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Ludlow resigns from Northwestern
Ludlow’s resignation came as the University was taking steps to terminate his employment and a faculty committee was considering his case, University spokesman Al Cubbage said. “Ludlow’s actions violated University policy and are an aff ront to the standards and expectations that Northwestern University has for its faculty members,” Cubbage said in a
statement. “The University regrets the pain that was caused by his actions.” Cubbage declined to comment on the situation further Tuesday, saying that he could not give any details about the two instances of sexual harassment. Ludlow has not taught classes at Northwestern since March 2014. In the past, Ludlow has denied all allegations of sexual assault. He did not respond to a request for comment
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Former Speaker Newt Gingrich to speak at NU
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Philosophy Prof. Peter Ludlow resigned Monday from Northwestern following more than a year of legal battles and University findings that he sexually harassed two students, the University announced Tuesday.
NU waits to see if Congress will renew Perkins loan program By DARBY HOPPER
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For this year’s freshman class and future students, the Federal Perkins Loan Program may not be available if the U.S. Congress does not restore the financial aid program next month. Oct. 1 marked the expiration of the Perkins program, which has aimed to offer low-interest payment plans for students with financial need for nearly 60 years since its founding in 1958. Congress could potentially renew the program in mid-December. Northwestern is one of approximately 1,700 U.S. universities that offers Perkins loans to students, with 26 percent of current undergraduates receiving a Perkins loan. Students who already received the award in the 2014-2015 school year or earlier will have their loan
package “grandfathered in” — meaning they will continue to receive the aid whether Perkins continues or not — either until they graduate or until five years time is up. Future classes, including current freshmen, are not eligible to be “grandfathered” into the program. Last year, 23 percent of the $10.6 million in federal need-based student loans NU gave to undergraduates was from the Perkins program. Roughly 20 percent of graduate and professional students who had loan packages received Perkins funding. The loss of the Perkins loan program will not reduce the amount of aid the University can provide students, said Carolyn Lindley, NU’s director of financial aid. Lindley said her office is working with the Office of Student Loans to establish a campus loan program similar to the Perkins program through different forms of funding such as a donor-established endowed loan program. Associate Provost for Enrollment Michael Mills said a group of University administrators met Monday to discuss this program and other potential plans should the » See LOANS, page 5
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Northwestern College Republicans announced Tuesday that former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich will speak Nov. 16 at its annual fall event. Gingrich, who ran an unsuccessful presidential bid in 2012, served as a United States representative from Georgia from 1979 to 1999. He also co-authored the “Contract with America,” a Republican plan to retake the U.S. House of Representatives. After the Contract’s release in 1994, Republicans successfully regained control of the House for the first time in 40 years. “He seemed like an obvious choice of somebody who brings a balance of wide name recognition and also superb
Evanston aspiring model killed in Chicago shooting
An Evanston woman who won a renowned Chicago-area modeling competition this year was killed and a 15-year-old boy was critically injured Monday in a drive-by shooting on Chicago’s South Side. Kaylyn Pryor was standing with the teenage boy at about 6:20 p.m. in the 7300 block of South May in the
Tuesday. The University’s findings that Ludlow violated the school’s sexual misconduct policy came to light in February 2014, when a then-Medill junior filed a Title IX lawsuit against NU. The student, who has since graduated, said in the suit the school responded with “deliberate indifference and retaliation” after she told University officials Ludlow sexually assaulted her in 2012.
She said Ludlow took her to a downtown Chicago art show in February 2012, bought her alcohol and ignored her repeated requests to return to Evanston, taking her to his apartment where she lost consciousness. The student said she regained consciousness early the next morning in Ludlow’s bed. » See LUDLOW, page 5
intelligence and wisdom,” said College Republicans president Harrison Flagler. “He’s able to speak to a very diverse subsection of our campus.” The event, free and open to the public, will be held in the Louis Room of Norris University Center. Flagler, a Weinberg senior, said NU students would get priority in the Q&A session. At this point, the group doesn’t know what Gingrich will speak about when he comes to NU later in November. “We’re still working on the exact theme,” said Will Pritzker, College Republicans secretary of events and a Weinberg junior. “We don’t want to micromanage what Newt talks about, but I’d imagine a big theme is going to be broad stuff about freedom and conservative values.” Funding for the event was provided by Associated Student Government and a grant worth up to $20,000 from Young America’s Foundation, a
conservative youth organization. As the event draws closer, College Republicans will be providing periodic updates on their Facebook page about themes and advance tickets, Flagler said.
Englewood neighborhood when someone drove by and shot them, Chicago police said. Pryor, 20, was shot in the right armpit and was later pronounced dead at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, Illinois. The teenage boy, who was shot in the groin, was transported to the medical center in critical condition, police said. Police said the drive-by shooting has possible ties to gang violence, but the Evanston woman was not the intended target of the shooting. Police are unsure whether the teenager has gang ties or was the intended target.
Pryor, a 2013 graduate of Evanston Township High School, won the Mario Tricoci “Make Me a Model” contest this year. “We are saddened and brokenhearted to learn of the tragic passing of Kaylyn Pryor,” the Mario Tricoci modeling competition said in a statement. “This touches every one of us who knew and worked with her. Kaylyn will be remembered for her kind and generous spirit. She truly was beautiful inside and out.”
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would disturb their quality of life. “We have experience with people making noise in the middle of the night that will increase,” Evanston resident Regina Henry told The Daily before the meeting. “They’re the only ones out at 3 a.m., being loud and drinking and throwing beer bottles. My neighbors don’t do that.” About 50 residents gathered at Evanston Public
Library for the second neighborhood meeting to discuss the potential 14-story high-rise, located at 831 Emerson St. The complex — proposed to occupy a lot just west of the intersection of Emerson Street and Sherman Avenue — would be Evanston’s first large-scale private housing venture geared toward students. Evanston residents worried that the 287-unit building, decreased by 10 units from the original proposal, would increase traffic and clog the surrounding streets. Issues about the building’s height, potential tax hikes and influx of NU students were also raised. “It’s such a high-density building,” Evanston resident Susan Wolan, who said she lives in the apartment complex across the street, told The Daily. “It seems more suitable for a downtown area, so I don’t think it would work well in this neighborhood.” However, developers said at the meeting the building will largely attract upperclassmen and graduates and will be strictly managed by onsite staff. Developers also said details of the plan are not concrete. “This is … a lengthy process and there’s going to be more changes,” said Justin Pelej, the director of development at Focus Development, the residential builder working on the project. The construction of the building would mean the displacement of a local business, Lake City Cleaners. For the 35 employees who are Evanston residents, it
Burglar steals purse from residence
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UP FOR DISCUSSION Community members debate a potential apartment complex near the intersection of Emerson Street and Sherman Avenue. The 14-story high-rise would be the city’s first large-scale private student housing development.
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Evanston residents voiced concerns at a community meeting Tuesday night that a proposed apartment complex aimed at Northwestern students
Police Blotter Elderly woman charged with retail theft
A 73-year-old woman was arrested Monday afternoon in connection with retail theft. The security guard at the Whole Foods Market in the 2700 block of Green Bay Road told police he saw the Evanston woman unpackage several makeup items and leave with them in her purse, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said. The items are valued at about $50. The woman was charged with a misdemeanor for retail theft. She is scheduled to appear in court Dec. 10.
A burglary occurred Monday night at a north Evanston residence. Someone stole a purse from a residence in the 1000 block of Ashland Avenue sometime between 6:30 p.m. and 8 p.m., Dugan said. The 47-year-old resident’s purse contained her two credit cards, ID and $10, Dugan said. Police said the woman later found her emptied purse in the alley on the side of her house.
A 26-year-old Chicago resident reported his laptop stolen Monday afternoon from a hotel in downtown Evanston. The man told police he left his Apple MacBook Pro in a meeting room at the Hilton Orrington hotel in the 1700 block of Orrington Avenue for 15 minutes starting at 1:30 p.m., Dugan said. When the man returned to the meeting room the laptop — valued at about $2,100 — was missing.
would also mean a possible loss of their jobs. “We would have to relocate to a different place, and we may not offer them all jobs,” Janice Seyedin, the owner of Lake City Cleaners, told The Daily. Despite the developer’s consolation that the building would be “pedestrian-friendly,” residents complained that student bicyclists who they said disobey traffic laws would only increase with this new student-friendly building, potentially endangering both drivers and pedestrians. “We’re in favor of more housing for students, but we would like for the University to build the housing in the University area,” Wolan said. “We’re worried we might be facing a high-rise slum.” Concerns about the building’s future were raised in light of the incoming NU policy — which goes into effect Fall 2017 — requiring students to live oncampus their freshman and sophomore years. With NU’s 10-year plan to build five more residence halls on campus and renovate others, Evanston residents questioned the need for a privately-owned housing complex, claiming the city would be left to deal with an abandoned building. Developers have submitted the application for the building and are awaiting approval from city officials. “All in all, it’s going to be absolutely horrible for our neighborhood,” Henry told The Daily. joannelee2017@u.northwestern.edu
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On Campus MSA still looking for assistant director By FATHMA RAHMAN
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Multicultural Student Affairs is still searching for a replacement for one of its assistant directors, Louie Lainez, who left the position earlier this year. As Multicultural Student Affairs’ AsianAmerican and Pacific Islander content expert, Lainez’ departure on Sept. 2 has left Multicultural Student Affairs searching for a new coordinator for education and student groups on campus. The person in the position manages, develops and assesses programs and activities focusing on identity engagement, leadership and education offered by Multicultural Student Affairs, according to the description on NU’s human resources website. The listing has been posted on Northwestern’s job board since Sept. 15. This assistant director also serves as an expert to the NU community on the experiences of Asian-American and Pacific Islander college students, said Alejandro Magaña, assistant director for Multicultural Student Affairs. Additionally, the role advises groups such as the Asian Pacific American Coalition and the South Asian Student Alliance, assisting them with programming initiatives and continued intragroup growth. “We will be looking for someone with a strong
Across Campuses Fraternity at Ohio University shut down during probe over video
Ohio University has temporarily shut down the activities of a fraternity while it investigates a video that showed some of the men singing inappropriate song lyrics outside of a sorority house. The Acacia fraternity, whose Twitter account says it is based on Masonic tradition and was established at OU in 1949, has been ordered by the university to “immediately cease and desist
familiarity with theory and best practices related to the positive identity development of AsianAmerican and Pacific Islander college students,” Magaña wrote in an email to The Daily. Matt Herndon, Associated Student Government vice president for diversity and inclusion, said it is important to have people with an expertise in different identities that students can go to who understands the problems students have, especially at a primarily white institution like NU, he said. “A lot of the time, higher education institutions try to promote diversity by bringing different people into a space, but then they don’t support people when they get to that space,” the SESP junior said. “(Multicultural Student Affairs) does a lot of great work in supporting students with marginalized identities through their initiatives.” APAC internal president Jeanne Hou had been working with Lainez since her freshman year and said beyond approving budgets and helping with funding and contracting, Lainez built relationships with students. “He’d always have an open ear to any problem we would have regarding APAC or even just personal things,” the SESP senior. “I would pop into his office at times just to talk about how things are going. … He was really personable, great at communicating and was just always checking in on us, and we appreciated that.” The position has been filled by an interim all organizational activity while the investigation is ongoing.” That’s according to a statement provided by university spokeswoman Katie Quaranta. The statement said the school is aware of a video posted to Twitter a week ago. It was a short clip posted by a student that appears to show several Acacia frat members parodying the Beatles song Hey, Jude, with sexually explicit lyrics. A review of the clip shows at least a dozen men in front of the Alpha Delta Pi sorority – a few of them holding up lights, harkening the days
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Climate change and the problem with ‘free swag’ NICOLE KEMPIS
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When I reflect on Wildcat Welcome, my enduring memory is not of Purple Pride at Millennium Park, that awkward frat house hookup, or even the March Through the Arch. My clearest memory is the complete confusion I felt at being given four purple T-shirts by my peer advisor on day one. I remember thinking, “Who needs this many purple T-shirts?” It seemed wasteful and completely unnecessary, especially because I had arrived with plenty of my own clothing and I was pretty sure most of the students donning their T-shirts around me were in a similar, fortunate position. According to the World Wildlife Fund, it takes about 713 gallons of water to make a single T-shirt. Considering that there are about 1,100 students per incoming Weinberg class, each receiving four free T-shirts during Wildcat Welcome, that would bring the annual water expenditure up to more than 3 million gallons, enough to provide the minimum daily water requirement (about 6 gallons) for more than 1,400 people for an entire year.
The fact that the United States wastes a lot of water is not big news. It has topped the charts in gallons per capita water expenditure for years, with recent estimates as high as 100 gallons per person per day, more than twice as much as the average British citizen. Unfortunately, the T-shirt’s impact doesn’t end there. What about when we consider the circumstances in which the cotton was grown? Or the factory conditions under which it was produced? Ironically, the people who produce these goods in subtropical and agricultural regions, not those of us who consume them, will be most affected by climate change. If you read the label on our class T-shirts, you will see that they are comprised of 50 percent cotton, 50 percent polystyrene. They are produced in El Salvador by Jerzees, a subsidiary of Fruit of the Loom, Inc. Fruit of the Loom states on its website, “We are committed to ensuring that our company conducts business in a socially responsible fashion.” Although I am glad Northwestern’s chosen supplier is committed to environmental responsibility, I maintain that it would be much more environmentally effective to do away with our “free stuff ” culture entirely, because the issue is so much bigger than the T-shirts we receive during Wildcat Welcome. It’s the football game shirts, the Norris
plastic cups and the Kellogg magnets. I know that I can’t personally claim to need these things, and I think others feel the same way. They are clutter, and they produce a significant carbon footprint. We should be proud to attend NU, but we do not need more purple-colored “swag” to become a cohesive community, we do need shared ideals and an awareness of our goals as an institution. I strongly believe that one of these ideals should be a respect for the environment and that we should promote this goal to the extent that we promote other, equally important community ideals, such as diversity and respect for different ideas and perspectives. Giving students free water bottles and then claiming to be an ecologically responsible campus teaches us that we can slow and even reverse ecological damage with little personal and communal sacrifice. I wish it were that simple, but if we consider the rate at which climate change is occurring, we have to recognize that we must adjust more than a few small habits. We need to drastically alter the way we view consumption and that starts by ceasing to consume items that we neither want nor need. “Free” stuff — really paid for by our tuition — reinforces the incorrect belief that we can consume without incurring any personal or social cost. There are many other environmental issues we
could potentially address at NU, such as food waste or the amount of energy we expend on heating dorms and poorly insulated buildings. I focus on free apparel here because I believe it symbolizes our tendency toward unnecessary consumption. We may think we can produce cheap goods without wasting significant resources, but in truth only 15 percent of discarded clothing is recycled or donated. We could create a sign-up system for free NU apparel where students would have to consciously choose to receive a free good. This would permit individuals to claim personal responsibility for their waste while simultaneously limiting the superfluous production goods. In this way, we could markedly change our culture of automatic consumption. Only after we claim personal responsibility for our choices and their ecological damage can we honestly say we are making real attempts at reducing our environmental impact. Nicole Kempis is a Weinberg sophomore. She can be reached at nicolekempis2018@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.
Acknowledging mistakes is vital for growth in college ALEXI STOCKER
DAILY COLUMNIST
We seek to avoid failures and mistakes. Weaknesses are personal attributes we strive to overcome. To overcome weaknesses and avoid failure, it is necessary first to acknowledge one’s weaknesses and critically reflect on past mistakes and failures. That process of self-reflection, so crucial for growth, is a dying practice in contemporary culture. Our politicians, professional athletes, and other public figures distort their records, covering up mistakes and ignoring their weaknesses. Here at Northwestern, I see fellow students all too often evade possible failure by taking the easiest possible routes to gratification. Admitting personal mistakes and weaknesses is never easy, but it is necessary to develop one’s strengths. Moreover, making mistakes, so long as they are acknowledged as such, can be even more beneficial in the long run than repeated minor successes. Furthermore, a dangerous and harmful cultural trend has emerged from individuals’ growing inability to admit their mistakes. An excellent article in The New York Times breaks down why so many people are unable to admit their mistakes and apologize when their actions or words have
harmed others. According to psychologist Dr. Harriet Lerner, the non-apology is the product of shaming. When children and young adults are shamed for their mistakes — hitting their siblings, poor grades, breaking a glass — the connection between admitting mistakes and the discomfort of shame become intertwined, which makes a real apology an excruciatingly uncomfortable experience. The shame associated with admitting one’s mistakes or personal weaknesses is especially problematic for students at elite universities like NU. The admissions requirements for such schools are notoriously high. Students new to NU have rarely received poor grades or experienced rejection from student organizations. The association between mistakes and shame, a key component for many of high achievement in middle and high school, becomes crippling in college. Too often I have seen fellow students drop classes after receiving a B on a midterm or withdraw from a class to avoid a D. Dropping and withdrawing from classes prevents students from learning from mistakes, or from engaging in the ultimately beneficial fight to rebuild a poor grade. I know, personally, that the mistakes I have made in college courses taught me more about my learning style, and how to succeed, than the easier classes I have had. It may feel good to get an easy A, but fighting for an A-, or even a B+ or B, is much more beneficial in the long run.
The fundamental problem caused by society’s association of mistakes with shame is what this association causes: the inability to admit failures and weaknesses. Watching the Republican presidential debate last Wednesday on CNBC, it struck me that not a single one of the Republican candidates gave a legitimate answer when asked to name their greatest weaknesses. Instead, they evaded the question by attacking the Democratic candidates, turned a strength into a “weakness” — I’m a fighter, too optimistic, too honest — or went off on an entirely unrelated tangent. The Republican candidates’ dishonesty about their greatest weaknesses is the product of a culture that demands perfection from people in leadership positions. All of the candidates, from both parties, obfuscate their records: Carly Fiorina refuses to admit the mistakes she made at HP, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush distorts his ultra-conservative governing record in an effort to appeal more “moderate,” and former Secretary of State and Senator Hillary Clinton refuses to admit she made a mistake by voting for the invasion of Iraq. The shameful nature of public apologies, from professional golfer Tiger Woods to NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams, makes admitting mistakes understandably difficult for individuals subject to national scrutiny. When people who are supposed to be role models, individuals at the top of their respective fields, demonstrate an
An ode to bats, a modern-day superhero JACK DRUMM
DAILY COLUMNIST
While recently perusing through a news article, I came across a piece by Sarah Larson on, of all things, bats. I’m no spelunker nor am I a bat enthusiast; in fact, I tend to shout, duck and cover like most people when one approaches me. However, I am never one to deny the animal kingdom its place in the spotlight, and Larson’s piece got me thinking about the incredibly complex mechanisms that exist in the natural world that affect our daily lives so profoundly, yet so silently. They are the unheralded hero, the vilified mammal of the animal kingdom, and it’s time to take another look at bats. I think fondly of a season three episode of “The Office,” when a bat found its way into the Scranton branch of Dunder Mifflin. Creed, after grabbing a can of pesticide, proclaims with angry stoicism, “Animals can’t feel pain.” It is a laugh-out-loud moment on several fronts, but most of all for the blatant cruelty toward the — in the words of Kelly — “living thing with feelings and a family!” Creed, obviously, is wrong, and the truth is just the opposite. Bats — furry, strange mammals that sleep upside down and missed the Darwinian memo that flying animals should lay eggs — are highly sophisticated and one of the most important species in food webs across six continents. They are important pollinators, seed distributors
and insect controllers. Their importance is perhaps most pronounced in tropical rainforests, where frugivorous species of bats distribute seeds and ensure the replenishing of tropical trees and understory shrubs. Researchers estimate the economic value of bats in North America is approximately $22.9 billion dollars per year, since the bats significantly reduce pesticide application. This makes them one of the most economically important animal species on the continent. Even looking into the future, biologists say bats are one of the most important bioindicators (species that are instrumental in assessing the development of climate change) on Earth. In addition to “macro” impacts, bats affect people on a more individual basis, too. Just one little brown bat — “little brown bat” being the actual species name — can eat more than 1,200 mosquitos in a single hour, which is fantastic because I hate mosquitos. A family of free-tailed bats can consume nearly two tons of cropconsuming moths in just one night, which is also fantastic because I don’t want my food to be eaten by moths. In small ways, these creatures greatly affect our lives. Why, then, are bats among the most imperiled land mammals in the United States and in Canada? Why are these creatures so maligned? The simple answer is that we can’t embrace what we don’t understand. However, we don’t fear bats like other animals; society doesn’t fear a “bat attack” like it does a shark attack. True, there is a subfamily of bats whose sole food source is blood, and that is veritably terrifying. But, according
to biologist Merlin Tuttle, “(Vampire bats) have a social order similar to that of primates. Like humans, they share food and information, adopt orphans, and practice reciprocal altruism … (they’re) extremely intelligent, even affectionate.” Isn’t that incredible? Blood-sucking flying mammals … that are altruistic and affectionate. It’s this kind of beautiful irony that captivates my interest. Maybe all this fear started for us when the writers at DC Comics decided that Bruce Wayne became Batman largely because he himself was afraid of bats because he had been attacked by them in his youth. Maybe it started when Spanish conquistadors heard rumors that all New World bats were blood-sucking. Maybe it’s repressed, Freudian anger that bats were the mammals that grew wings and not humans. Whatever the case, it’s time to appreciate them for the awesome, little animals they are. However, just because I did some bat research for this article doesn’t mean I’m completely comfortable with them. They’re inherently weirdlooking and so terribly misunderstood, but their importance cannot be gainsaid. I’m rooting for the underdog, the unsung ecological superhero, the amazing animal that contributes to our lives without us even knowing it. Jack Drumm is a Weinberg freshman. He can be contacted at jackdrumm2019@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.
unwillingness and inability to admit mistakes and weaknesses, the culture of shame surrounding admission of failure grows stronger. The inability of public figures to own up to their mistakes raises the question of whether or not they are truly capable of learning from them. Therein lies the real tragedy. Critically reflecting on one’s mistakes is an important part of learning, and so is reflecting on others’ missteps. The most valuable mentors I have had here at NU told me not only about how they succeeded, but also how, when and why they failed. Discovering trends in past mistakes reveals one’s weaknesses, enabling personal growth. Public figures’ refusal to admit mistakes, or the shame with which they deliver apologies, conveys the wrong message. Internalizing the association between shame and mistakes leads students astray, evading potentially challenging situations in favor of instant and effortless gratification. College is supposed to be a time of growth and development, so get out there and take on a challenge, even if it carries with it a risk of failure. Alexi Stocker is a Weinberg senior. He can be reached at alexistocker2016@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.
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RESIGNED Students protest then-Prof. Peter Ludlow’s employment near The Rock in March 2014. Ludlow resigned from Northwestern on Monday.
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From page 1 Perkins loan remain defunct. “None of the details have been ironed out yet about interest rates, repayment terms, deferment options, all that stuff,” Mills said. “We’re modeling it all, but in the meantime, we’re just optimistic that the feds will bring back the Perkins and we won’t have to do any of it.” Lindley said for NU, the financial aid office has guidelines but not a specific formula to determine who receives Perkins loans — a model used at universities across the country. This standard is the result of what many experts refer to as a loophole in the original Perkins legislation. Because Congress did not define what it meant for a student to be in “significant financial need” in its legislation, schools used it to fill gaps in their financial aid packages, said Mark Kantrowitz, a financial aid expert and the former publisher of websites such as finaid.org. “You have some colleges that are giving out Perkins loan money only to Pell Grant recipients, while other colleges are giving them to much wealthier students while some Pell Grant recipients don’t get any,” Kantrowitz said. “The
idea that it would be distributed according to financial need, in practice, doesn’t exist.” Although the loss of the Perkins program is a new issue for the University, the debate surrounding NU’s socioeconomic diversity and accessibility compared to its peer institutions is not. Mills said near the start of University President Morton Schapiro’s tenure, NU was second to last in its peer group, the Consortium on Financing Higher Education, in terms of percentage of students with Pell Grants at around 9 percent. Pell Grants are a common measure of socioeconomic diversity in higher education, most often given to students who have annual family incomes under $20,000. U.S. News and World Report ranked its top 25 schools on socioeconomic diversity based on the Pell Grant model with 2013-14 Department of Education data. University of California, Los Angeles topped the list with 39 percent of its undergraduates receiving Pell Grants and Washington University in St. Louis capped the lower end of the scale at 7 percent. NU fell somewhere in the middle, with 15 percent of students receiving the grant. “Everybody else has grown, but the rate of growth for us has been ahead a lot of our peers,
A judge sided in November 2014 with the University’s motion to dismiss the case, ruling that NU “took timely, reasonable, and successful measures” in the aftermath of the student’s report. The University had found Ludlow in violation of the school’s sexual misconduct policy and sanctioned him in several ways, including denying him a raise and prohibiting him from having any contact with the student. The now-graduated student is in the process of appealing her case to the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Her lawyers declined to comment on Ludlow’s resignation Tuesday. The second instance the University found Ludlow in violation of its sexual misconduct policy came to light when Ludlow filed his own Title IX lawsuit against NU in 2014. The suit revealed the University also investigated Ludlow after a philosophy graduate student lodged a complaint in March 2014 that Ludlow had nonconsensual sex with her. The University found Ludlow in violation of its policy because he had “unequal so we’re catching up,” Mills said. However, ProPublica released a report in September showing NU falls behind its peer institutions in average cost of attendance for low-income students. At NU, the price for these students is $15,841. Five of the top 10 schools, which all have average costs of attendance below $8,000 for low-income families, have smaller endowments than NU. “We first became aware of the deficit gap when some nonprofits started publishing, calculating, data points around the time Morty came,” Mills said. “That kind of focused our attention on it, and ever since then, we’ve been trying to whittle away, to make it more competitive. … The deficit is going to start to shrink.” Mills said this year’s freshman class is the first in NU’s history in which all Pell recipients have aid packages with no loans. The Perkins program — part of the Higher Education Act of 1965 — first expired on Sept. 30, 2014, but was extended for a year under the General Education Provisions Act. The House unanimously approved another one-year extension of the Perkins loan in the Higher Education Expansion Act of 2015 on Sept. 28, but the Senate, led by Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), blocked the vote.
power” in his relationship with the graduate student, according to his lawsuit. The graduate student did not immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday. In February, a federal judge dismissed Ludlow’s lawsuit, which had argued the University invaded his privacy, defamed him and discriminated against him because of his gender during its investigations of him for sexual misconduct. Shortly after the first lawsuit was filed, Ludlow canceled a class many students had planned to walk out of in protest of his continued employment. He has not taught at NU since. Jazz Stephens (Weinberg ’15), who helped organize the protest while she was a student, said she participated in roughly 10 protests in response to Ludlow’s employment and general issues related to sexual violence at NU symbolized by the Ludlow case. She said she was surprised when she learned Ludlow had resigned. “I’m overwhelmed and gratified and symbolically I think it’s a huge victory,” she said. “But I think there’s still a lot to do.” sophiabollag@u.northwestern.edu Congress could renew the program when it sets a new federal budget in December. A bipartisan group of 54 senators signed an Oct. 29 letter urging Senate leadership to pass the Higher Education Extension Act until new methods of federal student assistance are decided. At the University level, Mills said to increase NU’s socioeconomic diversity, Schapiro has set a goal of having Pell recipients make up 20 percent of the freshman class by 2020. “It’s a very ambitious goal,” Mills said, “but we’re doing our best to try to reach it.” Amanda Walsh, president of NU’s Quest Scholars Network, said when she first arrived on campus, she felt as if there was no work being done to help low-income and first-generation students. Through student activism and the work of the Quest Scholars Network, she said, that has completely changed. “The University has made some incredible strides in making sure low-income and firstgeneration students really feel comfortable and accepted on this campus,” the Communication senior said. “Unfortunately, we are not all the way there yet, and I think it’s going to take a lot of time to get there.” darbyhopper@u.northwestern.edu
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The District 65 School Board approved last month a plan to install solar panels at an Evanston magnet school by the end of the year to boost energy efficiency and to educate students about sustainability. The new project at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Literary and Fine Arts School will include the construction of one solar panel system, estimated to cost $8,000, in addition to incorporating new aspects to the school curriculum focused on solar energy. “The city is always looking for ways to immediately reduce greenhouse gasses, so we’re super excited about the district’s plans,” Evanston’s sustainability manager Catherine Hurley said. The Chicago-based renewable energy vendor Windfree Solar will be constructing the new solar panels for King Arts. Windfree Solar estimates
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PALO ALTO, Calif. — “We don’t make that kind of glass,” said Waguih Ishak, director of Corning Inc.’s West Coast Research Center, pointing to the windows lining his office and, beyond that, to the windshields of the cars parked outside. “That is very thick glass, where impurities and small defects don’t really matter. At Corning, we make electronic-grade glass.” Ishak knows that to the layman, this doesn’t mean much. Glass is glass. You can see through it, it keeps things out, and it breaks. What more could Corning’s lab in Palo Alto do besides make it a little thinner, a little smoother and a little clearer? Ishak smiled. His face was friendly, but the knowing look in his eyes was clear: You have no idea. He played with a plastic-like sheet between his hands, bending it back and forth. “This is Willow Glass,” he said, forming a bell curve with the sheet. “It’s 0.1-millimeter-thin glass.” Corning can now mass-produce Willow Glass and ship it around the world in large rolls. “And this,” he said, tapping on some smaller pieces of glass on the table, “is Gorilla Glass.” Gorilla Glass is the glass in iPhones. Thanks to Corning’s chemical formulas, it’s the reason phones are now more scratch- and shock-resistant than earlier models. Now picture this, Ishak said: razor-thin glass with the flexibility of plastic and the durability of
District 65 could save as much as $127 per year on energy costs. “We always want to pay attention to the energy costs we have, because as those costs increase, we have less resources to spend on our educational mission,” District 65 superintendent Paul Goren said. The bulk of the project’s cost will come from a $7,000 grant from the Illinois Clean Energy Community Foundation, an organization designed to provide funding to nonprofits for conservation purposes. This specific grant’s purpose was to promote the education of renewable energy for grade school students. King Arts’ PTA will cover the remaining $1,000 cost as well as $500 in additional fees. Goren said King Arts’ PTA has been pivotal in bringing this grant money to the school. “In this case, it was really the parents who actually went about getting the grant to move forward with this,” he said. “Their enthusiasm, their hard work all contributed to getting this grant, so this is being done with the great enthusiasm of the parent community.”
The seven-step grant application process was spearheaded largely by Ethan Chatfield, an Environmental Protection Agency employee and a school parent, as well as other parents who worked to persuade District 65 to approve the project and to obtain the grant itself. “Working with the EPA, I had brought these units to other schools, so I thought I should bring it to my own kids’ (school),” Chatfield said. “The science curriculum is being cut and a number of parents are concerned, so this is a way to try to get students and the district excited about solar energy and science.” The school sees this project as not just an opportunity to conserve energy but also to educate students about the possibilities of solar energy, Goren said. Chatfield said the grant also will send some teachers from King Arts to a conference where they will learn about the various dynamics and intricacies of solar energy. “This is opening the door for young people to learn more about solar energy and learn about it
right at their schoolhouse,” Goren said. “There’s a set curriculum they will use, which I believe will be through our science instruction.” From the city’s perspective, this project is more about the educational value for students than the cost benefit, Hurley said. “We’re certainly not pressuring schools to do this, but we do applaud (King Arts) for taking the initiative,” she said. Goren said this type of project isn’t new to the district, since other schools have completed similar projects. While many in District 65 remain excited about the new solar panels, there are no active plans for solar panel facilities at other schools at this time, he said. The new solar panels are expected to be completed by the year’s end when Chatfield and other parents hope to host an unveiling ceremony, dubbed a “Solarbration.”
steel. Think what it would mean for mobile devices. Heck, think what it could mean for any electronic device with a screen. This isn’t a pipe dream, he said. Scientists at Corning _ a company that creates the recipes and processes to manufacture glass used in smartphones, televisions and even space shuttles _ are finally having technological breakthroughs that could make glass, an often overlooked component of electronic devices, sexy. Or, in Ishak’s eyes, sexier than it already is. “Plastic ages,” he said. “After a few years it becomes yellow and deteriorates. Glass doesn’t.” He continued: “If you have a 1-millimeter sheet of plastic, it will take an oxygen ion (that is, moisture) a few hours to get through it. Moisture is terrible for electronics. If you have a 1-millimeter piece of glass, it will take 30 billion years.” “So!” Ishak said, raising both eyebrows, satisfied he’d made his point. “Hmm!” Beyond the inherent properties of glass, though, Ishak has reason to believe in the material. Willow and Gorilla Glass aside, he’s leading a team of scientists and engineers at Corning to make glass do things most people thought were impossible. Thinner, stronger, flexible, anti-glare, anti-bacterial _ and that’s just the start of it. In Corning’s factories, high-quality raw material comprising sand and other material is melted and poured down the exterior of a structure that resembles a trough. The molten glass flows down each side of the trough, meeting at a point at the bottom. Here, the substance fuses together (thus the name fusion glass manufacturing) and gravity
continues to pull it down. As gravity pulls it, the substance begins to cool into sheets of glass. This is a process that Corning has used for the last few decades to make glass. More recently, though, Corning has added a step to the process. As the substance cools, Corning attaches it to a roll, which pulls the sheet even further, making it thinner. The result? Glass that gets as thin as 0.05 millimeter. It’s not as simple as stretching the glass out like pizza dough, though. Corning scientists have spent years tweaking the chemical composition, time, pressure and temperature to make it work. Willow Glass was made possible only a year or so ago. Thinner glass can obviously mean thinner devices, but these new processes are producing glass so pristine that Ishak predicts they’ll soon be able to support 4K or higher resolution video on mobile phones. Another thing: “Every time I shave 0.1 millimeter, it allows for a bigger battery,” Ishak said. “Bigger battery means more time between charges.” The company is also making strides with stronger, steel-like glass. On Ishak’s table, where small squares of Gorilla Glass sat, he tapped on a square of non-Gorilla Glass. “This one is ordinary soda lime,” Ishak said. Soda lime is the kind of glass used for drink bottles and windows. Using a tool that resembled a metal crochet needle, he pressed one end against the glass. With little effort, it cracked. “This one is soda lime that we’ve treated with some chemicals,” he said, tapping at the next piece
of glass. This time, Ishak had to apply a bit more pressure, but again, the glass cracked. “And this third one is Gorilla Glass, which we made, and plunged in a special chemical bath. The recipe is our intellectual property.” Ishak threw his weight behind the metal needle, pushing it into the third piece of glass. It stayed put. “And this last one is the next iteration of that.” This time using both hands, he pushed the needle into the millimeter-thin square. The glass didn’t budge. It didn’t even scratch. These developments are a big deal, according to industry experts who believe advancements in glass alone could change the way we make and use mobile devices. “I see the immediate use of this ultra-thin glass will be improving the durability of phones,” said Andrew Hsu, head of the concept prototyping team at Synaptics, a firm that develops touch screens and displays. “It’s amazing to think everyone has a $600-to-$800 device that’s incredibly complicated, and people use and abuse them and throw them around.” More durable phones could also mean the end of phone cases, which, according to Daniel Hays, a principal partner at PwC, could “improve the viability of having dual-screen phones where the back of the phone serves a different purpose,” he said. A second screen, perhaps? Maybe a touchpad? Or, according to Hsu, if glass can get so thin that it’s bendable while retaining its strength, think of the different forms devices could take.
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A bowl game brings television exposure, national relevance and something for fans to be excited about past Thanksgiving, all of which the program sorely needs. And although scrapping to six wins isn’t the annual goal for NU, the bar isn’t set too much higher than that. Seven or eight victories a year is probably what to expect from the Cats, and they’re on pace to hit that upper bound with a 2-2 finish. Keep in mind that NU is doing all of this with the second-worst quarterback in the Big Ten taking snaps. Redshirt freshman Clayton Thorson ranks next to dead last in the conference in yards per attempt and passer rating. Only Caleb Rowe, quarterbacking the train wreck at Maryland, claims worse numbers. That Thorson is exceptionally fast for a man his size was the saving grace for the Cats against Stanford and Nebraska, but he’ll only improve as a passer as he matures and his receivers (hopefully) learn how to catch the ball. Eight wins, or even just seven or six, is more than most teams can ask for with a completely unproven signal caller. Those blowout losses to Michigan and Iowa continue to sting, as they should, but the season shouldn’t be viewed as a disappointment because of them. Fans should be grateful for the 6-2
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Northwestern is the No. 21 team in the nation according to this season’s first edition of the College Football Playoff Rankings, released Tuesday night by ESPN. This is the first week the College Football Playoff committee released its rankings. Previously, the Wildcats ranked as high as No. 13 in the AP Poll after a 5-0 start before tumbling out following blowout losses to Michigan and Iowa. NU is in the “others receiving votes” category of the current AP Poll, falling just short of the rankings behind Wisconsin, USC and BYU. — Bobby Pilllote
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record to date and whatever lies ahead in the five games remaining. Savor the chance to antagonize your annoying high school friend who goes to Stanford. Pour some extra salt in the wound of any Duke fan still reeling from Saturday’s instant-classic loss to Miami. Be obnoxious on Twitter when NU rolls over some mediocre SEC East team
in its bowl game. Looking beyond the week-to-week rollercoaster, 2015 has already been a good year for the Cats. Enjoy the moment and be excited for what’s still to come. bpillote@u.northwestern.edu
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Preseason praise continues to rain down on the Wildcats. In the AP Top 25 Preseason Rankings released on Tuesday, Northwestern was voted the No. 19 team in the nation. The Cats are coming off a season in which they won 20 games for the first time in 19 years and reached the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 18 years. Coach Joe McKeown said the success from last season is what is causing the love for the Cats in the polls. “Preseason polls are a byproduct of the success we had last year,” he said. “It’s good for us. It’s good as long as you keep it in perspective. I think that’s the biggest thing.” NU has already garnered recognition in a few other rankings as well. The USA Today Coaches Poll marked the Cats at No. 24, and Athlon Sports pegged them as the 12th best team in the country. The return of four starters and the top five leading scorers most likely played a role in NU’s rankings. Junior forward Nia Coffey led the team with 15.7 points per game and nine rebounds per game last season and earned a spot on the All-Big Ten First Team. She also made this year’s preseason all-conference team. Junior guard Ashley Deary was also acknowledged by the conference and made the All-Defensive Team and was All-Big Ten Honorable Mention. Senior guard Maggie Lyon joined Deary on the Honorable Mention roster, and is also third in program history in career three-pointers. Add in junior guard Christen Inman and senior forward Lauren Douglas who each averaged double-figures in scoring last year, and there is plenty of proven talent on the roster. McKeown noted how returning stars can sway the voters, but also how it feels to coach a roster with more skill. “If you lost three or four starters, it would probably be the other way,” McKeown said. The Cats will have the chance to prove whether or not their ranking is deserved early in the season. They hit the road on Dec. 2 to take on North Carolina who is ranked No. 22 by the AP. NU’s season kicks off on Nov. 15 at home against Howard, and McKeown said the squad is eager to get out there. “People think you’re one of the best teams in the country, go out and prove it,” he said. “Players, this time of the year, they want to play.” — Khadrice Rollins
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Northwestern looks to solidify its NCAA tournament resume against Wisconsin, with the team fresh off a thrilling 2-1 comeback victory over Penn State this weekend. The Wildcats (7-7-2, 4-3-0 Big Ten) sit 1 point behind Big Ten leader Ohio State (10-5-2, 4-2-1). However, with a win against the Badgers (4-10-3, 1-3-3) and an Ohio State loss or draw to Michigan, the Cats can claim the Big Ten regular season championship. NU is still in the NCAA tournament mix as well, and a regular season championship combined with a solid RPI ranking of 34 would be hard for the selection committee to overlook. And with the Big Ten Tournament less than a week away, it is only natural to look ahead. However, coach Tim Lenahan cautioned against such thoughts. “Wisconsin is a tough team. As I’ve said before, we have to take it one game at a time,” Lenahan said. “It doesn’t matter what their record is.” Wisconsin has yet to post a victory at home this season and should be full of energy on its Fan Appreciation Night this Wednesday. Far removed from the NCAA tournament conversation, the Badgers can use this matchup as preparation for the Big Ten Tournament, where they can earn the conference’s automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. Although the two teams are in very different places, NU senior forward Joey Calistri, one of Sunday’s heroes, said he believes the game presents an excellent opportunity. “We’ve come a long way this season as a team, and this is just the next step,” Calistri said. “What we do
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the back line has gotten better as the season has gone on,” Dearth said. “Obviously I don’t score a lot of goals, so it was nice to get one there.” Wednesday’s regular season finale kicks off at 7 p.m., and the Cats are confident they have what it takes to close out the season strong. “There are a lot of leaders on this team, not just upperclassmen, and we know that we are a capable group,” Calistri said.
It’s difficult to reconcile Northwestern’s 5-0 start with its subsequent 1-2 skid into bowl eligibility. On the one hand, that the Wildcats were ever 5-0, besting academic rivals Stanford and Duke and ascending all the way to No. 13 in the AP Poll, should have NU fans elated, especially on the heels of consecutive 5-7 seasons. Any postseason appearance is a welcome relief. On the other hand, a 2-point escape to lurch into a bowl game — over a Nebraska team that just lost to Purdue — hardly feels fulfilling, especially considering back-toback losses by a combined margin of 78-10 just prior. The Cats failed spectacularly at delivering on their early promise. But taken together, the two halves combined tell the story of a team that’s doing better than most thought it would be at this point in the season. After just eight games, it’s safe to call NU’s 2015 season a success. Most of that stems from a return to the postseason, the importance of which can’t be overstated. Those back-to-back 5-7 years were an embarrassment for a team that believed it had set a new standard for itself after a 10-3 season and victory in the 2013 Gator Bowl.
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FANCY FEET Joey Calistri shields off a defender. The senior forward will be leading the Cats’ attack when the team travels to Wisconsin with a chance to snatch the regular season conference championship.
Northwestern vs. Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin 7 p.m. Wednesday
tomorrow is important, and we can hopefully use it as a building block going forward.” The Badgers lead the all-time series 26-11-5, but the Cats have won the two most recent meetings. As NU’s season nears its end, several less talked about players have
emerged as key contributors. Among them is junior defender Nathan Dearth, who has not only started all 16 games, but has also logged the most minutes of any outfield player. His headed goal proved the difference in Sunday’s victory. Although Dearth said it was pleasant to see the ball reach the back of the net on his accord, he is also focused on what he and the team can do to keep the opposition off the board. “Defending set pieces is something
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By MAX GELMAN
daily senior staffer @MaxGelman
Symone Abbott is sick of losing. After a sluggish start to conference play, the sophomore hitter has notched at least a dozen kills in three of her last five games. Following a 17-kill performance against Michigan State on Saturday, Abbott says Northwestern (13-10, 5-7 Big Ten) is ready for its first winning streak since late September. “We had more of an expectation (to win) against Michigan than Michigan State, but the loss to Michigan made us realize we really need to win against (the Spartans),” Abbott said. She said anticipating a win over No. 18 Illinois (15-8, 6-6) on Wednesday “is a good attitude to have.” The Wildcats have been consistently inconsistent so far this season, and Abbott has exemplified their struggles. Her hitting percentage this year is lower than 2014 when she burst onto the scene as a freshman. Although her stats have leveled out following her recent strong performances, Abbott was hitting nearly 30 points below her percentage from last season. “You can see her progressively getting better,” coach Keylor Chan said of Abbott. “Hopefully we can steady out a little bit here.” Sophomore Gabrielle Hazen has also impressed Chan. After missing a couple weeks with mononucleosis,
Evanston, Illinois 7 p.m. Wednesday
Volleyball Daily file photo by Nathan Richards
SYMONE SAYS Symone Abbott spikes the ball past two defenders. The sophomore outside hitter has been racking up kills in recent games, including 17 in NU’s victory over Michigan State on Saturday.
Hazen is healthy again and has become one of NU’s top defensive options. With the Cats having the toughest
schedule in the country, Hazen says it’s important to focus on defense and manage expectations when playing so many good teams.
“We just go into each game with the mindset of playing the best we can play,” Hazen said. “You can’t really have an ‘off ’ night, but even if
you do you have to find a better way of managing the lows.” Wednesday’s match against the Fighting Illini comes after a weekend split of the Wolverines and Spartans. In the last four games between Illinois and the Cats, the home team has won each time. Not only is the in-state rivalry adding motivation for the upcoming home-and-home, but the Illini are one game ahead of NU in the Big Ten standings, tied with the two Michigan-based teams. “Everybody likes the classic rivalry games, and you always want to come out on top,” Hazen said. “I feel like we have something to prove that they’re not the top dogs (in Illinois) and we can be the top dogs too.” NU’s overall record against the Illini is 29-51. Since 2000, Chan’s first season as coach, the Cats are 11-19. Additionally, this is NU’s first Wednesday game since its contest against Minnesota on Sept. 30. Coming off two weekend games, preparation on short rest can be difficult for the Cats’ upcoming 7 p.m. home game. “We have to modify the training and change up the routine a little bit,” Chan said. “We’ll have a really intense practice and be ready for Illinois.” maxgelman2018@u.northwestern.edu