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Steichen photo gift coming to Block
New SESP course to donate $100,000
By ADRIANNA RODRIGUEZ!"# $%&'( )*+!",#-!#+)
The School of Education and Social Policy will offer a new class during Spring Quarter in which students will allocate ./00,000 to a philanthropic organization of their choice.
The class, “Learning Philanthropy: Engaging in the Study and Practice of Giving,” will be taught by SESP Dean Penelope Peterson and Lauren Jones Young, former director of the Spencer Foundation, which aims to support education-related research. Offered for the first time this year, Peterson and Young are already planning to include the course in the SESP cur-riculum in future years.
According to the course descrip-tion, the money was made avail-able through an initiative by the Once Upon a Time Foundation of Fort Worth, Texas, an organization that Peterson said has given money to other universities in the past for similar courses.
The organization approached SESP with the proposal a year ago, and the school has been preparing for the course throughout the year.
Peterson said her aim for the class is to teach students how philanthropy improves the lives of children, youth,
families and adults.
“Not only does it improve people’s l i v e s t o improve organi-zations,” Peterson said. “But a l s o the idea is that the person who gives the money benefits in some way.”
The class will con-sist of 11
students who were required to sub-mit an application by Feb. //. The application asked students what they would do if they were given ./0,000 to donate to a cause.
Peterson said the class will be interdisciplinary and should not be viewed only as a sociology course.
The plan is to incorporate all per-spectives in the science of philan-thropy, including those in economics, political science and psychology.
“The issues that we are dealing with are too complex to be solved by one discipline — no one dis-cipline can have the answer,” she said. “You have to bring different
Spring Quarter class will o!er real-world philanthropic corollary
“Not only does it improve people’s lives to improve organizations, but also the idea is that the person who gives the money bene"ts in some way.Penelope Peterson,SESP dean
By JUNNIE KWON!"# $%&'( )*+!",#-!#+)
2e portrait of Jascha Heifetz and the iconic photograph of the George Wash-ington Bridge are just two of a set of valuable Edward Steichen photographs art collectors donated to the Block Museum of Art, the museum announced last week.
2e pair of photographs, temporarily on display at University President Morton Scha-piro’s home, was donated t o t h e museum by prominent art collectors Richard and Jackie Hol-lander in late October. 2e Hollanders, who are close friends of the Schapiros, donated a total of 34 silver gelatin prints by Steichen, a renowned celebrity and fashion photographer who worked for Vanity Fair and Vogue in the 50s and
Copper heists continue
Valuable Steichen photographs include Heifetz, iconic bridge
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By CIARA MCCARTHY!"# $%&'( )*+!",#-!#+)
A group of individuals have sto-len copper piping from Evanston religious institutions five times since the beginning of the year, a worrying trend for owners of older buildings with the pricey copper gutters and downspouts.
Three different Evanston churches have reported the theft of copper downspouts on the exte-riors of their buildings since Janu-ary. The Evanston Police Depart-ment believes the same group of individuals are perpetrating these thefts, EPD Spokesperson Cmdr. Jay Parrott said.
Thieves have stolen down-spouts from St. Nicholas Parish, 607 Ridge Ave., several times in the last five weeks, church busi-ness manager Suzanne Lefevre said. The recent incidents are the third major thefts in two years at the church, Lefevre said.
Built in /403, St. Nicholas has at least two of its five buildings equipped with copper gutters and downspouts, Lefevre said. The rest have downspouts made of galva-nized steel. Lefevre said the thieves located the copper fixtures ahead of time and targeted those spe-cifically. Because it is fairly easy to pry the copper off the build-ing, the thieves generally work at night or in the early morning and
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GUTTED Expensive copper gutters and downspouts have been stolen overnight from Evaston religious institutions several times this year.
Thieves steal from religious institutions "ve times in 2013
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District 65 Curriculum Forum
Wednesday, 7 p.m.Haven Middle School Library2417 Prairie Ave.Evanston/Skokie District !" will hold a social studies curriculum forum Wednes-day at Haven Middle School, the district’s second such forum. Administrators and teachers will be on hand to help parents understand what students learn from kin-dergarten through eighth grade.
Dog Beach Public Meeting
Saturday, 10 a.m.Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center 2200 Ridge Ave.Ald. Judy Fiske (#st) will hold a meeting on Saturday to receive public input to improve the beach experience for pets and owners. Located south of Clark Street Beach along Sheridan Road, the city’s dog beach will open April #, weather permitting.
Evanston + Vicinity Biennial Solos
Sunday, 1 p.m.Evanston Art Center2603 Sheridan RoadAn exhibition of three artists chosen by Shannon Stratton, a juror from Chicago’s threewalls gallery, will debut Sunday at the Evanston Art Center. Stephen Cartwright, one of three selected artists, has recorded his position on earth using a GPS every hour since noon on June $#, #%%%. Cart-wright creates maps and objects based on his unique perspective and data collection. Local artists Scott Carter and Emily Her-mant will also be part of the exhibition.
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CITY CALENDAR Police BlotterAlleged altercation in front of Jewel leads to double arrest
Evanston Police responded to a call of battery in progress in front of Jewel-Osco, ##$& Chicago Ave., Saturday evening.
A con'ict arose between a !(-year-old Chi-cago man asking for spare change outside of the store and two other Chicago men, EPD Cmdr. Jay Parrott said. )e two Chicago men were charged with battery. Witnesses said the two men exchanged words with the man and then began to punch and beat him up. )e !(-year-old man sustained no serious injuries. )e *$- and +$-year-old men live in the same Chicago residence, although it is unknown if they are related.
)ey are scheduled to appear in court on March $(.
Homeless man arrested inside Century 12 movie theater
Evanston Police arrested a "(-year-old man for sneaking into a movie at Century #$ Evan-ston/CineArts !, #,#" Maple Ave., without paying for a ticket on Saturday.
People in the theater observed Austin Castleberry allegedly reaching into a purse that didn’t belong to him and called the police. Castleberry claimed to be homeless, Parrott
said, although the address listed for him was in Chicago. Castleberry is scheduled to appear in court on April *.
— Ciara McCarthy
Evanston man arrested in connection with January shooting in downtown Chicago
Chicago police arrested an Evanston man on )ursday in connection with a January shoot-ing at a downtown Chicago hotel.
Brian Miller allegedly shot a $"-year-old man in the leg during a party on the $$nd 'oor of the Palmer House Hilton Hotel in the heart of the Loop. Detectives investigating the case said everyone involved in the incident knew each other, the Chicago Tribune reported last month. )e injured man was transferred to Northwestern Memorial Hospital for wound treatment.
Police arrested Miller in the $,(( block of S. California Avenue in Chicago and charged him with aggravated battery with a -rearm, Chicago Police spokesman o.cer Veejay Zala said. )e injured man identi-ed Miller from a photo array, Zala said.
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Citizen Police Academy to start new spring session March 6
Evanston Police Department will begin its Spring $(#* session of the Citizen Police Acad-emy on March !, according to a news release.
Established in #%%", the #$-week program gives participants a working knowledge of the department. It has produced more than &(( graduates, according to the release.
)e program consists of a series of weekly classes and discussions on Wednesday evenings, which cover di/erent aspects of law enforcement.
Students must complete a four-hour ride-along with a patrol unit and a three-hour observation in the city’s %## center to graduate, along with other requirements.
Graduates will receive a diploma and an acad-emy jacket, and EPD encourages them to actively participate in the Citizen Police Academy Alumni Association. )e department also requires all its volunteers to complete the course.
EPD hosts two academy session every year and limits each class size to about $" students. People who work or live in Evanston can attend the program for free. Interested persons can -nd the application on the city’s website.
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On Campus
By KATE STEIN!"# $%&'( )*+!",#-!#+)
A storytelling performance at Northwest-ern’s Fiedler Hillel on Monday night empha-sized the importance of family and Jewish tradition in determining one’s gender and religious identities.
S. Bear Bergman, a storyteller who has written several books for both children and adults, performed “Machatunim,” a suite of four stories about his nontraditional family and the problems confronting the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer com-munities. A number of NU departments and student groups collaborated to host the event, including the Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies and the LGBTQ Resource Center. About ./ people attended the event.
“It was a great opportunity for me to learn more about the wider-gendered world,” said Eva Hare (McCormick ’/0), who attended the event with the Chicagoland Gender Outlaws. “It’s a realization that, ‘Oh, there are other people who are similar to me, in that they’re similar because they’re different.”
Three of Bergman’s stories centered on the importance of his family and Jewish tradition in his life. Bergman said he adores his family because of the diversity of “genders, tattoos, races and backgrounds” represented there, but added that this diversity makes describ-ing relationships tricky. He said the title of his suite, “Machatunim,” means “co-in-laws” and describes people who are family to him regardless of whether or not they are blood relatives.
“It helps to have a word for it when people ask if you’re family and their view is a bit more conservative than yours,” he said.
Bergman and his husband are practicing Jews who are raising their son, Stanley, in the traditional Jewish faith, emphasizing the importance of religion, tradition and family. They host traditional Shabbat din-ners most Friday nights and attend religious gatherings.
Emphasizing the importance of not only family communities but also his network of co-in-laws, Bergman said he and his husband rely on on both in raising Stanley.
“The more non-related adults a child has in his life who are caring for the child’s well-being, the better off the child is,” he said.
The couple also encourages Stanley to explore different genders and gender roles.
Event organizers, including Hillel Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg, invited Bergman to speak
because they said they thought his stories would fit well with the themes and ideas of the Jewish Queers, including queer issues, Judaism and family.
“The underlying theme here was about the way we think of family and the kind of ties that bind us, even if they aren’t conventional,” Ruttenberg said. “(Bergman) brings a queer eye to Jewish life and a Jewish eye to queer life.”
Ruttenberg added that Bergman’s stories about his identity provided an “important and vital voice for Jewish culture in terms of understanding what our culture is and what
it can be.”With his last story, Bergman reflected on
the difficulties facing transsexuals in his per-formance of “Gathering Light Out of Dark-ness.” The story draws on Jewish folklore and the traditional lighting of candles at Hanuk-kah to emphasize light and uniqueness as a form of resistance to violence.
“It’s easier for people who are queer and trans to come out in Judaism because there’s so much more room for argument than in other traditions,” he said.
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LGBTQ STORIES S. Bear Bergman performs Machatunim, a series of short stories about family and growing up. The stories focused on his Jewish background and upbringing.
Judaism, tradition, family emphasized in S. Bear Bergman’s suite of stories
STEM and Community Engagement: Connecting Research and Society
Tuesday, 4 to 7 p.m.Technological Institute1e Center for Civic Engagement is hosting a moderated panel discussion Tuesday to examine how STEM academics and science researchers can engage more with outside communities.
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CAMPUS CALENDARFaces of Youth Homeless-ness: Real Experiences of Chicago Area Young
Wednesday, 6 to 7: 30 p.m.Norris University Center, Wildcat RoomHomeless youth from the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless will share their life experiences at a panel discussion hosted by the Center for Civic Engagement. 1e speakers will share how they became homeless and their current advo-cacy e2orts for others in similar situations.
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Who Speaks for Islam? with John Esposito
Thursday, 7:30 p.m.Harris HallJohn Esposito, a professor at Georgetown Univer-sity and president-elect of the American Academy of Religion, will speak about the six-year research process for his book, “Who Speaks for Islam? What a Billion Muslims Really 1ink,” which represents the most comprehensive study of Muslim indi-viduals. 1e event is part of the Muslim Cultural Students Association’s Discover Islam Week.
FEB. 21
Oscars night with BLAST
Sunday, 7 to 10 p.m.Norris University Center, Louis RoomTo celebrate the Oscars ceremony, NU’s Ballroom, Latin and Swing Team is host-ing a dance and watch party in Norris. The free event will feature dancing ranging from the waltz to the foxtrot, as well as ballots on which students can vote for which nomi-nees they think will win. Formal attire is encouraged.
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Wildcats dominate on ‘100 Most Powerful Chicagoans’ list for 2013
Chicago Magazine recently released its annual ranking of the “3// Most Powerful Chicagoans,” and this year’s list is looking positively purple.
According to a University news release, almost 4/ percent of those listed are connected to Northwestern, ranging from alumni and trustees to parents of cur-rent or former NU students.
1e list features 5. NU alumni, ranging from Groupon CEO Andrew Mason (Bienen ‘/.) to Henry Crown and Co. chairman Lester Crown (McCormick ‘46). University President Morton Schapiro is ranked number 74, and alumnus and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel (Communication ‘87) tops the list.
“1e quality and scale of representation on this list is an important demonstration of our impact on the Chicago area,” Bob McQuinn, vice president for alumni relations and development, said in the release. “You might even think about this impressive collection of Wildcat family members as another way Northwestern is Chicago’s Big Ten team.”
Chicago Magazine compiles its annual list by rank-ing area leaders based on the criteria that those listed must reside primarily in the Chicago area, according to the magazine.
1e full list is available in the March 5/3. issue of Chicago Magazine and on the publication’s website.
— Devan Coggan
NU-Qatar, Immigrant Connect to be featured on Big Ten Network
An episode on a Big Ten Network television series airing Wednesday night will highlight reporting initiatives at both Northwestern’s Evanston campus and Northwestern University in Qatar, according to a University news release.
Students from NU-Qatar’s journalism program in Doha and Immigrant Connect will be featured at 33 p.m. Wednesday night on “BTN LiveBig,” a new series piloted earlier this winter. 1e show focuses on spotlighting some of the non-athletic global initiatives that Big Ten institutions are engaging in.
Created by Medill Prof. Jack Doppelt, the online network Immigrant Connect aggregates news and information for communities of Chi-cago immigrants and refugees.
Established in 5//8 in conjunction with the Qatar Foundation, NU-Qatar is the University’s 9rst international campus, where students there major in journalism or communications.
TeamWorks Media, a Chicago creative media company specializing in visual content, social media and marketing, is co-producing the “BTN LiveBig” series with Big Ten Network.
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The Drawing Board by Selena Parnon
It’s been a while, but I still remember my brother’s ! rst year at Dartmouth College. He and a couple of friends decided to have a “cookout” by the dock on campus. Unfortu-nately, they didn’t realize the pan they were using for the ! re had plastic in it, so they burned a hole through the pan and the dock. " ey had to call the police and each pay #$%% to repair the damage.
My family laughed about that incident for a couple of weeks. " e next year, my brother joined a fraternity. I would always ask him, “What about your friends who helped you destroy the dock?” He would always tell me he hadn’t seen them; he was too busy now.
I never understood why my brother would let what seemed like a great friendship die. Why was it so hard for him to balance his new friends with the friends from his freshman dorm? " en I went to college.
I don’t know how many times I have seen two old acquaintances randomly bump into each other on campus. " ey run up to one another, hug or pat each other the back. " ey start with, “It’s been so long since I’ve seen you!” " en they ask, “How have you been?” Finally, they end their chance meeting with, “We should get co& ee sometime. Give me a call.” Every time I witness one of these encoun-ters, I always wonder if they will actually get co& ee.
Everybody warns you when you go o& to college that you most likely will lose touch with your high school friends. At the very least, you have to make some hard choices about who is worth making the extra e& ort in order to stay in touch. " e rest of the friendships inevita-bly fall by the wayside. However, no one ever warns you that, throughout college, you’ll have to continually choose your friends.
Students at Northwestern are constantly running around, overwhelmed and frazzled. “Midterms” start about the third week of classes and don’t end until ! nals. Meetings for various clubs never end, and neither does homework. " ere simply isn’t enough time in
a normal weekday to spend time with friends, and certainly there isn’t enough time over the course of one weekend to see every person there is to see. Hard choices have to be made.
I had the best fresh-man dorm ' oor. We would all sit outside in the hall with snacks and talk for hours. We were so comfort-able with one another. Sometimes late at night, I would chat with my guy friends in the men’s bathroom when no one else was there. We planned spe-cial events like Easter brunch and celebrated
our birthdays together. I made some of my best friends in that dorm.
Now, I live in my sorority house and spend about thirty hours a week on activities other than schoolwork. I still see my closest friends from last year, but not nearly as o( en as I would like. My relationships with the other
people from my ' oor have been reduced to the occasional run-in on campus. It makes me sad. I miss my conversations in someone’s room at ) a.m. and third ' oor story time.
Our lives are a conscious stream of deci-sions. Where do you go to college? What do you want to be when you grow up? What do you wear to class today? I always knew you choose your friends, but I didn’t realize until coming to college that you also choose which friendships to let go. " e friends you have are always going to be changing, and it’s a con-tinual struggle to decide which friend to call in the ten minutes you have to spare.
No one wants to be the friend that says goodbye. No one wants to be the one who never has time for co& ee or to talk on the phone. But it’s inevitable. Maybe rather than getting accustomed to making plans we’ll never keep, we should focus on the relationships that matter most.
Blair Dunbar is a Weinberg sophomore. She can be reached at [email protected]. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, email a Let-ter to the Editor to [email protected].
When you hear the word “blackberry,” what do you think of? Twenty years ago, it was the fruit. Ten years ago, people would have answered with a smartphone at the peak of its popularity. Now, ask the same group of people, and they associate the word with a dead brand, an irrelevant product and a phone that has inherently lost its “cool fac-tor” in every sense of the word.
That’s why it struck me as a move lacking in strategy for Research in Motion to rebrand their company with the new corporate name BlackBerry. To me, BlackBerry connotes the exact legacy RIM wants to escape: a brand of smart phones that once dominated and then surreptitiously fell from grace. This decline took the form of a stock price that fell from a high of #$*+ to a dismal estimated #$+.
Although along with the rebranding comes a new BlackBerry $% operating system and the Z$% phone. I can’t really wrap my head around why RIM would have thought it was a good idea to rebrand itself with the name of the phone that contributed to its downfall. It is an entirely reactionary move and one that only highlights their lack of insight on their own market. RIM should have branded itself as BlackBerry when the phones were hot commodities, not when they carry no clout.
I remember the day I got my first smart phone. I was a senior in high school, and my history with phones had been shoddy at best: a Nokia I painted polka dotted with nail polish in the fifth grade, a hot pink knockoff Razr, a sliding phone with the most horrific touch screen known to man and the super nifty LG Chocolate in the eighth grade all met their untimely ends in my clearly not-so-capable fin-gers, so I don’t blame my parents for wait-ing until I was the “responsible” age of eighteen to bestow upon me what, at the time, was the hottest of the new trend in smart phones.
Everyone had one, and I instantly gained street cred when I got a BlackBerry. It had everything, BBM (that’s BlackBerry Messaging for anyone not in the loop), email, the ability to connect to the Internet at a glacial speed and a full keypad that, at the time, I imagined that I looked like a real cool kid using.
Fast forward not even three short years since I got my BlackBerry, and the idea of BlackBerrys being equated with anything other than technological irrelevancy is laughable. Three years ago it seemed like you couldn’t throw a stone without hitting
someone hunched over what were affection-ately deemed “crackberries” for their highly addictive properties. I made the switch to the iPhone in October — and I was one of the last holdouts, frequently reminded by my friends to enter into the )$st century.
I know one person who still uses their BlackBerry Curve, and that’s not just my perception. In )%%,, RIM owned ** percent of the domestic smart phone market. Now, that market share is down to -.* percent, a statistic that means, basically, BlackBerrys have been eradicated from the market.
Interestingly enough, with the rebrand two weeks ago, shares in the company gained $+ percent, a jump that I attribute to simply the novelty of the new name and the possibil-ity of more. Possibility is the operative word here, because I don’t believe that BlackBerry can dig itself out of the deep, socially irrel-evant hole it’s gotten itself into.
Maybe in six months I’ll be eating my words, but I believe that in the technology world products move on an entirely linear scale. The idea of a cyclical product in which clout phases in and out is unheard of. When was the last time you heard someone say-ing they really wanted the iPhone ) or an Android phone from )%$%? There isn’t really any going backwards, and in my opinion, once you’re done, you’re done.
Arabella Watters is a Medill sophomore. 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].
College not conducive to maintaining friendshipsBLAIRDUNBARDAILY COLUMNIST
“Why was it so hard for him to balance his new friends with the friends from his freshman dorm? Then I went to college.
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“I know one person who
still uses their BlackBerry Curve, and
that’s not just my perception.
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ASG, FitRec work to bring Zumba south
By ALLY MUTNICK!"#$% &'(#)* &+",,'*
Associated Student Government is working with Northwestern Fitness and Recreation to bring a free Zumba class to Parkes Hall this spring as part of a trial run to set up more group exercise classes on South Campus.
The ASG Student Life Committee came up with the idea after complaints from South Campus students about the long walk north to the Henry Crown Sports Pavilion and Norris Aquatics Center, especially in the winter.
Zumba, a dance fitness program using Latin and international music, will be held Thursday evenings in Parkes Hall -.., -/01 Sheridan Road. ASG originally tried to sched-ule it in Blomquist Recreation Center, but the space was booked by student dance teams and martial arts clubs.
Maddie Stuart, a member of the Student Life Committee who led the planning, said NU FitRec was very receptive about holding a class outside of SPAC when she reached out to them.
“The classes they hold there are really won-derful,” she said of SPAC. “But the distance is a huge downside.”
Current group exercise classes, including Zumba, yoga and weight training, are held predominantly in SPAC.
Stuart mentioned that upcoming SPAC ren-ovations may provide more exercise rooms. NU FitRec would be able to move some of the martial arts and dance groups to SPAC, leaving more room in Blomquist for South Campus group fitness classes.
“This is kind of like a pilot program,” the SESP sophomore said. “If we can show them there is a demand for fitness classes down south, they will be more likely to add some in the future.”
Alex Van Atta, ASG vice president for stu-dent life, said the committee was looking to possibly add a yoga class as well.
He said the NU FitRec staff seemed very open to adding Zumba and other South Cam-pus options.
“This is something new they are trying out,” the McCormick junior said. “I think this just shows that they are willing to work with us.”
In addition to fitness, Van Atta said his committee has been working with athletics to bring other changes for students that had been suggested through the ASG outreach website, Campus Voice.
Medill junior Jenna Frasier said those who live on South Campus are acclimated to walk-ing a long distance to SPAC to take classes and that those who are very motivated to take the classes will make the trek.
This is one of the downsides of living south, which balances upsides such as having easier access to downtown Evanston, she said.
“I feel like if you’re on South Campus you’re just kind of used to it,” Frasier said. “Everything has a pro and a con.”
He said the group is also working with NU Athletics to get cheaper tickets for students
who want to sit outside the student section at Ryan Field when parents or friends come to visit.
The committee is also working on increas-ing attendance at athletic events.
Stuart said she hopes the South Campus Zumba class will encourage students to come to classes.
“Hopefully students will want to come out and exercise,” she said. “I know a lot of people are excited about the possibility of not walk-ing all the way north to get their one hour of exercise in.”
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KICK IT UP A Zumba class, open to students and residents, is taught at the Crown Sports and Aquatics Center. ASG announced Zumba classes will also be available at Parkes Hall in the spring after an unsuccessful attempt to move them to Blomquist Recreation Center.
Evanston Fire Dept to showcase new engine in spring open house
Evanston Fire and Life Safety Services will host an open house on Saturday to display its new environmentally-friendly 2re engine.
Fire2ghters have spent the last few weeks pre-paring Engine .3 for service. 4e engine, a .1-. Pierce Engine/Pumper, allows for less carbon emissions than older models, according to a news release. Instead of releasing dark smoke into the air, the engine cleans its own exhaust and emits only water and nitrogen into the atmosphere.
“It is a perfect 2t for our community,” Fire Chief Greg Klaiber said in the release.
It also features LED lighting and a computer terminal for receiving incident information and conforms to new National Fire Protection Association standards. Fire2ghters will equip the engine with complemental medical and 2re equipment.
4e eco-friendly engine will respond to calls from an equally green 2re station.
Evanston Fire Station 3, ./51 Central St., achieved Leadership in Energy and Environmen-tal Design certi2cation at the GOLD level from the U.S. Green Building Council, according to the release. It is the 2rst 2re station in Illinois with LEED certi2cation.
4e department will host the open house from - to 5 p.m. Saturday at the station.
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GOING GREEN The 2012 Pierce Engine/Pumper cleans its own exhaust and emits only water and nitrogren into the air.
“If we can show them there
is a demand for !tness classes down south, they will be more
likely to add some in the future.Maddie Stuart,
Student Life committee member
!"s, to the Block Museum in honor of Schapiro and his wife Mimi.
#e donation was $nalized with the Univer-sity in December. #e collectors also donated about %" prints each to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Although the Hollanders never attended Northwestern, their close relationship with the Schapiro family secured their decision in choos-ing the University as one of the three recipients of the photographs, said Lisa Corrin, Ellen Philips Katz Director for the Block Museum.
“We really owe our president a great thank you for having the con$dence in the Block (Museum) and belief in the role of arts in education at North-western,” said Corrin, who previously worked with Schapiro and the Hollanders at Williams College. “Because of their great respect for Morty and his advocacy for the Block (Museum), they chose us.”
Schapiro wrote in an email to #e Daily on Sunday that the Hollanders are among his family’s “closest friends.”
#e Block Museum sta& kept the project in the NU family by hiring alumnus Elliot Reichert (Weinberg ‘'") as curatorial project manager. He said curating the upcoming exhibition of Steichen photographs has been the biggest responsibility of his career.
“(I felt) a little bit of terror, but a(er the terror, euphoria,” he said.
#e exhibition will feature a comparison between the photographs by Steichen and Andy Warhol, whose pictures were donated to the museum by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. #e two photographers are univer-sally recognized for their in)uence in Hollywood and fashion photography. #e museum plans to display the exhibition from Sept. *" to Dec. '.
#e very di&erent styles of the two photogra-phers will provide an interesting contrast, Corrin said.
“(Steichen) could make someone plain look-ing look extremely beautiful,” Corrin said. “Andy Warhol did the opposite by shooting polaroids with bright lighting so the celebrity would always look shocked.”
Block Museum’s mission has historically been dedicated to the growth and study of reproduc-ible art forms, which include prints, photographs and $lm. Although the museum currently houses thousands of prints, it is in the process of bolster-ing its photography collection, Reichert said.
Although the donation has had a “transforma-tive” e&ect on the Block Museum and its e&orts toward developing its photographic repertoire, Corrin said the impact of the Steichen photo-graphs will extend beyond NU’s campus and into Chicago.
#e donation has heightened the energy around the museum o+ce, Reichert said.
“#ere’s a lot of excitement at the Block (Museum) lately,” he said. “Everyone’s kind of kicked it into high gear.”
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The students will decide whether the entire ,'"",""" is spent on one organization or if the amount will be divided among several different recipients.
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of class structure forces students to put theo-retical concepts to use. He said he could not fit the class into his schedule but would have taken it otherwise.
“It forces the students to think about a lot of issues practically, as opposed to the theoreti-cal,” Purrier said. “It’s bringing the theoretical and connecting what’s in the classroom to the real world.”
Young said she is excited to teach her first
class at Northwestern. After teaching at Michigan State University
and spending '- years at the Spencer Founda-tion, she said the class will bring her back to her love of teaching.
“It also enables me to be a part of conversa-tion with young people today about broader purposes and about the resources that they will be generating in their own lives,” Young said.
The class will be taught Tuesdays from * to -
p.m. The class material includes a reading from “A Gospel of Wealth” by Andrew Carnegie.
The class will offer an opportunity to learn about the importance of philanthropy and giv-ing back, Peterson said.
“It’s an art and science,” Peterson said. “It’s about the deeper meanings and reasons why people give.”
leave the premises in a matter of minutes, she said. The steel gutters and downspouts have not been touched.
“They know exactly what they’re looking for and they’re pretty efficient,” Lefevre said.
The most recent thefts at St. Nicholas net-ted about ,'",""" worth of copper. This tally does not include losses from the previous two incidences in the past two years. Nothing else of value had been stolen from the church prem-ises. St. Nicholas is looking into options to replace the downspouts and will likely choose a non-copper alternative, Lefevre said.
Thieves also targeted St. Athanasius School, *-'" Ashland Ave., in early February. Three copper gutters valued at more than ,-"" were stolen from the north side of the buildings. Two days later, the thieves returned to the church and took addi-tional gutters.
Last April, thieves took ,',""" worth of copper gutters from the First Congregational Church of Evanston, '%%- Hinman Ave., Evanston Review reported. St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, '""% Greenwood Ave., has also been a target.
The thieves likely take the copper piping to a Chicago scrapper to have it melted for sale, Parrott said. EPD detectives have looked into different metal scrapping facilities in Chicago, but haven’t yet identified a specific location where the stolen copper is being sold, Parrott said. Copper is “one of the more valuable met-als” available for sale, Parrott said.
EPD has coordinated with the institutions that have been targeted, and Parrott said patrols have been increased in those neighborhoods at night, when the majority of thefts have been committed.
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know exactly what they’re
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e!cient.Suzanne Lefevre,
St. Nicholas Parish business manager
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VISUAL ART The Block Museum of Art received more than 40 Edward Steichen photographs. The photographs were given to Northwestern in honor of University President Morton Schapirow, who is close friend with the donating family.
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“(Steichen) could make
someone plain looking look extremely beautiful.
Lisa Corrin,Director, Block Museum
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In their fourth doubleheader of the season , the Wildcats kept their undefeated streaks against Middle Tennessee State and University of Illinois-Chicago alive, and walked away adding two more wins to their season tally.
But it didn’t come easily.Northwestern opened the day against MTSU, a
team that gave NU a tough . ght last year.“We gave ourselves a chance to win, which was
key,” coach Arvid Swan said . “We had some match points and we got it done but we can do a lot of things better. We can serve better, we can return better, . nish at the net better. But they’re a good team and I think one of the strengths of their team is doubles.”
/ e Blue Raiders came out . ring early, challenging the Cats in all three doubles matches. At the No. 0 spot, senior Sidarth Balaji and junior Raleigh Smith hung tough in a serving battle. Smith was eventually able to earn a break for NU with a backhand winner up the line to go up 1-2 before Balaji closed the match out on his serve.
With the . rst doubles win in their favor, the Cats found themselves down in the remaining two matches. While the No. 3 team traded breaks and eventually fell to MTSU 4-5 , seniors Chris Jackman and Spencer Wolf dug themselves out of a one-break de. cit to bring the deciding match into a tiebreaker against a tough team featuring two players 5 feet 2 inches and taller.
Jackman served for the match with a mini-break lead at 5-6 in the breaker but huge serving from the Blue Raiders felled the Cats 4-1(5) to give the . rst point of the match to MTSU.
“It was a good match,” Jackman said. “Spencer (Wolf) and I haven’t played since last year against Illinois so it was fun getting back and playing with Wolf. We had our chances and we didn’t execute but we came out strong against UIC so that was good.”
While the doubles point has been crucial for NU this season, the Cats wasted no time in making up for their losses on the singles court. Balaji quickly leveled the match with a 5-0, 5-3 win at the No. 3 position but the rest of his teammates had to struggle a bit more for their wins.
Jackman fought back from a 5-7 . rst-set loss to take the . nal two sets 5-0, 5-7, giving NU a 7-0 lead in the match.
“I got it done in the end,” Jackman said. “ But I have to focus on coming out strong in the . rst set because too many times I lay back on the belief that I can win in three sets, and I need to come out stronger.”
In a more competitive contest than the score line indicates, Smith took the No. 7 match from Victor Cornea 5-3, 5-6 to put the Cats within 0 point.
“He’s a tricky player because he’s a le8 y and … they were one of the biggest teams I’ve ever seen,” Smith said. “Luckily I didn’t get the 5-foot-4-inch guy. I think my guy was around 5 feet 2 inches. Anytime you play a guy that’s tall, you assume that they’ll have a good serve and at least in my match I felt like he was pretty good o9 the forehand and backhand too.”
Another come-from-behind win, this time by Alex Pasareanu , gave NU the victory with the sophomore’s 6-5, 5-6, 5-0 win at the No. 2 spot. MTSU would go on to win the remaining two matches to bring the . nal score to 6-3 in the Cats’ favor.
“We return well as team,” Swan said. “/ at’s cer-tainly one of our strengths and they had some big guys who were serving well but we’re playing strength against strength and you hope that you can come out on top.”
/ e night match featured UIC and as they have in all of their double-headers this season, the Cats took the second match of the day in decisive fashion.
Victories at the top two positions in doubles gave NU the 0-: lead and a8 er quick wins by Smith and freshmen Mihir Kumar in singles, Balaji sealed the sweep with a closely contested 1-5(5), 5-0 win.
“In that second match, you’re always trying to make improvements from your . rst match,” Swan said. “I think that’s how the guys get better, playing in real competition against good teams. / e second matches have helped us in terms of if someone didn’t perform well in the . rst match, then they can get into the second match right away to try to make some corrections.”
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Wildcats double up on weekend wins
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JACKED Senior Chris Jackman plays a shot. Jackman and fellow senior Spencer Wolf came from behind to force a tiebreaker in their doubles match, but ultimately lost to Middle Tennessee State. The Wildcats won both matches overall as a team.
Men’s Tennis
Middle Tennessee State on Friday only to break that Saturday against Campbell when she fanned 02 batters.
Lamberth threw a complete game three-hitter in a Saturday win over the Blue Raiders and came in to get out of a jam in the cancelled game against Georgia. / e two combined for a 0.3: ERA over the course of the weekend giving up only . ve earned runs.
/ e o9 ense seemed to have a revival as NU scored at least . ve runs in all four games, a feat they only accomplished once in Arizona.
Sophomore in. elder Anna Edwards said the key was the Cats staying focused on every pitch and not trying to do too much in one at-bat.
“You just can’t put too much pressure on your-self,” Edwards said. “We all know we can hit and we just needed to go base to base and not try to do too much. As long as we do that, we can score runs easily and we can tack on runs like anybody else can.”
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/ e night match featured UIC and as they have in
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shoulder, Stevens said, and Heelan, NU’s starting catcher, exited with what the coach called a “ham-string issue.” Stevens said further word on both injuries will be available later in the week.
On Sunday the Cats took the . eld again to meet the Spartans. Neither team scored through four innings, but Michigan State notched three runs in the . 8 h. / en, a8 er an NU score in the sixth, the Spartans brought home three more in the seventh. / e Cats bounced back with three of their own in the seventh to tighten the score, 5-6, before the Spartans scored again in the ninth and quashed an NU rally to preserve their victory.
/ e Cats struggled in the . eld, making four errors, including two from le8 . elder Walker Moses.
“We had a few bumps in the road with some ; y balls and things with the high skies and the sun,” Stevens said. “So that’s something we’re going to have to address this week and try to get out and get a little bit more of that and hope the weather cooperates with us.”
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ON DECK ON THE RECORDWomen’s BasketballNU at Michigan State, 6 p.m. Wednesday
That was a very unique situation. We ... were just really excited to get out there and play. — Andrea DiPrima, softball sophomore
FEB. 18
Carmody needs the same help as Fitz
! is morning, I was woken up by what sounded like someone banging a hammer against a metal pole. ! is could only mean one thing: Construction has begun on the Athletic Department’s new multipurpose indoor facility.
! e main feature of the building, which will cost "##$ million , will be the brand new indoor football practice % eld. ! e modernized practice facility will hopefully attract more high-pro% le recruits to the Northwestern football team. Coming o& their % rst '$-win sea-son since '((), the Athletic Department is hoping to continue the team’s recent successes and establish Northwestern as relevant Big Ten football program.
As the football team eyes a step toward modernization with the new facility, the basketball teams remain in the dungeon known as Welsh-Ryan Arena. Welsh-Ryan is without a doubt the least impressive basketball stadium in the Big Ten. You know that scene in “Hoosiers,” when the Huskers walk onto the court to play the state champion-ship game, and they’re scared out of their minds by the size and intensity of the arena? Imagine the exact opposite of that feeling. ! at’s what opposing basketball teams feel whenever they visit Northwestern.
NU fans have done a solid job in recent years attending basketball games and creating a hostile atmosphere for road opponents. But the stadium has little marketable qualities. An unpaved parking lot, wooden bleachers, sub-standard seating and a JumboTron with graphics straight out of the original Tron movie make Welsh-Ryan an obstacle in Northwestern’s e& orts to recruit high-pro% le basketball players. And while the University makes a behemoth invest-ment into football practice % elds, no plans have been announced to improve the high school gymnasium posing as a Big Ten arena.
It could be argued that results on the % eld are the reason for this inconsistency. ! e football team has appeared in % ve straight bowl games and recently ended its *+-year bowl drought. Meanwhile, the basketball team has still not been able to overcome the hump and make its % rst-ever NCAA Tournament appearance. However, this argument is misguided. If the men’s basketball team is struggling to make the Big Dance, it doesn’t make sense to keep dressing them in rags. You have to buy them a brand-new tuxedo to appear more attractive to prospective suitors.
Northwestern is already at a major disadvantage in recruiting e& orts. We have never appeared in the NCAA tour-nament. Our academic standards limit our potential recruitment pool. And many schools in the Midwest have rich basketball traditions, including schools outside of the Big Ten such as Butler. We cannot a& ord to list substandard facilities as another de% ciency to our program when making our pitch to prospective players.
We all want to see Northwestern teams do well. And in the current NCAA environment, the path to success is paved with gold (and mega-rich donors). If we want the basketball team to produce the same results as the football team, then we have provide them with similar resources.
! e football team has embraced the #'st century. It’s time we brought the basketball team along with them.
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NU fl ies home with three winsBy JOSH WALFISH,-./0 123.45 16-7725
Northwestern’s weekend ended with three wins and a sprint to the airport.
! e Wildcats suspended their game with No. '8 Georgia on Sunday a9 er-noon in the top of the % 9 h inning with the bases loaded and a :-) lead. However, the Cats had to dash to catch their ; ight back to Chicago and hoped to continue the game next weekend in Cathedral City, Calif., where both teams will be participating in the Mary Nutter Col-legiate Classic. ! e request was denied and because % ve complete innings were not contested, the game was cancelled and all statistics were wiped from the record book.
“! at was a very unique situation,” sophomore Andrea DiPrima said. “We made the most of it and we were just really excited to get out there and play.”
! e cancelled game was only the % nal part of a weekend in which the Cats rebounded from their disappointing start to the season. NU took home three of the four games, which counted to improve their record to 8-* on the season. Coach Kate Drohan said the biggest di& erence between the two weekends was playing with a little more % re.
“It was combination of just having the experience of playing last weekend and just getting out on the % eld,” Drohan said. “! e biggest di& erence I saw in the team was the mentality and the energy that we played with. It was outstanding and we’re excited to build o& this weekend.”
Drohan pointed out one of the mental di& erences she saw was how the team executed in the big moments. NU was able to string together timely hits and get the outs to avoid the opposing team from
getting a big rally.! e Cats had at least one inning of
three or more runs in all four games a9 er doing that just twice the previous week-end. In addition, NU was able to limit the large rallies which allowed both Boise State and Oklahoma to run away with the games in Arizona.
! e only exception came in NU’s sole loss of the weekend when Georgia scored four unearned runs with two outs to win *-).
It was the game that didn’t count which
emphasized this change the most. ! e Bulldogs took a +-' lead into the third inning, but the Cats responded with three runs in the top of the inning to tie the game. With the game level at ) in the % 9 h inning, NU loaded the bases and scored twice while being poised to score more before the game was called.
“We played tough,” Drohan said. “We got some big hits in key situations. We got some big outs and to see both Amy (Letourneau) and Meghan (Lamberth) control ballgames like they did was
outstanding.”! e pitchers were both on point all
weekend. Letourneau established a new career-high with '# strikeouts against
Daily fi le photo by Samantha Maeng
FLY OUT Sophomore Anna Edwards takes a swing. The Wildcats won three games over the weekend, but before they could complete their last game, the team abandoned their match to catch their fl ight back to Evanston.
By ALEX PUTTERMAN6<2 ,-./0 3456<=216253
Score one for the Wildcats, one for the opponent and one for Mother Nature.
At the season-opening First Pitch Invitational in Greenville, S.C., North-western ('-') beat Miami (Ohio) >-', then were snowed out of an in-progress game against Furman before losing to Michigan State :-+.
Results aside, it was a pleasure for the Cats just to return to an outdoor % eld a9 er a winter of indoor batting practice.
“It’s always great to get back on the dia-mond again. ! ere’s nothing like being outside and hearing the words ‘Play ball’ over the loudspeaker,” center% elder Luke Dauch said. “You’re seeing the ball on clouds and real sky, and everyone’s out there having a good time.”
Once on the % eld, the Cats looked far from rusty. Down '-$ to Miami (Ohio) in the second inning on Friday, the Cats put runners on % rst and third for Dauch, who singled to right % eld to plate NU’s % rst run of the season.
“To be the % rst one of the season (to drive in a run) it’s kind of a special moment,” the sophomore said. “Espe-cially because they were up one run on us when that happened, so it broke our barrier of no runs scored.”
! e Cats didn’t score again until the sixth, but once they did the runs kept coming. NU took the lead on a squeeze bunt from catcher Scott Heelan, then tallied six more runs in the % nal three innings.
Starting pitcher Zach Morton didn’t need the support, yielding only 8 hits and a walk over : innings to earn his % rst win of the season. Kyle Ruchim, who was +-+ at the plate, pitched the last # innings to close the Cats win.
! e next day, NU led Furman +-# in the top of the % 9 h inning, when Furman, the event’s host, deemed the snowy con-ditions unplayable and delayed, then cancelled, the game.
“We were extremely disappointed that the decision was made not to play because it got awful nice. We had been playing in a lot worse up until that point,” coach Paul Stevens said. “We were in a very advantageous position, and it’s just too bad that our team did not get what they were working so hard for that day and that win.”
Not only did the Cats lose the oppor-tunity for victory Saturday, they lost two key players to injury. Ruchim, who was #-8 with # triples before the cancellation erased all statistics, su& ered a separated
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Cats leave last game in-progress to catch ! ight to Evanston
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Wildcats split pair of weekend games
Daily fi le photo by Rafi Letzter
SNOWED OUT Redshirt senior Zach Morton takes a swing during a home game. Morton was the Cats’ starting pitcher against Miami (Ohio), giving up only 3 hits and a walk over 7 innings of work.
! e Cats didn’t score again until the
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Northwestern goes 1"1 before weather stops the third game
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