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CTA puts lines on hold for project Bridge constructin affects Purple Express, Red, Brown line trains

By CIARA MCCARTHY

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The Chicago Transit Authority has halted Purple Line Express train service through March 11 due to construction, temporarily lengthening commutes for some Evanston El riders.

The Chicago Department of Transportation scheduled the first half of reconstruction of the Wells Street Bridge from Friday through March 11, which means CTA trains between Merchandise Mart and the Loop will be suspended. CDOT’s reconstruction will occur in two parts. Workers are constructing one half of the bridge during this nine-day period and will build the second half from April 26 to May 6.

Because CDOT’s reconstruction prevents CTA trains from operating, the CTA will conduct its own repairs during the same time period. CTA usually schedules repair work on weekends only but decided to coordinate its construction with CDOT’s so travelers would suffer minimal delays.

The CTA’s repairs are part of the larger Loop Track Renewal Project, which began in March 2012 and will cost $33.8 million. The ongoing construction will address special track work needed near the Tower 18 junction. This junction is the busiest in the CTA, Lukidis said. She said the junction handles five of the CTA’s eight rail lines, amounting to nearly 700 trains a day. These two periods of repair will likely be the final phases of the Loop Track Renewal Project.

“It was perfect timing to coordinate those efforts and do work while the Wells Street Bridge was already going to be shut down,” CTA spokeswoman Lambrini Lukidis said.

The conjunction of these projects will reduce work time by eight days and reduce costs by $500,000, according to a news release.

Although CTA and CDOT’s coordination was intended to shorten the overall delay time, commuters are still burdened by the additional time added to their commute during this nine-day period. So far, the construction has suspended Purple Line Express and caused longer travel times for Red and Brown Line trains.

Phyllis Younkins commutes from Chicago to Evanston every day for work and said the delays have caused » See CTA, page 6

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PENSION PROBLEMS State Sen. Daniel Biss (D-Evanston) addressed the state’s financial struggles, including a mounting pension problem, at a talk with NU students Monday at the Buffett Center.

Biss talks ‘tough’ budget cuts State senator meets with students to discuss debt issues

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EXPRESS-LESS A sign in the Foster Street CTA station alerts passengers to service changes, including a lack of Purple Line Express service, associated with the Wells Street bridge reconstruction in Chicago. The disruptions will run through March 11, followed by another nine-day period beginning April 26.

“Things suck.”

That’s what State Sen. Daniel Biss (D-Evanston) repeated during a round table discussion Monday night.

The Northwestern University Political Union invited Biss to join a group of 16 students for the discussion in the Roberta Buffett Center. Biss, who discussed the current political climate regarding recent developments such as gun control and marriage equality, also tackled what he considered a “catastrophic wreck”: the Illinois state budget.

“We’re sitting on nearly a hundred billion dollars of debt,” Biss said. “Because of that, we’re shredding the network of services that

the state should, and needs to, provide that citizens rely on while having to watch their taxes go up and the pile of bills increase.”

He said a big portion of the problem came from pension funds. Under a pension system, an employee regularly pays a percentage of their salary to the employer, who must then provide monetary installments usually upon the employee’s retirement. Unfortunately, because it is difficult to predict various factors like mortality or investment return rates, employers are often unwilling or unable to fulfill their responsibilities, Biss said.

“Constitutionally, it’s a contract,” Biss said. “We keep our end of the bargain, you keep yours.”

About 20 percent of the Illinois state budget is allotted for making up and keeping up with pension funds, he said.

“The state has mismanaged its retirement systems for many decades,” Biss said. “The amount we dedicate (to pension) increases

every year. It went from $4.8 billion to $5.7 billion last year. This year, they tell us it’s $6.7 billion.”

Biss said the disproportionately large percent of the budget that goes to pension results in cuts in educational grants and health coverage, including $1.6 billion out of Medicaid. Although the effects may be as simple as only being able to buy one pair of glasses as opposed to two per year, some might be forced to choose four prescriptions out of the ten they need, he explained.

“We’ve had to make some very real, very human, tough decisions,” Biss said.

And although the Illinois Senate last week approved an expansion plan for health care that will make up for those cuts, there are still non-Medicaid, specialized medical funds that cannot be saved, he said.

“The budget problem applies to any major at Northwestern,” NUPU » See BISS, page 6

Campus marketing jobs scrutinized despite benefits Brand representatives, fellow students question effectiveness

By KATE STEIN

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With student marketing representatives flooding Northwestern’s campus for the experience and resume-boosting they offer, some NU students are questioning whether such positions are necessary or effective.

Throughout campus, students represent companies like Ubisoft, which

produces video games such as Just Dance and Assassin’s Creed, and Erodr, a social networking application designed for college campuses. Representatives perform tasks like organizing launch parties for their products, promoting brands to NU students and donating items to groups.

Weinberg junior Zach Silva, who represents Ubisoft, said it’s difficult to gauge student interest in the company. Silva organizes promotional events for the company’s videogames, maintains the NU Ubisoft Facebook page and gives Ubisoft promotional items to groups on campus.

“There are about 450 likes on the Facebook page, but it’s hard to tell whether or not people are genuinely interested in the game,” he said.

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Silva said many students don’t have time to spend on Ubisoft products.

“Northwestern is not like a lot of other schools in this program,” he said. “The state schools have groups devoted to video games, but the quarter system makes marketing difficult.”

NU is one of four schools remaining in a national contest hosted by Ubisoft to get college students to like their school’s Ubisoft Facebook page.

Gamer Ian Coley, who liked the Ubisoft Facebook page at Silva’s request, said he does not object to the presence of marketers on campus.

“It’s fine,” Coley said of Ubisoft. “It doesn’t seem very aggressive and it’s not such an in-your-face campaign.”

Coley, a Weinberg senior, said he wasn’t sure if Ubisoft needs a marketing presence on campus. Coley said he thinks most NU students who play Ubisoft’s games are already aware of the company, so marketing to them is not necessary.

Coley also said he does not believe there’s much of a new market among other students, but would attend the company’s promotional events.

“It would have been cool to hang out with people here who play video games because you don’t get the chance very often.”

Jason Hutcheson, a Weinberg senior who also liked the Ubisoft Facebook page during a contest, said he is not familiar with most companies that hire student

marketers. He said he does not think marketing by students on campus is an effective marketing strategy for companies in general.

“They’re working to attract students who have a lot of capital to invest in them, but at the same time, I feel that if they make good games, or in other cases, products, it’s not necessary.”

Medill sophomore Quinn Murphy, who had been representing Erodr, said in a message to The Daily that she temporarily stopped representing the brand because she and her boss did not think the application was getting off the ground at NU. She said the company found students » See REPRESENTATIVES, page 6

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TUESDAY MARCH 5, 2013

Around Town Speed machines face malfunctions Besides warning drivers when they drive past the speed limit, the machines store information about the number of speeding violations in a particular area.

The Evanston Police Department handles 3,400 motor crashes on average every year, some of which result from speeding.

“I hope drivers recognize it’s an area where students, staff cross Sheridan Road throughout … the afternoon, evening and late night,” Northwestern deputy police chief Daniel McAleer said.

The speed limit machine closest to Northwestern is located by the bus stop across from Emerson Street, where many students jaywalk to get to class.

“If cars are slower, we would jaywalk more easily,” Weinberg freshman Ben Bloch said. “It won’t be (safe) unless you put a stop sign at every corner.”

Although the machines warn drivers when they are exceeding the speed limit, they do not issue automatic tickets, said Rajeev Dahal, the city’s senior traffic engineer. The portable

machines are rotated throughout the city in response to citizen complaints concerning traffic issues, Dahal said.

“This is a tool to show drivers how fast they’re speeding,” he said. “A lot of students are crossing throughout that area.”

The Traffic Control Corporation will hold a conference call with city engineers to address the issues with the machines, Santos said. He said fixing the speed signs can be as simple as rebooting the machines and that they should be up in a couple of days.

City traffic engineer Homayoon Pirooz, who has worked with solar powered speed limit machines in Ann Arbor, Mich., said the machines are worth the trouble even though they often come with glitches.

“Solar powered devices are sometimes tricky until the owner learns them as best as they could,” Pirooz said. “Our staff had to go back and adjust and fix them until they work right, but it’s worth the effort.”

he had two outstanding warrants issued by the Cook County Sheriff ’s Office in connection with violation of probation and failure to appear in court, respectively.

Police charged the man with obstruction of justice and retail theft. He is scheduled to appear in court April 3.

into the boy’s pockets, taking his Samsung smartphone. The two men then allegedly fled southbound on Darrow Avenue. Neither the boy nor his mother sustained injuries, Parrott said. Burglar steals laptop and cash register Someone burglarized a warehouse in the 2100 block of Dempster Street last week.

The burglar apparently gained access to the warehouse’s unlocked front door sometime between 6 p.m. Feb. 25 and 9 a.m. Feb. 26 and cut the insulation to get into the main office, Parrott said. They stole a laptop worth $2,400 and a cash register.

Police are still investigating the case, Parrott said.

By EDWARD COX

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Drivers on Sheridan Road had better slow down when the city’s newly installed portable speed machines start flashing rapidly — but the city will have to get those machines working first.

City traffic engineers installed two portable speed limit machines Thursday on Sheridan Road to educate drivers about the road’s 30-miles-per-hour speed limit. A day and a half after the machines were installed, however, they stopped working, said Traffic Control Corporation employee Andres Santos, whose company supplies the machines to customers throughout the Midwest.

“It’s just ironic that we put two signs on Sheridan and they operate for a day and a half and then they don’t,” Santos said. “(The engineers) are a little bit duped to why they’re not working.”

Evanston has installed six solar powered speed limit machines since the city started buying them from the Traffic Control Corporation last spring.

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Police Blotter Man with outstanding warrants arrested after allegedly theft

Evanston Police arrested a 32-year-old after he allegedly stole a bottle of vodka from the Dempster Street Dominick’s on Wednesday afternoon.

Security at the supermarket, 1910 Dempster St., observed the Evanston resident taking a bottle of Ketel One vodka from a shelf and concealing it with his coat, EPD Cmdr. Jay Parrott said.

Security detained the man after he allegedly attempted to walk out without paying. The man tried to hide his identity by providing different names to police officers responding to the incident. Officers then ran the man’s fingerprints to confirm his identity and found

Robbers take cellphone from Evanston boy walking

Two men allegedly robbed a 17-year-old boy Saturday around noon.

The boy and his mother, both Evanston residents, were reportedly walking east on Lake Street near Darrow Avenue when a man grabbed the boy from behind, Parrott said. A second man reportedly came up and reached

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NY Times pilot program targets student leaders

By CAT ZAKRZEWSKI

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The Northwestern Center for Leadership has partnered with The New York Times to bring a new ambassador program to campus that will aim to connect leaders from a wide range of student groups.

Todd Murphy, associate director of the center, said students will use newspaper content to start dialogue about campus leadership. The news organization hopes to use the program at NU as a pilot and expand to other institutions of higher education, he said. “We were trying to find another way to develop more dialogue about leadership on campus without starting up another class,� Murphy said. “We really want it to be student owned so they have a place to come together to talk about leadership.�

Murphy said the specific plans for the program are still tentative, but throughout meetings this quarter he and a group of active student leaders from across campus have developed a plan for three sessions, which will host about 20 to 30 leaders from a diverse array of student groups.

McCormick junior Alex Van Atta, who was chosen as an ambassador for the program, said students will begin the sessions by discussing an article from The New York Times within a broad topic like diversity or leadership. The group will then break into smaller groups for networking sessions, where they can communicate with each other about “best practices,� he said. Breakout sessions will allow leaders of large groups to share recruiting tactics with those of smaller groups and will also present the opportunity to collaborate on events. Van Atta, who serves as Associated Student Government student life vice president, said this collaboration could help reduce

Family asks for info more than 100 days after Foley’s kidnapping

The family of James Foley (Medill ‘08) released another public appeal for information about his whereabouts Monday, more than 100 days after he initially was taken in Syria.

Foley, a freelance conflict zone reporter, was captured Nov. 22 near the country’s Turkish border. His family has not heard from him or his captors since he was kidnapped, despite attempts to gain information about his whereabouts using social networks in the region. “We have not heard from Jim for more than 100 days,� said John Foley, father of James Foley, in a Wednesday press release. “We want Jim to come safely home, and we need to speak with him to know he’s okay.�

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excessive campus programming, a goal of ASG. Van Atta said the sessions will begin during Spring Quarter and will likely end with a capstone event where the students will bring an editor or reporter from The New York Times to campus. He said he is excited to see how it evolves. “That’s where a lot of the potential is,� he said. “It can be anything we want it to be right now.�

Van Atta is one of several campus leaders involved with the planning of the ambassador program. He said he has also collaborated with Weinberg senior Nicole Schindler, McCormick senior Kyra Woods, McCormick junior Sean Cabaniss and Medill sophomore Amy Li. Murphy said The New York Times wanted to sponsor the program to engage new readers. Li said she wanted to get involved with the program because she thought it was really interesting that the publication wanted to have a lasting impact on students. “They wanted to really cultivate a long-term loyalty to The New York Times,� Li said. “Luckily enough, Northwestern was chosen to be the pilot for this program.�

The program evolved out of cooperation between the Center for Leadership and the news organization to develop an online resource for college professors about leadership that launched last September. Murphy said the center had been trying to bring a new program to campus like this for years, and the newspaper wanted to try sponsoring it at NU first.

Li said she was “excited� to see where the program goes. “This has the potential to not only impact Northwestern campus, but also other universities and tons and tons of other people later on,� Li said. czak15@u.northwestern.edu This is the second time the veteran reporter has been captured. In spring of 2011, Foley spent more than 42 days in captivity in Libya. He was eventually released on May 19 of that year. But unlike last time, when his family knew Foley had been captured by forces loyal to Libyan leader Col. Muammar Gadhafi, the identities of his recent captors are unknown. “Jim is an objective journalist and we appeal for the release of Jim unharmed,� said John Foley. “Someone in Syria knows what happened to Jim and we hope they will contact us.�

Northwestern ASG passed an emergency resolution to assist in the search for Foley in February.

Speaker Ani Ajith, a former Daily staffer, authored the resolution. Today, ASG linked to the press release from Foley’s family on their Facebook page. “He’s a Wildcat, and he’s not home,� the Weinberg junior said at the February Senate meeting where the resolution was passed. — Cat Zakrzewski

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14th Annual Comedy Breakdown

Wednesday, 6:20 p.m.

McCormick Tribune Center For their annual comedy show, Alianza and the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers are bringing famed Chicago improv act Second City and New York comedian Mark Viera to campus. Viera has appeared on the NBC show “30 Rock� and is a featured comic on “Martin Lawrence Presents 1st Amendment Stand Up.�

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Behind the Success of the Noble Charter Schools

Wednesday, March 6, 8 to 9 p.m.

Harris Hall, Room L07 Northwestern Students for Education Reform are sponsoring a speech by Angela Alfaro, an advocacy manager for the Noble Network of Charter Schools in Chicago. Noble schools have longer class periods, school days and school years than traditional Chicago high schools.

Alfaro will speak about the successes and controversies associated with the Noble network.

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The Importance of Ethnic Studies

Thursday, March 7, 5 to 6 p.m.

Northwestern Room Norris University Center The Native American and Indigenous Student Alliance is partnering with Alianza and For Members Only to host a discussion panel focusing on the roles of ethnic departments at Northwestern and the challenges they face. Panelists include Prof. John Marquez from the African American and Latina studies department, Prof.

Jinah Kim from the Asian American studies department and Prof. Nitasha Sharma from the African American studies department.

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The Aasif Mandvi Comedy Show

Friday, March 8, 7 p.m.

Fisk Hall, Room 217 Known for his work as a correspondent for “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,� Indian-American comedian and actor Aasif Mandvi will be performing a comedy show hosted by Northwestern’s Muslim Cultural Students Association. Mandvi, who first appeared on “The Daily Show� in 2006, has been on the show regularly since March 2007.

He has also won an OBIE award for his one-man show, “Sakina’s Restaurant.� Admission is free.

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Hometowns can offer comfort in college BLAIR DUNBAR

DAILY COLUMNIST

It’s like the plot of any romantic comedy made in the past ten years: Two characters meet and hate each other. Over time, the ice breaks and the two fall in love. The only difference in this story is it’s not about two people, but one woman and her hometown.

I grew up in Geneva, Ill., a small suburb about an hour and a half west of Chicago. The summer before my sophomore year of high school, I went to a program at Northwestern.

When I came back, Geneva seemed like such a horrible place to live.

My hometown is 96 percent white and largely Catholic or Protestant. Everyone knows or is related to everyone else. Everyone shares the same ideas. I loved the diversity and excitement I experienced at Northwestern. For the next three years of high school, all I wanted to do was leave for college.

Now I find myself longing for home. The college atmosphere becomes so suffocating, and I yearn to eat at my family’s favorite pub or get coffee at the local coffeehouse. I long for the quiet. What changed?

I know the easy answers. Hometowns are comfortable and familiar. You never know what

you have until it’s gone. Distance makes the heart grow fonder. But I think there’s more to it than all those cliches.

Just last week, my grandma had a severe stroke. We found out she was not going to recover. Rather than keeping her on a feeding tube, we decided to let her go. My grandparents live in Des Moines, Iowa, so my brother came in from Boston, and we took the five-hour drive. It was during this trip that I realized how NOT ready I was to be an adult.

For one thing, I couldn’t imagine driving five hours by myself. Second, I didn’t even think about where I would stay. When my brother told me he had made hotel reservations, I realized I had completely forgotten. How could I forget to get a hotel room? Once we got to the hospital, I was a wreck. I couldn’t stop crying and didn’t know what to do with myself.

Meanwhile, everyone else was running around, talking to my grandmother, making decisions or caring for my grandfather.

It’s not just during these difficult situations that I have realized how not ready I am for the real world. I realize it every day when I mismanage my budget or forget to make my doctors’ appointments. I’ve talked in previous columns about how much we still rely on our parents throughout college. Being an adult legally doesn’t make you an adult emotionally.

That’s why I have grown to love my hometown. It reminds me of being a kid. When I

go home, I have a few days to sleep in my own bed and have my food prepared for me. I can walk down the street and remember late-night walks with my dog and countless coffee dates. I can see my old high school, middle school and elementary school. All my favorite memories flood back.

College is a bubble. On one side of the bubble is the real world, and on the other is your childhood. Going back home brings you back to your childhood, far away from the encroachment of “real life.� Every once in awhile it’s nice to take a break. It’s nice to have someone care for you. Pretty soon, you really will be on your own.

When I was in high school, I never would have thought for a second I would miss Geneva. In fact, my dream was to move to the East Coast. NU was my last choice for a school, primarily because it was only an hour and a half away from my house. Now, I can’t imagine not being able to go home for a weekend.

Eventually, I’ll move away for a while. I don’t want to be a person who stays in the same place forever. There’s a big world to discover, but I’m beginning to understand why many people move back to where they grew up.

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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Ability status a type of diversity too often neglected TOMMY CARROLL

GUEST COLUMNIST

I’ve been thinking about writing this letter for a while, but the time never felt right. Observing the discussion about diversity on campus throughout the year and a half I’ve been here, I’ve felt a sense of both intrigue and frustration, but I’ve never been sure how to appropriately express this feeling. As the only totally blind student at Northwestern, I can’t help but feel that the discussion should involve and affect me, but at the same time I’ve felt pretty included at NU. However, the accumulation of several small but frustrating experiences this year have lead me to increasingly feel that in many ways I am an outsider to many social and professional settings, even if I try really hard to fit in. So now I’ve decided I need to at least start trying to explain what it’s like to be a normal NU student who happens to be blind. I’d like to emphasize that I want to in no way discount the discussions of diversity that have already been occurring on this campus. I find it distressing and infuriating that we haven’t been able to overcome and eliminate racial discrimination as a society (or even as a campus), but I think it’s equally devastating that a majority of people don’t even recognize ability status to be a topic in dire need of discussion.

Ability status is on the list of topics to discuss

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in the recent diversity requirement proposal, but it is no surprise to me that it’s last on the list. If and when the diversity requirement is implemented, I highly doubt ability status will make the cut with our current level of understanding because we (yes, including myself) ignore the issue subconsciously.

As a blind 20-year-old, I walk around knowing that 90 percent of people I meet are going to immediately assume that I am less capable than the average human being. Unfortunately, I’ve had the experience of getting to know exactly how some of these people think. A year ago I was walking into a hotel in New York with my dad. We were there to attend the award ceremony for a scholarship I had recently received for visually impaired students. In the elevator, a man turned to me, shook my hand and said, “It’s okay, son‌ Once you get to be my age you can’t see anyway. Your life will be okay.â€?

These occurrences are frequent, though rarely that extreme. I recognize that people have the best intentions when doing these things, and I certainly have become close to some people who were initially nervous when meeting me, but I’m tired of constantly having to face ignorant assumptions without making an effort to educate a larger group of people.

The natural assumption in America is that people with physical impairments will be able to accomplish less than the average person and that any “approximation of normal ability� should be applauded to make the poor souls feel better. That’s the stereotype I want to break down.

In middle school and high school, I dealt with people’s low expectations by trying to prove them

wrong. I got it into my head that if I wasn’t the best at something or at least very near the top, it wasn’t worth doing because people would always attach the blindness qualifier to my accomplishments.

That strategy didn’t do me much good in the long run though. People — maybe because of jealousy, maybe it was the truth — talked about me behind my back, calling me cocky among other things. That was high school, though, and we’ve all grown up considerably, but I did learn something crucial about myself. I learned that what I want (and I’m pretty sure that this is true for most people) is for people to like or dislike me based on who I am as a person, not based on the entity created by my public accomplishments.

Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate when people genuinely express respect for things like videos of me skateboarding, but there’s a fine and ambiguous line that some people cross, making me feel like “the blind skateboarder kid� rather than a fellow student and potential friend. The amount of news attention I’ve gotten exceeds what professional skateboarders receive. It can definitely be uncomfortable. I explain it to people sometimes by asking them to think of their favorite thing to do in eighth grade and then imagine people only associating them with that thing.

The only reason I and other people with physical impairments have to deal with this is that we’ve shocked society. They can’t get over blind people performing at a high level because they can’t imagine blind people functioning in normal settings like classrooms or parties.

While we’re what feels like eons away from

being able to deal with the ability status part of diversity, I want to make clear that it’s not all bad.

For all of the frustrating encounters and experiences I have to endure, there are always awesome moments to balance it all out. That said, I also want people to understand the ambiguity of the situation. One day I feel myself feeling totally accepted — like when I was able to win the Afropollo talent show in front of an audience that I did not know very well and then went to celebrate afterwards with a large group of close friends. There, I felt like people understood that I was “Tommy, who put on a good show� rather than “the inspirational blind drummer kid.� But then there are times where I’m sitting in a meeting for my fraternity and one of my brothers, while talking about the goals of the organization, mentions how great it is that we’re accepting enough to “have people like Tommy in our midst.�

It’s moments like those that keep me constantly questioning, “Who is my friend? Who is nice to me because he pities me, and who is trying to use me to make himself look better?� I don’t have a blind community to use for support or to generate ideas to increase awareness, so that’s why I’m appealing to everybody. I have faith in the Northwestern community: we can grow closer. It’s a lot of work and it will be a slow process, but I think it can happen.

Tommy Carroll is a Medill sophomore. He can be reached at thomascarroll2015@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this letter, send a Letter to the Editor to forum@dailynorthwestern.com.

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Alumni turn screenplay into comic

By AMY WHYTE

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Jason Coffee (Communication ‘97) was an avid fan of television and film who dreamed of one day bringing his own words to life on the big screen.

Upon graduating from Northwestern, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue his dream of becoming a screenwriter. But after a few years, his health began to decline, and he died in 2008 following surgery to remove a tumor from his brain. Although Coffee is now gone, a group of his friends think they have found a way for his words to live on.

This group, which includes alumni Doug Cohen (Communication ‘97) and Todd Carney (Medill ‘94), are currently working on a comic book series, titled “Warhawks,� based on a screenplay of the same name that Coffee wrote after graduating from NU. “His mom told us he had asked her to make sure his voice was heard after he was gone,�

Cohen said. “So that’s what started all this.�

The group pored through the collection of screenplays and television scripts Coffee had left behind, and “Warhawks� stood out as one that really “sparked,� Cohen said. But to stay true to Coffee’s vision for the film would require producing a multimillion-dollar blockbuster, for which the group would have needed the backing of a major studio. Instead, they looked to other mediums, eventually deciding to create a comic version. “Comic books were a medium he really enjoyed, so it just seemed like a natural idea both for a memorial for him and a way to get the story out there,� Carney said.

Carney and his younger brother, Wade Carney (Communication ‘97), who both became friends with Coffee while they were all attending NU together, were responsible for adapting the screenplay into comic book form. Although Carney had never written in comic book format before, he is a regular comic reader and said he and Coffee used to have lengthy discussions about comics. “It’s one of those things where I kind of kick myself because I wish we had collaborated when he was in better health and when

I was attracted to the idea of what they were doing, trying to honor their friend. Sometimes getting something new and unique published in the comic book world can be a struggle, but I think this project is worth it.�

The screenplay, which Carney and his brother divided up into acts, will span six issues. Currently the group is focused on raising funds to publish the first book, but their ultimate goal is for the series to continue even after Coffee’s story has been told. “We want his characters to live on forever, basically, to become this universe of characters that other writers can write stories for,�

Cohen said. “And that (Coffee’s) mom way we can feel like we fulfilled our mistold us he had sion, which was for his voice to be heard, asked her to his voice to live make sure his for on.� voice was heard The group’s fundraising efforts have after he was centered on Kickgone. So that’s starter, a website that what started all allows potential backers to pledge donathis. tions toward their Doug Cohen, “Warhawks� team $21,000 goal. “We decided to do member this kind of online crowd funding instead of traditional fundraising because our mission is to spread Jason’s creative voice as widely as possible, and we thought we could reach the most people this way,� Cohen said.

If the group successfully reaches its goal before the April 18 deadline, they plan to attend comic book conventions to distribute the completed book and try to get it into stores. “It’s been a wonderful project,� Carney said. “When people met (Coffee), they remembered him. He was very memorable, he was just such a character and so smart and so imaginative ... and to be able to introduce him to a new generation of friends and fans, it’s just fantastic.�

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COMIC CONVERSION Jason Coffee (Communication ‘97) passed away after surgery to remove a brain tumor. His friends have dedicated their time to creating the comic book series “Warhawks� based on a screenplay coffee wrote. The “Warhawks� team brought characters to life in this cover art, designed by comic book artist Billy Tan.

we were all living out here,� Carney said. “This way I got to learn the process of adapting a comic book from his screenplay and just kind of imagine what our conversations would be like while I was working.�

Joel Gomez, the comic book’s interior artist, said he signed on to the project because he thought the screenplay concept was a “unique story.� “It felt very comic book,� Gomez said. “And

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Evanston started an additional public comment period Monday regarding the final concept design for the city’s Firemen’s Park renovation project, according to a city news release.

Initial input came after community meetings in January and February to discuss the project, according to the release. The renovated park, located on the southwest corner of Maple Avenue and Simpson Street, would feature two play areas and a memorial space for fallen city firefighters.

The project would use $310,000: $235,000 from the Capital Improvement Fund and $75,000 expected to come from the the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Community Development Block Grant. However, the city estimates the federal sequester may cut the grant by as much as $40,000, according to city documents.

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Police arrest men found with copper piping after a series of thefts

Evanston Police tactical officers arrested two men Friday in connection with three different copper thefts, although it is unclear if these men are responsible for other incidents of copper theft in the past two months.

Police arrested Ryan Hanley of Chicago and Richard Latoria of Northlake, Ill., charging each with three counts of felony theft, according to a news release.

Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said officers were on patrol Friday when they observed Hanley and Latoria engaged in suspicious behavior in the 900 block of Chicago Avenue.

After observing the men, the officers conducted an investigative stop where they found Hanley and Latoria with two large plastic bags filled with

severed pieces of copper down spouts, according to the release. The men used metal snips to remove the down spouts from residential buildings in the 900 block of Chicago Avenue, the 200 block of Main Street and the 500 block of Lee Street.

The three incidents are part of an uptick in copper thefts in Evanston since the beginning of the year.

Thieves have stolen copper downspouts from St. Nicholas Parish, 806 Ridge Ave., several times this year, garnering about $10,000 worth of copper. St. Athanasius School, 2510 Ashland Ave., has also suffered multiple thefts of the valuable gutter pieces.

It is unknown if Hanley and Latoria are responsible for these earlier thefts. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t connect these arrests to (the copper thefts at St. Nicholas and St. Athanasius),â&#x20AC;? Parrott said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re obviously very similar, but weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re still investigating.â&#x20AC;?

Hanley and Latoria are scheduled to appear in court on March 21. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Ciara McCarthy

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The Weinberg senior said she hoped Bissâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; The conversation with the state has students will make them mismanaged realize the impact of the financial situation. its retirement â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s part our mission systems for to bring local elected officials to campus so that many decades, students have a chance to The amount engage with them,â&#x20AC;? said we dedicate NUPU co-president Steven Monacelli, a Com(to pension) munication senior and increases every former Daily staffer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It has nothing to do with year. whether theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re RepubSen. Daniel Biss, lican or Democrat, but D-Evanston that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re our elected officials.â&#x20AC;?

Biss agreed that one of the key solutions to resolving a catalytic problem like the state budget was informing constituents about why the Illinois government is in such shape and what kind of sacrifices both politicians and residents should have to expect to make. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The state government is weird because itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s intermediate as an entity,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not around the corner, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s there, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sort of abstract and big. All of Illinois has the sense that it sucks, but they have no idea why.â&#x20AC;?

her typical travel time to extend from one hour to an hour and 45 minutes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s terrible,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Generally the trains run every five to six minutes. Now, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re waiting nine minutes.â&#x20AC;?

The CTA has encouraged commuters to leave early or find alternative transportation during this time period. Younkins said this wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t an option for all commuters. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You have to leave early, but where I live, I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t leave that much earlier. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m already leaving at 5:45 to get here at 7:30 to 7:45,â&#x20AC;? she said.

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Researchers develop model for improved power grids

Northwestern researchers have developed a design for a new power grid meant to accommodate the more severe weather and less reliable sources of electricity expected in the future, according to a University news release.

Based on a set of identified properties and conditions power companies use to operate power generators, the model aims at decreasing the occurrence of blackouts and electricity costs. The prototype also suggests a solution for working with more sporadic renewable energy resources like wind power and solar energy.

Physics and astronomy Prof. Adilson Motter, who headed the research effort, said in the release the design is meant to for a â&#x20AC;&#x153;completely different power grid in the future.â&#x20AC;?

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CAUGHT COPPER HANDED Evanston Police arrested Ryan Hanley, left, and Richard Latoria on Friday after finding the men with a plastic bags filled with severed copper down spouts.

EPD is still determining whether or not the three copper thefts associated with these men are related to other copper thefts around the city in the past two months.

the week and on weekends to finish the job as soon as possible, Lukidis said. After the second nine-day repair period ends in May, there should be no further significant delays to CTA trains.

Weinberg senior Madeline Lechner commutes to NUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Evanston Campus from CTAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s UIC-Halsted station. Because of this construction, Lechner now has to change trains twice instead of just once, adding about 15 minutes to her usual hour and 15 minute commute. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something I can live with, but definitely inconvenient,â&#x20AC;? she said.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;The use of renewable energy is growing,â&#x20AC;? Motter said in the release. â&#x20AC;&#x153;More people will be driving electric cars, and the power grid will be delivering this energy, not gas stations. We need a power grid that is more capable and more reliable. This requires a better understanding of the current power grid as well as new ways to stabilize it.â&#x20AC;?

The new power grid design is also meant to reduce the impact of human factors that can lead to electrical failures like the one that happened at this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Super Bowl, said NU physics and astronomy Prof. Takashi Nishikawa. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Reduced dependence on conventional control devices can improve the reliability of the grid,â&#x20AC;?

Nishikawa said in the release. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our analysis also suggests ways to design control strategies that potentially can improve the existing ones.â&#x20AC;?

The model will appear this month in the journal Nature Physics in an article titled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Spontaneous synchrony in power-grid networks.â&#x20AC;?

were reluctant to change their social media habits but that new social media platforms sometimes lag behind in gaining followers. Murphy will resume her position in the spring, when the weather is more conducive to the campaign.

Whether or not student marketers help the companies expand their markets, the jobs give students a chance to develop their marketing and public The state relations skills. Silva, who schools have found the Ubisoft job groups devoted through the School of website, to video games, Communication said he develops his own but the quarter marketing strategies. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of great marsystem makes keting experience. It has marketing definitely allowed me to be more creative and difficult. have individual control Zack Silva, over these promotions,â&#x20AC;?

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In addition to running the Facebook page and organizing gaming parties, Silva said he reaches out to student groups to promote the brand. Dance Marathon and the International Student Association World Cup will both have Just Dance booths at their events and will raffle off Ubisoft games to participants. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just working with fellow students,â&#x20AC;? Silva said.

He called his marketing job a â&#x20AC;&#x153;grassroots movement.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a fun job to have during the school year.â&#x20AC;?

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ON THE ROAD Senior Chris Jackman reaches to return a low shot near the line. During Northwestern’s weekend loss, Jackman won his singles match in a third-set tiebreaker against Illinois, but said losing the doubles point was a blow to NU’s momentum.

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than the conference. The same thing happened with (freshman) Jen Yamin. It impacted how the team did on Sunday but every coach and every trainer and every athlete has to make those decisions as to what’s best for the athlete and what’s best in the long-run for what we’re trying to accomplish.”

To wrap up Saturday, the sabre squad took to the strips, with each of NU’s three competitors emerging from pool play undefeated. In the quarterfinals, teammates met once again in a battle between seniors Alicia Gurrieri and Chloe Grainger. Gurrieri narrowly edged out her teammate 15-14 before going on to finish third.

“The fact that they met in the later rounds was indicative of how well people fenced because sometimes somebody doesn’t do that well and then you meet them in the round of 64 or 32, and that’s lousy,” Schiller said. “The bad thing is you have to fence a teammate but the good thing is one of you advances.

From a team perspective, it’s nice that you get somebody up there but from a personal perspective, I’m sitting there and I can’t watch. You can’t coach teammate against teammate.”

The sabre team came out Sunday morning to compete in the squad event and fought their way to a bronze medal. The epee squad, which earned a secondplace finish last year, matched their teammates’ result by defeating Michigan State to take home a bronze medal.

“Last year, we were really close to winning, so that was pretty upsetting,” Bazarbayeva said. “This year, before going to Notre Dame, I didn’t think we could win but once we got there, I looked at the crowd we had to fence and I was a lot more optimistic … So that was kind of upsetting because we could have beaten Ohio State (in the semifinals). It was not what I was hoping for but we all fenced really well and worked together well as a team and it was a close match.”

The foil squad, missing two of its key fencers, put itself in a position to medal but fell in overtime to Wayne Sate in the third place match. .

“We made the decision to hold people out because they need to be healthy for next week,” Schiller said.

“That’s what’s more important. ... We wanted a better result. But is there anything to get really upset about with the team? No. They went out there and fought hard and that’s all you can ask.” abigailchase2015@u.northwestern.edu

proved to be too much for the Cats to overcome and, combined with the harsh environment on the road, NU fell just short.

“I think if we played them right now at SPAC, we could beat them,” Wolf said. “When you’re on the road in those kind of conditions, winning the doubles point is so big for momentum reasons and it really hurt us not getting the doubles point against them.”

The Fighting Illini sealed the match with a victory over senior Sidarth Balaji in the No. 3 singles match but the Cats continued to fight.

Junior Raleigh Smith took out Stephen Hoh at the No. 2 spot 6-2, 6-4, improving his season singles record to 12-3.

In the final match of the day, Jackman fought back from a 6-4 first set loss to force a deciding 10-point tiebreaker, taking the match 4-6, 6-3, 10-4 to end the day. The win marked Jackman’s sixth 3-set victory of the year and his third comeback win after dropping the first set.

“Ideally I’d want to win in straight sets but it’s just about telling myself that I am the mustwin match,” Jackman said. “My (No. 6) position

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is really important because that’s a point we should always be able to get. I need to come out better but I have that confidence that even if I lose the first set, I’m still going to be able to win the match.”

Even though it did not come away with the win, NU began its conference season strong with a competitive match against one of the Big Ten’s best teams.

“We put ourselves in a position to win the match and that’s what we wanted to do going in,” Swan said. “We didn’t put ourselves in a hole in any of the doubles matches which was good so I thought we gave ourselves a decent chance to win each of those matches. Obviously, it didn’t go our way but we did put ourselves in a position to win.” abigailchase2015@u.northwestern.edu

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FOURTH IN FOIL Freshman foilist Charlotte Sands competes at NU Duals. Sands had two wins against Indiana, but Northwestern lost the foil bronze medal competition to Wayne State.

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NU derailed in Illinois road test

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Northwestern has a history of struggling against in-state rival Illinois, but with a No. 20 ranking , the highest the Wildcats have been ranked in over 15 years, NU was as closely matched on paper with the Fighting Illini as it has been since its last win over Illinois in 1997.

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Taking on the Fighting Illini on the road, the Cats made their opponents work for it before falling 5-2, the same score line by which they were defeated the previous year. But competing in front of a huge crowd in Champaign, Ill., NU had to contend with more than just its No. 17 opponent.

“It was a crazy atmosphere,” senior Spencer Wolf said. “There were probably a couple hundred people there, all Illinois fans. It was a lot of fun to play in but they were definitely the hardest conditions

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DOUBLES TROUBLE Sophomore Alex Pasareanu plays a backhand slice. Pasareanu and his freshman partner Mihir Kumar were playing for the doubles point but ultimately fell to Illinois in a tiebreak.

we’ve had. When you miss a shot, everyone is yelling and talking trash at you sometimes during the point or if you mess up. It’s a lot of fun but it’s definitely a tough environment to play in.”

Early breaks in all three doubles matches helped the Cats stay on top of the Fighting Illini early. NU went on to take the first match of the day at the No. 3 position but was defeated at the No. 1 spot.

In the deciding doubles match, the No. 2 team of sophomore Alex Pasareanu and freshman Mihir Kumar took their opponents to a tiebreak before surrendering the

match 9-8(3), putting the Cats in a 0-1 hole heading into singles.

“Overall as a team, we did some good things but we had things that weren’t so good,” senior Chris Jackman said. “We played well in doubles in some spots but had opportunities that we didn’t convert across the board. Losing that doubles point definitely took a lot of wind out of our sails going into singles.”

Once singles got underway, Pasareanu was the first to fall, dropping the match to Farris Gosea, who was half of the doubles team that thwarted Pasareanu and Kumar, 6-2, 6-1 . At the No. 1 spot, Wolf

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faced off against the No. 1 recruit in the country from last year’s graduating class and current No. 38 Jared Hiltzik , falling in straight sets to the freshman to put Illinois within a point of the victory.

In tandem with tough singles matches, the defeat in doubles » See MEN’S TENNIS, page 7

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Cats nab 6 in conference tournament

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In their last weekend before the start of NCAA competition, the Wildcats faced off against not only two familiar rivals, Ohio State and Notre Dame, but also frequently against one another.

In the individual competition at the Midwest Fencing Conference Championships on Saturday, Northwestern took home four medals across the three events.

“I was happy with the entire team,” coach Laurie Schiller said. “I thought everyone was at a very good level from top to bottom. The epee team, for example, the only bouts they lost all day were basically to themselves for the most part.”

The epee competition opened the day and with junior Dina Bazarbayeva leading the squad with a silver medal finish.

NU occupied two of the other four topfive spots, with sophomore Courtney Dumas taking the bronze and defending champion senior Kate Cavanaugh coming in fifth.

En route to the final match, Bazarbayeva took out her three of her teammates: freshman Kaitlyn Wallace, Cavanaugh in a tight 14-13 bout and Dumas in the semifinals.

“There were definitely a couple things I could have done differently,” Bazarbayeva said of her gold medal bout against Ewa Nelip from Notre Dame. “I think I rushed through my bout and when I look back at it, there are some things I would have done differently … but I thought it was

Great wins bring great expections

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The bad thing is you have to fence a teammate but the good thing is one of you advances. From a team perspective, it’s nice that you get somebody up there but from a personal perspective, I’m sitting there and I cant watch.

You can’t coach teammate against teammate.

Laurie Schiller, fencing coach a good bout and I had a really tough line leading up to that final bout. I’d had to fence Kaitlyn and then Kate and then Courtney so I was pretty happy with how I finished.”

Senior Dayana Sarkisova led NU in the foil competition. In the semifinals, Sarkisova was forced to withdraw from the bout because of an injury but would go on to earn a bronze medal, leading the Cats in the event in which four members of NU’s team placed in the top 15.

“She does have an injury and she aggravated the injury, so it was our decision to pull her at that point and then we didn’t permit her to fence on Sunday,” Schiller said. “The NCAA Regional (next weekend) is ultimately more important » See FENCING, page 7

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LUCKY 13 Freshman foilist Jen Yamin battles a teammate during practice. Yamin collected two wins against Ohio State and placed 13th at the Midwest Fencing Conference Championships.

A funny little story.

Remember that bold proclamation LeBron James made during his welcome party with the Heat? “Not one, not two,” etc. etc.?

Not quite. As we know, Miami crumbled under the pressure of extreme expectations, stumbling out of the gate before ultimately losing in the 2011 Finals that never happened.

It’s this night that sticks in my mind as the Northwestern football program runs through spring practice a solid 6 months before the start of college football season. The Wildcats, like the Heat in 2010, have not been shy about their goals.

Coach Pat Fitzgerald handed out “5:03” shirts to his team for this month’s practices — noting that the team was five minutes and three seconds from an undefeated season in 2012. In Fitzgerald’s mind, his team was more than capable of finishing 13-0.

Fitzgerald is hardly bashful. He told me in February of last year that he’s building a championship program and that he doesn’t need any negative people surrounding his team.

This year, at the school’s Gator Bowl celebration, Fitzgerald more than hinted at the Cats’ ultimate goal, indicating that he aims to play twice in California this season: once in the season opener, then once again to end the season at the Rose Bowl.

The University backs Fitzgerald in these expectations.

When some of The Daily’s editors met with University President Morton Schapiro in February, Schapiro and I chatted before our interview about football. He told me to remember the date of the Big Ten Championship game, or, as he put it, NU’s rematch with Ohio State — with a trip to Pasadena on the line.

This swagger is more than refreshing; it’s necessary. The Cats play in the Big Ten, and they believe in comparing themselves to big dogs such as Ohio State and Michigan. Instead of hiding behind its small enrollment or decades of losing, NU chooses to let the rest of the conference know it will not be satisfied until it is the Big Ten’s undisputed champion.

But this upcoming season will be unlike any other in the program’s history.

The Gator Bowl win brought joy, relief and closure. It also brought expectations.

The Cats are no longer the cute underdog story of the conference. They will enter the 2013 season ranked, and they should be a popular bet to win a wide open Legends division. NU will not sneak up on any opponent after validating its program with a bowl win.

But how will the Cats deal with expectations? There’s more pressure, more scrutiny.

Remember how the team bounced back from losses last season? That’s a little easier when you don’t have national attention and a rabid fan base hungry for more.

So far, the Cats have welcomed all and any attention, but will Fitzgerald still welcome the chatter during the season’s first serious bump in the road?

In 2012, after NU squandered three fourth quarter leads, we learned how it dealt with adversity.

In 2013, we will learn how the Cats deal with success. And at the end of the season, we’ll know more than ever before.

Sports Editor Rohan Nadkarni is a Medill sophomore. He can be reached at rohannadkarni2015@u.northwestern.edu