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CARE to vacate animal shelter By PAIGE LESKIN

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DEVINE DELIVERS Comedian Adam DeVine performs stand-up at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall on Tuesday evening. A&O Productions brought DeVine to campus as their spring speaker.

DeVine sells out Pick-Staiger By TYLER PAGER

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Comedian Adam DeVine performed Tuesday night for a sold-out audience in Pick-Staiger Concert Hall. DeVine works as an actor and writer and is well known for the Comedy Central show “Workaholics,” for which he writes and stars in. He was also featured in the musical comedy “Pitch Perfect.” As A&O Productions’ spring speaker, DeVine shared jokes about his personal life and his TV show, while also interacting with the audience. “I think the reason I’m single is that every time I go to go on a date, some girl is like, ‘So like what

Howard Street shooting victim identified

A Chicago man has been identified as the victim of Monday’s fatal shooting inside a convenience store near the Howard Street CTA station, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Two others were also wounded during the shooting, police said. The shooting happened at about 7:40 p.m. in the 1600 block of West Howard Street, said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Ana Pacheco. Someone from across the street opened fire on the three men, who were standing inside the store, said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Michael Sullivan. A 36-year-old man was hit in the chest and taken in critical condition to St. Francis Hospital, 355 Ridge Ave., where he was pronounced dead at about 8:30 p.m., according to authorities. The Cook County medical examiner’s office identified him as Darnall Gordon of the 6300 block of North Sacramento Avenue in Chicago. The gunfire also struck a 25-year-old man in the hip, wrist and leg, Sullivan said. The man

do you want to do? You want to go to dinner or the movies?’” he said. “I’m like f--k that, froyo. Let’s do this.” Following his routine, DeVine held a question-and-answer session with the audience. Bienen and Communication sophomore Daniel Stromfeld asked if his a cappella group, Thunk, could perform with DeVine because Stromfeld said it was his birthday. Stromfeld ended up performing alone with DeVine and the duo sang a rendition of “Lights” by Journey. “I was shaking the entire time,” Stromfeld told The Daily after the event. “I wish he knew a Michael Buble song, but we came up with that Journey song that we both know. So that was pretty cool. It was pretty surreal. I’m definitely crossing one thing off my bucket

list: singing with Adam DeVine.” DeVine was also asked to share advice for aspiring actors. “Move to L.A., and hopefully you get lucky and work really hard,” he said. “I just made a bunch of Internet videos with my friends, and somebody at Comedy Central was like, ‘These guys are good.’” Prior to DeVine’s set, Communication junior Alex Heller and Communication senior Mike Schultz performed their own stand-up routines. Heller shared her cost-effective alternatives to the common activities of her sorority sisters, including memberships at Evanston Athletic Club, eating lunch at Whole Foods and studying abroad. » See DEVINE, page 7

At a heated and tense meeting, City Council moved Tuesday night to end Evanston’s relationship with Community Animal Rescue Effort, ordering the organization to end its work at the city’s animal shelter. “To put the community through any more discussion on this topic would be cruel,” Ald. Mark Tendam (6th) said. Aldermen voted 4-2 to discontinue the city’s partnership with CARE. City manager Wally Bobkiewicz will work with CARE to vacate the shelter by May 9, as well as start the search for a volunteer organization to replace it. The vote follows a Human Services Committee meeting Monday night in which Ald. Delores Holmes (5th) and the other aldermen on the committee

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To put the community through any more discussion on this topic would be cruel. Ald. Mark Tendam (6th)

recommended City Council cease negotiations to mend the relationship between the group and Evanston. Holmes said CARE’s unwillingness to communicate and compromise with council convinced her to vote against allowing the organization to remain in the shelter. “If they don’t want to negotiate, I don’t understand how we can make them do it,” she said. “We asked them several times.” Although many other actions appeared on council’s agenda, the » See COUNCIL, page 7

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CARE FREE Ald. Delores Holmes (5th) speaks to City Council and recommends the city end its relationship with Community Animal Rescue Effort. The council voted 4-2 to terminate the partnership.

was transported to St. Francis in serious condition, according to police. A third victim, a 27-year-old man, walked into St. Francis Hospital with a gunshot wound to his collarbone, according to police. The man’s condition was stable, Sullivan said. The shooting took place near the Chicago-Evanston border in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood. A 22-year-old man was fatally shot last summer about a block north of the store where Gordon was killed Monday evening. Stephanie Sutton, who lives across the street from the store, said she heard eight shots during the shooting. She later learned the gunman was standing below her windows when he or she started firing. Recalling the aftermath of the shooting, Sutton said the glass door of the store was completely shattered, its windows were damaged to a lesser extent, shelves had fallen over and merchandise was “all over the place” inside the space. “Luckily, there were many other people standing in the shop who were physically unharmed,” Sutton said in an email to The Daily.

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Students and community members nearly filled the Ryan Family Auditorium on Tuesday to attend The Veritas Forum’s panel discussion on the role of faith at a secular university. The three presenters included Williams College Prof. Satyan Devadoss, Northwestern philosophy Prof. Axel Mueller and University President Morton Schapiro. American studies Prof. William Haarlow moderated the discussion. Devadoss, a mathematics professor, was the main speaker of the night. He used his time during the event to explain his belief in Christianity. He critiqued modern religious studies and said that many Bible readers are only viewing the text as a scientific document. Rather, he said he believes the Bible and its message is meant to be seen from many angles. “I don’t believe in the Christian faith because it gives my life meaning or it’s emotionally satisfying,” Devadoss said. “I’m a mathematician. I

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FAITHFUL AUDIENCE Satyan Devadoss presents his Christian worldview to more than 500 people in Ryan Family Auditorium on Tuesday evening. The event, called the Veritas Forum, discussed the role of faith in a secular university.

have no emotions to satisfy. Faith best explains my deep questions. The beautiful mess that I see.” Many Christian audience members said they were very satisfied with what Devadoss had to say. Jens Notstad (McCormick ‘09), who works for Church of the Redeemer at NU and participated in planning the event, said he thought Devadoss was great in providing a cohesive backand-forth between panel members.

“Satyan has such a great story, diverse family background,” Notstad said. “He really is a unique individual in the academic arena. He was very engaging, honestly.” Schapiro, an observant Jew, followed by telling his own conviction of faith. Particularly, he said he was challenged by a Christian minister who

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Around Town Township dissolution vote certified By BAILEY WILLIAMs

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Interim township supervisor Wally Bobkiewicz announced Tuesday that the vote last month to dissolve Evanston Township had been certified by the Cook County Clerk’s Office. At the annual township meeting Tuesday night, Bobkiewicz confirmed that voters elected to dissolve the township by a near two-to-one margin, with a final vote of 5,065 in favor and 2,889 against. “I am deeply disappointed that Evanston Township will be (dissolved) at the end of this month,” township assessor Bonnie Wilson said. “My hope is that the city of Evanston will continue to provide the same level of services that I and my staff have provided to the taxpayers in Evanston these four and a half years.” Bobkiewicz, who also serves as city manager, said he is working to transition the township services to city management by the end of the month. During her assessor report, Wilson gave an overview of the work she has done, including handling permits, updating and correcting information, informing the taxpayers and modifying staffing. Wilson said her staff has saved taxpayers’ money, getting them the exemptions to which they were

Police Blotter Resident charged with battery

A 38-year-old man was arrested in connection with simple battery after an altercation over money in Evanston on Monday afternoon. Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said the Evanston resident grabbed a 56-year-old man and punched him in the face at the Dempster Plaza parking lot on the corner of Dempster Street and Dodge Avenue. Police said a witness who observed the incident said the Evanston resident fled the scene. However, the 38-year-old later came into the

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entitled. Wilson noted that she hoped the ease and availability that went with her office will continue as the township’s responsibilities transition to city management. Wilson praised her deputy assessor Mitzi Gibbs, whom she recommended the city hire after the dissolution as an advocate for the taxpayers. After Wilson spoke, Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl presented her with a bouquet, prompting the aldermen in attendance and a number of other attendees to stand and clap. Township officials also reviewed reports from the supervisor and clerk at the meeting, held at the Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center. Several residents also spoke at the meeting, including community activist Betty Ester and Gibbs’ mother Madelyn Ducre. Ester reiterated concerns she has about the appointment of Bobkiewicz as township supervisor. At a meeting she held last week outside the City Council chambers, she also expressed concerns about Bobkiewicz’s appointment as township supervisor, saying the matter was handled illegally. Ester said she intends to hold city officials accountable for the promises they make as they transition township services to city management. Ducre, who also spoke during citizen comment, said she has been to the Cook County commissioner Larry Suffredin’s office multiple times, but the help she received was not comparable to that provided police station, where he was arrested at 5:20 p.m. The man is scheduled to appear in court April 25.

Flat-screen television stolen from Evanston home

A flat-screen television worth about $1,500 was stolen from an Evanston home early Tuesday morning. A 31-year-old woman who lives in the home in the 1800 block of Lemar Avenue said she was watching television in the basement when she heard two loud bangs coming from the front door of the house, Parrott said. The Evanston resident told police she did not leave the basement

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at Wilson’s office, saying Wilson’s office was more “personable.” Suffredin represents the 13th district, which includes Evanston. “We are going to miss that,” Ducre said. “(Bobkiewicz) made a promise to us about the assessor office. ... There was a promise that someone would be there full time, part time, whatever, to help the people of Evanston.” baileywilliams2017@u.northwestern.edu but said a man came downstairs and displayed a handgun. The woman said the man fled through the front door but not before stealing a 60-inch flat-screen television, a different television from the one the 31-year-old was watching at the time of the burglary. Police said the front door of the residence was kicked in and a mesh screen was cut off of a window on the side of the house. Police are investigating the burglary, although Parrott noted the 31-year-old’s report does not appear to be consistent with the type of burglaries where firearms are displayed. ­— Julian Gerez

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Freshman’s app sends health information via text By OLIVIA EXSTRUM

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A Weinberg freshman developed an app that provides health and medical information through SMS text messaging in an effort to create easily accessible health-related data, primarily for individuals in developing countries. Mohan Ravi and a team of students at several universities across the nation started developing the app, StandardHealth, late last month. “StandardHealth follows one mission,� Ravi said. “Let’s create the next generation of health care.� Ravi said the idea behind the app stemmed from the fact that SMS, rather than smartphone-based technology, is used extensively in developing nations such as Kenya and Uganda. He said often in these countries, individuals use text messaging services to charge patients and take out money from the bank for health-related services. “The idea here was there’s this huge infrastructure, so why don’t we build on it and then add the healthcare component?� he said. Although the app doesn’t have the ability to give treatment or treatment advice, it is composed of three

components: a health information database, a health information logger and electronic health records. The health information database is focused on presenting information through CrowdSourceMed, a program currently being developed which provides crowd sourced medical explanations and definitions in a variety of languages. “Based on a patient’s query, we may run it through the health database that already has the information about symptoms and diagnoses,� Ravi said. “We’ll be able to pull up possible diagnoses based on certain searches we do, as well as possible preventative treatment options.� Similarly, with the health information logger, users will be able to store data information about their food intake, exercise and sleep habits. This component allows doctors to identify possible problems in an efficient manner. This information is then stored in a user’s electronic health record, which shortens the time of a doctor visit by making basic health information more readily available. The app is created under a program called AppHerd, a limited liability company Ravi and his team developed last July. Currently, the team is applying to different seed accelerators, programs that mentor certain startup companies. Ravi said by the end of the week, the team will have applied to at least 12

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I want to take ideas like this and disrupt the medical system so we can change medicine for the better. Mohan Ravi, Weinberg freshman

different accelerators. There are typically three stages within the app development process that companies go through when creating a product such as StandardHealth, Ravi said. These include the idea stage, product validation stage and marketing stage. He said currently, the app is in the development and product validation stage. “We’re certainly not at the end,� Ravi said. “But we’re certainly not at the beginning.� Divyagnan Kandala, another member of the team and a freshman at the University of North Florida, said he and Ravi developed the idea for the app after seeing a video about technology in developing nations. “When Mohan showed me the video, I thought there could be so many applications for technology

and medicine using the infrastructure that already exists,� Kandala said. The team is also working on creating partnerships with doctors and hospitals in Iran and the Dominican Republic, as well as deans at different U.S. universities. The app is focused primarily on international medicine, mainly because of possible liability issues it could present within the U.S. Although he initially thought a project involving students at several colleges might prove difficult, Ravi said remaining organized among the other team members has been surprisingly easy. The team members, who attend NU, University of North Florida, University of California, Berkeley and Carnegie Mellon University use different sharing programs like Trello and GroupMe to communicate easily and keep track of what goals remain to be accomplished. Ravi said he is unsure of what his plans are going forward, but he will always consider himself an entrepreneur. “I want to take ideas like this and disrupt the medical system so we can change medicine for the better,� he said. “An individual, through policy, might not be able to do the same thing as an individual who takes ideas and incentivizes them towards social good.� oliviaexstrum2017@u.northwestern.edu

Dining-service updates cause some WildCARD glitches By EDWARD cox

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Students who lost or had their original WildCARD missing were delayed in dining hall lines last week due to technical difficulties stemming from updates to Northwestern’s meal swipe system. In order to remedy the issue, dining hall employees directed affected students to the WildCARD office to update their card, program manager Arthur Monge said. Monge said a couple hundred students arrived in the office since the

start of Spring Quarter. Following system updates, students who did not have the WildCARD originally issued to them when they started at NU needed to have their current card updated at the office, Monge said. Employees said they were notified of the system updates over Spring Break, but they were unaware they would cause these issues. Northwestern dining services recognized the problem last Monday and has been coordinating with Residential Services and the WildCARD Office to fix the problem. In an effort to cater to affected students, dining service employees have been entering in student ID numbers of

dysfunctional cards and redirecting students to the WildCARD Office for technical assistance. “We don’t necessarily know why the problem came to be,� Sodexo marketing manager Jason Sophian said. “We are more so working with the University itself to try to identify how to fix it and how to make things run smoothly when it comes to on-campus dining.� Monge added that when students went to dining halls to swipe their cards, some were misinformed their cards were defective and had faulty magnetized strips. He said this is the first time a problem of this nature has occurred since he started working at

the WildCARD office 16 years ago. “It’s really nobody’s fault it happened, but it’s a quick fix,� Monge said. Medill sophomore Forrest Hanson said he went to the WildCARD office after his card did not work properly when attempting to use it in the dining hall. Hanson noted he had previously lost his card. “It wasn’t too bad. It took a couple extra seconds in line,� Hanson said. “The employees, I could tell, were getting very annoyed with having to enter everyone’s information.� edwardcox2011@u.northwestern.edu

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Effective sex education must start before college MATT GATES

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Northwestern Sex Week exemplifies how open NU and many other colleges are in their discussion of issues relating to sex and sexuality. The honest approach I have seen at a school where people collect condoms and lubricant as they walk into a burlesque show on a Saturday night is indicative of a student body that is prepared to make decisions about sex. Unfortunately, this strongly contrasts with the intimidating approach found in many high schools. Many come to college without being informed about topics that should have been covered in high school. “Don’t have sex because you will get pregnant and die!” is more than just a line from “Mean Girls.” It is not far from what many NU students I have spoken to were taught in high school. This is not to say there are not instances of effective sexual education in schools. However, improvement is needed. The scare tactics used in high school health keep students from trusting their educators and learning what they need to know to be prepared for college. With young people accounting for half of all new infections of sexually transmitted diseases, sexual

Source: Guttmacher Institute Infographic by Astrid Goh/The Daily Northwestern

education needs to be introduced at younger ages. Students come to college uninformed about STDs and begin engaging in sexual behavior — or worse, they have already been infected in high school. For instance, one study found at least one in four teenage girls in America has an STD. In my middle school health class, my teacher showed us a diagram to explain the risk of STD infection that results from sex with one person,

Do religion and morality really go hand in hand? Ekin Zeytinoglu Daily columnist

Voltaire once said: “I want my attorney, my tailor, my valets and even my wife to believe in God, and I fancy that then I’ll be robbed and cuckolded less.” Morality’s dependence on religion has been discussed for centuries. Today we mostly recognize that any nonbeliever can be as morally good or bad as a religious person, yet there is still a perception that religion engenders moral behavior superior to that of its alternatives. However, is that viewpoint really accurate? From their births, religions have always emphasized the idea of being good. Some accentuated this in the form of the Ten Commandments, some with the actions of the prophets. Some offered incentives in the afterlife, some in the form of a new life. Regardless, every religion is, to a degree, based in morality. Nonbelievers see this as nothing more than a marketing strategy. For believers, it is actually a sign of the benevolence of a higher power. Whatever the reasons, religions have encouraged people to be better, but the question remains as to whether this encouragement has actually worked. Furthermore, if it has worked, we must ask if religion is the right

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way to justify morality in the first place. In his 2006 book, Arthur Brooks claims religious people generally care more: They donate more blood, volunteer more for community activities and are happier in general. The same book also reveals that according to data from the Internal Revenue Service, more religious states tend to donate more to charities than less religious states do. Also, according to a study, religious people are half as likely to believe they have not accomplished enough in life. Another benefit of religions is that they also give people something to believe in, an elementary need of mankind. They provide people with a purpose, a reason to live. However, when it comes to religion, positives are easily balanced with negatives. Gordon Allport shows in his book, “The Nature of Prejudice,” that religious groups are much more prejudiced against foreigners and minority groups than nonreligious people. This is indicated by, for example, many churches being against same-sex marriages, and Islam not allowing Muslim women to marry non-Muslim men. Perhaps the most concerning study found that when Caucasians are exposed to religiously thematic words, their levels of prejudice against African-Americans increase dramatically. It is also widely claimed that as faith has diminished since the Enlightenment and religious beliefs have dwindled in the last couple of decades, crimes and amorality have increased. However, according to an analysis of 18 democracies, researcher Gregory Paul found more atheist societies do better on many measures of well-being, with lower rates of suicide and murder, sexually transmitted diseases and teen pregnancies. So does religion make us more moral? I must answer both yes and no. Yes, because religion motivates people to do good, to help and to care whether they want to or not. No because it simply creates inequalities and alienates everyone who is not in a specific group. However, religion is basically a tool, regardless of its divinity or lack thereof, which helps us solve — in economic term — the “free rider problem,” people who don’t contribute to the society as much as they benefit from it. Religion, in this case, demands everyone to contribute the same, eliminating the “free riders” from society. Today, as educated adults, do we still need such a tool to give back to our societies, or are we already morally developed individuals willing to contribute to the communities to which we belong? Do we still need our attorneys, our tailors, our valets, our wives and our husbands to believe in God so that we will feel less cheated, or has the time come to believe that people around us now acquire certain ethical values without needing a religion? Ekin Zeytinoglu is a McCormick freshman. He can be reached at ekinzeytinoglu2017@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.

which is essentially the equivalent of having sex with all of their partners and the partners of all of their partners. One student remarked that in that case, he might as well have sex with as many people as he wanted once he had sex with one person. It is obviously not the same to have sex with one person as it is to have sex with hundreds, yet the teacher’s literal explanation of this concept made it seem this way. Likewise, the insistence of some schools in

maintaining abstinence-only sexual education has similar negative consequences for teens. Rates of teen pregnancy are highest in states with such sex ed. Meanwhile, the average age for a male to lose his virginity is 16.9. For females, it is 17.4. Schools try to scare students into avoiding any sexual contact rather than preparing them with accurate information. Teachers should emphasize that no contraception method guarantees protection from pregnancy or STDs. However, avoiding the topic undermines the purpose of sex ed. Classes that use scare tactics also often overlook important information. Basic topics like circumcision and the menstrual cycle are left out in favor of terrifying stories about teen pregnancy and STDs. Sex education designed to intimidate students into complying with a set of rules and morals is destined to fail. The second students realize what they are being told lies somewhere between exaggerated and untrue, they disregard everything they learn in class. Sex Week programming is encouraging. This approach to sexual education needs to be instituted at an earlier age in order to adequately prepare people to make informed decisions in college. Matt Gates is a Weinberg freshman. He can be reached at matthewgates2017@u.northwestern.edu. If you want to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.

Guest Column

‘We Will’ donate to support crucial programs, services Anthony Guerrero

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I, like Dick Reif (Medill ’64), was invited to join Northwestern’s $3.75 billion fundraising drive called “We Will.” My reply – I MUST. I felt urged to write a response to his letter to the editor for two opposing reasons. His message about putting students first in the fundraising campaign resonated with me, so I want to applaud and celebrate his passion and care for students’ best interest. But I disagree with his conclusion, wherein he will not give back, as a means to call attention to these issues. I have the unique experience of being on both sides of these issues. I am a student representative of the University to incoming students and parents and to donors and alumni, a Wildcat Welcome peer adviser, a Phonathon caller and a Class Gift of 2014 executive board member. So, I know what it means to have to speak and represent the University. I have also had the fortunate experience of being part of many student activism movements in these past four years. I say this because I mean to offer a student perspective to this campaign, particularly from a student who has fought for and against this university. I first want to dispel some misconceptions about the fundraising campaign. There is a misunderstanding of exactly what the endowment represents, and my best way of expressing this is by stating that it is the closest equivalent to NU’s savings account. It’s a crude comparison, but it works. The endowment is supported by large gifts from donors who give to specific areas of interest – these can include anything from infrastructure and buildings to scholarships and research grants. All donors who give to the endowment give a restricted gift, meaning that they designate exactly which area they want it to benefit and how they want it to be spent. A good chunk of the building developments come from the endowment, that is true, but endowment spending is not unrestricted. As regulated by law, most universities spend only around 5 percent of their endowment in any given year, after it has accumulated interest. Mr. Reif pointed out the example of Princeton, which spends between 4 to 5.75 percent. NU’s spending rate was 4.35 percent during the 2011-12 fiscal year. So, we seem to be spending comparably to other institutions. Whether or

not we should be spending more for more areas is a different issue. There are, however, areas that alumni can give back to without giving back to the administration, and instead focusing on students. The letter emphasized three areas of campus life that I think should become the focus of funding: providing support to victims of sexual assault through the Center for Awareness, Response and Education, providing stronger psychological support through Counseling and Psychological Services and offering stronger financial aid packages that ensure students graduate with a lessened debt burden. I agree that these areas are severely underfunded and in great need of our attention. There is an even greater number of areas which also need support, such as student life and student groups, research grants and infrastructure that directly affects students, such as shuttles and SafeRide. These are all areas of campus that desperately need funding and are not always supported by the endowment. Withholding donations to make a statement makes the greatest dent on these underfunded areas and serves no purpose. I point all this out as a plea to Mr. Reif and to other alumni and seniors who were considering giving back to the University but are disenchanted by the University’s responses to different situations. I, like you, am also upset. I love this place, and it breaks my heart to see these things happen. This is why I am giving back. I must give back to the areas of campus that I know need my support and the support of other donors, bypassing the administration’s spending plans. This is the message we portray with the Class Gift of 2014. We each get to give back our $20.14 to an area of campus life we think needs our individual support. I can assure you those gifts go to areas such as CAPS, which was the second most popular area of giving among seniors last year. I must give back to this university if I want to see these changes. I want to see more scholarships being provided so we can lessen debt for more students, so I am giving back to the Scholarship Fund. I want to see more support and funding for student mental health, so I am giving back to Counseling and Psychological Services. I want to see change at this university, so I WILL. Anthony Guerrero is a Weinberg senior. He can be reached at anthonyguerrero2014@u.northwestern. edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.

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Wilmette woman charged after 3 hit-andrun crashes

A 63-year-old woman was charged with three felonies after a series of car crashes in Evanston on Sunday morning that injured four people, including the driver. The woman, a Wilmette resident, was driving the 2007 Toyota which was involved in the crashes, police said. She was arrested in connection with aggravated fleeing and eluding police and two counts of leaving the scene of a car accident involving injury, both felony charges. She was also charged with six other misdemeanors, including reckless driving and criminal damage to property, and issued 13 traffic-related citations. Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said the woman was released from the hospital but remains in

police custody. Preliminary tests for alcohol and illicit substances came back negative. The first hit-and-run crash occurred in the intersection of Church Street and Ridge Avenue in downtown Evanston at approximately 10:30 a.m, Parrott said. In the second crash a short time later, the same car struck another car and a motor scooter in south Evanston in the 600 block of Chicago Avenue. Police said the drivers of those two vehicles sustained minor injuries. The third crash occurred nearby in the intersection of Custer Avenue and Main Street, where the car hit a 48-year-old on his bike. Police said the cyclist, a Chicago resident, was admitted to the intensive care unit in the same hospital as the driver and was in serious but stable condition as Tuesday afternoon. The woman is scheduled to appear in court April 21.

Northwestern is partnering with Lynda, a website that provides tutorials and videos on specific topics, for a year-long pilot program in an effort to give students the option to take online courses at no expense, the University announced Tuesday. In order to gain access to the service, students must sign in to the program using their NetID and password. The program features more than 2,400 courses taught on specialized topics including software, design and business skills. The new partnership will give students the opportunity to use the system at all hours, bookmark certain sections and create personalized course lists.

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Since last July, performance studies Prof. Mary Zimmerman has slept in her apartment for a total of four weeks. Zimmerman (Communication ‘82, ‘85, ‘94), the Jaharis Family Foundation Chair in Performance Studies at Northwestern, directs and produces shows in different parts of the world. Her most recent play, “The White Snake,” will make its Chicago debut at the Goodman Theatre on May 3. “When you go into a life in the theater, the last thing you imagine is how much on the road you’re going to be,” she said. Zimmerman usually writes and directs plays rooted in literature she read during her childhood. One of her plays, an adaptation of Ovid’s “Metamorphoses,” began as a production at NU and won a Tony Award in 2002. Zimmerman also received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1998. She said she finds it exciting to work with texts that are difficult to adapt to the stage. “The White Snake,” based on an old Chinese tale, is one example of this challenge. Zimmerman had to discern ways to represent the two main characters, both of whom are snakes. She used parasols, long tails and puppets to do so. “What’s so wonderful about the stage is that it’s essentially always a limited black box,” she said. “You have to figure out how that box can contain the whole world.” Zimmerman attended NU for both her undergraduate and graduate degrees. Weeks before finishing her final dissertation, she was hired by the performance

studies department, which eventually became a permanent position. By then, she had already begun working with two Chicago theater organizations, the Goodman Theatre and the Lookingglass Theatre Company, both of which she is still involved with. “I feel like I have a great triumvirate association in Chicago,” she said. “They all fulfill me in different ways and fulfill different things.” Roche Schulfer, executive director of Goodman Theatre, has worked with Zimmerman for about 20 years. He called her “one of the most highly regarded directors in the country.” “She’s created her own aesthetic in the theater by her ability to adapt classic, iconic works into stage productions,” Schulfer said. For the past five to six years, Zimmerman has directed operas and said she hopes to continue that as well. Between her roles writing and directing “The Jungle Book,” which closed October 2013, and “The White Snake,” she has directed “Lucia di Lammermoor” at La Scala opera house in Milan, Italy and “La Sonnambula” at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. With so much time away from NU and Chicago, Zimmerman said she feels disconnected, and being on the road has weakened friendships. “When you’re doing a show, the feeling of belonging and community is very, very strong,” Zimmerman said. “It’s very intoxicating and seductive to a lot of us. But then, paradoxically, you just abandon it over and over and over.” However, Zimmerman’s friends said their connections have remained strong. Natsu Onoda Power (Communication ‘96, ‘99, ‘05), a former student of Zimmerman’s, has known the director for more than 20 years. Now an assistant professor at Georgetown

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‘HER OWN AESTHETIC’ Performance studies Prof. Mary Zimmerman’s latest play “The White Snake” will open in Chicago on May 3 at the Goodman Theatre. The threetime NU alumna is a Tony Award winner and has directed theater productions in Milan, Italy and New York City.

University and a theater director in Washington, D.C., Onoda Power said she and Zimmerman still exchange emails daily. “She has become my mentor in so many ways, not just in work but in life,” Onoda Power said. With so many years of experience behind her, Zimmerman has no intention of stopping. “I just hope that I can continue to feel almost as desperate as I usually feel when I’m making a show, that it feels urgent and important to me and is a beautiful, profound experience,” she said. stephaniekelly2017@u.northwestern.edu

Across Campuses Amid party debris, calm returns to student enclave after riot ISLA VISTA, Calif. — The scene Monday on Del Playa Drive was a curious, uniquely Isla Vista mix: part laid-back beach vibe, part riot aftermath. Beach towels fluttered over cliffside balconies as University of California, Santa Barbara students enjoyed spring weather. Dumpsters overflowed with beer boxes and red cups. “I was in the riot,” one young woman said nonchalantly to her friend as they rode beach cruisers. “I got hit by a tear gas grenade,” a male student told his friends as they carried an inflatable pool over their heads. They were talking about Deltopia, a social media-fueled street party that spun out of control Saturday night, leaving a sheriff ’s deputy seriously injured and more than 100 people arrested. The eruption of violence was nothing new for unincorporated Isla Vista, a densely packed, student-dominated community where the average age is 23 and officials have struggled for decades to curb sporadic bouts of Bacchanalia. “We’ve been dealing with this issue one way or another for the last 45 years,” Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown said. “There’s been problems and challenges in Isla Vista that don’t exist elsewhere in the country.” Last year, authorities received 440 calls during Deltopia, and a visiting student from Cal State Poly San Luis Obispo was found dead in the surf after falling off the cliff. The estimated 22,000 residents of Isla Vista, 60 percent of whom are UC Santa Barbara students, often blame incidents on outsiders. But the campus’ student president sent an email to students Monday saying that they need to take responsibility. “Yes, it is true that much of the crime that happens is connected to out-of-towners, but who invites these people into our town?” Jonathan Abboud wrote. “We do. It is perfectly OK to celebrate holidays such as Deltopia, but we must consider that inviting our seven best friends from high school does tend to contribute to the problem.” Like the area’s raucous Halloween celebrations, Deltopias are not organized events as much as calls to come and party, now trumpeted on social media. — Kate Mather, Joseph Serna and Joe Mozingo (Los Angeles Times)

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BATTER UP After being inserted into the lineup Tuesday, Luke Dauch made the most of his spot. The junior had four hits and knocked in 2 runs in a 12-5 win.

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inserting Dauch and moving freshman right fielder Matt Hopfner — the team’s leader in most key offensive categories — up to third in the order. Hopfner rewarded the trust with three hits and a scoreless inning on the mound. He said after the game that even he didn’t expect himself to hit as well as he had. “I’m just trying to stay positive, stay confident up there,” Hopfner said. “Going through our team, a lot of guys get on base in front of me, so that’s helping a lot with the RBIs.” Not wanting to tire any arms for their

upcoming series with Iowa this weekend, the Cats used a collection of pitchers for only a few innings at a time. Senior Dan Tyson started, before being relieved by senior Ethan Bramschreiber, followed by sophomore Jake Stolley, seniors Nick Friar and Jack Livingston, Hopfner and senior Jack Quigley. They got the job done, and the Cats got a spirit-lifting victory. “Any time you get a win, it’s great,” Dauch said. “Especially any time you put up 12 runs, 16 hits. That’s a great day for everyone on the team.”

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bulk of the 30 residents who signed up for citizen comment shared opinions on CARE’s relationship with the city. Many were CARE’s board members and volunteers. Alisa Kaplan, a canine crew manager at CARE, said the city should find a new organization to run the shelter, citing CARE’s high euthanasia rates in the past. “We don’t believe that our dogs are more dangerous than those in other communities,”

asputt@u.northwestern.edu she said. “We are excited for this new agreement and what it would mean for the future of the animal shelter.” Concerned volunteers began questioning CARE’s practices in 2012, especially its canine euthanasia rate, which was about 45 percent at the time. Alds. Ann Rainey (8th) and Coleen Burrus (9th), the two who voted to continue to work with CARE, said blame should be placed on both sides of the relationship. The city, Burrus said, should acknowledge some responsibility for the problems at the shelter.

told Schapiro that he had the wrong faith. He struggled with the idea that people of faith believe other religions are wrong. Schapiro told The Daily after the event that he did not know he would be speaking until moments before he went onstage. “When they turned to me and said, ‘It’s your turn to speak,’ I said, ‘For how long?’” Schapiro said. Mueller then presented his secular humanist worldview by championing science as the ultimate source of knowledge. The senior lecturer has gained a following for his philosophical work in conceptual content and empirical knowledge of particulars. “When we contrast faith and knowledge, we believe in something in spite of a lack of evidence,” Mueller said. He ultimately said he believes that the role of faith at a secular university should be no more

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From page 1 Schultz poked fun at the red flags Evanston places at crosswalks in order for pedestrians to make themselves more visible to cars. Following the student acts, comedian Adam Ray performed, riffing on students’ obsession with Cheesie’s Pub & Grub and calling out specific audience members. Weinberg junior Merve Ciplak said she attended the event because she is a fan of “Pitch Perfect.” “I didn’t know his comedic side, but it was awesome,” she said. “He was hilarious. He’s not Prior to the vote, Rainey encouraged the council to not give up on CARE. She said it was worrisome the city didn’t have an organization lined up to immediately take over the animal shelter from CARE. “The city will be in serious trouble if we eliminate all contact with CARE,” Rainey said. “I think everyone can make error to judgment, but I don’t think that positions the organization from top to bottom. We’ll all be sorry when we make this move.” Despite these concerns, many aldermen and residents said they believed there would be

than discussion of “theology among consenting adults.” A short question-and-answer session followed the presentations. Questions were both asked by other panelists and submitted by the audience. When asked how open professors should be about their faith in class, Devadoss said professors have nothing to hide because their faith will change how they view everything. However, he also said there are some limitations. “I’m a mathematics professor,” he said. “I can’t tell my students I’m a Christian and then say, ‘Let’s integrate!’” Weinberg freshman Arpan Doshi said he really enjoyed the exploration of the boundaries of religious tolerance. “Equal respect for others is a very important value and a moral concept that we should keep in mind when we interact with other people,” he said. davidlee2017@u.northwestern.edu cocky. He’s down to earth.” A&O spokeswoman Rosalind Mowitt said she appreciated DeVine’s interaction with the audience. “I thought that was a lot of really great energy in the room from people who were familiar with his inside jokes from ‘Workaholics’ and just kind of fed off his energy really well,” the Weinberg senior said. “So that familiarity played really nicely into his routine, and because of that there was a lot of spontaneity and engagement with the audience, more so than usual.” tylerpager2017@u.northwestern.edu groups readily available to replace CARE at the animal shelter. Although leadership will be changing, the volunteers at the animal shelter will continue to be a constant, Evanston resident Virginia Mann said. “The many volunteers are there because they care about the animals. They won’t disappear,” she said. “This is a tremendous opportunity to have a shelter that will be more reflective of the values of the community.” paigeleskin2017@u.northwestern.edu

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Welcome to The Sideline, a series of profiles of Northwestern’s coaches. In the coming months, The Daily’s sports staff will provide detailed looks into the lives and personalities of all 19 varsity coaches. The first installment covers lacrosse coach Kelly Amonte Hiller. Twenty bucks says if you didn’t know who Kelly Amonte Hiller was or what she looked like (or maybe even if you did), you couldn’t spot her during a Northwestern lacrosse practice. That’s one of Amonte Hiller’s defining characteristics. She has won seven national championships as a coach and two as a player, is the only NU coach to have brought home an NCAA team championship and was recently named to Crain’s Chicago Business’ “40 Under 40” list for 2013, just over a decade after moving to the area. Still, she is barely distinguishable from the 20-year-old college students who play for her. Her commands are almost lost among her players’ whoops of encouragement, which soundtrack NU’s lacrosse practices, and she disappears in the middle of huddles of identical black, purple and white clothing. At practice on a grey Wednesday afternoon before NU heads east to take on conference rival Penn State and then Pennsylvania, Amonte Hiller breaks from one of those huddles. She is clad in her usual uniform of baggy athletic pants, a baggier sweatshirt — sometimes a puffy coat, if practice is on Lakeside Field and it’s before mid-April — and face-obscuring sunglasses. She walks over to the sideline, yelling over her shoulder for her team to “run some sprints to get going,” and in talking to her, it becomes clearer how an unassuming woman built the most impressive dynasty in the sport. She carries herself without a shred of self-importance, yet her small frame and high-pitched voice command attention and respect. Perhaps it’s her reputation, or her ingrained training as an attackman, taught to run headfirst

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FIRST LADY OF LAX During lacrosse coach Kelly Amonte Hiller’s tenure at Northwestern, the sport has grown geographically and in popularity. Amonte Hiller and the Wildcats have won seven national titles in nine years.

into groups of athletes larger than she carrying metal sticks. Ultimately, Amonte Hiller couldn’t care less whether you can spot her from across the field, or if you even know her name. She is focused on her team. She is focused on its next win. Nothing else. The perfect fit Lacrosse was an attractive sport for NU in the early 2000s, when thenSenior Women’s Administrator Nancy Lyons said the University was looking to add another women’s sport to comply with Title IX. The sport made sense: It was most popular in East Coast prep schools, where NU was already recruiting academically, but unknown enough to even the playing field for a school in the Midwest. In short, NU could find a few key recruits, Lyons said, and be competitive with the rest of the country. “It was the kind of sport where we thought that we could be very successful quickly,” Lyons said. “It was something

that a lot of young women didn’t have experience with … so we thought we could be competitive right away.” Lyons, who hails from the same area as Amonte Hiller in Massachusetts, had heard of the future coach due to reputation as an athlete and because Lyons knew Amonte Hiller’s brother, Tony Amonte, from her time at Boston University, where Amonte played hockey. Amonte Hiller had been running lacrosse camps in Massachusetts and was building a reputation for herself among parents of young lacrosse players, Lyons said. For Lyons, the fact that Amonte Hiller had worked only in volunteer and part-time assistant coaching positions before NU was outweighed by her experience as a two-sport — lacrosse and soccer — All-American at the University of Maryland. Amonte Hiller had also played for Cindy Timchal, the coach who headed NU’s program during the 1980s, in its first iteration as a varsity sport. “I knew that she had come from a

great coaching background in having played for Cindy Timchal,” Lyons said. “So I just thought, what a great hire that would be if we could bring somebody new into the program with a reputation like Kelly had. She did everything and more that we had anticipated.” Amonte Hiller said she was reluctant to leave Boston but her husband, Scott Hiller — who now serves as one of the team’s assistant coaches — initially encouraged her to visit Evanston. Despite Lyons’ faith in Amonte Hiller, the coach still describes her hire as NU taking a chance. But for Lyons, Amonte Hiller — inexperience and all — was the perfect fit. “At the time, we were hiring a lot of young, fairly inexperienced coaches because at the time, we weren’t paying big salaries. We had to get the very best coach we could with the salary we could afford,” Lyons said. “I knew the kind of person that she was, and I knew her family. I knew if there was anyone who could do the job for us at Northwestern, she could do it.”

Committed to NU, Amonte Hiller was living with her brother, then the captain of the Chicago Blackhawks, when she started coaching the University’s club team for a year in 2001 to prepare for its transition to a varsity squad. Amonte Hiller said her first few years were less about hard work and more about patience for the process of shaping a varsity-caliber team. “I’m not afraid of hard work, so that’s not hard to me,” Amonte Hiller said. “I think that in the beginning it really was about just creating that culture. I knew how to create that environment and what I wanted to do, and it was just a matter of teaching discipline and getting the kids to believe in themselves. … It wasn’t hard, it was fun.” NU played three seasons as a varsity program before it won its first NCAA championship — and then proceed to roll off four more consecutive titles. Outside recognition didn’t come immediately for Amonte Hiller’s squad. She said that didn’t happen until 2006, just her fifth year as varsity coach. In 2012, Amonte Hiller was inducted into the U.S. Lacrosse Hall of Fame. “I think that people thought it was kind of a fluke when we won,” she said. “And then when we won the second championship, I think people kind of realized that we’re not kidding around.” It took less time for the lacrosse world to pay attention. Lyons said the string of wins put NU in the national spotlight and created success that “trickled down” to the University’s other programs. With this growth — and tantalizing prospect for success and acclaim — Amonte Hiller said administrators started taking lacrosse more seriously. “I think with us winning seven in a row, it’s definitely amped up the level of other programs, and the level of professionalism has increased,” she said. To read the rest of the story visit dailynorthwestern.com/ thesideline

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Prater puts union issue aside Cats score 12 runs, By ALEX PUTTERMAN

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Northwestern made clear at practice Tuesday all talking and thinking about union issues has been shelved for the time being. Coach Pat Fitzgerald opted not to speak directly about the ongoing unionization process, and several players deflected the subject. Instead, the focus was on football. “We’re focusing on us right now,” senior wide receiver Kyle Prater said. “We’re not trying to let any outside distractions get a hold of this team. We’re focusing on us and getting better and winning some ball games.” Prater in particular has reason to be excited for actual football — by all accounts, he is healthier than ever and prepared to have a big season. That return to health has been a long time coming. The Hillside, Ill., native committed to USC in February 2010 as a five-star recruit but couldn’t stay on the field once he got there. After two injury-riddled seasons, Prater transferred back home to NU. But injuries continued to nag the

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We’re not trying to let any outside distractions get a hold of this team. Kyle Prater, senior wide receiver

chiseled, 6-foot-5 receiver, who has appeared in 23 games but caught only 19 balls during his two seasons in Evanston. But Prater says he’s fully healthy and feels great. He’s put on 10 pounds of muscle and has worked on ways of leveraging not only his physical gifts — remarkable size and strength — but also the canniness that comes from being around college programs for five years. “I’ve been focusing on playing to my strengths and playing big, using my size and wits,” he said. “I’ve been in this game for a long time, so I’ve been using my size to my advantage. NU is deep at receiver, with seniors Tony Jones and Christian Jones and juniors Cameron Dickerson and Miles Shuler, plus a crew of youngsters fighting for playing time. But there’s no question Prater can carve out a role, perhaps taking advantage of his physical stature on plays

at the goal line. On Tuesday, Fitzgerald went out of his way to bring up Prater’s development, noting the receiver’s strong performance in spring practices. “I’m really pleased with the spring Kyle Prater is having,” he said. “From a football standpoint that’s easy, but for him it’s been a long, long, long road. To see that he’s finally healthy for the first time, I see a young man that’s really come into his own confidence-wise. I’m really happy for him, a guy that’s been through a ton.” Fitzgerald said the Cats, who have one more full spring practice Saturday, have ground to recover. Their coach theorizes they’re not where they should be for two reasons: because they didn’t qualify for a bowl game in 2013 (and missed out on bowl practices) and because of “that distraction.” His coach was referring, of course, to unionization, but Prater sees that as no distraction at all. He says the team’s focus and camaraderie are as strong as ever. He just wants to get on the field and enjoy finally being at full strength. “Throughout my five years I’ve been banged up a little bit,” Prater said. “And now I’m really feeling the effects of being healthy.” asputt@u.northwestern.edu

stop losing streak By ALEX PUTTERMAN

daily senior staffer @AlexPutt02

Northwestern players didn’t care if the opponent was an overmatched team from a smaller conference — they were just happy to win. The Wildcats (5-22) scored 12 runs in the first five innings Tuesday at Rocky Miller Park to dispatch Valparaiso (11-5) 12-5 and, at least temporarily, halt a season-long skid. “We kept throwing strikes and making plays and swinging the bat in clutch scenarios,” coach Paul Stevens said. “I liked the attitude and approach we came out with.” Though the win doesn’t count toward NU’s Big Ten record, it snapped a seven-game losing streak, part of a larger run of 18 losses in 20 games. Tuesday’s game was never seriously contested. Valparaiso scored a run in the top of the first, but NU countered with 2 in the bottom half, then added at least a pair in each of the next four frames.

Valparaiso

5

Northwestern

12

Valparaiso didn’t score again until the seventh inning, by which point the score was 12-1 and the game well out of reach. The Crusaders added 2 more runs in the ninth to cut the final deficit to 12-5. Junior Luke Dauch, leading off as designated hitter, supplied four hits on the day, while scoring 3 runs and batting in 2 more. Dauch had hit only .149 in 49 at-bats entering Tuesday but said he thought he earned some more opportunities with his play against Valparaiso. “I was seeing the ball well today,” Dauch said. “I squared up a lot of good balls. I felt good up there. I’m seeing the ball well, and hopefully it pays off with some more playing time going forward.” Stevens shuffled his lineup slightly, » See BASEBALL, page 7

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