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Theater closes after 34 years By paige leskin
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Evanston nonprofit Next Theatre Company closed Monday after years of financial trouble put the theater in significant debt to the city. The company, which operated of the Noyes Cultural Arts Center, 927 Noyes St., for 34 years, was unable to stay open after experiencing decreased attendance for its performances, according to a news release from the theater. “Unfortunately, the theater’s audiences have shrunk dramatically in the past few years and it has not been able to build a contribution base to compensate for that,” said Rob Andalman, president of Next’s board of directors. “The Board concluded that it was not responsible to continue operations.” Since its opening in 1981, the company has provided innovative programming and played an integral part of the theater scene in the Chicago area, city manager Wally Bobkiewicz said. Bobkiewicz said the show’s progressive themes failed to attract ticket sales to sustain Next. “I think there’s always a balance in producing theater by companies like Next, to make sure you have a balance of things that are a little edgier, as well as things that are a little bit easier for folks to understand and appreciate,” he said. In July, aldermen allowed Next to remain a tenant in the art center for the
PHA to establish diversity chairs after ‘Jail N’ Bail’
Northwestern’s Panhellenic Association will establish diversity and inclusion chairs in each chapter in response to controversy last month surrounding Kappa Kappa Gamma’s “Jail N’ Bail” philanthropy event, PHA president Frances Fu announced Monday. In a statement, the SESP senior apologized for the Kappa event, which the sorority canceled two weeks ago, after students criticized it online for being insensitive on racial and socioeconomic grounds. Zeta Beta Tau, which was co-sponsoring the event, withdrew its support during the controversy. The event, which planned to feature Kappa members in a mock jail asking for “bail” money as donations, was organized to raise money for Kappa’s national philanthropy Reading is Fundamental, a children’s literacy
4 plead not guilty in shooting death of Skokie student
The four men arrested in connection with the September shooting of two Skokie high school students pleaded not guilty Monday to charges of first degree murder and attempted murder. The four men, all 19, are charged with the first degree murder of Maxwell Gadau, 17, and the attempted murder of a 17-year-
2014-15 season, despite the company owning the city more than two years of rent. The theater had accumulated more than $75,000 in overdue lease payments by July. “It’s an unfortunate occurrence — the Next Theatre has been a tremendous asset,” Bobkiewicz said at the July meeting. “It has put on some of the most interesting, innovative theater in Evanston. It has seen the growth and the emergence of several national actors and national playwrights.” The committee allowed Next to stay at the art center for its season, running from September through May 2015. Bobkiewicz recommended to aldermen in July that the company remain due to the production it had already scheduled. Bobkiewicz told The Daily on Monday that Next’s closing coincided with the end of its most recent production. “We look forward to hopefully attracting another theater company to continuing in that tradition at Noyes,” he said. “They’ll never replace Next, but certainly they’ll bring other interesting types of theater productions to the Noyes center.” The closing of the theater is a huge loss to Evanston’s art community, said Joanna Pinsky, artistic director of Art Encounter, another tenant at the Noyes Cultural Arts Center, whose space was once adjacent to Next’s room. Pinsky called Next a “first-rate company” whose cultural significance was » See nexttheatre, page 7 nonprofit. Students commented on the public Facebook event page and wrote in letters to the editor in The Daily that the event, which used a photo of women in the sorority quad dressed in orange prison jumpsuits, was offensive in light of systemic issues of mass incarceration in the United States. “I know that it is unfair that our prison systems are disproportionately filled with black and brown bodies while Jail N Bail is advertised by white people in outfits that represent largescale oppression,” Fu wrote in her statement. “Our Greek community used someone else’s narrative to raise money for our philanthropy, and although we did not act out of malice, we should be ashamed of our ignorance.” In a letter to the editor published in The Daily in October, Weinberg sophomore Ajay Nadig noted that PHA groups are 71 percent white and favor wealthier students, while about 40 percent of prisoners are black and many are poor. Nadig called the event old female who has not been identified by police, authorities said. In a Cook County court appearance Monday morning, the defendants, three from Chicago and one from Skokie, were arraigned on the charges, according to the clerk’s office of the Circuit Court of Cook County. The four were indicted in front of a grand jury on Oct. 28. Since their arrests Oct. 5, the men have been held by the Cook County Department of Corrections after being denied bond at appearances before Cook County
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A BITTER END Senior linebacker Collin Ellis, left, played only four games this season as he battled multiple concussions. Coach Pat Fitzgerald announced Monday that Ellis will retire from football
Ellis to retire from football By joseph diebold
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Northwestern senior linebacker and team captain Collin Ellis will retire from football, coach Pat Fitzgerald said Monday at his weekly news conference. Ellis missed four games this season, including the last three, after suffering multiple concussions. He recorded 33 tackles on the season for a total of 147 “a blatant belittling of the realities of mass incarceration and the prisonindustrial complex.” Critics also said children who are supported by Reading is Fundamental are often affected by having family members incarcerated. In her statement Fu announced that PHA groups will host talks with Lesley-Ann Brown-Henderson, executive director of campus inclusion and community, or host Sustained Dialogues in each chapter. PHA will also host an association-wide Sustained Dialogue in addition to establishing a diversity and inclusion chair in each chapter. It was not immediately clear when the changes would take effect. Fu asked NU students to forgive the Greek community and said in her statement PHA’s goal “is to change the culture of Greek life, the culture of Northwestern.” Fu did not respond to a request for comment Monday evening. — Jeanne Kuang
judges on Oct. 5 and 6, police said. A 17-year-old who police believed to be the gunman was arrested on the morning of Oct. 6, but released from custody the next day because of rights under the Illinois Juvenile Court Act, officials said. Police believe that the two students were shot on Sept. 28 after an arranged drug deal turned violent, authorities said. Officers responded to calls of shots fired around 9:40 p.m. on Sept. 28 and found the two students in a car in the 9200 block of Kedvale Avenue, police said. Both Gadau, whose parents are from
career tackles. “We’ve been in a lot of private conversations, Collin and I,” Fitzgerald said. “It’s the right decision short-term and obviously it’s the right decision long-term.” The highlight of Ellis’ career came in last year’s season opener against California, when he returned two interceptions for touchdowns in NU’s 44-30 win over the Golden Bears. Fitzgerald praised Ellis’ leadership, saying he has taken a mentoring role with freshman Anthony Walker, his replacement at middle linebacker.
“It’s really sad and disappointing that he won’t get a chance to put on the helmet again and the jersey and go out and play,” Fitzgerald said, “but he’s had a wonderful career. He’s doing a great job passing on his knowledge, his love, his passion to Anthony and the rest of our linebacking corps.” Last week, Walker called Ellis’ presence on the sidelines “a blessing.” “Me being a young guy, you want to » See ellis, page 7
SHAPE, MARS give advice on romance By alice yin
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Northwestern got a crash course in romance and hookups at a Monday night kickoff for Ask Someone Out, a weeklong initiative to encourage students to be more expressive in their relationships. Hosted by Sexual Health and Assault Peer Educators and Men Against Rape and Sexual Assault, the event featured a panel of students who discussed personal viewpoints on communication in dating and hookup culture. About 70 students crowded into a Locy Hall classroom to hear the panel. Evanston, and the girl were transported to Evanston Hospital, 2650 Ridge Ave., where Gadau was pronounced dead, police said. An autopsy showed Gadau died from a gunshot wound to the back, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office. His death was ruled a homicide. Gadau and the girl were both students at Niles North High School, according to a statement from the school. “This terrible crime has affected our entire school community,” Niles North principal Ryan McTague said in a
Weinberg junior Erik Baker, a MARS member, moderated the event. He said that although the initiative’s name suggests the focus is on asking people out, the event aimed to promote communication on both ends of a relationship. “While we encourage people to ask someone out, we want to recognize it is completely valid if you are not interested in a romantic or sexual relationship,” Baker told The Daily. “The other side of this coin is rejecting someone … taking no for an answer, allowing someone to be comfortable telling you no.” Panelists discussed consent in relationships and sex, agreeing that a “maybe” means “no” and that consent » See dating, page 7 statement. “Our thoughts and prayers are with Max’s family, with the family of the injured girl, and with the families of all the students who are affected by this event.” A memorial service for Gadau was held Oct. 5 at the First Presbyterian Church of Evanston, 1427 Chicago Ave. A candlelight vigil was held the night of Oct. 6 on Kedvale Avenue where the shooting took place. The four men are scheduled to appear next in Cook County court in January. — Paige Leskin
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County provides lights for late games By paige leskin
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The Cook County Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management provided additional lighting during Northwestern football night games this season to help prevent any accidents between cars and pedestrians leaving the game. Evanston police asked for the portable light units along Central Street after officials requested the need for additional resources at Ryan Field, Evanston police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said. “It really does assist with us doing our job and ensuring safety to the public,” Parrott said. “We’ve been lucky, but we’ve noticed that just in the years that we’ve been doing these type of operations, when it goes into the dark hours, there’s a higher risk and the lighting is not as good.” The light units stood on Central Street during the Wildcats’ game Saturday against the University of Michigan, as well as during
Police Blotter Puppy stolen Saturday
An unknown person took a puppy from a yard near Evanston Township High School on Saturday afternoon, police said. The puppy was stolen from a 55-year-old woman at a residence in the 1700 block of Dodge Avenue, Evanston police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said. The woman said a man took the dog from the yard around 4 p.m. on Saturday and ran eastbound through a gangway near the residence, Parrott said. The man then ran toward the 1800 block of Lyons Street, where the
the Homecoming game against University of Nebraska-Lincoln on Oct. 18. Although Evanston police and the We’ve fire department, as well as NU police, all been lucky, but have their own lightwe’ve noticed ing units, officials that just in the asked for two more units after some years that we’ve “close calls” among been doing cars, bicyclists and pedestrians, Parrott these type of said. operations ... The additional lights were set up to there’s a higher cover more of the area risk and the around the football stadium, University lighting is not as Police Deputy Chief good. Daniel McAleer said. Jay Parrot, “It’s a preventative Evanston police measure to ensure Commander that folks going from the game, especially at night as darkness sets, that they can see the sidewalk surface and
street as they’re crossing,” he said. “It helps with vehicles seeing pedestrians as well.” The county’s Department of Homeland Security is regularly available to any county municipality requesting services, said Natalia Derevyanny, the department’s spokeswoman. The department can provide assistance on a regular basis, she said. When Evanston called on the department for the light fixtures, staff felt it was “vital” to provide them with the units, she said. “This is a very serious concern,” Derevyanny said. “It’s a public safety issue, and we’re happy to help any of our municipalities.” This was the first year that officials turned to Cook County for the lighting fixtures, Parrott said. He said the partnership worked out well, with the units providing more safety alongside the officers from EPD and UP manning the streets around Ryan Field and inside the stadium. Parrott said that as long as the resources are available to the EPD, officials will continue to use them for future football seasons.
woman lost sight of him. The Evanston woman told police the man had come by the residence earlier that day asking to buy one of the puppies, but she had declined the offer, Parrott said. Detectives are currently investigating the incident. They are reviewing video footage in the area to see if the incident was caught on tape, Parrott said.
11 in the 1100 block of Clark Street and made inappropriate remarks to her, Parrott said. The Evanston man then put his arms around the 48-year-old woman and groped her breasts, police said. A detective followed up on the police report taken by a patrol officer. The detective’s investigation resulted in the arrest Saturday, Parrott said. Police arrested the 40-year-old man Saturday around 11:50 a.m. in the 1400 block of Elmwood Avenue, police said. He was charged with misdemeanor battery, Parrott said. No sexual charges were included.
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Police arrested a 40-year-old man Saturday in connection with the battery of a woman last month, authorities said. In a report filed to police on Nov. 2, a Chicago woman said a man had approached her on Oct.
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On Campus ASG launches application to help plan classes By Emily Chin
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MIX IT CourseDJ, a new site launched by Associated Student Government last week, allows students to schedule different combinations of classes. The application aims to let students experiment with course scheduling with minimal CAESAR interaction.
Across Campuses University of Akron campus may go smoke-free The University of Akron is looking to join a growing list of college campuses that are going smoke-free. The University Council — a policy-making group — will hear a recommendation later this month to ban smoking and address the use of
e-cigarettes, hookahs and chewing tobacco. “We’ve made a complete and comprehensive plan,” said Dr. Kristine Kraft, an assistant professor in the School of Allied Health who heads the council’s Recreation and Wellness Committee. She declined to talk about the specific recommendations until they are presented Nov. 18 to the council, which is made up of faculty, students, administrators and others. “I think it is going to be well-received,” said
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Associated Student Government released a web application last week called CourseDJ to help students plan their courses for Winter Quarter. CourseDJ is the first application created that uses the Northwestern Course Data API, which went live in September and allows students to request NU’s official course information in a programming-friendly format. The application gives students the option to “remix” their schedules so they can look at possible schedules with different combinations of classes. Students can add as many classes as they want and can tag them as optional, preferred or mandatory. For each possible schedule that comes up on CourseDJ, the preferred and mandatory classes will always show up, but the optional classes will be switched out. “It provides a much faster way of looking at the classes you’re thinking of and seeing what those look like on a schedule,” said McCormick junior Thomas Huang, a member of the ASG services committee. ASG services vice president Christina Kim said the goal of the new site is to allow students to schedule classes with minimal interaction with the University’s CAESAR system. The website was created by Kim and Huang. They held what Huang called a “mini hack day,” putting together the program over the course of eight hours. Huang and a team created a previous version of Kraft, who has been working on the issue for more than three years. Smoking is now prohibited inside buildings but is allowed outside on campus. Nearly 1 in 4 Ohioans between the ages of 18 and 24 smoke, according to the Ohio Department of Health. The Tobacco Free College Campus Initiative estimates that there are 1,477 campuses around the country that are smoke-free, including Ohio State University, Cleveland State University, Malone University and Northeast Ohio Medical
CourseDJ at the 24-hour hackathon RedesigNU that ASG hosted in the spring. However, Huang said the new site is made from scratch. “The only thing in common now is the idea,” Huang said. Huang said if a student wanted to do the same thing as CourseDJ does on CAESAR, it would take much longer. “It’s pretty annoying to figure classes on CAESAR, especially since you can’t go backwards, and a lot of functionality on it isn’t really user-friendly,” Kim said. “We wanted to make this a little easier, especially as registration for next quarter is coming up,” The program is still a work in progress because Kim and Huang are still figuring out how to link the discussion sections and lectures together, among other potential additions. “I don’t know if CAESAR’s going to be changing anytime soon, so this is a better work-around than using CAESAR to figure out your class schedule,” Kim said. In Spring Quarter 2013, students created a similar CAESAR-alternative website called Courseseek that drew more than 2,000 individual visitors in its first day. However, without the Course Data API at the time, students had to use data directly from CAESAR, Courseseek co-developer Al Johri said in September. Johri, a McCormick senior, told The Daily the site only lasted two quarters with up-to-date data. emilychin2018@u.northwestern.edu University in Ohio. The Ohio Board of Regents urged the state’s colleges and universities in 2012 to adopt tobacco-free policies. A Kent State University committee already has suggested that its campus go tobacco-free, with the policy being phased in over three years. That recommendation is now being discussed by the president’s cabinet. -Rick Armon (The Akron Beacon Journal)
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Chabad House dismissal limits religious options blair dunbar
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On Nov. 7, a federal appeals court upheld the dismissal of a case against Northwestern’s decision to cut ties with the Tannenbaum Chabad House. The Chabad House was a local Jewish center that arranged a host of programs, from educational services to holiday celebrations. Unfortunately, with the court’s decision, the future of the Chabad House is uncertain. However, what is certain is that students have lost a potential outlet for religious exploration during college. When I think of NU, I imagine an entirely secular campus. Sure, the University was built under the patronage of the Methodist Episcopal Church, but that was back in the 1850s. NU is certainly not a University of Notre Dame or Georgetown University, which are known for their Catholic
affiliations. As a result, I didn’t necessarily think my college years at NU would provide the opportunity of religious exploration. That is, until the first week on campus, when Cru handed out free sunglasses to the new freshmen. Most students upon coming to campus have simply absorbed the religious practices of their parents. But your parents don’t live on campus with you. With their newfound independence, students have the opportunity to determine for themselves whether they really want to fast during Yom Kippur or if church services have more significance than the opportunity to stand up and sing pretty songs. Not only is college a time to see if your true calling is ballroom dancing or beer pong, it is also a time to either reaffirm old religious beliefs or find new ones. After all, part of defining who you are as a person is defining your religious identity. A good friend of mine grew up in a highly active Christian family. When he first came to NU, he wasn’t sure if the biblical teachings that had been so ingrained in his head during
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his childhood would still ring true. Then, he became highly active in Cru on campus and began contemplating a life of missionary work. My other friend took the opposite path. Growing up in a Christian household as well, he had begun questioning the existence of God during high school. After attempting to join a Christian group on campus, he soon realized that despite his years of Sunday church services and dinner prayers, he simply didn’t believe in the existence of God at all. Now he’s an atheist. And me? I grew up in a small suburb of Chicago called Geneva, with little religious
diversity. The closest synagogue is at least 20 miles away, and I could probably count the number of Jewish students at my high school on two hands. My father is Christian, but my mother is Jewish. Neither of them is particularly religious, but I always wanted to explore my Jewish heritage. And what better time is there for exploration than college? Of course, any fellow NU student knows that with the quarter system and extracurricular activities, plans quickly change. But it’s my senior year, and I decided I was finally going to ask some questions and get some answers. Now I’m not so sure this is a possibility. Whether the federal appeals court was right or wrong, one fact remains: Students at NU have lost a valuable source of religious exploration and a place where they might find a religious community they can call home. Blair Dunbar is a Weinberg senior. She can be reached at blairdunbar2015@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, email a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.
Emphasizing role of individuality in political sphere curtis chou
Daily columnist
The world is an incredibly complicated place in just about every way you can imagine: socially, economically, culturally and definitely politically. I think in order to simplify the global civilization that we interact with on a daily basis and to grasp the enormity of the world that is “not us,” we start to generalize. Perhaps part of our tendency to label things as having certain characteristics is an attempt at understanding that which is different. We grab on to what is most obvious about the “other” and impose a backstory on it. No circumstance better illustrates when this comes into play than when we judge other people. But the problem is that everyone is somebody else. There is only one “me” and only one “you,” and as science will tell us we are all quite different. Thus the diversity of 7 billion people gives way to the greatest fault within us all, at least in my mind: We destroy our faith in the individual and shape our
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You are not defined by the color of your skin or the family you are born into. You are only defined by what you do and how you carry yourself. Everyone has that choice.
policies and thoughts along poorly drawn and wholly unnecessary social and demographic boundaries. A few days ago, not long after the 2014 midterm elections in which Republicans rode a wave of President Barack Obama fatigue and poor Democratic voter turnout to a majority in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, I stumbled upon an article on Slate. Ironically I was looking for an interpretation of the midterm election results that differed from my own, but instead I read an article that resonated closely with how I felt. In short, the article lambasted the statement proposed on the “Cut” that the elections were “bad news for women” and refuted the notion that women are a monolithic voting bloc that cared only about policies that are
circumscribed as “women’s issues.” I could not agree more. And yet, I would go further. There is so much diversity in thought and interests in the United States that it is a shame to see different groups, often demographically defined, pigeonholed into “appropriate” ideologies. Women and minorities vote liberally. White men and people with strong religious beliefs vote conservatively. Statistically of course there is some truth to those statements, but what about the people who do not follow the same script? We must not forget about them. I staunchly believe there is no such thing as being a traitor to one’s culture, race, gender or any other group because no one group is uniform in thought. But if you are not true to your own principles, you have become a traitor to yourself. You are not defined by the color of your skin or the family you are born into. You are only defined by what you do and how you carry yourself. Everyone has that choice. There is a lot to be said about the individual. Each of us has the capacity to better the world by thinking differently, by being allowed to break away from the chains of conformity. If we stop thinking that certain things are expected of us because we are one thing or another, we might start finding and
illuminating corners of unexplored shadows. Indeed there is culture, which shapes many of our experiences growing up. My own parents are immigrants from Asia, and I love much of what they have introduced to me as a child. I am sure you are the same. But what happens when someone wants to try something new? What if you wanted to defy the ideologies of your conservative parents and vote liberal because you now understand your own values better? What if you wanted to hold fast to your Republican values but struggled to reconcile its platform on samesex marriage with your own feelings? The world is a complicated place, and that is a good thing. It means there is something unique in each of us, and that is worth embracing. Look around you. We are all some gender. We have different skin tones. We come from different backgrounds. Yet according to the rules now, we belong somewhere. So let me give you one word: don’t. Don’t let what you cannot control define you. The only definition that matters is your own. Curtis Chou is a Communication senior. He can be reached at curtischou2015@u.northwestern.edu. If you want to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.
Turkey should remember Ataturk, his founding principles yoni pinto
Daily columnist
Nov. 10, 1938, was a sad day for Turkish people. That was the day the founder of the Republic of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, passed away in Istanbul. At 9:05 a.m. that day, Turkey lost the man who had given it direction and purpose. What set Ataturk aside for the Turkish people was his course of action following World War I. The Central Powers had lost and the Ottoman Empire was split into many pieces. The Turkish sultan had no intention of resisting the occupying powers. Having made a name for himself following a handful of masterful military victories in World War I campaigns, Ataturk had made a name for himself among the Turkish people. He quit his position in the army to use his reputation to rally the Turkish people to fight the occupation. Ataturk established a new government with a parliament, the Turkish Grand National Assembly, so all men and women around the country would have a voice during the fight for independence. He became commander in chief of the resistance forces and united the people. He fought with brilliant military tactics to achieve a resounding Turkish victory. Ataturk founded the Turkish nation as a Republic, as a country where the only
sovereign power would be the people of the nation and nobody else. He reformed the country politically and socially: He introduced emancipation for women, abolished Islamic institutions in government to make the country secular and made education mandatory, as well as widely available. In 1935, when Turkey instituted surnames for the first time, he got the last name “Ataturk,” which translates directly to Father of the Turks. All of the things written here are a shallow dip into the pool of what Ataturk did for the Turkish people. He was a man who built a country out of tattered remains, a man who dedicated his life to a people. He was by no means completely perfect. However, he had the vision of a country that would be the crown of the region – a strong, secular republic. All he did was done in order to push the country toward this direction. Throughout the 91 years of the Turkish republic, regardless of whatever has happened, the country has moved along this path. It has always stuck to democracy and secularism. It has managed to be the most prominent modern republic in the region. Today, however, Turkey is seemingly moving away from these values. The democratic country that was is slowly giving way to an autocratic regime that cares less about what the people want and more about what the people in power do. The secular ideals of having a ruling body independent of religious influences is seemingly waning away, as more and more religion is becoming a part of politics.
It is at times such as these that the Turkish people should look back on Ataturk’s ideas of a Republic of Turkey. As the Turkish people realize they are moving from the original ideals of Ataturk, they must decide for sure what they want of a Turkish country – do they want a Turkish republic or something else? If the ideals of Ataturk’s Turkey are not the ideals of the today’s Turkey anymore, that is disappointing. If that is the case, maybe the difficult decision of changing this country’s core ideals must be made. Nonetheless, before any decision to change Turkey is made, the people of Turkey need to look back on their roots. The people need to understand what Ataturk’s vision was meant to accomplish. They need to realize why Turkey was based on these values, what these values mean to the nation and what these values bring to Turkish society. In the past years, often actions have been taken without any understanding of Ataturk’s values. If the Turkish people keep acting to change Turkey without understanding Ataturk’s ideals and what they mean, they risk putting the country into further confusion and disarray. This is Turkey’s biggest challenge to date – even bigger than its fight for independence after World War I. It needs to be handled with utmost care. Otherwise, Turkey might be broken beyond repair. Yoni Pinto is a Weinberg sophomore. He can be reached at ybpinto@u.northwestern.edu. If you want to respond publicly to this column, send a letter to the editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.
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Council discusses library tax, animal shelter By stephanie kelly
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City Council continued its discussion of the proposed 2015 budget Monday, raising questions about the Evanston Public Library levy tax and the Evanston Animal Shelter funding. Aldermen asked city staff unanswered questions from previous meetings about the proposed budget, which totals more than $260 million for 2015. The budget boasts an increase of more than $5.5 million from the current fiscal year. Ald. Coleen Burrus (9th) said she wanted to review the increase of the EPL levy that the library board proposed to the council. In the 2015 budget, the library board has proposed a levy on property taxes. Currently, the levy exceeds the limit on the amount of tax funding EPL can take from residents, assistant city manager Marty Lyons said. EPL’s funding cap is about $5 million, and library staff have proposed a levy that totals more than $5.8 million for 2015, he said. “We’re giving them benefit of the doubt saying that if you use all your levies allowed under statute, you can have this much money, which is that $5 million,” Lyons told The Daily. However, if the library asks for more than its capped amount as it is proposing, the city can choose to reject EPL’s requested amount, city attorney Grant
Farrar said. Council can agree with the board’s recommendation, reduce the levy on its own accord or continue in discussions with the board, he said. “I just want to be clear as we vote on this that not only the library board is making a recommendation to go above the statutory limit,” Burrus said, “but also the city council is making a determination to go along with going above that statutory limit.” Mayor Elizabeth Tisdah said she wondered if there was a way to put more money into street paving because the city seems to be getting further behind each year. She asked if there could be a plan created to ensure that the city doesn’t lose more ground in improving its streets. Since the 2015 budget looks to reduce debt, city officials could transfer the surplus funds from the current fiscal year to the 2015 capital improvements fund, Lyons said. The current general fund has a surplus of $800,000 left over, he said. Because each mile costs about $700,000 to resurface, transferred money from the current year’s surplus could repave an additional mile or half-mile, he said. This transfer has been done in years past. “A half-mile would be terrific,” Tisdahl said. Some council members asked city staff whether the amount allocated to the Evanston Animal Shelter, 2310 Oakton St., in the proposed budget included any private funding raised and where that funding would go. The 2015 budget currently has $35,000 set aside for the shelter. Since May, Animal Control staff have been managing the operations, and all expenses
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budget banter Ald. Melissa Wynne (3rd) reads the agenda for Monday’s council meeting. Aldermen further discussed the proposed 2015 budget.
have been paid by the city, according to a memo to aldermen. City manager Wally Bobkiewicz said any projection of private money raised, including donations, has not been included in the proposed budget. Currently, there is a separate reserve account in the city’s general fund set aside for any money raised for the shelter, Lyons said.
“I think we’re all in the same place that we need to move forward, and I think it’s just a matter of timing,” Bobkiewicz said. “The direction of the police department and the volunteers there on a regular basis are doing what they need to do … But I think we are at the point where we need to move on to the next steps.” stephaniekelly2017@u.northwestern.edu
School board members sign resolution against bill By Stephanie Kelly
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Evanston/Skokie School District 65 and School District 202 board members unanimously adopted a joint resolution last week that outlines the school boards’ opposition to a state Senate bill that would redistribute funds so that the state’s lower income districts are provided for. The Senate bill, also known as the School Funding Reform Act of 2014, would result in both school districts losing about $9 million total in state funding, according to the resolution. A community legislative group and the District 65-District 202 school board committee decided that a joint resolution, approved at the joint committee meeting on Nov. 3, would be the best way to voice opposition, District 202 board President Gretchen Livingston told The Daily. A joint resolution is not done often, however the matter was
significant enough for one to be written, she said. Livingston took on the task of drafting the resolution with contributions from both districts. The District 202 board has been discussing the Senate bill since it was initially filed in the state legislature, Livingston said. District 202 board member Bill Geiger said the resolution is “digestible” and did a good job defining both district boards’ issues with the bill. “By taking significant funds from both District 65 and 202, it would have a devastating impact on both districts in terms of ability to provide quality education that taxpayers in Evanston expect,” Geiger said. A particular problem the resolution addresses is that although the state Senate bill acknowledges inequity in school funding, it does not attempt to solve inequity well. “The answer to the inequity of a system that forces local communities to take on an obligation of the State is not to penalize those who take on that burden but for the State to acknowledge its
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own obligation and properly fund education across the State,” the resolution says. Although the current system is wrong in basing students’ education on where they live, it is also unfair for taxpayers to carry the burden of the education the state is supposed to provide, Livingston said. “It’s nice that the legislature has recognized there’s a problem, but I would also say they’ve been complicit in that problem for a very long time,” she said.
District 65 board member Candance Chow said the bill fails to address the needs of individual children and families in Evanston and Skokie since both towns are overall high-resourced communities. “It’s looking broad-based at the resources of the community without looking at the true needs of individual kids and families in the district,” she said. With the reduced funds, District 65 will be less able to help families in need and fund programming targeted to families, Chow said. The resolution is not only aimed at the legislators it was directed toward, Chow said. It is also for the parents of the community to look at so they can form their own opinions on the matter. “It’s powerful when districts come together to do something in collaboration like that,” Chow said. “I found it to be an effective process for us. It’s a good example for the community.” stephaniekelly2017@u.northwestern.edu
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Cats put together inconsistent meets By TYLER KENDALL
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Northwestern’s swimming teams had a weekend of mixed results. The Wildcats combined to split a Quad Meet in Kentucky, with men’s winning two of three matchups and women’s winning one of three. The men’s team defeated their host 208-145 and Southern Illinois 249-104, but fell to Missouri 221127. “I was hoping that we would be more competitive against Missouri, which was a top 20 program last year,” coach Jarod Schroeder said. “When you have an opportunity to swim against one of the better teams in the country, you have to raise your game, and I don’t think we did a good job of doing that.” Junior Jordan Wilimovsky swept the competition, placing first in the 1,000 yard freestyle, 500 yard freestyle and 400 yard individual medley events. “Jordan was great again,” Schroeder said. “Every week he comes in and he swims really fast and he always steps up. I think he’s seventh in the country right now in the 500 free, and that was great to see him do that because that’s not even his primary event. To take a step forward like that was big for him.” Wilimovsky’s winning streak has had a positive effect on the team. “Jordan went 4:25 in the 500 freestyle and 9:12 in
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felt throughout the Chicago area. Although Art Encounter, a non-profit dedicated to visual arts, had to cut back its staff several years ago due to financial problems, it has not experienced major economic issues as Next has, Pinsky said. “There is definitely an ebb and flow in not-for-profit arts work,” she said. “As other tenants in the Noyes building, they’ve always been just lovely, supportive to us and very easy to be with. We feel just terrible about it.” The city did not expect Next to vacate until the end
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of the theater’s season, so staff will reach out to companies who expressed interest in leasing space in the art center, Bobkiewicz said. The number of interested applicants should increase when companies’ seasons come to a close, he said. In the news release, Next’s board of directors thanked the city and the community for supporting its “edgy” productions, many of which have received awards and much notoriety. “Next had a great season planned,”Bobkiewicz said. “But it just was perhaps too little too late to right their financial issues.”
have somebody to follow that’s doing the little things right and who’s always been a class act guy,” he said. “Collin’s that for me, and I’m very happy to have him right next to me.” Ellis becomes NU’s third defensive player to retire this year, following Daniel Jones, who retired because of a knee injury, and Dwight White, who retired after learning he had a rare kidney condition.
should be active and ongoing to be valid. They also addressed romantic and sexual activity while intoxicated, urging audience members to wait to hook up if either party is drunk. Panelists talked about body language and more subtle aspects of dating and hookup culture, discussing social cues on whether someone appears comfortable or interested. “There’s no harm in saying exactly what you want,” said SESP senior Jennifer Katz, a SHAPE panelist. “Then everyone’s really clear about what happens. You can always change your mind; you’re not signing a contract.” Weinberg sophomore James Yoon, who attended the event, said he was grateful it also explored societal pressures that lead to sexual assault. “What was really important that they discussed was behavior and being at a party,” Yoon said. “Sometimes it’s confusing, hookup culture … but they mentioned a lot about getting a very specific ‘yes.’” Panelists also shared advice about coping with rejection in both hookups and relationships. They stressed that communication was usually the solution to scenarios with gray areas. “I don’t think asking someone out will ruin your friendship,” said Communications sophomore Ari Radcliffe-Greene, a MARS panelist at the event. “It’s so much more painful not knowing where a relationship is at.” Panelists and audience members discussed sexist connotations in the term “friend zone,” which is used to indicate when people reject romantic advances by saying they wish to remain friends. “The friend zone is also a sexist ‘she put me in there’ term,” said Weinberg sophomore Isabel Sturla during the audience question-and-answer session. “(It’s) thinking women owe something to someone who is nice to them, just because you do things for them.” After the event, Baker said that although communication may be intimidating, voicing one’s feelings leads to healthier relationships. “We construct a dichotomy between sexual assault and healthy sex, or abusive and healthy relationships,” Baker said. “You can have bad sex and not assault, or an unhealthy relationship that’s not abusive … Ultimately communication among college students is important for relationships that aren’t violent.”
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the 1,000 freestyle,” junior captain Van Donkersgoed said. “Both of those times are top 15 times and a really encouraging sign because it’s well ahead of where he was last year. I think that the big thing that is important for us is that he’s a really positive energy force on the team, and he kind of inspires all of us to swim faster, too.” Schroeder praised the performance of sophomore Charlie Cole, who placed second in the 200 freestyle. Schroeder also noted the 400 yard freestyle relay, which was won by sophomore Andy Jovanovic and freshmen Almog Olshtein, Gage Kohner and Nick Petersen. NU will head to Wisconsin on Thursday to race the No. 13 Badgers. “If we’re going to beat a team like Missouri or Wisconsin this weekend, we have to swim better than we have all season,” Schroeder said. “That kind of was the frustrating thing. We went down there and had a good meet, but we didn’t have a great meet. And that’s what you need against great competition like we faced.” The women’s team didn’t fare as well, with the Cats falling to Kentucky 206-147 and Missouri 222131 and beating Southern Illinois by wide a margin, 257-96. NU displayed a stronger performance during the second round of competition. “If you just took the second day scores, against Missouri we only lost 88-80, and against Kentucky we only lost 85-82,” coach Jimmy Tierney said. “We were much, much sharper and competitive on that
second day. There were a couple of events on the first day where we knew we weren’t as fast as them, so I thought we competed well. We just didn’t have the opportunity to score big points. We then turned it around quite a bit and made a much, much better show of ourselves on Saturday.” Sophomore Lauren Abruzzo won the 1,000 yard freestyle, followed closely by freshman Sydney Modeas who placed second in the event. Freshman Mary Warren won the 50 free and also contributed to the Wildcat’s 400 yard freestyle relay victory. Tierney also noted strong performances from sophomore Ellen Stello who placed second in both the 200 butterfly and 400 individual medley competitions. “Winning the last relay was really exciting because we had talked about stepping up our relay performances,” Tierney said. “I thought they really did a nice job with that, and it was an exciting way for us to finish up the meet.” Along with the men’s team, NU will travel to Wisconsin on Thursday to swim against the No. 19 Badgers. “It’s going to be a great challenge for us, but we’re excited,” Tierney said. “We need to go out there with the idea of winning more races than they do and we need to continue our emphasis on getting our hands on the wall ahead of our competitors. It’s stuff that we’ve talked about all year long, and I think that the girls are excited enough to just go there ready to race and compete.” tylerkendall2018@u.northwestern.edu
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Cats defeated by in-state rival Illini No. 9 Illinois
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The Wildcats (15-10, 5-9 Big Ten) once again followed up an impressive win with a disappointing loss, this time at the hand of in-state rival No. 9 Illinois (19-6, 11-3). The Fighting Illini flipped the script on the Cats, jumping out to a 2-0 lead to start the game Saturday, the opposite of what happened in the previous matchup between the two. Although Northwestern was able to win the first two sets in the matchup on Wednesday with Illinois 25-20 and 25-22, it fell 25-15 and 26-24 to start Saturday’s contest. “I wish that after beating Illinois on Wednesday, we would have come out with the mentality we could beat them again,” junior Caroline Niedospial said. “But I felt that, especially in the first set against Illinois, we came out pretty flat and had a completely different mindset than we did Wednesday.” The Cats never held a lead in the first set, and despite strong play in the second that went to extra points, they found themselves in a hole they could not overcome. The team was, however, able to rally to win the third set 25-22 before eventually falling in the fourth 25-16, and losing the match 3-1. “We want to pride ourselves on being fighters,” coach Keylor Chan said. “You’re up against the wall. You got to fight. You got to find a different level of execution and devotion mentally and push yourself to execute on the highest level you can.” Chan pointed to unforced errors as one of the main reasons sets two and three had such different outcomes for the team compared to sets one and four. The team had 34 errors in the game while Illinois totaled 16. NU had 20 of its errors in the opening and closing sets combined. In the second and third sets, however, the team said it was more aggressive, and that was one of the key reasons for the difference in play. “Illinois puts up a really big block,
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SET FOR SUCCESS Taylor Tashima sets the ball for a spike. The true freshman setter has excelled in her first year, starting 22 games for the Wildcats.
so they’re very physical at the net,” freshman Taylor Tashima said. “You need to match that with really physical attacking … We put a lot more pressure on them in the second and third sets.” Niedospial, who led the team with 27 digs in the match, also discussed how the hitters attacked Illinois differently in the middle sets. “Our hitters came out hitting more in those two sets and didn’t
really let the fact that there are really tall blockers in front of us affect the aggressiveness,” she said. Although moral victories are not counted toward the record, the team’s play Saturday combined with the win Wednesday has it looking in a positive direction as the season approaches its final weeks. With Tashima accounting for 26 of NU’s 44 assists on Saturday and fellow freshman Symone Abbott collecting
a team high 13 kills, one does not have to look hard to see the good in NU’s near future. “We can compete with the best in the nation,” Tashima said. “Illinois is one of the top programs in the country, and we know that when we get pushed to a high level, we have to keep that high level going for the rest of our games.” khadricerollins2017@u.northwestern.edu
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No. 16 Northwestern pinned its first win to its schedule after a 21-13 victory Saturday at Stanford in its dual meet season debut. “It was our opening meet on the road with lots of travel,” coach Drew Pariano said, “but I thought some of the guys responded really well to it. Stanford’s not a bad program, and they have some really talented guys in the lineup. But at the same time, we wanted to put a little more emphasis in dominating our opponents, and that’s something we can definitely improve on.” The meet opened with No. 5 senior Pierce Harger, an All-American, topping No. 16 Jim Wilson of Stanford 8-4 in the 165-pound weight class, putting the Wildcats up 3-0. But the Cardinals fought back. First 174-pound sophomore Ben Sullivan lost 7-4, and then redshirt
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freshman Mitch Sliga dropped the 184-pound matchup 4-2. Stanford pulled ahead 6-3 in the team score. Next, No. 11 Alex Polizzi, a 2013 and 2014 NCAA qualifier, notched a technical fall in the 197-pound bout to bring NU back ahead 8-6. “Polizzi did a phenomenal job,” Pariano said. “He’s a senior, he’s a team leader and he’s really just starting to click. We’re really looking forward to him becoming an All-American. He works as hard as anybody, and we want him to reach all of his goals.” Senior heavyweight No. 1 Mike McMullan, a three time All-American, racked up another win for the Cats, 3-1, giving them the 11-6 lead. “I think Stanford wrestled us in a particular way that they’re trying to keep the score close, and we’re trying to widen the gap,” Pariano said. “They’re very happy to lose to Mike McMullan by a 3-1 score.” Cycling down to the lightest
wrestlers, NU’s 125-pound junior Garrison White dropped his bout against No. 15 Evan Silver by major decision. The bonus points pulled Stanford back within one. Then, an upset by Stanford 133pounder Connor Schram over No. 19 junior Dominick Malone propelled Stanford into the lead 13-11. But the advantage would not last long. NU won each of the last three decisions, without giving up another point to Stanford. First, 141-pound junior Jameson Oster secured the lead with an 11-6 win over Isaiah Locsin. Then No. 1 sophomore Jason Tsirtsis, defending NCAA Champion at 149 pounds, won by major decision over Garrett Schaner. Finally, 157-pound freshman Bryce Brill, a three-time Illinois state champion in high school, cruised to a 7-0 victory over Maxwell Hvolbek. “Tsirtsis put a lot of points on the board,” Pariano said, “but I think we can do more with him. I think
we can, obviously, dominate our opponents. We did a pretty good job at 157 too with Bryce shutting his opponent out. He’s a true freshman, so that’s really hard to do.” Just like that, NU pulled from two behind with three wrestlers left to winning by eight, a final score of 21-13. “Wrestling is a little bit predictable when it comes down to matchups,” Pariano said. “There were some tight matches that we wanted to go our way that didn’t. It really could have been a blowout win. I’m not making excuses. We didn’t blow them out. In fact, it was closer, in my opinion, than it should have been.” In total, the Cats won six of 10 bouts to beat the Cardinals for the sixth time in seven meetings since 2008. NU returns to action Saturday at Eastern Michigan for the EMU Duals. alexanderlederman2017@u.northwestern.edu
Diagnosing the offensive line’s woes Despite an improved performance from senior quarterback Trevor Siemian, Northwestern’s offense was held to just 9 points Saturday against Michigan, largely thanks to a sloppy performance from the offensive line. The line failed to create any space for freshman Justin Jackson — who ran for 38 yards on 17 carries — and broke down repeatedly in pass protection, most notably on the two-point conversion attempt to win the game with three seconds remaining. After saying following the game that the offense’s two long fourth-quarter drives were aided by the line giving Siemian “more than a nanosecond” to throw, coach Pat Fitzgerald went into more depth Monday about the team’s blocking struggles this season. “We didn’t block very well at the point of attack on Saturday,” he said. “You can credit Michigan, but we didn’t execute very well. That was probably the most disappointing aspect of the game on Saturday, the way our offensive line played. It’s got to get better. It’s got to improve.” Fitzgerald said he doesn’t doubt that the coaching staff has recruited the right players along the line but expects them to continue to grow together. “We’ve got good young talent,” he said. “I just think that they’re young and they’ve got individual areas that they all need to improve. Some guys it’s between their ears with self-confidence, some guys it’s strength, some guys I just it’s carrythink that ing over what we do they’re young in practice, and they’ve some guys it’s maturity got individual and actually areas that they getting in all need to the fight in practice and improve. competing Pat Fitzgerald, to win a job Football coach so we can have some true competition, which is probably the biggest issue that we have right now.” In other news from the Michigan game, senior receiver Kyle Prater and sophomore cornerback Matthew Harris were named NU’s offensive and defensive players of the week, respectively. No nostalgia for Notre Dame NU and Notre Dame have not played since 1995, when the Wildcats upset the Fighting Irish 17-15 on the road. If Fitzgerald, who was on the field that day, has any fond memories from South Bend, Indiana, he is not focusing on them. “I don’t really have a whole lot of time for nostalgia right now,” he said. “We’ve got a lot of things to fix. We need to coach our guys’ butts off this week.” Fitzgerald was also asked if he grew up cheering for the Fighting Irish. “Yeah, I’m Catholic from the South Side,” he quipped. “We didn’t have a choice.”
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