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Committee shares John Evans report By ciara mccarthy and rebecca savransky

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‘HAIL TO THEE, NORTHWESTERN’ The class of 2017 sings the alma mater in Chicago’s Millennium Park during Wildcat Welcome. The class of 2018 will be the most diverse Northwestern class.

2018 to be most diverse class By tyler pager

the daily northwestern @tylerpager

The class of 2018 will be the most diverse class in Northwestern’s history, undergraduate admissions dean

Christopher Watson said Thursday.

Watson said approximately 9 percent of the class is composed of African American students and approximately 14 percent of the class is Latino or Hispanic. Both are records for NU. Additionally, about 9 percent of the class is from outside

the United States, matching the class of 2017.

“We’re very happy with the diversity of the incoming class and very happy to be able to set another record with that,” Watson said. » See admissions, page 11

Northwestern released Thursday a report detailing NU founder John Evans’ involvement in the Sand Creek Massacre, finding no evidence that Evans was directly involved in planning the massacre but that the University ignored his moral failures both before and after Sand Creek.

The report was released by the John Evans Study Committee, a group formed last year to investigate whether Evans played a role in the massacre. Members of the committee included English Prof. Carl Smith, committee chair, and several other senior scholars from NU and universities across the country.

The report concluded Evans, the governor of Colorado at the time, did not know about the massacre in advance, but says he retains some responsibility in an attack by U.S. Army cavalry soldiers that killed about 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho people.

“John Evans nonetheless was one of several individuals who, in serving a flawed and poorly implemented

federal Indian policy, helped create a situation that made the Sand Creek Massacre possible,” the This committee oversight goes said in the against the report.

The fundamental report finds puposes of a Evans failed to fulf ill university and his responNorthwestern’s sibilities own best as superintendent traditions. of Indian affairs, and John Evans Study Committee t h at h i s response to the massacre was “reprehensibly obtuse and self-interested.”

Although the report says Evans “favored using deadly force against hostile Indians,” it cites evidence suggesting Evans “did not consider the Indians at Sand Creek to be a threat and that he would have opposed the attack that took place.”

Still, the committee found NU has “ignored his significant moral failures before and after Sand

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» See evans, page 11

Council holds off CARE’s Eva Ball to leave NU on fee increase By jeanne kuang and Tyler pager the daily northwestern @jeannekuang, @tylerpager

By sophia bollag

daily senior staffer @SophiaBollag

City Council voted Tuesday to hold off on a proposed fee increase for contractors who do not employ Evanston residents on city-funded construction projects.

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Braithwaite (2nd) Currently a b out 43 percent of contractors comply with the rule.

Ald. Don Wilson (4th) suggested that discussion be held for a future date in order to allow time to meet

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with contractors whom the penalty increase would affect.

“We need to make some changes and need to make adjustments to have this become … an effective program,” he said. “But I feel very strongly that we should also be including the contractors that have been on the jobs as part of this conversation. I’m looking at this as an opportunity to find out exactly why they’re not hiring our people.”

As of Thursday, there were no plans in place to schedule the meetings, city manager Wally Bobkiewicz said. He added that the proposal will be discussed again at the council’s June 9 meeting.

The proposed change would amend the MWEBE penalty, which currently fines contractors $100 per day if they fail to comply with the policy, to a progressive fine of 3 percent of the total project value.

“Our goal is not to create additional revenue,” said Ald. Peter Braithwaite (2nd), who introduced the amendment at the April 28 Administration and Public Works Committee meeting. “It’s really to drive compliancy.”

The MWEBE Committee suggested the 3-percent penalty so that all projects, regardless of size, would be compelled to comply with the rule.

“I feel much more comfortable with a progressive fee that’s more scaled to the amount of the contract,” Ald. Jane » See COUNCIL, page 11

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Eva Ball, the Center for Awareness, Response and Education’s sexual violence response services coordinator, will leave Northwestern after two years of working with sexual assault survivors on campus.

Ball, who was on leave this quarter, has worked at CARE to provide confidential services to survivors and advise them on responding to their assault. She resigned from Northwestern for family reasons, Lisa Currie, director of health promotion and wellness, announced in an email to the Campus Coalition on Sexual Violence last week. Her final day at the University is Friday.

Ball joined CARE in January 2012, after being hired as part of a grant NU received in 2011 from the Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women. The grant, which supports sexual assault

Sharma selected for Last Lecture

African American studies and Asian American studies Prof. Nitasha Sharma was chosen to give the Last Lecture for the class of 2014.

Sharma will speak at The Cubby Bear on Wednesday, June 18 at 7 p.m. She said after hearing about the opportunity in the past, she is looking forward to the experience.

prevention and response programs on college campuses, also funded the establishment of CARE. Before CARE, Ball worked at Rape Victim Advocates in Chicago and represented the center on the Campus Coalition on Sexual Violence since the group’s inception in 2010.

“As a representative to the CCSV from Rape Victim Advocates, she was a huge help in outlining what CARE would look like,” said Laura Stuart, coordinator of sexual health education and violence prevention. “(Ball) really advocated strongly to have survivor-centered services and to have it confidential.”

Stuart said Ball’s perspective of a building a community-based rape crisis center was instrumental in CARE’s creation and Stuart urged Ball to apply for the survivor advocate position at NU when the office was established.

“We’ve been really lucky to have her for two years ... to help develop our first official sexual assault response protocol, do training for

staff and faculty and student leaders on what to do when someone discloses (sexual assault), to help more than a hundred survivors that she has worked with over the years since she was here,” Stuart said.

While at NU, Ball also served on the Title IX Coordinating Committee, co-led the CCSV and helped to revise the University’s sexual misconduct policy, which was implemented in January. In the fall, she founded SPEAK for Change, a survivor activism group on campus.

“Eva has been a joy to work with and her vibrant presence will be truly missed in our office and on campus,” Currie wrote in the email.

Stuart said a search for Ball’s replacement has begun. The position was posted last Friday, and the University is assembling a search committee with the hopes of hiring someone before Fall Quarter.

“I’m really excited about it,” she said. “I’ve heard about it before. I think I was nominated a few years ago but wasn’t ultimately selected so I had heard about it and thought it was very exciting to have a lecture in a bar.”

Sharma added she is excited to be able to send off the class of 2014 due to the close relationships she has created with many graduating students.

“I’m really excited that this is the

specific year that I got elected to do this. There are so many amazing students that I’ve actually known from their first and second years who are now graduating,” Sharma said.

“I think that this kind of forum will be the perfect one for me to send them off — both the class as a whole but also for the specific students that I’ve really kind of grown with, grown to love and to really respect.”

jkuang@u.northwestern.edu tylerpager2017@u.northwestern.edu

— Rebecca Savransky

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City business hosts scavenger hunt By paige leskin

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A paint-and-wine party business hosted an art scavenger hunt around Evanston last week in order to foster a better connection between residents and the city’s art and culture community.

Members of Bottle & Bottega, 1016 Davis St., hung various pieces of art at three different businesses over the course of the week for people to discover. Clues that indicated locations of the artworks, which were all made by Bottle & Bottega employees, were posted from the company’s Facebook and Twitter accounts. “The drive was really to just engage the community and really bring art out into the public consciousness by expanding the walls of our studio,â€? owner Lynette Martin said. “We thought this would be a good chance to get everybody out of their homes ‌ and enjoying the weather and searching for some beautiful art.â€?

Martin opened Bottle & Bottega’s Evanston location in October 2013. The business, based out of Chicago, prides itself as a host for social art venue for private and public parties that have “bring your own beverage� policies. “One part artistic adventure and one part cocktail party, Bottle & Bottega inspires the inner artist in everyone regardless of skill or practice, through a blend of hands-on art sessions, on-site professional

Police Blotter Police arrest Chicago man in connection with home invasion

Police arrested a Chicago man Tuesday in connection with home invasion, police said.

The man, 19, forced entry into a residence in the 2200 block of Oakton Street by forcing open a window and unlocking the door, Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said. He entered at about 3 p.m. with a group of several other

instruction and, of course, a glass of your favorite wine,� the business said in a news release.

Before opening the physical storefront, the business operated as a mobile studio since August 2012 out of various borrowed Evanston spaces. Martin said the places it once used were the same ones that Bottle & Bottega utilized in the scavenger hunt: Creative Coworking, Bravo! Cucina Italiana and Koi Fine Asian Cuisine and Lounge.

Martin said she supported any ideas that would both help promote these partners that once helped sustain Bottle & Bottega, as well as engage the Evanston community.

Martin said feedback she had received from the community and from employees was positive.

She said she would like to continue to do events like the scavenger hunt in the future. Anything that helps the studio in its continuous effort to engage Evanston in the arts is something of interest, she said.

The month of May was the optimal time for the scavenger hunt, as Evanston was just coming out of a long winter and the weather “just started breaking for us here finally,� she said.

Although she lauded the city’s arts initiatives, Martin said there’s always room to improve it and attract the community even more. “That’s really what our business is all about is sort of bringing art to everyone and making it accessible for everyone,� she said. “We believe that everyone has an inner artist. We are trying to promote that concept.� teens. After entering, the man punched one of the residents, a teenager, in the face. The boy sustained injuries on his face and arm, and it is unknown if he required medical treatment, Parrott said.

The incident is connected to an ongoing dispute between “numerous individuals,� Parrott said. Multiple teenagers were also arrested.

Chicago woman charged with obstructing justice after car crash

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Scavenging for art The art-themed party business Bottle & Bottega hosted an art scavenger hunt around Evanston.

Winners of the scavenger hunt, those who were the first to send a picture of the found artwork to Bottle & Bottega, will be given the actual piece of artwork they discovered, Martin said. Awards will also include Bottle & Bottega gift certificates for two people to one of the business’s public painting events, she said. paigeleskin2017@u.northwestern.edu Wednesday after she provided false information to police following an Evanston car crash.

The woman crashed her car Sunday in the 1000 block of Ridge Avenue and was transported to a hospital for observation, Parrott said. The woman pretended to be a relative with a similar name. The woman has been charged with obstructing justice, and there will likely be subsequent charges filed in the case, Parrott said. ­— Ciara McCarthy

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Leaving here was not an easy decision, but I’m following in the great concert hall tradition of leaving the stage while people still want more rather than less.

Bienen’s Van Kleeck to leave NU See story on page 5

— Richard Van Kleeck, Bienen’s director of concert activities

Self-care program to start during Reading Period By jordan harrison

the daily northwestern @MedillJordan

Members of Associated Student Government are working to create a self-care campaign, which will be partially implemented during Reading Period, encouraging students to take time for themselves and their well-being.

ASG is planning to implement preliminary programming for the initiative, tentatively called “Take Time,” before continuing to develop a broader campaign over the summer to be potentially implemented in the fall.

SESP sophomore Chris Harlow, ASG student life vice president, said the organization has a mental health coalition where it brings together quarterly different mental health groups on campus, such as NU Listens and NU Active Minds,

to hear their recommendations and help spread their message.

He said the primary message ASG heard from those groups and from administrators was that students are not taking enough time to care for themselves.

“Ultimately, a self-care campaign isn’t so much about directing people to resources like Counseling and Psychological Services or to NU Listens or NU Active Minds, rather this is going to be a much more subconscious or implicit message that, ‘Hey, Northwestern student, remember to just think about your well-being a little bit each day,’” he said.

Harlow emphasized the campaign will broadly address stress and well-being on campus and is not meant to be a substitute for resources focused on serious mental health issues and disorders.

SESP sophomore Hannah Brock, ASG’s mental health initiative coordinator, said the organization

wanted to move beyond a purely informational campaign.

“Our idea was that we wanted to have some sort of campaign that wasn’t just about statistics and facts,” she said. “We wanted to do something proactive so that this campus can remember that it’s important to take five minutes or 10 minutes to just take care of yourself, whether that’s having tea or taking a nap or something like that.”

ASG will solicit feedback from students during Reading Period about their self-care practices, Brock said, and will use the information to more broadly implement the program in the fall.

“Our idea is basically to have whiteboards in Norris and the libraries and common areas, and we’ll be asking, ‘How do you take time for yourself?’” she said.

Weinberg senior Leah Grodinsky, co-director of NU Listens, said stress management and mental health in the NU community could improve if

students took time for each other as well.

“The campaign that we’re working on involves an element of self-care, but also community care,” she said. “What I really like about the latter community care is that I think during stressful moments during finals and Reading Week we tend to isolate ourselves and not necessarily be available to people who might need us during a stressful period.”

She said she thought community building would ultimately improve mental health for individuals.

“We’re expected and encouraged even to be self-promoting and self-serving on this campus, and so there’s less of an emphasis on fostering a sense of community and camaraderie,” she said.

“I think, overall, that’s one start of a way that we can improve, and I think as a result of having that sense of community we would individually be healthier as well.” jordanharrison2017@u.northwestern.edu

Chicago Symphony Orchestra bassoonist joins Bienen By annie bruce

daily senior staffer @anniefb13

Becoming a university professor has always been a dream for David McGill.

That dream will become a reality in September when McGill joins the staff of the Bienen School of Music.

McGill, who has been the principal bassoon for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for the past 17 years, will be a full-time bassoon professor.

“I was very lucky to have studied with what might be considered the very last of the old guard of music teachers in Philadelphia,” he said. “So I feel like it’s on my shoulders to carry on what they gave to me, and after 30 years of performing in an orchestra, I felt like, well, it’s time.”

Making the decision to leave the Chicago

Symphony Orchestra and come to Northwestern was a “double-edged sword” for McGill, but he said the experiences he’s had working with Daniel Barenboim, Pierre Boulez, Bernard Haitink and Riccardo Muti has taught him a lot that he hopes to pass on to Northwestern students. Muti is also the commencement speaker for NU’s class of 2014.

“Getting the great opportunity to know personally and to work closely with Riccardo Muti has changed my life and has educated me beyond the education I got at school,” McGill said. “I feel like that’s also something I can bring to the students at Northwestern, is a working knowledge of orchestral playing and musicianship that comes not only from my teachers but also from my wonderful bosses, if you want to call them that, and my colleagues in the orchestra.”

McGill said he is excited to watch students at NU develop as they master the basics of control,

expression and musical understanding.

In addition to his musical experience, McGill has written “Sound in Motion: a Performer’s Guide to Greater Musical Expression,” a book about musical thought. He is in the process of writing two other books, including one about bassoon techniques.

“One of the wonderful perks of being a university professor is that other academic pursuits, such as writing, recording, composing are all encouraged,” he said.

Bienen Prof. Steven Cohen, chair of the search committee, said in order to fill the bassoon professor position, a worldwide notice was sent out to various musical and educational journals, and a committee of about five reached out to potential candidates in the field.

Once candidates were selected, they were invited to campus to attend meetings and interviews, meet students and faculty, teach a master

class and play a recital.

Cohen said McGill is one of the top musicians in the world in the bassoon field.

“He just blew us away with his attention to detail, his demeanor with the students, his knowledge of music, his overall view of music,” Cohen said. “It was just the complete package.”

By becoming a professor, McGill is also continuing a family legacy. His grandfather, who passed away in 1976, was the head of the physics department at the University of Tulsa. McGill said he keeps a picture of his grandfather in his bedroom to remember him.

“I do believe that becoming a full-time professor is the fulfillment of a dream for me,” he said.

“And now, once again, there’ll be a university professor in the family, and I’m very proud of that.” annebruce2015@u.northwestern.edu

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Why I won’t hide my The problem with multitasking culture pride for America soldiers, respect for our freedoms and respect for those who are not lucky enough to have SAM them.

In families, members often offend, fight and DOUGLAS lie to one another. Yet through this, healthy DAILY COLUMNIST families stick together — disagreements lead to stronger bonds, mistakes are rectified On Wednesday, President Barack Obama and families decide to push onward into the gave the commencement address to the future. Somehow they even love each other graduating cadets at the United States Military more because of it. To me, the U.S. is like a Academy at West Point. The speech, while giant family, with members who, not always, offering advice and thanks (and pardon to but often have the respect necessary to forge those cadets with minor infractions) to the healthy relationships. I understand that for Class of 2014, was also Obama’s chance to me to contribute to a healthy national famarticulate his views on America’s role in interily, it is my job to forgive the “Memorial Day national politics. Yet, in Loungers,” and I do. reading through The New However, I can’t forgive York Times’ transcript of myself for saying noththe address, I found myself ing to them when their drawn not to the president’s actions affected me so delineation of future roles, deeply. but in how he spoke about Many members of our country’s present sucboth my personal and cesses. In doing so, I felt my national family have two very strong and very served and died for this opposite emotions: pride country, yet at certain and shame. times, I feel like I cannot I was — and still am — be proud of their sacriproud of my country. As fices because of the apaemphasized by the presithy so blithely flaunted dent, the U.S. is the most by the people around me. powerful nation on earth But I should be openly — that power coming from proud. I should be proud our military and cultural and thankful that I don’t leadership. Obama praised have to worry that my our immigration polifemale peers will be kidcies, the dynamism of our napped to be sold into economy and our unrivaled the sex trade. Personally, Graphic by Mandella Younge/ as an artist in the the“hub of alliances.” He goes Daily Senior Staffer ater, I can be proud that even further in claiming that “the United States is while federal funding and remains the one indispensable nation.” for artistic voices may be scarce, nonetheless I consider it an honor and a privilege to call those voices are not silenced. I am proud that myself a citizen of this “unrivaled” country. my fellow citizens are ready, eager and selfless However, in spite of that, I also felt shame at enough to fight for the freedoms of others. being proud of the U.S. There is, in the circles Did I take action to realize these freedoms I frequent, and I think in the greater populamyself? No. But my family did. Both my family tion of millennials, an opinion that apathy is by blood and my family by citizenship. Natua valued trait. Apathy emerges at the expense rally that family is only as strong as the people of allowing one’s self to experience something who make it up, and institutionally, that family to the fullest extent, but it turns into general exists inherently in the people who are memhatred of feeling vulnerable or passionately. bers. Because I am proud of the protectors of This is exemplified by a tableau I passed last our country, I am proud of our country. And week outside of the Levere Memorial Temple now, I’m not going to hide it. on Sheridan Road: two students lounging in the flags stuck in the lawn for Memorial Sam Douglas is a Communication sophomore. He can be Day, taking selfies. Perhaps they, like me, are reached at samueldouglas2016@u.northwestern.edu. If proud of this country, but with pride must you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a come a modicum of respect. Respect for fallen Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.

RAISA CHOWDHURY DAILY COLUMNIST

There is just so much I could be doing right now. As I type up this article, I am simultaneously transitioning between reading an article about millennials, writing to my TA about problems I am facing with my C++ project, changing playlists on YouTube, checking my Facebook news feed, replying to emails from recruiters and texting a friend. Some of these I am doing because they are important and time sensitive, others simply because I am used to doing them all at once.

Let’s shed the unimportant stuff off the list: For the time being, let’s presume all our social media engagements or social interactions are trivial. Now let’s look at all the important things that we are actually expected to do in one given day: Go to student club meetings, prepare for internship interviews, study for midterm X, write paper Y, do problem set Z, and obviously there is always laundry.

Sure, we are at Northwestern; to survive, we have mastered the art of multitasking and ensuring we meet all our deadlines. Maybe we can move fluidly between doing assignments and studying for exams in completely unrelated subjects. Or we are now skilled in performing unrelated physical and mental activities all at the same time. To be completely honest, there is no other way. Unless the world decides to slow down and hand us one task at a time, which is nearly impossible to imagine at this point, there really is no way around multitasking. We have to be agile in switching between tasks just to keep up with everyone else.

But the increasing intensity of multitasking comes with a price. It is true that we can do more and know more today if we are great at multitasking, but is it possible that we are doing too much? Can we be doing too many things and having access to too much information? When does multitasking start to compromise the quality of everything we are doing? Unfortunately, the answer is almost always.

As cognitive scientist David Meyer acknowledges, our brain is limited in terms of its processing channels, the volume of data it can successfully absorb and the capacity of our working memory. When we multitask, activities that use the same processing channels compete for them simultaneously.

In trying to split up our brain’s capacity, chances are that we are unable to allocate each activity the share it actually requires.

This makes us less efficient: When completing more than two tasks at once, it can take us up to 50 percent longer to complete each task, depending on the complexity of the tasks at hand.

Additionally, doing more and more things in a given time span also reduces the quality of a completed task. For instance, I am pretty sure I would have dedicated more time to explore, to learn and to critically reflect on existing scientific research about multitasking if I was not anxious to quickly jump to finishing my C++ project also due in the next hour.

Meyer also states, and I am in full support of this claim, that multitasking can be hazardous. The resulting mental state of incessant stress can cause you to “crash and burn” and shut down your critical thinking It is true that abilities altogether. Rememwe can do more ber the time and know more when you had so much to do, today if we are great your brain got at multitasking, but nervous and you is it possible that spent too long in deciding how we are doing too to allocate your much? Can we be time? Or when you just took a doing too many nap instead? Or things and having when you did acess to too much so many things at once that you information? made errors in one or more of them?

Despite being familiar with these inherent problems of multitasking, I cannot say I will try and do fewer things today. I don’t think I have a choice. Is it reasonable just to refuse to meet all my deadlines because I want to do a better job in each of them? Because these deadlines do exist, I have to meet them regardless. In the 21st century world, where everyone appears to be in a race for one thing or another, I am not sure if any of us really have a choice but to become better and better at this unhealthy practice of multitasking.

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Raisa Chowdhury is a McCormick junior. She can be reached at raisachowdhury2015@u.northwestern.edu.

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Media shouldn’t focus on perpetrators of shootings KATY VINES

DAILY COLUMNIST

One of the biggest stories on the news this week is the shooting at the University of California, Santa Barbara. By now, almost everyone has heard of Elliot Rodger and his horrific crime. While the topic of mass shootings is extremely sensitive to many people, I can’t help but feel confused and offended by the way my country deals with such events.

From my experience, almost every mass shooting that gains national attention is handled in a very

distinct way by the press, the government and the general public. Through Columbine High School, Virginia Tech University, Sandy Hook Elementary School and UCSB, we are able to clearly see this pattern.

First, the media covers the story and it is replayed over and over for days or weeks on end. Then, it comes up with a very compelling story about the history of the shooter, which I have noticed usually focuses on his mental health or on the way those around him treated him. Although I wasn’t really old enough to internalize the Columbine shooting when it happened, I have heard about the tragedy growing up.

I have heard the story of how Eric and Dylan were bullied and depressed loners and that one day

they snapped and retaliated at those who had made their lives difficult. Not only did this story turn out to be almost completely untrue, but it also provided attention and fame for the shooters specifically because of their crimes.

Despite the fact that 13 people lost their lives and 21 were wounded during the shooting at Columbine, I have rarely heard the victims’ stories. The media focuses so intensely on the life and struggle of the shooter or shooters that they often remain unknown.

Additionally, many people tend to research and talk about the shooter specifically, which builds up his or her level of distinction. The most important thing for everyone to remember is that these shooters, before they committed their horrendous crimes,

were regular people. They were students, coworkers and maybe even friends.

People are often shocked after these incidents, but the truth is that the shooter almost always shows signs of dangerous behavior, such as talking or writing about plans to harm others, even if he or she is not necessarily mentally ill or bullied.

We should take the time to really talk to those around us and listen to what they have to say, so that we may potentially be able to get them help before their situation escalates into a national tragedy.

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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Bienen’s Richard Van Kleeck reflects on time at NU By annie bruce

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Richard Van Kleeck can instantly rattle off a number of memorable stories from his past 13 years at Northwestern.

There was the time he worked with the robotics lab at the McCormick School of Engineering to create a robot that could play the snare drum part to Maurice Ravel’s Bolero, an orchestral piece.

There was the time that he convinced members of Sigma Alpha Epsilon to send a cello up their flagpole for a documentary.

There was the time that he worked on a program featuring different percussion styles and members of Boomshaka drove onstage in a car and played the car with percussion instruments. But without a doubt, Van Kleeck’s favorite part about his time at NU has been the students.

“Getting to hear their stories and their hopes and dreams and see them mature over four years and go off and do amazing things, that’s just a refreshing thing that happens every year,” he said.

Van Kleeck has worked as the director of concert activities at the Bienen School of Music since 2001 but plans to leave at the end of the academic year and move back to Kentucky with his wife. The time off will give him the opportunity to work on some of his own projects that he didn’t have time for while at NU.

“I’m very interested in our amazing students and projects that bring artists faculty.” and digital media together, Before arriving at NU, and I’ll be developing some Van Kleeck worked on a of those,” Van Kleeck said. special project with the “Leaving here was not an easy Smithsonian Institute and decision, but I’m following in the Library of Congress, at the great concert hall tradiDartmouth College and at tion of leaving the stage while the Kentucky Center for people still want more rather theArts. than less.”

His appreciation for During his time at NU, a wide variety of musiVan Kleeck coordinated cal styles dates back to concerts throughout the difhis time as a french horn major at the New England ferent concert halls on camConservatory of Music, pus, worked with faculty on a number of projects, created where he met Gunther the annual spring festival and Schuller, a french horn worked as the director of the player and an American Davee Distance Learning composer.

Source: Northwestern University “He was one of the Initiative, which has been going on for six years. people, I sort of consider a Richard Van Kleeck mentor,” Van Kleeck said.

The Initiative has helped create a library, which, by the “He took a very wide view end of the year, will have more than 165 videos of of music … and that was a great influence on me, different performances and master classes that can and you see that in the kind of programming that now be seen by people across the globe.

I do.”

“It’s a combination of creating a video library When he worked as the director of programand also doing live webcasts, and it’s a great outming at the Kentucky Center for the Performing reach program and a residual resource of what we Arts, Van Kleeck tried to incorporate that variety do for the school of music,” Van Kleeck said. “I’m of music styles, especially when creating an “all very proud of how that’s turned out, and it couldn’t things considered” live concert series for PBS, have been done, of course, without all the talent of which ended up winning awards and is now at

the Smithsonian Institute’s Museum of American History.

Creating programs that people will watch, Van Kleeck said, is still one of the universal challenges that everyone in the concert business faces.

“It’s still a minor miracle that people Leaving take the time and the money and the here was not an inconvenience to easy decision, but actually drive to a concert and sit I’m following in the and listen to people great concert hall play live music,” he tradition of leaving said. “We should never take that for the stage while granted.” people still want Van Kleeck hopes to stay conmore. nected with the NU Richard Van Kleeck, community after Bienen director of he leaves and said concert activities he already signed up to get the Big Ten Network in Kentucky.

“With a little luck, some of these projects (in Kentucky) will involve some faculty and students from here,” he said. “I definitely will stay dedicated to creating opportunities for artists and audiences and trying to do some creative things. … I’m looking at it as a new opportunity and an adventure.”

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Feinberg study compares effect of vitamin E on lungs By amulya yalamanchili

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A new study from the Feinberg School of Medicine suggests that different forms of vitamin E found in common cooking oils affect lung function differently.

The study found one form of vitamin E, alphatocopherol, may improve lung function. Alphatocopherol is found in such oils as olive oil and sunflower oil.

Meanwhile, the “bad” form of vitamin E, gamma-tocopherol, is found in oils such as soybean

oil, corn oil and canola oil. This form of the vitamin may contribute to the rising incidence of lung inflammation.

Due to a high dietary intake of the latter oils, levels of gamma-tocopherol are significantly higher in American adults than in adults from other countries.

The study analyzed data from more than 4,500 participants over a span of 20 years from the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults Study. Participants were from four centers: Chicago; Minneapolis; Birmingham, Alabama and Oakland, California.

Feinberg Prof. Joan Cook-Mills, who specializes

in allergy and immunology, was the senior author of the study, which was published in Respiratory Research in March.

“Blood levels of gamma-tocopherol and alphatocopherol were measured,” Cook-Mills said. “That includes how much was acquired from all different sources, whether it was supplement or diet.”

The two forms of vitamin E affect lung inflammation differently because gamma-tocopherol, the “bad” form, increases white blood cell activity which contributes to the body’s inflammatory response, while alpha-tocopherol inhibits the response.

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Graduate student considers filing Title IX lawsuit against NU

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 May 22.

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.

Canvas announced as Blackboard replacement

Northwestern will transition from Blackboard to Canvas, a course management system with more flexibility and user options, the University officially announced on April 29.

The transition, which has an expected completion date of August 2015, will take place over the course of the 2014-15 academic year, after undergraduate and graduate classes participated in Canvas pilot programs over the past year.

“Faculty found that Canvas has a more modern user experience, a very clean design and what’s probably most important, was much more adaptable to a variety of different educational practices and ways of promoting communication and engagement in a class,” said Bob Taylor, senior director of academic and research technologies.

Students organize to support Sodexo workers

Student activists organized a march through campus April 21 demanding better treatment of Northwestern workers after Sodexo temporarily suspended a 10-year employee who said he was accused of being “under the influence” and “over excited” during his shift.

About 40 individuals walked down Sheridan Road from The Arch to Sargent Hall chanting “we support our workers” and other phrases behind Rafael Marquez, a food service worker in 1835 Hinman dining hall, who was put on temporary suspension last Friday.

The march was planned in an effort to support Marquez and other workers. Marquez said that after standing up for another worker being mistreated for supposed poor performance, Sodexo management demanded Marquez leave and subsequently put him on temporary suspension. He works as a union steward, a job requiring several months of training and the responsibility to defend other workers’ rights. He said that at the time of the incident, he was fulfilling this requirement.

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Evanston officials say SafeRide was never in danger of being shut down for violating city codes, refuting claims the University made earlier this week as it defended its decision to stop offering rides between off-campus locations.

A senior NU official admitted the University did not do enough to make sure students knew of the reduction in service, which quietly went into effect after Spring Break and was revealed on the first days of the quarter.

“The place that we did not do our due diligence really was developing an appropriate communications strategy for students in a timeframe that they could hear it and absorb it,” said Julie Payne-Kirchmeier, assistant vice president of student auxiliary services.

Associated Student Government mobilized against the new policy and an online student petition against it garnered hundreds of signatures.

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SafeRide shutdown never a possibility, officials say

Weinberg juniors Julia Watson and Erik Zorn won the 2014 election April 9 for Associated Student Government president and executive vice president, beating out the ticket of Alex Deitchman and running mate Ronak Patel.

Watson said she was “super excited” upon learning the results and looks forward to serving NU during the upcoming year.

The pair received 84 percent of the votes, out of the total 1,758 ballots cast this year. The number dropped from last year’s voter turnout, which attracted more than 3,400. Election commissioner Dana Leinbach suggested the decrease could be partially due to both the shortened campaign period and the presence of just two tickets on the ballot, compared to last year’s four.

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District 65 school board members addressed concerns from parents and students over the Haven Middle School leggings policy April 1 after the issue sparked protests and attracted national media attention.

“Dress codes like these encourage educators to do the sexualizing (themselves) and put them in a no-win situation, frankly,” Haven parent Kevin Bond said at the meeting. “Telling girls that their rather dumpy clothes ... are inappropriate or somehow too sexy for school is drawing attention to their bodies in an embarrassing and painful way.”

Just a week after protests of the so-called ban on leggings and yoga pants began, the meeting held at the Evanston/Skokie School District 65 administration building, 1500 McDaniel Ave. drew an audience of fewer than 20 people.

Ultimately, board members and district officials decided Haven’s policy needs further review.

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After weeks of fact-finding and deliberation, Northwestern scholarship football players voted April 25 on whether to form a union.

The votes will not be counted until after the National Labor Relations Board rules on NU’s appeal of last month’s ruling that players are University employees. However, several media outlets have cited sources predicting the union will be voted down.

No current players spoke to the media at any length, but once the voting period was over, NU spokesman Al Cubbage delivered a statement affirming the position that NU opposes the union but supports players’ desire for change.

“We agree that there currently are important issues regarding college athletics nationally and that students should have a voice in those discussions,” Cubbage said.

“However, we believe that a collective bargaining process at Northwestern would not advance the discussion of these topics, in large part because most of the issues being raised by the union are outside the purview of Northwestern.”

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May 9 issue

Driver hits car after it blocks library’s book return

A driver purposefully hit an Evanston woman’s car on April 3, allegedly because the car was blocking the book return in front of the main branch of the Evanston Public Library, police said.

The driver, a 65-year-old woman from Rogers Park, purposefully struck the Evanston woman’s car at about 6:30 p.m. in front of the library, 1703 Orrington Ave. A witness told police that after the driver hit the car, she drove toward the witness

and nearly hit her before heading east on Church Street, Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said in an email.

The driver returned to the scene and said she was upset because the car, which belongs to a 51-year-old Evanston resident, was blocking the book return, Parrott said. There was minor damage to the car, and the car’s owner decided not to pursue criminal charges. ­— Ciara McCarthy

April 16 issue Evanston man had his car stolen by friend of a friend

A 32-year-old man had his car stolen by a friend of a friend at his Evanston apartment April 14.

The resident said his keys were taken along with his vehicle, a 2003 Lincoln Aviator, by someone

who was at his apartment in the 400 block of Howard Street near the Chicago border at about 7:30 a.m. on April 14, Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said. ­— Julian Gerez

April 17 issue Tires of 19 cars slashed

Nineteen cars in just four blocks in south Evanston had their tires slashed overnight April 14.

The incidents occurred in a residential area in the 500 and 600 blocks of Judson Avenue, the 400 block of Keeney Street and the 700 block of Hinman Avenue, Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said.

Police said there does not appear to be any other damage to the vehicles. Some cars had all four tires punctured or slashed, while others had

only one or two tires damaged.

All the incidents appear to be related but random because not all cars on the four blocks where the incidents occurred were targeted, and there was no pattern to the type of vehicle damaged, Parrott said. Targeted cars included Toyota, Volkswagen and Jeep models, Parrott said.

Police said no suspects have yet been identified, and it is not known whether the damage was done by a single person or multiple people. ­— Julian Gerez

May 7 issue Graffiti found on CTA property

Someone spray painted several symbols and phrases on a wall owned by the Chicago Transit Authority near Northwestern on May 5.

Graffiti written in blue and black with phrases including “sleep is the cousin of death” and “I never sleep” were painted onto a wall by the Noyes Street CTA station, 901 Noyes St., police said.

The graffiti does not appear to be gang related, Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said.

New CTA cameras installed starting in May 2011 have led to a greater number of graffiti arrests. However, the area where the incident occurred does not appear to be covered by video evidence, Parrott added.

Someone made 2 small-sized holes in a window of a residence

Someone made two small holes in a window of a residence near Evanston Township High School on May 5.

A 30-year-old Evanston man heard a cracking sound and noticed two holes in the front window of his home in the 1800 block of Lake Street, police said.

No foreign objects were found by the window, and there does not appear to be any indication that the holes were made by gunshots, Parrott said. ­— Julian Gerez

Television thrown into car windshield

Someone threw a television against the windshield of a car on May 6 in the 1600 block of Fowler Avenue, police said.

The offender’s vehicle was identified, Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said. ­— Ciara McCarthy

May 19 issue

Sodexo workers fight at Norris

Two Sodexo workers got into a fight May 12 at Norris University Center, police said.

Three workers were talking and joking at about 3:45 p.m. when one, a man, became agitated with the female worker present, Deputy Chief of University Police Dan McAleer said. The man claimed the woman was making fun of him, after which he approached her and told her to sit down and shut up, McAleer said.

The third worker placed himself between the woman and the approaching man, and the man began pushing the worker. The three individuals were separated and University Police responded to the scene. The worker who was pushed elected not to pursue criminal charges, police said.

The employees’ manager said the incident would be handled through the human resources department, McAleer said. ­— Ciara McCarthy

Botched drug deal leads to teen stripping at knifepoint

A plan by two Skokie teens to rob an Evanston drug dealer backfired when the dealer ran after one of them and stole his clothes at knifepoint, police said.

The incident led to the arrests May 15 of the two teens, the drug dealer and a third Skokie teen, according to authorities.

The two teens had set up a meeting to buy marijuana from the Evanston drug dealer,

21-year-old Corie R. Brissette, and the third Skokie teen, police said. While the deal was in progress, the two teens pulled out pellet guns, apparently trying to rob Brissette, of the 1800 block of Hartrey Avenue, and the third teen, according to authorities.

Realizing the weapons were pellet guns, Brissette chased after one of the two teens and threatened him with a knife, according to police. Authorities said Brissette then demanded that the teen strip. The teen took off his clothes, and Brissette fled with them.

Shortly after the incident, all four suspects were taken into custody, police said. Brissette was arrested in the 2200 block of Main Street, while the teens were arrested in the 7300 block of Niles Center Road.

Brissette has been charged with armed robbery and delivery of cannabis. One of the teens has been charged with aggravated battery and possession of cannabis, another has been charged with aggravated robbery and possession of cannabis and the other has been charged with armed robbery, battery and delivery of cannabis.

Two of the teens are 16, and the other is 17.

Brissette’s bail has been set at $10,000, according to records from the Cook County Sheriff ’s Office. His next court date is June 10. ­— Patrick Svitek

May 20 issue Someone knocked over menorah near NU

Someone knocked over the menorah of a Jewish center near Northwestern on May 16, damaging it.

A person tipped over the large metal menorah at the front yard of the Tannenbaum Chabad House, 2014 Orrington Ave., Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said. This

occurred sometime early Friday morning, police said.

A light bulb of the nine-branched candelabra was broken.

Parrott said the area is monitored by closed-circuit television, so police will continue to investigate the incident. ­— Julian Gerez

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An Evanston couple launched a delivery food service that aims to offer healthy, homecooked meals at an affordable price for residents in the Chicago area.

“This is food that you can truly nourish your body with,” co-founder Erin Silva Winston said. “It’s affordable ... probably the healthiest most convenient way ... to have an eat-in.”

Winston founded the service, Cooked, with her husband Jona Silva, who is also the lead chef and CEO of the service. Silva worked as a chef at a number of other Chicago-area restaurants such as Winnetka juice bar True Juice.

The two are partnering with other local chefs to provide a different prepared food option for consumers.

“The goal is to really change the way people think of eating in,” Winston said.

The four-entree menu, with side and dessert options, changes daily. Winston said the service will also offer the option of filtering the type of environment your meal is prepared in.

Dairy-free, gluten-free, sustainably-raised and vegan are all options users can choose when ordering online.

Meals are delivered cold, Winston said. All meals are designed by chefs and should take no longer than 15 minutes to heat, so customers get hot meals at the temperature they were intended to be served.

“We offer greater convenience than prepared foods — we bring it to you — but we maintain the highest standards for flavor and health, as well,” Silva said in a news release.

Winston said the couple place extra emphasis on affordability for the purpose a reaching a wide audience.

The entree prices range from about $10 to $13. A week of meals, which covers Monday through Friday, costs $60.

The business delivers to several locations — including Evanston, Wilmette and Rogers Park

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eating in Cooked, a new food delivery service, markets itself to busy people who do not have time to cook for themselves.

Founded by an Evanston couple, the service aims to offer healthy, home-cooked meals at an affordable price for residents in the Chicago area.

— chosen based on proximity to the founders’ kitchen in Evanston. Winston said if they were to attain other kitchens, they would consider expanding their offerings to additional delivery locations.

Cooked differentiates itself from other restaurants because it designs meals intended to be eaten at home, Winston said.

Feeling good about the food you are consuming and serving is a main focus, Winston said.

“The food is excellent, you can expect a restaurant quality meal with no preservatives or additives,” Silva said in a news release. “This is a personal chef service — it’s just meals that we deliver rather than preparing it in your home.” baileywilliams2017@u.northwestern.edu

Recipients of the

Campus Life Award Spring 2014 Kaitlyn Chriswell Class of 2014

Demetrios Elias Class of 2014

Brenton Howlad Class of 2015

Hannah Merens Class of 2016

Nikita Ramanujam Class of 2015

This award recognizes students who have significantly contributed to the improvement of the quality of student life during the past quarter at Northwestern. We seek to recognize students, on an on-going basis, who have impacted our community through program development and implementation, bridging cultural differences, or whom have taken responsibility for and worked collectively with others to create a more engaged and inclusive campus community.

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THE CURRENT By benjamin kraft

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This recipe is another favorite of mine from home like last week’s ham and cheese scones. I guess you could say I’m ready for home cooking again. That said, it’s still very easy to make in a dorm or apartment kitchen. This week, I took over the kitchen in Allison Hall to make this staple of my childhood: meatloaf.

I know what you’re thinking, “meatloaf is gross and kind of sketchy,” and I totally agree. But hear me out on this.

I don’t know about you guys, but meatloaf has always seemed a little questionable to me. I mean its name makes me think of a brick of meat, which is mildly horrifying in my opinion. I never ever eat meatloaf unless my parents, siblings or I make it.

It is too firmly affixed as some dreaded paragon of mysterious ground meat that reminds me of “The Jungle Book,” and not the fun kids version with singing animals.

This meatloaf is different because it is delicious, contains a good balance of spices and, most importantly, you know everything that is going

NU scientist earns Hartwell research award

A Northwestern scientist was awarded a 2013 Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award.

Feinberg Prof. Edward Gong was given the honor for his proposal, “Harnessing the Regenerative Capability of Bladder Smooth Muscle Progenitor Stem Cells to Restore Function to the Obstructed Bladder.”

“The Hartwell process is very competitive,” Hartwell Foundation president Fred Dombrose said in a news release. “Ed proposed a very innovative solution to an unmet and very compelling need.”

Gong’s research is focused on a congenital condition known as posterior urethral

Elizabeth Warren decries student loan debt, calls on government to help solve problem

into it. So give it a try – I don’t think you’ll be disappointed.

Serves 6 | Hands-on time: 20 minutes | Total time: 1 hour 50 minutes | Source: Kraft family tradition Ingredients: 1 pound lean ground beef 1/2 to 1 pound turkey 1 cup dry bread crumbs and 1 1/4 cups milk (or 3 medium slices white bread, torn into pieces and 1 cup milk) 1 egg 1/4 cup minced onion 1/4 teaspoon each pepper, celery salt, garlic powder, dry mustard and sage 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce Directions: Mix all ingredients thoroughly.

Spread in ungreased 9-by-5-by-3 inch loaf pan.

Bake in oven at 350 degrees for 1 1/2 hours. benjaminkraft2017@u.northwestern.edu valve.

“Despite learning how to manage these bladder symptoms, we’ve never really come up with anything that will fix the problem,” Gong said in the release. “Most research is looking to replace the bladder, but those artificial bladders don’t really work well yet.”

Members of the project Gong is working on are studying progenitor muscle stem cells in the bladder for a benign disease.

His team is the first group to study this.

“I want to create a mechanism to help the bladder from deteriorating,” he said. “If it does deteriorate, then I want to be able to reactivate cells within the bladder and regenerate the function. That’s never been done before.”

— Rebecca Savransky

SEATTLE — Calling the $1.2 trillion in studentloan debt owed by U.S. college graduates a drag on prosperity, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren told a Seattle crowd Thursday the government should come to the rescue.

Speaking to nearly 1,700 people at U.S. Sen. Patty Murray’s annual Golden Tennis Shoe Awards fundraiser at the Washington State Convention Center, Warren touted her bill that would allow borrowers to refinance old student loans.

Warren, D-Mass., has emerged as a hero in the progressive wing of the Democratic Party as a champion for consumer rights, and is frequently mentioned as a potential 2016 presidential candidate, despite her repeated denials.

She made no mention of the presidential race in her Seattle appearance, focusing instead on calls to rein in student debt, raise the minimum wage and end the gender pay gap.

College-loan debt is a growing crisis for America, Warren warned, noting the balance on student loans has grown by 70 percent between 2004 and 2012.

“This is a trajectory that we just can’t keep up with,” she said. “Everywhere I go I meet people who work hard, who played by the rules, who got an education only to be crushed by student-loan debt.”

Ventra nears complete transition in July

Sunday will mark the next Ventra deadline, eliminating the use of Chicago and Chicago Plus cards and preventing the reloading of magnetic stripe fare cards as valid methods of payment on the Chicago Transit Authority and Pace Suburban Bus Service.

The CTA and Pace announced Wednesday an increase in the percentage of rides paid using Ventra. Ninety-two percent of CTA rides and 65 percent of Pace rides used the payment method.

CTA and Pace had previously announced near the end of April that about 86 percent of CTA and 61 percent of Pace rides were being paid with Ventra.

Even worse, Warren said, is that the federal government is reaping billions of dollars in profits off the interest on student loans.

Warren’s proposal, the Bank on Students Emergency Loan Refinancing Act, co-sponsored

by Murray and other Senate Democrats, would allow qualified borrowers to refinance outstanding student-loan debt at today’s lower interest rates.

That would save hundreds or thousands of dollars a year for borrowers with loans at old interest rates of 7 percent or higher, she said.

The legislation would be funded by enacting the so-called “Buffett rule,” which would raise taxes on millionaires.

Warren’s prescriptions drew loud applause from the crowd of Democrats at Murray’s annual fundraising event, which raised an estimated $325,000 for Murray’s 2016 re-election campaign.

It was the largest crowd ever for Murray’s annual Golden Tennis Shoe event, named for the disparaging comment from a male state lawmaker she has never named, which Murray says propelled her to run for office decades ago.

“When I first got involved in politics, I was told I couldn’t make a difference because I was just ‘a mom in tennis shoes,’” Murray said.

Murray says she took that as a challenge, and was elected to the school board, then the state Senate before winning election to the U.S. Senate in 1992. Now in her fourth term, Murray has ascended to become one of the most powerful Democrats in Congress.

— Jim Brunner (The Seattle Times) Although the deadline is set for Sunday, the CTA website warned in April that individual cards might stop working sooner.

For those who have not transitioned to Ventra, CTA and Pace offer several steps to ease the process. Ventra cards can be purchased at CTA rail stations, online at ventrachicago.com and over the phone. Through June 24, Ventra’s customer service is hosting transfer events each Tuesday, allowing customers with remaining balances on older payment methods to transfer those funds to new Ventra cards and to ask any questions they may have.

The transition to Ventra will be completed July 1, when magnetic stripe fare cards will no longer be acceptable forms of payment.

— Bailey Williams

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From page 1 Creek,” including his refusal to criticize or even acknowledge the massacre.

“This oversight goes against the fundamental purposes of a university and Northwestern’s own best traditions, and it should be corrected,” the committee wrote in a news release.

NU administrators lauded the work done by the committee in producing the 113-page document.

“We very much appreciate the significant effort that the committee members made in researching and writing this important study,” Provost Dan Linzer said in the release. “By asking a group of distinguished scholars to do this research, we were confident that we would receive an unbiased and thorough report, and I look forward to reading it.”

During the investigation, members of the committee visited the massacre site in Colorado in addition to analyzing archives and libraries and engaging in conversations with other scholars. The report will be used to advise the task force formed earlier this year, focused

National News Worst US measles outbreak in 20 years is due to overseas travel WASHINGTON — After declaring in 2000 that measles had been eliminated from the U.S. through a successful vaccination program, government officials now say the number of confirmed cases has reached a 20-year high as people who get the disease abroad bring it back to America.

Unvaccinated Americans and foreign visitors who traveled to the Philippines, Europe, Africa and Asia are the main culprits in a growing spike of U.S. measles cases that began several years ago and exploded this year.

As of last Friday, 288 cases have been reported in 18 states, the highest year-to-date total since 1994, when 963 cases were reported by year’s end. Ninety-seven percent _ 280 _ of the 2014 U.S. cases were imported from other countries.

“Measles is coming in on airplanes from places where the disease still circulates or in where large outbreaks are occurring,” said Dr.

on understanding the issues the Native American community faces at NU and forging a better relationship with the University.

“This report will be very helpful in informing the work of the Native American Outreach and Inclusion Task Force,” Patricia Telles-Irvin, vice president for student affairs and co-chair of the task force, said in the release. “We will read the report carefully and develop the appropriate responses to this information as we move forward on our work.”

The Native American Outreach and Inclusion Task Force was scheduled to be formed after the committee released its initial report, but was fast-tracked and formed earlier this year. The committee consists of students, faculty and members from other universities and organizations.

The committee called on the University to provide Native Americans increased access to an NU education and to make the study of Native American history and cultures more accessible to NU students. mccarthy@u.northwestern.edu rebeccasavransky2015@u.northwestern.edu Anne Schuchat, the director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

A highly contagious viral respiratory disease that grows in cells at the back of the throat and lungs, measles is spread through the air by coughing, sneezing and even breathing. It can cause fever and coldlike symptoms, along with a stubborn rash.

Fifteen measles outbreaks, involving three or more related cases, have occurred in places such as New York City and in California, where six outbreaks were reported in six counties. Fortythree people have been hospitalized nationally, but no deaths have been reported.

The imported virus is “landing in places in the U.S. where groups of unimmunized people live,” Schuchat added. “That setting gives the measles virus a welcome wagon by providing a chance for outbreaks to occur. And the larger the outbreak, the more difficult to stop.”

Ohio’s 138 cases have been linked to Amish communities in which several members had traveled to the Philippines, which is experiencing its own measles outbreak, with more than 32,000 cases and 41 deaths this year, Schuchat

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Watson also said 50 students were taken off the waitlist this year compared to only 20 for the class of 2017.

He said the two to three years prior to that, NU did not admit any students from the waitlist.

“Going to the waitlist is not a sign of failure,” he said. “I don’t know any school that does not want to go to their waitlist because it helps you round out the class. If one program

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seems to be a big jump.”

Wilson also voiced concern about the proposal. He said he thought the city needed to develop programs “to provide a pool of qualified, trained employees” before implementing a penalty.

“I don’t think it’s appropriate to pass the punishment until we’ve figured out what the said.

Low vaccination rates in Amish communities have been a long-standing health issue.

— Tony Pugh (McClatchy Washington Bureau)

Economy was hit harder by severe winter than initially feared WASHINGTON — The economy stumbled badly during the severe winter, much more than first estimated, according to a government report, and stalled a recovery that appeared poised to take off this year.

Economists, however, see the quarterly drop more as a delay in the nation’s long revival from the Great Recession. Other recent data indicate economic growth has picked up significantly this spring, putting the recovery back on a slowly improving track.

Total economic output shrank at an annual rate of 1 percent from January through March, the first quarterly contraction in three years and just the second since the recession ended nearly five years ago, the Commerce Department said Thursday.

The department’s revised figure for what is

is down, it helps you find more students for that program. Our 50 students didn’t represent anything in particular. It was just kind of across the board so we took off the waitlist to all six schools.”

The overall acceptance rate for the class of 2018 was 13 percent, another University record. Watson predicted the total number of incoming freshmen will be between 2,025 and 2,040 students. The range depends on how many students request a gap year. tylerpager2017@u.northwestern.edu program is going to end up looking like,” Wilson said at the Tuesday council meeting.

At the April 28 meeting, Braithwaite said he welcomed the debate over the amendment but urged that the aldermen work to implement it quickly.

“We’re getting ready to go into construction season right now with a failing grade of compliancy,” he said. sophiabollag@u.northwestern.edu known as gross domestic product was far worse than the 0.1 percent growth initially reported last month. And the revision was steeper than the 0.5 percent contraction economists had anticipated.

The new reading also makes it unlikely that the economy will expand this year at the 3 percent rate economists previously projected.

“We’ve got to climb out of that hole” in the first quarter, said Brian Bethune, chief economist at consulting firm Alpha Economic Foresights.

“You can think of it as a temporary setback, but it is going to pull down growth projections for this year.”

Investors shrugged off the report. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 65.56 points, or 0.4 percent, to 16,698.74.

It typically takes two straight quarters of contraction to signal a recession, and projections are for growth to return in the second quarter.

The economy expanded at a 2.6 percent annual rate in the fourth quarter last year. And heading into this year, the recovery appeared ready to reach what economists call takeoff velocity, which has been an elusive pace in the recovery.

— Jim Puzzanghera (Los Angeles Times)

SPORTS

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Quote of the year

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“(The NCAA) is almost like a dictatorship ... We want someone who is going to be looking out for us.”

— Kain Colter, senior quarterback

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Female Athlete of the Year: Alyssa Leonard One of the more impressive players to come through Northwestern’s lacrosse program, senior Alyssa Leonard met her fate after dominating in the circle for three years and finally became the Division I all-time leader in draw controls on March 11.

Her record-breaking 359th career draw control in that win against Michigan helped define Leonard’s legacy as the Wildcats’ infallible center, but this year was particularly noteworthy for the senior. She ended her final season with 469 draw controls to her name, including 163 for her senior season, which put her at third in the nation, seven spots ahead of her NCAA title-winning counterpart from Maryland, Taylor

Cummings.

The draw control specialist also ended the season as the team leader in goals (41) and assists (12).

Leonard led the offensive charge when NU needed her most. It was Leonard who sparked a comefrom-behind effort against Ohio State that kept the Cats in the ALC Tournament, Leonard who wowed the crowed with a highlight-reel behind-the-back goal at Wrigley Field, Leonard who gave NU the offensive possession they needed for a victory over then-No. 1 North Carolina.

Leonard, at the end of the year, was the best player on NU’s best team.

— Ava Wallace

What a year 2013-14 was for Northwestern sports. Not necessarily on the field, where team after team either fell short of expectations during the regular season or exited too early with devastating postseason defeats. In truth, no program soared above its projected results and captured campus’ affection like last year’s football team or lacrosse squads of years past. Even The Daily’s Team of the Year lost shockingly in the NCAA second round.

But off the field, the headlines kept coming. Quarterback Kain Colter wore “APU” wristbands. The football team’s “Wounded Warrior” uniforms cause national controversy. Video of basketball walk-on James Montgomery III’s scholarship offer went viral. And of course, the union. Colter’s players union got the entire country (and all of our family dinner tables) talking about labor laws and the NCAA. A faction of The Daily’s sports desk fought to reward Colter’s trailblazing with our Male Athlete of the Year award, but eventually a national championship was too much to ignore. Congratulations to Jason Tsirtsis, Alyssa Leonard, all our award selections and all NU athletes who completed successful seasons.

Thanks for reading along all year.

Top 5 Moments of the Year 1. Northwestern hosts College GameDay, football nearly upsets Ohio State 2. Kain Colter announces football players union 3. Women’s tennis wins dramatic Big Ten final 4. Wrestler Jason Tsirtsis wins 149pound NCAA Championship 5. Men’s basketball tops eventual Final Four team Wisconsin on the road

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Male Athlete of the Year and Freshman of the Year: Jason Tsirtsis We expect him to be a four-time national champion,” coach Drew Pariano said of redshirt freshman Jason Tsirtsis before a November match against Nebraska. “I see no reason he can’t become one of the Northwestern all-time greats.”

Those would be strong words under any circumstances, but the fact that Tsirtsis was only four matches into his collegiate career made them even stronger. He had not even faced an opponent from the Big Ten, which Pariano often touts as the nation’s premier wrestling conference.

But champions win championships. And Tsirtsis, a four-time Indiana state champion in high school, lived up to Pariano’s

expectations in year one. He took home the national title at 149 pounds, defeating Oklahoma State junior Josh Kindig. Along the way Tsirtsis snagged a Big Ten title and was named the conference’s Freshman of the Year. InterMat also gave him national Freshman of the Year honors.

With 32 wins in 35 matches, the freshman’s .914 winning percentage ranks No. 2 in NU history, only behind two-time national champion and four-time AllAmerican Jake Herbert.

A few months ago, Pariano’s words seemed unreasonably confident. Now they seem prophetic.

— Jesse Kramer

Coach of the Year: Tracey Fuchs

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It was a banner year for Northwestern’s field hockey program, which has established itself as one of the school’s best.

Despite the loss of team leader and program leading scorer Chelsea Armstrong, coach Tracey Fuchs led the Wildcats to a 15-5 overall record, 5-1 in conference. The team claimed a share of the Big Ten regular season title after winning out the rest of the season following a loss to Louisville. Overall. the squad topped five ranked teams in 2013, including No. 9 Duke.

The Cats missed out on the NCAA Tournament after a shocking upset loss to Ohio State in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament. Still, that one loss doesn’t undermine the job

Fuchs did in leading NU to its first Big Ten title since 1994.

Fuchs, the team’s fearless leader, has brought home win after win for the Cats throughout her five seasons at NU. Before Fuchs arrived at NU, the field hockey squad won less than half of its games almost every season.

Since Fuchs came to Evanston, NU is 66-35.

Earlier this year, Fuchs became one of seven new inductees into the USA Field Hockey Hall of Fame. An accomplished player herself, Fuchs played for the United States field hockey team for 17 years, twice at the Olympics, four times in the World Cup, and in the Pan-American Games.

— Mike Marut

Previous Winners Male Athlete of the Year: 2011-2012 - John Shurna, basketball 2012-2013 - Jason Welch, wrestling

Female Athlete of the Year: 2011-2012 - Chelsea Armstrong, field hockey 2012-2013 - Chelsea Armstrong

Game of the Year:

Women’s Tennis vs. Michigan, Big Ten championship match

Two hours into the average college tennis dual match, the outcome isn’t usually in doubt.

By the time singles play is substantially underway, anyone with first-grade math skills can typically figure out which team has the upper hand. That’s what made April 27’s Big Ten Tournament final so exhilarating: Deep into the afternoon, the end result was anyone’s guess.

When one team finally began to pull away, it wasn’t Northwestern. Michigan — who had handed the Cats their lone conference loss in the regular season— crept ahead 3-1, with three singles matches left to be completed. NU junior Lok Sze Leung pulled out a slow 7-5, 7-5 victory, leaving seniors Nida Hamilton and Belinda Niu needing

victories to secure the Cats the title.

Hamilton’s bout was tight, but Niu trailed 5-2 in the tiebreaking third set.

By the time Hamilton prevailed 1-6, 6-3, 7-6, Niu’s comeback was underway.

In front of a standingroom only crowd, the fourtime all-Big Ten selection won five straight sets, culminating in a dramatic final rally that clinched the Cats’ 15th Big Ten Tournament championship in 16 years.

Niu screamed and jumped up, and the team embraced her in a giddy group hug. Some players dumped Gatorade on coach Claire Pollard, who afterward said the match was one of the best she’s ever been a part of.

— Alex Putterman

Team of the Year: Women’s Tennis Northwestern (20-7, 10-1 Big Ten) continued its legendary winning ways this season with its 15th Big Ten Tournament crown in 16 years.

Led by seniors Belinda Niu, Veronica Corning and Nida Hamilton, the Wildcats overcame many ranked foes and fought their way to victory in the Big Ten Tournament against Michigan.

After losing to the Wolverines during the regular season, the Cats claimed a 4-3 victory behind an unbelievable comeback from Niu. Niu earned herself a spot in NU lore with the most wins for any individual on the team as well as being awarded the Arthur Ashe, Jr. Sportsmanship and Leadership Award. Niu, known for her clutch factor and going the distance against her opponents,

garnered 27 wins with only six losses.

Corning cruised to victory multiple times and upset numerous opponents throughout the season. A team captain, she earned her way into both the NCAA Singles and Doubles Championships. After falling in the first round of singles, she bounced back to win the first match of doubles alongside sophomore Alicia Barnett.

This year, pressure always seemed to build up and fall on Hamilton’s shoulders. The senior routinely would have the longest singles matches and finish either fifth or sixth. Throughout the season, Hamilton only lost four matches and had 21 victories.

— Mike Marut