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SPORTS Softball Wildcats win big, sweep Michigan State » PAGE 8

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Students adjust after military International veterans work to acclimate to college life

By RISHIKA DUGYALA

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After three and half years in the Israeli military, Alon Schneidman found himself wondering what he was doing in a Northwestern chemistry class.

To Schneidman, schoolwork felt pointless compared to his service in the military.

“In the army I did something, and it had a purpose,” Schneidman said.

“I could see the immediate impact manifest in different ways. Here, when you’re in school and you take a class, it doesn’t work that way.”

After his high school graduation, the now-25-year-old McCormick junior served in the Israeli Defense Forces before coming to NU. Schneidman described the transition as “a struggle.”

Other student veterans say they too encounter challenges while adjusting — or readjusting — to the college environment, particularly in reconciling their experience in the military with

finding a sense of purpose in academic pursuits.

International students from Israel like Schneidman face a military service requirement. As of December 2015, just under 8 percent of international students at NU were from Israel, South Korea or Singapore, countries that have mandatory military service requirements for their citizens.

Weinberg sophomore Chung Il Lee paused his studies at NU after his freshman year to complete his service in South Korea’s military. He applied to become a translating soldier and, because of his education at an American university, Lee said it was easier for him to get the position. After being accepted as a translator, Lee set out in November 2013 to serve the mandatory 21 months.

Lee returned to NU this past Fall Quarter and said he had a difficult time transitioning back to the university culture.

“My English kind of stopped after my first year of college because I was a translating soldier but I didn’t really get to speak English a lot,” Lee said.

“So after two years away from United States, when I came back, I couldn’t even order Chipotle.”

McCormick freshman Yihai Su, 21, » See MILITARY, page 6

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REHASHING RECESSION Ben Bernanke responds to a question from Kellogg Prof. Janice Eberly. The former Federal Reserve chairman discussed his role in abating the 2008 financial crisis in front of an audience of more than 700 students.

Bernanke discusses ‘08 crisis

By BOBBY PILLOTE

daily senior staffer @bobbypillote

Ben Bernanke’s life has changed quite a bit since the end of his term as chairman of the Federal Reserve in 2014.

“Parking problems are a lot worse, and like everybody else I have to stand in the security line at the

airport,” he said. “Those are the two big losses.”

Bernanke spoke Monday night to a packed audience of more than 700 students in Leverone Auditorium for the annual Susan Bies Lecture on Economics and Public Policy, which brings academics to Northwestern’s campus to discuss microeconomic and macroeconomic policy issues.

Although Bernanke is a wellregarded academic in the field of

economics, having taught at both Princeton and Stanford, much of the talk focused on his former role as chairman of the Fed during the 2008 financial crisis.

Bernanke put the banking catastrophe in simple terms for a diverse audience — which included a mix of undergraduates and Kellogg students — and downplayed the role » See BERNANKE, page 7

New Dave’s restaurant to open Rauner approves emergency funding

By ROBIN OPSAHL

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Dave Glatt of Dave’s Italian Kitchen announced Monday night that he will be opening a new Italian restaurant on Noyes Street after closing the 44-year-old restaurant earlier this month.

The new restaurant, to be located at 815 Noyes St., will be called “Dave’s IK” and is projected to open in late May. The 1,200-square-foot space was previously occupied by Arlen’s Chicken and DMK Burger & Fish. Glatt said the outpouring of support from the community after he announced the closure led him to make this unexpected decision.

The new space will be much smaller than the old restaurant, seating only about 40 people compared to the 200 people the old location was able to fit, Glatt said. He said the new name is meant to reflect the new location — “smaller space, smaller name.”

Glatt added that he is still working out the specifics of opening the new restaurant.

“I thought that closing a restaurant was harder than opening one, but I’m realizing now again that opening one’s harder,” he said.

While Glatt began the process of opening the new restaurant, city officials sent a memo recommending the Economic Development Committee give a loan of almost $30,000 for kitchen equipment to outfit the

new restaurant. The money for the proposed loan would come out of the Economic Development Business Expansion and Retention Fund. The committee will discuss the possibility of a loan Wednesday night.

According to city documents, Glatt is applying for the loan through non-traditional means because he is about to file for bankruptcy. Glatt said in his loan proposal he was trapped in a “negative cycle of debt” that, combined with issues caused from the 2008 recession, forced him to close the restaurant and file for bankruptcy.

Ald. Judy Fiske (1st), said retaining local businesses like Dave’s is

important for both Evanston’s economy and community.

“He has given basically his adult life to feeding us here in Evanston,” Fiske told The Daily. “If we can at all help him we should try to.”

City manager Wally Bobkiewicz said he looks forward to discussing the loan for the business in the committee and hopes to bring it before City Council soon.

“The plan may evolve or change, but this is an opportunity to help a longstanding Evanston business,” Bobkiewicz said.

In opening the new location, » See DAVE’S, page 7

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DAVE’S RETURNS Dave’s Italian Kitchen closed April 11. The owner said he expected to open a new restaurant in May on Noyes Street.

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By BILLY KOBIN

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Gov. Bruce Rauner signed a bipartisan state Senate bill into law Monday that will allocate $600 million in shortterm funding to public state universities, colleges and Monetary Award Program grant recipients.

The bill passed unanimously in the Illinois Senate on Friday. The new law is expected to keep public higher education institutions in the state afloat through the summer. Because Illinois has gone 10 months without a budget, state public universities and colleges have struggled to function as usual with reduced funds.

Chicago State University — a public university on Chicago’s South Side serving largely low-income, minority and non-traditional students — will receive about $20.1 million from the bill. CSU, which was scheduled to close at the end of April, has had to lay off employees, cancel its spring break and move up its commencement ceremonies due to the budget impasse.

“The amount provided is insufficient in solving the broader crisis the budget impasse has created,” CSU officials said in a statement.

Altogether, the measure allocates $169 million to MAP grants, $356 million to public universities and $74 million to community colleges. The

money comes out of the state’s Education Assistance Fund.

“This legislation doesn’t solve our budget crisis or help our economy grow, but it does represent a first step toward compromise between Democrats and Republicans,” Rauner said in a statement. “Now is the time to build on this bipartisan momentum and focus on enacting a truly balanced budget for Fiscal Years 2016-2017 alongside meaningful reforms that create jobs and free up resources for education, social services and infrastructure.”

The MAP program offers tuition grants for low-and middle-income Illinois students that attend public or private two-and four-year colleges, universities, hospital schools and other degree-granting institutions within the state. Northwestern has been covering about $2.4 million in MAP grants for about 500 students during the budget impasse.

“We’re pleased that the bill restores partial funding for current year MAP grants,” University spokesman Al Cubbage told The Daily. “We hope that the governor and legislature will reach an agreement that will restore full funding for MAP grants in the coming fiscal year.”

Oakton Community College, which has locations in Des Plaines and Skokie, will receive about $1.3 million from the measure, Paul Palian, director of college » See FUNDING, page 7

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TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 2016

Around Town D65 reviews racial achievement gap

By DARBY HOPPER

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More than 100 people met Monday at the Joseph E. Hill Early Childhood Center to discuss the achievement gap between white and black students in Evanston/Skokie School District 65 and the district’s goals for addressing these racial inequities.

The D65 Board of Education held a special meeting to discuss the achievements of black students within the district, which featured input from six selected community leaders, as well as commentary from the public and a Q&A session with the board. The board faced criticism for the format of the meeting, which spanned roughly five hours and featured over 30 datafilled slides.

“What we need to do is set out for you all what our plans are so that we can hear a critique,” said Tracy Quattrocki, the board’s president. “The board views the achievement gap as the single most important concept we face.”

The meeting centered on a report compiled by the district’s research, accountability and data department. The collected data focused on questions of black student achievement in four major areas: early childhood education, K-8 education, special education and school climate,

Police Blotter Women rob American Apparel of an estimated $2,000

Two young women stole an estimated $2,000 worth of goods from American Apparel on Sunday night, before escaping into a black vehicle and driving away.

The store manager reported that the women entered the store, 950 Church St., at about 7 p.m., pulling about 30 items off the racks, each worth about $70, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said. After about 20 minutes, the two women, who

and outside means of support.

In K-8 education, the core of the district’s work, disparities can be seen in various subjects.

According to the report, 25 percent of black students and 3 percent of white students tested in the bottom 20 percent for reading achievement based on the Measures of Academic Progress exam. In comparison, 9 percent of black students and 58 percent of white students tested in the top 20 percent.

In the MAP’s mathematics assessment, 10 percent of black students and 60 percent of white students met the college-readiness benchmark, while 34 percent of black students and 3 percent of white students were below the 25th percentile.

The report noted that although it is generally difficult to separate the effect of income from the effect of race or ethnicity — a process made more difficult by the fact that the district’s income benchmark is qualifying for free or reduced lunch and that it has a lack of high-income black and Latino students and lowincome white students — the data indicates that race has an effect separate from income.

Superintendent Paul Goren emphasized that despite the meeting’s focus on statistics, the issues facing the district today are about much more than numbers.

“We have to recognize the urgency of this,” Goren said. “As educators, as Evanstonians, as leaders, we are talking about our children. We

have to move.”

For its K-8 curriculum, the Board of Education’s report identifies what it calls key strategies toward remedying these disparities. These include teacher-created assessments to identify student needs, a new literacy framework for grades K-3, targeted support for students testing below the 25th percentile and culturally relevant curricula.

Another piece of data presented in the board’s report focused on the percentage of students with a disciplinary referral for a major incident in 2015. Although the past four years have seen a decrease in the number of students with referrals — as well as with suspensions — disparities persist.

One of every 20 white students received a referral, whereas five of every 20 black students faced the same punishment. The board announced that it plans to increase restorative justice training to nine schools this year and to have teams work to address classroom culture in all schools by 2017.

The report states that after analyzing all the data, the board will focus on specific actions that fall under goals such as increasing early childhood education, building an environment that reflects the student body and promoting a culture of equity.

the manager said looked between ages 18 and 22, ran out of the store into a black four-door vehicle, Dugan said.

Evanston police officers were dispatched to the store after the women fled.

The women have not been identified, but the store caught them on video surveillance, Dugan said. The car was last seen headed eastbound on Church Street, he said.

Sunday night with stealing two bottles of wine from a local Jewel-Osco.

The manager reported that the man entered the store, located in the 1100 block of Chicago Avenue, at about 9:30 p.m., Dugan said. The manager observed the Evanston resident take the two bottles of wine — valued at $56 total — put them in a shopping bag and walk out of the store without paying, Dugan said.

The man was charged with misdemeanor retail theft and is scheduled to appear in court on June 13, Dugan said.

Evanston resident steals two bottles of wine from Jewel-Osco

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On Campus New application process for stipends, funds created Student Enrichment Services to launch ‘common application’ in the fall

By JULIA DORAN

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Student Enrichment Services will launch a common application in the fall to help lowincome students apply for various funds offered across campus.

SES director Kourtney Cockrell said she decided to create the application after noticing there were many grants and scholarships available for low-income students but not a system that organized them in a transparent, user-friendly way.

“I realized there was no standard landing page for people to browse and see all these different opportunities,” she said.

Similar to the Common Application accepted by many universities, the SES Common Application will be available to all students online.

It will centralize and streamline sources of financial assistance from various departments and programs, allowing students to easily pinpoint and access relevant funds from one page, Cockrell said.

The application will list various sources of aid available, including scholarships for fraternities and sororities, the Student Activities Scholarship Fund, scholarships for Chicago Field Studies internships, the Summer Internship Grant Program and scholarships for Alternative Student Break trips, Cockrell said.

Students will enter basic demographic information and describe their financial need in a short essay viewable to the groups maintaining grants and scholarship funds the student selects. Cockrell said this will make the process of applying for aid more convenient and less uncomfortable.

“When students usually apply for these funds, they have to constantly answer these questions about why they’re deserving of funding six or seven times over,” Cockrell said.

“That certainly doesn’t help when it comes to feeling isolated, feeling different and feeling like an other, when you’re constantly having to reflect on why you don’t have the funds to fully

participate here at Northwestern.”

Campus partners, including Northwestern Career Advancement, the Office of Campus Life and the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life, will each manage their own questions separate from the common application and specific to the funds they offer, as well as their selection and awarding processes, Cockrell said.

Jasper Pierson Walker, a department assistant in the Office of Student Engagement who has been working with Cockrell on the project, said the application will make it easier for low-income students to become involved on campus.

“We kind of have a pay-to-play model at Northwestern, where if you want to join some groups, you have to pay fees and dues in order to be a part of them,” she said. “With this program, we’re removing some of those barriers so students can feel free to explore and connect and find communities in different ways. I think this will allow students to dream a little bit bigger and not hold themselves back.”

McCormick junior Steffany Bahamon, president of the NU Quest Scholars Network, said the application will prove useful for low-income students, whose financial status often defines

their experiences at NU. She said financial difficulties can create obstacles in both academic and extracurricular life.

“Even for popular events on campus like Dance Marathon or Ski Trip or being involved in Greek life, having funds to do those things is very difficult if you’re low income,” Bahamon said. “In addition to that, if you don’t have enough funds to pay for your textbooks or any software you might need, that damages your academic ability.”

Bahamon also said stress related to lack of funds can affect the emotional and mental health of students, who often take on extra jobs or struggle to find different sources of aid for various expenses.

Cockrell said she noticed in her first months working at SES that a strong community from the University supports low-income students.

“I hope that this will really open up transparency and demonstrate a lot of the commitment from across the university that administration and staff and faculty have for the students,” she said. juliadoran2018@u.northwestern.edu

Weinberg senior receives year-long fellowship to study in China

Weinberg senior Diana Chang received a fellowship to study literature and culture for one year in China at Peking University.

Chang will be enrolled in the Master of Chinese Studies program at the Yenching Academy of Peking University, according to a news release. The academy hosts domestic and international students, according to its website.

Chang, who majors in biological sciences and art theory and practice, said her parents’ professions as pharmacists and grandparents’ careers as artists were influential to her interests in both science and art.

“People usually say something along the lines of, ‘Oh, right and left brained!’” Chang said in the release.

“I think they’re actually quite similar in that artists and scientists are both intensely curious about the human experience: one meta-physically, one physically. But it’s the same creativity answering their curiosities.”

The program, taught in English, “aims to push the study of China beyond the boundaries of traditionally defined academic disciplines within the Humanities and Social Sciences,” according to the Yenching Academy’s website.

At Northwestern, Chang worked in Feinberg Prof.

John Disterhoft’s lab and studied the mammalian brain.

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Restored John Singer Sargent portrait to hang at Deering Library

An early 20th-century oil painting by John Singer Sargent will be on display at Northwestern University Libraries following the recent completion of its restoration through a $9,000 grant from The Alumnae of Northwestern University.

There will be a special viewing event of the painting, titled “Portrait of a Lady,” from May 5 to 19 at Deering Library in the third floor reading room of the Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, according to a news release.

The painting is considered to be Sargent’s most famous work and was acquired by Charles Deering in an auction. His family donated it to Deering Library in 1956.

The painting once hung at the library but was taken down and placed in climate-controlled storage to protect it from deterioration, the release said. The grant allowed for its restoration with the removal of a yellowed varnish layer on the painting, a synthetic resin varnish and an ultraviolet-resistant acrylic glazing placed between the painting and frame.

“Removal of the yellowed varnish has significantly improved the tonal qualities of the painting and allows for closer examination of Sargent’s brushwork and creative use of color,” Scott Devine, the Marie A. Quinlan Director of Preservation and Conservation at University Libraries, said in the release. “The painting, which is one of Sargent’s last large-scale society portraits, can now be studied and fully appreciated for the way in which it references Sargent’s earlier works.”

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Divesting from Israel is counterproductive, biased EDMUND BANNISTER DAILY COLUMNIST

When I first arrived at Northwestern this September, I was intrigued by the NU divestment movement. As a student interested in foreign affairs, I had always followed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and disapproved of Israeli settlement policy in the West Bank.

NU Divest struck me as an organization that could be part of an important dialogue on campus. However, as I learned more about the movement and experienced the divestment debate at NU firsthand, I soon realized that my optimism was misplaced.

NU Divest’s mission is logically shaky. It excels at reducing a highly complex issue of foreign policy and social relations to a black and white moral ultimatum in order to attract and mobilize its members. Unfortunately, this strategy has created an organization that, despite its size and vocal presence, has goals that are devoid of subtlety and depth.

The NU Divest movement aims to prevent NU from investing in companies including G4S, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Caterpillar and Hewlett-Packard, which make products for the Israeli military. Like any sanctions proponent, including the national one against Iran, it aims to discourage or prevent

companies from doing business with the Israeli government. In this way, the divestment movement is effectively punishing the State of Israel by claiming that it is less entitled to business with U.S. companies than other nations.

Just last year, Lockheed Martin reached an $11.25 billion dollar military contracting deal with Saudi Arabia. Both Lockheed and Boeing manufacture the F-16 and F-15 fighter jets used by the Saudi Air Force. Since 2015 the Saudis have embarked on a brutal military intervention in Yemen’s civil war in an attempt to crush the Shiite Houthi rebels.

According to the United Nations, the Saudis have killed over 3,000 civilians and bombed “markets, hospitals, clinics, schools, factories, wedding parties — and hundreds of private residences in villages, towns and cities.” These horrendous violations have been carried out with weapons manufactured by Boeing and Lockheed Martin.

Boeing also recently reached a multibillion dollar agreement with Turkey, a close U.S. ally, to manufacture F-16s, many of which are used in Turkey’s violent repression of the Kurdish minority population. According to the Los Angeles Times, Turkey is responsible for the destruction of over 4,000 Kurdish villages and the deaths of 35,000 Kurds since the conflict began. Indeed, massive corporations like Lockheed, Boeing, Caterpillar and Hewlett-Packard do their business all over the world, oftentimes with

highly unsavory customers.

If you haven’t caught the drift of my argument yet, I’ll make it obvious. It is disturbingly biased to argue that NU should divest from these companies on the basis that they do business with Israel when they do business with nations and people who commit atrocities that are just as bad or worse.

If we can’t sanction every country on Earth that violates human rights, surely we must choose the worst ones first. I find it difficult to believe that Israel is more repressive than Syria’s Bashar Al-Assad, Egypt’s Al-Sisi, or the Saudi monarchy. And those are just its neighbors. As a result I find it impossible to believe that NU Divest is making rational choices when it attempts to sanction Israel.

Singling out Israel before all other states justifiably makes Israelis and Jews in general feel targeted. The companies mentioned by NU Divest do business with some of the most repressive regimes on earth. It is insulting and unfair for the divestment movement to target a small Jewish democracy over far larger and more violent actors. It indicates that the real distinction between Israel and its neighbors isn’t the actions of its government or its ties to the United States, but the identity of its people.

The greatest flaw in NU Divest isn’t its binary understanding of the Israeli conflict, but its attempts to effectively levy sanctions against a foreign state. NU will continue to be allowed to invest in other countries with

human rights violations such China, Turkey, Russia, Egypt and even Iran. But it will not invest in Israel. The perversity of this double standard is alarming to many Northwestern students, as it should be.

University President Morton Schapiro and the NU administration are not fools. They will never undermine the integrity of NU as a neutral forum for ideas in order to mollify the injured feelings of a single party. Nor will they jeopardize the school’s reputation by punishing the Jewish state before numerous other human rights violators. Actions like that would provoke a harsh response from the national media as well as justifiable accusations of anti-Semitism. That is why NU Divest has and will continue to be stonewalled by the administration.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is an issue that needs to be discussed. It is a complex and sensitive subject that impacts the lives of many people. That is why each student on this campus, no matter what their position on this issue is, should help push the dialogue away from punishment, sanctions and fingerpointing and towards something based off of rationality and mutual respect.

Edmund Bannister is a Weinberg freshman. He can be contacted at edmundbannister2019@u.northwestern.edu.

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Alternatives are needed to save us from climate change ARTURAS MALINAUSKAS DAILY COLUMNIST

Eco-efficiency — a term originally coined by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, a consortium of more than 100 major businesses such as Ford Motor Co. and BP — is hailed as the industrial approach to combating global warming.

The philosophy was adopted by the WBCSD’s member companies, the National Resources Defense Council, the European Environment Agency and numerous other groups.

Eco-efficiency is certainly an appealing idea: Companies that reduce their waste products and increase output from limited inputs will profit more and save the environment at the same time. However, producing less pollution does not equate to stopping pollution.

To stop climate change we need to find alternatives to the processes that are damaging our planet’s health instead of slowing them down.

I recognize there are many people who

do not believe in climate change. However, I see headlines every day about the harmful impact of climate change on the environment. This year, the Greenland ice sheet melting season decreased approximately 10 percent on April 11. Previously, the earliest it had melted more than 10 percent was almost a month later on May 5, 2010. What will happen during the peak of melt season this year, considering the world sea level rose in 2012 by a millimeter solely from the thawing of 562 billion tons of ice in Greenland’s ice sheet? Turning to the Southern Hemisphere, unusually warm ocean temperatures have bleached 93 percent of reefs in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, the largest reef system on Earth. Bleaching occurs when slight variations in water temperature cause the algae that coral life relies on to leave the coral.

Despite this alarming event, the Australian government approved a massive coal mining operation this month that will result in larger sea traffic near the Great Barrier Reef, further threatening its health. These are just recent occurrences among countless others that make me fear for the quality of life on this planet.

Contemplating these events, it is difficult

to be content with current efforts to curb our impact on the environment. Last week on Earth Day, 171 countries signed the Paris Agreement on climate. The agreement is an international effort to limit the global temperature rise to below two degrees Celsius.

Yet, even if all parties stick to their pledges to reduce carbon emissions in the non-binding agreement, it is estimated that the effect would fail to limit temperature rise by an entire degree. Why? Because limited emissions are not effective when the world’s population is still growing and expected to reach more than nine billion people by 2050.

Being more efficient with resources will not matter when we continue to need more of them to sustain the global population, especially when regulations on emissions are costly and cumbersome for businesses.

That is why we need to develop completely clean technologies and industrial activities that will need no environmental regulation.

As the Volkswagen diesel emissions scandal or the three million gallons of mining waste released into Colorado’s Animas River last year will attest, the production of emissions and waste cannot always be controlled. Just last week, more than 30 workers were killed

Stronger UN vital to address global issues AKASH BORDE

DAILY COLUMNIST

Last week, hundreds of high schoolers swarmed Norris University Center to participate in the 13th annual Model United Nations.

Although this conference was a three-day competition where students acted as international diplomats, I hope they go on to actually become those diplomats one day. The real United Nations needs them.

The UN should have some real power, much more than it currently has as the ceremonial body it is today. What would a meaningful UN look like? One approach would be to structure it with the same idea of the current European Union, except on a global scale. Each country would retain its government, cultural identity and way of life, but it would have to follow international rules set by the UN. A stronger UN should be able to secure the wellbeing of people who are not protected citizens of a given country. Refugees, migrants and asylum-seekers are often neglected by the international community because no individual country is responsible for them. Fear of crime, infectious disease and losing a national identity

to “outsiders” all contribute to harsh anti-immigration policies that reject humans seeking to relocate. People that find themselves displaced due to war, famine or persecution should have a strong international body that addresses their problems. The value of a person’s life should not depend on the circumstances of their birth.

A United Nations that has the power to enforce international agreements is critical to solving multinational issues such as global warming. Unfortunately, the current UN lacks any real power to do so. The recent climate convention in Paris was the 20th convention in a series of international summits that have failed to create binding agreements to address climate change.

When sovereign countries act independently, international conventions often resemble worstcase scenarios of the Prisoner’s Dilemma, a standard example in game theory in which seemingly rational actors do not cooperate, even though it is in their best interests to do so. For example, it is easier for countries to justify inaction about climate change by blaming other countries than it is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions themselves. A United Nations that has the power to enforce binding agreements between countries would help ensure that all parties followed through with their commitments.

Finally, a powerful UN is necessary to address international challenges that do not cleanly fall

within certain borders. The Islamic State terror threats do not just affect Iraq and Syria, they affect the world at large. However, countries worldwide do not seem to agree on the correct way to share responsibility in defeating terror cells such as these. Both unilateral and multilateral responses to these challenges are often plagued with special interests and internal political pressures from countries that have the strongest military forces to respond. Having an effective international force of peacekeepers would be better in stopping multinational terror cells than traditional national militaries, which were historically used to fight wars between nation-states.

It is vital that sovereign governments recognize the importance of international authority, even if it is often against their desires to do so.

Reluctance from nations to cede power to larger organizations has plagued international bodies such as the League of Nations, the International Criminal Court and, of course, the UN. Countries of the world can better solve global problems with a strong UN, not a powerless one.

Akash Borde is a McCormick freshman. He can be contacted akashborde2019@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.

in the explosion of a Mexican petrochemical plant; making industries cleaner is not enough when there is potential for disaster and human error.

So what do we do? Hybrid cars and efficient Energy Star-rated appliances are great ideas to mitigate our carbon footprint, but electric cars and completely clean sources of energy are needed as soon as possible to stop global warming. We need to stop building new coal power plants, drilling new oil wells and allowing carbon-producing industries to exist in our economy and redirect our resources to developing and implementing completely clean technologies and industries in the world economy. I will be the first to admit that such an effort seems unrealistic, but it is more logical than the premise that climate change can be stopped simply by lowering the rate at which carbon emissions are produced.

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said a challenge in the transition back to school was people treating his military service requirement as an abnormality.

For students who attend universities in Singapore, Su’s home country, military service is common, but he said in the U.S. it draws questions.

Su was drafted into Singapore’s military after high school to serve his required two years.

Before that, Su and his fellow draftees had their health assessed and took IQ tests.

They were not told the results of the assessment until after their four months of basic training on the island Pulau Tekong was finished, Su said.

Roughly 5,000 miles away in Israel, Schneidman went through So after similar tests. At 16, two years away Schneidman received a letter from the Israel from United Defense Forces askStates, when ing him to report to his first meeting. He I came back, I later underwent a day couldn’t even of intelligence, psychoorder Chipotle logical and physical tests as officers created a proChung Il Lee, file of his strengths and Weinberg weaknesses. Three years sophomore later, he was drafted into a specific technological unit after going through a month of basic training.

But instead of expanding on his electrical engineering abilities as he had hoped, Schneidman’s position required him to do computer science, a shift that he said was at first disappointing but highlighted one of the lessons he learned in the military.

“A lot of people get disappointed, and I think that’s a big part of the growing up that happens in the military sometimes,” Schneidman said.

“And what’s more important is sort of how you react to the things that happen to you rather than hoping you can sort of change the circumstances you are flung into.”

Yihai Su, 21, is a McCormick freshman. Su was drafted into Singapore’s military after high school to serve his required two years before coming to Northwestern.

Although Schneidman did not receive the professional experience he sought while in the army, he said he grew as a person in a way he hadn’t

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TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 2016 expected. Working as a part of a group helped him develop as a team player, he said.

But re-entering a school environment was a difficult transition for Schneidman as he attempted to re-acquire “basic learning skills,” such as critical thinking and analyzing, that most students take for granted, he said. Returning to the classroom was especially jarring, Schneidman said.

“What the hell is a schoolbook?” Schneidman remembered thinking in General Chemistry in the Technological Institute’s LR3 classroom.

“Why the f— am I sitting in a lecture hall and listening to some person talk about chemistry, like why do I care? Why am I writing this s— down?”

Classes were also a challenge for Lee because his current courses were based on concepts he learned in his freshman year, before he left for the South Korean military, he said.

And most of Lee’s friends from freshman year are now seniors or graduated from NU while he was in the military, so Lee not only had to work twice as hard to keep up with his classes but also had to make new friends with people in his year, he said.

University faculty make a point to reach out to international undergraduate students returning from military service, Dean of Students Todd Adams said, connecting them with academic advisers specific to their schools and, in the case of students who interrupted their studies to serve, faculty they might have been close to before.

Adams said he expects the number of veteran students re-entering campus to increase at NU as the population of international students from countries with required service grows.

“We’re seeing increased need partially due to some moderate growth, but partially due to the desire to help students connect with other veterans, connect to the institution, be well prepared,” Adams said. “We want to be able to meet the need that is currently there and anything that might emerge.”

Now that he is continuing his studies, Su noticed that he’s getting better at managing time, responsibilities, personal conflicts and work. He attributes this to the maturity he gained in the Singaporean military.

“The issue of mandatory military service, some people think it’s a total waste of time and for different people I can see how that is the case,” Su said. “I guess it’s how you treat it. You get out whatever you put in it.”

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subprime mortgage lending had in causing the financial crash.

“Subprime mortgages, collectively, made up just 1 percent of global financial assets,” Bernanke said. “The subprime mortgages became the trigger for what was essentially an old-fashioned banking panic.”

The Fed, he said, was created to be a “lender of last resort” for traditional banks in times of panic when consumers withdrew their deposits.

Financial institutions have become more complex in the 100 years since the Fed was created, he said, which made it much more difficult to respond to widespread crisis in 2008.

Bernanke said letting banks such as Lehman Brothers fail was never the goal, but the Fed was often limited in its options. Prior to Congress enacting the Troubled Asset Relief Program — an infusion of cash meant to stabilize the financial system — the Fed could not bail out the bank with government funds, and Lehman was too deep in debt to be bought out by a competitor or receive a loan from the government.

“In real time, you don’t know how bad it’s going to be,” Bernanke said of the whole crisis.

“We were trying to balance doing too little and doing too much.”

Although Lehman ultimately failed, Bernanke said modern regulations created since the crisis have better equipped the Fed to monitor and regulate today’s complex financial markets.

Bernanke also answered audience questions and addressed breaking up big financial institutions, an idea that has been popularized by Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.

The former Fed chairman took a more conservative view than Sanders, stopping short of advocating for the breakup of banks but saying new regulations have created incentives for banks to downsize themselves.

“Part of the goal is to make being big less attractive,” Bernanke said. “Some companies, like General Electric, have actually broken up themselves.”

Kellogg Prof. Janice Eberly, who conducted the interview with Bernanke, said she thought the event was a learning opportunity for students and added that she was impressed with the student turnout.

“I was pleased to see the response,” she told The Daily. “It shows the level of engagement our students have in the world.”

Bernanke seemed to entertain students in attendance, who laughed and even applauded at several of the former chairman’s jokes.

Weinberg freshman Evan Taylor said he particularly enjoyed the unique perspective Bernanke offered on the financial system.

“I thought going to the speech would be a good way to integrate what we learn in class with the real world,” he said. “I really liked when he addressed the behind-the-scenes workings of the Federal Reserve … and the misconceptions the public has on the 2008 financial collapse.” bpillote@u.northwestern.edu

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From page 1 Glatt said he wanted to be more involved in the kitchen and the “physical” aspects of running a restaurant, in comparison to the more managerial role he played at the old restaurant.

Glatt said he is already enjoying pursuing this new project.

“I’m finding (the process of opening a new restaurant) to be very rejuvenating,” he said. “It’s my chance to be a young cook again and not so much an administrator.”

Fiske said she is pleased her ward will continue to host one of Glatt’s restaurants.

“He’s really the heart and soul of Evanston,” Fiske said. robinopsahl2018@u.northwestern.edu

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relations for Oakton, told The Daily. Palian said Oakton has been fortunate in that it has not had to lay off staff during the budget crisis and has been able to cover MAP grants for students.

Additional funding for social services in the state was cut from the bill before its passage Friday morning.

Rep. Robyn Gabel (D-Evanston) told The Daily she was pleased that state lawmakers worked together to pass the bill. She said she has spoken with affected students, faculty and administrators during the past few months regarding the budget crisis.

“This legislation is a stop-gap measure,” Gabel told The Daily. “I don’t think it’s the final budget, so there is still more work to be done.” williamkobin2018@u.northwestern.edu

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Wildcats take three games from Spartans

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In its final Big Ten home series of the season, Northwestern sent its seniors off with a resounding sweep of Michigan State.

With its seven seniors as the core for this Wildcat team, NU (19-23, 10-7) played hard both offensively and defensively against the Spartans (22-25, 4-13) throughout the weekend. As the Cats currently sit in fifth place in the Big Ten, the three conference wins were imperative for the team’s hopes of making a run in the postseason.

Friday’s 8-0 win was highlighted by the play of pitchers Kristen Wood and Kenzie Ellis. Wood, one of the team’s seniors, took the mound for the first time in conference play after sitting out due to injury.

Wood and Ellis, a freshman, combined on a one-hit shutout in the run-rule victory, with Wood only allowing one hit in the fourth frame.

Coach Kate Drohan said the team’s ability to play hard and stay composed gave them an advantage throughout the series.

“I liked our poise; I liked our confidence,” Drohan said. “We played really good, physical softball. It also really makes a difference when our crowd gets into it, and I think they were a game changer this weekend.”

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8 4 10 On Saturday, the Cats’ defense got its chance to shine, allowing only 2 runs and 4 hits over seven innings.

Although Michigan State scored 2 runs against senior pitcher Amy Letourneau in the third frame, NU held the Spartans scoreless for the rest of the matchup, while freshman third baseman Morgan Nelson helped the Wildcats score three runs in the third. A sacrifice fly by senior shortstop Andrea Filler brought Nelson home to secure the 4-2 win for the Cats.

Filler, who currently leads the team in doubles and triples, emphasized the team’s grit and toughness as one of the keys to the weekend wins.

“We really focused on taking things one pitch at a time,” Filler said. “We wanted to be tougher than them and make the plays out there that we needed to.”

NU took the field Sunday looking for another big day from its pitchers to secure the sweep. Wood and Letourneau split time on the mound, allowing 4 runs and 5 hits total, with the two combining for 8 strikeouts as well.

However, Sunday’s highlights came

from none other than Filler, who slammed two homers against the Spartans, including a three-run dinger in the bottom of the first.

Although Michigan State was able to score three more runs throughout the game, NU’s offense proved too much to handle. Drohan said the Cats played well under pressure throughout the series — and this season — under strong leadership from the seniors.

“They each bring such a unique talent and personality to our team and we’re really gelling with their leadership,” Drohan said. “All seven of them are really carrying us right now and it was great to see; it was great to be a part of.”

As conference play comes to a close, the Cats’ sweep against Michigan State will be the last series they will play versus a Big Ten opponent at home this season. For the team’s seven seniors, the sweep was bittersweet: Sunday’s game was their second-to-last on home turf.

Filler said the ability to win big against Michigan State was the perfect culmination to a memorable weekend.

“It’s awesome, it’s hard to put into words because it honors your whole experience here (at Northwestern),” Filler said. “It’s been an incredible journey, and an even better time, with the six other seniors here.” melissahaniff2016@u.northwestern.edu

NU swept by Golden Gophers

By BEN POPE

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In the four weeks since Northwestern christened an upgraded Miller Park, the renovated stadium has begun to feel more like a home than a special new treat. The team has played 12 games in Evanston over the past 25 days, breaking in the all-turf outfield and setting up camp in the new locker room.

But the program’s first home Big Ten win in the new digs continues to prove too elusive.

The Wildcats (10-30, 2-13 Big Ten) dropped to 0-9 in conference home games after being swept by Minnesota (25-11, 9-2) in a threegame series this weekend, that featured consecutive lopsided losses — 10-1 and 8-0 — on Saturday and Sunday, respectively.

“It’s tough to say after Saturday and (Sunday), that we played close, but if you look at key spots in the game, if we start to win those, that’s when we’ll start getting into those … closer games,” coach Spencer Allen said after Sunday’s loss. “Yesterday, we ran into a buzzsaw. Today, we just didn’t put good swings. I think morale, obviously, is not great, but I think the guys are resilient and continue to work.”

Trailing 6-1 after the sixth inning Friday, 2-run singles by both freshman Jack Dunn and senior Zach Jones pulled NU within a single run in the seventh, but the hosts were unable to complete the comeback.

The competitiveness of the series then abruptly collapsed.

The Golden Gophers exploded for 4 runs in the top of the first inning Saturday and never looked back. The Cats’ sophomore starting pitcher Dan Kubiuk was chased out of the contest after just 2.1 innings and ripping off 17 total hits in the rout.

With junior Joe Schindler making his first start since February 19’s season opener on Sunday, NU

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5 1 0 held Minnesota hitless through three innings before unraveling.

Minnesota starter Toby Anderson produced an impeccable outing on the other side, pitching a complete game shutout while conceding just six baserunners — allowing just five hits and one walk.

“For Joe, he’s got to really be pounding the zone … and all of a sudden, we hang a couple breaking balls and they’re going to hit those,” Allen said, referencing Schindler’s rust after a nearly two-month suspension. “He has not been stretched out that far and he started getting elevated just a little bit and they didn’t miss them.”

Sophomore Tommy Bordignon made two relief appearances in the series, including a three-inning stretch on Sunday that was his longest outing in over a month. Allen

said the team is trying to prepare him for potentially starting in the future, but Bordignon was critical of his own play.

“I’ve got to be better from the stretch with runners in scoring position,” Bordignon said. “I let a couple of those pitches get away from me.”

Minnesota’s starting pitchers went at least 6.2 innings in all three games, holding the conference’s seventhleading batter, Cats junior Matt Hopfner, to a 1-for-10 batting line during the weekend.

Sophomore Connor Lind picked up some of the slack by reaching base three times Sunday, continuing his resurgence after making a mid-season adjustment to his swing.

Given the bleak results on the scoreboard, however, the third baseman stressed the importance of the week of rest ahead for the players to refresh their spirits.

“Morale is pretty low,” Lind said.

“We want to get back it and we want to go hard but it’s tough when you lose games like this. Now it’s just time to clear our heads and take this week and reflect.” benjaminpope2019@u.northwestern.edu

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Cats bolster NCAA chances at Big Tens

By TYLER VANDERMOLEN daily senior staffer @tgvandermolen

Whether or not Northwestern will continue its season at the NCAA Regionals will be decided on May 5.

This week’s goal was to make the selection committee’s decision a little easier.

The Cats finished tied for sixth-place at the Big Ten Championships over the weekend, further cementing their likely selection as at-large competitors for a coveted spot in the NCAA Championships. The team finished with a threeday total of 9-over par, six shots behind a fourth-place tie between Michigan and Michigan State and 35 shots behind tournament winner Illinois.

A strong closing round helped NU gain two spots on the leaderboard to move into a tie with Purdue. Still, coach David Inglis once again noted that although the team turned in several “good” rounds, a handful of mistakes at key moments prevented those from being “great” rounds.

“It was important for us to put together a solid day (Sunday), and I think we definitely did that,” Inglis said.

“It just seems like the same thing we’ve been saying all year, just that we’re really close but couldn’t quite put it all together at once.”

Inglis’ team entered the weekend ranked No. 54 in the country according to Golfstat’s poll, which is widely considered the most predictive of which teams will earn NCAA Regional berths. If that ranking holds then NU will be all but assured of a spot in the postseason.

Even though the Cats may not have laid claim to a Big Ten championship as they had hoped, Inglis said they did enough to solidify their ranking.

“We felt pretty good about where we stand heading into the week and I think that ranking is probably going

to stand pat,” Inglis said. “I think our body of work this season is enough to make us deserving.”

NU was once again led by star sophomore Dylan Wu, who narrowly missed his second consecutive top-5 finish, instead tying for sixth-place individually at 3-under par. Wu was followed by senior Josh Jamieson, who continued a string of strong performances by finishing in a tie for 14th at even par. Sophomore Sam Triplett and freshman Ryan Lumsden both carded 6-over par totals to finish tied for 32nd, while senior Andrew Whalen finished in a tie for 63rd at 21-over.

Wu’s play has been heating up of late, and he said he feels like he is one of several Cats who are close to playing their best golf of the season.

“We have a lot of guys who have been playing better than their scores might indicate, and if we can clean those things up we’re gonna be in a good position,” Wu said. “Even for me, I’ve been making a lot of birdies but there have been some dumb mistakes and some areas where I can play better.”

The waiting game now begins for NU. The team will have nearly two weeks to speculate on its future before finding out if it will be moving on and where it will play in its potential regional. Inglis said the team’s practice plans are unlikely to change during that time and it will continue to prepare to make a run at the NCAA Championships.

As for Wu, he said he is confident the Cats are prepared to make their presence felt if given the opportunity to compete for a berth in the NCAA Championships.

“I absolutely think we’re right on the cusp of really putting things together,” Wu said. “Getting through regionals has been our goal all year long, and that is what we’re going to be focused on.” tylervandermolen2018@u.northwestern.edu