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Closings coming to Purple Express in March, April
The Chicago Transit Authority will suspend Purple Line Express service to the Loop for two periods in March and April due to recon-struction of the Wells Street Bridge over the Chicago River, according to a news release Monday.
CTA will suspend service of the Purple Line Express, which ser-vices downtown Chicago, March ! to " and April #$ to May %. Regular Purple Line trains running from Howard to Linden stations will not be affected. Chicago-bound riders going to Chicago can transfer to Red Line trains at Howard station.
The change in service results from the Chicago Department of Transportation’s reconstruction of the Wells Street Bridge, according to the release. CDOT will close the $&-year-old bridge to rebuild por-tions of the structure during each nine-day segment.
At the same time, the CTA will replace tracks on and near the bridge. Other projects scheduled to be completed include rebuilding the track junction at Lake and Wells Streets and replacing tracks in the curve just north of the Merchandise Mart.
Coordinated construction will minimize the impact on riders and
save overall construction costs, CTA spokeswoman Catherine Hosinski said. The two agencies expect to save '(&&,&&& by doing the work during the same time periods, according to the news release.
“CTA is piggybacking on the work (of CDOT) to avoid future
construction costs,” she said.CTA will offer additional bus
service, shuttle buses and rerouted trains to replace interrupted train service on the Brown Line, accord-ing to the release.
— Jia You
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Relay for Life looks forwardBy AMY WHYTE)*+ ,-./0 123)*4+5)+31
Northwestern Relay for Life orga-nizers announced at a bene6t concert Tuesday night its main event in the spring will have a theme for the 6rst time ever.
7e theme for the event will be “Decades.” Tegan Reyes, co-president of NU’s Relay for Life, said organizers decided to implement a theme because many community and high school relays have one.
“We thought it’d be a great way to get campus more involved and more excited about Relay if we had a theme,” the Medill junior said.
7e concert where the announce-ment was made was held to raise money and awareness for Relay for Life, which bene6ts the American Cancer Society. It featured various campus perform-ers: a cappella groups Purple Haze, THUNK, Extreme Measures and the X-Factors; dance groups Boomshaka, Gra8ti Dancers and Deeva Dance Troupe and comedy group Mee-ow each took the stage in turn.
Meredith Shapiro, Relay’s entertain-ment co-chair, said the concert served as a kicko9 to get more teams signed up for the :#-hour Relay for Life event in May.
“It’s more about getting people signed up and promoting Relay than it is about fundraising at this stage,”
Wrigley games surprise EvanstonBy JOSH WALFISH,-./0 5+1.23 5)-;;+3
When Northwestern announced it was taking 6ve football games and a slew of other sports to Wrigley Field over the next several years, the news was well received by most fans. Some Evanston business owners, however, are not so excited.
Dick Peach, president of the Evan-ston Chamber of Commerce, said NU football provides a major boost to area hotels, restaurants and retail stores. Peach said the city was blindsided by the announcement and had hoped
the city and University would have been able to talk about the agreement beforehand.
“What we’re trying to do with the conversations with the University is to lessen the impact,” Peach said. “Nobody’s going to believe for the moment that the alumni will stay in Evanston and take a train down to Wrigley Field.”
Peach said the conversations center around trying to keep NU’s marquee games in Evanston. He speci6cally named six schools which have his-torically traveled well to Evanston — Iowa, Illinois, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio State and Wisconsin — as games
he would like to keep at Ryan Field.Peach said he is optimistic the two
sides will come to some sort of agree-ment, calling the University a “great partner.”
Ross Kooperman owns 7e Locker Room, :!:<-A Central St., situated directly across the street from Ryan Field. Kooperman said he was shocked when he learned the Wildcats were moving games away from its home 6eld.
Kooperman said a normal Novem-ber football game brings in the same amount of money as two or three months’ revenue from the rest of the year. He said the University’s athletic
department is taking a big risk with the move, and he’s unsure whether it will pay o9 in the long run.
“Maybe the athletic department is thinking loss of revenue will be negated in future years with a higher pro6le within the sports marketing realm of Chicago,” Kooperman said. “But I think it’s a big question mark. I don’t believe that NU’s pro6le is as great as it claims it is.”
7e athletic department declined to talk about 6nances, citing depart-ment policy. However, Kooperman estimates he lost thousands of dollars
Susan Du/Daily Senior Staffer
GAME CHANGER Located near Ryan Field, The Locker Room sells Northwestern gear and receives much foot traffic during the football season. Some Evanston businesses are concerned about recently announced Chicago Cubs partnership moving some games to Wrigley Field will cut into their revenues.
» See CUBS, page 7 » See RELAY, page 7
Mariam Gomaa/Daily Senior Staffer
CTA CLOSURE Because of reconstruction of the Wells Street Bridge, The CTA will temporarily suspend Purple Line Express service to the Loop for two periods of nine days in March and April.
By STEPHANIE HAINES,-./0 5+1.23 5)-;;+3
President Barack Obama addressed the nation Tuesday evening with an hour-long State of the Union address, during which he focused on economic growth, education improvements and reduction in gun violence.
“I know this is not the 6rst time this country has debated how to reduce gun violence,” the president said. “But this time is di9erent.”
7e president went on to address the family of Hadiya Pendleton, a Chicago high school student shot and killed in a Chicago park just days a=er she attended Obama’s inauguration.
“Hadiya’s parents, Nate and Cleo, are in this chamber tonight, along with more than two dozen Americans whose lives have been torn apart by gun vio-lence,” Obama said. “7ey deserve a vote.”
Medill Prof. Larry Stuelpnagel said he expected Obama to address the issue of gun violence. He also said it is an “obligation of the media” to cover the State of the Union address because in it, the president lays out his national agenda.
Stuelpnagel said it is important stu-dents tune in to the State of the Union address, whether they support the president or not.
“I think that every president that runs for o8ce has to work at trying to get their agenda enacted,” Stuelpnagel said. “People do have checklists on how they have been on what was promised to them.”
Stuelpnagel said the success the president attains in enacting his agenda depends on the forcefulness of his speech. He also made note of the fact that both the Republican party and Tea Party will respond to the address for the 6rst time. In previous years, there has been one uni6ed response to the president’s speech from the opposing party.
Medill sophomore Summer Delaney helped cover the speech for Medill on the Hill, a program that sends journal-ism students to Washington, D.C., for a quarter. Delaney’s story focused on representatives who brought Ameri-cans a9ected by gun violence to view the address in person. ABC News Blog reported at least !# victims were pres-ent at the speech.
NU reacts to State of the Union address
» See UNION, page 7
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— Skokie !re department chief, Ralph E. Czerwinski
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Meet some of the City Council candidates
In less than two months, Evanston voters will head back to the polls to elect aldermen and a mayor.
Not all Northwestern students live in the same ward, especially those living o! campus. In the com-ing weeks, "e Daily will reach out to aldermen and their challengers for interviews and candidate pro-#les. Send questions for the alderman candidates to [email protected].
NU students living in University housing west of Sheridan Road live in the $st Ward, currently repre-sented by Ald. Judy Fiske ($st).
Edward Tivador, superintendent of Northbrook/Glenview School District %&, launched his campaign against Fiske on Saturday. In '&&(, Fiske defeated then-Ald. Cheryl Wollin ($st) by a nearly two-to-one margin. Tivador is a member of the city’s citizens’ police advisory committee. Fiske, a pet shop owner, sits on the rental unit licensing committee.
Ald. Jane Grover ()th) represents students living in University housing east of Sheridan Road, among other constituencies. "e )th Ward alderman, who is running for reelection unopposed, chairs the city’s administration and public works committee.
O!-campus students may #nd themselves in the 'nd, *th or +th Wards. "e aldermen representing these wards — Ald. Peter Braithwaite ('nd), Ald. Donald Wilson (*th) and Ald. Delores Holmes (+th) — are all running unopposed in the upcoming elec-tion. Evanston Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl is also run-ning unopposed.
— Manuel Rapada and Jia You
More than $7,000 in goods taken from Evanston garage
A +*-year-old Evanston resident reported that his locked garage in the ''&& block of Emerson Street was ransacked sometime between % and , a.m. Monday.
With no signs of forced entry, it is unclear how the burglar got into the garage.
Items taken include a television, a DVD player, landscaping equipment and an air compressor. In all, the goods were valued at -),)&&, Evanston Police Department Cmdr. Jay Parrott said.
Middle school student loses smartphone in locker
An Evanston resident reported to the EPD that her child’s Apple iPhone *S was taken while
the child was attending Nichols Middle School, .&& Greenleaf St.
"e student reportedly lost the phone, along with its case, between $&:%& and $$:$+ a.m. "e iPhone, valued at about -*)&, was taken from a gym locker, Parrott said. No other details were speci#ed.
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Retired Marine warns against energy dependenceBy JOSEPH DIEBOLD!"#$% &'(#)* &+",,'*
A speech Tuesday at the Donald P. Jacobs Center featured two rarities in the world of environmental activism: a conservative advocacy group and a mili-tary o-cer.
Former Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Richard Zilmer spoke to about ./ students from the Kellogg School of Management about the national security risks posed by oil dependency and climate change. Zilmer, who retired in 0122 a3er 45 years of active duty, serves on the research nonpro6t CNA’s Military Advisory Board, a group of retired military o-cers working on issues of national security. CNA is a not-for-pro6t research and analysis organization.
Zilmer wove stories from his time in the military into his half-hour long talk, including a “twilight zone” midday journey from Saudi Arabia into Kuwait dur-ing Operation Desert Storm in 2772, during which he realized the importance of oil in American foreign policy.
“It struck me,” Zilmer said. “You couldn’t escape the re8ection that part of the reason we were there was ensuring that lines of communication, petroleum fuel, petroleum, remained open because this is how our global economy works.”
He emphasized during the speech how the board was providing military experience to a 6eld nor-mally dominated by science and economics, while
reiterating the importance of a multifaceted approach where nobody has a monopoly on the best ideas.
“9ere’s a sweet spot between the Department of Energy and the Department of Defense that we’re trying to 6nd right now,” he said. “Anything that’s promoting e-ciency and reducing that impact of petroleum, we get behind.”
Zilmer came to Kellogg through the board’s part-nership with Young Conservatives for Energy Reform. Brian Smith, the Midwest director and a co-founder of the group, said the group’s broader goal in partnering with the Military Advisory Board is to “inform grass-roots conservatives about the risks posed by climate change and oil dependency.” Smith, though, said he hoped Zilmer appealed to an audience of young pro-fessionals with a wide scope of political views, while demonstrating the importance of linking the military and business worlds.
“9e military continues to talk to the business community and the political community about the security risks that this poses,” the 6rst-year Kellogg student said. “It’s about 6nding the right balance between economic security and national security.”
Zilmer also o:ered a call-to-arms to the business school students in front of him, noting the country is “sitting at a crossroads with climate change,” which will shape “the future you’re going to inherit.” Near the end of his speech, he returned to economics.
“If the price of gas drops /1 cents tomorrow, people like us won’t be invited to talk anymore.”
Rubab Bhangu Mavi, a 6rst-year Kellogg student,
said Zilmer was “preaching to the choir” because she has worked on environmental policy before, but she said it was good to see the military paying attention to the environment.
“I’m glad the military is getting behind everyone and educating them on the need to get this to happen because I think the U.S. really cares about what the Army thinks and the Air Force thinks,” she said.
Zilmer’s talk was preceded by words from several other speakers, including Christian Burgsmueller, head of the Transport, Energy, Environment and Nuclear Matters section of the European Union’s Washington Delegation. Burgsmueller had some veiled critiques of America’s handling of energy policy, referencing “your fossil fuel bonanza” and the persis-tence of climate change dissenters.
“In Europe, this is settled science,” Burgsmueller said. “9ere’s no debate raging in Europe on climate change.”
Still, he noted “the trans-Atlantic 8avor of the whole story,” explaining that Europe was once as dependent on Russia for its oil as the United States is on the Middle East before a push for clean energy in the last two decades.
Zilmer was 6rm in his concern that America needed to improve its energy policy — and quickly.
“9e rest of the world has gotten it,” he said. “If we’re not smart, we’re going to 6nd ourselves behind … in the future.”
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GOING GREEN Retired Marine Corps Lt. Gen. Richard Zilmer spoke Tuesday about the national security risks posed by the United States’ energy dependence.
University Career Services celebrates 75th anniversary this month
As Northwestern students and soon-to-be grad-uates 6nish up applications for summer jobs and internships this month, University Career Services is celebrating its ./th anniversary with events re8ecting on the center’s evolution and history.
Career Services’ anniversary comes at a time when its services are in high demand. Following the 011; economic downturn, Career Services has seen a 41 percent increase in appointments among undergradu-ate and graduate students as well as alumni, accord-ing to a University news release. 9e center recorded .,451 individual appointments within the past year.
Career Services Executive Director Lonnie Dunlap said in a University news release the center has had to adapt its approach and techniques, as online applica-tions and social media have altered the job application
process and some of the skills employers now deem necessary for workplace environments.
To keep up with the fast-changing pace of technol-ogy, throughout the last 21 years Career Services has added features such as online databases like Career-Cat and iNet, a national internship directory shared among 22 top universities, as well as multiple intern-ship programs and informational sessions. 9e center also provides mock interview practice, job-shadowing opportunities and stipends for students who have unpaid summer internships.
9e center’s anniversary celebration includes a University Library exhibit on the 6rst 8oor detail-ing the history of UCS, which began Jan. 2/ and will run through the end of the month. Additionally, the center is hosting a “Drive-In Conference” on March 2 in Norris University Center that will feature a key-note speech by Lisa Severy from the National Career Development Association and a panel of university career service directors from the Chicagoland area.
— Lauren Caruba
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Snickerdoodlin’ by Emilia Barrosse, Maggie Mae Fish, Mori Einsidler
President Barack Obama is running out of time to cement his legacy as the !!th presi-dent of the United States.
Upon entering their second term, presi-dents often experience a honeymoon period in which their approval rating is up and momentum behind their policies is in full force. They feel invigorated after winning a second election, using this boost in confi-dence to push legislation through Congress or sign executive orders at a faster rate than other times during their presidency.
Yet after this honeymoon, second term presidents have found it hard to get much done.
In the modern era, presidents have struggled to accomplish their goals in their last four years in o"ce. In fact, the second terms of Presidents Johnson, Reagan, Clinton, and Bush proved more problematic than their #rst. John-son was le$ a defeated man by the Vietnam
War, Reagan by the Iran-Contra scandal, Clin-ton by the Lewinsky a%air, and Bush with two unpopular wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Obama has two good years le$ in the national spotlight. A$er &'(!, he will become a lame-duck presi-dent as Americans focus on the media hype surrounding the &'() presidential election.
For those who hope Obama’s second term will live up to the hype of his election in &''*, these facts may be sobering. While he could prosper over the next four years, he must reverse a modern trend of scandals and wars that have engulfed modern presidents. Already, Obama has put a lot on his plate: gun control, immigration reform, gay rights, tax reform and the most prescient mission of continuing economic recovery. While tackling any of these issues would amount to a monu-mental second term, it will be almost impos-sible for the president to accomplish all these feats.
Obama still faces many challenges, primarily Republican control of the House of Representa-tives, which makes passing legislation di"cult and cumbersome. In the most recent national controversy over gun control, he signed &+ exec-utive orders to assert his agenda. While these
orders showed the president means business on this issue, the fact that legislation has not passed through Congress is evidence of the continued gridlock in Washington. ,e past few weeks in the Capitol have been reminiscent of Obama’s #rst term, as Republicans struggle to hold onto power despite their loss of the White House.
,e president received unprecedented criti-cism during his #rst term from both sides of the political spectrum. Liberals attacked him for not being progressive enough, while Republicans desperately sought to make him a one-term president. He has been called a pragmatist by many political pundits for his willingness to compromise on important legislation and his eagerness to get the job done. While this char-acterization may be true, there may also be a progressive side to Obama that has been caged throughout his presidency. Like Clinton, Obama has ruled from the center-le$ of the spectrum, walking a thin line between moderate and liberal.
Was this middle-of-the-road president the true Obama, or will a new #gure appear in this term? While it is impossible to answer that question now, the next four years will de#ne his political soul and reveal how he wants to be
remembered.,e president in o"ce today is far di%erent
than the one who accepted the presidency on a chilly November evening in Grant Park four years ago. He is far less idealistic than when he #rst moved into the White House, as his e%orts to shape and transform the politics of Washing-ton fell by the wayside early in his #rst term. He has now fully embraced the inner dealings and backroom agreements of our nation’s political system, succumbing to the realization that few outsiders can change Washington.
A more politically seasoned and cutthroat Obama may just be what the Democrats and this nation need at the moment. Americans no longer hold the image of Obama as the destined hero of this generation. While he is still revered and respected, the president now holds the cards to become the Washington insider that no one expected he would be. While he may no longer be the savior of Washington, he just has to make it work.
Jonathan Kamel is a Weinberg freshman. He can be reached at [email protected]. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, email a Letter to the Editor to [email protected].
JOHNATHANKAMELDAILY COLUMNIST
Last week, I was playing tennis with a Spanish triathlete when I mentioned, in pass-ing, that I was planning on going for a -K run later that day. He decided to go with me.
As we reached the end and I was stum-bling and gasping for air more than I was actually running (apparently when the triath-lete said “run,” he really meant “sprint”), he asked me how I felt. I shot him a dirty look. He laughed and said, “If you followed Lance Armstrong’s lead, you’d be ready for another round.”
For the next (- minutes I listened in dis-belief as this cyclist, triathlete, marathon runner and Ironman filled me in on how steroids can give you an incredible edge in endurance sports and how those sports have serious problems with all manner of doping.
“How many Tour de France riders do you really think weren’t doping when Lance won those medals?” he asked me. I had never
thought about it. “And why has Rafael Nadal been out of the game so long?” he continued. “And how did Novak Djokovic play like he wasn’t tired the day after a marathon of a match?”
That conversation was a mini-revelation. I had never really wanted to know how many of my favorite athletes used steroids to gain an edge. I was even less interested in what percentage of athletes in major sports were doping. Ignorance is bliss, and I was happy believing in a world where competition was clean and fair.
Many things athletes do today — Armstrong winning again and again with ease or Barry Bonds breaking Hank Aaron’s record — simply could not be done without performance-en-hancing drugs. ,e human body has limits, and yet we all watch in awe as our heroes shred those limits and shoot beyond. We unknowingly (or begrudgingly) support their doping because it makes great TV.
I have always been an extreme purist when it comes to steroids, especially in baseball. As far as I’m concerned, Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Mark McGwire never reached the majors. ,eir stats are meaningless to me. ,e whole idea behind sports is competition between two
(or more) people, and whoever has more God-given talent and hard-earned ability deserves the victory and praise.
But listening to the testimony of a man who trains athletes for a living gave me pause. If, for example, most competitors in a sport use steroids — as seems to be the case in baseball, cycling and possibly tennis — should we forgive and glorify the ones who still perform above the rest? In theory, the playing #eld is even. “Every-body is doping, and this individual came out on top,” one could argue.
,e pressure to win in sports is so intense. Not only is there a competitive #re in every single professional athlete, but they also need to earn a paycheck, fame and admiration from their peers. So, for a moment, I tried to put myself in the shoes of a pro, walking around the locker room as his teammates inject themselves with steroids.
Right or wrong, the feeling I imagined shook my strong anti-steroid belief. It’s di"cult to blame someone for being human, and watching your peers succeed by using arti#cial substances must be intolerable. In essence, you have no choice: Eat or be eaten.
And I came to an interesting conclusion at the end of four days spent mulling the subject over.
We need to ask ourselves, as fans, a fundamental question: What do we want sporting events to be? Are they purely forms of entertain-ment? If that’s the case, steroids are exactly what we want. Athletes become entertain-ers, and we get to watch incredible feats of human strength and endurance. Everybody wins.
If we decide that sports are more than that, however, we face many dilemmas. Ath-letes become role models, heroes, the perfect image of what competition should be. Sports take on a greater meaning, and more rules need to be implemented to make sure they stay clean. Nobody hits *'' home runs or wins ten Tour de France titles, but we’ll get a warm fuzzy feeling knowing that we’re watching people who earned their spot in the limelight through countless hours of hard work, sweat and determination.
I don’t have any posters of entertainers on the walls in my room. I have posters of ath-letes, and I’d like to keep it that way.
Dan Ryan is a Weinberg junior. He can be reached at [email protected]. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, email a Letter to the Editor to [email protected].
DANRYANDAILY COLUMNIST
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Evanston !re!ghters respond to record EMS callsBy EDWARD COX!"# $%&'( )*+!",#-!#+)
Evanston .re.ghters responded to a record num-ber of service calls last year, more than three-./hs of which were emergency medical service calls, accord-ing to a report released 0ursday.
In 1233, Evanston responded to 4,567 emergency medical service calls, a department record. Fire.ght-ers exceeded that record last year by nearly 522 calls, averaging about 36 per day.
Data at nearby municipalities, however, is mixed.0e number of such calls in nearby Skokie exceeded
the .ve-year average in 1233 and 1231, said Ralph E. Czerwinski, Skokie’s .re department chief.
In Wilmette, however, .re.ghters saw a 8 percent reduction in the total number of service calls in 1231 and no noticeable di9erence in the number of EMS calls, Wilmette deputy .re chief Mike McGreal said.
0e Skokie and Evanston .re chiefs said some people, particularly the elderly, are relying more on emergency services, which is one possible reason for the hike in medical service calls.
“Individuals are becoming more comfortable and reliant of services,” Czerwinski said. “If something occurs they know to call :33, and they expect the ambulance to arrive.”
Evanston .re chief Greg Klaiber said with more people traveling in and out of Evanston, the city’s economic development may have contributed to last year’s higher call volume. 0e total number of calls the
department responded to has increased by 42 percent in the last 14 years, he said.
To respond to the increase in EMS calls, Evanston Fire and Life Safety Services has out.tted .re engines
and trucks with advanced life support equipment.Still, Klaiber said the increase in call volume has
stretched the department’s resources.“It does put a strain on our sta9ers and some
apparatus if it is out at the time,” he said.To relieve some of the pressure, the city’s Fire and
Life Safety Services and nearby municipalities’ .re departments share their services through the Mutual Aid Box Alarm System Division 8. Fire departments outside Evanston provided help to the city :; times in the past year, Klaiber said.
Despite the increased number of emergency calls, Evanston .re.ghters were able to hold emergency-related losses below <3 million in 1231, the .rst time in more than a decade.
Klaiber said a less-than-four-minute average response time and .re.ghting strategies on the scene held down costs for incidents involving property dam-age and public safety.
“Every minute a/er four minutes, the .re will double in size,” he said. “If we can get to your home ... in four minutes or less ... we’re going to be much more likely to save life or property.”
In an e9ort to increase collaboration, Evanston also signed in October a training facility-sharing agreement with Skokie that which will allow the city’s .re.ghters to use Skokie’s Station 37 for live .re train-ing for 32 years with a .ve-year renewal option. In exchange for use of the facility, the city paid <1;6,222 for improvement of the site.
“0ere’s a bond in the comfort level between the two agencies,” Czerwinski said. “When your home is on .re, it doesn’t matter whose patch is on (the .re.ghter’s) shoulder.”
NU men’s basketball ticketing goes ‘Dutch’ with Purple Pricing
Northwestern’s men’s basketball program is launching a new ticket-pricing program that will better allocate limited tickets for the remaining home games of the season, according to an ath-letic department news release.
Purple Pricing will involve a version of “Dutch auction,” a system in which auctioned items are initially o9ered at a high price that is incrementally lowered until a bidder takes the lower price.
Beginning with NU’s matchup against Ohio
State University on Feb. 1;, fans can visit the ath-letic department’s ticket purchase page to .nd out the preliminary ticket price. Once buyers have secured their seats, they wait as the price reduc-tions continue leading up to the game, ultimately being refunded the di9erence.
0e Purple Pricing auctioning system is a proj-ect the men’s basketball program developed in conjunction with two NU economists, Weinberg economics Prof. Je9 Ely and Kellogg economics Prof. Sandeep Baliga.
Ely and Baliga explained in a video posted on the NU athletics department’s website how the new system will work for fans looking to purchase tickets at NU’s future home games.
In the video, Baliga talked about how Purple
Pricing is somewhat similar to the dynamic pricing auctioning system used by the Chicago Cubs. He cited multiple issues with dynamic pric-ing, including the fact that prices can =uctuate throughout the auctioning, “causing confusion” for fans.
He also said that model causes buyers to “game the system” by holding out on buying tickets in an attempt to catch them at their lowest prices, creating the possibility that the game will sell out before they purchase their tickets.
“Dynamic pricing is unfair because di9erent people pay di9erent prices for essentially the same seats,” Baliga said in the video.
To avoid these issues, the Purple Pricing system exercises the “Purple Pledge,” in which bidders
are refunded the di9erence between the price they originally paid for their tickets and the .nal asking price.
“0at removes any incentive to wait around for the lowest price,” Baliga said in the video. “0e actual price you pay will always be the lowest price you could have gotten by waiting.”
Ely explained that Purple Pricing simpli.es ticket buying and eliminates the chance that fans who are waiting for lower prices will miss out on sold-out games.
In addition to the game against Ohio State, Purple Pricing will also be used for NU’s March 7 matchup against Penn State.
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‘One Book’ talk emphasizes oral storytelling practiceBy KATE STEIN !"# $%&'( )*+!",#-!#+)
Storytelling through conversation is meaningful for both the speaker and the listener, two nationally-known storytellers emphasized Tuesday night at a dis-cussion hosted by the Center for the Writing Arts.
Dave Isay, founder of oral history nonpro.t Sto-ryCorps, talked with Northwestern professor and author Alex Kotlowitz, who wrote this year’s One Book One Northwestern selection “Never a City So Real,” about the origins of StoryCorps and the impor-tance of its mission in giving people a chance to talk about their lives. Isay and Kotlowitz agreed audio storytelling creates and captures intimate moments that other types of media cannot. /e panel drew more than 011 people to the McCormick Tribune Center Forum.
“When you give people the chance to talk, mag-ni.cent things are going to happen,” Isay said. “/e act of being listened to tells people that they matter. And you can see people almost grow when you’re listening to them.”
Isay founded StoryCorps in 2113. /e organiza-tion hosts recording sessions in booths across the country, where subjects are interviewed by a friend or family member under the guidance of a trained facilitator.
“It’s a great medium for intimate stories, emotional stories, and it’s not that expensive to do,” Isay said. “You kind of melt into each other’s eyes and forget what’s going on around you.”
To date, StoryCorps has recorded around
45,111 stories. Isay said there have been both mar-riage proposals and confessions to murder in the booths. But he added that the small stories are just as signi.cant.
“/ings are said between people and information gets passed that never has been talked about before ... (although) for the most part, it’s the most important person in your life who’s living who’s in the booth
with you,” he said.“Listening isn’t a passive experience,” Kotlowitz
added.Matt Rhodes, a Medill graduate student who was
in the audience, said the discussion reminded him that storytelling bene.ts the listener as much as the storyteller.
“I love the idea of the producer setting up the
setting and then allowing these two people to go about having a conversation,” he said, adding that such conversations allow people to open up to one another in ways they would not for journalists.
Ann Marshall, a Weinberg program assistant and StoryCorps listener, agreed the StoryCorps format allowed participants to be more willing to share details of their lives.
“/ere’s an intimacy to telling a story,” she said. “/ey reach you, person to person.”
/e course of the discussion also deepened Mar-shall’s belief about the importance of storytelling, “even just in a conversation between family members or two friends,” she said.
Audience members listened to several StoryCorps conversations, including one between a woman and her son’s murderer and one between a dying man and his devoted wife.
“It was really powerful,” Medill junior Anto-nia Cereijido said. “I think this is very moving journalism.”
Isay also discussed some of StoryCorps’ recent projects and future plans. He said he hopes to make all the interviews, copies of which are currently housed in the Library of Congress, accessible online within the next few years.
“/e dream is that someday StoryCorps is going to be a sustaining national institution,” he said. “/e core idea is that every life matters equally, which goes against the prevailing culture.”
A StoryCorps mobile recording booth will come to Chicago in April.
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TELL ME A STORY StoryCorps founder Dave Isay (right) and Prof. Alex Kotlowitz discussed the art of storytelling for an audience of over 100 in the McCormick Tribune forum Tuesday.
Parkinson’s disease treatment milestone could slow progression
Northwestern researchers are continuing tests on their breakthrough development in the .ght against Parkinson’s disease, a degen-erative disorder that a6ects movement and coordination.
Toward the end of last year, chemistry Prof. Richard Silverman, and Dalton James Surmeier, chair of physiology at the Feinberg School of Medicine, created with their team a new family of compounds that could slow the progression of the disease.
So far, the compound has only been tested on animals, but experiments have produced suc-cessful results. However, researchers are now doing additional animal testing and working on
turning the compound into a pill form, accord-ing to a Feb. 7 Chicago Tribune article.
/e researchers believe their work can slow the disease without any serious side e6ects. Current treatment for Parkinson’s only targets the symptoms.
/e new compound targets a rare faulty membrane protein that allows calcium to 8ood the dopamine neurons in the brain. /ese neurons control movement, and calcium interaction from Parkinson’s causes the cells to die, possibly leading to aging and premature death.
/e researchers’ compound will selectively target the faulty protein and block calcium entry to stop cells from dying.
Surmeier and Silverman published their .ndings in the scienti.c journal Nature Com-munications on Oct. 23.
— Ally Mutnick
ASG asks NU for help creating campus music video project
Northwestern’s Associated Student Government is attempting to take the University viral.
/e organization is asking students across campus to submit ideas for a NU-themed music video. Appli-cations for the video are due Saturday, and ASG plans to go into production at the start of Spring Quarter.
ASG President Victor Shao said the plans for the video began this fall, but the organization put them on hold so they could shoot in better weather.y.
“We were trying to .nd creative ways to build community on campus that wouldn’t require much .nancial resources,” the Weinberg senior said.
Shao said a video seemed like a good way to show o6 the “range” of talent at NU. He explained ASG hoped that, by opening up the video project to student
proposals, the organization would be able to take advantage of that artistic talent in making the video.
“We have a lot of people who are art-minded,” he said.
Shao also said there is a chance that the ASG video will be completed this quarter. A group of students recently reached out to him about assisting in creating a NU “Harlem Shake” video this weekend. /e “Har-lem Shake” is a hip hop dance that involves shaking the torso and shoulders.
/e Daily reported Monday the NU men’s swim-ming and diving team made a “Harlem Shake” video that went viral over the weekend. However, the video was removed because the team did not consult the athletic department before posting it.
/e song used in the videos is Baauer’s “Harlem Shake,” but it remains unclear where it originated. .
Shao said ASG will accep ideas this week and will consider the project for the campus music video.
— Cat Zakrzewski
As a native of the Washington, D.C., area, she said she was eager to see the address in person.
“Growing up in Washington, I’ve always seen it on TV, but it’s really exciting to actually be in the chamber and watching it live,” Delaney said. “!e access we have is great.”
Obama spent a signi"cant part of his speech dis-cussing the push for more sustainable energy. He proposed using money from oil and gas to fund research to move “cars and trucks o# oil for good.”
Mark Silberg, Associated Student Government’s associate vice president for sustainability, said he is impressed whenever o$cials in public o$ces make statements about energy e#orts. Silberg, who co-authored a resolwution passed last month by ASG to cease Northwestern’s investments in the coal indus-try, said these e#orts can be localized to NU.
“It was a very ambitious idea that we will be pricing carbon in the next few years,” the Weinberg junior said. “Northwestern can take steps not only to be engaged in research but help in%uence this marketplace.”
in &'(' when the Wildcats hosted the Allstate Wrigleyville Classic, a football game between NU and Illinois, at Wrigley Field.
Restaurants along Central Street, where Ryan Field is located, were down )*',''' a day from the &'(' event, Peach said.
NU has tried to attract more Chicago residents in the past three years with the “Chicago’s Big Ten Team” marketing campaign.
At the Feb. + press conference announcing the NU-Cubs agreement, athletic director Jim Phillips suggested the Cats’ fan base in the Chicago area has gone up ,- percent in the last three years, a result of how NU has found unique ways to market itself to a professional sports market.
“We’ll always be the tiny private school in the Big Ten,” Phillips said at the press conference. “!at’s not going to change. !at becomes a chal-lenge. So for us, we have to do innovative things, we have to do creative things.”
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the Communication senior said. To encourage people to sign up, free Andy’s
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At Tuesday’s event, &- new students regis-tered for Relay at a sign up booth.
“Northwestern’s Relay event is one of the premiere collegiate events in the state of Illi-nois and the country as a whole,” said Jennifer Briggs, regional director of health initiatives at the North Shore branch of the American Cancer Society.
Last year, the NU chapter was the most successful in the state, raising more than )(.',''', Briggs said. !is year, Shapiro said, the group is already on track to do just as well, if not better.
“We always want to push for more each year,” she said.
Shapiro said she has been participating in Relay since her freshman year and has been involved with the planning process since she was a sophomore. She said she got involved because her father has cancer, and the cause “really hits home.”
“Cancer is non-discriminatory,” Shapiro said. “It can a#ect anyone of any age, race, or socioeconomic class. !at’s why Relay is so important.”
Weinberg freshman Blair Darrell and Medill freshman Salome Lezhava said they came to the event to support a friend who was perform-ing with THUNK. !ough she is not currently registered on a Relay team, Lezhava said she thought Relay was a good cause to support.
“!ey did a really good job getting the word out,” Darrell said. “I didn’t even know North-western had Relay for Life until I heard about this event.”
Relay for Life has no other major events planned between now and the Relay in May, but Shapiro said organizers are brainstorm-ing to come up with more small fundraisers and other ways to motivate more teams to register.
“!e students here are really committed to "ghting cancer,” Briggs said. “We’re really proud to work with Northwestern Relay.”
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TAKE THE STAGE Improv group Mee-ow (top) and Boomshaka (below) dancers and drummers (bottom) perform during Tuesday’s Relay for Life Benefit Concert.
By ALEX PUTTERMAN!"# $%&'( )*+!",#-!#+)
Northwestern failed to win its tour-nament this weekend, but two victories over top ./ teams make a pretty nice consolation prize.
0 e No. .1 Wildcats (1-2) lost in the quarter3 nals of the 45th annual ITA Team Indoor Championship in Char-lottesville, Va., on Saturday, falling to No. 2 Duke (5-.) for the second time in a week. But the loss to the Blue Dev-ils was sandwiched by wins over No. 6 Alabama (5-.) and No. ./ Miami (5-4) , the highest-ranked opponents NU has toppled this year.
“We competed very well this week-end in all of our matches,” coach Claire Pollard said. “We didn’t necessarily play as well as we’d like. To beat a team of the caliber of Duke — really at that level it’s di7 cult — you’ve got to be able to compete hard and play well. So we’ll go back to the drawing board this week and 3 gure out what we can do to play a little better.”
0 e Cats reached the quarter3 nals by rolling by the Crimson Tide 1-. on Friday. Junior Belinda Niu’s easy 5-1, 5-4 upset of No. 86 Maya Jansen in the third slot highlighted NU’s victory, and seniors Brittany Wowchuk and Linda Abu Mushrefova also won points for the Cats.
Only six days a9 er losing 1-/ to Duke, the Cats were again matched against the Blue Devils, who had beaten No. .8 Bay-lor to advance to the quarter3 nals .
In the rematch, NU lost big again, this time falling 1-., but two close dou-bles matches and Niu’s 5-2, 5-/ defeat of Annie Mulholland provided bright spots.
“I thought we competed really hard,”
Pollard said. “We’d lost to them convinc-ingly. Turning that match around in 3 ve days was going to be a really tall order … We won a match and we were a lot more competitive at every spot, so I’m pretty pleased with that.”
To close their stay in Charlottesville, the Cats faced Miami in a consolation match that would prove to be the week-end’s most exciting for NU. 0 e Cats cruised in doubles, then won their 3 rst two singles matches. Senior and No. 5: Kate Turvy won 5-1, 5-4, and junior Veronica Corning upset No. 8: Lina Lileitke 5-2, 5-1.
A9 er two Miami victories tightened the score, NU’s hottest player 3 nished o; the Hurricanes. For the third straight day Niu won a match in which she was not favored, this time downing No. 8. Kelsey Laurente :-5 (:-4), :-5 (:-8) to seal victory for her team.
“She really does a great job on game day,” Pollard said of Niu. “She is a tena-cious competitor. She has a great serve, and the thing about our lineup, we really thought our depth would be one of our keys. One of the things we have going for us is there isn’t a big di; erence between our one and, really, our eight. Belinda could be playing higher, and she gives us a great chance every time.”
Duke eventually lost to No. < North Carolina, the tournament’s sixth seed. On Monday, the Tar Heels upset defend-ing champion and top-seeded No. 4 UCLA to win the tournament.
0 ough the Cats failed to advance past the quarterfinals, Pollard was
adamant that the weekend was largely a success, and her players echoed the sentiment of cautious enthusiasm.
“Our goal as our team was to make the semi3 nals,” Turvy said. “But we all feel pretty happy about how we did. Of course we want to go in and win the
tournament, but you have to take it one match at a time, and we did what we could in every match and came up short against Duke but still did really well.”
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Swopshire done for season after knee surgery
Graduate student forward Jared Swo-pshire will miss the remainder of the season due to a knee injury he su; ered during Saturday’s game against Iowa.
Swopshire had arthroscopic knee sur-gery , a type of procedure generally used to evaluate and treat cartilage within the knee joint , Tuesday.
Swopshire joins senior forward Drew Crawford , out with a shoulder injury, on the bench for the Wildcats’ seven remain-ing conference games and the Big Ten Tournament, which starts March .1 .
Swopshire started all 41 games for Northwestern this season, is the team’s leading rebounder, averaging 5.: rebounds per game , and has the highest rebounding average of any NU player since the .66<-66 season.
The forward averages 4.4 more rebounds per game than the team’s next leading rebounder, senior guard Reggie
Hearn .Swopshire grabbed a career-high .5
rebounds against Nebraska on Jan. 45, the most rebounds any player has had in a game during coach Bill Carmody’s .2-year career at NU .
0 e graduate student is also a key member of the Wildcats’ o; ense with 6.: points per game. Only Hearn and soph-omore guard Dave Sobolewski average more points per game than Swopshire .
Perhaps more than o; ensive success, however, Carmody has throughout the season called the quiet, low-key forward one of the veteran players the coaching sta; depends on to lead NU’s young team on the court.
“At Louisville, he was a role player,” Carmody said last month. “A signi3 cant role player on a Final Four team, so he’s experienced, he’s not afraid or anything. He’s a good player — he’s a competitor, he’s not just a big talker.”
Despite the transition from role player to team leader, Swopshire impressed early on. 0 e forward was named the Tour-nament MVP a9 er NU won the South Padre Island Invitational on Nov. 41,
when Crawford was still playing .Saturday, Swopshire was one of two
players to leave the court during the sec-ond half against Iowa. Freshman center
Alex Olah retreated to the locker room a9 er getting hit in the back of the head.
— Ava Wallace
Talk to me tomorrow.Tomorrow we can discuss what
graduate student forward Jared Swo-pshire’s knee injury means for the rest of this ill-fated season of North-western basketball. Tomorrow we can discuss whether embattled coach Bill Carmody deserves another year (with, possibly, a healthy Drew Crawford rejoining a team stacked by NU stan-dards) to 3 nally get this team over the hump and into your o7 ce bracket. Tomorrow we can discuss whether the Cats without Swopshire and Alex Olah will be able to rebound better or worse than a group of 3 ve actual wild-cats — my money’s on the felines.
Today, let’s talk about Swop.He le9 a Final Four team for a
chance to take a leading role at lowly NU. It’s the kind of decision curmud-geon sportswriters grumble about as they decry the sel3 shness that has ruined basketball and recall a bygone era when players sacri3 ced minutes for championships. But how many of us can honestly say we would have chosen di; erently? Nobody likes sitting on the bench (Swopshire aver-aged 2.2 points per game last season at Louisville), and the chance to get NU into March Madness should appeal to anyone with the requisite competitiveness to play college sports. Oh, and Swopshire enrolled in NU’s graduate school, which I hear does OK by its students.
Most importantly, Swopshire played hard. Sure, sometimes he deferred on o; ense more than we would have liked, but how relieving it was to see a Wildcat crashing the boards a9 er years of John Shurna’s .68-pound-soaking-wet frame and Luka Mirkovic being Luka Mirkovic in the middle of the .-2-.. Swopshire set a Carmody-era record with .5 boards against Nebraska, and his 5.: rebound per game average is the best by a Cat since .666. And when, at times this season, he was able to add awkwardly graceful drives and a de9 shooting touch, he brought Welsh-Ryan to its feet.
When I learned Tuesday that Swo-pshire underwent arthroscopic knee surgery, this Oregonian couldn’t help but think of former Portland Trail Blazers guard Brandon Roy , who nearly single-handedly saved basket-ball in Portland and led the Blazers to their best seasons of my lifetime (yes, I was born immediately a9 er we blew Game : of the 4/// Western Confer-ence Finals to the Lakers, why do you ask?).
Sports fans like to get overeager about new toys. When Kyle Prater transferred to NU, fans spent the summer salivating over what Prater would do for the Cats’ receiving corps, only to fall back to earth when Prater demonstrated a particular knack for holding penalties and disappeared into a deep group of wideouts.
But Swop went above and beyond any hopes fans could have had of a little-used forward from Louisville.
In all likelihood, Jared Swopshire won’t ever play in the NBA. 5-foot-< tweener forwards who can shoot a little and rebound a little are a dime a dozen, and most of them aren’t recov-ering from knee surgery.
If that was it, Swop, it sure was fun while it lasted.
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NIU GOD FLOW Junior Belinda Niu plays a shot during a match in Evanston in 2012. Niu earned the praise of her coach and respect of her opponents this past weekend, winning three matches as an underdog.
Amonte-Hiller notches win 198 of coaching career
0 e defending national champions kicked o; their season in 3 rst gear over the weekend, blowing out Massachu-setts and Southern California in Los Angeles.
No. . Northwestern (4-/) never trailed against the No. .1 Minute-men (.-.) and the Trojans (/-4) , who welcomed the Wildcats to L.A. Coli-seum for their debut as a Division .
program.Senior Taylor 0 ornton, the reign-
ing American Lacrosse Conference player of the year , opened the scoring :/ seconds into Friday’s .5-1 victory over UMass at McAlister Field, while junior Kelly Rich tallied four goals and senior Amanda Macaluso added three more to lead the Cats. In her 3 rst start replacing the departed Brianne LoManto, sophomore Bridget Bianco recorded six saves in her 3 rst career victory.
Macaluso, senior Ali Cassera and junior Christy Turner all scored in the 3 nal 6/ seconds of the 3 rst half to
send the Cats into the break up 6-4, and junior Alyssa Leonard, Rich, Macaluso and 0 ornton all scored in the 3 rst .4 minutes of the second to put the game away.
NU was back in action the next day against an old friend.
Coached by Lindsay Munday — who played at NU from 4//2 to 4//5 and later became a Cats assistant coach — USC hosted the 3 rst-ever lacrosse game at the Coliseum . But NU ruined the party, scoring 6 of the 3 rst ./ goals and going into hal9 ime up ..-4. Senior Erin Fitzgerald and junior Kat DeRonda each scored in the 3 rst two
minutes of the second half, putting the Cats up ./ and establishing a running clock the rest of the way.
Leonard set an NU record and tied an NCAA one with .8 draw controls against the Trojans.
As she begins her .4th season at NU, coach Kelly Amonte Hiller celebrated her .6<th career win against USC . She will go for 4// next weekend when the Cats battle North Carolina and Van-derbilt before returning to Evanston for their March 5 home opener against Boston College.
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I WILL REMEMBER YOU Graduate student Jared Swopshire dribbles. Swopshire’s NU career ended on Tuesday after undergoing knee surgery.
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