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operation obama U.S. Marine Corp MV-22 aircraft lands on the lakefill Monday afternoon as part of an exercise to prepare for the arrival of President Barack Obama on Thursday. Obama will give a speech on campus before returning to Washington. As a sitting president prepares to the White House to increase secuBy jeanne kuang and paige leskin rity and finalize the audience for visit campus for the first time in 60 daily senior staffers years, Evanston and Northwestern Thursday’s speech. @jeannekuang @paigeleskin officials are working closely with President Barack Obama will
Mayor Tisdahl signs age-friendly pledge for seniors
Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl has signed a pledge promising to make Evanston more friendly and comfortable for older residents. The “Best Cities for Successful Aging Mayor’s Pledge,” created by the nonprofit Milken Institute, promises that Tisdahl will improve health and wellness resources, as well as provide more employment opportunities for the elderly, according to a news release from the city. “Evanston is a great place to grow up and grow old,” Mayor Tisdahl said in the release. “I’m proud to join the Milken Institute and mayors across the country in continuing to improve the lives of older adults in Evanston and cities nationwide.” Through the pledge, mayors vow to provide older residents with access to housing, more options for mobility in transportation and affordable living. Previous to the pledge, Evanston developed an initiative in May to focus on making the city more age friendly. “At this point, we’re gathering information from residents to get input from them,” said Susan Cherco, chairman for the Age Friendly task
force. “The idea is to come together with proposals that will improve the age friendliness of Evanston.” The task force, centered around goals laid out in the “Age Friendly Evanston” plan, is using a template from the World Health Organization, which designates standards for eight areas of community life. Evanston joined WHO’s “Age Friendly Cities” program last April. “I think this is not just an Evanston issue, in general some of the critical things are transportation and affordable housing,” Cherco said. “Those are issues across the country.” According to guidelines from WHO, the task force has two years to design proposals and three more years to implement them — a fiveyear plan overall. Although there is room for improvement in Evanston, Cherco commended the city for what it has already accomplished. “In many ways, Evanston is already a very age-friendly city compared to other cities,” Cherco said. “So what we’re looking to do is make it better. We want to have all city projects have someone who can look at it from an age-friendly lens and see what impact every project has on the age-friendliness of the city.”
Jewel-Osco stores in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa suffer data breach
The two Jewel-Osco locations in Evanston were among the stores across Illinois, Indiana and Iowa hit by a credit card fraud incident on Monday, the second incident in two months that has impacted the chain. The attack looked to obtain information from credit and debit cards used by customers at the
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night they had been selected to volunteer for the speech. “People who are selected will be at the event and get to hear the speech in person,” Howard said. Howard said his office reached out to a “broad cross-section of student leaders from a number of student groups.” The University will set up a live feed of Obama’s remarks at viewing locations across campus, including Technological Institute, the Jacobs Center, the McCormick Tribune Center and Norris University Center. The speech will be livestreamed on the White House website. On Tuesday, preparations for the event were underway on campus and in Evanston. University and city officials have been working together for about a week in anticipation of the visit, city manager Wally Bobkiewicz said. Helicopters landed on The Lakefill on Monday afternoon as part of a police exercise. Cubbage confirmed Tuesday the exercise was performed in preparation for Obama’s arrival. City officials notified residents Tuesday that traffic will be affected » See obama, page 6
NU uses ‘Jeopardy!’ computer
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jeopardy genius Watson’s computer servers stand at IBM. McCormick students have the opportunity to build their own applications with the help of Watson, a computer made famous by its success on “Jeopardy!”
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Northwestern students will be able to use and build upon IBM’s prized
grocery stores, according to a news release from Jewel-Osco. Personal information that was targeted includes account numbers, expiration dates, cardholders’ names and other private information. Sensitive information, including Social Security numbers and birth dates, were not affected by the incident. Customers who shopped at stores in the three states from June 22 to July 17 and from Aug. 27 to Sept. 21 were among those affected by the criminal intrusion, according to Jewel-Osco’s site. Jewel-Osco’s parent company AB Acquisition LLC, which also operates other grocery chains, said it has
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tout his administration’s efforts to recover from the recession at 1:15 p.m. in Cahn Auditorium, a venue that seats more than 1,000. The audience will include White House guests, Evanston officials, undergraduate students and graduate students from the Kellogg School of Management and The Graduate School, University spokesman Al Cubbage said. NU students will not be able purchase or reserve tickets to the speech, Cubbage said. An undisclosed number of undergraduate and graduate students were chosen to attend the event. Kellogg will host a lottery to select students who will attend the speech, Cubbage said. Cubbage declined to comment on how the NU undergraduate and graduate students were chosen or why they were not selected via lottery. “It was simply a matter of availability,” he said, noting there was a limited number of seats available for students. The University asked some undergraduate student leaders to volunteer for the event, said Burgwell Howard, assistant vice president of student engagement. Multiple students confirmed they were notified Tuesday
Watson system through a course offered this fall. Along with seven other universities, NU has received cloud access to Watson, the computer system that famously won the TV show “Jeopardy!” in 2011. The question answering technology can
told law enforcement of the security breach and is cooperating with authorities to ensure the incident is properly investigated and those responsible are found. “We take our responsibility to protect our customers’ payment card data seriously,” Bob Miller, chief executive officer at AB Acquisition LLC, said in a news release. “We sincerely regret that our customers’ data was targeted. As a company, our decisions are always focused on what is best for our customers, and we know this issue has inconvenienced them and caused concern.” The malware used in the latest attack is different
process natural language questions and produce natural language answers, as opposed to a search engine such as Google that simply generates related content. » See watson, page 6
than that used in the incident that occurred in August, according to Jewel-Osco’s information technology services provider SUPERVALU. The investigation into the first privacy breach is still pending. In response to the possible data hack, Jewel-Osco is awarding to customers who fall under the proper location and time frame a year of free consumer identity protection service. Jewel-Osco has two location in Evanston at 1128 Chicago Ave. and 2485 Howard St. — Paige Leskin
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Upgrades to city CTA Funding to encourage transit use in city
Evanston will receive a $25,000 grant to investigate potential changes to the city’s zoning ordinances to increase public transit use among residents, according to an announcement from the Regional Transportation Authority last week. The funding was awarded by the RTA, which oversees all public transit provided through the Chicago Transit Authority, Metra community rail and Pace bus service. The money will help Evanston look into a citywide transitoriented development parking policy, which would encourage the use of CTA and Metra stations. The policy looks to prevent the construction of unnecessary parking spots around transit stations by making revisions to the city’s current zoning codes. The project would assess the supply and demand of parking spots near the stations, so that the city can change the
number to better reflect the need of transit users. The new parking policy and changed zoning ordinances will affect all stations. The RTA provided funding to 16 projects in Evanston and other towns through its Community Planning program, which is in its 16th year. In total, the organization will allott $810,000 to the various projects, sourced from federal, local and RTA funds. Ultimately, the goal is to improve economic development near transit stations and increase transit use. “Through these programs, the RTA awards funding and technical assistance for projects that create transit-supportive local plans,” Leanne Redden, acting executive director of the RTA, said in a news release. “In addition to helping to reduce congestion and improve air quality, these plans help the RTA maximize use of its transit system and tap into new markets that may lead to the creation of more jobs and sustainable communities.”
Public arts project coming to Davis Street CTA station
City officials are planning to install a public arts project near the CTA station on Davis Street. The project will be located in the 2nd Ward, just east of the CTA station’s downtown Evanston location. In the next few months, a committee will be formed to choose the artist and design, Ald. Peter Braithwaite (2nd) said in a Sept. 23 newsletter.
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ppublic transit pump-up A train pulls away from a CTA station in Evanston. The areas around transit stops in the city will be undergoing changes, including the addition of a public arts project at the Davis station and plans to increase transit use among residents.
Braithwaite said he strongly advocates for the addition of art in his ward and wants public arts projects to continue to develop there. With input from cultural arts coordinator Jennifer Lasik, Braithwaite chose the CTA station among various sites throughout his ward to potentially showcase public art, including Mason Park and the area near Quartet Copies. “I think as a whole, the city has an appreciation for the arts,” he said. The project will join multiple public arts initiatives in Evanston. One such presentation exists outside of the Evanston Public Library at 1703 Orrington Ave., where
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poetry is displayed on the sidewalk in front of the building. The Evanston Public Art Committee, committed to encouraging more public art projects throughout the community, created a competition to select the five best poems to lay out in front of the library. The fence of the Custer Street bridge was transformed into a public art project in 2009. Located near the 200 block of Custer Avenue, the art itself consists of steel lines that look like window shades and blue LED lighting that seems to move as one passes. — Jennifer Ball
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On Campus John Evans committee talks findings with residents By tyler pager
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Members of the John Evans Study Committee gathered Tuesday night to inform Evanston residents and Northwestern students about findings in their May report on John Evans’ relationship to the Sand Creek Massacre. Three of the eight members of the committee presented the report and answered questions in front of nearly 45 people at Firehouse Grill, 750 Chicago Ave. The event was part of Science Cafe, a monthly event that brings NU research topics into the Evanston community. The committee was formed in 2013 to investigate the role University founder John Evans played in the Sand Creek Massacre and whether
NU benefitted financially from Evans’ actions. More than 100 Cheyenne and Arapaho people died during the 1864 massacre, which took place in the Colorado Territory while Evans was governor. In May, the committee released its report and found no evidence Evans was directly involved in planning the massacre. The committee did conclude that the University ignored his “significant moral failures” regarding his treatment of Native Americans. English Prof. Carl Smith, who chaired the committee, began the event by giving a brief overview of the study, highlighting Evans’ career and his role in the founding of NU. Residents and students then asked the three professors a variety of questions on Evans’ actions, the details of the Sand Creek Massacre and NU’s relationship with Evans.
History Prof. Peter Hayes discussed the importance of studying Evans’ role in the massacre. Hayes, who often teaches a class called History of the Holocaust, said the study of history gives important insight into how people behaved in the past. He said that while he cannot guarantee knowledge of the past will prevent future atrocities, he was confident that without studying history, future atrocities could not be prevented. One attendee asked the professors what actions NU and Evanston should take to address Evans’ role in both NU and the city’s history. Smith said the University and the city need to do more than take symbolic actions such as removing his name from buildings. “Telling the full story is more important to me,” he said. “Making the University more
inclusive is more important to me. Establishing better resources to study Native American history and culture is more important to me.” Weinberg senior Heather Menefee, who previously served as the co-president of NU’s Native American and Indigenous Student Alliance, was among the students who attended the event. Menefee is part of the Native American Outreach and Inclusion Task Force that was formed to understand and improve the Native American community’s relationship with NU. “I’m glad to see that the committee is engaging with the larger Northwestern community still,” she said. “As usual, I wish that Native voices were part of the event and not just people who have to sit in the audience and listen to the same people give their opinions.” tylerpager2017@u.northwestern.edu
NU updates UHAS, alcohol policy in handbook By olivia exstrum
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The Student Handbook for the 2014-2015 academic year includes substantial changes to the University Hearing and Appeals System, namely the addition of a mediating investigator to keep students involved in disputes from confronting each other during a disciplinary hearing. The new policies, announced to students Sept. 24 in an email from Dean of Students Todd Adams, aim to increase “transparency, timeliness and understanding while maintaining a fair and just process.” “We’ve been working to focus on transparency and make sure students have a process that they can access and feel comfortable using,” said
Tara Sullivan, director of Student Conduct and Conflict Resolution. “The new conduct process is something we’ve been pretty open about.” Students can have a disciplinary case resolved through either an Administrative or a Panel Hearing. According to the handbook, UHAS will offer an Administrative Hearing for less serious cases of alleged misconduct “that do not have the potential to result in suspension, exclusion, degree revocation, expulsion, or group dissolution.” In an Administrative Hearing, the accused student and a Hearing Officer, a conduct administrator assigned to the case, will discuss the alleged misconduct. In cases that “do not involve an alleged incident of violence,” but pose a possibility of expulsion, the respondent will be able to choose either an Administrative or Panel Hearing, where a student’s case is heard before a panel
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of students, faculty and staff members. Students accused of violence or of violating the University’s sexual misconduct policy will have their case referred to a Panel Hearing. For the first time this year, in Panel Hearings, the reporting student and responding student will speak separately with an investigator and the panel, rather than at the same time. The investigator may be externally hired by the University, according to the handbook. “In the past, students were in the rooms together,” Sullivan said. “That was something we heard from students they were very uncomfortable with. Now, they won’t be in the room together to confront each other directly.” In addition to the disciplinary system, a few changes were made to conduct related to alcohol, according to Adams’ email. The policy now prohibits “drinking practices or games” and alcohol consumption by students age 21 and
over in the presence of underage students. However, students and their guests who are older than 21 may consume alcohol in the presence of their underage roommate, but not underage guests. Although the Office of Student Conduct and Conflict Resolution oversees any changes made to the handbook, Sullivan said a variety of student groups provided input. She said the groups, including Men Against Rape and Sexual Assault and Associated Student Government, reached out to the office. Sullivan said the office also sought out groups they thought would provide valuable feedback on potential changes. “I think it’s important to understand that the changes were made with student groups on campus,” Sullivan said. “It’s not something we wrote in the dark.” oliviaexstrum2017@u.northwestern.edu
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NU should up endowment payout to help students tom cui
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Northwestern, if nothing else, is filthy, stinking rich. As of February of this year, the University boasted an endowment of about $8.7 billion. To put it more bitingly, we hold about as much wealth as 10 million Haitians produce in a year. Although we cannot compare to Stanford (about $18.2 billion) or Harvard (about $32.3 billion), we still have an incredible sum compared to the vast majority of American colleges. Since the new decade, as public universities clench teeth and raise tuition in response to cuts in government funding, NU is blessed with stable balance sheets all around. Stability is well and good; campus revenues are stable, with undergraduate tuition stably rising to 3.8 percent this year and the endowment stably growing by 11 percent annually. But stability, in another sense, is strange. The endowment is stable in the sense that a gaping dark hole is: we know it is there, but we cannot see into it. Maybe those who manage it cannot do so either. For all the
small talk made about how little NU is spending its endowment, few people actually understand where it would be spent in the first place. There are a few definitions we should know. An endowment fund could be described as a big, big portfolio: It is a name for all the stocks, debt, property and hedge funds into which the University’s different parts invest their money. But an endowment is also restrictive: People deposit or donate their cash into the endowment, and if they say their money can be used only for a specific campus activity, the University must honor their decision. In another twist, an endowment is perpetual: If the people investing into the endowment give the University the freedom to choose how the funds are spent, nothing stops the school from raking in investment returns for as long as they like. This leads to a puzzle. Although taking marginally more out of the endowment can cover many small costs, endowment money is not supposed to cover small costs because of its size. The goals of an endowment are nobler. It serves as perpetual revenue that prevents sudden collapses in balance sheets. If not that, then it preserves intergenerational equity: Students in the future will have the same quality of service as today, regardless of higher prices for future services.
Even if the endowment’s goals are noble, its managers can play it fast and loose. The NU endowment follows a popular strategy, a Swensen model with payout anchored to real spending. This means the University targets how much they want to expand, calculates future costs and prepares to fund those payments by gambling on riskier stocks – likely making more than expected and further whetting the University’s appetite. Of course, if you are more pessimistic and think there’s a crash on the horizon, you might think NU is asking for another 17 percent loss on their investment. What if, more importantly, we want to bring the endowment strategy back down to Earth? There is a different way to see the endowment’s purpose, best championed by NU economics professor Burton Weisbrod. In his view, an endowment is a “rainy-day fund” at its heart, and we wish for it grow stably to serve that purpose. NU, though not battered by a financial storm, has its share of showers: The average NU student debt load has risen to $25,000, which hits those in schools with lower average incomes, like the Medill School of Journalism or the School of Education and Social Policy, even further. If NU replicates Princeton’s model, which targets a rise in endowment payout rates and is not afraid to use its rainy-day fund, we
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$87 billion as of February 2014. Endowment is typically paid out at a rate between 4.5% and 5%. could see the benefits. NU can subsidize unpaid internships such as Medill’s Journalism Residency program, offer debt relief and even reduce tuition rises during economic downturn. Every once in a while, there are students who question if NU’s endowment is invested in the right places, as during the anti-Apartheid and divestment movements. But let us go further — we should ask if it is invested for the right goal. Tom Cui is a Weinberg senior. He can be reached at tianfangcui2015@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a letter to the editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.
Women increasingly depicted better in TV than film MADELINE BURG
Daily columnist
With Emma Watson taking a stand in front of the United Nations to promote her HeForShe campaign, Beyonce silhouetted in front of a giant flashing “FEMINIST” at the VMAs and Alison Bechdel, creator of the eponymous test for gauging how well a film uses its female characters, winning a MacArthur Genius grant, the influence of women in today’s cultural and political spheres is reaching critical mass. About time, am I right? Frankly it’s embarrassing that it’s taken this long for feminism to be thrust to the forefront of cultural discourse. It’s 2014, and iPhones are watches now. Nowhere is the rise of women more evident and more admirable than in the arena of television. As someone who admittedly watches a lot of TV (for various reasons, many of which involve avoiding my responsibilities), I subscribe to the idea that we can learn a lot from the stories told and the characters created on our screens, especially in today’s television landscape. Film, on the other hand, has become
a wasteland wiped of realistic female characters, where sexualized cardboard cutouts of women are still the norm (a recent trailer for the impending “Dumb and Dumber” sequel has an aged Jim Carrey ogling Jeff Daniels’ adolescent daughter). But on the small screen, a new trend of interesting, multifaceted and therefore realistic female characters is emerging at a timely moment. We’ve just experienced an era of great but intensely maledominated television, and although Don Drapers and Walter Whites still abound, the age of the good, complex lady role is upon us. Take Shonda Rhimes’ new show “How to Get Away With Murder.” Viola Davis left the big screen for the small, if that’s any indication of the state of the industry, and plays a criminal defense professor, the best in her field. She’s also got questionable morals and won’t hesitate to ruffle a few feathers to get what she needs. Rhimes, the creator of “Scandal” and “Grey’s Anatomy,” has long been known to craft female roles that have the layers and complications of a real person, a person who happens to be a woman. There is room for a female Don Draper on your Netflix queue. And although Hillary Clinton remains tightlipped regarding her probable 2016 presidential candidacy, shows about women in government are popping up all over the place, as if in preparation for
Hil’s ascendancy. CBS’ “Madam Secretary” follows the Secretary of State (Hillary is that you?), and NBC’s “State of Affairs” follows a black, female president and her daily briefer. Tea Leoni, Alfre Woodard and Katherine Heigl — secretary, president and briefer, respectively — continue what Kerry Washington has begun on “Scandal.” All four women bring to TV drama what Northwestern alum Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Communication ’83) has already been doing in the HBO comedy “Veep” for two years. Louis-Dreyfus’ role as Vice President Selina Meyer is a depiction of a woman in government, in a comedy and on television, arenas dominated in the past by men that are now seeing a long overdue rise in female involvement. Even genre shows, which are often geared toward men but just as often have a secretly large female audience (lookin’ at you, “Game of Thrones”), are producing fascinating lead roles for actresses. The revolving company of stock actors in “American Horror Story” is lead by the inimitable Jessica Lange and the great Sarah Paulson. Starz’s new historical-fantasy-romance “Outlander,” based on Diana Gabaldon’s bestselling series of novels, stars newcomer Caitriona Balfe. BBC America’s underground sci-fi juggernaut “Orphan Black” has Tatiana Maslany playing not one but seven richly layered
women with distinct personalities. Not to get all rah-rah-feminist but, as a real woman, it’s exciting to see at least one medium depicting real women. Fiction in pop culture is so often a reflection of our real-person selves. When we see ourselves in it, that’s when it becomes great and relevant. All this is not to say that we don’t have a long way to go in terms of gender equality in culture. “True Detective” still uses female bodies as props. “Game of Thrones” remains a proponent of “sexposition,” or having exposition play out over a needless sex scene, usually just to satisfy the male gaze. NBC’s new comedy “Bad Judge” features Kate Walsh wearing jean booty shorts under her judicial robes because LOL isn’t that funny and sexy and isn’t she a bad, bad girl-judge? But I see your “Bad Judge” and raise you an Olivia Pope and a Selina Meyer and a Liz Lemon. It’s 2014, “Gilmore Girls” is on Netflix and all is right with the world. TV is about to crush it on the feminist front, not a moment too soon. 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
Improve current housing before new construction burak sekerci
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Last Friday, Northwestern announced it will build a new residence hall on Lincoln Street. The building will be the first residence hall built since 2002, and it will be the first step in the 10-year housing master plan administrators decided on last summer. The plan includes expanding University housing capacity by an astonishing 1,000 beds and improving the residence halls. As The Daily has reported, student feedback played a major role while developing the plan. Julie Payne-Kirchmeier, the assistant vice president for student auxiliary services, said the master plan “lets us know where we need to invest our dollars versus, ‘Are there things we need to upgrade or replace?’” NU is on the correct path for improving residential life by creating this master plan. It gives the residential services a lead on how they should shape the residential system for the next 10 years according to student and professional feedback. With this, they can easily see which dorms need renovation and which need just small adjustments. The master plan also creates a sense of organization to our school’s architectural composition. However, I was surprised to see that NU is going to build a new dorm. I believe that this shouldn’t be a move for now but rather later. There are already
almost 1,600 beds for students on North Campus, excluding the fraternity houses. Excluding the number of sophomores and juniors who live in fraternity houses, there is enough space for freshmen and upperclassmen who wish to live north of FosterWalker Complex. There are also many open rooms here and there at different halls that are empty. In my dorm last year, two students had “dingles,” a double room occupied by only one student. In addition to dingles across campus, there are also rooms that aren’t lived in at all, so building a new residential hall is not a step that needs to be immediately taken. Instead, NU should focus on improving the halls that already exist. Alex Van Atta, then-Associated Student Government executive vice president, told The Daily in May 2013 the quality of the rooms in different halls varies drastically. This should be a wake up call for residential services. NU needs to bring all residence halls and colleges up to the same standard. This would ensure higher trust in the University housing process, and students could expect the same quality regardless of where they live. Another aspect of the process of improving housing is student responsibility. I’ve seen many instances where the students played major roles in wearing out facilities or damaging them. We always complain about the state of the facilities, but we are equally responsible for their current state. Therefore the student body should also contribute by trying to use the facilities without damaging them. The housing master plan also focuses on upperclassmen housing. Most of the upperclassmen prefer to live in Kemper Hall. Paul Riel, executive director of residential services, told The Daily that
older students “want more privacy and autonomy.” Right now, Kemper offers the best option for the upperclassmen with suite-style living where five to six people can have their own kitchens and bathrooms, allowing students to feel less like they’re living in a dorm. If Northwestern creates more space that upperclassmen would enjoy living in, more upperclassmen could live on campus, and campus involvement would be much higher. Right now, I’m living off campus, but if I was guaranteed on-campus housing similar to Kemper, I would definitely consider staying on campus. I would be living much closer to my classes and my fraternity house and would likely be more involved.
If Northwestern must build a new dorm, it should be one dedicated to upperclassmen living. As a whole, the NU housing system is on the right track. The 10-year master plan will help the University be more organized in the upcoming years. However, residential services should reevaluate how they are spending their money. Rather than building new residence halls, NU should increase funding for renovations, which is the effective choice to make in the short run. Burak Sekerci is a McCormick sophomore. He can be reached at buraksekerci2017@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor.
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New eatery changes name to reflect city history A restaurant set to open in Evanston in late October is changing its name to highlight the city’s history. Owners of a restaurant that will feature smoked meats and wood-fired pizza changed the name of its establishment at 1700 Central St. from The Wood Shed to Ten Mile House after receiving approval from an Evanston committee earlier this month. Robert LaPata, a managing partner of Ten Mile House, said the previous name was not the best description of the restaurant. “We wanted something that could be connected to (Evanston) a lot more,” he said.
The name Ten Mile House is historically significant to Evanston, LaPata said. The first establishment built on Evanston property was called Ten-Mile House and served as a post office, courthouse and tavern. It was used as a gathering place for Evanston settlers and also most likely served as the location for their first Thanksgiving. LaPata is one of three owners of Ten Mile House, along with Joe Krouse, current owner of Unite Urban Grill, and Frederic Gale, who owns restaurants on the East Coast. The three were interested in building the restaurant because they all had ties to both the restaurant business and to Evanston, LaPata said. LaPata said he and the other owners thought the name The Wood Shed gave off the impression that the restaurant only served barbecue
food. “We’re basically an upscale, casual American comfort food restaurant,” LaPata said. Evanston’s site plan and appearance review committee voted to approve the name change at their Sept. 10 meeting. LaPata, Krouse and Gale chose to build the restaurant on Central Street because they felt downtown Evanston was too congested, LaPata said. He said northeast Evanston, where Central Street is located, is comparatively underserved. New developments, such as the Evanston Art Center, have plans to open in the area. “We wanted to be a part of that development that’s there,” LaPata said. Mark Muenzer, the city’s director of community development, said Ten Mile House will add to the area’s streetscape because there are
Evanston celebrates Arts and Humanities Month
The events were made possible through a continuing partnership with the Illinois Arts Council. A presentation called “A Bright Night for the Arts” will take place Oct. 9 at the Rotary International Building, 1560 Sherman Ave. At the event, Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl will give out an artist of the year award.
are disabled. The opening reception is Oct. 10 at Noyes Cultural Center, 927 Noyes St.
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National News Officials begin tracing contacts of Texas patient diagnosed with Ebola Am an who traveled from Liberia to visit family members in Texas tested positive for Ebola on Tuesday, marking the outbreak’s first diagnosis outside of Africa, health officials said. The unidentified patient, who is critically ill, has been cared for in a special isolation ward at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas since Sunday, said Dr. Edward Goodman, the hospital’s epidemiologist. The patient initially sought treatment in the hospital’s emergency department Friday but was sent home with antibiotics, Goodman said. The man was in apparent good health when he stepped off a commercial airliner Sept. 20 but began to feel sick four days later, said Dr. Tom Frieden,
Expressions from the Heart The show features the work of artists who director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Frieden emphasized that the man did not become infectious until he began to develop active symptoms of the hemorrhagic fever. The answers to 5 Ebola questions you’re afraid to ask. Federal, state and local medical teams are now scrambling to locate individuals who were in close contact with the patient and may have been infected. The virus is spread through direct contact with body fluids, including blood, saliva, vomit and feces. “I have no doubt that we will control this importation of Ebola so that it does not spread widely in this country,” Frieden said. “We will stop it here.” Henry Johnson heard the news while watching TV in the hospital’s emergency room with his wife, who was waiting to be treated for a headache. The Dallas resident said the crowded room watched
“Power of the Spirit” Art Exhibit An art exhibit, sponsored by arts council member Fran Joy, at Garrett Seminary on Oct. 14 at 12:45 p.m. will be a free and open to Northwestern students and staff.
closely and remained calm. But Johnson said he was worried about the people who were in the ER on Friday, as well as those who might have been exposed to Ebola after hospital staff let the patient leave. “They should have quarantined him then,” the 53-year-old chef said. “I hope they catch it before it really gets out.” Megan Castro, 27, of nearby Mesquite wasn’t aware of the Ebola patient when she arrived at the hospital with her stepson and saw news trucks parked outside. When she learned why they were there, she stopped short of the doors and scanned the building, wringing her hands as she weighed whether to go inside. “Have they cleaned the whole hospital?” she wondered aloud. The two debated whether to go to a different
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not many restaurants like it east of Green Bay Road. “It gives residents somewhere they can walk to or bike to easily that’s an independent sitdown restaurant,” Muenzer said. stephaniekelly2017@u.northwestern.edu
Around the Block On Oct. 16th 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., the Evanston Arts Council and the Block Museum will partner to provide an overview of 2014-2015 programming. It will include Brooklyn artist Wangechi Mutu, who addresses gender inequality, racism and environmental degradation. — Jennifer Ball
hospital. In the end, they decided to go in. But she said hospital officials should inform visitors and patients about what was being done to contain the disease. “The community has a right to know because there’s a lot of people who come in and out of this hospital,” said Castro, who works as a driver. Goodman said the hospital had anticipated the arrival of an Ebola patient and held a meeting on the matter just last week. “Because of that we were well prepared to deal with this crisis,” he said. Frieden and hospital officials declined to describe the patient or his condition in detail, citing federal privacy laws. But Frieden said the patient had been in contact with only a handful of people after he became infectious. — Monte Morin and Molly Hennessy-Fiske (Los Angeles Times)
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The class, part of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has 30 to 50 students currently enrolled. Prof. Larry Birnbaum is leading the class, along with other computer science and industrial engineering faculty. Students will divide into teams, come up with project ideas and program Watson to execute them, Birnbaum said. “There are so few places that students can get their hands on cutting-edge technology like this,� Birnbaum said. “I think our students are up to the challenge. I’m sure they’ll come up with some great things, and I’m here to help them do that.� Watson began as several servers linked to form a question answering machine. Since IBM connected it to the Internet in 2013, it has become more powerful and accessible. The aim of the class is to build applications on top of Watson in order to solve problems in various industries. “Travel advice is an interesting example that we’re thinking about for this class,� Birnbaum said. “We’re also thinking about class advising, like ‘What class can I take now?’ or ‘Do I have the prerequisites for this class?’� Students will compile a corpus of relevant documents for Watson, in addition to a collection of Q&A examples designed to train the system in the subject of the problem they are working on, Birnbaum said. He added that, because the course is centered upon the teams’ projects, most classes will involve the faculty mentoring the teams during presentations and meetings rather than traditional lectures. “This is all on top of designing the user interaction and user interface that will sit between the human user and Watson, so this is a pretty demanding project,� Birnbaum said. One NU team will see the culmination of their hard work at an IBM competition in New York in January, presenting their project alongside teams from the other schools. The winning team will receive seed money from IBM to further develop their idea. Weinberg senior Jodie Zong, who is enrolled in the class, is interested in exploring the intersection of artificial intelligence and the health care industry, for example, robots that are capable of performing certain medical operations with better accuracy than human beings. “For (robots) to be able to understand human language and be able to execute it is something that the industry can look forward to and that I would be really excited to see,� Zong said. “Obviously it’s going to be much more complicated than what we’ll be doing in class, but I would love to learn more.� She said she is equally excited about the chance to work with Watson itself. “I think it’s very cool to be able to work on a project that we’ve been hearing a lot about because we learn about Watson in almost all of our computer science classes,� Zong said.
on Thursday. Sheridan Road, between Hinman Avenue and Dartmouth Street, will be closed to traffic from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Thursday, according to a city news release. The area near Cahn Auditorium will be closed to the public Parts of Chicago Avenue, Foster Street, Emerson Street and Orrington Avenue will also be blocked off on Thursday, according to the news release. “We’re looking forward to it. We’ll do everything we can to support the University to have it be a memorable occasion,â€? Bobkiewicz said. Parking will also be restricted on the route for the president’s motorcade, Bobkiewicz said. Cars will be prohibited from parking on sections of Orrington Avenue, Foster Street and Emerson Street. Evanston and University police have been working cooperatively with the Chicago Police Department, Illinois State Police and the U.S. Secret Service to provide security, Evanston police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said. “We have to ensure the safety of the presWe have to ident ‌ that extends beyond the Secret ensure the Service to us,â€? Parsafety of the rott said. “That’s the president ‌ that utmost importance, the president extends beyond that arrives safely, conthe Secret ducts his business and departs safely.â€? Service to us. NU and the White Cmdr. Jay Parrott, House surveyed a number of locations Evanston police before deciding on Cahn Auditorium, Cubbage said, declining to comment on what other venues were considered. NU Facilities Management, NU Information Technology and other University
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Police Blotter Man arrested in connection with punching another man An Evanston man was arrested Monday in connection with punching another man in the face, police said. A 52-year-old man told police he was punched in the face following an argument, Evanston police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said. The Evanston man, 67, had fled the scene by the
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POTUS Patrol Officers prepare Cahn Auditorium before President Barack Obama’s speech. Northwestern and city officials have spent the last week getting ready for the visit.
departments are involved in preparation for the event, Cubbage said. This is the first time a sitting president has visited the University since then-President Dwight D. Eisenhower came in 1954. Bobkiewicz said Obama will be the ninth president or presidential candidate to come through the city, with a history extending back to Abraham Lincoln’s passage through Evanston in
1860 during his run for president. “Not many communities around can trace their presidential visits back to Abraham Lincoln, but we can in Evanston,� he said.
time an officer showed up, Parrott said. Because the incident was caught on video, the Evanston man was arrested Monday night in the 1000 block of Grove Street and charged with battery, police said.
said. The 33-year-old provided police with a description of the Evanston woman, he said. After the incident, an officer stopped a woman who matched the description in the 1000 block of Chicago Avenue, police said. The woman admitted she had gotten into the altercation and was arrested Monday morning, police said.
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A woman from Evanston was charged with battery following a dispute with a 33-year-old woman, police said. The woman, 30, punched the other woman in the face Monday and fled the area, Parrott
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Captured: NU’s upset Women’s Golf of Penn State in photos Wildcats slip to 7th at Annika Intercollegiate Behind a dominating defense and improved play from senior quarterback Trevor Siemian and the offense, Northwestern upset Penn State 29-6 Saturday in State College, Pennsylvania. Before the victory, the Wildcats were 1-2 on the season and appeared destined for a disappointing camping. Now, they’re 1-0 in conference play with new life in the chase for bowl eligibility. Check out Captured, The Daily’s photo blog, for more photos from Saturday’s game. Photos by Nathan Richards
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No. 17 Northwestern fell four spots in the final day of the inaugural Annika Intercollegiate to finish seventh of 12 teams. “It really wasn’t that bad,” coach Emily Fletcher said. “We just didn’t make the putts that we made the first couple of days.” The Wildcats started strong in the event, placing third after each of the first two days. In the opening round Sunday, they tied Stanford with a score of 2-under 286, behind only South Carolina and Arizona. They did even better Monday in round two. Although they carded a 1-over 289, their score was the second best of the day because of rough conditions. Juniors Suchaya Tangkamolprasert and Katilin Park were each part of a seven-way tie for fourth place at 2-under par. “We played very well,” Fletcher said. “We made a lot of birdies in the first round and fought hard in the second round.” But the success didn’t last. On the last day, NU shot an 8-over 296. That’s 14 shots behind South Carolina’s 6-under 282 for the round. The Cats’ collapse led to a tumble down the standings, dropping four spots to place seventh place. Their final score was a 7-over 871, compared with South Carolina’s winning 10-under 854. “We struggled on the greens today (Tuesday),” Fletcher said. “We struggled with our putting. It’s nothing to get too worried about. Sometimes that happens, and you learn from it and move on.” Park and Tangkamolprasert still led the Cats at one and two-over par, respectively. But the sevenway tie for fourth place was long gone, as they tied for 18th and 22nd overall. Still, the outlook for the team this year is as high as it’s ever been. The Cats are coming off back-to-back 15th-place finishes at the NCAA Championships in 2013 and 2014, their first two appearances at the nation’s top tournament since 2000.
Additionally, NU cruised through its opening tournament, the Branch Law Firm/Dick McGuire Invitational, finishing eight shots better than the runner up. In this weekend’s tournament, NU faced off against the top teams in the country. Ten of the 12 teams playing qualified for last year’s NCAA Championships, each finishing in the top 18 in the country. All of the Cats’ key pieces from last season are back. Senior Hana Lee and Park were First-Team AllBig Ten selections while sophomore Kacie Komoto made the Second-Team All-Big Ten. Lee was the first All-American in the school’s history, and Park was the 2013 Big Ten Freshman of the Year. On top of that, Tangkamolprasert returns too, as does NU’s most important asset: coach Fletcher. Fletcher has built the program into a contender in her seven years with the team, even winning a Big Ten title in 2013. Add to that mix freshmen Sarah Cho and Hannah Kim, and this might be the best NU team yet. Cho was the No. 4 recruit in the country and first in California, according to Junior Golf Scoreboard, while Kim placed ninth nationally and third in California on the same list. “They’ve been great additions, and they’re settling in really, really well,” Fletcher said. “They’re both from Southern California like a lot of our team, so most of our players have known them over the years.” “I’ve been really, really pleased with Hannah Kim and her play these first two events for us,” she added. “Sarah Cho is a very accomplished player, and there’s a good chance she’ll start to contribute and be a big part of our success.” The Cats are back in action Oct. 6 at the Windy City Collegiate Classic in Wilmette. “The goal is just to continue to improve and make progress,” Fletcher said. “We’re going to be a better team with each passing month, with each passing event, and when we get to the springtime, we’ll be playing our best.” alexanderlederman2017@u.northwestern.edu
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Northwestern (12-1, 2-0 Big Ten) heads into Wednesday’s match against sixth-ranked Wisconsin (10-2, 1-1 Big Ten) after winning their last seven matches. Despite the strong start to the season, the Wildcats will face their toughest opponent so far when the Badgers head to Welsh-Ryan Arena. NU has defended at an extremely high level this season, holding opponents We are ready to just a .134 hitting to make an percentage, impact in the the secBig Ten. We’re ond lowest ready to take on in the Big Ten only to any team that Penn State. The Cats comes at us. will need Taylor Tashima, continued Freshman setter stellar play from junior Caroline Niedospial and senior Katie Dutchman in leading the defense. Defense will be a key in slowing down the Wisconsin attack. The Badgers are led by seniors Ellen Chapman and Courtney Thomas. Chapman and Thomas each have
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120 or more kills this season. But the Cats have three players — freshman Symone Abbott, senior Yewande Akanbi and sophomore Kayla Morin — who also have more than 120 kills each. Freshmen will have a big impact on the match for both teams. Badgers freshman Kelli Bates and NU freshmen Symone Abbott and Taylor Tashima will play important roles in Wednesday’s match. Both Abbott and Tashima have been named Big Ten Freshman of the Week this season. Tashima recently was given the honor after she opened Big Ten play with two strong performances against Rutgers and Maryland. “We are ready,” Tashima said. “We have been practicing all season just like any other Big Ten team. We are ready to make an impact in the Big Ten. We’re ready to take on any team that comes at us.” A Cats win on Wednesday would put the Big Ten on notice. NU is currently not ranked in the top 25 but continues to gain votes in the poll. Without a doubt, a win in this match would catapult the Cats into the top 25. Before they are able to get the win, there are two areas NU will need to clean up before the match. Uncharacteristically, the Cats had some servicing issues during their first two Big Ten matches. “I would like us to clean up the servicing game,” coach Keylor Chan said. Another concern is the Cats’ passing game. “We have to pass a lot better,” Chan said “That is the key. When we
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The Daily: What about national teams? Carpenter: I started in the futures program, which is a ten-week program in the winter. Through that program, I was selected to be on the U-17 National Team, from there I went to the U-19 National Team and then I was on the U-21 National Team for a couple of years. I’ve traveled to Uruguay, Chile, England, Ireland, Germany. I’ve played with a lot of people who are on the National Team now, which has been really exciting. I really loved that, but I came to college to learn and get a career afterwards so I’m not pursuing (field hockey). The Daily: What’s it been like having coach Tracey Fuchs for your college career with her national level experience? Carpenter: I love Tracey Fuchs. I’m honored to be able to play for her. She was actually the U-17 coach when I went to Uruguay for the first time. I really like the way that she coaches, she’s really honest. She’s not a yeller unless you deserve it. That definitely motivates me. She’s also really encouraging. She’s an open book, and she cares for us more than any other coach in the entire country. The Daily: So have you ever considered coaching? Carpenter: I’ve considered it a little bit. With all these career fairs and everything coming up I’ve been thinking, “What am I going to do?” I could definitely consider myself coaching a little bit, definitely through grad school. I think that would be neat, but I’m definitely an academic. I’m a total nerd. I really like learning. I really like more than just field hockey, so if I continue with field hockey in the coaching realm, it won’t be my only thing.
In an age of hyperawareness about head injuries, concussions and brain trauma, there is nothing harder to watch in football than a head-to-head collision between two players. That’s exactly what hundreds of thousands of fans witnessed Saturday when Penn State quarterback Christian Hackenberg came crashing into the helmet of sophomore cornerback Matthew Harris. The collision stunned Harris immediately and left him motionless on the turf. Thankfully, after a few breathless minutes, Harris gave a thumbs-up to the crowd as he was carted off the field. It was later revealed that he was immediately taken to a hospital where he passed a full battery of tests to ensure his wellbeing. A relieved coach Pat Fitzgerald announced to media after the game that Harris would travel home with the team. It was a painful, yet ultimately inconsequential reminder of how dangerous a violent sport like football can be. Harris took a vicious hit but had the full support of a coaching and medical staff behind him to make sure he was alright. Hours away in Ann Arbor, Michigan, there was a much more jarring case of what can happen when head injuries aren’t handled with the requisite care. Facing off against Minnesota, Michigan quarterback Shane Morris took a shot to the front of his helmet late in the fourth quarter. The Golden Gophers defender responsible for the hit was penalized for roughing the passer, and Morris was visibly shaken up and having difficulty standing. Despite his offensive lineman holding him up and his tight end signaling for a trainer or a backup, Morris stayed in the game. Wolverines coach Brady Hoke is responsible for the health and safety of his players. He needs to know if one of them takes a potentially dangerous hit to the head. Yet after the game, he claimed to have no knowledge of the incident and said that Morris simply aggravated an ankle injury. Either Hoke somehow didn’t see the play or lied about seeing the play to cover up his actions. The athletic department has supported Hoke by failing to take the appropriate action of immediately firing him. The blatant incompetence has been so bad that on Tuesday Michigan President Mark S. Schlissel released his own statement condemning the performance of the athletic department in handling the situation. Such a tragedy of errors (I dare not call it a comedy) puts the game of football in perspective. We, fans and journalists alike, level plenty of criticism against the Northwestern football team, some of it more warranted than others. But regardless of what the on-field result has been or will be, Saturday’s handling of Harris shows everything that is right about the Wildcats program. A starting player went down under scary circumstances and was immediately taken to the hospital for precautionary reasons, only to have no lasting symptoms. Fitzgerald made the right decision in the moment and Hoke made the wrong one (or just failed at his job completely). That assessment has nothing to do with the on-field result for either team because when it comes to taking care of players, stats are for losers.
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KILLER CAT Senior Yewande Akanbi is one of three Northwestern players with at least 120 kills on the season. The 12-1 Wildcats take on No. 6 Wisconsin on Wednesday.
pass, we can hang with any team.” NU is 29-48 all-time against Wisconsin, but the Cats will look to add another victory to the win column. After Saturday’s win over
Maryland, Chan said, “We are not ready now, but we will be ready on Wednesday.” zacharymoore2016@u.northwestern.edu
Q&A: Nothing gets by Maddy Carpenter Field Hockey
Source: Northwestern Athletic Communications
BRICK WALL Senior goalkeeper Maddy Carpenter has won Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week two weeks in a row, while leading Northwestern to an 8-3 record.
By MIKE MARUT
daily senior staffer @mikeonthemic93
Senior goalkeeper and team captain Maddy Carpenter stands as one of the best goalies in Northwestern field hockey history, holding the sixth most shutouts in program history. The Daily spoke to Carpenter on Tuesday, hours after the Big Ten announced her second consecutive conference Defensive Player of the Week award. The Daily: How did you get to this point in your career? Two Defensive Player of the Week awards in a row and a team leader on the defense? Maddy Carpenter: It’s been a long career so far for me. It’s bizarre to think in six weeks it’s going to
be over. I feel the best I’ve ever felt, really, strongest I’ve ever felt. I’m the most poised I’ve ever been. As a senior obviously you have more knowledge, so you’re not really seeing a lot of new things on the field. A lot of repetition has definitely helped. I have such a strong defense to work with, I’m getting the shots I want. It’s been really easy. The Daily: How did you first get into field hockey? Carpenter: I was a soccer goalie to begin with back in fifth grade or so. I had a family friend who said, “Hey, if you want to play sports in college, you should play field hockey,” and I was like, “What’s field hockey?” and they said, “If you don’t want to play with a stick, you can be a goalie and kick (the ball)” and I was like, “Oh! Sounds great because I was used to kicking it, so that’s perfect.”
So I started with clubs right away, so I was on the synthetic turf and things like that, saw the fastest game that was possible. I’m from Massachusetts, so I was able to see UMass play and that’s kind of what kept me going because I was like, “Okay, there’s field hockey outside of eighth grade where the grass isn’t six inches tall and water logged,” so I stuck with it. The Daily: What have been some of the big moments of your career? Carpenter: Last year’s game against Iowa, when we won in overtime. We were down with one minute left, and we were able to come back and win it. That was a huge win. Really all the Big Ten games stick out because those are the closest, best competition we can play, best games usually. There’s not a weak team in the conference.