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City expands gun buyback Residents can call 311 at any time to trade in weapons By PATRICK SVITEK
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Evanston expanded its gun buyback program to an ongoing basis Monday, offering the service at any time under a new process. Launched after 19-year-old Justin Murray was shot and killed last fall, the initiative now allows residents to call 311 or the Evanston Police Department’s nonemergency number whenever they want to trade in a firearm rather than on a specific date. An officer will retrieve the gun and give the resident a $100 voucher that can be cashed in at the Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center. Like the previous version of the program, residents will not face legal action once they hand over the weapon. Police will inventory and destroy the guns they collect. The city came up with the idea after retired Police Chief William Logan told Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl that one of his neighbors missed the first two buybacks but still wanted to exchange a gun. Police rounded up 45 firearms during the first buyback Dec. 15,
2012, and 28 during the second one June 29, including a stolen handgun from Chicago. Encouraged by the results, Evanston Police Chief Richard Eddington suggested making the service “available all the time” after the latest event.
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What we’re preventing is downstream events and tragedies. Richard Eddington, Evanston police chief
“For people who don’t want to maintain firearms, don’t want to care for them, don’t want to keep them under lock and key, we’ve provided a legal avenue for them to turn their firearms in,” Eddington said at the time. “What we’re preventing is downstream events and tragedies.” On Monday afternoon, Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said the program helps prevent guns from landing in the “wrong hands.” “It’s one step of an approach to reduce any type of firearm violence,” » See GUN BUYBACK, page 10
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THE GREAT DEBATE The campus shuttle stop near the intersection of Sherman Avenue and Noyes Street was at the center of a city-led debate this summer. NU and officials agreed to move the stop across the street.
Shuttle debate settles down NU moves Noyes stop across the street By SOPHIA BOLLAG
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A city-led debate over campus shuttles appears to have ended — at least for now — after Northwestern
Profs praise MacArthur winner English profs reflect on work of alumna, ‘Genius Grant’ recipient
B.A. in English and Spanish and went on to pursue a Master of Fine Arts at Columbia University, was one of 24 fellows named Sept. 24. With the “Genius Grant” comes a $625,000 stipend paid over five
years that Russell is free to use as she wishes to advance her career. As a fiction writer, Russell was named for her “haunting yet comic” » See RUSSELL, page 10
By PAIGE LESKIN
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Northwestern alumna Karen Russell (Weinberg ‘03) reached a peak in She’s very her writing career deserving. earlier this I hope she month can put (the when she fellowship) to w on t h e prestigious great use. MacArthur Foundation Brian Bouldrey, Fellowship, English prof and the professors that taught her a decade ago are pleasantly surprised. “She’s very deserving,” English Prof. Brian Bouldrey said. “I hope she can put (the fellowship) to great use.” Russell, who graduated with a
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Source: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
‘HAUNTING YET COMIC’ Karen Russell (Weinberg ‘03) was named one of 24 winners of 2013 MacArthur Foundation Fellowships last week. Russell is an alumna of Northwestern’s creative writing program.
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agreed to move a stop across the street from its original location. In response to noise complaints from residents living near near the intersection of Sherman Avenue and Noyes Street, University and city officials discussed the issue over the summer and agreed to
move the stop. Although when she brought the issue before City Council on Aug. 12 Ald. Judy Fiske (1st) suggested rerouting the Evanston Loop Shuttle and Intercampus Shuttle routes » See SHUTTLES, page 10
Evanston, Chicago campuses affected by Internet outages
Northwestern University Information Technology experienced “intermittent connectivity issues” for nearly five hours Monday morning and afternoon, resulting in spotty Internet service in many campus buildings. Wendy Woodward, director of technology support services, said NUIT was first alerted to the issues at about 11:30 a.m. Monday. Woodward said the sporadic connectivity “affected the majority of the buildings in Evanston and Chicago.” Woodward said it is unclear what the specific cause was of the disturbance, which impacted both wireless and wired networks. “Generally speaking, it looks like the network was seeing a lot of heavy traffic from some source, but we don’t have actual details and specifics at this time,” she said. “To rectify the situation we were able to make adjustments to the network settings, and slowly as we saw that work through the network routers we saw things begin to stabilize.” When first alerted to the issues Monday morning, Woodward said NUIT contacted its network vendor, and the organization’s engineers and technical staff met every 20 to 30 minutes throughout the afternoon. The main NUIT networks in both Evanston and Chicago had stabilized by 3 p.m. while kinks in the organization’s “specialty networks” had been ironed out by 4 p.m.
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SERVER DOWN Northwestern students on the Evanston and Chicago campuses experienced internet connection issues for several hours early Monday.
Woodward preached patience, saying NUIT would use Monday’s outage to attempt to prevent similar issues in the future.
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We will do everything possible to understand what happened so that we can avoid it in the future.
Wendy Woodward, director of technology support services
“NUIT appreciates everyone’s patience today as we worked through the issues as they presented themselves, and we will do everything possible to understand what happened so that we can avoid it in the future,” she said. — Joseph Diebold
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