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By Sammy Caiola the daily northwestern

Medill faculty members voted ear-lier this month in favor of changing the name of the Medill School of Journal-ism to “� e Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing,” professors con rmed last week.

� e change, approved by a 38-5 vote , will now be sent to the Board of Trustees for approval this spring.

Conversations about changing Medill’s name have been ongoing for years, due in part to concern from the Medill admin-istration that the term “journalism” does not encom-pass everything the school o� ers. When

Medill opened in 1921 , it o� ered two pro-grams: journalism and marketing, the second of which eventually became the Integrated Marketing Communications certi cate program, Medill Dean John Lavine said.

Lavine said he held meetings with stu-dents, faculty, alumni, local employers and the advisory board for each degree Medill o� ers to discuss what the proposal should look like.

“Everybody agreed without discus-sion that we cherish Medill and the name journalism and we always will,” Lavine said. “We decided not to change the name of the school, but we would just include what we’re doing. We do jour-nalism and we do marketing and we do communication.”

Some IMC students said they are in favor of a name change because “school of journalism” does not adequately describe

By Sammy Caiolathe daily northwestern

In an e� ort to encourage Chicago-area high school students to apply to college, approximately 360 members of the Urban Students Empowered program were brought to campus Friday for tours, student panels and performances.

US Empowered is a program in Chi-cago public high schools which aims “to lead underperforming students in low-income schools to enroll in and graduate from college,” according to its mission statement. � e program assigns teachers to work with these students for a portion

Chicago high school students explore NU

Medill sta� approve school’s name changeProposed change intended to refl ect broadened focus of curriculum, says dean

“Everybody agreed … that we cherish Medill.”John Lavine,Medill dean

See TOURS, page 9

See NAME CHANGE, page 9

By Patrick Svitek The Daily Northwestern

More than 700 Northwestern students stud-ied abroad last year . They formed long-lasting bonds with host families. They enjoyed excep-tional research opportunities. They fully immersed themselves in unique and diverse cultures.

And they apparently drank, too. A lot.At least that’s according to an

October report by University of Washington grad-uate student Eric Pedersen , who discovered that his campus’ study abroad students, on average, more than doubled their usual alcohol intake while overseas . Though NU students interviewed for this story agreed that their drinking habits noticeably increased overseas, for the most part they kept their international boozing in check.

To Weinberg junior Josh Brech-ner , who is currently studying abroad in Seville, Spain , the fallacy of applying Pedersen’s findings across the board is obvious.

“Yes, there are some extreme cases, but hold off on making a big commotion,” he wrote in an e-mail.

Extrapolating Pedersen’s results to NU is a troublesome assumption — one that dabbles in a sensitive topic mystified by gray areas — that University administrators are also hesitant to accept. Bill Anthony, director of the NU study abroad office , prefers to offer students the benefit of the doubt.

“I think NU students are serious students and socially engaged,” he said. “The way they take part in study abroad may well be different from students from — pick a university or college.”

His office is explicit in its stance on alcohol indulgence overseas: Avoid it at all costs. This

academic year’s pre-departure handbook encourages outbound students to “use good judgment” in consuming alcohol

and be aware that heavy drinking “is also seen as extremely culturally inappropriate in

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Declawed: Pat Fitzgerald and NU had little to smile about on Saturday, losing to Illinois 48-27 at Wrigley Field. After going into halftime up three, the Illini outscored NU 21-3 in the second half. Read more on page 12 about Illinois’s Mikel Leshoure’s banner day, the Cats’ struggles on offense and more on the unique game.

Though a recent study points to increased alcohol intake while overseas, NU study abroad students say they are being responsible.

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From the WiresSecurity protests could cause airport delays

WASHINGTON — Despite the uproar over intrusive pat-downs of some airline travelers, the policy will not change heading into the holiday travel season, the head of the Trans-portation Security Administration said.

“Clearly, it’s invasive; it’s not comfortable,” John Pistole said of the pat-downs.

But he said the agency was trying to strike the right balance between privacy and security to protect the nation from terrorist attacks, such as the failed one last Christmas by a man who had explosives hidden in his underwear.

� e searches have sparked outrage, as has TSA’s alternative — greater use of full-body scanners that the American Civil Liberties Union has said amounts to a “virtual strip search.”

An Internet-based campaign has called for airline passengers to refuse the full-body scans on Wednesday, the busy travel day before � anksgiving, opting instead for pat-downs, which could cause huge delays at airports.

— Tribune Washington Bureau

Facebook to launch messaging service

SAN FRANCISCO — In a bold challenge to its rivals, Facebook Inc. is launching a mes-saging service for its more than half a billion users, setting o� a battle that could shape the future of communication on the Internet.

Facebook Messages will meld the three major forms of communication — e-mail, instant messages and text messages — so that users can manage all their communications through a single inbox on their personal com-puter or mobile device.

� e common gateway will be an “(at)face-book.com” e-mail address.

— Los Angeles Time

Life investment: universities put a price on higher education

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SAN JOSE, Calif. — As tuitions climb in a still-shaky economy, college is feeling less like Animal House and more like Career U.

To prove their worth, 20 California State Uni-versity campuses are leaders in a national move-ment to measure education in dollars and cents, publicizing the salaries of their graduates.

“Families want to see the rate of return on their investment,” said King Alexander, president of Cal State Long Beach, who with Cal State Chan-cellor Charles Reed is leading the campaign to measure a college degree like a mutual fund, IRA or 401(k).

So far, University of California schools and Stanford University have not followed Cal State’s lead in touting graduates’ median salaries, which are compiled by the Seattle-based compensation company Payscale.com.

San Jose State, UC Berkeley and Stanford grads start out somewhat even in pay — but a� er two decades in the work force, Berkeley and Stanford grads were earning signi� cantly more — $109,000 and $119,000, compared with $92,900 for SJSU grads.

With tuitions soaring, value is hard to ignore. � is month, Cal State leaders adopted a two-step undergraduate fee hike that will raise tuition by a combined 15 percent by next fall. UC leaders are looking at increasing fees 8 percent for next school year.

So, borrowing a page from Consumer Reports, the campuses seek to prove what they’re worth. For starters: College grads earn 1.8 times the aver-age salary earned by those with only a high school diploma, and 2.5 times more than high school dropouts, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

“Earnings are one of the real outcomes you can measure,” Cal State’s Alexander said. “And with high earnings come many other things.

Graduates are good taxpaying citizens. � eir homes are less likely to go into foreclosure. � ey read more. � ey have more leisure time, and contribute to their communities. � ere are huge spillover e� ects.”

Many universities have resisted using graduates’ salaries as a measure of “educational outcome.”

However, Cal State took the lead, in 2008 becoming the � rst and only university system in the nation to publish its graduates’ salary data. It’s available on a website launched a� er a federal commission called on colleges to do a better job of measuring and publicizing students’ academic success. Now other public schools are following Cal State’s example. Within the next six months, 300 public universities will post salary informa-tion compiled by PayScale.com.

� e data — which only include graduates with bachelor’s degrees — show that students with the greatest “return on investment” are those who do well in technical majors, such as science or engineering, at a rigorous public school.

For instance, graduates of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo earn just as much as graduates of the pri-vate Pomona College or University of Southern California _ at less than half the cost. And the top 10 percent of students from Fresno State earn as much as midlevel students from Stanford, said Al Lee, director of quantitative analysis at PayScale.com.

Some schools are even changing their course catalog. In Michigan, where the recession hit early and hard, Michigan State eliminated majors in American classics, and the University of Michi-gan created 100 new courses in entrepreneur-ship. Minnesota’s state colleges distribute colorful graphics that list how many students pass profes-sional licensing exams.

“Most parents don’t say, ‘Here’s $200,000, do whatever you want.’ � ere’s a utilitarian streak,” Lee said. “� ey ask, quite reasonably, ‘Will my child earn enough to make it worthwhile?’”

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Students for Ecological and Environmental Development will host environmentalist and human rights advocate Van Jones as its fall speaker Nov. 30 at 8 p.m. in the McCormick Auditorium in Norris University Center . Jones, who served as green jobs advisor to the White House in 2008, will deliver a speech called “Beyond Green Jobs: � e Next American Economy.” In it, Jones will discuss how a clean energy economy can combat poverty.

Group discussion to debate U.S.-China ‘currency war’

� e student group ChinaForesee will host a panel Monday at 5 p.m. entitled “Currency War: � e Modern Battle Between China and the U.S.” � e free event is open to the NU community and will take place in Kellogg G27 � e event will include discussion between the panelists and attendees.

NUCHR to lead post-Katrina rights discussion

Northwestern University Conference on Human Rights and NCDC’s Undergraduate Lecture Series on Race, Poverty and Inequality present “A� er the Storm: Human Rights in the Wake of Katrina” Monday at 7 p.m. in Annenberg Hall G21. � e free event includes � ve panelists: Abe Louise Young, a New Orleans native, activist and poet; Jordan Fla-herty, a New Orleans-based journalist and commu-nity organizer; Prof. Donald Haider of the Kellogg School of Management and director of the school’s Center for Nonpro� t Management; Prof. Robert Murphy, director of the Center for Global Health at NU; and Prof. Kimberly Gray, whose interests lie in civil and environmental engineering. � e panel will be moderated by Prof. Gayla Ru� er, director of the International Studies Program.

Waa Mu presents improvisation and musical theater revue

Waa Mu 2011 presents “Don’t Quit Your Night Job, ” a musical theater and improvisation revue farce Monday night from 10:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. in � e Struble at the � eatre and Interpretation Center.

� ere is a $5 suggested admission fee as a dona-tion to support Waa Mu.

Bake sale in Tech to bene� t NU Red Cross

Northwestern Red Cross will hold a bake sale Monday in the lobby of the Technological Insti-tute from 7:30 p.m. to 9 p.m.

The proceeds will support the group, which holds blood drives and other events on campus to benefit the American Red Cross. The group’s last blood drive was cut short due to an unusu-ally high number of fainting incidents following blood donation.

UVA professor to speak at Political � eory Colloquium lecture

The Political Theory Colloquium will present a lecture Monday at 12 p.m. entitled “Fullness and Dearth: Depth Experience and Democratic Life” in Scott Hall, 601 University Place.

Prof. Stephen White of the University of Virginia will speak at the event, which is co-sponsored by the Fulcher Fund of the Depart-ment of Political Science, the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, the Department of Philosophy and the Program in Rhetoric and Public Culture. The event is free and open to the public.

— Lark Turner and Lauren Kelleher

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Battling: Residential college members compete in a tug-of-war contest during the annual Woo-Shep olympics, a showdown between Willard and Shepard.

Dorm competition promotes rivalry


Political science department receives suspicious package

A Northwestern sta� er called police a� er receiv-ing a suspicious package � ursday, police said.

� e sta� member noticed that a package deliv-ered to the political science department at Scott Hall, 601 University Place, around 2:56 p.m. � urs-day was making a rattling noise, University Police Deputy Chief Dan McAleer said.

Police took the yellow manila envelope, which was delivered through the U.S. Postal Service , to 2020 Ridge Ave. where it was x-rayed. � e x-ray indicated the package didn’t contain hazardous materials, so o� cers opened the envelope.

� e envelope contained students’ transcripts, with a red ribbon tied around them. � e ribbon was a� xed with a red wax seal stamp that was damaged during shipping, and the broken wax stamp caused the rattling noise, McAleer said.

NU student hit by a car while biking down Sheridan Road

An NU student was struck by a car while riding a bicycle down Sheridan Road on � ursday,.

A police o� cer was on vehicular patrol when he came across the a� ermath of a tra� c accident out-side of Cahn Auditorium, 600 Emerson St., around 4:45 p.m. � ursday. � e o� cer checked on the par-ties involved to see if anyone was injured, McAleer said. He then called the Evanston Police Depart-ment and the � re department for assistance.

� e student sustained no serious injuries and signed a release because he refused transport to Evanston Hospital .

Suspicious messages written on dry erase board in Shepard

Police arrived at Shepard Residential College on � ursday a� er an NU sta� member reported she had received suspicious messages, police said.

O� cers arrived at Shepard, 626 University Place, and observed that there were “uncompli-mentary messages” written on the dry erase board outside the sta� member’s o� ce, McAleer said.

� e sta� member had no idea who had writ-ten the message, but it was obvious that whoever had written it was disgruntled with her, McAleer added. Police erased the messages from the board and advised her to contact the police if she receives any more messages.

Two women charged with identity theft

Police arrested two Chicago residents in con-nection with more than 30 counts of identity the� , according to an EPD release sent out Friday.

Janeen Enise Brown attempted to rent a car from Enterprise Rent-A-Car , 1810 Maple Ave., with a credit card reserved in another person’s name. � e Enterprise employee started asking Brown questions about the transaction which made her nervous, the news release said. Brown grabbed the credit card and le� the store. � e employee saw her get into a white Ford Escape and drive away, and then the employee called the police.

A� er police broadcasted a description of Brown and her vehicle, o� cers stopped Brown for tra� c. � ey found that neither she nor the vehicle’s pas-senger, Marcella Miles, had valid Illinois driver’s licenses. � e o� cers also saw that Brown matched the description of the subject who tried to use a fraudulent credit card at Enterprise.

� ey searched the vehicle and found three credit cards, none of which were Brown’s or Miles’, the news release said. A� er interviewing the pair, they found that Miles had information on 30 dif-ferent credit card numbers, including the names, addresses, phone numbers and social security numbers of the cards’ true owners.

Brown also had a stolen Illinois driver’s license and the credit card of the true owner of the license. Brown is being charged with suspension of driver’s license for tra� c, as well as four felony counts of identity the� .

Miles is being charged with 30 felony counts of identity the� . � ey are scheduled to go on trial next week in Skokie.

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By Sarah Freishtatthe daily northwestern

Travel guide writer Rick Steves will talk about the relationship between travel and spirituality at Northwestern next week.

Steves, host of “Rick Steves’ Europe ,” a travel show on public TV, will share his personal experi-ence about how he came to view travel as a Chris-tian act in Cahn Auditorium, 600 Emerson St., on Dec. 5. He has also appeared as a guest on other TV and radio shows and works to provide a� ord-able housing around the world.

“(Steves) is going to talk about the importance for folks who are able to travel and a� ord that luxury to think about the importance of a� ordable housing in their own communities,” University Chaplain Tim Stevens said.

� e event will be sponsored by the Chaplain’s o� ce and Good New Partners , a Chicago orga-nization that works to provide a� ordable housing in the East Rogers Park neighborhood north of Howard Street. It will be preceded by a V.I.P. event, a chance for guests who pay extra to meet Steves, and all of the proceeds from both parts of the event will go to Good News Partners.

“By traveling thoughtfully, we can understand that whether we live across the street or across the seas, we are all neighbors and children of the same father,” Steves said in a news release from Good News Partners. “And, for any person of faith, travel can be a spiritual experience.”

Steves, who has spent 120 days each year since 1973 in Europe, was confronted by the problem of how to live cheaply while traveling. � is helped him realize what it would be like to live in pov-erty said Jan Hubbard , director of major gi� s and church relations at Good News Partners.

“Steves connects travel with learning about the

world and helping people,” Stevens said.In 1990, Steves bought a run-down building

in his hometown in Washington and turned it into a place for homeless mothers and children to live. Good News Partners, working along a similar model, bought its � rst building in 1980 and turned it into a place where homeless people could work to get o� the streets.

� e organization is working to buy a new build-ing in the Rogers Park area to turn into a� ordable housing. All of the proceeds from this event will go towards purchasing that building. Tickets to the lecture are $30, and the V.I.P event is $150.

Steves agreed to help Good News Partners because their missions line up , Hubbard said.

“� rough his travel, Steves truly believes in the need to be thinking of behaving as one big family,” Hubbard said.

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By Peter Larsonthe daily northwestern

Northwestern’s newest online classifieds web-site, designed to revolutionize how things are bought and sold on campus, will premiere Mon-day, according to Hiro Kawashima, president of Dream Sure Group, LLC, the web development and marketing firm overseeing the site.

NUBodega.com was born out of necessity and frustration, said David Jin, one of the website’s founders.

After personally having trouble finding off-campus housing and selling back textbooks, Jin said he decided to start work on a Northwestern-specific alternative to large, online auction sites like eBay and Craigslist.

“We would love for this to be a place where the whole campus can exchange things,” the McCor-mick junior said.

Like Craigslist, NUBodega allows NU stu-dents to make contact with other buyers and

sellers on the Internet first before they arrange for an in-person, cash transaction.

Users can list items in any of eight differ-ent categories, including textbooks to concert tickets.

In the past, the Associated Student Govern-ment and the online, student-founded NUlist.org tried to create similar online platforms for student buyers and sellers, but neither ended up being very user-friendly or generating significant buzz on campus, Kawashima said.

The demand for such a service is still evident, he said. NU students find themselves forced to either use larger sites like Craigslist or sell for lower prices in the bookstore at Norris University Center or at Beck’s bookstores.

“Our market research has shown that 37 per-cent of your money is lost when you do transac-tions through Norris or Beck’s,” the Weinberg junior said.

NUBodega started with a soft launch of the website in October, advertising the service to

different student groups and organizations to test the site’s usability.

Since then 115 students have registered as NUBodega users, close to 100 items have been listed and the site has received more than 7,000 page views, Kawashima said.

But after Monday, they hope to bring in an additional 500 users and 1,200 listings, he said.

The group is primarily focusing its efforts on preparing for reading and finals weeks, because most students will be trying to get rid of their Fall Quarter textbooks. That’s when they expect to see a huge spike in user activity, Kawashima said.

Moving forward, they want to bring the con-cept of NUBodega to several other schools, including the University of Wisconsin, New York University and Brown University, said Weinberg Luke Lopatka, who runs NUBodega’s advertising.

Jin said they’ve strived to make students’ expe-rience with NUBodega “friendly and fast.”

“We are especially proud of how simple it is:

registration takes seconds, and you could have an item up in a few minutes,” Jin said.

Limited to a core group of six students, Jin said the site’s small size gives them the ability to make additions to the site almost instantly.

The website is for profit, making enough rev-enue through page advertisements to sustain itself, Lopatka said.

Otherwise, there is no cost for students to register and use the site. Kawashima said there is an option for users to pay $2 to upgrade their listings to featured status, giving it a place at the top of the page for a 60-day period.

As they start reaching out to more landlords and realtors in Evanston, he said they plan to also charge them small fines to display their proper-ties on the website.

“We’re hoping that the external marketplace can fund a market for Northwestern students,” Kawashima said.

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Former Innocence Project students call for NU to fightBy Brian Rosenthal

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Fifteen former Medill Innocence Project stu-dents sent an open letter Sunday to several mem-bers of the Northwestern administration, urging them to “defend the courageous work” of the project and “relentlessly fight back” against Cook County prosecutors who have accused the students of illegal and unethical behavior.

“Prosecutors have consistently distorted our work, imputed false motives and sought to under-mine the credibility of the Innocence Project,” the letter read. “We expected Northwestern to relent-lessly fight back against these falsehoods, defend-ing a program that has literally saved lives and earned the university international acclaim.”

(Read the full letter at www.dailynorthwestern.com.)

On Wednesday, Assistant State’s Attorney Celeste Stewart Stack announced in court that Innocence Project students secretly recorded a con-versation with a witness and potential alternative

suspect while investigating the case of Anthony McKinney, who was convicted of murdering a Harvey, Ill. security guard in 1981. In Illinois, it is illegal in most cases to record a conversation without permission or a court order. Medill Prof. David Protess, a high-profile faculty member who runs the project, said the recording was legal due to an exemption in the law.

Regardless, prosecutors have indicated that it is unlikely that charges will be filed because the recording occurred six years ago.

Ari Berman, Medill ‘04,, a political writer for The Nation magazine, said he came up with the idea to write the letter and approached the other alumni, all former members of the team that investigated the McKinney case. The letter was addressed to Provost Daniel Linzer and was also sent to University President Morton Schapiro, Uni-versity spokesman Al Cubbage, Medill Dean John Lavine, and Thomas Cline and Amy Mayber, both of the Office of the General Counsel.

“I’ve been watching with dismay for some time now at how, first the prosecution was giving us

and David a bad rap and now it seems that North-western has joined the prosecution in terms of making some of these arguments,” said Berman, who worked on the case in the spring of 2004, the quarter when the secret recording took place. “I said, ‘Listen, I’m not going to allow this smear campaign to go on without at least making my voice heard.’”

Prosecutors filed a subpoena in May 2009, seek-ing 11 types of student documents related to the Innocence Project’s three-year investigation of the McKinney case. NU had originally fought the sub-poena, but earlier this month handed over about 800 pages of documents to prosecutors, including a student memo describing the secret recording. Protess has continued to refuse to turn over any documents.

Former Innocence Project student Sam Weiner, Weinberg ‘06, said the media coverage surround-ing the case has wrongly shifted focus away from the guilt or innocence of McKinney.

“As long as this has been in the mainstream media, the only subject has been the prosecution’s

subpoena and the actions of the students,” said Weiner, who worked on the case in the fall of 2005 and the winter of 2006. “The merits of the case seem to be put on hold.”

Weiner urged NU to push for a speedy hear-ing for McKinney and not to be intimidated by the prosecutors. The letter mentioned some similar points.

The State Attorney’s Office “would rather stall, delay and make baseless accusations than admit that the State of Illinois made a horrible mistake in the McKinney case and swiftly try to right a terrible wrong,” it read. “They are out to destroy the Medill Innocence Project, so that no future McKinney cases come across their desk.”

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“We expected Northwestern to relentlessly fight

back against these falsehoods. ”Letter from

former Innocence Project students

When I decided to study abroad, I knew that I would miss my family and friends. What I didn’t anticipate was missing Wildcats football as much as I

do. I’ve come to realize is just how much I’ve grown to love and be a fan of our team and program.

During the past two seasons, I’ve missed only four games. � e 2008 season was spent in the student sec-tion, and in 2009, I had the privilege of covering the team on the sidelines for The Daily.

While working as photographer for The Daily, I observed the intensity and dedication of the players, coaches and sta� to consistently produce a quality program. � ey go about their business the right way. � e hard work this group has put in is evident: a winning football program with the second-highest graduation rate in the NCAA.

I miss seeing the play-ers and coaches doing what they do best. I miss being around the celebrations a� er a touchdown. I miss snapping photos of President Schapiro on the sidelines cheering on the team.

Above all, I miss the atmo-sphere and camaraderie. Not surprisingly, in London there are very few people who share my passion for Wildcats football. My residence hall is full of British and international students who could care less about American football. Most of them care about the other “football.” You know, the one where you score goals and can’t use your hands.

What is worse is that I can’t watch the games on TV. Finding a pub that televises Northwestern foot-ball is harder than avoiding the jokes about the rule changes for the Wrigley Field game.

� e ESPN streaming services that are free in the US cost, as Sir Charles Barkley would say, “ridicu-lous” amounts of money in the UK. I’ve been tempted to buy them, but it’s just not in the cards � nancially.

What to do? What to do? Every game day, I sit in my room and follow my beloved Wildcats on a host of old and new media sources: Twitter, WGN Radio AM 720, ESPN Gamecast and The Daily North-western live blog. I’ll admit it, using four di� erent sources for the same information is a bit embarrass-ing, but it’s the best I can do without being at the game or watching on TV.

Last week against Iowa, as Persa led the Wildcats to another fourth-quarter touchdown, I was sure that the incredible victory would be the signature win of the year and the game I wished I had been at most.

I was wrong. Missing Saturday’s historic game at Wrigley Field has certainly taken the number one spot because Northwestern will likely never play football at Wrigley again. Not only as a Northwestern student, but also as a lifelong Chicagoan and Cubs fan, it’s an indescribable feeling to have missed that game.

Naturally, being in two places at once isn’t possible for me. I wouldn’t put it past Dan Persa, though.

Ray Whitehouse is a Medill junior currently studying abroad in London. He can be reached at [email protected].

The day I got home a� er � nishing my � rst quarter at Northwestern, I updated my Facebook status to “Meredith Wise is perpetually

homesick.” Perpetual homesickness was a phrase I picked up from who-knows-which friend or article and decided to apply to myself. I had just said goodbye to my new group of best friends, who still appropriately call each other our “family,” and to the home I had begun to make for myself in Willard.

I came straight from there into the arms of my waiting family (one of which was holding my favorite drive-thru drink) and into my cozy queen-sized bed, but for the � rst time, I didn’t feel quite home.

When we leave for college and hug our parents goodbye a� er they devotedly move box a� er box into our new rooms, we have no choice but to adapt to a new place and cling to new people. And when each quarter ends, and we head our separate ways, it can be just as di cult as it was the � rst time we le� “home.”

It seems that most of my friends are always missing somewhere or someone. When school is in ses-sion and we’re all in Evanston, everyone looks forward to their parents’ or high school friends’ visits, and I see Facebook-wall posts from old classmates asking “When do you get home? When can I see you?”

So when breaks � nally come and we’ve made the goodbye rounds on campus, we head home for a while to see those we’ve missed. But you only have to give it a few days before your news feed becomes clogged again. � is time it’s between your friends at school: “What day do you get back to NU? I know you’re enjoying home, but life is really better when we’re both in Evanston.”

I’m guilty as charged. When I had been home for a few weeks the summer a� er my freshman year, and I was having a particu-larly boring evening, my status was “I miss Northwestern.” My great-aunt in Vancouver, Wash. commented, “Meredith, just a short time ago you were missing family. Maybe you should be two or three people?” � at’s when I realized that what we students might wish for — never missing any of our friends or family — is completely impossible.

� ings get further complicated as we study abroad, when we score awesome summer internships in more new cities, and when we graduate and scatter across the country and the world.

It seems to me that we have two options: never being home or learning to always be home. We must love where we are when we’re there because as soon as we leave, we want to be back again. Most of us are going home for break in a few days or a few weeks, so we should be careful not to fall into the trap of wishing for one home too soon.

Of course they say that “home is where the heart is,” but what does that mean for me, when my heart is split between Evan-ston, Lubbock, Texas, Barcelona — where I spent my summer — and now all over the world as many of my good friends are abroad this fall?

I’ve made the transition from home to new-home more than once now, so I am con� dent that I can do it again when the time comes. For now though, I will appreci-ate both my time in my hometown and my time at school, knowing that I’m lucky to have two homes.

Meredith Wise is a Weinberg junior. She can be reached at [email protected].

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“ I realized that what we

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Perpetual homesickness

Students should not be oblivious to safety concerns

The Daily’s cover story, “� e Dark Side of NU,” (Nov. 19) encourages an oblivious atti-tude towards violence at Northwestern. NU is not a safety “bubble.” � ere is no such thing, on campus or anywhere else. Justin Barbin was the victim of a crime, and unfortunate as it was his takeaway is naïve: “Sometimes these things just happen.” In fact, these things happen not because of poor timing, bad luck, proximity to low-income neighborhoods, or having an inadequate level of lighting around campus as the article suggests. Rather, it is a basic unwillingness to acknowledge violence and crime as a ubiquitous threat, even inside “the bubble.” To say that “campus may be safe in reality” and take issue with “anxiety that’s created” as a result of any contrary perception will only lead to further victimization of stu-dents on campus. Every adult at this school is capable of being both academically gi� ed and street smart; the latter is only a question of being self-aware and acknowledging violence as not simply something you read about in the paper but a real threat that must be faced rather than shoved under the rug.

—Alex AgronsWeinberg senior

Living Wage Campaign editorial needed more research

Two weeks ago, The Daily came out against the living wage campaign. � e letters to the editor from undergraduates, gradu-ate students and faculty demonstrates that the Northwestern community is not on The Daily’s side. Neither are the facts.

A living wage is neither “arbitrary” nor would it “harm campus workers.” Our

campaign’s living wage � gure of $13.23 per hour with health care bene� ts comes from the Heartland Alliance’s Self Su ciency Report, Getting By and Getting Ahead, which employs real costs for housing, food, transportation, health care, household and personal care items, as well as taxes in Cook County.

Central to The Daily’s opposition of the living wage campaign are its assertions that the living wage standard does not include public bene� ts. However, the Heartland Alliance report states that the standard includes gov-ernment assistance. From their methodology appendix: “� e Standard includes federal tax credits (the Earned Income Tax Credit, the Child Care Tax Credit, � e Child Tax Credit, and the Making Work Pay Tax Credit) and applicable state tax credits.”

� e campaign’s own research has deter-mined that any loss in bene� ts or eligibility to programs like the EITC and other tax credits, the SNAP program and Medicaid would be more than o� set by the additional income workers would receive a� er the implementa-tion of a living wage policy. In most cases, pay-ing workers a living wage would not (in The Daily’s words) “disqualify them from many of these programs” and in no cases would this disquali� cation make “their net income less than it would have been with the combination of lower wages and government bene� ts.”

We hope that in the future, The Daily will take the time to support its claims with more extensive research. We urge The Daily to issue a retraction of its demonstrably incorrect statements.

—Will BloomWeinberg sophomore, Roosevelt Institute,

LWC executive board member

—Jordan FeinWeinberg senior, College Democrats,

LWC executive board member

Economic realities of the Living Wage Campaign

I thought the Living Wage editorial was well done.

It would take me some work to verify these statements:

“Granting workers a ‘living wage’ would disqualify them from many of these programs, drastically reducing the real e� ect of a wage increase and in some extreme cases, making their net income less than it would have been with the combination of lower wages and government bene� ts.”

Generally welfare programs are designed to avoid these sorts of breaks where an improvement in a worker's wage reduces the worker's a� er-bene� ts well-being, but such problems certainly exist.

The Daily's editorial was essentially a detailed statement of “demand curves slope down,” that requiring a higher wage would

result in fewer jobs, fewer other employment bene� ts, and (a point not made in the editorial but worthwhile in my opinion) most likely a di� erent mix of workers holding the jobs.

I stress this last point because if total com-pensation were to rise for the a� ected workers, Northwestern would get a di� erent group of workers applying for the jobs. � is new set of workers would have more impressive creden-tials and would end up getting jobs that oth-erwise would have been held by the workers who hold them now. As such, we would end up with better paid workers, but workers who would have been better paid at whatever job they would have held. What would happen to the displaced workers who would otherwise have ended up at Northwestern? It's hard to believe that this switch would end up making them better o� .

Mark Witte is the director of NU Undergradu-ate Studies in Economics and the Harvey Kap-nick Business Institutions Program.

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RAYWHITEHOUSE


many places .” Even more clear-cut is the study abroad office’s official code of conduct, which states that “excessive and irresponsible drinking leading to intoxication” is proper grounds for “immediate disciplinary action” and possible expulsion from the academic program .

Regardless of this straightforward policy, Dean of Students Burgwell Howard is “not 100 percent” in agreement with Anthony in that NU students may be above the fray of foreign vice. He said he suspects some students “fall right in line with that study.”

“I don’t think we’re immune to it,” Howard said. “It’s something we really need to be con-cerned about.”

‘I’m going to let loose’Among past and current study abroad stu-

dents, the consensus was nearly unanimous: Drinking habits don’t drastically intensify over-seas, but when they do, it’s not with an end goal of rowdy intoxication. Instead, countries with relaxed alcohol laws tend to have more moderate drinking cultures, Brechner said.

He approximated that a “typical night” con-sists of downing “more or less a drink per hour” from 10 p.m. until 3 a.m. after finishing a liter of beer at an early evening “botellón ,” an outdoor drinking event.

“What’s probably at play here is the number of days per week when alcohol is consumed,” Brechner said. “We’ll go out maybe five nights a week here, compared to drinking max three nights a week when classes are in session back at NU.”

Weinberg sopho-more Danielle David , who studied Spanish and political history in Barcelona over the

summer , said cultural factors upped her drink-ing habits “slightly.” She consistently enjoyed glasses of wine accompanying meals, resulting in a more “social way” of alcohol consumption that didn’t revolve around cramming binge-like quantities into a single night.

Kana Yoo , a Weinberg senior who studied in New Zealand last fall , recognized a lower drinking age and greater accessibility to alcohol seldom affected her nightly choices. Despite an on-campus bar and free-flowing beer at dormi-tory mixers, she estimated that her drinking patterns “didn’t change too much.”

“I don’t think there was a huge difference, ” Yoo said.

Yet adapting to social norms does not always mellow newfound thirst, Howard said. While he believes most students behave “befittingly” overseas, he explained that there is such a thing as being too culturally immersed.

“It’s easy to fall into the trap of someone who drinks socially on weekends at NU going to the pub daily with classmates in the UK,” Howard said.

Still, while NU travelers may not be the per-petrators of booze-fueled debauchery abroad, they have observed their fair share of worrisome behavior among their on-site peers. Brechner reminisced on the “misfortune” of an American from another program who guzzled 18 shots in a row.

The ensuing evening, he said, was predict-ably chaotic.

“(He) was pawing at Spanish girls, trying to pick fights with his friends, nearly peed on an ancient Muslim tower and later took off his shirt in a small club,” Brechner wrote in an e-mail.

Furthermore, Yoo attended classes with stu-dents who demonstrated the sometimes unglam-orous consequences of having one too many. At

the Undie 500, an annual bar-hopping car rally , her on-site friends were pepper-sprayed by local authorities, presumably at after-party festivities, which are notorious for public depravity.

Yoo attributed her classmates’ unruliness to a less intense class schedule and a local atmo-sphere encouraging bubbly spirits in good company.

“You think of it as, ‘This is my study abroad experience. I’m going to let loose,’” Yoo said. “And I guess that can apply to different areas, including alcohol.”

Self-fulfi lling prophecyPedersen offers one possible explanation

for spikes in alcohol intake abroad: inaccurate expectations. Based on his sample, students’ pre-departure perceptions impact their drink-ing habits once they are on site. In other words, an outbound traveler anticipating a alcohol-heavy experience will strive to fulfill that presumption.

In February, NU’s Alcohol and Other Drug Services department conducted an online survey regarding on-campus substance use to which more than 1,200 undergraduates responded. Ninety-nine percent had agreed with the claim that their peers had “used alcohol in the past month.” In reality, only 77 percent of survey participants had consumed alcohol in that time frame.

Yet Susan Cushman , NU’s alcohol and other drug prevention coordinator, imagines the per-ception gap is not exclusive to NU.

“It definitely can translate to study abroad situations,” she said.

New members of a social community — in this case, NU students in a foreign location — often “adjust their behavior to fit what they think is expected of them,” she added.

Ramped-up drinking in unfamiliar groups, however, can be a pricklier situation, Cushman explained. Traveling students’ drinking hab-its are typically interpreted as “normative” on first sight, and onlookers are far less likely to voice their concern as consumption spirals out of control.

“They think, ‘That guy is drinking how he always drinks,’” she said. “It’s not as easy for them to question the high-risk heavy drinking.”

Current study abroad students acknowledge the negative stereotypes causing these miscon-ceptions. Brechner described Spaniards as “cau-tious drinkers” but not too keen on their unruly American visitors.

“Very rarely will you see visibly drunk Span-ish students,” he wrote in an e-mail, “and I have heard multiple Spaniards express distaste for the Brits — and also the Americans, I’m sure — that come here and go nuts.”

It is at this notorious intersection of expecta-tion and reality that Cushman hopes to debunk dangerous false perceptions. She said her office works with Lisa Currie , NU’s director of heath promotion and wellness, to coordinate pre-de-parture orientations, “helping to manage stu-dent expectations around the drinking culture in their host country.”

Typically, substance abuse prevention instruc-tion is integrated into larger information ses-sions, which occur once prior to and at the beginning of the on-site quarter. But Anthony admits the inherent disadvantage of spacing such student briefings far in advance of actual departure dates. For example, pre-departure orientation is usually scheduled in late April or early May for students traveling to the southern hemisphere over the summer or the northern hemisphere in the fall.

“To get that information to students when they actually need it — it’s a challenge,” Anthony said. “Could we do better? Well, we try to do better in everything we do.”

In comparison, the University of Chicago conducts two separate pre-departure meetings, one in which alcohol is explicitly addressed, according to a spokesman in the study abroad office.

NU study abroad students assert the real issue isn’t when they are informed of the risks of drinking overseas — it’s if they’ve even been educated in the first place. Medill junior Jonah Newman , a former Daily staffer who is studying in Morocco , recalled that the study abroad office emphasized the “difficul-ties that can arise when trying to integrate into a different culture” but never specifically mentioned alcohol intake.

“If you’re asking whether NU did a good job of preparing us for different drinking cultures, I think the answer is no,” he said.

Anthony estimates that fidg-ety outgoing students will only allow him two hours to “talk about a variety of issues that are important.”

It’s a tricky balance of ade-quate education and engagement that Cushman hopes to strike someday. Despite maintaining her position for less than a year after leaving a similar post at Loyola University Chicago , she’s already considering new methods of sharing the same old adages.

“I know that we’re going to look at ways we’re going to work together … and build on what we have,” Cushman said.

Cautionary tales and counting confl ict

Despite lackluster preventa-tive education, recurring cases of overindulgent students aren’t exactly piling up on her second-floor desk at Searle Hall, Cushman said. Any significant conflicts stemming from alcoholic excess are immediately relayed from the site director to the on-campus study abroad office, Anthony added. Emergency communication with third-party programs is a little less expe-dient, but nonetheless “a quick loop” of contact back to the appropriate administrator ensues.

If an alcohol-related incident requires medi-cal attention, it is treated as a mental health issue under HTH Worldwide’s International Assis-tance, Emergency Evacuation and Repatriation Accident and Sickness Insurance policy . NU mandates that all students purchase the zero-deductible, $250,000 plan before departing for their host country.

In the 15 years NU has utilized HTH’s cover-age, Director of Risk Management Chris Johnson said he has handled no claims involving booze-centric injury. But that doesn’t mean occasional accounts of bibulous conduct while studying abroad haven’t trickled into his mailbox.

“We’ve certainly had some binges overseas,” he said. “We’d be kidding ourselves if we didn’t think students would behave in foreign locations as they do on campus.”

Anthony’s most recent recollection of any grave incidents occurred 12 years ago, when a reportedly inebriated female student stumbled out of a Spanish bar and into a taxicab, where she was “put in an awkward position” by a fellow rider. The NU pupil was in too incoherent of a state to adequately alert the driver in proper Spanish, he said.

Thankfully, Anthony explained, the potential attacker fled the taxicab as it approached the for-eign student dormitory and its graveyard-shift security guard. After immediate correspondence with the Women’s Center, it was concluded that no acts of rape were committed throughout the ordeal.

“It was just one of those cautionary tales where you understand the pickles you can get yourself into,” Anthony said.

But establishing causation between amped-up drinking overseas and dangerous anecdotes is nonetheless a faulty leap of logic, said Pedersen, the study author.

The Forum on Education Abroad’s Incident Database Pilot Project aims to examine that issue. Based on student data collected between August 2009 and February 2010 from 30 colleges and universities, the organization compiled a preliminary report quantitating varying types of study abroad incidents. These acute conflicts range from sexual harassment to personal injury to robbery or theft.

Of the 211 total cases reported on the survey, 30 students indicated “alcohol” as a con-tributing factor for their incident. Only “poor judgment” net-ted more votes as a likely cause, with 64 students marking it down as an incident catalyst. In addition, “extreme intoxication — alcohol” was the third leading type of behavioral/psycho-logical event reported, trailing behind “acute anxiety” and “acute depression.”

Localizing the international report’s conclu-sions, though, is nearly impossible, Anthony said. He added he “has absolutely no way to gauge” whether study abroad students’ drinking habits are plummeting, remaining consistent or skyrocketing in a host country. What he agrees he can do is continue to stress the momentous-ness of faithfully representing their home cam-pus overseas.

“That’s our hope,” Anthony said. “That stu-dents will listen to what we say, however as long as we say it .”

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“Beards, they grow on you” read the screen in the center of the stage as five Northwestern students competed for the title of Mr. No Shave November on Friday.

Some of Northwestern’s burliest manly-men gathered for the fundraising pageant hosted by Relay for Life. The pageant raised a total of $4,191 for the American Cancer Center.

Winner Matt Connolly, a Medill junior, earned the title of the first Mr. No Shave November.

“I do No Shave November every year, so I tried to treat this one as any other year,” Connolly said. “This time, I got to do it for a good cause and get an award for it.”

The pageant kicked off with a milk mustache

contest, in which the five contestants were judged by the quality of their dairy mustaches. Follow-ing that, the audience watched a documentary that interviewed all the contestants as they were going through the weeks of not shaving. When asked what the hardest part about growing his beard was, one contestant jokingly answered “applying the glue.”

The contestants earned points in five categories: amount of money fundraised, beard aesthetics, con-test performance, interviews and audience opinion. There were 50 points total that were scored in the end by the three judges.

Following the first contest, there was also a mud pie contest in which the five bearded men tried to pick up as many gummy bears in the pie as possible — giving them each a thick new chocolate beard.

As contestants cleaned up, the a cappella group Asterik also performed, providing a different kind of

entertainment for the cheering audience. About 30 people attended the pageant in Fisk Hall. Since this was the first year Relay for Life put on the pageant, some audience members were not sure what they were going to witness.

“I didn’t know what to expect,” Communication freshman Alexandria Paul said. “But it’s really fun and I’m definitely coming back next year.”

In addition to this event, Relay for Life will also have a benefit concert in Winter Quarter and a “Birthday Party” fundraiser during Spring Quarter.

“This is the first time we did Mr. No Shave November and it has been the largest and most successful fundraiser we have done,” said Relay for Life’s public relations fundraising coach Kate Lip-stein, a SESP senior.

The final stage of the pageant included interviews

in which each contes-tant answered ques-tions pertaining to his beard or mustache.

After the inter-views, the audience had a chance to par-ticipate and show their appreciation for each contestant before the crowning of Mr. No Shave November.

“I don’t think I’m ready to shave (my beard) yet,” Connolly said after winning the con-test. “It’ll stick around.”

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Number one: Choices like 1835 Hinman’s vegan burritos earned Northwestern PETA’s “most Vegan-Friendly College” title in the small-school category. NU bested 30 other college and universities to claim the prize.

NU earns number one rank in vegan food offerings

The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals declared Northwestern “the most Vegan-Friendly College in the U.S.” in the small-school category Friday.

The winner was determined by an online bracket vote on PETA2.com, the organization’s youth website. NU was chosen from 31 other colleges and universities.

“Northwestern stands as a role model for colleges across the country when it comes to educating students about how their food choices affect not only their own health but also the world around them,” said Dan Shan-non, director of peta2, in the release.

PETA highlighted some of NU’s vegan din-ing hall options, including pumpkin chowder and vegetarian barbecue riblet sandwiches.

Last year NU ranked ninth in the compe-tition, which noted choices on campus like curried tofu with jasmine rice and vegan seitan tacos. It also reached the top spot in 2007.

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of the school day for three years, and all of the students participate in 2-3 conferences every year, said Joanna Rudnik, director of conferences and partnerships.

Friday’s event was hosted by the Associated Student Government and is in its third year at NU. In its first year, the event brought in 70 students, growing to 125 students last year and reaching a record high of 360 students this year from 13 different Chicago high schools, said ASG President Claire Lew.

It also used to be an overnight event, but as the number of attendees increased, housing all the visiting students was no longer feasible. This year, the day of events ran from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Rudnik said the increase in participants was due to the growth of the US Empowered program, which now serves 550 students in the Chicago area.

“It’s an event that I always look forward to

because of the tangible effect it has on these students, as well as furthering our commitment to minority involvement,” Lew, a SESP senior, said.

Friday’s activities kicked off with a welcome presentation in the Technological Institute’s Ryan Family Auditorium, followed by a guided scav-enger hunt that took students to major campus resources like Norris University Center, the Uni-versity Library, the Rock and Searle Hall. For many of the students, this was their first time seeing the NU campus.

“Y’all got lots of guests coming here and a bunch of fun experiences,” said Vanessa Led-ford, a junior at TEAM Englewood Community AcademyHigh School. “I like the Rock and the lake. Our mentor was great and kept the whole group talking.”

In the afternoon, students broke off into discus-sion groups for an hour at five different locations throughout campus, during which they could

ask questions of student speakers. Lew said that ASG chose students they knew had compelling personal stories.

Main topics of discussion included the best way to study for standardized tests, how to write a college essay, how to manage the application process and how to choose a major.

“We just want them to get the experience of understanding the application process, find-ing resources on campus and hearing firsthand accounts of college students and how they coped with certain roadblocks on the way to success,” Rudnik said.

Aasha Dunson, a junior at Corliss High School, called the event “inspiring.”

“It’s encouraging for me to see a college, so I can succeed in life,” she said. “I am definitely going to apply here.”

Because the audience was largely composed of minority students, the panel speakers also addressed the importance of diversity on col-lege campuses. NU’s class of 2014 is 21 percent Asian-American, 9 percent Hispanic, 7 percent African-American and 7 percent international students.

SESP senior Rosey Martinez, who came from

a high school with a lot of minorities, said her adjustment to NU was “a bit of a culture shock.”

“Sometimes I was the only minority in a class (here),” Martinez said. “But one thing I learned to do was use it as an advantage. You bring some-thing to a classroom that no one else is bringing, and you should take pride in that.”

High school students were led around cam-pus by 30 mentors who applied online and were selected by ASG.

“It’s important to see what college life is like,” said Benjy Leibowitz, a Weinberg freshman who showed students around campus. “Familiarizing yourself with this can make the college searching process a lot less intimidating.”

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their field.“I dig it,” said Nick Schreiber, a first-year IMC

graduate student. “I know how great the Medill name is for journalists and I would love to trans-fer that brand to our program. The name change would be the first step.”

A new logo, if it is passed, will include the word “Medill” in about two-thirds of the space, with “Northwestern University” below it and “Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing” on the bottom, Lavine said.

“For a very long time, the name Medill has appeared without Northwestern and North-western has appeared without Medill,” Lavine said. “We’re really proud of this institution that is our home so we need to be certain that we always have Northwestern and Medill together. They add to each other and each one becomes stronger.”

Medill is named after Joseph Medill, one of the founding editors of the Chicago Tribune and former mayor of Chicago.

Prof. Douglas Foster, who teaches journal-ism, said the name change proposal was a major

component of two different faculty meetings and that there have been “two competing interests.” One is that the name should encompass all of the school’s programs. The other is that a change will not accurately represent the school, Foster said.

“There was concern that it would mute and muddy exactly what the school is,” he said. “But the opinion of the dean is that it actually will clarify it.”

That would seem to continue an ongoing dis-pute within Medill over the school’s focus on marketing.

Fifth-year Medill student Ryan Craggs said the change seems “cosmetic” and institutional, and reflects the dean’s background and interests.

“He’s a marketer,” he said. “My concern is how much they’re thinking about our future as opposed to the future of the school itself. The

two are not mutually exclusive.”Prof. Larry Stuelpnagel, who teaches journal-

ism with an emphasis on broadcast journalism, said the name change reflects both the school’s history and its adaptation for the future.

“We’re still going to be the Medill School of Journalism, but this reflects 21st-century media,” he said.

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“It’s encouraging for me to see a college, so I can succeed in life. I am

definitely going to apply here.”Aasha Dunson,Corliss High School junior

Potential new logo will emphasize Medill’s connection to Northwestern as a whole “We’re still going to be the Medill

School of Journalism, but this reflects 21st-century media.”Larry Stuelpnagel,

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Runaway: Northwestern lost big to in-state rival Illinois 48-27, dropping the two teams’ first game at Wrigley Field since 1923. Illinois running back Mikel Leshoure ran for a school-record 330 yards, while redshirt freshman Mike Trumpy came up with 129 yards on the ground for the Wildcats. Redshirt freshman Evan Watkins was 10-of-20 passing for 135 yards.Mackenzie McCluer/The Daily Northwestern

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By Minjae Parkthe daily northwestern

For the first time in eight years, the NCAA Championships will have a runner bearing “North-western” on her uniform.

Sophomore Audrey Huth will compete at Indi-ana State in Terre Haute on Monday as an indi-vidual runner, becoming the first NU athlete to step onto the national cross-country stage since the Wildcats qualified as a team in 2002.

“It’s a huge step forward not only for Audrey but for our program just to have representation there,” coach April Likhite said. “It’s a strong indicator of the direction our program is going. Audrey is absolutely a huge part of that.”

Huth qualified thanks to her school-record-set-ting performance at the NCAA Regional Cham-pionships, where the Cats finished 11th out of 27 teams. Her 17th-place individual showing put her in contention for the four individual spots handed to runners whose teams don’t qualify. Her entry depended on Kansas State becoming the fifth team from the Midwest Region to earn a berth, since Kansas State had two runners who finished above Huth.

“In the morning, the different websites that you can follow, estimates of the teams that were going, they all were saying Kansas State was in,” Likhite said. “But I waited until it was coming from the NCAA that she got in.”

Likhite recalls the precise time Huth’s

qualification was confirmed: 3:05 p.m.“I was waiting all day to get a call from my coach,”

Huth said. “When I found out, I was ecstatic — I started jumping up and down. Me and my room-mates were super excited.”

Huth enters the meet with some of the best times in NU history.

She earned All-Region recognition for the 25 top runners in the Midwest Regional, and her 20:35.8 time in the 6K course topped Rachel Evjen’s previ-ous record time of 20:52.28 set in 2002. Evjen led the team at 67th place in the NCAA Championships.

“I really wasn’t even sure what the record was at the time, actually,” Huth said. “I didn’t know I had broken it until the day after, but it was also very exciting. But definitely my goal was to get myself out and get on that line for Nationals.”

Two weeks earlier, Huth notched the Cats’ best finish in the Big Ten Championships since 2003 with a 20th-place finish. Her 20:52.7 time fell 5.1 seconds short of cracking the top 14, denying her All-Big Ten honors.

“At the end of the day, her goal was to be All-Big Ten,” Likhite said. “She won’t give herself a pat on the back always, so you have to do it for her: ‘Audrey, it was a great race.’ But I think that per-sonality is what drives her to be the best that she can be.”

Likhite said Huth is one of the most determined runners she has worked with as a coach. But given the sacrifices demanded of the sport, she added, successful runners have to find the right balance

academically and socially, too.

“She’s able to mess around in the training room — she’s just got a ton of personality,” sophomore teammate Kaley Stroup said, add-ing that Huth’s unique attire includes tutus. “But when it comes to com-peting, she has a distinct intensity.”

In Terre Haute, Huth is returning to the course where she set her previous personal-best 6K time of 21:10.2 at Pre-Nationals on Oct. 16.

“We know what time she ran then,” Likhite said. “We know she’s even fitter than she was five weeks ago. So, it really comes down to having the best race of your life on one day.”

As Huth is the only one on her team to compete in the NCAA Championships, she travels to Indiana with her coaches and those teammates who will make the trip just to cheer her on. For Likhite, who left NU in 2001 before returning in 2007, she heads to the meet for the first time in 10 years as a coach. In 2000, Evjen qualified for the competition as an individual.

“I’m ready to go and do this, it’s a great oppor-tunity,” Huth said.

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Qualifier: Sophomore runner Audrey Huth finished 17th at the NCAA Regional Championships. NU was 11th as a team.

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found a spark when a trick pass from wide receiver Eddie McGee fell into the hands of junior safety Brian Peters. Peters returned the pick 60 yards for the Cats’ first points of the game.

However, NU was unable to build off the momentum of its pick-six as Leshoure broke a 70-yard run on the next play from scrimmage, setting up a five-yard touchdown run by Ford.

After an interception from redshirt freshman quarterback Evan Watkins gave the Illini the ball at the NU 15-yard line, Illinois kicker Derek Dimke pushed a 28-yard field goal wide right. Trumpy responded to the fortunate miss with his huge run down the left sideline to bring the Cats within a touchdown.

The Illini opened the scoring in the second quarter with a 45-yard field goal from Dimke, one

of two converted field goals for him in the game. After a rare three-and-out from Illinois, fresh-

man wide receiver Venric Mark redeemed himself for an early fumble with a 58-yard punt return to the Illinois 14. The Cats were unable to make much of the great field position and had to settle for a 31-yard field goal by senior kicker Stefan Demos to make it 24-17.

On the ensuing Illinois possession, Peters came up with his second interception of the game on a deep ball to the NU 25-yard line.

That pick set up the Cats for their most balanced drive of the game, marching 75 yards for the tying score. Watkins finally found some comfort moving the ball through the air, completing 3-of-3 passes for 59 yards. Trumpy capped the drive with his second touchdown of the game, a two-yard rush to tie the game at 24-24.

The Illini responded with a drive from its own

nine-yard line that resulted in a 39-yard field goal for Dimke as time expired on the half.

Illinois slowed down the pace of the game con-siderably after a frantic first half and dominated time of possession. The Illini possessed the ball for more than 22 of the 30 minutes in the second half, methodically marching down the field in touch-down drives of seven, 13 and 14 plays.

Scheelhaase found A.J. Jenkins just across the goal line for a 10-yard completion, the only pass-ing touchdown of the game, while Ford added two rushing touchdowns in the fourth quarter to put the game out of reach for NU.

The Cats did little with the ball in the limited amount of time they possessed it. Of NU’s five drives in the second half, only one resulted in points — a 25-yard field goal by Demos — and just two lasted longer than three plays.

Watkins never managed to string together

consecutive successful drives and threw for only 135 yards on 10-of-20 passing with an intercep-tion. He was also unable to be a dual threat like junior quarterback Dan Persa, rushing seven times for 15 yards.

“The speed of the game was much faster,” Wat-kins said. “But I take credit for that. It’s my fault.”

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“The speed of the game was much faster. But I take credit for

that. It’s my fault.”Evan Watkins,redshirt freshman quarterback

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By Jonah L. Rosenblum the daily northwestern

Statistics can be misleading, per-haps none more so than the 27 points Northwestern scored against Illinois in Saturday’s loss at Wrigley Field.

Reading the box score, the casual observer might assume the Wildcats played well o� ensively and were sim-ply let down by their defense. � at assumption would be incorrect.

In the � rst half, the Cats turned the ball over three times, a season high,

and were lucky to be down just 27-24 heading into the locker room.

One of those turnovers, a fumble by redshirt freshman quarterback Evan Watkins , led to a touchdown that put the Fighting Illini up 14-0 not even � ve minutes into the game.

“It was pretty bad,” Watkins said. “We didn’t execute very well, so only being down three at the half, we’ll take that.”

In the second half, the o� ense was stagnant, scoring just three points.

“We just couldn’t get anything

going in the second half,” coach Pat Fitzgerald said. “We thought we made some adjustments to call some plays that we thought would be successful and we didn’t execute there.”

A significant portion of NU’s points came in spite of the o� ense, rather than because of it. � e � rst Cats touchdown came on a 59-yard interception that junior safety Brian Peters took to the house, while NU’s � rst � eld goal was set up by freshman wide receiver Venric Mark’s 58-yard punt return.

� e Cats’ o� ensive woes shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise, given that they were playing without junior quarterback Dan Persa , who accounted for more than 85 percent of the team’s yardage last week.

In his � rst collegiate start, Watkins completed just 10 of 20 passes for 135 yards with an interception, and other than one 24-yard run, he proved to be decidedly un-Persa-like when it came to scrambling ability.

“We’ve got to give credit to Illinois, they out-executed us,” Watkins said. “� ere are a lot of plays I wish I had back and now we just got to go for-ward this next week, work on those things, correct them, and come stron-ger next week.”

He said a� erward that going from practice to game speed was a di� cult adjustment to make.

“Obviously the speed of the game is much faster,” Watkins said. “(It was) my � rst time with actual experience seeing things in front of me at that speed, at that level, and just under-standing the timing of our routes and getting the ball out on time.”

� e Cats tried putting in a second quarterback, Kain Colter , to spice up

the attack, but the freshman failed to get anything going, recording just 10 yards on three carries. Fitzgerald had no regrets about burning Colter’s red-shirt, however, in Saturday’s game.

“He’ll be better in the future,” Fitzgerald said. “� ere’s no question in my mind that we had to get another quarterback ready. You can’t just go in there with one quarterback. We felt we’d be burying our heads in the sand.”

Oddly, the o� ense never warmed up, even as both quarterbacks gained valuable experience. A� er putting up 196 yards in the � rst half, the Cats racked up just 122 total yards in the second half.

There was one positive that emerged out of Saturday’s game. Redshirt freshman Mike Trumpy had another solid game, rushing for 129 yards and two touchdowns. His e� ort marked the second time this season he has cracked the 100-yard mark, something NU failed to do all of last season.

� e vast majority of those yards, however, came on one 80-yard run down the le� sideline, NU’s longest run from scrimmage since 1986 and one of its few o� ensive big plays of the game.

“It was an inside zone play,” Trumpy said. “I just read it and cut outside and the receivers did an outstanding job blocking down the � eld. Without Jer-emy’s block, I would not have scored that touchdown.”

Without that play, the Cats accu-mulated just 318 yards of total o� ense, compared to 559 yards from the Fighting Illini.

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NU again comes up short on

national stage

Forget 1970 or 1923. Let’s go way back to 1906.

� at year, the world’s � rst feature � lm was released, the

� rst radio broadcast was sent out and the Cubs put together the best regular season in baseball history (but still man-aged to lose the World Series, of course).

Also that year came the institution of the forward pass, a concept apparently lost on Illinois’s o� ense to no worry from coach Ron Zook .

Of course, it helps when your team runs for 519 yards.

“It’s about winning the game,” Zook said. “It’s not about who gets the credit.”

� ere was nothing fancy about Illi-nois’s o� ensive gameplan, aside from the poorly-executed trick pass from wide receiver Eddie McGee . Mikel Leshoure hit home run a� er home run like Babe Ruth, while the Northwestern defense ran at about the same speed as the Great Bambino.

“Pretty much everything we were calling, we executed and that’s why they were working,” Leshoure said.

� e hype behind this game was certainly unlike anything I’d ever seen for an NU game during my time here in Evanston. ESPN gave it the full treatment with “College GameDay” coming to town, and the controversial rule change stole the college football spotlight all around the country. If you didn’t know Notre Dame played in Yankee Stadium on Saturday, you’re not the only one.

Too bad the Wildcats have a way of losing on the national stage when the other team isn’t named Iowa. See 2008 against Michigan State, the 2008 Alamo Bowl, the 2010 Outback Bowl, the col-lapse this year against Michigan State and the even bigger collapse at Penn State.

To say NU dropped the ball at its grand Wrigley appearance would be an understatement.

In retrospect, the dearth of produc-tion from the o� ense isn’t surprising. Even with the high they were riding on a� er their last-minute victory against Iowa, the Cats were missing more than 75 percent of their o� ensive production in Dan Persa . Evan Watkins , the new starter, had thrown all of seven passes at NU.

Nobody could have seen Leshoure’s epic performance coming, but the run defense continues to struggle against teams with multiple rushing threats. Penn State’s Evan Royster and Silas Redd burned the Cats for 265 yards on the ground and Purdue’s Rob Henry and company ran all over the � eld for 232 yards.

It wasn’t just Leshoure making it hap-pen for the Illini. Backup Jason Ford ran for 86 yards and three touchdowns, and quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase kept the defense guessing with 97 yards on the ground.

� e Cats have seen some big moments this season — for their oppo-nents. Michigan State kept its then-per-fect season alive by coming back from down 17-0, while Penn State got JoePa his 400th win by scoring 35 unanswered points in � ve straight possessions.

Assuming the Bowl Championship Series standings hold, NU will travel to Madison on Saturday as Wisconsin plays for a chance to travel to Pasadena for the � rst time since 2000.

Considering it’s at 2:30 p.m. and on ABC, I wouldn’t put my money on the Cats.

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By Colin Becht the daily northwestern

When a player uses a word like “embarrassing” to describe his team’s play, it’s usually not a good sign.

Behind a complete collapse in run defense and a multifaceted Illinois rushing attack, Northwestern (7-4, 3-4 Big Ten) fell to Illinois (6-5, 4-4) 48-27 at Wrigley Field on Saturday.

Illinois running back Mikel Leshoure set a school record with 330 yards on 33 carries and two touch-downs . � ose rushing yards are also the most by a Football Bowl Subdivi-sion player this season.

“It’s a little embarrassing,” junior defensive end Vince Browne said. “� at’s not us.”

Leshoure was just one of many weapons in the Illinois ground game as quarterback Nathan Scheelhaase added 19 carries for 97 yards and running back Jason Ford gained 86 yards on 17 carries with three touchdowns .

“Pretty much everything we were calling, we executed and that’s why they were working,” Leshoure said. “Coach (Ron Zook) had a really good game plan and we executed our jobs the whole game.”

Illinois’ 519 yards on the ground exceeded NU’s total o� ensive yards by more than 200 . Leshoure’s 341 total yards alone was more than the Cats’ 318.

“It’s just guys trying to do more than what they should and trying to strip the ball before somebody brings him down,” Browne said of the defense’s struggles with stopping the run. “Especially once we were down a little bit, I think instead of just doing your job and tackling like you know how, people were trying to strip before the guy’s on the ground.”

The NU defense was

uncharacteristically poor stopping the Illini on third downs. Entering Satur-day, the Cats allowed their opponents to convert on third down just 32 per-cent of the time . Illinois moved the chains on 10 of 17 third downs .

“Our inability to stop the run and get o� the � eld on third down ended up making it di� cult for us to � nd a

way to win,” coach Pat Fitzgerald said. “We’re disappointed to say the least.”

Illinois needed little from Scheel-haase’s arm as the freshman completed 6 of 13 passes for just 40 yards with a touchdown and a pick . NU is now 0-2 when giving up fewer than 50 yards passing, including its 20-17 loss to Purdue , in which quarterback Rob Henry threw for 47 yards .

“It’s about winning the game,” Zook said. “We’re going to do whatever we have to do to win the game.”

For the Cats, redshirt freshman running back Mike Trumpy was the lone o� ensive highlight, amassing 129

rushing yards on 13 carries . Trumpy produced the longest run by a NU player since 1982, an 80-yard touch-down in the � rst quarter .

“It was just an inside zone play,” Trumpy said. “I just ran it and cut outside, and the receivers did an out-standing job blocking down� eld.”

� at score was part of a wild � rst quarter that saw 35 points scored and three major swings in momentum.

After surrendering two quick touchdowns and fumbling the ball twice on its � rst two possessions , NU

One-sided: Illini run over NU

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Flustered: Quarterback Evan Watkins struggled in his starting debut, going 10-for-20 passing for 135 yards with an interception.

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Leshoure thing: Illinois running back Mikel Leshoure ran for 330 yards, a school record, against NU on Saturday at Wrigley Field. As a team, 519 of Illinois’s 559 total offense yards came on the ground.

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ON THE RECORDWe’re disappointed to say the least.

— Coach Pat Fitzgerald, on his team’s 48-27 loss against Illinois on Saturday

ON DECKWomen’s Basketball

NU at Saint Mary’s (Calif.), 5 p.m. FridayVolleyball

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