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Tuesday, January 28, 2014
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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,”
By Kelly Gonsalves
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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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