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Connections director retiring By STEPHANIE KELLY
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The executive director of Connections for the Homeless, who increased the organization’s success rate of getting people off the street by fourfold, will retire at the end of January. Paul Selden has been the executive director of Connections since 2006. John Pfeiffer will replace Selden as executive director at the beginning of February, Connections announced Wednesday. Selden, 66, said he is retiring from Connections because the organization needs someone who has the energy to keep expanding it. The job took up 60-70 hours per week, he said. “There’s a certain point at which you just run out of the strength to do it,” he said. When Selden started at Connections, the organization was still basically just a shelter, said Sue Loellbach, Connections’ director of development. Now, because of Selden, Loellbach described it as a housing organization that provides some shelter until people move into their own houses. Selden also helped to develop expanded housing services and to make the organization’s housingfirst approach possible. Selden’s
development of increased health services, an unemployment program and an education program also helped clients reach self-sufficiency, Loellbach said. By moving past just addressing peoples’ immediate needs, Connections was able to increase the number of people it helped off the street and into housing by 400 percent, Selden said. In addition, the agency more than doubled in size under his guidance, according to Connections. Pfeiffer, who has worked as the first depPaul has really uty commisbuilt up a lot of sioner for momentum in the Chicago Department our programs of Family and we’re really and Sup or t S erpoised to jump pvices since into a bunch of 2011, has worked with new things. nonprofits Sue Loellbach, for ab out Connections’ 2 5 ye ars , director of Loellbach development said. Before his time at the department, Pfeiffer served for seven years as executive director and CEO of Inspiration Corp., a Chicago-based corporation that
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CONGRESSIONAL CAT Former congressman and Northwestern alumnus Brad Schneider discusses foreign policy, security issues in the United States and the 2016 presidential elections. The event took place in the McCormick Foundation Center on Thursday.
Former US rep. talks future By HAL JIN
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Former U.S. Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Ill.), a Northwestern alumnus, hosted a Q&A session Thursday about foreign policy, his experience as a congressman and the state of U.S. politics. Schneider (McCormick ’83, Kellogg ’88) represented Illinois’
10th congressional district from 2013 to 2015. The self-identified liberal Democrat spoke to about 30 people at the McCormick Foundation Center. The event was sponsored by Wildcats for Israel, College Democrats and Fiedler Hillel. “NU personifies the Midwest values of hard work. There’s a certain humility here,” Schneider said. “I’m not so confident that I don’t know I can be wrong, but I’m confident
enough to not have to prove you wrong.” That enabled him to work with people toward finding a middle ground, he said. Schneider received a B.S. in industrial engineering from NU, which Quentin Heilbroner, president of College Democrats, joked was “a natural path to Congress.” Heilbroner said he invited » See SCHNEIDER, page 10
‘This Town’ author brings humor, insight to lecture By MARIANA ALFARO
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TALKING POLITICS Chief national correspondent for The New York Times Magazine Mark Leibovich speaks about politics and journalism. He discussed his career Thursday in Annenberg Hall.
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Mark Leibovich, chief national correspondent for The New York Times Magazine and best-selling author spoke Thursday night as part of Northwestern’s Contemporary Thought Speaker Series. Leibovich, who lives and reports in Washington, D.C., discussed his experiences reporting about politicians’ public lives in the nation’s capital. “When you’re dealing with politicians, they are most likely to be closest to their communications people, their press people, their image-making, ad-making types,” he said. “More so — usually, not always — than their policy people.”
Leibovich is the author of “This Town” and “Citizens of the Green Room.” He told to the audience of about 50 in Annenberg Hall about interviewing key political personalities like Hillary Clinton, John McCain and Mitt Romney. “I was thinking about how to make this discussion more timely and my thoughts immediately jumped to Mitt Romney,” Leibovich said. “This is a weird situation. I had a story on him in September that was driven in part by this era of good feelings that was oddly bubbling up around him.” Leibovich shared comical and serious anecdotes of his interviews with the presidential runner-up for the September article, in which Romney neither confirmed nor rejected the rumor that he was going to run for the presidential
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office for a third time. He also talked about how Romney asked to have every part of the conversation recorded, in order to remind him that everything he says is on record, emphasizing how important public presentation is for powerful Washington leaders. According to Leibovich, Greg Whiteley’s Netflix documentary “Mitt” is a fair representation of the double life political figures must lead in order to face both the public and their personal circle. “(The documentary) got me thinking about the dichotomy between the public life that we see and the public figures as they really exist,” he said. “That goes to one of the essential gaps between how people really are and how they want to be perceived. That is sort of the » See LEIBOVICH, page 10
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