#SoundGoals Bridging global divides through music Baani Singh

How was your day? Think about the question without visualizing anything; just listen. Hear the background drone of the construction on Sheridan, the conversations with your friends or the sizzling pans at Plex.

Without using any images, you have walked through the memories of your day. The concept of “seeing” through sound may seem foreign, but the soundtrack of our lives as college students is integral to our everyday experience. The concept of understanding life through sound (i.e. Sound Studies) is an emerging fi eld growing right here at Northwestern.

With the introduction of a master’s program in fall 2016, Sound Studies and Industries encompasses a variety of fi elds, including RTVF, history, communications, engineering and cultural studies.

In response to this growing interest in the fi eld of sound, a guest lecture series titled “The Sounds of South Asia” debuted at the start of the academic year, garnering interest across Northwestern. The series, presented by visiting scholars specializing in sound studies of South Asia, is sponsored by the Center for

Global Culture and Communication and organized by departments in both the School of Communication and the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences.

While you might think that a lecture about sound would entail analyzing music with lots of semi-intelligible jargon, this was far from the case.

The guest speakers teach the audience to use their ears, rather than their eyes, to “see” and understand South Asian culture. Touching on fascinating subjects such as the use of lyrics to create politically-charged hashtags, this lecture series helps bridge the gap between the East and the West to analyze non-visual and non-textual trends in global media.

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Preview:incoming football recruits Koby Weisman

While the NU 2016 recruits, ranked 52nd nationally, are rated lower than they have been in past seasons, Fitz consistently molds recruits into strong B1G contenders. With many key players graduating, the entering freshmen will have many chances to shine.

Ramaud Chiaokhiao-Bowman Hailing from Minneapolis, Chiakhiao-Bowman (or

RCB) has an impressive frame that should instantly help the Northwestern off ense. Last season, the Northwestern passing off ense was the worst in the Big Ten. Many believed that the lack of an air attack was due to redshirt freshman Clayton Thorson. With many dropped passes and questionable play calls by off ensive coordinator Mick McCall, Thorson had a less than ideal fi rst season on the fi eld.

RCB won’t allow any ball to touch the ground. His extremely reliable hands allow him to snatch the ball out of the air over defenders. At 6-foot-2 and 190 pounds, RCB has the athleticism and ball skills necessary to make unorthodox catches. With wide receivers Miles Shuler, Cameron Dickerson, and Christian Jones, as well as superback Dan Vitale graduating this spring, the Northwestern receiving core must be completely revamped. RCB is a solid option for starting receiver and will most likely get signifi cant playing time next year.

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Why NUDM is a quintessential Northwestern experience David Wexler

“May I have two chipotle chicken tacos please?” I asked. The Frontera Fresco cashier swipes my Wildcard and returns it sandwiched between my receipt and a buzzer. I smile, shove the card into my pocket and walk away to fi nd my friends.

Most of us at Northwestern probably do something similar for lunch. For many college students, meals are highly anticipated breaks from the stress of classes and clubs, but we often take them for granted.

In the United States, 16 million children do not have the privilege of food security, and over 250,000 of them live in our own backyard, Cook County.

However, thanks to Northwestern University Dance Marathon (NUDM) and this year’s benefi ciary, Blessings in a Backpack, we have the power to do something about this silent hunger epidemic.

Dance Marathon is a 30-hour dance party held in a

huge tent behind Norris at the end of winter quarter to raise awareness and money for a diff erent charitable organization every year. Approximately 1,000 students participate, fundraising throughout fall and winter quarter. They meet hero children from the benefi ciary and even form committees to ensure the event’s success. When the big weekend fi nally rolls around, the student-run philanthropy reveals the total amount raised, which has topped $1 million for the past fi ve years.

I entered the tent last March as an unassuming freshman, just hoping that I would survive the marathon without embarrassing myself. DM alumni delight in narrating horror stories of their experiences, trying to scare the newcomers.

(Continuedonpage3) Sophomore Kyle Quiero secures a Wildcat victory against the Cardinals in the last minute of the game. (Source: NUsports, 2015)

Source: Center for Global Culture and Comm.

“It’s not the size of the dog in the fi ght, it’s the size of the fi ght in the dog.”

thenorthwesternchronicle.com Winter 2016 • 1st March 2016

From the Editor:The Northwestern Chronicle, when it was first

established in 1992, made a controversial splash as the conservative voice on campus. It was derecognized by ASG and faced extinction multiple times. To quote a 2002 Daily Northwestern article:

“Strange things happen when you work for The Northwestern Chronicle.”

Well, it’s 2016, and strange things definitely still happen, but overall, we’re headed in a new direction.

I think this print issue reflects that. The student opinions featured in this issue are

diverse not only in content, but also in style. David Wexler lauds NUDM while Kyle Walcott explains Chicago’s alternative classical music culture. Meanwhile, Yiran Chi showcases the Block Museum’s new exhibit with intense detail.

Sometimes, students that lack experience are reluctant to take on a story. They think that because they haven’t taken a journalism class or written for a campus publication before, joining one would be a fruitless venture.

That’s one of the biggest misconceptions The Chronicle is trying to battle, with its open weekly workshops and the unofficial slogan that I slip into nearly every presentation and email, “No experience required, no creative restraints.”

Looking back on winter quarter, we’ve established an open community of people who are passionate about expressing their opinions or telling stories. The weekly workshops allow us to not only cover unique topics such as satire and food reviews, but also interact with and grow from each other.

I recognized the prime opportunity I have as a sophomore president, in that I still have two years of school to experiment and push the boundaries with the existing Chronicle structure.

I’ve received invaluable feedback from editors, peers, and my leadership coach from Northwestern’s Center for Leadership, and I’ve incorporated their suggestions into my plans for spring quarter and beyond. There’s so much room to grow when you embrace learning from your mistakes.

Nothing consumes my time like The Northwestern Chronicle does. But at the same time, nothing teaches me as much as the Editor-in-Chief position does. I’ve learned how to make myself a resource for members, engage and motivate my peers, and ask for help from others when I need it.

Most importantly, I’ve come to view progress on a long-term scale instead of as an immediate, tangible result. Satisfaction comes from building sustainable relationships that will persist for quarters to come, and success is much more than fulfilling a quota.

Catherine ZhangEditor-in-Chief

Winter 2016 StaffExecutive Board

Catherine Zhang | Editor-In-Chief, PresidentAnanya Agrawal | Managing Editor, Treasurer

Adam Shimer | Managing EditorShreya Goel | Secretary

Luke McDougald | Tech AdministratorAllison Bryski | Copy Editor

ContributersYiran Chi

Jake LeshemJuju Miao

Zach Person

Baani SinghKyle WalcottKoby WeismanDavid Wexler

Table of Chrontents:Unconventionality at the Block…3 Yiran Chi

Sheridan Road Records…4 Catherine Zhang

Exploring the avant-garde…5 Kyle Walcott

Deadpool: still slaying the box office…5 Jake Leshem

Departing B1G seniors…6 Zach Person

Top RBs in the 2015 NFL draft…6 Koby Weisman

Research@NU…7 Ananya Agrawal

The Fighting Methodist Presents:The Reconstruction Era…8 TheChronicleStaff•LukeMcDougald•ComicbyJujuMiao

Winter 2016 Executive Board

2 Agenda

Unconventionality at the Block:performance artist Charlotte Moorman showcased

Yiran Chi

In a photo, Charlotte Moorman sat nude playing a cello of carved ice while suspended from helium-fi lled balloons.

Though the avant-garde performance artist passed away in 1991, her memory lives on through the Block Museum’s newest exhibit, which seeks to redefi ne traditional music and classical performance.

The exhibition “A Feast of Astonishments: Charlotte Moorman and the Avant-Garde, 1960s

—1980s,” opened in January 2016 at Northwestern’s Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, and will come to a close in mid-July 2016.

The ground fl oor exhibition features a double viewing room for screenings of videos, including rare footage from the Charlotte Moorman Archive. The second fl oor highlights aspects of Moorman’s career, including her early years, works she performed, festivals she organized and her infl uence abroad.

Moorman was known for founding the Annual Avant Garde Festival of New York and working often with Korean artist Name June Paik.

Upon entering the second fl oor exhibition, one is greeted by a plethora of sounds, including Moorman’s voice from a talk show, metals clicking, classical music and buzzing fl ies.

“It’s very loud,” said Theresa Dai, a second year student studying MMSS at Northwestern. “Although

it may sound scary or intimidating at fi rst, in the end you get used to it and get immersed in the environment.”

The noises blend together, creating a sense of surreality and astonishment.

“The exhibition was bold and inspiring to me,” said Qiya Yin, a visiting high school student from China.

“Moorman explores the new boundary of music powerfully and creatively.”

The Block Museum exhibit recreates Moorman’s artistic creativity and devotion to art by showcasing a varied assortment of her artwork, documentary photographs, performance props and costumes.

Charlotte Moorman was not featured much in conventional art history, said Professor Amanda Jane Graham, who currently teaches a course related to the exhibit called “Scoring the Avant-Garde.”

“She was always thought as Nam June Paik’s muse and on the sidelines,” Graham said. “However, the curators have done a fabulous job showing how integral Moorman was to the arts at that time.”

The exhibit’s infl uence is helping expose people to Moorman’s work, Graham said.

“What’s even better is that there’s this web of infl uence happening here over the Northwestern community, where all of these diff erent departments are getting involved,” she said.

The exhibit was organized in partnership with Northwestern’s Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, home to the Charlotte Moorman Archive.

The exhibit balances in-depth research, compelling visuals and archival material, said Lindsay Bosch, the Marketing and Communications manager at the Block Museum.

“The exhibit aims to rewrite history a little bit in order to make Moorman’s place clear and make what she accomplished as an artist really apparent,” Bosch said.

The Block Museum has planned upcoming events and programs in coordination with the exhibit.

On March 2, a lecture demonstration featuring musicologist Ben Piekut and Northwestern PhD candidate Jason Rosenholtz-Witt will explore Moorman’s approach to John Cage’s score.

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Thirty hours later, I emerged enraptured by not only the cause, but also the community the event fostered. I joined a committee as soon as possible, met as many children benefi ciaries as I could and heckled my friends and family for donations.

Some people were not as enchanted by NUDM as I was. The long hours take their toll, the fundraising becomes demanding and people like myself can sometimes be a bit too enthusiastic.

However, I believe that this is something everyone in the Northwestern community can and should support, beyond just giving donations and attending fundraising events.

Dance Marathon is a quintessential Northwestern experience and should be a top-priority item on every student’s bucket list. When such a large portion of the school falls in love with and rallies around a cause like DM, you know it’s worth investigating. I love watching students’ talent, passion and drive surge throughout the 30 hours of Dance Marathon.

It’s easy to decline an event that requires you to dance for more than an entire day. It’s easy to tend to

your schoolwork right before reading week instead of purposely depriving yourself of sleep. It’s easy to shy away from challenges.

But Dance Marathon wasn’t designed to be eff ortless, and I don’t think anyone ends up at Northwestern because they take the easy way out. That core belief is arguably why NUDM is able to make the diff erence that it makes. Over the past 40 years, it has consistently grown, allowing it to reach the incredible level of impact it has today. We have the chance to feed hundreds of thousands of children when they go home on the weekends. I dance because I have never had an opportunity to aff ect so many lives in such a powerful and positive way, and because I’ll only have a chance like this four times in my life.

We have proven our school’s united ambition to help the world time and time again. When the 30 hours are up and the fundraising total is revealed, I know every single person in that blood, sweat and tears-drenched tent will smile, their discomfort overtaken by an overwhelming feeling of pride.

Charlotte Moorman performs Jim McWilliams’ Ice Music for Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1976. Photographer unknown. Courtesy of Kaldor Public Art Projects.

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News & Opinion

Sheridan Road Records: NU’s fi rst student-run

record label Catherine Zhang

Looking back, it’s clear that seniors Melissa Codd and Kate Camarata have made their mark on Northwestern with Sheridan Road Records, the record label they established to bring people together with student musical performances.

Sheridan Road Records events feature student acts of all sorts of genres, from hip-hop to classical to jazz to electronic.

“We have this other connection, this other viewpoint,” Codd said. “We understand how much work goes into music, and what music means to musicians and performers.”

Codd and Camarata, who are best friends, roommates and co-founders of SRR, drew inspiration from what they heard from Codd’s friend at Swamp Records, the University of Florida’s student-run record label.

Camarata, who began as a piano major but later switched to studying music business, interned with multiple record labels, and realized that a student-run record label was entirely a possibility.

“You don’t need a big, huge corporation in order to do it,” Camarata said.

In early May 2015, Codd and Camarata decided to move forward with their idea.

“It all just came together in one night,” Codd said.They recruited a few friends, divided up the

responsibilities among themselves and hosted the offi cial Sheridan Road Records launch party just weeks later, an experience Codd referred to as “eye-opening.”

The launch party attracted nearly 150 people. Some were curious about Northwestern’s fi rst student-run record label, and others who heard the house party when walking by just decided to drop in.

The lineup consisted of fi ve student acts, opening with electronic DJ James Hu, followed by hip-hop artist AleXander, post-grunge band Coff ee Breath and jazz group Acid Trap. Hip-hop and electronic duo Freddy Mummix and zorenLo rounded out the evening.

Emery Weinstein, SRR’s head of Public Relations, joined the group to learn more about Northwestern’s music scene. Weinstein said that working with SRR exposed her to a huge community of musicians she hadn’t known existed, including rappers, singer-songwriters and producers.

“There are so many musicians on campus, but they don’t have an opportunity to perform,” Weinstein said.

Sheridan Road Records looks for dedication and passion in musicians, in addition to talent and skills.

As it turns out, artists can strongly infl uence the turnout at a live event by encouraging peers to show their support.

“We mildly invest in their music,” said James Hu, SRR’s Director of Strategy and Business Development. “We want people who ultimately will bring their friends to events, and will create hype.”

Each event is a rigorous process from start to fi nish, considering every aspect that goes into the planning process, from booking a venue to fi nding sound equipment to scheduling a lineup to marketing the event.

“Live events [are] our main focus,” Hu said. “We all kind of do a little bit of everything.”

In the fall of 2015, Sheridan Road Records hosted “Study Break,” the fi rst in a concert series Hu created. Loosely based off of MoMA PS1, an experimental art institution based in Queens, New York, the fi rst Study Break packed local Evanston coff ee shop Kafein and featured performances by student musicians such as AleXander, classical guitarist Coren Warden and cellist Wick Simmons.

“The goal is to get students to come in a very casual environment, where they can buy drinks and

hangout with their friends, and also there’s music in the background,” Hu said.

The second Study Break, hosted in late January 2016, showcased the musical talents of singer-songwriter Chaitra Subramaniam and cellist Juan-Salvador Carrasco.

SRR also hosted a concert called “Space Jam” in November 2015 at Evanston’s main concert venue, S.P.A.C.E. The lineup included James Hu, electro-hip hop artist Lawless, trap artist DJNN, rapper Prez Harris and R&B-jazz band The Syndicate.

In upcoming months, Sheridan Road Records has a few more events planned before its co-founders graduate.

When it comes to their approaching experimental show, Codd says anything goes.

“They might be screaming into mics or playing amplifi ed instruments that are distorted immensely, and improvising whatever they want,” Codd said.

In addition to a partnership with Scene+Heard, a Northwestern arts and culture publication, SRR’s forthcoming projects also include working with a collective of Bienen composers, Codd said, ranging from freshmen to doctoral students.

“Other music groups just focus on one genre, one style, or even one clique of people on campus, whereas we try to incorporate as many people as possible,” Codd said.

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Dr. Jacob Smith, an RTVF professor and a co-sponsor of the lectures, said that one of the primary goals of the series was to “open our ears to a global culture.”

Discussing “South Asian sound culture can spark new inquiries into how we think about sound,” said Smith, especially given that most of the existing work

in this fi eld focuses on the West. To demonstrate how sound can help bridge

communities, Dr. Laura Brueck from the Asian Language and Cultures department at Northwestern emphasized the role of sound as a common factor for multilingual population clusters in South Asia. She referenced one of the lecturers, Dr. Aswin

Punathambekar, who spoke about the use of Tamil, a South ndian language, words as hashtags throughout all of India, an uncommon occurrence for a country with over 100 languages.

“Sound, unlike text and visual culture, inhabits and transcends linguistic boundaries,” said Brueck.

NU’s fi rst student-run record label

Emery Weinstein, SRR’s head of Public Relations, joined the group to learn more about Northwestern’s music scene. Weinstein

SRR exposed her to a huge community of musicians she hadn’t known existed,

“There are so many

musicians on campus, but they don’t have an opportunity to perform.

Source: Sheridan Road Records Facebook page

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Exploring the avant-garde Kyle Walcott

Have you ever wondered where the screeching violin sounds in Psycho come from?

Who would have ever thought, Yeah,justhackthehell out of it, that’ll sound really good?

That would be the fi lm composer, Bernard Herrmann. With his classical background and experience conducting the CBS Radio Orchestra, Herrmann would have heard such harsh string sounds in the music of classical composers living at that time. Today, these noises are considered some of the earliest innovations of “contemporary classical music,” the result of a gradual aesthetic divergence from the more familiar and far more celebrated Beethoven-esque “classical” music.

After the start of this divergence at the onset of the 20th century, contemporary classical musicians who advocated these new techniques tried to carve out a place for their music in the mainstream classical world. Especially innovative was the avant-garde, the radical and at times anti-establishment wing of the contemporary classical universe. Musicians hoped that innovations such as scratch tones, new instruments, microtones, atonality, graphical scores, randomness, and electronic sounds would bring color to orchestra programs everywhere.

But this did not happen. To make a long story

short, traditional classical audiences loathed the music, fi nding it ugly and confusing. Even after tireless advocacy by infl uential musicians like Pierre Boulez and Leonard Bernstein, this common attitude showed little signs of changing.

Consequently, contemporary classical musicians were forced to create their own spaces where their music could be studied, celebrated and heard. An alternative classical music culture developed, and indeed continues to develop, now far removed from traditional classical historically, culturally, and aesthetically.

Luckily for us, Chicago (and Northwestern) are among the best places to experience this musical style fi rsthand! Today, the city hosts approximately 25 contemporary music ensembles. This includes an orchestra, chamber ensembles, choirs and even groups that meld music with theater. The best part of all this is the diversity on display: each group has a unique artistic angle, as well as a particular aesthetic orientation towards the various subgenres of contemporary classical music, which include modernism, neo-romanticism, spectralism and minimalism.

If you go to any of these concerts, you will fi nd a warm, tight-knit community of people united

by their dedication to a particular musical niche. Compared with the Chicago Symphony, contemporary classical ensembles provide a cheaper, more informal experience. They are often hosted in smaller venues that give each show a distinct character and personality. You can rub elbows with the composers and performers on the program, something unthinkable in the traditional classical world.

A list of upcoming avant-garde concerts

can be found on the our website.

Deadpool: still slaying the box offi ce Jake Leshem

Since its release on February 12, Deadpool has taken the country by storm. A fi lm with a budget of less than $60 million, Deadpool has already made $500 million worldwide, shattering box-offi ce records for R-rated movies. The movie is predicted to make back its budget ten times over and more.

This shocking success can be attributed to both the general contemporary fascination with superhero movies, as well as the fantastic marketing campaign carried out over the past few months, raising awareness and intrigue about the movie. I strongly recommend seeing the fi lm, in theaters or otherwise, as it is thoroughly entertaining and never lets up on the humor from the moment it starts to the fi lm’s fi nal frame. That being said, Deadpool leaves certain things to be desired, perhaps preventing the fi lm from achieving the cinematic status of a true masterpiece.

One of the main problems that I have with Deadpool is its utter lack of plot. Upon leaving the theater, viewers realize that in the prior two hours, nothing of note happened in the fi lm whatsoever. Rather, they had been entertained solely by the nonstop stream of off -color, extremely funny jokes. The fi lm as a whole was so fresh and unique that a

well-considered plot could have done wonders for it. Perhaps the small budget limited the fi lmmakers’ ability to create a particularly spectacular plot, but it wouldn’t have hurt to spend some time crafting a movie that a child wouldn’t have been able to write in his or her spare time.

The other problem I have with the fi lm is the lack of interest that the fi lmmakers seem to have in developing the characters. The motives for the antagonist were totally unclear. The man, named Ajax, told Deadpool that he couldn’t feel pain, but why was that a reason to enslave anyone who walked in his door? Moreover, how did he manage to create such a large gang of seemingly inept soldiers that were willing to protect him?

In addition, the remaining secondary characters in the fi lm had no known goals whatsoever. They seemed to be a part of the fi lm solely for Deadpool to either kill or ridicule. It is possible that these fl aws are part of a wider joke the fi lmmakers were playing on the audience, creating a movie with such a basic plot that it was satirically nonsensical. If that is the case, then it clearly worked, but if the sequels are going to be as successful as the original, a new formula for Deadpool has to be concocted.

The one factor that saves the fi lm, and makes it such a must-see, is Deadpool himself. One of the most unique, funny and interesting characters to headline a movie in years, Ryan Reynolds is the reason that the fi lm has been such a success. Obviously, this can be partially attributed to the comic character that attracted such a large fan base over the past few years, but more specifi cally, the credit for the character and fi lm’s success has to go to Reynolds.

A fl urry of jokes, making fun of all aspects of life and pop culture, keep the fi lm worth watching the entire way through. Based off of the marketing campaign preceding the movie, it’s pretty clear that Deadpool’s sense of humor and unique voice is based largely off of Reynolds himself. The exceptional athleticism that Deadpool displays in the admittedly limited action sequences also leave the viewer excited for the sequels to see what else is in store.

Deadpool is overall a success because of how connected the audience becomes with the title character as the fi lm progresses. Although the plot’s shortcomings limit my interest in seeing the fi lm again, the nature of the Deadpool character makes this movie a must-see and leaves me very excited for any sequels that may come down the road.

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Paddy FisherHailing from Katy, Texas — a locale historically

known as a Houston-area powerhouse — Paddy Fisher may have the most talent out of any recruit in the 2016 class. Although only 6-foot-1 and 220 pounds, which could limit him from getting early playing time, Fisher could get early playing time and step in as the SAM linebacker if he can bulk up.

The great Anthony Walker Jr. and Nate Hall will hold two of the three starting linebacker positions, but the third is up in the air. Fisher, with his explosive first step and fantastic instincts, drives through ball carriers and takes good angles on runners. If he can impress coaches early on, he’ll have a good shot at getting early play time.Travis Whillock

Whillock attended the same high school as Fisher, and Northwestern recruited them together. At 6-foot-2 and 185 pounds, Whillock has an impressive frame for a safety. He can both play in the box and be physical.

With senior safety Traveon Henry gone, Whillock has the potential to grab the attention of coaches and begin playing immediately. His height and speed are the perfect combination to defend tight ends or running backs in man-to-man defense. His instincts and vision allow him to disrupt the line of scrimmage. With his great acceleration and ability to close down on receivers, he is one of the more intriguing recruits because he has the physical attributes to blossom into an elite player.Mark Gooden

Gooden may be the best athlete in the 2016 recruiting class. Although ESPN rated him the second lowest Northwestern recruit, Gooden has the athleticism to be a game changer. He played defensive end in high school, but his lack of height (only 6-foot-1) will force him to convert to linebacker at NU.

Gooden most likely won’t get consistent playing time early in his career, but I expect him to become a third down specialist. The combination of his speed and nonstop drive will impress many. Gooden never gives up on a play, and his pursuit abilities are off the charts. These are the types of things Coach Fitz loves to see. Though Gooden has some limitations when it comes to coverage – either in man-to-man or zone – he could easily be a third down specialist next season.

The hardest goodbye: departing B1G seniorsZach Person

Constant team turnover is one of the most compelling and exciting parts of college football. Every year is a chance for new players to emerge from the shadows of their predecessors and make their own marks on teams. Sometimes, however, the loss of a star player leaves a team looking for answers that it may not be able to find. Here are some of the departing B1G players who will leave the biggest shoes to be filled this coming season.Joey Bosa, DE Ohio State

2015:51tackles(16forloss),5sacks,1forcedfumble,1interception

Career:148tackles(51forloss),26sacks,5forcedfumbles,2recoveredfumbles,1interception

Bosa, a consensus All-American in 2014 and 2015, has been a one-man wrecking crew for the Buckeyes throughout his career and has drawn comparisons to JJ Watt. Even on a loaded Ohio State defensive line featuring standouts such as Adolphus Washington, opposing offenses had to consistently gameplan to stop Bosa. His relatively low sack number this

season is really a testament to the resources opposing offenses devote to him, and bad things happened to QBs when he was matched up one-on-one. A good edge rusher is one of the most valuable players in modern football, and none has been better than Bosa over the last three seasons.Next man up: Sam Hubbard (So.)

Career:28tackles(8forloss),6.5sacks,1forcedfumble,1fumblerecovery,1interception

Bosa, at the top of this list, was a crucial player for the Buckeyes, and leaves hard shoes to fill. Luckily, Hubbard is a really good player. In his first year of playing time in OSU’s defensive line rotation, he actually out-sacked Bosa and finished with the second-most sacks on the team. Thus, Hubbard will likely be able to cause havoc together with the starting opposite Tyquan Lewis, but he is still far from being at Bosa’s game-changing level

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Top RBs in the 2015 NFL draftKoby Weisman

With the NFL Combine approaching this upcoming week, NFL franchises will be sorting through the talent for their future stars. One intriguing position group in the 2016 NFL Draft are the running backs. There are many exciting rushers with loads of talent at the top of the class. Here are the five running backs that have the most talent.Ezekiel Elliott, Ohio St.

Elliot is far and away the best running back prospect entering the 2016 NFL Draft. He possesses a great frame, 5-foot-11 and 225 pounds, with explosive lower body power. Elliot broke out in the 2014 season and led Ohio State to a National Championship when he rushed for 246 yards and 4 touchdowns. He runs low and takes care of the football. Elliot has the patience to locate emerging holes and use his acceleration to burst through them. Although he is not elite in the passing game, Elliot has shown signs of development in blocking and receiving which will be a crucial role at the next level. If Elliot continues to work on blocking and receiving, he could be used as a versatile three down back in the NFL.Derrick Henry, Alabama

Henry is the strongest and most powerful running back to enter the draft in this century. He is a downfield runner who punishes any defender that gets in his way. Listed at 6-foot-2 and 245 pounds, Henry is pure muscle and a freak of nature. He is the all-time leading rusher in high school football history, rushing for 12,124 yards and 153

touchdowns in his four years (48 games). He won the 2015 Heisman Trophy after he ran for 2,219 yards and 28 touchdowns his junior season. Henry is surprisingly agile considering his size and could be a huge success in the NFL. His weakness comes in the passing game. Henry doesn’t have reliable hands and isn’t great on blocking reads. Despite that Henry will be a force to reckon with his rookie season.

Kenneth Dixon, Louisiana TechDixon is one of the shiftier, more exciting

runners in this class. Many haven’t seen Dixon play because he went Louisiana Tech, but he is a top notch runner. He is second on the all-time career rushing touchdown list in college football and had a great senior season. He is able to read linebackers’ movements and defenses which becomes an important aspect of the NFL. Even for being slightly below average in size, Dixon is a hard-nose runner who won’t give up on play. He is deadly in open space and has shown that he can be an asset as a receiver. Dixon is an all-around running back with no weaknesses. Dixon should surprise many when he reaches the NFL.

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Ellliot Ezekiel, Source: NFL

6 Sports

Research@NU: Winter quarter highlights Ananya Agrawal

Northwestern’s research eff orts have never been stronger. 2015 had our research awards exceeding $620 million, and this momentum has certainly followed into 2016. This past quarter has featured some of the university’s most revolutionary breakthroughs, led by NU professors and their students.

Here’s a quick rundown of what has taken place in our labs this past quarter.Gravitational waves are real

The works of notable scholars like Aristotle and Galileo have led us to a qualitative understanding of the eff ects of gravity, which was then quantifi ed though Newton’s universal law of gravity. Despite this, all we could do was predict what would happen, not why it happened. It took Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, in which he introduces the concept of space-time, for us to understand the ‘why’ behind gravity.

In short, space-time acts like a fabric that is warped by the presence of a mass. Gravity is a consequence of the resulting curvature. Objects in space-time will move along the path of least resistance. This is why planets rotate star systems. However, this is all a rather qualitative take on Einstein’s work. In reality, it involves a lot of math. One of the pieces of math makes an odd prediction that even Einstein doubted: much like electromagnetic waves, there are gravitational waves.

Physicists have since been looking for such waves, though no conclusive results had been obtained - until now. LIGO, which stands for Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, was founded in 1992 as a collaborative eff ort between researchers at multiple universities, including Northwestern. On September 14 2015, three days after the detectors were turned on following a fi ve-year renovation/upgrade hiatus, they fi nally detected something.

LIGO found gravitational waves corresponding to a rather interesting, if somewhat cataclysmic in nature, event: two black holes merging to form a massive rotating black hole. To date, this is the highest-energy event that has ever been recorded.

Vicky Kalogera, a Northwestern professor and one of LIGO’s most senior astrophysicists, is ecstatic about the discovery.

“Almost everything we currently know about the universe has been discovered with light of some kind, such as X-rays, infrared radiation and radio waves,”

Kalogera said. “Gravitational waves carry completely new information about black holes and other cosmic objects, and they will unlock a new part of the universe.”

Another Northwestern professor involved with LIGO, Shane Larson, was “astounded,” and expects that this newfound proof of gravitational waves will lead to a method to detect black holes directly.

As Kalogera eloquently put it: “That’s the beauty of basic science. Basic science pursued by us humans, by those who have an innate, almost inexplicable curiosity about fi guring out how nature works. The technology of today is rooted in the basic science discoveries of the past.”Manufacturing kinases

Starting at the intracellular level, proteins play key roles in regulating and managing body processes like replication, respiration and nutrition. They lend themselves well to this by virtue of their complex, readily modifi able structures and functionalizations.

This is why Michael Jewett, a Northwestern professor in the department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, focuses on understanding how – and even why – these systems and cycles work. One of the best ways to do this is by taking proteins apart and putting them back together to assess the emergent properties displayed by specifi c components within the molecule(s).

To this end, his lab has produced functional human kinases using an engineered strain of E.coli as the basis of a cell-free synthetic approach. Jewett explains that the new processes will let researchers create the protein in large quantities, “with a freedom of design that is not possible in living organisms.”

Protein kinases are a subcategory of particular importance, as they are often used as regulatory “switches” to activate and deactivate cellular processes by phosphorylating other proteins. With defects in this procedure being implicated as the leading cause of multiple diseases such as cancer and Alzheimer’s, this discovery truly has the chance to help target drug design and improve our understanding of kinase mechanisms, which is still limited.

“We are fi nding new ways to leverage this machinery to understand biological questions, specifi cally protein phosphorylation,” Jewett said.

“ Massgripsspaceby telling it how

to curve, space grips mass by telling it howtomove.”– John Wheeler,

a renowned physicist

Right: An artistic representation of space-time curvature around a binary black hole system, much like that which led to the discovery of

gravitational waves. Source: CalTech

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