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City discusses housing plan By JENNIFER BALL
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Evanston is currently reviewing its draft of the 2015-2019 Consolidated Plan, a proposal addressing housing for low- to moderate-income residents. The city invited residents to a meeting Tuesday evening at the Civic Center for public comment to evaluate their needs. The only people in attendance were aldermen and city officials. The 2015-2019 plan aims to help We have such with comlimited citizen munity and economic participation. development needs So much of it stratedovetails what and gies as well the mental as housing, health board is specifically for low to doing. moderate Ald. Coleen Burrus income residents, (9th) according to a city news release. The plan ensures these low to moderate income residents have a suitable living environment and sufficient economic opportunities for the next four years, according to the release. Public comments on the plan may be sent to the city via email until Nov. 3. The plan will be submitted to the U.S. Department of Housing
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and Urban Development by Nov. 15 for review, per the department’s recommendations. HUD also recommended that public comments close and the plan be approved at the Nov. 10 City Council meeting. The plan is part of the funding process for multiple grants, including the Community Development Block Grant, the HOME Investment Partnership and the Emergency Shelter Grant programs, which will receive funds through federal grants if the plan is approved. CDBG seeks to improve public facilities and infrastructure and HOME helps families with children pay rent. ESG addresses the needs of individuals at high risk of homelessness, including victims of domestic violence. The plan guarantees fair housing for all low- to moderate-income residents in Evanston as part of these federal grant fundings, according to the release. The city previously implemented a 20102014 Consolidated Plan. The draft showed the expected funding amounts available for the first year of the plan in 2015. For CDBG, $2,187,111 would be available the first year; for HOME, $690,600; and for ESG, $135,450. The actual amounts could be available from the federal budget if the plan is approved as soon as January or later, said April Jacobs, the city’s grants and compliance specialist. Almost 34 percent of Evanston households are moderate and low » See HOUSING, page 6
Officials evaluate lighting NU, city particpate in light, safety walk to identify dimly lit spots
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Risk Management director retires after 16 years
Director of Risk Management Christopher Johnson will be retiring from Northwestern on Dec. 5, said Ingrid Stafford, associate vice president and treasurer for Financial Operations, in an Oct. 17 email. Stafford highlighted Johnson’s contributions to the University during his 16 years in the position. “Chris has been an advocate for the importance of training and education as a foundation for successful risk management,” she said in the email. Stafford cited programs within the Office of Risk Management, such as those in “worker’s compensation, driver education, ergonomic evaluation and shop safety standards” for increasing safety for faculty, staff and students. She said Johnson was responsible for NU’s professional liability and general liability coverage through captive company Rubicon, Inc., maintenance of various academic and administrative facilities and development of student
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LIGHT IN THE DARK A person skateboards by a streetlight on Foster Street on Tuesday night. Lighting and safety is a consistent concern for students who live off campus, said Anthony Kirchmeier, director of off-campus life.
Associated Student Government and Northwestern administrators are working with Evanston officials to improve lighting near campus. In the light and safety walk this month with Evanston aldermen, city
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health insurance programs “to best fit the needs of its diverse student body.” Johnson began his career in Evanston law enforcement and joined NU in 1992 as assistant director of risk management. He has served with multiple University groups, including the Students Publishing Co. board of directors, Norris University Center Advisory Board and the Campus Safety and Crime Prevention Committee. The search for Johnson’s successor is expected to be underway shortly.
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2nd ETHS student diagnosed with whooping cough
A student at Evanston Township High School has been diagnosed with whooping cough, according to a letter sent out Monday to students’ parents. This is the second case at the school this year. The student, who has been diagnosed and treated, is the second person at ETHS in three months to contract the illness, which is easily transmissible. A student who participated in the school’s summer programming was diagnosed in late August, right around the time when ETHS opened for the academic year. Whooping cough is highly contagious and can be transmitted through
staff members, University Police, NU administrators, students and residents, ASG looked for spots off campus that needed more sufficient lighting. Kevin Harris, ASG vice president for community relations, said they are compiling specific, problematic locations identified during the walk. Those spots include areas that are poorly lit at night, streetlights that need replacements and sidewalks that have been obscured by trees. The light and safety walk is held one to two times a year by ASG. The walk occurred west of campus and extended to Ridge Avenue,
between Emerson Street and Noyes Street, said Anthony Kirchmeier, NU director of off-campus life. “We identified the west side of Sheridan Road as an area that’s very dark,” Harris, a Weinberg junior, said. He said he hopes to come up with a solution on that street despite a delay in discussing general Sheridan Road improvements with the city. “A simple way, I guess you could say, to address lighting concerns is to do it through porch lighting,” Harris said.
coughing and sneezing, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Carl Caneva, Evanston’s assistant health director, said this time of the year is when the city usually sees an influx of whooping cough cases. In order to prevent further spread of the illness, parents should be “vigilant” in monitoring their children and any symptoms they may have, he said. Symptoms of whooping cough are very similar to those of the common cold, including runny nose and fever, but can escalate to rapid coughs and vomiting, according to the CDC. Symptoms don’t appear until seven to 10 days after exposure to the illness. Caneva advised parents to keep their children home if they show any symptoms or exhibit a fever. The letter from ETHS asked parents to keep those infected from
attending school or social activities for at least five days after treatment begins. Although an outbreak is impossible to predict, officials are ensuring that all the appropriate people are made aware of the illness, Evanston Director of Health Evonda ThomasSmith told The Daily in August after the first case had been announced. “It is considered one of the highly contagious infectious conditions,” she said. “It could last for a long period of time and people can go untreated, so that is why we’re really concerned about it.” Students can take basic steps by practicing personal hygiene, such as washing their hands and covering their mouths when coughing and sneezing, in order to help prevent the spread of infection, Caneva said.
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YMCA programs enter grant contest By stephanie kelly
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Three groups at the McGaw YMCA have entered into a national YMCA contest that distributes grants to the winners who have garnered the most votes on their group’s contest page. Evanston Swims!, Project SOAR and the MetaMedia Youth Center joined the contest, called My Fresh Page Project. The contest, which is in its third year, gives prizes of $5,000, $1,000 or $500 to ten winners. The voting period of the contest began at the beginning of September and ends Friday, according to its website. “We do (the contest) because it helps engage anybody in the community,” said Kevin Dietz, the senior public relations manager for the YMCA of the USA. “It gives them the opportunity to fund a project that they may not otherwise have a chance to get funded. We’re looking for ideas big or small.” Lori Siegel, associate operating officer and senior director of Swim, Sports and Play at the McGaw YMCA, 1000 Grove St., said she found out about My Fresh Page Project through a website available
Police Blotter 2 attempt to rob cab driver
Two people tried to rob a cab driver Thursday night, police said. The 30-year-old cab driver picked up a man near the intersection of Milwaukee Avenue and Lawrence Avenue in Chicago, Evanston police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said. The passenger instructed the Des Plaines driver to bring him near Asbury Avenue and Emerson Street in Evanston. When the taxi neared the area, the passenger told the driver to go northbound on Wesley Avenue. About halfway up the street, the driver saw a person who the passenger said would pay
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to all YMCA employees. Siegel entered Evanston Swims! before the other two McGaw YMCA programs entered the contest, she said. Evanston Swims! is a partnership between the McGaw YMCA and Evanston/Skokie School District 65. The program brings second graders each month to the McGaw YMCA to help them learn how to swim. It currently serves about 300 second graders. “For me, it’s about water safety education,” Siegel said. “Because our east border is Lake Michigan, it is truly inherent that every child learns how to swim in Evanston for safety.” If they win, Evanston Swims! staff will use the contest money to buy additional supplies and expand the program since it is funded through donations, Siegel said. The contest will also help spread information about the program, she said. Sue Sowle, the Youth Enrichment director at McGaw YMCA, said the other two groups, Project SOAR and the MetaMedia Youth Center, entered the contest after Sowle found out about the contest from Siegel. The contest has three different grant levels: $5,000, $1,000 and $500. Siegel said she suggested the other two groups enter a different level than Evanston
Swims!, which is in the $1,000 prize category. Sowle entered MetaMedia in the $5,000 category and Project Soar is entered in the $500 category, according to My Fresh Page Project’s website. Sowle said she did not think MetaMedia will win in its category. The center will provide a place for middle school students to hang out and will provide technology resources to students, among other things. The prize money would help the new space launch. Project SOAR, a one-on-one mentoring program, does have a chance at winning with 615 votes as of Tuesday, Sowle said. Project SOAR is a program in which Northwestern students meet with fourth to eighth grade local students, she said. Staff members are reaching out through social media, friends, family and community members to get votes for the programs, Sowle said. Anyone can enter the program, Dietz said. “If (people) have something they’re really passionate about, then they could have an outlet for that,” Dietz said. “That’s part of the Y’s commitment to social responsibility. We invest in the communities.”
the fare, Parrott said. When the driver pulled over at about 9 p.m., the man on the street pulled out a handgun and demanded money the cab driver, police said. The passenger jumped out of the car and the taxi driver drove off, Parrott said. Nothing was taken from the driver, police said. Both the passenger and the man in the street are described as black males. The man in the street was wearing a green hoodie, Parrott said.
Students entered Chute Middle School, 1400 Oakton St., on Saturday afternoon when a basketball league was playing games at the school, Parrott said. The students, who were high school-aged, entered a restricted area after getting past a gate and went into classrooms and lockers, Parrott said. They took a Mac laptop, a small amount of cash, an iPad and a trumpet, police said. The incident was caught on video, Parrott said. Evanston police have arrested three so far, officials said. Police believe that an additional student may be involved
3 arrested in connection with burglary of Evanston middle school
Police have arrested three high school students in connection with the burglary of an Evanston middle school Saturday, police said.
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Green Cup competition encourages sustainability By emily chin
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For the ninth year in a row, Green Cup is in full swing. Northwestern Dining is currently in the middle of Green Cup, a campus-wide competition led by Students for Ecological and Environmental Development in partnership with the Office of Sustainability. Throughout the competition, students can earn points for their residences by saving energy and water and attending Green Cup events. The competition kicked off Monday with Weigh the Waste, an event in which students sorted food waste at the Allison and Sargent dining halls. NU Dining Marketing Manager Rachel Tilghman said after Weigh the Waste’s debut in 2010, she wanted to bring the activity back this year as part of their sustainability initiative. “We want to reduce waste as much as we can,” Tilghman said. “We definitely want you to eat as much as you want, but we don’t want you to take more than you can eat.” Green Cup hosted a debate about genetically modified organisms on Monday. Events will continue throughout the week, providing students the opportunity to earn points for their teams. “It’s really exciting that we’re kicking off Green Cup with so many events,” said Allison Potteiger, Office of Sustainability communications coordinator. There are four main categories for Green Cup
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teams: residential colleges with dining halls, residential colleges without dining halls, fraternities and sororities. This year, every residential college is participating, and most fraternities and sororities are participating, said Weinberg sophomore Sara Johns, SEED Green Cup chair. The off-campus category is returning for the second year this year. The group is separate because it can’t participate in the energy and water consumption aspect of the competition but can earn points by going to events. Potteiger said she’s glad they expanded Green Cup last year to include students living off campus but wishes there was a way to evaluate how much students are saving water off campus as well. For students living on campus, weekly readings tell residents how much water and energy they are wasting, and based on these numbers, their teams can be awarded points. Though the competition is a month long, there will be winners each week who will receive prizes such as reusable water bottles, Johns said. There will be one final winner for each category. The winners for fraternities and sororities will receive $500 for Dance Marathon or for other philanthropy events. They have not decided on a reward for the winners in residential colleges. Another change is the shift from Winter Quarter to Fall Quarter. Until last year, Green Cup was held in February but was switched to fall so more people could participate. “They moved it to the fall so when we get into Architects, which was chosen by the University in April, will soon design the building. The program verification process included focus groups in the NU community that discussed concerns over various aspects of the building, such as its internal spaces, relation to campus ecology, safety and operations and technology. Focus groups were held with faculty members, staff members, about 75 undergraduate and graduate students and some members of the Evanston community, said Kelly Schaefer, executive director of Norris
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keep it green Winners of the 2012-13 Green Cup receive the trophy in Winter Quarter 2013. Green Cup is a campus-wide competition that encourages sustainability.
school, the first thing that hits students is the focus on sustainability that will continue through the year,” Johns said. Johns said she hopes people keep thinking about keeping the environment clean after Green Cup is
over. SEED will be hosting a winter speaker and Philfest, an outdoor benefit concert, in the spring to keep students active with sustainability.
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It’s time to dispel the myths about sexual violence amy whyte
opinion editor
When I was a little girl, grown-ups always told me to never talk to strangers. I was taught to mistrust anyone with whom I was not familiar and to be wary of shadowy unknown figures lurking in dark corners. But the real threat faced by young girls and women today is not some vague, faceless bogeyman. As a society, we like to dichotomize the world into good guys and bad guys – and we like to think we have an idea of what the bad guys look like. Be it the cartoonish portrayal of a wrongdoer as a swarthy villain in a top hat with a sinister mustache, or the damaging tendency to distrust a young man of color wearing a hoodie, we’ve constructed caricature profiles of the type of people that we should be afraid of. Although it would be nice to be able to pick out the good guys from the bad guys at
first sight, that’s not really how life works. The bad guy isn’t always some dark stranger following you home in a suspicious white van. In cases of rape and domestic violence, it’s usually someone you already know. A new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that in nearly nine out of 10 female rape cases, the victim knew her assailant. Even worse, almost half of female rape victims reported their attacker to have been someone with whom they were or had been romantically involved. Meanwhile, the same study reported that about one in three women experience domestic violence – acts of physical violence inflicted upon them by their own partner – at some point in their lifetimes. On college campuses in particular, sexual violence is rarely a random act committed by a complete stranger. It happens in dorm rooms, at frat parties, in off-campus apartments. And it happens between friends, casual acquaintances, even established couples. Last year, a then-Medill junior filed a Title IX lawsuit against Northwestern alleging that it happened between her and her professor. There is no simple dichotomy, no easy
way to categorize good guys and bad guys. And it only serves to make the concept of sexual violence that much more confusing. If a friend makes an unwanted advance, and you don’t actually consent but you’re too uncomfortable to speak up, is it really sexual assault? If your significant other pressures you into having sex after you’ve repeatedly told them no, is it really rape? With the national spotlight on campus sexual assault, we’ve slowly started to reframe the way we think about sexual and domestic violence. The White House’s new “It’s On Us” campaign uses the premise that sexual assault is usually perpetrated by someone the victim knows as a rallying cry to call people to action. And new changes to the Clery Act, the last of which were published on Monday, seek to further define how universities handle sexual assault. The new rules require colleges to record incidents of stalking based on the location where it first occurred and include gender identity and national origin as categories for hate crimes. Most importantly, the policy change requires universities to be transparent about how they handle all cases of dating violence,
domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking. This transparency is key: Right now, survivors like the Medill student who filed the Title IX lawsuit assert that the University does not do an adequate job of responding to sexual assault and harassment complaints. The knowledge that NU will properly handle all situations involving sexual violence will encourage more victims to come forward and report their own experiences. Sexual assault will be brought out of the shadows and into the spotlight more than ever before, dispelling myths and hazy notions about what does and does not constitute sexual violence. Through public discourse and education, we can do away with this false dichotomy of good guys and bad guys. We can empower victims to realize when they are being victimized. We can encourage survivors to come forward. And we can make sure the real bad guys – the ones perpetuating sexual crimes – don’t continue to get away with it. Amy Whyte is a Medill senior. She can be reached at amywhyte2015@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.
Lifetime reports of rape by type of perpetrator
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There’s no need to fear genetically modified organisms sai folmsbee
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October is a month that ends in a celebration of our fears. But gone are the monsters of our youth, now replaced with something much more terrifying. In an age when virtually all kinds of food are affordable, available and safe, we still find ways to fear what we eat. Whether it’s our dread of the “chemicals” in the list of ingredients or the horror of genetic modification, this anxiety has evolved into a much more debilitating fear of science. In a recent online piece that went viral, Vani Hari of Food Babe aggressively accused Starbucks of selling pumpkin spice lattes filled with carcinogens, allergens, pesticides and a “toxic” dose of sugar. This kind of fear mongering is not new. Hari made news just a few months ago when she “exposed” Subway for including azodicarbonamide, which can be found in yoga mats, in its sandwich bread. In doing so, she proved that these kind of articles are not toothless because she successfully pressured Subway into removing azodicarbonamide from its bread. In either case, even the most cursory of scientific examinations will show that there is certainly no reason to believe any chemical in these foods will have such negative health effects. All of these additives have been exhaustively tested to ensure that our food is safe, and many of these chemicals have varying uses in food and industry because we have the scientific research to justify it. But
this isn’t a simple case of chemophobia, a fear of chemicals. This represents something far more sinister within the psyche of American consumers: a distrust of science itself. For example, Ben and Jerry’s has also joined in increasing our fear of our food. It recently announced its support for the political movement to label genetically modified organism foods. Unsurprisingly, a company that survives on pun-inspired ice cream names does not have a nuanced understanding of the science behind GMOs. Ben and Jerry’s cannot even define what an organism is. The first version of its website proclaimed, “GMOs aren’t just altered organisms; they can be plants, vegetables or even things like fish.” Not only does Ben and Jerry’s not seem to understand that all of the things it listed are organisms, it also seems to think vegetables aren’t plants. After receiving criticism, it has since taken down this error-riddled sentence. However, more scientific inaccuracies remain. Ben and Jerry’s defines GMOs as “DNA from one species … injected into another species in a laboratory,” which gives the false impression that GMOs are simply normal foods clumsily injected with some kind of scary DNA. The truth of how GMOs are created using precise genetic manipulation, breeding and testing has been entirely overlooked. The only reliable information is at the end of the webpage, where Ben and Jerry’s claims, “We know we’re not scientists.” Perhaps it should have been left at that. I’ve discussed GMO use before, but there is no scientific reason to believe that GMO crops pose any greater risk than non-GMO, from the initial engineering of the foods to their impact on public health. The political and economic turmoil around GMOs,
including patenting of crops, is much more complicated, but the science behind GMO safety as foods is clear. Some would argue that labeling itself poses no true harm and merely offers consumers information and the freedom to choose. But the only reason to label GMO foods is to imply that they are substantially different from non-GMO foods. And such a label, though seemingly benign, has a high price. Enforcing such bills have been shown to cost each state millions of dollars, costs that would likely drive up the price of food. Right now, a GMO-labeling bill is sitting in committee in the Illinois legislature and could be called on to vote in the near future. But whether we fear sandwiches, lattes or GMO food, it all stems from the same overarching anxiety: the horror of the unknown.
It is much easier to find preservatives terrifying and genetic manipulations a criminal act of nature because the alternative requires effort beyond what any typical individual would place toward something so banal as food. But the right choice, the hard choice, is necessary. Our fear and misunderstanding of science has spiraled into an anti-vaccination movement and a miserable decline in funding for scientific research. We have to be willing to invest time and energy into understanding the complex science behind our everyday choices because a fear of science itself is becoming much more dangerous. Sai Folmsbee is a Feinberg graduate student. He can be reached at sai@fsm.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a letter to the editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.
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City to distribute free bicycle lights to provide more safety education
Evanston will distribute and install free bicycle lights on Oct. 30 as part of the city’s effort to provide greater safety education and training for bicyclists in the community. In line with the city’s long-term initiative to implement an updated bicycle plan and expand designated bicycle lanes, two Evanston locations, one on Northwestern’s campus, will offer a limited amount of bicycle light installations, as well as information on bicycle laws and ordinances, the city announced Friday. “We want to get engaged with (bicycling) folks to provide some of that training and information and also ensure that people have lights as the days are getting shorter,” said Cindy Plante, a local government management fellow with the International City/ County Management Association. “Because we do have people that ride bikes in the Evanston community and at Northwestern campus.” Through City Council meetings, public hearings and discussions regarding the city’s bicycle plan, many residents and city staff expressed the need for expanded safety education, Plante said. State law requires people biking at night to use a front light that can be seen from at least 500 feet away, as well as a rear red reflector that is visible from 100 to 600 feet away. Volunteers will provide a limited number of bicycle lights at The Arch and at Robert Crown Center, 1701 Main St. The two sites will target both Evanston residents and NU students, Plante said.
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The city will begin accepting wheel tax payments from residents on Monday, and residents can purchase their residential parking permits for 2015 then as well, according to a news release from the city. The wheel tax payment is required for all Evanston residents who have a registered car
The event will also be held to encourage bicyclers to adhere to both state and local statutes and ordinances, Plante said. “Bike safety is being added and being considered as part of our larger plan for bike infrastructure and Bike the larger dialogue safety is being that we’re having with the community about added and being the place of bicycles considered as and the importance of sharing the road,” part of our larger she said. plan for bike The idea for a infrastructure. “bike light giveaway” Cindy Plante, came from a similar local government event that is held regularly in Urbana, management fellow Illinois, Plante saidDepending on the success of Evanston’s upcoming event, staff will evaluate if the city will continue to provide free bicycle lights on a consistent basis as well, she said. Although this is the only effort currently being taken by the city to promote bicycle safety, Plante said she expects there to be additional initiatives when bike-sharing service Divvy comes to Evanston in 2015. The city wants to ensure residents are given enough time and opportunities to learn about bicycle laws and safety before Evanston police step up enforcement, she said. The two stations will be distributing bicycle lights for two hours starting at 4:30 p.m. on Oct. 30. The lights are donated by Evanston bicycle store Wheel & Sprocket, 1027 Davis St. — Paige Leskin
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light your bike The city will distribute and install a limited number of free bicycle lights in on Oct. 30. The event is part of the city’s effort to increase bicycle safety and education.
with the Illinois Secretary of State. This is the second year the city has gone “sticker-less,” and License Plate Recognition technology, which stores information about vehicles, will be used to check whether residents have paid, the news release said. If the technology does not register that a vehicle’s sticker has been paid, staff will check whether the vehicle has a visitor pass or a sticker for anyone eligible to get one, the city’s website said. Preprinted renewal notices will be mailed to residents Friday and will include an online
ID for residents to have the option to pay the tax online, the news release said. Residents who did not receive the preprinted notice or the information on the notice was not correct can pick up their application at the Civic Center starting Monday, the news release said. Applications will be available online on Monday as well. Residents can also pay their wheel tax payments in person at the Levy Senior Center, 300 Dodge Ave., or the Fleetwood-Jourdain Community Center, 1655 Foster St., or by mail. The deadline to pay the tax and purchase
parking permits is Dec. 15, the news release said. Residents who do not pay the tax before the deadline could receive a 50 percent increase in the amount due, according to the city’s website. A passenger car wheel tax will cost $113 rather than the original $75, the website said. Residents could receive parking tickets for not paying the wheel tax, the news release said. —Stephanie Kelly
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The Obama administration announced Friday final changes to the Clery Act that will increase the reporting requirements for crimes on college campuses. The changes require colleges that receive federal funding to collect data about incidents of dating violence, domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking. Under the revisions, colleges must publish this information in yearly crime reports. Northwestern included data on incidents of stalking for the first time in its 2013 yearly report, which showed an increase in sexual assault reports compared to previous years. The changes also add gender identity and national origin as hate crime categories. The new rules follow the 2013 reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act. The updates are part of the Obama administration’s larger effort to combat sexual assault on college campuses. “These new rules require institutions to ensure that students and employees have vital information about crime on campus and the services and protections available to victims if a crime does occur, which will be significant assets in addressing the growing problems of sexual assault, domestic violence, dating violence, and stalking on our nation’s campuses,” U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said in a news release. The changes were formally published Monday in the Federal Register and will go into effect July 1, 2015. — Ciara McCarthy
Lights
From page 1 Harris said because the buildings on the west side of Sheridan belong to the University, improving porch lighting there is feasible even if the city cannot find funding to install more streetlights. Members of the NU community will also work with the city to encourage Evanston residents to increase their porch lighting. ASG has also been working with the University on a potential “mobile blue light” app for students to use while walking off campus. A committee is reviewing possible vendors for the app to determine whether or not NU should adopt the technology. Harris said the app, which he called
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Across Campuses
CPS used emergency allergy medicine 38 times, report finds
University of Illinois Extension turns 100
Chicago Public Schools treated 38 students and staff members with emergency medication for lifethreatening allergies during the 2012-13 school year, according to a Northwestern Medicine report in partnership with CPS. CPS was the first large urban school district to stock the medication, called epinephrine autoinjectors, in its public and charter schools. School nurses oversaw implementing most of the medication. Students comprised 92 percent of those treated. More than half of the EAI recipients had no known history of allergic reactions. “It is our goal to prevent any health-related barriers to learning, which is why we have worked with all of our schools to address this critical issue,” said Dr. Stephanie Whyte, report co-author and chief health officer for CPS, in a news release. The report said the impact of the initiative’s first year highlights the importance of keeping an undesignated epinephrine supply in U.S. schools. The majority of EAIs issued were on the northnorthwest side, but a significant portion of the EAIs was also used in the South Side, where children may not have access to food allergy resources. Life-threatening allergic reactions can spring up within seconds of exposure to an allergen. No cure for food allergies currently exists, Dr. Ruchi Gupta, Northwestern Medicine pediatrician and report co-author, said in a news release. CPS’s allergy medication implementation targeted 21 cases of food-related allergies, with peanut as the most common, followed by fin fish. EAIs were also mostly administered in elementary schools. As of last year, 41 states passed policies pushing schools to stock EAIs in case of emergencies. — Alice Yin
“essentially a blue light at your fingertips,” would have simple functions like an emergency button but could also include “other features that are maybe less daunting than just calling 911.” “(We) want to make sure it is going to be a good fit that would complement a lot of the other safety measures out there, like SafeRide,” he said. Lighting and safety are brought up consistently in the University’s surveys of off-campus students every two years, Kirchmeier said. Another survey is planned for the upcoming spring. jkuang@u.northwestern.edu
BLOOMINGTON – A longtime organization is more than just “cows, sows and plows,” according to Carolyn Hansen. Hansen is a University of Illinois Extension 4-H youth development educator serving Livingston, McLean and Woodford counties. Her employer is celebrating 100 years of programs this year. The Extension started at UI in 1914, and a year later was established in McLean County. “We’re the best kept secret, but we don’t want to be a secret,” said Bobbie Lewis-Sibley, county director serving Livingston, McLean and Woodford counties. “We hear all the time that people don’t know that we’re here. But people should utilize us.” The Extension focuses on 4-H youth programs, local food systems, financial education, nutrition and wellness, horticulture and its Unity Community Center. The center is an after school program for children and families with limited resources in McLean County. The facility, 632 Orlando Ave., Normal, was established in 2003 and offers tutoring and a hot meal to the children, Hansen said. Including the children at the Unity Community Center, Extension programs in Livingston, McLean and Woodford counties reached 34,193 adults and 32,084 youth last year. The McLean County Extension started in 1915, when a group of 300 local farmers pledged $10 in dues for three years to match USDA and UI funds to hire a farm advisor in McLean County. Early on, those farm advisors set up corn clubs to provide learning opportunities for rural youth. ex euisisiscip eui eros dodolum. — Pat Shaver (The Pantagraph)
Universities, towns and cities step up Ebola protections
Students at some state universities will no longer go to hospital emergency rooms for classwork, in the wake of last week’s Ebola scare at
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income, according to the plan. In 2011, there was a total of 29,055 households in Evanston, which has remained fairly stable since 2000, according to the draft. Residents can review the draft online or at the Civic Center through Nov. 3. “We have such limited citizen participation,” said Ald. Coleen Burrus (9th). “So much of it dovetails what the mental health board is doing.”
Yale-New Haven Hospital. Concerns about the illness also caused the state to urge all government employees to refrain from unnecessary travel to countries ravaged by the disease. And many cities and towns are already drafting Ebola-response plans. Though there hasn’t been a confirmed Ebola case in Connecticut, many officials said they’re just being cautious about an illness that has killed thousands of people, including one in the United States. “It’s honestly scary,” said Chris Tymniak, director of administration for the city of Ansonia, which had an Ebola-preparedness meeting on Monday. “You don’t know whether you’ve been in contact with someone who’s sick until they’ve been tested.” Connecticut was thrown into high alert last week when a Yale University graduate student was admitted to Yale-New Haven with Ebola symptoms. The patient tested negative for the disease. Still, the incident caused some schools, including Sacred Heart University, Fairfield University and the University of New Haven, to alter their education programs for students in health care programs. Both Fairfield University and Sacred Heart have temporarily stopped sending nursing school students to emergency rooms at hospitals in the state. The decision was made to protect students, said Meredith Wallace Kazer, dean of the Fairfield University School of Nursing. “(The emergency department) is where patients enter the health care system,” Kazer said. Until at-risk patients are identified and isolated, she said, “there is a very, very small risk for people to be exposed.” The university does limited work with the emergency rooms, Kazer said, so stopping rotations there was deemed the best way to protect students without harming their education. Both Fairfield and Sacred Heart also temporarily suspended clinical rotations at Yale-New Haven, but resumed them after it was confirmed that the patient didn’t have Ebola. — Amanda Cuda (Connecticut Post)
The city previously tried to reach out to the public through an online survey, which they promoted through social media, emails, the website and newsletter, the plan said. According to the plan, residents’ responses doubled from the last plan. The city received about 200 to 250 responses from residents, said Sarah Flax, the city’s housing and grants administrator. “Nationally, we blew most other cities out of the water,” Jacobs said at the meeting. jenniferball2015@u.northwestern.edu
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DUKE OF THE MIDWEST Coach Chris Collins was hired in 2013 to help build Northwestern in the mold of other academically focused schools with basketball traditions.
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From page 8 NU hasn’t made the Dance are not the real reasons. The main reasons NU has failed so spectacularly at basketball are poor coaching and recruiting. Put another way, the rudderless program has lacked leadership. It has never had a Coach K. It has never had a Jim Boeheim, a John Thompson, a Jim Calhoun or a Tom Izzo. Instead, Cats fans have been left
to watch a struggling mess of a program squander the opportunities presented by their Big Ten membership and location near fertile recruiting grounds. Maybe coach Chris Collins, the irrepressibly energetic former Duke assistant now entering his second year at the helm of the Cats program, will be that guy for NU. His is a program that can be built into a consistent contender, regardless of what the naysayers might think. timothybalk2018@u.northwestern.edu
at Virginia for two years and then transferred to Northwestern in 2012. “It wasn’t really working out with the coach (at Virginia) and so I reached out to Tracey to explain the situation,” Puffenberger said. “She opened up a spot, an opportunity for me to come to Northwestern. I knew that she wouldn’t stick herself out there if she didn’t think it was a good fit for me. I wanted to work hard for her because she stuck herself out there for me.” Armstrong chose to follow Fuchs as well rather than go to Michigan’s already established field hockey program. “First and foremost was my relationship with Tracey and her staff,” Armstrong said. “Northwestern is also a great school academically and the location, near Chicago, was great.” Blacktop Beginnings Fuchs wanted to play ice hockey from a young age and grew up playing roller hockey in Long Island with friends in her neighborhood. She was always a New York Rangers fan and dreamed of taking the ice one day. “Growing up, there were five boys who lived next door,” Fuchs said. “We played street hockey, roller hockey, backyard hockey all the time, so for me, it was an easy conversion (to field hockey). I was a diehard Ranger fan. I thought I would play for them when I grew up. It was basically the influence; we had a lot of guys in our area that played street hockey. Picking up a field hockey stick came so naturally to me.” Fuchs also has three sisters who played the game, so she was able to pick it up easily. “I started much younger picking up a stick,” Fuchs said. “It’s something I love to do. I would sneak up to my sisters’ practice and watch what they would do and come home and set up cones myself. I was addicted to it. I love the sport. It’s so exciting and fast that I just stayed with it.” Fuchs eventually went on to play at Connecticut and become one of the program’s most accomplished players. The Huskies honored Fuchs this August when the Cats traveled to Storrs, Connecticut for their second away match. During her time playing for Connecticut, Fuchs scored the second most points in program history with 178 and was one of only
three players to ever score more than 70 goals in a Husky career. Outstanding Olympian After her time at Connecticut, Fuchs played in two Olympics and helped coach U.S. national teams for U-17, U-21 and the 2012 Olympics. After playing at such a high level and playing competitively for so long, coaching seemed to be the next logical step. “She has this way of managing the game while she’s coaching to make the right changes and explain that to the players where they’re able to trust it, understand it and then execute it,” Tchou said. “That’s a big part of gifted coaches like her. She just has that understanding.” On the grand stage of international play, Fuchs was not just one in the crowd. As a player, she helped lead her 1988 and 1996 Olympic teams to an eighth place and fifth place finishes respectively. “Her nickname was Gretzky because of some of the moves she made,” Tchou said. “She would make certain moves that you would be like, ‘Wait, where did that come from?’ We were always in awe from the different ways she would score.” While Fuchs was on the USA team from 1987 to 2004, she was a team captain for the final 14 of those 17 seasons. Fuchs also played in 263 international matches, the most of any field hockey player for the United States. Incredible Impact At NU, Fuchs has completely turned around the program. For the five years previous to Fuchs’s arrival, the team went 32-63 overall, 3-17 in the Big Ten. Since Fuchs’s tenure began, the team has gone 66-35 overall, 14-16 Big Ten not including this season. Fuchs has brought her love for the sport to the Cats, and NU has bought in. This season looks similar to last year when the Cats won a share of the Big Ten title during the regular season. “The important thing is that (my players) know I care about them,” Fuchs said. “I take the extra time to get to know about each of them. I do this because it’s really fun. Practices can be intense. (At) practices, I’m not happy sometimes. But in the end, we’re chasing a white ball and trying to score into a goal cage so in the end, it has to be fun.” michaelmarut2016@u.northwestern.edu
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She’s basically the Michael Jordan of field hockey. — Chelsea Armstrong, on Tracey Fuchs
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Fuchs’ remarkable career continues at NU By MIKE MARUT
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Welcome to The Sideline,where The Daily’s sports staff provides detailed looks into the lives and personalities of all 19 varsity coaches. This installment covers field hockey coach Tracey Fuchs. Not many people have revolutionized an entire field. Yet there is one woman on campus who has done so with field hockey: Tracey Fuchs, Northwestern’s field hockey coach. Fuchs has traveled the world as a player and coach for field hockey teams ranging from college to the Olympics. She has set records and topped leaderboards at the college and professional level. Those at the national level have described her career as legendary, and she has the resume to prove it. While at the University of Connecticut, Fuchs earned All-American honors three times, won the Honda Broderick Award for the best field hockey player in the country in 1987 and broke seven school scoring records. In 2005, she was named USA National Coach of the Year after leading the USA Field Hockey team to a seventh-place finish in the Junior World Cup, and in April 2014 she entered the USA Field Hockey Hall of Fame. Fuchs’ longtime friend and Olympic teammate, Liz Tchou, remembers her as being a one-ofa-kind player.“She was the flashy player,” Tchou said. “She was very competitive. Definitely in her year, she was one of the best players at the time. She was also one of the most humble players. That’s a trait in her that will stand the test of time.” Even players Fuchs brings in know of her dominance. “She’s basically the Michael Jordan of field hockey,” said Chelsea Armstrong, who played for Fuchs from 2009-12. “She’s an idol for the kids who come to play at Northwestern. I personally learned a lot. I definitely got more sound of my play personally. Seeing the team develop was also pretty special to see the program get turned around in the four years I was there. We loved every second of it.” Competitive Coach Fuchs is known far and wide as
Source: Stephen J. Carrera, Northwestern Athletics
ALL-TIME GREAT In six years, coach Tracey Fuchs has lifted the Northwestern field hockey program to the top of the Big Ten. Before entering coaching, Fuchs was one of the best field hockey players in U.S. history.
one of the premier field hockey coaches to ever be a part of the game. As a player, Fuchs joined the USA team in 1988 for the Seoul, South Korea Olympic Games as well as the 1996 Atlanta Games. As a coach, Fuchs earned an automatic spot for the 2012 London games after she helped lead the U.S. team to its first Pan-American Games gold medal. Fuchs is notorious for her competitive fire. Unlike her playing style, she keeps it simple when she’s coaching: no flash, no fireworks and confetti, just field
hockey. When she takes the field, formerly as a player and now as a coach, her mind focuses on the game. She plays no games or tricks. Fuchs wants to win. “She’s a silent competitor,” said Tara Puffenberger, a former player under Fuchs at the national level and for the Wildcats. “She’s silent. The thing that shows is winning. It’s not all about all the flashy things, she’s just very blue-collar and … a true competitor.” Fuchs does not focus only on competition when she coaches. She’s been developing her coaching
style since she began as an assistant at Connecticut in 1988. From there she coached the U-21 National team, the Michigan Wolverines and the U-17 National Team until finally arriving at NU. “It’s still a work in progress,” Fuchs said. “I had five nationalteam coaches, so I try to combine the best parts of their coaching and put them into my game. Still I go to conventions and clinics and talk to my peers and so forth. The best coaches don’t think they know it all.” She has been around the block
a few times and understands coaches cannot be monolithic in their coaching style. After coaching for so many years, she learned one of the most important qualities to have. “Trust is number one,” Fuchs said. “You can be the best coach in the world, but if your players don’t trust you and you don’t have trust in them, you’re not going to go anywhere. “We’ve really developed a culture here where the freshman are treated like the seniors, and I put so much trust in our leadership to make decisions on the field. That empowers them, and when they feel empowered and a part of the process, then they’re going to be better not only on the hockey field but all-around.” Bringing in the Best Through her tenure as coach, Fuchs has brought in some of the best players in the country to NU. Armstrong, arguably the numberone player to come through Fuchs’ program, remembers playing under Fuchs and her effect on the team. Armstrong made the All-Big Ten team all four years of her career, was named first team All-American in 2011 and 2012 and scored the most goals in a Cats career (100) and single season (29). “She’s a master of the game, both tactically and technically,” Armstrong said. “She has so much experience playing at such a high level, which really translates well to her coaching. Puffenberger also is one of the best players to compete under Fuchs. Puffenberger cannot take all the credit though; her long relationship with Fuchs played a huge part in her field hockey development. “I’ve known Tracey since I was about 13 or 14 years old,” Puffenberger said. “At the time she was the coach for the Under-21 team. From day one, we kind of just understood each other. She knew exactly what to say and exactly how to coach me. It was really cool that we established this trust.” Both Armstrong and Puffenberger, one year apart in age, were going to join Fuchs’ squad at Michigan, but after Fuchs left the Wolverines to take the coaching job for Northwestern, Armstrong followed Fuchs, while Puffenberger played » See sideline, page 7
Men’s Basketball
Common excuses don’t explain NU’s historic futility TiM Balk
daily columnist
You hear it all the time. Ostensibly, Northwestern struggles at basketball for a preponderance of reasons: stringent academic standards, subpar facilities, lack of fan support, history, etc. But the truth is that none of those explanations accurately explain why NU has floundered so much at basketball over the past century. Although these are all obstacles, none of them is impossible to overcome. In fact, most of those factors are merely the results of the Wildcats’ ineptitude at the sport, not the
impetus for it. It’s quite possible for a highquality basketball program to grow from an academically focused institution. In fact, many of the most elite programs in the nation are found on the campuses of America’s most illustrious academic colleges. Places such as Duke, Georgetown, Michigan, UCLA, N0rth Carolina and Villanova have historically dominated the sport. Further, three of those (Duke, Villanova and Georgetown) are schools of the same build as NU: small-ish, private, academically centered universities. As of this moment, Harvard and Stanford boast strong, rising basketball programs. Stanford made the Sweet 16 last year. Harvard has won NCAA Tournament games
each of the last two years, despite the inherent handicaps of playing in the Ivy League. NU has the advantage of playing in what is arguably the nation’s best basketball conference. It can be done at a school like NU. A college basketball program can succeed, thrive and, indeed, even become a symbol of an academically prestigious private school. That much is beyond clear. Duke has proven it. Georgetown has proven it. Villanova has proven it. The little academic college beating the Goliath state school may indeed be a pipe dream in football. It certainly looked like one as Nebraska cleaned NU’s proverbial clock on Saturday. However, it is not in basketball, a sport that
requires far fewer scholarships and resources than the gridiron game. Then, on to the issue of facilities. Former NBA guard Delonte West once said of his basketball mentality, “I’m just a player … and I just play with whatever they play with. If we’re going to play with a sock, we’re going to play with a sock.” Now, West may have been joking, but it is true that basketball is a simple game. You need a ball, a court and a hoop. So although NU’s facilities might not be up to the level of its Big Ten brethren, it truly doesn’t matter. Cameron Indoor Stadium, Duke’s home venue, is a pit. NU’s practice facilities and main arena are not the problem. As for NU’s fan support problem, it’s hardly a problem at all. At many other major basketball programs,
fan support is equally weak or weaker. Boston College, a historically strong basketball school that has made the NCAA Tournament 18 times, has notoriously struggled with attendance. The Eagles have never sold out Conte Forum more than eight times in a season. During their 2011-12 campaign, they averaged an attendance of just 4,705 at home games. In spite of the basketball team’s struggles, NU had an attendance over 5,000 at every single home game last year. Sure, the Cats have never made an NCAA Tournament. That does not mean they never will. In fact, it does not even mean they’ll never win an NCAA Championship. And the reasons usually given for why » See balk, page 7