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Wednesday, October 3, 2012
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Tisdahl: We must end street violence By Jia You
the daily northwestern
Daily file photo by Creighton Bledsoe
DRIVE Members of the League of Women Voters conduct a voter registration drive at Burger King in Evanston in 2008. As the 2012 election approaches, Northwestern is attempting to remove obstacles to student voters.
NU Votes pushes registration By Lauren Caruba
daily senior staffer
As the 2012 election heats up with the first presidential debate Wednesday, Northwestern is attempting to counteract voting barriers for college students by increasing opportunities to obtain absentee ballots. The issue of voter suppression reached the national stage this year, with legislation recently passed in states like New Hampshire and Georgia requiring students to provide more specific types of identification and obtain residency in the state where they plan to cast their vote. No such laws exist in Illinois. Still, the University hopes to push students
and staff to the polls with NU Votes, a campus-wide voter registration day in both Evanston and Chicago. Organized by NU’s Center for Civic Engagement, the initiative involves setting up voter registration tables at three locations in Evanston and one in Chicago. NU students and staff can go to Norris University Center, The Rock and the Technological Institute in Evanston and Abbott Hall in Chicago to register or obtain absentee ballots. “There have been more laws passed in the past year and a half about access to polls and access to voting than in the last decade,” said Robert Donahue, associate director of the Center for Civic Engagement. “It has gotten substantively harder
over the past year for college students to vote.” NU Votes will attempt to overcome these barriers by providing a convenient, centralized location for obtaining information regarding voting and absentee ballots, which must be mailed by a certain date, Donahue said. In addition to these new laws, a number of issues can hinder the voting process for college students. The frequent address changes college students experience can make keeping registration up to date difficult, and individuals can only cast their votes in the area where they are registered. » See vote, page 9
Youth vocational training opportunities and a new teen center at Evanston Township High School were among the anti-violence initiatives Evanston residents proposed during Tuesday night’s community meeting, where more than 150 people filled the hall and the indoor basketball court of Fleetwood-Jourdain Center. Evanston Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl called for the meeting at 1655 Foster St., in a Friday letter to Evanston residents, in response to the recent death of ETHS freshman Dajae Coleman. Coleman was shot Sept. 22 while walking home from a party on Church Street. “The question is, what is each one of us in the room going to do?” Tisdahl said at the meeting. “Our kids are watching.” The meeting began with an invocation for Coleman. City officials then gave an overview of the city’s existing youth outreach programs, including the Mayor’s Summer Youth Employment Program and initiatives from the city’s new Youth and Young Adult Division. Curbing street violence requires long-term commitment from the Evanston community to reach out to its youth, said Ald. Delores Holmes (5th). “This really is a long marathon,” Holmes said. “We want to see you again and again as we work on issues confronting our youth here. It takes everyone to make this work.” Participants then broke up into small groups to discuss solutions to street violence. The city needs to open public buildings as safe places for youth, especially on weekends, said Andre Patrick, vice president of the Evanston Pride Feeder Basketball program in which Coleman once participated. “We have to make some of these
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MEETING Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl addresses possible solutions to street violence at a meeting Tuesday.
community buildings available to them ... so that we can monitor the way they are enjoying themselves on a Friday or Saturday evening,” Patrick said. “Our kids looking for enjoyment at a house party in Evanston is not a good move.” ETHS sophomore Kiley Leff echoed Patrick’s idea when she proposed opening a teen center at the high school, where youth can hang out and take classes. “We want a place where kids feel comfortable going and safe, a home away from home,” she said. “It’s a safe solution to having nowhere to go on a Friday night.” Evanston resident Stephen Adams, » See anti-violence, page 9
After server hack, nuCuisine site redirects to adult page By Lauren Caruba
daily senior staffer
A computer server of Sodexo,the company that manages nuCuisine, was hacked Monday night by an unknown source, according to Sodexo representatives. Starting at approximately 9:30 p.m., students attempting to log on to the website of Northwestern’s food service provider were instead directed to “Latinhost.net,” a page advertising
Latino pornography. Steve Mangan, nuCuisine district manager, said the hack was not personally targeted at Sodexo. “We think it’s some sort of a random hack,” he said. “This does not appear to be an attack on Sodexo.” Mangan said the company’s IT employees were immediately aware of the issue, which he said was resolved by 2 a.m. Tuesday. However, according to students and screenshots taken by The Daily, the website was still redirecting to the incorrect URL on
certain Internet browsers, including Google Chrome, as late as 6 p.m. Jim Roberts, director of information technology for Student Affairs Information Technology, said the University has no control over the nuCuisine site, which is hosted by Sodexo. This type of outsourced website management makes NU more vulnerable to these kinds of problems, he said. “With vendor applications like this, some of it leaves control of the University,” Roberts said. “We put our trust in vendors, and we can’t constantly
monitor what their practices and procedures are for maintaining the security of the website.” Although Sodexo’s system has security features to ward off malicious attacks, the hacker was still able to affect the access point to the page. Mangan said no personal student information was compromised during breach in the server’s security. However, because the same server is used for some of its other campus locations, the issue most likely affected other colleges’ sites as well, he said.
Both Sodexo and University representatives said they could not recall any similar situations occurring with NU-related sites in the past. News of the glitch in the nuCuisine site quickly spread among NU students through Facebook and Twitter. Numerous students shared it with their friends on various social networks. Weinberg sophomore Kayla Hammersmith said she shared the link with » See NuCuisine, page 9
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