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Student groups report long wait times for Blaze fundraiser checks Lauren Duquette/The Daily Northwestern

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When Sandeep Bharadwaj signed up his student group for a fundraiser at Blaze Pizza in Evanston, he did not expect that it would take 11 weeks — and what he said were more than 20 phone calls — to get his money.

The McCormick junior, who is president of Northwestern Global Medical Brigades, is one of 17 students who said their student groups encountered delays and communication issues while attempting to secure checks from Spring Quarter

fundraisers with the Blaze Pizza at 1737 Sherman Ave. Blaze Pizza’s Evanston location opened March 5 and began to host fundraising events for student groups that month.

Fourteen student groups who held fundraisers with Blaze Pizza during Spring Quarter said this week they had not received checks from the fundraiser as of Monday afternoon: 1.Academy of Music and Arts for Special Education 2. A-NU-Bhav 3. Dance Marathon 4. Extreme Measures 5. Korean American Student

InclusionNU board gets $14,000

By KARA STEVICK

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Following the reorganization of Multicultural Student Affairs, Campus Inclusion and Community’s InclusionNU Funding Board received $14,000 for its budget this academic year.

The board, which was formed last year, works with student groups to promote inclusivity.

The funds will be distributed among selected student groups and initiatives to support events that address topics such as social justice education, community awareness and identity celebration and awareness, said Amanda Walsh, one of the four undergraduates on the funding board and president of Northwestern’s Quest Scholars chapter.

“The InclusionNU Funding Board right now has been incredibly successful,” the Communication senior said.

“We’ve had a lot of great applications right now within the past cycle and we’re really, really excited about the events that we were able to help put on.”

SESP junior Matt Herndon, Associated Student Government’s vice president for accessibility and inclusion, said funding resources on campus are

often limited, making it hard for small groups to get funding.

Walsh said she hopes the board secures a larger budget in the future.

“It’s about making sure that student organizations who typically don’t have opportunities to get funding but are very in line with the Campus Inclusion and Community mission to know that they’re just as important as everyone else,” Walsh said. “Their events are special to the university, and they deserve funding and they should get funding.”

To realize such efforts, the board has recently taken measures to make the application process smoother as well as easier to access throughout the year.

Last year, applications for funds were due in a monthly cycle, but the board has moved the application deadline to weeks three, six and nine of each academic quarter.

“It gives (student groups) the opportunity to still fund programs and events happening within the same quarter without having students negotiate having to apply during midterms or finals,” said Alejandro Magaña, assistant director of Multicultural Student Affairs and a member of the board.

Upon discovering most student organizations applied for one grant » See INCLUSION, page 10

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Association 6. NU Gives Back 7. Phi Sigma Pi 8. NU Raas 9. Sigma Alpha Iota 10. Spoon University 11. Supplies for Dreams (NU Chapter) 12. Students for Sensible Drug Policy 13. Undergraduate Premedical Society 14.Women’s Club Lacrosse City manager Wally Bobkiewicz said Evanston officials have no role in these types of fundraisers.

“Private businesses can share

Teenage boys rob city gas station at knifepoint

Police are searching for two teenage boys suspected in an armed robbery Tuesday night at a Mobil gas station in central Evanston.

The two teenagers entered the

profits as they see fit,” he wrote in an email to The Daily.

University spokesman Al Cubbage was unable to provide information Wednesday on whether NU has any oversight of student group fundraising agreements.

The Daily first contacted Blaze Pizza’s corporate offices and Evanston location on Monday inquiring about the checks NU student groups said they never received. Since then, two of the 14 student groups told The Daily they have been able to pick up their checks in person.

Four other groups reported that they received their funds, although three, including Global Brigades,

said they sent multiple emails or phone calls inquiring about their money:

gas station, 1950 Green Bay Road, at about 9:30 p.m. and demanded cash from the gas station attendant while flashing a metallic object, said Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan. The attendant responded by hitting a panic alarm, Dugan said.

After receiving the money, the teenager fled with another boy who was acting as a “lookout.”

Police recovered an eight-inch

knife from the area where witnesses reported seeing one of the teenagers throw an object to the ground while fleeing northbound on Green Bay Road, Dugan said. Detectives are processing the knife for DNA. The gas station owner estimated as much as $150 was stolen, Dugan said.

1. Burlesque Show 2. Northwestern Global Medical Brigades 3. Relay for Life 4.They Forget, We Remember “It was a very long, tedious, arduous process,” Bharadwaj said. “It makes us not know if we’re going to do a fundraiser again.”

On Tuesday, Adam Cummis, president of the Chicago area franchises » See BLAZE, page 9

— Joanne Lee

EPL to hold storytelling festival

By JULIET FREUDMAN

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Evanston Public Library aims to celebrate the art of storytelling during a festival this weekend in locations across the city.

In addition to students from elementary schools and colleges, six featured storytellers who tour nationally will perform in the “Stories by the Lake” festival from Friday to Sunday.

In an effort to make the festival an inclusive event for the entire community, there will also be an open mic night at the Celtic Knot pub where anyone can participate.

The venues include EPL, the Celtic Knot and Woman’s Club of Evanston. The free festival targets a variety of audiences, said Jill Schacter (Medill ’84), EPL’s marketing and » See STORYTELLING, page 9

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SHARING STORIES Evanston Public Library will host its first-ever storytelling festival this weekend. The free festival features six nationallytouring storytellers as well as students from elementary school to college.

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Around Town Shaved snow shop brings new frozen dessert to city

After two frozen dessert shops tried and failed to operate out of the storefront at 809 Davis St., a new flavored shaved ice shop is hoping the third time’s the charm.

Snow Dragon Shavery will open at 809 Davis St. in the next couple of weeks after the closures of Tutti Frutti frozen yogurt and Red Mango in the same space.

The dessert shop has one other location that opened about six months ago in Chicago. Owner Farhad Meghani said the business is expanding

to Evanston, hoping to attract customers from Northwestern’s student population.

Shaved snow is a spinoff of Taiwanese shaved ice. Unlike a snow cone, which is crumbled into chunks, the snow is shaved into ribbons.

Snow Dragon Shavery will offer both fruit and chocolate-flavored shaved snow as well as a variety of different toppings.

“It’s not yogurt or ice cream,” Meghani said. “It has a smoother texture and less milk.”

The international dimension to the dessert shop sets Snow Dragon Shavery apart from previous frozen yogurt businesses in the same storefront, said Paul Zalmezak, an Evanston economic development official.

“This is a new trend and Evanston tends to

benefit from its student population, especially its international student population,” Zalmezak said. “Typically things open in Chicago first and in Evanston right after.”

But Snow Dragon’s novelty product debuting in Evanston’s food market does not guarantee success, Zalmezak said.

“It is in a well-trafficked location,” Zalmezak said. “But ice cream is a tough business because it’s seasonal.”

Besides shaved snow, Snow Dragon Shavery will also serve coconut water and frozen yogurt.

“We just want to please the community,” Meghani said.

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Police Blotter Woman caught stealing items worth more than $1,300 from Jewel Osco A 30-year-old woman was arrested Monday morning in connection with stealing several items from a south Evanston grocery store.

The woman was seen by security at about 11:30 a.m. attempting to steal about $1,300 worth of groceries, home, health and beauty products at the Jewel Osco in the 2400 block of Howard Street, Dugan said.

National News Amazon jumps into market for business-data analysis LAS VEGAS — Amazon.com rolled out a new service that lets business customers analyze large amounts of data, putting it into the business intelligence market where it will compete with SAP and Microsoft, as well as younger firms such as Tableau.

At the annual conference here for Amazon Web Services, or AWS — Amazon’s business that sells computing services to companies over the Internet — the company announced Amazon QuickSight. The service, which will run on AWS, lets business customers dive into the massive amounts of data they are storing

The woman was charged with a felony for retail theft.

Man charged with obstructing justice during drug investigation A 22-year-old man was arrested Monday night in connection with obstruction of justice during a drug investigation.

Police found two men, ages 22 and 23, smoking marijuana in a car in an alley in the 700 block of Howard Street at about 7 p.m., said Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan. The 22-year-old man was on Amazon’s servers.

AWS boss Andy Jassy said during his keynote address at the re:Invent conference that QuickSight will cost about a tenth as much at “old-guard” business intelligence software.

At the conference, Amazon also debuted a new piece of hardware — a 47-pound chunky box called Amazon Snowball. Jassy called the box as a “highly secure shippable storage appliance” to help companies move data more quickly than sending it virtually. Each Snowball holds 50 terabytes in a tamper-proof secure enclosure, giving companies the ability to move massive amounts of data quickly.

Amazon will charge $200 per job. ­— Jay Greene (The Seattle Times/TNS)

“uncooperative” with police and was taken into custody for refusing to provide any information while lawfully detained during a narcotics investigation, Dugan said. The other man admitted to police he had just smoked marijuana in the vehicle.

Police said they later discovered the 22-year-old had an active warrant for his arrest for failure to appear in court, Dugan said. The Chicago resident was charged with a misdemeanor for obstruction of justice. He is scheduled to appear in court Oct. 23. ­— Joanne Lee

Setting the record straight A story in Wednesday’s print edition titled, “Cats look to ride defense to secondstraight triumph” misstated when Northwestern played Maryland. The game took place on Friday. Additionally, due to an editing error, a story titled, “Janet Mock, DarkMatter to come to Northwestern” used an incorrect pronoun when referring to Jordan Turner. Turner uses they, them, their pronouns.

The Daily regrets the error.

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On Campus Ex-BBC correspondent speaks at Northwestern

By DAVID FISHMAN

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Former BBC correspondent Lara Pawson spoke at Northwestern on Wednesday about “In the Name of the People” — her new book on the day thousands of Angolans died.

The “purge,” as Pawson calls the Angolan killings on May 27, 1977, remained hidden for years, due to lack of official sources and a government-imposed news blackout.

Some say the ruling party — the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola — was responding to an attempted coup, Pawson said.

Others assert the MPLA overreacted to a protest, she added.

“Through this book, I have sought to fuzzy, complicate and interrupt what I believe have been overly dogmatic and elitist approaches to understanding (Angola),” she told an audience of roughly 25 people.

Pawson began her career as a journalist for the BBC, reporting on the Angolan civil war from 1998 to 2000, she said. After that, she wrote intermittently for various news outlets, but eventually became “disillusioned” by the media and “abandoned ship.”

In 2014, Pawson published her first book, a detailed narrative on the “vinte e sete,” a Portuguese term Angolans use to refer to the date of the killings.

Political science Prof. Will Reno, director of African Studies, said he invited Pawson to speak at Northwestern after she reached out to him about her book.

“People who have been in the world of journalism are good speakers because they’ve learned how to craft their message,” he said.

Reno said he considers himself an expert on Angola, but was unaware about “vinte e sete” before Pawson spoke.

“When I look at Lara Pawson’s work and the bigger picture, it has impact,” Reno said.

“People who are responsible for these sorts of

things in the past suddenly discover they have a problem. (Lara) is part of that process.”

Eugene Gogol, 73, a self-described Marxisthumanist, also said he had never heard of the “vinte e sete” before coming to the speech.

“I thought it was a tremendously serious and important story to get out,” said Gogol, who lives in Mexico City and found the event online.

“People have to understand the contradictions within revolutionary processes, because if we don’t resolve them we’re never going to get a new human society.”

What actually happened on May 27, 1977, is still up for debate. Pawson’s book, though extensive, fails to uncover the truth, she said.

Instead, she concluded that truth is not an absolute, but rather a set of conflicting narratives, none more valid than the other.

“I’m not sure that the pursuit of truth is very helpful in life,” she told The Daily. “How do we ever know what the truth is?” davidpkfishman@u.northwestern.edu

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REPORTING ON ANGOLA Former BBC correspondent Lara Pawson speaks at Northwestern about her new book. “In the Name of the People: Angola’s Forgotten Massacre” chronicles the events of May 27, 1977, which left thousands of people dead.

Admissions launches new program for high school students

By OLIVIA ELLIS

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The Office of Undergraduate Admissions launched a new program this week that allows high school juniors and seniors to shadow Northwestern students for a day.

The program, Purple Preview, begins at the Segal Visitors Center in the morning where prospective students meet their hosts, who take the students to class and the dining halls to show them a day in the life of an NU student.

The students will also have the opportunity to meet with admissions staff.

“The hope is that the prospective student will get a really good feeling on whether or not they’ll be able to really attend Northwestern and fit in and be a part of the community,” said Davion Fleming, director of Purple Preview and assistant director of admissions.

Fleming said this program will help prospective students get a better feel of campus.

Prospective students will also receive meal passes and a temporary student ID card to access campus facilities such as libraries or gyms, said Weinberg senior Mary Felder, a coordinator for the Student Admission Council.

SAC is a group of undergraduate students who work part-time to coordinate Purple

Preview and overnight visits, she said.

Many prospective students don’t have the opportunity to stay overnight at the university, but SAC gives them a way to see campus through the eyes of an NU student, Felder said.

“Picking a university is one of the most important decisions that you’ll make in the first half of your life,” Felder said. “The more information you can have when you’re making your decision, the more likely you are to find a place that’s really right for you.”

Weinberg sophomore Edison Urena said he hosted a high school student overnight during Spring Quarter of his freshman year.

“It’s really cool to show incoming or

prospective students the different parts of Northwestern that one might not see if they’re already a student here,” he said.

Weinberg sophomore Karin Zhu, who showed a prospective student around campus during Wildcat Days last year, said hosting allows NU students to answer prospective students’ questions — about dining hall food, organizations and residence halls, for instance — that administrators are not going to answer as candidly or as in detail, Zhu said.

“It’s nice to be able to pass along some knowledge that you wish you had before you came here,” Zhu said. oliviaellis2018@u.northwestern.edu

THIS WEEKEND IN MUSIC

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WFMT Bach Keyboard Festival: Bach’s Keyboard Music, 3 p.m.

Mary B. Galvin Recital Hall, $25/10 Preconcert recital, 2 p.m.

As part of WFMT’s Bach Keyboard Festival, 18 performers from Northwestern’s keyboard program perform the solo music of J.S. Bach. The program includes the Concerto in G Minor (BWV 985), Aria variata alla maniera italiana in A Minor, English Suite No. 2 in A Minor, and more.

Robert Sullivan, trumpet, 7:30 p.m.

Mary B. Galvin Recital Hall, $8/5 Yoko Yamada-Selvaggio, piano; Taimur Sullivan, saxophone; John Thorne, flute A former member of the Cincinnati Symphony, Cleveland Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, and US Air Force Band, Robert Sullivan has performed worldwide. His program showcases the work of James Stephenson, including the world premiere of Spinning Wheel, commissioned by the Bienen School of Music.

Ensemble-in-Residence: Newberry Consort, 3 p.m.

Alice Millar Chapel, $40 ($5 discount if purchased in advance)/5 Preconcert lecture, 2 p.m.

David Douglass, violin; Ellen Hargis, soprano; Miriam ScholzCarlson, violin; Brandi Berry and Jakob Hansen, viola; Jeremy Ward, bass violin, Charles Metz, organ and harpsichord

Incorporating French restraint, English theatricality, Italian emotion, and the appeal of German traditional song, the music of Johann Rosenmüller is dramatic, heartfelt, clever, and very beautiful. Ellen Hargis sings to the accompaniment of violins, violas, bass violin, and keyboard as the ensemble in residence pays tribute to his dramatic works.

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NU students should not admire Vladimir Putin ALEXI STOCKER

DAILY COLUMNIST

In 2014, Forbes named Russian President Vladimir Putin the most powerful man in the world for the second year in a row. According to Forbes, “powerful” refers to one’s ability to wield “hard power,” the kind “that shapes and bends the world, and moves people, markets, armies and minds.” Although I disagree with Forbes regarding Putin’s ability to move markets, considering the Russian economy’s fragile state, one thing is certain: Putin, through the self-image he has so deftly crafted over the past decade and a half since he took power in 1999, moves minds.

Putin is popular at home in Russia. Many Russians credit him with bringing Russia stability in the early 2000s following political, social and economic turmoil in the 1990s.

Moreover, the Russian people feel he has stood up to the U.S. and restored Russian military might. Above all else, Putin follows in the “strong man” tradition of Russia’s most effective leaders. The Russian president’s love of hyper-masculine activities —– horseback riding, hunting, snowmobile riding, hanggliding, submarine diving and judo, to name a few —– has established him as an exceptionally “manly” world leader.

Although Putin’s popularity in Russia is

completely understandable, he has also gained a following in an unlikely place: the United States. Putin, the leader of the United States’ main “geopolitical foe” (to quote Mitt Romney), is revered by a large number of Americans, especially conservatives. The Washington Post catalogued more than 900 comments to a piece it on the Russian There is nothing ran president, most of admirable or them stunningly proPutin and scornful of respectable U.S. President Barack about Vladimir Obama. A sampling reveals a number of Putin. His disturbing trends. machismo Commenters referred image is the to Putin as a “man’s basis of a cult of man,” a “real professional,” and “highly personality. intelligent.” Disparaging President Obama, many commenters declared Putin a superior leader in “every way,” sometimes expressing longing for the Russian president to take the place of our current commander in chief.

American politicians, pundits and celebrities sometimes praise Putin. In 2014, following Russia’s invasion of Crimea, conservative politicians gushed with admiration for Putin: Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani called Putin “a real leader,” and former Gov. Sarah Palin

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praised his masculine pastimes. Fox News analysts and hosts praised Putin’s leadership capabilities while belittling President Obama. Following Russia’s commencement of airstrikes in Syria, conservative pundits applauded Putin’s ability to “outmaneuver” the Obama administration in Syria.

Here at Northwestern, I hear praise for Putin. I’ve heard him described as a “true leader,” a “decision-maker” and a “political genius.” I know some of my fellow students’ remarks are intended to be ironic, a hallmark of millennial culture. At a certain point, even ironic admiration becomes genuine. Too often I hear the refrain, “sure, you can’t call him a good guy, but you have to admire — or at least respect — him.”

There is nothing admirable or respectable about Vladimir Putin. His machismo image is the basis of a cult of personality that blinds supporters and fans to the reality of life under the autocratic Russian president.

Putin heads a murderous, tyrannical regime hell-bent on silencing critics and political opponents through any means necessary. In 2006, Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB officer turned Putin critic living in the United Kingdom, died of polonium poisoning after meeting with former colleagues. This past March, Boris Nemtsov, a political opponent of Putin, was shot to death in front of the Kremlin. Numerous journalists, human rights activists and other opposition figures have

been murdered under Putin’s reign. Dozens of others have been imprisoned, including Alexei Navalny, a popular opposition leader, and the members of punk rock band Pussy Riot, who were jailed for an anti-Putin performance in 2013.

Putin’s expertise in silencing critics has become more important as the Russian economy continues its perilous slide deeper into recession. Rising inflation, increasing poverty rates and shaky state finances are severely wounding a nation dependent on oil revenue, which has dropped with the price of oil.

Nonetheless, Putin continues to pump money into vanity projects and military adventures in other countries.

To praise Putin as a great leader is to mock leadership. Great leaders unite their followers around a common purpose and work with their political adversaries and critics to move forward together. Putin is a violent tyrant, not worthy of anyone’s admiration or respect.

The history of autocracy teaches that strongman rule is never sustainable and that true leadership depends on cooperation, trust and compassion.

Alexi Stocker is a Weinberg senior. He can be reached at alexistocker2016@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

We need to address the demise of American integrity SUMAIA MASOOM

DAILY COLUMNIST

The United States government behaved without integrity surrounding the army’s bombing of a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan.

Initial reports stated the bombing left 12 medical staff and at least 10 patients dead; three among the dead were children. Just under 40 others — all of them Afghan civilians — were wounded. As further details emerged, it became apparent that not only were the perpetrators of such a disgusting act none other than ourselves, the do-no-wrong Americans, but also that the bombs had continued to rain down for half an hour even after Washington received intelligence that the hospital had been hit.

U.S. officials were quick to try and point their fingers anywhere but at themselves, first calling the bombing of the hospital “collateral damage,” then just a tragedy, before claiming

that the American strikes were in response to Afghan forces’ request for help against Taliban insurgents.

As if committing what is in essence a war crime and then attempting to avoid the blame wasn’t bad enough, media coverage of the bombing only further compounded the atrocious nature of what occurred. The media scurried to follow the cues of American government officials. Rather than accept the fact that our record is not nearly as spotless as we would like to pretend it is, The New York Times ran a piece in Sunday’s print edition with the headline “U.S. Is Blamed After Bombs Hit Afghan Hospital,” suggesting that there was some sort of mistake in the midst of all the finger-pointing. The same piece was also published online, with the slightly improved but still exculpating and ambiguous headline, “Airstrike Hits Doctors Without Borders Hospital in Afghanistan.”

This story is enough to churn stomachs as is, but one of the most tragic parts of the bombing is that it’s not by any means an isolated incident. The average estimate lies between 476 and 1,100 civilian deaths by drone strike in the

past decade alone — and that’s without getting into the gray area that is classification of “civilian” vs. “combatant.” As The New York Times reported in 2012, any military-age males in a strike zone are considered combatants whether they are actually included in any military operations or are not even remotely involved, hence the difficulty to find concrete numbers.

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As further details emerged, it became apparent that not only were the perpetrators of such a disgusting act none other than ourselves, the do-no-wrong Americans.

Our leaders, our media and the American public as a whole have already forgotten that first lesson of integrity: We cannot continue to use carefully constructed rhetoric to avoid situations in which we are to blame rather than accept responsibility for our actions. We have

Amazon Dash is an important innovation BURAK SEKERCI

DAILY COLUMNIST

This Tuesday I bought one of the latest Internet-of-Things gadgets, the Amazon Dash. It is a brutally simple object; just a button sold for $4.99. Yet it’s much more than that.

Amazon Dash is a new product offered by Amazon that allows you to order products in a much easier way. With the push of a button, the device orders paper towels, Tide Pods and more without the hassle of having to find the product on Amazon. The Amazon Dash is one of the first implementations of Internet of Things to kitchen and home appliances. However, it is different from the other “smart home things” that are out there, like the Nest Thermostat, Philips Hue and many other smart home products. In fact, it might be one of the best ideas that any company has implemented toward a smarter home.

The biggest advantage of Amazon Dash is its easy setup. You just buy the button, stick it on your fridge, dishwasher, kitchen counter or washing machine, and you can order products with one click. It basically transforms a “not-smart” appliance into a “smart” one. Looking at other smart home products, the comparison is huge. You need

to buy dozens of smart lightbulbs to control your lights. You need to bring in a technician to install a smart lock to unlock your house from your phone. You need to cover rooms with sensors to get lights to turn on without the flip of a switch. Amazon Dash allows consumers to avoid all of these headaches.

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You just buy the button, stick it on your fridge, dishwasher, kitchen counter or washing machine, and you can order products with one click.

Granted, Amazon Dash doesn’t do as much as other smart home products when implemented. But it can make our lives easier: the reason why we install smart home systems into our houses in the first place.

Our society dislikes new technologies that are hassles to set up. While it might be cool to be able to turn your lights on and off with your phone, you probably won’t go for that if it means having to buy a dozen new lamps, spend hundreds of dollars and work to connect them to your home.

According to research group Argus Insights, the connected home demand has slowed down over the past year. It dropped

15 percent between May 2014 and May 2015. As the “wow” factor of connected home products passes away, people start to feel that the return does not match the investment of time and energy required for implementation.

For these products to be successful, tech giants must find better ways to implement their technologies.

Whether contracting with home builders to implement their products while houses are being built or finding ways to decrease the work that ordinary citizens need to do to make their homes smarter, companies need to find new ways to attract the customer demand that they have been losing for the past year or so.

I believe that Amazon Dash will be more impactful than other smart home appliances because it is the first one that is easily connectable with homes. Other companies should take a step back and start thinking like Amazon about their products. Amazon Dash might not be perfect, but it’s the smartest smart product yet.

Burak Sekerci is a McCormick junior. He can be reached at buraksekerci2017@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.

remained stubbornly unwilling to accept due blame on the issue of drone strikes for far too long. Just as it took the image of the body of Aylan Kurdi, who drowned escaping war, for us to temporarily open our eyes to the horrors engulfing Syria before we quickly forgot about the situation, it has taken the bombing of a humanitarian hospital for us to question whether we as a nation are engaging in ethical warfare. With this precedent in mind, one has to wonder how many more innocent deaths it will take before we finally perfect our foreign policy.

Coverage of this tragedy — and the sheer lack of coverage of ongoing similar deaths — should serve as a lesson for not just the social policy, political science and journalism students in our midst, but for all of us.

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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There’s a new addition to Evanston cuisine options: The Funky Monk. Opened in early August at 618 1/2 Church St., the restaurant serves Mongolian and Russian food.

Ulzii Hughbanks founded The Funky Monk after owning two nail salons in Chicago, where employees with Mongolian and Russian roots often yearned for home-cooked food. Hughbanks decided to answer this call and now serves steamed dumplings, Russian borscht, samsys and other dishes at The Funky Monk.

Hughbanks showed The Daily how vegetable samsys, Russian oven-baked pies stuffed with squash, are freshly made at her restaurant.

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The Syndicate creates video album to expand reach

By SOPHIE MANN

daily senior staffer @sophiemmann

Music can be heard at Northwestern constantly, but one band of music and non-music students alike is looking to transform the music scene at NU — and far beyond.

The Syndicate, formerly Syndicate 119, formed in 2013, out of Bienen and Medill senior Thaddeus Tukes’ desire to make music outside of the room. Tukes’ We wanted to practice classmate and longcapture that fun time musical partner energetic vibe Kamila Muhammad, a Bienen senior, joined in the basement other friends and jazz students and began for video and practicing songs Tukes recording had written. The band purposes grew from there.

“We opened it up Alex Warshawsky, to some other people Bienen junior in the jazz program, and we had our first rehearsal in 119 Regenstein Hall,” Tukes said.

Muhammad said the group wants to infiltrate Evanston and Chicago’s music scene, eventually becoming known nationally.

Recently, the group created a video album called The Syndicate Live to showcase its music and energy. The band recently gave two

performances to collect footage for the album, which, rather than being solely based on studio recordings, shows the group in action with a live audience. Alex Warshawsky, a Bienen

junior and The Syndicate’s bassist, took the forefront on the project.

“We wanted to capture that fun energetic vibe in the basement for video and recording

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SYNDICATE SPOTLIGHT The Syndicate performs at the Deering Days on Sept. 25. The band is in the process of recording a new video album.

purposes,” Warshawsky said.

Warshawsky said the band plans to release the album on YouTube to grow an Internet following. He hopes this will help the group break into the Chicago music scene.

“Hopefully that’ll be the Internet presence we need to move forward,” Warshawsky said.

“You need something, so hopefully this will be it for us, the beginning of it, at least.”

Since forming, The Syndicate has morphed multiple times as members graduated and the group’s name changed.

This past April, the group competed in and won Battle of the Bands, a Mayfest tradition that selects a student band to perform at Dillo Day. Tukes, who had played on the Dillo Day stage two years in a row, was asked to judge the competition and was therefore unable to perform.

Lead vocalist and Communication junior Sage Ross said the group had a large enough repertoire to perform without Tukes but missed his presence onstage.

“It didn’t feel weird performance-wise,” Ross said. “But it did feel weird member-wise without Thaddeus.”

Despite his absence from the group’s Battle of the Bands performance, Tukes does appear on the new album and is looking forward to the release.

“It’ll be good for us to hear, to keep us on our A-game,” Tukes said. “I haven’t seen all of the footage yet, but I’m excited to see how it turned out.” sophiemann2018@u.northwestern.edu

NU alum revitalizes ‘The Marriage of Figaro’ opera

By RACHEL HOLTZMAN

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“The Marriage of Figaro,” a romantic and comedic opera by Mozart, follows two servants fighting against all odds to make it down the aisle. This classic story compelled Barbara Gaines (Communication ‘68) to direct the show at the Lyric Opera of Chicago, making it her first work on a non-Shakespeare opera.

Gaines, founder and artistic director of the Chicago Shakespeare Theater, said she took on the project over four years ago when the Lyric Opera offered her the spot, hoping to refresh the opera.

“I was just bored … I wanted to do something that would be fun and light, just like the music, something that would make it full of joy,” Gaines said. “It was the music that inspired the set and the costumes and the rest of the design, too.”

Luca Pisaroni, who sings the part of the villainous count, said Gaines’ experience in the world of theatre gave her a unique perspective on the opera.

“This is a role I’ve done several times, but it was nice for me to come here because Barbara

had an open mind about it and was ready to discover new things,” he said. “We created something that I’ve enjoyed putting together very much.”

Gaines said this show is the The surprise first place she has seen that takes was how wonderful the show out of the cast was and realistic staghow brilliant they ing. Everything is either hyper- are for their roles. It realistic or miniwas very hard work, malist, meaning but it was always late 1700s-era dresses mesh with enjoyable. set pieces like a Barbara Gaines, large bed and a Director bleached wood backdrop.

Staging the show in this way allowed her and the actors to explore new facets of the roles, Gaines said. Pisaroni said Barbara’s directing style allowed him to take unique risks with his acting.

“We’ve performed the opera four times, and it’s been different every single time,” he said.

“Barbara can see something and tell you what

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works and what doesn’t … I experimented a lot, and she helped me decide what had to stay and what had to go.”

Gaines also said the collaboration behind the scenes made creating the show fun. She said typically opera singers are older, more experienced and have often played parts multiple times.

This time around, according to Gaines, casting director Anthony Freud brought together a group of singers who were young but still knew their parts well.

“The surprise was how wonderful the cast was and how brilliant they are for their roles,” Gaines added. “It was very hard work, but it was always enjoyable. … You never really know what to expect if you don’t know the people but it was great.”

Gaines said the aspect of “The Marriage of Figaro” she loved the most while growing up was the music, which she was able to connect with during this production.

“It was great to be surrounded by Mozart’s music,” she said. “It’s a wonderfully comic, loving journey. Being surrounded by that music for so many years was just an honor.” rachelholtzman2018@u.northwestern.edu

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Barbara Gaines

Arts Alliance removes freshman reps from exec board

By JENNIFER HEPP

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Arts Alliance has eliminated freshman representatives from its executive board this year as part of a reorganization effort by the theater board.

In the past, the eight student theater boards that comprise the Student Theatre Coalition have reserved space for freshman representatives.

“We seek to reimagine the possibilities for engaging new students and including their voices in our work,” Arts Alliance said in a statement. “We are excited to share with you the first of many steps we are taking towards this end.”

StuCo Co-Chair Tristan Chiruvolu said there had been discussion in the theater community about possibly eliminating FBRs as early as his sophomore year. The Communication senior said toward the end of last year StuCo held an open dialogue session and FBRs were discussed.

“This was an opportunity for anyone who was involved in the theater community to just come to an event in a room and talk openly about their frustrations, concerns and confusions,” he said.

Communication senior Grace Hamilton-Vargo, who was elected to the new position of community representative to StuCo last spring, organized a poll about FBRs at the end of the last school year. Around 140 people responded to the poll, the majority of whom were part of the StuCo community.

“What I found was that overwhelmingly, even

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STUCO CHANGES Actors rehearse for Arts Alliance’s production of “The Who’s Tommy,” which was performed last spring. The group decided to remove freshman board representatives this year.

among the people who believed that FBRs were a good thing both for boards and freshmen, the selection process and the way that we treat it as a community was not always ideal,” Hamilton-Vargo said.

“A lot of times, freshmen will be going in not really understanding what boards are, or what they do.

In the past, during Fall Quarter, freshmen would petition for the different groups they were interested in. The application process included a written petition and an interview with the board members. About 50 freshmen applied for an FBR position, and each

board had 1-3 positions available.

Starting this year, FBR petitions will be known as fall board interviews. StuCo will release an information packet and each board will detail the changes they are making and describe the position they are looking to fill, StuCo announced on its email list on Oct. 7.

“In the theatre community, a lot of how you are seen and how you are perceived is based on what you ‘get,’” Chiruvolu said. “So basically the notion was that FBRs happen so early on in the year for

freshmen, and we just grab a select handful of people and catapult them to this social standing.”

Hamilton-Vargo said a lot of freshmen see it as a social “in” and as a way to make friends, not necessarily as a theater management opportunity.

“You’re going to find that a lot of people in the theater community hate the idea of FBRs,” HamiltonVargo said. “You’re also going to find that a lot of people don’t think that way.”

Communication freshman Sam van Loon, said he felt very uneducated on what exactly the responsibility of an FBR is.

“Having a representative from the freshman grade on the board just makes sense as far as keeping us in the loop,” van Loon said. “So eliminating that position doesn’t make sense to me.”

Chiruvolu, who was an FBR for WAVE Productions, one of the student theater boards under StuCo, said the experience was invaluable and “completely changed” how he viewed art, theater and himself.

He said that every year, a fourth of the class leaves, and an entirely new fourth of Northwestern appears, so the population is constantly in flux.

“To accurately represent the student body and the student community, we have to have representatives from that new fourth that enter every year,” he said.

StuCo is planning to have info sessions, send freshmen emails from the StuCo email list, among other things, to make what happens behind closed doors as transparent as they possibly can for freshmen, Chiruvolu said. jenniferhepp2020@u.northwestern.edu

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Q&A The Evanston Public Library is holding its first annual storytelling festival from Oct. 9 to 11 and will feature a diverse group of professional storytellers and Evanston students. The Daily spoke to two storytellers, Jasmin Cardenas and Antonio Sacre (Communication ’91), to find out more about their stories and the storytelling art form.

Jasmin Cardenas

Antonio Sacre

By KIMBERLY GO

By KIMBERLY GO

The Daily: Where do you get inspiration for most of your stories?

Jasmin Cardenas: I really love telling stories as an immigrant’s daughter because I feel like the immigrant stories are misunderstood and as an American, living in this culture, I found myself grappling with two worlds, living bi-culturally. I’m neither just American and I’m certainly not Colombian from Colombia. I am between those two worlds and so all of my personal tales have that perspective in them. There are stories that range from myself as a child trying to grapple those differences and then myself as an adult, a professional adult, trying to grapple with those disparities.

The Daily: What do you like about storytelling as an art form?

Cardenas: I love the connection you have with people when you’re performing — that’s the thing that really inspires me.

When I’m telling a story, oftentimes even if I’m telling it in an entirely English-speaking school, I will still fill in some Spanish in my children’s stories, and I love when a young child — who is a monolingual or bilingual Spanish speaker — (their) eyes light up when they realize they understood me and they connected with something in a very special way.

The Daily: What do you hope people get out of listening to your stories?

Cardenas: I just wish that we as a country and as a population would recognize each other’s humanity first. I feel like in a very polarized, politicized climate, where everything is so partisan, I feel like people don’t hear each other and they certainly don’t see each other anymore. I believe that if we just listen to each other’s stories we would

The Daily: How did you get involved with storytelling?

Antonio Sacre: At Northwestern, I was studying theater, I was getting a master’s in theater, and my Winter Quarter I needed an easy class because I had a really hard schedule. There was a storytelling class taught by Prof. Rives Collins — there were no tests that were needed or exams, all you had to do was listen to stories and I thought, “Wow, I could do that.” I didn’t even know storytelling existed. I didn’t grow up with storytelling, I didn’t have storytellers come into my life, so it was my first exposure to it.

The Daily: What inspires your stories and what kind of stories do you tell?

Sacre: My father comes from Cuba and my mom is Irish-American. I was born in Boston, and one of my friends calls me a leprechauno, a mix of the cultures. So for sure I love to explore the tension and the celebration and the excitement from being from three different cultures … Because I do a lot of work in schools, I do a lot of folk tales and myths and legends from around the Spanish-speaking countries of Mexico, Cuba and Puerto Rico.

The Daily: What do you feel distinguishes you as a storyteller?

Sacre: The thing that definitely differentiates me a lot, even from my fellow Spanishspeaking storytellers, is that I have a solo performance theater background that I developed in Northwestern. I definitely have a riskier type of storytelling that includes the different types of performance I studied at Northwestern and other places that allows me to perform in some venues that traditional storytellers wouldn’t necessarily perform so often or even have a desire or

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Jasmin Cardenas

recognize each other’s humanity, we might be able to find common ground more often so I feel like in any way I can help build that bridge, I am excited to do that. I love helping people connect.

The Daily: What would you say distinguishes you as a storyteller?

Cardenas: The fact that I’m SpanishEnglish, there’s a lot of Latino communities across the United States that I could perform for, but also I would say that I tell stories from an urban immigrant’s perspective is really unique …You might hear the immigrant story, you might hear a bilingual storyteller, but you don’t hear an urban immigrant story as often and I think that allows me to connect with Chicago kids in a really special way. kimberlygo2018@u.northwestern.edu

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Antonio Sacre

skill set to do so.

The Daily: Do you have a favorite memory or experience of storytelling?

Sacre: For sure my first experience of hearing Prof. Collins tell stories in that storytelling class, you know, there’s 20 of us sitting in a little circle in a little seminar room in the theater building. I was young, in my 20s, but that feeling of all of a sudden feeling like a 5-year-old listening to a story, from just a guy in a room. Coming from the theater world, we have lights, costumes, and make-up and set design and sound design, these really beautiful elements that make theater so compelling. (In the class) it was just this man, in a room, under the fluorescent light, transporting us. So that was pretty phenomenal. kimberlygo2018@u.northwestern.edu

Trance Masks student group puts a new spin on improv

By CYDNEY HAYES

the daily northwestern @thecydneyhayes

Putting on a mask is the perfect way to find a more authentic face for Communication junior Alexander Kohanski.

Kohanski is the founder of Northwestern’s Trance Masks club, which, starting Oct. 18, will meet weekly to perform with small papier-mache faces that cover the top of the wearer’s forehead to the top of his or her lips. Trance masks are decorated with paint, faux hair and other accessories to give each mask its own distinct persona. When people put on new masks and look in the mirror for the first time, they assume an entirely new identity, Kohanski said.

“Trance masks allow you to take a break from your personality, take a break from your social self,” Kohanski said. “Just practicing with the masks once

feels so freeing — it feels like you dropped something you didn’t need to be carrying.”

This brief departure from oneself is not only fun, but also can be very helpful when it comes to managing the stress of college, Kohanski said. To encourage fellow NU students to temporarily say goodbye to their everyday selves, Kohanski has recently taken steps to promote the Trance Masks club on campus.

The first 30 minutes of each session will be dedicated to a warm up that resembles an improvisation workshop, and the last hour will be set aside for developing each mask’s personality, which, Kohanski said, grows every time the same person wears the same mask.

Kohanski’s club held an information session earlier this month to give the audience a taste of what trance masks are and how they can benefit students. Since the spring of 2015, Kohanski has been backed by Wave Productions, a student-run theater board on campus.

“Wave helps people find their passions and bring those passions to the rest of campus,” said Communication senior Matt Dial, Wave’s special events coordinator. “I think (trance masks) could interest

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Trance masks allow you to take a break from your personality, take a break from your social self.

Alexander Kohanski, Communication junior

anyone, but to a degree, our target niche is students with some improv knowledge.”

Last spring, Kohanski held two trance mask workshops as a trial-run for the club. Members of Wave as well as individuals from the broader theater community participated in the sessions, including Wave’s campus engagement coordinator

Jason Clark.

“The masks add somewhat of a spiritual element to the culture of Northwestern that is so good for students with strict schedules,” the Communication junior said. “Stepping back from tangible stress and being a part of something slower, something almost mystical, can be very beneficial.”

This lack of preparation that Clark appreciated is one of the core tenets of trance mask performance created by Keith Johnstone, a British improvisation specialist, and preserved by his student Steve Jarand.

Jarand taught Kohanski the summer before his sophomore year at NU while he worked at Jarand’s Loose Moose Theater Company in Calgary, Alberta.

According to Jarand’s website, he only holds trance mask sessions in Canada and Europe, so Kohanski’s club promises to be not only fun, but also a very rare experience. alisonhayes2019@u.northwestern.edu

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Blaze

From page 1 of Blaze Pizza, showed The Daily eight checks from NU student group fundraisers that he plans to distribute, two of which he did not disclose the group names of.

Out of the six checks identified, two were dated on Tuesday. Cummis said those two checks were reissued from earlier this year for reasons he did not know.

The other four checks, as well as the two unidentified ones, were returned by the post office after being mailed out, likely due to issues with the address listed, he said.

Planning a fundraiser

Cummis said Blaze Pizza participates in philanthropy and has been a good partner for NU students. He said the restaurant usually processes checks “in a reasonable amount of time” after a fundraising event.

“This is the first that I’m hearing about it,” he said, regarding NU student groups not receiving checks.

Evanston’s Blaze Pizza general manager, Persio Nunez, deferred a request for comment to another person in management.

The procedure for Blaze Pizza’s fundraisers requires participants to submit a form, which is available online. Afterward, both parties sign a contract agreeing to a sponsorship.

Blaze Pizza’s website lists procedures for setting up the fundraiser with an explanation of how the money will be distributed: “After the event, Blaze Pizza will put the check in the mail.

All you have to do is open the mailbox. And open the letter. And then sign the check. And then put it in the bank. We’re making it sound complicated. It’s not.”

In a copy of a contract obtained by The Daily, Blaze Pizza agreed to provide one of the student groups 20 percent of profits the restaurant made from customers who presented the organization’s promotional material during the event’s specified hours. The NU student organization was then obligated to distribute promotional materials and display the Blaze Pizza logo. The contract had no reference to the method and timeframe in which the money would be issued to the student group.

This type of sponsorship agreement is commonly referred to by NU students as “profit sharing” in promotional Facebook events and flyers, although Cummis said these events are considered fundraisers, not profit shares.

An ‘ultimatum’

For Global Brigades, Bharadwaj said the club did not secure the $135.52 from its June 6 fundraiser until the evening of Aug. 24. The next morning, members flew to Panama for a summer medical brigade trip, which was the reason for the fundraiser in the first place, he said.

Bharadwaj said that after a couple of months of not receiving the check in the mail, the student group sent someone to ask for an in-person pickup on Aug. 12. He said the group was told the restaurant could not issue a new check with the first one still in transit.

From then on, Bharadwaj said he called the Evanston location every couple of days.

Members of Global Brigades made an estimated total of more than 20 phone calls to the Evanston location from June to August, Bharadwaj said.

“We would call every one to two days,” he said.

“We’d call in the morning, call during lunch, call during night. They said they would give you a call back and Persio, who is the owner, isn’t here.”

Cummis said Tuesday he was not aware of the reported phone calls.

Weinberg junior Katherine Yao, Global Brigades’ co-vice president of fundraising, pressed the Evanston location’s management in what she called an “ultimatum” email two days before the Panama trip.

“Our brigaders leave for Panama in two days, and there are some students who don’t have enough funds for the trip and are owed money from this fundraiser,” she wrote in the email obtained by The Daily. “This is a matter of extreme importance because these brigaders’ trips may be in jeopardy, and the fact that the money has been withheld from them until less than 48 hours to their departure is absolutely unacceptable. We’ve called in many times in the past month, and every time, someone has told us that they didn’t have an answer and took down our name and number, but we never end up getting a follow-up call.”

In about an hour, Nunez replied with an apology, saying he was on vacation and could provide the money in cash the evening of Aug. 24, which Yao agreed to.

Searching for the checks

evidence of checks he issued to six student groups. The checks for Phi Sigma Pi and the Undergraduate Premedical Society — the two that were reissued — were dated Oct. 6. The Korean American Student Association’s check was dated July 15, while Students for Sensible Drug Policy and Sigma Alpha Iota each had a check dated June 4.

Cummis did not have information on why Phi Sigma Pi’s and the Undergraduate Premedical Society’s Oct. 6 checks were allegedly reissued. He also said he did not know why SSDP and SAI had not yet received their checks, dated June 4, by the Tuesday morning meeting with The Daily, although he said those two checks, along with KASA’s check, had been mailed but returned to him by the post office.

Cummis said checks for NU Gives Back and Academy of Music and Arts for Special Education had been mailed, though they have not “cleared through the bank” yet. He was unable to verify this information through documentation, though he said AMASE’s check was sent out on Sept. 23.

On Wednesday, Cummis told the Daily that after inquiring about NU’s chapter of Supplies for Dreams, he could vouch that Blaze Pizza mailed out a check June 4 that has also not been “cleared through the bank.”

“I cannot provide verification,” he said about the checks he said were mailed. “There is no way to provide verification if they are mailed.”

Regarding the whereabouts of checks for Dance Marathon, Women’s Club Lacrosse,

On Tuesday, Cummis showed The Daily

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communications director.

“Our festival will look like our community in terms of the types of stories that we’ll offer,” Schacter said.

The programs include African-American folktales, stories told in Spanish, performances geared toward young children and others toward adults. Such variety allows for a schedule in which everyone in the community can find something that connects to them, Schacter said.

The festival, which has been in the works for almost a year, starts Friday evening with the featured storytellers. Apart from the performances, a writing workshop and a discussion panel will be held Sunday.

Leading the writing workshop, NU alumnus and featured storyteller Antonio Sacre (Communication ‘91) will focus on motivating writers.

The panel, moderated by theater Prof. Rives Collins, will feature five speakers experienced in the study of storytelling, who will grapple with the question of whether storytelling has relevance in today’s high-tech world.

“It’s all about being with the audience in that moment — it’s about being present,” Communication sophomore Fiona Maxwell said. “Storytelling is a generous art form in that it gives a gift to the audience.

You’re letting them into I love that your personal world.

It’s really giving a piece they’re calling it of yourself.”

Maxwell is one of six the ‘first annual,’ NU students chosen to and I’ll do participate in the EPL everything I can Storytelling Festival, to make sure along with Communication sophomore Shea that this is the Lee, Communication first of many junior Martin Downs, Communication senior Rives Collins, Nikki Rosengren, and NU theater alumnae Sarah Cartprofessor wright (Communication ’15) and Katie Incardona (Communication ’15).

Collins, the NU theater professor and panel moderator, said traditional storytelling is not reading a story out loud.

Storytellers know the basic structure, but everything in between comes in the moment, allowing the teller more freedom and deepening the interaction between the teller and the audience, he said.

“When someone tells you a story, there’s an interaction that you don’t get when a person reads a story on a piece of paper because you’re dealing with another human being and all that involves,” said Susan Stone, founder and codirector of the storytelling festival. “Being told a story is much more intimate.”

Collins said he hopes the festival continues for years to come.

“I love that they’re calling it the ‘first annual,’ and I’ll do everything I can to make sure that this is the first of many,” Collins said. “We have some world-class storytelling happening right in Northwestern’s backyard.”

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annually — which often exceeded the former $250 per quarter limit — student groups are now able to apply for grants up to $750 per academic year, whether these funds are for one event or multiple

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2015 events, Magaña said.

Although larger campus groups can also apply for grants, Magaña said the board will try to prioritize groups who have the least access to funds on campus to help remove financial barriers for smaller campus organizations.

Herndon said he believes the board will give

more opportunities to student groups who usually don’t get as much money from the University and ASG due to their status.

“There are a lot of events on education about social inequality, different identities, extremes at Northwestern, oppression, stuff like that that can’t happen and aren’t able to happen because

students don’t have resources to put them on,” he said. “Showing that we’re being very intentional about doing this kind of education and putting on events where these issues are discussed is very important.”

Blaze

“It was a drawn-out process but they kept their promise,” the Weinberg senior said. “To hear that some people didn’t receive that money, it wouldn’t be 100 percent surprising but I feel if they persisted enough they would get their money.”

Relay for Life told The Daily it received its check almost immediately after its March 17 fundraiser.

From page 9 NU Raas and Extreme Measures, Cummis responded on Tuesday, “I am looking for that.

I don’t have information.”

Spoon University told The Daily as of Wednesday, the organization has not received a check. Cummis declined to comment on additional cases after his Tuesday meeting with The Daily.

All of these student groups told The Daily this week they had not been paid as of Monday.

In transit Several students reported to The Daily that they experienced the Blaze Pizza employee they were communicating with had switched during their correspondence.

The Evanston location has had the same general manager, Persio Nunez, from the first day of operation, Cummis said.

“We’ve had changes in all levels of management other than Persio for all employees,” Cummis said. “It happens in every restaurant.

Everybody has varying responsibility. We have a different variety: shift leaders, team leaders, general manager.”

Hannah Dion-Kirschner, AMASE’s cofinance director, said she noticed a switch in who she was contacting.

“When I called a couple weeks ago, the person previously in charge of the profit share was no longer there and the manager I spoke to also told me he didn’t even have access to some of the files,” the Weinberg and Bienen sophomore said.

Five student groups — the Undergraduate Premedical Society, Extreme Measures, A-NUBhav, SAI and the Burlesque Show — have forwarded emails to The Daily of their members repeatedly requesting fundraising checks from Blaze Pizza in Evanston.

All nine other groups that mentioned missing checks told The Daily they made a considerable effort to reach out to Blaze Pizza.

Burlesque, along with Global Brigades, Relay for Life and the group They Forget, We Remember, are the only groups who told The Daily they received a check from Blaze Pizza.

Jordan Gross, president of They Forget, We Remember, a student group promoting Alzheimer’s awareness, said Blaze Pizza eventually sent him the check around June, but he said he had to send multiple emails to secure the payment from the group’s May 7 fundraiser.

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Moving forward

Cummis said these communication and fundraising concerns are atypical.

“We have donated over $3,000 to Northwestern organizations in the process,” he said on Tuesday. “We are doing events to be part of the community and be community partners — certainly not to upset people.”

Bharadwaj, the Global Brigade president, said student groups should expend the majority of their efforts on the fundraiser, not on pursuing the check.

“We could bring this much business to Blaze — it’s easy to take it away,” he said.

Cummis said he could not comment on the communication problems the students reported.

“If that happened, I’m disappointed about it,” he said. “That shouldn’t be the case — we should be responsive and that’s my expectation.”

The franchise president said his office has discussed a possible system of sponsors picking up the checks in-person at the store location.

“We’re going to evaluate our policies and procedures to make sure that fundraising events go well and people receive checks in a timely manner,” Cummis said.

For Paavani Reddy, co-treasurer of A-NUBhav, waiting for the dance team’s check from Blaze Pizza left her frustrated, especially given pressing travel costs that the group incurs. But the Weinberg sophomore said she noticed a possibility of organizational issues within the corporation that were outside of the Evanston management team’s control. She said she recalled Nunez’s responses were sympathetic, and said the restaurant employees at Evanston had also been kind.

“I hope they do sort out their whole profit share thing because it’s profitable for student groups,” she said. “They are such a new restaurant and people liked doing profit shares. And it would be a bummer if they couldn’t do it.” aliceyin2017@u.northwestern.edu

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THE DAILY NORTHWESTERN | SPORTS 11

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2015

Cats’ defense looks to return to form in Michigan

By MAX SCHUMAN

Women’s Soccer

daily senior staffer

Northwestern vs. Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan 6 p.m. Thursday

Perhaps the most surprising part of the Wildcats’ (9-2-2, 3-1-1 Big Ten) 3-0 loss to No. 12 Penn State on Sunday was the score.

A Northwestern defense which had conceded goals just four times in 12 previous games nearly doubled that total in one afternoon. But while the trend isn’t positive, seven goals allowed in 13 games is nothing to scoff at.

The Cats’ .5317 goals allowed per 90 minutes after Sunday’s game puts them 17th in the country and second-best in the Big Ten. They’ve held opponents to a mere 8.8 shots per game and recorded seven shutouts to date this season, nearly as many as the nine shutouts they managed all of last season.

When asked for details about his team’s defensive gameplan, coach Michael Moynihan said that NU uses four defenders, asks its midfielders to close down space in front of the defense and extends pressure up the field when possible. While effective, these tactics aren’t exactly groundbreaking.

And the Cats aren’t a team that simply bunkers up defensively and waits out games. Sophomore outside back Kassidy Gorman said the fullbacks have

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DOMINANT DEFENSE Sophomore defender Kassidy Gorman (far right) shares a laugh with senior Nandi Mehta. Gorman and Mehta are two of four defenders NU has used this season to become a formidable defensive unit.

license to push forward when possible to goose the attack — the sign of a team trying to play positively.

So what gives? Why has NU’s defense been so effective this season?

Moynihan pointed out his team’s athleticism and pace all over the field is an edge over opposing offenses. In particular, he spoke superlatively of freshman center back Kayla Sharples during this stingy run.

“She’s played almost every minute for us,” Moynihan said. “She’s been dominant in the air, and she’s

learned very, very quickly.”

A starter in every game this season, Sharples said her adjustment to the college game was made smoother with the help of Gorman, sophomore fullback Nikia Smith and a very supportive team atmosphere.

“Having the support, having the knowledge of our team portrayed onto (me) to think about and to learn, I think that’s been very helpful,” Sharples said.

With a first choice back four of the solid Sharples, the pacey outside duo of Gorman and Smith, and

fellow freshman center back Hannah Davison, the No. 32 recruit in her class, the Cats clearly have the talent needed to lock down opposing offenses.

But talent only means so much in a game where one miscue can end with the ball in the back of your net, and with such a young defense, Gorman said communication and chemistry has been a priority for NU’s defense this season.

“After last year we realized how much potential we had,” Gorman said. “We’ve worked a lot on learning how each one individually plays so overall we can work together.”

Beyond the back four, solid defenses rely on all eleven players moving in unison, tracking runs, covering for others and closing down on shots. It’s a complex dance, and Moynihan said that senior midfielder and co-captain Nandi Mehta has been instrumental in keeping things going smoothly.

“She’s done a nice job finding her voice,” he said.

“She’s really kept things organized in the midfield for us.”

Despite being gashed by the Nittany Lions, it is clear that the Cats have built something special in the back. For a team yet to score more than two goals in a game this year, they’ll need to maintain their defensive dominance and Moynihan is confident they can do that.

NU travels this weekend, playing at Michigan (8-4-1, 3-1-1 Big Ten) on Thursday and at Michigan State (6-2-3, 2-1-1 Big Ten) on Sunday.

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ON THE RECORD

“We’re not in panic mode or anything. We’re just going to go about our business and re-establish ourselves.” — Michael Moynihan, women’s soccer coach

Thursday, October 8, 2015

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Ranking Northwestern’s recent losses to Michigan ALEX PUTTERMAN DAILY SPORTS @ALEXPUTTERMAN

With Northwestern football 5-0 on the season and ranked 13th in the country, Wildcats fans are optimistic for the team’s matchup against No. 18 Michigan on Saturday in Ann Arbor.

Well, the younger ones are, at least.

We more seasoned NU observers know the Cats will lose to the Wolverines through some improbable series of heartbreaking machinations we cannot possibly imagine ahead of time. This is an undeniable fact of the universe, proven beyond all doubt through the three games these teams have played since I arrived in Evanston.

My Class of 2016 brethren, you may want to avert your eyes, because I will now rank the trio of NU/Michigan games (all Cats losses) from least absurd/pathetic/ heartbreaking to most.

3. Nov. 16, 2013 — Michigan 27, NU 19 (3OT) — The miracle field goal

This game was mind-numbingly dull, featuring a remarkable 14 punts between the two teams (one of NU’s traveled only 8 yards). And when the contest finally heated up, it was not in a way Cats fans could enjoy.

When Michigan completed a pass to the middle of the field with 10 seconds to play, no timeouts remaining and a 9-6 deficit, NU appeared to have this one won.

Then Wolverines kicker Brendan Gibbons sprinted onto the field and drilled a 44-yard field goal — seemingly without even setting his feet — to send the game to overtime.

The teams traded scores for two overtimes before Michigan prevailed on a touchdown and interception in the third extra period.

This loss was the Cats’ sixth straight after a 4-0 start and essentially ended the team’s bowl hopes.

It’s difficult to find many defeats tougher to take. This list has two of

them.

2. Nov. 8, 2014 — Michigan 10, NU 9 — The M00N game

As this one dragged on, some viewers took to wondering whether it was the worst football game they had ever seen. Looking back, I’m not so sure that was hyperbole.

The contest immediately became known as “the moon game” because as the teams remained scoreless into the third quarter, the ESPN television graphic displayed, from left to right, NU’s “N” logo, two zeros for the score, then Michigan’s “M” — “M00N.” But it wasn’t just scorelessness that made this game so tough to watch. From my story that day: “Michigan threw two interceptions, snapped the ball into a moving receiver, had a field goal blocked and took an unforced sack when quarterback Devin Gardner lost his footing. NU threw two interceptions, botched a snap on a punt, missed a field goal, dropped a punt and played a whole lot of

ineffective offense.”

The Cats scored to bring themselves within 1 point with three seconds left but missed the potential go-ahead 2-point conversion when quarterback Trevor Siemian got his feet caught up and fell to the ground.

“I slipped,” Siemian explained afterward, “probably because I’m unathletic.”

1. Nov. 10, 2012 — Michigan 38, Northwestern 31 (OT) — The Hail Mary

Back when I was a naive freshman who didn’t realize no NU lead is ever safe, I watched in horror as the Wolverines topped the Cats thanks to an impossible fourthquarter Hail Mary that set up a game-tying field goal.

This loss was particularly brutal for two reasons. First of all, the victory looked entirely secure.

Michigan regained possession in its own territory, down 3 points with no timeouts and only 18 seconds left but somehow managed to

complete a 53-yard pass, spike the ball and tie the game. Naturally, the Wolverines won in overtime.

More than even the 2013 game, this was an in-the-bag win that was snatched from NU under remarkable circumstances.

The other reason the 2012 game was the worst of the Michigan losses were its implications in the standings. Unlike the 2013 and 2014 Cats, the 2012 iteration entered its game against the Wolverines with serious postseason ambitions, boasting a 7-2 record and a shot at a division crown.

Not only was this a heartbreaking loss, it also had significant long-term ramifications, as Michigan finished a game ahead of NU in the Big Ten East and received an invitation to a more prestigious bowl (the Outback Bowl).

Altogether, this was the worst loss the Cats have suffered to the Wolverines in my three years at NU. And that’s saying something. asputt@u.northwestern.edu

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MICHIGAN MELTDOWNS Over the past three years, Northwestern has suffered a trio of devastating losses to Michigan. In 2012 (left), the Wildcats lost thanks to a miracle Hail Mary, in 2013 (center) the Wolverines kicked a game-tying field goal as time expired and in 2014 (right) the teams struggled to score in a game that ended on a failed 2-point conversion.

Calistri tied for second in career goals as Cats win

By BRADEN COUCH

the daily northwestern @bradencouch Northwestern

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An own goal late in Wednesday’s match left the Demons feeling blue.

Northwestern (5-4-1, 2-2-0 Big Ten) edged DePaul (1-10-0, 0-2-0 Big East) 2-1, thanks to a strong first-half performance and a late own goal by the Blue Demons.

The own goal, which came in the 86th minute off a long throw-in that bounced around the box, left the home crowd stunned.

NU came into the game fresh off a victory over highly ranked Maryland, but a victory against the Blue Demons was far from assured.

Coach Tim Lenahan believes that Wish Field, home of the Blue Demons, is one of the toughest places to play in the country, regardless of the Blue Demons’ poor record.

“They call it Wish Field, but it could be called Death Wish Field,” he said. “Any time you come in here and get a win it’s great no matter how you win.”

From the start of the game the Cats were able to have their way, keeping possession in the attacking third. The

high level of pressure greatly limited DePaul’s ability to consistently move the ball up the field, and often forced the Blue Demons to attempt unsuccessful long passes.

Winning the time of possession battle translated into a lead in the 19th minute, when NU senior forward Joey Calistri connected for his third goal of the season. Calistri’s goal not only gave the Cats an early lead, but was the 30th of his career, placing him tied for second on NU’s all-time scoring list.

“It is nice for sure,” he said. “But the important thing is that we came out of here with a win. That’s what really matters.”

DePaul made major second half adjustments, pressuring the Cats the entire length of the field. NU seemed to have abandoned its earlier tenacity, and the Cats were forced to rely on the stellar play of senior goalkeeper Zak Allen.

His five saves all proved key, especially with such a narrow margin of victory.

The Blue Demons were able to level in the 57th minute on the only shot that Allen was unable to reach all day. It was from DePaul defender Jalen Harvey from seven yards out.

“I think that was the fourth set piece goal we’ve given up already this season, and it’s something we clearly need to work on,” Allen said. “Other than that I think we played great.”

This echoes Lenahan’s season-long insistence that NU is not adequately

defending set pieces, and needs to fix this to put a complete game together.

DePaul’s goal seemed to waken the Cats from their lull, and prompted a return to their first-half form.

“We were doing what we wanted

in the run up to the own goal, the ball was consistently in the attacking third,” said Lenahan.

This was the first of two consecutive non-conference games for the Cats, who host Southern Illinois

Saturday at 6 p.m.

“We can enjoy this one for four or five hours, then it’s on to the next,” Lenahan said. bradencouch2016@u.northwestern.edu

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COMMANDING CALISTRI Senior forward Joey Calistri takes aim for a shot. Calistri’s goal against DePaul moved him into a tie for second place on NU’s career goals list.