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Friday, November 15, 2013
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Friends call Dayton ‘loved,’ ‘admired’ By patrick svitek
daily senior staffer @PatrickSvitek
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remembering alexis Friends and classmates listen Thursday night as speakers memorialize the life of former Northwestern student Alexis Lasker, who committed suicide Saturday. The intimate gathering, organized by her close friends, drew more than 100 attendees in Harris Hall.
Lasker’s life honored By jeanne kuang
daily senior staffer @JeanneKuang
More than 100 people gathered in Harris Hall on Thursday night as deceased former student Alexis Lasker’s friends and classmates spoke about her life, her personality and the impact she had on the Northwestern community. Dozens of people stood from the crowd to speak at the intimate memorial service, which was organized by Lasker’s close friend Gina Tremmel and boyfriend Amar Mehta, both Weinberg seniors. Some speakers were friends with Lasker for years, while others had only known her from brief encounters. Also in attendance was Dean of Students Todd Adams, who helped Tremmel
DMK Restaurants eyes Noyes Street location
DMK Restaurants is eying Noyes Street for its next Burger Bar & Fish Bar location. The Chicago chain is applying for a special use permit for a business at 815 Noyes St., according to city documents. The Evanston Site Plan and Appearance Review Committee is scheduled to review the application at its meeting Wednesday. DMK Restaurants owns popular Chicago-area eateries Burger Bar, Fish Bar, Ada Street and County Barbeque. Childhood friends David Morton and Michael Kornick opened the first DMK Burger Bar in 2009. The Noyes Street address was formerly home to Fraiche Bakery and Cafe, which closed its doors earlier
and Mehta coordinate the event and called the service “beautiful.” Lasker was found dead Saturday in the 2500 block of West Fitch Avenue in Chicago. The Cook County medical examiner’s office ruled her death a suicide. Lasker, 22, was on medical leave from the University and was last enrolled as a student in Fall Quarter 2012. She had been studying in the School of Communication with the class of 2014. On Thursday, Tremmel opened the service with her own memories of meeting and befriending Lasker in their freshman year. “We were practically inseparable,” she said. “She clearly impacted all of our lives. … It’s great that everyone can be here to help honor her memory.” Speakers included students who had
met Lasker through the International Studies Residential College, the Honors Program in Medical Education, her peer advising group and the pre-orientation program Summer Academic Workshop. They told stories emphasizing Lasker’s kindness and openness, as well as her intelligence and willingness to listen to and help others. Rohan Zhou-Lee (Bienen ‘13) said he became friends with Lasker after she reached out to him on Facebook over a shared taste in music. He said he and Lasker bonded over discussing works such as the “Les Miserables” film. “Two years ago we made plans to go see this concert pianist,” Zhou-Lee said. “It fell through, like most times. … I think from now on, that will be a goal
this year. The closure came less than a year after the bakery’s owner settled a lawsuit that claimed a former chef stole a binder of recipes, including
those for the cafe’s signature Cinnamon Bombs.
» See Memorial, page 9
— Cat Zakrzewski
Annabel Edwards/Daily Senior Staffer
future burger bar? DMK Restaurants may use the currently vacant building at 815 Noyes St. for its next Burger Bar & Fish Bar location. The chain is popular among patrons in Chicago.
During her first week in the eighth grade, Hallie Lundell accidentally threw away her retainer with her food. Still new to the school, Lundell figured the pricey mouth gear was a lost cause. Then she met Caleb Dayton. “Caleb couldn’t believe I was going to leave it there, considering how expensive and valuable it was,” Lundell recalled in an email to The Daily. So Dayton dug through the trash for about half an hour, finally emerging with Lundell’s retainer. She could not believe it. About nine years later, Lundell counts the random act of kindness as her fondest memory of Dayton, a former Northwestern student who died Tuesday afternoon in downtown Evanston. His death was ruled a suicide.
On Thursday, Dayton’s former classmates remembered the Minneapolis native as a compassionate friend for whom no favor was too inconvenient. Some knew him through the upper grades of Breck School — a prestigious private school in Golden Valley, Minn. — while others’ roots with him went back further, including Anne Whiting, who met Dayton in elementary school. “I admired Caleb Dayton so, so much,” Whiting wrote in an email to The Daily. “He was incredibly smart … so talented … and above all, so kind and generous.” Family friend Manny Laureano recalled Dayton as an outgoing child who, as he grew up, “always seemed to be doing good things with good people.” Dayton practiced martial arts from a young age, taking after his mom, Laureano said. “So, it was truly a family affair,” Laureano wrote in an email to The Daily. Dayton came from one of Minnesota’s most prominent families, with ties to a » See caleb Dayton, page 9
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new digs Sally Blount, dean of the Kellogg School of Management, speaks at the groundbreaking ceremony for the business school’s new building. The ceremony was held Thursday evening to celebrate plans for Kellogg’s new global hub.
Kellogg site unveiled By Rosalie Chan
the daily northwestern @rosaliech1
A groundbreaking ceremony on Thursday unveiled architects’ plans for the Kellogg School of Management’s new building and celebrated the halfway mark in its $350-million Transforming Together campaign. The ceremony took place near the Allen Center, where the new Kellogg business education center will be located. Attendees watched a video of what the new Kellogg building will look like, and special guests involved in the project symbolically turned the soil. “I knew if we were going to do this building, I had to believe in it 100 percent,” Kellogg Dean Sally Blount said. “It’s inspired by the power of the Great Lakes and shows the beauty of the shoreline.”
The five-story, 410,000 square-foot building will stand where the lakefront parking lot is currently located, next to the Allen Center. It will have a view of Lake Michigan and the Chicago skyline. Construction will start in early 2014 and should finish by late 2016. In addition to housing Kellogg programs, the new building will include the economics department. “We’re the only top economics department and top business school that are housed in the same building,” economics Prof. Bill Rogerson said. “That’s one of our unique strengths.” University President Morton Schapiro said the change will also allow Northwestern to transfer a lot of the social sciences departments to the Donald P. Jacobs building, Kellogg’s current home. “It’s going to allow us to move a lot of » See kellogg, page 10