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Over 100 apply for student leader stipends By Shane Mckeon
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Associated Student Government received 110 applications for its new Student Engagement stipend, a fund that gives money to students with financial need so they can commit more time to pursuing leadership positions on campus. Erik Zorn, who chairs the committee overseeing the application process, said the committee expected only 50 students to apply for one of 20 available $500 stipends. ASG allocated $10,000 last spring for the stipend fund. Zorn, a Weinberg senior, said at least three committee members will read each application. The committee will then rank the 110 applicants based on merit and submit that list to the Center for Student Involvement. The office will review the list based on information about the students’ financial needs from the Office of Undergraduate Financial Aid. The 20 students selected will hear from CSI near the end of the quarter, Zorn said. Applicants responded to three essay questions: how their involvement shapes campus culture, what their involvement means to them
and how a stipend will make their involvement more manageable. Zorn said the committee’s main focus is to “stretch the $10,000 to be the most impactful on campus,” and that it may select a student who is less involved in campus activities over a more-involved student if the stipend can help the former participate more. “If the stipend isn’t necessarily going to change your involvement that much,” Zorn said, “then the stipend might be better used for someone who may be working less hours, but the stipend will be able to achieve greater things within their work.” He also said ASG will look to expand the program in the future, including soliciting funding from alumni. “It certainly shows that there was a lot of demand for this program and that it’s necessary,” Zorn said. “We’re certainly going to be looking into how to expand the program and increase the number of stipends we give out.” Weinberg sophomore Jourdan Dorrell, who is a member of the committee and has held a work-study job, said she hopes the program will aid both low-income students and help wealthier students understand the
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MARCHING IN MEMORY A group of Evanston and Chicago community members march along The Lakefill on Saturday afternoon. The crowd gathered for a commemoration of the Sand Creek Massacre held by the Native American and Indigenous Students Alliance.
NAISA hosts remembrance of Sand Creek Massacre Cheyenne and Arapaho encampment. Hosted by the Native American and Indigenous Student Alliance, the commemoration also prompted the community to acknowledge NU co-founder John Evans’ role in the massacre. It was part of NAISA’s programming to observe Native American Heritage Month. Lorenzo Gudino, a Medill sophomore who helped plan the event, said he wanted its impact to reach the NU administration, which received recommendations
from the Native American Outreach and Inclusion Task Force this month on how to better integrate Native American culture and history into the University. “I hope President Schapiro gets to see how this plays out,” Gudino told The Daily. “Hopefully the provost takes those recommendations that were provided by the task force and tries to implement them appropriately.”
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EPA lauds city for sustainability efforts
About 30 Northwestern students from the DivestNU movement demonstrated Friday morning before a Board of Trustees meeting, asking the University to divest its endowment money from the coal industry. “We want solutions, not coal pollution,” they chanted outside the Allen Center, where the meeting was scheduled to take place. Members of DivestNU, a movement calling for the University to re-invest endowment money in more environmentally sustainable ventures, met with part of the Board of Trustees’ Investment Subcommittee on Thursday. According to DivestNU, chief investment officer Will McLean has calculated that $17 million of NU’s $8 billion endowment goes toward the coal industry. Organizer Scott Brown, a Medill sophomore, said the meeting allowed DivestNU to show the subcommittee that students support the issue. “They haven’t made any commitments yet,” said Brown, a former Daily staffer. “We talked about a lot of important points and a lot of their concerns in terms of the economics of divestment. … They’re going to bring some of the points we made back to the next meeting.” On Friday, students marched from
Evanston has been named one of more than 60 communities nationwide that have met a series of sustainability standards set by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The city announced Thursday it has been designated a Green Power Community for its extensive use of green energy. “Evanston has always been a leader in protecting the environment and supporting sustainable living,” Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl said in a news release. “Earning the EPA’s Green Power Community designation is truly a testament to the collective efforts of our residents, businesses and staff, and is another step forward in achieving the City’s emissions-reduction goals.” Of the total electricity used annually by the city’s government, businesses and residents collectively, more than 30 percent comes from green electricity, which comes from renewable sources such as wind water and solar power. The city uses 228 million kilowatt-hours of green electricity each year. Although this is a significant percentage, this is just a first step in getting an increasing number of people in the community to use renewable energy, said John Nieuwsma, the vice president of Citizens’ Greener Evanston. The organization’s goal is to have 100 percent of the city’s energy come from
renewable sources, he said. “We, moving forward, want to get more and more residents into that program, which will most save them money and also the environment,” Nieuwsma told The Daily on Friday. The city purchases much of its green electricity through the Community Choice Electricity Aggregation program, a partnership among local governments to provide its communities with less expensive energy. At a meeting in April, City Council approved a three-year contract with Homefield Energy to provide 100 percent renewable energy to residents and small businesses through the program. Nieuwsma said the city still has a way to go in reaching its sustainability goals, which include reducing the city’s carbon emissions by 20 percent in 2016. Aldermen approved the plan in May, after the city had reduced emissions in 2012 by 13 percent from 2005 levels. Working with the city, the aggregation program will continue to find other ways to provide the community with renewable sources of energy, including working with transportation, Nieuwsma said. “We cannot backslide on any of the gains we’ve already achieved,” he said. “Climate change, it’s real, it’s happening now. It’s probably the biggest threat that faces civilization.” In March, Evanston was the second city nationwide to be awarded a 4-STAR Community Rating for its sustainable initiatives, such as recycling and energy efficiency.
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By ALICE YIN
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Members and friends of the Native American community held a remembrance of the Sand Creek Massacre at Northwestern on Saturday. The event was organized a week before the 150th anniversary of the tragedy, in which U.S. soldiers brutally attacked a
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COAL CASH OUT Students march from Norris University Center to the Allen Center, where a Board of Trustees meeting took place Friday. The demonstration was organized by DivestNU to ask Northwestern to divest its endowment funds from the coal industry.
Norris University Center to the Allen Center, waving signs and a banner listing student groups that support the movement. Groups that signed in support include Associated Student Government, EcoReps, Green House, the Taiwanese American Students Club, Real Food at NU, In Our Nature, Wild Roots and the NU Summit on Sustainability. “This is one of the biggest issues of
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Around Town State Sen. Daniel Biss honored for retirement savings solution State Sen. Daniel Biss (D-Evanston) was selected last week as a finalist in an innovative policy contest for his plan to provide more Illinois workers with retirement savings. Developing Exceptional American Leaders, known as NewDEAL, named Biss as one of the finalists Wednesday in the New Ideas Challenge. “Daniel Biss has impressed us with his innovative solution to grow the economy and expand opportunity for all,� Delaware Gov. Jack Markell, honorary co-chair of the New Ideas Challenge, said in a news release. “I congratulate him and the other resultsoriented state and local leaders, not only for the ideas they’re working on locally but also for the ripple effect they’ll create in communities across the country.� Biss, a member of NewDEAL, a national network of progressive politicians, was chosen for his policy solution called the Secure Choice Savings Program. The solution is a response to Illinois employers who scale back on retirement benefits and Illinois employees who struggle to save money, Biss’ spokeswoman Katharine Eastvold said. “Particularly low-wage workers, they’re living paycheck to paycheck,� Eastvold said. “They’re spending
Police Blotter NU student’s apartment burglarized An apartment in Evanston where a Northwestern student resides was burglarized Thursday night, police said. A 21-year-old student living in the 800 block of Hamlin Street reported that the burglary occurred sometime between 8:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. when no one was home, Evanston police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said. The exterior door to the apartment building as well as the interior door to the unit were both unlocked, Parrott said.
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program recognition State Sen. Daniel Biss (D-Evanston) speaks at a Northwestern event in February. The senator was honored for his policy program that aims to provide more workers in Illinois with retirement savings plans.
everything they make, they don’t know about various savings instruments, they are not financially literate ‌ We’re going to have a crisis where people are
A 13-inch MacBook laptop, a PlayStation 4 gaming system and a silver backpack with an NU logo were all reported stolen, police said. The laptop reportedly had several stickers on it, including one with the words “Big Mak� and one with the word “Threads� on them, Parrott said. No arrests have been made in connection with the incident, Parrott said.
Chicago man arrested in connection with retail theft A 37-year-old man was arrested Thursday in connection with the retail theft of a Jewel-
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Osco in Evanston, police said. Police responded to an incident at JewelOsco, 2485 Howard St., located in the strip mall, at about 9:42 p.m. after a man was stopped by security, Parrott said. The Chicago resident was observed placing multiple bottles of liquor in his jacket pockets and then passed the last point of purchase without making an attempt to pay, police said. The total value of the liquor was about $135, Parrott said. The 37-year-old man was charged with misdemeanor retail theft, Parrott said. — Marissa Mizroch
plan and learn about various financial services, such as Individual Retirement Arrangements and 401(k) accounts, Biss’ plan automatically creates a retirement account for each worker. Three percent of an employee’s income would be deducted and put into the account for retirement savings, unless employees decide to change it themselves. The program puts no burden on the employee or employer, making it a win-win policy, Eastvold said. The program is designed to increase the number of workers that are saving for retirement, thus allowing older people to be able to leave the workforce and make room for younger employees that are entering it, she said. The Senate approved Biss’ program in April. Although there is a possibility the bill will be passed during the state House of Representatives’ executive session before the governor’s inauguration in January, the program will likely be introduced as a new bill in the next session, Eastvold said. The award does not come with a monetary prize, but with recognition and publicity that could help Biss to push his bill through the General Assembly, Eastvold said. “(He’ll) be able to go to his colleagues and say, ‘Hey, this isn’t just something I came up with on the back of a napkin, this is something that’s a nationally recognized policy idea, something that could really be important for the future of Illinois,’� Eastvold said. — Paige Leskin
Setting the record straight In “ASG disputes drug policy on Ski Trip� from the Nov. 20 print issue, the article misstated Senate’s action on legislation regarding ground fliering. The legislation was introduced. The Daily regrets the error.
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On Campus Group plans new Spring Break tradition By Michelle kim
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Registration for Northwestern Ski Trip may have just ended, but plans for a Spring Break trip exclusive to Northwestern students are already underway. A group called NU Spring Escape has begun advertising a Spring Break trip to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. A group of NU students started NU Spring Escape with the hopes of beginning the next big campus tradition. The students started developing the idea under Northwestern Student Holdings, a student business group, but have since spun away from NSH and are running NU Spring Escape as an external company, independent from the University. Planning began in the spring, when the group gauged interest through focus groups. The trip has largely been advertised through Facebook and through its website. NU Spring Escape CEO Oskar
Across Campuses University of Virginia suspends fraternities after rape allegations The University of Virginia suspended all fraternity activities and asked police to investigate a 2012 sexual assault in the wake of a damning Rolling Stone article that suggested the Charlottesville campus failed to protect students from potential sexual predators lurking among the school’s Greek organizations. In a statement issued Saturday, University President Teresa Sullivan said all fraternity activities would be suspended through Jan. 9, 2015, as campus officials discuss steps to prevent assaults on campus. “The wrongs described in Rolling Stone are appalling and have caused all of us to reexamine our responsibility to this community. Rape
Melking, a Communication senior, said about 400 people have already shown interest. He said there will be 170 spots available for the trip. Students have expressed interest in the trip, but some are discouraged by the high costs, which range from $1,399 to $1,599. “I like that it’s an all-inclusive resort, and being with all Northwestern students and being somewhere nice and tropical sounds really fun. But, it’s a pretty expensive trip so I might go only if I save up the money,” McCormick junior Samuel Higbee said. The concept of the Spring Break trip was inspired by NU Ski Trip, a yearly Winter Break student trip. NU Spring Escape executive members thought that a spring trip could be just as successful as a winter trip, especially with the change in weather. “We were hoping to plan something as cool as Ski Trip,” said Madeleine Shannon, a Weinberg senior and the group’s chief marketing officer. “We met with the people that run Ski Trip, and they helped us understand how to do what they do. ... We wanted to get their advice so that we could understand how to
run the Spring Break trip just as smoothly.” Students have the option to stay for either five or seven nights for reduced prices, according to the trip’s website. A condominium section located on the beach side of the Vamar Vallarta resort will be designated the NU Village, made up entirely of NU students. The rest of the resort will host students from other American colleges, Melking said. NU Spring Escape is working to create an allinclusive and safe experience, Melking said. The group has partnered with a travel provider, called Xtreme Trips, that will offer a service and medical staff at all hours, and will rent out entire clubs exclusively for American college students. “Spring Break trips in the past have been much smaller and haven’t been able to reach more broadly around campus,” Melking said. “With the NU specific events we’re planning and the section that all the students are staying in, I think it’ll really create the NU experience that will become an annual event.”
is an abhorrent crime that has no place in the world, let alone on the campuses and grounds of our nation’s colleges and universities,” Sullivan said. “We know, and have felt very powerfully this week, that we are better than we have been described, and that we have a responsibility to live our tradition of honor every day, and as importantly every night.” Sullivan has also asked Charlottesville police to open an investigation of the brutal gang rape described at the beginning of the Rolling Stone piece. According to the report, a girl identified only as Jackie was attacked by several members of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity in 2012, sexually assaulted for hours and sodomized with a beer bottle at the fraternity house. The victim had repeated meetings with campus officials and told them that two other women also had accused Phi Kappa Psi members of assaulting them, but the campus did not take any measures to warn students of the potential danger,
according to the report. Response to the article has sparked anger and protests on campus, and four people were arrested Saturday during a rally outside the Phi Kappa Psi house, according to Lt. Stephen Upman, a spokesman for the Charlottesville Police Department. Though he described the demonstration as largely peaceful, Upman said two men and two women advanced onto the fraternity’s property and refused to leave. They were arrested and charged with trespassing, Upman said. Sullivan called on students who had knowledge of the 2012 assault to contact Charlottesville police immediately. “We are united in our compassion, resolve, and determination: Compassion for survivors of assault; resolve to make our community better; determination to begin to solve this problem here and now,” she said.
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Stop comparing movie adaptations to their books Madeline Burg
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I had so been hoping that “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1” would actually open on Thanksgiving weekend in a burst of delicious food-based irony. But I think the holiday atmosphere extends backward to at least a week before the festivities, so the release of “Mockingjay – Part 1” on Friday still makes me cackle. The third installment of the smash hit young adult novel series raked in $55 million its first day, which is less than its two predecessors but by no means a paltry sum. The hype has reached critical mass in an age where adaptations of young adult fiction are the gold standard for moneymakers in the film industry. “Mockingjay” is just the latest in an already long line of movies you’ll either see ironically or completely unironically, throwing up a Panem salute as the credits roll (please don’t actually do this). Everything’s an adaptation these days and personally I don’t mind it. “The Theory of Everything” is based on Jane Hawking’s memoir “Traveling to
Infinity: My Life With Stephen;” Cheryl Strayed’s “Wild” and Thomas Pynchon’s “Inherent Vice” are both getting released as movies in the coming weeks, and “The Hobbit” movies just keep coming. It’s not just teen fiction getting this treatment either: This summer saw Jeff Bridges as “The Giver” and Tom Cruise in “Edge of Tomorrow,” an adaptation of a Japanese manga novel. Look up any movie and there’s a good chance it’s based on some other work in another medium. But it has only been in the last decade and a half, since the rise of the young adult adaptation, that the super fun practice of whining about book to movie adaptation become a true American pastime. Enjoyable for young and old alike, the griping brings friends and families together in a mutual hatred of the film executives who dare sully the name of Harry Potter by screwing with plot, depiction of characters and everything else fangirls and boys hold dear. If it’s not your “Hunger Games,” it’s nobody’s “Hunger Games.” And god help director Francis Lawrence and the entire cast if they fail to live up to every individual viewer’s expectations, which are shaped by personal interactions with the source material. This makes no sense, and it also cracks me up, inducing uncontrollable full-body laughter convulsions
that mask a bone-deep despair of society and the universe. How would it ever be possible to create a movie version of a beloved book that A, incorporates every detail and minuscule plot turn on each of the three hundred or more pages of said beloved book, and B, jives with every single person’s own nuanced perceptions developed over the course of reading the book? The experience of reading — or consuming most other forms of art and culture — is half what the author brings to the work and half what you personally bring to the work through reading it with your very own brain and self. My experience of Harry Potter is different from yours, even though we both like it, because of the fact that I am me and you are you. Thus when a person who also happens to be a film director and whose name is David Fincher reads “Gone Girl”, he will have a different experience doing so than I had; when he decides to make a movie of it he will bring that personal experience to the screen, and what I paid $8.75 to see will be “Gone Girl” through David Fincher’s eyes, not through mine. Amidst publicity for the movie, rumors that Fincher had entirely changed the ending of the book for his adaptation enraged dedicated readers. While this turned out to be untrue, the fervor that it had engendered shocked and amused me. Go make your own movie if it bothers
you so much. Indulge the insufferable English major a momentary literary digression: I’ve seen more than one screen adaptation of “Pride and Prejudice” and I maintain the unpopular opinion that Joe Wright’s 2005 version starring Keira Knightley is the best one. It excises several minor characters and plot threads in favor of sweeping panoramas with disgustingly gorgeous English country houses — I’m all about glossy cinematography — but I honestly think that the actors’ characterizations and the flow of the slightly truncated storylines amount to a stellar film. Self-proclaimed die-hard fans of Jane Austen’s book would see me clapped in irons but they’re nothing compared to John Green fangirls. So this splendid Thanksgiving holiday, go see “Mockingjay Part 1” with an open mind. If you want to complain that Sam Claflin isn’t your Finnick Odair, please do it out of my earshot. Adaptations aren’t going away, and I for one am stoked to see how other individuals interpret books that I love. Madeline Burg is a Weinberg senior. She can be reached at madelineburg2015@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.
Hackathons help foster programmer communications Yoni Pinto
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This weekend, I attended a hackathon for the first time. Usually 24 hours long, a hackathon is a hacking marathon during which experts and novices, designers and coders, great logical thinkers and incredibly creative minds come together to build simple, usable, interesting products. This weekend, Northwestern hosted its largest intercollegiate hackathon to date: WildHacks. From noon Saturday to noon Sunday, students from schools around the Midwest came up with new ideas and built them. Throughout the hackathon, students worked tirelessly, many not even taking the time to sleep overnight, to create something new that would achieve a goal.
After 24 hours of struggling with code and sleep deprivation, almost 400 students submitted hundreds of projects that aimed to complete various actions, ranging from simple operations such as picking random entries from a list to complex ones such as using a motion sensor to create an invisible “air-drum.” From what you’ve read about a hackathon until now, you may think that it is something that is only about the software. It may seem as if a hackathon is all about creating the next new startup, the next new app that everyone is going to use. I can assure you that it is so much more than that. Today, if you go out on the streets of Chicago and ask someone to draw you a picture of a computer programmer, there is a solid possibility that the picture drawn will be of a young man with a hunched back, most likely wearing glasses. The image they might give you will probably be one of a quiet guy who does nothing much besides spending time on his computer. In the public’s perception, computer programmers
and coders are often men who spend their lives behind a screen, doing not much else. Maybe that stigma has lessened in the past few years with the rise of startup culture, but it still persists among the greater sphere of society. A hackathon may seem like a gathering of nerdy computer programmers to build the next great app. It’s not that simple. Yes, the crowds that attend hackathons are much more concentrated toward programming-related majors. Computer science, computer engineering and software engineering majors do tend to make up a majority of the participants. But the way hackathons work makes sure that a hackathon does more than simply give participants an environment to code something. It’s not about where you’re coding, or what you are capable of making on your own. It’s about communication. The single key aspect to a hackathon is fostering great communication between all participants. All participants are individually equipped to handle
some problems. Each person has a different way of approaching solutions. A hackathon is all about the people you get to meet. It’s all about the new perspectives that every different person can offer to you. It’s about looking in awe as someone does something you’ve always known totally differently. It’s about the new ideas and possibilities that getting to know a new mind can reveal. Yes, the nerdy computer programmer image may be accurate for some programmers. But what hackathons really do is get these people to communicate. It makes them talk to the people around them, makes them learn new things and teaches them how to communicate. Hackathons open up the closed minds behind the computer screens. They bring people together. 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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Andy Carvin (Communication ’93, ’94), a former NPR digital media strategist, relentlessly tweeted on the Arab Spring, starting in February 2011. He once sent out 1,400 tweets for 20 hours straight on his Twitter account, @acarvin. Carvin’s sources were Twitter accounts of people supposedly witnessing everything on the ground in the Middle East as he sat back in his chair in a cafe or took the Metro back home. He used YouTube, Facebook and the Internet to complement his sources — posting links to videos from Libyan rebels and photos of protests in Bahrain. “I see it as another flavor of journalism,” Carvin said to The Washington Post about his incessant tweets. “So I guess I’m another flavor of journalist.” Carvin’s eagerness to call himself a journalist manifests a desire within him to win his work some validity, as though journalists hold some form of superiority over him. His work supplements journalism but cannot be called journalism itself, and I don’t say that as an arrogant budding journalist. Blogging is called blogging for a reason, because it’s different from journalism. Likewise, Carvin could be called a news gatherer or a news tweeter, but not a professional journalist. That is not to dismiss the work he has done, but only to distinguish the two practices. Building an archive of events in Libya, for instance, by tweeting and retweeting material from one’s followers does not qualify as witnessing the way a reporter on the ground would witness, which is what Carvin claimed he did for two years and his book’s title, “Distant Witness,” implied. “It’s not positioned as the definitive sort of piece that you might hear on NPR. It’s a different form,” Kinsey Wilson, the head of NPR’s Digital Media division, said to The Washington Post. Although the kind of work produced when a reporter actually resides in a certain place is much
more insightful and comprehensive, Carvin’s crowdsourcing can allow a journalist to step back from a conflict and look at the bigger picture. Sometimes when reporters are on the ground, they cannot fully comprehend what is going on, because they can only see what is right in front of them. “It’s a form of situational awareness, something I noticed in late June when I was in Tahrir Square in Cairo and hundreds of people were injured when the police attacked,” Carvin said to The Guardian. “I could only tell what was going on immediately in front of me. I could smell it, see it, feel it, hear it, but I didn’t know what was truly going on, whereas when I was using social media I felt I had a better sense of what was happening on the ground.” A lot of Carvin’s sources, however, used pseudonyms. “The reality is that many of my sources would not be alive today if they weren’t working under pseudonyms. They are working under difficult circumstances to get information out,” Carvin said to The Guardian. Though the use of pseudonyms is understandable, it raises the question of the reliability of these sources. These sources could very well have agendas and might be fabricating information to misinform the public. Journalism is the “first rough draft of history,” as Alan Barth said in the 1940s. It’s an art of verification and a journalist cannot rely on a hunch. Carvin, however, assumed the Twitter accounts @ alitweel, @abukhit and @flyingbirdies were authentic because “Even with this limited information, there was something about the tone of their tweets… that rang authentic.” Tone of their tweets? That’s insightful. Just because something sounds right, doesn’t make it right. At times, Carvin seemed ill-equipped with the Muslim culture. When a toddler was brought to the hospital, Carvin thought he was being readied for surgery when in reality, he was being washed for burial. Carvin, being Carvin, tweeted the video saying “Video of a wounded child being treated…” Carvin’s readiness to believe whatever he saw online was a problem. Mohammed Nabbous, or Mo, a Libyan citizen
journalist, was one of Carvin’s sources. When he died, Carvin assumed Mo’s death was the reason behind NATO’s intervention. “He (Mo) didn’t live long enough to find out that he succeeded in helping save Benghazi,” Carvin wrote in his book, “Distant Witness.” We don’t know how influential Mo was and whether his death really was the cause of NATO’s intervention, but Carvin, being a wide-eyed “journalist,” closed the case by tweeting, “The saddest part is that French planes are over Benghazi now. Mo didn’t live long enough to see his cries of help being answered.” If Carvin had taken my “Introduction to Statistics for Journalism Students” course with Prof. Justin Martin, he would’ve known the difference between correlation and causation. Journalist Jeff Jarvis asserted that, like bloggers, journalists make mistakes all the time but are reluctant to admit this because they are taught to be “perfect.” Although I agree that news organizations and journalists err, journalists have editors working by their sides that check and double-check news pieces before publishing them. The checking and the double-
checking reduce chances of error significantly. Carvin did not sit down at his desk and churn out news pieces that were edited by three editors or more at a time, as a news piece by The New York Times would be. He simply gave out information to his audience just as he received it in its crudest form. He even tweeted information whose sources weren’t verified — asking skeptical questions in his tweets like “Source?” or “Evidence?” He told people what he did not know and asked his followers to help him out — not churning out a final news piece but sharing with his followers the process of collecting new information. “I receive information from all sorts of people, try to keep up with it and mix those beats in a way that’s useful to people,” Carvin said to The Guardian. “You can’t necessarily dance to it, but hopefully you can learn from it.” Rhytha Zahid Hejaze is a sophomore studying journalism at Northwestern University in Qatar. She can be reached at ridahejaze2017@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.
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This weekend in sports Saturday was a big day for Northwestern sports, with a double-header of marquee events. The football team had little trouble dispatching Purdue in West Lafayette, Indiana, taking a 24-0 lead and winning 38-14. Just minutes after the football game ended, the basketball squad took the court at Welsh-Ryan Arena for a game against Elon. Though that victory didn’t come as easily, the Wildcats pulled it out, 68-67 in overtime.
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The program Saturday began at The Arch with a prayer and song. Attendees then went into Harris Hall to hear a series of speakers from the Chicago area Native American community. About 80 people attended, including NU students, alumni and faculty. Associates of local Native American centers, University of Illinois at Chicago faculty members and Native American musicians and military veterans participated. Prof. Amy West, a UIC faculty member of Southern Cheyenne descent, spoke about the need for herself and the community to remember the massacre. “It was emotional,” West told The Daily. “I actually drew from Cheyenne spiritual tradition to talk
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From page 1 she said. During the demonstration, art history Prof. Stephen Eisenman stopped on his way into the Allen Center to express his support for the students. “The fact that you’re standing here indicates you understand it’s a political issue,” he said. “I’ll convey this to the people inside.” Eisenman, chair of the Faculty Senate, told The Daily he is glad to see students organizing around climate change. Brown said NU is committed to climate change in many ways, including in its strategic plan and in research on campus. “Yet the endowment is still investing in coal companies,” he said. “It’s really important for the University to be consistent and stick to its values.” jkuang@u.northwestern.edu
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about the lessons we might learn that might help guide us as we move forward.” The group then marched to The Lakefill along a path of paper moccasins. After circling around the bonfire pit, Gudino’s father ignited the flames. Father Peter Powell, the spiritual director of St. Augustine’s Center for American Indians and an honorary Cheyenne chief, spoke again at the bonfire, incorporating first-hand accounts of the genocide. During the massacre on Nov. 29, 1864, about 150 people were killed. “These are the sacrifices they made,” Powell said. “These are the accounts from those that survived.” Bethany Hughes, a student at The Graduate School, noted that the event’s turnout showed the NU and Chicago communities’ desire to recognize
the tragedy. “I was thinking through it, imagining what it would have been like,” Hughes said. “In American history, we tend to not want to go into detail because it’s gruesome and painful. But I was really sort of honored by the opportunity to, as a group, bear witness.” Powell concluded his reading with a prayer. West then led a tradition of throwing tobacco into the bonfire, with members of the audience joining in. “I was appreciative given the responsibility of knowing this and being able to have that as part of my own life and understanding of what it means to be a person now, a native student at Northwestern,” Hughes said.
“Barry’s personal demons could not obscure his deep and abiding love for the city and its people,” said Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., chair of the Democratic National Committee, in a statement. Barry’s legacy is complicated. Many credit him with helping to grow African-American affluence and influence in Washington and the surrounding area by making sure that they got their share of government jobs and contracts. Early in his mayoralty, Washington became affectionately known to many African-Americans as “Chocolate City.” “He transformed D.C. from a jurisdiction run by the federal government into a self-governing city and a mecca for black politicians, government administrators, businessmen and intellectuals,” Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., said in a statement Sunday. “He used his influence and power to lay a foundation for the thriving, metropolitan community people flock to today.” Detractors countered that he loaded the district government with hacks and cronies. District residents often complained of poor services like spotty trash pickup, iffy snow removal and long lines at the Department of Motor Vehicles. Several Barry opponents grumbled that he too often dabbled in the politics of race, pitting the district’s largely African-American population against its mostly white, often southern, congressional overseers who controlled the district’s purse strings.
announced the suit, filed in the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia. It appeared to be choreographed to burnish the GOP’s narrative of President Barack Obama as a ruler who thinks he’s above the law. The announcement came a day after the president, despite strong objections from Republicans, said he’d issue an executive order to stop deportations for 5 million immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally, and moments after the speaker vowed that congressional Republicans would respond to Obama’s action “If this president can get away with making his own laws, future presidents will have the ability to as well,” Boehner said in announcing the lawsuit. “The House has an obligation to stand up for the Constitution, and that is exactly why we are pursuing this course of action.” White House officials expressed disappointment about Boehner’s move. “I think the American people want Washington focused on jobs and the economy,” said White House deputy press secretary Eric Schultz. “The House Republicans choose to sue us, sue the president for doing his job, using taxpayer resources at the same time.” The 28-page lawsuit starts off with grand sweep, declaring that it raises questions of “exceptional importance.” “This case address fundamental issues regarding the limits of executive power under our constitutional form of government, and the continued viability of the separation of powers doctrine upon which the whole American fabric has been erected,” the lawsuit says. Rhetoric aside, the suit raises several substantive points. It argues that the Obama administration is spending money that Congress hasn’t appropriated, and that the administration has “unilaterally” amended the employer mandate provisions written by Congress.
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Northwestern (3-0) used a balanced scoring attack and another strong defensive effort
to knock off Kent State (0-3), 72-54, and give coach Joe McKeown the 600th win of his career on Friday night. Five players scored in double figures for the Cats, led by 16 from junior guard Maggie Lyon and 15 by sophomore guard Christen Inman. Sophomore and preseason first-team All-Big Ten forward Nia Coffey notched a second straight double-double with 11 points and 11 rebounds. NU’s defense was stifling again, allowing the Golden Flashes to shoot just 35.7 percent from the field and 2 of 11 from three. The Cats forced Kent State into 21 turnovers and did so without fouling often, allowing only seven free throws to their opponents on the night. The Cats paired that defensive efficiency with a hot shooting start to get to the half ahead 38-25. NU connected on six of 10 three-point field goals in the half, including a pair each from
Lyon and sophomore guard Ashley Deary, and Inman scored 9 points in the first half on her way to her highest scoring output of the young season. NU’s lead grew to 25 points late in the second half as the Cats’ seven-deep rotation wore down the Golden Flashes. Kent State made just one three-pointer on seven attempts in the second half and ultimately couldn’t keep up with NU’s tempo. The Cats struggled again with turnovers in the game, giving the ball away 16 times. Kent State also controlled the boards, winning the rebounding battle 46 to 36 and snaring an impressive 23 offensive rebounds. This contributed to a major edge in shot attempts for the Golden Flashes, who took 70 shots to just 51 by NU. The Cats compensated by denying easy shots at the rim, with a season-high eight blocked shots including three by senior center Alex
Cohen and two by Coffey, and by getting easy points at the foul line, where they took 32 free throws led by junior forward Lauren Douglas’ 10 attempts. With the win Friday, McKeown reached another milestone in a long and storied career. He came to the program in 2008 after stints at George Washington University and New Mexico State and has amassed 91 victories with the Cats in his tenure. His 600th victory came against his alma mater; McKeown both played for and began his coaching career as an assistant coach at Kent State. McKeown will look for win 601 on Wednesday as the Cats play host to crosstown rival and fellow unbeaten UIC, who are coming off a win Saturday against Miami (Ohio). — Max Schuman
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A great sports day for Northwestern was capped off by the volleyball team getting its first win since Nov. 5. The Wildcats (16-13, 6-12 Big Ten) picked up a much-needed straight-set win over Iowa (13-16, 5-13) at home Saturday in a match that NU controlled from start to finish. The Cats avoided allowing many runs from the Hawkeyes. This was a big shift from the team’s recent play in which they saw themselves consistently trying to climb out of holes. “Our issues in the past have always been that we let teams get on runs,� senior Katie Dutchman
said. “I think we controlled that really well. We knew how to stop them and when they needed to be stopped.� The team’s communication played a big role in its ability to play so well, Dutchman said. From the players on the court to the ones on the bench, the sharing of information allowed the Cats to always be aware of what was going on. Despite winning in straight sets, there was a point in the first set when it looked like it would not be smooth sailing for NU. Twice, after it appeared the Cats were starting to pull away, Iowa went on runs that forced NU to take timeouts. In both situations, the team came out strong following the timeout to regain control of the set, eventually winning 25-22. Coach Keylor Chan pegged the team chemistry as one of the reasons the team was able to take control of the match whenever it was necessary. He has said over the past month that the team had been looking within to find a way to win and that during this past week there were heartfelt moments that helped bring them together. This stronger mental connection among the players translated into great ball control, which Chan pointed to as another reason the team was
able to come away with the victory. “This team has kind of lived and died by first contacts, passing and serving,� he said. “Tonight we pretty much, I think, dominated those two statistical categories.� The Cats were able to dominate more than just those two statistical categories in this commanding win. Sophomore Caleigh Ryan and freshman Taylor Tashima tied for the game-high in assists with 21, while Dutchman and fellow senior Savannah Paffen tied for the game-high in kills at 12. Junior Caroline Niedospial and sophomore Kayla Morin finished with the top two totals in digs in the match, with 15 and 10 respectively. Niedospial said the team’s main focus was to not give up runs and be forced to comeback. The execution of that helped them get this “total team win.� Although there are always aspects of the game to work on, and No. 10 Penn State comes to Evanston on Wednesday to take on the Cats, it’s hard to look at flaws after this impressive win. “(We will) still work on aggressive serving because that takes teams out of their system,� Niedospial said. “Just perfecting all of the skills. But we just played really well tonight.�
The win snapped a four-game losing streak and put the Cats in a tie with Indiana for 10th place in the conference. It was also the team’s first win in straight sets since an Oct. 5 victory at home This team against Minnesota, which was has kind of lived ranked No. 18 at and died by first the time. contacts, passing Chan said he feels good about and serving the win and what it could mean for Keylor Chan, the team going coach forward, but was more concerned with how the team got win, not just that it won. “The Big Ten is just hard, it’s really hard,� Chan said. “Anytime you can get a win it’s a good thing. A win can change the complexion of the next match and the next match after that. I think that it’s not really the win as the end product, but really it’s the process.�
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — It was costly, but Northwestern is one win away from bowl eligibility. The Wildcats (5-6, 3-4) jumped out to an early 24-0 lead and then iced the game in the second half after senior quarterback Trevor Siemian left with a left knee injury, ultimately defeating Purdue (3-8, 1-6) 38-14 on Saturday at Ross-Ade Stadium. “We needed to start fast today, and I thought the guys came out ready to go,” coach Pat Fitzgerald said. “Like it has been with everyone else that’s gone down, you’ve got pick up the flag and move on.” Fitzgerald said after the game it looked like Siemian’s injury was “pretty serious” and he will be reevaluated on Monday. After the teams traded interceptions on the game’s first two possessions, NU marched 77 yards in three plays, with
Siemian hitting junior superback Dan Vitale from 25 yards out to open the scoring. A 9-yard run by freshman Justin Jackson and a 64-yard punt return from senior receiver Tony Jones pushed the Cats’ lead to 21-0 by early in the second quarter. Meanwhile, the Cats were standing tall on the other side of the ball, forcing three turnovers and two punts on Purdue’s first five possessions. It was a return to form for the defense, which surrendered 40 points to Notre Dame last week. The Cats allowed just 312 yards and 14 points, the last 7 of which came after the game was already decided. Young and old led the Cats on the day, with senior safety Ibraheim Campbell flying around to stop the run and redshirt freshman linebacker Anthony Walker living in Purdue’s backfield. Walker and Campbell led NU with nine and eight tackles respectively, while Walker added 1.5 sacks and a forced fumble and Campbell notched an interception, two pass breakups and a forced fumble of his own. “It was just great all-around defense today,” Walker said. “Everybody stepped up and made plays, we had a lot of turnovers. We just came in with that mindset that we weren’t going to be denied today.” NU’s offense slowed down once Siemian left, but junior Zack Oliver and redshirt freshman Matt Alviti
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THOUSAND-YARD STARE Freshman running back Justin Jackson heads for the end zone on his longest run of the season, a 68-yard dash in the fourth quarter. Jackson eclipsed 1,000 yards rushing on the season after running for 147 yards in Saturday’s victory over Purdue.
— bolstered by a strong running game — did enough to ice the game with two second-half touchdowns. Jackson once again paced NU’s offense. The true freshman scored twice and rushed for 147 yards, including 68 on a fourth-quarter run that put him over 1,000 for the season. Jackson is now at 1,057 yards on the year. On the 68-yard run, his longest of the season, Jackson ran to the right, beat Purdue’s safety, and only saw green space in front of him. “As soon as I got the ball, Zack was like, ‘Go, go, go, go,’” he said. “It was pretty cool.” The Cats return home next week
for the regular season finale against Illinois. The rivalry matchup for the Land of Lincoln Trophy will take on a little extra significance this year, as both teams enter the game with five wins, each needing a sixth to reach bowl eligibility. Jones said word spread throughout the locker room after the game that the Fighting Illini had beaten Penn State, setting up a high-stakes battle next week. “We heard,” Jones said. “Outside of the fact that it’s a rivalry game, both teams are playing to keep their season going.” That NU is even in that position is
thanks to a resurgence the past two weeks. Coming off the dramatic upset of Notre Dame, the Cats took care of business, putting together their most complete performance of the season. Oliver, who appears likely to start that deciding game, said he won’t let the pressure get to him. “It’s not going to change anything I do,” he said. “Every week I come to practice, so it’s going to be the same next week. We’re going to show up on Monday, look at Illinois, see what they’re doing, then we’re going to prepare and hopefully get a win next week.” joesphdiebold2015@u.northwestern.edu
Jackson scores twice, passes 1,000 yards rushing on season By ALEX PUTTERMAN
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Freshman running back Justin Jackson surpassed 1,000 yards rushing on the season with a 68-yard touchdown in the fourth quarter of Northwestern’s game
against Purdue on Saturday. Jackson became only the second player in program history to surpass the milestone in his freshman season, after Tyrell Sutton gained 1,474 in 2005. Jackson’s is the 16th 1,000-yard rushing season in NU history. The freshman said the 1,000 yard barrier was something the running
back room had discussed during the week. Surpassing the number was, “a pretty special feeling,” he said. Saturday just continued a special season for Jackson. After starting the season as the Wildcats’ backup, Jackson quickly seized the feature back role. He rushed for more than 100 yards in three straight games — all against Big Ten
opponents — in October, including a career-high 162 in an upset of Wisconsin. Last week against Notre Dame, Jackson gained 149 yards and scored a touchdown. Jackson entered Saturday with 910 yards and six touchdowns on the season. He added a seventh touchdown in the first quarter against Purdue and surpassed 1,000 yards on his eighth.
The 68-yard scamper gave him 1,057 yards on the season. “Justin’s played well all year,” coach Pat Fitzgerald said Saturday. “He’s still got things to clean up in his game, but to see a young man like that step up like that … I’m really proud of the way Justin’s playing.” asputt@u.northwestern.edu
Demps clutch as Cats narrowly escape Elon in overtime OT
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68 By JESSE KRAMER
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Elon (1-2) led most of the way, but once again Northwestern (4-0) used a late spurt to squeak away Saturday with another non-conference victory. The Wildcats finished regulation on an 8-0 run to force overtime and defeated the Phoenix 68-67 after the extra period. NU trailed 67-62 in overtime, but junior guard Tre Demps found sophomore forward Sanjay Lumpkin for a bucket at the rim to start a 6-0 run. For the second game in a row, Demps nailed the game-winner with a jumper from the left elbow. “It gives you a little bit of mojo,” Demps said of having hit a game-winner just two days earlier. “But at the end of the day you know you have a whole other game to play. It’s just one shot. (Elon’s Kevin Blake) forced me to take a tough one. I was fortunate enough to hit it.” In addition to scoring a teamhigh 21 points, Demps also dished
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LAWFUL Freshman forward Vic Law puts up a shot Saturday during Northwestern’s overtime win over Elon.
out four assists without turning over the ball. The Phoenix had a chance to record the upset on their final possession. Inbounding from the baseline with 5.3 seconds left, the Phoenix ran an isolation for Elijah Bryant at
the elbow. But NU freshman forward Vic Law locked him down and forced a miss. “I knew he was their best playmaker off the ball,” Law said. “I probably did a bad job letting him catch it too low. But he was trying to draw
a foul, and I tipped it. It was a great play call to set him up at the elbow. I’m just glad he missed it.” Law had the best game of his young career, posting personal records of 16 points and two blocks. NU fell behind 19-9 in the first half, but a 10-0 run evened the score. Demps bookended the spurt with a 3-pointer and a fastbreak layup off a pretty pass from freshman guard Bryant McIntosh. Elon got the final say in the first half with Bryant’s jumper putting the Phoenix ahead 29-27 at the break. The Cats came out slow in the second half, once again falling behind by 10 points at 39-29. Coach Chris Collins went to a four-freshman lineup that locked down on defense, and freshman guard Johnnie Vassar’s first-career bucket sparked another NU run that cut the lead to two points. Freshman forward Gavin Skelly also saw some crucial minutes, and he delivered. In addition to four points, five rebounds and three blocks, Collins said Skelly also brought great energy. “(Vassar and Skelly) came in and brought pop,” Demps said. “When they came in, you could just tell a difference.” Despite being on the road against a Big Ten team, Elon did not crumble. Guard Tanner Samson drilled back-to-back 3-pointers to quiet the Welsh-Ryan Arena crowd.
Samson led the Phoenix with a game-high 24 points and shot 8-for-13 from beyond the arc. The Cats still trailed 61-53 with 3:51 remaining. Then, just like in Thursday’s win against North Florida, NU went on a late run to avoid defeat. Demps started the spurt by draining a 3-pointer. McIntosh capped it off with an open layup off a feed from junior center Alex Olah. The Cats had a chance to win in regulation, but Demps’ foul-line jumper drew front iron Olah once again struggled offensively, but he had his best game of the season on the glass. The 7-footer grabbed a career-high 12 rebounds. “In order for us to be a good team, we need him to be a solid presence inside,” Collins said. However, Olah’s offensive struggles remain troubling. He scored just 5 points on 1-for-3 field-goal shooting and committed three turnovers. “I’m just surprised he’s been pretty tentative,” Collins said. “I don’t expect him to play perfect. But I’d like him to be more aggressive. He’s a little reluctant to go up strong around the basket.” The Cats now head to the Cancun Challenge, where they will face Miami (Ohio) on Tuesday and then either Northern Iowa or Virginia Tech on Wednesday jessekramer2017@u.northwestern.edu