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Profs adjust to weather delays By Rebecca Savransky
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Northwestern professors continue to restructure classes and syllabi after the severe weather cancelled nearly 2,200 classes during the first two scheduled days of Winter Quarter. Nearly 15,000 NU students and 1,400 faculty, excluding those in the Feinberg School of Medicine, were affected by NU’s two-day closure, University Registrar Jaci Casazza said. The enrollment deadlines originally scheduled for Friday have been extended to Tuesday, Jan. 14. Students may add or drop a class until then and have their tuition adjusted, according to an email sent by Casazza on Thursday. The drop deadline remains unchanged. The registrar’s office is working with professors to find ways to make up for the lost classes. It is too early to tell how many professors will want to reschedule as students and faculty are still just arriving back on campus, Casazza said. “I think it was a good decision, but it is difficult to accommodate,” Casazza said. “Most classes were scheduled to meet at least on one of those days.” Sarah Mangelsdorf, dean of the Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, is giving professors the option of holding classes during the first two days of
Reading Period to make up for the cancellations. If professors want to meet outside of the period, the registrar’s office will find dates and times that work for students in the class. Political science Prof. Ian Storey said he will attempt to combine two classes into one in order to avoid rescheduling classes for the Reading Period. “In general I prefer to infringe as little as possible on students’ Reading Period because I think that’s a really important academic time,” he said. Storey said he has dealt with academic cancellations in the past and plans to adjust his syllabus slightly to accommodate the weather. Casazza said rescheduling has been more difficult than previous cancellations. The last time a full day of classes was cancelled was Feb. 2, 2011. Evening classes and final exams were also cancelled last June due to severe thunderstorms, but they only affected as many as 800 students, according to the Office of the Registrar’s figures. “The last time was just one evening of exams,” Casazza said. “Of course not every class has an exam, and I think it has the potential to be much more serious than just one pretty intense storm projected to be for a few hours.” The registrar also had to relocate some classes indefinitely after a pipe burst in University Hall on Wednesday. » See REGISTRAR, page 9
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COMING SOON A rendering of the new biomedical research building by Chicago architecture firm Perkins+Will. Construction was scheduled to begin in 2015. Construction is scheduled to begin on the new building in 2015.
Prentice tops list of 2013 losses By Edward Cox
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Prentice Women’s Hospital tops a list of historic sites lost in 2013, according to a report released by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The group is part of the Save Prentice Coalition, which lost its case to preserve the clover leafshaped building after the Commission on Chicago Landmarks denied it landmark status. Northwestern is currently demolishing the building and plans to replace it with a glass biomedical research facility connected to the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center. “Prentice is on the list because I, personally — and the National Trust — was involved in it deeply
because we advocated for the reuse of the building for a couple of years,” Christina Morris, field director of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, said. Morris worked in Chicago to try to save the building. Plans to create a new research center were more than a decade in the making, University spokesman Al Cubbage said. NU’s annual research expenditures have tripled to about $550 million in 20 years. “Increasing University research activity has been part of the University’s main goals,” Cubbage said. “This will enable us to attract more top researchers to the medical school and do a greater amount of research.” The 1.2 million-square-foot building is scheduled for completion in early 2015. NU selected Chicago firm
Perkins+Will to design the building in December out of three finalists. The firm’s plans for the center effectively considered aesthetics and research purposes, Cubbage said. Perkins+Will designer Ralph Johnson said the hospital grounds would foster collaboration between researchers by including open space on the ground floor. The building’s design incorporates a shared lobby, lecture hall, cafe and winter garden. “The more you can get in one space, the better research there is, because scientists can meet and spread ideas,” Johnson said. “ I think tight integration between the existing Lurie building and the new building will make one lab community.” Construction on the building’s » See Prentice, page 9
Starbucks begins alcohol sales Nobel-winning econ prof dies at 74 By Kelly gonsalves
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The renovated Starbucks in downtown Evanston now serves wine, beer and small plates of food in the evenings, making it one of only 29 locations nationwide to offer alcoholic beverages. The cafe, 1734 Sherman Ave., began offering its “Starbucks Evenings” selection Dec. 20 after 4 p.m. alongside its regular coffee menu. The initiative, being tested in just five metropolitan areas including Chicago, seeks to create a casual evening atmosphere at participating locations, a Starbucks corporate spokeswoman said.
“These are really designed for customers or communities where we know that there are a lot of people that are looking for that space between work and home, where they can meet up with their friends, where they can unwind and get a wine or drink, but that’s not a bar or a restaurant,” she said. The menu includes five types of white wine and four types of red wine priced between $7 and $15 per glass, as well as two types of beer at $4 per bottle. The small plates selection includes bacon-wrapped dates, flatbread pizzas and cheesecake. The Evanston City Council approved the store’s request for a liquor license on Oct. 28 but moved the starting time for
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SOMETHING A LITTLE STRONGER The Sherman Avenue Starbucks recently began serving beer and wine after 4 p.m.
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liquor sales from 2 to 4 p.m. “Students are still coming in,” the spokeswoman said after speaking with the local management. “It just means that there’s an expanded menu and an expanded line of options for whoever’s coming in, whether it’s students or it’s just folks who live in the area.” Weinberg junior John Andrade, a frequent Starbucks customer, said most students still did not know about Starbucks Evenings, despite it being active for almost a month. “I was just like, ‘Oh. That’s weird,’” he said. “I’m not gonna get crunk pre-gaming at Starbucks, but it’s cool if some people want to.” He does not expect many students to make use of it as a bar space but perhaps as a way to “take the edge off” after a long night of studying. The Starbucks Evenings program is being piloted in Chicago, Atlanta, Portland, Washington, D.C., and southern California as one of many initiatives to make individual Starbucks locations relevant to their neighborhoods. “At this point, it’s very much a new concept for us. It’s something we’re testing in different markets. We only have it in 29 stores out of the 19,000 that we have globally,” the spokeswoman said. “We’re certainly very far away from scaling this out much more.” kellygonsalves@u.northwestern.edu
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Friends of Dale Mortensen, a Northwestern professor and Nobel laureate, remembered him Thursday as a
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IN MEMORIAM Economics Prof. Dale Mortensen died Thursday morning. Mortensen was a macroeconomist and a 2010 Nobel laureate.
revolutionary economist and a dedicated family man. When Mortensen won the Nobel Prize in economics in 2010, he used his limited number of tickets to bring his entire family to the awards ceremony in Stockholm. “Unlike most people, the Mortensens chose to bring their children and their spouses and their eight grandchildren,” said economics Prof. Robert Gordon, a longtime friend of Mortensen. “We have this wonderful photo of all these little tots dressed up in white tie and tails.” Mortensen died Thursday at age 74 after nearly 50 years with NU’s economics department. Mortensen and two colleagues won the Nobel Prize for their research in friction and unemployment in labor markets. Colleagues credit his theories with helping shape modern macroeconomics. Although traditional economic theory says workers seeking employment and firms seeking workers will always find each other, Mortensen’s work took into account the personal job preferences of workers and employers. The explanation behind his work seems intuitive, but in reality it is very complex, said economics Prof. Robert Coen, who worked with Mortensen at » See MORTENSEN, page 9
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Car-sharing service Lyft comes to city San Francisco-based company features quirky cars, low prices By Rosalie Chan
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Evanston residents looking to travel around the Chicago area can now commute via a car emblazoned with a pink mustache. This novel form of transportation came to the city through Lyft, a San Francisco-based ridesharing startup that provides a cheaper alternative to taxis. It was founded in 2012 and has expanded to about 20 cities around the country. The service entered Evanston in December. “You get a ride with normal people who own their own vehicles rather than getting into a taxi, which can be impersonal,” Lyft driver Michael Deck (Weinberg ‘11) said. Lyft’s network in Chicago has more than 500 drivers and is constantly adding more. Service recently expanded to Chicago’s surrounding
Police Blotter City man robbed at gunpoint
Two men robbed a 54-year-old man at gunpoint Wednesday night. The man was leaving his apartment in the 300 block of Sherman Avenue just after 9 p.m. when the pair approached him, Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said. One man pointed a gun at the Evanston resident and another grabbed him from behind, threw him to the ground and stole his backpack and $80 from his pocket. Both men fled the scene on foot. The 54-yearold man was not injured. — Ciara McCarthy
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Found Kitchen receives Chicago Tribune 2014 dining award
Found Kitchen and Social House was recognized in the Chicago Tribune 2014 Dining Awards. The newspaper lauded the restaurant, 1631 Chicago Ave., for its “unfussy American cooking,” noting the large crowds and long waits. “The restaurant was an overnight hit,” reviewers wrote. “The funky resale-shop-chic decor and the literary quotes scrawled on the bar ceiling resonated with those reconnecting to their
60 miles. Pricing is determined based on location. Chicago Lyft rides cost $1.25 per mile and $0.30 per minute, according to its website. Fiona Hong, a second-year graduate student, has used taxis and GO Airport Express to get a ride to the airport. She has never You get a ride used Lyft before, but with normal she said she might people who be willing to try. She own their own added that taxis are an expensive choice for vehicles rather going to the airport. than getting into Deck said he encouraged Lyft’s a taxi. expansion to Evanston. Michael Deck, “When I was at Lyft driver, Northwestern, I Weinberg ‘11 always saw Norshore cabs driving around,” Deck said. “I actually pushed for Lyft’s expansion to Evanston. College kids are usually connected to apps.”
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On Campus Panelists talk growing literary genre Afrofuturism By Rosalie chan
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Author Ytasha Womack visited Northwestern on Thursday for a panel discussion on Afrofuturism, an emerging literary genre described as the intersection between technology, black culture and imagination. Panelists discussed the genre and Womack’s book, “Afrofuturism: The World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture.” Sponsored by the African American Studies department, the event took place in Harris Hall. Womack called Afrofuturism not just a literary genre but also a cultural aesthetic and a basis for critical race theory. “Some people ask me how Afrofuturism differs from general science fiction,” Womack said. “In Afrofuturism, it’s very much about where the future meets the past. Another big difference is that Afrofuturism views race as a technology or an invention. Race as we understand it was created.” Womack asked African American Studies Prof. Alexander Weheliye to organize the event. Weheliye also reached out to For Members Only to be a co-sponsor. “It’s important initially because before, there was
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FUTURE TENSE Speakers talk before the start of an panel Thursday on Afrofuturism. For Members Only and the African American Studies department invited speakers to talk about the burgeoning literary genre.
not much discussion,” Weheliye said. “There was the idea that the black culture was anti-technology. Afrofuturism shows that, hold up, that’s not true.” Panelists tackled how the genre is addressed in today’s culture, discussing how it has a vision to
transform the community. “We’re at a different place in the conversation today because of social media,” Womack said. “It puts the conversation on Afrofuturism on a fast trajectory because people who ordinarily couldn’t connect now
of Health and Human Services challenges the Affordable Care Act’s mandate that religious employers contracting with third-party providers must offer contraception as part of their health care coverage. Notre Dame argues that the government does not have the right to impose any rules on the university that violate its Catholic principles and instead should extend the same blanket exemption applied to houses of worship. In December, a judge ruled against Notre Dame’s lawsuit, and the university appealed to the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago. The
women filed their motion for intervention anonymously in the appellate court Wednesday. “These women are the people principally affected by the outcome of the case, so their voice ought to be fully heard,” said Ayesha N. Khan, legal director for the Americans United for the Separation of Church and State. “They contacted us because they were very concerned about this and very much in need of contraception and hopeful that they would finally be able to obtain access to it,” Khan said. “They were very disheartened by the position that Notre Dame has taken.”
can.” Weheliye, who has taught courses on Afrofuturism at NU, said he believes it is important to discuss the genre because its ideas are relevant. Musical artists such as Lil Wayne, Will Smith, Nicki Minaj and Janelle Monae have all portrayed ideas of Afrofuturism. “Afrofuturism is not necessarily discussed as an idea in popular culture,” Weheliye said. “It’s important to have a framework to discuss it.” Womack said that the ideas of Afrofuturism have always existed. However, the actual term was created in the 1990s. “When you have a name, that means there’s a community of thought,” Womack said during the panel. You can say, ‘Look, other great thoughts talked about this as well, so I’m not alone.’” The panel also featured other artists and scholars Womack interviewed for her book. Harris-Stowe State University Prof. Reynaldo Anderson, artist Krista Franklin of the University of Chicago and art history graduate student Jared Richardson all participated. “I find it really interesting that you get vivid interpretations of blackness and black corporality without formative texts,” Richardson said during the panel. “The black community is futuristic.”
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Across Campuses 3 Notre Dame students seek to intervene in birth-control mandate lawsuit
Chicago — Three students who say the University of Notre Dame should include contraception in its health care coverage are seeking to intervene in their school’s lawsuit challenging the federal government’s birth-control mandate. The three unidentified women said in their motion Wednesday that they are entitled to participate in the lawsuit because they will be directly affected by its outcome. Notre Dame’s suit against the Department
University spokesman Paul Browne reserved comment on the new motion, referring to a past statement that its lawsuit “is about the freedom of a religious organization to live its mission.” To date there are 91 lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of the mandate. The three Notre Dame students are the first individuals seeking to voice objections in court over their institution’s challenge of the contraception mandate, according to interest groups involved in the cases. — Manya Brachear Pashman (Chicago Tribune)
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Northwestern professors, stop banning laptops Katy Vines
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Of the eight college lecture classes I have attended thus far, seven have banned laptops. The realization that many Northwestern professors ban laptops surprised me; I had expected every class to be full of them. Of all the depictions of college I have been exposed to, almost all have emphasized laptops as necessities. After all, that is why I persuaded my parents to buy me one last summer. During my first quarter I tried to take notes in class using my laptop, but I found that it was more of a hassle than it was worth. With the constant worrying about whether it was charged and the awkward feeling that I was being super loud, the old-fashioned handwritten method was right for me.
However, just because some people, myself included, aren’t too fond of laptops as a form of note-taking doesn’t mean that everyone in the class should be barred from using them. In my gender studies class, after our professor finished explaining her no-laptop policy, the girl sitting next to me said she relies on her laptop for notetaking because she struggles to keep up with the fast pace of most lectures. Though this may not be the teacher’s intention, banning laptops puts students like her at a disadvantage. Those in favor of anti-laptop policies in classroom lectures say that, with easy access to the Internet, students will focus on things other than the course and its material, hurting their class participation and performance. They also argue laptops are distracting to others. If I were sitting in front of someone who was using a laptop, my eyes would be constantly drawn to their screen, especially if I saw something interesting, such as the Facebook logo. This would then put me and other students in my same position at a disadvantage.
Even with these concerns in mind, there is a solution. The one class I attended that did allow laptop use did so with one rule: Laptop users were asked to sit on the far side of the room, away from those who took notes by hand. This strategy eliminates the possibility of laptops distracting Just as I the students who aren’t occasionally using them by comwill get bored pletely separating them. Nevertheless, this and distracted strategy does not while taking prevent laptop users notes the old- from focusing their attention away from fashioned lectures. Fortunately, way, so too it is not the professor’s responsibility to keep a will students student focused. Just as taking notes I occasionally will get electronically. bored and distracted while taking notes the
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old-fashioned way, so too will students taking notes electronically. While the Internet can be more seductive and disruptive than daydreaming, it is ultimately a student’s personal decision as to whether the course material — and the money spent to access it — is important to him or her. It is every professor’s responsibility to ensure that each student has the means to succeed in his or her class. Though students with serious disabilities can be granted an exception to use laptops in class, those students who simply write too slowly would not. This complicates the lives of those students, and this could be avoided if laptops were allowed for everyone. It is unfair to take away a tool that can genuinely improve a student’s performance in a class. Instead, instructors should allow laptops and hold students accountable for their decisions regarding them. Katy Vines is a Weinberg freshman. She can be reached at kaitlynvines2017@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.
Put your smartphone Recruitment reminds away, live in the moment us of sorority sisterhood Leanna Smith
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It’s 3:04 p.m. and I’m waiting for my friend at Starbucks whom I agreed to meet at 3 p.m. I’ve probably refreshed my Facebook newsfeed eight times. There are no new posts about people getting into grad school, no one has just become engaged and there are no new links to lists like “30 Adorable Puppies That Will Get You Through Finals.” The three people whose texts I just answered still haven’t replied. Now I’m on the weather app looking at the hour-byhour forecast for Belize City. To an onlooker, my vigorous reloading might look like I’m anticipating a message containing active nuclear launch codes. Then I realize that I’m wasting time, and I try to stop — until I look around and see plenty of other people, standing alone, doing the same thing. Since catching myself killing my downtime on my phone, I have been guilty of doing this much less often. But I also know that I’m not alone in this “first world” habit. I’ve had friends refresh Instagram whenever there is a lull in a conversation. If I’m having lunch with someone and get up to grab a drink, more often than not I come back to find that they have passed the two minutes by scrolling through emails and checking QuizUp notifications. I work at a cafe where a lot of people come for a quick bite to eat, and nearly everyone sitting alone is flipping through their contacts, photos, messages or their application of choice over a sandwich and soup. Is this out of a necessity to be wired constantly, stimulated by something all the time? Or do people not want to appear like they are alone? With countless ways to connecting with
people via smartphone, it’s as if I feel an obligation to myself to inform the public that no, actually, I’m not by myself, I’m just waiting for someone. Oh look, in fact I am texting with them right now. When I observe customers peering over a forkful of salad to look at their phones at work, they seem preoccupied with the ... it’s as if I feel to send a message an obligation to need that yes, they are eating myself to inform alone, but not actually the public that because they are clearly still communicating no, actually, I’m with people. I’ve also found that not by myself, with territory I’m just waiting comesthis an equal numfor someone. ber of articles, blog Oh look, in fact I posts and lists of different ways and reasons am texting with why it is important them right now. for us to unplug and disconnect. Everyone is busy — but surely it seems easy to build in these pockets of “turning off ” during the five or 10 minutes spent waiting for a friend who is running late, or while the person you are eating with takes a bathroom break. It is important to appreciate and take in these moments of stillness. Of course, there are timesensitive emails, urgent messages and phone calls that come up. But if you find yourself waiting alone, enjoy the concept of waiting, patiently. If you’re going to eat alone, eat alone. Enjoy your sandwich. It’s winter and your soup is getting cold.
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Leanna Smith is a Weinberg sophomore. She can be reached at leannasmith2016@u.northwestern.edu. If you want to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.
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Sorority chants, chatter and loud singing characterize the start of Winter Quarter at Northwestern. Students see girls wearing matching T-shirts while standing outside in the cold, counting down until they can go inside. It’s that time of year again: sorority recruitment! From an outside standpoint, it may seem ridiculous that every house has a different song that they sing as loudly as physically possible in order to make people want to join their chapter. It may seem weird that girls are standing outside in the freezing cold and have a specific schedule to follow while visiting every house, trying to get a feel for each one. It’s hard to understand why anyone would want to spend 32 hours over five days together for extended periods of time, making sure to follow an extensive set of unspoken rules. Wondering what the point is? Think about this: How would you go about sorting 600 girls into 12 houses over the course of five days? Interviews? Applications? The Hogwarts sorting hat? However ridiculous recruitment may seem to outsiders, it is an organized way for girls to get to know one another and figure out the chapter into which they fit best. Recruitment is the doorway to Greek life. But why would you want to join in the first place? What does it mean to be in a sorority? Joining a sorority isn’t a joke. There are meetings. There are seemingly billions of girls, so many that you don’t think you’re ever going to be able to keep their names straight. There is an executive board, a financial adviser, a house mom, a parent’s club, an alumnae database — you name it. Immediately after you join, you may wonder what you’re getting yourself into. Well, what are you getting yourself into? You’re getting yourself into a lifelong
sisterhood full of acceptance, opportunities and unconditional support. Being part of a sorority is about those impromptu meetings you have at 1 a.m. in the bathroom planning an upcoming philanthropy event. It’s about those late-night conversations when your sister stays up with you for no good reason while you finish crafting things for your little. It’s about arguing with your sister about whether you can use part of her budget to host an alumnae event, knowing that after the argument you’ll still be best friends and will have planned something amazing together. It’s about going to countless meetings but then leaving those meetings remembering the sight of 100 girls who love you for who you are. It’s about graduating and knowing that you have made a difference as part of your chapter. What’s the difference between being in a sorority and being part of any other organization? Both give you the opportunity to meet people you may not have met otherwise, both have meetings and both have leadership positions you can take. The difference is the sense of identity that joining a sorority gives you, the home it gives you and the desire it fosters in you to be a better person, not just for yourself but also for the thousands of other women who wear your letters proudly. It’s about the unconditional acceptance you find when you join, because everyone who just recruited you wants you there and values you for who you are. When you’re going through recruitment, you may find yourself wondering whether it’s worth it. The days may seem endless, and you may have a hard time keeping all the names and Greek letters straight. But trust me when I say that even though the end of recruitment feels like the end of a long and chaotic week, it’s only the beginning. I can’t explain the intangible reasons why you will treasure your chapter for the rest of your life. You’ll just have to see for yourself. Meera Patel is a McCormick junior. She can be reached at meera@u.northwestern.edu. If you want to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.
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For the Evanston Environment Board, it’s not easy being green. At its monthly meeting Thursday night, the board spent two hours discussing the complex details of waste collection contracts, recycling percentages and legislative resolutions. The board spent much of its time discussing the Complete and Green Network resolution. The resolution would make it a priority for the Evanston Public Works department to consider pedestrians, cyclists and public transit access in all future projects. It also seeks to promote use of alternative modes of transportation besides vehicles. “I think it’s broader, more inclusive,” Sustainable Programs Coordinator Catherine Hurley said. “Many of our neighboring communities north and west would be dying to have a complete and green network.” However, some board members took issue with an exception for cases where the policy would cause “neighborhood hardship,” such as interference with
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street parking or harm to property values. “I don’t agree with that exemption at all,” board member Hugh Bartling said. “It’s too vague, and it opens up a whole can of worms that makes it easy to ignore the perks of the resolution.” Bartling suggested the board put its support behind
the resolution with the omission of the exception. However, after discussion, the board agreed to support the bill as written, with the hopes of presenting it before City Council on Jan. 27. “I think it’s better to go in as a unified front if we can all agree,” said Hurley.
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say legal marijuana is an idea whose time has come. “It’s not that the initiative would bring marijuana to Alaska,” said Bill Parker, a former Department of Corrections deputy commissioner and one of the initiative’s sponsors. “Marijuana is already in Alaska. It would
The board also discussed how to improve garbage and recycling collection throughout the city. According to data presented by Hurley, single-family homes in Evanston recycle 27 percent of their waste, but commercial entities and multi-family homes, such as condominiums, recycle only 7 percent. “Step one, we need to have the goal (for recycling), so we could identify the barriers to get to that goal,” Hurley said. Deborah Stone, director of the Cook County Department of Environmental Control, presented a pending county ordinance on waste to the board. According to a release from the office of Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle, suburban Cook County is “the only governmental entity in the fivecounty region” that does not routinely inspect landfills, recycling facilities and other waste management facilities. The Solid Waste and Recycling Ordinance would increase such oversight and would also collect data on the county’s recycling, with hopes of increasing totals. “We’re basically trying to bring the county into the 21st century,” Stone said. scottbrown2017@u.northwestern.edu
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legalize, regulate and tax it. It would treat it like alcohol.” The proposed initiative is backed by a coalition that calls itself the C ampaign to Regulate Marijuana. — Michelle Theriault Boots (Anchorage Daily News)
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base and tower will be divided into two separate phases. Construction on the base will begin in early 2015 and cost $370 million, Cubbage said. The building’s tower will be completed by early 2019. University officials do not yet have a cost estimate for the latter phase. Approval to carry out demolition of Prentice came after the city repeatedly decided not to grant the building landmark status. Preservationists argued for the need to preserve the building in front of the Commission on Chicago Landmarks in November 2012 and February 2013. Both times, the city denied the hospital landmark status. Preservationists’ proposals to preserve Prentice Women’s Hospital while accommodating NU’s
needs to expand research were dismissed by the University. Although the University’s plans to construct a biomedical research building have been known for years, Morris said NU did not indicate it would be demolishing Prentice until the last few years. Chicago architect Bertrand Goldberg designed Prentice, which was constructed in 1975. The hospital provided maternity services, nursing care and a psychiatry department. “I feel (the current design) is by no means as interesting and innovative as Prentice and certainly not as groundbreaking as Prentice was,” Morris said. edwardcox2011@u.northwestern.edu
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Political science Prof. Reuel Rogers plans to hold a makeup class during Reading Period. He said he welcomed the opportunity because it will give him more time to go over the material and will eliminate the need to rush content. McCormick sophomore Kelly Hyland said her physics professor added an additional class on Thursday to make up for lost instruction time. The class meets Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday but her professor originally cancelled the first Thursday class before the University closure. Hyland said she was glad her professor found a way to catch up earlier in the quarter. “It was a good idea to make it up from the get-go because it doesn’t impact exam dates or anything,” Hyland said. “It’s nice to still not have class during Reading Week.” rebeccasavransky2015@u.northwestern.edu
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NU since 1971. Mortensen abandoned traditional supply and demand theory for analyzing unemployment and developed mathematical models that describe how workers and firms search for and choose one another, shedding light on labor market inefficiencies that contribute to unemployment. His models can be used to explain and predict the duration of unemployment in the labor market and can be applied to other areas as well, including the housing market and public finance. “These are very broadly applicable ideas,” Coen said. “It’s that kind of advance in the techniques that are worthy of a Nobel Prize.” Though Mortensen’s work focused on unemployment, he had not been unemployed since coming to NU in 1965 — something his friends often teased him about, said Kenneth Burdett, an economics professor at the University of Pennsylvania and a former student. “He never really thought of changing jobs,” Burdett said. “I was head of the department at Cornell (University) at one time and I really tried to get him but he was really content to stay at Northwestern. He was a Northwestern man, an Evanston guy.” Mortensen was active in the Evanston music community, along with his wife Beverly. Together they
participated in local theater and were members of the choir at Saint Athanasius Parish, 1615 Lincoln St. Mortensen sang in the choir with a “marvelous voice,” while his wife directed, Gordon said. Friends remembered him as an excellent professor who educated his graduate students in his own economic theories. Mortensen’s network of former students helped spread his ideas and widen the impact of his theories. “He had many graduate students over the years who spread out to all parts of the globe and have taken with them the advances in economic modeling that Dale pioneered,” Coen said. Coen credited Mortensen with helping shape NU’s economic department. He carefully researched potential new professors. The Mortensens have strong ties to NU. Beverly Mortensen is a religious studies lecturer, and their granddaughter, Sarah Mortensen is a Weinberg junior. Coen said Mortensen loved to be with his family. “He’s a very quiet, kind of unassuming, humble person despite the fact that he’s probably the most brilliant of economists that I’ve known,” he said. “It’s a great family. It really is wonderful to know people like that.” allymutnick@u.northwestern.edu
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friday, january 10, 2014 for low amateur honors at the Open Championship and taking home the Havemeyer Trophy for his victory at the U.S. Amateur, one of the preeminent events in amateur golf. Fitzpatrick still holds the No. 1 amateur ranking at the time of his departure from NU. While his time in Evanston was short, the freshman made an impact on the course. Following a slow start to his college career, Fitzpatrick pumped out top-25 finishes in his final four events of the fall. Two of those results were top-10s and one was a victory, at the Rod Myers Invitational. By virtue of his U.S. Amateur win, Fitzpatrick has a spot secured in the Masters, U.S. Open and Open Championship, provided he remains an amateur.
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Northwestern, currently a top-35 squad trending further upward for the spring, experienced a huge setback Thursday morning. Freshman phenom Matt Fitzpatrick will withdraw from NU after just one quarter with the Wildcats to pursue a full-time amateur golfing career, and NU golf fans watch a potentially legendary college career end just months after it began Fitzpatrick entered NU as the top-ranked amateur in the world on the strength of a summer to remember. The two-month block of triumph had the Brit capturing the Silver Medal
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On the defensive end, the Cats could not match Iowa’s athleticism or size. Hawkeyes forward Aaron White dominated the game. White shot 4 of 7 from the field, and also stepped to the line and In the second made all 10 of his free throws. White’s five assists half we kind were more than NU had as a team, which finished of laid down. four. Everybody has withWhite’s effort was to get in the aided by forward Melsahn Basabe and center Adam gym. It’s the Woodbury. The trio comonly way. bined to give Iowa’s starting frontcourt 44 points JerShon Cobb, on 13 of 19 shooting from junior guard the field, and 18 of 22 shooting from the line. As a team, Iowa finished just under 57 percent shooting from the field, over 57 percent from the three-point line, and racked up assists on 22 of its 29 field goals. “In the second half we kind of laid down,” Cobb said. “Everybody has to get in the gym. It’s the only way. We have to get past this loss and focus on Illinois. That starts tomorrow.”
No. 2. The two wrestlers know each other from their childhood days, with Dardanes growing up in Chicago and Tsirtsis hailing from Crown Point in northwest Indiana. “I’ve known (Dardanes) ever since we were growing up as kids, so I’m pretty familiar with him,” Tsirtsis said. At 174 pounds, Munster sits at No. 9 in the nation in InterMat’s rankings. After not competing at the 51st Ken Kraft Midlands Championships in December due to a nagging injury, Munster returned to the mat with a victory against Indiana’s Nate Jackson to start his Big Ten season. “He got his feet back under him,” Pariano said of Munster. “It was a pretty dominating win even though the score was 4-0.” Storley, his Friday foe, ranks No. 5 in the nation and was an All-American last season. Despite the Golden Gophers’ national ranking, reputation and dominance, Pariano and his team are not intimidated. “We’re Northwestern, they’re Minnesota,” Pariano said. “Quite honestly, I don’t care much about their ranking. Coach Robinson always has them in the national title hunt, and that’s great for them. But it means nothing to us.”
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Northwestern followed an incredibly tight road loss with a just as nerve-racking home win Thursday in their second Big Ten game of the season. A week after their last-second 66-65 loss to Nebraska, the Wildcats (11-4, 1-1 Big Ten) handled the No. 21 Purdue Boilermakers (10-4, 0-2) 71-68, to even their conference record and add a key victory to their tournament resume. “It was a great Big Ten game,� coach Joe McKeown said. “A tale of two halves.� The game went back and forth throughout, with Purdue leading by as many as 11 in the first half, and NU up by as many as 14 in the second, but the final result came down to the last minute of play. The Boilermakers clawed their way back from the second-half deficit and hit a three with 1 minute on the clock to pull within 2 points. On the ensuing possession, the Cats were called for a costly over-andback penalty and Purdue looked poised to take the lead. But NU responded with its best defensive series of the game, got a rebound from a forced Boilermaker shot and scored an easy transition basket to push their lead back to 4.
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Purdue wouldn’t go quietly though, coming right back down the floor to hit another three to pull within 1. Forced to foul, the Boilermakers sent guard Ashley Deary to the line with 15 seconds remaining. The freshman hit just one of two, and Purdue brought the ball up to take the final shot of the 2-point game. Just as the Cats seemed doomed to another heartbreaking loss, their excellent defense prevailed again and stopped the Boilermakers from even getting a shot off. NU hit one final foul shot with a second on the clock. NU’s offensive production came from an unusual place. Freshman forward Nia Coffey was limited in the first half due to picking up three early fouls. Maggie Lyon stepped up to take her place and had an excellent recovery game. After shooting just 2-for-16 against Nebraska, the sophomore guard finished with 20 points. “Good shooters have to have amnesia,â€? Lyon said. “We were focused on coming out strong. ‌ We were so angry from the Nebraska game and
we finally came together.� Coffey remained quiet in the second half thanks to a fourth personal foul, but Deary and freshman guard Christen Inman continued their strong play at the point and in the paint, respectively, to round out the Cats’ talented trio of freshmen. Deary commanded the offense with an impressive 11 assists, and Inman kept the defense off-balance with her 18 points. Sophomore for ward Lauren Douglas had another great game off the bench, solidifying her role as the team’s sixth player. After posting 13 points against the Cornhuskers, she had 11 points and seven rebounds against the Boilermakers. However, despite Douglas’ individual effort, the rest of the team struggled on the boards and was outrebounded by Purdue 52 to 36. NU’s more efficient shooting, especially in the second half, allowed them to overcome that deficit. The squad shot 43.6 percent from the floor, including 6-for-12 from 3-point range, compared to Purdue’s 33.8 percent. The “Cardiac Cats� will look for a more comfortable victory Sunday in their game at Minnesota. “It could have gone a lot of different directions,� McKeown said, “but I liked the way we closed out.� robertpillote2017@u.northwestern.edu
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Iowa coach Fran McCaffery was suspended for Thursday’s game against Northwestern. Wildcats coach Chris Collins was on the sidelines. Still, it was Collins’ team that lacked the execution to win the game, or even keep it close. The Hawkeyes (13-3, 3-1 Big Ten) pounded the Cats (7-9, 0-3) in a 93-67 drubbing Thursday in Iowa City, Iowa, NU’s fourth straight loss and third straight in conference play. The defeat marked another display of bricklaying from the Cats’ offense, which managed to shoot only 39 percent from the field. “Iowa did a great job of wearing us down as the game went on,� a hoarse Collins said on WGN Radio after the game. “Our margin of error is very slim. When we do have an opportunity where we get our open shots, we have to take advantage of it. And I didn’t think we did that to the fullest when we had a chance to get back into the game.� In addition to poor shooting, the offense also never achieved any sort of rhythm. Players looked out of sync, and there was no flow. In the first half, NU failed to record a single assist. “We just have to do a better job of driving and kicking,� junior guard JerShon Cobb said. “We were making good drives, but sometimes we had
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open kicks and we didn’t make them.� The shooting troubles extended to the 3-point line, where NU converted a paltry five times in 24 tries, and the free throw line, where the Cats hit 15 of 23 attempts. NU’s only starter to shoot over 50 percent was sophomore center Alex Olah, but his effort was nullified most of the night due to constant foul trouble. Olah finished with 7 points and five fouls. Junior Dave Sobolewski, NU’s starting point guard, entered the game shooting 26.4 percent from the field and missed both of his shots, with his two assists overshadowed by four turnovers. Senior forward Drew Crawford and Cobb were bright spots in an otherwise listless Cats’ offense. Crawford dropped in 12 points on 5 of 12 shooting. Cobb led the team with 18 points. “He played very well,� Collins said of Cobb. “I was really pleased with his aggressiveness. Certainly going forward, we need him to be that guy.� Cobb’s aggressiveness and subsequent frustration ultimately summed up NU’s night offensively. Early in the
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BEST OF THE WORST JerShon Cobb was Northwestern’s leading scorer and best player Thursday against Iowa, but the Wildcats suffered their fourth consecutive loss — and third straight by more than 20 points.
second half, Cobb missed an open corner three, got the ball back, missed a layup and then committed a foul immediately after, making it clear it wasn’t his team’s night. “I played alright,â€? Cobb said. “I had a couple mistakes on the defensive end.â€? Âť See MEN’S BBALL, page 10
Northwestern will face one of its stiffest challenges of the season Friday night. The Wildcats (6-1, 1-1 Big Ten) will continue their homestand against No. 2 Minnesota (4-0, 1-0) at WelshRyan Arena. Although the Cats will be heavy underdogs against the Big Ten favorites, coach Drew Pariano is unfazed. “I don’t care what other people think of us and them,� Pariano said. “As far as confidence for each individual athlete, that’s what’s important.� NU’s two-time All-American heavyweight Mike McMullan will rematch Minnesota heavyweight Tony Nelson. In the 2013 NCAA Heavyweight Championship, Nelson defeated McMullan, 6-2, for his second consecutive national title. McMullan and Nelson already faced each other earlier this season at the 2013 National Wrestling Coaches Association AllStar Classic in November. McMullan closed the deficit but ultimately came home with another defeat, falling 2-1. “I know what I need to do to keep the match close,� McMullan said. “It’s definitely helping my approach this
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week. I’m pretty optimistic on my outlook.â€? For the first time since Nov. 17 due to an injury, McMullan returned to the mat against Indiana and lost by decision, 9-4. Despite the defeat, Pariano said he feels McMullan has gotten rid of the rust and will be ready to compete at a high level against Minnesota. “I never doubt Mike,â€? Pariano said. “I think Mike can beat anybody in the country, and he will.â€? Matches between NU redshirt freshman Jason Tsirtsis and Minnesota’s Nick Dardanes and between the Cats’ Lee Munster and the Golden Gophers’ Logan Storley will also highlight the event. Despite his youth, Tsirtsis has been a major force on the mat this season. His last time out, he won by major decision against Indiana’s Eric Roach. Tsirtsis, now ranked No. 5 in the nation at 149 pounds by InterMat Wrestling, will have his hands full with Dardanes, who enters Friday ranked Âť See WRESTLING, page 10