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UNEXPECTED GUESTS Student activists gather outside University President Morton Schapiro’s house, 2601 Orrington Ave. While protestors marched to Schapiro’s house, Schapiro was holding a dinner for students, including ASG members.
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Student activists protested Northwestern’s investment policies Tuesday evening, both by marching to and walking out of University President Morton Schapiro’s Evanston house. Schapiro was hosting a dinner for members of Associated Student Government when roughly 30 student
activists gathered outside his home at 2601 Orrington Ave., waving signs and shouting demands. The protesters — some of who chanted “Morty, come outside!” and “No justice, no peace!” — listed demands and called on Schapiro to pressure the Board of Trustees to “divest from corporations profiting off human rights violations,” especially those operating in Palestine. “We demand full transparency of our endowment and NU’s
investments,” the group shouted. “We demand a socially-responsible investment committee led by us, created by us.” Inside the house, guests ate hors d’oeuvres and chatted before sitting down for dinner. Then Schapiro stood to give a speech. Students present at the dinner told The Daily that Schapiro outlined changes the University has made in its investment policy, saying he favored divesting from fossil fuels,
and that he pushed trustees to do just that. But the Board, he said, declined to take that action. Shortly after Schapiro’s speech, some students stood and said administrators haven’t done enough on divestment, ending their critique by walking out of the house. They joined the protesters, huddled on the sidewalk, and continued to shout demands. SESP freshman Ben Powell, who
walked out of the dinner, said that although Schapiro said he supported divesting from fossil fuels, he didn’t mention other divestment campaigns. “He didn’t mention Unshackle NU. He didn’t mention NU Divest,” Powell said. “I don’t want my education to effectively be paid for, even in part, by profiting off of acts that harm other people.” » See PROTEST, page 6
One Book selects Silver’s work Despite opposition, ‘The Signal and the Noise’ chosen for 2016-17 refugees enter state By KELLI NGUYEN
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Nate Silver’s best-selling novel on statistics and predictions will be featured as next year’s One Book One Northwestern. “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail — but Some Don’t” explores the world of predictions while examining unpredictable catastrophes, such as the Sept. 11 attacks and the global financial crisis. The book investigates the use of statistics in forecasting and analyzing world events and the reasons behind correct and incorrect predictions. On Oct. 6, one month before the 2016 election, Silver will come to Northwestern to speak and sign books, according to a University news release. Silver, the founder and editor-inchief of FiveThirtyEight.com, is best known for his use of statistics in analyzing polling, science, sports, politics and culture. In 2009, Time magazine named him one of “The World’s 100 Most Influential People.” During the 2008 presidential elections, Silver accurately predicted the
winner of 49 of the 50 states. In the next election, he exceeded his previous claim to fame and correctly predicted all 50. “The country (and) the world will be at fever frenzy at the time he’s at campus,” said McCormick Prof. Stephen Carr, faculty chair of the One Book program. “It’s going to be a big day.” Next year’s book is a deviation from One Book’s past reading selections, which have typically been social justice oriented, said Melody Song, a Weinberg senior and One Book fellow. In selecting next year’s book, the committee wanted to find a way to appeal to students who are particularly interested in subjects outside the humanities, said Song, a previous Daily staffer. “We were looking for something that overall was going to involve more people, maybe a different set of people, and I think that was one of the things that was really attractive about Nate Silver’s book,” Song said. Silver’s ability to synthesize statistical data to make relevant conclusions is what makes him a compelling author, Carr said. Students who are not interested in the numbers can still appreciate the mathematical foundation that Silver uses to describe world events, he said. “All that kind of information is around and Nate Silver is just showing
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how you can extract meaningful, useful knowledge from what otherwise seems like just a lot of numbers,” Carr said. “The Signal and the Noise” was selected from a pool of over 70 nominated titles. It will be sent to the incoming Class of 2020 and serve as the base for related programming throughout the academic year. kellinguyen2019@u.northwestern.edu
Home to more than 2,400 new refugees from 29 nations that migrated in the past year, residents say Illinois has historically been an open and welcoming place for asylum-seekers and immigrants alike. “Illinois is easier to resettle because it’s so diverse,” said Suzanne Akhras Sahloul, a Syrian refugee and founder of the Syrian Community Network. “It’s important to see people who are of different ethnic backgrounds because then that makes our transition a little bit easier.” But following Governor Bruce Rauner’s call in November to halt the flow of Syrian refugees into Illinois and Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump’s inflammatory rhetoric on immigrants, including a proposal to temporarily bar all Muslims from entering the United States, some say the state may turn in a different direction. “Donald Trump has drawn out this more extremist, nationalist vein of Americans that were not as
empowered-feeling as before he was running for president,” said Renner Larson, communications director for the Chicago office of the Council On American-Islamic Relations. “That’s something that we as a nation really need to reflect on and work to counter.” In Evanston, offensive vandalism at Northwestern’s Alice Millar Chapel last month preceded a gathering of local religious and social justice leaders rallying against “hateful rhetoric” and handing out posters illustrating support for local refugees. Two Weinberg freshmen vandalized Alice Millar using spray paint to write homophobic, racist and Islamophobic messages along with Trump’s name. The students were charged with institutional vandalism and hate crime to a place of worship and placed on interim suspension, which bars them from campus, University spokesman Bob Rowley said. Tahera Ahmad, director of interfaith engagement at NU, who spoke at the event, said the rally was the second in a series aimed at sending a message of support to those facing » See REFUGEES, page 6
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Around Town Children’s consignment shop opens in Evanston By NORA SHELLY
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When her two children, aged 6 and 9, kept growing out of their clothes, Anna Ermel started wondering if there was a smarter way to buy their clothing. “It definitely got me thinking about ways to save money and recycle,” Ermel said. “People spend a lot of money on We’re clothes, and they don’t very excited. necessarily want to just throw them away.” We’ve been That’s why she and watching all co-owner Chaya Gordon Burstyn decided the moms with to start their own chilstrollers walk dren’s consignment past and peek shop, Threads Boutique, which opened its doors in. on Tuesday. Chaya The boutique, located Gordon Burstyn, at 1304 Chicago Ave., features boys and girls Threads Boutique co-owner clothing, shoes and accessories, as well as other parenting items such as diaper bags and strollers. Gordon Burstyn said they only consign items that are in “new or like-new” quality, from brands such as Gap, Ralph Lauren and The North Face. The pair, both mothers, said they are dedicated to making quality children’s clothing affordable. “We handpick every item to make sure it’s
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Police Blotter Laptop stolen in Evanston Public Library
A 13-inch Macbook Pro was stolen from Evanston Public Library on Monday afternoon.
on-trend or on-style for children’s clothing,” Gordon Burstyn said. “We have a really great inventory at a fraction of the price.” The boutique prides itself on being accommodating, Gordon Burstyn said. Customers who can’t visit the shop during its hours — Tuesday through Friday and Sundays — will have the option of setting up an appointment to buy or consign clothes. Gordon Burstyn said that with as quickly as children grow, parents should not have to throw out new clothes, but instead could allow them to be recycled — making a bit of money along the way. Paul Zalmezak, an Evanston economic development official, said consignment and resale shops are environmentally friendly, something that will likely be appreciated by Evanston residents. “There is a certain environmental friendliness associated with it and there is also a certain frugality associated with it,” he said. Zalmezak said there was a children’s used clothing shop in the area, called Hand-Me Downs, but its Dempster Street storefront closed last year, creating a need in the community for this sort of store. The area is also popular for boutiques and resale shops in general, Zalmezak said. ORT Resale Shop and The Thrift House, which is run by the Junior League of Evanston-North Shore, are both near the new shop. Gordon Burstyn said that considering the closure of Hand-Me Downs, the only childrenspecific consignment shop in the neighborhood, there was a hole in the area that they wanted to fill. The 21-year-old man who owns the laptop was sitting on the second floor of the library at about 3:45 p.m. and left his seat to use his cell phone, Dugan said. When he returned, he was missing his laptop, which is valued at $1,400.
TONIGHT!
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THRIFTY THREADS Anna Ermel sits at the counter in Threads Boutique. The store, 1304 Chicago Ave., opened Tuesday and features upscale used children’s clothing.
“We’re very excited. We’ve been watching all the moms with strollers walk past and peek in,” she said. Skokie resident Kayla Avraham said she was excited to hear about the store after she found herself with unused clothes her three kids had grown out of. Avraham, who has already consigned clothes at
the boutique, said the idea is popular with young moms in Evanston, and that being able to sell old clothes in-store was much easier than trying to do so in Facebook groups or online. “They make it super easy to do,” she said. “It’s a pretty good place for one-stop shopping.”
A suspect was discovered through video footage, Dugan added.
police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said. Police were dispatched to the an alley in the 1700 block of Monroe Street, where they conducted a search. No evidence was found, Dugan added.
Shots fired in south Evanston
The woman, a resident in the area, reported hearing two shots at about 11:30 p.m., Evanston
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The candidates for Associated Student Government president and executive vice president discussed their past roles in advocacy and student group outreach Tuesday night at the Coalition of Colors-moderated debate. Joji Syed, a Weinberg junior, and her running mate Archit Baskaran, a Weinberg sophomore, pointed to their involvement in the multicultural community as personal experience working with marginalized students. Christina Cilento, a SESP junior, and her running mate Macs Vinson, a McCormick junior, pointed to their solidarity with three divestment campaigns as evidence of their activist backgrounds. Cilento said her views supporting divestment are important to publicize since the campaigns have been a large part of her experience at Northwestern. The three divestment campaigns – Fossil Free Northwestern, NUDivest and Unshackle NU – have all endorsed Cilento and Vinson. Cilento and Vinson also mentioned that before the debate, they attended a dinner with University President Morton Schapiro but walked out since they said he was not paying enough attention to divestment campaigns. “I don’t think it’s realistic to expect people who are students to not have opinions on these things,” Cilento said. “But at the same time, we’re not going to not work with all students. … Our politics are not something that we can separate from our identity. In getting elected, we’re presenting our entire selves to you.” On the other side, Syed chose not to publicly express her opinion on divestment campaigns because she said offering any opinion would make some students feel left out and she wouldn’t be as approachable as a student government president. “My goal is to elevate you in pursuing your cause and helping you push through what you would like
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DISCUSSING DIVESTMENT Weinberg sophomore Archit Baskaran, a candidate for executive vice president, answers a question during Tuesday’s debate. Baskaran is running with Weinberg junior Joji Syed (left). SESP junior Christina Cilento is running for ASG president with McCormick junior Macs Vinson.
to see the administration do,” Syed said. “I do think that a lot of students won’t feel comfortable talking to me and won’t see me as a resource and won’t see me as an ally.” Syed and Baskaran said they met with individuals involved with Unshackle NU, NUDivest and Fossil Free NU, but did not sit down with the groups as a whole. There was “no intention of exclusivity” in not meeting with the groups, Baskaran told The Daily. The two tickets also discussed their focuses on improving mental health resources on campus and how issues with Counseling and Psychological Services disproportionately affect marginalized students on campus. Cilento and Vinson have stressed eliminating the 12-session CAPS limit, and Syed and Baskaran have stressed the creation of “wellness chairs” in student groups, which was just approved by CAPS.
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Weinberg junior Jackson Walker, who attended the debate, said he’s undecided and wanted to learn more about the candidates’ platforms. Although he agreed both campaigns care about marginalized students, he said Syed and Baskaran were not as strong in their rhetoric. Walker added that this year was the first year he took an interest in the ASG election. “Especially with the national political scene with the presidential campaign going the way it’s going, it’s really important that we get this right,” Walker said. “On our campus, it’s a good place to start.” The Daily will moderate the final debate Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. at McCormick Auditorium in Norris University Center. Voting will start Thursday at 5 p.m. ericasnow2019@u.northwestern.edu
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Rampant construction does more harm than good COLIN WANG
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Sometimes it seems like Northwestern is one giant construction site. There’s always a new dorm to build, a different building to renovate or campus infrastructure to replace. Since I arrived as a freshman in the fall of 2014, I’ve walked past project after new project. NU touts many of the projects as beneficial for improving the general quality of student life, but as construction fences get built around the facilities I use most often, I can’t help but feel like my quality of life has decreased over the past six quarters. Of course, students get to celebrate and make use of the completed projects. The Ryan Center for the Musical Arts offers premier rehearsal and performance space, in addition to a gorgeous view. The newly renovated Mid-Quad buildings have vastly improved facilities and the Lakeside Field renovation created a second turf field that can be used for intramural or recreational sports. But during the renovations themselves, the facilities are completely out of commission. For example, while Lakeside Field was being redone and expanded, IM and recreational sports, especially soccer and football, took a big hit. IM football games had to be played at Long Field and IM soccer got rid of men’s intramural soccer and placed a limit on the number of teams playing Co-rec. Now that the Lakeside Field renovations are almost complete, and we have a new synthetic turf field, it remains to be seen if recreational play will be permitted at all. The negative effects of NU’s recent construction projects aren’t limited to athletic facilities. In March, the Mudd Science and Engineering Library was closed down for renovations, and most of Mudd Library will be demolished and rebuilt in order to create the Center for Fundamental Physics at Low Energy. Although Mudd is a more specialized library and has fewer patrons than Main
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From a student veteran, ASG should vote ‘no’ on Eikenberry resolution
This Wednesday the Associated Student Government will vote on a resolution calling on Northwestern to rescind the appointment of retired Lt. Gen. and former ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry as the first executive director of the Buffett Institute. This proposed resolution follows a faculty letter against his appointment, and a discussion at student senate last week. One of the charges levied against his appointment is that the search process was not “normal,” so I will begin by clarifying that I have no problem with scrutinizing the way the appointment was made. Were that the core of the argument presented by the faculty and students, I would not be writing this letter. Rather, the more substantial arguments made by the resolution’s advocates focus on two things. Firstly, his military background and an associated fear of impartiality and disregard for the humanities. Secondly, they contend that Eikenberry somehow lacks credentials. First of all, as a veteran, I am aghast that the resolution writers chose to cynically allude
of NU’s recent hiring of Harvard University Prof. Gerald Gabrielse, who will make the new CFP home for his research group and serve as the founding director of the CFP. The CFP is scheduled to open in the fall of 2017, meaning current juniors will not enjoy the new facilities and current sophomores will only experience a condensed and miniaturized version of the library they visited I believe before. Any potential for undergraduate the problems research opportunicaused ties will have to wait until Gabrielse’s by recent research group is fully renovations and established. construction I believe the problems caused by recent projects renovations and outweigh the construction projects outweigh the benbenefits we efits we will directly will directly experience. However, experience. I understand NU will be here long after my graduation. In order to grow and improve its status among top world universities, the construction of new facilities is inevitable and necessary. But that doesn’t mean our experience as current undergraduates should receive less consideration. Instead of focusing on campus renovations to improve the quality of student life, NU should focus on projects that don’t require contractors and power tools. There’s no shortage of student complaints, from Counselling and Psychological Services’ limited accessibility, to the quality of certain dining halls on campus (read: Elder). Finding and addressing the concerns of current students is a much more useful and direct way of improving student life than building a fancy new dorm for future students.
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VIEWS FROM THE LAKE Construction is underway on the new Kellogg Global Hub. The builidng is one of many on Northwestern’s campus that is under construction.
Library, it is still an important institution for those living on North Campus or spending a lot of time in Tech and the Research Quad. Mudd Library was home to banks of computers, printers and study space. Without Mudd, students that regularly made use of its resources will have to go elsewhere to access mandatory software for class, print assignments and posters, and study for midterms and finals. Main Library will likely receive the brunt of displaced patrons, meaning the
already full study spaces will be even more crowded come reading week. Mudd Library also provided many positions for students with work-study allotments, as a result, Main Library has had to accommodate an influx of student workers. Mudd Library’s renovation is different from that of Lakeside Field in that the completed project, the CFP, will create little benefit for current or future undergraduate students. The creation of the CFP is the result
to the deaths of civilians in foreign countries which NU community members are from as “damning proof ” against Eikenberry. In many of these countries, it is equally true that U.S. soldiers of all genders, religions and races gave their lives during missions to protect local populations. There is always a pressing need to critically examine how U.S. foreign policy promotes or undermines global justice and stability. The military, however, does not command itself — it carries out a policy determined by the executive branch. To deem Eikenberry unsuitable “by association” with the consequences of war is to say that anyone who has ever worked for the government is unsuitable. Similarly, upon hearing that one of the bill’s authors argued that Eikenberry’s military history “compromises his ability to be unbiased in studying the humanities,” I found myself again outraged. This statement is nothing less than a slap in the face to members of our community who have served in militaries around the world, as well as to those who intend to serve upon graduation. Does the fact that I once donned a uniform in service of my country diminish my humanity, or my ability to comprehend the world around me? Considered in context, this statement is also plainly false. Minimal research of his positions and statements shows that Eikenberry is not at all shy of swimming
against the establishment current. The anti-Eikenberry faculty and students not only neglected key details about his positions, they also willfully quoted his statements out of context. They reference his speech in the opening of an interview at the Chicago Humanities Festival to argue that he seeks to “instrumentalize” the humanities and social sciences to advance U.S. “soft power.” At face value, this indeed sounds concerning, but only because they fail to mention the two direct examples he provides explaining his intent: providing U.S. funding and expertise for the restoration of Afghani archaeological sites as well as music initiatives for Afghan youth. They further distort his words about the need to make the humanities more “marketable,” arguing that he neglects their intrinsic worth. It is precisely because he values the humanities that he expresses concern for falling levels of enrollment in these fields. Indeed, in the same interview, Eikenberry says, “It’s also about teaching our younger generation to come to grips with questions of how do they look at life, how do they interpret love, how do they face death. That’s not something that can be taught in science.” Finally, I wish to address the claim made in the resolution and during the senate meeting that Eikenberry’s lack of a Ph.D. makes him unqualified or even a “non-intellectual”
Colin Wang is a Weinberg sophomore. He can be contacted at colinwang2018@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern. (whatever that means). Eikenberry’s C.V. includes master’s degrees from Harvard and Stanford, a degree in Chinese history from Nanjing University, and nearly four decades of experience in military and government. He has spent the last several years working at Stanford and publishing in a variety of journals and newspapers. Though he is not a traditional academic, the Buffett Institute is hardly a traditional academic institute. With a significant focus on global impact, Buffett seeks to provide students with access to global engagement practicum. The job description of executive director specifically requests a candidate with “substantial administrative experience,” “broad professional networks” and “experience … with academe, government and the policy world … internationally as well as domestically.” As an individual who led an embassy staff of over 1,000 civilian professionals while participating in a multibillion dollar reconstruction effort, it is difficult to think of someone with experience comparable to that possessed by Karl Eikenberry. ASG, as the representative of an undergraduate student body that especially craves experience in fields such as global development and global health, would be betraying its constituents by going against his appointment. — Alon Schneidman, McCormick junior and political science minor
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McCormick senior set to appear on ‘Jeopardy!’ Sabrina Fritz’s competition will air on television Wednesday afternoon By FATHMA RAHMAN
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When McCormick senior Sabrina Fritz got the call, she went straight to her friend Kyle Condron’s apartment. “I heard the doorbell, and she was just standing there,” said Condron, a McCormick senior. “I asked her what’s going on and she had the stupidest grin on her face. She looked at me and said ‘I made it.’ And then we hugged.” Fritz will appear on “Jeopardy!” Wednesday afternoon, months after finishing auditions, preparation and filming. She and her friends will attend a viewing party at Norris University Center to watch the show, though Condron said they plan to watch it again later with her friends on the Club Frisbee team in a “less formal setting.” Fritz said she started watching “Jeopardy!” at a young age and as a kid, she was interested in fun facts and frequently annoyed her parents with trivia. In high school, she joined the quiz bowl team and participated all four years. Fritz’s childhood best friend, Molly Carroll, said her involvement in quiz bowl was an important part of her childhood. “Sabrina was very shy as a child, believe it or not,” said Carroll, who graduated from Saint Louis University in 2015. “But quiz bowl brought out her real personality and fire for what she loves.” The first step to qualify for “Jeopardy!” is to earn 80 percent or higher on their online quiz made available to everyone. Condron said when Fritz took the quiz last summer, she had
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a feeling that she had gotten it this time. Sure enough, Fritz was invited a few days later to audition in Kansas City. Six months later, Fritz was invited to a filming in March. She had more free time Winter Quarter, so she spent much of it studying. Carroll took an Amtrak from San Diego to Los Angeles to watch Fritz on the show. She said she met Fritz’s parents there and got to be on the “Jeopardy!” set to watch the show live. “I always knew she would do great things, but now it’s actually happening,” Carroll said. Carroll also said that while photos are not allowed inside the studio, there is a museum before you enter where visitors can take pictures. “Alex Trebek allowed people to ask questions during commercial breaks,” Carroll said. “Somebody asked what is the meaning of life, and he said that the meaning of life is people like you not asking what the meaning of life is. He was pretty funny.” Although Fritz said she had done extensive research on the show beforehand, there were some things that still caught her by surprise, such as the amount of makeup both contestants were made to wear. “Alex Trebek ends up being so tan on air that if they don’t put makeup on us, we just look like ghosts,” Fritz said. Fritz also said many people don’t know that although contestants can only ring in when Trebek is done reading a question, there’s a light that activates on either side of the game board, too. An employee backstage waits for Trebek to finish reading the question and then turns the buzzer system on, which in turn queues the lights. Finally having the chance to stand behind murdering a taxi cab driver in Evanston almost five years ago pleaded guilty Monday to firstdegree murder in court. Darien Marquez-Connerly, 24, was sentenced to 35 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections during his sentencing hearing in Cook County’s Skokie Courthouse,
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STARSTRUCK McCormick senior Sabrina Fritz with “Jeopardy!” host Alex Trebek on set. Fritz will appear on an episode of the quiz game show Wednesday afternoon.
the podium and shake hands with Trebek after watching the show for years was “unreal,” Fritz said. “This was always what I thought would be an unachievable dream and having achieved
that now—it feels awesome,” Fritz said. “My mom told me I have to find a new life dream now, but I don’t know how I feel about that.”
according to an Evanston Police Department news release. Marquez-Connerly, who was 19 at the time of the incident, shot cab driver Leodis Blackburn on May 15, 2011 during an attempted armed robbery. Blackburn died days after the shooting.
EPD and North Regional Major Crimes Task Force arrested Marquez-Connerly in connection with the murder on May 22, 2011. Marquez-Connerly was being held without bail in Cook County Jail until his trial.
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Prof develops evaluation program for education tech By YVONNE KIM
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Kellogg Prof. Benjamin Jones was working as a macroeconomist for the Obama administration when he first became interested in improving learning and technology for K-12 education. Jones, a faculty associate at the Northwestern’s Institute for Policy Research, has been working with Aaron Chatterji, a professor from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business, since 2012 on a project called EDUSTAR, a web-based program that allows students to evaluate the effectiveness of education technologies, such as video lectures or multimedia exercises, in classrooms. Last week, the pair presented their work at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. following the publication of a policy memo last month for the Hamilton Project, an initiative that works with leading academics to promote broad-based economic growth.
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persecution. “Many (refugees) are really scared,” Ahmad said. “They want to figure out ways to assimilate quickly and be accepted, but unfortunately many of them feel like they have to give up their cultural identity and heritage to do that. … They feel like they have to give up who they are.” Despite Rauner’s statements, Illinois has accepted 70 Syrian refugees and more than 700 refugees total since the Paris terrorist attacks. At Evanston Township High School, students from refugee families are assisted in adapting to a new environment. About 35 students from refugee families attend the public high school, said ETHS Bilingual Education Program coordinator
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From page 1 The protest lasted for roughly an hour, and Schapiro did not come outside to speak with protesters. Two of the students who walked out of the dinner are a ticket in ASG’s presidential race. Christina Cilento, a SESP junior, and her running mate Macs Vinson, a McCormick junior, both left Schapiro’s house and spoke about it later Tuesday during a debate. “We don’t settle for complicity,” Vinson said
“The U.S. economy is good at many things, but it struck me then that a weak link for the U.S. economy is K-12 education,” Jones said. “In many parts of the country, the average opportunity for a student in K-12 education is well behind what we would hope for and well behind other countries.” The two professors published their initial proposal in September 2012 for EDUSTAR in a paper for the Hamilton Project. Since then, Jones and Chatterji have run multiple rounds of randomized-control trials in which students provide immediate feedback on what, and more importantly how, they are learning, Jones said. Typically, technological advancements allow for improvement in different areas of the economy, but are not applied to enhancing educational outcomes, Jones said. “EDUSTAR is really an attempt to push forward the capacity to rigorously evaluate content and education in K-12 so that we can learn what works, what works for whom as well,” he said. Laia Navarro-Sola, a Kellogg economics
graduate student, works as Jones’ research assistant and said the project is exciting because it “broadens the possibilities of research.” She added that it will be interesting to see what strategies help students If you have a really acquire good way to teach kids knowledge and fractions, the whole why difworld can learn from that. ferences in learnBenjamin Jones, ing occur. Kellogg professor Jones added that EDUSTAR would benefit not only students, teachers and parents with a Consumer Reportslike function about what tools are effective, but also help education technology developers build better prototypes for products. Furthermore, it can give researchers like Jones more insight into how students learn and think, he said.
“People really think this is a good idea,” said SESP Prof. Diane Schanzenbach, director of the Hamilton Project at Brookings. “They really think that we should be doing much more to harness data and information … providing that as a feedback group to schools so that they can make the most productive investments that they possibly can.” The next step is to collect more data and encourage educators to adopt EDUSTAR, Schanzenbach said. The best way to expand and develop the program will be to find more schools to become involved and see its value, she said. According to a 2016 paper, EDUSTAR will have reached more than 10,000 students in more than 40 schools by the end of the 2015-16 academic year. “I just care about it at a policy level,” Jones said. “I really care about giving kids great opportunities. If you have a really good way to teach kids fractions, the whole world can learn from that.”
Jenny Neal, who helps students learn English and adapt to American-style education. Neal said the refugees come from a variety of places including Rwanda, Afghanistan and Nepal. But the city itself has no programs earmarked for incoming refugees, said Evonda ThomasSmith, director of the Health and Human Services Department. Instead, she said the city acts as an intermediary for other nonprofits and religious organizations which assist in resettlement. For decades, Illinois has been a haven for refugees seeking safety from civil war and violence in their home countries, but increased scrutiny following global terrorist attacks have prompted some to revise their welcoming call. In November, Rauner joined 30 other U.S. governors in temporarily halting Syrian refugees in order to “balance our tradition as a state welcoming of refugees while ensuring the safety
and security of our citizens.” In the 2015 calendar year, Syrians made up about 6 percent of all refugees in Illinois, preceded by those from the Democratic Republic of Congo at 12 percent, Iraq at almost 20 percent and Myanmar at nearly 40 percent, according to U.S. Department of State data. The Zakat Foundation of America, an organization that provides resources for low-income communities, plans on opening a culture center just outside of Evanston this weekend. The center, which has been in the works for six months, is the latest effort by the organization to provide resources for Rohingyan refugees fleeing Myanmar. “There are two basic things motivating the project,” said Jamie Merchant, public relations coordinator at Zakat. “The specific problems of this uniquely disadvantaged community of
the Rohingya and also trying to establish a new angle for approaching the general challenges of resettlement.” Sahloul, founder of the Syrian Community Network, came to the U.S. as a child in 1982 and said connecting with a refugee community helped ease her transition. Through her nonprofit organization, which she started last year to aid in the resettlement of Syrian refugees, Sahloul hopes to provide a similar sense of community for those who may follow. “The community is what makes you feel whole again when you’ve moved from place to place,” she said. “When you connect with community members who are like you, you start to feel normal and you start connecting with people. It’s a safe space to be yourself.”
at the Coalition of Colors-sponsored debate Tuesday night. “That’s why I walked out of Morty’s dinner.” Three divestment campaigns are currently pushing for changes to the University’s investments: In early March, ASG Senate passed an Unshackle NU-sponsored resolution that calls on the University to divest from corporations the group says promote mass incarceration. Last February, after a tense five hours of debate, Senate narrowly passed a Northwestern Divest-sponsored resolution that called on the University to divest from six corporations the
authors say violate Palestinians’ human rights. As for coal divestment, Fossil Free NU has pushed the University to divest from fossil fuels since November 2014. In an online referendum held during ASG’s presidential election in April 2015, almost three-quarters of voters said the University should divest from coal. Divestment movements at Northwestern date back decades: In the 1980s, student activists lobbied the University to divest from companies doing business in Apartheid-era South Africa.
Later movements targeted corporations operating in Burma and Sudan, both of which activists said violated human rights. During much of Tuesday’s protest, Dean of Students Todd Adams stood in front of the crowd, listening and sometimes speaking with protesters. He said it’s “paramount” that administrators listen to students. “It’s critical that students feel like they have a voice,” he told The Daily, “that they have a platform on which that voice can be heard.”
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IFC creates scholarship for students
questions, asking applicants about their involvement in Greek life, involvement in the NU community at large and degree of financial need. Gerez indicated, however, that the degree of expressed financial need would be the main factor being considered when reviewing applications. “Financial need is the most important factor, but although we would like to give out scholarships to every student who needs it, we may not be able to,” Gerez said. “Which is why we ask about level of commitment within the Greek community and about students’ involvement in the Northwestern community in general.” Although most fraternities already have scholarships, they are almost all merit-based. “Most of the students being served by fraternity
scholarships are already established leaders within the Greek community,” Gerez said. “And we wanted to help fraternity members that are just entering greek life, but might potentially drop out because of financial reasons.” Sam Hall, Sigma Phi Epsilon president, said these scholarships will help open up the Greek community to students who otherwise wouldn’t have the funds to join fraternities. “People will be able to really understand that fraternities aren’t exclusive,” he said. “They’re really working to be as inclusive as possible.”
meanwhile, missed a number of would-be difficult catches and committed several questionable infield defensive decisions. That disparity, along with the fourth-inning meltdown, doomed NU to its 18th loss in its last 21 games with a road series against conference-leading Nebraska looming. Allen, however, said the team will need to rely on senior leaders like Jones — who have endured difficult
slumps like this in the past — to stay motivated despite Tuesday’s lackluster outing. “It’s the season of ‘What if?’,” Allen said. “We definitely have to focus more on us than anything (else). We’ve just got to play good baseball. The good thing is that early in the year we tasted what good baseball can be like; we just need to get back to that.” benjaminpope2019@u.northwestern.edu
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relief, allowing four runs and seven hits in two innings pitched, before a parade of ensuing NU pitchers settled the ship. UIC’s outfielders produced several highlight-reel catches, including a sliding snare into the left-field foul fence and a diving grab in deep right field. The Cats,
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flop, Watkins is hungry for more in 2016 and thinks NU’s defense can improve in spite of graduating-senior losses. “We have a lot of talent on defense. I think we can be a lot better,” he said. “The season didn’t end how we wanted it to last year so I think that’s going to help us for this upcoming season. We’ll be ready.” Talent has no doubt been the biggest influence on the continued success of NU’s secondary, but the enduring attitude surrounding the Sky Team nickname — first conferred by Jordan Mabin, who graduated in 2011 — has certainly seemed to help. Queiro said that he, Watkins and Igwebuike all live together, contributing to the unusually close bond that members of the Sky Team share with one another. Queiro added that he also sees the Sky Team attitude trickling down the roster to the unit’s freshmen, who embrace the “next man up” motto Fitzgerald loves to preach. “Our freshman class is really good,” Queiro said. “Their talent is right there as we were when It’s not we were around about replacing that age. Maybe a little bit more cockiVanHoose at ness is needed, but all, it’s about I think that their humility is a benefit making the as well.” team better. How the parts all come together — Matthew Harris, and whether the Sky senior cornerback Team can produce a repeat performance — will be determined on the field in 2016. NU’s secondary once again has the talent, leadership and depth to stand out as one of the nation’s best, but don’t be surprised if this season’s iteration has a slightly different flavor. “That’s the great thing about college football,” Fitzgerald said. “Every year you’re going to have, and lose … really good players, and that next group of guys have got to step up and play their game and do their thing and not try to be the previous guy.”
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A new scholarship created by the Northwestern Interfraternity Council will give students with financial need greater access to fraternity life. The application for the scholarship, announced by the IFC in an open letter released Tuesday night, is currently open to any fraternity member at NU seeking financial assistance. The idea for the need-based scholarship came after an IFC retreat during Winter Quarter, when IFC executive members agreed there was a need for more socioeconomic diversity within Greek life, IFC president Will Altabef said. “We had done analytic research with ISBE, and they found that financial need is a main reason many recruited members to fraternities don’t join,” Altabef said. “So we definitely wanted to create a top-down form of financial assistance for potential new members and also existing new members.” The announcement comes after increased discussion on campus about diversity in Greek life. In March, University President Morton Schapiro sent out a letter indicating that by 2020, the University aims to have 20 percent of its students be eligible for a Pell Grant. Julian Gerez, IFC vice president for standards, cites Schapiro’s letter as an indication that Greek life should be more accessible. “We wanted to make sure that as Northwestern grows more socioeconomically diverse, that all new students have a chance at joining Greek life, despite financial need,” said Gerez, a former Daily staffer. Gerez said the funding for the scholarship will come from IFC’s operational budget, but the group is working with Fraternity and Sorority Life to look at additional funding options. The scholarship application includes four
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QUAD LIFE The Interfraternity Council includes 18 nationally-recognized Northwestern fraternities. The IFC announced Tuesday that it is creating a scholarship for Greek students.
Mariana Alfaro contributed reporting. markduanmu2019@u.northwestern.edu
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For most position groups, losing two of four starters — especially when one played at an All-Big Ten level — is a huge problem. That’s the situation Northwestern’s “Sky Team,” a self-proclaimed moniker for the NU’s defensive backs emblematic of the group’s swagger, silliness and camaraderie, finds itself in ahead of the 2016 season. The Wildcats’ secondary must replace cornerback Nick VanHoose, an experienced shutdown defender, and safety Traveon Henry, the emotional leader of the defense. This veteran play and vocal leadership isn’t easy to replace; losing those two traits jeopardizes the future of a defense which ranked second in the nation in 2015 in opposing yards per attempt allowed. But least concerned of all about the next generation of the Cats’ Sky Team is coach Pat Fitzgerald. “I still think (the secondary is) one of our deepest groups,” Fitzgerald said. “You take an old guy like those two (VanHoose and Henry) and replace them with some younger, less experienced guys, but equally talented. They just have to get seasoned and they have to practice and that’s what they’re going through right now.” Fitzgerald doubled down on that approach at the beginning of spring practice by moving backup cornerback junior Marcus McShepard, who appeared in every game last year, to the other side of the ball to play wide receiver. Maintaining the play of the secondary now falls to a core group of starters and a talented but unproven batch of younger backups. True to the style of the Sky Team, senior cornerback Matthew Harris is hardly fazed. The seasoned veteran is entering his fourth year as a starter with little to worry about in terms of his play and also downplays the importance of his new role as de facto leader. “I’ll do it where it fits in,” Harris said of leadership. “I don’t necessarily have to take a more vocal lead. It’s not about replacing VanHoose at all, it’s about making this team better.” But being less outspoken doesn’t stop others on the team from looking up to his
example. Juniors safety Kyle Queiro and cornerback Keith Watkins, both presumptive starters heading into next season, each named Harris as an important influence, and the play of the 2015 All-Big Ten third teamer will no doubt have a significant impact on how the unit as a whole performs. Joining Harris as one of the most experienced players on the field is junior safety Godwin Igwebuike, who was pressed into replacement action his redshirt freshman season and debuted as a full-time starter last year. Igwebuike always had a more veteran player next to him, whether that was Ibraheim Campbell in 2014 or Henry in 2015. Now the leadership role falls to him. A safety sees the entire defense in front of him, so it will be up to Igwebuike more than Harris to hold his teammates accountable for their mistakes. “Definitely I need to step up, be more of a vocal leader,” Igwebuike said. “My boy Traveon left, so I have to step on the scene and be the commander out there, letting my (defensive backs) know where they have to be.” Igwebuike and Harris are unquestionably talented, experienced players who shouldn’t have much trouble slotting into their new responsibilities on the team and seem more than comfortable taking on the added role of leadership. How Watkins and Queiro will replicate the play of VanHoose and Henry remains the larger question. Watkins and Queiro had complementary stories to their 2015 seasons. Queiro started off the year strong, seeing regular playing time as NU’s nickel corner and recording an athletic interception to seal a surprising upset in the season opener against Stanford. A broken arm sustained against Ball State derailed his year. Queiro said the time missed due to injury gave him a chance to reflect on his experience with football. “That was actually the first time I’ve been injured in my whole life, I’ve never missed
a game for anything,” he said. “I’m starting to realize, football, you can’t take it for granted. I’ve been playing my whole life, so it seems like a part of me, but at some point it will end. So just to maximize this opportunity and get as much out of it as I can is critical.” As focused as ever, Queiro isn’t worried about an enhanced role on the team and pointed to his experience in big games in high school, as well as his tutelage under players like
Campbell and Henry, as lessons which will help him adapt. Watkins, meanwhile, saw his breakthrough at the end of the 2015 season because of an injury to VanHoose prior to the Outback Bowl. After starting in VanHoose’s place in the Cats’ 45-6 bowl game » See SKY TEAM, page 7
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Cats lose 4th-straight after mid-game meltdown Illinois-Chicago
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BURNED Zach Jones connects with a pitch. The senior went 2-for-4, but couldn’t propel the Wildcats past the Flames.
Northwestern’s batters looked as lifeless as the sparse, cold crowd at Rocky and Berenice Miller Park on Tuesday afternoon as the team’s homestand ended with a 7-0 shutout loss to Illinois-Chicago. An ensemble of six pitchers for the visiting Flames (11-16, 3-2 Horizon) held the Wildcats (7-22, 1-5 Big Ten) to just four hits as the hosts struggled to make contact with the ball, striking out nine times. After three innings of solid pitching and fielding by both sides, a slightly off-target throw abruptly unraveled the Cats’ control of the game in the fourth. Freshman second baseman Willie Bourbon’s throw to senior first baseman Zach Jones was off the base, allowing UIC outfielder Conor Philbin to reach safely on what should’ve been the third out. That mistake was followed by a fielder’s choice
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error, allowing Philbin to sneak into home for the opening run. Two batters later, a triple by left-fielder Scott Ota scored 2 and stretched the visitors’ lead to 3-0. “Two outs, nobody on and a … fairly routine ground ball, and that’s just a play at this level that has to be made,” coach Spencer Allen said. “Then we (weren’t) able to stop it. When you don’t make plays, teams are going to put the ball in play and make you pay for it.” The disastrous stretch sent the contest spiraling out of control for NU. The Flames tacked on 2 more runs in the fifth inning via a single and sacrifice fly, then added the final run off a wild pitch in the eighth inning. Eight UIC batters recorded a hit, led by Ota, who went
2-for-2 with a walk and 3 RBIs. NU’s best chance to score came with two outs in the third inning, when Jones and junior rightfield Matt Hopfner and junior leftfield Joe Hoscheit all singled consecutively, but Jones was thrown out at home to spoil the opportunity. Jones, who struggled through a 1-for13 stretch in the weekend series against Michigan, proved a lone bright spot for the Cats, going 2-for-4 with a stolen base. He also had several athletic defensive plays at first. “It wasn’t a great weekend for me personally, and I tried to just learn from it and forget about it … and go out there with good focus today, and it worked out a little better for me,” he said. After a rough stretch of recent appearances, senior pitcher Jake Stolley made his second career start for the Cats and tossed two calm, scoreless innings. Freshman Danny Katz struggled in » See BASEBALL, page 7