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SEEKING A LEGACY As the Multicultural Greek Council evolves, students still face institutional hurdles, lack of name recognition By RISHIKA DUGYALA

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This is the first story of a two-part series on the majority-POC Greek councils. The second part will focus on the National Pan-Hellenic Council, which is composed of historically African-American sororities and fraternities. Yuri Villa wanted no part of Greek life. Unaffordable fees, social events, pressure to live in a common house — that’s what she imagined of “mainstream” sorority and fraternity culture. Villa initially dealt with impostor syndrome, the feeling that the Northwestern experience wasn’t meant for her. As a Latina, she searched for a space to interact with people who would

understand her cultural references, focus on uplifting the Latinx community and believe in the same issues with the same rigor (like, Villa said, protesting a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement public relations officer visiting campus in May 2017). She found that space late freshman year after joining the NU chapter of Lambda Theta Alpha, the nation’s first Latina sorority. At Northwestern, it’s one of six active Latinx, Asian and multicultural service-social organizations that make up the Multicultural Greek Council. Northwestern’s MGC was founded in 2002 by multicultural fraternity Omega Delta Phi and Latina-interest sororities Lambda Theta Alpha and Sigma » See IN FOCUS, page 6

Finding footing as Police officers mentor young men low-income at NU Officer and Gentlemen Academy rallies community around youth Students struggle with school’s culture of wealth By LINNEA LIPSON

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Communication first-year Brett Mayfield grew up in Welch, Oklahoma, a small town of about 600 people, where it was normal to have few clothes. At Northwestern, Mayfield soon realized that his new friends found it strange that he wore the same few outfits. When one of his professors commented on him wearing the same thing everyday, his classmates chimed in. “It was kind of embarrassing,” Mayfield said. “I guess people thought I was messy or something. Like I didn’t take care of myself, but it’s just because I can’t afford a ton of clothes.” The social culture of NU is challenging to keep up with for low-income students like Mayfield. At least 66 percent of Northwestern students had come from families from the top 20 percent of the income distribution, according to the most recent data collected in 2017 by the Equality of Opportunity Project, which can create an environment filled with a set of norms and social practices that are unfamiliar to low-income students.

Finding his voice

Mayfield said he struggles to afford going out to socialize with his friends. Often, he said that he gets to know new people but they begin to push away when he can’t afford to go out.

“I do feel like a burden sometimes,” Mayfield said, “Like I’m just being the bummer of the group.” This feeling led Mayfield to share more about his background on Twitter. “by low-income, i mean that my family hit the poverty bracket this year; our crop failed for the 4th year in a row on our farm,” the post read, accompanied with a picture of Mayfield in a purple NU sweater and black jeans. “this is what i wear every day, not only because i love NU, but because it’s pretty much all i have.” The thread, which currently has 1,730 likes and 345 retweets as of Thursday night, pushed Twitter users to offer an outpour of support, from money to clothes and school and home supplies. “I didn’t really want that to happen,” Mayfield said. “I mean, it’s a nice offer. I don’t want to seem like a charity. The point of the post was not really ‘Someone help me out and buy me clothes.’ My hope was not only that people would start treating me differently for wearing the same thing, or not being able to afford to go out, but also that we would be more aware of that in general.”

A space for support

Mayfield’s experience is one example of the many struggles low-income students encounter at NU. Although members of the Quest+ community, which includes not only QuestBridge scholars but all first-generation/ low-income students as well, are » See LOW-INCOME, page 8

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Growing up in a single-parent household in Chicago’s south suburbs, Evanston Police Department Officer Adam Howard lacked a positive male figure. To him, being a role model for Evanston’s youth is deeply personal. “I’ve learned so much about myself in working with the young men,” Howard said. “These young men, they depend on us for social and emotional support. And for some, we’re father figures.” When Howard co-founded the Officer and Gentlemen Academy with Nichols Middle School Principal Adrian Harries, Howard wanted to “break the barriers” between police officers and the black community in Evanston, starting with young black men. Now in its third year, OGA works with middle and high school students to minimize disparities in education and empower young men. “One of the things that I witnessed in our community is a lack of direction, particularly for young black men,” Howard said. “Throughout my career I have observed a number of young men just lose their lives to the streets, get involved with the wrong crowd, start hanging with people that just have a negative impact on (their) decision-making.”

A need for male mentorship

While the program is open to students of all races, Howard said he wanted to initially focus on young black men who were

disproportionately struggling academically compared to their white counterparts. According to the Evanston/ Skokie School District 65 2017 Achievement & Accountability Report, only 30.6 percent of black students met the reading college readiness benchmark compared to 83.7 percent of white students, and only 22 percent of black students met the math benchmark compared to 80.2 percent of white students. Howard said the current climate and “historical barriers” between the police and black communities have given these kids a negative perception of law enforcement. OGA, he said, allows young people to develop their own perception of police officers based on personal experiences. Howard, who has been an officer for 11 years and was one

of last year’s Officers of the Year, said OGA leads lessons on topics like conflict resolution and accountability.

Expanding the Officer and Gentlemen Academy

The group now meets about once a week after school at the Evanston Township High School Transition House on Lemar Avenue. The lessons range from how to tie a necktie to financial literacy. In its first year, OGA was only open to students at Nichols Middle School. It then expanded the program to include all District 65 middle schools, and the first class of OGA students are now freshmen at ETHS. Tre Wright was in that first class. Wright, 14, started the program when he was in seventh grade at Nichols and is currently running to be president of his

OGA class. Howard said Wright gave “an amazing speech” as a candidate. In his speech, Wright talked about his communication skills and the respect and responsibility he’s learned from OGA. “I feel like my brothers can come to me when they need something,” he said. “I feel like I’ve matured as a leader.” Officer Ervin de Leon, Howard’s partner at the EPD, said OGA organizers are constantly reevaluating the program to ensure it benefits and engages all students. He said it’s his responsibility to give the students the confidence to be leaders in the community. “We want every one of these men have a voice, and even if they’re uncomfortable voicing their opinion, it’s important for » See OFFICER, page 8

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EPD officer Ervin de Leon and Adam Howard pose with ETHS freshmen Demetrius Campbell, Tre Wright and Michael Burrell. The three students are “big brothers” in the Officer and Gentlemen Academy and serve as mentors for the younger students.

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Business owners celebrate International Women’s Day By CLARE PROCTOR

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Women gather at the Hilton Orrington, 1710 Orrington Ave., for the Empowering Women Conference & Expo. The event equipped women with resources and tools through speaker-led seminars to have a voice in the business community.

POLICE BLOTTER Furniture, gardening tools, power tools stolen from residence An Evanston resident reported Wednesday that $550 worth of home items was stolen from an alley behind his residence, located in the 800 block of Grey Avenue. The man set the items outside for movers to pick up but noticed they were missing within five minutes, Evanston Police Department Cmdr. Ryan Glew said. The items taken include a green garden table and two plastic chairs, valued at $100; a chainsaw and various power tools, valued at $200; and a wheelbarrow, tree trimmer, broom, edger, two water hoses and two

More than 50 business women gathered Thursday for a conference celebrating International Women’s Day, which is March 8, by encouraging women to speak up in the business community. The Empowering Women Conference & Expo offered women in business in Evanston and the surrounding areas tools and resources to enhance their businesses. The event, which benefited the Evanston Women’s Business Center, included a series of speakers and seminars, concluding the day with a networking event. Linda Del Bosque — the editor in chief of Evanston Woman magazine — said she and 20 other founding members of the EWBC organized the conference. The event featured local business owners speaking to empower other women in business, “giving them a bigger voice,” Del Bosque said. Del Bosque said the conference is part of EWBC’s effort to close the gap of tools, resources, capital and education between men and women in business. The EWBC also focuses on serving minority business owners, she added. “Myself being … not only a woman business rakes, valued at $250, Glew said. There is no suspect and no one in custody, Glew said.

Ford Focus stolen from Enterprise

The manager at the Evanston Enterprise RentA-Car, 1810 Maple Ave., reported Wednesday that a renter had failed to return a 2019 dark gray Ford Focus, valued at $37,000. The renter signed an agreement Jan. 11 with an original return date of Jan. 15, Glew said. The renter then extended the rental but last made payment Feb. 8. The manager has not been able to make contact with the renter, Glew said.

owner, but a minority business owner, I really appreciate the opportunity of our women coming together and really focusing on how we can work together to achieve our ultimate goal, which is success,” Del Bosque said. The event at the Hilton Orrington, 1710 Orrington Ave., featured a series of speakers discussing topics like how to use yoga to heal from the #MeToo movement and how to make difficult medical decisions. The conference also showcased the artistic project “Outcry” by artist Whitney Bradshaw. Bradshaw started the project on the day of the 2018 Women’s March, and she said the project teaches women who have historically been silenced to use their voices. “We’ve grown up in a culture where we’re taught to be good girls,” Bradshaw said. “And good girls are quiet. I really wanted to create a project that empowered women.” “Outcry” is a series of more than 250 portraits of female-identifying people screaming. Some are joyous screams, Bradshaw said, while others are screams of frustration and hurt. Bradshaw offered one of her “scream sessions” at the conference Thursday. These sessions start with Bradshaw showing different ways to scream and then having all the women scream together to become more comfortable with their voices, she

said. The women then step in front of the camera one-by-one and have the option to either scream by themselves or with other women in the group, so no one is forced to scream alone if they don’t want to, Bradshaw said. Bradshaw said she hopes her artistic representation challenges the “male gaze” dominant in media. Her photographs don’t show women smiling or trying to look sexy, she said. “One of the really powerful things about this project is that it’s really about the female gaze,” Bradshaw said. “This is for us.” The conference concluded with a social hour geared toward networking among other women in business. Chicago resident Welu Aningo, an HR consultant, said she attended the conference eager to network with other entrepreneurs. She has attended similar events for organizations — such as Ladies Get Paid, which works to close the wage gap, and EvolveHer, which fosters collaboration among women — which serve as “warm, welcoming spaces,” Aningo said. “You can’t exist in that bubble,” Aningo said. “But it’s nice to get recharged and learn in a womanfocused space.” clareproctor2021@u.northwestern.edu

Setting the record straight An article published in Thursday’s paper titled “ASG to create funding tier system” misrepresented the status of the ASG resolution. The resolution was passed in April 2018 and Wednesday’s legislature was to create the two vice president positions. The Daily regrets the error.

The Daily retracted an article in Thursday’s paper titled “Different paths to Catholicism at NU” that detailed the stories of two students and their experiences with Catholicism. The article did not meet The Daily’s editorial standards because the reporter had a misunderstanding with one of the students about the privacy of the content and its publication.

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Saying goodbye to the Opinion section MARISSA MARTINEZ

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I started and restarted the beginning of this column maybe a million times. Unsure of whether to completely roast the Opinion section or sing its praises, I sat in front of the computer for a good hour, avoiding writing my farewell, sipping my cold brew instead. But now I’m ready. The Opinion section has defined my life for the past four quarters. I started out as assistant in Winter Quarter, not having written since high school. I remember proudly penning a column about “Black Panther,” happy to have seen such a spectacular film. Then I checked the website the next day — waiting for me was a comment about how I was a pawn to capitalistic structures or something equally confusing. My first hate comment. I want to set the record straight: I truly think the Opinion section is important and I highly encourage everyone to try penning an op-ed or Letter to the Editor at some point in their Northwestern career. It plays a crucial, yet overlooked, part in journalism. Nothing has prepared me for a career in reporting more — but not for the reasons you may think. Every 30 seconds, a black female journalist or politician is harassed on Twitter. Women of color are 84 percent more likely to be the subject of abusive tweets. Those are hard facts (although I’m sure I’ll receive plenty of emails claiming they’re wrong), something the Opinion section uses all the time, much to the surprise of many readers. We go through the same fact-checking process as the Campus or City sections, yet routinely, this section gets the most complaints about not incorporating facts into our columns, simply because the pieces are labeled as opinion. These comments don’t necessarily faze me beyond the occasional gasp or chuckle. Whether I like it or not, they’re part of the job. I could write an in-depth investigative article or a short column about why I like a superhero movie, and someone will email me something borderline (or blatantly) racist and sexist in response. My mother once asked me about these comments: “Does Medill train you guys to handle these type of things?” I shrugged in response.

She doesn’t understand how I can be so blasé about the harassment. But I know it exists for a reason. People react so severely to my columns — which mostly center race and institutional oppression — because they’re ideas that are rarely talked about in newspapers. Journalism, which is a white, male, cis-heteronormative construct, was not made for women of color like me, or for the other marginalized identities many of my columnists hold. The entire journalistic process, from interviewing to writing to editing to publishing, is meant to exclude narratives like mine. And that’s an understandably hard pill to swallow.

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An opinion section gives the power directly to the people, especially ones that don’t have historical access to writing news or being interviewed by the press. When someone tries to upend a way of thinking that has been cemented in national thought for centuries, it can be scary. It can be confusing — anger-inducing, even. I’m not saying I have particularly revolutionary ideas. In fact, many of the opinions I have are shaped by wonderful classes I’ve taken or people I’ve met, and I’m forever grateful to them for opening my eyes to perspectives I will most likely never read in a newspaper. But the people who harass me are not open to disruption. My mentioning race or discrimination is seen immediately as ‘snowflake, biased, race-card behavior’ and triggers a response that often has nothing to do with my original column. It can be upsetting that bullying has defined my experience with this section. Yet these horrible comments only encourage me to write about these issues more, to try to disrupt the social order with my words. I’m sure the same is true for many of my wonderful and brave contributors. However, this speaks to something more important — the power of opinion journalism. It takes a lot of time to express a nuanced point-of-view, and tons of emotional labor

to write about personal experiences, like many columnists choose to do. As an editor, I help people write and rewrite sentences until they can fully convey the depth of their perspective. We spend hours in the newsroom coming up with the best structure and word choices. But a lot of that goes unnoticed because opinion journalism suffers from a resounding perception problem. People will always think writing columns isn’t journalism because it’s a compilation of someone’s personal views. Yet, an opinion section is arguably the most important part of a publication after breaking news. It gives the power directly to the people, especially ones that don’t have historical access to writing news or being interviewed by the press. It allows for discourse to be publicly recorded for history. It can be emotional, raw and unprecedented. In the past year alone, first-person accounts from actresses about their experiences with Harvey Weinstein, staffers working in the Trump White House and journalists explaining why free expression matters have quite literally changed world perspectives and started important, global conversations. Yet they’re branded as the exception, not the norm. In order for these dialogues to continue, we need to change that stigma — reporting cannot exist without its opinion counterpart. There is too much at stake when we disregard voices speaking on, largely, their own terms. Next quarter, I will not write for this section as I make my return to news reporting. I’ll miss the freedom of being able to write long columns about the history of black journalism in America or about my experiences being a marginalized reporter in the newsroom. I’ll miss the smile of my contributors when we work out the perfect sentence to describe their perspective. I’m confident that opinion writers will continue to start conversations on campus about queer representation, being a person of color and the joy of watching a movie with a character that looks like them. Those pieces make the barrage of negative comments we receive totally worth it. And I can’t wait to read them. Marissa Martinez is a Medill sophomore. She can be contacted at marissamartinez2021@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@ dailynorthwestern.com. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.

Saying goodbye to the ‘unbiased journalist’ ANDREA BIAN

ASST. OPINION EDITOR

In November of my first quarter at Northwestern, I wrote a column about the problem with legacy admissions at elite universities. It was only the fourth column I had ever written for The Daily; looking back, it’s safe to say I still wasn’t sure what I was doing. I remember casually editing and submitting the column, thinking that — like my previous three pieces — it would get a small reaction, if any. What happened next surprised me. I woke up the next morning to emails, comments and dozens of reactions to my article on Facebook. Much of the feedback was positive, but scattered throughout the reactions were my first criticisms. Emails and comments told me I was naive and that my limited life experience meant I had no basis on which to form my opinion. It was the first time I had experienced such direct criticism from people I didn’t know. Some of the points brought up were constructive, and I was grateful to encounter different viewpoints on a complex issue. But other forms of feedback on my work weren’t so beneficial. On some subsequent articles I wrote, many of the comments and emails were no longer criticisms but attacks — attacks on my intelligence, my logic and my ability to think critically.

I wish I could say I brushed these attacks off because they didn’t bother me, but I would be lying. At first, the feedback was hard to deal with. One of the reasons why I love writing for The Daily’s opinion desk — and why I chose to be an assistant opinion editor this quarter — is that I was able to write and talk about personal issues that I couldn’t express on any other platform: my ethnic identity, for example, or my personal thoughts on current events. I finally had a voice. It felt empowering, and witnessing attempts to silence that voice felt suffocating.

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I’ve learned how to accept different opinions, even if I don’t agree with them, and how to stick to my principles even through the worst of attacks and criticisms.

One of the most frequent criticisms I’ve received this quarter regarding my articles is that journalists should be “unbiased” as a way to serve their audience. In theory, the idea of the unbiased journalist seems appealing: readers benefit from the facts being presented in a way in which they can

form their own opinion. But this isn’t reality. The reality is that I’m a human being with opinions, and that I write op-eds for my college newspaper. Opinion journalism is journalism, too, and should be acknowledged as such. I do think that in other styles of journalism, writers should make an effort to present the hard facts as they are without an attempt to sway readers towards a certain belief — but that doesn’t mean they themselves shouldn’t have opinions. They are human. I’ve learned a lot this quarter from helping to run this desk. I’ve learned how to more eloquently speak on my own personal struggles, thoughts and experiences. I’ve learned how to accept different opinions, even if I don’t agree with them, and how to stick to my principles even through the worst of attacks and criticisms. And I’ve learned that I shouldn’t be ashamed of having opinions as a journalist. The trope of the “unbiased journalist” will persist for as long as this industry exists, especially in the media climate that we live in today. But I won’t let that unreasonable expectation ever strip me of my beliefs. Andrea Bian is a Medill f irst-year. She can be contacted at andreabian2022@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.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

For extra cash, NU should turn to high salaries Regarding your Jan. 17 article, “NU on track to balance budget in 2021 fiscal year:” Northwestern’s president, provost and senior vice president of business and finance said they “deeply appreciate the spirit of shared sacrifice across this extraordinary university community which helps put us on a path to operational stability” in an email. But do they and other high-paid executives share this sacrifice? A recently enacted tax law makes that question relevant to NU. The law requires private, non-profit institutions — including universities — to pay a 21 percent tax on the compensation of employees earning more than $1 million a year. Public non-profit schools are currently exempt, but the Joint Committee on Taxation is trying to correct this imbalance. Under the current law, private universities must pay this tax, not the individual employees. The new law targets a university’s five highest paid staffers. At NU, that includes football coach Pat Fitzgerald, President Morton Schapiro and athletic director Jim Phillips. “A majority of (college) presidents, coaches & chancellors don’t make anywhere near $1 million,” Steven Bloom, director of government relations at the American Council on Education, told Politico this January. Only 180 employees at private U.S. universities made more than $1 million in 2017, notes the Chronicle of Higher Education, but NU clearly exceeds the national norm. The tax will have little impact on wellendowed universities like Harvard, said attorney Raymond Cotton, who specializes in college executives’ compensation. But he predicts it will lower salaries and benefits at less wealthy schools. While NU’s endowment is smaller than Harvard’s, it still ranks among the top of all U.S. universities. Should NU dip into this pot to pay the taxes of its top earners during a deficit that’s expected to last through 2021? Or should those staffers take a voluntary pay cut below the $1 million mark until the deficit situation is resolved? Tapping the endowment may affect NU’s top credit rating from Standard & Poor’s, if the total amount withdrawn exceeds the 5 percent limit cited by Senior Vice President Craig Johnson to achieve fiscal discipline. But shared sacrifice must also be considered. NU laid off dozens of staffers, curtailed construction projects and reduced funds for custodial services and student activities groups. Why can’t those at the top of NU’s power structure share the pain that others suffer? If they refuse, their moral compass points directly to the bottom line. — Dick Reif, MSJ ‘64

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Opinion Editor Marissa Martinez

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NU sensor tracks newborn vital signs By AUSTIN BENAVIDES

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A group of Northwestern researchers has developed a new sensor to collect and track premature newborns’ vital signs, a step toward creating a safer way of moderating infant well-being. The team of researchers, led by McCormick Prof. John Rogers, was made up of an interdisciplinary group of engineers, scientists and medical professionals. Rogers said the new sensor — roughly as thick as a piece of paper and about as heavy as a raindrop — was designed to replace the current method to track a newborn’s vitals, which relies on a potentially damaging system of wires and adhesives. The wires currently used in newborn intensive care units (NICUs) carry “risk of shearing the skin,” said Feinberg Prof. Dr. Amy Paller, who was on the research team for the project. Paller said eliminating those wires and allowing newborns to be untethered from the NICU makes them safer and better enables them to make physical connection with parents, which brings health benefits. “There is incredibly good data now that skin-to-skin contact makes a huge difference in the health of the baby,” Paller said. “That is the concept of having the baby’s skin against the parent’s skin — just to be able to decrease mortality, improve weight gain (and) reduce the risk of infections.” In their March study, the researchers wrote that the sensor was found to be just as accurate as current methods to retrieve vital data. With the new sensors, the team was also able to collect even more data that isn’t regularly tracked, like a baby’s blood pressure, according to the study. Rogers said he sees the potential for the sensors to expand into other health-based

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April,” Rogers said. “So that’s a pretty aggressive timeline.” Feinberg Prof. Dr. Shuai Xu, who also worked on the project, emphasized the teamwork that went into developing the sensor, which serves “the most vulnerable patient population.” “This was a tremendous collaborative effort.” Xu told The Daily in an email. “It takes a village to do this kind of work.”

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Lambda Gamma to address “an urgent need for multicultural unity and representation,” the council’s old mission statement reads. MGC still advocates for a culturally aware community, but its new mission statement also emphasizes “service, professionalism and academic excellence.”

Since 2017, MGC has for the first time received a designated space in Norris University Center, a permanent adviser in the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life and guaranteed University funding for members. But members say MGC, alongside the historically African-American National Pan-Hellenic Council, lacks name recognition on campus. Especially this year, they said, MGC is facing a Catch-22: Because of lower-than-usual membership numbers, the council doesn’t have enough manpower to recruit as intensively as it wants to. That means membership numbers will likely remain low. And if it gets to the point where there aren’t enough people willing to fill the executive board, the University could disband the council, Villa said. Villa, a Weinberg junior, currently serves as both the MGC president and vice president. She is one of multiple people who took on more than one role to keep everything operational — at least for this executive term. “Multicultural organizations, you either run into them accidentally or find out about them much

FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 2019 later. That’s why it’s important for us to exist at all, why I felt like I had to step up,” she said. “We’re trying hard to stay alive.”

Carving out a space

MGC is one of four Greek councils at Northwestern, accompanying NPHC and the betterknown Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic Association. Unlike the latter councils, MGC and NPHC do not have on-campus housing. “The visibility of having houses on campus makes everyone aware PHA and IFC exist,” said Weinberg senior Kinsey Erickson, a member of Asian-interest sorority Kappa Phi Lambda. “Besides, multicultural organizations are pretty new. In IFC, people have dads who have dads who have been in those chapters.” Villa said the average dues for MGC organizations are intentionally set at about $300 for the whole year to avoid financially burdening members. In comparison, PHA chapters’ annual active member costs — excluding optional food and living charges — are $1,100 on average, according to PHA’s 2019 financial matrix for its 12 active chapters. IFC’s average for the 14 of its 16 active chapters listed on the latest financial guide is roughly $1,800. Additionally, MGC’s recruitment process is less formal than IFC and PHA’s annual recruitment week. It’s primarily done by word of mouth, Facebook events and in-person conversations. “Not every MGC organization does rush, and those that do make it very private and personal to focus on building relationships,” said Lambda Theta Alpha president Rocio Bautista. Members said the process can include attending a number of get-to-know-you events (some cultural in nature, like a “henna night” with Kappa Phi Lambda), interviewing with current members or doing activities that bond pledge classes. Bautista said the private, personal events and MGC’s small numbers help make the process more meaningful. “I am a first-generation student on campus. I didn’t know what college life was supposed to be like,” said Bautista, a SESP junior. “When I met the Lambda Theta Alpha members and saw how close they were to each other, I got the sense that it was home away from home and a space where I could work to grow myself.” Omega Delta Phi president Javier Francisco Cuadra believes the ideal number of members

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Javier Francisco Cuadra, Omega Delta Phi.

per organization would be between 12 and 20. But right now, the average is six, with Cuadra’s organization — the only remaining active MGC fraternity — at four total members. IFC chapters have 78 members on average and PHA chapters have 109 members on average, according to council executives. “You can’t just commit a lot of time with just four people,” the McCormick junior [rep noteseb] said. “Let’s say I wanted to study abroad. It’s basically an impossibility for me because then I’m betraying the organization by leaving — and when I come back, it’s in worse shape because there were just three people on campus.” MGC’s Latino-interest fraternities Lambda Upsilon Lambda and Sigma Lambda Beta are now inactive because they have no undergraduate members. Asian-interest fraternity Pi Alpha Phi was suspended from campus in October for violating the University’s alcohol policy. Having too small a membership has implications beyond individual organizations, Villa said. If MGC members can’t fill the executive board, then the University will no longer need to recognize the council. Over time, MGC’s fraternities and sororities would have to integrate into the other three councils, where students’ voices may be lost, she said. “It’s not so much that the administration is pressuring us,” Villa said. “It’s more about us being constantly aware of what could happen. It’s a burden.”

‘Asking for more’

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Kelly Cox, Kappa Phi Lambda.

For Omega Delta Phi member Gabe RojasWestall, MGC faces one central problem: a systemic lack of education about the council that passes down to incoming freshmen year after year. It passes down, he said, when a tour guide leads prospective students past The Rock, painted with MGC’s letters, and stumbles over what they represent. It passes down when a resident assistant informs students mid-Winter Quarter that rush is over — not realizing that, while IFC and PHA recruitment have ended, the MGC and NPHC processes have yet to begin. It passes down when a peer adviser encourages freshmen to “Go Greek!” but only hands out insider knowledge on more popular fraternities and sororities. Despite that, Rojas-Westall acknowledged, things have gotten better over the last two years. The University is more active in including

MGC and NPHC in Greek life emails to incoming freshmen, the McCormick senior said. This Fall Quarter, MGC organizations were featured on banners lining Sheridan Road for the first time. And, Rojas-Westall added, peer adviser training was updated to include more information on the cultural councils. Besides, having a full-time staff adviser in the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life, assistant director Keith Garcia, is unprecedented for MGC. Until 2017, a graduate assistant would work with

the council on a rotational basis. MGC members said Garcia helped transform the funding structure and coordinate a University-recognized space on campus. Garcia said MGC’s fight for such a space came at the right time. In April 2018, the University announced it would change its food provider to Compass Group North America, which would renovate Norris’ ground floor. Compass took on the costs of repurposing the Commuter Lounge into MGC’s branded, glass-door room, which now sits near Asiana Foodville. With Garcia’s aid, the council can now access University money more equitably. Since MGC and NPHC confirm recruits at the end of Winter Quarter, a portion of the Student Activities Assistance Fund — which partly covers Greek life dues for members — is now earmarked for the two councils. In the past, Garcia said, the fund was exhausted by IFC and PHA, which have earlier rush dates.

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Average 2018-19 membership fees

Average 2018-19 membership numbers

All data is based on information from executive council members and the council’s financial packet for each chapter this academic year. For IFC and PHA, financial information should exclude optional food and housing expenses. *The latest financial guide only included 14 of the 16 active chapters in IFC.

“Just (MGC’s) existence on campus is a fight against inequity,” Garcia said. “The greatest ability for change comes from the students. They’re the best advocates for themselves.” Rojas-Westall noted, though, that MGC members have to be careful when seeking additional support. Students, he said, are constantly reminding themselves: “What you do has impact on everyone else in the council, so don’t just go after the administration.” Cuadra said members are trying to funnel their requests — including wanting more advertising and securing MGC housing for underclassmen to fulfill the two-year live-in requirement — through Garcia. “I never want us to sound ungrateful,” Cuadra said, “but I want people to understand that we shouldn’t be looked down upon for asking for more.”

Collaborating across cultures

Weinberg senior Kelly Cox is half white, half Korean. She’s comfortable in multicultural communities, having grown up in New Mexico alongside many Latinx individuals and Native Americans.

But joining Kappa Phi Lambda filled a need she didn’t know she had. “I wanted to understand my Asian heritage,” she said. “Now I’m able to empathize and talk about the, you know, ‘Where are you really from?’ question. We also talk about white beauty, the Asian fetish. It’s just a great group to have to be able to get away from everything else.” But Cox and other MGC members said they wish dialogue around race and multiculturalism could extend further — especially through partnerships with the better-funded, historically-white councils. PHA and IFC are having these conversations as they’re seeing more interest from students of color, said PHA executive president Ruby Phillips, who is a person of color. “People are really easy to write off that people of color are only in MGC and NPHC,” the Weinberg junior said. “I’ve faced the stigma myself of giving up my race and ethnicity by joining the organization that I did. Thinking of these fraternities and sororities as ‘white’ makes people of color in them feel invisible.” Still, Phillips, a former Daily columnist, agreed

that past cross-council discussions and event collaborations haven’t been successful in the past. Villa, the MGC president and vice president, said the burden to drive collaborations with PHA and IFC has fallen on already stretched-thin MGC leaders. She said the imbalance starts with a lack of commitment during Greek Week, a week of social events in Fall Quarter that introduces students to the four councils. Phillips said IFC and PHA members usually show up to their own events but don’t attend the other two councils’. The same is true for events held outside of Greek Week. IFC executive president Connor Echols said supporting MGC has been “a blind spot” for fraternities in his council. While there’s little IFCwide education about MGC, the Medill junior said there’s some success in members forming individual connections. “I can talk to Yuri (Villa) as much as I want and we can become friends and come up with ideas, but nothing greater will result from that if there are no chapter-to-chapter relationships,” Echols said. Upcoming partnerships, both social and

educational, are in the works. PHA and IFC hand out breakfast every Dillo Day, and MGC will join them this year. They will also team up for a dayof social media campaign directing people to the Lakefill, Echols said. The four councils’ executive teams also created a social justice education curriculum for their members. Next fall, Phillips said, they will use the curriculum to discuss the legacy of racism in Greek life. MGC is also looking beyond Greek organizations to cultural and ethnic student groups that it hopes to partner with in the future. Members said they’ve made inroads with groups like the Korean American Student Association and Mariachi Northwestern. But, Cuadra said, MGC has a long way to go. “The mental strain, it’s very difficult,” he said. “I am an RA. I’m an engineer on campus. I’m leading (Omega Delta Phi). But that’s the reality of what we have to deal with.” He paused, then added, “I just wish I had more time to grow with my brothers.” rishikadugyala2019@u.northwestern.edu

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trying to address these problems, the group represents many identities and experiences, making it a challenge to address everyone’s needs, said Madisen Hursey, a co-president of Quest+. Quest+ worked with Associated Student Government to publish an open letter asking the University for a first-generation and low-income student space on campus. The letter asked for “a dedicated community space that would enhance current social, financial and emotional support provided by Student Enrichment Services as well as enable FGLI students to gather, study and build relationships in a safe and supportive environment.” Quest+ co-president Christian Reyes said he feels his high-income peers were raised with the expectation that they would attend an elite college like NU. The SESP senior said this often makes him feel out of place. “A lot of low-income students come to this school hoping to break out into a different class,” Reyes said. “Every day I have to deal with knowing (NU) is helping me be here, I feel like I should be grateful because I’m here and if I’m not exceeding in every possible way then I’m failing.”

NU’s push for 20 by 2020

Increasing its lower-income student population has been a priority for the University. In 2016, University President Morton Schapiro announced an initiative to admit incoming classes of at least 20 percent Pell-Grant eligible students by the fall of 2020. This statement was fulfilled early in 2018. “Most importantly is to help them (low-income students) understand that they are part of this University, that they belong to this University, and that this University is there for them,” Patricia TellesIrvin, the vice president for student affairs, said in a February interview with The Daily. Student Enrichment Services is one of the major

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them to understand that being shy, there’s nothing wrong with that,” de Leon said. “But you still need to be heard.”

Building community together

Howard said the officers who work with students in the program have had an “incredible impact” on the community. “We’ve seen it when we have young men who call the police not for help, but … to share good news, to invite us to their birthday parties to their Bar Mitzvahs,” he said. “I’m honored to watch these young men graduate middle school, and in a few years they’ll be graduating high school, and then before you know it they’ll be in college.” Howard and de Leon said strong relationships between the police and communities begin with

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resources on campus for low-income students, providing low-income students with laptops, winter gear, bed sheets and towels. To improve low-income students experiences, faculty, staff and administrators should also always keep inclusivity in mind when interacting with lowincome students, SES Director Kourtney Cockrell told The Daily in an interview last month. However, Reyes said he still thinks the University has yet to deliver a socially and culturally-accepting environment for low-income students. “If they’re promising a campus that is welcoming to Pell-eligible students, they should deliver,” Reyes said. “There’s a difference between having a diverse campus and having an inclusive one.”

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The Evanston Housing and Homeless Commission discussed a new draft for the city’s Affordable Housing Fund at a meeting on Thursday, seeking greater say in the city’s authority to allocate the fund’s spending. The draft begins to outline the role of the commission and the priorities of the fund. It also proposes that use of the Affordable Housing Fund require a favorable recommendation from the commission, in addition to approval from the appropriate city committee and City Council, which is already necessary. However, Savannah Clement, the city’s housing policy and planning analyst, said the commission’s proposal was a “‘non-starter.”’ “Unfortunately, there are just situations that come up where things have to go to council,” Clements said. “We don’t have time to bring it here. The city manager has the authority to make budget line items for the fund.” The fund aims to increase affordable housing in Evanston by financing efforts like new housing. Clement said she understands the commission’s frustrations with its role in city decision-making, but she said the group cannot take power away from elected officials. Members also discussed the priorities of how the Affordable Housing Fund is allocated because income alone is not always an accurate measure of need for housing funds. Some people receive federal assistance based on their income levels, and others, including the homeless, may have no reportable income, commission member Renee Phillips said. The commission considered increasing flexibility in how the city allocates funds for residents of all socioeconomic backgrounds. However, the

Seeking higher education

Adjusting to an environment that is flanked by wealth can make it difficult for low-income students to feel accepted. Though transitioning to a college with such different norms has been challenging for Mayfield, he feels like he made the right choice in coming to NU. He grew up thinking he would attend community college, but, as if fate stepped in, a QuestBridge pamphlet fell out while Mayfield was taking out the trash in high school. He brought it to his high school counselor, who encouraged him to apply. “Where I live, higher education doesn’t go past Oklahoma University,” Mayfield said. Now that at least 20 percent of the students in the class of 2022 are Pell Grant-eligible, Mayfield hopes his peers will be more aware of the harm an offhand remark can cause a low-income student. “I feel like we could stop assuming only rich people get into Northwestern,” Mayfield said. “We all got in here because of our drive, our intellect and our ability to keep going and pursuing a better community. So I don’t think money in my wallet has anything to do with any of those things.” linnealipson2020@u.northwestern.edu mutual respect and effective communication. Howard said this type of collaboration can be challenging, particularly for individuals who have already had negative interactions with police officers. However, he said, police need to be transparent in order to make change. He commended the EPD’s efforts to increase community policing by engaging with residents. Howard emphasized that the program would not be able to exist without the community members who support it. “When you have a mentoring program in the community for young men that need it, it shows that we value our young people, it shows that we value our young black men,” Howard said. “That has the true meaning of activism in our community — just supporting our young men and surrounding them with a village that wants to see them succeed.”

commission did not finalize a plan for how to distribute funds because members felt more research was needed to identify the community’s needs. The commission also voted on leadership positions for the group, voting unanimously to appoint Larry Donoghue and Monika Bobo as chair and vice-chair, respectively. Evanston resident Sue Carlson said the commission is doing its best to define its role in the city. It was frustrating, she said, that the group couldn’t completely define their role because other city committees seem to already be working on issues of affordable housing and homelessness. “When change is happening or you want things to be more clear, it has some frustration elements to it,” Carlson said. Since the commission makes non-binding advisory rulings, Carlson said the city has the ability to bypass these recommendations. The group had originally planned to discuss its bylaws, but commission chair Ellen Cushing said the Affordable Housing Plan Steering Committee, which met for the first time in February, is set to address these regulations at a future meeting. The Housing and Homelessness Commission decided to bypass the action item. Ald. Eleanor Revelle (7th), who sits on the commission, said members need to be attentive to the work of the steering committee concerning affordable housing. She said she doesn’t want the commission to address issues already being handled by the committee. This is an opportunity, she added, for the commission to increase its understanding of the issue of homelessness in Evanston. “We’re steeping ourselves in the Affordable Housing Fund numbers and needs,” Revelle said. “But I am way behind in homelessness needs.” andrescorrea2020@u.northwestern.edu

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Tech week for Northwestern University Dance Marathon has come to a close. Lights have been put up. Food has been prepared. Final fundraising deadlines have been met. And at 7 p.m. Friday, more than 1,000 dancers will begin their 30-hour marathon. Veterans and new dancers alike will join NUDM’s 10 management committees in celebrating fundraising efforts for Communities in Schools of Chicago and the Evanston Community Foundation, this year’s beneficiaries. SESP junior Talia Meidan, already a two-time dancer, said being in the tent is a moving experience, almost like a dream. “It’s so empowering,” she said. “It’s cool to be able to show how hard you can work as an individual but also as a bunch of people working together, and to see what the results can be.” Meidan added that she believes NUDM’s fundraising efforts are an important and necessary way for NU students to help those “in our backyard.” She said students don’t engage enough with Chicago, even though they live so close to the city. Last year, Meidan led the Delta Gamma-Zeta Beta Tau team, which was the top fundraising team of 2018 NUDM. “It was the most exhausting and most rewarding experience of Northwestern that I have been a part of,” Meidan said. This year’s NUDM executive co-chairs CJ Patel and Justin Savin said this year in particular, they are working to improve dancer accessibility so that more NU students can have a positive experience. Both said they recognize the accessibility problems that exist within NUDM, and entered their leadership positions with ideas about how to improve this aspect of the organization. “Dance Marathon either wasn’t public enough

or intentional enough about a lot of the things that it did, particularly with respect with accessibility and the dancer experience, and inclusivity,” Savin said of past years. One of the changes to improve accessibility, Savin and Patel said, was that they renamed the Dancer and Beneficiary Relations Committee to the Dancer Accessibility and Experience Committee. The committee spearheaded several important changes to the individual fundraising process this year, including one-on-one fundraising chats to help cater to each individual dancer’s fundraising needs. “We really worked this year to try to make sure that our expected $400 fundraising goal isn’t a barrier to participation for anyone,” Patel said. The organization also worked to improve medical and dietary accommodations this year, Patel said. Medill first-year and first-time dancer Anneliese Slamowitz said she has an injury that prevents her from dancing the full 30 hours, but she is still able to participate this year. She said the organization was accommodating. “The process was really easy,” Slamowitz said, who has been allowed nine hours of rest outside of the tent. Both Patel and Savin said they hope future NUDM leaders can continue to work towards solving the many long-term issues that still exist within the organization, and hope they have left NUDM better than the way they found it. For now, though, they said they are focusing on making sure this year’s dancers have positive experiences inside the tent. Their main advice for 2019 NUDM dancers? Leave everything at the entrance to the tent, Patel said. “Really focus on thinking about the community you are joining and the beneficiaries you are supporting,” he said. cadencequaranta2022@u.northwestern.edu

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While hundreds of students spend 30 sleepless hours in a tent for the 45th annual Northwestern University Dance Marathon, others are opting out and taking advantage of the relatively quiet weekend. NUDM, often referred to as one of the largest student-run philanthropy in the country, has been attracting students to the back of Norris University Center for the past 45 years, and raises hundreds of thousands of dollars every year for a chosen beneficiary. Although some love the experience, it’s also known for being exhausting — dancers often stay awake for all 30 hours of the event. While last year’s NUDM pulled in about an eighth of the University’s undergraduate population, a large number of students decide not to partake in the event and look for alternative activities instead. Weinberg first-year Henry Alford said he signed up for Dance Marathon in the middle of Fall Quarter because he felt like “everyone was doing it.” But Alford recently dropped out of NUDM because he hadn’t met the fundraising goals and didn’t feel emotionally prepared to dance for 30 hours, he said. If he had waited until Winter Quarter to decide whether or not to dance, he added, he wouldn’t have signed up at all. “I was a little freshman, so afraid of missing out on stuff that I kind of felt suckered into it a little bit,” he said. In the time he would have spent in the tent, Alford said he’ll be studying, going to Saturday’s basketball game against Purdue and enjoying his free time. SESP senior Samantha Buresch said she’ll be taking advantage of the absence of the around 1,000 students that will be in the tent, which makes the campus calmer and empties out Evanston coffee shops.

“It’ll be pretty nice,” she said. “There’ll be no wait at Sherbucks.” Buresch said although she respects NUDM for raising as much money as they do, she’s never participated because it’s a space in which she wouldn’t feel comfortable, regardless of what she calls NUDM’s “recent strides to be more inclusive” when it comes to the financial burden placed on dancers. And even though the money NUDM raises each year is to benefit a charitable organization — this year’s beneficiaries are Communities in Schools of Chicago and the Evanston Community Foundation — Buresch said that some people view it more as a “rite of passage” than a charity event. “In my freshman year in fall 2016, I asked someone who the beneficiary was,” she said. “They didn’t even know, even though they’d raised tons of money for it.” McCormick junior Mikela Gerdes said she also appreciates the money NUDM raises but prefers more hands-on approaches to volunteering. As a regular volunteer at Hilda’s Place, a transitional shelter located in Evanston, Gerdes said she enjoys making dinner and eating with the housing-insecure people. Gerdes also encouraged students to volunteer beyond NUDM at the many charity opportunities around Evanston and Chicago. SESP senior Hope Kaliski participated in NUDM as a sophomore but decided not to continue because she had wanted more out of her experience — this year, she’ll be spending her weekend with friends and studying for finals. “I think they do choose really strong partners, but for me, to go through it again, I would have to have a lot more time and investment in that community partner, so that I feel like I’m getting more out of it,” she said. Elizabeth Byrne contributed reporting. cameroncook@u.northwestern.edu catkim@u.northwestern.edu

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FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 2019

WRESTLING

LACROSSE

NU heads to Minnesota Cats hosting the highest for Big Ten Tournament ranked team in country By KARIM NOORANI

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It’s March, when the grind of the regular season officially gives way to postseason tournaments for Northwestern. In the two weeks since their last dual, a 36-7 rout over Southern Illinois-Edwardsville, the Wildcats (5-10, 2-7 Big Ten) have focused extensively on rest and recovery, with eyes aimed at being physically fresh and capable at the Big Ten Tournament in Minnesota. At stake for many of the wrestlers are spots in the NCAA Tournament. NU practiced intensely last week, increasing drill sets and sessions. Coach Matt Storniolo said they’ve begun to taper off their practices this week to allow the team to reach peak freshness. “You can look at what you typically do during the normal work week and scale back the volume,” Storniolo said. “Practices get shorter, drill sets get shorter and just the amount of work the guys are doing decreases as we head towards the Big Ten Tournament.” With 10 regular season losses, the Cats finished the regular season with their worst record since 2015-2016, when they lost 13 duals. But they ended on a high note, with two wins in a row against in-state opponents Illinois (2-9, 1-8) and SIUE (6-14, 4-3 Ohio Valley), beating the Fighting Illini for the first time in nine years. Storniolo said the Cats need to believe in themselves to find success and a spot at nationals. NU would like to improve on last year’s 10th place team finish at the tournament, something Storniolo said would come with positive individual performances. “(You can) control your own destiny,” Storniolo said. “Go out there hungry and go out there ready to put in the work and punch your ticket to the NCAA tournament. If everybody accomplishes their individual goals the team goals take care of themselves.” Senior Conan Jennings is one of six wrestlers

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Conan Jennings spars with an opponent. The senior said he has high expectations for the Big Ten Tournament.

who won both matches against Illinois and SIUE. Set to graduate at the conclusion of this year, these will be Jennings’ last postseason tournaments. He finished fifth in the Big Ten Championships last season and eighth the year before. Jennings said postseason wrestling differs from the regular season in that the team aspect is less emphasized. “It’s always great when the team will do well, but that comes with the individual tournaments,” Jennings said. “If you beat kids you’ll get points and those points will go toward the team, so it’s about what you can do and how high you can go on the podium.” When asked about his individual goals regarding the tournament, Jennings was a bit more coy. “I know I’m going to nationals,” he said. “(I’ll) get high up on that podium and beat some kids.” gregorysvirnovskiy2022@u.northwestern.edu

It’s starting to look like just another season for No. 9 Northwestern. The Wildcats (4-2) have put up impressive performances versus middling teams such as Canisius and Louisville but failed, for the third straight time, to topple powerhouse North Carolina last week. Saturday night offers NU another chance to flip the narrative of its season. The Cats’ next opponent, No. 1 Boston College, looks like the second lacrosse powerhouse gearing up to stomp NU. However, the Eagles’ undefeated season (7-0) will have to go through Ryan Fieldhouse, where the Cats have yet to lose this year. Draw controls will be the center of attention this weekend. Boston College has won the second-most total draw controls in the country this season, while NU touts sophomore midfielder Brennan Dwyer, who is the Big Ten’s top draw control specialist. Dwyer said preparation and quickness have been the x-factors for her this season. “I think (the difference is) just being quick,” Dwyer said. “We practice it every day. Practice makes perfect. A bunch of reps and against different people.” The Cats are hoping for another strong performance from freshman midfielder Izzy Scane. Scane has scored two goals in each of her past three games and racked up 20 draw controls on the season. The midfielder most notably scored the first goal of the season for NU within 20 seconds. Though she is new to the team, Scane said her gritty play has earned her respect on the field. “I think a big thing with coming as a freshman, like transitioning from high school, is just to be confident in your ability,” Scane said. “I know a lot of the girls that are here have been used to the level of like college play, but if you come in and play as hard as you can, everyone should know that you can kind of hold with

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Claire Quinn makes a pass. The Wildcats play No. 1 Boston College this weekend.

them.” The Eagles are currently where Amonte Hiller once had the NU lacrosse program. Boston College has been the runner-up in the past two national championships and were within a goal of winning last year. Amonte Hiller won multiple NCAA championships a decade ago coaching the Cats. Senior midfielder Kim Harker said Amonte Hiller’s pedigree has seeped through NU program history and inspired their play this season. “(Amonte Hiller) just gives this love for the game to us every single day, and we want to play for her. I think everyone just wants to do well and be successful, when you play for such a successful coach,” said Harker. “I think that love of the game and that competitive edge just stemmed through our whole history.” karimnoorani2022@u.northwestern.edu

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SENIORS From page 12

Despite being a walk-on with only one career point, Hall is a fan favorite. The son of two Emmy-nominated parents, his personality won the heart of the media during the tournament run, when he did segments for CBS and continued to represent the program well across social media and during in-game entertainment. Of all these players, the legacy of Falzon is probably hardest to pin down. Even with another year of eligibility remaining, he is going to be walking with the seniors, as first <u>reported</u> by InsideNU. That same report said his walking is “not an indication of his future at Northwestern,”

FENCING From page 12

something that we can do really well,” Moss said of Regionals. Filby, who earned All-American honors at last year’s NCAA Championships, is coming off a fantastic regular season in which she led NU foilists with 37 wins. She said Regionals is an incredibly

but it does raise questions as to whether this is the end of his career in Evanston. Falzon burst onto the scene as a freshman, starting 29 games and finishing as the fourthleading scorer on the team. But a knee surgery only a few games into the 2016-17 season ended his chance to leave him own personal mark on that 2017 tournament team. And injuries have continued to plague him since. He never looked fully healthy last season as he dealt with a hip injury and this year an ankle injury kept him out early in the year. He had an amazing performance against Indiana in January, scoring 21 points while going 6-for-7 from beyond the arc, giving hope that Falzon was ready to return to prominence. He has not scored over 6 points since.

As a whole, it’s tough to say what the overall legacy of this group will be down the line. The recurring thread between most of them is injuries. Hall, Law and Falzon all redshirted a year due to injuries and dealt with injury issues in other seasons as well. Ash has been shut down the past two seasons due to injuries and even Pardon missed time his sophomore year due to an injury. This is also a group that failed to reach the goal of returning to the tournament after 2017. But part of why it hurts so much that they won’t get back there is because they got there in the first place. Even though March 2017 feels like a decade ago, the five players walking Saturday on that team had as much to do with the tournament run as any other senior class group on

that team. They all should get plenty of love and respect for the program-defining achievement two years ago. With at least two more games left in their careers wearing Northwestern or Wildcats across their chest, there still is time to sharpen their legacies. There is also time to make them much more murky.

hectic meet, where fencers often don’t know if they’re about to have a lengthy break or fence seven bouts back-to-back. In preparation for Saturday’s format, NU has shifted its practice schedule slightly. Curzon said they’ve been going quickly from footwork practice to intense drills and situational bouts, where they rotate fencing against different teammates without breaks.

“I trust in all the training we’ve been doing,” Filby said. “I feel like I’m fencing pretty well, so all I can do is trust in how I’ve been preparing and go from there.” This style of preparation could work in Curzon’s fourth trip to Regionals, as she hopes to break through to nationals. She placed eighth her freshman year, 11th her sophomore year and sixth her junior year. After the junior year finish, the fencer who’d placed 7th ended up earning the berth to the NCAA

Championships because of a better regular season record. Curzon said she won’t give any mercy on Saturday, knowing that every touch in the lightningfast meet counts. “This tournament, as long as I start on the right foot, I think that back-to-back attitude will only give me momentum,” she said.

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BASEBALL

Cats confident in abilities ahead of Mizzou series By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

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For most teams, losing six of the first 10 games might not generate a ton of excitement. But for Northwestern, there is no shortage of confidence heading into this weekend’s series against Missouri. Having beaten strong programs in California, Duke and Georgia Tech, the Wildcats (4-6) have shown that they can compete with anyone and will look for their first series win of the season against the Tigers (6-5) in Columbia, Missouri. Reflecting on the first 10 games of the season, coach Spencer Allen singled out sophomore starting pitcher Quinn Lavelle and junior reliever Nick Paciorek as playing significant roles on the mound. Paciorek, a catcher his first two years at Northwestern, is now a full-time pitcher for the first time in

his baseball career. “I’m pretty happy with where I’m at now,” Paciorek said. “It’s pretty tough having those two walkoffs the first two weekends, but I feel like I’m pretty comfortable in high-leverage situations now. It’s a learning experience throughout the whole year, and I feel like each weekend I’m just going to continue to keep getting better and better.” Aside from Lavelle and Paciorek, inconsistency has plagued NU’s pitchers, including junior Hank Christie, who allowed a season-high 7 runs in his last start on Friday against the Yellow Jackets after striking out a career-high 10 Duke hitters the previous week. The bullpen has also struggled, combining for an 8.36 earned run average in 42 innings pitched. Those numbers are skewed by an 11-2 loss to Brigham Young and a 23-8 loss to the Blue Devils, but Allen said he and associate head coach Josh Reynolds are continuing to challenge the relievers

to focus on throwing their secondary pitches for strikes. “Out of the pen, guys are ready to hit the fastball,” he said. “They’ve had two to three at bats and their timing is kind of locked in, so you have to come in with spin and you have to come in with good fastball command because if you miss middle of the plate, guys are going to hit you.” In the batter’s box, redshirt freshman David Dunn leads the team with a .382 batting average. After playing in only 10 games last season, Dunn has provided consistency in NU’s lineup. He cited his approach of just “hunting fastballs” as the main reason for his early success this season. Last weekend against Georgia Tech, Dunn hit in the second spot in the lineup behind his older brother, Jack, the senior shortstop. Having hit in the middle and bottom of the order in the first two series, the younger Dunn said he likes hitting wherever Allen wants him to, but acknowledged the

uniqueness of hitting behind his brother. “Before every game on the intercom when they say ‘Jack Dunn, David Dunn,’ it’s always a cool experience for me and my family that comes to watch our games,” he said. “Just growing up playing cul-de-sac-baseball with him and competing with him all the time and having both our goals being playing college baseball, and now it’s a reality playing here.” As for the rest of the hitters, Allen said the biggest focus this weekend is hitting with runners in scoring position, rather than looking at players’ batting averages. Four players are hitting .310 or higher. The rest of the team is hitting .240 or worse. “I’ll take a .230 if he’s going to hit a double with the bases loaded,” he said. “I think that’s just the biggest thing, just to relax and not to worry about where they’re at right now average-wise.”

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Friday, March 8, 2019

ON DECK MAR.

ON THE RECORD

We’ve got a great foundation right now and great experiences that you learn from this and you move on. — coach Joe McKeown

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THAT’S ALL, FOLKS

Northwestern falls in second round of Big Ten Tournament By CHARLIE GOLDSMITH

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When Northwestern’s only senior checked out of the game with 5:28 left in the third quarter and her team up one point, it didn’t seem like Pallas Kunaiyi-Akpanah had played the last meaningful minutes of her career. The senior center, one of the best post players in the conference, went to the bench, which became an invitation for Michigan State to go on a run that would end her season. The Spartans went on a 16-4 spurt after Kunaiyi-Akpanah earned her third foul of the game and subbed out. When she checked back in, a feel good season for the up-and-coming Wildcats was virtually over. No. 9 seed Michigan State (20-10, 9-9 Big Ten) defeated No. 8 NU (1614, 9-9) 68-52 in the second round of the Big Ten Tournament. The Cats scored just 20 points in the second half, allowing the Spartans to take control over a game that was tightly contested early on. “When we beat Michigan State early in the year, it was because of our defense,” coach Joe McKeown said. “Offensively, I think at times we just let our offense affect our defense.” It didn’t help the cause that

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FENCING

NU’s fencers fighting for berth in NCAAs By STEPHEN COUNCIL

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Maddy Curzon already has three strikes at the Midwest Regionals — in three consecutive years at this event she’s failed to qualify for the NCAA Championships. But the senior sabre is back on the big stage, along with 11 of her teammates, traveling to Notre Dame. Every fencer has one purpose for the meet: Qualify for the NCAA Championships. “(Qualifying) wouldn’t be unexpected for me,” Curzon said. “I really believe in my ability to fence well, and I think my record has shown that, especially this season.” No. 2 Northwestern (39-5) will look to send the maximum two fencers per weapon style on to the next round, but the Midwest’s best fencers stand in the way. The Wildcats are set to face fencers from No. 1 Notre Dame, No. 8 Ohio State and a few smaller programs at the individual pool meet. Coach Zach Moss said he selected NU’s 11 representatives based on their consistency throughout the season, as well as their top results — both Regionals and the regular season outcomes are taken

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into account for qualification. Curzon, graduate Emine Yücel and sophomore Alexis Browne will compete in sabre. The Cats are sending senior Yvonne Chart, junior Amy Jia, sophomore Sarah Filby and freshman Alyssa Chen for foil, with epées senior Ella Lombard, junior Pauline Hamilton and freshmen Julia Falinska and Maggie Snider rounding out the team. NU’s fencers will face their teammates who use the same weapon style before clashing swords with the rest of their respective pools. The 44 fencers at the meet are split almost evenly among the three styles. Two weeks ago at the Midwest Fencing Conference championships, a team and individual competition, the Cats came away with a team win but no individual gold medals. This weekend, only individual play will take place. “Individual tournaments are not always our strength, but it’s a team tournament couched in individual, and that’s » See FENCING, page 11

No. 9 Michigan State

No. 8 Northwestern

sophomore guard Lindsey Pulliam, who was named First Team All-Big Ten alongside Kunaiyi-Akpanah last week, had 2 points and shot 1-for-13 in her third career postseason game. In two games in Indianapolis last season, Pulliam averaged 20.5 points per game, but she struggled to find open looks in 33 minutes Thursday. Four different Michigan State players reached double figures, led by forward Shay Colley’s 14 points. The Spartans made 44 percent of their threes in the game, which led to them pulling away in the second half. In addition to Pulliam’s struggles, sophomore guard Jordan Hamilton shot poorly from the field in her first game back from injury, finishing with 3 points on 13 shots. Junior center Abbie Wolf led NU with 15 points in only 16 minutes in spot relief for Kunaiyi-Akpanah, but she was the only player on the team to make more than five shots. “Abbie Wolf has had the best second half of the Big Ten (season) that we could even draw up ourselves,” McKeown said. “Hopefully we’ll

continue to play this year, for her to get some postseason experience going into her senior year.” NU is considered a strong candidate to qualify for the 64-team WNIT, which will announce its field next Monday. If the Cats are selected, it would give the team’s young core of Pulliam, Hamilton and freshman guard Veronica Burton the chance to continue to compete for a championship. Also, for the first time in her four year career, Kunaiyi-Akpanah would get the opportunity to play significant minutes in postseason play, as she played an extremely limited role in the Cats’ NCAA Tournament team her freshman year. McKeown said he hopes to see his team play in the WNIT, after finishing the regular season with more than double the amount of conference wins than in 2017-18 and victories over three ranked teams. “(With Burton), Jordan, Pulliam, Sydney Wood, we’ve got a great foundation right now and great experiences that you learn from this and you move on,” he said. “For us to go from four to nine wins in the league is really important. We were close to cracking the top 25 a couple times this year. We’ve got a lot to build on, a lot of positives.” charliegoldsmith2021@u.northwestern.edu

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What is the senior class’s legacy? PETER WARREN

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Six Northwestern players will be honored during the Wildcats’ (13-17, 4-15 Big Ten) Senior Day festivities Saturday. They’ll form arguably the most unique senior class of players in the country, as all six are completely different basketball players from one another. Those collective differences make it so hard to evaluate the class’ legacy heading into the 2018-19 regular season finale versus Purdue, (22-8, 15-4) a program looking to claim its second Big Ten regular season title in two seasons. Forward Vic Law and center Dererk Pardon are the faces of the class, and have their legacies in purple secured. For Law, it’s as a starter on the 2017 NCAA Tournament team, and as one of the most talented players to ever suit up in purple and white threads. For Pardon, every conversation about him will start with his gamewinning basket against Michigan two years ago that all but guaranteed the program’s first NCAA Tournament bid. But through his play over this

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past year, he will also be remembered for his energy and his top-notch efficiency on the offensive end. After that, it gets more difficult to judge. Guard Jordan Ash is a captain along with Law and Pardon, but he has not played this calendar year after blowing out his knee. After playing behind Bryant McIntosh for three years, this season was Ash’s chance to rise out of the shadows. But injuries derailed that opportunity. After leading the Missouri Valley Conference in scoring last campaign, guard Ryan Taylor came to Evanston with large expectations as a high-profile grad transfer. Those expectations loomed large throughout the season, as everyone waited for Taylor to show the shooting prowess that propelled him to first team All-MVC. Every once in a while, the 6-foot-6 guard illustrated that innate ability. But as conference play went on, it became clearer and clearer that Taylor was not coming. Over the past 12 games, he scored in double-digits only twice. Over the past eight games, his minutes have steadily dwindled

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Vic Law operates at the top of the key. The forward will be recognized on Saturday at Senior Day.

from 33 against Iowa to 10 against Ohio State. While recognized on the roster as juniors, both forwards Aaron Falzon and Charlie Hall are seniors academically, entering school with Pardon and Ash in the class of 2019. » See SENIORS, page 11