been retracted because the data in it was deliberately falsi-fied by the study’s author, Dr. Andrew Wake-field, who was stripped of his medical license.
According to the CDC, most of the side effects of vaccines are mild compared to the illnesses they prevent.
It’s important to note that there isn’t a way for the federal government to control children’s vaccinations — power rests largely with the states, which generally follow guide-lines by organizations such as the CDC. Even though states require a certain level of vacci-nation before a child enters the public school system, 48 states allow parents to be exempt from this rule due to religious beliefs, and 20 states allow parents to decline vaccines for their children for personal reasons.
Parents should not view vaccination as a personal choice but rather as a very public responsibility — their children deserve to be free of dangerous and potentially fatal diseases, and unvaccinated children put many other children and groups at risk, not only themselves. Those allergic to the ingredients in the vaccine, infants who are too young to be vaccinated, children who have not completed a vaccination sequence, pregnant women in some cases and cancer patients all depend on those around them to be vaccinated and disease-free because they cannot be vaccinated or have compromised immune systems. Most young children are not immune to diphtheria, whooping cough, polio, tetanus, hepatitis B or Hib disease, and any immunity given to them in the womb wears off within a few months, according to
the CDC.The more people who are vaccinated, the
fewer opportunities a disease has to spread. If vaccination rates drop to low levels across the country, diseases could become as common as they were before vaccines. Also, diseases such as polio have been eradicated in the U.S. but not in other countries, so hypothetically if children in the U.S. are not vaccinated, they will become vulnerable to people who are just a plane ride away.
Americans shouldn’t be shamed or forced into making a decision, but they should be as well informed as possible and actively discouraged from seeking an exemption for their children. After the state of Washington passed a law requiring parents to get a doctor to sign off on an exemption, their exemption rate of 7.6 percent went down by more than 40 percent in just two years.
The goal should be the smallest number of vaccine exemptions as possible, and state leg-islatures should work to ensure that parents think deeply and consult with a physician before they make these decisions. The deci-sion of whether or not to vaccinate a child should be seen as a matter of public health, not an intrusion on personal liberty.
Pia Basu is a Medill freshman. She can be reached at [email protected]. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to [email protected].
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Supreme Court appears split in challenge to Affordable Care Act
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s health care law once again stands in legal peril after Supreme Court justices appeared sharply split along ideological lines during oral arguments Wednesday in a case that threatens to end insurance subsidies for more than 7 million Americans. The four lib-erals among the court’s nine justices seemed ready to side with the Obama administration in rejecting the latest challenge to the Afford-able Care Act. But it was unclear whether they would get a fifth vote from the conservative side.
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., who helped rescue the law three years ago, gave no hint about how he might rule this time. And Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, another possible swing vote, voiced some reservations about the chal-lenge, but also said he was troubled by how the Obama administration had implemented the law.
The lawsuit — brought by a group of con-servative and libertarian activists — argues that a strict reading of the statute makes health insurance subsidies available only in a handful states (including California) that established their own insurance marketplaces, also known
as exchanges. But 37 states elected instead to have the federal government fully or partially operate their marketplaces using the Health-Care.gov website.
In 2012, the Internal Revenue Service issued regulations making subsidies available for both state and federally run exchanges. Critics challenged the rule as illegal, citing a provision in the law that limits subsidies to an “exchange established by the state.” Obama administration attorneys accused opponents of taking the provision out of context and argued that the overall law clearly intends to make the subsidies available nationwide.
In a worrisome sign for the administration, Kennedy questioned whether the IRS could make that decision on its own. “It seems to me a drastic step for us to say that the Department of Internal Revenue Service and its director can make this call one way or the other when there are ... billions of dollars of subsidies involved here,” he told U.S. Solicitor Gen. Donald Ver-rilli Jr., who was defending the law on behalf of the Obama administration.
“It has to be very, very clear,” Kennedy continued. “It seems to me a little odd” that the IRS went ahead on its own. At the same time, Kennedy offered some hope to Obama’s lawyers. Twice, he said he agreed with states’ rights advocates who complained they had not been warned that opting for a federal exchange could cause many thousands of
their residents to possibly lose their subsidized health insurance.
“There’s a serious constitutional problem if we adopt your argument,” Kennedy told Michael Carvin, the lawyer representing the challengers. But the administration may not be able to count on Kennedy. Three years ago, he criticized the health law and joined the four-member dissent that would have struck down the entire Affordable Care Act.
During the same argument, Roberts also vigorously attacked the law, leading many observers at the time to incorrectly predict that he would vote to invalidate it.
In the current King vs. Burwell case, the chief justice was far more guarded in his questioning. He mostly directed questions at Verrilli and his one substantive question was difficult to interpret. In his closing argument, Verrilli told the court it should defer to the administration’s interpretation that the law made the subsidies available in all states. Ver-rilli cited the “Chevron doctrine” that calls for upholding an agency’s regulations if they adopt a reasonable interpretation of a law.
The chief justice has been critical of that doctrine, saying it gives agencies and bureau-crats too much power and allows the interpre-tation of a law to switch based on who is in power. “If you’re right,” Roberts told Verrilli, “a subsequent administration could change that interpretation.”
Other justices offered more predictable responses during Wednesday’s argument. The four liberal justices defended the adminis-tration’s view and argued the law was writ-ten to bring affordable health insurance to all states, an interpretation backed by the law’s congressional authors and many legal experts. Justice Stephen G. Breyer objected when Carvin said the law “in plain English” limited subsidies to states that established their own marketplaces.
Breyer said the law told Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell to establish exchanges in states without one. She “set up such exchange, namely a state exchange.... So what’s the problem?” Breyer asked. Justice Elena Kagan told Carvin his view of the law made no sense because it would mean that no one would qualify for coverage in federally run exchanges.
She pointed to one clause that says “quali-fied” shoppers are those who live in the state that established the exchange. Under Carvin’s interpretation, she argued, that would leave out states that use the federal exchange. “You’re essentially setting up a system in which (with) these federal exchanges ... there will be no cus-tomers and, in fact, there will be no products,” Kagan said.
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Renovation delays could threaten first home games
Behind-schedule renovations to Rocky Miller Park could affect Northwestern’s first home games in early April, athletic director Jim Phillips said Tuesday.
Phillips said bad weather in November and December slowed the installation of a new turf playing surface.
“It’s not too far behind,” he said. “They have a little work to do as soon as they get the snow off, if we catch a break with the weather, and we’re hope-ful that it doesn’t impact our home season at all.”
Phillips said NU intends to complete the play-ing surface before the home schedule begins and work on further renovations after the season. Plans include a new clubhouse and upgrades to the stands, dugouts and concession stands.
One benefit of a turf field, Phillips said, is pro-tection against rainouts. Last season the Wildcats had two games cancelled due to weather, and in 2013 they lost two dates to rain and had three others postponed.
Phillips said even if the renovations delay some games, the turf will make up the difference.
“If you ask me, ‘Do you stand a chance to lose some games,’ I would say no more than would be lost if we had the same grass field,” he said.
The Cats’ first home game is scheduled for April 1 against Western Michigan, with a three-game series against Illinois beginning two days later.
Baseball coach Paul Stevens said last month that he remained confident the field would be ready in time.
“I’m believing in the people that are doing that,” Stevens said in February. “I believe that they will get this done.”
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ON DECK ON THE RECORDWomen’s BasketballNU at Rutgers, Friday
We understand that we can play with everybody, and we also understand that we are a target. — Joe McKeown, women’s basketball coach
MAR. 6
NU starts Big Ten title run on FridayBy CLAIRE HANSENthe daily northwestern @clairechansen
Coach Joe McKeown has always said “anyone can beat anyone” in the Big Ten, and this weekend, that state-ment will be put to the ultimate test.
The Big Ten Women’s Basketball Tournament kicked off in the Sears Centre Arena in Hoffman Estates, Illi-nois, on Wednesday, with the cham-pionship game scheduled for Sunday night.
Sitting comfortably as the No. 4 seed, Northwestern (22-7, 12-5 Big
Ten) has secured a double bye and will play its first game of the tournament in the quarterfinals Friday afternoon. The No. 4 spot is the highest seed NU has obtained since 1995.
The Wildcats, ranked No. 24 nation-ally, will play the winner of the matchup between No. 23 Rutgers and Indiana.
No matter which opponent they face, the Cats are not taking anyone lightly.
“Now, everyone is 0-0,” McKeown said. “You want to raise the bar. We understand that we can play with everybody, and we also understand that we are a target.”
At an individual level, NU boasts some of the Big Ten’s standout play-ers. Four Cats were selected as Big Ten postseason award winners Monday.
Sophomore Nia Coffey was named to the All-Big Ten First Team for the second year in a row, while junior Mag-gie Lyon nabbed a spot on the All-Big Ten honorable mention list for the third consecutive year. Sophomore Ashley Deary received a spot on the honorable mention list and was also given a spot on the five-player Big Ten All-Defensive team. Finally, senior Karly Roser was given the 2015 Big Ten Sportsmanship Award.
Coffey said although individual accolades are nice, they don’t mean too much for NU.
“You could be Big Ten Player of the Year, but if your team doesn’t make it to the tournament or doesn’t make it far, there’s no point to me,” Coffey said. “It’s all about the team and how far you take your team and how well you play together in March.”
Playing together hasn’t been too hard for the Cats this year, who, before falling to No. 4 Maryland last week, went undefeated in the month of Feb-ruary. This is also the first season NU has tallied more than 20 wins since 1995-1996.
Lyon described this season’s squad as a “completely different team” than the Cats of 2013-2014.
“I think last year we tried to rely on just talent and that’s hard in the NCAA because every team has talent,” Lyon said. “We worked so hard in the offsea-son playing together and having that chemistry and trusting each other in everything that we do, and I think that’s totally translated on the court.”
February boasted a handful of exceptionally close games, two of which went into overtime. Lyon also said she hopes this experience will be beneficial in March.
With Rutgers as the No. 5 Big Ten seed to Indiana’s No. 12, NU will likely be facing the Scarlet Knights on Friday afternoon, a familiar team for the Cats. Last week, NU handily defeated Rut-gers 80-60. If the Cats do end up facing the Scarlet Knights once more, Coffey said that they will attack the game with a fresh mentality.
“It’s a completely new game,” Coffey said. “We have to have the mentality that we are going to out-rebound them, we’re going to out-play them, and just play together as a team and hope to come out on the strong end.”
Though the possibility of an NU and Rutgers matchup is strong, any-thing can happen. The uncertainty sur-rounding their opponent gives the Cats time to look more on themselves.
“It brings us back to who we are, and focusing on us,” McKeown said. “Let’s not spend so much time wor-rying about who we are playing. Let’s get back to what we do and the fundamentals.”
The Cats are heading into a whirl-wind of Big Ten match ups with an outside shot to win the conference title, and the all-but-promised NCAA tournament bid in the back of their minds.
But McKeown said he is urging his players to relax and take it all in.
“There’s so much focus on March,” McKeown said. “I told my players, this is the best time of your life. Years from now you’ll look back and say, I was part of that great 2015 team at Northwestern.”
No. 24 Northwesternvs. No. 23 Rutgers/IndianaHoffman Estates, IllinoisFriday
Good vibes for juniors
It was senior night for Northwestern on Tuesday at Welsh-Ryan Arena, but juniors guard Tre Demps and center Alex Olah were running the show.
Demps was the brazen hero, surpris-ing everyone but himself with not one, but two odds-defying 3-point shots to extend the game: a step-back from well beyond the arc and a corner look made with two defenders closing out on him.
The guard poured in 20 points on 7-of-13 shooting and was a clutch-as-ever 4-for-5 from long range, while also dishing five assists to supplement his sickly backcourt mate freshman guard Bryant McIntosh.
Olah impressively played a career-high 44 minutes in the double-overtime thriller, shooting 12-of-18 for a team-high 25 points, pulling down 12 boards, mak-ing a 3-pointer in the second overtime to send the home crowd into a frenzy and walking off the court to chants of “Olah! Olah! Olah!”
Storylines about the Wildcats this season have centered on the growth of a young, freshman-laden team, but what has gone quietly unnoticed is the devel-opment of NU’s two star juniors. Each has picked up his play during the second half of the Cats’ conference schedule.
Earlier in the year I argued criticism of Olah was fully warranted, given how he and NU were failing to meet expectations, but that’s a much harder case to present now. The big man’s numbers are a little tricky to parse, given that’s he’s the big-gest beneficiary of the Cats’ recent switch to a zone defense, but since the Feb. 15 contest against Iowa he’s averaging 35 minutes, 15.3 points, nine rebounds and 2.2 blocks per game.
Not surprisingly, those are all improvements on his season numbers of 29 minutes, 11.8 points, 6.8 rebounds and 1.8 blocks per game.
And it gets better. Olah showed a sim-ilar late-season surge in the final eight games of his sophomore campaign that he parlayed into the growth he’s shown this year. The center is definitely on an upward trajectory.
Demps, meanwhile, has rewritten the narrative surrounding him since NU’s Feb. 7 loss to No. 5 Wisconsin. Over the subsequent seven-game stretch he has averaged 16.1 points and 3.3 assists per game, improvements over his sea-son marks of 12.7 points and 2.7 assists per game. Most encouragingly, over the same time span he has overcome his trademark inefficiency to shoot 53 per-cent from the floor and 49 percent from beyond the arc.
Every shooter has streaks, but there are signs of lasting progress for Demps. The shooting guard is averaging almost three minutes more per contest this sea-son than he was a year ago, and despite a disproportionally higher usage rate, based on shots taken per minute, he’s actually become a more efficient scorer. Demps’ current 41.6 percent mark from the floor this year is significantly greater than his 38.3 percent clip from last season.
Demps and Olah both overcame McIntosh’s woes Tuesday to thrust the Cats to an incredibly improbable victory. Each player shone at an opportune time, and their performances are part of an overall trend of improvement rather than anomalous outliers.
Before the win over Michigan, NU hadn’t won a senior night game since 2011. With the dynamic pair of juniors back next season, that’s one trend that likely won’t continue.
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WORKING TOGETHER Northwestern huddles and celebrates a fine result. The Wildcats focused on team chemistry in the offseason and have parlayed that effort into a No. 4 seed in the Big Ten Tournament and a virtually guaranteed bid for the NCAA tournament.
Cats cruise to first victory of spring season By KEVIN CASEYdaily senior staffer @KevinCasey19
The Wildcats took care of business in Florida, running away from the field at the Hurricane Invitational early and hold-ing on late to capture their first victory of the spring and second of the season.
A week after No. 7 Northwestern finished fourth at the Lady Puerto Rico Classic — a performance coach Emily Fletcher characterized as “pretty good” and involved losing to two lower-ranked teams — the Cats built a 13-shot lead over the first 36 holes in Coral Gables, Florida, only to see it shrink down near five strokes early in the back nine on Wednesday.
With a treacherous downwind par 5 15th hole and the water-hugging 17th to come, NU’s victory wasn’t secure. The Cats quintet stepped up, though, piecing together all pars on those two holes, and eventually securing a 6-shot victory for a successful title defense at the Hurricane.
Yet the tension-filled scenario pro-duced little anxiety in the end. Joy, rather than relief, permeated the team atmosphere in the aftermath of an event where the team expected to win – the next highest ranked squad was No. 25 – barely held on.
It probably helped that the coach wasn’t at all worried about blowing the 13-stroke cushion.
“At that point (on those two holes) I wasn’t sure that we were going to win, but I was really proud of our girls hitting good tee shots, hitting good iron shots to a back pin,” Fletcher said. “They just fought hard to the end.”
And that’s the key: Although the Cats hold a top-10 ranking, are in contention for a national championship and over-flow with blue-chip talent, they still like
to scrap.Fierce competition is apparent
throughout and within the squad, and the Cats switched their lineup for this week’s event because they have too many golfers playing well.
Nobody was a greater purveyor of this attitude at the Hurricane Invitational than Kacie Komoto.
Matters started inauspiciously with an opening-round 75, but Komoto posted five birdies in a second-round 68 and closed with a 75 in tougher scoring con-ditions to place 13th.
Fletcher noted the team’s performance on the last seven holes in particular, espe-cially Komoto’s consecutive birdies and crucial par putt to finish.
Komoto herself was proud of her grit.
“I hit a couple of rough patches out there, but I like the way I responded to them,” Komoto said. “I never gave up, I just stayed patient and waited for the putts to drop.”
But the Cats used more than a fighting dogma to secure victory.
The Cats pieced together a whopping 40 birdies over the first two rounds, 15 more than any other squad, and placed four of its five starters in the top 10 with 18 holes to go.
The leaders of the pack were fresh-man Hannah Kim, who held first place after 36, and senior Hana Lee, who was right behind her younger cohort in a tie for second.
Kim was the star of the fall, with three top-12 finishes and two top-team fin-ishes. And she’s somehow improved on that in the spring.
The freshman finished second overall in Puerto Rico, and produced another runner-up in Coral Gables following rounds of 69, 70 and 75.
Kim has now led the team in four consecutive events, and even a player of
her talent did not envision this spring start.
“I had no idea that I was going to do this,” Kim said. “It’s my freshman year, and I wanted to take things slow. I’m really surprised that I’ve played this well.”
The Cats will not play again until March 27 at the Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic, where they performed well last year.
The win is a confidence booster, but could the less than stellar final round linger?
Fletcher isn’t worried.“We had some unfortunate breaks
early on,” Fletcher said. “Hannah Kim hit one bad shot and made double. Kacie’s ball plugged in the face of the bunker and she made triple. A little bit of a shaky
start, but the girls played well on that final day.”
NU has been rock solid tee-to-green and a little shaky in the short game area, although all parts were clicking this week, Fletcher said. The Cats have owned the long holes in the spring, leading both tournaments in par-5 scoring average, likely an ode to the team’s robust driv-ing distance.
In every way, the Cats are ready for what the rest of spring entails.
“We’re all really good right now,” Komoto said. “We all feed off each other and have this positive energy that we bring to the course. I’m really excited to see where we go in the spring.”
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CATCHING FIRE Hannah Kim follows through on a shot off the tee. The freshman has started the spring on fire, posting back-to-back runner-up finishes and is now the No. 20 player in the country.
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