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Humanities festival visits city
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Wallace Shawn speaks on plays, privilege
about his interactions with Gerhartsreiter and how he discovered Gerhartsreiter’s past. In 1998, Kirn and his then-wife Maggie Kirn lived in Montana. Kirn said Gerhartsreiter called his wife, who worked at the local Humane Society, and expressed interest in adopting a paraplegic dog that had been nursed back to health. Kirn said he and his wife agreed to put the dog up for adoption and Gerhartsreiter asked Kirn to deliver
A Northwestern football player has been suspended from the team after being arrested in connection with underage intoxication early Sunday morning, according to the Hamilton County Justice Center. Redshirt freshman linebacker Brett Walsh was stopped with a Cincinnati Bearcats football player during a breaking and entering investigation and displayed behavior “consistent with being intoxicated,” according Hamilton County Municipal Court documents obtained by the Cincinnati Enquirer. Both Walsh, 19, and Marcus Tappan, 19, were charged with disorderly conduct while intoxicated, possession of a fake ID and underage consumption, a Hamilton County Justice Center officer said. Coach Pat Fitzgerald released a statement Sunday afternoon. “We’re disappointed to learn of the events that were reported to have taken place this weekend involving Brett Walsh, “ he said in the statement. “He has been suspended immediately. We hold all of our student-athletes to a high standard that was apparently not met in this instance.” Walsh, a California resident, and Tappan were released from Hamilton County Justice Center on Sunday afternoon. Walsh was released after posting $650, which was 10 percent of his $6,500 bond. Tappan’s bond was set at $2,500 and he posted $250. Walsh’s bond was higher because Tappan has an in-state address, an intake officer at the Hamilton County Justice Center said. Walsh will be arraigned in Hamilton County court on Monday at 12:30 p.m. The Wildcats did not have a game this weekend and will face Iowa on Saturday.
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Actor, playwright and activist Wallace Shawn spoke at Northwestern on Sunday night about his plays and his beliefs about privilege. Shawn, who is known for his acting roles in “The Princess Bride” and “Gossip Girl” and his voiceovers in “Toy Story,” spoke to a full audience at Cahn Auditorium about the political messages in his plays and his personal journey to understanding his own views. “Reading and then traveling leads to thinking,” he said. “Thinking about some of the realities we face.” American society is ignorant to the mistreatment of poorer people in the world, Shawn said. He included himself in the accusation that the “privileged” often enjoy things while overlooking the misery of others. The Chicago Humanities Festival, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary, hosted the speech as part of its fourth annual Morris and Dolores Kohl Kaplan Northwestern Day. This year’s theme “Journeys” centered on both the » See Wallace, page 7
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FALSE PRETENSES Author Walter Kirn signs a copy of his book after speaking Saturday as part of the Chicago Humanities Festival. His memoir, “Blood Will Out,” details his interactions with Christian Gerhartsreiter, who conned many under the name Clark Rockefeller.
Author gives Chicago Humanities talk on his friendship with convicted killer By Peter Kotecki
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Author Walter Kirn spoke at Northwestern on Saturday about his memoir chronicling his friendship with a man who turned out to be a con artist and a convicted murderer. As part of the Chicago Humanities Festival, Kirn spoke to a packed Harris Hall about his book “Blood Will Out,” which tells the story of his connection with Christian Gerhartsreiter,
who went by the name of Clark Rockefeller. Gerhartsreiter’s captivating demeanor fooled Kirn and many others for years, the author said. CHF executive director Phillip Bahar said this was the fourth annual Morris and Dolores Kohl Kaplan Northwestern Day and commended this year’s lineup. “It’s always inspiring to partner with our Northwestern colleagues and, most specifically, the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities,” Bahar said in an email to The Daily. During the event, Kirn talked
New OFSL director hopes to strengthen community By Emily Chin
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Cynthia Rose, Northwestern’s new director of fraternity and sorority life, said she thinks being a part of Greek life can be the most influential piece of a person’s life. “It can reclassify your values, it can introduce you to new and different beliefs, different levels of diversity and different opinions,” she said. “It can honestly make a person a better person.”
Rose, who started at the University last week, said she is on a “big listening tour” as she gets to know the NU community. For the next few weeks she will meet with students in the Greek community to hear what they want to accomplish, she said. Rose became interested in fraternity and sorority life when she was an undergraduate at Drexel University. At Drexel, she was president of her sorority, Delta Zeta, interned in the fraternity and sorority office and won national awards for her work in the Greek community.
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“I immediately realized that this had the potential,” she said, “not just me realizing that this was a good thing for a transfer student to make friends, but for me to be an amazing leader, to make an impact on something.” After graduating from college, she worked at the University of Missouri in residence life, which prompted her to go to graduate school at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where she earned her masters in student affairs. Following graduate school, Rose oversaw Greek life at many colleges, most recently at
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Northeastern University. “I really just bought into completely the fraternity and sorority community,” she said. “It’s been a constant theme in my career.” She decided to apply for position at NU because she didn’t get to experience much of the Greek life aspect of the job at Northeastern, she said. “I wanted to give back,” Rose said. “I wanted to allow students to have the unbelievable experience that I had.” Rose said she focuses on building relationships when she works with students.
She still speaks on the phone every week with the Panhellenic Association president at Rollins College, where she worked from 2010 to 2012. Weinberg senior Kyle Sieber, president of the Interfraternity Council, said he has not yet had the chance to meet with Rose at length. “I am looking forward to getting to know her and to working with her to continue to strengthen the Greek and IFC communities,” Sieber said in an email to The Daily. emailhere@u.northwestern.edu
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