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CTA worker dies in Chicago fire John Fasula remembered for 12 years of hard work By CIARA MCCARTHY
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A Chicago Transit Authority employee who frequently worked in Evanston died Jan. 22 in a Chicago fire while saving an elderly woman. Evanston officials mourned the man, John Fasula, last week, remembering him as a hardworking and efficient collaborator with the city. Fasula and another man, Jameel Johnson, died in a building fire in the 6700 block of South Shore Drive. After a fire started on the seventh floor of the building, the men rescued an 81-year-old woman and sent her downstairs to safety on an elevator, the Chicago Tribune reported. The men died when they returned to the apartment with a fire extinguisher and were overcome by smoke, the Chicago Police Department confirmed. Fasula, 50, was the manager of the CTA’s west shop, in charge of system maintenance for both rail lines and bus routes. He often worked on the Purple Line train, which runs through Evanston. He began working for the CTA in April 1983, CTA spokesperson Lambrini Lukidis said. Lukidis praised Fasula’s dedication to the company and described
him as a well-respected employee who worked on a variety of different projects. Fasula was off from work the day he died in the apartment building, a site where he was reportedly working a side job. Evanston city manager Wally Bobkiewicz sent an email to Evanston media last week praising Fasula’s contribuJohn Fasula tions to the helped make city and the commute his dedicaon the Purple tion to his work. line better by “John Fasula his personal helped attention to make the getting things commute on the done. Purple Wally Bobkiewicz, Line betEvanston city ter by his manager personal attention to getting things done,” Bobkiewicz wrote. “Evanston is a better place because of his work.” Fasula worked with many city staffers during his time with the CTA, including collaborating with Ald. Ann Rainey (8th) on Purple Line maintenance issues, Bobkiewicz wrote. Karlton Mims, a sign inspector and graffiti technician for the city, worked with Fasula for more than
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MLK MEMORIES Harry Belafonte, world-renowned singer and humanitarian, delivers the keynote address to conclude Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. celebrations on Monday evening. Belafonte became a close personal friend to King after meeting him in the 1950s, and he referenced the Civil Rights Movement in his speech.
Belafonte speaks about MLK By JOSEPH DIEBOLD
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Ending Northwestern’s two-week celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. in a keynote address Monday, legendary Calypso singer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte bemoaned the death on college campuses of the “radical thought”
Ballet dancer, actor Baryshnikov announced as 2013 speaker
World-renowned ballet dancer and Emmy-winning actor Mikhail Baryshnikov will give the main address and receive an honorary degree at Northwestern’s 155th commencement, according to a University news release. Baryshnikov, born in Latvia to Russian parents, has experienced much success on both the screen and stage. Baryshnikov has made a name for himself in the ballet scene. He joined New York City Ballet in 1979 and became the artistic director for American Ballet Theatre in 1980. Baryshnikov then founded the White Oak Dance Project in 1990 with choreographer Mark Morris and introduced modern dance to people around the world. In 2005, he founded Baryshnikov Arts Center, which consists of four large studios in New York and attracts more than 22,000 audience members every year, the release said. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1977 for his performance in “The Turning Point” and received an Emmy in 1980 for his work in “Baryshnikov on Broadway” with Liza Minelli.
that inspired King’s words and actions. Belafonte, who befriended King during a visit to New York in the 1950s, gave his half-hour speech in front of a packed Pick-Staiger Concert Hall. He remembered his interactions with King and their shared struggle in overcoming segregation. Known as the “King of Calypso,” Belafonte helped popularize the Caribbean
NU-Q hires new leadership as part of restructuring
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ON OUR TOES Northwestern announced Mikhail Baryshnikov as the commencement speaker for 2013. Baryshnikov, whose daughter attends NU, is considered one of the world’s greatest ballet dancers.
Baryshnikov also appeared on the last season of “Sex and the City” as the love interest of Sarah Jessica Parker’s character, Carrie Bradshaw. Baryshnikov has received several awards for his work, including one in 2000 from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, according to the release. He was also given the National Medal of Arts the same year and received the University Chubb Fellowship for 2003-2004 and the
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Jerome Robbins Award in 2005. He was named an Officer of the French Legion of Honor in 2010, according to the release. B a r y s h n i k ov ’s d au g ht e r, Anna, is a junior in the School of Communication. The 2013 commencement ceremony will be held at 9:30 a.m. June 21 at Ryan Field. — Jillian Sandler
Continuing a campus-wide restructuring initiative, Northwestern University in Qatar has hired two new deans to run the newly-created academic affairs and research departments and two program directors for the Doha campus, according to a University news release. Jeremy Cohen will serve as the chief academic officer and associate dean for academic affairs, and John Pavlik is the new associate dean for research. The current restructuring program began last fall with the hiring of Sandra Richards to head liberal arts studies at the University. Richards holds a doctorate in drama from Stanford University and is a professor of African American and performance studies for the School of Communication. As part of the ongoing restructuring, NU-Q promoted three professors to director positions for the journalism, communication and liberal arts programs. Dean and CEO Everette Dennis said in the news release the new heads will create “a maturation of the NU-Q program, connecting and integrating our academic services with professional outreach, all to be responsive to a digital and global society.” The new positions were created to help NU-Q enter a “new phase of growth and development.” As the head of academic affairs, Cohen will work to increase
style of music in the 1950s, particularly with his hit songs “Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)” and “Jamaica Farewell.” During the 1980s, he became a key voice in the opposition to apartheid policies in South Africa. Although the event served as a celebration of King’s life, Belafonte said he remembered a striking cynicism in King’s » See BELAFONTE, page 6
collaboration between NU-Q and the other campuses in Doha’s Education City, a cluster of satellite university campuses. Pavlik will work to create a school-wide research program and develop new publication series, according to the release. Cohen, who holds a doctorate in communications from the University of Washington, comes to NU-Q from Penn State University, where he served as the associate vice president and senior dean for undergraduate education. His expertise is in education and communication as well as democratic engagement. Pavlik is the current director of the Journalism Research Institute at Rutgers University and is a journalism and communication professor there. He holds a doctorate in mass communication from the University of Minnesota. The new deans will “bring exceptional reputations as institutional leaders, scholars and media experts to NU-Q and the Qatar community,” Dennis said in the release. New director Mary Dedinsky, a former Chicago Sun-Times managing editor and a Medill professor in Evanston, will head the NU-Q journalism program. Dedinsky replaced former journalism head Richard Roth, now a senior associate dean. Scott Curtis, a visual media expert and former president of the international cinema association Dormitor, will serve as director of the communication program. Curtis also holds a doctorate in film studies from the University of Iowa. — Ally Mutnick
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