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Zach Bra! teaches Communication master class
Zach Braff (Communication ‘!") returned to his alma mater Monday to teach a class to members of the North-western theater community.
# e actor, who is best known for his role in the NBC sitcom “Scrubs,” taught a master class through the School of Com-munication only available to a limited number of students. Most watched the class while a select number of upperclass-men performed, workshopping scenes of Bra$ ’s % rst play, “All New People.”
Communication sophomore Quinn Rattan said the class in Struble # eatre in NU’s # eatre and Interpretation Center was full with about &' students. As a “big fan of Scrubs” and a student interested in comedy, he said he was excited to watch someone accomplished in that genre.
Communication sophomore Jacob Trauberman said he enjoyed watching Bra$ ’s “writing come to life.”
“He would go up a( er (the scene) and give his compliments and his tweaks, essentially % ne tune things,” he said. “He had pointers like, ‘Oh, this is what we learned in the production of the show. If you hit it like this, it works a little better.’”
Communication freshman Kees Devos recalled a tip that resonated with him.
“He said, ‘Sometimes you can’t always go for the joke because it will undermine who your character is,’” Devos said. “It’s very applicable to the theater world.”
Trauberman said Bra$ ’s suggestions were appealing because they applied to everyday acting as well.
Rattan and Trauberman both described Bra$ as relatable and funny.
Even before the class, Bra$ joked on Twitter about being back on campus.
“Northwestern University, I’m back. Are we good at sports now? )Wildcats,” he tweeted.
— Paulina Firozi
A seat left empty: NU feels loss
By LAUREN CARUBA*+,-. /01,23 /4+5503@laurencaruba
When Winston Feng walked into his physics class Monday morning, the seat next to him, normally occu-pied by friend and classmate Dmitri Teplov, was empty.
“I went to class and I could barely concentrate because I was sitting next
to a ghost,” said Feng, a McCormick sophomore. “He was supposed to be sitting there by me.”
Teplov’s death was ruled a suicide Monday by the Cook County medi-cal examiner’s o6 ce. # e McCormick sophomore, 7', was found dead Sun-day morning in Pancoe Hall.
Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Par-rott said a suicide note was found in Teplov’s pocket that suggested he planned to hurt himself.
Teplov entered Pancoe through Cook Hall about 8 a.m. Sunday, Par-rott said. A janitor found his body between !:9' and :' a.m.
Teplov had access to Pancoe, which houses biomedical research labs, because he had worked in one of its labs, Parrott said. However, Teplov had not been to Pancoe in several months.
Police have closed their investiga-tion into Teplov’s death because it has
been ruled a suicide, and there are no signs of criminal activity.
“Basically, at this point, it’s the University and dealing with the fam-ily and assisting them any way that’s possible,” Parrott said.
University Chaplain Tim Ste-vens said members of Teplov’s fam-ily arrived in Chicago late Monday morning, and NU o6 cials met with
Melody Song/Daily Senior Staffer
DORM SENTIMENTS Some students have left Post-It notes with their condolences on the door of McCormick sophomore Dmitri Teplov in Foster-Walker Complex. Teplov, 20, was found dead early Sunday morning in Pancoe Hall, the third death of a student this academic year.
Dmitri Teplov
Evanston o" cials tout zoning victoryBy CIARA MCCARTHY4;0 *+,-. 1234;<0/4031@mccarthy_ciara
Following Evanston’s victory in a controversial and drawn-out lawsuit between the city and a Jewish elemen-tary school, city o6 cials held a news conference Monday at the Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center to discuss the ruling.
The Chicago-based school, Joan Dachs Bais Yaakov-Yeshivas Tiferes Tzvi, bought a parcel of land at 777 Hartrey Ave. in 7''". # e plot on Har-trey Avenue, however, is designated for industrial use under the Evanston Zon-ing Ordinance. # us, in order to use the property for a school, the space on Har-trey would have to be re-designated for commercial use. Joan Dachs attempted to change the land’s designation through several unsuccessful avenues, ultimately applying for a map amendment that would change the plot’s designation from industrial to commercial to allow the school to be built there.
# e legal battle began when City Council denied Joan Dachs’s applica-tion. Joan Dachs % led the lawsuit in May 7''!, seeking an injunction to overturn the council’s decision and
alleging the council’s decision violated the Religious Land Use and Institution-alized Persons Act because of religious discrimination.
Last week, Cook County Judge Mary Anne Mason sided with Evanston a( er an eight-day bench trial.
On Monday, city attorney Grant Farrar highlighted the city’s victory against “two of the biggest law % rms in the world.”
# e case was primarily a judicial review of the council’s decision to deny Joan Dachs the rezoning, attorney Wil-liam McKenna said Monday. McKenna said the judge could have overruled city council’s decision if the judge could show “the action of the municipality was arbitrary and capricious.”
McKenna explained the council’s decision was based o$ various eco-nomic, safety and environmental con-cerns — and was not the result of reli-gious discrimination.
“Each of those elected representa-tives of this community testi% ed that their decision to vote against a zoning change for this religious school had absolutely nothing to do with religion,” McKenna said.
During the news conference, Ald.
City panel delays Piven planBy SOPHIA BOLLAG*+,-. /01,23 /4+5503@SophiaBollag
A city committee voted Monday to send the controversial Piven # eatre Workshop’s expansion proposal back to city sta$ for further review.
Evanston’s Human Services Com-mittee asked city manager Wally Bob-kiewicz to address concerns about the plan’s economic viability and fairness to other tenants and present his % ndings next month.
# e unanimous vote poses a setback for supporters of the plan who want the issue to swi( ly reach the City Council.
# e theater’s proposal to more than double its space within the Noyes Cul-tural Arts Center has angered tenants and Evanston residents for months, even before the % nal version of the plan was released in April. # e proposal recom-mends that Piven pay =: in rent for the next 7> years in exchange for contrib-uting money to the aging building’s renovations.
In his presentation on the proposal, Piven board member Joel Freimuth described the theater’s proposal as a “public-private partnership” that would ultimately generate millions of dollars in revenue over the next 7> years. He cited several aspects of the theater’s pro-posed renovation that would improve the building for all tenants, including
upgraded heating, air conditioning and electrical wiring in the building, as well as a new roof.
“# e entire building will bene% t,” Freimuth said. “It is an idea that accom-plishes everyone’s goals.”
About >' citizens signed up to com-ment on the Piven proposal. Most spoke out criticizing the proposal and challeng-ing Freimuth’s statements.
Many questioned the economic pro-jections in the proposal, arguing they were made based on ideal conditions. People also said Bobkiewicz had not done enough to facilitate compromise between the theater and other tenants.
Gary Geiger, director of the Evanston Children’s Choir who was faced with possible relocation to accommodate the
proposed expansion, said although the current plan does not accommodate all residents, it is only “one or two rooms” away from doing so.
“Let’s make the Noyes Center a real example of our shining commitment to the arts and create a bigger, better facility that can accommodate all of its remain-ing artists,” Geiger said. “If we’re going to do this, let’s stop damaging the very com-munity we purport to value so much.”
Ald. Judy Fiske (:st), whose ward includes the center, argued in favor of sending the plan back to Bobkiewicz. She suggested that minor changes to the proposal could ensure a more equitable solution.
Sophia Bollag/Daily Senior Staffer
PROPOSAL POSTPONE Joel Freimuth gives a presentation to the Human Services Committee about the Piven Theater expansion proposal. The meeting took place Tuesday evening at the Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center.
» See TEPLOV, page 6
» See LAWSUIT, page 6
McCormick sophomore’s death stuns profs, classmates
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Evanston residents kicked o0 National Drinking Water Week on Sunday by paddling canoes into the sunset and admiring the city’s 1ora and fauna at the canal near the Evanston Ecology Center.
2e city’s second annual celebration of the nationally observed week features an expanded activity list with water education events hosted at new locations, such as water sports at the Chandler-Newberger Center, .345 Central St., and a water trivia contest at the Levy Senior Center, 633 Dodge Ave. 2e Evanston Public Library, .736 Orrington Ave., also added a photo contest for middle school and high school students in addition to a 6rd grade coloring contest it started last year.
“2e purpose is to raise awareness about tap water, where it comes from and the people that provide it,” said Lara Biggs, an employee with the city’s public works department, of National Drink-ing Water Week.
Evanston pumps and 8lters Lake Michigan water, which 1ows through pipes leading to home faucets in the city and surrounding suburbs. Evan-ston’s water quality laboratory received perfect scores this spring in a state water quality audit for the fourth year in a row.
But safe drinking water does not come free, said EPL librarian Lesley Williams, who sat on the committee organizing the weeklong water educa-tion events.
“We really don’t think about water a great deal,” Williams said. “We’re very fortunate, but there are costs to maintaining a safe water supply.”
On Tuesday evening, the library will show a documentary called “Liquid Assets: 2e Story of Our Water Infrastructure” about the nation’s aging water infrastructure, accompanied by a presenta-tion by Debra Shore, commissioner of the Metro-politan Water Reclamation District.
2e ecology center, 4349 McCormick Blvd., is also hosting free water activities for students a:er school throughout the week.
“We’re always trying to 8nd ways to educate communities about this important environmental
topic,” said Claire Alden, the ecology center’s pro-gram manager.
Evanston resident charged with assault at Burger King
Evanston police charged a 97-year-old resident Friday with aggravated assault at Burger King.
2e resident got into an argument with a man over a pack of cigarettes early Friday morning at the fast food restaurant, .793 Orrington Ave., Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said. 2e resident allegedly grabbed the man by the neck and pushed him back. He then took a box cutter from his pocket and verbally threatened the man before 1eeing the scene.
O;cers found someone who matched the descrip-tion at .</3 Sherman Ave. 2e man who was threat-ened identi8ed the resident later, Parrott said. A:er further investigation, o;cers also found a marijuana pipe among the man’s belongings.
Police charged the man with battery, aggravated
assault and drug possession. He is scheduled to appear in court May 46.
Multiple cases of shots fired in Evanston over weekend
Police received several reports of shots 8red over the weekend.
Shots were heard in the .<33 block of Cleveland Street and at the intersection of Emerson Street and Brown Avenue on Sunday, Parrott said. O;cers believe a report of shots 8red Sunday a:ernoon may be related to one earlier in the morning, Parrott said, adding that he cannot comment on other cases.
In most of these cases, o;cers were unable to locate anything at the reported scene, Parrott said.
— Ina Yang
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WATER EDUCATION Ian Torrisi and Ayah Sol Hall participate in National Drinking Water Week by demonstrating water tension in an after-school activity.
Setting therecord straight
In “A&O, DM come together for benefit rock concert” which was pub-lished in the Monday print edition of The Daily, the subject of the photo-graph accompanying the story was misidentified. The singer pictured was Nick McMillan.
The Daily regrets the error.
On CampusHopefully we’ll see water bottle sale demand fall. ... The school will order less, and we get closer to becoming a water-bottle-free campus.
— Michael Narea, co-project manager of Pura Playa
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Dodgers part-owner to speak at School of Law commencement
Mark Walter (Law ’!"), part-owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, will deliver the main address at the School of Law convocation May #$.
Walter serves as chief executive o%cer and a member of the board and executive committee of Guggenheim Capital, a privately held &nan-cial services company. 'e address is sched-uled for #:() p.m. at the Chicago 'eatre.
Walter also founded Liberty Hampshire Company, which provides risk management services, and is the chairman of EquiTrust Life Insurance Company. He is a trustee or direc-tor of multiple organizations, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and the Security Bene&t Corporation. Walter recently made headlines for paying *+.#" billion for the Dodgers, doubling the team’s cost.
He received his undergraduate degree from Creighton University in Omaha, Neb.
— Cat Zakrzewski
New carry-out program to come to dining halls
Sodexo, the parent company of nuCuisine, has announced plans for a new carry-out program that will give students more meal options a,er regular dining hall hours end.
'e program will allow students to order carry-out meals !-##:() p.m. Monday through 'ursday at Foster-Walker Complex. Wildcat Carry Out was slated to launch Monday, but Sodexo marketing man-
ager Jason Sophian said the program was delayed because Sodexo decided to expand the program’s menu and potentially provide o-erings at other campus locations.
With the new pro-gram, students will be able to place their orders with a cashier and wait for them to be prepared. 'e initial menu as of Mon-day included a variety of options ranging from burgers to salads.
“It’s a big convenience,” said Uwe Wilshusen, Foster-Walker chef and lead manager, in a news
release. “'ey don’t have to go into the dining hall, and they can order and wait or come back to pick it up.”
'e program will bene&t students who have meal plans without equivalency meals and have not been able to take food from dining halls in the past. 'e new program will accept meal plans, Munch Money, cash and credit cards.
SESP freshman Amy Addison is currently on the unlimited meal plan, which gives students two equiva-lency meals per week. She said she would likely use the new plan so she could save her equivalency meals.
“I see it as really useful for people … working all the time,” Addison said. “If I could use a regular meal, I might use it more o,en, like when I’m working through dinner.”
— Cat Zakrzewski
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LAYING DOWN THE LAW Mark Walter, chairman of the Los Angeles Dodgers, will speak at the Northwestern School of Law convocation. Graduation ceremonies begin next week.
“It’s a big convenience. They don’t have to go into the dining hall, and they can order and wait or come back to pick it up.Uwe Wilshusen,Foster-Walker chef and lead manager Across Campuses
Loan program change leads to enrollment drops at historically black colleges
WASHINGTON — A change in federal educa-tion loan policies has le, many students at some of the nation’s historically black colleges and uni-versities struggling to &ll a gap in their &nancial aid and forcing hundreds to leave school.
A more rigorous system of credit checks has denied certain loans available to parents to help with their children’s undergraduate expenses. 'e loans are available to all students at all schools. But the changes have had a particularly severe impact on thousands of students at historically black colleges, advocates for those schools say.
“It’s been devastating,” said Rep. Corrine Brown, D-Fla., a member of the Congressional
Black Caucus. “'e loan helped bridge the gap. For students and colleges that didn’t have addi-tional resources, those students had to go home. And to me that’s just unacceptable.”
— Renee Schoof (McClatchy Washington Bureau)
Obama, at Ohio State, urges graduates to pressure government
WASHINGTON — Speaking to the graduat-ing class of Ohio State University in Columbus on Sunday, Obama called on the students to embrace the school’s motto, “education for citi-zenship,” and to press the government to act.
He encouraged students to work to narrow the income gap between the middle class and the wealthy, to improve education for children and
protect them from gun violence, and to better the environment, among other things.
Most of all, the president told the new genera-tion to persevere in the face of obstacles.
“We remember Michael Jordan’s six champi-onships. We don’t remember his nearly #",))) missed shots,” he said.
Obama pointed out that most of the gradu-ating class was born as the Berlin Wall fell and grew up with the Internet and the a,ermath of the Sept. ##, +))#, attacks. Of the school’s #),))) graduating students, #() have already served in the military and ") will become com-missioned o%cers in the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines, he said.
— Brian Bennett (Tribune Washington Bureau)
“!e loss of one of our own is always sor-rowful, and we must stand with each other in this time of mourning.” — Associated Student Government president Ani Ajith and executive vice president Alex Van Atta
Dmitri Teplov was a student in the North-western University class of "#$%. He was a New Yorker, a Murphy Institute Scholar and lived in the most Plexcellent dorm on campus. And he was a person.
With each death this year, I have watched our campus slip into sel&sh sorrow that does
not truly confront the fact that we let a fellow student die
on our watch. When Harsha died, our campus was shocked.
It was unprecedented, and many were bro-
ken. When Alyssa died, the campus united. We learned how to overcome
our sorrow and move on. And now that Dmitri has died, we must repair
our campus and come to terms with our sorrow, or so we are told. I have watched
unfold in these past few days a culture that does not invoke progress and that does not seek
solutions. We are concerned with how we feel, with how terrible it is that we must endure a third student dying. Meanwhile, Northwestern implores us that we must come together as a community. If we feel sorrow for Dmitri, we must seek help at Counseling and Psychological Services, a darkly comedic joke as CAPS continues to give slipshod counseling service to the mentally unwell at Northwestern.
I went to CAPS at the beginning of this Spring Quarter. I told them I su'ered severe depression and nearly daily repressed suicidal thoughts, and I was just taken o' the wait list Monday. I am lucky in that I have medica-tion from home, a strong support system and experience with this illness. I have gotten help
from my family, friends and girlfriend, and I have methods from my past to deal with my issues, and I have been actually doing really great during this waiting period. Not all Wild-cats, however, are that lucky; not everyone has a support system or a way to get treatment beyond CAPS. Not all Wildcats will be able to recover from an illness when CAPS simply does not have the budget or the resources to treat them. When our counseling service is as overburdened as it is, it must either pawn students o' to Evanston psychologists at every avenue, or, if students endure the waiting list, rush them through therapy. A student who can barely get out of bed or has used up all his courage seeking initial treatment will not be able to go into town every session, and a pressurized environment to &x you and make room for the next student will never allow healing to occur.
!e fact is these suicides are tragic and indicative of a campus-wide problem that does not create many visible symptoms. So many students su'er daily from mental illness and do not get the help they need. !ey know the di(cult reputation of our counseling service and decide that there is no point in pursuing that option. I sincerely believe that funding is the answer. A counseling service that can attend to all mental illnesses Wildcats deal with daily may sound like a pipe dream, but to pursue anything less is just waiting for the next death to occur. A similar wait list to treat traditional medical illnesses of the body would not be tolerated. We cannot pat ourselves on the back because we feel bad about our fellow student. !is is not a point for our campus to rally behind. !is is a tragedy. !is is a life that has been snu'ed short. !is is broken friend-ships and a broken family. To undermine his death as simply an event that a'ects us is noth-ing but sel&sh love. We have been failing both as a university and as classmates to o'er a real support system to students in need. !is can-not happen again. Not on our watch.
Kevin Mathew, Weinberg sophomore
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Tuesday, May 7, 2013 PAGE 4
It’s been a while since elementary school, but none of us has forgotten the time we brought something yummy to class and we got the ubiquitous “Did you bring enough for everyone?” Although a mild annoyance back in the third grade, it should be put up with in the name of teaching children to share and be fair. !is is the sort of thing we take for granted as a basic principle of human decency, like cleaning up your dog’s poop while out on a walk, but, forever the skeptic, I challenge you to think twice.
It’s not every day that you see a book with the title “Against Fairness,” so you can imag-ine how startled I was when I came across a review of it online. !e book, written by phi-losopher Stephen Asma, argues against exactly what its title suggests: the common notion that what is fair is what is right. I never &nished reading the review. Ten minutes a)er I clicked on it, I was at Church and Sherman walking out of Barnes & Noble with a copy of the book in hand, *"".#+ poorer since I was too impa-tient to wait for Amazon to ship it.
Getting ripped o' by a bookstore has never been so rewarding, since Asma’s book is without doubt, the most thought-provoking
thing I have read in months. He begins with a recollection of a lecture he began by telling the audience, “I would strangle everyone in this room if it somehow prolonged the life of my son.” At &rst, that seems psychotic, but he develops it further with a classic example, the “Trolley Problem.” You’ve all heard it; a train (trolley, delusional runaway elephant, etc.) is coming to a junction, and you have control over which path it takes. At one end are three strangers tied down and at the other is your mother. If everyone is to be treated equally, the choice is obvious.
But they shouldn’t be treated equally. You should ,ip the switch and save your mom! If you wouldn’t, then we really need to sit down, crack open a beer and have a chat.
I presume here that you were fortunate to have such a mother to love, but the point still holds even if you don’t, just replace your mother with the person you love most in the world. Unfortunately, many of the abstract theories of ethics we learn about in school seem to gloss over, or even blatantly contra-dict, all of this. But Asma argues that along-side academic ethics, there is another set of ethical norms, far deeper and older than those found in the writings of John Stuart Mill or Immanuel Kant.
Love and loyalty play favorites. !ey make us value some people more than others. !ey are not fair. But the Golden Rule does not account for this, nor does much of what we take for granted to be obvious ethical truths.
Asma’s point is that we need to reconcile our ethical, legal and philosophical notions of fair-ness with the fact that humans are inherently unfair creatures, because “fairness” sounds absurd when we start to apply it blindly to friends and family.
By what’s said aloud, you’d think we’re expected to be saints. Every time a politician has an a'air, it’s scandalous. When someone shows favoritism to friends, it’s unethical conduct. But let’s be real here, how many of you have let your friends blatantly copy your homework? How many times have you lied to cover things up for someone you care about? How many times have you given a friend cash to buy booze when there are children starv-ing to death on the other side of the world? You can debate as long as you like about what “good” is and what we “should” do, but when the moment comes, when your hand is on the switch and it’s your mother’s life on the line, chances are, you’ll forget a lot of that.
Morality is as much, if not more, a feeling as it is an abstract construct. If we want to do good, we should concern ourselves with how to do good, rather than just what good is. When we ask ourselves, “What would Jesus do?” it becomes very easy to condemn. But what would you do?
Julian Caracotsios is a Weinberg junior. He can be reached at [email protected]. If you want to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to [email protected].
Preferential treatment can trump fairness
I didn’t know Dmitri Teplov. He was in my Intro to Macroeconomics class, but I didn’t know that until Prof. Mark Witte brought up his death at the end of lecture Monday.
I don’t fault myself for not knowing him — our lecture has more than "## students in it, so encountering him, let alone realizing he was struggling, was unlikely. !e same is true for most of the other students in the lecture. Statistically speaking, though, some people in the class must have encountered Dmitri at some point. And while they probably didn’t recognize he was struggling, had they been looking, they might have.
Let me make it clear: I am not criticizing those students who encountered Dmitri and didn’t see he was depressed or suicidal. I am criticizing Northwestern students in general for being too self-oriented, so self-oriented that we fail to recognize how others are having a hard time. We’re busy. I get it. Northwestern provides many, many opportunities that we wouldn’t get at other schools, and we want to take advantage of as many as possible. We also have high stan-dards for ourselves, and meeting those stan-dards — academically, athletically, etc. — takes more time than it would if our standards were lower. By themselves, these are not bad things. But when our desire to excel comes at the cost of our own or others’ emotional and psycho-logical well-being, or worse, at the cost of lives, we need to rethink our priorities.
!ere has been a lot of discussion about the shortcomings of Counseling and Psychological Services and other mental health resources on campus. No doubt some aspects of those ser-vices could be improved, but the fundamental problem isn’t a lack of resources. Rather, it’s a lack of concern among students about their peers. In asking for more counselors or pro-grams, what we’re really asking for is a simple
solution to a problem that we don’t want to address ourselves. !at isn’t to say we don’t care about other students — we do. We just don’t make caring for them our top priority. Until we change this, the mental health problem on campus isn’t going to improve, regardless of how many CAPS sta' members or programs we add.
So what can we do? !e key is to start think-ing about other people as our priority, in whatever form that takes. It could be as simple as asking a classmate how their day is going and then listening — really listening — to their response. It could be inviting someone sitting alone in a dining hall to sit with you. It could be going to have co'ee with an acquain-tance, and seeing if you can make a new friend or at least a new connection.
It isn’t enough to just reach out to your friends. !e people struggling the most prob-ably aren’t the ones who have friends like you.
You may feel awkward or uncomfortable in talking to someone you don’t know well. You may feel you’re wasting time that could be better spent studying. So be it. Your awkward-ness or lower grade is worth less than someone else’s happiness or, in Dmitri’s case, someone else’s life.
Kate Stein is a Medill freshman and a former Daily staffer. She can be reached at [email protected]. If you want to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to [email protected].
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Teplov’s death highlights need for campus support
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NU takes steps to decrease use of water bottlesBy JEANNE KUANG!"# $%&'( )*+!",#-!#+) @jeannekuang
Recent water fountain renovations inside res-idential buildings have coincided with student e.orts to reduce the use of disposable plastic bottles on campus.
Residential Services took the latest step in campus sustainability when it installed new water fountains with water bottle-/lling units in dining halls and residential halls during Spring Break. Paul Riel, executive director of Residential Ser-vices, said the bottle-/lling stations have been installed in 0123 Hinman, Foster-Walker Com-plex, Sargent Hall, McCulloch Hall, Communi-cations Residential College, Shepard Residential College and Kemper Hall.
“Everywhere we have identi/ed existing water fountains, they are all candidates for us to add the bottle-/ller stations,” Riel said.
He said residential buildings slated to
receive renovations, such as Chapin Hall and Hobart House, will also get the water fountain upgrades.
4e renovations are arriving amid a year’s work on the part of Pura Playa, an Engineers for a Sus-tainable World project, to reduce plastic waste on campus.
Pura Playa launched an initiative Fall Quarter to eliminate the sale of plastic water bottles on campus. Since then, the group has been holding activities in pursuit of the ban, such as partnering with Green Cup during Winter Quarter and giving /resides in dorms to educate students about the advantages of drinking tap water instead of bottled water, co-project manager Michael Narea said.
For the past four months, Pura Playa has also been holding “tap water challenges” on campus, Narea said.
“We set up a table with cups of water with tap and bottled and we had students try them and try to distinguish the di.erence between the two,” the McCormick senior said. “It’s interesting seeing them trying tap water and bottled water and not
knowing which is which. It really validated our whole initiative.”
4e group plans to have tables at Students for Ecological and Environmental Development’s Philfest music festival Saturday to further promote the water taste challenge, /ll students’ reusable water bottles and quiz them on water resource trivia. Pura Playa has also been working with fra-ternities to /nd ways for them to recycle plastic Solo cups, which Narea said cannot be processed by Evanston’s recycling facilities.
Narea said people o5en inaccurately believe tap water to be less clean than bottled water because old water fountains do not maintain a low water temperature well, and renovations will make tap water more appealing.
“Hopefully we’ll see water bottle sale demand fall,” he said. “At that point, the school will order less, and we get closer to becoming a water-bottle-free campus.”
Mark Silberg, outgoing Associated Student Government associate vice president of sustain-ability and SEED co-president, said he hopes
the new bottle-/lling stations will be expanded to other buildings where students spend time, such as University Library or Norris University Center.
“It’s di6cult for me to show direct causal results between Pura Playa’s e.orts and the decisions by somebody like Paul Riel to do that,” Silberg said. “But I do think this broader movement between Facilities Management, the O6ce of Sustainability, work that ASG’s been doing and the work of Pura Playa have all contributed to a culture that says this is what students want.”
Riel said although Residential Services must consider the cost of installing more bottle-/lling stations, it has kept a count of where renovations are possible and hopes to convert more old water fountains.
“I just think it’s a perfect storm of good ideas,” Riel said of the coinciding e.orts of students and the University. “It’s a good initiative to do and we believe in it as well.”
them about 0 p.m.“4ey’re just in shock,” Stevens said. “4ey
just can’t believe what’s happened.”No plans for a
memorial are sched-uled at this time, Ste-vens said.
Teplov’s passing marks the third stu-dent death this aca-demic year. Weinberg junior Alyssa Weaver and McCormick soph-omore Harsha Mad-dula died two months apart in Fall Quarter.
“We want to obvi-ously do everything we can to prevent deaths like this because they’re so tragic and so
needless,” Stevens said. “And sometimes these things happen, and there’s not a lot that we can do about that.”
University President Morton Schapiro was in Doha for Northwestern University in Qatar’s commencement ceremony when Teplov was found dead, NU spokesman Al Cubbage said.
As University o6cials respond, the NU
community is beginning to feel Teplov’s absence. 4rough mutual classes Winter Quarter and this quarter, Feng said he had gotten to know Teplov well. Aside from physics, the two also took public speaking and organic chemistry classes together.
Feng said although Teplov was shy, preferring video games and technology jokes, he was just like any NU student.
“I just want people to know that he wasn’t some quiet weirdo who sat in the corner of class,” Feng said. “He was just a normal guy who could talk to you and joke with you. He wasn’t someone who felt unapproachable or someone who you’d avoid.”
Like Feng, physics and astronomy Prof. Jens Koch said he did not see Teplov’s death coming.
“I liked him. He was one of the few brave people who sat in the /rst couple of rows in a class of 17 students,” said Koch, who had Teplov in a physics class this quarter. “He was there and participated in class and contributed.”
Koch said it was “hard to digest” Teplov’s absence from class Monday.
“I think we’ll all miss him,” Koch said. “It was very hard to see his empty chair this morning.”
Cat Zakrzewski contributed reporting.
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Ann Rainey (1th) also addressed the controversy surrounding a comment she reportedly made about the school. 4e school’s former president alleged Rainey had told him, “Keep your Jewish school on California. You’ll get a zoning change over my dead body,” referring to the original school’s location at
8007 N California Ave., Chicago.Rainey denied ever making the comment on
Monday.“I did not say that,” Rainey said. “I’m not even
sure I knew where the school was at that time.”Rainey emphasized the city amends the zoning
ordinance only in rare circumstances.
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EVANSTON WIN Attorneys William McKenna and Grant Farrar explain the city’s victory in a legal battle against a Chicago school at a news conference Monday. They were joined by Ald. Ann Rainey (8th).
“(Teplov) was one of the few brave people who sat in the !rst couple of rows in a class of 80 students.Jens Koch,physics and astronomy professor
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By JOSH WALFISH!"#$% &'(#)* &+",,'*@JoshWal- sh
Northwestern has come to expect senior quarterback Kain Colter to suc-ceed on the green of a gridiron. However, he has also found a lot of success on the putting green. Although Colter may play football for the Wildcats, he claims golf may be his better sport. . e Daily caught up with Colter a/ er practice to talk about his love for golf and why he chose to play for football coach Pat Fitzgerald and not for golf coach Pat Goss.
! e Daily Northwestern: How did you get interested in golf?
Kain Colter: My grandpa, my mom’s dad, was a big golfer, and ever since I was little, I had a golf club in my hand. I remember having a plastic club, swing-ing them around in my grandparents’ backyard. I feel like ever since I was little, I was always being taken to the driving range and watching golf. My grandpa wanted me to be the next Tiger Woods.
! e Daily: Where does football enter the equation?
Colter: Football is just something I was more destined for. My dad played football. My uncle played football. I started that when I was young, too. Golf ’s something you have to dedicate all your time to if you’re going to play it at a high level. I just didn’t do that because I was playing so many other sports and football just came natural to me.
! e Daily: Do you remember your
best round?Colter: I shot a 01 at Vista Ridge (now
called Colorado National Golf Club) in Erie, Colo.
! e Daily: How much interaction have you had with Goss or the members of the team?
Colter: I haven’t. I’ve played with Eric Chun a few times. He’s really good and he’s really helped me with my swing a little bit.
! e Daily: If you could go to any golf tournament in the world, which one would you go to?
Colter: . e Masters. . ere’s some-thing special about the Masters, some-thing I’d like to go to. Augusta is sweet.
! e Daily: Do you watch a lot of golf on television?
Colter: When Tiger’s playing. If Tiger’s not playing, I’m not watching. But if Tiger’s playing, I’m always watching.
! e Daily: I’ll take it you’re a big Tiger Woods fan, but any other favorite golfers?
Colter: I like Rory (McIlroy). I like Bubba Watson, Rickie Fowler, all those guys.
! e Daily: If you could play any course in the world, which one would you play?
Colter: Probably Pebble Beach (in California). Or that one course in Dubai (Abu Dhabi). . ey always have a tour-nament out there. I’ve always wanted to go to Dubai, and it would sweet to play golf there.
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By ALEX PUTTERMAN+2' !"#$% ()*+23'&+'*(@AlexPutt45
All in attendance heard a ping, a gasp and a roar from the Ohio State faithful. Most in attendance then felt a punch to the gut.
Northwestern (54-54, 1-67 Big Ten) lost a 5-6 lead to Ohio State (75-68, 68-0 Big Ten) when Buckeyes shortstop Kirby Pellant’s eighth-in-ning 7-run homer landed beyond the right - eld fence. . e 9-5 - nal leaves the Wildcats essentially out of the Big Ten playo: race.
“. at’s something you don’t want to see,” junior third baseman Nick Linne said of the home run. “It’s tough now because we know our odds. We see we can’t make the tournament anymore, and that’s a little upsetting.”
. rough seven innings the game’s top story was NU starting pitcher Zach Morton. Up to that point, the right-hander had allowed 6 run on 5 hits and, true to form, only 7 strike-outs. His - nal punch-out came with a runner on third base and 5 outs, an appropriate would-be end to his outing.
“. ere was some talk (of taking me out),” Morton said. “But I said I was feeling OK, so they let me go out for the eighth.”
Coach Paul Stevens said he never considered removing Morton, and the way he lauded the redshirt senior a/ er the game, it’s no wonder.
“Gutsiest guy I know alive,” Ste-vens said. “. at man can play. He’s a warrior and a half … He’s still our best - elder. He’s our best athlete, he’s probably our best player, and he’s probably the guy who wants it as much as anybody I’ve ever been around.”
With that in mind, Stevens let Morton return for the eighth.
. e Buckeyes began the inning with back-to-back singles, and a/ er a sac-ri- ce bunt attempt failed to advance the runners, Morton departed the
mound with 6 out and a 6-run lead. Stevens turned to his closer, junior Kyle Ruchim, who swapped positions with Morton, taking the hill as Mor-ton jogged to second base.
Ruchim’s second pitch didn’t come back. Pellant’s homer spoiled Mor-ton’s - nal home start and sent the Cats to defeat. . e Buckeyes closed the inning with another run, then another in the ninth o: junior Jack Livingston, but the insurance proved inconsequential, as NU failed to score in the eighth or ninth.
. e Cats scored their runs in the bottom of the second on a 5-run sin-gle from Linne but sputtered from there, managing only 8 more hits.
“We were having a little trouble getting the bats going a little bit today,” Linne said. “Had some trouble stringing some hits together.”
Ohio State’s - rst run came in the sixth inning. Nine-hitter Brad Hall-berg was hit by a pitch, and leado: -man Joe Ciamacco walked after watching several borderline pitches that were called balls. A/ er the run-ners advanced to second and third on a groundball, Hallberg scored on a wild pitch.
But the big blow was the go-ahead long-ball. Monday was the second consecutive day the Cats blew a late-inning lead, and those two losses, in addition to a similarly close defeat April 51 against Illinois, buried the Cats’ playo: hopes.
Barring the most improbable of circumstances, beginning with NU sweeping second-place Indiana next weekend, the Cats will not participate in this season’s Big Ten Tournament in Minneapolis. . eir visibly emo-tional coach admitted the losses are di; cult to swallow.
“. e good thing is I don’t sleep much at night anyhow, so it hasn’t kept me up anymore,” Stevens said. “I’m not going to sit there and tell you it’s not tough … . e way that we keep battling — and unfortunately we’ve had some tough games in the
eighth and ninth innings. . ere’s not one guy that’s not giving me every-thing that he has. I won’t question any of that. At the end of the day I still believe in these guys.”
Late Ohio State homer stuns NUIt’s time for Cats to make mark
Daily fi le photo by Meghan White
WASTED EFFORT An Ohio State home run in the eighth inning off an NU reliever ruined a good outing from redshirt senior pitcher Zach Morton, who gave up only one run in his fi rst seven innings of work.
JOSHWALFISHDAILY SPORTS@JoshWalfi sh
If there were a time for the Wild-cats to silence their critics, it would be 5467.
Northwestern has a legitimate shot to start off the football season 8-4 before squaring off with The Ohio State, and please put emphasis on “the.” For those of you who claim the Cats have accomplished the feat before, I ask you to look at the schedule.
After Monday’s announcement of the Big Ten Network’s prime-time games, three of NU’s first five games will be played under the lights at Ryan Field in front of 80,444 screaming fans and a national audi-ence. The nation will be watching the Cats, and it is time NU rose to the occasion under coach Pat Fitzgerald.
Everyone in that locker room will tell you they are ready to handle the expectations and prove the Cats will be a threat in the Big Ten for years to come. The issue is we have heard the same thing before from NU.
In 5446, the Cats were predicted to win the Big Ten. I know this may come as a shock to many readers who thought NU was irrelevant before Fitzgerald was named the coach and excluding the Rose Bowl season in 6<<=. In 5446, NU was coming off being named co-conference champions in 5444 and returned many seniors. However, NU finished 8-0 and only won two Big Ten games, missing the postsea-son entirely, let alone winning one of the most competitive conferences in the country.
I tell you about the past because it is exactly that — the past. Some-thing about this year’s team is differ-ent, and it has direct correlation to the past. That connection, of course, is this team has defied the past once and is out to rebel against it again.
The hallmark of Fitzgerald’s tenure as coach is the fact that he has confronted NU’s past failures and used them to motivate his team to take the program to new levels. By winning 64 games last year, this team has done exactly that, match-ing the most wins in a season in program history.
Fitzgerald has done an admirable job of leading the Cats over every obstacle they have faced. The past is no longer an issue, and I’m sure he is upset with me for even bringing up the 5446 season. However, it is an important comparison. Despite winning Big Ten titles in 6<<=, 6<<9 and 5444, NU was not ready for the limelight. It was not ready to be the hunted and could only play the hunter.
The 5467 team has embraced being the hunted and not the hunter. The Cats have learned how to be the favorite and live up to those expec-tations. They have figured out how to play with the heavy burden that is a preseason ranking.
So when all the eyes are on Evan-ston and NU is forced to show its mettle, how will the Cats respond? If NU’s walk matches its talk, the Buckeyes should be in for a dogfight because the Cats will be ready to play and prove once and for all, NU is ready to contend at the top of the Big Ten for decades to come.
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Colter talks his love of playing on the linksFootball
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“Ever since I was little, I was
always being taken to
the driving range and
watching golf.Kain Colter
senior quarterback