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By Ali Elkinthe daily northwestern
City officials say they hope to make Evan-ston a LEED-er in sustainable development.
The proposed Green Building Ordinance, developed by the Evanston Environment Board and the Human Services Committee, will come before the City Council in an up-coming meeting pending review by a legal team, Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl said.
It would require builders to deposit a portion of the cost of their projects, with larger, more ex-pensive buildings paying smaller percentages. Builders receive their money back upon achiev-ing certification from the United States Green
Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system.
“LEED certification covers our interests,” Tisdahl said. “We want to protect the environ-ment as much as possible.”
The sliding scale for determining deposits should keep developers interested in keeping their projects in Evanston, Tisdahl said.
“If it does (repel builders), we don’t want them,” Tisdahl said. “I’m hoping that soon no one else will want them either.”
Evanston’s Jewish Reconstructionist Con-gregation’s synagogue, 303 Dodge Ave., is the nation’s only house of worship to receive a “plat-inum” rating from LEED. According to the United States Green Building Council’s Web site, Northwestern’s Ford Motor Company En-gineering Design Center, 2133 Sheridan Road, is Evanston’s only other certified building, with a rating of “silver.” The Web site lists eight other Evanston buildings registered for appraisal, in-
cluding the Technological Institute, 2145 Sheri-dan Road, and Harris Hall, 1881 Sheridan Road, on the NU campus, as well as Evanston Fire Station No. 5, 2830 Central St.
Tisdahl said she believed the ordinance would apply to projects proposed after it goes into effect.
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Schapiro, Bienen look ahead to September
By lAurEn kEllEhEr the daily northwestern
This summer, two eras of Northwestern leadership will overlap.
One era, colored by 14 years of fund-raising, jet-setting and rapid university-building, will close with a flourish on Au-
gust 31. The next, led by a character who is as ready to teach an undergraduate eco-nomics course as he is
prepared to fly halfway around the world, is about to begin.
Incoming university president Morton Schapiro will move into the provost’s house on July 1, after which he said he will “spend two months picking (university President) Henry Bienen’s brain” and m e e t i n g a s ma ny of t he faculty mem-bers and ad-ministration as poss ible . He will assume the presidency on September 1, 14 y e a r s a f t e r Henry Bienen began his ten-ure.
The overlap does not, how-ever, mean two presidents, as Bienen and Schapiro are quick to point out. They both subscribe to a “one president at a time” mantra, Bienen said in an interview this spring.
Schapiro recently echoed Bienen’s sen-timent, citing his own obligations as presi-dent of Williams College.
“Northwestern has a wonderful presi-dent and I have my own job at Williams,” he said “I will have two months to try and get to meet people and get the lay of the land without being president.”
According to Communication professor Adam Goodman, who has spent his career consulting universities and corporations during leadership changeovers, “one at a time is considered to be the best practice.”
“At the level of CEO or a university president, you don’t want to send mixed signals to the board or students or faculty or deans about what the strategic vision is for the institution,” Goodman said.
Bienen declined to comment on what he thought Schapiro’s to-do list should con-sist of when he arrives at NU.
“I wouldn’t want to lock (Schapiro) in,” Bienen said, adding that running a univer-sity is “not a one-person show” and that he will leave it up to Schapiro to choose what
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π A newly proposed ordinance would require new Evanston buildings to be sustainable
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A Whole New World: Students sing, dance along to ‘Aladdin’ screening at Norris PAGE 2
By kAtiE GluEckthe daily northwestern
In a hall decorated with portraits of former Northwestern university presidents and mem-bers of the board, eleven NU students swigged beers and made music with their empty bot-tles, all for the sake of art.
Tom Marioni, a conceptual artist and sculptor from San Francisco, discussed the value of beer as art and conducted a “beer so-nata” at Hardin Hall in the Rebecca Crown
Center on Monday night. The gathering, co-sponsored by the NU Political Union and the Art Theory and Practice Department, drew about 50 students. Marioni argued that drink-ing beer with friends is the “highest form of art.”
“Beer is an aid to communication,” Mari-oni said. “It’s a social lubricant, and that com-munication element is art.”
Jake Wertz, former co-president of the Po-litical Union and the event’s organizer, said the evening’s goal was to pique students’ in-
terest in art through something many college kids can relate to: alcohol.
“We wanted to free art from just being in a museum or one circle of campus,” said the SESP senior and a former DAILY columnist. “We wanted to show how art can impact ev-erything we do. We need to find ways to get non-artists involved, and it seemed like beer is a good place to start.”
Marioni displayed a slide show of beer
Students drink, think at ‘Beer Sonata’
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PAGE2 EVENT TUESDAY | A look at what happened last night on campus
Monday’s calendar incorrectly stated that comedian Daniel Tosh would be performing at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall Tuesday. The A&O-sponsored event will actually be Thursday at 7:30 p.m.
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“What could be better? Disney movies are our
childhoods and Dillo Day is all about regaining the
youth that the quarter has sapped from us.
— Katie Halpern, Weinberg junior, Mayfest Director of Promotions,
A&O Co-director of Public Relations and Promotions
”“I like Abu because he’s a little troublemaker.
— tina franK, Weinberg sophomore
The songs are amazing; they’re catchy. They’re clever. They’re beautiful. I came with
my friends from P-Wild. They’re pretty into it.
— Matt guerrier, McCormick freshman
We’re going to be doing our makeshift dance for ‘A Whole New World.’
— Kristie Marotta, McCormick junior
I like the opening because it’s so dark and dramatic.
‘A Whole New World’ always makes me cry.
— grace weitz, Medill sophomore
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Mayfest and A&O held a singalong screening of the classic Disney movie Aladdin on Monday night, as part of the events leading up to Dillo Day on May 30. Stu-dents gathered on Norris’s East Lawn and belted out the lyrics to their childhood favorites — some
even danced along with the tunes.
— Matt spector
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Tribute to be held for outgoing Bienen, Ryan
Northwestern will honor its two outgoing leaders, President Henry Bienen and Board of Trustees Chairman Patrick Ryan, in a joint tribute June 4 at Deering Meadow.
The event will start at 4 p.m. and include remarks from members of the NU commu-
nity and the Board of Trustees in addition to music and refreshments.
William Osborn, chairman-elect for the Board of Trustees, will speak, said Al Cub-bage, vice president of university relations. The faculty and student speakers were still being determined as of last week, he said.
Bienen became president in 1995, the start of a 14-year term – the third-longest in NU’s history.
Ryan graduated from NU in 1959, joined the Board of Trustees in 1978 and became chairman in 1996. He is the founding chair-man of Aon Corporation and chairman and chief executive of Chicago’s committee to host the 2016 Olympics.
A private tribute for Bienen and his wife, Leigh Bienen, was held earlier in the year for members of the Board of Trustees and invited guests, and a similar event is planned for
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Panel focuses on obstacles facing female scientists
By LILIa HaRgISthe daily northwestern
For many women in science and engineer-ing, finding a balance between launching a career and raising a family can be difficult.
At a panel discussion on Monday in Har-din Hall, seven female scientists and engi-neers addressed the “elephant in the labora-tory,” sharing their experiences facing and overcoming the challenge. The panel was fo-cused primarily on women early in their ca-reers, including graduate students, post-doc-toral fellows and early-career faculty.
“Motherhood & Success in Science and Engineering” was co-sponsored by North-western and the University of Chicago, with an early afternoon panel held in Evanston and a later session held at the University of Chicago. Though the vast majority of the 60 attendees were women, some men also at-tended, and several panelists stressed the im-portance of men supporting their wives and female colleagues who are trying to balance their careers and motherhood.
The panel was necessary because of the new demands placed on women in science and engineering, said Holly Falk-Krzesinski, an organizer of the event and the director of
the office for research development at NU. “In recent years, the training period in sci-
ence and engineering has extended,” Falk-Krzesinski said. “The most intense years of launching a career coincide with childbear-ing and childrearing years.”
The goal of the panel was to let women know what solutions exist, based on the expe-rience of others who have been successful in balancing their careers and families, said Latonia Trimuel, the special projects coordi-nator in the Office for Research Development at NU who helped organize the event.
The panelists all agreed that balancing their careers and families was challenging.
“There is always more than you can do in a day,” said panelist Cate Brinson, chair-woman of mechanical engineering depart-ment at NU and a mother of four.
Women also need to be direct with their professors and advisors about their needs when requesting time off for maternity leave or to stay home with children, said panelist Gina Wesley-Hunt.
“Stop apologizing … ask for what you want,” said Wesley-Hunt, Weinberg ‘95, and currently works as an assistant professor at Montgomery College in Maryland.
The discussion was followed by a book signing of “Motherhood, the Elephant in the Laboratory: Women Scientists Speak Out” with panelists Emily Monosson and Wesley-Hunt. The book is a collection of personal es-says compiled and edited by Monosson in
which 34 women scientists, including Wesley-Hunt, share their experiences concerning ca-reers and motherhood.
The event’s organizers tried to show women that there was no “cookie-cutter solu-tion” to balancing work and family life by in-corporating as much diversity as possible into the panel, Falk-Krzesinski said. The panel in-cluded women who had children at different points in their career and worked in different settings.
A second goal of the event was to raise awareness at NU about the obstacles that face female scientists and engineers.
“(NU has) tenure stop-clock and paid pa-ternity leave (for faculty), but for post-docs there is a ways to go,” said Falk-Krzesinski, who hoped that the event would help admin-istrators realize that such issues need to be addressed.
Trimuel added that for post-doctoral fel-lows and graduate students, there is no offi-cial university policy regarding family leave, so arrangements vary.
Falk-Krzesinski said she was pleased by the number of people that attended the event and the attendees’ response to the speakers.
“There was a wonderful, enthusiastic re-sponse from the women,” she said. “I was lis-tening to a lot of small conversations, where women extended their gratitude to the panel-ists. It gave women a new understanding.”
π “Motherhood & Success in Science and Engineering” addressed the balance of work and family
Emily Monosson, PhDEditor and contributor to “Motherhood, the Elephant in the Laboratory: Women Scientists Speak Out” consults, writes, and teaches about environmental and human health impacts of emerging contaminants, nanomate-rials and plastics
Gina Wesley-Hunt, PhDAssistant Professor at Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland
Lisa Abston, PhDDirector of Prehealh Professions at Chicago State University
L. Cate Brinson, PhDJerome B. Cohen Professor of Engineering at Northwestern, Chair of Mechanical Engineering Department
Amanda Petford-Long, PhDSenior Scientist in Materials Sciences Division at Argonne National Lab, Professor of Material Sciences at NU
Diana Donnely-Roberts, PhDNeuroscientist at Abbott Laboratories
Bethanee Schlosser, MD, PhDAssistant Professor of Dermatology and Director of the Women’s Skin Health Initiative in the Department of Dermatology at NU
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“Better yet, isn't spin the bottle all the more suspenseful now that most of the circle has a boyfriend, girlfriend,
STD, or some combination of the three?”
Parag Mahajan and Jayshiv Badlani, Tuesday columnists
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An injection of youth
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While it is commonplace for us to waste away our weekends on modern marvels like “Rock Band”
and the ABC Family OnDemand sec-tion, a recent foray into “Mario Party 3” proved something that we have long be-lieved: nothing today can compare to the fun of the games from our childhood.
This probably seems obvious. Mem-ories from grade school are always the best. But our point goes far beyond that. We contend that the real and vir-tual games from our pre-high school days, played even today at our decrepit ages, are far more entertaining than anything else we can possibly do.
So break out your Fun Dip and Nin-tendo 64’s, because we are calling for a renaissance of fun. Sure, tennis, rac-quetball and that game on the exercise-bike at SPAC where you chase the dragons are all a blast. But these “grown-up” games are nowhere near as entertaining as a good old-fashioned game of four square, provided that the toothless douche who calls “cherry bomb” on every play isn’t involved.
Halo allows you the unique rush of shooting up fake aliens with fake guns while calling your X-Box Live oppo-nent a loser for thinking he could get away with using the blue laser beam. But will Halo ever match the excite-ment of an epic kickball game? In fact, we challenge anyone to find a game that matches the intensity and inclu-siveness of kickball.
It allows a large amount of people to play a sport that combines the nuances of America’s pastime with the skills of the world’s sport, and somehow man-ages to be higher-scoring than both. Yet unbelievably, by seventh grade, kickball is a lost art form. We think it’s time that everyone came to their senses and resumed playing the most gender-neutral team sport ever in-vented (sorry, Frisbee).
We understand that by now, most of you are addicted to your Wii’s and Giga Pets, but seriously, think about how much fun it would be to play duck, duck, goose now that half of your friends have grown beer bellies. Better yet, isn’t spin the bottle all the more suspenseful now that most of the circle has a boyfriend, girlfriend, STD, or some combination of the three?
And don’t worry if you were always the last pick on the playground, because college life provides the ultimate equal-izer for any childhood game. Pregaming an actual game can be more fun than pregaming The Keg, just like playing Cruisin’ USA drunk is a lot safer than playing Driving Around Evanston drunk. In fact, combining childhood games with adult alcoholism gives you the best of both worlds, putting even the most competitive games of Beirut to shame. Just be careful, vomiting is a dead giveaway during hide and seek.
We know that you’re going to have a tough time convincing your friends to grab a fifth and play Red Rover with you. That's why we recommend taking your newfound childhood-fantasy life-style to the next level by picking up some imaginary amigos through which you can live vicariously.
After all, if our intuition is right, all of your lives peaked at age nine or you would have actually gotten into the Uni-versity of Pennsylvania. So get out there, grab some Dunkaroos and relive the glory days!
weinberg seniors parag Mahajan and Jayshiv Badlani can be reached at [email protected] and [email protected].
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Swine flu not immediate concern
At this point, the initial panic over swine flu has basically died down. While Northwestern did release an alert last week about the first confirmed student
case, nothing shut down, only one summer study abroad program in Mexico has been canceled, and the university has stopped routinely testing everyone suffering from flu-like symptoms, as per CDC guidelines
But we’re not out of the woods. As Dr. Donald Misch, director of University Health services, points out, flus grow and change every year. That’s why people revaccinate every season; the vaccine is aimed at a different strand every time.
So while the swine flu in its current state ap-pears to have a lethality rate closer to the seasonal flu virus than, for instance, the deadly avian flu, and doesn’t appear to be killing most of the people who contract it, that could eventually change.
When the World Health Organization and the Center for Disease Control first started talking about information coming out of Mexico con-cerning swine flu, it appeared that the lethality rate was much higher than it actually was. People panicked, bought surgical masks in cool colors, and decided to cancel summer plans to Mexico.
In the midst of all this, NU did a commend-able job both of planning for the worst-case sce-nario and making sure students didn’t panic. Misch said that administrators met and planned for potentially closing down the school, putting infected students in isolation, and distributing what antiviral medication they could get. They bought masks and alcohol-based hand sanitizer, and talked about who would feed the lab rats if they had to shut down the university.
What students received in their e-mail in-boxes, though, was a cool letter telling us to ob-serve basic health precautions and not go to class if we don’t feel well. While we know that one student has the flu, we don’t know where she lived or what her name is.
“One of the things we have to balance is noti-fying people of a significant risk while preserv-ing as much privacy as possible," Misch said.
As the CDC continues to downgrade the threat levels of the pandemic (the word pandemic refers only to the disease’s spread, not its dangerousness or potential lethality) the chance of NU needing to enact these procedures becomes increasingly small.
Unless the flu mutates into a much more le-thal version, even if many more students are di-agnosed with swine flu the university probably wouldn’t shut down operations or cancel events like Dillo Day, Misch said. In any case, most stu-dents who aren’t feeling well are unlikely to pay a $300 fee to get a definite diagnosis.
“The more it looks like seasonal flu, the more we should respond to it like seasonal flu,” Misch said.
We hope the university will never have to enact the procedures determined in those early swine flu meetings. But as Misch pointed out, scientists have said that eventually another pandemic will hit, and the next one might not be so mild.
People have died from the swine flu, and more might do so. Like those who die from sea-sonal flus, it seems that most victims are the old, the young, or the sick. Next time this might not be the case.
The past few weeks have been scary for a lot of people, but maybe the stress on the system wasn’t a bad thing. We now know where the fault lines lie in our coping mechanisms, and hopefully both the university administration and international ones will use this grace period to modify their existing practices.
In the meantime, sick students shouldn’t go to class, and everyone should be careful about washing hands, coughing and sneezing on oth-ers, and observing basic sanitation.
Because, as Misch said, the flu at this point really is everywhere. It’s in 48 states, and likely there will be more NU cases, even if they’re not as well-publicized as the first.
“Pay attention, but don’t panic,” Misch said. We concur.
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Abortion laws more variable than its morality
In Diana Nielsen’s article, “Preserving Sec-ularism,” (May 17) she discusses what she says is a growing trend of “the inappropriate con-flation of moral and the political.” She oddly lumps morality in with religion and argues that they have no place in the legal system.
This ignores that we derive our basic rights from our morals and that legal precedence of-ten reflects fairness and morality. Tying reli-gion and morality together as something wrong with society also ignores that possibility that moral values can be derived logically and parallel those expressed in religion.
On abortion, she highlights the crux of the debate. At what point does life become via-ble? She, however, dismisses the idea that life could be viable at conception because it is the position supported by the Catholic Church and was not arrived on through “the delibera-tion of the Supreme Court combined with the consideration of legal precedence.”
This seems to hold legal decisions as something scared and ignores the fact that they tend to change with time and societal opinions. Furthermore this takes the debate on these social issues further from any sort of logical discussion that brings us closer to understanding opposing points of view.
This was not balanced, complete or even an introduction to the larger topic of trends in or the purpose of secularism.
—saMeeRMaheshwaRiMccormick senior
Better lighting would make campus more safe
As I walked into the sorority quad on my way back from dinner the other night, con-cern rushed over me. No one was in sight, the only lamppost lighting my way had gone out, and the porch of my sorority was com-pletely dark. Every noise sounded like some-one was following me.
Was I going crazy? It was ten o’clock on a Thursday night, I was on a frequently used campus path, and I was all of thirty feet from my house. What could possibly go wrong? But
all the articles and NUlink alerts about as-saults and robberies on or close to campus rushed to mind. Would I know what to do if someone attacked me?
Maybe I’m just overly anxious. But Northwestern is my home, and everyone should feel safe enough to walk into the comforts of his or her own home at ten o’clock on a Thursday night.
Why is only one side of Sheridan Road lit? And why is the Sorority Quad one of the darkest places on campus? There’s a reason why my friends call me on their way back from the library at midnight and there’s a reason why I was scared to walk the last thirty feet to my door. The shuttle system has definitely improved and Saferide and soon-to-be Safewalk are great resources, but this campus needs to provide better safety for its students, and more lighting would make all the difference in the world.
—eliZaBethhandleRcommunication junior
Catholicism has no room for pro-choice members
I want to thank Nathaniel Zebrowski for his courageous thoughts in “Pro-Choice Catholics Should Leave The Church.”
I am not Catholic, but I agree with the spirit of your commentary. Christ’s teachings are non-negotiable, and not subject to change. The leadership of a church has the authority and responsibility to ensure those teachings are properly interpreted, and handed down.
A church does not function as a democ-racy. Therefore, if an individual member adamantly opposes particular doctrine or practice, and is not open to correction, that member might do well to consider leaving, rather than trying to force abortion, same-sex marriage, or whatever the issue might be, down the throats of the faithful who are seeking to obey their Lord.
Here’s a thought for those desiring to re-write church teaching: Consider forming your own institutions. Just don’t call them Christianity or Catholicism.
—lUannsUPeRsOnevanston resident
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Someone reached through a dorm win-dow and grabbed a Northwestern student’s arm early Saturday morning, police said.
The incident occurred just before 2 a.m. at Allison Hall, 1820 Chicago Ave., Univer-sity Police Asst. Chief Dan McAleer said.
A police officer met with the victim in her room, which looks out onto a roof land-ing. During the conversation, the officer observed several subjects running on the
landing and alerted nearby colleagues.At least three officers approached the
building. They saw someone climbing a 5-foot fence, as well as three other subjects running away, McAleer said. The officers stopped two of the subjects. Two subjects got away by fleeing through the plaza out-side the Rebecca Crown Center.
Both subjects stopped by police were NU students, McAleer said. One of them admitted to knocking on the victim’s win-dow but denied touching her. The subject said the incident was a joke meant to scare the student.
The victim was not injured and declined to press charges, McAleer said. UP released
the students and referred them to Student Affairs.
Thieves in their 50s steal cart of food from Jewel-Osco store
A pair of shoplifters in their 50s rushed a loaded shopping cart out of a supermarket Sunday, police said.
The suspects brought two shopping carts to a checkout aisle of Jewel-Osco, 2485 Howard St., Evanston Police Department Cmdr. Tom Guenther said.
One suspect offered the cashier a check to pay for the items in the first cart, which totaled $496, Guenther said. The check was invalid.
The man and woman left the store with one shopping cart before staff could stop them, leaving the second cart behind.
A getaway car was parked in a fire lane outside, and the suspects drove off before police arrived, Guenther said.
The incident occurred at about 11:45 a.m.“This is kind of a unique one,” Guenther
said.Police are investigating.
— ADAM SEGE
POLICEBLOTTER
District meeting focuses on special education By EmiLy WRay
the daily northwestern
Emotions ran high as parents stepped to the podium to express their views on special education in Evanston/Skokie School Dis-trict 65 at Monday night’s Board of Educa-tion meeting. The release of an updated re-port on special education in the district be-came the starting point for a series of pre-sentations on the frustrations and concerns of the parents of special needs students.
The new report was an update to a 2002 report on special education in District 65, in which Dr. Sandra Cole listed 19 recom-mendations for improvements to the pro-gram. The majority of presentations from the public at school board meeting concen-trated on her arguments against segregat-ing special needs students from the general education population, as well as the need for continuity in the student’s education from kindergarten through high school.
Continuity was a dominant theme in the public presentations. Jana Westover, a par-ent of a special-needs student, discussed her frustration with the lack of planning in the special education program. She said the
teachers and staff at her son’s school do their best to support him, but the adminis-tration falls short in creating long-term plans.
“It’s difficult to see these already vulner-able children moved around each year,” Westover said. “The administration needs to make a plan, one that doesn’t force the parents to ask each year if and how it will change. Don’t force the special education program to fit into the cracks that are avail-able for that upcoming year.”
Cari Levin, founding director of Evan-ston Citizens for Appropriate Special Edu-cation, used her allotted three minutes to discuss the organization’s goals for the fu-ture of special education in District 65. She emphasized the need for collaboration be-tween stakeholders – specifically, parents of special needs students – and administra-tors in this area of education. She also said that she took issue with people who repri-manded parents for using litigation to ad-dress their concerns.
“Parents don’t use lit igation as their problem-solving method of choice,” Levin said. “Litigation is a method of last resort.”
The presentations dominated the board
meeting and elicited strong reactions from community members in the audience. Most speakers exceeded three minutes, despite repeated entreaties by board members to follow the rules, and some people teared up while reading their prepared speeches.
Following these presentations, Cole sum-marized her review of the 2002 report on special education. The review updated rec-ommendations that she made in her earlier report for District 65’s special education program. According to the review, District 65 has made progress in 18 out of the 19 rec-ommendations in the original Cole report.
“These are preliminary steps,” Cole said. “There’s no reason to believe District 65 will not continue to move forward to a uni-fied system.”
Board members used Cole’s progress summary to emphasize the district’s prog-ress, although they admit that the system isn’t perfect.
“This board has done some things right. We’ve moved the ball along,” said Keith Terry, president of the board. “We should celebrate the successes.”
Volunteer of the YearMichelle Ney and Becky Zwolinski received the Phyllis Ganser PTA Volunteer of the Year Award. The award honors individuals who have shown exemplary dedication to their school’s PTA. Ney serves on the Dewey Elementary PTA and Zwolinski serves on the Oakton Elementary PTA.
Walker School PreSentationRepresentatives from Walker Elementary School presented their school’s programs and accomplishments to the school board. They highlighted the school’s cultural diversity, students’ published works and the creation of a number of new clubs.
SPecial aPPointmentSThe school board announced special appointments at District 65 schools. Beatrice Davis was appointed principal of Kinglsey Elementary after serving a year as the school’s interim principal. Jeffrey Brown was appointed principal of King Lab Magnet School, leaving his assistant principal position at Chute Middle School. Kate Ellison was upgraded from interim assistant principal to standing assistant principal at Washington Elementary.
SafetY DiScuSSionThe school board discussed their annual report on safety protocols at District 65 schools.
— emilY WraY
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projects he takes on first. Goodman agreed that new university pri-
orities are Schapiro’s to set. “The good news for Morty Schapiro,”
Goodman said, “is he gets to decide what the best first use of his time is … Others can step in and fill the void based on what he chooses.”
He added that Schapiro has a wide range of experience he can leverage for his first de-cisions at, having been both a dean at the University of Southern California, a large re-search institution, and president of Williams, a small liberal arts college.
With the extent of Schapiro’s experience in higher education and conversations with Bienen, the incoming president is well pre-pared for the scope of the university presi-dency, said Associated Student Government President Mike McGee.
When McGee transitioned into the ASG presidency in April, he said he saw the value of talking to constituents to determine what
needs to be done. Schapiro will likely be “getting in on the ground” to see what needs to be done, the Communication junior said.
“Definitely don’t move too fast too quickly ... The main thing is introducing yourself and seeing whatever you’ve done in the past and how you want to apply that to the future of Northwestern,” McGee said.
Filling Bienen’s shoes successfully, Good-man said, does not mean “being Henry-like.”
“Henry Bienen is really regarded as one of the best university presidents in the coun-try,” Goodman said. “President Schapiro’s biggest challenge is maintaining the momen-tum while being his own unique leader.”
While Schapiro said he admired the suc-cess Bienen had in fundraising and looked forward to traveling on behalf of the univer-sity, he said that when he looks forward to NU, he is just as concerned with abridging the econometrics class he is teaching this fall for the quarter system.
“I can’t wait to throw myself into teach-ing,” Schapiro said, “so that I can meet stu-dents and have a relationship with them as
their professor and not as some sort of presi-dent.”
As NU makes strides in global expansion and secures donors for large-scale projects, it is important that Schapiro play to his strengths as a leader, even if it means spend-ing more time at the Evanston campus, Goodman said.
“If he is a better president because he’s really effective at being the man about cam-pus then that’s how he ought to spend his time,” Goodman said.
In the short term, Goodman said Scha-piro should strive to be a presence on cam-pus and then take the insights he garners about NU “on the road.”
“(The transition) is an opportunity for the incoming president to learn the people and the culture and understand what has made it distinctive,” Goodman said. “One of the great challenges in taking over an enterprise that is in great shape is how do you continue to move it forward?”
From PrESidENt, page 1
Transition should run smoothly
One project already proposed is Evanston’s contentious Fountain Square Tower, slated to begin construction within the next five years. But that project is also intended to be certi-fied, developers said.
Jim Klutznick of Klutznick-Fisher Devel-opment Company, one of two developers on the project, said building to LEED standards was one of the stipulations in the city’s deci-sion to go ahead with the project. He said this project would be among his company’s first to be built to LEED specifications.
“We agreed to LEED silver,” Klutznick said. “It’s a relatively new concept at this point.”
Justin Pelej of Focus Development, the other company working on the tower project, said there are many ways to achieve a silver certification and that the specifics of this project have yet to be determined.
“There are a lot of ways to get points, like having parking stalls for hybrids,” Pelej said. “It gets determined in the final design pro-cess. We aren’t that far along yet.”
Environmental consciousness is largely in-corporated into the city’s culture, said Stefan Henning, an Evanston resident and NU pro-fessor. Henning, who moved about a year ago from Oxford, U.K., said some of this con-sciousness should be focused toward saving energy in existing buildings.
“The two cities are extremely green,” Hen-ning said. “But in both Evanston and Oxford buildings are badly insulated. Here the win-ters are so cold and so long that heat and gas costs can have more of an effect.”
Evanston residents have highlighted ways to make existing structures more sustainable, Tisdahl said. The city’s Climate Action Plan, passed in November, lists about 200 measures Evanston should adopt to save energy and re-duce carbon emissions.
“Practically everyone in Evanston is con-scious about the environment and supportive of doing what we can to reduce our carbon footprint,” Tisdahl said. “Changing light bulbs (to compact fluorescents) can have an impact and those are low hanging fruit. It’s easy to do and it saves money.”
From GrEEN, page 1
City will aim to get LEED certification
bottles from around the world and showed a DVD of an interview he gave with a Califor-nia museum in the nineties, explaining what conceptual art meant to him. For a concep-tual artist, an empty beer bottle left over from a night drinking with friends can be art, he said.
“A conceptual artist is not defined by a me-dium the way a ceramic artist is,” Marioni said. “He’s free to work in any medium or with any material. Conceptual art is an idea-oriented sit-
uation – consider social activities art.”Wertz said he hoped students would look at
drinking beer as an art after attending the event.
“By having this event, I’m hoping we’ll be able to have conversations about a healthier way to approach alcohol and a happier way to ap-proach life, by increasing awareness of social drinking,” Wertz said.
Drinking should be an educational and so-cial experience, he said.
“A pub or social event around beer is a place to make friends and learn things,” Wertz said.
“Beer provides an opportunity to experience diverse things with diverse groups of people.”
For Libby Marvel, who participated in Mari-oni’s beer sonata, drinking beer to a beat with strangers qualified as a unique social experi-ence, she said.
“I thought it was creative, inventive and most importantly a fun time,” the Weinberg se-nior said. “I can’t say I completely understood (the art), but I can respect the art form. It was definitely different.”
Artist compares drinking to art formFrom BEEr, page 1
””“““(The event was) creative,
inventive and most importantly a fun time.
Beer is an aid to communication. It's a
social lubricant.
The fact that this art involves alcohol means it has an immediate
connection to college students.
— Libby MarveL, Weinberg senior
— ToM Marioni, conceptual artist
— jake werTz, SESP senior and event organizer
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to be able to compete in the Big Ten is the same.Last season marked the 50th year that the
Cats have called Rocky Miller Park home. It also marked the 25th season since any reno-vations were made to field.
In the last seven seasons alone, many other NU athletic facilities have undergone a dra-matic facelift. Last year, the softball team un-veiled sunken dugouts, permanent seating and a press box at the updated Sharon J. Drysdale
Field. Two years ago, the men’s soccer, wom-en’s soccer and lacrosse teams were rewarded with the new Lakeside Field. Three years ago, the Luke Donald outdoor practice facility opened for the golf teams. Five years ago, the wrestling team debuted its new underground practice facility. That doesn’t even include the new weightlifting equipment at the Coon Cen-ter or the basketball team’s new locker rooms, freshly equipped with flat panel televisions.
NU should follow the rest of the Big Ten. Nine of the conference’s 11 schools have im-
proved their baseball field in some capacity over the last ten seasons. The only school that has not is Minnesota, which has both an in-door and outdoor field at its disposal. That in-door facility happens to be a major-league one in the Metrodome, which is losing two of its tenants – Minnesota football and the Twins.
Michigan, Michigan State and Penn State have opened state-of-the-art stadiums over the last three seasons. Illinois and Ohio State added new players’ lounges.
But the Cats don’t just need a new field. Cur-
rently, the team’s locker rooms are located in Ryan Field. The stadium seats 600 people. The team splits batting cages with the softball team.
The 2009 baseball season was a disap-pointment. There’s no excuse for an 18-win season. It’s hard to place the blame all on Ste-vens. He’s doing as much as he can with the worst facilities on campus.
Purple victors flush Maize and Blue’s chances
Stadium not an issue for other Big Ten schools
No. 9 seed sneaks into top-five field
From fORman, page 8
Deputy Sports Editor Matt Forman is a Medill sophomore. He can be reached at [email protected].
ing four top-20 teams, didn’t see NU as a threat going into the competition.
“They weren’t looking out for us,” Chun said.
Joining the Cats from the South Central region at the championships are Oklahoma State, TCU, Arkansas and Tennessee-Chatta-nooga. From the nine Big Ten schools that re-ceived a bid to regionals, Illinois, Ohio State, Iowa and Michigan advanced.
“It just shows how strong of a conference we are,” Lipsky said. “The Big Ten shows up to play.”
By CameROn ZiCkthe daily northwestern
Whether it takes three hours or three years to achieve, redemption is always sweet – and well worth the wait.
In 2006, Northwestern was having a dream season. It was one of its best seasons under coach Paul Stevens, who was later named Big Ten Coach of the Year. The current seniors were freshmen then, but still played a large role in the team’s 21-11 Big Ten record.
Heading into the conference tournament as the No. 2 seed, the Wildcats were optimistic about their chances to capture a Big Ten champi-onship. But after splitting its first two games, NU was shocked in an elimination game against Michigan, ending NU’s picture-perfect season with an 8-3 knockout win.
“There are not too many people here who are fans of Michigan,” senior Tony Vercelli said.
In 2008, the Cats were vying for yet another Big Ten tournament bid. This time though, NU was in the hunt for the sixth and final seed. But in the final series of the season, Michigan won three of four games, establishing their presumed dominance over NU once again. This year, the Cats were determined to change that.
“If you can’t get pumped up to play a team like Michigan,” senior Tommy Finn said, “you don’t have the right juices flowing.”
The back-to-back wins meant more to NU than just picking up its first Big Ten series win. The Wolverines came into the series needing to sweep the Cats in order to have a chance to make the Big Ten tournament. The Cats decided to give them a taste of their own medicine.
“Going into the weekend, the only thing we
knew is that we had a chance to knock someone out of the tournament,” Finn said. “It feels good to play a role when there are only three games left and you have so-called ‘nothing to play for.’”
With everything to play for, Michigan, a team that had won the conference championship three years in a row, did not control its own destiny. It needed sixth-place Purdue to be swept if the team wanted to even make the tournament.
Purdue ended up winning, eliminating Mich-igan. But knowing that the Wolverines could have never made the tournament after the Cats’ 10-6 win, gave NU a sense of pride.
“The past few years, Michigan has dominated the Big Ten,” freshman Paul Sneider said. “To just turn around in one season and play a part in them not making the Big Ten tournament is great. That’s huge for us that we had a part in that and we finally beat them.”
For the seniors, the chance to play spoiler and knock out Michigan was even more special.
“To keep them out of the tournament in our senior year, after winning these two games, is just a little icing on the cake,” Vercelli said.
After a 2009 season that might not have gone the way NU had hoped, and on a day honoring the graduating seniors, the opportunity to play spoiler against their arch-rival was a perfect parting gift, especially for Stevens.
“I think the big thing was that a couple of the upper classmen had a conversation with me,” he said. “The seniors took it personally after what happened three years ago and said its time we put an end to their streak of going to the Big Ten tournament. And they all found a way to rally the troops this weekend.”
Stevens said that after dinner on Fri-day, the whole team walked out with one thing in mind – a desire to win the final two games against Michigan after losing 16-6 last Thursday.
“We’ve been there all year and we’ve done a lot of the things you need to do,” Stevens said. “We just somehow haven’t been able to put the nail in the coffin.”
But Saturday afternoon, the Cats ham-mered in their first nail with a 10-6 victory in the opening game of the doubleheader.
The Cats entered the bottom of the fourth inning down 5-1. NU closed the lead to 5-4, after scoring three runs off of a Vercelli home run and two runs off of a freshman Quentin Williams’ two-run dou-ble. The Wolverines answered with a home run of their own in the top of the fifth, to take a 6-4 advantage. But that was the last run they would score.
The Cats’ offense came to life in the bottom of the f if th with four runs, and tacked on two more in the sixth to secure a 10-6 victory.
“It was well fought by both sides and it was just one of those games where some-one has to win and we’ ll take it,” senior Tommy Finn said.
The Cats have struggled to hold on to leads this season. But they were able to shut out the Wolverines in the last four in-nings, thanks to the efforts of sophomore pitchers Eric Jokisch and Cole Livermore.
Despite giving up six runs in the first five innings, Jokisch settled down and held the Wolverines scoreless until he was re-lieved by Livermore after the eighth in-ning. Livermore was able to get out of a bases-loaded, two-out jam to give the Cats the win.
Halfway to its goal, NU started strong in the second game, taking a 3-0 lead after four innings behind the pitching of junior
Joe Muraski. Muraski matched his career-high of eight strikeouts in the first four in-nings and finished the game with ten.
However, success was short-lived. Mu-raski allowed three runs in the fifth and two more in the sixth, giving Michigan a 5-3 lead.
NU’s offense didn’t let up, answering with a Sneider two-run homer to even the score in the seventh.
While the Cats have struggled with re-lief pitching all season, freshman Zach Morton rose to the challenge. Morton kept Michigan scoreless over the last three in-ning, setting the stage for Sneider's game-winning heroics.
“It was a gift,” Vercelli said. “I thank the underclassmen for playing hard and leading us to two victories. The season was a little rough but you can’t do any better than end-ing on two wins in a doubleheader.”
Sentimental series win for NU’s seniorsFrom BaSeBall, page 8
From men’S gOlf, page 8
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Freshman infielder Paul Sneider delivered two huge home runs in the final three innings of Saturday's 6-5 win over Michigan. The lefty capped the second game of the doubleheader with walk-off solo blast in the ninth for the series win.
By JESSIE CAITHE DAILY NORTHWESTERN
It was the bottom of the ninth with the score tied 5-5 on Senior Day.
Senior Tony Vercelli waited in the on-deck circle for his last time in his career.
“Before the in-ning, Coach (Paul Stevens) came up to me and said, ‘You know you’ l l get a chance to win this,’” Vercelli said. “And I sa id , ‘I hope I don’t get a shot be-cause that means we won.’”
Vercelli got his wish and never had his chance to hit. With one out, fresh-man Paul Sneider calmly stepped up to t he plate a nd launched a walk-off home run to seal a 6 - 5 w i n f or t he Wildcats and com-plete the double-header sweep of the Wolverines (30-25, 9-5 Big Ten).
In a season full of late-inning losses and unlucky breaks, Northwestern was able to f inish the season on a strong note Saturday. The Cats were f ina l ly able to accomplish what they couldn't al l season – avoid late inning collapses
and secure their first Big Ten series win.
“We’ve been battling this year with injuries and one-run losses and even though we had a tough game on Thursday, we said we would come out today and try to win two games,” Ver-celli said.
See BASEBALL, page 7
Snieder’s blast sends Cats out on topπ Freshman’s walk-off home run caps doubleheader sweep, first series win of 2009 season
INSIDESPORTS
By SARAH KUTATHE DAILY NORTHWESTERN
A little fishing, some bowling, qualifying for NCAA Champion-ships — just a typical weekend for
Nor t hwester n golf.
The Wildcats tied for fourth last weekend at the NCAA South Cen-tral Regional in Stillwater, Okla. Since the team fin-ished in the top five, the Cats qual-ified for the NCAA National Champi-onships, held on
May 26-28 in Toledo, Ohio.The golfers had the chance to
relax between rounds before get-ting focused again, breaking out their fishing rods at the 18th hole and going bowling.
Although the Karsten Creek course was difficult and conditions were less than desirable, coach Pat Goss said he felt the team could have played better.
“It was a tough weekend,” Goss said. “The weather and the course was a tough combo for us. We did a good job of fighting hard and man-aging our mistakes.”
Freshman Eric Chun placed 13th with a three-round total of 10-over 226, finishing as NU’s top golfer. Chun felt the Cats may have had an edge over the other teams because of their familiarity with playing in poor conditions.
“This is the kind of course where you just grind out pars,” Chun said. “It was good for us. We are good at that. If it was easier, the chances of us doing so well would have been less.”
Last weekend marked Chun’s first appearance at NCAA region-als. After winning the Big Ten Indi-
vidual Championship and being named Big Ten Freshman of the Year, Chun said he felt a lot less pressure going into round one.
“It’s really cool to make it to fi-nals my first year,” Chun said. “The pressure is off of us now. We can come in dead last at finals and still have had a good year. But if we’re going to be there, we might as well do our best.”
NU was one of three teams to receive a penalty of one stroke for slow play during the second round. Under NCAA regulations, a player has five minutes to look for a ball before it is declared lost.
After two players in junior Da-vid Lipsky’s group lost balls on the same hole, the group was penalized for being too far behind the group in front of them.
Lipsky, who finished in 28th place with a 14-over 230, said he was angered because one stroke can make a significant difference
in the results, especially at such an important tournament and difficult course.
“It’s frustrating and something we didn’t deserve,” Lipsky said. “The NCAA did a horrible job of handling the situation. Even the host team’s coach believed the pace the NCAA set was unfair and un-reasonable.”
Goss’ solution for the penalty stroke? Going bowling to take the team’s mind off golf for a few hours.
“We obviously can’t think about golf all the time or we’d tire our-selves out,” Lipsky said. “The fish-ing and bowling were just ways for us to relax and prepare for the next round. We didn’t want to be men-tally drained.”
The leisure time proved key for NU as the No. 9 seed at the start of the tournament. Chun said he thought the other schools, includ-
Fishing rod helps NU hook NCAA bid
See MEN’S GOLF, page 7
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FORMANMATT
Facilities are huge faux pas
When I visited campus al-most three years ago, of course I wanted to see the Lakefill. Of course I
wanted to see the student center, the rock and the academic buildings. But as a sports fan, however weird it is, I most wanted to see the athletic facilities.
On that trip, I was impressed by Ryan Field. I was impressed by the Norris Aquatics Center, the Combe Tennis Center and Welsh-Ryan Arena. But there was one field that stuck out like a sore thumb – Rocky Miller Park.
As a rising high school senior, I had seen and played in nicer fields than The Rock. Although the confer-ence isn’t exactly a baseball breeding ground, as a collegiate baseball fan, I knew Rocky Miller Park wasn’t going to cut it if Northwestern expected to compete in the Big Ten.
Curious if I was well directed, I followed the team throughout the season. In 2007, coach Paul Stevens’ squad went 18-36, the then-worst sin-gle-season record during Stevens’ tenure. That year, the baseball team did not win a Big Ten series until the last weekend of the year, when they swept Purdue in a four-game set.
Two years later, not much has changed. In 2009, Stevens’ crew went 14-35-1, now the worst record in Ste-vens’ 24 years. This year, the team did not win a conference series until the final weekend, when they swept Michigan in Saturday’s doubleheader.
Statistics and records aren’t the only things that haven’t changed. The field is the same. The dugouts are the same. The locker rooms are the same. And my claim that the Wildcats need a new field
See FORMAN, page 7
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NU freshman Eric Chun paced his team’s fourth place finish at the NCAA South central Regional in Stillwater, Okla. The rookie shot a team-best 10-over 226.
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