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Expanding Evanston’s business palate In Focus

Economic development plan looks beyond restaurants By TANNER MAXWELL

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The ambient lighting and warmth of Found, a contemporary American bistro established in Evanston late last year, highlights its thoughtful, locally produced dishes. The restaurant sits at a refurbished storefront in town, taking the former space of Italian restaurant Gio at 1631 Chicago Ave. With favorable reviews from publications like Chicago Magazine and The New York Times, Found defined itself as a culinary destination in a city heavy on dining options. But despite the bustle created by Found, three empty spaces sit idly nearby on Chicago Avenue. Not every restaurant stays long in Evanston, and unlike Gio, some businesses are not easily replaced. Some spaces remain empty for more than a year before being filled, often by another restaurant that might not last for more than a

few years — a cycle frequently repeated in the downtown area. However, downtown Evanston’s success cannot be measured by popular restaurants or vacant storefronts alone. Economic development depends on careful attention to the entire city, and a thriving food scene is useless without additional retail and office space. At Downtown Evanston’s annual meeting Thursday, the nonprofit organization that maintains and markets the downtown district announced nine new businesses are arriving in the coming months — seven of which are restaurants. The news came as the city works within new guidelines that prioritize attracting businesses of all types to Evanston and filling dozens of vacant storefronts. “We’ve got all of the pieces in place to really have an excellent future, but we’ve got to keep focusing on that balance,” said Ald. Judy Fiske (1st), whose ward includes much of downtown Evanston. But beyond rhetoric and » See IN FOCUS, page 6

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Students question D’Souza Family remembers fatal shooting victim By PATRICK SVITEK

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CONTROVERSIAL COMMENTARY Conservative commentator Dinesh D’Souza talks Monday evening about his views on diversity. Some students protested him outside Ryan Auditorium in the Technological Institute.

Homecoming 2013 looks to bring NU back to 1990s

Northwestern alumni returning this fall for Homecoming will have to take things “Step by Step.” The theme of Homecoming 2013 will be “NU ‘Cats on the block,” the organization announced Monday. Homecoming co-chair Kate Geraghty said the organization’s executive board hopes the throwback to the 1990s, a

play on the popular band New Kids on the Block, will appeal to both young alumni and current students who grew up in the heyday of boy bands and Nickelodeon. “We were paring down and we were looking at what we could do with the themes that we had and ‘NU ‘Cats on the block’ just seemed like such a fun thing,” the Weinberg junior said. “We were all born in the ‘90s. Everyone’s obsessed with it, so we’re really excited. One of the great things is that we really think that especially younger alumni, alumni who were here in the ‘90s or

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Northwestern students challenged conservative commentator Dinesh D’Souza’s controversial views on diversity during a tense Q-and-A on Monday evening. D’Souza addressed more than 80 people in Technological Institute’s Ryan Auditorium before answering about a dozen questions almost equally divided between the friendly and the not-sofriendly. The “2016: Obama’s America” filmmaker earned a sharp rebuke from Associated Student Government president Ani Ajith, who participated in a silent » See D’SOUZA, page 7 were teenagers in the ‘90s, they’re really going to appreciate it.” Homecoming is partnering with NU Nights for a kickoff karaoke event Friday. The first hour will be music from the decade, Geraghty said. The organization also announced the 12-student Homecoming Court. After Homecoming received about 70 nominations, this will be the second straight year that the court consists of 12 students. The organization raised the number last year due to an increase in applications. Geraghty said even narrowing the selection down to 12 was a

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A few months ago, Blake Ross changed his niece’s diaper for the first time. His elder sister, Samantha Miles, remembered it with a smile. “He did a good job,” she said. Miles said her brother, 20, treated her daughters like they were his own. The Evanston native’s young life was cut short when he was fatally shot May 12 on the South Side of Chicago. In an interview with The Daily on Monday, his sister recalled a caring uncle who loved to sing and dance. Ross’ grandmother declined to challenge. “We look for diversity in schools and in activities, in what people represent and what they’re really involved in,” Geraghty said. “What I think is great about this court is it was so hard to pick because there were so many people in so many different groups on campus. We just felt like we couldn’t have cut down any more people.” The six candidates for Homecoming King are Weinberg juniors Alex Matelski, Demetri Elias, Will Ritter and Gaurav Kikani, as well as McCormick junior Tim Smith and Communication

comment on his death Monday but expressed frustration over the lack of information her family has received from the Chicago Police Department. The slain Evanston man has been connected to an ongoing city conflict that has claimed four young lives since 2005, including two last year. He also has a history of run-ins with the law: He was arrested in a 2010 undercover Evanston police operation by the Neighborhood Enforcement Team. Ross was one of 29 people arrested in connection with operating an open air drug market. Ross was also likely involved with the May 7 shooting near the Fleetwood-Jourdain Community Center, 1655 Foster St., » See ROSS, page 7 junior Ryan Bernsten. The candidates for Homecoming Queen are Weinberg juniors Katie Funderburg, Roopali Kulkarni and Tori Zuzelo, along with Communication junior Isa Pasbakhsh, SESP junior Kiley Naas and McCormick junior Savannah Enders. The candidates will compete throughout Homecoming Week, which begins Sept. 28. The winners will be announced at Ryan Field during the Oct. 5 football game against Ohio State. — Joseph Diebold

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City Council discusses 4-year goals By RACHEL JANIK

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Evanston’s 79th City Council began mapping a course for the next four years Monday and raised the city’s annual budget by $6.5 million. As the new council prepares to move forward after last month’s elections, aldermen discussed the strengths, weaknesses and goals of the community to be targeted during the coming term at their meeting Monday night at the Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center. City manager Wally Bobkiewicz prepared a presentation for aldermen about city staff ’s assessment of opportunities, threats and plans. “I’m here tonight really to challenge you to make the most of these four years as you can,” Bobkiewicz told the council. Crime and safety concerns topped the list of weaknesses and threats to the city. City staff applauded community outreach efforts taken by the council in the wake of gun violence last year, particularly in response to two shooting deaths near Evanston Township High School. Bobkiewicz named Northwestern among the city’s strengths,. He said “lively discussion”

occurred among the staff about its inclusion, and the University was almost removed from the list. Recently, some residents clashed with NU over its plans to build a new visitors center on the lakefront. And despite aldermen’s stated intentions to tackle the city’s contentious over-occupancy rule, the so-called “brothel law” remains on the books. “While it’s a great strength on many levels, it remains one of our great challenges,” Bobkiewicz said of NU. The city staff ’s recommendations included establishing a stronger bond with the University and utilizing more of NU’s resources to tackle community problems. Other community goals included prioritizing economic development, increasing sustainability and streamlining communication among city departments and Evanston community groups. “You can do anything,” Bobkiewicz said. “Your staff is anxious and ready and feels that this will be a great opportunity for the city.” The council plans to meet for a more detailed discussion on planning in the coming weeks. Aldermen also approved an increase in the budget for fiscal year 2013 by unanimous vote. Budgeting changes included funding for sewer repair, sidewalk replacement and bike

An unidentified man pointed a gun at a Chicago woman early Sunday morning in the 1300 block of Church Street, police said. The 29-year-old woman was walking east on Church Street near Asbury Avenue when the man came out of the bushes and pointed a gun at her, Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said. The man, described as wearing a brown jacket, blue jeans and a goatee, did not say

anything at all. The woman then ran across the street to call the police as the man fled north, Parrott said. He was gone by the time police arrived on scene.

Burglar breaks into two garages

Two Evanston residents reported their garages in the 1200 block of Pitner Avenue were broken into over the weekend, police said.

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‘YOU CAN DO ANYTHING’ City manager Wally Bobkiewicz presents four-year goals to aldermen at Monday’s City Council meeting. Reducing crime, promoting economic development and strengthening University ties were on his list.

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Schwimmer returns to NU roots to discuss career By PAULINA FIROZI

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David Schwimmer (Communication ‘88) spoke to Northwestern students Monday about his journey from a theater major to his multifaceted career of acting, directing and producing on stage and the screen. Anna Shapiro, a professor and director of the School of Communication’s MFA directing program, proctored the talk, which attracted more than 200 people to Josephine Louis Theater. Shapiro began by questioning Schwimmer’s parents’ initial skepticism about him becoming an actor. Shapiro suggested this was something the audience, mostly consisting of Communication students, could connect with, garnering laughs and cheers. “I’m the son of two lawyers, and education was a big part of growing up,” Schwimmer said. “But I think it was a different generation. My parents really thought that was the only avenue to getting a professional job.” Although many of the audience members may have remembered Schwimmer as Ross Geller from “Friends,” the television series that ended its 10th season nine years ago, the name of the show was only mentioned once in the first hour of his talk. The tone of the evening was set when Shapiro recalled wanting to convince Schwimmer to do a play, “Purple Heart” by Bruce Norris, with her during a

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SCHWIMMING HOME “Friends” actor David Schwimmer (Communication ‘88) and Communication Prof. Anna Shapiro interact with the crowd Monday afternoon in Josephine Louis Theater. Schwimmer came to campus to share stories about his work and experiences as a producer and director with primarily theater and Radio-TV-Film students.

time she said he was transitioning “out of your TV life and back to your life.” “The character we wanted you to play was essentially a stranger,” Shapiro said to her longtime friend. “And you were like, ‘If I could be a stranger, that would be fantastic … I’m not sure I can be a stranger yet.’” Schwimmer explained that trying to rid himself of the celebrity status that came with “Friends” is something with which he still grapples. He said he is not yet at a place in his life where he can feel completely

“anonymous.” “I’ve never let it stop my determination to try to be, to try to live a normal life,” Schwimmer said. “If I’m not cast in a certain role because of the baggage of the, I guess the one big role on ‘Friends’ … that’s my loss, but I also think it’s their loss. I can’t live my life waiting for that.” Schwimmer talked about how his passion for the stage and producing began while at NU. He began the Chicago-based Lookingglass Theatre Company with

Rebello’s twin, Jessica, was also in the Uniondale house at the time of the 2:30 a.m. shooting, but she was not harmed, police said. Authorities said police were involved in the shooting, but it wasn’t immediately clear who fired the fatal shots or how many rounds were fired. The gunman has not been identified. “We are going to get to the bottom of exactly what happened,” said Nassau Police Chief Rick Capece. “We

have to do this the right way.” Capece said investigators were waiting for the results of a forensic analysis at the crime scene. Police said the gunman barged into the twostory house at 213 California Ave. at 2:20 a.m. and demanded money from the four Hofstra students inside—the Rebello sisters, a man from Brooklyn and a woman from Connecticut. The gunman let that unidentified woman leave the

other friends from NU and discussed the experience that sparked the idea. As a senior at NU, he directed an adaptation of “Alice in Wonderland.” When the University wouldn’t give him a space on campus to direct in, he said he rented one out in Jones Residential College and used his bar mitzvah money to fund his off-campus production. Schwimmer and his friends later traveled to the Edinburgh Fesitval in Scotland to showcase the piece on behalf of NU after the dean offered to match their $5,000 fundraising efforts for the $10,000 trip. “We had this amazing experience which not only bonded us as a group but also taught us that with enough chutzpah and determination we can produce, and we could do it the way we wanted to,” he said. Communication sophomore Jamie Lee Cortese said notable alumni such as Schwimmer played an important role in her decision to attend NU. “I always love hearing alumni’s reflections about their time here and their memories, and I love hearing their advice,” she said. Communication freshman Priyanka Thakrar said she would not have missed a chance to see Schwimmer speak. “He’s a known figure, but I also wanted to hear about his other life and to see how he bridged the two and the struggles and triumphs that he had with both of them,” Thakrar said. “There’s so much more to him that I realized with talk that people don’t necessarily give him the chance.” paulinafirozi2015@u.northwestern.edu

Across Campuses Hofstra identifies slain student

UNIONDALE, N.Y. — A Hofstra University junior sharing an off-campus house with her twin sister and several other students was shot and killed during an early morning break-in Friday that also left the armed intruder dead, police said. Nassau County police identified the slain student as Andrea Rebello, 21, a public relations major from Westchester County.

house to go to an ATM to get cash. She instead called 911, police said. Shortly after officers responded to the robbery-inprogress call, “there was a police-involved shooting . . . in the home,” a police spokesman said. Police said a gun was found inside the house. No further details were available. — Zachary R. Dowdy and Olivia Winslow (Newsday)

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To athletes, purple much more than just a color EMILY ALLARD

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Purple. Some would consider the definition of purple to be a beautiful color you can create by mixing red and blue together. This is true, obviously, but athletic personnel at Northwestern would argue that purple is much, much more than a color. Purple may be the color of our school, the color of our University seal, or the color of some flowers located around campus, but that’s only the surface. Throughout my athletic career at Northwestern, I have known the color purple to be more like a way of life, more like a promise. Purple is the color of the highest standard. The choice to be an athlete at Northwestern is not for University employees to decide. Sure, they may sell the school, the prestigious name, the academic rigors, the Big Ten conference and proximity to Chicago as some of its perks, but ultimately when you step on this campus as a recruit, the choice is yours and no one else’s. When decisions such as “What am I going to wear tomorrow?� are at the forefront of a teenager’s mind, the choice of “How do I want to live my life in 10

years?� is now suddenly the question. When you are 16 years old and want to come to NU, you have to decide if you want to take the high road for the rest of your life. You have to decide if you want every single person surrounding you to hold you to the highest standard even when your biggest obstacles are clouding your vision. You have to decide if you want to be pushed to your limits every day to see if the sky really is the limit I have known for you, or you just the color purple think it is. Choosing to come to be more like to NU for not only a way of life, the education, but the athletic prowess (yes, more like a prowess) as well, is a promise. Purple decision very few people get to make every is the color of year. And it’s a decithe highest sion that will impact standard. those special athletes for the rest of their lives should they be brave enough to take that leap of faith at such a young age; to put their trust and future success in the hands of a group of incredible people they don’t really know. Each academic year, roughly 480 student-athletes honor that commitment to Northwestern and represent the color purple

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to the best of their abilities. When that decision is made at 16 years, you are committing your life to playing and representing an entity that is much bigger than yourself. Your egotistical, narcissistic teenage self signs a letter of intent that implies the world does not and will not revolve around you. No matter what high school or area of the country you came from, you will no longer be the best when you step on this campus. At NU, everyone is good. High school no longer matters. What you did in the past no longer matters. Everyone is fresh meat. You are surrounded by Nobel Prize winners, All-Americans and scholars. However, you promised yourself that fateful day when you were 16 that this is what you wanted: to be pushed, to be challenged, to be worked. Wearing purple means holding yourself to that highest standard. Wearing purple means honoring that commitment you made a short time ago. So you hold your head high despite the adversity, and you get to work. Before you know it, your career is over. You wish you would have listened to what your upperclassmen tried to warn you about. Yet we all know experience is the best teacher. Your time as a competitive athlete is running out. Now what? Now you remember why you chose NU in the first place. You thank your 16-year-old

self for being brave enough to take that leap of faith. You are so glad you embraced the challenges, that you strove for excellence, and you rely on the fact that your opportunities are endless should you decide to continue to go after them. You’ve lived it now, and you will share your experiences here on out for the rest of your life. You will try to explain to those stubborn underclassmen (whom you once were) all the lessons you wish you would have known ‌ and then you will watch them make the same mistakes you did. There will be many more crucial decisions you will have to make in your lifetime, and some of them will scare you. Then you remember you’ve been there before. You remember you’ve already taken that leap of faith and look where it got you. You remember that NU has prepared you for life after college. And you remember that the color purple, the color of the highest standard — the N Cat logo — will never come off. Purple will always run through your veins. Emily Allard is a Communication senior and a member of the Northwestern softball team. She can be reached at emilyallard2013@u.northwestern.edu. If you want to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.

Students should slow down from NU’s ‘stress culture’ DAILY COLUMNIST

Dealing with stress is as an unavoidable part of life, and something we need to learn to do. Dmitri Teplov’s suicide has made the conversation about mental health, stress and the Northwestern community all the more pressing. I cannot know exactly what went through Teplov’s mind when he ended his life, but his tragedy called mental health to the forefront of my mind, and I realized something important. Though we talk about the inevitable fact that we must cope with stress, the average student’s conception of what amount of stress is “inevitable� is distorted beyond reason. Despite the numerous workshops, initiatives and campuswide discussions about dealing with stress, what we have in actuality is a “stress culture,� which exacerbates the problem. Think about what we hear on a regular basis. “I was up until 4 a.m. studying for a midterm because I had so much other homework that I couldn’t do because I was busy with my (insert club, research project and/or alcohol here).� When was the last time somebody said, “Well, I did the homework at a reasonable pace through

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the course, studied for a few hours, then got up outsider. By this time last year, I was disheartin the morning and made a healthy breakfast ened, depressed and absolutely miserable. I after a full night’s sleep?� Even if you did do slogged onward, draining my last reserves just that, you don’t say it, because we all to get to the end of the year. But then, halfway know everybody’s competing through my very last final exam, something for the best I-pulled-off-aamazing happened. I was done. I got up, ridiculous-cram-sesh-at-theturned the exam in half blank, walked out, last-possible-minute-and-stilland got my first C. I had gotten straight got-an-A-#yolo story so they can A’s from eighth grade sound cool (and yours truly is no up until Spring Quarexception). ter last year – makThe fact that being sleeping it through all of deprived is considered organic chemistry, “cool� should make differential equations, us reconsider what quantum mechanics, we’re doing with the list goes on – but ourselves. Maybe the of all my academic fact that you’re chewachievements, that C is ing your fingernails at the one I am most proud of. an ungodly hour cramAfter that, I quit my internming for organic chemship in a research lab, went istry so you can get a GPA home and rethought my life. I high enough to get into med have never been happier. school doesn’t mean that you If I ran into the freshman need to build up the Olympian version of myself, he would have willpower required to make it — as some of you undoubtedly are through. Maybe it means that doing as you read this — clasped med school, or research, or bankhis ears in agony as he listened ing or whatever you have in mind to this unthinkable blasphemy. But Photoillustration by Kelsey Ott/ this is what stress culture is. We isn’t worth it. Daily Senior Staffer deprive ourselves of sleep, we lose I do not criticize as an

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contact with old friends, we fulfill never-ending “have-tos� and neglect our “want-tos� – and to question all of this is heresy. We may talk about dealing with stress, but in reality, all we’re really talking about is dealing with its superficial effects. Dealing with stress requires you to dare to step out of line, to dare to just stop, and above all else, to dare to question everything you have been taught about what “success� is. We’ve been raised to be go-getters, to strive for high-powered careers, to excel academically, to be involved as widely as possible, and to never turn down a step “upward� in life. This certainly did bring us to the top echelon of universities — we have kept our foot on the accelerator and have traveled far — but we are approaching a time that if we don’t slow down and take a break, what we have left behind will have receded into the distance and what we have passed by will be nothing but a blur. And years on the infinite interstate of stress will have worn us down. For many of us, it’s already starting to. In the wise words of the twentieth-century suburban philosopher Ferris Bueller, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look once in a while, you could miss it.�

The Social Justice Week coordinators chose to exclude a pro-Israel perspective from the events this week because Israel is an apartheid state; no one seems too bent out of shape over the exclusion of other racially prejudicial or discriminatory perspectives. — Archilochus Vitruve In response to: Kamel: Bringing a Jewish Perspective to Social Justice Week, submitted on 5/17 The reason Israel has a right to exist, and thus defend its sovereignty, is moral. Israel is a society underpinned by freedom, tolerance, love of science and reason. It is the only nation in the region where women experience full equality, gay people can live their lives as they see fit, people of various religions can practice peacefully, and so on. — Anonymous In response to: Fuleihan and Kovac: Justice doesn’t please everyone, submitted on 5/20

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Quinn mulls medical marijuana law, EPD unfazed By EDWARD COX

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A bill legalizing medical marijuana is a governor’s signature away from becoming Illinois law, which would allow Evanston residents to use the drug for medical purposes given they follow state guidelines. The Evanston Police Department would have few issues enforcing the legislation, which passed the Illinois Senate on Friday, Cmdr. Jay Parrott said. The bill would create a four year pilot program, during which medical marijuana users could legally use the drug with a photo ID and proof of a prescription. After the pilot program ends, the bill would have to undergo a renewal. Gov. Pat Quinn will have to sign the bill into law before the state opens 60 medical marijuana dispensaries, said state Sen. William Haine (D-Alton), the bill’s sponsor in the Illinois Senate. Haine said he heard the governor is “open-minded� to the bill. “He has a passion for people in difficult circumstances, and I believe this bill will appeal to that side of him,� Haine said. The bill, if signed by Quinn, would make Illinois

home to one of the most strictly regulated medical marijuana laws among 19 other states that legalize the Schedule I drug for medicinal purposes. It would authorize medical marijuana only to people diagnosed with one or more of about 30 serious illnesses, such as HIV and multiple sclerosis. More stringent regulations were introduced to the bill after an earlier version that included a provision allowing people to grow their own medical marijuana failed to garner support years ago, Haine said. Should Quinn sign the bill, residents would have to carry the marijuana in a container and could be subject to a $250 ticket for violating rules of possession, Parrott said. “There are still parameters that people have to follow,� Parrott said. “The idea is to assist people with feeling better.� Some organizations argue the bill would make medical marijuana easily accessible and lead to potential abuse. Andy Duran, executive director of Linking Efforts Against Drugs, said labeling the drug as medicine would mislead youth about its serious effects. “It’s a harmful thing for youth,� Duran said. “We don’t want it in our communities because we know of the harm that is associated with it.� State Sen. William Delgado (D-Chicago) said,

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MEDICAL CANNABIS Illinois would become the 20th state to legalize medical marijuana if Gov. Pat Quinn signs it into law. Illinois would have one of the strictest laws in the U.S.

however, the side effects of medical marijuana compared to opiates and other hospital “pill mill� drugs are minimal. “You will never hear about an overdose of medical marijuana, the only thing is they’re going to wake up sleepy and hungry,� Delgado said. Delgado said he knows a friend living with prostate cancer who has to travel out of state to receive medical

marijuana in liquid form. “It was so hard not to cry to know how he helped the community,� Delgado said. “Medical marijuana is not immoral.� Amanda Gilbert contributed reporting. edwardcox2011@u.northwestern.edu

New Student Center Initiative resurges, seeks feedback By CAT ZAKRZEWSKI

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A group of Northwestern students relaunched an initiative advocating for an improved student center last week, just days before Norris University Center celebrated its 40th birthday. The New Student Center Initiative first formed in 2010 when Associated Student Government attempted to garner grassroots support from students and administrators for a new building. Following successful meetings with NU trustees, the group fizzled out formally because the necessary stakeholders supported its cause. Now that ASG

has released renderings of the proposed student center, the group has resurged to gain support and feedback as the University prepares to fundraise, said NSCI spokesman Brad Stewart. “It really comes down to prioritization and fundraising at this point,� said Stewart, the former ASG executive vice president. “We need to show the University the students really do want this.� The Medill senior said momentum for a better student union began as early as two years after Norris was completed and have periodically resurfaced since then, but this new push will bring NU closer to realizing a new student center than ever before. The new renderings feature a center with more open spaces for student group collaboration.

Situated in Norris’s current location, the new center plans feature more outdoor space, student entertainment options, food vendors and centralization of student resources, ranging from University Career Services to the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life. Amalia Namath, director of the New Student Center Initiative, spent hours in Norris working with various student groups, most notably as co-chair of Northwestern Community Development Corps. “I’ve been living in Norris practically, at least for the past two years, and we just realized it needs to change,� the Weinberg senior said. “A lot of the colleges that are comparable to Northwestern just have a better student union and a more centralized student union.�

The group has launched a website where students can view the current plans, share their feedback and sign a petition calling for the center. A week after its launch, the petition had gained more than 200 signatures. Although seniors currently spearhead the initiative, both Stewart and Namath said there are many qualified sophomores and juniors ready to take on more responsibility when they graduate in several weeks. They said the push for a new student center was a way they could leave their mark on NU. “We’re trying to set the way for future generations of Wildcats to have an even better experience from what we’ve had,� Stewart said.

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A holistic approach In Evanston’s 2013 economic development work plan, the city outlines goals to maintain its economic assets, including industries involving water and the arts. The plan includes new targets, such as retaining retail attractions and workforce development. But unlike past plans, it also considers how the city’s economic goals work together. With this new mindset, Evanston officials hope to tackle visible problems like empty storefronts while addressing more imperative issues, such as bringing more variety to downtown. “The City Council has always focused on those components,� Fiske said. “What we’re doing now is looking at them in a holistic manner. That’s really important because you can’t take one part of it and not expect the other parts to be unaffected.� Although the economic development plan includes standard targets for bringing business to downtown, Fiske says the city is taking these principles to all parts of the city for an all-encompassing strategy A number of factors unique to Evanston could work in the city’s favor. Its lakefront location on the outskirts of Chicago and along Metra and Chicago Transit Authority lines — along with an eclectic food scene — give the suburb what officials call an excellent “quality of place.� The phrase refers to the benefits of aesthetic infrastructure, diverse communities and a vibrant city culture. However, Evanston’s proximity to other shopping hubs counteracts some of those advantages. The city strives to bring in a mix of independent businesses and national chains, but downtown often competes with shopping centers like Westfield Old Orchard Mall in nearby Skokie and retail in Chicago. Many chains will not venture into Evanston if they already have a store only a few miles away, said Carolyn Dellutri, executive director of Downtown Evanston. Fiske said downtown used to be home to several large department stores but lost many of them to Old Orchard. She noted the Evanston location for Marshall Field and Co. stuck around for many years before the defunct company was bought by Macy’s. “Downtowns often have to reinvent themselves,� she said. “When the liquor laws changed in the ’70s, more restaurants were able to bring in more restaurants.�

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away by positive press and the number of customers she receives on a daily basis. Although the number of repeat customers and Evanston residents makes Morton happy, she is also surprised by the number of people who come from outside the city. Working with the city allowed the business to thrive, Morton said. “It’s one of the best decisions I’ve ever made,â€? she said. “They simply have decided to be the sort of city that makes it easy for business owners. ‌ They genuinely want people who come to Evanston to succeed.â€? However, a heavy emphasis on dining interferes with the city’s goals of bringing national retail in and creating local shops downtown. From a city perspective, Fiske said she would like to see more tax revenuegenerating businesses, but adding retail proves to be more complicated than simply attracting them to the area. The size of downtown retail spaces makes it difficult for businesses to relocate, Fiske said. Even for retailers who create small boutique-sized shops designed for urban spaces, buildings in downtown tend to be too small for retail space. Some of the buildings formerly used by department stores in Evanston were demolished long ago, Fiske said.

Some retail still exists in downtown, including Williams Shoes on Church Street. The store has been in business for almost 60 years, and in that time it has expanded three times, owner Mike Lembeck said. Lembeck said the expansion occurred naturally: He and his father, who passed the store onto him, never felt the space was too small. Rather, the store outlived nearby businesses and took their spaces, he said, allowing the business to utilize the available space downtown to the best of its ability. The most recent expansion, Williams Next Door, occupies a storefront across the hall from the original store. Although he likes the restaurant scene, Lembeck said he wants more retail in downtown Evanston. “At the moment, there’s not a lot of competition,� he said. “Over the years, there has been. We’ve just outlived everyone else.� In lieu of national retailers, Fiske said she wants to dedicate some funds used by the economic development committee to help local retailers establish a name in downtown to “give them a leg up and see if that helps them.� Downtown also needs office spaces so workers can feed into the restaurants and retail. “You’ve got a captive market, so they really do stay and spend a lot of money in the community they’re in,� she said. “We’re looking hard on how to market to

offices and startups.â€? Evanston has hosted several events to promote discussion on how to attract businesses to relocate their offices here, including a talk in early May by William Testa, vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. “Evanston is a very special place,â€? Testa said during the event. “It’s a place where you can have the opportunity to be a job center ‌ where people want to live at the same time.â€? Because of Evanston’s unique location and quality of place, the city is looking to cater to businesses, said Paul Zalmezak, the city’s economic development committee coordinator. “We have this sense that this is our niche to support those companies,â€? he said. Creating downtown In the late 1980s, the city conducted research to determine how to effectively develop downtown, Zalmezak said. Around this time, the city also created two tax-increment financing districts in downtown Evanston. TIF districts allow Evanston to use future tax revenue from those sections of the city to boost economic development over a 23-year period. After this time, funding for the areas is cut off. The Downtown II TIF district, which expired in 2009, covered a large area west of Benson Avenue. The Washington National TIF district, effective until 2017, covers the area between Church and Davis streets, with Benson and Chicago avenues serving as its boundaries. Using Evanston as a case study, four students from the Kellogg School of Management conducted research last year assessing the effectiveness of TIF districts. The special tax districts can create lively areas of economic development, said second-year Kellogg student Seth Capron, who worked on the study. However, he said they can also be risky due to uncertainties in how local economies evolve. Some TIF districts receive money without clear goals, while others receive funds to boost an economy that is already beginning to recover, Capron said. “A lot of risk involved for putting significant subsidies behind this is you don’t know what you’re achieving,â€? he said. “In some cases you might ask, ‘Would this have happened anyway?’â€? The study found TIF districts work best when they align with a city’s goals because their outcomes may be uncertain on their own. Compared to other similar districts across the country, both of Evanston’s downtown TIFs have been incredibly successful, Capron said. Downtown II created the Evanston Research Park, while Washington National allowed for significant building growth, he said. Over time, the city has realized its economic strengths, like water industries, and weaknesses, like the need for greater workforce development, Zalmezak said. “It’s different now,â€? he said. “We’ve identified Âť See IN FOCUS, page 7

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important aspects of what makes Evanston unique in a very competitive marketplace.” Bringing in business When the TIF districts were formed in the heart of the city, Downtown Evanston was also putting down its roots. Since its establishment in 1987, the organization has become an integral part of economic development, linking the city, business owners and other stakeholders involved in creating businesses in Evanston. “It really takes teamwork because when a business is looking to relocate, they may come in through different avenues,” Dellutri said. The organization receives funds through a tax placed in what is known as Special Service Area No. 4, which covers the majority of downtown. In 2012, Downtown Evanston received almost $400,000 in revenue, which it uses to advertise downtown businesses and the area itself. The city approved an ordinance in 2007 to spread the boundaries of the tax area. The resulting increase in revenue allowed Downtown Evanston to become a full-time organization. Dellutri became its executive director the following year. As the national economy recovers from the Great Recession, Dellutri said Evanston has been faring

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protest outside the auditorium and later described D’Souza’s commentary as “hate speech and bigotry,” as well as “pseudo-intellectual babble.” During his prepared remarks, D’Souza argued places like NU create a “suffocating atmosphere” that intimidates students into learning “what you should and shouldn’t say” about racially charged issues like affirmative action. “Ultimately, all of it is lies, but it is lies with muscle,” he said. “It’s lies that come along with threats so you can’t say what’s clearly not true about it because if you do, you’ll be stepping out of bounds.” NU College Republicans organized D’Souza’s visit,

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better, with 26 new businesses opening downtown in 2012. “It’s helping establish a name for downtown Evanston,” she said. Evanston has attracted popular Chicago restaurants to expand in the city. Establishments like Farmhouse, a midwestern tavern, and Lao Sze Chuan, a Chinese restaurant, are among the new businesses coming soon to the downtown district. Partnerships with Northwestern also create prospects for economic opportunity. The Evanston Research Park, a joint project, includes a mix of University and city offices and helps promote business expansion.

Church Street,” public works director Suzette Robinson said.

Filling in the gaps Despite the city’s notable efforts to bring in business, a noticeable number of empty storefronts remain. The current market is ultimately what influences which businesses want to find space in downtown Evanston, Dellutri said, but other factors are also at play. Downtown Evanston’s site lists more than 100 office and retail spaces available for lease downtown. Some spaces have remained empty for more than two years, including the former Borders location on Orrington Avenue. However, Fiske said empty storefronts downtown do not reflect a poor economy. Rather, they can be attributed to conflicting interests between building owners and businesses, which prevent some spaces

from being filled immediately, she said. “A lot of these buildings are owned by local proprietors who have a specific vision for their buildings, and they’ll hold out until they get that,” Fiske said. “It’s not for a lack of people coming in.” Vacancy rates were higher in 2008 during the economic downturn, but as the national economy recovers, many business owners are close to signing leases, Dellutri said. One example of this is Naf Naf Grill, a Napervillebased Mediterranean chain. It will move into 1629 Orrington Ave., which has been vacant for more than two years. Business owners are also signing leases for the former spaces of STA Travel and Gamestop, two shops on Church Street that closed this year. Dellutri announced several of these changes at the Downtown Evanston annual meeting last week. Other city officials announced projects that would also aid in economic development and in the creation of quality of place. Assistant city manager Marty Lyons presented plans to overhaul parking systems downtown, demonstrating a solar-powered, user-friendly pay box in lieu of a parking meter. The city also approved plans to renovate Davis Street, including the creation of bike paths, sewer replacement, parking space realignment and street resurfacing. “Although the project will create some disturbance, at the end of the day it will be a much better space like

which came amid heightened tensions over race relations on campus. A nomination for a diversity-related position in ASG was blocked earlier this month over questions of whether the student could connect with multicultural groups, while Alianza representatives took heat for a letter co-written with Ajith about Cinco de Mayo. “We recognize diversity is a kind of hot topic on campus, and we definitely wanted to contribute to that conversation,” said Rebecca Schieber, president of College Republicans. “That was our main motive.” D’Souza acknowledged he had “heard about the rumblings” at NU and was candid about his own role in the diversity discussion. “On the campus, the conservatives aren’t powerful enough to be part of the debate, so just once a year you

have to have a gadfly like me come and sort of torment the campus a little bit and get the protesters to spread their wings, and that’s it,” D’Souza said. Schieber, a Weinberg sophomore, said she was pleased to see a nearly even split between audience members who agreed with D’Souza and those who did not. D’Souza found allies in mostly older, non-student audience members who thanked him for bringing an underrepresented perspective to NU, while some students were more skeptical. “I know you completely hate facts and history, but how do you explain institutional racism and how it’s impacted blacks over the past 100 years?” Weinberg junior Ferila Maatulimanu-Mae Sausi asked. After a heated back-and-forth over the premise of her question, D’Souza replied he does not believe in

institutional racism, calling it a “nonsense term.” Ajith, who did not attend D’Souza’s talk and remained outside the auditorium, said he recently became aware of D’Souza’s work and was specifically offended by his attitudes toward the LGBT community and Muslims. “It’s pretty simple,” Ajith said. “What he believes in is categorically rejected by the Northwestern community.” At one point, 20 students sat quietly in front of the auditorium doors, Ajith said. Inside, D’Souza mocked the apparent protesters in a whining voice. “Let’s block the entrance so no one can get in,” he said. “He’s against diversity!”

Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said Wednesday. Ross’ death and recent gun violence in Evanston have sparked community concern, which was voiced during a heated 5th Ward meeting last week. In response to the outbreak of incidents, police have increased their presence in the ward and will partner

with the Cook County Sheriff ’s Office to deal with Evanston’s gangs. Despite the difficulty Ross faced during recent years, his sister remembered a brother who loved music — especially the work of Michael Jackson. She said Ross dreamed of performing professionally,

and that he even met with a music producer two years ago. “Any song that comes on is probably going to remind me of him,” she said.

A plan with potential Because it has been so highly developed, officials say downtown Evanston serves as a laboratory for economic development for the rest of the city. Within downtown, it is easier to see how each component works together and can be helpful when expanding the scope to include the rest of the city, Fiske said. Capron said newer TIF districts near the intersections of Main and Chicago and Dodge and Dempster will address these blighted areas in a similar fashion to the downtown TIF districts. Development initiatives on Howard Street and the construction of Trader Joe’s on Chicago Avenue will bring attention to areas outside downtown, Zalmezak said. In addition, Evanston is looking at how to fill vacant retail spaces beyond downtown and how to successfully bring in startups, he said. Although Evanston’s holistic approach shows promise, it will take time before the plan becomes fully realized. “We’ve finally hit our stride,” Fiske said. “(The work plan) understands that there’s a sense of place in Evanston that we have to market that’s unique from Chicago and other suburbs.” tannermaxwell2015@u.northwestern.edu

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this spring. Despite such stellar play from the team’s youth, Park made it clear who will be motivating the team to play well at Nationals. “This tournament is a really big opportunity and I’m so glad I’m able to experience it as a freshman,” Park said. “But I really want to make this tournament memorable for Lauren Weaver because it will be her first and last NCAA Championships.” Weaver will be the only senior to start for the Cats down in Athens. Although this season has been one long struggle with her game, Weaver remains the team’s leader heading into the final tournament of the year. The senior has been doing better

on the golf course lately and is excited to carry over her strong performance to Nationals. “Right now I’m playing the best I’ve played all year. I’ve really gotten my driver under control, which I had a lot of trouble with in the fall,” Weaver said. “To hit the ball straight, it takes pressure off my putting, and I’m not playing for pars as much, I’m playing for birdies.” For Weaver, though, the team’s foray into Georgia is not just another tournament. It’s a culmination of her four years at NU. “Honestly, if someone told me freshman year that I would be playing Nationals as a senior I wouldn’t have believed them,” Weaver said. “But it’s

awesome, I couldn’t have wished for anything else. It’s a real opportunity to showcase our team and show that we can compete on a national level.” Fletcher still wants the team to play to the best of its abilities, whether that be a first place finish, a 10th or a 15th. No matter what happens in Georgia, NU’s season will be labeled a success. “It feels like an accomplishment to make it to NCAA Championships and, in my mind, we have everything to gain and nothing to lose here,” Fletcher said. “It’s our time to really go out, play with some confidence and enthusiasm, just enjoy being out there and have some fun.” kevincasey2015@u.northwestern.edu

Lacrosse

Cassera realizing dream to play hoops By AVA WALLACE

daily senior staffer @AvaRWallace

Here at Northwestern, senior midfielder Ali Cassera is one of seven seniors who will lead the Wildcats into their Final Four matchup against North Carolina on Friday. Back home in Fairfield, N.J., she has a reputation. Karin Harvey, women’s basketball coach at nearby Montclair State University, discovered Cassera’s local fame when Harvey started making calls to find out what type of athlete Cassera

was. “I started just checking her background and everyone in this area knew who she was,” Harvey said. “They were like, ‘Oh, that’s that phenomenal lacrosse player from West Essex (Regional School District).’” The senior, who is one of three captains on coach Kelly Amonte Hiller’s national championship-defending squad, had just contacted Harvey about spending her fifth year of NCAA eligibility playing basketball at Montclair State. “I was a big time basketball player in high school,” Cassera said. “When I thought I was going to go for my

Daily file photo by Meghan White

SWITCH IT UP Senior midfielder Ali Cassera is trading in her lacrosse stick for a basketball next year. The senior will use her fifth year of eligibility to play basketball at Division III Montclair State next fall.

masters, I thought, ‘I’ve heard some people do four years of one sport and then they’ve done the fifth in another, so why not?’ … It just kind of took off.” Cassera was a four-year letter winner in basketball, field hockey and lacrosse at West Essex and played AAU basketball throughout high school. The senior said she had always wanted to play basketball in college and contacted Harvey after she was accepted into Montclair State’s graduate school to earn her master’s degree in school counseling. From there, Harvey, a previous high school and college lacrosse coach who is now in her sixth season as the head basketball coach at Montclair State, started working the coaching grapevine. “Everything I’ve heard about her has been super positive and my interactions with her have been great,” Harvey said. “Anytime you can bring somebody in with her level of experience, playing Division I lacrosse, winning two national championships, trying to win a third, that’s great experience.” Harvey said she is excited to add Cassera’s leadership and athletic prowess to the program. This past season, Montclair State ended the year ranked first in the Atlantic Conference and made it to the third round of the NCAA Tournament. “Our style of play is just if you’re a good athlete you can do well in our system,” Harvey said. “When I talked to Ali, she was like, ‘I don’t care if I ever play. If I can make someone better, if I can

make the team better, I’ve just always wanted to play college basketball.’” But before Cassera starts working on her longtime dream, she has a legacy to finish out at NU. In her career at NU, Cassera has sat out a total of two games over four years. This season, Cassera became a team staple, started in all but two contests and has racked up 24 goals so far, which puts her in fourth place — tied with senior Amanda Macaluso – for most goals scored this season. She netted a career-high 5 goals against Syracuse this season and matched her career-high 6 ground balls at Notre Dame. She ended the year as a member of the second-team All-ALC and as a member of the ALC All-Tournament Team. In addition to fulfilling her dream of playing college ball, Cassera is happy that she will not be throwing what she learned about lacrosse from Amonte Hiller out the window, as the two sports share so much in common. The senior lists cutting, quick feet, defensive positioning, one-on-one defense and game awareness as just a few elements lacrosse and basketball have in common – things that she has improved in her lacrosse game over the past four years that will make her a better basketball player. And the fact that the senior has not actually played basketball in quite a while? Cassera isn’t too concerned. “It’ll come back to me,” she said. avawallace2015@u.northwestern.edu

Kelly Amonte Hiller won one of the most useless prizes in Chicago on Monday. The Chicago Tribune unofficially named Northwestern’s lacrosse coach the best coach in Chicago. I should caution this proclamation came in the form of a chart on page 2 of the sports section, which placed all Chicago-area coaches on a spectrum in terms of the number of championships the coach has won and the amount of trust the paper has in the coach. Amonte Hiller was all the way in the upper right-hand corner, signaling that the Tribune trusts her and that she has won a bunch of titles. However, the chart forced me to think about just how much Amonte Hiller means not only to the lacrosse program, but also to NU as a whole. It has made me question where she ranks in terms of the greatest coaches in the Wildcats’ history, let alone the present day. I’m not going to spend much time on persuading you fine readers that Amonte Hiller is the best coach at NU in the present because I only have so many words to use. If you need any convincing, look at your right hand – or left if you want to be difficult – and imagine if all of your fingers had rings. Now look at your other hand and pretend two of those fingers had rings. That would be how many national championships Amonte Hiller has won at NU, seven more than any other coach. If that doesn’t convince you, then you can tweet at me or email me, and I’ll be happy to listen and critique your argument. Now that we’ve gotten the basics out of the way, I have about 250 words to explain why Kelly Amonte Hiller is the best coach NU has ever had and probably ever will have. The titles are probably the most compelling argument in her favor, but I won’t use those in this discussion. I could look at her win-loss record, which stands at a sparking 215-32, but I will limit myself by not relying on the simple stats and use a high-tech evaluation tool — the eyeballs. Her players’ list of accomplishments for 12 years at NU is simply remarkable. NU players have won the Honda Sports Award seven times, the Tewaarton Trophy five times and have been named All-Americans by the IWLCA 41 times including 23 first-team designations. But that is not what makes Amonte Hiller a great coach. It is no secret what she has done is nothing short of remarkable. She has taken an East Coast sport and made it popular in the Midwest. She created the game plan to immediate success that other coaches are now trying to replicate across the country. The key word here is “trying” because no one has been able to find the success Amonte Hiller did. No coach has been able to match what she has accomplished because no other coach is of the quality of Kelly Amonte Hiller. Only the greats can build a program as quickly as Amonte Hiller has and keep it at the top for as long as she has. Almost every other coach at NU has someone they could thank for getting the program to the level it is currently at. Amonte Hiller only has herself to thank for taking the Cats to new heights. joshuawalfish2014@u.northwestern.edu

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