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The Daily Northwestern Friday, November 6, 2015
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Model’s ambition remembered By JULIA JACOBS
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Kaylyn Pryor was shopping at a mall on Michigan Avenue with her high school friend this past summer when the two stepped into an upscale salon. The young women were offered the chance to enter into a modeling competition and, on a whim, both put down their names. Months later, Pryor, a 20-yearold Evanston woman, had garnered enough votes to win the Mario Tricoci “Make Me a Model” contest. Against all expectations, the “tomboy” who always refused to strap on high heels had become a model.
On Monday evening, Pryor left her grandmother’s house on Chicago’s South Side with plans to return home to send in her first signed modeling contract, when she was shot and killed. Pryor was standing with a teenage boy at about 6:20 p.m. in the 7300 block of South May in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood when someone drove by and shot them, Chicago police said. Pryor, a 2013 graduate of Evanston Township High School, was shot and later pronounced dead at the hospital. The 15-year-old boy, who was shot in the groin, was taken to the hospital in critical condition, police said. “This stuff happens all the time » See PRYOR, page 12
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BYE BOTTLES By the end of the year, Northwestern aims to eliminate bottled water from three campus C-stores. Pura Playa, a group dedicated to the reduction of plastic waste, has worked with the University to phase out bottled water on campus, and eventually from vending machines and athletic events.
NU aims to reduce bottled water By TYLER PAGER
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Source: Mario Tricoci
REMEMBERING KAYLYN Kaylyn Pryor, a 20-year-old Evanston woman, poses for the Mario Tricoci “Make Me a Model” competition this year. Pryor was shot and killed Monday evening on Chicago’s South Side.
Northwestern is aiming to phase out bottled water from three campus C-stores by the end of the academic year. The University has already reduced bottled water products in the Norris University Center C-store by 50 percent, Julie Payne-Kirchmeier, associate vice president for student affairs, told The Daily in an email. She said the University aims to phase out an additional 25 percent of the products in Norris in the winter and then the final 25 percent in the spring. Once the system is tested in Norris, Student Affairs will move toward reducing bottled water
in the C-stores in Foster-Walker Complex and 1835 Hinman, which the department also controls. Pura Playa, a project of Engineers for a Sustainable World, was created around three and half years ago to eliminate plastic waste. To address this problem locally, the group decided to focus on trying to eliminate bottled water. Since then, both Associated Student Government and Faculty Senate passed resolutions in support of the group’s mission. The reduction plan, however, was not set until last fall, said Rob Whittier, director of the Office of Sustainability. Over the past year, Whittier said his office has been working with Pura Playa, Division of Student Affairs and Northwestern Dining on implementing the plan. One of the main concerns in reducing
bottled water has been ensuring there were enough feasible alternatives, Whittier said. The next phases of the plan include working toward removing bottled water from vending machines and then from athletic events. “The reason that we did the phase approach is because we need to make sure we offer an alternative,” he said. “We don’t want to take away bottled water at athletic events until there is an alternate. The worst case is then they turn to a sugar beverage.” The water bottle filling stations throughout campus are one alternative, Whittier said. He said there are more than 50 water filling stations between the Evanston and Chicago campuses, but there are still some key locations such as certain residence halls » See PURA PLAYA, page 12
Safe Ride works to improve app, lower cancellation rates By PETER KOTECKI
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Officials in charge of Northwestern’s Safe Ride service are using this academic year to tackle two problems the free ride service faces — high cancellation rates and long wait times. Safe Ride introduced the TapRide mobile phone app in April 2014 and subsequently extended its service to the summer. The service, which offers free rides to NU students,
faculty and staff as an alternative to walking, operates seven days a week during the academic year from 7 p.m. to 3 a.m. The service provides rides from any location on campus to either on-campus buildings or locations within a coverage area in Evanston, as long as the destination is three or more blocks away. Previously, students could call a Safe Ride between off-campus locations as well, but that amenity was stopped Spring 2014, the same time TapRide was released. Currently, members of the NU community can either call the Safe
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Ride office or use the TapRide app to request a ride. The service is known for long wait times, which Safe Ride coordinator Bernard Foster said are hard to reduce because the service is insufficiently staffed with drivers at the beginning of each academic year. When fully staffed, Safe Ride has 40 to 45 employees, eight to 12 of which are dispatchers, he said. Currently, the service has about 20 drivers, he added. This year, Foster said, Safe Ride saw a decline from last year in the number of applications.
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“Based on the things that I can pick up from my drivers and dispatchers, sometimes students will hold off trying to get a job beginning of Fall Quarter because they want to get a feel for how they’re doing academically,” Foster said. Safe Ride driver Justin Trousdale, a McCormick junior, said drivers are usually busy between 8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m., with a second wave of frequent pick-ups around midnight. Drivers try to pick up a new passenger between every eight and 12 minutes, he said. “During the off time, we might
give ourselves — instead of 10 minutes in-between the rides — 12 or 14, but we are always going to or from a pick-up,” Trousdale said. Popular drop-offs vary but riders often request trips to Jewel-Osco, the NU library, Norris University Center and larger residential halls, he said. Foster said the TapRide app is the biggest recent change to the service itself, allowing users to drop a pin on their location for a driver to pick them up. However, he said the pin has been ending up in various » See SAFE RIDE, page 12
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