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CAMPAIGN CONTINUES The “We Will” campaign is almost one-third of the way through its five-year course. As of now, the fundraising effort has raised $2.4 billion out of its $3.75 billion goal.
‘We Will’ ahead of schedule Campaign raised $2.4 billion in 19 months By JULIE FISHBACH
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Nearly one-third of the way in, Northwestern’s “We Will” fundraising campaign is ahead of schedule with $2.4 billion raised of its $3.75 billion goal. “The campaign is so far ahead of where we thought we’d be, and I think it’s having a real impact,” University President Morton
Schapiro told The Daily last month. Schapiro added the campaign resulted in this year’s freshman class having fewer loan packages than the previous year’s class. “Our goal especially given our financial wealth and our fundraising capacity is making sure that if you can really afford it, you pay a portion of the cost to educate you, but otherwise you just don’t,” he said. “We’re one of the very few schools that meets full need, but only for domestic
students, and I’d like to change that.” The campaign’s success has been fueled by what Bob McQuinn, vice president for alumni relations and development, said is an unprecedented outpouring of donations. The campaign has now been the beneficiary of four gifts exceeding $100 million in the last 12 months: Roberta Buffett Elliott’s (Weinberg ‘54) donation of more than $100 million, Louis Simpson » See WE WILL, page 6
Northwestern’s Lurie Cancer Center is collaborating with the University of Illinois at Chicago and Northeastern Illinois University to create the Chicago Cancer Health Equity Collaborative, a project that aims to combat cancer in low-income and minority neighborhoods in the Chicago area. The collaborative, which hopes to reduce healthcare inequalities in the city, was made possible by a $17.4 million grant from by the National Cancer Institute. Feinberg Prof. Leonidas Platanias, who directs NU’s Lurie Center, said the grant will allow the University to address a problem prevalent in the Chicago area. “The cancer mortality rate in Chicago, especially in poor African-American and Hispanic neighborhoods, is much higher than the national average,” Platanias said. “The grant will help our work aimed at reducing these disparities.” Feinberg Prof. Melissa Simon, who directs the collaborative, said one requirement for the NCI funding is for a cancer center to pair up with a “federally designated minority-serving institution.” Such partnerships are aimed at reducing
cancer health disparities throughout the country, she said. ChicagoCHEC is one such partnership, with NU’s Lurie Cancer Center being the NCI-designated center and UIC and NEIU being the minority-serving institutions. “What this grant does is creates infrastructure and partnership across three institutions that usually wouldn’t be partnering together,” said Simon, who oversaw the grant application process. “It creates infrastructure to not only promote this partnership but actually catalyze research, education and training.” The collaborative can also be seen as part of NU’s larger mission to build relations with the Chicago area, said Jabbar Bennett, the associate provost for diversity and inclusion. “Cancer disproportionately affects people that are underinsured or uninsured,” Bennett said. “Northwestern has a commitment to support the education of our students and faculty and training them to provide care to such individuals. It’s a way for us to give back to the community.” Simon said the collaborative will draw on a diverse group of researchers that will include undergraduates, postgraduates and faculty. Feinberg students especially, Bennett said, will benefit from the new collaborative. He said the grant will help provide training for medical students doing research on quality of care in Chicago. » See GRANT, page 6
City staff funding uncertain without fuel tax revenue By JULIA JACOBS
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Evanston officials must find alternative funding to pay Public Works Agency staff for 2016 if Illinois fails to pass its own budget by January. During the state’s four months without a budget, it has not paid Evanston revenue from the motor fuel tax, which is partially used to fund salaries for public works staff, chief financial officer Marty Lyons said. Although the public works salaries this year remain safe, the source of next year’s funding is in question as long as the state remains without a budget, he said. However, even if the state manages to pass a budget, it is possible funds from the motor fuel tax — which is 19 cents per gallon — will continue to be withheld to balance the state’s debt. “We just don’t know,” Lyons said. “(The state) has floated out so many things — from property tax freezes to keeping a part of the shared income tax.” About one-third of the anticipated revenue from the motor fuel tax — amounting to $833,000 — was allocated to fund public work staff salaries, according to the city’s proposed 2016 budget. The rest of the revenue, about 1.5 million, would go to street
maintenance. But if Evanston does not receive the tax revenue in January, City Council will have to amend the 2016 budget to allocate funding for the salaries, Lyons said. The city’s budget is scheduled for adoption on Nov. 23. In other Illinois communities, officials must either find alternative funding for road reconstruction projects or put them on hold entirely, said Mike Walczak, transportation director for the Northwest Municipal Conference. But this specific funding freeze isn’t new: Last March, motor fuel tax revenue was withheld to help balance the state’s 2015 budget, Walczak said. “There are some fears that could happen again,” he said. A bill was introduced to the Illinois House at the end of August to provide communities with motor fuel tax revenue from July to September. The bill, which authorized $146 million in payments, was never brought to a vote. Without a 2016 budget in place, the state has been functioning under a series of alternative means such as court-mandated payments from the state and funds from the state budgeted for a long-term period. As of mid-October, the state had a debt pile of nearly $7 million, Illinois Comptroller Leslie Munger announced last month. Since July, the state has also withheld
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federal funding for the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning, the official regional planning organization for transportation and land use in northeastern Illinois. If CMAP remains without funds, the agency will be forced to close at the end of the month, putting
new capital projects in jeopardy, Walczak said. If CMAP were to shut its doors, Evanston would lose a valuable resource for connecting the city with grants and providing it with information through transportation studies, Lyons said.
“We would have to fend for ourselves,” Lyons said. “We would lose those resources — the people who help us go after grants, tell us which doors to go through.” juliajacobs2018@u.northwestern.edu
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STATE STALEMATE Marty Lyons, Evanston’s chief financial officer, speaks at a City Council meeting. Lyons said the Illinois government has withheld fuel tax revenue from the city since July 1, when the state began its own fiscal year without a budget.
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Metra is no longer at risk of shutting down in January after the U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation Tuesday extending the deadline for rail systems to install federally mandated safety features. The House approved a bill extending the deadline by three years for certain freight and commuter rail systems across the country to install the safety system. The deadline, which used to be the end of this year, is now the end of 2018. The safety system, called Positive Train Control, aims to prevent collisions and derailments by automatically slowing trains before those accidents occur. Railroad companies across the United States were struggling to meet the previous deadline partly due to lack of funding, said Mike Walczak, transportation director for the Northwest Municipal Conference, which includes Evanston. Without the necessary funding and proper
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NO SHUTDOWN A person waits for a Metra train at the Davis Street station. Metra avoided a service shutdown in January after the U.S. House of Representatives voted to extend the deadline for installing a new safety program.
Yellow Line service to Skokie resumes after six-month closure
Yellow Line service from the Howard ‘L’ station to Skokie resumed Friday after a six-month break for repairs. Following reestablishment of the service, Chicago
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technology to implement the system, Metra announced in September that it would be unable to install PTC by the previous deadline. It would be illegal for Metra to continue operating without the system in place, leaving the railroad system subject to civil and criminal penalties. “This news can finally put the minds of our
customers and employees at ease, knowing that Metra’s train will continue operating in January,” said Don Orseno, Metra executive director and CEO, in a news release. “As always, Metra remains committed to implementing PTC as quickly and safely as we can.”
Transit Authority is offering free rides for one week on the Yellow Line until Friday, CTA announced. The line has been closed since May after an embankment collapse resulting from construction by the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District. “This was an unprecedented event but all parties involved have worked cooperatively to restore service as quickly and safely as possible,” CTA president Dorval Carter said in a news release. CTA is also partnering with Skokie to provide free
parking at the community’s Dempster Street station until the end of the year. Construction work on the line included reconstruction of about 1,200 feet of Yellow Line track, reconnecting communication lines and rebuilding a soil embankment. During the service hiatus, CTA offered free shuttle bus service to and from the affected Yellow Line stations.
The girl was taken to Evanston Hospital by ambulance to treat her head, which was bleeding, Dugan said.
after his girlfriend went to their neighbor’s apartment following a dispute they had. The neighbor’s friend, who also lives in the building, pulled the attacker off his friend until police arrived and took the attacker into custody, Dugan said. The 44-year-old man had a cut on his head and a scraped knee. The younger man was charged with a misdemeanor for battery. He is scheduled to appear in court Nov. 19.
Man arrested for beating up neighbor
A 13-year-old girl was shot on the side of the head with a BB gun Friday evening by other kids. Police said the girl was picking up her little brother from the Fleetwood-Jourdain Community Center in the 1600 block of Foster Street at about 5:30 p.m. when unidentified kids shot her twice on the side of the head with a BB gun, said Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan.
A 35-year-old man was arrested early Sunday morning in connection with beating up his neighbor. The man attacked his 44-year-old neighbor at about 4 a.m. in their apartment building in the 800 block of Ridge Avenue, hitting him on the back of the head, Dugan said. Police said the man was angry
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On Campus CIC launches webinar on issues of race, identity By MUSTAFA ALIMUMAL
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To mark the beginning of Campus Inclusion and Community’s new webinar, CIC Talks, members of Social Justice Education led the first video discussion on Oct. 21 in which they tackled issues of race, identity and respect. The video, which was followed by a student-led discussion hosted by Sustained Dialogue on Oct. 26 — the first “Pop Up” event of the year — addressed the inherent dangers and racism behind cultural appropriation. The goal of CIC Talk is to tackle complex social issues that affect students and community members in a safe environment that promotes discussion and open-mindedness, Khalid Ismail, a graduate assistant
Students from Cuba to visit NU in cultural exchange, performance
Northwestern will host visiting students from Cuba on Nov. 11 as part of a cultural exchange between the Bienen School of Music and music students from the Universidad de las Artes. The students from Havana, Cuba, will arrive that morning with administrators and faculty from their university. In Evanston, NU students and the visiting students will perform in a minirecital and panel discussion in the new Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Center for the Musical Arts. The event will be closed to the public. Among the delegates are the Cuban university’s president Rolando Gonzalez Patricio. Havana-born Communication Prof. Henry Godinez will moderate the discussion. Godinez is also an artistic associate of the Latino Theatre Festival at the Goodman Theatre, which features a series of plays about the Latino experience. The students will also receive a tour of the campus from NU director of international
in Multicultural Student Affairs, said in the video. Ismail led the webinar along with Michele Enos and Noor Ali, assistant directors of Social Justice Education. “CIC Talk is a new program that Campus Inclusion and Community is launching this year,” Ismail told The Daily. “This program is meant to be an avenue for engagement with current issues of social justice and inclusion. The live webinar format allows for students to tune in, ask questions and start the conversation with us.” Ismail said the timing of the Oct. 21 webinar was intentional with Halloween coming up, but cultural appropriation is an ever-relevant topic. “There are many forms of cultural appropriation that take place every day of the year, and impact the lives of communities here in the U.S, and all over the world,” he said. “So, really, anytime is the right time program development Devora Grynspan. Chicago jazz musician Orbert Davis (Bienen ’97) initiated the idea for this cultural exchange. Davis, a trumpeter, will bring the 36 students from Cuba to perform alongside professional musicians in the Nov. 13 U.S. premiere of his Chicago Jazz Philharmonic concert: “Scenes from Life: Cuba!” Davis said in a news release that this musical collaboration will contribute to long-term diplomacy between Cuba and the U.S. “The scope of this project extends beyond the November concert,” Davis said in the news release. “We are developing a relationship that will strengthen the ties between our two countries and help bridge cultural and political differences.” Evanston Band and Orchestra owner Kerry Griffith will underwrite any purchases from the visiting students, who will be making a stop by the music store, 4125 Main St., that day. “Music builds bridges,” Griffith said in the news release. “It’s better to build bridges than walls.” — Alice Yin
for this conversation to happen.” The CIC team discussed how to deal with cultural appropriation and what constitutes cultural appropriation. Enos offered a concrete definition of cultural appropriation and how it relates to racism. “Cultural appropriation really is a form of racism,” she said. “Cultural appropriation is the act of taking the very physical, mental or social features of a marginalized group and using them to belittle, mischaracterize, and otherwise isolate them while embodying those features for personal/social entertainment or monetary gain.” SESP junior Matt Herndon told The Daily that CIC has impacted his views on social justice both at Northwestern and in the rest of the world. Herndon said people, no matter their level of expertise, can always learn more about these issues and how they affect the NU community.
“Cultural appropriation is a huge issue at Northwestern and at other college campuses,” he said. “Besides just happening on Halloween and costumes, with students and faculty and administration, it happens in daily practices. It is a continued form of oppression against people with marginalized identities.” In an email to The Daily, Ali said she hoped this program will help students be smarter citizens and make it easier to create spaces of inclusion. “This specific program was aimed at cultural appropriation, and while we see this so often, I believe most students have no idea what they are doing and how it is harmful to others,” she said. “There’s a larger system at play here and unless we begin to unpack the effects of that, people just think it’s all fun and games.” mustafaalimumal2019@u.northwestern.edu
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MUSICAL EXCHANGE The new Ryan Center for the Musical Arts is housing visiting students from Cuba on Nov. 11. The visit is part of an effort for cultural exchange with Bienen students.
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Improving student health Students must prioritize their physical health and diet on campus TIM BALK
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I ate a boatload of candy on Saturday. I inhaled Hershey’s Kisses, Kit Kats, Snickers, gummy bears (I accidentally got the sugar-free kind — kind of gross), Nerds and one sublime York Peppermint Pattie. What can I say? I know how to do Halloween right. Always have. Tom Brady probably would have disapproved, though. The star quarterback has been on a health tear of late. First he called out major American food corporations and American food culture. He took on junk foods like Frosted Flakes and called Coca-Cola “poison.” Then he moved on to candy, recently promoting UnReal Brands Inc., a Boston start-up company that makes candy with natural ingredients. No artificial ingredients, GMOs, gluten, corn or soy for them. And, of course, less sugar. Although Brady might have left Patriots fans like me shaking their heads back in September when he said it would be “great” if Donald Trump won the presidential election, a comment he later backed away from, he had me nodding following his comments on food. Brady may be no political junkie, but he certainly knows a thing or two about health. According to a 2014 Sports Illustrated feature, the future Hall of Famer has a scrupulously designed diet: 80 percent alkaline, 20 percent acidic, and it changes with the seasons. Brady hits the pillow every night by 9 p.m. and tries to avoid alcohol. Sure, Brady’s lifestyle sounds a little over the top, but unhealthy it certainly is not. In fact, Northwestern students might want to take heed of Brady’s habits. For most NU students, college is not a particularly healthy place. All-you-can-eat dining halls with food of questionable quality coexist with late nights pounding jungle juice and beer all finished off with unfortunate visits to Cheesie’s. Side note: The existence of Cheesie’s, which can only be aptly described as an appalling ripoff, is an indictment of all of us, myself included, who keep its greasy doors open. Many NU students develop outrageous and often insufficient sleep schedules and spend their weekend afternoons in alcohol-induced torpors. When the Midwest winter rolls through, exercise
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Asian Americans and college admission standards
Henry Cao should be commended for addressing the important and controversial topic of affirmative action in college admissions. Asian Americans are a heterogeneous group including Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese and others. Due to relatively small numbers, they are often combined. In 2010, the four main racial/ethnic groups in the United States included Caucasian (64 percent), Hispanic (16 percent), African American (12 percent) and Asian (5 percent). Caucasians are often used as the reference group in comparison, as the United States was founded by people of predominantly European descent. They are not only the largest
becomes unattractive, diets worsen, classes seemingly get harder and general health and wellbeing on campus plummet further. It’s no wonder mental health is a big problem on college campuses. The connection between physical and mental health is well established and should be familiar to anyone who attended a high school with any sort of health curriculum. Eating well, exercising and getting enough sleep all have beneficial effects on mental well-being. Yet, NU has Essential NUs for new students on inclusion, mental health and sexual health, but not on physical health. Currently, NU is embarking on a plan to phase out water bottles over the next couple of months. The environmental aspect of the plan is commendable, but the wisdom of phasing out water bottles instead of say, bottles of Coke and Sprite, is questionable at best. To be clear, the administration is not to blame for NU students’ unhealthy lifestyles. And at least we do not have a Burger King in our student union the way Big Ten rival Indiana University does. But the school could do more. And if the Norris Subway had to go, I would not complain. NU students are far from the unhealthiest section of American society. I would say we generally have a decent idea of what good nutrition is and what a healthy lifestyle looks like. Obesity here is far from endemic. Compared to the rest of America, we look good. Nonetheless, focusing on health, both on the individual and community-wide level, is a good idea. I write as someone who has fallen prey at times to the pitfalls of an unhealthy college lifestyle. I also write as someone who has found that exercise and healthy eating have had a profound effect on my own mental health. Winter is coming soon. Staying healthy and happy will prove to be a challenge for many NU students. Let’s all pull together and try to put physical health, as well as mental health, at the forefront. Let’s try to emulate Touchdown Tommy, even the Bears fans among us.
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Key strategies to maintain your mental health at Northwestern JOHAN QIN
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Growing up we’re often taught how to take care of our physical health. Sadly, however, we’re often not taught how to take care of our mental health as well. As a result, we may grow accustomed to lifestyles of stress, anxiety, overcommitment and fatigue. This is all too often the case at Northwestern, where midterms, career-searching and the pressure to take on more than we can handle can lead us to forget the importance of taking care of our mental, along with our physical, wellbeing. With that in mind, I hope these words will help us begin — or continue — to be mindful of our mental health. It’s okay to struggle and it’s okay to ask for help. I know how difficult and anxietyinducing it can be to struggle — whether it’s with personal, social or academic issues — at Northwestern because it seems like everyone knows exactly what they’re doing. A contributing factor may be our campus culture of perfectionism and the pressure to have it “all together.” However, chances are if you’re feeling stressed out about a midterm or final, someone else out there probably is as well. It’s important to be able to ask for help when you need it, as garnering emotional support can give us the strength to overcome or face our problems. As much as it seems like some people have their lives together (which is easy to see on social media platforms like Instagram), everyone has successes and defeats. It can be tempting to compare yourself to your friends or classmates and ask yourself what you’re doing wrong, but it’s important to keep in mind that no two people are alike and everyone has a different story. In the end, it’s best to take on as much as you can handle and work at a pace that you find most comfortable. It’s important to learn how to deal with failure. Many students at elite institutions are accustomed to constantly succeeding. But as students who are accustomed to high standards of success, it can be especially unnerving when you find yourself failing to meet expectations even though you give
in number, but also wield the most political power. En bloc, Asian Americans have characteristics that distinguish them from the three other groups. The two most commonly cited reasons for affirmative action are to address past and existing discrimination. Historically, Asian Americans have certainly been the target of racism. The Chinese Exclusion Act, active from 1882 to 1943, has the distinction of being the first piece of federal legislation to completely ban a racial/ethnic group from immigration, thereby effectively isolating Chinese-American citizens from their families still in China. JapaneseAmerican citizens were stripped of their constitutional rights and forcibly relocated and incarcerated in internment camps from 1942 to 1946. During World War II, the Philippines was a commonwealth of the United States, and Filipino Americans who fought in the military were promised citizenship and the same veteran benefits as those who served for the American armed forces. These benefits were withdrawn
by Congress in 1946 and to this day, have not been reinstated. These are just some examples. Elite universities that do not factor racial preferences into admissions, such as California Institute of Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, generally have AsianAmerican populations of 30 to 40 percent. In contrast, Ivy League universities that use “holistic” admissions processes that include affirmative action maintain an Asian-American population of around 17 percent while requiring that they perform significantly better on SAT scores and other metrics than the other three racial/ethnic groups. Asian Americans comprised 19 percent of the entering Northwestern University Class of 2017. Sara Harberson, former associate dean of admissions for the University of Pennsylvania, admitted to a higher achievement bar for Asian Americans in a Los Angeles Times editorial earlier this year. She noted they often do not have a “golden ticket” for admission that includes advantages such as being “recruited
your all. Understand that failure gets the best of us sometimes. Regardless of how smart, talented or hard-working we are, sometimes it just won’t be enough — and that’s completely acceptable. Failure is relative and is a stepping stone to success. It can be tempting to think of yourself as “not good enough” or “a failure,” but that style of thinking is also harmful and fails to contribute anything meaningful in the long run. Instead, take a good look at why you may have failed, so you know how to do better the next time around. Failure doesn’t define you. The only person who has the power to define your self-worth is you. Finally, make sure to find time for yourself. As much as schoolwork and friends require our devotion, it becomes increasingly important to do things that make you happy and relaxed. Going to school can feel like a marathon: Just when you feel like you barely made it past one quarter, there’s another one lined up. It’s easy to guilt and shame yourself for taking a break when you should be rigorously studying for an exam, but doing so is not only unproductive but also harmful. Remember to take care of yourself. Treat yourself to something good after completing a task that requires a lot of hard work. You definitely deserve it. On a parting note, NU can indeed seem and feel like an isolating place if you do have mental health issues. It can feel depressing to not be living the “college life” that we were expecting by coming to NU. In fact, what most people experience at college is nothing like what they were expecting — myself included. But don’t give up hope. On top of mental health institutions on campus such as Counseling and Psychological Services and NU Listens, there are innumerous people who care about you and are willing to listen. There’s no shame in having mental health issues and there’s no shame in asking for help. Johan Qin is a Weinberg senior. He can be reached at johanqin2016@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern. athletes, children of alumni, children of donors or potential donors, or students who are connected to the well connected.” She went on to write that they are expected to display academic perfection, and “anything less can become an easy reason for a denial.” All Americans should champion the opportunity for bright and motivated individuals to succeed. If Asian-American college applicants have the strongest credentials, they should still be held to the same standard as their Caucasian peers, and not higher. Demanding such from a group that has been subject to past discrimination is an injustice and no less than existing discrimination. Unfortunately, admissions at many elite American universities still demonstrate bias against Asian Americans under the banner of affirmative action. This should not be supported. No society has ever benefitted from deliberate subversion of highly talented and productive people. — Norman C. Wang, MD, MS, McCormick ’94, Feinberg ’98
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WASHINGTON —The U.S. is deploying a small contingent of special operations forces into northeastern Syria to help local opposition groups beat back the Islamic State, despite President Barack Obama’s repeated declarations that he would not put “boots on the ground” in the war-ravaged country. The White House dismissed suggestions Friday that the decision represents “mission creep,” saying that the forces fewer than 50 will not be combat troops but will intensify ongoing efforts to “train, advise and assist” local forces. “The mission has not changed,” White House press secretary Josh Earnest said. “We are intensifying it; we’re ramping up the support that we are providing to those local forces. But the mission of our men and women on the ground has not changed.” But coming one week after an American special operator was killed in a Kurdish-led raid in Iraq, the decision raised a host of questions, from what authority the U.S. is relying on to send troops into Syria to which groups the U.S. is helping and how the action will be perceived by the U.S.’s Turkish allies, who are opposed to the Syrian Kurdish militia that has been the primary ally in Syria against the Islamic State. The White House refused to say with whom the special operations forces will be working, but the Kurdish YPG militia, with the help of U.S. air power, has pushed the Islamic State from as much as 6,800 square miles of northern Syria.
The biggest Syrian Arab militia in the Raqqa region, the Raqqa Revolutionaries, has not been contacted by the U.S. military and has not received any military aid, a spokesman said. Turkey views the YPG’s stated ambition of creating a contiguous Kurdish-run entity in northern Syria, which it calls Rojava, as a threat to its own security. The arrival of U.S. special operations forces in northern Syria carries risks of confrontations _ with the Islamic State, which will immediately fix on them as a high-value target, as well as the governments of Syria and Turkey. While the YPG effectively controls the region, the Syrian regime still has forces in two cities, as well as an airport in Qamishli, which recently was closed down for civilian use and turned over to the Syrian military. Moving from Iraq to the YPG-held towns of Tal Abyad and Kobani would likely require any U.S. troops to drive through a government-controlled traffic circle in Qamishli. It was not clear whether the U.S. government would ensure that there was no accidental exchange of fire between the U.S. forces and Turkey, which said this week that its forces have bombed YPG units trying to cross the Euphrates River. Turkey views the YPG as an affiliate of the Kurdish Workers Party, or PKK, which has waged a three-decade-long insurgency for greater autonomy for the 20 percent of Turkey’s population that is Kurdish. Turkey has warned of dire consequences if any U.S. arms or other supplies intended for the YPG end up in PKK hands. Earnest said the special forces could face
dangerous situations and will be equipped to defend themselves, but they would not be “leading the charge” in a combat situation. “If we were envisioning a combat operation, we probably would be contemplating more than 50 troops on the ground,” Earnest said. “The responsibility that they have is not to lead the charge to take a hill, but rather to offer advice and assistance to those local forces about the best way they can organize their efforts to take the fight to ISIL.” Obama in September 2014 dramatically broadened what had been a limited U.S. mission to help refugees threatened by the Islamic State inside Iraq, pledging a U.S.-led coalition to destroy the militants “wherever they exist.” But Obama, who campaigned in 2008 vowing to end the war in Iraq and resisted involvement in Syria, said then that the fight against the militants would “not involve American combat troops fighting on foreign soil.” The White House said it also will deploy A-10s and F-15s to Incirlik Air Base in Turkey and consult with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and the Iraqi government on the establishment of a special operations task force. Frederic C. Hof, a former State Department special adviser for the transition in Syria and now a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Rafik Hariri Center, said deploying a handful of U.S. special operations forces to Syria would “not change this situation significantly. It is a Band-Aid of sorts, although a potentially useful one.” The deployment of special operators, he said, at least puts some “skin in the game” to help
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persuade regional powers to pony up ground forces, but it’s not a major development on its own. On the left, Peace Action, which calls itself the nation’s largest peace group, also panned the move, saying the administration should instead ramp up diplomatic and humanitarian efforts. “We should know by now that the first law of military conflicts is escalation,” said spokesman Jon Rainwater. “That’s why sending these troops into battle should trouble all Americans. With the ‘no boots on the ground’ promise broken, there’s no telling how many U.S. troops will ultimately be sent to Iraq and Syria.” — Lesley Clark and Hannah Allam (McClatchy Washington Bureau/TNS)
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WASHINGTON — Skeptical Supreme Court justices Monday raised serious doubts about how Georgia prosecutors secured an all-white jury in a decades-old death penalty case. While myriad sharp questions suggested a split court, the most persistent hammering came from liberal-leaning justices who suggested prosecutors systematically and improperly excluded African-American jurors from the panel that convicted Timothy Tyrone Foster of murder in 1987. Foster, who was 18 at the time of the crime, is African-American. The victim, a 79-year-old retired elementary school teacher from Rome, Ga., was white. The prosecutors used challenges to eliminate African-Americans from the jury pool. “All of the evidence seems to suggest a kind of singling out,” Justice Elena Kagan told Georgia’s Deputy Attorney General Beth A. Burton. “Isn’t this as clear a ... violation as we’re ever going to see?” Justice Stephen Breyer added that “many” of the trial prosecutor’s stated reasons for challenging African-American jurors were “selfcontradictory, obviously not applicable.” Justice Anthony Kennedy, a frequent swing vote, added flatly that the prosecutors were “wrong” and had “made a mistake.” Foster ‘s IQ test scores, according to defense attorneys, put him “in the borderline range for intellectual disability.” In August 1986, while intoxicated on alcohol, marijuana and cocaine, he broke into the home of Queen Madge White, a widow who had just returned from choir practice. Foster broke White’s jaw, sexually molested her and strangled her to death, prior to stealing items from her home. Foster’s live-in girlfriend reported him to the police, and he subsequently confessed to law enforcement. Ninety-five potential jurors were initially called for Foster’s trial. Ten were African-American. Defense attorneys and prosecutors led by Floyd County District Attorney Stephen Lanier each could eliminate potential jurors for “cause,” such as a known bias. Each also had a limited number of “peremptory” challenges, for which no reason had to be initially given. “The prosecutors in this case came to court on the morning of jury selection determined to strike all the black prospective jurors,” Foster’s attorney Stephen B. Bright, president of the Atlanta-based Southern Center for Human Rights, told justices Monday. The Supreme Court, in an earlier decision involving a Kentucky burglary case, prohibited using peremptory challenges to eliminate jurors on the basis of race. Proving a racial motive can be complicated, as attorneys manage to concoct other reasons for their peremptory challenge. Eventually, the jury pool in Foster’s case was narrowed to include four African-Americans. Prosecutors used their peremptory challenges to eliminate them all, while insisting that they had numerous tactical reasons other than race. “There was a laundry list,” Burton said Monday, adding the trial prosecutor was “just espousing every reason he had.” Several justices Monday, though, all-but declared they distrusted the trial prosecutor’s stated reasons for striking the African-American jurors. Prosecutors, for instance, failed to ask the potential jurors about areas of supposed concern. “Doesn’t that show pretext?” Justice Sonia Sotomayor asked Burton. Most significantly, prosecutors’ trial notes eventually obtained in 2006 through an open records request showed that the names of the African-American jury pool members were marked with a “B,” highlighted in green and included on a list titled “Definite NOs.” “I think any reasonable person would look at this, and say his reason was a purpose to discriminate on the basis of race,” Breyer said. Justice Clarence Thomas, following his customary practice, was the only one of the nine justices not to ask a question during the hourlong argument. A decision is expected by the time the court’s term ends next June. — Michael Doyle (McClatchy Washington Bureau/TNS)
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From page 1 (Weinberg ‘58) and Kimberly Querrey’s total donation of $117.8 million, J.B Pritzker (Law ‘93) and M.K. Pritzker’s $100 million gift, and Patrick G. Ryan (Kellogg ‘59) and Shirley W. Ryan’s (Weinberg ‘61) total contributions through “We Will” of more than $100 million. After Elliott’s $101 million donation last January, Schapiro said, “I would hope that we blow over ($3.75 billion). Some people said we should make (the goal $3.5 billion) so we could make ($3.75 billion). I said, ‘Let’s call it 3.75 so we can get over four.’” Since Elliott’s gift, the Buffett Institute for Global Studies launched an annual global leadership award that offers a $10,000 award to a young individual for outstanding leadership in global health, social or economic development, human rights, climate change and food security, said Bruce Carruthers, director of the Buffett Institute. The gift has also funded graduatelevel research travel and research groups for faculty and graduate students that will support multi-year and multi-disciplinary collaborative research. A portion of Elliott’s gift is earmarked for recruitment of international students and to provide more of these students with financial aid, Carruthers said. “(International financial aid) is one of the ways we can enrich educational experiences, not just of the students, but of teachers by having a globally diverse and representative undergraduate body,” Carruthers said. ”It’s great for the classroom to have a broad spectrum of experiences and understandings.” McQuinn said the campaign is looking to further support all students, not just international students, regardless of their financial circumstances. Under Schapiro, NU has continuously increased funding for graduate- and undergraduate-level financial aid. “If we didn’t have an ample amount of scholarship funding, we’d look completely different than we do today,” McQuinn said. Donations to the campaign have and are continuing to fund construction projects on campus such as the new Ryan Center for the Musical Arts, a new workspace called The Garage, the planned Lakefront Athletics and Recreation Complex, and the Kellogg Global Hub — a lakeside building for the Kellogg School of Management and the economics
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From page 1 Simon, who is spearheading the project, said she chose to collaborate with UIC and NEIU because of their reputations of serving minority groups and because of their previous relationships with Lurie. “Over the past five-plus years I’ve been working with Northeastern (Illinois University) on a smaller grant that was funded by the NCI, an early partnership grant,” she said. “That ultimately led to this larger grant with UIC. I’ve been working with UIC on several projects over
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2015 department. McQuinn said raising the funds to construct these facilities is only the beginning of the University’s plan to improve student experience. “The funding really just provides the resource base,” McQuinn said. “The real achievement comes once we have put together the faculty, students and staff to realize the ambitions.” Through two separate gifts in 2014 and 2015, Simpson and Querrey’s total contributions of $117.8 million — the largest sum donated to the campaign so far — are now funding the Feinberg School of Medicine’s biomedical research programs and the construction of the Louis A. Simpson and Kimberly K. Querrey Institute for BioNanotechnology in Medicine. McQuinn said around 20 summer research opportunities have been made available for undergraduate students as a result of the donation. “(Research grants) allow us to bring to Northwestern the most talented faculty working in some of the most interesting areas of science and then to benefit the undergraduates by having mentors and providing work experiences that might shape their careers,” McQuinn said. NU plans to continue expanding its number of donors in hopes of reaching 141,000 to build a stronger philanthropic base for the University. As of Sept. 30, the campaign was at just under 109,000 donations, McQuinn said. McQuinn said the campaign has been successful at attracting donors due to the positive attention NU has received for its rankings, excellent student body and faculty. “There’s both a vision and a means to support that vision,” McQuinn said. “We have the momentum of the prominence of the University.” The impact of this campaign has also fostered an enormous community of NU alumni around the world who will be accessible to others within the community in the future, McQuinn said. “For the university educational experience to be maximized, it goes well beyond generating value from the time you’re on the Northwestern campus,” McQuinn said. “The better we can keep the community focused on the future of the university, I think the easier it’ll be … to shape your own future.” juliefishbach2018@u.northwestern.edu the past several years, so that started the partnership that continued into this collaborative.” Platanias, the director of the Lurie Center, said despite recent research breakthroughs, the benefits are not always equally distributed. “We have an important role in reducing cancer health disparities in Chicago communities,” he said. “We’ve had dramatic advances recently in molecular medicine, cancer genomics and molecularly driven therapies. These have been significant, but not everybody can take advantage of these advances.” markduanmu2019@u.northwestern.edu
Across Campuses Texas colleges could land in court over designated ‘gun-free’ classes AUSTIN — Religious Studies 375. “What Is Religion?” Three credit hours. No firearms allowed. That kind of course-catalog listing might not be so farfetched for Texas’ public colleges and universities, as school leaders move closer to implementing the state’s contentious campus carry law. Starting next fall, licensed Texans will be able to carry concealed handguns into buildings at four-year public universities. And while public schools can’t totally opt out of campus carry, as private ones can, they may carve out “reasonable” gun-free zones. The discretion — part of a compromise late in the Legislature’s session that helped the bill pass — has injected uncertainty over how far schools can stretch those bounds. And as lawmakers keep a close eye on how universities proceed, some have speculated that campus carry could end up in court. Nowhere has the debate been more pointed than over classrooms. Some argue that the law clearly intended to allow concealed carry in class. Others contend that the law clearly allows schools to outlaw that scenario. But there’s a distinct possibility that the resulting rules will end up somewhere in between. Consider the view of Rep. John Zerwas, a Richmond Republican who authored the original provision about “reasonable” rules. He said he would have trouble with a blanket prohibition on guns in class, but he could see how some classes “may not be a comfortable setting” for guns. “Where you get into some of these more political, divisive situations — where there’s a lot of passion and concern — people maybe ought to have a conversation about that,” said Zerwas, chairman of the House Higher Education Committee. Campus carry was a major priority this year for pro-gun Republicans, who wanted to expand existing state law that allows individuals with concealed handgun licenses to pack heat on university grounds. Opponents, pointing to the complex nature of university life, have said the measure would make campuses more dangerous. Supporters, touting constitutional rights and the need for personal protection, have said fears about the law are overblown. The measure passed the GOP-run Legislature — but only after some last-minute maneuvering. Just before a key legislative deadline, Zerwas offered an amendment that provided a way for schools to establish “reasonable rules” about carrying concealed handguns on specific
“portions of premises” on campus. His amendment, which passed, also said those rules cannot “generally prohibit or have the effect of generally prohibiting” the carrying of concealed handguns on campus. That clause was further opened up in conference committee by giving university presidents the specific power to create gun-free zones, which are then reviewed by boards of regents. And the rules were changed to apply to “premises,” not just “portions of premises.” Existing state law ensures that some on-campus areas, such as hospitals or sporting events, can still be off-limits to guns. But it remains a point of contention over what flexibility the universities have beyond on that — especially as it relates to classrooms. Campus carry backers argue that restrictions beyond special cases, such as volatile lab equipment, would defy the whole point of the law. Sen. Brian Birdwell, who wrote the campus carry bill, said he’s confident university leaders will “strictly adhere to both the letter and spirit” of the law. Opponents like Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer, D-San Antonio, say the law should be implemented “as written.” Though he voted against campus carry, he helped crafted the bill’s compromise language. He said the reference to “premises” — which is defined as a “building or part of a building” — gives campus leaders clearance to ban guns in class. And then there’s Zerwas, who said he’s looking for evidence that the campuses have undertaken deep, deliberate thought. Guns banned in Biology 101? “Give me a break,” he said. But he said such a policy might make sense in other classrooms. Noting that there could be circumstances he hasn’t considered, he said he could see some campuses ending up 90 percent off-limits to guns. So could it really end up that the syllabus says “no guns” in one class and “guns allowed” in another — based simply on the content of the course? Professors at the University of Texas at Austin and elsewhere have raised the idea, arguing that guns could deter discussion of some sensitive topics. Steven Friesen, a UT-Austin religious studies professor, noted that his classes often cover “volatile issues.” “It’s not a place for guns,” he said at a campus carry forum in September. But discussions with the leaders of campus carry working groups at multiple universities indicate that such an approach appears unlikely — or hasn’t really been discussed. Eric Fritsch, chairman of the University of North Texas’ campus carry task force, said he would have a hard time not considering a classroom ban as a “general prohibition.” — Tom Benning (The Dallas Morning News/TNS)
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Reigning champion Wu leads NU into the Gifford By JOSEPH WILKINSON
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When sophomore Dylan Wu tees off for the Wildcats at this week’s Gifford Intercollegiate, he won’t be just another guy in a field of over 80 golfers. He’ll be a defending champion, looking to repeat his success at the Gifford after his dramatic victory last year. The field could be in more trouble this year because his coach, David Inglis, says he’s even better. “He’s by far a better golfer, more mature, better at making decisions and reactions on the golf course,” Inglis said. “He’s as good as anybody, and he proved it last year.” Wu will be joined by seniors Andrew Whalen and Josh Jamieson, sophomore Sam Triplett and freshman Luke Miller in the Northwestern lineup this week against a difficult field featuring eight of Golfweek’s top 50 teams in the country. The Wildcats sit just outside Golfweek’s top 50 at No. 51. In addition to highly ranked teams, the field also features Maverick McNealy from Stanford, the No. 3 collegiate golfer in the country according to Golfweek. Inglis, however, is focused only on the guys wearing purple. “We’re good enough to play really well and contend if we take care of business, and that’s what we’re gonna worry about,” Inglis said. “If we take care of the process of playing good golf, we’ll be happy with
the results at the end of the day.” This approach was essential to Wu’s victory at the Gifford in 2014. After starting the tournament two strokes over par through four holes, he rebounded to finish nine strokes under par. Wu also overcame a nearly disastrous double bogey on the 15th hole on the final day of competition, birdying the final two holes to win by one stroke. Despite his success last year, Wu has continued to work on the mental aspect of his game along with Inglis and Pat Goss, NU’s director of golf and player development. “I’ve gotten better over the last year at controlling my emotions and trying not to let them roll over on to the next hole,” Wu said. “Being patient and being committed to every shot, those combinations are really the key to my success.” Although Wu is the defending champion in California, Whalen led the team at its most recent event, the Bridgestone Golf Collegiate at UNC-Greensboro. Whalen shot three strokes under par for the tournament, finishing tied for eighth place overall. This week he is seeking to repeat that success against tougher competition. “We’re trying to carry some of the momentum we had after a couple rounds there into this tournament,” Whalen said. “We’ve been close in the last two tournaments, and we’re just looking for a strong finish to our fall.” With Whalen coming off a strong performance,
Jamieson improving after his rough start at the Fighting Illini Invitational in September and Wu looking to defend his title, there are plenty of reasons for optimism heading into this week. The Gifford will be NU’s final tournament of the fall season before the Wildcats return to action in February with Big Ten Match Play in Florida. Similar to his one shot at a time approach on
the course, Wu is not focused on anything beyond this tournament. “We’re just going to enjoy our last tournament of the fall and put together three good rounds as a team,” Wu said. “On the last day, to have a chance to compete and win the tournament would be nice.” josephwilkinson2019@u.northwestern.edu
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Wildcats take 12th place at Big Ten Championships
The Wildcats finished 12th out of 14 teams Sunday at the 2015 Big Ten Championships, falling short of their goal to break into the top 10. Northwestern hosted the competition at the Sydney R. Marovitz Golf Course in Chicago, a new course which none of the runners had stepped foot on before. Of 122 runners in the field, NU’s top finisher, senior Elena Barham, placed 48th and posted a time of 21 minutes, 17.2 seconds for the 6-kilometer distance. Of NU’s consistent top three finishers this season, Barham was the only one to score points for the Cats at Big Tens. Junior Jena Pianin was out of commission due to injury, and senior Rachel Weathered, who has posted fast, consistent performances all season, struggled during the race, becoming the eighth and final finisher on the NU roster. Sophomores Brooke Pigneri and Sara Coffey picked up the slack, finishing second and third for NU and
Northwestern is hoping for the former. And with four games remaining, the Wildcats have a lot left to play for in the Big Ten. “People think you might lose momentum,” senior superback Dan Vitale said regarding the bye week. “But everyone seemed pretty excited to be here today. I think we’re ready to hit the ground only a second apart from each other, racing 22:19.3 and 22:20.4, respectively. Freshman Mary Orders and senior Allison Jacobsen rounded out the top five for NU. Though the underclassmen on the team stepped up to take spots two through four on the team, the Cats didn’t have enough depth Sunday to compete with the teams they were looking to pace themselves with, like 10th-place finisher Iowa. The Cats, who scored 364 points in the meet, beat out Nebraska and Rutgers, who tied for 13th with 369 points each. Though the Cats’ veteran runners have experienced difficulties the second half of this season, the team has an optimistic future with strong freshmen and sophomore runners who will continue to build their relationship with new coach ‘A Havahla Haynes. The next and final meet of the season for the Cats, unless they qualify for the NCAA National Championships, will be the NCAA Midwest Regional Championships, which take place Nov. 13 at the University of Kansas-Lawrence. — Ellie Friedmann
running again.” These final four games will be especially important to seniors like Vitale, who are closing out their NU careers. Vitale said the younger players on the team have bought in, upping their effort level and urgency for the seniors. “One thing I remember I talked about at the end of camp is, you never
know when your career is going to end,” Vitale said. “It could end short of the four games we have left. The goal we’ve had pretty much since Game One is to play every single game like it’s your last.” The future looks bright for the senior’s football career, but Vitale said he is focused only on the present with Northwestern. Likewise, Coach Pat Fitzgerald was laser-focused on Saturday’s matchup against Penn State. Led by junior quarterback Christian Hackenberg and a formidable defensive line, the Nittany Lions present an interesting challenge to the Cats. NU’s defense was extremely successful against Hackenberg in last year’s matchup in University Park, Pennsylvania, overwhelming the Nittany Lion offensive line to the tune of four sacks and an interception. It has been dubbed the “Anthony Walker game” by some in reference to the sophomore linebacker’s breakout performance in what was his first start as a Wildcat. But Fitzgerald isn’t thinking about last year’s success, instead lauding Hackenberg’s play in 2015. While praising the opposing team is a staple of every coach’s press conferences, Fitzgerald was particularly complimentary of Hackenberg. “Hackenberg is one of the best, if not the best quarterback in the country,” Fitzgerald said. “(He’s) a first-round
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talent.” Fitzgerald also emphasized Hackenberg’s weapons, saying he expects to see six to 10 deep shots down the field. Penn State has burned opponents who have keyed in on the run recently, with Hackenberg throwing for 581 yards and five touchdowns in the past two weeks. “They have some guys that can catch the ball and make big plays,” senior defensive end Deonte Gibson said, specifically naming wide receivers Geno Lewis, Chris Godwin and the “reliable” DaeSean Hamilton. Consequently, it bodes well for the Wildcat secondary that Fitzgerald said junior cornerback Matthew Harris is expected to play this weekend. However, senior defensive tackle C.J. Robbins is day-to-day with freshman Jordan Thompson, replacing him on the depth chart as a starter at defensive tackle. In that vein, the bye week has been well-timed for the Cats in terms of recharging the team physically, and Fitzgerald believes it has helped mentally as well. “It depends on when you have it. It depends on who and how you’re playing,” Fitzgerald said. “From a standpoint of who we’ve played to this point, the challenges that we’ve had, we needed a little bit of a break mentally.”
The magic of home-court advantage didn’t kick in until Saturday night for Northwestern, but once it started, it couldn’t be stopped. No. 25 Michigan (16-7, 6-6 Big Ten) did not let up on the Wildcats (13-10, 5-7), as they were massacred by the Wolverines on Friday night, losing in straight sets. NU scored only 13 points in the second set after falling by only two points in the first set. Even though it was a dull night for the Cats as a whole, they found a shining star in freshman outside hitter Ashley Bush who made her collegiate debut on Friday night. Coach Keylor Chan said he originally planned to redshirt her this year but decided to take her off of the bench. Bush tallied nine kills for the Cats on Friday. Bush said getting on the collegiate court for the first time was an easy adjustment because of how helpful
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and welcoming her teammates were throughout the evening. “The first set was awesome,” Bush said. “I think the whole match was good. I think we need to work on keeping the momentum high.” NU was able to turn it around in a big way against Michigan State on Saturday night. After a lackluster first set, the Cats stepped it up, winning the next three to take down the Spartans. One of the top contributors of the night was sophomore middle blocker Gabrielle Hazen who set a career
high with eight blocks. Despite her outstanding performance, Hazen attributed the team’s successes to teamwork, not just one player’s strengths. “This week we were just really focusing on playing as a team,” Hazen said. “We talked about doing little things for each other, so just going that extra mile.” This coming week the Cats have the rare opportunity to play the same team twice as they take on No. 21 Illinois (15-8, 6-6), both in Evanston and in Urbana-Champaign. This week provides time for the Cats to build upon this weekend’s momentum as they focus solely on one team. Chan stressed the importance of the emotional aspect of the game and said if the team connects in all ways, it will play better volleyball. “To play sport is not just a physical thing,” Chan said. “There’s a mental and emotional connection you have to have with a team. It’s nothing other than them playing for each other.” sophiemann2018@u.northwestern.edu