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DM founder’s son continues legacy Zachary Elvove to join 120 hour club, hopes to raise more than $4,000 By ERICA SNOW
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HOUSE SWAP The Delta Upsilon fraternity house (left), home to Beta Theta Pi last year, is located at 2307 Sheridan Road. Delta Upsilon, which was approved to return to campus last spring, said it hopes to reach 50 members by the end of the quarter.
Delta Upsilon seeks new start Three years after suspension, DU returns By KELLI NGUYEN
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Nearly three years after its suspension, Delta Upsilon has returned to campus with hopes of rebuilding itself into a new kind of fraternity, said Derek Dauel, expansion consultant at Delta Upsilon International Fraternity. The new DU hopes to reestablish itself on its founding principles of promoting friendship, spreading liberal culture, developing character and advancing justice, Dauel
said. In addition, it will stand as a non-secret fraternity, which means allowing open chapter meetings and discouraging secret rituals to promote transparency, he said. “We have an open door policy,” Dauel said. “We don’t have any hidden secrets. There’s nothing to hide. There’s nothing we’re ashamed to talk about.” In its re-founding, DU hopes to challenge and to make an impact on the current Northwestern Greek system, Dauel said. Dauel has been working with the new chapter to lay out the groundwork for what the fraternity and its new members want
Local nanobrewery to launch tap room By BILLY KOBIN
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An Evanston nanobrewer y announced plans last week to expand into a new space next to its current location in the city’s Main-Chicago district. Sketchbook Brewing Co., 825 Chicago Ave., aims to open its new location, a tap room at 821 Chicago Ave., by the end of March. The tap room will house the retail operations of the brewery, while the current location will continue to serve as the production facility, said Cesar Marron, one of Sketchbook’s principal owners and brewers. “We’re not moving anything,” Marron said. “We’re just basically creating an extension of the brewery, which is a production facility. We’re creating a tap room for customers
to come in, relax … have a beer and talk to people.” Sketchbook is owned by Marron and Shawn Decker and opened on Nov. 21 2014. It currently sells growlers and howlers — jugs of beer — to customers four days a week in its production facility, where the company brews its selection of more than 20 beers. Sketchbook sells its beers to several local restaurants and bars, but the new tap room will serve as both a restaurant and bar for the business itself, Marron said. “We hope our neighbors will find a new ‘local’ at Sketchbook,” Decker said in a news release announcing the expansion. Decker said the tap room will have extended hours compared to those of the current facility, and food and pints will be sold there. Marron added that Sketchbook will possibly » See SKETCHBOOK, page 6
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that impact to be. “One of the advantages of starting the chapter over is that they are able to shape how the chapter looks,” said Colin Finn, director of alumni development for Delta Upsilon International Fraternity. “The (previous) DU experience at Northwestern really drifted away from its original purpose, so now that we have returned we are really able to attract, inspire and educate the next generation of undergraduate leaders.” DU was suspended from campus in April 2013 after violating the » See DELTA UPSILON, page 6
Kain Colter signed by Los Angeles Rams on Tuesday
The Los Angeles Rams have signed former Northwestern quarterback Kain Colter as a free agent. Colter previously attempted to stick in the NFL with the Minnesota Vikings, earning a training camp invite and a spot on the team’s practice roster during the 2014 season. He transitioned to wide receiver for Minnesota before being waived in May 2015. Prior to signing with the Rams, Colter worked out for the team last September. The ex-Wildcat, who graduated after the 2013 season, is the Rams’ first free agent signing since moving from St. Louis last month. As a Wildcat, Colter gained recognition for his running and scrambling ability, and during NU’s 2012 Gator Bowl season he passed for a careerhigh 872 yards and 8 touchdowns. In addition, he posted another careerhigh with 12 rushing touchdowns on 894 yards. In January 2014, Colter stirred
When Zachary Elvove’s dad flew out to visit him two years ago at Dance Marathon, he wasn’t given just any visitor pass — his nametag read “Founder.” Now a Weinberg senior, Zachary Elvove has participated in DM since 2013, which has become a family tradition for him and his dad, Roy Elvove (Communication ‘75, Medill ‘76). Roy Elvove had helped bring the first DM to Northwestern in 1975 when dancers registered as couples and competed to raise the most money and win a spot at the National Dance Marathon Finals at the University of Illinois. Once Zachary Elvove completes his last dance this March, the family will have racked up more than 150 hours of dancing. “It wasn’t until the second year when he came back when he had one of the IDs that said ‘Founder,’” Zachary Elvove said. “He never really thought of it as him being a founder of DM. He just thought of him as doing it. He didn’t think of himself as one of the people that helped found it.” Zachary Elvove is ranked as the 10th highest contributor to this year’s DM and has raised more than $6,500 from freshman to junior year, DM finance co-chair Alicia Kranjc said. The “multigenerational effect” is evident through the two men’s fundraising and advocacy, the McCormick senior said. In the 41 years since Roy Elvove and his peers helped bring DM to controversy by leading a movement seeking to unionize NU’s football team, the first such push in college sports history. Two months later, the National Labor Relations Board for Region 13 ruled in favor of Cats players, establishing the College Athletes Players Association as a union and
Northwestern, more than $16 million has been raised for more than 30 charities. At the first event Roy Elvove’s senior year, then called “Dance to Give Them a Chance,” 15 of 21 couples danced the entire program. “If you asked us then what this event would eventually become, I think anybody involved would’ve been absolutely clueless,” Roy Elvove said. “We would have no idea how big, or how long or how sustained this event would become. You do something because you think it’s a right thing to do, period. And that’s why we did it.” Roy Elvove said he had no idea if the first DM would be a success. Everything about the event, organized by Alpha Tau Omega and Associated Student Government, was a challenge, he said. The challenges ranged from booking live entertainment like Frank Sinatra Jr. to securing sponsorships and spreading the word. Besides raising more than $9,000, the event allowed students to help others, Roy Elvove said, which was also important to him. “I am absolutely in awe of what the Dance Marathon has evolved into at Northwestern,” he said. “It speaks volumes to the students who go to the University because it’s their passion and their commitment that has enabled this thing to survive and thrive over the years.” Roy Elvove served as the public relations director for the first DM, creating flyers and reaching out to the Northwestern community. About four decades later, his son served on the public relations committee for his first three DMs. This year, Zachary Elvove will be dancing with the Sigma Phi Epsilon team after three years of dancing with the Public Affairs Residential College team. » See ELVOVE, page 6 claiming the players are employees of the University. However, the NLRB struck down the regional ruling last August, denying Colter and the players the ability to legally form as a union. — Bobby Pillote and Max Gelman
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HOLLYWOOD BOUND Kain Colter looks for space in open field. The former Northwestern quarterback has signed with the Los Angeles Rams.
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