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Chabad House
Rabbi admits alcohol was served at Chabad By CAT ZAKRZEWSKI
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Students have been served wine and hard liquor at Tannenbaum Chabad House, Rabbi Dov Hillel Klein told The Daily just one day after he announced Northwestern’s disaffiliation with the organization. In an email sent Tuesday to NU’s Jewish community, Klein said that Patricia Telles-Irvin, vice president for student affairs, cut relationships with Chabad House because the organization “had not followed university policy on alcohol consumption.” University policy states, “Students are subject to Illinois law and University policy, which prohibit the possession and consumption of alcoholic beverages by any person under the age of 21 years,” according to the 2011-2012 Student Handbook.
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DISAFFILIATED Rabbi Dov Hillel Klein said students have been served alcohol at Chabad House.
Klein maintains that he did not violate any laws, claiming Illinois state law allows people younger than 21 to accept and consume alcohol during religious ceremonies. He told The Daily alcohol was served during Shabbat dinners. “The service of alcohol at Chabad was associated with Jewish ritual and celebration,” Klein said. “It is part of the Jewish culture.” The handbook, however, makes no exception for religious events. Klein said Chabad House “respects university policy.” He said he was first notified the University would cut ties with Chabad House due to alcohol consumption on July 29. As of Aug. 1, he said alcohol had not been served at Chabad House, outside of very small amounts outside a ritual called the Kiddush ceremony. “We’re not about alcohol,” Klein said. “We’re about God. We’re about fellowship. We’re about faith, spirituality, joy and teaching.” Matthew Renick, a Weinberg senior who is president of the Chabad House student executive board, said Klein announced in August all campus Chabad Houses across the country are going dry at a national convention of Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity in Phoenix. “It’s just one piece of a larger puzzle that is Jewish life,” Renick said. “It certainly is not the foremost part.” Klein said the organization would continue to host programming at the house despite the disaffiliation, and that he expected students would continue to attend. However, Klein hopes Chabad House will regain campus status in the future and hopes to discuss that policy with the University. “It isn’t an ideal situation to » See CHABAD, page 11
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DAY FOUR Authorities are widening their search for missing Northwestern student Harsha Maddula to Wilmette Harbor, which is on Lake Michigan, which is about two miles noth of from the McCormick sophomore’s dorm.
The Search for Harsha Maddula
Police look to Lake Michigan ‘My hopes are gone,’ says father of missing McCormick student By MARSHALL COHEN
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The search for missing Northwestern student Harsha Maddula took a grim turn Wednesday. Investigators launched a massive
search effort in the morning at Wilmette Harbor after learning that the last signal sent by the McCormick sophomore’s phone was received at a nearby cell tower. Divers and sonar teams searched Lake Michigan and law enforcement personnel conducted an “extensive” search of the grounds in nearby Gillson Park. “Divers (are) in the water to search for our student’s body,” NU spokesman Al Cubbage said at a news conference near the lake. “Hopefully it’s not a body, but at this time it’s
unknown.” Cubbage called the new information about Maddula’s phone activity the biggest break in the case so far. The signal was only a “ping” and not an actual call, Cubbage said. The signal was received around 1 a.m. Saturday, roughly half an hour after friends say they last saw Harsha leaving a house party on Ridge Avenue. The house is almost two miles away from the harbor, and it » See MISSING, page 10
Prof’s son files suit against city after wrongful handcuffing 13-year-old alleges police wrongdoing in lawsuit against Evanston, officer By SUSAN DU
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The 13-year-old son of a Northwestern professor filed a lawsuit Sunday against the
city of Evanston and an Evanston police officer following an incident last week when the policeman mistakenly handcuffed the boy as a burglary suspect. “This is not just for our son,” Medill Prof. Ava Greenwell wrote in an email to The Daily on Wednesday. “I’ve heard from several African American mothers in Evanston who told me of similar stories where their son was stopped and harassed for no legitimate reason. In addition, several black NU alums have contacted me saying they were stopped
and harassed by Evanston police decades ago. We want the city to take a really hard look at its police procedures and make sure they are equitable and ethical.” Evanston Police Department Officer Mark Buell detained Diwani Greenwell the morning of Sept. 20 as the teen was riding his bike near his house. EPD officials said he matched the description of a burglary suspect, which detailed a “black male wearing blue cargo shorts.” Greenwell said the boy was released after
about ten minutes when the witness exonerated him. Still, she said she felt certain EPD acted inappropriately by not communicating with her on the scene. Additionally, she said police surrounded her son with an excessive number of police officers, unnecessarily handcuffed him and failed to provide a sincere apology once he was cleared. Greenwell filed a formal complaint with EPD, citing these grievances as well as her » See LAWSUIT, page 9
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