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The nonprofit inspired by slain 14-year-old Dajae Coleman awarded its first annual achievement scholarships Sunday to local students. The Dajae Coleman Foundation, created after the Evanston teen’s shooting death, awarded the inaugural Dajae Coleman Achievement Award and accompanying $1,000 scholarship to students whose qualities and values mirrored those the teen exhibited. Board members raised money for the scholarships at the event at Koi Fine Asian Cuisine & Lounge, where Evanston Township High School students Jordan Wallace and Aaron Smith were presented with the award. The honor will be presented annually to two ETHS freshmen. The students will be able to use the scholarships once they graduate from high school, foundation board member Doria Johnson said. Candle lights illuminated a back room in the restaurant, 624 Davis St., where friends and family of Dajae chatted as a slideshow flashed images of basketball courts and of the ETHS freshman. Dajae’s mother, Tiffany Rice, said she hoped to spread the values of leadership, humility and academic achievement in her son, Dajae, who was fatally shot in fall 2012. “I knew that if those qualities were in him, I knew I could definitely find them in other students,” Rice said. To compete for the scholarships,
City, Chevron resume talks in 2013 federal pollution lawsuit
A federal judge sided with Evanston in a pollution dispute earlier this month when he denied the defendants’ motion to dismiss the case. Since then, the parties involved have resumed settlement negotiation and “have made substantial progress in their efforts to settle this matter,” according to a joint status report filed Wednesday. Evanston filed a lawsuit against Chevron in March 2013, alleging the multinational energy corporation had contaminated the soil and groundwater near the former Texaco gas station in west Evanston. The city’s amended complaint “alleges the release and migration of hazardous substances, specifically petroleum and its byproducts, from leaking underground storage tanks” underneath the former Texaco station,
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successful or through black men to help other black men be successful,” Wallace said. Funding for scholarship money comes from money from an ETHS fund, Rice said. The school created a memorial fund in September 2012 after Coleman’s death. The foundation has raised about
A University of Southern California professor and Islamic scholar spoke Friday night about Islam in the age of modernity in front of a packed room in Harris Hall. The keynote address, titled “Submission and Agency in the Age of Modernity,” capped Discover Islam Week, sponsored by the Muslim-cultural Student Association. “Submission to God does not eradicate my ability to choose in any Scripture number of is not going to areas in my life,” said Sherdictate to me man Jackson, every choice that USC professor of religion I have to make in and Ameri- life. It’s impossible. can studies and ethnicity. Sherman “Even assumJackson, ing that I am USC professor the most committed Muslim that one could imagine, scripture is not going to dictate to me every choice that I have to make in life. It’s impossible.” Jackson is the King Faisal Chair of Islamic Thought and Culture at USC and was named to the 2013-14 list of the World’s 500 Most
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IN LOVING MEMORY Jordan Wallace, a winner of the Dajae Coleman Achievement Award, speaks at the award ceremony Sunday evening at Koi. Wallace and Aaron Smith each received $1,000 scholarships from the Dajae Coleman Foundation, founded in honor of 14-year-old Dajae Coleman, an Evanston Township High School student who was shot and killed in September 2012.
ETHS students wrote essays related to Dajae’s “My Belief Statement” paper which he wrote for his Humanities class shortly before his death. ETHS humanities teachers recommended students for the scholarships, said Anita Thawani, an English teacher who nominated Smith. Dressed in a dark suit, Smith said he wants to use his scholarship money to enroll at Northwestern.
“(The event) really turns a situation, a tragedy into something meaningful and purposeful,” Thawani said. “It’s outstanding to give students the opportunity to be recognized for character.” Wallace said he could relate with the topics Coleman touched on in his letter. “I think the (event’s) purpose is to help young black men to become
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near the intersection of Church Street and Darrow Avenue. The contaminants “may present an imminent and substantial endangerment to human health or the environment” and are “known or suspected human carcinogens,” according to the city. In addition to the Chevron Corporation, other defendants include Texaco, Inc., Chevron Environmental Management Company and E-Town Community Ventures, LLC, the current owner of the property at 18011805 Church St. The space was a gas station starting in 1925 and was most recently operated by Texaco. The station has been vacant since it closed in the late 1990s. Chevron and Texaco merged in 2001. In 2000, the Illinois Fire Marshal conducted an investigation into the former Texaco gas station and concluded that two underground storage tanks containing gasoline and water had been “abandoned improperly” at the site.
James Franco shared his thoughts on acting and directing to a sold-out crowd Saturday night at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall. The event, presented by A&O Productions and NU Hillel, featured a discussion moderated by RTVF Prof. Jeffrey Sconce, and a question-and-answer session with the audience. Throughout the night, Franco discussed the development of his career, commented on specific movies and spoke about relationships with fellow actors — all while joking around with students. “Let me just cut anybody off who has the smart idea to ask me to smoke anything with them afterwards,” Franco said. “In case you were planning on asking that, I can’t.”
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FIGHTING FLAMES A fire on Davis Street in December destroyed three Evanston businesses. It took nine fire departments about four hours to put out the fire.
made by residents who need assistance but not necessarily an ambulance, Klaiber explained. In 2014, the department is looking to implement several changes, including promotional exams for captains and shift chiefs, member certification of Pediatric Advanced Life Support and installation of a “new fire station tone out alerting system.” The department has 110 members with three divisions: emergency medical services,
fire suppression and special teams. All members comprise the five-station department. The stations are spread out in an ideal placement, Klaiber said. “We have an excellent response time, and it’s a result of station configuration,” Klaiber said, regarding the department’s 2013 reported average response time of 3 minutes and 5 seconds.
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bumped into an unknown person. When the man returned home, he realized his wedding ring was missing from his finger and a bracelet was missing from his coat pocket, Polinski said. The estimated combined value of the missing jewelry is $2,600, Polinski added.
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The Evanston fire department responded to a record number of calls in 2013, surpassing 2012’s then-record-breaking total. The department presented their annual report to City Council last week. “2012 was the busiest year up ‘til this past year, and we’ve surpassed that,” said Fire Chief Greg Klaiber, who presented the report to the council. “For two years in a row we have increased and surpassed our numbers.” The department recorded 9,373 calls in 2013, a 60 percent increase from 1984, showing a general uptick in calls to the department despite yearly fluctuations, Klaiber said. Of the calls, 129 were made for confirmed fires, resulting in an estimated $2,772,579 loss. “Everybody wants to know what’s the dollar loss,” Klaiber said. “I like to talk about … what is the percentage of property that was saved, and what is the dollar amount associated with that?” Firefighters saved 97 percent of property during the 2013 fires, equaling about $105 million worth of property, Klaiber said. Klaiber also noted that last year was the first since 2009 in which a fire resulted in a death. A number of other incidents were reported, including 357 “assist invalid” requests, ones
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NU to host national waste, hunger summit in April By Annie Bruce
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Northwestern will host a Food Waste and Hunger Summit in early April to bring together students and experts interested in solving the related problems of food insecurity and food waste. The summit, co-sponsored by the Food Recovery Network and the national Campus Kitchens Project, will bring together different host organizations, speakers, Campus Kitchen chapters from around the country, student leaders and local interest groups. Viktorya Tannenbaum, president of the NU branch of Campus Kitchens, said NU was chosen to host the summit because it has one of the largest chapters of Campus Kitchens in the country. In addition to using extra food from dining halls to help members of the Evanston community in need, Tannenbaum said the NU branch has also grown in recent years through the creation of partnerships and additional events throughout the community. “We’re trying to get the word out to get more people to come and attend the event, especially people who may not be aware of these certain issues or involved in these issues, because we want to spread this mission throughout our community and other communities,” Tannenbaum said. The event, scheduled for April 5 and 6, is open to all members of the NU community who pay a $35 registration fee. In addition to working to increase awareness about the summit, the NU branch of Campus Kitchens is connecting with local businesses and other related student organizations on campus, such as Wild Roots, in preparation for the
event. The national organization of Campus Kitchens is in charge of planning workshops, choosing workshop facilitators and organizing speakers, including food justice activists Robert Egger and Jonathan Bloom. Tannenbaum said she thinks workshops during the summit will benefit the NU community and help members of Campus Kitchens learn how to improve their own branches. “I think there’s a lot of opportunities for growth and education and understanding and how to better our own organization as well as how to partner with other organizations,” she said. One topic in particular Tannenbaum hopes to learn more about at the summit is implementing a nutrition education curriculum. NU’s Campus Kitchen recently started a program to bring nutrition education to Dawes Elementary School and Family Focus, an Evanston nonprofit that helps low-income families. Sarah Suh, a member of the NU Campus Kitchen leadership team, said the organization’s community outreach efforts are part of what make NU stand out from the more than 30 chapters of Campus Kitchens across the country. “We’re coming together to show them what Northwestern has done,” the Weinberg senior said. “We do other programming events (and) a lot of community outreach that not many of the other chapters do.” Suh said she is excited for NU students to use the summit to learn more about Campus Kitchens and hunger problems in general. “It would be cool to use this opportunity to get more student volunteers,” she said. “Hunger or food insecurity, this problem isn’t really so far from us. It’s right in our backyard, and they can get involved to help.” annebruce2015@u.northwestern.edu
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SHIREINU SHINES Northwestern’s Jewish a cappella group, ShireiNU, placed third in Kol HaOlam, an annual national collegiate Jewish a cappella competition. The event was ShireiNU’s first contest.
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ShireiNU, Northwestern’s Jewish a cappella group, placed third Saturday in a national collegiate Jewish a cappella competition in Washington, D.C. The group faced eight other teams in the fourth annual Kol HaOlam Competition. Each organization ranged in size from about eight to 20 people, said Jeffrey Heiferman, the president of ShireiNU. ShireiNU sent 14 students to compete. The event was judged by four individuals who awarded each team points based on their vocal sound, visual performance and overall effectiveness. “We had so much fun as a group,” said Heiferman, a Weinberg senior. “We went into it confident and excited and ready for any outcome and we were fortunate and so excited when we heard that we placed third.” This year’s event took place in the Charles E. Smith Sanctuary. It was the first time ShireiNU
entered a competition, so the group was unsure about the outcome going in, Heiferman said. “A lot of the other groups have been around for a lot longer,” Heiferman said. “We were just founded in 2009 so we moved relatively quickly in the competition.” To prepare for the event, the group practiced as much as they could until they were confident in their abilities and their sound, Heiferman said. “We rehearsed a lot for it because this was our first time performing,” he said. “We wanted to make sure we went inwto it as prepared as we could be.” The event also featured a special guest performance by Queens College’s Tizmoret, winner of the first and second Kol HaOlam competitions. Heiferman said the group was thrilled about the achievement and is looking forward to competing in more events in the coming years. “This was an exciting experience, a fun experience and now we’re confident in the future,” he said. “I think going into any competition you never know what to expect, so we were all very proud of ourselves, very excited when we heard we won.” — Rebecca Savransky
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Religious traditions like Lent can have secular value SAM DOUGLAS
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Fasting is a blast. I’m not talking specifically about abstaining from food and water, although I’m sure that has its draws. What I’m talking about is mental and emotional fasting. Let me explain. I’m not a practicing Catholic. I get the Sheil Catholic Center’s email newsletters because I checked a box on my Northwestern application, and I’ve been to church twice since moving to Evanston. However, I was raised Catholic. I was baptized, reconciled and confirmed, but due to certain Vatican rules and teachings, it’s difficult to continue my faith in such a staunchly conservative institution. Pope Francis is a relief to my liberal leanings, but there’s only so much one man can do, even one with the power to speak ex cathedra — with papal infallibility. Having lost contact with my Catholic roots, my desire to rekindle that relationship is limited, but parts of the teachings have remained with me: I will always go to church on Easter and Christmas; I recognize the importance of being thankful, generous and kind — and Lent is my favorite season. Don’t worry. I’m not trying to convert you. But hear me out. This stuff is great. In the liturgical year, Lent consists of the 40 days leading up to Easter. These represent Jesus’ 40 days in the desert, during which he had neither food nor water. In keeping with his example, Catholics are instructed to fast during this time as well. Because Catholicism’s rules are less stringent than those of Islam’s Ramadan, people
generally abstain from giving up food and water during daylight hours. We tend to choose the road less difficult: stop eating chocolate, go the gym every day or (when I was a second grader) give up doing homework. After the revelry and feasting of the days before (Carnival and Mardi Gras, the closest the Church gets to celebrating the seven deadly sins), Lent kicks off with an extravagantly dismal day known as Ash Wednesday, when priests paint ashes on the foreheads of the faithful in the shape of a cross to remind them of their mortality. This is my favorite part. As a kid, I thought it was super cool to have a religious reason to get my face dirty; now, I recognize the importance of the day even though I tend to distance myself from its origins. To me, Ash Wednesday and the Lenten season offer a time to examine what is important. For 40 days, I can weed out the parts of my life I find distracting or cumbersome. By the same token, Lent also gives me the opportunity to try something new or better. Lent is a chance to test-drive failed New Year’s resolutions. The best part? It’s only 40 days. If the drive doesn’t go well, don’t buy the change. But often it does. After 40 days, I’ve found I can break my knuckle-cracking habit, I can temper expressions of distaste or distance my reliance on social networking. When Easter arrives, I’ve formed better habits of diligence, thoughtfulness and health that for some reason give me a sensation of cleanliness. Do I feel weird participating in a Catholic religious tradition if I’m not actively digesting the body and blood of Christ every Sunday? No. Although the Catholic Church’s goal for the Lenten season is one of penance and penitence,
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for me Lent is more about perseverance. The triumph of making a commitment for 40 days and holding true to it should not be underrated. Of the many traditions of the Catholic Church, I’m proud to participate in this one. It fits so easily in my busy secular schedule, and I always like a good challenge. So, if you see me on Wednesday with a black smudge on my face, know that it’s not because I
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“I don’t think that Evanston residents view NU as a party school or that ‘there is a perception in Evanston that Northwestern students are hard partiers.’ Perhaps a small number of residents who live near campus (who bought their houses knowing the location could be an issue) feel this way but there is no way the majority of anyone anywhere views NU as a hard party school. Jane Grover doesn’t speak for me and I doubt she speaks for many of us.” — Nicole Jacob Marks
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Society’s obsession with celebrities is detrimental
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As far back as I can remember, society has been obsessed with celebrities. So growing up, I thought that was normal. But as I have gotten older, I have become increasingly annoyed with the world’s preoccupation with celebrities. Everywhere I turn, I am bombarded with a celebrity in some form, promoting brands or covering magazines. I am sick of seeing them. Society’s obsession with celebrities is taking over people’s lives. It is not only annoying, it is also worrisome because of its detriment to society and to the stars themselves. It is nearly impossible to enter a department store without seeing celebrities as brand endorsers — the faces of clothes, perfume and hair products. They have become the ultimate reason why we buy some products over others. From the Kardashian Kollection, a Sears line of clothing and accessories from the Kardashian sisters, to a line of Jennifer Lopez clothing and home decor at Kohl’s, consumers obsessed with celebrities apparently want to buy these products instead of shopping at stores like Target — for the simple reason that a celebrity endorsed one line and not another. The magazine industry appears to benefit most from celebrities’ faces. By having the most popular celeb faces on their covers, magazines can sell more copies. My little sister, for example, buys a magazine every time it has a picture of Josh Hutcherson on the front. This ploy to sell more magazines leads to other problems, though. Articles such as, “Mary-Kate Olsen engaged to an old man,” become “breaking” news. This shifts people’s attention to topics that are irrelevant to their own lives. People, especially young adults who are supposed to be the country’s future leaders, should be focusing on more important topics such as the upcoming Illinois primary elections. This is an event that will impact society’s future, whereas Mary-Kate’s wedding will likely have little effect. Most importantly, society’s obsession with celebrities is harmful to the stars themselves.
It has fueled the paparazzi, who cause serious problems in the lives of famous people. One of the most tragic incidents was the death of Princess Diana, who died in a car accident after being chased by paparazzi. Society’s preoccupation with celebrities also encourages the paparazzi to invade celebrities’ privacy, often harassing the stars and their children. Recently, celebrity moms, including Jennifer Garner and Halle Berry, have spoken out about the harm that is caused by this fixation on celebrities’ personal lives. Some great things about the present are technology and social media. These are sources through which celebrities can share the informaPeople tion that they want to need to realize reveal to the public. Gwen Stefani recently things that will gave birth to her have an impact third son, and her on the future. husband decided to share the news on The obsession Twitter. However, just with famous because this information was shared people’s private doesn’t mean it is an lives needs invitation into her to be more private life. Society needs to accept that controlled. celebrities are real people who have private lives they don’t always want to share. There is nothing wrong with discussing a movie or a new album that stars have produced, but discussing their personal lives is something that everyone can and should do without. Instead of perpetuating society’s obsession with celebrities, people need to respect their privacy. People need to realize there are more important things to focus on, things that will have an impact on the future. The obsession with famous people’s private lives needs to be more controlled. In moderation, the general public and the stars themselves will be better off.
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Sustainability group holds drive for unwanted items By Rebecca Savransky
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Northwestern Eco-Reps, a campus sustainability organization, organized an event Friday aimed to divert old clothing away from landfills and to create an opportunity for students to donate unwanted items. The “Take It or Leave It” event, held in Norris University Center’s Wildcat Room, accumulated about 100 donations, said Deborah Teng, an event organizer. About 80 percent of the items were clothing and the remainder included a variety of household items, she added. “All our Eco-Reps on campus put boxes out so residents could donate but we also had a lot of offcampus people bring in items during the event,” the McCormick senior said. “We had the entire Wildcat Room and each table was pretty packed with the items.” Organized under sustainNU, the University’s Office of Sustainability, Northwestern Eco-Reps raises awareness and sponsors events to create a more sustainable environment. Teng said the leftover clothing was donated to the Dance Marathon “Thrift Shop,” an event organized to give participants the opportunity to buy clothing to match the different block themes. This is the first
year DM is hosting such an event, and all proceeds will be donated to the DM beneficiary, said Emily Blumberg, DM special events co-chair. Blumberg said the informal partnership with Northwestern Eco-Reps was created to garner additional merchandise for the “Thrift Shop” and increase the amount of money for the beneficiary. “They were saying how they were going to donate it at the end of the day anyway,” the Weinberg senior said. “We said we’d love to sell it for DM, and they were very helpful and open to it.” The items left over after DM will then be given back to Unique Thrift Store, which donated several large bags of items to the cause, Blumberg said. Similar drives organized in the past through sustainNU were done at the end of the year when students are moving out of residences, Teng said. Last year, boxes were put in residence hall lobbies and students could donate anything they no longer wanted, she said. Teng said they decided to hold the event during Winter Quarter because they wanted to give students the opportunity to clean out their winder wardrobe in preparation for spring. This event could also appeal to off-campus students, Teng said. “We decided it’d be cool to have it during the winter this year so people could get new clothes for spring,” she said. “We decided to do the same idea but moved ahead and did it university wide.”
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GIVE AND TAKE Students visit a clothing and household items drive Friday in Norris University Center. Eco-Reps held the drive in an attempt to reduce landfill waste.
Northwestern Eco-Reps still plans to hold a similar event at the end of the year and are using this midyear drive as a marketing push in hopes more students will donate in the spring instead of throwing out old items, Teng said. “We wanted people to hear the name more and be able to recognize it,” she said. Teng said the group marketed the event in the residence halls and through social media, including
the Facebook group “Free and For Sale.” She said she was happy with the turnout and is hoping the event continues next year. “A lot of people were excited to be able to come in and take a look at different items,” Teng said. “They seemed very excited to be able to donate something and know it was donated to a good cause.”
defense system that Russia opposed and pushed for NATO membership for Ukraine and Georgia, both former Soviet republics. The Obama doctrine led to some benefits, administration officials say: a strategic arms agreement, as well as cooperation from Russia on helping to curb Iran’s nuclear ambition and the delivery of supplies to U.S. troops in Afghanistan. But Russia, which at the outset was “perfectly happy” to go along with Obama’s reset, became disillusioned when officials perceived the reset as forcing Russia to go along with the U.S. instead of having its views taken into account, said Anton Fedyashin, a Russia expert who directs the Initiative for Russian Culture at American University in Washington. “There were high hopes for the reset but it didn’t really go well,” Fedyashin said. “The expectations were unrealistic. It was a lofty goal.”
The administration didn’t pay as much as attention to Russia as Russians thought it should, Fedyashin said. “It’s not as important to the United States,” he said and it affects Russian pride. The relationship was headed south by the end of 2011 when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for a “full investigation” of irregularities in Russian’s parliamentary elections. “The life went out of relationship in 2011,” said Andrew Weiss, who served as a former Ukraine and Russian expert in the Clinton White House and is now vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a Washington research center.
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National News Ukraine crisis is Obama’s biggest foreign policy challenge WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama, who sought to “reset” U.S. relations with Russia when he took office, now faces the greatest foreign policy challenge of his presidency. A standoff with Russia is scarcely the global legacy that Obama has sought. He’s labored to end U.S. involvement in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and has proved reluctant to engage militarily in Syria, preferring diplomacy to military force. His administration has looked to rebalance its focus to emerging power economies in Asia. But it’s the showdown with Russian President Vladimir Putin that may prove defining for Obama. “By any standard this is the most difficult, the most complex international crisis he’s faced,” said
former NATO ambassador Nicholas Burns, a former U.S. undersecretary of state for political affairs and member of the Atlantic Council Board of Directors. The dilemma in Ukraine cuts to the heart of decades-old American interests, Burns said: victory in the Cold War, stamping out Communism and overseeing the emergence of stable Europe. “If Putin gets away with launching a military offensive, then Europe risks being divided,” Burns said. “The stakes are very high.” Obama came into office with the belief that the United States needed to take a different approach to Russia than his predecessor. He maintained that George W. Bush’s administration had been too negative, continually “poking Russia in the eye,” said Stephen Larrabee, distinguished chair in European security at the Rand Corp. Bush, for example, backed a Europe-based missile
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From page 1 Influential Muslims by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre in Amman, Jordan. He spent much of his speech talking about how Islamic scripture like the Quran should fit within personal decision making. While he made clear that scripture has a place in the life of a Muslim, it is not the ultimate decision maker. “Of course, we are people who believe in the power of reason,” he said. “As human beings, we are not just minds. We are anxieties, we are hopes, we are fears, we are ambitions, we are lusts.” Jackson delivered a speech which was followed by a nearly hour-long question-and-answer session, moderated by Rami Nashashibi, the executive director of the Inner-City Muslim Action Network. Many of the questions from the audience asked about his opinion on the place of scripture, but others also probed about the four idols that can disrupt
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From page 1 Franco started out the night by discussing his experience with education. He attended the University of California, Los Angeles to major in English and later attended Columbia University’s master’s of fine arts writing program and New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts for filmmaking, while taking breaks to focus on his career. “Once I went back to school … it was like ‘you had the brain all along; here’s the paper,’” he said. Sconce pointed out Franco’s interest in literature, noting his “commitment to the arts and the humanities” and referencing stories he had heard of him reading novels during free time on film sets. “There was one weekend when all my friends were out partying and I was reading Faulkner and loving it,” Franco said. Franco directed and starred in a movie adaptation of
Monday, March 3, 2014 submission and agency that Jackson presented, which include rationality and white supremacy. Zahed Haseeb, a University of Chicago student, found the point about idols convincing. “A lot of times when you become too committed to certain causes, you forget about the assumptions that you’re working on and treat them as universally true,” he said. An annual event at NU, Discover Islam Week held daily events this year, including talks on topics such as “Black Jesus: Challenging Perceptions About Christ” and “The Many Faces of Feminism: Secular and Religious Convergence.” Jackson posed many open-ended questions to the audience but also shared his own opinions on how to live in a modern society as a Muslim. “We engage life,” he said. “We do the best we can. … We make mistakes, we ask for forgiveness and we keep going. Islam is about engagement in life.” prestonmichelson2017@u.northwestern.edu
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From page 1 $1,700 so far, which Rice said she hopes to designate as a repository for the organization. Excess funds from Sunday’s event will help reach its goal of raising $5,000, Rice said. As the foundation matures, it will organize more community events. In the spring of 2015, the organization will organize tours of historically black colleges such as Spelman College, Tuskegee University and Jackson State University, Johnson said. The foundation also plans to continue hosting book club meetings for youth in partnership with the Evanston Public Library. ETHS students on the organization’s youth advisory board also attended the event. Evanston Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl attended the event and bought two Dajae Coleman Foundation T-shirts for her grandchildren.
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William Faulkner’s novel “As I Lay Dying” in 2013. “If you’re a serious reader or a serious film lover, you start to learn which works are speaking a language or playing a music that jives with yours, and Faulkner played that music for me,” he said. He also discussed his other films, including the 2010 film “127 Hours,” for which he received an Academy Award nomination for best actor. Franco specifically highlighted the difficulties he faced during the filming process. “We did very long takes, sometimes 20 minutes, so that through cutting my own arm off and dehydrating myself, I’d go through all the motions that Aron Ralston went through,” Franco said. He then pointed out the differences between working on films and working on plays. “With a play, it’s a whole different thing,” Franco said. “It’s not about getting it once and moving on, it’s about honing it.” Franco is currently in Chicago as part of a Broadway
adaptation of John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men,” directed by theater Prof. Anna Shapiro. He also talked about his opinion on his public image in response to a question about his playing a satirical version of himself in “This is the End.” “I don’t really care about my public persona,” Franco said. “I have experience with people saying whatever about my public persona. It’s supposed to be deconstructed.” Near the end of the night, students were invited to ask Franco questions. One of the audience members
in a student’s first and second years at the universities, and increase from the current $2,000 per year at the two-year schools to $3,000. “If you are leaving high school and you say, ‘Well I can either get $4,000 a year on Hope to go to a four-year institution or get $2,000 to go to a community college,’ we think there is somewhat of a disincentive just appearance-wise in the dollar amount to go to a four-year versus a two-year,” Mark Cate, the governor’s chief of staff, told the House Education Committee last week. “So part of our hypothesis is, there are students that are choosing to go on to four-year institutions that perhaps are better served at a two-year institution -- yet they make that choice because of the gap between the” $4,000 and $2,000, he said. The Haslam plan also increases the Hope award
to $5,000 in each of the junior and senior years of college, so that a student who attends four years at a university receives the same $16,000 as now. But it requires more cash from the student’s own resources in the first two years. Cate’s presentation was the first time some of the assumptions behind Haslam’s Tennessee Promise were made public. Additional specifics are to be released later. Officials believe, for example, the program will have adequate funding for at least 10 years but they’re considering “controls or circuit breakers” to limit the guarantee of free attendance if costs end up higher than revenue. Those may include, Cate said, a family-income ceiling on eligibility, a minimum grade-point average requirement, and putting the aid on a first-come, first-serve basis
There was one weekend when all my friends were out partying and I was reading Faulkner and loving it. James Franco, A&O, Hillel winter speaker
“I think Tiffany is as dynamic as her son,” Tisdahl said. “Anything she does, she does well.” Created in 2013, the foundation has held events to commemorate Coleman’s life, including Dae Dae World Weekend in September 2013, where participants engaged in community activities. Part of the foundation’s vision is to make Evanston a “village” that stresses community-wide participation, Johnson said. Hundreds of kids attended an anniversary of Coleman’s birthday. ETHS sophomore Micquel Roseman, a former basketball teammate of Coleman’s, said his basketball teammates chanted Coleman’s name at a basketball game that fell around his birthday anniversary this year. “We’re going to play for Dajae … and we played really good that day too,” Roseman said. edwardcox2011@u.northwestern.edu asked for advice for aspiring filmmakers. “If you want to get into television or film or whatever, there is no reason you should not be out there making your own things,” Franco responded. “It’s a way to develop yourself more. Stop this deadly waiting around.” The last audience question referenced Franco’s New York Times piece, “The Meanings of the Selfie,” and requested a selfie with him. Franco responded by inviting audience members to join him for a picture, which he later posted on his Facebook page and Instagram account. Weinberg freshman Brittany Bair shared her thoughts on the discussion. “He seems really superficial in some of his movies, but in settings like this where he can talk about his motives as an actor and director, he seems much more like an artist,” she said. lannguyen2017@u.northwestern.edu
Across Campuses Tennessee governor’s free-tuition plan encourages attendance at 2-year schools
NASHVILLE — Gov. Bill Haslam’s administration wants to shift financial incentives for students more toward attending community colleges and the state’s colleges of applied technology and less toward four-year universities, his top aide told lawmakers. That’s one reason the governor’s “Tennessee Promise” plan for free tuition for high school graduates at the two-year schools would be partly funded by reducing the basic Hope Scholarship for freshmen and sophomores at four-year schools. Under the plan, the Hope award would drop from the current $4,000 per school year to $3,000
until the money runs out. “We wouldn’t do that unless we need to,” he said. Equalizing the Hope awards at $3,000 for the first two years regardless of whether the student attends a two- or four-year school helps pay for the free-tuition guarantee because it shifts more current lottery proceeds to the two-year schools. Tennessee Promise’s finances work for the state because it covers only the final portion of the cost of attendance at community colleges or Tennessee Colleges of Applied Technology (TCATs), after all other aid is awarded, including federal Pell Grants and the enlarged lottery-funded scholarships. — Richard Locker, The Commercial Appeal
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work to do to improve their rankings and close matches out earlier against lower ranked teams. Both Pollard and Niu remarked on the team’s performance, with Niu calling her own performance “volatile” and noting she had lost her composure a few times during the match. “(The overall performance was) very up and down,” Pollard said. “Good at some spots, need improvement at other spots. What would we do without Belinda Niu?”
know he would perform this well. “I thought maybe he could sneak under 14:50 seconds but to go 14:42 was awesome,” Schroeder said. “Hopefully that gives him a lot of confidence going into NCAAs.” Wilimovsky also demonstrated in Ann Arbor how he has become more of a complete swimmer. Not only is he dominating in the distance events, which he made known are his favorites, but he’s also improving his times in other events, like the 400-yard individual medley. Scoring points in different ways at meets is something he knows he’ll need to do next year for his team. “It’s something Jarod and I worked on this year,” Wilimovsky said. “It’s a lot more helpful for the team to swim better at different events.” The other potential NCAA qualifier could be Stephens in the 100-yard freestyle, with his time of 43.39 seconds. Schroeder and Stephens aren’t sure whether that will be enough to make the cut, but Schroeder raved about his workhorse freestyler and the effort he put in over the week. “I feel bad for the guy because he’s been a mainstay on all of our relays and time trials,” Schroeder said. “It probably took a cumulative effect on him over the course of the meet. He’s had a great career for us. He’s come from humble beginnings as a walk-on to one of our leaders. I’m going to miss the guy. He means a lot to the team.” With a group of seniors graduating, NU will have needs to fill in terms of leadership. Wilimovsky made his case with his outstanding performance on the big stage. Sophomore Van Donkersgoed has become a vocal and well-respected leader for the team as well. Ferguson, with his performance in the 100yard backstroke and butterfly, has become a reliable contributor for the Cats going forward. Regardless, Wilimovsky isn’t worried about filling the void next year. “It’s the whole team’s responsibility to find ways to step up and score points,” he said. “It’ll be hard to replace guys like (seniors) Matt (Wilcox) and Tim (Smith) with their leadership and Chase as well. But I think we’ll be able to do it and have a good season next year.”
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After four hours and 43 minutes of play, No. 7 Northwestern (7-3) toppled No. 39 Purdue (4-4) 4-3. The Wildcats opened the match with a victory in the doubles point. Due to the absence of senior Nida Hamilton, coach Claire Pollard was forced to change up the doubles duos. No. 1 doubles stayed the same, with senior Veronica Corning and sophomore Alicia Barnett, but Nos. 2 and 3 changed. On court two, senior Belinda Niu and freshman Brooke Rischbieth, who normally play on court three for doubles, teamed up for a victory against the Boilermakers’ Daniela Vidal and Natalia Davila, 8-1. Playing on court three were freshmen Maddie Lipp and Manon Peri, who also claimed victory 8-5. With the point clinched, Corning and Barnett attempted a comeback from down 5-2 but could not finish off their opponents. “I think Belinda and Brooke stepped up at (No. 2 doubles) and looked great there,” Pollard said. “I think (Peri) stepped up really nicely and I was pleased to get on the board with the doubles point.” At singles, Corning and Barnett finished their games handily, both winning 6-3, 6-2 at No. 1 and No. 2, respectively, giving NU an early lead 3-1 as Lipp fell at No. 6 singles. After the early lead, Purdue climbed back into the match with victories late into the match against freshman Jillian Rooney and junior Lok Sze Leung. “Lok Sze and Belinda showed true grit,” Barnett said. “Lok Sze had a really tough match losing the first set after being up 5-1 but she fought really hard. Belinda was unbelievable. She brought home the ‘W’ for us.” Niu clinched the victory for the Cats with a win at No. 2 singles after three hours of playing the singles match. During the second set, Niu and her opponent, Vidal, locked up at 3-3 and after half an hour, Niu finally broke the wall and forced the match into a third set. “Playing the match at 3-3 is sometimes
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MAKING NIUS Senior Belinda Niu won her doubles match, then prevailed in a three-hour singles showdown with Purdue’s Daniela Vidal. The Wildcats topped the Boilermakers 4-3. “What would we do without Belinda Niu?” coach Claire Pollard said.
intimidating,” Niu said. “You feel a lot of pressure. At the same time, you feel extremely motivated to close out the match for the team. I was thinking of the girls and how much the Big Ten means to our team and how much this match meant. I think I did feel pressure to close it out, but it motivated me in the right way.” Earlier in the week, Pollard talked about the increased conditioning in practices due to a long break coming up for NU, which paid off for the Cats down the stretch against the Boilermakers. But despite the win, the Cats realize they have
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ANN ARBOR, Mich. — When the lights shone brightest at the Big Ten Championships this week, Northwestern failed to capitalize on the momentum it had built all season long, as the Wildcats fell to a ninth place finish. Michigan cruised to its fourth consecutive conference title, dominating from start to finish. It was a difficult meet to swallow for the Cats after the team posted a 7-3-1 record during the regular season. Not only was the number of wins impressive, but it was the quality of teams NU was able to take down that showed the progress the program was making. Now, it’s coach Jarod Schroeder’s responsibility to wash away the struggles in Ann Arbor and remember the successes before the conference championship. “That’s something Jarod wanted us to take away from this year,” senior Chase Stephens said. “We had one of our best records in a long time. We faced a very challenging, very deep lineup before we had Big Tens. Going 7-3-1 is an accomplishment in my book. It was frustrating that
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AIRLESS JORDAN Though Northwestern finished ninth at the Big Ten Championships, sophomore Jordan Wilimovsky qualified for the NCAA Tournament in the 1,650-yard freestyle with a personal-best time of 14:42.99.
we didn’t live up to our potential at Big Tens.” The relay units were a major letdown for NU over the course of the meet. The Cats did not finish better
than seventh in any of their relay events. Schroeder called their performance “embarrassing.” “Our relays were a disappointment
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CORNHUSKED Senior forward Drew Crawford attacks Nebraska’s Terran Petteway. Crawford scored only 11 points on 4-for-13 shooting, and Northwestern fell by 7 points.
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For all the excitement Chris Collins has brought to Northwestern, the end of his first season in Evanston is starting to look very much like the end of Bill Carmody’s last one. The Wildcats (12-17, 5-11 Big Ten) fell to Nebraska (17-11, 9-7) 54-47 on Saturday in Lincoln, Neb. The defeat was NU’s sixth straight loss of the season. Last year, the Cats dropped their final eight contests. As it has in most games this season, NU hung around for most of the day, but the Cornhuskers began pulling away in the final 10 minutes of the second half. Nebraska’s switch to a zone defense confused the Cats on the offensive end, while foul trouble and a lack of size sunk NU defensively. But NU still managed to make a late run. Senior forward Drew Crawford hit a 3-pointer to bring the Cats within 51-47 with 1:15 left. A stop on the other end gave NU the ball with just over 45 seconds to go, but an offensive foul on redshirt freshman forward Sanjay Lumpkin gave
the ball back to the Cornhuskers and ended the rally. “We just had multiple actions, bunch of stuff going on (that play) whether it was to the basket or a 3,” coach Chris Collins told WGN radio after the game. “Sanjay is wide open at the top. He’s got to take that shot. But he’s only a freshman, and that’s part of the learning process.” Both offenses struggled shooting the ball, reminiscent of the teams’ matchup in Evanston in February. The Cats made just 15 of 45 field goals. Even at the free throw line, NU struggled, hitting only 10 of 16 attempts. Nebraska wasn’t much better, converting only 19 of 52 from the field. NU also held star Cornhusker guard Terran Petteway to only 12 points on 3-of-12 shooting. Sophomore center Alex Olah performed well for the Cats. His full game was on display, working in the post as well as stepping outside and hitting multiple 3s. He finished the game with 20 points and seven rebounds. “Alex has been tremendous,” Collins said. “He was great against Indiana, and he was great today. You can’t ask anything more of the big fella. He’s
only going to get better.” Crawford, playing his first and last game in Lincoln, had trouble putting the ball in the basket. He often found lanes driving to the hoop but couldn’t finish as many of his layup attempts rimmed out. With junior guard JerShon Cobb out for the rest of the season, Collins turned to others hoping to find offense. Junior guard Dave Sobolewski, sophomore forward Kale Abrahamson and freshman forward Nate Taphorn all saw action Saturday, but combined for only 1-of-6 shooting. Sophomore guard Tre Demps also had to pick up the offensive slack. “I thought they had a good demeanor,” Collins said. “They played hard, but we need some guys to step up and give us some offense and take pressure off Drew, Tre and Alex.” Despite the lack of accuracy from the field, Collins said he thought his offense executed well. Ultimately, it came down to not converting good looks. “At the end of the day, you have to make some shots,” Collins said. “We had wide open shots you have to make to win on the road. We just didn’t.” NU’s attention now turns to Thursday’s contest with Penn State, the team’s final home game of the season. The Cats will have to win at least one of their last two to avoid ending another year with an eight-game losing streak. “We have to go in with fresh minds, fresh bodies. That’s how we have to go into these last games,” Collins said. “We have to get home. We have to get rested and put a gameplan together to see if we can get one on Thursday night.” rohannadkarni2015@u.northwestern.edu
all week long,” he said. “There’s no excuse for that. We need to show much better than that.” If there were any potential explanations for slower times, one might
be how shallow the pool is at the Canham Natatorium. Because it is only seven feet deep, the sprint races tended to see more waves, which can affect some of the swimmers who are trailing the leader and have to deal with the wake in the pool. After the first two days of the fourday meet, the Cats clung to eighth place out of 10. The team received points from Stephens in the 50-yard freestyle, sophomore Jordan Wilimovsky in the 500-yard freestyle and freshman diver Andrew Cramer in the 1-meter event. But the last few days weren’t as kind to NU. The squad struggled to get into scoring heats, as only Stephens, Wilimovsky, Cramer, junior Mark Ferguson and sophomore Grant Halsall put points on the board over the final two days. The Cats’ shining moment in the meet came in the 1,650-yard freestyle event, in which Wilimovsky took second place behind Michigan and USA swimmer Connor Jaeger, the reigning national champion in the event. Not only did Wilimovsky break his personal best and school record, he earned an automatic bid to compete in the NCAA Championships with an NCAA ‘A’ cut time of 14:42.99. Wilimovsky currently has the third fastest time in the nation in that event. Schroeder knew his talented sophomore could cut some time off his season-best numbers, but he didn’t » See MEN’S SWIMMING, page 7
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NU ends 7-game slide with Wis. win By REBECCA FRIEDMAN
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Northwestern snapped a sevengame losing streak Sunday with a 77-73 win over Wisconsin. The back-and-forth overtime victory in Madison, Wis., puts the Wildcats at 15-14 overall on the season, 5-11 in conference. The matchup against the Badgers was a fight for 10th place in the Big Ten. The Cats’ victory means they’ll be seeded 10th at the conference tournament next week in Indianapolis. Though the season didn’t meet all preseason expectations for the Cats, they’re that much more motivated for the Big Ten Tournament. “We need to make a statement next week,” coach Joe McKeown said. “I feel like we’re better than where we will finish.” The team’s season was marked by close contests that came down to one basket or one play, and their game against the Badgers followed that pattern. NU bested Wisconsin in its first overtime game of the season, holding on for a 4-point victory. The game was back and forth at the beginning, until the Cats pulled ahead at the end of the first half to head into the locker room with a 40-33 lead. “It’s all about momentum, and taking that lead into halftime was big for us,” freshman Christen Inman said. “We could carry it with us. Even when they made a run, we still had momentum from that run in the first half.” As she has been for the team’s wins all season, Inman was a huge reason for the Cats’ victory. The freshman guard put up 18 points for NU in addition to a team-high nine rebounds and was a perfect 10-for-10 at the free throw line. Fellow freshman Nia Coffey tallied a team-high 19 points for the Cats and added eight rebounds.
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Sophomores Lauren Douglas and Maggie Lyon chipped in 15 and 11 points respectively to help lead the Cats. Wisconsin came back battling in the second half. The Badgers went on a run to pull ahead 49-48 with 13 minutes left in the game. “Overall it was a really hard-fought game,” Inman said. “At every point when we made a run, they made a run. It was very back and forth and took a lot of energy. Our heart really won the game overall.” The Cats’ heart pushed them through the final stages of regulation, as the Badgers pulled ahead by 5, but the Cats were able to pull even yet again. The Cats then took a 2-point lead, but the Badgers again tied it up with two free throws following a steal. With the score tied at 68 apiece, each team tried to end it in regulation but came up short. NU went up early in overtime, with Coffey draining two baskets in a row and then Inman making both free throws following a steal. Wisconsin battled back, pulling to within 2 points, but Inman made two more free throws, giving the Cats their 77-73 win. After such a difficult stretch of games, the win is key for NU heading into the postseason. “It feels awesome. It’s momentum going into the Big Ten Tournament because we can say were going into it with a win,” Inman said. “And that’s what it’s all about.” rebeccafriedman2015@u.northwestern.edu