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By EMILIA BARROSSE The Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/health
Some doctors save lives. Some go the extra mile to change lives. Prof. Edward (Feinberg '81)Traisman does both.
Traisman , an Evanston Township High School alumnus who graduated from NU’s Honors Program in Medi-cal Education in 1981, is a pediatri-cian who focuses on work with special needs children and an associate pro-fessor at the Feinberg School of Medi-cine.
He is renowned in his field for ex-hibiting exceptional compassion and care for his patients, said Irwin Be-nuck , Traisman’s partner at their local clinic, Traisman Benuck Merens Kimbo .
“He is an enthusiastic doctor,” Be-nuck said. “He’s caring, with an excel-lent fund of knowledge. He works well with the patients. He goes the extra yards to get his patients what they
need.”Traisman, whose father and grand-
father were both pediatricians, began his medical career at NU in the 1970s . He said his education at NU trained him well clinically and gave him ex-perience dealing with patients di-rectly.
“It’s very collegial,” Traisman said. “They treat you like a peer. While you may be a freshman in medical school, you’re still a peer physician, so there’s really no hierarchy of power.”
Traisman works primarily with children who have cerebral palsy and mental retardation.
“What I love about him is the fact that he is always thinking about the patient,” said Shelley Stern, one of Traisman’s clients for the past 26 years .
Ellyn Samsky , another of Trais-man’s patients, said she thinks every generation of the Traisman family doctors is “wonderful.”
“Edward’s grandfather took care of my mother’s family, so there was
never a decision where we were going to go,” Samsky said. “We’ve been part of their clientele for 68 years now. Ev-eryone should take their kids to him.”
Traisman said growing up in a medical family helped him realize his passion early .
“I liked what I saw as a child, and I felt like it was a good way to apply my science knowledge,” he said. “I went into (medicine) with no intention of doing pediatrics, but I found I really liked it. Kids are fun to work with.”
Traisman was recently honored at ETHS with the Distinguished Alumni Award —an award that recognizes ex-pertise and excellence in the recipi-ent’s field.
But Traisman said the proudest moments in his career are the simple ones.
“I actually like it most when my patients just say ‘Thank you,’” he said. “I don’t ask for it, but when I get a thank you, that’s all I need.”
ETHS honors HPME alum for work with special needs children
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Pediatrician: Edward Traisman, HPME ’81, was recently honored.
Race debate continues into new year
ASG enters new quarter ‘crunch time’
By Jessica Allen The Daily Northwestern www.dailynorthwestern.com/student-culture
Northwestern’s ongoing problems with race relations gained a television audience over Win-ter Break.
Communication senior Joshua Williams went on Chicagoland Television on Dec. 29 to discuss minor-ity enrollment at NU, the racial educational achieve-ment gap and his claim that four NU employees treated him unfairly based on his race last May, when he was stopped four times in the Donald P. Ja-cobs Center and asked for his WildCARD to verify he was a student.
Williams’ story also served as inspiration for an event held Dec. 30 by The Black Star Project, a Chi-cago community organization founded by activist Phillip Jackson to improve minority educational achievement.
The event, titled “Black Students at Northwest-ern University Fight Against Racial Profiling, White Students in ‘Blackface,’ and a Paucity of Black Male Students on Campus,” attracted several NU alumni, including Vernon Ford , SESP ’68, who said NU still faces the same problems with diversity it did when he was in school.
Jackson criticized NU for having a “laissez-faire” attitude toward minority enrollment, and Williams said events like the blackface incident occur because of the low number of black students on campus.
NU has been working the past few years to at-tract talented minority students, said Burgwell Howard, the interim dean of students. The DAILY reported there were 132 black students admitted to the Class of 2013, an increase from 87 students ad-mitted to the Class of 2012.
“In terms of Mr. Jackson, I (want) to be clear that the University welcomes the help of folks who can bring NU to the attention of talented students,” Howard said. “There are lots of wonderful students in the Chicago Public School system, and we would hope that they would consider a top-tier institution in their own backyard.”
Jackson said he had arranged to meet with Uni-versity President Morton O. Schapiro to address Jackson’s concerns that NU does not recognize the significance of race. Schapiro was unavailable for comment Wednesday.
“I believe President Schapiro understands that you’ve got to have community involved,” he said. “It’s my expectation that NU is going to partner with the Evanston community, with the Chicago community, to accomplish a goal that’s going to be good for all of them.”
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Associated Student Government senators and executive board members are entering “crunch time” if they want to make a lasting impact on Northwestern, said Speaker of the Senate Samir Pendse at the first ASG Senate meeting of the quarter.
“Fall Quarter is a quarter of transition, the Weinberg senior said. “Most people are new, and everyone is getting adjusted. Winter Quarter has to be the time every year where stuff gets done.”
At the meeting, executive board members re-ported on the progress of their projects, in-formed senators of plans for the quarter and dis-cussed ways to ensure their initiatives will have
a lasting impact. “All of the things I am working on are things
that will be continued to be worked on after I am gone ,” ASG President Mike McGee said . “If that takes a month, if it takes a year, if it takes 10 years, I want to make sure that students are continuing to work on these and make sure we keep these proj-ects sustainable.”
McGee, a Communication senior, and Tommy Smithburg, the executive vice president, plan to work on an official proposal for a new student center. The proposal could involve remodeling Norris University Center , moving the student center to a more central location or building an entirely new structure.
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Progress: ASG President Mike McGee speaks at the first Senate meeting of Winter Quarter. McGee and Tommy Smithburg, executive vice president, hope to propose a new student center.
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By Ganesh ThippeswamyThe Daily Northwestern dailynorthwestern.com/science
A Northwestern-led research team re-cently discovered evidence indicating anti-depressants may impact more elements of an individual’s psyche than they are pre-scribed for.
The study, published in the December is-sue of Archives of General Psychiatry, comes nearly 20 years after the psychiatrist Peter Kramer’s book, “Listening to Prozac.” The best-seller describes how antidepres-sants cause profound changes in brain chemistry, giving users boosted feelings of self-worth.
“In my patients, I was seeing that some who had responded well to (the treatments) weren’t just getting over whatever it was that the medicine was prescribed for,” said Kramer, a clinical professor at Brown Uni-versity. “They would come in and say they were more confident.”
At the time of the book’s publication, there was little scientific evidence to sup-port such phenomena. But NU’s study is one of the first pieces of research to shed light on how antidepressants may impact person-ality and why that may be important.
The experiment, led by clinical psycholo-gist and NU Prof. Tony Tang, examined 240 adults with major depressive disorder. In a placebo-controlled study, those patients who were assigned to take the antidepres-sant paroxetine showed more than just an improvement in their symptoms—it ap-peared as if they took on substantially dif-ferent personalities following their treat-ment.
Such alterations in personality may be crucial to overcoming depression in the long-term, said Tang, the study’s lead au-
thor.“Treating depression in the short-term is
not that difficult for the vast majority of pa-tients,” he said. “But somewhere between 50 (and) 70 percent of people relapse within a year—that is where the real struggle is at.”
Patients were assessed by measuring the degree to which they exhibited two person-ality traits, extraversion and neuroticism, using a validated 60-item test known as the NEO Five Factor Inventory, said co-author Benjamin Schalet, a clinical psychology PhD student at NU. The research team was particularly interested in these two person-ality dimensions since previous research has drawn a link between neuroticism and ex-traversion levels and the likelihood of devel-oping depression.
“People who are at risk for depression tend to have unusually high levels of neurot-icism and unusually low levels of extraver-sion,” Tang said.
The data showed that those who took an-tidepressant medications like paroxetine ex-perienced a much greater decrease in neu-roticism and an increase in extraversion compared to patients who were only given placebos. These trait shifts may be driving forces behind long-term improvements in mood, Tang said.
The new findings raise the possibility that antidepressant medications like parox-etine directly produce changes in personal-ity. This goes against the long-standing hy-pothesis that a patient’s increased extrover-sion and decreased neuroticism are by-products of alleviating depressive symp-toms, not direct results of the drugs’ bio-chemical effects.
“It’s the contrary of what people had thought for many years,” Kramer said.
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• Stressful experience of trying to balance class, work, social life and other conflicting expectations
• Uncertainty about money
• Uncertainty about the future after college
• Homesickness and the experience of leaving one’s family for the first time• Problems with romantic and sexual relationships, which many students are experiencing for the first time
• Sleep deprivation and poor sleep habits
• Poor diet and exercise habits
• Alcohol or drug abuse, which is a common problem on college campuses
• Sexual assault, which is also a common problem on college campuses
• Eating disorders, another common problem
• The anxiety of coming out to family and peers as a homosexual, another common college experience
• Dorm and friendship “drama”
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In addition to allegations of racial profil-ing, NU has faced controversy with the Mul-ticultural Student Association director and a Halloween blackface incident in the last year. Dulce Acosta-Licea, external relations vice president for the Muslim-cultural Student Association, said she was impressed by stu-dent response to cultural issues during Fall Quarter, especially efforts initiated by the Coalition of Colors.
“We can only do so much without our fel-low multicultural group members,” the Wein-berg senior said. “Especially now with the current climate, we’re growing our push for ethnicity and diversity.”
Coalition of Colors member Alex Sims said she thinks small steps have been made but still has hopes for the future.
“(The incident) allowed people to articu-late some of their problems with the Univer-sity, but at the same time people were able to keep a positive mind frame,” the SESP senior said. “It was the first time the entire campus had been involved in a discussion on race—
faculty down to students. Now it’s time to do something about it.”
Proposed solutions, such as the creation of safe spaces, curriculum changes and the NU Police Department advisory board, have not fully materialized, Sims said.
“It’s getting to be a frustrating process,” she said.
The initiative, ‘Inclusive NU,’ created in the aftermath of the blackface forum to con-tinue dialogue on the issue, also has plans for the quarter, Sims said. The group plans to re-lease a video to increase public awareness on diversity issues.
University Provost Daniel Linzer said he would be interested in any effort to bring qualified students to campus. NU is
currently working with organizations such as QuestBridge and the Chicago Public School District, he said.
“Do we have a lot of work? Absolutely,”
he said. “But I’m glad to see we’re working on them.”
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Forum: Moderator Barnor Hesse, an African American Studies professor, addressed about 600 people at a forum held at Norris in the aftermath of the blackface incident.
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Smithburg, a Weinberg Senior, said his top priority was to gain official University ap-proval for the new center.
“For 15 years now, it has been confirmed that Norris doesn’t meet the needs of the stu-dent body,” he said. “By the time I graduate or by next fall, if this could be approved by the University, that would be a huge mile-stone.”
Academic Director Muhammad Safdari said his committee has made progress on sev-
eral projects, such as improvements in envi-ronmental and American Sign Language cur-riculum and the organization of InterNU, an internship preparation fair occurring today in the Louis Room of Norris.
The Weinberg senior said he hopes to con-tinue to make progress on these projects, as well as on technical improvements to CTECs and CAESAR.
“We got a lot of things done that people wanted and got a lot of students to work to-gether,” Safdari said. “The key is to make sure that we are making meaningful progress and that when I leave, (these projects) don’t
get thrown out.”Matt Bellassai, student life director, also
said he hopes to leave his projects, including a listening campaign about dining and mail-room reform, in a way that provides a smooth and efficient transition for his suc-cessor.
“One of the problems that ASG has sometimes is that we spend a lot of time transitioning, passing off from one admin-istration to the next,” the Weinberg sopho-more said. “(We need to make) sure that if we can’t finish a particular project, they have a good foundation so that they can
pick that back up.” All ASG members—not just the executive
board—should realize they have the ability to make a difference through student govern-ment, Pendse said.
“I want to make sure senators and people coming into ASG are motivated and produc-tive, that they feel like they can actually get stuff done in ASG,” he said. “This year my job and my goal has been to empower all of these people to do things and make an im-pact.”
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The best part of a new year is the feeling of naive opti-mism that permeates the first weeks of January—be-
fore you fall behind on your read-ings, before you come to the realiza-tion that dental floss is a marketing creation and before the length of the walk to SPAC renders itself an insurmountable obstacle to the pur-suit of fitness.
We all make resolutions we don’t keep. It’s a sad fact of life, kind of like how adorable baby pigs grow up to be ugly and delicious.
I’d like to be able to say I’m bet-ter than most, but sadly, I too was unable to accomplish all the goals I set out for myself in 2009: I’m not technically a ninja yet, and Megan Fox still refuses to publicly ac-knowledge our relationship.
Still feeling the sting of failure, I’ve decided for 2010 I’m going to
give up on silly dreams and focus on a few crucial goals that will im-prove me as a human being.
First up is diet. After carefully weighing the merits of Atkins, South Beach and Dr. Donald, who wages a very aggressive e-mail campaign, I’ve decided my situa-tion calls for a more personalized plan. Consequently I’ve developed a comprehensive dietary regime that I believe will revolutionize the way people eat: The only foods allowed are grains, fruits, vegetables, meat, poultry, fish, dairy products, nuts, beans, yogurt, eggs, fats and sugars. Also included on the “OK” list are ingredients with names like mono-phyll hydrogenized glutenate, which were probably created in an alien laboratory somewhere but are crucial in the production of such di-etary staples as Pizza Rolls and Lit-tle Debbie products. I imagine it’ll be a huge hassle to keep consulting the list of approved foods every time I encounter something new that I want to eat, but that’s the sac-rifice I’m willing to make for health.
Secondly I’m not going to inject heroin for all of 2010. They say it’s difficult and painful to go cold tur-key, but those junkies just don’t
have my level of mental fortitude. I suspect this goal is going to be eas-ier than the diet, especially if my class handouts keep looking so deli-cious.
Finally I’ve made a commitment to attend every lingerie party the Victoria’s Secret models invite me to. At Northwestern it’s easy to get caught up in the studying, the homework, the classes, the studying and the classes, but it’s important to make time for social events, too. So I’ve decided the next time Gisele Bundchen texts me to hang out, I’ll do it no matter what, even if I have to tear myself away from an en-thralling piece on the conventions of interdepartmental negotiations in semi-plurocratic regimes. Be-cause that’s the kind of friend I am.
Aside from the fact that the economy’s novelty glasses sector will struggle in the coming decade now that the double zero in the year is gone, I have a good feeling about 2010. And though I may never be a ninja, I think I still have a decent shot at becoming a samurai.
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Fein misses mark with conservative bashing
It’s ironic that Jordan Fein’s “In defense of government: Conserva-tive propaganda comes to NU” col-umn Wednesday accused conserva-tives of campus propaganda while regurgitating all the most overused and bogus talking points available to the College Democrats-presiding, Daily Kos-reading crowd.
He got in his obligatory shot at Ronald Reagan. He accused the health care companies of “mon-strous profits.” Too bad the health insurance industry is one of the low-est profit industries in the country, typically clocking in barely ahead of inflation. He bashed conservative ties to (the actually highly profit-able) pharmaceutical industry.
Too bad it was President Obama who called big pharma into the White House back in August to cut a closed-door deal that removed all meaningful pharmaceutical reform from the health care bills in return for a huge wad of corporate cash for advertising in support of the legislation. He even whined about the conservative messages appear-ing around campus, as they have begun to appear everywhere as discontent grows with the Demo-
crats’ liberal plans. How dare someone challenge Northwestern’s left-wing orthodoxy.
If NU students are going to keep reading The Daily, it should be filled with something other than copy-pastes of Huffington Post ar-ticles from last October. Jordan, take a page out of coach Fitz’s play-book and deviate from the David Axelrod-approved game plan a lit-tle bit. Your readers, or you, might actually learn something.
— Adam SeidelWeinberg senior
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The choice of bad over worse will always draw its dissidents. As the Ev-anston City Council con-
siders closing two branches of the public library, we must remember why it has come to this.
The city currently faces a $9.5 million budget deficit, a product of both shortcomings in previous budgets and the tightening of funds caused by the recession. And this shortfall must be closed somehow. Cutting the libraries could save the city $291,000 in the 2010-11 fiscal year, according to the proposal—not nearly enough to close the gap, but a sig-nificant enough dent to be worthy of debate despite our immediate qualms.
Consider the cost of keeping the branches open against the value they provide to the community. Closing the branches is not about
devaluing libraries, but about con-sidering whether the city is using its taxpayer money well if it keeps these branches open.
Closing the library locations will provide much-needed long-term relief while leaving open the possibility of reinstating the branches when the deficit is set-tled. It’s not going to save as much as some of the other proposals, such as mandatory furloughs, lay-offs for city employees and in-creased fees for garbage collec-tion, but will still chip away at Ev-anston’s debts.
In an online poll conducted by the city, residents’ votes put shut-ting the two library branches among the most popular cost-cut-ting measures. Scientifically this poll cannot say much scientifically about Evanston residents’ views, but it does show closing the librar-ies is on their minds.
Under the proposal, the main library, 1703 Orrington Ave., would remain open, a facility stocked with a wealth of resources that can accommodate the city’s needs. Though the singular loca-tion would inconvenience some residents, the main library is still accessible to most of Evanston. The added foot traffic downtown may offer a boost to struggling businesses during this recession, another perk to consolidating the city’s library system.
Of course the council does not want to let the citizens believe it undervalues their education and literacy, but this is a matter of practicality. The goal of the cur-rent budget season is to cut from the city’s spending without rais-ing the cost of living in Evanston, and cutting two libraries from the budget is a logical place to start.
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went 1-1 against the Cornhuskers and Ti-gers.
“We are guaranteed to be wrestling a few of the top teams in the country,” ju-nior Andrew Nadhir said. Every kid we face is going to be nationally ranked. We are not seeded like we have been in the past, so it’s going to be tough. But I am looking forward to seeing guys I wouldn’t see in the Big Ten.”
NU will face either Missouri or No. 5 Minnesota in its second match. The winners of each first-round match will face off in a quarterfinal, while the losers will fall to the consolation bracket.
Beyond looking to a potential fourth straight date with Missouri in the national du-
als, NU will have to focus on Central Michi-gan, whose performance in last week’s Mid-land Championships impressed Cysewski.
“They are a good dual meet team,” he said. “It will come down to matchups, and it could come down to the last match deter-mining who wins it. Our guys are not all that experienced, but we are just as talented as them.”
The Cats have been plagued by slow
starts this season, a result of its weaker weight classes having to wrestle first in most meets. In the season-opening NU Du-als, the heavyweight class was drawn first for NU’s losses against Purdue and Stanford. The Cats have struggled at the top of their lineup in the heavyweight, 125-, 133- and 141-pound weight classes, which led to early deficits of 15-0 against the Boilermakers and 18-0 against the Cardinal.
“We’d hope to have weight drawn where we can build momentum, like 141 or 149 pounds, and then go back and forth,” Cy-sewski said. “We’d hate to have a situation where we lose three matches in a row. If ev-eryone does their job, the team result will take care of itself.”
Cysewski is relying on redshirt senior Eric Metzler (133) to regain his form from last year’s tournament, in which he went
2-0 against Nebraska and Missouri. Met-zler, who has wrestled inconsistently this season, will be the most experienced player on the mat for the Cats. And though redshirt sophomore John Schoen (197) and junior Andrew Nadhir (149) each went 0-2 in the National Duals a year ago, both are enjoying their strongest seasons yet. Na-dhir, who Cysewski called NU’s most con-sistent wrestler so far, will look to break the Cats’ slump this weekend—in the spot-light of the collegiate wrestling world.
“I was hoping we’d be doing a better job by now,” Nadhir said. “There is still a lot of time for improvement, and it’s not a lost sea-son. We’ll come on late in the year like I personally did last year, and we’re headed in the right direction.”
four of his free-throw attempts against Michigan State. His backup, 7-foot sopho-more Kyle Rowley, was 0-for-2 from the floor in each of the losses.
Their offensive frustrations also carried over to the defensive end. Illinois and Michigan State scored 89 and 91 points, re-spectively, and both teams got open looks down low and outrebounded NU by a sub-stantial margin.
“Most people, when their offense isn’t go-ing too good, it affects their defense,” coach Bill Carmody said. “As soon as they start get-ting a few points and making their foul shots, their defense will improve.”
Texas Pan-American figures to be an ideal opponent for the big men to get back on track. None of the Broncs’ starters are taller than
6-foot-7.That gives Mirkovic and Rowley nearly a
half-foot height advantage, which should al-low them to grab more offensive rebounds and get the ball closer to the basket.
“The biggest thing is just for our centers to have a sense of confidence,” Rowley said. “We’ll definitely have a lot of opportunities (against Texas Pan-American). It’s a chance for us to be a lot more physical.”
Plus, the nonconference game gives the Cats a short break from the physicality of the Big Ten.
“Michigan State and Illinois made it tough for us to cut,” junior point guard Michael Thompson said. “They were pushing us around and elbowing us, stuff like that. That’s just something we’re going to have to get used to in Big Ten play.”
With a trip to Michigan looming Sunday, NU is concentrating on being more aggressive de-
fensively. Rowley said the idea is for opponents to feel like they are “on the attack defensively rather than being on the attack offensively.”
Carmody and the players emphasized the intensity of the team’s three practices since the Michigan State loss. Mirkovic in particu-lar has been fueled by his recent struggles.
“He is using it as motivation,” Thompson said. “He’s working even harder than he’s been working and is starting to knock down shots like we know he can. He’s doing a better job finishing around the basket. I actually
think that pissed him off, because right now he’s trying to dunk everything that usually he would lay up. It’s exciting to see.”
The Cats will also get a boost from the re-turn of sophomore Davide Curletti, who missed five games with an ankle injury. He played for the first time in nearly a month against Michigan State, recording six minutes. Carmody said Curletti wasn’t 100 percent, which was evident when he couldn’t plant his foot on one play.
Having Curletti back gives Carmody more options to try to maximize production out of his centers.
“If he’s ready to go, he’s going to get some minutes,” Carmody said. “He’s going to give us one more guy to go to. If anything, (Mirkovic and Rowley) will think, ‘Hey, I might be com-ing out, so I better play better.’”
Curletti’s return provides depth down lowMen’s BasketBall, page 8
Cats aiming for top-ranked teams at weekend dualWrestling, page 8
“There is still a lot of time for improvement, and it’s not a lost season.
”Andrew Nadhir, junior wrestler
“Most people, when their offense isn’t going too good, it affects their defense.
”Bill Carmody, men's basketball coach
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By Minjae ParkThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/womens-swimming
No. 23 Northwestern travels to Notre Dame on Saturday for a dual meet involving two of the strongest 50- and 100- yard freestyle swimmers in their schools’ histories.
Don't blink—you might not see who wins.
Fighting Irish junior Amy-wren Miller, who recorded the fastest times in school history for the 50- and 100-yard freestyle races, will race Wildcats senior Em-ily Wong. Wong broke the 50-yard freestyle Norris Aquatics Center re- cord last November. She now holds the 50- and 100-yard freestyle pool records, times that place her third for both in the school record book.
“They should have some really good head-to-head races,” coach Jimmy Tierney said. “Amy-wren is an excellent swimmer—she’s been in NCAAs before. But we feel great about Emily, and I would put Emily up against anyone in the country right now.”
In last season’s competition, Wong won the 100-yard freestyle with a time of 51.41, which was 0.04 faster than Miller. Later that after-noon, Miller answered by reaching the wall 0.07 seconds ahead of Wong in the 50-yard freestyle.
“I’m just looking forward to going down there and racing again,” Wong said. “It’s good to have good competition in dual meets. It pushes us harder and gets us to where we want to be for Big Tens.”
Wong’s impact on Saturday’s meet against Notre Dame (1-1) will extend beyond individual events. The bedrock of NU’s (6-2) relay teams, Wong has been a constant in the eight relays during the four dual meets this season. She has
swam in all but one of the races, the lone excep-tion coming when NU was already assured of a win over UIC.
“We definitely take great pride in relays, it’s a team thing,” Tierney said. “I’m excited about all the relays, and the girls are, too.”
Freshman Felicitas Lenz, already a two-time Big Ten Diver of the Week, will square off against Notre Dame senior Natalie Stitt, the Big East’s Most Outstanding Diver at the 2009 league championship meet. In last season’s meet against NU, Stitt and Notre Dame’s diving team took the top four scores on the three-meter springboard. Stitt also scored highest on the one-meter springboard.
“Notre Dame has always had very good div-ers,” Tierney said. “It’s always a bit of an advan-tage in the home pool, especially with diving. But I’m looking forward to (Lenz) going down there.”
Cats sophomore Jenny Wilson will look to
turn the tables on Notre Dame’s Samantha Maxwell. Last year, Wilson fell short in the 100- and 200-yard breaststroke events to Maxwell, who went on to set school records for both dis-tances two months later.
“Samantha is a very talented swimmer and had a very good end of the season last year,” Tierney said. “I’m excited for Jenny, Kathleen (Patterson) and Hannah (Points) and our girls to stand up and race against her.”
In addition to its strong swimmers, Notre Dame is mentored by reigning Big East Wom-en’s Coach of the Year Brian Barnes.
The Cats are looking forward to the chal-lenge of facing the Fighting Irish—familiar foes and 13-time Big East champions.
“There’s a rivalry, and we just want to per-form well and beat them,” freshman Meghan Fenn said.
Record-setting swimmers to highlight meet against Fighting Irish
By Katherine DriessenThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/mens-swimming
When it comes to swimming, Northwest-ern and Notre Dame make a perfect comple-mentary cross-conference couple.
But there will be no love lost this week-end in South Bend, Ind., as the Wildcats aim for their eighth consecutive series win over the Fighting Irish.
“We know this meet is going to be really tough,” coach Jarod Schroeder said. “They are weak where we are strong, and they are strong where we are weak.”
The two teams are opposites statistically. The Fighting Irish’s 37-man squad makes up in depth for what it lacks in first-place fin-ishes, while the Cats’ 19-man team often notches big individual wins but fails to fill out races. NU bests Notre Dame in top times in the breaststroke and butterfly, but
Notre Dame edges NU in the backstroke and most freestyle events. The Irish are 3-0 in the Big East, and the Cats are 1-3 in the Big Ten.
Despite the numerous differences that seemingly even out be-tween the two teams, history has been en-tirely on NU’s side as of late.
The closest the Irish have come to upsetting the Cats was a 22-point loss in 2003. In last season’s matchup, NU came out on top by 50 points with a 175-125 victory. But Notre Dame’s experienced squad could narrow or reverse that margin. NU features its highest percentage of freshmen in series history—eight of the 19 swimmers are new-comers to collegiate swimming. The Irish have 10 freshmen on their squad but boast 37
swimmers overall.“We don’t have a very big team, and we
don’t have a very experienced team, either,” junior Sean Mathews said. “But we have been getting better every meet, the freshmen especially, so we’re going to use that this weekend.”
The Cats had three weeks off from com-petition but spent 12 days during that period working out at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo. Schroeder said the high altitude training was intended to improve the team’s aerobic fitness and push the freshmen to compete at a higher level.
“It was definitely a more difficult experi-ence for the freshmen because we were training so hard,” freshman Varun Shivaku-mar said. “But in the end we all pushed through, and it will help the rest of our sea-son.”
Shivakumar, the team’s backstroke spe-cialist, gives NU its best chance of cracking
into the top four in the 200-yard backstroke. Mathews, who posted the team’s fastest 100-yard backstroke of the season, lags be-hind six of Notre Dame’s top finishers in the event this season.
The Cats counter with stronger times across the board in the breaststroke, thanks in part to junior Alex Tyler, whose times in the 100- and 200-yard are faster this season than any Notre Dame swimmer. Mathews will also be a contender for first-place fin-ishes in the 100- and 200-yard butterfly and the 50- and 100-yard freestyle, having been named Big Ten Player of the Week in No-vember.
“We definitely have strengths going into this meet, but the test is how we will match against their guys in events where we aren’t strong,” Schroeder said. “This meet is going to come right down to the wire.”
In battle of opposite teams, NU hopes history repeats itself in South Bend
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By Robbie LevinThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/womens-basketball
After getting burned by No. 6 Ohio State and Penn State, a mid-week trip to the Minnesota tun-dra will come as a relief for Northwestern.
When the Wildcats (11-4, 2-2) go up against the Gophers (9-5, 2-1) on Thursday, they will face the worst shooting team in the Big Ten. Through 14 games, Min-nesota is shooting 38 percent from the field and has averaged 53 points in its five losses.
In N U ’s l a s t t wo games, No. 6 Ohio State and Penn State lit up Welsh-Ryan Arena for 86 and 88 points, respectively. The barrage was surprising, considering the Cats had held all their previous op-ponents to less than 70 points .
“Defensively, not much has changed,” junior guard Beth Mar-shall said. “We need to communi-cate more, and we can’t let each other get hit by screens—or we have to help better. Just little
things that we can watch on film and then fix.”
NU held Minnesota to 53 points in a nine-point win near the end of last year, one of three conference victories for the Cats . The Gophers had a rough night, shooting 35 percent from the field and 22 percent from the be-yond the arc .
“It was a big confidence booster for us,” sophomore forward Brit-tany Orban said of last year’s win. “To know that we (were) able to compete in the Big Ten.”
The win came in the comforts of Welsh-Ryan Arena, but top-pling the Gophers at Williams Arena in Minneapolis will be more challenging. NU hasn’t won there since 2000 , and Minnesota comes into the game with an 8-1 mark at home.
The Cats have not been intimi-dated by opposing crowds so far this season. NU is 3-0 away from Evanston, with wins over Toledo, Kansas State and Michigan .
“It’s no longer a fear to go play someone at their gym,” Orban said. “It’s just a matter of bring-ing our game and whatever we can do.”
This year the Cats want to focus on their own play instead of relying
on the Gophers to shoot poorly.“(A team) can be on one night
and the next night a team can be totally off,” Orban said. “The last two teams have caught us on very ‘on’ nights. We’ve just got to con-tinue working on our defense. You don’t hope for some-one to be off, but then again you hope that your shots will go in a lot more than theirs will.”
With two Big Ten wins, NU is in a position it has not been in for more than a de-cade: in the middle of the confer-ence standings. The Cats are scrap-ping for postseason eligibility and, in a year full of parity in the Big Ten, NU has a fighting chance.
“Anybody in the Big Ten can beat anybody else,” freshman for-ward Kendall Hackney said . “I don’t care what your record is. You’ve just got to go out there, and whoever plays the hardest and plays the best is going to win.”
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Post presence: Sophomore center Luka Mirovic cuts to the basket during NU’s loss at Iowa last season. He and fellow classmate Kyle Rowley have struggled to establish strong interior play on both ends of the floor at the start of Big Ten play. They hope to regain confidence Thursday against Texas Pan-American.
Cats try to recover from shaky start
NU travels to Minnesota looking to regroup defensively at tough venue
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Lock-down defender: Senior Kristin Cartwright goes up for a shot last year against Iowa. The Cats rely on her to shut down opposing threats.
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By Danny DalyThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/mens-basketball
During its recent nine-game winning streak, Northwestern spread opposing defenses thin with its shooting prowess on the perime-ter. Once Big Ten play began, the Wildcats’ reliance on the outside shot proved problematic.
NU is tied for fifth nationally in 3-pointers made per game , attempt-ing 20 shots from beyond the arc in all but one of its contests . The Cats have also scored more points with 3s (390) than they have with other field goals (370) or free throws (184) .
But when their long-range shooters went cold in the second half at Illinois, their centers didn’t step up and convert their inside chances. NU (10-3, 0-2 Big Ten) hopes to display more balance in Thursday night’s matchup with Texas Pan-American (1-15) at Welsh-Ryan Arena.
“The key is to get the ball inside first—not necessarily score, but get the ball moving inside-out,” sopho-more center Luka Mirkovic said. “That’s very important for our of-fense because if we’re too focused on the outside shot, it will be really easy for a defense to read us. We need to establish more of a low-post presence, just so we can destabilize the defense.”
Mirkovic got off to an espe-cially tough start to the conference season—he made just 5-of-23 shots in the Cats’ first two Big Ten games combined and missed all
By Ian KellyThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/wrestling
In a season defined by the pro-gram’s fall from dominance, Northwestern will have its best opportunity to notch a signature win when it faces No. 4 Central Michigan and at least one other powerhouse program this week-end at the nation’s top wrestling tournament.
The unranked Cats (2-3-1), making their fifth straight trip to the NWCA/Cliff Keen National Duals in Cedar Falls, Iowa, have struggled largely due to heavy
turnover from last year’s squad. A year ago the Wild-
cats were ranked 20th in the country and
nearly knocked off then-No. 4 Nebraska
(19-18) and then-No. 5 Missouri (25-12) in the same tournament. This weekend’s scores might not be as close.
Coach Tim Cysewski’s squad heads to the Hawkeye State with-out two wrestlers who went 2-0 in last year’s tournament—two-time NCAA champion Jake Herbert graduated last spring and two-time All-American senior Brandon Precin is redshirting this season. In addition, the Cats will be miss-ing a pair of former NCAA qualifi-ers in redshirt junior Keith Sulzer (illness) and sophomore standout Jason Welch (redshirting). Each
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“It’s no longer a fear to go play
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