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By Rebecca Olles The Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/student-life

The Music Practice Building at 1823 Sherman Ave. was evacuated and closed Friday afternoon when a stu-dent reported damage to the roof.

A fence and caution tape have been placed around the building, and con-struction workers were evaluating the building Sunday afternoon. The side-walks along Sherman Avenue and El-gin Road are closed because of the fencing.

University Police declined to com-ment Sunday but reported structural damage to the roof. Further investiga-tion will occur Monday, UP said.

According to an e-mail sent to Bi-enen School of Music students Friday, the extent of the damage is currently unknown, but no injuries were re-ported.

The Music Practice Building, more commonly known as the Beehive, was built in 1915 and moved to its present location in 1925. It is one of three prac-tice buildings on campus where stu-dents can play their instruments or sing.

Music sophomore Jimmye Ahn said she practiced her clarinet every day in

the Beehive because it is close to Sigma Alpha Iota, the women’s music frater-nity .

“I really don’t know what to do now that it’s closed,” she said. “I guess I can go to Regenstein, but the Beehive was usually where I practiced, so I have to change my whole schedule around.”

The Music Administration Building is next to the Beehive, but the Regen-stein Hall of Music is located on Arts Circle Drive. Both facilities offer prac-tice spaces.

The closing of the building also af-fects theater majors, Charlotte Ostrow said. The Communication sophomore said she normally practices singing in the Beehive twice a week.

“I guess I’ll have to practice in MAB, but there’s not going to be enough room,” she said. “That’s why they have the Beehive—because they don’t have enough rooms.”

The School of Music is planning to open a new building in 2012 . Included in this building will be teaching stu-dios, rehearsal spaces and practice rooms.

“Maybe this construction will be a good thing because I don’t think the Beehive has been cleaned since 1982,” Ahn said.

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By Brittney WongThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/council

With a $9.5 million deficit looming over a one-week dead-line to finalize the city’s budget, Evanston aldermen decided the fate of several city positions at its Saturday budget workshop.

The Evanston City Council voted 7-2 to save two forestry positions while eliminating three jobs in community development and three in f leet ser-vices.

Several aldermen and citizen commenters questioned terminating the commu-nity develop-ment cuts, especially the structural inspector position . They said the structural inspec-tor has a unique skills set that will be needed with the upcom-ing influx of work stemming from an $18 million grant the city recently received to develop foreclosed buildings.

“When I’ve got people with roaches and toilets that don’t f lush and roofs that are leaking, I don’t want those inspectors out looking at some McMansion’s driveway; that’s for sure,” Ald. Ann Rainey (8th) said.

Community Development Di-rector Lehman Walker said

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By Brittney WongThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/d65

A projected 28 kindergartners may not be able to attend their neighborhood schools this fall due to space issues in Evanston/Skokie School District 65 . The district is looking into a controversial pro-posal to “re-magnetize” their two magnet schools to help manage en-

rollment in the future.Students who apply to the mag-

net schools—selective, specialized schools that attempt to draw stu-dents from all over the district—get preference if they live in a school zone with overcrowding concerns, said Pat Markham, the district’s communications director. Last year there were about 400 applications for more than 100 spots, said Markham. More applications allow

D65 to be pickier in placement and even ensure gender and racial bal-ances within each classroom, she said.

At the Feb. 16 Board of Educa-tion meeting, the Magnet School Study Committee presented a re-port outlining proposed theme changes to Dr. Bessie Rhodes Mag-net School and King Lab Magnet School in order to make them more attractive. The committee was formed as part of the district’s five-year Strategic Plan.

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Purple passion: NU-Q fans cheer on their women’s basketball team in a game against the campus’ biggest rival, Georgetown University. In its first year, the team is bringing NU-Q students, faculty and staff together as they root for the Wildcats.

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this week in musicFEB. 22 - 26, 2010

Percussion EnsemblePick-Staiger, 7:30 p.m.$7/5/4She-e Wu, conductor

Enjoy an evening of exciting rhythms with Northwestern’s award-winning Percussion Ensemble.

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Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro (or The Follies of the Day)Cahn Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.$22/18/8Jay Lesenger, directorIvan Törzs, conductor

The servants Susannah and Figaro are planning their wedding. But their master, Count Almaviva, has other intentions for the bride. Throw love, jealousy, and schemes into the follies of the day, and the stage is set for one of the wittiest comedies ever written.

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Small Jazz Ensemble Concert: The Music of Horace SilverRegenstein Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m.$7/5/4Victor Goines, conductor

Silver is known for his distinctively humorous and funky playing style and for his pioneering compositional contributions to hard bop.

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Lecture: Composing Native American MusicRegenstein Recital Hall, 6 p.m.FreeLed by ethnomusicologist Bruno Nettl

Through this discussion, participants will gain a better understanding of the sound and structure of Native American music.

Symphonic Wind EnsemblePick-Staiger, 7:30 p.m.$7/5/4Mallory Thompson, conductorElissa Kana, alto saxophone (Northwestern Concerto Competition winner)

Gustav Holst, Hammersmith and Suite No. 1 in E-flatKarel Husa, Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Concert BandJohn Harbison, Three City Blocks

Eliot Fisk Guitar Master ClassLutkin Hall, 7:30 p.m.Free

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A small group of Northwestern students is pro-viding business advice to student groups on campus.

Consultants Advising Student Enterprises was formed about two years ago and is currently made up of about 15 students. Group members take on a dif-ferent campus organization as a project each quarter.

The type of assistance C.A.S.E. offers varies, Communication senior Katherine Hill said.

“(The groups) have a project for us, and that may be anything from marketing for a student group to increasing membership or increasing membership involvement,” she said.

C.A.S.E. gives a midterm presentation and stays in contact throughout the quarter to pres-ent steps and encourage the groups to meet their goals, Hill said.

Hill said C.A.S.E. recently met with a group it helped last year.

“We keep close communication with the groups that we’ve worked with to see how they’re improv-ing and what’s happened and how they’re imple-menting our strategies,” she said.

Members of C.A.S.E. also benefit from their in-volvement in the consulting process, Ewelina Le-wandowska said.

“I wanted to learn about consulting,” the Wein-berg junior said. “I wanted to try it out, and this was a really great way to do it.”

Upperclassmen help younger members of the group with personal initiatives, she said.

“The group is also really good on the pay-it-for-ward mentality so the seniors will pick mentees, and they’re mentors,” she said. “They do résumé reviews with us, look at job applications, do prac-tice interviews with us. It’s a lot of cool benefits to the members.”

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C.A.S.E. mentors and markets NU student groups

7 p.m.: Attend a lecture by South African journalist Kerry Cullinan at Annie May Swift Auditorium.

6 p.m.: Stop by Blomquist and learn to defend yourself with the NU Ju-jutsu Club.

7 p.m.: Check out the Quilting Guild meeting, open to quilters and aspiring quilters, at Ryan Hall. 7:30 p.m.: Attend “Jazz Ensemble Concert: The Music of Horace Silver” at Regenstein Hall .

4 p.m.: Go calm your mind at CAPS’ Meditation Group, part of their Stress Management Clinic. 4 p.m.: Join lecturer Dr. Salman Sayyid for “Are Unicorns Muslim? Answering the Muslim Question,” put on by the Asian American Studies Program.

7:30 p.m.: Make your way to Cahn Auditorium to see NU Opera Theater: Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro. 8 p.m.: Watch a performance of “The Who’s Tommy” at the Theatre and Interpretation Center.

7 p.m.: Come by Norris Faculty Dining Lounge for the NU Bridge Club meeting, open to all levels. Instruction provided. 8 p.m.: See 30 Rock star Judah Friedlander in Ryan Family Auditorium.

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Global Chef Juan Carlos Barzola from Peru

Come discover the tastes and culture of Peru with Chef Barzola!

Schedule of Events: Monday, March 1

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Willard Dining Location: Sampling from 4:45 pm - 7:00 pm

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By Peter LarsonThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/student-groups

Comida. Nourriture. Chakula.Every language has a different word for food,

but one phrase translates to delicious in each: Om nom nom.

The food club OmNOMnom was founded Winter Quarter by three Weinberg sophomores hoping to spread their love for food.

Food is something many people are passion-ate about, said Tiffany Hsu, co-founder of NOM.

“Some people may say they want to go out to eat somewhere, but maybe their friends aren’t that adventurous,” she said. “Or they want to bake, but they don’t have somewhere to bake, or they don’t have the materials. We want to have that forum for people to come and meet other

people who are like-minded and also continue to explore their love of food.”

Hsu, with co-founders Pamela Hung and Lisa Wang, said they hope NOM will refine students’ tastes. They are trying to combat an attitude Hsu describes as “this casual, ‘Oh yeah, I eat to sur-vive, and I think it tastes good.’”

The organization will promote cooking as well as eating out, Wang said.

“We want to increase awareness and appre-ciation for food in a variety of different ways, ei-ther through cooking and making your own food or through appreciating other food by go-ing to restaurants,” she said.

Since its founding, NOM has hosted two events. The first general interest meeting was Feb. 4, and those who attended received some insider knowledge: the secret of what NOM stands for. Neither Hsu nor Wang would dis-

close the acronym’s meaning.“It is an acronym, but what it stands for is re-

served for members to know,” Hsu said. “It’s quite exciting. We might eventually let everyone know, but for now it’s kind of a little secret only about 10 people know.”

NOM also hosted the NU Stands with Haiti Bake Sale Jan. 29 in Norris University Center. Members donated supplies to make puppy chow and butterscotch haystacks sold to support relief efforts in the earthquake-stricken country.

It is important to remember people in the world who don’t have enough food to eat, Wang said. NOM is partially dedicated to food-based philanthropy, she said.

“A lot of people do go hungry in the world, and we want to help stop that in whatever way we can,” she said.

NOM is primarily reaching out to NU stu-

dents through its Facebook group, which cur-rently has over 300 members. Nolan Feeney said he joined the club for economic reasons.

“I haven’t spent a whole lot of time looking at the description of (NOM),” the Medill freshman said. “I do remember that ‘free food,’ those words appeared somewhere on there, and that was the most exciting part because I’m con-stantly on the lookout for affordable snacks.”

Those looking to join the Facebook group won’t find it in the “Food & Drink” section. Wang, who created it, put it under “Religious Groups” because she said members of NOM take food very seriously.

“In some ways, food is like religion,” Wang said. “It’s an essential and a belief system for people who really love it.”

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By Abby TracyContributing Writerdailynorthwestern.com/student-life

A burger loaded with American cheese, banana peppers, lettuce, tomato and fried onions could make some students say, “OMJ.”

“OMJ” is the winning burger for the month of February in The Great Room’s “Build a Great Burger” contest. Through-out Winter Quarter, the dining venue is offering students the chance to create a featured burger for the campus restau-rant’s chalkboard menu. nuCuisine will select a new winner for each month.

“We wanted to feature a burger of the month at The Great Room and thought, ‘What better way to see what the students eating in The Great Room really want than to let them decide on the burger?’” Sodexo’s District Marketing Manager Pam Yee said.

In order to win, students must fill out a

sheet of paper with the burger’s ingredi-ents, along with a name for their creation. The best burger is selected and cooked by nuCuisine’s marketing team, becoming the featured burger of the month, The Great Room’s kitchen supervisor Reena Parks said. The burger’s creator will re-ceive his or her burger free every Thurs-day for one month.

“I don’t really like burgers personally, but who wouldn’t want to see their burger up on the board?” Parks said.

For now, the “Build A Great Burger” contest will last through the quarter, but Yee said depending on its success, it may continue into the spring.

nuCuisine said they could not release the name of the student who created “OMJ” for privacy reasons.

“The contest really adds creativity to our menu,” said Rossie Walls, a cashier at The Great Room. “I guess it tells you ex-actly what students want to eat.”

However, staff at The Great Room said

few students have purchased the “OMJ.”“I am sure once a more appealing

burger comes along more students will buy it,” said Walls. “Maybe next month. Everyone has their own tastes.”

It isn’t that students don’t want burg-ers, Parks said. Monday, $1 Burger Night, is the most popular night at The Great Room. Students said they like the options The Great Room offers.

“The Great Room burgers are pretty good for the price,” Weinberg sophomore Devin Boe said. “It’s convenient to be able to come here late at night and get a burger.”

Students have the option of choosing from five different types of meat for their burgers including a quarter pound of beef, a veggie burger or grilled chicken breast. In addition, 18 toppings are available such as shredded carrots and black forest ham.

“There is a burger here for everyone; they are very customizable,” Weinberg freshman Charley Liu said. “It’s like the

Burger King of North Campus, but not open 24 hours.”

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Student choice: The Great Room holds a monthly contest for students to “Build a Great Burger,” featuring it on the menu.



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Dancers twirled across the stage at the Third Annual Fil*anthropy showcase hosted by the Kaibigan, North-western’s Filipino Student Association. The Graffiti Dancers (above) performed an eclectic dance, flinging themselves across the stage. Typhoon (left and right), imitated ethnic dances of East and Southeast Asia, perform-ing “Dance of the Peacocks.” Nayo (upper right) stomped on the stage. Soul4Real (upper left), an a cappella group, sang “Amazing Grace.” Proceeds from the event went to Believe International, a non-profit that provides education to disadvantaged youth in the Phillipines.


Purple Haze, Undertones best in the midwest

Fire pension fund makes gradual recovery

By Claire BrownThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/student-groups

Northwestern a cappella groups came away with top awards from the Interna-tional Championship of Collegiate A Cap-pella midwest regional quarterfinals in Ryan Family Auditorium Saturday night.

Purple Haze and the Undertones, two of about 60 groups selected from a pool of hundreds to compete, took first and second place, respectively. The NU groups will advance to semifinals, in which 12 teams will compete at the Uni-versity of Michigan March 20.

“We had high hopes from the begin-ning,” said Matt Edmonds, Undertones’ musical director. “We went in pretty con-fidently.”

NU singers also received individual recognition. Edmonds, a Communication senior, won best arrangement for Death Cab for Cutie’s “I Will Follow You Into the Dark,” and Communication sopho-more KC Schlossberg of Purple Haze won best solo for “I’m Outta Love.”

“It was so great that she won,” said Medill junior Kate Sheridan, Purple Haze general manager. “I wasn’t sur-prised at all.”

Edmonds said “I Will Follow You Into the Dark” is his favorite song he’s ar-ranged for Undertones.

“It’s a fun one just because it’s proba-bly most different from the original song,” he said. “I put in some hard hours on it.”

Undertones member Maggie Donnelly said Eve-lyn Jacoby’s solo for the song was one of the high-lights of the eve-ning.

“You could have heard a pin drop in Ryan Auditorium,” the Communica-tion senior said. “It was sublime.”

The Undertones don’t participate in other competitions, Donnelly said.

“There’s some controversy within the group because a lot of us are in the-ater, so it’s hard for us all to get there,” she said. “We had everybody except for one for this competition, so that was good.”

Donnelly said competing is stressful, and not everyone in the group enjoys it. In addition to competitions, the Under-tones perform in other settings, she said.

“As a group, we are really good at step-ping up and knocking it out of the park when it matters,” she said. “It’s one of those things we do and we do well, but we have just as much fun going to Scot-land and singing at the children’s hospi-tal.”

Purple Haze has a similar mindset when it comes to competition. Group members decided not to compete in ICCA last year to take a break from com-petition, Sheridan said.

“We don’t take it seriously, but it’s fun to see how we measure up,” she said.

Donnelly said a factor in the Under-tones’ success is their tight bond.

“The fact that we have grown to be-come such a cohesive, strong group really showed us that we had a chance,” she said. “We’re like a family.”

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By Dan HillThe Daily Northwestern dailynorthwestern.com/evanston

The bleeding in Evanston’s firefighters pension investments has subsided for now.

The Evanston firefighters pension fund posted a year-to-date growth of 8.39 percent, financial advisor Mary Tomanek said during a meeting of fire pension board members Friday morning at Evanston Fire Depart-ment headquarters, 909 Lake St. Although the fund lost $6.5 million in the 2008-09 fis-cal year, continued growth will help the city meet its state-mandated $158.8 million con-tribution to police and fire pensions by 2033.

Board members supported conservative investing strategies during the two-and-a-half hour “beefy meeting,” Capt. Pat Dillon said.

According to Illinois law, Evanston has 23 years to fulfill debts to police and fire pen-sion funds called the unfunded liability.

According to a 2008-09 report by actuary Gabriel Roeder Smith & Company, the fire pension unfunded liability is $70.4 million while the city owes $88.4 million to the po-lice pension fund.

Board members also listened to a 30-min-ute evaluation of the latest pension actuarial

report. The GRS report presented before Evanston City Council in October assumed a 7.25 percent investment return and 5 per-cent salary increase over 23 years. GRS was criticized by aldermen for using high as-sumptions despite the economic recession.

“In my opinion we’re a little bit high on the investment return,” actuarial consultant Art Tepfer said. “I would like to see a lower-ing to 7 percent. I think that would be a little more appropriate.”

Tepfer noted a lower investment return assumption could increase the city’s contri-bution to the unfunded liability.

After Tepfer’s report, Capt. Ronald Brumbach said the fire pension board will consider consulting with a different actuary for future analyses of funding. Actuaries rely on past stock performance to make pre-dictions and recommendations on how mu-nicipalities should fund pensions. Officials blame Evanston’s current pension deficits on overestimations made by former actuary Ted Windsor.

“We changed our actuary, and when we did, the amount going to the unfunded liabil-ity went up substantially,” said assistant city manager Marty Lyons, who was among the 12 board members, financial analysts and firefighters attending the board meeting.

Brumbach showed an Evanston Review article about pension funding from 1982 to pension board members to emphasize the longevity of the problem.

“Pension funding seems to be the hot topic everywhere from radio to city council to the governor,” he said.

Brumbach said he sent copies of the arti-cle to aldermen but heard no response. Lyons defended the council, noting City Manager Wally Bobkiewicz made an effort to set aside money for pension funds in his proposed budget.

“The current council sees (the problem) clearly and is trying to honor the commit-ment,” Lyons said. “It’s not pretty. It’s what we have to do.”

The current budget proposal designates $7.6 million in revenues to fire pension funds.

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NU a cappella groups win first and second place at ICCA regional quarterfinal competition

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For a totally average length of time now, my colleagues and I have been observing a primitive tribe of hunter/

microwavers located deep in north-ern Chile’s mountainous tundra wet-land region. Known as the Mo’daxíc Fojince (Mo’fo for short), this clan has gone centuries with no ties to the out-side world save for sporadic airplane sightings and repeated Angelina Jolie adoption attempts. Exhibiting what we in the field call the Lady Gaga Ef-fect, their practices are as fascinating as they are bizarre and involve gal-lons of face paint, but none captured our interest more than their sacred rites of manhood rituals.

From an early age, Mo’fo males are bred to believe everything—from women to salads to the region’s infa-mous Fly Trap plants—is firmly com-mitted to taking their manhood away from them (those plants exist in America in the form of Levi’s zip-pers). The tribe refers to unproven

males as “Topi,” meaning “eunuch” (also a pun for “Seacrest”), and in or-der to shed this label during the rites of manhood, one must protect his ev-er-threatened masculinity with vigor, or “Gerard Butler.”

The ritual begins, like most matu-ration experiences, with ridicule. Young tribesman are read hallowed, manhood-targeting insults from the ancient parchments, such as, “Your hairline is receding at an alarming rate,” and “Your genitals remind me of my own, only smaller.” Every chal-lenge has a proper response. For ex-ample, if a Mo’fo is told he uses hos-tility as a defense mechanism, he’s meant to shout back, “YOU’RE a de-fense mechanism!” while driving a Ferarri. Even if there is food to pre-pare, giant piercings to administer or much more logical things to be of-fended by, all men must defend their honor like it’s the Alamo. According to the Mo’fo, there’s only one thing less masculine to swallow than pride.

The magnitude and speed of a Mo’fo’s retaliation determines his success in the ritual. If he shows in-difference or confusion, he is pun-ished with a degrading meal of cooked cow (a Mo’fo symbol of femi-ninity). If he responds swiftly with a level of aggression that’s just unwar-

ranted enough, he is rewarded with a hefty feast of raw monkey (the Mo’fo god of health and vitality).

The ceremony continues for days. Shoulders will be brushed, beer pong skills will be questioned, names will be left out of “who has the village’s highest bench?” debates, and walking away from these egre-gious character attacks is simply not an option. In the Mo’fo language, “bygones” are disease-spreading rats, so letting them be just doesn’t make sense. Even after the ritual, Mo’fos have to harbor fierce grudges against all who doubted their man-ness. The rocky terrain they inhabit makes hatchet-burying a complete impossibility.

Perhaps the most interesting part of the rites is almost no one passes. It turns out people get tired of never letting their guard down, shouting constantly and referring to village women only as “Cùnche” (Mo’fo for “domesticated alligator”). Somehow, though, the tradition persists, and next year they’ll do it again. To de-fend one’s manhood is to prove it ex-ists, and apparently in this culture, to be a man is to be a real Mo’fo.

Deciding on major not so easy for all students

It seems like since early child-hood, most people our age have en-dured the following Spanish Inquisi-tion: “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Naturally our answers to these questions usually changed faster than the length of our bowl cuts. Personally I went through stages where I wanted to be a priest, an engineer and a hippie.

Registration for Spring Quarter is now upon us, bringing with it an identical line of questioning that compels each of us to engage in the contemplation of our future. This time of year is less stressful for some than others. For me it repre-sents the dread-inducing reminder that I’m still undecided—and no closer to deciding on a major than I was last quarter.

Indecision seeps into the nooks and crannies of my entire life, oozing in when I least expect it. It’s not that I’m apathetic; rather, I’m painstak-ingly neurotic, considering every po-tential angle and possibility to just about every situation. Whenever I go to a restaurant, I read the entire menu several times, weigh all the op-tions and still invariably have trouble choosing what to order. I spend more time deliberating about what to do on a Friday night than most people do when they are deciding what to name their firstborn child.

I’m sure you can only imagine what a Sisyphean task it is when I think about my future.

— Wyatt Brothers

Offensive comedy not going to stop for Palin

The popular animated series “Family Guy” has always been con-troversial, but according to former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, last Sunday’s episode went too far.

After publicly condemning White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel for calling a group of liberal activists “retarded” last August, Palin is now sparking another conflict. In the ep-isode titled “Extra Large Medium,” Chris goes on a date with a young woman, Ellen, who has Down syn-drome. While making small talk, Chris asks Ellen what her parents do for a living, to which she replies, “My dad’s an accountant, and my mom is the former governor of Alaska.” This comment was obvi-ously a direct shot at Palin, whose son Trig has Down syndrome.

I do not agree with Palin’s politics, and I do not support her political am-bitions in any way, but I do believe she has every right to be offended by this episode. But that’s exactly what Seth MacFarlane sets out to do with all of his “Family Guy” episodes. The show is meant to be offensive. Most comedy is meant to be offensive.

Palin only found the show objec-tionable after she was personally at-tacked. Whether you think “Family Guy” is offensive doesn’t really mat-ter. Seth MacFarlane is allowed to exercise his right of freedom of speech. Isn’t that one of those great American liberties Palin would like to protect, anyway?

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millennials “isweeptheline” By Steven A. Berger

With Northwestern’s 70-63 loss to Wis-consin, the Wild-cats’ downward

slide at the end of their season continues. NU has now lost three of its last four games, including two to the Big Ten’s worst teams: Iowa and Penn State.

At this point, the only chance the Cats have at making the NCAA Tournament for the first time in school history is to win the Big Ten Tournament at the end of the regular season. That would give them an automatic bid into the Big Dance.

Back when NU knocked off Purdue and held its own with Wisconsin and Michigan State, a run in the Big Ten Tournament seemed possible. Now the other teams in the conference would love the chance to take on the fallen Cats.

The worst part is if NU had done what it needed to at the end of the Big Ten season, Cats fans would have had a great op-portunity to cheer the team on in the Big Ten Tournament. It is held in Indianapolis, and with a

student special of $50 for a ticket, a Reading Week roadtrip seemed to be on a lot of stu-dents’ agendas.

Now the student body is disillu-sioned with the team. The Cats put their fans on an emotional roller coaster, starting off the season strong and surging into the na-tionak top 25, then playing well enough to start Big Ten play and stay in the running for the NCAA Tournament. The season has taken a turn for the worst, and fans feel rightfully let down. NU was just a tease, a flash in the pan.

While there is now negativity surrounding the team, remember back to the bad feelings just before the season started and Kevin Coble and Jeff Ryan were knocked out for the year with injuries. Peo-ple predicted the Cats would not win a Big Ten game. Without their best player and a solid contributor, who was going to lead them?

Then a sophomore named John Shurna vaulted into the national spotlight and into the hearts of the NU faithful. His scoring prowess kept the Cats afloat as they learned to play without Coble, and he was

a major reason NU was able to win the Chicago Invitational and earn a No. 25 ranking.

And once teams started keying on Shurna, NU fans were treated to another pleasant surprise—a freshman named Drew Crawford. He brought athleticism to Welsh-Ryan Arena, the likes of which had not been seen in the past. He rose above the rim and threw it down to pump up the crowd.

In the midst of all this, NU tied a regular-season record for wins (17) and wins at home (13). This team was supposed to be deci-mated after Coble’s season-ending injury. It was supposed to be a lost year for the Cats. It was supposed to be more negativity after the football team’s heartbreaking loss at the Outback Bowl.

Instead fans were treated to quality basketball not often seen from NU. While the season has turned sour, the team still played well, arguably overachieving con-sidering the circumstances.

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Basketball game strengthens camaraderie at Qatar campus

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With cheering fans, purple stands and a healthy rivalry, a women’s basketball game at Northwestern University in Qatar is not so different from one in Evanston.

NU-Q’s women’s basketball team beat Carnegie Mellon University in the school’s first athletic victory and narrowly lost to Georgetown University Feb. 6., Dean John Margolis said. The team is in its first year, and games have drawn students, faculty and staff to cheer on the Wildcats.

“There is a particular rivalry between Georgetown and Northwestern because of the similar orientation to our programs,” Margolis said. “Many students apply to both institutions.”

NU established its campus in Qatar in fall 2008 in partnership with the Qatar Founda-tion, which built Education City in Doha, Qatar. Other U.S. campuses in Education City include Weill Cornell Medical College, Texas A&M University and Virginia Com-monwealth University.

Though the team lost by two points in overtime, team captain Dana Atrach said she couldn’t have asked for a better first season.

“We’ve had a crazy season filled with ups and downs,” the Communication freshman said in an Internet chat. “What amazes me is how quickly we came together as a team.”

Atrach said other teams get too caught up with the need to win.

“They lose the meaning of the game,” she said. “That doesn’t happen with us, and it makes me that much more proud to be a Wildcat.”

On the sidelines, the audience was fired up against Georgetown, Communication sophomore Nayaab Shaikh said in an Inter-net chat.

“In terms of, ‘We gotta kick their ass no matter what,’ it’s Georgetown,” she said. “They play unfair, and they have the most obnoxious crowd ever.”

Custom-made purple foam paws embla-zoned with “Go Cats” were ordered for the game, Shaikh said. At one point she said a Georgetown fan grabbed one and mimicked scratching their butt with it. The rivalry didn’t deter the fans, she said.

“Even when NU-Q missed the basket, we were supporting and cheering them on,” Shaikh said. “We all cheered so much we could barely talk the next day.”

Both Georgetown and NU-Q’s basketball teams had talked about the game throughout the year, Atrach said.

“The rivalry built up all season,” she said. “It was very stressful on the court, but I can tell you that was probably the best game we’ve played.”

The fans were still the best part of the game, Atrach said. Students, professors, par-ents and Dean Margolis attended, she said.

“We had a pep rally before the game to get everyone excited, and it was just great,” Atrach said. “The dean gave us all a pep talk before the game, and then we all paraded to the gym.”

As the campus expands with incoming classes, student activities like basketball will grow too, Margolis said. He said the atten-

dance at the Georgetown game was impres-sive.

“There was just a tremendous showing of students and faculty and staff and just a re-ally surprising display of NU-Q spirit,” Mar-golis said.

The game was an opportunity for the NU-Q community to come together, Atrach said.

“It really felt like we, as NU-Q, estab-lished our identity during that game,” she said.

Though Atrach said she did not feel very connected to Cats in Evanston, she said she hoped to travel to campus in the future.

“I want to see what the NU-E community is like and bring back what I learn from that experience,” she said. “I would really love for strong connections between NU-Q and NU-E to be established.”

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District 65 schools may use magnet status to deal with enrollment issues

there’s been a significant decline in devel-opment activity over the past few years, with a 15 to 20 percent decrease in per-mits since the 2006-07 fiscal year.

“We don’t require that level of staffing in order to continue to provide the ser-vices that we currently have,” Walker said. “The development activity as it currently exists does not warrant the staffing levels in those particular areas.”

The council also decided in a 5-4 vote to eliminate a proposed 5 percent cut to all managerial salaries, a $150,000 item. To maintain a balance, the aldermen voted unanimously to add a fifth furlough day for all city employees—excluding life-

safety positions—which saves $180,000. Ald. Melissa Wynne (3rd) said this is not excessive because other cities have double or triple the amount of unpaid vacation days.

After more than an hour of debate, the council voted 5-4 to forego cutting the branch libraries for at least the next six months. Some of the aldermen said they were disappointed the library board showed no f lexibility in using endow-ment funds to cover the cost of opera-tions.

“All of it’s so contradictory; that’s where my frustration is,” Ald. Coleen Bur-rus (9th) said. “If they’re convinced they’re going to raise the funds they need, why don’t they use endowment funds to help support the branches over the six

months? And then after the six months when they’ve raised the funds, they can replenish the endowment for that exact amount that they’ve used.”

Rainey showed concern on several is-sues, including the possibility of school re-source officers being outsourced to the school districts. City Manager Wally Bob-kiewicz said both districts orally con-firmed to take on the cost.

The council voted unanimously that if school districts failed to find the funds to

pay for the police officers, it would not supply them.

Bobkiewicz also asked the council to give him a “short leash” of 60 days in or-der to iron out financial details that are difficult to predict at this point in the year.

“We have to look practically at moving forward at the beginning of budget year but also understand that there are a few things that are not under our total con-trol,” he said.

At that point he said he’ll propose addi-tional reductions, if necessary.

The council plans to finalize its next budget tonight at 7 p.m. at the Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center, 2100 Ridge Ave.

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Cathy Berlinger-Gustafson, the facili-tator of the committee, said according to a U.S. Department of Education study, hav-ing magnet schools in a district improves the quality of every school in the same district.

“Magnet schools are helpful for the whole district,” she said. “It becomes a positive impetus to re-look at curriculum and instruction and how you do business.”

School board members, however, are worried about the financial demands the proposed developments could put on the already strained budget, especially when magnet school students make up only a small percentage of the district’s popula-tion.

“General education is our bread and butter; that’s who we are,” school board member Katie Bailey said at Tuesday’s

meeting. “My big concern from before is the resources: what the magnet schools are going to give up to get this because we don’t have the budget.”

Debbie Price, parent of a Walker Ele-mentary School student, asked the board to evaluate the benefits of the magnet schools, especially with so many cuts to general education classes. She said it is difficult to justify starting a new fine arts academy when, for example, kindergarten to second grade drama at Walker was re-cently cut.

“It’s a pie in the sky dream,” she said, referring to the magnet school revisions.

Berlinger-Gustafson said she thinks it is possible for the schools to be re-envi-sioned without financial changes.

“We really wanted to be able to do it within the budget limitations, within the financial constraints that the district has,” she said.

Committee member Suzanne Farrand,

the D65 math and gifted coordinator, added that other school districts have solved the same problems.

“Schools like the ones we’re recom-mending to you exist; they exist all over the country,” Farrand said at the meeting. “Which is why we’re optimistic that it is possible, and we are capable of develop-ing these schools within the financial constraints.”

According to the proposal by the com-mittee, Dr. Bessie Rhodes Magnet School would be converted to Dr. Bessie Rhodes School of Global Studies where students would receive daily Spanish lessons and, for sixth to eighth graders, daily Manda-rin instruction. Travel abroad would be encouraged and international teacher ex-changes would also foster a global outlook for students.

King Lab Magnet School would become Martin Luther King Jr. Literary and Fine Arts School, with a heavy focus on read-

ing, writing and exposure to forms of art.The board asked the administration to

f lesh out the research the Magnet School Study Committee already conducted and re-present it to the board in December 2010, with implementation beginning in the 2011-12 school year.

Keith Terry, school board president, emphasized the need for more investiga-tion.

“It’s not like this is snapped shut, closed up and in the vault,” Terry said. “It’s a living, breathing thing.”

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Meanwhile the Cats were mired in a slump when they lost at Iowa, eventually suffering seven defeats in eight games.

“They had great momentum coming in,” coach Joe McKeown said. “They play with great confidence when you watch them on film.”

The Cats gave one of their most bal-anced efforts of the season offensively, with junior center Amy Jasechke scoring 27 points and the team shooting 9-of-15 from beyond the arc. Junior point guard Beth Marshall followed up her career-best per-formance in Thursday’s win over Indiana by connecting on three 3-pointers and sinking all six of her free throws in the fi-nal three minutes.

Part of the reason the Cats got off to a commanding start was their ability to get the ball to Jaeschke down low.

“It’s great when we can attack inside early,” Jaeschke said. “It opens things for the outside, and we can do the same thing and then have it go back inside.”

Though NU led by as many as eight points, Iowa whit-tled the deficit down to 30-28 by halftime and scored the first basket after inter-mission.

But the Cats scored the next four points to give themselves a cushion. Every time Iowa cut NU’s lead to one or two points in the second half, the Cats responded by scoring immediately to prevent the Hawkeyes from going ahead.

The Hawkeyes’ pair of experienced guards, sophomore Kamille Wahlin and junior Kachine Alexander, didn’t make it easy. While Wahlin presented an outside threat and topped Iowa with 20 points, the 5-foot-9 Alexander made most of her plays in the paint, pulling down 10 rebounds and driving multiple times for layups.

“It’s just hard to keep (Alexander) from get-ting where she wants to go,” McKeown said. “You just can’t breathe. You can’t ever give them an inch because they might be the best offensive team in our league.”

NU’s bench provided McKeown’s squad with a much-needed boost in the second half. After scoring no points before intermission, ju-nior guard Meshia Reed and freshman center Dannielle Diamant combined to shoot 4-of-4 from the field in the final period. Diamant’s long trey with less than seven minutes left put the Cats up 59-51, their largest lead of the sec-ond half. They extended it to double digits with five minutes to go.

Then the Hawkeyes went on their run, pressing the Cats full-court and fighting back to trail 66-64. But Iowa scored only once more and failed to take advantage of the five offen-sive rebounds it grabbed the rest of the way. Jaeschke and Marshall knocked their foul shots down in the last two minutes to close out NU’s first win over Iowa since 2000. The Cats are el-igible to receive an NIT berth, which would be their first postseason appear-ance in 13 years.

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Iowa, (we knew) how they battled back,” McKe-own said. “We were up nine there, and they just kept coming at us. Our kids were a little more prepared today, and we played that way.”

This time around the Hawkeyes only man-aged six points from the charity stripe. NU also limited Iowa where it is most dangerous: beyond the arc. The Hawkeyes lead the league with 543 attempts and 201 baskets from 3-point range. A

big reason for Iowa’s success from downtown is freshman Jaime Printy, who is fourth in the con-ference with a 41 percent mark. In the two squads’ first game, Printy went off for a team-high 23 points. Sunday the Cats limited Printy to eight points while the Hawkeyes shot just 8-of-22 from long distance.

“We did a better job defensively of staying between them and the basket,” McKeown said. “This is a team that can make 10 or 15 3s easy. We contested from the 3-point line pretty well.”

On Sunday the Cats were able to use the crowd to their advantage. Almost 1,500 fans showed up for the annual Women’s Basketball Coaches Association Pink Zone Day, a breast-cancer initiative. It was NU’s highest-attended conference contest all season.

“That was huge,” freshman forward Kendall Hackney said of the crowd. “At first Iowa had more fans walking in, and I was like, ‘Oh crap, are you serious?’ But then we had a ton of people there, and it was so much fun. It was loud. That helps

us a lot, and not a lot of people realize that. The adrenaline kept us going.”

With the win the Cats improved to 11-5 at Welsh-Ryan Arena, the most home wins NU has had in 14 years.

“In this program they’re used to getting beat home and away,” McKeown said. “We have to explain how important it is to win at home. In college basketball you have to protect your home court. That’s what great teams do.”

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to suck defenders in, and then they throw it out. We fell prey to that.”

But despite the deficit, the Cats didn’t feel they were out of it.

“In the first half they were 15-for-20,” Carmody said. “But we were 10-for-20, so we thought all along we could get good shots.”

After the break it seemed NU would experience more of the same, as it was un-able to make any inroads into a Badger lead that was as large as 14 in the first 10 minutes of the period. NU’s defense had succeeded in reducing the Badgers’ shoot-ing percentage, but it was lacking a sense of urgency. Five times in the half ’s open-ing 10 minutes, the Cats forced a missed shot, only to allow an offensive rebound,

and twice the Cats bailed out Wisconsin jump shooters with unnecessary fouls late in the shot clock.

But when Carmody extended his 1-3-1 zone and sent Jeremy Nash and Michael Thompson to apply near-full court pres-sure, the Cats finally started clicking.

“Our defense really helped our of-fense,” Shurna said. “We made sure every shot they took was a tough one. We forced them to miss some shots, and we had more confidence offensively”

NU forced turnovers on four of five possessions to spark a 10-0 run that cul-minated in a layup by Thompson. It was his first shot attempt of the game and cut the lead to three.

“Sometimes we tell him to take over a little sooner,” Carmody said of Thompson. “But when it comes down to crunch time,

the ball was in his hands, and he did some good stuff.”

Taking advantage of the Badgers’ mis-takes, the Cats were able to pull within one. In addition to the turnovers, Wis-consin’s shooting touch cooled off dramat-ically, and Trevon Hughes missed the front end of a one-and-one while Jon Leuer missed 3-of-4 late free throws.

But the Cats were never able to tie the game. Shurna’s missed chip shots cost the team four crucial points, but when Jar-musz missed a free throw with 30 seconds

remaining, the Cats were only down three and could hold for the final shot.

They opted to go for the quick two, but nothing developed. With 11 seconds re-maining, Thompson drove to the hoop, but the 5-foot-10 point guard couldn’t get his layup over Leuer, the Wisconsin forward in his second game back from an injury. His block sealed the Cats’ fate, as free throws allowed the Badgers to come out with the victory.

Even though the comeback fell short, further damaged NU’s NCAA Tournament hopes, Carmody praised his team’s perfor-mance.

“They worked their tails off and fought back hard, “ Carmody said. “So I’m really proud of them.”

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NU athletic department ‘goes green’ at home basketball games

By Abby TracyContributing Writerdailynorthwestern.com/student-life

Last week basketball fans watched the Wildcats on the court and saw their fellow students attempt to make layups while hold-ing recycling bins during stoppages of play.

The timeout spectacle was one of sev-eral activities during the “Purple Goes Green” event at the men’s and women’s basketball games Wednesday and Thurs-day.

The Northwestern Athletic Depart-ment , Green Cup and One Book One Northwestern co-sponsored Purple Goes Green. The games were part of various

events in the four-week-long Green Cup, said Jeff Henderson , One Book project co-ordinator.

“We thought it would be a fun way to highlight the competitive spirit of Green Cup,” Henderson said.

During the men’s game against Penn State and the women’s game against Indi-ana , NU students participated in environ-ment-friendly activities to represent their Green Cup teams.

The residences, fraternities and sorori-ties that brought the greatest number of fans participated in prize drawings at halftimes. Representatives for the groups were signed in during the games to record participation, counting toward the Green

Cup point totals. Pi Kappa Alpha won the halftime raff le during the men’s game, and Allison Hall won the halftime raff le during the women’s game.

“It was really successful,” Green Cup Coordinator Phillip Dziedzic said. “We had a good showing.”

The “Purple Goes Green” event was spearheaded by the Athletic Department in an attempt to be more eco-friendly, and Green Cup gave them the momentum, Dziedzic said.

The Athletic Department provided free headbands featuring the “Purple Goes Green” slogan to all students at the games.

“We saw it as a great opportunity to come together as a community and have a good time,” Henderson said.

In addition to the in-game competition, environmental facts and tips for conserv-ing energy and water were projected on the television screens in the arena for fans

and students to read. “Anything that can help bring the cam-

pus together and bring awareness to something like that, well, there is no way it could go wrong,” Weinberg freshman Amanda Macaluso said. “Taking care of the environment is something we find im-portant. It’s good to spread information and be conscious of it.”

Macaluso said she is aware of Green Cup and has noticed changes in her dorm, such as fewer lights turned on to conserve energy or people being more cognizant of the waste they are producing.

Coordinators of the “Purple Goes Green” event said they are pleased with how the event turned out.

“If people didn’t know about Green Cup before, they do now,” Dziedzic said. “They seemed very supportive of it.”

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No. 24 Northwestern finishes 8th at Big Ten ChampionshipsBy Minjae ParkThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/women-swimming

Seventeen season-best performances and 23 ‘B’ standard qualifying times high-lighted No. 24 Northwestern’s otherwise-unspectacular finish in the Big Ten Cham-pionships. The Wildcats came in eighth in West Lafayette, Ind., a disappointing re-sult.

“(The tournament) was probably slightly different than what we expected,” coach Jimmy Tierney said. “It wasn’t the higher level of performances that we were expecting.”

The Cats entered the tournament ranked seventh among Big Ten schools in the latest CSCAA poll. But four days of competition from Feb. 17-21 reshuff led the pack, and unranked Penn State beat out NU for seventh place.

No. 12 Indiana won its third Big Ten ti-tle in four years with 758 points, finishing 185.5 points ahead of No. 10 Minnesota.

The Cats started the tournament with a pair of season-best and ‘B’ standard quali-fying swims in the 800-yard freestyle and 200-yard medley relays. Ellen Grigg, Em-ily Wong, Kassia Shishkoff and Meredith King took sixth in the 800-yard freestyle with a time of 7:11.34, the second-quickest in NU history.

Shishkoff ’s split of 1:45.63 was the fast-est in the field but, despite her strong per-formance, the Cats ended the evening in seventh.

“We got a slower start than we antici-pated,” Tierney said. “We certainly got better as the week went on.”

In the next three days, NU set season-best times for all but two of the 19 events. Involved in five of those races, Shishkoff set career-best times in the 200-yard free-style and 200-yard butterf ly that placed third and fourth, respectively, in NU’s all-time records. Shishkoff ended the tourna-ment as NU’s top point scorer.

“Probably her best individual perfor-

mance was the 200 f ly,” Tierney said. “She also was significant on the two relays. She had a couple of good swims. I know she wasn’t happy with the 200 free, but it was certainly a good week for her.”

Wong, a senior, finished eighth in the 50-yard freestyle and 10th in the 100-yard freestyle, falling short of her pre-tourna-ment rankings. Wong entered the tourna-ment seeded second in the 50-yard free-style and third in the 100-yard freestyle.

Before the competition, Wong hadn’t lost a single 100-yard freestyle race all season.

And though Wong recorded a season-best 49.81 time in the 100-yard freestyle preliminaries, she missed out on the final by a hundredth of a second.

“We thought she was going to be able to do a little bit better,” Tierney said. “I’m not sure she was feeling as great as we were hoping she would feel. She was pretty fatigued during the week but still performed at a pretty high level. She cer-tainly was strong for us in the relays.”

In addition to the opening night relay, Wong swam in three relays that finished fifth. The swims in the 200-yard freestyle and 400-yard medley relays were NU’s fifth best times, while the 400-yard free-style relay was second-best in school his-tory.

Like Shishkoff and Wong, senior Genny Szymanski posted a season-best time of 1:57.26 in the 200-yard backstroke, mak-ing the ‘B’ cut for the event.

“I was happy with it,” Szymanski said. “I don’t know if I could’ve done better. It was a good race for me.”

She said she and her teammates are still not certain whether they will make it to the NCAA Championships next month. Since no NU swimmer managed ‘A’ stan-dard times, the Cats face an anxious wait as the results from other conferences come in.

Before the Big Ten Championships, Tierney mentioned those on the brink of qualification could compete in a “last-

chance meet” to squeeze out better times. After the tournament, he announced the swimmers who have a chance of making the NCAAs will travel to Columbus, Ohio.

“We’re still probably sitting a bit on the outside,” Tierney said of the swimmers’ chances of making Nationals. “We’re go-ing to take the athletes down to Ohio State this Sunday to pull down the time.”

On the diving platform, freshman Fe-licitas Lenz scored 12th on the 1-meter and 10th on the 3-meter platforms. The two-time Big Ten Diver of the Week then finished fifth on the platform dive, giving a performance Tierney described as “thrilling.”

Unlike the swimmers, Lenz will com-pete in a zone meet that will decide whether she makes it to the NCAA Cham-pionships.

“Hopefully she’s gained confidence from this week and she’ll give it her best

shot,” Tierney said.Last week, Tierney said the Big Ten

meet would be spirited and it proved so. Senior Rachel Rys, who has struggled with foot injuries in her NU career, swam a ca-reer-best time of 1:59.78 in the 200-yard butterf ly preliminaries, good for a ‘B’ cut qualifying time.

“It was a really inspiring race for all of us,” co-captain Szymanski said.

Though Shishkoff would better Rys’s time by 1:58.92 in the finals that evening, Szymanski said that Rys’s swim was the highlight of the tournament and brought tears to many of her teammates.

“Rachel has had a string of injuries and hasn’t been able to train much but she got a lifetime-best time,” Tierney said. “That was outstanding because it shows the tremendous amount of character.”

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Bottom of the pack: Despite notching 17 season-best times, NU ended the four-day conference tournament in eighth place, finishing behind an unranked Penn State team.

By Rodger ShermanThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/mens-basketball

John Shurna only seems to score on difficult shots.

The sophomore forward was the only viable scoring option for the Wildcats for large stretches

of their 70-63 loss to No. 14 Wisconsin. He abused Wiscon-sin’s Tim Jarmusz for the better part of 40 min-utes on a variety of pullups,

bank shots in traffic and hard drives to the hole to the tune of a game-high 26 points.

But in crunch time, on an af-ternoon where everything had been falling, Shurna had two of his easiest shots of the afternoon: a lefty layup and an uncontested short jumper to tie the game af-ter rallying NU back from a 14-point deficit.

“Johnny went to the basket, right to the rim, I thought he al-most could’ve stuffed it with his left hand there, which he likes to do,” coach Bill Carmody said. “And then, another time, he had a seven-foot banker and he just sort of skimmed it off the back-board.”

The Badgers extended their record at the Kohl Center to 53-1 against unranked conference op-

ponents, and the loss assured the Cats would finish without a win-ning Big Ten record for the 42nd consecutive season.

The Cats didn’t seem over-matched at first, leading early in the game. Although NU’s defense was suspect—the Badgers hit their first six attempts from the field—Shurna kept the Cats close, connecting on his first three shots on his way to 11 first-half points. But after a Shurna layup cut the Wisconsin lead to three, the Badgers clamped down on defense and finished the period outscoring the Cats 17-6.

The Badgers finished the half shooting 75 percent, including 5-of-9 from beyond the 3-point arc, and entered the intermission with a 14-point lead.

“We left guys open we shouldn’t have,” Carmody said. “Guys drive, not to score, but just

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By Danny DalyThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/womens-basketball

Too many times this season, Northwestern has built up a size-able second-half lead yet failed to put the game away—including earlier this year against Iowa, Sunday afternoon’s opponent. In the rematch, the Wildcats made sure history didn’t repeat itself.

While NU struggled to protect its late edge, it came up with cru-cial stops to hang on for a 72-66 victory at Welsh-Ryan Arena.

“Our defense tonight was phe-nomenal,” freshman forward Kendall Hackney said. “We were rotating, we were talking the en-tire time, and we knew where the shooters were. That was really ef-fective. That helps to stop them and make them uncomfortable out of what they’re not used to doing.”

It’s ironic NU halted Iowa’s

hot streak, since the Cats’ sec-ond-half collapse a month ago helped spark the Hawkeyes’ rise.

When NU (16-11, 7-9 Big Ten) traveled to Iowa City, Iowa, the two teams were go-ing in op-posite di-rections. The Hawkeyes (15-12, 8-8) were just start-ing their surge from the bottom of the Big Ten, win-ning their second straight confer-ence game en route to a stretch of seven victories in eight contests.

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Daily File Photo by Jai Broome

Close but no cigar: Sophomore forward John Shurna made many difficult shots against Wisconsin, but he missed two easy looks late.

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Cats improve record to 4-0 in Big Ten home rematchesBy Robbie LevinThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/womens-basketball

Another home rematch, another win for the Wildcats. Dating back to Northwestern’s Jan. 17 victory over Minnesota, four of the Cats’ last five home games have been rematches with teams they played first on the road.

One month ago the Cats topped Minnesota 10 days after falling to the Gophers in Minneapolis.

Two-and-a-half weeks later NU bested Michigan for the second time this season, the only time the Cats have swept a Big Ten team in the last decade.

On Thursday the Cats took down the Hoosiers one month after Indiana beat NU in Bloomington, Ind.

With its 72-66 win over Iowa on Sunday, NU is now 4-0 in those games.

“In this league when you’re play-

ing everybody twice and you’re play-ing 18 conference games, you have a history the first time around,” coach Joe McKeown said. “If you win, that’s a confidence-builder, and if you don’t win, it gives us an opportunity to point out what we have to do when they come to our place. For our play-ers, they’re learning that. Just because they beat you at their place doesn’t mean they’re better than you when you play them at home.”

When the Cats played the Hawkeyes in Iowa City, Iowa, NU blew a nine-point lead midway through the second half. The Cats committed a season-high 25 fouls, with 16 coming in the second half. Iowa took advantage of NU’s miscues, getting to the free throw line 37 times and connecting on 31 of those at-tempts.

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Bend but don’t break: Junior point guard Beth Marshall brings the ball up the court in NU’s 72-66 victory over Iowa. The Hawkeyes made numerous attempts to overtake the Cats for the lead, but Marshall’s outside scoring and junior center Amy Jaeschke’s production in the paint secured the win.

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