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Bike lanes back on council’s radar Alderman urges students to join Monday’s discussion
By NORA SHELLY
daily senior staffer @noracshelly
Although city manager Wally Bobkiewicz said plans for bike lanes on Sheridan Road are “largely set in stone,” conversation among students, residents and city officials will likely be rekindled at a council meeting tomorrow. Ald. Judy Fiske (1st) is encouraging students to attend Monday’s City Council meeting, at which plans for the lane construction will be presented. The push for bike lanes, which are set to be constructed next summer, was renewed after the death of freshman Chuyuan “Chu” Qiu, who was killed in September while turning onto Sheridan Road on her bike. The plans for the bike lanes were finalized by a council vote in 2014, Bobkiewicz said. However, small tweaks could be made to the plans before construction, he said. In an interview with The Daily last week, University President Morton Schapiro urged close consideration of bike lanes construction. “The idea that all bike lanes somehow make everything safe is just not right … It depends on where you put the bike lanes,” he
said. “We want to make sure that they get it right.” Schapiro said Qiu’s death was an “unthinkable tragedy” and that he keeps a photo of the first-year student on his desk. “If we don’t have the right kind of bike lanes, it’s not going to address anything — in fact, it can exacerbate things,” he said. “So if we’re going to do this, we’d better know what we’re doing.” Under the current design, the bike lanes will extend from the intersection of Sheridan Road and Chicago Avenue and extend north to Lincoln Street on the east side of the road. There will be two lanes of traffic going either direction from Chicago Avenue to Northwestern Place, and one lane north of there to Central Street. Fiske and Ald. Eleanor Revelle (7th) — whose wards both include parts of Sheridan Road — have asked the council to consider lowering the speed limit to 25 mph. The current limit is 30 mph. Both Schapiro and Fiske support lowering the speed limit. Aldermen would have to pass an ordinance to lower the limit. Communication senior Emily Blim, who started a petition following Qiu’s death urging aldermen to lower the speed limit on Sheridan Road, said she currently avoids biking on the road. Blim, who has been an avid cyclist since her first year of college, said although bike lanes can » See BIKE LANES, page 3
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Author and Holocaust survivor Ava Kadishson Schieber speaks at Fiedler Hillel about her new book, “Present Past.” Schieber launched the collection of stories, artwork and poetry that describe her life after the Holocaust at an event Sunday.
Holocaust survivor speaks at NU Author launches new book at Fiedler Hillel about life after war By KRISTINE LIAO
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Author and artist Ava Kadishson Schieber’s first painting after surviving the Holocaust was of a whirlpool. “If I could paint it out, I could face it,” Schieber told The Daily. “That was how I felt, diving into a whirlpool.” Schieber launched her
book, “Present Past ” — a collection of stories, artwork and poetry that describe her life after the Holocaust — on Sunday at Fiedler Hillel. The event was attended by roughly 40 people, who received signed copies of Schieber’s book. Published by Northwestern University Press, “Present Past” follows Schieber’s first book “Soundless Roar,” which was published in 2002 and is
written in a similar format. “Soundless Roar” focused on her experience during the Holocaust, when she was forced into hiding on isolated farmland for four years. “It took some time after the war to learn how to communicate again,” Schieber said. “I went four years in complete silence and hiding. I had learned how to listen and not to speak.” Painting was Schieber’s
first step in opening up about her experience during and after the war. “Abstracting (through art) was kind of a shelter,” Schieber said. “Words are really explicit. Maybe I’m still in a place here and there in hiding. Being open takes a lot of decision.” Schieber started writing about her Holocaust » See BOOK, page 3
Gaspard enters mayoral campaign By ERICA SNOW
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The current speed limit on Sheridan Road through campus is 30 miles per hour. Discussion about plans for bike lanes on the road is set to continue at tomorrow’s council meeting.
Former Evanston Township supervisor Gary Gaspard will run for mayor, he announced in an email Friday. Gaspard said several concerned citizens encouraged him
to run for mayor after meeting with several community leaders. He said he will make a committee to understand citizens’ concerns and ideas to improve Evanston. Gaspard served as Evanston Township supervisor in 2013 but resigned in October 2013 after less than five months on the job, citing an unanticipated
time commitment. Gaspard said he values transparency and loyalty to his voters, and although he faced challenges as supervisor, he wants to work with his constituents to emphasize safety, education and economic development. “In my little short time, I have met every promise I have made to my voters,” Gaspard
said. Evanston residents voted to dissolve the township in March 2014. Before then, the township was a separate entity that had the same borders of the city and provided tax advice and assistance to those in need. City manager Wally Bobkiewicz » See GASPARD, page 3
Former Obama social media aide speaks at Medill event Caleb Gardner asks students to seek out opposing views
By MARY DOLGOFF
the daily northwestern
President Barack Obama’s former digital director Caleb Gardner spoke to more than 30 people Friday about the importance of exploring opposing viewpoints on social media. Gardner, who is now a digital
marketer at global management consulting firm Bain & Company, said students should read news sources that may clash with their own views, mentioning Facebook and its newsfeed algorithm, which sorts through content and ranks stories in order of importance to best engage users. “Facebook is the number one news source in America,” he said. “If that doesn’t frighten you, you don’t know about Facebook’s news feed algorithm, because it’s catered to what you believe and engage with.”
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Because of this, students’ political opinions are reinforced because they are only exposed to similar content, he said. Gardner was the keynote speaker for last week’s Medill Fridays, a weekly event hosted by Medill to discuss topics relevant to journalism. Medill Prof. Candy Lee, who helped organize the event, introduced Gardner and told the crowd that the president himself told Gardner that, in terms of social media presence, Gardner is “a better President Barack
Obama than President Barack Obama.” Gardner told The Daily he hopes students took away the importance of civility in politics and on social media. He said civility can’t happen on its own, and it is up to users to improve the state of social media. Lee said the event’s organizers wanted to invite a speaker who would engage students about current issues and encourage them to think in different ways. “Most people would know about the political process on
Twitter, but they might not be thinking about how civility might be impacted in the future by what’s happening in the current campaign,” Lee told The Daily. Medill junior Joshua Burton disagreed with Gardner’s argument on civility, saying there is a difference between being civil and respectful. “Social media is a way for people to argue for different perspectives,” Burton said. “You don’t have to be civil per se, but I think you do have to respect
other people’s opinions.” Although Burton said he appreciated Gardner’s insight about the upcoming election, he does not think it will change his own use of social media, but rather, how he perceives other users. “His point about using social media as a source of good in a complex political climate is interesting,” Burton said. “It’s going to change how I feel (about) social media for my own good.” marydolgoff2020@u.northwestern.edu
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