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Friday, November 8, 2013
NU considers North mailroom By jeanne kuang
daily senior staffer @JeanneKuang
Residential Services is considering options to open an additional mailroom Winter Quarter for residents living on North Campus, executive director Paul Riel said Wednesday. At a forum held at Slivka Residential College, Riel said he is looking for a room in a North Campus residence that can hold packages for all students living in the area. The potential spot would shorten the walking distance for students picking up their packages. “We have every intention of making changes Winter Quarter,” Riel told The Daily. “If we can find a location that we believe would serve the purposes of it, then absolutely we would want to do it.” Currently, all students must retrieve their packages at the centralized mailroom in Foster-Walker Complex that was opened this academic year. In previous years, packages were delivered to mailrooms in six different residence halls across campus. At the forum, Riel explained the conditions for a satellite mailroom, which he described as a real estate problem. The room would need to be currently unused, large enough to hold all of North Campus’ packages and accessible to every resident. “I’m not a big fan of taking over public spaces,” he said, when students
suggested using lounges or large rooms in residence halls. He added that Residential Services is considering Kemper Hall, which housed a mailroom last year and currently runs a 24-hour neighborhood desk. Associated Student Government has also been involved with the issue. “At this point, it’s a lot of information gathering,” said Anna Kottenstette, student life vice president. “We’re just looking to see what other schools have done.” Kottenstette, a Communication senior, said ASG has also worked with Riel to accommodate students with injuries or disabilities who have difficulties going to Foster-Walker for their packages. Riel cited a lack of accountability as reason for replacing last academic year’s decentralized system with the FosterWalker mailroom, which includes an electronic scanning system that logs packages when they are received and picked up. Without the tracking system, he said, students sometimes did not receive packages or were not notified of their arrival. “We had six satellite desks last year, and what we’re doing now is we’re tracking the packages. That system didn’t exist last year,” he said at the forum. “We’ve got to touch that package before it gets to you somehow.” However, many students have complained that the single Foster-Walker » See new MAILROOM, page 6
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CLARIFYING THE CONTROVERSY Tawani Enterprises on Thursday launched a new website that seeks to discredit rumors surrounding Evanston billionaire Jennifer Pritzker’s unsuccessful bid for the Harley Clarke Mansion. The lakefront property, 2603 Sheridan Road, houses the Evanston Art Center.
Pritzker unveils ‘facts’ By Patrick Svitek
daily senior staffer @PatrickSvitek
Tawani Enterprises, an investment group led by Evanston billionaire Jennifer Pritzker, unveiled a new website Thursday to set the record straight on her controversial bid for the Harley
Clarke Mansion. The website, www.harleyclarkefacts.com, pushes back on several points of contention surrounding Pritzker’s proposal to turn the landmark building into a boutique hotel. City Council rejected the $1.2 million plan this summer after vocal opposition from residents who claimed it would compromise Evanston’s
commitment to its lakefront and public parkland. Pritzker’s proposal would have brought about $5.1 million a year to Evanston and created 54 fulltime jobs, according to Tawani, citing an economic and fiscal impact study from international hospitality » See PRITZKER, page 6
City eyed for bike-share service By Patrick svitek
daily senior staffer @PatrickSvitek
The Chicago Department of Transportation is looking to expand Divvy to two suburbs, the latest effort to bring the bike-sharing service to Evanston. CDOT announced Wednesday it plans to apply for $3 million in state grants to grow the network outside Chicago. The state grants would fund a total of 75 stations in Chicago, Evanston and Oak Park, Ill.
CDOT assistant commissioner Sean Wiedel said the department submitted its application for the state grants in August and expects to hear back by February or March. That timeline would likely bring Divvy to Evanston and Oak Park by summer or next fall. Evanston has expressed interest in eight stations, while Oak Park wants 12, Wiedel said. The other 65 stations would be added in Chicago, moving Divvy closer to becoming one of the largest bike-sharing systems in the world. In September, Evanston aldermen
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A BOON FOR BIKERS The Chicago Department of Transportation wants to bring bike-sharing service Divvy to Evanston next year. The department’s plan would also install Divvy stations in Oak Park, Ill.
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gave their permission to city manager Wally Bobkiewicz to apply for a state grant to lure Divvy. Catherine Hurley, Evanston sustainable programs coordinator, detailed what Divvy could look like in the city for its Administration and Public Works Committee. She suggested placing seven stations near the public transit stations on Davis and Central Streets, downtown, the lakefront, the Northwestern campus, Evanston Hospital and the Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center. After Ald. Ann Rainey (8th) and Ald. Delores Holmes (5th) asked Hurley why she did not plan for any stations in their wards — the south and west parts of the city — Hurley stressed the state grant would not lock Evanston into her proposed list of locations. Evanston would have to match 20 percent of the $472,500 state grant, or $94,500, according to city documents. City staff had proposed asking Rotary International, Evanston Hospital and Northwestern for financial support. Hurley told the committee NU is “definitely interested in supporting the project,” though University officials had not made any promises. University spokesman Al Cubbage said Thursday that NU has not been asked to chip in. Since Divvy launched in June, its Chicago customers have taken 650,000 trips, together riding more than 1.5 million miles, according to CDOT. patricksvitek2014@u.northwestern.edu
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CHOSEN COMPANIEs The three finalists in the design competition for the Chicago campus Biomedical Research Building are Goettsch Partners and Ballinger, Perkins + Will, and Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture and Payette. The Board of Trustees will choose a design this year.
NU unveils 3 designs for research facility
Northwestern on Wednesday released three potential designs for the biomedical research building that will replace the old Prentice Women’s Hospital on the Chicago campus. The architect’s renderings, floor plans and models can be viewed today through Tuesday in the lobby of the Robert H. Lurie Medical Research Center, where anyone can fill out a comment card. The materials are also available on the NU website. The NU Board of Trustees expects to make its final choice later this year, according to the University. Eugene Sunshine, NU senior vice president for business and finance, said the University is weighing the three submissions with a “great deal
of input.” He added NU will consider the campus, the Streeterville neighborhood and Chicago at large as it picks the winning concept. In June, the trustees selected three teams of architects to come up with possible designs for the research facility: Goettsch Partners of Chicago and Ballinger of Philadelphia, Perkins + Will of Chicago, and Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture of Chicago and Payette of Boston. NU started the demolition process of the old Prentice hospital in March, ending a nearly two-year battle with Chicago preservationists over the cloverleaf-shaped building designed by famous architect Bertrand Goldberg. That did not stop an anti-Prentice destruction banner from being flown over NU’s commencement ceremony in June, a mysterious move the University called “disappointing.” — Patrick Svitek
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