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The Daily NorthwesternDAILYNORTHWESTERN.COM Find us online @thedailynuWednesday, September 26, 2012
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ETHS student mural covers viaduct gra� ti site
By MARSHALL COHENdaily senior staffer
� e search for missing Northwest-ern student Harsha Maddula intensi� ed Tuesday as FBI o� cials arrived on the scene and search parties scoured cam-pus and downtown Evanston.
Family and friends of the McCor-mick sophomore, many � ying in from the East Coast, congregated through-out the day in front of University Police headquarters.
Harsha, 18, was last seen early Sat-urday morning leaving a party in the 2000 block of Ridge Avenue. His friends � rst told UP of his disappearance later that day and the University sent out a campus-wide alert Monday night.
University spokesman Al Cubbage told reporters Tuesday morning that the administration has taken steps to expand the investigation into Harsha’s disappearance. Previously, the missing person case was handled internally by UP.
UP o� cials met with members of the FBI on Tuesday, and the Evanston Police Department has assigned detectives to the case as well, Cubbage said. State and county law enforcement agencies have also been noti� ed of the situation.
� e U.S. Coast Guard, which was involved in the most recent high-pro� le search for a missing NU student, is not currently participating in this investiga-tion, according to a Coast Guard o� cial who oversees operations around Lake Michigan.
During the investigation, UP repeat-edly searched Harsha’s one-person room in Public A� airs Residential College,
reviewed security camera footage from the dorm and checked his electronic key and cell phone. Police concluded he has not been in the dorm since he le Friday night and that the searches turned up no new leads about his current where-abouts, Cubbage said.
“� is is the start of our school year, so it’s really a tough time for the family and a tough time for the university,” Cubbage
said. “It’s a matter of great concern.”� e student’s parents, Prasad and
Dhanalakshmi Maddula, arrived in Evanston late Monday night. � ey met Tuesday with University President Mor-ton Schapiro, as well as o� cials from UP and the Division of Student A� airs.
“Everybody is upset and sad that we cannot � nd him a er almost three days now,” Prasad said. “� is is the fourth day
and we want them to get him — that’s the bottom line.”
Holding back tears, Dhanalakshmi said her son is a quiet boy with only a small group of friends.
“He likes to study and he worked so hard to come here,” she said.
Surekha Maddula, Harsha’s aunt, le her medical residency at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York on Tuesday to be
with the family in Evanston and help organize search parties at NU.
In all, about four groups of 20 people each searched both on and o� campus, posting � yers and looking for traces of the missing student, Surekha said. Stu-dents, alumni and Evanston residents, as well as Harsha’s family and friends, were all part of the e� ort.
Members of the South Asian Student Alliance, which Harsha was involved with last year, participated in the searches
Tuesday. Stu-dents from the Muslim-cultural Stu-dent Associa-tion and the International Student Asso-ciation also contributed.
“Anyone who could just dropped whatever they were doing and helped
out,” said SASA Co-President Nikhil Bhagwat, a Weinberg junior.
In addition to promoting the search e� ort, Surekha has acted as a fam-ily spokesman for the reporters that descended on campus Tuesday. News of Harsha’s disappearance spread quickly beyond Evanston to Chicago’s main newspapers, television networks and radio stations. Media in New York City picked up on the story, as did some national news outlets, including FOX News and the Hu� ngton Post.
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Student aid rises after tuition hike
By ALLY MUTNICKthe daily northwestern
More than half of Northwestern students are sharing a record num-ber of financial aid.
This year, 51 percent of students, not including athletes, will receive a fraction of the allotted $118 mil-lion — an 11.4 percent increase in financial aid from last year. Accord-ing to data from the office of uni-versity enrollment, this is the high-est amount distributed in at least seven years.
Aid has risen consistently, nearly doubling from the 44.9 percent of non-athlete students who received about $64 million in 2006.
The increase comes in the form of a combination of tuition hikes and the admittance of more low-income students, according to Michael Mills, the associate provost for university enrollment.
The University has made it a goal to accept more low-income students, Mills said. This year, 708 students were given financial aid packages made up entirely of grants rather than loans. This number has
risen by about 200 students since 2008.
“We are admitting more stu-dents who are very needy which is a good, important, laudable thing to do because those students across our peer set are vastly underrepre-sented,” Mills said.
Though tuition increases every year, with a 4.3 percent rise for the 2012-2013 school year, aid is
increasing at a faster rate.Mills said that the University
increases financial aid two to three times more than it increases tuition each year to “offset the blow on the neediest students.”
The economy has played a role in the increases as well.
Since the recession began in 2008, Mills said, NU has had more freshmen who demonstrate need, and the University has increased aid to accommodate them.
To fund the aid increases, NU uses its endowment and insti-tutional funds, which is money to be used at the University’s discretion.
Students applying for aid submit the Free Application for Federal Student Aid form and the College Board financial profile to NU’s financial aid office, which then determines the estimated family contribution and the aid package.
Mills noted that there was little equity between the total percent-age of the population that is below the poverty level and the number on college campuses. He said the University would like to see more low-income students because they make for a more diverse freshman class.
“I know for sure this is the top priority at Northwestern,” Mills
By CAT ZAKRZEWSKIthe daily northwestern
A growing ri between the Tan-nenbaum Chabad House and North-western was thrust into public view Tuesday a er Rabbi Dov Hillel Klein sent an email to Jewish students say-ing that he was asked to resign earlier this summer.
In an email titled “Yom Kippur Relfection: A Very Personal Message,” Klein announced that Wednesday would mark his last formal service on the NU campus.
Hours before Tuesday’s Yom Kippur services began, Klein’s email publicized the University’s decision to revoke Cha-bad House’s o� cial status on campus. Klein wrote that Patricia Telles-Irvin, vice president of student a� airs, met with him in July and told him to resign immediately or the University would cut ties with him and Chabad.
Telles-Irvin informed Klein that Chabad House had not been following “university policy on alcohol consump-tion,” according to Klein’s email.
Telles-Irvin declined to comment on Klein’s narrative Tuesday. NU spokes-man Bob Rowley also had no comment,
citing pending litigation.Chabad � led a complaint in federal
court against the University, stating Northwestern is discriminating against the Jewish faith by disa� liating from Chabad, but not other campus orga-nizations, according to Courthouse News Service.
Klein told � e Daily he would not be discussing his email until a er Yom Kippur, a day of atonement in Jewish culture.
Klein’s roots in the NU community span nearly three decades. In his email, he recalled the “seven-year court bat-tle” that brought Chabad to Evanston in the early 1980s.
Jewish students and members of the Chabad community said Klein’s email caught them o� guard.
“I couldn’t ask for a better campus rabbi,” said Evangeline Su (GWCAS ‘12), who has been active in Chabad since 2000.
Su said when she � rst came to cam-pus, there were few kosher options available to students. Klein would take students shopping at kosher stores, she recalled, and was instrumental in bringing kosher meal options to
Rabbi: Chabad will lose o� cial status
» See FINANCIAL AID, page 7
Family, University expand efforts to fi nd missing studentThe search for Harsha Maddula
Rafi Letzter/Daily senior staffer
FANNING OUT Sairavi Suribhotla and Shanthan Toodi (from right) responded to a Facebook post asking for volunteers to search for missing student Harsha Maddula. They traversed campus with three freshmen on Tuesday.
“This is
the fourth day and we want them to get him — that’s the bottom line.Prasad Maddula,father of missing NU student Harsha Maddula
» See MISSING, page 7
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PERCENTAGE OF STUDENTS USING FINANCIAL AID
Infographic by Tanner Maxwell/Daily Senior Staffer
» See CHABAD, page 7
University accepts more low-income students in 2012
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By kelly hwuthe daily northwestern
A year after someone sprayed anti-immigration graffiti on viaducts across the area, Evanston Town-ship High School students have replaced the xeno-phobic message at the corner of Green Bay Road and Central Street with a colorful mural featuring the word “Evanston” in large block letters. An illus-trated train runs through the center, carrying sil-houettes of the student artists who worked on it.
The artwork is the brainchild of ETHS seniors Jessica Baum and Olivia Chandrasekhar, who started the project over the summer in hopes of creating a visual display of Evanston’s ethnic toler-ance and cultural vitality.
Baum’s interest in the anti-immigration contro-versy began last summer, when local police discov-ered graffiti at various locations on the north side of Evanston, including one tag reading, “You can’t be a first world nation with a third world population.” Baum, a rising junior at the time, was walking in her neighborhood when she noticed the words marring the viaduct.
“I thought it was horrifying and it completely shocked me,” she said. “It was a bit naive of me,
but I didn’t think people in Evanston thought that way.”
Due to the “surprising and unusual” appear-ance of such rhetoric in Evanston, Baum said, the graffiti stuck with her. That winter, she brought up the subject with Chandrasekhar, her close friend and classmate. An artist particularly interested in street art, Chandrasekhar said she believes there is a shortage of murals in Evanston. She and Baum were inspired to contact local officials and share their idea for a mural that would both make a political statement and add to Evanston’s artistic profile.
“Evanston does have its own cultural presence, but that’s overshadowed by our neighbors in Chi-cago,” Chandrasekhar said.
With this mindset, Baum and Chandrasekhar approached local youth advocacy agency Youth Organizations Umbrella for help with their proj-ect. The pair also worked with Alissa Sobel, ETHS after-school coordinator, to recruit other students to help paint.
After seeking approval for their mural from numerous city officials, local businesses and viaduct owner Union Pacific, Baum and Chandrasekhar hired an artist to transfer the design from paper to wall and to assist with the painting process. One Y.O.U. employee with graphic design skills designed
the mural based on the images and symbols the students wanted to incorporate.
“It was interesting to watch the kids’ creativity flow,” Sobel said. “They were really into it.”
About 15 to 20 ETHS students from the Y.O.U. summer program helped paint the mural. Prepping and painting the wall took about two weeks.
Baum and Chandrasekhar have since developed the Paint Evanston Beautiful program. Their mis-sion is to bring Evanston community members together through the painting of positive messages on public property. The girls say they hope to have something else painted in the summer of 2013.
“We want to approach someone new and do something that is more complex,” Chandrasekhar said.
Because she and Baum plan to leave for col-lege next fall, Chandrasekhar added she hopes the program will continue and inspire people to create their own installations and murals.
“We want the community to see that they should be proud of our culture,” Baum said. “We are working together to create something that we can be proud of and that’s beneficial for our community.”
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Police BlotterArmed robbery at the intersection of lyons and darrow Avenues
Three men, including one armed with a gun and another with a knife, robbed a man early Tuesday morning of his Apple iPhone and $70, said Evanston Police Department spokesman Cmdr. Jay Parrott.
The victim, a 26-year-old Chicago resident, was standing on the street with two friends when the robbery occurred at approximately 2:40 a.m. The three men were dressed in all black clothing and wore black masks. They fled immediately after obtaining the stolen goods.
Unknown person scratches car, pours sugar in tank
The owner of a 2011 Hyundai says his vehicle was tampered with sometime between Sunday afternoon and 7 p.m. Monday.
The car was parked in an apartment building garage on the 400 block of Howard Street, Par-rott said. In addition to keying the car’s trunk, an unknown person forced open the gas cap and poured sugar in the gas tank.
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Boy beaten, robbed on Foster street
Three men robbed a 15-year-old Evanston boy on Saturday.
The boy was waiting for a ride from a friend in the 1600 block of Foster Street when he was approached by three men ages 18 to 25, said Evanston Police spokesman Cmdr. Jay Parrott.
The three men allegedly knocked the boy to the ground, kicked him repeatedly, took his bike and cell phone and fled the scene.
Overnight car burglary on Central
An Evanston resident discovered Sunday morn-ing that his 2008 Ford E260 Van was broken into overnight.
Parked in a driveway of the 3600 block of Central Street, the van was broken into from the driver’s side window some time between 1:15 a.m. and 8:45 a.m. The victim reported missing a cell phone, some financial papers and a gray backpack, Parrott said.
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PAiNt EvANstON BEAUtiFUl (Left) Graffiti featuring anti-immigration messages appeared on viaduct walls in summer and fall 2011. (Right) A group of EThS students have created a mural at the Central Street viaduct where xenophobic graffiti appeared last summer.
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Pike, NU discuss potential move into GoodrichBy PAULINA FIROZIthe daily northwestern
Northwestern’s chapter of Pi Kappa Alpha is continuing discussions with the University about moving to a new home next fall.
If these talks prove successful, Pike will move to the Goodrich House Residence Hall, accord-ing to a press release on the chapter’s website. Goodrich is located on north campus behind Pike’s current house and is made up of 35 single-occupancy rooms.
NU o� cials sent a statement sent to Pike members stating they had entered into “exclusive discussions” with the fraternity’s housing corpo-ration board and international headquarters to secure the space for the chapter. Pike posted the statement on its website September 20.
Currently, members of Pike’s Gamma Rho chapter have a residence at 2317 Sheridan Road. Pike has leased the property directly from Delta Tau Delta, a fraternity that recolonized on cam-pus last year a� er being shut down in 2007.
Paul Huettner (WCAS ‘12), Pike’s director of housing corporation board, said when the Uni-versity nally decided to relocate Zeta Beta Tau, eta Chi and Alpha Epsilon Pi last year due to safety concerns, Pike also took the opportunity to begin looking for a new house.
Pike wanted to nd a house of their own, one they could lease directly with the University, Huettner said.
“We think Goodrich is one of the top locations on campus,” he said. “It’s currently in pretty good
shape and overall we’re very happy with the loca-tion. at has been our plan for some time now and nally the university agreed with it.”
Nothing is o� cial and contracts have not yet been signed, Huettner said. Still, he said he was excited about the support from administrators,
who were proactive about finding livable housing for chapters on campus. He noted that negotiations are strictly between the University and Pike’s alumni and house corporation board; no undergradu-ate members are cur-rently involved.
Huettner said Delt’s recolonization on cam-pus — and subsequent plans to move back into their house in Fall 2013 — was merely a coinci-dence and just one fac-
tor the University considered when beginning discussions with Pike.
Pike was originally located at 566 Lincoln Street, which is now a part of the row of con-demned fraternity houses that are boarded up and uninhabited. e chapter remained o� cam-pus until 2010, Heuttner said, when the frater-nity reached out to Delt members, whose house they knew to be open.
But Heuttner said the arrangement was meant to be temporary.
“It’s always been a thought in the back of our heads,” he said about nding a house exclusively leased to Pike. “We’ve always mentioned it, but nothing has ever been serious until recently.”
Huettner said the undergraduate members were excited about the possibility of upgrading from a 30-person to a 40-person house. He said
he hopes the change will encourage alumni to get more involved in the chapter.
“Everyone’s excited about it,” he said. “It can nally be a place, theoretically, we can call our own for a while.”
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PIKE PLACE Conversations are underway to move NU’s Pi Kappa Alpha chapter into Goodrich House Residence Hall. Pike members hope the larger space will stimulate alumni involvement.
President Schapiro appoints new VP for athletics and recreation
On Monday, University President Morton Scha-piro named James Phillips the new vice president for athletics and recreation.
Phillips was previously the director of intercol-legiate athletics and recreation.
“I’m deeply honored and humbled to be named a vice president at Northwestern,” Phillips said in a University news release. “ is is a world-class university that excels in so many ways.”
During Phillips’ four-year tenure as athletic director, Northwestern entered a multi-year partnership with Under Armour, developed
renovation and expansion plans for campus ath-letic facilities and rebranded NU as “Chicago’s Big Ten Team.”
Since Phillips started in 2008, NU has seen increased participation in club and intramural sports, as well as a rise in student-athlete academic achievement, according to the release. e num-ber of students named Academic All-Big Ten has exceeded 200 for the past two years.
“Jim’s position carries University-wide respon-sibilities, so it is appropriate that he now has a University title that recognizes this,” Schapiro said in the release.
Phillips previously served as athletic director at Northern Illinois University and as an associate ath-letics director at the University of Notre Dame.
— Lauren Caruba
“Everyone’s excited about it. It can � nally be a place, theoretically, we can call our own for a while. Paul Heuttner,Pike housing corporaton board director
It has been impossible to ignore the latest and possibly greatest of Mitt Romney’s media missteps.
Last week Mother Jones released, probably smugly, “secret” video footage of Romney speaking to his donors and immortalizing his comments about the “47 percent” on the Internet. I was not surprised that Romney made these comments; I do not agree with everything he said, but I do think the hoopla around his statements is unnecessary. No, Romney does not have the most tact, but he was basically just prattling on about the same taxation and economic issues he has been for nearly a year now, except the coverage was on a smartphone instead of CNN. Unfortu-nately, I think the way Romney is handling the backlash to his comments is the real problem. The president of the United States will always make mistakes, but it is the way that he or she apologizes that really counts in the public eye.
A recent Gallup poll showed that six in 10 Americans have little or no trust for the
American media, and out of the people who do trust the media, 58 percent identify them-selves as Democrats, 26 percent as Repub-licans and 31 percent as Independents. Of people who consume media, Democrats make up a majority of those who believe what they see. If there is one thing I have learned as a journalism student, it is how to appeal to an audience. Thus, it makes sense that many of the big players in media these days are liberal. If the left wants to believe what it reads, then it is no great shock that the media wants to please its consumers. Romney has shown a weakness in standing up against a media that’s already gunning for his execution, and that is quickly becoming one of his largest impedi-ments to election.
On the other hand, President Obama has shown a knack for handling the media in exactly the way Romney has proved time and time again he is unable to do. It pains me to say this, but Romney’s election does not even seem feasible in a distant universe. Romney’s latest mishap nailed shut the proverbial cof-fin that has been closing in slow motion for a while now and it is frustrating beyond belief.
Romney’s initial strengths—his eloquence, his consistency and, frankly, his lack of fool-ishness (Herman Cain, anyone?)—in the race for the Republican nomination have been his
downfall in his presidential campaign. As a Harvard-educated businessman and a self-proclaimed self-starter, Romney is articulate and undoubtedly bright. However, he seems to have a couple fatal flaws. All the business
acumen in the world is useless when paired with Romney’s lack of charm and humility.
It would be an understatement to say that Romney has been harangued in the media of late. The real problem, however, is that he does not really know how to apolo-gize. Romney does not seem to know how to admit fallacy and he has embraced a half-hearted response to
media skewering. I understand that Romney does not feel embarrassed or ashamed about his viewpoints, but I also believe that a presi-dential campaign is not just about what can-didates think or feel but also how they present themselves. Candidates must have the ability to spin their thoughts into articulate stretches of the truth that get the population up and
voting. It is the sad state of the political atmo-sphere right now, but desperation colors this election, and voters on both sides only want to hear what they want. Romney lacks the inherent charm to trick people into believing his not-so-backed-up policies, and he is only hurting his own cause by continuously having to stick his foot in his mouth.
Romney needs to realize that he is not going to win this election solely by attack-ing Obama, who is obviously well-liked. He also isn’t going to win it with his inconsistent charisma. Romney’s strength is that he has the ability to become a light at the end of this dark tunnel we call the Great Recession. He needs to focus on his policies and con-vince the American people that instead of an insensitive, elitist millionaire, he is simply a politician who wants to fix the economy. As a voter, I want more than a Band-Aid over an economic bullet hole. If Romney can manage to not stumble over his words for long enough to say something articulate, maybe he’ll get elected. He has six more weeks to make his case.
Arabella Watters is a Medill sophomore. She can be reached at [email protected]. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, email a Letter to the Editor to [email protected].
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Romney’s lacking charisma shows in media
Letter to the Editor� e United States has lost 50,000 manufac-
turing jobs per month or a total of 2,000,000 high-paying manufacturing jobs under Presi-dent Obama.
Our unemployment rate hovers over 8%. In January 2012 there were more unemployed Americans (12.8 million) compared to Ameri-cans working in manufacturing jobs (under 12 million).
China, the primary culprit, subsidizes its industries, manipulates its currency and has no minimum wage. China is the number one supplier of critical parts for our defense systems, and is the world’s largest exporter of high technology items. It produces 10 times more steel than the U.S.
Currently, there is one steel plant in the U.S. capable of producing steel that meets mili-tary speci� cations, and it was purchased by a European company.
We must counter the trade de� cits with China and other countries by decreasing cor-porate taxes, or keep tax rates where they are, and subsidize U.S. industries. We currently owe China $1 trillion in debt, and our national debt has skyrocketed from $10 trillion to $16 trillion in the past few years.
President Obama has had almost four years to improve our economy, and he has failed.
Donald A. Moskowitz Londonderry, NH
The Drawing Board by Heather Menefee
If you haven’t heard from the Obama Truth Team recently, I admire your single-minded focus on Facebook stalking.
You can’t fail to notice the Obama campaign position on making college education a� ordable for all (thank you, targeted Facebook ads) that has students all around the country � red up to vote for the President despite a sti� job market for recent college grads. While I strongly believe in the value of a college education and applaud his stance on making education accessible for everybody, it’s also maddening to see him make promises that can’t be kept.
From the � rst day of class, every econom-ics professor tries to hammer home a very important lesson: � ere’s no such thing as a free lunch. At the same time, it seems the best piece of advice for aspiring politicians is to o� er as many free lunches as possible. From promising permanent revenue-neutral tax cuts to stopping
the outsourcing of jobs to developing economies, both candidates have espoused bad policy that will unravel in later generations in the same way that the legacy of European labor protections must now be undone. Take, for instance, Obama’s campaign platform of a� ordable education for all. While a highly educated work-force has obvious public bene� ts, the rising cost of college is due not to greedy, decadent uni-versities but to the sky-rocketing demand for an investment in human capital. It is certainly true that students are priced out of the educa-tion market, but most of the pricing out occurs due to the substantially increased risk of loan defaults as well as mis-matches between the skills students have and the ones employers desire. � e debate on educational opportunities requires a much deeper discussion on the role of industry, better secondary school
preparation and access to � nancial markets than either candidate is willing to o� er.
For his part, Mitt Romney has promised to pass sweeping tax cuts while maintaining rev-enue neutrality and progressivity by eliminat-ing some very popular exemptions. Romney’s promises to immediately restructure the tax code to eliminate most exemptions aren’t much more realistic than Obama’s position on educa-tion reform. While it is certainly a positive goal to have a simpler, more a� ordable tax code to promote entrepreneurship and increase transpar-ency, the largest deductions in the current code come from home mortgage interest and chari-table donations, exemptions that taxpayers in every income bracket will be loathe to surrender. Like higher education reform, a reform of the tax code will require a very deep, economically motivated discussion on bene� ts, tradeo� s and ine� ciencies inherent in the system. Yet, our candidates are willing to o� er nothing but plati-tudes and quick � xes when in reality, the policies they advocate do little but kick the can down the road and fail to address the underlying issues.
Not all electioneering is bad, and not every campaign position that the candidates hold is poorly constructed. It’s relieving to hear the
Romney-Ryan ticket talk about desperately needed reforms to our entitlement and welfare systems. For his part, Obama has at least got-ten the ball rolling on health care and � nancial reform, although it will take several reiterations over the upcoming decades to solidify systems that work. Nevertheless, I would be a lot hap-pier to hear candidates talk more candidly and intelligently in public about cra� ing solutions to big problems such as education and taxa-tion. Perhaps our recent obsession with quick � xes re� ects on the hardships of the � nancial crisis. But truthfully, I think many Americans like myself would be willing to hear that we’ve got a really tough road ahead, as long as a well thought-out map was laid out. Sadly, it seems both candidates, along with many of their politi-cal brethren, are better at talking about tough choices than they are at making them, and I’m not thrilled to wait until 2016 before the next chance for a politician with real grit, intelligence and realism comes along.
Jan Jaro is a McCormick sophomore. He can be reached at [email protected]. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, email a Letter to the Editor to [email protected].
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By ciara Mccarthythe daily northwestern
One week ago Wednesday, more than 350,000 students returned to classrooms after a seven-day break during the Chicago teachers’ strike, the city’s first in 25 years. While debate raged over teachers’ contracts in Chicago, Evanston educators were in similar negotiations but ultimately avoided strike.
Just as the contract negotiations stagnated in Chi-cago and teachers walked out of their classrooms Sept. 10, Evanston-Skokie District 65 reached an agreement with the local teachers’ union, the District 65 Educators’ Council, after months of negotiations. The compromise ensured that Evanston students would not miss a day of school due to a strike.
DEC engaged in six months of discussion with the District 65 school board, during which debate over teachers’ planning time and budget cuts to arts programs was often contentious. Near the end of August, DEC and the school board reached a tenta-tive agreement, alleviating fears of a possible strike. On Sept. 7, DEC approved the agreement, which the District school board backed on Sept. 10.
The new four-year contract includes salary increases: teachers who are moving up the pay scale will receive a 1.5 percent bonus at the end of the year, and teachers already at the top of the pay scale will receive a 2 percent increase, according to a District 65 news release. The contract also ensures the length of the school day will remain unchanged, clarifies the
workload for teachers and grants elementary school teachers more planning time.
Although negotiations were lengthy and at times stressful, DEC President Jean Luft said she is satisfied with the agreement.
“After six months of arguing and many late-night sessions, we are pleased that the new agreement improves working environment and also provides avenues for making future improvements,” she said
at the Sept. 10 school board meeting.Evanston schools operated without interruption
as a result of the agreement.“All understood how important a successful start
of school is to our students, parents, and commu-nity,” Superintendent Hardy Murphy said at the meeting.
CPS students were not so lucky.The day before the Evanston teachers’ contract
was ratified, the Chicago Teachers Union announced that its 25,000 members would go on strike. The CTU had issued a press release 10 days prior to this announcement, threatening a strike over the contract negotiations that had been ongoing since November 2011.
Factors contributing to the CTU’s decision to strike included teacher evaluations, job security, sal-ary and benefits. CPS teachers expressed concern about a new evaluation system that relied partially on students’ standardized test scores. In addition, the CTU sought a policy that would guarantee new teaching positions to laid-off teachers.
The strike lasted from Sept. 10 until Sept. 18, shutting down Chicago public schools for seven full school days. The CTU agreed Sept. 18 to end the strike, and school resumed Sept. 19.
The end of the strike saw concessions to both sides. The terms include a longer school day, an important goal of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel. The contract will also include teacher evaluations that take student test scores into consideration.
However, this evaluation process will be phased in gradually and there will be a method to appeal contested evaluations. The contract also includes a 17 percent raise for the average teacher over four years, with additional pay depending on experience and education. Finally, the contract stipulates that proficient teachers who have been laid-off will be hired to fill at least half of all new positions.
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More than 80 young adults left Evanston this summer after receiving temporary job offers to spend a minimum of two months restoring hur-ricane-damaged Gulf Coast communities.
Hurricane Issac struck southern Louisiana and coastal Mississippi and in late August. Damage totals from the hurricane could top $2 billion, according to CATSTAFF a Houston-based com-pany that staffs workers for major restoration companies.
The 84 Evanston youths, who would be unem-ployed without the cleanup opportunity, left Evan-ston on Aug. 30. They work seven days a week for 12 hours each day in exchange for food, lodging, transportation and $700 in cash, according to aan Evanston news release. The jobs could last for at least 2 months, depending on how quickly damage from the hurricane is repaired.
Former Evanston resident and CATSTAFF project operations manager Chester Kirksey initiated the program, said Kim Jenkins, Evan-ston’s assistant youth and young adult program manager.
“He came out and said that he was looking for
workers from Evanston to participate,” Jenkins said. “He wanted people to have the opportu-nity to work and make a living for a couple of months.”
CATSTAFF operations manager Ryan Gregor said the company is currently looking for employ-ees for nearly 100 restoration companies working on Isaac-related damage.
“Anytime something big happens, like the hur-ricane in the Gulf Coast, we try to send several hundred people to restore the area that was dam-aged,” Gregor said.
CATSTAFF offers job opportunities in 22 cat-egories, in areas such as hospitality and landfill.
Jenkins added that CATSTAFF sent many unem-ployed people to the Gulf so they could not only help restore the damage, but also add more job experience to their resumes.
For instance, one of the Evanston residents participating in the program said he was happy to find a demolition job in New Orleans because he hoped to eventually get construction work in Chicago, Jenkins said.
“This opportunity shows that Evanston is try-ing to get opportunities out there for young people who are trying to work,” she said.
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Efforts to inform Northwestern students about sustainability began early this year with orga-nized programs held during Wildcat Welcome.
Northwestern’s Office of Sustainability hosted the event “Purple Goes Green” on Tuesday to teach incoming students about the numerous environmental initiatives on campus.
Representatives from Initiative for Sustain-ability and Energy at Northwestern helped pres-ent information about its new undergraduate certificate in multidisciplinary areas of sustain-ability and energy, which was announced last spring.
Jeff Henderson, ISEN’s assistant director of marketing and communications, said the group was excited by the positive response they had received so far.
“It’s really exciting because this is a new class
with no CTECs and a new faculty member, but the fact that so many students have signed up is a testament to the students interest in these issues,” Henderson said.
The certificate program consists of three intro-ductory ISEN courses (ISEN 210, 220, 230) and four additional elective courses, according to the initiative’s website. ISEN 210: Introduction to Sustainability will be offered to undergradu-ates this fall. As of Tuesday, 52 students were registered for the course.
Henderson said he thought the interest in the new course and certificate may have been gen-erated by the growing popularity of previously offered ISEN classes.
“Some of our other undergraduate classes are enrolling 110 or 120 students,” Henderson said. “These courses are on their way to becoming standard classes everyone takes, like Introduc-tion to Psychology or economics.”
For Weinberg freshman Yahui Kang, the introductory course will be an opportunity to
pursue an academic interest in sustainability while deciding on a major.
“If it is interesting, I will definitely take more (ISEN) courses,” she said.
Weinberg junior Mark Silberg said the certifi-cate will give him the opportunity to pursue an extracurricular concentration in the classroom. Silberg will act as the associate vice president for sustainability, heading the sustainability com-mittee Associated Student Government added last spring.
Silberg said he was interested in the
interdisciplinary nature of the certificate and was pleased that it offered an opportunity to learn more about sustainability to students with or without technical experience.
“It’s about time we have this certificate,” he said.
Silberg attended the event to raise awareness about ASG’s new committee. Other student groups attended the event to recruit freshmen members. Rob Whittier, director of the Office of Sustainability, which was created last year, led the presentation and invited all students in attendance to take the Green Pledge.
The Green Pledge allows students, faculty and staff members to commit to simple choices that will create a more sustainable world, according to its website.
“Little things you do make a big difference when you think about the number of students we have,” Whittier said.
Youth ‘explore’ in new fire department program
Purple Goes Green raises sustainability awareness
By ina Yangthe daily northwestern
Evanston Fire and Life Safety Services will soon launch a new co-ed program to lead stu-dents into the world of firefighters and emer-gency service providers.
About 20 students, parents and teachers attended a Tuesday night open house at the Fire Administration building, 909 Lake St., to intro-duce the program. Fire Chief Greg Klaiber and fellow firefighters were also in attendance.
The program, which targets youths ages 14 to 20, employs methods such as classroom discus-sions, hands-on activities and opportunities to ride with a crew during an actual fire call.
The program will be held in collaboration with Boy Scouts of America.
Mike Nicholson, a dispatch officer working in the North Shore region, said his participation in a similar explorer program as a Boy Scout convinced him to pursue a career in fire services. As a dispatch officer, Nicholson said he felt like an integral part of the firefighting team, building strong bonds with his fellow workers.
Division Chief Thomas Janetske described the program’s curriculum. Students will meet twice a month as they first learn the basics through classroom discussions. Then they will apply what they learn to hands-on activities such as basic
trauma care and on-site arson investigation. A one-time application fee of $15 will benefit the Boy Scouts of America.
“I think it’s a really great instrumental program
that could kick-start a career,” said Heather Parker, mother of an Evanston Township High School senior. “Especially tenth to eleventh grade students, getting them interested in it, to help
them understand the career itself and whether they can or cannot fit in to the career.”
A wide range of students present at the open house indicated interest in joining the pro-gram, including ETHS junior Jennifer Marin, one of three girls in attendance.
“I’ve always been interested in detective, firefighter, safety related careers,” Marin said. “I know there is not many girls that are interested in this type of career, but I want to make a difference, to let females know that they’re just as strong and can do things guys can.”
At the open house, Klaiber said the Explorer program is designed to engage young Evanston residents, one of his main goals since becoming fire chief.
“It’s been a wonderful career, and what I want to do is spark an interest in the youth of this, because this is a wonderful profession, very rewarding and very fulfilling,” Klaiber said to the prospective students.
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EXPLORER Geoff Block, division chief and lead program coordinator of Evanston Fire department, talks with potential students at an open house for the newly launched Evanston Fire and living Service Explorer program tuesday night.
“I think
it’s a really great instrumental program that
could kick-start a career.
Heather Parker,Evanston resident
and mother of a high school senior
“These courses are on
their way to becoming standard classes everyone takes.
Jeff Henderson,ISEN’s assistant director of
marketing and communications
said. “Morty is very passionate about it. I know he wants to have Northwestern to make as good financial aid to needy students as anybody else out there.”
Citing the ongoing research of Kellogg Prof. Nicole Stephens, Mills said that interac-tion with people from different social classes makes students more well rounded.
Stephens, who will continue researching into 2013, said her findings indicated that more diversity would benefit students if the University makes sure that students from different backgrounds interact while on campus.
“My research suggests that those experi-ences of learning about different cultures contribute to social well being and improved adjustment of all students,” she said. “It’s a matter of when people engage with each other and understand.”
Medill junior Carlos Martinez received full financial aid from the University. He said he would not be able to attend NU without it and he is glad that more students are getting the same chance he did.
“It really grants them the opportunity to try new things and most of the new things they never would have had the opportunity to do on their own,” Martinez said.
Having traveled to Nicaragua last summer with the Global Engagement Studies Institute
on a full university scholarship to create com-munity development projects, Martinez said he knows firsthand what schools like NU provide.
In Nicaragua, Martinez helped create a farmer’s market to stimulate social and eco-nomic growth in the town.
“Had I not gone to NU, I would have never had an experience like that,” he said. “For other students that come from that low income background, for them, it’s just some-thing that’s so crazy.”
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“If the media is going to be the people on our side then so be it — I would like to believe North-western is on our side,” Surekha said, questioning the timing of the campus-wide emergency alert sent to students. About 50 hours elapsed from when UP first heard of a missing student until the NU com-munity was informed via email.
Patricia Telles-Irvin, vice president for student affairs, sent an email to the NU community Tuesday with a plea for student volunteers to join the search effort. More searches will leave from Seabury Hall between 9 a.m. and noon Wednesday, and the Uni-versity will provide flyers, maps of Evanston and tape, she announced in the email.
Telles-Irvin also helped organize a standing-room only gathering Tuesday night in Allison Dining Hall. Vice President of Student Engagement Burg-well Howard, UP Chief Bruce Lewis and Telles-Irvin represented the NU administration at the event. About 100 others also attended, including Harsha’s extended family and PARC residents.
“This is my son,” Harsha’s father said to the crowd. “It’s been four days. I don’t know what hap-pened to Harsha. My hopes are fading.”
Lewis said UP has sent bulletins to the Chicago Police Department, Chicago Transit Authority, other nearby universities and law enforcement agencies across the country.
A clearer picture of the details surrounding Harsha’s disappearance emerged after The Daily interviewed friends who were with him on the night he went missing. These students did not want to be identified due to the sensitivity of the situation.
Harsha left PARC around 10:30 p.m. Friday with about eight friends. The group first went to an off-campus party near Garnett Place but eventually made their way to a house party in the 2000 block of Ridge Avenue.
With three or four friends, Harsha walked in around 11 p.m., but they all left shortly thereafter. It is unclear where the group went after leaving, but they eventually returned together to the party on Ridge Avenue. After about more 30 minutes, Harsha left with three or four friends, according to a student who spoke with Harsha as he left.
That student, who said he was sober because he was monitoring the door, said Harsha was coherent, wasn’t stumbling and did not appear drunk. Other friends said Harsha is not a heavy drinker, especially because he is a diabetic. Harsha’s aunt Surekha said her nephew no longer needs to inject insulin but takes medication daily.
The group eventually arrived at another off-campus party before realizing they lost Harsha on the way. It is not clear how Harsha separated from the group while traveling between the two locations, which are less than eight minutes apart by foot.
Harsha called Weinberg sophomore John Kim at 12:10 a.m. Saturday and asked where Kim was. Kim replied he was still at the party on Ridge Avenue and Harsha said he was “going to see if he could make it over there,” Kim said.
Friends say PARC president Linzy Wagner, a Weinberg sophomore, called Harsha at about 12:35 a.m. and asked where he was. Harsha told her that he was back in his room at PARC, which was not true according to UP. This was the last known con-tact from Harsha. The friends contacted UP around 6:45 p.m. later that day.
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Allison Dining Hall.Su called Klein a source of counsel and com-
fort for students during times of tragedy. During a Yom Kippur service Tuesday evening, Su said Klein asked everyone to pray for the safe return of missing student Harsha Maddula, a McCormick sophomore who has not been seen since early Sat-urday morning.
Medill junior Kia Sosa, who attended a birth-right trip to Israel with Klein in December 2011, said the rabbi served alcohol at student events but never encouraged excessive drinking.
“There’s no carding system,” Sosa said. “At a Shabbat dinner, there is alcohol.”
Many Jews honor Shabbat by reciting a blessing over wine that sanctifies the sabbath.
But Sosa said Klein sometimes offered what he called “brown and white,” or hard alcohol. Sosa said students often drank “quarter shots” of the liquor.
“He always said, ‘It’s more a celebration of life than a means to get drunk,’” Sosa said. “There was no intention of students getting dangerously drunk at all.”
Despite the University allegations described in his email, Klein concluded the message on a hopeful note.
“Rest assured, we are not going anywhere,” Klein wrote. “We are staying right nearby to serve you for another 27 years and beyond.”
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Fans hoping to catch the hot-test undefeated team on campus should look no further than Lake-side Field.
No. 18 Northwestern (6-0-2), unbeaten in the regular season since Sept. 28 of last year, can exact revenge on the team that beat them that night when DePaul (2-5-1) vis-its Evanston on Wednesday.
The Wildcats lost to the Blue Demons 4-0 last season, but did not falter again until the NCAA Tourna-ment. NU carried that momentum into this season. Now, the defending Big Ten champions look to continue their success.
“Clearly after we played them last year, we knew we had to make some changes,” coach Tim Lenahan said. “Certainly we do remember how that (loss) felt.”
Lenahan referred to the loss as the “bottom” of the Cats’ season, but NU seems to have found its way since the matchup.
The defense currently acts as the Cats’ catalyst for dominance. NU recorded its third straight shutout last week against Michigan, when the Wolverines managed only two shots on goal out of five shots total.
“Our defense has remained steady for the good part of last year and the first half of this year,” sophomore goalkeeper Tyler Miller said. “We trust each other, which is the most important thing in the back.”
On offense, freshman Joey Calistri, senior Chris Ritter and sophomore Grant Wilson lead the team in goals, points and assists, respectively.
Wilson’s five assists lead the Big Ten and make up part of the Cats’ conference-leading 17 assists as a team. The sophomore credits the team’s game plan for the high assist totals.
“We have to stay mentally pre-pared,” Wilson said. “We’re look-ing to go around the outsides and
combination in the middle when we can.”
DePaul enters the midweek game looking to get back on track after a loss to Marquette in its season opener. The Golden Eagles slammed the Blue Demons with five goals in the first half, sending DePaul to a
loss against the only ranked team they faced all season.
“We know that they have pretty good players who are certainly capa-ble of a good performance,” Lenahan said about the Wildcats’ struggling opponent.
To beat the Cats on Sunday, the
Blue Demons’ offense needs to step up. DePaul’s highest scoring total in any game this year is two, and the team has been shut out five times.
With NU’s first day of classes on the horizon, Lenahan stressed the importance of preparation.
“The midweek Wednesday game is always a dangerous game for all coaches,” Lenahan said. “School’s getting ready to start here, so dis-tractions are a little bit more. For us it’s making sure the guys stay focused with school starting to heat up a bit.”
On the other hand, t h e C at s should enjoy their f irst substan-t ia l home crowd of the season at Wednesday’s game, with most stu-dents finally arriving at campus. The men’s and women’s basketball teams will be present for a promotion to draw freshmen to the game.
“I’m pretty excited about the crowd coming out,” Lenahan said. “It’s the first time that (the fresh-men) are coming to see us play. In the future hopefully they come out because they want to come out.”
The Cats’ opportunity for revenge could be another important factor.
“They left some of their starters for the remainder game (last year),” Wilson said. “We took that as they didn’t respect us as a team. Tomor-row, we’re not going to hold back anything.”
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“They left some of their starters for the remainder game. We took that as they didn’t respect us as a team.” — Grant Wilson, sophomore midfielder
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GETTING DEFENSIVE Goalie Tyler Miller and the stingy NU defense have been a driving force behind the Cats’ unblemished record. The team has held its opponents scoreless five times so far this season.
By Josh Walfishdaily senior staffer
A new goal has been uncovered in Northwestern’s team room: win the Leg-ends Division.
After sweeping through the non-conference slate at 4-0, the Wildcats turn their attention to the Big Ten and the chance to play Dec. 1 in Indianapolis. The three players present at Monday’s press conference all shrugged off the reveal of the new goal, putting the focus back on the game Saturday. Although NU is brimming with confidence after winning its first four games, the locker room attitude remains the same.
“We got to focus on this game here,” junior linebacker Damien Proby said. “Our first step to winning our division is going through Indiana, and that’s what we plan on doing this week.”
Junior tailback Mike Trumpy said the team’s focus has been on improving itself from week-to-week — a mindset coach Pat Fitzgerald has instilled in his players.
“We’re really only focused on our-selves and currently focused on Indiana and going 1-0 this week,” Trumpy said. “Coach Fitz stresses that every single week, going 1-0 this week and focusing on us and not looking ahead.”
The Hoosiers present numerous chal-lenges for the Cats, most notably a two-man quarterback rotation. After losing starter Tre Roberson for the season in
the second week of the year, Indiana went to a platoon system at quarterback. The offense certainly changed without Rob-erson, but Fitzgerald called Indiana’s offensive coaches some of the best in the conference.
With only one full week of tape on this
two-quarterback system, Fitzgerald said he will focus mostly on concepts before looking at what each individual does well. He admitted it is difficult to make a game plan without much tape and said he will need to remain flexible.
“You got to look at what they’re doing
conceptually,” Fitzgerald said. “You might be able to get a beat if they’re doing dif-ferent things with the quarterbacks. If they’re not doing anything different with the quarterbacks, then you’ve got to look at the strengths and what they try to do to play to that quarterback’s strengths. We’re going to have to do a lot of adjust-ing defensively Saturday.”
Proby said he’s not going to worry about which quarterback is in the game.
“There’s only so much you can do on the field,” Proby said. “We got to go off the film that we do have on the quarterback. We just have to study the little things we do have on them — the receivers’ routes, the way the line blocks, things we can’t control.”
Indiana is one of four Big Ten teams that will have a bye week prior to playing NU. Fitzgerald said he is not concerned about the extra rest because teams can get rusty after a bye. Since 2002, Big Ten teams are 17-32 after a bye week, the worst of any of the six BCS conferences.
Despite the challenges that the Hoo-siers pose, the Cats’ goal remains the same: to represent the Legends Division in Indianapolis. But first, NU needs to send a message to the rest of the confer-ence that NU is here to stay, Proby said.
“We still have a big thing to prove to other Big Ten members as to who we actually are,” he said. “That’s something (Fitzgerald) put a large emphasis on.”
Cats remain focused despite early wins
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TRumP CaRD Running back Mike Trumpy and the Wildcats aren’t getting swept up in the excitement surrounding the team’s 4-0 start. NU opens Big Ten play against Indiana on Saturday.
NU falls one shot short as Callahan wins Windon
John Callahan made a 25-foot birdie putt on the 54th hole of the Windon Memorial Classic to win the tournament by one shot.
The junior was playing as an individual, meaning his score did not count towards Northwestern’s final total, but he can count the win as his first career victory. Still, the shots would have helped his team: The Wildcats fell a shot short of winning the team title at the tourna-ment. NU held the lead after the first and second round, but Ohio State made a charge in the second and third rounds to make up a 14-shot deficit.
Callahan held the lead after post-ing a 69 in the first round but strug-gled in the second round, which was split between Sunday and Monday due to darkness on Sunday evening. In the last round, Callahan was tied for the lead heading into the par-3 16th, his final hole of the tourna-ment. He hit the green on the long 230-yard hole, playing half a stroke over par. His putt was just one of nine birdies on the hole in all of the tournament.
Jack Perry led the charge for the NU team with a tie for fifth, six shots behind Callahan. The junior was coming off a win last week and continued his hot start with back-to-back 72s in the first two rounds. Nick Losole dropped out of a tie for second after two rounds into a tie for eighth, just a shot behind Perry. The senior played his worst round of the tournament in Monday’s wind and shot a 76 to fall off the pace.
NU had five other players in the tournament, three playing for the team and two as individuals. Sopho-more Bennett Lavin was the best of that bunch, finishing in 22nd place, while freshman Andrew Whalen struggled after his excellent debut last week, finishing in a tie for 37th.
— Josh Walfish
Northwestern to honor deceased lineman with helmet stickers
Former Northwestern offen-sive lineman Leon Brockmeier died Saturday of natural causes at the age of 34. Coach Pat Fitzger-ald spoke about Brockmeier’s legacy at a press release Monday, saying the Wildcats will honor his memory.
“Our thoughts and prayers and our condolences go out to Leon Brockmeier’s family,” coach Pat Fitzgerald said. “We want to lift his family in this terrible tragedy and lift him up in our thoughts and prayers. It’s very sad.”
For the rest of the season, Northwestern players will wear stickers memorializing Brock-meier on their helmets.
Brockmeier started 35 games for NU between 1997 and 2001 and was a member of the Cats’ Big Ten championship team in 2000. He was named second-team All-Big Ten by the media that year as he cleared holes for running back Damien Anderson, who racked up 2,063 yards on the ground.
Brockmeier is survived by his wife, Melanie, and two sons.
— Colin Becht
Football
“For us it’s
about making sure the guys stay focused
with school starting to heat
up a bit.Tim Lenahan,
coach