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City to plan HUD funds use

By JIA YOU

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Evanston will hold two public meetings Tuesday and Thursday to gather feedback on its proposed 2013 Action Plan, which outlines how the city would use funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to improve the quality of life for low- and moderate-income Evanston residents.

“The Action Plan is an annual roadmap … that explains how we plan to use federal fund grants,” said Sarah Flax, the city’s grants administrator.

“One of the things we really are trying to do is to get feedback and get people interested in what we are doing.”

According to estimates in the draft plan, HUD would award about $2 million to Evanston for its 2013 program year, approximately 3 percent less than the actual grants received in 2012. The funds consist of the Community Development Block Grant, Emergency Solutions Grant and HOME Investment Partnerships Program grants.

These funds would create more affordable housing for low- and

moderate-income residents, improve their living environment and expand their economic opportunities, Flax said.

According to federal standard, these residents earn less than 80 percent of the area median household income, or $66,650 a year for a fourperson household in Evanston, she added.

“These are not necessarily people who are absolutely destitute by any stretch of the imagination,” Flax said.

“But they are below the median income and are likely to have more struggles accomplishing everything they want to have a stable, balanced life than people with a higher income.”

Affordable housing remains the plan’s central focus, comprising about 45 percent of expected HUD funds.

In addition to existing programs that provide below-market rate loans to eligible households for rehabilitating their homes, the city will also launch a new program called Tenant-Based Rental Assistance, which uses HOME funds to provide rental subsidies for low-income family housing, Flax said.

Rental subsidies could offer critical support for low-income residents

struggling with crises such as job loss or injury, said Dan Lewis, director of NU’s Center for Civic Engagement and a member of the Mayor’s Homeless Task Force.

“If we can figure out a way to get them over the crisis … without losing their place to live, then we could avoid people becoming homeless,” Lewis said. “So subsidies are really important ways to get people through these crises. The fact that Evanston is committed to thinking about those kinds of support … is a very good sign that it will be successful.”

Activities to maintain a suitable living environment — including improvements on public facilities and services — will take 35 percent of the funds. Another 6 percent will be used to create economic opportunities, such as attracting new businesses and supporting existing ones in the neighborhood. The remaining 15 percent is reserved for administration and planning, Flax said.

Flax added that the goal is not to eliminate the problems in one year but to work toward the city’s long-term aims in assisting low-income residents.

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SHARING IS CARING Evanston City Council may approve a decision that will allow Evanston and Skokie Fire Departments to share a training site.

The Evanston City Council will vote Monday on an intergovernmental agreement between the city and Skokie that would allow Evanston Fire and Life Safety Services to use Skokie’s training facility.

The Skokie Village Board approved the agreement Oct. 1 to share Fire Station 17, according to a Skokie news release. The training facility, 8157 Central Park Ave., would accommodate the needs of both fire departments while saving Evanston the cost of building its own. The partnership is contingent on approval by Evanston aldermen.

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Though anonymous gossip websites are nothing new to Northwestern, posts are filling the university’s forum on the Collegiate Anonymous Communication Board.

Collegiate ACB launched in March 2012 “for college students throughout the country to discuss anything,” according to the website’s home page.

The website is similar to the nowclosed College Anonymous Confession Board. For the past month, Collegiate ACB has received an average of

10,000 visitors a day, wrote Kirk Henf, the website’s co-owner and co-administrator, in an email to The Daily. In the Northwestern forum, comments were made on 12 different threads Monday alone.

“We expect to see the numbers increase,” wrote Henf, explaining that the site will likely get more traffic as students settle into the school year and freshmen find it.

Henf said the website could be used to discuss “popular controversial topics” ranging from stances on politics and religion to fraternity and sorority life.

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Collegiate ACB is primarily to provide students with a location to anonymously discuss issues they wouldn’t feel comfortable talking about elsewhere,” Henf wrote.

Although the topics on the NU forum are often controversial, the board has yet to be used for political discussion. Threads titled “Fraternity Rankings” and “rich and famous” have received the most posts.

“It seemed kind of catty but also not unlike what people talk about anyways,” said Weinberg sophomore Jenna Stoehr, who has visited the website. “I think that because it is written down it makes it seem more official

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Evanston firefighters the use of Station 17, a live fire-training tower, for 10 years with a five-year renewal option. In exchange, the city of Evanston would make a one-time payment of $286,000 to Skokie to cover repairs and upgrades to the tower, including a natural gas-burning facility, said Evanston Fire Chief Greg Klaiber. The agreement also includes a $15,000 annual fee for general tower maintenance. Klaiber estimated the improvements to the tower would be complete by next summer.

Evanston firefighters would use the facility for live fire training; personnel could practice different emergency scenarios in a real-life environment.

Skokie Fire Chief Ralph Czerwinski said the tower allows for active training in a controlled environment.

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than word of mouth.”

Communication sophomore Jules Cantor was mentioned in a thread Aug. 19 called “Frattiest guy on campus?” Cantor said he initially thought the post was “hilarious” and thought it was likely posted by one of his fraternity brothers.

“If this had been something about my character or my actions, I would not have appreciated it,” Cantor said. “(Collegiate ACB) encourages bad mouthing and unpleasant conversation.”

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Chicago alderman supports Prentice demolition plan

Chicago Ald. Brendan Reilly (42nd) announced Monday that he supports Northwestern’s plan to build a new research facility in place of the old Prentice Women’s Hospital in Streeterville, despite preservationist efforts to save the Bertrand Goldberg building.

The Prentice site falls within the 42nd Ward. Reilly stated his support of NU at a City Club of Chicago luncheon, the Chicago Tribune reported this afternoon.

“It’s not something I’m excited or happy about, and I’m very, very sensitive to the preservation community’s concerns,” Reilly told reporters after the event. “But again, you can’t saddle a university with land that’s not useful to it.”

NU maintains that the old hospital is outdated and unable to house modern research facilities. The University argues that demolishing Prentice and rebuilding on the site would transform the Streeterville landscape in favor of local businesses, create jobs and attract world-class professionals in the medical industry.

Preservationists, including architects worldwide, have questioned NU’s assertion that the Prentice site in the only option for building such a biomedical research facility when the University in facts owns a large portion of Streeterville.

Although they tend to acknowledge NU’s findings that the old hospital cannot continue to serve as a medical facility in the same capacity that it once did, they asked the University to reconsider demolition in favor of transforming the building into administrative offices or housing for students attending school on the Chicago campus.

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‘Joke’ candidate wins ASG election By sophia bollag

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A handful of Communications Residential College students sat in a first-floor common room in early October and decided it would be funny to start a write-in campaign for their friend in an Associated Student Government Senate race.

It was Communication sophomore Brandon a fairly easy Green was nominated in election to the race that saw no other win because candidates.

“Brandon’s pretty well there were no known around here,” candidates. said Communication sophomore Brad LeyBrad Leydon, Green’s campaign den, Green’s unofficial campaign manager. “A manager lot of people thought he would be a good person to rally behind as this kind of joke.”

Three hours, one flier and 45 Facebook likes later, Green was elected as senator.

After what started as a joke campaign, Green now serves as senator for CRC, Jones Residential College and International Studies Residential College. Despite having little knowledge of the duties of an ASG senator prior to winning, he has since taken up all responsibilities, including attending weekly caucuses, holding office hours and hosting monthly forums.

“I decided to take it seriously,” he said.

Leyden said he credits the Facebook page, which he and a few other CRC residents run independent of Green, as the reason for Green’s victory.

“It was a fairly easy election to win because there were no candidates,” Leyden said. “It was really just a matter of getting enough people in CRC to see this stuff and convince them to write in a vote rather than vote ‘no confidence’ or not vote at all.”

Prior to Green, no candidates had been nominated for the area because ASG had difficulty notifying students in the three residential colleges about

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the election.

“Usually ASG tries to come around to every dorm and get people interested,” ASG Senate speaker Ani Ajith said. “Unfortunately, with our late start this year and our compressed election schedule, we couldn’t coincide our visits with the RC munchies.”

He said Green’s election as a write-in candidate is not unusual.

“It does happen relatively frequently,” Ajith said.

“This year I think there are at least a couple of writeins.”

Leyden and fellow CRC resident Jared Bohlken continue to maintain the Senator Brandon Green Facebook page, as well as a Twitter account and website.

“We post fake blog posts for him on there,” said Bohlken, a Communication sophomore. “It’s completely non-serious, and Brandon doesn’t actually have any control over it.”

One of these fake entries is an acceptance speech posted under Green’s name on the CRC Tumblr blog, “CRC What?!” The post talks about Green’s plans to improve the Jones-ISRC-CRC residential area, as well as how students had “rallied behind an ideal” in electing him.

“A few short days ago, I didn’t have much of an idea of what ASG was, let alone an aspiration to serve as senator, and yet, through the power of democracy and the will of God, here I am,” the post reads. “... To get to where I am has demanded three long hours of campaigning, but our journey is far from over.”

Green, a radio, television and film major, said he thought he would focus on legislation that reflects his own interests.

“I figure I’m going to be an advocate for film and theater,” he said. “It just happens to be that that’s actually what a majority of my constituency wants.”

This victory will not mark Green’s first experience in student government. In high school, he was elected youth governor of the state of Indiana through the YMCA program Youth and Government. He traveled to Washington, D.C., and voted on mock legislation with other youth governors from around the world.

“We would basically do exactly what ASG does,” he said.

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Write-in winner Communication sophomore Brandon Green was jokingly nominated to serve as an ASG senator — and won. Green says he plans to take his unexpected new position seriously.

Although Green’s friends knew he had some prior experience in student government, they did not expect his enthusiasm for the position to be so genuine.

“I think it’s a really interesting story,” Leyden said.

“We were bored on a Friday afternoon, decided to make this joke in response to the lack of nominations and we ended up getting a leader that’s probably going to do the job better than someone who was elected by chance.” sophiabollag2016@u.northwestern.edu

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ASG Exec paints Rock after Maddula mourning period

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we are one ASG clerk Carly Blumenfeld paints The Rock as her fellow executive board members look on Monday night, marking the end of the two-week Rock-painting hiatus.

Six members of the Associated Student Government executive board painted The Rock on Monday night, two weeks after ASG president Victor Shao emailed student leaders proposing a hiatus on the Northwestern tradition.

ASG asked students not to paint The Rock for 13 days following the funeral for Harsha Maddula, the McCormick sophomore whose body was found in Lake Michigan last month.

Maddula had by then been missing for six days, during which students joined massive search parties to scour campus and Evanston.

In his email to student group leaders, Shao said the hiatus was intended to honor the traditional Hindu mourning period.

NU Facilities Management painted The Rock white Monday morning so ASG could write “One Northwestern” on it in purple paint that night. During the hiatus, The Rock was

covered with messages left by students at the Sept. 28 vigil honoring Maddula.

Three of the ASG members who arrived to paint The Rock around 11 p.m. MonWhat day, including Shao, a Weinberg senior, said better way they had never before to (paint The participated in the Rock for the NU tradition.

Technology vice first time) than pre s i d e nt Et h an when it has Romba, a McCorsuch meaning? mick senior, said he was glad his first time Ethan Romba, decorating The Rock ASG technology was an experience vice president that held so much significance.

“I thought, ‘What better way to reach that goal (painting The Rock) than when it has such meaning behind it and it’s such a symbolic gesture for Harsha and his family, and the community, too?’” he said.

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Nonprofit gives hundreds sneak peek of circus Show comes to Evanston as the Actors Gymnasium performs ‘in progress’ acts By amanda gilbert

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Several hundred Evanston residents caught a sneak of new works of circus art this weekend at the Noyes Cultural Center.

The Actors Gymnasium, a nonprofit arts organization, featured professionals from the Chicago circus community in its performance, “Circus in Progress.”

The weekend’s performances highlighted new tricks the performers developed for the upcoming circus season. During the show,

professional circus performers showcased experimental moves before a live audience in prelude to their official performances in the coming weeks.

Professional juggler Dharmesh Bhagat said many people do not realize how regularly Circus in Progress shows happen. The performances take place at least once a year, and each one is presented in a different location with new acts and ideas, he said.

“It’s regular and the same, but it’s also different,” Bhagat said.

Some acts featured in this weekend’s show included aerial performances, unicycle riding, juggling and stand-up comedy, Bhagat said.

“Many of the acts were doing an amazing job,” he said. “The show didn’t even look like it was in progress.”

Actors Gymnasium instructor Nathan Drackett said Circus in Progress allows advanced

students to perform alongside professional artists. Drackett said his favorite part about the show was allowing people to try It’s new tricks, regardless of how old they just me being were or how much myself up there experience they had and doing what performing.

“You get to see I love. people take risks in Dharmesh Bhagat, their lives,” Drackett said. “Both children professional and professionals juggler are trying something they’ve never done before on stage. It’s fun to see the empowerment that it gives people.”

Roslane Ross, facility coordinator for the Noyes Cultural Arts Center, said the show

seemed to be extremely popular because online tickets sold out for this weekend’s three shows.

She said she thinks the show was in such high demand in Evanston because it was different from other performances presented at the center.

“Usually we get a lot of plays,” Ross said. “But (Actors Gymnasium) does a lot of gymnastic stunts. This is different because it’s more of an athletic show.”

Bhagat agreed that the show combined athletics and the arts. He said he and his co-performers all believe Circus in Progress cannot be constrained by traditional genre because it gives them the freedom to present anything they want to.

“It’s just me being myself up there and doing what I love,” Bhagat said.

Taylor was charged with forgery after police say she cashed a $978 check made payable to herself at First Bank and Trust, 820 Church St. She attempted to cash a second check at a later date but was unsuccessful, Parrott said. Taylor is scheduled to appear in court Nov. 7.

in connection with two recent burglaries at Walgreens, according to an Oct. 15 news release. Matthew Long was charged with two counts of burglary.

Police say Long forced entry into Walgreens, 635 Chicago Ave., on Thursday and Friday. On both occasions, the burglar used a hammer to force entry into the store and, once inside, took cigarettes, Parrott said.

Detectives used video footage in their investigation to locate Long.

Long admitted to the burglaries after he was arrested, and police recovered a hammer he may have used to break the Walgreens windows. Long is scheduled to appear in court Nov. 7.

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Police Blotter Chicago woman arrested in connection with forgery

Chicago resident Lillian Taylor turned herself into the Evanston Police Department for forgery Wednesday, EPD Cmdr. Jay Parrott said.

In May, EPD issued a warrant for Taylor’s arrest but was unable to locate her. The 28-yearold turned herself in 11 a.m. Wednesday.

Arrest made in Walgreens burglaries

EPD arrested a 27-year-old man on Saturday

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Students, your voter registration clock is ticking RYAN KEARNEY

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With Election Day in three short weeks, the country is abuzz with discussion and debate about the presidential candidates. Yet possibly because of Northwestern’s location in a liberal district of a non-swing state, the election feels strangely distant from life here on campus. Student political groups, of course, are plugged in and volunteering for their respective candidates. Yet beyond some local bumper stickers or yard signs, the campus feels virtually the same as it would feel during any other Fall Quarter. Perhaps many students dislike both candidates or the whole political process, or they have more important things to worry about in their own lives, or they are cynical and don’t believe their vote actually means anything. For whatever reason, there seems to be somewhat of a sense of voter complacency around campus, and I hope this complacency is shaken off before Election Day so that NU students’ voices can be heard.

To be clear, I do not expect most NU students to be spending their days canvassing for candidates or stridently arguing politics with everyone

in their lives. School, extracurriculars and social activities eat up virtually all of the average college kid’s energy, leaving little time for politics. Also, most people are simply uninterested in the political process and do not find it worthwhile to devote a chunk of their time to a candidate, especially when there is virtually no major campaigning being done in Illinois outside of congressional races, which do not exactly get most students’ blood pumping.

There is a lack of a unifying issue or some kind of near-existential threat to the young population like the prospect of the draft during the Vietnam War or the presence of an inspiring candidate untouched by the harsh realities of having to serve as president for four years, like Barack Obama in 2008. Mitt Romney has not had to serve as president for the past four years, but I think that it is fair to say that he is not particularly “inspiring” to many young voters, who tend to lean left, or most other voting groups. There is also a trend among some younger Americans — having lived through years of war, corruption and economic struggles — to grow cynical about the political world and dismiss all within it as useless or untrustworthy while they float above it as self-described “independents.” The result of all these factors: A sort of complacency sets in, and students continue to focus on their day-today lives and whatever happens, happens in the political world, since many a college-age kid will

tell you that his or he life will not be affected by any outcome of the election.

Although I understand the voter complacency, I am by no means seeking to excuse it. On the contrary, I believe that it is essential that students There is at NU and elsewhere virtually no major shake it off fast and get involved in the amazcampaigning ing right that we have being done to choose our nation’s leaders. While many outside of students I know are congressional very tuned in to current events and hold strong races, which do opinions on issues — as not exactly get one would expect at a most students’ top-tier school such as blood pumping. NU — I am frustrated when I overhear groups of kids at Norris University Center talking about how they wanted to vote in their first election but have no idea how to register or vote absentee or when the deadline to do any of that is. If this is a common issue at NU, a school with a relatively high level of engagement, then I am nervous for how detached colleges across America are from the election.

This is a big election with perhaps the clearest

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choice between candidates’ visions for generations.

From how we are going to pay down our national debt to whether entitlement programs will remain solvent for our generation to what kind of financial aid will be available to students, the issues that the candidates diverge on directly impact the lives of young voters. The future of President Barack Obama’s landmark health care bill, which allows young Americans to stay on their parents’ insurance until age 26, among other reforms, is also up in the air Nov. 6. Questions abut war, peace and foreign policy objectives hold particular relevance as well, given the thousands of young Americans who have died in combat overseas in our lifetime.

And on topics such as women’s and LGBT rights — issues that reflect what kind of society we will live in — the two presidential candidates offer the sharpest distinctions in recent memory. It would be a shame if NU students did not have a say in deciding these issues and so many others. So if it’s not too late, I would love for everyone reading this column to go register, obtain an absentee ballot and throw your two cents in about the future of the country, no matter which direction you want that future to take.

Ryan Kearney is a Communication sophomore. He can be reached at ryankearney2015@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, email a Letter to the Editor to forum@dailynorthwestern.com.

Despite mayoral hits, Booker misses on education reform JOSEPH MISULONAS DAILY COLUMNIST

Cory Booker, the mayor of Newark, N.J., will give a speech on campus Tuesday at an event hosted by Northwestern’s College Democrats.

Booker is one of the rising stars of the Democratic Party. Since being elected mayor in 2006, he has greatly improved the city of Newark. Crime rates have gone down significantly, and Booker has both increased the amount of affordable housing in the city and reinvigorated the local economy. (Also important: He banned “Jersey Shore” from filming in the city.)

There is, however a problem I have with Booker: He has jumped aboard the charter school education reform bandwagon that has consumed the Democratic Party in recent years.

Education reform is one of the few areas where Republicans and Democrats find common ground. In recent years, both sides have championed the creation of charter schools as an alternative for poorly performing public

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schools, and both advocate for voucher systems to allow inner-city children to attend schools outside of their districts.

The problem with education reform is that it is a convenient distraction away from the real problem. Instead of fixing our underperforming (and often underfunded) schools, we just create new schools and move all our children there. It would be like if you were running a furniture company that was going bankrupt, and you decided to just create another business and move all your workers and furniture to your new location and pretend your previous failures never happened.

Those who push for education reform will argue that my metaphor is misleading and overly simplistic. Charter school advocates say the problem with public schools is government-imposed mandates and regulations that restrict curriculum freedom. They also argue teachers unions have made it nearly impossible for principals and superintendents to fire bad teachers, and that public schools are forced to keep these greedy educators on at the expense of the students. Therefore, charter schools offer an alternative where government mandates and teachers unions cannot prevent students from flourishing.

However, this is simply not true. In 2009, the Center for Research on Education

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Outcomes (CREDO) at Stanford University studied more than 70 percent of the students in U.S. charter schools and compared their performance with students in the traditional public school they would have attended had they not gone to the charter school. The researchers found that 17 percent of charter schools offered superior education opportunities compared to the public school alternative, 46 percent offered the same education opportunities, while 37 percent of charter schools delivered significantly worse learning results than the public school alternative.

Despite the findings of the CREDO researchers and other similar studies, both parties have continued to hop on the charter school bandwagon. President Obama appointed Arne Duncan, the former CEO of Chicago Public Schools who closed several schools and replaced them with charter schools, as his Secretary of Education. Chicago, New York, and Washington, D.C. have all appointed education reformers in the past to run their public school systems. Most of these school systems are seeing little to no improvement under the leadership of the reformers, yet Democrats continue to back them.

Chicago is one of the major cities where the charter school battle rages. According to CPS officials, about 53,000 of the district’s 400,000

students attend charter schools, and the city is looking to add 60 new charters in the five years. Mayor Rahm Emanuel has made aggressive expansion of charter schools a major plank of his education platform. Emanuel’s charter school position was an underlying issue in last month’s Chicago Teachers Union strike. Paul Ryan famously said, “We stand with Mayor Rahm Emanuel,” against the CTU, indicating the strange position Democrats have found themselves in their support of charter schools.

It seems odd that the party promoting the ability of government intervention to help restore American jobs and restart the economy has taken such a small-government, pro-privatization stance on public education.

Cory Booker is an admirable mayor, and there are many things I believe Emanuel could learn from him as he tries to fix the mess that has become the city of Chicago. But his continual support of charter-based education reform is only working around the issue of Newark’s struggling public schools and is not a real solution to fixing them.

Joseph Misulonas is a Medill junior. He can be reached at josephmisulonas2014@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, email a Letter to the Editor to forum@dailynorthwestern.com.

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melodic memorabilia John Cage’s original compositions are displayed in an exhibit at University Library. The multimedia “Sound and Silence� exhibit, which also features Cage’s old letters and notes, will stand in the main entrance to University Library until December. Cage, who passed away in 1992, first donated his items to Northwestern in the 1970s.

Library exhibit showcases composer’s life, work

By Lucy filipac

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When avant-garde composer John Cage decided to donate some of his musical scores, he recalled his time in Chicago and the commitment to music he saw during his visits to Northwestern.

Now, in celebration of Cage’s 100th birthday, those scores and collections are on display in University Library throughout Fall Quarter.

Cage’s personal items and compositions, which he donated to NU in the 1970s, make up “Sound and Silence,� a multimedia exhibit highlighting Cage’s life and work.

Co-curated by the Music Library’s assistant head Greg MacAyeal and the library’s communications specialist Nina Barrett, “Sound and Silence� features letters, music scores, photos and audio and video accounts from NU faculty who worked with Cage.

“Through this exhibit, I hope that students learn about this man, this huge composer, this philosopher, artist and musician, and understand Cage’s impact and the concept behind his music,� said MacAyeal.

Cage’s relationship with Chicago began in 1941.

He taught classes at the Chicago School of Design and worked as an accompanist and composer at the University of Chicago. During that time, he also produced “The City Wears a Slouch Hat,� a radio soundtrack for the Columbia Broadcasting System, and visited the NU campus multiple times.

Hoping to secure more important commissions, Cage left Chicago for New York in 1942.

However, he later recalled NU’s commitment to music and personally contacted NU to donate his music scores and almost all of the items featured in this quarter’s exhibit.

The collection includes “I Ching,� an ancient Chinese book of divinations that Cage used for

“

Through this exhibit, I hope that students learn about this man, this huge composer.

Greg MacAyeal, assistant head of the Music Library inspiration. “The exhibit is organized around the idea of how John Cage came to be John Cage,� MacAyeal said.

The opening of the exhibit Sept. 5 included a performance of one of Cage’s most notable compositions, “4’33.� About 40 NU faculty members and students participated in a staging of the piece by bringing their own instruments, which ranged from bamboo plants to accordians, and sat still with their instruments for 4 minutes and 33 seconds.

“We got some strange looks,� MacAyeal said. “But I would say that everyone performing and watching was respectful.�

The exhibit, with a mix of music, art and other items, aims to explore both Cage as a person and the message behind his music, MacAyeal said.

Weinberg freshman Paige Ourada said she knew of Cage from her experience in her high school orchestra, when her orchestra director sent her the music for “4’33.� She said Cage’s unique avant-garde style distinguished him from other composers. “The sheet (music) was blank,� Ourada said. “We asked where the notes were. He explained how the piece was silent. ... When people think about music they just think about the notes, but the rest is important too.�

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By Megan pauly

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The Brazilian consul general in Chicago spoke to Northwestern students Monday night as part of Global Languages Initiativeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s effort to promote international languages.

Paulo Camargo detailed to a packed room in Harris Hall both his career journey and the way his life has affected the languages he chose to learn. When he decided to become a diplomat, the Brazilian Diplomatic Academy mandated proficiency of English and French, so he began the process of learning two foreign languages, he said.

Sarah Nicholus, who is considering attending graduate school at NU, said she was particularly curious about teaching methods in Brazil, where she worked as an English teacher and teaching coordinator. She said she attended Camargoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s talk because she is evaluating different graduate Portuguese programs.

Nicholus studied Spanish in high school and college, transitioning to Portuguese during her two-year stay in Brazil on a Fulbright grant. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My first three months I was speaking Spanish and throwing in new words,â&#x20AC;? Nicholus said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I learned it all speaking so I never officially studied

Portuguese, so most of my grammar is all from Spanish. I said to myself, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;OK, now I need to officially study Portuguese to get that academiclevel Portuguese.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

Camargo said he has seen a large movement You will of English teachers have a window going to Brazil to teach at the American schools to the world there. He also said that ... access to the Portuguese language different ideas is on the verge of being internationalized. and cultures as Weinberg sophowell as different more Colin Egan, who has Brazilian citizenship world views. through his mother, said he has family livPaul Camargo, ing in Brazil and has Brazilian consul general in Chicago visited the country but does not have a working knowledge of Portugese. He said he is currently enrolled in Portuguese at NU in an effort to change that. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I can understand a lot of what is being said, but I have a hard time reading and writing,â&#x20AC;? Egan said.

Camargo said students like Egan have their work cut out for them.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;What we continue to do is to work toward our goals â&#x20AC;&#x201D; for example, expanding affordable housing and improving the quality of our affordable housing,â&#x20AC;? Flax said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Those two things wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be solved in any given year, but we continue to work at them. Every time we help to rehab a home â&#x20AC;Ś we work toward that goal.â&#x20AC;?

Lewis said he thinks the plan will likely succeed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s terrific,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very ambitious, but I think Evanston is the kind of town where thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a really good chance of succeeding with the goals of the plan.â&#x20AC;?

To involve residents in the feedback process, the city sent out e-newsletters and advertised the public meetings through non-profit organizations, Flax said.

However, Evanston resident Delores Miller, who said she is acquainted with many low-income residents, had not heard of the plan. Miller said the city is not doing enough to help its lowincome residents. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The city should do much much more â&#x20AC;Ś (in) housing, jobs, and training,â&#x20AC;? she said.

and objects, but which poses no danger to civilians. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This tower provides a full spectrum of training and can be configured in many I am manners and used again and again and pleased that City of Evanston again,â&#x20AC;? Czerwinski said. recognizes the Klaiber said this agreement would benefit of using allow Evanston firethis ... convenient fighters to obtain necessary facilities at a and state-ofcost far cheaper than the-art training building a new trainstructure. ing center in EvanGeorge Van Dusen, ston. He estimated that constructing a Skokie mayor new tower would cost more than $800,000.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be fooled,â&#x20AC;? Camargo said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;To learn a foreign language really demands time investment and study.â&#x20AC;?

However, he said the long effort to learn a new language can have significant benefits. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You will have a window to the world â&#x20AC;Ś access to different ideas and cultures as well as different world views,â&#x20AC;? Camargo said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is the utmost form of continuous education. â&#x20AC;Ś You never stop learning.â&#x20AC;?

Global Languages Initiative co-chair and Spanish Prof. Penny Nichols said this message was the main reason GLI decided to invite Camargo to campus. She said the group plans to host several speakers throughout the year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We want to raise visibility of international languages and cultures on campus,â&#x20AC;? Nichols said. [reporter notes] Camargo said he believes everyone on campus has the ability to learn more languages. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Some may think that to learn a second language you must have a special gift,â&#x20AC;? Camargo said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;From my own personal experience I can guarantee that is not true. Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really important is to be curious, to have the desire to fathom the meaning of words in so many books, to fuel the urge to find out how others see the world.â&#x20AC;? mepauly88@gmail.com

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fire environment, Klaiber said.

Every month, each department would use the tower by itself for one week, in addition to one week of joint practice and one week for maintenance.

Evanston firefighters toured Fire Station 17 on Monday, Klaiber said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am pleased that the Village of Skokie is able to enter into this mutually beneficial partnership with the City of Evanston,â&#x20AC;? said Skokie Mayor George Van Dusen in an Oct. 2 news release. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am pleased that the City of Evanston recognizes the benefit of using this local, convenient and state-of-the-art training structure, and laud Evanston officials for their willingness to invest in maintaining the drill tower.â&#x20AC;?

Czerwinski said firefighters from Evanston and Skokie have a long history of collaboration, and this partnership is another step to enhance both agencies. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The benefit of this effort is bi-directional for the communities we serve, it is financially responsible, functionally appropriate and operationally it elevates each of the agencies ability to the benefit of the citizens we serve,â&#x20AC;?

Czerwinski said in the release.

students can not control negative content posted about them on Collegiate ACB. However, Henf said the site allows users to report inappropriate or derogatory posts directly from the website. Still, to request a postâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s removal in the case of defamation, a user must email report@collegiateacb.com, he explained. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I guess as a Northwestern community we could decide not to use it,â&#x20AC;? Cantor said of the site. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Or we could use it only as an information site for constructive things, what dorms, what classes, rather than using it as a gossip website.â&#x20AC;?

Anonymous gossip about NU has been prevalent on the Web before. JuicyCampus and College ACB were both forums where students could make anonymous posts, but both websites were shut down. Weinberg junior Carla Berkowitz remembered the prevelance of College ACB during her freshman year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There was nothing productive on that site,â&#x20AC;?

Berkowitz said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was the perfect environment for cyber bullying.â&#x20AC;?

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Volleyball

Wildcats build on road success with weekend split

By BEN TAYLOR

the daily northwestern

Being at home is usually an advantage for any sports team, and in the past, Northwestern has been no different. During the past three seasons, the Wildcats posted an impressive 27-15 record while playing in Welsh-Ryan Arena as opposed to a dismal 9-24 record on the road.

That all might be changing this year.

After picking up solid back-to-back splits in conference play on the road, including an upset against then-No. 25 Michigan State, coach Keylor Chan and his squad may not prefer playing in Evanston.

The Wildcats (13-6, 2-6 Big Ten) picked up the 3-1 win against Michigan State (15-5, 3-5) on Friday before being shut out 3-0 at Michigan (16-6, 4-4) the following night.

“We’re definitely disappointed with losing the

Michigan game, but this weekend was a weekend of growth,” freshman defensive specialist Abbie Kraus said. “We really grew as a team and splitting on the road is fantastic in the Big Ten. So overall, we have pretty good feelings.”

In the Michigan State match, NU started strong, taking an early 14-10 lead in the first set.

After the Spartans responded with a 3-0 run to bring it to 14-13 the Cats retaliated, going on a 6-2 run and ultimately taking the set 25-17. In the second frame, NU looked to be falling into old habits, giving up multiple Michigan State runs that cost the team the frame 25-19. But the Cats rebounded and put together back-to-back impressive performances in the third and fourth sets to win the match.

The usual stars played a large role in the surprise victory. Junior outside hitter Stephanie Holthus posted a match-high with 19 kills, and added a defensive presence as well with 18 digs. Senior setter Madalyn Shalter paced all players with 45

assists in the winning effort.

However, NU’s success on Friday No. 25 Michigan State did not carry over to the Michigan contest. After battling in a close first Northwestern set that Michigan eventually won 25-23, NU opened the second set with Michigan a quick 9-5 run to take the lead. The Wolverines fought back with a quick 7-3 run and never relented, taking the frame 25-18. In the third, the Cats gained a 12-9 lead but could not hold off, losing the decisive set 25-22.

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was very consistent,” sophomore middle blocker Savannah Paffen said. “The first night our attitude was just to come out and dominate the other team and (against Michigan) we just lost a tiny bit of that focus and that’s what made the difference.”

The Cats are currently in 10th place in the Big Ten, a conference in which six of the 12 teams are ranked, and each future win will be critical if they hope to reach the postseason.

NU aims to improve its play at Welsh-Ryan Arena heading into a home matchup with Iowa next weekend. The Cats have an 0-4 home record against Big Ten opponents.

“We have to take care of our home court,” Chan said. “That’s really important coming up here and our girls know that. Our goal is to just continue to improve and become a better team, and if we do that I know we’ll be able to turn these close sets into our favor.” benjamintaylor2015@u.northwestern.edu

Cross Country

Huth ‘runs wild,’ breaks her own record at meets

By JOHN PASCHALL

the daily northwestern

Another race, another record broken.

The Wildcats continued to live up to their “Run Wild” mentality this weekend, setting personal and team records at the Wisconsin Adidas Invitational and the Bradley Classic.

In the two meets, the Cats finished 27th and seventh.

Senior Audrey Huth steamrolled her own NU 6K record with a time of 20 minutes and 19 seconds, 16 seconds faster than her previous best time. The star senior said she is healthy this late in the season for the first time in a while and has her eyes set on beating her own record again.

“Breaking the record was awesome,” Huth

said. “It was really exciting. But I definitely feel like I could do better. It was great that I broke it, but at the same time, it definitely wasn’t the highlight of my day by any chance. I was expecting more of myself and hoping for much better.”

It was not all easy for NU. Junior Libby Kocha lost a shoe during the meet at Wisconsin and had to finish running the race barefoot. The course was so crowded that a few NU runners found themselves moving through the weeds.

Juniors Michelle Moriset and Lexie Goldsmith both posted personal records for the second straight week but found it difficult to stick together and, at times, lost each other in the crowd.

“We weren’t working together like the way we had been in practice,” Moriset said. “This meet was challenging because it had so many

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I definitely feel like I could do better. It was great that I broke (the record), but at the same time, it definitely wasn’t the highlight of my day by any chance.

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girls. We were running in the bushes, tripping and falling down. It’s a challenge to not get cut off and fall behind. But things like that just happen.”

Even though the Cats finished fourth among Big Ten teams in a meet that featured 20 ranked teams, Goldsmith said NU could have done

better.

“As a team we ran all right,” Goldsmith said.

“But it’s kind of exciting to see how well we did with just running all right.”

The Cats have a week off before heading to East Lansing, Mich., for one of their biggest meets of the year: the Big Ten Championships. The majority of the Cats’ top runners are healthy coming into the final stretch of the season, which could prove vital for the squad in making some noise in the conference. Coach April Likhite must select only nine runners to compete.

“We really don’t know what could happen in the next two weeks,” Huth said. “Everyone just needs to keep running and training. You never know what can happen.” johnpaschall2014@u.northwestern.edu

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Wildcats fight storm, push winning streak to six

By EMILY DREWRY

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Inclement weather could not stop No. 9 Northwestern from powering its way to another shutout win.

Against Central Michigan on Sunday, rain delays and a tornado warning forced both teams to evacuate the field to take shelter inside for about two hours while a storm rolled through Evanston.

The game was delayed with about 13 minutes remaining due to nearby lightning strikes, giving the Wildcats a chance to rest up and relax.

The break helped propel NU (14-2, 3-1 Big Ten) to a 6-0 rout of the Chippewas .

“We came out a lot harder after the break,” junior forward Nikki Parsley said. “It gave us the time we needed to regroup.”

The chance to take a breather meant more than avoiding the high speed winds and gusts of rain that accosted the field.

Coach Tracey Fuchs said the break was a turning point for the Cats, who had not been playing to their full potential during the first half of the game.

A shutout score does not tell the whole story. Though the Cats were able to get on the scoreboard, the game was hardly an easy 70 minutes.

Fuchs said she found the Chippewas

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to be an aggressive opponent.

“Central Michigan was all over the place,” Fuchs said.

“They put a lot of pres-

sure on us.”

The Cats led 3-0 before the delay.

Senior forward Chelsea Armstrong scored the first two goals and junior midfielder Catherine Franklin made the third, marking her first of the year. Freshman midfielder Caroline Troncelliti added two goals of her own almost immediately after the teams resumed play.

Fuchs said even a “feisty” Central Michigan lineup could not shake the Cats’ attacking corps.

In fact, no one seems to be able to stop NU’s offensive attacks, which also knocked off Indiana (8-6, 0-4) 4-0 on Friday. The Cats have been victorious in 13 out of their last 14 games, a massive asset to their overall season record of 14-2.

Friday’s contest against Indiana served as a Big Ten challenge that

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RAINING IN THE WINS After a weather delay against Central Michigan, freshman Caroline Troncelliti paced Northwestern with two goals. The Wildcats won 6-0, bringing their overall record to an impressive 14-2.

the Cats gladly accepted, silencing their conference foe. NU controlled possession for the majority of the game.

Fuchs said she is more than pleased with her team’s progress at this point in the season.

Wins in the upcoming contests

will have a strong impact on the Cats’ chance to continue their march toward the postseason and accomplish their main goal: winning a conference championship.

For Fuchs, coming out on top again this weekend is all about matching the passion she saw against

Central Michigan after the delay.

“That intensity needs to come out when they step out, and (it must) really be able to finish at the other end of the field,” she said. emilykristine@live.com

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NU ends goal drought in loss Team prepares for ‘big the daily northwestern

The Wildcats scored for the first time in five games over the weekend, but the breakthrough goal just wasn’t enough to get their first conference win.

Northwestern fell 2-1 to Wisconsin (10-5-1, 3-4-1 Big Ten) Friday and was shut out by Minnesota (9-6-1, 4-3-1) 1-0 Sunday.

The Badgers jumped out to an early lead, scoring in less than 10 minutes.

Wisconsin’s Cara Walls scored off a throw-in, which coach Michael Moynihan described as “misjudged” by NU defenders. Walls’ second goal came fewer than 15 minutes later.

“The goals were really flukes and lapses by us,” Moynihan said. “We just didn’t take care of things in the defensive part of the field.”

Despite a slow start in the first half, Northwestern came out strong after halftime and shut down the Badgers’ offense.

NU did not give up another goal, and freshman goalkeeper Rachel Bergman had a career high of 6 saves. “(The Badgers) were passing really well around us but our defense was playing really well,” Bergman said. “They (had) my back and I got whatever came my way that they couldn’t get to.”

Although Wisconsin has shut out its opponents six times this season, NU challenged the Badgers’ defense and did not let the Badgers record their seventh shutout. In the 71st minute, junior Bo Podkopacz scored her second career goal to pull NU within one goal.

“I think we all got kind of fired up,” Podkopacz said. “It put a spark under us to come back and get back in the game.”

Junior midfielder Julie Sierks and senior defender Bri Westlund both had good looks late in the game but could not convert.

Although the Cats managed to end their scoring drought against Wisconsin, they did not find the back of the net Sunday against Minnesota. The Cats were

By JOSH WALFISH

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LITTLE VICTORIES Despite failing to win a conference match over the weekend, forward Bo Podkopacz gave NU its first goal in six matches Friday against Wisconsin. The Cats last scored Sept. 9 against Penn State.

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shut out for the ninth time this season.

Northwestern did manage to hold Minnesota to only 1 goal, which is well below the Gophers’ average. Minnesota ranks third in the Big Ten in goals scored, averaging 2.06 per game. However, Minnesota forward Taylor Uhl ranks first in the Big Ten in goals and recorded her 16th goal against the Cats in the 77th minute.

“There’s nothing very sophisticated about what they do,” Moynihan said.

“They have a very dynamic forward who is very powerful and times her runs very well. Our players adjusted very well. Up until her goal, you wouldn’t have known

that she was a threat.”

Like they did Friday, the Cats tried to rally late in Sunday’s second half.

Sophomore forward Katie Landgrebe made two good shots, and freshman midfielder Margo McGinty had a oneon-one opportunity with the goalie.

Sophomore midfielder Niki Sebo also had a close shot that Minnesota goalkeeper Cat Parkhill ultimately saved.

“I didn’t have a great angle for the shot so the keeper was there,” Sebo said. “I probably should’ve dribbled in or found a different angle.”

Despite the two losses, Moynihan said the Cats are close to being “the better team” and just need to work on their decision making.

“When it comes down to it, we don’t have the courage to get the ball,” Moynihan said. “We need to take the bull by the horns.” arielyong2009@u.northwestern.edu

When Northwestern breaks out the black jerseys, it’s a big game for the Wildcats.

Two seasons ago it was the Wrigleyville Classic against Illinois, and last year it was the first of three consecutive night games when NU hosted Michigan at Ryan Field. On Saturday, Legends Division foe Nebraska visits Evanston in a mid-season match-up that could prove crucial in the race for a spot in the Big Ten Championship game Dec. 1 in Indianapolis.

“Every conference game, especially within our division, is a big game,” junior quarterback Kain Colter said.

“We put ourselves in a good situation in which we control our own destiny.

We’re looking forward to this one. We really need this one and all the ones coming up.”

The game will be broadcast regionally on ABC, which would have been meaningful in the pre-Big Ten Network era. Coach Pat Fitzgerald remembers a time when a televised broadcast was important for the players — a Nov. 4, 1995, win over then-No. 12 Penn State in Evanston. However, playing on national TV does not faze the 2012 squad, Fitzgerald said.

“It’s exciting for the program to have the national TV exposure,” Fitzgerald said. “When I was a player we (got excited), but that’s because it hadn’t happened since coach (Ara) Parseghian was here, so it was a big deal back then. But now? No.” On Saturday, the Cats start a crucial five-week stretch during which they play the remaining four division opponents with a bye week in between.

Colter said the team needs to keep the same mentality it has carried for the first seven games of the season and

avoid looking ahead at the more critical upcoming games.

“It’s a big time game, and we’re not going to downplay the importance of it,” Colter said. “But every game coming up is big time and we just got to keep the same mindset that we’re going to take every game as its own little entity and try to go 1-0 every week.”

Colter said the team has done a great job focusing on its own performance and not worrying about its opponents.

He maintains that if NU can play the type of game it is capable of playing, it should be able to beat anyone in the Big Ten. Senior Brian Mulroe said it should not be hard for NU to focus solely on Saturday’s game because only bad things happen when you look too far ahead. The left guard believes the only way for the Cats to continue to keep all of their goals in front of them is for them to focus on Nebraska and not the next four games.

“Once you start looking at the big picture, that’s when somebody’s going to come and hit you in the mouth and you won’t have that opportunity,” Mulroe said. “We’re just going to try to go 1-0 this week and good things are going to come.”

Fitzgerald said it does not matter how big the game is — every contest between now and the end of the season will come down to the same four things: stay consistent, win the turnover battle, win the battle of special teams and make the big plays. However, the ability to adjust will also be a vital aspect of a team winning the contest.

“In big games, it’s he who adjusts quicker,” Fitzgerald said. “He who then with the adjustment doesn’t get paralysis by analysis and fundamentally executes (will win).” joshuawalfish2014@u.northwestern.edu