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City Council approved an amendment on Monday night to the city code limiting hours for legal panhandling. The amendment, which passed unanimously, will limit panhandling — the practice of asking for money, loans or gifts in a public place — to the hours between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. In response to concerns of aldermen, city attorney Grant Farrar confirmed seeking signatures for a political campaign is considered campaigning, not panhandling or solicitation. Earlier in the meeting, Dave Stoneback, the city’s utilities director, presented a study on negotiations to sell water to other municipalities and the infrastructure that would be needed to carry the water to these areas. The study, which was completed in December, investigated the costs and potential revenue from four proposed transmission routes that would bring water to municipalities generally west of Evanston. Construction of the routes and expansion of the water treatment facilities would likely be financed by the participating municipalities, Stoneback said. The route and its associated costs and revenues will largely depend on whether or If the not the Northwest Suburban Pivens take Municipal over over half Joint Action the Noyes Water Agency decides to Cultural Arts join the other Center ... there municipalities considering are going to be purchasing less diverse water from groups at the Evanston. The study Center. also revealed Fay Kaiser, Lincolnwood Voice Studio officials need teacher to negotiate a separate contract to purchase water from Evanston. Evanston resident Carl Bova, who said he came to Monday’s meeting primarily to hear about the study, said he was optimistic about the proposal but thinks the city is far from being ready to make a decision. “I think they’re not done doing their work yet,” the 58-year-old engineer said. “There are a lot of things that have to mesh.” The city’s assistance in the expansion of the Piven Theatre Workshop generated further concern, particularly from two Noyes Cultural Arts Center tenants who expressed concerns that expansion within the building would disenfranchise groups serving minorities. Maggie Weiss, chair of the Noyes tenants’ committee, told aldermen during the
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The Chabad House disaffiliation sparked outrage across campus last fall — but NU claims this wasn’t the first time its leader had been told to stop serving alcohol. By CAT ZAKRZEWSKI
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This December, like many before, Rabbi Dov Hillel Klein led a group of Northwestern students on a Birthright trip to Israel. Sitting in the Tannenbaum-Chabad House in February, Klein explained how “amazing” the trip had been for the students who joined him. He was wearing a bright purple sweatshirt with a cartoon of his own face drawn on the back. “I don’t wear it outside of here,” Klein joked. “But it shows you how much they embrace me.” The rabbi, a campus figure since 1985, is now setting his sights on planning the next Birthright trip. But when he spoke with The Daily in September, he wasn’t sure if this would even be a possibility. That month, Klein received a letter from the University that said he was no longer allowed to host Birthright trips per the University’s decision to disaffiliate with him and the Tannenbaum Chabad House. The University claims Klein violated NU’s alcohol policy by serving vodka and whiskey to minors at Shabbat dinner. In a September interview with The Daily, Klein
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admitted that he had done so. The University was unable to stop him from hosting Birthright trips because Birthright is funded through a private organization not affiliated with NU. But the disaffiliation has weighed heavily on other aspects of Klein’s involvement with students. He can no longer serve in a range of positions, from director of the Kosher food program to residential college fellow, or use campus property. Lubavitch-Chabad of Illinois filed a suit on behalf of Klein and Chabad House in September claiming NU’s decision was a form of religious “discrimination.” In part, Klein’s defense rests on an Illinois law that makes an exception for underage alcohol consumption during a religious celebration or ritual, but it is unclear whether his actions qualify for that protection. The matter remains in litigation, and University spokesman Al Cubbage said a trial date was set for Jan. 27, 2014. Chabad House’s doors remain open, and the organization is expanding. Klein said he has already raised more than $350,000 for a construction project he hopes to begin zoning in the spring. More than 800 students and community » See CHABAD, page 4
Male body image, food take focus at prof talk Male body image lecture begins week of wellness activities By JILLIAN SANDLER
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Body Acceptance Week kicked off Monday with a talk focusing on male body image. Dr. Roberto Olivardia, a clinical psychology instructor at Harvard Medical School, delivered a lecture titled “In Pursuit of Adonis: Male Body Image in Contemporary Culture.” NU’s Counseling and Psychological Services, NU’s Health Service, the Women’s Center and the dance department sponsored the talk attended by about 50 people in Norris University Center, said Dr. Eileen Biagi, CAPS staff psychologist and Eating Concerns Team coordinater. Olivardia addressed males’ battles with various eating disorders, as well as steroid use and pursuance of cosmetic surgeries. He said body image issues and eating disorders have both increased in prevalence and attracted more notice in the last three decades. Olivardia explained the Adonis Complex, named for the mythological figure who embodies the ideal male image. Men with this complex strive for facets of this image, including a muscular physique and strong jawline. Olivardia said men can manifest this in various ways, including eating disorders, body dissatisfaction and steroid use. To bring him Olivardia said males here would ... make up 10 be an avenue to 15 percent of people with for people bulimia and 5 to feel more to 10 percent comfortable of people with knowing men anorexia. He said 5 to 20 do struggle with percent of male Univerthese issues. sity students Dr. Eileen Biagi, are at risk CAPS staff for eating psychologist disorders. The psychologist has also studied “muscular belittlement” in males, which causes them to believe they are less muscular than they actually are. He said men who have this are more likely to experience negative emotions. “It was one of the first studies to show how the variability of muscularity is integral to how men and boys view their body image,” he said. The problem with the desire to be muscular, Olivardia said, is that with muscle comes increased fat content. “That’s where the dilemma is for a lot of these boys,” he said. Males’ manifestations of their eating disorders differ from those of women, Olivardia said. Males tend to binge and exercise more often, while women are more likely to abuse laxatives and diet pills
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Coin dealer pleads guilty to ‘financial crimes enterprise’
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An Evanston coin dealer pleaded guilty Wednesday to selling thousands of dollars of stolen coins and other valuables, the Chicago Tribune reported Friday. James Coello owned North Shore Coins, 1501 Chicago Ave., in Evanston. Police arrested Coello, a Chicago resident, in September after a six-month investigation sparked by information that items for sale at North Shore Coins had been stolen in home burglaries. EPD launched an undercover operation to look into the claims. Undercover officers posed as burglars and sold merchandise to Coello, The Daily reported in October. The officers indicated that the goods were stolen, but Coello purchased the goods anyway and did not request information from the undercover officers or record the sales. Coello was initially charged with felony counts of theft, organizing a financial crimes enterprise and continuing a financial crimes enterprise in September. He was arrested and held with bail set at $250,000. Coello pleaded guilty to continuing a financial crimes enterprise. Cook County Circuit Court Judge Garritt Howard sentenced Coello to 36 months of probation and 100 hours of community service and ordered him to pay fees and fines,
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worth of groceries, including steak, lamb chops, fruit, vegetables and veal. Security stopped Tabor after the last point of sale and held her until police arrived.
Ingegnono, 18, and a 17-year-old girl were returning from school in Arlington Heights, Ill., when an altercation broke out in the cab, Parrott said. The girl was alarmed and disturbed by the conversation, and reported it to the police. Ingegno is schedule to appear in court on Feb. 21.
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Evanston Police arrested a Harwood Heights, Ill., woman Saturday in connection with a case of retail theft at Whole Foods, 1111 Chicago Ave. Store security reported that the woman, Sylvia Dorota Tabor, took groceries and put them in a black bag, EPD Cmdr. Jay Parrott said. Tabor allegedly attempted to steal about $115
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One Book One Northwestern is hosting a talk on Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, a renowned modern architect who designed buildings in downtown Chicago and the Seagram Building in New York. His grandson, Chicago architect Dirk Lohan, will speak about his grandfather’s life and works. The event is co-sponsored by the Council on Language Instruction. A reception will follow the talk.
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The Harlem Shake has found its way to Evanston — for a brief moment, at least. The Northwestern men’s swimming and diving team released a video on Saturday of members of their team doing the Harlem Shake, a hip hop dance that involves shaking the torso and shoulders, that has recently gone viral across YouTube. The clip had more than 13,000 views before being taken down Monday evening. “We just kind of threw it up online to pass around ourselves to just watch it and it started We just kind getting popular,” said swimmer Alex Ratajcof threw it zyk, a Communication up online to senior who helped make pass around the video. “We did not ourselves to just expect it to become that viral.” watch it and it The website Swimstarted getting swam.com, which covhigh school, college popular. We did ers and professional swimnot expect it to ming, posted the video of the NU swimming become that and diving team dancviral. ing. Ratajczyk said he was told to remove the Alex Ratajczyk, video because the athCommunication letic department was not senior happy with the way the swimmers in the video portrayed the program. “We encourage our student-athletes to have fun and share their talents away from competition, like many will be doing Monday, Feb. 25, in
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Ryan Auditorium during the third annual StudentAthlete Talent Show to benefit (Dance Marathon’s primary beneficiary) the Danny Did Foundation, but there’s also a protocol for our teams to follow when making videos and we want to make sure that happens in this case,” said Doug Meffley, director of digital and social communications for University athletics. Ratajczyk said he was watching some Harlem Shake videos with some teammates when they got the idea to try one themselves after practice. Before they knew it, they had thousands of hits. The origins of the dance are unknown but the song used in all of the videos is Baauer’s “Harlem Shake.” Using this new genre of “trap” music, these 30-second videos usually consist of one masked person dancing around alone or with others with nobody noticing. Halfway through the video, a
group of people joins the masked person in wild, outrageous dance moves. There have been numerous videos of the dance, ranging from people in an office to soldiers in the snow. The Wildcats are not the only collegiate swim team to do a Harlem Shake dance video. University of Tennessee, Brandeis University and PomonaPitzer’s swimming teams are just a handful of collegiate squads who have posted a video of their athletes doing the dance. The emergence of swim teams doing the Harlem Shake has Swimswam. com started a Harlem Shake dance-off between schools, according to their official Twitter page. NU is currently preparing for their final meet of the season at the Big Ten Championships in Bloomington, Ind., in a couple of weeks. johnpaschall2014@u.northwestern.edu
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From page 1 members have signed a petition calling the University to reaffiliate with Chabad House. Klein said alcohol has not been served at Chabad House — with the exception of small amounts of Kiddush wine — since the University first brought the matter to his attention in July. Many members of the Jewish community are asking, “Why now?” But according to documents obtained by The Daily, this isn’t the first time Klein was told to stop serving minors. In a court filing, NU argues Klein was warned to stop providing alcohol at Chabad House in 2005, and a student served at Chabad House was transported to the hospital in 2001. University President Morton Schapiro told The Daily this month that he doesn’t believe the liquor served at Chabad House qualifies for the Illinois exception. “I’m an observant Jew,” he said. “I’ve never seen the page where you drink shots of vodka.” THE CASE Hours before Yom Kippur services began in September, Jewish students received an email from Klein announcing that the evening’s service at Norris University Center would be his last at NU. Klein told The Daily that Patricia Telles-Irvin, the vice president for student affairs, first asked him to resign in July citing concerns he was violating University alcohol policy. Klein said he responded by immediately going dry at Chabad House. The University officially cut ties with Chabad House on Sept. 11. Acting on behalf of Chabad House and Klein, Lubavitch-Chabad of Illinois filed a discrimination complaint in federal district court against NU, TellesIrvin and University Chaplain Timothy Stevens on Sept. 21. “The University claims that it offers a wide variety of religious and community options but it is discriminating against Chabad House and the Jewish faith,” the complaint read. An official response to the lawsuit from NU states at the July meeting, Telles-Irvin told Klein the University was concerned about alcohol being served to underage students, excessive consumption by students at Chabad and reports of Klein’s own “excessive use of alcohol” and “appearances in public in a state of intoxication.” The University response also argues Klein has been approached about the issue before. In 2005, Klein met with William Banis, then-vice president for student affairs, after students arrived at residence halls intoxicated after spending time at Chabad House, according to the response. The filing also states Klein met with Stevens to discuss underage drinking in both 2001 and 2005. In 2001, University Police responded to a student who had been transported to the hospital for “exhibiting significant signs of intoxication” after attending Chabad House. Stevens also addressed a family event Klein hosted in 2005 at a residential facility where alcohol was served without proper adult supervision, according to the filing. At the 2005 meeting, the filing claims Stevens told Klein directly to stop serving alcohol. During the same year, “there was a report where shots of vodka and/or whiskey were provided to students of all ages attending the Friday night dinners.” The filing goes on to claim that Klein was intoxicated at many of these events. “Given the fact that this practice and behavior has not ceased after several attempts in the last 10 years to address the issue with Rabbi Klein ... Northwestern University can no longer have an affiliation with the Tannebaum Chabad House … while Rabbi Dov Klein is the representative of your organization,” TellesIrvin wrote to Rabbi Daniel Moscowitz, director of Lubavitch-Chabad of Illinois, in a letter quoted in the filing. Klein declined to comment on the allegations the University submitted in the filing. “I can tell you everything the University has ever asked of Rabbi Klein, Rabbi Klein has complied with in full,” Moscowitz said.
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BIRTHRIGHT Despite attempts to prevent Rabbi Dov Hillel Klein from continuing to lead Birthright trips, Klein has continued his bi-annual trips to Israel with Northwestern students.
NEW ADMINISTRATOR, NEW ACTION Many in the Chabad House community are wondering why the University is choosing to disaffiliate now — especially if NU has known about alcohol being served at the house for more than a decade. “I have no idea except that we have a new vice president,” Klein said in September. Due to the ongoing litigation, Telles-Irvin has declined to comment beyond what she wrote in an email to Jewish students announcing the decision to disaffiliate in October. Telles-Irvin officially filled the role of vice president for student affairs in summer 2011. Prior to working at NU, Telles-Irvin served as the vice president of student affairs at the University of Florida, beginning in 2004. Telles-Irvin told The Daily in 2011 she spent the “tail-end” of her tenure at Florida addressing binge drinking, a topic she said she planned to tackle at NU after gaining a better sense of campus culture. The filings in the litigation show Telles-Irvin met with Klein in July to ask him to resign. “As many of you know, the Tannenbaum Chabad House and Rabbi Klein have been a part of the University community for many years, and therefore, the decision to disaffiliate was not an easy one,” TellesIrvin wrote in the October email to students. She wrote in the email an NU investigation found
RECENT DEVELOPMENTS July 31, 2012
Patricia Telles-Irvin, vice president for student affairs, and Rev. Tim Stevens asks Rabbi Dov Hillel Klein to resign immediately, according to the case. Telles-Irvin tells him as long as he remains at Chabad House, it cannot be affiliated with the University.
Sept. 26, 2012
Klein says in an interview with The Daily that alcohol was served at Chabad.
Telles-Irvin writes a letter to Rabbi Daniel Moscowitz informing him NU will not affiliate with Chabad House while Klein is “the representative,” according to the document.
Oct. 5, 2012
NU files its official response to Klein’s initial discovery.
Sept. 21, 2012
Lubavitch-Chabad files a complaint against NU, launching the litigation.
The university officially disaffiliated with Chabad House and Rabbi Dov Hillel Klein on Sept. 11, 2012. These are the events surrounding the decision.
Oct. 24, 2012
Telles-Irvin sends an email to Jewish students announcing and explaining NU’s decision to disaffiliate with Chabad House.
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Trial date set for the case.
Klein alerts the Jewish community of the disaffiliation in an email, hours before performing what will be his last service on University property.
Klein had violated University policy by serving alcohol to underage students and that “excessive consumption” occurred at Chabad House. POLICIES AT PLAY NU alcohol policy states students are expected to follow Illinois state laws and campus rules concerning alcohol and other drugs. Although Illinois state law makes a provision for students to drink during a religious ceremony, the Student Handbook does not make a similar explicit exception. The policy was updated in the 2012-2013 Student Handbook to include that the University “regularly publishes a Policy on Drugs and Alcohol pursuant to federal mandates” that order “the creation and maintenance of academic and working environments free from illicit drug use and alcohol abuse.” In the December preface of the Policy on Alcohol and Drugs 2012-13, Schapiro wrote the University’s alcohol policy was issued in 1989 to comply with the Drug-Free Workplace Act of 1988. That policy is listed in the Student Handbook. The regulations also appear in the faculty and staff handbooks, he wrote in the preface. Klein’s case argues Chabad House is being discriminated against because other groups on campus “had committed the same acts.” The Christian Eucharist, for example, involves wine. A December Chicago Tribune article claims Klein’s defense will argue Schapiro serves alcohol, specifically wine, to students at his Passover dinners. Schapiro told The Daily earlier this month that students are carded at regular dinners at his home, but he was unsure of what the policy was for wine at his Passover dinners. SESP sophomore Lizzie Kreitman attended Passover last year at Schapiro’s house, where she said both wine and grape juice were available. Kreitman said she believed students were held to an “honors system” when it came to drinking at Schapiro’s Passover dinner. Schapiro cited the Illinois law making an exception for alcohol served during religious ceremonies. But he distinguished wine protected under this law from the hard liquor Klein served. “It seems curious, though, to conflate serving wine in the context of a seder and doing shots of vodka,” Schapiro said. “Am I missing something here?” Moscowitz argues that in Hasidic Judaism, a traditional form of Judaism that includes the Chabad movement, there is a tradition called a “Farbrengen,” in which alcohol is served. The term is Yiddish for “joyous gathering.” He also cited the tradition of the “L’Chaim.” “Within the context of a Sabbath, holiday or life event, it is a toast to wish each other good life and great accomplishments,” he said. Although these traditions exist in the Chabad movement, the Chabad on Campus International Foundation has formally forbid the service of alcohol to students under 21 — with the exception of Kiddush wine — for more than 10 years, said Rabbi Menachem Schmidt, the organization’s director. The organization goes even further in situations where a school’s policy is stricter than its own. “If a university has a different policy, we go according to that university’s policy,” Schmidt said. Schmidt said many Chabad Houses on college campuses only serve grape juice, and the policy does not make a special exception for “Farbrengens.” He directs the Lubavitch House at the University of Pennsylvania, where he said alcohol has not been served openly in more than fifteen years with the exception of Kiddush wine.
has he discussed those views in class or made the issue part of his class curriculum. As a result, we cannot take action based on the content of what Mr. Butz says regarding the Holocaust without undermining the vital principle of intellectual freedom that our policy serves to protect.”
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LEGACY Despite setting a trial date, Rabbi Dov Hillel Klein hopes to find common ground and reaffiliate with the University. He has played an active role in life at Northwestern for 27 years.
JEWISH HISTORY AT NU NU is widely known as a university with an active Jewish life. In 2011, the University ranked 16th on a list of the top 60 private schools by Jewish student population on the Hillel website. According to the website, 1,600 out of about 8,000 undergraduates are Jewish, and the University offers approximately 35 Jewish studies courses, as well as a major and a minor. But campus culture was not always this way. Until the 1960s, NU had a strict Jewish admissions quota policy. Many at Chabad House have argued that the organization was influential in changing what some once called NU’s anti-Semitic culture. “What it comes down to is Northwestern was not nearly as accepting of Jewish life as it is now,” said Matthew Renick, Chabad House’s student executive board president and a Weinberg senior, in September. Renick pointed to Klein’s work on campus as instrumental in changing the culture. “To take the frontrunner out of the picture, I don’t think that’s right.” Matthew Altman (Communication ‘10) also served as the president of the Chabad House student executive board and supported Klein through petitioning the University. He said Klein’s contributions to the University were “wide and far-reaching.” “His absence has been widely felt,” Altman said in November. When Tannenbaum Chabad House first opened its doors in 1985 following a fierce legal battle with the Supreme Court, NU was very different, Klein said. “I don’t think I would have known what antiSemitism was back then,” Klein said. “I don’t think I felt it. But on the other hand, was Jewish life embraced? No.” He said when he first came to campus, he did feel “hostility.” Students told him they did not write they were Jewish on their applications, and NU was behind its peer institutions in developing a Kosher food program, Klein said. “You were in the closet as a Jew here,” he said. “Now, people walk and talk Jewish.” Klein said his influence in creating a Kosher program and bringing it to campus in the early 2000s helped change that perception, signifying to parents
that Jewish life was “vibrant” on campus. The change can be noted at the Chabad House Shabbat dinners, which initially were only attended by a few students and now typically host nearly 75. Although NU’s religious climate has improved, Klein noted that during his tenure there were examples of anti-Semitism. In 2003, a swastika with the phrase “Die Jews” was painted in front of Norris. Chabad House itself was the site of vandalism in 2010, when the arm of the large menorah outside the building was torn off during Halloween weekend. Evanston Police did not investigate the incident as a hate crime, although Klein believes it was. “My feeling was, ‘How could it not be? It was a menorah,’” he said. Following the vandalism, about 300 students attended a forum in Technological Institute, Klein said. Schapiro and Stevens both attended a menorah-lighting ceremony at Chabad House following the incident on Hanukkah. But Klein said he, not NU, was responsible for organizing the forum. “I wasn’t waiting for the University to do something or create something,” Klein said.“It’s typically not done that way, at least when things happen in the Jewish community.” The director of the Lubavitch-Chabad of Illinois said the University’s decision to disaffiliate “resurrects” this history. Although he said the University made strides by hiring Schapiro, a Jewish president, he finds it offensive that a known Holocaust denier, McCormick Prof. Arthur Butz, remains on faculty. Butz, who joined the NU faculty in 1996, published a book titled “The Hoax of the Twentieth Century: The Case Against Presumed Extermination of European Jewry” in 1976. He more recently gained media attention for supporting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s statements that the Holocaust was a “myth.” In 1997, former University President Henry Bienen released a statement saying Butz remained on faculty because of the University’s policy on “intellectual freedom.” “Mr. Butz does not claim that his views are those of the University, and I emphasize again that they are not,” the statement read. “In addition, at no time
CHABAD HOUSE TODAY Students say Klein has done everything in his power to keep things as normal as possible at Chabad House despite the ongoing case. The most noticeable difference is that rather than wine or liquor, soda and juice fill the cups at dry Shabbat dinners. Klein also is no longer able to serve as the faculty adviser of the NU chapter of Alpha Epsilon Pi, but he remains one of three rabbis for the fraternity’s international organization. Klein has found ways to continue many of the ministries he once performed on campus, now just a few blocks away in Chabad House. Klein said the organization’s expansion is projected to cost about $500,000. He plans to put in an industrial kitchen, bathrooms and office space and make the building handicap accessible. He also said the project would improve the carpeting and wallpaper. In the wake of the 2010 vandalization, he wants to add shatter-proof windows. “There have been issues,” he said. “We want to make sure the premises is safe.” THE FUTURE OF CHABAD HOUSE Despite the ongoing lawsuit, Klein said he hopes to one day reaffiliate with the University. “I love Northwestern,” Klein said. “I’ve been committed here for 27 years.” Although Klein is not allowed “to present himself as a member of the Northwestern community” per the disaffiliation, the sign outside of Chabad House still reads “Northwestern Jewish Center.” “That is the original sign that has been there since 1985,” Klein said. “The University does not own the word ‘Northwestern.’” And Klein made sure he was still there when NU remembered Alyssa Weaver — the Weinberg junior who died while studying abroad this fall — with a candlelit vigil at The Rock last November. Before her death, Weaver had attended Shabbat dinners hosted by Klein. Due to the terms of the disaffiliation, Klein could not stand with the mourning students and faculty, but he still wanted to take part in the event. “I drove and stopped on Sheridan (Road) and put down my windows and put my flashers on,” Klein said. “It was important for me to have a sense of presence there.” Klein said he will continue his original mission to serve the Evanston-Wilmette Jewish community as well as the Northwestern community despite the “obstacles” the disaffiliation presents. “I have a legacy,” Klein said. “I don’t say that with arrogance. I hope that will be able to move forward.” That legacy, while attested by the community, has not persuaded the University to reverse its decision. In the letter to Moscowitz the University filed in the case, Telles-Irvin acknowledged his involvement in “many aspects of our students’ lives.” “While he has been involved with our students in very important ways; unfortunately, none of that changes my conclusion given the serious ramifications for the University and our students,” TellesIrvin wrote. czak15@u.northwestern.edu
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Paris persists Parental support still in marriage necessary during college debates
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Since 1999, same-sex couples in France have been able to enter civil unions, which — like marriages — allow for jointly filed tax returns, sharing of insurance policies, eased access to residency permits for foreigners and other practical benefits. However, last month the French Parliament introduced a bill that would fully legalize marriage and adoption for same-sex couples. The bill is still being debated in Parliament, but it is expected to pass in the next few months. If so, France will become only the 12th country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage. The fact that the French parliament is socialist-dominated and that President Francois Hollande has promised legalization of same-sex marriage may lead one to conclude that this law would be both expected and uncontroversial. Nevertheless, the debate over the bill has been lively on the streets of France, particularly in its capital. On Jan. 13, about 340,000 people gathered on the streets of Paris in order to protest against same-sex marriage and adoption. Although both the Catholic Church and the right-wing opposition publicly supported the protest, organizers defined it as nonpolitical and nonreligious. The protesters’ main argument against the bill is that it would undermine the essential building block of the French society: the family. This Sunday, in response to the Jan. 13 protests, people again took to the streets of Paris, this time united in support of the bill. In a rally that ended at the Place de la Bastille, the square most well known as a symbol of the French Revolution, police estimated the number of marchers at 125,000. This number is, at best, modest compared to the number of marchers that joined the protest against the bill. The variability in the number of protesters on each side could be a factor in the decision-making of some members of the French parliament. On the other hand, this statistic is not the only one that addresses the opinion of the French public. Notably, a recentlyreleased survey shows that the number of people that support the legalization of same-sex marriage actually increased by 3 percent from last December, when it stood at 60 percent. Although the streets of Paris have witnessed an intense debate on the issue of same-sex marriage, the real decisionmaking will, as always, be up to those few sitting in Parliament. Katarina Kosmina is a Communication junior and a Global Paradigm Fellow based in England. The Global Paradigm Project is intended to link students across the world in a substantive discussion of politics and policy. Visit politicsandpolicy.org/category/dispatches to read more posts from our Global Paradigm Fellows.
BLAIR DUNBAR
DAILY COLUMNIST
College is a bubble, cut off from the real world. During those four years, you’re straddling the line between two parts of your life. You’re not a kid but you’re not off on your own. While you’re struggling to assert your independence, chances are you are still dependent on your parents. So then what becomes of your relationship with your parents? The first Winter Break back from college was a bit of an adjustment. After spending three months largely doing whatever I wanted, I suddenly got nagged for my weird sleep schedule, asked to do miscellaneous chores around the house and was generally forced to listen to my parents. After complete independence came complete dependence. Except I realized during that break in college you are never completely independent. Most students rely on their parents for some funding or another and, at the very least, a place to stay when the University closes down for holidays. I would love to tell my parents they have no say in my major or whether I should drop a class. I would love to go home and tell my parents that I won’t take out the trash, but I can’t. A couple of weeks ago, a few of my friends made plans to go get ear piercings. One of my friends said she would come but, unfortunately, would not be able to get a second ear piercing. I asked why, and she responded that her parents would kill her. At first I wanted to say, “You’re 18! You don’t have to listen to your parents.� But then I realized she did. After all, where does she live? Who has a job? Who pays the bills? Her parents. Legally you are an adult when you turn 18, but I certainly don’t feel like one. I have no idea how I want to spend my summer, let alone what career I want. I feel like I would never be able to keep an apartment if I had to remember to pay the rent on time every month. At the same time, I don’t want my parents telling me I can’t sleep until two in the afternoon or go out late at night with my friends.
One of my friends doesn’t want to pay for her housing, but she also doesn’t want her parents telling her she can’t live off-campus. As college kids, we take our parents for granted. We want their money but at the same time we want them to stay out of our lives. I’m a member of Jumpstart. In the preschool where I volunteer, the kids take a nap every day from one to three. Every day, the kids fight against going to sleep. They just want to play. I told one of the children that one day he’ll wish he has a nap time. Of course, he won’t realize it until he has five hours of homework a day and can barely fit in three hours of sleep a night during finals week. It’s the same way with parents. We won’t realize how much we need them until they’re no longer Legally you are there. I love my parents. an adult when In fact, I still call them almost every you turn 18, Sometimes I even but I certainly day. find myself wishdon’t feel like ing that they could make my life decione. I have sions for me. When no idea how I I’m stressed or overwant to spend whelmed, I just want to snuggle up on the my summer, couch with my mom let alone what or drink hot cocoa career I want. with my stepdad. It’s those times that I realize I still need my parents. Not just for their finances, but for emotional support as well. College is important not just because of the education it provides but because it’s a transition period. Very few are ready to go out on their own. At least with college you get a little stepping-stone. And I think it’s good you have to listen to your parents for four more years. After all, they’ve lived a lot longer. Eighteen years probably isn’t enough time for them to share all their valuable advice.
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Blair Dunbar is a Weinberg sophomore. She can be reached at blairdunbar2015@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, email a Letter to the Editor to forum@dailynorthwestern.com.
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Earlier this month, Vice President Joe Biden made a short visit to Berlin on his way to the Munich Security Conference. Many Europeans hoped that he, as a representative of President Barack Obama’s government, would spell out an expansive and positive view of U.S.-European relations. In Berlin, they got their wish. Biden promised a unified stance with Germany and the European Union, proclaiming them to be the most important allies to the United States , assuaging legitimate European fears that U.S. foreign relations may have been shifting to become more Asia-centric. According to polls conducted by Transatlantic Trends in 2012, a majority of Americans and citizens of EU member states consider the relationship between the United States and the EU to be highly important — more important than relationships with developed Asian nations — on a large number of issues, from security to climate change. Many Europeans and Germans hope that since Obama is free from the need to run for reelection, he will pursue previously ignored topics, such as world climate accords, with more vigor. In Munich, European representatives were excited to hear Biden fully endorse a free trade agreement between the United States and the EU, which has been a goal of both sides since the 1990s and more recently the subject of a push by the EU Parliament. It has been difficult to attain because of key differences in measurements, safety and health standards, and other “red tape� problems. Biden emphasized the need to grow past these problems, arguing, “We can overcome the present differences. It must be done because the fruits of the agreement will be unlimited.� Some economists argue that a free trade agreement between the two political entities, which traded an estimated $600 billion worth of goods in 2012, would boost economic growth, a potent argument considering the economic troubles on both sides of the Atlantic. Biden also addressed open negotiations with Iran, promising only to commit to negotiations if the Iranian regime is serious about negotiating in good faith about the future of its nuclear refinement operations. Syria was also mentioned, with Biden once again calling on Assad to step down. On each issue Biden highlighted the commitment of European nations and argued that a strong EU is important to world security and America’s success. His visit has created a chance for the Obama Administration to deepen ties between the two unions. Erick Meszaros-Jones is a Weinberg senior and a Global Paradigm Fellow based in England. The Global Paradigm Project is intended to link students across the world in a substantive discussion of politics and policy. Visit politicsandpolicy.org/category/dispatches to read more posts from our Global Paradigm Fellows.
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citizen comment that the committee still had questions about what would happen to tenants displaced by the theater’s expansion. “I do believe Piven expansion can take place in a positive way,� she said. “But most people on our committee and most tenants in our building are dismayed because we do not have answers.� Both Weiss and Fay Kaiser, a teacher at Voice Studio, a business located within the Center, said they worried expansion of Piven would exclude businesses serving or run by minorities. “If the Pivens take over over half the Noyes Cultural Arts Center ... there are going to be less diverse groups at the Center,� Kaiser said, “I urge you to remember what the Noyes Center stood for: a collective building that catered to people of different diverse backgrounds.� The Piven proposal to expand within the Noyes Center by more than doubling its square footage was presented to the council last year. Since the proposal was presented, tenants have expressed concerns about those who would be displaced.
Board has big plans for lengthened orientation week, mental health ENU By AMY WHYTE
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Applications are currently being accepted for peer advisers for Wildcat Welcome 2013, which will implement a number of new programs in an effort to continue improving the transition of incoming classes to Northwestern. Aside from the addition of a new Mental Health Essential NU orientation program, which the University approved at the beginning of the quarter, several other changes are planned for Wildcat Welcome Week 2013, including both the addition of new programming and the removal of old programming. Serving Communities And Promoting Engagement, a service day freshmen have participated in for the past two years, is being removed from Wildcat Welcome programming to be replaced with a new component that will be announced next month. “We decided we’d rather focus on getting students oriented to campus and to each other,� said Josh McKenzie, assistant director of New Student and Family Programs. “We can save service for later on.� The new program will focus on NU traditions and building a sense of community and school spirit. McKenzie said it will take new students off campus to experience a “day of all things Northwestern.� “Our goal is to really bring everyone together as a community,� McKenzie said. “Not just Medill, not just (School of Communication), but really everyone.� Another change planned for next year is a return to the traditional eight-day schedule. This past Wildcat Welcome, which ran from Sept. 20 to 26, was shortened due to the later start of the academic year in the University’s observance of Yom Kippur. “We had to condense it this year because of holidays, and a lot of people felt rushed because of it — new students and PAs,� McKenzie said. Ian Hendrickson, the Wildcat Welcome director for the Bienen School of Music, said he is “really excited� about getting back to the longer schedule because it gives the board of directors the opportunity to do more with the
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From page 1 and seek thinness rather than muscularity. Olivardia also touched on the role of body image in aspects of culture such as advertising and music. Communication senior Dani Alcorn said she enjoyed the talk. “It was a really great speech,� Alcorn said. “I thought that he summarized the research very well in an engaging manner and it’s a really interesting topic that doesn’t get talked about enough, so it was nice to hear a broad view of male body issues.� Biagi said CAPS wanted to bring Olivardia to NU to increase awareness about eating disorders and body image issues in males. “To bring him here would be a way to learn more about that and be an avenue for people to feel more comfortable knowing men do struggle with these issues and that there’s help and treatment available,� Biagi said. Olivardia said campus talks and support groups are helpful to males who are struggling. “What’s striking is that a lot of men may not attend one of the groups on campus, but for them to know that this even exists, it can be very powerful for them because then it means other men are struggling with it,� he said. jilliansandler2014@u.northwestern.edu
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WELCOME ON BOARD The Wildcat Welcome board of directors released peer adviser applications last week. The program is moving back to its eight-day schedule in 2013.
orientation time. “We’re really trying to integrate a more holistic approach to Wildcat Welcome,� said the Bienen and Weinberg senior, who was a PA in 2012 and 2010. “Especially with the addition of the Mental Health ENU, to be the first board to work with this is really exciting.� Additionally, the Office of New StuWe decided dent and Family Prowe’d rather grams wants to act as focus on getting a resource for new students throughout the students school year through oriented to the creation of a new campus and to position, director for first year experience. each other. “Wildcat Welcome tries to solve the probJosh McKenzie, Assistant director, lem of providing a New Student and transition to students Family Programs from high school to Northwestern and for them to feel comfortable here — socially and academically,� McKenzie said. “We know that isn’t solved in seven days. So our big focus
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for next year is what happens after Wildcat Welcome.� This year’s PA application process, which includes mandatory attendance at an informational “Call Out Session,� completion of an online application and a series of interviews, will continue through the quarter. Students will find out whether they are invited to move on to the interview round Feb. 22, and final decisions will be announced March 15. Weinberg freshman Emily Trokey said she wants to apply to be a PA for the upcoming year because her own Wildcat Welcome experience was so positive. “I got really close to my PA group and my PA,� Trokey said. “My PA actually lives on my floor, and I know that if I have any questions I can always go to her. And I’d like to be able to be that person for an incoming freshman.� McKenzie said he hopes the changes to Wildcat Welcome will make students’ first exposure as full-fledged NU students more enjoyable. “It’s a time of excitement and promise about what lies ahead,� McKenzie said. “We’re striving for as close to perfection as possible.� amywhyte2015@u.northwestern.edu
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SPORTS
ON DECK
ON THE RECORD
We fought really hard and our intensity was good. We just made some considerable mistakes. — Kate Drohan, softball coach
Men’s Basketball 14 NU at Ohio State, 6 p.m. Thursday
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Wildcats on both ends of upsets By ABBEY CHASE
the daily northwestern
The Wildcats’ season so far has been characterized by consistency, but an odd weekend on the road saw Northwestern on either end of two upsets at the Duke Duals in Durham, N.C. on Sunday. “A coach would like to get that consistent performance out of their team all the time and it just doesn’t happen,” coach Laurie Schiller said. “That’s frustrating but every program, every coach has to go through that.” Sunday morning saw a slow start from the Cats, who stumbled They’re a good out of the starting team but they blocks with weren’t better a loss to No. 11 Duke. than us. I was “It was not at all happy our f irst match of with that the day and because there I think some of us were were just too really as many bouts lost. not worked up and aggresLaurie Schiller, sive as we Fencing coach should have been,” senior Chloe Grainger said. “We haven’t lost to Duke since I’ve been here and I think we got a little lackadaisical.” Although Grainger won her three bouts to help push the sabre squad to a 5-4 win, a 7-2 loss by the epee squad put the Cats in a hole against the Blue Devils, and the rest of the team was unable to make up the difference. “They’re a good team but they weren’t better than us,” Schiller said. “I was not at all happy with that
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Reasons to keep on watching ROHAN NADKARNI SPORTS EDITOR
Fencing Daily file photo by Skylar Zhang
LEAN BACK Freshman foilist Jen Yamin dodges her opponent during the NU Duals. The Wildcats were upset by No. 11 Duke at the Duke Duals, but rebounded to topple No. 5 Penn Sate 17-10 the next day.
because there were just too many bouts lost that shouldn’t have been lost and the end result was a 14-13 defeat. But there’s no excuses. You have to come out ready to play.” After a disappointing start to the day, NU came out in its second match ready to fight. “It definitely was a wake-up call,” Grainger said of the team’s loss to Duke. “Our foil captain Dayana (Sarkisova) was very upset and gave us a talking-to afterwards and got us pumped up for Penn State and I think we really turned it around.” Taking on Penn State, a team NU had not beaten since 2008, the Cats put forth a determined effort to take the match from the No. 5 Nittany Lions. The epee squad rebounded from its morning loss to decisively
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win 8-1 to help propel NU to a 17-10 victory. While the Cats have had close matches with their higher-ranked opponents all season, their win over Penn State marked the first time NU scored an upset in 2013. “We haven’t really had what my coach calls our signature win this year and I think that Penn State is maybe our signature win,” Grainger said. “I’m a little put-off by Duke maybe being our signature loss but I think it was good that we were able
to follow up that signature loss with our signature win and pick it up for ourselves and our coach.” The Cats closed out the weekend with an 18-9 win over North Carolina, their second victory over the Tar Heels in one week. With a 34-7 record on the season, NU now has just one set of dual meets left at Notre Dame to try to score another upset before the end of the regular season. The majority of the team will have an off-weekend this weekend while nine of the team’s younger competitors will be travelling to compete individually and as squads in the Junior Olympic Fencing Championships in Baltimore, Md. abigailchase2015@u.northwestern.edu
Softball
NU drops five straight on first weekend Arizona unkind to the Wildcats, who start 0-5 in nonconference
No. 2 Oklahoma
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daily senior staffer
Northwestern was competitive against some of the nation’s best teams — it just couldn’t pull out the victories. The Wildcats lost four of their five games by four runs or fewer and came home from Tempe, Ariz., with no wins. It was a disappointing start for a team that returned most of the starters from last year’s team, which made the NCAA Regionals. “We fought really hard and our intensity was really good in the first game against Arizona and the last game against Oklahoma,” coach Kate Drohan said. “We just made some considerable mistakes, like giving up too many base runners.” NU was playing from behind for most of the weekend but managed to get some good rallies going against some of the best talent in the country. The highlight was the team’s four-run inning against reigning USA Softball Player of the Year Keilani Ricketts and No. 2 Oklahoma. The rally chased Ricketts from the circle after two innings and gave the Cats a 4-2 lead. Oklahoma would score three runs in the next inning to recapture the lead, but Drohan said she liked the fight
Men’s Basketball
Daily file photo by Samantha Maeng
THE PLATINUM SOMBRERO Sophomore Olivia Duehr swings during a game in 2012. The Wildcats went 0-5 as a team in Arizona to start their season, including losses to No. 13 Arizona and No. 2 Oklahoma.
in her team. The rally against the Sooners was one of the few bright spots for the Cats on the weekend. Drohan said she liked the offensive production from sophomore infielder Anna Edwards, who led the team with a .471 average in the five games. She had eight hits on the weekend, four of which went for extra bases. S ophomore pitcher Amy Letourneau had 26 strikeouts, 21 of which came against NU’s two
ranked foes. The Cats were without the services of senior Emily Allard due to an undisclosed injury. The shortstop started as the designated player in the first game against No. 13 Arizona, but did not play in the remaining four games. Edwards moved over to shortstop, forcing Drohan to play two freshmen on the right side of the infield for most of the weekend. Drohan said the freshmen got
better as the weekend progressed and expects they will improve more with time. Aubrie May was the only freshman to start all five games of the tournament, playing first and second base. She went 3-for-17 at the plate but scored twice and had an RBI. “They got stronger (this weekend),” Drohan said. “Aubrie May had good poise at the plate and they got more comfortable playing at this level as the weekend went along.” The Cats made some uncharacteristic mistakes in the field, committing 14 errors during the weekend. Junior Marisa Bast made six errors at third base, nearly half of the total she had last season. NU also struggled to get on base with a .295 on-base percentage almost 100 points less than its opponents. Despite the errors, Drohan said the team is not anxious yet and is ready to improve during practice this week. “Nobody’s hitting the panic button just yet,” Drohan said. “We’ll work this week to correct the mistakes. It’s just part of the project. We’ll learn from our mistakes and move forward.” joshuawalfish2014@u.northwestern.edu
If you watched the entire men’s basketball game at Iowa over the weekend, then you, like me, wished you had thought more about applying to Michigan. Even though it doesn’t have a journalism program, at least that one girl you know from middle school goes there and knows that Middle Eastern restaurant. Well, even if all those exact thoughts didn’t cross your mind, you probably let out a few expletives usually only reserved for the worst of dentists when freshman center Alex Olah and graduate student forward Jared Swopshire both went down with injuries. With a matchup looming against Ohio State, continuing to watch the Wildcats could be tough for even the biggest of fans. Fortunately, that’s where I come in. I may not play center like I did in my recreational basketball days, but I can offer these reasons why you should still enjoy men’s basketball the rest of the way, even if injuries seemingly ruined this season. Reggie Hearn: Last year, I referred to Hearn, a senior guard, as the lounge kid because of his tireless work ethic, akin to the one kid always pouring over their work in your dorm lounge. Well, Hearn hasn’t disappointed this year. Battling injury troubles of his own, the senior refuses to let his team make excuses. Watch as Hearn battles for every loose ball, defends with all out-intensity and plays with full energy every second he’s on the court. Hearn and fellow senior Alex Marcotullio have only precious few games left in purple and white, and both are playing with the fiery passion that makes basketball fun to watch. Legend Killers: During the NBA season, when former Spartan Draymond Green was matched up against LeBron James, it occurred to me how awesome it was to witness Davide Curletti steal Green’s lunch money during last year’s upset over Michigan State. This year, the Cats already notched one semi-upset over in-state rival Illinois. With one more game left against the Illini, as well as matchups with Ohio State, Wisconsin and Michigan State, NU could score one more big upset before the season ends. Although it’s highly unlikely, especially without Swop and Olah, the beauty of coach Bill Carmody’s system is that when it all clicks on the right night, the Cats can hang with anyone. And it would be especially sweet to beat Ohio State after what happened in Evanston last year. I hate Jared Sullinger. One Northwestern: Last week, I bumped into Olah at late-night Plex. As we filled up cereal next to one another, I clumsily wished him good luck against Iowa, and he thanked me, acknowledging they’ll need it. Aside from my takeaway that I’m kind of creepy around people and I probably made Olah regret deciding to eat cereal that night, I realized that we all have it tough on this campus. I’m busy with midterms and attempting not to ruin a 130-year legacy at The Daily. Maybe you’re on a DM exec committee. Maybe you’re an ASG committee member juggling tons of other responsibilities. Maybe you’re studying away from NU this quarter, isolated from your friends and relationships. Or maybe you’re just a tall freshman who was the focal point of a Princeton offense before taking a hit to the head. But we’re all students, and it’s our job to support each other. rohannadkarni2015@u.northwestern.edu