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Tonight, hundreds of women will sit together in anticipation. Nervous chatter will fill the auditorium as they look to their neighbors for support. Once united by the common experience of recruit-ment, the students now hold an envelope that will divide them into 12 chapters.

Recruitment for sororities and frater-nities is just one facet of Greek life on campus. At Northwestern, formal re-cruitment—the official process whereby potential members and active members mutually choose one another after a se-ries of organized events—is deferred and takes place in January, much later than with other universities, which conduct recruitment in the fall.

It’s not surprising NU Greek mem-bership will likely be higher than ever

before, said representatives from the North-American Interfraternity Confer-ence and the National Panhellenic Con-ference. Both organizations cite a recent increase in national membership, espe-cially in the last three years.

“It speaks to this generation of college students,” said Ben Pendry, vice presi-dent for advancement for NIC. “This is a generation of students who have been joining groups all their lives.”

Over the past few years, overall Greek membership has increased, but the campus climate on Greek life as part of the NU student experience re-mains divided. The Office of Frater-nity and Sorority Life declined to comment for this article.

Greek life comprises roughly 33 per-cent of the student body and has been present on campus for more than 150 years. Imagining NU without the Greek system is harder than imagining NU

without the Rock.The existence of a large percentage

of Greek participants on campus im-pacts the undergraduate experience at NU, said Burgwell Howard, interim dean of students. NU is an “interesting hybrid” when it comes to being a private research university in an urban center like Chicago, Howard said. Schools sim-ilarly ranked with NU in U.S. News and World Report’s Best Colleges of 2010 have varying levels of Greek participa-tion. Just 10 percent of students at the University of Chicago are involved with Greek life, while nearly 60 percent at Dartmouth College participate in frater-nities and sororities.

“It’s significant when you have 30-odd percent involved,” Howard said. “It does change the character of campus.”

NU Greek life is almost as old as the University itself. NU’s first fraternity,

Phi Delta Theta, was founded in 1859, a time when the University consisted of one building and when campus hous-ing was nonexistent. When the Civil War broke out in 1861, the chapter dis-banded, but NU’s second chapter, Phi Kappa Psi, formed in 1864. Seven other fraternities came to campus before the turn of the century. The first female fraternity, Alpha Phi, arrived on cam-pus 10 years after the first female stu-dent enrolled in 1869.

Today, there are 12 chapters in NU’s Panhellenic Association and 16 in the In-terfraternity Council. Neither organiza-tion responded to numerous e-mails and phone calls. Greek life now includes five culturally based organizations in the Multicultural Greek Council and seven historically black fraternities and sorori-

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houses, took place Monday night, the last step before “bid night” tonight.

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With fraternity and sorority numbers on the rise, questions remain over campus divide

Library debate continues as residents protest to councilBy Brittney Wong and adam segeThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/council

Debate over a controversial pro-posal to eliminate two branches from the public library system con-tinued at Monday’s Evanston City Council meeting.

Nine of the 10 residents who spoke during citizen comment criti-cized the proposed closure of Ev-anston Public Library’s north and south branches, initially presented in City Manager Wally Bobkie-

wicz’s suggested 2010-11 budget in late December. The council is slot-ted to vote on the matter by the end of February.

“My observation is that the North Branch library is the heart and soul of my community, of our community,” said Jonathan Polish, an Evanston resident. “It would be remarkably penny-wise and pound-foolish to abolish them, to abolish that rich heritage, which is so em-blematic of the City of Evanston.”

City wages: Mayor Tisdahl’s wager with Auburn city officials resulted in this scene at Monday night’s City Council meeting.

Prof. david Protess’ Medill innocence Project gained high-profile support in its legal battle with cook county prosecutors Monday.

a group of 18 media organizations, in-cluding the new york times, the Washing-ton Post and the associated Press, the stu-dent Press Law center and defense lawyers submitted amicus briefs to Judge diane cannon in an effort to f ight a state sub-poena requiring northwestern journalism students to turn over documents related to an alleged murder case.

in the innocence Project, students inves-tigate potentially wrongful convictions. in 2003, Protess and his students began re-searching the case of anthony McKinney, a man convicted of a 1978 murder. in 2006, the students shared evidence with lawyers and law students at the center on Wrongful convictions at the school of Law’s Bluhm Le-gal clinic, indicating McKinney had been wrongfully convicted. Prosecutors subpoe-naed their records in october, demanding access to information including course syl-labi, student grades, expense reimburse-ments and e-mail communications.

cannon, who is hearing the case, ac-cepted the three briefs and set Feb. 10 as the next status call in the case, according to information provided by Protess.

as outlined in the briefs, the students who participated in the investigation are protected by the ill inois reporter’s Privi-

lege act, which prevents courts from re-quiring disclosure of information obtained by reporters.

news-gathering activity undertaken by students should be given the same protec-tions as professional journalists, according to the Brief of the Press amici.

the brief from sidley austin, the defen-dants’ law f irm, was in response to the state’s nov. 10 brief insinuating Medill stu-dent reporters paid witnesses for state-ments. the brief sought to protect the non-disclosure of students’ grades in light of federal privacy law, among other issues.

other organizations that signed the briefs included the american society of news edi-tors, newspaper association of america, and society of Professional Journalists.

susan s. stevens, a chicago-area society of Professional Journalists member, said the organization took part in f ighting the sub-poena to defend press freedom.

“First amendment rights are extremely important not just to journalism but to all americans,” stevens said. “For Medill espe-cially, you have a great track record with the project. Medill students are intelligent and hardworking. With innocence Project, we know that each student is extremely concerned with social justice.”

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The School of Education and Social Policy is offering a new course this quarter—Intro-duction to Faith and Service.

Moved by the message of last October’s sixth-annual Interfaith Youth Core confer-ence, SESP teamed up with The Center for Civic Engagement and The Interfaith Youth Core to create the class in an effort to improve on-campus civic engagement and religious plurality, said Tim Stevens, University chap-lain and co-teacher of the class.

“It offers an opportunity to think and learn together about the intersection of faith and what people are actually doing in the world,” he said.

The course, SESP 351, bolsters the cur-rent class offerings in the SESP curriculum, Stevens said. While Northwestern already of-fers classes on religious studies and service, Stevens said he believes this course explores service in a different way.

“Some of the faculty in SESP noticed that in their courses, questions of faith would come up,” he said. “They wanted to be able to offer a course that would put those questions on the table.”

Stevens co-teaches the class with Eboo Patel, the executive director of Interfaith Youth Core, and Jody Kretzmann, a SESP research associate professor. The class also features guest lecturers from different reli-

gious backgrounds. The diversity of the lec-turers reflects the class’s aims, Kretzmann said.

“All of the students are expressing a great interest and willingness to broaden their knowledge of and interaction with other faiths and traditions,” he said.

The class provides a “safe place” to discuss a variety of faith perspectives and commitment to service and civil engagement, Kretzmann said.

Allegra Mount, who volunteers at Gale Acad-emy, an after-school program in Chicago, said NU should continue to support classes that en-courage students to learn about service.

“As part of our education, it’s important for us to understand that we are fundamen-tally part of a larger whole and we have du-ties to encourage the growth of the collec-tive group, not just ourselves,” the Weinberg sophomore said. “Students should be given the tools to not only better their futures, but our future as a global and diversely religious society,” she said.

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Mysterious man follows NU student

An unknown man followed a female North-western student for the second time Saturday morning, police said.

The student was walking from her resi-dence, Ayers College of Commerce and In-dustry , 2324 Campus Dr. , to the University Library , 1970 Campus Dr. , when she noticed a stocky man in his 50s wearing a light brown coat nearby, Northwestern Deputy

Police Chief Dan McAleer said. The man followed the student into the

reference section, where he sat down at a computer. The student, believing she was fol-lowed, left the library and went to Starbucks in Norris University Center, 1999 Campus Dr. , McAleer said.

A few minutes later, the student left Norris and saw the man coming up the steps toward the center. At that time, she returned to her resi-dence and reported the incident, police said.

A similar incident occurred in December when the same man tried to talk to the stu-dent. The student ignored him and he walked

away, McAleer said.Police told the student to report the inci-

dent immediately if it ever occurred again.

Child hits pool wall, cuts lip

A male child unaffiliated with NU cut his lip after hitting the side wall of the pool at Sports Pavilion and Aquatics Center , 2311 Campus Dr., Sunday afternoon, police said.

The child was transported to Evanston Hospital by the city's fire department, McA-leer said.

– GRACE JOHNSON

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Juvon Vialdores pounded the pavement for more than two years before a local movie the-ater finally hired him last year. Now the 22-year-old has to worry about his friends.

“Nobody’s hiring,” he said. “I’ve had friends fill out plenty of applications, and they just don’t get calls back.”

Vialdores and his peers are not alone. The youth unemployment rate nation-wide has reached an intimidating 25 percent, accord-ing to organizers at Youth Job Center of Ev-anston . To help combat this issue in Evan-ston, YJC, an organization aiming to assist youth in building job-readiness and gaining on-the-job experience, received $124,500 in grants last month .

The money will finance YJC events like the Summer Tutors Program, the Evanston Township High School Outpost of YJC and the new program Women Investing in Learning and Livelihoods . Through WILL, YJC will support 15 women between the ages of 18 and 25 years old for a period of two years, providing them childcare and facilitat-ing education to help in acquiring higher-paying jobs.

Seven organizations, including the Gap

Foundation and the Eleanor Foundation , a group that supports women in the Chicago area, donated money.

“The job market is really bad,” said Jordan Burghardt , employment outreach coordinator at YJC. “Even though a lot of accounts are say-ing the recession is over, that hasn’t translated into more employers hiring people.”

YJC aims to give youth the tools necessary to obtain employment.

“It’s really important that young people have the resources to put their foot in the door and level the playing field,” Burghardt said.

Sol Anderson , Evanston's youth coordinator, agreed young people need extra assistance in getting hired.

“Youth tend to get pushed out of the job market because, as people with more experi-ence get laid off, they move into sectors where youth typically work,” Anderson said.

Evanston faces a significant youth unem-ployment problem, said Kim Hoopingarner, development director at YJC.

“Evanston is a very diverse commu-nity—38 percent of the students at Evanston Township High School qualify for free or re-duced lunch,” she said. “A lot of kids who come to the Outpost at ETHS are coming to help their families because 11 percent of fami-lies are at or below the poverty level in the City of Evanston.”

Although joblessness has no direct correlation to delinquency, it remains a factor, Anderson said.

“Not being able to make that money through legitimate channels can lead kids to look for that money through illegal ways,” he said. “Some of the crimes that are committed, like drug dealing, like shoplifting, those can sometimes be tied to need as well. Sometimes it’s not just extra money, it’s a necessity.”

Anderson added that the only way to gain knowledge about the working world is through hands-on practice. Young people can become accustomed to arriving at work on time and getting along well with co-workers.

“It’s important for youth in the community to have jobs because one of the hardest things to learn about having a job is what employers call, ‘soft skills,’ and those are really only taught through experience,” he said.

Job applicants seem to have the same mind-set. During the past year , YJC served an in-creased number of jobless youth, said Amy Nel-son , a career advisor at the organization.

Although there is a greater demand for em-ployment, Anderson said getting a job is not a lost cause.

“Even though it’s difficult, it’s not impossible to find a job."

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Social class has traditionally been a pretty big issue here in the U.K., where I’m study-ing for the semester. For

centuries, people have been defined by their socioeconomic status, and it has only been in the past several de-cades that those who would be con-sidered working class have seen their opportunities begin to expand.

On the flip side, the idea still per-sists in the U.S. that everybody can pull themselves up by their own bootstraps, regardless of where they came from. However, if you look closely at U.S. society, the impor-tance of socioeconomic class be-comes more clear.

As the end of last school year ap-proached, I still lacked a summer job. As a history major with a de-pressingly mediocre GPA, offers for paid internships were not exactly

falling from the sky. Luckily one of my friends from home mentioned he could probably get me a job as a bus-boy with him at a local country club. I enthusiastically set out to learn the delicate art of clearing plates, refill-ing water glasses and setting tables.

As someone whose only experi-ence in sociology consists of getting a “B” in an intro-level class, I am not an expert in the field. But my busboy experience exposed me to the lives of some people near the bottom of America’s class structure.

Immigrants from Africa, Eastern Europe and Latin America domi-nated the staff, alongside native-born Americans. The different eth-nic groups tended to hang together in most cases, usually because of lan-guage barriers, but they also inter-mingled in interesting ways. For in-stance, a Polish-born waitress was dating a Korean American.

The majority of the busboys were young men around my age. A few were white like my friend and my-self, and the rest were Hispanic. My friend and I were the only ones who attended a full-time, four-year col-lege, while everyone else was either

still in high school, at community college or not in school at all. Club members would sometimes ask me if I was in school and were often no-ticeably impressed when I said I was enrolled at Northwestern.

One time a member asked an-other U.S.-born busboy where he at-tended after going on about how great NU was. When the busboy said he attended a community college, the member said, “Well, that’s OK too,” in a condescending tone. Also, I never noticed a member asking a Hispanic busboy if he was in school.

Socioeconomic class doesn’t al-ways define us, but the environment in which you grow up—financial re-sources, educational opportunities, family history and just general living environment—can have a profound effect on your prospects for a suc-cessful life. NU students often take for granted our privileged back-grounds, and it would do us some good to recognize the importance of where we came from to determine where we will end up.

millennials “CyniCalforapessimist” By Steven A. Berger

It is a challenge for any parent, teacher or administrator to understand and cater to the individual needs of students

as best they can. So it’s no surprise why this issue is of particular impor-tance to the parents of special edu-cation students in Evanston/Skokie School District 65.

In recent weeks, many parents have expressed concern over the district’s inclusion initiative, which could eventually place all special ed-ucation students into a general edu-cation setting. As the district’s inclu-sion plan states, “All students with disabilities have a right to be in-cluded in naturally occurring set-tings and activities with their neigh-borhood peers, siblings and friends.”

Many parents are also concerned about the future of Park School, which is designated exclusively for special needs students, though ad-ministrators say it will not be closing.

Integrating classrooms would provide various academic and social benefits for special needs students, but inclusion should not be viewed as a one-size-fits-all policy. In order for the inclusion policy to be successful, D65 administrators must ensure the adequate training of teachers, acces-sibility of services and a strong sup-port system are in place to help stu-dents of varying needs, particularly those with more extensive physical and cognitive needs, such as those students at Park.

“You can’t just do inclusion for in-clusion’s sake,” said Cassandra Cole, director of the Center on Education and Lifelong Learning at the Indiana Institute on Disability and Commu-nity. “You have to do it to meet the individual needs of students you’re working with and be very conscious that teachers have the skills neces-sary to meet the needs of students.”

The success of inclusion policies is best measured on a student-by-student basis by tracking every child’s ability to make progress based on their individualized educational program goals, Cole said Monday. She is also a consultant with D65 and said inclusion classrooms in the district have been successful so far.

“The access to the physical space, as well as to the curriculum and in-struction so that they’re included and can really participate, that is a big challenge,” Park School Principal Marlene Grossman said Monday.

In interviews with The Daily last week, parents of special educa-tion students said there have been miscommunications with the dis-trict regarding its plans, which spe-cial education advocate Marian Casey said Monday has resulted in worry for families.

“It’s very hard for those parents to visualize that happening because they don’t see that or visualize it and are not assured of it,” said Casey, who serves as the director for the non-profit organization Answers for

Special Kids. She also suggested cre-ating a pilot program at one of the D65 schools that would demonstrate the services and support available in a general education classroom.

For now, there is a clear need for Park School services. Park may pro-vide the least restrictive environ-ment for many special needs stu-dents, and district parents should at least have the ability to decide what’s best for their child.

As Jean Luft, president of the District 65 Educators’ Council, said Monday, “We feel that the people that can best decide a child’s place-ment is the people who work with them and their parents. We want as many options as possible open to parents.” This would include the continued operation of Park School.

Inclusion is a complicated policy, but it is one that could work in Evan-ston if it can continue to accommo-date students’ needs in a new setting. Though it’s only four months into the initiative, administrators say the pol-icy has been successful thus far.

Discussions at D65 are moving forward. The creation of a commit-tee to evaluate inclusion policies is a sign meaning efforts are ongoing and inclusive of the community. One can only hope future conversations will address parents’ specific and in-dividualized concerns.

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Weinberg junior Dan schufreider can be reached at danielschufreider2007@u.northwestern.edu.

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Undecided: the choice that was made for me

Declaring your major seems like the kind of thing you would decide for yourself, but as an undeclared major leaning toward economics, I’ve found it’s a choice that was made for me.

I always went with the assumption that it would all click for me in college. Somehow, after taking a class at Northwestern and meeting new peo-ple, I thought I would have a much better idea of what I want to do. But it didn’t quite work out the way. There was no freshman Fall Quarter epiph-any. Instead, a year later, I’m mud-dling my way through courses as though I’m an econ major.

In my first year, by choosing not to take certain classes, the pruning be-gan. I wasn’t taking a science class—there goes the pre-med route. No art history or philosophy—so those op-tions slowing started dying too. And I didn’t take any McCormick classes, so there goes engineering.

I never said, “I don’t want to be a mechanical engineer,” or, “I don’t want to be a doctor.” By taking the courses I did, the decision was pas-sively made for me.

The econ courses I have taken, ironically, taught me the options I’m forgoing make up the opportunity cost. That’s the hardest thing for me: coming to terms with that opportunity cost. As soon as we step onto campus, our opportunities start diminishing.

— shaayak sen

NU students: It’s time to change your clothes

The very basic attire of the typi-cal NU girl consists of a simple com-bination of articles of clothing that successfully make all of them look uniformly moronic.

Part One: Leggings must be worn in place of pants. They are typically tucked into a pair of...

Part Two: Designer boots, which help make the wearer look inappro-priately overdressed for informal oc-casions like study groups, late-night library sessions and trips to CVS.

Part Three: Wayfarers are worn by all kinds of students, even when it is cloudy outside. You just look con-fused about what time of the day it is.

Part Four: The sorority T-shirt is essential in establishing cool status among the NU girl and often con-tains clever slogans like “THIS IS MY DRINKING SHIRT” and “SORRY FOR PARTYING.” First of all, why are you yelling? Also, these shirts only come in frighteningly bright neon colors, and frankly, they hurt my eyes.

Part Five: The Longchamp tote. If I had a nickel for every girl I saw carrying one of these oversized de-signer diaper bags around campus, I could actually buy myself one.

For an institution so full of diver-sity and independent thinkers, it sur-prises me our campus is teeming with students who all dress the same.

— Kathryn chrystal

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ties in the National Pan-Hellenic Council.The past decade has seen the closing of sev-

eral chapters due to lack of membership and risk-management violations. Most recently, Delta Tau Delta closed in 2007 and Lambda Phi Epsilon in 2008, as a result of violations to the University Code of Conduct. Chapter closures also fit into a national trend, Pendry said.

“The level of accountability is going up,” he said. “For those chapters that seek to soil the frat experience, we’re saying we’re not going to put up with it anymore. Those second and third chances aren’t happening.”

Problems relating to alcohol consumption and hazing have caused other universities, in-cluding Bowdoin College, Alfred University and Williams College, to abolish the Greek system entirely. Williams banned fraternity member-ship in 1962, said James Kolesar, the college’s di-rector of public affairs.

“At that time, administrators were concerned about the self-segregation effect and a lack of in-tellectual engagement,” he said. “Fraternity life was very central to Williams at the time it

stopped, but the lack of Greek culture has now become part of our college culture.”

Abolishing the Greek system would be un-necessary at a larger university like NU, Howard said.

“NU is just like the City of Chicago,” he said. “It’s a city of communities. Greek life is another way of making a larger place seem more intimate.”

But a strong Greek presence can often cause social division on campus, said Nicholas Syrett, author of “The Company He Keeps: A History of White College Fraternities.”

“From the very beginning in the 1820s and 1830s, there have been complaints about the Greek group and the non-Greek group,” he said. “There was this idea where if you couldn’t get in them, you didn’t have as much fun. It absolutely segregated people.”

Jenna Fugate said she felt pressured to partic-ipate in recruitment her freshman year. Although Fugate went through the process, she dropped out shortly after accepting a bid from a sorority.

“I tried it, and when the whole process was over, I just couldn’t see myself in any particular sorority,” the Medill sophomore said. “I’ve heard that Northwestern was different, but a sorority is still a sorority.”

After going through the preview round of re-cruitment and being introduced to different chapters, Laura Ruch said she decided not to participate in formal recruitment.

“I got the feeling that either I would be-come like all the other girls there, or I was arbitrarily chosen to be in this group of girls who I wouldn’t have normally been friends with,” the Weinberg sophomore said. “I wanted to make my own friends.”

But “going Greek” offers a plethora of advan-tages, said Kris Bridges, the College Panhellen-ics Committee Chairman for NPC.

“Young women gain valuable leadership skills and networking opportunities,” Bridges said. “But of course there is the social aspect and philanthropy work, as well.”

Instead of dividing students, joining a frater-nity or sorority can unite them, Pendry said.

“Anyone can have a fraternity experience,” he said. “I don’t believe it’s limiting or dividing in any way. What members truly provide is an opportunity for growth and for further engage-ment to become more tied to NU’s campus.”

Events like GreekBuild, a Greek-wide effort to build a house for Habitat for Humanity, give the community a positive image, Pendry said.

“NU has really put itself on the map as a uni-versity that values the fraternity and even inter-fraternal development,” Pendry said.

Weinberg junior Mitch Bergson said he joined a fraternity because it “seemed like a popular thing to do.”

Bergson, the president of Chi Psi, said stu-dents in Greek life are working to improve the relationship between the community and the administration.

University President Morton O. Schapiro did not experience Greek life at Williams but said in an e-mail to The DAILY he experienced a “vi-brant Greek life” when he served as dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the Uni-versity of Southern California.

“(Greek life) served a very valuable function in creating a student community,” he said. “So far at NU, I have been impressed with my inter-actions with the Greek community. “

And it’s not going anywhere, Howard said.“Will it always be there in the same num-

bers? It’s hard to say,” he said. “Students are fickle. What might be hot in 2010 might not be hot in 2014.”

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Pref Night: Women selected their top three choices for placement in the Greek system Monday night. Tonight, Recruitment Counselors will distribute envelopes containing each student’s bid. After this process, women will have the option to pledge and officially join a sorority.

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Many aldermen and city residents, some of whom dressed in T-shirts advocating for the libraries, are fighting to keep the branches alive.

“All three of our libraries in Evanston are vitally important to the business districts that they inhabit,” Ald. Jane Grover (7th) said. “In 2009, there were 75,000 people who came to Central Street for the library there. I don’t know how we can replicate that foot traffic.”

The council also discussed the Green Building Ordinance, a law to make businesses more environmentally friendly. Ald. Judy Fiske (1st) proposed an amendment striking an extra fee charged to small business owners whose commercial property consists of fewer than 5,000 square feet to help small business owners “who are working very hard to get re-tail stores established downtown and in other business areas.”

In response, Ald. Coleen Burrus (9th) said she thought it would “set a bad precedent” to accept a “last-minute” amendment without examining all the ramifications.

After further debate, Fiske withdrew her amendment proposal. The ordinance passed in an 8-1 vote, with Fiske as the only dissenter.

During his ward report, Ald. Lionel Jean-Baptiste (2nd) expressed similar sentiments as Burrus, agreeing that, throughout the budget process, “everybody wants to put their pet project up first.”

“I suggest that we look at the budget in its totality,” he said. “If we’re going to try to deal with our own narrow interests, then I’m going to come back with some proposals to spend money to open certain institutions to serve ar-eas that are underserved.”

As the meeting began, Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl and most of the aldermen entered the Council Chambers sporting Auburn Univer-sity football jerseys, courtesy of the Auburn City Council, home city of Northwestern’s op-

ponent in the Outback Bowl. Tisdahl had wa-gered with Auburn officials that the council of the school that lost the game would have to wear the victor’s uniform to the next meeting.

“I realize that in 16 years as mayor, Lor-raine Morton never got us into a mess like this,” said Tisdahl, referring to the council’s blue and orange.

Earlier in the evening, the Administration and Public Works Committee unanimously approved a motion directing staff to explore bringing bus shelters to Evanston. The city could potentially install and maintain the shelters for free, Committee Chair Ald. Ann Rainey (8th) said.

The committee also heard two proposals related to safety in the city’s schools, both pro-posed by Ald. Donald Wilson (4th). In the first proposal, Wilson suggested the committee ap-prove an optional competition between the city’s elementary and middle schools to create a poster, video or radio public service an-nouncement promoting school safety. The pro-posal will be revisited at the next meeting of the City-School Liaison Committee.

Wilson also presented a proposal to raise the fine for speeding in a school zone to $500. The committee expressed interest in the pro-posal but asked the alderman to refine it and report back.

The Planning and Development Commit-tee also approved two funding requests from local groups to alleviate housing concerns in Evanston. The Interfaith Housing Center of the Northern Suburbs asked for $25,000 to bolster its foreclosure prevention counseling program. Connections, a service organization for the homeless, requested $11,000 for a com-puter tracking program Executive Director Paul Selden said will enable more than $1 mil-lion in additional federal funding.

The next council meeting will take place at 8:30 p.m. on Jan. 25 in the Civic Center, 2100 Ridge Ave.

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By Jonah L. RosenblumThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/fencing

On a day when both the epée and sa-bre squads struggled, the foil unit stepped up, leading Northwestern to a perfect 6-0 record at the Phila-delphia Invitational.

The foil team won all six of its matches, boosting its record to 10-0 on the season. As a squad, foil won 42 of its 54 bouts Saturday, many of which came down to one-touch 5-4 bouts.

“If it’s going to come down to one touch, it should be us that gets it,” associate head coach Ed Kaihatsu said.

No win was more important than against Penn. The epée and sabre teams both fell 5-4 to the Quakers, but the foil squad won eight of nine to lead the Cats to a 16-11 victory.

Sophomore foilist Camille Provencal posted a 14-2 record this weekend, fresh-man foilist Dayana Sarkisova went 13-1

and sophomore foilist Devynn Patterson went 10-4 for the Cats. Together, the three combined for 37 of the group’s 42 wins.

The foilists had some difficulty against Temple, but fortunately for NU, the epée squad picked up the slack, going 6-3 to

lead the Cats to a 16-11 victory over the Owls.

The epée team won five out of six Saturday, with its only loss coming against Penn. In all of its other matches, they won at least six out of nine bouts.

“This weekend was the first test of the season,” senior epee-ist Joanna Niklinska said. “Be-fore Penn, we had Temple, which was a very intense bout

but we played very well.” Freshman Kate Cavanaugh led the

way, going 10-0 in her collegiate dual de-but, including an upset win over the Owls’ All-American Stephanie Wheeler.

“I had fenced her before a long time ago, and I know her style,” Cavanaugh said. “She wasn’t really expecting me. I don’t think she knew who I was, so I was

a little bit of an underdog. “I was fired up to fence her. I was ex-

cited. I was fighting for the bout.” Senior epeeists and sisters Kayley and

Christa French also turned in strong per-formances for the epée squad. Kayley fin-ished 13-2 while Christa went 12-4.

The sabre squad had a lackluster per-formance for its standards. It got off to a strong start against Temple and Drew, but then lost three of its last four.

The final defeat was the most disap-pointing, a 6-3 loss to Sacred Heart.

“We were caught off-guard with Sa-cred Heart,” Kaihatsu said. “They had two pretty solid sabre fencers. Those two won all their bouts. And we beat the third girl, and that made the score 6-3. We were not prepared for that sabre squad.”

NU’s six wins Saturday put coach Lau-rie Schiller’s win total at 999. After par-ticipating in the USFA North American Cup this weekend, Schiller will get his first chance at 1,000 on Jan. 23rd, when the Cats resume team play at the NYU Duals.

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Age just a number: Freshman guard Drew Crawford was instrumental in a four-play sequence near the end of the first half, in which he hit three 3-pointers and made two free throws to cut the Michigan lead to six.

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With nothing falling early on, Northwestern was desperate for a spark.

Down 31-14 with a little more than four minutes to go in the first half, the Wildcats were cold from 3-point range and Michigan center DeShawn Sims had tossed in 11 points with little opposition.

That’s when freshman Drew Crawford caught fire. His team-mates fed off Crawford’s momen-tum, rallying to beat the Wolverines 68-62 at Crisler Arena for their first Big Ten win of the season.

“Drew Crawford brought us back at the end of the first half,” coach Bill Carmody said. “We went back to the locker room and I said, ‘If I’ve got a freshman doing this, where are the other guys?’”

Crawford, who was scoreless in the first 16 minutes, quieted the Mich-igan crowd by draining a 3-pointer. He added another in transition after a John Shurna steal, then stole the ball himself, hitting two free throws and another 3. In four possessions, Craw-ford turned a one-sided game into a manageable six-point deficit. He would finish with 25 points and eight

rebounds, shooting 4-of-5 from beyond the arc and em-phatically slamming home a tip-back in the second half to cut Mich-igan’s lead to one.

After shooting 1-of-10 from

3-point range before Crawford’s streak, the Cats hit 10-of-14 from the perimeter. Junior point guard Mi-chael Thompson, who has struggled since suffering a hip injury against Il-linois, broke out of his slump by scor-ing 12 of his 15 points in the second half. The Cats’ 1-3-1 and matchup zones, which had allowed Sims to run rampant down low, started giv-

ing Michigan problems. After Craw-ford’s run, NU forced nine turnovers, including a five-second-inbounds vi-olation, and held Sims to only six points after halftime.

“We were able to turn it up,” Crawford said. “We started getting some steals, getting some deflec-tions and rebounds.”

NU (12-3, 1-2 Big Ten) came out flat, as Michigan went on an 8-0 run after sophomore center Luka Mirk-ovic scored the game’s first four points. The Wolverines (8-7, 2-2), who along with the Cats are one of the few teams to run the 1-3-1 zone, used their familiarity with the set to jump out to a 17-point lead. Meanwhile NU had no such luck against the defense it sees in practice every day.

“We sort of fell prey to our own defense,” Carmody said. “We were ready for it, but when the lights are on, sometimes things change.”

Crawford’s two-minute shooting spree turned things around for the Cats. NU’s defense stepped up, steal-ing the ball four times before the half ended. After intermission, Crawford sparked a 6-0 run by dishing out an assist and scoring four points, includ-ing a follow-up after senior guard Jeremy Nash blew a transition layup.

“We were much more ener-gized,” Carmody said.

NU stormed in front by 10 after nailing five consecutive 3-pointers, including a Mirkovic corner shot out of a timeout that tied the game at 47. A Wolverines rally allowed them to come back and take a one-point lead with less than a minute to go. But stiff defense and four free throws from Crawford gave the Cats a lead they did not relinquish.

The game was a departure from a string of games dominated by Shur-na’s scoring. The sophomore forward had led the Cats in scoring with five straight 20-point performances, aver-aging 28 points per game in confer-ence play. Michigan’s defense honed in on Shurna, and he finished 4-of-14 from the field for 11 points. But his teammates picked up the slack.

“It was nice balancing,” Carmody said. “Shurna is a marked man, Thompson is a marked man, so you look around for some other men. And a couple guys came through tonight.”

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Hometown: Milwaukee

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She was the top NU epeeist at the Junior North American Cup.

She was a five-year Wisconsin state champion in high school.

She qualified for the 2010 National Junior Olympics.