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No. 2 NU lacrosse heads to Final Four Wildcats’ victory over Duke secures spot in semifinals

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set. Mugai-Ryu Iaido is a traditional, feudal-era style of Japanese swordsmanship, and taiko drumming has its roots in Japanese religious ceremonies, court and theater.

Local artist and activist Melissa Raman Molitor organized the event to increase visibility and

After trailing No. 7 Duke by five goals in the first half, No. 2 Northwestern came from behind to defeat the Blue Devils 22-10 Saturday to secure its second straight appearance in the Final Four.

In front of a stoked crowd at Martin Stadium, the Wildcats utilized seven different scorers to lead the nation’s second best scoring offense to victory. Senior attacker Lauren Gilbert led the team with 6 goals, while junior attacker Izzy Scane — a finalist for the Tewaaraton

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Artist and activist Melissa Raman Molitor chats with community members at Evanston’s first Asian, South Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month arts festival. Molitor partnered with many local groups and businesses to organize the event in three weeks.

Residents join city’s first ASAPIA arts festival Community members organize festival for Asian, South Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month

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On Saturday, residents filled Sherman Ave. with red lanterns, origami cranes and multicolored koinobori carp streamers fluttering through the air during Evanston’s

first Asian South Asian Pacific Islander American Heritage Month Arts Festival.

At the event, vendors gave out free snacks from countries across Asia, and others sold paintings and packets of Indian spices. The streets were filled with pedestrians visiting booths and watching performances.

Speakers discussed various topics, including the Asian American experience in Evanston, the need to integrate Asian American histories into school curricula and the importance of pushing back against harmful stereotypes such as the “perpetual foreigner” and the “model minority.”

“Increasingly, I think we need to

claim our history and insist that it be part of American history,” said Evanston/Skokie School District 65 school board member Soo La Kim, a speaker at Saturday’s event.

Additionally, a Mugai Ryu Iaido group from the Japanese Culture Center demonstrated sword techniques, and members of Tsukasa Taiko performed a taiko drumming

Schapiro Mayfest prioritizes diversity in Dillo Day lineup discusses Dillo Day 2021 features first ever lineup made up entirely of artists of color hiring practices

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In interview, Schapiro talks Polisky resignation

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Members of The Daily’s editorial board sat down with University President Morton Schapiro last week to discuss topics pertinent to the Northwestern community, including Mike Polisky’s resignation, the announcement of diverse hiring commitments and the new search for athletic director. University spokesperson Jeri Ward was present. This interview was lightly edited for clarity and brevity.

The Daily: In response to community backlash of Mike Polisky’s

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Although Dillo Day has featured artists of color, this diversity was not always reflected in the executive board of Mayfest Productions, director of booking Amirah Ford said.

When the Medill junior first joined Mayfest during her freshman year, she said the organization made up of about 100 students only had around five Black members, and primarily consisted of White men in Greek life.

“So you’re looking at an organization that has historically always brought Black artists, centered on Black culture, appropriated Black culture, but never once had a Black person sitting in the room to make those critical decisions that lead this music festival,” Ford said.

This year marks the first time Dillo Day will have a lineup entirely made up of artists of color. But Mayfest’s executive board has made a

concerted effort to organize this year’s music festival on principles of diversity and inclusion.

Compared to last year’s completely virtual Dillo Day, this year’s festival includes both virtual performances and in-person programming.

Entering its 49th year, Dillo Day is a hallmark of campus life at Northwestern, Ford said. If Mayfest is not representative and inclusive of the NU community, she said, it doesn’t make sense for the organization to even exist.

Last year, Mayfest established its first diversity, inclusion and wellness committee and implemented required workshops to encourage members to evaluate what diversity and inclusion means within the organization.

Medill junior Andrea Bian, Mayfest’s diversity and inclusion chair and a former Daily editor, said it’s important to not only have a lineup and programming that’s diverse and inclusive, but also an organization where members feel welcome. With so many committees, she said it’s

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In the first ever Dillo Day to have a lineup entirely made up of artists of color, Mayfest Productions introduced inclusive programming that includes virtual performances and in-person events.

essential for each to understand how they’re engaging with and including the NU community. “ We should always be thinking about everything we do at Mayfest with a diversity

and inclusion lens,” Bian said.

Ford said it’s important to remember that music festivals are more than just concerts — they’re cultural events where identities matter.

A lot of thought went into

booking Omar Apollo as the daytime headliner of the festival, Ford said. As a queer, Chicano artist from the Midwest, Apollo’s artistry

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EFBL brings community garden to city’s 5th Ward

By WILLIAM CLARK

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As community gardens and urban farming projects spread throughout the Chicago area, Evanston Fight for Black Lives organizers are launching the West End Garden, a community garden at Adam Perry Park in Evanston’s 5th Ward.

Organizers said they want the garden to be both a joyful community space and a center for education and activism around issues of racial justice, food accessibility and sustainability. Volunteers and organizers built raised beds at an event on May 15 and plan to plant produce and native wildflowers at an upcoming “Grow Day” on May 29.

“Gardens can be some of the most intimate spaces, doing some of the most basic work,” said Emma Barreto, an EFBL organizer who is coleading the garden project with EFBL organizer Nia Williams.

Barreto said gardening can be a therapeutic way to address the complex historical relationships between agriculture and Black Americans, but she thinks it can also become a source of community bonding and empowerment.

At a Citizens’ Greener Evanston event in April, EFBL organizer Maia Robinson said the garden can address that history while helping the community.

“Historically, the environment has been used as a tool to oppress us,” Robinson said, referencing racial injustices like slavery and sharecropping.

“Now, we’re looking at a way that we can understand that history while also relearning the ways that we can use the environment to our own benefit.”

In the long-term, Barreto said organizers hope to launch a mentorship program focused on agricultural education.

Once the garden is up and running in the coming weeks, they also plan on hosting workshops to educate community members about gardening techniques they can use at home or in agricultural careers.

“It’s really powerful to be able to start a garden in your own backyard and not have to depend on grocery stores that are… kind of far (from your home),” Barreto said.

Courtesy of Semillas y Raices (right) and Growing Home (left)

Volunteers at Semillas y Raíces tend to vegetables and native wildflowers. Gardeners at Growing Home work in a hoop house.

This independence is necessary in some parts of Evanston. According to 2015 census data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, residents in four of the 18 census tracts in the 1st, 5th, 7th and 8th Wards in Evanston do not have access to a supermarket within half a mile of their residence. Barreto said inaccessibility can make grocery shopping especially difficult for people who don’t own vehicles.

On top of workshops and mentorship programs, organizers hope to give away produce grown at the West End Garden to combat food insecurity.

Sustainability is also an important part of organizers’ vision. Barreto said they plan to plant native wildflowers in the garden to support pollinator species. Native plants can mitigate climate change by absorbing atmospheric carbon dioxide, while pollinators, which have suffered species loss in recent years, can play key roles in supporting ecological stability.

Beyond Evanston, several Chicago-area community gardens are also working to build community

and address social justice issues.

Semillas y Raíces, a community garden located on the West Side of Chicago, uses gardening to create spaces for Indigenous agricultural practices, as well as focusing on social justice and local community.

Tomas Ramirez, an organizer at Semillas, said the garden’s goal is to build a sustainable community where people are “in right relationship” with nature, their cultural background and their peers.

Organizers sometimes refer to Semillas as “the glass garden,” since the soil was littered with broken glass and litter when they started planting several years ago. Since then, they’ve cleaned the space and built up healthy, organic soil that can support produce, mushrooms and herbs.

Xavier Colon, a Semillas gardener, said he’s planted native species because they’re resilient and support ecological stability. Since adding native plants, Colon said the amount of birds, pollinators and butterflies has noticeably increased.

“It’s a huge restoration project on that end,” Colon said. “(We’re) building back up that soil and bringing in our culture.”

Sam Arechiga, an organizer and student at DePaul University, said the events held at Semillas are central to its overall mission of building community through Indigenous practices.

In addition to gardening, Semillas hosts restorative justice circles where community members can talk through conflicts and violence, as well as barbecues, Indigenous ceremonies and workshops focused on traditional cooking techniques.

“I’m from the Southwest, so finding this space was really important to me, because it felt like I had so many people that I could relate to in such a huge city,” Arechiga said. “It’s just a really beautiful thing to be part of such an inclusive and intergenerational space.”

In Englewood, not far from Semillas, an urban farm called Growing Home is planning to launch its own community garden in June.

LaQuandra Fair, the community engagement coordinator at Growing Home, said families who sign up for garden space will be given seedlings, tools and any support they need to start their own garden. Fair said the community garden will address food inaccessibility in the neighborhood.

“Everyone deserves a good job and good food,” Fair said, “and this is part of that — making sure that folks have… a space to grow their own groceries.”

Fair said Growing Home also operates a 12-week long job training program that includes courses on environmental literacy, mental and emotional health and job-readiness training, especially in green and agricultural industries. The program is geared toward goal-setting and overcoming structural barriers, she said.

As part of the job training program, Fair said Growing Home also partners with legal aid firms to offer free assistance to staff who need help expunging criminal records in order to secure employment.

“We just really want to empower folks with the tools and the knowledge that we have,” Fair said. williamclark2024@u.northwestern.edu

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Rapper Playboi Carti headlines Dillo

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BET award-winning rapper Playboi Carti brought an energetic performance to screens at this year’s virtual Dillo Day Saturday night.

Carti opened with “Stop Breathing” and closed with “@MEH” — both songs from his latest album, “Whole Lotta Red,” which was released last year.

He also performed songs from his album “Die Lit”, which peaked at number two on the Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums in 2018.

Students accessed Carti’s performance through a livestream available on Dillo Day’s website, where they were treated to a flashy smokeshow following Atlanta rapper Ken Carson’s opening

performance.

“I think just having somebody that’s so creative, and again, not just a rapper, but a trailblazing rapper, who is applying pressure in the game — it definitely is pivotal,” Medill junior Amirah Ford, Mayfest Productions’ director of booking, said.

Ford said she was not interested in “the cookiecutter formula” of past Dillo Day line-ups.

Playboi Carti, a rapper known for an eclectic online persona, changed up the tone that was set from earlier performances including KAYTRANADA and beabadoobee. Ford also highlighted “Whole Lotta Red,” adding that Playboi Carti stood out to her as a viable headliner because of how he blended elements of hip hop and rap.

“Playboi Carti has been out for years now. To see him still be relevant, and to see this creativity that he did…I knew he was going to do the virtual show,” Ford said.

Carti’s performance lasted over half an hour and was shot and streamed entirely from a boxlike stage with lit up walls. In addition to performing songs from his most recent album, like “Die4Guy” and “Long Time (Intro),” Carti performed his bits from Lil Yatchy’s “Flex Up” and Tyler, The Creator’s “EARFQUAKE” while rocking on the virtual stage.

Weinberg freshman Cydney Johnson said she enjoyed the visuals of Carti’s performance. She watched the virtual set with her friends while eating takeout in her dorm after celebrating Dillo Day on the beach.

“He had great energy and it was super cool to hear some of my favorite songs being performed live,” Johnson said. “It was definitely the perfect way to end Dillo Day.” alexperry20@u.northwestern.edu

Apollo pays homage to Mexican identity

By NICK FRANCIS

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Omar Apollo, Dillo Day’s daytime headliner, performed his most well-known songs in a virtual Saturday performance with a band, backup vocals, lights and effects.

From “Kamikaze” to “Stayback,” Apollo played various tracks from his 2020 album “Apolonio.” During the hour-long set, he also threw it back with “Ugotme” from his inaugural record “Stereo,” which released in 2018.

Apollo, a queer Latinx artist, performed songs that served as an homage to his identity.

“About to get into some real Mexican sh-t,” Apollo said while introducing “Dos Uno Nueve (219),” a song from “Apolonio.” “Shoutout to all my Latinos out there.”

He also played his song “Bi Fren,” commonly cited as a double entendre: both a farewell to a

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friend and a nod to his own sexuality.

Mayfest’s Booking Director Amirah Ford said another nice touch was that Apollo, an Indiana native, hails from the Midwest. Besides the fact he’s “beloved on campus,” Ford added Apollo’s natural talent and full dance set meant he could hold his own in a virtual space.

This year’s Dillo was the first lineup that exclusively featured artists of color. Beyond that, Apollo was Dillo’s first Latinx daytime headliner, Ford said.

“Omar Apollo came about (from) again, a lack of diversity in past years, a lack of people of color all around on the lineups — predominantly the Latinx community,” Ford said. “Having a visibility of some type of queerness is something that has not been acknowledged or prioritized or even considered much before.”

Ford is the first Black person to hold the title of director of booking, and she said her first-hand life experiences give her the “cultural intelligence” to cultivate a group of artists that

recenter diversity.

“That’s the only reason why past lineups, past spaces, past environments have not been diverse or inclusive,” Ford said. “In this position, and having a seat at the table, I made it very clear that I want to apply pressure and do something new.”

Weinberg freshman Mimi Hansen-Erraziqi said she found out about Apollo through pop artist Ruel, who is featured on Apollo’s song “Want U Around.” After clicking through his tracks, she said she added some to her playlists and especially liked “Want U Around.”

However, Apollo’s Dillo set had Hansen-Erraziqi hooked on his body of work at-large, she said.

“Some of his songs have really high notes and harmonies, and he actually did quite a few of them. (It was a) very soothing experience,” Hansen-Erraziqi said. “After watching his set, I’m 100 percent going back and listening (and) learning his songs.” nickfrancis2024@u.northwestern.edu

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A sustainable transportation future for Evanston STERLING ORTIZ

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Through my previous articles for The Daily Northwestern, I’ve articulated my desire for a greater Evanston. I write about urban topics because, from my heart, I love my fellow Northwestern students, and I love the people who make up the city I call home most of the year.

However, I know that Evanston can and should do better in many aspects of urban planning, especially regarding how people move around. Most importantly, Evanston should do better adapting to this fundamental fact of climate change. Our world, and the world of our descendants, will have to grapple with transformational climate change devastating the planet and displacing all of Earth’s species.

My friends at NU would respond to the above claim by saying “100 companies emit 71 percent of global carbon emissions.” My friends would follow up by claiming that solely taxing, regulating, and/or nationalizing those companies would solve universal climate change. I agree, though nearly all of the 100 companies handle fossil fuels. Those companies are vital to maintaining car-centric lifestyles. If Evanston wants to transition away from fossil fuels, the city needs to design walking transportation, biking transportation and public transportation.

Because the University is the top employer in Evanston — by a significant margin — making car-free, fast access to NU would make the most significant difference among Evanston residents. This would give those without cars, particularly young

people, increased access to both NU and downtown Evanston. To make a livable city, I believe the core transportation proposal should be the following: transforming Chicago Avenue and Sheridan Road from Central Street to Howard Street by replacing the car lanes with larger sidewalks, bus lanes, protected bike lanes and installing a trolleybus.

To use a term popularized by Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris, Evanston should be a “15-minute city” around NU. That means every resident should have access to NU within 15 minutes by any clean energy method. Expanding sidewalks would increase foot traffic, and protected bike lanes would make biking a more attractive option, making both commutes more viable. Dedicated bus lanes would increase the quality of bus commutes by allowing more frequent and faster buses to travel along the Avenue. The trolleybus would connect greater NU with south Evanston with ease.

While sidewalks and bike lanes already exist in Evanston, bus lanes and a trolleybus do not, so I feel compelled to defend their introduction. The two rapid transit options in Evanston are the Chicago Transit Authority Purple Line and the various CTA and Pace buses, including the #201 Central/Ridge and #250 Dempster Street buses. The Purple Line is entrenched at its current location, a half-mile from campus and crossing downtown Evanston. The buses, however, cross many important streets, stemming from or going through the Davis Street CTA station.

Making bus lanes along Evanston streets would facilitate faster travel for multiple bus routes as a result of existing bus patterns. For my example, a bus lane on the intersection of Sheridan Road and Chicago Avenue would speed up the #201 and #213 Green Bay Road bus routes.

However, looking at those two routes reveals a fundamental truth: there is no one-seat bus route from Central Street to Howard Street. Currently, commuting with the Purple Line from the stops near NU’s campus is often hard because it takes between five and 15 minutes to walk from the Davis, Foster and Noyes Street CTA stations to campus and other jobs. This existing divide cuts Evanston between NU students and staff and residents in southern Evanston. To bridge this divide, I propose a trolleybus route along the three miles from Central Street to Howard Street.

Trolleybuses are far from a new invention.

They’ve been around since 1882 and have been perfected by cities from San Francisco to Shanghai.

Establishing this type of route is the best option, especially with bus lanes. A trolleybus is carbonneutral because it runs on electricity, requiring little built infrastructure to support it.

To support this trolleybus by public policy, I recommend two parts: dedicated bus lanes and frequent headways (the average interval of time between bus arrivals). I covered bus lanes above. Frequent headways are the other facet because routine bus services garner faith in the system from riders. Ideally, the trolleybus should arrive every five to 10 minutes every day with the Purple Line’s opening and closing. During rush hour, the trolleybus should arrive at most every four minutes to accommodate the Evanston residents coming to and from work. While this frequency might seem outstanding considering the #201 comes every half hour six days a week, adapting to a clean energy standard for Evanston requires exceptional actions.

Beyond the trolleybus, there are many other benefits towards pedestrianizing the Chicago Avenue and Sheridan Road corridor. Biking south of Davis

is unfun and unsafe, especially south of South Boulevard, which protected bike lanes would fix. Adding more sidewalks and green space between the Arch and Central Street would improve the student and residential experience.

Better transportation planning would achieve three excellent outcomes — first, people cutting down car usage or selling the car entirely. Second, an increase in people walking and biking more, which is known to cause greener environmental effects. Third, more of a connection between students of all ages and the Evanston community.

None of these improvements I listed are novel, and all of these proposals have been perfected around the world. For walkers and cyclists, Amsterdam decided a century ago to prioritize public transportation over installing highways for cars. The result is that Amsterdam is safe, healthy, vibrant and the cycling capital of the world.

In Bogotá, the capital of Colombia, there is a monument to clean living. Specifically, the Eje Ambiental de la Avenida Jiménez stands as a shining beacon of street design. This portion of Avenida Jiménez is closed off to cars. It is designed with the sidewalk level to the bus rapid transit lanes.

As a top 25 university globally, with an engineering school par excellence, NU should promote the best transportation planning practices worldwide and put this incredible knowledge to use in Evanston.

We deserve nothing less.

Sterling Ortiz is a SESP junior. He can be contacted at sterlingortiz2022@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.

What is indigeneity: reclamation as an act of decolonization KADIN MILLS

COLUMNIST

This column is the second in a two-part series on Indigenous solidarity and reclamation of identity as an act of decolonization.

My favorite Ojibwe story tells of Cheengwun, a medicine man, who travels to the spirit realm in a dream. There, he finds an old ookoomisan, who told him that the Wiindigo, a demonic figure in Anishinaabe lore, was killing the Anishinaabeg — the Original People. Ookoomisan, the old grandmother, collected the remaining Ojibwe children and prepared them to defeat the Wiindigo. The nameless children ran across a vast lake, representing their subconsciousness. The children were practicing to race the Wiindigo one by one. Dying one by one.

When Cheengwun asked the children their names, they didn’t know.

“What about your clan?” Cheengwun asked.

They didn’t know that either. Cheengwun was the last to race the Wiindigo, and when he won, he gave all of the Ojibwe their sacred names. The children would cease to run atop the water and instead know themselves as Ojibwe.

Cheengwun’s journey through the spirit realm has been told of for ages, but the cultural genocide pepetrated against Native peoples has continued to thrive on Maamaa Aki, Mother Earth. Many of our grandparents grew up in the boarding school era, with the last boarding schools having closed in the 1990’s. Their languages were beaten out of them, so

they were no longer able to communicate with their families. Their sacred hair was cut off, and their religions were banned until 1978.

Abolition of the settler colonial system as a whole is central to decolonization. Abolition is not just for those of us who look a certain way or identify as people of color. Abolition is the destruction of the Wiindigo for a better world. Abolition is for our stolen relatives — our missing and murdered Indigenous women and Two-Spirit People, as well as our relatives brought to Turtle Island from Africa.

Abolition is for those Native peoples who are not federally recognized. Abolition is for our youth growing up on Turtle Island telling themselves they aren’t enough.

My great-grandma Jo was raised in a Catholic orphanage, “escaping” the local boarding schools in upper Michigan. When her father died, Mary Josephine DeCota was just a baby. Her mother had no choice but to give her daughter to the church and some family stories say she herself became a nun. Despite this, only some of our cultural teachings were passed down. Language was one of those and I remain one of the only members of my immediate family to attempt to speak Ojibwemowin. I am learning to bead. I have surrounded myself with other contemporary Natives and allies, many of whom have gone through the same struggles.

The biggest struggle I have faced is rejection by other Native peoples. We have been indoctrinated into believing in the very systems of oppression that have torn us apart and in the strict blood quantum requirements that keep us separated. We reject our own communities and instead worship a Wiindigo system valuing blood, oil and greed. My mom, aunties and maternal grandmother all identify as Indigenous women, and they are all registered. I am not.

The reality is that most of us no longer fit that mold of what it means to be Indigenous. I am the result of a process that has failed to “kill the Indian.”

I refuse to define myself and my Indigeneity by federal policy, regulation and legislation. We divide ourselves along the lines of skin color, blood quantum, language and religion. We divide ourselves on issues like abolition when we accept that the dominant narrative of the contemporary Indian relies on our expectations and stereotypes of what it looks like to be a person of Indigenous blood or heritage. We are conditioned to question our own indigeneity as well as the indigeneity of our other light-skinned and disconnected relatives.

We tolerate our interrogation. “What percent are you? You don’t know your language? Why don’t you know your prayers, songs or traditions? Then you aren’t really a real Indian then are you?” But there is a reason we don’t know these things.

They were stolen from us.

Indigenous communities and their allies must reject American hegemony, forced Christian and Catholic narratives, and other destructive and assimilative ways of thinking (like blood quantum, homophobia, faith in the so-called United States’ treaty obligations, etc.). Only then can our communities reestablish our own histories.

It is time to rethink what it means to be Indigenous, in a time when more Indigenous people than ever are living in cities across Turtle Island.

Until we recognize structures of violence and erasure as thriving and modern, we cannot truly liberate Black, brown, and Indigenous bodies.

Reclamation of Indigenous identity and the rejection of Wiindigo society is the only way to live “the good life,” mino-bimaadiziwin. Only with the death of the Wiindigo will we learn our names, our

languages and ourselves. By centering contemporary Indigenous voices and epistemologies, we can provide ourselves the agency to resist coloniality, to dismantle the exile of indigenous peoples in history and end the cultural genocide that continues today.

My Grandma Jo died on May 21, 2011 — ten years ago. Prior to hospitalization, Grandma Jo was taken from her nursing home to the psychiatric ward after she became violent with her nurses and doctors.

Doctors said my frail great-grandmother died an alcoholic, in line with the age-old Indian stereotype.

But my great-grandmother was no alcoholic. When she died, my Grandma Jo was having nightmares of the nuns from her childhood. She died in fear, afraid the nuns were coming back to torture her.

The day my Grandma Jo died, I lost something so important to who I am. My mom called me and told me I could come say goodbye, but that it was okay to be scared. I cried, and decided not to go to the hospital. I regret my choice to stay home on that day ten years ago.

My grandmother, Donna, tells me about her late mother, Josephine. “You need to be nosier,” Grandma Jo would say. “You need to ask more questions.”

I am asking the questions my grandma never thought to ask so that I might learn my name, my clan, our traditions and minobimaadiziwin — because indigeneity is not possible without abolition of the Wiindigo. Indigeneity is resistance.

Kadin Mills is a Medill freshman. He can be contacted at kadinmills2024@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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Indie artist beabadoobee brings acoustic set to Dillo

By CATHERINE ODOM and CALLIE MORGAN

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Indie artist beabadoobee brought a mellow energy to Dillo Day 2021 this Saturday with a casual, acoustic set.

Singer Beatrice Laus, also known by her stage name beabadoobee, kicked off her singing career with 2017 single “Coffee,” which has over 71 million streams on Spotify. The song was sampled by Powfu in 2020, garnering nearly a billion Spotify streams after it went viral on TikTok. She has also released four EPs since 2018 and a new album in October 2020 called “Fake It Flowers.” beabadoobee played fan favorites like “Coffee” and “She Plays Bass,” along with some songs from her new album, including “Care” and “Worth It,” at her 4 p.m. performance.

Dressed in loose green pants, a black tank top and a gray sweatshirt, she performed with her acoustic guitar on a green couch.

Her set had an “intimate feel,” Amirah Ford said. The Medill junior serves as the booking director for Mayfest Productions, which puts on the annual music festival. This simple set-up allowed beabadoobee’s talent to shine through, Ford said.

Following her performance, beabadoobee engaged in a live Q&A with students, who submitted questions in advance via a Google Form posted on Dillo Day’s Twitter.

“It was able to give us more of a personal touch that wouldn’t be at all possible with our regular Dillo,” Ford said.

Ford, the first Black woman to be Mayfest’s booking director, said she focused on inclusivity and representation when curating this year’s lineup. For the first time in the festival’s history, all the artists were people of color.

“In this position, and having a seat at the table, I made it very clear that I want to apply pressure and do something new,” Ford said.

SESP freshman and Mayfest general board member Skylar Deeter, said the Filipina-British singer was a “fun and surprising” addition to this

year’s performances.

“We were really excited to get some female and Asian representation on the lineup,” she said.

Mayfest chose beabadoobee to balance out the lineup, which featured a wide range of genres, from rap to EDM to alternative, Deeter said. beabadoobee’s laidback sound as an indie artist complemented other higher energy sets, she added.

This year’s festival also featured virtual performances from Omar Apollo, Playboi Carti and KAYTRANADA, as well as in-person programming that included a student art display, care package distribution and Dildo Day, a sex positivity event.

“If there’s one thing that we can do, as an organization, it is to give people something that would hopefully make them happy,” Ford said. “With all the artists, regardless of whether they were on campus or not, that presence was felt, that community was felt.” calliemorgan2024@u.northwestern.edu catherineodom2024@u.northwestern.edu

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Grammy-winner KAYTRANADA plays EDM set at Dillo

By NATHAN ANSELL

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After KAYTRANADA canceled his Chicago show in May 2020 due to the pandemic, many Northwestern students tuned into a long-awaited live set from the producer and DJ at Dillo Day 2021.

The two-time Grammy winner kept both his setlist and stage design casual, playing mainly selections from his two studio albums “BUBBA” and “99.9%.”

Surrounding him were two small speakers, a laptop, a mixer, an unused microphone and a flatscreen TV playing anime scenes.

Louis Celestin, also known by stage name KAYTRANADA, explores his Black, gay and Haitian Canadian identities in his discography.

“Even though house music started as a Black

genre, EDM is a very whitewashed genre right now,” Medill junior and Mayfest Productions director of booking Amirah Ford said.

When “BUBBA” received Best Dance/Electronic Album at the 63rd Grammy Awards this year, Celestin became the first Black winner in that category.

It’s not just the EDM scene that lacks diversity, Ford said.

KAYTRANADA’s willingness to publicly embrace his identities made him a welcome addition to the Dillo Day lineup, she added, as queerness in particular is “not always visible.”

“His Blackness and his queer visibility is also important in terms of representation on this campus, and right now, those two things aren’t necessarily valued in that space,” Ford said.

It’s hard to pin a single label on KAYTRANADA, whose songs are a contemporary amalgam of several genres. From the Afrobeat influences on “Vex Oh” to Craig David’s

psychedelically mixed vocals on “GOT IT GOOD,” KAYTRANADA sits at the cross-section of many Northwestern students’ interests, according to Medill junior and Mayfest Productions talent buyer Ethan Shanfeld.

“He bridges the gap between EDM and R&B, hip hop and soul music and house music,” Shanfeld said. “He checks off a lot of boxes.”

Shanfeld said the Montreal-based artist had been on Mayfest’s radar for several years.His Grammy wins earlier this year were “the icing on the cake,” Shanfield added.

KAYTRANADA began with one of his most recognizable songs, “CHANCES,” before seamlessly weaving together track after track. Estelle’s atmospheric guest appearance on “Oh No” flowed right into Lucky Daye’s smooth R&B voice on “Look Easy.”

When he followed up with “10%” featuring Kali Uchis, which earned a Grammy for Best Dance Recording this year, Medill sophomore

and former Daily staffer Spencer Allan knew the performance would be memorable.

“I heard that beat coming on in the distance of the track, and then it was instantly recognizable,” Allan said. “To hear him play that song now becomes this trophy of all the work he’s accomplished.”

The DJ scattered in remixes of hits by artists such as Rihanna and Janet Jackson, all while taking the virtual audience on a tour of his own discography. He left “YOU’RE THE ONE” featuring Syd, one of his most popular songs and Allan’s favorite, until the end.

Allan said the set reminded him of Jaden’s performance at the 2019 A&O Blowout, which was opened by SOPHIE. “(With) all these incredible queer electronic musicians that have come to Northwestern, I’m hoping that in-person, that tradition can continue,” Allan said. nathanansell2022@u.northwestern.edu

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representation for ASAPIA Evanston residents.

Molitor said bringing Evanston’s ASAPIA community together through the festival was particularly important with the rise of anti-Asian racism and violence in the last year. She then addressed Mayor Daniel Biss, who attended the event, saying she hoped the festival will become an annual event.

Earlier this month, former Mayor Steve Hagerty officially proclaimed May as Evanston’s Asian, South Asian, Pacific Islander American Heritage month.

Molitor said she wanted to organize an arts festival in particular — with an emphasis on food, performance and visual arts — because art can make discussions around racism and equity more accessible, and it can bring more voices into the fold.

“Art supersedes language,” she said, “especially when words fail.”

Molitor said Evanston has very few spaces that center the Asian American community, and she hopes the arts festival will help ASAPIA residents to connect with each other and feel a greater sense of belonging in the city.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 9.4 percent of Evanston residents identified as Asian alone. Molitor said that number is not completely representative because there are many mixed-race ASAPIA Evanston residents who would not have checked the “Asian, alone” box.

Kim told The Daily that before the festival that she had only known a “handful” of Asian Americans in the city. The event, she said, provided a powerful opportunity to connect with other Asian families in the area.

She said she hopes the art festival and other future events will have a similar impact on her kids, who are multi-racial.

“I want them to be able to see and explore all aspects of their identity, and occasions like this are an opportunity to do that — an opportunity to have conversations and to have them introduce parts of themselves to their friends,” Kim said.

Evanston Township High School junior Sophie Yang, one of the event’s speakers, said growing up, she was embarrassed of her Japanese culture. It wasn’t until high school, when she joined the ETHS Asian Heritage Alliance and began having more conversations with her peers, that she became more willing to speak out against the microaggressions and stereotypes she has experienced.

She said seeing the diversity and amount of people who attended the festival made her optimistic.

“We all come from different backgrounds, have different stories and perceive the world in different ways,” Yang said. “But we’re united in the fact that we’re here today.”

Award — scored five.

“It’s awesome,” Scane said after Saturday’s win. “We’re super excited. It’s where we were expecting to be this year just because of how hard our team was working.”

At the beginning of the contest, NU struggled to create offensive opportunities and gave up the first goal of the game to Duke.

The team committed 15 turnovers in the game and lost seven draw controls to Blue Devils junior attacker Maddie Jenner. These factors contributed to the Cats falling behind 6-1, 19 minutes into the game.

However, NU soon countered Duke’s momentum. Senior defender Jill Girardi took the draw with Gilbert and graduate student attacker Lindsey McKone on the circle, leading them to win 14 draw controls combined.

Coach Kelly Amonte Hiller was proud of Girardi and the rest of the girls on the circle and emphasized the importance of the draw to their offense. Amonte Hiller added that the squad practiced draw taking in preparation for the game because Jenner — whom Amonte Hiller coaches of the U-19 United States National Team — is known as a strong draw specialist.

“We have a great game on the draw and we feel teams will have to worry about us,” Amonte Hiller said. “Every team we’re going to play against has great draw people so we’re going to have to bring it.”

Gilbert echoed this sentiment, saying winning the draw was a crucial factor in the squad’s comeback late in the first half. With 6 goals in the game, Gilbert was a force on the field and gave Duke defenders a challenge across all 60 minutes. She said NU’s 25-13 loss to Maryland in the 2019 Final Four

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resonates with a lot of the Latinx communtity at NU and surrounding underrepresented communities, she added.

Communication junior Maryam Ikuforiji, co-director of Mayfest’s promotions committee, said it’s significant for NU students to see artists who look like them perform on campus. When she saw Teyana Taylor at Dillo Day her freshman year, she said seeing such a powerful performance by a Black woman was a meaningful experience.

Ikuforiji added that Mayfest has become more diverse since she joined the organization, and it’s reflected in the inclusive programming of this year’s festival.

“You need a lot of voices at the table for

fueled the team to work even harder to make it back to the Final Four.

The Cats ended the first half with an exact score lead and did not slow down in the final 30 minutes. Outshooting the Blue Devils 44-26, Gilbert and Scane scored six and five goals, respectively, to book the team’s trip back to Baltimore.

“We have such a deadly attack so it makes it really hard for other teams to stop (us),” Gilbert said. “I was able to create lanes for myself and goal, but it’s a tribute to how deadly everyone is on attack.”

Despite exiting the game early after receiving her second yellow card in the 46th minute, Scane was able to find her way to the net, including two goals off of fast break turnovers.

Scane said the team’s timeout early in the first half motivated their second half offensive explosion. “(Amonte Hiller) kind of talked to us and basically said ‘nothing’s just gonna come — you’re gonna have to bust your butts and work for every little play,’” Scane said.

As the Cats made history in front of a stadium filled to 50 percent capacity, NU will now travel east to Maryland and face No. 3 Syracuse, who it defeated in the 2018 Elite Eight.

Players said they were excited about fans having the chance to attend the game, and Amonte Hiller said the home field advantage has been “phenomenal.”

But, NU’s work is far from done, she added.

“Syracuse has been amazing all season and the (Atlantic Coast Conference) has been very strong,” Amonte Hiller said. “The Big Ten just didn’t have the chance to prove ourselves this year and now we do.” skyeswann2024@u.northwestern.edu the table to be inclusive and I think that’s what Mayfest is continuing to work towards and that’s why we have the Dillo Day we have today,” Ikuforiji said.

Ford, Bian and Ikuforiji all said they’re happy with the progress that has been made within Mayfest in terms of diversity and inclusion since they joined the organization their freshman year.

“I hope everyone enjoys themselves because this pandemic, this school year, this quarter has been a lot for so many people in so many different ways,” Ford said. “And I feel like this Dillo, with how monumental this lineup is, it is a treat that we all deserve... it’s something that I feel is going to remind us that life is good.”

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hiring as athletic director, you said you were confident Polisky was the best person to lead. How are you feeling in retrospect about the choice you made?

Schapiro: Well, given how it turned out I wish we had tried something else, to be honest with you.

Obviously you’d be crazy to say other than that. I was encouraged by the fact that he got a lot of support from the search committee, that I heard from many of our 19 varsity coaches about how well they knew him after 11 years and how supportive they were and I went forward with it. At the time, as you know, there was no open investigation into him. But as he wrote in the note, it turned out to divide the community, to such an extent that he moved down.

The Daily: When the University announced the decision, some community members expressed concern that there was no availability to hear from Polisky, and that you weren’t around when the news was announced. Why was there no availability to respond?

Schapiro: I think if Mike had stayed there was going to be availability from him and from me, but I was on the road. I came back, and we had plans, but then those plans changed.

The Daily: When he resigned, you had said that you respected his decision and appreciated all that he’d done for the University. Some community members have said that your statement failed to acknowledge the harm that was done, especially to the cheerleading team, under his leadership. How do you respond to that?

Schapiro: Well, he was here for 11 years. As the lawsuit charges, that happened a couple years ago, and he had a lot of things before that and a lot of things in other areas after that. He was stepping down. I thought it would be appropriate to thank him for 11 years of service and I know some people reacted very negatively to those words that I used.

The Daily: What is the current status of the new hiring timeline? Do you have any updates?

Schapiro: Well, not yet. We’ll be able to get an incredibly well qualified person who just can’t wait to join our community, or if it’s an internal person, to rise up to the new role and so we’re anxious to do that.

The Daily: Northwestern recently announced some changes through the introduction of the Diverse Slates Candidate Policy. How do you see this policy implemented across campus?

Schapiro: I’m a big proponent of this new addition to the way we do searches and hiring committees and the like, and I’m very supportive of it. I fully intend and everything that I run abides by it. I think we will end up with better discussion, better candidates and ultimately better people hired. So I’m very excited about that.

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EFBL hosts abolitionist community painting event

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Around 30 people painted canvases with their ideas around abolition outside of Evanston Police Department on Sunday in an effort to build community as part of Evanston Fight for Black Lives’ third “Reclaim the Block” series.

Amalia Loiseau, a University of Illinois student and an organizer, said the goal of the event was to create a safe space for community members.

With the city’s Black population declining, Loiseau said it is imperative to improve the quality of life of Black residents. Loiseau sees EFBL’s “Reclaim the Block” events as an opportunity to take back power for the people and create a strong community.

“As a member of the Black community in Evanston, we do events to uplift ourselves. It is really important to build community,” Loiseau said. “People are seeing that the police are given so much money to cause so much harm. Even simple things like this can help. Having open conversations can help with healing.”

Omar Salem, an Evanston resident of 10 years, said he wants his children to know what Evanston youth activists are fighting for. He appreciated how family friendly Sunday’s event

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was, and his daughter, Sydney, immersed herself in the painting activity.

Organizer Sarah Bogan said considering that Evanston’s population is around 74,000, she

wishes more people had showed up. Given the high level of support among college-aged individuals, however, Bogan said she expects turnout will be greater as the summer progresses

in-person fall learning will come from the state superintendent.

Illinois schools are receiving over $7 billion in federal funding to support students as they return to in-person learning. Evanston/Skokie School District 65 and Evanston Township High School/ School District 202 are expected to receive nearly $10.6 million and $3.7 million in funding, respectively. The money comes through the American Rescue Plan and will be disbursed over the next three years.

In District 65, students and families can expect a full in-person reopening in the fall with limited remote learning options. The district began its hybrid learning model in February.

At a Monday board meeting, District 65 Superintendent Devon Horton said the district cannot

legally require vaccinations for teachers. Mitigation measures for the fall will continue to include mask wearing, hand washing and completion of daily health certifications. The district will continue to update its COVID-19 dashboard, but vaccinated students and staff will not need to quarantine.

ETHS began an optional hybrid learning model in April. While the district intends to provide complete in-person instruction in the fall, Assistant Superintendent/Principal Marcus Campbell said community members should expect a “new normal” at an April board meeting.

The district will implement block scheduling and the removal of mandatory semester exams.

At the meeting, Superintendent Eric Witherspoon said PPE and enhanced cleaning protocols will likely still be required in the fall.

and students return home.

“A big point is making a point to this department that we are not going anywhere,” Bogan said. “There is so much love that goes into this work and community building is the whole point of what we are doing.”

Resident Liz Kenney, a member of Quaker congregation Evanston Friends Meeting, said she was impressed by the youths’ work and their engagement in creative non-violence and peace, which are central Quaker values, she said.

As a White woman, Kenney acknowledged her privilege in interacting with the police.

“The police are designed to keep me safe.

And they do. Like a lot of White people in this country, I am reckoning with that,” Kenney said. “We can’t wait to take action. It’s a moral imperative.”

For Bogan, Sunday was an opportunity to share a community-based side of the movement different from standing in the streets and protesting. Particularly, she said creating spaces for people of color stands out as an important objective of the Sunday ‘Reclaim the Block’ parties.

“I’m passionate because these are my people and we should all have the same rights and feel like we deserve to be in spaces just as much as other people,” Bogan said. jonathanaustin2023@u.northwestern.edu Last week, several Cook County and Chicago mass vaccination events started offering Pfizer vaccines for children ages 12 to 15 after a recommendation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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After nine years at Northwestern, coach Cindy Timchal joined Maryland in 1991 and took the Terrapins to the national championship game.

To maintain a place in the top echelon of college lacrosse, Timchal emphasized recruiting top high school talent to College Park. One of these players was Kelly Amonte Hiller from Thayer Academy in Massachusetts, who visited during the 1991-92 academic year. She was hosted by then-junior Kerstin Kimel.

Kimel’s coach told her that the recruit considering Maryland was an important one. As a result, a “specific plan” was made for Amonte Hiller’s visit, including a tour around campus and introductions to team members.

Amonte Hiller would eventually commit to the Terrapins, who defeated Harvard to win the 1992 national title.

Following program-defining playing careers in College Park, Amonte Hiller and Kimel entered the coaching ranks and now lead two of the top programs in college lacrosse. On Saturday, Amonte Hiller’s No. 2 Northwestern (15-0, 11-0 Big Ten) defeated Kimel’s No. 7 Duke (11-8, 4-6 ACC) 22-10 in the NCAA Tournament quarterfinals, booking a trip to the Final Four.

The two coaches, whose teams met on opposing sidelines for the 21st time this weekend, hold a lot of respect for one another as their squads clashed for a shot at a national title.

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“She was the captain of my team my freshman year, so obviously someone that you look up to,” Amonte Hiller said.

“She was a great mentor.”

Amonte Hiller and Kimel played only one year together at Maryland in 1993, a campaign that ended with a loss in the national semifinals against Princeton.

However, Kimel said Amonte Hiller made a strong first impression.

During the season, Kimel — a twotime All American and the NCAA National Defensive Player of the Year in 1993 — was impressed with Amonte Hiller’s work ethic and talent on the draw control. She remembers firsthand the then-freshman’s tenacious effort at practice to improve besides her teammates.

“I always considered myself to be someone who was really fit and into the running piece of what we were doing,” Kimel said. “Kelly was always right there with me. She was just a hustler.”

Helping lead Maryland to national championships in 1995 and 1996, Amonte Hiller earned NCAA Division I Player of the Year during those seasons.

She also finished her career as the program’s leader in goals, assists and points.

For her performance, the four-time All American earned a spot on the Atlantic Coast Conference’s 50th Anniversary Women’s Lacrosse Team. Joining her on the squad was Kimel.

“If you look at the college coaching world, there’s a lot of us from Maryland,” Kimel said. “We were all accustomed to winning and we were all accustomed to being successful, but we also were accustomed to working hard and having

that relentless spirit.”

Both coaches took over programs in their first season — the Blue Devils’ women’s lacrosse program was created in 1996 and Northwestern restarted its team after a ten-year hiatus. They’ve remained there ever since as their squads have turned into postseason contenders.

From 2005-12, the Wildcats won seven national championships in an NCAA-record eight consecutive title appearances under Amonte Hiller and have reached 17 Final Fours. Kimel has guided Duke to seven national semifinals.

Amonte Hiller said she enjoys the competition against her former college teammate, who she has faced almost every season at the helm of NU. The Cats have defeated Kimel’s Blue Devils in 17 of their 21 matchups, including all 10 contests in Evanston.

“Every time we play, it’s always a battle,” Amonte Hiller said. “It’s always exciting. They have done really well over the last couple of years. We have a lot of respect for them.”

Amonte Hiller and Kimel share more connections on the field, such as Duke attacker Maddie Jenner playing for the U-19 United States National Team coached by Amonte Hiller.

Kimel will have to wait until next season to try to beat Amonte Hiller for the first time since 2018. However, she knows that her fellow coach is there for support in the meantime.

“I don’t think either of us have a hard time reaching out to one another or picking up the phone,” Kimel said. drewschott2023@u.northwestern.edu

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Northwestern couldn’t replicate last year’s hot start in the NCAA Tournament this weekend. Up against No. 14 Kentucky at the Lexington Regional, the Wildcats lost twice and exited the postseason early.

NU (30-17, 29-15 Big Ten) lost 3-2 when they first met Kentucky (41-14, 13-11 SEC) on Friday. Junior shortstop Maeve Nelson’s home run to deep left got NU on the scoreboard first, but Kentucky produced a three-run second inning to climb on top 3-1.

Senior third baseman Mac Dunlap drove in a run to provide some hope in the seventh inning, but despite the late rally, the Cats still came up short. With the tying run on base, junior center fielder Skyler Shellmyer grounded out to conclude the contest.

“It was a tough game, back and forth,” coach Kate Drohan said.

NU made several small mistakes. An obstruction call at the plate allowed Kentucky to take the lead after Shellmyer’s throw beat the runner, a wild pitch in the fourth inning put two Kentucky players in scoring position, and graduate pinchrunner Emma Bartz stepped off the base after a sacrifice bunt for an easy second out.

“We’re not going to be upset about it,” Nelson said after the game. “It didn’t go our way, and we’re going to use that to keep going.”

The Cats certainly kept going in their next game against Miami-Ohio (46-10, 36-2 MAC). Facing elimination, NU shook off a first-inning home run and coasted to a 7-1 victory behind a strong outing from junior pitcher Danielle Williams.

In the second inning, Dunlap cranked a bases-clearing double to put the Cats in front. Neither team could generate any offense for the next two frames, but with

the bases loaded, junior first baseman Nikki Cuchran seized the opportunity.

With two outs, she blasted an 0-1 pitch over the center field wall, picking up her first home run — and grand slam — of the season.

“Nikki Cuchran likes the spotlight,” Drohan said. “She likes it when the game’s on the line.”

The win set up a rematch with Kentucky later that day. Playing less than 45 minutes after competing against MiamiOhio, a fatigued NU struggled to get a hold on the game, particularly from the pitcher’s circle.

Dunlap gave the Cats an early lead with a sacrifice fly, but it was all Kentucky after that. The team scored multiple runs in each of the third, fifth and sixth innings, while graduate utility player Morgan Newport’s one-run groundout wasn’t enough to impact a 7-2 loss.

Drohan tried multiple pitchers throughout the game. Freshman Lauren Boyd left in the fourth inning for Newport, whom Williams replaced shortly after. Despite having pitched the entirety of the first two games, Williams managed to finish the game for the Cats. “(Williams) did such a great job today,” Shellmyer said. “I thought she put in a lot of work for us, and I’m really proud of her.”

The loss capped off NU’s 2021 campaign, a marked improvement from the pandemic-shortened 2020, when the Cats finished with a losing record of 11-12.

With seven starters guaranteed to return and senior second baseman Rachel Lewis likely using her additional year of eligibility, Drohan has reasons to be optimistic for next year.

“As women, as student-athletes, as college students, people in athletics, there are a lot of twists and turns to the year,” Drohan said. “I’m really proud of the way our team handled those moments.” nathanansell2022@u.northwestern.edu

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Northwestern kicked off its season in a near-empty Ryan Fieldhouse, capturing a 23-7 victory against Ohio State on Valentine’s Day. Fast forward three months, and much has changed: non-conference foes are now opponents, 80 degree temperatures are a constant in Evanston and fans are allowed in the stands at Lanny and Sharon Martin Stadium.

But one aspect of the season has stayed the same: the Wildcats’ undefeated record.

NU has had little trouble dispatching opponents. The Cats lead the country in scoring margin, winning their matchups by an average of 10.4 points. They also rank first in the country in scoring offense, draw controls per game and points per game.

One glance at the stat sheet is enough to prove this team’s talent. Yet, NU entered the NCAA Selection Show nervous.

Senior attacker Lauren Gilbert said the Cats were concerned about conferenceonly play affecting its write out and leading to a lower seed. Ultimately, NU ended up happy with its No. 2 seed and home field advantage for the opening two rounds.

“We knew that was what we deserved given our record, but we weren’t sure how things were going to shake out,” Gilbert said.

Forget RPI and forget conference-only play. It is beyond time to let go of any skepticism about the Cats’ 2021 season. This is not the team who lost in a blowout in the 2019 Final Four. This is not the team who kicked off 2020 4-3.

The 2021 NU team is entirely different.

Despite their undefeated season and phenomenal play, the Cats have faced doubt at the national level throughout 2021 given their Big Ten-only schedule.

Although it may have initially been difficult to compare NU to other teams playing non-conference opponents, that time has long passed. The Cats routed

all of their Big Ten opponents, many of whom were ranked nationally at one point or another.

While the Cats’ quest for the NCAA title fell short in 2019, many veteran players have only improved since then, and are poised to lead the team past the semifinal.

Junior attacker Izzy Scane has always been an offensive threat, scoring five goals in the team’s 2019 semifinal loss and putting up eight goals against the Tar Heels in 2020. She’s gotten even better in 2021, averaging a nation-leading 6.27 goals per game and is tied for the most goals in the country in 2021 with 94.

Scane is a star both in the program and on the national level. However, what may be most remarkable about this team is the depth that surrounds her.

The Cats have plenty of offensive firepower this year, led by veterans of the 2019 Final Four. Gilbert has scored 65 goals in 2021, good for seventh nationally in goals per game. Graduate student attacker Lindsey McKone has anchored NU’s offense for years, notching 25 goals in 2021.

The Cats’ newcomers are ready to support the team on the main stage in

the 2021 Final Four as well. Sophomore attacker Erin Coykendall ranks tenth in the nation in assists. Graduate student attacker Sammy Mueller, a transfer from Virginia, has played a key role for the Cats since she arrived in Evanston, scoring 37 in 2021.

NU’s depth on the draw has played an important role as well. Gilbert, McKone and senior midfielder Jill Girardi have all recorded 60 or more draws in 2021. Many teams rely on one main draw specialist, including Syracuse, who the Cats will face in the Final Four.

NU’s playing and coaching staff is well aware of the skepticism — and they have had enough. Coykendall said there was a lot of talk about the Big Ten’s scheduling and Coach Kelly Amonte Hiller called it “doubt.” Gilbert said the Big Ten as a whole wasn’t getting “as much credit as it deserves.” Whatever it is, it’s time for the skeptics to let go.

This NU team is not just good — they are uniquely phenomenal. And they are beyond ready to take on the Final Four. charlottevarnes2024@u.northwestern.edu

Kelsey Carroll/The Daily Northwestern

Sophomore attacker Erin Coykendall runs downfield. Coykendall ranks tenth in the nation with 44 assists in 2021.