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SESP speaker critiques public schools NU junior

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controversial critic Educator Eva Moskowitz speaks about her critiques of New York City’s public school system. Moskowitz was called “America’s most controversial educator” by U.S. News.

By Mariana Alfaro

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When Eva Moskowitz attended Stuyvesant High School in New York, she encountered problems in the city’s public school system that ultimately led her to establish the Success Academy Charter Schools in New York City.

“In the high school that I went to the bathroom doors had been removed and not replaced,” she said. “We actually were expected to use the bathroom in the hospital across the street. The kind of

dysfunctionality in the New York school system was very much on my mind.”

Moskowitz was this year’s speaker for the School of Education and Social Policy’s Ray and Nancy Loeschner Lecture. The event, co-sponsored with the Contemporary Thought Speaker Series, was held in Harris Hall on Wednesday evening and attracted about 40 students and community members.

Moskowitz said during her high school years she felt like her teachers weren’t knowledgeable about their subjects. She said this surprised her, especially because she considered herself one of the lucky ones for not being at a school that had

“metal detectors where absolutely no learning was going on.”

“I became really passionate about this thing called public education,” she said.

“I always had this sense that K-12 was being left behind and to me this was a very foundational opportunity.”

She said if a child doesn’t receive a good K-12 education, their future opportunities will be severely limited.

Because of this, she left her teaching position at Vanderbilt University and ran for city council in New York and in 1999 became chair of the council’s education committee. There, she held 125 hearings about the status of city schools.

“While I did those hearings as fast and furiously as one could possibly imagine, I began to lose faith that this was the answer,” she said. “Because there were so many structural impediments to (creating change).”

Many of her attempts at change stirred trouble with teacher unions, but it was after her time in office ended that she realized she could create change in a bigger way by starting charter schools that became Success Academies.

She said the first school opened in Harlem in 2006 with 165 kindergarteners and first graders. This August, she said, there will be 35 schools educating 11,000 children.

In 2014, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio tried to evict charter schools from public school buildings. Moskowitz said because of the new policy, they lost space for three of the Success Academy schools. With the help of New York State Gov. Andrew Cuomo, de Blasio lost and the city had to find space for the three schools.

The 32 schools, which she said work under a “very progressive model of education,” teach “discovery oriented” science and math skills to kids beginning in kindergarten. Moskowitz said playing with board games is emphasized, since they help develop children’s critical thinking skills, and said all students play chess.

According to a New York Times article, 29 percent of New York City public school students passed the state’s reading tests and 35 percent passed the math » See MOSKOWITZ, page 7

ASG rejects tobacco-free campus proposal

By Shane McKeon

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Associated Student Government Senate rejected a resolution asking Northwestern to institute a tobacco ban by Fall Quarter 2016 at its meeting Wednesday, though ASG President Noah Star said administrators may impose a ban regardless.

The resolution failed with 16 votes for, 26 votes against and two abstentions.

McCormick sophomore Nick McCombe, an Interfraternity Council senator, spoke against the resolution. He said ASG should strive to “embrace the full spectrum of personalities we see on

ECF gives record grants with help from DM gift

The Evanston Community Foundation will dole out this week the largest amount of grants it has ever given, with much of the money coming from its

this campus.”

“This resolution quite literally pushes members of our community, who happen to be smokers, away from campus,” he said.

“The reason we have this body is to include students, not to push them away.”

The resolution would not have made campus tobacco-free, but would have represented the student body’s support for such a measure. It would have also created a task force to coordinate such a policy. ASG rejected a proposal for a campus-wide ban in October 2013.

The resolution’s authors, Medill freshman Ross Krasner and Weinberg sophomore Alec Blumenthal, said the bill’s primary purpose was to protect students » See SENATE, page 7 regular partnership with Dance Marathon, the organization announced Monday.

The local non-profit will announce its grant recipients May 27 at its annual awards ceremony at One Rotary Center, 1560 Sherman Ave., ECF said in a news release. This year, DM donated $92,943.29 to ECF, which served as DM’s secondary beneficiary.

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rejected resolution Weinberg sophomore Alec Blumenthal speaks in favor of a resolution that asked the University to ban tobacco on campus. The resolution failed with 16 votes for, 26 votes against and two abstentions.

“We are thrilled to be announcing a record amount in our responsive grantmaking this year, in large part due to our longtime partnership with Northwestern University’s Dance Marathon and the largest group of grantmaking partners we have ever had,” said Marybeth Schroeder, ECF’s vice president for programs, in the release. “With this support, we are able to say yes to innovative

approaches and partnerships addressing Evanston’s challenges.”

The organization offers grants through several different programs and initiatives, including Responsive Grants, root2fruit, Communityworks, Partners for the Future and Community Catalyst.

dies at hospital

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Jason Arkin

By TYLER PAGER

daily senior staffer @tylerpager

McCormick junior Jason Arkin died Tuesday afternoon.

The Evanston fire department responded to a call at 1835 Hinman at about 4:52 a.m. Tuesday morning, Evanston police Cmdr.

Joseph Dugan said. Officials found Arkin in the fifth floor lounge of the building and transported him to Evanston Hospital, Dugan said.

He was pronounced dead at 3:25 p.m., according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office.

His cause of death is unknown and pending toxicology results.

Dean of Students Todd Adams notified the Northwestern community of Arkin’s death in an email Wednesday morning.

“The University extends our condolences to Jason’s family and friends,” Adams said in his email.

“The loss of any one member of our community affects us all, and it does so in different ways.”

Arkin, an Overland Park, Kansas, native, lived in 1835 Hinman.

He previously lived in Slivka Residential College, according to Adams’ email.

Associated Student Government released a statement Wednesday night on its Facebook page.

“Yesterday we lost a member of our Wildcat community. ASG sends its condolences to all of Jason Arkin’s family and friends,” the statement said. “Our community’s strength comes from our support of each other, and so as the quarter closes, we must care for each other.”

Sophia Bollag contributed reporting.

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Chicago artists come to NU to perform

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Chicago singers, dancers, comedians and spoken word artists performed for a crowd of over 100 students in Fisk Hall on Wednesday night as part of the first ever NU Arts Night.

“Chicago is definitely going through a cultural renaissance,” said emcee Kevin Coval, an organizer of “Louder Than a Bomb,” one of the country’s largest youth poetry festivals. “We’re dealing with a lot of violence, a lot of closed schools, a lot of gentrification, a lot of industrialization. And in the wake of that destruction is creation.”

Sponsored by Northwestern’s Center for Student Involvement and the Freshman Urban Program, NU Arts Night is the first event FUP has organized outside of its pre-Wildcat Welcome orientation program.

“Normally FUP Arts Night happens during the pre-orientation program week,” said Taylor Billings, a former co-chair of FUP. “We bring in artists from Chicago as well as Northwestern just to showcase their talent to the freshmen.”

Billings, a Weinberg senior, said they noticed there wasn’t anything like FUP Arts Night for the rest of NU and decided to bring it to non-FUP students this year.

“We really wanted to bridge the gap between Northwestern and Chicago culture as well as address some of the extreme social justice issues that exist in Chicago,” she said.

The first performers of the night were semifinalists from this year’s “Louder Than a Bomb” competition. A group from Maine East High School performed a spoken-word piece titled “Shortcuts.”

The crowd snapped and cheered when the group spoke about how about how people today are obsessed with “quantity over quality, efficiency over excellence, speed over service.”

“Don’t want to talk to your kids about sex?” they during the piece. “Ban sex ed. Don’t want to examine your beliefs about sexuality? Ban gay marriage. Don’t want to admit you’re racist? Blame Obamacare.”

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Poet and visual artist Krista Franklin performed after, reading one of her poems and talking about her artwork, most of which focuses on issues of race, gender and class.

“I learned the art of collage through watching my family make something out of nothing,” she said. “That’s really where my collage aesthetic comes from. It comes from an idea of necessity, you know, how you make something beautiful out of scraps.”

Billings said Chicago has a “wealth of diversity and a wealth of culture” that NU students aren’t always exposed to.

“There are issues we talk about in the classroom but they also exist in Chicago, in real life, and it’s important to get your hands on those, to really face the issues,” she said.

Communication senior Bea Cordelia performed a spoken word poem about her transgender identity and German roots.

“That my people have always been murdered and are still today subjected to infected needles and gunshots is the subject of my poem,” she said during her performance.

Coval, who is also a co-founder of “Louder Than a Bomb,” helped organize the event.

“We had folks from the South Side, North Side and even suburbs,” he said. “I think it was a good

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Weinberg junior Stephanie Brock-Wilson said she found out about NU Arts Night from her friends in FUP and really enjoyed the performances. kimberlygo2018@u.northwestern.edu

Setting the record straight In Wednesday’s paper, the headline of the article “Governor to sign ban on Israel boycotts” mischaracterized the nature of the bill the governor intends to sign. The bill would have Illinois divest from companies that boycott Israel.

In the story “Faith leaders talk stereotypes,” the photo caption misstated the name of one of the subjects in the photo. She is Tahera Ahmad.

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ReFresH hosts solo show

By HELEN LEE

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We’ve seen Northwestern’s ReFresH Dance Crew perform in large, collaborative shows, such as ReFusionShaka, Celebrasia and the KASA show. But on Saturday, the dance group will start a new tradition, and have its first ever solo show in Technological Institute’s Ryan Family Auditorium.

ReFresH is a student performance group that focuses on urban and hip-hop dance.

The group consists of around 70 members and aims to be a space where students can experience dance in all of its many styles and forms. ReFresH was established in 2005 and members of the group have been discussing the prospects of a solo show for a while. It wasn’t until earlier this year, though, that the group decided to turn the idea into a reality.

Medill senior Danielle Zhu, the outgoing president of ReFresH, has been at the forefront of these efforts. Zhu’s work doesn’t stop once

she gets off the stage or finishes practice. She said she has committed extra time into planning and perfecting the upcoming show.

“This year we really pushed to make a solo show happen because we’ve gotten so much bigger and better in the past two years,” she said.

While ReFresH’s growth has been an asset in most cases, it has made scheduling rehearsals difficult, Zhu said.

“One of the toughest things has been the many different time conflicts,” Zhu said. “It’s been hard getting everyone here and pushing the show forward, but we know it’s worth the effort.”

ReFresH’s incoming president is Jisoo Lee, a Communication junior. Lee said ReFresH had over 30 new members join this year, which coincidentally fell at the same time that talks of a solo show came up.

Weinberg freshman Grant Hou, who serves as ReFresH’s incoming education chair, choreographed one of the pieces that will be performed.

“Choreographing was a new experience

for me, and a really educational one,” Hou said. “I’m most excited to see my own piece performed and how the audience responds to it.”

Hou said his experience preparing for a solo show has been tiring because of the immense responsibility that falls on one group of 70 people rather than many dance groups that together contribute a couple hundred students.

“With ReFusionShaka, it was easier because there were several groups to share the responsibility of light and sound, costumes and getting through tech week,” he said. “If you got tired, you knew that there was another dance group to come in. That’s not the case in a solo show.”

Hou said he expects the show will help the group grow at a faster pace. He also said he hopes it will show the NU community that ReFresH is more than just a segment in ReFusionShaka.

“It’s more work,” he said, “but we do it because it’s worth it, because we love to dance.”

Lee said the show will be especially memorable for the seniors because it’ll be their first solo show with ReFresH — but also their last.

“They’re leaving a legacy for us,” she said.

“Their part in this process has been invaluable and I know they’re going to give it their all.”

As a graduating senior, Zhu said ReFresH has come to define many of her NU experiences.

“For a lot of us, we’ve been a part of this for four years,” she said. “That’s hundreds and hundreds of hours we’ve committed to this. So to finally have a show is really special because it’s a culmination of all of our efforts.

We’re really excited that our end is also a debut.”

Zhu said sometimes she and other members joke by asking, “Is there really a difference between ReFresH and life?”

“I know it’s silly,” she said, “but sometimes that’s how it feels.”

ReFresH will perform on Saturday at 10 p.m. and Sunday at 7 p.m. helenlee2018@u.northwestern.edu

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WHAT’S INSIDE: Q&A: Jason Moore, Northwestern alum and ‘Pitch Perfect 2’ executive producer page 4

Northwestern University Opera Theatre to perform Gilbert and Sullivan classic page 4

Persian Hebrew Congregation of Skokie prepares to launch new cookbook page 5

School-wide scavenger hunt to make nationwide debut at Northwestern page 5

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Q&A: NU alum, ‘Pitch Perfect 2’ executive producer

By Annie Bruce

daily senior staffer @anniefb13

Using his experiences with the Radio, Television and Film and musical theater programs at Northwestern, Jason Moore (Communication ’93) has navigated roles ranging from Tonynominated director of “Avenue Q” to director of the wildly successful film “Pitch Perfect.” He now returns as an executive producer for “Pitch Perfect 2,” which opened in theaters Friday. The Daily talked with Moore about the sequel, his experiences at Northwestern and his upcoming project with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.

What made the experience of making “Pitch Perfect 2” different from the original?

Well, I directed the first one and didn’t direct the second one. That was probably the most significant difference. … It was kind of fun to sit back and watch something that I’ve worked on have it’s own life. (Director Elizabeth Banks) really understood the tone as well as anybody, if not better, because she found the original book and had the original idea to do the movie. So it was really fun to watch her find her directing voice and also really learn about doing musical numbers.

How does the producing role differ from the directing role?

It’s a lot less stressful, in the sense that the director really does have to make a thousand decisions a day, you hope decisions that you make accumulate into something that works.

… When you’re a producer, it’s kind of relaxing, because you don’t have to make the final decision.

Do you have a favorite part in the process?

One of my favorite parts, but the most challenging part is we have an original song that is featured in the plot of the movie, so it’s always tricky trying to find an original song that works.

And I was a big part of that process, and it was really fun. I’d never done that before, worked with a recording artist and gotten a song to a place where it worked for a movie. So I’m very proud of that, mostly just because it was a new experience for me, and also I think it works well in the story.

How did your experiences at Northwestern shape your directing and producing style?

At Northwestern, I was a RTVF major, theater major, formal studies major, writing major and I was also in the music theater program, so I learned a little bit about a lot of different things.

And that’s really what directing is. It really was an incredible, liberal arts point of view on that.

I felt like I understood literature and I understood good storytelling and it wasn’t just practical filmmaking — although it was partially that — it was a wider view of storytelling. And I feel like I went to the perfect place for that.

Do you have any advice for students who are aspiring filmmakers?

Make them as much as you can. And remember that finding your own voice is more important than trying to become someone else’s,

because you always lose your way when you do that.

Do you have a standout experience from your time at Northwestern?

There was a play that I directed for Arts Alliance, the student winter play, and it was the first I’d ever — I’m not a good writer — but I wrote it with somebody else. And it was the first time that something I’d actually created got a laugh. I always think that, that was the time that I got infected with the need to hear laughs.

You’re also directing the upcoming Tina Fey and Amy Poehler “Sisters” movie. What are you excited for people to see?

I’m excited for people to see Tina and Amy together, because they’re great together. What you think and hope they are like on the Golden Globes and as friends, they are that. So just seeing them onscreen is still a joy for me. And you’ll see them do some things that you might not expect, based on what people know them and what they’ve done before. I think that’ll be fun for audiences to discover.

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Can you talk a little bit about the directing process for “Sisters”?

lot of improvisation, because that’s what they do naturally.

All the actors are at Tina and Amy’s age level.

There’s sort of a whole different bag of tricks, or not tricks really, working with bonafide, experienced adults that made it actually really quite smooth, mostly because everyone kind of knows what they bring to the table, and they know how the day goes. … And there was a

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I just finished that movie and we put this one in the can about eight weeks ago, so I’m going on a meditation retreat. annebruce2015@u.northwestern.edu

NU Opera Theatre to perform comedy ‘Ruddigore’

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ruddigore rendition Cast members rehearse for Gilbert and Sullivan’s opera, “Ruddigore.” The opera follows the story of a curse placed on the Murgatroyd family.

By Amada Svachula

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Northwestern students hope to usher in a few laughs this weekend with a vibrant performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s opera, “Ruddigore.”

“The energy in the room has been great,” said Alyssa Giannetti, a Bienen junior. “Every rehearsal is so positive. It will be a really great show. It’s really beautiful and hilarious.”

The show, the third production NU Opera Theatre has presented this year, will take place in Cahn Auditorium. The performance will highlight the comedy that underlies the entire show’s plot.

“The cool thing about Gilbert and Sullivan is that it’s in public domain, so you can do anything you want with it,” Giannetti said.

“You can put it in any era that you want based on what the story gives you. In this one, we have a pop-up book-like look to the set and everything is very playful and cartoon-like.”

“Ruddigore” follows a curse on the Murgatroyd family. The curse requires people to commit a daily crime or submit to death. The opera is filled with twists and turns of romance and comedy. The combination of horror and comedy contributes to the cartoon-like characteristics of the opera, said Bienen senior Gabriel Wernick.

“You know that it’s playing off of stereotypical horror themes but you are not in the world of actual horror,” Wernick said. “(This

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humor in horror The Northwestern University Opera Theatre’s “Ruddigore” is the third production the organization has put on this year.

is) especially (true) because this whole thing is based off of a curse. When you think of a curse you think witches and ghosts. … Because you have these themes of horror and (the director) makes these really cartoony, you know what he’s spoofing.”

The cast is made up of about thirty people, mostly undergraduates, who began rehearsing for the show at the beginning of Winter Quarter. The opera is double cast, which allows actors to learn and build off of their counterparts.

“I do like being able to work closely with the audience and then watch the other performance and get new ideas from that,” Wernick said. “There’s performing action and watching action between both casts. It’s very much growing and live. It hasn’t been static at all.

Especially because it’s a comedy, everyone’s always finding different places to add different jokes.”

Bienen senior Joseph Schuster describes “Ruddigore” as a very lighthearted show that’s great for people who have never seen an opera before.

He also describes the show as 100 percent a comedy.

“The plots in operas are always kind of high stakes with people dying,” Shuster said. “This one has much more dancing and is much closer to a musical compared to most operas. If someone is unfamiliar with opera, it’s a great way to get exposed to the genre. People should be laughing.” amandasvachula2018@u.northwestern.edu

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Local congregation to launch new kosher cookbook

By BENJAMIN DIN

daily senior staffer

After more than 20 years, Jewish culture meets cooking again in the latest edition of a Skokie congregation’s cookbook.

“It’s a panorama of recipes from around the world,” said Dov Ber Polisky about the cookbook he has been creating for the Persian Hebrew Congregation of Skokie. The approximately 140-recipe Jewish kosher cookbook is more than two years in the making with a tentative launch date set for within the next two weeks.

“This cookbook represents several generations of Jewish communities in the North Shore area,” said project coordinator Yoona Ha, a former Daily staffer. “I didn’t know there was such a rich Jewish

history in our area. It’s awesome that this cookbook is like a history book of that community.”

The cookbook is the second of its kind for the congregation, which published its first one in 1987. However, this edition will feature a greater variety of dishes to reflect the changing demographics of the congregation, Polisky said.

“Just like neighborhoods go through tremendous changes, so do congregations,” he said. “Even though the congregation is still called the Persian Hebrew Congregation, it’s gone through a lot of changes.”

The cookbook’s title, “PASI Cooking,” is meant to be inclusive of the different people who have joined the congregation. Polisky said he used PASI — Persian, Ashkenazic, Sephardic and International — to open up the cookbook to submissions from everyone in the current congregation.

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fresh food The Persian Hebrew Congregation of Skokie is releasing a 140-recipe Jewish kosher cookbook. The congregation previously released a cookbook in 1987.

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congregation cooking “PASI Cooking,” the cookbook from the Persian Hebrew Congregation of Skokie, includes recipe submissions from the congregation.

Ha, a Medill senior, has been working with Polisky and his wife, Ellen, for a little more than a year. She has been instrumental in helping coordinate the cookbook’s design and making sure the measurement units were standard throughout all the recipes, Polisky said.

The lack of standard measurements was a problem because all of the recipes were submitted by congregation members or acquired during Polisky’s travels around the world, he said. One of the goals of the cookbook was “to make it friendly for the cooks,” so many of the recipes can be made in four steps, Polisky said.

“You have individual submissions by countless chefs, so no one-person, no single-authored cookbook, could give you this much diversity and variety,” he said. “Many of them were passed down and are heirloom recipes that cooks were even a little bit reluctant to give.”

Although it’s been more than two decades since the last cookbook, one congregation member has worked on both of them. Rochelle Israel, who wrote the forewords for both books, said one of her recipe submissions is for Persian soup.

“My family loves it when I make it,” she said.

“It’s a colorful soup, very vegetarian.”

For Israel, the cookbook is special because it serves as an example of the congregation uniting for a big project, especially with all the different people involved.

“The new cookbook has a compilation of recipes from many ethnic sources, so it’s a much larger cookbook, much more inclusive, much more expanded,” Israel said. “This is going to be a cookbook that appeals to a diverse group of people.” benjamindin2018@u.northwestern.edu

School-wide scavenger hunt to debut nationwide at NU

By Kimberly Go

the daily northwestern

The Dangerously Awesome Scavenger Hunt is making its nationwide debut at Northwestern on Saturday.

Founded by Danny Ruderman, an independent college counselor based in Los Angeles, The DASH is a three-hour school-wide scavenger hunt.

“This isn’t a scavenger hunt that has anything to do with drinking or anything illegal,” Ruderman said. “It’s literally just stupid fun, sort of messy, something you’d want to do with all of your friends on a Saturday afternoon just to laugh. A lot.”

Ruderman said he chose NU as the first school to hold The DASH out of convenience.

“I have students at colleges literally all over the country wanting to play this, but they’re on semester,” Ruderman said. “They were finishing up in May so what I had to do was target schools on the quarter system.”

Teams of five students each will be given a list of items to complete to earn points, said

Allie Levitan, co-head representative of The DASH at NU. Ruderman was Levitan’s college counselor.

The items will not be NU-specific, the Communication sophomore said. Examples include doing a poetry reading of a rap song in public, getting a lock of red hair and eating a stick of butter.

Ruderman was inspired to create The DASH after he participated in a 24-hour scavenger hunt called The Game as an undergraduate at Stanford University, which he told his college students about.

“It’s just ridiculous and huge and a lot of the campus plays it,” he said. “My college students said, ‘Oh my gosh that sounds like fun!

I wish we had a scavenger hunt like that on campus.’ … And as a result of that conversation I thought about it … and that’s where The DASH came from.”

At the end of The DASH, the team with the most points will win $1,000 to split among members and an additional $1,000 to donate to the charity of their choice, Levitan said.

Although joining The DASH costs $75 per person, three teams will have their fees refunded if they win the competition for

best team name, best costume or best overall theme. The winners for the three awards will be revealed just before the scavenger hunt starts, Levitan said.

All communication from The DASH headquarters, which is based in L.A., will be through Snapchat. Teams must add DASH HQ on Snapchat, and on the day of the hunt, DASH HQ will directly send each team the list of items as well as random tasks that will let teams to earn bonus points, said Communication sophomore Sophie Hoblit, another co-head representative of The DASH. Levitan said there will be six items in each of four categories: Daring, Adventurous, Sticky and Hilarious. For each category, two items will be rated easy, two medium and two difficult, with each level of difficulty corresponding to a certain amount of points.

To document the completion of an item, each team must take a video and post it on a member’s “My Story” on Snapchat, Ruderman said. The video will be viewed and scored at The DASH headquarters.

Ruderman said he initially thought to use Snapchat as the primary form of

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communication for The DASH because he was the college counselor of Evan Spiegel, the creator of Snapchat.

“I have lunch with Evan regularly so I know Snapchat, I know how it works,” Ruderman said. “Everybody already uses Snapchat so it’s already on their phone. It’s the perfect platform to run something like this so everything can happen in real time.”

The DASH will take place at Stanford University and the University of California, Los Angeles, schools also on the quarter system, a week after it debuts at NU, Ruderman said.

Levitan and Hoblit said they hope students who participate have a fun Saturday because people at NU spend a lot of time in the library during the weekend and are stressed. They also said they hope the event will bring people together.

“It’s open to all of Northwestern,” Levitan said. “We’re just trying to get athletes, theater majors, musicians, people in Greek life, every single person to just come together and do it because it would just be a really fun Spring Quarter thing to do.” kimberlygo2018@u.northwestern.edu

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saturday The Dash at 2 p.m. at Northwestern University The X-Factors Present: Everybody Get on this Horse at 12 p.m. in Seabury Hall Refresh Dance Crew Presents “The Show” at 10 p.m. in Ryan Auditorium Northwestern’s Opera Theatre presents “Ruddigore” at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. in Cahn Auditorium

sunday Mariachi Northwestern Spring Variety Show at 6 p.m. in Norris Refresh Dance Crew Presents “The Show” at 7 p.m. in Ryan Auditorium

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Spotify adds video, news and podcasts to streaming service

Tip jar taken from Evanston frozen yogurt store

Spotify is not just for music anymore.

The Swedish streaming music company, which counts 60 million users around the world, confirmed Wednesday that it is adding videos, plus news and podcasts, to its service.

Spotify is trying to take a bigger slice of the fast-growing streaming music industry as competition increases. Digital music subscriptions last year generated $1.6 billion in sales globally, up 39 percent from 2013, according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry.

The company faces new rivals such as rapper and entertainment mogul Jay Z, who recently relaunched the streaming service Tidal that he bought for $56 million. And music industry insiders and analysts expect Apple to enter the fray shortly with a new streaming service following its $3 billion purchase of Beats.

New Spotify content will include short videos from companies such as Vice News, NBC, Comedy Central and Nerdist Industries, the company said at a wide-ranging New York news conference that included an appearance by the stars of Comedy Central’s “Broad City.”

Videos will include clips from popular shows, as well as some original material. Entertainment and news partners also include the Walt Disney Co.’s ESPN and Maker Studios, Turner Broadcasting, BBC, CBS Radio and Conde Nast.

The company also announced a variety of new features, including playlists for listeners’ particular tastes, moods and the time of day (Google last year bought Songza, which boasts a similar offering).

It additionally unveiled a feature for runners that will detect the users’ pace through their phones and provide songs to match the tempo.

“It’s all about creating a true soundtrack for your life,” said Daniel Ek, Spotify’s chief executive, at the conference.

Ek said the features will launch Wednesday in the U.S., Sweden, Germany and the U.K. for iPhone users. The running component launched globally.

Spotify offers a free, ad-supported service, plus a premium $10-a-month version that allows unlimited access to its catalog without commercial interruptions. About 15 million people pay for the premium version.

Paul Verna, an analyst for technology research firm eMarketer, said in an email that getting into online video “is a logical extension of the company’s success in digital music streaming.”

It’s not the first tech company to use video to attract users. Social messaging app Snapchat recently added news and short-form video from the likes of ESPN and CNN as part of its Discover feature.

Someone stole the tip jar last week from Tutti Frutti Frozen Yogurt, police said.

A 51-year-old employee told police a man entered the frozen yogurt store, 809 Davis St., around 5:55 p.m. on May 14, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said.

The man grabbed the tip jar — which had

Two Evanston residents to be honored for mental health support

Two Evanston residents will be honored by a local health center for their commitment to mental health care.

Cook County Commissioner Larry Suffredin and architect Joseph J. Behles will be recognized by Turning Point Behavioral

around $10 in it — and ran out of the store going westbound on Davis Street, Dugan said.

The man was caught on video surveillance footage and police are investigating, Dugan said.

Gold ring stolen Tuesday from retirement home

An 89-year-old Evanston resident said his gold ring was taken last week from his room at a retirement home, police said.

Health Care Center in Skokie at its annual benefit on June 20, the company announced Wednesday. Three Wilmette residents, as well as the company’s office and facilities manager, will also be honored.

“As a community-based mental health care provider, it is important that we listen to community members and agencies about needs and current gaps in essential services,” Turning Point CEO Ann Fisher Raney said in a news release. “This year’s benefit will be a wonderful way to spotlight

Officials responded to The Mather, 425 Davis St., on Tuesday around 3:10 p.m. to a report that a ring was stolen, Dugan said.

The Evanston man told police the ring was taken from his dresser between 10 a.m. on May 15 and 12 p.m. on May 16, officials said.

The 18-karat gold ring is valued around $400, Dugan said.

— Paige Leskin

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Turning Point is an outpatient mental health center that provides mental health care to those in the Chicago area. It’s benefit this year, titled “Cultivating Creativity and Innovation,” will take place at the Evanston Golf Club, 4401 Dempster St. — Tori Latham

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Krasner said Faculty Senate passed a similar resolution last year.

Star said a tobacco ban will “probably happen at the University level in the next one or two years� regardless of ASG’s actions. “It seems as if something is going to happen no matter what,� he said. “Feinberg (School of Medicine) really seems to be pushing that Northwestern needs to be tobacco-free.�

With that in mind, Krasner framed the resolution as a way for Senate to have input in what the future policy could be. “Tobacco-free campus is happening,� he said. “We just want student voice in that process.�

Before the resolution was discussed, Weinberg junior Mackenzie Schneider, vice president for A-status finances, introduced the committee’s funding recommendations for next school year.

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Schneider said the application process is rigorous. “The board spends about 100 hours going group by group,� she said.

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Senate also confirmed Blumenthal, Weinberg junior Scott Spicer and SESP freshman Josh O’Neil to a commission that will oversee direct elections for off-campus senators next year.

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I’m hoping to pursue a career that involves children. ... The main goal is to open my own practice.

— Julia Kuhn, senior infielder

Thursday, May 21, 2015

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Seniors earn postgraduate scholarship Lacrosse dynasty isn’t over

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Softball senior Julia Kuhn and wrestling senior John Coukos each received $7,500 from the annual Big Ten postgraduate scholarship.

The conference established the scholarship in 2012, with the first nominees announced in 2013. The Big Ten defers selection and specifics for nomination to the individual schools.

This year, the scholarship awarded $15,000 to each of the 14 Big Ten institutions, which then distributed awards to 29 athletes representing 15 different sports. Big Ten communications intern Mary Kate Campbell said the basis for the scholarship is almost entirely academic. Student-athletes must maintain at least a 3.2 GPA, take on leadership positions and indicate that they plan to continue their education in a postgraduate degree program within three years of completing their undergraduate studies.

Kuhn, a Weinberg senior studying human communications and French with an Integrated Marketing Communications certificate, shows her talents on and off the diamond. In addition to the postgraduate scholarship, she received the June S. Cordier Memorial Scholarship, Academic All-Big Ten Distinction, the Big Ten Distinguished Scholar title and was named an Academic All-American.

The New Jersey native also took the softball field by storm in her four years as a Wildcat, this season being her most successful, starting in all 45 games she

Record 15 NU teams honored for academic progress

The NCAA recognized 15 of Northwestern’s 19 varsity sports as part of its Academic Progress Rate program, the athletic department announced Wednesday.

The Wildcats led all Football Bowl Subdivision schools by having 79 percent of their teams honored with public recognition awards, edging

Men’s Tennis

Shropshire falters in NCAA Singles Championship No.48 Sam Shropshire

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Sam Shropshire was Northwestern’s backbone in team competition throughout the season, but the sophomore failed Wednesday to carry the Wildcats’ name any further while competing as an individual.

No. 48 Shropshire fell 6-4, 6-3 in the opening round of the NCAA Singles Championship to No. 39 Cameron Norrie of TCU. After losing the first set, Shropshire held a 3-1 lead in the second set, but dropped five straight games to Norrie.

The loss marks the end of the road this season for NU’s No. 1 singles player.

Going head-to-head against other teams’ top opponents, Shropshire compiled a 23-13 record overall in singles competition and a 9-1 mark in conference play.

A first-team All-Big Ten selection, Shropshire also helped the Cats to a No. 30 ranking in the country and a 21-10 overall team record.

— Bobby Pillote

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BECOMING A MASTER Julia Kuhn takes a big swing. The senior received recognition for her academic pursuits by way of a postgraduate scholarship from the Big Ten.

appeared in and ending the year with a .323 batting average, 34 RBI and five home runs.

Kuhn said she was one of three female finalists selected based on a 250word written statement on her experience as a Cat. After submitting her resume and several letters of recommendation, Kuhn was chosen among the finalists for the scholarship.

She will use the money toward pursuing a master’s degree in speech

language pathology at New York University.

“I’m hoping to pursue a career that involves children,” Kuhn said. “The main goal is to open my own practice at some point.”

Coukos, also a Weinberg senior, earned Academic All-Big Ten distinction all four years he competed at NU. The combination of doing the rigorous Integrated Science Program and his biology, chemistry and mathematics

majors keeps him busy off the mat. He ended his collegiate career with 10 wins and 29 losses overall, his academic success outshining his athletic performance.

Coukos will attend the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago and plans to pursue an MD/ PhD centered on studying neurodegenerative disorders.

out peer institutions Notre Dame (65 percent), Stanford (61 percent) and Duke (58 percent), and also besting Big Ten foe Minnesota (56 percent). Only Dartmouth ranked higher among all Division I programs by having 93 percent of its teams awarded.

Fifteen teams receiving awards is both a school and conference record.

NU has led the Big Ten in the number of athletic programs awarded since the creation of APR during the 2004-2005 academic year.

“The ability of our young men and

women to continually raise the bar when it comes to academic achievement is nothing short of remarkable,” athletic director Jim Phillips said in a news release. “This is a tremendous compliment to our studentathletes.”

The teams honored are football, baseball, field hockey, men’s golf, softball, cross country, women’s basketball, women’s soccer, women’s swimming, women’s tennis, men’s soccer, men’s tennis, wrestling, women’s golf and volleyball.

The last five teams — men’s soccer,

men’s tennis, wrestling, women’s golf and volleyball — have received public recognition awards each of the 10 years they have been given.

The honor reflects the NCAA’s APR metric, which measure a team’s ability to maintain the eligibility of players, and retain and graduate team members. Squads awarded are those in the top 10 percent of their sport.

APR scores for all Division I sports teams will be released May 27.

Jamieson makes cut for U.S. Open Sectionals

Junior Josh Jamieson advanced to the U.S. Open Sectional qualifying on Monday by placing among the five lowest scorers at a local qualifier at Flossmoor Country Club in Flossmoor, Illinois.

Jamieson shot a 2-under 70 to finish in a two-way tie for fourth out of the

79-man field. He was a key contributor to Northwestern’s team this season, competing in every tournament as a member of the team lineup.

Five other Wildcat golfers participated in the qualifier. Freshman Dylan Wu, who competed as an individual at NCAA Regionals over the weekend, had the next-best Wildcat finish by placing seventh with an even-par 72.

Freshman Charles Wang finished 12th with a 2-over 74, junior Andrew Whalen came in a tie at 28th with a

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5-over 77, senior Matthew Negri tied for 53rd by shooting a 9-over 81 and freshman Sam Triplett finished tied at 60th with a 10-over 82.

Jamieson selected The Bears Club in Jupiter, Florida, as his first choice of sites for Sectional qualifying on June 8. He’ll be competing for one of 156 spots in the final field of the U.S. Open, held June 18-21 at Chambers Bay in University Place, Washington.

— Bobby Pillote

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JOSHING AROUND Josh Jamieson celebrates after a good shot. The junior was one of six Northwestern golfers competing in a U.S. Open local qualifier and the only Wildcat to advance to Sectional qualifying.

Sunday’s lacrosse game was hard to watch.

Northwestern tantalized fans in the NCAA Quarterfinal matchup, trailing just 2 goals behind vaunted archrival Maryland at halftime. But then, the Wildcats completely collapsed. NU yielded 9 straight goals to the Terrapins to start the second half, and only netted 1 score of its own over the final 30 minutes of play.

The Cats meekly rolled over and allowed their postseason nemesis to keep them out of the NCAA Semifinals for the first time in 11 years.

That streak of 10 consecutive visits to the Final Four — which includes seven national championships — defines NU’s dynasty under coach Kelly Amonte Hilller. Sunday’s loss disappointed, but it does not mean the dynasty is over. The Cats will reload, not rebuild, and there are plenty of reasons to be optimistic for next season.

To be fair to this year’s squad, Maryland is far and away the best team in the nation. The top seed in the NCAA Tournament sauntered through the regular season undefeated, including a 16-5 romp over NU on March 26 at Lakeside Field.

And the Cats will be losing significant contributions from a trio of seniors: attacker Kara Mupo, defensive midfielder Jess Carroll and goalkeeper Bridget Bianco. Mupo was the team’s thirdleading scorer with 38 goals, and Carroll and Bianco appeared in every contest to anchor NU’s defense.

But the rest of the Cats’ talent is concentrated in the undergraduate ranks, starting with Selena Lasota.

The scoring total for the freshman — yes, freshman — ranks fifth nationally, and she led NU with 69 goals this season, 23 more than runner-up junior Kaleigh Craig. Despite facing constant face guards and double teams, Lasota managed to score in each of the Cats’ 21 games and collected a nomination for the Tewaaraton Award, given to the country’s best player, for her efforts.

Lasota is helped on offense by fellow freshman Corinne Wessels and sophomore Sheila Nesselbush. Wessels racked up a team-high 20 assists while chipping in 11 goals, and Nesselbush started every game and placed fourth on NU with 27 scores.

The emergence of draw control specialist freshman Shelby Fredericks will also be an important development heading into next year. The Cats struggled with draws early in the season, but gained traction once Fredericks stepped into the circle.

She ended up controlling a teamhigh 73 draws, which bodes well for the future. A critical feature of NU’s success in years past has been dominating in the circle and preventing opponents from possessing the ball.

And as a safety net, the Cats return with plenty of depth on defense. Lindsay Darrell and Shannon Nesselbush, both freshmen, started a combined 37 games this season and should continue to develop into their sophomore years.

The only question mark for Amonte Hiller is in net, where sophomore Natalee Easthom — the only goalkeeper who will be on the roster next year — is the heir apparent. Easthom played in just one game during her first two years at NU. 2015 was a down year for the Cats, but they still made it to the NCAA Quarterfinals. This season’s freshmen will be back and hungry for more. bpillote@u.northwestern.edu