The Daily Northwestern — January 29, 2019

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MLK speaker talks economic equality Anderson discusses supporting blackowned businesses

By ZOE MALIN

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Maggie Anderson advocated for economic equality for the black community during Northwestern’s 2019 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration keynote speech Monday.

Anderson is the CEO of the Empowerment Experiment Foundation and author of the book “Our Black Year: One Family’s Quest to Buy Black in America’s Racially Divided Economy.” In her speech, she discussed her efforts to support blackowned businesses throughout the past 10 years and pushed forth the message Dr. King wished for in his last ever speech, “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop”: uniting for economic justice and empowerment.

“When we lift each other up, even when we need lifting ourselves, we cannot only see over the mountaintop; we move mountains,” Anderson said. “I’m going to go out fighting for this. Are you?”

The event, held in PickStaiger Concert Hall and attended by about 70 people, also featured musical performances by groups including Soul4Real a cappella. Medill Prof. Ava Thompson Greenwell, one of three co-chairs for the event, said Anderson was selected as the keynote speaker due to her ability to put emphasis on Dr. King’s economic dream. She said this dream is not considered enough.

“We wanted a speaker who could not only inspire but create a call to action,” Greenwell said. She added that she was confident in Anderson’s ability to do so because of her 2009 Empowerment Experiment, which Anderson described as the first ever real-life case study in self-help economics.

In that experiment, Anderson said her family dedicated themselves to what she said “proved our love for our hurting community” by only supporting black businesses and professionals for a year. She cited Barack Obama’s election as inspiration for the experiment, as well as the need she saw to “promote action, unity and dialogue about the black community’s economic disparity.” » See KEYNOTE, page 6

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Northwestern’s campus is covered in snow. SESP junior Sonia Harris said the University’s delayed response to the frigid temperatures caused unnecessary anxiety among students.

NU thaws on canceling classes Campuses to close ahead of Wednesday’s ‘downright scary’ Arctic forecast

By ELIZABETH BYRNE and CATHERINE KIM daily senior staffers @lizbyrne33, @ck_525

Northwestern students said the University made the right choice to cancel school due to

forecasts of sub-zero temperatures –– a rare move for a school that has only closed six times in the last century because of the winter weather.

The University released an email to students Monday announcing it would be

cancelling classes from Tuesday evening to Thursday morning, although “essential services” such as policing and dining will still be running. The U.S. National Weather Service predicts temperatures during that time will reach below negative 20 degrees,

with wind chills of 30 to 50 below zero.

Earth & Planetary Sciences Prof. Daniel Horton said the cold temperatures forecasted are caused by the breakdown of » See CANCEL, page 6

‘Rationalizations aren’t acceptable’ Chicago mayoral Residents, aldermen critique city’s handling of Lawrence Crosby case

By CASSIDY WANG

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After the Evanston City Council approved a lawsuit settlement involving the wrongful arrest of former Northwestern graduate student Lawrence Crosby, residents and council members on Monday called for systemic changes to prevent further racial criminalization.

Crosby was arrested on Oct. 10, 2015, after a woman called 911 suspecting him of stealing a car that turned out to be his own. Evanston Police Department officers charged Crosby, who earned his PhD from McCormick last June, with disobedience to police. In 2017, former 9th Ward Ald. Brian Miller called for the release of the video of Crosby’s arrest. After the original charges against Crosby were dropped, he filed a lawsuit against the city and the four officers who stopped him, which was settled earlier this month for $1.25 million.

At Monday ’s meeting,

candidates debate NU law school hosts discussion of civil rights

By AARON BOXERMAN

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City Clerk Devon Reid speaks at City Council. Reid emphasized the importance of reforming the racial criminalization system at Monday’s meeting.

residents and council members blamed the city for the “reputational harm” the city’s response to the lawsuit caused.

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“The bulk of the $1.2 million settlement is compensation for reputational harm caused by us, the city and our refusal to take responsibility

and work towards justice,” said City Clerk Devon Reid.

Reid spoke from the » See CROSBY, page 6

Seven mayoral candidates discussed civil rights at a forum at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law’s Rubloff-Thorne Auditorium Tuesday night.

About 450 students and residents attended the forum hosted by the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee on Civil Rights. Candidates Amara Enyia, Bob Fioretti, John Kozlar, Garry McCarthy, Lori Lightfoot, Paul Vallas and Willie Wilson spoke to voters about their visions for Chicago ahead of the upcoming election on Feb. 26.

CLCCR senior staff attorney and organizer Barbara BarrenoPaschall said she hoped the forum encouraged young voters to engage with the mayoral election and civil rights.

“There aren’t a lot of forums which address civil rights in particular,” Barreno-Paschall said. “We thought it would be productive to let voters hear dialogue between

the candidates on those issues.”

Since September 2018, when Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced that he would not seek reelection, candidates from across the city stepped up to replace him, and 14 of them will appear on the ballot in February with no clear frontrunner. In a crowded field, candidates have struggled to differentiate themselves, and according to a Jan. 25 poll by the Chicago Sun-Times, one in four voters are still undecided.

At the forum, candidates answered questions about addressing inequalities in Chicago Public Schools, police contract reform and ensuring equal access to the ballot box.

In response to questions about reforming police contracts, Lori Lightfoot emphasized her progressive credentials and past work as the chair of the Chicago Police Accountability Task Force, created after the shooting death of Laquan McDonald by a Chicago Police Department officer.

Only one candidate — John Kozlar, a 34-year-old resident of the South Side — said he wanted harsher policing. » See DEBATE, page 6

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AROUND TOWN

Evanston prepares for extreme cold

By CATHERINE HENDERSON daily senior staffer @caity_henderson

Evanston officials are working to provide extra city services including street clearing and childcare in case of school closures as forecasts predict subzero temperatures in the city on Tuesday.

City manager Wally Bobkiewicz said the city’s first priority is clearing snow from sidewalks and streets, as almost 6 inches of snow fell on Sunday and Monday. A snow parking restriction ban began on Monday and will continue through Tuesday. In order to keep city employees safe and inside, Bobkiewicz said they condensed a threeday snow-clearing operation to two days over Monday and Tuesday.

In addition, Bobkiewicz said the city will prepare for snow-related emergencies by keeping an eye on the main water source and making sure the fire and police departments are ready to respond if necessary. He added that the Evanston Fire Department put out a fire on Sunday night, but fighting fires in sub-zero temperatures is “very dangerous.”

On Monday morning, the EFD also tweeted tips for staying warm, advising Evanston residents to watch out for frozen pipes, take care of their pets and wear layers and a hat. The department also provided tips to take care of heating systems.

“We are the service provider of last resort in these things and we take that responsibility seriously,” Bobkiewicz said. “Any Evanston resident that has a need to be filled over the next couple of days, we’re going to do our best to accommodate them.”

At a Monday city council meeting, Mayor Steve Hagerty thanked the public works department for all the hard work it had dedicated over the past couple days in keeping the streets clear.

“I also want to caution everybody on the harsh weather that is coming our way,” Hagerty said.

“We are talking historical lows in this area.”

At an Evanston/Skokie School District 65

Items stolen from Target

A 30-year-old woman tried to pass the checkout counter at the Target on Howard Street with items she had not paid for, including $60 worth of baby formula.

Evanston Police Department Cmdr.

Ryan Glew said a 24-year-old employee at Target reported Thursday that items were stolen from the Target in the 2200 block of Howard Street.

The woman took $60 worth of baby formula, but given the low dollar amount, no one at the store pressed charges against her, Glew said.

The woman was advised not to return to the Target at 2209 Howard Street or she would likely be arrested for trespassing, Glew said.

Items stolen from YMCA

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A snow plow clears snow from Ridge Avenue. City officials are preparing for the sub-zero temperatures coming on Tuesday.

board meeting on Monday, Superintendent Paul Goren said the district would remain open on Tuesday. However, he is keeping “a close eye” on the weather on Wednesday and Thursday, and he said he would release his decision about school for the rest of the week on Tuesday morning.

Goren said he and his staff will weigh the temperature, snow accumulation, driving conditions and heating in school buildings in his decision.

“Our primary goal is to keep school open,” Goren said. “We hear from many parents and caregivers around Evanston and Skokie about the importance of keeping school open.”

Goren also thanked maintenance staff in District 65, who were called to prepare school buildings for the cold.

Bobkiewicz said Evanston will support District

65 and Evanston Township High School/District 202 in their decisions about closing school. The city will make plans to open some facilities for children if parents need to drop them off during the workday, he said.

Evanston is familiar with the dangers that occur in low temperatures, Bobkiewicz said, so the city will do its best to be proactive. He said he will send out an official plan on Tuesday, but emergency services will continue regardless.

“I think people are going to stay home and sit tight for 24 or 48 hours, which is probably the smartest thing anyone can do,” Bobkiewicz said.

“Hopefully by Thursday evening we’re on the other side of this.” catherinehenderson2021@u.northwestern.edu

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A 57-year-old man reported Friday that personal items were stolen from his gym locker at the McGaw YMCA in the 1000 block of Grove Street.

The man said he approached the front desk when he noticed his wallet and driver’s license were missing from his unsecured gym locker.

There is no one in custody and there are no suspects, Glew said. ­— Ashley Capoot

Setting the record straight

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ON CAMPUS

Reports of campus grabbings decline

By PRANAV BASKAR

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University Police have received no reports of attempted grabbings of female students since the last crime alert on Nov. 13.

The sharp decline in the number of attempted robberies comes after multiple student reports of grabbings during Fall Quarter. In a crime alert sent out Nov. 9, the University reported three separate incidents of female students being approached by men who then tried to grab their belongings. UP informed the community of two more incidents Nov. 13.

Eric Chin, the deputy chief of UP, said he attributes the reduction of reported crimes on the south end of campus to new initiatives spearheaded by his department in collaboration with the Evanston Police Department, the Division of Student Affairs and Northwestern parents.

“We also had high-visibility foot and vehicular patrols in that corridor, and our community service officers have been positioned within that corridor as well,” Chin said.

Though all the students escaped without injury, UP responded to the reports by amping up its security presence through joint patrols with EPD and alerting students of safety resources. UP also encouraged students to take advantage of safety escorts, free shuttles across the Evanston campus and apps like Safe Ride and NUhelp.

In terms of investigating previous incidents, the process is ongoing.

“The cases are still open,” Chin said. “We’re still working with the Evanston Police Department — their cases are still pending as well. We don’t close our investigation until suspects are in custody.”

Chin added that while UP hasn’t been conducting climate surveys to see if students are feeling safer, the department is closely monitoring

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A Northwestern University Police vehicle. Since Nov. 13, UP has received no reports of attempted grabbings.

crime statistics along with EPD. Some students already report feeling safer — though for different reasons. Medill first-year Sarah Tani said she feels more comfortable walking on campus now that the sun doesn’t go down as early.

“I don’t feel like I’m walking home alone in the night as much,” she added. “I also think there’s been increased awareness across the board in terms of women walking alone, given what’s happened earlier this year.”

Tani said the incidents in Fall Quarter have made people more collectively conscious about where they go and when, which increases safety on campus.

Though students are taking personal precautions to feel more protected, it’s unclear whether they are aware of the new steps UP has been taking to increase security.

Medill first-year Saira Singh said she feels like a lot of the changes were made “behind-the-scenes.”

“I definitely feel safer than I did earlier when all the news was coming out about the grabbings,” Singh said. “Back when it happened in October and November, I was much more hesitant to walk around at night.”

Chin said UP has worked hard to make students feel safer on campus, relying on the support and feedback of parents and other members of the NU and Evanston community.

“We can’t do it by ourselves, when it comes to police coverage and proactive patrolling,” Chin said. “When we look at safety as a whole, it’s not just the police department or community services; it’s a collaborative effort with Student Affairs, parents, faculty and staff members.” pbaskar@u.northwestern.edu

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Multilingual people shouldn’t have to ‘assimilate’ MARISSA MARTINEZ

OPINION EDITOR

According to the U.S. Census, foreign-born residents made up 13.5 percent of the population as of 2016, and that number is certainly higher considering potential survey methods.

Their presence is incredibly important to this country, and it’s expected to rise even further — one projection by the Pew Research Center expects 78.2 million foreign-born residents by 2065. This means a lot more representation in different cultures, languages, backgrounds, religions, customs and more will manifest over the next few decades, all of which should be embraced.

However, not everyone sees it that way in the United States — especially when it comes to languages.

Over the weekend, longtime journalist Tom Brokaw shared his views of assimilation on “Meet the Press.” He said Hispanic immigrants “ought not to be just codified in their communities but make sure that all their kids are learning to speak English.” While he eventually walked back on his commentary, the damage was done. Many rushed to condemn his comments, including the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, which reprehended both his comments and his apology and claimed his statements insinuated that “U.S. Hispanics are all foreigners, prejudiced as the ‘others.’” They also commended White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor for “fact checking” the remarks during the segment.

In a separate incident, Duke professor Megan Neely wrote an email to all first- and second-year biostatistics graduate students at the university, referencing other faculty members who witnessed students “speaking Chinese (in their words, VERY LOUDLY )” and claimed they weren’t using all opportunities to practice their English. She also wrote, “I have no idea how hard it has been and still is for you to come to the US and have to learn in a non-native language. … That being said, I encourage you to commit to using English 100% of the time when you are in Hock or any other professional setting.”

While Brokaw and Neely both had different ways of saying it, their message was clear: English is the default in the United States, and it should stay that way. That is concerning.

There are dozens of videos online of

random people being verbally and even physically attacked by white Americans for not speaking English in a variety of settings.

Watching innocent people trying to order food or speak on the phone while getting harassed by strangers pains me to my core.

But it’s that much more insidious when the perpetrators of this violence aren’t just “strangers.” While Neely was virtually unheard of in the public sphere until last week, she sent a very similar email out last year titled, “To Speak English or To Not Speak English,” in which she claimed “speaking in your native language in the department may give faculty the impression that you are not trying to improve your English skills and that you are not taking this opportunity seriously,” stating that students may be cutting themselves off from potential work opportunities.

Brokaw’s example is even more alarming.

A famous journalist who anchored NBC’s Nightly News segment for more than two decades, Brokaw is a decorated part of the institution of broadcast journalism. For him to use his platform to spread stereotypes about Latinos in the United States is frustrating but not surprising.

Many who came to Brokaw and Neely’s defense said that people who live in America should speak English for their own wellbeing. They claimed that if we were to live in France, for instance, we would be expected to speak French.

But that’s a false equivalency. Ignoring the fact that many Americans hold a great amount of privilege when traveling abroad and are granted leeway for their speaking skills compared to marginalized populations within those countries, this isn’t about Latinos

or Chinese students. It’s about white people’s discomfort in a country where they’ve unfairly been considered the default for centuries.

Not speaking English is not un-American.

Yes, the country was colonized by Englishspeaking men and the language is spoken by most, but we still have no official language as mandated by the government. English fluency is not required to live here by any means.

Being multilingual is an asset. It offers access to other cultures and people and makes our world a little smaller. When institutional powers shame and discriminate against those who speak more than one language, it sends a message that Americans don’t actually value diversity — or, rather, that they only think it’s positive when it’s not discomforting or confusing.

Brokaw and Neely both had influence in their positions. Their condemnation of Latinos not “assimilating” and international students not speaking English means a lot more than a random video — it shows how xenophobia and harmful stereotypes are embedded in our national conscience. I’m glad Alcindor was able to call Brokaw’s comments out as they happened, but it shouldn’t be on people of color to constantly police offensive statements.

This country only benefits from the sheer number of languages spoken and cultures represented. It’s important to uplift, rather than silence, their voices.

Marissa Martinez is a Medill sophomore. She can be contacted at marissamartinez2021@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@ dailynorthwestern.com. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.

U.S. government shutdown was a self-inflicted wound MARCUS THUILLIER

OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR

On Friday, the government shutdown came to an end after 35 days. Over 800,000 government workers get to be paid for their work again. It has been a long and tedious road to get to a point where our president and his cabinet have finally decided to fund the government. It would be easy to write about this as another partisan issue, but I won’t. To me, this is not about Republicans versus Democrats — it’s all about a dysfunctional governmental mechanism that is uniquely American.

The recent government shutdown is yet another example of something the United States could easily fix but doesn’t want to.

Parliaments in other Western democracies also have a say on deciding the country’s budget, yet “constitutions or political systems prevent scenarios that would be comparable to the U.S. impasse,” according to The Washington Post. This problem is fairly new too,

as it only started happening during President Jimmy Carter’s administration. In 1980, then-Attorney General Benjamin Civiletti issued an opinion on the Anti-Deficiency Act of 1884, requiring “agencies to terminate operations when appropriations expire.” Now, government shutdowns are fairly normal, occurring 20 times since 1976. Considering the human and financial cost those shutdowns incurred, the American government should be held accountable for creating a problem and refusing to solve it.

These government shutdowns have a dramatic impact on both furloughed government employees and those impacted by the closed agencies. Regardless of where one stands on the ideological spectrum, one cannot underestimate the impact shutdowns have on those workers. Between the employees at home without pay and those forced to work without pay (over 450,000 as of Jan. 16), missing even just one paycheck means some of those 800,000 employees will not be able to pay their mortgage or insurance bills or, even worse, pay for basic necessities like food.

The prolonged shutdown also caused major national security issues, such as threatening

the safety of air travelers or national cybersecurity. Shutdowns ultimately cost the U.S. money — two walls’ worth of money. According to The New York Times, the shutdown ended up “costing the United States economy $11 billion,” which is almost twice as much as what was initially requested by President Trump for the border wall.

Other countries do not suffer from any of those specific shutdown problems because of the established and powerful mechanisms they have in place. In Europe, Belgium survived 589 days in 2010 and 2011 without a government and was still able to pass budget resolutions and pay its federal workers. Yet

another example is Germany, where failure to pass the budget just means “the most recent budget usually continues to apply and is administered by the previous government that is in place until a new leadership takes over,” according to The Washington Post.

Government shutdowns are inherently inefficient and costly. The United States is a country that has enough resources to survive regular shutdowns, but this should not be the norm. This country has ultimately decided that the livelihoods of its government workers were not worth enacting basic safeguards against shutdowns like many other countries have. If these shutdowns continue, the government will continue to hurt the people it is supposed to serve, regardless of who is in charge.

Marcus Thuillier is a first-year graduate student.

He can be contacted at marcusthuillier2019@u. northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this op-ed, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.

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TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 2019

D65 board talks Culturally Responsive Pedagogy

By MADDY DAUM

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Evanston/Skokie School District 65 saw a one-percent decrease in the opportunity gap for Latinx students and an increase in math scores across most demographics, according to the 2018 Achievement and Accountability Report presented at a Monday school board meeting.

Board members examined the annual report, which aims to study ways in which the district can close opportunity gaps for underserved students.

The board also discussed the district’s Culturally Responsive Pedagogy update, which works to improve education for marginalized students by facilitating collaboration and cognitive skills.

Kylie Klein, the director of research, accountability and data for the district, presented the Achievement and Accountability Report, emphasizing that board members should consider the district’s dedication to equity when reviewing the data. These reports drive planning and improvement efforts to increase literacy and college readiness, Klein said. “(These results) are really important to us in terms of how students are growing, where students are growing so we can understand what’s happening,” Klein said. “Particularly for black, Asian and Latinx students (the data) is encouraging, but again, we have to understand that even though there are gains and growth, they are not at a scale sufficient enough to close the opportunity gaps.”

Board vice president Anya Tanyavutti said she

Northwestern Medicine opens Polsky Urologic Cancer Institute

Northwestern’s Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center announced on Jan. 7 the opening of the Polsky Urologic Cancer Institute, dedicated to the research and care of urologic cancers.

The Institute was funded by a $10 million donation from Michael Polsky, the founder and CEO of clean energy firm Invenergy. Polsky’s name is also attached to the University of Chicago’s Polsky

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Board President Suni Kartha speaks at the board meeting. Board members met to discuss the District’s commitment to equity in relation to the Achievement and Accountability Report.

was disappointed the achievement report did not separate data based on students with Individualized Education Programs and English Language Learners. The report is broken down based on race, but not by gender, learning disabilities or English ability.

“I feel like we are talking in circles, and I feel like perhaps I’m not being heard, I’m not being understood,” Tanyavutti said. “I think that it would be very useful to have that desegregated data for our students with IEPs and our English Language Learners because we have racially segregated data

Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, to which he has contributed $50 million.

The Institute will treat urologic or genitourinary cancers, which include bladder, kidney, prostate and testicular cancer — each of which can create unique complications. Led by Dr. Edward Schaeffer, the chair of the Urology department in the Feinberg School of Medicine, the Institute brings together an interdisciplinary group of urologists, medical and radiation oncologists, radiologists and pathologists to target these cancers. It will also provide patients with access to genetic counselors and nurse practitioners.

Specialists at the Institute are already frequent collaborators under the larger umbrella of the Lurie

Cancer Center, said Dr. Maha Hussain, the deputy director of the Center. She and Schaeffer emphasized that the Institute is an “optimization” of ongoing operations through the creation of a urologic cancer-focused group as well as a new wellspring of funding.

“It doesn’t change what we do. … The Polsky Institute is one of the umbrellas that we are working in,” Hussain said. “Our mission is to make things better for humans, and that’s going to happen through excellence in patient care, research and services. [The Institute] brings us even more together, and it has the resources which enhance those different aspects.”

for our other markers in our achievement report.”

Board president Suni Kartha said disaggregating the report would give the board a better understanding about how different aspects of a student’s identity might create intersecting impacts in education.

District officials also used the achievement report to inform the pedagogy update, which Jamilla Pitts — the coordinator of social studies and the African-Centered Curriculum — presented to the board. The concept of culturally relevant teaching follows education scholar Zaretta Hammond’s model and focuses on improving students’ cognitive abilities, Pitts said.

In her memo to the board, Pitts explored the potential uses of the model, and she initially began implementing it in the African-Centered Curriculum in 2016. In the 2017-18 school year, District 65 teachers started to apply Culturally Responsive Pedagogy to a social studies unit in which students created their own itinerary for a field trip to the Museum of Science and Industry.

During Monday’s board meeting, Pitts had members participate in an activity teachers use in the social studies unit, usually given to students in fifth grade to ninth grade. Pitts emphasized the collaborative and supportive elements of the activity.

“I want to show that it is not about race or ethnicity when you are talking about Culturally Responsive Pedagogy,” Pitts said. “We have them work collectively.” madisondaum2022@u.northwestern.edu

The team expects to move into a planned “collaborative space” by September, Hussain said.

Students who work with doctors and researchers involved in the Institute may collaborate on internal projects, Hussain added. Schaeffer said the opening of the Institute will improve the educational experiences of students who are headed for careers in clinical urology and urologic oncology.

“If we make our enterprise that much better of a place for our patients, and more patients come with complex disease states, the students will benefit significantly,” Schaeffer said.

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CANCEL From page 1

a polar vortex, when wind that is “hanging out” in the arctic moves south to lower latitudes.

“Any time you expose your skin in conditions like this, there’s a chance that bad things could happen, like frostbite,” Horton said. “It’s a very dangerous situation that we’re about to have and if people do need to go outside, they need to dress appropriately and have a quick plan to go from point A to point B.” University Archivist Kevin Leonard said NU has canceled classes six times for weather-related reasons in its history. The most recent closing was in January 2014, when NU delayed the start of Winter Quarter

for two days because of low temperatures and nearly two feet of snow. In February 2011, NU cancelled evening classes after 6 p.m. due to snow. The first time NU cancelled classes for snow was in 1918.

Even before the University announced its closure, students were talking about skipping classes.

McCormick sophomore Anya Kothari made a Facebook event tilted “Boycott class because if no one shows up, class *is* cancelled,” to which 323 people responded.

“Even before classes were officially canceled, my parents, my friends’ parents were like, ‘Don’t go, because it’s just not worth it at that point,’” she said.

Because she lives in the sorority quad but has most classes in Technological Institute, Kothari said even getting to class would be a struggle in

dangerously low temperatures. Although she has a car, she said the road conditions are unsafe and the Frostbite shuttles are often unreliable.

SESP junior Sonia Harris said low-income students are especially affected when the University fails to close school during such frigid temperatures.

Many of them do not have the appropriate gear to walk outside when the temperature is below negative 20 degrees, she said, so these students would have to risk their safety simply to get to class.

Psychology Prof. Wendi Gardner was already preparing for classes to be canceled even before the University’s official announcement. She said it was difficult to make the call –– especially because Winter Quarter is already shorter than the other quarters –– but necessary in concern for her students.

DEBATE

CROSBY

“These people who terrorize our city, they’re out there, and we need to change that,” Kozlar said.

Candidates also emphasized their commitment to increasing equity in education. Paul Vallas, the former superintendent of CPS, said he would establish neighborhood magnet schools rather than citywide ones.

Amara Enyia, the director of the Austin Chamber of Commerce, said the city needs to use an “equity lens” at every level in CPS. Enyia said recent reforms have left the root causes of inequality in the city untouched.

Chicago’s 11 selective enrollment high schools are one symptom of this problem, Enyia said.

“If CPS is serious about ensuring that everyone has access to a good education, we have to move away from that model,” Enyia told The Daily in an interview.

“What is our investment strategy for ensuring that it’s not only selective enrollment schools that get the resources they need?”

However, many candidates were long on promises and short on proposals, forum moderator Alden Loury told The Daily in an interview.

Loury, an investigative journalist for WBEZ Chicago, said one drawback to these types of forums is that candidates tend to offer “platitudes.”

“It’s rare that you hear people give cogent, explicit details on what they plan to do,” Loury said. However, he said, he was pleased to hear the candidates discuss how to make voting accessible to incarcerated Chicago residents.

Candidates have attended over a dozen mayoral forums this year, from Ravenswood to West Garfield.

But for La’Rie Suttle, a resident of South Shore, this mayoral forum was her first.

In a field full of progressive candidates, Suttle said Enyia and Lightfoot’s answers were substantive and striking.

“Personally, I care a lot about police accountability and police reform,” Suttle said in an interview. “(Enyia’s) response about community engagement spoke to me as a community organizer. I can see both of those candidates educating people within a community.”

lectern as a citizen — though he wanted to speak from the dais as clerk, Mayor Steve Hagerty instructed him to speak outside of his official role.

Evanston resident Misty Witenberg also said the city is in this “mess” because city officials “refused to take blame” from the start.

“Instead of apologizing to this young man, we pursued charges against him that even officers on the scene had said they knew were going to fall apart,” Witenberg said. “That was at taxpayer expense. His initial suit asked for less than $50,000 and it increased to what it is now because we repeatedly smeared him, and we used city platforms to do that.”

Beyond financial cost, Reid said making sure that such incidents don’t occur again is essential for public trust. Reid was disappointed that the city carried on with charges instead of apologizing to Crosby.

Both Reid and Witenberg were also frustrated over the city attorney’s decision to

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After the 12 months, the Kellogg School of Management studied the data Anderson collected, which showed how supporting blackowned businesses could counter poverty, crime and other social crises that disproportionately impact black people, among other things.

“Together, Northwestern and my family made history,” Anderson said.

Anderson also acknowledged the challenges that came with “buying black.” She recalled being unable to purchase new clothes for daughters until five months into the experiment, when she finally found a black-owned retailer that sold toddler apparel. But Anderson refused to give up.

“Every time we disregard the gems that we

“I needed to figure out how to shift the class around so that it doesn’t harm (students) but still get the goals of the class done,” Gardner said.

Harris said the University should have canceled sooner, and NU’s delayed response to the weather only caused unnecessary anxiety among students.

Not only are they concerned about handling the weather, she said, but many also struggled to plan their studies as midterms are just around the corner.

“There’s definitely an environment at Northwestern like you have to go to class no matter what,” she said. “Give students a break, you know? We have such an insane pressure system here.” elizabethbyrne2020@u.northwestern.edu catherinekim2020@u.northwestern.edu

pursue charges knowing they would be dismissed in court.

“The public has an interest in the city’s acknowledgement of when we do wrong,” Reid said.

Witenberg denounced the interests of the city’s legal department. She said the attorneys represent the city and its interests as if it were a corporation, but City Council is supposed to be representing the public interest.

“Protecting the city from having to admit when it’s wrong to members of the public is not in the public interest,” Witenberg said.

“When public interest and corporate interest conflict, we’re finding people working against our interest. That’s a systemic problem.”

Reid said the city has issued a number of reforms, including body cameras for all officers and a cessation of policy forcing suspects into the prone position during felony traffic stops.

However, he said the institution of criminalization based on race still needs to change.

“The swift suspicion and criminalization of the black body and of young black men is unfortunately ingrained deeply into the bedrock of our culture,” Reid said. “We must, as

individuals and as this institution, check racial bias, afford our neighbors the benefit of the doubt and be willing to investigate further.”

Ald. Donald Wilson (4th) said the challenging part of the issue is considering the underlying factors in Crosby’s case. He called on the city to start asking harder questions.

“This has to force us to dig deeper and to acknowledge prejudices that underlie these events,” Wilson said. “Excuses aren’t acceptable. Rationalizations aren’t acceptable.”

Wilson said broader circumstances and policies led to the Crosby case and emphasized the need for policy change.

In the future, Wilson said city council members have a job beyond just listening. To effect real and long-term change, part of their job is to “do everything they can to tear down the barriers that have been put up.”

“These barriers have existed for a long time,” Wilson said. “They’ve been carefully constructed, but going forward we’re accountable for the future.”

have, we forget black-owned business and suppliers and we forget Dr. King,” she said. “We may remember him on his birthday, but we forget him and those who joined in his movement for the rest of the year.”

Suggesting ways the audience could act upon this issue, Anderson asked the crowd to “just support black-owned businesses a little more.”

She said supporting one another, speaking out, standing up and asking questions was central to making change.

“It’s not that hard, and it’s not too late,” Anderson said at the event. She invited the audience to repeat this statement back to her.

While the keynote event was offered to both the NU and Evanston communities, Greenwell noted that for many years now, she has seen fewer and fewer students in the crowd.

However, she said she wants to remind

students that “a rising tide lifts all boats.”

“When any segment of our population is not doing well, then all of us are not doing as well as we could be,” Greenwell said. “There are specific things that we can all do to balance the scale of economic inequality.”

Weinberg and Bienen first-year Sophia Jean was one of the few students who attended Anderson’s speech. She said it is “important to keep Dr. King’s legacy alive” as well as to have the conversations Anderson facilitates, “especially at a time when we are living in a polarized environment.”

“I hope this inspires the audience to constantly think more about different people’s identities,” Jean said. “What it really comes down to is the need to respect each other.”

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TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 2019

SWIMMING

NU splits back-to-back with Louisville, Cincinnati

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

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Northwestern knew it was in for a challenge when it scheduled meets on consecutive days at Louisville and Cincinnati. But after falling to the ranked Cardinals on Friday, the Wildcats bounced back and defeated the Bearcats on Saturday.

The No. 23 NU women (5-3, 2-2 Big Ten) lost 166-134 to No. 16 Louisville (4-2), while the men (3-4, 0-3) dropped their dual to the No. 8 Cardinals (6-2) 200-100. However, both Cats squads won on Saturday against Cincinnati, as the women beat the Bearcats (5-1) 170-129 and the men won 172.5-127.5.

“Overall, we did a really exceptional job,” coach Jeremy Kipp said. “The team got off the bus (in Louisville) with a very clear vision… It was a lot closer than the score showed. We bussed over to Cincinnati that night, and the team did a really good job.”

The women had seven first-place finishes in

Louisville, three of which came from sophomore Calypso Sheridan, who won the 100- and 200-yard backstroke and the 400-yard individual medley. The lone victory on the men’s side came from freshman Manu Bacarizo in the 200 back.

Other victories from the women came from sophomore Sophie Angus in the 100-yard breaststroke, junior Malorie Han in the 100-yard freestyle, freshman Miriam Guevara in the 100-yard butterfly and senior Olivia Rosendahl in the 3-meter diving.

“Miriam Guevara, she was really good, she got a big win in the 100 fly on Friday,” Kipp said. “The other person who had a breakout weekend was Sophie Angus. Her 1:01 on Friday in the 100 breast, that’s a really fast time for this time of year. She just looked great.”

NU dominated the proceedings on Saturday, with the women winning 10 of 16 events and the men winning 9 of 16. The Cats also finally faced a team they could showcase their depth against: NU had at least one of the top two spots in all but four events across both genders. In 13 events, the Cats took home both first and second place.

The Cats swept the diving events, with

Rosendahl winning both the 1- and 3-meter events for the women and freshman Evan Labuda winning both for the men. The women also got three more first-place finishes from Sheridan, as well as wins from Angus, Han and Guevara in the same events they won on Friday.

The men were led by freshman Andrew Zhang, who won both the 100 back and the 50 free. Bacarizo won the 200 back for the second straight day.

The Cats also got wins from freshman Ryan Gridley in the 200 free and senior Ryan Tate in the 100 fly.

“I did pretty well, compared to where I was last season,” Zhang said. “It’s a pretty big confidence booster going into resting for (Big Ten Championships).”

Kipp said the team’s maturity since the start of the season helped NU come back from a difficult meet on Friday and get the win on Saturday.

“If we had tried to do (the back-to-back) in October, I’m not sure we’d have the same result,” Kipp said. “The team is a lot more confident in their training and their performance.” benjaminrosenberg2021@u.northwestern.edu

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A Northwestern swimmer swims the freestyle. The Wildcats split two weekend meets this week.

WOMEN’S TENNIS

Cats advance to Round of 16 with two comeback wins

By CHARLIE GOLDSMITH

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The memories of the heartbreaker last season in the ITA National Kickoff Weekend at the hands of UCLA still haven’t completely dissipated for this Northwestern team.

But in sophomore Caroline Pozo’s second appearance in this event, she was able to take a dramatic, climactic three-set victory that propelled Northwestern (3-1) to the Round of 16. For the second day in a row, the Wildcats rallied from a 2-3 deficit to defeat a ranked opponent, beating No. 22 UCF (3-2) and No. 17 Miami (4-1) 4-3

this weekend in Evanston to advance.

“It was kind of just all on me,” Pozo said. “But I didn’t really think about it like that. I was just (going) to play, kind of just stay in the moment and not think ahead.”

After Pozo won four consecutive games to close the third set, NU had earned its first spot in this round of the tournament since 2014, leading to an on-court celebration following match point.

It was the second late rally this weekend for the Cats, who trailed after the first set in five out of six singles matches Saturday against UCF but rebounded to take the 4-3 victory.

Then one day later, NU took an early 1-0 lead as freshman Clarissa Hand and senior Lee Orr secured the team the doubles point. While junior

Julie Byrne earned a quick 6-3, 6-0 win in singles over No. 82 Daniella Roldan, the Hurricanes took the next three matches at No. 1, No. 3 and No. 5 to take a 3-2 lead.

Then with the team’s back against the wall, sophomore Inci Ogut responded from losing a close second set tiebreaker to Yuna Ito by winning the third set 6-1. That tied the match at three, with Pozo’s match the only one remaining. With the entire crowd focused on her, she had a clutch performance to win the match for NU. “(Ogut) had match points in the second set and didn’t convert but then she took her match so strong in the third, a credit to her,” sophomore Julie Byrne said. “And then Pozo just pure aggression playing at six, each player just really dug in today.”

After sweeping the field over the weekend, NU advances to the ITA National Team Indoor Championships in February at the University of Washington as one of the final 16 teams remaining.

Despite losing 5-2 to No. 16 Kansas a week ago, the young Cats were able to have success against two highly-rated teams in a high-pressure environment.

“It was just such a phenomenal college tennis match,” said coach Claire Pollard. “I liked our spirit, I thought our competitiveness was stronger. … This game will get to you, and it’s got some highs and lows. You’ve just got to stick with it.

And I’m happy for them.” charliegoldsmith2021@u.northwestern.edu

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100 AND COUNTING

The Daily sat down with Northwestern coach Chris Collins on the heels of his 100th win and talked through some of his biggest wins at NU during his five and a half seasons in Evanston.

Chris Collins reflects on his best wins

­— Ella Brockway

NOV. 9, 2013 VS. EASTERN ILLINOIS, 72-55

Daily file photo by Tyler Pager

It wasn’t the prettiest of games — NU airballed four of its shots in the first half — but Drew Crawford scored 25 points and collected 11 rebounds to give the Cats their first win of the Chris Collins era. It was also a good omen for what would come ahead: Collins’ two predecessors Carmody and Kevin O’Neill had both lost their career openers.

What Collins says now: “I remember the nerves, and so badly wanting to get that first win.

It was a good night. We got off to a little bit of a slow start, it was a low-scoring game, but I remember winning and how excited we all were because it was the start of a new journey.”

JAN. 29, 2014 AT WISCONSIN, 65-56 This was Collins’ first big-time win with the Cats. NU hadn’t beaten Wisconsin on the road since 1996, and had never won in the Badgers’ Kohl Center, but Crawford scored 30 points, and the Cats forced current NBA players Sam Dekker and Frank Kaminsky to shoot 5-for-18 from the floor. That Wisconsin team would advance to the season’s Final Four.

What Collins says now: “For me, that was kind of the first sense of, ‘You know what, we might be able to do this.’ The first time we’d played Wisconsin was a month earlier, and that was my first Big Ten game. And we were losing 40-14 at halftime. I remember that being a really low moment … And then

a month later, to go there with that same group of guys, and to win in the Kohl Center, against a Final Four team. I still, to this day, have a picture of those five guys that were on the floor at the end of the game above my desk. That’s something that I’m going to carry, because to me that was one of the most special nights.”

Daily file photo by Jane Thompson

FEB. 15, 2015 VS. IOWA, 66-61 (OT)

Daily file photo by Nathan Richards

The Cats entered this one on a ten-game losing streak, and when Iowa hit a buzzer-beater to send the game to overtime, it seemed like the streak might stretch to 11. The NU defense — which finished with 12 blocks — held steady in overtime.

And with help from then-freshman guard Bryant McIntosh, who scored 18, the Cats picked up a memorable win.

What Collins says now: “Going through that 10-game losing streak was probably the hardest time of my six years, just because we had a really young group of guys that were working really hard and we weren’t seeing any rewards. I remember we went to a zone defense, we hadn’t played zone the whole year, and we changed our whole defense. It

was working, and they actually hit a 3-pointer at the end of regulation to tie the game and to send it into overtime, and I’m like ‘Oh my gosh, here we go again.’ That was really important, for that group … McIntosh, (Vic) Law, (Scottie) Lindsey, they were all freshmen, so that was obviously another memorable win towards the growth of our program.”

FEB. 12, 2017 AT WISCONSIN, 66-59 The Badgers were ranked No. 7 in the country at this point in the 2016-17 season, and NU had to face them without its leading scorer, Scottie Lindsey, who was sidelined for three games. That wouldn’t stop the Cats, though; McIntosh scored 25 and NU defeated a top-7 team for the first time since 2012.

What Collins says now: “That was a big night because we had just lost Scottie Lindsey to mono. We knew we were in position for the postseason. We had played really well when we lost Scottie, we were 7-2 in the league, 18-4 (overall) and we knew we were going to be without

him. And then all of a sudden, you’re on the road against a Top 10 team in one of the toughest places to play. And to win that game without Scottie that night, and the way everyone stepped up was another huge win towards us making the NCAA Tournament that year.”

Daily file photo by Leah Voskuil

MARCH 1, 2017 VS. MICHIGAN, 67-65

Daily file photo by Rachel Dubner

The Pass. The Shot. The Game.

This win will live on in NU folklore for the rest of Collins’ coaching career. Nathan Taphorn launched a full-court inbounds pass to Dererk Pardon, who laid it in under the basket, and the Cats essentially solidified their place in that

season’s NCAA Tournament.

What Collins says now:

“It’ll always be special. To me, that was kind of the storybook finish to the movie. I mean, we still might have gone, but we knew we needed one more marquee win in

order to go to the tournament. So to be at home in front of a sellout crowd, to have it come down to the last second, full court pass, big drama, it was almost too good to be true. What I remember is just sharing, after that, the time in the locker room with those guys.”

MARCH 16, 2017 VS. VANDERBILT, 68-66 Collins knew what the feeling of the NCAA Tournament was like — three seasons before he’d arrived in Evanston, he’d been on the court as the confetti fell and as Duke accepted its national championship trophy. He knew that it was important not just for his team to get to the dance, but to make themselves known at the party. With 25 points and

a pair of late-game free throws from McIntosh, that’s just what the Cats did.

What Collins says now:

“The experience of being in the tournament was great, but I think it was really important for us to not just be there. We wanted to show that we truly belonged and to do that, you’ve got to win.

They had so many firsts that they did, they got to the semifinals of the Big Ten Tournament, they went to the NCAA Tournament for the first time, I think we won six consecutive league games for the first time ever. To go to the NCAA Tournament, to not only be there but then advance to the next round, I think it was a special victory.”

Daily file photo by Katie Pach

JAN. 22, 2019 VS. INDIANA, 72-66

Daily file photo by Alison Albelda

It was a momentous evening all around — redshirt junior forward Aaron Falzon dropped a career-high 21 points and Pardon scored his 1,000th career point — as Collins finally entered the triple digits last week and the Cats collected their third conference win of the season.

What Collins says now: “Anytime you reflect on things like that you kind of go back to the beginning. And to hear from a lot of the former players afterwards, especially the guys that were here in the beginning, Alex Olah, Drew

Crawford, Sanjay Lumpkin, guys like that, I think everyone takes pride in a number like that. Any time coaching accomplishments are talked about, they’re really a program accomplishment.

Hopefully the next 100 come a little bit sooner.”