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By PAIGE LESKIN!"# $%&'( )*+!",#-!#+) @paigeleskin
.e Evanston/Skokie School District /0 board on Monday night selected the 1rm that will lead the search for its next superintendent.
.e 1rm, ECRA Group’s Hazard, Young, Attea and Associates, stood out for its impressive presentation and national reach, board president Tracy
Quattrocki said..e 1rm will pick a replacement for
Hardy Murphy, who resigned Aug. 2 a3er 45 years as superintendent. He departed with two years le3 on his contract and a severance agreement of 6470,888.
.e board named Barbara Hiller and Mary Brown in August to temporarily ful1ll the duties Murphy had for the 9845-4: school year. Hiller and Brown were appointed chief administrative o;cer and interim superintendent,
respectively. .e new superintendent that HYA chooses will start in Septem-ber 984:.
Coming into the meeting, the board had narrowed down the 1eld to four 1nalists, chosen Oct. 94 from seven proposals. On Monday, the four 1rms gave 48-minute presentations, fol-lowed by a half-hour Q-and-A with the board.
Board members discussed the pros and cons of each 1rm following the presentations. As they talked, the
members found more drawbacks in the 1rms School Exec Connect and Ray and Associates, Inc. Members wor-ried about the late timeline and focus on candidates from the Midwest that School Exec Connect presented. Board member Katie Bailey and others shared the concern that Ray and Associates’ large team would a<ect the quality of communication.
Of the two 1nal 1rms, the board chose HYA over BWP and Associ-ates in part due to the business D/0
has conducted with HYA. .e 1rm was involved in choosing Murphy for the superintendent position, and the board had con1dence they could do it again.
Board vice president Richard Rykhus pointed out that the 1rm “has worked with our teachers before and knows them.” .e board also noted Alan Leis of HYA, who will lead the search, as someone in whom they have faith.
By SABRINA RODRIGUEZ!"# $%&'( )*+!",#-!#+) @sabrinarod4
Students will now have the chance to take meals on the go with a new carry-out program at Foster-Walker Complex.
Wildcat Carry Out, nuCuisine’s newest initiative with Associated Student Government, will o<er more meal options a3er regular dining hall hours are over.
.e program kicked o< Monday and will run from =:58-44 p.m. every Monday through .ursday.
“With so many students in night classes, we know there’s a lot of people missing the dinner dining hall hours
The Daily NorthwesternDAILYNORTHWESTERN.COM Find us online @thedailynuTuesday, October 29, 2013
SPORTS Field HockeyCats win two in a row over
successful weekend » PAGE 8
NU again in top 10 for Fulbright recipients » PAGE 3
High 56Low 47
OPINION MallazzoLife one year after Superstorm Sandy
» PAGE 4
Serving the University and Evanston since 1881 INSIDE Around Town 2 | On Campus 3 | Opinion 4 | Classi!eds & Puzzles 6 | Sports 8
City bans e-cigarettes in public spaces
By KELLY GONSALVES!"# $%&'( )*+!",#-!#+) @kellyagonsalves
Evanston aldermen Monday night voted to prohibit electronic cigarette
use in public spaces, despite a per-sonal plea from one of their own against the restriction.
After weeks of heated deliberation, City Council approved an amend-ment to Evanston’s tobacco ordi-nance, adding electronic cigarettes,
or e-cigarettes, to the list of products outlawed from all smoke-free areas. “Vaping,” the term used for smoking an e-cigarette, will now be illegal in all Evanston businesses, restaurants and other public spaces.
E-cigarettes are battery-powered
devices that simulate tobacco smok-ing by heating a liquid solution that contains varying amounts of nico-tine and produces vapor rather than smoke.
Health experts say the effects of vaping remain unclear, but propo-nents highlight studies that suggest e-cigarettes contain less toxic sub-stances than regular cigarettes and thus pose fewer direct and second-hand health risks.
The city has acknowledged few such studies have been done on the issue, though e-cigarettes closely resemble regular cigarettes and could lead people to believe they are allowed to smoke in already smoke-free areas.
Ald. Ann Rainey (=th) was the only opponent of the e-cigarette restriction on the council. She sug-gested making it the responsibility of individual businesses and establish-ments to prohibit e-cigarette smoking within their buildings if they wished to do so, rather than creating a city-wide rule.
“I smoked for years. It took me 48 years to quit. It wasn’t easy, and I think many of you probably have never smoked. …I’m just encourag-ing you to do whatever you can to let people use these,” Rainey said. “I don’t see why we have to take this
huge step and disallow them.”Smoque Vapors lounge owner
Jared Yucht said “a thousand” of his customers have quit smoking by using e-cigarettes.
How-ever, April Bailey, tobacco program manager for the Ameri-can Lung Associa-tion, said they do not rec-ommend e-ciga-rettes as safe cessa-tion devices.
“(We) will not recommend them for people to stop smoking because they also reinforce the smoking behavior. They don’t break all the parts of the addiction (such as) the social and behavioral part of actually mimicking smoking,” Bailey said. “We are waiting for the FDA to come back with some more firm guidance.”
Ald. Mark Tendam (/th) said if
Brian Lee/Daily Senior Staffer
E-CIGARETTES ELIMINATED April Bailey, tobacco program manager for the American Lung Association, speaks at City Council on Monday evening in support of e-cigarette regulation. The council voted 8-1 in favor of the ordinance.
New takeout option addedHarvard prof talks health care study
Annabel Edwards/Daily Senior Staffer
FOOD ON THE MOVE Foster-Walker began serving takeout food Monday night. The choices are intended to replace those formerly available at the Great Room, which is now closed for renovations.
» See COUNCIL, page 7
BY PRESTON R. MICHELSON!"# $%&'( )*+!",#-!#+) @prestonmich
Harvard University health econom-ics Prof. Katherine Baicker discussed her findings in a study on public health insurance and her academic and political experience Monday at Northwestern.
Baicker is the co-principal investi-gator of the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment, which examined the health of Medicaid recipients and that of a control group. .e study reported “that Medicaid coverage generated no signi1cant improvements in measured physical health outcomes in the 1rst 9 years,” although it found increased use of preventive services and better mental health.
Baicker spoke as the Fall 9845
Distinguished Public Policy Lecturer for NU’s Institute for Policy Research, an interdisciplinary public policy research institute that hosts events throughout the year.
IPR Director David Figlio moder-ated the talk, during which Baicker explained her experiment and the ways that Oregon’s Medicaid lottery a<ected her investigation.
“.e people in Oregon were fantas-tic to work with and they really, genu-inely wanted information. ....ey let us know as soon as they drew a new batch of names. .ey made sure we knew right away,” she said.
About =0 people, predominantly NU graduate students and professors from inside and outside the Univer-sity, attended the talk at the McCor-mick Tribune Center. University President Morton Schapiro was also
» See TAKEOUT, page 7» See HEALTH CARE, page 7
D65 board selects !rm for superintendent search
Foster-Walker now offers to-go dining options at night
“ (We) will not
recommend them for people to stop smoking
because they also reinforce
the smoking behavior.
April Baileyof the American
Lung Association
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Man arrested after stealing alcohol, cigarettes
Police arrested an Evanston man a$er they say he stole several items from the Jewel-Osco near Dempster Street on Friday night.
An employee stopped James Michael Woods, %!, a$er he paid &" for soda at a self-checkout at !!:'# p.m., Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said. (e man took a bottle of Courvoisier cognac and sev-eral packs of Newport cigarettes without paying for them from the grocery store, !!") Chicago Ave.
Woods is accused of retail the$. He has been charged with stealing the cognac but not the ciga-rettes, Parrott said.
Woods, of the !*## block of Sherman Avenue,
is scheduled to appear in court Nov. "".
Car missing, keys nowhere to be found
A car was taken Wednesday from west Evanston, according to police.
A "##+ Dodge Caravan parked in the "!## block of Greenleaf Street was stolen overnight, but the owner of the vehicle did not report the the$ until (ursday, Parrott said.
(e owner told police he could not ,nd his keys, meaning someone likely took them and stole the car, Parrott said.
— Tanner Maxwell
Police Blotter
Liquor license granted for brewpubBy EDWARD COX-./01 234/56 27.8836 @edwardcox"#!9
Evanston City Council approved a liquor license on Monday night for the city’s ,rst brew-pub, bringing it closer to a December opening.
(e co-owners of Peckish Pig, 9"' Howard St., named it a$er the British slang term for “hungry” and their brewmaster’s references to the beers he cra$s as “pigs.”
Culinary aptitude runs through the blood-lines of Jamie and Debbie Evans, who opened the Celtic Knot pub, 9"9 Church St., in addition to a wine shop and cafe in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood.
Jamie Evans said he plans to manage the brewery operations of Peckish Pig, while Deb-bie Evans will be a chef at the restaurant. Prior to living in Evanston for !9 years, the couple lived in Japan, where Debbie Evans taught European cooking.
(e construction of the brewpub has been a family e:ort involving the Evans’ son and
daughter. Debbie Evans said her father helped build the Celtic Knot pub a$er she became a co-owner of the store in "##;. Debbie and Jamie Evans have since sold the building.
Peckish Pig, their latest restaurant on the Evanston side of Howard Street, is aimed at cater-ing to residents in what the couple described as an “underserved” part of the city.
“It’s an area that has some troubles in the past, but we feel that it is turning around,” Jamie Evans said. “If you could go from a radiant circle from that area, people don’t have too many options.”
(e pair leased-to-own the ,ve storefronts located at 9"'-9"+ < Howard St. a$er the city purchased the property through tax increment ,nancing funds. With the support of Ald. Ann Rainey ()th), the couple have combined the stores to create a 9,###-square-foot =oor plan, about half of which is designated for an outdoor patio. During the summertime, the restaurant will host live music, Debbie said.
Peckish Pig will neighbor Ward Eight, a wine bar that opened last November with the help of tax increment ,nancing funds. Debbie said she is hoping to develop a “symbiotic” relationship
with Ward Eight, 9"* Howard St.“If you provide really good people, good food
and good drinks, that’s success in itself,” Debbie said.
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HOG WILD Tom Fogarty, the brewmaster of Peckish Pig, pours a sample of ale at a campus beachfront in a community event in September. The restaurant will be the first brewpub in Evanston, set to open Dec. 1.
On CampusPeople are coming to the realization that the test will be very di!erent. It’s really going to be harder.
— Owen Parcy, Kaplan director of pre-health programs
“ ” Students will start to see tougher MCAT Page 6
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NU once again a leader in Fulbright recipients
Northwestern is once again in the top !" schools for producing recipients of Fulbright grants, according to a report released in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
NU ranked sixth among research
institutions, with #$ seniors, graduate students or recent alumni receiving the awards out of !"% who applied. Harvard University led all schools with $& recipients.
“Once again, Northwestern students will fan out across the globe to bring their knowledge, energy and dedication to everything from art to engineering and English teaching to public service,” said Stephen Hill, associate director
of the University’s Office of Fellowships, in a news release.
One other Fulbright candidate from NU declined the grant to accept two other awards.
NU also placed sixth in the #"!#-!$ cycle, when ## were selected for the grants, which are funded primarily by the U.S. government and offer students the opportunity to do research
in another country. NU has now placed in the top !" for eight
consecutive years.The University of Michigan-Ann Arbor,
Arizona State University, Princeton Univer-sity and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, rounded out the top five.
— Joseph Diebold
Students, faculty talk ongoing US-Russia rivalryBy TYLER PAGER'() *+,-. /01'(2)3')1/ @tylerpager
During the #""4 war between Russia and Geor-gia, American media on both ends of the spectrum placed the blame on Russia even when Georgia provoked the con5ict, two professors suggested at a discussion Monday.
As part of a talk hosted by Politics & Policy, his-tory Prof. John Bushnell and political science Prof. Jordan Gans-Morse said that when the United States makes headlines, Russians take it as an opportunity to proclaim their superiority. 6e professors said this back-and-forth discourse demonstrates that competition between the former Cold War foes still exists.
“Any chance that (the Russians) can get to make the U.S. look bad, feel bad, that’s a lot of fun for them,” Gans-Morse said. “I would say that the ‘schadenfreude’ goes all the way in society. It’s not just the elites, but anybody who can follow news and see Russia get the better of the United States — they love it.”
Bushnell added Russians get “very worked up” when they feel American media are bullying them.
“It’s like ‘Miracle on Ice’ backward,” Bushnell said.
6e two professors discussed a wide range of Russia-related topics at the event in Scott Hall. Mod-erated by Donald Gross, the student publication’s editor-in-chief, the discussion attracted more than
$" students.Gross said the group has held similar events in
the past on topics such as immigration, South Korea and North Korea. He said they decided to discuss Russia to increase campus awareness, particularly in light of geopolitical issues surrounding the Olympic
Games scheduled to take place in Sochi, Russia, in February.
“We realize, in general, people kind of don’t know what Russia is. Most people’s interactions with (Rus-sia) may be crazy videos on Reddit,” the SESP senior said. “So we looked at it as this could be somewhere
we could make an impact on campus about what people know about this situation.”
Although the controversy surrounding the upcoming Olympics was not discussed, Gross said he was satis7ed with the turnout and participation at the event. He said he was most interested by the discussion of the #""4 con5ict, particularly see-ing Gans-Morse and Bushnell agree that the media coverage of the con5ict was 5awed.
“Before, they kind of had two separate paths on things, so it was interesting to see them agree so concretely on one issue,” Gross said.
6e professors both said that the media coverage of the crisis was anti-Russian.
“U.S. coverage of the war in Georgia was the worst media coverage of the last decade, short of what happened before Iraq,” Gans-Morse said. “I mean in terms of just not giving a balanced sense of a story. It was atrocious.”
Weinberg freshman Howard Berkowitz said his plans on double majoring in political science and Russian drew him to the event. He said he enjoyed learning about the broad range of topics that the professors discussed.
“I thought they had a good range of interesting topics and they described individual scenarios like the Pussy Riot versus general policy towards isola-tionism and expansionism,” he said. “I know more about current Russian politics, so learning about #""4 with the Georgia and Russian con5ict was interesting and comparing it with the Chechnya con5ict.”
Brian Lee/Daily Senior Staffer
FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE Don Gross, SESP senior and editor-in-chief of Politics and Policy, listens to professors Jordan Gans-Morse and John Bushnell at A Student Discussion on Russia, held Monday evening. The event featured wide-ranging discussions on post-Soviet Russia, including criticism of American media coverage of the Russia-Georgia War of 2008.
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Tuesday, October 29, 2013 PAGE 4
One year ago tonight, my stepfather stood on our neighbor’s deck, watching as the ocean slowly devoured our home.
Like a hundred of Miley Cyrus’s wreck-ing balls, an !-foot swell had already smashed through the sand dunes. It spilled into the streets and joined with the bay, which had disposed of the seawall some hours earlier. My stepdad was in our basement, trying to salvage the last few prized possessions remaining when the water barged in uninvited, knocking him clean across the room into our washing machine. Within seconds, the Atlantic "lled our basement from #oor to ceiling, nearly drowning my stepdad in
his own home.He soon joined dozens of brave and foolhardy
residents across Long Beach. Having decided to wait out the storm, they now #ocked to their second #oors and stared into the darkness, won-dering if the ocean would ever end its assault. Cars, front porches, hot tubs and whatever else the ocean decided to take along for a ride #oated by ominously.
Eventually the ocean did recede, leaving behind a battered and confused barrier island. We live a mere $% miles from Manhattan. &is was never supposed to happen to us. Growing up in a coastal town, respect for the power of the sea had been burned into our ethos. But never in a million years could we have begun to fathom the power of Poseidon’s wrath.
We like to joke that overnight God answered our long-lost prayers and granted us true beach-front property. He also graced us with our '( minutes of fame as our street was featured on
the front page of the Sunday edition of &e New York Times amid piles of sand, debris and a van with the phrase, “you loot, we shoot” inscribed on it.
&is morning the photo resurfaced in &e New York Times, alongside the stories of many New York and New Jersey residents a)ected by the storm. Included in this feature is a story on the Long Beach Tidal Waves, a ragtag travel base-ball team assembled of whatever hood-rat kids were le* in Long Beach a*er the storm. Narrat-ing the team’s story is its star "rst-baseman and my half-brother, Aidan White.
Two months a*er Sandy, on Christmas Eve, we blew up some air mattresses, picked up a Charlie Brown tree and celebrated Christmas morning in the skeleton of our old house. If the Grinch and the American Civil Liberties Union couldn’t stop Christmas, neither could Sandy.
One year later, we’ve picked up the pieces and are "nally beginning to rebuild. Our house, a)ectionately nicknamed “the cabin,” is a cozy little place. It’s got rustic plywood #oors, half sheet-rocked walls, and three beach chairs with blankets for a couch. What our FEMA kitchen lacks in cooking appliances, it makes up for in beautiful adherence to minimalist architecture. Exposed electrical wires provide the "nal acces-sorized touch.
Crazy as it may sound, I fell in love with our “new” home this summer and will shed a sen-timental tear when we have to knock it down and rebuild a new place eight feet o) the ground to meet FEMA regulations. Like many of our neighbors, we have no idea where the money will come from. But we are far more fortunate than most.
So as the one-year anniversary of Superstorm Sandy passes with the high tide, I ask you to spare a thought and say a prayer for the ''+ peo-
ple who lost their lives and those who saw their livelihoods wash away on that October night. &ough there
are heartwarming signs of recovery abounding, there are still thousands of good, hard-working people who don’t know when or even if they will ever return home. Entire towns on the Jersey Shore, epitomizing an East Coast summer, are shells of their former selves. Iconic communities in Queens, such as Breezy Point and Rockaway Beach, may never be the same.
As for my little town, something magical happened this summer: normalcy. City dwellers #ocked onto trains by the thousands to trade the sweltering grotto of Manhattan for our little sum-mer utopia. Lifeguards’ whistles blared, surfers surfed, striped bass were reeled in o) the jetties and tourists annoyed us with their blatant dis-regard for beach etiquette. Taco Tuesdays at &e Cabana were so full that it was o*en di,cult to #ag the bartender down for a third margarita.
With the last weekend warriors having long since departed, we settle in for our season of reclaiming the sand, hell-bent on doing whatever we can to rebuild in time for next summer.
&ough we wait for FEMA checks and insur-ance payments we fear may never come, the greatest evidence of our resolve exists at Shine’s, the neighborhood watering hole. It’s an old-school Irish pub — less a bar than a living room for the old guard of our community. When the power for the entire region was out, Shine’s remained open, because, as owner Brent Wilson told &e Wall Street Journal, “Guinness serves well at room temperature.” Like the rest of our town, Shine’s sat hauntingly empty for months before the locals started slowly "ling back to reclaim their bar stools. &ey’re back now and have taken their places near the sign by the win-dow that reads “bruised but not broken.”
Finally, one year a*er Sandy washed every-thing away, the bruises are beginning to heal. &ere’s still an island le* for islanders like me.
Mike Mallazzo is a Medill senior. 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].
MIKEMALLAZZODAILY COLUMNIST
Superstorm Sandy knocked us down, but not out
Ernest Hemingway once remarked, “Hap-piness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
&is certainly made an impression on me, especially given my subconscious tendency to associate my grades with my intelligence, my intelligence with my self-worth and my self-worth with my happiness. I will admit to this; I know I am not the only one. Although my conscious self disagrees with my subconscious self, the subconscious still hasn’t relinquished its illogical grasp on my emotions. &is statement is especially relevant here; sometimes we need to combat our tendency to overanalyze, compart-mentalize and plan in order to be happy and feel human.
What constitutes your sense of self-worth? What de"nes whether you are happy on a given day? For many of us, the answer is success in a chosen "eld or, put more simply, success in
school. &at’s not really the way it’s supposed to be though. If you base your happiness on such a concrete and quanti"able set of parameters, it will be short-lived indeed, and this way of think-ing will inexorably lead you to an existential crisis. &e reason behind this is that all tangible and measurable things can be taken away from us. Moreover, if they are quanti"able, they lend themselves to comparison with others, which only exacerbates the problem.
Happiness is something that you need to de"ne for yourself, just as your desires are unique to you alone. &e mere de"nition of happiness, let alone its acquisition, has the potential to take an entire lifetime. Obviously it is a question of trial and error — and time. It is also a question of discovering what you want, in order to de"ne the meaning of happiness for yourself and then set about attaining it. As you can see, this is a complex process with no clear-cut set of instructions.
Sometimes, we must fail in order to ulti-mately be happy. Failure takes us out of our-selves and forces us to look at the big picture, the grand scheme of things, the canvas of life that has been obscured by the minutiae of our everyday lives. It’s a wake-up call that helps us
realize that the things which we thought would turn our world upside down actually don’t, and life continues. Sometimes it shows us that what we’ve been chasing has been at our heels the whole time. Failing is perfectly acceptable (as long as you don’t make a conscious choice to do so and fall into bad habits), because happiness, and even success, is not linear. &eir attainment is unpredictable and always uncertain.
Perhaps the greatest obstacle to achieving happiness however, is an obsession with attain-ing it. Viktor Frankl proclaimed that “success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side e)ect of one’s personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself.” We should not obsess over doing things for the sake of obtaining something, whether it be money, a grade or even happiness. We should do them for their sake alone. We should discover what is meaningful to us and try to be faithful to a worthy purpose. O*entimes, the rest will take care of itself.
Antonio Petkov is a McCormick freshman. He can be reached at [email protected]. If you want to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to [email protected].
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Township dissolution question to be on 2014 ballotBy PATRICK SVITEK!"#$% &'(#)* &+",,'* @PatrickSvitek
Aldermen voted Monday night to ask their con-stituents to determine the fate of Evanston Township, their -nal say on an issue they have been weighing for years.
.e /-0 decision came a1er City Council unani-mously agreed to tweak the wording of the binding referendum question that will appear on the March 23, 0425, ballot. Instead of asking whether the town-ship should be “continued,” voters will now choose whether the township should be “discontinued and abolished.”
Ald. Delores Holmes (6th) and Ald. Peter Braith-waite (0nd) opposed the measure. Both council mem-bers have expressed concerns about how prepared the city is to absorb the township’s duties, which include general assistance for the needy and tax advice for all residents.
Outgoing township assessor Bonnie Wilson argued her o7ce’s e8orts “could not be duplicated if the city takes over” its responsibilities. Wilson evoked Sharon Eckersall, the assessor-elect who was found dead in her home in September.
“If Sharon Eckersall were here today, she would join me in not supporting this ordinance,” Wilson told the aldermen, who also serve as trustees of the township.
Despite Wilson’s plea, the aldermen made up their
minds with little discussion, passing on the opportu-nity to hear more information from acting township supervisor Wally Bobkiewicz about the potential transition. In a city memo dated Oct. 00, Bobkie-wicz responded to several questions about the issue raised by the Evanston League of Women Voters. If handled by the city, the township’s services would generally remain unchanged while saving taxpayer money, according to the memo.
Wilson speci-cally objected to Bobkiewicz’s fore-cast that one sta8 member would be assigned to prop-erty tax assessment, saying her o7ce “always needed two people” during its busiest times.
Last year, Evanston voters favored dissolving the township by a nearly 0-to-2 margin in a non-binding referendum. In more recent months, the township saw Eckersall’s sudden death and the abrupt resignation of supervisor Gary Gaspard, who had been widely criticized by trustees for how he managed his o7ce’s -nances.
.e township board picked Bobkiewicz as Gas-pard’s temporary replacement at its last meeting. On Monday, Bobkiewicz assured trustees he would neither accept nor seek additional bene-ts or pay for taking on the interim role.
At the past several council meetings, a small but vocal group of Evanston residents has shown up to oppose the binding referendum. One of them, Pris-cilla Giles, said the township’s services may decline in quality if they are folded into the city.
By ELIZABETH KIM+9' !"#$% ()*+9:'&+'*(
Northwestern students taking the Medical College Admission Test in 0426 may want to start studying soon.
More than 54 percent of medical school admis-sions o7cers expect the new version of the MCAT to be more di7cult than the current one, accord-ing to a Kaplan Test Prep survey this year. In last year’s survey, just 00 percent of admissions o7-cers reported these expectations for the revamped test.
.e new MCAT comes with three signi-cant additions. First, the time allotment for the exam is slated to increase to six hours and 26 minutes, compared with its current allotment of three hours
and 04 minutes. .ere will be additional questions on biochemistry, psychology and sociology, which will require students to take an increased number of prerequisite classes.
.e survey asked admissions o7cers in /; medical schools across the nation earlier this year whether they anticipated the 0426 MCAT to be more di7cult than the current one.
“People are coming to the realization that the test will be very di8erent,” said Owen Farcy, Kaplan Test Prep’s director of pre-health programs and director of MCAT 0426. “It’s really going to be harder.”
.e updated test will also include two new ques-tion types: research design, which asks students to illustrate their knowledge of conducting research, and graphical analysis and data interpretation, which prompts students to draw conclusions and inferences from data sets.
Weinberg senior Helen Gomez, who was accepted early into Feinberg School of Medicine through NU’s Undergraduate Premedical Scholars Program, said she thinks these changes are neces-sary for the changing -eld of medicine.
“It is absolutely reasonable. It is absolutely nec-essary,” Gomez said in an email. “I think we are seeing changes in the medical -eld, and we need to account for those changes. .e more social and psychological sections force prospective candidates to grapple with the ‘real world,’ ‘real people,’ and ‘real lives’ aspect of medicine.”
Farcy emphasized the importance of qualities beyond academic excellence in prospective medical school students.
“For students applying this year, when they are applying, they want to be themselves, and they want to make sure that their passion is coming through
as they are speaking to medical schools,” he said. “Medical schools look for passion in medicine. Students who are applying in the next year or so, they want to make sure they know the test and get plenty of time to prepare.”
Gomez, a history major, advised students to explore interests outside of the natural sciences. She said doing so will ultimately help in fostering quality doctor-patient relationships.
“Make your own path, be your own person and be proud of it,” Gomez said. “Don’t change yourself to meet the medical school standards. Don’t listen to your friends’ experiences. Make your own.”
Kaplan will launch a new suite of test prep materials next fall to help students prepare for the updated test.
Kaplan survey: Revised MCAT tougher on students
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VOTER’S CHOICE Wally Bobkiewicz, acting supervisor of Evanston Township, discusses the potential dissolution of the township Monday. Aldermen voted 7-2 to ask voters about the issue.
City Council OKs liquor license for downtown Starbucks location
Evanston aldermen Monday night approved a liquor license for the Starbucks in downtown Evanston.
.e license will allow the co8ee shop, 2/<5 Sherman Ave., to serve beer and wine as part of the national chain’s “Starbucks Evenings” pilot program.
City Council unanimously approved an amended version of the license a1er Ald. Delores Holmes (6th) suggested moving the starting time for liquor sales up from 0 to 6 p.m. .e aldermen settled on 5 p.m.
.e approval of the license makes the down-town Evanston location the eighth Starbucks in the Chicago area to participate in the program.
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future studies prove e-cigarettes to be safe, the city can choose to amend their current smoke-free ordinance to allow businesses to apply for an “e-cigarette license” or to simply allow e-cig-arette use in certain public spaces.
Ald. Don Wilson (!th) also expressed concern about the products, saying their contents are not as regulated as those in regular cigarettes.
“Anything can be in these products,” he said. “In the absence of any kind of standards, it’s dangerous to put people potentially at risk.”
The Food and Drug Administration is expected to release proposed regulations for the products by the end of the month.
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and having to tap into equivalency meals and points,” said Jenn Huang, a McCormick junior and ASG director of dining.
Wildcat Carry Out will accept all meal plans. Meal options include salads, burgers, chicken tenders and pizza.
Huang said the menu will resemble the o"-the-grill items that were o"ered in the Great Room, which closed its student dining services at the start of the year.
“We brought in these late night faves because we wanted to appease the demand for to-go meals,” said nuCuisine spokesman Jason Sophian.
With the new program, students will be able to place their order with the C-Store cashier on
the west side of Foster-Walker. Orders will then be prepared and brought out for students to pick up.
Weinberg freshman Eliana Sanchez said she is likely to use Wildcat Carry Out since dining halls tend to be closed when she gets hungry at night.
“It looks like a quick alternative to Lisa’s or the C-Store that run on equivalency meals,” Sanchez said.
Weinberg freshman George Valladares said he’s still uncertain that the new program will measure up to an actual dining hall meal.
“I’m still on the fence if I would use it because I love my food nice and hot,” Valladares said. “I don’t want just any quick meal, so I’ll just have to wait and see.”
Nonetheless, Valladares said the program is clever because Foster-Walker tends to get
crowded late at night.Weinberg freshman Jason Sloan is on the
unlimited meal plan, which gives two equiva-lency meals per week. He said this plan could allow him to save his equivalency meals for other uses.
“It’s just really convenient for me to get late night food on my meal plan,” Sloan said. “People on North Campus will probably just keep going to Lisa’s because of the distance though.”
Sophian said Foster-Walker was chosen in May during a trial period as a central point for students on both North and South campuses, but nuCuisine may broaden the program.
“If large demand is seen, we’re open to expand-ing to other campus dining locations,” Sophian said.
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in attendance.Despite being an economist, Baicker described
her foray into health science during her time working with the Oregon experiment. In one example, she noted that she and her fellow researchers discovered certain anomalies in test-ing subjects with more health risk factors.
“We did a dry run on our target population and we got terrible blood spots,” Baicker said. “If you are overweight, if you are a smoker, if you’re dehydrated, if you have a lot of other health conditions, you don’t bleed as profusely as if you require eight waters everywhere you go.”
Baicker also outlined her other experiences with adapting to #elds outside of academia, such as previously serving on the Council of Economic Advisers for the Executive O$ce of the President.
“It’s a whole di"erent world (in Washington, D.C.). ...It takes a little bit of an ear attuned to those norms to operate e$ciently and e"ectively in that world,” Baicker said. “%at’s something that a lot of academics just have no patience for.”
Sociology Prof. Christine Percheski, an IPR faculty member, said she saw the value in Baick-er’s cross-disciplinary experience.
“It was fascinating to hear about her experi-ence in government,” Percheski said. “She pro-vided much interesting insight — both in the real world with policy and (in academics) about policy.”
In a Q-and-A session following the lecture, Baicker also gave advice to graduate social scientists.
“It’s really important to be practical if you want your advice to be in&uential,” she said. “I, for one,
am very excited about moving some very in&u-ential person’s opinion by an inch versus moving (the opinion of) people I talk to by a foot.”
Brian Lee/Daily Senior Staffer
MIXED RESULTS Harvard University health economics Prof. Katherine Baicker discusses her research with David Figlio of the Institute for Police Research in the McCormick Tribune Center on Monday afternoon. Baicker’s findings, as part of the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment, look into the effects of expanding Medicaid coverage.
Health CareFrom page 1
when the Cats took charge, taking '' shots, NU had a far more defensive approach versus Michi-gan, taking only #ve. Senior goalie Sam Hat#eld, in her #rst start of the season, had a career-high seven saves.
“(Hat#eld) has come a long, long way,” Moyni-han said. “She’s somebody whose spirit has been fantastic. She’s the ideal team person, and she’s very much a Wildcat.”
%e Cats played tight defense and allowed only one goal in the #rst half to Cassie Collins, who gave the Wolverines a lead three minutes before hal(ime which they would never lose.
NU continued to battle in the second half, but ultimately allowed goals to Meghan Toohey on a penalty kick a(er a Cats hand ball and to Nicky Waldeck.
“We put ourselves in a position where we were in the game against the number )* team in the country for a long stretch,” Moynihan said. “And, you know, in the end we just didn’t have enough to pull o" the result I guess.”
Although this season is coming to a close, Moynihan views this as merely the beginning.
“To me, the #rst thing you want to build is the right culture and the right attitude within the team,” he said. “I think our seniors did a good job leading the way on that and will set us up for success down the road.”
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ON DECK ON THE RECORDField HockeyOhio State at NU, 2 p.m. Friday
It was pretty apparent Saturday who the best running back was on the field for us, and it was Stephen Buckley. — Pat Fitzgerald, football coach
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Northwestern wrapped up a month-long road trip and tied a nice bow on it, winning both games over the weekend.
0e No. 1/ Wildcats (12-2, 2-1 Big Ten) emerged victorious against both Michigan State (3-., /-4) and Central Michigan (5-16), only allowing in total one goal but netting four for themselves. 0e 7rst game of the weekend against Michigan State proved to be the tougher of the two contests, with NU winning 4-1.
“It was one of very few games where the other team had more shots and (pen-alty) corners than us,” coach Tracey Fuchs said. “We played really well. Maddy (Car-penter) saw the most action and made critical saves at critical times.”
Carpenter was particularly excited for the Spartan challenge. She understood that Michigan State is an aggressive team, despite its overall record. 0ey like to shoot — a lot.
“We were neck and neck the whole time,” the junior goalkeeper said. “It was a lot of fun. 0ey had a lot of good shots, and (Michigan State forward) Abby Barker really tested me and our defense.”
0e Spartans outshot the Cats 18-16. 0e Michigan State o9ense put seven shots on goal, but Carpenter stopped all but one. Regardless of the tempo of the
game, NU kept its energy up.“0ere was no lull,” Carpenter said.
“We knew we were going to win. We took it.”
On the o9ensive side, Lisa McCarthy and Isabel Flens posted goals for the Cats. McCarthy’s score came in the 7rst half, and Flens dashed the Spartans’ hopes with just above six minutes le: in regulation.
In game two of the weekend, the Cats blanked Central Michigan 4-6. 0e name of the day was Dominique Masters, a freshman mid7elder hailing from the United Kingdom. Masters claimed both goals on corners for the Cats.
“It was really nice to get the two cor-ners,” Masters said. “We had to really make sure we are on our top form. It’s great that everyone knows what they’re doing on the 7eld.”
Fuchs promised extra corner practice coming into the weekend, and that prac-tice proved helpful on o9ense and defense. 0roughout the game, the Chippewas
forced the Cats to defend against 7ve corners — four in the second frame.
“Corner practice de7nitely helped,” Fuchs said. “Dom got both of her goals o9 corners.”
Senior mid7elder Julia Retzky came back to the team this week. Much to the chagrin of the Chippewas, the return of Retzky helped NU as she was credited
with an assist on both goals.As the curtain closes on the regular
season, the Cats trail conference rival Penn State for the Big Ten Championship. 0e Nittany Lions have already gotten their paws on part of the title. If Penn State falls to Michigan on Friday and NU takes down the conference-winless Ohio State, then the two will tie for the title.
Finishing o9 the Spartans helps the Cats as the only conference contender for the title against the Nittany Lions. Tak-ing care of the Chippewas just pads an already astounding record of 12-2.
“Overall, I couldn’t be happier about the weekend,” Fuchs said.
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Venric Mark is out, and chaos has 7lled the void.
With Mark, a senior, having already missed most of the Wild-cats’ season with lower body inju-ries, a trio of backs have assumed the vacated carries, and coach Pat Fitzgerald had something to say about all of them at Monday’s weekly news conference.
A mystery of Saturday’s loss to Iowa was the absence of junior Treyvon Green. A:er serving as NU’s top back for the team’s 7rst three games, Green’s opportunities began to decline. He has carried the ball only 45 times in the 7ve games since. Saturday, Green didn’t play at all.
Fitzgerald attributed the benching to an ambiguous inability to practice, perhaps due to a previously undis-closed injury.
“He was a little limited last week during practice,” the coach said. “So that limited his role on Saturday.”
Mike Trumpy is the most experi-enced member of the back7eld, hav-ing 7lled many roles during his four years in Evanston. 0e senior carried 1/ times against Iowa but lost two fumbles, including one late in the fourth when the Cats were looking to take a lead.
Still, Fitzgerald said he has some degree of con7dence in the veteran.
“We’re not going to lose Michael entirely. He’s going to have a role in our o9ense,” he said. “We have full con7dence that Michael will respond the right way, but putting the ball on the ground is unacceptable. He understands he’s got to earn that trust back to earn the ball.”
Stephen Buckley has posted career highs in rushing yardage in each of NU’s two most recent games. 0e redshirt freshman ran for 83 yards and a touchdown on only nine car-ries against Minnesota on Oct. 1. and followed with .. yards on 1<
against the Hawkeyes.For the latter performance, Buck-
ley was named the team’s o9ensive player of the week. Fitzgerald said the running back played “very well,” citing his yards a:er contact success in Saturday’s game.
“It was pretty apparent on Satur-day who the best running back was on the 7eld for us,” Fitzgerald said. “And that was Stephen Buckley.”
Going forward, it seems Buckley will be NU’s go-to back, but, as this season’s playing patterns have shown, that can change quickly and unex-pectedly. Fitzgerald did o9er one insight into how he chooses who will play going forward.
“Competition will be the decid-ing factor on who’s going to play,” he said.
More news conference notes: Fitzgerald said it’s his under-
standing that if Mark does not play for the rest of the season, he will be eligible for a medical redshirt, which appears to be the case under NCAA rules. “I’ve talked to him about all the di9erent variables,” Fitzgerald said.
Fitzgerald on senior quarterback Kain Colter playing almost the entire game Saturday: “We just stayed with the hot hand.”
Fitzgerald also said he was “very proud of our guys” for achieving the highest graduation rate in the Foot-ball Bowl Subdivision. “We do not take that for granted,” he said.
Several players also answered questions Monday. Freshman cor-nerback Matthew Harris said he and redshirt freshman Dwight White have supported each other through-out their ongoing position battle. Harris called the two “buddies” on and o9 the 7eld.
The team will journey to Nebraska this weekend. Last time the Cats visited Lincoln, they upset the No. 16 Cornhuskers 43-48. Fitzger-ald and senior linebacker Damien Proby said they were impressed by Nebraska’s fans. “0eir fans respect the game a lot, which doesn’t happen all the time in some games that we play,” Proby said.
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Northwestern 7nished its season at Lakeside Field in familiar fashion — walking o9 the 7eld in defeat.
“I don’t think we can get ourselves out of last place in the Big Ten,” coach Michael Moynihan said. “But when you look at the course of the season, we outshot Nebraska, who’s number one in the Big Ten right now, we outshot Michigan State, Iowa — I mean you can go down the list and we were right there with a lot of the top teams, so we’re not that far o9.”
0e Wildcats (/-1/-4, 1-.-6 Big Ten) played their 7nal two home games this weekend against Michigan State (.-<-4, /-<-6) and No. 16 Michigan (12-4-1, 3-1-1), sending o9 the seniors with a heartwarming ceremony before the latter.
First, NU endured a di=cult loss to the Spartans on Friday night.
“A:er playing as well as we did with as much energy as we did, it was just hard to believe that we couldn’t get a result in that game,” Moynihan said.
0e Cats outplayed the Spartans all game long, dominating time of posses-sion and taking 44 shots, 12 on goal, as opposed to Michigan State’s nine shots. 0ere was only one problem — a problem NU has su9ered all season long — scoring goals.
Filled with energy, the Cats came out 7ring early and acquired a quick 1-6 lead when sophomore mid7elder Margo McGinty earned her 7rst career goal. McGinty knocked the ball over the head of Michigan State goalkeeper Gabrielle Gauruder o9 the assist from junior mid7elder Georgia Waddle at the 12 minute mark.
“It feels good a:er putting a bunch over the crossbar to 7nally get one in,” McGinty said.
Michigan State, however, wouldn’t go down without a 7ght, sending it to the
half tied 1-1 a:er mid7elder Kirsten Evans sent one high past NU junior goalie Ali Herman with 14 minutes le: in the half.
0e Cats continued to control play throughout the second half but missed a slew of opportunities, ultimately cul-minating in a Michigan State goal by Rachel Van Poppelen 3/ minutes into the game to give the Spartans a 4-1 victory.
“That was a really hard result because that e9ectively eliminated us from the Big Ten tournament,” Moyni-han said.
Despite the loss, which Moynihan also attributed to poor o=ciating, the coach was incredibly proud of the team’s play in this game and loved the energy it showed.
After losing the weekend’s first game, the Cats had one last opportu-nity to give their seniors a 7nal vic-tory in Evanston on Sunday against Michigan. NU, however, was unable to pull o9 the upset and was only able to o9er the seniors a celebratory pregame ceremony.
“It was an unbelievable experience,” senior forward and team captain Kate Allen said. “De7nitely sentimental and emotional, but it was great to end the last game here on Lakeside.”
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BUCK STARTS HERE Redshirt freshman Stephen Buckley handles one of the team’s 17 carries against Iowa on Saturday. The Wildcats fell 17-10.
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SCORING MASTER Midfielder Dominique Masters scored both goals in NU’s shutout against Central Michigan on Sunday. The freshman from the United Kingdom has been a precocious sensation, standing second on the team in goals and points as the season winds down.
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