The Daily Northwestern — March 4, 2019

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Transfer enrollment continues to grow Some transfer students struggle to adjust to NU

By ANDRES CORREA

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This past fall, Northwestern welcomed its largest-ever class of transfer students.

However, for this growing population, adjusting to NU is not easy.

Northwestern welcomed 159 transfers to Evanston last year, a little over 8 percent of the incoming class, according to the University’s 2018-2019 Common Data Set. Since 2014, the number of transfers to NU has nearly tripled. University President Morton Schapiro said increasing the number of transfers and making the campus more welcoming for them has been his “crusade.”

“They’re so happy to be here, they work so hard,” he said. “They convert to purple so quickly.”

With the high cost of college and health problems in his family, Zubair Ahmed, a Weinberg sophomore and transfer student, said he

knew he had to stay at home for college. To save money, he decided to go to one of the city colleges in Chicago through the city’s STAR Scholarship — a merit-based scholarship started in the fall of 2015 that covers tuition, books and class materials to one of the seven city colleges in Chicago. After scholars complete their associate degrees, they are eligible to receive special scholarships from over 20 partner Chicago-area universities and businesses.

When it came to applying to one of the several partner schools, Ahmed said he was not expecting to get into NU and was caught off-guard.

Since his acceptance, he said adjusting to the University has had its ups and downs.

In recognition of the additional academic challenges transfers go through, Weinberg provides in-depth academic meetings for students before they begin classes, Mary Finn, the associate dean for undergraduate academic affairs, said in an email to The Daily.

“It’s of course very important that transfer students see their advisers, and our College » See TRANSFER, page 6

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Ald. Cicely Fleming (9th) at Saturday’s city council meeting. Fleming asked whether city council had the funds to implement the plan.

City to prioritize infrastructure Aldermen discuss need for long-term maintenance, investment plan

By SNEHA DEY

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Aldermen emphasized the need for infrastructure investment, one of several city goals

previously set for the 20192020 year, at Saturday’s special council meeting.

Lara Biggs, the city engineering and capital planning bureau chief, said no longterm plan currently exists to address infrastructure needs.

Biggs said the city will implement a plan for a number of facilities and parks that need renovations in the 2019-2020 year.

According to Biggs, the city currently invests in building systems required for operation

and facilities with critical life safety issues. Biggs said the city works closely with the Evanston Environmental Association on infrastructure projects to prioritize » See COUNCIL, page 6

Jewelry store curates luxury designers Undergrad research Assembly Creators Market showcases Evanston’s ‘rich art culture’

By VY DUONG

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Reyes Witt, the founder of Assembly Creators Market, said she wanted to give artists, designers and small business owners a curated space to showcase their

talent within Evanston’s “rich art culture.”

Assembly Creators Market, located at 1642 Orrington Ave., opened in November 2018. The store houses designer works that Witt described as “quality, luxury, affordable items,” ranging from handmade jewelry to customized footwear and clothes. Witt said

there’s an “eclectic mix” of styles that represent a diverse group of creators.

After working in mass production for 20 years, Witt said she hopes to bring a refreshing shopping experience to Evanston, stepping away from priceoriented consuming habits.

Chicago-based designer Cindy

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Assembly Creators Market window display at 1642 Orrington Ave. The store’s founder Reyes Witt said there’s an “eclectic mix” of styles that represent a diverse group of creators.

Serving the University and Evanston since 1881

Hock-Lauwers, whose jewelry collections “Black Tie” and “Star Dust” are featured, said Assembly delivers high fashion and enriches customers’ experiences. HockLauwers said gathering different voices within the same industry can generate competition, but that’s not the case for Assembly Creators Market.

“Reyes really presents it in a non-competitive and girl-power way where we are empowering each other,” Hock-Lauwers said.

“Anything in life, you’re stronger together than you’re on your own.”

Witt said the store has been organizing workshops for the public, including candle-making sessions where people create their own fragrances and name their finished products. Witt added that she was happy to see Northwestern students participate, as she tries to make the classes “affordable, fun and stress-free.”

While luxury goods are usually associated with high prices, Witt said Assembly Creators Market offers the high standard without the “insane mark-up,” and she hopes customers form a meaningful connection with what they buy and wear.

“Luxury really is treating yourself and creating an emotion, » See ASSEMBLY, page 6

applications climb More grants awarded to nonSTEM researchers

By ZACH BRIGHT

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The Office of Undergraduate Research received a record-breaking 203 academic year undergraduate research grant applications this year and will fund 134 proposals, according to its 2018-2019 Academic Year summary.

This is a 37 percent increase in applications the office received and a subsequent 39 percent increase in number of awards given, the summary said. Peter Civetta, the director of the Office of Undergraduate Research, said the office better promoted these opportunities to eligible students than they had in the past.

“The forming of the office and the staffing enabled us to do significantly more outreach,” he said.

“Particular to this year, such a big jump is tied to the fact that we can now get data from the registrar.”

University Provost Jonathan Holloway partly credited this outreach for the rise, but also speculated that University has

been attracting more students looking for research opportunities.

“You guys are at Northwestern during an era when its academic reputation is just blowing up and escalating with each year,” Holloway said in an interview with The Daily last November. “It may be that we are attracting more students who … are interested in research than we have in the past.”

This academic year, the Office of the Registrar provided key information to the URG program about eligible students enrolled in 398- and 399-level classes as well as independent studies. In the past, Civetta said the URG program didn’t target students as specifically.

Despite schoolwide budgetary concerns, the number of grants awarded has remained proportional with years past, and Civetta said the office is responsible for raising its own money for grants.

During the 2018-2019 academic year, the office accepted and fully funded 66 percent of applications, a slight increase from 65 percent last year.

The University changed its financing of the office this fiscal year by providing a set budget based on historical spending » See RESEARCH, page 6

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Sanders speaks on economy, race at Chicago rally

By JAMES POLLARD

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CHICAGO — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) outlined a bold, progressive vision for the country and maintained his focus on economic inequality during the second rally of his 2020 presidential campaign, held Sunday at Navy Pier.

Sanders said he hopes to “complete the political revolution we started three years ago.”

With “Power to the People” blaring over the speakers in Festival Hall, the presidential hopeful took the stage in the city where he spent four years as a student at the University of Chicago. Sanders told a crowd of over 12,000 that his time in Chicago shaped his worldview, especially his understanding of racism, poverty and social challenges.

“My activities here in Chicago taught me a very important lesson that I have never forgotten,” Sanders said. “Real change never takes place from the top on down. It always takes place from the bottom on up.”

Sanders began the rally by talking about the country’s “broken economy,” a familiar talking point from his 2016 campaign. He said three families own more than the bottom half of the country, and 46 percent of all new income goes to the top one percent.

The senator also endorsed Medicare for All. Sanders said he was considered “crazy” for proposing this policy three years ago, but many of the Democrats currently running for president also support it, though each candidate has a different vision for

POLICE BLOTTER iPhone stolen from middle school girl

A woman reported on Friday that a 14-yearold girl’s phone was stolen at Nichols Middle School.

The 49-year-old woman who reported the incident said the girl’s gold iPhone 7, valued at $700, disappeared while the girl was not looking.

Kristina Karisch/Daily Senior Staffer

Bernie Sanders speaks in the U.S. Capitol in early 2018.

universal health care. He also endorsed a slew of other progressive policies: marijuana legalization, tuitionfree public college, a federal jobs guarantee, automatic voter registration and a $15 federal minimum wage.

“Stop paying your workers starvation wages,” Sanders said. “It is not a radical idea to suggest that anyone in America who works 40 hours a week should not be living in poverty.”

At several moments throughout Sanders’ speech,

a protestor with a sign that read “NO REPARATIONS NO BLACK VOTE” attempted to interrupt him. Sanders has been criticized by some for not supporting reparations and not addressing the role race plays in the country’s economic issues. But Sanders did not shy away from race in his speech.

While indicating his support for criminal justice reform and an end to cash bail, Sanders noted police violence against “people in the minority community,”

The woman turned the phone off remotely so it could not be used, Evanston Police Department Cmdr. Ryan Glew said.

The woman said she also used an app to locate the missing iPhone, and it showed the phone in the 1800 block of Main Street.

The phone has not been located, and there are currently no suspects.

Package stolen from Evanston residence

A 52-year-old woman reported Thursday that a package was stolen from her residence in the 200 block of Custer Avenue.

The woman said she ordered a light brown tote bag and wallet valued at $350 from the Home Shopping Network. She has a security camera outside her residence that connects to her phone, so she saw the postal worker deliver

naming Chicago’s Laquan McDonald. He said that black men are sentenced to 19 percent more jail time for committing the same crimes, and the war on drugs has disproportionately targeted people of color.

“But not one major Wall Street executive went to jail for destroying our economy in 2008,” said Sanders.

Weinberg first-year Jerry Zhang, who attended the event, said he did not learn anything new about Sanders’ political platform because he was already familiar with the candidate.

While he is not currently supporting Sanders in the Democratic primary, Zhang did not want to miss the opportunity to see a major politician.

“I don’t think I realized how he spoke and how charismatic he was,” Zhang said.

Chicago resident Christopher Valentin said he is supporting Sanders because the senator from Vermont can connect to people of all political backgrounds. Valentin said Sanders popularized many of the political positions Democrats have today.

“None of his politics are for the big corporations,” Valentin said. “They’re for people like you and me.”

Sanders’ volunteers told the crowd beforehand that signs referencing President Donald Trump would not be allowed because “this is not a negative space.”

However, Sanders did not pull punches when talking about the current president.

“We are not only going to defeat Donald Trump, the most dangerous president in modern American history,” Sanders said. “We’re going to transform the United States.” jamespollard2022@u.northwestern.edu

her package, Glew said.

A few minutes later, the woman also saw a man take the package and flee northbound on Custer Street. EPD officers arrived at the scene and examined the footage.

There are currently no suspects, and no one is custody. ­— Ashley Capoot

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‘Hey, could you please watch my stuff ?’

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When running to the restroom, grab your phone, but leave your backpack and laptop, says McCormick junior, Jonathan Dai. From Norbucks to Mudd Library, the question “Can you watch my stuff for me?” has become an essential part of the Wildcat lingo.

Northwestern students are trusting, but only to a certain point. They’ll leave their backpack and laptop, complete with colorful case and stickers, documents and data, under the watchful gaze of a stranger. A seat partner. Someone they just met. They choose to trust this new acquaintance, this accidental colleague, over the general public.

On the receiving end, the person asked to “watch the stuff ” is suddenly dealt a great deal of responsibility. They now have to watch an extra laptop, backpack, maybe even a set of AirPods.

They’re tied to that spot. They’re a guardian.

Though she admits she’s never yet had to jump into action, Communication first-year Sam Liu said if trusted with someone else’s gear, “I would defend it, swat people away, if I had to.”

Some trusting students haven’t been so lucky.

Last Fall Quarter, a University police report stated that multiple laptops had been stolen from Willard Hall and Alpha Epsilon Pi. Reports like that have prompted some students to take extra precautions, such as SESP first-year Savion Jean-Pierre.

“I always take everything with me,” JeanPierre said. “It’s better to be safe than sorry.”

Not all students feel the same, though. Liu lives in Willard and said she feels her possessions are safer in the dorm than out in public places like Norbucks. But it also depends where you live, as some of the smaller dorms foster a greater sense of community, Liu said.

“Watch my stuff ” comes from a unique balance of convenience and caution. For a quick trip, it’s not worth packing up completely, but

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A student’s belongings sit unattended in Norbucks. The question, “Watch my stuff?” is an easy way for students to feel safe leaving their things behind while running out.

you also don’t want to abandon everything and assume it will be safe, Medill first-year Bryce Wilcoxson said.

“I would never just walk away,” Wilcoxson said. “And I always take my phone, it’s basically attached to me.”

While many students keep their phone with them even for short trips, they’re satisfied leaving the rest of their belongings with a stranger

after just a quick word. Students are generally comfortable trusting in the goodness of people, McCormick junior Lauren Battaglia said, but this won’t stop her from being alert.

“People seem pretty trustworthy here,” Battaglia said. “But I still always prefer to leave stuff with a friend.” erj@u.northwestern.edu

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To reduce emissions, consider phasing out beef CATHERINE BUCHANIEC

DAILY COLUMNIST

This is the third in a series about sustainability at Northwestern University in light of the 2018 UN Intergovernmental Climate Report. In the report, scientists concluded that in order to prevent 1.5 degrees C of warming, greenhouse gas pollution must be eliminated by 2050 in order to mitigate the major effects of climate change.

In January, I wrote a column explaining that corporations rather than individuals hold the bulk of the responsibility for greenhouse gas emissions since 1988 — that problem isn’t primarily you as an individual. Nonetheless, there are steps you can take to reduce your personal greenhouse gas footprint — the most important is the reduction of your consumption of meat.

Essentially, we need to change how we eat and how we produce food.

Animal farming is responsible for 14.5

percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. In order to lessen this impact, humans need to consume 30 percent less animal products as soon as possible, according to the 2018 UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Report.

However, this recommendation — supported by one of the most comprehensive analysis of the state of environment to date — has received little attention from both governmental actors and environmental activists. The conversation regarding greenhouse gas emissions is typically shaped more by transportation rather than agriculture — an agenda choice I believes lies with feared consumer backlash.

This hesitancy is not unwarranted. Food holds a special place in every culture; cuisine is an extension of one’s values and is ingrained in both tradition and family. Any attempts to regulate that cuisine might be taken as an affront to one’s culture.

Yet this change, especially in regards to meats like beef and lamb, is necessary if greenhouse gas emissions are to be reduced.

Animals like cows and sheep use a bacteria in their stomachs to aid in the digestion of

food like grasses. This process also produces large amount of methane, which is then released into the atmosphere. Cattle specifically, both those raised for beef and milk production, are responsible for most of the emissions.

I am neither a vegan nor a vegetarian, and I am certainly not saying that everyone should adopt one of those lifestyles; however, I do believe we need to be more conscious of the food that we eat and the effort that goes into harvesting and producing that food.

For decades, beef has been viewed as a staple of the traditional American diet, more so than in other cuisines. It’s time to move toward other forms of protein, some of which are actually healthier than beef.

Foods like beans and lentils contain vast amounts of protein and can serve as meat-alternatives. Moreover, they are more eco-friendly than beef because they do not emit the same levels of methane as beef production.

In the NU dining halls, not only is beef a regular ingredient featured in rotating meals, but hamburger patties are available on a daily basis.

At NU, we should start to decrease beef ’s presence in the meals we serve. We don’t need to eliminate it entirely, but we should be more conscious of the frequency with which we use it. We could choose one day a week when we don’t serve meat at all or serve hamburgers three days a week instead of every day.

But most of all, the main initiative NU needs to take is making students more aware of the value of food, to ensure that students are not unnecessarily throwing away food or taking it for granted.

Altering our lifestyles is not going to be a quick switch, and it can be understandable as to why politicians have avoided making the recommendation to eat less meat. But regardless of backlash, this is change that needs to be made.

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

Northwestern needs to support people with eating disorders SAMARA LIPMAN

OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR

I always suspected I had a problem with eating. However, I didn’t understand the extent. My episodes with disordered behavior used to occur in waves, usually during stressful periods of time: while taking the SAT, applying to college or in preparation for spring break. It wasn’t until the summer before my freshman year that my eating disorder truly began to take over my life.

Anyone who has ever spent time with me knows I often zone out by closing my eyes, virtually leaving a conversation. People ask me if I’m tired or bored. The answer is no. The minute I close my eyes is the minute I lose control of my own thoughts. It is that little voice inside my head telling me to rethink and repeat everything I’ve had to eat. Closing my eyes calms me, makes that voice a little quieter even just for a few seconds.

Throughout my fall quarter at Northwestern, my eating disorder became more intense than ever before. I was unhappy with the group of people that surrounded me and the classes I was taking. I missed my parents and siblings. I struggled to find a balance between being myself and pleasing the people around me.

I left Fall Quarter weighing 113 pounds, when I had weighed almost 130 at the end of my

senior year.

I wasn’t sure how I wanted to involve Northwestern with my eating disorder. I expected Eating Disorder Awareness Week to be a time for the University to hold events about advocacy and awareness, or group therapy sessions for people with eating disorders. I wrongly assumed an institution that claims to support its students’ mental health would offer support for diseases that impact more than 30 million individuals in the United States alone.

Northwestern’s Counseling and Psychological Services have deemed this week “Body Acceptance Week.” Their plan for the week?

Set a singular table at one location every day for students to “pick up handouts on ways to improve body image, learn about resources for addressing eating disorders and receive a ‘You Are Beautiful!’ sticker.” In addition to this, there is an interactive story wall in Norris and mirror selfie stickers placed around campus.

Asking students to post photos attached to hashtags such as #BodyAcceptanceWeek or #EveryFormofBeauty and infrequently distributing handouts around campus are not the solutions to mental illness. The CAPS website for Body Acceptance Week has a subsection asking students to follow them on Instagram and Facebook — a request that comes before “additional resources” (which are just other handles for body-positive social media accounts), listed at the bottom. Thanks for the offer, but no, I will not be following or friending you any time soon.

The title “Body Acceptance Week” minimizes what people with an eating disorder truly deal with. Primarily, this title implies that people with eating disorders are purely concerned with the way they look. I can confidently say that an eating disorder encompasses much more than just one’s physical appearance. In many ways, it is just the opposite. For me, it is not about how you see yourself, but more so how you think others perceive you. Using this title for the week discounts eating disorders as true mental illnesses.

Secondly, having an eating disorder means having a distorted mind. I cannot just look in the mirror and merely “accept” who I am. My mind controls what my eyes see and how I interpret myself. There is no “on” or “off ” switch that I can push to ensure I accept my body. It takes work to wake up every day, look in the mirror and be confident enough to leave my dorm room. I am in a constant battle with that little voice in my head that tells me I am not good enough.

Third, the name of this week fails to recognize the various other illnesses that often impact people suffering from eating disorders. Eating disorders are often accompanied by depression, anxiety and obsessive compulsive disorder.

Throughout my fall quarter, I saw an exponential increase in my own anxiety, depression and patterns of OCD. I was barely sleeping, avoided social interactions and needed every second of every day planned out. This week is not only

about accepting your body, but also acknowledging eating disorders for what they truly are: disabling mental illnesses.

Fourth, the descriptions CAPS gives for their apparent “services” are completely gendered.

By continuously using words such as “beauty,” a word associated with femininity, the scope of this week is automatically narrowed. Almost all events taking place are geared towards women, especially the “Mirror Selfie Stickers” CAPS has put up around campus. This categorization of eating disorders only reinforces the stereotype that anorexia and bulimia are a white, privileged girl’s disease. By reinforcing this idea, CAPS completely ignores the fact that eating disorders affect all races, ethnic groups and genders.

Northwestern should call this week what it truly is. It has chosen to gloss over eating disorders, branding them instead as body image issues to lessen the intensity of a mental illness.

This week discourages people like me: I once considered forming a relationship between my eating disorder and Northwestern. But this campus is obviously not interested in that relationship.

Samara Lipman is a Medill first-year. She can be contacted at samaralipman2022@u.northwestern. edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this op-ed, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@ dailynorthwestern.com. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.

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MONDAY, MARCH 4, 2019

Across Campuses One week, two students dead at Claremont McKenna College in Southern California LOS ANGELES — The president and several deans of Claremont McKenna College were meeting with the parents of a student who, a week earlier, had been found dead in his dorm room when the call came. There was another emergency in the dorms.

By the time Sharon Basso, the college’s dean of students, arrived at the dormitory, it was surrounded by police, paramedics and other first responders. Basso told parents Thursday: A student was dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

In one week, two students at this elite liberal arts school — part of a seven-college consortium in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains — had died on campus.

Jeremy Peterson was found dead in his bed the morning of Feb. 19, after his parents — who had not heard from their son in several days — asked administrators to check on him. The Los Angeles County coroner’s office has not determined a cause of death. A college spokesman said there’s no indication of foul play.

Eric Cramer died by suicide in his dorm room Tuesday afternoon, according to the coroner’s office. Basso said firearms were not allowed on campus and that administrators had no knowledge Cramer had one before his death.

Peterson and Cramer were 22. Peterson was from Princeton, N.J. Cramer was from San Diego.

Although they both enrolled at Claremont McKenna with the class of 2018, they had not finished their degrees and were taking classes when they died. Peterson was studying economics and psychology; Cramer, biophysics and French.

Their deaths shook the small college and its

Philz Coffee to open new locations in Evanston, Chicago

Philz Coffee, a chain based in San Francisco, announced it will open four stores in the Chicago area, including a location in Evanston.

student body of just 1,318. Hiram Chodosh, president of the college, said the school was “deeply shocked and saddened by the deaths of two students within a week.”

Although the deaths reverberated sharply among such a tightknit student body, that closeness would also prove its strength, Basso said.

“We have the advantage of being a very small community of people who are very invested in that community,” she said.

At a vigil Wednesday night, Chodosh remembered Peterson as the chess player and adventurer who talked his father — a Claremont McKenna graduate himself — into skydiving; Cramer as the Bach-loving scientist who wrote his college essay about a bench and the opportunities it affords, both for self-reflection and the chance to meet someone new.

“I won’t play chess again without thinking about Jeremy in a Trenton Boys and Girls Club,” Chodosh said, according to notes of his remarks.

“I won’t sit on a bench without thinking about Eric’s three directives: Know someone new, know someone better, know yourself better.”

The college did not allow a Los Angeles Times reporter to speak with students on campus Thursday.

College counseling centers have reported increases in the number of students who say they’ve considered suicide or have attempted suicide, according to the Center for Collegiate Mental Health at Penn State University, which compiled data from counseling centers at 152 colleges and universities in the 2017-18 school year.

More than 1 in 3 college students who sought help at a counseling center said they had seriously considered attempting suicide, according to the Penn State center, and 10 percent of students who sought counseling said they had made a suicide attempt.

-Matthew Ormseth/Los Angeles Times (TNS) The coffee chain will open its first location in Wicker Park this summer, and three other Chicago-area locations are in the works, including in Lincoln Park, Hyde Park and Evanston at 1030 Davis St. Founded in 2002 outside of Silicon Valley, the chain has about 50 locations across the country.

Evanston’s Design and Project Review Committee looked at the plan for the coffee shop in

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Students at Claremont McKenna College in November 2015

December and unanimously recommended it for approval for the Zoning Board of Appeals.

Philz Coffee is known for its pour-over coffee, though it also serves French press, iced coffee and espresso. According to its brew guide, it pours boiling water through filters and a gooseneck spout kettle. First, it pours a little bit of hot water to let the ground coffee “bloom,” and then “spirals in” the rest of the water, the guide said.

The chain will join Colectivo Coffee — based in Milwaukee, Starbucks — based in Seattle and Unicorn Cafe — a local shop, as well as other coffee shops downtown.

“We want Philz to feel like home,” the brew guide said. “It’s not just about coffee, it’s about people.”

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COUNCIL From page 1

sustainability.

According to city documents, the Robert Crown Community Center, the Lorraine J. Morton Civic Center and the Noyes Cultural Arts Center, among others, could use substantial investment.

Maintenance staff report that many city public parks are not safe and require the most maintenance, Biggs said. According to Biggs, the Parks, Recreation & Community Services Department restores one of the city’s 75 parks a year, and addresses smaller issues as they arise. She said the city is behind schedule and should be manually restoring at least three parks annually.

“We’re just running from park problem to park problem to deal with things,” Biggs said.

“The process… is very reactive.”

In the 2019-2020 year, Biggs said the department will speak with community members to gauge community demands for parks.

In addition to infrastructure, the city had three other goals — city financing, job creation and development, and affordable housing — in fiscal year 2019-2020. Aldermen unanimously

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An ad that encourages students to apply for an undergraduate research grant. This year, the Office of Undergraduate Research has received 37 percent more proposals than last year.

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instead of retroactively approving funding, Holloway told The Daily.

Civetta said faculty from across the University review applications based on merit, evaluating the quality of projects and the proposals.

“There is no cap to the number of awards that they can give,” Civetta said.

Civetta said the office granted awards to students across all academic levels, but because older students take more research seminars, applicants tend to be upperclassmen.

SESP senior Ruthie Charendoff, who applied and received a year-long research grant through the office in the fall, said she heard about the program from friends and her thesis adviser. She is currently conducting research on the sexual health of modern Orthodox Jewish women.

“It’s really, really important that the undergrad

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a mood, a sense and using quality ingredients and created with care,” Witt said. “I want people to love what they have.”

Chicago-based designer Valerie Dramé said she instantly connected with Witt when they first met at an artisan market. Dramé said she is excited to be working with someone who “has such a great eye” and also shares a strong interest in leather goods.

Dramé said she strives to bring both fashion and function together through her collection of leather handbags in Assembly, and she wants to show that handmade luxury items can come with an accessible price.

“My goal is to make bags that are pretty but also

research office is really supportive of non-STEM and social science research,” Charendoff said.

According to the URG’s academic year summary, the office, in its seventh year, has seen grant applications increase across disciplines, with a rise in applications from students representing many schools.

Civetta said the largest increases in recent years have come in the arts, humanities and social sciences, as students focused on STEM are likely to already work in research labs as part of their 398- or 399-courses.

Straying away from the typical lab environment, Weinberg junior Amos Pomp heard about the grant through the Buffett Institute for Global Studies while developing sustainable waste management systems in Guatemala last summer. He received a grant to further review and monitor that work.

“The grant enables us to go back and see how the project is going, what’s working and what can be improved,” Pomp said.

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Advisers are assiduous in inviting them in to make sure they stay on track and make progress,” she said.

However, challenges go beyond just academics, Ahmed said. While he is happy the University is accepting more transfers, especially community college transfers, he said the University could be doing more to aid their transition, specifically with housing.

“They put a lot of transfers in Plex,” Ahmed said. “Plex is a very isolating place, and to put transfers who are coming in with a limited amount of time on campus and don’t have a freshman seminar is not a good plan.”

Similar to Ahmed, junior transfer Amy Szkorla said adjusting to NU takes time.

Szkorla spent her first two years at Wilbur Wright College, a community college on the northwest side of Chicago, before coming to NU. While Wildcat Welcome was helpful in getting to know the campus, she said the University should better support incoming transfers in adjusting to the campus culture, especially those coming from community colleges.

“When you come in as a community college transfer, people expect you to know things about a four-year university,” Szkorla said. “For some reason, it’s just really hard to connect with the campus. I didn’t even

zacharybright2022@u.northwestern.edu very functional,” Dramé said. “I find people really enjoy when they bought something handcrafted and others compliment them on it.”

Pointing to the “unique demographics” of Evanston, Witt said she has enjoyed getting to know people from around the neighborhood coming in. She said Downtown Evanston, which she partnered with during the Hygge Fest last month, has been a great resource for small businesses.

Witt said she hopes to be able to share her experience and insights to strengthen the local art culture.

“It’s all about helping each other out,” Witt said.

“The idea of competition is done — competitiveness is ugly. Everyone has an opportunity and when working together, you start building really great communities.” vyduong2021@u.northwestern.edu

approved a motion to prioritize equity and empowerment as a fourth goal at Saturday’s council meeting.

Ald. Judy Fiske (1st) emphasized the need for a long-term plan and a comprehensive assessment of all city infrastructure. She said a plan will allow city staff to see where revenue is needed.

“Tied in with all of this is revenue. We want to take care of our buildings,” Fiske said.

“There’s not the revenue to do it, but we can find it. We just have to be a little bit more creative.”

Ald. Cicely Fleming (9th) recognized a need to respond to life-threatening issues, but said creating a plan would let the city work on bigger projects.

Fleming expressed concern over whether the city would implement a plan. She asked city staff to consider investing in a park district, so the city can continuously maintain the parks.

“We have a lot of repairs, we don’t have a lot of money,” Fleming said. “(When we ask), ‘Are we going to repair this park or are we going to fix the street?’ … Almost every time, the streets win.” snehadey2022@u.northwestern.edu know what Plex was until three weeks into the school year.”

For twin brothers, Naeem Patel and Nadeem Patel, who were two of the firsts to reap the benefits of the STAR scholarship, transitioning to NU in 2017 was more difficult than expected because they underestimated adjusting to the University’s class differences.

Coming from Chicago to Evanston, McCormick senior Naeem Patel said the majority of his peers come from very wealthy areas or grew up wealthy, leaving him with little to relate to.

Naeem Patel also said he feels like he is constantly trying to catch up to his peers in courses. Sometimes, he said he misses community college because the classes were much smaller and the professors had more time to devote to their students.

Medill senior Nadeem Patel added that the culture at NU can be quite intense. While many students take classes with their friends as a support system, Nadeem said being a transfer makes it difficult to establish those relationships with people who are not other transfers.

“As a transfer, it’s just harder,” he said.

“As freshmen, they already made their friend groups. You can’t just slide in a friend group, so you kind of have to stick with the people you know.” andrescorrea2020@u.northwestern.edu

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Aubrey Roberts set for chance at All-American nod

By TROY CLOSSON

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Aubrey Roberts is Birmingham bound.

After a fall cross country campaign for the record books, the Wisconsin native gained AllAmerican status when she finished November’s NCAA Championships race in 18th place in a field of 255 runners.

Now, the Birmingham-bound powerhouse has a chance to two-peat this weekend.

Roberts made the cut for the 5,000-meter race at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships, the NCAA announced last week. She’s the first NU cross country athlete to qualify in at least 20 years.

She’ll travel as the sole Wildcats runner — and one of two Big Ten athletes — to compete at next weekend’s meet in Birmingham, Alabama.

Roberts qualified with the eighth-fastest 5,000-meter time in the field. Wisconsin’s one-runner Alicia Monson — the sole runner to finish ahead of Roberts at the fall’s Big Ten Championships — will join her as the only other conference competitor in the race’s 16-person field.

At the cross country NCAA Championships, the Badgers runner was the only Big Ten runner to finish ahead of Roberts. But her

qualifying time of 15:32.38 for this weekend’s indoor championships bested Monson’s by two seconds.

If this year’s campaign shows anything, it’s that whenever Roberts laces up her spikes, names drop out of Northwestern’s record books.

Earlier this winter, the junior runner clinched a school record in the race after posting a 15:32.38 at the BU Season Opener, the fifth-fastest performance in conference history and 27th-speediest in NCAA history. At last month’s Meyo Invitational, Roberts also took over the school record in the mile after running five 640-meter laps in 4:43.88.

The mile record was previously held by Jena Pianin, who ran a 4:49.81 in 2015 at the Grand Valley State University Big Meet. Roberts breezed past that record by six seconds, and her time at the Illini Classic was, at the time, the third-best in history.

She also claimed Northwestern’s record in the 3,000 meters at the Iowa State classic.

Looking ahead to the spring, the Wisconsin native will also work to qualify for the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Austin, Texas, this June after narrowly missing out last season. At last year’s NCAA West Regional Preliminary, she competed in the 5,000-meter race, crossing the line in 15:53.85 at 14th place, two spots out of a trip to Oregon for the NCAAs. Junior Kelly O’Brien — who didn’t qualify for NCAA Indoors — will also be looking for

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Audrey Roberts leads a pack of runners. The junior will go for two-time All-American status this weekend.

a trip to the Lone Star State. She led the Cats in the 1,500-meters at every outdoor track event of the season and finished 11 spots back in the 1.5K race from going to the championship event last year.

But Roberts’ focus hasn’t shifted to the

warmer months yet. For now, she’ll try — for the second time — to do what no other Wildcats runner has even done once: Reach AllAmerican status. troyclosson2020@u.northwestern.edu

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BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA — Police have arrested a man on suspicion of attacking a conservative activist on the University of California, Berkeley campus in an incident that was recorded and widely shared online.

Zachary Greenberg, who is not a UC Berkeley student, was arrested Friday and booked into jail, according to UC police. He is accused of punching Hayden Williams, also not a student at the university, on Feb. 19.

Many conservatives were angered that it took 10 days for police to make the arrest.

President Donald Trump’s son Donald Trump Jr. this week wrote on Twitter about the apparent delay: “Wonder if it would be the same if a conservative beat up a leftist on the Berkeley campus?”

Berkeley College Republicans posted a video of the incident on their Facebook page last week. The video shows a man cursing and punching Williams in the face in Sproul Plaza, the main gathering place on campus.

“Another conservative was brutally assaulted on our campus while recruiting for Turning Point USA by a tolerant, inclusive liberal,” the Republican club posted on Facebook. “This marks yet another incident where right-leaning individuals on the Berkeley campus have been put in danger for simply exercising their Godgiven rights to free expression.”

Williams is a field representative for the Leadership Institute, a nonprofit organization that trains conservative activists, he told Fox News. He had been invited to UC Berkeley to help Turning Point USA recruit members, he said.

A sign on the he manned on Sproul Plaza said “Hate Crime Hoaxes Hurt Real Victims,” referring to the recent incident involving “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett, who is accused of faking an attack against himself in Chicago last month.

“Every time I’ve gone to help students at Berkeley for various clubs, there’s always a student or a member of the campus community who will rip up our signs or flip over our table, but this is the first time it’s really escalated to this level of violence,” Williams said on Fox News.

UC Berkeley, the liberal enclave and birthplace of the free speech movement, has become a frequent setting for debates over the First Amendment and conservative beliefs in recent years. An event planned to hear right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos was shut down by angry protests in February 2017, which was followed by a rescheduling of a visit by conservative commentator Ann Coulter.

“Let there be no mistake, we strongly condemn violence and harassment of any sort, for any reason. That sort of behavior is intolerable and has no place here,” UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol T. Christ said in a statement. “Our commitment to freedom of expression and belief is unwavering.”

Greenberg, 28, was released on bail, according to jail records.

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FALLING HARD ILLINOIS

By ANDREW GOLDEN

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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Heading into Sunday’s game against Illinois, Northwestern had an opportunity to do something it had only had one chance to get before: complete a season sweep of an opponent.

After the first half of their game against Illinois (11-18, 7-11 Big Ten), the Wildcats (12-17, 3-15) looked like they were going to get blown out of the building. NU made a furious comeback, at one point cutting the lead to three, but ultimately couldn’t complete it, falling to the in-state rival 81-76.

NU started the game 2-for-12 from the field, including 0-for-7 from behind the arc. The Cats’ cold shooting allowed the Fighting Illini to get out to a 16-4 lead. During this stretch of the game, Illinois fired on all cylinders, going 3-for-4 from behind the arc. Senior center Dererk Pardon was NU’s only effective player, scoring both of the Wildcats’ baskets.

By the time the first half was finished, the Cats were down 39-27. NU finished the half shooting 30 percent

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from the field, and sophomore Anthony Gaines and Pardon combined to score 18 of the Cats’ 27 first half-points. Illinois shot 48 percent in the first half — Fighting Illini junior guard Andres Feliz scored 11 points in the first half and freshman guard Ayo Dosunmu added two 3-pointers, one more than the Cats had as a team.

“In the first half, they got separation from our inability to make shots,” coach Chris Collins said. “We were 1-for-13 from three and 11 of them were uncontested. I’m not saying you have to make all 13, but not making any of them allowed them to get that double-figure cushion.”

To start the second half, NU looked like a completely different team. Senior forward Vic Law hit a jump shot, graduate guard Ryan Taylor added a three and Pardon scored as he got fouled.

Suddenly, NU had cut the lead to 40-34 in the span of a minute and a half.

After only hitting one 3-pointer in the first half, the Cats were able to hit four in the first six minutes of the second period to stay within striking distance. Illinois extended its lead to 42-34, but Taylor hit his second 3-pointer of the second half to cut the lead to five. Later on, after the Fighting

Illini extended the lead to nine points, Law and Taylor hit back-to-back threes to make the lead just three.

“We got the same shots, we just made them,” Collins said. “At halftime, Miller Kopp was 0-for-5, Ryan Taylor was 0-for-5… we got open looks all night, one half we didn’t them, the second half we did.”

Illinois’ lead fluctuated between three and 10 throughout the second half, but NU just couldn’t break through to take lead. The Fighting Illini’s aggressive attack got the Cats in foul trouble and when it got to the line, Illinois didn’t miss its shots from the charity stripe.

Gaines and Law both fouled out late in the second half and, at the free throw line, the Fighting Illini shot 33-for-38 to ice the game away late. Feliz finished the game with 26 points, but was 16-for-17 from the charity stripe himself. Despite the outcome, the Cats continued to battle.

“Just never give up,” junior forward A.J. Turner said about the team’s mentality. “I don’t think we’ve ever just completely given up. Despite the struggles we’ve had, we continue to fight.” andrewgolden2021@u.northwestern.edu

NU was literally run off the floor

By PETER WARREN

daily senior staffer @thepeterwarren

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — After Trent Frazier hit the first basket of the game for Illinois, a 3-pointer from the top of the arc, he did not run back down the court. Instead, he hustled his spot in the Fighting Illini’s 1-2-2 full court press, a staple of coach Brad Underwood’s defensive strategy.

Throughout the game — a 81-76 win for Illinois (11-18, 7-11 Big Ten) — the hosts broke out their press and defended Northwestern for the full 94 feet of State Farm Center hardwood.

The Fighting Illini usually utilized a

1-2-2 press, but also matched-up in a man-to-man press as well.

But the Wildcats were up to the task.

While the press had previously caused No. 6 Michigan State to make 24 turnovers and No. 17 Maryland to make 21, NU (12-17, 3-15) coughed the ball up only eight times, the lowest number of turnovers Illinois has forced in a game all season.

“If you were to tell me coming into the game we were going to turn it over eight times, you’re going to live with a couple of turnovers,” coach Chris Collins said. “They’re good at that. That’s what they do.”

Going up against the 1-2-2 press, senior forward Vic Law mainly paired with either sophomore guard Anthony

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Vic Law loses the ball. The Fighting Illini pressed Northwestern throughout the game.

Gaines, junior forward A.J. Turner or freshman guard Ryan Greer. Graduate guard Ryan Taylor also occasionally helped out.

Defensively, three players played at the top of the Illinois press. When the starting five was in the game, guard Aaron Jordan played as the first line of defense with Frazier and Ayo Dosunmu lining up on the top and bottom of the orange-and-blue “I” at center court.

When Jordan was out of the game, Dosunmu or Alan Griffin was the “1” in the 1-2-2.

When a ball handler gets into one of the coffin corners on either side of the half-court line, the Fighting Illini trap.

Dosunmu said that is one of the reasons the defense works so well.

“We get after them so when they get in that area, we trap them. We play off instinct,” Dosunmu said. “Then, when they get into the half-court, there’s 16 (seconds) left on the shot clock and that disrupts their offense.”

One thing Underwood said made a difference was that it had four ball handlers on the court at one time, and that, for the most part, there was no traditional primary ball handler on the hardwood.

Turner said he thought the team handled the press very well, and that the Cats spent “a lot” of time in practice working to break it. He added that Collins emphasized not picking up ones dribble because that would mean “you are left out for dead.”

Despite its effectiveness in breaking out of the press, NU were not as effective in cashing in. On that very first possession against the zone following Frazier’s trey-ball, the Cats did break the press and had a 3-on-2 opportunity. Freshman forward Miller Kopp caught the ball at the top of the arc and dished off to senior Dererk Pardon, who missed the dunk.

“Overall, I thought our spacing was good, guys were strong with the ball, and we could get it into the frontcourt and get good shots pretty much all night,” Collins said. peterwarren2021@u.northwestern.edu

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NU ends season with a 24-point loss at Iowa

By RYAN WANGMAN

daily senior staffer @ryanwangman

In the last game of the regular season, Northwestern did not have enough in the tank to pull off an upset in a clash with Iowa on its Senior Night in Iowa City.

The Wildcats (16-13, 9-9 Big Ten) kept the game within reach in the first half but were absolutely outclassed after halftime, as the No. 12 Hawkeyes (23-6, 14-4) poured on 46 points on nearly 70 percent shooting from the floor to run away with a 74-50 victory.

While NU largely limited the effectiveness of the Big Ten’s leading scorer, Megan Gustafson, in the first half, the senior forward went on to wreak havoc on NU’s defense, netting 24 second-half points on 9-for-10 shooting. The Cats scored 27 points in the same time period.

Coach Joe McKeown said Gustafson’s success came as a result of a few factors. “(Iowa) started hitting shots from other people,” McKeown said. “We had to extend a little more defensively, but you know, other players made really good passes during the second half — we couldn’t get around her. I think we got frustrated, couldn’t score, and that kind of played into some letdowns defensively.”

With the result, Iowa finished the season a perfect 15-0 at home, with Gustafson and fellow seniors Hannah Stewart and Tania Davis playing in their last regular season game in Carver-Hawkeye Arena. Gustafson stole the show, but Stewart and Davis chipped in 12 and 7 points respectively to bolster the winning effort.

In addition to an

uncharacteristically lackluster defense from NU, the team never seemed to fi nd a rhythm off ensively either. Its 50 points marked the second-lowest total for the Cats in a conference game this season.

NU was an ice-cold 1-for-14 from beyond the arc, with solid 3-point shooters Veronica Burton and Abi Scheid combining to go 0-for-9 from distance.

Junior center Abbie Wolf provided a bright spot for the Cats, as she led the team with 15 points on 7-for-9 shooting. McKeown praised Wolf as a proven scoring threat inside.

“She’s had a great year in the Big Ten,” McKeown said. “We ended up — for the third time in the last four or five years — going .500 or better in the league, went 9-9, and I think she had a lot to do with that. I feel like she’s moving into the postseason excited for what’s ahead.”

NU, who could’ve finished the day as high as fifth place in the Big Ten with a win, instead saw its conference tournament seeding fall to No. 8. The Cats will face a tough opening test in Michigan State, a team that was nationally-ranked earlier this season and has taken down topnotch programs in Oregon, Maryland and Iowa. If NU survives that obstacle, its path doesn’t get any easier; Big Ten regular season champion Maryland awaits with a sterling 26-3 record and three proven scorers.

NU took down the Spartans in their sole meeting earlier this season, and McKeown hopes to repeat the result by building off of the momentum the Cats had throughout Big Ten play.

“It should be a great matchup Thursday,” McKeown said. “They’ve had a really good year overall you know, (we have) high aspirations. ryanw@u.northwestern.edu