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WHYNOW?
Council discusses water sale, arts center
By SOPHIA BOLLAG!"# $%&'( )*+!",#-!#+)
City Council approved an amendment on Monday night to the city code limiting hours for legal panhandling.
. e amendment, which passed unan-imously, will limit panhandling — the practice of asking for money, loans or gi/ s in a public place — to the hours between 0 a.m. and 1 p.m.
In response to concerns of aldermen, city attorney Grant Farrar con2 rmed seek-ing signatures for a political campaign is considered campaigning, not panhandling or solicitation.
Earlier in the meeting, Dave Stone-back, the city’s utilities director, presented a study on negotiations to sell water to other municipalities and the infrastruc-ture that would be needed to carry the water to these areas.
. e study, which was completed in December, investigated the costs and potential revenue from four proposed transmission routes that would bring water to municipalities generally west of Evanston.
Construction of the routes and expan-sion of the water treatment facilities would likely be 2 nanced by the participating municipalities, Stoneback said. . e route and its associated costs and revenues will largely depend on whether or not the North-west Suburban Municipal Joint Action Water Agency decides to join the other municipalities considering purchasing water from Evanston.
The study also revealed Lincolnwood o3 cials need to negotiate a separate con-tract to purchase water from Evanston.
Evanston resident Carl Bova, who said he came to Monday’s meeting primar-ily to hear about the study, said he was optimistic about the proposal but thinks the city is far from being ready to make a decision.
“I think they’re not done doing their work yet,” the 45-year-old engineer said. “. ere are a lot of things that have to mesh.”
. e city’s assistance in the expansion of the Piven . eatre Workshop generated further concern, particularly from two Noyes Cultural Arts Center tenants who expressed concerns that expansion within the building would disenfranchise groups serving minorities.
Maggie Weiss, chair of the Noyes ten-ants’ committee, told aldermen during the
Aldermen also pass amendment limiting panhandling hours
Male body image, food take focus at prof talk
By JILLIAN SANDLER$%&'( -#)&*+ -!%66#+
Body Acceptance Week kicked o7 Monday with a talk focusing on male body image.
Dr. Roberto Olivardia, a clinical psy-chology instructor at Harvard Medical School, delivered a lecture titled “In Pur-suit of Adonis: Male Body Image in Con-temporary Culture.” NU’s Counseling and Psychological Services, NU’s Health Ser-vice, the Women’s Center and the dance department sponsored the talk attended by about 48 people in Norris University Center, said Dr. Eileen Biagi, CAPS sta7 psychologist and Eating Concerns Team coordinater.
Olivardia addressed males’ battles with various eating disorders, as well as steroid use and pursuance of cosmetic surgeries. He said body image issues and eating dis-orders have both increased in prevalence and attracted more notice in the last three decades.
Olivardia explained the Adonis Com-plex, named for the mythological 2 gure who embodies the ideal male image. Men with this complex strive for facets of this image, including a muscular physique and strong jawline.
Olivardia said men can manifest this in various ways, including eating disorders,
body dissat-isfaction and steroid use.
Olivardia said males make up 98 to 94 percent of people with bulimia and 4 to 98 percent of people with anorexia. He said 4 to :8 percent of male Univer-sity students are at risk for eating disorders.
The psy-chologist has also studied “muscular belittlement” in males, which causes them to believe they are less muscular than they actually are. He said men who have this are more likely to experience negative emotions.
“It was one of the 2 rst studies to show how the variability of muscularity is inte-gral to how men and boys view their body image,” he said.
. e problem with the desire to be mus-cular, Olivardia said, is that with muscle comes increased fat content.
“. at’s where the dilemma is for a lot of these boys,” he said.
Males’ manifestations of their eating disorders di7 er from those of women, Olivardia said. Males tend to binge and exercise more o/ en, while women are more likely to abuse laxatives and diet pills
Male body image lecture begins week of wellness activities
By CAT ZAKRZEWSKI!"# $%&'( )*+!",#-!#+)
. is December, like many before, Rabbi Dov Hillel Klein led a group of Northwestern stu-dents on a Birthright trip to Israel.
Sitting in the Tannenbaum-Chabad House in February, Klein explained how “amazing” the trip had been for the students who joined him. He was wearing a bright purple sweatshirt with a cartoon of his own face drawn on the back.
“I don’t wear it outside of here,” Klein joked. “But it shows you how much they embrace me.”
. e rabbi, a campus / gure since 0123, is now setting his sights on planning the next Birth-right trip. But when he spoke with . e Daily in September, he wasn’t sure if this would even be a possibility.
. at month, Klein received a letter from the University that said he was no longer allowed to host Birthright trips per the University’s decision to disa4 liate with him and the Tan-nenbaum Chabad House. . e University claims Klein violated NU’s alcohol policy by serving vodka and whiskey to minors at Shabbat dinner. In a September interview with . e Daily, Klein
admitted that he had done so.. e University was unable to stop him from
hosting Birthright trips because Birthright is funded through a private organization not a4 li-ated with NU. But the disa4 liation has weighed heavily on other aspects of Klein’s involvement with students. He can no longer serve in a range of positions, from director of the Kosher food program to residential college fellow, or use campus property.
Lubavitch-Chabad of Illinois / led a suit on behalf of Klein and Chabad House in September claiming NU’s decision was a form of religious “discrimination.” In part, Klein’s defense rests on an Illinois law that makes an exception for underage alcohol consumption during a reli-gious celebration or ritual, but it is unclear whether his actions qualify for that protection. . e matter remains in litigation, and University spokesman Al Cubbage said a trial date was set for Jan. 56, 5708.
Chabad House’s doors remain open, and the organization is expanding. Klein said he has already raised more than 9:37,777 for a con-struction project he hopes to begin zoning in the spring. More than 277 students and community
The Chabad House disa! liation sparked outrage across campus last fall — but NU claims this wasn’t the " rst time its leader
had been told to stop serving alcohol.
» See BODY, page 7» See COUNCIL, page 7
“To bring him here would ... be an avenue for people to feel more comfortable knowing men do struggle with these issues.Dr. Eileen Biagi,CAPS sta# psychologist
“If the
Pivens take over over half
the Noyes Cultural Arts
Center ... there are going to be
less diverse groups at the
Center.Fay Kaiser,
Voice Studio teacher
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» See CHABAD, page 4
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Coin dealer pleads guilty to ‘! nancial crimes enterprise’
An Evanston coin dealer pleaded guilty Wednesday to selling thousands of dollars of stolen coins and other valuables, the Chicago Tribune reported Friday.
James Coello owned North Shore Coins, !"#! Chicago Ave., in Evanston. Police arrested Coello, a Chicago resident, in September after a six-month investigation sparked by informa-tion that items for sale at North Shore Coins had been stolen in home burglaries.
EPD launched an undercover operation to look into the claims. Undercover officers posed as burglars and sold merchandise to Coello, The Daily reported in October.
The officers indicated that the goods were stolen, but Coello purchased the goods any-way and did not request information from the undercover officers or record the sales.
Coello was initially charged with felony counts of theft, organizing a financial crimes enterprise and continuing a financial crimes enterprise in September. He was arrested and held with bail set at $%"#,###.
Coello pleaded guilty to continuing a financial crimes enterprise.
Cook County Circuit Court Judge Garritt Howard sentenced Coello to &' months of probation and !## hours of community ser-vice and ordered him to pay fees and fines,
the Tribune reported. Coello changed his plea from not guilty to
guilty on Wednesday. He told the Tribune that
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Woman arrested in connection with Whole Foods grocery theft
Evanston Police arrested a Harwood Heights, Ill., woman Saturday in connection with a case of retail the( at Whole Foods, !!!! Chicago Ave.
Store security reported that the woman, Sylvia Dorota Tabor, took groceries and put them in a black bag, EPD Cmdr. Jay Parrott said.
Tabor allegedly attempted to steal about $!!"
worth of groceries, including steak, lamb chops, fruit, vegetables and veal. Security stopped Tabor a( er the last point of sale and held her until police arrived.
Altercation between teens in taxi leads to arrest of Evanston resident
Police arrested Evanston resident Christopher Michael Ingegno Friday in connection with dis-orderly conduct.
Ingegnono, !), and a !*-year-old girl were returning from school in Arlington Heights, Ill., when an altercation broke out in the cab, Parrott said.
+ e girl was alarmed and disturbed by the conversation, and reported it to the police.
Ingegno is schedule to appear in court on Feb. %!.
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SHORT-CHANGED James Coello, owner of North Shore Coins, 1501 Chicago Ave., was charged and arrested in September for purchasing and selling stolen goods.
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By JOHN PASCHALL!"# $%&'( )*+!",#-!#+)
.e Harlem Shake has found its way to Evan-ston — for a brief moment, at least.
.e Northwestern men’s swimming and diving team released a video on Saturday of members of their team doing the Harlem Shake, a hip hop dance that involves shaking the torso and shoul-ders, that has recently gone viral across YouTube. .e clip had more than /0,111 views before being taken down Monday evening.
“We just kind of threw it up online to pass around ourselves to just watch it and it started getting popular,” said swimmer Alex Ratajc-zyk, a Communication senior who helped make the video. “We did not expect it to become that viral.”
.e website Swim-swam.com, which cov-ers high school, college and professional swim-ming, posted the video of the NU swimming and diving team danc-ing. Ratajczyk said he was told to remove the video because the ath-letic department was not happy with the way the
swimmers in the video portrayed the program.“We encourage our student-athletes to have
fun and share their talents away from competi-tion, like many will be doing Monday, Feb. 23, in
Ryan Auditorium during the third annual Student-Athlete Talent Show to bene4t (Dance Marathon’s primary bene4ciary) the Danny Did Foundation, but there’s also a protocol for our teams to fol-low when making videos and we want to make sure that happens in this case,” said Doug Me5ey, director of digital and social communications for University athletics.
Ratajczyk said he was watching some Harlem Shake videos with some teammates when they got the idea to try one themselves a6er practice. Before they knew it, they had thousands of hits.
.e origins of the dance are unknown but the song used in all of the videos is Baauer’s “Harlem Shake.” Using this new genre of “trap” music, these 01-second videos usually consist of one masked person dancing around alone or with others with nobody noticing. Halfway through the video, a
group of people joins the masked person in wild, outrageous dance moves. .ere have been numer-ous videos of the dance, ranging from people in an o7ce to soldiers in the snow.
.e Wildcats are not the only collegiate swim team to do a Harlem Shake dance video. University of Tennessee, Brandeis University and Pomona-Pitzer’s swimming teams are just a handful of col-legiate squads who have posted a video of their athletes doing the dance. .e emergence of swim teams doing the Harlem Shake has Swimswam.com started a Harlem Shake dance-o8 between schools, according to their o7cial Twitter page.
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Swim team goes viral with ‘Harlem Shake’‘Harlem Shake’ rendition strikes nerve, taken down to follow athletics protocol
“We just kind of threw it up online to pass around ourselves to just watch it and it started getting popular. We did not expect it to become that viral.Alex Ratajczyk,Communication senior
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SHAKE IT The Northwestern swim team released Saturday and later took down a video of several men’s swimmers dancing to the song “Harlem Shake.” The Harlem Shake dance has inspired fan-made videos from across the country, including versions from athletic teams.
members have signed a petition calling the University to rea! liate with Chabad House. Klein said alcohol has not been served at Chabad House — with the exception of small amounts of Kiddush wine — since the University " rst brought the matter to his attention in July. Many members of the Jewish community are asking, “Why now?”
But according to documents obtained by # e Daily, this isn’t the " rst time Klein was told to stop serving minors. In a court " ling, NU argues Klein was warned to stop providing alcohol at Chabad House in $%%&, and a student served at Chabad House was transported to the hospital in $%%'.
University President Morton Schapiro told # e Daily this month that he doesn’t believe the liquor served at Chabad House quali" es for the Illinois exception.
“I’m an observant Jew,” he said. “I’ve never seen the page where you drink shots of vodka.”
THE CASEHours before Yom Kippur services began in Sep-
tember, Jewish students received an email from Klein announcing that the evening’s service at Norris Uni-versity Center would be his last at NU.
Klein told # e Daily that Patricia Telles-Irvin, the vice president for student a( airs, " rst asked him to resign in July citing concerns he was violating Univer-sity alcohol policy. Klein said he responded by imme-diately going dry at Chabad House. # e University o! cially cut ties with Chabad House on Sept. ''.
Acting on behalf of Chabad House and Klein, Lubavitch-Chabad of Illinois " led a discrimination complaint in federal district court against NU, Telles-Irvin and University Chaplain Timothy Stevens on Sept. $'.
“# e University claims that it o( ers a wide variety of religious and community options but it is discriminat-ing against Chabad House and the Jewish faith,” the complaint read.
An o! cial response to the lawsuit from NU states at the July meeting, Telles-Irvin told Klein the University was concerned about alcohol being served to underage students, excessive consumption by students at Chabad and reports of Klein’s own “excessive use of alcohol” and “appearances in public in a state of intoxication.”
# e University response also argues Klein has been approached about the issue before. In $%%&, Klein met with William Banis, then-vice president for student a( airs, a) er students arrived at residence halls intoxi-cated a) er spending time at Chabad House, according to the response.
# e " ling also states Klein met with Stevens to discuss underage drinking in both $%%' and $%%&. In $%%', University Police responded to a student who had been transported to the hospital for “exhibiting signi" cant signs of intoxication” a) er attending Cha-bad House. Stevens also addressed a family event Klein hosted in $%%& at a residential facility where alcohol was served without proper adult supervision, accord-ing to the " ling.
At the $%%& meeting, the " ling claims Stevens told Klein directly to stop serving alcohol. During the same year, “there was a report where shots of vodka and/or whiskey were provided to students of all ages attending the Friday night dinners.” # e " ling goes on to claim that Klein was intoxicated at many of these events.
“Given the fact that this practice and behavior has not ceased a) er several attempts in the last '% years to address the issue with Rabbi Klein ... Northwest-ern University can no longer have an a! liation with the Tannebaum Chabad House … while Rabbi Dov Klein is the representative of your organization,” Telles-Irvin wrote to Rabbi Daniel Moscowitz, director of Lubavitch-Chabad of Illinois, in a letter quoted in the " ling.
Klein declined to comment on the allegations the University submitted in the " ling.
“I can tell you everything the University has ever asked of Rabbi Klein, Rabbi Klein has complied with in full,” Moscowitz said.
NEW ADMINISTRATOR, NEW ACTIONMany in the Chabad House community are won-
dering why the University is choosing to disa! liate now — especially if NU has known about alcohol being served at the house for more than a decade.
“I have no idea except that we have a new vice president,” Klein said in September.
Due to the ongoing litigation, Telles-Irvin has declined to comment beyond what she wrote in an email to Jewish students announcing the decision to disa! liate in October.
Telles-Irvin o! cially " lled the role of vice presi-dent for student a( airs in summer $%''. Prior to working at NU, Telles-Irvin served as the vice presi-dent of student a( airs at the University of Florida, beginning in $%%*. Telles-Irvin told # e Daily in $%'' she spent the “tail-end” of her tenure at Flor-ida addressing binge drinking, a topic she said she planned to tackle at NU a) er gaining a better sense of campus culture.
# e " lings in the litigation show Telles-Irvin met with Klein in July to ask him to resign.
“As many of you know, the Tannenbaum Chabad House and Rabbi Klein have been a part of the Uni-versity community for many years, and therefore, the decision to disa! liate was not an easy one,” Telles-Irvin wrote in the October email to students.
She wrote in the email an NU investigation found
Klein had violated University policy by serving alco-hol to underage students and that “excessive con-sumption” occurred at Chabad House.
POLICIES AT PLAYNU alcohol policy states students are expected to
follow Illinois state laws and campus rules concern-ing alcohol and other drugs. Although Illinois state law makes a provision for students to drink during a religious ceremony, the Student Handbook does not make a similar explicit exception. # e policy was updated in the $%'$-$%'+ Student Handbook to include that the University “regularly publishes a Policy on Drugs and Alcohol pursuant to federal mandates” that order “the creation and maintenance of academic and working environments free from illicit drug use and alcohol abuse.”
In the December preface of the Policy on Alcohol and Drugs $%'$-'+, Schapiro wrote the University’s alcohol policy was issued in ',-, to comply with the Drug-Free Workplace Act of ',--. # at policy is listed in the Student Handbook. # e regulations also appear in the faculty and sta( handbooks, he wrote in the preface.
Klein’s case argues Chabad House is being dis-criminated against because other groups on campus “had committed the same acts.” # e Christian Eucha-rist, for example, involves wine.
A December Chicago Tribune article claims Klein’s defense will argue Schapiro serves alcohol, speci" -cally wine, to students at his Passover dinners.
Schapiro told # e Daily earlier this month that students are carded at regular dinners at his home, but he was unsure of what the policy was for wine at his Passover dinners.
SESP sophomore Lizzie Kreitman attended Pass-over last year at Schapiro’s house, where she said both wine and grape juice were available. Kreitman said she believed students were held to an “honors system” when it came to drinking at Schapiro’s Pass-over dinner.
Schapiro cited the Illinois law making an excep-tion for alcohol served during religious ceremonies. But he distinguished wine protected under this law from the hard liquor Klein served.
“It seems curious, though, to con. ate serving wine in the context of a seder and doing shots of vodka,” Schapiro said. “Am I missing something here?”
Moscowitz argues that in Hasidic Judaism, a tra-ditional form of Judaism that includes the Chabad movement, there is a tradition called a “Farbrengen,” in which alcohol is served. # e term is Yiddish for “joyous gathering.” He also cited the tradition of the “L’Chaim.”
“Within the context of a Sabbath, holiday or life event, it is a toast to wish each other good life and great accomplishments,” he said.
Although these traditions exist in the Chabad movement, the Chabad on Campus International Foundation has formally forbid the service of alco-hol to students under $' — with the exception of Kiddush wine — for more than '% years, said Rabbi Menachem Schmidt, the organization’s director. # e organization goes even further in situations where a school’s policy is stricter than its own.
“If a university has a di( erent policy, we go accord-ing to that university’s policy,” Schmidt said.
Schmidt said many Chabad Houses on college campuses only serve grape juice, and the policy does not make a special exception for “Farbrengens.” He directs the Lubavitch House at the University of Pennsylvania, where he said alcohol has not been served openly in more than " ) een years with the exception of Kiddush wine.
JEWISH HISTORY AT NUNU is widely known as a university with an active
Jewish life. In $%'', the University ranked '/th on a list of the top /% private schools by Jewish student population on the Hillel website. According to the website, ',/%% out of about -,%%% undergraduates are Jewish, and the University o( ers approximately +& Jew-ish studies courses, as well as a major and a minor.
But campus culture was not always this way. Until the ',/%s, NU had a strict Jewish admissions quota policy.
Many at Chabad House have argued that the organization was in. uential in changing what some once called NU’s anti-Semitic culture.
“What it comes down to is Northwestern was not nearly as accepting of Jewish life as it is now,” said Matthew Renick, Chabad House’s student executive board president and a Weinberg senior, in September. Renick pointed to Klein’s work on campus as instrumental in changing the culture. “To take the frontrunner out of the picture, I don’t think that’s right.”
Matthew Altman (Communication ‘'%) also served as the president of the Chabad House student executive board and supported Klein through peti-tioning the University. He said Klein’s contributions to the University were “wide and far-reaching.”
“His absence has been widely felt,” Altman said in November.
When Tannenbaum Chabad House " rst opened its doors in ',-& following a " erce legal battle with the Supreme Court, NU was very di( erent, Klein said.
“I don’t think I would have known what anti-Semitism was back then,” Klein said. “I don’t think I felt it. But on the other hand, was Jewish life embraced? No.”
He said when he " rst came to campus, he did feel “hostility.” Students told him they did not write they were Jewish on their applications, and NU was behind its peer institutions in developing a Kosher food program, Klein said.
“You were in the closet as a Jew here,” he said. “Now, people walk and talk Jewish.”
Klein said his in. uence in creating a Kosher pro-gram and bringing it to campus in the early $%%%s helped change that perception, signifying to parents
that Jewish life was “vibrant” on campus. # e change can be noted at the Chabad House Shabbat dinners, which initially were only attended by a few students and now typically host nearly 0&.
Although NU’s religious climate has improved, Klein noted that during his tenure there were exam-ples of anti-Semitism. In $%%+, a swastika with the phrase “Die Jews” was painted in front of Norris.
Chabad House itself was the site of vandalism in $%'%, when the arm of the large menorah outside the building was torn o( during Halloween week-end. Evanston Police did not investigate the incident as a hate crime, although Klein believes it was.
“My feeling was, ‘How could it not be? It was a menorah,’” he said.
Following the vandalism, about +%% students attended a forum in Technological Institute, Klein said. Schapiro and Stevens both attended a meno-rah-lighting ceremony at Chabad House following the incident on Hanukkah. But Klein said he, not NU, was responsible for organizing the forum.
“I wasn’t waiting for the University to do some-thing or create something,” Klein said.“It’s typically not done that way, at least when things happen in the Jewish community.”
# e director of the Lubavitch-Chabad of Illinois said the University’s decision to disa! liate “resur-rects” this history. Although he said the University made strides by hiring Schapiro, a Jewish presi-dent, he " nds it o( ensive that a known Holocaust denier, McCormick Prof. Arthur Butz, remains on faculty.
Butz, who joined the NU faculty in ',,/, pub-lished a book titled “# e Hoax of the Twentieth Century: # e Case Against Presumed Extermina-tion of European Jewry” in ',0/. He more recently gained media attention for supporting Iranian Presi-dent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s statements that the Holocaust was a “myth.”
In ',,0, former University President Henry Bienen released a statement saying Butz remained on faculty because of the University’s policy on “intellectual freedom.”
“Mr. Butz does not claim that his views are those of the University, and I emphasize again that they are not,” the statement read. “In addition, at no time
has he discussed those views in class or made the issue part of his class curriculum. As a result, we cannot take action based on the content of what Mr. Butz says regarding the Holocaust without under-mining the vital principle of intellectual freedom that our policy serves to protect.”
CHABAD HOUSE TODAYStudents say Klein has done everything in his
power to keep things as normal as possible at Cha-bad House despite the ongoing case. # e most noticeable di( erence is that rather than wine or liquor, soda and juice " ll the cups at dry Shabbat dinners. Klein also is no longer able to serve as the faculty adviser of the NU chapter of Alpha Epsilon Pi, but he remains one of three rabbis for the fra-ternity’s international organization.
Klein has found ways to continue many of the ministries he once performed on campus, now just a few blocks away in Chabad House.
Klein said the organization’s expansion is pro-jected to cost about 1&%%,%%%. He plans to put in an industrial kitchen, bathrooms and o! ce space and make the building handicap accessible. He also said the project would improve the carpeting and wallpaper. In the wake of the $%'% vandalization, he wants to add shatter-proof windows.
“# ere have been issues,” he said. “We want to make sure the premises is safe.”
THE FUTURE OF CHABAD HOUSEDespite the ongoing lawsuit, Klein said he hopes
to one day rea! liate with the University.“I love Northwestern,” Klein said. “I’ve been com-
mitted here for $0 years.”Although Klein is not allowed “to present himself
as a member of the Northwestern community” per the disa! liation, the sign outside of Chabad House still reads “Northwestern Jewish Center.”
“# at is the original sign that has been there since ',-&,” Klein said. “# e University does not own the word ‘Northwestern.’”
And Klein made sure he was still there when NU remembered Alyssa Weaver — the Weinberg junior who died while studying abroad this fall — with a candlelit vigil at # e Rock last November. Before her death, Weaver had attended Shabbat dinners hosted by Klein. Due to the terms of the disa! li-ation, Klein could not stand with the mourning students and faculty, but he still wanted to take part in the event.
“I drove and stopped on Sheridan (Road) and put down my windows and put my . ashers on,” Klein said. “It was important for me to have a sense of presence there.”
Klein said he will continue his original mission to serve the Evanston-Wilmette Jewish community as well as the Northwestern community despite the “obstacles” the disa! liation presents.
“I have a legacy,” Klein said. “I don’t say that with arrogance. I hope that will be able to move forward.”
# at legacy, while attested by the community, has not persuaded the University to reverse its decision. In the letter to Moscowitz the University " led in the case, Telles-Irvin acknowledged his involvement in “many aspects of our students’ lives.”
“While he has been involved with our students in very important ways; unfortunately, none of that changes my conclusion given the serious rami" ca-tions for the University and our students,” Telles-Irvin wrote.
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BIRTHRIGHT Despite attempts to prevent Rabbi Dov Hillel Klein from continuing to lead Birthright trips, Klein has continued his bi-annual trips to Israel with Northwestern students.
RECENT DEVELOPMENTSJuly 31, 2012Patricia Telles-Irvin, vice president for student affairs, and Rev. Tim Stevens asks Rabbi Dov Hillel Klein to resign immediately, according to the case. Telles-Irvin tells him as long as he remains at Chabad House, it cannot be affi liated with the University.
Telles-Irvin writes a letter to Rabbi Daniel Moscowitz informing him NU will not affi liate with Chabad House while Klein is “the representative,” according to the document.
Sept. 25, 2012Klein alerts the Jewish community of the disaffi liation in an email, hours before performing what will be his last service on University property.
Sept. 21, 2012Lubavitch-Chabad fi les a complaint against
NU, launching the litigation.
Sept. 26, 2012Klein says in an interview with The Daily that alcohol was served at Chabad.
Oct. 5, 2012NU fi les its offi cial response to Klein’sinitial discovery.
Oct. 24, 2012Telles-Irvin sends an email to Jewish students announcing and explaining NU’s decision to disaffi liate with Chabad House.
Jan. 27, 2013Trial date set for the case.
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LEGACY Despite setting a trial date, Rabbi Dov Hillel Klein hopes to fi nd common ground and reaffi liate with the University. He has played an active role in life at Northwestern for 27 years.
The university offi cially disaffi liated with Chabad House
and Rabbi Dov Hillel Klein on Sept. 11, 2012. These are the
events surrounding the decision.
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Parental support still necessary during college
College is a bubble, cut off from the real world. During those four years, you’re strad-dling the line between two parts of your life. You’re not a kid but you’re not off on your own. While you’re struggling to assert your independence, chances are you are still dependent on your parents. So then what becomes of your relationship with your parents?
The first Winter Break back from college was a bit of an adjustment. After spend-ing three months largely doing whatever I wanted, I suddenly got nagged for my weird sleep schedule, asked to do miscellaneous chores around the house and was generally forced to listen to my parents. After complete independence came complete dependence.
Except I realized during that break in col-lege you are never completely independent. Most students rely on their parents for some funding or another and, at the very least, a place to stay when the University closes down for holidays. I would love to tell my parents they have no say in my major or whether I should drop a class. I would love to go home and tell my parents that I won’t take out the trash, but I can’t.
A couple of weeks ago, a few of my friends made plans to go get ear piercings. One of my friends said she would come but, unfor-tunately, would not be able to get a second ear piercing. I asked why, and she responded that her parents would kill her. At first I wanted to say, “You’re !"! You don’t have to listen to your parents.” But then I realized she did. After all, where does she live? Who has a job? Who pays the bills? Her parents.
Legally you are an adult when you turn !", but I certainly don’t feel like one. I have no idea how I want to spend my summer, let alone what career I want. I feel like I would never be able to keep an apartment if I had to remember to pay the rent on time every month. At the same time, I don’t want my parents telling me I can’t sleep until two in the afternoon or go out late at night with my friends.
One of my friends doesn’t want to pay for her housing, but she also doesn’t want her parents telling her she can’t live off-campus. As college kids, we take our parents for granted. We want their money but at the same time we want them to stay out of our lives.
I’m a member of Jumpstart. In the pre-school where I volunteer, the kids take a nap every day from one to three. Every day, the kids fight against going to sleep. They just want to play. I told one of the children that one day he’ll wish he has a nap time. Of course, he won’t realize it until he has five hours of homework a day and can barely fit in three hours of sleep a night during finals week. It’s the same way with parents. We
won’t realize how much we need them until they’re no longer there.
I love my parents. In fact, I still call them almost every day. Sometimes I even find myself wish-ing that they could make my life deci-sions for me. When I’m stressed or over-whelmed, I just want to snuggle up on the couch with my mom or drink hot cocoa with my stepdad. It’s those times that I
realize I still need my parents. Not just for their finances, but for emotional support as well.
College is important not just because of the education it provides but because it’s a transition period. Very few are ready to go out on their own. At least with college you get a little stepping-stone. And I think it’s good you have to listen to your parents for four more years. After all, they’ve lived a lot longer. Eighteen years probably isn’t enough time for them to share all their valuable advice.
Blair Dunbar is a Weinberg sophomore. She can be reached at [email protected]. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, email a Let-ter to the Editor to [email protected].
Earlier this month, Vice President Joe Biden made a short visit to Berlin on his way to the Munich Security Conference. Many Europeans hoped that he, as a representative of President Barack Obama’s government, would spell out an expansive and positive view of U.S.-European relations.
In Berlin, they got their wish. Biden promised a uni# ed stance with Germany and the European Union, proclaiming them to be the most important allies to the United States , assuaging legitimate European fears that U.S. foreign relations may have been shi$ ing to become more Asia-centric.
According to polls conducted by Trans-atlantic Trends in %&!%, a majority of Americans and citizens of EU member states consider the relationship between the United States and the EU to be highly important — more important than relation-ships with developed Asian nations — on a large number of issues, from security to climate change. Many Europeans and Ger-mans hope that since Obama is free from the need to run for reelection, he will pursue previously ignored topics, such as world climate accords, with more vigor.
In Munich, European representatives were excited to hear Biden fully endorse a free trade agreement between the United States and the EU, which has been a goal of both sides since the !''&s and more recently the subject of a push by the EU Parliament. It has been di( cult to attain because of key di) erences in measurements, safety and health standards, and other “red tape” problems. Biden emphasized the need to grow past these problems, arguing, “We can overcome the present di) erences. It must be done because the fruits of the agreement will be unlimited.”
Some economists argue that a free trade agreement between the two political entities, which traded an estimated *+&& billion worth of goods in %&!%, would boost economic growth, a potent argument considering the economic troubles on both sides of the Atlantic.
Biden also addressed open negotiations with Iran, promising only to commit to negotiations if the Iranian regime is serious about negotiating in good faith about the future of its nuclear re# nement operations. Syria was also mentioned, with Biden once again calling on Assad to step down.
On each issue Biden highlighted the com-mitment of European nations and argued that a strong EU is important to world security and America’s success. His visit has created a chance for the Obama Administra-tion to deepen ties between the two unions.
Erick Meszaros-Jones is a Weinberg senior and a Global Paradigm Fellow based in England. The Global Paradigm Project is intended to link students across the world in a substantive discussion of politics and policy. Visit politicsandpolicy.org/cat-egory/dispatches to read more posts from our Global Paradigm Fellows.
Biden talks about US-EU relations
Since !''', same-sex couples in France have been able to enter civil unions, which — like marriages — allow for jointly # led tax returns, sharing of insurance poli-cies, eased access to residency permits for foreigners and other practical bene# ts. However, last month the French Parliament introduced a bill that would fully legal-ize marriage and adoption for same-sex couples. , e bill is still being debated in Parliament, but it is expected to pass in the next few months. If so, France will become only the !%th country in the world to legal-ize same-sex marriage.
, e fact that the French parliament is socialist-dominated and that President Francois Hollande has promised legaliza-tion of same-sex marriage may lead one to conclude that this law would be both expected and uncontroversial. Neverthe-less, the debate over the bill has been lively on the streets of France, particularly in its capital.
On Jan. !-, about -.&,&&& people gath-ered on the streets of Paris in order to protest against same-sex marriage and adoption. Although both the Catholic Church and the right-wing opposition publicly supported the protest, organizers de# ned it as nonpolitical and nonreligious. , e protesters’ main argument against the bill is that it would undermine the essential building block of the French society: the family.
, is Sunday, in response to the Jan. !- protests, people again took to the streets of Paris, this time united in support of the bill. In a rally that ended at the Place de la Bastille, the square most well known as a symbol of the French Revolution, police estimated the number of marchers at !%/,&&&. , is number is, at best, modest compared to the number of marchers that joined the protest against the bill. , e vari-ability in the number of protesters on each side could be a factor in the decision-mak-ing of some members of the French parlia-ment. On the other hand, this statistic is not the only one that addresses the opinion of the French public. Notably, a recently-released survey shows that the number of people that support the legalization of same-sex marriage actually increased by - percent from last December, when it stood at +& percent.
Although the streets of Paris have witnessed an intense debate on the issue of same-sex marriage, the real decision-making will, as always, be up to those few sitting in Parliament.
Katarina Kosmina is a Communication junior and a Global Paradigm Fellow based in England. The Global Paradigm Project is intended to link students across the world in a substantive discussion of politics and policy. Visit politicsandpolicy.org/cat-egory/dispatches to read more posts from our Global Paradigm Fellows.
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citizen comment that the committee still had questions about what would happen to tenants displaced by the theater’s expansion.
“I do believe Piven expansion can take place in a positive way,” she said. “But most people on our committee and most tenants in our building are dismayed because we do not have answers.”
Both Weiss and Fay Kaiser, a teacher at Voice Studio, a business located within the Center, said they worried expansion of Piven would exclude businesses serving or run by minorities.
“If the Pivens take over over half the Noyes Cultural Arts Center ... there are going to be less diverse groups at the Center,” Kaiser said, “I urge you to remember what the Noyes Center stood for: a collective building that catered to people of di!erent diverse backgrounds.”
"e Piven proposal to expand within the Noyes Center by more than doubling its square footage was presented to the council last year. Since the proposal was presented, tenants have expressed concerns about those who would be displaced.
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and seek thinness rather than muscularity.Olivardia also touched on the role of body image in
aspects of culture such as advertising and music. Communication senior Dani Alcorn said she
enjoyed the talk.“It was a really great speech,” Alcorn said. “I thought
that he summarized the research very well in an engag-ing manner and it’s a really interesting topic that doesn’t get talked about enough, so it was nice to hear a broad view of male body issues.”
Biagi said CAPS wanted to bring Olivardia to NU to increase awareness about eating disorders and body image issues in males.
“To bring him here would be a way to learn more about that and be an avenue for people to feel more comfortable knowing men do struggle with these issues and that there’s help and treatment available,” Biagi said.
Olivardia said campus talks and support groups are helpful to males who are struggling.
“What’s striking is that a lot of men may not attend one of the groups on campus, but for them to know that this even exists, it can be very powerful for them because then it means other men are struggling with it,” he said.
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By AMY WHYTE#$% &'()* +,-#$.%/#%-+
Applications are currently being accepted for peer advisers for Wildcat Welcome 0123, which will implement a number of new programs in an e!ort to continue improving the transition of incoming classes to Northwestern.
Aside from the addition of a new Mental Health Essential NU orientation program, which the University approved at the beginning of the quarter, several other changes are planned for Wildcat Welcome Week 0123, including both the addition of new programming and the removal of old programming. Serving Communities And Promoting Engagement, a service day freshmen have participated in for the past two years, is being removed from Wildcat Welcome program-ming to be replaced with a new component that will be announced next month.
“We decided we’d rather focus on getting stu-dents oriented to campus and to each other,” said Josh McKenzie, assistant director of New Student and Family Programs. “We can save service for later on.”
"e new program will focus on NU traditions and building a sense of community and school spirit. McKenzie said it will take new students o! campus to experience a “day of all things Northwestern.”
“Our goal is to really bring everyone together as a community,” McKenzie said. “Not just Medill, not just (School of Communication), but really everyone.”
Another change planned for next year is a return to the traditional eight-day schedule. "is past Wildcat Welcome, which ran from Sept. 01 to 04, was shortened due to the later start of the academic year in the University’s observance of Yom Kippur.
“We had to condense it this year because of holidays, and a lot of people felt rushed because of it — new students and PAs,” McKenzie said.
Ian Hendrickson, the Wildcat Welcome director for the Bienen School of Music, said he is “really excited” about getting back to the longer schedule because it gives the board of directors the opportunity to do more with the
orientation time.“We’re really trying to integrate a more holis-
tic approach to Wildcat Welcome,” said the Bienen and Weinberg senior, who was a PA in 0120 and 0121. “Especially with the addition of the Mental Health ENU, to be the 5rst board to
work with this is really exciting.”
Additionally, the Office of New Stu-dent and Family Pro-grams wants to act as a resource for new stu-dents throughout the school year through the creation of a new position, director for 5rst year experience.
“Wildcat Welcome tries to solve the prob-lem of providing a transition to students from high school to Northwestern and
for them to feel comfortable here — socially and academically,” McKenzie said. “We know that isn’t solved in seven days. So our big focus
for next year is what happens a6er Wildcat Welcome.”
"is year’s PA application process, which includes mandatory attendance at an infor-mational “Call Out Session,” completion of an online application and a series of interviews, will continue through the quarter. Students will 5nd out whether they are invited to move on to the interview round Feb. 00, and 5nal decisions will be announced March 27.
Weinberg freshman Emily Trokey said she wants to apply to be a PA for the upcoming year because her own Wildcat Welcome experience was so positive.
“I got really close to my PA group and my PA,” Trokey said. “My PA actually lives on my 8oor, and I know that if I have any questions I can always go to her. And I’d like to be able to be that person for an incoming freshman.”
McKenzie said he hopes the changes to Wild-cat Welcome will make students’ 5rst exposure as full-8edged NU students more enjoyable.
“It’s a time of excitement and promise about what lies ahead,” McKenzie said. “We’re striving for as close to perfection as possible.”
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ON DECK ON THE RECORDMen’s BasketballNU at Ohio State, 6 p.m. Thursday
We fought really hard and our intensity was good. We just made some considerable mistakes. — Kate Drohan, softball coach
FEB. 14
Wildcats on both ends of upsetsBy ABBEY CHASE!"# $%&'( )*+!",#-!#+)
. e Wildcats’ season so far has been characterized by consistency, but an odd weekend on the road saw Northwestern on either end of two upsets at the Duke Duals in Durham, N.C. on Sunday.
“A coach would like to get that consistent performance out of their team all the time and it just doesn’t happen,” coach Laurie Schiller said . “. at’s frustrating but every program, every coach has to go through that.”
Sunday morning saw a slow start from the Cats, who stumbled out of the starting blocks with a loss to No. // Duke.
“It was our f irst match of the day and I think some of us were not really as worked up and aggres-sive as we should have been,” senior
Chloe Grainger said . “We haven’t lost to Duke since I’ve been here and I think we got a little lackadaisical.”
Although Grainger won her three bouts to help push the sabre squad to a 0-1 win , a 2-3 loss by the epee squad put the Cats in a hole against the Blue Devils, and the rest of the team was unable to make up the di4 erence.
“. ey’re a good team but they weren’t better than us,” Schiller said. “I was not at all happy with that
because there were just too many bouts lost that shouldn’t have been lost and the end result was a /1-/5 defeat. But there’s no excuses. You have to come out ready to play.”
A6 er a disappointing start to the day, NU came out in its second match ready to 7 ght.
“It de7 nitely was a wake-up call,” Grainger said of the team’s loss to Duke. “Our foil captain Dayana (Sarkisova) was very upset and gave us a talking-to a6 erwards and got us pumped up for Penn State and I think we really turned it around.”
Taking on Penn State, a team NU had not beaten since 3889 , the Cats put forth a determined e4 ort to take the match from the No. 0 Nittany Lions . . e epee squad rebounded from its morning loss to decisively
win 9-/ to help propel NU to a /2-/8 victory.
While the Cats have had close matches with their higher-ranked opponents all season, their win over Penn State marked the 7 rst time NU scored an upset in 38/5.
“We haven’t really had what my coach calls our signature win this year and I think that Penn State is maybe our signature win,” Grainger said. “I’m a little put-o4 by Duke maybe being our signature loss but I think it was good that we were able
to follow up that signature loss with our signature win and pick it up for ourselves and our coach.”
. e Cats closed out the weekend with an /9-: win over North Caro-lina, their second victory over the Tar Heels in one week.
With a 51-2 record on the sea-son , NU now has just one set of dual meets le6 at Notre Dame to try to score another upset before the end of the regular season.
. e majority of the team will have an o4 -weekend this weekend while nine of the team’s younger competi-tors will be travelling to compete individually and as squads in the Junior Olympic Fencing Champion-ships in Baltimore, Md.
By JOSH WALFISH$%&'( -#)&*+ -!%;;#+
Northwestern was competitive against some of the nation’s best teams — it just couldn’t pull out the victories.
The Wildcats lost four of their five games by four runs or fewer and came home from Tempe, Ariz., with no wins. It was a disappointing start for a team that returned most of the starters from last year’s team, which made the NCAA Regionals.
“We fought really hard and our intensity was really good in the first game against Arizona and the last game against Oklahoma,” coach Kate Drohan said. “We just made some considerable mistakes, like giving up too many base runners.”
NU was playing from behind for most of the weekend but man-aged to get some good rallies going against some of the best talent in the country. The highlight was the team’s four-run inning against reigning USA Softball Player of the Year Keilani Ricketts and No. 3 Oklahoma. The rally chased Rick-etts from the circle after two innings and gave the Cats a 1-3 lead. Okla-homa would score three runs in the next inning to recapture the lead, but Drohan said she liked the fight
in her team. The rally against the Sooners was
one of the few bright spots for the Cats on the weekend. Drohan said she liked the offensive production from sophomore infielder Anna Edwards , who led the team with a .12/ average in the five games. She had eight hits on the weekend, four of which went for extra bases.
Sophomore pitcher Amy Letourneau had 3< strikeouts, 3/ of which came against NU’s two
ranked foes. The Cats were without the ser-
vices of senior Emily Allard due to an undisclosed injury. The short-stop started as the designated player in the first game against No. /5 Arizona, but did not play in the remaining four games. Edwards moved over to shortstop, forcing Drohan to play two freshmen on the right side of the infield for most of the weekend.
Drohan said the freshmen got
better as the weekend progressed and expects they will improve more with time. Aubrie May was the only freshman to start all five games of the tournament, playing first and second base. She went 5-for-/2 at the plate but scored twice and had an RBI.
“They got stronger (this week-end),” Drohan said. “Aubrie May had good poise at the plate and they got more comfortable playing at this level as the weekend went along.”
The Cats made some uncharac-teristic mistakes in the field, com-mitting /1 errors during the week-end. Junior Marisa Bast made six errors at third base, nearly half of the total she had last season. NU also struggled to get on base with a .3:0 on-base percentage almost /88 points less than its opponents.
Despite the errors, Drohan said the team is not anxious yet and is ready to improve during practice this week.
“Nobody’s hitting the panic but-ton just yet,” Drohan said. “We’ll work this week to correct the mis-takes. It’s just part of the project. We’ll learn from our mistakes and move forward.”
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LEAN BACK Freshman foilist Jen Yamin dodges her opponent during the NU Duals. The Wildcats were upset by No. 11 Duke at the Duke Duals, but rebounded to topple No. 5 Penn Sate 17-10 the next day.
Men’s Basketball
Fencing
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NU drops ! ve straight on ! rst weekend
If you watched the entire men’s bas-ketball game at Iowa over the weekend, then you, like me, wished you had thought more about applying to Michi-gan. Even though it doesn’t have a jour-nalism program, at least that one girl you know from middle school goes there and knows that Middle Eastern restaurant.
Well, even if all those exact thoughts didn’t cross your mind, you probably let out a few expletives usually only reserved for the worst of dentists when freshman center Alex Olah and graduate student forward Jared Swopshire both went down with injuries. With a matchup looming against Ohio State, continuing to watch the Wildcats could be tough for even the biggest of fans.
Fortunately, that’s where I come in. I may not play center like I did in my rec-reational basketball days, but I can o4 er these reasons why you should still enjoy men’s basketball the rest of the way, even if injuries seemingly ruined this season.
Reggie Hearn: Last year, I referred to Hearn, a senior guard, as the lounge kid because of his tireless work ethic, akin to the one kid always pouring over their work in your dorm lounge. Well, Hearn hasn’t disappointed this year. Battling injury troubles of his own, the senior refuses to let his team make excuses.
Watch as Hearn battles for every loose ball, defends with all out-intensity and plays with full energy every second he’s on the court. Hearn and fellow senior Alex Marcotullio have only precious few games le6 in purple and white, and both are playing with the 7 ery passion that makes basketball fun to watch.
Legend Killers: During the NBA season, when former Spartan Draymond Green was matched up against LeBron James, it occurred to me how awesome it was to witness Davide Curletti steal Green’s lunch money during last year’s upset over Michigan State.
. is year, the Cats already notched one semi-upset over in-state rival Illi-nois. With one more game le6 against the Illini, as well as matchups with Ohio State, Wisconsin and Michigan State, NU could score one more big upset before the season ends.
Although it’s highly unlikely, espe-cially without Swop and Olah, the beauty of coach Bill Carmody’s system is that when it all clicks on the right night, the Cats can hang with anyone. And it would be especially sweet to beat Ohio State a6 er what happened in Evanston last year. I hate Jared Sullinger.
One Northwestern: Last week, I bumped into Olah at late-night Plex. As we 7 lled up cereal next to one another, I clumsily wished him good luck against Iowa, and he thanked me, acknowl-edging they’ll need it. Aside from my takeaway that I’m kind of creepy around people and I probably made Olah regret deciding to eat cereal that night, I real-ized that we all have it tough on this campus.
I’m busy with midterms and attempt-ing not to ruin a /58-year legacy at . e Daily. Maybe you’re on a DM exec committee. Maybe you’re an ASG com-mittee member juggling tons of other responsibilities. Maybe you’re studying away from NU this quarter, isolated from your friends and relationships. Or maybe you’re just a tall freshman who was the focal point of a Princeton o4 ense before taking a hit to the head.
But we’re all students, and it’s our job to support each other.
Reasons to keep on watching
Daily fi le photo by Samantha Maeng
THE PLATINUM SOMBRERO Sophomore Olivia Duehr swings during a game in 2012. The Wildcats went 0-5 as a team in Arizona to start their season, including losses to No. 13 Arizona and No. 2 Oklahoma.
win 9-/ to help propel NU to a /2-/8 victory.
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better as the weekend progressed and expects they will improve more
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Arizona unkind to the Wildcats, who start 0!5 in nonconference
“They’re a good team but they weren’t better than us. I was not at all happy with that because there were just too many bouts lost.Laurie Schiller,Fencing coach
