The Daily Northwestern DAILYNORTHWESTERN.COM Find us online @thedailynu Monday, April 29, 2013 SPORTS Women’s Golf NU celebrated its first B1G title as a program » PAGE 8 Pike hosts run for Boston Marathon tragedy » PAGE 3 High 73 Low 58 OPINION Bush takes media spotlight » PAGE 4 Serving the University and Evanston since 1881 INSIDE Around Town 2 | On Campus 3 | Opinion 4 | Classieds & Puzzles 6 | Sports 8 ‘Stand up!’: Ludacris lls Riviera for A&O Ball By DEONTAE MOORE @deontae_moore e bass blared and strobe lights hit the stage Saturday night at the Riviera eatre in Chicago as rapper Ludacris and his band performed for A&O Ball. e Atlanta emcee, backed by hype man Lil Fate, performed classics such as “What’s Your Fantasy” from his debut album “Back for the First Time.” He repeatedly asked whether his “real fans” were in the building, and a screaming crowd oen responded. Ludacris tested students by per- forming a song from each of his studio albums, including “Rollout,” “Stand Up” and “How Low.” He also rapped his featured verses on hit songs “All I Do Is Win” and “Break Your Heart.” Although he did not know exact numbers, outgoing A&O chairman Logan Koepke said this year’s A&O Ball sold twice as many tickets as last year’s event, when rapper Method Man and electronic duo Major Lazer came to the Riviera. Saturday’s show started slowly as some students trickled into the theater while the rst act started. at didn’t stop opening act Two-from getting the audience excited before Ludacris hit the stage: Students crowd-surfed and danced around through most of their tracks. “Everyone was really into the Two-set,” said A&O spokesman Andrew Griesemer, a McCormick senior. “A lot of people went into (it) not knowing a whole lot about them. It was jammin’, and it was a lot of fun to watch.” Ludacris came on stage shortly aer p.m., just as his disc jockey encour- aged the crowd to chant “Luda.” “Everyone knows a lot of his songs. ere was almost a nostalgic appeal to it,” said A&O spokeswoman Shelly Tan, a Medill junior. “Ludacris really played well with the crowd.” Communication junior Ashley Mills agreed Ludacris’ interaction with the crowd pumped her up. e rapper asked a lot of questions to keep stu- dents engaged throughout the set. “He had everyone hyped, and the show was really interactive,” Mills said. “Two-was cool. I wasn’t sure who they were, but I still enjoyed their performance.” A&O cited good planning and mar- keting as reasons for the show’s suc- cess. Koepke talked about the process of putting on large production, from marketing the show to the to runners who got people where they needed to be during the concert. “I’m happy with how everything ended up this year,” Koepke said. “It By JIA YOU @jiayoumedill More than , people joined millions nationwide to pledge to fight racism Friday afternoon in Evanston. The YWCA Evanston/North Shore organized the annual Stand Against Racism for the second year to raise awareness for racial inewquality. About other Evan- ston organizations, including the city, Evanston Township High School and the Evanston Commu- nity Foundation, participated in the activity. Eileen Heineman, the YWCA’s racial justice program manager, told The Daily after the event the Evanston branch joined the national movement to demonstrate community solidarity against racial prejudice. “What we are trying to help peo- ple understand is that first of all, nobody is in this alone,” Heineman said. “And part of it is also just to say that we know racism exists. … We want to acknowledge that, and we want to say that we’re going to keep standing against racism until we don’t need to do it any more.” Participants lined the sidewalks of Ridge Avenue and Church Street shortly after : p.m., holding signs and cheering at passing cars. At : p.m., they read out a pledge to eliminate racism together, saying, “I take this pledge, fully aware that the struggle to overcome and eliminate racism will not end with a mere pledge, but calls for an ongoing transformation within myself and society.” Local politicians — including state Rep. Robyn Gabel (D-Evan- ston), Cook County Commissioner Larry Suffredin and Ald. Jane Gro- ver (th) — gathered outside the YWCA, Church St., during the stand. “You can’t not be part of this,” Residents stand against racism Jia You/Daily Senior Staffer ‘FIRST OF ALL, NOBODY IS IN THIS ALONE’ More than 2,000 Evanston residents participated in the second annual Stand Against Racism on Friday. The YWCA Evanston/North Shore organized the event. Northwestern to join Big Ten’s new West Division in ‘14 Northwestern is out of the Legends and in with the West. e Big Ten Conference will scrap its current divisions in favor of a geographic split that will start in , the conference announced Sunday. NU will join Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Purdue and Wisconsin in the West Division. Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Penn State and Rutgers will compose the East Division. e move was precipitated by the addi- tion of Maryland and Rutgers to the con- ference in November. “Big Ten directors of athletics con- cluded four months of study and delibera- tion with unanimous approval of a future football structure that preserved rivalries and created divisions based on their pri- mary principle of East/West geography,” Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany said in a news release. e conference will also go to a full nine-game conference schedule for foot- ball beginning in . During a transi- tional period in and , teams will play each team from their division and two from the opposite division. Begin- ning in , they will play three from the opposite division. University President Morton Schapiro said earlier this week that NU lobbied for placement in the West Division. “We had spirited discussions here in senior staabout, ‘Are we a Midwestern university?’ or, ‘Are we eastern?’” Schapiro said ursday at an on-campus address. “Part of me’s thinking, ‘Wow, we have so many alums in the Boston-D.C. corridor … and wouldn’t it be nice to be in that division?’ And at the end, we fought long and hard … to stay in the western divi- sion, and that’s because we’re proud to be Midwestern.” e new alignment may be a boon for the Cats in football. While Wisconsin has been the Big Ten representative in the Rose Bowl the past three years, NU will avoid annual games against powerhouses like Ohio State and Penn State. — Joseph Diebold Mariam Gomaa/Daily Senior Staffer GET BACK Hip-hop artist Ludacris performs Saturday night at A&O Ball at the Riviera Theatre in Chicago. A&O Productions said it sold twice as many tickets for this year’s show as it did for last year’s spring Ball. New Big Ten Conference football divisons Indiana Michigan Michigan State Ohio State Penn State Maryland Rutgers Purdue Illinois Iowa Minnesota Nebraska Northwestern Wisconsin EAST WEST » See LUDACRIS, page 7 » See STAND, page 7 Graphic by Lori Janjigan/The Daily Northwestern
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The Daily NorthwesternDAILYNORTHWESTERN.COM Find us online @thedailynuMonday, April 29, 2013
SPORTS Women’s GolfNU celebrated its fi rst B1G title
as a program » PAGE 8
Pike hosts run for Boston Marathon tragedy » PAGE 3
High 73Low 58
OPINIONBush takes media
spotlight » PAGE 4
Serving the University and Evanston since 1881 INSIDE Around Town 2 | On Campus 3 | Opinion 4 | Classi! eds & Puzzles 6 | Sports 8
. e bass blared and strobe lights hit the stage Saturday night at the Riviera . eatre in Chicago as rapper Ludacris and his band performed for A&O Ball.
. e Atlanta emcee, backed by hype man Lil Fate, performed classics such as “What’s Your Fantasy” from his debut album “Back for the First Time.” He repeatedly asked whether his “real fans” were in the building, and a screaming crowd o/ en responded.
Ludacris tested students by per-forming a song from each of his studio albums, including “Rollout,” “Stand Up” and “How Low.” He also rapped his featured verses on hit songs “All I Do Is Win” and “Break Your Heart.”
Although he did not know exact numbers, outgoing A&O chairman Logan Koepke said this year’s A&O Ball sold twice as many tickets as last year’s event, when rapper Method Man and electronic duo Major Lazer came to the Riviera.
Saturday’s show started slowly as some students trickled into the theater while the 0 rst act started. . at didn’t stop opening act Two-1 from getting the audience excited before Ludacris hit the stage: Students crowd-surfed and danced around through most of
their tracks.“Everyone was really into the
Two-1 set,” said A&O spokesman Andrew Griesemer, a McCormick senior. “A lot of people went into (it) not knowing a whole lot about them. It was jammin’, and it was a lot of fun to watch.”
Ludacris came on stage shortly a/ er 1 p.m., just as his disc jockey encour-aged the crowd to chant “Luda.”
“Everyone knows a lot of his songs. . ere was almost a nostalgic appeal to it,” said A&O spokeswoman Shelly Tan, a Medill junior. “Ludacris really played well with the crowd.”
Communication junior Ashley Mills agreed Ludacris’ interaction with the crowd pumped her up. . e rapper asked a lot of questions to keep stu-dents engaged throughout the set.
“He had everyone hyped, and the show was really interactive,” Mills said. “Two-1 was cool. I wasn’t sure who they were, but I still enjoyed their performance.”
A&O cited good planning and mar-keting as reasons for the show’s suc-cess. Koepke talked about the process of putting on large production, from marketing the show to the 23 to 24 runners who got people where they needed to be during the concert.
“I’m happy with how everything ended up this year,” Koepke said. “It
By JIA YOU$%&'( -#)&*+ -!%55#+@jiayoumedill
More than 3,666 people joined millions nationwide to pledge to fight racism Friday afternoon in Evanston.
The YWCA Evanston/North Shore organized the annual Stand Against Racism for the second year to raise awareness for racial inewquality. About 46 other Evan-ston organizations, including the city, Evanston Township High School and the Evanston Commu-nity Foundation, participated in the activity.
Eileen Heineman, the YWCA’s racial justice program manager, told The Daily after the event the Evanston branch joined the national movement to demonstrate community solidarity against racial prejudice.
“What we are trying to help peo-ple understand is that first of all, nobody is in this alone,” Heineman said. “And part of it is also just to say that we know racism exists. … We want to acknowledge that, and we want to say that we’re going to keep standing against racism until we don’t need to do it any more.”
Participants lined the sidewalks of Ridge Avenue and Church Street shortly after 23:76 p.m., holding
signs and cheering at passing cars. At 23:86 p.m., they read out a pledge to eliminate racism together, saying, “I take this pledge, fully aware that the struggle to overcome and eliminate racism will not end with a mere pledge, but calls for an ongoing transformation within myself and society.”
Local politicians — including state Rep. Robyn Gabel (D-Evan-ston), Cook County Commissioner Larry Suffredin and Ald. Jane Gro-ver (9th) — gathered outside the YWCA, 2328 Church St., during the stand.
“You can’t not be part of this,”
Residents stand against racism
Jia You/Daily Senior Staffer
‘FIRST OF ALL, NOBODY IS IN THIS ALONE’ More than 2,000 Evanston residents participated in the second annual Stand Against Racism on Friday. The YWCA Evanston/North Shore organized the event.
Northwestern to join Big Ten’s new West Division in ‘14
Northwestern is out of the Legends and in with the West.
. e Big Ten Conference will scrap its current divisions in favor of a geographic split that will start in 3624, the conference announced Sunday. NU will join Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Purdue and Wisconsin in the West Division. Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State, Penn State and Rutgers will compose the East Division.
. e move was precipitated by the addi-tion of Maryland and Rutgers to the con-ference in November.
“Big Ten directors of athletics con-cluded four months of study and delibera-tion with unanimous approval of a future football structure that preserved rivalries and created divisions based on their pri-mary principle of East/West geography,” Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany said in a news release.
. e conference will also go to a full nine-game conference schedule for foot-ball beginning in 362:. During a transi-tional period in 3624 and 3628, teams will play each team from their division and two from the opposite division. Begin-ning in 362:, they will play three from the opposite division.
University President Morton Schapiro said earlier this week that NU lobbied for placement in the West Division.
“We had spirited discussions here in senior sta; about, ‘Are we a Midwestern university?’ or, ‘Are we eastern?’” Schapiro said . ursday at an on-campus address. “Part of me’s thinking, ‘Wow, we have so many alums in the Boston-D.C. corridor … and wouldn’t it be nice to be in that division?’ And at the end, we fought long and hard … to stay in the western divi-sion, and that’s because we’re proud to be Midwestern.”
. e new alignment may be a boon
for the Cats in football. While Wisconsin has been the Big Ten representative in the Rose Bowl the past three years, NU will avoid annual games against powerhouses like Ohio State and Penn State.
— Joseph Diebold
Mariam Gomaa/Daily Senior Staffer
GET BACK Hip-hop artist Ludacris performs Saturday night at A&O Ball at the Riviera Theatre in Chicago. A&O Productions said it sold twice as many tickets for this year’s show as it did for last year’s spring Ball.
New Big Ten Conference football divisons
Indiana
Michigan
Michigan State
Ohio State
Penn State
Maryland
Rutgers
Purdue
Illinois
Iowa
Minnesota
Nebraska
Northwestern
Wisconsin
EAST
WEST
» See LUDACRIS, page 7
» See STAND, page 7Graphic by Lori Janjigan/The Daily Northwestern
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Setting the record straight
In “NU alumni’s !lm selected for Cannes Film Festival,” which ran "urs-day, the amount of money raised on Kickstarter was misstated. "e group has raised #$,$%%.
Also in “Golf group leaves red for the green,” which ran Tuesday, the number of holes at the golf course was misstated. "e course has &' holes. "e story also incorrectly identi!ed the arrangement between Northwestern and the golf club "e golf club agreed to o(er its parking spots to NU fans at Ryan Field.
The Daily regrets the errors.
Chicago man to serve 20 years in prison for Evanston burglaries
A Cook County judge sentenced a Chicago man to $% years in prison Tuesday a)er he pleaded guilty to two charges of burglary committed in Evanston.
“It’s quite a lengthy prison sentence for a resi-dential burglary,” Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said.
Kelly Skamra, *+, was arrested Dec. & a)er bur-glarizing a house in the +%% block of Grey Avenue. Police said a resident’s children spotted Skamra, of the +%% block of West &*th Place, leaving with a laptop. Skamra was stopped a short distance away and taken into custody.
Skamra was also tied to a Nov. $, burglary in the $'%% block of Sheridan Road, where authorities found the man’s !ngerprint, Parrott said. Skamra has remained in custody since Dec. &.
Parrott said the man is a habitual burglar and police believe he was involved in more burglaries than those for which he was convicted.
— Ciara McCarthy
Church remembers honorary memberBy EDWARD COX-./ 01234 567-.8/9-/75 @EdwardCox&,
"e Evanston man who died a)er a house !re last week never hesitated to lend a hand at the church across the street from his home, congrega-tion members said.
Retired city worker Freddie Davis was an hon-orary member of Friendship Baptist Church, $$%& Foster Ave., where he helped out by taking out gar-bage, sorting mail and restocking church supplies.
“He was a good helper,” the Rev. C.I. William said. “He was a very nice person. He wouldn’t bother
nobody.”Davis was born in Louisiana and had relatives
who lived near him in the &:%% block of Hartrey Avenue, Williams said.
"e !re broke out Wednesday evening on the !rst ;oor of Davis’ residence, according to the Evan-ston !re department.
Davis was taken to Evanston Hospital in critical condition and was later pronounced dead.
Davis’ family has boarded up his home, and a few bundles of ;owers rest on its doorsteps.
Associate deacon Anthony Swope described Davis as an “unsel!sh giver” who was dedicated to community service.
“All I ever know of him is his contributions to
try to help somebody else’s quality of life,” Swope said.
Davis also volunteered at local food pantries, neighbor Kelly Young said.
“He was a very nice guy,” Smith said. “You know there’s some folks who are nice people, and that was him.”
Swope said while he was cleaning up the church Saturday night, he forgot for a moment Davis was not there to take out the garbage.
“I said Fred was going to come later and take care of it, and it dawned on me,” Swope said. “He wasn’t there.”
Chicago woman charged with theftEvanston police arrested a Chicago woman
Thursday in connection with a recent theft at Howard Beauty Supply, Cmdr. Jay Parrott said.
The &'-year-old and another woman of about the same age each stole #,% in hair extensions at the store, &&$< Howard St., Parrott said. The arrested woman verbally threatened and showed a knife to the employee who confronted her, Parrott said. Police haven’t yet identified the other person involved, Parrott said.
The arrested woman is scheduled to appear in court May <&.
Window broken at former Evanston Recycling Center
A broken window was discovered at the for-mer Evanston Recycling Center on Wednesday, Parrott said.
A resident told police one of the windows on the north side of the abandoned building at $$$$ Oakton St. was broken, Parrott said. A rock found nearby was apparently used to break the window, he said. Parrott said the Evanston Police Department does not know when the incident occurred.
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Around TownThe type of impact we’re looking for is that we inspire other people to plant trees. It’s so great to see people come together from different parts of the community.
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Northwestern sororities, fraternities and athletic groups gathered Sunday on the Lake.ll to run their own race to bene.t those a/ected by the Boston Mara-thon bombings.
Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity hosted the event, dubbed “Run for Boston,” and raised more than 0123 for 4e One Fund Boston, the o5cial source of .nancial relief for the marathon tragedy.
More than 673 students chipped in 08 each to run. 4e unconventional race had students sign up as part of a team that ran 29.2 miles in total but required each member to run only a portion of the usual marathon length.
Pike philanthropy co-chair Demetri Elias said he was most proud of how the event brought together student groups, dorms and clubs from across campus, despite being arranged by a Greek organization.
“We’re just really excited that people came out and supported the cause,” the Weinberg junior said. “We’re excited that we can hopefully make a di/erence.”
Two bombs exploded near the .nish line of the Boston Marathon on April 68, killing three people and injuring nearly :33. An NU student ran in the marathon but .nished before the bombs exploded. Nineteen Evanston residents were registered for the event but were also uninjured.
Students and administrators met at 4e Rock on April 22 to commemorate the victims with a candle-light vigil.
4e idea to have another commemorative event on campus came from Pike president Kevin Gerner, a Weinberg sophomore. In less than 63 days, the fra-ternity organized and promoted the event.
“4is is a relatively simple event, but we had a very, very low amount of time to set this up while it’s still
in people’s minds,” said Alek Rinholm, Pike’s phi-lanthropy co-chair. “We wanted to get it up as fast as possible.
Along with supporting Pike in the Greek commu-nity, Weinberg junior Ben Reisman joined the team for Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity and Kappa Delta sorority to “show our sup-port for, .rst of all, victims of the Boston bombings.”
4e event, which began at noon, had a .18 mile course around the Lake-.ll and was over by 2 p.m. Teammates were allowed to run at the same time, and most completed : to 9 miles.
Sophie Ne/, a member of the club boxing team, said she did not think twice about signing up.
“It’s team bonding, and it’s for charity,” said Ne/, a Communication sophomore.
Pike hosts Run for Boston fundraiser on the Lake!ll
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ONE STEP AT A TIME Students gathered on the Lakefill to participate in the Pi Kappa Alpha “Run for Boston” marathon Sunday morning. The event raised more than $920 for The One Fund Boston, the official source of financial relief for the marathon tragedy.
Renowned Feinberg pharmacologist dies at 86 from colon cancer
Feinberg Prof. Toshio Narahashi, former chair of the pharmacology department, died of colon cancer April 26. He was 79.
Narahashi was internationally known for his work in neurotoxicology, the branch of medicine that stud-ies the e/ect of toxins on nerve cells. He was a tenured professor at Feinberg for more than :8 years, spending 6; at the helm of pharmacology department.
Dr. William Lowe, Feinberg vice dean of academic a/airs, presented Narahashi with an honorary plaque at a symposium recognizing his work in March.
“Dr. Narahashi has had a major impact in our
understanding of the biology of ion channels and throughout his career he trained many individuals who are now having their own impact on the .elds of neuropharmacology and neurobiology,” Lowe said in a news release.
In 619<, Narahashi discovered how a highly poi-sonous neurotoxin found in pu/er .sh paralyzes parts of the nervous system. 4e discovery was the hallmark of years of research, which began when he received an
undergraduate degree from the University of Tokyo in 61<7. He moved to the United States in 6196.
Narahashi is survived by his wife of 81 years, Kyoko, as well as his son Taro, daughter Keiko, son-in-law Peter Belamarich, grandson Micah and grand-daughter Joy. Feinberg held a memorial service Friday on the Chicago campus.
— Cat Zakrzewski
“We’re just really excited that people came out and supported the cause. We’re excited that we can hopefully make a di!erence. Demetri Elias,Pike philanthropy co-chair
When it comes to presidents, there are few who I would rank below George W. Bush. From Iraq to the !nancial crash and everything in between, his presidency was largely a series of profound screw-ups that we are still paying for today.
Given this less-than-stellar review of Bush’s record, I expected myself to greet the opening of his namesake presidential library with some degree of derision. Yet in watching "ursday’s opening cer-emony, which was attended by all !ve living presi-dents and their wives, I was struck by the incredible display of unity on display.
Former presidents Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and the younger Bush, as well as President Barack Obama, all come from wildly di#erent backgrounds, governed in very di#er-ent circumstances. "ey have o$en had profound political di#erences or rivalries with one another. Despite these gaps, though, all are united by the shared experience of serving as president, an expe-rience that gives them a unique understanding of the incredible challenges they have all faced. "e bonds these !ve men share are remarkable in an age of intense partisan battles, and they are an encour-aging sign that political di#erences can be bridged in the act of public service.
In seeing the ease with which the collection of presidents got along, and in hearing the gracious words that all had for the younger Bush in celebrat-ing the opening of his library, it is obvious that each one of these men has a deep respect for the others, despite many of them having profoundly di#ering policy positions or histories !lled with bitter par-tisan wars. "e elder Bush, for example, ran with former President Ronald Reagan in %&'(, defeating President Carter’s reelection campaign and prema-turely killing his political career. Bush’s presidency was then put to an end when he was unseated by Clinton in %&&) in a particularly brutal three-way race with Ross Perot. Eight years later, the younger Bush ran a campaign based on “restoring honor and dignity to the White House,” a none-too-subtle shot at Clinton’s a#air with Monica Lewinksy. Obama ran !rst against former !rst lady Hillary Clinton in a bitter contest for the )((' Democratic nomina-tion, and then ran a general election campaign that was fundamentally opposed to the entire Bush era.
Given this acrimony-!lled history and the brutal competitive nature of politics, it is remarkable that these men can even be in the same room together, let alone forge meaningful bonds with one another. Yet this is precisely what has happened, as each one who steps up to serve as president has gained an understanding of just how tough the job is, which has led all to an appreciation of their predecessors’ leadership.
"e collaborations among the presidents have
come in many forms. Clinton and the elder Bush, in particular, have moved beyond the %&&) cam-paign to form a genuine friendship and worked together with their Clinton Bush Haiti Fund to help rebuild that devastated nation. Clinton and Obama, a$er having a rocky start to their relation-ship in the midst of his tough race against Hillary, have also grown quite close, as evidenced by Clin-ton’s very active role on Obama’s behalf during his )(%) re-election campaign. And Obama and the younger Bush appear to be on good terms, which is somewhat remarkable given that Obama has used the record of the Bush administration as a weapon against the last two Republican tickets. In his speech on "ursday, Obama hailed Bush as a “good man” and a strong and compassionate leader, a compli-
ment that he seemed to genuinely mean.All of these examples of inter-party presidential
friendships, friendships that were on full display as these !ve !rst couples mingled at the Bush library, are an encouraging sign that it is still possible to have genuine political di#erences while maintaining good personal relationships. "e sheer level of class that each president has displayed by forging bonds with fellow leaders and working with them, regard-less of past bitter campaigns, is a shining example of what is good about politics and public service. Many in Washington, where “compromise” is o$en treated as a dirty word and the tiniest issues are turned into profound debates on the role of govern-ment, would be wise to look to "ursday’s presi-dential reunion. If Carter, Clinton and Obama can praise the good parts of the younger Bush’s tenure in o*ce and highlight his decency as a human being, then anything is possible in politics, and there is no bridge that cannot be built between opponents.
Ryan Kearney is a Communication sophomore. 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].
It’s been a while since we’ve heard much from former President George W. Bush. To many of us, it’s a relief to finally be done with the man who entered the White House at the head of the world’s unchallenged superpower with a booming economy and left it with two foreign wars, a mountain of debt and an economy in shambles. It goes without saying that he was not the most popular president
in recent times. I’m not exactly Dubya’s big-gest fan, so you can count me among those glad to see a Democrat in the Oval Office, but it occurred to me recently that some-thing very unfair had happened to the self-proclaimed “misunderestimated” man.
Politicians have always been at the butt end of many jokes, but Bush stands out among those in recent times for receiving particularly vicious criticism. When we think about him, many of us think of a naive cowboy with less-than-respectable oratorical skills that got his way into the White House on daddy’s money and friends in high places. This is the guy with the inquisitive mind that asked the president of Brazil if “they had black (people) too,” the tech wizard who uses “the Google,” and the quick wit that thanked Pope Benedict for an “awesome speech, your Holiness!”
It comes as no surprise, then, that when I first saw the article titled “George W. Bush is smarter than you,” I assumed that it must have been straight out of The Onion. But it wasn’t, and it was well worth the read. Keith
Hennessey, a former Bush advisor, writes in his blog about his experience with the former president, and how intelligent, quick-witted and diligent he really was. I’ll leave it for you to read, because it merely prompted my real-ization, and I am in no position to comment of the nuances of the Bush presidency.
Regardless, the media created a highly-exaggerated aura of idiocy and incompetence around Bush that most of us gobbled right up. And how could we not? This is the stra-tegic genius who got us into Iraq, after all. He deserves to be a political punching bag — literally — just use “the Google” and you can buy your very own!
However, what it comes down to is that many of us use Bush’s silly idiosyncrasies to not only blame him for policy decisions for which he was not entirely responsible, but denigrate his character and make him look even worse. To give you an idea of how much has been pinned on him, I recently saw this article detailing reasons to hate Bush’s presidency floating around the web. But the Iraq War? Twenty-nine out of +( Democratic senators and ') of %), Democratic congress-men voted to support it, including John Kerry, Harry Reid, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden. The PATRIOT Act of )((%? Ninety-eight of %(( senators voted for it, including all four mentioned above, and %-+ of )%% House Democrats. Guantanamo Bay? Still up and running. The “Bush” tax cuts? The Dems didn’t support this one, but it’s hardly a new idea. I need not state the Republican record.
If Bush, the C-average cowboy with a rich daddy, is an incompetent moron, then so are most of his esteemed Ivy League intellectual colleagues. The responsibility for the biggest mistakes of recent history — the Iraq War, banking crisis, ballooning debt, etc. — is shared by a lot of people, many of whom are purportedly “smarter” than Dubya.
It’s easy to turn him into a scapegoat, and I’m as guilty of that as anybody. America has really screwed up in the past few years, and looking for someone to blame is a natural response, but that doesn’t mean the poor man deserves it. We should cut him some slack. We have a bad habit of thinking that an “elite” bearing and Harvard degree is a guarantor of good judgment, but none of that makes us immune to greed, procrastina-tion, shortsightedness, or any of our other human flaws. We’d do well to remember this next time we start pointing fingers.
After all, simple people are simple idiots. Sophisticated people are sophisticated idiots.
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With death of Anne Smedingho!, America is a little poorer
Sometime earlier this month we awoke to the news that one of the !ve Americans killed April , in Afghanistan was a )+-year-old woman, Anne Smedingho#, from River Forest. A graduate of Johns Hopkins University, this was her second State Department stationing. Sadly, it will be her last. Secretary of State John Kerry in an emotional statement mourned the loss of this diplomat as well as the others who were killed.
For me, this struck home because her story reminds me of many of my Northwestern students (including ones working for NATO or State or who are in the Military) who put themselves in harm’s way to bring good things to people who lack them. It comes as no surprise that these former students have all posted statements of solidarity for Anne Smedingho# on their Facebook pages.
Miss Smedingho#, a public a#airs o*cer with the Department of State, was likely associated with or part of Provincial Reconstruction Team Zabul — a group consisting of State Department
personnel, Department of Agriculture experts, Agency for Economic Development workers, Army Corps of Engineers and soldiers —who work at great danger to themselves to bring eco-nomic and social bene!ts to the Afghan people. In terms of the counterinsurgency strategy of clear, hold, build, these are the builders. A friend of mine and a Northwestern student, Paul Knudtson, who was assigned to PRT-Zabul and worked in exactly the same region, wrote in an email, “We ran that mission a dozen times a month, deliver-ing school supplies to children’s schools. "e Bibi Khala Girls School that they were going to is within walking distance from FOB Smart in Qalat.” Another former student currently based in Afghanistan reminded me that springtime in Afghanistan is called “spring !ghting season.” Paul’s comment was, “If war is hell, spring in Afghanistan is the devil’s Christmas.”
Provincial Reconstruction Teams are providing the on the ground engagement that makes it much harder for the Taliban to gain a foothold in the countryside. My colleague provides tales of how building schools, hospitals, etc. required hundreds of cups of tea and dozens of local Shuras (council meetings) working out with the locals what the local Afghans wanted and how THEY would
administer it. "is is the hardest part of the war in Afghanistan. It is the hardest because success is hard to measure in the short term. Development takes the place of bullets as the key to success.
We can argue about Bush and Obama’s strate-gies in Afghanistan, we can debate the surge and whether it was su*cient, etc. People like Anne Smedingho# were on the tip of the spear of a long process of bringing things like education to Afghan girls as well as healthcare and economic develop-ment that we, in this country, take for granted. I didn’t know Ms. Smedingho# (though I wish I had) but from my experience teaching the war in Afghanistan (o$en with veterans in the class), members of Provincial Reconstruction Teams, especially the unarmed diplomats who work with them, are the best people the United States has and Anne Smedingho# ’s death lessens all of us. My heartfelt sympathies for the family and the families of all the others who were killed heading to this school.
Jeff Rice is a Weinberg adviser and lecturer in history at Northwestern University, where he teaches classes on contemporary Africa as well as civil wars and genocides. Many years ago he briefly knew the parents of slain diplomat Anne Smedinghoff.
Reflecting on the Bush presidency, 4 years laterPolitics aside, presidential unity
at Bush Library refreshing George W. Bush, the
‘misunderestimated’ man
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PRESIDENTIAL POMP President Barack Obama, left, and former presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton attend the library dedication last week.
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Family, friends celebrate life of trailblazing prof
Brady Scholars plant fruit orchard in west Evanston
By AMY WHYTE!"# $%&'( )*+!",#-!#+) @amywhyteNU
Family, colleagues and former students of Prof. H. Paul Friesema remembered his contri-butions to environmental studies at Northwest-ern during a memorial service Friday.
“Paul was really planting seeds all over, but not just planting them, but really nurturing them and really developing them into initiatives and programs that I think will last a long time,” said Yael Wolinsky-Nahmias, former director of the Environmental Policy and Culture Program, to a crowd of about ./ at Alice Millar Chapel.
Friesema helped start the program, later cre-ating the Environmental Field School, which places students in summer internships at National Parks.
Friesema, who came to NU in 0123, died March 3 at the age of ...
Former Prof. James Caporaso, who taught political science alongside Friesema from 0123 to 01.3, spoke about his friendship with Fri-esema during his early years at NU.
“He was a great colleague, a wonderful friend,” Caporaso said. “I don’t think he realized the impact he had on my life. He was my dearest friend, and I will miss him greatly.”
Former students Derek Supple (McCormick
‘/4), Sam Eckland (Weinberg ‘0/) and Caroline Walls (Weinberg ‘00) took turns re5ecting on the support and encouragement they received from Friesema during their time at NU and beyond.
“Paul made a point to visit me at every park I worked at, even a6er I graduated,” Walls said. “He was important to us, but we were also
important to him.”Eckland, who described the environmental
policy course he took with Friesema as “the only class I ever set the curve in,” credited a recommendation from Friesema with helping him become SEED co-chair in 7//1.
“I look back at NU and always picture Paul Friesema as an angel sitting on my shoulder,”
Eckland said.8e service was followed by a reception in
Parkes Hall, where Marti Bjornson, who met Friesema while working as an academic adviser in the School of Continuing Studies, remem-bered their shared interest in environmental policy.
“I was really touched by the extent to which he shared knowledge and himself with so many generations of students,” Bjornson said.
Several of Friesema’s family members were also in attendance, including his wife Jane and daughter Susan, who spoke.
“It was so meaningful for us to hear the way my father mentored and had such a meaningful impact on not just his children and grandchil-dren, but on colleagues and students,” Susan Friesema said. “Although we considered him such a family man, it’s clear that this community here was also his family.”
Wolinsky-Nahmias organized the service with the help of a group of students and faculty, including former SEED co-chair Amanda Myers and current SEED co-chair Mark Silberg.
“We all felt that Paul Friesema had a signi9-cant impact on our lives, on the lives of many others at Northwestern and in the community and on environmental learning at Northwest-ern,” Wolinsky-Nahmias said.
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As Northwestern student groups promoted green initiatives on campus for Earth Week, stu-dents in the Brady Scholars Program spent time o; campus this weekend planting an orchard in west Evanston that will provide food and jobs for residents.
About </ people from the Brady program and the larger Northwestern and Evanston communi-ties worked together Sunday to plant about 0< trees in Eggleston Park, located on McCormick Boulevard and Bridge Street. 8e organizers said they were happy with the turnout and the plant-ing in general, despite the initial setback of hav-ing to bail out water from the holes that had been dug the previous day.
“Besides the water in the holes, everything is going pretty swimmingly,” said Weinberg senior
Jasmine Jennings, a Brady scholar who helped coordinate the event and recruit volunteers.
8e Brady program requires students to apply what they learn from philosophical studies and study-abroad experiences to address problems in their own community.
8is year’s Brady seniors focused on closing the gap between east and west Evanston for their class project, which has been three years in the making, Brady scholar Adam Dominik said.
“We started to explore the Evanston commu-nity,” the Weinberg senior said. “If you cross Ridge Street, it’s a divided community, economically.”
To create the “food forest,” seniors in the Brady program partnered with urban farming groups in the city, such as New Leaf Urban Gardens, Edible Evanston and 8e Talking Farm. Cozeake Nelson, New Leaf Urban Gardens manager, emphasized the importance of planting the orchard during Earth Week.
“8e type of impact we’re looking for is that we inspire other people to plant trees,” he said.
“It’s so great to see people come together from di;erent parts of the community with the North-western students and make something like this happen.”
8e students intend for the orchard to pro-vide fresh food to residents in west Evanston, where there is reduced access to organic fruits and vegetables, as well as to provide jobs for some residents, who will eventually pick and sell the produce.
“Hopefully it has a positive impact,” said Paul D’Agostino, the city’s assistant director of public works and forestry, who helped coordinate the project. “It’s going to depend on how much pro-duction they get out of the trees.”
8e Brady scholars worked closely with the city to secure the space and the water for the orchard. Despite city o=cials’ initial refusal to permit the students to plant the trees, once the students demonstrated the project’s feasibility, the city was “very helpful,” said religious studies Prof. Laurie Zoloth, former director of the program
who participated in Sunday’s event. 8e trees planted Sunday represent the 9rst
stage of the project, which will take four to 9ve years to fully realize, primarily because it will be at least three years before the trees begin to bear fruit. Over the next three years, Brady schol-ars will plant as many as ./ trees, Brady scholar and Weinberg senior Bethany Polhamus said. 8e seniors in the program also plan to build a greenhouse on NU’s campus, behind the Insti-tute for Policy Research, as part of their project, she said.
Zoloth said by engaging and improving the community through hard work, the orchard accomplishes all the goals the Brady program aims for students to achieve.
“8at’s putting philosophy into direct action,” Zoloth said. “8e world is changed bucket by bucket, tree by tree. … 8at’s the lesson of the Brady project.”
FOND REMEMBRANCE Weinberg Dean Sarah Mangelsdorf spoke at Prof. H. Paul Friesema’s memorial service, saying he was “instrumental” in developing the school’s environmental program.
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COLORS OF THE WIND Northwestern students pour dried paint on each other Sunday to celebrate Holi, the annual Hindu festival of colors. Southeast Asian Students Association hosted the event near the Lakefill.
Happy Holi-days4 Northwestern players getting a chance in NFL
More than !"# picks went by in the !#$% NFL Dra&, and no Northwestern football players heard their names called. But that doesn’t mean it’s the end of the road for a handful of graduating NU seniors.
Defensive lineman Brian Arnfelt and o'ensive lineman Patrick Ward were the (rst to report their signings with NFL teams, both announcing the news on Twitter. Arnfelt agreed to terms with the Pittsburgh Steelers and Ward will join the Miami Dolphins.
Wide receiver Demetrius Fields will stay local a&er accepting an invitation to the Chicago Bears’ camp, and linebacker David Nwabuisi will try out with the Carolina Panthers.
Guard Brian Mulroe, who was thought by many to be the best NU prospect heading into the dra&, decided to retire from football and landed a job with Aon, an insurance and risk management company.
Overall, the Big Ten had a down year in the NFL Dra&. Only one Big Ten player, Wisconsin o'ensive lineman Travis Frederick was dra&ed in the (rst round. Only !! of !") total dra&ees hailed from the Big Ten — the lowest number since $**). Illinois, which (nished last in the Big Ten in !#$!, had the most players selected at four. Penn State, Michigan State, Ohio State and Wisconsin followed with three players each. Soon-to-be Big Ten school Rutgers had seven players dra&ed.
Two Wildcats were drafted last year: wide receiver Jeremy Ebert to the New England Patriots and superback Drake Dunsmore to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
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went perfectly. +e overall goal for most A&O pro-gramming is for Northwestern students to have fun with our entertainment … whether it’s a show at the Riviera or a comedian that we are bringing.”
A&O spokeswoman Rosalind Mowitt said the concert was one of her favorite moments while work-ing in student productions at NU.
Grover said. “Every conversation we have about race is a step forward.”
The city has hosted a series of race dia-logues since last fall to address institutional racism in the community. The city’s Human Relations Commission is discussing the next steps in these conversations, Grover said.
Burgwell Howard, NU’s assistant vice presi-dent for student engagement, also partici-pated. Howard said the University has worked on a number of initiatives to promote diversity on campus, such as proposing to add a diver-sity requirement to curriculum.
“This is a process,” Howard said. “We all need to be part of the solution and not part of the problem.”
Although the stand itself is a symbolic
event, it demonstrates the community’s deter-mination to fight racism, Heineman said.
“I know standing on the sidewalk for $" minutes is not going to eliminate racism,” she said. “But standing on the sidewalk for $" (minutes) with over !,### other people is going to say eliminating racism is something we’re all working for.”
ON DECK ON THE RECORDSoftballNU vs. DePaul, 4 p.m. Tuesday
Sometimes it’s not about how good you hit it. It’s what you do when you have some bad shots and you’re not hitting it your best. — Emily Fletcher, women’s golf coach
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Women’s Tennis
By KEVIN CASEY!"# $%&'( )*+!",#-!#+)@KevinCasey./
For the 0 rst 1. years of the Big Ten Champion-ships, victory eluded Northwestern’s grasp as it watched seven other Big Ten teams win the event at least once.
Such thoughts won’t haunt the Wildcats any more.
NU captured its 0 rst Big Ten title Sunday, 0 nish-ing the tournament as co-champions with Purdue, 2 shots ahead of the nearest competitor.
Re3 ecting on the 0 rst tournament title of her tenure, coach Emily Fletcher lauded her players’ incessant work ethic.
“We felt like we were making strides, but we hadn’t won a team tournament yet,” Fletcher said. “But this group worked incredibly hard through the winter and all spring. 4 ey really embraced getting better and played with a lot of con0 dence this week.”
It was evident from the start that the 15nd time might be the charm. NU raced out to a 6-shot lead in the 0 rst round and gave little indication it would falter. 4 e team remained steady in the second round, holding a 2-shot cushion going into the 0 nal .7 and appeared poised to come out victorious.
4 en Purdue made things a bit hairy. 4 e No. .2 Boilermakers charged down the closing stretch and actually caught the No. 5/ Cats at the 0 nish. NU clung on just enough to remain in a tie and win a share of the Big Ten crown.
A key to that was dealing with the course’s vastly undulating greens, but the mental aspect of closing out a tournament was the main factor in producing
victory.“4 e grittiness the team, and especially Devon
Brown, showed is an intangible that wins tourna-ments,” Fletcher said. “Sometimes it’s not about how good you hit it, it’s what you do when you have some bad shots and you’re not hitting it your best.”
Fletcher had good reason for such praise. Her two top young guns remained as solid as ever. Hana Lee, a sophomore, opened up the tournament with a bogey-free 67 and had the 0 rst day lead. Rounds of 78 and 99 therea: er cooled o; her scintillating start, but she still 0 nished tied for .5th.
Freshman Kaitlin Park posted her third top-.8 0 nish of the spring, placing a solo sixth in the event. It might have been even better if Park had not made a triple bogey on her 0 nal hole of the tournament.
Nonetheless, the freshman is pleased with how her game has progressed.
“Mentally, I’ve gotten a lot stronger because I now really understand the team mentality,” Park said. “Having my teammates there, I’ve been able to trust my game a lot more.”
Team depth is also important in collegiate golf, and NU has it in bundles. 4 is spring has seen a veritable game of musical chairs when it comes to which supporting cast member will step up next. Freshman Elizabeth Szokol has twice placed in the top 52, and freshman Suchaya Tangkamolpra-sert registered a ninth place showing at the Lady Buckeye.
Even senior Lauren Weaver, who was in a mas-sive slump for most of the season, dug out her game at the Lady Buckeye to post her highest 0 nish in more than seven months.
4 ese three played solid golf in French Lick, all 0 nishing in the top 52 on the 0 nal leader board. It
was the missing sixth competitor that gave NU a boost. 4 at player, Devon Brown, went through a swing change last summer and has fought her game all season, if her shooting lower than 75 just once in her previous six competitive rounds is any indica-tion. In French Lick, though, the junior shattered the 75 mark all three rounds, posting scores of 9<,
9< and 92 for a tie for seventh place. “It’s been a long process,” Brown said. “To see it
all come together and to see my teammates all on the .7th hole pulling for us to win, it was amazing, and I couldn’t have asked for anything else.”
Northwestern on Sunday claimed its .<th Big Ten Tournament title in the .2 seasons, avenging two conference losses in the process.
A: er being seeded third in the tournament, NU received a bye for the 0 rst round and played No. 6 Indiana on Friday. A: er dispatching the Hoosiers <-8, the Wildcats beat No. 5 Nebraska <-. and top-seeded Michigan <-. to win the title.
“I felt good going into the match,” coach Claire Pollard said. “We had come o; good matches Friday and Saturday. Each match had prepared us for the following one.”
In the championship bout, NU and Michigan
went back and forth, and neither team looked ready to relinquish the title. 4 e matches were tightly con-tested throughout, and both schools had players 0 ght back from the brink of elimination to keep the match alive. Five of the six singles matches went to a decisive third set.
“I looked at my watch three hours into the match, and even then I couldn’t tell who was going to win,” Pollard said. “Neither team deserved to lose.”
NU captured a di= cult doubles point, nearly blowing big leads at both No. 5 and No. 1 singles before holding on to win the 0 rst point of the match. In singles play, the Cats took the opening sets in four matches, but only junior Nida Hamilton was able to close out the match in straight sets.
Pollard said the turning point in the match was senior Linda Abu Mushrefova’s second-set victory
over Brooke Bolender in the No. < singles match. A: er losing the 0 rst set, Abu Mushrefova scraped by in the second set with a 9-2 win and then took the third set 6-< to 0 nish o; Bolender . 4 is victory clinched the top spot for NU, the .2th consecutive year with a title.
A: er defeating Indiana in the quarter0 nals, the Cats pounced on the Cornhuskers on Saturday.
NU took control of the doubles point with Abu Mushrefova and Hamilton toppling the third-ranked duo of Mary Weatherholt and Patricia Veresova 7-6. 4 e upset was preceded by the team of junior Veronica Corning and freshman Alicia Barnett blitzing Nebraska’s Stefanie Weinstein and Janine Weinreich 7-5.
Having captured the doubles point, NU needed to win three singles matches to avenge its 0 rst
conference loss this season. Nebraska struck 0 rst with Weatherholt, ranked ..th in the nation, beat-ing Corning 6-., 6-. in the No. . singles match. However, Abu Mushrefova, Barnett and Hamil-ton responded in full force by winning the 0 nal three singles matches consecutively to take the duel <-..
4 e match was moved inside due to rain, and Pollard feared the weather might play a role in the results. However, her fears were unfounded, and NU still took the victory.
“I thought moving inside would a; ect our play. Luckily it didn’t,” Pollard said.
Winning the Big Ten Tournament guarantees the Cats a spot in the NCAA Championships in May.
FIRST TIME FOR EVERYTHING NU’s fi rst Big Ten title was also the Cats’ fi rst tournament victory under coach Emily Fletcher. NU fi nished in a tie at the top with Purdue at 20-over.
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Fans and family of Northwestern players packed the stands at Lakeside Field, and more than .,688 spectators could hardly have asked for a more per-fect Saturday a: ernoon.
No. < NU (.2-5) took down No. .6 Pennsylvania (/-2) .2-7 on Senior Day in a fast-paced, aggressive game that saw both teams battling for 28-28 balls and the Wildcats 0 ghting to hold on to their lead.
NU took a 2-. lead just four min-utes into the game in large part thanks to senior attack Erin Fitzgerald and junior midfielder Alyssa Leonard, both of whom scored twice before the .9-minute mark.
Although the Quakers were able to narrow the gap to 1 goals on two occasions, they were never able to tie the game. However, the march looked
much more com-petitive than the scoreboard would indicate.
Draw controls did not come easily for the Cats, who won .< compared to the Quakers’ .., and NU frequently had to battle Penn off of the draw for possession. 4 e Cats also battled for ground-balls, picking up .. to barely edge the Quakers, who collected .8.
Senior defender Taylor 4 orn-ton, who contributed . caused turn-over and played defense throughout the mid0 eld, said her team focused on coming up with the 28-28 balls leading
up to the Penn contest.“All week we’ve been working on
draws and ground balls because really at the end of the day as long as you get
possession, that’s what’s going to win you games,” 4 ornton said. “As long as we’re gritty and we come up with them, I think that’s a positive.”
4 e home team was able to make the most of its possessions throughout the contest – nearly
0 ve minutes of the frame had gone by and NU had already racked up 1 goals when Penn 0 nally had their 0 rst possession. 4 e Cats also took 57 shots compared to Penn’s .6.
Fitzgerald scored a hat trick before halftime and tallied < goals during the contest, pushing
her season total to a team-leading 22 goals.
Junior mid0 elder Kelly Rich notched a hat trick as well. Although NU tends to score a lot o; of its free-position shots, all 1 of Rich’s goals were assisted, and the team ended up with 6 assists on the a: ernoon.
But one of the team’s most exciting goals came from a somewhat unfamiliar name, senior mid0 elder Alexa deLyra, who scored her 0 rst goal of the season with 15 seconds le: to close out the game.
Coach Kelly Amonte Hiller, who chose to start deLyra in place of junior defender Kerri Harrington, said the goal was the perfect regular-season ending for her team.
“(4 e goal) meant everything to the team,” Amonte Hiller said. “Alexa is such an unsel0 sh person and such a pillar for this team. She does so much that goes unnoticed. … For her to go out there and really take advantage of her oppor-tunity today was just awesome.”
Amonte Hiller not only spoke to the positivity the senior class brings to the team, but also noted how critical the seniors will be as leaders in the post season.
“4 ey all have a great vibe about them,” Amonte Hiller said. “4 ey want to do well, they’ve had ups and downs in their career so they have the expe-rience and they know what it is to go through a battle, to go through a war, and that’s what it’s going to take down the stretch.”
As NU looks ahead to its 0 rst game in the ALC Championships in Baltimore on May 1, Amonte Hiller said her team will focus on taking small
