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ROLLIN’ BACK Rollin’ To Go sandwiches will be served starting next month at D&D Finer Foods. Rollin’ to Go, a popular sandwich shop, closed its doors in July due to financial and legal troubles.
D&D to offer Rollin’ to Go food By JULIA JACOBS
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Rollin’ To Go sandwiches will be served starting next month at D&D Finer Foods, a grocery store just down the road from the recently closed restaurant, D&D ownership said Tuesday. Tim Camastro, the former owner of Rollin’, will make select recipes for the grocery store’s deli at 825 Noyes St. beginning sometime in October, said D&D owner Kosta Douvikas. The made-to-order sandwich shop, previously at 910 Noyes St., shut its doors this summer due to financial trouble and legal conflicts, Camastro told The Daily in July. The closing was a blow to many Northwestern students and city staff members who frequented the sandwich shop during lunch hours. Camastro did not immediately respond to request for comment.
Douvikas, whose father started the specialty foods grocery store in 1963, said he reached out to Camastro in September to start making sandwiches at his deli. The store will serve about eight of Camastro’s most popular sandwiches, Douvikas said. “As small business owners, we like to help each other out at every step of the way,” he said. Douvikas said he and Camastro are longtime friends. Both their fathers ran separate small businesses when they grew up in Evanston. Rollin’ To Go opened over a decade ago as a spinoff of Rollin’ in Dough, a pizzeria and catering company Camastro’s father and uncle started in the 1980s. The store was three doors down from the sandwich shop’s old Noyes Street location. “His family has been here just as long as we’ve been here,” Douvikas said. “We’re the new generation taking over.” Ravi Umarji (McCormick ’10) said there was an outpouring of
disappointment among alumni on social media when the sandwich shop’s closure went public. Umarji said he reached out to Camastro shortly after the closure to offer financial assistance from Lending for Evanston and Northwestern Development, a microfinance organization he co-founded as an NU senior. Although the agreement between LEND and Rollin’ did not work out, Umarji said he is pleased to see the return of a community mainstay known for quality food and service. McCormick senior Daniel Wedig, who created his own sandwich at Rollin’ with his friend almost two years ago, said he was shocked to hear about the shop’s closure over the summer. “It was kind of hard to believe because it seemed like they did really good businesses,” Wedig said. “It’s promising that maybe we’ll get to eat some of our favorite sandwiches again.” juliajacobs2018@u.northwestern.edu
NUhelp, a new smartphone application dedicated to safety and wellness for Northwestern students, was introduced last week during Wildcat Welcome. “(NUhelp) is specific to health and wellness as well as safety and security, a place where people can share concerns,” Dean of Students Todd Adams said. A team of developers, in collaboration with Associated Student Government and Adams’ office, will soon begin a campaign to promote the app to returning students and other members of the NU community, especially after it was wellreceived by members of the freshman class and transfer students. The app, which is a mobile version of the NUhelp website, provides students with an array of different resources like campus maps and contact information for campus offices, such as the Center for Awareness, Response and Education and Counseling and Psychological Services. “It’s a one-stop shop for all of the resources,” said Anthony Kirchmeier, the director of off-campus life. “It gives people a response pathway in their hands,
on their phones.” SafeWalk, one of the app’s features, is designed to help students safely travel around campus. Students use the feature by choosing a destination on or near campus and then set an estimated time of how long it will take them to walk there. If a student fails to reach the destination within their time limit, a notification will be sent to a designated contact who is prompted to call University Police and inform them about the missing student. The feature can then be used to track that missing student’s location. This feature was one of the hardest to create for the application because it required collaboration between UP and the app, developer Hao Luo said. SafeWalk is not available yet for the Chicago campus, the service might be extended to the Chicago campus in the future, Adams said. The newest version of NUhelp is available to download for both Android and iPhone smartphones, with minimal differences between smartphone platforms. “One technical challenge was developing a singular application that will work on both iPhone and Android,” said Chris Walker, another software » See NUHELP, page 6
Proposed high-rise targets NU students By JULIA JACOBS
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A plan to build Evanston’s first largescale private student housing faces concerns from city staff and residents about issues such as the building’s height. The 14-story high-rise, which is still in its preliminary planning stages, would occupy a lot near Northwestern’s campus just west of the intersection of Emerson
Street and Sherman Avenue. After a few meetings with representatives from the developers, city staff has taken issue with the proposed building’s size and inadequate amount of parking, said Mark Muenzer, the city’s community development coordinator. The apartment building, proposed for 831 Emerson St., would have 297 units — one-third of which are studio apartments, Muenzer said. The project » See EMERSON, page 6
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City medical marijuana dispensary moves closer to opening By STEPHANIE KELLY
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Catch up on the biggest ongoing news stories affecting Northwestern and Evanston with The Daily’s new explainer series: Up to Date. A medical marijuana dispensary could open in Evanston as early as next month, the dispensary said last week. Staff of the incoming dispensary — named Pharmacannis — have been seeking to obtain a license to operate since the state announced in February that the company’s application was the highestscoring in the region. Gov. Bruce Rauner then authorized the company to take steps to open a dispensary in the city. The state is scheduled to inspect the dispensary at 1804 Maple Ave. in
mid-October, Pharmacannis CEO Teddy Scott said. Construction at the location is almost complete, he added. The inspection is the last part of a four-step process Pharmacannis must go through to obtain a license for an Evanston dispensary, Scott said. “It’s incredibly thorough, very detailed, so it requires a lot of time,” he said. Once inspected, Pharmacannis will be authorized to operate, but there may be no product to sell to customers immediately. The dispensary must wait to purchase a product from a cultivator. Scott said he is not sure whether it will be in October or November that the dispensary will be fully in operation. In August, the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, which selected the original dispensary applicants, announced the registration of the first medical marijuana dispensary in the state.
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Former Gov. Pat Quinn’s medical cannabis pilot program, effective Jan. 1, 2014, restricted the region containing Evanston and Niles Township to one dispensary. The Evanston location of Pharmacannis will be convenient for Chicago’s north side residents, said Paul Zalmezak, an Evanston economic development official. Unlike other Illinois dispensary sites, the Maple location is owned by the city. Pharmacannis staff and city officials have negotiated the terms of the lease, and the company began paying rent in August, Zalmezak said. “I think this is going to work out for the city, and it’s going to work out for the company that’s been awarded the license,” city manager Wally Bobkiewicz told The Daily in February. Aldermen earlier this year passed a 6-percent tax at the wholesale level on the profits cultivation centers make on cannabis sales to dispensaries.
The state does not allow a dispensary to tax a patient for the cannabis, Zalmezak said. Therefore, the city will generate tax revenue by taxing the dispensary’s purchases from the center, he said. The city estimates it will collect roughly $117,656 in taxes from the new business, Zalmezak said. The estimate assumes there would be at most 25 patients per day and a wholesale cost of $125 per ounce of medical marijuana. Although the city is in essence the landlord of the property, the state is the only entity with regulation power over the medical cannabis, Zalmezak said. In addition to the increased tax revenue for the city, there are other reasons to have a dispensary in Evanston, Zalmezak said. “If we can bring others from other communities into Evanston to get healthy, we’re proud of that,” he said. stephaniekelly2017@u.northwestern.edu
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ALMOST OPEN The site of Evanston’s potential medical marijuana dispensary at 1804 Maple Ave. is currently under construction.
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Around Town EPL program aims to engage Latinos By ROBIN OPSAHL
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Evanston Public Library launched a community-wide reading program Sept. 19 to engage the city’s Latino community. More than 100 people attended two events over the weekend put on by the library as part of “The Big Read,” a nationwide program of the National Endowment for the Arts to engage communities with literature. Events included a Mexican ceremonial dance group performance and a movie screening, said Jan Bojda, EPL’s youth services supervisor. EPL received a $15,000 grant from the NEA to distribute free copies of a selected book to the community as part of the program. “The Big Read” programming began this month and will continue at EPL through May, including hosting the author of “Into the Beautiful North” in March and a Dia de los Muertos celebration in early November. Evanston is one of more than 1,100 communities nationwide enrolled in the program, for which communities choose one of 37 selected books to read and build programming around the themes and topics presented. Programming will revolve around “Into the
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A 26-year-old man was arrested Sunday morning in connection with possession of Xanax and marijuana. Police were dispatched to a residence in the 200 block of Ridge Avenue at about 11:45 a.m. to respond to a domestic violence report. They found a man in the residence for whom there was an arrest warrant, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said. The man was wanted in
Beautiful North” by Luis Alberto Urrea. The novel details a 19-year-old Mexican girl’s story of her town struggling to survive after nearly all the men leave to work in the U.S., as well as her own journeys across the border. Bojda said the public seemed receptive to the introduction of the program and hopes to generate more excitement as “The Big Read” continues. “We’ve seen a lot of participation and positive response from the community so far,” Bojda said. “Reading is obviously central to ‘The Big Read’ events, but we want things to be interactive and accessible so that more people get involved.” Renee Neumeier, EPL’s young adult services supervisor, said she hopes the novel will encourage discussion about the conflict at the U.S.-Mexico border and explore what it means to be Latino today in the U.S. and Evanston, in particular. “‘The Big Read’ is a chance for us to involve the whole community,” Neumeier said. “It gives us a chance to work towards providing more opportunities to Latino families.” The book and corresponding programming will be available in both Spanish and English, Neumeier said. While EPL hosts “The Big Read,” Evanston Township High School will be hosting a book club for Spanish-speaking parents to improve
their Spanish skills. EPL is funding the book club in conjunction with “The Big Read.” The program was started by Mercedes Fernandez, ETHS’ Latino liaison and minority languages coordinator. “When you’re working two or three jobs, it’s hard to read or work on your language skills,” Fernandez said. “We want to give Spanishspeaking adults in our community the chance to do these. If you can write and read in your own language, it’s easier to acquire a second language.” Latino-focused efforts such as “The Big Read” and the book club empower both parents and the entire community through education and leadership, Fernando said. She also said she hopes these programs will make reading literature a more central part of Latino communities in Evanston. “Reading is not something that the Latino community is always big with, either because there isn’t a habit of reading or because parents are too busy working two or three jobs to support their family to read,” Fernandez said. “These programs will help make a change.” The next events for “The Big Read” include the first meeting for the book club on Sept. 29 at ETHS and a crafts program at EPL on Oct. 3.
connection with an unrelated case of fraud. After arresting the man, police found him in possession of a pill bottle with four half pills of Xanax and a gram of marijuana hidden inside a balled-up dollar bill. He was charged with a felony for possession of a controlled substance and a misdemeanor for marijuana possession, Dugan said.
said. The man jumped out of the passenger’s side of a moving vehicle during a police pursuit following an attempted traffic stop at the intersection of Howard Street and Ridge Avenue, Dugan said. Police arrested the man at about 5:50 p.m. when they found a plastic bag containing eight smaller bags of marijuana in his left pant leg. He was charged with marijuana possession, a misdemeanor, and is scheduled to appear in court Nov. 30.
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A 32-year-old man was arrested Sunday night in connection with possession of approximately 7.4 grams of marijuana, Dugan
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On Campus Patten Gym changes limit weightlifting options By DREW GERBER
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Weight lifters who visit Patten Gymnasium this year will find fewer options for their workouts. Patten Gym installed new boxing equipment in its weight room at the request of the varsity women’s lacrosse team — a move that required taking away several weight-training machines. Following the closure of a local boxing center that the team frequented, the lacrosse team purchased around 20 punching bags that serve as part of a team workout, said Dan Bulfin, Northwestern’s director of recreational sports. Installing the new boxing equipment allowed Patten to weed out older, often rusted weight equipment in need of replacement, Bulfin said. Other than the removal of the few older machines, there are no changes in the facilities at Patten, which will still be open in the afternoon for drop-in workouts following varsity team training in the mornings, he said. Bulfin said students still have access to the same amount of weightlifting equipment because they can use new equipment at Henry Crown Sports Pavilion.
Sex 101 added to new batch of NU’s online course offerings
A Northwestern professor will be teaching a sex ed class as part of a new series of massive open online courses this fall that will also add two specialized programs. The “Sex 101” class will start Sept. 28 and will cover sex organs, contraception, sexually transmitted diseases and more — with some topics portrayed in three-dimensional animations and videos. The course was created and will be taught by Teresa Woodruff, the vice chair for research in obstetrics and gynecology at the Feinberg School of Medicine. In particular, Woodruff said incoming first-year
The Crown Sports Pavilion finished updates, including a 30,000 square foot expansion, in November. However, the renovation at Patten has drawn criticism from some students who say that the change has made it more difficult to exercise. Survaish Khastgir, a Weinberg junior, works out at Patten three times a week. Khastgir said he is not a fan of the renovation, which he said has created congestion in the weight room. “There’s less equipment which means having to wait in line to use things more often,” he said. “That wasn’t really a problem last year at Patten.” One of the main difficulties in working out at NU is the already limited equipment, said political science Prof. William Reno. Reno has been working out at Patten for over a decade, which — in addition to Crown Sports Pavilion — he thinks offers recreational weightlifters something different. Serious weightlifters can mind their own business on campus, whereas if they join a commercial health club it is difficult to get the same intensity of a workout while respecting other members, Reno said. He said weightlifters have to be more restrained at health clubs. “Northwestern has so few spaces for this,” he said. “Maybe their attitude is you can join LA Fitness or something but … it is a suburban health club, not students could benefit from a demystification of reproductive health — a misunderstood realm — when they enter college. “This is everything first-year students need to know about sex and reproduction, and didn’t know to ask,” Woodruff said in a news release. Woodruff said male students might not be aware alcohol can cause erectile dysfunction, and that female students might not know that arriving at college can cause fluctuations to their menstrual cycles. The implications of these gaps in knowledge can be anything from confusion to unintended pregnancies and disease. “Having sex is not the same thing as knowing how it all works,” Woodruff said. “And most students have issues beyond sex, like changing menstrual cycle lengths and questions about exercise and testosterone levels. They need to know because it impacts their
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WEIGHT LOSS Patten’s new boxing equipment took the place of several weightlifting machines.
a gym.” As a longtime user of Patten’s facilities, Reno has seen how other renovations and policy changes have affected recreational lifters — both for the better and worse. Prior to the scheduling shift that opened Patten to athletic team training in the mornings, Reno said he saw far more faculty and graduate students using the gym. However, following the change the crowd
at Patten consists of mostly undergraduates because they have the most flexibility in choosing workout times, he said. Although the University is right to support the success of its athletic teams by providing training spaces, it comes at the expense of users like himself, Reno said.
health. This class fills a huge gap.” Middle school or high school sexual education is often not thorough enough, Woodruff said. However, she said, when students arrive at college, accurate knowledge of sexual health is even more crucial. The course will also discuss sexual violence and consent, as well as discuss signs of prostate cancer. Women and men will obtain knowledge of the reproductive biology of the opposite sex and even oncofertility — a field specializing in expanding fertility options of cancer survivors. These courses are taken through a website called Coursera, which has provided NU-created online courses since fall 2013. Any user can access the website for free or register as a premium user and receive a certificate upon completion. Another new course, “Social Marketing: How to Profit in a Digital World,” launched through the Medill
School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications on Sept. 15 as a specialized course. It is made up of five MOOCs and a final capstone project. The final new MOOC, “Organizational Leadership,” will begin Oct. 15 featuring faculty from the Kellogg School of Management, Medill, the School of Communication and the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. Also containing five MOOCs, the specialization will be an interdisciplinary approach to learning. “These new MOOCs showcase some of Northwestern’s leading thinkers, excellent programs, intellectual and research leadership and global outreach,” said Marianna Kepka, the assistant provost for academic administration. “They cut across a variety of programs, disciplines and schools.”
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The pressure of the pursuit of happiness in the U.S. NICOLE KEMPIS
DAILY COLUMNIST
Arriving in the United States is like being bowled over by a wave of chipper, smiling, enthusiastic conversation that always inquires how you are doing but disappears before it hears the answer. This is an interaction that confuses a lot of foreigners, because internationally it is considered extremely rude to walk away in the middle of a conversation. However, after a year at Northwestern I feel as though I am beginning to understand why Americans use “how are you?” as their standard greeting as they swiftly walk on by. I’ve realized now that people don’t wait for the answer because they already know what it will be. Invariably, the response is, “I’m fine.” But are we fine? Upon my arrival in the U.S. from Hong Kong, I was struck by how extraordinarily friendly and happy everyone
seemed — “seemed” being the operative word. There is a pressure that I have noticed at NU, and I believe it is ubiquitous in the U.S. It is the pressure to be happy at all times. The cafeteria staff is happy, the bus driver is happy, our friends at the University of Chicago look ecstatic on social media and apparently, so do we. Except that we aren’t, because no one is happy all the time, and we aren’t meant to be. This seems like an obvious statement, but in a society that teaches us individuals are responsible for creating their own happiness, it is easy to become trapped in a cycle of unhappiness and self-criticism. Unhappiness is a natural part of life, one that is accepted and even revered in many societies. In my opinion, the unrelenting demand to be happy causes us to feel anguish over negative emotions that are a natural part of life, and this is a factor in the increasing rate of depression at American colleges. In short, it is not unhappiness that makes us depressed, but the inaccurate conviction that our sadness is shameful, abnormal and abhorrent. The U.S. Declaration of Independence
uses the “pursuit of happiness” as an example of an unalienable right, but often we treat happiness as a paramount end. The pursuit of happiness has become the only worthwhile pursuit, as our liberal ideology teaches us that our individual, subjective feelings dictate our success. It is this assumption that gives a fatal weight and significance to temporary feelings of happiness and sadness. Buddhist teaching follows the principle that we are not freed from misery by experiencing contentment, but rather that we experience ultimate liberation when we realize that all emotions, both positive and negative, are fleeting and thus unworthy of becoming our fundamental pursuit. As Hebrew anthropologist Yuval Noah Harari wrote, “Buddha agreed with biology and New Age movements that happiness is independent of external conditions. Yet his more important and far more profound insight was that true happiness is also independent of our inner feelings.” It seems that the less importance we afford our emotions, the less control they have over our choices
and experiences. During Wildcat Welcome, we are told how to contact Counseling and Psychological Services and given important resources that can help combat depression and mental illness. But are we ever honestly told that we will feel sad, we will hate it here and we will be lonely? Psychological illnesses are real and should never be invalidated. However, I can’t help but wonder how many of us would fare much better if we had known from the beginning that unhappiness is just part of the college experience and part of real life. Perhaps then sorrow wouldn’t seem like a disgraceful secret, perhaps then we could confront the person darting away after asking us how we are by fearlessly telling them, “You know what? Today I feel like shit.” Nicole Kempis is a Weinberg sophomore. She can be reached at nicolekempis2018@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern. com. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.
What NU can learn from the case of Ahmed Mohamed SUMAIA MASOOM
DAILY COLUMNIST
I am at Northwestern because my parents have encouraged me to chase my dreams from the moment I first opened my eyes. Although I’m sure my parents are not thrilled that I don’t know precisely what form those dreams will take post-graduation, the fact remains that they have never once had to tell me to hold back, to not take interest or to not work to my full potential. This past week, I realized just how extraordinarily privileged I am in this regard. The Sept. 14 arrest of 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed rocked social media. In his spare time, the Irving, Texas, high school student had constructed a clock at home and brought it to school hoping to impress his teachers. In a cruel twist, school officials were the very people who called in the suspected “bomb” and prompted the police to take Mohamed into custody. Although I definitely do not have the technical knowledge to invent a clock at home by myself, I can still identify with Mohamed as
I’m sure is the case with many other students at NU. Who among us hasn’t yearned to feel proud or validated, to prove ourselves to our superiors? With that in mind, I was horribly disheartened to see the reaction his story got from the candidates in the undercard GOP debate on Wednesday — the candidates couldn’t even bring themselves to utter his name, as if speaking Arabic would somehow reduce their capability to run the country. In the main debate that followed, candidates failed to mention the incident at all. I was further horrified when only days later two candidates, Donald Trump and Ben Carson, rather than taking advantage of this tragedy to start uncomfortable conversations within their bases and help move this country closer to an environment of acceptance, instead contributed to the growing plague of Islamophobia in the United States. Both Trump, who failed to correct a potential voter who asked what Trump would do to take care of the “problem” of Muslims in our country, and Carson, who said Islam was incompatible with the Constitution, are Republicans. But Islamophobia is not limited to one political party, as we often see with liberal commentator Bill Maher. Nor is it limited to
one race, gender, sexual orientation or socioeconomic background. It’s universal, and Northwestern is not immune. Upperclassmen may remember the debate regarding last year’s NUDivest movement. Although many, including NU Vice President for Student Affairs Patricia Telles-Irvin, seemed to imply the creators of the resolution also created tensions on campus, tensions on campus between the majority and marginalized communities have always existed. They’re called microaggressions, and although some argue that those who take offense to microaggressions are thin-skinned, Mohamed’s case shows exactly why they’re a very real problem. In a few years, many of our peers will graduate and become teachers to students like Mohamed. We are all shaped by the environment on this campus, whether we like it or not, and many of us take it for granted that microaggressions accepted on this campus — supposedly a bastion of cultural learning and understanding — are and should be accepted outside in the “real world.” We must tackle these problems here and now. If we continue to blame marginalized communities for being sensitive to microaggressions rather than ask majorities to
Fair-weather fans should not be shunned ALEX KOH
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During periods of sports teams’ success, lifelong fans love to condescendingly call new fans “fair-weather fans.” Although many Northwestern students may worry about the abrupt arrival of new fans surrounding the football team’s strong start, I wonder if the bandwagon is really a problem at all. Throughout my childhood in Seattle, I endured my fair share of terrible sports teams. The Mariners haven’t made the playoffs since I was seven. The Seahawks have generally been decent-but-not-great. The only title I could claim, a 1979 NBA championship won by the SuperSonics, lost some of its luster when the team relocated to Oklahoma City in 2008. So it’s been refreshing that the Seahawks have been playoff contenders the past couple of years. Many Seattleites jumped at the opportunity to support an exciting team, which bothered some of the more serious football fans nationally. To some critics, the “average Seahawks fan is a twenty something year old douchebag … that can’t seem to form an opinion they aren’t regurgitating from ESPN and couldn’t name an offensive lineman if their life depended on it.” Seahawks fans have been slapped with the dreaded “bandwagon fan” label.
To some degree, I agree. There has certainly been renewed interest in the team, as with any team that suddenly experiences great success. Even my family, one that has long preferred basketball to football, has pledged full support to the Seahawks. There are a number of new fans who blindly support the team without much knowledge about its past or even its present. But I still don’t see why that is so offensive. Perhaps it is due to the perception that Seahawks fans are particularly vocal and that these new fans don’t always know their football as well as some would like. However, supporting a hometown team often inspires unconditional commitment and vocal support anywhere you go, which will come across as obnoxious to opponents regardless of how many years the fan can claim loyalty to his or her team. I even know some Seattleites who take issue with the modern wave of Seahawks mania. Seattle is known as a “hipster” city, and I can see the appeal of having been a fan before it was cool; certainly the 2014 Super Bowl win was more satisfying if you can remember the last-second loss to the Falcons in the playoffs the year before, or the refereeing debacle also known as the 2006 Super Bowl against the Steelers. However, there’s nothing inherently better about being a sports fan for longer, and it strikes me as elitist to claim exclusive ownership of a team simply because you have followed them for longer. Although “bandwagon fans” come with small irritations such as rising ticket prices or a huge uptick in jersey-wearing outside of gameday,
the alternative is the meager amount of fan interest that frequently characterizes NU. Outside of marquee football and men’s basketball matchups, the student sections are rarely filled. Certainly, our school faces unique obstacles to attendance — a small student body and busy schedules, to name two — but those aren’t enough to explain the general lack of enthusiasm surrounding NU athletics. Perhaps our teams would benefit from following the lead of the Seahawks: Win, and they will come. That’s easier said than done, of course, but NU students have shown the ability to get behind a winning program. In 2013, students packed the Lakefill at three in the morning to be at ESPN’s College GameDay set preceding a huge game against Ohio State. At the game itself, security turned people away from a student section that was filled to capacity and as rowdy as I’ve ever seen it. We Cats are clearly capable of supporting our sports teams, and with an AP Top 25 football team, we have a chance to set up the type of enthusiasm and tradition that eventually becomes ingrained into campus culture. So, hop on the NU bandwagon with me and support our teams all year long. I already called shotgun, though. Alex Koh is a Weinberg senior. He can be reached at alexanderkoh2016@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.
expand their understanding, we will only perpetuate the existence of a system that fails the most vulnerable members of our community. I’m 18 — it’s going to be a while before I even think about having kids. But I stand with Ahmed because I am already terrified for my future children. If and when I do have children, I want to be like my parents. I never want to have to tell my children that they cannot aspire to be something because of their faith or skin color. I never want to tell them they cannot be a nuclear engineer, a pilot or president of the United States, simply because of who they are. I never want to tell them not to stretch and open their minds as far as possible because people like Trump and Carson cannot. As for Mohamed, the whiz-kid says he wants to go to MIT. Although I’m selfishly disappointed NU isn’t on his list, I, for one, cannot wait to see him succeed. Sumaia Masoom is a SESP sophomore. She can be reached at sumi2018@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.
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City staff will move forward in the coming months on streetlight improvements as part of a larger capital project at the intersection of Emerson Street, Ridge Avenue and Green Bay Road. Improvements to the streetlights include replacing all the mercury vapor light fixtures with more energy efficient LED fixtures, which require less future maintenance. Existing streetlights are also being relocated due to street widening and maintenance at the intersection, assistant city manager Marty Lyons said. These relocations are in addition to changes to the current light fixtures to enhance street visibility for pedestrians.
Lyons said about 50 light poles would have to be replaced for the project. Additional improvements could include adding pedestrian specific lights by mounting a shorter light facing the sidewalk. To meet budget deadlines for the project, a decision needed to be made about whether to keep the existing distance between the light poles, Lyons said. Most aldermen agreed to keep the existing distance rather than make adjustments. The height of the light poles will also remain at 30 feet. At Monday’s City Council meeting, most aldermen preferred to keep this design instead of using shorter poles that would not spill as much light on surrounding areas but would require more light poles along the street. — Elena Sucharetza
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developer involved in the project. “We developed it in a way that the application doesn’t feel too tailored for one of the operating systems.” Kirchmeier said about 1,200 people have downloaded the app, most of them freshmen, transfer students and Peer Advisers. He said he hopes throughout the year more returning students will download the app and share it not only with other students but with NU community members beyond the Evanston campus. “(We’re looking at) eventually having more input and more users from the larger undergraduate and graduate student body,” he said. “We want parents to know about the application so that they, as well as their students, know about the services available at Northwestern.” The app went through almost two years of research and development, which Adams said was tailored to NU students. “We were able to design it with student involvement and input in-house to meet some pretty specific needs,” he said. Adams said his office and the application’s developers look forward to user feedback to make the app more accurate and functional for the NU student body.
would require relocating a 7-Eleven convenience store to the southwest corner of the 42,000-squarefoot lot, he said. During a meeting of 1st Ward residents earlier this month, members of the community also voiced concern over the building’s height, which is 145 feet at its highest point, Muenzer said. Some residents also worried about an apartment building housing predominantly students, he said. Although the city is uncertain about the current proposal, Paul Zalmezak, the city’s senior economic development coordinator, said he sees a growing market for higher-end housing among students. “If demographers are right about millennials, they’re into shared spaces,” Zalmezak said. “A single-family house that is in rough shape might not be as appealing to a new crowd of students.” However, city manager Wally Bobkiewicz told The Daily last week that there is potential for NU’s upcoming housing policy change to have a “chilling effect” on the Emerson Street development. Starting in the fall of 2017, NU will require that all students live on campus during their freshmen and sophomore years, said University spokesman Al Cubbage. The policy, which Cubbage said is intended to create a greater sense of community among students, apply to freshmen entering fall 2017. Currently, about 4,000 undergraduate students live on campus in residence halls and another 900
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WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton says she opposes construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, breaking her long silence on the controversial project. “I think it is imperative that we look at the Keystone XL pipeline as what I believe it is: a distraction from the important work we have to do to combat climate change. And, unfortunately from my perspective, one that interferes with our ability to move forward and deal with other issues,” Clinton said during a town hall campaign event Tuesday in Des Moines, Iowa. “Therefore, I oppose it. I oppose it because I don’t think it’s in the best interest of what we need to do to combat climate change,” Clinton said. Last weekend marked seven years since TransCanada applied to the federal government to build the pipeline from the Canadian oil sands through the middle of the U.S. to refineries in Texas. There’s still no sign of a decision from President Barack Obama on whether he will allow the pipeline to be built. Clinton said during the Tuesday campaign event that she can’t wait any longer. “I thought this would be decided by now and therefore I could tell you whether I agreed or I
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live in fraternity or sorority houses, Cubbage said. To gauge the project’s potential success, Zalmezak said he would like to see data from the developers on how many students would be attracted to the apartments rather than the city’s single-family homes. If there is a possibility of significant migration to the high-rise, the city could benefit from the
vacated homes and could consider using them for affordable housing, he said. Muenzer said the developers will start the city’s formal approval process after they present revisions of their design at another community meeting.
disagreed,” she said. “But it hasn’t been decided, and I feel now I have a responsibility to you and other voters who ask me about this.” Clinton, who reviewed the Keystone pipeline application when she was Obama’s secretary of state, has been under pressure from voters and donors to stop dodging questions about the project. “I have been waiting for the administration to make a decision. ... I can’t wait too much longer. I am putting the White House on notice. I am going to tell you what I think soon,” Clinton said last week in New Hampshire. The State Department is still reviewing the pipeline application under Clinton’s successor, John Kerry. A State Department analysis found Keystone would have minimal impact on the environment, a conclusion questioned by the Environmental Protection Agency. The pipeline would transport Alberta crude that’s more carbon intensive than other sources of oil. Clinton’s announcement comes as she seeks to win the enthusiasm of environmentalists for her presidential campaign. She previously opposed Obama’s decision to allow oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean. Clinton is the front-runner for the Democratic nomination in next year’s presidential election but faces an increasing challenge from Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a longtime Keystone foe.
“I am glad that Secretary Clinton finally has made a decision and I welcome her opposition to the pipeline,” Sanders said. Former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, another candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, was also quick to note that he came out against Keystone long before Clinton. The League of Conservation Voters hailed Clinton’s announcement, calling it “inspiring and exciting.” “We are thrilled that Secretary Clinton has continued to build on her longtime environmental leadership by publicly opposing the dirty and dangerous Keystone XL tar sands pipeline,” said Tiernan Sittenfeld, senior vice president of government affairs for the group. Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush slammed Clinton for her opposition to the pipeline. “@HillaryClinton finally says what we already knew. She favors environmental extremists over U.S. jobs,” he tweeted. The American Petroleum Institute, a lobbying group for the oil and gas industry, said Clinton is misguided. “Hillary Clinton’s decision to oppose Keystone is a missed opportunity to seize the true potential of our energy renaissance,” said API President Jack Gerard.
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Across Campuses One in four female undergraduates reports sexual misconduct, survey finds
More than one in four female undergraduate students reported they were victimized by nonconsensual sexual contact in a national survey of 27 universities released Monday. But the survey for the Association of American Universities, one of the most comprehensive ever conducted on college sexual misconduct, found wide variation in the cases depending on campus, gender, age and type of offense. Among undergraduate females, for instance, between 13 percent and 30 percent had been victimized by the most serious types of misconduct – sexual penetration or touching involving force, threats of force or incapacitation by alcohol or drugs across the campuses surveyed. The risk was highest for freshman women, whose rate was 16.9 percent, compared with 11.1 percent for seniors in 2014-15. But over the course of their college life, 26.1 percent of senior females reported being victimized. The online survey of 150,000 students also found low rates of reporting sexual misconduct and a mixed response over whether respondents believed their university would conduct a fair investigation. But the vast majority of those who actually reported their cases gave high marks to officials for showing them respect and helping them understand their options. The survey was aimed at helping campuses address the problem of sexual misconduct, according to Hunter Rawlings, the association’s president. “The leaders of our universities are deeply concerned about the impact of these issues on their students,” Rawlings said in a statement. “Their participation in this and other climate surveys is an important part of their efforts to combat sexual assault.” Many universities have moved to improve their response to campus sexual misconduct since the federal government began cracking down in 2011 with a record number of policy directives, fines and more than 100 investigations. Rawlings said the data can also be used to assist policymakers in crafting additional responses. Estimates of the problem have varied widely.
One frequently cited study of two large public universities found a rate of nearly 20 percent among female college seniors. The University of California’s 2014 survey of 104,000 students, faculty and staff members, however, asked its questions differently and found only 6 percent of undergraduates had experienced “unwanted sexual contact.” The university association released only the aggregate results of the survey, which was conducted by the Westat research firm in April. Each of the campus participants, which included USC and Caltech in California, was expected to release its own findings separately. Other participants included Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell, Columbia, Purdue and the University of Arizona. In a unique design, the survey asked students whether the nonconsensual sexual contact occurred by force, incapacitation, non-physical coercion or the absence of “affirmative consent,” an emerging standard that requires both partners to explicitly agree to the encounter. Physical force was the most prevalent tactic and coercion the least. Overall, 28 percent of female undergraduates reported they were victimized by any of the four tactics. About 23 percent of female undergraduates and 11.7 percent of all students surveyed reported the most serious – physical force and incapacitation – had been used against them. The relatively low response rate of 19.3 percent could have produced a slight upward bias in the results, researchers said. David Cantor, one of the lead survey investigators and a University of Maryland research professor, said one of the most striking findings was the wide disparity in campus experiences with sexual misconduct. “This sends a very strong message that each institution faces really unique circumstances and challenges when trying to change campus climates and prevent and respond to sexual assault and misconduct,” he said. The survey also found: — Rates of assault were highest among students who identified as transgender, genderqueer (a term the survey uses but does not define), non-conforming, questioning or a category not listed on the survey. — Rates of reporting ranged between 5 percent and 28 percent, depending on the behavior. More than half of those surveyed said they did not believe it was serious enough,
while others said they were too embarrassed or ashamed, among other reasons. — Six of 10 female undergraduates said they had been sexually harassed. Gays and lesbians reported harassment rates of 60.4 percent compared with 45.9 percent of heterosexuals. — The rate of nonconsensual sexual contact at private universities was 25.3 percent, compared with 22.8 percent for public universities. But researchers did not find a clear explanation for the disparity in campus results. — Most students did nothing while witnessing a drunk person headed for a sexual encounter or cases of sexual violence or harassment. — Nearly 9 of 10 students who reported misconduct said the respect shown to them by investigating officials was excellent or good. — Only about a quarter of students surveyed said they were very or extremely knowledgeable about where to get help for sexual assault or misconduct. — Teresa Watanbe (Los Angeles Times/TNS)
University of Virginia didn’t properly investigate sexual violence reports, officials say
The University of Virginia failed to properly investigate reports of sexual violence on campus, including allegations of abuse filed against fraternities, on several occasions in recent years, the U.S. Department of Education said Monday. Federal officials and the university reached a “resolution agreement” on Monday, four years after the Education Department launched a Title IX investigation into the way the school handles reports of sexual violence. Although the school updated many of its practices and policies under federal guidance in recent years, the Education Department still found that the campus failed to adequately respond to several alleged instances of sexual assault during the academic years 2008-09 through 2011-12, the department said in a news release. As of April, more than 100 colleges nationwide are being investigated by the Education Department on suspicion of failing to properly handle sexual assault complaints. Public scrutiny, however, focused on the University of Virginia when Rolling Stone published an explosive article last year describing a brutal gang rape of a freshman girl inside a campus fraternity house.
The story, titled “A Rape on Campus,” was later discredited and retracted. Charlottesville, Va., police said they could find no evidence that the assault of the girl at the center of the piece, who was only identified by the pseudonym Jackie, ever took place. Alumni of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity have since sued Rolling Stone, alleging defamation. Still, the federal report supported complaints that the University of Virginia struggled to promptly investigate claims of sexual violence on campus. From 2005 to July 2015, the school had to revise its policy on responding to sexual assaults several times, coming into compliance with federal guidelines only in recent months, the Education Department found. It also found that students who complained of sexual harassment or violence sometimes faced a “hostile environment” at the school. The school’s sexual assault policy for years required that students accused of assault could be found “responsible” for their actions only if they were confronted by “clear and convincing evidence.” Federal investigators advised the school to lower the threshold, so a preponderance of the evidence would be sufficient, according to a letter sent to the university by the Education Department on Monday. Although the department found several problems with the school’s policies, it also praised the university for improving many of its practices during the yearslong investigation. In addition to improving its overall sexual assault policy, the school expanded alcohol education programs and took other measures aimed at reducing the risk of sexual assault on campus. The school also hired someone to develop strategies that seek to reduce sexual assault and gender-based violence on campus, according to the letter. “By signing the resolution agreement, we have reaffirmed our commitment to continue taking steps we believe to be an important part of effective responses to sexual harassment and assault — urgent and complex societal issues of national importance that are challenging institutions of higher education and beyond,” university President Teresa A. Sullivan said in a statement. — James Queally (Los Angeles Times/TNS)
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Northwestern union’s legacy of reform endures By ALEX PUTTERMAN
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Catch up on the biggest ongoing news stories affecting Northwestern and Evanston with The Daily’s new explainer series: Up to Date. There will be no football-player union at Northwestern, thanks to the National Labor Relations Board’s decision last month not to rule on the historic case. But although former Wildcats quarterback Kain Colter’s vision for the College Athletes Players Association never came to fruition in Evanston, the dialogue created by his efforts resulted in lasting changes. “The Northwestern football players have already created change,” CAPA president Ramogi Huma told SI.com in June. “If you look at the amount of pressure they’ve put on the system, a system that’s been refusing to address basic protections for so long, now all of a sudden they have motivation to actually grant some of the things we’ve been fighting for. Just in the last year there have been significant changes in policy.” When Colter and Huma announced their intent to form a players union in January 2014, they proposed a laundry list of reforms for college athletics, including guaranteed scholarships and stipends to cover the full cost of college attendance. Since then, those ideas have indelibly become part of the col-
lege sports conversation and, in some cases, gone from suggestion to reality. University administrators applauded the focus Colter brought to these issues, although they maintained opposition to the unionization push from the beginning. “Northwestern considers its students who participate in NCAA Division I sports, including those who receive athletic scholarships, to be students, first and foremost,” University spokesman Al Cubbage said in a statement in August. “We applaud our players for bringing national attention to these important issues, but we believe strongly that unionization and collective bargaining are not the appropriate methods to address the concerns raised by student-athletes.” Although the union effort failed to accomplish its principle goal — organizing the Cats’ football team — it has left a legacy of reform. Eighteen months after the movement began, college sports have seen a number of changes that follow in its spirit.
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unlimited meals and snacks appeared to be a direct result of comments by Connecticut basketball star Shabazz Napier, who told media at the NCAA Tournament that, “Sometimes, there’s hungry nights where I’m not able to eat.” The idea of one of college basketball’s best players going to sleep on an empty stomach because he can’t afford food, then waking up the next day to play in front of thousands of paying fans wearing jerseys with his number struck a chord with enough people to force the NCAA into reform. Napier’s comments came in direct response to a question about the NU union. In his answer, the NCAA Tournament’s Most Outstanding Player repeated many of Colter’s talking points, touching on the inequity of college athletes generating revenue and being meekly compensated for it. The interview and subsequent rule change was the most dramatic example of the influence the union movement had simply by forcing conversation about college athletes’ rights.
The NCAA’s decision in April 2014 to allow student-athletes
Major conference autonomy In forming a union, Colter and Huma dreamed of collectively bargaining players’ rights with the NU athletic department. The only problem: NCAA rules leave very little leeway for additional benefits. For example, one of CAPA’s goals was expanded scholarships that would cover the full cost of college, including rent and food, but NU could not have given the players that if it would have wanted to — NCAA rules don’t allow that kind of benefit because the vast, diverse roster of member schools could not (or maybe would not) accommodate it. Last August, the NCAA decided to grant additional flexibility to the five major conferences (Big Ten, ACC, Pac-12, Big 12, SEC). The restructuring allowed the conferences to vote on reforms and to act on their own interests without worrying about the smaller athletic departments that might be unable to afford expensive rule changes. In January, 65 schools in the five major conferences voted on a slate of reforms that resulted in two seismic changes: 1. Players can now
receive stipends (between $2,000 and $4,000) to cover the full cost of college. 2. Coaches can no longer pull a student-athlete’s scholarship for athletic performance.
A student-athlete voice for student-athlete rights
From the day the union was first announced, Colter emphasized his desire for the players to have a voice in the reform process. “It’s almost like a dictatorship,” Colter said of the NCAA. “We want someone who is going to be looking out for us.” Student athletes received that voice in January, when the NCAA announced a new advisory committee comprising 15 athletes from all different sports representing the five major conferences. One of the athletes selected to represent the Big Ten was NU soccer player Nandi Mehta, a junior and co-captain. In an interview with The Daily several months later, here’s how Mehta described the newly created Student-Athlete Advisory Committee: “It’s a platform to promote communication between athletes and administrators on campus, or athletes all the way up to the conference or NCAA,” she said. “It’s a place to have the conversation and then implement change.” Once again, a change that officially had nothing to do with CAPA or Kain Colter had the NU union’s fingerprints all over it. It was not the first time, and it will not likely be the last. asputt@u.northwestern.edu
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Cats looking for quick start against UIC By BEN POPE
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Facing cross-city rivals University of Illinois at Chicago for the first time since 2009 on Wednesday night, Northwestern hopes to ride a steady effort out of the gate to its first road win of the season. The Wildcats (2-3-1, 1-1-0 Big Ten) conceded a goal in the 9th minute of their dispiriting 3-0 loss at Michigan on Sunday, continuing a trend of falling behind early in games. NU has trailed within the first 22 minutes in three of their four losses this year, and if the team is to earn its first road points of the season this week, coach Tim Lenahan knows they need to avoid another shaky start. Lenahan has put the responsibility on a quartet of experienced seniors — forward Joey Calistri, midfielder Cole Missimo, defender Henry Herrill and goalkeeper Zak Allen — to keep the opening minutes of Wednesday’s match under control. “It’s a very typical pattern every time you play on the road that the other team is very amped up. You have to manage those first 15 minutes until the game settles in,” Lenahan said. “We need that group to steady … the boat.” The hosting Flames (4-2-1, 1-0-0 Horizon League) pose a stiff test, entering the game riding a three-game winning streak in which they have not allowed a goal. UIC senior forward Jorge Alvarez scored twice in his team’s 2-0 victory over Wisconsin-Green Bay on Sunday and leads the Flames with 3 goals and two assists on the season. The matchup, although technically a road game for the Cats, does bring home
“Because we’ve been giving up too many goals, it’s kept us from moving forward offensively,” he said. “If we can shore up defensively, we’ll be able to take more risks offensively.” Lenahan described the team as a “work in progress” and brushed off a question about getting back to .500, which would happen with a win on Wednesday. Instead, he’s looking, more simply, for improvement over the Cats’ poor performance this weekend. “What I’m really looking for (is) progress from Sunday to Wednesday,” said Lenahan. “This is a long season.” benjaminpope2019@u.northwestern.edu
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HEADS UP Northwestern forward Elo Ozumba goes in for a header. Ozumba and the Wildcats are looking for a fast start in their next game against University of Illinois at Chicago after falling behind early in their previous game. Chicago 7 p.m. Wednesday
stadium-lacking NU back to the Chicago area, where they are 2-0-1 this year. Kicking off at 7 p.m., the match will take place just 16 miles south of Evanston at UIC’s Flames Field — the same venue in which the Cats will host Southern IllinoisEdwardsville in October. With back-to-back Big Ten matches against Indiana and Maryland looming, Lenahan is hoping to gain a momentum boost from what he expects to be an intense rivalry-like meeting with UIC. “It’s a derby,” he said. “A lot of the kids
(on the two teams) know each other. They have a lot of talent and they’ve been playing very well. It’s a tough challenge for us.” NU fell to UIC 2-0 in the second round of the 2007 NCAA Tournament and again in a 2009 exhibition game. The Cats haven’t played the Flames since those two losses and haven’t won a meeting between the two squads since Sept. 28, 2005. The opening six games of the season, moreover, have proved tumultuous for NU, as they have been outscored 9-4 and outshot 107-51 cumulatively. Although the team has been shut out in three of its last five matches, Lenahan sees the scoring struggles as more than a merely offensive issue.
Construction disrupts soccer video streaming
Due to ongoing construction at the regular home venue, Northwestern men’s and women’s soccer home games this fall will be unavailable via live streaming through NUSports.com and the BTN2Go streaming service. This fall, Studio N, the video branch of the NU athletic department, unveiled a new subscription streaming service that shows many of the school’s athletic events online. However, construction at Lakeside Field, the regular site of home games for both men’s and women’s soccer, forced the teams to move many home games to other locations, preventing both Studio N and the Big Ten Network from offering coverage of games, according to athletic department spokesman Doug Meffley. Both the men’s and women’s soccer teams will play the bulk of their remaining home games in Toyota Park, home of Major League Soccers’ Chicago Fire. Four of the men’s remaining five home games and all five of the women’s remaining home games will be played in the Bridgeview, Illinois, stadium. The men’s team will play an additional home game at Flames Field, the home field of University of Illinois at Chicago. To give students an opportunity to attend these game, Wildside has organized a spirit bus leaving campus at noon to attend Sunday’s home games for the men and women’s teams against Indiana and Rutgers, respectively, according to the group’s official Facebook page.
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