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By SuSan Dudaily senior staffer
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Tuesday endorsed Northwestern’s plan to demolish the old Prentice Women’s Hospital and build a new biomedical research facility, lending one of the most authoritative voices to decades-long dis-cord over the construction project.
Emanuel’s endorsement gives more clout to the University’s chances of persuading the Commission on Chicago Landmarks to reject
preservationists’ arguments at its Thursday hearing.
If the nine-member panel recommends landmarking Prentice, and the Chicago City Council affirms the evaluation, NU would not be allowed to demolish the building despite owning the land. The University wouldn’t lose only its proposed research facility — NU has already spent hundreds of thousands of dollars researching its options for the site and financing a public relations campaign.
“If it gets landmarked and we don’t succeed in getting a permit to demolish it, we don’t have a backup plan,” said Eugene Sunshine, NU’s vice president of business and finance. “Our whole dream, our plan, our vision of growing the enterprise that would provide all this extra space for researchers would be knocked off the box before we ever got started.”
The University and the Save Prentice Coali-tion, a leading opponent of NU’s plan, will make their respective cases Thursday before the com-missioners. After a public comment session, the panel will decide whether to recommend landmark status to the Chicago City Council.
Emanuel said NU’s plan could help “build a brighter future for our city and its residents,” but stipulated that the University should include a local architect in the design process and follow minority hiring requirements.
The Save Prentice Coalition, a network of preservationists against demolishing the hos-pital, issued a statement Tuesday rebuking Emanuel’s support.
“Northwestern says it can only conduct important medical research and create jobs by
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Superstorm Sandy impacts lake, NU’s East CoastersBy paulina firozidaily senior staffer
After Sandy made landfall near Atlan-tic City, N.J., on Monday evening, stu-dents at Northwestern continue to feel the effects of the tropical superstorm.
Although it originally moved up the coast as a Category 1 hurricane, the storm hit a cold front and was downgraded Monday to a “post-tropical cyclone.”
The National Weather Service has issued multiple lakeshore flood warnings since Sunday, warning of “large battering waves,” reaching heights of about 20 to 25 feet due to high winds heading north on Lake Michigan.
The Weather Channel reported the storm’s official downgrade does not lessen the potential damage.
Almost reaching the 23-foot record set last year, waves in the middle of the lake rose to 20 feet Tuesday, according to The Weather Channel, as a result of winds reaching speeds of 54 mph.
Hundreds of miles to the east, millions of people remain without power. Many NU students, especially those from the New York and New Jersey areas, have
families dealing with Sandy directly.Medill freshman Miranda Cawley,
from West Islip, N.Y., said she heard about the damages to her house Tuesday.
She said her family lives in the first evacuation zone but her parents decided to wait it out because they thought the situation may be similar to Hurricane Irene, which did not cause too much damage.
“But by last night the water had come inches from my front stoop,” Cawley said. “We live six feet above sea level. So my parents left to go to my grandmother’s house.”
She received a text message from her mother at 5 a.m. EST on Tuesday, but couldn’t reach her family throughout the day due to spotty cell phone service.
“It was definitely kind of scary this morning,” Cawley said. “I never thought that their lives were in danger; I was just getting worried. It’s a really stressful situ-ation. I was glad to hear from my dad this afternoon.”
She said she was told most of the bot-tom levels of her home were destroyed and completely flooded, including a garage, laundry room and music room that stores her sister’s instruments.
“We lost a shed entirely,” she said. “The back yard is completely under water.”
SESP junior Jamie Gebhardt, from Allendale, N.J., said although her home has not been badly damaged, her family is without power.
“I have been able to call them on their cell phone,” Gebhardt said. “But I don’t want to waste their battery since they may not have power for a few more days.”
Engineering Prof. Hani Mahmas-sani has developed a detailed evacuation plan for families like Cawley’s. He and his graduate students created a procedure for New York residents in the aftermath of the storm, according to an NU news release. They used information about traffic flow, weather hazards and transportation sys-tems and data from their own research of New York traffic management to create the evacuation model.
The University has tried to accommo-date prospective students from the East Coast by extending the deadline for Early Decision applications to Nov. 7, from the usual deadline of Nov. 1.
Christopher Watson, the dean of undergraduate admissions, said school closures and power outages as a result of the storm could affect application
submissions for prospective students. He said the University would consider extending the deadline further for stu-dents who continue to be affected as Sandy spreads.
Back in Illinois, the City of Evanston sent an email Monday to remind local residents of the weather advisories. The
email explained that Evanston beaches have been closed for swimming and “resi-dents walking on or near the lakefront are asked to heed the warning from the National Weather Service.” The dog beach has also been temporarily closed.
Prentice site awaits fate
Rafi Letzter/Daily Senior Staffer
SUPER SANDY Waves crash into The Lakefill on Tuesday. High winds from Superstorm Sandy brought some mild effects to the North Shore.
» See PRENticE, page 6
Emanuel throws support behind controversial plan to demolish old building
Source: Wikimedia Commons
PRENticE PENDiNG The Commission on Chicago Landmarks is expected to decide Thursday whether to recommend landmark status for the former site of Prentice Women’s Hospital, which is owned by Northwestern. The designation would make it harder for NU to demolish the old building to make way for a new research facility. Local preservationists oppose the University’s plan.
Northwestern administrators begin discussion on how to expand biomedical research capabilities at the Feinberg School of Medicine and Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
Early 1990s
January 1995
Former University President Henry Bienen takes office. Bienen and the Board of Trustees specify a vision to build more research facilities at NU’s Chicago Campus.
2003
Wesley Hospital demolished to make way for construction of new Prentice Women’s Hospital.
2007
Prentice moves to its new, state-of-the-art building at 250 E. Superior St.
Ongoing
NU and local Streeterville groups continue discussions regarding the future of the old Prentice building. Negotiations were productive, with both sides agreeing on most issues.
2011
The old Prentice building is vacated.
2012
Anti-demolition groups organize, circulate petitions and lobby for landmark status.
Compiled by Marshall Cohen and Patrick Svitek/Daily Senior Staffers; Infographic by Christine
Nguyen/Daily Senior Staffer
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romney-ryan yard sign stolen A 57-year-old Evanston resident said a presi-
dential campaign yard sign was stolen Tuesday from his front yard in the 2300 block of Grant Street.
The resident reported that his yard sign sup-porting former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) was stolen some
time between 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. Tuesday. The sus-pect remains unknown, Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said.
resident reports vegetation removalAn Evanston resident said damage to
the vegetation of exercising studio CrossFit e-town, 2125 Ashland Ave., occurred some
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All of the vegetation was pulled out and scattered at the CrossFit e-town front entrance, the 32-year-old resident said. Parrott did not disclose any further information on the case.
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WINNETKA, Ill. — Two Illinois state lawmak-ers met with constituents Tuesday for a discussion on health care and pension reform.
About 20 people attended the discussion led by state Reps. Daniel Biss (D-Skokie) and Robyn Gabel (D-Evanston) at the Winnetka Community House, 620 Lincoln Ave.
Regarding pensions, the main concern of the night, Gabel said the problem is having enough finances to pay the money promised to those enter-ing retirement. The state is not providing banks the amount of money it is supposed to give for pension funding, she said.
“In order to relieve this problem, we have to either give less money to the retired residents each month or the state has to provide more money,” Gabel said.
If elected to the Illinois Senate, Biss said he would plan on addressing pension funding concerns.
First, Biss said he wants to create a package of benefit reforms that makes annual pension cost growth manageable. Biss also hopes to put in place a risk-sharing plan that would provide a guaranteed minimum benefit for state employees in case of financial crisis, as well as “a rock-solid mechanism of force” to ensure the state pays its
share of pension costs.Talk later pivoted from pension costs to govern-
ment health care programs.Going forward, Biss said he wants Illinois to
implement Medicaid reforms that state lawmakers recently passed in May. Both Gabel and Biss said under the reform plan, lawmakers hope to cover an additional 500,000 people with Medicaid.
“We are working on the health care exchange so that health coverage can be as affordable as possible,” Gabel said. “We want everyone to afford it.”
After the candidates presented their views, they answered questions from the audience, including one from retired math teacher Sam Sibley on cur-rent pension funding for educators. Both Biss and Gabel said they plan to look into pension funding for school districts outside Chicago, which they say have been overlooked by lawmakers in the past.
After the event, pension funding is going to be a “real mess” for the two to solve, Sibley said.
Both Biss and Gabel said they were pleased with the evening’s turnout. Biss also said he was glad to be able to clear up confusion about pensions and health care.
“This stuff is complicated and weird,” he said. “When twenty people want to engage, it’s great for their feedback and good for them to get a more complete picture of what’s going on.”
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Obama campaign: Election Night rally to be held in Chicago
President Barack Obama will appear at an Election Night “watch party” at McCormick Place in Chicago, his re-election campaign announced earlier this week.
The official venue selection came after sev-eral reports that Obama’s team was consider-ing the downtown convention center for an Election Night event. The president also hinted at it in a recent fundraising email.
It remains unclear who will be able to attend the Nov. 6 event, but all signs point to a scaled-back version of Obama’s Election Night rally four years ago. That citywide celebration brought more than 150,000 people to Grant Park to hear the president-elect’s rousing vic-tory speech.
Obama’s campaign team has reserved McCormick Place’s Lakeside Center, which is “ideally suited to serve mid-sized meeting and exhibitions,” according to the convention center’s website.
Obama’s opponent, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, will be spending Election Night at the Boston Convention and Exhibi-tion Center.
Obama’s most recent visit to Chicago was last week, when he dropped in for less than three hours to cast an early ballot in the presi-dential race and visit a field office on the South Side.
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Group looks to engage Asian American journalistsBy Zack Harristhe daily northwestern
With the arrival of a new Medill professor last winter, the Asian American Journalists Association is revitalizing its presence at Northwestern.
Medill Prof. Mei-Ling Hopgood has been an active AAJA member since the 1990s. Since becoming a Medill profes-sor in February, Hopgood has been working with the organization’s Chi-cago chapter to increase its presence on campus.
Hopgood said she is working with chapter presidents to get NU stu-dents involved.
“I want to get the conversation started and have the students determine their involvement with AAJA,” Hopgood said.
Established in 1981, the AAJA works to advance the careers of Asian American and Pacific Islander journalists and support them in the United States and around the world. AAJA also works to ensure “accu-racy and fairness in the coverage of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders,” according to its website. The association has 21 chapters across the U.S. and Asia
and comprises more than 1500 members.A group of about 20 students have started to work
with Prof. Hopgood and AAJA Chicago and hope to eventually created an AAJA-affiliated group on campus.
Ameet Sachdev, AAJA’s Chicago chapter co-president, said he is optimistic about the effects of an AAJA faculty member on the group’s recruitment of NU students.
“Recently, we have not had an AAJA member as a full-time professor at Medill, so we are looking to Prof. Hopgood to be our Chapter Board’s liaison on campus,” Sachdev (Medill ‘93) said.
Sachdev said the Chicago chapter has a fairly even split of professional and student individuals among its about 100 members. He said AAJA does not have chapters at individual universities in an effort to cre-ate bigger associations.
“We want students to join our larger city chap-ters,” Sachdev said.
Sachdev said becoming an AAJA member can have benefits for journalists both before and after college graduation.
“In addition to scholarships and internships for students in Chicago, we also provide an opportunity to network with professionals from around the city,” he said.
Sachdev said the chapter’s networking programs help recent graduates who are beginning to look for work.
Medill senior Dan Hill has been involved with AAJA since high school and stressed the power of
its networking events.“It’s a great way to meet people with similar back-
grounds and interests,” he said.Sachdev said he believes AAJA’s Chicago chapter
can help NU students advance their careers in jour-nalism by providing career guidance and mentoring,
hosting networking events and operating other programs, including scholarships and internships. AAJA’s membership and events are open to all stu-dents, he said.
Photo courtesy of aaJa chicago
networking ameet sachdev, co-president of asian american Journalists association’s chicago chapter, holds a raffle prize at the chapter’s 2011 scholarship fund event.
“It’s a
great way to meet people
with similar backgrounds and interests.
Dan Hill,Medill senior and
AAJA member
NU advises student discretion in choosing Halloween costumes
Following a history of racially insensitive Hal-loween costumes at Northwestern, the University reminded students in an email Friday to consider the impact their outfits may have.
In the email, Patricia Telles-Irvin, vice president of Student Affairs, referenced the controversy that
arose three years ago when two white students wore blackface for Halloween.
“Halloween can also unfortunately be a time when the normal thoughtfulness and sensitivity of most NU students can be forgotten and some poor decisions can be made,” Telles-Irvin wrote.
Telles-Irvin said the culturally insensitive costume choices have not been directed at one group, but have “impacted religious beliefs, various ethnicities and gender expressions.”
She then included a list of questions for students to ask themselves to determine if their costume could
potentially offend someone.The University has reminded students to think
about their costume choices carefully every year since the 2009 incident. For the past two years, Burgwell Howard, assistant vice president of student engage-ment, sent the reminder.
“Given that colleges are dynamic places, that wel-come a new 25 percent of its student population every year, it is important that those of us who have been in the community longer — students, staff and faculty, take time to educate folks about important moments in our history, as well as to share the lessons learned,”
Howard wrote Tuesday in an email to The Daily.Students share the concerns about the potential
for racial insensitivity this Halloween. The Native American and Indigenous Student Alliance launched a campaign through social media, called “Don’t mess up when you dress up.”
“Frankly, I know there are a lot of people tired of having to go through discussions where people don’t know why what they’re doing is offensive,” NAISA co-president Adam Mendel said.
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At this time last year, I had no idea that Mor-ton Schapiro was the best university president ever, had never heard of Kain Colter and never remotely considered going out to The Keg. For that matter, I didn’t even know that students published newspapers that other students would actually read. That’s because last year, I was at the University of Rochester playing Division III golf for the Yellowjackets (please spare me the embarrassment of looking up the num-bers I put up last year). Like most other college freshmen, I was com-pletely convinced that I would happily spend the next four years where I started.
The biggest turn-around of my freshman year didn’t happen on the golf course, although I regret play-ing crappy golf with the Rochester logo on my shirt. When I first entered college, I was utterly convinced that I would make a terrible engineer because of my high school grades in science (the stereotypical engineer doesn’t get a C in AP Chemistry).
However, after working in Rochester’s student biodiesel lab and taking classes in partial dif-ferential equations and microeconomics filled with engineers, I decided that my passion in life is the application of technical knowledge to issues in management and policy. So what if I got bad grades trying to pursue a double major in chemical engineering and economics? At least I’d be doing something that would get me up in the morning, even if I struggled through the workload.
There wasn’t one thing that drove me to trans-fer out of Rochester. I wasn’t thrilled about the food and the limited social life, but neither was anybody else, and those weren’t deal-breakers. The academics were outstanding, even if U.S. News & World Report and potential employers don’t fully acknowledge what Rochester students go through.
However, the one thing I really wanted and didn’t get at Rochester was a driven environment with students I could fully engage with. That’s not to say my peers weren’t passionate; they just cared about different things than I did. Rochester has an
amazing music program and everybody seemed to have some kind of musical talent. A musical atmosphere wasn’t really for me, though, so I decided that I would apply to schools that more closely matched the things I wanted to study.
Admittedly, I always wanted to go to Penn because of the education that Wharton offers, so my first thought was to apply as an engineer and then try to get a dual degree from Wharton. However, after talking to a high school friend who’s enrolled in McCormick and making succes-sive trips through Northwestern’s website, I came away with a positive impression. Besides being drawn in by NU’s outstanding chemical engineer-ing and economics majors, I was also impressed by a multitude of certificate programs and minors. I felt like I could fit in on campus.
Fortunately, it’s not as if NU only offers techni-cal majors. Unlike my previous school, I feel as if there’s something for everyone. Everybody is incredibly talented and hard working, but there remains a diversity of opinion and expression. While I was disheartened to see some of the especially nasty comments made to my fellow col-umnist during the affirmative action debate, the passion and variety of backgrounds that people brought to bear validated my decision to come to NU. I genuinely enjoy being part of this school, even though I’ve never been so sleep-deprived in my life.
This year, NU has 115 new transfers, including my fellow columnist Ryan Kearney, and we are all eager to complete what I call our “freshman-and-a-half” experience. We had the best Peer Advisers ever (sorry, freshmen PA’s) and many of us still connect to each other through our shared experi-ence of having gone to a different university before coming to NU. On the other hand, we strive our hardest to jump right into life on campus. Each of us can find the niche we felt like we lacked at our previous school without feeling ostracized for not being here our freshman year.
If you have a younger sibling who’s thinking of applying to the University of Rochester, I’m more than happy to give a glowing recommendation to the school. Ultimately, it just wasn’t right for me, and I still remember the exuberance I felt when I got an acceptance email from Northwestern four months ago. While I’d love to wax on about how great it is to be a Wildcat, Prof. Notestein’s mid-term beckons. It seems like I’ve already got one NU pastime down pat: complaining about how hard it is to get through engineering here. Just ask my other transfer friends.
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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Unless you were one of the three people who probably read my initial bio in The Daily’s first publication of the year, you may not know that I am actually a transfer stu-dent here at Northwestern. After spending my first year of college at the University of Southern California, I realized that I did not want to be there for three more. Although I made some amazing friendships and had some great times there, USC was not a good fit for me. Consequently, I made the deci-sion to shoot for admittance into NU, and when I was lucky enough to do so, the trans-fer was a no-brainer.
Yes, I have heard from many people what you may be thinking right now: But what about the weather?! I can promise you, though, that having seventy-something degree temperatures for nine months in a row does not guarantee satisfaction with a school, and can also create a “Groundhog Day” vibe of monotony. With my decision made, I embarked on the grand adventure of college life (again) and moved to Evanston in September.
While the college reboot has not been seamless, I can honestly report that it has gone far more smoothly for me than expected and that I already feel right at home. Part of this may have to do with the fact that I have already been through the whole college routine once before and learned how to balance school work, social life and extracurriculars, as well as how to live away from home.
After being less-than-satisfied with my last school, I made it a point to visit NU whenever I could (I am from the Chicago area), talk to people who work at the school and friends from home who already went here, and do all of the research into what life is like as an NU student that I may have been less than thorough on before.
It also has helped tremendously that, unlike many other transfers at schools across the country who switch schools and initially know no one, I already knew and was friends with a number of kids from my high school who are also Northwestern stu-dents. They have all been very welcoming, showing me around and introducing me to all kinds of new students and activities.
Finally, I feel that my transition has gone pretty smoothly because I have worked hard
to get involved with the amazing extracur-ricular opportunities that are afforded to us here. We’ll see later if I bit off more than I can chew, but for now, I’m involved in a number of activities that are really satisfy-ing, fun and have introduced me to more and more new people. I made the decision coming in that it would be best to just dive right in to campus life and try to “catch up” with my fellow sophomores who have been here all along, and I feel like so far I am doing exactly that.
In regard to how the school itself handles transitioning its new transfers into the
campus community, I would say that the University does a very good job, with some notable excep-tions. I like that they give us a Peer Adviser group of all transfers, with whom we have the week to really get acclimated to campus and learn everything and any-thing about going to Northwestern. Having us join the freshmen in March Thru the Arch and volunteering through the SCAPE program was also rewarding.
However, there are a lot of activities that
they lump us in with the freshmen for, such as the mandatory presentation on alcohol awareness, that many of us are too old for and that almost all of us have seen before. Parts of the Wildcat Welcome Week process were a little too incubated for my tastes, although were I starting off in a truly new environment having known no one, I am sure that I would feel differently.
The stresses of school and college life aside, then, I am feeling great about my transfer to NU. I feel like I am really getting immersed in the culture of the school and meeting some amazing people, and once I have one full quarter as a Wildcat under my belt, I will truly feel like a full-fledged mem-ber of the NU family.
Ryan Kearney is a Communication 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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tearing down Prentice,” the group said. “Apparently, Mayor Emanuel � nds this argument persuasive. We do not.”
Landmark designationBy building the new facility, NU hopes to expand
its biomedical capabilities and become a top-ranked medical research institution.
Plans for investing deeper in research have been in the making for more than 15 years. When Henry Bienen became University president, NU began to focus on expanding the medical school’s scope from basic clinical care to research by inviting more physi-cian-researcher faculty and applying for federal grants
from the National Insti-tute of Health.
The University has conducted studies show-ing Prentice is outdated and incapable of housing modern research labs and has stated that it is not interested in repur-posing the building.
If the panel recom-mends granting land-mark status, it must then be approved by the Chi-cago City Council. � e council rarely overturns these decisions and the panel often considers the opinion of the local alderman’s position. Earlier this month, Chi-cago Ald. Brendan Reilly (42nd) said he supported
NU unless he had a “eureka moment.”A building must cover two of seven speci� c criteria
to qualify for a preliminary landmark status recom-mendation. Top anti-demolition advocates said they feel con� dent Prentice meets at least four of these requirements in addition to an eighth “integrity cri-teria,” which mandates that a building not change over time beyond recognition of its essential value.
“� e landmarks commission exists solely to evalu-ate what properties in Chicago are important, architec-turally, historically, culturally,” said Christina Morris of the National Trust for Historic Preservation . “We feel Prentice hits all of those marks.”
A� er making a preliminary recommendation, the commission will receive a report from the Department of Housing and Economic Development. � en the commission will request owner consent — which NU is highly unlikely to grant — and a public hearing will follow. � e � nal commission recommendation will take into account factors beyond the original criteria, such as economic development and neighborhood impact. Finally, the commission will vote whether to recommend landmark designation.
� e University’s proposal would attract $150 mil-lion in research grants, create more than 2,000 full time
jobs and call for more than 2,500 temporary construc-tion workers, Sunshine said.
Points of contention� e Save Prentice Coalition has garnered some
support from international architects, including Joe Antunovich and Gustavo Araoz , who together wrote a letter to Emanuel in July encouraging him to support the coalition. Still, opinion is divided in the architec-tural community: NU counts several Chicago archi-tects among its supporters.
� e word on the street is also far from unanimous. Although some Chicago residents admire Prentice architect Bertrand Goldberg and his work, others question the building’s aesthetic appeal.
At the time it was built, Prentice was considered to be on the cutting edge of hospital design, combining maternity obstetrics facilities with gynecology depart-ments. � e building has a central core that was meant to unify sta� and patients.
However, many architects consider Prentice to be of lesser signi� cance than other works by Goldberg, such as Marina City or River City . Chicago architect James Goettsch said the landmark designation should be reserved for only the best buildings of any historic period, by any important architect.
A Streeterville resident, Goettsch passes by Prentice as he travels to and from work everyday.
“All things considered ... we’d be better o� with a
little less new construction,” he said. It’s like living on a construction site nonstop for 10 years now.”
NU and preservationist groups disagree over whether the old hospital is the only lot where the University can build its new research facility.
“We think there are a lot of other options. We just wish Northwestern would explore them,” Morris said, referring to Landmarks Illinois’ reuse study of Prentice, in which it provided � oor plans for how the building may be re-appropriated as administrative o� ces, lab space or housing.
NU did not participate in the study and Sunshine said the University is only interested in building a bio-medical research center.
Morris said there are other vacant lots in Street-erville where NU could build the facility, including the empty site of the former Veteran A� airs hospital, owned by Northwestern Memorial HealthCare , across the street. She said based on the hospital’s a� liation with the University, and the institutions’ history of land collaboration, NU should be able to work out some sort of arrangement.
Northwestern Memorial HealthCare has plans to expand patient care on the VA site, but no devel-opment is currently scheduled, spokeswoman Kris Lathan said in an email. Dean Harrison, president of Northwestern Memorial HealthCare, said in an email to � e Daily that the two organizations, while close,
remain independent. Harrison stressed the old Veteran A� airs site’s
importance in allowing Northwestern Memorial HealthCare to connect its various medical buildings.
Such connectivity is also important to the Univer-sity’s plans to place the proposed facility on the Prentice site, where it can line up directly with other research buildings on the block.
“If you want to recruit and retain the best, you have to have this kind of physical layout,” Sunshine said.
Public opinionNearly three-quarters of Chicago residents sur-
veyed in an NU-sponsored poll said they support the University’s plan for the Prentice building and 14 percent said they oppose it.
As of Tuesday evening, the Save Prentice Coalition petition to stop the demolition had 3,624 signatures, and its public supporters include international archi-tects and engineers. Among those high-pro� le signers: William Baker, lead structural engineer of Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world.
In a letter to Emanuel, Baker urged the mayor to consider alternative proposals for using the old build-ing, which Baker says was built using “revolutionary” architecture.
� e Prentice � asco has brought together two com-munities o� en at odds: local businesses and labor unions. � e Chicago Federation of Labor and the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce penned a joint letter to the Chicago Tribune last month, touting the economic bene� ts of NU’s cause.
“We don’t always see eye to eye, but when it comes to things that will grow the economy and create jobs we o� en agree,” CFL spokesman Nick Kaleba said. “We’re still in support of Northwestern and believe that they will do the due diligence of exhausting all other options of how best to utilize that site.”
� is summer, NU launched a multi-faceted cam-paign to rally public support for its Prentice plan. � e public relations blitz included advertisements in lead-ing Chicago publications and outreach to alumni and a� liated organizations.
NU o� cials declined to provide numbers on how much was spent on Prentice-related marketing.
‘Most signi� cant decision in years’With Prentice o� cially on the Chicago Commis-
sion on Landmarks agenda, NU and the Save Prentice Coalition will have the chance to � nally make their cases before the city.
In a statement Tuesday, University spokesman Al Cubbage said NU o� cials were “very pleased” with Emanuel’s support and look forward to making the case for their proposed research facility.
� e Save Prentice Coalition anticipated in its release that Prentice will be the commission’s “most signi� cant decision in years,” and called upon commissioners to provide Prentice with a fair public hearing.
“� is might be one of the most important things I’ve ever worked on, in terms of the long-term impact,” Sunshine said. “It goes well beyond to the people who work here and wear purple every day.”
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I really think that (Fuchs has) played such a huge role in shaping who I am. She might not even realize it. — Chelsea Armstrong, midfielder
When the Northwestern women’s soccer team won four of its first seven games, there was optimism around the program. But we knew the true test of the Wildcats charac-ter would come in the Big Ten.
If you judge the first eight confer-ence games, the first seven of the year would seem like a fraud. How can a team that went 4-2-1 in those first seven contests then went winless for nine consecutive games to foes they should know like the back of their hand? Well, if the last three games the Cats played speak to anything, its confidence is the key for this team.
The team battled to an overtime win in its first game of the season, and for a team that won just two games the year before, any win is a big win. That confidence was win-ning that first game, a game they probably would have lost last season, extended into a second consecutive win. After enduring a two-game skid, the Cats scored two early goals, and despite only getting a draw, had some confidence which it used to grab back-to-back 2-0 wins.
And then Big Ten play started for NU. The Cats were close, but they never could get over the hump and pick up a win. The first turning point in conference play was a road trip to Indiana at the end of September. NU lost to both Indiana and Purdue by a score of 1-0 despite dominating the run of play in both games. These are the type of games that deflate a team, and it did just that to the Cats, who went on to drop their next three games and were mired in a six-game stretch in which they scored just once.
When it looked like the Cats were going to retreat and give up, NU took a trip south to play intrastate rival Illinois. After seven consecutive losses, it would make sense for the Cats to throw in the towel, know-ing they were out of the hunt for a spot in the Big Ten Tournament. The Fighting Illini scored just 17 minutes into the game and with 10 minutes left it looked like Illinois would defend its turf. Georgia Waddle scored with 9 minutes left to make it an interesting game, and then Kate Allen stepped up to the penalty spot. The junior placed her shot into the goal with 4 seconds left to give the Cats a win.
NU took that confidence with them and won its last two games of the season to end the year with a three-game winning streak. It’s a fact that winning breeds confidence and losing begets doubt. The key for any team is to find a way to erase the doubt and stay confident. It was clear NU struggled with confidence in the middle of the season despite what everyone was saying to the media. It can be extremely demoralizing for any team to play so well and lose, and that trip to Indiana was a low point in the season for NU. It took them three and a half games to get over that disappointment before they finally regained some confidence.
Maybe NU did not pass the con-ference test, but unlike last year, the Cats will bring confidence into next season and will make some noise in the Big Ten.
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Armstrong leaving on high noteField Hockey Football
By Alex puttermAnthe daily northwestern
Once upon a time, in a far-away land, one heroic athlete set off on a journey to Northwestern. Now, four years later, she’s looking for a happily ever after.
Field hockey star and captain Chelsea Armstrong, born and raised in rural Aus-tralia, almost never made it to Evanston. The Aussie first considered coming state-side during her first year at the Univer-sity of Western Australia. Her club coach received a call from Carla Tagliente, then an assistant coach at the University of Michigan, where Tracey Fuchs was asso-ciate head coach, asking if she knew of any players interested in playing college field hockey in the U.S.
“No, not interested,” Armstrong says she initially replied. “Pretty happy here.”
But a few weeks later, the forward said she reassessed the offer. After further research and contemplation, Armstrong grew comfortable with the idea of cross-ing the Pacific and began communicat-ing with Tagliente about the possibility of joining the Wolverines. When Fuchs and Tagliente accepted jobs at NU before Armstrong’s freshman season, the Aussie followed them to Evanston. And thus began the best career in Northwestern field hockey history.
Armstrong’s first season with the Wildcats was impressive personally for the freshman, who was named to the All-Big Ten first team after leading the conference with 22 goals, but less success-ful for the team. That year, NU finished 6th in the Big Ten with a 1-6 conference record, despite the standout performance from its young star.
The next two seasons saw improve-ment, but NU still won only four Big Ten games during that time.
“When I came in we were missing that winning mentality,” she said. “We’d go into games as the underdog every time and not really expecting to win, which kind of meant that once we got down in a game, there was no drive to keep trying or drive to come out on top. We’d just end up getting down and out.”
Nonetheless, Armstrong’s personal successes kept coming. She again earned All-Big Ten honors for her sophomore
and junior seasons and was named Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year both years, twice again leading the confer-ence in goals. On Sept. 27, 2011, the junior became NU’s all-time leader in goals scored after tallying three against St. Louis.
All the while, Fuchs watched as Arm-strong improved on and off the field.
“She’s one of the few people of any-one I’ve coached that has grown,” Fuchs said. “She’s grown in just about every way. Obviously, she’s one of the best players in the nation. She also came in, struggled a little bit with school, and now she’s well over a 3.0 (GPA). Her first two months here she hardly spoke. She just practiced, played hard, and now she’s our vocal leader on the field and our captain.”
Fuchs isn’t alone in admiring all Arm-strong offers the team. The senior’s team-mates also appreciate her leadership.
“Coming in to this program I wasn’t sure what to expect,” freshman Kelley Stump said. “But I found in Chelsea a really good role model. I have a ton of respect for her on and off the field, and if there’s one person I look up to, it’s her.”
This year, Armstrong’s improvement as a player has meant her best statistical season yet, and her growth as a leader has meant a much-improved NU squad. A 6-0 victory over Missouri St. on Oct. 21 epitomized the progress of both the Cats and their captain. That day, the team won its eighth consecutive game, NU’s first streak of that length since 1990. Mean-while, Armstrong made her senior day special, scoring 4 goals to reach 100 for her career. She is the third Big Ten player, and the first from NU, to reach that mile-stone. On the surface the win was an ordinary rout of a non-conference opponent. In reality, it repre-sented a revamped program and the remarkable tal-ent of its best player.
Never described as anything but humble,
Armstrong can deflect credit as fast as she can deflect a little white ball into a field hockey net.
“(100 goals) is something I can’t take all the credit for,” she said. “So many times it’s just me popping the ball in the net when someone’s done a huge run down the sideline. A lot of the work goes un-credited.”
As for her off-field growth, Armstrong points to the woman in change.
“Tracey (Fuchs) has played such a huge role in my life these past four years,” she said. “I really think I’ve developed as a person a lot because of Tracey’s lead-ership and pushing me to be a bet-ter leader. She’s pushed me over the four years to be a bet-ter player, to be a better leader, to be a better person. I really think that she’s played such a huge role in shaping who I am. She might
not even realize it.”Having arrived at NU together and
elevated the program from Big Ten bottom-dwellers to National Cham-pionship contenders, Fuchs and Arm-strong share a mutual admiration for each other. The coach, who in addition to her own legendary on-field collegiate and international careers has coached for recent USA national teams, finds Arm-strong’s attitude and performance almost incomparable.
“The whole package, she is right up there in the top two with any player I’ve ever coached.” Fuchs said. “We’re sure going to miss her. You can’t replace her.”
But Armstrong isn’t done yet. The Big Ten Tournament begins Thursday against Indiana (9-8, 0-6 Big Ten)for the No. 8 Cats (16-3, 4-2), followed by the NCAA Tournament, which NU has never won. How does the senior imagine ending her
unparalleled Cats career? With another unprecedented achievement.
“I would love to end it holding an NCAA championship,” she said.
“Going out on a win is some-thing that not many people get to do. Honestly, I could end the season today and leave happy, but I think we
have a chance right now to really contend for that national championship, and I think that would be the perfect way to end my career.”
One could call that a fairy-tale ending.
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By josh wAlfishdaily senior staffer
For the first time since Aug. 20, Northwestern players woke up Monday morning knowing they won’t be playing Saturday.
This is the Wildcats’ annual bye week, and although NU doesn’t have a game, the players and coaches are not taking their break lightly. Coach Pat Fitzgerald is on the road recruiting the next batch of Cats. The players are continuing to improve and implement a game plan for their next opponent, Michigan on Nov. 10. Senior defensive tackle Brian Arnfelt said after Saturday’s victory, this will be just another week for NU.
“We’re going to be practicing, it’s not like we’re going to be on the couch eating potato chips,” Arnfelt said.
Venric Mark dispelled any talk about NU taking it easy. The junior running back said after the win over Iowa that the focus this week will be on the Wolverines and getting prepared for the final three games.
“There is no relaxing,” Mark said. “This is a bye week, but at the end of the day we still have to go to Michigan and win that game. We’re going to stay active.”
The only players that may be relaxing are redshirt freshmen cornerback Nick
VanHoose and senior corner Quinn Evans, both of whom missed last week’s game with injuries. Fitzgerald said in previous weeks he was going to ride his team hard and push them up until the bye week, but after beating Iowa on Saturday, he told the media, the Cats needed the week to rest.
The bye week has extra significance for the players because the school is in
the middle of midterm season. Fitzgerald said the team will focus on going 1-0 in a different discipline.
“Our guys have persevered and we’ve battled and now it’s midterm time,” Fitzgerald said. “Time to go win this week academically.”
As midterms arrive for Cats in the classroom, Fitzgerald was asked about how he would grade his team headed
into the bye. Though he didn’t give out a specific mark, he shifted the focus to the future and said NU has done a good enough job to make November a cru-cial month in the season as it battles for a conference title and jockeys for bowl position.
“They forget what you do in Septem-ber and October and you guys remem-ber what we do in November,” Fitzgerald said. “We could have been better, but we put ourselves in position to be in the post-season and put ourselves in a position to have a significant November ...We’re a seven-win football team right now and I would like for everyone not to forget that.”
The Cats may have seven wins, but the players know they were just a couple of plays away from being undefeated after some close losses. Senior linebacker David Nwabuisi said the team should get a B-plus for the first part of the season, but there is still a lot of work for NU to do before it plays in the postseason.
“It’s not a surprise to us where we are right now in terms of the standings,” Nwabuisi said. “We wish we could get a play or two back but as long as we keep learning from our mistakes we’ll be all right and be able to focus on our final (exam) coming up.”
Cats use bye to focus on health, classes
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GET WEll SOON Nick VanHoose and the Cats are using the bye to heal and “win this week academically.” VanHoose is nursing a shoulder injury.
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