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Thursday, October 2, 2014
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NU joins mental health program By Sophia Bollag
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Northwestern has signed on to a new mental health initiative with more than 50 other colleges and universities, the founding non-profit organizations announced Wednesday. The Jed and Clinton Health Matters Campus Program aims to prevent suicide and fatal drug overdoses on college campuses. Schools in the program have pledged to work with the initiative for four years to increase mental health, suicide prevention and substance abuse programming and will use assessment tools provided by the program to evaluate these efforts. The program is a partnership of The Jed Foundation, an organization that promotes mental health and suicide prevention on college campuses, and the Clinton Foundation, the philanthropic organization of former president Bill Clinton and his family. “The Jed and Clinton Health Matters Campus Program helps schools by working with them to survey everything their university is doing to support their students’ emotional health, and find practical ways to augment these efforts in a comprehensive way,” John MacPhee, executive director of The Jed Foundation, said in a news release. “We believe that the implementation
of a campus-wide approach to mental health will lead to safer, healthier campuses.” Last academic year, the University was already planning to work with the framework provided by The Jed Foundation’s JedCampus initiative to gauge its mental health resources, John Dunkle, executive director of Counseling and Psychological Services, told The Daily last fall. That framework also addressed mental health as a campuswide issue, not one confined to CAPS, Dunkle added. “As I’ve said all along, addressing mental health and suicide prevention on a campus is a community issue, not just a counseling center (issue),” Dunkle told The Daily last fall. According to The Jed Foundation’s website, The Campus Program was launched June 2014 as the foundation’s new initiative to help colleges and universities improve their mental health resources. To begin the program, universities will conduct a self-assessment of their existing mental health and substance abuse prevention tactics. The Campus Program will provide participating universities will customized feedback based on their self-evaluations. Representatives from CAPS could not be reached for comment about NU’s involvement in The Campus Program. sophiabollag@u.northwestern.edu
Scholar talks youth role in Arab Spring
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Catching careers Students mill around at University Career Services’ fall internship and job fair, which was held over two days for the first time in about a decade. The fair drew about 1,100 students each day and was an effort by UCS to diversify the industries represented.
UCS expands fall job fair By Jeanne Kuang
dailt senior staffer @jeannekuang
A record number of nearly 150 companies met with students at the first two-day iteration of University Career Services’ fall internship and job fair in about a decade. The fair, which ran Tuesday and Wednesday in Norris University Center, drew about 1,100 students each day, UCS executive director Mark Presnell said. Presnell said the fair was extended to two days to showcase more employers than past fairs and to “emphasize increasing the opportunities in different industries.” Companies that attended the fair for the first time included General Mills and Colgate-
Palmolive. The expanded fair was one of several steps UCS has been taking since the summer to expand its services for a broader range of student career interests, Presnell said. Along with co-sponsoring more networking sessions with alumni through the Northwestern Alumni Association this summer and launching a “Jobs for ‘Cats” Twitter account in August, UCS reached out to career-focused campus groups to ask what companies students wanted to see represented at the fair. The feedback reflected companies from a wide variety of fields, Presnell said, adding UCS wants to broaden beyond the finance and consulting jobs traditionally offered at the career fair. Medill senior Allisha Azlan, who is interested in a career in journalism, attended both days of the career fair.
She said while she understands many media companies recruit students later in the academic year, she still found the fair heavily focused on finance and consulting. Students look at a list of employers represented at University Career Services’ fall internship and job fair Wednesday. Sean Su/Daily Senior Staffer Students look at a list of employers represented at University Career Services’ fall internship and job fair Wednesday. “I’m a journalism-history double major so I definitely felt very out of place,” Azlan said. “I understand a lot of positions they were looking for involved someone good with numbers or analytical thinking. As soon as I said » See career, page 6
City looks to rennovate park By Jennifer Ball
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YOUTH’S ROLE An audience of about 65 members of the Northwestern community listen to a talk by Juan Cole, an NU alumnus and authority on the Arab world. Cole discussed the importance of youth in recent events in Middle Eastern countries.
By Amulya Yalamanchili
the daily northwestern @amulyayala
An author and blogger who specializes in the Middle East spoke Wednesday night about the role of youth in modern Islamic movements. Hosted by the Roberta Buffett Center, Juan Cole (Weinberg ’75), a University of Michigan history professor, delivered his talk at Hardin Hall to a crowd of about 65 students,
graduates and faculty members. “It’s all about education, keeping track of the world around you and being a more informed global citizen,” said Laura Hayes, communication coordinator at the Buffett Center. “This topic has a lot of relevance in this day and age, and Cole has a lot to offer academically.” Cole, a frequent guest on television shows and prominent expert on the Arab world, promoted his recently released book, “The New » See cole, page 6
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Community members gave feedback Wednesday about projected renovations to Evanston’s Baker Park, which currently has 20-yearold equipment. About 40 people attended the meeting at Lincoln Elementary School, 910 Forest Ave., hosted by Ald. Melissa Wynne (3rd) and the city’s Public Works Department. Community members discussed their ideas for the park, located in south Evanston at Keeney Street and Forest Avenue. The location is scheduled for renovations to begin in 2015. Stefanie Levine, the park’s senior project manager, asked the community whether the new concept should be imaginative or traditional.
The conceptual designs include a new park with basketball courts and a new building to accommodate summer camps and serve as a voting station. The designs also incorporated a community garden and baseball fields. Two potential design options for the renovations were presented at the meeting. The first design had a projected cost of about $550,000 in total, and the second of about $580,000. The audience seemed split on their preferred design, Levine said. The new equipment will be geared toward children ages 2 to 5 and older children ages 5 to 12. The park is located near Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood and near the elementary school where the meeting was held. The Wednesday meeting followed similar talks that occurred in July between the community and city officials about potential park
renovations. Residents addressed several issues during the meeting, including whether the newly built basketball courts should be placed near the street or in the interior of the park. There was no consensus on the location of the basketball courts at the end of the event. Another attendee brought up the necessity to conserve trees, saying they provide shade for children to play comfortably. Some community members wanted an area for adults to spend time. However, Levine said at a meeting in June parents primarily presented concerns about their small children. Other community members expressed concern about whether or not their opinions would be taken into consideration in regard to the final renovations. Future » See baker PARK, page 6
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