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Northwestern men’s basketball coach Chris Collins and his father, long-time NBA coach Doug Collins, drew a large crowd Tuesday as they talked about their fond basketball memories and
experiences. The event, which nearly filled the McCormick Tribune Center Forum, was part of the “Beyond the Box Score” series of sports journalism lectures and panels. Dave Revsine, the lead studio host for the Big Ten Network, moderated the discussion before opening the floor for a question-and-answer session. Much of the conversation centered on
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the pair’s struggles growing up and growing old around basketball. Doug Collins said he faced many challenges balancing his own career with his son’s burgeoning basketball aspirations. “I always was very fearful of wanting to be looked at as somebody who was pushing him to do something he didn’t » See collins, page 7
A world-renowned speaker and social activist spoke at Northwestern on Tuesday and discussed how his experiences shaped his view of the role of different leaders in society. The event, called ‘The Power to Lead,” featured Radhanath Swami and drew a crowd of about 150 individuals to Harris Hall. It was co-sponsored by several student groups including the Bhakti Yoga society, Engineers for a Sustainable World, Wild Roots, NCDC, Interfaith Advocates, among others. Radhanath Swami began his talk through discussing how the choices he made throughout his life affected his spiritual decisions. Radhanath Swami left his hometown of Highland Park, Illinois at age 19, when he traveled to Europe to spend a semester People will abroad. At the end of this expenot love you rience, he said for what you he was drawn achieve. People to India, where, after several love people years of living because of their in the Himalayan forests, he values, their adopted a Hindu compassion, and Buddhist theology called their love. Bhakti yoga. A Radhanath Swami, few years later, social activist he took monastic vows. Radhanath Swami attributes his decision to become a monk to his childhood
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will not be able to immediately address the movement of invasive species between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River basins, according to a report released Monday. In a summary of public comments released on Monday in response to the Great Lakes and Mississippi River Interbasin Study, the USACE said public input would be helpful in making decisions in the future, but it would have to wait for higher-up authorities to come to a final conclusion before moving forward. “USACE will continue to work with ... agencies as well as with non-governmental stakeholders to participate in collaborative discussions and provide input or technical assistance in advising solutions to control the spread of ANS (aquatic nuisance species), as authorities and funding allow,” the summary said. “However, until a clear consensus can be identified, USACE will await further direction from the Administration or Congress prior to conducting additional study efforts.” GLMRIS, released in January, was originally conducted to look at alternative solutions to protect the Great Lakes, including Lake Michigan, and Mississippi River basins from aquatic nuisance species, which could transfer via waterways connecting the two basins. Among the list of invasive species examined was Asian carp, a fish which local officials have attempted to deter with electrical barriers.The species has threatened Lake Michigan for decades as institutions like the Illinois
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lead with compassion Activist Radhanath Swami discusses how his experiences affected his views on the roles of leaders within society Tuesday. The event, called “The Power to Lead,” drew about 150 individuals to Harris Hall.
experiences, pointing to his parents and uncle as role models. He said when he was growing up, his family often experienced economic hardships, followed by success. “Either way, (my father) would regularly say to his children, ‘What really matters is our love for each other,’” he said, “‘We work for money because we have to.’” During his talk, Radhanath Swami stressed the importance of the inherent goodness in each person and the change that individuals can make in their societies. He illustrated this by recounting the story of an older woman he heard speak at an International Woman’s Day event in India last year. He said the woman frequently was punished for abandoning her chores to sneak off to school during her childhood. After she got married, she was brutally beaten » See swami, page 7
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it happens.” The committee’s vote comes two weeks after State Sen. Daniel Biss (D-Evanston) spoke at a town hall meeting in Evanston in support of extending the tax increase. Biss warned the decrease would cause $2 billion in cuts of discretionary spending, which includes funding for education and public safety. “It would be pretty significantly devastating,” Biss said during the April 21 meeting at the Evanston Public Library. “The current tax path that we’re on today is a really bad idea.” The committee voted 9-1 to recommend the resolution asking for the state legislature to allow local governments to tax calls to 911 on mobile phones. Ald. Jane Grover (7th) supported the resolution, which she said would encourage the state to modernize an » See tax hike, page 7
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Evanston aldermen voted Monday night to move two resolutions supporting tax increases for consideration by the City Council. One of the resolutions encourages state legislators to extend the current income tax increase in the state beyond 2015. The other resolution voices support for the state legislature to allow local governments to tax calls to 911 on mobile phones. “The theory is that if enough of us pass this kind of resolution, then Springfield will listen,” Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl said during the Rules Committee meeting Monday.“Let’s see if it works.” After some discussion, the committee, made up of all nine aldermen and the mayor, ultimately voted 6-4 in support of the resolution to extend the income tax increase. If the elevated income tax is not extended, it will drop from 5 percent to 3.75 percent for all Illinois taxpayers in 2015. “The cuts that are going to come are going to come heavily on municipalities,” Tisdahl said. “I think this is a better time to deal with it than to scream after
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catching carp A January study looked into ways to stop invasive species, such as Asian carp, from moving between the Great Lakes and Mississippi River basins. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released a public comments summary on Monday, in which it said it would wait to take action in the effort.
Department of Natural Resourceshave tried various methods to prevent their entrance. The summary details the almostthree month period of public comment after the GLMRIS report arrived in front of Congress on Jan. 6. By March 31, more than 1,600 comments had been submitted about GLMRIS, the USACE said. “This document is intended to provide a synopsis of the public dialogue following the release of the GLMRIS Report, including opinion regarding possible future prevention actions,” said GLMRIS program manager Dave Wethington. “The comments submitted reflect passion about preserving valuable natural resources and the vitality of our shared waterways.” Commentary on the GLMRIS report was received through a series of 11
public meetings, spanning from Minnesota to New York to New Orleans. People also submitted input through the GLMRIS website, mail and e-mail. Responses came from individuals and campaign organizations, as well as local and state governmental agencies from 43 states and some Canadian provinces. Of those who submitted public input, the summary said 40 percent of people voiced advocacy for a physical separation of the two basins as a way to solve the aquatic nuisance species problem. However, it also reported that another 35 percent supported an alternative that would continue to use the Chicago Area Waterway System,which connects the two basins and provides navigation, water supply and flood risk » See carp, page 7
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The Evanston Health Advisory Council is asking aldermen to raise the minimum age to buy tobacco products from 18 to 21, a move the group says will make the city a “health leader” in Illinois. Dr. Timothy Sanborn made the group’s case Monday night before the city’s Human Services Committee, citing data that teens are more likely to become addicted to nicotine than other age groups. Thirty-one percent of smokers began smoking on a daily basis when they were young, according to his presentation. The health advisory council based its proposal on the Tobacco 21 law in Needham, Massachusetts, which set the smoking age at 21 in 2005. Over the next five years, the smoking rate among high school students in Needham dropped at a rate more than triple that in surrounding towns, according to the New England Journal of Medicine. Although smoking rates in the United States dropped by more than half from 1964 to 2012,
Setting the record straight In “New pastry shop to sweeten dessert scene” in Monday’s print edition, the location of the Four Seasons where Beth Welch worked was misstated. She worked at the Four Seasons in Chicago. In “Parents notified of possible case of mumps at ETHS” in Monday’s print edition, the story misstated what the letter said about the possible case of mumps. The letter does not say that the case involves a student. The Daily regrets the errors.
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smoking is still the top cause of preventable death in the country, according to Sanborn’s presentation. He cited data showing Evanston has reflected that trend, with almost half as many Evanston Township High School students reporting they had smoked cigarettes over a 30-day period in 2012 than they did a year earlier. Although the health advisory council is “making an impact” on smoking rates among ETHS students, there is still work to do, Sanborn said. For example, he expressed concern that friends remain the top source of tobacco for ETHS students. Aldermen were scheduled to only discuss the health advisory council’s recommendation, and it was unclear from the meeting whether they wanted to pursue any legislation related to the issue. Ald. Jane Grover (7th), one of a few aldermen who briefly spoke after Sanborn’s pitch, agreed with Sanborn that the data he shared seems to dispel a common criticism of Tobacco 21 laws — that they will cause young people to simply look elsewhere for tobacco products if they are not old enough to buy them in one community. In November of last year, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed into law a similar ban on
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Someone spray painted several symbols and phrases on a wall owned by the Chicago Transit Authority near Northwestern on Monday afternoon. 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
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tobacco sales to anyone under 21. The New York City plan led the alderman who chairs Chicago’s Committee on Health and Environmental Protection to express his support for the idea, the Sun-Times reported earlier that year. patricksvitek2014@u.northwestern.edu evidence, Parrott added.
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Someone made two 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 Monday evening. 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
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On Campus Alum offers skeptical look into global aid system By Alice yin
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Jillian Reilly returned to Northwestern on Tuesday evening after more than two decades in the global aid industry to share a skeptic eye on humanitarianism. The event, titled “Confessions of an Aid Worker in Africa,” was held in Harris Hall and co-sponsored by the Buffett Center, the Program of African Studies and One Book One Northwestern. For about 30 minutes, Reilly (Weinberg ’92) spoke about the often pessimistic reality of the aid industry. The event was named after her latest book, “Shame – Confessions of an Aid Worker in Africa,” which she said was a “coming-of-age story” that documents her memories in Africa. Reilly said she took off to South Africa during its final apartheid days to intern as an aid worker. With a fresh degree in African history and English literature, she started off working to facilitate the historic 1994 South Africa elections before moving on to tackle projects across Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe, which she pursued for the next 15 years. Her decision in 2000 to return to the U.S., abandoning working overseas, was out of disillusionment of an industry that she said was “more part of a problem than a solution.” Now, she gives talks on building an understanding between “the developed and the developing.” “What I’m trying to do through talks like this and my book is … getting people in both the NGO and charity sector and outside of it to kind of come at it
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‘PUSHING PAPER’ Jillian Reilly, a global aid worker, addresses NU in a speech about her discoveries in her work in humanitarianism. She said through her career, she found many shortcomings in the aid industry and is now attempting to increase awareness on these issues.
with the most honesty and the most bravery that they can,” Reilly told The Daily before the speech. After the dinner, Reilly began her speech at the beginning of her journey – studying as an NU history major more than two decades ago. She remembered learning Africa’s story and firmly telling her parents, “I’m going to South Africa” to be a part of the social change, she said.
“It’s good to be back,” Reilly told The Daily before the event. “To be reminded of what doesn’t change and what does … It’s been almost 20 years since I’ve been (at NU), but a lot of the problems and the challenges … are still there.” Eager to enact change, Reilly rose in ranks at the nonprofits she worked at in her early twenties. She quickly got plugged in and witnessed the bureaucracy
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Pessimism requires faith that things can improve TOm Cui
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I have a tendency to hyperbolize. Eight columns into this stint at The Daily, I have demonized student government, ripped apart campus policies, panicked over admissions rates and predicted that all campus dialogue will naturally collapse and disappear. To say everything on this campus is doom and gloom is false, as a walk around campus will attest. You can see people being all smiles, and you almost surely have friends grateful for the opportunities this campus has given them. There are people who love being here, regardless of what I think. For all the times I chose to ignore all the good that exists and is done on campus to prove my point, I apologize. But the question beckons: What even made me choose? Let me admit a truth about my judgment. I am a pessimist. If I think there is a chance that everything will go up in smoke, I say everything will go up in smoke. This type of thinking is too easily associated with economists, who do not practice “the dismal
science” for nothing. From Thomas Malthus’s prediction of catastrophic famine to the arguments for privatization and economic shock therapy, they play against any hope that policies today can keep making things better. The most important word in that sentence, however, is “keep.” So long as Yet, in this we believe individuals have a choice in excessive deciding how they degree of behave, there is no guarantee that what care, there is works today will the first joy of keep working. It is pessimism. I already hard enough care excessively for students, balancing academics and because I do extracurriculars, have faith that to concretely enact change in the things can get social four years they have better. here. Four years in the future – after their names are forgotten – who can guarantee their work will remain? For any change to last, leaders today have to put faith in the people of tomorrow. New
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students have to take charge of organizations, and observers outside those organizations will remember why they matter. I shiver at the thought of the few steps toward a more inclusive campus which have been made in my time here being erased and future classes having to start all over; I want to prevent this. Yet, in this excessive degree of care, there is the first joy of pessimism. I care excessively because I do have faith that things can get better. Even if the evidence points away from a better world, I still have my faith on which to cling. It is the same faith that attracts us when it is attached to a politician, a motivational speaker or a student leader. Even after these people move to greener pastures, faith must remain in the institutions they built for their work to preserve meaning. That latent faith can be just as beautiful. There is another way to find joy in pessimism. A living example is Nouriel Roubini, the celebrity pessimist economist. First called “Dr. Doom” for his early 2008 predictions of the housing market’s collapse, he later became an oracle to the panicked elites wanting to know how bad the economy would get. But he did not make his predictions based on divine intervention. He figured it out through analysis of data and a growing
intuition that the markets do not work as they should.Nor did he exploit his theories to make a killing by shorting stocks, as some traders did. His pessimism serves a greater purpose: He wants to be called “Dr. Realist,” someone who offers actual solutions to the sense of dread around us. I do not believe I am the only one to sense wrongness lingering on campus. Compounded by stress and uncertainty in life, this moral intuition can appear crushing. The second joy of pessimism is it converts the sense that something is amiss into a need to understand – and a need to do something about it. Not everyone has the time to talk to campus strangers and take every class in the social sciences. On the other hand, everyone who fears impending collapse will create reasons why they believe this is so. When these reasons are communicated, they can be picked apart or amended for correctness. This is a dialogue that should always take place. If we need gloomier forecasts for the dialogue to happen, then I remain all for it. Tom Cui is a Weinberg junior. He can be reached at tianfangcui2015@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.
Complaining about school workload is counterproductive MATT GATES
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Think about your last meal in the dining hall. What did you talk about? Was it about a Princeton student’s column attacking the concept of white privilege? What it about the NBA’s decision to fine and ban Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling? Was it about last Sunday night’s episode of “Game of Thrones?” Or was it about school? If it was about school, was it an upsetting, angry, emotionally exhausting, overly stressed-out or otherwise negative conversation? Finally, do you have these conversations all the time? If you answered yes to all of the previous three questions, you are openly stressed and agitated about your academic life. And you are not alone. If we had to pick an activity to label as “Northwestern’s pastime,” we would think of cheering on the Wildcats, attending theatre and a cappella shows, going to Greek events and cramming in the library. I would add complaining about how much time we spend cramming in the library when we would
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rather be doing one of the first three on the list. Everyone needs to vent on occasion. We are all guilty of it. But occasional venting can turn into a vicious addiction. We sometimes say we spend too much time working and should cut back. Perhaps this is true in some cases. But I believe there is also a problem not in the amount of time we put into school, but in how we talk about our studies. Much of the academic stress at NU is needless. It results from the culture of unnecessary and excessive complaining about our stress rather than from our workload and concern about our future in and of themselves. The most obvious problem with our excessive complaining is that it is counterproductive. We complain about how much work we have at 11 p.m. and how we’re going to be up until 3 a.m. again instead of doing it and going to bed at a reasonable time. Rather than blowing time complaining about how little time we have, why don’t we free up time by being productive? We might argue that complaining releases stress. This is true to an extent. However, the excessive complaining that many of us are guilty of just increases our stress levels, creating a vicious cycle. We might feel better the first three times we talk about how long
the econ midterm was and how we wish we could have gotten the bonus for turning it in on time. After that we are just crying over lost points. We might feel better when we complain to our friends about how hard that chem midterm was and find out that they thought it was hard too. But if they say they thought it was easy, we are left thinking about being “on the positively sloped side of the curve” as I like to put it. Moreover, when we complain about how much work we have, we wind up agitating each other and worsening the mental health of everyone at our dining hall table. Hearing how hard the next class in the bio sequence will not help us better understand transcription. It might even scare some of us out of taking a class that is made out to be harder than it actually is. I remember my peer adviser telling us during Wildcat Welcome that we regularly were going to be told how hard the classes here are and that some people would tell us we aren’t going to be able to handle them. She told us that the first part was true, but the second wasn’t. “You all got in here.” And our applications did not just consist of voice recordings comparing who can complain the loudest. (But if they did, I would have gotten a full merit scholarship.) We don’t know what we should and shouldn’t
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Moreover, when we complain about how much work we have , we wind up agitating each other and worsening the mental health of everyone.
major in until we try things out. But that’s what drop deadlines are for. Complaining about how difficult and timeconsumingour classes and other obligations are is tempting. To an extent, complaining is understandable and relieves stress. However, a culture of incessant outward academic stress is ultimately detrimental to our success. Our workload and our desire to succeed will hopefully bring us the rewards we are looking for after we graduate. Our excessive complaints have little to offer us now or in the future. When we feel overwhelmed and look for something to cut out of the mixture, we should start with our culture of public stress. Matt Gates is a Weinberg freshman. He can be reached at matthewgates2017@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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The Wildcats’ baseball and softball teams both hosted Big Ten series last weekend. The baseball team lost two of three to Michigan in a series that dropped Northwestern’s conference record to 5-15. The softball team, on the other hand, took three straight from Michigan State in advance of next weekend’s Big Ten tournament, which the Cats will host. — Photos by Brian Lee/Daily Senior Staffer
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About 40 Evanston residents gathered at an information session Tuesday evening to introduce a commercial driving course to help workers navigate what speakers described as an open job market. “There’s so many jobs, and there are not enough people to fill the jobs,� said Jesse Ivory, the manager of business and community programs at Oakton Community College. “I don’t have enough people to meet their demand.� The session, held at the Levy Senior Center, 300 Dodge Ave., detailed an eight-week course to train participants to become truck drivers. It includes classroom teaching and hands-on driving lessons, all in preparation to take the Commercial Driver’s License exam at the end. Evanston held the program in partnership with Oakton, who regularly offers this kind of short-term comprehensive certificate training in high job growth areas. The course also offers networking and resume assistance opportunities to improve job readiness. Ivory, who led the session, said there were 22,000 driver job openings in 2012. She added that individuals interested in the course should realize that newly hired truck drivers generally begin with long distance driving instead of local routes, which could impact their relationships. Employees may work day or night, and hours often exceed 70 per week.
Across Campuses Security app gains foothold on college campus Sarah Spann heard the steps behind her and quickened her pace. The man pursuing her on the University of Florida’s campus sped up too. She ducked into an apartment-complex parking lot, but he lurked across the street. Spann quickly tapped an emergency icon on her smartphone, which signaled her location to campus police. Minutes later, officers arrived and caught the suspect as he fled. It was the first time the UF junior had used TapShield, a mobile security application built by a Florida company. “Ever since that happened, believe me, a lot of my friends have now downloaded it,� she
“It’s important to understand the impact on family,� Ivory said. Another speaker, Stephanie Duncan, spoke about funding with the Workforce Investment Act,created in 1998 to offer occupational training to improve upon existing skills or re-train individuals for a new career. “(Evanston and Oakton) are partnering to increase skills and training to get individuals employed,� Duncan said. Those interested in WIA financial and training support were advised to set up one-on-one appointments. Eligibility includes dislocated worker eligibility, which assists those laid off in Cook County. Low-income eligibility reaches individuals collecting food stamps and meeting other guidelines. Unlike with some commercial driving courses, eligible individuals can qualify for tuition assistance for up to 100 percent of the program’s cost — a sum of $4,000 — through WIA. Attendee Emily Smith said although the session was “informative,� it was very focused on those who are unemployed — a position she is not familiar with. “I was disappointed about the government financial options,� she said. “So many employed people fall into the middle bracket and cannot get aid.� Still, Ivory was pleased with the turnout and interest in the course, primarily the short-term education aspect. “I was anticipating 15, and the entire room was full,� Ivory said. “We wanted to take our second pilot program into Evanston, and this said. “It’s a great safety net for us, and you can’t imagine how much that means to people these days.� Among all the mobile apps dotting the digital landscape _ from gaming to couponing _ Orlando startup TapShield LLC has focused on one designed to save lives on college campuses. TapShield’s system is the newest entry in an increasingly competitive field of campussecurity apps. The free app draws on cloud-based computing, GPS and social media to give users a high-speed link to campus security, company officials say. Its first customer, UF, has given TapShield a showcase that has caught the eye of other universities and potential corporate clients. About 10,000 UF students have downloaded the Android or iPhone app since its launch in February, according to the company. TapShield’s app also has captured the attention
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THE PATH TO WORK Jesse Ivory, manager of business and community programs at Oakton Community College, speaks at an open house for a commercial driving certification course Tuesday evening at the Levy Senior Center.
attendance shows we’re offering a high demand program.� The course, which has a 10-person capacity, does not require participants to have a high school diploma. It will specifically cover
pre-trip inspections, accident procedures and driving in diverse conditions such as fog and mountains.
of investors, who have put about $800,000 into the company so far. “TapShield is definitely a state-of-the-art way to deal with all the security issues we see on college campuses these days,� said Orlando lawyer Fred Leonhardt, an early investor who is chairman of TapShield’s board. “I did some checking around, and there’s nothing out there as impressive as this app.� Leonhardt said he also was drawn to it because he has known TapShield’s founder, Jordan Johnson, basically “from the time he was born.� Johnson is the son of Leonhardt’s longtime friend Randy Johnson, a former GOP state legislator and director of the Florida Citrus Commission. Jordan Johnson said he got the idea for TapShield while he was president of the UF student body in 2009, when the school had a rash of attacks and robberies by suspected gang
members. He focused on mobile communications as a potential solution that would go beyond the blue-light emergency phones on campus that are linked directly to campus police. Nobody was too impressed with his idea then, he said. Johnson recalled a meeting he attended with police and other campus-safety officials. “At that time, I showed them a BlackBerry and told them that one day, everybody would have these. It would be like a mobile blue-light phone people could use to alert security wherever they were,� he said. “Everybody kind of laughed. They thought I was crazy.� Four years later, UF police have embraced TapShield. After a competitive bid, the school awarded the company a $70,000 contract to install the software as part of its dispatch system.
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The majority of college students are practicing unhealthy behaviors, including eating poorly and failing to exercise, which could put them at greater risk to develop cancer later in their lives, according to a new study from Northwestern Medicine and Northeastern Illinois University. The study, published Monday in the journal Preventive Medicine, found that the individuals most in danger of developing the disease are racial minority
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students, particularly African Americans and Native Americans. “Changing unhealthy behaviors in college students now could be a way to reduce the risk of cancer as well as other diseases later in life,” said Feinberg School of Medicine Prof. Brian Hitsman, principal investigator of the study. This study is unique in its focus on cancer risk behaviors in college students and its analysis of how these factors change when measuring different races and ethnicities. The study was based off of a National College Health Assessment survey which was given to more than 30,000 college students. According to the self-reported data, 95 percent
of college students do not eat the amount of fruit and vegetables recommended, and more than 60 percent of college students do not engage in the recommended amount of exercise. Most students also reported combined tobacco use and alcohol binge drinking. However, when analyzing data from black students, a correlation was found between tobacco use and obesity. “There are major cancer disparities both in terms of risk, morbidity and mortality with racial and ethnic minorities in the United States,” Hitsman said. “In this study, we see some of these behavioral risk factors already starting in young adulthood.”
in Chicago Stadium before the players came out to warm up. Then, he recalled the night a swarm of reporters outside the Collins’ home told 14-year-old Chris his father had just been fired. “It was the first time I was ever told I wasn’t needed in my lifetime,” Doug Collins said. “That hurts. That really hurts.” Both the most lighthearted and emotional moments of the night occurred when the pair began talking about NU basketball. Doug Collins said he had thought of NU’s program as a “tremendous failure” which was received by a chorus of laughs. Chris Collins later jokingly referred to NU’s 55-54 win against Minnesota as an “offensive explosion.” As the event progressed, Chris Collins began tearing up as he spoke about the team’s upset victory over Iowa in the Big Ten tournament. The Hawkeyes had beaten the Cats twice by a combined 52 points
prior to their tournament game. “It showed that we’re on the right track,” Chris Collins said. “Sometimes it’s not measured in wins and losses and you don’t fully get that but the way we finished that year, it shows that there’s a lot of good on the way.” Chris Collins told The Daily after the event he didn’t expect to be so emotional while he was talking, but that it didn’t completely surprise him. “When you’re passionate about stuff and you put a lot of yourself into it, sometimes there are certain things that trigger emotion,” he said. Medill freshman Jason Dorow said he thoroughly enjoyed the event and thought it was interesting to see the relationship between the two. “It was really cool hearing about their love for the game and seeing their father-son bond,” he said.
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spiritual living Radhanath Swami speaks with Evanston Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl and other individuals who attended his talk Tuesday where he discussed how his experiences affected his spiritual decisions.
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From page 1 by her husband when another man claimed she had been unfaithful. From that point on, she was homeless and fell into depression, contemplating suicide. During a suicide attempt, she heard an older man’s cry for help. In response, she chose to respond to the man and from then on, devoted her life to serving others. Radhanath Swami recounted the woman saying, “My life was full of thorns, but I made friends with those thorns, and my life became beautiful.” She went on to found an orphanage and took in more than 1,500 children, referring to each of them as her child. “People will not love you for what you achieve,” Radhanath Swami said, “People love people because of their values, their compassion, their love.” Evanston Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl, Highland Park Mayor Nancy Rotering and SESP Prof. John Kretzmann also spoke at the event. Mayor Tisdahl explained that she was asked to speak at the event several months ago and when the organizers reached out to her, she was struck by their passion. She attributed this to the power of Radhanath Swami’s teachings. “To inspire that kind of excitement and pure joy in these young people is just as important as everything else,” she said. Weinberg junior Erik Linnell, who is involved in Bhakti yoga, said Radhanath Swami’s ideas on the importance of compassion in leaders struck him the most. “Leadership is basically compassion for other people,” he said. “The main image of leadership that’s talked about today is that of a very egocentric version, the one person who must be in control of everything, when really it’s having compassion for others and, as he said, seeing potential in others.” During the conclusion of his speech, Radhanath Swami used a metaphor of two dogs, one good and one bad, both trying to get a person’s attention in an effort to highlight that individuals have free will to make their own decisions but can be influenced by leaders in one’s community. “Leaders of society are required to help and nourish the good dog in others,” he said, “If we are able to see the good dog in ourselves, we can help others see.”
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highlighted the need for compromise and collaboration in successfully creating a strategy to control ANS. “While a clear consensus among all interested parties could not be identified, a variety of common themes emerged,” the summary said. “A well-organized and passionate voice on behalf of the Great Lakes community communicated a strong and urgent will to continue to protect this natural resource from further damage by aquatic nuisance species.” paigeleskin2017@u.northwestern.edu
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It was just sort of an odd thing that was meant to be temporary. And 36 years later, here I still am. — Laurie Schiller, fencing coach
Wednesday, May 7, 2014
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Schiller a teacher on the field, in the classroom By ALEX LEDERMAN
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Laurie Schiller was born to teach. The son of two teachers, Schiller came to Northwestern to earn his doctorate in African history. After completing his dissertation, he planned to find a job as a university professor. But he ran into one problem: the job market. That’s when a golden opportunity presented itself.
A different kind of teaching Had Schiller worn a different jacket on his first registration day at NU, his life might be completely different. Schiller, now 63, earned his bachelor’s degree in African and Afro-American studies from Rutgers University in 1972, where he served as co-captain of the fencing team. Next, he moved to NU for his Ph.D. While waiting in line at Patten Gym to pick his classes, a French Kellogg student in the fencing club took note of his Rutgers fencing jacket and asked if he wanted to join the team. But the “team” was pretty much non-existent. It faced extinction when Hungarian coach Charlotte Remenyik left to lead Ohio State’s women’s team, but Schiller saved the fencing program when he took it over in 1978-79. “It was just sort of an odd thing that was meant to be temporary,” Schiller said. “And 36 years later, here I still am.” Schiller only planned to coach until he received his degree in 1982, but when no other jobs presented themselves, NU made him the best offer. The University would allow him to stay as an adjunct professor as long as he continued to work with the fencing team. Schiller decided he’d see what he could make of the position. Although coaching fencing was never in his plans, he enjoyed success early in his career and was having fun. After all, coaching is a form of teaching. And it’s Schiller’s skill as a teacher, not his fencing abilities, that make him a good coach. “Being a good athlete and being a good teacher are two different things,” Schiller said. “I was never a great fencer, but that doesn’t matter.” Schiller does not believe in yelling and screaming. His philosophy is to treat his players with respect and to listen to what they have to say. He knows he’s coaching experienced fencers, and he takes a positive and supportive approach to fixing their mistakes.
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A LIFETIME OF TEACHING In addition to being a wildly successful fencing coach, Laurie Schiller is an expert in African history and is a Civil War reenactor. The colorful character has led Northwestern’s program from club-level to national power.
“Laurie’s style of coaching is both conventional and modern,” sophomore foil Jen Yamin said. “It really provides for a great coaching technique. He really is open to feedback from the fencers but also has great tips to give us as well, so it’s really an open communication field when we’re out on the strip.” It’s not surprising he cites Nelson Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Lincoln as some of his idols. And clearly Schiller’s calm approach has worked. He has 1,183 career wins— the second most of all-time by any fencing coach (behind only North Carolina’s Ron Miller). “It’s odd,” Schiller said of having so many wins. “It just sort of happens. You work and you work and you win matches, and the numbers pile up. But it’s a number. Yeah, when I look back, I go, ‘Wow that’s pretty amazing, I have over 1,150 wins.’ Not too many people are able to say that, so that’s pretty cool. “But it doesn’t feel like anything particular yet because I’m always looking forward to the next season and the next stuff that the girls are going do and the next recruits I’m talking to. Perhaps when I retire I’ll sit back and reflect on
what I’ve accomplished, but at the time it’s happening, I don’t think it’s quite as big a deal as people imagine.”
Building a program Fencing was what the University called a “varsity-club” sport when Schiller started. NU faced intercollegiate Division I opponents but had no scholarships to give, making it difficult for Schiller to recruit top-level talent. Even so, both the men’s and women’s teams thrived under his guidance. The men went from 4-11 to 21-6 in three years, and the women have only had one season below .500 in 36 years (in 1987-88). But Schiller did not exactly have the resources of a renowned team at his disposal. The job wasn’t even paying him for the first three years. “When I started, I had one machine and a couple of reels and a rubber strip nailed to an exercise room floor,” he said. “Over the years, especially the last 15 years, we’ve had a lot of support from the administration, the last three athletic directors, and we’ve been able to grow the sport and create the program.” It was in the 1990s that everything
changed. In 1994, the University downgraded its men’s team from varsity to club for economic reasons. Then in 1998, NU allocated scholarships to its women’s team. This meant Schiller could now recruit higher-level fencers. “Laurie definitely had an influence on my coming to Northwestern,” Yamin, a former Daily staffer, said. “He really showcased the Northwestern fencing program as a top program in the country, and knowing how long he’s been here, I knew that he truly had great experience as a fencing coach. He is very well-known in the fencing community, so obviously he played a positive role in my decision.” But it also meant coaching had to become a full-time gig. Schiller no longer had the time to both coach and teach. He had to spend far more time on the road recruiting. “After 25 years of teaching in the history department, it got kind of old grabbing a bunch of blue books and heading off to Penn State,” he said. Since Schiller’s decision to devote all his time to coaching, his squads have consistently been some of the best in the nation. The Wildcats have finished in the NCAA top ten for the past 15 seasons. Additionally, Schiller’s accolades have piled up over the years. He has been named Midwest Fencing Conference’s Coach of the Year nine times and United States Fencing Coaches’ Association Coach of the Year twice, in 1998 and 2004. He is currently serving his third term as one of the eight members on the NCAA Fencing Committee and is a Fencing Master, or Maître d’Armes, the highest certification to teach fencing, since 2002. Schiller has a career record of 1,183446, a .726 winning percentage, and a women’s record of 926-270, and he led NU to three straight Midwest Fencing Conference titles from 1999 through 2001.
A man of many hats Being an NCAA fencing coach is a pretty unique profession in itself as there are only 24 Division I programs in the country. As a fencing coach and an African historian, Schiller is one of a kind. Still, that’s not all that distinguishes him from your average Joe. With his bushy white beard and mustache, Schiller looks like he stepped out of a time machine, straight from another era. But there’s one place he blends right in: the battlefield.
“I started Civil War re-enacting back in 1994,” Schiller said. “And every once in a while, I get to go out with the 104th Illinois Volunteer Infantry, have some fun and go back to the 19th century without a cell phone, which is kind of nice.” Schiller brings his love of history with him to the field, putting on as authentic a performance as he can. War and strategy have fascinated him since childhood. Schiller is a big fan of reading and learning, and although he no longer works in Weinberg’s history department, he still teaches in the Alumnae College, non-matriculating classes for adults at Norris University Center each quarter. Schiller loves this gig, as there is no homework or papers — only fun. The adults who attend these classes are there because they want to hear him, and he’s there because he wants to lecture. It’s a win-win. This past winter, Schiller taught about the history of South Africa, and he has a course on World War II planned for next year. And Schiller’s experiences do not end there. Raised in a socially liberal household in Roslyn Heights, New York, Schiller marched in Civil Rights demonstrations in 1964 when he was just 14 and protested in the Vietnam anti-war movement in the 1970s. As for fencing, Schiller started in high school because his older brother, Lanning, was on the school team. “I think it was more just sibling rivalry than anything else,” he said. Schiller fenced foil in high school and college, but as a Fencing Master, he is trained at the highest level to coach all three weapons. “Each weapon has its own challenges, and one is not more challenging than another,” he said. “Think of swimming or track. Each event is different.” And Schiller has turned fencing into a family event. His wife, Cathy Weigley, has served as the team armorer for the past 35 years. She works upstairs in Patten fixing all the team’s weapons. Schiller and Weigley met in Swahili Club at NU when she was a graduate student in anthropology, and he was one in history. In August, they will be married 40 years. Schiller said he loves just about every aspect of his life. Although he stumbled into coaching by accident, he appreciates every second of it. “If I won that Powerball, which was over $430 million the other day,” he said, “I wouldn’t change a thing I’m doing.” alexanderlederman2017@u.northwestern.edu
Baseball
Behind Dan Tyson, NU gets revenge on UChicago By ALEX PUTTERMAN
daily senior staffer @AlexPutt02
After two years of letting the University of Chicago best them on the diamond, Northwestern put its South Side rival back in its place Tuesday. Behind senior starter Dan Tyson, the Wildcats (14-31) defeated the Maroons (9-25) 2-1 at Rocky Miller Park. Division III Chicago had defeated NU in each of the past two seasons, and Tyson said the Cats were happy to get a little revenge. “You always want to come out and beat them,” he said. “Especially because they’re in Chicago, and we want to be the best team in Chicago. So it was good to come out and win today.” Tyson was the game’s star, hurling 8.1
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innings, allowing only a run and striking out a career-high seven batters. Chicago rarely threatened but did put runners on third in each of the last two innings. With two outs in the eighth, Maroons cleanup hitter Ricky Troncelliti stepped to the plate. But Tyson reared back and fired three strikes, the third one tipped into the catcher’s glove, ending the threat. “When I’m pitching I try to go by the ideology that I don’t look at who’s hitting,” Tyson said. “I just throw my pitch
to my spot and try to do what’s going to get the job done. I try to just block everything else out and focus on the hitter.” Tyson eventually exited the game with one out in the ninth and runners on the corners. Senior Jack Quigley came out of the bullpen to induce an RBI groundout, then end the game on a strikeout. Tyson’s dominance was timely for NU, as Chicago starter Alex Terry limited NU all afternoon. The Cats put the ball in play but couldn’t find holes, and Terry limited them to six hits in sevenplus innings. The Cats’ first run scored in the fifth inning when sophomore Jake Schieber bunted for a base hit, stole second and scored on a single from senior Nick Linne. Down 1-0, Terry exited after allowing a double to junior Walker Moses to lead off the bottom of the eighth. Two
batters later, Moses scored on a single from freshman Matt Hopfner through a drawn-in infield. The pitchers’ duel was over in under two hours, leaving NU coach Paul Stevens a happy camper. “(Tyson) threw strikes. We made plays. We got hits,” Stevens said. “What else can you ask for? It was a clean afternoon.” The Cats return to action Wednesday at Illinois-Chicago. The teams will play at the brand-new Curtis Granderson Stadium, named after the New York Mets outfielder and UIC alumnus. Stevens said he’s heard the park is “absolutely phenomenal.” “I haven’t seen it,” he said. “But everybody that’s told me, their mouth goes open.” asputt@u.northwestern.edu
Brian Lee/Daily Senior Staffer
GOT HIM Freshman first baseman Matt Hopfner (19) drove in a run with an eighth-inning single in Northwestern’s 2-1 victory over the University of Chicago, before senior reliever Jack Quigley (44) closed out the win.