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The Daily NorthwesternEmergency vehicles were outside of Kellogg yesterday. Find out why.
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Hungry for a panini? There’s a new place for you to go to.
EditorialBurgwell Howard’s e-mail about behavior was not enough.
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Honor system: Communication freshmen Ryan Duncan and Michael deMarco visit Honest Tea’s unmanned pop-up stand on Monday. Honest Tea conducted a social experiment, offering $1 bottles on the honor system in front of Scott Hall from 9 a.m. to noon. Students paid $69 for 58 bottles for what Area Marketing Manager Dan Munsterman called a “119 percent Honesty” rating. “The school performed very well,” Musterman wrote in an e-mail. “Better than any other city (or) campus has ever done.” Proceeds from the experiment were donated to SEED, Northwestern’s Students for Ecological and Environmental Development.
A social experiment on Honest Tea
Communication sophomore Mori Einsidler has been selected as the student opener for singer-songwriter Cary Broth-ers , Weinberg ’95, in Pick-Staiger Concert Hall � ursday at 8 p.m.
“I’m psyched,” said Einsidler , whose artist name is MORI . “I’m looking for-ward to seeing him play, let alone opening for him.”
Einsidler was chosen by a week-long online vote held by A&O Productions . � e
contest received about 800 votes, accord-ing to an A&O spokesperson.
� e concert is the result of collabora-tive e� orts by A&O, Homecoming 2010 and the O� ce of Alumni Relations and Development.
A&O’s executive board chose four � nalists to put up for a vote: Einsidler, Communication junior Kara Ali , Com-munication sophomore Travis Knauss and the group Rum Lotus. Selections
were chosen based on how well the art-ist or group blended with Cary Brothers’ music.
“We’re really happy with Mori winning because she has a very singer-songwriter vibe, which really does � t with Cary Brothers’ vibe,” said Stefanie Golisze-wski , A&O’s co-director of promotions and public relations.
A member of A&O’s executive board came up with the idea for a contest to
decide on an opener, Goliszewski said. With the support of Homecoming 2010 and the O� ce of Alumni Relations and Development , the group had a short amount of time to promote the contest and solicit submissions.
“It was a very last-minute collaboration,” Goliszewski said. “We � gured it would be a great opportunity for students.”
— Lark Turner
By Claire Brownthe daily northwestern
� e next Asian pop sensation could be Northwestern’s very own John Park .
� e Weinberg senior is taking this quar-ter o� from NU classes to compete in the Korean version of “American Idol,” called “Superstar K” , in Seoul.
Park is one of two competitors remain-ing in the competition . � e winner will be announced Friday morning.
“It’s one of the most popular TV shows in Korea,” said Christian Lee, a 2005 Emory University graduate who has been following Park’s success because he has friends at NU who know Park. “It’s like a Korean MTV.”
Lee said Park has been singing mostly Korean songs in an e� ort to reach out to the Korean audience, but he also sang a Michael Jackson song, which helped launch him to the top of the competition.
� e winner will receive a record contract and about $200,000, in addition to the pub-licity bene� ts of winning the competition.
“� e Korean pop culture is very popular in Asia right now,” Lee said. “So if he wins, it’s likely that he will be popular in other Asian countries too.”
Park’s competitor, Heo Gak , had no vocal training before the show and comes from a di� cult family background.
“(Heo) has a very good talent and pitch for popular songs,” Lee said. “John has a very unique voice and a cappella training,
so it’s just totally di� erent.”� e public’s vote accounts for 70 per-
cent of the � nal decision on who will win the competition, with the other 30 percent coming from the judges.
Lee said both competitors are popular, and the decision could go either way. Park was leading last week on the online voting, but Heo is leading now.
“Most of the Korean girls support John because he’s good-looking and he has a nice voice,” Lee said.
Park’s presence in the competition is also promoting NU in Korea, Lee said.
“He de� nitely has a good chance to win,” he said. “He is really, really popular.”
Mori Einsidler selected to open for Cary Brothers
John Park reaches � nals of Korean “American Idol”
Photo courtesy of John Park
Superstar: Weinberg senior John Park took the quarter off to compete in the reality show. The winner will be announced Friday.
By Annie Changthe daily northwestern
Feinberg School of Medicine is join-ing the ranks of approximately 20 U.S. medical schools contracted by the fed-eral government to bring medical edu-cation in Africa into the 21st century.
The project, a $130 million initia-tive funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief , is a series of grants given to various African medical schools in countries including Botswana , Ethio-pia , Kenya , Uganda and Mozambique to revamp their medical curriculum and training.
“It’s a very fundamental project that will help change the way they help edu-cate future doctors on the continent,” said Robert Murphy , director of NU’s Center for Global Health .
NU will receive $2 million per year for five years for the medical school’s participation in the program. Feinberg submitted a proposal in May and was awarded the grant last month.
Shannon Galvin , associate director of the Center for Global Health, said it is an honor for the Global Health Center as well as for Feinberg.
“This is a very prestigious award,” Galvin said. “The other schools that have gotten it; they’re big players in
global health.”Murphy said the Global Health
Center has been working in Nigeria through PEPFAR for seven years. The grant is a great way to continue their efforts, he said.
NU will partner with the Harvard School of Public Health to work with the University of Ibadan in Nigeria , a country with a dearth of trained med-ical personnel, said Adela Mizrachi , communications manager for the Cen-ter for Global Health.
“It’s really about working with the universities and getting their programs improved so that they meet the needs in Nigeria because there’s far too few doctors for too many people,” she said.
This is true for many countries in Africa, where the bulk of the AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria epidemics are , Murphy said.
The project focuses on updating medical curricula, maintaining fac-ulty and professionals, and developing research skills in African universities, Galvin said.
“The goal of the grant is to improve medical education — not just for doc-tors but nurses, dentists, lab scientists, anyone involved in the medical field,” she said.
Africa to get Feinberg aid
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Aiding Africa: Feinberg is taking part in a $130 million initiative to improve medical education in Africa. NU will partner with the Harvard School of Public Health to work with a Nigerian university.
Countries receiving aid
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From the WiresAlbum art from new Kanye banned?
Superstar rapper Kanye West has become a master of all media in creating anticipation for his upcoming release, “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy,” unleashing songs free to the Web, con-ceiving show-stopping television appearances and prepping his � rst short � lm.
� e outspoken artist took to the Web and declared the artwork for his upcoming album had been rejected for the U.S. market.
Kanye wrote, “� ey don’t want me chilling on the couch with my phoenix!” and revealed a piece of graphic artwork in which a naked rep-resentation of the artist was in a sexually sug-gestive position with the mythological � rebird in female form.
. “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” is currently scheduled for a Nov. 22 release in the U.S.
Facebook looks into third-party apps
Facebook is looking into how third-party applications treat its users’ information a� er the revelation that some applications and games were sending those data to advertisers.
� e 10 most popular apps were forwarding user identi� cation numbers to advertising com-panies, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal.
Speci� cally, such games as FarmVille and Texas Hold ’Em Poker reportedly shared with advertisers a string of numbers and letters used to identify users, the story alleged. � at made it possible for advertisers to glean quite a bit about the users in combination with the other informa-tion they collect on them.
� at activity, which violates Facebook’s guide-lines, raises the question whether the world’s most popular social networking service has adequate systems to oversee the activity of third-party applications.
— Los Angeles Times
Hoarse-voiced Obama talks to 35,000 at Ohio State rally
By Collin BinkleyThe Lantern
In a hoarse voice worn from the busiest campaign since his election, President Barack Obama warned an estimated crowd of 35,000 on Ohio State’s campus tonight that Wall Street values will govern the country if Republicans regain power in the upcoming mid-term election.
In what officials called the biggest rally since Obama was elected, the president told the crowd on the university’s Oval that he has worked for two years to reverse problems he inherited from Republican policies.
“I’ve been explaining to a lot of people around the country, it’s as if they drove America into a ditch,” he said. “Even though we didn’t drive that car in the ditch, it is still our respon-sibility to get that car out of the ditch.”
The president cited his administration’s health care legislation, which passed despite strong Republican opposition, as one of the key successes of his presidency, along with educa-tion reform to make college more accessible to “ordinary people.” If Democrats stay in power in Congress after the Nov. 2 election, he said, the government will continue those policies and push for new sources of clean energy to provide jobs in the U.S.
If Republicans wrestle power from Demo-crats in Washington, Obama said, the country will lapse into the same economic mire that he said was caused by GOP and Wall Street executives.
The estimated record crowd is good news for Obama and Gov. Ted Strickland, who are trying to fire up Democratic voters in a key battleground state. But a poll released last Fri-day indicated that Republicans are widening their lead in major Ohio races.
A poll sponsored by the University of Cin-cinnati reported an 8-point lead for former U.S. Rep. John Kasich in his bid against Strickland. According to the poll, 51 percent of likely vot-ers favored Kasich, while 43 percent said they would vote for Strickland. One percent said they would cast a ballot for someone else and 5 percent were undecided.
The youngest category of likely voters - also the target of Obama’s speech Sunday - was one of the groups most likely to favor Kasich on the poll. The survey reported that 52 percent of likely voters age 18 to 29 support Kasich, compared to 44 percent for Strickland.
Speaking before her husband at their first campaign stop since 2008, Michelle Obama told the crowd that the president isn’t con-cerned about polls. Still, the president acknowl-edged that Democrats face a tough political climate.
Barack Obama took the stage after stump speeches from other notable Democrats. For-mer Sen. John Glenn defended the president and Strickland and said they’ve gotten a bad rap, despite legislative success. Strickland told the crowd that Ohio is well on its way to recovery, being named the sixth best-recovered state by the Federal Reserve. The president was also introduced by a performance from John Legend, Undergraduate Student Govern-ment President Micah Kamrass and other Ohio Democrats.
Obama, who was in Cleveland earlier today, will continue his campaign blitz Wednesday in a four-day tour of West Coast states where Democrats are grappling to retain power.
OSU is just another stop on the campaign trail for Democrats
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‘Missing’ student not pledging sorority, just at weekend retreat
A student whose father feared she was missing met University Police o� cers o� campus Sunday a� ernoon, police said.
� e student’s father called UP to � le a missing person’s report Saturday around 3:15 p.m., saying he was concerned she was pledging a sorority, McA-leer said. UP o� cers then contacted the student’s roommate, who said she hadn’t been in the shared room since 5:45 p.m. Friday and wasn’t picking
up calls to her cell phone, McAleer said. UP o� -cers attempted to contact the student in multiple locations, checking local hospitals and calling the student’s cell phone.
O� cers � nally reached the student on her cell phone, and she told them she had been on a retreat that weekend, McAleer said. He added “it didn’t sound like” a sorority-a� liated event.
� e student met police on Maple Avenue around 12:20 p.m. Sunday and later called her father, McA-leer said.
Gas alarm at Tech goes offA gas danger alarm activated at the Technologi-
cal Institute, 2145 Sheridan Road, didn’t signify any threat or damage Sunday morning, police said.
UP and Evanston � re department o� cials responded to the alarm, which was activated by a computer, around 3:50 a.m., UP Deputy Chief Dan McAleer said.
O� cials noti� ed the lab manager and a professor to the alarm’s activation, McAleer said. When the lab manager arrived, she said between 2:30 and 3:50
p.m. that day she had conducted a test using a gas tank containing sulfur dioxide. A� er completing the test, the lab manager said she had made certain to close both valves on the gas tank.
O� cials could not locate a source of a gas leak. � e valves on the gas tank were closed, and there was no odor, McAleer said.
Facilities Management is looking into why the alarm was activated.
— S.K. Dachowitz
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Sitting at a corner table, eating a sandwich, Carol Angelopolous could be mistaken for a customer at her own restaurant.
Angelopolous and her brother Ted opened the cafe My Panini , 1100 Davis St. , in early July. When she is not taking orders or brewing specialty cof-fees, Carol Angelopolous can be found sitting at her usual table, eating and chatting with the regu-
lars. On a recent Monday morning, Evanston resi-dents trickled in
and out, ordering drinks and sandwiches to go.“Why paninis?” Angelopolous said . “It’s not fast
food.” The brother-sister team also owns Cafe
Mozart . Ted Angelopolous operates Cafe Mozart, while Carol Angelopolous runs My Panini. Ted Angelopolous said he decided to open a new res-taurant when he saw the vacant lot across from the post o� ce on Davis Street and envisioned a
lunch-oriented sandwich shop.“I really like panini sandwiches,” he said. Ted Angelopolous said he entered the restaurant
business by accident. � e Skokie resident saw Cafe Mozart for sale and decided on a whim to buy it though he had no prior restaurant experience, he said. � e cafe was so successful, he opened My Panini.
Despite receiving mixed reviews online, the restaurant has received steady business, Carol Angelopolous said.
“As a new store, everyone came to check it out,” Carol Angelopolous said.
Carol Angelopolous said the restaurant has its regular customers, most of whom come by at lunchtime to enjoy the meat, vegetable and dessert paninis. � e chicken pesto panini is a favorite, but co� ee and pastry sales are picking up, she said.
With only one other part-time employee, Carol Angelopolous has to handle many customers at once. She said the 12-hour days are worth the e� ort.
“We want to progress and make sure everything’s right,” Carol Angelopolous said.
Carol Angelopolous said the current customer base of My Panini meets her expectations, but to draw in new customers, she and her brother will soon launch an advertising campaign.
While Carol Angelopolous said she, like her
brother, has limited restaurant experience, cooking and hospitality are in her blood.
“Maybe it’s just a Greek thing,” she said.
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Sibling team opens new panini restaurant on Davis
Susan Du/The Daily Northwestern
My Panini: The new sandwich shop on Davis Street is owned by siblings Carol and Ted Angelopolous. The duo also own Cafe Mozart in downtown Evanston.
It was the talk of the town over the weekend: An e-mail sent to o� -campus students by Burgwell Howard and the student behavior that prompted it. � e
e-mail generated a buzz among the student body, turned into a front page story in this newspaper and was posted on gossip website Gawker.com, where it received numerous comments.
� ere are a lot of issues at play here. Residents feel that inappropriate student behavior undermines the community at large. Students believe that residents should have thought of the consequences of living near campus before moving there. Instead of discussing who is right, The Daily would like to focus on what can be done to address the problem.
Because the truth is that, while the e-mail and the incidents that it detailed were treated as news, the underlying issue is anything but.
Upperclassmen may remember receiving a similar e-mail on April 30. � at e-mail, also from Howard, chastised students for a num-ber of “large, disruptive events” and warned them of increased police presence.
A few days later, The Daily published an editorial which acknowledged student per-sonal responsibility, but criticized the admin-istration for shirking its role in preventing the problems.
“In a college town, there will always be con� icts between students and neighbors. � e actions of the administration in dealing with these problems have been, to date, too much about reaction and not enough about being proactive,” this newspaper stated then.
We believe today, as we did then, that the University has a role in helping students to contribute positively, not negatively, to the Evanston community near campus. � at can-not be accomplished through an e-mail a� er the fact. It must be built through conversa-tions that happen before any trouble occurs.
We continue to advocate, as we did last spring, that the administration ought to help foster communication between o� -campus students, neighbors, city o� cials and univer-sity o� cials through events like o� -campus picnics and neighborhood-based orienta-tion sessions, and that the administration consider making attendance mandatory for
o� -campus students.We believe that such events would create
stronger relationships between students and their neighbors, making students more likely to consider nearby residents when planning social gatherings and making residents more likely to approach students about noise or other complaints rather than going directly to the police or the administration.
Additionally, students would bene� t from an o� -campus orientation that would review the various laws and regulations that are relevant to o� -campus life — especially those regarding noise, alcohol and property maintenance.
Plus, it would show the residents and city o� cials that the school is dealing with the problem in a proactive manner, which would represent a large step forward in town-gown relations.
When asked why the administration had not taken a more proactive approach to o� -campus life since the incidents last spring, Howard said the administration has plans in the works but has not had time to “roll them out” yet. He added that his o� ce has recently added a new sta� member who will deal, in part, with issues like this.
The Daily is encouraged by that news and strongly reminders the administration of the importance of this role.
An additional partial solution may come in the form of the increased availability of suite-style on-campus housing that would appeal to upperclassmen. � at would keep students and their social lives on university property. But this would be a long-term development, and even if better on-campus housing was made available to students, there would still be a sizable population of students that would want the freedom of o� -campus housing, so the bene� ts of this solution are somewhat limited.
Our editorial in May ended with the sentence, “All involved parties — students, neighbors and administrators — must work together.” Howard put it more succinctly in advice to students that made up the last words of his e-mails, both in April and last week: “Take care of our community.”
� at responsibility falls on students and neighbors, but also the administration.
Tuesday, October 19, 2010 page 4
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ONLINEWatch columnist Hana Suckstorff discuss what’s more important
than superpower status at dailynorthwestern.com
We’ve been hearing quite a bit about the “decline” of America lately. It’s an under-standable attitude, given our
prolonged economic problems and two seemingly interminable military engage-ments. � e sentiment pervades publications from � e New York Times to Forbes to Newsweek, which back in August judged the United States to be the world’s 11th “best” country, behind Denmark, Sweden and Canada, to name a few.
� e criteria used to determine the “best” countries were highly subjective. Newsweek based its list on considerations of health, educa-tion, economic dynamism and political envi-ronment, taking into account indicators such as life expectancy, literacy rates, homicide rates and unemployment. While the conclusions reached from these markers are contestable, that sense of “American decline” still permeates the report’s � ndings.
� e report raises some intriguing questions in that it emphasizes the overall quality of life for a nation’s citizens rather than international standing and reputation. While we Americans, with some reservation, may still claim to be the most powerful and in� uential nation on the globe, the report suggests that laying claim to that superpower status doesn’t necessarily equate to a higher standard of living.
So, if there is some sort of dichtomy between being number one on both the domestic and the international fronts, our lingering sense of “decline” o� ers us a chance to reevaluate how we de� ne “superpower.” Do we consider ourselves “the best” nation in the world on the basis of our international power or domestic well-being? What characteristics de� ne a super-power, and how are we failing to exhibit those?
� e mutual exclusivity implied in these questions doesn’t always hold true. If we have a powerhouse economy, something that garners international power and in� uence, we’re likely to have more people who are employed, self-su� cient and generally happier. Yet the sheer size of an economy or of an army doesn’t always translate to domestic bliss.
� e most disappointing statistic I have seen lately is not our 9.3 percent unemployment rate, which as Newsweek reports far exceeds that of European players like Switzerland at 4.4 percent, or even Time magazine’s projection that China’s economy will overtake that of the United States as the largest in the world by 2030. � e � gure that most concerns me comes from the Census Bureau’s September report detailing a rise in poverty rates to a new 15-year high. As of 2009, one in seven Americans lives below the poverty line. � at, to me, is a more signi� cant indicator of a national decline. Even if we stake our claims to international greatness on the size of our economy, what good does having the world’s largest GDP do if it leaves out 43.6 million Americans? We see this same predica-ment with education and health care, where the United States boasts some of the best profes-sionals in the world whose services are available only to the privileged few.
Many of you undoubtedly disagree with me on this issue. Perhaps you think being a superpower is more about size and less about distribution. So let’s take this moment of general pessimism about the future to discuss what con-stitutes a “great” nation. Is it boasting the world’s most powerful military or the world’s biggest economy? Is it having the smallest unemploy-ment rate or the fewest people living in poverty? Are these mutually exclusive?
I would love to see us as a nation reassess our vision for this country. Given the political climate around the upcoming midterm elec-tions, I’m not holding out for any kind of mature conversation. At times like this, politi-cians exploit peoples’ fears and anxieties instead of addressing and engaging them.
But I don’t think we should view this moment of purported “decline” with anxiety. Instead, we should see this as an opportunity to reconsider our values and rededicate ourselves to pursuing them.
Hana Suckstor� is a Weinberg senior. She can be reached at hsuckstor� @gmail.com.
What de� nes decline?
DAILY COLUMNIST
J.D. BRYANT
60 votes: A post-mortem
In a matter of weeks, Democrats will lose their massive, historic advantage in the Senate. Even a� er losing their 60th seat, the 111th Congress had more than a year to act on its intimidating
Democratic dominance. But they’ve failed to turn into action most of the promises they campaigned on back in 2008. Defenders of the Senate may argue that the political climate for Congress has been colder than absolute zero, and that Republicans have threatened to � libuster motions for everything but lunch breaks. But roadblocks like these have never been excuses for failing to deliver on legislative promises.
Take, for example, a Democratic promise that has been delayed longer than Guns ‘N’ Roses’ “Chinese Democracy”: a repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” � ough the House voted in May to repeal “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” the Senate only mustered a quickly-� libustered attempt late in the session. In failing to act, Democrats have le� key gay rights decisions to the courts. � e Log Cabin Republicans scored the latest judi-cial victory on behalf of the rights of gay men and women in the military. � eir suit in a California federal court saw “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” overturned as unconstitutional. Now gay rights activists can and should direct their support to the groups who actually do advocate on their behalf, and win. Letting others champion this constituency’s top priorities will justi� ably drive them out of the Democratic caucus. � e group that brought the California suit estimates that more than 13,000 members of the military have been discharged since the implementation of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” An untold number of workers around the country have been � red or denied employment absent a federal law protecting their rights. � ese tens of thousands of people have approxi-mately zero civil rights accomplishments for which to thank this crop of Senate Democrats.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has said that end-ing “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” will make other Democratic priorities like passing the Employee Non-Discrimination Act, impossible. To the people who take the rights of every American seriously, the two are not mutually exclusive. � ey are legislative imperatives that should be secured at the height of Democratic power, not political currency to be traded on the volatile election year market
Democrats have played, in slow motion, this exact game on nearly every one of their base’s priorities. Foot-dragging on the wishlists of their key constituencies may well have electoral consequences for the caucus. � e list of could-have-beens is frustrating for a party that was given a virtual mandate for change a� er two consecutive wave elections: Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, the Employee Non-Discrimination Act, the DREAM Act, the Employee Free Choice Act, cli-mate legislation. From gay and immigrant rights advocates to union members to environmentalists, Senate Democrats have continually told their strongest constituencies, “Wait.” � e people who care about those causes will rightly stop cut-ting checks for the Democratic candidates they previously hoped would - maybe this year, maybe not, who knows? - demonstrate some semblance of legislative fortitude. Democratic apathy has taken these issues out of the hands of Democratic Senate candidates and sidelines voters who would otherwise be enthusiastic to vote “D.”
Senator Reid’s heterogeneous caucus undoubtedly faced a di� cult set of circumstances. But instead of � ring up their most enthusiastic supporters by ful� lling their promises, Democratic Senators have gambled their political capital on measures voters either don’t understand or don’t care about. Even as they watched a � eeting supermajority slip through their � ngers, Democrats took a knee on their biggest sup-porters’ biggest issues. � ey’ve kicked the responsibility of holding together the disparate interests of the party down to a generation - our generation - that may never again have such an opportunity.
J.D. Bryant is a Weinberg senior. He can be reached at [email protected].
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On noise and neighbors: � e sequel
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Block Cinema and the Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust present a six-program film series exploring the country’s architectural heritage and the unique and fiercely independent individuals who defined it, including Chicago-based architects Wright, Louis Sullivan, and Mies van der Rohe.
(1962) Director Orson Welles masterfully adapts Franz Kafka’s classic novel. Anthony Perkins (Norman Bates in Psycho) stars as Josef K., a man caught up in a bureaucratic nightmare for a crime he cannot discern.
Leon Golub: Live & Die Like a Lion? is curated by Brett Littman, Executive Director, The Drawing Center, NY, and is made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts and The Dedalus Foundation. Photograph is courtesy of Samm Kunce. Art © Estate of Leon Golub/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY. Photography by Cathy Carver.
THREE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED & TWENTY DAYS WITH LEON GOLUBWednesday, October 20, 6 pmA Chicago-born and educated artist who taught at Northwestern’s night school in the 1950s, Leon Golub was known for activism and monumental-scale paintings protesting injustice and inhumanity. Get an insider’s perspective on Golub’s artistic practices from his studio manager Samm Kunce, who will discuss her years-long working relationship with the artist.
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There are a lot of misconceptions about American Sign Language in modern soci-ety, according to Northwestern Prof. Alan Sahakian .
The communication sciences and disorders, linguistics and psychology departments sought to dispel some of these misconceptions Monday during the first talk of the annual Language and Cognition Colloquium series. About 20 people attended a lecture on American Sign Language given by Sahakian , a professor of electrical engineering and computer science and of biomedical engineering.
The lecture, held in University Hall , was the first of a three-part series of ASL events, in anticipation of an ASL course that will be offered Winter Quarter, according to Sahakian.
“I think that deaf culture and the deaf com-munity are very important to know about and interact with,” Sahakian said. “These events will help students do that.”
Sahakian organized the series with the help of Charlotte Vaughn , graduate assistant for the language and cognition program.
“I just hope that people come away with a greater appreciation and awareness for Ameri-can Sign Language and that there are people in the University and in the area who have a deep interest in it,” Vaughn said.
The series is the evolution of a fireside Saha-kian arranged almost a decade ago for the for-mer Lindgren Residential College of Science and Engineering — now Slivka — about ASL and deaf culture. The fireside generated enough interest to spawn a three-quarter-long residen-tial college tutorial for class credit.
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The initiative is the first of its kind, as many of these countries have not revamped their education systems since they became inde-pendent decades ago, Murphy said.
Galvin said the current medical education in most African countries is outdated and not as applicable as it should be.
“They want to update their old, didactic methods,” she said. “Instead of saying, ‘You need to learn this,’ it’s, ‘What do you need in order to do your job?’”
Modernizing the medical education system could be a huge step in improving the health care in Africa, but the process will take time and will not be easy, Murphy said.
The grant is a breakthrough for U.S. fund-ing in Africa in general as well. In the past, the U.S. government gave grants exclusively to American institutions, which then subcon-tracted foreign universities. This will be the first multimillion dollar grant given directly to African institutions.
“They will be able to address the local needs that they identify themselves, and the U.S. institutions are their partners,” Galvin said. “It’s really exciting to be part of that paradigm
shift.”According to Murphy, this shift is also ben-
eficial to the infrastructures of the various African medical schools.
“This is going to teach them how to manage the funds, how to organize the whole program and how to structure it,” he said. “This is a remarkable feat in itself.”
Feinberg to help modernize a Nigerian medical schoolFrom FEINbErg, page 1
By Rebecca Cohenthe daily northwestern
As Evanston officials laud the opening of a new 311 city call center, some Evanston residents said this week that they are skeptical of its high cost considering the city’s budget deficit.
The information call center will streamline the government’s communication with residents when it opens in March, Ald. Jane Grover (7th) said. Many of her constituents struggle to navi-gate city services, and they often direct their
questions to the wrong people.
“I get a lot of calls from residents who need a new garbage can,” Gro-ver said.
When the center begins operating, callers will know where to turn with these and other ques-tions, as well as for more serious issues like how to deal with a mental health crisis in the family, said Marybeth Schroeder, the director of Leadership
Evanston. The idea for the center arose from Leadership Evanston’s summer leadership class, which split into teams to brainstorm projects that would improve the city. One team suggested helping residents find information more effi-ciently, Schroeder said.
“There are resources out there, but for the
average person it’s not always readily apparent,” Schroeder said.
On the other hand, Evanston resident Thomas Arnold, the founder of Tom’s League Consult-ing, Inc. suggested the most efficient way for people to find information would be using the Internet. The city has never had a call center in the 40 years he has lived here, and it does not need one now, he said.
“People are just lazy,” he said. “They’d rather just call someone.”
Proponents of the center are mistaking Evan-ston for a larger city, Arnold said. His hometown can be navigated without aid, and with the city facing a deficit of about $3 million, the govern-ment cannot afford such a frivolous project, he said.
“Do we always have to parrot Chicago?” Arnold asked.
Some Northwestern students who live off cam-pus also questioned the center’s necessity. Wein-berg senior Angela Yu, who rents her residence in Evanston, said she would probably never use it.
“If I actually had a question, I’d probably call my landlords,” Yu said.
Communication junior Ben Millstein, another off-campus student, said he could imagine dial-ing the center to learn more about the services Evanston offers.
“(NU students) are kind of in a bubble,” Mill-stein said. “We don’t know a lot about the town’s resources.”
But Evanston’s government might be better off solving its budget woes now and starting new projects later, Millstein added.
City Manager Wally Bobkiewicz downplayed the center’s cost. Phone operators the city already employs will make up most of its staff, though they will be consolidated at one location, he said. Although he expects the project to cost the city about $600,000 a year, only $50,000 of that will be new spending.
The center will also create a few jobs, which will be filled by Evanston residents, Grover said. The city already posted listings for some of these positions, and the response from people seeking employment has been “incredible,” Grover said. The city is requiring applicants to take qualifi-cation tests because officials know the center’s phone operators will be many residents’ only point of contact with the government, she said.
“It will be the face and voice of Evanston,” Grover said.
Evanston to open 311 call center
“People are just lazy. They’d rather just call someone.”Thomas Arnold,Evanston resident
Some residents and students question necessity of new service
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$130 million• in grants to African medical schools over five years by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief$10 million• grant given to NU over five years to help revamp medical education in NigeriaMore than 20• U.S. medical schools participating in project
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By Josh Katzensteinthe minnesota daily
Just eight days a� er seeing his record in trophy games fall to 0-10 at the hands of Wisconsin, Minne-sota’s fourth-year head football coach Tim Brewster received the ax.
But it wasn’t the one Brewster — who leaves with a 15-30 overall record — hoped to bring to Gopher Nation when he took the job on Jan. 17, 2007.
University of Minnesota athletic director Joel Maturi announced Sunday morning that Brewster has been relieved of his duties, and his contract has been terminated.
“Football is the engine to every athletic program,” Maturi said. “And our engine is sputtering, and we need to � nd a way to � x it and we’re committed to doing so.”
In three-plus seasons under Brewster, the Gophers were just 6-21 in Big Ten play. A� er Saturday’s 28-17 loss at Purdue, Minnesota is just 1-6 (0-3 Big Ten) this season and has dropped six consecutive games.
e Gophers are also 0-4 at TCF Bank Sta-dium this season and just 4-7 in the two-year-old
stadium.“ e fact of the matter is we’ve taken a step back-
wards, and that’s not what rebuilding programs do is take steps backwards,” Maturi said. “We need to take a step forward.”
First-year co-o� ensive coordinator Je� Hor-ton will serve as interim head coach in Brewster’s place.
Horton has a 20-48 record in six combined sea-sons as a head coach at Nevada (1993) and UNLV (1994-98). He led the Rebels to a 7-5 season and a Las Vegas Bowl victory in 1994.
“My sole job is to be the calming in� uence on this team,” Horton said, “to help lead us in the right direc-tion and to win a football game starting this Saturday morning at 11 o’clock against Penn State.”
Minn. coach axed a� er 15-30 record
an intermission.“I’ve never played hockey except on a pond, and
they said, ‘Coach, you have to go fast,’ ” Fitzgerald said. “ ey put the puck down; I whipped it up there three times. I don’t think I even hit the net. It was a lot of fun.”
e break comes exactly at the midpoint of the season for the Cats. NU has won � ve of its � rst six games but faces a tough upcoming schedule that
includes matchups with Michigan State, No. 10 Wisconsin and No. 13 Iowa.
First up are the Spartans, and Mabin said they’re ready to play and put their disappointing loss to Purdue behind them.
“We’re eager and we’re ready to get this week started,” Mabin said. “We had a bad taste in our mouths a� er last week, so we’re ready and hoping for tomorrow to come quick.”
Cats have tough second half with Mich. State, WisconsinFrom FOOTBALL, page 8
Mark Vancleave/The Minnesota Daily
Canned: Tim Brewster was fi red in the middle of his fourth season on Sunday.
”“ SPORTSSPORTSSPORTSTuesday, October 19, 2010 page 8
NU swept away in Michigan
ON THE RECORDHe’s a great coach and a great guy, and
unfortunately it just didn’t work.— Coach Pat Fitzgerald, on the firing of
Minnesota coach Tim Brewster
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By Dan Ryan the daily northwestern
A� er defeating then-16th-ranked Minnesota at home on Oct. 10, the Wildcats were riding high and looking to continue their ascent up the confer-ence standings.
Senior middle-blocker Sabel Mo� ett called the game a “de ning step” for the Wildcats, and the win, which moved the team into 20th in the coaches’ poll, was a promising start to a di� cult stretch of Northwestern’s schedule.
e state of Michigan, however, would not smile so kindly on the Cats.
NU (15-4, 5-3) dropped back-to-back matches for the rst time this sea-son, losing to then-No. 15 Michigan (18-2, 7-1) 3-1 on Friday before being swept by Michigan State (11-8, 3-5) the following day. e losses pushed the Cats down to No. 22 in this week’s coaches’ poll.
e contest against Michigan State also marked the rst time the Cats failed to win at least a set in a game all season.
“We didn’t have that extra little bit,” coach Keylor Chan said. “I can’t point to anything in particular.”
With rst place in the Big Ten hanging in the balance, the opening set in Ann Arbor promised an excit-ing match. e Cats edged out the Wolverines 25-23 in a frame in which neither team put more than two points between them and their opponent.
Strong performances from Mo� ett (12 kills, 4 blocks) and senior middle-blocker Naomi Johnson (12 kills, 6 blocks) led the Cats statistically, and freshman outside-hitter Stephanie Hol-thus (9 kills, 4 blocks, 7 digs) followed up her Big Ten Freshman of the Week award with another impressive line.
Despite rallying from de cits in each of the next three sets, NU couldn’t
stop a Michigan team that fell into a rhythm a� er the rst set. A� er giving up a lead late in the fourth set, the Cats ultimately dropped the match 25-23, 22-25, 21-25, 24-26.
e woes away from home would continue for the Cats on Saturday against Michigan State. NU had the misfortune of catching a focused Spar-tan team rebounding from injury.
“ ey’re very good,” Chan said. “ ey got their whole team back.”
Although they held a lead in the rst two sets, the Cats could not close out either frame. e Spartans would not
allow NU a chance to rally in the third, holding the lead throughout en route to a 25-21, 26-24, 25-18 victory.
Despite the loss, Holthus continued her strong play, registering 12 kills. Senior outside-hitter Christina Kaelin also performed well with 11 kills.
A� er this weekend’s trials, three of the Cats’ four losses on the season have come on the road.
“Playing at home is a big deal in the Big Ten,” Chan said. “We need to learn how to execute.”
With the losses, NU slides into a tie for third in conference with No. 9 Penn State (15-4, 5-3). e Cats will have an opportunity to improve their standing this weekend when they host Ohio State (16-5, 4-4) before taking on the Nittany Lions in a battle of Big Ten contenders.
“I don’t think we need to change anything,” Chan said. “We just need a little rest. We’ll get ready for home-coming weekend.”
By Jonah L. Rosenblum the daily northwestern
A weekend spent watching college football, going to the movies and hang-ing out with friends, while common for many college students, was a rare respite from the gridiron for the Wildcats.
The weekend off was somewhat uncommon for Northwestern, marking just their second bye week in the last ve years. Last year, NU played every Satur-day from the beginning of September through November.
“It was cool just being a fan for one weekend, getting together to watch the games,” junior quarterback Dan Persa said. “Take a step back and watch other schools for a little bit.”
e Cats (5-1, 1-1 Big Ten) learned an important lesson from the games they watched over the weekend. Coach Pat Fitzgerald said when he spoke to the team’s 10-member Leadership Council, they had reached the same conclusion.
“ ey echoed what I thought, which is that any given team can win on any day,” Fitzgerald said. “ ey talked about how hungry they are to get back to prac-ticing and playing; as a competitor it’s no fun to watch. ey’re excited.”
e team has plenty to work on this week to prepare for undefeated No. 8 Michigan State , but Fitzgerald also stressed using the break as a chance to get away from the football eld.
“We set a couple goals,” Fitzgerald
said. “We wanted to improve in the kicking game and also get some rest to recharge emotionally, mentally and physically.”
According to Fitzgerald, the time o� helped them achieve the latter.
“When we got back together urs-day and really started practicing with the varsity, I thought their attitude was fresh, and they were in a good mindset entering practice,” Fitzgerald said. “ at showed some maturity.”
Although the Cats weren’t on the eld for much of the bye week, they spent plenty of time with one another. Junior defensive end Kevin Watt visited Chili’s with a few teammates, maintaining a weekly tradition.
“Every ursday, we go out to Chili’s all together and get some food ,” Watt said. “ We can’t get away from each other.”
Persa and junior cornerback Jordan Mabin both said they went to see “Jack-ass 3D,” which grossed more than $50 million this weekend.
“It was all right ,” Persa said. “It wasn’t as good as the rst two.”
And while his players took a break from the pigskin, Fitzgerald said he spent time with his family, tossing the football around with two of his kids. He also took them to a Chicago Black-hawks game, during which Fitzgerald took part in an event on the ice during
Cats chase away blues in bye week
Mackenzie McCluer/The Daily Northwestern
Danny Boy: Junior quaterback Dan Persa said he spent his free weekend watching college football, and also went to the movies to see ‘Jackass 3D.’ The Cats will take on No. 8 Michigan State on Saturday. See FOOTBALL, page 7
By Connor Skeehan the daily northwestern
With some “Friday Night Hoops” from seniors Michael ompson, Amy Jaeschke and company, the Wildcats’ 2010-11 basketball season uno� cially got underway in the midst of a foot-ball bye week.
Equivalent to Midnight Madness at other schools, the Friday evening event at the Sports Pavilion and Aquatics Center featured the men’s and women’s basketball teams, includ-ing a mixed scrimmage and 3-point shooting and dunk contests.
Senior forward Mike Capocci took the dunk contest title, while senior guard Beth Marshall and freshman guard Meghan McKeown, daughter of coach Joe McKeown, shared 3-point honors.
“(Friday Night Hoops) gave fans a good chance for students and fans to get involved with the team,” omp-son said. “Right now, we’re just focus-ing on practice and trying to get better each day.”
A� er nishing at 20-14 overall and 7-11 in the Big Ten, good for seventh place in the conference, coach Bill Carmody said the men’s team has a fair chance of doing well in this year’s Big Ten play.
“You got Michigan State, Purdue, Illinois and Ohio State,” Carmody said. “It’s going to be tough, but we think that as long as we work hard, we can be competitive in the Big Ten this year.”
Against those four teams Carmody named, the Cats went 2-4 last season with an upset over No. 6 Purdue at Welsh-Ryan Arena on Jan. 16 and a win over Illinois for the rst time since 2004.
“We always feel as though we can compete with the upper half of the Big Ten,” ompson said.
The Cats finished just outside
the NCAA tournament and instead played in the National Invitation Tournament, losing to Rhode Island in the rst round. ey’ll look for highly touted freshman guard JerShon Cobb to make an immediate impact not just on the scoreboard, according to ompson.
“JerShon does more than score,” ompson said. “He is a very good defender, which will help us greatly when we start getting into Big Ten play.”
Cobb , a Deca-tur, Ga., native, is already looking forward to one game on NU’s schedule.
“I love it here so far at North-western,” Cobb said. “Practice is intense right now, but it will help us accomplish big things this year. I can’t wait for us to play Georgia Tech since I know a lot of the kids that are on their team.”
What the players and coaches urged more than anything at Friday Night Hoops was that the fans and students need to come out and sup-port the team at home. Carmody reminded those in attendance of the big crowds against Illinois and Purdue last season.
“Come to our games, bring your friends and let’s get going,” Carmody said.
is cry from Carmody to “get going” isn’t just to fans — ompson said the team was set to start up prac-tice at 8 a.m. the next day.
‘Friday Night Hoops’ kicks o� NU’s season
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Defl ated: Senior Naomi Johnson led the Cats with 12 kills and six blocks against Michigan, but the team dropped both weekend matches.
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