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City officials presented Monday the 2015 budget to aldermen, outlining the revenues and expenses that make up the more than $260 million proposed for the upcoming year. The budget, which is 2.2 percent higher than that from last year, includes proposed ideas such as additional job positions, a water rate increase and a focus on at-risk families. There is no net increase in property taxes for residents in the proposed budget. Officials will present a proposed 2015 capital improvement plan at a public hearing on Saturday. City manager Wally Bobkiewicz said at the meeting he thinks this is the best, most fiscally responsible budget of the six budgets he has presented in his years with the city. It is important to make sure Evanston residents in all nine wards can comfortably live in the city, he said. “We aren’t going to have a regional shopping mall,” Bobkiewicz said. “We’re not going to have any more car dealers, we’re not going to have industry, but what we do have is livability.” “Over and over, we are seeing
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BREAKING DOWN BUDGET Assistant city manager Marty Lyons presents the proposed 2015 budget to City Council on Monday night. The budget, which totals more than $260 million, will be discussed further Saturday at a public hearing.
organizations throughout America pointing to Evanston as a place where you want to live,” he added. “So that’s really our market.” Alex Thorpe, the budget team’s
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DOOR TO DOOR The mobile application Postmates launched in Evanston and northern Chicago suburbs on Friday. Customers can use the app to have goods delivered from anywhere in the Chicago area in under an hour.
People can now view public restaurant health inspection information for Evanston establishments on businessreview site Yelp, the city announced Monday. =Through a partnership with Accela, a company that aims to provide civic engagement and excellence, Evanston has made available to customers a variety of restaurant data, including health
provide “cutting edge solutions” Stowe said. “It reflects on the city of Evanston and its residents,” he said. “I think, in general, the city of Evanston residents and businesses and other stakeholders are very tech-savvy themselves, so it makes sense that we should do the best we can from a city standpoint.” Recently, the city has worked to move different payment and permit forms online, as well as introduce web chatting and texting to its 311 information service.
Women of color in the Northwestern community discussed their identities and experiences on Monday as part of a new series of monthly dialogues. The Women of Color Initiative and Gathering held its first meeting to discuss issues affecting women of color. The initiative, which is slated to hold two more meetings this quarter and continue throughout the academic year, was organized by staff from the Office of Religious Life, Multicultural Student Affairs, the Center for Student Involvement and the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life, as well as a team of NU students. Jackie Marquez, associate university chaplain and one of the initiative’s coordinators, came up with the idea for the group. ‘There wasn’t a space just for women of color, though they mingle in their own spaces,” Marquez said. “This provides a space where people can find that and grow together and provide that support in whatever avenue that is.” Marquez said the discussions are open to students who “identify as a woman of color in any way, however they define it.” Communication senior Sara Fadlalla, who attended the first meeting, said she appreciated t h at t h e There gathering wasn’t a space included staff memjust for women b ers and of color, though students an d t h at they mingle many difin their own ferent culspaces. tural backgrounds Jackie Marquez, were repreassociate university sented. chaplain “What’s beautiful about this is that all these different groups come together,” she said. “I think it’s important to have in Northwestern.” Dania Atallah, a Weinberg junior and group coordinator, said spaces like these ensure NU is “headed in the right direction.” “It allows us to feel safer and that our voice is heard,” Atallah said. “Especially when the majority is white, having a space to connect with that identity of women is really important.” For Monday’s kickoff gathering, which was closed to the press due to the sensitive nature of the topics discussed, students brainstormed issues they wished to explore in
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management analyst, said the team reached out to residents at the Evanston Streets Alive! festival in September to gather suggestions on budget allocation. Of residents surveyed, 32
Fast delivery app expands to include city, brings local goods, takeout
City puts eatery health inspection data on Yelp
Women of color form new group
Evanston now has an on-demand delivery app that allows users to order food and other products from anywhere in Chicago and a few northern suburbs. The app, called Postmates, launched its Chicago expansion Friday, extending its services to Evanston, Skokie, Wilmette, Rogers Park and Winnetka. Postmates uses local part-time couriers to pick up and deliver goods customers order through a smartphone app, available on Apple and Android devices. Users can order goods from any store, even if the business does not partner with Postmates, the company’s communications manager Heather Luntz said. “It allows you to order from any restaurant or store, regardless of if that place offers delivery themselves,” she said. “The place just has to be able to make a takeout order. Our fleet of Postmates, who are on bikes and in cars and on scooters, will pick up the order and bring it to you in under an hour.” Customers can order through the app 24/7, Luntz
scores, inspection dates and violations. The information will be made available on each business’ page on Yelp, which has both a website and a mobile app that customers use to rate restaurants and places they’ve been to. Although Evanston has provided health inspection data on its website since 2006, the city is making the transition to Yelp, as more people are likely to look there for relevant information, said Luke Stowe, the city’s digital services coordinator. “The reality is most people probably are not going to go to their local city website just before they enter a
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said. Postmates can be used to get food, prescriptions, textbooks and school supplies, dry cleaning or any product that can be ordered through the app, Luntz said. Couriers can also deliver alcohol with proof of legal identification. The Chicago area is divided into two zones to determine the cost of the delivery, Luntz said. Ordering something from a northern suburb to Evanston has a fee of $5, while getting an item delivered from downtown Chicago costs $15. The app keeps users’ credit card data to allow them to pay for goods without cash. It also provides a map with real-time updates of the delivery’s location and gives a cost estimate and a final price once the courier picks up the products, Luntz said. Postmates is convenient to Northwestern students due to its fast and affordable service, Luntz said. “The notion of convenience and being able to get anything at any time of day is really appealing to students,” she said. “You can get anything at the touch of a button for students in particular who are really busy and are really focused on school.” The company initially launched in Chicago in March, Luntz said. Since it started in 2011 in San Francisco, Postmates has expanded to 15 other cities nationwide and is continuing to grow, she said. — Paige Leskin
restaurant,” he said. “I think by providing greater access to the data, I think it will probably put additional focus on the restaurants to basically ensure that they’re doing all they can to keep their health inspection scores high.” The Evanston Health Department inspects restaurants one to three times a year, according to a news release from the city. Staff have used Accela’s resources in the past to keep track of and organize its inspection data. This addition of health inspection information on Yelp is only one of the initiatives the city is working on to increase its technological savvy and
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Around Town ETHS lauds first Black Male Summit By Marissa mizroch
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The School District 202 board and the Evanston Township High School community gathered Monday night and praised the Black Male Summit and the impact it had on students. The summit, held at ETHS on Sept. 26, encouraged black male students to stay in school and achieve academic success. “This is from a parent who said that this was the best curriculum that ETHS could offer,” ETHS principal Marcus Campbell said. “She feels that her son can now go to college with a better sense of who he is as a black man.” At least 412 students attended the conference, and 73 percent reported an excellent experience, according to a survey taken after the summit. ETHS senior MD Shelton said students reacted positively to the event. “All of the comments and concerns that students had going in, immediately coming out, were over,” Shelton said. “As a student, all the feedback I got was tremendously fabulous and so positive.” Members of the board commended the event for the effect it had on the student body. Pat Savage-Williams, vice president of the board,
Police Blotter Multiple vehicles burglarized on Seward Street
Three burglaries from motor vehicles occurred late Friday night and early Saturday morning, police said. The series of burglaries from vehicles in the 1600 and 1700 blocks of Seward Street appears to be connected, police said. An MP3 player was taken from a 2009 Honda in the 1700 block of Seward Street, Parrott said. The 50-year-old female whose
said the summit is just the first step of many efforts to create a more inclusive environment at ETHS. “The Black Male Summit was a concrete beginning, and I hope we can see this repeated over and over,” Savage-Williams said. “This is not the only group we want to target. However, we have a beginning. We’ve learned how to target groups. We’ve learned how to support groups.” Teachers, students and other members of the school community spoke to the uniqueness of the summit during time for public comment. “Feeling embraced to be a black male, I think that theme was consistent throughout the day,” Shelton said. “I would make the case that the vast majority of the young there got a sense of what a great legacy they are a part of, and it increased their level of pride.” Andrew Bempah, a senior at ETHS, said the summit helped him prepare for life after graduation. “I just got back from a college visit,” Bempah said. “One thing I noticed when talking to minorities at these different colleges is that they felt academically prepared for these universities, but they weren’t prepared in terms of self-awareness or identity. I feel that ETHS has done a lot to help academically, but the MP3 player was stolen said her doors were locked, but there was no sign of forced entry, Parrott said. In another incident, a Garmin GPS, cell phone charger and loose change belonging to a 28-year-old male was taken from a 2013 Ford Focus in the 1600 block of Seward Street. There was no sign of forced entry, Parrott said. A pair of sunglasses was taken from a Toyota Camry belonging to a 68-year-old female. The sunglasses and its case were later recovered a short distance away, police said. — Marissa Mizroch
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SUCCESSFUL SUMMIT School District 202 board members talk at a meeting Monday night. Attendees discussed the positive effect of the Black Male Summit, which took place at Evanston Township High School in September.
Black Male Summit was one of the first things I noticed that provided value to black males in terms of self-awareness.” marissamizroch2017@u.northwestern.edu
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Global women’s organization to start chapter at NU By annie bruce
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A chapter of I Am That Girl, an international female empowerment nonprofit, is launching at Northwestern in early November. NU will host its first I Am That Girl meeting Nov. 6, joining more than 100 chapters worldwide participating in what the organization’s founders call a movement to turn female “self-doubt� into “self-love.� The nonprofit has chapters across the U.S. and in several other countries such as Canada, France, the United Kingdom and Lebanon. “The whole point behind That Girl is building self-appreciation through building community,� said local chapter leader Fallon Schlossman, a Medill sophomore. “It’s basically a matter of trying to create a space for all of the various corners of Northwestern’s female
President’s Office to fund DM registration fee ‘scholarships’
University President Morton Schapiro’s office will cover the $50 Dance Marathon registration fee for students who demonstrate financial need this year, the organization announced Monday. “This funding from the President’s Office is looking like it can hopefully be sustainable in the long term as we move forward with future DMs in terms of removing barriers for students to participate,� DM spokeswoman Arielle Miller said. The registration fee “scholarship� was created last fall, when Associated Student Government voted to allocate $4,000 from its Senate Project Pool for the fund. The Center for Student Involvement examined the financial needs of students who requested the subsidy. The registration fee, which covers the production
population to gather together and talk about both big issues that are happening in the world ‌ and things that are happening on campus and in our personal lives.â€? At meetings, which will take place once or twice a month, students will have the opportunity to talk about various topics relating to the world and campus life. Schlossman said conversations will be framed through compassion, contribution, collaboration and communication. Weinberg junior Arielle Cooper, who has helped Schlossman with marketing for the organization, said she thinks the group will give women a chance to have genuine discussions with peers. “There aren’t necessarily forums for people who wouldn’t consider themselves hardcore feminists or something like that to just talk and figure out what being a woman means to them,â€? Cooper said. At the first meeting, attendees will Skype
cost of DM’s 30-hour event at the end of Winter Quarter, was raised from $45 to $50 last year. More than 130 students applied for the ASG sponsorship. Fee subsidies will be completely covered by the President’s Office this year and student need will be determined by the Office of Undergraduate Financial Aid, according to a DM news release. Students can request the fee subsidy when they register for DM if they already receive University financial aid, and the office will review students’ financial statuses to determine if they are eligible for the subsidy. The registration fee money will not affect students’ financial aid packages. Miller said DM is not authorized to disclose the amount of money available because it is being handled by the financial aid office. Dancer registration for DM 2015 began Monday and ends Friday at 7 p.m. — Jeanne Kuang
with a member of the organization’s international team. Schlossman said she hopes to eventually bring female professionals to campus to take part in the discussions and share their perspectives. “R at h e r t h a n scheduling speakThe ers, (it’s) more like whole point having people come in to contribute to behind That Girl the conversation,� is building selfshe said. I Am That Girl appreciation was founded by through building Alexis Jones, who community. also penned a book of the same name, Fallon at the University of Schlossman, Southern California local chapter in 2008. She was leader joined by co-founder Emily Greener, and over the last few years,
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Evanston woman shot in Rogers Park, alderman says
Police arrested a man Wednesday in connection with the shooting of an Evanston woman in her car, a Chicago alderman said police told him. Police charged Stevon Browner, 20, with aggravated battery and the unlawful discharge of a firearm, according to the clerk’s office of the Circuit Court of Cook County. Browner approached a car at about 6:15 p.m. on Oct. 9 in the Rogers Park neighborhood that the 20-year-old woman was driving in, police said. Browner fired into the car at the intersection of Jonquil Terrace and Ashland Avenue before fleeing on foot, Ald. Joe Moore of Chicago’s 49th Ward said police told him.
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The Evanston woman sustained a gunshot wound to the back, police told Moore. She was transported to Evanston Hospital, where she was treated and released later that evening. Browner was being held on $750,000 bail as of Monday afternoon, according to the clerk’s office. His next court date is scheduled for Oct. 22 in Chicago. Police were able to arrest Browner due to cooperation of witnesses and the woman who was shot, Moore said. Browner is an admitted gang member, but police are not sure if the incident was gangrelated, the alderman said.
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A new look at the changing feminist movement blair dunbar
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“I know, I know. We can drive, we can vote, we can work. What more do these broads want?” This was Phoebe’s response to Joey’s invitation to see the play “Why Don’t You Like Me? A Bitter Woman’s Journey Through Life” in the “Friends” episode “The One with the Soap Opera Party.” Fortunately, “Friends” has once again re-entered the American television spotlight with the recent news that Netflix is going to make all 236 episodes available online. The quote itself is also timely, given the recent stirrings of women’s rights across the country. In late September, Northwestern received a grant of $300,000 from the U.S. Department of Justice to expand its sexual assault prevention efforts. On Sept. 22, I heard Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand,
D-N.Y., speak about women in Washington, D.C., specifically about her book titled “Off the Sidelines.” During her speech, she discussed attempting to pass the Family and Medical Insurance Leave Act through Congress, an act that would provide a national paid-leave program for parents who must take time off for maternity, childcare or health reasons. Although the bill was introduced in the House of Representatives in May 2013, it has yet to progress. From Emma Watson’s highly publicized speech to the UN regarding gender relations to the U.S. Supreme Court temporarily reversing Texas legislation that would have closed all but eight of the state’s women’s health clinics, it seems women’s rights are making a comeback. Various politicians, most conspicuously Hillary Clinton, have placed women’s rights firmly on their political agendas. And with the ongoing debate about the Affordable Care Act come the inevitable discussions involving abortion and birth control coverage. As a child, my father gave me a Susan B. Anthony coin and told me I should never let my
gender stand in the way of what I wanted to do. A spry, young feminist of 8, I dreamt of becoming the first woman president and fighting for women’s rights. However, as I got older, I found myself thinking more along the lines of Phoebe. “What more do these broads want?” Now I’m beginning to think the 21st century has ushered in a new wave of feminism and more importantly, a new type of feminist. For a long time, feminism has been synonymous with hairy legs, burning bras and a declaration of superiority of men. The new feminist can enjoy wearing a red dress and high heels. The new feminist doesn’t necessarily believe women are superior to men. She recognizes gender differences but believes these differences should be respected. The new feminism revolves around reproductive rights, equal pay, security for families with single mothers and, for those like Gillibrand, having women’s voices heard in the government. Maybe the reason I never noticed the flurry of women’s activism around me was because I didn’t recognize
it as women’s activism. I recognized it as common sense. Shouldn’t companies provide paid maternity leave when the majority of other countries do? Shouldn’t people receive the same salary for the same work? And shouldn’t half the population have half the representation in the government? For me, the new feminism isn’t about men versus women. It’s about people. Women aren’t a unique, separate entity. If the government safeguards the interest of its people, shouldn’t that include all people? Although an obvious statement, women are people too, but somehow it seems this was forgotten. Now it’s time to remember what Susan B. Anthony pointed out back in 1872: “It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people, who formed the Union.” Blair Dunbar is a Weinberg senior. She can be reached at blairdunbar2015@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, email a Letter to the Editor to forum@dailynorthwestern.com.
Don’t let yourself be defined by mainstream success trevor stoimenoff Daily columnist
Success is what everybody strives for. Goals and aspirations are a universal aspect of society. They motivate us and drive us to keep doing better. We are conditioned to meet failure with positivity by understanding that we can and will do better next time. We are also taught to meet success with the mindset that we shouldn’t let it inflate our egos. These two ideals effectively create a balance that is supposed to keep us in the middle of the spectrum, not being too upset with failure, but at the same time, remaining humble and modest in times of achievement. But at a school like Northwestern, where stress levels are at an all-time high, how do these mindsets play into our daily lives? Is it as easy as it sounds to keep this balance in life, to not let our anxiety get the best of us when we are
surrounded by people who are just as smart and as driven as we are? Pressure is an aspect of student life that is rarely discussed. The terms “stress” and “mental health” are thrown around quite often, but pressure is a concept that is commonly overlooked. When you think about your motivations for choosing your field of study, personal happiness should be on the top of that list. You should be pursuing something that makes you excited for the future but also allows you to be happy and enjoy the present without a constant feeling of stress. Pressure is what causes you to stray from this motivation. It makes you scared for the future because you have been trained to believe that certain studies or career plans won’t take you anywhere in life, so you must abide by rules set forth by society. With this train of thought, fear wells up inside you, fear that you will disappoint your parents, fear that you will be going against the societal grain or fear that you won’t make enough money later in life. All of this stems from the pressure of craving success. It is important to understand that
accomplishments are not relative to anything. What society deems “successful” might be making a lot of money or having a great job, but in reality, success is what you make it. Personal achievement isn’t what determines your life’s worth, nor is comparison among you and others. It’s hard to conceptualize this idea at a place like NU when it seems like people are constantly doing bigger and better things than you. Many of you have probably felt inferior to your peers at one point or another — I know I have. I see so many students joining student groups, pursuing majors and volunteering just because these things are expected of them or because they are under the impression that what they amount to in life defines them as a people. I am guilty of this phenomenon myself. I recently realized that the path I was on wasn’t right for me, that everything I was doing was simply to check it off my list or add it to my resume. Luckily I had this epiphany before it was too late and I was able to change my major and pursue something much more relevant to my personal interests.
Sure, being successful in the commonly accepted sense of the term might make life easier. It might make other people respect you more if you have a good job or make a lot of money. But in the end, when all is said and done and nobody is around for you to compare yourself to, what will your accomplishments mean to you then? By succumbing to the societal pressure of being successful and pursuing something far different than what truly makes you happy, you might have avoided hardship and struggle, but you have succumbed to the pressure and gone in a different path than what you truly wanted. That, in my book, is not success, it is quite the opposite: failure. It’s easier said than done, but set aside others’ expectations for a moment and just let go. Try something new and understand what you can do to better your life. Trevor Stoimenoff is a Weinberg junior. He can be reached at trevorstoimenoff2016@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.
How viral content ruins credibility in today’s media lucas matney
Daily columnist
The state of our media is struggling. Journalistic content seems to be losing its bite as a variety of trends promising to be the solution to its woes have influenced journalism to become something it was never meant to be, greatly deriding the quality of its content in the process. The Twittersphere I can’t emphasize enough how Twitter, one of online journalism’s “most promising” evolutions, has wreaked havoc on the craft. While Twitter has done outstanding work in disseminating important stories, crowdsourcing popular opinion and giving enterprising journalists a platform to share their work, it has also altered the quality and premises of said work to an unforgivable degree. When presented with a limited number of characters, how does one make tweets stand out to users? “Clickbait” gives people the content they deserve, not what they need. Articles that laud that “you won’t believe what happens next” have invaded social media at an alarming rate and are doing so to advertise fluff pieces in addition to hard news stories. Social media is fundamentally obsessed with “digestibility,” the idea that there’s just so much available information that we’re probably not capable of focusing our attention on a single item for too long. What has resulted from this are stories that aren’t pieces of reporting but are short paragraphs meant to dumb down current issues and tell us what we should believe about them. Media Mavericks and Big Data Ezra Klein and Nate Silver each had ambitious goals when they left their influential positions at The Washington Post and The New York Times, respectively. Their goals were to change the face of media with new brands of online journalism that combined data-driven stories with multimedia elements and unconventional reporting. These ventures got a lot of people pretty excited about journalism finally
reaching its online potential, yet when the sites finally launched, disappointment ensued. Klein’s site, Vox, initially received praise from news junkies for its use of data and multimedia content, but ground-breaking content soon reduced itself to reposted data maps from Reddit alongside short paragraph “voxsplainers” that further dumbed down the data for viewers in a lazy manner that many other sites have chosen to replicate. On the other hand, Silver’s site, FiveThirtyEight, has approached data-driven stories in an in-depth manner that has wooed critics but has left the site’s declining readers underwhelmed. An over-reliance on data can leave a site feeling dry and robotic, even when it’s done in an amusing way like Silver’s bracket for finding America’s best burrito. Utilizing data in an effective, yet captivating manner is one of the most difficult plights facing today’s online journalists. While there seems to currently be an over-emphasis on data-driven reporting, presenting especially relevant data in a visually appealing manner is likely to remain imperative.
Mistaken Identity When BuzzFeed launched in 2006, it defined itself as “The Media Company for the Social Age.” What it quickly became was a wildly popular model for other journalistic sources to reduce themselves to in their quests for clicks and ad dollars. BuzzFeed is famous for its short quizzes and “listicles” that tell you which cast member from season two of “Dawson’s Creek” you are most like or all the things you’ll only know about if you are from rural Romania. Overall the site is just a lot of repetitive fun, but aside from their occasional “in-depth” reporting piece, very little of it is really journalism. When traditional media outlets saw the shareability of BuzzFeed’s content, they deceived themselves into believing that journalistic content and published content were synonymous. This has led to a degradation of journalism across all platforms as well-established online borders have fallen and viral online content reigns supreme. The death of print media has made this an irresistible trap for media organizations to fall into.
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Desperation bred identity crises, and most organizations simply settled into the viral trap too quickly, leaving others to follow them blindly. In the end, places like Upworthy or Reddit aren’t to blame for the problems of today’s media. Users do undoubtedly hold much of the blame in this whole debacle, but the real guilt should be pinned on websites that are selling themselves as trusted news organizations when they are really just feeding the public whatever it desires. Lucas Matney is a Medill junior. He can be reached at lucasmatney2016@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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NU Votes registers 800 students before election By Alex Putterman
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rock the vote A student casts a ballot at Northwestern during the 2012 presidential election. NU’s student-run voter registration program, NU Votes, has garnered praise in Congress for increasing college students’ voter participation.
Evanston woman cited in Wilmette car accident that killed pedestrian
Police cited an Evanston woman Thursday after officers responded to a fatal accident
between a car and a pedestrian, authorities said Monday. Officers responded to the accident at about 7:45 p.m. on Sept. 26 in the 1600 block of Sheridan Road in Wilmette, police said. The pedestrian was pronounced dead at the scene. The 51-year-old Evanston woman who was
A voter registration effort headed by NU Votes helped register about 800 new students to vote this fall, despite changes in the Wildcat Welcome protocol that made reaching students more difficult, the Center for Civic Engagement announced this month. NU Votes, a nonpartisan CCE initiative in its fourth year, distributed registration forms at residence hall welcome centers on move-in day, then collected and mailed them for the students. The group, which is staffed by students, registered voters in 44 states and the District of Columbia. “We try to integrate (registration) into school institutions,” said Diana Balitaan (SESP ’14) who stayed on for a second year as an NU Votes student coordinator despite graduating in the spring. “We try to institutionalize this program so that it’s something that happens all the time and so that we can reach the most students.” The number of newly registered students dropped slightly from previous years due to a change in Wildcat Welcome protocol, CCE associate director Rob Donahue said. In past years, NU Votes distributed registration forms over the course of a week while students waited in line at the WildCARD office in Norris University Center. This year, WildCARDs were distributed all in one day at six welcome centers. “Instead of doing one place over six days, we had to do six places in one day,” Donahue said. “We knew it was going to be a lot more work for the student staff that were being trained to go out and handle that. It was definitely more work this way.” driving the car was cited for failure to exercise due care to avoid a pedestrian, police said. She is scheduled to appear in a Cook County court in Skokie. The investigation showed that the woman had not been under the influence of alcohol or drugs and she had not been using her phone or texting during the crash, police said. Speed
But SESP junior Qiddist Hammerly, a CCE fellow and one of NU Votes’ leaders, said there were benefits to the welcome center approach. “That reduced the wait times and the long lines by a lot because we were spread out across campus,” Hammerly said. “So because of that we were able to talk to a lot more people, which was helpful.” NU Votes reached about 1,600 students this year, 29 percent of who said they were already registered. Of the remaining students who were eligible to vote, about 89 percent are now registered. That percentage is consistent with previous years’ totals, Donahue said. Northwestern’s model of institutionalizing voter registration, an initiative called UVote, has attracted attention from other colleges. Schools such as Washington University in St. Louis and DePaul University have implemented the UVote program, Donahue said. In October 2012, Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill., praised the program’s efforts to increase college students’ voter participation on the floor of the House of Representatives. This year, Hammerly said, NU Votes will expand beyond registering voters to spreading the word about the election, informing voters on where and how to vote and encouraging those who are registered to show up at the polls. “The right to vote is something that’s very important that’s been denied for years,” Balitaan said. “A lot of people think, ‘Oh, my vote probably doesn’t count at a federal level. My vote probably doesn’t count at all.’ But it’s been proven that the more engaged people are in voting, the more likely they are to engage in other things.” asputt@u.northwestern.edu was also not a factor in the incident, authorities said. Wilmette police investigated the accident with assistance from the Major Crash Assistance Team, part of the North Regional Major Crimes Task Force.
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out through social media and other methods. Karen Danczak Lyons, the director of the Evanston Public Library, said the library receives some of its funds from property taxes. Compared with neighboring areas, including Skokie and Arlington Heights, EPL receives less property tax support, she said. Ald. Coleen Burrus (9th) said she agreed with Bobkiewicz that this is the most fiscally responsible budget yet, other than the requested increase in funds from the library. Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl said she supports giving the library We’re doing more money in order to ensure that younger all the things students are reading at that a good appropriate levels for their ages. community, Joe McRae, deputy that a livable city manager and direccommunity tor of parks, recreation and community sershould do. vices, said there has been progress in dealing Wally Bobkiewicz, with youth and young city manager adults, but it’s still an area that can improve. Although there has been effective outreach to young males seeking assistance, there hasn’t been enough toward young females, he said. New positions in the proposed budget could help provide that outreach, he said. If the proposed budget is approved, the city will have the opportunity to add new positions in the general assistance administration and positions related to workforce development of at-risk families. “We’re doing all the things that a good community, that a livable community should do,” Bobkiewicz said. “I appreciate the hard decisions that this City Council has made the past few years, and I know, unfortunately, that there are still hard decisions to make as we move forward.”
The conferences will feature discussions on topics such as “diversity and inclusiveness, the university of the 21st century, effective leadership strategies and the like,” Chase-Lansdale said in a University news release. In February one of the conferences will be held at NU for the first time. “In addition, the engagement that fellows have with each other on campus throughout the year is very productive,” Chase-Lansdale said in the release.
Northwestern researchers have found that the federally funded preschool program Head Start may help the parents of enrolled children improve their own education status, the University announced last week. The study, published in late September in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, focused on whether or not a child’s Head Start enrollment affects parent’s education and employment status, according to a University news release. The program is intended to help both children and parents of lower socioeconomic status and serves about 1 million children living below the poverty line. Researchers used data from a 1998 congressionally mandated Head Start study of 4,000 newly enrolled children to find that parents whose children were enrolled in the two-year program beginning at age 3 saw more advancements in their own education compared to parents whose children were not enrolled in Head Start. The study did not find a correlation between Head Start and a parent’s employment, according to the release. “Studies on early childhood education programs have historically focused on child outcomes,” said SESP Prof. Terri Sabol, the study’s lead author, in a University news release. “Head Start may provide the ideal place to promote parents’ education via a network of parents and staff, in addition to information and referrals to postsecondary educational opportunities.” The study found the improved educational advancements were more strongly represented among African American parents and parents with some college experience but no degree, according to the news release. Sabol said the study suggests that Head Start provides support for parents who are already trying to improve their education. The program may help parents by giving them a safe, affordable place to send their children while they go to work or school, according to the release. “Parents who see their child doing well might be inspired to improve their own education and employment,” said SESP Prof. P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, the study’s co-author, in a news release. Sabol called the study a “very positive story” for Head Start.
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NU faculty leaders chosen as academic leadership fellows
Five Northwestern professors serving leadership roles have been selected as fellows for the yearlong Academic Leadership Program, a faculty development program that addresses challenges for administrators in major research universities, the University announced last week.
Source: Dania Atallah
DISCUSSING IDENTITY A circle of women listen to each other’s experiences in Parkes Hall on Monday. The Women of Color Initiative and Gathering engages members of the Northwestern community in a dialogue about their identities.
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future meetings and shared their perspectives on being women of color, Marquez said. The discussion lasted for an hour and a half and included a mix of about 20 students and staff members. “Tonight is about expressing our hopes for this space,” Marquez said. “I’m just providing a framework and I hope students fill it in with what they need and want.” A similar gathering for Latina women began in Winter Quarter 2014, sparking the McCormick Prof. Linda Broadbelt, political science Prof. Edward Gibson, Law Prof. Emily Kadens, English Prof. Susan Phillips and SESP Prof. Miriam Sherin will participate in the 2014-15 program, which includes three conferences during the year, according to a University news release. The program is run by the Committee on Institutional Cooperation, the academic arm of the Big Ten Conference plus the University of Chicago. There are more than 70 fellows total from the 15 universities, said Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, NU associate provost for faculty.
initiative to expand it to all women of color, Marquez said. The new group’s participants will also be invited to a symposium for women of color in January. Atallah said she believes the group will provide “thought-provoking conversations, which could be a touchy subject for a lot of us.” “If the space is successful, it will nurture, educate and challenge,” Atallah said. “Hopefully all three will happen.” aliceyin2017@u.northwestern.edu
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(4.7 yards per play for the Cornhuskers compared to 4.8 yards per play for the Hawkeyes). The Cats had better hope they can find some offensive magic over the bye week or that game could look like a mirror image of Saturday night’s. 3. Time to look to the future? There is no obvious path back to national relevance for NU, which can’t seem to string together more than two games of good play, let alone wins, at a time. The Cats will almost surely lose at Notre Dame, meaning their best hope for this season is 7-5, with 6-6 or 5-7 more likely. Even a weak bowl game berth would have real value for NU, both psychologically and in the extra end-of-year practices it would give the team. But with Siemian clearly not at 100 percent and several
other veterans struggling to carry the team, Fitzgerald should continue giving some of his younger guys a look. Jackson replacing Treyvon Green as the lead running back is a good start, and injuries have allowed Godwin Igwebuike and Anthony Walker to get more time than they already would have. Siemian, a senior, will not be the starter next year. Fitzgerald insists nobody else on the roster has been good enough to take the job from him, and he’s probably right. But either Zack Oliver or Matt Alviti (or redshirting freshman Clayton Thorson) will be the starter under center next season, and each could surely use some game reps to get acclimated to what they will see from Big Ten defenses. If the Cats of the present don’t inspire much confidence, maybe the Cats of the future will. josephdiebold2015@u.northwestern.edu
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CORNHUSKERS CONQUER Northwestern had difficulty stopping Tommy Armstrong Jr. and the Nebraska offense, particularly in the second half.
Women’s Golf
Wildcats set program record in impressive fifth-place finish
In its final fall tournament, No. 5 Northwestern set a program-record 54-hole score while cruising to a fifth-place finish at the Stanford Intercollegiate this weekend in Stanford, California. The Wildcats finished only behind No. 6 USC,
No. 3 Stanford, No. 8 UCLA and No. 1 Washington. All 17 teams in the field were ranked in Golfstat. com’s top 100. After the first day, NU was tied for second with Stanford at 2-under 282, behind only UCLA. Sophomore Kacie Komoto stood in sixth-place at 2-under 69, with senior Hana Lee one stroke behind her and freshman Hannah Kim two strokes back. Coach Emily Fletcher’s squad slipped slightly Saturday, falling to fifth place. They carded a 4-over 288 over the 18 holes, totaling to a 2-over 570 with
day one. Komoto scored an even-par 71 to fall from sixth place to eighth (2-under 140 overall). Meanwhile, Lee fell apart, carding 11 bogeys for an 11-over day. Kim once again notched par. In the final round of 18 holes Sunday, the Cats earned a 1-under 283. The final 1-over 853 score shattered the school’s previous 54-hole record of 864. Kim overtook Komoto as NU’s top golfer of the weekend with a 2-under 69 round. She tied for 12th
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overall at 2-under 211. Komoto had her worst round yet with a 2-over 73, falling to 21st place in the process (even-par 213). Junior Suchaya Tangkamolprasert had her best day of the tournament with a 2-under 69, and she finished just one stroke behind Komoto at 1-over 214 (tied for 24th). After four impressive showings, the Cats’ fall season is officially done. NU returns to action in February with a tournament in Puerto Rico. — Alex Lederman
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Northwestern dove into its 2014-15 season Friday with a 160-140 win over Illinois at the Norris Aquatics Center. The Wildcats kicked off the tournament with second- and third-place finishes in the 200-yard medley relay. The Fighting Illini’s ‘A’ squad took first with a time of 1:44:12. NU’s ‘A’ finished 0.64 second later for second and its ‘B’ team edged out Illinois’ ‘B’ by 0.02 second for third. Next up, NU freshman Monique Demaisip notched second in the 3-meter diving. The Cats snagged their first first-place finish in event three, the 1,000-yard freestyle. Sophomore Lauren Abruzzo, an NCAA qualifier who broke multiple school records in her freshman season, earned the Cats 9 points by scoring first, with junior Ellen Anderson and sophomore Megan Purdy adding to that total with secondand fourth-place finishes, respectively. But Illinois won the next two races, the 200yard freestyle and the 100-yard backstroke. Still, NU grabbed second in each; sophomore Annika Winsnes in the free and sophomore Lacey Locke in the back. The Cats placed third (sophomore Melissa Postoll) and fourth (junior Karen Turner) in the 100-yard backstroke as well. In the sixth event, the 100-yard breaststroke, NU really began to pull away, with junior Julianne Kurke and sophomore Katie Branch finishing first and third, respectively. Then the Cats landed the top three spots in two straight events: the 200-yard butterfly and the 50-yard freestyle. Sophomore Ellen Stello won the 200-yard butterfly with a time of 2:00.80, nearly a second faster than her previous personal-best. Demaisip did even better in the 1-meter dive than the 3-meter, placing first instead of second this time. Meanwhile, Winsnes snagged another first place finish in the 100-yard freestyle, and Locke cruised to first place in the 200-yard backstroke, finishing more than three seconds before Postoll, who earned second. NU didn’t get first place in any of the remaining five events, but the Cats crowded the top of the leaderboard anyway, finishing second, third and fourth in nearly all of the races. They placed second, fourth and fifth in the 500-yard freestyle and second, third and fifth in the 400yard freestyle relay. All in all, the Cats actually won fewer events than the Fighting Illini — seven vs. nine — but won with more second- and third-place spots. — Alex Lederman
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Hawkeyes took the lead and never looked back. Iowa won the deciding set 15-12 and took the match three sets to two, capping off the Cats’ disappointing road trip. NU will look to get off the schneid against the Purdue Boilermakers at Welsh-Ryan Arena Friday. No. 13 Purdue is coming off a narrow victory over Ohio State and is 7-1 in Big Ten play.
1. Nebraska is better than Northwestern Sometimes, this complicated game is just that simple. Northwestern did well to hang with the No. 19 Cornhuskers for a half under the lights Saturday. Trevor Siemian looked sharp, the defense swarmed Ameer Abdullah, and when Justin Jackson spun away from a defender and danced into the end zone, Ryan Field was as rocking as it’s been since NU took a fourth quarter lead against Ohio State so many months ago. Then the Cornhuskers came out of the locker room and toyed with the Wildcats. It was more slow drip than blitzkrieg with Abdullah’s four one-yard touchdown runs serving as ample evidence of Nebraska’s ability to sustain long drives with few big plays. Instead, they dominated every phase of the game. Nebraska coach Bo Pelini and his staff made the right adjustments, while coach Pat Fitzgerald and his made the wrong ones. Nebraska’s defense began to get to Siemian, who looked lost with his pocket collapsing around him, and limited Jackson from Make shaking loose. no mistake, the With the Cats’ defense gassed, fact that NU Abdullah went was outclassed to work. NU didn’t beat by a gooditself the way it but-not-great sometimes does Cornhuskers with sloppy play, dumb squad is a penalties and microcosm blown coverages. It just got of where this manhandled in program is at the trenches for right now. 30 minutes by a better team. Make no mistake, the fact that NU was outclassed by a good-but-not-great Cornhuskers squad is a microcosm of where this program is at right now and not a happy one. Division leaders two weeks ago, the Cats now likely need to finish their conference season 3-1 just to reach bowl eligibility in one of the worst divisions in the Big Five conferences. 2. The defense can’t do it alone Against teams with a defense as solid as Nebraska’s, NU’s lack of a downfield passing game sticks out like a sore thumb. The Cornhuskers stuffed the box in the second half, daring Siemian to beat them. He couldn’t. With Christian Jones out for the season and Cameron Dickerson missing in action the last three weeks, NU doesn’t have the personnel at quarterback, offensive line or wide receiver to stretch the field vertically in the way teams need to in order to succeed offensively on a consistent basis. That’s a major problem even when NU’s defense plays as well as it did against Penn State and Wisconsin. When an offense is consistently backed up and can’t even get one or two first downs to flip field position, it puts major pressure on the defense, which didn’t do itself any favors on third downs against the Cornhuskers, who converted eight of 15. Eventually, bend but don’t break just turns into break. Iowa, NU’s next opponent, has a defense similar in quality to Nebraska
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By HUZAIFA PATEL
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STEINER THINGS Sophomore Addie Steiner drilled the game-winning goal Sunday in the 97th minute of Northwestern’s 1-0 overtime victory over No. 14 Rutgers. The win lifted the Wildcats to 6-7-3, 2-6-2 in the Big Ten and kept their conference tournament hopes alive.
all of which were turned back by freshman goalie Lauren Clem. “Lauren’s doing quite well in goal as well, quite a few games where she hasn’t been tested a whole lot, but when she is called on, she really steps up,” Moynihan said. “This weekend she had one really nice save against Maryland, defended the crosses really well, and then against Rutgers there was a stretch toward the end of the game where she was tested quite a bit. And she did very well.” According to Moynihan, not much was different in the last two games in terms of how well the team played overall. “I’d say the team’s played well all season. We outshot Wisconsin, we outplayed Iowa, we outplayed Purdue,” Moynihan said. “It’s not always a matter of how well you
play, it’s achieving results.” The Wildcats were finally able to get the results they wanted against Rutgers, due in large part to clutch play on both sides of the ball. In the 94th minute, a flip throw-in led to a collision between Alyinovich and a Scarlet Knight player. A penalty kick ensued, and the Cats found themselves on the brink of another heartbreaking result. But Lauren Clem came up huge, tipping a lower corner shot off the post and out of harm’s way. Just three minutes later, the offense returned the favor. Off of a goal kick from Clem, freshman Michelle Manning received the ball, held off a defender and made a lob pass toward the Rutgers net. Steiner beat the Scarlet Knight goalie to the ball and lofted a shot over the keeper and into the net.
“We didn’t make the mistakes we’ve made in some of the others, and we finished our chance,” Moynihan said. “We had more chances than them, but quite frankly, we hit the one that mattered.” With three home games left in the season, the Cats are still mathematically in the hunt for a Big Ten playoff spot. And according to Moynihan, it’s still the team’s number one goal. “We know we have some difficult games,” Moynihan said. “Michigan comes into the game ranked 24th, but we’ve already beaten three teams that were ranked higher than that. So it’s certainly an achievable task. We’ll just take it one game at a time.” huzaifapatel2017@u.northwestern.edu
Wildcats conclude Volleyball brutal road trip with loss to Iowa Northwestern
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Northwestern is officially in free fall. After three straight losses on the road, the Wildcats (13-6, 3-5 Big Ten) hoped to salvage the finale of their four-game road trip against the Iowa Hawkeyes (9-10, 1-7) on Saturday. Unfortunately, NU was unable to pull out the win, falling to the Hawkeyes in five sets. The Cats have now lost five of their last six matches, including this current four match losing streak, and have fallen to 3-5 in the Big Ten. Prior to this skid, they hadn’t lost consecutive matches. NU won the first set by a score of 25-20 and never trailed by more than 2 points. A closely contested set, the Cats staved off an Iowa rally and put the nail in the coffin after a Hawkeye attack error late in the set. It was exactly the start that NU needed against a team that’s tough to beat on the road. The next set wasn’t so promising for the Cats. After NU took an early lead, Iowa went on an 8-1 run and later a 6-1 run to pull
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No.14 Rutgers
The Wildcats have shown multiple times they can kick it with the big kids. On Sunday, they proved it with a win over No. 14 Rutgers. Sophomore Addie Steiner added to her growing list of memorable goals, netting her fourth gamewinning goal of the season and upping her season total to a teamleading nine. Although much attention is sure to go to the spectacular finish, the Northwestern defense spearheaded the strong weekend, which also included a tie against Maryland. “The defense has really been improving quite a bit over the course of the season,” coach Michael Moynihan said. “Kassidy [Gorman] stepped in as a freshman and contributing right from the start and she’s been great. The other freshmen have also picked it up quite a bit, especially Nikia Smith. She’s got great pace and athleticism, and her confidence is growing.” Moynihan also praised the efforts of veterans Jackie Alyinovich, Margo McGinty and KK Barr. “The five of them together have really been difficult to break down, shutting down a lot of really potent attacks of other teams,” he said. On Friday, this was apparent against Maryland, as the defense allowed only seven shots on goal,
Football
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SILVER LINING Freshman Symone Abbott has been one of the few bright spots during Northwestern’s disastrous road trip. After falling to Iowa in five sets Saturday, the Wildcats have now lost four straight games.
away from the Cats. Although NU pulled back to within a point, the Hawkeyes ended up winning the set 25-23 and pulling even in the match 1-1. Falling even further behind, the Cats dropped the third set 25-20. Iowa had a remarkable 17 kills during the set and hit to a .429 clip. The Hawkeyes, coming into the game winless against Big Ten opponents, appeared on the brink of their first conference victory by
putting NU in a tight situation. Frame number four narrowly went to the Cats, with the set being tied at 23 before NU managed to win the next 2 points and capture the set 25-23. Freshman Symone Abbott finished this set with a kill, as she continues to be a bright spot in a rapidly fading Cats team. The fifth and final frame of the match was close throughout, yet NU never held a lead. Following a comeback to tie the set at 7, the
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