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A&O celebrates 50th anniversary Students, alumni host reunion during Homecoming By ALEX SCHWARTZ
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Hot coffee, hot water, six styrofoam cups, six tea bags, one pint of milk, one pint of cream, four fresh lemons, six spoons…and two pints of Kentucky bourbon: So read the list of green room items Bob Dylan required in his contract rider when A&O Productions brought him to Northwestern in 1991. This and other documents, laid out on tables in the Norris University Center’s Northwestern Room on Friday afternoon, transported A&O members past and present through the organization’s rich history in celebration of its 50th anniversary. Current board members and alumni flipped through old event posters, promoter passes, contracts and campus media coverage, sharing stories about how they created these experiences for their fellow students. On a table lay a ticket for Jerry Seinfeld’s 1990 visit. A&O alumnus John Nieman (Weinberg ’90) worked to bring Seinfeld and other artists and speakers to campus in the late ’80s.
“Each one of these offers and pictures and telegrams and contracts — they all bring it back to life,” Nieman said. Eyeing the typewritten legal jargon, autographed flyers and yellowing copies of The Daily arranged around the room, some students found themselves surprised at how many legendary celebrities their predecessors brought to campus. Founded in 1969, A&O was originally an alternative body for campus entertainment that didn’t revolve around Greek life. In observance of its semicentennial, Annie Parker, development cochair for A&O, said she spent a lot of time looking through the organization’s archives in its Norris University Center office. “I ended up coming up with just a ton of different documents and stuff that I really wanted everybody on A&O to see,” the Weinberg senior said. Bob Nissen (Weinberg ’71, Kellogg ’75), the second-ever chair of A&O, reached out to Parker earlier this year to organize a Homecoming event for the organization’s alumni. Tracking down folks from the early days of A&O was no easy task, but current members helped find their emails using the Northwestern alumni directory CATalyzer, Parker said. » See A&O, page 6
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus speaks at Chicago Humanities Festival. The Northwestern alumna has won eight acting Emmys for her work on acclaimed sitcoms such as “Seinfeld” and “Veep.”
Julia Louis-Dreyfus talks comedy Emmy-award winner spoke at a Chicago Humanities Festival event By WILSON CHAPMAN
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During her junior year at Northwestern, Julia Louis-Dreyfus performed in the Mee-Ow show. After the final performance, a producer from “Saturday Night Live” came up to her and a few of her co-stars and asked them if they wanted to be in the next season of the show. Her response? “Uh, yeah!” Louis-Dreyfus spoke about
her time at Northwestern at Cahn Auditorium on Sunday to a soldout house. The Chicago Humanities Festival hosted the event for its 30th anniversary celebration. Louis-Dreyfus’ talk was part of the festival’s Elaine and Roger Haydock Humor Series, which interviews comedians about their careers. The actress is an eleventime Emmy award winner, receiving wide acclaim for her roles in “Seinfeld,” “The New Adventures of Old Christine” and “Veep.” “Julia Louis-Dreyfus is an actor who has filled her
post-Northwestern career with truly iconic performances, memorable roles and literally decades of experience in both television and film,” Bill Melamed, managing director of development at the Chicago Humanities Festival and a friend of Louis-Dreyfus, said in his opening remarks at the event. Onstage, Louis-Dreyfus joined indie director Joe Swanberg, who is best known for his film “Drinking Buddies.”Swanberg asked the actor questions taken from an audience survey from before the show. Louis-Dreyfus talked about
her time at “SNL” and the challenges she faced there. When she left school to perform at “SNL,” she arrived excited, having been a lifetime fan of the show. However, she said she was completely unprepared for the combative and sexist culture and was absolutely miserable during her short tenure of three seasons. As hard the experience was, Louis-Dreyfus said it was an important one for her, as she learned valuable acting lessons » See DREYFUS, page 6
Message on Rock condemns Evans Dog costume Students demand recognition for John Evans’ role in Sand Creek By AMY LI
daily senior staffer
Alumni and students found the phrases “F--k John Evans” and “THIS LAND IS COLONIZED” painted on The Rock on Saturday during Homecoming weekend, denouncing Northwestern’s reluctance to remove the University founder’s name from campus buildings despite his involvement in the Sand Creek Massacre. Evans was the territorial governor of Colorado at the time of the Sand Creek Massacre. Under Evans’ watch, Colonel John Chivington ambushed the peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho camps at Sand Creek, killing over 150 people — mostly women and children. In 2015, members of the Native American and Indigenous Student Alliance launched a petition demanding the removal of Evans’ name from University programming and » See THE ROCK, page 6
contest raises funds Evanston Animal Shelter’s fetches over $30,000 By PYRROS RUBANIS
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Passersby view the Rock, which was painted Homecoming weekend and criticized Northwestern’s inaction following student demands to remove University founder John Evans’ name from campus buildings.
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In its second biggest fundraiser of the year, the Evanston Animal Shelter hosted a dog costume contest and walkathon Saturday morning, featuring dogs in costumes ranging from rocket ships to Scar and Simba. The annual contest raised over $30,000 for Evanston’s largest animal welfare non-profit. This year, the event, called Trick or Treat Trot for Tails, left its previous location, Centennial Park, for the home of the Evanston History Center, the Charles Gates Dawes House. “We’re always looking for a way to reach out,” said Grace Lehner, Directory of Archives at the Evanston History Center, “And we thought this fundraiser would be a fun way to greet a new group.” Shannon Daggett, director of community engagement for the
shelter, said the event brought in 80 registrants to the new, larger space at the Evanston History Center, along with four puppies and four dogs currently looking for families at the Evanston Animal Shelter. Three judges from the shelter’s board of directors selected the best costume in a parade of several dogs. Dressed as the beloved Peanuts’ dog, Roy won first prize for his costume as Snoopy, piloting his doghouse against his eternal rival, the Red Baron. Roy’s owners, Dino and Natalie Northway, adopted him from the Evanston Animal Shelter several years ago and bring him to Trot for Tails every year. “It’s just so fun for Halloween,” Natalie Northway said. “Roy was a stegosaurus last year, a full costume… all you could see was his face.” Also appearing in the parade, adorned with a blossoming flower, was Melie, another dog adopted from the shelter. She originally came to the shelter barely breathing and required immediate veterinary care to survive. She had lost two-thirds of her » See DOGS, page 6
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