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NU project addresses healthcare in Ethiopia By AMULYA YALAMANCHILI
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so that’s why I came and that was the main takeaway,” Frank said. “This is very serious, and (the United States) had an unfortunately negative role.” Rozoff said he was glad to come to Evanston and speak on the situation, which could become very “grave and dramatic,” as two nuclear superpowers are involved. “Either NATO blinks or Russia blinks,” Rozoff said. “Or we may be heading into a warning about nuclear war.”
A resident at the Feinberg School of Medicine has started a program partnering Northwestern with an Ethiopian medical school to decrease maternal mortality in the country. Last week, Dr. Gelila Goba, a fourth-year resident at Feinberg, returned to NU after a weeklong trip to Ethiopia, her home country. Goba’s program, the Mela Project, partners Feinberg with Mekelle University’s obstetrics and gynecology department in Ethiopia. Feinberg has sent three teams of medical faculty, residents and students to Ethiopia since October for the program, which aims to improve medical education and healthcare delivery in the country’s Tigray region. In Ethiopia, the majority of women deliver at home without a skilled birthing professional, and less than 15 percent deliver at a hospital, according to Dr. Magdy Milad, a Feinberg professor and leader on the Mela Project. The high number of home births, along with a lack of physicians and access to healthcare, contributes to one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world. “Four years ago, Gelila interviewed for (an obstetrics and gynecology) residency here and We hope expressed a it will become strong drive a training site and passion to develop a to transform sustainable medical relationship with a medieducation in cal school in Ethiopia. Ethiopia,” Dr. Gelila Milad said. Goba, “I thought Mela Project it was a very founder important opportunity for us to consider, and we recruited her for residency with this partnership in mind.” Goba is juggling all the expectations of a resident at Feinberg, such as exams and hospital hours, while also supporting a family and developing the Mela Project. After deciding to partner with Mekelle, Goba secured a grant from the Chicago-based nonprofit IDP Foundation, Inc. which was matched and exceeded by NU and the Center for Global Health, as well as by Mekelle in order to develop a program that aims to meet U.S. and international standards. “We want to contribute to the efforts to decrease maternal mortality in Ethiopia, as well as across Africa,” Goba said. “We hope it will become a training site to transform medical education in Ethiopia.” The first visit to Ethiopia in October was conducted as a needs assessment to understand the region’s model of healthcare delivery
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CAMERA CONCERNS Evanston police say they will consider adopting body cameras once such cameras are made explicitly legal in Illinois. Police departments across the country are debating the use of body-worn cameras in the aftermath of a police shooting in Ferguson, Missouri.
By SOPHIA BOLLAG and CIARA McCARTHY daily senior staffers @sophiabollag, @mccarthy_ciara
In the wake of national debate over law enforcement practices, Evanston police say they will consider adopting body cameras for officers when such cameras are explicitly legalized
in Illinois. “I do think the day will come where we will be using them in Evanston in the next two to three years,” Evanston police Cmdr. Jay Parrott told The Daily. “I think that’s going to be the standard in law enforcement.” The shooting death of black teenager Michael Brown by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri,
launched a national conversation about the use of cameras in law enforcement. In December, President Barack Obama called for $263 million from Congress to make 50,000 body-worn cameras available to police. Since then, police departments throughout the country have reconsidered their use of surveillance technology.
In December, Los Angeles announced it will order 7,000 body cameras for police. New York and Chicago police plan to launch body camera pilot programs in the coming months. Illinois formerly had one of the most stringent eavesdropping laws » See POLICE, page 7
Library panelists discuss Ukraine crisis By ALICE YIN
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Two scholars warned against the peril of the war in Ukraine during a talk Saturday at the Evanston Public Library. John Mearsheimer, a professor at the University of Chicago, and Rick Rozoff, manager of the Stop NATO website, met at EPL, 1703 Orrington Ave., for the event. Neighbors for Peace, an Evanston-based community organization aiming to promote peace throughout the world, hosted the talk, which drew about 40 people. The event featured a speech from both guests and a question-andanswer session from the audience. The two speakers spoke on the civil unrest in Ukraine. The crisis began in late 2013, amid movement to integrate Ukraine with NATO and the European Union. The removal of Ukraine’s proRussian president and Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea region sparked further tension in the country — and between the West and Russia. Discussing the dwindling United States-Russia relationship and the expansion of NATO, the speakers encouraged taking a more critical view of the West’s role in the crisis. “We continue to encourage (Ukraine) to become part of the West … while doing nothing to help the Ukrainians,”
Mearsheimer said. “This is highly irresponsible.” Mearsheimer, who wrote an article on the Ukrainian crisis published in the magazine Foreign Affairs last fall, said although Putin is not innocent, he is misunderstood. His involvement in Ukraine is a reaction to an increased Western presence near Russian borders, Mearsheimer said. “Putin is not bent on conquering Ukraine,” Mearsheimer said at the talk. “He is wrecking Ukraine and destroying it as a functioning society. We have two choices: the West backs off or (Russia continues) to try to make Ukraine part of the West by wrecking the country.” Dale Lehman, a member of Neighbors for Peace, said he felt the event was important to the organization’s mission of establishing peace in the international community. He said both speakers provided insight that the media and general public have not. “Mearsheimer is a very prominent professor and knowledgeable about U.S. foreign policy,” Lehman said. “We were lucky to get him. Rozoff has all kinds of credentials as an independent researcher who’s followed changes in NATO — things that slip through media without context.” Rozoff spoke on NATO’s growing threat as a military bloc, especially with talks in recent years to align the
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PEACE TALKS University of Chicago Prof. John Mearsheimer speaks at the Evanston Public Library about the Ukrainian crisis. He was one of two panelists at a talk hosted Saturday afternoon by local activist organization Neighbors for Peace.
organization with Ukraine. The panelist underlined the danger in NATO’s failed promises to stop its expansion. “Almost half of the countries in the world attended NATO’s last summit in Wales,” Rozoff told The Daily. “In 1991 if anyone had suggested this, they would be accused of being crazy.” Libby Frank, a Chicago resident who attended the event, said both speakers helped her understand the different actions of the United States and Russia that led to the crisis. “I don’t feel like I’m getting a real, true picture out of mainstream media
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