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Childish Gambino to play at Blowout By TYLER PAGER
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ESPN program to come to NU for 1st time since ‘90s By JOSEPH DIEBOLD and PATRICK SVITEK daily senior staffers @JosephDiebold @PatrickSvitek
Set your alarm clocks and get your custom signs ready, Northwestern fans. “College GameDay” is coming to your city. ESPN’s popular show previewing the day’s college football action will broadcast Saturday morning from the northern area of the Lakefill near Lakeside Field, NU spokesman Al Cubbage wrote Sunday in an email to The Daily. “GameDay” host Chris Fowler announced late Saturday night on Twitter that the show will return to Evanston for the first time in nearly two decades. Cubbage also said the show will be incorporated into Homecoming festivities. Homecoming was forced to cancel a 5K run, previously scheduled
Student who fell from window still in critical condition
The Northwestern student who fell out of a third-floor window at the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity house remained in critical but stable condition Sunday, according to hospital and University officials. Weinberg junior Matthew Cooney was taken to Evanston Hospital on Tuesday morning and underwent successful surgery later that night. He was critically injured at the time. Hospital spokeswoman Andrea Mitchell said Cooney’s condition did not change over the weekend. Critical but stable condition usually means patients are not at risk of death but expected to stay in the hospital until their health improves. Fire officials believe Cooney was not able to leave his room in the fraternity house and was looking for another way out before he fell. University Police is investigating the incident. Mitchell had no further information on Cooney’s condition. — Patrick Svitek
for Saturday morning at the Lakefill. University Police will assist with security for the show, which typically draws large crowds of fans with flags and posters. “GameDay” will make its first appearance in Evanston since 1995 to preview the No. 16 Wildcats’ Saturday night matchup against No. 4 Ohio State. The team for the game’s ABC broadcast will join Saturday’s battle: Play-by-play man Brent Musburger (Medill ‘61) and color commentator Kirk Herbstreit (Ohio State ‘93) will watch their alma maters square off at Ryan Field. “GameDay” also broadcast from Wrigley Field in 2010, when NU took on Illinois. Among the show’s traditions are sweeping shots of fervent crowds and a segment in which the hosts select who they expect to win the day’s significant games. At the end of the show, host Lee
Corso dons the mascot head of the school he thinks will win in the game from which “GameDay” is held. The announcement put to rest long-simmering speculation about ESPN’s interest in Evanston, especially as both the Wildcats and Buckeyes enter conference play undefeated with their eyes on the Big Ten title. Evanston first heard the network was considering NU for “GameDay” about two weeks ago, city manager Wally Bobkiewicz said Friday evening. He recently talked about the prospect with his counterpart in Ann Arbor, Mich., where the show broadcast from Sept. 7 when Michigan played Notre Dame. “When the announcement’s made, everything starts moving very quickly,” Bobkiewicz said the Ann Arbor official told him. Bobkiewicz added that the city » See GAMEDAY, page 10
Rapper and actor Donald Glover, also known by his stage name Childish Gambino, will headline A&O’s Fall Blowout concert Oct. 11, the organization announced Sunday night. University President Morton Schapiro made the announcement through a video on A&O’s website. “Hey Wildcats, this year I’m very excited to say that the headliner for Blowout is a very talented performer that you guys handpicked in the poll last spring,” Schapiro said in the video. “Are you ready? Childish Gambino.” Gambino, who starred as Troy Barnes in NBC’s sitcom “Community,” released his debut album “Camp” — which included hits “Bonfire” and “Fire Fly” — for Glassnote Records in 2011. The Blowout opening act has yet to be announced. A&O spokeswoman Rosalind Mowitt said the group selected
Gambino because of the results of a poll students took in the spring. She added that this was the first time the organization sent out a poll specifically for Blowout. “Childish ended up being the highest-ranked person available and within our price range, which is the first time we have been able to do that,” she said. A&O chairman Demetrios Cokinos said he’s excited for Gambino to bring his “diverse talent” to campus. “He’s such a different kind of rapper,” he said. “For me, I love Donald Glover and everything else he has done with TV and sketch comedy on YouTube.” Mowitt said Gambino reminds her of a typical Northwestern student. “I think it’s funny because he’s almost the perfect fit for Northwestern,” she said. “When I think about what differentiates the Northwestern student body, (it) is definitely that mindset of a really well-rounded » See A&O, page 10
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BLOWOUT Childish Gambino will perform Oct. 11 at A&O Productions’ annual Fall Blowout. The Los Angeles rapper and actor follows in the footsteps of former Blowout headliners Nas and Lupe Fiasco.
ETHS students to build low-income home By SAMMY CAIOLA
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Evanston Township High School students are trading pencil cases for toolboxes this fall as they delve into Geometry in Construction, a new class in which they build a fully functional home for a low-income Evanston family. The 60 students enrolled in the class started the construction project at the beginning of the school year and will be ready to work on the floors this week. The course syllabus says students will gain hands-on experience in construction skills ranging from plumbing to siding. The students are also learning advanced math as they deal with blueprints for the project, said Matthew Kaiser, an industrial technology teacher who co-leads the class with Maryjoy Heineman of the mathematics department. The ETHS curriculum for the class was inspired by a similar project that started eight years ago at
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Loveland High School in Colorado. City and school officials gave the green light last fall, and the teachers have been planning ever since, Kaiser said. “The idea is that the construction guides the geometry,” Kaiser said. “In Colorado, where the project started, students were able to take the concepts from the math and directly apply them to building the house. And in doing so, they saw a tremendous gain in their test scores.” The house, which is being built in an empty parking lot near the ETHS tennis courts, will eventually be transported to a city-owned vacant lot at 1941 Jackson Ave. Rob Anthony, executive director of Community Partners for Affordable Housing, a Highland Park, Ill.based nonprofit organization that has signed on to sell the house, said he expects to place it in the $100,000 to $120,000 bracket and already has a waiting list of buyers. He said he is not concerned about high school students building the home because it will still be
overseen by professional contractors and inspected by city officials. “It will be a well-built, quality
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In Colorado, where the project started, students were able to take the concepts from the math and directly apply them to building the house. Matthew Kaiser, ETHS teacher house,” Anthony said. “It’ll be a great value for a family looking for a brand new home. I think we’ll have no trouble finding a buyer.” Anthony said part of the profits from the house will fund the class project next year. The house will be one story high with a long, narrow shape that is easy to transport and fits well in the vacant lot. Most materials, including
window panes and furniture sets, are being donated or discounted by the Evanston ReBuilding Warehouse, a nonprofit organization that promotes the use of recycled materials in construction. “It’s the green way to go,” said Lou Dickson, executive director of the warehouse. “A lot of the older materials are better than the newer ones. If you throw it away and buy something new, it’s just using more energy.” The city partially funded this year’s project, and the Evanston Community Foundation gave it a $10,000 grant. Sara Schastok, president and CEO of the foundation, said the project complements many of her organization’s goals. “Given our interest in the workforce readiness of Evanston young adults and in affordable housing in Evanston, it was a great opportunity for us,” she said. The new course has two sections, each of which meets once a day. » See ETHS, page 10
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