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Student DJ prepares for Dillo debut By Christine Farolan
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After winning Mayfest’s Battle of the DJs for the second year in a row, Bienen junior Lucas Messore (“Behind These Eyes”) is ready to claim his place on the Dillo Day stage. Messore has been playing guitar since he was 10, leading to an early love of rock and jazz guitar. He said he became interested in electronic music closer to 16 or 17, after producing music on the computer for a few years. It wasn’t until his freshman year at Northwestern that he began DJing through Streetbeat, a radio show on WNUR. “They helped me learn how to DJ and they had a bunch of equipment, so I got started that way,” Messore said. Messore said the program, which features local Chicago DJs and NU students, is a “fun environment.” In addition to actually DJing, he said he also enjoys that everyone gets together for meetings in which one member will give a presentation on a certain type of music. “It’s really like a whole community at this point,” Messore said.
Microsoft Office pact expands By Tyler Pager
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Messore was influenced by his original major in jazz guitar performance, which he pursued before switching to a broader music degree. Though he is no longer a performance major, he said he can’t
Following an extension of Microsoft’s Campus Agreement, Northwestern University Information Technology is able to offer Microsoft Office free to all students. In the past, Microsoft’s Campus Agreement was only available for faculty and staff, however, the agreement was expanded to include students last year, said Wendy Woodward, director of NUIT. Woodward said there was no extra fee for NU to allow students free access to Microsoft Office. Woodward said NUIT has been working since last year to create the best distribution system for the free software. Since Thursday, all active NU students have been able to download Microsoft Office using their NetIDs and passwords. The suite can be downloaded at msoffice.northwestern.edu and includes Word, Excel,
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go dj, that’s my dj Lucas Messore performs at Mayfest’s Battle of the DJs Thursday night. As the winner of the competition, Messore will perform at Dillo Day later this month.
“(It) includes a lot of DJs that are interested in exploring music intellectually with specific regard to electronic music.” WNUR also has a recording studio where DJs can work on their music. Medill sophomore Adrian Stubbs, another Streetbeat DJ, has
collaborated with Messore on more than one occasion. “I feel like he’s really hitting his niche now,” Stubbs said. “When someone makes music, there’s a point where they say, ‘Yeah, this is exactly what I thought of and created and it came together.’”
Students renew Council supports state tax bills Deering dialogues By paige leskin
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Northwestern students, faculty and staff gathered Friday to engage in dialogue in an effort to build community and promote discussion on various campus issues. About 50 students attended the event, Dialogue at Deering, which was organized by members of Sustained Dialogue, housed under the department of Campus Inclusion and Community. Due to the weather, the event was moving from Deering Meadow to Allison Hall. Sarah Watson, co-founder and outgoing co-lead moderator for Sustained Dialogue, kicked off the event by explaining the reasoning behind the first Dialogue at Deering event, held in April 2012 after a series of incidents of racial bias at NU. She highlighted several issues occurring during that time which demonstrated the need for campuswide dialogue. “We had a number of things happen that had a lot of people questioning, ‘where is the community at Northwestern, why don’t we talk
Man, 32, dies after fall from Maple Avenue building A 32-year-old man died early Monday morning after falling from a building in downtown Evanston, according to police. Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay
to each other, why aren’t we getting along with each other,” Watson said about the first Dialogue at Deering event. “We really were wondering where is a space for dialogue at Northwestern and how can we create that.” At the first event, about 200 individuals attended to discuss issues within the University. Watson said she and other members of Sustained Dialogue wanted to renew the dialogue this year in an effort to further build community. She noted the strides that have been made in the two years since the first event within the smaller Sustained Dialogue sessions and emphasized the importance of continuing to facilitate dialogue in an informal space. Lesley-Ann Brown, executive director of campus inclusion and community, spoke to attendees about the plans the University has moving forward regarding diversity and inclusion. She said over the past year, NU has created multiple classes to meet the proposed learning outcomes from the proposed social inequalities and diversity requirements, and » See Dialogue, page 7 Parrott said the man fell from the 26th floor to the fourth floor at a building in the 1700 block of Maple Avenue. The man was pronounced dead on the scene at about 3:30 a.m., Parrott said. Parrott added police do not believe foul play was involved in the man’s death.
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Evanston aldermen approved a resolution at City Council on Monday that urged Illinois legislators to extend a temporary state income tax. The extension would stop the tax from dropping from 5 to 3.75 percent in 2015. Despite the resolution passing 6 to 3, some aldermen said they felt passing the tax was unavoidable, as Illinois had no other way to pay what it owes and avoid statewide budget cuts. “They have to do what they I’m concerned have to do,” Ald. Donald about what Wilson (4th) happens in the said. “They’ve city of Evanston gotten into mess if that tax is not the that they’ve maintained. gotten into, and they’re I’d rather be going to proactive. have to pass Elizabeth Tisdahl, this in order to have the Evanston mayor funds to pay the bills.” Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl said she supported the tax increase solely because of the interests of Evanston. If the tax hike were to fail, the city would be subject to “devastating” budget cuts on top of the ones that have already occurred, she said. “I’m concerned about what happens in the city of Evanston if that tax is not maintained,” Tisdahl said. “I’d rather be proactive than simply sit and complain about (a budget cut) when it happens to us which, if we don’t act, it will.” Some aldermen expressed concern with the actions of state legislators, citing a lack of confidence and faith
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STATUS UPDATE Since the Community Animal Rescue Effort was ordered to clear out of the premises, the Evanston Animal Shelter has been run by the city’s police department and local volunteers. EPD Deputy Chief Joseph Wazny provided aldermen with an update on the shelter at a City Council meeting on Monday night.
in them. Wilson said that although he supports the tax increase in order to fund the state, it doesn’t mean he approves of the situation. Ald. Jane Grover (7th) made the distinction between issues of extending the tax and reforming the way the state legislature acts, and said both were possible. “I think the votes on the resolution tonight ought to be a signal … that there’s a high degree of distrust about how they operate in Springfield,” Grover said. The council also passed a resolution that advocated equally taxing calls to 911 made from landlines and mobile phones in order to increase funding. Under the current system, only calls made from landline phones are taxed, even though the majority of calls are made from cell phones. Because of the lack of landline phones used to call for emergencies, there’s a decrease in the amount of
revenue coming in to support 911 operations, Ald. Ann Rainey (8th) said. “The people who use their cell phones to call 911 need to pay the same fee that those of us who call 911 on our landline phones pay, and that’s not happening,” she said. “The more landline phones that are disconnected and the more cellphones that are going into service has nothing to do with the number of calls made to 911. They still keep coming.” Wilson said he was reluctant to support the resolution because he was unsure that all the money produced from the state tax would return to Evanston, as the current phone tax ensures. Council also heard an update on the status of the Evanston Animal Shelter, which is in a transition period as the city searches for new leadership. » See council, page 7
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