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Storms, tornadoes sweep across state

Evanston escaped the brunt of a Sun-day a!ernoon storm that brought fatal tornadoes to other parts of Illinois.

At one point, the National Weather Service put the Evanston area under several advisories: severe thunderstorm, tornado watch, "ash "ood and high wind warnings. #e $rst two were called o% before & p.m.

A few storm drains were blocked in Evanston, city o'cials said. Despite cau-tion that winds could gust to () mph, only small tree limbs were found. Street clean-ing will start & a.m. Monday to remove leaves from major roadways.

Although University spokesman Al Cubbage said he wasn’t aware of any storm damage on campus, a leak in Welsh-Ryan Arena a%ected Northwestern’s volley-ball game against Indiana. Facility sta% mopped the "oor between points from the second set through the rest of the match.

“You can’t control that stu% and you just have to play through it,” NU coach Keylor Chan said.

Away from Evanston, several torna-does were spotted in towns in Tazewell and Washington counties.

Photos of a double rainbow in Evan-ston were shared on social media at about & p.m., before high winds hissed through the city again two hours later.

David Lee contributed reporting.

— Manuel Rapada

NU checks IDs at Fitzerland tailgate

Beginning with Saturday’s game against Michigan, Northwestern has started checking identi$cation to allow entrance to the University-sanctioned tailgating area Fitzerland.

Students will need to provide identi$-cation and wear a wristband to consume alcohol at Fitzerland, Dean of Students Todd Adams announced Friday.

Students entering Fitzerland must also present a valid college ID.

Anna Kottenstette, Associated Student Government student life vice president, said the change was prompted when an intoxicated prospective student was trans-ported to the hospital before the Oct. *+ football game against Minnesota.

#e Communication senior said the transported student drank too much o% campus before arriving at Fitzerland.

“We’re having to deal with those reper-cussions,” she said. “It was really unfortu-nate that it happened at all.”

Wildside president Gram Bowsher said the policy change is “not the ideal situ-ation.” He emphasized the most notice-able di%erences will be at the gate, where students will be asked for their school IDs and proof of age if they are carrying alco-hol or planning to drink alcohol inside the tailgate.

“We do want students to know it’s not making things di%erent from what they were,” the SESP junior said. “#e tailgate should look very similar.

— Cat Zakrzewski

By LAUREN CARUBA,-./0 123.45 16-7725

A!er a frustrating class period trying to help her high school biology class take an exam on dysfunctional lap-tops — a new technological push by her school district — Emily Gao found herself yelling at one of her best students.

“She wasn’t trying to do anything wrong or anything bad — she just needed my attention for a second,” Gao (Weinberg ‘*&) said. “I just felt so shitty when I stepped back for second. Like, why are you yelling at

this child?”Despite $ve

weeks of intensive training with Teach for America, which sends recent college graduates to teach in low-in-come communities, Gao confronted disparities between TFA’s training and her classroom. She was teaching a subject completely unrelated to her political science and human culture majors, in a di%erent geographical location from her training city of Philadelphia, where she taught a small summer class in a high-performing charter school — very di%erent from her Baltimore public school.

Gao wanted to be a prepared teacher. She wanted to better her students’ lives, but she had no textbooks, no curriculum and very little experience.

“I didn’t want to feel like I was making everything up as I went along,” she said. “Turns out I kind of felt that way anyways.”

Now in her second year of TFA, Gao’s challenges high-light the pitfalls of a post-graduate experience many

NU students have historically sought out.Although NU has enjoyed a strong relationship with TFA, in &)*8 there

was a rapid drop in the number of applications and participating

graduates. #e dip in NU’s participation with TFA

coincides with growing national criticism of a

TEACHING TROUBLES

NU’s ties to Teach for America testedas organization faces national criticism

In Focus

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RAINY DAY Severe thunderstorms hit Evanston on Sunday.

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-e parents of a ./-year-old Evanston boy will hold an event Monday at Ryan Field to help 0nd a bone marrow match for him.

Julian Sims, a 01h grader at Dewey Elemen-tary School, was diagnosed with leukemia about a month ago, according to the family’s page on the website for Be -e Match, an organization that operates the world’s largest bone marrow registry. Sims’ family is seeking a bone marrow transplant for the child a1er his 0rst round of chemotherapy was unsuccessful.

“Like the vast majority of families who need a life-saving bone marrow transplant, our mar-row does not match Julian’s,” Sims’ family said on its page.

-e family plans to hold several live marrow

registry drives to encourage people to add them-selves to the bone marrow registry and 0nd out if they are a match. -e process involves taking mouth swabs to test potential donors. To o2-set the cost of adding people to the registry, the family is also asking for monetary donations on their Be -e Match page. According to its page, the family has reached almost 34,5// of their 36/,/// goal so far.

Danielle Vickers, a marrow account manager who has been working with the Sims family, said potential donors can also donate blood at the live drive Monday.

“Many patients who need a marrow donor also receive multiple blood transfusions through-out the course of their treatment,” Vickers said in an email to -e Daily.

-e registry drive takes place 5 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday on the seventh 8oor of Ryan Field.

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Family holding marrow drive at NU

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BE THE MATCH The Sims family is holding a bone marrow drive at Ryan Field on Monday to find a match for 10-year-old Julian Sims (bottom left). The Dewey Elementary School student was diagnosed with leukemia about a month ago, the family said on its Be The Match fundraising page.

Beauty story robbed of $500 in hair by 2 women

Two women stole more than 39// worth of hair -ursday evening from a beauty store near the Chicago-Evanston border, according to police.

Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott said the women took four bundles of hair and ran out of the front door of Howard Beauty Supply, ..6: W. Howard St., shortly before ;::/ p.m. -ey had been shopping with another woman and two men.

-ree of the bundles are valued at about 3.4/ each and one at about 3.6/, Parrott said.

Police described the women as black, .; to .5 years old, between 9 foot 9 inches and 9 foot 7 inches tall and having slim builds. One woman wore a pink North Face coat with blue jeans, and the other wore a purple jacket.

Police are reviewing surveillance footage of the store, Parrott said.

— Patrick Svitek

Man shot near Chicago-Evanston border Sunday

A :4-year-old man was shot early Sunday

morning near the Chicago-Evanston border, according to police.

At about .::/ a.m., the man was walking in the ;:// block of North Campbell Avenue when he heard shots and felt pain, said Jose Estrada, Chicago Police Department spokesman.

-e man went to St. Francis Hospital, where

he was treated for a gunshot wound to the leg, Estrada said.

-e man was listed in good condition.-e shooting happened less than a half mile

south of the border.

— Patrick Svitek

Police Blotter Setting therecord straight

In “Job center, community college to partner” in Friday’s print edition, Oakton spokesman Steve Repsys’ name was incorrectly spelled on a second reference.

The Daily regrets the error.

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NU freshman takes gap year, travels world ‘on a whim’By ZAHRA HAIDER!"# $%&'( )*+!",#-!#+)

When Medill freshman Anika Jhalani arrived on campus this fall, it was the .nal stop on her year-long world tour.

Jhalani, who is from Saratoga, Calif., decided one morning that she would take a gap year before college. Putting o/ university applications, Jhalani le0 home alone to travel the world for a full year. Tired of the competitive atmosphere of high school, she was looking for a di/erent experience.

“High school can become a rat race,” she said. “1e way I envisioned college was an extension of that mindset, and that wasn’t something I wanted to pursue.”

Jhalani said she planned no itinerary and instead traveled “on a whim.” She went to Spain because she can speak Spanish, but a0er that her journey was spontaneous. During her trip, she went from

country to country learning the languages and dance styles as she went. Describing her travel philosophy, Jhalani said she strongly believes “not having anything to do can be almost as important as having something to do.”

She said the skill that aided her most during her travels was her ability to learn new languages. She picked up many of the languages as she went without too much di2culty. She is now 3uent in English, Hindi, Spanish and Turkish, and has a working knowledge of the languages of the nations she visited. Over a span of 44 months she visited eight countries: Spain, England, Argentina, Turkey, India, Sweden, the Netherlands and Italy.

Her parents essentially handed her a blank check to the world, she said, giving her the free-dom to decide when she wanted to go. However, Jhalani insisted it was not total freedom because she was .nancially dependent. She said of all the backpackers she met, she was the only one so heavily supported mentally and monetarily by

her parents.Her mother, Ruchika Jhalani, said they’ve

always been a well-traveled family.“I’ve always felt kids need exposure to dif-

ferent cultures,” Ruchika Jhalani said. “It helps broaden the breadth of their experiences and understanding.”

1ough she did o0en worry, Ruckika Jhalani said that she trusts her daughter to make informed decisions and supported her decision to delay college.

“Anika’s journey was an education in itself,” she said. “It’s not something you can learn in a classroom.”

Anika Jhalani tends to joke about her experi-ence because people see it as a “mystical journey,” but when they ask Jhalani what she did in that year, she has a simpler, more serious answer.

“I .nally lived,” she said.

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By ANNIE MCDONOUGH!"# $%&'( )*+!",#-!#+) @AnnieMcD_news

When Kari Lydersen (Medill ‘56) was approached about writing a book on Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel, she said conquering that task wasn’t at the top of her to-do list.

“Rahm Emanuel was interesting, but if I was going to take the time to write a book about someone, he wouldn’t be my .rst choice,” Lydersen said.

But Lydersen did write the book, titled “Mayor 47: Rahm Emanuel and the Rise of Chicago’s 557,” and she spoke about it Friday a0ernoon in Fisk Hall.

1e talk with Lydersen, a Chicago-based reporter

who works as a research assistant at Medill Watch-dog, drew a crowd of about 89 students. Medill Watchdog sponsored the event.

Medill Watchdog director Rick Tulsky, who works closely with Lydersen, said her book on Emanuel (Communication ‘:9) .ts in well with Watchdog’s investigative aims.

“We try to look at events going on in data and pay attention to city government and try to draw big picture ideas from that,” Tulsky said.

Lydersen, who has covered issues ranging from the environment to immigration, talked about her reporting process and Chicago’s response to the .rst two years of Emanuel’s term.

In her book, Lydersen reveals the crux of the con-3ict between Emanuel and the trade unions and other groups he clashed with from early on in his .rst

term. At the talk, she read an excerpt from “Mayor 47,” in which the mayor le0 a celebration of Chica-go’s 469th birthday early to avoid a woman protesting his closing of several mental health clinics.

“Early on, he was seen as someone who was a new start for Chicago, in both good and bad ways,” Lydersen said of Emanuel.

Lydersen said his widespread closings of public schools garnered the greatest backlash.

“1e way Chicago was responding became the most interesting part of the story,” Lydersen said.

Lydersen .nished her talk with a question-and-answer period, in which students and faculty mem-bers expressed interest in her reporting process and the future of Emanuel’s time as mayor.

Lydersen said she had to constantly remind herself to treat Emanuel fairly. 1ough she was not able to

interview him in the process of writing “Mayor 47,” Lydersen said it “didn’t really change the book.”

Medill senior Alyssa Howard, who works with Lydersen at Medill Watchdog, said she was impressed with the book’s balance.

“She looks at it from an interesting side, being in Chicago,” Howard said. “If you’re approaching it from a more national perspective, you don’t see that as much.”

Lydersen ended the informal Q-and-A session by talking about what she would change if she had the chance to write the book over again.

“For one, I would talk to hundreds of more peo-ple,” Lydersen said. “1ere’s always tons of things I would do di/erently.”

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WELL-TRAVELED Instead of applying to colleges, Medill freshman Anika Jhalani took a gap year and traveled the world by herself. Jhalani said she decided “on a whim” to take the trip, which took her to eight countries.

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Regardless of the outcome, it was a great game. !e whole point of watching college football is to be entertained. If you watched that contest and were not entertained, you should probably cease viewing football games. Oh, and btw, my prediction is NW will win it’s "nal two games and go win it’s bowl game.

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Your argument against Benedict is sim-ply an ad hominem argument. You also conveniently ignore the actions of Pope Francis...

I’m sorry you could not see the Catholic Mass in the same way others do. I encour-age you to come to a Mass at Sheil to hear some “medieval theological treatises”, you will "nd that dismissing the Catholic Church as antiquated is a false notion sim-ply because it lacks guitars or bagels.

I’m happy you have found God in your life again, believe me, but I think that you are much too harsh on the Catholic Church.

— Julian

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Stand up against proposed Evanston building

Dear Editor,A developer is applying for a three-year

extension of a Special Use Permit that would enable them to construct a &'( foot tall resi-dential structure at )#' Church Street, in the heart of downtown Evanston. !e Tower would be the tallest building in Evanston, replacing a professional building that serves as the long-time o*ces of almost +,( social workers, thera-pists, nurse practitioners and physicians. We think the structure is nonconforming in height and design, will displace business, destroy jobs and will o-er no net bene"ts to the community at large. If you would like to preserve Evanston and see representative democracy in action, come to the City Council meeting at the Mor-ton Civic Center on Monday, November ,( at )PM. Decide for yourself. It’s your city, for as long as you live here.

Lawrence Weinberg, Evanston resident

We’ve heard it a million times before: stu-dents come from all over the world to get a Northwestern education. But an education goes far beyond a degree. College is meant to be about expanding our knowledge and experience beyond the small worlds most of us grew up in. NU students should value the educational opportunities a-orded to them outside the classroom as much as they value those o-ered inside the classroom.

!e wide variety of .yers that cover the side-walks across campus are a physical testament to the depth and breadth of events o-ered on campus. From theatrical performances to con-certs to sporting events to lectures, this school has it all. But not all events at NU are as widely attended as they could be.

NU has a highly regarded theater depart-ment that regularly puts on performances for the community. Hollywood Reporter ranked the university’s theater department among the top ,( in the entire world. !e department puts on unique productions. A notable example is that each winter, NU students write, direct, act in and produce the largest student-produced musical in the nation, called the Dolphin Show. With this rare event within a square mile, why not take the time to go see it?

Meanwhile, campus groups bring in experts to lecture on a wide variety of topics. Speakers can inspire students to get involved in areas they would never have thought to be of interest. NU students who don’t go to such events are miss-ing out on a rare opportunity. Students should take advantage of these rare opportunities dur-ing their short four years here.

For instance, the College Democrats brought former Congressman Barney Frank to campus as its fall speaker. Frank lectured about his political career and growing up gay and Jewish in less tolerant times. Meanwhile, former Sena-tor Richard Lugar came to NU on November +& to discuss the current state of United States for-eign policy. Although the lecture was attended by just more than +,( students, NU boasts a student body of about ',### highly motivated and intellectually curious students. Where were the other ),'##? !ese four years at NU might be the last that students have such easy access to speakers of such great importance.

Although some performances and speeches are well-attended, not all are. From talking to my friends at other schools, I can tell that this is not a problem unique to NU. However, it is understandable why this would occur at col-lege, especially a college like NU. Students are extremely busy, especially on weeknights when many of these events occur. We rush to "nish our chemistry lab within the allotted ,/ hours instead of going to see a speaker. We cram for our never-ending string of midterms instead of going to see our friends’ show. We put the "nishing touches on that essay instead of going

to a concert.It is also easy to see that we have far too

much to choose from. NU boasts the athletics of a Big Ten school, the academics of a highly selective university, and top programs in "elds

like theater to boot. We o%en attend sport-ing events on the weekends, A&O Blow-out attracted a large crowd and some large fundraisers like Dance Marathon draw a mas-sive chunk of the stu-dent body. However, we could pay more attention to theatrical productions, concerts and speakers.

Attending a diverse array of events will give students the best education at North-western, inside and

outside of the classroom. I know I do not always abide by this rule, but I think it is one that strengthens the college experience. An NU edu-cation should go beyond just a degree: students should take the opportunity to learn as much as possible from their peers during their time here.

Matt Gates is a Weinberg freshman. 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].

Med school interview advice for idiots

!is is my second year interviewing can-didates for the Northwestern M.D./Ph.D. program, and I have noticed that many of the applicants are woefully underprepared. Now, back when I was applying, the interview was simple: they would wheel out an unconscious patient, remove their heart, and you would have to re-attach the organ, all while explaining which historical "gure you would most like to have lunch with. If the surgery was a success, and you correctly stated that you would meet Hitler to poison his sandwich, you would be accepted. But alas, medical school interviews nowadays are simply “answering questions” to determine if the candidates are “quali"ed” and not if they are capable of “murder.” Although it has decreased the number of interview related-deaths, it has made preparation that much harder, so I am here to o-er some helpful tips.

First, try to relax. Most medical school applicants do not appear comfortable answer-ing questions about themselves, no matter how loudly I yell at them. In many cases, they seem to have hired a struggling actor to interview in their place, performing their one-man play “Below-Average GPA ,: Still Re-Applyin’!” and forgetting their lines halfway through. Do not do this. You should be able to answer the ques-tions without any rehearsal, though sometimes … you know, it makes it hard to … like, you’ll say one thing … and come wrong words out. To help calm down, you should pretend your mother is asking the questions. Not only will this make your answers more concise and hon-est, it will help remind you that you are a big disappointment to the interviewer, as well!

Also, I understand that you want to be a doctor because you want to “help people.” But here’s the truth: doctors do not help people. !e Chinese restaurant on my block sells +# crab rangoons for 0/, which means I go there three times a week to contemplate how awesome my life is. !is restaurant helps people. Patients who are pulled from the icy maw of death a%er +'-hour surgeries don’t describe their team of physicians as “pretty helpful.” If you can show that you understand that being a good doc-tor means more than getting good reviews on Yelp, it will make your interview responses that much more compelling. Or you can just bring some crab rangoon to your interview, because everyone loves crab rangoon.

Here’s something else you should know: medical school is hard. My classmates were

always complaining about the massive amount of material to memorize, the punishing exam schedule and the relentless clinical assign-ments. Since I am a level-1) genius (the only person ever to beat Stephen Hawking in Chi-nese checkers), it was easy for me. I was able to instantly memorize all information upon "rst glance and integrate it e-ortlessly into complex clinical scenarios, all while building lifelong friendships with every patient I met. But it will be hard for you, because your feeble mind can-not even identify which member of One Direc-tion is an android (hint: it’s the cute one!). So during the interview, you should make it clear you will be able to withstand medical school’s educational onslaught. We cannot accept any-one less, since we have seen such individuals driven mad and forced into low-tier specialties like family medicine, which unfortunately value patient care over sweet, sweet cash.

“Why do you want to be a doctor?” You will be asked this. A lot. Over and over. So your answer better be good. In fact, it had better be so mind-bogglingly amazing, you should make the interviewer kick back their chair, call the dean of the medical school, and demand

you accept an honorary M.D. for simply giv-ing them a chance to hear such a magni"cent answer. But barring that, you should try to at least be coherent. You need to think about what motivations will be able to propel you through the struggles of medical school, residency, fellowship, and eventually to the obsessive and overwhelming way you will pour yourself into your work, leading to the inescapable black hole of wealth and power that will "ll your empty heart.

In the end, just be yourself in the medi-cal school interview! If “yourself ” is someone who can handle the grueling abyss of medical school and beyond, you will be rewarded with an o-er. And if “yourself ” is grossly under-quali"ed for medical school, your implosion of incompetence and failure during the interview will serve as a helpful benchmark for the inter-viewer, making the evaluation of future, more quali"ed candidates much easier. Go get ‘em!

Sai Folmsbee is a Feinberg graduate student. 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].

SAIFOLMSBEEDAILY COLUMNIST

“NU students should value the educational opportunities a!orded to them outside the classroom as much as they value those o!ered inside the classroom.

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Students, step up event attendancePhoto illustration by Kelsey Ott/Daily Senior Staffer

“To help calm

down, you should pretend that you are being

asked these interview questions by your own

mother. Not only will this make your answers more concise and honest, it will help remind you that you are a big disappointment

to the interviewer as well!

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Conference considers Zionist in!uence on cultureBy LAN NGUYEN!"# $%&'( )*+!",#-!#+) @LanNguyen_NU

Northwestern faculty, students and commu-nity members gathered Sunday in Lutkin Hall to hear an Israeli piano ensemble and celebrate the beginning of a three-day academic conference on how Zionism in.uences Israeli culture.

/e conference, “/e Zionist Ideal in Israeli Culture: Dream and Reality,” runs through Tues-day and is presented by the Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies. /e event focuses on how Zionist ideology is re.ected in Israeli society and is organized into 0ve sessions highlighting di1erent aspects of culture: music and dance, theater, visual arts, literature, and cinema.

“It would be impossible to expose the dif-ferent facets of this phenomenon and allocate su2cient time to each topic over the course of just a one-time lecture,” said Jewish studies Prof. Elie Rekhess, event co-chair and head of Israel studies, when explaining why the event was held over the course of three days. “/is was not a one-shot enterprise, but rather a comprehensive, all-encompassing venture.”

Rekhess took the responsibility of planning the conference, which is the 0rst hosted since NU began its Israel studies program this academic year, and compiling the program. He started researching and contacting people at the begin-ning of summer.

However, he said the conference was a collab-orative e1ort, with co-sponsors from the Judd.

A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, the Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music, the Israel Institute in Washington, D.C. and more.

/e conference commemorates NU’s 0rst year enacting the Israel Studies program, nestled under the Hebrew Studies Department, which was made possible through a donation by Renée and Lester Crown (McCormick ‘34). /e pro-gram focuses on the culture, politics and society of modern Israel.

“As we grow here at Northwestern, we

anticipate an even richer set of lenses with which to study Israel as a critical subject,” said religious studies Prof. Barry Wimp5eimer, event co-chair and head of Jewish Studies. “/is conference is just the beginning.”

/e opening session of the conference con-sisted of Wimp5eimer and Rekhess explaining the background of the program, as well as pre-viewing the events to come. At the end of the session, guests were invited to dinner at the house of University President Morton Schapiro.

/e scheduled keynote speaker, Yael Zerubavel

from Rutgers University, was unable to attend the session due to the stormy weather. However, Prof. Yigal Schwartz from Ben-Gurion University stepped in and gave a keynote address about the con.ict between Eastern European Ashkenazic Jews and Western European Ashkenazic Jews.

“/is is a con.ict that has been suppressed in the 0eld of Hebrew literature,” Wimp5eimer said. “/is is a con.ict that is profoundly impor-tant for understanding Hebrew literature and Israel today.”

Schwartz’s address was followed by a musi-cal performance from the MultiPiano Ensemble from Tel Aviv University in Israel. /e perfor-mance featured three compositions designed for one and two pianos for four, six and eight hands.

“/e concert was my favorite part of the ses-sion,” Weinberg sophomore Jordan Wilimovsky said. “I really enjoyed it and thought it was interesting.”

/e Multi-Piano Ensemble will deliver a full performance Tuesday at Lutkin Hall. Other key events from the conference include speakers dis-cussing music and dance, theater and visual arts on Monday, as well as a discussion about litera-ture and 0lm and a screening of the documentary “/e Gatekeepers” followed by an interview with the directors on Tuesday.

“I sincerely hope that this is just the begin-ning,” Rekhess said. “I hope that we can establish a sound basis for the development of the 0eld at Northwestern.”

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CONFERENCE Religious studies Prof. Barry Wimpfheimer speaks at the kickoff event for “The Zionist Ideal in Israeli Culture: Dream and Reality,” a three-day conference that began Sunday. The event was part of Northwestern’s inaugural Israel Studies conference.

Fair housing group amends federal lawsuit to include Evanston

Fair housing activists announced Thurs-day they have added Evanston to their federal lawsuit against Bank of America, claiming the bank does not look after foreclosed homes in black and Latino neighborhoods the same way it does in white ones.

The National Fair Housing Alliance said Evanston is one of four new cities it has named

in its federal complaint with the U.S. Depart-ment of Housing and Urban Development. The Washington, D.C-based nonprofit organization last month amended a similar lawsuit against U.S. Bank to include Evanston.

“Bank of America has known about these problems for more than four years, yet, sadly, they have chosen a path that continues to harm the health of people living in these communi-ties,” Shanna Smith, president and CEO of the alliance, said in a news release. “They could fix these problems. We have to ask, ‘Why haven’t they?’”

The alliance’s latest complaint alleges Bank

of America has run afoul of the federal Fair Housing Act by choosing how to maintain and market foreclosed homes along racial lines.

In making its case, the group points to a property in an Evanston “community of color” that has no for-sale sign, evidence of other people illegally living in it and over-grown landscape, among several other signs of negligence.

Bank of America spokeswoman Jumana Bau-wens on Sunday evening denied the alliance’s accusations, pointing out that the group does not list any addresses for Evanston properties in the most recent version of its complaint.

“Bank of America applies uniform practices to the management and marketing of vacant bank-owned properties across the US, regard-less of their location,” Bauwens wrote in an email to The Daily. “Any suggestion to the contrary is simply untrue.”

The three other cities added to the alliance’s lawsuit against Bank of America are Wauke-gan, Ill.; Toledo, Ohio; and Baltimore.

The complaint now names 67 metropoli-tan areas where the activists claim the bank is responsible for housing discrimination.

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controversial organization that has divided the educa-tion community.

Teachers as leaders

TFA began in !"#" as founder Wendy Kopp’s thesis statement at Princeton University, with the goal of addressing educational inequity by inserting young, motivated leaders into underserved communities.

Since then, TFA has ballooned into an enormous organization, with more than $%,&&& alumni and corps members embedded in '# regions spanning $( states. )is year, TFA received nearly *&,&&& applications and added (,"&& to it ranks.

Following a rigorous, three-stage application pro-cess, TFA selects corps members — most of whom have no teaching experience — and puts them on a fast track to teaching in needy schools with a +ve-week summer training period known as “institute.” Corps members interview with schools before being hired for at least two years.

Endorsing a “teaching as leadership” philosophy, TFA pulls high-achieving graduates from top universi-ties who exhibit seven core tenets, including excep-tional leadership and respect for diversity.

“It’s the belief that if you have some of those inher-ent skills, those are innate qualities,” said Eliza McNabb (Weinberg ‘!&), a TFA Chicago area recruiter. “I can’t really teach you to believe in the potential of every child. You either do believe that or you don’t.”

TFA attracts a certain type of idealistic college stu-dent, said Timothy Dohrer, director of the Master of Science in Education program and former principal of New Trier High School in Winnetka.

Many identify TFA’s recruitment strategy as its strongest aspect.

“It’s a way to get very enthusiastic people who want to work with kids in front of kids right away,” Dohrer said. “)ere are places where there is such a need for teachers just to be in the room with kids so that school can happen.”

The ‘thing to do’

Doing TFA has become a trend at elite schools nationwide. In many ways, the pro+le of a TFA corps member matches the typical NU student — smart, driven and interested in social justice.

NU has sustained strong ties with TFA for at least a decade. Brett Boettcher, associate director of University Career Services, said the University and TFA already had a good working relationship when he came to NU in %&&&. Over the past %$ years, *&$ NU alumni have participated in TFA.

Recently, NU has been a leader in supplying TFA with graduates. NU was the top contributor for mid-sized schools in %&!% and %&!&, sending *$ and (, graduates into the program those years and '" in %&!!. Ten percent of the class of %&!% and !! percent of the class of %&!! applied for TFA.

Hillary Ha-e, former president of Students for

Teach for America at NU, said TFA’s challenge and prestige appeal to NU’s “chronic overloaders.”

“A lot of the Northwestern students are like, ‘)is is the thing to do,’” the Medill senior said. “It’s a very rewarding experience. It looks really good.”

Numerous alumni said the TFA culture at NU, the career-oriented nature of the student body and having friends who had done the program contributed to their decision to apply. TFA also has a strong recruiting pres-ence on campus, regularly posting .yers with applica-tion deadlines and organizing events with University Career Services.

However, NU’s participation in TFA signi+cantly dropped in %&!$. )is year, NU sent only $$ alumni into TFA’s corps, dropping to #th place for mid-sized universities. Only , percent of the class of %&!$ applied.

University President Morton Schapiro said he is proud NU students have historically done so well with TFA and views Kopp, who spoke on campus in April, as an “incredible visionary.” However, he said he does see credence in the argument that sending privileged college students into low-income areas is “the height of arrogance.”

“I suppose I am proud of it,” Schapiro said. “Not that I think TFA is !&& percent the answer, because I know too much about it, and I know too many kids who have done it, and I know their stories.”

A polarizing program

Olivia Blanchard does not have many good stories

about TFA.Blanchard, a %&!! graduate of University of North

Carolina at Chapel Hill, detailed her struggles with TFA in a September article in )e Atlantic called “I Quit Teach for America.” Like many NU students, Blanchard was drawn to TFA’s social welfare goals but found +ve weeks of training inadequate preparation for teaching rebellious +/h-graders at an Atlanta, Ga., public school.

“In many cases it promotes the problems that are causing the achievement gap,” Blanchard, who le/ TFA a/er her +rst year, told )e Daily. “We’re taking teachers who have no experience, the least quali+ed teachers in our country, and we’re putting them with the kids who need the best teachers. On the face of it, that’s just illogical.”

As TFA gains traction, Blanchard’s article is only one of numerous national criticisms to emerge. A recent Slate article urged professors not to write TFA recommendations, and most professional teaching organizations have said they do not support TFA’s model, Dohrer said. Despite TFA students’ strong performance on standardized tests, other research suggests good teaching comes with more classroom experience.

Many are also critical of TFA’s transformation from a service group into a political and economic entity. TFA lobbies for funding in Washington, D.C., and places alumni in congressional o0ces and school board positions. It receives between 1%,&&& and 1(,&&& per corps member per year from school districts and is subsidized by major corporate donors like Visa and

)e Coca-Cola Foundation.As the job market recovers, education experts like

Ellen Esrick, an instructor for elementary teaching in the Master of Science in Education program, are skeptical about TFA’s assumption that a teacher short-age still exists.

)e situation is exacerbated when school districts cut costs by hiring inexperienced corps members over veteran, unionized teachers, she said.

TFA is much debated in sociology Prof. Karrie Snyder’s School and Society course. Despite di2ering opinions, many still respect TFA’s overall goals and attempts to tackle di0cult, systemic issues.

“At some point during this whole conversation, someone will say, ‘But at least these people are doing something — the organization and the students them-selves,’” Snyder said. “We complain about all these things, but at least some group is proactive.”

A teaching crash course

Like Gao, Nicole Collins (Weinberg ‘!!) found the summer institute training program unre.ective of her teaching environment.

TFA placed Collins on the Rosebud Sioux Tribe’s reservation in South Dakota, where she continued teaching a/er her two-year commitment ended. Although it has since been added to institute, at the time TFA had no Native American-speci+c training.

“Some of the students were incredibly hostile,” said Collins, a former Daily cartoonist. “I was an outsider the +rst year. I wasn’t the best teacher.”

During institute — what Collins calls a “boot camp for teaching” — corps members are supervised as they teach summer classes for one hour a day for +ve weeks. TFA provides daily feedback, but it still only amounts to about %& hours teaching very small classes before entering schools.

)e rest of institute is spent in professional manage-ment training, learning how to create lesson plans, lead a classroom and “invest” in students. McNabb said TFA asks corps members to be “incredibly re.ective” and learn about their personal identities during this period, adding that the organization constantly makes adjustments based on feedback.

Some found the setting to be an inaccurate por-trayal of teaching: Corps members are only teaching “four or +ve really well-behaved kids” instead of a class of $& or more, Collins said.

Because institute trains teachers for various grades and subject matters, it is inherently general, making it “kind of a joke,” Blanchard said.

Having been students for so long, many believe they can replicate good teaching, but Dohrer said a few weeks of training cannot replace years of experience.

“I’ve sat in !$ years — maybe more, if I’ve gone to college — so !, years of classes, therefore, I must be able to do it,” Dohrer said. “What’s faulty about that premise is that I’ve been on a lot of airline .ights, and I would never walk into the cockpit and say I could .y the plane.”

Others think TFA prepared them better than tradi-tionally trained new teachers. Mike Binkley (Weinberg ‘&#), who taught high school physics in a San Francisco

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public school, said institute provided him with teach-ing fundamentals and management skills.

Problems with placement

Janelle Henney (SESP ‘!$) wasn’t sure she was fully prepared to teach fourth- and +/h-grade spe-cial education students in a Pittsburgh public school for TFA.

Although she taught a special education summer class and attended tailored workshops during institute, Henney still wanted more individualized training.

“It just seems like it’s one big whirlwind of informa-tion that they’re throwing at you that they hope will stick,” Henney said. “I was worried about being ready by the end of institute.”

Placing inexperienced TFA corps members in spe-cial education situations is a major critique of TFA’s placement because children in special education pro-grams especially require highly quali+ed, experienced teachers, experts say.

“I know that at this moment I’m not an adequate teacher for my kids,” Henney said.

TFA experiences vary widely based on geographi-cal location, grade level and administrative resources. Some schools have TFA networks, but others do not.

Many also take issue with TFA’s strong ties to char-ter schools, alternative schools that focus heavily on test scores and make up a third of all TFA placements. A SESP graduate who asked to remain anonymous had philosophical issues with her particular charter school, creating tensions between her and school administrators.

At her charter school, the SESP graduate said she had very limited control of her classroom because “everything had to be run by someone else.”

“)ere was a lack of creativity in teaching, and it was more of a drilling-information-into-the-students model,” she said. “It was in.exible.”

When she approached her TFA manager with her concerns, the manager was more concerned with getting her to +nish her +rst year than working to +nd an alternative second-year placement, the SESP graduate said.

Given the choice of remaining at that school or dropping out of TFA, the SESP graduate chose the latter. Under di2erent circumstances, she likely would have continued teaching, she said.

McNabb said "% percent of corps members return for their second year, a statistic the SESP graduate asserts does not accurately represent the actual drop-out rate.

A “huge stigma” surrounds those who leave TFA, Blanchard said, and people are tentative to talk about it.

“If you leave an organization, I don’t think that you should fear the backlash from people,” she said.

‘The most challenging thing I’ve ever done’

Corps members enter America’s most disadvan-taged communities, which can be physically, mentally and emotionally taxing.

Collins’ biggest challenge her +rst year was dealing with mental health issues, something she said TFA should better address. TFA can be a major culture shock, she said.

“You’re throwing a bunch of college grads into a stressful situation and you’re far away from home,” she said. “()ere are) corps members who are depressed or downtrodden.”

McNabb said TFA o2ers extra support during the +rst few months because “there is no substitute for being alone in a classroom with $% +rst-graders for eight hours.”

Trying to become a good teacher in two years requires around-the-clock e2ort, Binkley said.

“It doesn’t teach you how to make a very sustainable day-to-day career,” he said. “Everybody works incred-ibly hard in the program, which is great, but I know a lot of people get burned out too.”

More would stay in education if TFA promoted a healthy work-life balance, Binkley said.

But TFA does not promise to produce life-long teachers. Rather, its goal is cra/ing leaders to carry the +ght for educational equality into other industries.

“We are looking to change things for the !* million kids growing up in poverty, and that’s not something we seek to do just through the short term, which is putting teachers in classrooms for two years,” McNabb said.

TFA is a highly variable experience. Many corps members have overall positive views of their time with the organization. Even those who struggle recognize the value of their time as teachers.

“I would characterize it as something that has been the most challenging thing that I’ve ever done,” Gao said. “More challenging than I ever would have expected it to be. But also the experience in my life that I learned the most from.”

Rethinking teaching

As the debate surrounding TFA continues, those in education and academic circles worry about its impact on students.

Some are concerned that students taught by corps members are being shortchanged.

“If they’re just thrown into a classroom without that preparation, I’m not sure we’re doing a good service to

the students,” Esrick said.)ere are also questions about TFA’s broader impli-

cations for American education and teacher certi+ca-tion. )is summer, NU ended its alternative teacher certi+cation program NU-TEACH, and in %&!(, Illi-nois will require all teachers to pass a state assessment akin to a Bar examination for education, an obstacle for TFA, Dohrer said.

TFA isn’t going away anytime soon, but corps mem-bers say improvements are possible, like expanding the two-year commitment and developing lifelong teachers rather than leaders. Blanchard said TFA could better train corps members if it shrank, but the orga-nization is focused on expansion.

McNabb said TFA is set on helping corps members “+gure out how their identity informs who they are as

leaders, how they interact with the community.”A co-mentoring or assistant teaching model would

introduce corps members more gradually to teach-ing, Esrick and Dohrer said. In traditional education programs, aspiring teachers spend signi+cant time observing and student-teaching before taking over a classroom.

Despite di2ering approaches, traditional educators and TFA can still work together, Dohrer said.

“We’re in a really wonderful period right now of revolution in teaching and learning,” he said. “It’d be great to have all of us at the table talking about how can we better improve teaching and learning in our schools. And TFA can be a great partner in that.”

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SPORTSMonday, November 18, 2013 @Wildcat_Extra

ON DECK ON THE RECORDWomen’s BasketballNU vs. Hofstra, 6:30 p.m. Wednesday

If you told me we were 4-6 at this point in the year, I would’ve laughed at you.

— Jeff Budzien, senior kicker

NOV. 20

Fitzgerald continues to retreatROHANNADKARNIDAILY SPORTS@Rohan_NU

It should have never come down to a miracle !eld goal.

Northwestern’s sixth-straight loss Saturday can be put squarely on the shoulders of coach Pat Fitzgerald and his suspect play calling. Because when Fitzgerald plays conservatively and allows the fate of the game to be decided with the ball in the other team’s hands, he should not expect to win.

On their second-to-last drive of the game, the Cats faced a fourth down near mid!eld. NU needed less than one yard for a conversion. Fitzgerald decided to punt — a"er the team’s last punt traveled seven yards and set Michigan up in a goal-to-go situation.

#e Cats’ $%-yard punt in that situa-tion was rendered moot when Michigan completed a $%-yard pass on the very next play. Later in the drive, the Wolver-ines went for it on fourth down inside the !ve-yard line. Even though Michigan failed, coach Brady Hoke put the fate of the game in his team’s hands and showed faith and con!dence in his struggling o&ense.

Unsurprisingly, the Wolverines won the game in overtime.

For another example, take Southern California, which !red Lane Ki'n earlier in the season. #e Trojans’ interim coach Ed Orgeron went for it on fourth and two late in his team’s game against Stanford, and USC drove down the !eld for a winning !eld goal in a huge upset.

Yet NU, owner of a de(ated )-* record in conference play, refuses to play like it has nothing to lose. Instead, when the game gets tight, Fitzgerald clams up, and his identity spreads to a squad incapable of closing teams out in the fourth quarter.

How many more weeks — or years — will we have to watch Fitzgerald make ba+ing decisions late in the game?

He’s shown competence in the past, including a late fourth down attempt in Ann Arbor, Mich., last year, as well as a fourth down attempt early in Saturday’s game.

But the Cats’ most recent loss per-petuates a disturbing trend — it seems this team is scared to win with the ball in its hands.

And let’s not make this all about fourth downs. Whose idea was the Trevor Siemian-Mike Trumpy speed option on third down? And how about three straight, uninspiring run plays on NU’s last drive before hal"ime?

In reality, the Cats are much better than their )-* conference record would suggest. Games against Iowa, Ohio State, Nebraska and Michigan all swung on just two or three plays in the fourth quarter.

However, NU is very deserving of that record because on those two or three big plays, it almost always chooses to retreat instead of thinking big.

As for pressure, Fitzgerald can snarl, “my job is on the line,” as he did a"er the Cats’ loss against Iowa. Remember that game? When Fitzgerald didn’t use his timeouts at the end of the fourth to give the ball back to his o&ense?

Fitzgerald’s job isn’t on the line in any way, and it’s clear that he feels no pres-sure. Otherwise — maybe just once — the Cats would rise as the aggressor late in the game, instead of the victim of each weekend’s most ridiculous !nish.

Should Fitzgerald’s job be on the line? I don’t know.

But maybe his team would win if he started coaching like it.

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Two weeks ago, Northwestern led by 8 points with less than !ve seconds to go before being blindsided by an unbe-lievable play from its opponent. Against Michigan, the form was di&erent, but the formula the same.

#e Wildcats (%-*, )-* Big Ten) lost their sixth straight game Saturday, fall-ing to the Wolverines (9-8, 8-8) $9-:; in triple overtime at Ryan Field.

NU appeared to have the game won when Michigan completed a pass to the middle of the !eld with :) seconds to play in regulation: #e Cats led ;-*. But Michigan kicker Brendon Gibbons hustled onto the !eld and, with barely any time to set his feet, nailed a %%-yard game-tying !eld goal.

“We were talking in the locker room that somebody did something because we don’t have very good karma,” junior quarterback Trevor Siemian said.

A"er both teams scored touchdowns in the !rst overtime period and !eld goals in the second, Michigan won in the third session with a touchdown fol-lowed by an interception.

Both teams entered the game having struggled o&ensively in recent weeks, and the two collided to produce a punt-heavy, action-light slog for almost all of regulation. #e teams traded !eld goals to open the game, then punted on six of their next seven possessions before an NU !eld goal gave the Cats a *-8 half-time lead.

#e second half opened with four more punts and very little indication of an o&ensive pulse from either team. Late in the third quarter, senior Je& Budzien nailed his third kick of the evening, extending the Cats’ lead to ;-8. Michi-gan responded with another punt, but this one pinned NU at its own one-yard

line.#ree plays later, the Cats punted

from the three, and the result was disas-trous. Kicking into the wind, punter Brandon Williams shanked a (oater that bounced at the NU :<-yard line, then caromed backward to the :).

Despite the !eld position, Michigan came away with only a !eld goal, cut-ting the de!cit to three. Two possessions later the Wolverines regained the ball with $ minutes and := seconds to play. A sack pulled the Wolverines from !eld goal range, setting up the fateful :*-yard completion and ensuing miracle !eld goal.

“It happened pretty fast,” Budzien said. “It was pretty impressive that they kicked it, and it was a great kick that they made. It was a huge play on their part.”

A"er the teams tied in both of the !rst two overtime periods, Gardner rushed in the go-ahead touchdown in triple overtime, as well as the manda-tory two-point conversion. #e Cats lost

yardage on their response drive, and the game ended when Michigan picked o& a Siemian Hail Mary in the end zone.

“It’s tough,” Siemian said. “We just have to keep working, keep !ghting. Worry about the things that are in your control.”

Siemian played most of NU’s snaps at quarterback, completing :* of $< passes for :89 yards. Fellow quarterback Kain Colter led the team in rushing, gaining 9= yards on :; carries. But the NU run-ning backs were generally ine&ective, and the passing game was limited to short gains.

NU’s defense dropped several inter-ceptions throughout the evening. How-ever, the unit also de(ected many Devin Gardner passes and limited the mobile quarterback on the ground. #e Cats sacked Gardner four times and were credited with :% tackles for loss. For the second game in a row, the defense’s inability to stop its opponents on fourth down late in the game sealed the Cats’

fate.“We just haven’t made any plays,”

coach Pat Fitzgerald said. “#at’s the bottom line.”

NU needs to win its !nal two games just to gain bowl eligibility, a"er entering the season with expectations of a high pro!le bowl appearance.

“It’s pretty unbelievable,” Budzien said. “It’s shocking. It’s depressing. If you told me we were %-* at this point in the year I would’ve laughed at you. It’s not over yet, but we’ve got to start making plays.”

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FINAL SECOND FRENZY Michigan’s Brendan Gibbons kicks a game-tying field goal at the end of regulation. Northwestern fell 27-19 in triple overtime Saturday, its sixth-straight loss of the season.

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NU collapses, gives Illinois State 1st winBy BOBBY PILLOTE6>2 ,-./0 3456>?216253 @bobbypillote

Northwestern was battled to its sec-ond defeat of the season Sunday night at Welsh-Ryan Arena.

A"er falling to Stanford in a tough road game #ursday, the Wildcats (:-$) returned home and lost, *=-*%, to the Illinois State Redbirds (:-$).

As has been typical of the team this season, NU got o& to a sloppy start, and throughout the !rst half the Cats looked

equally uninspired on offense and defense. Starting center Alex Olah picked up two personal fouls early and had to be subbed out, and the sophomore’s absence was immediately felt. Illinois State met little resistance when driving into the lane and also converted a dramatic alley-oop midway through the period.

“A disappointing game for us,” coach Chris Collins said. “Give Illinois State credit for that. #ey were quicker to loose balls, and their big guys were having their way inside.”

#e Cats looked no better on o&ense and continued to shoot dismally. In

the opening half, NU attempted seven 8-pointers and failed to hit a single one. Junior point guard Dave Sobolewski committed two turnovers and had no assists, and Olah was called for his third foul, further straining a thin front court.

Finishing the !rst period on a :*-< run in the !nal < minutes, the Redbirds entered hal"ime with a commanding %)-$$ lead.

“#ey rebounded better,” Collins said, “they defended better, they executed bet-ter. #ey completely outplayed us in the !rst half. ... Everything they did was bet-ter than us.”

Collins and his squad came back out onto the court with much greater intensity to start the second period, but it wasn’t enough to slow down an Illinois State team that already had momentum on its side. Baskets continued not to fall for the embattled Cats, and foul trouble for redshirt senior forward Nikola Cerina forced the lineup to run small, at times operating without Cerina or fellow big man Olah on the (oor.

“You can’t spot a team $) points and give them that con!dence,” Collins said. “It’s too insurmountable.”

Redshirt junior guard JerShon Cobb continued to power the o&ense for NU, !nishing the game with a team-high :; points. However, the majority of his scor-ing came from the free throw line. Cobb was ::-for-:% from the charity stripe but just %-for-:$ from the (oor. As a whole, the team had a lackluster 8*.= shooting percentage.

#e Cats’ top scoring threat also chipped in with another productive

night. Redshirt senior forward Drew Crawford contributed :8 points and 9 rebounds and led the team with 8; min-utes played.

“I just don’t think we had enough !ght,” Crawford said.”#at was the big-gest thing, we weren’t !ghting in that !rst half.”

Collins continued his experimenta-tion with the playing rotation. Sopho-more forward Kale Abrahamson saw his !rst signi!cant minutes of the year, play-ing :9 and scoring = points to go along with three rebounds.

“#eir big guys were quick,” Abra-hamson said. “Coach saw that and he needed to make an adjustment.”

NU made a game of it, pulling to within $ points with $) seconds to play. However, the Cats were forced to foul, and the Redbirds hit all of their shots down the stretch to secure the *=-*% victory.

#e loss was unexpected for an NU team facing a very inexperienced Red-birds roster. Illinois State was just :=-:< a year ago and lost all !ve of its starters.

“At the end of the day,” Collins said, “you either win or lose, and I’m not a big moral victory guy.”

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CONSTANT STRUGGLE Junior Guard Dave Sobolewski forces off a defender in Northwestern’s unexpected loss to Illinois State. The Wildcats doomed themselves to a game of catch-up, falling behind by as many as 19 points in the second half.

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