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Monday, September 28, 2015
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International student enrollment peaks
Daily file photo by Zack Laurence
ALL-TIME HIGH New Wildcats dash across Deering Meadow this Wildcat Welcome prior to taking their class photo. The number of international students hit a record high this year.
By ALLYSON CHIU
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Before coming to the United States from Thailand, McCormick freshman Akhil Shanishettihad never attended an American football game. He finally got his chance at the game against Eastern Illinois University this month during Wildcat Welcome, running with the rest of his new classmates as part of the Wildcat Dash tradition before kickoff. Shanishetti is just one of the 1,700
undergraduate and graduate international students Northwestern welcomed this year — a record for the University, said Ravi Shankar, director of the International Office. This increase brings NU one step closer to achieving its globalization goals set in the University’s strategic plan, he said. “Globalization includes how the University goes about increasing financial aid for international undergraduate students, where we should be in the world and how we globalize the curriculum,” Shankar said. “It’s a steady planned growth of international students.”
Since the plan was announced in 2011, international enrollment has been on the rise, according to NU’s 2014-2015 International Student and Scholars Statistics report. NU’s international population has increased to more than 6,000 undergraduate and graduate students compared to 4,329 last year. NU administrators said this is largely due to four factors: intensified efforts to reach out to international communities, increased financial aid, effective pre-orientation programs and a supportive oncampus environment. “Our exposure is better than ever
before,” said Michael Mills, associate provost for University enrollment. “We travel more internationally to recruit than we’ve ever have.” According to the International Office’s statistics report, the highest represented country for NU’s undergraduate and graduate population during the 2014-2015 year was China, with 1,164 students enrolled, followed by India with 369 and South Korea with 286. Compared to the 20122013 year, the number of students from Brazil increased from 53 to 97; the number of students from Turkey increased from 47 to 93; and the number of students from
Mexico increased from 58 to 76. Thailand and Israel, which before had not made the top 10 most represented countries, had 91 and 55 students, respectively. Mills said University President Morton Schapiro is also actively connecting with students overseas. “Morty has helped in an interesting way,” Mills said. “He travels so much internationally, and he’s always hosting events for alumni and prospective students. He also meets with the editorial boards of a lot of international papers and T.V. stations.” » See INTERNATIONAL, page 9
Fitzerland canceled Council tightens gun range rules after new restrictions By JULIA JACOBS
By ALICE YIN
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Wildside canceled Fitzerland, its student-run tailgate area, for Saturday’s home football game against Ball State University following almost two years of mounting restrictions. The student group, which works to promote student attendance at athletics events, announced Friday it would no longer host the official student tailgate. Northwestern Athletics still hosted a tailgate event before the game Saturday, as part of its Wildcat Alley tailgate series. Department spokesman Paul Kennedy said in an email to The Daily on Friday afternoon he did not have information on the future of Fitzerland. “It was mainly called off because we could not garner enough student support,” said SESP junior Evan Frost, co-president of Wildside. “The new guidelines, while somewhat reasonable, created too much of an obstacle for student groups to come up in big numbers … I don’t think we’re blaming anyone, we just didn’t have enough time.” Dean of Students Todd Adams met with Wildside on Friday morning and agreed with the decision to cancel the tailgate. He said in an email to The Daily that moving forward, they will discuss more gameday opportunities with students as the season progresses.
Past Fitzerland tailgates brought together different student groups to host booths at the event. This year, Wildside could not wrangle enough student groups by the end of Thursday night, Frost said. Lacking cooperation from large groups, particularly the Interfraternity Council, Wildside decided to cancel the event. “There was not enough time for Wildside to properly promote the event to students, for us to find members to staff and monitor the event and do all the things you need to do to make it a successful tailgate,” said Weinberg junior Eric Lombardo, Wildside’s vice president of outreach. “We didn’t feel there was any option other than to not host it.” After NU’s win against Duke Sept. 19, Wildside received positive support from other students for a student tailgate to return, Frost said. However, he said there had been no communication about the event among Wildside, NU Athletics and administrators until Wildside received an email from the athletic department on Wednesday proposing new regulations. The new rules suggested mainly deviated from the previous season by capping alcohol brought in to 12 cans per person, according to the email, which was obtained by The Daily. Frost said this regulation concerned Wildside because beer is not always sold in packs of 12. The student group also wanted to » See FITZERLAND, page 9
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Aldermen voted last week to add several requirements for gun ranges to obtain a license in Evanston, continuing an effort to regulate potential gun sales in the city following evolved federal and state gun laws. After an Illinois Supreme Court decision legalizing concealed carry in the state, City Council approved in June five regions in which gun ranges could set up shop with a special-use permit. Last week, aldermen voted to bolster regulations on those potential gun ranges, including application requirements, license conditions, insurance requirements and right of inspection. “We can’t ban them entirely, but we can regulate them. And we should regulate them as much as possible,” Ald. Brian Miller (9th) said. “We are going to be watching them like a hawk if they should come to town.” The two-phase process of regulating gun sales and instruction started at the beginning of the
Evanston man killed in car crash on Dodge Avenue
A 45-year-old Evanston resident was killed Sunday morning in a car accident, Evanston police said. Lamart Bailey was a passenger
summer, when aldermen restricted gun ranges to within 350 feet of certain residentially zoned districts, as well as schools, child daycare facilities or public parks with special-use permits. At the Sept. 21 meeting, the council added extra hurdles that Miller said he hopes will deter potential gun ranges from even applying for space in Evanston. Ald. Donald Wilson (4th) said the regulations are meant to limit rather than condone gun use in the city. “If you don’t have a rule as to where they could be, someone could come in and make an argument that it can be anywhere,” Wilson said. “If you ask me, I think we should have the ability to limit what kind of guns people should have, but the Supreme Court doesn’t agree with me.” In a September 2013 decision, the Supreme Court of Illinois held that the state’s ban on carrying guns outside the home is unconstitutional due to its violation of the Second Amendment. Illinois was the last state in the country to lift its ban on concealed carry outside the home after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2008 for an individual’s right to
possess a firearm. “The fallout of that is that local jurisdiction has had to jump into the fanfare and regulate them pretty much any way we can,” Ald. Jane Grover (7th) said. Several members of the community opposed the council’s decision earlier in the summer, Wilson said. Despite the council’s effort to limit gun instruction and sales as much as possible, individuals voiced concern in the council chambers and on social media over loosening gun laws in the city, he said. One local gun-violence prevention organization, People for a Safer Society, was involved in working with the city’s law department in crafting the recently passed rules and regulations, Grover said. The group started shortly after the shooting of Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, nearly three years ago, said Denyse Stoneback, the group’s founder. Stoneback said her group worked with the city to increase the distance required between gun ranges and residential areas or buildings, such
in a car in the 1700 block of Dodge Avenue when the car struck multiple parked cars on both sides of the street, causing the car he was in to roll over, police said. Bailey was extracted from the car and transported to Evanston Hospital where he was pronounced dead. The crash occurred around 2:20 a.m. The driver of the car, a 42-year-old
Evanston resident, was also transported to the hospital. She remains in serious, but stable condition. Officials are investigating the cause of the crash. Police said it is unknown whether drugs or alcohol were a factor. Bailey was a U.S. Army Veteran.
» See FIREARM RANGES, page 9
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