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City restaurants to return Sustained Dialogue
grows in 2nd year By ALICE YIN
the daily northwestern @alice__yin
Daily file photo by Sean Hong
NEW AND IMPROVED Lulu’s, pictured above, closed in February after 21 years. Owners plan to reopen the restaurnat along with Taco Diablo, which was destroyed by a fire in 2013.
proposal to demolish and reconstruct the building, Kelch said. Both restaurants shuttered last academic year. Taco Diablo was destroyed by a fire in Decemeber 2013, and Kelch closed Lulu’s in February, saying it was profitable but only running on “cruise control.” Kelch said he never intended for the businesses to leave Evanston permanently, mentioning in his closing announcement on the Lulu’s website that he hoped to rebuild Lulu’s with Taco Diablo.
By PAIGE LESKIN
daily senior staffer @paigeleskin
Former Evanston restaurants Taco Diablo and Lulu’s may be making a comeback. Co-owners Daniel Kelch and Marty Cless plan to reopen both restaurants in June 2015 in the same building at 1026 Davis St. Construction could start as soon as next month depending on how fast City Council approves their
» See TACO DIABLO, page 9
» See DIALOGUE, page 9
Tinder-like app comes to NU
NU to hold memorial for Mihir Boddupalli
Northwestern will remember McCormick senior Mihirtej Boddupalli in a memorial service on Oct. 16. Boddupalli was killed in a July drunk driving accident after a car he was riding in crashed into a waterfilled quarry. The driver, McCormick senior Michael Szot, was able to escape, but Boddupalli and fellow passenger Indiana University senior Sajaad Syed drowned. McCormick senior Brad Winters is planning the memorial along with Dean of Students Todd Adams, Associated Student Government Executive Vice President Erik Zorn and the Chaplain’s Office. Winters and Boddupalli were fraternity brothers in Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity. Winters said some University officials will speak at the memorial and Brown Sugar and Freshman Fifteen will perform. He also said students will have the opportunity to share memories. “Mihir was somebody who had a really profound impact on people,” he said. “This is a time to celebrate his life and share stories about him.” Winters added he wants as many members of the NU community
A year after its inception, leaders of Northwestern’s Sustained Dialogue tout the success of the student-facilitated discussion program, which drew an increasing number of participants this fall and inspired a plan to potentially include faculty in future quarters. The program, which is on 30 campuses around the world through the Washington D.C.-based Sustained Dialogue Campus Network, brings about 10 students together each week for a quarter to share their experiences with issues such as race, class and gender. More than 300 students participated last year in about 10 groups per quarter. This quarter, at least 12 groups are set to begin next week and sign-ups are still ongoing. “I think a lot of Northwestern students find the campus fairly fractured,” said Weinberg senior Allie Rawson, co-director of Sustained Dialogue. “The goal is to create friendships between people who otherwise wouldn’t get a chance to know each other well.” The group’s leadership team and the ASG Campus Inclusion and Community subcommittee hope to include faculty in some Sustained Dialogues in upcoming quarters. “We want to keep the spaces relevant to the participants’ experiences,” SESP Senior Austin Romero, ASG vice president of diversity and inclusion, wrote in a message to The Daily. “We want faculty to engage in
dialogue around their experiences teaching in and around diversity.” Rawson said the idea to bring Sustained Dialogue to NU was inspired by past instances of discrimination on campus, inlcuding the ski team’s “Racist Olympics” and the egging of two Asian students. In reaction to these incidents, Dialogue at Deering was created in Spring 2012 to increase understanding and respect between different groups at NU. About 300 students attended the first dialogue. A pilot program for Sustained Dialogue launched after that spring, and the official program began in Fall 2013. The program, though funded by the University, is primarily student-driven. Students who participated last year can apply to become moderators for this year’s groups. Sustained Dialogue leaders are currently working to make the moderator training more “tailored to Northwestern needs,” said Rawson. Each group creates their own ground rules, although generally they have a policy of “what happens in the group, stays in the group,” said Rawson. Sometimes, groups have projects at the end of the quarter tackling a problem they want to address. “The biggest different in Sustained Dialogue is that it’s not really about changing anyone’s minds,” Rawson said. “It’s about understanding how they came to the opinion they came to.” Sustained Dialogue has sparked ideas for endeavors outside of the
By ANNIE BRUCE
daily senior staffer @anniefb13
Source: Dhruv Boddupalli
Mihirtej Boddupalli
as possible to attend the service. He emphasized that Boddupalli’s absence not only impacts his friends, but all of NU. At NU, Boddupalli was a manager at Campus Solutions and worked as a fellow at the Medill Justice Project during the summer of 2012. The service will be held from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on the Norris University Center East Lawn.
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A new matchmaking app that will match up interested students as “friends,” “hook-ups” or “dates” is launching at Northwestern on Sunday night. Friendsy, an app designed by two Princeton University seniors, offers students a way to interact exclusively with other students at their school. Graham Derfner, a Friendsy campus representative for NU, said the app will be available for students to download on iPhone and Android phones on Sept. 28 at 8 p.m. “We wanted to create a way for students on campuses to take more advantage of the amazing people that are around you and branch out of your social circles in a risk free way,” said Michael Pinsky, one of the founders of Friendsy. Similar to apps like Tinder, Friendsy allows students to view other profiles and indicate whether they would like to “friend,” “hook-up” or “date” the user, depending on their level of interest. The user will only be notified of a match if another student
selects the same option. “Everybody’s secrets are kept super safe,” Pinsky said. “It’s sort of a win-win way to put yourself out there.” Derfner, a Weinberg sophomore, joined the Friendsy team after Pinsky reached out to him about expanding to NU. “The platform is made to connect people,” he said. “I think it’s a great thing to connect campus … and I love that it’s very inclusive to Northwestern only.” Though the app has launched at 41 schools across the country, students log in using their school email addresses, making each Friendsy community unique and exclusive to that school. Pinsky said more than 20,000 users have signed up nationwide and the app has made almost 200,000 mutual matches since its launch. Friendsy also features a Murmur feed, which is a constantly updated feed of compliments, overheard comments and pictures. “One of the great things about us, that separates us from other apps like Yik Yak, for example, is that everything is moderated,” Pinsky said. “We monitor for negativity and anything that’s racist or homophobic or anything like that
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FRIENDS OR BENEFITS? Friendsy, a new matchmaking app created at Princeton University, will launch at Northwestern Sunday night. Students can sign up with a University-issued email.
won’t go through. It’s a very positive process.” After Friendsy’s initial launch as a website at Princeton in May 2013, Pinsky and co-founder Vaidhy » See FRIENDSY, page 9
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