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Where’s GeorGe? Council OKs new budgetBy Brittney Wong and emilia BarrosseTheDailyNorthwesterndailynorthwestern.com/council
The Evanston City Council passed the 2010-11 budget with an 8-1 vote at a meeting Monday night, ending a five-month long battle over how to make up a $9.5 million shortfall without raising taxes.
Ald. Coleen Burrus (9th) said she voted no because passing the budget would be “a real injustice to the city.” She said the city’s pro-jected earnings are too optimistic and will only necessitate cutting more in the near future.
“Aren’t we just taking the Band-Aid off really slowly versus just rip-ping it off?” Burrus said. “We need to take a better look at our revenue projections, really what’s coming in the door, and we need to take a look at what we’re spending.”
City Manager Wally Bobkie-wicz’s budget lays off more than 30 city employees and eliminates several vacant positions while cut-ting funding for the Evanston Community Media Center and various social services.
The budget passed with a few minor amendments, namely the confining of one furlough day only to managers and making up the difference with training funds.
The additional furlough day—an unpaid vacation day to all city employees that saves $180,000—was originally proposed to eliminate a 5 percent pay de-crease to city managers.
“Our solution to saving them from that cut was to burden people in low-level salary jobs,” said Ald. Ann Rainey (8th), who began dis-cussion on the item. “What we did is very regressive.”
Rainey also expressed discon-tent with treatment of the branch libraries throughout the budget process. She said she would vote for this budget as long as her fel-low aldermen promised to never allow taxpayer money to support the libraries.
“It’s symbolic of what has hap-pened in our town,” she said. “We haven’t yet been able to give up some of the things that are not ne-cessities.”
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Innocence Project’s case still unresolved
Hopes for the end of a five-month legal battle between the Me-dill Innocence Project and the Cook County State’s Attorney’s office fal-tered Monday.
The state and lawyers from the Center on Wrongful Convictions at the Northwestern School of Law’s Bluhm Legal Clinic were sum-moned to court. After the hearing, Celeste Stack of the State’s Attor-ney’s office said the case between the state and Medill would probably move forward.
Although Monday’s hearing wasn’t directly related to Medill, it revolved around Anthony McKinney, whose case Medill students investigated from 2003 to 2006. The students found evidence suggesting McKinney was innocent of a 1978 murder, which caused the state to subpoena class re-cords last October. The students did the entire investigation, Stack said.
At the last hearing Feb. 10, McK-inney’s defense lawyers submitted an amended post-conviction petition, which removed controversial evi-dence. Amendments included the elimination of alternative suspect An-
thony Drake, whom students were accused of bribing.
Judge Diane Cannon summoned the lawyers Monday to ask for clari-fication on how the petition was changed.
“I don’t know why you couldn’t have said what you said Feb. 10 in-stead of handing me 30 pages on Jimmy Carter,” she said.
Because the new petition omitted previous evidence and included a statement from a deceased person, Cannon asked defense lawyers if the adjusted petition merited a hearing for McKinney.
As a result of the amendments, Stack said most of the evidence left already had been dealt with at trial.
Cannon questioned the defense lawyers’ motive in filing the amended petition. She asked if student-re-trieved evidence was removed in an attempt to quash the subpoena against the Medill Innocence Project.
Stack said Medill should release class records and let the judge decide what information is relevant.
“We don’t know how journalism students do their investigation,” Stack said.
The next hearing is scheduled for March 10.
—JESSicA AllEn
By alexandra RudanskyTheDailyNorthwesterndailynorthwestern.com/alumni
Several Northwestern Communica-tion alumni have graduated to the next stage of their careers. Jake Cohen, Govind Kumar and Alison Siple are new additions to the cast and crew of “A Sep-arate Peace,” the most recent production by Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Com-pany.
The play, based on the novel by John Knowles, portrays the complex relation-ships at an all-boys boarding school dur-ing World War II. The show features only young adult actors, and for many it is their first Steppenwolf production.
“It feels like one of the best class-rooms I’ve ever gotten to be a part of,” said Cohen (Communication ’09), who has worked with the company before.
Although the three graduates said they came to NU for different reasons,
they left with similar lessons instilled in them.
“Northwestern allows an indepen-dent path,” said Kumar (Communication ’08). “There’s a very loose structure to the program. It makes you ready for an artist’s career because the real world is so unstructured. There are so many op-portunities. You’re able to carve your own path.”
Working at Steppenwolf reminds Co-hen of his student theater performances
at NU, he said.“Obviously the production value is on
a much larger scale, but at the same time, it’s still a room full of people who are really excited to get together and tell a story,” he said.
Siple (Communication ’98) said she credits her NU experience with helping her find work in costume design after
NU grads move from Shanley to Steppenwolf
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College Dems to bring Rod Blagojevich to NU
Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich will speak to the Northwestern community at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 2 at Cahn Auditorium. The event, titled “Ethics in Politics: An evening with Former Governor Rod Blagojevich,” is sponsored by Col-lege Democrats.
“A conversation about ethics and politics is important to have,” said Dan Rockoff, vice president of programming for College Dem-ocrats. “There isn’t a better person out there to discuss this than for-mer Governor Rod Blagojevich.”
Because four out of the last eight Illinois governors before Gov. Pat Quinn have been indicted, corrup-tion was a key issue during the Illi-nois primary elections, Rockoff said.
Blagojevich (WCAS ’79) will have 15 minutes to plead his case before an NU faculty panel can begin asking questions, Rockoff said. The panel will include Law Professor Tonja Jacobi, Political Science Professor Donald Gordon and Medill Professor Donna Leff, the Communication senior said.
“The majority of the event will be an interplay between the fac-ulty panel and the former gover-nor,” he said.
After the faculty panel has fin-ished, students will have the op-portunity to ask questions, Rock-off said.
“Our belief is that students at Northwestern are interested in debating this issue,” he said. “They will be interested to see this kind of dialogue.”
Derrick Wu said he was excited when he received a Facebook in-vite to the event.
“It is absolutely a great idea to bring a prominent, controversial figure,” the Bienen and Weinberg sophomore said.
The event will be effective be-cause it gives students an opportu-nity to experience a newsworthy event, rather than read about it, Wu said.
Although College Democrats is not sure when tickets will be available, the Norris University Center Box Office will begin dis-tributing them later this week, Rockoff said. There will be about 1,000 free tickets for the NU com-munity, he said.
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In its first year of existence, the Center for Civic Engagement through the Chicago Field Studies department is implementing a new summer immersion program, Engage Chicago .
Engage Chicago is an eight-week, two-credit program. Northwestern students will be placed at internships with Chicago-based public ser-vice organizations and will take a weekly semi-nar course, said Robert Donahue (Communica-tion ’97), the associate director for CCE. The students will live in dormitories at the University of Illinois at Chicago .
Donahue said students attend NU with the expectation that they will spend time in Chicago frequently.
“When I was a student, we would all leave with this understanding that we never really took advantage of Chicago,” Donahue said.
Students said their visits to Chicago are few and far between.
Aekta Patel , a Communication sophomore, said she estimates she goes to Chicago only a few
times each quarter to shop or have dinner.“I probably thought that I would go (to Chi-
cago) more than I do right now,” Patel said. “I would really love to go into the cultural neigh-borhoods of Chicago more and go see other as-pects besides just Michigan Avenue.”
Donahue said Chicago provides a unique op-portunity to participate in public service in an urban setting.
“One of the best cities in the world to learn about civic engagement and how to make change in the world is Chicago,” he said. “If we took a summer period we could really give our students an opportunity to really be immersed in the city.”
Engage Chicago combines aspects of intern-ships and summer courses, Donahue said.
“We want them to be learning in an aca-demic way, we want them to be providing a fruitful service for the community and we want them to be sharing this together kind of living and learning community,” he said.
Engage Chicago will help place and match students with public service internships, Dona-hue said. The CCE staff looks “to find not only organizations that are doing good work but
places where we feel like they’re well structured to make good use of a student intern.”
Engage Chicago is open to all undergradu-ates and applications are available online, he said. The program will accept about 20 students in its pilot year with hopes of expansion.
“This is a terrific opportunity to take the city seriously as a wonderfully complex set of both challenges and issues on the one hand, and re-sources and energy and capacity on the other, ” Donahue said.
The seminar class, one of the components of Engage Chicago, will be taught by Jody Kretz-mann , a professor in the School of Education and Social Policy .
Kretzmann added that his experiences helped form the idea for the program.
In the weekly class, students will learn about the issues and challenges facing Chicago through contemporary readings and guest speakers, he said.
Students will be exploring “all of the things that kind of make the dynamic of Chicago so continuously exciting,” Kretzmann said.
Engage Chicago aims to immerse students
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Teen steals cigars from gas station after ID questioned
A female teenager left a Shell gas station without paying for two cigars, police said.
The suspect entered the station, 2494 Oak-ton St., early Friday morning to buy two lime-flavored cigars, said Evanston Police Cmdr. Tom Guenther.
The station clerk said the picture on the ID didn’t resemble the suspect, police said. The sus-
pect then grabbed the cigars and the ID and fled the store in a a gray Honda without paying.
Police have a license plate number to track the vehicle, Guenther said.
Toothpick puncture injures child’s pinkie finger in Tech
A 9-year-old boy punctured his pinkie finger with a toothpick during a class on campus Satur-
day afternoon, police said.The incident took place at Technological In-
stitute , 2145 Sheridan Road , where the boy was helping a fellow classmate clean up when he no-ticed a toothpick stuck in his pinkie finger, said University Deputy Police Chief Daniel McAleer.
The child’s father immediately began to drive the child to the hospital, but had to flag down University Police to direct him to Evan-ston Hospital, 2650 Ridge Ave., police said.
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D65 Greening Committee looks to improve school facilitiesBy Erin Kim The Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/d65
In an effort to reduce local schools’ envi-ronmental impact, Evanston/Skokie District 65’s Ad Hoc Greening Committee plans to encourage more families to walk to school, committee members said.
At a meeting last Wednesday at the Joseph E. Hill Education Center, 1500 McDaniel Ave., committee leaders also discussed the possibility of making school buildings certi-fied in Leadership in Energy and Environ-mental Design, committee chairman Andrew Pigozzi said. LEED certification measures sustainable building practices and the effi-cient use of resources.
The greening committee tends to work on longer-term projects, such as switching to more energy-efficient light bulbs or limiting water consumption, Pigozzi said.
“We’re being cautious about it,” said Pigozzi, referring to the greening process. “We don’t want to jump into something be-fore we really think through what all the ramifications are.”
The district formed the committee in 2007 because some schools felt they needed more support in their sustainability efforts, said former committee chairwoman and school board member Katie Bailey. Commit-tee members have sought to improve various school facilities and have also implemented a curriculum for students that emphasizes ways to conserve natural resources, Pigozzi
said.For example, the faculty will explain the
environmental impact of leaving a light bulb on.
“It’s basically a civics lesson, in a way,” Pigozzi said. “There’s a cause and effect for everything.”
The committee has offered students both improved facilities and a better understand-ing of green living, said committee member Brian Becharas.
“It’s provided a healthier environment for them,” said Becharas, who also serves as the secretary for Citizens for a Greener Evan-ston. “And it’s made them more aware of cli-mate change and sustainability issues.”
According to its Web site, the greening committee “was formed to review and make
recommendations designed to improve dis-trict practices and participation in efforts and organizations that promote a greener future.”
The next meeting will focus on the curric-ulum in schools, to teach students about the importance of sustainability issues, Pigozzi said.
Carolyn Collopy, sustainable programs co-ordinator for the city of Evanston’s Office of Sustainability, said the students will learn valuable lessons from the committee’s out-reach efforts.
“It’s fantastic what they’re doing, that they’re looking at sustainability issues across the school district,” Collopy said. “It’s going to certainly benefit the students in all ways.”
By Claire BrownThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/academics
Working professionals can now pursue a Northwestern degree with little disruption to their daily lives.
The School of Continuing Studies has de-veloped several online programs that allow students to get both undergraduate and grad-uate degrees online.
“The benefits are that people really can be anywhere in the world and attend Northwestern and get a Northwestern de-gree,” said Tracey Schroeder, manager of marketing and communications at the School of Continuing Studies.
There are two master’s degrees that are en-tirely online programs, Schroeder said. Cur-rently, the medical informatics program has about 260 students and the public policy and administration program enrolls about 60 stu-dents, she said.
For the medical informatics classes, stu-
dents dial in online once a week to participate in a live lecture, she said.
John Middleton, a former physician who is now the chief medical information officer at St. Vincent Healthcare hospital in Billings, Mont., is enrolled in the medical informatics online program.
Middleton signed up for the class after he was chosen to lead St. Vincent Healthcare’s new electronic medical records system, he said.
“No question, I would never have had the background and skills to even think about the new position without the Northwestern prep-aration,” he said.
The goal of the online programs is to reach out to adult learners, said Thomas Gibbons,
dean of the School of Continuing Studies.“The programs offer the opportunity to
have learning experiences away from the classroom at times that are available for them,” he said.
Classes feature Webinar lectures that allow students to interact online through video lectures in addition to posting on bulletin boards and having access to on-line handouts, Gibbons said.
Navigating the online systems was difficult at first, Middleton said.
“I felt like a kid from a small town trying to figure out how to get around the university,” he said.
Teaching online is difficult too, Gibbons said. The School of Continuing Studies has a program to help faculty members with technol-ogy and online teaching techniques, he said.
“Northwestern does an excellent job as far as utilization of Blackboard and Web ac-cess tools,” said Suzanna Schoenleber, coor-dinator of distance education at the School of Continuing Studies. Schoenleber received
an undergraduate degree from NU in lead-ership and organization behavior, which in-cludes both distance-learning and class-room-based components.
The School of Continuing Studies is also working with Weinberg administration in hopes of expanding online class offerings, Gibbons said.
“We are exploring the possibility of cre-ating some summer classes online,” he said. “It’s important because other institu-tions have summer programs online, and we think that would be valuable for North-western day students.”
Ideally these classes would be offered for the first time in summer 2011, Gibbons said.
Online classes are a great option for any-one with a busy schedule, Schroeder said.
“The fact that people don’t necessarily have to take the classes chronologically offers a lot of flexibility,” she said. “It gives a lot more people the opportunity to participate.”
Online classes, degrees offered through School of Continuing Studies
”“The benefits are that people really can be anywhere in the world and attend Northwestern…
Tracey Schroeder,Manager of Marketing and Communications,
School of Continuing Studies
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Since I’ve arrived in London, I’ve heard multiple times, “It’s great you Americans wised up and elected
Obama,” and, “Aren’t you glad Bush is gone?”
And for me, an Obama supporter, of course I’m happy I can respond positively to these kinds of questions and comments. Even more than a year after his inauguration, even with all the problems he’s encoun-tered, the election of Barack Obama still seems to be a major step forward for our country. I’m not saying that in terms of the positive racial or genera-tional aspects. I just think his poli-cies, if they are allowed to be imple-mented, will lead to a better future for our country.
However, Obama has obviously had some trouble implementing his agenda in terms of health care, the environment and other issues. It could be that his style of governing,
though inspiring, may not be good for working within the complicated system that is the U.S. government. It could be Obama and the Congres-sional Democrats are trying to move too quickly, and the American peo-ple truly do not want the changes they are trying to implement. Or, in my opinion, it could be the Republi-cans simply refuse to allow Obama and the Dems to have any significant successes, for fear of being called weak by far-right commentators.
Those reasons help to explain his difficulties with regard to domestic issues, but there’s one area where no one thought he’d have trouble: coop-erating with allies in Europe, where people profess to love him so much.
This sort of ambivalence on the part of the Europeans has recently become an issue because of the de-bate over the Afghan War. The con-flict in Afghanistan began with a much stronger international consen-sus then the war in Iraq. When Obama announced a plan to increase troop levels in Afghanistan, in an at-tempt to replicate the success of the Iraqi surge, it seemed reasonable our NATO allies should contribute.
But opposition to the troop in-crease has been strong, despite Eu-
ropean pledges to support the Obama administration. Just the other day, the Dutch government collapsed as a result of the prime minister trying to keep Dutch troops in Afghanistan—and as a result of the collapse, Dutch troops will probably end up being pulled out. There’s a possibility this could lead to other European nations following suit.
It seems as though we can’t count on Europe’s support, no matter who is in the Oval Office. The Europeans say a unipolar world is dangerous, but when an opportunity arises for them to step up and take a leadership role, they remain focused on their own domestic issues. Despite all the rhet-oric about their love for Obama and their willingness to work with the U.S. in the post-Bush era, Europeans expect other nations, usually the U.S., to take up the burden.
Going forward, the best course of action seems to be consulting with our allies and not doing anything stupid. But if something does need to get done and our allies aren’t willing to help, the U.S. should have no qualms about going solo.
Popular peer advising not as good as it seems
Rumor has it you have a better chance of getting into Northwestern than becoming a peer adviser. De-spite this haunting statistic, hun-dreds of students apply.
To them, I have only one ques-tion. Why?
“The Wildcat Welcome peer ad-visor position is an entry-level lead-ership role that enhances the new student orientation week in numer-ous of ways,” is its main selling point, according to the peer adviser page that appears on the School of Education and Social Policy’s Web site.
Let’s break this sentence down. First, Wildcat Welcome Week is during students’ last week of sum-mer break; therefore all peer advis-ers are giving up a week of summer to do work and get back to school early. Sure, the quarter system all but guarantees most of your friends are already at their respective col-leges, but summer is still summer—it’s better than school.
Also, Welcome Week is dry. Just thought that was worth noting.
The next selling point is it is an entry-level leadership role. As far as résumé-building and experience, there are far more effective options out there than being a peer adviser.
The words “new students” should be a deterrent in and of themselves. Peer advisers are ac-tively seeking to spend time with lost, awkward, annoying freshmen.
— Samuel Block
Student group elections expose flaws in system
This time of year, near the end of Winter Quarter, is usually one of transition. Dorms, fraternities and sororities, student groups and even ASG will soon enough elect the new faces of their organizations for the coming year. Some of these elections have just one popular vote, but usu-ally that’s not the case.
In most elections there are the statements by candidates, followed by a question-and-answer session, leading to deliberation without the candidates, which is then finally con-cluded by a vote.
Going into deliberation, there’s an interesting mix of opinions. Some people have their minds made up strongly for certain candidates, usu-ally through some previous connec-tion. Others just really dislike certain candidates for similar reasons. And many walk into deliberation with undecided minds, eager to hear what others have to say in hopes of coming to a decision.
And the game is on. Different fac-tions of polarized support will advo-cate or criticize candidates, strug-gling to win over the mass of unde-cided voters. It’s all about strategy. You don’t want to come off as too strong, or you might turn voters off. But if you see the tide going against your preference, you’re going to speak up. And when things are going your way, it’s best to keep quiet, be-cause you want to conserve your per-suasive capital.
— Shaayak Sen
millennials “voluntarytelescreen” By Steven A. Berger
ASG hard at work to improve student life
A long standing source of student complaints, Norris University Cen-ter’s shortcomings have finally been addressed.
Associated Student Government unveiled a detailed proposal last week for a new student center space. The proposal, a project often talked about by former ASG presi-dent Neal Sales-Griffin (SESP ’09), has finally come together through the continued dedication of this year’s ASG administration.
Norris has failed to provide a substantial gathering space for stu-dents. Its decentralized location and aging infrastructure do little to house the diverse requirements for student groups. Especially in com-parison to other universities of simi-lar caliber, Norris is ineffective in meeting student needs.
The full proposal, along with a summary and various other re-sources, are available online at a Web site published by ASG. It pro-vides a valuable forum for the Northwestern community to remain informed and provide input throughout the proposal process, al-lowing ASG to continually update its representation of the student body.
While ASG’s week-to-week prog-ress isn’t always visible to the aver-age student, the new student center initiative is an example of the group’s ability to successfully create an ac-curate assessment of student senti-ment. It’s also proof of a continuous commitment to NU needs that sur-vived the transition between last year and this year’s administration.
With the upcoming election in the spring, ASG President Mike McGee, his exec board and sena-tors will leave a lasting and rele-vant legacy with this new proposal. Still, in order for the proposal to come to fruition, a new student center needs to remain a priority with the incoming administration. The progress made throughout this yearlong process should not be lost in the next transition.
Howard to serve as key student-NU link
To the class of 2013 and other new students, new dean of students Burgwell Howard is a familiar face. Throughout Welcome Week, How-ard (then interim dean of students) met with freshmen and transfers at events such as the “March Through the Arch” and the required alcohol Essential NU.
As Howard transitions into his more permanent title, he should maintain the same visibility afforded to the freshmen in the during Wel-come Week. Implicit in the title, Howard should work to create an open and communicative relation-ship with students. The position is a necessary link between students and the administration.
The internal appointment gives Howard the benefit of an intimate understanding of NU. Howard has worked for years in various positions with almost a year’s worth of experi-ence as the interim dean of students, in addition to his jobs at other insti-tutions like Bowdoin College.
Without transparency between the administration and students, promoting complicated issues like alcohol safety will be an impossible process. Working in constant con-flict with student sentiment can only create a contentious environment hostile to effective change.
Under the new Schapiro admin-istration in which student interaction is a priority, Howard should mirror the emphasis on a more connected community. While it may seem the role of the dean of students is limited to that of an enforcer, Howard is a vi-tal part of helping the students and administration strive toward a uni-versal goal of a better NU.
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Weinberg junior Dan schufreider can be reached at [email protected].
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A Northwestern video that tracks dollar bills using the “Where’s George?” Web site won first place in the non-interactive media cate-gory at the 2009 International Science and En-gineering Visualization Challenge.
The video, titled “Follow the Money: Hu-man Mobility and Effective Communities,” was produced by Daniel Grady and Christian Thiemann, two graduate students who re-searched transportation at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science. The project tracks the movement of money
across the country using “Where’s George?” data, which connects every county in the U.S., according to the video.
The students said they didn’t initially intend to enter the video in the competition.
“The timing just happened to sort of work out,” said Grady, a fourth-year McCormick graduate student.
The video was one of two winners in the non-interactive media category. The research team found out they won in October, but they weren’t allowed to disclose the results
until the journal Science announced them this month.
Grady said Thiemann put in most of the work for their video. Thiemann, a visiting post-doctoral fellow from Germany, said he was sur-prised by the attention the project received.
“I didn’t think it was such a big thing,” he said.
The research team established a relation-ship with the creator of the “Where’s George?” site and gained access to its data for their video, Grady said. The Web site allows users to enter a
bill’s serial number to see where it’s been.“Of course it’s only a tiny fraction of the to-
tal number of bills in the U.S.,” said Thiemann, who added that it is “a lot of data.”
The two are attempting to track how people move across the country.
“We’re using that data to approximate the way people travel,” Grady said. “It’s most com-mon for a person to actually move bills from place to place.”
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Popular ‘Where’s George?’ video earns grad students first-place award
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Kerry Cullinan, a South African advo-cate for HIV/AIDS awareness, said during a speech at Annie May Swift Hall on Mon-day night that health care in South Africa was in critical condition.
“HIV/AIDS has attracted a lot of global attention and also quite a lot of resources,” Cullinan said. “But people seem to be get-ting bored of it now.”
About 35 people attended the event, in-cluding many Medill students planning on completing their journalism residency in South Africa.
Despite President Barack Obama’s promise to increase funding for HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment in Africa, “fi-nancial support has f latlined,” Cullinan said.
“We don’t think that the package is go-ing to increase,” she said. “Obama has al-ready said that he wants other diseases to be focused on.”
This approach is misguided because many other diseases are linked to AIDS, Cullinan said.
The current U.S. program that funds
HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment is the United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, which was launched by President George W. Bush in 2003. The program also provides funding to combat tuberculosis and malaria.
“One of the things I don’t think people know is how successful PEPFAR has been,” Cullinan said. “It’s probably saved about 2 million lives. That’s something to be incredibly proud of.”
Since PEPFAR was established the mortality rate in South Africa has dropped 18 percent, Cullinan said. As of September 2008, the organization had supported treatment for more than 2 million people, according to its Web site.
HIV is a complex virus that mutates easily and requires treatment by three dif-ferent types of medications, Cullinan said. The program provides funding for these essential medications, called antiretroviral drugs, to patients in need.
Although the program has been suc-cessful in many ways, HIV/AIDS continues to pose problems for South Africa, Culli-nan said. Testing is done largely on preg-nant women and those with other ill-nesses, and many people are fearful of us-ing treatment until it is too late, she said.
“Testing is your entry point to getting help whether you’re positive or negative,” Cullinan said. If a person tests negative, the process deters them from engaging in risky behavior that may result in contract-ing the virus. Those who test positive re-ceive information on how to stay healthy and eventually get treatment, she said.
Jack Freifelder, a Medill freshman, said he thought the talk was interesting, but students are not equipped to change the problem.
“It seems like (Cullinan’s) pledging a lot of her time, and a lot of people around her aren’t putting in the same effort,” he said.
Virginia DeLancey, a Morton Grove resident who worked in Africa for many years, said other problems facing countries dealing with HIV/AIDS include reducing stigma surrounding the diagnosis and pro-viding additional funding for medication.
If PEPFAR’s funding is cut, newly in-fected South Africans may not receive nec-essary treatment, Cullinan said.
“(Obama) promised an increase of a bil-lion dollars a year,” she said. “Instead, the increase was $125 million.”
Rather than covering 500,000 more people, the smaller funding increase pro-vides for 325,000, Cullinan said. That leaves many untreated, she said.
“For every one person on the pills, two to three are getting HIV,” she said. “It’s like mopping the floor when the tap is running.”
Cullinan: HIV/AIDS still persistent problem in South Africa
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Africa: Kerry Cullinan promotes HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and awareness.
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graduation. “Especially in costume design, you need to
know how to be resourceful,” she said. Cohen said his liberal arts studies were cru-
cial to his development as an actor. “If actors are supposed to be telling stories
from all over the world, it helps to study the rest of the world while you’re learning the craft of acting,” he said.
All three graduates said they enjoy being a part of Steppenwolf.
“It’s a really comfortable, unassuming envi-ronment, and given their history, they get to brag, but they refrain from doing so,” Cohen said. “I really appreciate the modesty of every-body in that office building.”
The cast of “A Separate Peace” is unique be-cause all of the actors are so young, Cohen said.
“We have a great time with messing around,”
he said. “It feels like the frat I never pledged at Northwestern.”
Working with a cast of peers has been a nice experience, Kumar said.
“There’s a sense of ease, but at the same time there’s focus,” he said. “There’s just a sense of re-spect among all of us. You’re all in a similar situ-ation in terms of trying to support yourself and figuring out the beginning of our careers.”
Although they have graduated from NU, Ku-mar and Cohen said they stay in touch with other Chicago area Communication graduates.
“The few of us who are in Chicago see each other, but not enough,” Cohen said. “Life is act-ing, and we’re all trying to pay the bills.”
Steppenwolf is comprised of professionals trying to make a living, and the company fea-tures passionate actors with a common love of theater, Cohen said.
“You never really seem to grow out of that kid who just wants to make believe with your friends,” he said.
Assistant City Manager Marty Lyons also gave a presentation of the Capital Im-provement Program, detailing projects the city plans to undertake in the next fiscal year.
Some endeavors mentioned were the $1.1 million lakefront master plan and street refurbishing and $75,000 to fix the roof on the city-owned building at 1817 Church St. Projects were assigned to either first, second or third priority lists.
Aldermen approved the program, but only the amount currently allotted to first priority items. They also agreed to evaluate the way each project was categorized, say-ing their priority order could be flexible to make city development more equitable.
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that we pay for from our tax dollars means doing projects throughout the city,” Ald. Lionel Jean-Baptiste (2nd) said.
Earlier in the evening, the Administra-tion and Public Works Committee decided to delay voting on an amendment regard-ing the construction of a retirement com-munity at 450 Davis St. when Ald. Judy Fiske (1st) said she wanted to further dis-cuss the issue at a ward meeting Tuesday.
The council also unanimously decided to reduce monthly parking rates at Sher-man Plaza and to join the Pension Fairness for Illinois Communities Coalition.
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The next council meeting will be held at 7 p.m. on March 8 at the Lorraine H. Mor-ton Civic Center, 2100 Ridge Ave.
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Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company new home for some NU alumni
Council passes new budget 8-1 after five months of debateCoUnCIl, page 1
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Council: Ald. Burrus (9th) opposed the city budget, which resulted in a 8-1 vote.
Photo Courtesy of Mark Campbell
Performing: The Steppenwolf Theatre Company, located in Chicago, is host to several NU alumni, who have made the transition from theater students to theater professionals.
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We have to know who is up next. We have to know where our stuff is, so when called, we can go get it.”
Sure enough, for the rest of the day and the remainder of the competition, the Cats (45-4) stayed on top of their game, winning all 12 of their matches by definitive margins. With those victories, the Cats set a school re-cord for wins with 45 on the season. The pre-vious mark was 36, which they reached in 2007 and 2008.
“It was a great tournament for everyone,” freshman epeeist Kate Cavanaugh said. “We each had tough bouts, and we each came out strong. I’m really proud that everyone got to fence and everyone came out successful. It was a good weekend.”
NU dominated the first day of competition, posting four 27-0 shutout wins while losing just five bouts. The foil team fenced particu-larly well, posting a perfect 54-0 record. The sabre squad also persevered despite losing freshman Chloe Grainger, notching perfect records against five of six opponents.
The success spilled over into the second day, as NU began with a 27-0 win over Illi-nois. The Cats recorded two more shutout victories before the day was done.
The three squads posted winning records in their 12 matches and they each recorded at least 100 wins at the competition. Foil led the way with a 106-2 record, while sabre fin-ished 102-6 and epée went 100-8.
“We had better fencing from our entire roster than we had in the past,” Kaihatsu said. “All of them fenced really well from top to bottom. Some of them had ‘ah-hah’ moments, where they really started to experience some-thing they had thought about at practice and now are actually using it at a competition.”
The Cats’ next time out on the strip will be March 6 at the Midwest Conference Champi-onships, where they will see many of the same teams they fenced against this weekend.
NU has next weekend off, which will be the Cats’ first free weekend since Winter Break ended in early January.
“It will be unusual for us have a weekend off, so there’s not a competition to shoot for at the end of the week,” Kaihatsu said. “It’s go-ing to be weird not traveling, but if we can keep them focused, keep them active, and give them things to do each day in practice, we’ll be ready. They know how important it is because we have done nothing but talk about it for the entire quarter.”
Cavanaugh said she believes the weekend off will be beneficial for a beaten-down NU squad to regroup and refocus.
“Right now, where we’re at in the quarter, with everyone battling sickness and we’re a little bit tired from the season, it will be a nice little breather,” she said. “We’ll be com-ing back at full strength and rearing to go and fired up for conference. We know we have a good chance of winning it. We should beat anyone out there, so that in itself is what’s driving us right now.”
NU looks forward to Florida
Sabre, foil, epée squads all reach 100 wins in Cats’ combined effort
FEncing, page 7
innings in the following night’s 10-2 loss to Marist, using what Stevens called “intestinal fortitude” to pitch when the team trailed by a significant margin.
“(Brooke) just went about his business,” Stevens said. “I couldn’t even tell you how absolutely awesome what he brought to the table was.”
Snieder pitched three innings in the Cats’ final game, their second contest against George Mason, allowing no runs on two hits. Snieder said his success might have been the result of a handicap.
“Maybe (George Mason’s) mentality was different, picking up so many runs that they’re kind of like, ‘We don’t want to be here anymore,’” he said. “Maybe they were just kind of playing as opposed to trying to really kick it into gear.”
NU hopes it will get a chance to do the same next weekend, when the Cats travel to
St. Petersburg, Fla., for three games at the Big Ten/Big East Challenge.
For now, the losses sting. Dropping four games by a com-bined 49 runs would strike a nerve in the heart of any team. But Noble isn’t worried just yet.
“We did lose all four and we did lose them pretty bad,” he said. “But I don’t think it’s time to panic. … We just need to keep working on the little things in practice and just get ready for Florida.”
BasEBall, page 8
Daily File Photo by Ray Whitehouse
Cats Clicking: NU won all 12 of its matches at the NU Duals over the weekend, improving to 45-4 on the season, which is a school record for wins.
Daily File Photo by Ray Whitehouse
Rough start: NU was outscored in its first four games by a combined 49 runs.
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“(Brooke) just went about his business. I couldn’t even tell you
how absolutely awesome what he brought to the table was.
Paul StevensBaseball coach
By Christine ToddThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/baseball
Last Wednesday at practice, the Wildcats huddled into a meet-ing room to talk about the upcom-ing season. Among other things, coach Paul Stevens stressed the importance of moving on from what he called “trials and tribula-tions.”
After dropping four consecu-tive contests by a combined score of 58-9 at the Bojangles Baseball Classic in Rock Hill, S.C., North-western is forced to practice what Stevens preached sooner than he expected. Now, Stevens’ mantra remains the same.
“We’re going to have to forget about it,” Stevens said. “Because if you don’t, it’s just going to eat you up and tear you up. It’s too long of a season to let something like what
happened this weekend to fester.” Though Stevens says he won’t
let it happen, it would be easy for the Cats to allow a weekend like this to have a lasting impact. NU (0-4) scored an average of 2.25 runs per game and let up an aver-age of 14.5 on the weekend. The last time NU gave up as many runs in a four-game span was in April 2007, when it was swept by Big Ten foe Iowa.
It would also be easy for Ste-vens to put blame on any particu-lar aspect of the game, but the 23rd-year coach has been around long enough to know better.
“I’m not going to sit there and say it’s one phase of the game or it’s not, because obviously we didn’t score enough runs to come back from things that happened
on the mound or in the field,” Ste-vens said. “We have to pitch better. We have to play defense better. We have to find a way to score more runs.”
Before practice last Wednes-day, catcher Chad Noble said the pitching staff would keep the team in games—the hitters just needed to find ways to light up the scoreboard. Noble held up his end of the bargain, producing nearly one-quarter of the team’s 29 total hits. The senior’s contri-butions included one home run and a triple.
While Noble paced the team offensively, fellow senior and ex-pected starter Kenneth Avila did not travel with the team for an un-disclosed reason.
A pair of sophomores, second
baseman Trevor Stevens and first baseman Paul Snieder, also col-lected four hits apiece. Though other players didn’t stuff the stat sheet, coach Stevens said he isn’t worried about the team’s approach at the plate.
“There were a lot of guys who swung the bat pretty well and hit balls right at people,” he said. “I’m not uncomfortable at all with what I saw people doing at the plate.”
On the mound, only Snieder and fellow sophomore Francis Brooke managed to work through two or more innings without giv-ing up one run. Brooke pitched two hitless innings of relief in NU’s 8-4 loss to Winthrop and 2.2
By Ian KellyThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/wrestling
It has been a season of trials for Northwestern. The Wildcats started the Big Ten season 0-7, for-feited several weight classes in each matchup and routinely started three true freshmen.
But NU (6-12-1, 1-7 Big Ten) fin-ished its season on a high note, avoiding the title of Big Ten cellar dweller after ousting Michigan 20-16 (4-15, 0-8 Big Ten) at Welsh-Ryan Arena. The win was the Cats’ first conference victory of the sea-son and came in coach Tim Cy-sewski’s final match after leading the program for 20 years.
Cysewski will pass the reigns to current assistant coach Drew Pari-ano next year, while he will stay on as an associate coach.
“I really didn’t think about it,” Cysewski said. “I was just hoping our strategy would work to win the dual meet. There are always a cer-tain amount of emotions that are involved, being senior night and everyone’s minds preparing for Big Tens and Nationals.”
After losing to Wisconsin 32-6, NU went into a matchup of the Big Ten’s two bottom teams, with the loser ending the season winless in conference play. The Wolverines held an early 4-0 lead, but NU ju-nior Bobby Joyce (125), who re-turned from a broken hand, took down the Wolverines’ Sean Boyle to come within one. Then the Cats picked up two crucial wins to turn the momentum in their favor.
Senior Eric Metzler (133) started things off by taking down Michigan’s Zac Stevens in a come-from-behind win that had the crowd on its feet. Then, freshman Levi Mele (141), who normally wrestles two weight classes down in the 125-pound weight division, earned NU another comeback vic-tory by overcoming Michigan’s Mark Weber 6-5 in sudden death overtime. Mele celebrated by pumping his fist and jumping up and down, energizing the home crowd eager for a win.
“There’s nothing better than that feeling,” Mele said. “It reminded me
of when I took state sophomore year in high school. After getting that fi-nal takedown in overtime, it was such a good way to win because you know you earned it.”
Those wins put NU up 9-4, and the match turned in the Cats’ favor. Junior Andrew Nadhir (149), ranked 13th in the country, quickly took to his opponent and won in a landslide technical fall with 1:35 left in the second pe-riod, giving the Cats a 14-4 lead. A pair of wins by sophomore Rob-ert Kellogg (165) and freshman Brian Roddy Jr. (174) clinched the dual for NU.
“Anytime your guys win emo-tional matches it lifts everyone up,” Cysewski said. “Metzler coming back and beating that guy made the difference. Michigan came out strong early, but then they faded badly. Our guys recognized that and kept the pressure on them.”
Much of the night focused on Cysewski, who is the program’s all-time winningest coach. He was honored at halftime with a presen-tation from Athletic Director Jim Phillips, who was accompanied by several of Cysewski’s former All-American wrestlers. While Cy-sewski didn’t want the limelight on himself, his players recognized his significance to the program.
“Tim is an amazing coach,” Mele said. “I appreciate everything he does and he’s still going to be around the program helping us out. I could see most of us wrestled with greater desire and passion be-cause of him.”
Cysewski, on the other hand, was more focused on NU getting its first conference win of the season and beating Michigan, which he considers to be a major rival. It was only fitting that Cy-sewski, who will step down with the most wins in NU history, ended his head coaching career with a victory.
“It’s been a hard year, and we’ve faced a lot of injuries,” Mele said. “We just wanted to pull together with a strong purpose, especially in Tim’s last dual as head coach. That made the difference.”
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By Jonah L. RosenblumThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/fencing
No. 3 Northwestern made an uncharacteristically sloppy mistake during the first day of competition at the NU Duals. One of the Wild-cats’ fencers didn’t have enough weapons, and when her first one failed inspection, she had to scram-ble for a second. When she finally did locate another weapon, that one failed too. The result was a red card, and consequently a lost point before the bout had even started.
“For the rest of the day, I said we had to stay on top of it,” associ-ate head coach Ed Kaihatsu said. “We have to know when we’re up.
Host squad dominates NU Duals
Fencing, page 7
Daily File photo by Jai Broome
20-year leader: Coach Tim Cysewski is stepping down to associate coach after this season. NU pulled off a victory over Michigan in Cysewski’s final match after starting 0-7 in Big Ten play.
Cats struggle in S.C., start season 0-4
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