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Off-campus partying disrupts residents By patrick svitek
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you’ve got mail This year, all students must pick up packages at a centralized campus mailroom in FosterWalker Complex. Residential Services said the new system will reduce confusion and lost packages.
Mailrooms move to Plex By jeanne kuang
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All students living in residence halls and residential colleges will have to pick up packages from Foster-Walker Complex this year, thanks to a Residential Services policy change. Residential Services has updated its package delivery system and replaced it with a centralized mailroom in FosterWalker. Packages addressed to students living on campus were previously directed to mailrooms in nearby dorms. The new system uses electronic tracking. “Packages were being left on the steps.
They weren’t being accounted for,” said Paul Riel, executive director for Residential Services, of the old mailrooms. “So we centralized the package system and put this new electronic system in place, and we think that we’ll be able to have a much more accurate delivery schedule.” Weinberg sophomore Arianna Farmer said the mailroom changes are inconvenient. Farmer lives in the Communications Residential College. Last year, she picked up her packages across the street at 1835 Hinman. “It was easier to go to Hinman,” she said. “If everyone has the same mailroom, things can still get lost.” Riel said he believes the system will become more efficient when students settle into their dorms. Residential Services also opened
“neighborhood desks” at Allison Hall, Foster-Walker and Kemper Hall to provide 24-hour services, including free printing and keys for lockouts. Instead of calling a community assistant, students who are locked out of their rooms must now walk to a 24-hour desk to borrow a key. Riel said the new lockout policy is more convenient than relying on CAs to “run back and forth and unlock these doors all the time.” The desks’ staff members are available to assist students and answer questions, Riel said. Each desk also includes a work station where students living on campus can print up to 100 pages every month. Riel said the free printing services are paid for with advertisements. » See HOUSING, page 7
Every year, Evanston aldermen face the all-too-familiar ritual of handling dozens of residents’ complaints about rambunctious Northwestern students swarming off-campus neighborhoods during Wildcat Welcome. Except this year, some aldermen say their constituents are more concerned than in the past about the size of the groups waking up their families as they look for the next party. “It’s really disappointing to still get complaints with all we have in place to prevent this,” said Ald. Jane Grover (7th), whose ward includes some neighborhoods northwest of the NU campus. Grover cited several examples of well-known efforts to make students “good neighbors,” including NU and city officials going door-to-door to remind them to behave themselves, as well as regular updates on the offcampus email list. Ald. Judy Fiske (1st), whose ward covers the first two blocks west of campus, agreed with Grover’s assessment, saying “there were definitely more” complaints this year than during past Wildcat Welcomes. One such complaint came from Jane Evans, who has lived in an off-campus neighborhood for 26 years. This year, she recalled watching through her window early one morning as three men peed on a tree near her house surrounded by eight to 10 other people. A
few minutes later, a man jumped on her family’s car, leaped down and knocked over a garbage can, she said. “When you have the five days that we had, you feel betrayed,” she said. It remains unclear how many neighbors shared Evans’ frustration. The aldermen and authorities were vague on details, citing residents’ concerns being submitted through different outlets and not always leading to an official record. Evanston and University police said they stepped up their presence in off-campus neighborhoods during Wildcat Welcome but stopped short of describing it as anything out of the ordinary. University Police Deputy Chief Dan McAleer said most complaints deal with new students “walking around and shouting, looking for parties.” “Overall, it’s an annoyance for some of the neighbors,” McAleer said. “Hopefully the students respect the neighbors.” Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said city cops were “enhancing attention to the area” and working with UP to address excessive noise, parties and underage drinking. He called the expanded patrol a “common adjustment” during Wildcat Welcome. Although both forces typically send more cops to off-campus neighborhoods during Wildcat Welcome, McAleer said the annual trend “doesn’t make it any less annoying” for yearround residents who are not used to raucous parties on Monday and Tuesday nights. » See OFF CAMPUS, page 7
From ‘Bad’ to ‘Veep,’ NU grads take home Emmys By joseph diebold
daily senior staffer @josephdiebold
Four Northwestern alumni or former students snagged prizes at television’s most prestigious awards ceremony Sunday night in Los Angeles, three top available trophies for actresses. Anna Gunn (Communication ‘90) took home the Emmy award for best supporting actress in a drama series for her work in AMC’s “Breaking Bad,” while Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Communication ‘83) was awarded best actress in a comedy series for her starring role as the title character in HBO’s “Veep.” Stephen Colbert (Communication ‘86) ended Jon Stewart’s 10-year reign as the winner in the best variety series category for his daily Comedy Central political satire, “The Colbert Report,” which also won best writing for a variety series. Laura Linney, who attended NU before transferring to Brown University, won lead actress in a miniseries or movie for her performance in Showtime’s “The Big C:
NU student robbed near civic center
A Northwestern student was robbed of her cell phone Sunday evening near the Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center, according to a University security
Hereafter.” Colbert, one of the School of Communication’s most visible alumni, last returned to campus in 2011 to give the annual commencement address. “Northwestern’s alumni list is truly impressive,” Colbert said in his address. “This university has graduated best-selling authors, Olympians, presidential candidates, Grammy winners, Peabody winners, Emmy winners, and that’s just me.” Louis-Dreyfus delivered a commencement address of her own in 2007 and also came back to NU last year to speak on a panel with her husband, Brad Hall (Communication ‘80). Gunn, whose run as the wife of a teacher-turned-drug-lord ends Sunday when the show’s finale airs, told The Daily in 2010 that she lived in Jones Residential College as a freshman and was first cast in Walton Jones’ musical “The 1940s Radio Hour.” This year’s Emmys are Colbert’s sixth and seventh. Louis-Dreyfus has now won four, and Gunn’s trophy was her first. josephadiebold@gmail.com alert. At about 7 p.m., two or three men approached the student while she was walking in an alley behind her apartment building in the 2100 block of Ridge Avenue, Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said. One of the men grabbed the student’s neck from behind
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alumNI awards Northwestern alumni Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Communication ‘83), Anna Gunn (Communication ‘90) and Stephen Colbert (Communication ‘86) took home Emmy awards Sunday night.
and told her not to yell, then demanded her iPhone, which she handed over. The student was not hurt, according to the security alert. The men never showed a weapon. The security alert said someone jogging on Ridge Avenue heard the student scream, spotted the men and
alerted authorities. The men were last seen running through yards in the 1200 block of Leon Place, Parrott said. Evanston and University police searched for the men but could not find them. Parrott said the man who took the student’s iPhone was described as
a black man who is 20 to 29 years old and about 5 foot 10 or 5 foot 11 with a heavy build. The incident happened about a half mile from NU’s campus. The civic center is at 2100 Ridge Ave. — Patrick Svitek
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