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opinionHead-to-head on affirmative action
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By ina yangdaily senior staffer
Newly opened Cheesie’s Pub and Grub may start serving alcohol as early as November, adding one more restaurant to Evanston’s limited late-night food and
drink options.Buffalo
Wild Wings and Burger King were two of the few late-night restaurant options near campus before Cheesie’s came to Evanston two weeks ago.
The grilled cheese fran-
chise recently opened its second loca-tion at 622 Davis St. — the first is located in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood — and almost immediately attracted a student following.
“For us to be open till 3 a.m. every night is what really appeals to them,” Cheesie’s employee Andrew Kyker said.
“We have students in here for late night all the time, including Saturdays when the line was out the door until we closed.”
Evanston Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl has already approved Cheesie’s liquor license request, and with an additional city coun-cil approval, the restaurant will be fully eligible to sell alcohol starting Nov. 1. The restaurant has also obtained permission to serve alcohol at one-day events such as football games so students of age can sup-plement their gameday experience with a grilled cheese sandwich and a beer.
“We want this to be a good place where people come, hang out and feel comfortable,” Kykner said.
Evanston does not have strict laws or ordinances that regulate the business hours of restaurants. Only those that serve alcohol must abide by Evanston city ordinances that state businesses are prohibited from selling alcohol between 2 and 9 a.m. for those holding Class A or Class I licenses, and between 1 and 11 a.m. for all the others.
Buffalo Wild Wings, which closes at 1 a.m. most days, is another favorite spot for students to hang out, watch sports and devour 50-cent chicken wings on Tuesdays. But Sheridan Foster, manager of the Buffalo Wild Wings at 1741 Maple Ave., said she is not intimated by Cheesie’s
entering the late-night market.“They bring something new to this
area that we don’t have,” Foster said. “We’re not threatened.”
Foster said Cheesie’s advantage is that it’s closer to campus than Buffalo Wild Wings, but stressed that the two restaurants have very different dynam-ics and cater to NU students in different ways.
For Weinberg sophomore Ogbemi
Rewane, “going to B-Dubs” twice a week with friends is a ritual of sorts. Sitting at the same table, his friend from the Pub-lic Affairs Residential College, Weinberg sophomore Spencer Schmider said his favorite days to go are 50-cent wings Tuesdays and NFL Sundays.
The five students said they knew of Cheesie’s popularity and had tried the new business’s sandwiches, but they didn’t think the added option would
interfere with their Buffalo Wild Wings routine.
Weinberg freshman Naomi Stevenson said lines are always too long at Cheesie’s, which is disappointing at 2 a.m. on windy nights when she just craves that grilled “mac and cheese” sandwich.
“I’m still going to come to B-Dubs,” Stevenson said.
$2 million gift to NU targets global workBy connor samuelsonthe daily northwestern
Two new programs seeking to expand and enhance Northwestern’s research on developing countries are underway this school year following a $2 million donation last May.
The Equality Development and Globalization Studies Program and the Arryman Fellowship program will both expand NU’s presence in international development research. The multi-million dollar donation by the Rajawali Foundation created the two programs last spring.
EDGS, housed in the Roberta Buffett Center of International and Comparative Studies, will bring interdisciplinary research opportu-nities to NU faculty and graduate students.
Although the Rajawali Foundation is based in Indonesia and focuses most of its projects there, EDGS will research developing countries worldwide. The yearlong Arryman Fellowship will give research oppor-tunities to pre-doctorate Indonesian students interested in law, econom-ics, business and other disciplines.
The partnership between NU and the Rajawali Foundation began with political science Prof. Jeffrey Win-ters and his extensive research on Indonesian development. Winters is currently the director of EDGS.
Political science Prof. Hendrik Spruyt, executive director of the Buffett Center, said EDGS seeks
to answer one core question: How do developing countries establish a sustainable and equitable econ-omy without creating huge income disparities?
Since its inception in May, the program has finalized its advisory board, comprosed of faculty from NU and the School of Law. The pro-gram launched its website last week and has broadened its outreach to include all schools, departments and students.
Although EDGS will primarily focus on faculty, graduate and Arry-man Fellows research, it will also fund speaker series, workshops and research papers for the entire NU community. Its Fall Quarter 2012 speaker series, “Property Rights, Power and the Rule of Law,” began Monday with a speaker from the University of Chicago Law School discussing economic development in China.
Beth Morrissey, program man-ager of EDGS, is responsible for organizing and advertising the pro-gram’s events.
“We are hoping EDGS is used as a resource for all of the schools at NU,” Morrissey said. “EDGS hopes to work with them and their goals to do great interdisciplinary research.”
Morrissey is also responsible for helping the Arryman Fellows tran-sition to living in the United States leading up to a symposium next
Third debate gets CRC treatment
By catherine zakrzewskithe daily northwestern
As President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney returned to prime time for the second of three debates, North-western students returned to the Communications Residential Col-lege to watch and discuss.
CRC’s third debate watch party of this election season was followed by a discussion with journalism Prof. Craig LaMay, co-author of the book “Inside the Presidential Debates: Their Improbable Past and Promis-ing Future.”
Tuesday’s town hall-style debate began with a question from a college student, hitting close to home for the 50 CRC residents watching from the couches and floor. Jeremy Epstein, a 20-year-old student, asked the can-didates how they could ensure he lands a job after graduation. Rather than specifically focusing on issues of importance to college students, both candidates used the question to discuss the broader topic of the economy.
“I think that both of them kind of dodged it,” Medill junior Tyler Fisher said. “They don’t care about college student issues.”
Fisher said he was disappointed by the candidates’ responses but has been pleased with Obama’s record on student loans and increasing Pell
grants.Medill junior Megan Joyce said
she thought Obama’s response was more “specific.”
“I have received thousands of dollars in Stafford loans from the government,” Joyce said. “If he’s re-elected, I know I’ll continue to receive that funding.”
Fisher said the issue of student loans likely did not get much atten-tion because Obama has already secured the college-age vote. Fish-er’s opinion was reflected in the discussion with LaMay following the debate. When LaMay asked the group of 20 students who stayed for the discussion if any supported
Romney, no one said they backed the former governor. One student said she supports neither candidate.
During his analysis of the debate, LaMay said voters typically think the candidate they already support won. Following the debate, the consen-sus among students was that Obama came out stronger than Romney.
“I think he was really good at shutting Romney down fact-wise,” said Carolyn Betts, a Communica-tion freshman.
Many attendees agreed that Obama appeared more strong and forceful than he did in the first
Ina Yang/Daily Senior Staffer
SAY CHEESE Northwestern students dine at Cheesie’s on Wednesday. The restaurant has become a popular spot for students as one of only a few restaurants near campus that stay open past midnight.
Mariam Gomaa/Daily Senior Staffer
town HAll Journalism Prof. Craig LaMay leads a discussion after the presidential debate. Students gathered to watch the debate in the Communications Residential College lounge.
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late-night options expand at cheesie’s
“We
want this to be a good place where people come, hang out and feel comfortable.Andrew Kyker,Cheesie’s employee
Journalism prof leads post-debate discussion on issues
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10.18.2012 @ 4 p.m.THE GERTRUDE AND G.D. CRAIN JR. LECTURE SERIES: The New York Times reporter Swarns will be speaking on “Slaves, Slaveowners and the American Melange: The Story of Michelle Obama’s Ancestry.”
DOUGLAS FOSTER10.25.2012 @ 4 p.m.THE GERTRUDE AND G.D. CRAIN JR. LECTURE SERIES: Medill Associate Professor Douglas Foster will discuss his new book, “After Mandela: The Struggle for Freedom in Post-Apartheid South Africa.”
EVAN SMITH11.1.2012 @ 4 p.m.THE GERTRUDE AND G.D. CRAIN JR. LECTURE SERIES: Smith, co-founder, editor-in-chief and CEO of the Texas Tribune, will speak on “Three Years in the Non-Profit News Trenches: What We’ve Learned.”
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stolen by an unknown woman on Thursday.The store, 2450 Main St., reported to the police
that a woman entered the store and removed an iPad from the display even though the tablet was secured by cables. The woman was reported to have hidden the item under her sweatshirt, Evan-ston Police spokesman Perry Polinski said.
tV, laptop and jewelry taken from Evanston residence during burglary
A residential burglary occurred Tuesday in the 1700 block of Grey Ave.
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By amanda gilBertthe daily northwestern
A new cafe opened this weekend on Oak Avenue, offering more than the traditional coffee and pas-tries common to the many shops already populating Evanston’s streets.
Prana Cafe is located in the Enterprise Building, 1840 Oak Ave., and offers a variety of fresh fruit smoothies, artisan paninis and French pastries. The store also has an espresso bar.
Griffin Cox, a 19-year-old University of Chicago student, said he and his father are currently the sole owner-operators of the restaurant but are hoping to hire Northwestern students soon. He explained that they chose to name the cafe “Prana” because it means life force.
“Most of our food is nitrate-free and organic,” Cox said.
Cox said one menu option that has become a customer favorite is the turkey cheddar panini. The cafe also offers turkey and cranberry paninis and pear sandwiches.
“We made this menu on our own,” Cox said. “My dad and I have been cooking our entire lives and we are selling our best sandwiches.”
Cox said his unique sandwich combinations are only one of the ways his family is trying to make the cafe stand out among the many coffee shops and res-taurants in Evanston. He added that they decided to add an espresso bar to the cafe after being trained by the Metropolis Coffee Company, a coffee producer
company that aims to teach coffee brewing skills to businesses. Cox said Metropolis taught them how to properly make and sell latte milk.
“A lot of times companies just use machines to mass-produce hot milk,” Cox said. “But we were trained to make latte milk that is creamy, foamy and whipped cream-like.”
Cox said because his family did not have any experience with desserts, they hired a French-trained pastry chef to bake the pastries every other day.
“My dad found this chef because it’s important that everything in this store is made with care and expertise,” Cox said. “It’s about a small business mindset. It’s not just about making the food, but about making it on time and in good condition for the customer.”
Cox said many of the cafe’s customers have been business traffic rather than foot traffic because the store is hidden in the Enterprise building. He said he hopes more college students will come because they recently added WiFi and a new work area where students can study.
Ald. Donald Wilson (4th) said he agrees that NU students should take advantage of Prana Cafe. He said each cafe in Evanston has its own niche or unique factor, and each is equally important to the community despite their great number.
“The cafes are all different,” Wilson said. “They are so popular because they are the new way to be social. They all add to the friendly ambiance Evanston has to offer in a separate way.”
Meghan White/Daily Senior Staffer
NOw OPEN Prana Cafe co-owner Griffin Cox serves up lemon peel pound cake and chocolate chipotle brownies in the new eatery. Prana opened this weekend.
Cafe aims to feed Evanston’s ‘life force’
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— Eboo Patel, member of presidential council on faith-based partnerships
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Reporter urges environmental awarenessBy jamie lovegrovethe daily northwestern
New York Times environmental reporter Justin Gillis advocated for increased urgency in dealing with climate change during an on-campus talk Tuesday evening.
“One of the urgent tasks of our time is for peo-ple like us to find a common language to alert the public to the reality of the situation we are in,” Gillis said at the beginning of his lecture.
The event, hosted by the Northwestern Energy and Sustainability Consortium, brought together an audience of journalists, scientists and other interested members of the Northwestern com-munity in the McCormick Tribune Center. Just more than 100 people attended in total.
Gillis’ recent 10-part multimedia series, “Temperature Rising,” received critical acclaim in both the environmental science and journal-ism fields.
David Snydacker, a graduate student represen-tative for NESC, organized the event to emphasize the importance of the connection between sci-ence and the media when it comes to the issue of climate change.
“Climate change is a really fascinating subject, but it’s hard to get scientists who study climate change to comment on problems like commu-nication,” the McCormick graduate student said. “Somebody like Justin, who has traveled the coun-try and spoken to many prominent climate sci-entists, is particularly well situated to synthesize all the information and to make it relatable and understandable for non-climate scientists.”
The award-winning reporter pointed to polling data that shows more than 50 percent of Ameri-cans believe global warming exists but very few understand the urgency. Gillis illustrated his point by comparing photos of the Arctic ice caps taken by satellite Nimbus-7 in both 1979 and 2012, showing that more than 50 percent of the ice sheet has already melted.
“There’s a possibility of up to 250 feet of sea
level rise locked up in the Arctic ice caps,” Gillis explained. “Tens of millions of people live within 100 feet of sea level, and many of the world’s major cities are just a few feet above sea level.”
Maninpat Naviroj, another McCormick gradu-ate student, said he enjoyed hearing about the climate issue from a journalist as opposed to a scientist.
“He has been in the field for so long and that he feels that one of the biggest problems is conveying the issue is a new insight for me,” Naviroj said. “Because I come from an engineering background, I am used to thinking about it from the science side rather than the rhetoric side.”
Following the lecture, Gillis took questions on a variety of topics from the audience, includ-ing what scientists can do to help advocate for a
response to climate change, and how much of a connection the recession had to the diminishing role of the environment in news coverage.
Gillis said he was happy to deliver the talk at “the best journalism school in the country” and “one of the best universities in the country.”
“If you look at the politics of the moment, things are just not moving,” Gillis told The Daily following the talk. “The overriding imperative here is to get accurate information over to the public and in order to do that we’ve got to go back to the basics … So I feel like if I’m going to come anywhere and make this case for upgrading our journalistic knowledge base, this is the right place to do it.”
bernard wen/the daily northwestern
heating up Justin Gillis, an environmental reporter for the new york times, speaks to a crowd of students, faculty, and local scientists at the Mccormick tribune center about the realities of climate change and how accurate journalism can combat public apathy.
One Book Keynote — alex Kotlowitz
wednesday, oct. 17, 4:30 - 6 p.m. technological instituteAlex Kotlowitz, Northwestern professor and author of this year’s One Book One North-western selection, “Never a City So Real,” will be speaking about the book to students and staff this Wednesday. The book focuses on the stories of individuals from several Chicago neighborhoods. The talk will be followed by a book signing.
the Color Roarsunday, oct. 21, 2 p.m.
lakeside FieldHomecoming Week will kick off this Sunday with an annual paint fight on Lakeside Field, sponsored in part by the Center for Student Involvement. For a $5 admission fee, students can hurl powdered paint packets at each other and members of Homecoming Royalty. Pro-ceeds will go to Northwestern’s Red Watch Band program. Homecoming events will con-tinue in the evening with a bonefire on the Lakefill starting at 8 p.m.
an evening with Cory Booker
tuesday, oct. 23, 6:30 p.m.cahn auditoriumCory Booker will speak Tuesday evening about his experiences as mayor of Newark, N.J. His speech, entitled, “How to Change the World with Your Bare Hands,” will be followed by a Q-and-A session. The event, sponsored by Northwestern’s College Democrats, is free of charge to all attendees.
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The Supreme Court heard arguments last Wednesday over the propriety and legality of employing affirmative action in the col-lege admissions process. Abigail Fisher, a white female rejected from the University of Texas at Austin, brought suit against UT claiming that she was denied admission while the university admitted less qualified minor-ity students in furtherance of its desire to achieve a “critical mass” of minority students on campus.
I oppose the use of affirmative action in college admissions, the workplace and essen-tially any other setting. I am pleased that Fisher had the courage to revive this discus-sion, given the almost certainty that our hypersensitive, obsessively-politically-correct society would be quick to brand any white person willing to challenge this biased system of admissions as racist.
In its effort to remedy the lingering effects of a more racially segregated past where one skin color was preferred over another, affir-mative action has become its own insidious form of discrimination where the preference is not for one skin color over another, but for skin color over merit. And merit be damned as the country continues to self-medicate with affirmative action to relieve its guilt over a history of which most living today were not even a part.
Yet we of merit, affirmative action’s vic-tims, are now the ones who feel pressured to be silent for fear of accusations of racism. It is this unfairly presumed racism that supports a false, warped argument in the policy’s favor that has enabled affirmative action to con-tinue for as long as it has.
The presumed racism of upper-middle-class white people is drastically misaligned. In fact, today, in terms of direct statements of discrimination and disdain, one is more likely to hear disapproving sneers about “rich white people” than anything derogatory about minorities. There certainly is no short-age of people who identify Mitt Romney and “his people” as disgusting, horrible people who deserve no respect but rather a plethora of unflattering associations. For fear of being cloaked socially with the “RWP” mantle,
many seem to hastily make apologetic claims of empathy with other groups and to desper-ately reject this likely-fitting title by scoffing disdainfully at “RWP” somewhere in their disclaimer.
Affirmative action is disrespectful to its beneficiaries and should be offensive. One’s race should not be the determining factor to what makes them acceptable, in the college admissions process or otherwise. Who wants his or her entire range of hobbies, skills, talents and ambitions to take a backseat to his or her race, check marks on an applica-tion, irreparably skewing admissions officers’ attentions? The dream of the Civil Rights Movement was that all people be judged by who they are rather than by the color of their skin. Removing skin color as a barrier to the otherwise qualified is not the same as allow-ing it to trump the otherwise more qualified. Affirmative action is no less an ill than the ones Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. sought to cure.
While race is the target of most affirmative action programs, there are numerous small differences or disadvantaged affiliations that could benefit from such a preference if the desire is to compensate for all types of discrimination rather than race alone. Proponents argue that affirmative action is necessary to make up for centuries of slavery and segregation, in which virtually none of us living today were participants. Yet women, LGBT individuals, people of certain religious affiliations and others suffer presently in a society that remains as charged by differ-ences today as in the past. The answer is not to award special preference to all of these individuals; it is to abolish affirmative action and to advance this country as the meritoc-racy that it must be for our future. We can-not afford to spend another generation, even another year, trying to make each other feel better about the past. In particular, youth-filled colleges are hardly appropriate environ-ments to materialize such history-driven guilt trips.
UT rejected Abigail Fisher based on merit, but she says merit that was racialized – that is, merit categorized by racially motivated academic skews in a way that rejected Abigail in favor of lesser-qualified minority appli-cants with lower standards to meet. Sound familiar? I guess we only thought we had eliminated such discrimination nearly 50 years ago.
Sydney Zink is a Communication freshman. She can be reached at [email protected]. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, email a Letter to the Editor to [email protected].
It has been impossible the past few weeks not to notice the “And I am Greek” posters displayed across campus debunking typical stereotypes about fraternities and sororities. In reality, they could be used to contrast almost any stereotype. Well, I am moderately conservative and still support affirmative action. Go ahead: make that into a campaign poster. However, my view differs from most notions of fairness or justice that typically accompany support for affirma-tive action. Instead, I believe that affirmative action by public universities and the support they receive from their private counterparts is an extension of sensible public policy. While affirmative action in higher education is just one link in the chain of improving the economic position of historically disadvantaged groups, it is a crucial link between academia and industry. Northwestern is absolutely correct in supporting the University of Texas’ defense of affirmative action in front of the Supreme Court.
At its very core, affirmative action in higher education is about improving diversity, not just racially but also between income levels, sexuality and creed. Students are wrong to claim that they are more deserving than their peers of accep-tance to their school of choice simply because they have a higher GPA or perform at a higher level on traditional measurements of intelli-gence. Learning, and by extension performance, is also influenced by your peers’ immeasurable qualities, such as life experiences and extracur-ricular interests.
These trends go far beyond the classroom. McKinsey & Company, a consulting firm, released a report in April showing that compa-nies with executive boards that scored in the top quartile in terms of diversity measures had a 53 percent higher return on equity than those that scored in the bottom quartile. J.P. Morgan Chase’s investment banking unit, not typi-cally viewed as a bastion of diversity, is actively recruiting LGBT students.
Companies are increasingly serious about diversity not necessarily because they have a strong moral compass but because the returns to having an atmosphere that openly encourages intellectual discourse result in higher productiv-ity. While detractors might claim that affirmative action unnecessarily focuses on racial divisions,
race is nevertheless an important component of diversity. Scrapping affirmative action entirely could erode important gains made by minorities in terms of employment and larger acceptance in society. Even if the only result to date of affirma-tive action was an improvement in social con-sciousness (and it is not), the policy would still have been worthwhile.
Admittedly, income and wealth gaps between racial groups in the United States are still very high. This is not an indicator that affirmative action is a failed policy but that the underly-ing forces driving inequality are powerful and complex. For instance, whites, who have histori-cally been able to build up wealth and skills at a higher rate than blacks and Hispanics, have been better able to take advantage of the opportunities afforded by a global economic environment.
Moreover, economic convergence is not a phenomenon that occurs over short time scales. Take for example the incredibly high per capita disparity in income and wealth between the developed and third worlds, which flies in the face of the incredible gains that developing countries have made over several decades.
Finally, and most pertinently, complimen-tary government policies have not been so well designed. Primary and secondary education, the pillar to helping disadvantaged groups, is as dismal as ever, while the weak community col-lege and vocational training system means that fewer opportunities exist for those at the bottom to start climbing the economic ladder. Neverthe-less, affirmative action remains an appropriate higher education policy. The key to maximizing its potential, however, rests in improving other policies meant to target income disparities.
To be sure, we’ve come a long way since President Kennedy signed Executive Order 10925, requiring government employers to not discriminate based on race, gender or creed. Its signing was a watershed event that showed America was serious about closing opportunity gaps between the privileged and the less for-tunate. Later, in writing the majority opinion of Grutter v. Bollinger, the case that upheld affirmative action as a practice, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor opined that racial diversity was in fact a compelling issue. While her voice may no longer resonate from the bench of the land’s highest court, today’s court would do well to uphold affirmative action. In an increasingly glo-balized era fraught with security and economic concerns, diversity is more important than ever to developing the attitudes and skills of tomor-row’s leaders.
Jan Jaro is a McCormick sophomore. He can be reached at [email protected]. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, email a Letter to the Editor to [email protected].
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City Action Plan forum draws no attendeesBy Manuel rapadathe daily northwestern
No Evanston residents showed up at a Tuesday night meeting to discuss the city’s $2.4 million Action Plan for housing, economic development and public service projects.
Aside from Sarah Flax, the city’s grants adminis-trator for Community Development Block Grants, only one person attended the meeting. That per-son, however, wanted to observe a public meeting for a class assignment.
The Housing and Community Development Act Committee hearing was held Tuesday night at the Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center. It was intended solely for accepting public comment on the plan.
“People don’t come unless they’re coming to protest, so one can look at that positively,” Flax said of the dismal turnout.
None of the nine members of the committee, which includes four aldermen, attended Tuesday night’s hearing.
The 2013 Action Plan draft, which the city released Oct. 5, commits funds to programs that address the needs of the city’s low- and moderate-income residents.
On Sept. 27, the committee, chaired by Ald. Ann Rainey (8th), made funding recommendations for
the $1.9 million in CDBG funds available to the city.
The committee suggested allocating more than $315,000, or nearly a sixth of the CDBG funds, to the city’s public works department for projects such as an alley-paving program and sidewalk ramps.
Several nonprofit organizations are also slated to receive CDBG dollars to fund programs and projects affecting all age groups.
The Grandmother Park Initiative will receive $5,000 for their proposed west Evanston tot lot, and the Youth Job Center will receive $35,000 to fund its youth employment programs, according to the plan draft. Meals at Home, an organization that delivers food to seniors and the disabled, will receive $14,000.
Flax attributed the low turnout partly to the presidential debate scheduled a half hour after the public comment session and also to the already public process of allocating funds. Over a series of September meetings, organizations made pre-sentations to the committee prior to the funding recommendations being made.
“I think we do try to do our allocations and planning in as public a way as possible to make information available,” Flax said.
The 30-day public comment period for the plan closes on Nov. 4, days before the City Council is scheduled to approve the plan at its Nov. 12 meet-ing .
The committee is scheduled to meet next Tues-day to discuss public input and to recommend plan approval to city council. The last public comment session is slated for the Housing and Homeless-ness Commission meeting Thursday at the Morton
Civic Center.“The Thursday one isn’t up against the presi-
dential debate,” Flax said.
Student pedestrian hit by car near Jacobs Center
A female Northwestern student was hit by a car near the intersection of Sheridan Road and Foster Street just before 5 p.m. Tuesday.
It remains unclear how the student collided with the dark green Honda Civic, which was heading north on Sheridan Road toward Foster Street. The driver declined to comment.
Although Weinberg junior Mariah Wood did
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no-show sarah Flax, grants administrator with the city’s planning and zoning division, waits for residents to show up at the first of two public comment sessions on the city’s 2013 action Plan. the Plan will allocate more than $2.4 million toward programs for the evanston’s low- and moderate-income residents. no residents attended the meeting.
Noyes El station among CTA rehabilitation stops
Chicago Transit Authority “Renew Crews” will work on the Purple Line’s Noyes El stop throughout the next six weeks.
Improvements including paint removal and reap-plication, power washing, gutter and drain cleaning, graffiti removal and lighting additions are part of the CTA Renewal Program, which is “designed to pro-vide a facelift to 100 CTA rail stations,” according to an Evanston news release. They will be carried out by various trade workers in groups dubbed Renew Crews.
This rehabilitation strategy of employing workers with a variety of skills, such as carpentry, electrical engineering, plumbing and metalworking to work
holistically on stations is a change from the way CTA has traditionally carried out repairs. Previously, CTA has addressed issues on a case-by-case basis when the need arises.
The Noyes station is the only Purple Line station currently undergoing treatment. Specific upgrades include bolstering the platform canopy structure, replacing rotted wood at the base of the customer assistant booth, replacing wooden windbreaks with steel ones, adding a bench, patching loose concrete on the platform and clearing abandoned bikes and bike frames from racks at the street level.
Purple Line stations that have already been upgraded are Merchandise Mart, South Boulevard, Central, Davis and Howard, which is shared with the Red and Yellow lines.
The next Purple Line station scheduled for a make-over is Foster.
The CTA Renewal Program will accomplish work on target stations over the next year. It is currently working on 20 stations in addition to Noyes.
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not witness the accident, she said she was called to the scene outside the Donald P. Jacobs Center, where police told her that her friend was conscious and not in critical condition.
“It sounded like she wasn’t maybe looking but also he was going too fast,” Wood said.
Deputy Chief Dan McAleer confirmed the acci-dent. Officer Andre Coleman from Northwestern University Police Department confirmed officers were sent to the scene.
“When I came, she was laying on the ground, she was conscious and everything,” Wood said. “They were helping her out and an ambulance came.”
Wood said an officer told her that her friend was taken to the NorthShore Evanston Hospital.
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Theater costume sale comes in time for HalloweenBy zachary elvovethe daily northwestern
With Halloween two weeks away, Northwestern students clamored for costumes, masks and acces-sories at the Theatre and Interpretation Center’s annual Costume Sale on Tuesday.
TI produces, manages, funds and administers the performing arts productions of the School of Communication, the Department of Theatre and the Department of Performance Studies. TI’s Costume Shop is where most of these costumes are made, stored and sold to students.
All costumes featured in the sale came from previous productions performed at TI. Last year’s shows included “Spring Awakening,” “Rent,” “The Little Prince” and “Twelfth Night.”
“We get a lot of costumes in every year,” said Megan Keach, a costume stitcher at the shop. “Every time we do shows, we’re buying new stuff and we have to make room on the racks for the new stuff. So we get rid of the stuff we’re not going to use.”
In addition to creating space for new costumes, the sale adds to the costume shop’s coffers.
“We use it to supplement our supplies budget, basically anything the costume shop needs,” Keach
said. “It goes back into the supply fund — it helps fund future shows, it helps keep the shop running nice and smooth. It helps life be happy here at Northwestern.”
Students such as Communication freshman Veronica Johnson entered and exited freely with costumes and masks in hand.
“It’s an amazing deal because these costumes are super-high quality and they’re super cheap, especially for college students,” Johnson said.
The shop puts a large amount of time and effort into each of the costumes and intentionally keeps prices low, Keach said.
“There are things on the $10 rack that took people two weeks to make,” she said. “We try to give people good deals.”
The business model appears to be working. Costumes that were on the racks at 10 a.m. were gone an hour and a half later, and even more had been bought by closing at 4 p.m.
“Sales are really good, particularly in the last couple of years,” Keach said. “Word is spread-ing — we had people beating down the door this year.”
The Halloween Costume Sale continues from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today.
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playing Dress-up Junior Meg lowey models a skirt made of dyed paper at the costume sale in the theatre and interpretation Center. ti began its annual halloween Costume Sale on tuesday.
Interfaith leader returns to campus for talkBy junnie kwonthe daily northwestern
Eboo Patel, a member of the President’s inaugu-ral Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neighbor-hood Partnerships, made his second appearance at Northwestern in less than six months Tuesday evening.
Patel, founder and president of the national orga-nization Interfaith Youth Core, spoke to about 50 people in Harris Hall. The Roberta Buffett Center orchestrated the visit.
Patel made two key claims during his talk: that institutions are created by individuals who want to implement solutions, and that conversations about cooperation are more important than those about divisive issues.
In his speech at NU last May, Patel focused on facilitating collaborations among diverse faith groups.
Patel said that as an undergraduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, he was inspired by an article about Muhammad Yunus, a
Bangladeshi banker and economist who founded Grameen Bank and won the Nobel Peace Prize. He said he was fascinated by how Yunus, against a tide of doubt, built a micro-lending institution to solve
a problem. “Everything beautiful
started with somebody at some point just fly-ing with an idea,” Patel said, paraphrasing Jim Collins.
In the article, Patel also first encountered the term “social entrepre-neur,” which he defines as the first person to build models, such as formal education, to solve social issues. He encouraged
members of the audience to take their potential as social entrepreneurs more seriously.
“There’s no place that takes an idea to reality as fast as a college campus,” he said.
He then shifted to discussing dialogues between
different cultural groups, emphasizing the need to focus on cooperating to move forward instead of being stymied by differences.
“Hate crimes (are) very much related with mis-understanding of religion and culture,” said Rita Koryan, associate director of the Buffett Center. “Eboo’s presence is a sure indication that this should change, and he’s trying to do his best in order to get beyond and above those stereotypes and create new ways of dialogue between people.”
Patel also expressed his strong belief in America as the first entity to allow diversity under democ-racy, quoting a response letter George Washington wrote to a leader of a Hebrew congregation con-cerned about religious persecution.
“I’ve always been interested in Interfaith and pluralism in general, but it’s kind of been dormant,” Communication freshman Devon Carlson said. “This is a great opportunity for me to remember what’s important to me. And I really liked the emphasis he made on the things we can all agree upon instead of focusing on divisive issues.”
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iDea to action Eboo Patel challenges NU students to participate in interfaith cooperation. Patel spoke tuesday evening on campus for the second time in 2012.
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no place that takes an idea to reality as fast as a college campus.Eboo Patel,Interfaith Youth Core founder
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cut short Northwestern last played at Wrigley Field on Nov. 20, 2010. Officials only allowed teams to play in one direction due to issues with the end zone near the right field wall.
NU football may play at Wrigley Field in 2014
Nebraska is looking to move its 2014 game against Northwestern from Ryan Field to Wrig-ley Field, the Omaha World-Herald reported Monday.
Wrigley is the home of the Chicago Cubs, where the Wildcats played Illinois in 2010. A source at Omaha, Neb.-based TD Ameritrade, which was founded by the father of Cubs owner Tom Ricketts, told the World-Herald that there have been preliminary talks within the com-pany to bring the NU-Nebraska match-up to Wrigley in early October 2014.
Nebraska athletic director Tom Osborne told the World-Herald that there have been “no discussions” with Northwestern about moving the game. A spokesman from the NU athletic department confirmed that there have been no conversations yet and declined to comment on the rumors.
Football coach Pat Fitzgerald told the Chi-cago Tribune last summer that he would be open to playing at Wrigley more often if his team’s schedule allowed it.
“I’d like to play six at Ryan Field and have that be our seventh (game),” Fitzgerald said. “If you’ve never been to a bowl game, that’s what it’s like. The atmosphere (for the Illinois game) was spectacular.”
NU has seven home games scheduled for 2014, including four Big Ten games in Evan-ston. In 2010, the Cats only had six home games, with five coming at Ryan Field and the sixth and final home game being the Wrig-leyville Classic.
The Cubs and the City of Chicago are cur-rently deadlocked over a renovation project for the nearly century-old baseball stadium. If the renovations proceed, future NU football games would be able to use two end zones, unlike in the Nov. 20, 2010 game against Illinois.
The 2010 game only used one end zone because of safety concerns with the end zone that bordered the right field wall. The uprights for that end zone were nailed on the right field brick wall and limited the views of the students in the NU student section. The student section also was far away from most of the action, which posed a problem for most football fans.
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debate.“I thought Obama won,” Fisher said. “I
don’t think it was as much of a landslide as Romney’s victory (in the first debate).”
LaMay declared a different type of debate winner.
“I’m going to give you the cop-out answer, which is the American public,” he said. “Because that’s the answer.”
Although LaMay admitted that he was biased toward Obama, he said the president’s demeanor had improved since the first debate. LaMay noted that Obama’s tone also changed, becoming more authoritarian by frequently referring to himself as the president and to Romney as a governor.
LaMay said he was unsure whether Tues-day’s debate would have a significant impact on the overall race. He said debates are usually remembered for candidates’ gaffes, but there were no major slip-ups Tuesday.
Some of the students in attendance
disagreed, and during the discussion said Romney emphasized his lack of connection with the American public with his response to a question about equality of pay for women, when he talked about relating to women in the workplace because he had “binders full of women” when looking for members of his cabinet as governor.
For Joyce, the topic of equal pay is particu-larly personal because her father is the presi-dent of a union and has spent time lobbying in Washington, D.C.
“We had a stake in that,” Joyce said. She added that she was concerned that Romney’s running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), voted against the act.
CRC will host its fourth and final debate watch party Monday when communication studies Prof. David Zarefsky will return to discuss foreign policy.
“I think it was perfectly solid,” LaMay said of the post-debate discussion. “I’m interested to see how (the election) will play out.”
spring highlighting their research.After their yearlong fellowship, Arryman Fel-
lows can apply to be Arryman Scholars, making them eligible for a full-ride doctorate program at NU in their respective departments. After obtaining their doctorate, Arryman Scholars will return to Indonesia as core faculty for a university slated to open in Jakarta within the next few years.
Fellow Gde Metera said the program will fos-ter good relations between Indonesia and NU.
“For the fellows, it is a great opportunity to be able to study at Northwestern,” Metera said.
This year, three Arryman Fellows were accepted to research with EDGS. The Indonesian Scholarship and Research Support Foundation in Jakarta, Indonesia handles Arryman Fellow nominations.
EDGS hopes to host five Arryman Fellows in 2013.
“We need to control their outside hitters to have a chance to really be successful,” Chan said. “We need to really serve well.”
The Cats have come up with big outside blocks earlier in the season, so Wednes-day night’s game will all come down to execution.
If the Cats can capitalize on their contin-ued success on the road and focus on shut-ting down Illinois’ powerful outside hitting, they can reach a 14-6 overall record and build the start of a strong conference run in upcoming matches.
Freshman defender Abbie Kraus is sure that the team can do just that.
“I think Illinois should be scared,” Kraus said. “We just came off a loss, we know that we can beat those ranked opponents, so we’re just going to go out there and play and really execute.”
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SPORTSWednesday, October 17, 2012 @Wildcat_Extra
ON DECK ON THE RECORDWomen’s SoccerNU at Illinois, 7 p.m. Thursday
We have to finish our chances in the final third. We had the ball a lot (against Ohio State), but we just couldn’t capitalize. — Eric Weberman, sophomore midfielder
About a month ago, Northwestern announced plans for new athletic facilities to reside on the north end of campus, presumably on the lakeside.
Considering I’m friends with Jim Phillips, the vice president of athletics and recreation (A blatant lie, but I have emailed him a couple times), I thought I would throw him and the board of trustees some suggestions on what to include in the new facilities.
My first suggestion would be to house an indoor, Wisconsin Dells-inspired water park in that giant building.
You may wonder what possible benefit an indoor water park could have for Big Ten athletes, but imagine the team bonding that would occur if Drew Crawford helped Dave Sobo-lewski conquer his fear of those dark tunnel tube rides. When Sobo hits Crawford with a behind the back, no look, under the legs, 360-degree alley-oop from the length of the court — you’ll know where they developed the chemistry.
Also, a late-night dining option in the athletic facility would be nice. Seriously: I’ve lived on South Campus my two years here, and we have Plex late-night. Where do people up north eat late at night?
Does “The Great Room” really exist, or is it part of the imagination of FBI special agent Dale Cooper? And I love Lisa’s as much as the next guy, but when a science and/or engineer-ing student decides to pour his heart out by plugging in his iPod over the loudspeakers, I don’t always want to be a part of that.
My last suggestion would be to let the athletes and students actually work out together.
A big part of the University’s plan, and a way to fundraise the $200 mil-lion-plus they need, is to let students use these facilities as well. But I have my doubts how this will work out. Ath-letes and coaches rightfully complain about limited areas to workout and practice, and a new facility could finally alleviate those concerns — why should they let pesky students get in the way?
But I don’t want to see NU turn into one of those schools that separates athletes and students too much. Ulti-mately, this responsibility falls on the students.
I had a great conversation with sports reporter Skip Myslenski the other day about how tough it is for athletes to live a normal life without everyone trying to take a picture of them or get someone in trouble.
NU students do a pretty good job of letting athletes be, although this is partly because some students have no idea we have athletes on campus. Some girl in my freshman Fall Quarter litera-ture class didn’t know we had a football team until her junior year.
The new facilities are a great chance for NU to bring the athletes and stu-dents closer together. If the admin-istration is serious about being “One Northwestern,” then they can take this step to back up their mantra.
I’m guilty myself of becoming a little creepy around athletes, but at least I’ve channeled my awkwardness into sports writing. But average students need to know they’re on the same playing field as the other students at NU who hap-pen to play sports.
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Before Northwestern faces Penn State at home Sunday, the team plans to make an impression against in-state opponent Loyola.
The Wildcats (9-2-2) and Ram-blers (2-7-2) face off in Chicago on Wednesday, when NU will try to add another win to its command-ing 19-4-7 series lead (9-0-2 under coach Tim Lenahan) against its lake-side neighbors.
The Cats usually play Loyola later in the season, but last year’s game was cancelled due to weather. The teams’ most recent meeting in 2010 was a 1-0 win for NU, thanks to a goal from then-junior Oliver Kupe.
NU will take the field this week after having Monday off and only a light practice Tuesday. Lenahan said the team takes a little more time to get over emotional wins. After bat-tling then-No. 7 Notre Dame, Lena-han noted some of his players looked tired against Ohio State, despite their mental focus.
“I felt like we kind of cruised through (Ohio State),” Lenahan said. “Hopefully we’ll recharge a little bit … you have to get your lacks back.”
Speedy turnaround aside, NU appears to be confident after its con-ference victory, the team’s second win in a row at Lakeside Field.
For the Cats, it’s a familiar pattern.
In a span of four games, the Cats nabbed two wins against Michigan and Michigan State but lost their two in-state contests to DePaul and Bradley.
Sophomore midfielder Eric Weberman, whose third career goal this season made the difference against Ohio State, said the key to breaking the Cats’ pattern is to better capitalize on opportunities, a prob-lem that has been plaguing the team all season.
“We have to finish our chances
in the final third,” Weberman said. “We had the ball a lot (against Ohio State), but we just couldn’t capitalize. We just need to work on improv-ing in the final third and finding the back of the net a couple more times.”
NU should look forward to play-ing a physical match Wednesday. Loyola has been assessed six yellow cards and two red in its past five games alone, with 16 yellow and two red for the season. The Cats have been assessed only six yellow cards
and one red this year.Loyola also plays well at home.
Both of the Ramblers’ wins have been on their own turf in Chicago, and six of their seven losses have come on the road. The Cats have only one road win in three contests, dropping one and tying the other.
The Ramblers’ most recent match was a home victory, their first con-ference win of the season. Loyola defeated the University of Wiscon-sin-Green Bay on Saturday 1-0. The Ramblers out-shot Green Bay 14-10. Loyola freshman Jake Savino, the team’s co-leading goal scorer with fellow freshman Andrew Raymonds, scored the difference maker.
Both Savino and Raymonds have three goals for the season. Only two other Ramblers have found the net. NU boasts depth, with nine different goal-scorers so far this season.
Weberman came off the bench Sunday to score the decisive goal against Ohio State. The sophomore said the team regularly practices switching up the offensive line and strengthening the defense.
“We all know when we come in we have our roles to do,” Weberman said. “So as long as we perform our role and do our job, things should go as planned.”
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STiLL ROLLinG Midfielder Eric Weberman has emerged as a threat for Northwestern. The sophomore posted the lone goal in a 1-0 win against Ohio State, which kept the Cats undefeated in Big Ten play.
Cats look to end road trip on high noteBy RYaN MIlleRthe daily northwestern
It was a rollercoaster of a week-end for Northwestern as the Wild-cats visited the state of Michigan, scoring a big win over then-No. 25
Michigan State on Fri-day only to follow with a straight-set loss to Mich-igan the next day.
The Cats (13-6, 2-6 Big Ten) are back in their home state Wednes-day night to face No. 25 Illinois (9-9, 3-5) in
Champaign. They will have to prove whether the NU squad that took the court against Michigan State is the team fans can expect to see the rest of the season, or if Saturday’s game against Michigan is a clearer predic-tor of things to come.
For the Cats, there is no question which game is the truer represen-tation. Sophomore middle blocker Katie Dutchman said the motivation and focus gained from their big win
will have a greater impact than any setbacks Saturday’s loss may have caused.
“We came off of a good win against Michigan State this week-end,” Dutchman said. “And after not playing as well as we wanted to at Michigan, we’re ready to get back into the winning groove.”
The Cats will have to take on another ranked opponent in Illinois to return to this groove. The Fight-ing Illini also earned a win against Michigan State last week, which fol-lowed a 3-0 loss to Michigan.
Illinois has fought to advance its current 9-9 record after a tough non-conference season and looks to improve its 3-5 conference record with a win over NU.
Fortunately for NU, the Fight-ing Illini have struggled with a 2-4 home record this season.
NU has a 5-2 road record coming into Wednesday night’s game, better than its 3-4 home mark.
Although the Fighting Illini won six of the last seven meetings with the Cats, the combination of Illinois’ poor home performance and NU’s domination on the road may make Champaign’s Huff Hall just the place to pull out a win over the Illini this
season.If the Cats can sustain a high level
of play in Champaign, they may be able to finish their three-game road trip on a high note. Maintaining control throughout sets and dictat-ing points late in games has proven to be a problem for NU in earlier season matchups, but the team addressed these issues in recent practices.
Coach Keylor Chan has focused on putting the team in difficult sit-uations and creating scenarios to replicate the tight sets the Cats have become so familiar with.
Chan also has specific goals for tomorrow night’s match that the team must meet in order to pull out a win.
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huddLE uP Coach Keylor Chan addresses his team during a game against Minnesota. The Cats are 5-2 on the road this season, and finish up a three-game road stretch against No. 25 Illinois on Wednesday.
northwestern vs. no. 25 illinoisChampaign, Illinois7 p.m. Wednesday
“We
came off a good win against Michigan State ... We’re ready to get back into the winning groove.Katie Dutchman,sophomore middle blocker
NU stays in state to battle loyola Men’s Soccer
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