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Rocky start for Ajith Transition process snarled by tragedy, politics team. At the ASG meeting May 8, Senate voted to block three of his cabinet nominees. One nominee, Stephen Piotrkowski, daily senior staffer was denied the associate vice president of diversity and @Cat_Zakrzewski inclusion position after senators and outside groups raised concerns about whether his experience and qualifications About three weeks after spring showers washed his — as well as whether a straight, white male can adequately chalked campaign slogans away, Ani Ajith’s fledgling Assotake on diversity issues. ciated Student Government presidency grappled with a series The other two nominees were denied due to unreof external and internal challenges. solved tensions after a contentious election that pitted Ajith and ASG executive vice president Alex Van Atta ran Ajith against another ASG insider, SESP junior David in the April election as the ticket Harris. with the most ASG experience. But Amid the internal bickering, Senas a transition many expected to Being able to juggle ate rejected Weinberg junior Stephabe smooth has had a rocky start, Hong and Weinberg complex issues is part of nie sophomore Julia Watson the pair has been both hampered the promise we make. for executive board posiand helped by the very experience they ran on. Ani Ajith, tions. Former members of Although the two were just Associated Student Harris’ campaign publicly sworn in April 24, the pair has Government president lobbied during Senate debate against already been confronted with internal ASG divisions, a student Hong and Watson, who served as Ajith’s campaign death and public backlash after a controversial letter about manager. Cinco de Mayo. They have been forced to deal with each of these issues while still taking on the basic responsibilities Stewart said the election associated with their new roles, like meeting top adminisleft ASG particularly divided because both Ajith and Harris trators and maintaining ongoing projects with former ASG president Victor Shao and executive vice president Brad drew endorsements and camStewart. paign support from within ASG, and many of those supporters still Ajith said balancing the unexpected challenges with the hold on to conflicts that flared up durtime-consuming transition is just part of the job. “Being able to juggle complex issues is part of the promise ing the campaign. Skylar Zhang/Daily Senior Staffer we make, the assurance we gave to students when we won,” Although the controversial Senate ‘COMPLEX ISSUES’ Associated Student Government president Ani Ajith speaks at Senate on the Weinberg junior said. » See AJITH, page 6 Wednesday. He and executive vice president Alex Van Atta have had a challenging start to their term. However, Ajith is currently at work with an incomplete By CAT ZAKRZEWSKI
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Unique performance Man’s death tied to gang activity Resident’s tackles poverty crisis Police: slaying may be related By REBECCA SAVRANSKY
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Communication Prof. Michael Rohd directed an interactive performance Wednesday night focused on engaging the audience in discussion to find an effective solution to the poverty crisis. More than 120 people attended the performance, “How to End Poverty in 90 Minutes (with 199 people you may or may not know).” After engaging with different concepts throughout the performance, the audience voted on how to donate $1,000 of the ticket sales to
attempt to end the poverty crisis. “I think that participatory theater keeps theater alive because that’s something film and TV can’t do,” said Weinberg junior Daphne Kim, one of the 16 cast members. Throughout the performance, audience members discussed which cause most deserved their donation. The cast compiled five different local organizations that deal with issues surrounding poverty based around daily needs, policy changes, education, employment opportunities and individual need. Attendees were not told of the specific organization their money would go » See POVERTY, page 6
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INTERACTIVE PERFORMANCE Communication sophomore Brannon Bowers performs a concept of poverty in the interactive piece “How to Solve Poverty in 90 Minutes.” The show allows audience members to decide how to allocate $1,000 after learning about different possible organizations.
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Police say an Evanston man killed Sunday on the South Side of Chicago may have been the intended target of a shooting last week in west Evanston. Blake Ross, 20, was shot dead Sunday in the 2800 block of East 76th Street. Ross, of the 2300 block of Greenwood
Street, attended Evanston Township High School, ETHS spokeswoman Takumi Iseda said. Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said Ross was a “possible intended target” in last week’s shooting near FleetwoodJourdain Community Center, 1655 Foster St. Shots were fired the afternoon of May 7 near the community center. The gun activity led Evanston police to deploy greater manpower in the area. Officers interviewed Ross after the incident, although he did not provide any information, Parrott said. Parrott said Ross’s death appeared to be gang-related. Following reports of shots fired on Foster Street, the community center
was locked down, building coordinator Alando Massie said. Earlier this month, Massie said the shootings near the community center had no connection to gang activity. “These guys grew up with each other. They know each other,” Massie said. “Whatever personal beef they had seemed to catch up.” Ald. Delores Holmes (5th) said she will address the recent violence during Thursday’s 5th Ward meeting at the community center. “It’s just unacceptable behavior that cannot continue in the community,” Holmes said.
just elevates our sport to a whole other level.” The addition of Maryland and Rutgers to the Big Ten in 2015 means at least six teams already in the conference will have a women’s lacrosse program. Because six teams will compete in the sport, women’s lacrosse is eligible to receive sponsorship from the conference. A Big Ten lacrosse conference also brings together the country’s two biggest women’s lacrosse powerhouses: NU and Maryland. “It just makes our conference that much more competitive, and I think that we should have the most competitive conference in the country,” Amonte Hiller said, noting NU will no longer face ALC rival Florida during the regular season. Amonte Hiller said she hopes other Big Ten schools will introduce women’s lacrosse programs in the future to flesh
out the conference. Benefits of having the conference also include an added level of local support — Big Ten headquarters is just outside of Chicago — as well as extra media attention. Amonte Hiller, who played at Maryland, also recruits heavily from the East Coast. She hopes the draw of being able to play in the Big Ten will pull more Midwest players to NU’s team as well. Ultimately, Amonte Hiller said she is excited for what the conference means for the expansion of the sport. “For us, it’s a great thing,” Amonte Hiller said. “For our sport, it’s a whole other great thing, and I don’t think people really realize it yet. I think we realize it because we’ve been an outlier, we’ve been building this outside of the East Coast, and I think that this is a big step for the sport of lacrosse.”
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Northwestern coach Kelly Amonte Hiller said Thursday a Big Ten women’s lacrosse conference will debut in the 2014-15 season. NU, Ohio State and Penn State will play one last season in the American Lacrosse Conference before moving to the Big Ten conference. Michigan, which will debut its women’s lacrosse program next year, will also play in the ALC for the 2013-14 season and then move to the Big Ten, Amonte Hiller said. “It’s very, very exciting for us,” Amonte Hiller said. “And we’ve garnered a lot of attention from the Big Ten, just with our success and being in Chicago … and I think having a conference now
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Students who take weekend excursions to Chicago for authentic Chinese cuisine need look no further than Northwestern’s doorstep when Lao Sze Chuan opens this summer. Owner and chef Tony Hu said he had meant to open the restaurant’s downtown Evanston location 10 years ago, but the plan has only materialized recently. The restaurant, which will open at 1637 Orrington Ave. in August, will add authenticity to a Chinese restaurant culture in America that has been Americanized, Hu said. “Most of the (customers) are from Asia and a lot of (local) people fall in love with us,” Hu said. “I think in Evanston there is a lot of demand for authentic cuisine.” The Evanston opening will add to Hu’s 11 restaurants that make up the Tony Gourmet Group, some
of which are in Chicago. Since Hu graduated from the Sichuan Culinary Institute and moved from China to Chicago, he has spiced up taste for Chinese cuisine within the local communities on campus and around Chicago. Chelsea Yang, former president of the Chinese International Student Association, said Hu donated food in January to the club’s first cultural night, which was open to all NU students. Chinese students at NU love Hu’s restaurants partly because of the diversity of food offered. “(Tony uses) Chinese cuisine as an agent of connection to authentic Asian culture,” Yang said. Yang said many students take weekend trips to the restaurant’s Chinatown location to taste dishes including orange beef tenderloin, spicy hot pot and boiled beef in spicy Sichuan sauce. Hu was a bit of a celebrity in his hometown at Sichuan, said Kellogg student Tony Zhang, who said he heard about Hu while growing up in the province. Hu, Zhang said, was a Chinese cuisine pioneer, bringing Sichuan food to Chicago in 1998
when Chicago’s Chinese restaurant scene was predominantly Cantonese. Yang said she thinks Lao Sze Chuan will introduce authentic Chinese cuisine to Evanston, which is home to Asian restaurants including Joy Yee’s, Phoenix Inn and Lulu’s. “For actual Chinese people, these kind of fusion restaurants just don’t have authentic flavor of Chinese cuisine,” Yang said. Hu and three restaurant managers attended the Greater China Business Conference organized Kellogg on Saturday, Zhang said. Hu has also catered for business school workshops in January, Zhang said. Lao Sze Chuan looks to be a popular choice among NU students because it serves not only Sichuan food, but also other regional cuisine from Shanghai and Guangdong provinces. “Evanston has a lot of people who are into Chinese food,” Zhang said. “I think that’s why he had a great opening.” edwardcox2011@u.northwestern.edu
Chocolate cafe to open on Central St. By AMANDA GILBERT
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From Burger King to Oceanique, Evanston has a wide range of dining options, but it has not attracted a chocolate cafe until now. The city’s Site Plan and Appearance Review Committee on Wednesday approved a plan to bring the concept to Evanston. Ari Backman, owner of Leonidas Chocolate Cafe, said his shop in Wilmette will move to 1907 Central St. in hopes of attracting more foot traffic. “I think we will get a lot more customers,” Backman said. “A lot of our customers travel from the Evanston area.”
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Backman said he must now receive the Evanston City Council’s approval and a business license before opening the cafe. Leonidas is a premier chocolate brand from Brussels, Belgium. All of the sweets are flown in from Brussels regularly and are made without preservatives. “We sell them fresh, so that’s what makes it unique from our competitors,” Backman said. “We have some masterpieces in our repertoire.” Corporate sales president Marie Douailly said the cafe will offer more then just chocolates. Customers can buy espressos, pastries, gelato and crepes. The store also recently added Belgian waffles and croissants to the menu. “We will make things that are very different and very European,” she added.
There are three existing Leonidas Chocolate Cafes, located in downtown Chicago, Wilmette and Northbrook. Douailly added that the store will cater to students by offering a WildCARD discount. Students can buy chocolates, such as the Perle Coco and Perle Fine Orange Fondant, for less than two dollars. “It doesn’t break the banks, and it gives students a nice European experience,” Douailly said. Ald. Donald Wilson (4th) said the chocolate cafe will be a unique addition to the existing cafes in the city. “I love chocolate,” Wilson said. “Anything that is going to provide us with more chocolate options, I’m all for it.” amandagilbert2015@u.northwestern.edu
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ASG presents plans, goals for year By JEANNE KUANG
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Following a contentious Senate meeting last week, Associated Student Government settled into its routine Wednesday with discussion of goals for the year and plans to fill the cabinet. “This week was all about showing exactly what ASG is going to look like,” ASG president Ani Ajith told The Daily after the meeting. “We had a lot of productive discussion.” Early in the evening Ajith, a Weinberg junior and former Daily staffer, and executive vice president Alex Van Atta presented the procedure to choose cabinet members for the seats left empty last week when three nominees were rejected by Senate. Ajith told Senate that ASG will hold a fullscale publicity campaign to recruit applicants for chief of staff, public relations vice president and associate vice president for diversity and inclusion. He will chair the selection committee to oversee and interview applicants. “We want to see a broad variety of applicants,” he said. Confirmations will be presented May 29. Ajith and Van Atta filled in for the three empty positions when members of the executive board presented ongoing projects and priorities for the coming year, which comprised the bulk of the meeting. Van Atta, speaking for the diversity and inclusion committee, mentioned the ongoing push for gender-open housing and gender-neutral bathrooms. “That’s just a continual push that we need to do,” the McCormick junior said. “We just need to make sure that doesn’t fall off into oblivion.” He added that he hopes to see a report on gender-neutral bathrooms by the end of the quarter. The entire executive board, with the exception
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GUEST APPEARANCE Associated Student Government senators applaud men’s basketball coach Chris Collins at the Senate meeting Wednesday evening. Collins spoke about the importance of the “sixth man,” or the fans, to the success of the basketball program.
of technology vice president Sheng Wu, emphasized the need for recruitment of committee members and asked Senate to reach out to the student body. The meeting also featured a visit from Dean of Students Todd Adams and men’s basketball coach Chris Collins. Adams thanked ASG for its community support as the campus grieved for student Dmitri Teplov, who died May 5, and introduced Collins. The coach emphasized his goal of raising student enthusiasm for NU basketball. “You know how much the applicants for this place would go up if people turn on basketball games all winter and saw 8,000 people going nuts in Welsh-Ryan?” he said.
Later in the night, Ethan Romba, outgoing technology vice president, and Ian Coley, offcampus caucus whip, presented legislation to reform the ASG election process. They proposed shortening the non-verbal campaign period from two weeks to one and preventing current and outgoing executive board members from endorsing candidates. The amendments will be voted on next week. Senate also voted to fund the upcoming ASG Community Garage Sale, a project proposed by Chris Harlow, a senator and SESP freshman. The event will allow students to sell their old or unused items to each other at the end of the year. jeannekuang2016@u.northwestern.edu
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May 13 — A University of Miami student died early Sunday morning of injuries suffered in a car crash near the school’s Coral Gables campus. The student was identified as Dino Ghilotti who graduated on Friday with a degree in business, UM spokeswoman Margot Winick said. Coral Gables police said the accident occurred at Bird Road at San Amaro Drive at 4:37 a.m. Ghilotti was a passenger in the vehicle. The driver of the car was also a UM student. The extent of the driver’s injuries are unknown. Ghilotti was expected to soon join his family’s construction firm, Ghilotti Construction, head-quartered in Santa Rosa, California. The company was started in 1914, according to the company’s website. “The entire university community is heartbroken to hear of the tragic traffic accident ... our condolences and thoughts are with his family and friends,” UM president Donna Shalala said in a written statement. Larry Buck, of Mission Street Advisors, a real estate firm said Ghilotti death’s will be a blow to the San Francisco business. Among the major projects the company has completed, according to its website: Sears Point Raceway renovation for $50 million; the George Lucas’ Big Rock Ranch development for $20 million; Geysers Pipeline project for the City of Santa Rosa for $16 million and the Maycama Golf Club project for $10 million. “Ghilotti Construction is right up there with Nibbi Brothers as the two most respected Italian family-owned construction companies in San Francisco.” Buck added that the family was looking forward to Dino’s return to San Francisco to work for the family business. “This is a tragic loss and our thoughts and prayers go out to the family,’’ Buck said. — Amy Sherman and Theo Karantsalis (The Miami Herald)
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Electric cars represent future of transportation YONI MULLER
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It’s a good month to be a nerd. “Iron Man 3� hit theaters May 3 and is currently the 16th highest-grossing film of all time. This Friday, “Star Trek Into Darkness� will be released and make whatever money we as a people have left. Most importantly, Tesla Motors is all over the news recently, vindicating the man people only today remember as a genius, while providing the opportunity to discuss how Thomas Edison was the world’s biggest choose-your-favorite-expletive. This week alone, Tesla outsold comparable models by Mercedes, BMW and Audi; it was also given a 99 of 100 ranking from Consumer Reports, making it the highest-rated car the company has ever reviewed. This means two things – the Tesla Model S is clearly an amazing car that should make us reflect on the state of electric cars in
America, and clearly nobody from Consumer Reports has ever driven my grill-less, stallprone, perfect 2000 Ford Taurus. Those fools. Indeed, Tesla’s remarkable success ought to make us question why we are so reluctant to embrace the technology. My friend Tom Jorda once pointed out how there are no individual car companies and how impossible it is to break into the automotive industry. Think of a car company — odds are it is owned by or owns at least one other company. While he’s the biggest cynic I may have ever met, he knows car companies better than I don’t know women, so I’ll take his word on this. I also looked it up for good measure. However, Tesla is the exception. Armed only with a billionaire founder and nothing else — which, frankly, isn’t a lot — the company not only makes cars, but also makes some of the best cars on the market. And they’re all electric. For years, people have resisted electric cars because of performance issues. Sure, a Prius may be good for the earth, but only in the same way that bran muffins are good for you — that is to say, in the boring way. Frankly, there’s a reason
none of the Trasformers were hybrids. However, it’s becoming increasingly clear that that problem, if not already solved, easily could be with the resources larger car manufacturers have at their disposal. Unfortunately, society seems to be far behind this change in technology, and is only starting to catch up. Even with great electric cars like the Tesla lineup, the Chevy Volt and the Nissan Leaf, their market share is dismal. Of all cars sold in 2013, less than 0.5 percent are plug-in vehicles, even with a $7,500 tax deduction helping sales. Almost as many Ferraris were sold in the first nine months of 2012 as battery-powered cars. It’s high time those figures changed. One of the biggest obstacles to making electric cars successful and accessible is that there is no national framework of charging stations in place. There are so many gas stations that you can’t pass two highway exits without seeing one, but North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Wyoming have seven electric stations between them. Each one of those states has fewer stations than I have facial hairs. It’s no wonder electric cars have struggled. Companies are reluctant to make things they can’t sell, and customers are reluctant to buy things they can’t use. Unfortunately, because these cars don’t get produced, nobody’s jumping to open new charging stations, and the two problems continue fueling one another. As a result, it’s imperative that America takes action and embraces this new technology — one that is not only much
better for the environment, but also relies on a cheaper fuel source and has the potential to grow tremendously, creating millions of jobs. Electric cars have the potential to be the most beneficial product modification since the smartphone, but only if consumers demand it. If you know someone looking for a car, suggest they consider an electric one — which are actually remarkably useful in some parts of the country. Petition your senators and representatives to pass measures allowing for government investment in electric stations and the production of electric cars. Do it not just for yourself, for your country or for the world, but do it for the nerds. Because if we fail, Thomas Edison wins. Yoni Muller is a Weinberg sophomore. He can be reached at jonathanmuller2015@u. northwestern.edu. If you want to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.
Make campus happier: Smile at 5 strangers today MEERA PATEL
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Here at Northwestern, everyone is busy. Everyone’s involved in about 30,000 activities, has around 30 executive positions, and is constantly on the go. About a week ago, I almost had to make a Doodle just to figure out when two of my friends and I could hang out. We laughed at how ridiculous that idea was. Then we actually did it. But being busy doesn’t mean we need to be unpleasant. Every time I walk down Sheridan Road, I pass at least 10 people I know. You’d think I’d stop and say “hi,� or even just smile or wave while passing them. But a lot of times, I’m so engrossed in my thoughts, worrying about where I have to be or what I have to do next, that I don’t bother acknowledging them. And I’ve noticed that a lot of people do the same. But a few days ago, I started making it a point to slow down and notice the people I’m passing on the road or between classes. It’s
partly due to the nice weather. It’s also partly a random decision I made. The point is, it’s made me realize something. When I smile at someone, even if it’s someone I don’t know, it makes me feel good. It doesn’t matter if they smile back, or if they didn’t see me; the act of smiling seems to improve my mood exponentially. I wasn’t sure if this was all in my head, so I decided to research it a bit. I expected to find a ton of information online about smiling. What I didn’t expect to find was a great deal of research about what smiling does for the person who is smiling. Darwin was the first to introduce this idea, which became known as the “facial-feedback hypothesis.� Since then, researchers have studied the relationship between facial expressions and emotions in great depth. Most studies show a correlation between your ability to smile and how happy you feel. OK, I thought, there is a ton of science behind this. How does it apply to NU? So I contacted Prof. Susan Hespos, an associate professor and director of graduate studies for cognitive psychology at NU. I asked if she knew of someone who had done any research on a correlation between smiling and
amounts of happiness — if such a thing could be measured quantitatively. She directed me to contact Kathryn Gigler and Yangqing Xu, two graduate students in the Department of Psychology, who are Smile at at least co-teaching a class on Research Methods five random with her this quarter. strangers today. Kathryn, who goes ... I can almost by Kati, explained to they had just conguarantee that me ducted a study on how you’ll feel the likely each gender is to difference, and return a smile, based on the gender of the that you’ll keep “smiler.� Although this doing it in the study didn’t focus on my primary interest, it future. did reveal something rather upsetting. Many of the subjects refused to return a smile, and a significant number of students “darted their gaze away to avoid eye contact.� It makes me sad to realize that so many of us think we’re too busy to take a second out of our day to smile to a fellow student on the street.
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Meera Patel is a McCormick sophomore. She can be reached at meerapatel2015@u.northwestern.edu. If you want to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.
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What commenters are saying Hayley, this is well said but I wish you had at least acknowledged that a huge reason why Northwestern students are so angry is because of the way a lot of the Multicultural student leaders or some self proclaimed diversity ‘champions’ have behaved in the past few months. Condescending, loud, aggressive, hypocritical, immature, and bigoted is how I would describe their behavior, and this is what has turned me off from having to do anything with diversity here despite being a minority student and a victim of discrimination. — Reasonable Person
This isn’t a new concept. There have been tons of articles and columns to NU students, by NU students, encouraging each other to smile, wave and be more open and friendly to others on campus, or just to people in general. Why isn’t this changing? We’ve been talking about this so much in light of recent events; we all need to come together and be One Northwestern. I guess it’s hard for us to figure out just how exactly to do it. If we want to make a change, any change, in our community, the best way to start is with a small step. Maybe we can start smiling at at least five random strangers a day — it’s small, but if even a quarter of Wildcats start doing it, maybe we’ll encourage the other three quarters to do it, just by showing how great it makes us, and people around us, feel. So I’ll end this column with a dare; smile at at least five random strangers today. I can almost guarantee that you’ll feel the difference, and that you’ll keep doing it in the future.
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After watching an English version of a Portuguese play, Spanish and Portuguese Prof. Raquel Amorim decided to put the play on again — but this time in its original language and by her students. The play, “Artistas: Um drama pequeno burgues,” is a farce about artists trying to make a living that the International Voices Project put on in March. Amorim, who served as the faculty adviser, proposed the idea to her Portuguese students after attending the festival. Her students performed a staged reading of the script Wednesday. “I went to see it in English and thought it was really funny, so I thought, ‘Wow, this is a good opportunity for my students to do it in Portuguese,’” Amorim said. The students, some of whom were only in their first year of Portuguese, participated in the play on a voluntary basis: It was an extracurricular activity
for which students did not receive class credit. A top Brazilian diplomat serving the Chicago area attended the performance. McCormick sophomore Rick Fromm, who took Portuguese last year, said he participated in the play because he had fallen out of practice with the language since he stopped taking classes. “It definitely got me back on the horse,” Fromm said. Students used Portuguese not just while reading the play, but also while preparing for the production, director Mariana Leite said. “Everything was in Portuguese,” Leite said. “Learning the play, practicing, everything.” Amorim said she thought the process of putting on the production would be a more engaging way to learn Portuguese than traditional studying. “The idea was to have some fun reading a play in Portuguese,” Amorim said. The production, which took place in Harris Hall, was preceded by a selection of Portuguese music performed by Northwestern students. The nine student actors then performed a staged reading of
Sant’Angelo’s play, with English subtitles projected onto a screen behind them. The comedic play portrayed the struggles of three artists trying to make a living off of their art. Three students played each role, taking turns reading the lines of their characters. Scenes such as one character’s description of a man masturbating to her performance and another character philosophizing while on the toilet drew laughs from an audience of about 30 people, a majority of whom spoke Portuguese. A brief question-and-answer session with the students followed the play. Communication junior Lillian Tung said although she does not speak Portuguese, she attended the play to support her friend who was in it. “I’ve taken a foreign language here, too, and I thought it was really nice that they got to practice through a play,” Tung said. “And it’s really cool that there’s a community to support them.” amywhyte2015@u.northwestern.edu
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PORTUGUESE PERFORMANCE McCormick senior Clayton Hall performs in the play “Artistas!” Wednesday evening.
Residents, activists discuss gun violence prevention By CIARA MCCARTHY
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Participants in a Wednesday panel on gun violence started a community discussion they hope will lead to a citywide movement by June. About 20 people gathered at Curt’s Cafe, 2922 Central St., to discuss gun violence. Four panel members shared stories of their experiences and subsequent involvement in gun control activism. The panel was hosted by the Center for Artful Intention, an art-therapy practice. The panel is part of a larger push by the Center for Artful Intention to start a dialogue about gun violence in the community. Last week, the center opened an exhibit titled “Shattered: A Visual Dialogue About Gun Violence,” at the cafe. “As therapists, we often talk to people in the therapeutic setting about the impact of violence on the individual, but we wanted to kind of bring it back to the community and say this isn’t an individual issue, it’s something we all experience as a community,” CAI co-founder Val Newman said. Evanston resident Carolyn Murray described her years of involvement in the gun control movement. In November, while she was preparing the
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PANEL DISCUSSION Dan Anthon and Carolyn Murray discuss gun violence at a panel at Curt’s Cafe on Wednesday evening. The talk covered the impact of guns on the community and the grassroots movement to end the violence in Evanston.
city’s first gun buyback program, her 19-year-old son was fatally shot. Murray described ending gun violence in Evanston as her “duty,” and invited those present to an anti-violence march she is planning for June 22. Gun activist Jeanne Bishop described the brutal 1990 slaying of her pregnant sister and brother-inlaw in Winnetka, and her subsequent passion for limiting the number of guns on the streets. “I can’t bring my sister back, but what I can do is try to make sure that this does not happen to another family,” she said. Evanston Township High School teacher Paola Ruocco brought about 10 of her students to the discussion. An English teacher, Ruocco taught freshman Dajae Coleman before he was gunned down near the school in September. “There is such a difference of hearing somebody’s story live,” she said. Susan Trieschmann, executive director of Curt’s Cafe, ended the evening by encouraging all those gathered to spread the message of Murray’s antiviolence march in June. “Let’s make this powerful, let’s let people know that we’re not kidding, that it’s time to make change,” she said. ciaramccarthy2015@u.northwestern.edu
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high as AAA in the Pittsburgh Pirates farm system and now plays third base for the Winston-Salem Dash, the Chicago White Sox’ high-A affiliate. Shane works in the Chicago Cubs scouting department. “They’ve always been bigger than me and stronger,” Luke Farrell said. “We’re all two years apart. I’m the youngest. So I guess I always had to fight a little bit more to get what I wanted.” But now, Luke is likely on his way to being the most successful Farrell brother. Big Ten baseball expert Chris Webb compares the 21-year-old’s stuff to that of 14-year MLB veteran Bronson Arroyo. Farrell “doesn’t overpower” batters, Webb said, but is effective because of good sink on his low-90s fastball, an “above-average” change-up and a “polished” curveball. This is where it doesn’t hurt to have a former pitching coach for a father. “He’s really polished,” said Webb, a college baseball columnist for Scout.com. “Great mechanics. You can tell that he comes from a baseball background. He knows what he’s doing on the mound. He has a good mound presence.” Hanging around the Red Sox when his father was pitching coach exposed Farrell to a wealth of big-league mentors. The righty said he learned his change-up grip from Curt Schilling, picked up a one-seam fastball from Clay Buchholz and Jon Lester, and throws a modified version of Josh Beckett’s curveball. Then there’s Farrell’s 6-foot-6 stature.
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“That, to me, is a phrase that puts the onus on nobody,” Coley said. “I think they did screw up a little bit.” In addition to the internal issues, Ajith and Van Atta have had to deal with negative backlash from students who were unhappy with a letter they wrote with Alianza about the celebration of Cinco de Mayo. In the letter emailed to all Northwestern students, they discouraged students from celebrating the holiday with tacos or tequila, offending Mexican international students who believe it is part of their culture. “Students never like getting all-campus emails. Even if it’s a little controversial, people react because everyone’s reading it,” Shao said. One day after the controversial letter was sent out, tragedy struck NU again. Students and faculty were shaken to find out McCormick sophomore Dmitri Teplov had committed suicide, taking his own life in Pancoe Hall. Without a full executive board confirmed, Ajith
and Van Atta scrambled to lead the NU community through the loss and plan memorial services. Although their experience in ASG contributed to the current division within Senate, it benefited the team as they led the campus through the tragedy. Both Ajith and Van Atta were in the room when Shao and Stewart made plans to deal with the losses of two other students earlier this year. “The hardest thing we had to do over our year was deal with two student deaths,” Stewart said. “I think they handled the situation very well.” Moving forward, Ajith and Van Atta said they did not think the early “hiccups” would hamper their long-term platform. Shao said Spring Quarter was supposed to be a transition period. “Not having a full executive board certainly has slowed them down to this point,” Shao said. “I’m confident they’re going to be able to accomplish everything they said they would.”
“He has a great frame,” Webb said. “He has a big-league body, a body that really shouldn’t break down over a professional season.” MLB teams have taken notice. Webb projected Farrell as a sixth- or seventh-round pick You can in the draft, which begins June 6. That tell he comes would put Farrell from a baseball in high company among recent NU background. He draftees. knows what he’s Over the last 19 doing on the drafts, three NU players, all pitchmound. ers, have been Chris Webb, drafted in the first Scout.com college 10 rounds. Two of baseball columnist them — George Kontos and J.A. Happ — are in the Major Leagues. This would seem to bode well for Farrell if NU’s third early draftee —Dan Brauer, a former Big Ten Pitcher of the Year — had not flamed out of pro baseball without progressing past high-A. NU assistant coach Tim Stoddard knows something about succeeding in professional baseball. Stoddard played 13 seasons in the Major Leagues, pitching out of various teams’ bullpens throughout the 1980s. But Stoddard says the primary difference between a career like Brauer’s and a career like his, Happ’s or Kontos’ is health and luck.
“Trying to pick who is successful and gets to the big leagues is a guessing game,” Stoddard said. “You have to stay healthy. That’s probably the biggest issue when it comes to guys going there. … You just really have to catch a lot breaks.” Farrell said he does not expect teams to be particularly wary of his health history, and both he and Stoddard emphasized that his pitching has improved steadily since his radiation. “My goal has always been to play professional baseball,” Farrell said. “And that’s always been a realistic goal. But as the season’s wore on, maybe I’ve put myself in a better position to do that.” If Farrell accomplishes his goal, as expected, some fans, players and writers will undoubtedly know him as “John Farrell’s son.” And when a local newspaper catches wind of the pitcher’s past medical drama, someone will unspool another narrative that places Farrell under a surgeon’s knife. To an extent, the story will always endure. Farrell will make one final start in purple and white Thursday at Wichita State. The outing will be bittersweet, he said, signaling the end of “the four best years of my life.” When it’s over, how does he want to be remembered at NU? “‘Good pitcher’ sounds pretty good to me.” He could be there before long. And eventually, when “good pitcher” defines Farrell’s time at Evanston, Luke Farrell the pitcher will finally be the story.
toward until after the voting process at the end of the performance. The performances embodied the different concepts. The audience was organized into small discussion groups and given a limited amount of time to engage with the concepts after learning information and statistics on the poverty crisis through the performances. “We’re excited to see what the trends are and if people will pick the same place or differ in their approaches to end poverty,” Kim said. Throughout the 90-minute show, different experts, including Lesley Williams, head of adult services at Evanston Public Library, and Matt Sudman, a volunteer for the Northwestern University Settlement Association, were brought in to answer audience questions on the current state of poverty and the most effective way to invest the money. Audience members expressed differing opinions on the show’s interactive element. “I think it was a cool thing and very thoughtprovoking,” Weinberg junior Mark Specht said. “It was an interesting concept, but it was pretty rushed. This is a decision that deserves more than the consideration that we gave it.” Weinberg junior Alice Liu agreed that although the discussion was interesting and unique, the constant reminder of time may have impeded people’s ability to think long enough about the concepts. “They kept reinforcing the time,” the former Daily staffer said. “It put pressure on you to think in a way that is not the deepest.” The organization of the performance had a large impact on other members of the audience, said Brighid O’Shaughnessy, founder and artistic director of a Chicago theater company. “I really appreciated the opportunity to go back and forth between being in discussion and learning from experts,” O’Shaughnessy said. “The opportunity to go in and out of discussion through the night was effective.” There will be eight more performances in the next 10 days. Members of the cast enjoyed the experience and look forward to the next several shows, Kim said. “It’s been a really awesome journey,” Kim said. “People have had different reactions and some people had emotional responses, which is really cool. People have described it as tremendous, overwhelming and moving.”
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Farrell’s accolades matching life story A year after having tumor removed, senior pitcher showcases potential By ALEX PUTTERMAN
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Luke Farrell the pitcher could not keep up with Luke Farrell the story. For three years, Farrell was a semiimportant member of Northwestern pitching staffs, passing through a variety of roles with touch-and-go success. Meanwhile, people told the story of Farrell’s victory over a persistent neck tumor that could have not only ended his career but also resulted in paralysis. The tumor was almost entirely removed before Farrell’s freshman season but returned two years later and rendered him barely relevant on the field for stretches of both seasons. Farrell being the son of a Major League manager only added to the story’s intrigue. The story has been told from all angles. Features on Farrell have appeared on ESPNChicago.com, as well as in the Chicago Tribune and the Chicago SunTimes. The profiles were, for good reason, inspired by and focused on hospitals more than baseball fields, and operating tables more than pitching mounds. Now, with a 5-inch scar on his neck the only remnant of months of surgery, stress and recovery, Farrell the
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pitcher is earning all the coverage the story has brought him. The senior is the ace of an excellent NU starting rotation and one of the Big Ten’s best pitchers. His 1.84 ERA is second in the conference among starters, and his 78 strikeouts tied for first. Over four starts April 13-May 4, Farrell allowed only 2 earned runs in 33 innings, a preposterous 0.55 ERA. The stretch included a nine-inning shutout of Michigan at Wrigley Field on April 20 that Farrell, often understated, called “a good memory to have.” He was named Big Ten Pitcher of the Week following that outing and again two weeks later, after holding Ohio State scoreless over eight dominant innings. “What I’ve seen out of Luke is somebody that’s grown from the beginning of the season, that has continued to just put bricks on the foundation,” NU coach Paul Stevens said last week. “He has established a foundation, and he now is building a structure that is really looking awfully attractive.” A year ago, the structure appeared wobbly. Only months after undergoing radiation treatment for the recurrence of his tumor, Farrell struggled as starter in 2012. Despite improving after a switch to the bullpen, he finished the season with a 6.10 ERA and more than a hit allowed per inning pitched. His strength and stamina have improved gradually since, and so have the results. “What (radiation) really did was it cut down my endurance. I wasn’t throwing as hard. I’d get real tired real quick,” Farrell said. “If you look back
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KING OF THE HILL Senior pitcher Luke Farrell has been far and away Northwestern’s best pitcher this season with a 1.84 ERA and Big Ten-leading 78 strikeouts. He pitched a complete-game shutout April 20 at Wrigley Field.
to my sophomore summer, that would be the last time I was really in a groove and pitching once a week (before this season). Maybe this season those first couple of starts took a little bit of time to get accustomed to it. … In the second half of the season, things started to click.” In the Big Ten in 2013, only Minnesota’s Tom Windle can rival Farrell’s statistics. Windle, a junior and possible first-round MLB draft pick, is tied with Farrell for the conference lead in strikeouts and stands just ahead of the Cats hurler in ERA, batting average against and innings pitched. Because the Golden Gophers have supplied Windle with 6 wins — Farrell has only 3, thanks largely to lack of run support — the Minnesota lefty is the heavy favorite for Big Ten Pitcher of the Year, an award only two NU players have ever claimed. Farrell insists this does not bother
him. In fact, he does not often give the impression that anything bothers him. The lanky right-hander rarely exudes emotion on the field and maintains a soft-spoken calm when addressing the media. With long hair and sunglasses befitting his laid-back disposition, the Ohio native seems to embody California cool. But according to those who know him best, the tranquil persona is just a front. “There’s a tremendous amount of fire,” Stevens said. “Don’t let that little cool exterior sit there and fool you.” Cats first baseman Jack Havey is Farrell’s classmate and one of the pitcher’s best friends. Farrell and Havey, along with third baseman Colby Everett, have been close since freshman year and now live together off-campus with other players. “He’s the most competitive kid I
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The lady Wildcats took care of business last week at the NCAA Regionals. Now the men have a chance to do just the same. Northwestern tees off Thursday at The University Club in the 13-team NCAA Baton Rouge Regional and is hoping not to end its season on a sour note. The team stumbled to a sixth-place finish at Big Ten Championships three weeks ago, leaving the Cats with a bad taste heading into the heart of postseason play. A great performance at Regionals could erase that frustration. The Cats come into the tournament as the No. 6 seed, with the top five finishers qualifying for the NCAA Championships to be contested later this month in Atlanta. The team is in good position to capitalize on the opportunity to advance; all it needs is its five competitors to show reliable, not necessarily spectacular, form. “Jack (Perry) and Nick (Losole) obviously need to play well, which they have done consistently this year, and we need the other three guys to really manage their games,” coach Pat Goss said. “If we can just play solid rounds on our days that aren’t great, we’ll be fine.” Perry has unquestionably been the
team’s best and most consistent player this year, posting five top-10s and two victories in his 10 stroke-play starts this season. The junior was named to the All-Big Ten first team last week and also received the Les Bolstad Award for the player with the lowest scoring average among all Big Ten golfers — an honor no NU golfer has earned since Luke Donald in 2001. Even though the Baton Rouge, La., course is reported to be difficult, Perry said he believes success comes from maintaining the same mental strategy on any track he plays. “There’s no reason to add any anxiety or any new thought processes from course to course,” Perry said. “It doesn’t matter if the course is 10,000 yards or 5,000 yards, I’m still going to step up on that first tee and believe I am going to play well.” The other four players cannot exactly lollygag in Louisiana. Perry is the clear No. 1, but, as Goss mentioned, only a total team effort will yield NU the result it wants. Losole, the only senior among the starting five, must continue to be an anchor in the No. 2 spot. Sophomores Matthew Negri and Bennett Lavin, along with freshman Andrew Whalen, must add to the team’s scoring equation as well. Every starter but Perry had a round of 78 or higher at Big Ten Championships, and Goss made it clear that such high
scores will not fly at Regionals. “I’m hoping we learned our lesson at Big Tens,” Goss said. “My wish is that our struggle there will prove as a catalyst to really have us be in control of our game and to know how hard we have to fight and work to control our score.” The goal of the event is for the team to finish in one of the coveted top five spots, but that does not mean the Cats are going in with the mindset just to advance. “We can’t play just to come in third or fourth just to make it to nationals,” Perry said. “You play to win and to play great. Our good golf is good enough to compete with anyone.” Such confidence is necessary in an event where the large number of quality teams — nine in the top 50 alone — might otherwise be overwhelming. The NU guys also know the women’s squad has already advanced to NCAA Championships, and that motivates them. “To see people that you are around every day go out and play as clutch a round as the girls did that last day, it gives the guys some confidence and belief in what they’re doing,” Goss said. “But at the same time they don’t want to be stood up, their egos are male. They want to go out and show that they can compete and have a great finish to their season as well.” kevincasey2015@u.northwestern.edu
Sophomore freestyler Matthew Margritier has left the men’s swimming and diving team and dropped out of Northwestern. Margritier cited “mostly personal and academic fits” as his reason for leaving the school. He also made it clear that his decision had nothing to do with the swimming program itself. “It’s been something that I’ve struggled with on and off,” Margritier said. “I’ve struggled with putting myself above the team because I respected them all so much. I was finally able to get myself over that hump that I needed to be selfish for myself for the future and that was when I was able to make the decision.” Margritier notified the coaches April 29 of his departure and has already returned home to Leawood, Kan. Margritier said he is still looking to swim at his next school. He said he is not sure where he is heading yet, but it will not be in the Big Ten. “Even if (NU) had said you could
know,” Havey said. “We’ll be playing a game of H.O.R.S.E, and he’ll want to beat you no matter what. So although he’ll talk to guys and be calm up front like that, when he’s competing in a sport or whatever it is, he’s got some fire.” Farrell said some of that fire comes from growing up in the ultimate baseball family. Farrell’s father, John, pitched eight major-league seasons in the late 1980s and early 90s. After his playing career, the elder Farrell worked several jobs in the MLB before being named manager of the Toronto Blue Jays in 2010. He is now in his first season as manager of the Boston Red Sox. Luke also has two baseball-playing older brothers, Jeremy and Shane, both of whom competed at the college level and were later drafted. Jeremy climbed as » See BASEBALL, page 6
transfer within the conference, I wouldn’t do that,” Margritier said. “I couldn’t compete against my former teammates like that.” Margritier said he isn’t afraid of sacrificing the team and athletic fit for a better all around fit. “We thank Matt for his contributions to our program over the last two seasons and we wish him nothing but the best in the future,”
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I was finally able to get myself over that hump that I needed to be selfish for myself for the future and that was when I was able to make the decision. Matthew Magriter, sophomore swimmer
the NU swimming and diving team said in a statement. Margritier was the second fastest NU swimmer in the 50- and 100- meter freestyle in the 2012-13 season. He was also an integral part of three relay teams: the 200 medley relay, 200 freestyle relay and 400 freestyle relay. — John Paschall