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Buildings flooded as storm soaks NU, city By JEANNE KUANG and MANUEL RAPADA the daily northwestern @jeannekuang and @manuelrapada
An overnight downpour dumped more than four inches of rain Thursday, flooding dozens of Northwestern buildings and Evanston streets. Students at 15 residential halls and 10 sorority houses woke up to find water in their ground floors or basements, University spokesman Al Cubbage said. An unspecified number of academic buildings also experienced flooding or water seepage. No residents needed to be moved, and Cubbage said no classes were relocated due to the storm. The Sports Pavilion and Aquatics Center as well as Willard dining hall were shut down Thursday due to basement flooding. Passengers on the Intercampus Shuttle were told to expect 45-minute delays. Beyond Northwestern, public works crews were working to address flooding in basements, streets and alleys across Evanston. As of 11:30 a.m. Thursday, crews received more than 80 complaints of basement flooding and at least 50 more on street and alley flooding, utilities director Dave Stoneback said in a conference call. The incidents were scattered around Evanston, he said. Updated statistics were not available Thursday night. Water pressure in the sewers knocked Central Street manhole covers out of place earlier in the morning, and Commonwealth Edison workers also responded to morning power outages
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RAIN, RAIN, GO AWAY A Northwestern maintenance worker drains the massive puddle in front of Swift Hall on Thursday. Heavy rains flooded multiple facilities and residences on campus. Evanston residents also saw power outages caused by the 4-inch overnight downpour.
caused by lightning strikes. A west Evanston outage near the intersection of Crawford Avenue and Simpson Street affecting 11 customers is scheduled to be resolved by 5 a.m. Friday. After the heavy rainfall, crews were still responding to storm-related issues well into the afternoon. A 6-foot diameter portion of pavement near the Evanston-Chicago border
collapsed under a furniture truck. The hole developed at about 2 p.m. near the intersection of Dobson Street and Custer Avenue, fire division chief Dwight Hohl said. The seasonal rains likely caused the pavement to collapse, exposing an empty space under the asphalt, he said. City workers poured gravel into the hole to support and remove the truck, which was
ETHS, D65 ‘farming to school’ By OLIVER ORTEGA
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The local food movement has made its way to Evanston schools, where student-run gardens and a new “farm to school” program initiated in March are making lunchtime more nutritious and hands-on. Fresh fruit, vegetables, cheese, wheat and other ingredients are delivered to Evanston cafeterias from regional farms as part of a program piloted at Evanston Township High School and all the schools in Evanston/Skokie School District 65, said Jordan Ryan, D65’s food services coordinator. Students are also doing their own farming in school gardens, harvesting produce they might eat later for lunch. The innovative “farm to school” initiative was noticed by school food officials at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. A USDA administrator toured ETHS and Dewey Elementary School, 1551 Wesley Ave., last week as part of a nationwide search for creative ideas to get students to eat healthier foods. ETHS and D65 schools get most of their locally-sourced produce from a food hub in Wisconsin, Ryan said. Food hubs are facilities through which local and regional farmers can sell and distribute their food. Evanston resident Linda Mallers uses her company, FarmLogix, to connect ETHS and other local schools to
towed away. Thursday’s storms not only put outdoor city employees to work but also staffers managing the city’s 311 service. The service received more than twice as many calls by 11:30 a.m. Thursday than it usually gets in a 12-hour weekday, said Erika Storlie, the city’s citizen engagement manager. Back on campus, Cubbage said
regional farmers. But the majority of the food in school meals still comes from national corporations, Ryan said. “Buying locally sourced food keeps the traceability chain in what we buy, ensures more sanitation and eliminates the need to have multiple vendors or several farmers, in addition to helping farmers because they can take their products to one spot,” Ryan said. School districts across the nation are opting for locally-sourced ingredients more than ever before. The National Farm to School Network, a group that links schools with local farmers and is funded by government grants, has grown from just a handful of programs
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when it first started in the late 1990s to working with about 13,000 schools in all 50 states. Mary Stein, the group’s associate director, attributes the program’s success to the increasing attention paid to childhood obesity, as well as a growing interest in local food. “Child nutrition and addressing the obesity epidemic is an incredibly important topic,” she said. “There’s an increasing consumer interest across the country about really reconnecting to where your food comes from.” Evanston students are also rolling » See FARM, page 7
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EAT YOUR VEGGIES Some Evanston Township High School students farm their own food at the Edible Acre community garden across the street from the school, which last year produced 2,000 pounds of produce.
University facilities management had no estimate of when water removal requests would be completed. “On the whole we’re in pretty good shape,” Cubbage said.
Evanston wrapped up election season last week, but Associated Student Government elections were just getting underway at Northwestern. And after about two weeks of tense debates — but less chalking than usual — the four tickets running for ASG president and executive vice president prepared their final campaign strategies Thursday before the online voting form opened midnight Friday. Voters can submit their choices online until 5 p.m. Friday Although two of the four candidates declined to discuss election day strategy specifics, each ticket said their teams were prepared to blast social media and listservs to get out the vote. Presidential candidate David Harris said his team felt confident going into the crucial day. “It’ll be an extremely exhilarating period of hours,” the SESP junior said. “The single most important element to this election is ensuring that every student possible votes.” Harris and his competitors SESP
junior Benison Choi and Weinberg junior Ani Ajith said they rallied their teams individually Thursday night to thank their supporters and reflect on their team performance. “We’re just celebrating,” Choi said. “Tomorrow we’re going to go out there and show some love.” In addition to using social media, Choi said his supporters are dispersing cutouts and manning the streets to promote his campaign. Although Ajith and Harris said their election day strategies were private, they were nothing out of the ordinary. “We’re not doing too many lastminute things,” Ajith said. “That’s the good thing about having an excellent campaign team and supporters from all over campus and relationships extending back months and years.” Taking an underground approach, presidential candidate Aaron Zelikovich said his plans set his campaign apart from others because of their primary focus on word of mouth. “We’re sticking to what we’ve been doing for our entire campaign,” the Weinberg junior said. “Our main (strategy) is the face-to-face interaction.” » See ELECTION, page 7
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