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The Daily Northwestern Tuesday, April 9, 2013
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1st Ward hopefuls ready for Election Day In homestretch, council race centers on time commitments By JOSEPH DIEBOLD, PATRICK SVITEK AND JIA YOU
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DOWN TO THE WIRE Ald. Judy Fiske (1st) and challenger Ed Tivador greet Evanston residents and Northwestern students on the last day of their campaigns. First Ward voters will decide Tuesday whether to re-elect Fiske.
Community marches, remembers Holocaust By ELLIE FRIEDMANN
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Northwestern students dressed in black marched through campus in silence reminding their peers not to forget a catastrophe that occurred more than 70 years ago. The NU community remembered the Holocaust on Monday with a short walk, a memorial ceremony for victims and a talk given by survivor John Mascai. In Hebrew, “Shoah” means catastrophe. “Yom HaShoah” is translated into English as “Holocaust Remembrance Day.” “Holocaust Remembrance Day at Northwestern has traditionally been planned by a couple Jewish organizations in the past, and last year was the first year that we decided to expand beyond that,” said Sammie Offsay, event planner and a Weinberg senior. “Last year I contacted different student groups on campus who represented other victims groups.” There are 35 co-sponsors this year, including Northwestern to Benefit Special Olympics, American Sign Language Club, the German department, LGBT Resource Center, Alpha Epsilon Pi and Associated Student Government. The first event of the day began at noon. Mascai, a Hungarian Jew, told his personal Holocaust story to a classroom
of 60 in University Hall. Mascai said his childhood was a simple, middle-class existence. He said he was an excellent student and dreamed of becoming an architect. “One Sunday morning I look out the apartment building, and I see tanks, German soldiers and flags of swastikas,“ he said. “That’s when hell broke loose.” He said Jewish men between the ages of 18 and 48 had to report for labor duty. He was 18 and his father was 48, so both were called. “As bad as this was, what came later was worse,” he said. “The end became kind of totally unbearable, indescribable human hell.” Mascai went on to explain how his father was killed in the Holocaust just a few days before he was liberated. Now, after moving to America and achieving his dream of becoming an architect, he has a wife, four children, ten grandchildren and a great-grandchild on the way. “And that’s the end of the story,” he said. “How much happier and nicer could it be?” SESP sophomore Sarah Bruhl participated in the memorial events. She said that to her, Yom HaShoah means remembering all the people touched by the Holocaust. » See REMEMBRANCE, page 7
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Fires break out at homes on Noyes, Dempster streets
Evanston firefighters over the past two days rushed to put out two blazes, including one that hospitalized a 56-year-old man three blocks west of the Northwestern campus. On Sunday night, a woman walking by an apartment building in the 700 block of Noyes Street saw smoke coming out of the second floor and called 911, said Fire Chief Greg Klaiber. The fire department arrived on scene at 11:24 p.m. Firefighters located and rescued the resident in the second-floor apartment after a primary search. The man was then sent to Evanston Hospital and treated for first- and second-degree burns as well as smoke inhalation. The man was in critical condition with inhalation and transferred to the Burn Center at Loyola University Hospital, where he will remain for treatment, Klaiber said. The entire department arrived to put out the flames after the alarm status of the fire was upgraded. The department is still investigating the cause of the blaze, Klaiber said. A second fire broke out Monday afternoon in the basement of a west Evanston home. A nanny was watching a 7-yearold and doing laundry when the fire started in the basement of a single-family home in the 1700 block of Dempster Street, Division
The heated race for 1st Ward alderman entered its homestretch Monday as incumbent Judy Fiske doubled down on her long-simmering criticism of challenger Ed Tivador’s ability to balance two leadership posts if elected. Hitting the streets for an 11thhour effort to turn out the vote, both candidates stopped short of declaring victory with Tuesday’s election on the horizon. “I will wait and see,” Fiske said as she passed out campaign flyers in downtown Evanston. “It’s Election Day, so you never know what’s going to happen.” During an afternoon swing through the Northwestern campus to sample Frontera Fresco and shake hands at The Arch, Tivador was cautiously optimistic. “I feel good,” Tivador said. “We’re the guys in the white hats, so we hope to win it.” In a news release hours later, Tivador’s campaign was more bullish on its chances to unseat Fiske, Chief Dwight Hohl said. The smoke detector went off, and the nanny immediately took the child outside while calling 911. The fire started in the dryer and spread to the attached cabinets, but it did not reach other rooms in the house or cause structural damage, Hohl said. There were no injuries. The first companies on the scene
comparing its early voting push to that of “President Obama’s re-election team.” Tivador said his team turned out twice as many early voters than Fiske, knocking on 4,000 doors and making 2,000 calls by the eve of Election Day. The 1st Ward challenger also targeted NU students by recruiting Communication senior Steven Monacelli, who left Associated Student Government last week to work for Tivador. “It will be close, and that’s why students need to vote,” Monacelli said. “My perception is that the student vote will make or break the election.” On Monday, Fiske ramped up her questioning of whether Tivador could serve as both 1st Ward aldermen and superintendent of of Northbrook/Glenview School District 30. Fiske said she learned through a Freedom of Information Act request that Tivador’s employment contract requires him to devote his “entire time, attention and energy” to the district. The line of attack echoes one of Fiske’s most pointed criticisms of » See ELECTION, page 6 heard someone may have been left in the house, but multiple searches found no one else, according to the fire department. The specific cause of the fire within the dryer is still under investigation, Hohl said. — Ciara McCarthy
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FIRE ALARM A fire broke out late Sunday night on the second floor of an apartment building in the 700 block of Noyes Street. The Evanston fire department rescued a 56-year-old man and transported him to Evanston Hospital in critical condition.
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