Tuesday, February 26, 2013
The Northwestern University sophomore drowned in Wilmette Harbor last September. Police say he had a blood alcohol content roughly twice the legal limit for driving.
Evanston police say alcohol was a contributing factor in the accidental drowning of Northwestern University sophomore Harsha Maddula, whose body was found in Wilmette Harbor in September 2012. A toxicology report from the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office indicated that Maddula had a blood alcohol level of .125, or roughly 1.5 times the legal driving limit of .08, according to Evanston Police Cmdr. Jay Parrott. “Although the medical examiner is determining the death to be a drowning, and the cause undetermined, the investigation from the police department appears to show that this was accidental in nature with a contributing factor being alcohol consumption,” Parrott told Patch. Maddula, a pre-med student from Garden City Park, NY, …
Sunday, February 17, 2013
Rae Moses, a founding member of Northwestern University’s linguistics department and co-founder of its women’s studies program, died Feb. 7.
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Sunday, February 17
The following obituary was submitted by Northwestern University: “Kind, smart, sassy and full of life” is the way Rajka Smiljanic remembers Rae Moses, founding member of Northwestern University’s linguistics department and co-founder of its women’s studies program. Moses died Thursday, Feb. 7. She was married to Leon Moses, emeritus professor of economics at Northwestern. An award-winning teacher, Moses pioneered classes in language and gender, language and prejudice, and language and medicine. She joined the Northwestern faculty in 1966, serving as assistant dean of Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences from 1968 to 1976. She co-founded the women’s studies program (now the gender and sexuality studies program) with the late Professor …
Thursday, January 17, 2013
19-year-old Northwestern University sophomore Josie Nordman needs a lung transplant to survive, but her family can’t foot the $75,000 bill on their own.
Northwestern University sophomore Josie Nordman was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis, a chronic and frequently fatal lung disease, when she was only four years old. Now, at 19, the Homewood native is left with only 22 percent of her lung function. She was added to the lung transplant list on Dec. 12. A transplant is her only hope of surviving. Unfortunately, that hope comes with a hefty $750,000 price tag, according to her mother, Nicolle Nordman. While the family's insurance will cover the bulk of that amount, the Nordman family will be left with a bill of $50,000 to $75,000, much more than they can afford. “We are struggling to pay our monthly bills due to so many medical costs that we have no idea how to come up with this kind of money,” …
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Witnesses say Northwestern student Harsha Maddula was drinking alcohol at a party he attended before he drowned in Wilmette Harbor this September, according to police.
Evanston police say alcohol may be a contributing factor in the death of Harsha Maddula, a Northwestern University sophomore who drowned in Wilmette Harbor this September. The pre-med student from Garden City Park, NJ, was last seen alive leaving a party in the 2000 block of Ridge Avenue around 12:30 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 22. He was reported missing the following Monday, and police found his body in Wilmette Harbor on Thursday, Sept. 27. Since his death, police have been interviewing students who attended the party with Maddula and canvassed the area around Wilmette Harbor. While the canvass revealed no new information, some of the students who attended the party told police that he was intoxicated that night, according to Evanston Police …
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Catch up on news you may have missed, from police reports and cougar sightings to a sex offender map and a peanut butter recall.
1. Is Mitt Romney a Real Life Don Draper? Betsy and Sal focus on Romney's 'binders full of women' remark and discuss the presidential debates in a column that generated quite a lot a load of comments and controversy. 2. Sexual Predators: A Map of Homes in Wilmette, Winnetka Aiming to help parents keep their kids safe this Halloween, Patch offered a map showing the locations of Wilmette's and Winnetka's registered sex offenders. 3. Wilmette Police Officer Catches Jumper, Receives Life Saving Award Wilmette Police Officer Nick Rizzo received a Life Saving Award for his role in catching a person who jumped off the roof of a local home. 4. Police: Glenview Women Injected Heroin at Wilmette Dairy Queen Two Glenview women were arrested and …
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Harsha Maddula, a sophomore at Northwestern University, drowned in Wilmette Harbor last month. The Cook County Medical Examiner's Office initially ruled the cause to be "undetermined."
Editor's Note: An earlier version of this story contained incorrect information that the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office provided to Patch. Officials expect that a complete toxicology report, due to be completed in the next few weeks, will show whether or not there was alcohol or insulin in Maddula's body at the time of his death. One month after his body was found in Wilmette Harbor, Evanston Police say they are still searching for clues in the death of Northwestern University student Harsha Maddula. Cmdr. Jason Parrott, a spokesperson for the department, said that police continue to interview students who attended a party where Maddula was last seen alive. Police also recently canvassed the area of Wilmette Harbor, talking to …
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Services were held Monday for Northwestern University student Harsha Maddula, who drowned in Wilmette Harbor after he went missing from a party last week.
An inconsolable Dhanalakshmi Maddula wailed her son’s name as pallbearers placed the coffin of her 18-year old son, Harsha Maddula, into a hearse in Garden City Park, NY, Monday afternoon. A sophomore at Northwestern University, Maddula went missing after a party Saturday, Sept. 22. Classmates had told university police that he was en route to another party when they last saw him, but he never returned to his dorm room. Police recovered his body from the waters of Wilmette Harbor on the night of September 27. The Cook County Medical Examiner’s office has ruled the death an accidental drowning. “He was like the most responsible kid I even know,” said Sherwin Shaju, who shared every class with Maddula at his high school, New Hyde Park …
Friday, September 28, 2012
Police reported they used dogs, boats, helicopters, sonar and more in their search.
The Wilmette Police Department released the following statement Friday, detailing their involvement in the search that helped lead to last night's discovery of the body of 18-year-old Northwestern sophomore Harsha Maddula in Wilmette Harbor. Maddula had been missing since shortly after midnight on Saturday, Sept. 22, when he was last seen leaving a party in the 2000 block of Ridge Avenue in Evanston. On Tuesday September 25th the Wilmette Police Department was asked to assist the Northwestern and Evanston Police Departments in their search for a missing Northwestern student. That search brought them to the area of the Wilmette Harbor based on phone contact information. Over the course of the next two days Wilmette, in coordinating with the…
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Thursday, September 27, 2012
Police found a body in the water at Wilmette Harbor Thursday night. They believe it is Northwestern University sophomore Harsha Maddula, 18, who has been missing since Saturday.
Police say a body found in Wilmette Harbor Thursday night appears to be that of Harsha Maddula, a Northwestern University student who has been missing since Saturday. University Police learned that a body had been found in the water in the harbor shortly before 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 27, according to a press release from the university. Maddula’s wallet, containing his Northwestern ID card and his cell phone, were found on the body. Wilmette Police investigators ruled that there were no signs of foul play, the release said. An autopsy is scheduled for Friday morning, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office. “On behalf of Northwestern University, I extend our deepest sympathies to Harsha’s family and to his many friends at …
Monday, February 6, 2012
Advertisers 'played it safe' this year, professor says.
If you're made of chocolate, it's okay to dance suggestively. If you're a scantily clad lady, not so much. That's at least partly the message in the ranking of best and worst Super Bowl ads by Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. This is the eighth year the school's faculty and students have ranked the most anticipated ads of the year. "What's notable about this year versus others is that advertisers played it safe. As a result, we saw fewer standouts, but we also didn't see as many costly mistakes," Clinical Professor of Marketing Tim Calkins said in an article about the ranking on the school's website. Here's the school's list of the top and bottom four. Let us know in our polls below if you agree with the choices. The…
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12:28 pm on Wednesday, February 27, 2013
You can do all the talking you want as a parent, but cannot deny that EVERY campus across this country turns its back on underage drinking. Ridiculous how easy the access to alcohol is for minor young adults, many of them who have been responsible in every other aspect of their life. Had a doctor at the U of A tell me that binge drinking is rampant. How many alcohol related deaths will it take … more ›