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ELECTION LEAKS
Karl Eikenberry will no longer step into the role of executive director By TYLER PAGER and JULIA JACOBS daily senior staffers @tylerpager, @juliarebeccaj
Karl Eikenberry will no longer serve as executive director of the Buffett Institute, Provost Dan Linzer announced Thursday in an email to Buffett faculty. Northwestern announced last fall that Eikenberry was selected from a search committee to fill the new role of executive director of the Institute. Eikenberry, a former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, was set to begin the position in September. Students and and faculty, however, raised numerous concerns about his appointment. In a letter to The Daily, more than 40 faculty called for the University to rescind Eikenberry’s appointment. However, University President Morton
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INVESTIGATION REOPENED (From left) Weinberg junior Joji Syed and her running mate Weinberg sophomore Archit Baskaran debate SESP junior Christina Cilento and McCormick junior Macs Vinson during the Coalition of Colors-moderated debate on April 5.
Voting data was shared with Cilento, Vinson campaign By TYLER PAGER
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A member of Associated Student Government’s election commission leaked information twice about the voting margin to Christina Cilento and Macs Vinson’s campaign while polls were still open, election commissioner Lauren Thomas told The Daily on Thursday.
SESP sophomore Kevin Corkran, who was a member of the ASG election commission, told Cilento’s campaign at about noon on April 8, the second day of voting, the race was “extremely close.” Later that afternoon, about an hour before polls closed at 5 p.m., he told her campaign the voting margin was within five to 10 votes. Earlier Thursday, Cilento told The Daily her campaign received information about the voting margin only once, at about noon. Later Thursday night, however, she said
Corkran also told her campaign about the voting margin at about 4 p.m. As of Thursday night, Thomas said the election commission has reopened its investigation into the leaked voting information, a decision she said was based on information obtained by The Daily. Cilento, a SESP junior, and Vinson, a McCormick junior, beat Weinberg junior Joji Syed and Weinberg sophomore Archit » See VOTING, page 6
» See EIKENBERRY, page 6
Writer talks ‘Obama Doctrine’ Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg speaks at NU By DAVID FISHMAN
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Atlantic correspondent Jeffrey Goldberg spoke to about 150 students and community members Thursday night about “The Obama Doctrine,” his 19,000-word profile on President Obama’s foreign policies. “There is not an obvious overarching Obama doctrine,” Goldberg said. “That was one of the key challenges. When you think about presidents and their foreign policy doctrines … you can kind of fit those on a bumper sticker. But there is a problem when you’re looking at the management by a reluctant president, who is a mainly domestic policy president, in a multi-polar,
fractured world.” Goldberg, who previously worked for The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine, addressed a packed audience in the McCormick Foundation Center about his latest cover story, journalism and growing tension in Israeli-American relations. Sponsored in part by Hillel, the event focused on Goldberg’s Jewish background and his analysis of Middle East affairs. In his hour-long speech, Goldberg touched on what he described as Obama’s five foreign policy doctrines: avoiding military action, understanding limitations, redefining American indispensability and exceptionalism and working with a messy situation he inherited from the Bush administration. Goldberg told The Daily his unprecedented access to the president — five
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separate interviews over four months totaling roughly six hours of on-therecord time — allowed him to go beyond boilerplate speeches and political rhetoric. “He’s very easily bored,” Goldberg told The Daily, referring to the president. “If he starts tap tap tapping that pen, you’re dead. You’re just dead. … I had to ask some of the usual questions over the course of these interviews, but I wanted to go down a couple of levels to try to get at the way he constructs his thinking and the way he sees America’s role in the world.” Goldberg said the article, printed as The Atlantic’s April magazine cover story, caused a stir in the international community because of Obama’s candid » See GOLDBERG, page 6
UP receives four sexual assault reports in 9 days
University Police has received reports of four sexual assaults in the last nine days, though three reportedly occurred longer ago, Deputy Chief Daniel McAleer said. A female student told police on April 6 that she had been sexually assaulted early that morning in the 600 block of Garrett Place. Police are investigating, and the suspect is not a Northwestern student, McAleer said. UP received emails from campus security authorities on April 7, 9 and 13 about the three other sexual assaults, McAleer said. The woman involved in the April 7 report told a campus security authority that her assault took place on March 28, while the women in April 9 and 13 reports told the campus security authorities that their assaults took place on April 1, McAleer said.
Because the three reports were obtained anonymously, police are unable to investigate them further, McAleer said. “It’s frustrating to get these reports and not be able to go after the offender but, nonetheless, it does help the community paint a better picture (of the prevalence of sexual assaults on campus),” McAleer said. Prior to April 6, UP had received four sexual assault reports in 2016. UP received no sexual assault reports last April, according to its online database. Erin Clark, the assistant director of the Center for Awareness, Response and Education, said a number of factors could have led to the increase in sexual assault reports. “It could indicate more awareness of resources or trust of police,” Clark said. “It could also indicate that people are in higher crises and more in need of police than before. It’s definitely concerning, whatever the reasons are.” — Jeremy Margolis
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