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Wednesday, September 23, 2015
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New app links NUhelp services By MARIANA ALFARO
daily senior staffer @marianaa_alfaro
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ROLLIN’ BACK Rollin’ To Go sandwiches will be served starting next month at D&D Finer Foods. Rollin’ to Go, a popular sandwich shop, closed its doors in July due to financial and legal troubles.
D&D to offer Rollin’ to Go food By JULIA JACOBS
daily senior staffer @juliarebeccaj
Rollin’ To Go sandwiches will be served starting next month at D&D Finer Foods, a grocery store just down the road from the recently closed restaurant, D&D ownership said Tuesday. Tim Camastro, the former owner of Rollin’, will make select recipes for the grocery store’s deli at 825 Noyes St. beginning sometime in October, said D&D owner Kosta Douvikas. The made-to-order sandwich shop, previously at 910 Noyes St., shut its doors this summer due to financial trouble and legal conflicts, Camastro told The Daily in July. The closing was a blow to many Northwestern students and city staff members who frequented the sandwich shop during lunch hours. Camastro did not immediately respond to request for comment.
Douvikas, whose father started the specialty foods grocery store in 1963, said he reached out to Camastro in September to start making sandwiches at his deli. The store will serve about eight of Camastro’s most popular sandwiches, Douvikas said. “As small business owners, we like to help each other out at every step of the way,” he said. Douvikas said he and Camastro are longtime friends. Both their fathers ran separate small businesses when they grew up in Evanston. Rollin’ To Go opened over a decade ago as a spinoff of Rollin’ in Dough, a pizzeria and catering company Camastro’s father and uncle started in the 1980s. The store was three doors down from the sandwich shop’s old Noyes Street location. “His family has been here just as long as we’ve been here,” Douvikas said. “We’re the new generation taking over.” Ravi Umarji (McCormick ’10) said there was an outpouring of
disappointment among alumni on social media when the sandwich shop’s closure went public. Umarji said he reached out to Camastro shortly after the closure to offer financial assistance from Lending for Evanston and Northwestern Development, a microfinance organization he co-founded as an NU senior. Although the agreement between LEND and Rollin’ did not work out, Umarji said he is pleased to see the return of a community mainstay known for quality food and service. McCormick senior Daniel Wedig, who created his own sandwich at Rollin’ with his friend almost two years ago, said he was shocked to hear about the shop’s closure over the summer. “It was kind of hard to believe because it seemed like they did really good businesses,” Wedig said. “It’s promising that maybe we’ll get to eat some of our favorite sandwiches again.” juliajacobs2018@u.northwestern.edu
NUhelp, a new smartphone application dedicated to safety and wellness for Northwestern students, was introduced last week during Wildcat Welcome. “(NUhelp) is specific to health and wellness as well as safety and security, a place where people can share concerns,” Dean of Students Todd Adams said. A team of developers, in collaboration with Associated Student Government and Adams’ office, will soon begin a campaign to promote the app to returning students and other members of the NU community, especially after it was wellreceived by members of the freshman class and transfer students. The app, which is a mobile version of the NUhelp website, provides students with an array of different resources like campus maps and contact information for campus offices, such as the Center for Awareness, Response and Education and Counseling and Psychological Services. “It’s a one-stop shop for all of the resources,” said Anthony Kirchmeier, the director of off-campus life. “It gives people a response pathway in their hands,
on their phones.” SafeWalk, one of the app’s features, is designed to help students safely travel around campus. Students use the feature by choosing a destination on or near campus and then set an estimated time of how long it will take them to walk there. If a student fails to reach the destination within their time limit, a notification will be sent to a designated contact who is prompted to call University Police and inform them about the missing student. The feature can then be used to track that missing student’s location. This feature was one of the hardest to create for the application because it required collaboration between UP and the app, developer Hao Luo said. SafeWalk is not available yet for the Chicago campus, the service might be extended to the Chicago campus in the future, Adams said. The newest version of NUhelp is available to download for both Android and iPhone smartphones, with minimal differences between smartphone platforms. “One technical challenge was developing a singular application that will work on both iPhone and Android,” said Chris Walker, another software » See NUHELP, page 6
Proposed high-rise targets NU students By JULIA JACOBS
daily senior staffer @juliarebeccaj
A plan to build Evanston’s first largescale private student housing faces concerns from city staff and residents about issues such as the building’s height. The 14-story high-rise, which is still in its preliminary planning stages, would occupy a lot near Northwestern’s campus just west of the intersection of Emerson
Street and Sherman Avenue. After a few meetings with representatives from the developers, city staff has taken issue with the proposed building’s size and inadequate amount of parking, said Mark Muenzer, the city’s community development coordinator. The apartment building, proposed for 831 Emerson St., would have 297 units — one-third of which are studio apartments, Muenzer said. The project » See EMERSON, page 6
Up to Date
City medical marijuana dispensary moves closer to opening By STEPHANIE KELLY
daily senior staffer @StephanieKellyM
Catch up on the biggest ongoing news stories affecting Northwestern and Evanston with The Daily’s new explainer series: Up to Date. A medical marijuana dispensary could open in Evanston as early as next month, the dispensary said last week. Staff of the incoming dispensary — named Pharmacannis — have been seeking to obtain a license to operate since the state announced in February that the company’s application was the highestscoring in the region. Gov. Bruce Rauner then authorized the company to take steps to open a dispensary in the city. The state is scheduled to inspect the dispensary at 1804 Maple Ave. in
mid-October, Pharmacannis CEO Teddy Scott said. Construction at the location is almost complete, he added. The inspection is the last part of a four-step process Pharmacannis must go through to obtain a license for an Evanston dispensary, Scott said. “It’s incredibly thorough, very detailed, so it requires a lot of time,” he said. Once inspected, Pharmacannis will be authorized to operate, but there may be no product to sell to customers immediately. The dispensary must wait to purchase a product from a cultivator. Scott said he is not sure whether it will be in October or November that the dispensary will be fully in operation. In August, the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, which selected the original dispensary applicants, announced the registration of the first medical marijuana dispensary in the state.
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Former Gov. Pat Quinn’s medical cannabis pilot program, effective Jan. 1, 2014, restricted the region containing Evanston and Niles Township to one dispensary. The Evanston location of Pharmacannis will be convenient for Chicago’s north side residents, said Paul Zalmezak, an Evanston economic development official. Unlike other Illinois dispensary sites, the Maple location is owned by the city. Pharmacannis staff and city officials have negotiated the terms of the lease, and the company began paying rent in August, Zalmezak said. “I think this is going to work out for the city, and it’s going to work out for the company that’s been awarded the license,” city manager Wally Bobkiewicz told The Daily in February. Aldermen earlier this year passed a 6-percent tax at the wholesale level on the profits cultivation centers make on cannabis sales to dispensaries.
The state does not allow a dispensary to tax a patient for the cannabis, Zalmezak said. Therefore, the city will generate tax revenue by taxing the dispensary’s purchases from the center, he said. The city estimates it will collect roughly $117,656 in taxes from the new business, Zalmezak said. The estimate assumes there would be at most 25 patients per day and a wholesale cost of $125 per ounce of medical marijuana. Although the city is in essence the landlord of the property, the state is the only entity with regulation power over the medical cannabis, Zalmezak said. In addition to the increased tax revenue for the city, there are other reasons to have a dispensary in Evanston, Zalmezak said. “If we can bring others from other communities into Evanston to get healthy, we’re proud of that,” he said. stephaniekelly2017@u.northwestern.edu
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ALMOST OPEN The site of Evanston’s potential medical marijuana dispensary at 1804 Maple Ave. is currently under construction.
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