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ADVICE FOR ENTREPRENEURS Howard Tullman, CEO of 1871, replies to student questions Tuesday. Tullman spoke about success at this year’s Lehman Brothers Lecture.
1871 CEO discusses startups By HAL JIN
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Howard Tullman, CEO of startup incubator 1871, returned to his alma mater Tuesday to give a lesson on entrepreneurship. More than 50 people attended Tullman’s (Weinberg ’67, Law ’70) lecture, this year’s Harvey Kapnick Business Institutions Program’s Lehman Brothers Lecture, in the Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center. Tullman advised audience members on how to make a startup successful and explained the mindsets of successful entrepreneurs.
“We’re not in the business of making money,” he said. “We’re in the business of people who want to make a difference.” The company, named for the rebuilding of Chicago after the 1871 fire, currently houses 350 digital technology startups. The hub, which Tullman said he thought was even more selective than NU, has graduated 65 companies and generated $1 billion in exits. “If you’re doing this, you need to care about it and care about it daily because it’s really hard,” Tullman said. “At 1871, we’ve said we don’t need another 17 dating sites. You don’t want to spend a lot of time putting lipstick on a pig — you could be doing more important things.” Tullman, who has been called the “the champ of serial entrepreneurs,” has
founded more than a dozen high-tech companies over the past 45 years. Aside from his work at 1871, he is also a general managing partner of venture funds and an adjunct professor at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, where he lectures about entrepreneurship. Tullman said that because of his decade of experience as a lawyer and his background as an engineer, he’s not like other entrepreneurs. “I’ve been incredibly lucky to have started 12 startups when ordinarily having a 3-out-of-10 success rate would be considered very successful,” he told The Daily. During his presentation, Tullman » See LECTURE, page 6
Four Knight Lab student fellows have developed a website designed to help CAESAR-weary students select courses. The website uses Facebook integration to allows users to see what classes their friends are interested in. Romaine, created to give students a more user-friendly way to search for classes, features a simple design that lets students select a school — or a department within a school — and view its offered courses for a quarter, then save them to their cart for later viewing. The classes they save are then visible to their Facebook friends, who see a list of friends enrolled next to each course’s listing. Weinberg junior Nicole Zhu is one of the four students who worked on Romaine. Zhu said the program is not a complete replacement for CAESAR, but a way to add two functions the University site does not have: knowing what friends are taking and easily browsing for classes.
“We want it to complement or ease the process of course selection,” she said. “So what we’re really doing is making course selection social. And, at this point, I think CAESAR is good for the people who know what they’re going to take, but it doesn’t make course browsing, especially if you’re a freshman, any less hectic.” The website went live the final week of Fall Quarter, and students can experiment with it using this quarter’s courses. Zhu said the site will be updated with Spring Quarter course information when it becomes available. Students cannot enroll for classes through Romaine, nor can they view CTECs. Medill junior Mallory Busch, who also worked on the project, said Romaine is at the point developers call the “minimum viable product.” It has just enough functionality to go public, but there’s more that can be added. Busch also spoke to Romaine’s more socially-minded design, saying the website allows you to “base your decision to take an elective on how many or » See CAESAR, page 6
Source: Romaine screenshot
CAESAR AND ROMAINE Four Knight Lab student fellows designed Romaine, a website where students can select an undergraduate school to see the courses it offers in a quarter. The website is live now and will be updated when spring course information is available.
Community remembers law prof By OLIVIA EXSTRUM
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OPEN FOR BUSINESS The first gender-open restroom in University Library is now available for use. Another gender-open restroom is planned in Mudd Science and Engineering Library.
NU opens first gender-open restroom in library
A gender-open restroom opened on the main floor of University Library this week. The single-stall facility is located to the west side of the Information Commons. Construction for the restroom — the first of its kind in the library — began late in Fall Quarter, said library spokeswoman Clare Roccaforte. She said the decision to build it in the library was part of an initiative to install similar restrooms in buildings across campus.
The library’s staff restrooms were made available for public use and one of the single-stall restrooms was converted to the gender-open bathroom, Roccaforte said. In addition, a gender-open restroom in Mudd Science and Engineering Library will be completed this week or next week, Roccaforte said. The restroom will most likely be located on the main floor of the library. A gender-open restroom on the third floor of Norris University Center opened at the start of Winter Quarter, and another opened on the second floor of the building in mid-November 2014.
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Over the course of her 14 years as co-director of Northwestern School of Law’s Center on Wrongful Convictions, Jane Raley was not only known for her talent as an attorney and professor, but for her “exceptional ability to connect with people.” “Everyone who worked with her — colleagues, clients and students — not only respected her for her advocacy and teaching, but really loved her,” said law Prof. Karen Daniel, who began work at the center the same time as Raley and is now the director. “She was the nicest, warmest, most selfless person you could hope to meet, and that was I think part of what set her apart as an attorney.” Raley, 57, died Dec. 25 from cancer at her home in Highland Park. A memorial service was held Jan. 3 in Deerfield. Raley began her work at the center in 2000, working to reopen cases that have a possibility of wrongful conviction. “It’s an extraordinarily difficult thing to do so many years later after judges and juries have already concluded the cases was closed,” said law Prof. Joshua Tepfer, project
co-director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth. “That’s what we do, and Jane was about one of the most successful people taking on these cases and It was winning them.” really important Tepfer to her that said Raley students came was a “mentor” for him away from the and cared experience most passionately with a really about her good sense of clients, her justice. work and Karen her family. Daniel, At the center, Raley Director of Center on Wrongful worked on Convictions n e ar ly a dozen cases that resulted in the inmate’s release from prison. In her position, Daniel said, Raley worked tirelessly on her cases, even when they seemed unlikely to be successful. “She had a really great ability to look at her cases and figure out which aspect of the case would have the opportunity of winning over the prosecutors or the courts,” Daniel said. “She won cases that I don’t think other attorneys would have won because she stuck with them for so long until the right thing turned
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up.” Daniel said she and Raley worked and taught together from the very beginning. “We were always next door and worked very closely throughout,” she said. “Jane was a fantastic attorney, a very skilled attorney and one of the most persistent attorneys I’ve ever met. She was one of the most loved people I’ve ever met.” Beyond her work at the center, Raley taught classes where law students worked alongside professors in the school on actual cases. Daniel said Raley was known for taking a real interest in every student. “She loved to get to know them personally and was really interested in who they were as people,” she said. “She had a great ability to instill confidence, to bring out the best in them and was willing to prepare them at length if they had something coming up.” Daniel said Raley stayed in touch with many of her students after graduation and, in turn, many students attended her memorial. “It was really important to her that students came away from the experience with a really good sense of justice,” she said, “so they could go into the world as lawyers to understand that they have the ability to do good things.” oliviaexstrum2017@u.northwestern.edu
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The driver of a car that collided with a school bus Monday evening in west Evanston has been charged with aggravated driving under the influence, police said. The crash occurred around 6:40 p.m. at the intersection of Central Park Avenue and Golf Road, Evanston police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said. No children were on the bus. The driver of the car, a 54-year-old Skokie man, ran a red light in his 2002 Lincoln while traveling south on Central Park Avenue and collided with the eastbound bus, Parrott said. The man was taken to Evanston Hospital with non-life threatening injuries, Parrott said. Police charged the man with aggravated DUI because he had prior convictions for DUI. His court date had not been set as of Tuesday afternoon because he was still in the hospital, Parrott said. The bus driver sustained no injuries, Parrott said.
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SCHOOL BUS CRASH A car collided with a school bus Monday evening in west Evanston. The driver of the car was charged with aggravated DUI.
west of Benson Avenue, according to the news release. No publication can be placed in the new display boxes until the city issues a permit to the paper. The individual racks are being replaced to remove clutter, create additional sidewalk space, provide uniformity and improve maintenance, according to the release. The city will next switch individual racks to consolidated boxes in the Central Business District, Central Street and Main Street areas, according to the release. Installations will continue into 2016, where seven additional areas will receive consolidated boxes. Display space will be available for both paid publications and free publications, according to the release. — Stephanie Kelly
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A wallet containing a debit card was stolen Sunday from the men’s locker room at LA Fitness, 1618 Sherman Ave. A 25-year-old man at the gym was changing when items were removed from his locker, Evanston police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said. The Chicago resident also reported missing a credit card and a driver’s license from the state of Michigan, Parrott said. The card was reported to have been used at CVS Pharmacy, 1711 Sherman Ave., after the theft, so detectives will continue to monitor the case, Parrott said. These kinds of thefts are a relatively frequent occurrence, Parrott said. “We’ve had numerous incidents over the last couple of years on-and-off and in patterns of people breaking into the lockers of the men’s room,” Parrott said.
Several packages stolen from mailroom in central Evanston Several packages containing items were stolen from a building in central Evanston on Monday morning. A 37-year-old Evanston resident said the packages were marked as delivered but were not found in the mailroom of the condo in the 2300 block of Noyes Court, Parrott said. The packages contained a USB cord, a manicure kit, a DVD and other electronics totaling to about $57 in value, Parrott added. — Julian Gerez
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City residents discuss book on race, history By AMULYA YALAMANCHILI
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Evanston residents gathered at the Evanston Public Library on Tuesday to discuss the book “A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race From the Colonial Era to Obama’s America” by historian and UT Austin professor Jacqueline Jones. Lesley Williams, the EPL adult services coordinator, facilitated the discussion as part of the African American Literature book discussion group and EPL’s 11 Months of African American History. Williams organized the series to accompany the YWCA Evanston/Northshore “RACE” exhibit, which examines race in the United States from biological, cultural, and historical perspectives. “Dreadful Deceit” examines race by following the stories of six African-Americans through America’s history and arguing that the concept of race is a social construct rather than a biological division. “She seems to be saying we need to look at economic disparity without blaming it on racial prejudice,” Williams said.
Participants in the book discussion said they were struck by the achievements of the figures profiled in the book despite the oppression they faced. “The whole chapter about the revolutionary era resonated with me. The whole era was so chaotic,” Evanston resident Priscilla Giles said. “When we think about the Revolutionary War, we think about the British and the white Americans, not necessarily the African-Americans.” Participants noted that although the book was both informational and inspirational, the stories were difficult to read because of the tremendous inequalities portrayed. “Even though these people were examples of the best of their generations, there was something that ultimately held them back,” Williams said. “I found that to be extremely poignant.” The handful of participants agreed that the unique perspective was a worthwhile read, with extensive research and fascinating stories, though one felt the author lacked passion. The discussion is the first of five African-Americanthemed book discussions held in January at EPL. amulyayalamanchili2017@u.northwestern.edu
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SKIPPING DINNER Frontera Fresco sits closed Tuesday night. Recent changes in dining hours included Frontera’s hours being cut to only include midday hours for lunch.
Frontera Fresco, Willie’s Food Court hours change
Norris University Center has changed its dining hours for Winter Quarter. The International Dish station in Willie’s Food Court is now open until 7 p.m. Monday through Thursday and until 3 p.m. on Friday. Previously, all of Willie’s Food Court closed at 3 p.m. every day. Frontera Fresco will now close daily at 3
Setting the record straight Amulya Yalamanchili/The Daily Northwestern
REVIEWING RACE Evanston residents discussed “A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race From the Colonial Era to Obama’s America” Tuesday night as part of a series of events hosted by EPL.
In Tuesday’s print edition, the article “Woman raises $10K for family facing eviction” misstated when Laurel Watson’s husband’s job contract ends. It ends in March.
p.m. instead of 7 p.m. because not enough people were getting food from there, said Eddie Skidmore, Northwestern Dining’s area marketing coordinator. These changes were implemented based on an online survey distributed in December. The survey results showed that students wanted more dinner options and weren’t using Frontera. Skidmore said the survey also showed that students preferred the International Dish station to the Cat Shack Grill. — Emily Chin
The headline “Former Wildcats to compete in NFL” in Tuesday’s print edition mischaracterized the events in which Tony Jones and Ibraheim Campbell will participate. They will compete in pre-NFL draft events. The Daily regrets the errors.
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Treat student-athletes as you would other students JENNIFER YAMIN
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Shawn Oakmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s size. Odell Beckham Jr.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s catch. LeBronâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hairline. Athletes and organized sports are some of the most memeable and tweet-able entities available to the general public. Collegiate sports, including Northwestern athletics, are no exception. As an avid social media user, I have come across many tweets or Facebook posts calling out the mistakes of NU student-athletes during important games. Although expressing opinions on athletes and sports is entirely acceptable, I ask that you consider a few things before publicly criticizing your studentathlete peers. However obvious it may seem, studentathletes are just as much students as they are athletes. They are college students receiving an education and making plans for employment while also putting in the full-time
work for their sport. Yet it is all too easy to disregard that simple definition of a studentathlete when jumping to make negative comments. These are the people you see in your classes, in your dorms and trudging to class through the polar vortex. Sorry, where were we? These are the people representing NU; they represent you. They rely on you for their fan base. To be clear, I believe athletes should be expected to give the best of their ability. I am not saying athletes are superior and above all criticism. And in no way does being an athlete make you better than the average student. But it also does not make you worse. Based on my own experience at NU, I think the disconnect between student athletes and the rest of NU students could be fixed if regular students spent an entire day with a student-athlete. You may find yourself awake at an hour you never thought existed on a Tuesday morning. You may find a three and a half hour practice after an entire day of class tiring. You may find studying for a final exam on a bus ride inefficient and difficult. But, you will understand the responsibilities
and commitments of an NU student-athlete. I have seen firsthand instances of disrespect directed toward me, my team and my fellow student-athletes. During roll call in some of my smaller classes, I sometimes hear condescending comments if an athleteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name is called and he or she is not present. Before assuming athletes are skipping class, consider that they may be on a bus or plane heading back to campus after a long weekend of competing out of state.
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I have seen firsthand instances of disrespect directed toward me, my team and my fellow studentathletes.
Some may find my opinion to be too optimistic, naive or reminiscent of the girl from Mean Girls who just wants to bake a cake full of rainbows and smiles. They may argue
criticism motivates them to perform better and that at the end of the day these people are athletes and should be able to take it. While all of this may be true, it is important to remember these athletes are also your peers, bleeding purple right beside you in below freezing temperatures. At a school like NU, student-athletes are constantly subject to media scrutiny and learn to ignore such criticisms. It is a different story when the criticisms come from their own peers. I am not here to reprimand NU students. After all, some of you have even shown up to my fencing meets. At the end of the day, student-athlete or not, we are all Wildcats who belong to one NU community. I am simply asking that before roasting an NU student-athlete or team either on or off social media, consider the community you share with them. Go Cats. Jennifer Yamin is a Communication junior and a member of the Northwestern fencing team. She can be reached at jenniferyamin2016@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a letter to the editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.
Online learning can never Government should fund fully replace a university private space companies BURAK SEKERCI
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Lynda.com says itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an â&#x20AC;&#x153;online learning company that helps anyone learn â&#x20AC;Ś skills to achieve personal and professional goals.â&#x20AC;? Udemy calls itself the â&#x20AC;&#x153;worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s online learning marketplace,â&#x20AC;? with more than 22,000 courses and 5 million students. Khan Academy offers more than 5,500 videos about topics from math to art history. Harvard, MIT, Stanford and many others offer a huge selection of courses available for free online. Meanwhile, a November report by College Board showed that college costs kept increasing whereas the real income level has not changed in over a decade, suggesting that paying for college is becoming even more difficult than it already is. In addition to this change, the level of enrollment in higher education institutions dropped for the second year in a row in 2013. With how financially difficult it is becoming to attend college, coupled with the massive growth of online learning resources, it seems that online education is going to overtake higher education institutions very soon. Maybe we can take online classes instead of going to classrooms, thus avoiding the extra costs of college. Online education is that simple. There are many success stories of people who have taken advantage of these online resources to teach themselves all kinds of things. This however, brings up a question: If online learning is so good that it can easily replace todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s world of colleges and universities around the world, what are we doing here? Are we just paying for a degree, or are we
paying for an education? Look back on your acceptance to Northwestern. You must have been excited to be accepted here. What were you most excited about? I can almost guarantee that it was not the quality of classes alone. Yes, NU is definitely a world class institution; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a school that is renowned for its academic strengths more than anything else. However, academics is not NUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only strength. In online education, academics is the only resource that can be offered. In physical institutions, in colleges across the United States and the rest of the world, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so much more than just academics. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the obvious difference of being able to interact with people, both inside and outside the classroom. Instead of sitting in your room by yourself, you can ask questions and have in-class discussions. You can hang out with your classmates at a coffee shop or start a new club together. You have the chance to interact with a miniature real-world and see how your actions shape it, as well as yourself. These real world benefits are completely exclusive to physical institutions. You canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t achieve any of these in online education. All you can do is sit in front of your computer screen, take notes and complete exercises. Learning, by definition, may simply be filling your brain with information. But in a practical sense, if you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know how to take advantage of the knowledge you earn, that knowledge does not help you in the real world. A physical institutionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s biggest advantage over online learning is the real world experience it will allow you to gain. To me, that makes it worth coming here. Yoni Pinto is a Weinberg sophomore. He can be reached at ybpinto@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a letter to the editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.
Space is the next frontier for humanity and there are endless possibilities in our vast universe. The first big leap in space exploration was to set foot on the moon, which NASA accomplished several times. The other next leap is to set foot on Mars to create a colony for humans to live. However, this is a bigger feat than going to the moon because Mars is much further away, a 250-day travel compared to the moonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 3-day travel. NASA has been sending probes, satellites and rovers to Mars for almost 50 years now. Although this is progress, it might be difficult to meet future goals of space exploration since NASA does not receive significant help from other organizations. NASA has built the International Space Station and conducted the space shuttle program, but the Mars program has seen less attention than the former two. In recent years, entrepreneurs saw the opportunity and created companies like SpaceX and Sierra Nevada. Boeing has also expanded its space program. For the past year or two, with the rockets they have built, these companies have been carrying cargo, essentially building and transferring some of the infrastructure for NASA. One of the most important features of these companies was the fact that they were not regulated strictly by NASA; it wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t tell them how to build their rockets. This freedom led to faster expansion with these programs â&#x20AC;&#x201C; bigger, faster and more capable rockets were built. But in 2014 the U.S. government chose to fund NASA projects instead of private companies, a huge mistake. Private companies such as SpaceX can build whatever NASA builds faster, cheaper and better. For example, SpaceXâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Falcon rocket can carry much more cargo than the SLS rocket of NASA, while costing only the
equivalent of 1.25 years of the SLSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s funding. The Falcon rocket will also be released at an earlier date than the SLS, which would allow Developing time for more extensive testing. the space industry Private space would increase companies are the competition future of space exploration. They and push firms are the missing part to create better in this long journey. With the financial products. and structural help from private companies, NASA can focus on astronaut education, scientific research and organization of space trips. This arrangement could prove useful for both the Mars mission and create the basis for future missions. By funding private companies, the U.S. government can create the breakthrough that the world needs. Why not give more money to aid expansion? Developing the space industry would increase competition and push firms to create better products, which is one thing that NASA lacks, at least since the Cold War. Now, NASA competes with few others, which may extend deadlines, slow production and stagnate creativity. The U.S. government should know the best choice for the future of space exploration lies in private space companies, which have the ambition, the competition and the brains to build whatever rocket NASA needs to go the Red Planet. In addition, NASA should not be regulating private companies, and instead guide them in a progressive direction. NASA should be organizing and directing future space missions, educating astronauts and conducting scientific experiments that space exploration also needs.
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Burak Sekerci is a McCormick sophomore. He can be reached at buraksekerci2017@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a letter to the editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.
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Men’s Basketball: Winter Wrap-up Northwestern already has 15 games under its belt, and the 10-5 record in that span would seem to indicate a successful period for the inexperienced squad. Alas, positive numbers can be misleading. The Wildcats lost four games against a relatively easy non-conference slate, and the team followed that with an ugly 51-47 win in its Big Ten opener at Rutgers — possibly the conference’s worst team — and a 81-58 home drubbing at the hands of No. 4 Wisconsin. NU has an intriguing young core though, and is looking to build toward a first-ever NCAA Tournament appearance in the future. Photos by Nathan Richards/Daily Senior Staffer
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Across Campuses University of Virginia fraternity activities to resume under new rules
One month after a damaging Rolling Stone story about campus rape was discredited, University of Virginia officials announced that fraternity and sorority activities can resume immediately. To be able to participate in activities again, sororities and fraternities have agreed to a slew of stipulations officials say will increase safety for students, including additional leadership training for sexual violence and alcohol awareness, and submitting safety recommendations to university officials. Students return to school Monday for the spring semester. The Greek community’s social activities were suspended in November amid the fallout of an explosive Rolling Stone article in which a woman, identified only as Jackie, said she was gang-raped at a fraternity party. The story was later discredited by reporting from The Washington Post and a statement from the magazine’s editors, which said there appeared to be discrepancies in the woman’s account. The editors also acknowledged that the reporter, Sabrina Rubin Erdely, had not contacted Jackie’s alleged rapists. The university’s Phi Kappa Psi chapter — whose house was the site of the incident described in the magazine — had pointed out several inconsistencies in the story, but school officials shut down all Greek activity for the rest of the fall semester and through the winter break. The new conditions, which a majority of the fraternities have agreed to abide by, include having at least three “sober and lucid” members at each fraternity event, one at each alcohol distribution point at the event, plus another on the stairs leading to the bedrooms of the fraternity house. The new rules also ban hard liquor at some events and require event organizers to provide bottled water and food at parties where alcohol is served. The university’s National Pan-Hellenic Council, which consists of eight fraternities and sororities, has banned hard liquor, including pre-mixed drinks, at sponsored events altogether and agreed to ensure that half of its members remain sober at sponsored events. “A list of sober persons must be submitted ... and wear identifying paraphernalia,” according to the council’s agreement with school officials. Greek student leaders have been working to come to an agreement with university officials for more than a month. In a statement released by the various organizations representing the Greek community, leaders said they “believe universities must demonstrate more respect for the fundamental rights to due process ... when allegations of misconduct are lodged.” University officials said Tuesday that the revised agreements would help make campus safer.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 2015 “In the following additions to our fraternal organization agreement, we seek to achieve a safe environment at fraternity events by addressing high-risk drinking, sexual misconduct and unhealthy power structures,” the university said in a statement.
District 65 schools, ETHS closed Wednesday
Evanston Township High School and schools and centers in Evanston/Skokie School District 65 will close Wednesday due to below-freezing temperatures with extreme wind chills, ETHS and District 65 announced Tuesday. The National Weather Service forecasts a wind chill of 30 to 35 degrees below zero Tuesday night and into Wednesday morning. A wind chill warning will remain in effect until noon on Thursday. “This decision has been made with the safety of our students and staff in mind,” according to a statement on the District 65 website. District 65 custodial and maintenance staff and
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Students now pay public colleges more than states do
Students now pay public colleges and universities more than states do, a new study by the U.S. Government Accountability Office found. As states slashed higher education funding over the last several years, colleges and universities leaned more on tuition to cover costs — part of the reason behind the astronomical jump in the cost of college. The GAO’s findings paint a stark picture of just how much that trend changed the way public schools are funded from 2003 to 2012. While state funding for public schools decreased by 12 percent overall, the median tuition at those schools rose 55 percent. Tuition accounted for 25 percent of public colleges’ revenue, up from 17 percent, surpassing state funding by 2012, when the states accounted for 23 percent of schools’ budgets. Average net tuition — the estimated tuition after grant aid is deducted — rose 19 percent. “These increases have contributed to the decline in college affordability as students and their families are bearing the cost of college as a larger portion of their total family budgets,” the GAO wrote. The federal study looked at funding figures nationwide and did not mention Texas specifically, but it did touch on a couple of policy changes that state lawmakers could consider in their upcoming session: doing away with tuition deregulation — or once again allowing the state to control tuition — and tying state funding to performance by colleges. In 2003, the Texas Legislature voted to let public colleges set their own tuition. Since then, the average cost to attend a state school more than doubled to $3,951 a semester, according to data from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. At some schools, the increase was even greater. Designated tution at the University of Houston, for instance, jumped 280 percent to $2,643 per semester in 2013. UH charged $2,266 in tuition and fees in 2003. A decade later, UH, which is now one of the most expensive schools in the state, charged $5,223. Now lawmakers on both sides of the aisle want to reverse the 2003 decision. At least two bills have been filed to do so in the 2015 session. The GAO study points out that many states control tuition and that “several experts and organizations who commented on this topic said that when tuition is set centrally by the state and colleges have less authority, there are positive effects on affordability for students.”
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From page 1 emphasized the importance of executing good plans “violently” and not waiting to form the perfect plan. Today, all the answers are available and “I don’t know” is the equivalent of saying “I’m lazy,” Tullman said. “Work is, in the real world and in any world, more important than creativity, more important than talent, more important than sheer brains,” he said. “We might not be the smartest person in the world, but at the end of the day we will work the hardest.” An incubator space for NU startups modeled after 1871 is slated to launch June 16, said Alicia Loffler, executive director of the Innovation and New Ventures Office. The Garage, located near the Henry Crown Sports Pavilion, aims to provide a space for aspiring student entrepreneurs, she said. One student interested in using the Garage is Cem Ozer, a freshman who attended the lecture. “He gave some really good advice,” the McCormick student said. “The talk was not on how to start a startup, but on how to be an entrepreneur.”
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which friends are taking that class as well.” Zhu said one of Romaine’s better qualities is that it provides an alternative to posting a photo of one’s schedule on Facebook. “I think people find that annoying,” she said, “or at least it’s not the most effective way of doing it. If it falls off someone’s timeline, no one’s going to see it. So we wanted to take that thing people are already doing on Facebook and build a separate platform for it.” Zhu and Busch were joined by Medill junior Ashley Wu and Medill senior Suyeon Son in the project. Romaine is the latest program aimed at making course registration easier, following CourseDJ, which
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other 12-month employees should report to work, according to the statement. District 65 schools and centers are currently scheduled to reopen on Thursday. However, the administration will continue to monitor the weather forecast and will notify families and staff via phone and email in the event of a change, officials said. ETHS staff will also continue to monitor weather conditions to decide whether to reopen Thursday, according to a statement on the ETHS website. If there is no announcement, the school will reopen. Evanston offices and recreational centers will remain open on Wednesday, according to the city’s website. In reaction to the school closings, Evanston recreational centers will hold extra open gym hours. — Julia Jacobs
Ozer started a textile company in high school that specialized in producing cold weather products. Although his company failed due to too much competition, Ozer said he wants to use the Garage when he comes up with more ideas. “There are plenty of students here who are intelligent who mainly go into consulting positions, but some take a little risk,” said Patty FitzGibbons, assistant director of BIP. “The lecture gives them maybe a little more strength to be able to pursue other options.” Those other options might be difficult, if Tullman is to be believed. “The great thing is today just about everyone wants to be an entrepreneur,” Tullman said. “If we knew how long a path it’d be, none of us would’ve done it.” When an audience member asked what Tullman does when he can’t focus, the entrepreneur let out a short laugh. “That’s not my problem,” he said. hjin@u.northwestern.edu Associated Student Government launched in November. Earlier this year, ASG released the Northwestern Course Data API, which allows students to use NU’s course data when designing such programs. Medill sophomore Alex Duner, a Knight Lab student fellow who did not work on the Romaine project, said this project is unique for the lab, given it usually focuses on journalism-related projects. He said the lab is relatively new and still shaping its goals. Zhu also said Romaine users can view more than 200 course results for a query, and that it works on mobile, two things that CAESAR cannot do. And yes, Zhu said, students will be able to use their backspace key without Romaine “freaking out.” shanemckeon2018@u.northwestern.edu
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Wildcats carry high expectations into Winter Quarter By ALEX LEDERMAN
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The goals for Northwestern this year are simple. “We want to win every dual meet, we want to get to the conference championship and we want to send six kids to NCAAs and finish in the top five,” coach Laurie Schiller said. The Wildcats’ season kicks into high gear Jan. 17 with the Western Invitational in Colorado Springs, Colorado, following an impressive fall. Schiller said he views the fall more as a
National News John Boehner re-elected as speaker, but more GOP infighting is likely WASHINGTON—The first Republicancontrolled Congress in eight years got off to a rocky start Tuesday after a brazen revolt by GOP conservatives failed to oust House Speaker John A. Boehner but cast a familiar shadow over his ability to lead the emboldened majority. Boehner ultimately won the opportunity to return as speaker with the biggest GOP delegation since the World War II era, but the surprisingly robust effort to topple him was just as historic. In all, 25 rank-and-file Republicans withheld their support, more than twice as many as during a similar 2013 coup attempt and the highest number of party defections in a speaker’s race since 1923. The dramatic opening, occurring on an otherwise heady, ceremonial first day of the 114th Congress, renewed doubts about the Republican Party’s ability to implement its agenda, despite an impressive showing in the November election. Acknowledging the difficulty ahead as a Republican-led House and Senate prepare to confront President Barack Obama, an upbeat
“preseason” for his team, as the fencers do not face tough competition, and he uses the time primarily to learn about his players’ strengths and weaknesses, but it was a very successful preseason nonetheless. “The two highlights we were looking for in the fall were how we were going to do against Notre Dame and the first set of dual meets,” Schiller said. “If you take Notre Dame’s Olympian out of the mix, we basically competed evenly with them. Considering they’re probably number one or two in the country – there are no polls yet, but there probably will be soon – I think that’s a good measure for us.” Schiller said the dual meets were good for
seeing how his fencers would work together as a team. “In an individual sport – like tennis or swimming or wrestling, it’s always a little bit harder to get the team to be a team,” he said. “Going forward, we’re ready to work as a team and to win as a team.” The Cats beat 12 squads in the NU Duals with a combined score of 298-26, but they should be even better in the winter. Injuries plagued the Cats in the fall, but now the team is fully healthy. On top of that, junior epee Juliana Barrett has returned from a semester abroad in London and the talented freshman class has been
acclimated to the team and is ready for tougher competition. “We have great depth,” Schiller said. “We may not have any one person you can point to and say they’re top five in the country, and there’s some teams that can do that, but what we have is we’ve got four or five strong at every weapon.” Schiller said that depth gives him greater flexibility to match up specific fencers against different competition and to replace a fencer if she’s not getting the job done. “It’s gonna be interesting to see who breaks out here,” Schiller said. “But that’s part of the fun.” alexanderlederman2017@u.northwestern.edu
Boehner told colleagues they could still accomplish big goals. “This won’t be done in a tidy way,” said Boehner, who mostly refrained from his usual tearyeyed sentimentality for a businesslike appeal punctuated by sentiments from his Catholic faith. “As speaker, all I ask, and frankly expect, is that we disagree without being disagreeable. Let’s make this the time of harvest.” Obama struck a welcome tone as he pursued areas of agreement with Boehner, of Ohio, and the new Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, on issues of trade and tax policy that often divide the White House from congressional Democrats. “I’m very much looking forward to working with them,” Obama said. “I’m confident that there are going to be areas where we disagree, and there will be some pitched battles, but I’m also confident that there are enormous areas of potential agreement that would deliver for the American people.” But other Democrats took the opportunity to showcase divisions within the Republican Party. They noted that tea party lawmakers, including Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, had at times dominated the party’s agenda and weakened Boehner’s leadership. In 2013, Cruz and other conservative Republicans sparked a government shutdown over the Affordable Care Act despite Boehner’s and McConnell’s
objections. “The Republican Party is at war with itself,” said Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee. “It shows that John Boehner doesn’t have control of the direction that his caucus will take, and I think that’s going to make it very challenging for him.” The new Congress opened as the first snow of the season dusted the Capitol grounds, with 58 new members of the House and 13 new senators taking the oath of office— many with families and children in their fanciest dress. Vice President Joe Biden swore in the senators in what has become an unlikely bipartisan ritual, gushing over senators’ children and fawning over mothers and grandmothers. First in line was McConnell—a past and potentially future negotiating partner with the White House— followed by Republican Sen. John Cornyn of Texas, the new majority whip. After a few photos, Biden leaned in close—not for a joke, as he often does, but for some business. “We ought to be able to get some things done,” Biden told the Senate’s No. 2 Republican. But the effort to oust Boehner in the House and similar confrontations awaiting McConnell in the Senate raise doubts about GOP leaders’ ability to control the new Congress.
If a sizable number of Democratic lawmakers had not missed Tuesday’s House vote because of weather-related flight delays and the New York funeral of former Democratic Gov. Mario Cuomo, the 216 votes that Boehner secured for his third term as speaker might not have been enough. Typically, 218 votes make a majority in the House. “This could create some challenges,” said Rep. Charlie Dent, (R-Pa., pointing to upcoming budget battles. If Republicans hope to put in place a conservative agenda to cut social welfare programs and implement business-friendly tax policies, they will need a united majority to overcome likely Democratic opposition. A first test could come as soon as next week as the GOP tries to stop Obama’s immigration executive actions, which could defer deportation for as many as 5 million immigrants in the country illegally. Despite the promise of new beginnings, the White House also signaled Tuesday that Obama would veto two expected GOP-led bills: one to approve the Keystone XL pipeline and one to ease the insurance mandate for some employers under the Affordable Care Act by changing the definition of a full-time workweek to 40 hours from 30 hours. — Lisa Mascaro and Michael A. Memoli (Tribune Washington Bureau)
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Fall season a welcoming sign for Cats The real By MIKE MARUT
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Northwestern’s women’s tennis team shone brightly throughout the fall, taking control of the courts and competing highly in every tournament they entered. To start the season, the Wildcats hosted the Wildcat Invitational that featured competitors from across the country vying for the tournament title. Five NU players contended, but freshman Erin Larner advanced all the way to the finals in her bracket of 32 before falling in the championship match to DePaul’s Rebeca Mitrea. Larner beat all opponents in two sets before losing in three to the Mitrea. Simultaneously, junior Alicia Barnett, sophomore Manon Peri and senior Lok Sze Leung fought in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association All-American Championships held in Pacific Palisades, California. All three lost in the first round of singles, but Peri and Leung won their doubles semifinal match before coming up short in the finals. Through those tournaments and into the final stretch of the fall season, the Cats continued going deep into bracket competitions. The fall season helps incoming freshmen garner experience and adapt to the pace of matches at the collegiate level, and the freshmen adjusted quickly as they took the spotlight in the rest of the tournaments. Freshmen Alex Chatt and Rheeya Doshi took the doubles title at the University of Alabama’s 27thannual Roberta Alison Fall Classic. Doubles is especially important for a team that tends to struggle after
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With the spring season inching closer, the Wildcats have their work cut out for them if they want their fall tournament showings to translate into wins. Northwestern athletes had mixed results in the ITA Midwest Regionals and Big Ten Indoor Championships in October and November. All nine members of the active roster participated in the main draw of at least one of the two tournaments, a rare occurrence for NU. Sophomore Sam Shropshire and senior Alex Pasareanu had standout performances and made it to the quarterfinals of the ITA Midwest Regionals and the Big Ten Indoor tournament, respectively. But coach Arvid Swan thinks the team could have done better. “We had a good performance,” Swan said. “If we had a couple more guys advance a little further into the tournaments, it would have been a great performance.” In particular, Swan said he believed Shropshire, hot off of an impressive freshman year, “did a good job, but is more than capable of winning the Midwest Regionals.” Shropshire seems to take a more laid-back approach to the team’s fall performance, which does not affect the Cats’ record heading into team play. “In the fall, some people see it as kind of a warm-up,” Shropshire said. “I think those tournaments did a good job of doing that for us, getting us into match mode.” But NU will have to do more than just warm up if it wants to expand on last year’s success, when the Cats
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VETERAN POISE Junior Alicia Barnett winds up for a volley. A First-Team All-Big Ten selection last season, Barnett is a key part of a Wildcats squad that looks primed to take home a 17th consecutive Big Ten title.
losing the initial doubles point. For the freshmen to attain this honor in doubles could be key for NU in the spring. Throughout the fall, NU won matches handily against both ranked and unranked opponents. Beating opponents at every level shows that despite losing last year’s senior starters Nida Hamilton (No. 6 singles, No. 2 doubles), Veronica Corning (No. 1 singles and doubles) and Belinda Niu (No. 2 singles, No. 3 doubles), the Cats have come to play. Without those players, NU must find a way to beat teams like Michigan — the Cats’ biggest Big Ten competitor in recent years — when conference play comes
around. Last year Niu clinched the Big Ten Tournament title late in the final singles match. Coach Claire Pollard will need to find another player with the same clutch factor Niu had. To close out the fall season, NU hosted its annual Wildcat Fall Duals. Day one proved to be another undefeated event for the Cats with Barnett, Peri, Chatt and sophomore Jillian Rooney all winning in singles as well as Leung and Larner playing together for a doubles win. Day Two, the team won nine of its 12 matches in singles and five of seven in doubles. NU struggled to find more singles wins than losses against DePaul on the final day of
competition. In doubles matchups, the Cats did not fare much better, only winning two of five matches. Chatt paired with DePaul’s Ana Vladutu for the third win. Despite the final day struggles, the overall fall season proved to be productive for NU with many going far in big tournaments, the freshmen acclimating to the collegiate climate and the team thriving without last year’s departed seniors. The coming spring season will be just as competitive for Pollard and NU as any year previous. michaelmarut2016@u.northwestern. edu
NU looks to build on early performances By DAVID LEE
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cracked the top thirty in the nation and got three rounds into the Big Ten Championships for the first time in more than 15 years. And last year’s team was led by Raleigh Smith, a departed senior who was a two-time First-Team All-Big Ten member during his NU career. “We did lose a great player in Raleigh and that’s really hard to replace,” Swan said. “But we have (Logan) Staggs who is as good of a freshman as there is in the country, so it’s just a different mix.” I’ve only played Swan is referring, for myself so if of course, I lose, it’s only to f reshpheme losing. Now man nom Logan I feel like if I lose Staggs who was ranked I let the team as the No. down, I let the 5 recruit in coaches down. the nation by tennisLogan Staggs, recruitfreshman tennis ing.net. player Although Staggs is easily the shortest player on the team, measuring at only 5-foot-7, he carries a significant amount of the team’s hopes. “We were good last year,” Shropshire said. “We lost Raleigh, and obviously that is going to be difficult, but with Logan coming in and all the other guys stepping up I think we’re going to be good this year.” Staggs is the only freshman on the team, coming in for the departed Smith. He says the transition into collegiate tennis has been challenging and he is already feeling the pressure. “Whereas (in the past) I’ve only
played for myself so if I lose, it’s only me losing,” Staggs said. “Now I feel like if I lose I let the team down, I let the coaches down.” NU’s first scheduled match of the season is at North Carolina State on Jan. 16. When asked what his goals were until then, Shropshire
responded quickly. “I’m out here every day just working on my game with the coaches. I’m here trying to get better fitness-wise and with the game daily, so that’s my goal,” he said. davidlee2017@u.northwestern.edu
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CONTINUED GROWTH Sophomore Sam Shropshire sets up for the return. The preseason No. 78 singles player looks to build off a stellar freshman season where he earned First-Team All-Big Ten and Big Ten Freshman of the Year honors.
Already done with Northwestern men’s basketball? After an uninspiring 81-58 blowout against Wisconsin, it’s hard not to be over the Wildcats. Second-year coach Chris Collins has assembled a roster filled with promise but not much else, and it’s already clear this isn’t the year NU will break its existence-long NCAA Tournament drought. Fortunately for basketball fans, the Cats’ women’s team is having its best season in recent memory, and it’s time for everybody to start paying attention. NU is currently 12-2 with wins over ranked DePaul and Michigan State squads, and in perfect position to make a run to the postseason. If you’re convinced, great — see you Sunday at 2 p.m. when the Cats host a rematch against the Spartans. If not, read on. The team is helmed by Joe McKeown, who ranks among the best coaches in the Big Ten. He entered the season second in the conference in career wins and recently celebrated his 600th victory. In his seventh season at NU, the veteran coach has finally assembled a roster capable of cracking the NCAA Tournament field. On the court, the Cats lean on the talents of sophomore forward Nia Coffey. The Minnesota native was First-Team All-Big Ten last season and pre-season Coaches All-Big Ten this year and has the stats to back it up. During the 2013-14 campaign, Coffey averaged 15.3 points and 8.1 rebounds per game to go along with 1.84 blocks and 1.66 steals per contest. This year, her stats are up: 15.9 points, 8.2 rebounds and 1.86 blocks per game — all team highs — as well as a 2.0 steals average. And the effects are starting to show up in the win column. Playing with Coffey in the starting lineup and lurking just below her on the stat sheet is junior guard Maggie Lyon. The hometown product played high school basketball just up the road at New Trier and — if that weren’t reason enough to be a fan — is also having a career year in terms of her rate statistics. Lyon’s minutes, points per game and rebounds per game are all down from a year ago, but the perimeter specialist is shooting a career-best 44 percent from beyond the arc, good for third in the Big Ten. Joining Lyon in the backcourt is sophomore point guard Ashley Deary. Despite her slight stature (she’s listed at just 5-foot-4), she’s one of the most exciting players on the court and leads the Big Ten in steals with four per game. The stats go on and on for a team that has impressed through 14 games. NU is first in the conference in scoring defense, first in opponent field goal percentage, third in blocked shots, first in steals, first in assists and second in turnover margin. That 12-2 record is no accident. The Cats are talented, exciting and, most importantly, successful. As men’s basketball continues to wallow in a weak Big Ten with an inexperienced roster, women’s basketball will make a legitimate charge toward an NCAA Tournament berth. The women’s basketball team deserves your support. And if you’re looking to watch some exciting basketball or just want to experience the thrill of victory or the drama of a postseason chase, women’s basketball is your best choice. bpillote@u.northwestern.edu