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Police: NU cameras net few concerns If evicted,
art center may not survive
By Edward Cox
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As the city encounters resistance from residents worried about plans to line the streets leading to Evanston Township High School with cameras, University Police say surveillance has become an integral enforcement tool that doesn’t raise too many privacy concerns. The 800 cameras around NU’s campuses have helped deter crime, identify suspects and strengthen the department’s enforcement tools, police said. The University will add more cameras upon completion of construction projects including the Music and Communication building and the North Campus Parking Structure. The cameras will be especially prevalent in the parking structures, with placement in elevator lobbies and throughout the parking levels. UP’s surveillance policy published in 2006 limits where cameras can be placed in on-campus housing facilities. In residence halls, cameras are located at entrance areas,UP deputy chief Dan McAleer said. In academic buildings, cameras are usually placed at the entrance of the buildings and sometimes in auditoriums, said Merrill Silverman, director of parking and university security systems. Cameras positioned at Ryan Field have high
By Kelly Gonsalves
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as the legal, social and political paradigm and specifically talking about the history of human rights in the U.S. and what happened in the 1940s and 50s and why we dismissed human rights for civil rights,” she said. “In the talk, I am going to argue that we should go back to human rights, and as an illustration, I’m going to use the Ashanti principle of Sankofa, which just means to go back and get it.” Jackson said she applied to speak because of her admiration for Northwestern and TED. “I’m a really proud alumna and I’ve always had this dream of participating in TED in some capacity,” she said. “I am an aspiring academic of human rights law, and the opportunity to share a central part of my research agenda with people from my undergraduate community was an opportunity I just couldn’t pass up.” She added that her talk will be dedicated to her favorite professor, the late Richard Iton. An African American studies professor, Iton died in April after battling leukemia for more than a decade. “He completely inspired me and helped me apply to law school,” she said. “He is one of my intellectual heroes.” Weinberg freshman Jackson Walker will also be speaking at the conference. His talk is titled, “Finding Your Long Lost Twin.”
Evanston City Council’s upcoming vote on terminating the lease of the Evanston Art Center’s current tenant of the Harley Clarke mansion, could put the organization completely out of business, a director said. The Human Services Committee approved a motion Monday night to terminate the art center’s lease on the mansion, which would require vacating the building within the next 240 days. City Council will vote on the motion at its next meeting Monday, and the decision will conclude months of heated and controversial debate surrounding the fate of the Harley Clarke mansion, 2603 Sheridan Road, and its tenant. “A vote for 240 days is basically a vote to close us down. That’s really what it comes down to,” said Keith Brown, Evanston Art Center’s director of education. At the meeting, the committee rejected the art center’s request for another two years in the building, which Brown said would be the minimum amount of time necessary to find a new location, raise money and move. He said the organization has spent the last two years talking to architects, calculating the square footage their new location would need and searching the commercial real estate market for possible spaces. Still, they have yet to find a viable option for a new location. “One of the things that’s frustrating is people don’t realize how much time it takes and how big of an art center we actually are,” Brown said. “If they vote 240 days, they’re doing major harm to the visual arts community in Evanston and our center. It’s questionable whether we’ll be able to bounce back from that.” He claimed the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago took 10 years to acquire, renovate and move into their current property. City manager Wally Bobkiewicz said the city has been helping the nonprofit find alternative sites for the last two years and is willing to continue offering assistance if needed. Citing the building’s continued deterioration, he said the city wants to find “long-term liability” for the building now that the art center has indicated it does not wish to remain in the building permanently. “We’ve been talking for the last two and a half years about next steps and making sure that the building is improved,” Bobkiewicz said. “In the meantime, the building is continuing to face the elements, and we want to make sure that as soon as possible we have a solution for the building to move forward.” Bobkiewicz has been working with the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, which last month expressed interest in using the mansion as office space for the federally-funded Coastal
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CAUGHT ON CAMERA The “Blue Light” telephone outside of Norris University Center is one of about 90 emergency telephones on campus. University Police has not seen a high level of privacy concerns regarding oncampus security cameras, some of which are located on top of the phones.
zoom capacity. Footage is also used to review car incidents in the school’s parking lots. “Sometimes it’s as simple as a car backing out that hit another car in the parking lot,” McAleer said. “We identify the vehicle that left the scene.” Cameras are also positioned at
each of about 90 emergency phone stations across campus, Silverman said. At a Northwestern fraternity, some students said they were uncomfortable with the position of cameras looking down a stairwell, McAleer said.
“The presence of the cameras themselves is a deterrent,” Silverman said. “If it doesn’t deter crime, it certainly will displace crime.” Police only review camera footage to detect criminal activity and not to » See SURVEILLANCE, page 10
Stradivarius violin 12 selected to speak at found in Milwaukee TEDxNorthwesternU By Ally Mutnick
By Tyler pager
A nearly 300-year-old Stradivarius violin stolen from Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music lecturer Frank Almond has been found in good condition, Milwaukee Police announced Thursday. The violin’s discovery comes just a day after police announced the arrest of three people in connection with the theft. The instrument was found Wednesday in a suitcase in the attic of a residence on the east side of Milwaukee, Police Chief Ed Flynn said at a news conference. The violin, known as the Lipinski Stradivarius, was taken from Almond on Jan. 27 as he was leaving a concert he played at Wisconsin Lutheran College. While walking to his car, Almond was shocked with a taser and fell to the ground. An anonymous owner lent the violin to Almond, who is the concertmaster of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra. At the news conference, investigators said the violin, which was made in 1715, was recovered safely. Police do not yet know the motive but they believe the three people arrested were acting alone. “We have not as yet, working with our federal partners, developed any information that indicates there was some scheme involving nefarious third parties of shadowy art crime organizations,” Flynn said.
The lineup for TEDxNorthwesternU 2014 has been finalized. Though the event organizers initially planned to have nine speakers, the quantity and quality of the applications led them to select 12. Co-director Nikita Ramanujam, a SESP junior, said the selection committee received 99 applications. “When we looked at the grand total, I was really astonished by how large that number was,” she said. “It was very difficult to narrow [it] down to nine, which is why we ended up picking 12 instead. We wouldn’t be doing justice to the Northwestern community by limiting only nine ideas.” TEDx events are independently organized and dedicated to “Ideas Worth Spreading,” the mission of nonprofit TED. TEDxNorthwesternU, will take place on April 12 in the McCormick Tribune Center Forum and have three sessions with four talks. The event will feature four students, four alumni and four faculty under the theme “Crossing Paths.” Marissa Jackson (Weinberg ‘06) is one of four alumni selected to speak. Jackson, a law clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals, titled her presentation “Human Rights, Sankofa and the Power of Paradigms.” “I’m talking about human rights
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Source: Mike De Sisti/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel/MCT
ORDEAL OVER A nearly 300year-old Stradivarius violin stolen from Bienen lecturer Frank Almond was found. Three people have been arrested in connection with the theft.
Police worked with the FBI Art Crime Team and Taser International to help located the individual who purchased the stun gun used to attack Almond. This, along with an anonymous tip, helped police identify the suspects. One of the suspects has a previous history of art theft. Salah Jones, who is currently in police custody, was convicted of stealing a $25,000 statue from a Milwaukee hotel in 1995. Almond has taught at NU since 2010. He will leave later this year to join the faculty of Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University, according to his website. He posted a message on Facebook account Thursday calling the news » See VIOLIN, page 10
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