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A Northwestern graduate student will likely sue the University within the next month alleging that his Title IX rights were violated, the student’s lawyer said in court on Thursday. News about the potential suit surfaced during a status hearing for a different Title IX lawsuit against NU, which was filed in February by a Medill junior. Attorneys for the junior and NU met in court for the first time Thursday. Kevin O’Connor, the students’ attorney, asked to amend the original lawsuit to include the graduate student’s complaint that his rights under Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which prohibits sex discrimination in higher education, were violated in the aftermath of being sexually assaulted by an NU professor. Because the two cases involve different students and professors, the judge requested the suits be filed separately. O’Connor said he hopes to file the second complaint as soon as possible so as not to delay the process if it is necessary. Although he plans to go through the same procedure as with the previous Title IX lawsuit, which includes engaging in negotiations with
the University prior to moving forward with the lawsuits, he said there is a high likelihood the complaint will be filed. O’Connor said he plans to amend the initial complaint to include updated information from NU which demonstrated inaccuracies in the initial lawsuit. Currently, the suit claims that NU acted with “deliberate indifference and retaliation” while handling the undergraduate’s complaint that she was sexually assaulted by philosophy Prof. Peter Ludlow. The University moved to dismiss the suit and claimed that NU appropriately punished Ludlow after an internal investigation found him in violation of the school’s sexual misconduct policy. “We are always willing to talk to students but Northwestern’s position is laid out accurately and in detail in its answer in this case,” Ellen Babbitt, NU’s attorney, said Thursday. “We’re looking forward to the amended complaint to see if there are any changes. We’re willing to talk, but we do feel very strongly that our position’s correct, but it’s a difficult situation so we always keep the lines of communication open.” The updated claim must be submitted by June 5 and the University must respond by June 19. A second status » See title ix, page 7
Participants at the “Living Library” checked out stories Thursday at Norris University Center, but told by people instead of books. The event, sponsored by the Fiedler Hillel Center, Interfaith Advocates, Sustained Dialogue, Muslim-cultural Students Association and Sexual Health and Assault Peer Educators, was organized in an effort to bring new people together and explore diversity at Northwestern. “Readers” at the event had five to 10 minute conversations with other students with a variety of personal stories. The Living Library had about 20 students who volunteered as “books.” Some of the titles available were “Multicultural Greek,” “A Writer of Color” and “Student Athlete,” all correlating with students’ stories. Weinberg sophomore Ryan Kenney, the lead organizer of the event, said he got the idea from a “Living Library” he encountered at the Global Engagement Summit in Turkey last spring. He said he piloted the event in March at NU to a smaller group, but this was the first time the University held one open to the general community. “What we’re just trying to do is create a comfortable, safe platform for people to engage in a dialogue with someone that they normally wouldn’t have a chance to talk to about an aspect of someone’s identity that they care a lot about,” he said. Refreshments were provided for readers who checked out one book from the
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live and learn Students gathered at Norris University Center on Thursday for a “Living Library,” an event put on to promote the sharing of different perspectives from people of diverse backgrounds on campus.
Living Library, and readers who checked out three books received a free T-shirt. Weinberg junior Jon Cohen talked to Pleshette Strong about her story, “Complimentary Contradictions.” Strong, a Communication junior, shared her narrative
about growing up on the South Side of Chicago. Cohen said the pair found a lot in common to talk about and the event gave him ideas for a similar program he » See library, page 7
Beauty students host fundraiser EPD to conduct several By alice yin
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‘stop it before it happens’ Alicia Kozakiewicz discusses her hope for working to end child abductions and exploitation. Kozakiewicz, a victim of a kidnapping, attended the Cut-AThon as a guest speaker.
Cosmetology students gave haircuts for 12 hours on Thursday at an Evanston beauty school as part of an annual Cut-A-Thon fundraiser to support the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Dressed in green, the national color symbolizing missing children, students provided haircuts and skin care services at the Evanston campus of Pivot Point Academy, 1560 Sherman Ave., to both walk-in customers and those who made appointments. All proceeds went to NCMEC, which is celebrating its 30th year in providing resources to those affected by child abduction and exploitation. Alicia Kozakiewicz spoke at the event about preventing child abduction and exploitation and shared her personal story as a survivor. In 2002, 13-yearold Kozakiewicz was kidnapped in her
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hometown of Pittsburgh by a man who contacted her online. After being rescued by FBI agents, she began an effort to spread awareness and preventative measures. “It’s sometimes difficult to share my story,” Kozakiewicz told The Daily. “But that’s the point, to stop it before it happens. No matter how many kids I speak to, no matter how many families … it’s all about that one family, that one child who doesn’t have to go through this anymore.” In 2013, roughly 400,000 children were reported missing in the United States. There was a more than 1,000 percent increase in child sex trafficking reports from 2004 to 2008, according to the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force. “We’re hoping at some point we won’t even have to have these organizations when we’re able to really support and selfmonitor so we don’t have to have these things happen,” said Melanie Kopeikin, » See cut-a-thon, page 7
Memorial Day campaigns By julian gerez and sophia bollag
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The Evanston Police Department will conduct several campaigns to ensure safety over Memorial Day weekend. The “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” traffic enforcement campaign seeks to reduce alcohol-related traffic fatalities during major holidays when impaired driving fatalities tend to be higher, according to the EPD’s website. “The whole idea is to deter people from drinking and driving,” Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said. As a part of this campaign, the EPD will be conducting a roadside safety checkpoint in the 1400 block of Chicago Avenue from Saturday night to Sunday. The campaign is intended to raise awareness of the dangers of driving while intoxicated or distracted. Traffic Bureau
Sgt. Tracy Williams said he hopes awareness of the increased police force will deter people from drinking and driving. “The police are going to be out in force,” Williams said. “So it hopefully makes people think twice before committing traffic violations.” The Illinois Department of Transportation provided the funding for the increased police force over the weekend. IDOT also provides funding for efforts to deter drunk driving over other holiday weekends, including New Year’s, St. Patrick’s Day, Labor Day and the Fourth of July, Williams said. Additionally, IDOT will suspend non-emergency road construction in order to improve traffic flow during the weekend. Bridge Street from McCormick Boulevard to Brown Street in Evanston is among the locations where permanent lane closures will remain in place, according the IDOT website. » See memorial day, page 7
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Around Town Klein asks for apology after Chabad House menorah knocked over
Rabbi Dov Hillel Klein called for an apology Thursday after the menorah outside the Tannenbaum Chabad House was damaged for the second time in four years. Over the weekend, an unknown person tipped over the large metal menorah, shattering a light bulb of the nine-branched candelabra, according to Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott. Parrott said Wednesday police were reviewing surveillance tape of the incident, but there was no indication that the damage was a hate crime. When he found the overturned menorah, Klein hoped it was the wind. “Unfortunately it was not,� Klein wrote in an email to The Daily. “It just is a reminder that our job educating each other to embrace diversity is still not over. I look forward to participating in a conversation that addresses the diversity of our faiths and the meaning that different symbols represent with in them.� Four years ago when the menorah was defaced, Klein told The Daily the incident was definitely a hate crime, describing it as “deliberate.� Police never categorized the vandalism as a hate crime. — Cat Zakrzewski
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Biss’ retirement savings bill clears committee, heads to full Senate
A bill sponsored by state Sen. Daniel Biss (D-Evanston) that would make it easier for some residents to create retirement savings plans can now be considered by the full Illinois House of Representatives after a committee approved the bill Thursday. The bill would allow employees at businesses larger than 25 people that have operated for more than two years to create a savings account that would invest 3 percent of all paychecks the worker earns. Employees would be able to change the investment rate or opt out of the program whenever they choose. “The need to address our looming retirement crisis is urgent; there are 2.5 million Illinois workers likely to retire into poverty because they lack access to retirement accounts through their employers,� Biss said in a news release. “The good news is that this solution costs government and employers nothing and actually gives small businesses a boost by letting them compete for the best hires with larger companies that can afford retirement benefits.� Businesses would not have to manage the savings accounts; the entire program would be run by the state. The savings account would follow
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Police Blotter Man with gun reported on Hartrey Avenue An Evanston resident reported a man with a gun Tuesday afternoon in the 1900 block of Hartrey Avenue. The resident, 45, called police after 4 p.m., Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said. The woman told police a teenager she knew approached her outside of her house to ask a question, and then displayed a handgun.
The teenager then fled the scene, Parrott said. Detectives are investigating the incident.
Chicago man arrested in connection with drug possession Evanston police arrested a Chicago man Wednesday in connection with possession of drug paraphernalia and possession of a controlled substance.
Police responded to a report of a man with a gun at the intersection of Chicago Avenue and South Boulevard. Officers stopped a group of individuals nearby in the 600 block of Main Street at about 1:30 a.m. Police recovered a pipe and 21 Xanax pills in the backpack of a Chicago resident, 18. He is scheduled to appear in court June 4.
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NYU economics prof talks economic development
The event, co-sponsored by One Book One Northwestern, The Roberta Buffett Center, the Program of African Studies, the Global Engagement Summit and Northwestern University Conference on Human Rights, featured William Easterly and drew about 120 people to Harris Hall. Easterly, who is a professor of economics at New York University, has written two other books on foreign aid including “The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill
and So Little Good.� Brian Hanson, interim director of the Buffett Center, said Easterly’s provocative arguments on foreign aid and international development compelled the sponsors to host the talk as the final program related to the theme of 2013’s One Book One Northwestern, “The Last Hunger Season.� “He presents strong arguments forcefully and calls on us to think critically about international development,� said Hanson, who also serves as the faculty chair of One Book One Northwestern. Easterly opened his talk by describing the problems with the conventional approach to international development. “The technocratic approach to development gives us a long list of technical solutions to technical problems,� he said. “I want to argue that this approach to development is completely wrong.� Easterly said the focus on developing technical aid policies is not what will lead to actual development and equality for poor people. “We really care a lot about the material well-being of the poor, and that’s great, but it seems like we don’t care enough about the rights and the dignity of the poor,� he said. Easterly said foreign aid organizations like the World Bank and the United States Agency for International Development are insufficient in furthering progress because they give too much credit to “benevolent autocrats� for small victories. “Whenever anything good happens in a country, you automatically give all the credit to the autocrat who happened to be in power at the time,� Easterly said.
In support of his claim, Easterly cited Meles Zenawi, the former Prime Minister of Ethiopia, for receiving praise from western aid organizations for a short period of economic growth that Easterly said actually came from the country’s recovery from a drought. “All of these people praising him are ignoring direct evidence that he is doing bad things to the people of Ethiopia,� Easterly said. “Autocracy is a system that rewards the most ruthless and bloodthirsty who will be successful at staying in power. That’s not going to lead to a benevolent leader.� Instead, Easterly advocated a system of development based on supporting the rights of the people oppressed by autocratic regimes. “The rights and dignity of poor people are not only good things in and of themselves, but they are the things that fundamentally make development happen,� Easterly said. Mark Specht, a member of NUCHR, said Easterly’s talk addressed many issues the group is interested in. “It’s important to recognize that the top-down solutions experts are fond of imposing don’t always take into account the rights of the poor,� the Weinberg senior said. In a question-and-answer session following his speech, Easterly addressed questions about America’s role in furthering the equality of oppressed people. “It’s a delusion that you can force people to be free,� he said. “Freedom is a homegrown movement. It should not be coerced from ‘experts’ outside.�
kept getting overshadowed by one issue: Israel. A student activist had asked candidates for all undergraduate student council offices to sign a pledge that they would not take trips to that Middle Eastern country under the sponsorship of three pro-Israel lobbying groups. “It seemed unnecessary,� Singh said, adding: “We spent a lot of time talking about what we thought about Israel.� Activists were successful in getting 17 of the
approximately 30 contenders to sign the promise, saying they wanted the candidates’ positions about Israel on the record. Singh and others felt that a small group of students had tried to bully them. Singh lost by 31 votes to a candidate who signed the pledge saying he wouldn’t take trips sponsored by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the Anti-Defamation League or Hasbara Fellowships. The winner, Devin Murphy, could not be reached for comment.
The issue — part of a broader movement in Europe and on college campuses here opposing Israel’s policies — has roiled the Westwood school. Although the new board already has taken office, administrators and others say that the effects of the election linger and that they want to take steps to re-establish a civil tone and prevent the polarization that the pledge engendered.
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‘freedom is a homegrown movement’ New York University economics Prof. William Easterly talks at Harris Hall on Thursday. The lecture, part of the One Book One Northwestern program, discussed the problems with the organization of global economic development.
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An economist and author spoke Wednesday on human rights and foreign aid in a talk titled, “The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor,� based on his book of the same name.
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It’s time for U.S. to abolish the death penalty
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SAM Douglas
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It is high time that executions in the United States be ended. Are we so anachronistic that we must support the killing of our fellow citizens? On April 29, Clayton Lockett was executed in Oklahoma with an untested drug cocktail — one that could not kill him because of a collapsed vein at the injection site. Lockett “struggled violently, groaned and writhed, lifting his shoulders and head from the gurney,” according to an article in the Guardian, and died 43 minutes after the initial injection. In light of this, we must question our use of this tool as punishment and deterrent. Amnesty International USA cited the botched execution as “one of the starkest examples yet of why the death penalty must be abolished.” The leader of the Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty said the state had “tortured a human being in an unconstitutional experimental act of evil.” Supporting their arguments with suggestions that death row is more comfortable than some people’s tough lives outside of prison, or that the prepared meals and structured schedule hardly provide a deterrent for prospective murderers, people in power have made claims about necessity of capital punishment. One of these individuals, Tennesse Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey, stated in December 2013 that “in order to protect innocent human life from sociopaths and predators, we as a society must have the moral courage to take action” in the form of mixing our death potions and practicing for ourselves the skilled and oxymoronic art of killing killers. I do not deny that the people on death row must be imprisoned and punished, but I am deeply troubled by the claim that the only way to protect innocent life is for these murderers themselves to be killed. Why should we lower our moral standards to those of people we deem fit for imprisonment? The eye-for-an-eye argument may have worked with Hammurabi, but why should we be content living in a society three thousand years later in which the same philosophy holds sway? Have we not grown? Of course, the grief a family feels with the loss of a loved one at the hands of another human cannot be underestimated: I cannot imagine it and I hope that I never have to experience it. For some of these people, execution is a final solace and vengeance. However, many families find the death penalty complicates the grieving process, keeping them trapped in a seemingly endless cycle of trials and appeals, often lasting two decades or more. Why not spend the hundreds of millions of dollars devoted to capital punishment on helping families deal with their grief and healing? In California alone, taxpayers pay $90,000 more per year for a prisoner on death row than they do for one who is not sentenced to die. What if our court system provided victim support for families affected by these heinous crimes? According to Amnesty International, 140 countries worldwide have abolished or do not practice capital punishment. In Europe, the only country that continues to employ the death penalty is Belarus. What will it take for the United States to reach a similar appreciation for human life? Must we have the “moral courage” to execute criminals? I believe moral courage comes not in thirsting for vengeful bloodletting, but in recognition of a person’s humanity, no matter how beneath one’s morals he or she appears to be. It is not courage to exact revenge; it is courage to acknowledge someone’s right to life even when he or she has fallen short at the expense of others. Sam Douglas is a Communication sophomore. He can be reached at samueldouglas2016@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.
I hail from Austin, Texas, and while I am extremely proud of my hometown, I am saddened by our lack of professional sports teams. We are the largest city in the country without a pro team (a statistic that I have touted several times to my friends). When I was growing up, the University of Texas Longhorns were all I needed. The entire town of Austin (well, except for those weird Texas A&M fans) rallied behind the Longhorns. But when I started at Northwestern, I became jealous of those with hometown pro teams. There was a girl on my floor freshman year from Green Bay, Wisconsin, and her room was decked out in Packers gear. Conversations would erupt at Hillel between New York Jews and whether they supported the Yankees or Mets. My boyfriend grew up a Cleveland Browns and Indians fan, and although our relationship might fall apart now that the Browns drafted the dreaded Aggie Johnny Manziel, I admire his loyal support of his hometown teams. When I told my friends that I had no pro team allegiance, they wondered why I didn’t just pick another Texas team, like the Dallas Cowboys (whom my Dallas-born mother taught me to hate after Jerry Jonestook over), San Antonio Spurs or Houston Astros. When you live in a city as big (and awesome) as Austin, you just don’t feel a connection to other large cities in your area. It would be like asking someone from Philadelphia to root for
the Pittsburgh Steelers, or a Chicagoan to root for the Indiana Pacers — it just doesn’t make cultural or geographical sense. So when April of freshman year rolled around, I took the opportunity to purchase tickets for NU Day at Wrigley. Despite going to numerous Texas baseball and football games growing up, this was my first pro game ever. I was ecstatic to go to Wrigley Field for a mere $15 and sing “Take Me Out to the Ballgame,” while literally eating Cracker Jack. While preparing to go to the game, I realized becoming a Cubs fan would give me a greater connection to my adopted home city that had taken me in for college. It was then that I decided to take the plunge and become a Cubs fan. I bought my Cubs hat at Campus Gear, and I was set to “adopt” the Chicago Cubs as my pro team. People ask me why I chose the Cubs out of all pro teams (these people are mostly White Sox fans). First of all, Wrigley Field is a magical place. Despite its old bleachers and meager concessions, it is quite the experience to see a hand-operated scoreboard. It isn’t filled with giant billboards like other stadiums (I’m looking at you, U.S. Cellular). It feels old-fashioned and homey, like the ballpark in “Field of Dreams.” The Cubs also have an admirable history of being “lovable losers.” I have always rooted for the underdog, and the Cubs never fail to disappoint. When I became a Cubs fan, no one could blame me for being a
fair-weather fan. But sometimes, I feel alienated from the loyal Cubs fanbase. I’ve only been there for the Cubs’ recent upswing, with Jeff Samardzija being one of the best pitchers in the league and my favorite player and Darwin Barney trending on Twitter. I didn’t grow up hearing about Cubs legends like Greg Maddux and Ryne Sandberg, both Hall of Famers. I hadn’t heard of the “Steve Bartman incident” until about seven years after it happened. When I feel weird about being an “adoptive” Cubs fan, I have to remind myself that being a fan is not just about where you are born and what team you grew up with. It is about staying loyal to your team. I believe that I have proven myself a loyal Cubs fan, from visiting Wrigley Field three times in two years to wearing my Cubs gear to U.S. Cellular Field (and getting booed). I feel proud to call myself a Cubs fan and identify with my new home city of Chicago. Go Cubbies! Meredith Goodman is a Weinberg junior. She can be reached at meredithgoodman2015@u.northwestern. edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.
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Don’t squander away your summer katy vines
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By this time, almost everyone at Northwestern is looking forward to the end of the quarter because summer is just around the corner. We cannot wait to stay up all night with friends, sleep all day, watch Netflix and have few responsibilities compared to the number we have during the school year. But summer should be about more than just being lazy, and there are so many useful ways we can spend our time. A great way to spend the summer is to do the things that you don’t have time for during the school year. This can be the simplest of things, such as spending quality time with your family. Most NU students live on campus or near campus, away from home, which can cause students to develop independence from their family. This, combined with the general tendency to treat summer as one big party, can often hinder students from devoting enough time to family. Summer break provides three whole months to catch up with immediate and distant family that you
would not otherwise have time to see during the school year. Another activity that is seldom practiced during the school year is reading for fun. Before starting college, I was constantly reading a book for my own pleasure; as soon as I finished one, I would start a new one. However, at NU, each of my classes gave out required readings and other homework assignments every night. Combined with all of the other activities and opportunities on campus, these obligations left little time for independent reading. I’m excited to have three whole months during which I can spend my day reading without worrying about other impending responsibilities or obligations. One of the most common summer activities for college students is to find a temporary job. This is a great idea because many students do not have the time to dedicate to a job during the school year, but the benefits of having a job are immense. Jobs teach specific skills that can be used later on in careers such as customer service and money-handing, as well as more general skills like punctuality and responsibility. This can all be great practice for the future, without the burden of juggling both the job and school. Finally, while we all love to go to parties
and hang out with friends over the summer, there are other, more beneficial ways of doing so. Summer break provides an opportunity to travel and discover more about people and the world. Travelling is a perfect way to spend time with friends while also enriching your life. In a few years we will all graduate and move on to the “real” world with careers and then families. This summer, we are old enough to travel without our parents and young enough to not have very many responsibilities. There is so much to see in our country and in the world, and the best time to see everything is right now. This summer is overflowing with potential for greatness. Whether it is as simple as reading a book or as complex as planning a trip to see all of Europe, the break can truly be more enriching than lying in bed all day watching the television. Make the most of this summer by making time for the things you aren’t able to do during the other nine months of the year when class is in session. Katy Vines is a Weinberg freshman. She can be reached at kaitlynvines2017@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.
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A University of Michigan oncology professor spoke Thursday night at Northwestern about current cancer treatments and the future possibilities of stem cell research. About 50 people attended Dr. Max Wicha’s lecture, “Cancer Stem Cells: Are We Targeting the Right Cells?”, part of the biannual Silverstein Lecture Series sponsored by the Center for Genetic Medicine. Wicha, who specializes in breast cancer research, used his experience researching the disease to explain how current cancer treatments can sometimes be useless and even detrimental to patients’ progress. “I would like to see us move beyond the current therapies we use, such as chemotherapy and radiation therapy,” Wicha said. “Although they can be helpful, they don’t hit the most important cells in cancer: stem cells.” Although a woman today has a 25 percent lower chance of dying from breast cancer than in 1990, he said the cancer is often never fully eradicated and therefore returns later for many women. Wicha said the key to treating cancer lies in stem cells. “Stem cells have the property of self-renewal,” he said. “Stem cells can keep making copies of themselves. They can differentiate and form all of the specialized cells in your body.” Wicha then explained the two basic models of how cancers develop: the stochastic model and the cancer stem cell model. He said the first model is the one that has been traditionally used by scientists and doctors when studying cancer. The stochastic model compares cancer cell spread to evolution, where most cells can form new tumors and every cell is equally malignant. In contrast, the second model argues that only stem cells have the ability to proliferate extensively and form new tumors. Wicha said he and his colleagues ran a variety of experiments to test the cancer stem cell hypothesis. He pointed to an instance when they tested the effects of normal cancer cells and stem cells on mice. Wicha said the mice inoculated with 200 cancerous stem cells developed tumors, although those with 20,000
regular cancer cells did not. “Science has traditionally only focused on nontumorigenic cancer cells,” he said. “The deadly part of all cancers is not the primary cancer. It’s the spread of cancers to Stem cells have the distant organs.” property of self-renewal. In Stem cells can keep making order for a cancer copies of themselves. to be Dr. Max Wicha, comUniversity of Michigan prof. pletely eradicated, Wicha said all of the cells — particularly stem cells — need to be destroyed. He said contrary to popular belief, shrinking cancerous tumors does little to help. If even a few stem cells are left behind, the tumor will simply regenerate. Wicha added scientists are currently looking at combining an anti-stem cell agent with an agent inhibiting tumor growth in order to better treat cancer and stop stem cells from forming and spreading. “Virtually all cancers have these cancer stem cells,” he said. “What’s really exciting is these pathways that drive these cells in one type often drive it in another type as well, so we’re really excited to study that.” Molecular biosciences Prof. Greg Beitel, associate director of the Center for Genetic Medicine, said he chose Wicha as the series’ lecturer because he felt the topic was relevant and “becoming increasingly prominent.” “It’s an important emerging area of cancer treatment, and so I went looking for an expert in the field,” he said. “Dr. Wicha is not only that, but also somebody who is able to present it to the public in an accessible way.” Skokie resident Muriel Furlager, 64, said she and her husband, Hillel Furlager, attended the lecture because of her personal experience with stem cell treatment, having previously received a transplant to treat her lymphoma. “I wanted to learn more about how cancer cells operate,” she said.
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Fight For Freedom hosts 24-hour awareness campaign By Katherine richter
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Northwestern students are holding posters and handing out flyers by The Rock for 24 hours beginning Thursday afternoon to take a stance against the presence of modern-day slavery and raise awareness about the issue. The Fight For Freedom Project, a campus organization that seeks to spread awareness of the size of global slave populations, organized the campaign using the slogan “One Day for Their Everyday.” The event, Stand for Freedom, is raising funds for Anne’s House, a residential service within the Salvation Army called “Partnership To Rescue Our Minors From Sexual Exploitation” Program. The movement is also focused on engaging the NU campus on the issue. Passersby can sign a petition to move the Human Trafficking Prioritization Act forward. Enough support for the petition could elevate the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons into the status of a bureau in the State Department, which would put slavery on the same plane as several other human rights concerns. Stand for Freedom is partnered with the International Justice Mission, a leading group of the movement to end slavery, said SESP sophomore Kyle Sebastian, Fight For Freedom events chair. Sebastian said last year’s event was a “grassroots effort.” The event lasted for 27 hours, with students holding signs to denote the United Nations’ estimate of 27 million enslaved individuals globally, he said. This year, the global estimate has risen to a range
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standing for freedom A student takes part in the 24-hour campaign organized in an effort to raise awareness about modern-day slavery. The Fight for Freedom Project organized the event, which is running from Thursday through Friday afternoon.
of 20 million to 30 million, the latter number being a “conservative estimate,” Sebastian said. India remains an especially problematic area, he added. In Chicago alone, 14,500 to 25,000 individuals are enslaved annually, which constitutes a large percentage of the 200,000 enslaved individuals nationwide,
Sebastian said. “I wasn’t actually aware of any of this a year and a half ago. America stands for freedom and if we have slavery in our borders, that’s a huge problem,” Sebastian said. “It makes everything we stand for invalid.”
which handed the intelligence community broad surveillance authority after the 2001 terrorist attacks and has now begun, haltingly, to rein it in. The legislation imposes important new limits on the bulk collection of telephone records, one of the most controversial aspects of the government’s heightened data-collection efforts, and requires warrants for individual collection of records. Critics of the bill say last-minute changes requested by the White House had watered down its privacy protections. But the vote by an overwhelming 303 lawmakers from both parties, Congress’ first legislative response to the Snowden revelations, still marked a sharp rebuke of the NSA. Wisconsin Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, the Republican who shepherded the 2001 USA
Patriot Act that was used to broaden NSA surveillance activities, said the restrictions approved Thursday were an attempt to close loopholes and impose limits after government intelligence agencies misused the powers granted by Congress. “The NSA might still be watching us,” the 18-term lawmaker said after the vote. “But now we can watch them.” In the future, he said, “if the NSA goes too far, Congress will be able to stop it and the American public will be able to know what the NSA is doing.” Rep. Robert W. Goodlatte, R-Va., chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said the shift in lawmakers’ attitudes toward the NSA shouldn’t come as a surprise in light of the agency’s actions. “They used (the Patriot Act) for purposes
By raising funds for a Chicago group that targets modern-day trafficking domestically, such as Anne’s House, Sebastian said the issue becomes more tangible. “We wanted to take the issue and bring it closer to home,” Sebastian said. “The smaller scale of [Anne’s House] makes it easier to grasp.” The Fight For Freedom Project was founded in 2011 by Judith Kim and aims to spread the word about modern-day slavery to form a thoughtful and effective response to the issue, according to the organization’s website. Yu Sun Chin, president of the Fight for Freedom Project, explained how labor and sex slavery are normalized in the victims’ lives, and said raising awareness is crucial to inhibit violation of human rights. “Many are in sheer shock that slavery still exists, especially in Chicago,” the Medill junior said. “It’s the uncertain impact you may have on someone that is inspiring to me.” Communication sophomore Jodie Chan joined the group after hearing about it from individuals at the Center for Forced Migration Studies, a part of the Roberta Buffett Center. She selected Anne’s House as the beneficiary for the event this year. “I lived near a red light district in Wan Chai, near Hong Kong. People walk by without knowing,” Chan said. “It’s something that’s been in my heart in for awhile.” Weinberg freshman Mercylin Mbuguah heard about the event through the Sheil Catholic Center and plans to participate both Thursday and Friday. “Slavery is such a big problem, and I think people can learn how they can help,” Mbuguah said. katherinerichter2017@u.northwestern.edu
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WASHINGTON — Dismayed by the extent of the government’s post-Sept. 11 surveillance activities, which many of them had previously voted to authorize, House lawmakers Thursday approved new restrictions on the National Security Agency that amount to the most sweeping curbs on domestic intelligence-gathering in a generation. Even supporters of the legislation conceded that it may not fully end the dragnet-style government surveillance of Americans that generated public outcry after former NSA contractor Edward Snowden began disclosing the agency’s operations a year ago. Nonetheless, passage of the NSA reform bill capped a remarkable evolution in Congress,
different than what I believe Congress intended, and the vote here reflects that,” he said. Supporters of the bill called it the most significant rollback of government surveillance since reforms enacted in 1978 after the Watergate scandal. Even privacy advocates who withdrew their support for the bill in recent days because they said the White House had weakened some provisions were calling it an important first step. “The ship is turning,” said Gabe Rottman, a policy adviser in the American Civil Liberties Union’s Washington legislative office. “What you got was a clear statement today that bulk collection has to end.” — Lisa Mascaro (Tribune Washington Bureau)
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is planning for People of NU, a group based on the Humans of New York website, which shares stories from students across the campus. “Genuinely, I think it’s great to explore different people’s narratives,” he said. “A lot of times we get caught up in the bubble of our friend groups and the activities we’re involved in.” After finding out about the Living Library through Interfaith Advocates and other student groups, Weinberg sophomore Thelma Godslaw signed up to be a “book.” She shared her story about running the Los Angeles marathon in high school and being a low-income Nigerian-American student. “The ability to share your story with someone and have them listen is very powerful in itself,” she said. “It makes other people aware of your perspective, and I love the entire idea surrounding this.” She said she wanted to tell a positive story from her past and decided to talk about her marathon run in the spur of the moment. “I was recently thinking about the best memories I had during high school, and this was one of them,” she said. “I thought of how I could infuse my different identities within this story.” Weinberg freshman Emmanuel Darko shared his story about being an international student from Ghana but having an American passport. He said most people he talked to engaged with his story. “People have been really cool to talk to, and they seem really engaged,” he said. “I think the people here to talk are generally interested in getting to know somebody new.”
Pivot Point International, Inc. president. Those who spoke at the event included NCMEC chief operating officer Linda Krieg, Pivot Point chairman and chief executive officer Robert Passage, and Evanston mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl. In addition, Pivot Point alum Ivan Zoot, who holds the Guinness Book of World Record for fastest haircut in the world and most haircuts in an hour, came to offer his services. Members of the Evanston Police Department were present to fingerprint children for parents to keep on record. Another Cut-A-Thon took place on Thursday at the Pivot Point campus in Bloomingdale, Illinois. Passage, who organized the first charity event with NCMEC in 1997 with his late sister, Corrine Passage, said the annual fundraiser has grown a lot since the first year they picked the NCMEC as the charity of choice. Today, they have raised more than one million dollars for the organization. Passage said before the event that the they “plan to raise well over $100,000” on Thursday. Kozakiewicz is the namesake of Alicia’s Law, a bill passed in several states that increases funding to law enforcement in fighting child exploitation. Her foundation, the Alicia Project aims to have the initiative passed in all 50 states. Kozakiewicz said she finds the Cut-A-Thon fundraiser incredibly inspiring. Funding is crucial in a world where “fiscal budgets (are) equated with children’s lives,” she said. “What they’re doing is they’re helping create a miracle,” Kozakiewicz said. “They’re helping bring a child home. Every penny, every dollar helps the National Center … and if (the NCMEC) weren’t here I wouldn’t be here.”
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To have someone new to play and to have it be the number one team in the country, obviously that’s exciting for our players. — Kelly Amonte Hiller
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on the prowl Northwestern’s offensive attack will have to be on top of its game against Maryland on Friday. The Wildcats average 11.05 goals a game this season, well below the Terrapins’ 14.82.
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In many ways, this year’s NCAA Final Four is same old, same old. No. 5 Northwestern (14-6) faces No. 1 Maryland (21-1) in the second semifinal Friday night in Towson, Maryland, and No. 6 Virginia (12-8) takes on No. 2 Syracuse (20-2) in the first. Virginia hasn’t made it to the Final
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Four since 2007, when the Cavaliers lost in the championship game to the Wildcats. That win against Virginia was the third in what would become a streak of five consecutive NCAA championship titles for NU. But the other three championship contenders are Final Four regulars.
The Cats are making their 10th consecutive Final Four appearance Friday, and the Terrapins are no stranger to championship contention either. Maryland was the runner-up to North Carolina in 2013 and NU in 2011. Still, this year is special. This is the last year coach Kelly Amonte Hiller and her team will represent the American Lacrosse Conference. The Cats are the lone non-ACC team in the Final Four. It is also the last year before Maryland leaves the ACC, the sport’s traditional powerhouse conference, to join the Big Ten conference and shift the landscape of college lacrosse. So no matter how much all four coaches dismiss the landmark weekend as secondary to their teams’ focus, this Final Four is a watershed moment for college lacrosse. Amonte Hiller hopes to both honor the ALC and kick off the new Big Ten with a win. “To be representing the ALC in its last year, obviously we want to bring pride to that and could not be more excited about the Big Ten next year,” said Amonte Hiller, who played both soccer and lacrosse for Maryland. “We’re excited about that and hope that we can show a great game.” NU’s matchup with Maryland will be a display of the best in the sport, starting with the opening draw. Senior draw control specialist Alyssa Leonard clocks in at third in the nation for draw controls, with 160 on the season, an average of eight per game. Maryland’s Taylor Cummings is 11th in the country, with 116 on the season, averaging 5.27 a contest, but the Terps’ midfielder is not a player to disregard. The sophomore anchors Maryland’s midfield and leads the team with 59 goals, one of three Terps players with more than 57 goals this year. The fourth-highest scorer on the team has 47 goals to her name. Leonard leads NU with 40 goals
and the next two leading scorers, junior attack Kara Mupo and senior attack Kat DeRonda, check in with 38 and 35, respectively. Offense is perhaps the biggest difference in terms of playing style. The Terps play a high-powered offense, averaging 14.82 goals per game to the Cats’ 11.05. To keep Maryland at bay and be able to play its slower, more deliberate style of offense, Amonte Hiller said her team will rely on its entire back line. “It obviously poses a big challenge,” Amonte Hiller said. “You can’t really focus in on one person too much. … They not only have four threats, their threats can do multiple things. We’re just going to have to play great team defense.” Although the Cats and Terps usually do not play each other during the regular season, Amonte Hiller said she’s kept up with Maryland’s game. The coach said NU will be balancing “focusing on themselves” in practice, a usual Amonte Hiller catchphrase, with studying up on the Terps. Maryland is the only Final Four team NU has not yet played this year. The Cats bested Virginia 13-12 and fell to Syracuse 11-7. “To have someone new to play and to have it be the number one team in the country, obviously that’s exciting for our players,” Amonte Hiller said. “Going into it with just an incredible amount of respect for Maryland, having played there and everything … we’re really excited.” Leonard voiced a more competitive opinion when asked about the team’s position as underdogs after an unusually up-and-down season. “Having a five or six seed in the tournament is what this is all about,” the senior said. “A lot of people have doubt in us, people doubted us in that Florida game. … We’re ready to prove some people wrong.”
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Kelly Amonte Hiller has been hearing the “D” word quite a bit lately. And as silent as the stoic coach is on the subject, there’s no denying it: Northwestern lacrosse is a dynasty. Ten straight Final Four appearances, seven national championships — five consecutive from 2005 to 2009 — and two undefeated seasons as bookends of that championship streak. It’s not just a throne atop the sport — it’s a reign of terror. Few other college programs can claim to have been as good as or better than these Wildcats — The UCLA men’s basketball team of the 1960s and 1970s come to mind — but one that can is the Maryland women’s lacrosse team (for which Amonte Hiller played), with eight championships in 10 years from 1992-2001. Unlike most other programs with extended runs of success, however, NU is continuing its dominance in the face of an increasingly challenging field of competitors. Women’s lacrosse has expanded tremendously in the past decade, and thanks to an overflow of high school talent, upstart programs are quickly finding success. Florida lacrosse, for example,
first competed in the 2010 season but reached the Final Four just two years later. This season, they bested the Cats in the ALC Championship and played NU wire-to-wire in their losing effort in the NCAA Quarterfinals. So how does NU just keep winning? Like any good magician, Amonte Hiller won’t quite reveal her trick. “I really try to stay in the moment and not think about years past,” she said. “I just try to think about today, and all I know is to win a championship is a very difficult thing.” Ironic words coming from the coach with the second-most championships in NCAA women’s lacrosse history. Coincidentally, the only person with more trophies is Navy’s Cindy Timchal, who helmed the dynastic Maryland squad but began her coaching career at Northwestern in 1982. Timchal inherited a Terrapins team that was already considered a powerhouse, but Amonte Hiller started from scratch: NU had no women’s lacrosse program from 1993 to 2001. It’s safe to say that the Cats’ success lies in the skills of Amonte Hiller. She has shown a remarkable knack for recruiting players to the lacrosse team and the Siberian climate of Illinois. Of the 35 players on the roster, only three hail from the Midwest, while a whopping 14
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2011. Kristen Kjellman, Hannah Nielsen and Shannon Smith were certainly talented players in their own rights, but it was Amonte Hiller who brought them to NU and helped them realize their full potential. The best part about it all: Amonte Hiller is just reaching the prime of her coaching career. Whatever her secret is — her game planning, her charisma, those sunglasses — as long as she is coaching the Cats, the kingdom of women’s lacrosse will be ruled from Evanston. robertpillote2017@u.northwestern.edu
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celebrate good times There’s been much to celebrate in coach Kelly Amonte Hiller’s time at Northwestern. The coach has led the Wildcats to seven national championships and kept them among the nation’s elite despite improved competition around the country.
are from the lacrosse hotbed of New York. Amonte Hiller has also demonstrated a tremendous prowess for developing and getting the most out of her squad. Famously, she recruited two players after seeing them jog past her office. The twins, Courtney and Ashley Koester, had never held lacrosse sticks before in their lives but both went on to be named All-Americans. Most impressively, an NU athlete received the Tewaaraton Award, given to the nation’s best player, in five of the six seasons from 2006 to
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Maryland, you can run from Northwestern, but you can’t hide forever. For years, the Terrapins have rejected opportunities to play the Wildcats in the regular season and prayed the purple showed up on the opposite end of the draw. The reason is simple: NU almost always ruins Maryland’s hopes for a national championship. Since Kelly Amonte Hiller revived NU’s program in 2002, the Terps have lost four of five matchups with the Cats. Maryland lost the 2011 national title game to NU and then again the next year in the national semifinals. Any way you look at it, the Terrapins have not matched up well with the Cats in recent history. Which is what makes Friday’s matchup so intriguing. Maryland is the deserved No. 1 seed after a stellar season in the Atlantic Coast Conference, the best conference in the country. NU has struggled with consistency and is rightfully the No. 5 seed and the underdog. It was just a few short weeks ago that I questioned if NU could put together its most consistent run of lacrosse and even extend the streak to 10 consecutive national semifinals. The Cats proved me wrong and went to Florida, showed the fight of a champion and beat the Gators, a team that had beaten them twice already. Now the competition level increases, but so should NU’s confidence level. This is a stage most of the players are familiar with, so the moment won’t be too big. The opponent is the undisputed best team in the land, so the motivation should be there. NU is built for these situations with a patient but effective offense and the best draw control specialist in NCAA history. If you haven’t figured out by now, I’m picking NU to beat Maryland on Friday. The rationale is simple: The Cats are battletested; the Terps are not. NU has faced adversity this season, with close losses and injuries. The Cats are therefore prepared for the tight games that are to be expected in the national semifinal. The Terps have only had four games decided by two goals or fewer, the Cats had 11. NU stacks its non-conference slate with top-10 teams and by the time the NCAA Tournament rolls around, the Cats have prepared against the best competition. The Terps’ biggest tests are conference opponents they have familiarity with and therefore their relatively weak out-of-conference schedule does not prepare them for the unique challenges NU brings as an opponent they don’t see year in and year out. Maryland was far superior to most of their competition and therefore should have dominated those games. But you don’t know how to deal with certain situations until you are placed in them, and winning close games gives you confidence when faced with similar situations. If the Terps are behind by a goal or two late in the game, we don’t know if they have the fortitude to make a comeback. Ironically, Thursday was graduation day for Maryland and I want to congratulate the five seniors on Maryland’s squad who I assume joined many of my close friends in finishing their college education. As a Maryland resident, I recognize the quality of this degree and although you will be adversaries on the field, I will take the time to honor your incredible accomplishment. Just don’t expect a national championship trophy to be added to the celebration this weekend.
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