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The Daily NorthwesternDAILYNORTHWESTERN.COM Find us online @thedailynuTuesday, February 4, 2014
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Serving the University and Evanston since 1881 INSIDE Around Town 2 | On Campus 3 | Opinion 4 | Classifieds & Puzzles 6 | Sports 8
By Ciara MCCarthydaily senior staffer @mccarthy_ciara
City officials moved Monday to issue a notice of lease termination to the cur-rent tenant of the Harley Clarke Man-sion, moving closer to a resolution in the longstanding and heated debate about who should occupy the historic lakefront property moving forward.
At a packed and tense meeting Mon-day night, Evanston’s Human Services Committee tackled two hot-button topics, both of which have elicited com-munity outrage. In addition to discuss-ing the future use of the Harley Clarke
Mansion, committee members heard about 25 people speak on the future of the Evanston animal shelter.
If City Council approves the com-mittee’s recommendation, Evanston Art Center, the mansion’s current ten-ant, will have 240 days to evacuate the space. Prior to the committee’s decision, representatives from and supporters of the art center spoke in support of extend-ing the time the center would have to find a new location. The center’s director, Norah Diedrich, requested that the non-profit be allowed to stay in the building, located at 2603 Sheridan Road, for up to two years to allow for adequate time.
Committee members ultimately denied the center’s request for additional
time to vacate the space, standing by the lease’s original stipulation that the center have 240 days to evacuate following the termination of their lease.
“The Art Center has had a very long time to make a decision on what to do,” said Ald. Coleen Burrus (9th). “This is not somehow a big surprise to the Art Center.”
The committee also directed the city manager to continue discussions with the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, which introduced plans last month to use the mansion as a public coastal education center.
The committee then sat through
Panel keeps ASA dialogue moving
Ciara McCarthy/Daily Senior Staffer
OUT IN FORCE Evanston animal shelter volunteers listen during a Human Services Committee meeting Monday night. The shelter’s management amd future operation were discussed during the meeting.
By ally MutniCkdaily senior staffer @allymutnick
More than 60 students and profes-sors came together Monday night to debate the American Studies Associa-tion boycott of Israeli universities and the issue of academic freedom in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Organized by Students for Justice in Palestine, the panel in Harris Hall featured three pro-boycott speakers, including Bill Mullen, a Purdue Uni-versity professor who helped draft the ASA resolution endorsing the boycott. The event drew members from all sides of the issue, including representatives from Wildcats for Israel, J Street U Northwestern and Hillel.
Following the Dec. 4 ASA resolu-tion endorsing the boycott, University President Morton Schapiro and Pro-vost Dan Linzer rejected the boycott on the grounds of academic freedom, saying NU would maintain its partner-ships with Israeli universities.
The panelists discussed the poor conditions surrounding Palestinian academics, noting Palestinians pro-fessors and students face harassment, cannot freely travel to interact with other scholars and often are living in areas of violent conflict.
“Where was a Northwestern presi-dent — where have they been in expressing the kind of outrage of this violation of academic freedom?” Mul-len asked. “This is not just a double standard. This is the norm.”
Prof. Martha Biondi, chair of the African American studies department, and Uri Horesh, an Arabic lecturer, also spoke as panelists. All three speakers argued that the ASA boycott does not threaten scholarly exchange because
it targets institutions as a whole, not individual scholars.
The resolution is non-binding and voluntary, meaning any ASA member can oppose it and speak out against it with no sanctions, Biondi said.
NU’s discussion is part of a nation-wide debate. The Native American and Indigenous Studies Association and the Association of Asian American Studies have also called for a boycott. In response, university leadership across the country have condemned the boycotts, some cutting ties with the ASA.
After the panel, the event turned to a broader discussion in which some students and professors challenged the view of the panelists. The University brought security for the event to keep the discussion civil, said Weinberg
Study: Doctors relying on techBy Mark FiCkenthe daily northwestern @mark_ficken
Doctors spend a third of their time looking at a computer screen during normal one-on-one consultations, according to a Northwestern profes-sor’s study.
“We were really interested in how patients and providers interact with computers in clinical settings, but we also wanted to take a more rigorous engineering approach in monitor-ing these interactions at very small levels,” said Dr. Enid Montague, first author of the study.
Montague, a professor in the Feinberg School of Medicine and the McCormick School of Engi-neering and Applied Science, said the research team’s approach made the study different from past ones on similar topics. Instead of simply surveying patients, the team also vid-eotaped visits to track the physician’s eye patterns, as well as interviewing both patients and providers.
Dr. Onur Asan, the other author of the study and a graduate research assistant at the University of Wiscon-sin-Madison, said prior surveys failed
to provide empirical evidence.“There are studies on doctor-pa-
tient communication and how com-puters impact that communication, but most of those studies are opinion-based, or just interviews or surveys,” he said. “But this study is unique with its objective analysis.”
Montague said she was initially sur-prised at the results. Though patients spent less time talking directly with their physician, the patients still trusted their decisions because they had an established relationship, she said. However, Montague said, this didn’t mean they got the best care possible.
Communication sophomore Jackie Hoffmann has been seeing the same pediatrician since she was born. Hoffmann, who suffers from spinal muscular atrophy, said though her doctor has been looking at the com-puter screen more, he’s looking up more information to help her.
“If we didn’t already have that years of experience — like he’s known me since I was a baby — I think that built our relationship, so now it’s OK, but I don’t think I would be comfortable with a doctor that didn’t get to know me,” she said.
Montague said she thinks this trend
will only increase due to demand for better files and an increase in the number of visits per year. This increase in visits is met with a grow-ing deficit of primary care physicians, she s aid , leading to the dependence on technol-ogy to help manage the increased demand.
This means the doctor-pa-tient rela-tionship will dissolve, she said.
“As we start to rely more on these technological systems to be more efficient, we’re going to see that the actual interpersonal relationship is compromised,” Montague said, “We’re going to need more and more patients taken care of, needing more care more often for more complex illnesses.”
Sean Hong/Daily Senior Staffer
BOYCOTT OR BUST Bill Mullen, a professor of English and American Studies at Purdue University, speaks at a panel organized by students for Justice in Palestine in Harris Hall on Monday evening. The panel focused on the recent vote by the American Studies Association to endorse the call for an academic boycott of Israeli institutions.
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NU’s Crawford named Big Ten Co-Player of Week
Northwestern forward Drew Crawford has been named Big Ten Co-Player of the Week, the confer-ence announced Monday.
Crawford’s honor comes after strong performances in two Wildcat road victories last week. The senior tallied 30 points and eight rebounds in an upset of then-No. 13 Wiscon-sin, then scored 17 points on 6-of-9 shooting in a win at Minnesota.
The award was Crawford’s third career Big Ten Player of the Week award and NU’s first since John Shurna earned the distinction on Feb. 6, 2012.
Crawford shared the honor this week with Penn State’s D.J. Newbill, who averaged 22.5 points per game in two Nittany Lions victories and downed then-No. 23 Ohio State with an overtime game-winner Wednesday.
Crawford, in his fifth year in the program, leads the Cats in points (16.3) and rebounds (6.8) per game this season and has helped carry NU on its recent stretch of five conference wins in seven games, including winning three straight conference road games for the first
time since 1959-1960. Crawford, who could have transfered before the season, decided to stick around for coach Chris Collins’ inaugural campaign.
— Alex Putterman
Brian Lee/Daily Senior Staffer
WHAT A WEEK Senior Drew Crawford was named Big Ten Co-Player of the Week on Monday for his efforts in two Northwestern wins last week. The forward averaged 23.5 points and 6.5 rebounds in victories at Wisconsin and Minnesota.
“We
were really interested in
how patients and providers
interact with computers in
clinical settings.Dr. Enid
Montague,Feinberg professor
Committee talks Harley Clarke, shelter policies
Around Town2 NEWS | thE daily NorthWEStErN tUESday, FEBrUary 4, 2014
Keynote:
Roger ThurowWednesday, February 54:30 – 5:30 p.m.Book signing to follow
Harris Hall, room 1071881 Sheridan Rd. Evanston
Open to the public
Author and journalist Roger Thurow will join the Northwestern community to discuss his second book, The Last Hunger Season: A Year in an African Farm Community on the Brink of Change. Currently, he works for The Chicago Council on Global Affairs as senior fellow for global agriculture and food policy. Mr. Thurow worked for The Wall Street Journal for 30 years. Thurow and Journal colleague Scott
and development issues was also honored by the United Nations. Thurow and Kilman are authors of the book, ENOUGH: Why the World’s Poorest Starve in an Age of Plenty.
Man tails Skokie woman in her car, displays handgun
Police are investigating an incident of aggra-vated assault from last week.
A Skokie woman was driving north toward Evanston from Chicago on Wednesday when she noticed a vehicle following her closely from behind, Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said. The man tailing the Skokie woman hit her rear bumper. While the two cars were in the 2000 block
of Greenleaf Street, the man pulled his car next to the woman’s and pulled out a gun and pointed it at her, Parrott said. The man then drove off.
The woman, 26, was able to provide police with the car’s license plate information, Parrott said. Police are continuing to investigate the incident.
Altercation over stolen salt in south Evanston
A 21-year-old Evanston man repeatedly struck
another Evanston man with a plastic shovel Sat-urday in an attempt to steal a bag of salt, police said.
The 21-year-old was in the 2100 block of Demp-ster Street at about 1:30 p.m. on Saturday when he got into a physical altercation with another Evanston resident who was in his 50s, Parrott said. The 21-year-old repeatedly struck the older man with a plastic shovel but was stopped when two witnesses intervened, he added. The man then
took a large bag of salt from the man’s truck. The 21-year-old and two companions fled the scene on foot but were stopped by police shortly after, in the 1300 block of Hartrey Avenue. The group returned to Dempster Street with police and resolved the dispute with the man.
None of the individuals involved are pressing charges.
— Ciara McCarthy
Police Blotter
Bikeway to connect city with other suburbsBy Rosalie Chanthe daily northwestern @rosaliech1
Evanston has constructed bike route segments that will become part of a bikeway from the city to Elgin, Ill., connecting 13 municipalities.
“The idea is that the route is not meant as a purely recreational route, but it is meant as a transportation route,” said Marissa Dolin transportation planner for the Active Transpor-tation Alliance.
Once complete, the Evanston-Elgin Bike-way will be one of 16 regional corridors to connect communities in the northern and northwest suburbs. All corridors are currently in the planning phase, Dolin said.
About 22 miles of the 37.5-mile route cur-rently exist, and funding exists for another 5.5 miles, said Mike Walczak, program manager for transportation of the Northwest Municipal
Conference. The bikeway will connect to the North Shore Channel Trail parallel to McCor-mick Boulevard, and will also go to the Edens Expressway.
The Active Transportation Alliance worked with the Northwest Municipal Conference to develop plans for these corridors.
Walczak said the Evanston-Elgin Bikeway is a “high priority” corridor.
“It served a lot of members of communities, served a lot of destinations, residencies, employ-ment centers and places of interest,” he said of the route.
Evanston just finished constructing a route along Davis Street and is working on a Church Street path that will connect to Ridge Avenue. The path will continue from Dodge Avenue to McCormick Boulevard, the last piece of the Evan-ston bikeway to be constructed. The route will also go past Evanston Township High School.
“The Active Transportation Alliance is really looking forward to the completion of the bike-way,” Dolin said. “The city of Evanston has shown leadership in constructing this pathway.”
Evanston public works director Suzette Rob-inson said the city hopes to finish its bike seg-ments by 2015.
Different municipalities have constructed bike lanes or paths on segments of the route, but not all the segments have been connected yet. Construction has also not started for some
segments. Robinson cited the bikeway going through
Golf Road and Morton Grove, Ill., as some challenges.
Though there is no estimated date for the bikeway’s completion, Elgin public works
superintendent Colby Basham said he looks forward to using the route.
“As a bicyclist myself, I’d love to see some way to get from here to the lake,” Basham said.
daily file photo by Brian lee
LIFE IS A HIGHWAY a cyclist bikes on Church Street in Evanston. a nearly 38-mile Evanston-Elgin Bikeway will allow cyclists to travel from the Fox river trail to lake Michigan.
“The Active Transportation Alliance is really looking forward to the completion of the bikeway. Marissa Dolin,transportation planner for the Active Transportation Alliance
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CAPS launches new informal walk-in counseling service
Counseling and Psychological Services has started a new informal counseling service for Northwestern students.
Titled “Let’s Talk,” the drop-in service aims to provide undergraduate and graduate
students an opportunity to talk about a vari-ety of concerns. “Let’s Talk” does not require an appointment and students are seen on a first-come, first-served basis.
Counselors consultants are available on Wednesdays from 1 to 2 p.m. at the Interna-tional Student Office and Fridays from 2 to 3 p.m. at the Multicultural Student Affairs center. On Fridays, there will also be Spanish-speaking counselors available.
CAPS emphasized “Let’s Talk” is not an
alternative to psychotherapy or formal coun-seling and does not constitute mental health treatment. However, the service offers stu-dents who have never been to counseling an opportunity to experience it on an informal basis.
Student requests for CAPS increased 19 percent Fall Quarter, executive director John Dunkle told The Daily earlier this year.
— Tyler Pager
Prof lands $5 million investment
By ReBecca SavRanSkythe daily northwestern @beccasavransky
A McCormick professor’s company that uses social media to help advertisers find the most effective ways to target their consum-ers was awarded $5 million on Jan. 21 by a venture capital firm that invests in developing companies.
Jump Capital awarded the money to 4C, which was founded by Prof. Alok Choudhary in 2013 when Voxsup, a company he started in 2011, merged with The Echo System, another company responsible for analyzing consumer behavior, to create a larger, more successful business.
Choudhary created a unique algorithm meant to offer buyers the ability to gain more insight into how consumers make decisions and choose particular brands. The algorithm was targeted toward advertisers to help them more effectively market their brands to cus-tomers. The creation of these algorithms was a result of more than 20 years of research
and study in the field, Choudhary said. He said before applying for the funding, 4C had already built up a successful customer data-
base and applied for the money to enable growth.
“Our customers say, ‘Wow, we’ve never seen anything like this,’ because this data science is a thing not everybody can do,” he said.
The process to apply for a venture capital fund involves significant planning and requires proof of recent company suc-cess, Choudhary said. He said the invest-ment company looks at business plans, pro-
jections, competitors, future plans and other aspects of the company before allotting the funding.
“You present all that in a very comprehen-sive way to various investors and then some of them will believe in you,” Choudhary said. “Others may not want to take the risk.”
Kunal Merchant, 4C’s senior vice presi-dent of global business development, said
Choudhary’s vast experience and innovative use of algorithms has made the company stand out against other businesses. He said the company is unique because it provides a more comprehensive database of consumer needs.
“It’s taking what people commonly see and going much deeper into understand-ing connections that they place between an individual and a brand, a brand and another brand,” Merchant said. “We have had abilities to really help someone realize the value of their investment.”
The company is looking to expand their already existing offices in Seattle, New York and Chicago, and potentially to add additional offices in other countries to gain a wider reach for potential customers, Merchant said.
4C plans to use to money to accelerate product development, increase sales and develop partnerships with other companies and agencies, Choudhary said. He said he is excited to see where the future of the com-pany will go and hopes the funding will help it to excel.
“We are in a position where now we can actually have growth,” Choudhary said. “Now we’ve already established some market. We’ve already proved our products where people are using it and it is profitable.”
McCormick professor’s company gets venture capital money from Jump
“Our customers say, ‘Wow, we’ve never seen anything like this,’ because data science is a thing not everybody can do.Alok Choudhary,McCormick professor
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Remember Hoffman for his versatility, presence
Sunday marked the passing of Philip Sey-mour Hoffman, and it was certainly a shock to many of us. The relatively young actor was one of few of his generation whose performances displayed a remarkable versatility. His perfor-mances in “Charlie Wilson’s War” and “Almost Famous” convinced me that he had an unusual talent, a talent I could not quite describe or characterize at the time but which I certainly recognized as distinct.
Though he played a variety of characters, Hoffman managed to infuse each of them with his own unique persona. They conveyed an air of disillusionment, and most of all, of knowing the real story. They were all extremely down-to-earth in the fullest sense of the phrase. He was always the guy who cut through all of the pageantry and defied officialdom with a unique stance based on experience and, quite often, disenfranchisement.
In “Almost Famous,” Hoffman played Lester Bangs, a rock journalist writing for Rolling Stone magazine who takes an impressionable
young high school student named Will under his wing and advises him on how to be a good rock journalist. He cautions Will to avoid being taken in by friendly overtures and to always remember that the stars with whom he is on tour do not care about him, but rather about how he portrays them in his writing. Bangs advises Will to be unmerciful and original in his pieces. This in and of itself is not unlike Hoffman’s acting style: He never minced words, and his portrayals tended to be memorable.
My favorite Hoffman role, however, is his portrayal of Greek spy/intelligence analyst Gust Avrakotos in “Charlie Wilson’s War.”
Based on the true story of how former U.S. Rep. Charles Wilson armed and funded the Mujahideen during the Soviet war in Afghani-stan during the 1980s, the film highlights the collaboration between the charismatic and well-connected Wilson (Tom Hanks) and the savvy, competent and realistic Gust. At the end of the film, Gust makes a prophetic reference to the pitfalls that would result after the Sovi-ets were defeated and the Mujahideen turned on their former allies. His matter-of-factness, humorous fatalism and wary, cynical wit keep with the disposition of an experienced intel-ligence officer. These qualities are also reflective of the type of character Hoffman portrayed best of all: the guy who has it all figured out. He was
always the underdog who sits down with you when the top brass isn’t around and tells you what is really going on and what actually needs to be done.
When I think of my favorite films produced in the past decade, Philip Seymour Hoffman springs to mind as one of the more unusual and charismatic actors of his generation. His
passing has left a void; it will not be easy to find another of his contemporaries who has quite the same versatility and presence.
Antonio Petkov is a McCormick freshman. He can be reached at [email protected]. If you want to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to [email protected].
This past weekend, I visited my friend for her 21st birthday at the University of Illinois.
For those who have never been to Urbana-Champaign, it’s a bona fide college town. A three-story student union dominates the campus and hundreds of students can be found walking the streets in the center of town. It’s a town full of rundown houses, where five to eight students pack themselves in, and not much else. It’s a town with a lot of bars, where anyone 19 and older can dance on tables and have a good time on a Saturday night. Coming back on the train with my friend Renae, who goes to Marquette University, she mentioned this was probably her most fun college weekend. I concurred. Looking back, it’s kind of sad that my best college experi-ence didn’t take place at my own university.
Here’s the truth: Illinois, and many other col-leges, have Northwestern beat when it comes to having a good time. However, during my college applications, U of I or any public state school was far from my mind. I wanted a “brand name” college, a private university that might elicit a few “ooos” or “ahhs” from others. There’s a rea-son countless websites are dedicated to getting into an Ivy League school and every year NU boasts about a record number of applicants. Peo-ple buy into the brand behind colleges, believing the name leads to better jobs after graduation, better professors and better opportunities.
All these things may be true, but what about the value of having an enjoyable college experience?
My own aunt admitted NU was a “calling
card” when it came to applying for jobs, but she certainly didn’t have “fun” during her four years here. Most students desperately try to squeeze in fun between classes, homework, intern-ship applications and ways to save the world. Needless to say, fun doesn’t receive much of a spotlight.
America isn’t the only country that invests in a school name. In Russia, students who attend Lomonosov Moscow State University scoff at those students attending the lesser-respected International University. Students take nation-alized tests, hoping to get into the best “brand name” school just as students all over this coun-try fight to get into schools ranked in U.S. News and World Report’s top 10.
I chose to attend NU but I ask myself, “Was it worth it?” Suppose I had gone to Illinois. Would my future look much different?
It’s a perfectly good school, and should I go to law school or any other graduate school, that is the school my future employers will ponder.
We all buy into brands in one way or another, whether we insist on buying the Land O’Lakes butter rather than the generic Jewel-Osco brand or save an extra few hundred dollars to buy the Louis Vuitton purse versus the Coach handbag.
Colleges are no different. But we have to constantly ask ourselves whether a brand really makes a difference.
After telling my roommate how much fun I had, she replied, “I break my back and just keep telling myself it will be worth it when my resume says Northwestern and not U of I.” I then asked her if she really believed that was true. Her answer? “Not really.” I guess only time will tell.
Blair Dunbar is a Weinberg junior. She can be reached at [email protected]. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to [email protected].
Amy Chua, still best known as the “Tiger Mom,” has a new book out this week. Coau-thored by husband and academic superstar Jed Rubenfeld, “The Triple Package” claims insecurity, superiority complexes and impulse control drive the success of certain minorities in the United States. Unsurprisingly, writers from the East Coast to the West have already trashed her thesis; several critiques were written by the Indians and Chinese who Chua
praises, who were quick to point out the racist undertones and ignorance of socio-economic factors.
You may think I reject Chua along those lines. You would be wrong.
Using racism in an argument is like throwing a defective grenade; it may just bounce off and fizzle while the opponent rolls her eyes and walks away. I oppose Chua’s work due to
something different: It is dishonest analysis, guised as a social-scientific prescription for a weary nation.
In fairness to her and Rubenfeld, they do not say there are specific “model minorities” in America. Though they reject that some groups are fundamentally superior, they treat their three traits like cultural genes, passed down as the social winds change. Suketu Mehta, in Time, shuts down the theory well. He cites several academics who demonstrated that immigrant children’s affluence is explained mostly by parent skill levels. Additionally, expectations against success in historically dis-advantaged groups, like blacks and Mexicans, stack their odds against achievement. None of this was mentioned in Chua’s publicity tour.
There is another problem behind the scenes. What are “insecurity” and “superior-ity complexes” to begin with? A psycholo-gist cannot answer this question: Insecurity can be interpreted as a personality disorder, as depression or as anxiety. Yet these terms’ meanings in social science may sound punchier or more relatable, and Chua exploits this. Obviously these problems of definition always exist in social science, which is why a
researcher must keep in mind other theories and dialogue with the academic community. Chua pretends her theory can stand on its own. Biological genes, however, are observ-able; her vagaries are not.
There is, then, a trend of dishonesty in Chua’s work. It appears in that 2011 memoir, “Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother,” in which she constantly stresses the importance of her “Chinese” methods compared to “Western” ones. The irony is that most Chinese would not see her as such; she comes from the Fili-pino-Chinese minority and can barely speak Mandarin. People only considered her as “Huayi” — a descendant of real Chinese. Nor can she understand the real situation among them, where extreme competition for higher education has caused malaise but no creativity. On the Mainland, the opinion is actually that parents need to be more hands-off for their children’s benefit. Ordinary Chinese, as Chua would not have known, ultimately want their children to explore their potential.
Before that, Chua wrote “Day of Empire” on the success of historical “hyperpowers” and “World on Fire” on the ethnic tensions caused by free-market economics. While scholarly, the dishonesty problem lingers. The former collects a set of empires far too removed from modern history to explain well America’s position after the Cold War. She claims politi-cal success was a function of ethnic tolerance, but ignores evidence of atrocities conducted by empires like those of the British and of the Mongols. The latter paints an eternal struggle between “market-dominant minorities” and the majority population, but rarely examines how those social constructions came to be.
Both sold well because she sold her his-tories as parables of the early millennium that America had to know. A segment of the chattering classes, taken aback by Bush’s neo-conservatism, stocked up intellectual ammu-nition and made her a profit. In 2014, she is playing to the same sense of uncertainty over America’s future: The triple package must be regained!
A corporate lawyer by trade, Chua was not paid to seek and only seek the truth. She will not be punished for picking just the evidence she needs and concocting a narrative out of it. If her theories are false, they can still influence and mislead those in power, causing unneces-sary harm. She and the many writers like her are part of the political process, a group we have reason to care about — in their search for relevance, they will peddle pseudoscience.
Tom Cui is a Weinberg junior. He can be reached at [email protected]. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to [email protected].
‘Tiger Mom’ theories thrive on pseudoscience
Should you invest in a college’s brand name?
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“I oppose Chua’s work due to something different: It is dishonest analysis, guised as a social-scientific prescription for a weary nation.
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unDErSTATED TAlEnT actor Philip seymour Hoffman poses with his oscar for Best actor in the film “capote” during the 2006 academy awards. Hoffman died sunday at age 46.
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Whole Foods to occupy Dominick’s space on Green Bay Road
Whole Foods Market will move into the Green Bay Road property previously occupied by a Dominick’s grocery store, a company spokeswoman confirmed Monday.
Whole Foods will open a store at the vacant prop-erty at 2748 Green Bay Rd. in 2015. The location has been vacant since Dec. 28, when both Evanston loca-tions of Dominick’s closed their doors as the franchise left the Chicago area. Whole Foods also purchased six other Dominick’s in Chicago and its surrounding suburbs.
“We are incredibly excited about this opportunity to quickly and significantly expand our presence in the greater Chicago area,” Whole Foods Midwest regional president Michael Bashaw said in a news release. “We plan to remodel each store to reflect its community and look forward to offering fresh, natural and organic foods to a broader base of Chicago customers.”
The seven new Whole Foods locations will be closed in 2014 and reopen next year. More informa-tion will be announced Feb. 12, when the company reveals its first quarter earnings. The move will give Evanston a third Whole Foods store, with existing locations at 1640 Chicago Ave. and 1111 Chicago Ave.
In December, Safeway Inc., owner of the Domin-ick’s chain, closed all Chicago-area Dominick’s stores, drawing community concern for leaving vacant spaces on Green Bay Road and Dempster Street.
— Bailey Williams
In North Carolina’s pivotal Senate race, abortion might be a key issue
Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan’ supporters hope to channel anger over North Carolina’s new anti-abortion restrictions into a get-out-the-vote effort in what’s expected to be a fiercely competitive re-election campaign this year.
Hagan’s looming race against one of six Republicans set to run in their party’s May Sen-ate primary, including presumptive frontrunner, state House Speaker Thom Tillis, could be one of the marquee contests in this year’s midterm elections.
North Carolina will be one of several pivotal Senate battles that could decide whether Demo-crats keep control of the chamber or lose it to the Republicans.
It’s also among 22 states where lawmakers last year made it harder to obtain an abortion.
Democrats see that as an opportunity to con-tinue to hammer Republicans with the “war on women” strategy that proved successful for them in the 2012 elections.
“Women, not politicians, should be the ones to make these difficult and complex decisions in consultation with their doctor, their family and their faith,” Hagan said statement in response to questions for this story.
The Planned Parenthood Action Fund of Central North Carolina, the group’s politi-cal arm, intends to help Hagan by targeting women who favor access to abortion. It’s the
same strategy that Planned Parenthood in Vir-ginia used last fall in the governor’s race to help Democrat Terry McAuliffe defeat Republican Ken Cuccinelli.
“There’s a really large number of women in North Carolina who care deeply about wom-en’s health and want to make sure women have access to basic health care,” said Paige Johnson, the action fund’s vice president of external and governmental affairs.
She said that people were angry about the abortion restrictions and “galvanized in a way they’ve never been in the state and are paying attention in a way we’ve never had.”
Republicans counter that voters are more concerned about the economy than they are about abortion. The health care law, in particu-lar, “trumps everything,” said GOP strategist Marc Rotterman in Raleigh.
Still, the Republican National Committee passed a resolution at its winter meeting earlier this month that urged its candidates to speak out against abortion. The resolution alleged that Democrats had “waged a deceptive ‘War on Women’ attack against Republican pro-life candidates,” and warned that GOP candidates who have remained silent about their own anti-abortion views “have lost their elections.”
Comments offensive to many women have led to some prominent stumbles by GOP can-didates in some recent campaigns. This election cycle, Republican House and Senate candidates have been getting tutored on in how to avoid verbal gaffes that would not sound insulting to
women voters. “Republicans aren’t going to sit back and let
Democrats trump up this war on women and let it go unresponded to,” said Katie Packer Gage, a Washington-area Republican consultant who works with candidates on how they present themselves to women voters.
But perhaps as an indication that the party continues to wrestle with the topic, a planned women’s briefing at the House Republican retreat last week had to be canceled.
Jennifer Duffy, a Senate analyst at the non-partisan Cook Political Report, said Democrats will likely use the issue of abortion restrictions to motivate voters, especially women.
“But North Carolina is one of those states where it probably will pack a little more punch because of what happened at the state level,” she said.
In July, the legislature passed a law that gives the state the authority to regulate abortion clin-ics as stringently as same-day surgery centers, but doesn’t require it. The law also allows health care providers to opt out of performing abor-tions if doing so is against their beliefs, and stops government insurance plans from paying for them.
Tillis, the Republican North Carolina House speaker, also supported state efforts that blocked Planned Parenthood from receiving funding from the state for its screenings and other health services.
— Renee Schoof (McClatchy Washington Bureau)
Across Campuses San Jose State releases report on alleged hate crime in dorm
SAN JOSE, Calif. — A highly anticipated fact-finding report about a racial hate crime reported at a San Jose State University dorm last year says dorm staff didn’t realize the seriousness of the problem for weeks — in part because of the victim’s reluctance to come forward.
The 53-page report reveals new details of incidents in a SJSU dorm room that led to criminal charges against four white San Jose State freshmen accused of bullying their black roommate.
Myron “Mike” D. Moye, an African-Amer-ican lawyer who led the investigation, found that once it seemed a hate crime had occurred, the university acted swiftly to investigate and alert the campus police.
He noted, however, that President Mo Qay-oumi and his chief of staff appeared to be in
the dark about the details of the investiga-tion for about a month, until Nov. 20 _ just before the district attorney filed misdemeanor charges against some of the students.
Moye was asked in early December to exam-ine how the campus administration learned of the dorm-room situation, or should have known about it; how and when the admin-istration responded; whether the campus or employees violated campus or CSU policies in responding; and the extent to which such poli-cies, procedures and practices were followed.
A task force headed by LaDoris H. Cordell, a retired African-American judge who is now San Jose’s police auditor, will use Moye’s report to make recommendations “for ensuring that San Jose State is a safe, welcoming, tolerant community,” the university said in December. The group of students, faculty, employees and others is to begin meeting this month.
The young men facing misdemeanor hate crime and battery charges are accused of
tormenting their roommate for weeks dur-ing the fall semester, calling him racial slurs such as “three-fifths,” fastening a bicycle lock around his neck and barricading him in his bedroom.
Campus police said they investigated and quickly sent the case to the district attorney to probe as a possible hate crime.
— Katy Murphy (San Jose Mercury News)
Protest of firing of Catholic school vice principal over gay marriage continues in Seattle
SEATTLE — When gay-rights activist Cleve Jones saw a video on his Facebook feed of Eastside Catholic students protesting the termination of former Vice Principal Mark Zmuda, he thought three male stu-dents looked familiar.
“They looked so much like the boys who used to beat me up,” Jones said. “I thought, ‘things have
changed.’ ”Friday night, Jones was in Seattle speaking on what
was dubbed the “Z Day Panel,” organized by current and former Eastside Catholic student leaders in sup-port of Zmuda, who was terminated from Eastside Catholic after school officials learned he had married his male partner. The panel discussion capped a day on which students across the country were encour-aged to wear orange, Eastside’s color, in a show of support for Zmuda.
Zmuda’s dismissal from his job just before the Christmas break triggered a protest heard around the world. Students at Eastside staged a sit-in, and those from at least one other Catholic school followed suit. Support for Zmuda and calls on the school to reinstate him poured in from around the globe. Stu-dents, alumni and their supporters staged a series of demonstrations in front of the Seattle Archdiocese, calling on the church to stop firing gay teachers.
— Paige Cornwell and Lornet Turnbull (The Seattle Times)
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nearly two hours of public comment on the future of the Evanston animal shelter and the shelter’s current tenant, Community Animal Rescue Effort. Repre-sentatives from CARE and those opposed to CARE’s current policies engaged in a heated and, at times, vitriolic debate about how the nonprofit handles dog adoptions and behavioral evaluations. Several CARE volunteers approached city officials in 2012 in protest of the nonprofit’s high euthanasia rate, which they claim is between 45 and 50 percent.
After hearing just five of the 30 scheduled com-menters, Ald. Jane Grover (7th) moved to form a subcommittee within Human Services to continue the discussion around CARE’s policies. Grover’s pro-posal passed unanimously. Alds. Judy Fiske (1st) and Mark Tendam (6th) will be the city officials on the committee.
Although the committee had already acted on the
issue, people continued to discuss CARE for the rest of the evening. The two opposing groups, composed of the center’s supporters, who all donned red CARE volunteer shirts, and people criticizing and question-ing CARE, often clapped or cheered after a member of their group had spoken, and could be seen vigor-ously shaking their heads when an opposing speaker was at the podium.
City manager Wally Bobkiewicz said the subcom-mittee will be comprised of three representatives from CARE and three critics of CARE, in addition to Fiske and Tendam.
Bobkiewicz said the subcommittee will work to determine the future of the Evanston animal shelter and to create a renewed one-year lease between Evanston and CARE.
Because the lease will be for 2014, he said he hopes the subcommittee will work quickly to resolve the issue.
However, Montague does believe that technology serves a purpose in visits. The study suggests adapting current technology to allow the doctors to use the computer and still engage with the patient.
Hoffmann said this approach has helped with her care. During her visits, her doctor will research potential treatments to discuss and use her online files to easily refer her to specialists.
“I have a disability and that was not in his wheelhouse, like he didn’t know any-thing about it, but he did research on spinal muscular atrophy, and was like ‘let’s do this’ instead of being scared and pushing me to someone else,” she said.
junior Dalia Fuleihan, co-president of SJP.The recent debate on campus has made some
students targets. The Associated Student Govern-ment and Student Affairs thought police presence might make audience members more comfortable, she said.
Weinberg sophomore Jonathan Kamel, presi-dent of Wildcats for Israel, questioned the the panelists about the benefit of cutting ties with universities when many oppose the Israeli occupa-tion and the government’s policies.
“How do the supporters of this boycott grapple with understanding that by boycotting these insti-tutions, we’re actually cutting off dialogues that could benefit Palestinians in the West Bank?” said Kamel, a former Daily staffer.
The panelists advocate for a boycott, divestment,
sanction movement similar to the one used in South Africa. The movement can challenge poli-tics at universities by demanding that a few lead-ers refrain from speaking on behalf of an entire institution. Supporters said it would not stem the flow of scholars and research among universities across the world.
Panelists said they have observed support for the boycott growing. The universities that reject the movement are doing the bidding of the Israeli state and the United States government that sup-ports it, Mullen said, saying he felt strongly that the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory meant the nation was not democratic.
“Israel is the last apartheid state on Earth. We have to bring it down,” Mullen said. “This can be the South Africa of your time, of my time.”
During the discussion, some audience mem-bers said they were skeptical that a distinction could be made between academic institutions
in Israel and Israeli academics themselves. Some questioned the pragmatism of a boycott move-ment in effectively ending the conflict between Palestine and Israel.
Weinberg junior Josh Boxerman, a member of J Street U, an organization that advocates for a two-state solution, said he found it disappointing that the panelists wanted to pressure Israel into action instead of finding a more diplomatic answer.
Academic freedom and the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory are crucial to the issue but the debate should also focus on a solution for peace, he said.
“All those issues are important but they need to be in context of what’s really going on,” Boxerman said after the event. “It’s important to talk about occupation but it needs to be in the context of ‘How do we really end it?’”
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City to launch mentoring program to assist small businesses
Evanston will launch a new initiative in March in an attempt to assist local small busi-nesses in their earliest stages of development, the city announced Friday.
The resource hub, called NextChapter, will “nurture Evanston’s freelance, solopreneur, and home-based businesses,” the city said in a news release.
The resource hub will partner with private sector partners to provide free programming.
NextChapter, which will jointly be launched by the city and the Evanston Public Library, will provide workshops, mentorships and
networking events. The program will help “emerging firms
from their ‘kitchen table’ to Evanston’s co-working spaces, incubators and office spaces.”
NextChapter is currently seeking private sector partners to join with before the pro-gram officially launches, the city said.
— Ciara McCarthy
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By ALEX LEDERMANthe daily northwestern
Northwestern (31-6) welcomed schools from around the country to Evanston this weekend and walked away from the NU Duals with eight wins and two losses.
The No. 7 Wildcats split the four matches they most anticipated, defeating rivals Duke and No. 9 Temple but losing to No. 8 Penn and No. 1 Princeton.
“Everybody up and down on the team went out there and did their job,” coach Laurie Schiller said.
NU faced its biggest challengers early, squaring off against Temple, Penn and Duke on Saturday morning. But first, the team took on UC San Diego. The Cats cruised to victory, topping the Tritons 18-9, with freshmen Sarit Kapon and Kayla Kelch dominating in foil. Both went 3-0 in their first action of 2014.
After the warm-up round, NU went up against three of its biggest rivals back to back to back. First up was Temple. Following
a heartbreaking 15-12 loss to the Owls last week at the Philadelphia Invitational, the Cats entered this one hungry for victory. Revenge was sweet for NU, which triumphed over Temple 17-10, including wins in all of epee, foil and sabre.
The Cats looked to ride the momentum from a strong victory into their next match, but the high from beating Temple could not propel them past Penn. NU was looking to duplicate its 14-13 win on the final bout against Penn last week but fell just short on its home turf. This time around, it was Penn with the 1-point triumph.
Although freshman Ania Parzecki went undefeated in her sabre matches, Penn’s foil squad crushed NU’s, 8-1.
“It was really disappointing to lose that, but we still split with them on the season, so I really can’t feel bad about that,” Schiller said. “I thought they really put the effort in, and the ball just didn’t fall in at the last minute, that’s all.”
NU rebounded well, overpowering Duke 19-8. The Cats lost to the Blue Devils for the
first time in years last season, and they weren’t willing to let their rival prevail again. Parzecki and fellow freshman Cindy Oh again swept the competition in sabre.
Compared to the Cats’ eventful morning, the afternoon was a breeze. NU easily sailed to 26-1 and 18-9 victories over the Caltech and Tufts.
“I thought we showed a lot of energy and determination, and I was pleased that we didn’t go down against any of the weaker teams,” Schiller said.
Sunday brought about three more easy wins for the Cats, who topped Fairleigh Dickin-son 22-5, North Carolina 21-6 and Lawrence 24-3.
The real challenge came from top-ranked Princeton, which defeated NU 22-5 on its way to an undefeated weekend.
“The one score that looked bad was Prince-ton,” Schiller said, “but if you actually watched the matches — first of all, they’re number one in the country — every bout was tight. One of their coaches said to me that this was their toughest match here. We fought them tooth
and nail.”Senior epee Dina
Bazarbayeva, who was honored for her final home meet as NU’s sole forthcoming-grad-uate, and junior epee Courtney Dumas both turned in their usual strong performances. The two All-Americans improved to 39-10 and 48-13 on the season. Schiller also noted fresh-man foil Stephanie Chan as being a particular standout this week.
“Stephanie Chan was just awesome all weekend,” he said. “She’s a freshman, and she stepped up last week, and she’s really just been a rock. She goes out there and just fights every bout and is as cool as can be.”
NU next travels to South Bend, Ind., for the Notre Dame Duals this weekend, highlighted by a matchup with the Fighting Irish.
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Vanderbilt hands listless NU its � rst loss
By KEVIN CASEYdaily senior staffer@KevinCasey19
The past three times North-western and Vanderbilt faced o� , the Wildcats battled a well-versed Commodores squad and came up one point short of victory.
� e No. 29 Cats hoped to change the score Sunday a� ernoon when they took to action against the No. 21 Commodores in Nashville, and while the score changed, the result did not as NU fell 4-2.
A potentially gratifying end to a challenging early season slate slipped away early in the contest, as the Cats failed to score the doubles point.
NU secured the first doubles match 6-3 but dropped the sec-ond, by the same score, to the No. 2-ranked doubles team in the nation. The third and decid-ing contest gave sopho-more Fedor Baev and
freshman Strong Kirchheimer the responsibility to obtain the crucial opening point.
� e duo fell 6-4, staking Vander-bilt out to a 1-0 lead, a circumstance coach Arvid Swan lamented.
“It was tough,” Swan said. “We had a chance to win the doubles point. Obviously we lost very close. We split two of the doubles matches and we didn’t get the third. � ey’re a top-15, top-20 team and we still had a chance to win the match, but it certainly didn’t make anything easier.”
In spite of the de� cit, NU started out strong in singles. Freshman Sam Shropshire cruised to a 6-1, 6-2 vic-tory over Rhys Johnson, the 57th-ranked singles player in the country, to make it 1-1.
Whatever hope the Cats gained from that result, though, was quickly eviscerated. � e Commodores won the next two contests and, a� er
Raleigh Smith secured NU’s sec-ond point with a three-set victory, Vanderbilt closed out the match with Je� rey O� erdahl’s 5-6, 6-1, 6-3 win.
Mihir Kumar, who was one of the victims in singles play, chalked up the team’s struggles to simple luck of the draw.
“We didn’t play our best,” the sophomore said. “But I guess that happens. � ere are good days and bad days.”
At the very least, this was another chance for the inexperienced mem-bers of the squad to test their mettle against some of the nation’s best competition. Konrad Zieba has been intermittently placed in the No. 2 singles spot of the lineup, a designa-tion he saw again on Sunday.
� e freshman did fall 6-2, 6-4 to No. 9 Gonzales Austin but said he feels playing such competition is bene� cial going forward.
“I’m honored to play at No. 2 as a freshman,” Zieba said. “It’s a lot of pressure because I know I’m going to be playing a lot of good players. But it’s a great opportunity and I’m just looking forward to what I have in the future.”
� e Vanderbilt contest marked the end of a daunting three-game road slate against top-25 opponents. � e Cats will return to Evanston on Friday to start a four-game home-stand, which includes competition against just one top-25 opponent, Notre Dame.
Coming o� consecutive losses, Swan hopes his team can bounce back when they return to familiar surroundings. As he points out, his squad can de� nitely see major improvements.
“We simply can play better than we did in terms of � nishing points, serve percentage, return percent-age,” Swan said. “We’ll work on it in practice and be more sharp next match.”
By MICHAEL MARUTthe daily northwestern @mikeonthemic93
Despite its bright spots, No. 16 Northwestern struggled in Sunday’s 5-2 loss to No. 15 Vanderbilt.
� e Wildcats (2-1) only won the No. 1 and No. 2 singles points in their match against the Commodores (3-0). Unranked senior Veronica Corning defeated her third straight ranked opponent in No. 61 Lauren Mira 6-1, 6-2.
� e only other positive outing for NU was senior Belinda Niu in her come-from-behind victory. Niu lost the � rst set 6-3, but came roaring back to win the second set, tiebreaker and match. Even though she had reason to give up, considering the team match had already been settled in favor of Vanderbilt, Niu powered through to win the tiebreaker 12-10.
“Initially, it’s always hard not to be disappointed when the team outcome has already been decided,” Niu said. “I just tried to motivate myself to keep playing because with the thought that even though we still lost, a 4-3 or 5-2 outcome is still better than a 6-1 loss.”
Traditionally, the Cats springboard to victory by dominating the doubles point. Against the Commodores, that wasn’t the case as Vanderbilt took all three doubles matches, the closest being the third, which NU lost 6-4.
“I was just very disappointed with our doubles,” coach Claire Pollard said. “I thought we got what we deserved.”
� e doubles point is a major part of the Cats’ o� ense. Last season, when NU won the doubles point, it went 20-2. When the Cats lost the doubles point, they were 1-7.
Pollard ascribed the loss mainly to her team’s listlessness — Vanderbilt is ranked only one spot above NU in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association rankings.
“I think we looked like a totally dif-ferent team from last weekend,” Pol-lard said. “You got to give Vanderbilt credit — they’re obviously a very good team — but I thought we were � at and no energy.”
� e same feeling resonated through the players as well.
“� is is just kind of a wakeup call,” Corning said. “� ere are good teams out there, and this is one of the good ones that we’ve faced. We just have to put ourselves back together and be ready for the next one.”
� roughout this week in practice, the Cats will be preparing for the ITA Indoor Championships held at the University of Virginia.
“I think we’re going to try and get as pumped up as we can,” Corning said. “We’re all going to meet together and have a nice talk about the match and what maybe we can do to get more pumped up for the next ones com-ing up, but I think we’ll bounce back � ne.”
Vanderbilt is the third ranked team in a row that NU has faced. At the ITA Indoor Championships, the top 16
teams in the nation will be � ghting for victory, including the Commodores.
“I think it’s a quick awakening for the girls,” Pollard said. “I think it’s bet-ter to have that now than get there and suddenly see it. I think it’ll be helpful from that point of view. We’ll see how we handle it.”
Despite the loss, Niu said playing the Commodores was a bene� cial experience for the Cats.
“You could de� nitely tell that the level was a lot more competitive today, so I think it’s good that we got a little bit of a reality check before heading to (ITA Indoor Championships) and playing even better teams,” Niu said. “I think we learned a lot today and will use that to motivate ourselves for Indoors.”
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DANDY VANDY Junior Lok Sze Leung was one of several Northwestern players to struggle individually in Sunday’s loss to Vanderbilt. The Wildcats were defeated handily in four of their six singles matches and lost 5-2 overall.
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“Everybody up and down on
the team went out there and
did their job.Laurie Schiller,
coach
No. 15 Vanderbilt
5No. 16 Northwestern
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Women’s Tennis
Men’s Tennis
NU lets doubles point slip away en route to 4-2 loss
