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BISS IS IN

Devon Reid prepares for runoff in 8th Ward City Clerk leads, Rainey projected to lose 8th Ward seat

By JOSHUA IRVINE

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Daily file photo by Maia Spoto

Former state Sen. Daniel Biss to become Evanston’s next mayor

By JACOB FULTON

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Former state Sen. Daniel Biss will be Evanston’s next mayor as of Tuesday night, with unofficial results showing he secured over 73 percent of votes, with all precincts reporting.

Biss, an Evanston resident of over a decade, faced off in the city’s mayoral primary against local activist Lori Keenan and 2018 Evanston Township High School graduate Sebastian Nalls, who received over 17 percent and nearly 9 percent of the vote, respectively. Biss first announced his campaign in September.

Because Biss received over 50 percent of votes cast in the primary, he automatically won the mayoral election. He is slated to take office in May. Prior to his mayoral candidacy, Biss served in the Illinois state House for two years, and was elected in 2012 to represent the state’s 9th district,

including Evanston, in the Illinois state Senate. He also mounted a Democratic gubernatorial campaign in 2018, but eventually fell short, coming in second in the party’s primary to current Gov. J.B. Pritzker.

In a speech Tuesday night, Biss thanked his supporters for their efforts and celebrated the community backing his agenda received.

“I was asked a number of times throughout this campaign, ‘Why are you running for mayor?’” Biss said. “Fundamentally, the answer to all those questions…is that I think the next four years are presenting our community with an incredible opportunity for bold, progressive, transformational policies.”

Both Keenan and Nalls conceded Tuesday night, congratulating Biss on his victory.

Keenan said in a statement that she hopes discussions about transparency in city government throughout the mayoral campaign will foster a productive relationship between community members and Biss as mayor.

» See MAYORAL, page 6

Though results from Tuesday’s primary are not yet final, City Clerk Devon Reid said Wednesday his campaign for the 8th Ward aldermanic seat is already preparing for the April 6 run-off.

“We know we’re moving on to the next round and are gearing up for whoever our opponent will be in that race,” Reid said.

As of Wednesday night, Reid leads by nearly a hundred votes in the three-way match up against Ridgeville Park District commissioner Matthew Mitchell and incumbent Ald. Ann Rainey (8th). Mail ballots postmarked as late as midnight Tuesday can still be counted up to two weeks later.

Reid won the most ballots cast on election day in four of the ward’s five precincts.

Mitchell won the remaining precinct.

Reid has promoted his candidacy on a platform of representative politics and experience in local government. He

» See EIGHTH, page 6

NU SES provides Nieuwsma, Goldring lead in 4th Ward support virtually After three terms, incumbent Ald. Don Wilson could be unseated SES adapts to serve FGLI students during pandemic

By HANK YANG

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Northwestern Student Enrichment Services has adjusted its services to best serve students virtually.

The resource provides firstgeneration and low-income students with community and guidance, which have become all the more important during the pandemic.

Kourtney Cockrell, the founding director of SES, said she has noticed the toll the pandemic has taken on all students, FGLI or not.

“We saw more motivation

» See SES, page 6

By DELANEY NELSON

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Jonathan Nieuwsma and Diane Goldring are projected to top the field in the 4th Ward aldermanic primary race Tuesday night, according to unofficial results from the Cook County Clerk’s office. The two candidates are expected to move on to the general election

held on April 6.

Nieuwsma and Goldring received 38 percent and 32 percent of the vote in Tuesday’s unofficial count respectively, with all precincts reporting.

Ald Don Wilson (4th) trailed behind at 29 percent of the vote.

Wilson has held the 4th Ward aldermanic seat since he was first elected in 2009.

Both challengers said Tuesday night’s numbers reflect that

Evanston residents are looking for new leadership.

“We knew that the winds of change were blowing here in Evanston, as they are around the country,” Nieuwsma said.

“We’re feeling some of that breeze here in Evanston.”

Nieuwsma, former president of Citizens’ Greener Evanston, is campaigning on environmental sustainability and equity. He said while mail-in ballots are yet to be counted, he is feeling

“encouraged and optimistic” by the outstanding results.

Throughout her campaign run, Goldring emphasized government accountability, participatory democracy and affordable housing. Goldring has a background in banking and community work, which includes serving on the board of Evanston Community, Advocacy, Support and

» See FOURTH, page 6

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Evanston residents react to projected primary results

By DELANEY NELSON and ANGELI MITTAL

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While waiting for Tuesday’s primary election results to be finalized, Evanston residents and organizations reacted to the projected election of a new mayor and city clerk, and ousting of incumbents in the 4th and 8th wards.

Unofficial results show former state Sen. Daniel Biss secured over 73 percent of the votes in the mayoral election, well over the 50 percent vote threshold to automatically win the race. Biss faced off against local activist Lori Keenan and Evanston Township High School graduate Sebastian Nalls.

The Democratic Party of Evanston endorsed Biss for mayor. Rachel Ruttenberg, the DPOE’s board president, said the organization was “thrilled” with the results. He also secured the endorsements of the Community Alliance for Better Government, the Organization for Positive Action and Leadership, Gov. J.B. Pritzker and more.

Indivisible Evanston senior regional organizer Nick Uniejewski said having a progressive Democrat like Biss — who has been a proponent of Indivisible Evanston — as mayor is exciting, especially for advancing the progressive group’s agenda at a local level.

Biss’ win did not come as a surprise to many residents.

Karla Thomas, an Evanston activist and Northwestern graduate student, said she expected Biss to win by a large margin and is happy with the outcome.

“I would love to see more from Sebastian (Nalls) in

Mayor Steve Hagerty receives vaccine as a frontline worker Mayor Steve Hagerty announced he received a COVID-19 vaccine along with frontline workers and senior citizens at a City Council meeting Monday.

Hagerty, who had not previously notified the public of his vaccination, revealed the information when Ald. Tom Suffredin (6th) asked the mayor if he was aware of

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Evanston residents and organizations reacted to the unofficial results of Tuesday’s primary election.

the future,” Thomas said. “Realistically, Daniel will take a little more pushing in progressive directions than Sebastian might have taken, but the gap to me isn’t that huge.”

In the 8th Ward aldermanic primary, Ald. Ann Rainey (8th) is projected to lose her seat, trailing behind opponents City Clerk Devon Reid and Ridgeville Park District commissioner Matthew Mitchell, who seem set for a runoff in the April 6 general election.

Earlier this month, all three mayoral candidates released statements condemning Rainey, as did

residents during public comment at the Feb. 10 City Council meeting, after she called Reid a “very scary person” at a Feb. 2 debate hosted by the League of Women Voters of Evanston.

“The fact that the Black man whom she often directed her racist remarks towards in his present position as City Clerk (is ahead) brings me a sense of unbridled joy,” Thomas wrote to The Daily. “I literally danced last night when I heard. Karma will get you every time.”

“any elected officials who should be (Phase) 1C who received vaccination.”

“I have been vaccinated as part of (Phase) 1B because everyone that was part of the emergency operations center — and I’m a part of the ‘unified command’ — was vaccinated,” Hagerty said.

To his knowledge, Hagerty said no other elected officials received the vaccine if they did not qualify on the basis of age..

According to the Illinois Department of Public Health, Phase 1B of the vaccination plan currently includes those over 65 years, as well as non-healthcare

frontline essential workers, including first responders.

Hagerty is 52 years old.

The IDPH considers fire, law enforcement, 911 workers, security personnel, school officers as first responders.

The phase also includes residents working in education, public transit and other higher-risk professions with an “inability to perform work duties remotely.”

Ald. Suffredin told The Daily he was “a little bit surprised” the mayor’s vaccination wasn’t done more publicly.

“I think it would have been appropriate for it to have been a more public thing,” Suffredin said. “We’re in a

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Jonathan Nieuswma and Diane Goldring are the projected top two-vote getters in the 4th Ward aldermanic race, ousting incumbent Ald. Don Wilson (4th). The two are expected to advance to the general election.

Kemone Hendricks, resident and community leader, said Nieuswma has shown he will listen to people in the community and “work to bring a better representation to the 4th Ward.” The success of the challengers, she said, shows residents are looking for new leaders who will address issues such as systemic racism.

She said she expects to see similar results in the general election.

“People are tired of not being listened to,” Hendricks said. “People are ready for a change and that’s what the results showed.”

Blair Garber, the Republican committeeman for Evanston Township GOP, said the lack of a Republican candidate in the municipal elections demonstrates a one-party system in Evanston that was not evident in the ‘60s.

While he said he expects Biss to push the agenda further left, he also does not see any indication Republicans will be competitive in future Evanston elections.

Aside from encouraging voter turnout and political discourse throughout Evanston, Ruttenberg said the DPOE will be supporting 1st Ward aldermanic candidate Clare Kelly’s campaign through phone banking and get-out-the-vote efforts. Kelly, who is running against incumbent Ald. Judy Fiske (1st), is the only aldermanic candidate endorsed by the organization who has an opponent. delaneynelson2023@u.northwestern.edu situation where the supply is limited and we’ve been telling people to please be patient and wait their turn, and I think that’s the example that we all should set.”

Hagerty also said Health and Human Services Department Director Ike Ogbo made the decision to include him in Phase 1B vaccinations. Suffredin also said that he trusts Ogbo’s judgment and respects his discretion.

Hagerty and Ogbo did not respond to The Daily’s request for comment.

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As Northwestern Dining ramps up its efforts to enforce social distancing and reduce crowds in dining halls across campus, some students say they are struggling to find open reservation slots to pick up meals.

In a Feb. 12 email, NU Dining announced it would reduce seating and opening hours at Foster-Walker Complex West, and would offer a new “to-go” meal experience. NU Dining aso said it would limit seating in Allison Dining Hall, Elder Dining Hall and Norris University Center.

Dining room monitors have also been stationed to check dining reservations, face mask compliance and proper distancing between tables.

“We are taking precautions to keep you safe but sharing a meal with someone you do not live with increases the risk of contracting COVID19,” the email said. “Your risk increases the longer you remain in a dining hall where other diners have their masks off.”

Since the beginning of the quarter, students have had to make online reservations to visit any dining hall on campus. Time slots are spread out by 15 minutes, and each has a cap of 40 to 50 students, depending on the location. Students have collectively made over 105,000 reservations this quarter, NU Dining said in the email.

Weinberg freshman Naomi Gizaw, who lives and eats at Sargent Hall, said lines stretched out the door early in the quarter before staff began regularly checking and reinforcing the reservation requirement. While the lines are shorter now, Gizaw said the slots fill up quickly, and it’s difficult to remember to make reservations every morning on top of classes and schoolwork.

“I would say lunchtime is the hardest to get a reservation. From 11:45 to 12:30 is usually booked if you don’t (make a reservation) ahead of time,” Gizaw said. “Sometimes I’ll have to skip lunch because I didn’t get a reservation.”

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To visit any dining hall on campus, students have to make reservations, which are spaced out in 15-minute intervals and have a cap of 40 to 50 students each.

own, Gizaw said. A system where students who want meals to-go can make separate reservations from those who want to dine-in might be better, she added.

McCormick freshman Maria Fernandez, who lives in Sargent and eats primarily at the Sargent and Elder dining halls, also said that she has had to push back a meal or trek to another dining hall because of filled reservations. However, Fernandez said, she appreciates the new rules because even after the crowds of the first few days had dissipated, students were still moving chairs and pushing tables together.

“In the beginning, I feel like they weren’t strict enough,” Fernandez said. “It was insane

because there were massive crowds of people just all over the dining hall, and that was a little uncomfortable.”

In recent weeks, dining hall monitors have been walking through the dining rooms and telling students to limit themselves to two per table, she said. Especially as the campus positivity rate has spiked in the last week because inclement weather limited the number of processed tests, Fernandez said the increased rule enforcement has been encouraging.

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How art therapy helps sustain mental well-being

By MELINA CHALKIA

the daily northwestern @chalkiamelina

Shortly before one of her clients died, art psychotherapist Elena Kaiser said she watched them paint a butterfly.

Kaiser recalls them saying, “I feel myself, I feel my healthy self right now.”

During difficult, stressful and isolating times, Kaiser said art can be effectively implemented in daily life to improve mental health and wellbeing through releasing emotions on paper.

Kaiser has practiced art therapy for over two decades and has worked with clients of different ages. She said it helps them revive an emotional balance in their life and recognize their own powerful internal resources for healing.

Kaiser said everyone can benefit from art therapy. She specializes in anxiety and depression, helping clients become unstuck and feel confident.

“You don’t have to be an artist; we all have this inherent ability to be creative,” Kaiser said.

“It’s a desire to replicate something concrete as a way to integrate and understand the world around you.”

This creative regulatory approach is especially important during the pandemic, Kaiser said. The fears and unknowns brought on by COVID-19, she said, have hindered young adults’ social and emotional exploration.

According to Kaiser, art moves individuals from a victim mindset —- where negative feelings take over —- to a creator mindset, motivating people to have an optimistic and self-assured attitude.

Melissa Santoyo, a Medill sophomore minoring in art, shared her own experience with art’s ability to provide a creative outlet to tackle the stress and melancholy students face today.

“It can be a cathartic process to just sit with oneself and be like, ‘Okay, what do I want to create?’ and then just put forth something that is entirely yourself,” Santoyo said.

Art can also act as a distraction or escape

from reality. For Santoyo, the repetitive process of engaging in art, like painting or drawing, helps her turn the pressures of everyday life into what she calls “white noise.”

“I think it’s a great way to either interact with our problems and help us process our emotions about the current situation or take a step away from the current situation and immerse ourselves in something else,” Santoyo said.

According to Kaiser, it is easy to evade mental warning signs and negative feelings.

However, avoiding them and allowing them to accumulate creates further emotional dysregulation. People need to find a way to “unpack it and peel it,” Kaiser said.

There is also a neurological foundation to collaborative art therapy, Kaiser said. She explained that as interpersonal attachment is associated with the creative side of the brain, engaging in a joint artistic process with other people can enhance the effects of art therapy.

In her therapy, Kaiser often implements the theory of ego states and internal family systems, which was developed by Richard C. Schwartz.

According to Schwartz’s theory, every person has an “internal family system,” which consists of one’s identity and additional ego states.

“We have a worried self, our sacred self, our lonely self, but sometimes, the negative parts take over and we feel lost; the fear, the anger, the stress take over,” Kaiser said.

According to Kaiser, by understanding these negative parts of the self and learning how they function as a whole through art therapy, people can ultimately find a balance between the positive characteristics of the self and the negative.

Antonia Mufarech, another Medill sophomore minoring in art, said art gives her clarity and helps her release negative thoughts.

“Since I was young, art has always been a tool for me to understand my emotions, and doing that with others can magnify the process,” Mufarech said. “I sometimes don’t know what I feel until I write words on a notebook or splash paint on a canvas — art, to me, is basically therapy.” melinachalkia2023@u.northwestern.edu

Imagine U Storytime puts on its latest installment

By LAYA NEELAKANDAN

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What would you do if your teacher turned every student into an apple just for misbehaving?

That’s what the children in “Wayside School vs. Ms. Gorf ” have to figure out.

The story, produced by Communication senior Matthew Threadgill, is the latest installment in the Imagine U Storytime series hosted by the Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts. The storytimes, which were introduced at the pandemic’s onset, are short videos geared toward children put on by theatre students, faculty and alumni. Threadgill adapted “Wayside School vs. Ms. Gorf ” from Louis Sachar’s “Sideways Stories of Wayside School.”

“This story was a huge part of my childhood,” Threadgill said. “I thought, ‘I would have so much fun giving the gift of that story to children.’”

Threadgill said he loved the story as a child.

It follows a school in which a zany substitute teacher turns misbehaving children into apples, and the children must figure out a way to stop the mayhem.

Threadgill said he thought of producing the story last fall and pitched it to the organizers.

After working through the script, he eventually shot the production in one weekend.

Photo courtesy of Imagine U

The Imagine U Storytime series. “Wayside School vs. Ms. Gorf” will be premiering on Feb. 28 on their YouTube channel.

Threadgill had no trouble casting the show — he played every character.

“My scene partner was my imagination, and I found that to be so exciting — I found so many new things I can do as an actor,” he said. “I also thought it would be funny to see one person playing all of the characters.”

Artistic Director and Imagine U Founder Lynn Kelso said the virtual storytimes have

been going exceedingly well overall. Wirtz has received many emails from delighted viewers expressing their enjoyment of the storytimes.

With the uncertainty brought by the pandemic, Kelso said the virtual storytimes have been “a joy” to put on.

“We’ve been able to reach so many families that may not have been able to come to the theatre,” she said. “The joy of this is… when we

can’t be in the theatres, we’ve taken the theatres into the homes.”

Kelso said “Wayside School vs. Ms. Gorf ” is “clever and really very fun,” and she praised Threadgill’s ability to pare it down into a 10-15 minute production.

Theatre Department Chair Rives Collins said he’s been impressed by how the students took each story to the next level through sophisticated editing and storytelling. While the “building is closed, the theatre is open,” he said, and the storytimes have been a wonderful way to connect the community during the pandemic.

“Who knew that almost a year later we’d still be doing this?” Collins said. “But the heart is always the same: it is reaching out to delight and to nurture young people and their families.”

Collins said he is “enthusiastic and proud” of the theatre community and of the Imagine U Storytimes thus far, including the diversity of the programming.

This production will be premiering on the Imagine U Youtube channel on Feb. 28. Threadgill said the experience has been very informative as he looks toward his future.

“I learned a lot about having an awareness of what kids want,” he said. “I’m a huge fan of kids, and I’d love to write for kids in the future, so having that awareness in the back of my mind will be helpful.” laya@u.northwestern.edu

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Immerse yourself in Van Gogh’s colorful brushstrokes

By MELINA CHALKIA

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The Immersive Van Gogh Exhibit in Chicago allows visitors to delve into the world of Vincent Van Gogh in a multi-sensory experience of color, light and music.

The exhibit involves more than 74 projectors and showcases animations of 400 images from 60 different Van Gogh works, according to Co-Producer and CoFounder of the Lighthouse Art Space Irina Shabshis.

The images interweave with each other, spanning the space’s large mirrors and high ceilings.

Located at the Germania Club Building, the exhibition is part of the Lighthouse Art Space, which is projected to continue operating until September. The project follows COVID-19 safety protocols, with temperature checks, six feet distanced digital circles, regular disinfection and multiple hand sanitizers in all rooms.

The inspiration for the event was born from two Italian artists: designer Massimiliano Siccardi and composer Luca Longobardi, who according to Shabshis, pioneered immersive art experiences in France.

“After seeing this magical, absolute force of light and sound and color in Paris, we wanted to bring it here too,” Shabshis said.

The first exhibition launched July 2020 in Toronto, and is projected to expand to San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York, according to Shabshis. The producers aim to transform it into an immersive art museum with exhibitions inspired by different artists.

Shabshis said visitors can walk through four different rooms, completely covered in mirrors, where they experience the flow of images from one room to the next.

“Because you are not seeing the same thing each time, you experience different emotions because the images are not static, but animated,” Shabshis said. “It’s a three-dimensional experience because it reflects the images on the walls to the floor and to the ceiling.”

According to Shabshis, the exhibit is a “full-package,”

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The Starry Night by Van Gogh at the Immersive Van Gogh Exhibition in Chicago. The exhibition provides a deep dive into a sea of colors and lights, featuring 60 of Van Gogh’s paintings.

38-minute experience, and visitors can lay down in socially-distanced circles projected digitally on the floor, spending however long they want in each room.

What makes this experience unique, Shabshis said, is the combination and reconfiguration of different artworks by Van Gogh, with added musical components.

“It’s very innovative, as the paintings mix and interact with each other, and it’s the music, beautiful music from different composers combined into one palette of colors and sounds,” she said.

Angela Kay, who visited the exhibit in Toronto, found it a moving experience for her two daughters.

Kay said her daughter, who has vision impairment, was given a “wonderful way” to experience the dynamic displays in ways she wouldn’t be able to with conventional art. Her other daughter, who she said has ADHD, was equally awestruck and enraptured by the exhibition.

Jamie Odierno, who recently visited the Chicago exhibit, spoke to her multi-sensory, “awe-inspiring” experience.

Odierno said no matter where she stood in the room, she gained a completely different perspective from where she found herself five minutes before.

“You could lay down and look up, and the way the colors would kick off the mirrors and ricochet with the music — it made it unbelievable,” Odierno said.

Odierno said the first visit did not give her enough time to truly grasp the exhibit’s essence. She plans to visit again.

“I just felt like every time I looked away or looked at one specific thing I was missing something else over here, so even if you sit through it multiple times, it is not the same,” she said. melinachalkia2023@u.northwestern.edu

Ashley O’Shay talks her documentary ‘Unapologetic’ with other leaders and began to recognize it warranted a longer film.

By REBECCA AIZIN

daily senior staffer @rebecca_aizin

The Daily: What were some challenges you faced as you were filming?

O’Shay: A big challenge was getting access to movement spaces because the organizers are very protective of the space and members. It took a lot of time to build trust with both Janae and Bella and the larger community, and once we established that rappor, things started to clear up a bit for us. We wanted the community to feel we were being ethical and representing them responsibly. It’s a tall task to ask someone to be on that side of the camera for that long, so we understood the gravity the situation could have.

After graduating from Northwestern, Ashley O’Shay (Communication ‘15) knew she wanted to make impactful films. In her directorial debut “Unapologetic,” she followed two women, Janae and Bella, over the course of four years, documenting their journey in the fight for Black lives. Since then, the film has been featured in multiple film festivals, including the American Black Film Festival. The Daily sat down with O’Shay to talk directing, personal challenges and the effect the film has had on her and on the Black community.

This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity.

The Daily: What inspired you to make “Unapologetic”?

O’Shay: I wanted to provide a platform for a young, Black feminist voice. Around the time I started, there was this rise in social media channels about this police killing of a young Black woman, Rekia Boyd, and the police officer responsible skirted any kind of accountability via judicial systems. I was becoming really familiar with the case and started attending Chicago Police Board hearings. One meeting in particular, where the organizers shut the meeting down, the voices being centered in the (hearing) were people I could directly identify with as a young Black woman, which was something I’d never seen in my formal education, so I wanted to explore that. I grew up around a lot of Black

Photo courtesy of Whitney Spencer

A still from “Unapologetic” of Janae at a protest. The documentary followed Janae and Bella’s journeys as activists over four years.

women and I knew their power.

The Daily: Was there a moment for you where it really hit you that you were doing something important?

O’Shay: When I was originally filming with Janae,

I did not know where this would go. The tape of the killing of Laquan McDonald came out and I remember going downtown to document this unforgettable moment in Chicago’s history. In that moment, I realized this would go down in history books just because of the scale of the corruption, so I continued to connect

Multicultural Student Affairs hosts book clubs

By DJ LIM

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Content warning: This article includes mentions of sexual assault.

Northwestern’s Asian Pacific Islander Desi American affiliation group discussed the culture of victim-blaming survivors of sexual assault, especially on college campuses, after reading Chanel Miller’s “Know My Name.”

The APIDA Book of the Quarter is co-hosted with the University’s Asian American Studies Program to introduce contemporary works of Asian-American authors. The Jan. 26 discussion is part of four reading series organized by Multicultural Students Affairs.

Community members at these series reflect on and discuss a work by an author that shares their identity.

The APIDA Book of the Quarter is co-hosted with the University’s Asian American Studies Program to introduce contemporary works of Asian-American authors.

Christine Munteanu, the assistant director of the

MSA team, said the book discussion aims to encourage inclusion, awareness and resonance among the University’s students and faculty.

“Through MSA’s book clubs, we aim to uplift the lived experiences of marginalized communities,” Munteanu says. “We also hope that students can connect to and see themselves reflected in the stories, themes and authors we explore and provide a space to make meaning together.”

MSA runs three other cultural reading groups in conjunction with APIDA Book of the Quarter. The Indigenous Reading Series pushes students to explore the perspectives of Indigenous people through literature. The Queer Book Club, co-hosted with the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, recently discussed queer love story “Little Blue Encyclopedia.”

The Latinx Book Club is the last of the series, which unlike the others announces the book months prior to the event, giving students time in building their thoughts over the work.

Varying the types of work itself is also a key consideration. Not only does it keep the discussions varied, but it also makes the readings more manageable for

busy students, Munteanu said.

“We’ve read novels, short story collections, poetry and graphic novels—we also try to select books that aren’t too long so they feel accessible and students can read them on top of all the other school work and readings they may have,” Munteanu said.

Weinberg senior Emily Wang, who has attended both the APIDA and the Indigenous book clubs, said the respectful, inviting environment makes the reading series stand out.

“I think one of the best things about the way that MSA does its book clubs is that I can just share what I’m comfortable sharing and the discussion is not aggressive at all,” Wang said. “Sharing your story in that environment feels like such a relief.”

Medill sophomore Nick Song said affinity-based events like the reading series play an important part in students maintaining a connection with their background.

“When talking to people who share parts of my identity, I don’t have to explain the nuance or context of everything I share,” Song said. dajunglim2023@u.northwestern.edu

The Daily: Since its release, what kind of impact has the film had?

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“I entered this race because I care deeply about the people of Evanston, and I wanted to elevate their voices,” Keenan wrote. “For me, this race has always been about serving our community. I will continue to show up and speak up the way I have for the past 22 years.”

Nalls was the first to announce his candidacy back in August. He told The Daily despite the outcome of the election, he’s still proud of the conversations his campaign started.

“We saw that other candidates, not just in the mayoral race, but across the wards, were adopting some of the same platform pieces that we’ve had since we had our first conversation,” Nalls said. “Residents recognize that there’s a path forward that’s more equitable, it’s

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challenges in the spring and then summer and fall,” Cockrell said. “Now we’re seeing those issues of motivation compounded with depression and anxiety. Seasonal depression is real.”

Developing genuine connections is especially important when dealing with sensitive matters such as mental health, financial hardship or identity crisis, all of which SES seeks to address, Cockrell said.

From bringing in guest speakers to speed friending, many of SES’s activities have moved online. Despite this change, Cockrell said SES tries to make its virtual environment as warm and inviting as possible.

“When we use Zoom, we do a lot of breakout rooms so that it’s not just one person talking into this abyss of 50 people,” Cockrell said. “All of my staff meets with students all the time during one-on-ones and in student meetings, so that’s a great way to build relationships.”

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more transparent, and is more just for all.”

In his tenure as mayor, Biss told The Daily he welcomes input from both Keenan and Nalls, and commended the two for their work in the community throughout the course of the campaign.

Biss said his first task as mayor will be to assess the state of the city’s s COVID-19 response plans. He also said he hopes to begin to rebuild the community and local economy in the next four years.

“Tonight is a night of celebration; perhaps tomorrow morning is a morning of rest,” Biss said. “But then we enter a period of work — work to transform our city, work to enact this new vision, work to build policies that work for every single Evanstonian and lift every single Evanstonian up.” fulton@u.northwestern.edu McCormick freshman Iva Hammitt said she didn’t initially understand her financial aid package. However, she said SES advisers explained what she needed to do in a step-bystep process.

When Hammitt expressed uncertainty about moving to campus, SES advisers also guided her through her decision to stay home this quarter.

“None of my family members have been to college, so it was a little overwhelming,” Hammitt said. “Being able to sit down with someone and talk about, like, ‘Hey, I have no idea what’s happening,’ was really helpful.”

During the beginning of winter quarter, SES provided FGLI students with free winter gear and a care package when they moved to campus.

McCormick freshman Peter Podobinski said he applied to NU because of services like SES, which could provide the necessary financial support to FGLI students.

“I got the (Winter Welcome) package, and they had bedding stuff, towels and sheets, which was nice because I’ve never lived outside of

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is the youngest city clerk in Evanston’s history.

Reid told The Daily on Tuesday night his presumptive success is a sign his campaign has successfully tapped into the 8th Ward’s challenges.

“We had a message that connected with voters,” Reid said. “Folks are looking for experienced, progressive and bold leadership and that’s what this campaign provided.”

Mitchell said he is waiting for all mailin ballots to come in but he is “cautiously optimistic” he will be moving to the run-off.

Mitchell currently leads Rainey by 28 votes.

Mitchell also congratulated the ward’s

write-in candidates, singling out Shelley Ann Carrillo in particular. In a contentious election year, the 8th Ward race became one of Evanston’s most crowded, with up to six candidates vying for the position at one point.

At press time, Reid led with 404 votes, while Mitchell had 315 votes. Rainey trailed with 287.

Rainey is the city’s longest-serving alderman. If ousted, the alderman will mark the end of a 38-year career in local politics.

Rainey ran uncontested for more than a decade before a narrow win over challenger Rob Bady in 2017.

Rainey was unavailable for comment. joshuairvine2022@u.northwestern.edu

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home,” Podobinski said. “It just was really nice to feel that I had someone supporting me in some way or showing care.”

In addition to providing its own support services, SES also connects students with resources offered by the University and other organizations. Through the SES website, students can access resources for emergency financial assistance, dorm lockout waivers, winter clothes, undocumented/DACA support, food accessibility and more.

For example, SES will provide students who demonstrate need with up to $300 to purchase professional attire for interviews or internships.

“Just knowing that that resource is there if I ever encounter something or if I need help is… really helpful,” Hammitt said.

Cockrell encourages anyone who wishes to speak to an SES adviser to fill out the interest form on their website, which also provides a list of resources for FGLI students.

Education, a special education advocacy organization, and volunteering weekly at Connections for the Homeless.

While the votes have not yet been finalized, Goldring said she feels confident about the race and is appreciative of the support she’s received.

“There’s been just a groundswell of people who have been really supporting me and it’s been really satisfying and gratifying,” Goldring said. “I owe a lot to all of those people. I’m really excited about moving forward and about the next step.”

Wilson, who has held the position for three terms, highlighted the rebuilding of the Robert Crown Community Center and prioritizing the city’s economy amid COVID-19. Wilson did not immediately respond to The Daily’s request for comment.

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As we watch these feel-good movies, we laugh, we cry and many times, we even cringe.

But rom-coms aren’t always representative of those watching them. What makes a rom-com a rom-com? How do rom-coms fall short?

And what happened to their large presence in Hollywood?

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and then-Northwestern president Walter Dill Scott.

But when merger committee chair Melvin Alvah Traylor died, so did the potential for the combination of the schools. Both schools’ Board of Trustees rejected the proposal on Feb. 25, 1934. Hutchins called it “one of the lost opportunities of American education.”

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Mendoza projected to win city clerk race in landslide

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City clerk candidate Stephanie Mendoza appears to have won over 70 percent of the vote, with all precincts reporting.

The office will release results for write-in candidates in the coming days. If a write-in candidate receives over 921 votes, they will have a spot on the ballot to run against Mendoza in the April 6 general election.

As of Tuesday night, Mendoza appears to have received over 6,500 of the over 9,500 ballots cast, according to unofficial results from the Cook County Clerk’s office.

The current count doesn’t include mail-in ballots still in transit — those will be added to final vote totals up to two weeks from Tuesday. Mendoza, the only city clerk candidate on the ballot, runs against write-in candidates Cynthia Beebe (Weinberg ’81, Medill ’83), Eduardo Gomez, Jackson Paller (Weinberg ’17), Misty Witenberg, Adedapo Odusanya and Darrell Patterson.

If elected in April, Mendoza would be the first Latina resident to sit on the dais.

“It’s a historic race,” Mendoza said. “Many times in my own life, I’ve been through doors other people have opened as a Latina. Now, we have officially opened the door.”

A community organizer and the current director of community outreach for Evanston Latinos, Mendoza received endorsements from the Democratic Party of Evanston, U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Evanston), state Rep. Robyn Gabel (D-Evanston), Evanston Fight for Black Lives and other key local players prior to the primary election.

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Mendoza runs promising to expand community outreach efforts supporting marginalized residents. She said she’ll facilitate partnerships with nonprofit organizations, communities of worship and other community leaders to actively connect residents with the clerk’s office’s services.

“Education is super important,” Mendoza said.

“As we’re doing that, we also have to make sure we are actively reaching out to our most marginalized

community members and including them in the conversation.”

Having worked with nonprofits like Evanston Latinos and Connections for the Homeless, Mendoza said she has already been in conversation with Evanston’s Equity and Empowerment Commission to expand language access for every city department. She said she wants to ensure people will be able to receive translations of City Council

community members once supplies become available, according to a Monday email from the University.

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As Mendoza watched her votes roll in, write-in candidates sat in the dark.

“I haven’t the foggiest idea how many votes I’m going to end up with in the final total,” Paller said.

“But I think that in the next few days I’ll be able to tell whether or not I had the impact on the race and on the next clerk that I wanted.”

Paller is running to open City Council’s operations to public scrutiny, increase interface between residents and officials and lower the barriers to running for office. He says his perspective navigating the legal landscape sets him apart from Mendoza, as he’s also studying law at Loyola University Chicago.

Even if he does not reach the 921-vote threshold, Paller said he hopes a write-in candidate will secure a spot on the ballot in April so Mendoza will have a competitor in the general election.

“The city clerk, as a position, is too important… to be elected without a campaign,” Paller said. “Having to campaign for the position is going to make the next city clerk stronger and a more capable ally for transparency and general good government.”

Witenberg said she hopes any candidates who land on the April ballot will use their candidacy to push for transparency and a restoration of Freedom of Information Act duties to the clerk’s office.

“This is the most exciting local election we’ve had for a very long time,” Witenberg said. “We have a lot of people running who have been participating in the city for a long time, and are challenging its past practices and ways of dealing with the public… and it’s not over.” maiaspoto2023@u.northwestern.edu the City of Evanston for future community mass vaccinations.

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Graduate student attacker Lindsey McKone spoke to The Daily about her experiences playing lacrosse, including her decision to spend a grad year at Northwestern and her favorite moments on the field. This story is the second installment of the Why I Play series, where Wildcat athletes talk about why they love their sports and how they got started.

This interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.

The Daily: You decided to stay for a grad year. What was that decision like?

McKone: It was an easy one for me. I knew we had unfinished business. Last year, we were trending pretty well. We were also coming off a loss to the number one team in the nation (No. 1 UNC on March 9, 2020), so (I) definitely had a bit of fire and passion still inside me. I was lucky to have the opportunity to come back to take my fifth year, because I know it was a lot on Northwestern athletics to allow that. I felt like my time playing lacrosse wasn’t done.

The Daily: When did you first develop a passion for lacrosse?

Lindsey McKone: I think it was the summer after eighth grade.

I started playing in seventh grade, so I was a little bit late for the sport, but after eighth grade I played on my first travel team and had so much fun.

The Daily: What has been your biggest struggle with the sport?

McKone: I had a really big learning curve going into college. I definitely struggled with keeping up and performing the way I knew I could. I just didn’t know how to get there. I mentally would beat myself up about it and every time I was trying to push myself to work harder, be better, it wasn’t manifesting.

The Daily: What led to your decision to attend Northwestern?

McKone: Northwestern is the best combination of athletics and academics. Academics was really important for me, so I narrowed my search from that. Being from Texas and being late to the game, I was honored and surprised that the national champions of however-many-years were looking at me. The team culture, I knew I

The Daily: How do you think coming from Texas where lacrosse isn’t necessarily as popular, has impacted you as a player?

McKone: All the girls coming out of Texas are really athletic and work really hard, and we have a chip on our shoulders. We want to prove ourselves in a sport that is dominated by Baltimore and Long Island and more traditional areas. I wanted to put Texas on the map

for lacrosse and have Texas be and mean something in the sport. We have to work that much harder to be seen and that much harder to get credit for anything we do. As a Texan, I know it’s a matter of working hard, getting those groundballs, getting the not-so-flashy plays.

The Daily: Who is your biggest inspiration as an athlete?

McKone: My favorite athlete is Kelley O’Hara on the U.S. Soccer Women’s National Team. I have always looked up to the way she plays and holds herself. She’s the hardest worker, she has had a long tenure on the U.S. Women’s National Team and the way she carries herself has definitely contributed to who I am as an athlete and who I want to be. Also my high school lacrosse coach, Coach K, embodied what it was like to be passionate about a sport and to use athletics to push yourself and be a better person.

The Daily: What has been your favorite experience with lacrosse?

McKone: Winning the Big Ten Championship my junior year. We went through a lot that year as a team and so had I personally, and so to culminate in a championship was incredible. We beat Maryland for the first time in my career. This awesome energy we brought on the field that day completely blew them out of the water. We just clicked and we knew that all the hard work and all the adversity that we’d gone through as a team led us to that moment.

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The first 10 minutes of play on Wednesday against Illinois were nothing short of a disaster for Northwestern.

The Wildcats scored just 9 points in the first quarter, and went over eight minutes without making a single field goal. Junior guard Veronica Burton scored four points from the free throw line, but NU went an abysmal 2-for-15 from the field.

“We couldn’t make a shot,” coach Joe McKeown said. “Fortunately, we got to the foul line a little bit.”

The Illini capitalized on the Cats’ struggles, and raced out to an 18-4 lead, before NU finally added two buckets of their own in the final minutes.

Down 10 after that first quarter, the Cats looked like a different team in the second. NU outscored Illinois 22-3, shooting 55.6 percent from the field.

The Cats, who hadn’t made a single shot from behind the arc in the first, also went 2-for-5 from three, with both makes by junior guard Lauryn Satterwhite. Satterwhite scored a career high nine points on Wednesday, with all of them coming from three pointers.

No individual NU player scored more than six points in the second quarter, but five of the seven players on the floor scored points. Over half of the team’s assists came in the second quarter, as the Cats’ offensive variety helped them find their groove after shooting just 13.3 percent in the first.

As NU’s offense improved, so did their defense. The Illini turned the ball over nine times in the second quarter, and the Cats took advantage, scoring 16 points off of those takeaways. Working off turnovers was part of McKeown’s message to the team between quarters,

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he said.

“We talked about getting better shots,” McKeown said. “(The message) was to just be patient. We’re doing a great job on defense. The ball’s going to go through.

We’re going to start running out off turnovers, and that’s what we did. They did a great job in the second quarter just switching gears.”

In some of its past games, like against Nebraska on Feb. 17, NU has been successful early, but faded in the latter half of the game and relinquished its lead.

This time, the first quarter was the Cats’ worst. But they woke up when the going got tough.

Illinois did come back and pull the deficit under 10 in the fourth quarter and NU didn’t score a field goal in the

final four minutes of the game. But with clutch free throw shooting by senior guard Lindsey Pulliam and Burton, NU coasted to a 67-61 victory off the strength of its dominant second quarter.

Despite the weak and lopsided opening, the Cats roared back to respond and create a gap the Illini couldn’t close, even though they outscored NU 39-36 in the second half.

“We got off to a really slow start tonight,” McKeown said. “Illinois made a bunch of shots, but I love the way we played the second quarter. We held them to three points and got our offense together, started to get better shots, and were able to turn them over.” gabrielacarroll2023@u.northwestern.edu

Coach Tim Lenahan had a message for his team following its season opening loss to Michigan: turn up the intensity and cut down on mistakes.

“You can’t beat the Michigans of the world playing that way,” Lenahan said after the game, in which Northwestern was outplayed in every statistical metric.

But NU brought an intensity to the Tuesday game against Wisconsin, with NU’s attackers controlling the pace of play for much of the first half.

They worked against Badger defenders and zipping the ball around the pitch with reckless abandon. And they scored a lot, especially early on.

First it was junior midfielder Richie Bennett, whose right-footed strike from the middle of the 18-yard box was so strong that it beat Wisconsin goalkeeper Sven Kleinhans, even after he’d squared himself in front of the ball. It put the Cats up 1-0 inside the first 15 minutes.

And NU built on its lead, unlike its game against Michigan, which saw the team give up four second half goals.

Sophomore forward Ugo Achara Jr.’s towering header in the 20th minute gave the Cats their first set piece goal of the season, putting them up 2-0. Achara Jr. would tack on nearly ten minutes later, when his curled effort from inside the box passed through the outstretched arms of Kleinhans and into the top left corner of the goal.

It was a stunning strike, one that had been set up by a ranging run from junior midfielder Bardia Kimiavi.

Kimiavi received the ball on the wide right hand side of the pitch, before turning on a dime and cutting inside, getting past two Wisconsin defenders before dropping the ball right into Achara Jr.’s path.

“We know what kind of talent Achara Jr. has, his ability to make plays,” Lenahan said.

Each team would hit paydirt twice in the second half, with all four goals coming in a frenzied ten minute stretch when sophomore midfielder Logan Weaver and senior forward Spencer Howard each pitched in with their firsts of the season.

But NU would struggle to keep the ball out of its own end for much of the second half. Wisconsin had ten shots to the Cats’ two in the final frame. Some of the defensive frailties evident against Michigan came back to the fore.

“We really have to do a better job of managing our emotions,” Lenahan said. “We score a goal, we’re happy, we all celebrate, it’s great. But then we have to flip the switch and say let’s make sure we bunker down.”

The five goals Northwestern scored were the team’s most against a Big Ten opponent since November 2004, when a high powered group of players, now in their 40s, took Michigan 5-0 en route to NU’s first ever appearance in the Big Ten title game. They’ve only been back one time since, winning the whole thing in November 2011. gregorysvirnovskiy2022@u.northwestern.edu