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NU suspends study abroad in Egypt By ally mutnick
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GOODBYE, GREAT ROOM Due to construction, the Great Room will be closed as a dining option and reopened as a catering location. Other nuCuisine changes include adjusted hours at Allison and 1835 Hinman.
New hours for nuCuisine Hinman closes Friday, Allison open all week By amy whyte
daily senior staffer @amykwhyte
As of this academic year, students will no longer be able to indulge in Sunday night hot cookie bar at 1835 Hinman. The dining hall, which in previous years has stayed open on weekends, will now close after dinner Friday to reopen on Monday, nuCuisine marketing manager Jason Sophian announced last week. Instead, Allison Hall’s dining area, formerly open only on weekdays, will now be an option seven days a week. In addition, the Great Room will no longer be a dining option due to construction at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary. The space
formerly occupied by the dining hall will now be used as a catering location, Sophian said. “I’m really upset. I really liked the Great Room,” Weinberg sophomore Helen Foster said. “They had really good food, and it was cheap, and it was a good place to study. There’s no other place like it on North Campus.” Whether or not the Great Room will be restored as a dining option after construction is completed remains to be decided, Sophian said. “We’re not completely against bringing it back,” Sophian said. “At the same time, we’re really excited to have it as a catering space. If you’ve seen the Great Room, you know what a great space it is.” Although the Great Room closing was prompted by construction,
Sophian said the decision to switch weekend dining on South Campus from Hinman to Allison was based primarily on student feedback. “That was something we really heard a lot from students last year,” Sophian said. “They really wanted Allison open seven days a week.” Medill sophomore Ben Sanders, who is living in Allison for a second year, said the weekend hours are a big improvement. “Now I can stay in my pajamas and walk downstairs to breakfast instead of going all the way to Hinman,” Sanders said. In addition to the changed hours, Sophian said the food selection at every dining hall will be different from previous years, with more » See nucuisine, page 14
Man convicted in 2011 attack By PATRICK SVITEK
daily senior staffer @PatrickSvitek
A Hazel Crest, Ill., man was convicted Thursday of killing an Evanston man two years ago near the Chicago border. A Cook County jury found Brandon Hinton, 28, guilty of first-degree murder for attacking and robbing John Costulas, 61, as he walked to work in the early morning hours of Sept. 2, 2011, in the 500 block of Howard Street. Hinton struck Costulas in the head before taking $10 from the hearing-impaired man and leaving him bleeding and unconscious, according to police. The incident left Costulas in a coma, and he died eight days later, police said. An anonymous tip led detectives to Hinton on Sept. 12, 2011. The Cook County medical
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I hope this is the last case that neighbors need to watch, and the very last violent crime committed in Brummel Park and Southeast Evanston/ Northeast Rogers Park. Michele Hays, Brummel Park Neighbors chair
examiner’s office ruled Costulas’ death a homicide, saying he died due to “blunt head trauma” from the beating. The 8th Ward community rallied around the case, with Ald. Ann Rainey urging her constituents to attend Hinton’s trial over the past two years. On Thursday afternoon, Rainey called the verdict “closure for
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the family ... but justice for the community.” “Mothers and fathers, do not let your children grow up to commit senseless acts of violence,” Rainey wrote in a Facebook post. Michele Hays, chair of Brummel Park Neighbors, said the south Evanston neighborhood turned out for every court date in Costulas’ memory. “I hope this is the last case that neighbors need to watch, and the very last violent crime committed in Brummel Park and Southeast Evanston/Northeast Rogers Park,” she wrote in an email to The Daily on Thursday evening. Hinton faces 20 to 60 years in prison. His sentencing is scheduled for Oct. 22. Hinton’s attorney could not be reached for comment Thursday afternoon. patricksvitek2014@u.northwestern.edu
Northwestern has suspended its Egypt study abroad programs in Cairo and Alexandria due to the increase in political unrest this summer. NU’s study abroad office made the call in mid-July after the death of an American student in Alexandria and violence surrounding the July 3 ousting of President Mohamed Morsi, said Julie Friend, NU associate director for international safety and security. The decision affects two NU students who had plans to study in Egypt during Fall Quarter. One would have attended The American University in Cairo, and the other was enrolled in a Middlebury College program at Alexandria University. Both students are now spending the quarter in Amman, Jordan. Friend said the office observed the situation in Egypt for 10 days before suspending the programs. In the past, disturbances in the country have been resolved quickly, Friend said, but the outbursts of random violence and breakdown of Egyptian civil society indicated this conflict would not end soon. “The idea of being in a study abroad program is being able to go out and interact with the community and engage with the society,” Friend said. “If the security circumstances don’t allow students to do that safely, then it doesn’t seem reasonable to keep them there.” The Middle East is not a popular location for NU students compared to programs in Europe, Friend said. Nine students are currently studying in the region — five in Jordan, three in Israel and one in Turkey, Friend said. The Study Abroad Office is not currently accepting applications for future
City teen charged in Preister slaying
An Evanston teen has been charged with killing 21-year-old Cardereon Preister, police said Thursday. Matthew Dubose, 18, is accused of fatally shooting Preister shortly after 11 p.m. Sept. 10 outside Preister’s home in the 1700 block of Leland Avenue. The incident happened about two blocks west of Evanston Township High School, 1600 Dodge Ave. The North Regional Major Crime Task Force responded. Police said Preister was shot once in the upper torso from behind. He was pronounced dead a half hour later, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. Dubose, of the 1800 block of Hovland Court, tried to trade drugs and money for Preister’s gun earlier this summer, police said. “The exchange went awry between the two, which in turn lead to the murder of Preister several weeks later,” Cmdr. Jay Parrott said in a news release. Preister was scheduled to be released from parole for burglary and drug charges in November. Preister, a one time ETHS student, was involved in the city’s Youth &
Egypt programs. The country will likely be suspended until the State Department Travel Warning has been lifted. The Study Abroad Office will then conduct its own review and make a recommendation to the provost. Friend said if the warning were to be lifted by next summer, the earliest the program could resume would be the following Winter Quarter, as it would be too late to submit applications for Fall Quarter 2014. “My prediction is that it’s going to be a long time,” Friend said. “Egypt is an important If the security place to be circumstances a student. I think that’s don’t allow t he hard thing.” students to Wein(study) safely, berg senior it doesn’t seem Keisha James was supposed reasonable to spend the to keep them fall in Cairo but is now there. studying in Julie Friend, Amman. associate director James for international chose Cairo safety and security because she liked Egypt’s dialect of Arabic and was interested in the faculty and gender studies classes at AUC. Though she likes studying in Amman, James said she has fewer course options in her program. “I just wanted to live in Cairo,” she said. “It’s such a unique city and such an interesting place.” NU also suspended the Egypt program in February 2011. One student
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» See egypt, page 14 Young Adult Division. He worked this summer at Bryn Mawr Country Club in Lincolnwood, Ill. “EverySource: Evanston Police one has Department their time Matthew Dubose to go but I never would have thought that yours would be so soon,” a note on a makeshift memorial outside Preister’s home reads. “Your wide smile will truly be missed. You may be gone but you will never be forgotten.” By the end of last week, dozens of Preister’s friends and family members had left personal messages on the memorial near his home, filling two and a half posters with “R.I.P. Cardereon” already written on them. Dubose has been charged with first-degree murder. He is scheduled to appear in court 9 a.m. Friday. A funeral service for Preister will be held 11 a.m. Friday at Christ Temple Missionary Baptist Church, 1711 Simpson St. — Patrick Svitek
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