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The Daily NorthwesternDAILYNORTHWESTERN.COM Find us online @thedailynuTuesday, April 22, 2014
sports TennisMen, women close regular
season with sweeps » PAGE 8
A-NU-Bhav wins at Bollywood America » PAGE 3
High 44Low 37
opinion ZeytinogluThe legacy of Gabriel
Garcia Marquez » PAGE 4
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Students march to support NU workerBy ReBecca savRnskydaily senior staffer @beccasavransky
Student activists organized a march through campus Monday demanding better treatment of Northwestern work-ers after Sodexo temporarily suspended a 10-year employee accused of being “under the influence” and “over excited” during his shift.
About 40 individuals walked down Sheridan Road from The Arch to Sargent Hall chanting “we support our workers” and other phrases behind Rafael Mar-quez, a food service worker in 1835 Hin-man dining hall, who was put on tempo-rary suspension last Friday.
The march was planned in an effort to support Marquez and other workers. Marquez said that after standing up for another worker being mistreated for supposed poor performance, Sodexo management demanded Marquez leave and subsequently put him on temporary suspension. He works as a union stew-ard, a job requiring several months of training and the responsibility to defend other workers’ rights. He said that at the time of the incident, he was fulfilling this requirement.
“I’m not the kind of person that would compromise my duty as a union steward and union representative,” Marquez said. “I will not compromise my voice or my worker’s voice and rights as they are deny-ing me the right as a steward to voice the concerns and the rights of our workers.”
Marquez was required to turn in a statement to Human Resources by 5 p.m.
Monday, which will determine whether his suspension will become a permanent layoff. He added he will find out by Friday what his standing is.
“In my statement I’m going to state nothing but the truth,” Marquez said during the event. “That’s all that needs to be told.”
He said that after telling students about his situation, they immediately rallied behind him to organize the march.
“When I told them about what hap-pened, they helped me organize this rally via Facebook and via word of mouth and every other way of communication to walk with me, side by side, to hand in the statements to let Sodexo know that I’m a part of the community, and the students as well as the workers in the unions will not tolerate injustice,” he said.
In response to the march, Sodexo marketing manager Jason Sophian said
the mission of the Sodexo is to “improve the quality of life for all of those that work with us and for the Northwestern com-munity.” He said Marquez’s case is still under review, but added, “Sodexo is com-mitted to the fair and just treatment” of their employees.
However, many who attended the event believe Marquez was treated
By ReBecca savRanskydaily senior staffer @beccasavransky
The electro-funk duo Chromeo will headline A&O Ball on Friday at the Riviera Theatre.
The pair, including David Mack-lovitch, nicknamed Dave 1, and Pat-rick Gemayel, also known as P-Thugg, released their first album in 2004 and have gained popularity since. They are scheduled to release a new album, “White Women,” in May, featuring the already released single “Jealous (I Ain’t With It).” The album will also feature guest artists, including Solange in the song “Lost on the Way Home,” Ezra Koenig from Vampire Weekend playing piano in “Ezra’s Interlude,” and Toro y Moi in their piece “Come Alive.”
A&O spokeswoman Shelly Tan said the band will fit perfectly with the “mood of the campus,” emphasiz-ing that it will be a good way for stu-dents to take a break from midterm season.
“In Spring Quarter, the weather is starting to warm up, people are get-ting ready to have fun and what bet-ter way than to have a dance party at an awesome place like the Riv?” the Medill senior said. “This artist defi-nitely exemplifies that kind of crazy party energy.”
She added that Chromeo is on the rise, noting “if you haven’t heard of them before, in the following weeks, you are definitely going to hear of their name.”
The band has performed at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts
Festival and the Red Rocks Amphi-theatre. They also traveled with their Come Alive Tour across the U.S. and Europe.
A&O concerts chair Morgan Hecht, a Communication junior, said she is looking forward to the concert, noting Chromeo is currently becoming more well known and has performed at
several music festivals across the coun-try. Hecht added the group wanted to pick a band that is “relevant,” and could put on a “high quality show,” and this duo exemplified both.
“This artist is being really buzzed about right now,” Hecht said. “Their
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‘comE AlivE’ Electro-funk duo Chromeo will headline A&O Ball, scheduled for Friday at the Riviera Theatre in Chicago. Tickets for the show go on sale at 10 a.m. Tuesday.
Chromeo to headline A&O Ball
» See A&o, page 7
By sophia Bollagdaily senior staffer @SophiaBollag
A Chicago tavern will move into the space formerly occupied by The Keg of Evanston, property manager Evan Oliff said Monday.
Bangers & Lace, a restaurant that specializes in sausages and craft beers, plans to open its second location by September at 810 Grove St., said Oliff, president of Preferred Development, the real estate consulting group leading the development of the space.
Paul Zalmezak, Evanston’s economic development coordinator, described the food, drinks and overall atmosphere of Bangers & Lace as “high quality.”
“I think it’s going to be a really good fit for the Evanston dining scene,” Zalmezak said. “We have an upscale, professional population. Even students like to dine in a quality environment. … It’s the perfect example of what our dining scene’s about.”
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By paige leskinthe daily northwestern @paigeleskin
State Sen. Daniel Biss (D-Evanston) discussed changing Illinois’ flat-rate income tax to a graduated one in a town hall meeting Monday night.
Biss called the present code “idio-syncratic,” telling a group of around 30 city residents gathered at the Evanston Public Library, 1703 Orrington Ave, of his support of a system in which tax rates go up with an individual’s income.
In the upcoming year, the tax is slated to drop from 5 percent to 3.75 percent for all Illinois taxpayers. Biss warned the decrease would cause $2 billion in cuts of discretionary spending, which includes funding for education and public safety.
“It would be pretty significantly dev-astating,” he said. “The current tax path that we’re on today is a really bad idea.”
Biss said legislatures have to act quickly in order to avoid such cuts. He called for a voter referendum to be sub-mitted to General Assembly by May 1 calling for an amendment to the section of the Illinois Constitution that calls for taxation at a non-graduated rate.
Residents questioned the complexity of the pension system, which consists of more than 600 separate entities across the state. Several attendees said the high number leads to a lack of visibility and transparency, allowing some, like those who transfer to jobs in different munic-ipalities, to be able to receive revenue from both salary and pension plans.
Biss said it was necessary to “consolidate these pension systems,” as they allow for a significant amount of fraud.
He also discussed additional pension system reforms. Illinois property taxes have been used in the past to fund pen-sions, but are already the second highest among all states.
Under Illinois law, Chicago oversees and contributes to the pension funds of some groups of workers.
Pension plans for public employees
Nathan Richards/Daily Senior Staffer
mArchinG for mArquEz Students organized a protest outside the Sodexo offices Monday afternoon. The protest was organized to show support for Rafael Marquez, a worker who Sodexo put on temporary suspension allegedly because he said he stood up for another worker in a staff meeting.
» See mArch, page 7 » See tAvErn, page 7
Biss talks pensions, taxes at town hall
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tAlkinG tAxEs State Sen. Daniel Biss (D-Evanston) hosted a town hall meeting at the Evanston Public Library on Monday. He discussed issues related to income tax and pension reform.
» See Biss, page 7
Tavern to occupy old TKOE building
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Diners feasted on a four-course meal Mon-day at Found Kitchen and Social House’s “Most Needed” Dinner, an event held to benefit the Greater Chicago Food Depository.
The benefit, proceeds of which were donated to the Food Depository, featured food “made from the ingredients that are most often donated to food banks,” according to a news release. Tick-ets were sold for $85 and dishes included potato and green garlic soup, braised short ribs and a peanut butter oat cake with gelato for dessert.
“I thought it would be fun to take those ingre-dients and then elevate them,” Found chef Nicole Pederson, said to the crowd of about 70 people.
Kara Sherman, the private gatherings direc-tor at Found, said the restaurant and the food bank both independently contacted each other to co-host an event.
“It was kind of meeting in the middle at the same time,” Sherman said. “It was kismet.”
Sherman said she hoped the guests had a unique experience and felt more “invigorated” to volunteer with the Food Depository.
“We want them to really feel inspired, to become more active in the organization through
our partnership and through what we offer them tonight,” she said.
Kate Maehr, executive director and CEO of the Food Depository, said the event was held par-tially to express gratitude to people who donate their time to the organization.
“We have a lot of people who are going to be here tonight who have been passionate about the Food Depository that we have never had the chance to meet in person,” she said. “It’s really a chance to thank the supporters and staff for what they do.”
Another goal for the dinner, Maehr said, was to raise awareness for the Food Depository.
“I think sometimes — even a community as conscious and aware as Evanston — it’s really easy to forget how many people are struggling and what that struggle looks like,” Maehr said. “It is important to be a response to that struggle.”
Attendees said they were as excited about the philanthropic aspect of the night as they were about the food. Judy and Bruce Bendoff, who dined at the event, said they have been longtime supporters of the Food Depository.
“They do really great things for the commu-nity, and we try to support them in all that they do,” Judy Bendoff said.
Pederson said when she opened the restaurant with owner Amy Morton in 2012, they wanted
Found to be about more than just a restaurant.“We wanted there to be a philanthropic point
to it,” she said. “It’s about helping organizations in our community.”
Found hosts benefit for ‘most needed’
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dONAtiONs ANd diNiNG Kate Maehr, the CEO of Greater Chicago Food Depository, and chef Nicole Pederson speak to attendees Monday at Found Kitchen and Social house’s “Most Needed” dinner. The benefit, a joint effort between the restaurant and the nonprofit, featured a four-course meal.
City resident robbed at gunpoint
A 42-year-old had a backpack containing a laptop computer and a money order stolen from her at gunpoint in south Evanston on Friday night.
The woman, an Evanston resident, was walking in the gangway next to an apartment complex in the 600 block of Mulford Street at about 9 p.m. Friday when an unknown man wearing a ski mask approached her, displayed a handgun and demanded her possessions, Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said.
Before fleeing to the west, the man took the Evanston resident’s backpack, which con-tained a Gateway computer that the 42-year-old said was worth $3,000 and a $375 money order, police said.
More than $1,500 worth of electronics stolen from city apartment
Someone barged his way into an Evanston apartment unit before stealing more than $1,500 worth of electronics Saturday night.
The resident said he heard someone try-ing to come in through the front door of his home in the 800 block of Elmwood Avenue,
Parrott said. At about 10 p.m. the man heard the sounds of somebody knocking on his rear door.
Police said the 32-year-old opened the door and then a man pushed his way into the apartment.
The Evanston resident locked himself into the bathroom to call the police, but his iPhone, iPad and laptop were stolen from the apartment. The man had already fled when police arrived, police said.
Parrott said there were no other signs of forced entry into the home.
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Take Back The Night stages reading of local playBy DaviD Leethe daily northwestern @davidylee95
Take Back the Night hosted Monday a staged read-ing of “The Lake,” a play which explores the conflicts surrounding domestic violence.
The event, held in Harris Hall, drew a crowd of about 20 and included the play and an open panel discussion. It marked the first night of Sexual Assault Awareness Week, which will end Saturday night and include an organized march around campus.
The three-character play, which lasted just over an hour, was produced by Artemesia Theatre, a Chicago-based theater company whose mission is to produce entertainment that challenges society’s view of women.
“The Lake” centers around a father, mother and daughter who are trying to cope with the conse-quences of domestic violence on the family.
“We hope to start a discussion. We hope to show
women in a different light,” said Julie Proudfoot, the writer and lead actor of the production. “(The daugh-ter) does things that we wouldn’t expect a teenage girl to do, and it’s very specifically to sort of shake up people’s perception.”
The production, loosely based on Proudfoot’s own childhood, switches between a bleak present and a violent past. In the former, the mother and the daugh-ter must manage repercussions of the father’s death. The latter gradually explains how violence, alcohol and bitterness tore the family apart.
After the play’s conclusion, Lizz Bohl, co-chair of Take Back the Night, facilitated an audience discus-sion. A deep conversation on women’s roles in society and the intricacies of domestic violence followed.
“It was awesome to see people get involved in the audience and in the panel,” said SESP senior Haley Pilgrim, who helped plan the event. “It showed that it was an important issue to talk about.”
The director of the play, Barbara Zahora, also helped facilitate the discussion and talked about her experience as a domestic violence counselor.
“It was really interesting, not only how the perpe-trator would blame the victims, how the kids blamed the victim, but how the kids blamed themselves,” Zahora said in response to an audience question. “It’s all three of those things working together.”
The were not many Northwestern students in the audience, which mostly consisted of older women.
Weinberg freshman Callie Corcoran said it was good to get strong opinions from individuals outside of NU, especially from adults.
Ultimately, Zahora said, the purpose of the pro-duction was to make people question the causes and effects of domestic violence and to comprehend the issue’s complexity. She said when she debuted the play, people asked her why the victims didn’t just leave.
“You look for a place to assign blame,” she said. “Do you just blame the alcohol? How much account-ability does each person have? What the play is about is accepting that the situation is more difficult than it seems.”
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in a different light Julie Proudfoot and Frederic Stone perform in a staged reading of “The Lake” on campus Monday evening. The event was in conjunction with programming for Sexual assault awareness week, which will run through Saturday.
By tyLer pagerthe daily northwestern @tylerpager
Northwestern’s Hindi film dance team, A-NU-Bhav, won first place at the collegiate national cham-pionships this weekend.
After qualifying for nationals in February at the A-Town Showdown in Atlanta, A-NU-Bhav, founded in 2008, beat out 10 other teams at Bollywood Amer-ica, the largest South Asian filmi-fusion dance com-petition in the world. This was the first year in A-NU-Bhav’s history the group qualified for nationals.
Aalap Herur-Raman, president of A-NU-Bhav, said the team started practicing earlier than usual this year and created an unconventional story for
their routine.The team’s dance told the story of a man who
comes out as gay to his fiancee and mother. Herur-Raman said this contrasts with most routines, which revolve around the classic love story between a man and a woman.
“We wanted to show that love doesn’t really have any boxes,” the McCormick junior said. “Any type of love can be told through a Bollywood story, not just a typical guy-girl romance. Our theme was very revolutionary.”
A-NU-Bhav also won best choreography and best storyline and second-year graduate student Yuri Doolan was named Mr. Bollywood America.
Leading up to Bollywood America, the team com-peted in four competitions, winning three of them and placing second in one.
Weinberg freshman Ushasi Naha said performing at Bollywood America was more than just winning.
“At the end of the day, we are dancing for our team,” she said. “The story is a lot more than a show we put on for the audience. It’s a show we put on for our teammates. We have been putting in so much effort all year long and we knew we just needed to put our hearts in the story and believe in everything we had done. “
Herur-Raman added through all the traveling and practices, the team became a “family.”
“I think the most important thing is to come up with a great dance and have fun doing it,” he said. “You really become a family with all these people, and I think that’s what it’s all about.”
A-NU-Bhav takes home top prize at Bollywood America
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we are the champions northwestern’s a-nU-Bhav team placed first in this past weekend’s Bollywood america competition, beating 10 other competitors. This was the first time the team qualified for nationals.
On a cold December day in 1982, a journal-ist, as he liked to call himself, stood in front of the Swedish Academy and used his moment as the most important writer in the world to bluntly say that, while he appreciated the award, the Western world has been hypocriti-cal in the way it sees Latin America. He noted, even though the Western culture embraced Latin America’s literature with open arms, it also disregarded its cultural and political identity.
Just a couple of days ago, news agencies from all over the world published a photo-graph of that journalist — Gabriel Garcia Marquez — with a yellow rose attached to his jacket, to announce his death. Though at times suffering incredible poverty, his works have not only influenced the world literature greatly, but also radically changed his readers’ understanding of the world. He left this world not only by not settling for the life offered to him, but by conveying his insatiable desire for more to us through his novels.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, or “Gabo,” may have left on a sad April day, but he very well lives through his immortal characters: every time we fail to prevent a foreseeable murder
just as Santiago Nasar or every time we, “insist on measuring Latin America with the yardstick (we) use for ourselves” even though the Buendia family tells us not to. Undoubt-edly, Marquez was an author whose influence extends beyond literature.
Gabo may actually be gone, but he, also, is never going to manage to go; just as his “mas-ter” Faulkner or his great influences Joyce, Kafka, Hemingway couldn’t. Even one of 20th century’s most important poets, Pablo Ner-uda, placed the immortal work of Marquez above all others, calling it “perhaps the great-est revelation in the Spanish language since the ‘Don Quixote’ of Cervantes.” However Gabo’s legacy today goes beyond his literature. He was a good friend but also an idealist; he stood by his Cuban friend, whose cause he defended by heart all his life despite all the controversy and criticism, but did not hesitate to publicly send a letter to achieve the release of Heberto Padilla, a poet incarcerated by the Cuban government.
Marquez managed to attract the world’s attention to address the problems of his continent and always considered this one of his main goals. He publicly defied the “evil dictators” of Latin America, and has devoted his time, money and prestige to the causes he believed in. He formed a political party in Venezuela, defended the Sandinistas in Nicaragua and bought a news magazine in Colombia, to pursue his deep-rooted love of journalism.
However long before Gabo achieved the recognition he enjoyed through his life, he was a penniless journalist, fired by one of those Latin American dictators. After his death, the Mexican government declared three days of mourning, hundreds of newspapers reported him in their front page, thousands of people wrote about him and millions were saddened. And what about that fascist leader of Colombia back in the fifties who shut down Garcia’s newspaper: Do any of us know his name? Gabo, at least, proved the impact he did on his mission against “the evil dictators” by his death.
Not many writers get to be commemorated at all, and even the ones who manage not to be forgotten in the flow of time, tend to be remembered only for their works and not for what they achieved beyond those pages. Gabriel Garcia Marquez will surely enjoy the recognition any writer would envy.
His book “Living to Tell the Tale” begins with the quotation, “Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it.” Recalling those lines, I feel comfortable to say that he will be remembered well with that yellow rose on his jacket, so well that both his novels and achievements beyond those pages will not be forgotten. Since with the master of magical realism gone, everyone in this magical, yet so real, world is now a bit more desolate, a bit more solitary.
Ekin Zeytinoglu is a McCormick freshman. He can be reached at [email protected]. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to [email protected].
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Marquez’ influence extends well beyond literature
Serene Darwish’s recent column in The Spectrum was compelling and important. We commend her for expressing her identity and beliefs as a Palestin-ian-American on campus. We do not object to her reaction to President Schapiro’s statements or to her political beliefs. Nevertheless, we and many other students on campus have concerns with her claims that partnerships with Israel represent a political stance on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict or margin-alize a specific community on campus.
Academic partnerships are not political in nature but based on shared goals of scholarship, research, and expanding students’ opportunities. To our knowledge, Northwestern does not have a stance on the two-state solution, the occupation of the West Bank or the leadership within the Israeli govern-ment. However, it does have a stance on providing a world-class education, enhancing study abroad programs and exposing students to a diverse array of cultures and perspectives — all of which are occurring between NU and Tel Aviv University.
The decision to partner with TAU was not part of a “full-fledged top-down pro-Israel campaign” as Darwish called it, but a strategic decision to enhance the quality of education at NU. By the same token, it would be unfair to suggest that participants in the program endorse any particular political position of the Israeli government. They are simply trying to develop a stronger understanding of topics in the Middle East..
Collaboration with TAU should be viewed in the context of NU’s campus in Qatar and in the burgeoning partnership with the Bridge School in India. It should be noted that Qatar has an extremely poor record on human rights. However, few students have criticized the University’s decision to build a satellite campus in Doha. It is hypocritical to attack partnerships with Israel on a humanitarian basis while not addressing NU’s established relation-ship with Qatar.
The Arab-Israeli conflict has been long, bloody and incredibly complex, encompassing many
narratives and multiple perspectives. Many perspec-tives within the modern state of Israel — such as those of the Bedouins, Black Hebrews, Arab Chris-tians and Arab Jews — continue to go untold. All narratives have a right to be expressed and shared.
In her opposition to NU’s connection with TAU, Darwish cites a recent decision that “banned a Pales-tinian speaker” for an event commemorating Land Day. She neglected to mention that Mohammed Kena’ana was not just any Palestinian speaker, but a convicted terrorist conspirator who spent four and a half years in Israeli prison. Furthermore, Kena’ana is a target for extremists on both sides of the con-flict, and therefore posed a security concern. While Kena’ana is a free Israeli citizen with a right to speak, there were significant safety factors in TAU’s deci-sion that should not be omitted.
To classify the Palestinian narrative as a voice that goes unheard on campus is misleading. In the last few months, multiple articles have been writ-ten in The Daily Northwestern and The Protest voicing pro-Palestinian opinions in regards to the ASA boycott of Israeli institutions. Serene and her fellow members of Students for Justice in Palestine have had plenty of opportunities to make their case heard. The University has a right to disagree with SJP’s views on Israel and make decisions which they believe will benefit the greater student body.w
We did not write this piece to attack Darwish’s positions or to have the last word. We actually believe she has legitimate claims and her ideas are well-received. Yet we ask her to understand our per-spective and not label those who support partner-ships with Israel as a domineering voice on campus. President Schapiro’s positions are in line with a large percentage of the student body that supports exten-sive study abroad opportunities around the world, including in Tel Aviv.
While we and Serene have vastly different opin-ions and may not agree on many aspects of the conflict or its history, we should work to understand and appreciate each other’s narratives. A nuanced
perspective should neither view the establishment of the state of Israel as a form of unforgiving colonial-ism nor ignore the deep injustices that Palestinians have endured for decades.
The tragedy of the current climate on campus and within the modern state of Israel is blindness to the other’s narrative. Pro-Palestinian activists at NU have not been able to understand the legitimate claims of pro-Israel students, while advocates for Israel cannot comprehend the concepts of “the Nakba” or identifying as a refugee. But Serene fails to acknowledge that the self-determination of Israe-lis and the self-determination of Palestinians are not mutually exclusive beliefs.
The Spectrum’s framing of advocacy as a “war on this campus” makes productive discussion difficult and eliminates the important role of nuance in a complex situation. Palestinians and Israelis have been at war for decades. If we can’t move beyond the legitimate claims of multiple perspectives and achieve a higher level of narrative, then who can?
Jonathan Kamel is a Weinberg sophomore and president of Wildcats for Israel. He can be contacted at [email protected]. Jamie Lovegrove is a Medill sophomore who is currently study-ing abroad at Tel Aviv University. He can be contacted at [email protected]. Kamel and Lovegrove are former Daily staffers. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Edi-tor to [email protected].
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Intelligence chief forbids unauthorized talks with reporters
WASHINGTON — Employees of U.S. intelligence agencies have been barred from discussing any intel-ligence-related matter — even if it isn’t classified — with journalists without authorization, according to a new directive by Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.
Intelligence agency employees who violate the pol-icy could suffer career-ending losses of their security
clearances or outright termination, and those who disclose classified information might face crimi-nal prosecution, according to the directive, which Clapper signed March 20 but was made public only Monday by Steven Aftergood, who runs the Federa-tion of American Scientists’ Project on Government Secrecy.
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It includes a sweeping definition of who’s a jour-nalist, which it asserts is “any person ... engaged in the collection, production or dissemination to the public of information in any form related to topics of national security.”
The order represents the latest move by the Obama administration to stifle leaks. It bolsters another administration initiative called the Insider Threat Program, which requires federal employees to report co-workers who show any of a broad variety of “high-risk” behaviors that might indicate they could be sources of unauthorized releases of classified or
unclassified material.President Barack Obama launched the Insider
Threat Program in October 2011 after Army Pfc. Chelsea Manning, then known as Bradley Manning, downloaded hundreds of thousands of documents from a classified computer network and sent them to WikiLeaks, the anti-secrecy group.
The administration redoubled its crackdown after leaks to news media of classified information about the National Security Agency’s top-secret commu-nications data-collection operations by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
— Jonathan S. Landay (McClatchy Washington Bureau)
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District 65 is among 17 organizations and edu-cational institutions receiving the grants. In addi-tion to public school districts, private schools like Loyola University Chicago and museums like the
Chicago Academy of Sciences were also awarded money on Saturday.
The grant awarded to District 65 will fund a program to teach third- and sixth-grade students about local water issues, specifically stormwater management.
Several state communities were also granted funds for building green infrastructure and envi-ronment reconstruction.
“Not only will these projects help protect and restore critical habitat along Lake Michigan, but they will help educate the next generation of con-servationists and naturalists that will continue the mission,” said Marc Miller, director of the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, in a news release.
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unfairly. Before the march, he gave a short speech explaining his situation and continually thanking stu-dents for their constant support.
During the speech, he noted several employees are overworked and the labor is not fairly distributed. He said his requests that workers be treated more fairly resulted in an employee meeting ending early and threats of being escorted by University Police unless he “stopped talking.” He said later that day, he was approached by managers and asked to explain the situ-ation to human resources representatives, after which he was told he needed to leave because his behavior.
Marquez said that after working a full day following the incident, Sodexo representatives said on Friday he was “suspended pending investigation” without pay.
“The company is try to get rid of the leaders and committee members by any means,” Marquez said. “It was an unjust action by them.”
He added he was not the only worker being treated in this way.
Students who attended said they supported Mar-quez and marched because it was an important cause that needs to be addressed. Medill sophomore Lizet Alba said her parents work blue-collar jobs and her father is a union member. She said this allows her to understand the importance of being able to defend one’s rights.
“If you speak up for another person you shouldn’t be penalized in any way shape or form,” Alba said. “It’s not ‘One Northwestern’ if we don’t all support every-one, including those people that serve us everyday.”
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set at Coachella was ranked like top 10 must-see sets. They’re playing at every single festival. They’re about to release an album.”
Hecht said the show’s location will further contribute to the energy of the duo during the concert.
“It’s a great historical space and we wanted to make sure that we had a fun artist come and it’s going to be definitely like a dance party, high-energy show,” Hecht said. “They have crazy lights, a crazy set and just really, really fun and
I know that they will put on a wonderful show that people will be excited about.”
The band jokingly calls themselves the “only successful Arab/Jewish partnership since the dawn of human culture.”
Tan said she is excited for the concert and thinks students will enjoy the event.
“It’s a giant dance party,” Tan said. “If you can’t have fun there, you can’t have fun anywhere.”
A&O will announce the opener for the Spring Ball at a later date.
Tickets will go on sale Tuesday at 10 a.m.
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have been losing funding, a problem that Biss said was necessary to address and solve immediately.
Despite Biss’ position, many at the meeting said they did not blame him for the lack of reform. Biss is currently serving his first term in the Illinois Senate, having been elected to House in 2011.
Evanston resident Jim Young said he did not think Biss was responsible for the problems facing the states legislature, citing the senator’s willingness to take on significant issues. Young said government should focus
on what the state can do to move forward, citing the dissolution of the Evanston township as a “step in the right direction.”
“Illinois has to change the way the government is run and operates,” he said.
Despite the amount of work in front of it, Biss said he was optimistic the General Assembly would eventu-ally find solutions.
“We’re on a path that demonstrates all these holes can be dug out of,” he said. “It’s not an intractable amount of sad.”
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with the city for building permits last week, Zalmezak said. It will also have to apply for a liquor license in order to open. Oliff said he did not anticipate that the restaurant would run into any problems in receiving approval from the city.
The restaurant will fill a space that has been vacant since The Keg closed in March 2013. Evan-ston Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl revoked The Keg’s liquor license in January 2012 after 17 people were arrested on the same night for underage drinking, a move that started a long legal battle between the bar and the city.
Oliff said Bangers & Lace was the type of “very sophisticated” restaurant he had hoped to find to replace The Keg.
He is still looking for a second tenant to fill
the rest of the space.“I’m looking for a sophisticated yet unique
restaurant,” he said. “I’m not interested in putting in a Taco Bell or another McDonald’s or a White Castle in that space.”
Zalmezak said he appreciated that Oliff was not rushing to select a second tenant for the space, despite the building’s good location and the strong downtown business environment.
“He could lease it to anybody,” Zalmezak said. “But he’s really holding back and really trying to attract a high quality tenant, which I think is great. … That’s going to hopefully elevate the game here.”
Bangers & Lace will feature 32 draft beer selec-tions. The name refers to “bangers,” the British term for sausage, and the “lace” of foam left behind in a beer glass as the drink is consumed.
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‘an unjust action by them’ northwestern dining employee Rafael Marquez addresses supporters at The arch on Monday afternoon. after meeting at The arch, the protesters walked to Sargent hall with Marquez and watched as he submitted a formal statement to supervisors.
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coming soon The Chicago-based tavern Bangers & Lace specializes in sausage and craft beer. The restaurant plans to open a second location in Evanston, at the site once occupied by The Keg of Evanston, by September.
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Why would I be sad? I just won. — Raleigh Smith on the final match of his NU career
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No. 35 Northwestern served up a pair of 7-0 sweeps over Big Ten rivals this weekend in their final matches of the regular season.
First, the Wildcats (19-9, 7-4 Big Ten) cruised to victory Friday over Wisconsin (9-14, 1-9) before cap-ping off the weekend with a dominat-ing Senior Day performance against Minnesota (11-12, 5-6) on Sunday. The Cats have now won seven straight, by a combined score of 41-6.
NU honored its lone senior, cap-tain Raleigh Smith, before and after the match Sunday, and No. 58 Smith pulled out a 7-6, 0-6, 7-6 nailbiter over Minnesota’s Leandro Toledo in Smith’s final home match. Smith battled back from match point to complete the sweep for NU.
“I can’t say enough good things about Raleigh Smith and what he’s meant to the program,” coach Arvid
Swan said. “Raleigh is one of the best players to ever play at Northwestern. He is an incredibly competitive kid, someone who has improved a tremen-dous amount from his freshman year to his senior year. He’s our captain, and I wanted him to win that match because I love that kid. I love Raleigh Smith and our team loves Raleigh Smith.”
Smith said it’s hard to say goodbye.“I can’t really comprehend the fact
that I’m not going to play another match again here,” he said. “My mom just asked me if I was sad, and I said, ‘Why would I be sad? I just won.’”
Smith wasn’t the only Wildcat to have a good weekend though — NU looked great across the board.
The doubles teams again came out ready to play. After struggling early in the season, the Cats have now won six doubles points from their past seven opportunities.
Although the 33rd-ranked duo of Smith and sophomore Mihir Kumar dropped its Friday match 8-4, both the No. 2 and No. 3 pairs picked up the
slack to give the Cats the 1-0 lead.Sophomore Fedor Baev and fresh-
man Strong Kirchheimer extended their undefeated streak to five, with four wins, to snag the No. 3 doubles. The new No. 2 duo of freshman Sam Shropshire and junior Alex Pasareanu clinched the point for NU.
The Cats scored another victory in doubles against Minnesota. Baev and Kirchheimer extended their unbeaten streak further, but Shropshire and Pasareanu fell in their second match together. This time, Smith and Kumar secured the Cats the doubles victor.
Coach Swan has tested different combinations at the No. 2 doubles all year, including Shropshire and fresh-man Konrad Zieba and Shropshire and freshman Alp Horoz, but with impressive performances this weekend and the Big Ten Tournament a week away, Swan may have finally found his winning combo in Shropshire and Pasareanu.
“Both guys play traditional doubles and both guys serve big,” Swan said. “So I think they complement each other really well.”
In singles, it was all Cats. On Friday, Smith, Zieba, Kumar, Kirchheimer and Pasareanu dominated in straight sets, and after dropping an early tiebreaker, No. 112 Shropshire rebounded to win in three sets.
Sunday was a similar story.Shropshire, Kirchheimer and Pasar-
eanu continued churning out the wins, each breezing to straight-set victories.
Shropshire’s win streak, as well as Kircheimer’s, reached 11 heading into conference championships.
Kumar, Zieba and Smith each pulled out three setters, with Smith fighting off match points to win the tiebreaker.
NU next heads to East Lansing, Mich., for the Big Ten Tournament April 24-27.
Cats blank Wisconsin, MinnesotaCats end season with Senior Day sweep
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Women’s Tennis
Column
It’s one of the most common argu-ments in the typical sports bar.
It’s a conversation that lasted 30 minutes in this very newsroom the other night: the Mount Rushmore of (insert sports topic here).
So I begin a two-part series look-ing at who would make the Mount Rushmore of NU sports.
After much consideration, I decided to do this in two parts in order to maximize the amount of athletes I could honor. So without further ado, my Mount Rushmore of Northwestern Athletics: Northwest-ern women’s sports edition.
I’ll begin at No. 4 with Anucha Browne. The best basketball player in NU history, she holds the record for most points in a career with more
than 2,300 and career rebounds with 951. Browne was a two-time Big Ten Player of the Year, and her senior year in 1984-85 was the best offen-sive season in school history. She averaged 30.5 points per game.
Browne holds off tennis star Cristelle Grier for the final spot on my list because of her historical
importance. Grier was a four-time All-American as a singles player and three-time All-American in doubles, capped by a national title in doubles during her senior year in 2006. Although the two are even in terms of on-court accomplishments, Browne was the first true female superstar at NU and therefore earns
the spot on the list.The third person on my list is
arguably the best lacrosse player NU has ever had — Kristen Kjell-man. She ranks second in school his-tory in goals and draw controls and third in points. One of two players to win the Tewaaraton Trophy twice, Kjellman also took home the Honda Award three times during her career, which spanned from 2004-07.
Kjellman just edged out Han-nah Nielsen and Shannon Smith because of her work in the midfield and on defense. Finishing top-five in program history in draw controls, ground balls and points showcases Kjellman’s overall importance on the field. She also was the best player on the early teams that set the tone for the rest of the decade of dominance.
No. 2 is Lisa Ishikawa, the stand-out pitcher in the mid-1980’s for the Cats. She still holds the school record for career strikeouts and shutouts, despite some dominant
pitchers coming through Evanston in the nearly 30 years since Ishikawa’s eligibility expired in 1987. Ishikawa threw 14 no-hitters, including one perfect game, and was named the NU women’s athlete of the decade for the span between 1981 and 1991.
There can only be one person at the top of this list, and it is of course the best coach at NU: Kelly Amonte Hiller. She took a team from club status to national powerhouse in such a short amount of time. The seven rings speak for themselves, as do the 224 wins.
Yet, what is most remarkable is that NU will also be a national title threat no matter how many close games it loses in a season. We must give all the credit to Amonte Hiller for instilling that confidence in us and her team, and she will go down as the best lacrosse coach in history after what she has accomplished during her 13 years in Evanston.
Building Mount Rushmore for NU women’s sports
Brian Lee/Daily Senior Staffer
ONE fiNal RalEigh Senior Raleigh Smith was honored before his final match at Northwestern, then rallied back to complete an NU sweep of Minnesota.
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No. 13 Northwestern clinched the second seed in the upcoming Big Ten Tournament after blanking Wisconsin and Minnesota over the weekend.
The Wildcats (16-6, 10-1 Big Ten) ended the regular season on a strong note by beating both of their opponents 7-0 on their respective courts over the weekend. The two victories foretell a strong showing by NU next weekend as it returns home to host the Big Ten Tourna-ment.
“Over-all, it was a go o d weekend,” coach Claire Pol-lard said. “We had good con-secutive outdoor matches and played very well at number one doubles. (Sophomore Alicia Barnett) had a really good weekend. We’re just trying to play our best tennis when it counts at the end of the season.”
With her victories over the weekend, Barnett claimed a perfect 10-0 Big Ten season at No. 3 sin-gles, only entering the tie-break-ing game and set twice. Excluding those two matches, against Michi-gan and Indiana, the sophomore let just two conference opponents ever take even four games in a set.
After their win against Wiscon-sin (7-12, 2-9), the Cats officially
claimed the No. 2 seed in the con-ference tournament. Their only loss came from Michigan two weeks ago, losing 4-3. That contest became a great learning experience for the team, Pollard said, and rather than dwell on the loss, they came back ferociously to end the Big Ten season with three shutouts in the final four matches.
“The team was disappointed with finishing second,” Pollard said. “I told them at the end of the weekend, a lot of programs would be excited to be second in their conference. We need to take some pride in it and play our best tennis next weekend.”
For the past couple of weeks, NU has set performance goals for itself, ranging from winning a match without the doubles point to, most recently, “playing a perfect match attitude-wise,” Pollard said. The Cats were not able to achieve a victory without the doubles point this season, and despite great team chemistry, NU had trouble play-ing an attitude-perfect match this weekend.
“We were testy (against Min-nesota),” Pollard said. “It was just one of those days, I guess. We were getting excited for the tournament and we might have been getting ahead of ourselves.”
The Cats pride themselves on not overlooking any of their oppo-nents, no matter their record. They have a firm, unwritten belief sim-ilar to many other sports teams’ mentality of “any given Sunday.” They believe any team can win on any given day if the conditions are right and the team fires on all cylinders.
NU cleaned up shop and ended the season on a strong note and is more than ready to begin the Big Ten Tournament. With only one loss against Michigan, the Cats are poised to meet the Wol-verines once again in the tourna-ment championship and compete for the crown.
“They’re a great group of girls,” Pollard said of the team this week-end. “They work hard, they’re coachable and they’re fun to be around. I give them a lot of credit for a great regular season.”
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trying to play our best tennis when it counts
at the end of the season.
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