All the news from last week that you need to know about. All in one place.
European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet spoke Tuesday about financial crises. As it turns out, the guy responsible for swooping in and saving our asses from a worldwide depression had to stick to his script pretty closely when he talked about how he did it. Eight-hundred Kellogg and Northwestern students came to hear Financial Time’s ‘Person of the Year’ speak, but some found themselves playing Tetris, shopping online and text-messaging indiscreetly.
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The Evanston City Council has decided to install 15 more surveillance cameras throughout the city. Make sure to add those new locations to your list of places to avoid stumbling into at three in the morning.
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William Banis, VP for student affairs, has announced that he will retire by 2011, apparently planning to retire in tandem with Oprah Winfrey.
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The Faculty Honor Roll received twice as many votes from students than they have in the recent past. Northwestern students seem to have become a much more grateful bunch. Or maybe we’re just getting better grades than we deserve and feel obliged to give back. One thing’s for sure; they might be good teachers, but they don’t teach us how to spell. The Daily reports that “faculty members will likely be announced by the end of the week, as ASG’s Academic Committee must sort through votes, many of which included misspellings.” Ouch.
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Kudos to Professor Mirkin and Professor Van Duyne, who were elected to National Academy of Sciences. Medill also honored Professor Don Schultz, the ‘father of integrated marketing communications’, with their first Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award.
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Following in the footsteps of Arizona’s new immigration bill that deports illegal immigrants, Northwestern has decided to use E-verify to crack down on its illegal workers. But everybody’s doing it, so it must be okay. Right? (Note: read “everybody” as “the state of Arizona”).
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By some miracle, aka a lightning strike game delay, Northwestern Wildcats won with three goals in overtime in the women’s lacrosse game against Virginia. We psyched them out with temperamental weather.