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Friday, January 10, 2014
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Profs adjust to weather delays By Rebecca Savransky
the daily northwestern @beccasavransky
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
Source: University Relations
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
daily senior staffer @edwardcox16
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
the daily northwestern @kellyagonsalves
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
Sean Hong/Daily Senior Staffer
SOMETHING A LITTLE STRONGER The Sherman Avenue Starbucks recently began serving beer and wine after 4 p.m.
Serving the University and Evanston since 1881
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
By Ally Mutnick
daily senior staffer @allymutnick
Friends of Dale Mortensen, a Northwestern professor and Nobel laureate, remembered him Thursday as a
Source: University Relations
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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