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Website aims to complement CAESAR By SHANE MCKEON
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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
daily senior staffer @olivesocean
Nathan Richards/Daily Senior Staffer
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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