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LGBT EXPERIENCES Janet Mock addresses NU students Tuesday night. As the speaker for a Multicultural Student Affairs event, the transgender journalist and activist spoke about her experiences with LGBT visibility.
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Author and activist Janet Mock discussed privilege, visibility and inclusive representation as well as her work as a journalist and transgender public figure on Tuesday. The Multicultural Student Affairs office organized the event, held at Cahn Auditorium, in partnership with the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications, for Queer and Trans Empowerment Month to raise awareness of LGBT issues. “For me, writing (my memoir) ‘Redefining Realness’ was, on a personal level, a way to validate and affirm the fact that I deserve to be heard and that my story deserves pages,” Mock
said to an audience of more than 150 people. Although Mock said there are more transgender people in the public eye than ever before, she noted the discussion of transgender issues still tends to exclude non-binary and non-gender conforming people, and some transgender people are still more privileged than others if they can “pass” as being cisgender. When asked how she balanced being both a journalist and activist, Mock said the two are not mutually exclusive. “My body of work is my activism,” Mock said. “I don’t pick and choose between the two.” Mock, who was raised in Hawaii, moved to New York as a “fulfillment of a dream” in her 20s to work as a journalist. She had transitioned as a teenager, but did not come out to her coworkers as transgender immediately,
she said. During the event, Mock spoke about the hardship she experienced as a black transgender woman in the workforce and as an activist. Although she encountered prejudice and insensitivity, she also found a sense of community with other black women as they helped one another write resumes and cover letters, since they all celebrated one another’s successes. “It was another way to support each other through a system that wanted us to compete,” Mock said. “Not competing in a sense of our qualifications, but competing because of the surface levels of our identity. Her winning ensures us winning.” Although Mock has been out as a transgender woman for years, she said some people do not feel comfortable or » See MOCK, page 7
More than 50 Northwestern students came together Tuesday in a show of bipartisanship to watch the first Democratic debate air live on CNN. Students from both College Democrats and College Republicans convened in Fisk Hall to snack and discuss politics. The debate comes as the two groups are gearing up for the 2016 presidential election with a slew of campaign-centered programming slated for the quarter. The groups — neither of which endorses a specific candidate — serve as an avenue for students to get more involved in campaigns through trips
to national campaign events and events on campus.
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“I don’t see College Republicans as a campaigning group,” said Will Pritzker, College Republicans’ secretary of events. “We encourage people to do it on their own initiative, but that’s never been our sole purpose. It’s bringing conservative speakers where people can debate from a conservative standpoint.” At a liberal school like NU, Pritzker said it’s difficult to find conservativeminded thinkers. Additionally, he said the fact that there are so many Republican candidates makes it harder for a group of students to put their support » See POLITICS, page 7
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POLITICAL CATS Northwestern students follow the first Democratic primary debate during a viewing party at Technological Institute hosted by Wild for Bernie, the NU support group for candidate Bernie Sanders. The viewing party was one of many election-related events to come from student groups and support various candidates for the 2016 election.
Mayor prioritizes donation funds for violence prevention By MARISSA PAGE
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Allocations of the first installment of Northwestern’s five-year, $5 million donation plan to Evanston will go largely to Sheridan Road repairs and violence prevention in the city. Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl announced NU’s Good Neighbor Fund donation to the city in March, a $5 million gift that the University will roll out in milliondollar increments over the next five years. The first $1 million was divided up Oct. 9, with the largest chunk, $500,000, going toward the Sheridan Road
Former senior Obama aides to speak at NU
Northwestern College Democrats is bringing former top Obama aides — David Axelrod, Jon Favreau and Jeremy Bird — to speak Nov. 6, the three-year anniversary of President Barack Obama’s re-election.
improvement project, which includes resurfacing and painting in a new bike lane. Mayor Tisdahl elected to parse out the first installment of the Good Neighbor Fund donation with an emphasis on combating violence in Evanston, city manager Wally Bobkiewicz said. The mayor set aside a $50,000 chunk of the donation to aid families affected by violence, and another $250,000 will go toward at-risk youth job training and development programs in the city’s Youth and Young Adult Division. The remainder of the gift, $200,000, will go toward supporting Evanston Fire Department paramedics. “Certainly whatever (Tisdahl) can do
to combat violence in the community is a priority for her,” Bobkiewicz said. “Many of the things there were mostly preventative measures… with the job training money and the donation to a fund that she set up to help families impacted by violence.” University President Morton Schapiro said the mayor decided to set up the violence outreach fund. “I said ‘put it to something you think is really important,’ and that’s what she did,” Schapiro said. The projects selected have relevance both for the city at large and also to NU: The fire department provides daily services to the university and Sheridan Road is a major thoroughfare through
campus. Bobkiewicz said the Sheridan Road project will likely be the focus of a portion of next year’s Good Neighbor Fund contribution. “The Good Neighbor Fund’s allocation for year one is being directed towards projects that will help Evanston reach its goal of becoming the most livable city,” Tisdahl said in an Oct. 9 news release. Bobkiewicz said that the gift gives the city greater spending liberties given the city’s budget constraints this year. In particular, he noted the support for the fire department’s services as freeing up additional resources for the city. “It’s a million dollars we didn’t have before,” Bobkiewicz told The Daily. “We’re able to put more money in the
coming year toward violence prevention and workforce development … and that’s probably, given the state of our budget and the state of Illinois’ budget, something we wouldn’t have done.” Schapiro said this first step for the Good Neighbor Fund exemplifies NU’s cooperative relationship with the city. “We really work very closely,” he said. “I don’t know of another university where the president and senior staff have the same relationship with the mayor and the city manager. I completely trust those people — they’re gonna keep our campus safe and support the greater good of this incredible town we’re blessed to be in.”
All three of the speakers have served Obama in some capacity: Axelrod was the president’s senior adviser for his first term, Favreau served as Obama’s speechwriter from 2005 to 2013 and Bird worked on Obama’s 2008 and 2012 presidential campaigns as a political strategist. The event, which will be held in Cahn Auditorium, will be open to NU students for free but limited to the first 1,000 people who arrive. Non-NU students are also welcome but will be charged $5 for tickets. The
event will feature a Q&A session, moderated by Medill Prof. Larry Stuelpnagel, and a special VIP session with the panelists afterwards. Post-Obama, the three men have remained largely in politics, in one form or another. Axelrod now works as a senior political commentator for CNN, and has written a New York Times bestselling book, “Believer: My Forty Years in Politics.” Favreau, after stepping away from the White House in 2013, co-founded Fenway
Strategies, a consulting company, while Bird, who worked to build a grassroots movement for Obama, started 270 Strategies, a company that has advised presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. “It’s interesting, a year out of 2016, to hear how actual political staff think about the very intense democratic primaries,” said Robert Bourret, president of the College Democrats. “Each of them will provide very unique insight into the world of the 2016 election.”
Bourret said the group paid about $40,000 to the Washington Speakers Bureau to get the three speakers as a package deal. “We’ve never really had a panel discussion before with so many high level political staff members,” he said. “There will be a lengthy session for question-and-answer so students will be able to come up to a microphone and ask the panelists questions.”
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Chicago woman charged with hitand-run, driving under the influence
A 22-year-old woman was arrested early Friday morning in connection with a hit-and-run accident. The woman allegedly drove away after hitting another car while attempting to make a right turn in the left lane, said Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan. An off-duty police officer who witnessed the hit-and-run helped locate the woman, police said. Police later found the woman parked in the 1400 block of Darrow Avenue on Friday at about 1 a.m. Her car was missing its bumper and had damage to both sides, Dugan said. The woman told police she had not been drinking, but police said she failed the field sobriety test. She was charged with two misdemeanors for leaving the scene of an accident and driving under the influence. She also received two traffic tickets for improper lane usage and no proof of insurance. The woman is scheduled to appear in court Nov. 24.
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Two Northwestern professors discussed vaccinations Tuesday at the Evanston Public Library, rebutting claims that immunizations do more harm than good. English Prof. Eula Biss and Feinberg School of Medicine Prof. Laurie Zoloth spoke to more than 35 people at EPL, drawing on their research and facilitating a discussion. Biss examined the subject in her new book, “On Immunity: An Inoculation.” She led a discussion comparing human communities to a hive and said that vaccinations are the way we protect the collective hive from fatal epidemics. She said when one bee falls, the entire hive is endangered, an effect that is mimicked in human communities. “The hive needs close to every bee to be OK, or else the entire hive collapses,” Biss said. “We do need to be attentive to the health of individuals, because the health of our ‘hive’ depends on it.” She said that due to this hive effect, vaccines have worked extremely well at wiping out crippling epidemics so far. Biss cited pertussis, rubella and polio as some of the diseases that, in the past, have killed helpless infants and adults. These conditions are now very rare thanks to vaccines and the responsibility of the community “hive” for receiving these vaccines. Biss and Zoloth discussed whether the public can trust doctors and vaccine producers who say that vaccines don’t cause side effects such as autism, nerve damage and mitochondrial diseases. It is this trust, or lack thereof, Zoloth said, that is the root of the ever-popular debates about vaccines within the American public. “Is there any other issue in American public life that is both a darling of the right (wing) and a darling of the left (wing)?” Zoloth said. “The issue of the retreat from the public sphere because you don’t trust the government is the thread that holds the left wing and the right wing in protest about vaccination together.” One man in the audience interjected to tell how a
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VOICES ON VACCINES Northwestern professors Eula Biss and Laurie Zoloth spoke at the Evanston Public Library, 1703 Orrington Ave., about their research into vaccinations Tuesday. Both professors rebuked claims that vaccines cause more harm than help.
vaccine he received led to arthritis and nerve damage in his left arm, leading Zoloth to explain that it is up to the American public to decide whether they trust the government and their healthcare providers. She said that, thanks to the influenza vaccine, a disease as rapidly mutating and prevalent as the flu is not nearly as perilous as it once was. “Do you know how many Americans died of the flu in 1918? Half a million, in less than a year,” Zoloth said. “Now will there be injuries if every American gets a flu vaccine? Yes, of course … Is it worth it? You have to make that decision.” Zoloth and Biss concluded the conversation by stressing that the medical and scientific community hold that vaccines save lives. Zoloth said some great advancements in history have been vaccines, and although there are rare examples of crippling injury caused by vaccinations, many more lives are saved.
Zoloth said we must trust those in our communities to get vaccines and protect our respective hives from easily avoided diseases. One attendee of the event, Jan Molinaro (SESP ’77) agreed, explaining how her job as a middle school teacher made her a proud supporter of vaccines. “I believe in the herd,” Molinaro said. “I was a public school teacher in Evanston for 20 years, I got my flu shot every year, because I was going to be impacting the 600 middle school students every day when I walked into the classroom.” Molinaro added that although those injured by vaccinations deserve representation, the number of lives saved cannot be ignored. “There are cases where individuals were directly affected (by vaccinations),” Molinaro said, “On the other hand, it’s my responsibility (to be vaccinated).” benjaminwinck2019@u.northwestern.edu
An 18-year-old Evanston resident allegedly attempted to steal a burner phone from Best Buy. A Best Buy employee told police he saw the man taking the $70 Virgin Mobile cell phone into the men’s bathroom and coming out empty-handed on Oct. 11 at about 12:30 p.m. The man was stopped by the 26-year-old employee before he could leave the store in the 2300 block of Howard Street, Dugan said. The man was not arrested at the request of the employee, police said, but was banned from the store. — Joanne Lee
Setting the record straight A story in Tuesday’s print edition titled “Mansion decision delayed” misstated the current ownership of Harley Clarke Mansion. The city owns the mansion and aldermen proposed for the city to pay for capital improvements to the building. The Daily regrets the error.
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Students in each dining hall had the opportunity to try French cuisine Monday and Tuesday as part of Northwestern Dining’s annual Global Chef program. Global Chef started at Northwestern more than 10 years ago, Northwestern Dining spokeswoman Rachel Tilghman said. “We’re really just trying to contribute to the idea that Northwestern has global citizens,” Tilghman said. “This is one of the things we do to support different cultures, to bring that global into a local perspective for students to experience it without leaving their dining hall.” This year’s Global We’re really Chef, Edouard Becker, hails from Alsace, just trying to France. He said he contribute to grew up surrounded by his mother and the idea that cookNorthwestern grandmother’s ing, and fell in love has global with the industry and decided to come to citizens. the United States in Rachel Tilghman, his 30s. Becker joined NU Dining Sodexo about six years spokeswoman ago, and he is now sharing his cuisine as part of the Global Chef program. His dishes blend German and French traditions. Students in each dining hall, complete with balloons and other festive decorations, got to try Becker’s cuisine. In Allison Dining Hall, the Mike Knauf Trio played French music to evoke the atmosphere of a French cafe. Sean Hyland, the NU Dining unit marketing coordinator, said he thinks the program
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is beneficial because students are getting an authentic French meal from a trained international chef. Students also had the opportunity to cook with the chef and help prepare the meals Monday morning at Norris University Center. They did everything from learning the preparation technique to working with the international chef, Tilghman said. Communication sophomore Chelsea Jacobson said she signed up to help because she loves to cook, but at school she doesn’t have many
opportunities to do so. “It’s just really beneficial to expose people to foods they would have never otherwise tried,” Jacobson said. “It shakes things up when food in the dining hall can always feel the same.” Becker served about 12 dishes, including coq au vin, fresh sauerkraut, caramelized radishes and crepes with brandied cherries. “My motto is, ‘Don’t count the calories, count the blessings,’” Becker said. oliviaellis2018@u.northwestern.edu
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Why millennials romanticize the end of the world ALEXI STOCKER
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AMC’s “The Walking Dead” returned Sunday night for its sixth season with a 90-minute premiere, dragging down ratings for NBC’s “Sunday Night Football” and ABC’s “Quantico.” The popularity of the Sunday-night zombie thriller has led to games, spin-off prequel “Fear the Walking Dead,” merchandise, tourism to film sites and even role-playing fan events, like Atlanta’s “The Walking Dead Escape.” Why are Americans fixated on zombie-themed amusements? It may seem to some like the Americans have suddenly “gone crazy” for zombies. “The Walking Dead”’s record-breaking ratings are not solely the product of the show’s unique attributes. Post-apocalyptic fiction in general is immensely popular in the United The States right now. Some of the biggest apocalypse box-office earners in offers us an 2014 were post-apocout, an avenue alyptic films. Earlier this year, “Mad Max: to escape Fury Road” and the our friends’ second installment of the “Divergent” and families’ series made massive expectations for box-office debuts, our lives. and the final installment of the “Hunger Games” series is due in November. Modern post-apocalyptic fiction started with Mary Shelley’s 1826 novel, “The Last Man.” The atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the subsequent Cold War arms race, spurred interest in the apocalypse and, more importantly, what would happen once the end of the world had come and gone. Post-apocalyptic fiction’s popularity has grown the most in the past decade, with rising interest in dystopian stories and zombie,
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or “infection,” thrillers. What, though, is driving the popularity of these novels and films? Why is “The Walking Dead” one of the most popular series on television? What about “The Hunger Games” — or our society — made the series sell so well? The economy, politics, wars in the Middle East are all disturbing, saddening and downright distressing at times. Post-apocalyptic fiction is most popular, though, among millennials. Although many of us are undoubtedly concerned with global and national crises, issues more relevant to ourselves consume the majority of our mental energy. As Northwestern students, those things include a dizzying array of classes, student groups, internships, jobs, friendships, relationships and so many other parts of functioning as a college student. Whether in high school, college or living life as a recent graduate, we feel pressure to succeed in our endeavors, to make meaningful, fun friendships, build lasting romantic relationships and, most of all, be happy. Social media incessantly bombards us with the best parts of our far-flung and ever-growing network of acquaintances’ lives. The Instagram and Facebook feeds merge the joy from everybody’s lives into one singular entity for comparison with our own. Social media asks us to share, too. The expectation is that, like our vast social network, we too will share our success and happiness, and with that expectation can come a sense of despair. The apocalypse offers us an out, an avenue to escape our friends’ and families’ expectations for our lives. No matter how gritty our imagined apocalypse is, the post-apocalyptic wasteland we wander is always heavily romanticized. In our romanticized apocalypse, we are never part of the 99 percent who fall victim to plague, nuclear annihilation or some other catastrophe. The people we value most survive with us, and we meet new friends along the way, forming a band of survivors. The group of survivors we assemble miraculously has all the necessary survival skills for life after the end of society. Never mind that most of us have never fired a gun outside a shooting range — if at all — and
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have no emergency medical training. Those points are irrelevant, as are all of the other important details of life after the end of the world, such as where our food, water, medicine and other basics of life come from. The point of the romanticized apocalypse is not rebuilding society. The apocalypse is a chance for us to become who we believe we truly are. Films like “28 Days Later,” “I Am Legend,” “World War Z,” and “Mad Max” thrust greatness upon people the pre-apocalyptic world had destined for lives of normalcy, transforming a common survivor, a scientist, a United Nations employee or an Australian policeman into action heroes. Love is also deeply ingrained in our imagined apocalypse, whether it’s a zombie wasteland or dystopia; romance is a key component of “The Walking Dead,” “Zombieland,” “Warm Bodies,” “The
Hunger Games” and dozens more. I believe the popularity of post-apocalyptic fiction is our generation’s response to the overwhelming societal pressure we feel to be simultaneously successful and happy in and with everything we do. Our romanticized apocalypse fulfills our deepest desires. We escape from societal constraints on our lives, we become the heroes we have always known ourselves to be, we fall in love and, most importantly, despite the grit and grime of life after the end of the world, we finally find happiness. Alexi Stocker is a Weinberg senior. He can be reached at alexistocker2016@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern. com. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.
Humans’ unique ability to experience others’ thoughts JOSEPH LAMPS
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Considering how far humans have come since our hunter-gatherer ancestors, we are clearly a unique species. We believe in gender equality, we think people with different skin colors are equals and we think it is barbaric to kill our personal enemies. Much of this progress has occurred over the past few centuries. To see how far we’ve come, one only needs to take a glance at Andrew Jackson’s face on the $20 bill and compare his views to ours today. The progress is truly remarkable. We have the ability to think the thoughts and feel the feelings of others. We do this when we read a book, watch a video or listen to the radio because the thoughts conveyed within these media originated in the mind of the writer or speaker. Reading books is the way we can most intimately experience the thoughts of another person, giving us unprecedented access to others’ minds. Our ability to communicate thoughts and feelings combined with the fact that we have strong emotional reactions simply watching
or reading about the suffering of others give us the capacity to stand in other people’s shoes. This ability to connect our perspectives, unique among species on Earth, is the main driver of social progress. Every time a majority recognizes a marginalized minority as fundamentally equal to themselves, the ability to see others’ perspectives is behind the progress. As just one example, last summer I read “I am Malala,” a memoir by Malala Yousafzai
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The thoughts and feelings of others are more accessible than ever before, and this new accessibility offers an opportunity to accelerate our social progress still further.
and Christina Lamb. You’re probably familiar with the story of Yousafzai, one of the joint winners of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize for championing girls’ rights to education. I will never be female, I will probably never be Muslim, I have never been to the Middle East and I have never had to fight to get an
education. However, while reading, my heart started palpitating when Yousafzai was shot and hospitalized. This was not because of suspense; I already knew what happens later in the story. It was because I was, in a sense, experiencing Yousafzai’s plight. As a result of reading this book, I am aware of and feel strongly about the necessity for girls’ education rights in developing countries. I shudder to think about how if I had lived a few hundred years ago and was illiterate, I may not have believed that because Yousafzai has a different skin tone or belongs to a different gender, she did not deserve the same type of education I do. However, having experienced the thoughts she has made available through her book and through other books I have read, it is impossible for me to subscribe to this primitive viewpoint. This is why humans have come so far as a civilization. Over the last few decades, information has become increasingly accessible. Nowadays, most of us carry nearly the entirety of human knowledge on a 150-gram device in our pockets. The thoughts and feelings of others are more accessible than ever before, and this new accessibility offers an opportunity to accelerate our social progress still further.
It is also easy to uncover the ways that we oversimplify complex issues, and if the last century has shown us anything, it is that when people have a simple and short-sighted worldview, they have the capacity to do great harm. The conceivable future of humankind encompasses a staggering variety of possibilities: Our descendants could live in a world of dangerous wars and runaway economic stratification, where the rich exploit exploit the poor. They could also live in an almost utopian world where war, starvation, disease and environmental destruction are eradicated worldwide. The decision between these possibilities comes down to the actions and beliefs of individuals today. Because we have the amazing ability to educate ourselves on what it is like inside the minds of other people, there is absolutely no excuse not to spend a lot of time doing so. Joseph Lamps is a McCormick freshman. He can be reached at josephlamps2019@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.
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Ryan family donates $25M, creates matching faculty support challenge
Northwestern alumni Patrick G. Ryan (Kellogg ’59) and Shirley W. Ryan (Weinberg ’61) donated $25 million to the University on Tuesday, partly to facilitate the creation of endowed professorships at NU. The gift brings the Ryan family’s total contribution to NU up to nearly $200 million. Ten million dollars of the donation will fund the Ryan Family Chair Challenge, which will match the contributions of other donors toward establishing new endowed chairs across a range of disciplines. The remaining
Across Campuses University of Pittsburgh puts issue of Cosby’s honorary degree on agenda
Bill Cosby is in rare company these days. The 78-year-old comedian, once a staple on the commencement speakers’ circuit, joins disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong and Zimbabwe President and strongman Robert G. Mugabe on the short list of honorary degree holders whose degrees have been rescinded by universities that once courted their favor. The University of San Francisco, Fordham, Brown, Baylor, Marquette and Wilkes universities have revoked honorary doctorates they bestowed on Cosby. The actions were a result of dozens of women accusing the comedian of drugging and sexually assaulting them in incidents dating back to the 1960s. The University of Pittsburgh, which bestowed an honorary degree on Cosby in 2002, could be next. Pitt spokesman Ken Service told the Tribune-Review that the issue will be on the agenda when the faculty committee tasked with weighing honorary degrees meets this fall. “The student newspaper brought it up on Friday,” Service said. “When it surfaced that we had in fact given him the degree, Provost Patricia Beeson put it on the agenda for discussion.” Cosby, who has not been criminally charged in any of the accusations, did not respond to an email or a message left through the office of his publicist David Brokaw for comment. The former star of the family sitcom “The Cosby Show” has, through his attorneys, repeatedly denied the allegations. Cosby admitted in civil court documents released in July and dating back to 2005 that he got prescription Quaaludes with the intention to give them to women with whom he wanted to have sex. The documents are part of a civil lawsuit filed by Andrea Constand, which was later settled. Cosby received an honorary doctorate of humane letters when he spoke at commencement at Pitt’s Johnstown campus in 2002.
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2015 $15 million have yet to be designated. According to the news release, fewer than 500 of NU’s 3,300 full-time faculty hold endowed chairs. Endowed professorships are critical in attracting and retaining top faculty, University Provost Daniel Linzer said in the news release. Currently, the endowed chairs are planned for several areas across disciplines, including biomedical sciences, media and global health. These chairs provide funds for research, as well as stipends for student and postdoctoral researchers. “Endowed professorships allow work in uncharted territory, giving faculty a stable foundation from which to pioneer new projects, riskier projects, in new and emerging fields,” said Jan Eberly, James R. and Helen D. Russell Distinguished Professor of
Finance at the Kellogg School of Management in the news release. As part of NU’s “We Will” Campaign, a multibillion dollar fundraising campaign, the gift brings the Ryans’ total campaign contributions to more than $100 million. The newly built Music and Communication Building on the Lakefill was dedicated to honor the charitable donations of Patrick G. Ryan and Shirley W. Ryan to NU. “The unprecedented generosity of Pat and Shirley Ryan has benefited Northwestern in so many ways,” said University President Morton Schapiro in the news release Tuesday.
Officials at Pitt couldn’t recall a time when the school, founded in 1787, has revoked an honorary doctorate. “Everyone expects Pitt to take it away. No one thinks there will be much debate,” said Pitt News editor-in-chief Danielle Fox. The Fourth Wave, an intersectional feminist publication at Pitt, tweeted: “...Serial rapists should not have the privilege to hold a University of Pittsburgh degree.” Carnegie Mellon University gave Cosby an honorary degree when he gave a commencement speech in 2007. He later gifted CMU with a Scotty dog. “Carnegie Mellon does not have plans to rescind Bill Cosby’s honorary degree at this time. We have no further comment,” CMU spokesman Ken Walters told the Trib. Pitt isn’t alone in wondering what the oncecoveted association with Cosby could signify in an era when the Department of Education is pursuing Title IX investigations of possible improprieties in the handling of harassment and sexual violence complaints at about 100 universities across the nation. Besides Pitt and Carnegie Mellon, several other Pennsylvania universities have awarded honorary degrees to the comedian once known as “America’s Dad”: West Chester and Wilkes universities, the University of Pennsylvania, and Swarthmore and Haverford colleges. Spokesmen for West Chester and Haverford said the two eastern Pennsylvania schools are weighing the issue. “We have never rescinded an honorary degree. Haverford’s board of managers is considering input from students, faculty, staff, alumni and board representatives about the full range of issues attendant to this situation, beginning with the process itself: how and why are degrees awarded, and how and why could they, or should they, be rescinded?” Haverford spokesman Chris Mills said. West Chester spokeswoman Pamela Sheridan said the issue “is being discussed” at the state university in suburban Philadelphia. In December, as more and more women
stepped forward with allegations, Cosby resigned from the board of trustees at Temple University, where he had served for 32 years. Cosby, who attended Temple as an undergraduate and has been a high-profile benefactor, said he resigned because he wanted to do what was right for the university. More than two dozen women ages 46 to 80 who have accused Cosby of rape, sexual assault and/or sexual harassment appeared Friday night on NBC’s Dateline to speak out about what happened to them and to demand justice.
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The University of Oklahoma to enhance American Indian studies
NORMAN — University of Oklahoma President David Boren announced plans to enhance the study and appreciation of American Indian cultures Monday during OU’s first Indigenous Peoples’ Day. The daylong celebration featured a variety of events on campus. Boren said he is recommending the Native American Studies program be elevated to a department. Pending approval from the OU Board of Regents and the Oklahoma State Regents for Higher Education, the program will be granted full department status under the College of Arts and Sciences. The new department will provide additional resources and academic opportunities for students on the Norman campus, he said. Boren also announced the creation of a Native Nations Center and the appointment of a tribal liaison officer. These initiatives continue OU’s long-standing reputation as a national and international leader in this area, he said. OU plans to combine and strengthen existing programs with additional resources to create a Native Nations Center under the leadership of Amanda Cobb-Greetham, a member of the Chickasaw Nation.
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The center will provide resources for students immediately. Officials said as it grows, it will provide research and policy resources for tribal nations, along with grants and research opportunities for OU students and faculty and for scholars across the nation. The plans drew on former OU President William Bizzell’s original vision for such a center in 1929, officials said. Mark Wilson, a member of the Cherokee Nation, has been appointed OU’s tribal liaison officer. Wilson has worked more than 20 years at OU, including 10 years in American Indian student recruitment. “We have a robust Native American Studies program. We actually teach more Native American languages than any other college or university in the United States,” Shumate said in an interview last month. “But we’ve had some issues that we need to improve upon in terms of recruiting. “I look for more opportunities to work with tribal governments to understand the unique issues of their students,” he said. OU records for fall 2014 show 1,078 students identified themselves as American Indian/ Alaska Native and 1,723 students identified as two or more races. The total number of students who chose the category in whole or part was 2,392. This semester at Oklahoma State University 1,138 students self-identified as Native American only. Another 1,725 students selected Native American plus either Hispanic or one more other races. American Indian studies has been offered as a minor at OSU since 2012, and 16 students have declared the minor; eight current students have declared the minor. Spokesman Gary Shutt said OSU doesn’t offer a major based on a survey of sovereign nations a few years ago. The tribes indicated they preferred their members pursue a variety of majors including business, agriculture, education and health-related fields, with a minor in American Indian studies, he said. — Kathryn McNutt (The Oklahoman/MCT)
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Politics
From page 1 behind one candidate. At one of the group’s meetings, students were polled on which candidates they support. With more than 20 students in the room, six candidates were represented in the results, with a majority supporting Marco Rubio. The number of GOP candidates running for president have made the field wide open, said Pritzker, a Weinberg junior. “It’s hard when you have 15 plus candidates, but it makes it interesting,” he said. “It’s a fun conversation.” Several presidential campaigns, including those for Rubio and John Kasich, have already reached out to College Republicans, asking for support from the university. SESP sophomore Chris Dungey leads the Rubio campaign at NU. He was appointed as the NU chairman for Rubio’s campaign in Illinois after working in politics this summer. Dungey has 12 people on his team. Currently, they are informally gauging interest on campus and attending College Republicans meetings, he said. Later on in the campaign, they will be petitioning. “It’s like grassroots campaigning,” he said. “It’s just the student organization, there are no staff members.”
Democrats campaign for candidates
Some students in College Democrats have formed groups to campaign for the two leading candidates: Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. As of Monday evening, more than 50 students had joined the email list for Wild for Bernie, a political group supporting Sanders that formed in late April. As of Tuesday evening, more than
National News Supreme Court hears arguments in Florida death sentence challenge WASHINGTON — Florida death row inmate Timothy Lee Hurst could be closer to successfully challenging his sentence following arguments Tuesday before a divided Supreme Court. Amid an accelerating debate over crime and punishment, justices confronted how Florida imposes the death penalty and how states like Missouri and Pennsylvania keep certain juvenile offenders locked
350 students had liked the Wild for Bernie Facebook page. “Overall Bernie’s largest pull is young college students or young adults because everyone is passionate about education and healthcare and everything he stands for,” said Communication sophomore Jesus Campos, who helped kick-off Wild for Bernie. “It’s great that we have more people knowing who Bernie is.” Wild for Bernie is primarily active through social media, where it began as just a Facebook page. Their main goal is to spread word about what Sanders is doing through various media channels, Campos said. Students for Hillary, a group that formed April 2015 to support Clinton’s campaign, has also been gaining traction. As of Monday afternoon, more than 115 people had signed up for the group’s email list. “Hillary Clinton can get the job done from day one, she doesn’t need training wheels,” said Weinberg senior Kevin Cheng, co-president of Students for Hillary. “She’s been in the tough situations already as Secretary of State.” The group is planning campaigning trips to Iowa and speech-viewing events on campus to pique student interest, he said.
The debates
For some students, Tuesday’s viewing party was the first time they were introduced to less prominent candidates like Martin O’Malley, Lincoln Chafee and Jim Webb. “O’Malley, dark horse, is looking really good,” said Sydney Selix, SESP junior and vice president of programming for College Democrats. “Obviously he’s going to be irrelevant and it’s going to come down to Bernie and Hillary, but it’s good to see a strong bunch of candidates.” Weinberg junior Aaron Gordon, a libertarian, up for life. Though unrelated, both cases heard Tuesday morning began with gruesome facts. Both emphasized subtle legal questions. Both could prove consequential. Hurst, in particular, seemed to fare well, as justices sharply questioned Florida’s system by which juries make death penalty recommendations and judges impose the sentence. Uniquely, Florida allows juries to recommend death based on a bare majority of the 12 jurors. “Where the question is death, the jury should be unanimous,” Hurst’s attorney, Seth P. Waxman, told
did not agree with many of the candidates’ positions, but enjoyed watching the debate nonetheless. “Hillary and Bernie were hogging the airtime,” he said. “I have to admit, I don’t think Bernie should be president, but I do like watching him. He doesn’t feel scripted or rehearsed like Hillary.” Nationally, the two leading Democrats, Clinton and Sanders, hold 43 percent and 25 percent respectively in the polls, according to RealClearPolitics. The first two Republican debates earlier this year were notably larger, with twice as many candidates onstage than their Democratic equivalent. Donald Trump, Ben Carson and Marco Rubio are leading the latest polls, according to RealClearPolitics. Republican candidates will convene for their third debate Oct. 28. Given the timeliness of the debates, College Democrats and College Republicans have both seen an increased attendance at meetings. “It’s definitely affecting us a great deal,” said Weinberg senior Harrison Flagler, the president of College Republicans. “We usually have a drop after the second meeting, but that didn’t happen this year. There were some new faces.” In addition to the meetings, the two political groups are hosting speakers and organizing events to increase participation. College Democrats announced Tuesday that three former top aides to President Barack Obama would be speaking at NU on Nov. 6. College Republicans will also be hosting their fall speaker on Nov. 19, but have yet to announce the name. “We’re just trying to do as much as we can,” Cheng said. “Students played a huge role in Obama’s two elections.”
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have a safe environment to disclose information about their gender or sexuality, and that such hesitation is understandable. Medill senior Bo Suh, co-president of Rainbow Alliance, interviewed Mock. “She’s a fabulous speaker and a great activist,” Suh said. “It was great to hear her story in person.” Mock is Northwestern’s latest transgender speaker: In April, actress Laverne Cox spoke in a packed Pick-Staiger Concert Hall in a talk sponsored by A&O Productions and Rainbow Alliance. JT Snipes, a Chicago resident who attended the event, said he appreciated Mock’s comments about being a black woman. “It was the work of individuals that brought her here and to leverage institutional funds to bring her here,” Snipes said. “I don’t think that’s representative of Northwestern. That’s representative of individuals who are interested in furthering social justice aims and creating diverse dialogue.” Mock said that as transgender issues receive more visibility, transgender people should continue to shape culture. “So Popular!,” her show on MSNBC, has allowed her to talk about these issues with a social justice and feminist lens, she said. “We applaud cultural stories that are not created by us,” Mock said. “Sometimes we’re easily pleased by the fact that there’s a trans person or trans character in something. I don’t think visibility is enough … Those trans people need to create.”
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the justices. “I mean, there is no other state that permits anyone to be sentenced to death other than (by) a unanimous determination by the jury.” Formerly U.S. solicitor general in the Clinton administration, Waxman found a sympathetic audience in liberal justices Elena Kagan and Sonia Sotomayor. Both pressed Florida Solicitor General Allen Winsor about the uncertainties inherent in a nonunanimous jury vote. “What’s the jury finding when it says, ‘seven to five’?” Sotomayor asked skeptically, adding: “We don’t have a unanimous jury, even a functionally equivalent unanimous jury.”
Justice Anthony Kennedy, frequently a swing vote, likewise hinted at doubts about Florida’s system, pointedly asking about a judge who “could go right ahead and impose the death penalty” despite reaching different conclusions than the jury. Winsor stressed what he called the “protections” provided by Florida. “Even if it’s a seven-to-five vote, you still have the judge coming behind that jury,” Winsor said. “He or she can disagree for any reason. He or she can give mercy for any reason.” — Michael Doyle (McClatchy Washington Bureau/TNS)
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New faces ready to dive in at NU Unprecedented number of freshmen set to join the Wildcats this year By KARA STEVICK
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Thursday, Oct. 15 not only marks the date of the first dual meet of the season for Northwestern against Eastern Michigan but also the date of the first collegiate competition for over 40 percent of the team. Coach Jarod Schroeder believes that this unprecedented amount of freshmen will present the team with a considerable challenge this season. After placing ninth in the Big Ten last year and with this season yet to be underway, Schroeder currently does not maintain any towering expectations of his athletes. Instead, he said his current priorities are to remain patient with his squad and to foster an ideal collaborative environment through retreats and other activities, such as Navy Seal training, to prompt the team, especially freshmen, to work as a collective. “We get a lot more fired up and we get behind each other really well,” team captain Stephen Shull said. Though the majority of the most recent recruits have partaken in Olympic trial cuts prior to joining the team, Schroeder said most newcomers will experience a transitional period as they adjust to the culture of NU’s program. “I’ve just been taking it week by week, so right now I’m just focusing on Eastern Michigan (on Oct. 15),”
freshman Justin Hanson said. Hanson made the decision to swim for Northwestern specifically for the close-knit team environment. He also believes Schroeder has been successful in preparing and motivating the team for upcoming meets. “This group of guys has been really good and I’m really happy with what I’ve seen from a training standpoint,” Schroeder said. “My hope is that their
level of training translates into the level of swimming that I think it should translate to.” This is a sentiment Schroeder expects to prove challenging, considering the fact that NU remains one of the smallest teams in the Big Ten with 25 athletes. Schroeder said the swimming program has established a cap at 26 members and ideally aims to have 22 swimmers and four divers at one time.
Since every team in the conference can only travel with a maximum of 24 athletes, all members of the team are required to be highly versatile swimmers and capable of competing successfully in multiple events, Schroeder said. “It’s going to be tough to move into the top five because of where the depth is compared with everyone else,” Schroeder said. “The tough thing is people equate success with your record or how
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BACK ON THE BLOCKS Wildcats line up at the starting blocks. NU will be sending many new faces to the pool this year as the team welcomes 11 freshmen this season.
you finish in the Big Ten.” Other teams in the conference, such as Ohio State and Michigan, often have up to 50 athletes on their teams, he said. Despite this supposed disadvantage, Schroeder said the program still develops athletes that can compete at highest level of the sport, referencing former NU swimmer and current Olympian Jordan Wilimovsky as an example. “Do we have a successful program even though we finished ninth at the Big Ten last year? Yes I think we do,” Schroeder said. Additionally, he explained, the smaller team size also contributes to the closeness of the team, as there is no divide between athletes that travel and those who do not. Sophomore Jonathan Blansfield, a member of the distance freestyle group, said one of the reasons why he loves NU swimming is that everyone has a chance to travel. In an effort to establish more depth within the program, the team has been more selective with regards to the recruitment process over the past five years. According to Schroeder, the level of recruitment currently being implemented now brings in higher-level athletes than some of those currently on the team. “I think it’s an environment in which everyone is pushing each other,” Blansfield said. karastevick2019@u.northwestern.edu
NU welcomes new coach who is looking to turn the program around By TUCKER JOHNSON
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In its first year under a new coach, Northwestern is looking for a fresh start. Last year, during the 21st season under coach Jimmy Tierney, the Wildcats finished a disappointing 10th out of 13 teams at the Big Ten Championships. Tierney left the team in April, and the program quickly hired Abby Steketee (SESP ‘03) to replace him. Steketee spent the past three years as the coach at Nevada and was named the Mountain West Conference Coach of the year in 2015.
“Now I have the dream job,” she said of her return to Evanston. During her time at NU, Steketee was not a member of the varsity swim team. She did, however, captain the club rowing team, and after her graduation worked as an assistant coach at West Virginia while pursuing a master’s degree. Steketee also coached at South Carolina as an assistant before getting her first head coaching job at Nevada in 2012. There, Steketee turned around a struggling program to take third in the Mountain West each of the past two seasons. Steketee said she is looking to lead a similar transformation here. Last season’s 10th place finish in the Big Ten was the team’s lowest since 1983, and
no individual swimmers qualified for ‘A’ Finals at the Big Ten Championships. Steketee emphasized that any improvement will be incremental in nature and stressed the importance of long-term goals. “We want to move up in the Big Ten,” she said. “As a team, it’s going to take baby steps, but in the long term we can be at the top of the Big Ten, we can be in the top 20 at NCAAs.” Almost all of the Cats’ key contributors returned for this year’s season, including all of the swimmers on the relays at last year’s Big Tens. The team of junior Lacey Locke, sophomore Mary Warren, senior Julia Pratt and senior Julianne Kurke smashed the school record in
the 200 medley relay last season, finishing in 1:39.10 at the Big Tens. Also returning is junior Annika Winsnes, who placed 13th overall in the 100 freestyle and earned a NCAA ‘B’ cut time of 49.39 at Big Tens. “We had a more successful season than the numbers might suggest,” junior co-captain Ellen Stello said. Kurke, her co-captain, agreed, citing the number of Norris Aquatic Center and academic-year records that fell last season. The Cats’ first competition will be the Alumnae Meet this Friday, which could be a chance to fine-tune details before the season gets fully underway. The team will then travel to a meet
hosted by the University of Chicago, where they will also face Denison and the University of Illinois at Chicago, on Oct. 24. The Big Ten competition gets underway the week after, with a meet at Illinois. Although they have yet to test themselves in competition, the swimmers feel good about their training so far this season. “I’ve never had practices this hard, the conditioning we’re doing is at a whole new level,” Kurke said. “Personally I feel like I’m in really good shape so I’m excited to see how that translates in the meets.” samueljohnson2019@u.northwestern.edu
Cats’ week highlighted by Zieba making the quarterfinals By GARRETT JOCHNAU
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Northwestern began its preseason tournament play this past week, as six Wildcats, led by juniors Konrad Zieba and Sam Shropshire, represented NU in the All-American Championships. Despite having to qualify for a spot in the main draw, Zieba headlined the Cats’ success, riding a wave of momentum to the tournament’s quarterfinals. Though eventual champion Thai-Son Kwiatkowski of Virginia — seeded third in the bracket and ranked eighth by the ITA — cut Zieba’s Cinderella run short, the unranked NU junior still managed to dispatch six opponents en route to the quarterfinals, including four ranked in the ITA’s Top 100. “I competed really well,” Zieba said. “It was a great opportunity to play against some of the top players and I gave myself a good chance. I’m just proud of myself mentally for being able to hang with some of the top guys in the country.“ Among those he sent packing were No. 26 Tin Ostojic (Wichita State), No. 13 Roberto Cid (South Florida) and No. 23 Dovydas Sakinis (Dartmouth). Despite entering the tournament unranked without a solidified spot in the main draw, Zieba’s success hardly shocked
teammates. “Personally, seeing him do well was no surprise to me,” Shropshire said. “Even though on paper one person was ranked higher, I always knew that Konrad was kind of the better player.” Shropshire, ranked No. 34 in the country, also enjoyed his fair share of success, though the two-time All-Big Ten performer hit his stride a match too late. Despite entering with a guaranteed spot in the main draw, he finished second in the consolation bracket after dropping his opening match to San Diego’s Jordan Angus, 6-4, 7-6 (3). “In the main draw, it was just one of those tough days,” Shropshire said. “I wasn’t as sharp as maybe I could have been.” Still, he defeated three ranked opponents in the consolation bracket before losing to No. 32 Mikael Torpegaard of Ohio State in the finals, 6-4, 6-4. “It was good to be able to rebound after losing that first round match,” Shropshire said. “That’s the good thing about having the consolation draw.” But although Shropshire saw the silver lining, NU’s second star of last season, junior Strong Kirchheimer, seemed wholly disappointed following the tournament. Like Zieba, Kirchheimer was placed in the qualifying draw. However, after opening with two wins, he lost in the final round
to Florida’s Alfredo Perez, 6-4, 0-6, 6-2. “Honestly, I had a couple nice wins and that was great, but I was frustrated when I lost that match because it was someone who I probably shouldn’t lose to,” Kirchheimer said. “I kind of just let it slip away.” Kirchheimer also saw room for improvement in his double’s play. He and longtime partner senior Fedor Baev lost in the second round of the qualifying draw after opening the draw with an emotional victory that saw the duo fall within a game of losing before eking out a victory. NU’s other doubles teams were also unable to qualify for a spot in the main doubles draw. Shropshire and junior Alp Horoz fell a match short, losing in a tiebreaker after opening the draw with two wins. Zieba and senior Mihir Kumar lost in straight sets in the opening round. With one tournament behind them, the Cats now have the road ahead for which to prepare. Next up for NU are the the Regional Championships at Notre Dame, which begin Oct. 22. “Regionals (are) coming up and that’s pretty big for us,” Kirchheimer said. “We’ve got most of our guys going to that and there’s a lot on the line there, playing guys from our conference. Ultimately we’re trying to win a Big Ten title and we have the forces to go and do it this year.” garrettjochnau2019@u.northwestern.edu
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RACKET POWER Junior Sam Shropshire readies his return. Shropshire was the runner-up in the consolation bracket at the All-American Championships, but it was junior teammate Konrad Zieba who stole the show for NU with an improbable run to the quarterfinals.