The Daily Northwestern — February 6, 2019

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Students react to State of the Union Some viewers were surprised Trump ‘stuck to the script’

By CATHERINE KIM

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Students who gathered together to watch the State of the Union said they were surprised by the President Donald Trump’s unexpected “presidential-like” speech.

As students watched from places like Norris University Center and McCormick Foundation Center, Trump went through his accomplishments from the past year –– which garnered rounds of applause from some and groans from others. Weinberg senior and Democrat Josh Varcie said the president “stuck to the script” as he covered a range of subjects, including immigration policy and the economy.

“Just the gravity of the situation combined with the more scripted approach helped him to be more presidential than say, a Make America Great Again Rally,” Varcie said.

Although Trump’s speech was more “toned-down” than his other events, Varcie said his rhetoric was still more direct and harsh than that of past presidents, which he finds concerning.

Weinberg junior and Republican Dominic Bayer also said Trump’s restrained speech helped him focus on political issues, rather than personally attacking individuals who opposed him.

Despite being more

predictable, however, Medill junior and Democrat Claire Bugos said Trump’s speech was still politically charged. While she had expected more focus on bipartisanship and unity, she said she was surprised when he made comments against the Mueller investigation.

“It just seemed very pointed at Democrats and clearly Trump was trying to absolve himself of blame,” she said.

“I don’t think that necessarily would have happened under another president.”

An issue that particularly struck SESP junior and Democrat Linda Sandor during Trump’s speech was his attack on late-term abortions –– he was referring to New York’s new Reproductive Health Act that allows abortions after 24 weeks if the mother’s health is at risk or the fetus is not viable.

She said his narrative of abortions being abused to “just kill babies” is inaccurate and that he fails to recognize the complexity behind performing an abortion.

“I was frustrated, and it wasn’t exclusive to just the abortion part of the speech, but a lot of falsehoods and stretching of the truth in the speech,” she said.

However, Bayer, who agrees with Trump’s stance on late-term abortions, said the president was eloquent while addressing the issue. Rather, he said he disagreed the most on Trump’s negative stance on trade with China, because he said Americans would benefit from China’s cheap products. » See SOTU, page 6

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A stained glass window at St. Nicholas Church in Evanston. The parish is home to the LGBTQ+Family and Friends ministry.

LGBTQ+ Catholics find refuge St. Nicholas ministry welcomes parishioners despite Church pushback

By CHRISTOPHER VAZQUEZ

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This article contains references to sexual abuse.

When the LGBTQ+Family and Friends ministry at St. Nicholas Church first launched, Marion Flynn found herself with a young child and a secret. She hadn’t come out as a lesbian woman, but she watched the work the ministry did from afar and felt encouraged.

Despite the perception that Catholicism and queer identities are mutually exclusive, the LGBTQ+ ministry at St. Nicholas has welcomed queer parishioners since 2002. Cristina Traina,

the ministry’s co-coordinator, sees the parish as a place to reconcile her Catholic faith with her identity as a lesbian. She said she and the ministry have received support from pastors, fellow parishioners and other Evanston churches.

However, Traina said LGBTQ+ Catholics often face opposition from leaders of the Roman Catholic Church — including a false association between homosexuality and abuse.

She said she has been less active in the church for this reason.

In December 2018, the Illinois attorney general released a preliminary report stating that six Illinois dioceses received abuse allegations against at least 500 priests and clergy members that were not previously identified.

Traina knew to expect an

association from church leaders between abuse and homosexuality, despite experts finding no link between the two.

“I immediately feared that people would start making that link,” said Traina, who is also a professor and the chair of the religious studies department at Northwestern.

“We’re unfortunately so accustomed to this sort of reductionism and it continues to be discouraging, but it’s not new.”

In November, a former St. Nicholas priest who worked at the parish from 1917 to 1925 was added to a public list of priests with substantiated allegations of abuse against them. Traina and Flynn both said they were not familiar with the priest and were unaware of any reaction from within St. Nicholas.

A 1975 Catholic Church document taught that “homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered,” a position maintained by the 1992 Catechism of the Catholic Church. Ten years later in Evanston, St. Nicholas launched its LGBTQ+Family and Friends ministry. The parish is the only Evanston Catholic church on a list of LGBTQ-friendly churches from New Ways Ministry, an advocacy group for LGBTQ+ Catholics.

Traina said the ministry focuses on incorporating LGBTQ+ people into the parish and holding educational events. She also said St. Nicholas has largely welcomed the ministry’s work, though some parishioners have avoided their » See CHURCH, page 6

Res colleges cap returnees Illinois to revisit tobacco law Top half of point earners to receive live-in priority

Policymakers consider raising purchasing age to 21

By JOSHUA IRVINE

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Students hoping to return to their residential colleges face new pressures following changes to the housing system that will cap the number of returnable students to 50 percent of the total current residential college population.

Benjy Apelbaum, the vice president of public relations for the student-run Residential College Board and former Daily staffer, said the 50 percent cap is part of an effort by Residential Services to balance representation of new and returning students in housing.

The Weinberg senior pointed to the introduction of older students to the previously all-freshman Elder Hall and 1838 Chicago as examples of the new system.

“They’re changing things so they’re all a little more similar,”

State policymakers are revisiting their attempts to pass statewide legislation to increase the minimum age to buy tobacco products from 18 to 21 years old.

Legislators have reintroduced the Tobacco 21 bill into the Illinois General Assembly, following Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s inauguration and Democratic control over both houses. The bill previously passed both the Illinois State House and Senate in 2018 before it was vetoed by former Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner.

The state Senate successfully overrode this veto, but the state House was short the votes necessary to do the same.

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Willard Residential College. A cap on the number of returning students in residential colleges will be limited to the top 50 percent of point-

Apelbaum said.

The new rules were addressed in a Dec. 14 email from Residential Services to residential college students. Mark D’Arienzo, the senior associate director at Administrative Services, said in an

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email to The Daily that the 50:50 ratio of first-years to residential college-returnees was announced in Fall 2017.

Under the new system, » See RES COLLEGE, page 6

communities have taken matters into their own hands, adopting Tobacco 21 despite a lack of statewide enforcement.

Evanston was the first to adopt the legislation in October 2014.

Evonda Thomas-Smith, the director of the Evanston Health and Human Services department, said the city has seen a decline in youth use of tobacco products in the city since the legislation was enacted. Student use of tobacco products at Evanston Township High School decreased 37.5 percent from 2015 to 2017, according to a study conducted by the school.

“The plasticity of the brain allows youth to be addicted faster and quicker to nicotine in tobacco products,” ThomasSmith said. “We know the timing is critical.”

Thomas-Smith said there has been a decrease in youth

use of e-cigarettes as well since Evanston enacted the age increase. Evanston also requires e-cigarette purchasers to be 21 or older.

Nationwide, however, there has been a surge in e-cigarette use in youths, with a 78 percent increase in high school students’ use from 2017 to 2018, the National Youth Tobacco Survey found.

Marcia Smith — a co-owner of Smokes & Such, which has four locations, one of which sits between Evanston and Skokie — said the Tobacco 21 legislation chooses an age inconsistent with the age that the government considers someone an adult.

“There’s nothing magical about the age of 21,” Smith said. “At 18, in this country, you’re told you’re an adult. You » See TOBACCO, page 6

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AROUND TOWN

Boltwood closes after struggling to turn a profit

By SNEHA DEY

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After five years in business, the doors have been bolted shut on Boltwood, a local marketdriven restaurant in downtown Evanston.

The restaurant closed on Dec. 31, 2018, after owner Brian Huston and partner Chrissy Prieto decided not to renew the lease at 804 Davis St., as Boltwood struggled to increase profit margins.

“With high rent, labor, food, it wasn’t costprohibitive for us to move forward and turn a profit,” Huston said.

Huston said Boltwood had a “fluid” menu that changed seasonally, and the restaurant prioritized cooking with fresh, local ingredients.

The restaurant was named after Evanston Township High School’s freshman wing, which used to be called Boltwood. When Boltwood first opened in 2014, Huston, himself an ETHS alumnus, said he wanted the restaurant to be “a place that feels alive with energy and enthusiasm” and “a place where relationships are built,” according to the

Evanston man charged with aggravated assault, injuring police officer

An Evanston man was arrested last week on charges of evading an outstanding arrest warrant and injuring a police officer in a car accident.

The man was charged Sunday with aggravated battery to a police officer after he crashed into a police car and injured an officer on Feb. 2, according to a Tuesday news release from the Evanston Police Department.

The man tried to flee in a red Chevy Tahoe to avoid arrest, and he purposely crashed into the side of a police car in the process, the news release said.

“The officer attempted to exit his vehicle but (the

restaurant’s website. Within a year of opening, the restaurant was featured in Chicago Magazine’s Best New Restaurants.

Evanston economic development manager Paul Zalmazek said Boltwood brought a “local focus” to the downtown Evanston dining scene. “(The owners) live here,” Zalmezak said.

“They grew up here. They know Evanston.”

Annie Coakley, the executive director of Downtown Evanston, said the restaurant offered “the ultimate personal experience.”

Coakley, whose office is next door to the restaurant, said Boltwood quickly became one of her favorite lunch spots.

Coakley said Boltwood was a “very wellrespected” restaurant in the downtown dining scene. The restaurant even pulled Chicago residents to the downtown Evanston area, she added.

Boltwood’s closing was a “big hit” to Evanston’s restaurant scene, Coakley said. She said she is concerned about the implications of a local business closing. Downtown Evanston aims to encourage Evanston residents to buy from local stores and restaurants.

“If we don’t have local buying power, we’re not going to have the same downtown we have man) struck the officer’s squad car,” the news release said. He then “drove toward the squad car and side swiped the driver’s side of the squad car.”

The man fled from police officers twice on Feb. 2, and he managed to elude them both times.

EPD Tactical Unit officers eventually located and arrested the man on Feb. 3 in the 2300 block of Chase Avenue in Chicago, the release said.

The man was charged with two misdemeanors and five felonies, including aggravated battery of a police officer and aggravated use of a deadly weapon.

Three police cars from EPD have been damaged in separate instances since October 2018. In all three cases, an officer sustained minor injuries, and the offenders have been brought to the EPD and charged.

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now in a couple of years,” Coakley said.

Coakley said she anticipates more restaurants will close permanently, largely because of increased competition with online shopping and food-delivery apps like GrubHub. Zalmazek said Boltwood closing is part of a “natural churn where restaurants have their run and then they move on.” Before Boltwood, Lulu’s — a local Asian Fusion restaurant — used to occupy the space for 21 years.

Zalmazek said he is confident the owner of the Davis Street property will find a good tenant for the space. The city has a high occupancy rate, Zalmezak said, and he said brokers with available spaces are “optimistic” that they will find renters.

Huston said he is still determining his next venture but will be staying in Evanston. Prieto, who is also Huston’s wife, now works as an assistant manager at Campagnola on Chicago Avenue. Both Prieto and Huston said they are grateful for their five-year run at Botwood.

“A lot of cooks cook because they love cooking for friends and family,” Huston said. “(At Boltwood), I got to do that on a nightly basis.” snehadey2022@u.northwestern.edu

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Boltwood, which used to be located at 804 Davis St. The restaurant closed December 31, after owner Brian Huston decided not to renew the lease.

Setting the record straight An article published in Friday’s paper titled “NU administrators call for changes in proposed Title IX rules” misstated the time Northwestern submitted its Title IX comment. The comment was submitted on Tuesday, Jan. 29. The Daily regrets the error.

An article published in Monday’s paper titled “Students: Conduct training ineffective” mischaracterized how trainings can be requested through the Office of Equity. Trainings can be requested by contacting the office. The Daily regrets the error.

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ON CAMPUS

Board to assess leave of absence process

By CAMERON COOK

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Associated Student Government and Student Assistance and Support Services are partnering to create an advisory board to improve experiences for students who take medical leaves of absence.

At Northwestern, students can take medical leaves of absence to have a physical or mental health condition treated. Leaves are reserved for conditions that impair a student’s ability to function “safely and successfully” as a member of the NU community, according to the SASS website.

SASS, made up of administrators and staff from various departments, helps students experiencing crises — including impairing health conditions — navigate the University’s various administrative offices when they’re “stuck or don’t know where to turn,” said Mona Dugo, the senior associate dean of students.

ASG President Emily Ash and Rebecca Lazer, the ASG vice president for health and wellness, approached Dugo about a partnership last month, Ash said, because they wanted to know more about students’ perspectives on the process.

Although Ash said Northwestern’s leave of absence policy is considered “less harmful” than those of other universities, which in some cases

National museum director Lonnie Bunch to speak at commencement

Director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture Lonnie Bunch will be Northwestern’s 2019 commencement speaker, according to a University announcement.

Bunch will deliver his speech June 21 at Ryan Field. He is also one of six to receive an honorary degree from the University this year, recognized for

force students to take leaves of absence, that doesn’t mean NU’s process can’t be changed for the better.

While ASG wants the University to be on par with peer institutions like Ivy League and other Big Ten schools, the board will be more focused on gathering information on student experiences at NU “rather than looking outward,” she added.

The advisory board’s goals include destigmatizing leaves of absence and potentially revamping the reinstatement process for students whose leaves are over, Ash said.

“There’s a certain amount of stigma attached to medical leave,” she said. “This is a really healthy step for students in certain circumstances to take.

I’ve seen really interesting approaches taken by our peers to create more ease around the reinstatement and normalize medical leave from the get-go.”

Reinstatement can sometimes be isolating, Ash added, and one of the board’s goals is to help build a support system for students whose leaves are over.

SASS is seeking to form a stronger community for reistated students and developing a partnership with Academic Support and Learning Advancement, Dugo said, so that students returning from leave feel less isolated. In addition, the advisory board will aim to make both taking leaves of absence and the reinstatement process

more transparent, Dugo said.

ASG and SASS will finalize the students who will sit on the board by Thursday, Ash said. The board will be composed entirely of students and facilitated by ASG and SASS.

his role as the museum’s director since 2015.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Alan Kay, Bernard Osher, Shirley Welsh Ryan and Andrew Youn also will receive honorary degrees for their leadership in science, the arts, business or philanthropy, the announcement said.

“I am honored to be able to acknowledge the achievements of such an important educational institution, whose willingness to embrace issues of diversity and inclusion provides an important model for us all,” Bunch said in the announcement. “I look forward to participating in its graduation ceremony.”

Bunch has worked to shape the museum’s mission

by directing its collections, exhibitions and public programs, the announcement said, and the museum has drawn more than 5 million visitors since its opening.

Recognized for his work, Bunch was named by The American Association of Museums as one of the 20th century’s most influential museum professionals, the announcement said. He was also appointed by Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama to the Committee for the Preservation of the White House.

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Gifted education is systematically denied to minorities MARISSA MARTINEZ

OPINION EDITOR

I was, without a doubt, a precocious child — one of my earliest memories is reading out loud to my fellow preschoolers who couldn’t yet. When my parents noticed I was still reading at an above-average level years later, they were able to move me to a school that taught to individual student levels, rather than state standards. Because of their knowledge as educators, they were able to advocate for my education, and I will be forever thankful for that privilege.

But this is not a reality for many other students, especially minorities. The journal American Educational Research Association Open showed that black and Latinx children are less likely to be screened for public school gifted programs than their white and Asian counterparts.

In this column, I explore the history, policies and societal pressures that shape gifted education, and more importantly, exclude minority groups. I also interviewed my parents, who have worked as teachers, evaluators and administrators for more than 50 years collectively.

The history of gifted education

While there are many definitions, a “gifted” student is often one who shows above-average critical thinking, contextual processing and deep levels of creativity and curiosity, potentially requiring additional challenges and resources. They can also be coded as impatient, bored or immature in class due to their advanced thinking.

Gifted education can be traced back to ancient thinkers like Pluto, who sought to separate learning areas for those of higher intelligence. In the United States, intelligence testing was introduced in 1918 and promoted across the country, though the results at the time were used by eugenicists to promote separation, rather than education. Lewis Terman made way for a foundation of “nationally standardized intelligence” in 1916 that persisted for decades.

Eventually, the National Defense Education Act was designed in 1958, focusing on math, science and technology in response to the Soviet launch of the Sputnik satellite.

While dedication to promoting gifted education wavered after the Cold War, a 1972 report by the Commissioner of Education noted that “intellectual and creative talent cannot survive educational neglect and apathy.”

Why are students of color and low-income students left behind?

It’s no secret that educator bias exists — all humans, no matter their backgrounds, hold prejudices as they interact with the world, especially when it comes to categorizing differences. This unconscious bias promotes gaps based on socioeconomic status, gender and race in educational environments, and leads to similar disparities in the workplace.

This can manifest itself in many ways — particularly when it comes to recommendation for academic advancement. Students of color are less likely to be given a “push” toward higher-level classes. Because a lot of

placement in gifted and talented programming requires or prefers a teacher’s feedback, this holds a lot of children back from being properly challenged by harder courses.

This failure to identify gifted students is often coded. Educators place an undue weight on psychological distress and social and emotional deficits as a potential result of moving forward in the classroom. They might say a child doesn’t display “the habits” or “stamina” of a stellar student, metrics that are systematically set to a white, middleclass, male standard. So students who have the requisite grades, but behave or act outside the norm, for whatever reason, are presumed to be not capable.

In my case, my parents were repeatedly told that I did not have the mental capacity to participate in high-level math classes, and had to jump through many hoops to get me placed in a high school advanced algebra course when I was in seventh grade. Again, if they did not have the time and knowledge to fight on my behalf, and if I did not take standardized tests well, I would have never moved ahead.

My family also noticed an unmentioned bias during this process — other students at my school were allowed to skip ahead in math classes with fewer obstacles. While I had comparable test scores and grades, evaluators continued to doubt my abilities.

Because cases like mine are so individual and have no defined, official criteria, it took my parents a long time to fight the school’s stated low expectations. I’m used to my peers assuming I’m bad at math by now, but the effects of having to jump additional barriers did take a toll on me, although I did come out stronger.

When teachers are set to screen for certain “traits” necessary to promote students in skills like reading or math, they end up missing those who operate outside the white, middle- and upper-class standard, leading to unbalanced numbers of students in advanced classes.

Some parents — mine included — have the resources, education and time to advocate for their students in an overwhelmed school system, especially when they notice “gifted” characteristics manifesting at home.

But many families don’t have these opportunities, despite caring deeply for their children. This is why the role of a compassionate, attentive teacher is so important.

However, because educators are often overworked and understaffed, they don’t have an incentive to personalize their methods.

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When teachers are set to screen for certain ‘traits’ necessary to promote students... they end up missing those who operate ouside the white, middle- and upper- class standard.

How government policies widen the gap

Gifted children are often incorrectly seen as having already fully consumed the requisite knowledge, rather than possessing the capability of learning more. These standards

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are severely skewed toward white, middleclass students who have resources like tutoring and school-independent opportunities more readily available to them. Because academic culture considers students who are financially, ethnically, cognitively and linguistically different to be “deficient,” they are ignored.

Policies like No Child Left Behind, introduced by President Bush in 2002 were meant to bring all students to the same level. Ideally, with a standard curriculum, school districts that were struggling could receive more local and federal support (namely, money) to make sure everyone tested as understanding a baseline amount of information — although this didn’t mean they were truly learning it.

However, this policy not only encouraged teaching to the test, which does not help students retain knowledge, but gave no incentive to pay attention to “bored” children who could handle extra work. Like the 1993 Congressional report “National excellence” put it, as the nation adjusts the standards for acceptable education, it must also “raise the ‘ceiling.’”

NCLB also detracted from “untestable” programs like history or art. School performance progress did not improve — in fact, it worsened across the nation, leading President Obama to offer a majority of states waivers from the bill anyway. The policy failed to equally provide educational opportunity for low-income and minority communities, while incorrectly promoting proficiency over knowledge.

Test bias is also an incredible barrier to higher education. IQ tests, for instance, seen as the national standard for years, scientifically legitimize education discrimination. Those assessments, as well as national standardized tests like the SAT or ACT, rely on a variety of cultural norms that are geared toward stereotypically white, middle- and upper-class experiences. Black, Latinx, Native American and Englishlearning students are not inherently less intelligent than white and Asian students.

They have access to different opportunities, and their learned experience showcases itself in different ways.

While NCLB has since been replaced by the Every Student Succeeds Act, the students who were negatively affected by its 14-year-span never got reparations for their education. ESSA offers more power to states to regulate their educational systems to fit specific needs, essentially ending

large-scale federal government interference.

Federal and state governments use Common Core as a standard, which means school districts are pressured to teach that baseline information and conform to state frameworks, and are not encouraged to generalize curriculum standards to local needs.

Thus, school districts as different as Hinsdale, a rich, white suburb, and Englewood, a black, low-income neighborhood on the South Side, teach the same material, despite it not being universally culturally relevant to all students, my mother explained. When tests have unrelatable content, an absence of multiple correct answers, or use a specific vocabulary, students who differ in cultural knowledge from the majority test poorly.

Even taking the test on a computer versus on paper can affect results to some degree.

Thus, gaps in opportunity and cultural difference are redefined as intelligence gaps, even if both districts have similar numbers of high-potential students.

Getting closer, but still a long way to go

The education world is moving toward personalization of classroom experiences and inclusion is a growing priority at higher levels. However, individual teacher biases still remain, especially in a public school system where 44 percent of students are racial or ethnic minorities compared to a mere 17 percent of teachers, according to the Brookings Institution. This manifests itself in a variety of ways — for example, while black children are three times more likely to be referred to gifted services if they have a black teacher, 80 percent of black students aren’t taught by someone of their same race.

It’s not fair that many students who have academic prowess are consistently overlooked because of their identity. They deserve to be appropriately challenged in the classroom like their peers. It pains me to think about how many people are not able to access necessary resources because of this country’s deeply broken education system. Personalized public education, though difficult to attain, should continue to be a goal of the state and federal governments.

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.

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events or moved to other churches.

Flynn, a longtime St. Nicholas parishioner who joined the LGBTQ+Family and Friends ministry in the early 2000s, said she has seen conservative parishioners recognize the ministry’s importance.

“There’s a piece of me that wishes the ministry didn’t need to exist,” she said, “but I have to say I take great joy in looking over our parish on a Sunday morning and seeing gay and lesbian families with babies and couples that are doing productive work.”

However, Traina said leaders in the Catholic Church have pushed back harder against welcoming LGBTQ+ people.

St. Nicholas parishioner Eileen Hogan Heineman recalled a comment from Pope Benedict XVI about queer people that she found discouraging. The LGBTQ+Family and Friends ministry had scheduled a painting project the following weekend to update St. Nicholas’ social hall, Heineman said. Following the Pope’s comments, she was surprised when members of the ministry came with painting supplies.

“I was blown away by their willingness to show up, and also grateful that they knew so clearly that our St. Nicholas community did not share the Pope’s assessment, but knew (LGBTQ+) folks as an integral part of our parish community,” Heineman said.

But as anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric from the top of the Catholic Church persisted, fewer LGBTQ+ parishioners turned out, Traina said.

Traina said whenever a new abuse scandal rocks the church, multiple “wings or factions” begin pointing to one root cause — an all-male clergy, a celibate clergy or homosexuality.

“There are at least five different spins to put on this, and one of them is going to be the gay spin,” Traina said. “You can always predict that because whoever is afraid of same-sex orientation, whoever sees same-sex orientation as sinful is always going to go in that direction.”

Church leaders made that spin, Traina said, often based on poorly-done studies.

As a result of this false association, Traina said she has seen many LGBTQ+ parishioners either become less active at St. Nicholas or leave entirely.

“It’s difficult to remain in a setting in which you feel persecuted,”Traina said, “even if the persecution is somewhat distant and not so close by.”

Traina said this year, she has felt “more marginal” in St. Nicholas than before. Still, she said she would not consider leaving. She wants to remain to see changes, including improved responses to sexual abuse claims, the blessing of same-sex unions and a diminishing number of church leaders making a false link between homosexuality and abuse.

“The community is the people who are there and the people who are active,” Traina said. “If you want those things to change, you have to stay. So over the course of this winter, I’m scurrying up my resolve to do just that.”

can join the military, which means risking your life. You can enter into a legal contract.”

Since Smokes & Such opened in 2009, Smith said she has always carded every customer to protect the integrity of the store.

But Smith estimated that her stores have lost about 30 percent of their retail business, most of which comes from decreased e-cigarette sales, since Evanston passed the Tobacco 21 legislation, she said.

Because of the decrease in sales, she said she doesn’t need as many employees because the stores are not as busy. She said government officials see this decrease as “saving” 30 percent more people from addiction without realizing the hurt it causes workers who lose jobs in the tobacco industry.

Rather than pursuing statewide legislation, Smith said public health education surrounding tobacco use needs to start at the neighborhood level. She added that Tobacco 21 will not stop teenagers from finding a way to get access to tobacco products.

The legislation also contradicts with what it means to live in a “free country,” Smith said.

“People need to be aware of government infringing on their personal freedoms, whatever that is,” she said. “Where does it end, where you can’t make choices about what you want to do in your life, with your body?”

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From page 1 residential colleges will compile a list of students ranked by the number of points they have obtained in fall and winter quarter, the Residential Services email said. Points are obtained through a number of residential college- and University-sponsored activities, including attending speaker events and engaging in philanthropic and cultural activities.

Previously, residential college students only had to achieve a predetermined number of points to be allowed to return the following year.

The top 50 percent of point earners will be sorted into eight groups based on points. Individuals from these groups will then be assigned certain times to pick their room in the residential college from a web form managed by Residential Services, with higher-ranked groups getting preference, the email said.

Room selection will be handled by Residential Services instead of student-run executive boards

SOTU

From page 1 Despite Trump’s bold statements and promises, Varcie said he doesn’t think much will change in the near future, especially because of the lack of new policies introduced in his speech. He added

Don Zeigler — the chair of the Evanston Health Advisory Council and a professor at Loyola University and the University of Illinois at Chicago — has worked on educating the public about tobacco use since 1970.

He said raising the age at which consumers are able to purchase tobacco products makes it harder for young people to access these products.

“We’re sure that we’re going to have fewer and fewer young people experimenting with tobacco products and not becoming addicted,” Zeigler said.

“Hopefully, there’s a whole culture that doesn’t encourage or facilitate this or profit from it.”

JUUL, a popular e-cigarette company, has adopted the minimum age to purchase e-cigarettes online as 21 years old after critics said its advertising targeted young consumers. But the Illinois Chamber of Commerce has pushed back against the legislation, saying it hurts small businesses and “creates an underground market” for youth tobacco use.

Zeigler said “ingenious” advertising of these tobacco products profit off of targeting youth through social media. He added that the flavoring in e-cigarettes contributes to young adults having the perception that vaping is safe and “sort of sexy.” Zeigler said he hopes Illinois legislators will outlaw these flavorings in the future to decrease e-cigarette use.

Thomas-Smith said she is “hopeful and positive” about the state legislature’s attempt to pass

Alison Albelda/Daily Senior Staffer

A store shelf filled with cigarettes. Illinois state legislators are revisiting the Tobacco 21 legislation, which would raise the minimum age to purchase tobacco products from 18 to 21.

Tobacco 21 throughout Illinois.

Zeigler echoed this.

“I’m really quite optimistic,” Zeigler said. “I don’t think we’re going to have a problem getting this through the state legislature.” clareproctor2021@u.northwestern.edu

of each residential college.

Appelbaum said the changes to the room selection system were made to ensure that students with medical or financial concerns could communicate with Residential Services instead of having to disclose personal information to the student executive board. He added that quotas have previously been placed on the number of students that could return to a residential college, but outside of Slivka and Chapin Hall the quotas were rarely filled.

“I would hope that there’s not too much chaos in terms of people not being able to live where they want to live,” Apelbaum said.

The new points requirement has some residential college students concerned about obtaining the necessary number of points to remain in the top 50 percent.

Lena Galbreath, a Communication first-year and Chapin resident, said not all students are able to engage in residential college events because of

scheduling conflicts, making it harder to accumulate points.

“You’re still involved per se, but you’re not able to participate in events that are (point-approved),” Galbreath said.

Caleb Young, a Weinberg first-year and Willard resident, said he found the transition from points to percentage “annoying” and “negative.”

The 50 percent cap on students returning to the same residential halls and residential communities has been in place since last academic year. This is the first year it will apply to residential colleges.

Galbreath said that the imposition of the points requirement this year had affected Chapin’s close-knit community, creating a competitive atmosphere.

“Now you’re not battling so much for a point goal; you’re battling one another,” Galbreath said.

that the future looks bleak for bipartisan efforts on immigration policies, leading to the likelihood of another government shutdown.

For Bugos, the speech was simply a chance for Trump to reaffirm his own policies.

“He very much said all the right things,

especially at the end about American exceptionalism and kind of harking back to some traditional patriotic rhetoric,” she said. “I definitely think he hit the buzz words on that.”

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events or moved to other churches.

Flynn, a longtime St. Nicholas parishioner who joined the LGBTQ+Family and Friends ministry in the early 2000s, said she has seen conservative parishioners recognize the ministry’s importance.

“There’s a piece of me that wishes the ministry didn’t need to exist,” she said, “but I have to say I take great joy in looking over our parish on a Sunday morning and seeing gay and lesbian families with babies and couples that are doing productive work.”

However, Traina said leaders in the Catholic Church have pushed back harder against welcoming LGBTQ+ people.

St. Nicholas parishioner Eileen Hogan Heineman recalled a comment from Pope Benedict XVI about queer people that she found discouraging. The LGBTQ+Family and Friends ministry had scheduled a painting project the following weekend to update St. Nicholas’ social hall, Heineman said. Following the Pope’s comments, she was surprised when members of the ministry came with painting supplies.

“I was blown away by their willingness to show up, and also grateful that they knew so clearly that our St. Nicholas community did not share the Pope’s assessment, but knew (LGBTQ+) folks as an integral part of our parish community,” Heineman said.

But as anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric from the top of the Catholic Church persisted, fewer LGBTQ+ parishioners turned out, Traina said.

Traina said whenever a new abuse scandal rocks the church, multiple “wings or factions” begin pointing to one root cause — an all-male clergy, a celibate clergy or homosexuality.

“There are at least five different spins to put on this, and one of them is going to be the gay spin,” Traina said. “You can always predict that because whoever is afraid of same-sex orientation, whoever sees same-sex orientation as sinful is always going to go in that direction.”

Church leaders made that spin, Traina said, often based on poorly-done studies.

As a result of this false association, Traina said she has seen many LGBTQ+ parishioners either become less active at St. Nicholas or leave entirely.

“It’s difficult to remain in a setting in which you feel persecuted,”Traina said, “even if the persecution is somewhat distant and not so close by.”

Traina said this year, she has felt “more marginal” in St. Nicholas than before. Still, she said she would not consider leaving. She wants to remain to see changes, including improved responses to sexual abuse claims, the blessing of same-sex unions and a diminishing number of church leaders making a false link between homosexuality and abuse.

“The community is the people who are there and the people who are active,” Traina said. “If you want those things to change, you have to stay. So over the course of this winter, I’m scurrying up my resolve to do just that.”

can join the military, which means risking your life. You can enter into a legal contract.”

Since Smokes & Such opened in 2009, Smith said she has always carded every customer to protect the integrity of the store.

But Smith estimated that her stores have lost about 30 percent of their retail business, most of which comes from decreased e-cigarette sales, since Evanston passed the Tobacco 21 legislation, she said.

Because of the decrease in sales, she said she doesn’t need as many employees because the stores are not as busy. She said government officials see this decrease as “saving” 30 percent more people from addiction without realizing the hurt it causes workers who lose jobs in the tobacco industry.

Rather than pursuing statewide legislation, Smith said public health education surrounding tobacco use needs to start at the neighborhood level. She added that Tobacco 21 will not stop teenagers from finding a way to get access to tobacco products.

The legislation also contradicts with what it means to live in a “free country,” Smith said.

“People need to be aware of government infringing on their personal freedoms, whatever that is,” she said. “Where does it end, where you can’t make choices about what you want to do in your life, with your body?”

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RES COLLEGE

From page 1 residential colleges will compile a list of students ranked by the number of points they have obtained in fall and winter quarter, the Residential Services email said. Points are obtained through a number of residential college- and University-sponsored activities, including attending speaker events and engaging in philanthropic and cultural activities.

Previously, residential college students only had to achieve a predetermined number of points to be allowed to return the following year.

The top 50 percent of point earners will be sorted into eight groups based on points. Individuals from these groups will then be assigned certain times to pick their room in the residential college from a web form managed by Residential Services, with higher-ranked groups getting preference, the email said.

Room selection will be handled by Residential Services instead of student-run executive boards

SOTU

From page 1 Despite Trump’s bold statements and promises, Varcie said he doesn’t think much will change in the near future, especially because of the lack of new policies introduced in his speech. He added

Don Zeigler — the chair of the Evanston Health Advisory Council and a professor at Loyola University and the University of Illinois at Chicago — has worked on educating the public about tobacco use since 1970.

He said raising the age at which consumers are able to purchase tobacco products makes it harder for young people to access these products.

“We’re sure that we’re going to have fewer and fewer young people experimenting with tobacco products and not becoming addicted,” Zeigler said.

“Hopefully, there’s a whole culture that doesn’t encourage or facilitate this or profit from it.”

JUUL, a popular e-cigarette company, has adopted the minimum age to purchase e-cigarettes online as 21 years old after critics said its advertising targeted young consumers. But the Illinois Chamber of Commerce has pushed back against the legislation, saying it hurts small businesses and “creates an underground market” for youth tobacco use.

Zeigler said “ingenious” advertising of these tobacco products profit off of targeting youth through social media. He added that the flavoring in e-cigarettes contributes to young adults having the perception that vaping is safe and “sort of sexy.” Zeigler said he hopes Illinois legislators will outlaw these flavorings in the future to decrease e-cigarette use.

Thomas-Smith said she is “hopeful and positive” about the state legislature’s attempt to pass

Alison Albelda/Daily Senior Staffer

A store shelf filled with cigarettes. Illinois state legislators are revisiting the Tobacco 21 legislation, which would raise the minimum age to purchase tobacco products from 18 to 21.

Tobacco 21 throughout Illinois.

Zeigler echoed this.

“I’m really quite optimistic,” Zeigler said. “I don’t think we’re going to have a problem getting this through the state legislature.” clareproctor2021@u.northwestern.edu

of each residential college.

Appelbaum said the changes to the room selection system were made to ensure that students with medical or financial concerns could communicate with Residential Services instead of having to disclose personal information to the student executive board. He added that quotas have previously been placed on the number of students that could return to a residential college, but outside of Slivka and Chapin Hall the quotas were rarely filled.

“I would hope that there’s not too much chaos in terms of people not being able to live where they want to live,” Apelbaum said.

The new points requirement has some residential college students concerned about obtaining the necessary number of points to remain in the top 50 percent.

Lena Galbreath, a Communication first-year and Chapin resident, said not all students are able to engage in residential college events because of

scheduling conflicts, making it harder to accumulate points.

“You’re still involved per se, but you’re not able to participate in events that are (point-approved),” Galbreath said.

Caleb Young, a Weinberg first-year and Willard resident, said he found the transition from points to percentage “annoying” and “negative.”

The 50 percent cap on students returning to the same residential halls and residential communities has been in place since last academic year. This is the first year it will apply to residential colleges.

Galbreath said that the imposition of the points requirement this year had affected Chapin’s close-knit community, creating a competitive atmosphere.

“Now you’re not battling so much for a point goal; you’re battling one another,” Galbreath said.

that the future looks bleak for bipartisan efforts on immigration policies, leading to the likelihood of another government shutdown.

For Bugos, the speech was simply a chance for Trump to reaffirm his own policies.

“He very much said all the right things,

especially at the end about American exceptionalism and kind of harking back to some traditional patriotic rhetoric,” she said. “I definitely think he hit the buzz words on that.”

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9 Lifelong pal 10 Clinton’s first Defense secretary 11 Sporty Ford, to devotees 12 Big name in spydom 13 Pilgrimage to Mecca 18 Clock sound 20 Guitar neck features 23 Whaling direction 24 Pub order 25 Copy on a transparent sheet 28 With 4-Down, fairy tale’s last words 29 Fizzy prefix 30 Tattered cloth 31 Word with class or case 32 Blues legend John __ Hooker 33 Storage container 34 Approximate fig.

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2019

SWIMMING

MEN’S TENNIS

NU falls to Minnesota, Wildcats continue to climb Purdue in Senior Meet with two weekend wins

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

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Northwestern’s struggles against Minnesota and Purdue continued this weekend, with both the men’s and women’s teams coming up short against the Golden Gophers and Boilermakers. This marked the fourth straight year that neither program has beaten Minnesota or Purdue.

Despite the losses, the Wildcats still had some strong individual performances. NU started the two-day tri-dual off well when the women’s 200-yard medley relay team took home a victory in the very first event.

The relay win was one of just three firstplace finishes for the Cats on the first day.

Sophomore DJ Hwang won the men’s 1,000yard freestyle, and sophomore Calypso Sheridan picked up a win in the women’s 200-yard individual medley.

“If you look at our times and we focus on our own results, I evaluate it as moving in the right direction going into (Big Ten Championships),” coach Jeremy Kipp said.

“Performance-wise, we’re right where we need to be. From a team standpoint, it’s always disappointing to lose, especially against two Big Ten teams.”

The women (5-5, 2-4 Big Ten) came closest to securing a win, falling 186-167 to the Boilermakers (3-4, 3-2) in a meet decided by the final relay. The Golden Gophers (6-3, 3-1) defeated the NU women 202-151. The men (3-6, 0-5), meanwhile, fell 226-127 to Minnesota (6-2, 3-1) and 197-156 to Purdue (3-4, 3-2).

The Cats got three more individual wins on Saturday, from sophomore Ilektra Lebl in the women’s 400 IM, sophomore Jeffrey Durmer in the men’s 400 IM and freshman Manu Bacarizo in the men’s 200-yard backstroke.

Although the weekend was about honoring

NU’s seniors, it was the underclassmen who shined brightest.

“I’m heading in the right direction,” Hwang said. “ We’re at an unbelievable place as a team compared to last year… everyone is training really well. Obviously the scores don’t reflect how we’re actually performing.”

Saturday was the last meet in the Norris Aquatics Center pool for the Cats’ 14 seniors — eight men and six women — including Tyler Lis, Alex Grimes and Olivia Rosendahl.

Lis finished third in both the men’s 200 and 400 IM in his final home meet. Grimes took fourth in both the 100- and 200-yard butterfly events for the women, winning her heat in the 100. Rosendahl is the most accomplished of all of NU’s seniors, having won back-to-back national championships in the platform diving. This weekend, she finished second in both the 1-meter and 3-meter diving events.

“It’s really surreal, it’s gone so fast, and I tell the underclassmen that,” Grimes said.

“I’m excited for the new chapter for sure.

It ’s an experience you can’t find anywhere else.”

The Cats now have some time off to prepare for Big Ten Championships. The women will compete from Feb. 20-23 in Bloomington, Indiana, while the men’s championships are the following week in Iowa City.

Kipp said the team will be tapering during the next few weeks, cutting out some of the morning practices and focusing on finetuning the details.

“The Big Ten is a great conference, and you have to be on your A-game,” Kipp said.

“You can’t win the championships two weeks before, but you can certainly take yourself out of it if you try hard enough.” benjaminrosenberg2021@u.northwestern. edu

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Playing in Evanston for the first time in 2019, Northwestern looked right at home.

The Wildcats (3-4) defeated Duke (3-4) and Chicago State (0-3) on Sunday, extending their winning streak to three matches in the young season.

After struggling to start off the year with four straight losses, NU followed that stretch with three straight wins. Sophomore Nick Brookes said the team continues to believe in its ability, saying that staying the course through adversity can lead to more wins in the future.

In the first match on Sunday against the Blue Devils, the Cats won 4-3. For the second consecutive match, it won the doubles point thanks in part to the play of Brookes, who was paired with freshman Simen Bratholm. The two won their set 6-2 in what proved to be the match-deciding point for NU. Brookes said he attributes this to the team’s recent success in doubles as a result of having the opportunity to continue to “gel” and become more experienced.

“I think we competed hard through the beginning of the season, we (just) came up unlucky a couple of times,” he said. “I think we had a belief in the fact that the results would come.”

After also sweeping the Cougars 4-0 in a separate match, those results have started to come for the Cats. Coach Arvid Swan said he sees this as a product of the team’s hard work in practice as well as playing the game confidently. Both of those components, he said, can help explain this turnaround.

In addition to NU continuing to believing in its abilities, Swan said he sees the younger players gaining important experience with the benefits of that beginning to show in a positive way.

“It’s so much different than anything they’ve experienced in competition before,” he said. “I think there’s just a greater comfort level with every match they play. I’m proud of the growth of the entire team and certainly the freshman class as well.”

Looking ahead, NU plays four matches in the

next week. The first three will be at home against Oklahoma State, Harvard and Purdue. Sunday night, the Cats play at Chicago State to wrap up a busy week.

Heading into this intense stretch, Swan said his team needs to continue to play like they have played the past three matches.

“It’s really the same things — play a solid doubles point (and) win or lose come out put six singles matches out there where everybody’s competing as hard as we can,” he said. “We’re playing four good teams coming up … but you can’t look ahead or look behind we just got to kind of focus on each match and do the best we can.”

Brookes, while emphasizing those points as well, said that he’s just looking forward to playing.

“It’s going to be tougher, no easy matches for us coming up,” he said. “(I’m) just gonna try and enjoy it to fight for everything that I can and see what happens.” ericrynston-lobel2022@u.northwestern.edu

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Nick Brookes follows through on a backhand.

The sophomore won his doubles match over the weekend.

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Almost everything about the reopened Welsh-Ryan Arena is new — the stands, the court, the food options, the size. But there is one new aspect that looks back on the old.

Among the new additions are panelings on the outer walls of the concourse recognizing some of finest basketball players, volleyballers and wrestlers in Northwestern history.

There are some names that are very familiar to students — like Bryant McIntosh — and some that almost no one has heard of — like Arthur “Dutch” Lonborg.

Lonborg’s placard is not in prime viewing location — it is the last panel on the second floor before heading down the northeast staircase. It is a perfect metaphor for how he is remembered on campus.

Lonborg is arguably the best basketball coach in Wildcats history. He coached NU from 1927-1950, finished with a schoolbest 236 wins and coached the only two Big Ten champions in school history. He is also the only Cats coach from 1917-2013 who had a career record over .500, and his 23-season tenure is the longest of any of the Cats’ 24 coaches. Yet, it is hard to find any recognition of that on campus.

That is not surprising. Northwestern athletics has changed tenfold since Lonborg last coached in 1950, and it is tough to recognize coaches and players from an era that began before the Great Depression. It is only recently that some of NU’s other famous sportsmen — Ara Parseghian, for example — are receiving their deserved remembrance.

However, there is one simple, easy way that the University can recognize Lonborg and his most successful team — by hanging a 1931 national championship banner in Welsh-Ryan Arena.

The National Champions

While the 2016-17 Cats are the most famous basketball team in school history, the 1930-31 team is the best.

They finished the year with a 16-1 record and 11-1 record in the Big Ten Conference. The 1932 Syllabus yearbook said the team was “one of the speediest quintents in the conference,” played aggressively, had

a “fast-breaking offense” and was a good shooting team.

The team was led by sophomore forward/center Joe Reiff, who was the conference scoring leader and an All-American.

NU only averaged about 33 points per game, but the sport was different and scores were much lower then than they are now.

The Cats beat Notre Dame 20-17 on Jan. 3, 1931, which was four days after they held Alabama to 10 points.

“The team is the greatest basketball team I have ever seen,” University President Walter Dill Scott told The Daily at the time. “When they get going, they put on a perfectly marvelous exhibition. The native ability of every player, the team spirit that they have developed, all added to the magnificent coaching of ‘Dutch’Lonborg makes this team, in my estimation, one of which Northwestern should be justly proud.”

At the time, there was no postseason

The Wildcats’ history may not be rich, but there are a few diamonds in the rough — and the 1930-31 team is the crown jewel. tournament. The NIT did not begin until 1938, with the NCAA Tournament following a year later. The Cats were recognized as Big Ten champs in 1931, but that was it.

But in 1943, the Helms Athletic Foundation released a book entitled “Helms Athletic Foundation Collegiate Basketball Record Part II” and included the foundation’s national champion selections from 1920-1942. It retroactively awarded Northwestern the 1931 national championship.

Benton Bajorek, a graduate student at the University of Kansas who is conducting research on the Helms titles, said that there is evidence that a committee of people selected the champions, while there is also evidence that one person conducted the research. Either way, the titles have caught on and become the most famous pre-NIT title awarded.

In the NCAA’s “Division I Men’s Basketball Records” book, the Helms Foundation winners from 1901 to 1948 are listed with the following blurb.

“The Helms Foundation of Los Angeles selected the national college men’s basketball champions from 1942 to 1982 and researched retroactive picks from 1901 to 1941. The Helms winners are listed in this section to the time The Associated Press (AP) poll started in 1949.”

In Northwestern’s 2018-19 Media Guide, there is no reference to the 1931 Helms National Championship.

Around the Country

You may be thinking, “That is not a real title.” Or “I’ve never heard of other schools recognizing these titles.” Or maybe, “There has to be a stigma to claiming one of these titles.”

All three of those statements are false.

Some of the most storied programs in college basketball proudly showcase their Helms titles.

“There is always going to be a benefit to claiming these national championships,” Bajorek said.

The Daily reached out to the Athletic Departments of all the schools that were awarded a Helms title from 1901 to 1937, the final season before the NIT. Besides Northwestern, 23 schools were awarded a championship from the Helms Foundation.

Twenty-one schools responded to the survey, with one of those 21 refusing to answer the question, and information for one nonrespondent school was found online.

Eighteen schools said that they claimed the Helms title, with only one school — Notre Dame — saying that it views the Helms title as a lower-level title. Of those 18 schools, 10 of them have having banners in their arenas signifying the titles, with seven not having banners and one not clarifying.

In Allen Fieldhouse, national championship banners for Kansas’ 1921-22 and 1922-23 teams, winners of the Helms Foundation retroactive title, hang alongside their banners for their 1952, 1988 and 2008 NCAA Tournament-winning teams. And all five banners say the same thing: National Champions. At the Smith Center, there is a banner honoring the 1923-24 North Carolina team that won the Helms title that hangs alongside the Tar Heels’four NCAA Tournament banners, and they all look the same except for different logos.

In their survey responses, both blue bloods had very similar answers to why they claim their titles and raise the banners. For UNC, it is “because we were selected.” For Kansas, it is “because they are national titles awarded to Kansas.”

Many of the schools that did not claim a title or raise a banner had different reasons for doing so. A spokesperson from Kentucky said the University only recognizes champions awarded by the governing body of the sport. No one in Dartmouth’s athletic department knew of the title. NYU claims the title, but does not have a gym to hang a banner.

But the majority of teams do claim the titles and honor the team in some way, and there were two main reasons that stuck out for claiming these titles. One was that the team was awarded the Helms title. The other was that it recognizes a team of which the University is historically proud.

Empty rafters

No banners currently hang in WelshRyan Arena.

During a meeting with Athletic Director Jim Phillips in November, Phillips told the Daily there should be a more serious discussion about honoring the team with a championship banner.

“I love the history piece of it,” Phillips said. “I think you have to really pay tribute to those who come before. You just have to.

It’s the only right thing to do.”

When asked at a media availability session in December, coach Chris Collins called the question of the banners “thoughtprovoking”and said he did know the reason why there are none in the Arena and did not want to speculate.

“It is something we should definitely talk about, but I don’t have the right answer so I don’t want to give you some bad information,” Collins said. “There is no reason why we do or do not but we should look to honor those guys in some way.”

Three schools — Columbia, Illinois and Notre Dame — have recently had internal discussions about honoring their Helms Titles with banners, with differing results each time. Columbia discussed adding a banner, but ultimately voted against it.

Notre Dame decided to take down their Helms banner. But Illinois decided to add the banner.

After the 2013-14 basketball season, the State Farm Center in Champaign underwent a renovation. Kent Brown, Illinois’

associate director of athletics, media relations, said that during meetings about the renovations, the idea of a banner for the Helms title was brought up. People in the meetings had seen other schools showcase banners in their own arenas.

“We had always noted it in our media guide and in whenever we talked about things,” Brown said. “As we looked at doing some stuff in our arena, we thought that would be a great opportunity to go ahead and have something a little more visible and more public.”

Brown said that the measure was not discussed outside the athletic department and there was no pushback at all to the measure. He added that even if the renovation had been done 10 years earlier, the University would have probably raised the banner then as well.

Even though Northwestern missed the opportunity to raise a banner during the Welsh-Ryan renovation, the school can still put one up. These banners — like the placards on the walls or the interactive panels in the front of the arena — are all about remembering, recognizing and respecting history.

The idea that Northwestern does not have any substantial basketball history because it failed to make an NCAA Tournament until 2017 is not true.The Wildcats’ history may not be rich, but there are a few diamonds in the rough — and the 1930-31 team is the crown jewel.

Lonborg is one of only three inductees into the Basketball Hall of Fame with a Northwestern connection. Reiff is the only player in school history to be named to two All-American teams. And Helms is not the only organization to call NU the champions that year. Over 50 years after the announcement of the Helms recognition, two basketball historians released their own list of pre-AP Poll national champions and the Cats were once again awarded the 1930-31 title.

The 1930-31 Cats were great.They were recognized as great in the moment. They were recognized as great a decade later by the Helms Athletic Foundation. Now, it’s time to recognize their greatness almost a century later with a banner.

“We all have historic teams and we all have success we want to celebrate,” Brown said.“Why would you not want to celebrate a championship team?” peterwarren2021@u.northwestern.edu