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Sunshine leaves after 17 years By Ally Mutnick
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Eugene Sunshine announced Monday he will step down this summer from his position as Northwestern’s senior vice president for business and finance. Sunshine (Weinberg ‘71), who serves as the University’s top business, administrative, financial and personnel officer, oversaw largescale campus expansion, significant endowment growth and a balanced budget during his 17-year tenure. Sunshine, 64, said he made the decision to retire from his full-time job to consult, teach and advise companies. “My thought was there would come a time when I would stop working 12 hours a day, six days a week for Northwestern,” Sunshine said. “This seemed like the right time to do it given my age and given what opportunities seem to be out there.” On Monday, colleagues and friends attributed major University gains to Sunshine since he came to NU in 1997.
Under his stewardship, more than 20 buildings have been added, renovated or expanded on the Chicago and Evanston campuses including Pancoe Hall, Silverman Hall and the Robert H. Lurie Medical Research Center, according to a University news release. Sunshine noted he is especially proud the University was able to complete so much construction and renovation, not for the aesthetics of the buildings themselves but because the space they provide is crucial to NU’s academic and administrative goals. “The teaching and the research and the lab and those kinds of things, which have a very long legacy to them, are very very important to me,” he said. Sunshine also helped add more than a billion dollars to the University’s endowment by negotiating the royalties from the sale of Lyrica, an anti-seizure drug developed by a NU professor. Federal research funds have also increased during his tenure, growing from about $170 million to $550 million, University spokesman Al » See sUNSHINE, page 6
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COLD SHOULDER A student walks home in the snow Sunday night. Northwestern remained open on Monday despite subzero temperatures, although the University ordered four additional shuttles.
Despite cold, NU stays open By Tyler Pager
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Despite low temperatures, Northwestern decided to hold classes Monday after NU’s top officials reviewed the University’s status Sunday evening and decided it was safe to open. The decision to close campus is based on many factors, and there is
no specific temperature which would automatically force a cancellation, University spokesman Al Cubbage said. “The walks are in good shape,” he said. “The buildings are all heated okay. The shuttle buses are running. The university is in good shape, and we felt it was appropriate to open.” Chicago Public Schools, Evanston Township High School and Evanston/Skokie School District 65 were all closed Monday and will remain
closed Tuesday. However, Cubbage said NU’s protocol for canceling classes differs from that of K-12 schools. “It’s a very residential place,” he said. “Most of our students live on campus or within a half-mile of campus.” Dan McAleer, Deputy Chief of University Police, said NU rarely closes due to weather conditions. » See CLOSURES, page 6
Activist caps MLK celebrations Council OKs school route camera plan By Rosalie Chan
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To end a week of commemoration for Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights activist and author Myrlie Evers-Williams delivered a keynote address Monday, stressing the importance of King’s legacy and commenting on progress that still needs to be made. Evers-Williams, who was the first female chair of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People from 1995 to 1998, spoke Monday evening before hundreds of students and community members at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall. Her late husband, Medgar Evers, was also active in the civil rights movement. Both coordinated demonstrations and voter registration drives before Evers was assassinated by a member of the Klu Klux Klan. “All has not been smooth,”
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‘ALL HAS NOT BEEN SMOOTH’ Myrlie Evers-Williams delivers the concluding keynote address for Northwestern’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration Monday evening.
Evers-Williams said. “There’s politics in each and every thing we do. When the cause is great enough, it is the need and time for us to come together to lead a country that believes in hope, faith, trust, in humankind, and believe that in working together, we can change
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the betterment for all of us.” The MLK Day Planning Committee chose Evers-Williams as the keynote speaker because of her and her family’s involvement in the civil rights movement. » See KEYNOTE, page 6
Despite loud disapproval from citizens in attendance, Evanston aldermen approved Monday a controversial plan to install surveillance cameras along the streets leading to Evanston Township High School. The decision came after weeks of community discussion surrounding the proposal, which Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl introduced Dec. 9 as a means of providing a “safe passage” to and from school for ETHS students. The project would be funded by a grant provided by the U.S. Department of Justice. If the grant application is approved, the city will receive federal funding to place more than 10 cameras along 3.7 combined miles of Dodge Avenue and Church Street, which intersect at ETHS, 1600 Dodge Ave. Citizens in attendance protested and
stormed out of the council chambers immediately following the vote. During the meeting, 17 citizens spoke against the measure, citing a lack of statistical evidence for the effectiveness of security cameras in reducing crime and the fact that the cameras would be unmonitored. One citizen in attendance, Doria Johnson, cited the racial implications attached to increasing security in one of the “most diverse” parts of the neighborhood. “I’m more concerned about the rationale given that some of our children feel unsafe in this particular area,” said Cecil Curtwright, an Evanston resident who lives on one of the streets on which the cameras would be installed. “If in fact that is a perception and not reality, then our work needs to be about the perception that our young people may be feeling and the profiling of a community.” Other citizens pointed out perceived » See COUNCIL, page 6
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Around Town National News Senate Republicans offer alternative to Obamacare
WASHINGTON — On the eve of the president’s State of the Union speech, Republican Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina on Monday offered a plan to repeal President Barack Obama’s signature accomplishment, the Affordable Care Act, and replace it with a plan he says would lower costs and expand access to coverage. His proposal would keep popular elements of the law, commonly known as Obamacare: the ban on limits on lifetime insurance benefits and the option for people to keep adult children on their plans until age 26. But the rest is different, and its rollout the day before the president’s annual report to Congress helped put Republican ideas on how to replace the law into public debate, though it has virtually no chance of passing as long as the Senate is controlled by Democrats. The White House dismissed the plan as “just another repeal proposal.” But Burr in a press statement said it addressed cost problems. “Our nation’s health care system was unsustainable before Obamacare, and the president’s health care plan made things worse,” he said. — Renee Schoof (McClatchy Washington Bureau)
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Man arrested in connection with sexual abuse
Police arrested an Evanston man Friday morning in connection with multiple counts related to aggravated criminal sexual abuse. The man engaged in sexual contact with a 14-year-old boy, police said. Officers arrested Jonathan Labe on Friday morning at his Evanston home in the 900 block of Reba Place. Labe made contact with the boy through Craigslist. Both posted personal ads on the site. The boy’s ad was initially posted on Craigslist in October, police said. Labe,
Sexual assault reported in North Campus residance hall A female Northwestern student reported a case of sexual assault in a North Campus residence hall, University Police said. The woman reported the incident to a campus security administrator who relayed the information to police, UP Deputy Chief Dan McAleer said. The incident happened in January. The woman did not identify herself or the perpetrator, McAleer said.
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53, responded to the boy’s ad, Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said. The boy did not disclose his real age on the ad, although at some point during their interactions the boy admitted to Labe he was younger than 17, the boy later told police. Sexual contact between the two took place on more than one occasion, Parrott said. Labe was ordered held in lieu of $50,000 in bond court Saturday, said Steve Campbell, spokesman for the Cook County state’s attorney’s office. Labe will appear again in court Tuesday, Campbell said. — Ciara McCarthy
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Skokie man shot in west Evanston on Sunday afternoon
A Skokie man was shot Sunday afternoon in west Evanston, just a few blocks from Evanston Township High School. The man was shot in the ankle in what police believe is a drug-related incident. The 25-year-old was in a car parked in the 1400 block of Dewey Avenue when he exited the car and began to run away from the vehicle, said Evanston Police Cmdr.
Young men attack pedestrian in south Evanston
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A group of young men attacked a pedestrian walking in south Evanston on Saturday night, police said. An Evanston resident was walking southbound in the 200 block of Custer Avenue on Saturday at about 8:45 p.m. A group of men, ranging in age from late teens to early 20s, approached the Evanston resident. The resident did not know anyone in the group. One member of the group made a gesture with a closed fist and exchanged words with the
Jay Parrott. Another man shot and hit the Skokie resident in the ankle at about 3:25 p.m. The Skokie resident has been transported to Evanston Hospital for treatment but does not have any life-threatening injuries, Parrott said. Police said two individuals were involved in the shooting, only one of whom was armed. “It’s probably a drug deal gone bad,” Parrott said. Police are continuing to investigate the incident. — Ciara McCarthy
Evanston resident, Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said. One of the men then punched the pedestrian in the face and several others punched him in the back of his head, Parrott said. The group ran away when a car passing by the incident slowed down to assist the resident, Parrott said. The man, 52, did not sustain any serious injuries, Parrott said. Police are investigating the incident and will likely use nearby video cameras to identify the group of men. — Ciara McCarthy
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On Campus ‘Shrek’ draws nearly 2,000 over opening weekend By Jennifer Ball
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The 72nd Dolphin Show, “Shrek the Musical,” opened over the weekend with a slight drop in ticket sales from last year’s show. Ticket sales for opening weekend, which included evening performances on Friday and Saturday and a Sunday matinee, totaled 1,972. Sales for last year’s “My Fair Lady” totaled 2,037, said Rachel Marchant, the show’s executive business producer. However, both shows sold out the Saturday night performance. “I definitely think that our Greek night promotion was very successful,” the Communication senior said. “We have groups from over 15 fraternities and sororities. I think that contributed both this year and last year. We love to see people who are not just theater majors.” Marchant attributed the decrease in ticket sales to troubles they encountered due to unusually bad
weather. “Normally we do a lot of advertisements with flyers and banners outside, but this year the grounds were wet,” Marchant said. “With ‘My Fair Lady,’ we could do that, but this year we could not get that kind of exposure.” The show implemented a new pricing system this year where the prices were higher for certain tiers and lower for others with students receiving a $10 discount on all tiers. Without the student discount, prices ranged from $15 to $30. Last year, general tickets cost $25 while students paid $10. “It’s possible that this new pricing structure caused some hesitance for the student population,” Marchant said. “However, we’re hoping that this pricing structure improves our revenue per ticket sold while allowing more price flexibility for students and families who desire a more affordable way to see the Dolphin Show.” Weinberg junior Katie Shanagher said she does not go see musical theater much, but she really enjoyed seeing this year’s show Saturday night with her sorority
sisters. “I liked seeing a movie that I knew really well in play form,” she said. Weinberg junior Erin Anderson, a self-described “big musical theater person,” said although she was impressed with the students’ acting, she questioned the choice of “Shrek” as the show. “I get why they wanted to do something more fun and lighthearted,” she said. “But I’m a sucker for the classics.” Compared with last year’s show, Anderson found this year’s musical much more humorous. “This show had more stand-out moments that made me laugh than ‘My Fair Lady,’” she said. “I thought Chanse McCrary did a phenomenal job as Donkey. Every time he was on stage, he made me smile.” Marchant said she hopes to match the ticket sales from last year, the highest in Dolphin Show history, and reach a wide audience with “Shrek.” jenniferball2015@u.northwestern.edu
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THREE’S COMPANY Isabelle Roberts, Communication sophomore Caroline Hatch and Communication senior Lauren Lenke play the role of Fiona in the Dolphin Show’s “Shrek The Musical.” This year marks the show’s 72nd annual production.
UCS adds online appointments, personalized advising By annie bruce
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University Career Services is upping its offerings this year, adding the ability to make appointments online and creating a more personalized advising model, in which students have one school-specific advisor whom they work with for four years. The updates are among many that UCS’ new executive director Mark Presnell, who came to Northwestern in October, plans to implement in the upcoming months. “I think that’s one of the key changes to make when you talk about personalizing career services, so the advising staff begins to directly know the students they’re working with and see them what we hope
is many times over the course of their time here,” Presnell said. Working with career services during all four years can help students develop a better understanding of their career path and gives students more options in any industry, Presnell said. “It helps the career development of the individual student to really think through over the course of four years what their interests are and what they want to do,” he said. Students, however, sometimes don’t take advantage of UCS until later in their college careers. Communication senior Abi Koh visited career services to have her resume reviewed for the first time this year. Weinberg senior Katherine Barnes has only ever used the career services email list. She usually visits the pre-med office when she has a question. Barnes
said she hopes the more personalized advising system will help students in the future. “I guess that’s one of the reasons I didn’t really use them is nothing was really specific to what I was doing,” she said. Koh said one way to improve career services would be to change the location. UCS is currently located at 620 Lincoln St. “We do know that location, especially when it’s negative 5 degrees outside, it’s a big deal for students,” Presnell said. “Long term, it’s my hope that we can address that.” However, he said for now, students can get resume help and career advice at Express Hours in University Library and take advantage of the UCS presentations taking place across campus. As the year goes on, Presnell hopes to implement even more changes, including an increase in
more specific programming. UCS plans to expand the “micro-career fair” program after holding one focused on sustainability and energy in October, which drew more than 200 students. In the spring, UCS also plans to add programming related to public service and nonprofit career fields. Another priority for Presnell is the creation of a new UCS website, which he is hoping to launch by next fall. He is also in the early planning stages of developing programs to better connect students with alumni. “I think that, that notion of being able to connect an alum to a student to educate that student and also to increase opportunities for that particular student … is really key to the success of our organization,” he said. annebruce2015@u.northwestern.edu
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Consider a (terrible) career in science No easy SAI FOLMSBEE
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Science sucks. Specifically, a professional career in science is shockingly terrible. Of course, I would never disparage the scientific method, which is inarguably humanity’s greatest invention. But the popular portrayal of the lives of scientists as full of excitement masks the truth behind the plight of the everyday researcher. The myth of the roller coaster ride of scientific discovery, colliding into innovation and discovery from graduate school to the Nobel Prize, has inspired generations of scientists to burn out and abandon all dreams of scientific grandeur. The life of a scientist is dull, frustrating and unrewarding. But you should still seriously consider it. Scientific research, like much of the work in any profession, is tedious. It is repetitive. Whether you are tracking the migration patterns of Galapagos seabirds, measuring the anti-cancer effect of a novel drug or collecting neutrinos in Antarctica, most of your days will be filled with the same, soul-crushing monotony. But this is a necessary evil for any successful scientist. With repetition comes reliable data, and from reliable data come reproducible results. Much like surgery, expertise comes only from performing the same tasks over and over. In order for a career in science to be productive, it must also be maddening. But even more troubling is the currency utilized in a career in academic research, which is, has and will always be, publication. Scientific articles are subject to the same biases and politicking that emerge in any highly competitive field. The original purpose of scientific publication was to share data and discoveries with other scientists to move the field as a whole forward. But that spirit has long been corrupted. For graduate students, a publication is their only ticket to a doctorate degree. So their supposed chance to perform independent scientific investigation is perverted into a single-minded attempt to get the minimum amount of data necessary to publish, just so they can even consider advancing their career. And for senior scientists, data must be
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by and watch the next time something like this happens. There is a possibility that something as horrible, although difficult to comprehend in today’s world, could happen again. More recent genocides have already taken place in Rwanda and Bosnia. We have to remember the Holocaust so the next time anything like this happens, we know the extent of the damages that can and will be done without intervention. We also need to remember that there were ones who stayed silent and did nothing, as well as people who risked their lives to save others. We have to use that as a stepping stone to challenge ourselves to do better. We have to remember the Holocaust so the next time something similar happens, we know what to do.
The other day, one of my best friends from home told me her parents were getting a divorce. I’ve known Alyssa my entire life — except for a week. We grew up as next-door neighbors. Our mothers would reminisce about the days when they were pregnant and would buy lemon bars from the local ice cream truck. As a result, I don’t view her parents or family the way I view those of most of my friends: strangers planted firmly in the background. I grew up with Alyssa’s parents as much as Alyssa herself did. I walked into her house without knocking, I met her grandparents and cousins and I was privy to family conversations. Needless to say, I took news of the divorce more to heart than your average newspaper headline. But the divorce hit me for another reason as well: My parents divorced when I was only eight years old. It defined my childhood, and, simply put, it sucked. Of course, once I graduated high school, I thought I was safe from divorce and all the pain it causes, my friends included. After all, who gets divorced after twenty plus years of marriage (except for celebrities)? Here’s the truth: There’s no happily ever after for Prince Charming and Cinderella. It’s not because Prince Charming turns out to be a dud or cheater. It’s not because Cinderella decides the royal life isn’t for her. It’s because a happily ever after is impossible. Relationships are never safe and always have the possibility of unraveling, whether you are married for three years or 30. And whether you yourself are five or 50, your parents’ relationship inevitably affects you. Last year, I wrote a column about the awkward relationship college creates between parents and children. At some times we just want to tell our parents, “You can’t tell me what do.” In reality, the majority of students rely on their parents during college for both financial and emotional support. It’s not until we are on our own, paying our own bills with our own jobs and families that we are truly independent … or so I thought. After hearing about Alyssa’s parents’ divorce, I realized complete independence from our parents is not an achievable reality. No matter how old we are, their relationships, their decisions and their behaviors affect us whether we realize it or not. My stepbrother, who’s 30, can’t make it through more than four dates with a girl because he’s so afraid of repeating his parents’ mistakes. Another one of my best friends vows to never place her children in the middle of a parental battle. I myself am jaded because of my parents’ divorce, but at the same time I have a greater appreciation for familial ties not founded in blood. It’s well known that parents shape us into the people we are today, but we don’t always realize that they’ll never stop shaping us. Whether intentional or unintentional, their influence is never far away. And no amount of money can buy us our freedom.
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massaged and coerced into a specific narrative in order to achieve publication in journals with a high impact factor, or else they will be doomed to collapse into obscurity. Scientific integrity and innovation are available only when convenient. And to make things worse, scientific questions are shrinking. Smart people are being driven away from careers in science because the big discoveries have already been made. We have identified hundreds of thousands of genetic mutations that cause cancer, and now we are left with the tedium of identifying which are effective targets for therapy. We’ve even identified the Higgs boson, the quantum particle that grants matter its mass, so we are left with tying up the loose ends of our understanding of quantum physics. But this is the point of science; as much as we hate to admit it, there is a finite amount of knowledge in the universe. The more we see, the less there is to know, and the harder it becomes to know it. Finally, if you choose to become a scientist, you are also at the mercy of both your funding and nature itself. Most of the career scientist’s life is spent drowning in meager attempts to claw whatever scraps of grants he or she can collect from government agencies. And by the time there is finally money for the lab, more grant applications are already due. But with even the best resources, the most brilliant
hypotheses can fall flat in the face of nature. Results will often not fit the original hypothesis, nor will they even disprove it in any interesting way. More often than not, data will be uninteresting and insignificant, because nature itself can only hold so many wonders. Truth, it seems, is usually boring. But none of this really matters, because scientific research has an allure that no other profession has. Science is compelling not because there are so many important discoveries, but rather because we have no idea how important those discoveries might be. The recent effort to identify the Higgs boson was not done because it would directly revolutionize medicine or technology. It was done because understanding quantum physics itself may change the very way we think about medicine and technology. A career in scientific research means a life of frustration, bitter failures and seemingly futile pursuits, but it offers the privilege to advance humanity in ways we cannot even imagine. And a privilege it is, because through these challenges we get to be the first to discover new planets, find new treatments for disease and peer into the very building blocks of reality. Sai Folmsbee is a Feinberg graduate student. He can be reached at sai@fsm.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a letter to the editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.
Important to remember Holocaust YONI PINTO
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Hundreds were unloaded from the trucks. They were told they “had to be disinfected,” so the long line moved to the showering chambers. Once the showers were filled to the point where it became hard to breathe inside, the doors were locked. The fresh water they expected never came; the only realization was that it was becoming harder to breathe. The air was getting thick, and people all around the shower were collapsing. Soon, every person in the room was dead. The Holocaust is among the darkest chapters in our history. The fact that something of its scale could happen remains mind-boggling. The realization that millions were killed, simply because of who they were, is hard to comprehend. But still, we try to understand. We try to remember every year. Monday was International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It is the day we commemorate the lives lost. It is the day we look back on history and see how a twisted idea evolved into action of such a large scale. But isn’t it easier to just forget this dark chapter in history? What’s the point of troubling ourselves with this atrocity over and over again? Why do we remember the Holocaust every year? First, we remember to show respect and to share the pain of those who lost their loved ones. There are some who would like the Holocaust forgotten. They would rather not acknowledge the crimes that were committed and forget that so many lives were lost. All around the world, these deniers have disrespectfully created spheres of ignorance where the deaths are either
misattributed to other causes or completely ignored. Against all these people, Holocaust remembrance shows the mourners that they are not alone in their pain, that we respect what their families went through. We remember what people can make from an idea. People are to ideas what fuel is to fire. Once an idea latches onto enough people, it travels quickly and dangerously. The ideas of a pure Aryan race and exterminating those deemed subhuman were institutionalized by Hitler and his close circle of advisors. None of these ideas was created by the general population in Germany at the time. Regardless, if the German people didn’t embrace the idea of a pure race, if they didn’t accept the ideas that were so highly advertised with propaganda, if they didn’t find it understandable, if they didn’t advocate for it, if the government didn’t earn the people’s support, the Holocaust wouldn’t have happened at such a scale. It’s important to realize that one of the pillars required to achieve the Holocaust was the people, and how much power a people can give to an idea. We remember the Holocaust to understand what men are capable of. Experiments, torture, death marches, mass killings, gas chambers — all of these and more were things done to the prisoners in concentration camps throughout Europe. All of this makes us lose faith in humanity. Having a worldview that doesn’t encompass the human ability to commit atrocities is naive and dangerous. But we also remember the men and women who risked their lives to save the others around them. We remember that there were people who put others’ lives above their own, from those who saved a few to those who saved thousands. We remember the highest level humanity reached, along with the lowest, and try our best to renew our faith in it. And finally, we remember so we don’t stand
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Keynote From page 1
“I just think it was an opportunity to reflect on how can we move forward in civil rights,” said Dona Cordero, assistant provost for diversity and inclusion and chair of the committee. The keynote event featured performances by the Northwestern University Jazz Small Ensemble, the Alice Millar Chapel Choir and Northwestern Community Ensemble. Cordero and Evanston Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl made opening remarks. Tisdahl spoke about the city’s need to create equal opportunities for everyone. “How’s Evanston doing?” Tisdahl said. “Well, we can vote and we never stop trying hard to strive for equal opportunity. We want everyone to be part of our community. Why do I say we’re not doing well? We’re losing members of our African American community, people who have been here for generations. Many can’t afford to live here.” During her speech, Evers-Williams thanked
Sunshine From page 1
Cubbage said. Additionally, Sunshine helped reach key agreements with NU medical facilities that benefit the Feinberg School of Medicine. Sunshine also made personal to Northwestern has improvements benefit the NU been a part of my community, said life since I was 18 Cubbage, w ho also came to NU years old. I went in 1997. He helped creto school here. I partnerships met my wife here. ate with local organiOnce it’s in your zations to provide blood ... it’s pretty discounted child care for faculty, hard to get out. staff and graduate students on Eugene Sunshine, senior vice president the Evanston and Chicago campus. for business and Sunshine a ls o finance oversaw the creation of a campus shuttle system — something especially important in recent subzero temperatures, Cubbage said. “What some people don’t realize is that he had a huge impact on things that have improved the quality of life for students, faculty and staff,” Cubbage said. Lauding Sunshine’s “stellar” financial management, Cubbage noted the University has
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Tisdahl for her honest remarks and discussed how Americans need to honestly evaluate how far they have come in terms of racism after 50 years. There is still much progress that needs to be made, she said, not only in fighting racism but also in issues such as gun violence. “If you’re going to be in any way honest, we still have so much to do since Dr. King spoke about his dream,” Evers-Williams said. Evers-Williams stressed the importance of carrying on King’s legacy. “The idea of respect is still as beautiful and as strong today as it ever has been,” she said. “Martin Luther King, Jr. will forever live in the memory and the hearts of people in America and throughout the world.” Evers-Williams’ and her husband’s work also made them targets of hate crimes. Because of Evers’ organized boycott of white business owners in Jackson, Miss., their home was firebombed in 1962. The following year, Evers was assassinated by Byron De La Beckwith, a Klansman from Mississippi. De La Beckwith was not convicted of murder until 1994. “I often wonder, how does it feel to know had a balanced budget for 16 years and weathered the recent economic downturn better than many of its peers. NU did not lay off any staff members and was even able to offer raises during the recession, Cubbage said. Colleagues said they admired his leadership style, calling him pragmatic and focused. Lucile Krasnow, who worked under Sunshine as the special assistant for community relations, said Sunshine collaborated well with administrators. “He has one of those personalities,” she said. “So many people have appreciated working directly with him and have developed deep bonds. He’s one of a kind.” Though he is stepping down from his administrative role, Sunshine said he will remain close the University. Sunshine, who will continue to live in Glenview, Ill., said he would love to teach a course, having previously been a guest lecturer for programs in the Kellogg School of Management, the School of Education and Social Policy and the School of Continuing Studies. During his time as an NU student, Sunshine played varsity baseball and was sports editor of The Daily. “Northwestern has been a part of my life since I was 18 years old,” Sunshine said. “I went to school here. I met my wife here … Once it’s in your blood as long it’s been in our blood, it’s pretty hard to get out.”
that your life may be taken from you any moment, and you believe strongly enough to keep speaking out and keep working?” EversWilliams said. “Dr. King found battles every way he turned.” Despite the loss of her husband, Evers-Williams remained active in the civil rights movement. After her term as NAACP chairperson ended, she started the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Institute in order to promote training, education and economic development. “I enjoyed her speech a lot,” McCormick senior Jeremiah Edwards said. “I really enjoyed her message of fighting for something she believes in.” After the speech, Medill junior Ashleigh Nelson conducted an interview with EversWilliams. NCE and Alice Millar Chapel Choir performed musical selections at the end of the event. “It’s one thing to remember, but it’s another dimension to remember and do something beyond that,” Cordero said. rosaliechan2017@u.northwestern.edu
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civil liberty infringements, already reduced city crime rates and the possibility of property value decline as reasons to oppose the camera installation. “I am not convinced that the message that we need to be sending our young people in the future is that more surveillance leads to safety,” Curtwright said. “Even if it does lead to safety in some sense, it also is a diminishment of freedom and liberty.” The decision was 5-3 in favor of the proposal, with Alds. Judy Fiske (1st), Don Wilson (4th) and Peter Braithwaite (2nd) forming the opposition. Ald. Coleen Burrus (9th) was not in attendance and did not vote. Ald. Ann Rainey (8th) proposed writing the grant application in a way that would allow each alderman to decide where to place the security cameras within their ward, if at all. Tisdahl opposed the motion, saying only having cameras along some parts of the school route would deter from the concept of a full corridor and thus weaken the grant application. “I’m concerned with a safe passage that goes the whole distance that doesn’t leave some kids out,” Tisdahl said. “If we’re talking about safe passage, it has to be for all children. It can’t be for some.” The city will submit the grant application in February. The application will request $100,000 for the camera project, as well as an additional $100,000 for a summer youth employment program.
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“Some of the factors that caused us to close back in early January included that we were on the first day of the quarter, and there were a lot of transportation issues with folks getting back,” he said. Weinberg freshman Isabel Robertson said she got frostbite on her ear last Thursday when walking from North Campus to South Campus without a hat. When Robertson went to Health Services on Friday morning, she said the doctor did not seem surprised she had frostbite. Robertson said she was concerned when she heard the University would remain open Monday. “It bothered me a little bit considering I got frostbite at the warmer part of the week and now it’s like 20 or 30 degrees colder than that,” she said. In addition to both Frostbite shuttles running, the University ordered additional shuttle buses to service the Campus Loop, Evanston Loop and both Frostbite shuttles. Cubbage said the new buses would double the frequency of shuttles. “That is a way of getting some initial resources given the cold,” he said. He told The Daily in an email student input is “always” considered when making student life decisions. Haley Hinkle, ASG director of transportation initiatives, said she was not aware of the additional shuttles prior to the University’s emails announcing them. “It was news to me as it was to everyone else,” she said. “As far as I know, that decision was made without talking to ASG representatives.” Hinkle heard mixed reviews of the shuttles’ efficiency. “I heard that there was some glitches in the system kind of getting the shuttles around, which part of that is to be expected a little bit with how many they were adding and trying to get everything out there and organized,” the Medill sophomore said. “But, unfortunately, some students were still left waiting.” Hinkle said ASG’s goal is to get the University to plan ahead of time to have extra shuttles in the winter. “Chicago weather can just be really hard to get around in on campus,” she said. “Our hope would be that the University would really take the time to put the financial resources and the planning into place so that this wouldn’t all have to happen last minute in an extreme event like this.” Ally Mutnick contributed reporting. tylerpager2017@u.northwestern.edu
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Fencing
Cats handed first loss in East Coast invitationals By Alex Lederman
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Northwestern suffered its first losses of the season at the NYU and Philadelphia Invitationals in a weekend of mixed results. Saturday in New York, the No. 7 Wildcats (23-4) went 3-3, defeating Yale, Wayne State and NYU, but losing to Columbia, Notre Dame and Ohio State. In NU’s first challenge of the day, sixthranked Columbia took down the Cats 16-11. Although NU captured six of the nine sabre fights, they were outdueled in both epee and foil. Despite the team’s shortcomings against the Lions, freshman Julia Abelsky went 3-0 in her sabre matches. “We lost three overtime bouts right away against Columbia, so you turn those bouts around and we win,” coach Laurie Schiller said. The Cats rebounded from the loss to top Yale 20-7, but lost their next two matches 18-9 against No. 3 Notre Dame and 23-4 to No. 5 Ohio State. Both teams defeated NU’s foil squad 9-0. “I’m not concerned about the losses in foil,” Schiller said. “Those teams literally have Olympian fencers. I thought we did really well against top international-level competition.” NU looked dominant in its final two matches of the day, topping Wayne State 24-3 and host school NYU 22-5, sweeping the epee fights in both. The Cats fared better Sunday in the second half of their road trip. At Penn, NU captured four victories and lost only one close matchup. NU handled Johns Hopkins with ease, 22-5, in its opening match, earning 8-1 victories in both sabre and epee. Next, No. 9 Temple handed the Cats their only loss of the day. NU suffered a trio of 5-4 losses to ultimately fall 15-12. “Losing to Temple was one of the tougher losses,” senior Dina Bazarbayeva said.
Schiller agreed. “A couple of touches are turned around and we win,” he said. “Columbia and Temple were definitely winnable matches.” NU got right back on its feet and defeated No. 8 Penn 14-13. The epee topped the home squad 8-1. Bazarbayeva and junior Courtney Dumas went undefeated, with freshman Mandeep Bhinder delivering the final blow. “Against Penn we really brought it,” Bazarbayeva said. “The energy that we had as We lost a team really helped us all individually.” three overtime After prevailing over bouts right Penn, the Cats cruised away against to victories against Cornell and Sacred Columbia, so Heart, winning 18-9 and 16-11 respectively. you turn those Schiller was espebouts around cially impressed with and you win. the performance of some of his younger Laurie Schiller, players, who unexcoach pectedly had to fill in for injured veterans. “We had a couple of injuries to starters last week, so we weren’t necessarily at full strength, but that’s not an excuse,” Schiller said. “I think the kids actually fought really hard. I think we missed a lot of small opportunities... that would have turned things around, especially against Temple and Columbia.” He said freshmen Cindy Oh and Ania Parzecki did tremendous jobs in place of Alisha Gomez-Shah, the team’s strongest sabre. “We have a young team, and I forget that sometimes, but I think it was a good weekend in a lot of ways,” Schiller said. “Ultimately, our goal is conferences, regionals and the NCAA finals, so while we like to put the ‘Ws’ up there in these duals, I more look at these things as learning experiences.”
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Men’s Swimming
Senior’s mother battles bad weather to see son’s last meet By John Paschall
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Mara Urizar was on her way to Oakland International Airport on Friday expecting a picture-perfect weekend with her son, senior Tim Smith. He swam for the last time at Sports Pavilion and Aquatics Center on Saturday against the rival No. 21 Iowa Hawkeyes. Yet as she was pulling up to the departures drop-off at the Bay Area airport, she got the message that every traveler always fears. “When I got to the airport, I had a text from Southwest,” Urizar said. “My flight to Chicago was cancelled.” Not only was it cancelled, but all of the other flights that day were stopped because of Chicago-area weather. With less than 24 hours until her son’s final meet, Urizar had no way to get to Evanston. But when she started telling people she wasn’t going to make it, friends kept pushing her to make it to Evanston at whatever cost. Heartbroken, she went up to the Southwest Airlines counter and pleaded her case. The airline representative said the next flight to Chicago wasn’t until Saturday, the day of the meet. Tears started streaming down her face. “I need to be here (in Evanston) by 10:30 a.m.,” she told the employee. Urizar was able to squeeze her way onto a flight to Denver, where she hoped to get a connecting flight to Chicago. She arrived in Denver, and the flight was still scheduled to take off. The nightmare was almost over. Until she reached her gate. “I get another text: cancelled.” Stranded in Denver in the early evening, she called her cab driver, who was planning on picking her up at 8 p.m. at Chicago
Midway International Airport, to tell him she wasn’t going to make it. But the cab driver, who had been friends with Urizar and Smith for four years, knew how much this meet meant to her. Urizar said her driver told her, “You need to go.” He then volunteered to pick up Urizar at Milwaukee, if she was able to get a flight there, and drive her to Evanston. She worked her way onto a flight to Milwaukee, without her bag, and landed late Friday night. She, along with two other people who were scheduled to be on her original flight from Oakland, Calif. to Chicago, rode in the cab from Milwaukee, a ride that cost $170. And at 1:10 a.m., Urizar’s nightmare was finally over. She had arrived in Evanston to be with her son. “His face,” Urizar said of her son when she saw him. “He’s very stern, but he was breaking down.” “I was pretty excited,” Smith said. “I wanted to swim well for her. She put in so much effort to come here.” Urizar stayed at her son’s place for the night but didn’t have any of her luggage. It was still in Denver. She refused to show up at her son’s last home meet without wearing purple. So Urizar went to Beck’s Book Store at 10 a.m., picked up an NU T-shirt and headed to the meet. She said it was an incredibly special moment watching her son swim for the last time at SPAC. “It was sad and special,” she said. “It’s been a very special place for Tim. He grew up a lot here. I’m very proud of him.” As for the Big Ten Championships at the end of February in Ann Arbor, Mich., Urizar said nothing will stop her from going to her son’s last collegiate meet. “I’ll be there,” Urizar said. “I’m waiting for Big Tens.” johnpaschall2014@u.northwestern.edu
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“(Early losses) set the tone for the whole meet. It’s hard to block that out when you’ve got three losses to start.” — Drew Pariano, wrestling coach
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NU can’t make up for slow start against Wisconsin By JESSE KRAMER
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No. 16 Northwestern (6-5, 1-5 Big Ten) fell to No. 19 Wisconsin (10-4, 4-1) on Sunday, the team’s fifth straight dual match against a ranked opponent. The 23-15 defeat stretched the Wildcats’ losing streak to four matches. The slow starts that have plagued the Cats in recent matches came back to bite them again. After three bouts, Wisconsin surged to an 11-0 lead. “(Early losses) set the tone for the whole meet,” coach Drew Pariano said. “It’s hard to block that out when you’ve got three losses to start.” NU tallied its first points when redshirt freshman Jason Tsirtsis defeated TJ Ruschell by major decision at 149 pounds. The 13-2 margin of victory was Tsirtsis’ largest since a 17-4 win against Indiana on Jan. 4. “I know I’m capable of putting those numbers up every match,” Tsirtsis said. “I’m heading in the right direction.”
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Two bouts later, junior Pierce Harger brought the Cats within 14-6 with a 4-0 decision against Frank Cousins. The Cats wrestled without junior Lee Munster, who missed the match because of a lower-body injury. Munster is one of NU’s top wrestlers, ranked No. 15 nationally at 174 pounds. Redshirt freshman Robert Coukos filled in for Munster but struggled while wrestling up two weight classes. Scott Liegel pinned Coukos in 1:44 to extend the Badgers’ lead to 20-6. “All the praise in the world for Robert Coukos,” Pariano said. “I told him yesterday, ‘By the way, you’re going to wrestle two weight classes up. And wrestle a kid that’s nationally ranked.’ He just looked at me and said, ‘OK.’ How can you not love a guy like that?” Juniors Alex Polizzi and Mike
McMullan won bouts at 197 and 285 pounds, respectively, but their victories were not enough to bring NU back. Pariano praised Polizzi, who pinned Timmy McCall in 5:57. “He got taken down, and then he was fine,” Pariano said. “He came right back at him.” McMullan defeated Connor Medbery in a grueling 4-3 match. Both wrestlers were gassed by the third round, but McMullan outlasted Medbery. “You’re used to your body feeling tired (in practice),” McMullan said. “So when you get to that point, you can kind of maintain it and fight through and come out on top.” The Cats face a tall task again Friday against No. 2 Iowa. Pariano said the team remains confident, even with just a 1-5 record on the season against ranked opponents. “We’re not going to let our guys get down because of our record,” Pariano said. “We still believe we’re a top-10 team in the country.” jessekramer2017@u.northwestern.edu
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FOUR IN A ROW Despite a resounding victory from redshirt freshman Jason Tsirtsis at 149 pounds, No. 16 Northwestern fell to No. 19 Wisconsin on Sunday, 23-15. The loss was the Wildcats’ fourth straight against a fierce Big Ten schedule.
Mixed results for Cats at ITA contests Women slice ‘n’ dice in Kickoff Weekend By MIKE MARUT
Men’s squad splits matches at Indoor Qualifying Round
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It was sweet victory at the Combe Tennis Center for No. 15 Northwestern, who lost only one set over the whole weekend. The Wildcats dominated both No. 29 Oklahoma State and No. 26 Arizona State at the Intercollegiate Tennis We’re really Association excited for 2014 Kickoff Weekthis year so end. NU coming out won both and playing contests 4-0. these matches, Against the Cowboys, I think we’re the Cats did not allow an ready for it. opponent to Veronica Corning, win more senior than three games. Senior Veronica Corning won her match 6-1, 6-1 over Kanyapat Narattana. Junior Lok Sze Leung continued her victory streak with a win over Karyn Guttormsen — Leung has yet to lose a set since November. Freshman Julia Rooney defeated her opponent Maria Alvarez 6-2, 6-0. On Sunday, the Cats matched up against the Sun Devils and clawed their way to victory. The doubles point came down to the No. 2 doubles tandem, senior Nida Hamilton and freshman Maddie Lipp. The match went to a tiebreaker with the NU duo eventually winning 7-6 over Ebony Panoho and Stephanie Vlad. “We felt confident going into the tiebreaker since we had the momentum going into it after being down … and saving a match point,” Hamilton said. “I knew that if we got off to a good start it might scare them a little bit, make them a little nervous.” Lipp also chimed in and gave service credit to Hamilton. “It felt good coming back,” Lipp said. “In the tiebreak we had three first good points so that really helped, and Nida served well.” Coach Claire Pollard has expected
During Northwestern’s inaugural weekend road trip of the season, one higher-ranked foe bit the dust while the other proved too strong for the Wildcats to overcome. The No. 31 Cats traveled to Norman, Okla., to take part in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Indoor Qualifying Rounds and put together a strong effort on Saturday, beating No. 24 Tulsa 4-2. That afforded NU a tantalizing opportunity the next afternoon: If the Cats could pull out a win over No. 9 University of Oklahoma, they would win their region and earn a berth to the prestigious ITA Division I National Men’s Team Championship in February. The uplifting vision quickly evaporated, though. The Sooners pounced early, securing the doubles point and singles points with their nearly unstoppable top-two duo of Guillermo Alcorta and Axel Alvarez Llamas, respectively ranked fifth and sixth nationally in men’s singles. Up 3-0, Oklahoma closed out the match when Austin Siegel beat out Fedor Baev in the No. 5 singles spot. Despite opening the weekend with a victory, coach Arvid Swan could’ve been upset at his team being handed a shellacking, albeit to an elite squad, on Sunday. But, as he reasoned, the final result didn’t really tell the whole story. “We had a real chance to beat [Oklahoma],” Swan said. “The score may have finished 4-0, but (when it was 3-0) there were four matches left on the court and we had chances in all four of those matches to win.” Indeed, the remaining four singles contests all went to a third set. The Cats still needed to win all four of those deciding sets to triumph over the Sooners, but it wasn’t as impossible as it seemed. Getting to a third set itself meant NU’s players were holding their own in the contests, and Oklahoma derives more of its power from its killer 1-2 punch anyway, although its depth is not lacking. Swan found some positives to take away from the effort but lamented the slow start and said his team still needs significant grooming before it can reach the level of an elite squad like the Sooners. “We didn’t win the doubles point, and
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SMOOTH SAILING Senior Veronica Corning helped key a strong weekend for No. 15 Northwestern. Corning easily defeated two ranked opponents as the Wildcats cruised past No. 29 Oklahoma State and No. 26 Arizona State. No. 15 Northwestern
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a strong doubles point this season, and throughout her tenure at NU, the doubles point has been a big part of the Cats’ dynasty. “It could’ve gone either way,” Pollard said. “We were fortunate to get out of there. I thought (the doubles point) would maybe come down to (No. 2 doubles) and it did. Nida has got a lot of experience, and I thought the first point of the tie-breaker when she came up and cracked a forehand really set the tone. Maddie is a phenomenal doubles player, and I feel that she knows and can carry her own weight, and I think that will be the key at that pairing.” Corning, unranked thus far this season, fought off two ranked opponents in No. 59 Narattana of Oklahoma State and No. 50 Vlad of Arizona State. She defeated both opponents without breaking a sweat, winning her matches 6-1, 6-1 and 6-3, 6-2, respectively. “It’s been really good,” Corning
said. “I’ve been feeling really good mentally and physically. I think we all feel fresh and ready to go. We’re really excited for this year so coming out and playing these matches, I think we’re really ready for it.” With their winning ways over the weekend, the Cats have punched their ticket to the ITA Indoor Championships held in Charlottesville, Va., Feb. 7-10. Last season, the Cats went 2-1 in the ITA Indoor Championships beating Alabama and Miami. Before the championships, NU must face Vanderbilt, who also will be heading to Charlottesville, next weekend. “They’re better. I think they’re another great team,” Pollard said. “When you look at our non-conference schedule, we’re not playing many gimmes. It’s another tough match, but that’s what it needs (to be) especially going into Virginia. You’re going to see the top 16 teams in the country. I think playing as many matches at that level will only help us.” Overall, Pollard was pleased with the contests’ results. “I felt they pushed us, and we pushed right back,” Pollard said. michaelmarut2016@u.northwestern.edu
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they’re very good,” Swan said. “Oklahoma showed us what a top-10 team plays like in how they compete and also showed us what we need to do to get to that level.” If there is a glimmer of hope for the Cats’ chances to play near a top-10 level, the Tulsa match could provide the blueprint. After all, the Golden Hurricane outranked the Cats and had shown nothing early in the season that indicated they didn’t deserve their No. 24 mark. Yet NU came out on top, doing so 4-2. Against Tulsa, NU took the first two doubles contests 6-1 and 6-4 to start out 1-0, and were tied 5-5 in the third doubles competition when it was left unfinished. One of NU’s participants in that third doubles match was Mihir Kumar. The sophomore had previously stated that he wished to improve in doubles play. He said he felt he moved in the right direction with Saturday’s effort. “I definitely played better in doubles,” Kumar said. “Sam (Shropshire) and I talked about what we wanted to do. I definitely needed to step up and we made strides.” The second main factor was the bottom half of the lineup stepping up. Nos. 4, 5 and 6 singles all won their matches against Tulsa, with No. 3 embroiled in a nail-biter until it was declared unfinished. More dependable doubles play could certainly bolster the Cats’ prospects. But without a player ranked in the top 100 nationally in singles, NU needs key contributions from its lower set to keep up with top squads. That’s what Kumar saw against Tulsa and he believes NU can go far if that kind of play continues. “The Tulsa match showed how deep of a team we have,” Kumar said. “You don’t have to have studs on your team. We have a really deep team and we can still compete with great teams. It just shows we can beat anyone in the country with who we have.” kevincasey19@u.northwestern.edu