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The Daily Northwestern Tuesday, October 22, 2013
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Bobkiewicz named interim supervisor By PATRICK SVITEK
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DROPPED CHARGERS University Library is no longer distributing chargers for Apple laptops after students stole chargers or replaced them with previously broken ones. The charger program is on hold while the library and Associated Student Government determine whether there is funding available to continue the program.
Library halts charger loans By EDWARD COX
daily senior staffer @edwardcox16
Students without laptop chargers in University Library will find their Apple computer batteries on life support after the circulation desk’s last available rental charger came back broken last week. The library began loaning out chargers last year in an endeavor supported by more than $1,000 from the Associated Student Government project funding pool. Since then, however, the chargers have either come back broken or ended up missing, circulation services supervisor Alice Tippit said. Problems regarding the chargers surfaced Spring Quarter, when some students did not return them to the library’s circulation desk. Other chargers broke because of wear and tear, Tippit said. In the spring, the circulation desk received broken chargers whose bar codes had been replaced with those of other chargers, Tippit said. After this happened multiple times during the Reading Period following Spring Quarter, Tippit said she realized the initial theft was not an isolated incident. Three chargers ended up missing in this manner, she said. She added two others were never
returned and two were broken. “People noticed it would be easy to trick us and put a charger in there that is broken,” Tippit said. “That happened three times, which I find shocking when someone does something like that.” Since circulation desk staff members noticed some students were replacing the library’s chargers with broken ones, they began People noticed marking the charit would be easy gers with to trick us and pen. ASG put a charger allocated in there that is $300 toward the broken. chargers in January Alice Tippit, circulation services 2012 to jumpstart supervisor the charger rental program. About a year later, it bought more chargers for University Library when the library noted demand for the devices had increased, ASG executive vice president Alex Van Atta said. Three more chargers for Windows laptops for Mudd Science and Engineering Library were purchased in February, along with one more for University Library.
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Students borrowing laptop chargers must present their WildCARDs to be scanned at the desk before receiving a charger. The University Library is now considering purchasing replacement chargers itself instead of asking ASG to contribute additional funds, Tippit said. She said the library had initially waited for about nine months until ASG’s support for the rental program materialized into Mac chargers. ASG and the library have yet to collaborate on a plan to address the issue of missing or stolen chargers, she said. “The reaction of students (to the missing chargers) is disappointment,” Tippit said. “It’s clear they came with the expectation to borrow one.” Van Atta said handing over the responsibility of funding the chargers is ideal because it fits the purpose of ASG-sponsored projects garnering full University backing. “If she thinks that’s something the library should do then that’s great and a perfect example of how the project pool should work,” the McCormick senior said. “It’s a way we can fund some, if you think about it, a start-up project, something somebody thinks might work that we can put money towards.” edwardcox2011@u.northwestern.edu
The Evanston Township board Monday night appointed city manager Wally Bobkiewicz to replace Gary Gaspard, the township supervisor who resigned abruptly last week. The trustees, who also serve as aldermen, voted 7-3 to name Bobkiewicz the interim supervisor and task Evonda Thomas-Smith, the city’s health department director, with the day-to-day duties of the part-time job. The township, which has the same boundaries as the city, handles general assistance for the needy and offers tax advice to residents. Trustees Judy Fiske, Peter Braithwaite and Don Wilson opposed the move, with Braithwaite and Wilson wanting to wait a week to fill the position. Evanston Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl voted in favor of Bobkiewicz’s appointment. Gaspard’s resignation went into effect Friday, less than five months after he was elected. He cited the time commitment of the job as his reason for leaving the post in a letter sent Thursday to Tisdahl and city clerk Rodney Greene. On Monday night, Ald. Jane Grover (7th) urged the township board to replace Gaspard as soon as possible. “I worry that for those clients of
ours of the township, those are people who fall through cracks, and I don’t want them falling through this crack in the lapse of a township supervisor,” Grover said. But Wilson called any appointment Monday night “premature,” saying trustees owe their constituents more time to explain the fast-moving situation and possibly recruit other candidates. “I think the residents deserve to have someone advocate for them,” Braithwaite said. Ald. Ann Rainey (8th) emerged as the most vocal opponent of Wilson’s suggestion, asking him what harm there would be in appointing familiar faces like Bobkiewicz and ThomasSmith while the township searches for a permanent supervisor. Wilson balked at her remarks, replying, “Did I say there was any harm in it? Did I say there’s no need?” Evanston resident Mary Baker, who frequently interrupted the trustees as they discussed Gaspard’s replacement, told them they were acting too fast by picking Bobkiewicz. “We have not been given the opportunity to have our say,” she said. Baker was one of a few speakers who hinted at unfinished business from Gaspard’s tenure. In her first public comments on her former colleague’s departure, township assessor » See TOWNSHIP, page 7
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FILLING A VACANCY Evanston Township assessor Bonnie Wilson speaks against dissolving the township at the special town board meeting Monday. The meeting was called in light of the recent resignation of township supervisor Gary Gaspard.
Evanston police arrest 2 men in Craigslist scam Cops: Men took $5,000 from Skokie resident last week By PATRICK SVITEK
daily senior staffer @PatrickSvitek Source: Evanston Police Department
David Adams, Martell Henderson
Posing as potential buyers, Evanston
Serving the University and Evanston since 1881
police Friday evening made two arrests in connection with a botched deal to buy a car off Craigslist. Martell Henderson, 27, and David Adams, 23, are accused of robbing a Skokie man who thought he was heading to purchase the vehicle Tuesday in the 900 block of Monroe Street in Evanston. They held the man at knife point and took $5,000 from him, according to police. At about 6 p.m. Friday, an undercover
team of investigators arranged another meeting with Adams and Henderson in the 7800 block of Kedvale Avenue in Skokie, Evanston Police Cmdr. Diane Davis said. One of the men lured the investigators to the rear of the location, where he tried to rob one of the investigators at knife point. Davis said the other man emerged and punched an investigator in the face. After a brief chase, the investigators revealed their identities and took
the men into custody. The investigator who was punched in the face was not injured, Davis said. Henderson, of the 5600 block of South Ashland Avenue in Chicago, and Adams, of the 18000 block of Dejong Lane in Lansing, Ill., have been charged with armed robbery. They are scheduled to appear in court Nov. 1. patricksvitek2014@u.northwestern.edu
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