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By Ally Mutnickdaily senior staffer @allymutnick
Friends and economists from around the world gathered Friday morning to remember Prof. Dale Mortensen as a pioneer in labor economics and a proud Northwestern faculty member.
Mortensen, a Nobel laureate who taught at NU for nearly 50 years, died in January at age 74 after a battle with cancer. Guests nearly filled Alice Millar Chapel during the public memorial.
University President Morton Schapiro gave the welcome address with a story about how he had admired Mortensen since graduate school. After becoming president of NU five years ago, Scha-piro, an economist himself, said he was most excited to meet “the great Dale Mortensen.”
“It’s amazing when you’re a grad stu-dent, you think Dale is writing along with John Maynard Keynes in 1936,” he said. “I was reading it in 1976 and I just thought
he was one of the great sages along with Aristotle, Socrates and Adam Smith. But actually he was a young guy and he had just written it a couple years before.”
In 2010, Mortensen won the Nobel Prize in economics for his research on the labor market and unemployment. The University honored him that year in its homecoming celebrations, even bringing him onto Ryan Field before kickoff in the Homecoming football game — some-thing Schapiro said Mortensen greatly enjoyed.
NU was a “cornerstone” of the family, Karl Mortensen, Mortensen’s son, said at the memorial. The Mortensen fam-ily has earned a combined six degrees. Mortensen also helped found the Math-ematical Methods in the Social Sciences program.
Even from the intensive care unit, Mortensen was a loyal football fan. When Evanston Hospital did not carry the Big Ten Network on its cable, Karl Mortensen brought a computer so they could watch NU’s game against Nebraska.
“Needless to say when the wide
receiver from Nebraska caught the ball on the Hail Mary pass, my dad and I just went, ‘No!’” Karl Mortensen said. “We caused quite a few floor nurses to come running.”
As an economist, colleagues say Mortensen changed the way they look at labor economics. Taking into account the preferences of workers and employers, Mortensen created mathematical models that can explain and predict the duration of unemployment.
Economists at the memorial called him brilliant, saying his mind never turned off. He would often have an epiphany while eating dinner and rush off to work on a new idea. Many remembered him as a pleasure to collaborate with, noting he encouraged peers to take risks but would never find flaws in the work of others to strengthen his theories.
“With his words and with his exam-ples, Dale painted for me a beautiful pic-ture of life as an economist,” said Guido Menzio, an economics professor at the
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Ill. reps, students sign anti-boycott statement
City to discuss CARE’s future
By ReBeccA SAvRAnSkythe daily northwestern @beccasavransky
More than a month after North-western released a statement oppos-ing the American Studies Asso-ciation’s academic boycott of Israel, more than 40 student leaders signed a leadership statement demonstrat-ing their support for the University’s decision.
The statement, released Friday, was co-au-thored by Weinberg sophomore Jonathan Kamel, president of Wildcats for Israel, Weinberg junior Wil-son Shirley and Bienen sophomore Harrison Flagler, two other members of the group. Kamel, a former Daily staffer, said he has been working on the state-
ment since the beginning of the quarter as part of a joint effort with other members of Wildcats for Israel. The organization reached out to stu-dent group leaders across campus to encourage them to sign the pledge supporting the University’s decision, Kamel said.
“We felt that it was necessary to show widespread campus leader sup-port for Northwestern’s resolution and stance on the American Studies Association’s boycott,” Kamel said.
“We wanted to make sure that stu-dent leaders had the opportunity to voice their support of the statement and also our university’s partnerships with Israel.”
The statement received more than 40 signatures, including U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Evanston) and for-mer U.S. Rep. Bob Dold (R-Ill.).
University President Morton Schapiro and Provost Dan Linzer released a statement in December rejecting the ASA boycott on grounds of academic freedom. The pair said the University would maintain its relationships with Israeli academic institutions. The ASA released a reso-lution Dec. 4 calling for a boycott of Israeli universities in protest of the negative effects the Israeli occupation has had on Palestinian academics.
The day after the students’ state-ment was released on Facebook, it had received more than 2,000 views and about 20 shares, Kamel said. He said the group has been receiving positive feedback about the docu-ment, with both NU students and groups from across the country shar-ing it through social media.
Many other universities have produced similar statements dem-onstrating campus-wide support of the boycott, Kamel said. Wildcats for Israel’s was modeled after a doc-ument released at the University of Pennsylvania.
“I asked for their help in creating the document and strategy in get-ting their student leaders to sign on,” Kamel said.
This is the first time Wildcats for Israel has created a leadership state-ment, Kamel said. He said the organi-zation has wanted to draft one before and the ASA boycott gave it a good opportunity to finally create one.
“We’ve been thinking about doing it for the last couple of years,” Kamel said. “We just haven’t found an issue we wanted to focus on.”
By ciARA MccARthydaily senior staffer @mccarthy_ciara
As community concern around the dog euthanasia policies at Evanston’s animal shelter escalates, the nonprofit responsible faces an uncertain future.
Evanston’s Human Services Commit-tee will discuss the shelter’s management Monday and whether the nonprofit that operates out of the shelter, Community Animal Rescue Effort, should continue to do so.
CARE canine crew manager Alisa Kaplan began raising questions about the organization’s dog adoption evaluation process in Spring 2012. At the time, an abandoned miniature poodle was taken to the shelter and deemed unfit for adop-tion after undergoing CARE’s behavioral testing, Ald. Judy Fiske (1st) said. The poodle was scheduled to be euthanized. The resident who initially found the dog learned of its fate and brought her con-cerns to Ald. Ann Rainey (8th). Rainey reached out to Fiske, and together with Kaplan approached Evanston’s animal warden to protest the dog’s imminent death.
The poodle, now named Flip, was saved thanks to their intervention. Fiske
adopted him shortly after helping to save his life.
“(He) was the one dog that kind of changed everything,” said Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said.
Kaplan, joined by CARE volunteers Vicky Pasenko and Cathy Roberts, con-tinued to discuss concerns about the dog euthanasia rate with the animal warden
and city officials. CARE’s adoption evalu-ation process determined whether the shelter’s dogs were suitable for adoption. Dogs deemed not adoptable by CARE’s evaluation were typically euthanized. The organization’s dog behavior evalu-ation process resulted in a 45 percent
Source: Community Animal Rescue Effort on Facebook
A hElPinG PAw The Community Animal Rescue Effort operates out of Evanston’s animal shelter, 2310 Oakton St. The Human Services Committee will discuss on Monday the future of the nonprofit, which has drawn criticism for its euthanasia policies.
» See CArE, page 6
By jennifeR BAllthe daily northwestern @jennifercball
While most viewers focused their attention on the football game dur-ing Sunday’s Super Bowl, about 50 Kellogg students at the Allen Center waited for what played during the commercial breaks.
Microsoft scored the highest marks for its “Empowering” ad in the 10th annual Kellogg Super Bowl Advertising Review, where MBA stu-dents rated each advertisement for its marketing effectiveness while the
Seattle Seahawks faced off against the Denver Broncos.
Microsoft’s ad was followed by Cheerios, Heinz, Volkswagen, But-terfinger and Budweiser, with Car-Max, Subway and Audi scoring low, the business school said.
“Microsoft not only led the rank-ing, it also embodied the inspira-tional tone of many of the ads this year,” Kellogg Prof. Tim Calkins said in a news release. “This sentiment also was reflected in the Cheerios and Heinz ads, both of which elicited the basic good feelings consumers associate with the brands.”
Derek Rucker, Kellogg professor
and co-director of the review, said the purpose of the event was to give students an opportunity to apply the advertising lessons they learn in the classroom to real-world scenarios.
“At Kellogg, we want to give stu-dents experiential learning lessons,” Rucker said. “What better place to use advertising lessons than to look at Super Bowl ads?”
During the commercial breaks, the students sat quietly, scoring each commercial strategically. While the game was on, they chatted about each of the advertisements.
» See suPEr bowl, page 6
Kellogg hosts 10th ad review
Source: NU Department of Economics
‘thE GrEAt dAlE MortEnsEn’ A memorial service for Prof. Dale Mortensen was held Friday at Alice Millar Chapel. Mortensen was a Northwestern economics professor and recent Nobel laureate.
“We felt that it was necessary to show widespread campus leader support for Northwestern’s resolution and stance on the American Studies association boycott.Jonathan Kamel,Wildcats for Israel president
» See isrAEl, page 6
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teenager robbed at gunpoint in south Evanston
A 17-year-old Evanston resident was robbed at gunpoint Wednesday night in south Evanston.
The teenager was walking with two of his friends at about 7 p.m. in the 700 block of Case Street when he was approached from behind by another teenager displaying a handgun who demanded his property, Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said. The 17-year-old turned over his wallet, which contained $5, and two cell phones.
Police said the Evanston resident did not report the incident until a day later, and that none of those who were robbed were Northwestern students.
76-year-old refuses to hand over car keys
Two young adults unsuccessfully tried to rob a 76-year-old resident Thursday afternoon.
The Evanston resident parked and exited his vehicle in the 2100 block of Emerson Street when he was pushed into a snowbank, Parrott said. The young adults displayed a gun and demanded his car keys, but the 76-year-old refused. At that point, the two men fled on foot.
Police said no property was taken.
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Report: Whole Foods to replace Dominick’s on Green Bay Road
Whole Foods Market has purchased seven Chicago-area Dominick’s locations, including the property at 2748 Green Bay Rd., the Chicago Sun-Times reported Friday.
The new Whole Foods will mark the third Evanston location for the upscale grocery store, which specializes in natural and organic foods. The store is expected to open in early 2015.
“Whole Foods Markets takes 12 to 15 months, on average, to open a store, so (the wait time) is not unusual,” company spokeswoman Allison Phelps told the Sun-Times. “Each store is unique to the com-munity and we take our time making sure it reflects that and is a special place for each neighborhood.”
All Chicago-area Dominick’s stores closed their doors by Dec. 28 after Safe-way Inc., which owns the chain, found the 72 locations hurt its bottom line. Evanston Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl formed a commit-tee in January to work on replacements for the two city locations.
Paul Zalmezak, the city’s economic development coordinator, said last week a grocer was in negotiations with Safeway to replace the Dominick’s on Green Bay Road. In an email to The Daily, Zalmezak said he could not confirm the report.
— Joseph Diebold
Local speedskater to compete in Sochi Olympics
Evanston-born speedskater Brian Hansen will be among 230 athletes walking under the star-spangled banner on Friday to kick off the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia.
Hansen, 23, was born in Evanston and grew up in Glenview, Ill. According to his personal website, he was originally a hockey player but began speed skating when he was 10 years old, training at Northbrook Speed Skating Club. Brian attended Glenbrook South High School in Glenview. During his sophomore year, he
began to dedicate more and more time to skat-ing, training at a facility in Milwaukee that his parents drove him to after school.
Upon graduating, Hansen began training for the Olympic trials for the 2010 games in Vancouver. During his training, Hansen suf-fered a lower back injury, but he recovered and qualified for the Men’s 1500 meter and Team Pursuit events in the Olympic trials. Only 19, Brian went on to win a silver medal in the Team Pursuit in Vancouver with teammates Jonathan Kuck, Chad Hedrick and Trevor Marsicano.
Shortly after the 2010 games, Hansen went on to win the 1000 and 1500 meters at the World Junior Championships in Russia. Hansen later competed in Salt Lake City in the World Cup
in 2013, winning bronze in the 1500 meters and in the Team Pursuit, and gold in the 1000 meters.
“Brian was really happy with these results because it was the first time he won three med-als at one World Cup,” said Heather Novickis, Hansen’s agent.
Currently ranked No. 10 in the world, Han-sen is scheduled to compete in the 500 meter, 1000 meter, 1500 meter and Team Pursuit events in Sochi.
Hansen currently lives in Milwaukee and began his freshman year at Marquette Univer-sity in the fall.
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Mega-Shabbat continues growth in 3rd yearBy CASSIE WASSINK the daily northwestern @clwassink
More than 400 people attended the third annual Mega-Shabbat on Friday, continuing its widespread popularity since its inception.
Held in Allison dining hall, Jewish and non-Jewish participants joined for formal Jewish prayers and cer-emony, followed by a meal shared together. Attend-ees said the event allowed for exposure to Jewish culture in a welcoming, informal setting.
Northwestern Hillel, MEOR Northwestern and the Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Stud-ies sponsored the gathering, which also received Uni-versity funding.
Filling the main room and two adjoining rooms, participants came together to recite traditional prayers before dinner.
Weinberg sophomore Ariella Hoffman-Peterson,
who helped organize the event, said hearing the com-bination of regularly practicing Jews with non-prac-ticing or non-Jewish companions was truly unique.
“It’s not an experience that I’ll ever have again,” she said.
Hillel Executive Director Michael Simon said the event tied in with several of Hillel’s broader goals, among them allowing students to take ownership of Jewish life and events on campus.
Since the event began in 2012, Mega-Shabbat has grown in attendance each year. A system of table cap-tains who invited friends and acquaintances helped spread the word to students, co-director Iszy Licht said.
For some, the chance to experience a traditional Jewish Shabbat was meaningful, reminding them of their upbringing or background.
“It was nice to have a little bit of home. It was familiar,” said Julia Greenberger, a SESP senior who grew up celebrating Shabbat every week.
Other students came to experience Jewish culture
for the first time, or simply to enjoy free food and company.
Following the dinner, Rabbis Aaron Potek and Josh Livingstone led a discussion about the hook-up culture among youth, including a talk called “Chook-ing Up — Torah Sexuality.”
Potek said students engaged on a “deep level,” adding he felt this kind of open contemplation and discussion is often undervalued.
Others observed this attitude of lingering in con-versation and company throughout the whole event. It was a break from the “I need to be busy, I need to work on my grades” attitude, Weinberg freshman Daniel Sacks said.
This year’s event built on previous years with a couple of modifications. Among them was the switch from buffet style, which Licht described as chaotic and inefficient, to servers bringing food to the tables.
Simon said Mega-Shabbat has outgrown the Allison dining hall. Although everyone was
accommodated by the end of the night, including those who had been wait listed, there was a degree of uncertainty if all those interested would be able to attend.
“What’s been really gratifying is to know that there’s a buzz about it and a lot of students want to participate,” Simon said. “Before the fact, rather than after, we would like to accommodate everyone.”
State schools don’t verify citizen status
MANCHESTER, N.H. — University System of New Hampshire schools are not verifying U.S. citizenship of students signing affidavits required by law to get the in-state tuition rate.
Every student admitted to a state university or college since 2013 has had to sign an affidavit swearing he or she is a legal U.S. resident in order to qualify for the in-state tuition rate. But the system doesn’t verify their immigration status.
“USNH institutions do not have the capability to review and determine a student’s status under the federal immigration laws and regulations,” Erika Mantz, director of media relations at the University of New Hampshire, said in a statement.
Rep. Rick Ladd, R-Haverhill, who worked on a recently passed House bill to make it legal for illegal immigrants to qualify for in-state tuition, said he
was surprised.“Wouldn’t you think there’d be a process the
university has to enforce or verify? I would,” Ladd said Saturday after the New Hampshire Sunday News highlighted the verification issue.
“I think any time they’re going to have a rule they should have a process that is being applied and there is accountability,” said Ladd, who headed a legislative subcommittee on the illegal alien edu-cation issue. “Maybe, that’s too common sense for me.”
Ladd said he would recommend the House Education Committee write a letter to university trustees to inquire why they can’t or don’t verify students’ immigration status. The affidavits are required by state law.
Last month, the New Hampshire House approved a bill that proponents said would allow illegal immi-grants to legally secure in-state tuition at schools within the university system -- the University of
New Hampshire, Plymouth State University, Keene State College and Granite State College.
“I’m as surprised as you,” about the lack of veri-fication, Rep. Peter Schmidt, D-Dover, the bill’s prime sponsor, said Saturday.
He doesn’t think illegal aliens under his bill would falsify documents and risk arrest to save more than $50,000 over a four-year college career.
“They have no idea whether the university is checking or not,” Schmidt said.
Many students who entered the United States illegally “were brought here as young people by their parents” and shouldn’t be punished because they aren’t legal U.S. citizens, he said.
For a student going to UNH in Durham, in-state tuition is $12,720 less than the out-of-state rate this school year. According to the university, 6,639 students pay in-state tuition while 5,390 pay the out-of-state rate.
Federal education officials don’t check students’
status either.“The U.S. Department of Education is involved
in who is eligible for federal students aid; not legal status law,” department spokesman Jane Glickman said in an email.
Schmidt’s tuition measure now moves to the state Senate, and if the same bill is approved there, it will move on to the desk of Gov. Maggie Hassan, who hasn’t taken a position on House Bill 474.
“While the governor has not yet had an oppor-tunity to review the legislation and discuss it with University System officials, she believes that fully including all members of our communities is criti-cal for New Hampshire’s economic success and will closely follow the measure as it is considered by the Senate,” said the governor’s spokesman, Marc Goldberg.
— Michael Cousineau (The New Hampshire Union Leader, Manchester)
Across Campuses
“What’s been really gratifying is to know that there’s a buzz about
it and a lot of students want to participate.
Michael Simonexecutive director of Hillel
I was squinting, trying to absorb the details of the arches, the doors, the walls, the lights.
It had already been an hour and a half … and I was only halfway through. What I could have accomplished in a few seconds with a camera was taking an inordinate amount of time, and the end was drearily far off. For my Introduction to Drawing class, I had to pick a spot in Deering Library and draw it. We had three hours of class time and whatever time we put in otherwise to finish.
This particu-lar assignment was extremely excruciating. To look at the exact same thing for three hours every class and to come in my spare time — be it one or two hours — appeared impossible. I don’t remember the last time I ever did something like it — or if I’d ever done something like it at all. Without the help
of my iPod and occasional Facebook brows-ing on my phone, I think I could have lost my mind.
I can look through 60 Facebook pictures or skim through 20 statuses in a minute (I mea-sured it!). And who knows how many times I could visit Facebook as I write this column?
Distractions, especially electronic ones, dominate my time and day.
I think back on the great artists, such as Leonardo da Vinci or Michelangelo, who would have spent all day long focused on one
drawing. These great artists had full control of not only their brush strokes, but also their attention.
But I, a mere modern-day mortal, was distracted by many things in the library. I saw many people with heavily loaded bags coming back and forth. If it weren’t for my assign-ment, I would be one of those students drudg-ing away to study.
The simple pleasure of watching people walk by and noticing my surroundings was quite accidental and unexpected. Were it not for my art class, I may never have taken a spot right in front of the music library. Art in a broader sense isn’t about seeking artificial beauty but recognizing the little things, little pauses. This is what made me realize how much people may be missing out on while in libraries.
Rather than working on calculus problems or squeezing out a paper, I would love to see more people absorb every crumb of every page, rejoicing in the protagonists’ happiness or feeling their sorrows. There is so much that cannot be appreciated if the library is solely a place to cram for midterms.
You know in those romantic scenes from the movies, where people in the cafe are casu-ally sitting, leaning back against their chairs, enjoying the faint light seeping through the windows, sipping their coffee or tea and sim-ply reading their books? Well, this shouldn’t be a scene from the movies. It should be reality.
When I had a good seven-plus hours, I came to appreciate the beauty of Deering Library. But it would be even more beautiful if it were filled with more people reading and enjoying their surroundings.
Heiwon Shin is a Medill freshman. She can be con-tacted at [email protected]. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to [email protected].
Football players’ unionization efforts won’t hurt NU’s academic goals
Dear Editor,This letter serves as a response to Nor-
man C. Wang’s letter to the editor, “Stu-dent-athletes or athlete-employees?” on January 30th, 2014.
When discussing matters of practical (or even dire) importance for others, it’s important that those of us with little to gain or lose from the situation not let our opinions thereof degenerate into mere whim or pleasant fantasy. Unfortunately, Dr. Wang has done exactly this in his column.
The gist of Wang’s argument is that, in order for Northwestern Athletics to main-tain its university-unifying role, the ath-letes will have to remain “student-athletes.” Putting them on university payroll will turn these students into university employ-ees and pseudo-students, thus severing the connection students and alumni currently feel with their real-classmates on the field.
This is obviously ridiculous. Wang forgets that in this new world, where ath-letes are actually paid for the work they do in entertaining fans and earning the university and the NCAA millions of dol-lars, these athletes will still go to class, study, earn grades, live in dorms, and be, well, students. Many graduate (and under-graduate!) students are already considered
university employees and in no way does this undermine their status as students.
Dr. Wang claims to acknowledge the fail-ings of the current system, but rejects an extremely intuitive and feasible solution to these problems on no evidence whatsoever. If a necessary part of Dr. Wang’s enjoy-ment of sports is in the knowledge that each and every player is denied what they have earned due to an arbitrary distinction between “amateur” and “professional,” that is on Dr. Wang. But to bring his uniquely personal preferences into a public debate concerning the well-being of our fellow students is entirely unjustified.
Daniel Olson, Weinberg senior
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Letter to the Editor
How do you get the best college experience? And how do you know if you are getting the best college experience? These are questions I’ve been having throughout my time at Northwestern, and I think I may have found the answer.
Please, let me share.In today’s popular culture, it became stylish
to do things based on impulse in response to the recent discovery that humans are mortal. This phenomenon is typified by the quaint phrase “YOLO,” or “you only live once.” Many of you who read this will have tired of the phrase being used on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook to jus-tify (ironically or not) bad decisions, but before you turn the page or click away, take a moment to learn about YOLO’s etymological roots.
In 23 B.C., the Roman poet Horace used the now-ubiquitous phrase “carpe diem” to tell his readers to make the most of the time that they have on earth. Horace’s words have served to inspire many people, notably in the film “Dead Poets Society,” in which Robin Williams exhorts his students to make the most of their lives in the face of death.
Though tweens would perhaps prefer not to think about etymological explorations into the tenets of Epicureanism and long-dead poets when posting photos or statuses for their friends, it is important to understand the mean-ing behind a way of life ingrained deeply into our culture. However, because the phrase is so old — and in a language no longer spoken — we have imposed our own ideas of what it means to “seize the day.”
For many people, carpe diem could easily be a synonym for YOLO. But how does one actually live fully? Does it mean that we should go out,
party every night, hook up with everyone and follow our impulses without regard for possible consequences in the future?
I think it means more.Rather than conveniently (and unrealisti-
cally) forgoing thought of the future because we have no way of knowing it, we should savor the moments of the present. Indeed, the Latin verb “carpere” — the root of “carpe” — is used less for seizing or capturing, and more for plucking a fruit when it is ripe. The phrase in which the two heartening words appear, “carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero” translates to “pluck the day, trusting as little as possible in the next.”
We undergraduates are at NU for four years; it’s here that we gain the tools to create the futures we’ve dreamt for ourselves. According to Horace’s Epicurean philosophy, our happiness or pleasure depends on the “absence of bodily pain and mental anxiety”; that pleasure only exists with “living prudently, gracefully, and justly.” Horace wanted us to live in the moment by doing tasks that the moment calls for because none of us knows whether he or she will be able to do so tomorrow.
Here’s a short translation guide for you if you decided to skip to the end: YOLO is a rational-ization of bad behavior; carpe diem is a justifica-tion for savoring diligent behavior.
What if the answer to the college experi-ence lies not in reckless living, but in plucking moments from the tree of life to savor? Wouldn’t that make the time we have beside Lake Michi-gan more pleasant and easier to remember? We do only live once, so let’s make it a priority to rel-ish the opportunities offered to us, not squander them in frivolity.
Sam Douglas is a Communication sophomore. he can be reached at [email protected]. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to [email protected].
Why ‘carpe diem’ trumps ‘YOLO’ every day of week
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political mock eviction notices”
... I think they are a great stroke of cre-ativity and student activism. I have no clue where I stand on the issue under-lying the conflict. But I think we all can agree evicting people from their homes is wrong and the flyers raised my awareness which is all they were probably meant to do.
— David Rice
Wonder if these were only put under “certain” stu-dent’s doors...
— Colin Howe
It’s so unfortunate that the incredibly opinionated main source/interviewee of this article, Kamel to be specific, believes the Northwestern student body is not politiically driven because apparently car-ing about political issues isn’t something people within an institution that exists for the sake of academic inquiry, activism, and the development of idea should be involved in.
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Sigma Chi, Alpha Phi win DM Top Chef competitionBy Tyler pagerthe daily northwestern @tylerpager
Teams battled for $1,000 on Saturday for Dance Marathon’s annual Top Chef contest. With Joseph Penrod, the namesake of Team Joseph, in atten-dance, 16 teams had 30 minutes to create a dish using the secret ingredient: the blood orange.
Alpha Phi and Sigma Chi’s team, “Alpha Phood and Sigma Chefs,” won the competition after pre-paring a challah french toast that featured blood orange-infused strawberries, blood orange mar-malade and handmade whipped cream. Sigma Nu finished second and a Delta Delta Delta and
Sigma Alpha Epsilon team placed third.
“It was really awe-some,” said Tara Lon-gardner, a member of the winning team. “Everybody on the A Phi and Sig Chi team works so hard so I’m really happy as a fresh-man to be able to con-tribute to that.”
Longardner, a Medill freshman, added it was particularly special to meet Joseph and his family.
“I love being able to see the people that you’re helping in person,” she said. “To see all the kids there running around and having a good time just made it mean so much more.”
Emily Blumberg, DM special events co-chair,
said the event served two purposes.“One, it is definitely a fundraiser because
everyone that comes pays $5, but I think it’s also a great way to connect with the beneficiary and really start to connect the face to what we’re doing, and no event is better than over food,” the Weinberg senior said.
Blumberg said the event has become more popular in the last two years since moving to Norris University Center.
“We used to have it at an off-campus location and you could only take a bus one way so you’d have to stay for the whole three hours,” she said.
“We get a lot more people coming here.”Venric Mark, a senior running back for NU’s
football team, served as one of the three judges at Top Chef. The other two judges were Burg-well Howard, assistant vice president for student engagement, and Steve Mangan, district manager for nuCuisine.
Mark said he enjoyed the variety of foods pre-sented but said participants were having trouble implementing the secret ingredient.
“The difficulty of using the blood orange is actually trying to implement that into the food,” he said. “A lot of people just cut up the orange
and will put it on top when it maybe should have been blended into a sauce and put on top of the dish.”
Mark added that the event was a good oppor-tunity to give back.
“Helping other people besides yourself, that’s something Coach Fitz always teaches us,” he said.
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BATTER BATTLE Communication freshman Chris Paul competes saturday in the top Chef competition. Joseph Penrod, the namesake of dance Marathon beneficiary team Joseph, attended the event.
NU Memorial Hospital ranks 2nd lowest heart attack mortality rate
Northwestern made strides in recent weeks pio-neering heart attack research and lowering mortality rates.
Becker’s Hospital Review ranked Northwestern
Memorial Hospital second on a list of the lowest 30-day heart attack mortality rates. New York Uni-versity Hospitals Center topped the list.
Northwestern Memorial had a 10.4 percent mor-tality rate, about 5 percent less than the national aver-age, according to Hospital Compare, government data provided by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Northwestern Medicine and The University of Sydney also released a research study in January on
a new method aimed to reduce the damage caused by heart attacks.
The scientists involved discovered a therapy capa-ble of decreasing the after affects of heart attacks by injecting an individual with biodegradable micro-particles within 24 hours of the attack.
Investigator Daniel Getts, a visiting scholar in microbiology-immunobiology in the Feinberg School of Medicine and co-author on the study, said this is the first therapy of its kind. The particles created are able
to directly target and reduce the size of heart lesions by up to 50 percent, allowing the heart to pump more blood. These micro-particles have also shown poten-tial to repair tissue in other inflammatory diseases including the West Nile virus and multiple sclerosis.
The scientists in the study have joined forces with a startup biotechnology company, and plan to start a clinical trial of the drug within two years.
— Rebecca Savransky
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TASTE TEST Judges, including burgwell howard (left) and Venric Mark (right) sample dishes saturday at a top Chef competition. the competition benefited dance Marathon.“The difficulty
of using the blood orange is actually trying to implement that into the food.Venric Mark,senior running back
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University of Pennsylvania.Musical selections were performed in between
the 10 speakers who gave tributes. All had a per-sonal connection to Mortensen and his wife Bev-erly Mortensen, who directed the church choir where the two sang.
When a camera crew came to film Mortensen for a documentary to be shown ahead of the Nobel Prize ceremony, Mortensen was persuaded to sing “Ol’ Man River” from the musical “Show Boat.”
By the time he arrived in Sweden, his rendition of the song had become very popular.
While giving a speech at a banquet for Nobel winners, Mortensen joked he should sing the song instead of making remarks.
Beverly Mortensen spoke at the end of the ser-vice with stories from their 50-year marriage.
She described him as loving husband with high intellectual standards in all aspects of life, who often made her “think like an economist.”
She recalled her frequent trips with her hus-band, traveling with him as he went to different countries for his work.
“His intellect made it fascinating. His humil-ity and honesty made it beautiful,” she said. “I’m grateful to have traveled with Dale for 50 years.”
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Joey Becker, president of Alpha Epsilon Pi fra-ternity and a member of Wildcats for Israel, said he chose to sign the document as a way to support the fraternity’s chapters in Israel.
He said the ASA boycott is an issue he feels passionately about.
“I think a university is a place where we should encourage an open dialogue from both sides,” Becker said. “Rather than boycotting, which is very extreme, we should be proposing looking at more of a conversation.”
Becker said although he thinks NU is not a very political campus, the document has the potential to open up further discussion about the issue.
In December, 18 students from several mul-ticultural student groups, including Students for Justice in Palestine and the Muslim-cultural Student Association, signed a letter opposing the University’s stance on the boycott.
Shirley said though there are a wide variety of opinions on the issue across campus, he thinks the statement represents the majority view at NU.
“We think it’s really important that not only the administration but the larger community realize that a lot of students stand behind that,” Shirley said. “We wanted to showcase that people from a diverse set of backgrounds are coming together.”
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euthanasia rate for dogs, according to a statement released by Pasenko, Kaplan and Roberts. CARE dis-putes the number, claiming that just 16 percent of their dogs are euthanized, according to their website.
“(CARE was euthanizing) a lot of dogs that just didn’t seem like they were dangerous dogs,” Kaplan told The Daily.
After Flip, the animal warden began playing a larger role in the evaluation process at the shelter. The warden now reviews CARE’s recommendations and makes a final call on whether a dog should be eutha-nized, Parrott said. He estimated about 20 dogs that would have been euthanized under CARE’s evaluation were placed with rescue groups by the animal warden in the last 18 months.
City officials and the CARE board of directors have been discussing the shelter’s evaluation process since early last year.
Evanston commissioned two independent reports to evaluate the organization’s policies. The Ameri-can Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals released a report in May which said CARE was not executing behavior evaluation tools accurately.
“Neither (behavior evaluation) tool is intended to be used to determine if a dog should be euthanized. Rather, they are intended to gather information about that animal … and determine the best course of action
for that animal,” the ASPCA said in the report.The ASPCA recommended CARE discontinue
implementing these behavior evaluations until Evan-ston and the nonprofit had reevaluated their under-standing and use of the tests.
CARE said the ASPCA recommendations “reflect a lack of understanding of how CARE does business.”
A second report, by consultant Janice Triptow, also encouraged the organization to review its behavior assessment protocol. Triptow released her report at the end of October.
Representatives of Evanston and the CARE board of directors met twice in November to discuss the future of the shelter.
Both parties “expressed frustration with the other,” but agreed to work on creating an exten-sion of the 2007 lease agreement, according to city documents.
“Given the recent negative misinformation circu-lated about this long-running, all-volunteer animal rescue organization, the future of CARE is suddenly up in the air,” CARE said in a Facebook post.
The nonprofit encouraged supporters to attend the Human Services meeting Monday in support of the organization and its policies.
A representative from CARE’s board of directors was unavailable to comment.
CAREfrom page 1
Rucker said the students use a strategic framework to rate the commercials, includ-ing how well the spot captures the viewer’s attention, how distinct it is and how well it links back to the brand.
Rucker said he does not preview the adver-tisements beforehand because he likes to see them live.
Aviv Screwvala, a second-year Kellogg stu-dent, said he followed Rucker’s example and did not look at the advertisements before the actual game.
“Everywhere I looked, every screen I looked at, there was a commercial playing or some kind of preview,” he said. “But I’m glad I didn’t, because I think it’s a little less
diluted to actually see it for the first time during the game.”
Kellogg students Screwvala and Stephanie Cadieux agreed that the panel was important both from the standpoint of the companies advertising and the students rating the ads.
“It’s a meeting point of academia and the real world,” Screwvala said, noting the rank-ings hold weight with advertisers because the companies hire a lot of Kellogg alumni.
Cadieux said it was important for students interested in advertising to come together and evaluate the ads.
“As students, we are coming in very unbi-ased. We’re not basing our rankings on popu-larity,” Cadieux said. “We’re really basing it on strategy.”
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30 SECONDS OF FAME a panel of Kellogg Mba students evaluate Super bowl advertisements Sunday night at the allen Center. the business school celebrated its 10th year holding its Kellogg Super bowl advertising review, which aims to identify which ads were the most effective.
Obama administration won’t divulge cost of Guantanamo camp, asks court to dismiss FOIA lawsuit
WASHINGTON — The Obama administra-tion is refusing to divulge how much it spent to build the secret prison facility at Guantanamo where the accused 9/11 co-conspirators are held and has asked a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit by a Miami Herald reporter demanding documents that would reveal the number.
In a filing Friday, the Justice Department said that the Pentagon had found just one document that would provide information relevant to a 2009 Freedom of Information Act request reporter Carol Rosenberg filed seeking that cost figure. That docu-ment was exempt from disclosure, the filing said, because it contained details of internal deliberations and the names of many officials who were entitled to privacy.
The Justice Department also made a separate secret filing with the court that provided more details on why the document should remain secret. That filing was not shared with Rosenberg’s attor-neys, and its contents are unknown.
Rosenberg, who has covered the detention center at Guantanamo since it opened in 2002, originally had sought the cost of the facility, known as Camp 7, as part of her reporting on how much building and maintaining Guantanamo costs U.S. taxpay-ers. The Defense Department had provided con-struction costs for all other portions of the prison facility. When it refused to provide any documents responding to her request for information on Camp 7, Rosenberg sued in federal court in the District of Columbia, accusing the Pentagon in part of not conducting a thorough search for documents.
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NU gets its revenge against rival Iowa By Kendra Mayerthe daily northwestern @kendra_mayer
Northwestern rallied for an exciting victory over rival Iowa on Saturday, staking its claim as a tough con-tender at the upcoming Big Ten Championships.
After the first session of the two-day meet, the Wildcats trailed the Hawkeyes 63-47, but an incredible effort on Saturday gave the Cats a 186-184 victory.
NU’s win was that much sweeter because the Hawkeyes bested the Cats last weekend by 10 points on NU’s Senior Day.
Coach Jimmy Tierney said the swimmers started the first session on Friday looking a little more fatigued than he predicted, but the races improved as the weekend went on.
“Certainly Saturday was our better day,” Tierney
said. “A lot of things came together and the team ended up doing a terrific job.”
Tierney cited freshmen Lauren Abruzzo and Lacey Locke’s top finishes as a turning point in the meet.
“Those races catapulted us to allow us to get the win,” he said.
Tierney added that the confidence the Cats will take out of this victory is crucial heading into Big Tens. Now, he said it won’t matter if the first session or two of championships doesn’t go perfectly.
“(The swimmers) know that no matter what hap-pens in the first day or so, they can pull it together at the end,” he said.
Junior Valerie Nubbe agreed the team was not at 100 percent going into the invite. Overall, she said, the Cats were pretty tired and worn down.
“It’s definitely a difficult transition time in our training,” Nubbe said.
The Shamrock Invitational comes less than three
weeks before Big Tens. For NU, that means practices were still high in yardage and intensity.
To put in a good showing at the weekend’s meet, Nubbe said every swimmer had to think about win-ning for the team.
“The effort was really good,” Nubbe said. “We got behind each other and it showed that we do our best when we get together as a team.”
Tierney said he was proud of the meet in that respect and hopes the Cats will bring that energy and camaraderie to Big Tens.
Sprint freestyler Melissa Postoll expressed her excitement for both the upcoming championships and the results of the meet.
“It was the first time where at the end we really showed a will to win,” Postoll said, “which is ultimately our goal for Big Tens.”
Cats coast en route to Big Ten ChampsBy John paschalldaily senior staffer @John_Paschall
Even though Northwestern was already think-ing about the Big Ten Championships, the team took care of business against the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Panthers on Friday, win-ning 163-128.
As the Wildcats had hoped, their relay teams in the 200-yard medley set the tone immediately, tak-ing first and second place. Coach Jarod Schroeder had a lot of his swimmers participate in off events, races that weren’t their strong suit.
But regardless of where Schroeder put his guys, they still found ways to win, beating the Panthers in every swimming event except the 200-yard butterfly.
Junior Uula Auren broke his own pool record
he set at the Klotsche Natatorium last year in the 100-yard breast-stroke with a new time of 57.02 seconds. It was an encouraging sign for Auren, who is already further along at this point in the season than he was last year when he was recovering from shoulder surgery.
At 7-3-1, NU has already surpassed expectations for this season. Senior Chase Stephens said this year’s team has an entirely dif-
ferent feel compared to other squads in the past.“This year is definitely different,” Stephens said.
“This year is more about completion. Everything has to be done to completion or we’ve failed. It’s really good to start to see that being fostered now. Our record is a reflection of that.”
With the year’s marquee event, the Big Ten Championships, now less than a month away, Schroeder and Stephens said the Cats will focus on the little details that will help NU perform well in a raucous environment in Ann Arbor, Mich. But with their strong dual meet record, Schroeder hopes the Cats have earned the respect of their conference foes.
“The last three or four years we’ve gone into Big Tens to try and prove to everyone that we’re a good team,” Schroeder said. “We don’t have the pressure of going into Big Tens to prove that we’re as good as a .500 team. Hopefully we now understand that.”
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“This year is different. This year is more about completion. ...Our record is a reflection of that. Chase Stephens,senior freestyler
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Cats claim 4th in Big TenBy ROHAN NADKARNIdaily senior staffer@Rohan_NU
Pretty soon, these wins won’t be considered upsets.
Northwestern (12-11, 5-5 Big Ten) moved into sole possession of fourth place in the Big Ten on Saturday with a down-to-the-wire 55-54 win over Minnesota (15-7, 4-5). � e Wildcats’ third straight road win in the Big Ten gave them their longest conference win streak away from Evanston since the 1959-60 season.
“� e guys are so resilient. It was tough week,” coach Chris Collins told BTN a er the game. “We had one day prep to play these guys. We made some shots when we needed to. We’re winning with our defense and toughness.”
Saturday’s game was not decided until the nal minute.
With the shot clock winding down and the game tied at 52, sophomore guard Tre Demps hit a 3-pointer to put NU ahead 55-52 with under a minute to go. Minnesota answered on its next trip down the court with a layup to bring the game within a point.
A er the Cats failed to score on their next possession, the Golden Gophers had just over 11 seconds le for a game-winning shot.
Senior forward Nikola Cerina helped stop a layup at the rim, and a scramble ensued in the nal seconds, with Min-nesota missing one more layup before time nally expired. Golden Gophers’ coach Richard Pitino stormed on the
court looking for a foul call.“We made plays down the stretch.
� ey missed a couple shots at the end. Sometimes you need that,” Collins told WGN Radio a er the game. “What can you say about Tre Demps? He made a huge shot when we needed it.”
Early on, it looked like the Cats were ready to upend the Golden Gophers in the rst half.
NU ran out of the gates with the same hot shooting that contributed to a win against Wisconsin. Junior guard JerShon Cobb especially had it going, hitting multiple 3s as the Cats jumped out to a 21-11 lead 10 minutes in.
But the Golden Gophers fought back.
A er senior forward Drew Crawford le midway through the rst half with two fouls, Minnesota went on 16-2 run to take a 27-23 lead. When Crawford returned, NU regained its composure, going on a 9-2 run of its own to take a 32-29 lead at the half.
“� ey hit us with a big run a er Drew picked up his second foul,” Col-lins said. “A er, this just became one of those possession by possession games.”
Minnesota’s scouting report on the Cats was clearly up to date. � rough-out the game, Minnesota pressured NU in the backcourt, forcing ballhandlers to make quick decisions and avoid
turnovers.� e Cats struggled mightily with
the press in their last game against the Badgers, just as they have in most other situations this season. Saturday’s e� ort, though up and down, was much better.
At times, crisp passing helped break down the defense, such as in the rst half when a quick dismantling of the press led to a Crawford 3. Other times, the results were disastrous, such as in the second half, when Cerina ran the ball down the � oor into a triple team and turned it over.
Overall, Collins was satis ed with the improvement, praising Cobb for handling the pressure well for most of the game. NU nished with only nine turnovers despite facing defense in the backcourt on many possessions.
Crawford added the team’s trust in one another has helped the Cats obstacles.
“(� e win) feels great because of the brotherhood we have.” Crawford said. “A lot of these games are going to be grind-it-out games. � ey pressed us the whole game. For us to band together and get the win is great.”
Saturday’s win continued what’s quickly becoming a magical ride in Colliins’ inaugural season.
“Every team you play in this league is so good,” Collins said. “To win three straight games on the road, it’s really about the guys. � e guys in our locker room said we wanted to make some-thing of this season, and they have. I’m proud to be their coach.”
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ON DECK ON THE RECORDWomen’s BasketballMichigan at NU, 7 p.m. Thursday
They hit us with a big run. ... This just became one of those possession by possession games. — Chris Collins, men’s basketball coach
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By BOBBY PILLOTEthe daily northwestern@BobbyPillote
Nia Coffey could only watch.The freshman forward, who
leads Northwestern in points per game with 15.4, was sidelined with a foot injury she sustained in the Wildcats’ last game against Indiana and looked on in a walking boot as NU (14-8, 4-5 Big Ten) fell to No. 12 Penn State (17-4, 8-1) 79-75 at Welsh-Ryan Arena. It was the Cats’ third home loss this season.
“I think we can use this as a positive more than anything else,” coach Joe McKeown said. “Without Nia ... I think everybody stepped
up in her absence, I was proud of t h at . Nobody held their head. This t e a m i s pretty good at moving forward through adversity.”
The Nit-tany Lions led by as many as 20 points and
had a comfortable 13-point cush-ion heading into halftime.
The Cats stormed back in the second half to briefly take a 4-point lead with three minutes to play but couldn’t hold on as time expired.
“It was a great game, a great second half,” McKeown said. “I’m really proud of the effort of my team. ... Just gotta finish that off, we had chances.”
Penn State guard Maggie Lucas, second in the Big Ten in scoring at 21.1 points per game, was as good as advertised, dominating the Cats with 19 points and six rebounds.
“We met her when she caught the ball, rather than giving her room and space,” McKeown said, “but she’s going to make tough shots.”
NU had to shuffle its lineup with Coffey sidelined. Sophomore forward Lauren Douglas started in Coffey’s place, and sophomore forwards Devon Brookshire and Christen Johnson, along with junior guard Karly Roser, all saw extended minutes.
But despite the deeper rotation, the Cats didn’t get a single point off the bench.
Sophomore guard Maggie Lyon nearly singlehandedly kept the Cats in the game. After a slow first half in which she was just 1-for-5 from beyond the arc, Lyon exploded in the second half to finish with 26 points.
She had the ball in her hands for NU’s final possession but drew considerable contact under the basket and couldn’t get to the rim.
“My teammates were finding me in good places,” Lyon said. “With a lot of people in foul trouble, I was trying to be more aggressive to the basket and fortunately some shots fell through.”
Junior forward Alex Cohen also stepped up with a big game in Cof-fey’s absence.
The tallest player on the team — Cohen is listed at 6 foot 5 inches — has gotten inconsistent min-utes this season, but played the entire game against Penn State and finished with 18 points, four rebounds, and five blocks.
“She’s played a lot as it is this year,” McKeown said. “I don’t see her role changing a whole lot. She’s giving us what she gives us.”
But even with Cohen’s uptick in production, NU still struggled on the boards, a problem that has plagued the team all season and was no doubt exacerbated by Cof-fey’s absence.
The Cats were out-rebounded 47-28, including 19 offensive rebounds by the Nittany Lions.
“(Coffey) is a big asset on the rebounding,” Douglas said. “It’s been an issue all season.”
Besides Lyon and Cohen, fresh-man guard Ashley Deary contin-ued her strong play at the point with 11 assists.
Ultimately, the deficit was just too big to overcome.
“It’s always disappointing to lose a game,” Douglas said, “especially like this when we were down so much. ... But the things that messed us up are things we can fix.”
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OOPS, HE DID IT AGAIN Sophomore guard Tre Demps sets up a play against Michigan State, one of just two Northwestern losses in its last seven games. Demps sealed the Wildcats’ win against Minnesota on Saturday with a characteristically clutch last-minute 3-pointer.
Co� ey sits out again, NU can’t come back
“It was ... a great second half. I’m really proud of the e� ort of my team. ... Just gotta � nish that o� , we had chances. Joe McKeown ,coach
NU falls to Iowa but McMullan beats second No. 1By JESSE KRAMERthe daily northwestern@Jesse_Kramer
No. 3 Iowa (12-2, 5-0 Big Ten) defeated No. 19 Northwestern (6-6, 1-6) on Friday, 31-6. � e Wildcats were overmatched as the Hawkeyes sported ranked wrestlers in nine weight classes.
� e Cats followed a similar script, dropping bouts at 125, 133 and 141 pounds for the fourth straight match.
“I think the guys battled better early this time,” coach Drew Pariano said. “� ey showed some better e� ort.”
Junior Pat Greco did not capitalize against No. 9 Josh Dziewa at 141 pounds, taking the high-ranking Hawkeye into three overtimes but losing 5-4.
No. 4 Jason Tsirtsis at 149 pounds tallied the Cats’ rst points with a 5-2
decision against No. 12 Brody Grothus. � e redshirt freshman’s early 3-0 lead was cut to one point, but his takedown of Grothus sealed his victory.
NU lost its next ve bouts, including one by forfeit.
Two-time All-American Mike McMullan, ranked the third-best heavy-weight nationally, ended the a� air with an upset of No. 1 Bobby Telford.
It was the second time this sea-son McMullan defeated a top-ranked heavyweight.
McMullan and Telford went into overtime tied 1-1. McMullan achieved his victory with a takedown, just as he
did in overtime against then-No. 1 and reigning NCAA champ Tony Nelson on Jan. 10.
McMullan said defeating Nelson was a “huge con dence builder,” and he thought the experience from three weeks ago helped him on the mat Friday.
Michigan freshman Adam Coon started the week ahead of McMullan, but McMullan could grab the No. 1 spot in next week’s rankings.
McMullan said he believes he is the best heavyweight but does not care where rankers place him.
“If those rankers don’t want to rank him (No.) 1, then they have problems,” Pariano said. “Let’s bring Coon over from Michigan. I’ll drive him down here. We’ll have a wrestle-o� because I know how that result would go.”
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MAGIC MIKE No. 3 heavyweight wrestler Mike McMullan takes on No. 1 Bobby Telford of Iowa. McMullan defeated Telford, the second No. 1 the junior has beaten this season, in sudden victory Friday.
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