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The Daily Northwestern Tuesday, November 24, 2015

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CAPS use rises 4.1 percent By PETER KOTECKI

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STUDENT SOLIDARITY Students gather before marching to Sodexo administrative offices in solidarity with food service workers at NU. The group presented a petition calling for measures such as better treatment of workers and a guaranteed 40-hour work week as workers begin to renegotiate their contract with Sodexo.

Students support food workers By DREW GERBER

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More than 50 students marched to the offices of Sodexo management in Sargent Hall on Monday afternoon to demonstrate solidarity with Northwestern food service workers as they enter contract negotiations with the company, which workers say has been cutting hours and overworking employees. Gathering first in front of the Technological Institute, student organizers rallied the group before walking up Sheridan

Road to Sargent Hall, where the group was met by Sodexo administrators and University representatives, including Julie Payne-Kirchmeier, associate vice president for student affairs. Student leaders handed Kirchmeier a petition, which they said had garnered more than 1,000 signatures within the past week in a show of student solidarity with NU’s food service workers. Kirchmeier said she would share the petition with Patricia Telles-Irvin, vice president for student affairs, as well as University President Morton Schapiro. Students also read testimonials reflecting the importance of food service

workers to the NU community, as well as the personal connections many students form with the campus dining staff. “As students, staff, and community members involved in and dedicated to the betterment of Northwestern University and all the lives that the University influences, we are concerned about the current status of all campus dining workers,” the petition stated. “Campus dining staff are overworked, underpaid and deserving of greater treatment.” In the petition, students voiced their support of the food service workers’ » See SODEXO, page 11

More than 10,500 Northwestern students, faculty and staff used Counseling and Psychological Services last year, representing a 4.1 percent increase from the 2013-2014 academic year, according to a report released by CAPS earlier this year. The ratio of CAPS staffers to students is currently about 1 to 940, said Patricia Telles-Irvin, vice president for student affairs. Ivy League universities have a comparable ratio, while the minimum ratio for counseling services at universities is one staffer for every 1,000 to 1,500 students, according to the International Association of Counseling Services. Although there is a 12-session limit for individual counseling sessions at CAPS, NU students attend an average of six to seven sessions, Telles-Irvin said. “Some students … are concerned about the limit of 12 sessions — I can understand that — and that is something that we will look into for the future,” she said. Telles-Irvin said CAPS is trying to ensure students get help if they are in a crisis. CAPS also educates students, faculty and staff through its Question-Persuade-Refer Suicide Prevention Gatekeeper Training Program, she added.

“What they are trying to do is bring these issues to everyone’s awareness,” Telles-Irvin said. CAPS saw one of its biggest increases in attendance within the Stress Management Clinic, with 24.2 percent more people attending last year than during the 2013-2014 academic year. Stress Management Clinic coordinator Henry Perkins said the clinic includes workshops on mindfulness, success strategies, and relaxation and biofeedback. Workshops are held for an hour each week, with two fourweek cycles offered each quarter, Perkins said. “These workshops are designed to provide Northwestern students with information about stress, stress management and to teach specific stress management skills,” he said. “We have had a really good and positive response, especially to the mindfulness workshops over the past couple of years.” Perkins said the programs at the Stress Management Clinic are free and unlimited for NU students. The workshops have become an easy way for students to access CAPS services, he added. “Students don’t have to go through CAPS to register for any of the workshops — they register online — so it doesn’t involve any kind of elaborate registration process,” Perkins said. » See CAPS, page 11

Police: 2 city stores in violation of tobacco ordinance By ELENA SUCHARETZA

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Two Evanston businesses were found to have violated a city ordinance forbidding the sale of tobacco products to individuals under the age of 21, the Evanston Police Department announced Thursday. The Walgreens at 900 Dodge Ave. and the Shop Now Food and Grocery at 1942 Maple Ave. were found in violation after EPD juvenile bureau detectives conducted tobacco compliance checks across 34 businesses in the city. The cited businesses will attend administrative adjudication at the Civic Center. Walgreens could not be reached for comment. Compliance checks are conducted by having 16 to 19 year-olds pose as customers attempting to purchase tobacco

products. If businesses are found to sell age-restricted products such as tobacco without confirming the consumer’s age during these checks, they are cited. City manager Wally Bobkiewicz said these checks are not unlike compliance checks for other substances such as alcohol. Evanston was the first municipality in Illinois to pass a “Tobacco 21” ordinance in October of last year, requiring individuals to be 21 years old to purchase tobacco. The ordinance was part of a movement pushing for legislation that works to block access to harmful substances during the time period most critical to future addiction for youth, Ald. Jane Grover (7th) said. “The goal was to move access to tobacco out of the high school because if there are 18-year-olds that can buy them, it’s easier for 16-year-olds to bum them off a friend,” Grover said. “Data shows that before the age of 18 you are more likely to become a smoker.”

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Evonda Thomas-Smith, the city’s director of health and human services, said although the ordinance works to prevent Evanston merchants from selling tobacco to minors, there is no way to control youth from purchasing tobacco in neighboring cities. “I have no jurisdiction over Skokie and Chicago, and there is no way to prevent crossing over,” Thomas-Smith said. “Our hope is that Skokie and Chicago, who are both considering passing ‘Tobacco 21’ as an ordinance, will result in better countywide compliance.” Although city officials believe the ordinance will be a viable barrier to prevent youth addiction to tobacco in Evanston, others view it as little more than a nuisance that deflects young adults’ business to other establishments. “I would make trips down to my hometown where cigarettes cost about » See CIGARETTES, page 9

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ONE YEAR LATER Shop Now Food and Grocery, 1942 Maple Ave., was one of two Evanston retailers found in violation of the city’s Tobacco 21 ordinance. The ordinance prohibits the sale of tobacco products to people under the age of 21.