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Wednesday, September 30, 2015
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Senator crashes Dems meeting By EMILY CHIN
daily senior staffer @emchin24
Illinois State Sen. Napoleon Harris, a Northwestern alum, surprised attendees at the first NU College Democrats meeting of the year Tuesday night. Harris (Communication ‘01) told The Daily he noticed the event on Twitter and decided to stop by after speaking at a different event. About 20 minutes into the meeting, the Democratic senator stepped in without warning to engage with students and talk about his upcoming campaign for U.S. Senate. “It was Northwestern, so me being a former student-athlete here, it was important for me to come back where it all started for me,” Harris, who played on the football team as a student, told The Daily. Prominent political figures have shown up unannounced to College Democrats meetings in the past, as
the group has a strong public presence, said president Robert Bourret, a SESP junior. Harris, a Chicago native and former NFL star, spoke about how his NU experience and subsequent football background helped him in his political career. He noted that throughout his first state Senate run, voters did not think much of him due to his lack of political experience. However, he was able to focus on his broad life experience — ranging from growing up in a low-income family to rising as a football star — and was able to eventually connect with voters, he said. “It was so many different ways of connecting with people,” he said to a room of more than 50 students. “(People) thought football was going to become a negative thing when it was really a way of connecting with people.” For Harris, serving as senator was a chance to give back to the » See HARRIS, page 5
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NU grads earn above median By MARIANA ALFARO
daily senior staffer @marianaa_alfaro
Northwestern graduates who receive federal financial aid during their time at NU have a median yearly income of $64,100 10 years after graduation — nearly $30,000 more than the national average, according to the U.S. Department of Education’s recently released “College Scorecard.” The profile’s data looks at average SAT scores, cost of attendance, graduation and retention rates, financial
EPD officer seen sleeping in squad car faces discipline Emily Chin/Daily Senior Staffer
FROM GRIDIRON TO GOVERNMENT State Sen. Napoleon Harris speaks about his Northwestern football experience and encourages students to join his campaign for U.S. Senate. Harris surprised College Democrats with a visit at their first meeting of the year Tuesday night.
Driver in fatal car crash charged with DUI
The driver in a car crash that killed an Evanston resident early Sunday morning was found to have been intoxicated at the time of the incident. Evanston police charged the 42-year-old woman who was driving the car at the time of the crash with aggravated driving under the influence, a felony. A 45-year-old passenger in the car, Lamart Bailey, died Sunday morning after the car struck multiple parked vehicles in the 1700 block of Dodge Avenue at about 2:20 a.m., causing the car he was in to roll
over, police said. Bailey, a U.S. Army Veteran, was pronounced dead after being transported to Evanston Hospital. The driver, Monica Wallace, was also taken to the hospital and was in stable condition as of Monday morning, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan told The Daily. Wallace, an Evanston resident, was also charged with a misdemeanor for driving under the influence and issued four traffic-related citations for disobeying a red light, driving in the wrong lane, a lack of insurance and failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident. Wallace is scheduled to appear Oct. 9 at 9 a.m. in the Skokie Courthouse.
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An Evanston police officer photographed sleeping at the wheel of his squad car Friday night will be disciplined by the department, police said. The officer was pictured sleeping in his patrol car at about 11:30 p.m
Police suspect man entered female student residences
Police suspect the same man entered the bedrooms of three female Northwestern students in two separate incidents Sunday morning, an official said. Police were called to a house across the street from campus in the 1900 block of Orrington Avenue at about 6 a.m. after a 21-year-old female resident heard someone attempting to enter her locked bedroom door, said Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan. When the woman’s roommates did not respond to her text messages, she called the police, Dugan said. Another resident of the house, a
aid and debt and median post-grad earnings for thousands of colleges across the nation. President Barack Obama announced plans to create this government site in 2013 to track college performances across the nation and serve as an information center for prospective college students. NU’s median post-graduation salary for students receiving federal financial aid is the highest among Big Ten schools. The University of Maryland trails with the second-highest post-graduation salary for that student demographic at $59,100. Similar students at the University of Michigan receive the third-highest median
post-graduation salary a decade after school at $57,900. NU also has a higher graduation rate and post-graduation salary among students who received federal aid than its geographically closest competitor, the University of Chicago, which has a median postgraduation salary of $62,800. However, NU lags behind some Ivy League institutions such as Harvard University, Cornell University and the University of Pennsylvania, which all have median post-graduation salaries above $70,000 for students who
while parked outside Cinemark Century Theatres, 1715 Maple Ave. The photo “made the rounds on social media” before it came to the Evanston Police Department’s attention the following morning, said police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan. The officer, who was working a double shift when the photo was taken, took full responsibility for his mistake, Dugan said. “It’s still unacceptable, it’s embarrassing,” Dugan told The Daily. “He’s
a good officer with no discipline issues in the past. It’s definitely not consistent with his behavior or the department’s standards.” Once the internal affairs department reviews the incident, a police supervisor will review the case and make a recommendation for the officer’s punishment, Dugan said. The police chief must approve the final disciplinary action.
19-year-old woman, told police she was laying in bed that morning when an unknown man entered her room, he said. The woman told police the man was lifting the sheet off her bed when she said “excuse me,” causing him to turn around and leave the room. The women described the intruder as a man between 20 and 25 years old, about 6 feet tall and between 150 and 160 pounds, Dugan said. They also said the man wore a black shirt and light colored blue jeans and was either white or Hispanic, Dugan said. Police found the rear door of the house unlocked with no signs of forced entry, Dugan said. Later that day at about 1 p.m., police received a call from two women living at a house in the 1900 block of Sherman Avenue reporting a similar incident that
occurred earlier that morning. One of the women, who are both 21, told police a man had opened her bedroom door and entered the room at about 6 a.m., Dugan said. When the woman spoke up, the man apologized and left the room. The other woman said the man also entered her room, where he activated a lighter before she said something, causing him to leave the room, Dugan said. Both women had thought the man was a guest in the house before realizing in the morning he was not. Police believe the incidents are connected because they occurred near to one another at about the same time, Dugan said. The two homes on Orrington and Sherman avenues are about two blocks apart.
» See EARNINGS, page 5
— Julia Jacobs
— Julia Jacobs
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