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No dining change after WHO report By BENJAMIN DIN
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Sodexo currently has no plans to change policies in response to a report released Oct. 26 linking certain meats to cancer, a Sodexo spokeswoman said. Last week, the World Health Organization released a report linking processed meats to cancer. Despite the report, Sodexo has not recalled products in response to the study as of Friday, said Rachel Tilghman, Sodexo’s director of communications and engagement at NU. Regular consumption of processed meats, including bacon, hot dogs and sausages, can cause colorectal cancer, according to the report. The WHO classified processed meats as Group 1, meaning they are “carcinogenic to humans.” Although this is in the same group as tobacco smoking and asbestos, the WHO said this does not mean they are equally carcinogenic. It also classified red meats in Group 2A, meaning they are “probably carcinogenic to humans.” Although Sodexo has not responded to the study, Tilghman said there are two main ways that policies get changed in dining halls: through a corporate directive or through an on-campus initiative. “If it’s a policy that the University or our director of dining or our program and our student groups here would like to change, we can also change it,” she said last week. “No one has brought any changes to our
team as of this week that I’m aware of.” Karen Sechowski, NU’s campus dietitian who started in June, said there have not been any discussions about potential changes in response to the studies. However, students should always be mindful of their eating habits in the dining hall, she said. “At some point in your life, you need to learn how to make these choices,” she told The Daily last week. “If you hear something like that from a reputable source like the World Health Organization, students should make good choices accordingly.” Real Food at NU co-director Miranda Cawley said she is not sure how effective the study will be in changing any policies or eating habits. She compared the report to other reports on high fructose corn syrup having negative health effects, which have caused minimal to no changes in people’s eating habits. “There’ve been reports coming out for ages about different foods that allegedly give you certain type of cancers, and they continue to be served in dining halls,” the Medill senior said. “Just because reports are coming out that say things are unhealthy does not mean that there’s going to be anything necessarily that we’re seeing in changes in diet, in policy or availability in dining halls.” For change to occur, Cawley said things needs to take place on a larger scale. Because a lot of consumer options are dictated by the food industry, she said it is not » See MEAT, page 7
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INTELLECTUAL CONVERSATION Darush Mabadi, Katherine Week and Bob Hariman sit at a communal table in Unicorn Cafe discussing politics and literature. They are part of a larger group of about 15 people.
Coffee and friendship at Unicorn By DAVID FISHMAN
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One icy morning in 1992, Steven Lubet and his Siberian Husky came upon a new cafe on Sherman Avenue. Looking for a cup of coffee, Lubet walked in and sat down. Twenty-three years later, he still returns to Unicorn Cafe every morning — where he has found companionship in addition to coffee. Lubet, a Northwestern law professor, is part of an eclectic group of 50- to 70-year-olds who meet daily at Unicorn, 1723 Sherman Ave. Over the course of its history, the group of baby boomers has included a former Navy SEAL, an architect and Pulitzer Prizewinning author Garry Wills, who dedicated one of his books to the people he calls the “Unicorn symposiasts.”
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EATING AT FRAN’S A student dines at Fran’s Cafe. Sodexo has said there are currently no plans to take action regarding last week’s health report that there is a link between processed meat and cancer.
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Today, there are more than 15 members who meet every day at about 7 a.m. to drink coffee, mock Donald Trump and lament the Chicago Cubs’ track record. “It’s a classic Habermasian coffeehouse where any topic is legitimate, and nothing’s off limits,” said Communication Prof. Bob Hariman, who has been part of the group for more than a decade. But before the group morphed into its current form, members were spread across multiple tables and cafes in town. An arbitrary genesis In the 1980s, Evanston was mostly devoid of coffeehouses, said Rob Clarke, an Episcopalian priest and former Navy SEAL who used to be a regular member of the group. So when the now-defunct Cafe Express on Dempster Street opened at the end of the decade, it was a hit.
It was there that the earliest iteration of the Unicorn group, called the “philosophers’ table,” was born. “It was a kind of salon in the European sense,” said NU history Prof. Jeff Rice, who co-founded the group. “There was an enormous amount of humor, an enormous amount of pomposity and an enormous amount of good fun.” As the philosophers added members, another parallel group began to form. Founded by a therapist and a priest, it was initially labeled by Lubet as the “psychologists’ table,” he said. But in reality, the crowd was far more diverse. “We’d chat about everything from the Three Stooges to international economics,” Clarke said. For a time, Cafe Express filled the small city’s needs. But gradually, as
The 23-year-old woman was driving herself and two others to St. Francis Hospital in the 300 block of Ridge Avenue at about 10:30 p.m. when her car jumped the curb and struck a bicyclist, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said. Police said the three individuals, two women and one man, were shot in the 1500 block of Morse Avenue in Chicago, the same block where Medill previously operated a
storefront newsroom for journalism classes. The bicyclist, who works as a nurse at St. Francis Hospital, sustained a compound fracture on her left leg but is in stable condition, he said. Police said the driver is not in custody and has not been charged.
» See UNICORN, page 7
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