The Daily Northwestern 10/23/09

By PAM CARMASINE CONTRIBUTING WRITER

CHICAGO — Between 20 and 30 pro-testers were forcibly removed from for-mer Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Ol-mert’s lecture at the University of Chi-cago last week for disrupting the speech with accusations of war crimes and wishes for his death.

Colm O’Muircheartaigh , dean of the Harris School for Public Policy at the University of Chicago , was ignored as he admonished protesters to find a more civil way of making their opinions

known. Due to constant interruptions, the

speech, part of the annual King Abdul-lah II Leadership Lecture Series, lasted an hour-and-a-half instead of its sched-uled 20 minutes. While no Northwest-ern students were reportedly thrown out of the speech, several NU students were present among the protesters . Their presence was reported by the U of C weekly paper, the Chicago Ma-roon , as well as other news outlets.

“Olmert went up there and tried to talk, and people just snapped on him,” said Yusuf Salah , a Weinberg senior

who attended the protest. “There was anger, especially on the side of the Pal-estinian supporters. (Some) were very composed and articulate. (Others) were shouting, ‘You’re a war criminal! Shame on you for Gaza! You shouldn’t be here!’”

Olmert was the prime minister of Israel from 2006 to early 2009, when he resigned amid accusations of cor-ruption, according to the New York Times . Indicted on three charges of corruption on Aug. 31 of this year, Ol-

By CORINNE LESTCHTHE DAILY NORTHWESTERN

Memorial services were held Saturday at Lake Street Church for Richard C. Christian , an advertising pio-neer and Northwestern supporter who held numerous positions and served in many capacities within the University . Christian, an Advertising Hall of Fame member and founder of Marsteller Advertising and Burson-Marsteller Public Relations , died Oct. 3 in his home in Evanston of congestive heart failure. He was 84.

A Dayton, Ohio native, Christian attended Denison University in 1942 but dropped out to enlist in the U.S. Army, according to a release from the family. He served in Europe with the 100th Infantry Division and was awarded the Purple Heart during World War II. He re-turned to Ohio to continue his studies at Miami Uni-versity when the war ended and graduated in 1948 with a degree in marketing.

A year later, Christian earned his master’s in busi-ness administration from the Kellogg School of Man-agement and was generous in giving back to his alma mater.

Among the titles Christian held at NU was founder of the Kel logg Graduate School of Management ’s Alumni Association , member of NU’s Board of Trustees and associate dean at Kellogg. He was also associate dean and tenured professor of advertising at the Medill School of Journalism and chair of Medill ’s Strategic Planning Committee — all after he retired from his corporate roles at age 60.

Medill Dean John Lavine worked with Christian for about 20 years and said he was an integral part of the Integrated Marketing Communications program.

“(He) challenged the conventional wisdom that ad-vertising and marketing and public relations should all be in separate silos and recognized that their power came from integrating and working together,” Lavine said. “And it changed not only education here but how those specializations are practiced in the U.S. and abroad.”

Ray Boyer , assistant dean of public affairs at Kellogg from 1985 to 1990, said Christian understood how to build upon Kellogg’s prestigious reputation in his ca-

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Clockwise from top left: Boocoo café boasts murals and youth programs. Tade Akere of Evanston brings her son, Kitan, to Boocoo café for piano and guitar lessons. Natalia Peralta, a Chicago resident, meets with Miles Davis, Oakton Community College ’13.

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A vibrant mural of booming speakers and a crowd of singers lines the walls of Boocoo Cultural Center and Café , repre-senting two of the founding values of the center: art and music.

But a separate wall devoted to flyers for protests, campaigns and volunteering indi-cates the hub for political activity that Boo-coo has become.

A group of artists and musicians opened Boocoo, 1823 Church St. , in 2007 because they saw the need for a cultural venue in the area, said Boocoo Programs and Ad-ministrative Coordinator Alicia Hempfling . It now offers facilities and programs such as a recording studio, music and dance les-sons and a café.

“Since we’re situated right across from

the high school, we could be a safe place where kids could come and involve them-selves in being creative,” Hempfling said. “But it’s not just for kids. It’s for people of all ages.”

In addition to cultural activities, Boo-coo has seen a rise in events held by city government and political groups. The café recently hosted a benefit concert for the Prisoners Revolutionary Literature Fund and a city council reception for University President Morton O. Schapiro .

Hempfling said many political figures host events at Boocoo to display to Evan-ston residents the neighborhood’s cultural activity.

“We’re here in an area that seems to be underserved in comparison to other areas of Evanston,” Hempfling said. “It’s a good place to start to revitalize this area.”

Ald. Delores Holmes (5th) , who held

her campaign kickoff and other events at Boocoo, said the events at the café try to enhance awareness of the area.

“Most people don’t realize that the west side (of Evanston) exists,” Holmes said. “There’s a very vibrant community over here.”

Holmes said she thinks of Boocoo as a cultural facility rather than a political one.

“It was built by the community, for the community,” she said. “I’ve never thought of it as political.”

Hempfling said she does not think the community sees Boocoo mostly as a politi-cal center, but if so, it “just happened that way.”

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By ANdrEW ScoggiNthe daily northwestern

Nick Roach, the starting linebacker for the Chicago Bears and former Northwestern foot-ball player, Weinberg ’07, will be grand mar-shal at Friday's Homecoming parade. Roach started 32 games during his NU football ca-reer and was the recipient of the Northwest-ern Gridiron Network Defensive Newcomer of the Year Award as a sophomore. He caught up with the daily to talk pro football, his best memories from NU and how he went from an undrafted free agent to a starting player in the NFL.

Daily: Why did decide to marshal the Homecoming parade?

Roach: I feel like it’s a pretty big honor just to be asked to be in the parade for the University on such a big weekend for the whole school. It’s pretty much just my way of showing my support, not just for the weekend but the whole University in general.

Daily: How often do you visit NU?Roach: Usually, the way it’s been going,

it’s been once a year whenever our bye week lines up with a home game for NU. I’d like to come back more, but it’s usually the way it works out during football season.

Daily: What was your most memorable game or moment while you were at NU?

Roach: Probably the win we had against Ohio State (in 2004). I remember it was early in the season, we had a heartbreaking loss the first game of the year against TCU (Texas Christian University) in double overtime. About the fourth game or so, Ohio State was coming into our stadium. Pretty much every-body obviously counted us out. But, after I think three overtimes, we ended up winning. Winning that game kind of shocked the na-tion at that point.

Daily: What’s it like playing middle line-backer for the Chicago Bears?

Roach: It’s a really cool position as far as being in the middle of all the action, being close to all the tackles and getting to blitz a

lot. It’s just a chance to be around plays makes it exciting.

Daily: How have you gone from being an undraf ted free agent to a starter with the Bears?

Roach: Obviously, it’s not just one thing to get to that point. Pretty much it’s just been focusing on get-ting better literally ev-ery time you go out to practice or play in a game, not making the same mistakes. Just building off of the good things and trying to eliminate the things that aren’t helpful as far as getting better. The whole thing is kind of just taking ad-vantage of opportuni-ties as they come.

Daily: What’s the pro game like com-pared to the college game?

Roach: It’s just a lot faster, you have to react a lot faster (and) a lot more quickly to what’s going on mentally. You have to be able to process things faster. And also, just physi-cally guys are stronger, faster, quicker, bigger. Just kind of adjusting to all that.

Daily: What did you enjoy most about your time at NU?

Roach: I think my favorite thing overall was hanging out with my teammates whether it be at practice, around the locker room or on campus in class with them (and) around the dorms. Messing around in Sargent or down in Foster-Walker, wherever it was. Just hanging out and enjoying the atmosphere with my guys.

Daily: You played with (Bears quarter-

back) Brett Basanez at NU. What’s it like play-ing on the same team again?

Roach: It’s exciting for me just because you can’t really beat seeing a familiar face, somebody who you go back with a few years as far as the relationship. It’s really cool hav-ing him around because we get to reminisce a little bit, and for anybody else in the Big Ten who’s on our team we can gang up on them.

Daily: Northwestern against Indiana this weekend. What’s your prediction?

Roach: Are you serious? Can that even be a question? Northwestern...obviously.

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International students participate in orientation

By VaSiliki MitrakoS contributing writer

A week before most freshmen said good-bye to their parents and moved into their new dorm rooms, Bobb and McCulloch Halls were filled with a mix of languages, nationalities and majors. For many partici-pants in this year’s international orienta-tion, the building was their first home in the United States, hosting more than 100 new international students from about 30 different countries.

The International Office has yet to com-pile statistics on the number of this year’s freshmen who are international students, said Nick Seamons, assistant director of student services for the office. Seamons said the figures will be ready in early No-vember.

Involving roughly 120 students, the sec-ond annual orientation welcomed more than double the participants of last year’s event. During the four-day program, run by the International Student Association and the International Office, students were en-couraged to explore NU’s campus and the surrounding neighborhoods.

“The international student orientation was a great way to start my experience at NU,” said Rin Nirundonpruk, a McCormick freshman from Thailand. “I had time to ad-just and make friends who were in the same position as me before being overwhelmed by the rest of the student body.”

For the first time, the program offered older international students the opportu-nity to volunteer as peer advisors, helping the new students to move in, set up Ameri-can bank accounts and learn classroom eti-quette.

“I thought the students reacted really well,” said Weinberg sophomore Miriam Troostwijk, ISA’s international orientation coordinator, “I was scared at first because I

thought we might not have planned enough for them, but then I realized that downtime is the best time to get to know each other, and it became a very relaxed situation in-stead of a scheduled one.”

The orientation welcomed students with a bonfire, a beach party and a barbecue, all exclusively for international students. Later in the week, the International Office orga-nized student panels and invited several speakers to welcome new students, includ-ing University President Morton O. Scha-piro. The student panel and speeches were organized like the Essential NU seminars during Wildcat Welcome, and activities like the beach party mirrored those hosted dur-ing general freshman orientation.

“These events were great opportunities for me to diversify myself by interacting with so many international students ... from all walks of life,” said Shamyle Ghazali, a McCormick freshman from Pakistan who has since been elected vice president of the organization’s Freshman Advisory Board. “I have learned a lot about the world ... be-cause they brought us all together. I have forged friendships that shall last longer than forever.”

For several participants, the orientation programming inspired them to become in-volved with ISA activities once the school year started. The new advisory board aims to voice the views and opinions of freshmen while working to create a more comfortable atmosphere for all international students, said Nirundonpruk, who was also elected to the board.

“I had such a great time getting to know and hang out with everyone in the group, and I want to give back to the association,” Nirundonpruk said. “I want to make the impact they have had on me on other stu-dents.”

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By Lizzie RivaRdthe daily northwestern

Most married couples share an address, a checking account or a car. Northwestern pro-fessors Brian and Teri Odom share the dis-tinction of having won the Packard Fellow-ship in Science and Engineering from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Brian Odom, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy, is the most recent recipient of the grant. Teri Odom, an associate professor of chemistry, received Packard funding for her work in the department in 2003.

“I feel very honored,” Brian Odom said. “Northwestern gave Teri a chance and then gave me a chance to do well as a young researcher.”

The Packard Foundation selects 16 Fellows annually out of 100 applicants from 50 different universities, according to Franklin M. Orr, Jr., a professor of engineering at Stanford University and chairman of the Packard Fellowship Advi-

sory Panel, which reviews the applications.“The idea behind a Packard Fellowship is to

find really talented people and give them some resources that are really up to them to decide how to use,” Orr said.

He added the review process is elaborate and “the competition is really tough.”

Brian Odom’s research concerns isolating a single molecule in a radio frequency “trap” to measure its energy. The technology for these ex-periments could be used to examine whether the ratios of electron mass to proton mass change over time. He plans to look for differences in vi-brations between molecules with a right or left-handed twist in their structures.

“There might actually be a small difference that nobody has been able to see before,” he said.

His wife is still using her 2003 Packard Fel-lowship funding to conduct research, manipulat-ing light on a “nano” scale using metallic and non-metallic structures. Her research may yield a number of applications, she said, including the

possible destruction of cancer cells by heating metal nanoparticles. Teri Odom received $625,000 in fellowship money in 2003. Brian Odom’s recently granted fellowship will total $875,000 over the course of five years.

Receiving the same grant and conducting re-search at the same university has not led to com-petition between the couple, they said.

“Being at Northwestern has provided a lot of opportunities to pursue our scientific interests together,” Teri Odom said. “We don’t actually compete, it’s more, ‘how can I help them to be more successful?’”

Physics and Astronomy Department Chair-man Venkat Chandrasekhar, who knows both Brian and Teri Odom, said he does not think the Odoms’ marriage has any bearing on their status as Packard Fellows.

“It’s an interesting distinction for them, but it doesn’t affect what they do as independent re-searchers,” Chandrasekhar said.

Brian Odom agreed and added not every-

thing in the couple’s home life is about science.“Scientifically, we cross over without much

interaction allowing us to be competitors,” Brian Odom said. “We actually try to avoid talking about science when we’re home at night.”

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This quarter, Block Cinema has devoted a film series to a new, unusual, low-budget film genre: Mumblecore.

Films made in the mumblecore style are un-polished; characterized by unprofessional actors, unfocused plots and improvised scripts, the in-dependent films deal with everyday human problems and relationships.

A panel discussion featuring four mum-blecore movie directors attracted about 60 stu-dents last night at the Block Museum of Art. The event was part of a series of mumblecore film screenings taking place throughout the fall.

The panel was meant to “expose people to mumblecore films and to discuss how these small films can transcend their small means of production by creating these fas-cinating, realistic moments,” said Russell

Yaffe, who organized the film series and panel event with the programming commit-tee for the Block Cinema.

Yaffe, a Communication senior who recently co-produced a Studio 22 film, said he became in-terested in mumblecore after attending the Mar del Plata Film Festival in Argentina as part of his study abroad program last fall.

“It was really interesting that there was a film style that I didn’t even know about that another country was considering a major trend in Ameri-can cinema,” Yaffe said.

The panel started with a brief overview of mumblecore provided by Spencer Parsons, a ra-dio-tv-film professor with connections to the mumblecore movement. His explanation was followed by film clips directed by the panelists, and the event ended with a question-and-answer session.

“Low-budget filmmaking is increasingly comprising larger and larger parts of indepen-

dent filmmaking,” said Harrison Atkins, a Com-munication sophomore who attended the event. “The cool thing about mumblecore is people are shooting the movies with cameras that are avail-able to the general public.”

Mumblecore budgets typically range from $5,000 to $30,000, making them appealing to student filmmakers with limited financial re-sources.

“(The screening) goes really well with what we are studying right now in RTVF because ... when you first come out of college, you aren’t going to have a big budget to make a film, so having role models to look up to is a really good thing,” said Communication sophomore Chris-tine Kim, volunteer coordinator for Block Cin-ema.

Joe Swanberg, one of the evening’s panelists, directed “Nights and Weekends,” a mumblecore movie that was shown earlier this fall.

“Making movies allows me to learn about

people that I think are interesting and surround myself with people that I like,” Swanberg said. “I’m probably still making such small movies be-cause I’m not interested in making money or making the audience happy.”

While the panel event was free, the festival does charge for admission to the film screenings, which will continue through mid-November and will include the movie, “Medicine for Melan-choly” on Oct. 29, and “Dance Party, USA” and “Quiet City” on Nov. 4.

“I think my whole life I’ve been trying to fig-ure out what’s going to make me happy,” said Barry Jenkins, a panelist and the director of “Medicine for Melancholy.” “I still don’t know, but I do enjoy making films. It’s like nothing I’ve ever experienced. There’s no logic; there’s no ra-tionale. I’m just compulsive. I’ll probably be broke and I’ll still be making movies.”

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Though current events weren’t on the agenda for the talk he gave Thursday at Northwestern, former Democratic presidential nominee and U.S. Sen. George McGovern couldn’t help but take a jab at former Vice President Dick Cheney’s attitude toward Iraq.

“At the risk of sounding slightly partisan,” McGovern said, “I wish that he and (former President George W. Bush) and his colleagues in the White House would have dithered a little longer. We never should have put American troops in Iraq.”

About 80 people attended McGovern’s ques-tion-and-answer session in the McCormick Tri-bune Center. The event was co-sponsored by the McCormick Freedom Project and the Medill School of Journalism.

McGovern’s remarks centered around his new book, “Abraham Lincoln,” which is part of a series by a number of authors called “The Ameri-can Presidents Series.” McGovern said Lincoln is his hero not only because of his accomplishments in office but also his ability to overcome personal obstacles.

“There’s something kind of neat about George McGovern writing about the founder of the Re-publican Party,” he said jokingly.

McGovern didn’t shy away from discussion of his own life, including his unsuccessful 1972 bid for President.

“The high point was in Miami (at the 1972 Democratic National Convention) at about mid-night when I knew I was going to be the nomi-nee,” he said. “And I think the low point was when we got the results. I was astounded. That was tough. I wouldn’t say that was a lift.”

Lourdes Aceves, Weinberg ’04, said she en-joyed McGovern’s meandering lecture style.

“It wasn’t just ‘let me talk about Lincoln and my book,’” Aceves said. “He gave anecdotal gems. It was exactly what I wanted out of a lec-ture from McGovern. That’s something you can’t read about.”

McGovern received a master’s degree in 1949 and Ph.D. in 1953 from NU, both in history.

McGovern said he searched for the right graduate school after returning home from fight-ing abroad during World War II and finally set-tled on NU.

“And I never regretted it,” McGovern said. “I never would’ve been a U.S. senator or presiden-tial nominee had it not been for those four years at Northwestern.”

In 2006, the late Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., a Pu-litzer Prize-winning author and historian at Har-vard University, challenged McGovern to write a book for his “American Presidents” series.

“He convinced me I should do one of these books,” McGovern said. “He said, ‘You’ve been telling me for 40 years that Northwestern is bet-ter than Harvard, and here’s your chance to put up or shut up.’”

David Anderson, vice president of civic pro-gramming for the McCormick Foundation, said the Freedom Project brought McGovern to Chi-cago to speak earlier this year.

“His writing is very approachable,” Anderson said. “We thought he was wonderful and we wanted to bring him back.”

McGovern said his proudest accomplishment was linked to his fervent opposition of the war in Vietnam.

“While I didn’t win the election, when a can-didate gets nearly 30 million votes with a pledge to flatly end a war,” McGovern said before the event, “even though you lose, that war had to end after that. Nobody understood that better than Nixon.”

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santly — soooo boring.I’m Falcon, by the way, but you

probably know me as “Balloon Boy.” God, I hate that name. Come on, headline guys, Balloon Boy? Can’t you see I was named Falcon for a reason? I’m supposed to be flying away right now, get it? I thought you guys were smarter than that...but I digress — it’s one of the side effects of being stuck in a box all day.

News guys, won’t you just go away already? Don’t you have bet-ter things to do, CNN? Fox News? Think about the kids starving in China, the political reforms going through Congress and other rele-vant news that you could be cover-ing for your national audience. In-stead, for the past three hours, you’ve all been focused on a small silver object speeding through the air, repeating the same thing over and over and over again. Not only is this boring, it’s irrelevant.

I know, I know, I could die. I should care, but if I were a viewer, I think I’d rather hear about more important things, and it’s not as if I’m the only child in danger at this specific moment in time. But I can’t blame you, Wolf Blitzer; you only love this story because viewers eat it up like candy on Halloween.

Who can argue against the cov-erage when stories like me double ratings, and ratings = money? If it bleeds, it leads, right? Cable news producers must feel like lottery winners when something could end in either bloodshed or incredible heroics.

Which brings us to why you’re here. That’s right, you. I see you sit-ting there, mouth hanging open, gazing through TV and Internet portals, waiting for me to live or die, and probably hoping for the latter.

It’s OK, you don’t have to admit it, but you know deep down, way down where you bury your darkest secrets like your love for the Jonas Brothers, fear of nutcrackers and that meticulously ordered Snuggie collection, a tiny version of you is dying with anticipation at the thought of me taking a swan dive from a UFO balloon. I’m not saying you don’t want me to live, you just wouldn’t mind the opposite at this point. It’s the same as watching a car crash: It’s a terrible thing but you just can’t look away.

So maybe it’s our fault the system favors fantastical, unverified reports and Michael Jackson’s funeral over facts and world events. If we know the human condition programs us to focus on violence, and we know it’s ridiculous, then maybe we can change. If we stop watching “shock” news and giving them a reason to report the outrageous they might present something newsworthy in-stead. But hey, I’m just an oddly well-written six-year-old kid inside of a box, what do I know?

LEVINKenny

Homecoming ho-hum, new late-night spot

to The Great Room, which opened this week as the newest dining and study space on campus.The Great Room, 610 Haven St., has the potential to become what Norris is not

— a fun, safe space open late for students. Our night-owl study habits leave us with few friendly environments for a cram session before tomorrow’s midterm. The Great Room leaves behind the ster-ile feel of the main library and feels instead like Deering. It’s also more conveniently located for off-campus kids than Lisa’s. Even better, the four big-screen TVs, wireless Internet and “pub grub” offer relief from burying our heads in books: Talk about being truly a student’s space.

to the Office of Fellowships for helping make NU the top-ranked U.S. university for producing Ful-bright grant recipients.NU produced the highest number of

Fulbright grant recipients of any institution in the U.S. this past year, with 32 grants awarded to NU students. These prestigious grants allow graduates to study, teach or complete research abroad. Al-though NU’s Office of Fellowships does not seek to be top-ranked, the office has been successful at preparing students for the grueling Fulbright ap-plication process. By providing students with an adviser and an advising panel, they help make NU students better prepared to win the grants.

to the reinstatement of Illinois’ Monetary Award Program grants, which earlier this year lost half its government funding.Part of supporting education in the

United States is making the pursuit of higher learn-ing available and affordable to those from all walks of life. College is about growing as a person and a student, and no individual should have miss out on the experience or the chance to achieve because of government shortfalls. This thumbs up also goes to NU, which pledged to cover whatever costs the gov-ernment would have cut.

to the start of basketball season.Both the NU men’s and women’s bas-ketball teams started practicing last weekend, and the teams open the sea-son in less than three weeks. For the

first time in a long while, both teams are poised to make a splash. Coach Bill Carmody’s squad has positioned itself to have a relevant season and po-tentially make a run for the school’s first NCAA Tournament appearance. The Wildcats are 0-for-71 in making the Big Dance, but this could be the year that changes everything. And coach Joe McKeown brought in one of the nation’s top re-cruiting classes this year to team up with junior center Amy Jaeschke. The women’s squad could compete for a spot in the NIT, which would be an-other step in the right direction.

D to the low attendance, poor pub-licity and general lack of enthusi-asm for Homecoming Week.Got Purple? No, it seems we don’t. NU isn’t packed with purple pride to begin

with, but if there’s one time Wildcats should bond as a school it should probably be during Home-coming. The blame is twofold: student apathy — ComedySportz only had about 40 attendees — and the Homecoming Committee’s failure to rally stu-dents around the week’s events. Students should make an extra effort to attend the parade Friday night and Saturday’s Homecoming football game.

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Weinberg senior Kenny Levin can be reached

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LeTTers To The eDiTor

Music taste not limited to two types of listeners

If an iPod sits in the middle of a forest and no one is around to hear it, is it still playing Neutral Milk Hotel?

I appreciate Carlton Barzon’s sincere love of music (“Music to my ears, but not others’ tunes,” Oct. 22). It’s rare to hear someone so candidly admit to being a musi-cal “elitist.” However I completely disagree with his claim that there are only “two types of people that listen to music.” There are in fact 6 billion types of people that lis-ten to music. There is no such thing as good or bad music, there is only MY music. The beauty of the iPod is nobody cares what you’re listening to. Music is meant to be en-joyed, not dissected and forced upon less culturally attuned friends. Miley Cyrus’s lyrics may not make any sense (where did those butterflies even come from?) but her dumb music still can get a crowd of 20-somethings to stop what they’re doing and get down. Vinyl may be “warmer”, but Weezy is wetter — and I’ll drink a big cup to that.

— Dave coLLinscommunication senior

True philanthropy hard to find on NU campus

Bar Night for Human Rights is a prime example of what is wrong with the average Northwestern student’s outlook on “philan-thropy.” You know there’s something amiss when you have to publicize your ostensibly social welfare-oriented event by telling peo-ple they’ll get cheap booze. If you actually care about human rights, you should proba-bly show it by doing something other than

paying five bucks to get hammered at Hundo. Go read a book. Vote. Send letters to senators. Donate without expecting a bar night, or anything else, to make it worth your while.

So much of what passes for philanthropy here educates students on actual world prob-lems halfheartedly at best, and utterly fails to engender selflessness and lasting heartfelt concern for the welfare of the oppressed and downtrodden. Participation in most on-cam-pus philanthropy depends largely on one’s ability to come up with the best food or the most fun games in order to leverage people into a twisted semblance of selflessness by giving them some sort of instant gratifica-tion. Sure, such things raise money for chari-ties, which is unquestionably good, but what is far more important than getting people to show up and give a few bucks at one event is teaching people that helping those less fortu-nate should be an end unto itself.

— henry F. peTrashmccormick senior

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Evanston’s newest consignment shop aims to give customers a “helping hand” during difficult economic times.

Stepping Out on Faith Consignment Shop, 1632 Orrington Ave., opened on Oct. 14, said owner Vivian Killebrew.

“I’ve got clothes that are slightly worn, and I’ve got a bunch of new clothes,” said Killebrew,

who is an Evanston resident. “It’s all about get-ting a good deal and helping someone out — we all need a helping hand sometimes.”

As a consignment store, Stepping Out on Faith accepts clothes in good condition from do-nors, which are then re-sold at prices as low as $5, she said. If an item is not sold after 30 days, the item’s price is reduced by 10 percent. After 60 and 90 days, the item is reduced another 10 percent respectively. After three months, donors can come back to the store to reclaim their old

clothes, or they can leave them with Killebrew, who will then donate them to charity.

The merchandise spans women’s, men’s and juniors’ clothes, though there are also some children’s items for sale. About 60 percent of the merchandise, which in-cludes clothes from designers

like Hugo Boss and Ralph Lauren, still have their original tags, Killebrew said.

Clothes have always been a passion for Kille-brew, who received a degree in fashion design from Brooks College in Long Beach, Calif., and spent three years working for Marshall Field’s.

Killebrew said she had been interested in opening a consignment store for several years but was ultimately inspired by her late husband.

“(He) used to always tell me, ‘You have to step out on faith sometimes. You have to put it in God’s hands and take a chance,’” Killebrew said.

After her husband passed away in December, Killebrew spent six months calling friends for clothing donations. She said she receives new do-nations regularly, which means customers can find something different every time they visit the store.

“In this economy now, people can’t really af-ford retail,” she said, adding prices are negotia-ble.

Evanston is already home to several other re-sale shops, such as Thriftgeek, 522 Davis St.

“It’s part of an American buying culture,” said Jonathan Perman, executive director of the city’s Chamber of Commerce, noting there are also re-sale shops on Dempster Street and Chicago Ave-nue.

But unlike other resale stores, Killebrew said her shop resembles more of a retail setting.

“Some consignment shops are just so junky,” she said. “I don’t want that. I want you to walk in and not have to fight through stuff...I don’t like to shop like that so I want it to be a nice, good at-mosphere.”

In its first week, Stepping Out on Faith’s staff said they have not advertised much — most cus-tomers hear about the store through word-of-mouth.

“It’s moving along,” said Krystal Lewis, the store’s manager. “It’s been fun helping people to see what fits them, what looks good.”

Killebrew said she hopes to expand her store and has plans to bring on two additional part-time employees. She said the store might possi-bly move next door into the space currently oc-cupied by Patrick Keenan-Devlin’s campaign of-fice.

“We help you just as if you’re going to a de-partment store,” she said. “We really just want to get off the ground and give people a good bar-gain on good quality clothes.”

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have a lot to do with political causes,” Hempfling said.

Boocoo does not have any political alliances, Hempfling said, because it wants to remain an open forum for discussion.

However, she said Boocoo wants to be known as a socially conscious setting. For example, the center sells free-trade products and is geother-mally heated and cooled.

“A lot of community efforts can also be con-sidered political efforts as well,” she said. “We’re really trying to expand awareness of ecological

problems and how we can help.”Hempfling said she thinks politicians want to

show support for the center’s youth programs.“We want to get kids involved with activi-

ties rather than hanging out on the street corner,” she said. “They’re getting the idea that there are other things in life that are possible for them.”

For Eamon Kelly, who kicked off his cam-paign for 18th district state representative at Boocoo, the center’s youth programs influenced his decision to hold events there. He also holds meetings over coffee at Boocoo with members of the community.

“It’s a strong statement about the progress we’re making as a community to provide young people with places to go after school,” Kelly said. “I wanted to support that.”

Although Kelly thinks of Boocoo as a commu-nity center first, politics are part of the commu-nity, and the café is committed to showing the variety of Evanston’s community as a whole, he said.

“It’s a good place to bring groups all together,” Kelly said. “My hunch is that it will continue to grow.”

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mert waged a month-long war in Lebanon in 2006, which was followed by a war in Gaza in January 2009 known as Operation Cast Lead.

“My problem is not with his being controver-sial,” said Salah, an executive board member of the Inner-City Muslim Action Network. “This is a leadership lecture. (He is) a person who is by all accounts ... an absolutely terrible example of leadership ... You can’t honor someone who has done such a bad job as Olmert. Doesn’t matter if he’s Israeli, Palestinian or Costa Rican.”

Both the Israeli government and Palestinian militants face charges of war crimes from the Gaza offensive, written by a U.N. court of inquiry headed by Judge Richard Goldstone. If the charges hold, the parties could be referred to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands.

“Olmert was prime minister when Israeli De-fense Forces killed close to 1400 Palestinians,” said Dana Shabeeb, Weinberg senior and a member of the Muslim-cultural Students Associ-ation. “Bringing someone like that is not con-structive, and the reaction showed that. I think that people should want to know why America is

so staunchly and blindly pro-Israeli.”While no cameras were allowed in the event,

a pro-Palestinian Web site called the Electronic Intifada snuck in a camera and posted a video of the heckling on YouTube and their own site.

“A university cannot allow for a political group to disrupt and to ignore (the dean),” said Prof. Elie Rekhess, the visiting Crown chair in Middle East Studies for the Crown Family Cen-ter for Jewish Studies. “This was well-planned, mind you. They had planted protestors in the midst of the audience to create more of a disrup-tion.”

This is not the first instance in which NU stu-dents have been linked with controversial pro-tests both for and against Israel. When Students for Justice in Palestine brought the Jewish, pro-Palestinian speaker Norman Finkelstein to cam-pus in February 2009, groups such as Students for Israel and Students Helping to Organize Awareness of the Holocaust protested the event.

“Finkelstein is an anti-Semitic propagandist masquerading as a scholar on the conflict,” wrote the group’s organizers in a guest column printed in the DAILY a day before his speech.

Yet the tone at each event was distinctly dif-ferent.

Finkelstein “a very disputed person and highly critical of Israel, was invited to speak and spoke. The audience was well-behaved,” Rekhess said.

Rekhess also said during the Gaza siege, Is-raeli forces had “no alternative but to hit these areas knowing that civilians will be hurt,” since Hamas had hidden their headquarters in the midst of hospitals and schools.

“I think that it’s a flaw in expectations to hold Israel to the same standard as Hamas — one is a country, one is a terrorist organization,” said Wildcats for Israel Co-President Nathan Enfield, a Weinberg sophomore. “I don’t think that pro-testing (Olmert) for Operation Cast Lead is re-lated or appropriate.”

According to the Palestinian Center for Hu-man Rights in Gaza, 1,417 people were killed during the offensive, including 926 civilians. In contrast, Israel said 1,166 people were killed, only 295 of which were non-combatants.

“Where I look at the Palestinian-Israeli con-flict in general I see an injustice. You feel like you need to fix something. You gravitate towards these events,” Salah said.

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NU alumnus held variety of positionspacit y a s a ssociate dea n when he started at the position in 1986.

“He was one of the architects that drove the school to greatness in the mid-’80s,” Boyer said. “He was abso-lutely one of the giants of public rela-tions and marketing, and having him there as a resource during that period

of t ime was ab-solutely incredi-ble.”

Even after his tenu re a t N U, Chr i s t ia n held positions at myr-iad other agen-cies and groups i n t he g re ater C h i c a go a r e a . A nd he ne ve r m i ssed a n N U Wildcats football o r b a s k e t b a l l game, his daugh-ter A n n C a r ra said.

“ H e w a s a season ticket holder for 60 years,” she said. “He was just very proud of the University and the great job that it did and wanted to support it.”

Christian is survived by his wife, Au-drey; his sister, Barbara Adams; his children, Ann Carra and Richard C. Christ ian, Jr., six grandchildren and one great-grandson. Memorial contri-but ions may be sent to Lake Street Church, 607 Lake Street.

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the first-set win over a top-10 team proved the Cats have the potential to beat Iowa and Wisconsin. Depending on how the rest of the conference plays, doing so could move NU from ninth to sixth place in the Big Ten standings, behind four top-15 na-tionally ranked teams.

“There’s a lot on the line this weekend,” Chan said. “But there’s still a lot of volley-ball left. You start to see how it’s (playing) out in the conference. All these teams know that if you want to make a push, this is the time you have to.”

Iowa (10-10, 2-6) and NU are tied for

ninth in the conference. Though the teams are comparable in record, Iowa showed it could compete with the best earlier this month. The Hawkeyes managed to take one set from top-ranked Penn State before fall-ing to the two-time, reigning NCAA cham-pions in four. The Hawkeyes were the first team to take a set from the Nittany Lions this season or last.

Outside hitter Megan Schipper and de-fensive specialist Christina Meister are both four-year starters for the Hawkeyes. But Io-wa’s experience doesn’t deter NU sophomore outside hitter Alexandra Ayers, who added nine kills and six digs against Minnesota.

“We’re not the type of team to be intimi-

dated,” she said. “We try to come out cocky. We’ve come to find this season that when we come out timid, we get down on ourselves and lose points pretty fast.”

If the Cats defeat the Hawkeyes Friday, they’ll have plenty of momentum for Wisconsin.

The Badgers (9-8, 4-4) currently rank fifth in the Big Ten, notching wins over then-No. 8 Michigan, Michigan State and Ohio State.

The Cats have not won in Madison, Wis., since 1986, a span of 22 matches. Chan is optimistic that this year will be different.

“There’ve been a lot of heartbreakers there,” Chan said. “But our biggest thing is not so much about win or loss. If we can go

play good volleyball, which is something we can control, the outcome will take care of itself.”

Nobilio is certain the outcome will be positive. Because she will do just about anything to get the dig, her roommate and backline teammate looks to her for guid-ance on the court and insight between sets.

“She can be standing in the back corner waiting for a hit, and it’ll be a tip,” Ayers said. “She’ll be the only one going for it. People know they shouldn’t go for it because they’ll just get in Kate’s way. I’m so lucky to be on the team with her.”

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midfielder, so if there’s a team that has a strong midfielder, we’ll usually match her up against them to try to eliminate that player from the game as well.”

And if the Cats are behind and need a goal, Pohlmeyer can help lead the attack from the outside. With two games remain-ing on its regular season schedule, NU is six goals away from breaking the school record for goals scored in a single season, and Pohlmeyer’s emergence has been a big part of the team’s success.

The team will look to continue its offensive firepower today against Iowa. NU hasn’t beaten Iowa (5-8, 2-3) since 2004.

The Hawkeyes have had trouble finding the back of the net recently, scoring one goal in their past three games. But Iowa is coming off a victory over Penn State, which is the only conference team NU has beaten this season.

This weekend’s contest will be important in determining seeding for the Big Ten Tour-nament. With a win, NU would jump over Iowa in the conference standings and secure

itself a better seed. After a 2-1 loss to Indiana on Saturday,

NU will be trying to build momentum for a run in the conference tournament. To do that, the team will need to focus on playing its style of field hockey.

“Against Indiana, we fell into a little bit of trouble,” Pohlmeyer said. “We played such an offensive game, but we weren’t getting the ball inside the circle enough. As long as we’re playing our game and sticking to our game plan, then I think we should win this one.”

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Wildcats within six goals of notching school scores recordFrom field hOckey, page 12

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“We call her ‘Bulldog’ because she runs through anything.”

Tracey FuchsNU field hockey coach,

on sophomore midfielder Kaylee Pohlmeyer

daily file PhOTO by Ray whiTehOuSe

Sophomore Kaylee Pohlmeyer scored her first career goal in Northwestern’s fourth game of the season, a 3-2 win over Yale. Since then, Pohlmeyer has found the back of the net six times, good for fourth on the team.

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By Bill Careythe daily northwestern

During No. 19 Northwestern’s victory over Yale in September, the team found an unlikely hero.

Sophomore Kaylee Pohlmeyer scored the first goal of her career to clinch the win for the Wildcats in the sudden-death overtime period, to sink the Bulldogs.

T h r o u g h o u t t h e s e a s o n , Pohlmeyer has proven that the goal was not a fluke. The midfielder is NU’s fourth-leading scorer, having found the back of the net seven times this year.

“She’s really an offensive power-house,” senior forward Courtney Plaster-Strange said. “She’s really strong over the ball. She keeps go-ing after the ball, and she doesn’t stop until it’s in the cage.”

Pohlmeyer has had more op-portunities to score this year after she changed positions in the off-season. The former defensive full-back now spends the majority of her time as a midfielder.

Depending on the opponent and the situation, Pohlmeyer ro-tates between center midfielder and outside midfielder.

“When I’m playing center mid, I am definitely thinking more defen-sively,” Pohlmeyer said. “But when I’m playing left mid or right mid, I

feel like I have an offensive mind-set. We all want to score goals. We want to get the ball up there and keep it up there, so we have gotten a lot more opportunities to score.”

Pohlmeyer’s versatility has been an asset for the Cats. If NU (12-5, 1-3 Big Ten) is ahead and needs to protect its lead, she gives the team a shutdown defender it can put on the other team’s best offensive player.

Pohlmeyer earned the nickname “Bulldog” because of her aggressive approach — an approach that is helping the team’s midfield defense.

“Her strength is definitely her ability to break the play up one way or another,” coach Tracey Fuchs said. “We call her ‘Bulldog,’ because she runs through any-thing. She goes hard after every ball, and she’s our best defending

By rodger Shermanthe daily northwestern

Piero Bellizzi is easily noticeable at Lakeside Field. While every other player on the pitch is bundled up, Bel-lizzi’s sleeves are taped up and his socks are rolled down, leaving as much skin as possible exposed to the Evanston air.

“I was always kind of a baby with the cold,” Bellizzi said. “But now I think that the cold helps. If you’re already warm, you might stop, because you don’t need to move to keep warm. But if all you’ve got on is a T-shirt, and it’s 40 degrees, you’re going to be running around.”

But the actual reason Bellizzi modifies his uniform isn’t that he’s genetically more resistant to the cold than his teammates: Bellizzi’s extra-large uniform is a bit too big for his 5-foot-8, 140-pound frame.

“I had to tape it up,” Bellizzi said. “I looked like an overgrown baby out there.”

Bellizzi hasn’t been playing like a baby: The outside midfielder is sec-ond on the team in points, with three goals and three assists to his name.

“Our team is made up of piano movers and piano players,” coach Tim Lenahan said. “Piero is cer-tainly a piano player.”

Bellizzi is from Rye, N.Y., but his love of soccer is pure Italian. Bellizzi, a dual citizen of the United States and Italy, spent his senior year of high school abroad in Udine, a small city in northeastern Italy, where he trained with the Serie A club Udinese.

“It was a soccer awakening for me,” Bellizzi said. “Having played my entire life here in the United States, and then going to a country where soccer is the biggest sport, and they’re really successful at it.”

Practicing with Udinese gave Bel-lizzi a new perspective on soccer be-fore coming to Northwestern.

“I saw them playing, and I real-ized, ‘wow,’” Bellizzi said. “This is

how professionals train. I got to see the best of the best.”

Bellizzi holds dual citizenship not because of his birthplace, but because his father, John, was born in Italy. He credits his father, who played colle-giately at Queens College, with his own passion for the sport.

“I’ve been surrounded by soccer my whole life,” Bellizzi said. “And it’s because of him.”

The two trained on a daily basis as he grew up.

“Every time he was free we would go outside and do a bunch of drills,” Bel-lizzi said. “We’d be working o n m y touch, my s k i l l s . And be-sides just playing, at dinner time, on w e e k -ends, all that was on the TV was soccer.”

Bellizzi’s exposure to soccer has paid off. Bellizzi led the team with eight assists his freshman year, and earned a spot on the all-Big Ten sec-ond team and all-Freshman teams.

“He’d started practicing with us in January,” Lenahan said. “He was playing more like a sophomore than a freshman.”

Now, with two full seasons under his belt, Bellizzi has made his presence felt as a key contributor in the offense.

“He’s got all sorts of technical skills,” fellow junior Matt Eliason said. “He’ll score goals, and he’ll set people up. He’s been great for the team this year.”

Bellizzi and the No. 17 Wildcats (8-2-4, 1-1-1 Big Ten) take on Indiana (7-6-1, 2-1) this Sunday at Lakeside Field.

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By Sarah Kutathe daily northwestern

Senior libero Kate Nobilio is the Big Ten’s active leader in digs. She is Northwestern’s all-time dig leader and a four-year starter. She is a three-time Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week.

Her coaches respect her. Her teammates admire her. Other teams shy away from her. She is fierce.

Kate Nobilio is also a giggler.“It’s real subtle, it’s not obnox-

ious or anything,” coach Keylor Chan said. “It’s pretty endearing.”

Nobi l io a nd t he Wi ldcat s

(11-9, 2-6 Big Ten) travel to I o w a a n d W i s c o n s i n this weekend to conclude the first half o f t h e B i g Ten sea son. N o b i l i o i s s e v e n d i g s a w a y f r o m collecting her 2 ,0 0 0 t h . I f she reaches t h a t m i l e -s t o n e , N o -bilio will be-c o m e t h e f if th confer-ence player t o a c h i e v e the feat.

But as far as Nobilio is c o n c e r n e d , 2,000 is just another num-b e r . A f t e r surpassing it, she’ll keep on digging.

“ I ’m j u s t going to keep digging for my team and keep putting myself out there,” she said.

Nobilio’s defense propelled NU to a first-set victory over No. 6 Minnesota last weekend. She

notched a set-high eight digs to help halt the Gophers, 25-23, during the opening frame.

Though NU lost the match,

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sportsThe Daily Northwestern mondayinSportS daily Quota

“i had to tape it up. i looked like an

overgrown baby out there.”

NU men’s soccer player Piero Bellizzi, on deciding not to bundle up in warm clothes

during games

Bellizzi wowed in worldly endeavors

daily file photo By ray whitehouSe

Junior Piero Bellizzi is second on northwestern with three goals. The 5-foot-8, 140-pound midfielder has also tallied three assists while putting 14 shots on goal this season. He is a dual citizen of the U.S. and italy.

NU’s ‘Bulldog’ an offensive powerhouse as midfielder

Nobilio digs her way to success

See volleyBall, page 10

daily file photo By ray whitehouSe

Senior libero Kate nobilio is the Big Ten’s active leader in digs, sitting seven away from 2,000 in her career.

See field hoCKey, page 10

No. 25 Indiana(7-6-1)

No. 17 NU(8-2-4)

Saturday, 3 p.m.

vs.

Lakeside Field

Men’s soccer

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Iowa(5-8)

No. 19 NU(12-5)

friday, 3 p.m.

vs.

Lakeside Field

Field Hockey

Iowa(10-10)

Northwestern(11-9)

friday, 7 p.m.

vs.

Iowa City, Iowa

Volleyball

Wisconsin(9-8)

Northwestern(11-9)

Saturday, 7 p.m.

vs.

Madison, Wis.

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