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5 LocalAffordableLivingFairpromotesgreen,economicallifestyles
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Debate heats up over proposed budget cuts for fire department
NU students, staff look for greener alternatives to salt
3 TeachforAmerica’sriseinapplicationsalsoincreasescompetition
3 KelloggholdsitsfirsteverAfricanbusinessconference
By Peter larsonTheDailyNorthwesterndailynorthwestern.com/evanston
Northwestern students and staff are looking for greener methods to combat slick sidewalks.
Representatives from Facilities Management and Students for Ecologi-cal and Environmental Development said they are exploring potential alter-natives to rock salt this winter as a way of preventing damage to the environ-ment from runoff.
Runoff from rock salt causes an in-crease in water salinity, SEED Co-chair Elisa Redish said.
“The increase in salinity can nega-tively affect some different animals, like when runoff gets into the Chicago River,” the Communication junior said.
Gary Wojtowicz, NU’s director of operations at Facilities Management, said his department uses less harmful products on the sidewalks and bike paths that do not allow for containment and would be more prone to runoff. In these areas, Facilities Management uses a combination of a corn-based
chloride product and magnesium chlo-ride. He said these compounds are less corrosive than rock salt and much more environmentally friendly.
“We have not noticed any environ-mental harm to the foliage or the grass using this product,” Wojtowicz said.
He said the most environmentally friendly tactic the school currently em-ploys is the use of shoveling and snow-plows, as well as the use of salt where the roads are curved, allowing for con-tainment.
Julia Brook, the Associated Student Government senator for SEED, said there are many other alternatives to salt, but they are not necessarily as safe for pedestrians.
“One of the things people fail to re-alize is that a lot of the obvious alterna-tives are things like sand and gravel and ash,” the Weinberg senior said. “But those things don’t actually de-ice, they just prevent slippage.”
While visiting the University of Col-orado at Boulder recently, Brook said
By Mina shankarTheDailyNorthwesterndailynorthwestern.com/student-groups
Participants of Dance Marathon’s Top Chef chopped, simmered and baked gourmet dishes Saturday night to raise money and prove that college students can make more than just peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
More than 130 Northwestern stu-dents attended the Now We’re Cookin’ competition to watch teams showcase their culinary creativity. The event raised more than $1,600.
Fifteen teams of three students each whipped up appetizers, entrees and des-serts for the Top Chef judges, which in-cluded University President Morton O. Paul Takahashi/The daily northwestern
Cooking for a cause: HeidiVanBattenburg-Stafford,WillDombaiandAshleyVanBattenburg-StaffordparticipateinNorthwesternDanceMarathon’sTopChefcontestheldSaturdayatNowWe’reCookin’.
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Budget: Cutsinfiredepartmentfundinghavebeenproposedinordertoreducethe$9.5millionbudgetdeficitEvanstoncurrentlyfaces.
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By Brittney WongTheDailyNorthwesterndailynorthwestern.com/d65
The family of Aquan Lewis, a 10-year-old who died last February at Oakton Elementary School, is suing Ev-anston/Skokie School District 65, said Angel Marshall, the fifth-grader’s mother.
Another student found Lewis hang-ing by his collar on a hook in a school bathroom after 2:40 p.m. that day, ac-cording to Daily archives. The Evanston Police Department, a medical examiner, D65 and the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services investi-gated the case at the time and individu-ally determined the cause of death was suicide, according to Daily archives.
Lewis’ family members disagree.“I’m sure the school is trying to hide
something,” said Lallie Marshall, Lewis’ great-grandmother. “My great-grandson didn’t hang himself. Somebody at the school did something to him, and that’s my belief.”
Marshall said somebody should have been watching him at the time. She said there are usually monitors and teachers keeping an eye on things, “not only on the playground but inside the school.”
“The school is responsible because he was there at school,” she said.
The lawsuit alleges the medical ex-aminer and the police department con-ducted “a poor investigation,” citing that they recorded evidence such as finger-prints and blood both inside and outside the stall door where the death took place but failed to examine it further.
“What does that suggest?” she asked, referring to the blood and fingerprints. “Does that mean something happened
before he was hung?”The police never came to her house
to inspect Lewis’ room for signs of sui-cidal tendencies, she added, or contacted her at all. One of the “main pieces of evi-dence” pointing to suicide was that her son’s shirt was buttoned to the top, which investigators said was unusual for the boy. Marshall said she was surprised to hear this at D65’s findings hearing a few weeks after her son’s death.
“That was never a question they asked me,” she said. She later gave inves-tigators photos of Lewis in similar polo shirts, buttoned to the top button.
Lewis’ mother maintains her son’s death could have been prevented. Lewis hadn’t been under supervision for a pe-riod of five to 40 minutes before he was found, according to Daily archives.
“First off, this is a public place,” Angel Marshall said. “Who’s to say that some-
one didn’t do something to my son, someone who was looking for little kids and found him in the bathroom? They didn’t try to find out Aquan’s where-abouts, they didn’t try to look for him when they had enough time to.”
With the one-year anniversary of her great-grandson’s death this Thursday, Lallie Marshall said it’s a painful time.
“I feel sad because the 4th of Febru-ary is next month and he’ll be gone a year,” his great-grandmother said.
D65 Communications Director Pat Markham said in an e-mail, “because we understand that this matter is in litiga-tion, upon advice of legal counsel, the district has nothing to share at this time.”
Lewis’ attorney and EPD officials were unavailable for comment before publication of this article.
By adam segeTheDailyNorthwesterndailynorthwestern.com/council
City residents will experience slower response times and see fewer firefighters on duty if Evanston City Council ap-proves proposed cuts to next year’s fire department budget, officials said.
The Evanston Fire Department cuts are just one component of City Manager
Wally Bobkiewicz’s plan to close the city’s $9.5 million 2010-11 budget deficit. Many city departments and organiza-tions face larger percentage cuts.
But as the firefighters’ union mounts its opposition through a Web site, an on-line petition and discussions with the council, the proposed cuts foreshadow
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Cultural celebration: The Najwa Dance Corp. performs in Harambee 2010, marking the beginning of Black History Month.
6:30 p.m.: Join the African Students Association and College Feminists at the Black House (1914 Sheridan Road) for a “Conversation About African Feminism,” a discussion about feminist theory and practices throughout
the continent.
8 p.m.: Stop by the Norris Wildcat Room 101A for a Q&A with University President Morton Schapiro in this talk
about diversity sponsored by Race Alliance.
6 p.m.: Check out the men’s basketball team play Michigan at Welsh-Ryan Arena.
7 p.m.: Attend the College Democrats Health Care Panel in University Hall 122 for a panel about health care
reform and free pizza.
10 p.m.: Head to Prairie Moon (1502 Sherman Ave.) for Senior Night.
7 p.m.: Check out the women’s basketball
team play Michigan at Welsh-Ryan Arena.
8:30 p.m.: Watch your fellow students perform or step up to the mic at NUDM’s Open Mic at Norris University Center by
Sbarro.
8 p.m.: Catch a performance of “The Vagina Monologues” in the McCormick Tribune Center. Performances will also be on
Saturday at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.
7 p.m.: South Asian Student Alliance pres-ents SNL: SASA Night Live in Cahn Audito-rium, a performance of dance, music and
South Asian culture.
7:30 p.m.: Check out “An Evening with Tracy Morgan” at the Pick-Staiger Concert Hall.
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In an article in Friday’s Daily, a radio show hosted by Ben Adler (Medill ’03) was incorrectly referred to as “local.” “All Things Considered” is a national program.
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Kellogg’s first African business conference fills James L. Allen CenterBy Lauren Mogannam The Daily Northwesternwww.dailynorthwestern.com/student-groups
After more than a year of planning, the Kellogg School of Management’s inaugural Africa Business Conference proved to be a sold-out success.
About 250 people filled the McCormick Tribune Auditorium in the James L. Allen Center Saturday for the all-day event enti-tled “Emerging Africa— Value Creation in the Next Frontier.”
The Africa Business Club event featured expert speakers and panelists from public and private business sectors to facilitate dialogue on the changing African economic landscape.
“Quite frankly it has been long overdue,” said Steven Rogers, Kellogg’s director of the Larry and Carol Levy Institute for Entre-
preneurial Practice .The Wharton School of the University of
Pennsylvania and Harvard Business School have both had conferences on the African marketplace for 20 years and 12 years, respec-tively, which put Kellogg at a disadvantage, said Seun Oyefeso, the conference co-chair.
“They have had full conferences to be able to attract students and employers,” he said. “We wanted to bring a new dimension to the business program and help Kellogg in its efforts to offer diverse learning environ-ments to students.”
The purpose of the conference was to fuel discussion about a continent that gets little exposure in Kellogg, said Abdul-Nasser Alidu, the club’s co-president . In an ABC survey, 75 percent of the Kellogg community responded they had never studied Africa, the second-year business student said.
“If you are at a business school that trains you to be a global leader, you should be exposed to every continent,” Alidu said.
The conference was also a way for at-tendees to learn about viable business op-portunities in Africa, Oyefeso said.
“We didn’t want to feed the stereotypes of Africa,” the second-year MBA student said. “The conference is a way to impart on people’s minds that there is more to Africa than meets the eye or makes the headlines.”
Wendy Lawler (Kellogg ’01) has covered Southeast Asia and the Middle East for J.P. Morgan but had never focused on Africa. With a changing market place, a conference focusing on Africa is relevant, said the se-nior vice president in the Small Business Making Group for JPMorgan Chase & Co.
“I have no idea what is going on in Af-rica,” she said. “It seems like there are a lot
of banking and private equity opportunities going on.”
Although there are several opportunities in Africa, people have to find a market and stick to it, said Arnold Ekpe, Ecobank Group CEO. The morning keynote speaker said investors need to think long-term when doing business in Africa.
“We believe in Africa that the good times will come,” he said. “In Africa we say that the darkest part of the night is before the dawn.”
It will be the task of the next class to take the conference to new heights, said Kitso Lemo, Africa Business Club’s co-president.
“It beat our expectations,” the second-year MBA student said. “Hopefully we can continue this, build on it, bring more speak-ers and make it a Kellogg institution.”
By Jessica Allen The Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/student-life
Competition for coveted spots in Teach for America will increase this year.
“There’s a limit to how many people (TFA) can accept,” said Conrad Hendrickson, North-western campus campaign coordinator for TFA, a program in which recent college graduates teach in socioeconomically depressed primary or secondary schools.
National trends show more undergraduate students are pursuing the public sector post-grad, indicating competition for TFA will heat up this year. Last year the increase in demand for public service jobs was attributed to Presi-dent Barack Obama’s election and the struggling economy, according to a report by the Partner-ship for Public Service . The survey also found that TFA, the Peace Corps and the U.S. Depart-
ment of State were ideal employers among un-dergraduates.
Kaitlin Gastrock, a TFA spokesperson, said the downtrodden economy has “empowered” students to more carefully consider their op-tions.
“People are looking more broadly and trying to identify how they can make a difference,” she said.
Last year 42 NU graduates entered TFA, placing the University fourth among medium-sized schools in terms of most enrolled gradu-ates. The program received 35,000 applications, an increase of 42 percent, for the 2009 corps.
The national acceptance rate was 15 percent, Gastrock said. Due to the large applicant pool, students from top universities like NU and Princeton University are still regularly rejected from the program.
“There’s a finite number of teaching vacan-cies,” Hendrickson said.
The economy won’t be the most important factor for the rise in applications because stu-dents are aware of the intensity of the job, said Hendrickson, who will enter the 2010 corps af-ter graduation to teach in New Orleans.
“I wouldn’t say everyone who applies is fan-tastic,” the SESP senior said. “But they know what they’re getting into … There are few apply-ing just to get a job.”
Weinberg senior Stephanie Sparrell said she applied for TFA in October and knows many other NU students who applied. She said there are two different groups of people who apply for TFA: those who are truly interested and those who apply as one of many post-grad options.
Sparrell was recently told she was waitlisted.“My friend got waitlisted last year,” she said.
“It’s like applying early decision to a college.” Gastrock said TFA won’t release statistical
data on the 2010 corps until application cy-cles are finished.
Including a summer cycle, TFA has five application deadlines. The final deadline for the 2010 corps is Feb. 19.
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Competition: The troubled economy is among the reasons Teach for America has seen a drastic increase in applications.
Increase in Teach for America applicants intensifies competition
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Marketing is an interest-ing business. Ads can inspire you to “Dehun-gerize” by eating fresh
outside the bun, but 15 percent or more of them aren’t being com-pletely honest. Not only does adver-tising show us how relative honesty can be, it has easily convinced me convincing people isn’t as difficult as it looks.
For example, when an ad tells you a movie is the No. 1 film of the year, does that mean it has the best reviews? Highest ticket sales? Most bare midriffs? Or could it just mean it was the first movie released that year? It could be the No. 1 movie al-phabetically (Alvin and the Chip-munks, No. 1!). And what about “The Number 23” staring Jim Carey? It is the one about a number, so I guess that makes it the number one as well.
Many food ads feature the word “gourmet” in accordance with the third fundamental rule of marketing: Silent “T” = fancy. (First and second rules: Do not talk about sweatshops!) So it’s interesting Panda Express is dubbed “Gourmet Chinese Food,” because trying to make this chain seem fancy is like selling newspapers at a NASCAR event: It’s out of place, and nobody’s going to buy it.
Even if you don’t fall for the ta-gline, it does let you avoid lying when you tell your friends you had a gour-met dinner after eating something that’s four parts sesame, one part chicken and six parts ex-lax. Look how healthy you sound now! It’s like naming a strip club “A Meeting” so businessmen can be honest when they tell their wives where they were till 3 a.m.
Advertisers are great at these kinds of things. Celebrating 50 years of quality service to our customers.* We treat every client like they’re our only client.** Get it now while sup-plies last! *** It’s not delivery, it’s Di-Giorno.****
Don’t get jaded toward the adver-tising industry and its methods of persuasion. Learn from them, em-
brace them, use them. Get your friend to agree to do a really small fa-vor for you, and then make him write your entire history paper in size-six font. Ask your co-worker to take a few minutes to help you out, and then have him take detailed notes during a staff meeting. Talk a man out of suicide by saying he has a lot to live for, and then remind him of his empty backyard.
Even Northwestern can learn from these techniques. “Come to NU, where you’ll receive a college experience unlike some others! Get gourmet food courtesy of nuCuisine, and enjoy the No. 1 bar scene be-tween Sherman and Maple. Apply now and even get a shot at a dream career!” Dream career?! Does it have to be a good dream? Does it even have to be my dream? Whatever. It sounds sweet. I’m sold.
* 50 years that ended 30 years ago.** Not too hard when you only
have one.*** Or exist!**** Lies! Delivered via tunnels
leading to every oven in America.
Tracy Morgan debacle shows need for change
On Friday, I eagerly woke up at 10:15 to buy Tracy Morgan tickets.
At 10:33, 10 other people in my home yelled in frustration, as we all got to the credit card screen—it prom-ised to hold your tickets—hit submit and then got logged out of the system without getting any tickets.
Look, this foray into online ticket sales has been fun: The mad rush to the computer, the fast typing and quick mouse movements, but the di-chotomy between dedication to the act and online luck means the peo-ple who most want to see A&O’s performers are often those who are
most screwed by this process. If tickets were sold at the box office, every person who really wanted tickets would line up outside hours in advance—their dedication would show they would be most passionate to attend the event.
Instead, tickets are already be-ing sold at three times the face value for the event, because people bought tickets who didn’t actually care about Tracy Morgan.
Out of respect to Tracy and the students, it’s time for a change. The winners in this process should be the dedicated students, not the lazy sales committee of A&O.
— Matthew AltmanCommunication senior
millennials “Consolationprize” By Steven A. Berger
The rapid increase in economic stagnation has been a sad reality during the past 20 years
in the United States. The rich have become richer, and the poor have become poorer. Both of these polar extremes have taken with them large portions of our middle class. But with this economic stagnation has also come a disparity in the way Americans experience life.
Traditional community activi-ties no longer carry the same all-embracing characteristics they did when my parents were growing up. Children from more affluent families are able to go to the sum-mer fair and spend many consecu-tive nights on the rides and at the game booths. Other children from the same neighborhood might be forced to select one or two rides for the entire weekend. The money simply isn’t there.
We can say the same for college students, young graduates or mid-dle-aged workers. Some are able to attend theater productions in the city with posh wine service and box seating. Others are forced to make more difficult decisions with the income available to them.
The money saved by selecting seats further to the back or even in the standing area is needed for Christmas gifts or to invest in col-lege tuition funds.
“If you lose the Piedmont’s farms, forests and small towns, what is left?” said Edward T. Mc-Mahon, a sustainable develop-ment expert, in accordance with his work at The Conservation Fund. “Everybody, rich or poor, will share the loss.”
McMahon’s observation is so acute because it captures this con-temporary reality so well. It rec-ognizes our time in the outdoors as one of the few remaining expe-riences left in American life where one’s family income is wholly irrelevant.
As I think back to my summers in northern Michigan as a 7-year-old boy, I envision myself running down the 450-foot sand dune to-ward the cold, Lake Michigan wa-ter waiting below. As a young adult, I can clearly see whether my father was a successful invest-ment banker or a cashier at Target would not have affected my expe-rience in the least.
The 7-year-old boy who ran down the dune next to me shared
an identical experience: He took the same sand into his hands, he inched timidly into the same frigid water and at the day’s end, he played witness to the same rocket-red sun retiring over the western horizon.
If we as a society ask the ques-tion of why environmental stew-ardship and community action are so important, our primary task is to stipulate what exactly it is we’re conserving. It’s more than simply the farms, forests and small towns. It’s one of the last common traits that makes us Americans. If we let these conser-vation projects slide freely into the abyss, it won’t just be the sand of my Sleeping Bear Dunes that continues to erode. It will be the adhesive force that allows me to look into the eyes of a fellow citi-zen and say with confidence: “Hey, in at least one way, you and I are exactly the same.”
— Patrick W. Pijls
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Chasing crazy dreams before old age sets in
My best friend is a little crazy. So I shouldn’t have been sur-
prised when he asked me, on an absolute whim, to work with him this summer at Yellowstone Na-tional Park.
My first thought was “OK … he is finally out of his mind.” Should I really abandon all hope of finding a decently paying job near home? What would my parents say if I asked them, in all seriousness, to allow me to follow through with this far-fetched plan? What would it feel like to be eaten by a bear?
The more I thought about it, though, the more it seemed to make sense. At what other point in my life would I have such an outra-geous opportunity? I don’t really need to focus on a serious job yet, and I should enjoy this freedom as much as I can before it’s gone.
Society, rationality and everything I’ve been told my whole life indicate I should turn my friend down and look for a different job this summer that is more realistic. However, there’s some primordial feeling in my gut that I should follow my friend’s advice and do something that doesn’t make sense for once.
— Wyatt Brothers
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Affordable Living Fair promotes eco-friendly, healthy lifestyleBy Brittney Wong The Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/evanston
The chef showered a curried lentil stew with chicken broth and brought it to a rich simmer. While it cooked, she took raw kale leaves, floppy and big as sheets of paper, rolled them into a cigar and chopped them into half-inch pieces.
Nell Funk, owner of Evanston business Now We’re Cookin’, demonstrated how to cook three dishes at the first Affordable Liv-ing Fair on Saturday. The event, organized by the city and its community partners, demon-strated economical ways Evanston residents can live healthier and more sustainable life-styles.
Funk said the recipes she showcased en-capsulate the ideas of the fair.
“In keeping with the green and environ-mentally friendly and inexpensive themes that are going on here, we’re doing three dishes that are very quick, very inexpensive and re-ally focus on dark greens,” Funk said.
Funk represented one of about 10 local or-ganizations that came to the fair at the Fleet-wood-Jourdain Community Center to lead workshops and publicize programs to green up Evanston’s lifestyle.
Organizations included Community and Economic Development Association of Cook County, which helped to host the event , Nicor Gas , Harris Bank and the Evanston Police Department.
About 500 residents attended the event, said Marsha Belcher , director of marketing and resource development at CEDA . She said she would like to see it turn into an annual event.
“We want to reach parents, seniors and ad-vocates of healthy lifestyles, and we want ev-eryone here to spread the word,” Belcher said. “At the end of the day, with all of these saving measures, we’re hopeful that people will have enough money left over in the household that
will improve their quality of life.”During the event, CEDA spotlighted its
weatherization programs. Weatherization is a process for making homes more energy-effi-cient by installing better heating systems, sealing up drafty areas and increasing insula-tion.
The federal government’s American Re-covery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 and some state money are currently funding free weatherization to income-eligible households so they can save on heating bills and cut re-source use.
CEDA not only updates single-family homes but also develops multi-family build-ings, such as apartments and condos, as long as at least two-thirds of the residents meet the income standard of no more than 200 percent of the poverty level. John Yi, multi-family manager at CEDA, estimated the or-ganization works on over 9,000 housing units a year in Cook County but said he still wants to reach as many people as possible.
Samuel Thomas , the owner of two resi-dential buildings in south Evanston, said he plans to apply for the weatherization program.
“It makes all the sense in the world,” Thomas said. “It’s going to be a huge bene-fit for everyone, building owners and ten-ants.”
Throughout the day, various groups gave presentations on recycling, tax tips, under-standing credit and fire and life safety tips. A young volunteer dressed in an oversized Har-ris Bank T-shirt ran around handing out free water bottles while the curried stew’s aroma hung in the air. Residents took advantage of free H1N1 vaccinations, giveaways and raffles.
Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl made an appear-ance at the event.
“It’s very well-attended,” she said. “It’s go-ing to help people do the right thing both for the environment and their budgets.”
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she learned the school strictly uses a sand and gravel mix. She said she questions whether such a strategy would be applicable here.
“In such a high-concentration area like Ev-anston, where it’s just like all of a sudden over-night it’s completely iced up, that wouldn’t be a feasible solution for us,” Brook said.
She said the need for salt sometimes out-weighs environmental concerns.
In the winter of 2008, the City of Evanston ran out of its salt supply, using more than 8,000 tons due to the extreme conditions. Sidewalks became dangerously slippery as they immediately became covered with ice, Brook said.
“It’s hard to reconcile the need for some-thing like salt and the environmental impact of it,” Brook said.
Wojtowicz said Facilities Management is open to new ideas on how best to de-ice cam-pus drives and walking paths. Typically they vary their combination of different com-pounds because each has a different effective-ness level based on outdoor temperatures.
“But our number one concern and number one drive is to mechanically clear and de-ice as much as possible,” Wojtowicz said. “That’s our primary thrust.”
Brook said she does not see the effort as a question that needs to be answered but as in-formation that needs to be thoroughly re-searched and presented to University and city planners.
“Their biggest concern usually is easy, fast and efficient,” Brook said. “If they were given the opportunity to use something equally as ef-ficient, equally as fast and more environmen-tally friendly, it wouldn’t be an issue.”
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Council proposes fire department cuts to reduce deficit
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the difficult budget battles facing the city.In his budget draft, Bobkiewicz suggested
reducing overtime pay for firefighters by $275,000. The manager also advised against replacing a division chief who retired last year. Along with a reduction in training costs, Bob-kiewicz said these changes could trim $433,000 from the fire department budget.
If the council decides to reduce the depart-ment’s overtime staffing, it will put the public at increased risk, said Brian Scott, president of the Evanston Fire Fighter’s Association.
“We know these are very, very tough eco-nomic times,” Scott said. “(But) you never want to sacrifice public safety just because of budget-ary expediency.”
Bobkiewicz and Assistant City Manager Martin Lyons could not be reached for com-ment. Joseph McRae , assistant to the city manager, declined to talk about the proposed
cuts. On Jan. 12 Evanston Fire Chief Alan
Berkowsky spoke to the council about the potential impact of the proposed cuts. The cuts to overtime staffing would force the de-partment to use one fewer “company,” mean-ing a truck or engine and its accompanying team of firefighters, two out of every three days.
This would result in slower response times and fewer available firefighters, Scott said. Currently the department can respond to 96 percent of Evanston’s calls in under four minutes, he said. If an emergency oc-curs near a station where a company has
been taken out of service, the next closest fire engine could be several more minutes away.
EFD, which also includes the city’s para-medics, is already understaffed “by every in-dustry standard,” Scott said. For a two-and-a-half story house fire, EFD sends 21 department personnel, while the Chicago Fire Department sends 51, he said.
These statistics are highlighted on a new Web site created by the union in opposition to the cuts. The site includes a link to an online petition asking the city to maintain the depart-ment’s staffing levels.
The council will host a public hearing on the budget tonight at 7 p.m. at the Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center.
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Schapiro and Evanston Mayor Elizabeth Tish-dahl.
Teams were required to use a secret ingre-dient, ginger, in their dish.
Ginger inspired a variety of creations in-cluding ginger cookies with warm ginger milk, sweet potato puree with candied ginger, ginger vanilla ice cream and garlic ginger sea bass.
Audience members, judges and participants said they were impressed and inspired by the students’ creativity.
“I don’t have any cooking talent,” Schapiro said. “But these people do, and I’m really en-joying their food. It’s really tasty stuff.”
Crowd favorites included team Man vs. Food’s ginger vanilla ice cream and team Gin-gerlicious’ garlic ginger sea bass cooked in parchment paper.
“I wanted the ginger vanilla ice cream,” McCormick sophomore Tim Earles said. “It
looked delicious, and I’ve never even heard of anything like it.”
Tishdahl said she was inspired by Gingerli-cious’ use of parchment paper and will start
cooking with it.“It’s a way to have the fish, or anything
cooked in it, simmer so it’s pretty much steamed instead of baked,” Gingerlicious mem-ber Ben Prawer said. “And it’s also fun. You get to cut it open and smell everything.”
The garlic ginger sea bass, made by Prawer, Zachary Ratner and Jared vonHalle, won the entree division. Team Original 1905C, which includes Alexandra La Manna, Neena Malik and Alex Podbelski, won the appetizer division. Jason Erickson, Michael Friedman and Joe Teno’s ice cream won the dessert division and Top Chef overall after winning an applause-off against Gingerlicious.
The winning dish was composed of vanilla cotton candy, ginger marshmallows and ginger whipped cream. Erickson said he was inspired by his cotton candy-making machine at home
and knew he wanted to do something with it.“Sometimes I just make random things, and
I wanted to make something that was fun, sim-ple and tastes good,” said Erickson, a McCor-mick senior. “I just pulled all the ingredients together and found out they worked. It was a creative use of ingredients that you normally wouldn’t see on a dessert plate.”
Dance Marathon’s emcees, “Snap, Crackle & Pop” hosted Top Chef, which also included performances by Extreme Measures and NSTV guitar players. A silent auction was fea-tured. Items included a cookbook of all of each team’s recipes, cooking classes and a pass for dinner and the Chicago premier opening of “Dear John.”
“I didn’t think it was such a big event, but I’m glad so many people turned out,” said Col-ton Gits, a member of the culinary team FoHo Warriors. “We’re thinking of doing it again next year.”
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“They did a very good job on our guards,” Carmody said. “I told (Thompson) at halftime, ‘Look, we’re down two and you haven’t done anything, so if you run the team and you defend and you make sure the ball goes in the right hands, that’s OK. You’re going to get some open looks, and then knock them down this half. But it didn’t seem to work out that way.”
A jumper by Lucas gave Michigan State a seemingly-insurmountable 66-51 edge with less than three-and-a-half minutes left, but NU chipped away. Two minutes later, the Cats cut the deficit to 71-65—a defensive stop and a 3-pointer would have made it a one-possession game.
But the Spartans made 8-of-10 free throws in the last 85 seconds to secure the victory.
“I like the way our guys fought back,” Carmody said. “Maybe it wasn’t quite win-nable at that stage. It was a little too late, but they hung in there. I wish we were able to get a stop here or there, or they missed a few more foul shots.”
three-for-three from beyond the arc in the second half. Hackney finished the day with 16 points and six rebounds.
“At halftime coach McKeown showed me the stat sheet, and I had zero re-bounds,” Hackney said. “That was unac-ceptable. I was not going to let that hap-pen. My focus was to go out and rebound and be more aggressive.”
Led by Hackney’s renewed energy down low, NU out-rebounded Wisconsin 17-9 in the second half.
Overall the Cats shot 65 percent from the f loor in the second half, and they con-tinued their hot streak from the free throw line. NU, which is shooting a con-ference-leading 76 percent from the char-ity stripe, connected on 12 of its 16 oppor-tunities in the second half. On the game the Cats were 18-of-24, while the Badgers finished just 5-of-7.
“Free throws can make or break a game,” said Jaeschke, who led the team with a 7-of-10 mark from the line. “We were able to get fouled a lot and convert on the free throws. It was pretty big in closing out the win.”
While NU had also held second-half leads against Iowa and Michigan State, the key to victory on Sunday was consis-tent play in the final minutes.
“We had to keep the mentality that we were continuously down by 10,” Hackney said. “We didn’t look at the scoreboard. We just said, ‘We’re still down.’ We can’t be complacent, we have to keep drilling, and we have to keep fighting.”
On Thursday the Cats return to Welsh-Ryan Arena looking to complete a season-sweep of Michigan.
By Jonah L. RosenblumThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/fencing
Fencing coach Laurie Schiller was at a Northwestern women’s tennis match a cou-ple of years ago when he was struck by a cer-emony the team had to honor its seniors.
“I saw they were doing that, and I thought ‘what a neat idea,’” Schiller said. “Have the parents come. Honor the seniors for their service of four years.”
Before the beginning of the NU Duals on Saturday, the No. 5 Wildcats did the same. They listed their seniors’ individ-ual accomplishments and presented them flowers, while their friends and family looked on.
On a weekend dedicated to the seniors, it was fitting NU’s clinching bout against No. 6 Ohio State took place on the epée strip, as three-time All-American senior Christa French won 5-2, sealing the Cats’ first win over the Buckeyes in nearly six years.
The victory came just one week after Ohio State beat NU 16-11 at the NYU Duals.
“We put up the performance we should have in New York against Ohio State,” Schil-ler said. “It was good to see (us) come out and fence the way (we) should’ve.”
The foil and sabre squads both posted los-ing records in the meet, but the epée team bailed the Cats out, going 8-1 to lead NU to a 15-12 victory over Ohio State.
“It was really exciting. We always think of them as our rivals,” senior epée captain Kayley French said. “It’s always been back and forth, very close, so to beat them 8-1 with all our seniors. We really wanted it. We wanted to finish strong, and it was about time to do it.”
NU started strong Saturday, posting a 23-4 win over Johns Hopkins, fueled by a perfect 9-0 performance from the sabre team. The Cats followed that up with a 19-8 win against North Carolina, and a 17-10 victory over No. 7 Temple.
After jumping out to a 3-0 record, the Cats hit a speedbump against No. 9 Prince-ton, falling 16-11 to the Tigers.
“If we had the energy we had against Ohio State, we would’ve beaten Prince-ton,” Schiller said. “We had several close bouts. Everything was very tightly con-tested. Instead of winning some of those bout scores like we did against Ohio State, we lost them.”
Following the loss to Princeton, Schiller and associate head coach Ed Kaihatsu had a long talk with the team.
“Laurie and Ed were just talking to us about really getting down, focusing, and win-ning those bouts,” French said. “There’s no reason we can’t beat these teams, so the question was, why didn’t we?”
The Cats recovered to win their next three meets, easily defeating Wayne State, Cleveland State and Detroit.
In the second day of the competition, NU kept its momentum going, winning all six of its matches to extend their winning streak to nine. The team is now 26-3 on the season, in-cluding a 7-3 record against ranked teams.
NU began with a 19-8 performance over Stanford, boosted by 8-1 records from the foil and sabre squads. The Cats went on to take down UC-San Diego and Duke, beating both teams by 20-7 scores.
The sabre squad posted a winning record in 10 of 13 meets this weekend. Freshman sabreist Alicia Gurrieri led the Cats in wins, going 16-5 on the weekend. Junior sabreist Jill Mahen also performed well, finishing 15-2.
“We had a great weekend,” senior sabre captain Whitney White said. “We came out well prepared and ready to fence every team. There are more good things to come.”
NU 68, Wisconsin 62
NU FG-A 3P-A FT-A Reb PF Pts A TO Blk S MinHackney 6-11 1-3 3-3 0-6 2 16 2 3 1 0 32Orban 2-4 1-3 6-6 2-4 2 11 3 2 0 3 33Jaeschke 6-10 1-1 7-10 2-8 4 20 2 7 1 0 37Marshall 2-3 2-3 0-2 1-2 2 6 4 1 0 2 34Cartwright 3-6 2-2 0-1 2-1 0 8 5 2 1 2 34Mocchi 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 1 0 0 0 6Reed 1-3 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 2 0 1 0 1 10Diamant 1-4 1-3 2-2 2-2 0 5 0 1 0 0 14
Totals 21-41 8-15 18-24 7-24 10 68 17 18 3 8 200
Percentages – FG:.512/3P:.533/FT:.750
Wiscon. FG-A 3P-A FT-A Reb PF Pts A TO Blk S MinSteinbauer 3-6 0-0 2-2 0-2 2 8 0 1 0 1 26Zastrow 8-15 0-0 3-4 2-2 3 19 2 0 0 0 37D’Alie 5-10 0-2 0-0 1-3 3 10 7 1 0 3 32Gant 3-7 0-0 0-1 1-4 0 6 2 2 1 2 33Karel 7-12 2-6 0-0 1-1 3 16 1 4 1 1 31Davis 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 3 0 0 6Russell 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-1 0 0 0 1 0 0 3Wurtz 1-6 1-6 0-0 0-3 3 3 1 0 0 1 21Thomas 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 1 0 0 1 0 0 8Covington 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 2 0 1 0 0 0 3
Totals 27-57 3-14 5-7 7-17 17 62 14 13 2 8 200
Percentages – FG:.474/3P:.214/FT:.714
NU 1st:272nd:41Total:68
Wisconsin 1st:322nd:30Total:62
Michigan State 79, NU 70
NU FG-A 3P-A FT-A Reb PF Pts A TO Blk S MinCrawford 3-9 2-5 4-4 1-4 2 12 2 3 0 0 28Mirkovic 2-4 0-0 0-0 1-1 5 4 2 3 0 0 19Thompson 2-8 1-5 2-2 0-1 5 7 2 3 0 2 39Nash 3-5 2-2 4-5 0-4 3 12 3 0 1 1 38Shurna 11-23 6-13 3-4 3-6 4 31 1 1 1 0 38Capocci 2-2 0-0 0-0 0-2 3 4 0 0 0 0 9Marcotullio 0-2 0-2 0-0 1-2 1 0 0 0 0 0 8Curletti 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-3 4 0 4 2 0 0 18Rowley 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
Totals 23-54 11-27 13-15 9-27 27 70 14 12 2 3 200
Percentages – FG:.426/3P:.407/FT:.867
Mich. St. FG-A 3P-A FT-A Reb PF Pts A TO Blk S MinLucas 6-11 1-4 10-12 0-1 1 23 4 0 0 0 36Morgan 0-5 0-1 0-0 2-3 5 0 0 2 1 1 16Allen 3-9 0-3 0-0 2-4 1 6 4 1 0 0 32Roe 4-4 0-0 5-7 1-4 4 13 0 0 0 0 27Summers 9-13 2-4 4-7 4-10 3 24 2 1 0 0 31Thornton 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-1 0 0 0 1 0 0 1Kebler 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0+Dahlman 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1Green 4-6 0-1 1-3 3-11 2 9 4 1 0 1 28Lucious 0-2 0-2 2-2 0-0 1 2 4 2 0 0 21Sherman 1-1 0-0 0-0 0-1 1 2 0 1 1 0 8Nix 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 2 0 1 0 0 1 5
Totals 27-52 3-15 22-31 13-37 20 79 19 9 2 7 200
Percentages – FG:.519/3P:.200/FT:.710
NU 1st:282nd:42Total:70
Mich. State 1st:302nd:49Total:79
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En garde: NU fenced well at home, winning all but one bout in 13 matches.
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Cats put on scoring display against Badgers’ top-ranked defense
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Shurna’s scoring not sufficientBy Danny DalyThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/mens-basketball
Northwestern didn’t have an an-swer for No. 5 Michigan State’s Ka-lin Lucas and Durrell Summers ear-lier this month in Evanston, and it couldn’t stop them Saturday in East Lansing, Mich., either.
The duo accounted for nearly 60 percent of the Spartans’ points in a 79-70 win at the Breslin Center, while the Wildcats are still search-ing for another résumé-bolstering victory in the hopes of making their first NCAA Tournament.
Following a closely contested first half, Michigan State went on an 18-4
run after in-termission that put NU in a hole it could not climb out of.
“We had a real bad stretch there,” coach Bill Carmody said. “We weren’t able to put the ball in the basket, they
guarded better, then their offense got better, and they just broke out on us. That was the difference in the game.”
Sophomore forward John Shurna turned in another impressive perfor-mance in the losing effort. After scoring 29 points against the Spar-tans four weeks ago, he topped that with a career-best 31 on Saturday.
The problem was Shurna contrib-uted as many points as the Cats’ sec-ond, third and fourth scorers did combined.
“They couldn’t guard (Shurna),” Carmody said. “But no one else was productive on the offensive end, so it was just too much to ask of the kid. You hate to waste a good perfor-mance like that.”
Neither team could gain much separation early on. Michigan State (19-3, 9-0 Big Ten) scored the first
two baskets of the game to lead 4-0, which matched the largest advan-tage either side held in the first half.
Despite shooting significantly better than the Spartans did, the Cats (14-7, 3-6) trailed 30-28 at half-time due to their rebounding strug-gles. Michigan State held a 22-13 edge on the glass, with 12 of its boards coming on the offensive end. The second-chance opportunities al-lowed the Spartans to take eight more shots.
“We were forcing them to take some tough shots, and they were missing their shots,” Shurna said. “But they were able to gain some momentum by getting so many of-fensive rebounds and put-backs.”
Sophomore center Luka Mirkovic picked up three fouls before half-time and was forced to the bench, crippling the Cats’ efforts inside and on the boards. Instead of being “up 10 or 12,” like senior guard Jeremy Nash said they could have been, the Cats were playing from behind to start the second half.
And when Michigan State went on its run, NU didn’t have a cushion to help absorb the blow. The Spar-tans opened up a 48-32 lead after eight minutes, thanks in large part to their ability to score on the fast break.
“We waited until the 12-minute mark to start stopping them in tran-sition again, and that hurt us,” said Nash, who ended up with 12 points on 3-of-5 shooting. “We were getting easy buckets, but it was like we were countering our buckets with their buckets. We were just trading buck-ets instead of getting stops.”
Michigan State’s stingy defense on Nash and junior point guard Mi-chael Thompson took away Shurna’s secondary options. While Nash only took three shots before the final three minutes, Thompson was 2-of-8 from the field and had more turn-overs than assists.
Even with Thompson and Nash combining for two points in the first half, NU was still in position to win.
By Robbie LevinThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/womens-basketball
Northwestern was due for a game like Sunday’s. After record-ing more than 60 points only once in their past five games, the Wildcats finally broke out of their scoring slump, exploding for 41 second-half points to beat Wisconsin 68-62.
“It just proves that we can play with anybody,” coach Joe McKeown said. “Especially to beat them on the road, it showed a lot of mental toughness.”
Coming into the game, a high-scoring affair in Madison seemed improbable. The Badgers lead the Big Ten in scoring defense, holding opponents to an average of 52 points-per-game. Sure enough, after hanging with Wis-consin (16-5, 6-5 Big Ten) for nine minutes to start the game, NU’s (13-9, 4-7 Big Ten) offense
went cold in the middle of the half. Junior guard Meshia Reed made a layup with 11:20 left in the half to pull NU within three, but the Cats scored just five points from the field in the next seven minutes. Junior center Amy Jaeschke’s jumper with 4:02 left ended Wisconsin’s 16-5 run, during which the Badgers stormed ahead to a 26-12 lead.
“They play a lot of man-to-man,” freshman forward Kendall Hackney said. “We’ve seen more pressure, but we were just kind of f lat, we weren’t being aggres-sive, we were letting them push us out. We were playing like we were scared when we really had no reason to.”
On the other end of the f loor, NU’s defense couldn’t contain Wisconsin, and the Badgers con-nected on almost half of their shots. But the Cats chipped away at Wisconsin’s lead, and by half-time NU was only down five,
32-27.After the break the Cats
quickly cut the Badgers lead to one, and then a layup by Hack-ney three minutes into the second half gave NU a 35-34 ad-vantage. The Cats scoring spurt at the beginning of the half turned into a 17-2 run, which bur-ied the Badgers for good.
A big part of NU’s second-half streak was Hackney. After re-cording two points and no re-bounds in the first half, Hackney pulled down six boards and went
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One-man show: Sophomore forward John Shurna torched Michigan State once again, pouring in a career-high 31 points on Saturday. But that total was more than NU’s next three high scorers combined.
Daily File photo by Jai Broome
Freshman phenom: Freshman forward Kendall Hackney scored 16 points and grabbed six rebounds in Sunday’s win over Wisconsin. Hackney was one of three NU players to score in double figures.
Despite sophomore’s career day, NU drops second straight road contest
