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Expanding Evanston’s business palate

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-e ambient lighting and warmth of Found, a contemporary American bistro established in Evan-ston late last year, highlights its thoughtful, locally produced dishes. -e restaurant sits at a refurbished storefront in town, taking the former space of Italian restaurant Gio at ./0. Chicago Ave.

With favorable reviews from publications like Chicago Magazine and -e New York Times, Found de1ned itself as a culinary destination in a city heavy on dining options. But despite the bustle created by Found, three empty spaces sit

idly nearby on Chicago Avenue.Not every restaurant stays long in Evan-ston, and unlike Gio, some businesses

are not easily replaced. Some spaces remain empty for more than a

year before being 1lled, o2en by another restaurant that

might not last for more than a

few years — a cycle frequently repeated in the downtown area.

However, downtown Evanston’s success can-not be measured by popular restaurants or vacant storefronts alone. Economic development depends on careful attention to the entire city, and a thriving food scene is useless without additional retail and o3ce space.

At Downtown Evanston’s annual meeting -urs-day, the nonpro1t organization that maintains and markets the downtown district announced nine new businesses are arriving in the coming months — seven of which are restaurants. -e news came as the city works within new guidelines that priori-tize attracting businesses of all types to Evanston and 1lling dozens of vacant storefronts.

“We’ve got all of the pieces in place to really have an excellent future, but we’ve got to keep focusing on that balance,” said Ald. Judy Fiske (.st), whose ward includes much of downtown Evanston.

But beyond rhetoric and

Economicdevelopment plan

looks beyond restaurants

» See IN FOCUS, page 6

Homecoming 2013 looks to bring NU back to 1990s

Northwestern alumni returning this fall for Homecoming will have to take things “Step by Step.”

-e theme of Homecoming 45.0 will be “NU ‘Cats on the block,” the organization announced Monday. Homecoming co-chair Kate Geraghty said the organization’s executive board hopes the throwback to the .665s, a

play on the popular band New Kids on the Block, will appeal to both young alumni and current students who grew up in the heyday of boy bands and Nickelodeon.

“We were paring down and we were looking at what we could do with the themes that we had and ‘NU ‘Cats on the block’ just seemed like such a fun thing,” the Weinberg junior said. “We were all born in the ‘65s. Everyone’s obsessed with it, so we’re really excited. One of the great things is that we really think that especially younger alumni, alumni who were here in the ‘65s or

were teenagers in the ‘65s, they’re really going to appreciate it.”

Homecoming is partnering with NU Nights for a kicko7 karaoke event Fri-day. -e 1rst hour will be music from the decade, Geraghty said.

-e organization also announced the .4-student Homecoming Court. A2er Homecoming received about 85 nominations, this will be the second straight year that the court consists of .4 students. -e organization raised the number last year due to an increase in applications. Geraghty said even nar-rowing the selection down to .4 was a

challenge.“We look for diversity in schools and

in activities, in what people represent and what they’re really involved in,” Geraghty said. “What I think is great about this court is it was so hard to pick because there were so many people in so many di7erent groups on campus. We just felt like we couldn’t have cut down any more people.”

-e six candidates for Homecom-ing King are Weinberg juniors Alex Matelski, Demetri Elias, Will Ritter and Gaurav Kikani, as well as McCormick junior Tim Smith and Communication

junior Ryan Bernsten. -e candidates for Homecoming Queen are Weinberg juniors Katie Funderburg, Roopali Kulkarni and Tori Zuzelo, along with Communication junior Isa Pasbakhsh, SESP junior Kiley Naas and McCor-mick junior Savannah Enders.

The candidates will compete throughout Homecoming Week, which begins Sept. 49. -e winners will be announced at Ryan Field during the Oct. : football game against Ohio State.

— Joseph Diebold

Students question D’Souza By PATRICK SVITEK!"#$% &'(#)* &+",,'* @PatrickSvitek

Northwestern students challenged conservative commentator Dinesh D’Souza’s controversial views on diver-sity during a tense Q-and-A on Monday evening.

D’Souza addressed more than 95 people in Technological Institute’s Ryan Auditorium before answering about a dozen questions almost equally divided between the friendly and the not-so-friendly.

-e “45./: Obama’s America” 1lm-maker earned a sharp rebuke from Asso-ciated Student Government president Ani Ajith, who participated in a silent

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CONTROVERSIAL COMMENTARY Conservative commentator Dinesh D’Souza talks Monday evening about his views on diversity. Some students protested him outside Ryan Auditorium in the Technological Institute. » See D’SOUZA, page 7

Family remembers fatal shooting victimBy CIARA MCCARTHY+;' !"#$% ()*+;<'&+'*( @ mccarthy_ciara

A few months ago, Blake Ross changed his niece’s diaper for the 1rst time. His elder sister, Samantha Miles, remembered it with a smile.

“He did a good job,” she said.Miles said her brother, 45, treated her

daughters like they were his own.-e Evanston native’s young life was

cut short when he was fatally shot May .4 on the South Side of Chicago. In an interview with -e Daily on Monday, his sister recalled a caring uncle who loved to sing and dance.

Ross’ grandmother declined to

comment on his death Monday but expressed frustration over the lack of information her family has received from the Chicago Police Department.

-e slain Evanston man has been connected to an ongoing city con=ict that has claimed four young lives since 455:, including two last year. He also has a history of run-ins with the law: He was arrested in a 45.5 undercover Evanston police operation by the Neighborhood Enforcement Team. Ross was one of 46 people arrested in connection with oper-ating an open air drug market.

Ross was also likely involved with the May 8 shooting near the Fleetwood-Jour-dain Community Center, ./:: Foster St.,

» See ROSS, page 7

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Stranger points gun at womanAn unidenti!ed man pointed a gun at a Chi-

cago woman early Sunday morning in the "#$$ block of Church Street, police said.

%e &'-year-old woman was walking east on Church Street near Asbury Avenue when the man came out of the bushes and pointed a gun at her, Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said. %e man, described as wearing a brown jacket, blue jeans and a goatee, did not say

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By RACHEL JANIK+,- ./012 345+,6-7+-53 @rachel_janik

Evanston’s 8'th City Council began map-ping a course for the next four years Monday and raised the city’s annual budget by 9).: million.

As the new council prepares to move for-ward after last month’s elections, aldermen discussed the strengths, weaknesses and goals of the community to be targeted during the coming term at their meeting Monday night at the Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center. City manager Wally Bobkiewicz prepared a presen-tation for aldermen about city staff ’s assess-ment of opportunities, threats and plans.

“I’m here tonight really to challenge you to make the most of these four years as you can,” Bobkiewicz told the council.

Crime and safety concerns topped the list of weaknesses and threats to the city. City staff applauded community outreach efforts taken by the council in the wake of gun vio-lence last year, particularly in response to two shooting deaths near Evanston Township High School.

Bobkiewicz named Northwestern among the city’s strengths,. He said “lively discussion”

occurred among the staff about its inclusion, and the University was almost removed from the list. Recently, some residents clashed with NU over its plans to build a new visitors cen-ter on the lakefront. And despite aldermen’s stated intentions to tackle the city’s conten-tious over-occupancy rule, the so-called “brothel law” remains on the books.

“While it’s a great strength on many levels, it remains one of our great challenges,” Bob-kiewicz said of NU.

The city staff ’s recommendations included establishing a stronger bond with the Univer-sity and utilizing more of NU’s resources to tackle community problems.

Other community goals included priori-tizing economic development, increasing sustainability and streamlining communica-tion among city departments and Evanston community groups.

“You can do anything,” Bobkiewicz said. “Your staff is anxious and ready and feels that this will be a great opportunity for the city.”

The council plans to meet for a more detailed discussion on planning in the com-ing weeks.

Aldermen also approved an increase in the budget for fiscal year &$"# by unanimous vote. Budgeting changes included funding for sewer repair, sidewalk replacement and bike

lane construction on Davis Street.An additional 9&.& million to expand Piven

Theatre was taken out of the budget for fur-ther discussion.

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‘YOU CAN DO ANYTHING’ City manager Wally Bobkiewicz presents four-year goals to aldermen at Monday’s City Council meeting. Reducing crime, promoting economic development and strengthening University ties were on his list.

On CampusI’ve been living in Norris practically, at least for the past two years, and we just realized it needs to change.

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Schwimmer returns to NU roots to discuss career By PAULINA FIROZI!"#$% &'(#)* &+",,'* @paulina_milla

David Schwimmer (Communication ‘--) spoke to Northwestern students Monday about his jour-ney from a theater major to his multifaceted career of acting, directing and producing on stage and the screen.

Anna Shapiro, a professor and director of the School of Communication’s MFA directing program, proctored the talk, which attracted more than .// people to Josephine Louis 0eater. Shapiro began by questioning Schwimmer’s parents’ initial skepticism about him becoming an actor. Shapiro suggested this was something the audience, mostly consisting of Communication students, could connect with, gar-nering laughs and cheers.

“I’m the son of two lawyers, and education was a big part of growing up,” Schwimmer said. “But I think it was a di1erent generation. My parents really thought that was the only avenue to getting a profes-sional job.”

Although many of the audience members may have remembered Schwimmer as Ross Geller from “Friends,” the television series that ended its 2/th sea-son nine years ago, the name of the show was only mentioned once in the 3rst hour of his talk.

0e tone of the evening was set when Shapiro recalled wanting to convince Schwimmer to do a play, “Purple Heart” by Bruce Norris, with her during a

time she said he was transitioning “out of your TV life and back to your life.”

“0e character we wanted you to play was essen-tially a stranger,” Shapiro said to her longtime friend. “And you were like, ‘If I could be a stranger, that would be fantastic … I’m not sure I can be a stranger yet.’”

Schwimmer explained that trying to rid himself of the celebrity status that came with “Friends” is some-thing with which he still grapples. He said he is not yet at a place in his life where he can feel completely

“anonymous.”“I’ve never let it stop my determination to try to

be, to try to live a normal life,” Schwimmer said. “If I’m not cast in a certain role because of the baggage of the, I guess the one big role on ‘Friends’ … that’s my loss, but I also think it’s their loss. I can’t live my life waiting for that.”

Schwimmer talked about how his passion for the stage and producing began while at NU. He began the Chicago-based Lookingglass 0eatre Company with

other friends from NU and discussed the experience that sparked the idea. As a senior at NU, he directed an adaptation of “Alice in Wonderland.” When the University wouldn’t give him a space on campus to direct in, he said he rented one out in Jones Residential College and used his bar mitzvah money to fund his o1-campus production.

Schwimmer and his friends later traveled to the Edinburgh Fesitval in Scotland to showcase the piece on behalf of NU a4er the dean o1ered to match their 56,/// fundraising e1orts for the 52/,/// trip.

“We had this amazing experience which not only bonded us as a group but also taught us that with enough chutzpah and determination we can produce, and we could do it the way we wanted to,” he said.

Communication sophomore Jamie Lee Cortese said notable alumni such as Schwimmer played an important role in her decision to attend NU.

“I always love hearing alumni’s re7ections about their time here and their memories, and I love hearing their advice,” she said.

Communication freshman Priyanka 0akrar said she would not have missed a chance to see Schwim-mer speak.

“He’s a known 3gure, but I also wanted to hear about his other life and to see how he bridged the two and the struggles and triumphs that he had with both of them,” 0akrar said. “0ere’s so much more to him that I realized with talk that people don’t necessarily give him the chance.”

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SCHWIMMING HOME “Friends” actor David Schwimmer (Communication ‘88) and Communication Prof. Anna Shapiro interact with the crowd Monday afternoon in Josephine Louis Theater. Schwimmer came to campus to share stories about his work and experiences as a producer and director with primarily theater and Radio-TV-Film students.

Across CampusesHofstra identifies slain student

UNIONDALE, N.Y. — A Hofstra University junior sharing an o1-campus house with her twin sister and several other students was shot and killed during an early morning break-in Friday that also le4 the armed intruder dead, police said.

Nassau County police identi3ed the slain student as Andrea Rebello, .2, a public relations major from Westchester County.

Rebello’s twin, Jessica, was also in the Uniondale house at the time of the .:8/ a.m. shooting, but she was not harmed, police said.

Authorities said police were involved in the shoot-ing, but it wasn’t immediately clear who 3red the fatal shots or how many rounds were 3red. 0e gunman has not been identi3ed.

“We are going to get to the bottom of exactly what happened,” said Nassau Police Chief Rick Capece. “We

have to do this the right way.”Capece said investigators were waiting for the

results of a forensic analysis at the crime scene.Police said the gunman barged into the two-

story house at .28 California Ave. at .:./ a.m. and demanded money from the four Hofstra students inside—the Rebello sisters, a man from Brooklyn and a woman from Connecticut.

0e gunman let that unidenti3ed woman leave the

house to go to an ATM to get cash. She instead called 922, police said.

Shortly a4er o:cers responded to the robbery-in-progress call, “there was a police-involved shooting . . . in the home,” a police spokesman said.

Police said a gun was found inside the house. No further details were available.

— Zachary R. Dowdy and Olivia Winslow (Newsday)

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Students should slow down from NU’s ‘stress culture’

Dealing with stress is as an unavoidable part of life, and something we need to learn to do. Dmitri Teplov’s suicide has made the conversa-tion about mental health, stress and the North-western community all the more pressing. I cannot know exactly what went through Teplov’s mind when he ended his life, but his tragedy called mental health to the forefront of my mind, and I realized something important.

" ough we talk about the inevitable fact that we must cope with stress, the average student’s conception of what amount of stress is “inevi-table” is distorted beyond reason. Despite the numerous workshops, initiatives and campus-wide discussions about dealing with stress, what we have in actuality is a “stress culture,” which exacerbates the problem.

" ink about what we hear on a regular basis. “I was up until # a.m. studying for a midterm because I had so much other homework that I couldn’t do because I was busy with my (insert club, research project and/or alcohol here).” When was the last time somebody said, “Well, I did the homework at a reasonable pace through

the course, studied for a few hours, then got up in the morning and made a healthy breakfast a$ er a full night’s sleep?” Even if you did do that, you don’t say it, because we all know everybody’s competing for the best I-pulled-o% -a-ridiculous-cram-sesh-at-the-last-possible-minute-and-still-got-an-A-&yolo story so they can sound cool (and yours truly is no exception).

" e fact that being sleep-deprived is considered “cool” should make us reconsider what we’re doing with ourselves. Maybe the fact that you’re chew-ing your ' ngernails at an ungodly hour cram-ming for organic chem-istry so you can get a GPA high enough to get into med school doesn’t mean that you need to build up the Olympian willpower required to make it through. Maybe it means that med school, or research, or bank-ing or whatever you have in mind isn’t worth it.

I do not criticize as an

outsider. By this time last year, I was disheart-ened, depressed and absolutely miserable. I

slogged onward, draining my last reserves just to get to the end of the year. But then, halfway through my very last ' nal exam, something

amazing happened. I was done. I got up, turned the exam in half blank, walked out, and got my ' rst C. I had gotten straight

A’s from eighth grade up until Spring Quar-ter last year – mak-ing it through all of organic chemistry, di% erential equations, quantum mechanics,

the list goes on – but of all my academic

achievements, that C is the one I am most proud of. A$ er that, I quit my intern-ship in a research lab, went home and rethought my life. I have never been happier.If I ran into the freshman

version of myself, he would have — as some of you undoubtedly are doing as you read this — clasped his ears in agony as he listened

to this unthinkable blasphemy. But this is what stress culture is. We deprive ourselves of sleep, we lose

contact with old friends, we ful' ll never-ending “have-tos” and neglect our “want-tos” – and to question all of this is heresy. We may talk about dealing with stress, but in reality, all we’re really talking about is dealing with its super' cial e% ects. Dealing with stress requires you to dare to step out of line, to dare to just stop, and above all else, to dare to question everything you have been taught about what “success” is.

We’ve been raised to be go-getters, to strive for high-powered careers, to excel academically, to be involved as widely as possible, and to never turn down a step “upward” in life. " is certainly did bring us to the top echelon of universities — we have kept our foot on the accelerator and have traveled far — but we are approaching a time that if we don’t slow down and take a break, what we have le$ behind will have receded into the distance and what we have passed by will be nothing but a blur. And years on the in' nite interstate of stress will have worn us down. For many of us, it’s already starting to.

In the wise words of the twentieth-century suburban philosopher Ferris Bueller, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look once in a while, you could miss it.”

Julian Caracotsios is a Weinberg junior. 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].

JULIANCARACOTSIOSDAILY COLUMNIST

To athletes, purple much more than just a color

Purple.Some would consider the de' nition of

purple to be a beautiful color you can create by mixing red and blue together. " is is true, obviously, but athletic personnel at North-western would argue that purple is much, much more than a color. Purple may be the color of our school, the color of our Univer-sity seal, or the color of some ( owers located around campus, but that’s only the surface.

" roughout my athletic career at North-western, I have known the color purple to be more like a way of life, more like a promise. Purple is the color of the highest standard.

" e choice to be an athlete at Northwest-ern is not for University employees to decide. Sure, they may sell the school, the prestigious name, the academic rigors, the Big Ten con-ference and proximity to Chicago as some of its perks, but ultimately when you step on this campus as a recruit, the choice is yours and no one else’s. When decisions such as “What am I going to wear tomorrow?” are at the forefront of a teenager’s mind, the choice of “How do I want to live my life in )*

years?” is now suddenly the question. When you are )+ years old and want to come to NU, you have to decide if you want to take the high road for the rest of your life. You have to decide if you want every single person surrounding you to hold you to the highest standard even when your biggest obstacles are clouding your vision. You have to decide

if you want to be pushed to your limits every day to see if the sky really is the limit for you, or you just think it is.

Choosing to come to NU for not only the education, but the athletic prowess (yes, prowess) as well, is a decision very few peo-ple get to make every year. And it’s a deci-sion that will impact those special athletes for the rest of their

lives should they be brave enough to take that leap of faith at such a young age; to put their trust and future success in the hands of a group of incredible people they don’t really know. Each academic year, roughly #,* student-athletes honor that commitment to Northwestern and represent the color purple

to the best of their abilities.When that decision is made at )+ years,

you are committing your life to playing and representing an entity that is much bigger than yourself. Your egotistical, narcissis-tic teenage self signs a letter of intent that implies the world does not and will not revolve around you. No matter what high school or area of the country you came from, you will no longer be the best when you step on this campus.

At NU, everyone is good. High school no longer matters. What you did in the past no longer matters. Everyone is fresh meat. You are surrounded by Nobel Prize winners, All-Americans and scholars. However, you promised yourself that fateful day when you were )+ that this is what you wanted: to be pushed, to be challenged, to be worked.

Wearing purple means holding yourself to that highest standard. Wearing purple means honoring that commitment you made a short time ago. So you hold your head high despite the adversity, and you get to work.

Before you know it, your career is over. You wish you would have listened to what your upperclassmen tried to warn you about. Yet we all know experience is the best teacher. Your time as a competitive athlete is running out. Now what?

Now you remember why you chose NU in the ' rst place. You thank your )+-year-old

self for being brave enough to take that leap of faith. You are so glad you embraced the challenges, that you strove for excellence, and you rely on the fact that your opportunities are endless should you decide to continue to go a$ er them. You’ve lived it now, and you will share your experiences here on out for the rest of your life. You will try to explain to those stubborn underclassmen (whom you once were) all the lessons you wish you would have known … and then you will watch them make the same mistakes you did.

" ere will be many more crucial decisions you will have to make in your lifetime, and some of them will scare you.

" en you remember you’ve been there before.

You remember you’ve already taken that leap of faith and look where it got you. You remember that NU has prepared you for life after college. And you remember that the color purple, the color of the highest stan-dard — the N Cat logo — will never come off.

Purple will always run through your veins.

Emily Allard is a Communication senior and a member of the Northwestern softball team. She can be reached at [email protected]. If you want to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to [email protected].

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“I have known the color purple to be more like a way of life, more like a promise. Purple is the color of the highest standard.

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Quinn mulls medical marijuana law, EPD unfazedBy EDWARD COX!"# $%&'( )*+!",#-!#+) @EdwardCox./

A bill legalizing medical marijuana is a governor’s signature away from becoming Illinois law, which would allow Evanston residents to use the drug for medical purposes given they follow state guidelines.

0e Evanston Police Department would have few issues enforcing the legislation, which passed the Illi-nois Senate on Friday, Cmdr. Jay Parrott said.

0e bill would create a four year pilot program, during which medical marijuana users could legally use the drug with a photo ID and proof of a prescrip-tion. A1er the pilot program ends, the bill would have to undergo a renewal.

Gov. Pat Quinn will have to sign the bill into law before the state opens /2 medical marijuana dispen-saries, said state Sen. William Haine (D-Alton), the bill’s sponsor in the Illinois Senate. Haine said he heard the governor is “open-minded” to the bill.

“He has a passion for people in di3cult circum-stances, and I believe this bill will appeal to that side of him,” Haine said.

0e bill, if signed by Quinn, would make Illinois

home to one of the most strictly regulated medical marijuana laws among .4 other states that legalize the Schedule I drug for medicinal purposes. It would authorize medical marijuana only to people diagnosed with one or more of about 52 serious illnesses, such as HIV and multiple sclerosis.

More stringent regulations were introduced to the bill a1er an earlier version that included a provision allowing people to grow their own medical marijuana failed to garner support years ago, Haine said.

Should Quinn sign the bill, residents would have to carry the marijuana in a container and could be subject to a 6782 ticket for violating rules of posses-sion, Parrott said.

“0ere are still parameters that people have to fol-low,” Parrott said. “0e idea is to assist people with feeling better.”

Some organizations argue the bill would make medical marijuana easily accessible and lead to poten-tial abuse. Andy Duran, executive director of Linking E9orts Against Drugs, said labeling the drug as medi-cine would mislead youth about its serious e9ects.

“It’s a harmful thing for youth,” Duran said. “We don’t want it in our communities because we know of the harm that is associated with it.”

State Sen. William Delgado (D-Chicago) said,

however, the side e9ects of medical marijuana com-pared to opiates and other hospital “pill mill” drugs are minimal.

“You will never hear about an overdose of medical marijuana, the only thing is they’re going to wake up sleepy and hungry,” Delgado said.

Delgado said he knows a friend living with prostate cancer who has to travel out of state to receive medical

marijuana in liquid form.“It was so hard not to cry to know how he helped

the community,” Delgado said. “Medical marijuana is not immoral.”

Amanda Gilbert contributed reporting.

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New Student Center Initiative resurges, seeks feedbackBy CAT ZAKRZEWSKI$%&'( -#)&*+ -!%::#+ @Cat_Zakrzewski

A group of Northwestern students relaunched an initiative advocating for an improved student center last week, just days before Norris University Center celebrated its ;2th birthday.

0e New Student Center Initiative <rst formed in 72.2 when Associated Student Government attempted to garner grassroots support from stu-dents and administrators for a new building. Fol-lowing successful meetings with NU trustees, the group <zzled out formally because the necessary stakeholders supported its cause. Now that ASG

has released renderings of the proposed student center, the group has resurged to gain support and feedback as the University prepares to fundraise, said NSCI spokesman Brad Stewart.

“It really comes down to prioritization and fundraising at this point,” said Stewart, the former ASG executive vice president. “We need to show the University the students really do want this.”

0e Medill senior said momentum for a better student union began as early as two years a1er Norris was completed and have periodically resur-faced since then, but this new push will bring NU closer to realizing a new student center than ever before.

0e new renderings feature a center with more open spaces for student group collaboration.

Situated in Norris’s current location, the new center plans feature more outdoor space, student entertainment options, food vendors and central-ization of student resources, ranging from Uni-versity Career Services to the O3ce of Fraternity and Sorority Life. Amalia Namath, director of the New Student Center Initiative, spent hours in Norris working with various student groups, most notably as co-chair of Northwestern Community Development Corps.

“I’ve been living in Norris practically, at least for the past two years, and we just realized it needs to change,” the Weinberg senior said. “A lot of the colleges that are comparable to Northwestern just have a better student union and a more centralized student union.”

0e group has launched a website where stu-dents can view the current plans, share their feed-back and sign a petition calling for the center. A week a1er its launch, the petition had gained more than 722 signatures.

Although seniors currently spearhead the initia-tive, both Stewart and Namath said there are many quali<ed sophomores and juniors ready to take on more responsibility when they graduate in several weeks. 0ey said the push for a new student center was a way they could leave their mark on NU.

“We’re trying to set the way for future genera-tions of Wildcats to have an even better experience from what we’ve had,” Stewart said.

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strategic planning by city o!cials, obstacles speci"c to Evanston make breaking out of its food-focused market especially di!cult.

“We need the balance in downtown,” Fiske said. “If we overbuild restaurants, that’s not good for us. If we overbuild residences, that’s not good for us.”

A holistic approachIn Evanston’s #$%& economic development work

plan, the city outlines goals to maintain its economic assets, including industries involving water and the arts. 'e plan includes new targets, such as retain-ing retail attractions and workforce development. But unlike past plans, it also considers how the city’s economic goals work together.

With this new mindset, Evanston o!cials hope to tackle visible problems like empty storefronts while addressing more imperative issues, such as bringing more variety to downtown.

“'e City Council has always focused on those components,” Fiske said. “What we’re doing now is looking at them in a holistic manner. 'at’s really important because you can’t take one part of it and not expect the other parts to be una(ected.”

Although the economic development plan includes standard targets for bringing business to downtown, Fiske says the city is taking these principles to all parts of the city for an all-encompassing strategy

A number of factors unique to Evanston could work in the city’s favor. Its lakefront location on the outskirts of Chicago and along Metra and Chicago Transit Authority lines — along with an eclectic food scene — give the suburb what o!cials call an excellent “quality of place.” 'e phrase refers to the bene"ts of aesthetic infrastructure, diverse communities and a vibrant city culture.

However, Evanston’s proximity to other shopping hubs counteracts some of those advantages. 'e city strives to bring in a mix of independent businesses and national chains, but downtown o)en competes with shopping centers like West"eld Old Orchard Mall in nearby Skokie and retail in Chicago. Many chains will not venture into Evanston if they already have a store only a few miles away, said Carolyn Dellutri, executive director of Downtown Evanston.

Fiske said downtown used to be home to several large department stores but lost many of them to Old Orchard. She noted the Evanston location for Marshall Field and Co. stuck around for many years before the defunct company was bought by Macy’s.

“Downtowns o)en have to reinvent themselves,” she said. “When the liquor laws changed in the ’*$s, more restaurants were able to bring in more restaurants.”

A vision for downtownEvanston is o)en cited as “the restaurant capital of

Chicago’s North Shore.” Restaurants tend to do very well downtown, Dellutri said, particularly noting the recent success of Found.

Found owner Amy Morton said she has been blown

away by positive press and the number of customers she receives on a daily basis. Although the number of repeat customers and Evanston residents makes Morton happy, she is also surprised by the number of people who come from outside the city.

Working with the city allowed the business to thrive, Morton said.

“It’s one of the best decisions I’ve ever made,” she said. “'ey simply have decided to be the sort of city that makes it easy for business owners. … 'ey genuinely want people who come to Evanston to succeed.”

However, a heavy emphasis on dining interferes with the city’s goals of bringing national retail in and creating local shops downtown. From a city perspec-tive, Fiske said she would like to see more tax revenue-generating businesses, but adding retail proves to be more complicated than simply attracting them to the area.

'e size of downtown retail spaces makes it di!cult for businesses to relocate, Fiske said. Even for retailers who create small boutique-sized shops designed for urban spaces, buildings in downtown tend to be too small for retail space. Some of the buildings formerly used by department stores in Evanston were demol-ished long ago, Fiske said.

Some retail still exists in downtown, including Wil-liams Shoes on Church Street. 'e store has been in business for almost +$ years, and in that time it has expanded three times, owner Mike Lembeck said.

Lembeck said the expansion occurred naturally: He and his father, who passed the store onto him, never felt the space was too small. Rather, the store outlived nearby businesses and took their spaces, he said, allowing the business to utilize the available space downtown to the best of its ability. 'e most recent expansion, Williams Next Door, occupies a storefront across the hall from the original store.

Although he likes the restaurant scene, Lembeck said he wants more retail in downtown Evanston.

“At the moment, there’s not a lot of competition,” he said. “Over the years, there has been. We’ve just outlived everyone else.”

In lieu of national retailers, Fiske said she wants to dedicate some funds used by the economic develop-ment committee to help local retailers establish a name in downtown to “give them a leg up and see if that helps them.” Downtown also needs o!ce spaces so workers can feed into the restaurants and retail.

“You’ve got a captive market, so they really do stay and spend a lot of money in the community they’re in,” she said. “We’re looking hard on how to market to

o!ces and startups.”Evanston has hosted several events to promote

discussion on how to attract businesses to relocate their o!ces here, including a talk in early May by William Testa, vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.

“Evanston is a very special place,” Testa said during the event. “It’s a place where you can have the oppor-tunity to be a job center … where people want to live at the same time.”

Because of Evanston’s unique location and quality of place, the city is looking to cater to businesses, said Paul Zalmezak, the city’s economic development com-mittee coordinator.

“We have this sense that this is our niche to support those companies,” he said.

Creating downtownIn the late %,-$s, the city conducted research to

determine how to e(ectively develop downtown, Zalmezak said. Around this time, the city also created two tax-increment "nancing districts in downtown Evanston. TIF districts allow Evanston to use future tax revenue from those sections of the city to boost economic development over a #&-year period. A)er this time, funding for the areas is cut o(.

'e Downtown II TIF district, which expired in #$$,, covered a large area west of Benson Avenue. 'e Washington National TIF district, e(ective until #$%*, covers the area between Church and Davis streets, with Benson and Chicago avenues serving as its boundaries.

Using Evanston as a case study, four students from the Kellogg School of Management conducted research last year assessing the e(ectiveness of TIF districts.

'e special tax districts can create lively areas of economic development, said second-year Kellogg stu-dent Seth Capron, who worked on the study. However, he said they can also be risky due to uncertainties in how local economies evolve. Some TIF districts receive money without clear goals, while others receive funds to boost an economy that is already beginning to recover, Capron said.

“A lot of risk involved for putting signi"cant subsi-dies behind this is you don’t know what you’re achiev-ing,” he said. “In some cases you might ask, ‘Would this have happened anyway?’”

'e study found TIF districts work best when they align with a city’s goals because their outcomes may be uncertain on their own.

Compared to other similar districts across the country, both of Evanston’s downtown TIFs have been incredibly successful, Capron said. Downtown II cre-ated the Evanston Research Park, while Washington National allowed for signi"cant building growth, he said.

Over time, the city has realized its economic strengths, like water industries, and weaknesses, like the need for greater workforce development, Zalmezak said.

“It’s di(erent now,” he said. “We’ve identi"ed

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Bringing in businessWhen the TIF districts were formed in the heart of

the city, Downtown Evanston was also putting down its roots. Since its establishment in !"#$, the organization has become an integral part of economic development, linking the city, business owners and other stakehold-ers involved in creating businesses in Evanston.

“It really takes teamwork because when a business is looking to relocate, they may come in through dif-ferent avenues,” Dellutri said.

%e organization receives funds through a tax placed in what is known as Special Service Area No. &, which covers the majority of downtown. In '(!', Downtown Evanston received almost )&((,((( in revenue, which it uses to advertise downtown busi-nesses and the area itself.

%e city approved an ordinance in '(($ to spread the boundaries of the tax area. %e resulting increase in revenue allowed Downtown Evanston to become a full-time organization. Dellutri became its executive director the following year.

As the national economy recovers from the Great Recession, Dellutri said Evanston has been faring

better, with '* new businesses opening downtown in '(!'.

“It’s helping establish a name for downtown Evan-ston,” she said.

Evanston has attracted popular Chicago restaurants to expand in the city. Establishments like Farmhouse, a midwestern tavern, and Lao Sze Chuan, a Chinese restaurant, are among the new businesses coming soon to the downtown district.

Partnerships with Northwestern also create prospects for economic opportunity. %e Evanston Research Park, a joint project, includes a mix of Uni-versity and city o+ces and helps promote business expansion.

Filling in the gapsDespite the city’s notable e,orts to bring in business,

a noticeable number of empty storefronts remain. %e current market is ultimately what in-uences which businesses want to .nd space in downtown Evanston, Dellutri said, but other factors are also at play.

Downtown Evanston’s site lists more than !(( o+ce and retail spaces available for lease downtown. Some spaces have remained empty for more than two years, including the former Borders location on Orrington Avenue. However, Fiske said empty storefronts down-town do not re-ect a poor economy. Rather, they can be attributed to con-icting interests between building owners and businesses, which prevent some spaces

from being .lled immediately, she said.“A lot of these buildings are owned by local propri-

etors who have a speci.c vision for their buildings, and they’ll hold out until they get that,” Fiske said. “It’s not for a lack of people coming in.”

Vacancy rates were higher in '((# during the economic downturn, but as the national economy recovers, many business owners are close to signing leases, Dellutri said.

One example of this is Naf Naf Grill, a Naperville-based Mediterranean chain. It will move into !*'" Orrington Ave., which has been vacant for more than two years. Business owners are also signing leases for the former spaces of STA Travel and Gamestop, two shops on Church Street that closed this year.

Dellutri announced several of these changes at the Downtown Evanston annual meeting last week. Other city o+cials announced projects that would also aid in economic development and in the creation of quality of place. Assistant city manager Marty Lyons presented plans to overhaul parking systems downtown, dem-onstrating a solar-powered, user-friendly pay box in lieu of a parking meter.

%e city also approved plans to renovate Davis Street, including the creation of bike paths, sewer replacement, parking space realignment and street resurfacing.

“Although the project will create some disturbance, at the end of the day it will be a much better space like

Church Street,” public works director Suzette Robin-son said.

A plan with potentialBecause it has been so highly developed, o+cials

say downtown Evanston serves as a laboratory for economic development for the rest of the city. Within downtown, it is easier to see how each component works together and can be helpful when expanding the scope to include the rest of the city, Fiske said.

Capron said newer TIF districts near the intersec-tions of Main and Chicago and Dodge and Dempster will address these blighted areas in a similar fashion to the downtown TIF districts.

Development initiatives on Howard Street and the construction of Trader Joe’s on Chicago Avenue will bring attention to areas outside downtown, Zalmezak said. In addition, Evanston is looking at how to .ll vacant retail spaces beyond downtown and how to successfully bring in startups, he said.

Although Evanston’s holistic approach shows promise, it will take time before the plan becomes fully realized.

“We’ve .nally hit our stride,” Fiske said. “(%e work plan) understands that there’s a sense of place in Evan-ston that we have to market that’s unique from Chicago and other suburbs.”

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protest outside the auditorium and later described D’Souza’s commentary as “hate speech and bigotry,” as well as “pseudo-intellectual babble.”

During his prepared remarks, D’Souza argued places like NU create a “su,ocating atmosphere” that intimidates students into learning “what you should and shouldn’t say” about racially charged issues like a+rmative action.

“Ultimately, all of it is lies, but it is lies with muscle,” he said. “It’s lies that come along with threats so you can’t say what’s clearly not true about it because if you do, you’ll be stepping out of bounds.”

NU College Republicans organized D’Souza’s visit,

which came amid heightened tensions over race rela-tions on campus. A nomination for a diversity-related position in ASG was blocked earlier this month over questions of whether the student could connect with multicultural groups, while Alianza representatives took heat for a letter co-written with Ajith about Cinco de Mayo.

“We recognize diversity is a kind of hot topic on campus, and we de.nitely wanted to contribute to that conversation,” said Rebecca Schieber, president of Col-lege Republicans. “%at was our main motive.”

D’Souza acknowledged he had “heard about the rumblings” at NU and was candid about his own role in the diversity discussion.

“On the campus, the conservatives aren’t powerful enough to be part of the debate, so just once a year you

have to have a gad-y like me come and sort of torment the campus a little bit and get the protesters to spread their wings, and that’s it,” D’Souza said.

Schieber, a Weinberg sophomore, said she was pleased to see a nearly even split between audience members who agreed with D’Souza and those who did not. D’Souza found allies in mostly older, non-student audience members who thanked him for bringing an underrepresented perspective to NU, while some students were more skeptical.

“I know you completely hate facts and history, but how do you explain institutional racism and how it’s impacted blacks over the past !(( years?” Weinberg junior Ferila Maatulimanu-Mae Sausi asked.

A/er a heated back-and-forth over the premise of her question, D’Souza replied he does not believe in

institutional racism, calling it a “nonsense term.”Ajith, who did not attend D’Souza’s talk and

remained outside the auditorium, said he recently became aware of D’Souza’s work and was speci.cally o,ended by his attitudes toward the LGBT community and Muslims.

“It’s pretty simple,” Ajith said. “What he believes in is categorically rejected by the Northwestern community.”

At one point, '( students sat quietly in front of the auditorium doors, Ajith said. Inside, D’Souza mocked the apparent protesters in a whining voice.

“Let’s block the entrance so no one can get in,” he said. “He’s against diversity!”

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according to Evanston police.“Police have reason to believe that he was a pos-

sible intended target in the shooting at Fleetwood,”

Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said Wednesday. Ross’ death and recent gun violence in Evan-

ston have sparked community concern, which was voiced during a heated 0th Ward meeting last week. In response to the outbreak of incidents, police have increased their presence in the ward and will partner

with the Cook County Sheri, ’s O+ce to deal with Evanston’s gangs.

Despite the di+culty Ross faced during recent years, his sister remembered a brother who loved music — especially the work of Michael Jackson. She said Ross dreamed of performing professionally,

and that he even met with a music producer two years ago.

“Any song that comes on is probably going to remind me of him,” she said.

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By KEVIN CASEY!"# $%&'( )*+!",#-!#+) @KevinCasey./

It took a stellar 0nal-round charge, but Northwestern will compete in the NCAA Championships — and the magnitude of the event is not lost on the squad.

1e Wildcats will start competition in the four-day, 23-hole event Tuesday, teeing it up at team collegiate golf ’s biggest event for just the second time in school history.

Held at the University of Geor-gia Golf Course in Athens, Ga., the tournament is a 34-team a5air that highlights some of the best squads the country has to o5er in women’s golf.

As coach Emily Fletcher noted, simply qualifying for such an event is the dream she had for this team from the beginning.

“Making it to Nationals was really what we set out to do all along, it’s what we set our sights on at the start of the season,” Fletcher said. “It feels great to make it here, there’s a great sense of satisfaction.”

1at being said, NU isn’t going to treat its stay in Georgia as a vacation. 1e 34th-ranked Cats may not be the best in this 0eld, but the team is not the lowest-ranked squad and is loaded with young talent.

The underclassmen tandem of freshman Kaitlin Park and sophomore Hana Lee played its way into All-Big Ten 0rst team selections, with Park also winning the Big Ten Freshman of the Year award.

When those two do not perform to their abilities, as was the case at NCAA Regionals, the duo of Suchaya Tang-kamolprasert and Elizabeth Szokol is there to pick up the slack.

1e freshmen posted the two best scores for the team at Regionals and have combined for four top-.6 0nishes

this spring.Despite such stellar play from the

team’s youth, Park made it clear who will be motivating the team to play well at Nationals.

“1is tournament is a really big opportunity and I’m so glad I’m able to experience it as a freshman,” Park said. “But I really want to make this tournament memorable for Lauren Weaver because it will be her 0rst and last NCAA Championships.”

Weaver will be the only senior to start for the Cats down in Athens. Although this season has been one long struggle with her game, Weaver remains the team’s leader heading into the 0nal tournament of the year.

1e senior has been doing better

on the golf course lately and is excited to carry over her strong performance to Nationals.

“Right now I’m playing the best I’ve played all year. I’ve really gotten my driver under control, which I had a lot of trouble with in the fall,” Weaver said. “To hit the ball straight, it takes pressure o5 my putting, and I’m not playing for pars as much, I’m playing for birdies.”

For Weaver, though, the team’s foray into Georgia is not just another tournament. It’s a culmination of her four years at NU.

“Honestly, if someone told me freshman year that I would be playing Nationals as a senior I wouldn’t have believed them,” Weaver said. “But it’s

awesome, I couldn’t have wished for anything else. It’s a real opportunity to showcase our team and show that we can compete on a national level.”

Fletcher still wants the team to play to the best of its abilities, whether that be a 0rst place 0nish, a .7th or a .6th. No matter what happens in Georgia, NU’s season will be labeled a success.

“It feels like an accomplishment to make it to NCAA Championships and, in my mind, we have everything to gain and nothing to lose here,” Fletcher said. “It’s our time to really go out, play with some con0dence and enthusiasm, just enjoy being out there and have some fun.”

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ON DECK ON THE RECORDLacrosseNU at North Carolina, 4 p.m. Friday

I’m not playing for pars as much as I’m playing for birdies. — Lauren Weaver, senior golfer

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Lax coach deserves Trib honorJOSHWALFISHDAILY SPORTS@JoshWalfish

Kelly Amonte Hiller won one of the most useless prizes in Chicago on Mon-day. 1e Chicago Tribune uno8cially named Northwestern’s lacrosse coach the best coach in Chicago.

I should caution this proclamation came in the form of a chart on page 3 of the sports section, which placed all Chicago-area coaches on a spectrum in terms of the number of championships the coach has won and the amount of trust the paper has in the coach. Amonte Hiller was all the way in the upper right-hand corner, signaling that the Tribune trusts her and that she has won a bunch of titles.

However, the chart forced me to think about just how much Amonte Hiller means not only to the lacrosse program, but also to NU as a whole. It has made me question where she ranks in terms of the greatest coaches in the Wildcats’ history, let alone the present day.

I’m not going to spend much time on persuading you 0ne readers that Amonte Hiller is the best coach at NU in the present because I only have so many words to use. If you need any convincing, look at your right hand – or le9 if you want to be di8cult – and imagine if all of your 0ngers had rings. Now look at your other hand and pre-tend two of those 0ngers had rings.

1at would be how many national championships Amonte Hiller has won at NU, seven more than any other coach. If that doesn’t convince you, then you can tweet at me or email me, and I’ll be happy to listen and critique your argument.

Now that we’ve gotten the basics out of the way, I have about 367 words to explain why Kelly Amonte Hiller is the best coach NU has ever had and prob-ably ever will have.

1e titles are probably the most compelling argument in her favor, but I won’t use those in this discussion. I could look at her win-loss record, which stands at a sparking 3.6-:3, but I will limit myself by not relying on the simple stats and use a high-tech evalua-tion tool — the eyeballs.

Her players’ list of accomplishments for .3 years at NU is simply remarkable. NU players have won the Honda Sports Award seven times, the Tewaarton Trophy 0ve times and have been named All-Americans by the IWLCA 4. times including 3: 0rst-team designations. But that is not what makes Amonte Hiller a great coach.

It is no secret what she has done is nothing short of remarkable. She has taken an East Coast sport and made it popular in the Midwest. She created the game plan to immediate success that other coaches are now trying to repli-cate across the country.

1e key word here is “trying” because no one has been able to 0nd the success Amonte Hiller did. No coach has been able to match what she has accomplished because no other coach is of the quality of Kelly Amonte Hiller.

Only the greats can build a program as quickly as Amonte Hiller has and keep it at the top for as long as she has. Almost every other coach at NU has someone they could thank for getting the program to the level it is currently at.

Amonte Hiller only has herself to thank for taking the Cats to new heights.

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By AVA WALLACE$%&'( -#)&*+ -!%;;#+ @AvaRWallace

Here at Northwestern, senior mid-0elder Ali Cassera is one of seven seniors who will lead the Wildcats into their Final Four matchup against North Carolina on Friday.

Back home in Fair0eld, N.J., she has a reputation.

Karin Harvey, women’s basketball coach at nearby Montclair State Uni-versity, discovered Cassera’s local fame when Harvey started making calls to 0nd out what type of athlete Cassera

was. “I started just checking her back-

ground and everyone in this area knew who she was,” Harvey said. “1ey were like, ‘Oh, that’s that phenom-enal lacrosse player from West Essex (Regional School District).’”

1e senior, who is one of three cap-tains on coach Kelly Amonte Hiller’s national championship-defending squad, had just contacted Harvey about spending her 09h year of NCAA eligi-bility playing basketball at Montclair State.

“I was a big time basketball player in high school,” Cassera said. “When I thought I was going to go for my

masters, I thought, ‘I’ve heard some people do four years of one sport and then they’ve done the 09h in another, so why not?’ … It just kind of took o5.”

Cassera was a four-year letter winner in basketball, 0eld hockey and lacrosse at West Essex and played AAU basket-ball throughout high school.

The senior said she had always wanted to play basketball in college and contacted Harvey a9er she was accepted into Montclair State’s gradu-ate school to earn her master’s degree in school counseling.

From there, Harvey, a previous high school and college lacrosse coach who is now in her sixth season as the head bas-ketball coach at Montclair State, started working the coaching grapevine.

“Everything I’ve heard about her has been super positive and my interactions with her have been great,” Harvey said. “Anytime you can bring somebody in with her level of experience, play-ing Division I lacrosse, winning two national championships, trying to win a third, that’s great experience.”

Harvey said she is excited to add Cassera’s leadership and athletic prow-ess to the program. 1is past season, Montclair State ended the year ranked 0rst in the Atlantic Conference and made it to the third round of the NCAA Tournament.

“Our style of play is just if you’re a good athlete you can do well in our sys-tem,” Harvey said. “When I talked to Ali, she was like, ‘I don’t care if I ever play. If I can make someone better, if I can

make the team better, I’ve just always wanted to play college basketball.’”

But before Cassera starts working on her longtime dream, she has a legacy to 0nish out at NU.

In her career at NU, Cassera has sat out a total of two games over four years. 1is season, Cassera became a team staple, started in all but two contests and has racked up 34 goals so far, which puts her in fourth place — tied with senior Amanda Macaluso – for most goals scored this season.

She netted a career-high 6 goals against Syracuse this season and matched her career-high < ground balls at Notre Dame. She ended the year as a member of the second-team All-ALC and as a member of the ALC All-Tournament Team.

In addition to ful0lling her dream of playing college ball, Cassera is happy that she will not be throwing what she learned about lacrosse from Amonte Hiller out the window, as the two sports share so much in common.

1e senior lists cutting, quick feet, defensive positioning, one-on-one defense and game awareness as just a few elements lacrosse and basketball have in common – things that she has improved in her lacrosse game over the past four years that will make her a bet-ter basketball player.

And the fact that the senior has not actually played basketball in quite a while? Cassera isn’t too concerned.

“It’ll come back to me,” she said.

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SWITCH IT UP Senior midfielder Ali Cassera is trading in her lacrosse stick for a basketball next year. The senior will use her fifth year of eligibility to play basketball at Division III Montclair State next fall.

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