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Polar vortex comes to NU, city Students returning to campus face travel delays

By JENNIFER BALL

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CHIBERIAN TUNDRA A sign on the Lakefill warns against swimming in Lake Michigan. Chicago temperatures hit a record low of minus 16 degrees on Monday, forcing NU to cancel two days of class.

Record lows force NU class cancellations

By ALLY MUTNICK and CIARA MCCARTHY

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Northwestern reopened Wednesday after record-low temperatures and nearly two feet of snow caused the University to delay the start of Winter Quarter for two days.

The cold weather compounded nearly a week of heavy snowfall in Evanston, which effectively shut the city down on Monday. The decision to close the University on Monday and Tuesday was made by University President Morton Schapiro and members of his senior staff, NU spokesman Al Cubbage said.

“It was clear the weather was deteriorating,” Cubbage said. “The situations at the airports had really

gotten worse. There were a lot of flight cancellations at both O’Hare and Midway.”

Cubbage said the “unusual combination” of record-low temperatures and delays in air travel and public transportation in the Chicago area, an event he cannot recall happening in nearly 17 years at NU, caused the two-day closure.

As of Monday afternoon, Residential Services reported about 20 to 25 percent of students living on campus had not yet arrived at their dorms, Cubbage said.

On Monday, city government was limited to essential staff only.

“Our main message is that we’re really encouraging residents to stay home,” city manager Wally Bobkiewicz said during a teleconference Sunday.

City officials have been battling

the cold and the snow for more than a week. Chicago temperatures dropped to minus 16 degrees Monday morning, according to the National Weather Service.

Snow began falling Dec. 31, and at least 22 inches accumulated by the time it stopped Jan. 5, public works director Suzette Robinson estimated.

A threat assessment group composed of staff members from University Police, the Office of the Registrar, Residential Services and other NU offices made the recommendation to top administrators that the University close after assessing the weather and travel conditions for Monday and Tuesday.

While NU remained closed Tuesday, both the University of » See SNOW, page 10

Three cancelled flights and 51 hours later, Eli Panken finally arrived at Chicago O’Hare International Airport. Panken’s original flight from New York was scheduled for Sunday, but the inclement weather prevented him from flying back to Chicago until late Tuesday night.

“I was almost disappointed to be back home because I was so ready to be back at school,” the Weinberg freshman said. “I am relieved to be back.”

Panken is among the many students who were left stranded. Some were still unable to return to campus before classes resumed Wednesday.

More than 3,700 flights — about one in every 10 domestic departures — were cancelled Monday morning, according to the Associated Press.

University spokesman Al Cubbage said NU took the airline delays

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I was almost disappointed to be back home because I was so ready to be back at school.

Eli Panken, Weinberg freshman

and cancellations into account when making the decision to cancel classes Monday and Tuesday.

Weinberg junior Rachel Sibley has been unable to fly into Chicago after also having three flights cancelled.

During Winter Break, she was on a family vacation in New Zealand.

Originally from Dobbs Ferry, N.Y., Sibley’s connecting flight scheduled for Jan. 2 from San Francisco to New York was cancelled due to the weather.

Her rescheduled flight was also cancelled, which prompted her to go to Florida to stay with her grandparents. » See DELAY, page 10

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SNOWY STROLL Three students take a walk Tuesday on the Lakefill.

All classes Tuesday were canceled due to severe weather in the area.

Students criticize NU opposition to ASA Israeli boycott

By ALLY MUTNICK

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Students from several of Northwestern’s multicultural groups are calling on University President Morton Schapiro and Provost Dan Linzer to clarify a statement made in December rejecting the American Studies Association’s call for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions.

Eighteen students from the Muslim-cultural Student Association, Northwestern University Conference on Human Rights, Students for Justice in Palestine and other groups released an open letter Dec. 23 opposing the University’s statement on human rights grounds and asking Schapiro and Linzer to make clear their stance is not representative of

the entire university.

SESP sophomore Hazim Abdullah drafted the letter after reading Schapiro’s and Linzer’s announcement, emailed to the NU community Dec. 20. The statement said the University rejected the boycott and will continue its relationships and partnerships with Israeli academic institutions.

“We want people to know that the president and the provost don’t speak for us,” Abdullah said. “There are people who have almost been silenced by the official University position.”

In the open letter, the students said they believe the boycott brings to light human rights violations surrounding Israel’s occupation in the Palestinian territories.

The students wrote in the letter that Israeli universities cooperate with the Israeli military and

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government and are thus responsible for furthering the state’s treatment of Palestinian people.

University spokesman Al Cubbage declined to comment on the letter.

It shouldn’t be In the statement, just shoved Schapiro and aside. It was Linzer wrote kind of a slap the boycott goes against in the face to the values receive that of academic freedom and email. scholarship.

Serene Darwish, “NorthASG senator western University faculty and students should have the ability to pursue academic collaborations with their colleagues at institutions around the world, including

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Israel,” they wrote.

The call for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions was made by Palestinian civil society. The American Studies Association National Council, including NU AfricanAmerican and performance studies Prof. E. Patrick Johnson, unanimously voted to follow that call.

About two-thirds of the 1,252 association members who voted were in favor of a boycott.

NU is not the only university to oppose the resolution. Multiple universities have cut ties with the association in protest, including Indiana University, Brandeis University and Kenyon College.

Serene Darwish, an Associated Student Government senator for McSA, also signed the letter. She said she was shocked the president and provost issued the statement via email over Winter Break without

any consultation with students or faculty.

Darwish, a Weinberg junior, likened the current boycott to those of South Africa during the end of the apartheid era.

She said she feels hopeful because some universities initially opposed boycotts in South Africa before later supporting them, attributing the shifting views to grassroots activism.

Signers of the letter plan to meet soon to organize a forum where interested members of the NU community can voice their concerns on the issue.

“We need to have this discussion on campus,” Darwish said. “It shouldn’t be just shoved aside. It was kind of a slap in the face to receive that email.” allymutnick@u.northwestern.edu

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Division chief retires from Evanston fire

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After serving for more than 26 years, Division Chief Geoff Block retired last month from the Evanston fire department. “(I will miss) the people I work with and the different challenges everyday,” Block said. “Each day was something different.”

After starting in May 1987 as a firefighter and paramedic, Block served in Evanston his entire career.

Division Chief Dwight Hohl said he met Block in 1987 at the Arlington Heights Fire Academy. The two worked well together, Hohl said, calling Block “a very good team player.”

“The fire service is about people working together for so long that you know them better than your family,” Hohl said. “As time goes on, you form that bond.”

During his career, Block moved up from firefighter/paramedic to fire inspector and investigator.

After becoming a fire captain, he was promoted three years ago to division chief of training and professional

development.

“He ran a very efficient training division,” Fire Chief Greg Klaiber said. “He was able to work very well with members of the department to make sure they had adequate training. Just in general, he had an overall excellent career.”

Block recently received a fire chief’s commendation for his off-duty response to an incident last year.

While driving, Block noticed a fire in Evanston and informed the building’s occupants to get out .

“He was completely dependable and reliable,” Klaiber said. “Once I asked him to do something, he would get it done and I was confident in his abilities.

He had initiative and ambition.”

Now in retirement, Block said he plans to take time off and start another career. He’s unsure what he will do but he said his new job will probably be related to safety or fire departments.

“Looking back now, I enjoyed going to work every day,” Block said. “A lot of people can’t say that.

I actually enjoyed every day and learned something new every day. I’m looking forward to moving on to something new.” rosaliechan2017@u.northwestern.edu

A man stole more than $4,000 Monday by initiating a cash-for-phones transaction over Craigslist and then stealing the cash from the prospective buyer at knifepoint in west Evanston, police said.

A Bolingbrook, Ill., man responded to an ad on Craigslist to purchase between eight and 10 smartphones for cash, Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said.

The man met the Craigslist seller Monday night in a parking lot near Steak ‘n Shake, 2209 Oakton St. The seller approached, holding the phones the man believed to be for the transaction.

The man pulled out the money, at which point the seller lunged toward the man, grabbed the cash and cut the man’s hand

with a six-inch steak knife, Parrott said.

The seller fled the scene on foot, and the buyer’s attempt to pursue him failed.

The Bolingbrook resident was treated by paramedics on the scene and did not require further medical treatment.

The man reported about $4,100 in cash was stolen from him, Parrott said.

City man arrested after drunkenly banging on McDonald’s windows, spitting in officer’s face

Police arrested an Evanston man at a McDonald’s on Sunday evening in connection with battery and driving under the influence.

Police responded to a disturbance call at the restaurant, 1919 Dempster St., where

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the man was banging on the outside windows and appeared intoxicated, Parrott said.

When officers arrived, the man was in the driver’s seat of a vehicle.

Police arrested the man and charged him with driving under the influence.

The man verbally threatened the officers and tried to resist arrest, Parrott said.

In the process, the man spat in an officer’s face, and police additionally charged him with battery.

While police attempted to arrest the man, he struck his head on the ground.

He received hospital treatment during which his intoxication was confirmed, Parrott said.

He is scheduled to appear in court Feb. 10.

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Feinberg professor links marijuana use, memory

By REBECCA SAVRANSKY

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A recent study published by a research assistant professor in the Feinberg School of Medicine revealed new evidence linking marijuana use with lower cognitive functioning and brain abnormalities similar to those seen in schizophrenia patients.

Matthew Smith, the lead author on the study, has been researching the relationship between schizophrenia and marijuana use for several years. In research published Dec. 16, he observed four groups of people, comparing two sets of healthy individuals — with and without history of marijuana use — and two of individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia on the same classification.

Both the marijuana-using groups had regularly used the drug for three years and were then tested after being abstinent for the next two years.

Smith said those who used marijuana showed similar brain abnormalities, though only one group

was diagnosed with schizophrenia. “We’re not saying that marijuana causes this abnormality because in order to say that this causes it, we need data over time,� Smith said.

The study also revealed a relationship between earlier marijuana use and greater brain abnormalities, but Smith said more data over time is necessary to prove this relationship.

Though other studies have shown the negative effects marijuana use has on the brain, Smith said his study was unique in its focus on working memory and specific brain abnormalities. The study found “a direct link between marijuana-related brain abnormalities and cognitive function,� Smith said.

Colorado recently legalized the use of marijuana, and Washington state is beginning to issue licenses to grow and distribute the drug this year.

Dan Linn, the executive director of the Illinois National Organization to Reform Marijuana Laws, an organization aimed at promoting legislation geared toward legalizing marijuana, said the study will likely not have an affect on future legislation. “I think lawmakers realize that even if this is a

problematic substance, prohibiting and outlawing this substance outright for everyone is not a good policy,� Linn said.

Frances Fu, the co-president of Students for Sustainable Drug Policy, said the study’s results were ultimately positive because students need to know both the pros and cons of drug use. “Marijuana is glamorized because it is prohibited, and I don’t think there is enough education about the negative effects of marijuana that are honest and comprehensive,� Fu said.

Smith said more research is necessary to truly understand marijuana’s influence on the brain. He said he plans to continue studying the relationship between brain abnormalities and marijuana use, focusing on the effects of abstinence and marijuana use over time. “There’s a lot more that’s known about the effects of alcohol whereas we don’t know as much about the effects of marijuana,� Smith said. “We don’t really know what the long-term implications are.� rebeccasavransky2015@u.northwestern.edu

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THAT’S DOPE A Northwestern Medicine study found people who used marijuana heavily experienced abnormal changes in their brain structures.

Medill Justice Project raises questions about Iowa murder

By SCOTT BROWN

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Chad Enderle has been locked up in the Iowa State Penitentiary since 2013 for a murder he says he did not commit.

In June 2013, the Medill Justice Project decided to investigate the case, bringing newfound scrutiny to both Enderle’s conviction and the use of forensic evidence in the courtroom.

Greg Harris of Davenport, Iowa, was murdered March 2003 in his living room. Along with a bloodied walking stick, which was believed to be the primary murder weapon, a fingerprint thought to be made in blood was discovered on a cellophane cigarette box wrapper found at the scene. The print was used to identify Enderle, who was 29 at the time, as a suspect

in the murder.

But the students working for the Medill Justice Project, an investigative journalism program at Northwestern that focuses on potentially wrongful convictions, found that there was more to the case. “What the students were able to establish was that the conviction was based largely on the fingerprint that was found on the cigarette box, and yet there are questions about whether that print was indeed the prisoner’s print,� said Medill Prof. Alec Klein, the project’s director.

The Justice Project investigation began with a class of eight Medill graduate students who pored over hundreds of pages of trial transcripts, evidence logs and police records, said Conner Forrest, a former graduate student who worked on the project. They made the four-hour drive to Davenport a few times a week to talk to people involved in the case, from lawyers and prosecutors to those who had known

both the victim and the defendant. “Some people welcomed us into their homes, sometimes we got yelled at on peoples’ front porches,�

Forrest said.

Amanda Westrich, a research associate for the Justice Project, said finding sources was no easy task, as the case was a decade old, and many people had to be tracked down.

The students discovered there was a lack of consensus about the fingerprint from the cigarette box, as they sent the print to several certified fingerprint examiners to analyze, and the results were inconsistent. Many cited blotting or lack of detail as barriers to analyzing the print, while others said they were able to match it to Enderle. “Imagine you’re convicted of first-degree murder and you get life, and it’s based on a fingerprint that gets inconclusive results,� Klein said.

Based on the results, the team looked into the

field of fingerprint investigation and discovered it is becoming a source of some contention. “We covered the case itself, but we also expanded it to kind of a general question of using fingerprint evidence as a way to convict people,� Westrich said.

At the end of the summer, the investigation was passed from the graduate student team to a class of Medill undergraduates.

The undergraduates spent weeks drafting and editing the investigation’s findings into a final article, which was published as a two-part series in the QuadCity Times on Dec. 22 and 23. “I used to be an investigative reporter at the Washington Post, and it was virtually every reporter’s goal and dream to be published on page one,� Klein said. “It’s a testament to the students’ great work that they were able to get that kind of exposure.� scottbrown2017@u.northwestern.edu

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Q&A: EPD appoints first LGBT liaison Student, prof

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As part of an ongoing effort to serve the city’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, the Evanston Police Department appointed the force’s first police liaison to the LGBT community last month.

EPD appointed Sgt. Melissa Sacluti to the position at the end of December.

Ald. Mark Tendam (6th) said he has been working with the city manager’s office to “(improve) the city’s gay-friendly status.� The two parties recommended that EPD create the position. “We pride ourselves on being progressive,�

Tendam said. “We were looking at other ways of reaching out to the community and letting Our goals LGBT (residents) know basically that there are resources, consist of and that was one of the primary resources that making sure came to mind,� he said. that the LGBT The Daily had a chance to ask Sacluti, community who has served the has a voice. department for more than 10 years, about her Melissa Sacluti, new role.

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The Daily: What goals do you have for your new position as LGBT liaison for the Evanston Police Department?

Melissa Sacluti: Our goals basically consist of making sure that the LGBT community has a voice. We’re currently coming up with ideas and activities where we can engage the LGBT community, and some of those activities that we’ve talked about or that I’ve talked about with some of the members over at city hall is activities such as a pride run, possibly a bike (ride), activities like that that would engage the community.

The Daily: How do you plan to implement these goals?

Sacluti: We’re currently talking about how to do that. We’re trying to reach out to other people

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that are members of the LGBT community. We have a few meetings that are set up both from the ETHS high school and also from Northwestern University, so we don’t have anything planned just yet, but after we get meetings set up with them, we might have a better outlook as to where we’re going with this.

The Daily: What prior experience will you contribute to the EPD? Sacluti: I’ve been a police officer for just over 10 years now and I’ve been a sergeant for almost three. I’m pretty knowledgeable as far as how our department runs. I know our community pretty well. Our community is very diverse. I think just my everyday experience dealing with people and dealing with the community is going to help me serve the LGBT community.

The Daily: What are your responsibilities as LGBT liaison?

Sacluti: I’m basically going to be serving as a voice for the LGBT community. If there are any issues that come up, if people need help or need resources and they aren’t comfortable going certain places, they can use me as a resource and I’ll find them the resources that they need. Basically fostering positive relationships with the LGBT community and the police department and making sure that we are sensitive to the residents’ needs.

The Daily: What will a typical week on the job look like for you as far as the LGBT liaison position goes?

Sacluti: Honestly, it depends on what comes up.

In my 10-plus years of being here, we really haven’t had too many issues with the LGBT community. I haven’t had interaction with members of the LGBT community on a daily basis or anything like that. I mean, Evanston is extremely diverse. If something comes up, that’s where my position would come into play. If people needed resources or things like that, that’s where I’d come in and help.

The Daily: Have you met with city officials to discuss your appointment or have any reached out to you after the announcement?

Sacluti: I actually had just a short meeting last week with one of the assistant city managers, and we just discussed as I stated earlier some of the

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The Daily: Lastly, what does this position mean to you?

Sacluti: It means so much to me. Honestly, I wasn’t expecting it. I’m very, very honored to be in this position and I recognize its importance. To me, it’s important that people are heard and if it means that somebody is marked as a permanent liaison, that’s important for the people that feel like they’re not being heard.

Nikita Ramanujam has always been inspired by the ideas of her classmates.

But Ramanujam never felt there was a proper platform for those ideas to be shared. So she took it upon herself to give not only students, but also to faculty and alumni an opportunity to share their innovative ideas: TEDxNorthwesternU 2014.

Now Ramanujam, a SESP junior, and co-event organizer Michele Weldon, associate professor emerita of journalism, are looking for speakers to present at the conference. Prospective speakers have until Jan. 15 to submit a one-minute video with a 100-word description of their talk. The selected speakers — three students, three faculty and three alumni — will be announced Feb. 1.

TED, a nonprofit organization, holds two annual conferences where speakers have 18 minutes to share “Ideas Worth Spreading.� TEDx conferences are independently organized events that are dedicated to the same mission and often have a theme. NU previously hosted TEDx conferences in 2010 and 2012.

Weldon, a “TED geek,� said the conference will highlight the great ideas that exist at NU. “It’s an attempt at unifying the Northwestern community around innovation and original ideas that matter,� she said. “Sharing the knowledge that is created here and found here within our community and a much wider world.�

She added that while NU’s format of having students, faculty and alumni speak is unusual, it is a “perfect collection� and fits well with the theme of “Crossing Paths.� “We thought the theme of ‘Crossing Paths’ and the theme of these three different Northwestern communities would be a perfect display of all the ideas that are born here.�

Ramanujam said she wants people to come to the event with an “open mind and open heart.�

The conference will be held April 12 in the McCormick Tribune Center from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

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activities that we can have that would engage the LGBT community, and some of those things that we were talking about were like a bike ride or a run, a 5K run within Evanston. Things like that would engage the community where we could all get together and just kind of have fun. We’re still talking about other activities that may come up, but those are still underway. We don’t have anything completely concrete just yet, but there are things that we’re planning.

The Daily: What do you want the LGBT community in Evanston to know about you and your position?

Sacluti: That I’m available and I’m here. I’ve been with Evanston for over 10 years now. One of the reasons why I came to work for Evanston is because of how very diverse the city is. In my mind, Evanston truly is a mini Chicago, and I want people to know that if they need something or if there’s something that I can do for them, that I hope they reach out to me because I’d be more than willing to help and accommodate them.

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Meet this quarter’s Opinion columnists Caryn Lenhoff

is a senior political science and communication studies major and history minor. She has been editing for Opinion since her second quarter at NU and is excited to return to a desk editor position. Originally from Delaware, her interests include American politics, music festivals and complaining about the cold.

Julian Caracotsios

is one of two editors of The Daily’s Opinion page for Winter Quarter 2014. He is a Weinberg and McCormick student in his fourth of five years pursuing a combined BA in Mathematics and MS in Applied Mathematics. Outside The Daily, he works for NU Tutors and is a teaching assistant for the Department of Mathematics. He is from Naperville, Ill., and has been in the Chicago area his entire life.

Amanda Suarez

is a Weinberg freshman without a specific major. However, she definitely wants to do something involving writing. She’s originally from Perrysburg, Ohio, and she has an incurable obsession with American Horror Story, Demi Lovato and My Chemical Romance. She really loves creating stories, and it’s something she can picture herself doing in the future. She also has a lot of opinions and loves to share them. Stay classy, Northwestern.

Yoni Pinto

is a Weinberg freshman planning to major in computer science and something else, from Istanbul, Turkey. Along with his interest in political developments going on around the world, he follows the developments of the newest consumer technologies. Yoni is also a huge sports fan, devotedly following his local football – “soccer� – team Galatasaray, as well as the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Selena Parnon

is a sophomore in Weinberg studying art history, art theory and practice and chemistry. She has been drawing cartoons for The Daily since last winter and looks forward to continuing her strip, Enyu Daze. Selena comes to us from Corvallis, Ore., which means she loves trees, hiking and conestoga wagons. She also likes penguins, graphic design, ceramics and Settlers of Catan and can be found at Pi Phi all day every day.

Heiwon Shin

is a freshman double majoring in journalism and art, and minoring in business.

With an average of one move per year, it’s hard to say where her ‘�hometown� is.

Currently, her “permanent� home is Seoul, Korea – not the Gangnam area popularized

by Psy – but the opposite Gangbuk area, where palaces, protests, police and tourists mix together. Heiwon loves chocolate, perfume, fashion and making sense of things that seem like contradictions.

Sai Folmsbee

is a Feinberg MD/PhD student and is currently in the graduate school phase of his training. He writes on topics of science and medicine as well as the merits of analyzing the world through the lens of scientific skepticism. He is also a contributor to the online publication 2-Minute Medicine, where he critiques new clinical research. He plans on a career in academic medicine and science writing.

Bob Hayes

is a Weinberg freshman who plans on double majoring in economics and American Studies. He is an obsessive sports fanatic who loves to write about sports’ transcendent themes in an original and entertaining way. He is also passionate about music, pop culture and current events in general so he will definitely deviate from exclusively writing about sports. Growing up in Glencoe, Ill., just fifteen minutes from campus, Bob truly has been and will be a Wildcat for life.

Katie McLaughlin

Sam Douglas

is a Communications sophomore double majoring in theatre and German and minoring in Latin. He proudly calls Nashville, Tenn., home and wishes he appreciated country music more. On campus, Sam is a member of Sit & Spin Productions and Theatre Stands With Autism. Aside from studying diligently and never procrastinating, Sam’s favorite Winter Quarter activities include snowball fights, wearing layers and sleeping.

Yoni Muller

is a Weinberg junior majoring in economics, MMSS and mathematics, and is pursuing a Kellogg undergraduate certificate in financial economics. Coming off a quarter as the Opinion editor, he is excited to start his fifth quarter as a columnist for The Daily. Yoni likes unhealthy foods, himself and pretending to know things about which he’s hopelessly clueless. As a Florida native, he will be crying an obscene amount this winter.

Meredith Goodman

is a Weinberg junior majoring in economics and pursuing a certificate in Integrated Marketing Communications. She hails from Austin, Texas, and is the self-proclaimed proudest Texan on campus. While not writing for The Daily, Meredith enjoys rooting for the Cats and exploring Chicago.

is a Weinberg junior studying biological sciences, political science and psychology.

Her hometown of Hibbing, Minn., boasts the world’s largest open-pit iron ore mine.

Katie hopes to use the Opinion page as a platform to publish everything she wanted, but never had the courage, to write on the bathroom stall in junior high. In addition to serving as an ASG senator, assisting in clinical research downtown and participating in the Catholic Scholars Program, Katie enjoys afternoon ‘Cat naps, taking midnight trains to anywhere, rehashing the “great debate of 1998� – Backstreet Boys vs. ‘N Sync – and laughing at her own jokes.

Letter to the Editor

3 things Pope Francis has taught the world in just 10 months Time magazine chose Pope Francis as the Person of the Year, and Esquire magazine chose him as the Best Dressed Man of the Year. In just 10 months, Francis has captured the admiration of many.

Here are three lessons he has already taught us in his brief tenure as the chair of Rome: 1. Show compassion. In his native Argentina he often took the subway or the bus to be with the poor in the slums of Buenos Aires. In Rome he quickly showered his love and compassion on the hungry and the poor. You may also have seen the picture of him kissing the man with a face full with boils. He was reported to sneak out of the Vatican at night to feed the homeless in Rome.

2. Pray, because prayer works. Francis rises at 5 a.m. and prays for an hour and celebrates Mass. He also prays for another hour in front of the Blessed Sacrament, before going to bed at 10 p.m. He tells everyone he meets, “Please, pray for me.�

When the might of the American military

was ready to strike in Syria, Francis asked people of good will to join him in prayer and fasting for peace. And it worked.

3. Lead by example. He has told his priests and bishops not to be bureaucrats, but to lead a simple life; love all, especially the poor; preach the gospel; and hear confessions. As Cardinal Archbishop in Argentina, Francis had presented his letter of resignation and even picked out a place to retire. But when he was elected Pope at age 75, he happily changed plans and gave himself completely to the new job.

He parked the papal Mercedes limo and got a Ford Focus to get around wherever he goes.

In his own words, “The joy of the gospel fills the hearts and lives of all who encounter Jesus. Those who accept his offer of salvation are set free from sin, sorrow, inner emptiness and loneliness. With Christ joy is constantly born anew.�

This is the same Jesus who 2.1 billion Christians around the world believe was born on Christmas two thousand years ago, was crucified under Pontius Pilate, rose from the dead and remains with us forever.

Happy New Year!

Peter Anglada, Kellogg Alumnus

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is a Weinberg freshman and is currently undecided about his major. He is originally from Westfield, N.J. He has been interested in journalism since he started writing for his high school paper and was also an opinion columnist for The Daily during fall quarter. He is interested in discussing both topics that affect college students and the Northwestern community and larger national issues. Matt looks forward to another great quarter at NU and to writing more columns this winter.

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Naib Mian

is a Medill freshman seeking to double major in journalism and international studies. He is from the small town of Los Altos, Calif., in the land of beautiful weather – also known as the San Francisco Bay Area. On campus, he is also a photographer for Spoon and a writer for The Protest magazine. When he isn’t bringing pen to paper, he enjoys architecture, food and typography.

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is a sophomore pursuing a major in Communication Studies along with a double minor in Legal Studies and Film & Media Studies. As a New Jersey native, Jen loves coffee, or “cawfee� as she pronounces it.

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Kathy Hong

is a SESP junior majoring in Learning and Organizational Change and flute performance with a minor in Business Institutions. She comes from Troy, Mich., a town in the middle-of-nowhere. She enjoys looking for neon clothes and new ways to procrastinate.

Meera Patel

is a junior from Coppell, Texas, studying industrial engineering and Integrated Marketing and Communications. She has been writing for the Opinion desk since last spring, and loves snow, writing, singing, New Girl and Ian Somerhalder. She loves The Daily and can’t wait to write for it for another quarter!

Leanna Smith

is a sophomore in Weinberg studying biology and creative writing. She was a guest columnist for The Daily once during the fall and is excited to be on the Opinion desk this quarter. Leanna loves eating and trying new foods and she also writes for Spoon magazine. She is uniquely talented in being able to whistle while smiling and eat ice cream with both hands at once.

Katy Vines

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Katy is from Wood Dale, Ill., where she lives with her parents and two sisters. She loves that The Daily provides a platform for her to speak her mind and for her to hear others’ opinions and ideas.

Antonio Petkov

is a McCormick freshman who plans to double-major in biomedical engineering and pre-medicine, with a minor in German. He loves literature, history, philosophy, and introspection, and loves to write for the Daily because it gives him an opportunity to voice his opinion on issues he feels strongly about. He is from Mount Prospect, Ill., where he lives with his parents.

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 2014

Guest Column

Letter from the Editor

Before you run for the hills from Greek life JEFFREY EISENBAND GUEST COLUMNIST

On Sunday, Jan. 8, 2012, I walked into the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity house a clueless 18-year-old. It was less than 72 hours since I had accepted my bid to ZBT, and at this point, I had no idea what I was in for.

That fall, upperclassmen, fellow freshmen, parents and administrators gave me mixed reviews of Greek life at Northwestern. Some people told me fraternities were social clubs, some told me they were student groups and some told me joining a fraternity was the best decision they made at NU. I knew nothing. I knew almost no one and I did not know what I wanted. I was a freshman trying to find my place at NU and thought I would give Greek life a shot.

At 5 p.m. sharp, then-president Jon Rosenberg (Medill ‘13), struck down a gavel. All 120 brothers around me shut up.

Announcements began. Brothers started advertising their drama and musical performances for the week. Open discussion followed, as upperclassmen spoke about topics ranging from dues to dishwashing.

I witnessed my first election. Two brothers made two-minute speeches for the position of risk manager. The chapter asked the candidates questions for three minutes and sent them downstairs during a five-minute open discussion period. I took part in the secret ballot vote that followed, and the victor was awarded the position.

This was my “holy crap, fraternities are a whole lot more than a social club” moment. For me, my first chapter meeting showed me fraternities, and Greek life as a whole, are a lot more complex and responsible than they may appear on the surface.

As the current president of ZBT, I will be in Rosenberg’s shoes this Sunday. When the fraternity holds its first chapter meeting of the winter with new members, I will have the opportunity to give them their “holy crap” moment.

Over the past couple months (and to a larger extent, the last two years), I have been reminded not all of campus has experienced a “holy crap” moment

involving Greek life. Heck, if I did not join a chapter, I probably would not have experienced such a moment either.

But I did and here I am. And I want people to get the facts right before judging fraternities.

It is very easy to tune Greek life out as nothing more than an outlet for organized partying. It is very easy to see Greek letters as tiers in a social hierarchy.

It is also very naïve to view Greek life as a social club featuring over one-third of NU’s undergraduate student body. It takes ignoring all of the positives of Greek life to accept that assumption. Unfortunately, individuals in and around NU’s campus have chosen to jump to negative conclusions.

There are obvious pros. Part of being in a modern NU fraternity means embracing philanthropy and community service. According to the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life’s page on NU’s website, NU fraternities raise a quarterly average $181.61 per member for philanthropies.

For NU’s premiere philanthropic event of 2013, NU Dance Marathon, $487,488 of the $1,214,632 raised came courtesy of Greek organizations. On a personal level, I was part of a team that raised $134,842. I can assure everyone I take a whole lot more pride in raising over $134K for the Danny Did Foundation than I do for any party. Anyone who believes otherwise should think twice.

As for educational benefits, look at the Greek life grade point average. Last spring, NU’s All-Greek GPA of 3.43 stood above the campus average of 3.40. It is not a coincidence that most Greek organizations have academic and scholarship chairs.

Go to the homecoming parade and look at the floats. Go to an intramural venue and see who shows up. Go to a speaker and see who is a sponsor.

Go to Project Pumpkin and see who is running a booth.

Go to any national Greek life conference and see what the rest of the country thinks of NU Greek life.

NU sets the standard.

Perhaps the most meaningful parts of Greek life are the scenes outsiders do not witness.

This past reading week, I started a conversation with Omega Delta Phi president Zachary Kisfalusi at 10:30 p.m. When we looked at the clock what felt like a few minutes later and saw it was 1:30 a.m., we came to a consensus. We wish people could understand the everyday parts of Greek life. We

wish people could see us eating meals together in our kitchens. We wish people could see us huddled around the TV for football games. We wish people could see when a brother gets dumped by his significant other and 10 brothers rush to his side to comfort him. We wish people could see when we go to a brother’s improv show to support him.

There are no statistics for this stuff. You will have to take our word for it.

Is Greek life perfect? No, by no means.

There is no denying fraternities have made mistakes in the last few years, and these organizations have paid the price through punishments, including expulsion. The university has done its part judging fraternities in a respectful and fair manner.

With recruitment week on our hands, let us put Greek life in perspective. As a presence on campus, Greek life provides many relationships and opportunities NU students may not have without fraternities and sororities. It is easy to wag a finger at Greek life.

It is more accurate to analyze all sides of the coin.

Personally, I take pride in being part of an organization that has made my college experience. In life, we will hopefully all have careers, form relationships, start families, absorb knowledge and reach a series of other checkpoints. From these things we will select some to prioritize.

For me, making my chapter a priority was a nobrainer. The relationships I have made, the leadership roles I have held and the accomplishments I have been a part of are experiences I honestly believe I could not have amassed outside of NU Greek life.

This is why becoming president of my chapter was important to me. This is why I will always remember the first chapter meeting I have with the new members on Sunday, even if I will not remember the finals I took last month or the homework I will do this week.

Not every NU student will have a “holy crap” moment with Greek life. I get that. I am not asking people to join and love Greek life. I am not asking everyone to have a “holy crap” Greek life moment.

I just ask this campus to respect those who do.

Jeffrey Eisenband is a Medill junior and the president of Zeta Beta Tau fraternity. He can be reached at jeffreyeisenband2015@u.northwestern.edu. To respond publicly to this column, email a letter to the editor to opinion@ dailynorthwestern.com.

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DISMISSED Rabbi Klein greets students at the Tannenbaum Chabad House’s annual Wildcat Welcome dinner in September. A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit against Northwestern alleging discrimination regarding its disaffiliation with Chabad.

Judge dismisses discrimination lawsuit against NU in Chabad House disaffiliation

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Northwestern alleging religious discrimination in its 2012 disaffiliation with Tannenbaum Chabad House.

In a summary judgment filed Dec. 19, U.S. District Court Judge John Darrah said NU provided a “legitimate, nondiscriminatory reason� for cutting ties with Chabad House following reports that Rabbi Dov Hillel Klein served excessive amounts of alcohol to underage students.

On behalf of Klein, Lubavitch-Chabad of Illinois sued the University in September 2012, accusing NU of singling out Chabad House while other campus organizations “committed the same acts� but faced lesser punishments than disaffiliation. In his opinion, Darrah disagreed with the claim, saying Chabad was “comparing apples to oranges� by pointing to fraternities and sororities guilty of underage drinking because NU has a different disciplinary system for them than it does for religious groups.

Darrah concluded the University’s reasons for disaffiliating with Chabad House were “genuine,� citing an NU official’s investigation looking into documentation of alcohol incidents at the house since 2001. The records included a police report involving an underage student who was taken to the hospital for an alcoholrelated sickness after a Chabad House party, according to court documents. — Patrick Svitek

Northwestern announced Dec. 3 a new partnership with the city of Chicago to create an academy that will provide educational resources for low-income Chicago Public Schools students.

Fifty ninth-graders each year who qualify for the free or reduced lunch program and are not in a CPS selective enrollment school will be chosen for Northwestern Academy. About 1,250 students each year will be eligible, according to a University news release. Recruitment is under way, with applications scheduled to open in February. “We are grateful to Northwestern University for leveraging its world-class academic resources to expose our students to rigorous learning opportunities that will prepare them for success inside and outside of the classroom,� Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said in the release.

The academy will provide class during both the academic year and the summer through NU’s Center for Talent Development. It will also offer tutoring, college counseling, test preparation, support from mentors and family workshops.

The academy will cost $5,000 to $6,000 per student, funded through donations. It will be free for attendees. The academic year programming will be at one or two locations in downtown Chicago, while the summer program will be at the CTD. — Joseph Diebold

NU official: Zipcar likely coming to Evanston campus in early 2014

The national car-sharing service Zipcar will likely expand into Northwestern’s Evanston campus in early 2014, a University official said.

The University agreed to allow the car-sharing service on campus in November and is now waiting until garages on North and South campus are completed to seal the deal, said Brian Peters, assistant vice president for University Services.

Zipcar and the University began negotiating in the summer, he said.

Zipcar will join Enterprise CarShare, which recently purchased I-Go, as an additional carsharing service option for students. Zipcar plans to bring in three more cars — possibly economy sedans and a compact SUV — in addition to

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DAVIS STREET BLAZE A fire destroyed three Davis Street businesses Dec. 29. Nine fire departments, including those from nearby Wilmette and Skokie, helped put out the flames.

Fire destroys three Davis Street businesses

A fire broke out early Dec. 29, destroying three businesses in downtown Evanston.

The fire started at Pine Yard Restaurant, 1033 Davis St., and destroyed nearby TechniColour Nail & Day Spa, 1031 Davis St., and Taco Diablo, 1029 Davis St. The cause of the fire is under investigation, according to the city.

The fire began at 2:24 a.m. at Pine Yard and ten minutes later, the status of the fire was elevated and other community fire departments responded, according to a city news release. Nine fire departments assisted in putting out the fire, including those from nearby Wilmette, Skokie and Morton Grove. It took about four hours to put out the flames. One Evanston firefighter Enterprise’s two cars on the Evanston campus.

One car each will be parked at North, South and central campus locations but the specific spaces have yet to be determined, wrote Charles Stephens (Weinberg ’95, Kellogg ’01), general manager of Zipcar in Chicago, in an email.

Stephens declined to discuss whether the company will pay to use University parking. “So far (car-sharing has) been low maintenance for the University,� Peters said.

Zipcar charges a $15 application fee and $25 annual fee starting the second year a college student uses the car sharing service. Hourly rates for yearly plans start at $7.25.

Although the service is limited to those 21 and over, the company would drop the minimum age to 18 for use of cars through NU’s partnership, a Zipcar spokeswoman told The Daily in March. — Edward Cox

was transported to the hospital after suffering an ankle injury at the scene.

According to its website, Pine Yard closed at 10 p.m. Dec. 28 Taco Diablo closed at 11 p.m. and TechniColour closed at 7 p.m.

The city also said 12 animals were evacuated from the nearby Bramer Animal Hospital, 1021 Davis St. The Evanston Fire Department tweeted from the scene, posting photos and updating followers on the status of the fire. The account posted a video of the fire from an Evanston resident.

The fire was extinguished by 6:30 a.m. and other departments were released from the scene.

The fire department remained to put out hot spots, the city said. — Paulina Firozi

Courtesy of Zipcar

SHARING IS CARING A Zipcar is parked in downtown Chicago. The car-sharing service will likely expand into Northwestern’s Evanston campus after the completion of garages on North and South campus.

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 2014

NU admits nearly 1,000 to class of 2018 during early decision period

Northwestern admitted 925 early decision applicants Dec. 12, filling about 45 percent of the class of 2018.

This cycle marks the largest number of students accepted through early decision in NU history, up from 43 percent last year. The Office of Undergraduate Admission received 2,863 applications, about a 16 percent increase from last year.

Christopher Watson, dean of undergraduate admissions, said University President Morton Schapiro set a goal of accepting 45 percent of the class through the early decision round.

“We’re only comfortable doing that number knowing it was students we would absolutely want to admit,” Watson said. “So that just took a lot of extra recruiting on our part. The more selective you become as an institution — and this is true of all of our peer schools — the more students

2 fraternities placed on deferred suspension

Two Northwestern fraternities have been placed on deferred suspension, according to the Office of Student Conduct and Conflict Resolution.

Phi Delta Theta and Zeta Beta Tau have each received the sanction, which means they face

Tisdahl unveils surveillance proposal for ETHS routes

Evanston Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl rolled out Dec. 9 her plan to install surveillance cameras along the streets leading to Evanston Township High School.

“I certainly would like to move crime out of town entirely, but I think we owe our students a safe route to and from high school,” she said at Monday’s City Council meeting.

Tisdahl’s proposal calls for cameras lining a 1.2-mile stretch of Church Street and 2.5-mile stretch of Dodge Avenue. The two streets intersect at ETHS, 1600 Dodge Ave.

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NEWEST CATS Members of the class of 2017 spend a day in Millennium Park as part of Wildcat Welcome. The largest number of students in Northwestern history was accepted early decision in December.

are going to apply early to you and that’s the case here.”

Watson added filling 45 percent of the freshman class will likely become the norm moving forward. But he said does not expect that percentage

to rise. The percentage has risen drastically in the past few years. In 2010, only 28 percent of the freshman class was admitted through the early decision round.

— Tyler Pager

immediate suspension if they break University rules over a given period of time. Phi Delt’s deferred suspension was effective Dec. 10 and lasts about eight quarters until June 17, 2016. ZBT’s deferred suspension began Dec. 6 and ends in about a quarter on April 4, 2014.

The office updated its website Dec. 11 to reflect the latest changes in chapter status.

The office does not comment on the cases,

including the circumstances that led to the sanction. Dean of Students Todd Adams declined to comment on the Phi Delt case, which was handled by the University Hearing and Appeals System. Phi Delt president Greg Booth did not respond to a request for comment on the deferred suspension.

The cameras would join 22 others across the city, including seven along Dodge Avenue, according to city documents.

To support Tisdahl’s pitch, the city points to a survey based on two decades of research from the Consortium on Chicago School Research. Results show about 27 percent of ETHS students did not feel mostly or very safe “traveling between home and school.”

Tisdahl’s case for more surveillance in the area came more than a month after aldermen abandoned an intergovernmental agreement for a socalled “safe school zone” around ETHS. The pact aimed to curb the amount of crime that spills out of the high school into the surrounding neighborhoods and vice versa.

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SAFER SCHOOLS A student walks on the Evanston Township High School campus.

Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl proposed at a December City Council meeting the installation of security cameras on the streets leading to ETHS in an effort to prevent crime.

PRIMARY SUSPECT From left, Azim, Farheen and Mobeen Hakeem. Evanston Police have identified the primary suspect in the July killing of the two brothers.

Bank robber ID’d as primary suspect in July double homicide

Police have identified Kevin Ross, who was fatally shot Dec. 16, as the primary suspect in a double homicide from July.

Azim and Mobeen Hakeem were fatally shot at their downtown business. The brothers were found dead on the night of July 30 inside Evanston Pipe & Tobacco, 923 Davis St. Ross, 29, was fatally shot by police Dec. 16 after he reportedly robbed more than $3,000 in cash from Chase Bank, 901 Grove St., police said. “Several officers” fired after Ross refused to drop his weapon a short distance away from the bank near downtown Evanston.

Police are investigating Ross as the primary suspect in the Hakeem brothers’ murder after uncovering evidence in Ross’s south Evanston home.

Officers found the identification card and wallet of Mobeen Hakeem and the social security card of Azim Hakeem inside a storage locker that Ross was using, police said.

In addition, officers identified a shell casing consistent with those found at the scene of the brothers’ deaths, police said.

Police are working to locate the semi-automatic pistol that Ross purchased in June, which matches the weapon used to kill the brothers.

The FBI continues to assist the Evanston Police Department as it investigates any other criminal activity that may have involved Ross.

— Ciara McCarthy

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 2014

Evanston150 ideas continue community impact

By SCOTT BROWN

the daily northwestern @scottbrown545

In 1963, when Evanston turned 100 years old, the city celebrated with a massive lakefront party. When a steering committee began plans in 2009 for Evanston’s 150th birthday, they had bigger ideas.

“We very quickly came to conclusion that we wanted to do something that was more meaningful and would have a lasting effect on Evanston,” said former mayor Jay Lytle, a member of the committee.

The Evanston150 project was born, a citywide initiative of ten projects designed to make a positive impact on the community. Work began in 2011 with the compiling of 2,013 project ideas from throughout the city. The list was narrowed down through a selection jury made up of community members, as well as a public voting event. Work began on the 10 winning ideas in January 2012 and continued throughout 2013.

Project goals ranged from establishing

Snow

From page 1 Chicago and DePaul University reopened campuses after Monday closures. Evanston Township High School and District 65 schools closed Monday and remained closed Tuesday. The schools reopened Wednesday.

Daniel McAleer, deputy chief of University Police, said the department saw few issues on Monday. Most calls for help came from residents experiencing car trouble due to the cold temperatures.

1835 Hinman briefly lost power Sunday, but it was restored quickly with emergency generators, Cubbage said.

McAleer, who was part of the threat assessment group, said local transportation issues made him hesitant to recommend keeping the University open Monday and Tuesday.

“The CTA, the Metra, the El and not all of those services are running at normal operations,” McAleer said. “People can get stuck at platforms or bus

sustainable local food sources to creating a workforce development program for young adults. Each project had an independent committee of community members.

“This was not about what the city could do,” said Sara Schastok, another steering comThis was not mittee member. “It was about what the about what the people could do if they could city could do. imagine.”

It was about Some projects had what the people already accomplished goals as 2013 could do if they their came to a close. could imagine.

Through the Here’s Sara Schastok, to Our Health project, Evanston150 Evanston150 formed a steering committee partnership with offimember cials planning to build a new health center. A federal grant was allocated to the Erie Family Health Center in June 2012, and the clinic officially opened in October that year.

Another highlight was the Water, Water

Everywhere project, which aims to provide greater access to water recreation as well as to ensure all Evanstonians can swim.

Through its Evanston Swims! initiative, the team partnered with community organizations such as the McGaw YMCA, YWCA Evanston/ North Shore and Three Crowns Park to provide free swim lessons.

Almost 200 second graders from eight schools have already taken lessons through the program, Evanston150 said.

“Teaching the second and third graders how to swim will have a profound impact on hundreds and thousands of boys and girls,” said Lytle, who serves as managing director at the First Bank and Trust in Evanston. “And Water, Water Everywhere is in expansion mode to bring in every child.”

Other projects are still developing and are planning to build upon the work they have done so far, according to the Evanston150 website.

The A Market For All Seasons project is currently searching for a permanent location for their year-round farmers market.

A group of teens is now meeting to make

stops waiting for a bus that’s not coming when it’s scheduled to come.”

Evanston has focused on clearing primary and residential roads of snow in the last week. Officials declared a snow emergency and snow route parking ban for Jan. 2 and 3 to clear primary roads of cars to facilitate plowing. Extra plowing crews have been working nearly around the clock to keep the roads clear.

Evanston’s last major snowstorm, in 2011, allowed the city to improve its approach to winter weather, Robinson said.

“We learned our lesson well from the (2011) blizzard,” she said. That was really our training.”

Evanston Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl praised city staff for their handling of the week-long winter storm and said she had received numerous compliments from residents.

The last week of winter weather was especially challenging for city crews because it snowed consistently throughout the week.

“This weather was more costly in terms of material and personnel because we’ve been moving the

snow around for several days,” Robinson said.

Class rescheduling is not being coordinated by the registrar’s office and the decision to reschedule is being left to the undergraduate deans, University Registrar Jaci Casazza said.

Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences announced via email Monday that it would shorten its reading period by two days, with make-up classes being held March 11 and 12.

If professors want to reschedule class outside of the reading period, they should contact the registrar’s office to ensure there will be no conflicts with students’ schedules, Casazza said.

Evening classes and final exams were last cancelled in June 2013 due to severe thunderstorms.

The University also closed in February 2011, canceling classes and midterms.

“This is a tremendous snow,” Cubbage said.

“Faculty have been instructed to accommodate students as much as possible.”

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The Evanston Teen Center project a reality after surveying Evanston Township High School students on their interests.

Other projects, such as the Little and Learning project to provide quality early-childhood education, are analyzing data they have been collecting over the past few years.

“We never imagined that things would be finished by the end of 2013,” said Schastok, who heads the Evanston Community Foundation. “Big things take time.”

She said the projects will look for future funding in a variety of places.

Some will come from established endowments, while others will be grants from organizations such as ECF. For Lytle, the projects themselves aren’t the only impact that Evanston150 has made.

“The process that we used is one that other organizations will follow based on the success: going out to the people, getting their ideas and implementing the best ideas,” he said. “It demonstrates the power that people have when they believe in something.” scottbrown2017@u.northwestern.edu

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From page 1 Because she would miss her flight from New York to Chicago, she had to book a new one from Florida, which was also cancelled.

“We boarded, and everyone was sitting on the plane when they told us the flight was cancelled, deplaned us and warned that it would be another few days before we could get into Chicago, because only six planes a day were getting in because the fuel was frozen,” Sibley said.

She is now scheduled to arrive Thursday morning.

Medill junior Katherine Dempsey, a former Daily staffer, had two of her flights from Virginia cancelled, but she was able to fly into Chicago Tuesday morning.

“I wasn’t freaking out or anything,” Dempsey said. “I’m really grateful that school is cancelled for two days. It calmed my nerves.” jenniferball2015@u.northwestern.edu

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We’re just having a hard time putting the ball in the basket.

— Chris Collins, basketball coach

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

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Offensive struggles doom NU in Ann Arbor

By ALEX PUTTERMAN

daily senior staffer @AlexPutt02

Another game, another bad offensive showing and another rout in which Northwestern wound up on the wrong side.

A bad second half doomed the Wildcats (7-8, 0-2 Big Ten) on Sunday to their second consecutive blowout loss and third straight overall defeat.

Northwestern fell to Michigan (9-4, 2-0) 74-51 in Ann Arbor, Mich.

The Cats renewed their seasonlong offensive ineptitude, shooting 38.8 percent from the field and 26.1 percent from behind the arc. It was the latest in a series of substandard scoring outputs.

As coach Chris Collins said on WGN Radio after the game, “We’re just having a hard time putting the ball in the basket.”

NU shot a worse percentage, pulled down fewer offensive rebounds and committed more turnovers than Michigan, as guard Nik Stauskas led the Wolverines with 18 points.

Forward Drew Crawford led NU in scoring with 17 points but converted only one field goal in the second half, when the Cats were outscored by 16.

Crawford’s valiant first half was all that kept NU afloat early on. The senior scored more than half of NU’s points and led all scorers with 13 at the break, as the Cats trailed 31-24.

“I got good looks to start the game,” Crawford said. “The whole team did.

We had a pretty good first half, still could have made some shots that we

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missed. Second half, we really just need to play better. We need to put a 40-minute game together.”

In the second half, Michigan concentrated its defensive efforts on Crawford, holding the Cats’ leading scorer to 4 points after halftime.

“He plays all the minutes, he has to do all the dirty work, he has to score all the points, so someone’s got to come in and help him with the scoring load,” sophomore forward Kale Abrahamson said. “Someone’s got to help him rebound and I think that’s on all of us really. It’s got to be a collective effort.”

Crawford’s diminished presence forced others to pick up the scoring slack, a task for which his teammates were largely unprepared.

Alex Olah, coming off a team-high 23 points in Friday’s loss to Wisconsin, dropped in 10 of his 12 points in the second half Sunday, but no other NU player made more than three baskets throughout the afternoon.

The Cats struggled shooting the ball, as has become their tendency, with several key scorers posting especially ugly lines.

Sophomore guard Tre Demps shot 2-10 from the field, junior guard Dave Sobolewski failed to score and junior guard JerShon Cobb finished with as many fouls (4) as points.

“We need Cobb, we need Demps, we need Sobolewski,” Collins said on

Daily file photo by Brian Lee

ALL BY HIMSELF Senior forward Drew Crawford rises for a dunk. Crawford carried Northwestern offensively against Michigan, scoring more than half the team’s points in the first half and leading the Cats with 17 points.

WGN. “We need those guys to step up and give him some help out there offensively so he doesn’t have to carry the load like that.”

NU appeared to play hard, especially during the first half, but as the game wore on, Michigan’s talent overcame the road team. After a second straight loss of more than 20 points, Collins — not usually one for moral

victories — emphasized positives.

“I was pleased with our effort,” he said. “I thought we came out of the game with outstanding effort. I thought our guys were playing incredibly hard and intense.”

But effort won’t save a team that can’t score, especially when opposing teams can key in on its most viable offensive option. For NU to win even

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Freshmen lead Cats to hot start

Tsirtsis rises to top-5 ranking following romp over Indiana

By BOBBY PILLOTE

the daily northwestern @bobbypillote

The past month has been a steady ride for Northwestern.

After starting off with a strong 7-2 record through Dec. 5, the Wildcats continued their even play over Winter Break to reach their current 10-4 mark. Among the defeats was a onepoint game against No. 18 Nebraska on Thursday in NU’s Big Ten opener.

“It was good for us,” Coach Joe McKeown said. “Everybody got to contribute. We had some hard fought games, we had to execute; it was all good preparation.”

The Cats started off the six-game stretch with a dominant 90-57 win over crosstown foe Loyola. Four different players had double-digit point totals for NU, including forward Nia Coffey, a true freshman averaging more than 15 points a game. The entire team was brilliant from beyond the arc, tying a program record with 13 made 3-pointers and posting a 3-point field goal percentage (52 percent) better than their overall field goal percentage (49 percent).

That offensive momentum carried over for the Cats in their next game against Oral Roberts, as NU posted another huge victory with an 84-54 win.

Guard Maggie Lyon paced the squad with 17 points and seven rebounds. The sophomore has started every game this season and ranks second on the team in minutes, averaging 34 per game.

A surge of youth powered the Cats past IUPUI on Dec. 21, with freshmen accounting for 48 of NU’s points in a 72-61 victory. Freshman guard Ashley Deary had nine assists to go along with a career-high 21 points, and her backcourt teammate, freshman Christen Inman, added 13 points of her own while playing the entire game.

Daily file photo by Annabel Edwards

COFFEY TIME Freshman forward Nia Coffey prepares to shoot. Coffey and classmate Christen Inman had several strong performances over Winter Break, helping lead NU to victories over IUPUI and Northeastern.

McKeown said he is, unsurprisingly, pleased with how his freshmen took on the occasional starring role.

“I’m impressed with the way they’ve responded to the challenges we’ve thrown at them,” he said.

After the three-game win streak, the Cats came up just short in dramatic fashion against Indiana State on Dec. 28. The game was close throughout, with several lead changes down the stretch. Sophomore forward Lauren Douglas hit a 3-pointer with seconds left to tie the game at 67, but the Sycamores sealed the 70-67 victory with their own 3-point shot right before the buzzer.

NU quickly recovered the next day with a 73-46 win over Northeastern. It was all about star power for the Cats, as Inman scored a career-high 27 points, Lyon added 20 points and Coffey recorded her fifth double-double of the season with 12 points and 18 rebounds.

NU also showed off its defensive prowess, holding Northeastern to just 27 percent shooting from the floor.

The Cats opened conference play

with their first game of the year on Jan. 2 but couldn’t quite pull off the upset on the road against the Cornhuskers. Inman continued her strong play, contributing 19 points and shooting a perfect 8-for-8 from the floor. Lyon missed an open 3-point look to put NU ahead with seconds left to play and the Cornhuskers held on to win 66-65.

“One of the toughest home courts in the country,” McKeown said. “I thought we played great, but we have to be able to finish those games.”

A seventh game against Illinois was scheduled for Monday but had to be postponed to Jan. 15 due to the severe weather affecting the Midwest. The Cats resume their Big Ten schedule Thursday as they host No. 21 Purdue, with the team looking to continue the steady play that has been key to its success so far.

‘That stretch helped us get ready for Purdue this week,” McKeown said.

“We’re starting three freshman but we’ve shown a lot of poise.” robertpillote2017@u.northwestern.edu

After a commanding victory against No. 23 Indiana in its Big Ten opener Saturday, Northwestern (6-1, 1-1 Big Ten) clocked in at No. 16 in the nation this week.

The Wildcats defeated Indiana 27-12, with seven wrestlers winning their bouts against the Hoosiers.

Redshirt freshman Jason Tsirtsis, who has climbed to No. 5 nationally at 149 pounds in the InterMat Wrestling’s rankings, displayed his talent with a major decision against Indiana’s Eric Roach.

Tsirtsis, who head coach Drew Pariano said he expects to be a national champion, also performed well in December at the 51st Ken

a handful of conference games, its secondary scorers will need to contribute. As Sunday showed, Crawford is not capable of shouldering the load alone.

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Kraft Midlands Championship and against SIU-Edwardsville.

At the Midlands tournament, Tsirtsis collected a fifth-place finish. The four-time Indiana state high school champion also defeated SIU-Edwardsville’s Karsten Van Velsor with a 17-1 tech fall.

After leading the Cats with a fourth-place finish at Midlands, junior Pierce Harger defeated Indiana’s Ryan LeBlanc in a 2-0 decision. Harger has now climbed into the top 10 of InterMat’s rankings at 165 pounds.

All-American heavyweight Mike McMullan suffered his first defeat in his bout against Indiana’s Adam Chalfant in a 9-4 decision. After the loss, McMullan dropped to No. 8 in InterMat’s heavyweight rankings.

The Cats are back on the mat Friday night, hosting No. 2 Minnesota.

— Jesse Kramer

Men’s Basketball

Ajou to transfer, becomes second player to leave NU under Collins

Nor t hwester n announce d Tuesday redshirt freshman center Chier Ajou will transfer from the program.

Ajou is the second player who has decided to leave the school since coach Chris Collins’ tenure began.

The team announced sophomore forward Mike Turner’s decision to transfer on Dec. 28. Turner took a leave of absence from NU in September.

Ajou’s decision means Collins has an additional scholarship open

to a potential transfer or high school player. Turner and Ajou’s departures suggest a retooling of Wildcats’ roster — particularly the frontcourt, which has lacked depth all season — under Collins’ watch.

Last season, Ajou played 30 minutes over the course of seven games to rack up 8 points before sitting out the rest of the year with a knee injury. The redshirt freshman saw two minutes of playing time in NU’s November matchup against UCLA. Turner’s stat sheet was a bit more full. The forward played 32 games for NU last season and scored just 61 points. Still, Turner proved to be an occasional frontcourt asset in the wake of a diminished roster.

— Ava Wallace