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By Emilia Barrosse and Brittney Wong The Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/council
The Evanston City Council voted to postpone approving the city’s 2010-11 budget at a meeting Monday night.
The final draft, slotted to be ap-proved Feb. 22, will need to cut more than $9.5 million dollars to make up the city government’s spending deficit.
The council moved to delay discus-sion of budgetary issues because Ald. Lionel Jean-Baptiste (2nd) is in Haiti.
Seven of the 10 residents who ad-dressed the council during citizen comment time spoke in support of the library branches, which have been on the city’s chopping block for years. At a special meeting Wednesday, the council voted 5-4 to fund the libraries for an additional six months to see if
library supporters can raise enough money to continue financing them.
Ald. Ann Rainey (8th) said the li-brary has an endowment worth $2 million, $133,000 of which is available for use. Members of branchLove , an organization advocating for the branches, said they’ve raised $24,000 since Wednesday. Rainey said that money, coupled with the funds from the library’s endowment, should be enough to keep the branches open for the six months.
“I would be in the position of sup-porting the branch libraries were the library board to come forth with fi-nancing from the endowment,” Rainey said.
BranchLove members said they “have a lot of questions” about the en-dowment proposal.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2010
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5 An exhibit featuring dead composers had its final day at the Dittmar Gallery in Norris
5 A man was shot behind ETHS Friday evening at 9 p.m.
By Lauren Mogannam The Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/res-life
Groundbreaking multi-million dol-lar renovations to join Elder Hall and Hinman-Lincoln Hall will create the first Northwestern residential com-munity next fall .
Construction will begin Spring Quarter, said William Banis , vice president for student affairs.
“We are looking to establish a pilot program and learn from it,” he said. “It will become a residential college on steroids.”
Eleven students gathered in Har-din Hall Monday afternoon for a pre-sentation on the future of NU student housing led by Banis and Ron Braeuti-gam , associate provost for undergrad-uate education.
The renovation ideas for student housing came from a study conducted by the Advisory Committee on Stu-dent Housing and consulting firm Bid-dison Hier, Ltd . The study included
internal and external market research, including student surveys, interviews and housing observation of peer sites.
Over the next five years, NU plans to create one residential community a year, Braeutigam said.
The residential communities will either be comprised of a cluster of small buildings or a large building and a small building, Banis said. As of now, the new Elder residential com-munity will be reserved for incoming
freshmen, he said.The University’s 12 residential col-
leges were used as a model for the res-
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Dorms: Elder and Hinman-Lincoln will join to form a “residential community” next fall. Modeled after the current residential college system, the community will feature live-in faculty, seminar rooms and student lounges.
POSSIBLE CHANGES
Remaining cats in feral colony spared death
Evanston officials have agreed to work with a Chicago-area humane so-ciety to capture, spay or neuter and find homes for the remaining cats in a feral colony found Jan. 24, Evanston Police Cmdr. Tom Guenther said.
Representatives of the Tree House Humane Society , 1212 W. Carmen Ave., reached out to the city after they received a wave of phone calls and e-mails from citizens concerned with Evanston’s plan to euthanize the cats, said Tree House director of de-velopment Jenny Schlueter .
Schlueter said she received
around 20 responses immediately after Evanston police issued a press release about the colony.
Evanston police found the colony when they were investigating a death at a residence in the 1900 block of Grant Street. Relatives of the deceased were unable to assume responsibility for the cats, although they also con-tacted Tree House for help with the sit-uation, Schlueter said.
Schlueter immediately attempted to contact Evanston animal control but said she had problems communicating with the city.
“It took me a long time to convince them this was a viable alternative,” she said. “I finally received confirmation on Friday, almost 10 days after I first started talking to them. They are still
not 100 percent on board with the plan. We proposed to find caretakers for the cats in Evanston, but ... they want the cats out of Evanston.”
Before city officials responded, 33 cats were euthanized, Schlueter said. On Saturday, Tree House immediately started work and recovered seven cats.
Schlueter said she is concerned about the circumstances surround-ing the previous euthanizations.
“We were very surprised to find that three of the cats we recovered were already spayed or neutered and two of those three were micro-chipped,” she said. “It concerns us that a good portion of the cats that were al-ready killed also could have been spayed or neutered.”
City officials could not be
reached for comment.The Cook County Feral Cats Ordi-
nance , passed in 2007, states that be-fore cats are euthanized, they should be scanned to check for a micro-chip and the person who implanted the mi-cro-chip should be contacted. The county ordinance should supersede any municipal ordinance existing in Evanston, Schlueter said.
The cats recovered by Tree House are now going to a farm in Manhattan, Ill. Two of the seven rescued cats were young enough to be adopted, Schlueter said.
“That is one happy outcome,” she said. “At least two of the cats will get a home.”
—GRACE JOHNSON
City Council delays crucial budget vote until Feb. 22
SafeRide moves to new office to match expanding services
Daily File Photo by Trevor Seela
SafeRide: The service is moving to UCS to accommodate expansion.
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By Lark Turner The Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/student-life
SafeRide is moving to a new loca-tion this quarter to expand its ser-vices.
Moving to the University Career Services building at 620 Lincoln St . will allow SafeRide to expand the number of cars, drivers and dis-
patchers it operates, said Paul David Shrader , SafeRide’s coordinator.
The organization’s budget was in-creased in the fall in response to ele-vated crime in Evanston, The Dailyreported in November .
“Currently we’re in this little over-sized closet in Elder,” Shrader said.
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Tear down Bobb-McCulloch and replace it with a grocery store
Combine some fraternity houses with fewer members together
Open a restaurant on South Campus, similar to Lisa’s Cafe
Create more student-oriented common spaces, like the Great Room
????(The University is considering these and other potential ideas for additional changes in campus construction, said William Banis, vice president for student affairs.)
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Northwestern students are adding a boost to their foreign language skills at weekly coffee and conversation outings.
“Coloquio y café,” a recurring Spanish meeting to practice conversation skills over
coffee, and other out-of-class events offer students op-portunities to prac-tice a foreign lan-guage in a real-world setting, said Heather Colburn, the Span-ish language pro-gram director.
“You can certainly learn a lot in the classroom and from a textbook,” Colburn said. “But the whole point of learning an-
other language is so you can communicate with other people. There can be a pretty big challenge.”
The Spanish and Portuguese depart-ment offers informal conversation hours to help students master the skill as well as free tutoring, film screenings and writing assistance for students at various levels, Colburn said.
Students living in residential colleges such as the International Studies Residen-
tial College may have additional opportuni-ties to practice their language skills, in-cluding informal discussions between stu-dents, faculty and staff, she said.
Currently there are no additional ser-vices specifically for students planning to study abroad, but students can take advan-tage of the extra services the department already has in place, Colburn said.
“We’ve designed our language courses at the 199 level and higher to fit directly with our most popular study abroad programs in Spanish-speaking countries,” she said. “Our curriculum in each of those courses deals with the countries where we send most stu-dents, specifically Spain, Argentina and Chile. They have a lot of op-portunities to learn about the cul-ture and history as well as develop their language skills.”
NU’s other language depart-ments offer similar opportunities. Students may practice French at roundta-ble discussions ev-ery week, and the German depart-ment offers a simi-lar option called “Kaffeestunde,” or “coffee hour,” in addition to film screenings and vari-ous speaker events during the year.
Rebecca Susan, pro-
gram assistant for the Program of African and Asian Languages, said the department currently offers language hours for He-brew, Japanese and Arabic. The depart-ment also invites students to participate in seasonal events, such as the celebration of Chinese New Year this Friday, she said.
“All the students are performing and do-ing other activities for the celebration,” Su-san said. “It’s primarily for students who are in Chinese classes right now.”
Weinberg senior David Leander said al-though he did not participate in language practice on campus outside of class, he studied abroad in Mexico, and this week-end he will take practical Spanish applica-tion into his own hands.
Leander designed an independent proj-ect in which he will research “the linguistic barrier between getting your (medical) pre-
scription instructions in Spanish versus English and how a lot of pharmacies don’t offer that translation,” he said. Le-ander said he will interview subjects in the Pilsen area of Chicago.
“This is a real application of Span-ish,” he said. “I think one of the main attractions to learning a language is to
be able to use it in the real world, and in the
real world, peo-ple don’t talk about different literary move-ments or differ-ent authors’
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A leading voice on Wall Street and corporate America, Andrew Ross Sorkin is the chief mergers and acquisitions reporter for The New York Times, where he also writes an op-ed column. He is the editor of DealBook, an online daily financial report he founded in 2001. Sorkin’s bestselling book, Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System — and Themselves, was released in October 2009.
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Though Northwestern has three fitness cen-ters on campus, some students look beyond these and explore what Evanston can offer to meet their exercise needs.
A fan of going to the gym to de-stress, Jennifer Goldberg said she didn’t enjoy working out at NU’s Blomquist Recreation Center. It was often difficult for her to find an open machine, she said.
“It was almost as crowded as the Keg on Mondays,” the SESP junior said.
Goldberg now works and exercises at the Ev-anston Athletic Club, 1723 Benson Ave. The cen-ter offers cardio and strength training equip-ment, as well as a swimming pool and more than 150 classes per week. Goldberg said she es-pecially enjoys the flexible class schedule.
“I find that I like working out more when it’s in classes,” Goldberg said. “You can pretty much just drop in and go whenever you want.”
Amy Whalen, manager of EAC, said students come for the community feel of the club in addi-tion to its facilities.
“Maybe students want to go to a place where they’re not only going to see Northwestern stu-dents,” Whalen said.
Dave Englund, owner of Ultimate Fitness, 823 Emerson Street, said the same about his gym’s atmosphere.
“I can literally say all of our members know each other here,” Englund said. “A lot of the col-lege kids are more comfortable coming to the gym here because they probably know more people here than they know walking around campus.”
Ultimate Fitness, also known as the Evan-ston Boxing Club, features a boxing ring and mixed martial arts ring as well as the typical weight training and cardio equipment. In addi-tion, the gym offers Muay Thai, yoga and ball-room dancing classes, each run by a profes-sional.
“Really, the programs we offer here are truly taught by people who consider themselves mas-ters at what they do,” Englund said.
A member of the NU Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Club since his freshman year, Joe Spiro said he goes to Ultimate Fitness for its Jiu-Jitsu classes. But the Communication junior also works out at
Blomquist and the exercise center at Evanston Place Apartments. He said he finds these places more conveniently located than the Sports Pavil-ion and Aquatics Center.
“I had this bizarre image of an ivory tower in the distance that I could never get to,” Spiro said of SPAC.
Spiro said he thinks students are drawn to the quality differences off-campus fitness cen-ters provide, even if they come with a price tag.
“Probably there are people who are willing to spend that much money and also who want a
place that doesn’t look like a 1980s Russian gu-lag type thing,” Spiro said.
Although the cost is irrelevant due to her free employee membership, Goldberg said the ap-pearance of the gym does make a difference in her workout enjoyment.
“It’s the nicest gym I’ve ever been in,” Gold-berg said. “It’s just incredibly spacious, gorgeous and newly remodeled. So it’s a more aestheti-cally pleasing environment to work out in.”
Evanston fitness clubs provide alternatives for NU students
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Working out: Convenience and flexibility have some students opting for off-campus gyms.
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Evacuating: The fan motor in an elevator at Norris University Center started smoking at about 6:15 p.m. Monday night, prompting a required evacuation for roughly 15 minutes.
I was working in the box office, getting ready to close up, when the fire alarm went off. We were ready to get out of here and go home for the night, but it’s keeping us here to finish our job.” —MikeDiMaso
Weinberg Junior
“I was actually looking forward to German class tonight, and I was pretty disappointed when someone walked in telling us there was a fire alarm. They walked in and told us before the fire alarm actually went off. It was a little confusing.” —AlexMilling
Weinberg Junior
“I wasn’t doing much, but it was a huge inconvenience, just the fact that it’s cold outside, and I don’t really see the need for it.” —KiranPookote
Weinberg Junior
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Telling someone you are ma-joring in history, as I am, can lead to some looks of confusion, mocking and
questions like, “What exactly do you plan on doing with that?”
Many people today seem to view college as career training, rather than a place to get an education. However, in talking to adults out in the dreaded “real world,” it seems as though they are always saying to study what you love.
Even from a practical point of view, it makes sense. I was planning on majoring in economics simply be-cause I thought it would look good on my résumé, until I realized econ classes were destroying my GPA. I realized it would be even better for my résumé to have a higher GPA in something I enjoyed.
In my time at Northwestern, I have often witnessed many of my fel-low students struggling under the weight of a heavy workload imposed by a major they don’t even like. You usually see this type of situation in premed students or those majoring in something like engineering or economics. I am sure some of these diligent students actually enjoy the subject matter that takes up so much of their time and effort. However, I am also sure some of these students chose these majors under pressure from their parents or based on the fact that it might help them get a high-paying job right after gradua-tion. This might be a bad idea.
Now, as most humble liberal arts majors will tell you, we realize we may spend a year or two after grad-uation living in our parents’ base-ments or maybe even in a box on the street as we work our way through law school. I also under-stand while I am feasting on Ramen in my cozy little box, many of those students who got destroyed by their majors back at NU will be raking in huge salaries and working at presti-
gious companies.This revelation is really hitting
home now, as everyone is looking for summer internships. The financial industry may have taken a hit the past couple of years, but it still tends to pay better than NGOs, museums, the government, etc.
But there is something to be said for studying what you truly enjoy rather than what might get you a better job, and I’m going to lay it out there. Studying what you love will not only allow for a more enjoyable time at college, but it also is probably the better option in the long run.
As a junior, I can see graduation is looming on the horizon, and I have to start getting serious about looking for a real job. This may not be an easy process with my humanities de-gree, but in the long run, I think I will appreciate my education more and will probably still be able to get a good job eventually. At least, that’s what I keep telling myself to stave off the nightmares.
Decoding college lingo to find real meanings
It would be harsh to call the fol-lowing statements lies, but more often than we realize, we use state-ments like these to get out of saying what we mean. Here, I give you translations of phrases commonly used by those who are—how to put it?—“massaging the truth.” I think we can all admit to using at least one at some point.
—I’ll be ready in five! I may be ready in half an hour or so, but don’t hold me to that.
—Oooh, that sounds really fun! I’ll text you soon to let you know if I’m coming. …I’m not coming.
—He’s a really nice guy. There’s no way I’m ever hooking up with that loser.
—Is this dress too slutty? I look really good in this dress, and I think you should tell me so.
—I had a lot of fun last night. I was drunk out of my mind last night.
—That professor is such a jerk. I have not studied hard enough for that professor’s class.
—No, really, you don’t have to pay for me! Thanks for paying for me!
—We should get lunch! It’s to-tally awkward that I just ran into you on Sheridan, and I’m not actu-ally planning on calling you.
—We should go to Chicago soon! We should make big, exciting plans to get out of Evanston and then never do them but continue to bring them up!
— Hayley MacMillen
Cruel intentions slip into CTECs with anonymity
Some students probably don’t re-alize how much a hurtful CTEC can affect a professor. In the first week of the quarter, I noticed all of my pro-fessors referenced their CTECs in their introductions, saying, “If you read my CTECs, you’ve heard I can’t seem to stop going off on tangents.” The comments are said in a some-what sarcastic tone, but they are not lighthearted jokes for professors.
One of my teachers this quarter said she had a CTEC along the lines of, “I felt the teacher was out to get me, and because of this vengeance, I couldn’t do my best all quarter.” A lu-dicrous accusation for anyone, and it was especially cruel in this case, be-cause I couldn’t see this instructor do-ing anything close to that. And she was clearly hurt and felt terrible that anyone would think that of her.
If comments like these are coming out of the CTEC system, there’s some-thing inherently wrong. They’re base-less and offer no suggestion of im-provement—the comments are just spiteful. I’ve heard from other profes-sors it’s scary to open CTECs because of the unfiltered criticism that might be waiting.
This problem is actually part of something much larger—the problem of anonymity. I’d like to see if some of the idiots who write careless CTECs would say what they think to a profes-sor’s face, but I don’t think they could. It’s so easy to type away when shielded by the veil of anonymity.
— Shaayak Sen
millennials “seeouradinredbook” By Steven A. Berger
While many of us may be sad to bid farewell to our college days, conferring official
degrees after each quarter is a con-venience that will help graduating seniors transition into the real world. Instead of waiting until Commencement in June, students who complete coursework early
will be able to provide prospective employers with proof of our valu-able Northwestern educations. Though the Office of the Registrar used to write letters of explana-tion, it’s nice to have options.
Making degrees and tran-scripts available for students fin-ishing after each quarter is a logi-cal move that will allow seniors to
finish tying up loose ends. No more classes, no more books, no more teachers’ dirty looks. All we need is closure, and this makes it all the more convenient to take our first steps outside college. We work hard at NU, and when we’re done, we now get the satisfaction of holding in our hands forms that say we finally made it.
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Weinberg junior Dan schufreider can be reached at [email protected].
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United we stand for a stronger city
We’ve said it before, but we’ll say it again: Evan-ston Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl sure knows
how to work her connections.With Chicago’s handgun prohibi-
tion to be reviewed by the U.S. Su-preme Court next month, Tisdahl is standing strong with Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley to limit civilian fire-arms on the streets. Evanston’s coop-eration supports Tisdahl’s stance on gun violence as an issue in our city, too.
Evanston is not directly involved in Chicago’s gun control case, but its input may contribute to setting a na-tional standard for cities and munici-palities balancing Second Amend-ment rights and still keeping violence in check.
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Man shot outside of ETHS, shooter turns himself in
An Evanston Township High School alum-nus was shot outside the school Friday eve-ning and survived, police said.
The shooting occurred at approximately 9 p.m. behind ETHS, 1600 Dodge Ave. Three suspects approached the victim and started a verbal confrontation that turned violent, Ev-anston Police Cmdr. Tom Guenther said. One
of the suspects shot the 18-year-old victim in the abdomen and the three suspects fled the scene.
The victim was transported to Saint Fran-cis Hospital, 355 Ridge Ave., where he was treated for his non-life-threatening injury.
A minor from Lincolnwood turned himself in at a police station Saturday. Investigators later confirmed this suspect shot the victim, police said. The suspect is being charged with one count of aggravated battery with a firearm.
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Dittmar exhibit featuring lifeless composers closesRoshan NebhrajaniContributing Reporterdailynorthwestern.com/student-culture
For the last day, the propped-open dou-ble doors of the Dittmar Memorial Gallery invited students to visit the unassuming dis-play of history and culture tucked behind the Starbucks in Norris University Center.
Dittmar’s “Beethoven, Bach and the Composers Sleeping in the Coffin” exhibit, created by Holocaust survivor Luke Tau-ber, closed Monday after a monthlong showcase.
At the gallery entrance, classical music replaced the commotion of the Starbucks blender and mellow indie-pop playing nearby. This stark contrast drastically changed the mood of a visitor’s experience.
The culmination of music, sculptures, paintings, drawings and digital media in-trigued the visitor, imploring a continued journey through the gallery.
Each of these art forms worked in tan-dem to emanate the themes of morbidity and music.
Lying on the floor of the gallery’s en-trance, the “Beethoven Skeleton,” for ex-ample, came complete with two color-coded anatomical charts of the food in his stomach and liquid in his bladder.
“We’ve received a lot of reactions from people about the exhibit,” said Debora Blade, Assistant Director for Norris. “A lot of times people are a little put off by the coffins because death is one of those topics that still makes some people uncomfort-able.”
Uncomfortable or not, many visitors found the exhibit thought-provoking.
“Fascinating!” one wrote in the exhibit’s reaction book, located near the gallery’s entrance.
“It’s an eclectic, novel way at looking at something ancient!” wrote another.
Inside the exhibit, watercolor portraits of classical composers lined the walls, with comedic titles such as “A Fred Chopin.” Progressing through the gallery ultimately left the attendee at the center of the ex-hibit: a cemetery of composers. From cof-fins to tombs, 12 handmade “corpses” lay on the floor. The papier-mâché figures ranged from Michael Jackson to Bach. Tau-ber reconstructed the mausoleums of com-posers as well as the grave of his parents.
Tauber was born in a concentration camp of post-World War II Germany. The 62-year-old artist was also born with men-tal retardation. According to the Little City Foundation, the arts center where Tauber works on his projects, Tauber’s mother was a pianist and his father an engineer and painter.
“His background has influenced his art,” said Frank Tumino, the studio art manager at Little City. “His parents in-stilled music in him, and he has always had a sense of morbidity stemming from his family’s background.”
For his next exhibition, Tauber is taking the classical composer theme in a different direction.
“(He’s) working on a media project in-corporating his three favorite things,” Tumino said. “Classical composers, women wrestlers and cheese.”
Starting Friday, Dittmar will host Afri-COBRA and the Chicago Black Arts Move-ment.
“What is that money traditionally used for?” said Mary Rosinski, a member of the group’s steering committee. “It’s not a workable solution.”
Earlier at the meeting, the council passed an ordinance banning cell phone use while operating a motor ve-hicle, a law spearheaded by Ald. Jane Grover (7th).
Council members also approved trim-ming $100,000 in funds from the city’s human services, a decrease from the $200,000 cut originally suggested by City Manager Wally Bobkiewicz.
“Over time we have reduced the amount of funding to those organizations, and now is a time when people are particularly needy,” Ald. Melissa Wynne (3rd) said.
Earlier at the Administration and Public Works Committee meeting, the council voted unanimously to recom-mend the approval of the purchase of wheeled yard carts for Evanston resi-dents to dispose of waste.
Public Works Director Suzette Eggleston said a private company will pick up the city’s trash, while her department will only collect the city’s recycling and yard waste.
Rainey, the committee’s chair, said she had a “big issue with charging that much money for the cans people pur-chase,” as carts could cost each resi-dent $25.
Another special council meeting to dis-cuss the budget is scheduled for 9 a.m. Feb. 20 at the Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center, 2100 Ridge Ave. The budget will be finalized Feb. 22 at the next regular council meeting.
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idential communities, Braeutigam said.The communities will include a live-in
faculty member, seminar rooms, communal kitchens and student lounges, Banis said. There also will be “hoteling offices” where different departments, like Study Abroad and University Career Services, can offer their services to the residents.
“We want to improve students’ access to faculty and give them more opportunities to engage with them,” Banis said. “They are there to help with educational programming, not to deal with the dark side of campus life.”
Vanessa Gonzalez-Block, a current Elder resident, said she does not like the idea.
“The whole idea of living in the dorm is that it’s all students,” the Weinberg fresh-man said.
Other institutions including Vanderbilt University and Cornell University were used as case studies for the project, but NU will implement the model that works best for the school and its students, Banis said.
“Whatever we create has to be unique to Northwestern,” he said. “We can’t take an-other model and plop it on Northwestern and assume that it will work.”
According to the study, which concluded in 2008, students primarily want the sense of campus community strengthened, Banis said.
Most students identify themselves as be-longing to a certain school within NU, but don’t identify themselves with NU, he said.
“We want to foster a stronger Northwest-ern community, a Wildcat identity,” he said.
Although Banis said a unified NU com-munity is the goal, he still encourages stu-dents to identify with their schools.
“We want to strengthen a Northwestern community without cutting into identifica-tions (students) have with their home schools,” he said. “We want to create a com-
mon experience across the colleges.”Unlike the residential colleges, if the resi-
dential communities have a theme, they will be broad so as to encompass students from different schools, Braeutigam said.
“We want to make it so a tuba player can live next to a chemical engineer,” he said. “We want to create a situation where students can share experiences.”
Lillian Cheng, the residential college board president, said she would have loved to live in a residential community if it had been available while she lived on campus.
“It is great,” the Weinberg junior said. “I like the fact that they are looking to eliminate the distinction between the resi-dential hall and residential college and make it one experience.”
After the Elder residential community is completed, Banis said the University hopes to begin developing another one on South Cam-pus for 2011.
“We are not looking at expanding housing,” he said. “We are looking at improving it.”
New dorm meant to foster communityDORMS, page 1
“We can barely fit two computers with two dispatchers.”
Each dispatcher can handle about four cars at any given time, Shrader said. With the increase in funding, SafeRide is trying to in-crease cars from six to eight on weeknights and eight to 10 on weekends. The service has already expanded to eight cars each night, he said.
The numbers mean SafeRide has to ex-pand to accommodate its new goals. Up to three dispatchers can work at once in the new office, Shrader said.
Lucas Artaiz, a SafeRide dispatcher and
driver, said there are other perks to the new office.
“It will certainly be more comfortable,” the SESP senior said. “It will give us the flexibility to add more drivers, which will cut wait time.”
SafeRide driver Brendan Flannery, a Com-munication senior, said the changes would im-prove student safety.
Shrader said he is also using the expansion as an opportunity to improve the organiza-tion’s reputation.
Shrader also said he wants dispatchers to give callers shuttle times if, for example, rides are booked or the wait is too long.
He is also making staffing changes.“I’m not keeping around drivers who either
aren’t fulfilling their job responsibilities or
who aren’t looking out for the safety of North-western students,” Shrader said. “If they’re going up and picking up all their friends and going to McDonald’s or something, that’s not looking out for student safety.”
Shrader hired nine new drivers last week due to both expansion and turnover, he said.
Despite the changes, he said the organiza-tion will never be able to eliminate wait times.
“(Former Dean of Students) Mary Desler used to say that no matter how many cars we add to SafeRide, Northwestern students will meet the supply,” he said. “It’s not going to be a five-minute wait for SafeRide all the time, but we plan on giving more people rides.”
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ble of. She can really put up some big numbers.”Smith scored the first goal of the season for
the Cats and sparked a 7-0 run to start the game, contributing three of the scores. UMass (0-1) battled back, scoring two goals in less than a minute.
Smith and Spencer proceeded to bombard the Minutewomen with a minute-long spurt of their own. The duo answered with a pair of goals apiece, extending NU’s lead to 11-2 with 7:39 remaining in the first half.
“I knew I had to pick my game up to a new level this year,” Smith said. “I have to keep doing that every day at practice and during games so at the end of the season I’m at the top of my game.”
Spencer, sophomore Alexandra Frank and freshman Erin Fitzgerald added three more goals for the Cats before intermission, extending NU’s lead to 14-3. Frank finished the game with three goals and two assists, both personal bests.
NU stuffed the stat sheet, outshooting UM-ass 37-14 and dominating draw controls 21-5. The Cats also assisted on seven goals while the Minutewomen had no helpers.
“Certain players have good days where they aren’t missing and things seem to go their way,” Spencer said. “You really can’t take one girl out of the game, you really have to focus on our en-tire attack. That puts us in a good position against other teams.”
The offensive surge fizzled in the second half, as the Cats notched four scores in the final 30 minutes. A brief stretch of rain midway through the second stanza, which Spencer de-scribed as a “torrential downpour,” was partly responsible for NU’s scoring drought.
A more important change between the halves for the Cats was in their own goal. Sopho-more Brianne LoManto picked up the win after nearly 40 minutes in the net, and junior Darby St. Clair-Barrie played the final 20 minutes. Both allowed three goals.
“(LoManto and St. Clair-Barrie) did pretty well,” Amonte Hiller said. “They’re going to keep continuing to work hard and battle for the spot. We were excited they were able to come up with a few saves when we needed some.”
Despite the decisive victory, Amonte Hiller and her players said there is still work to be done on a team for which almost half the starters are underclassmen.
“We’re young, and coach Kelly was drill-ing inside of us to play fearless, don’t play with regret,” Smith said. “If we just work on the little things in practice, things will all come together.”
Lacrosse, page 8
Sabreists start slow, struggle on Saturday vs. NDFencing, page 8
NU continues ’09 domination, crushes UMass
they didn’t do what they came to do, and I think that helped with their energy,” Kaihatsu said. “The entire roster stayed focused and fenced re-ally well.”
NU’s seven victories Saturday marked the sixth straight season in which it has recorded 30 or more victories, but Kaihatsu said NU has a lot to work on in the weeks leading up to confer-ence and national championships.
“We lack consistency in our preparation and consistency in our performance,” Kaihatsu said. “We had a chance to prove that we are for real. We have a lot of work to do, we have a long time off, and then we go into the conference champi-onships.
“We’ll again have to go from first gear to overdrive. If we’re not up to it, I can’t under-stand why they’re up to it and we’re not.”
By Jonah L. RosenblumThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/fencing
After two dominant victories early in the morning, Northwestern went into its matchup against Notre Dame looking for its first victory over the Fighting Irish since 2007. In a re-match of the Wildcats’ 17-10 loss two weeks ago, NU came up short once again, 19-8.
“The one team we were really hoping to beat, we lost to,” sophomore foilist Camille Provencal said. “We were all pretty disappointed.”
The Cats struggled with the No. 2 team in the nation after going up against Michigan State’s club squad.
“It was a pretty big shift in gears,” associate coach Ed Kaihatsu said. “It’s like going from first to overdrive, one after the other.”
For Provencal, NU’s problems weren’t only on the strip.
“Our energy just wasn’t there,” Provencal said. “I don’t think we were mentally prepared to fence them at
the moment, but I know we’re capa-ble. I’m confident that in the future, we’ll be able to beat them.”
All three squads struggled against Notre Dame. Kaihatsu said the foil squad was hampered by a lack of con-fidence, the epée squad was unable to win the close bouts, and the sabre squad lacked preparation.
While all the weapon groups posted losing records, the sabre team fared the worst, losing eight of its nine bouts—the squad’s worst perfor-mance of the season.
The sabreists’ struggles began in the Cats’ 24-3 victory over the Spar-tans’ club team, when the crew lost two of its bouts.
“That wasn’t a good omen going in, but I didn’t talk about it,” Kaihatsu said. “Then we went in to Notre Dame, and it was pretty much a col-lapse of confidence, fear and hesita-tion.”
NU struggled out of the gate, tak-ing an early hit when freshman Alicia Gurrieri lost 5-4.
“Their level of intensity was a lot
higher than ours,” freshman sabreist Chloe Grainger said. “(Gurrieri’s loss) was kind of distressing, and then our intensity slowly dropped off. We re-ally didn’t have as big a fight in us as we should have.”
Still, the Cats recovered to win their next five matches by a combined score of 129-6. The sabre squad re-bounded to lead the way, going 44-1 through the remainder of the event.
“We didn’t want to lose anymore,” Grainger said. “We were embarrassed by our loss to Notre Dame. We were angry and we used that towards our fencing.”
It didn’t hurt that NU was going up against inferior competition, mainly club squads. While many of the Cats’ late victories were due to im-pressive performances by NU’s sec-ond- and third-string fencers, others came via forfeit. Yet the Cats still stayed on task.
“They were very disappointed that
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Despite 7-1 record at duals, Notre Dame still has NU’s number
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LACROSSE, page 7
By Brian ChappattaThe Daily Northwesterndailynorthwestern.com/lacrosse
Northwestern’s quest for its sixth straight NCAA Championship is un-derway, and the Wildcats picked up right where they left off. No. 1 NU came out of the gate firing, cruising to an 18-6 win against Massachusetts on Saturday.
The vic-tory in San Diego show-cased just how differ-ent this year’s squad is from last season’s, as the Cats lost Hannah Nielsen, Hi-lary Bowen and Mere-dith Frank to graduation. The trio fin-ished their NU careers ranked first, third and eighth in career points, re-spectively. The Cats had no problem making up the difference Saturday.
“We lost multiple people on our attack,” coach Kelly Amonte Hiller said. “We’re showing good signs of be-ing able to come together and fill those gaps. We still need some of our younger players to have that scoring punch too, and that’s definitely going to be a focus for us.”
Attacker Shannon Smith did her part to plug the holes for NU (1-0). One week after leading the U.S. De-velopmental team with two goals and two assists in a 9-7 win, the sophomore was at the helm of victory again, setting career highs in points (nine), goals (six) and assists (three).
Amonte Hiller moved her from midfield to attack and said she ex-pects big things from Smith this year. Based on her training habits, Smith’s teammates were not sur-prised by her outburst.
“It sends a message to the other teams of the depth we have on attack this year,” said senior attacker Dan-ielle Spencer , who had five goals in the win. “We see (Smith) do that every day in practice, and now other teams are getting a taste of what she’s capa-
Smith shines in season opener
Daily File Photo by MacKenzie McCluer
Smooth transition: Sophomore attacker Shannon Smith led a potent NU offense with 6 goals in an 18-6 drubbing of Massachusetts, who the Cats beat in the first round of last year’s NCAA tournament.
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Goaltender Summary Min GA W/L 1 2 SavesLoManto 38:56 3 W 3 0 3St. Claire-Barrie, D. 21:04 3 0 0 0
FENCING, page 7
Daily File Photo by Ray Whitehouse
Golden Domers: In an otherwise dominant weekend, NU fell to Notre Dame for the second time in two weeks. This time, the Cats lost 19-8.
No. 1 NU 18, Massachusetts 6
NU G A Pts Sh SOG GB DC FPS T/O CT FoulsSpencer 5 - 5 7 6 1 8 2-2 3 - 3 Smith 6 3 9 11 9 5 6 0-2 5 1 2Pantages - 1 1 - - 1 - - - 1 -Fitzgerald 1 - 1 4 4 2 1 0-1 - - 1Thornton - 1 1 - - 2 - - - 1 5Frank 3 2 5 5 5 2 3 - 2 5 1Vigmostad 1 - 1 2 2 2 1 0-1 - - 1Magarity - - - - - - - - - - -Matthews 1 - 1 3 2 - - 0-1 - - 1Bremer - - - - - - - - - - 2LoManto - - - - - 2 - - - 1 -Harrington - - - - - 1 1 - - - 3
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NU G A Pts Sh SOG GB DC FPS T/O CT FoulsConley - - - 1 1 - - - 1 - 10Fox - - - 2 1 - - 0-1 - - 1Abramson 1 - 1 1 1 1 - 1-1 - - 1Santulli - - - - - - - - - - -Cassera - - - 1 - - - 0-1 - - -Macaluso - - - - - - 1 - - - -Flibotte - - - - - 2 - - - 1 -Atkinson - - - - - - - - - - -Tedeschi - - - - - - - - 1 - -Delyra - - - - - - - - - - -St. Claire- - - - - - - - - - - -
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