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Aldermen eye plastic bag banBy patrick svitekdaily senior staffer @PatrickSvitek
Some Evanston aldermen would like their colleagues to revisit out-lawing plastic bags following the Chicago City Council’s decision last week to partially ban them.
“I would certainly be willing to send it to a committee to at least have a discussion and review the Chicago ordinance,” Ald. Ann Rainey (8th) said Monday after-noon, calling a ban a no-brainer given how many stores already require — or at least encourage — the use of reusable or paper bags.
Evanston City Council weighed the idea in 2011 but eventually
backed off after not seeing enough momentum for a policy change, Ald. Jane Grover (7th) said. She and Rainey agreed the Chicago ordinance, which passed Wednes-day in a 36-10 vote, could be the impetus for taking another look at the issue in Evanston.
“With Chicago addressing the issue ... it makes sense for Evan-ston to expand that policy north of Chicago’s border,” Grover wrote in an email to The Daily shortly after Chicago aldermen approved the legislation. “As two major lakeshore cities, we’ll both be more effective tackling plastic bags together.”
Sponsored by Ald. Proco “Joe” Moreno (1st), the Chicago ordi-nance gives stores larger than 10,000 square feet until August
2015 to stop offering plastic bags or face fines ranging from $300 to $500 per violation. Smaller stores have another year before they must obey the partial ban.
The Chicago legislation, which passed with the support of Mayor Rahm Emanuel, carves out exemp-tions for restaurants and small businesses, who often argue they cannot afford to offer the more expensive alternatives — paper or reusable bags — without rais-ing prices. Supporters of banning plastic bags, meanwhile, say they harm the environment in a variety of ways, littering streets and clog-ging waterways.
Eleanor Revelle, president of
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fArEwEll PlAstic? Weinberg freshman Jessica Hoffman uses plastic bags after a trip to the drug store. Some Evanston aldermen say they would support a plastic bag ban in Evanston.
By reBecca savraNskYdaily senior staffer @beccasavransky
Student leaders are preparing to pres-ent Northwestern administrators with feedback they gathered on implement-ing a plan to allow students to earn aca-demic credit for certain extracurricular activities.
One of the four pillars of Northwest-ern’s strategic plan is “Integrate,” request-ing the University combine learning within and outside of the classroom and “make changes that enable students to earn more credit toward graduation from experiential learning activities.”
Although NU has programs allow-ing students to receive credit for their experiences outside of formal academic environments, students still take part in multiple extracurricular activities during the year and receive no formal signs of recognition.
But with student action and adminis-trative support, that could soon change.
Associated Student Government members are in the process of compiling data and speaking with administrators in an effort to assess the potential of the 3+E initiative, which would award students credit for experiences and activities out-side of the classroom.
After several months of hosting focus groups and analyzing survey data, Wein-berg senior Sofia Sami, former ASG aca-demics vice president, said she is looking into the best ways to recognize students for their contributions outside of the classroom.
“Now that we have a lot of information, I’m looking to compile the self-reported
data and merge it with the focus group results, so basically we can move this con-versation not only from a conceptual level but also to provide a foundational map as to how people can actually begin to acknowledge these things,” Sami said.
ASG members working on the initia-tive are nearing the end of the research and discovery phase and heading into the development part of the project, said Weinberg junior Erik Zorn, ASG execu-tive vice president. Students involved are hoping to create a presentation to give to administrators within the next few weeks. Information compiled from both the focus groups and a campus-wide sur-vey sent out at the beginning of the year will be presented to gauge administra-tive feedback and develop a plan going forward.
University President Morton Scha-piro said although the idea is embedded within the University’s strategic plan, the plan aims above what can feasibly be accomplished. Due to various logistical issues, the “integration” part of the stra-tegic plan is the aspect most likely to be unsuccessful, Schapiro noted.
“There’s nothing in (the strategic plan) that doesn’t have some chance of success, but there’s certainly things in there that are not going to be successful because otherwise you probably didn’t aspire high enough,” he told The Daily. “When people say, ‘What’s the one most likely to fail?’ it’s probably integrating.”
Schapiro noted it is easier to imple-ment this kind of program under the quarter system, where students are required to take more credits, and there is more room for flexibility. However, a
asG continues 3+e research
» See 3+E, page 7» See PlAstic, page 7
3 arrested in connection with car burglaries
Three young men were arrested on Saturday in connection with a series of car burglaries that occurred in northwest Evanston.
At least six vehicles of various brands were broken into overnight Thursday, Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said. The incidents occurred in several blocks, including the 2700 block of Marcy Ave-nue, the 2700 block of Lawndale Avenue and the 2700 and 3000 blocks of Thayer Street, police said.
The items stolen included cash, an iPod, a Garmin GPS and two sets of golf clubs, police said. The cars that were tar-geted comprised of two Hondas, an Audi, a Jeep, a Subaru and a Dodge.
Police arrested the Evanston residents, Noah Whitley-Allen, 19; Matias Nobile, 18 and Parker Cavalier, 18, on Saturday, Parrott said. Whitley-Allen was charged with six counts of burglary and posses-sion of a controlled substance, all felonies, and unlawful possession of cannabis, a misdemeanor. Nobile and Cavalier were charged with five counts of burglary each, all felonies.
A surveillance photo of a private resi-dence from a video camera that faced the street assisted police in solving the series of burglaries, police said.
— Julian Gerez
Hackathon winners move forward with app
New pastry shop to sweeten dessert scene
Source: Northwestern App screenshot
MOBilE MAKEOVEr The Northwestern App won the $2,000 grand prize at RedesigNU, a 24-hour hackathon on April 25 and 26. The mobile app includes a digital WildCARD and mobile friendly CAESAR.
By katheriNe richterthe daily northwestern @krichter_medill
After a comprehensive North-western mobile app was awarded the grand prize in Associated Stu-dent Government’s RedesigNU: hackathon event last weekend, the app’s two student creators are mov-ing forward with the initiative in an effort to make their idea a reality.
Weinberg sophomore Eric
Brownrout and McCormick soph-omore Matt Ehinger created an updated version of the NU app and the pair now aims to integrate the app into campus technology.
“In 24 hours, you’re just forced to build something,” Brownrout said. “The time crunch gives you a really good experience. The theme, RedesigNU, spoke out to me personally because there’s a lot of room for us to innovate.”
» See NU APP, page 6
By tori lathamthe daily northwestern
A new pastry shop will soon open on Central Street, joining Evanston’s arsenal of dessert stores.
Evanston resident Beth Welch, plans to open a European-style pastry shop in the space previously occupied by the R.C. Danon Gallery, 1814 Central St. The as-yet-unnamed shop will serve coffee, breakfast pastries, cupcakes, cakes and other treats with a European flair. Welch said she hopes the bakery will offer something different than what people usually find in the city.
“I want to fill a niche that is not cur-rently being offered,” she said. “I’m not trying to compete with other bakeries like Tag’s. I just want the shop to be another option for desserts.”
Before deciding to open the bakery, Welch had her own catering company and taught classes at a Sur La Table location in Skokie.She received her bachelor’s degree from the Culinary Institute of America in New York and has worked at the Four Seasons Hotel New York.
“I just decided that opening my own place, it was now or never,” Welch said.
“The old tenant had mentioned the space to me, and it was just the perfect location.”
After announcing her plans to open shop, Welch said she received an over-whelming positive response from both friends and strangers. She said they could not wait for the shop to open and add a “little something” to the east side of Central Street.
“My sister was picking her kids up from school, and she was bombarded by other parents,” Welch said. “They kept asking her when it was going to open and telling her how excited they were for something new and different.”
Welch said she is looking forward to opening the shop and is excited to contribute to the community she grew up in. Welch attended Evanston Town-ship High School and said she holds the city very close to her heart.
“There is nothing more I want to do than give back,” she said. “It is sur-real opening on Central. I want to help with charities and schools, as well as offer different things for events such as graduation.”
The community is also looking
» See PAstriEs, page 7
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Church displays John Paul II’s clothesBy Julian gerezthe daily northwestern @JGerez_news
A local Evanston church is displaying clothes worn by the newly canonized St. John Paul II.
A member of St. Athanasius Parish, 1615 Lincoln St., donated the clothes to the church in 2011, said the Rev. Hernan Cuevas.
“It’s a very precious gift and religious object which means a lot,” the St. Athanasius priest said. “It could be a relic. We’ve been having a lot of people come asking to see the vestment, not only from our parish, but from other parishes.”
The garment has been displayed since April, and parishioners are able to see it during weekend masses. Cuevas said he hopes to find a more per-manent place for the vestments so that those who wish to see them can do so at any time.
The clothes were worn by St. John Paul II in 1997 when he visited his homeland of Poland, according to a letter of authenticity from a bishop’s office in Poland that was donated with the clothes. Fran-ciscan sisters wove the garment and gave it to him during his visit.
“They (the sisters) did it with a lot of love for him,” Cuevas said. “And he was kind enough to accept it, which shows his acceptance and humility.”
Nancy Taylor, an Evanston resident and a parish-ioner of St. Athanasius for more than 40 years said the congregation has welcomed the vestments
positively.“People are really honored to have it here,” she
said. “We feel we have something very special that belonged to a very special person who had been in our midst and even came here to Chicago at one point during his papacy.”
Cuevas also emphasized the importance of the newly canonized former pope to the Catholic Church.
“It means a lot to me because he was the pope during my lifetime,” Cuevas said. “He was one of the popes who globalized the papacy. He had the courage to go beyond, speak the truth and bear witness to the Gospel.”
The parishioner who donated the clothing wished to remain anonymous but has since moved outside of Evanston, Cuevas said.
St. John Paul II was canonized on April 27 along-side St. John XXIII, the pope who called the reform-ing Second Vatican Council in 1962.
Taylor said the canonization helped renew inter-est in the popularity of the clothes, which had been at the church for a couple of years.
“It’s a beautiful piece of cloth,” she said. “It’s been a wonderful addition to the Easter season.”
Cuevas said he wore the garments in the past to celebrate a mass but probably would not do so anymore now that the pope has been canonized.
“It’s more important for the clothes to be dis-played,” he said.
Nearly $2K worth of goods stolen from central Evanston apartment
Someone burglarized about $1,800 worth of items from an apartment in central Evanston over-night on Friday or early Saturday morning.
A pair of diamond earrings and a black leather wristwatch were taken from the residence of a 39-year-old, who returned home to find jewelry boxes out of place, Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay
Parrott said. The Evanston resident said the doors and windows in the apartment in the 1400 block of Darrow Avenue were locked and police said they found no signs of forced entry.
No suspects have been identified in the inci-dent, Parrott said.
Chicago resident arrested for Jewel-Osco theft
A 44-year-old man was arrested in connec-tion with retail theft at a supermarket near the Chicago border Thursday afternoon.
The man went into Jewel-Osco, 2485 How-ard St., and took several packages of meat, Par-rott said. He concealed the items, worth about $90, in his coat and pants, but was stopped by loss prevention officers before being detained by police.
The man, who is a Chicago resident, was charged with a felony due to having a previous conviction for retail theft in 2009, police said. He is scheduled to appear in court May 8.
— Julian Gerez
Source: St. Athanasius Parish
GAthEriNG AttENtiON The vestments worn by St. John Paul II were given to the former pope during a trip to his homeland of Poland in 1997 by Franciscan sisters who wove the garment. It is currently on display at St. Athanasius Parish, 1615 Lincoln St.
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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Distinguished Annual Lecture
the Silver Bullet:Progress and Perspectives on Contaminated Subsurface Restoration
Linda Abriola, Dean of Engineering at Tufts University
Thursday, May 8, 20143:00 – 4:00 p.m.Ford Building, ITW Lecture Room
In Search of
Chlorinated solvent contamination of aquifers is a recalcitrant problem that has challenged environmental engineering professionals, regulators, and site managers for decades. When solvents are introduced to the subsurface, whether through accidental spills or leaking containment facilities, they create
health risk to downstream receptors. This presentation provides an overview of interdisciplinary research designed to improve our ability to predict the migration and fate of DNAPLs in natural subsurface formations and to develop improved methodologies for site characterization and management. Numerical simulations and experimental observations are used to illustrate advances in our understanding of the hydrologic and abiotic and biotic
Linda M. Abriola is Dean of the School of Engineering at Tufts University. She recently served as an elected member of the NAE Governing Council and as a member of the NSF Engineering Directorate Advisory Committee. She currently serves on the National Academies Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy and the NRC Committee for the Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences. Dr. Abriola received her Ph.D. and Master’s degrees from Princeton University and a Bachelor’s degree from Drexel University, all in Civil Engineering.
By Eli pankEnthe daily northwestern @EliPanken
The director of social media and marketing at ESPN spoke Monday at Northwestern about the recent developments of social media at his job and the future of the field.
About 30 individuals gathered in the McCormick Tribune Center to listen to Ben Shields (Communi-cation ’03, ‘04, ‘08) speak about his five years work-ing at ESPN, which he called “an eternity, in social media terms.” He obtained three degrees from NU and said he was excited to be back in Evanston, as he “basically bleeds purple.” Shields spoke about ESPN’s overall philosophy and how it was molded around the increasing popularity of social media.
“In 2009, we realized that if we didn’t get involved in social media space, we were going against our own mission,” Shields said.
Shields said ESPN’s goal is to serve sports fans any time and anywhere and recognized that although social media is effective in accomplishing ESPN’s main goal, it cannot be the only method of providing information to sports fans.
“Social is a tactic, not a strategy,” Shields said. “We can use social media to help market viewers, create the best content to be shown, and develop larger sponsorship opportunities.”
Shields prepared a number of examples to dem-onstrate to the crowd how social media has worked on ESPN, including the use of #SCTop10 during “SportsCenter” broadcasts and the comedic “This is SportsCenter” commercials.
Shields addressed the development and growth of new social media platforms, such as Vine, Insta-gram, and Snapchat discussing how they have been used both by sports teams and within ESPN. He had multiple examples for each platform about how ESPN has utilized each platform to better perfect highlights, generate awareness for live events and give viewers a behind-the-scenes look at what goes on with different teams.
“Social media isn’t just the Facebook post or the Twitter feed at ESPN anymore,” Shields said. “We’re trying to use these tools to accomplish our goals more effectively.”
Shields held a question-and-answer session after his presentation where attendees asked questions about his social media team and their most and least successful practices. He said his favorite part of the job is reacting to new developments in social media.
Medill sophomore Megan O’Brien said she was surprised to see how much work it is to utilize social media on a network like ESPN.
“I never realized how much thinking and creativ-ity goes into using social media,” she said.
O’Brien said she was intrigued by ESPN’s use of newer outlets to provide audiences with new ways to view the same material. Shields mentioned the newer outlets allow for the network to expand their programming.
“It’s not a one-size-fits-all strategy,” he said. “You have to adjust the programming to fit the platform.”
Medill freshman Jesse Kirsch, said he gained a new, optimistic perspective on social media from Shields’ talk.
“If social media is important now, I’m sure it will
be ten times more important when we graduate,” he said. “With all these new platforms, I feel more confi-dent about the post-graduation opportunities for our
age group, which is pretty social media-savvy.”
ESPN marketing director talks future of social media
annabel Edwards/daily Senior Staffer
TWEET TWEET Ben Shields, director of social media at ESPn, gives a keynote speech Monday afternoon at the McCormick Tribune Center. The speech was for the Great lakes region meeting of the associated Press Sports Editors, hosted by the Sports immersion Program and Medill Career Services.
NU researchers develop environmentally friendly solar cell
Northwestern researchers are developing a new inexpensive and environmentally friendly solar cell model that uses tin instead of lead to
harvest light.Chemistry Prof. Mercouri Kanatzidis is
heading the research effort with the help of NU nanoscientist Robert Chang. Although the tin model, which uses a structure called a per-ovskite, currently has an efficiency of around 6 percent, Kanatzidis said he is hopeful it will reach or surpass the 15 percent efficiency rate of lead perovskites.
“Other scientists will see what we have done and improve on our methods,” Kanatzidis said in a news release. “There is no reason this new material can’t reach an efficiency better than 15 percent, which is what the lead perovskite solar cell offers. Tin and lead are in the same group in the periodic table, so we expect similar results.”
The tin device can be made without complex
equipment and Kanatzidis said it can absorb most of the visible light spectrum.
“Solar energy is free and is the only energy that is sustainable forever,” Kanatzidis said in the release. “If we know how to harvest this energy in an efficient way we can raise our standard of living and help preserve the environment.”
— Jordan Harrison
To put this in the most straightforward fashion, the ruling AK Party of Turkey has been oppressing freedom of speech, censoring all kinds of ideas and threatening the living standards of non-conservatives excessively for quite some time. However, the very same gov-ernment took a huge step forward last week, one that preceding governments have failed to do. On April 23, the day before the Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed his condolences for those who lost their lives under the rule of Ottoman Empire during World War I.
The events of 1915-1918 are still some of the most controversial topics of the 20th century. Unlike what Armenian or Turkish governments claim, there are really two sides to this story and both have the right to be told. After the Genocide Convention in 1950, it became clear that both “actus reus” (guilty act) and “mens rea” (guilty mind) must be present to call any historical event a genocide. Undeniably many Ottoman citizens, mostly but not limited to Armenians, lost their lives under extremely inhumane conditions during that time period. So to decide whether this is a genocide or not, the question here is whether or not those mass murders and sufferings were premeditated. Many historians such as Gregory Stanton, Stanford Shaw and Bernard Lewis have argued for and against this. However, before one can answer that question, there are plenty of prior events that should be considered. It is up to Turkish, Armenian and international historians to find a satisfying answer as, so far, all of the responses from both viewpoints have failed to recognize opposing aspects. Regardless of what we call it, what happened will not change.
Many times, I have been asked where I stand and whether or not I am willing to apologize for all those unimaginable sufferings and atroc-ities. I never had a satisfactory answer because I wanted to say “yes” and “no” for various rea-sons. Lately I have been asking myself the same question, and today I can answer confidently. The main reason others asked me this was because of my ethnicity or my “heritage” as they saw it. Today, by no means do I feel responsible for these reasons, as I do not see the Ottoman Empire, a dictatorial regime whose political, religious and cultural values I never shared, as part of my “heritage.” Unlike what many think, I cannot be defined by the actions of the “Three Pashas” of the last years of the Ottoman Empire, who had blood of thousands in their hands. Therefore, I refuse to apologize because of these reasons.
However as a 20-year-old college student
I can see the horror Armenian people lived through for decades. I can try to understand the incomprehensible pain generations felt for decades, I can anticipate the absences Arme-nian children experienced who grew up without their mothers and fathers, I can sense the tor-ments of the families back then and afterwards, and I can imagine the immense agony Arme-nians lived through to this day. I personally do not feel responsible, but I can empathize and therefore wish to apologize to the Armenians, just as I wish to apologize to the Congolese for the loss of millions under the rule of Leopold II, or to the Palestinian for their immeasurable sufferings for decades, or to Native Americans, or to the Vietnamese, Chinese and Cham Mus-lims, or to Gypsies, homosexuals and Jews.
We have experienced far too many tragedies so far and we should be able to remember and learn from every single one of them. Therefore I believe April 24 is extremely important, not to remember a genocide but to remember the suf-fering, not only those who have enough politi-cal power to make their voices heard but also those who do not possess such power.
Even today we don’t have full freedom of speech on many platforms to talk about the events of 1915-1918. But we need to, as, unlike many claim, it still isn’t clear whether those events should be classified as genocide or not, because there still isn’t a general consensus among scholars. That can never be achieved unless Armenian, Turkish and international historians start working together. Unfortunately this never is going to happen as long as France limits the freedom of speech by defining not recognizing the genocide as crime or as long as Turkish courts consider not denying those suf-ferings as “insulting Turkishness.”
Ekin Zeytinoglu is a McCormick freshman. 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].
Fraud is unacceptably common in scien-tific research. As a society, we have placed trust in our scientists, but too often we are unaware of the abuses that occur. But fraud in research isn’t new, and neither is the lack of public awareness. There has been a ten-fold increase in scientific misconduct over the past 30 years, and about two thirds of biomedical research article retractions are due to fraud. Although billions of dollars of public money are funneled into scientific research every year, little is being done to ensure that research is being performed honestly.
Even now, a paradigm-shifting discovery in the growth of stem cells has become mired in controversy. Last January, a research team published a paper in the journal “Nature” demonstrating a groundbreaking new way to grow stem cells by stressing ordinary cells with acid or mechanical pressure. Soon after, however, researchers around the world were unable to replicate their results. With mount-ing doubts, an investigation soon found them guilty of misconduct, as was discovered that an important image had been copied from a researcher’s previous dissertation, and data had been inappropriately spliced to fit their results. Just two weeks ago, the senior researcher behind the project resigned amid the controversy, after new documents sur-faced showing similar data tampering in his previous publications.
Why does scientific misconduct happen? Because it is trivially easy to do. As a gradu-ate student, I perform nearly all of my own experiments alone. If I were to begin altering data to further my career, no one would ever
know but me. Fraud is detected only when those committing it get overconfident or sloppy. Ultimately, we will only ever be able to catch those who perform egregious acts of scientific misconduct, and we are likely miss-ing those who are getting away with fraud on a much deeper level.
These kinds of abuses leave a huge amount of public funding at risk, as the National Institutes of Health puts about $30 billion into medical research every year. Although there is some funding oversight, the punish-ments for misconduct are often laughably trivial, such as completing an online eth-ics course, with many violators still keep-ing their careers in academia.This kind of bureaucratic bungling even led to the recent resignation of David Wright from the head of the Office of Research Integrity this March. He gave the example of Dong-Pyou Han, who was banned from public funds for only three years after significant misconduct in the acquisition of $19 million in grants. In any other setting, this kind of fraud would be criminal, but in science, it is merely a misdemeanor.
But scientific wrongdoing is not always restricted to research itself. In fact, North-western has had its own share of misconduct in handing grant funds. Just last year, NU paid nearly $3 million to settle a case of can-cer research grant fraud. Allegedly, one the researchers, Dr. Charles L. Bennet, submit-ted false claims for costs of family trips, as well as consulting fees for friends and fam-ily. Although NU did not admit liability as part of the settlement, it still serves as a dark reminder of how research misconduct can be present at all levels of scientific investigation.
We need to ensure that the next genera-tion of scientists will not fall victim to this pattern of research fraud. There are incred-ible undergraduate research opportunities at NU, which received $549.3 million in research funding in 2013 for a huge variety of fields, from bio-mechanical engineering to sociology. But integrity in research needs to be a standard part of the training of new researchers. It is the responsibility of the mentoring professor to train honest research practices, as well as it is the student’s to recognize and report fraud, fabrication and plagiarism. Only by raising awareness of the extent of this problem can we encourage tougher sanctions against perpetrators of scientific misconduct. If we do not, scientific progress may be crippled by a lack of con-fidence in genuine data, with easy success coming to those who continue to abuse it with minimal consequences.
Sai Folmsbee is a Feinberg graduate student. He can be reached at [email protected]. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor [email protected].
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NU should find a new recipe for inefficient meal plans
At first glance, the meal plans at North-western seem great. There are a lot of choices for meals, the staff is very accommodating of food allergies and preferences and the buffet-style dining allows us to eat as much as we want in one sitting. After a closer look into the rules surrounding the meal plans, though, it becomes apparent there are many flaws in the system.
The biggest problem is the rule surround-ing guest meals. On the Weekly 14 plan, meals are set up for students to “use them or lose them” at the end of the week and each student is allowed two guest meals per quar-ter. However, if students don’t use up all of their meals for the week, they can’t use those other meals for guests. This is a ridiculous rule for a few reasons. First, it’s a waste of the student’s money when the meals could actually be put to good use. Second, it doesn’t cost the University any more money because there is no difference if the student used that
meal or if the student’s guest used it.
This is a problem I struggle with on a weekly basis. I have a guest come visit me almost every Monday and Tuesday. During that time, he has to pay for his own meals in the dining halls or off campus while my extra meals go to waste.
Another example of NU’s wastefulness is that only three of the 14 meals on the Weekly 14 plan can be used as equivalency meals. That means if we have leftover meals, and we have already used three equivalency meals, then those meals go to waste too. It is unreasonable and unjust for NU to tell us to “use them or lose them” when
we are trying to use them and get our money’s worth, but the administration is indifferent to our grievances.
Furthermore, freshmen and other first-year students don’t have block plans, in which all meals can be used as equivalency meals and are lost at the end of the quarter instead of at the end of the week. There is no reason why first-year students should be barred from using this type of a plan in order to ensure their money isn’t going to waste. Instead, this restriction only fur-ther serves to inter-fere with this goal.
Finally, there is a problem with the
unlimited meal plan. By offering it, NU is not providing an opportunity for students to truly get their money’s worth because stu-dents are not allotted more guest or equiva-lency meals. Instead, the unlimited meal plan allows students to indulge in unhealthy eating behaviors. Under this plan, students are permitted to swipe in for breakfast, lunch, dinner and late night as many times as they want. This could enable students to overeat because they won’t control their portions or will eat unhealthy foods like desserts more often. Although it is not the University’s responsibility to monitor students’ food intake, NU should not be enabling these possibilities.
There are many things that NU should do to ensure that the meal plans are fair for stu-dents. The most basic change should include letting leftover meals be used as guest or equivalency meals, no matter how many there are. I don’t like to think that my school is unfair or unreasonable, so we should expect such changes for the better to be made.
Katy Vines is a Weinberg freshman. 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] by lissey Barnett/The Daily northwestern
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Seventy NU students competed in the 24-hour competition, which ran from April 25 to 26.
The existing NU app includes event listings, campus maps and the university directory. Brownrout and Ehinger noticed missing capa-bilities, including a “digital WildCARD,” which was added to replace the “dated” WildCARD, and mobile-friendly CAESAR access.
The pair received the most positive feedback for their ability to integrate those two aspects of the NU experience into their creation.
Brownrout said during the competition, he took on the roles of creating the user interface and design, as well as the interactive prototype on the website. Ehinger handled writing the code for the app and developing the software. The pair combined their respective parts of the project when they found free time from their other responsibilities.
“The idea would be if we could implement an app with one or two of these features, we can branch out and start to build a vision for the app,” Brownrout said.
Newly-elected ASG president Julia Watson said she was impressed with Brownrout and
Ehinger’s innovation during the event.
“Their Northwest-ern app solves mul-tiple problems,” the Weinberg junior said. “It wasn’t just solving one problem with some of the stuff we have on campus.”
Brow nrout and Ehinger said they are open to collaborat-ing with other student developers who are interested in building a team to execute the app.
“We would like to turn this into a reality,” Brownrout said. “We still have to figure out what the best course of action is to do that.”
The competition also included a student vot-ing portion, where eight finalists were chosen to be voted on campus-wide, and the winners selected were also given monetary prizes. Voting for the student choice awards closed by Monday after being open for one week.
Brownrout and Ehinger placed third behind the “Census” and “One Day in Chicago” apps. “Course DJ,” “Course Connect,” “Easy Plan,” “Chalkboard Love” and “Purpl.io” were also finalists.
Watson said students’ votes served as cru-cial input in engaging the community with the hackathon projects.
“We wanted to make sure it wasn’t just the judges picking,” Watson said. “Students could vote on something they think is most effective.”
ASG services vice president Christina Kim said she hopes to make the hackathon an annual event.
“I think bringing innovation and entrepre-neurship to Northwestern is essential,” the McCormick sophomore said. “A lot of design and thought was put into this.”
The programming duo said they are focus-ing on their current app before expanding to other projects.
“I think we both have a handful of other ideas that we’re putting on the backburner right now,” Brownrout said. “If you can build something that can actually make people’s lives easier, then that’s the step one.”
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Senior wins Beinecke Scholarship By tyler pagerthe daily northwestern @TylerPager
A Bienen-Weinberg senior has been awarded a Beinecke Scholarship to finance part of his graduate studies for his academic and music accomplishments.
Conner VanderBeek, who is pursuing a dual degree in music composition and Asian studies, is one of 20 undergraduates out of 88 students to win the scholarship.
He is in his fourth year of a five-year program and is also minoring in ethnomusicology.
The Beinecke Scholarship was created in 1971 to provide funds for students to pursue graduate education.
Universities can only nominate one student for the award. VanderBeek will be awarded $34,000.
“It’s such a big thing for me because there are very few other composers at this school, and I don’t know anyone else in the Asian studies program,” he said. “For somebody to take notice of what I’m doing in these areas — something that feels so small and obscure when compared to everyone else — it’s a huge
acknowledgement that ... somebody is really after me and sees potential in me. It means a lot to me.”
VanderBeek is interested in studying music composition in graduate school.
He said his three top choices are Oxford University, Yale University and the New Eng-land Conservatory.
“Music is the way in which I understand the world,” he said. “A lot of what we experi-ence is beyond what we can communicate through words. I see music as a language that is as powerful as spoken language.”
VanderBeek is currently working on his thesis, for which he is conducting an eth-nography of the Gurdwara Sahib of Chicago, a Sikh temple, with a particular focus on music.
“Conner’s interest in Asian studies comple-ments his skill and energy as a composer and performer,” history Prof. Peter Carroll said in a news release. “Many composers are content to appropriate instruments or compositional styles from other cultural traditions. Conner brings a sophisticated musicological perspec-tive to the possibilities and challenges of a cosmopolitan approach to composition.”
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Prof named 2014-15 National Humanities Center fellow
A Weinberg professor has been named a National Humanities Center fellow for the 2014-15 academic year.
History Prof. Jonathon Glassman special-izes in 19th and 20th century East African, comparative race and slavery and was recog-nized for his project, “A History of Barbarism: Difference and Race in African Thought.”
Glassman has received several other awards including a Guggenheim, two Fulbrights and two fellowships from the Social Science Research Council.
Glassman has also written two books, including “Feasts and Riot: Revelry, Rebel-lion, and Popular Consciousness on the Swa-hili Coast, 1856-1888,” which received the Melville Herskovits Award from the African Studies Association and “War of Words, War of Stones: Racial Thought and Violence in Colonial Zanzibar,” which won the Martin A. Klein Prize from the American Historical Association.
Along with Glassman, 22 other NU fac-ulty members have previously been named National Humanities Center fellows.
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Evanston Township High School parents are being put on alert about a possible case of mumps involving a student.
In a letter posted Monday evening on the ETHS website, District 202 Superintendent Eric Witherspoon and Evonda Thomas-Smith, director of the Evanston Health Department, say an ETHS student may have contracted the contagious disease.
Witherspoon and Thomas-Smith are asking parents to ensure their children’s vaccinations are up to date. The letter says school-aged chil-dren should have received two or more doses of the mumps vaccine — at least once on or after their first birthday and another between the ages of four and six.
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similar initiative was pursued at Schapiro’s last job and ultimately did not come to fruition.
“At Williams, when we also in our strategic plan had a version of that, people seemed pretty excited,” he said. “Then when it came down to how do you really count these things, there was a lot of that excite-ment eroded.”
In an effort to effectively execute the idea, ASG held about eight focus groups during Winter Quarter, pri-marily with outgoing seniors. Zorn said the programs targeted seniors largely because they are in the process of applying for jobs and have “had a better chance to reflect on their experiences.” The individuals in each focus group had a common interest, such as being involved in theatre.
During the meetings, several topics were discussed, and students were asked what they would like to see in return for their involvement on campus. Responses from different groups showed one of students’ main priorities is being given respect from students, admin-istrators and faculty.
“The fact that all of (the focus groups) were dif-ferent but that was still the connecting theme was quite interesting,” Zorn said. “That was kind of the most interesting find from the study — just because it came up in every single focus group — was this desire for respect.”
Zorn said students in the discussions expressed that their experiences outside of the classroom taught them important skills they did not gain in their academic studies. He added after hearing student responses that the most feasible areas to start pilot programs would likely be the journalism and theater departments because individuals in those programs often take part in extracurriculars more relevant to their respective majors.
“I think that’s where there’s been a lot of demand for it,” he said.
In establishing the programs, several elements will be taken into consideration, including time commitment and the amount a student is learning in the extracurricular activity, but Zorn noted those elements can be difficult to quantify. He added sev-eral administrators have expressed a willingness to incorporate the concept into their departments, while others have been more hesistant.
Burgwell Howard, assistant vice president of stu-dent engagement, said he has been engaging in the discussion. Howard said he thinks it is an important concept, but there are several potential problems asso-ciated with such a large-scale initiative. Students are frequently involved in programs not aligned with their particular school, which could prompt difficulties in deciding what experiences would count for course credit, Howard said.
He added academic departments will have to decide what kind of credits to award to students, so the
system would likely have to be developed within each school rather than be established University-wide.
“It’s harder for Weinberg to do this because Wein-berg is less school-oriented than departmentally-ori-ented,” he said. “That’s a department-by-department conversation, which is a little bit harder than it is for some of the other schools.”
Howard offered overall praise for the concept, say-ing it is attempting to complement students’ academ-ics with rewards for experiential learning.
“We don’t want to take away anything from the academic experience,” Howard said. “We want to enhance it.”
Zorn said the initiative has not been fully under-taken by NU’s peer institutions, so there is no formal program to base it on. He said the team is looking into similar NU programs, such as the Chicago Field Stud-ies and Center for Leadership, but wants to expand the framework so it is more relevant to a student’s degree instead of simply an elective course credit.
As a “bridge between experiential learning and what Northwestern currently has,” Weinberg junior Anna Rennich, ASG vice president for academics, is working to institute service-learning classes within NU, which would create formal courses that have a community service aspect to them.
“We kind of see that as a short-term solution to the lack of experiential learning at Northwestern,” Rennich said.
Rennich said that the initiative is still in a “fact-
finding phase,” but she plans to make it a priority over the next year. She noted that the program, in contrast to 3+E, is utilized by several of NU’s peer schools, including Stanford University, Dartmouth College and Duke University, which hold academic classes with a graded community service aspect. Although the two initiatives are different, the general idea of integrating learning both within and outside of the classroom remains an overarching theme, Rennich said.
“I think it’s really interesting when you think about the Northwestern academic experience as a whole. There’s definitely an aspect that occurs outside of the classroom that I think has to be taken into consider-ation,” she said.
Zorn said the team working on 3+E hopes to develop a pilot proposal sometime before the end of Fall Quarter, and members of ASG’s academic com-mittee will likely be responsible for facilitating and continuing to research this concept.
However, Schapiro remains skeptical that a pro-gram will be implemented across NU’s six under-graduate schools.
“My guess is if you look back in say five years, there are going to be instances where it’s really successfully done, and there are going to be schools and programs at Northwestern where there’s almost no evidence that it was ever a priority,” he said.
Citizens’ Greener Evanston, said the envi-ronmental group has not taken a position on dealing with plastic bags intended for single use. The organization, however, encourages consumers to shop with reusable bags, a goal that Revelle said fits in with Citizens’ Greener Evanston’s “three Rs” strategy regard-ing solid waste management: reduce, reuse and recycle.
Dick Peach, an environmental activist who participated in the 2011 discussion of the issue the former president of the Evan-ston Chamber of Commerce, said he would likely support any effort to ban plastic bags in Evanston.
“If you’re going to ban them, ban them,” said Peach, who stepped down in January as president of the Evanston Chamber of Com-merce. “If it’s done right, it’s no inconvenience to us,” he added, referring to the city’s business
community.What he opposes, he said, is taxing bags, a
move Evanston aldermen considered in 2011. Doing so would give small businesses another tax to worry about collecting, as well as make them “look like the bad guys” when they have to explain the additional cost to their custom-ers, he said.
Ald. Judy Fiske (1st) has also spoken against taxing plastic bags, predicting during the 2011 discussion of the issue that doing so would have a “devastating impact on small mom-and-pop-type businesses.”
Fiske, who owns the pet store Fit + Frisky, 824 Noyes St., did not respond to a request for comment Monday afternoon on her col-leagues’ renewed interest in addressing plastic bags.
Asked for his advice for Chicago suburbs like Evanston weighing the issue, Moreno spokesman Matt Bailey said supporters of banning plastic bags need to be patient, pas-sionate and willing to compromise. Wednes-day’s vote was three years in the making, Bai-ley said, and even then, Moreno did not get everything he wanted in the bill.
“Obviously you can’t please people all the time, but you want to please as many people as you can,” Bailey said.
The Chicago City Council decision none-theless caught the attention of Rainey.
“The minute I saw the Chicago thing,” Rainey said. “I knew that we would at least have to talk about it again.”
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forward to welcoming Welch’s bakery to Evanston. Ald. Jane Grover (7th) said the shop will be a good addition to the city.
“Beth’s shop will certainly add to Evanston’s repu-tation as a destination for foodies, as well as enhance our Central Street business district east of the Metra tracks,” Grover said in an email to The Daily.
As of now, the store is still in its beginning stages. Welch said she is currently finishing the floor plans and will submit information to the city soon. She said she is also conducting a lot of behind-the-scenes work.
“I’m doing a lot of recipe testing right now,” she said. “In a couple of months I’m going to do a survey and ask the locals what they would like to see in the store.”
Welch said she hopes the store will be open by the fall, in time for football season.
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“If you’re going to ban them,
ban them. If it’s done right, it’s no inconvenience to us.
Dick Peach,former president of the Evanston
Chamber of Commerce
SPORTSTuesday, May 6, 2014 @Wildcat_Extra
ON DECK ON THE RECORDBaseballChicago at NU, 3 p.m. Tuesday
Individually, if I don’t win Big Tens, it’s not a success. — Jack Perry, senior golfer
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� ere’s trouble brewing in paradise.� at’s the message I took from Kelly
Amonte Hiller’s postgame news confer-ence a� er Florida scored seven second-half goals to beat Northwestern 9-8 in Sunday’s ALC Tournament title game.
What bothers me the most is the fact the Wildcats didn’t show the intensity necessary in the second half to deserve being named the � nal ALC Tournament champions. Amonte Hiller conceded that point during her postgame com-ments, and that really struck a nerve with me.
One of the greatest things about this past basketball season was that despite an obvious skill disadvantage nearly every night, Chris Collins’ team showed heart. � rough pure grit and determination, NU was able to stage upsets over Wis-consin on the road and over Iowa at the Big Ten Tournament. Even though the skill disparity was too much in the end, we all appreciated those players for put-ting everything on the line to win games.
� at was not the case for the Cats on Sunday. We all know NU has the skill to compete with and beat any team in the country. We saw it in the � rst half against Florida and in the win over North Caro-lina earlier in the year.
But we have also seen this team rely too much on its skill and get into trouble as a result. � at manifested itself the most in the second half Sunday, when various NU players would try to dodge their way out of the Florida double teams instead of trying to � nd the open player. As a result, Florida forced four second-half turnovers and was able to limit NU strictly to the perimeter, not allowing the Cats to attack the cage.
I understand NU dominating the � rst half of a game against an unranked program and then slowing down the engines a bit, but when the No. 3 team in the country comes to your home � eld and dominates a second half like Florida did Sunday, that is inexcusable and embarrassing. � ere is no rational reason NU should have taken its foot o� the gas in the second half against a top-� ve program and no reason the Cats were outworked as much as they were by the Gators.
Normally, NU takes a loss and uses it as motivation for the next couple of weeks. � is year, the Cats have had two two-game losing streaks, something that hasn’t happened since 2003, the last time NU failed to make the tournament. In fact, the Cats only had one two-game losing streak in the previous 10 seasons.
Last season, Florida blew out NU 22-4 in Gainesville, Florida, but when the ALC Tournament title was on the line, the Cats dominated and took home the trophy. � is year, NU’s spirited come-back fell short in the regular season, but come tournament time the revenge e� ort only lasted 30 minutes.
� e Gators heaped a lot of praise onto the Cats when they held their media scrum on the � eld, but what should sting NU the most are the words of Gators freshman defender Taylor Bresnahan.
“We just came out with more heart and we just wanted it more,” Bresnahan said.
Skill can win you a lot of games, but you need heart and intensity to win a national title. Christy Turner said it best in her postgame remarks.
“It’s up to us to determine what we want for this team,” the senior said.
NU has the chance to make history, but it will take heart and desire to get them there.
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Perry leads Cats to 4th at Big Tens
By KEVIN CASEYdaily senior staffer@KevinCasey19
Northwestern followed up last year’s disappointing showing at Big Ten Championships with an e� ort right in line with its ranking, but it did not produce a conference title.
� e Wild-cats came in fourth place Sunday in the 72-hole event played in French Lick, Ind., at the Pete Dye Course at the French Lick Resort. � e No. 50
Cats entered as the fourth highest-ranked squad and held right there, placing ahead of No. 43 Purdue but behind unranked Minnesota, No. 9 Illinois and No. 35 Iowa.
Coach Pat Goss was enthused by much of what his players did, but lamented the errors that cost the team a shot at the title.
“We did a lot of good,” Goss said. “At times, we made some nice birdie runs and got some good play from di� erent players. But overall the four scores we counted were too high and we made too many mistakes that were in our control.”
It was almost as if NU was gravi-tating toward fourth place the entire time. � e Cats were in fourth at the end of every round except the second round, when they were in � � h.
� e predictable team showing was precipitated by a strong performance from Jack Perry. � e senior and the team’s star player failed to match par in any of his four rounds at French Lick, but at a Pete Dye track that is pretty much standard fare. In the event, Perry produced three 73s and a 75, enough to put him in a tie for third place individually, � ve shots behind the winners.
Perry has consistently expressed high personal expectations, and in the a� ermath of a top-� ve � nish in his � nal go-round at Big Ten Cham-pionships, the sentiment was no di� erent.
“Individually, if I don’t win Big Tens, it’s not a success,” Perry said. “� ere was a lot of encouraging golf, I just had some silly bogeys, which I’ve had the last few tournaments and I need to get sorted out. Obviously I’m happy with third place, but to never get a Big Ten championship ring either with the team or individually is a bust that will go on my golf career no mat-ter what I do.”
Perry’s performance doesn’t speak for the entire team, and once again NU showed individual results do not remain stagnant for long. A� er start-ing the spring season with a consistent blueprint for results, the top two in the lineup play great golf while the Nos. 3-5 produce little, the Cats have now moved in a di� erent direction.
� e No. 3 slot has become one of
the strengths of the team. Matthew Negri had returned to prominence with consecutive top-30 � nishes and bolstered that trend at Big Tens. � e junior opened in 82 at French Lick, but followed the poor opening score with a pair of 75s and ended with a near-� awless � nal-round 69 that proved to be the best Sunday score among the 60 competitors, and good enough to move Negri from tied for 36th up to solo 19th-place � nish.
Negri was pleased with his 13-stroke improvement from Friday to Sunday and said it will mean something going forward.
“� is was probably the best round of the spring for me so far,” the junior said. “I was playing well for the last couple of weeks, so I tried to bring that with me. � e � rst round it got away from me. I started o� � ne, so I shouldn’t have shot 82. Today was de� nitely a step in the right direction. It gives me a lot of con� dence.”
For some players, the new blueprint for predicting results has too much event-to-event volatility to really be a blueprint at all. At the No. 4 spot, Scott Smith has surprised of late with good showings in his previous two events. But the redshirt sophomore only mustered a tie for 49th over the weekend, proving he is capable of poor results as well.
Perry’s high � nish was actually a deviation from his recent play. In both April tournaments, the senior was outside the top 20, a place he hadn’t
visited since the � rst event of the fall.Such volatility could be seen
as a negative, but it also implies potential.
“We’ve had di� erent players show success,” Goss said. “We know that if we can get everybody playing well at the same time, there’s enough good play for us to be successful.”
� ree members of the lineup have remained steady in performance. At the No. 2 spot, sophomore Andrew Whalen has played consistently solid golf, as has Negri at No. 3. � e No. 5 spot, currently occupied by junior Bennett Lavin, is the weak link, with a struggle to � nd form there.
� e Cats learned Monday they will be the No. 10 seed at the San Antonio NCAA Regionals site. � e event will be held May 15-17 at the Briggs Ranch Golf Club, with the top � ve � nishers advancing to NCAA Championships.
NU hopes regionals will not be its last event of the season. � e seeding doesn’t help the Cats’ cause, but the team made it to nationals from the exact same position three years ago and as a No. 9 seed back in 2009. � e Cats, once again a No. 9 seed, placed a single shot out of a playo� for an NCAA Championship berth in 2010.
NU has a proven track record in this seeding area. But can it happen again? � e Cats were not particularly close to qualifying as a No. 9 seed in 2012, when they � nished eighth, and the team’s results this spring, while
sprinkled with dashes of promise, are not inclined to foretell a rise to occasion.
But Perry believes his team is dan-gerous, due to his conviction that this bunch has not gone too far above the minimum of what it can produce.
� e Cats will have one more chance to overcome their season struggles and sort out the problems in their play. If they can’t, the season is over.
“Everyone on the team has good enough golf to win Big Tens by a land-slide, we just for some reason, and I do this too sometimes, we struggle to put our good golf forward,” Perry said. “I don’t know if we are too results-oriented or what the deal is, but as Pat has said a lot lately, we’ve shown a lot of good signs. But the good signs haven’t come to fruition yet. We can potentially only have one tournament le� , so it’s kind of all or nothing at the next tournament. We just need to � gure out how to put our best foot forward.”
Source: Eric Howitt
BIG TEN BUST Senior Jack Perry fi nished third at the Big Ten Championships, leading Northwestern to a fourth-place team fi nish but was unsatisfi ed with both results. “To never get a Big Ten Championship ring either with the team or individually is a bust that will go on my golf career no matter what I do,” he said.
Lacrosse team lacks heart, grit
Big Ten and Big East team up for basketball series to honor Dave Gavitt
The Big East and Big Ten have launched a new partnership, the conferences announced Monday.
Teams from the two leagues will
match up in an annual early-season basketball event, the Gavitt Tipoff Games, beginning in 2015 and last-ing through 2022.
The series is named for Dave Gavitt, the former Providence Col-lege coach and founder of the Big East conference, who died in 2011.
“We are excited to honor Dave Gavitt and his contributions to the sport of basketball through the establishment of the Gavitt Tipoff Games,” Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany said in a statement. “I think
he would approve of our effort to start a new tipoff tradition, grow the game and serve the best interests of the student-athletes and coaches in these two great conferences.”
The event will take place over four days during the first full week of the college basketball season in November. Each conference will host four games each year, and every Big Ten school is guaranteed at least four appearances in the series.
The partnership is part of an ongoing effort to market the Big
Ten to the East Coast. Maryland and Rutgers will officially join the conference July 1 and the Big Ten will soon open a second office in New York.
In addition to the Gavitt Tipoff Games, the Big Ten will remain engaged in the Big Ten/ACC Chal-lenge, the schedule for which was released last week. In the 2014 itera-tion of the challenge, Northwestern will host Georgia Tech on Dec. 3.
— Alex Putterman
Men’s Basketball
Men’s Golf
NU earns No. 10 seed at NCAA Regionals in San Antonio
“We can potentially
only have one tournament le� , so it’s
kind of all or nothing.Jack Perry,
senior golfer
“We made too many mistakes that were inour control. Pat Goss,men’s golf coach
