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831 Emerson St. held indefinitely By ELENA SUCHARETZA
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Future consideration of a proposed rental apartment project for 831 Emerson St. was tabled Monday until further notice after City Council failed to adopt the ordinance for discussion in a 7-1 vote at council. The adoption of the ordinance did not succeed after most aldermen voted against extending a zoning classification change to the high-rise apartment project. The project would have been changed from a commercial and general residential classification to commercial mixed use, a zoning label traditionally extended to large commercial buildings, Ald. Melissa Wynne (3rd) said. Following more than an hour of citizen comment in the Planning and Development Committee meeting, which was held immediately prior to council, Wynne said she objected to the large-scale building because it exceeded maximum zoning regulations, even considering a possible classification change. “This developer has increased (the maximum parameters) significantly and far exceeds development requirements … for an enormous-sized private dorm by most campus standards,” Wynne said. The proposed apartment building would be, in different segments of the building, 12, 11 and nine stories tall, and have around 440 bedrooms in smaller units that range from studio to three bedroom apartments. The units would be leased by bedroom, not by unit. The facility would also have underground parking. The project had previously received unanimous
approval in the Design and Project Review Committee in early November. Citizen complaints about the project ranged from concerns about increased noise and traffic around the building area to expressed disappointment about the building’s lack of contribution to affordable housing in the city. Developers of the proposed project would have contributed fees which would go to the city’s general affordable housing fund in lieu of offering affordable housing units, as per the city’s affordable housing ordinance. Fair housing agency Open Communities’ former executive director Gail Schechter said the project violated the city’s fair housing contract and “openly discriminated” against families with children, citing statements from the developer that the project would appeal primarily to young professionals and students. “Evanston is supposed to affirmatively further fair housing — they receive federal funds,” Schechter said during the Planning and Development meeting’s public comment. “There’s no indication that families are welcome here at all, and the city should ensure that projects are only approved that welcome people from all federally protected classes.” Ald. Ann Rainey (8th) directly acknowledged Schechter’s comment during council while defending the ordinance, calling her remarks “disingenuous.” Rainey recalled previous development projects that had been approved which she said also technically did not appeal to families with children. She said this specific model of housing is acceptable because it is built with the specific demographic of students in mind, who she said should also be » See 831, page 6
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Seth Meyers to speak at commencement Comedian Seth Meyers (Communication ’96) will speak at Northwestern’s 2016 commencement ceremony, the University announced Tuesday. Meyers, 42, currently hosts “Late Night with Seth Meyers” on NBC and has built his career on late-night television. The comedian and actor first rose to prominence during a long run on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live,” appearing on the show from 2001 to 2014. He served as head writer from 2005 until his exit and anchored the popular “Weekend Update” segment
during the final eight years of his stint. “We’re very pleased to welcome Seth Meyers back to campus as this year’s Commencement speaker,” University President Morton Schapiro said in a statement to The Daily. “It’s always a special treat to have an alum give the talk. I’m sure that Seth will not only make us laugh, but also inspire us. It should be a great day for our graduates and their families.” Meyers got his start at NU with the Mee-Ow comedy group, often
favoring improv classes in downtown Chicago over his Radio, Television and Film coursework. “I knew it would be silly for me to be behind the camera when I found I loved performing so much,” Meyers told The Daily in 2011. Meyers previously served as the Grand Marshal for NU’s 2011 homecoming parade. Commencement will take place June 17 at Ryan Field. — Bobby Pillote
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Women in politics approach government differently, U.S. Rep. Cheri Bustos (D-Ill.) told students Monday night. Bustos, who was elected to represent Illinois’ 17th district — which covers a large part of western Illinois — in 2012, spoke to about 20 people in a Q&A session for journalism Prof. Peter Slevin’s political reporting class where she covered her experience as a reporter, her tenure in communications for a healthcare company and her political career. Bustos touched on the Illinois budget stalemate while discussing women in political office, suggesting that a female governor may have pushed for a different outcome than Illinois’ current fiscal deadlock. “I really do wonder if a female governor would sit back and be watching women go to a domestic violence shelter and be turned away (because of stalled state funding),” Bustos said. “I can’t see a woman governor putting up with that.” Bustos also discussed the demographics of Congress in terms of
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TALKING POLITICS Cheri Bustos, U.S. representative for Illinois’ 17th District, talks to students about her journalism background and her political career at a Monday event with Medill Prof. Peter Slevin’s class. Bustos, who is running for reelection in 2016, discussed being a woman in politics and how her investigative reporting background informs her work in Congress.
racial and socioeconomic representation, as well as gender differences and how she thinks that influences public policy. “I think things like … the Violence Against Women Act, equal pay for equal work, having earned sick leave, raising the minimum wage — I think those are issues that we would have a better shot of getting through if
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Congress truly reflected the makeup of America,” she said. Bustos, who is up for reelection in 2016, addressed the 2016 congressional and presidential races as well. She expressed her hope for an “all-women ticket” led by Hillary Clinton, who she officially endorsed for president, » See BUSTOS, page 6
Palestinian human rights activist Bassem Eid left Fiedler Hillel without speaking at a planned event Sunday due to concerns that his talk would be disrupted. Eid, founder of the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group, was brought to campus in coordination with the Israel Education Center as part of a series of speaking engagements at Chicago-area universities over the past week, said Hillel executive director Michael Simon. His event at the University of Chicago on Thursday evening was disrupted by individuals shouting at him and insulting him in Arabic and English, as shown in a video of the event. The DePaul University event Saturday evening was also disrupted, DePaul organizers said. Eid did not respond to a request to comment Monday. Eid’s organization monitors human rights violations by both Israel and the Palestinian National Authority. He has been opposed to the Boycott,
Divestment, Sanctions movement, saying it harms Palestinians. In response to the disruption at the University of Chicago, Simon said, organizers of the NU event decided to move the event from its original location in the Technological Institute to Fiedler Hillel and to admit only individuals with valid WildCARDs. However, several people arrived before organizers were set up to check WildCARDs, he said, and went upstairs to the room where the event was to take place. Simon said Eid recognized at least one person from the incident at DePaul the previous evening, and left Fiedler Hillel because he said he felt he did not have a safe space to present his perspective. “The fact that a speaker, because of the environment he senses, would feel that he didn’t have a space in which he could present and have free and open dialogue is tremendously disappointing,” Simon said. “It flies in the face of our commitment to offer a place for free and open exchange of ideas, which is really important to Northwestern Hillel and Northwestern overall.” » See EID, page 6
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City Council approved the settlement of a lawsuit from the waste transfer station Advanced Disposal and agreed to new city host agreement terms Monday night. The station has been in operation at 1711 Church St. under several different owners since 1984. In 2010, Evanston imposed a fee on the waste transferred through the station, and Veolia, the garbage collection service that operated the center at the time, sued the city, alleging that the fees were illegal, according to a 2010 Chicago Tribune article. The agreement, which was unpopular with some nearby residents, will settle the lawsuit and allow Advanced Disposal to continue operation of the facility while the city will extract a fee of 75 cents on every ton of trash that is transferred through the station. “Obviously this is a very difficult situation for us to be in as a city,” Ald. Donald Wilson (4th) said. “But I think as most people recognize … we are defendants in a lawsuit so it’s requiring us to compromise.” Monday’s vote will permit city lawyers to
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A 43-year-old Chicago resident reported that he was robbed at knifepoint at the Davis Street Metra station Saturday morning, police said. The man told police he was exiting the Metra station, 901 Davis St., at approximately 7:45 a.m. when he was approached by a man, Evanston Police Department spokesman Perry Polinski said. The unknown suspect pulled out a short knife and demanded that the Chicago man turn over his Metra/ Pace pass, Polinski said. Police are investigating the incident, Polinski said.
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Several Evanston residents reported shots fired around Evanston early Sunday morning, police said. Polinski said at approximately 4:50 a.m. EPD received several anonymous reports of three shots fired at Foster Street and Jackson Avenue, in the 2000 block of Ashland Avenue and in the 1600 block of Emerson Street, areas which are all in close proximity to one another. Police checked the entire area and found no evidence of the shots, Polinski said.
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the odor. A close second would be noise and traffic.” A few citizens expressed concern that the settlement agreement had been negotiated without public input, and Ald. Delores Holmes (5th) advocated for community input before voting on a third ordinance, which would require the city to repeal two past ordinances that imposed the original fees. “They want their voices heard,” Holmes told The Daily. “We can’t always get what we want … it is what it is.” Concern was also raised over how long the new fee would remain in place. The fee per ton of trash will likely be subject to slow increases over the coming years, according to the agreement between Advanced Disposal and the city. Ald. Peter Braithwaite (2nd), whose ward encompasses the station, said although he had hoped the negotiated fee would be higher, the council’s authority was limited in this situation. “As a council we recognize that we don’t have any authority over the licensing, which is unfortunate,” he said. “I think the vote tonight is trying to make the best situation out of a very difficult issue.”
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Religious leaders highlight importance of love, sex By KELLI NGUYEN
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Though different faiths may have different views on sexuality, love remains a unifying theme, said four religious leaders at a panel organized by Sexual Health and Assault Peer Educators. The panel, hosted in Fisk Hall, featured Sheil Catholic Center pastoral associate Mary Deeley, director of the University Christian Ministry the Rev. Julie Windsor Mitchell, Tannenbaum Chabad House Rabbi Dov Hillel Klein and DePaul University Muslim Chaplain Abdul-Malik Ryan in a discussion about sex, love and religion. The speakers emphasized the necessity of love and consent in relationships, weighing in on the role of sexual intimacy. “The guiding principle is that (people in a relationship) explore that relationship as a whole being, so it’s
not just about suddenly going to 90 miles an hour as a physical self but also moving along as an intellectual and emotional and a spiritual self with that partner,” Deeley said to the audience of more than 30 people. One topic the panel debated was the role of premarital sex. Windsor Mitchell said although sex is an important topic to be discussed, it can happen outside marriage within the same bounds of intimacy, trust and love. Klein explained that in the context of Orthodox Judaism, sex could blur the objectivity necessary in finding life partners. Under Islam, premarital sex is viewed as an exploitation of the woman by the man, oppression against the woman if the man is not willing to marry her, Ryan said. “It’s about responsibility and propriety,” Ryan said. “If the marriage hasn’t taken place, if people haven’t taken that responsibility for each other, if people haven’t made that commitment to each other then the act of sex is out of bounds.”
The panel went on to discuss contraceptives, with contrasting viewpoints. While Deeley and Ryan opposed birth control as a means to avoid responsibility, Klein and Windsor Mitchell supported it as a means of acting responsibly. “There’s a Yiddish expression that I like to use as an Orthodox Rabbi, it’s called ‘no choopy, no shtoopy’,” Klein said. “This literally means, ‘no canopy, no sex’.” Despite differing viewpoints, the four panelists agreed love and sexuality have their place in religion, whether in religious beliefs or scripture. Weinberg senior Erik Baker said he appreciated the diversity in opinions across the panel, which allowed audience members to see both the differences and commonalities across different faiths regarding sex. “I took away that ultimately across religions the emphasis is on the centrality of love and about how ultimately sex and sexual intimacy are really valuable when they can foster that kind of love between two people,” he said.
SHAPE, a student organization affiliated with Northwestern University Health Service that provides education, organizes events, and generates dialogue about sexual health and sexual assault, hosted the event to bring a religious perspective to campus conversations about sex. SHAPE event co-chairs Sophie Jacob, a Weinberg senior, and Daniel Bender Stern, a Communication senior, said they hope the event sparked a continued conversation about sexuality and religion across campus. “I think it’s an important jumping off point, but I don’t think the conversation stops here,” Bender Stern said. “This is something that a lot of people grapple with as they grow up and are figuring out who they want to be as an independent being, that sexuality is a huge role but that doesn’t mean that they are ready to give up their faith.” kellinguyen2019@u.northwestern.edu
Panel discusses experiences of living with disabilities By MATTHEW CHOI
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Disability is not antithetical to ability, said SESP sophomore Scott Gerson at a student panel on disability Monday. The Student Panel on Disability, hosted by Gerson and SESP freshman Carrie Ingerman in University Hall, discussed the many ways disabilities can affect students’ lives. Panelists talked about the challenges of living with a disability and how their disabilities are part of their identity. AccessibleNU, Multicultural Student Affairs, Black Lives Matter NU and Eye to Eye NU co-sponsored the event. Ingerman and Gerson announced at the event that they have been working to create a new student group called Beyond Compliance, which will act as a safe space and advocate for students with disabilities.
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Panelists included SESP senior Yair Sakols, McCormick sophomore Bobbie Burgess and Communication junior Jessica Fang. Gerson, who has ADHD, moderated the discussion, which was followed by a Q&A with the audience of about 75 people. Disabilities can have considerable consequences on school performance, Burgess said. Burgess has a learning disability that affects her reading and mathematical computation speed, she said. Taking tests or preparing material can take longer and it can be more difficult to organize thoughts during assessments, she said, prompting her to do extra practice problems. “My brain is often like an unorganized clean-laundry basket,” Burgess said. “Everything is there, but I have to go digging through it sometimes to find the information I need and the more practice I have making the outfits, the better I’ll be on an exam.” Navigating campus can also be affected by disabilities, Sakols said. Many structures on campus are not completely accommodating for people with
disabilities, Sakols said. Sakols has congenital neuromuscular disorder, which causes sporadic and unpredictable pain from his lower back to the base of his skull and can make certain tasks such as climbing stairs or walking to class difficult, he said. “Locy, where I’ve had classes, doesn’t have even a ramp or an elevator,” Sakols said. “(In) the dining halls, holding a tray when you have a cane is a total pain. Just walking back and forth when there’s no means with someone with a disability to carry things, essentially you need two hands at this school to function properly.” Despite the challenges, disability should not be a reason to pity, Fang said. Fang, who has ADHD, said her disability is more complex than the stereotypes make it out to be and can affect her concentration, memory and other thinking processes in multiple ways. For example, although her ADHD can cause her to be distracted, it can also allow her to concentrate
on a task for a long period of time if it really interests her, Fang said. “It has nothing to do with how smart you are or how intelligent you are,” Fang said. “It’s just a different way of thinking.” Despite these challenges, panelists praised the efforts of AccessibleNU in making NU more accommodating. Alison May, director of AccessibleNU and assistant dean of students, attended the event and said she admired the panelists for sharing their experiences and hoped the audience would engage more in the dialogue about disabilities after hearing them. “I really liked the idea of a number of folks working together on this,” May told The Daily. “I hope (attendees now) will be comfortable about the things they don’t understand, asking some of these folks if they come across them is a safe space again and getting to talk.” matthewchoi2018@u.northwestern.edu
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Emphasize interdisciplinary study, academic rigor ALEXI STOCKER
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As the end of my Northwestern undergraduate career rapidly approaches, I find myself frequently reflecting on my college education. I honestly believe I have learned and grown a lot here at NU, through my courses, extracurricular involvements, friendships, work and internships. Lately my thoughts tend to focus on my courses; what in particular have I learned from completing majors in history and economics? I believe I have learned the most when connecting topics discussed in my economics courses to those in my history courses. In my experience, the value of my education has increased over time, as the material from courses builds on each other. The problem with many of NU’s majors, minors and distribution requirements is that their existing structures do not necessarily facilitate this building of knowledge and understanding so crucial in disciplines across the humanities and social sciences. The STEM fields almost always have required sequences. McCormick has its core curriculum, and Weinberg departments like Biology, Physics, and the Integrated Science Program have rigorous requirements. Most humanities
and social science departments lack such structured requirements for a major or minor, and even those that do, such as Economics, are sorely lacking in rigor. The solution, as I see it, is to restructure Weinberg undergraduate degrees in the humanities and social sciences in two major ways. First, Weinberg should put an emphaIn my sis on interdisciplinary majors in the experience, social sciences. Prothe value of grams like Internamy education tional Studies, Legal Studies and Mathhas increased ematical Methods in over time, as the the Social Sciences should be expanded material from and offered as pricourses builds mary majors. Interon each other. disciplinary majors offered at other universities, such as Yale University’s Ethics, Politics and Economics Program, should be introduced in Weinberg. Interdisciplinary majors offer many tangible benefits, including improved creativity, greater flexibility in research and more practical applications to real-life problems. Interdisciplinary majors are more realistic and practical. The world is a complex place, and no single approach can offer meaningful insights into politics, societal problems and
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the minutia of human life alone. Second, Weinberg humanities and social science departments should create more rigorous core curricula. The History Department, for example, would benefit immensely from implementing a system whereby students concentrating in, say, History of the Americas are required to take a core sequence of U.S. and Latin American history. Such courses make upper-level seminars on specific topics – mass incarceration, American imperialism, suburbanization – more meaningful, as students with better background knowledge are able to engage the details without worrying about making up deficiencies in the basics. Departments and programs should also establish a better system of related courses requirements, implementing mandatory guidance from faculty advisors. Students of U.S. History, for example, would benefit from fulfilling their Ethics & Values distribution requirements in courses on Christian ethics or Enlightenment thinking, and their Literature & Fine Arts distribution requirements in American Literature. I expect to be accused of encouraging a culture of “coddling,” or “helicopter parenting” in absentia. The issue with many of Weinberg’s humanities and social science departments is they allow too much choice, enabling students to self-coddle, so to speak, by taking classes they expect to be easy, or material with which they feel most
comfortable. Rigorous requirements force students to get outside of their intellectual comfort zones, fostering learning and critical thinking. NU students are young adults, moving gradually towards independence. College offers students a great deal of freedom in various aspects of life. When it comes to our education, we may want to defer to people with more experience. How can we be expected to know what’s best for our education in fields we are only just starting to explore? Nobody questions rigorous core requirements in STEM fields. I firmly believe the humanities and social sciences should be no different. Laying a strong foundation is crucial for continued intellectual growth. An expansion of interdisciplinary studies majors and implementation of rigorous core curricula across the social sciences and humanities are essential for improving the educational experiences of NU students. Addressing complex problems in the workplace, in academia and in the world at large requires an interdisciplinary approach built on a firm foundation of background and contextual knowledge. Alexi Stocker is a Weinberg senior. He can be contacted at alexistocker2016@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.
Lessons to be learned from Antonin Scalia’s legacy PIA BASU
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It will be impossible to fill the void left behind by former Supreme Court associate justice Antonin Scalia, who died last week at the age of 79. He was the most provocative member of the highest court in the land and famous for his animated language and firm commitment to original intent. Scalia was able to overlook political differences in his friendships and prioritized effective governance over anything to form a legacy everyone can learn from, whether it be lawmakers on Capitol Hill to students here at Northwestern. Within hours of the news of Scalia’s death, Senate Republicans led by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell immediately issued a statement that said the American people should have a say in who is chosen to fill Scalia’s empty seat, and the Senate would block
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any replacement until the new president could make an appointment. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid responded in strong opposition since that would leave the seat vacant until at least January 2017, and President Barack Obama said he fully intends to appoint someone, as it is his constitutional duty. Those conservatives who wish to honor Scalia’s legacy would do well to recall his beliefs of original intent and deep respect for the law. Currently, these small-minded obstructionists are not only thorns in President Obama’s side, but they are also acting in a way Scalia himself would disapprove of. Republicans are concerned because they have lost the person who represented their conservative views on the court for decades. But they also lost someone who interpreted the Constitution as it was written. President Obama is legally obligated to nominate someone to be approved by the Senate. There are extremely important cases affecting countless Americans that have yet to be heard and deserve a proper Supreme Court. The notion that the American people
should have a say in the nominee is redundant because the American people chose Barack Obama to be president, not once, but twice, to carry out all the responsibilities of the office, including appointing Supreme Court justices. All of us who live in today’s deeply polarized political climate can learn from Scalia’s interactions with those he disagreed. It should be possible to be pleasant or even maintain a friendship with someone with wildly different political views. The key is to not let differences of opinion come in the way of other aspects of life, as Scalia’s life shows. He went skeet shooting with Justice Elena Kagan and shared a meaningful friendship with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, two consistently liberal voices. Scalia and Ginsburg shared elephant rides, a love of opera and cordial friendship for many years. Scalia himself said, “If you can’t disagree ardently with your colleagues about some issues of law and yet personally still be friends, get another job, for Pete’s sake.” Extension of this type of common courtesy between liberals and conservatives is a
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genuinely alien concept these days, especially in Washington. But, genuine tolerance for political views other than one’s own is rare even at Northwestern. Scalia was someone who knew his position of substantial power within the American political system meant he had a responsibility to the American people as well, a responsibility to be eloquent, to be courteous to those he disagreed with and to be careful. Conservatives in the GOP should act and speak with this same care and realize that perhaps their demands are less important than working toward the functional democracy the American people deserve. But even NU students can learn from the way Scalia behaved. Just because you hold certain beliefs does not mean you have to disassociate from someone who disagrees. Pia Basu is a Medill sophomore. She can be contacted at piabasu2018@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.
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TOWN HALL Katie Pavlich, a Fox News contributor and editor of Townhall.com, addresses more than 40 people Monday night as Northwestern University College Republicans’ annual winter speaker. Pavlich said microaggressions and trigger warnings are hindering free speech.
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Economic policies under the Obama administration have “destroyed my generation and its future,” said conservative Townhall.com editor
Katie Pavlich at a Monday event hosted by Northwestern University College Republicans. The 27-year-old political commentator and journalist spoke to more than 40 people as the group’s annual winter speaker, a series which last year hosted former terrorism analyst Jonathan Schanzer. Pavlich’s address was followed by a Q&A and
touched on a variety of topics including the upcoming presidential election and microaggressions on college campuses. “Being on a college campus I’m sure you’ve all heard of, or live in a world full of microaggressions and trigger warnings — as if they’re real things that matter in life,” she said. “There are no trigger warnings in the real world, and so called microaggressions make young people look like entitled minors not worthy of employment or any kind of serious, adult respect.” Pavlich graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in broadcast journalism from the University of Arizona, where she was a “rowdy activist,” she told The Daily. In 2013, the Conservative Political Action Conference named her Blogger of the Year for her work at Townhall.com. Microaggressions and trigger warnings were part of Pavlich’s larger theme: the “battle of socialism versus capitalism” and future of the millennial generation. She said a lack of understanding and “liberal indoctrination” had set her generation on a path toward high unemployment and misinformed beliefs. College Republicans president Harrison Flagler said the group brought Pavlich for her strong belief in capitalism and unique perspective as a member of the millennial generation. He said the event, held in Swift Hall and open to the public, had the highest attendance of any winter speech during his time in the group. “Every winter, the speaker that we bring in
is usually somebody who is an up-and-coming conservative activist,” the Weinberg senior said. “It’s great to have somebody who is a millennial to come in and talk about why capitalism is better than socialism.” Axel Boada, a registered Democrat who attended the event, said he disagreed that Obama had negatively impacted his generation’s future, and that the exclusion of race from Pavlich’s speech undermined some of her key arguments. “To make such a blanket statement that life today is good, and that kids are imagining problems that aren’t here is a bit harsh, because life is really good for a very select few of us here in America,” the Medill junior said. “To not talk about the ways that Republican ideologies have disenfranchised people of color shows that, in general, the Republican party in its current state is very self serving.” Pavlich concluded by reiterating students should engage in debate rather than shutting people out. “You don’t have to agree with what someone says, but you should be open to learning and thinking about why you disagree with someone,” she told The Daily. “It’s to your benefit to know more, not less and shouting people out of a conversation is certainly not the way to enlightenment.” davidpkfishman@u.northwestern.edu
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No evidence of hazing in SUNY Buffalo State student’s death, police sources say
BUFFALO, NY — The death of a SUNY Buffalo State student does not appear to have been caused by hazing, despite earlier reports that he had been given a polluted mixture to drink, police sources told The Buffalo News on Monday. An autopsy by the Erie County Medical Examiner’s Office determined that there were no signs of foul play. The exact cause of death for Brooklyn native Bradley D’Oyley is not expected to be known until toxicology tests are completed, and that could take upward of four months. But attorney John V. Elmore, who has been hired by D’Oyley’s family, says that ruling out hazing at this point may represent a hasty decision. “If that is the conclusion of police, they have come up with it much too early. I’ve only been involved in this case since Saturday, and from what students have said, I felt it was necessary to hire a retired FBI agent to investigate and follow up on the death,” Elmore said. The local chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha, which D’Oyley, 21, had pledged for, was suspended by Buffalo State officials and the national headquarters of the fraternity Friday, following the college senior’s death Thursday. Police spokesman Michael J. DeGeorge said D’Oyley’s death has, for now, been classified as “investigation pending.” But police sources stressed that D’Oyley’s death does not appear to have anything to do with allegation of hazing, based on the preliminary findings of the autopsy. There were reports that the young man might have been given sewer water to drink and moldy food to eat while pledging. Elmore said, “Whatever we find out, we will certainly turn over to police.” Stephen Boyd, Elmore’s law partner, said they are preparing to file a civil lawsuit, once the criminal investigation is completed. An acquaintance of D’Oyley told The News the young man had health issues, but declined to go into detail. The individual, however, added that toxicology results will provide an answer on whether D’Oyley, who had played on the college basketball team, was the victim of hazing that resulted in his death. Homicide detectives are continuing their investigation. After D’Oyley died at Buffalo General Medical Center, college officials issued a statement in support of the police investigation and cited the allegation of hazing. D’Oyley had gone to Buffalo General in late January complaining that he did not feel well and speculating that he might have eaten something bad. He was released but was readmitted to the hospital in early February. Throughout this month, more than 20 members of his immediate and extended family traveled to Buffalo to be by his side. A business major who was scheduled to graduate in May, D’Oyley had resigned from the college basketball team in the middle of his junior year for personal reasons but remained in good standing with the team. — Lou Michel (The Buffalo News/TNS)
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Eleanor Revelle sworn in as 7th Ward alderman at City Council on Monday
Eleanor Revelle was sworn in as the new alderman for the 7th Ward at Monday’s City Council meeting, where she said her focus will be on sustainability efforts. Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl chose Revelle in
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From page 1 The organizers of the DePaul event had also taken precautions following the University of Chicago event, said Ben Cohen, co-president of Students Supporting Israel, a group at DePaul that helped organize Eid’s appearance. They checked student IDs at the door and switched their Q&A portion to questions audience members wrote on notecards rather than spoken questions because the University of Chicago disruption had occurred during the Q&A portion, Cohen said. However, several students became vocal during the DePaul event, he said. One student, in response
National News Apple-FBI fight intensifies over San Bernardino gunman’s iPhone
WASHINGTON — The court dispute between Apple and the Justice Department over unlocking the San Bernardino, Calif., gunman’ iPhone became a public relations war Monday, with the FBI and Apple exchanging words on the Internet and Congress preparing to intervene. For now, the FBI appears to be winning the battle, at least according to new polling from the Pew Research Center. But privacy advocates who support Apple plan rallies across the nation Tuesday, including one in front of the FBI’s headquarters in Washington. Pew’s poll of more than 1,000 Americans found that just 38 percent support Apple’s refusal to help the FBI unlock the iPhone of Syed Farook, who with his wife killed 14 people
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2016 January from a pool of 10 others who expressed interest in the position. She replaces former alderman Jane Grover, who resigned in December to start a job as the outreach principal for the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning. Revelle is the current president of Citizens’ Greener Evanston and previously held positions as president of the League of Women Voters of Evanston and board chair of the Evanston Community Foundation. “Sustainability is my top priority,” Revelle
told The Daily at Monday’s meeting. “I’m very interested in working with sustainability in all its aspects. not just concerning the environment but a sustainable economy for example, with job stability, healthy residents and social justice. Affordable housing goes into that too.” Revelle will hold the seat until next year, when the next round of aldermanic elections are set to occur.
Bustos said the experience she gained in her journalism career — which began in 1985 in Springfield, Illinois, where she covered the state legislature before moving to the Quad City Times in Moline, Illinois — has served her well in her political career. She cited her effort to improve wait times at a Veterans Affairs clinic, one of seven in her district, as rooted in her investigative background. “I have never in my life had a greater appreciation for what veterans do because I see this up close and I see things that happen that shouldn’t be happening,” Bustos said. “So when there’s a VA clinic that should be caring for veterans that
need care, and I see wait times that are terrible, my former investigative journalism background means I’m going to find out why.” Her account of this effort particularly struck Mike Bacas, a Medill graduate student who served in the U.S. Navy from 2003 to 2008. “It’s very motivating as a vet that she’s willing to help cut down the wait times because that’s a big problem for us in the veteran community,” he said. “It’s awesome to hear that she’s going out of her way to make sure veterans’ issues are resolved.”
to a question asking how to combat the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement on DePaul’s campus, shouted “F—ing join SJP (Students for Justice in Palestine)” before swearing in Arabic, Cohen said. Another student accused Eid of not being a “real Palestinian” because of his opinions, while a third stood up periodically to shout things like “This is only one person’s opinion,” Cohen said. Although the NU Hillel organizers had not spoken to groups at the other two universities about the event, Nathan Bennett, the Israel Education Center intern at NU Hillel who helped coordinate Eid’s visit, said he did talk to members of the Chicago-area Israel Education Center who had also organized Eid’s visits to the
other two campuses. Those events, along with Eid’s own concerns, informed the NU Hillel organizers’ decision to move the event and make it exclusive to the NU community, he said. Bennett said although he was disappointed that Eid felt he could not speak at NU, he does not think it will affect how Hillel will organize events in the future. “We want to continue to bring speakers who will encourage lively dialogue and engagement with Israelrelated issues, and I don’t think that one event disrupted by people not from NU is going to change our interest in doing so,” the Weinberg senior said.
labeled as a protected class. Additionally, communities that have expressed disagreement with the proposed project, such as Sherman Gardens, a nearby subdivision of apartments, would realistically not have to deal with nuisance concerns residents brought up as issues with the property, she said. “I think this is the perfect use of the space with great need and a good location,” Rainey said. “Sherman Gardens is a very densely populated compound … they are pretty protected. It’s an enclave more or less.” However, most aldermen said the widespread pushback against the ordinance combined with what they said was little need for the property in the area led them to vote against the ordinance’s introduction. “This is not a building that is covered under zoning, it is not a building that is desired, it is not a building that the city has either asked for or needs,” Ald. Judy Fiske (1st) said. “We are trying to shoehorn this building into our zoning ordinances and it really does not fit.”
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in the San Bernardino attack in December. Fifty-one percent of those surveyed between Feb. 18 and Feb. 21 said Apple should unlock the phone. The other 11 percent were unsure. Apple posted a statement to its customers on its website Monday, offering the company’s justification for challenging a court order demanding that Apple create a software to open the phone. Apple said it would set a dangerous legal precedent and expand government surveillance powers. “Law enforcement agents around the country have already said they have hundreds of iPhones they want Apple to unlock if the FBI wins this case,” the statement said. “In the physical world, it would be the equivalent of a master key, capable of opening hundreds of millions of locks.” That statement came after FBI Director James Comey, in an unusual online commentary posted just before midnight Sunday, said,
“I hope folks will take a deep breath and stop saying the world is ending.” “We simply want the chance, with a search warrant, to try to guess the terrorist’s passcode without the phone essentially self-destructing and without it taking a decade to guess correctly,” Comey wrote. “That’s it. We don’t want to break anyone’s encryption or set a master key loose on the land.” That assertion seemed open to question. Last week, New York District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. said his office has 175 iPhones it wants Apple to unlock in criminal cases. Others in law enforcement around the country have also spoken of pursuing decryption of phones in criminal cases, signaling that Apple’s defeat in the case would spark a broader effort to get the company to open more phones. Apple called on the government Monday to drop the court case in favor of a congressional
“commission or other panel of experts on intelligence, technology, and civil liberties to discuss the implications for law enforcement, national security, privacy, and personal freedoms.” “Apple would gladly participate in such an effort,” the company said. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., and Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, are expected to introduce a bill this week to create a commission. Other lawmakers want to go further, though, with Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., , and Richard Burr, R-N.C., working on a bill to force tech companies to assist law enforcement with decryption when there is a court order. The House Energy and Commerce Committee has invited Apple and the FBI to testify and “share their side of the story with the American people.”
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The rematch against Alabama did not go as Northwestern had hoped. Unfortunately for the Wildcats (1-5), three singles matches went to a deciding third set, and all three three-set matches were lost. Senior Alicia Barnett, freshman Lee Or and junior Jillian Rooney each went the distance in the team’s 5-2 loss to the Crimson Tide on Sunday. For NU, this has been the story of the season so far. The Cats have come close to winning most of their contests, but sometimes just cannot put their opponents away. In the past, coach Claire Pollard has said NU has to fight the psychological barrier of losing the doubles point. Against the No. 17 Crimson Tide, though, the Cats lost the doubles point but still had a chance at victory in singles play. “The doubles point was win-able,” Pollard said. “We didn’t execute when it really mattered. Unfortunately, we can’t get a break, and we’re sort of beating ourselves up a bit. We’ve lost a little more than we’re used to losing. It’s hurting us a little bit in terms of a little bit of confidence.” This was NU’s second match of the season against Alabama. Last time out, the Cats wiped the floor with the Crimson Tide, but neither team had much practice before that match. Five weeks later, Alabama showed the improvements it made on the court. NU will have to get back on track quickly though as Big Ten play starts Friday against conference rival Illinois. Traditionally, at this
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minutes of each other as a freshman, and to really take advantage of the moment, that was a great moment.” NU’s swimmers will now prepare for the U.S. Olympic Trials, to be held in Omaha, Nebraska the last week of June. Senior Julianne Kurke and sophomore Mary Warren both achieved Trials cut
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point in the season, the Cats have racked up a few wins and have been ranked well within the top-25. However, this season has proven especially tough for NU. “It’s pretty disappointing, every single loss,” sophomore Alex Chatt said. “We’re upset after every loss. We can’t let that affect us. We have Illinois next weekend.” This season has been tough on Barnett, the lone senior, as she has seen so many good seasons in her three previous years, she said. “Right now, we’re a bit shaken up,” Barnett said. “Every single one of these matches we could have won just as easily as we lost. (The wins) are going to come.” From this point forward, the Cats can only build from these. Most of the losses have not been blowouts, but close matches. NU has played some highly ranked teams and has come close to winning, but at the end of the day, it’s the win-loss record that people will see. “We’re so close, and yet so far away, depending on which way you look at it,” Pollard said. “My biggest thing right now is ‘no one can jump ship.’ We’ve got to ride the storm; the storm is going to pass. I really think we’re a great team; we just have to continue to work. We’re going to get the results we deserve.” michaelmarut@u.northwestern.edu times at Big Tens, joining six teammates who had already qualified. Rosendahl has also qualified for the Olympic Diving Trials. “As a coach I really believe that if women come in day after day and work really, really hard and they work with each other and trust each other, in the critical moments they can go a lot faster than they’ve gone before,” Steketee said. samueljohnson2019@u.northwestern.edu
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SEEING CRIMSON Alex Chatt lunges for the ball. The sophomore fell in her doubles match against Alabama, but won in singles.
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will be emotional. Both added that they are more focused on playing well. “It’s kind of crazy to think about, if you really think about the last game and everything and what’s gone on before,” Lyon said. “I’m just going to try to focus on the game at hand. It’ll be emotional but I’ll
try to keep emotions for after the game.” Tuesday’s game is NU’s third in seven days. McKeown, however, brushed that aside and said he is more focused on his team’s play. “By this point you’re just playing,” McKeown said. “We have goals coming down the stretch. Last couple years, we’ve played really well late in the season. That’s our goal.” colepaxton2019@u.northwestern.edu
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Joe McKeown has often said improving is his primary concern. As a result, the coach is staying upbeat as Northwestern (15-13, 4-12 Big Ten) heads into its home finale Tuesday against Michigan (16-11, 8-8). The Wildcats, coming off a 71-53 win Saturday at Wisconsin, are continuing to improve, McKeown said. “We’ve had some scoring droughts; we’ve had some defensive breakdowns, that’s why we’re 15-13,” he said. “We’re just not as consistent as we would like to be, but we’re getting better.” NU’s inconsistency showed last week. A Penn State team mired near the bottom of the Big Ten rolled through the Cats on their home floor Wednesday, shooting nearly 54 percent en route to a 73-54 win. Saturday, however, NU took down the Badgers on the road, thanks in part to 12
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fastbreak points. The transition scoring came in stark contrast to recent losses against Iowa and Rutgers, in which the Cats scored just 6 combined points on the break. “That’s been our focus from the beginning of the season; we wanted to be a running team,” said junior forward Nia Coffey, who scored 15 points and added 11 rebounds Saturday. “We were just really happy with the way we were running and performing in transition, and we want to make sure we can keep up that tempo.” Saturday’s win snapped a 4-game losing streak for NU, which has yet to win consecutive conference games all season. Following a win over Illinois nearly three weeks ago, the Cats allowed 112 points to Minnesota in a double overtime loss and scored just 59 points in the loss to Rutgers. In some ways, the Cats are trying to
salvage their season. NU started 10-0 and reached as high as No. 12 in the AP poll, but has won just twice in its past 11 games, all but extinguishing hopes of returning to the NCAA Tournament. The Cats will most likely finish 11th or lower in the 14-team Big Ten and play on the first day of the Big Ten Tournament. Nonetheless, senior guard Maggie Lyon said it is still important for NU to build off Saturday’s win. “It’s huge. Anytime late in the season you want to be playing your best,” Lyon said. “Hopefully we can gain some momentum right now.” The Cats could play at home in a second-tier postseason tournament, but Tuesday’s game may be the last at Welsh-Ryan Arena for Lyon and NU’s other three seniors. Although the team held Senior Day ceremonies a couple of weeks ago, Coffey and Lyon both said Tuesday » See HOME FINALE, page 7 Daily file photo by Zack Laurence
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After a perfect weekend, Northwestern’s eight-game winning streak has the team rewriting school record books. The Wildcats (11-1) are off to the program’s best start since the 1988-89 season thanks to knocking off No. 30 North Carolina State, 6-1, on Friday and then beating No. 32 Vanderbilt, 4-3, and UIC, 4-0, on Sunday. The NC State and UIC matches were comfortable victories, but there was nothing easy about the Vanderbilt match, which came down to a final set at No. 3 singles between NU junior Strong Kirchheimer and Vanderbilt’s Baker Newman. With the teams tied at 3 points apiece, Kirchheimer and Newman dueled for the final point. Despite Newman breaking Kirchheimer’s serve and winning the second set, Kirchheimer secured a victory for the Cats by winning the third and taking the match, 6-2, 5-7, 6-3. “I was pretty irritated that I let it get out of hand and go to a third; that really shouldn’t have happened,” Kirchheimer said. “I didn’t do my best job. I got down 2-0 in the third, and then I got myself refocused and was a little bit better focused on finding the ball and just playing clean tennis.”
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That clean tennis clinched NU’s seventh consecutive victory against top-60 competition, but it was the first time in that stretch the Cats needed to come back after dropping the doubles point. Vanderbilt won two out of three doubles matches, but NU responded with the first three wins in singles play, as senior Fedor Baev joined juniors Konrad Zieba and Sam Shropshire in cruising to two-set victories. “It was good to see guys competing after losing a doubles point,” coach Arvid Swan said. “It was a good team effort, and just coming back after losing the doubles point against a such
a good, quality team shows a lot of heart.” After Baev, Zieba and Shropshire won their matches, Vanderbilt picked up two more points at No. 5 and No. 6 singles, as Alex Ross defeated Cats freshman Ben Vandixhorn 6-4, 6-4, while Kris Yee defeated NU junior Alp Horoz 6-2, 6-4. Even with the score tied 3-3 and the possibility the Cats would pick up their second loss of the year, Swan said he was never worried Kirchheimer might lose. “He’s a kid that puts in so much hard work, so we certainly are happy to have him to win or lose a match,” Swan said. “He’s had a great record throughout his career and obviously started off really strong. We feel good having Strong as the last man on the court.” NU’s other victories over the weekend were considerably less intense. Against the Wolfpack on Friday, the Cats secured victory early by jumping ahead 4-0 when Vandixhorn won a second set tiebreak as the finishing touch on a 6-4, 7-6 (9-7) victory, following up identical 6-2, 6-3 victories by Baev and Kirchheimer. Zieba and Horoz added two more points, while Shropshire lost at No. 2 singles for NC State’s sole point in the 6-1 blowout. Against UIC, Zieba, Baev and senior Mihir Kumar picked up victories in singles after NU secured the doubles point, pushing the Cats to
Men’s Tennis
Daily file photo by Leeks Lim
SLIDING TO SUCCESS Sam Shropshire takes a forehand. The junior has helped Northwestern get off to its best start since the 1988-89 season.
their best start to a season in 27 years. “The team’s been playing really well, so you get confidence from that,” Kumar said. “We supported
each other really well, and that’s kind of what you want in college tennis.” josephwilkinson2019@u.northwestern.edu
Women’s Swimming
Wildcats show marked improvement at Big Tens By TUCKER JOHNSON
the daily northwestern @kentuckyjohnson
After a disappointing meet last season, Northwestern saw strong improvements across the board at this year’s Big Ten championships. The Wildcats scored 467 points over the four day meet, more than three times as many points as they scored last year, and finished eighth overall. “I was really proud of how the women fought from session to session,” coach Abby Steketee said. “It was a step forward for the program.”
Freshman diver Olivia Rosendahl led the way for NU with a second place finish in the platform diving championship. Rosendahl scored a career-high 329.95 points in the platform competition and took second to Minnesota’s Yu Zhou. Zhou placed fifth in the platform competition at last year’s NCAA championships and swept the diving competition at Big Tens. Rosendahl also placed fourth in the championship final of the 3-meter springboard and eighth from the 1-meter board. In the swimming events, junior Melissa Postoll had a once in a lifetime meet, breaking NU school records in
both the 200 yard backstroke and the 200 yard Individual Medley. In the backstroke, Postoll’s time of 1:55.99 was good enough for seventh place overall. In the 200 IM, Postoll finished eleventh and broke a school record Amy Balcerzak had held since 2000. Postoll entered the meet with a career-best time of 2:02.37 in the 200 IM, but was seeded 45th in the Championships after her preliminary round. Postoll smashed her previous personal best time in preliminaries to finish in 2:00.12 and qualify for the consolation final. But Postoll wasn’t satisfied and during the evening finals session just a few hours later, she finished half a
second faster to take the school record. Going into the meet, Postoll wasn’t even the Cats’ fastest swimmer in the event this season. “Your swims in a championship meet reflect what you’ve done for a long period of time,” Steketee said. “(Postoll) has worked exceedingly hard, and when we were tapering she was one of the people who felt the worst, and sometimes that’s a really good sign.” Junior Annika Winsnes was the only other NU swimmer to compete in a championship final at the meet. After swimming a season best time of 49.41 seconds in the preliminaries for the 100 yard freestyle, Winsnes placed seventh
overall in the final. In addition to Postoll’s incredible performances, the Cats saw multiple other swimmers climb to new and prominent positions in the record books. Notably, freshman Peyton Greenberg became the third fastest 200 yard breaststroker in school history. After tying for 24th and the last spot in the bonus final, Greenberg won a swim-off with Purdue’s Cady Farlow in 2:13.34 to qualify for the final and earn a spot in the record books. “That was unbelievable,” Steketee said. “To have two races within 45 » See SWIMMING, page 7