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Quinn concedes governor race Gov. Pat Quinn conceded the gubernatorial election Wednesday afternoon to Republican challenger Bruce Rauner. Quinn, who refused to accept Rauner’s victory on Tuesday night, said he wanted to wait until every vote was counted. However, at a press conference Wednesday, Quinn said a victory was no longer possible. “It’s clear that we do not have enough votes to win the election,” Quinn said. With more than 99 percent of precincts reporting, Rauner has a lead of 51 percent to 46 percent over Quinn, according to the Associated Press. Rauner released a statement Wednesday on Quinn’s concession. “I thank Governor Quinn for his many years of service to Illinois and appreciate his commitment to making this a smooth transition,”
he said. “I look forward to getting to work to make Illinois the most compassionate and competitive state in the nation.” With Quinn’s remaining time in office, he said he will dedicate himself to raising the minimum wage from $8.25 an hour to $10 an hour, which was a key component of his re-election platform. Voters also passed a referendum, showing support for this legislative move. At the Quinn election party Tuesday night, Toni Preckwinkle, Cook County Board president, said the state’s Democratic Congress would balance out the Republican governor. “We have a Democratic Senate and a Democratic House, so the issues that I care about will be addressed in the state legislature,” she said. — Tyler Pager
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waiting to vote State Sen. Daniel Biss (D-Evanston), who ran unopposed in the election, walks through the Civic Center on Tuesday. About 430 voters showed up at the center to participate in Election Day registration, causing Evanston residents and Northwestern students to wait more than two hours in line.
City sees long registration lines By paige leskin and hal jin the daily northwestern @paigeleskin, @apricityhal
The state’s first year of election day registration attracted members of the Evanston and Northwestern community, with the Civic Center drawing the highest number of same-day registrants of anywhere in suburban Cook County. The registration process at the Civic Center presented some difficulties, with some voters standing in long lines for more than two hours to register and cast their ballots. The center served as
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MOVING OUT Buffalo Wild Wings, 1741 Maple Ave., closed the doors of its Evanston location on Sunday. The restaurant is relocating to Old Orchard Mall in Skokie, where it plans to open in January.
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Evanston’s Buffalo Wild Wings has officially closed. A popular place for Northwestern students to watch televised sports while ordering plates of wings and fries, the restaurant shut its doors Sunday, manager Adrian Ramirez said. The franchise, at 1741 Maple Ave., will relocate to Old Orchard Mall in Skokie, Ramirez said. The restaurant is scheduled to open in January. Vicki Frantz, marketing director of KPW Management LLC, a company that owns several BWW restaurants in the Chicago
area, initially told The Daily in July of BWW’s plans to close in Evanston. Despite the move, BWW will continue its close relationship with the University and its students, Frantz said. The restaurant will still sponsor NU athletics and provide support to the Evanston community, she said. The Skokie location will offer the franchise “more exposure in the area,” Frantz said in July. For the past few years, BWW was the location of Dance Marathon’s trivia nights, held to help students raise money for their DM teams. Following the closing of BWW, DM moved its trivia events in late October to 27 Live, 1012 Church St.
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the only Evanston location and one of 18 sites across suburban Cook County where people could register on Election Day. The service was part of the state’s pilot program this year. “I got there around 5:30 and I left around 8,” SESP sophomore Margaret Parker said. “This is actually the first time I’ve ever voted, and I was very excited about it.” From the time the polls opened at 6 a.m. to their close at 7 p.m., 430 people participated in Election Day registration at the Civic Center, according to the Cook County Clerk’s Office. More than 3,600 people in all of suburban Cook County registered to vote on
Tuesday. Gov. Pat Quinn, who was defeated Tuesday by Republican challenger Bruce Rauner, signed into state law in July a pilot program for Election Day registration, which has been implemented in ten states and Washington, D.C. NU services like the “Voter Van,” a free shuttle driven by NU Votes students, enabled students like Parker to vote. Students only had to bring their WildCARDs and be able to sign into CAESAR to register at the Civic Center, she said. » See voting, page 6
NU community responds to Denver John Evans report By jeanne kuang
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Following the University of Denver’s release of its John Evans Study Committee findings, some Northwestern students praised the new report, while a member of NU’s committee defended its own conclusions on the University founder’s role in the Sand Creek Massacre. DU’s committee, established shortly after NU’s own John Evans Study Committee in early 2013, released its report Monday, finding Evans was “central” to creating conditions in the Colorado Territory — of which he was governor at the time — that made the massacre “possible and even likely.” “It seems like DU had a better, deeper understanding of the importance of this whole process of trying to go forward and recognizing our past,” said Bienen
junior Wilson Smith, co-president of the NU Native American and Indigenous Student Alliance. Former co-president Heather Menefee, a Weinberg senior, called DU’s report “a relief.” “DU centered Cheyenne people in their research process, and the result is a strong report and recommendations in contrast to NU’s colonial and dehumanizing report,” she said in an email to The Daily. DU’s report concluded that Evans, the founder of both universities, was “deeply culpable” in the Sand Creek Massacre, an 1864 attack by American soldiers that killed about 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho people. NU’s report, released in May, found Evans did not directly plan the massacre but retained some responsibility for being “one of several individuals who … helped create a situation that made the Sand Creek Massacre possible.” NU’s committee chair, English Prof.
Carl Smith, defended his report, citing the “remarkable extent to which the findings of both of these reports are very, very similar.” “The Northwestern report says quite clearly in its conclusion that despite the fact that he may not have had a direct role in the massacre, he was certainly before the fact, one of the people who played a major role in making it possible,” Carl Smith said. “What would be a terrible result of some of this is if the emphasis was on whatever the differences are between the reports, when I think they’re essentially saying something very similar.” Carl Smith said he was “puzzled” by DU’s choice to devote a section of its report to the two conclusions’ differences. In an interview with The Daily on Monday, DU’s committee chair, Nancy » See evans, page 6
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The Evanston Police Department will receive funding next week to provide victims of sexual assault with sweatshirts they can comfortably leave in after a medical examination. Police Chief Richard Eddington will request the money to continue the program at the Evanston Police and Fire Foundation’s annual luncheon, which will take place Nov. 14. The luncheon benefits the foundation’s fund, which directs supplemental resources toward the city’s police and fire departments. “When we need to take the complaint of the sexual assault, oftentimes we need all the garments of the victim,” Eddington said. “We need to give them some clothes right away, and it’s nice we have these sweatsuits that are non-descript … so there’s no stigma or undue attention-calling to an individual when they’re wearing these garments.” A victim’s personal belongings can be valuable to a future investigation, especially because technology can now obtain more information from physical evidence, Eddington said. Police initially provided victims with hospital scrubs to change into after reporting an assault and undergoing a medical examination. They have transitioned to sweatsuits over the past five years to ensure the process is as easy and comfortable as possible, he said. Jim Huenink, executive director of Northwest Center Against Sexual Assault in Arlington Heights,
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also cited comfort as one the top priorities in the aftermath of sexual assault. Rape crisis centers like Northwest CASA have been providing victims with sweatsuits for years, Huenink said. This is the first time the EPFF has given funding for the sweatshirts to the EPD’s Victim Services Unit, which Eddington said has existed for more than two decades. The sweatshirts can offer warmth to victims that the hospital gowns they’ve been wearing fail to supply, Huenink said. “Most people don’t have another set of clothes with them,” he said. “It’s just a way of providing comfort to the victim and ensuring them, helping them resume normality as much as possible under those conditions.” The sweatshirts are not only beneficial to the needs of the victims, but also to the police, who can more easily conduct the investigation when a victim has clothes to change into, Evanston police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said. Northwest CASA and EPD also provide other services for victims, including sending an advocate to accompany a person who has come to a hospital seeking help, he said. “As soon as a sexual assault victim comes into the emergency room seeking medical care, they will contact us, and we will send either a staff person or a trained volunteer to the emergency room to be with the victim,” Huenink said. “We want to provide support, we want to make sure that the victim’s aware of her choices and that she’s not feeling under duress to do anything she’s uncomfortable with doing.” EPD’s victim services currently operates with
three victim advocates who are responsible for accompanying victims of sexual assault through the entire process, including gathering evidence, any police investigation, and arrests and court appearances, Parrott said. As soon as police respond to an incident of sexual assault in Evanston, the victim advocates are made aware of the situation, he said. Because of this service the EPD provides, Huenink said although Northwest CASA has a satellite office in Evanston, it does not provide its counselors and advocates to those in the city. “If a victim is an Evanston resident and the crime occurred in Evanston, their department will respond to the hospital call,” he said. The EPD’s victim advocates are a 24/7 hour service and Northwest CASA’s staff would just be a duplication of help that already exists, Huenink said. However, many victims of sexual assault who come to Evanston’s Presence Saint Francis Hospital, 355 Ridge Ave., are Chicago residents, who Northwest CASA will provide assistance to, Huenink said. The work done by the Victim Services Unit will only develop and expand through funding like that from the EPFF, Eddington said. He expressed his appreciation to both the organization and the public for putting donations toward specific programs that the EPD needs money for. Other Evanston police and fire services the luncheon next week will benefit include various training and educational programs.
resident, authorities said. Veronica Wilson, 48, has been charged with the first-degree murder of 46-year-old Andrew Brown. The stabbing occurred in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood, police said. Police found Brown lying on the sidewalk in the 3000 block of East Cheltenham Place in Chicago at about 12:19 a.m. on Monday unresponsive.
Brown was pronounced dead at the scene at about 12:49 a.m., police said. His death was ruled a homicide caused by multiple stab and inside wounds, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office. Wilson was due in Chicago’s bond court Wednesday, police said. — Paige Leskin
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Trayvon Martin’s mother speaks about activism By OLIVIA EXSTRUM
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More than two years after Trayvon Martin’s death, his mother, Sybrina Fulton, spoke Tuesday at Northwestern about her work to create positive change after her son’s death. “To me, Trayvon was used as a symbol to bring awareness and attention to human rights, to racial profiling, to just basically what’s going on with our justice system and how we as AfricanAmericans are viewed,” she said. The 17-year-old unarmed black teenager was fatally shot in Florida in February 2012 by then28-year-old neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman. The incident sparked a national conversation about racial profiling. Fulton spoke before a packed Cahn Auditorium at the State of the Black Union hosted by For Members Only. She began by detailing the day she learned her son had been killed. She said at the time, she lived an “average life.” “I had one car, one house, one job, two kids, just an average lifestyle,” she said. “I couldn’t
More than 250 attend annual STEM event on K-12 education
The Northwestern Office of STEM Education Partnerships hosted its sixth annual statewide STEM Summit on Wednesday, highlighting the importance of K-12 STEM education. The summit featured a keynote speaker, panel discussions and workshops centered around K-12 science, technology, engineering and mathematics education, commonly referred to as STEM. It was attended by about 260 educators and administrators from across the country, as well as representatives from companies
believe that I would be put in that position, that I would be the parent of a murdered child.” The worst time for her, she said, was not receiving the phone call informing her of her son’s death, but attending the funeral. “I had to witness my baby boy laying in a casket with a white suit on and a light blue tie and handkerchief and nice haircut as if he was going to the prom,” Fulton said. She then spoke about her activism after her son’s death. She and Tracy Martin, Trayvon Martin’s father, established The Trayvon Martin Foundation, a nonprofit that works to create awareness about violent crime and its effects on families, as well as provide support through programs such as conflict resolution and scholarships. Fulton said her work with the foundation was, in part, to channel the “negative feelings inside of us” and work toward something positive. “I believe that’s one of the key points to my healing,” she said. “We try to do our part … to try to assist those families because the road they’re traveling down, we’ve been down.” After her speech, Fulton participated in a question-and-answer session, which was co-sponsored by FMO and NU’s chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists. The session was
moderated by Medill sophomore Sierra Boone, the chapter’s vice president of chapter relations. Audience members could tweet their questions during the event using the hashtag #SOTBU2014. During the question-and-answer session, Boone brought up a question about racial profiling. Fulton called the subject of racial profiling an “ugly truth” that needs to be addressed. She said for a long time she believed the reason her son was followed was because he was wearing a hoodie, a now ubiquitous symbol of the shooting. She said she realized later, during the trial, racial profiling played a role. She also discussed her oldest son, Jahvaris Fulton. She said Martin’s death has made her
including Google and Motorola Solutions Inc. “The day is really designed to showcase STEM education across Chicago,” said Amy Pratt, associate director of the Office of STEM Education Partnerships. “We had teachers, people from the University, people from the industry and people from education nonprofits all come together today to talk about what’s happening in Chicago in STEM education.” Pratt said this year’s event was particularly focused on “inquiry and research opportunities” for high school and middle school students. She said the keynote speaker, SESP Prof. Brian Reiser, talked about new K-12 science standards and their implementation. In addition, a panel of high school students discussed their participation in research projects related
to STEM education. Kemi Jona, Office of STEM Education Partnerships director, said STEM education is becoming increasingly important in Chicago. “At least here in Chicago, STEM education has really come to the forefront as the critical part of building a world-class workforce,” Jona said. “Companies are really interested in it because they know they want to continue to grow and expand. We need to have students who want to continue on into college into careers in that area.” Jona said the office was started in 2006 and works with a network of more than 200 schools and 600 teachers in the Chicago area. He said it is also focused on creating relationships with STEM-related organizations, such as museums,
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more cautious. “I see young men now, and I’m afraid for them because people don’t necessarily have to have a reason to perceive you as a threat, a criminal, a bad person,” she said. “That scares me because our young men have the right to walk down the street, to listen to their radio even if it’s too loud.” McCormick freshman Mylan Henderson said he attended the event because he admires Fulton’s work to promote awareness about issues of racial profiling. “Racial profiling is certainly uncomfortable, but it’s a reality that we still have to face,” Henderson said. “We can directly influence and make a positive impact and change.” Fulton acknowledged that the subject of race is “uncomfortable, to say the least,” but necessary to discuss in order to create change. She pointed to voting as a tool to do so. “That’s the most effective way to have your voice heard,” she said. “Whatever issue it is, you have to talk about it even if people don’t want to because it’s uncomfortable … This is the first step to us making a positive change in this world.” oliviaexstrum2017@u.northwestern.edu aquariums and zoos. “The office has the mission of bringing the resources of NU to the K-12 community,” Jona said. “The summit was really an opportunity for us to convene that community here at NU … and really help kind of catalyze the conversation around STEM education and help move it forward.” Jona emphasized making STEM education accessible to all students. “A big push now is to get a more diverse audience into STEM, including women and minorities who typically don’t pursue these fields,” he said. “A way to do that is to get STEM education more exciting for kids in classrooms.”
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Common App disadvantages low-income students matt gates
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Now that Northwestern’s early decision deadline has passed, applicants are left with about two months before many schools will stop accepting applications for regular admissions. Many students will spend the holiday season finishing up applications while anticipating a response from their first-choice schools — or taking the risk of waiting for an answer before completing the rest of their applications. For my parents’ generation, applying to college involved separately completing applications to five schools or fewer. But this process looks entirely different for many members of my generation. Electronic applications, especially the Common Application, allow applicants to apply to many more schools than students in previous generations. While an electronic Common Application makes the college application process easier in some ways, its drawbacks should not be
forgotten. The ease of applying to numerous schools may incentivize students to apply to far more schools than they would have otherwise. Even if a student is only interested in attending a couple “top” schools based on fit, he or she may feel driven to apply to numerous other highly ranked schools out of a desire to be admitted to any “name” school. Falling admission rates at top schools may drive students to increase the number of schools they apply to, which in turn may drive admissions rates down further. Students are not necessarily less likely to be admitted to a top school but are less likely to be admitted to their top school of choice due to the increase in number of applicants who may not truly be interested. This cycle is reflected by the simultaneous increase in the number of schools students apply to and the decrease in the admission rate of many of these schools. At the same time, NU has seen an all-time low admission rate during each of the last two years. This trend is common at other selective schools such as the University of Chicago and members of the Ivy League. But this application proliferation is more
than just aggravating; it potentially disadvantages low-income students. While Common Application schools accept application fee waivers from the College Board and the National Association for College Admission Counseling, the NACAC “recommends limiting the use of the (College Application Fee Waiver form) to no more than four schools” because it “is intended to be used at the schools to which a student is most interested in attending.” Likewise, the College Board limits a student to four fee waivers. Therefore, a low-income student is far less likely than a high-income student to be able to play the game of applying to 10 highly selective schools and gaining admission to one. Furthermore, low-income students must handle a multitude of other disadvantages in the college application process. Low-income students are far less likely to have access to private college counselors, making applying to an overwhelming number of schools less doable. They are also less likely to attend private schools with well-connected counselors who may be able to gain an inside word about their chances at a particular school. Likewise, when students apply to more schools, it results in a lower yield at each
school, which may make early decision applicants more attractive to colleges. Like certain organizations do with application fee waivers, schools like NU attempt to make early decision accessible to students of all backgrounds. However, I have still met students on NU’s campus and elsewhere who did not apply early to their top-choice schools because they were afraid of a binding acceptance accompanied by insufficient financial aid. The Common Application has its benefits, but it comes with drawbacks. Moreover, college admissions committees, such as NU’s, that emphasize the importance of supplements examining why a student chose a specific school encourage students to apply only to schools they are actually interested in. Likewise, students who avoid disingenuously applying to “name” schools will alleviate the vicious cycle of increasing application numbers and declining acceptance rates that hurts all applicants. Matt Gates is a Weinberg sophomore. He can be reached at matthewgates2017@u.northwestern.edu. If you want to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern. com.
Wait before you judge Calvin Harris’ new album bob hayes
Daily columnist
Hardly any weekend night at Northwestern passes without dancing to a track from the wildly popular Calvin Harris. On Tuesday, the Scottish megastar released his fourth studio album, “Motion,” debuting at number two on the iTunes album charts. On “Motion,” the producer who has stood at the forefront of both pop and electronic dance music over the last half decade collaborates with Ellie Goulding, Big Sean, Alesso, Gwen Stefani, John Newman and HAIM, among others. Though an instant top-seller due to Harris’ transcendent name recognition, “Motion” has already received a share of criticism. Grantland’s Steven Hyden called the album “canned,” while Billboard’s Megan Buerger dismissed it as “low-hanging fruit” that “plays it safe.” However fair these comments may be, we must understand both how difficult it is to truly measure an album’s merit upon its release as well as how to fairly evaluate an artist based on our preconceived expectations of his or her prior work. Any discussion regarding “Motion” begins by comparing it to the overwhelming success of “18 Months,” Harris’ previous album, released in October 2012. The album featured hits like “We Found Love,” “Feel so Close,” “I Need Your Love” and “Sweet Nothing;” I could keep going, but there are too many on this record — it “was like a one-man
‘NOW’ compilation, featuring an incredible eight singles that went Top 10 in the U.K.,” Hyden writes. It is important for us to realize a deceptively key reason we consider this album such a uniform success. Well-established pop star Rihanna led the vocals of “We Found Love” more than a full year prior to the release of “18 Months,” providing the previously unknown Harris both acclaim and popularity. “Feel so Close” jumped on the back of the latter’s commercial success and achieved radio ubiquity. These two tracks (and debatably “Let’s Go”) were already hits upon the album’s release due to a full year of heavy promotion, while all the other top-40 tracks on the LP were far from reaching their eventual popularity. This week, critics listen through “Motion” and wonder where all the hits are, but we really need to wait at least a few months before we can find the answer, just as we had to wait for “18 Months.” Lasting tracks, namely “I Need Your Love,” featuring Goulding, took months before radio stations and subsequently the general population caught on. On the new LP, “Outside,” also featuring Goulding, has yet to reach its inevitable mainstream popularity, while “Blame,” featuring John Newman, enters the release with some momentum as a potential hit. Another factor playing into criticisms of the album stems from outsized expectations of Harris following “18 Months.” People look at all the successes on the 2012 LP as benchmarks to surpass, while overlooking the fact that the aptly named “Summer” was an overwhelming radio success, while “Under Control” was one of the hottest EDM tracks of all of 2014. Moreover, once we start naming all the hits
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Before we pile criticism on the tracks we dislike, let’s wait a few months and a few million radio plays before we really evaluate the success of ‘Motion.’
from “18 Months,” we begin to expect every new track to match the accomplishments of Harris’ previous work. It is easy to listen through an album and think, “I don’t like this track. This album is not as good as previous ones by this artist.” But even I, in my criticism of the critics, completely forgot that obscure “18 Months” tracks like “Green Valley” and “School” even exist. When we listen to new music, we focus too much on the tracks we don’t like, whereas when we remember older music, we completely forget these tracks were ever made. Similarly, how can we ever sit down and listen to an album for the first time and find it anywhere near as good as the hits we have been jamming to for years? Finally, it is important to realize that EDM represents an odd pocket of popular music. Mainstream critics and listeners criticize producers like Harris for failing to deliver radio hits, while EDM fans turn their backs on any artist who does. Consequently, artists have trouble reconciling these two independent fanbases. This summer, Harris released big-room banger “C.U.B.A,” which quickly received countless plays on festival DJ sets. A fully instrumental track with a heavy bass line does not carry much weight for non-EDM fans, so Harris
added (horrible) vocals from Big Sean in an attempt to deliver some mainstream traction. Harris — the top-earning EDM producer, according to Forbes — has to constantly strike a balance between sticking to his funk/disco roots and keeping up with the EDM trends, while also maintaining popular relevance. In the end, it is difficult for anyone to be completely happy. What is my opinion on “Motion?” As I have said, it is tough to come to any meaningful conclusions at this point, but I generally enjoy the album. “Under Control” is fantastic, and I won’t stop listening to “Outside” until the radio inevitably stops playing it. Harris has a number of big-room tracks on the LP, with “Dollar Signs” being the only original and interesting one. Some will find his more disco and indie-pop tracks like “Pray to God” and “Love Now” as the album’s pinnacle, but the most notable tracks on the album are the wholly original ones. The funky acid house track “Slow Acid” provides an intriguing listen, and the mellow, beautifully melodic “Ecstasy” may sneakily be the best track on the entire album. In all, any music fan would be hard-pressed to listen through “Motion” without enjoying at least a few of Harris’ catchy tracks. As with any album release, before we pile criticism on the tracks we dislike, let’s wait a few months and a few million radio plays before we really evaluate the success of “Motion.” Bob Hayes is a Weinberg sophomore. He can be reached at roberthayes2017@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.
It’s time for us to rethink collegiate fundraising kara rodby
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In the campus discussion surrounding Kappa Kappa Gamma and Zeta Beta Tau’s “Jail N’ Bail” event, some argue the groups’ roleplaying as convicts is ironic and insensitive, while others defend the groups’ intentions and claim those who oppose their efforts are only hurting the children who would benefit from the money. Northwestern and universities all over the country should reconsider our culture of fundraising and how we go about collecting money. First, we should reflect on the unique culture that exists in American universities. There are a multitude of causes for fundraising, whether it is groups raising money for their events or the most popular collegiate purpose: philanthropy. Facebook profiles are constantly plastered with advertisements for fundraising events. Every group asks for money all the time for any and every cause imaginable. But what is the motivation behind these widespread efforts? I argue that this is more or less a trend; everyone is doing it, so I should too. Rather than pool these efforts to make a significant difference
in one cause, it is often cooler to be different than the other groups and find your own cause or the next big cause that will make you look revolutionary. Furthermore, with every campus flooded with fundraising pleas, people have become desensitized to philanthropic opportunities. We see all of these causes and do not know what to choose, or we are too preoccupied with those going on in our own clubs to even have the time to consider any of the others. So what is the effect of this saturation of causes? It means the money that is raised for a group often ends up just coming from the friends and family of its own members, who they are able to extort because of their personal connections. For example, with the “Jail N’ Bail” event, who was going to come and put money into a random Kappa’s bail cup? The money was only going to come from their friends. Thus, is our time and effort that is used planning these elaborate, creative events used wisely when at the end of the day we just end up giving the money ourselves, through our parents or our friends (who we will likely end up giving our money to in the near future in return for their help now)? I am not saying plenty of people are not raising money with genuine intentions, or even
that such selfish intentions are necessarily bad. Rather, I argue we should all think about what our goals are and what the actual best way to make a difference would be. We should be more honest about what our efforts are really producing and use this to rethink the way in which we go about raising money to make it a more
resourceful and impactful process. Kara Rodby is a Weinberg sophomore and can be reached at kararodby2017@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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ASG approves committee to examine mental health By alice yin
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Associated Student Government approved Wednesday the creation of a committee that will investigate mental health experiences and resources among Northwestern students. Called the Mental Health Working Group, the team of six to 10 members will meet once a week, said SESP junior Chris Harlow, vice president of student life. The group aims to enrich the University’s future resources by pinpointing mental health issues among NU students. “We feel that we don’t know what’s best because we don’t have a full grasp of what the landscape is,” Harlow said. “Certainly freshmen have different stressors and factors and services and programs … from seniors. There are different experiences we have along all different spectrums.” Members of the new group will analyze different aspects of NU student life that could possibly trigger mental health issues. After documenting these stressors, the group will map out NU’s scope of intervention, prevention and reduction services on campus. The working group will then review its findings, sorting by year, major and other categories while looking for gaps in mental health support. The team must report its findings and suggestions back to Senate no later than Jan. 31, 2015. Harlow will chair the group, with support from Austin Romero, vice president for diversity and inclusion. The team will include two senators,
one of which will be the Mental Health Coalition senator, four non-senator students and at least one student from NU Listens and one student from NU Active Minds. In addition, Harlow said there will also be focus groups. “We really need to take a more holistic look and approach at what our landscape for mental health (that) exists right now is,” Harlow said. “It’s been a big focus of ASG and the administration and student body, but the response has kind of been patchworked.” Senate also approved legislation condemning recent acts of vandalism at the Tannenbaum Chabad House. The latest incident on Oct. 24 left the menorah candle outside of the building vandalized beyond repair. The legislation announced ASG’s solidarity in building a supportive community absent of religious intolerance. “The menorah, which is a Jewish symbol in front of the house, has been vandalized,” said Weinberg junior Jonathan Kamel, Interfraternity Council senator. “We feel that any type of, whether it’s overt or not overt, act against a religious group is unacceptable in our University.” Kamel said the resolution is also a “symbolic support for a new menorah,” which he said should be up in the next few weeks. ASG also passed legislation to eliminate “T-status” recognition and put in new guidelines for student groups trying to attain official recognition. Legislation was also passed requiring the Wild Ideas Committee to present all funding allocations to Senate, regardless of the amount. aliceyin2017@u.northwestern.edu
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From page 1 “A lot of people just brought homework and just did homework while waiting,” Parker said. “I hope that more students went. (The wait) wasn’t that much of an inconvenience, and I don’t think that it was a good enough reason to not vote.” Cook County Clerk David Orr attributed the large showing of same-day registrants in Evanston to the NU community, estimating that students made up about 80 percent of the total voters Tuesday. Despite the long lines, the sheer number showed the interest and need for the implementation of Election Day registration in the state, instead of just a pilot program, Orr said. With a full program, voters would be able to register in their home precincts, and the long lines at the Civic Center would be reduced, he said. Orr himself showed up to the Civic Center and, with other staff, created innovative solutions to mitigate the long wait. He provided people with pizza and chairs to sit in while they waited in line, in addition to meeting with poll workers and voters to talk about the registration process, Jim Scalzitti, deputy communication director for the Cook County Clerk’s Office, said in an email to The Daily. “The Cook County Clerk was deputizing people to work the polls at $20 an hour,” said SESP freshman Kevin Corkran, who spent the night volunteering at the Civic Center. “I think we were understaffed.” Orr acknowledged that the Civic Center did
Across Campuses Education Department: Princeton sexual violence policies violated law Princeton University violated a federal anti-discrimination law by not “promptly and equitably” responding to complaints of sexual violence, in one case allowing a sexually hostile environment to continue for one student, the U.S. Department of Education announced Wednesday. The university formalized an agreement Oct. 12
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Police arrested a 34-year-old man in connection with possession of marijuana after they pulled him over for a traffic stop Sunday night. Officers stopped a car in Evanston on Sunday in connection with a traffic violation, Evanston police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said. The driver did not pull over for a few blocks, but police were eventually able to get him to curb
not have enough people and equipment to register the voters. The staff who register voters also needs greater education about Election Day registration to maximize the amount of people who cast ballots and prevent errors in the process, Orr said. Chicago had more problems, with only five sites and a lack of staff offering same-day registration throughout the entire city. The large crowd that greeted people as they came into the Civic Center discouraged some voters from staying and going through with the process, Orr said. “I hope the legislatures will pass a law to make Election Day registration permanent at all sites,” Orr said. “The most important thing is that the turnout we saw in Evanston proved that people wanted to register and vote. It proves the need. I think there’s ways to make it work more smoothly.” Residents and NU students who had registered to vote before Tuesday did not face the long wait those at the Civic Center encountered. These students, who could go to the on-campus voting locations at Parkes Hall and Patten Gym, waited less than five minutes to cast their ballots. Tuesday’s election resulted in a 54 percent voter turnout in Evanston, with 23,064 ballots casted as of 1 p.m. on Wednesday, according to the Cook County Clerk’s Office. This number is slightly lower than the number of voters at the midterm elections in 2010, when 26,014 ballots were cast. pl@u.northwestern.edu hjin@u.northwestern.edu
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NU VOTES A Northwestern student casts his ballot at the Civic Center on Tuesday. Through NU services like the “Voter Van,” students were able to more easily get to polling places at Parkes Hall, Patten Gym and the Civic Center to vote.
with the department that includes revising policies, using a “preponderance of the evidence” standard in investigating complaints, and reexamining all complaints filed from the 2011-12 academic year through Sept. 1, 2014. It had begun rolling out new policies and procedures this year, which the Education Department said address the Title IX violations. The changes are “intended to achieve full compliance,” Princeton said in a statement. The changes, along with other actions in the agreement, will be monitored by the Education Department.
“I applaud Princeton University for its commitment to ensuring a communitywide culture of prevention, support, and safety for its students, staff, and community,” Catherine E. Lhamon, assistant secretary for civil rights at the Education Department, said in Wednesday’s release. Princeton is not the only university to settle with the Education Department in recent years, as national attention has focused on sexual harassment and violence on college campuses. In 2011, the University of Notre Dame agreed revise its policies to become compliant with the department’s
his vehicle in the 1600 block of Davis Street, Parrott said. Police found an open bottle of alcohol and less than half a gram of marijuana in the man’s vehicle, police said. When officers looked up the man’s identification, they found the Evanston resident was driving with a license that was originally suspended after the man was charged with driving under the influence, Parrott said. The 34-year-old man was arrested around 8 p.m. for the felony charge of driving with a suspended license, police said. He was also charged with possession of marijuana.
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standards. Other high-profile agreements include Yale University in 2012 and the State University of New York system in 2013. “This is really the regulators saying, ‘Make sure your policies are in place and are compliant with the regulations now,’ “ said Kevin E. Raphael, a partner of Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti LLP who prosecuted sex crimes as an assistant district attorney for the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office. -Jonathan Lai (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
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A package was taken from the lobby of a residence building in the 900 block of Michigan Avenue on Oct. 28, police said. The Evanston man whose package was stolen said FedEx had delivered it to the building, but he was unable to locate it, Parrott said. The man said the package was taken between 11 a.m. and 6 p.m. The delivery included a variety of gift items and clothing that valued in total around $500, police said. There are no suspects in the case and no video of the incident.
Wadsworth, said her report broadened the definition of Evans’ culpability in the attack, “whereas Northwestern defined culpability in a narrow instrumental sense.” Wadsworth added that NU’s report was nevertheless “very critical” of Evans. The NU report characterized Evans’ actions before and after the massacre as “significant moral failures” that the University has ignored.
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NU knocks off No. 9 Illinois in close five-set match No. 9 Illinois
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The rivalry between Illinois’ two Big Ten teams is beginning to heat up. On Wednesday evening, No. 9 Illinois visited Northwestern for the first in a two-match home-andhome series. The Wildcats won 3 sets to 2, knocking off a top-1o team at home for the first time since defeating No. 2 Nebraska in 2011. “It’s big,” coach Keylor Chan said after the game. “It’s a rivalry, and I think more than just winning, it’s how we’re playing volleyball … It’s hard sometimes when you get beat up in the Big Ten, but the character that we’re showing in continuing to fight, get better and improve I think says a lot.” Sophomore hitter Kayla Morin also stressed the importance of the victory. “Any win’s a huge win in the Big Ten,” Morin said. “Then to beat a team in the top-10 (nationally) and then compounded on that, they’re one of our biggest rivals, so it’s just a huge win for us.” NU got off to a strong start against its rival, taking an early 7-5 lead, then stretching their lead to 15-9. Illinois cut the deficit to 1 but never posed any real threat to NU in the first set. The Cats maintained their composure and won the set by a score of 25-20. Off to another blazing start in the second, NU
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won 5 of the opening 7 points. After eventually falling behind 22-21, NU won the next 4 points, taking the second set 25-22 and a 2-0 lead in the match. With victory in the Cats’ sights, the third frame began with the teams splitting the opening 16 points. Chan made an interesting substitution early in the frame, pulling freshman hitter Symone Abbott off the court for senior Yewande Akanbi. “Symone just needed a break,” Chan said. “She just wasn’t playing very well, and Yewande’s very capable. And she came in and gave us three good blocks. I just think that it was good that Symone got a break and got to recollect herself. That’s what good teams do. Other players step up when their team needs them.” Akanbi immediately made her presence felt with one of the blocks Chan talked about, pulling the Cats within one. However, NU dropped the next four points, which prompted a timeout from Chan. It didn’t help, and Illinois led by a commanding seven points before the Cats won another rally. NU ultimately lost the third set 25-16. After the Illini took an early fourth set lead 5-3, Chan put Abbott back in the game, and she quickly tallied two kills to tie the set at 5. NU won 3 straight points to tie the set at 11. The Fighting Illini kept the pressure on by taking a 21-12 lead. Lack of communication killed the Cats this set, and Illinois forced a deciding fifth frame, winning the fourth 25-15. Freshman setter Taylor Tashima clinched her first career triple-double in the fourth, eclipsing double digits in kills, assists and digs. She would finish with 10 kills, 23 assists and 11 digs. “I had a good feeling coming into this game,” junior Libero Caroline Niedospial said. “The whole time we knew we were going to win the game, and I think that’s a great mentality, especially in that fifth
set.” And win the Cats did. In the final set, NU went up early 4-2, but Illinois never fell far behind. Abbott caught on fire, notching three kills in NU’s first six points. Illinois tied the set at 7, but the Cats roared back into the lead, winning the next 2 points. Niedospial showed off some nice reflexes with a few excellent digs. Once again, Illinois tied the game – this time at 9 – but NU quickly took the lead again with 4 straight points. After a controversial call in which an Abbott
kill that was blocked appeared to fall on the Cats’ side of the court, NU took the set 15-11 and won the match. The Cats have another match against the Illini on Saturday, this time on the road. Chan said he hopes keeping up the intensity from tonight’s match won’t be difficult on Saturday. “It better not be,” Chan said with a smile. “Otherwise it’s going to be a short night for us.”
and is difficult for pedestrians to cross,” Suzette Robinson, the city’s director of public works, said in an email to The Daily. The intersection is located west of Northwestern’s campus near Hecky’s Barbecue, 1902 Green Bay Road. The three improvement options to choose from on the survey are making Green Bay Road into a one-way northbound street between Emerson Street and Asbury Avenue, having a cul-de-sac on the north side of Emerson and reducing Green Bay Road from four lanes to three. The goals of the improvement project include
“improving the level of service for existing and future vehicular traffic; improving pedestrian and transit access; clarifying and simplifying travel patterns and lane usage; and enhancing the streetscape,” according to a news release from the city. The survey also asked about four potential ways to improve the area’s viaducts, which serve as a bridge for the Metra rail to use above the street level. After replacing the viaducts, the city surveyed residents about the possibility of making the structures more aesthetically pleasing. City staff held two meetings Apr. 2 and Oct.
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NO. 9 NO MORE After being benched midway through Northwestern’s match against No. 9 Illinois on Wednesday, freshman Symone Abbott re-entered in time to play a major role in the Wildcats 3-2 victory. NU plays Illinois again Saturday, this time in Champaign, Illinois.
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MIRACLE MANNING Freshman Michelle Manning, whose goal Saturday earned Northwestern a spot in the Big Ten Tournament, lifted the Wildcats to victory again Tuesday. Manning scored in the 69th minute to give NU a shocking 1-0 win over Penn State. had clawed their way to the Big Ten tourin the 69th minute of their quarterfinal By HUZAIFA PATEL nament rather improbably, but in order Wednesday. Freshman forward Michelle the daily northwestern to advance, they had to go through a 17-2 Manning, unassisted from more than 20 @HuzaifaPatel95 Penn State team that had lost just once in yards out, knocked a left-footed shot into its last 15 games. the right corner to give the Wildcats what In order to advance Wednesday, would be the game-winning goal. And that’s just what they did. Northwestern had to beat the best. After a back-and-forth first half left Going into the Big Ten tournament, The Wildcats (9-7-4, 4-6-3 Big Ten) both teams scoreless, the Cats struck NU coach Michael Moynihan said he
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Iowa v. Northwestern Ann Arbor, Michigan 4:30 p.m., Friday
On Thursday, third seed Northwestern (13-6, 6-2 Big Ten) looks to advance beyond the first round of the Big Ten Tournament for the first time since 1996. The first opponent will be No. 6 seed Iowa (11-6, 4-4). Under coach Tracey Fuchs’ tutelage, the Cats have shown the collegiate field hockey world they are here to play and can compete with the best, despite their recent lackluster postseason performances. The game against Iowa will arguably be more difficult than their two past Big Ten Tournament openers against Indiana in 2012 and Ohio State in 2013. “It’s actually better,” Fuchs said. “On paper, Iowa is a much better opponent (than Ohio State or Indiana), and I think we play better when we know the opponent is really good. We’ve been to Michigan twice; this will be our third time. We are just looking forward to going out and playing our hardest and have the better team win.” When playing Iowa early October, the Cats pounced on the Hawkeyes early. NU opened the match with 2 goals within the first seven-and-a-half minutes. When Iowa got on the board five minutes later, the two defenses battened down the hatches and no goals were allowed until deep into the second half. Sophomore Dominique Masters scored the victory-solidifying goal at the 64-minute mark and recorded an assist in that game. “It’s definitely going to be the toughest
game we’ve played,” Masters said. “I mean, yes, we beat them, and in my opinion, I think it was our best game of the season, but (this time) it’s a completely different game, a completely different field. We need to just go in there and finish them off, basically, and play our own game.” Against the Hoosiers and Buckeyes, the Cats struggled in postseason play after dominating the opponent in the regular season. In 2012 against Indiana, NU shut out the Hoosiers 4-0. When round one of the Big Ten Tournament came around, Indiana knocked out NU 4-0. In 2013 against Ohio State, NU shut out the Buckeyes 5-0, then in the first round the Cats fell 3-2. Michigan hosts the tournament this year on its brand new turf. Fortunately for NU, the Cats have more experience than other conference teams on the new field. Having played both the Wolverines and the Stanford Cardinals on the field, as well as a total of four practices before those games, the Cats have an advantage over most Big Ten teams. “It’s definitely going to help,” sophomore Isabel Flens said. “It’s a very bouncy field, and we’ve played on other new turfs, so we have some experience already. We kind of know what to expect and can change our game to not play any bouncy balls, keep the ball on the ground and focus on receiving instead of trying to do everything at once.” A rivalry has grown out of NU’s matchups against Iowa. The last time the Cats advanced past the first round, in 1996, they were knocked out by the Hawkeyes. “It should be another good game,” senior Maddy Carpenter said. “Every Big Ten game is a big one. The Tournament is always super exciting.” Here, Carpenter paused. “And, ah, we hate Iowa.” michaelmarut2016@u.northwestern.edu
liked his team’s chances against No. 1 seed Penn State (17-3-0, 12-1-0). In West Lafayette, Indiana, on Wednesday, the team followed through on his bold words, knocking off the regular season Big Ten Champions and putting themselves one game away from the Big Ten Tournament championship game. “Jubilance would be a good way to describe it,” Moynihan said in regard to his team’s immediate reaction after the game. “We were very excited. They’ve been playing better and better as the year has gone on, playing with a lot of confidence. I think they stepped off the field feeling like not only did we win, but we were right there with them, step for step.” Even after losses this year, the Cats felt like they competed well, often feeling like they were one chance away from changing the outcome. But the team persisted through missed opportunities and continued to play well to the finish. “Movies can be made about this kind of stuff,” Moynihan said. “The adversity that they’ve faced over the course of last season and the last few years, the senior group in particular. As the leader of this team, I’m so happy for them.” The hero of the day wasn’t a senior though. It was the freshman Manning, who was also quick to point out the team’s strong defense and perseverance.
“I’ve never played with a team that’s been this mentally tough,” Manning said. “We just grinded everything out from the start of the whistle to the end. This team has the most passion for the game of any I’ve ever played with.” It’s easy to look at this game as one of the biggest in program history. The last time the Cats won a game in the Big Ten Tournament, in 1997, the current players on the team were just toddlers. Moynihan didn’t go that far but did acknowledge the importance of the win in terms of changing the reputation of the program. “It shows we’re moving in the right direction,” he said. “When I came to Northwestern, I felt there was just tremendous potential. The academic reputation of the school is among the very best. Now we’re competing with the best athletically. It opens up a lot of opportunities out there for women that want the best of both.” If the Cats want to continue their Cinderella run, they’ll have to go through an Iowa team that beat them 1-0 back in September. Moynihan said the Hawkeyes are a tough team, but he’s confident, once again, in their chances Friday. “We’ll have our hands full, but I feel good,” Moynihan said. “Since we played last time, I think the team has improved a lot.” Manning agreed. “We know that we can beat them,” she said. “We feel confident in how we’re playing lately. We’re going to come out with a lot of hard work and take it to them.” huzaifapatel2017@u.northwestern.edu
NU wins, settles for 3rd place By JULIAN GEREZ
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Despite a dominant 2-0 victory over Wisconsin (3-11-3, 0-7-1 Big Ten), No. 16 Northwestern (9-3-5, 4-1-3) was not able to win the conference regular season championship after Maryland’s victory over Rutgers. The Wildcats finished third in the conference and will therefore host No. 2 Indiana (11-3-4, 3-3-2) — who finished sixth in the Big Ten despite its national ranking — at Lakeside Field on Sunday in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament. “If you average the five polls together, (Indiana is) the No. 1 team in the country,” coach Tim Lenahan said. “So that’s your reward … Only in the Big Ten.” Junior forward Joey Calistri, who had not scored since Oct. 5, ended his scoring drought and picked up a brace in NU’s match against Wisconsin with two welltaken goals. “It’s always tough when you’re going through a little bit of a rough patch,” Calistri said. “It happens as part of the game, so you have to grow with it and learn from it. I knew that if I kept putting the work in, that good things would come.” The Cats scored the first goal with their first shot of the game in the 11th minute, when senior midfielder Eric Weberman played a good ball through to Calistri, who beat the goalkeeper one-on-one and put NU in the lead. Weberman was brought into action just five minutes later. He took a corner that bounced off of a Badgers defender and back to his feet. Weberman cut in from the left side and ripped a shot with his left foot that rattled off of the crossbar. Wisconsin struggled to establish itself offensively, with the Cats controlling possession and snuffing out the Badgers’ few opportunities. As a result, some of the
Wisconsin players grew frustrated and played a very physical match, with three Cats ending up on the ground after fouls from Wisconsin. Badgers midfielder Alex Masbruch earned the first and only caution of the match with a trip in his attempt to stop a dangerous counterattack by Calistri in the 37th minute. Wisconsin was able to maintain possession toward the end of the first half but was not able to put quality shots onto senior goalkeeper Tyler Miller’s net. At half time, Maryland’s match ended in a 3-2 victory for the Terrapins, clinching their Big Ten regular season championship. Though their conference title hopes were done, the Cats didn’t take long to put the pressure on Wisconsin again after the second half kickoff. In the 50th minute, Weberman played in freshman forward Sam Forsgren in the 18-yard-box, and he cut it back and found Calistri with a good run at the far post. The junior slotted into
the back of the net for his second goal of the match. Toward the end of the match, Badgers defender Matej Radonic received a red card for denying a clear goal-scoring opportunity which might have given Calistri his hat-trick. “The best thing is that we got the result against a solid Wisconsin team,” Calistri said. “We found a way to grind it out today on a windy night. It was a good all-around effort.” The Cats were outshot 11-5, but Lenahan also emphasized the importance of the win, which maintained NU’s undefeated home record ahead of the tournament. “Any Big Ten win is a special win,” he said. “Wisconsin is a pretty good team … we kind of closed up shop a little bit, but I think they’re going to be heard from in this tournament.” juliangerez2017@u.northwestern.edu
Men’s Soccer Nathan Richards/Daily Senior Staffer
BRACING Junior forward Joey Calistri’s 2 goals gave Northwestern a 2-0 victory over Wisconsin on Wednesday. Despite the win, the Wildcats settled for third place in the final Big Ten standings because of wins by Maryland and Ohio State.