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Jeremy Larkin retires from football following diagnosis
Northwestern running back to remain with team but forced from play due to spinal canal condition By COLE PAXTON
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Sophomore running back Jeremy Larkin, Northwestern’s leading rusher and a bright spot in this season’s sluggish start, was
forced to retire Friday after being diagnosed with cervical stenosis. The decision was announced Monday, roughly two weeks after Larkin first went to trainers to discuss occasional numbness. After being diagnosed with the neck condition, which affects the spinal canal, doctors “exhausted
all options,” coach Pat Fitzgerald said at a news conference, but ultimately determined that Larkin could not continue playing. “(It’s) a challenging day for Jeremy Larkin the football player, but a blessing for Jeremy Larkin the young man,” Fitzgerald added. “The most important
thing is that our medical team, along with Jeremy, worked handin-hand. (They) did a terrific job in identifying an issue that hopefully avoided anything for down the road that could’ve been, quite frankly, catastrophic from an injury standpoint.” Larkin first brought his
Honoring Mayor Morton
concerns to the medical staff prior to the Sept. 15 game against Akron, but doctors did not complete their investigation before that contest, a team official said. After reaching the cervical stenosis diagnosis, they consulted several outside specialists before concluding that “the risks clearly
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Former Evanston Mayor Lorraine Morton speaks at an event in February 2018.
By ALAN PEREZ
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In 1982, Evanston’s 5th Ward needed a new leader. The former independent alderman, Roosevelt Alexander, had resigned suddenly and went on to run as a Republican for circuit court judge. The mayor at the time, Jay Lytle, began receiving unsolicited applications to fill the vacancy. After determining that none of the applicants were fit, he went to the community for input. Again and again, residents repeated one name: Lorraine Morton, who was then a principal at Haven Middle School. Lytle, recalling the story at Saturday’s
‘We Will’ goal moved up to $5 billion
“We Will. The Campaign for Northwestern” has surpassed its original goal of $3.75 billion two years earlier than expected, after a donation from alumnus
funeral services, called Morton and set up a meeting, not mentioning specifics. Just days before, his daughter had been disciplined by Morton for starting a food fight. At the meeting, Morton immediately defended her decision to bar Lytle’s daughter from attending an upcoming field trip. “We all know you don’t stop Lorraine when she’s on a rant,” he said Saturday, speaking to attendees at Morton’s funeral. “You just don’t do it.” Lytle then told Morton that he wanted to appoint her as alderman. She was speechless. “I’m not a politician,” she finally said to Lytle after about a minute of silence. Lytle told her she simply needed to continue what she had been doing already, just in a different venue.
T. Bondurant French (Weinberg, ’75, Kellogg ’76) and his wife Holly French. “Their generosity has enabled us to reach our goals faster than we ever imagined — and raised our expectations for the future of the University,” said University President Morton Schapiro in a news release. Launched in March 2014,
It was then that Morton entered politics and begin a new part of her career. She would go on to become Evanston’s first African-American mayor. “Morton is, was, and always will be my Mayor,” former Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl said at Saturday’s celebration. But those close to her knew that her life of public service began long before she became mayor.
A life worthwhile
Constance Lorraine Hairston was born in December 1918 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She was the last of 10 children, but enjoyed “being the baby,” according to the family’s obituary. » See OBIT, page 10
the We Will campaign has raised $4.06 billion so far, two years ahead of schedule. Nearly 150,000 individual donors, including parents and alumni, have donated. According to the University, over 1,200 families — many of them members of the Board of Trustees — have made gifts of $100,000 or more to the campaign.
The campaign has been ahead of schedule for years: In February 2016, $2.77 billion had been raised, a number the University previously had projected to reach this summer. We Will has contributed funds for undergraduate research grant funding, new professorships and Northwestern’s elimination of loans in financial aid packages
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outweighed the benefits,” the official said. The condition, which can be hereditary and/or caused by repeated neck trauma, is uncommon and few football players are diagnosed with it, according to the
Top administrators welcomed new students to the Northwestern academic community Sunday at its annual president’s convocation, just one of a series of orientation events organized for Wildcat Welcome. President Morton Schapiro, speaking to roughly 2,000 first year and transfer students in the Ryan Fieldhouse, again went in defense of safe spaces. “You have a place to go where you know you can be comfortable and supported, and you don’t have to watch what you say or watch your back because you know people are going to love you,” he said. “That gives you the strength and that gives you the confidence to go out to the rest of the community and really stretch yourself outside the classroom.” The speech comes two years after Schapiro entered the center of the national debate about safe spaces and free speech on college campuses. During the 2016 convocation, he said people who do not believe in trigger warnings are “lunatics,” and those who deny the existence of microaggressions are “idiots.” He later walked back some of his comments, but stood behind his basic argument in various opeds and interviews with several in 2016. According to the release, this most recent gift from the French family will go towards Kellogg and University programs. Although the University is not disclosing the size of the Frenches’ donation, Bob Rowley, assistant vice president of media relations, confirmed the money will not be used to balance Northwestern’s operating
media outlets, including with The Daily Northwestern and the Wall Street Journal. Last year, Schapiro delivered another heated speech in which he blasted Fox News and conservative commentators for what he called a misunderstanding of younger generations. This year’s speech was notably quieter, but he did briefly mention the conservative-leaning news network. Schapiro also defended the University’s “AND is in our DNA” marketing campaign, which highlights students’ varied involvement but has come under criticism for what some say is an endorsement of overextension. “Some people don’t really understand it. They think that what we’re trying to tell you as educators is that you should double major or triple major, you should do every certificate in mind,” he said. “That’s not what I had in mind when I was in the room when we came up with that tagline four years ago. What I had in mind was, if you’re in McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, and you’re doing engineering, you have the flexibility to take some courses in art history.” Schapiro, a labor economist, said some of his favorite courses were ones outside his academic discipline, adding that a diverse coursework could make students » See CONVOCATION, page 10
budget. Provost Jonathan Holloway’s said in January a “large cash gift” could help fix the projected deficit. We Will has a new goal of raising $5 billion by the end of 2020. A version of this story was originally published online on Sept. 6. — Cameron Cook
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