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Prentice
Preservationists sue Chicago, tout reuse After suit, judge issues temporary stay on hospital demolition
Architects, Chicago residents discuss Prentice design ideas
By SUSAN DU and MARSHALL COHEN daily senior staffers
By INA YANG
A Cook County judge handed down a preliminary ruling Thursday in favor of preservationists in their quest to save Prentice Women’s Hospital from demolition. Earlier in the day, preservationists groups filed a lawsuit accusing the Commission of Chicago Landmarks of breaking city codes when they declined landmark status for the building. The panel voted Nov. 1 against granting landmark status to Prentice, which Northwestern plans to demolish in order to build a new biomedical research center. The Cook County judge issued a temporary stay of the commission’s decision and the city of Chicago is barred from issuing a demolition permit for the site until the issue is legally resolved. The next hearing is scheduled for Dec. 7. “We are disappointed with the judge’s decision today, and we will be filing a motion to dismiss the complaint,” said Roderick Drew, spokesman of the Chicago Department of Law, in a Thursday email to The Daily. “We are confident that the City and the Landmarks Commission took the appropriate steps and followed the proper procedures.” NU officials declined to comment on Thursday’s temporary ruling
CHICAGO — The Chicago Architectural Club announced the winners of “Future Prentice,” an international design ideas competition serving as a public debate about the future of Bertrand Goldberg’s Prentice Women’s Hospital. More than 100 people attended the kickoff event for the exhibition at the CAF Lecture Hall, 224 S. Michigan Ave., hours after a Cook County judge granted temporary landmark status to the hospital. In less than two months, 71 design teams from 13 countries submitted their proposals for the possible reuse of the historic hospital, keeping Northwestern’s request of a state-of-the-art research facility in mind. The first place winner was titled “The Buildings are sleeping, you should go and wake them up, she says.” The design by Cyril Marsollier and Wallo Villacorta essentially cuts the hospital in half, adding other structures on the other side. However, the reflective material on the new structure ensures the hospital keeps its iconic look. During the question-and-answer
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PRENTICE PROCEEDINGS In an undated photo, construction proceeds near Prentice Women’s Hospital. The structure has been at the center of an ongoing controversy over its proposed demolition.
because the University is not named in the lawsuit. The National Trust for Historic Preservation and Landmarks Illinois, both plaintiffs in the lawsuit, maintain the commission’s Nov. 1 meeting adopted a
procedure that disadvantaged the preservationist cause and pre-determined Prentice’s fate. They allege that the commission overstepped its boundaries by » See PRENTICE, page 7
section of Thursday’s event, several audience members posed questions regarding the University’s attitude on the competition. An invitation to attend the event was sent to University officials, event organizers said. Chicago Architectural Club CoPresident Karla Sierralta stressed that the club wanted the event to be a platform for architectural dialogue around Prentice Women’s Hospital. “It’s meant to open the conversation and keep the conversation alive, more than a specific proposal,” Sierralta said. University spokesman Al Cubbage said in an email to The Daily on Thursday that though the University appreciates the club’s interest in the former hospital, NU has already set plans calling for demolition of the existing structure and building of a new biomedical research facility. Joe Kunkel, president of Chicago Bauhaus & Beyond, a nonprofit that celebrates Chicago’s legacy of modernist design, underwrote the “Future Prentice” exhibition. “We like to facilitate the dialogue of architecture and how it affects the community and also preserve the history and fabric of the city,” Kunkel said. The exhibition will remain on display through Feb. 21 at the CAF Lecture Hall. yirenyang2015@u.northwestern.edu
Policy nixes employee- NU joins online course offerings New ‘state-of-the-art’ student relationships curriculum to launch Community assistants prohibited from romancing residents By LAUREN CARUBA
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In accordance with a new policy implemented this fall, employees in the Division of Student Affairs are now prohibited from having relationships with Northwestern students. The policy prohibits all Student Affairs administrators, faculty and staff members, including Community Assistants, from engaging in romantic or sexual relationships with students they encounter as part of their occupational duties. NU personnel must acknowledge their “unique” relationships with students as “trusted university representatives,” according to the policy. Patricia Telles-Irvin, vice president for student affairs, began developing the policy when she came to NU last year. The rule, which Telles-Irvin said she enacted in her previous position
at the University of Florida, is a “really good practice to have” to ensure that staff are “clear about their roles.” Staff in Student Affairs often supervise or mentor students, so the new policy aims to distinctly outline appropriate behavior, Telles-Irvin said. “It’s a privilege to have that relationship with students,” she said. “I don’t want anybody to cross that line, to cross that boundary. When you cross that boundary, it complicates the relationship and it can harm the student’s wellness.” Romantic or sexual relations with students are banned even if they are consensual. “I know of situations where we have older people trying to have a relationship with a younger student,” TellesIrvin said. “I want to be proactive and be sure we try to prevent that from happening here.” Because the policy applies to all employees within Student Affairs, it also extends to student employees, who hold jobs across the division’s 31 different departments. As a result, graduate assistants, practicum students » See POLICY, page 7
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in fall of 2013 By CAT ZAKRZEWSKI
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Northwestern announced Thursday plans to partner with nine peer institutions to offer a state-of-the-art online curriculum to undergraduates. Semester Online, the new interactive platform, will offer courses for undergraduates online through a consortium of the nation’s top schools beginning in Fall 2013. “It’s the wave of the future,” University spokesman Bob Rowley said. “It’s going to allow leading universities to share the best of what they do.” Rowley explained that the technology developed by 2U, Inc., a programming company that has previously created similar platforms for graduate courses, will allow students to interact in real time with both their professor and other students. Rowley explained that students in the virtual classroom will be able to see a live feed of the professor lecturing as well as the other students participating in the class. On the split computer
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LONG-DISTANCE LEARNING Through Semester Online, students will watch a live feed of a professor and their classmates participating in lecture via an interactive split screen. They will be able to see who is in the virtual classroom as well as the materials the professor is presenting.
screen, students will also be able to see a chat room window and the material the professor is presenting, such as slides in a PowerPoint. “You’re in real time, on camera, interacting with fellow students as well as your professors,” Rowley said. University Provost Dan Linzer led the plans for Semester Online, which Rowley said first began following a meeting between Linzer and provosts from Washington University in St. Louis, Emory University and Duke University. Linzer said working with peer institutions made the program
much more feasible than attempting to begin online course programming as a single institution. In addition to Washington University in St. Louis, Emory and Duke, NU will join Brandeis University, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Notre Dame, University of Rochester, Vanderbilt University and Wake Forest University in offering this course programming, according to a University release. » See ONLINE, page 7
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