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Dance-cheer team are merged for the first time in NU history.
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Alum, city officials discuss whether U.S. could handle ‘Contagion’
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Yoonj Kim Clinton set good example for women
Michael Kurtz Students should try different motivation
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NU suffers fifth-straight loss, drops Homecoming game to Penn State.
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Registration for the 38th Northwestern University Dance Marathon closed Friday with a recordbreaking 1,300 students signed up to participate, the public relations committee announced Sunday in an email press release. The increase in dancer participation comes after a big year for NUDM. In 2011, the organization reached the $1-million fundraising mark and was named the Most Influential College Organization by the Classy Awards, the largest philanthropic awards ceremony in the country. This year’s event will run from March 2 to 4. “I’ve been involved with DM for three years and this is definitely
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DM registration breaks group records the biggest support system that I’ve seen since 2008,” said Medill senior Maura Brannigan, the 2012 public relations co-chair. “More people want to dance; more people want to get involved in this Northwestern tradition.” This year, the more than 1,300 dancers are made up of 47 student groups and 125 independent dancers, compared to the 1,200 that registered last year. “With a record number of dancers two years in a row, we can see how excited and motivated students are for DM,” Executive Cochair and Weinberg senior Kunal Joshi said in the press release. “We’re seeing substantial, healthy growth in our organization, and I could not be happier that so many students want to be a part of a great
Northwestern tradition.” Communication junior Allison Ho plans to join the 90-hour club in her third year as a dancer. Ho, co-chair of the Communications Residential College team, said last year’s success helped spark interest for DM 2011. “I do think the Classy Awards have something to do with it,” Ho said. “People see that it’s just so exciting and so many people are involved already, and they want to be a part of it too.” Still, organizers aren’t just relying on last year’s reputation. This year, DM allowed students to register without a partner if students entered with a group of more than ten students. According to the press See DM, page 9
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Marathon: More than 1,300 students signed up for DM 2012.
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In memory: Members of the NU Sailing Team held a memorial regatta in honor of their former teammate, Tyler Lorenzi, who died in May during a boating accident in Virginia.
The Northwestern University Sailing Team held a memorial regatta Sunday to commemorate former team member Tyler Lorenzi (MEAS ‘10), who died last May in a boating accident. About 125 people attended the regatta at the NU Sailing Center, which was preceded by a barbecue during which members of the NU community close to Lorenzi shared stories about his life. They were joined by his parents and sister, who tearfully thanked the gathered crowd for their kind words. Lorenzi worked as an associate research engineer for the National Institute of Aerospace in conjunction with NASA’s Langley Research Center after graduating from NU. Lorenzi died May 12 when a boat he was on with nine other people capsized in the James River in Newport News, Va.
“Coming to college I had never sailed before,” Weinberg senior Max Clemons said. “A lot of people taught me how to sail, but Ty really taught me to love sailing.” NUST holds an alumni regatta every year during Homecoming week, but it traditionally sees low attendance, said Alumni Chair Kim Wieczner. This year, the team’s executive board decided to combine the event with Lorenzi’s memorial. The Communication senior said she was overwhelmed by the turnout. “Usually we get maybe two or three boats,” Wieczner said. “We don’t have enough boats for how many people want to sail in this today. Being together in his spirit is so important because he always brought people together.” Wieczner also shared her own memories of Lorenzi’s life. “Even though he was older than me, I could sit down with
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Northwestern University Center for Public Safety, a worldwide traffic safety and police management institute, celebrated its 75th anniversary Sunday. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel named Oct. 23 as “NUCPS Day” in recognition of the Center’s contributions in Chicago, which include training more than 50,000 law enforcement and traffic safety professionals, educating 2.5 million Chicago and Cook County residents in driver’s safety and providing leadership worldwide. It also helps train members of the Evanston Police Department. “It certainly means a lot to be recognized in our home city,” NUCPS Executive Director David Bradford said. NUCPS was founded in 1936 by Franklin Kreml, a NU student
and police officer, who wanted to change the high traffic fatality rates in Evanston. Originally called the Evanston Traffic Officers Training School, it offered a one-academicyear-long training program in crash investigation. Within a year, the traffic fatality rate in Evanston decreased by 90 percent. A NU psychology professor noticed this and worked to offer a traffic institute at NU through Kreml’s program, said Roy Lucke, director of transportationsafety programs and resident historian for NUCPS. “Our founding is to make Evanston safe, literally,” Lucke said. Now, NUCPS is a worldwide institution that teaches courses in Africa, the Middle East, the Far East and South America. “We are helping countries straight out of monarchies that never had a modern police department,” Lucke said. Currently, NUCPS is creating an
online training program as a less expensive option for prospective law enforcement students. The banquet was held at Chicago’s Harold Washington Library Center. NUCPS offers courses for credit in the Northwestern University School of Continuing Studies. Though it offers no undergraduate courses, NUCPS has worked with McCormick and SESP students and faculty for safety and transportation research. Bradford and Lucke said not many NU students are drawn to the NUCPS training programs. Though NU does not offer a criminal justice program, Bradford said he is working with SESP professors to develop a curriculum for a masters’ degree in public policy, which would include some NUCPS courses. stephaniehaines2015@u. northwestern.edu
Student robbed on campus
A Northwestern student was robbed Saturday night near Shepard Residential College, according to a University emergency alert issued Sunday morning. Police are still searching for the thief, who they described as a male black, 18 to 22 years old, approximately 6-foot-1 to 6-foot-2 tall, approximately 180 pounds, having an average build, and wearing a multi-colored hat with stripes and blue jeans, according to the emergency notification. The NU student was walking south on Sheridan Road near University Place when a man approached him from behind and asked about the time. After the student referenced his smart phone and told the man the time, he continued walking, eventually turning west on University Place. While walking between the 600 and 700 blocks of University
Place, the man approached the student from behind again, this time demanding the student turn over his smart phone. The man then stated he had a knife, but no knife was ever displayed, according to the emergency notification. The man then punched the student in the face, grabbed the smart phone from him, pushed him down and fled west on University Place toward downtown Evanston. The student chased after the thief, according to the release. The student first called the Evanston Police Department, which responded to the scene along with University Police. Both departments searched the area to no avail. According to the emergency notification, the student declined medical treatment. University Police and EPD did not return calls Sunday. EPD is investigating. — Patrick Svitek