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ACCESSING CARE Panelist Dr. Avery Hart, from the Erie Family Health Center, speaks to a group of around 20 people Tuesday at the Evanston Public Library. The three health officials discussed the local health resources available to the community.
Officials talk health care By JULIA JACOBS
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The Evanston Public Library hosted a panel Tuesday that focused on the growing amount of local care available and how the community can access it. The discussion was the first in a series organized by Hircules Health
Hub, a project that brings together a new conglomerate of community health organizations, said Northwestern global health lecturer Michael Diamond, who helped develop the project. The group will host talks related to public health in order to expand knowledge of information and available resources, he said. Titled “Evanston and Skokie: In Sickness and In Health,” the event consisted of a panel featuring Evonda
Thomas-Smith, director of the Evanston Health Department; Dr. Catherine Counard, director of the Skokie Health Department; and Dr. Avery Hart, chief medical officer of Erie Family Health Center. About 20 community members attended the event. In spring 2015, the Evanston and Skokie public libraries will both open health information resource desks at » See HEALTH, page 7
More than 18 months after the University Diversity Council proposed the Social Inequalities and Diversities requirement, two of the six Northwestern undergraduate schools have implemented the requirement in their curricula, while other schools are awaiting the creation of enough courses to consider it. The February 2013 proposal from the University Diversity Council’s Academics/Education working group asked the six NU schools to include Social Inequalities and Diversities as a distribution requirement by Fall Quarter 2015. If approved by faculty in all six schools, it would be the first University-wide undergraduate academic requirement. The academic component of the requirement would mandate students take a course designed to achieve four learning outcomes, including demonstrating the ability to think critically about social inequalities and the diversity of social, political, cultural, economic and scientific experiences. The requirement also includes an extracurricular component involving Sustained Dialogue discussions.
In an interview with The Daily in February, Dona Cordero, former chair of the University Diversity Council, said the requirement’s goal is “to interact with people who have different life experiences, who come from different cultural backgrounds in order to one, work together in the academic environment, but two, to work together in the larger society.” The Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications implemented the requirement for its freshman class this academic year, Medill Prof. Patti Wolter said in an email to The Daily. Wolter, chair of Medill’s curriculum committee, said faculty are developing more courses that would fit the new requirement. The School of Education and Social Policy adopted the academic requirement in Spring 2013 for students who entered the school that fall, Susan Olson, SESP assistant dean of student affairs, told The Daily in February. The requirement’s approval in Weinberg is pending the hiring of a new dean. Weinberg faculty are developing courses that would fit the potential requirement, said Mary Finn, associate dean for undergraduate academic » See DIVERSITY, page 7
Ski Trip to Colo. raises NU, city to offer ultra highdrug policy questions speed Internet to researchers By EMILY CHIN
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Marijuana use will be prohibited on Ski Trip despite the drug’s legal status in Colorado, a Northwestern administrator told The Daily. The trip, which is sold out for the first time this year, will take more than 900 students to Copper Mountain in Colorado, a state where marijuana use is legal for people over the age of 21. However, the Student Handbook’s stance on whether use of the drug is permitted on the trip remains unclear. The Student Handbook states the use of illegal drugs is prohibited “except as expressly permitted by law.” The handbook also states in a separate passage that marijuana usage “at University-related activities is and shall remain prohibited.” Despite the drug’s legality in Colorado, NU’s drug policies “are enforced no matter where students are,” said Tara Sullivan, director of Student Conduct and Conflict Resolution. “We expect that if (students) are on a school-sponsored trip, that they are not participating in drug use,” Sullivan said. Ski Trip President Harris Goodison
said the group is not funded by the University, but it is an Associated Student Government-recognized organization. Tickets were sold through Norris Box Office, and students must sign a University waiver before participating on the trip. Students for Sensible Drug Policy co-president Daniel Hurwitz said students should be allowed to use marijuana on Ski Trip if they are over 21. He said smoking marijuana in Colorado is safer than in other states because the state can regulate the drug. “I feel that if students are going to be in Colorado and they follow the law in Colorado, they have the right to do that,” the Weinberg senior said. “I feel that individuals have the right to decide whether they’re going to use drugs or not.” A Weinberg sophomore going on the trip, who asked to remain anonymous, agrees that marijuana use during the trip should be allowed. “I’d say if it’s ‘expressly permitted,’ Northwestern students on Ski Trip should be allowed to smoke with no consequences if they’re over 21,” she said. Goodison, a Weinberg senior, said when students are on the trip, they are » See MARIJUANA, page 7
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Northwestern and Evanston officials are working to use their $1 million state grant to bring ultra high-speed Internet to University researchers by July 2015. Gov. Pat Quinn announced the awarding of the grant to Evanston in January 2013 to be used to turn the city into a “gigabit community” that would appeal to entrepreneurs. Made possible through the Illinois Gigabit Communities Challenge, the money must be used by July 2015 to help make Evanston a more innovative community, Jose Calderon, the city’s division manager of information technology, told The Daily on Tuesday. “We want to keep and retain businesses here, so I think that’s part of the draw of implementing gigabit technology,” Calderon said. “Not just continuing businesses here, but also attracting businesses from Chicago as well.” The access points to the high-speed Internet service will be installed throughout the NU campus and the city’s Chicago-Main area to create an “innovation corridor,” Calderon said. The Illinois Gigabit Communities Challenge aims to increase employment
opportunities in the future and encourage technological development throughout the state, ensuring businesses stay in Illinois, according the the effort’s site. NU officials are currently working to establish the locations throughout campus where the ethernet access cords will be available, NU Information Technology director Wendy Woodward said. Woodward said staff hopes to finalize the access locations by the end of December in order to start the installation Winter Quarter. Although the majority of NU students and staff will not have access to the super fast Internet, the placement will be based on maximizing the University’s resources, Woodward said. The University community already has access to a network that has great speed and will not benefit as much as researchers will from the improved service, she said. “We need to deploy the technology in a way that brings the technology to a specific researcher,” she said. “This is taking a significant step for our researchers and providing them with speeds they need to accomplish the important research.” The gigabit ports in Evanston will be centered in the area of Main Street and Chicago Avenue, where the city wants to create a “high-tech hub” for businesses and residents, Calderon said. City officials are in the process of
speaking with owners and tenants of the buildings to ensure they’ll sign up for the Internet service, making the access ports in the area worthwhile, Calderon said. “The project is not going to go anywhere,” he said. “It’s not going to succeed unless we have residents actually sign up for the service.” City Council voted at its meeting on Sept. 22 for city manager Wally Bobkiewicz to negotiate with the network provider onShore Networks, which is leading the implementation of the project. Since the approval, the firm has started to speak to building tenants to sell to them the Internet service, Bobkiewicz said in an email. The specific locations that will be able to take advantage of the faster network include 900 Chicago Ave., 515 Main St., 737 Chicago Ave and the Chicago-Main mixed-use project coming to the intersection — an area home to creative space and startups, Calderon said. He estimates about 40 percent of the project is complete. Of the $1 million that Evanston received, about $100,000 of the grant will have been used by the end of 2014, the city’s budget manager Ashley Porta told The Daily in an email. The remaining $900,000 will carry over to 2015 to finish the the project. pl@u.northwestern.edu
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Around Town Groups discuss city’s arts initiatives By Madeline fox
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The Evanston Arts Council and the Public Art Committee met Tuesday to discuss expanding their evanstARTs initiative, used to develop the city’s art scene into a brand. John Schroeder (Weinberg ’84, Kellogg ’87) presented the organization’s findings on the evanstARTs initiative as a viable brand. Schroeder is part of the Kellogg Community-Alumni Network, or CAN, an organization of Kellogg School of Management alumni who work in the Evanston community to help nonprofits with their marketing, analysis and research needs. EvanstARTs was created as a community arts roadmap report to gather public input on the arts in Evanston to create recommendations for policy, programs and infrastructure. Kellogg CAN found that the name could be used going forward as an umbrella brand for all arts initiatives in Evanston, Schroeder said. “Umbrella branding is a clear best practice of most sophisticated local arts organizations — it’s the catalyst that unleashes the potential of individual arts organizations,” Schroeder said. “Our judgment on evanstARTs as this brand, based on
Police Blotter Man’s wallet stolen from Evanston restaurant An Evanston man’s wallet was stolen from a restaurant Saturday night, police said. The 30-year-old’s wallet was stolen from the bar area of a restaurant in the 1500 block of Sherman Avenue, Evanston police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said. The wallet was stolen between 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. The wallet contained credit and debit cards, Parrott said.
what we’ve heard, is that it’s pretty darn good.” Schroeder also outlined several steps the committee could take moving forward, including tracking the fiscal impact of arts events on the community, forming a network group with other successful arts organizations and reaching out to Northwestern, a partnership that Jennifer Lasik, the city’s cultural arts coordinator, agreed is in need of work. “That partnership and collaboration is missing, and we could really benefit from it,” she said. Council members discussed reaching out to the University as a whole, rather than just its arts organizations, such as the Block Museum of Art and The Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts, which the city has partnered with in the past. The councils also discussed the future of the Next Theatre Company, which closed November 10 due to financial troubles. “We do have a lot of people vying for the space,” Lasik said. The space left by the theater at the Noyes Cultural Arts Center will be available for short-term rent until May 31, 2015, after which the city may find a permanent lessee or leave it open as a flexible space for short-term rent. Council members reviewed upcoming events
in the city’s art community, including an upcoming installation called Art Under Glass and the second annual Winter HeARTh, which consists of a series of arts events. Art Under Glass will place art from 11 local artists in open storefront windows of unleased spaces downtown. The installation will kick off Nov. 29 with a reception featuring the artists, followed by an artist walk to the included buildings, council member Fran Joy said. The Winter HeARTh events series may include a collaboration with NU Dance Marathon, said city staffer Jason Brown, who is involved in planning the event. This partnership would replace the previous one with NUDM for the annual tree lighting, for which the timing did not work out this year, Brown said. “Potentially we’d like to partner with them on something performance-arts based,” Brown said. “Last year’s events were visual arts-based, so it would be coold to do something with performance art.” Last year’s Winter HeARTh events included a yarn-bombing at the library and creating colored ice on the beach using squirt guns of food coloring and water.
Later on Saturday around 11:30 p.m., one of the cards was used at a gas station in Skokie, Parrott said. The card was used again on Sunday at another Skokie gas station, Parrott said. There was no video of the theft at the Evanston restaurant, but Skokie detectives will investigate the offense committed in their village, Parrott said. It is unclear if one person completed both unauthorized purchases, police said.
A storage facility in an Evanston apartment building was burglarized Saturday, police said. Police responded to an incident in the 800 block of Reba Place after a resident of the building reported a broken lock, Parrott said. The lock in the storage facility was broken with blunt force, Parrott said. The burglary happened between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., police said. It is not clear what items were taken from the storage facility, Parrott said.
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On Campus MARS hosts conversation about rape culture, consent By OLIVIA EXSTRUM
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Northwestern Men Against Rape and Sexual Assault gave an open presentation to about 30 students Tuesday about sexual assault, rape, consent and how they relate to NU’s campus. “MARS on campus tries to have a dialogue about how we can create a healthier and safer culture,” said SESP junior Jonathon McBride, MARS President. “We’re an all-male group, so we try to look at issues from a men’s perspective and see how we can get men involved in the discussion.” The discussion began with the definition of sexual assault and rape. Sexual assault is defined as unwanted contact of a sexual nature “when consent is not present,” while rape is “sexual penetration without consent,” according to their presentation. McBride said although the definition of sexual assault is broader, rape is a narrower topic that fits under the umbrella of sexual assault. Organizers screened a video depicting a man repeatedly approaching an intoxicated woman and then eventually leading her into a bedroom where she is unable to give consent. After the video, McBride encouraged the audience to discuss how bystander intervention could have helped the victim of the implied sexual assault. “How does this apply to us?” McBride said. “Is it realistic? Could it happen here?” McBride’s questions were met with a resounding
Across Campuses Two college students charged with sexual assault on campus in New Jersey HACKENSACK, N.J. — Two Ramapo College students are charged with sexually assaulting a woman in a dorm room, on a campus already grappling with controversy over a school
yes from one student, who said this kind of situation happens at NU “every night of the week.” This conversation led to the topic of “accidental rape.” Communication sophomore and MARS public relations chair Will Altabef, who led the discussion with McBride, said although many believe most victims of sexual assault do not know the perpetrator, the opposite is actually true. “What we see more frequently is something called ‘acquaintance rape,’” Altabef said. “It’s not the stranger in the bush. It’s someone who’s maybe seen them once at the Deuce before and sees them again.” McBride stressed that accidental rape almost never happens. He cited several statistics, including the fact that nine out of 10 campus sexual assaults are committed by serial rapists, who commit six rapes on average. McBride and Altabef presented two different sexual assault-related scenarios and included the audience in a discussion about different ways they could handle them. One student suggested that someone who is concerned with a friend making unwanted sexual advances could divert the friend’s attention elsewhere so the other person would be able to leave the situation. However, McBride acknowledged that “social dynamics don’t always make it easy” to intervene in such situations. To conclude the presentation, McBride and Altabef discussed supporting survivors of sexual assault and rape and addressed the role that alcohol plays in hookup situations. “Alcohol is a grey area,” McBride said. “Consent has to be active and ongoing at the time of the act.
Saying that you are going to get drunk and have sex with someone that night doesn’t mean that you will want to later.” MARS training chair Chase Brewster said the organization traditionally only presents to male students, but they wanted to include female voices in the conversation this year. “I feel like it’s really important to not just tell guys how to not rape someone, but also to focus on rape culture and make everyone know the message we’re
trying to send,” the Weinberg senior said. McBride said MARS held the presentation because the “statistics are there to back it up.” “College campuses have a really high rate of sexual assault,” he said. “We want to add to that discussion and make a healthier and safer campus for everyone. Ideally, we’d present to every organization on campus.”
counselor’s remarks that critics interpret as blaming women for being assaulted. The arrests, announced Tuesday, also come amid a growing nationwide debate about the treatment of women on college campuses in light of recent statements by a Yale Law School professor and a Pennsylvania college president. Nakeem D. Gardner, 18, of Paterson and Christian A. Lopez, 24, of Secaucus were charged Monday with sexual assault after another Ramapo student told police she had attended a fraternity party late Friday
and woke up early Saturday undressed in the dorm room, believing she had been assaulted, said Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli. The woman immediately went to Hackensack University Medical Center, which reported the incident to the Prosecutor’s Office Special Victims Unit and the Mahwah police, Molinelli said. Police examined video surveillance and interviewed numerous students before making the arrests, he said. Authorities did not disclose the identity of the fraternity or the location of the party.
Gardner was arrested on campus Monday, and Lopez was arrested at his home, Molinelli said. Both are charged with two counts of first-degree aggravated sexual assault. Gardner also is accused of taking video and pictures of the woman and is charged with thirddegree invasion of privacy. The accused were being held Monday in the county jail on $300,000 bail each, Molinelli said.
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expanding discussion SESP junior Jonathon McBride and Communication sophomore Will Altabef discuss issues related to sexual assault and consent on Northwestern’s campus. Men Against Rape and Sexual Assault hosted a presentation on the subject Tuesday.
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Commitment to sustainability requires divestment Ten years ago, asking most people at Northwestern how climate change affects them personally would have gotten some pretty abstract answers. Maybe they would have expressed regret at the loss of snow on Mount Kilimanjaro or felt a pang of guilt about suffering polar bears. But recently, climate change has begun to hit much closer to home. Talk to your friends from the Northeast about their adventures in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, the “once-in-a-generation” storm that left residents across the eastern seaboard without power for a week in 2012. Or ask your friends from California about spending their summer in one of the most severe droughts in the state’s recorded history — you’ll no longer take Lake Michigan for granted. The fact is that our generation is the first to grow up in the age of climate change. We’re also the generation that’s going to be responsible for solving the problem. That’s where DivestNU comes in. NU’s endowment is a portfolio of investments that generates revenue for the University. At the end of fiscal year 2013, the endowment was approaching $8 billion. Of that, $17 million is invested in the coal industry. The problem? This industry is responsible for generating greenhouse gases and toxic emissions
that are a direct cause of climate change and harms to human health. Coal is one of the dirtiest fuel sources we use, emitting double the carbon dioxide of natural gas and increasing the pace of climate change. Additionally, coal emissions are responsible for thousands of heart attacks, asthma attacks and premature deaths in the United States. It’s even worse in developing nations: In 2012, coal pollution killed almost 700,000 people in China. This is not just an environmental issue, it’s a human rights issue. As an esteemed academic and research institution, NU has a responsibility to take initiative in confronting climate change. We have already taken significant actions by offering classes on environmental science and policy, conducting world-class research in emerging energy technologies and investing in energy efficiency and renewable energy on campus. Shouldn’t our endowment reflect these commitments as well? For these reasons, we believe that NU should divest from the coal industry. Specifically, we are asking to divest from companies that produce coal at the core of their businesses or that have large fleets of coal power plants and that are unwilling or unable to change their business models.
By definition, divestment simply means to sell off investments. But it also enables reinvestment in solutions to climate change. And this action is more than economic. It affirms that NU truly values sustainability, leadership and human life. For the past two years, DivestNU has been gaining campus-wide support. In January 2013, the Associated Student Government passed a resolution calling for the University to divest from its coal holdings and endorsed a petition containing more than 1,500 signatures from students, faculty, staff and alumni. Both of these actions were also supported by the Faculty Senate. Since then, our campaign has held regular meetings with chief investment officer Will McLean, where we have discussed the potential for coal divestment at NU. This past July, McLean brought the discussion to the Investment Subcommittee of NU’s Board of Trustees. This group has the final say about the University’s coal divestment and in the past has agreed to divest from Sudan and South Africa. At that meeting, the Subcommittee was not convinced that coal divestment was the right move for NU. However, the Trustees have not yet heard the voice of the students. And as the primary beneficiaries of the endowment, we should have a say in how our University invests its money. This Thursday,
DivestNU members will be meeting with part of the Investment Subcommittee. We hope that by talking face-to-face, we can voice our position and our passion, demonstrating how important this issue is for the whole NU community. This meeting is a step in the right direction, but in order to be successful, we as students need to show the Board of Trustees that climate change is an issue that we care about because it will affect our lives. We want to breathe clean air. We want to protect the world’s coastal cities. We want enough food and water. And we want this planet, and everyone on it, to thrive. If you agree that NU has a responsibility to take action against climate change, sign our petition. Additionally, we invite you to share this letter on social media with #divestnorthwestern. Now is your chance to have a say in how NU uses its endowment, and it’s an opportunity you can’t afford to miss. Submitted by The DivestNU Team, David Snydacker, Alex Dolgonos, Alex Kirschner, Amanda Hermans, Andrew Carlson, Jonathan Kamel, Noah Becker, Kerry McFadden, Stephanie Garcia, Aimee Arvayo, Scott Brown, Christina Cilento, Allison Valentijn, Natalie Ward, Andrew Crane, Justine Hung, Taran Lichtenberger
Scientist’s sexist shirt indicative of larger problem sai folmsbee
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Last Wednesday, the European Space Agency landed a robotic spacecraft on a comet – the first time this has happened in human history. The Rosetta Mission remains an awe-inspiring milestone for astronomical exploration, as this particular comet’s size and complicated orbit around the sun meant it took the spacecraft about 10 years of travel through space to reach it. Planning and designing such a landing was a Herculean effort, requiring international cooperation and mathematical precision beyond what we have ever done before. But during a televised interview with Matt Taylor, one of the scientists working on the project, a more interesting story began to develop: The scientist wore a shirt decorated with scantily clad women during the press appearance, making him the immediate target for feminist criticism. In becoming the unfortunate poster child for the sexist scientific establishment, he represents the evolving
nature of sexism in science, and why it is so important to recognize this trend. The shirt itself is hard to defend, because it is covered in cartoon women in various states of undress. At best, it is inappropriate attire for such a professional setting, and at worst, it creates the image that the only women needed for space exploration are those who have inconveniently forgotten their spacesuits. To be fair, Taylor isn’t the villain of this story; he is merely its protagonist. After receiving criticism, he gave a sincere and tearful apology for wearing the shirt. Clearly, he understands that his mistake was serious, and he is willing to learn from it. It is one positive aspect of this embarrassing situation. But Taylor’s shirt isn’t the most offensive aspect of this story. The shirt may be oddly erotic, but he certainly was not wearing it as a direct affront to women. The important, yet forgotten, question is this: Why didn’t anyone stop him from wearing this shirt? Surely any of his colleagues could have taken him aside and recommended a change of clothes. It’s much more concerning that no one recognized that it was sexist, which reflects fundamental flaws in the entire team-based structure of scientific investigation. Unquestionably, sexism remains a real problem in science. Although about 50
percent of science and engineering doctorates are earned by women, only 21 percent of full science professors are women. To make things worse, a recent study showed that male professors were still less likely to train female students, even more so if those professors were Nobel laureates. But just as troubling are the small and omnipresent injustices that women in scientific fields must face every day. These challenges cannot be quantified by studies, but are constant reminders of a sexist system, from belittling comments from colleagues to harassing suggestions from advisers. Could more women in science fix this problem? It would certainly help, but it would also be naive to think that sexism in science would be eliminated if 50 percent of scientists were women. Ironically, it is also radically sexist to expect only women to police fairness and equality. To end the patriarchal dominance of science, we will also need the help of the patriarchs. We need to expect better from the men in science, as “feminist” is not a label exclusively given to women. When men see disparities based on gender with regard to research awards, salary or baseline human respect, they cannot simply wait for a woman to intervene. If men were the ones who corrupted the foundations of science
Profs should acknowledge role as teachers blair dunbar
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I was sitting outside of a mechanical engineering room in Technological Institute, when a girl, clearly frustrated, walked into the hallway, talking to someone on the phone. “He told me he doesn’t answer questions. I had my quiz, and I walked up to him, ready to ask him a question, and he said he doesn’t do questions.” Huh. A professor who doesn’t “do” questions. I wish I could say this was a strange occurrence for the faculty of Northwestern, but unfortunately it’s not. Particularly for students of the engineering or science departments, when classes are stacked with hundreds of students, and teacher’s assistants are meant to do the professor’s bidding, getting in touch with a professor can be about as difficult as meeting the main attraction after a concert ends. I love my Weinberg academic adviser. She is always sending friendly email reminders about upcoming deadlines. When I was contemplating protesting a grade, she came with me to meet with the undergraduate studies director of the department because she knew how nervous I
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was. I The research told this story to at NU is incredible, my friend, but sometimes I think a senior professors forget about engineer, who was the other part of their job: shocked. teaching. He said his adviser was just there to sign any necessary paperwork. It’s not only the engineering and science departments at NU who don’t always engage with their students. One of the few guidelines for professors at NU is to hold office hours on a weekly basis. Students don’t need to make an appointment; they can just stop by if they have time. However, I have met professors in very small departments who regularly don’t attend their office hours if no students have made an appointment. NU brags on college tours that even though this is a large research university, every professor — no matter how important his or her research is — is required to teach classes. What the tour guides don’t tell you is that if the class has more than 40 students, the professor has a teaching assistant and most of the grading and question-asking falls to the TA. And if the classroom has multiple TAs? Well, then let’s just hope
you picked the good one. The research at NU is incredible, but sometimes I think professors forget about the other part of their job: teaching. In 2012, Campus Technology recognized Purdue University for its invention Hotseat. Hotseat is an application available for SMS texting, iOS and Android phones that allows students to ask questions while in class. Professors see the questions as they’re texted. This also allows professors to conduct in-classroom polls and quizzes. The idea behind the application is to create lively in-classroom discussion. My opinion? It’s a great opportunity for students in large lecture classrooms to speak up and ask for clarification without having to wait 20 minutes in a line after class or be redirected to a TA. Professors are not just researchers; they are teachers. And learning fascinates a lot of us NU students, but at the same time we inevitably struggle. Rather than creating a “no question” policy, I think professors should encourage them. After all, if you are going to be forced to spend several hours of your day teaching a roomful of students, wouldn’t you rather know that someone is not only listening, but actually cares? 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.
with sexism, the least they could do is help clean it up. Decades ago, the male guard of science was still openly dismissive of up-and-coming female scientists, and thankfully current day scientist training programs are much more open. But sexism isn’t dead, it has merely transformed from hatred and oppression to ignorance and indifference. The sad truth is that Taylor’s shirt wasn’t even that sexist. It was more strange than damaging. But it represented the insidious bigotry that has not left scientific careers. What is far worse and far more sexist are the offenses that are not caught on camera and are not so easily fixed as a quick wardrobe visit. It’s the young woman who is told by her professor and scientific mentor that research does not fit motherhood. It’s the career female scientist still struggling for relevance in a field she helped establish. It’s the little girl who cannot imagine growing up to design satellites because she only sees men working at NASA. Yes, we can laugh at a silly shirt, but we must continue to fight against what it represents. Sai Folmsbee is a Feinberg graduate student. He can be reached at sai@fsm.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, email a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.
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National News Senate falls short on Keystone, battle looms with Obama next year WASHINGTON _ The Senate failed to vote for construction of the Keystone XL pipeline Tuesday, rebuffing a Democratic senator fighting for her political career and setting up a confrontation between President Barack Obama and a Republican-controlled Congress over the pipeline next year. Senators voted 59-41 for the pipeline, falling one vote short of the 60 needed to get past a threatened filibuster and pass the bill. Fourteen Democrats joined 45 Republicans in voting for the bill. The vote was steeped in election politics. After refusing to allow a vote for months, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., cleared the way to help a fellow Democratic senator, Mary Landrieu, facing a tough runoff election in Louisiana, where the pipeline is popular. Her opponent, Republican Rep. Bill Cassidy, sponsored similar pro-pipeline legislation, and it passed the House of Representatives last week. Reid and Senate Democratic leaders allowed the vote in hopes of boosting Landrieu’s prospects against Cassidy back home. They still opposed the bill themselves and did not use the party machinery to formally push for or against the bill, leaving her and other Keystone supporters scurrying for yes votes. “We usually know the outcome of the vote before we take it because the deals are all cut,” Landrieu said on the Senate floor. “I brought this bill to the floor knowing in my heart that we have 60 votes.” Democratic foes, who say the pipeline would harm the environment and contribute to global warming, were supportive of Landrieu’s political plight but staunch in their opposition against her bill. In one breath, Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., ensured that Landrieu got credit for the bill by reminding senators that they were voting on Landrieu’s, not Cassidy’s, measure. In the next, she blasted Landrieu’s bill, saying the “XL” in the pipeline’s name stands for “X-tra Lethal.” “I believe it’s one more capitulation to our fossil fuel habit, one more accelerant to global warming that threatens our children’s future,” added retiring Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa. “Every dollar we spend today on developing and using more fossil fuels is another dollar spent in digging the graves of our grandchildren.” Republicans, the oil industry and labor unions, have touted the pipeline as a job creator that would help the United States lower the amount of oil it uses from the Middle East.
“The Keystone XL pipeline really is, if there is such a thing, a win-win,” said Sen. John Thune, R-S.D. Tuesday’s vote doesn’t the end of the Keystone debate. Republicans vowed to approve the 1,700-mile pipeline that would bring crude oil from the Canadian oil sands in Alberta to American refineries on the Gulf Coast when they control both the House and Senate next year. “Once the 114th Congress convenes, the Senate will act again on this important legislation, and I look forward to the new Republican majority taking up and passing the Keystone jobs bill early in the new year,” said Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who will be the Senate majority leader next year. If Congress passes a Keystone bill, Obama would have to decide whether or not to veto it. His aides signaled they don’t think Congress has a say. White House press secretary Josh Earnest on Tuesday called the bill “a piece of legislation that the president doesn’t support because the president believes that this is something that should be determined through the State Department and the regular process that is in place to evaluate projects like this.” The State Department, which determined in its first review that the pipeline would not have a significant impact on climate change, is now assessing whether the project is in the U.S. national interest. In addition, the administration is also waiting for a ruling from a lawsuit in Nebraska that could change the route of the pipeline. The State Department in January said an average of 42,100 jobs a year would be created during construction of the pipeline, with wages totaling $2 billion. However, once the pipeline became operational, it would only require an estimated 50 employees _ 35 permanent workers and 15 temporary contractors, according to the State Department. (EDITORS: STORY CAN END HERE) If the Canadian crude, some 830,000 barrels per day, were processed in the United States and not exported in its raw form, it would add business across the energy chain, from U.S. refiners turning oil into products to those who distribute, wholesale and deliver gasoline to stations nationwide. That’s not how it’s being sold by politicians for and against, however. They mostly suggest the crude oil would transit U.S. territory for export out of the Gulf Coast seaports. “Understand what this project is: It is providing the ability of Canada to pump their oil, send it through our land, down to the Gulf, where it will be sold everywhere else,” Obama said Friday. “It doesn’t have an impact on U.S. gasoline prices.” The comments didn’t sit well with energy
experts. “That’s sort of a facile political phrase. It’s a route to supply crude oil that will enable refined products to be exported,” said Kevin Book, who heads research for ClearView Energy, a policy advisory group. There’s a good likelihood that the Canadian oil actually would go to U.S. refiners. Canadian crude oil is of a heavier grade, and it competes with imported oil from Mexico and Venezuela. The Keystone XL pipeline could force those two countries to discount their oil to compete with the Canadian product, and that’s likely to boost profit margins of U.S. refiners. That doesn’t necessarily mean fuel prices would be lower. That’s because gasoline prices take their cue from the price of Brent crude coming out of Europe, which more reflects the international price of oil. “It doesn’t necessarily lower gasoline prices, but it surely won’t raise them,” Book said, noting that it has the potential to “send a signal to producers in China that there is a market ... to be captured.” — William Douglas, Kevin G. Hall and Lesley Clark, McClatchy Washington Bureau
US reviewing how it deals with families of American hostages WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is reviewing its policies for helping the families of Americans held hostage overseas, following criticism from Congress and families of captives later executed by the Islamic State. Obama directed the review over the summer, given the “extraordinary nature of some of the hostage takings,” White House press secretary Josh Earnest said Tuesday. Obama “felt it was warranted to direct the relevant departments and agencies who have traditionally been involved in assisting families as they try to recover the safe return of their family members,” Earnest said. The Department of Defense, the State Department, the FBI and the intelligence community are involved in the review. The review, however, will not change the administration’s opposition to paying ransom to terrorist organizations to get detainees back, Earnest said. News that the review is ongoing comes days after the Islamic State said it had beheaded a third U.S. hostage, Peter Kassig, an American aid worker and former Army Ranger. The review was prompted by “the increased frequency of hostage-taking of Americans overseas and the recognition of the dynamic threat posed by specific terrorist groups,” Christine Wormuth, the undersecretary of defense for policy, wrote last week in a letter to Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., that was first
reported Monday by The Daily Beast. The “comprehensive review” will look at U.S. government policy on overseas terroristrelated hostage cases, with “specific emphasis on examining family engagement, intelligence collection, and diplomatic engagement policies,” Wormuth wrote. The Islamic State has executed three U.S. hostages, including two journalists, James Foley and Steven Sotloff. Families of some of the hostages have been critical of the administration for not doing enough to secure their release. Foley’s mother and brother complained after his death in August that Obama administration officials threatened that they would face prosecution if they raised money to pay Islamic State militants a ransom for Foley’s release. Earnest said the administration’s dealings with families would be part of the review, but the White House would not say if any families are participating in the review. Hunter, who sits on the House Armed Services Committee, had written to Obama in August after Foley’s execution, saying he was concerned the administration was not “exhausting opportunities” to potentially bring back hostages. He urged the administration to direct a Pentagon official to oversee release efforts. He repeated that call Tuesday, writing to Obama to ask for a point person at the Pentagon to lead recovery efforts. “While I commend the FBI and State Department for their efforts, it is my firm belief that we are not exhausting the full range of options,” he wrote. Earnest said “significant resources” have been spent to recover U.S. hostages, noting that Obama had ordered a team of several dozen U.S. special forces operators into Syria earlier this summer in an attempt to rescue several American captives, including Foley. Once on the ground, the operators found that the hostages had been moved. The administration will not reconsider its opposition to paying ransom because it believes that Americans would be at greater risk if terrorist organizations believed they could secure dollars by kidnapping Americans, Earnest said. He said ransom payments – including from some countries that pay for their citizens’ release – is believed to be a “very important source” of financing for the Islamic State. U.S. officials have estimated that the militants held a few Americans, but recent news reports have said one American hostage is left. State Department spokesman Jeff Rathke would not confirm how many hostages are still believed to be in captivity. — Lesley Clark (McClatchy Washington Bureau)
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which NU global health students will serve the communities’ health-related needs, McCormick senior Anna Rietti said. There is currently a disconnect between organizations that serve the community and community members who need those services, said Rietti, who is a member of Hircules. “I find value in getting to know people and their stories, and finding ways to solve large-scale problems on a smaller-scale basis, which is kind of what we’re trying to do with this desk,� said Weinberg senior Brittany Zelch, also a Hircules member. The event served as a platform to introduce to the community the idea of the incoming health resource desks, as well as to provide overviews of the information and services provided by Erie Family Health Center and the Skokie and Evanston health departments, Rietti said. The city’s health department determined through a survey of Evanston residents that the most important health issue to the community is access to care, Thomas-Smith said. Counard said that with its own process, the Skokie health department determined
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affairs at the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. When enough courses have been developed and a new dean has been hired, faculty will bring the proposal to the new dean for review, in the hopes of putting it through the faculty’s curricular approval process, she said. “What we’re doing in anticipation of the new dean coming is we’re working on the big challenge Weinberg has, which is scale,� she said. There are currently 12 courses in Weinberg being offered this academic year that would fit the requirement. Finn said Weinberg needs more courses from across many departments before “we could in good conscience require it.� Faculty can develop a new course with the learning outcomes outlined in the proposal or alter existing courses to include those outcomes. “You have to do the work of embedding the learning goals,� Finn said.
that residents had the same health priority, followed by obesity prevention, tobacco-use prevention and the health environment. The Erie Family Health Center, which opened near the border of Skokie and Evanston about a year ago, has the mission of providing affordable medical, dental and behavioral health services and health care to those in need, Hart said. In order to provide care for a region with a multi-ethnic community and a clinic clientele that is about 35 percent Latino, the center is staffed by a culturally diverse set of employees who all speak Spanish and has access to an interpretation service with over 200 available languages, Hart said. Diamond said it is important for everyone to spread the word about community health clinics, such as the Erie Family Health Center and the Asian Human Services Family Health Center, which recently opened in Skokie. “This collaboration is not accidental,â€? Diamond said. “It’s one of the things that really fundamentally is changing the health scene here in Evanston and Skokie ‌ We have to get people to go and think of the (Erie) center as a medical home.â€?
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acting under the University’s name, and they are representing themselves and the school. He called Ski Trip “a signature Northwestern event.� “Their actions on the trip represent both themselves and the Northwestern brand, and we just hope for responsibility and really make that push for responsible action on the trip,� Goodison said. “We have a sense of Northwestern community there, and we hope that Northwestern students know how to conduct themselves. And we hope that they conduct themselves the same way on campus and represent themselves under that Northwestern banner.� The Weinberg sophomore said she thinks people will still smoke marijuana on the trip because of the novelty of its legality. She said that if the opportunity to smoke comes up for her on the trip, she will do so, even though it’s still illegal for her because of her age.
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The requirement can be added in Weinberg no earlier than Fall 2016, Finn said, a year later than the original proposed time of implementation. “We’re going to develop curriculum this year, come up with a plan to show the new dean and hopefully put it through the curricular process next year,� she said. Faculty in the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science are also waiting on more courses before revisiting the idea of a requirement. “The (curriculum) committee took the position that when some courses became available that were more overtly along the lines that were suggested by the diversity council, then we could open up the discussion,� said Stephen Carr, associate dean of undergraduate engineering. “At some point we will bring it back on the table when there’s more to talk about.� Carr said he believes the required McCormick freshman course “Design Thinking and Communication,� in which students work in teams to design and present a solution to a
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problem, teaches students the learning goals of the proposed diversity requirement. “McCormick is only one-half majority students,â€? he said. “It’s a course that puts students out of their comfort zone immediately ‌ These teams are very heterogenous in terms of background. You right away are jarred by needing to accommodate the different approaches and different ways of communicating that people have.â€? Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music faculty have not yet discussed the proposed requirement, said Linda Garton, Bienen’s assistant dean for student affairs. Garton said the topic is “very likelyâ€? to come up at the school’s next curriculum committee meeting in December. The School of Communication has also not approved the requirement, said Communication Dean Barbara O’Keefe. O’Keefe said in an email on Monday that Communication faculty do not have plans at this time to discuss the requirement. jkuang@u.northwestern.edu
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The Daily’s Joseph Diebold and Bobby Pillote exchange emails about the Northwestern football team, coming off a shocking win at Notre Dame on Saturday. The Wildcats have two games remaining, this coming Saturday at Purdue and a week later against Illinois. DIEBOLD: Northwestern jumpstarted its season Saturday with a 43-40 upset win over Notre Dame. It was everything the Wildcats hadn’t been this season, particularly exciting and full of offense. I’m most curious about that last part. Bobby, you’ve written a lot about the struggles on offense this season. We now have five quarters, dating back to the last two drives against Michigan, of There were above-averplenty of signs age offensive play from that point to a team that sustained hadn’t scored success for the more than 30 points all remainder of year before the season. Saturday. Do you see that Bobby Pillote continuing in the last two games of the season? PILLOTE: It’s a shocking performance from the Cats, especially against what was probably their toughest opponent of the season, but there were plenty of signs that point toward sustained success for the remainder of the season. Senior quarterback Trevor Siemian looked sharper and more mobile than he has all season, and also had a greatly improved offensive line blocking in front of him. The offense looked simplified, with coordinator Mick McCall implementing some oldschool mesh route combinations — a hallmark of the spread offense — to get his receivers open. The fact that senior wideout Tony Jones dropped
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While some of the Big Ten losses are explainable, the program really needs to reevaluate the way it prepares for the season.
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two more Junior defensive end Deonte Gibson hits Notre Dame quarterback Everett Golson during Northwestern’s 43-40 victory over the Fighting Irish. The Wildcats need to win their final two games to qualify for a bowl. three probable touchdowns is a testaweaknesses in scheme and game manwasn’t playing up to its ability. Junior agement, the one thing I fully trust safety Traveon Henry in particument to that improved scheming. All the pieces are there, but I’m him to do is keep his team motivated lar struggled, repeatedly taking bad angles on tackles. He was injured late worried that one of these next two and playing hard. contests could turn into a so-called I think this team knows what it in the game and replaced by redshirt “trap game.” With a bowl game now freshman Godwin Igwebuike, who has still has to play for this season and clearly within reach, do you think the the effort will be there. The question, already proven his worth this season. team can stay focused on the next two I wouldn’t be surprised to see Godwin as it has been for most of the year, is games ahead? whether the execution will be there in more regularly for the rest of the to match. season. DIEBOLD: It’s always hard to preLet’s flip to the other side of the ball. Schematically, the defense also dict how college students’ mentalities will be week-to-week, but while this is The Cats weren’t awful defensively played a Cover 3 for most of the game the type of game that would be prime against Notre Dame, especially given instead of its usual Cover 4. I don’t for a letdown spot, I’m not sure it will the Fighting Irish’s explosiveness, but think that was the reason for their affect NU for a couple reasons. The struggles, but it certainly was an intergiving up 40 points in a game where Cats, at 4-6 on the year, aren’t the type esting wrinkle. they forced four turnovers, including of team that will necessarily be getting recovering two fumbles inside the fiveAssuming the Cats can win the next other teams’ absolute best efforts. I’m yard line, isn’t great. Where did you two games and make it to a bowl, do sure Purdue will come out and play see breakdowns from NU defensively? you think that redeems the season? hard, but the Boilermakers won’t be Or are Everett Golson, Will Fuller and The win over Notre Dame is obvigunning for NU in the way they would company just that good? ously huge for the program and a big against Ohio State or Michigan State. PILLOTE: Golson and Fuller are relief for fans, but those two bad earAnd for all of coach Pat Fitzgerald’s very good, but the defense definitely ly-season losses to Cal and Northern
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Illinois still have me questioning the overall consistency of Fitzgerald and his staff. DIEBOLD: Yeah, it was interesting to see Igwebuike come in instead of Kyle Queiro, who is listed as Henry’s backup. I’m sure his experience replacing Campbell earlier in the season helped in terms of developing trust, and he certainly acquitted himself nicely. The Cats lose Ibraheim Campbell after the season, but the experience some of the younger guys have gotten this year means the future is bright in the secondary, even if Henry moves to linebacker, as some have speculated. The season as a whole I think will be defined by these next two or three games, but while some of the Big Ten losses are explainable, the program really needs to reevaluate the way it prepares for the season. NU looked so flat in those season-opening losses, especially getting shut out in the first half against Northern Illinois, and while nonconference performance doesn’t impact the team’s ability to compete for conference titles, it’s a huge part of the state of the program as a whole. The Cats are on track to finish 4-4 in the Big Ten, a respectable record, but that would look a lot different at 8-4 overall instead of 6-6. If NU is going to continue to schedule competitive peer schools instead of lower-division patsies, it needs to come out of the gate faster. Stanford comes to Ryan Field to start next season. If whoever takes over for Siemian isn’t ready right away, that could get ugly. josephdiebold2015@u.northwestern.edu, robertpillote2017@u.northwestern.edu
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After falling in straight sets to Purdue last Saturday, Northwestern looks to snap a three-game losing streak Wednesday against Michigan State (14-13, 7-8). The WildMichigan State cats struggled is similar to mightily on Purdue in that offense over weekend, they have a lot the hitting to a of really good lowly .135 percentage blockers. against the Kayla Morin, Boilermaksophomore outside ers. Coach hitter Keylor Chan spoke about how NU must improve in order to be successful against the Spartans. “It’s kind of the story of our lives right now,” Chan said of the Cats’ pedestrian offense. “We have to really control that first ball, that serve-reception pass. When we do, we’re (competitive) in matches and winning sets and matches. When you can control that first contact … that’s really
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been the difference. That’s why we were successful against Illinois.” “Michigan State is similar to Purdue in that they have a lot of really good blockers,” said sophomore hitter Kayla Morin, who led NU in kills against the Boilermakers last Saturday with 10. “So I think if we kind of focus on scoring in different ways, not just trying to hit it straight to the ground but maybe offhands, things like that, that will help us be more successful.” “I know personally that I have the ability to put a ball down in any situation that can come to me,” a confident Symone Abbott said when asked how she can help the team as a hitter. “It doesn’t matter if there’s a bad pass or a bad set. I should be able to put the ball down no matter what. As long as I consistently do that the whole game, then we’ll be fine.” Morin and freshman Abbott are two of the Cats’ best hitters, and both have been largely successful on the court this season. However, with a NCAA tournament berth looking bleak, the two offensive studs know they can both improve their skills for next season. “Personally for me, for next season, I think I could get better at a lot of technique things,” Morin said. “We do a lot of personal training in the winter, so I think blocking I can really focus on … and then in the weight room too trying to improve my vertical. A lot of us made a lot of gains in the offseason last year, and I think if we can do that again, that will just help us get more success in-season.” While Morin wanted to improve more
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BIG HITTER Sophomore outside hitter Kayla Morin goes for a kill in the Sept. 18 game against Ohio. Morin is second on the Wildcats this season with 282 kills.
on her technique, Abbott is focusing more on her consistency. “Next season I want to just make sure I have a consistent hitting percentage,” Abbott said. “Right now it’s fluctuating, and I want to hit a consistent .300 for a whole season, which is going to be pretty hard. But I want to be able to do that and
just lower my errors, just make sure there’s no game where I’m nonexistent or not playing well.” Meanwhile, an optimistic Chan hasn’t given up on the season just yet and remains focused on the final four games in 2014. He hesitated when asked about what the team needs to improve for next
season. “Let’s get there when the season ends,” Chan said. “Right now though, what we need to improve upon is handling the first contact against Michigan State in serving and passing.” maxgelman2018@u.northwestern.edu