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The Daily Northwestern Thursday, February 5, 2015
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Pot dispensary clears hurdle
Football
New recruiting class signs
Medical marijuana dispensary could come to Evanston
By BOBBY PILLOTE
daily senior staffer @BobbyPillote
CHICAGO — Coach Pat Fitzgerald seemed to be in high spirits Wednesday when he announced the signees of Northwestern football’s 2015 recruiting class. After a dramatic few days of buildup which saw two Wildcats recruits decommit from other schools, only to be replaced by other last-second commitments, there were no surprises Wednesday morning as all 20 players expected to sign National Letters of Intent for NU did just that. The Cats’ head coach was quick to rattle off statistics on the new class: nine players on offense and 11 on defense, 10 signees who played in state championship games, a team grade point average of 3.46 and two pairs of high school teammates. The pairs are offensive lineman Adam Lemke-Bell and quarterback Lloyd Yates from Oak Park River Forest High School in Oak Park, Illinois, and wide receiver Jelani Roberts and cornerback Alonzo Mayo from Gilman School in Baltimore, Maryland. The pair of signees from Maryland is unusual for NU. Fitzgerald attributed it to the Big Ten’s recent addition of Maryland and Rutgers
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By STEPHANIE KELLY
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Gov. Bruce Rauner on Monday authorized a company to take steps to open a medical marijuana dispensary in Evanston. A dispensary could be placed in Evanston by the end of the year, city manager Wally Bobkiewicz said. Now that Illinois has approved Pharmacaan LLC’s application to begin the licensing process for dispensaries in several regions in the state, the company “fully intends” to go forward with a dispensary at an Evanston location at 1800 Maple Ave., said Teddy Scott, Pharmacaan’s CEO. The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, which selects applicants for marijuana dispensaries, stopped accepting applications Sept. 22. Rauner’s office announced Monday a list of recommended applicants that can continue toward a dispensary license. The company’s application was the highest-scoring in the district containing Evanston, Scott said. More than 20 entities submitted
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NEW RECRUITS Pat Fitzgerald addresses media at Northwestern’s annual signing day press conference. The coach seemed excited to announce the 20 newest members of the Wildcats football team.
as member institutions. “We’ve always recruited New Jersey pretty hard,” he said Wednesday at a news conference in Chicago. “Now to get into Maryland and have some success … there’s no doubt expanding our conference is going to help Northwestern.” In addition to Roberts and Mayo,
the Cats pulled six players from warm-weather states: two from Georgia, two from Texas and two from California. Just five members of the class are from Illinois. With NU’s two last-minute recruit swaps, much of the press conference » See SIGNING DAY, page 6
applications for a dispensary in Evanston. In their state applications, companies needed to include letters of lease approval from the owners of the properties at which they hoped to open dispensaries. The city provided letters of lease approval to those who asked to include the location at 1800 Maple Ave. on their applications. “We basically took all comers,” Bobkiewicz told The Daily in September. Former Gov. Pat Quinn’s “Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program Act,” effective Evanston, we Jan. 1, 2014, restricted the believe, is one number of of those places dispensaries allowed in that is on the geographic progressive side areas. The law allows of things and only one more opendispensary in the area minded. containing Teddy Scott, Evanston Pharmacaan CEO and Niles Township. Pharmacaan still needs to go through the state’s process to officially obtain a license for a dispensary in Evanston. The state has set up a four-step process, and Pharmacaan
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» See MARIJUANA, page 6
OBON author talks stereotypes ASG backs ‘yes means yes’ proposal By MARIANA ALFARO
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By EMILY CHIN
the daily northwestern
Associated Student Government Senate voted Wednesday to change its constitution by adding an article about the organization’s non-discrimination policy. The addition, which will be the first article listed in the constitution, says ASG does not discriminate or permit discrimination by any member or its community. Although the change does not affect what ASG does, it tells people what ASG’s frame of mind is, said Petros Karahalios, Rainbow Alliance Senator. “Putting this in the constitution does not give ASG any structure, but the symbolism is important,” the Weinberg senior said. He first brought the amendment to Senate two weeks ago. An idea can have a huge impact, just as the movement to change Facebook profile pictures to red equal signs did on the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage discussion two years ago, he said. ASG also passed a resolution to urge the Illinois General Assembly to pass an active consent law, commonly known as “yes means yes” legislation, on college campuses. California Gov.
Jerry Brown passed a similar law in September, requiring all college students to receive active consent before engaging in sexual activity. ASG’s Community Relations Committee is going to bring up the issue when they lobby in Springfield, Illinois, later this month. The resoluion a ls o Putting this in tencourages the constitution the University to push does not for new legisgive ASG any lation regardstructure, but ing active the symbolism consent. ASG also is important. decided to allocate Petros Karahalios, money from Rainbow Alliance t he Wi l d Senator Ideas Fund to fund four student events. Of the $25,000 the fund received at the beginning of the year, they have gone through a couple thousand dollars. Senate voted to fund the Muslim-cultural Students Association’s “Nation of Islam” event, a collaborative scavenger hunt and WAVE
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» See SENATE, page 6
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More than 200 students and community members gathered Wednesday at Harris Hall to listen to One Book One Northwestern author Claude Steele speak about the issue of identity and stereotype threat. Steele is a social psychologist and author of “Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do,” the One Book One Northwestern book selection for the 20142015 school year. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Education and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and currently serves as the executive vice chancellor and provost at the University of California, Berkeley. During his keynote address, he said his mission is to talk about stereotype threat and how it affects our daily lives. Through years of research, Steele came to understand the magnitude of the damage caused by our perception of the roles we choose and our performance in them. He calls this the underperformance phenomenon, which he defines as what happens when people do worse in something they’re usually good at because they are afraid of what others believe. “One of the lessons we got from
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EXPLAINING STEREOTYPES “Whistling Vivaldi” author Claude Steele autographs books after his keynote speech. Steele, a social psychologist, spoke about stereotype threat and how it influences daily life.
this research is how important the immediate context is for a person with regards to how we behave and how we function,” he said. Steele said he first grappled with this issue at the University of Michigan and realized black students there with high SAT scores performed worse than their classmates with similar SAT scores. “I kind of assumed to that point
that if you’d gotten everybody similarly or equally prepared for academic work at that level, that they would perform pretty much the same,” he said. “There shouldn’t be too much of a reason for a difference, but that wasn’t happening. It was an attempt to understand why that wasn’t happening that started » See ONE BOOK, page 6
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