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unionized workers, shared her story to an audience of 35 students.

Workers met for negotiations with Compass earlier in the day, after the company pulled out of its first agreed

Meet me at our spot, WILLOW — and that spot is Welsh-Ryan Arena on Oct. 9 for Blowout.

A&O Productions announced Monday that its annual Blowout will feature singer and songwriter Raveena as an opener followed by WILLOW as the headliner. The event will begin at 8 p.m., and tickets and transportation are free for Northwestern students.

Raveena is an R&B singer, producer and director. The daughter of Indian immigrants, Raveena ties her South Asian identity into her music, including through the title of her first EP, “Shanti.” Since then, she has released multiple singles and her debut album, “Lucid,” most recently dropping her single “Tweety” this year.

WILLOW, the 20-year-old daughter of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, has been working in the music industry for years. Mixing R&B, pop-punk and emo genres, WILLOW’s latest album “Lately I Feel Everything” blends introspective lyrics with ethereal melodies and features singers like Travis Barker and Avril Lavigne. WILLOW’s appearance at Blowout comes just two years after her brother, Jaden Smith, headlined the show.

A&O posted teasers of the artists with silhouettes on

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About 35 students gather in the University Christian Ministry and listen to Valentina Espinosa share her story after 17 years working at Northwestern. According to Espinosa, a strike is increasingly likely as the union’s demands go unheard by Compass Group.

As dining negotiations begin, strike looms NU worker discusses recent strike authorization by Compass workers at NU

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Valentina Espinosa just started her 17th year working as a housekeeper at

Northwestern’s James Allen Center, now subcontracted under Compass Group.

She is a single mother of a daughter who uses hearing aids and is in therapy, neither of which Medicaid covers. She makes $14.76 per hour. The health conditions Medicaid does cover will also

vanish once her daughter turns 18, and Espinosa does not receive health insurance through Compass.

In a Tuesday town hall hosted by University Christian Ministry and cosponsored by Students Organizing for Labor Rights, Espinosa, one of many

Human Services City responds to lakefront allegations talks affordability Councilmembers apologize for city’s handling of sexual harassment Subcommittee to address housing displacement

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Committee meeting Monday night.

The subcommittee’s intent is to offset the ongoing threat of gentrification to future and continued home ownership among residents, Burns said — particularly in the city’s historically Black 5th Ward.

Gentrification and housing accessibility in this area has been a hotly contested subject in community discussions and City Council public comment sessions during the last few weeks and months.

Most recently, the issues have engulfed discussions of a proposed Tax Increment Financing district which would divert property tax revenue

Mayor Daniel Biss and Ald. Bobby Burns (5th) proposed the creation of a Here To Stay subcommittee that would encourage housing retention in Evanston, especially in the 5th Ward.

The subcommittee would support a number of programs and policies geared toward more affordable home ownership. Burns explained the proposal at a Human Services » See HUMAN SERVICES, page 6

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than a year after more than 50 employees sent a petition to the city detailing allegations of abuse toward lakefront employees, who were primarily underage girls. A July WBEZ investigation made this information public, prompting the suspension of Head of Human Resources Jennifer Lin. The investigation contributed to the resignation of previous City Manager Erika Storlie and inspired backlash regarding Interim City Manager Kelley Gandurski’s appointment, given her alleged involvement in the investigation as well.

But many residents have continuously called for more

Mayor Daniel Biss read a formal apology Monday night on behalf of City Council regarding the city’s response to allegations of sexual harassment and abuse among lakefront staff.

“We are committed to preventing the sexism, sexual harassment, assault, racism and discrimination you experienced,” Biss said. “We apologize for workplace culture, the law of sexual harassment to occur, and we’re sorry that you had to experience oppressive, uncomfortable and dangerous behavior.”

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Mayor Daniel Biss. Biss read a formal apology Monday night addressing the city’s response to allegations of abuse among lakefront staff.

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Dawes Elementary hosts garden meet-and-greet

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The tomatoes, chives and peppers in Evanston’s oldest school garden received visitors Tuesday night as parents gathered at Dawes Elementary School to discuss the garden and learn how to stay engaged with future programming.

Lynn Hyndman founded the Dawes garden 17 years ago. At the time, she was a Dawes science lab teacher, and she said she was inspired by a teacher from Chute Middle School to create the space.

“I was really focused on using the outdoors as a classroom, feeling that we ought to take advantage of this wonderful resource we have where you can teach across the curriculum,” Hyndman said. “So the idea of gardening really excited me.”

Hyndman began writing curricula about implementing outdoors learning into the classroom. As time went on, she said teachers from other schools became interested. Now, there are 12 volunteerdriven gardens across Evanston/Skokie School District 65, as part of Schools are Gardening in Evanston.

These gardens teach children valuable lessons, said Dawes school garden coordinator Tabitha Bonilla. She guided parents through the garden on Tuesday, explaining how it’s organized into three sections: edible produce like mint and cucumbers, the pollinator garden which includes sunflowers and native plants like milkweed and aster.

After the garden tour, attendees and coordinators from across the district discussed funding.

Some garden coordinators noted the difficulty of increasing the garden budget, especially through

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The Dawes school garden sign stands in the middle of the garden as parents and coordinators toured around.

Parents gathered to learn about programming from garden coordinators.

receiving grants. Currently, the Dawes school garden is running on a $1,000 annual budget from the Parent-Teacher Association, according to Bonilla.

Most recently, funds were used to replace the plastic-raised produce beds with new, wooden ones.

Parents and coordinators also brainstormed strategies to encourage more community involvement. Dawes, among other District 65 gardens, has

donated produce to community fridges throughout Evanston this year.

SAGE committee member Jill Zifkin said COVID-19 opened up the gardens more to the community, rather than just to students.

“There’s a need for help and a need for food,” Zifkin said. “This is a great sort of combination between the school and the larger community. In

A 37-year-old Evanston resident died in a hitand-run crash on the North Side of Chicago early Sunday morning, according to Chicago police.

Janelle Gardiner was transported to Illinois Masonic Hospital from the scene of the crash around 3 a.m. Sunday, according to MigdaContent warning: This story contains mentions of lia Bulnes, deputy 1chief of the Chicago Police Nanouche Wilmette 10 09 21 DailyNorthwestern for print.pdf 9/30/21 7:03 PM Department Bureau of Detectives. Gardiner was gun violence and a car crash.

pronounced dead shortly after arriving.

Gardiner was a passenger in a Nissan Rogue driving on Irving Park Road on the way home from an Arlo Parks concert in the city when a Toyota Camry struck the Rogue.

Bulnes said that an on-duty K9 officer with the Chicago Police Department pursued the Camry westbound down Irving Park Road from Damen Avenue

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our time where food shortages are well known, now I’m hearing more and more of excess food being used, given away.”

Over the past few months, Bonilla also organized several cultural events. For Latinx Heritage Month, she hosted a salsa-making event using hot peppers grown from the garden. Other programming included language nights, in which attendees exclusively spoke in certain languages like Spanish, and a celebration of African American folk painter Horace Pippin with fish peppers named after him.

Dawes parent Nikki McDaid-Morgan also hosted a teaching of Indigenous agricultural practices, like the “Three Sisters” system in which squash, maize and beans are planted together.

Bonilla said she’s looking forward to continuing programming that will make the garden as inclusive and welcoming as possible.

“I think we have a unique responsibility to make sure that programming is representative of our school communities,” Bonilla said. “We’ve been using (the garden) as a space to go beyond the conversation about plants and the science behind the plants and hopefully make the space cross-cultural.”

Ultimately, Hyndman said the mission of SAGE is to “bring the classroom out into the garden and bring the garden back into the classroom.”

“Children, when they’re very young, are full of wonder and that so often is stamped out of them as they move through the school system. (School gardens can) capitalize on all their excitement and thrill about, not just growing the plants but the bees and the butterflies,” Hyndman said. “Build on that interest and their sense of wonder early on, and you’ve given them a gift for life.” sarahaie2024@u.northwestern.edu after seeing it exchange gunfire with a black sedan.

Chicago police have not arrested anyone in connection with the hit-and-run, which is currently under investigation. Bulnes said that those inside the Camry fled on foot, though a weapon was recovered from the car.

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Geography Prof. marks 50 years at NU

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Geography Prof. John Hudson is teaching the same geography course this quarter that he taught his first quarter at Northwestern — 50 years ago.

As the University’s only geography professor, Hudson single-handedly runs the adjunct geography major. NU incorporated its geography program into the anthropology department in 1987 after the subject fell out of fashion and several geography faculty left NU. After the department closed, Hudson took it upon himself to keep the geography program running.

He teaches five lecture courses every year, with topics ranging from “Chicago and Its Region” to “Principles of Cartography.”

An average of four to five geography majors and one to two minors graduate in each class, Hudson said.

“I’ve been very lucky... to have this small geography program, and I didn’t really need assistance in carrying it out,” he said. “Every year I’d think, ‘Well, I don’t know how long this is gonna last,’ but it has.”

Hudson said he doesn’t know of any geography faculty who have been at the University since before he began in 1971, and he has no immediate plans to retire. When he first started at NU, the University looked and felt very different: students were protesting the Vietnam War, the Lakefill was just “shrubbery” and Weber Arch was nonexistent, he said.

Hudson’s first year at NU was also the year the University established its affirmative action program.

“Every change that I can think of at Northwestern — in the student body, in the faculty — is simply a reflection of how society itself has changed,” Hudson said.

Before coming to NU, Hudson taught at University of California, Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. in geography from The University of Iowa and attended University of Wisconsin–Madison as an undergraduate.

Hudson said he discovered his passion for geography in college and decided he wanted to be a geography professor during the first week of his freshman year.

“I never had the slightest urge to waver from that decision,” he said.

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He initially specialized in quantitative geography, using mathematical models to study spatial phenomena. He then moved into historical geography, focusing on settlement, economic and demographic topics in the Great Plains.

No matter the topic, Hudson’s passion for the material and connections with his students shine through. Hudson said he still receives Christmas cards from students he had 50 years ago.

Tiffany Grobelski (Weinberg ‘06), a geography professor at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minn., took multiple classes with Hudson and had him as an adviser. She said Hudson is the reason she decided to pursue a career in geography, and he helped her win a Fulbright to study in Poland.

Grobelski said Hudson’s lectures sometimes felt like stand-up routines, and she remembers his class as “kind of a legend.”

“He would show photos and just tell all of these really funny stories about various people and places that he encountered on his travels,” Grobelski said. “It felt partially like you were in someone’s living room.”

The two are still in contact and get lunch together every year at a meeting of the American Association of Geographers. Other students have recounted unique experiences in his classes as well.

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Geography Prof. John Hudson. He is in his 50th year of teaching geography at Northwestern.

Weinberg junior Josh Ezrol has taken three classes with Hudson and plans on majoring in geography.

Ezrol said he remembers turning in an assignment for Hudson’s class at midnight and getting feedback on it before 11 a.m. the next day — the fastest grading he’d ever received from a professor.

“I’m thinking, ‘There’s no way he actually read 60 papers, graded them and put them in Canvas within 11 hours, eight of which he was probably asleep for,’” Ezrol said. “But then I read the comments and he had actually given me feedback on what I wrote. He commented on a joke I made.”

Hudson said it’s been a pleasure to teach at NU for 50 years. While the student body has changed over the years, he said NU students have consistently been rewarding to get to know.

Hudson was a Guggenheim Fellow during the 1988-89 academic year, the only time during his 50-year career at NU that he’s taken leave. Despite the opportunity, he said he missed the University so much that he came to campus during most of his time off.

“If you have a Guggenheim, you’re supposed to go on leave for heaven’s sake, but I really didn’t want to,” Hudson said. “I never tried to be gone for too long.”

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Block Museum exhibit reckons with colonial violence

By LAYA NEELAKANDAN

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Artist Sky Hopinka, a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation and a descendant of the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians, wanted to find a way to weave together the history of his family and the discrimination they faced into an artistic project.

“I wanted to make a piece about the origins of the boarding school system in the United States and the people who were prisoners there,” Hopinka said.

So, the artist put together a two-part video installation, which is currently on display at The Block Museum. The exhibition, called “Cloudless Blue Egress of Summer,” highlights Indigenous resistance and reckons with colonialism through the history of the country’s oldest fort, Fort Marion. The immersive thirteen-minute installation will be at The Block until Dec. 5 as part of the “Thinking about History with The Block’s Collection” initiative, marking the museum’s 40th

anniversary.

Hopinka has had his work featured in various festivals and exhibitions including Sundance Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival and the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival. He currently serves as the assistant professor in film production at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. “Cloudless Blue Egress of Summer” was a commission in St. Augustine, Fla., he said.

Fort Marion, now known as Castillo de San Marcos, was a prison for Indigenous peoples during the Seminole Wars in the 19th century.

Prison supervisor Richard Henry Pratt designed techniques to force the captives to assimilate and become “Americanized,” according to the exhibition website. The prison held Cheyenne, Kiowa, Comanche, Arapaho and Caddo Indian captives.

“The U.S. boarding school system that grew out of these experiments imposed a regime of compulsory assimilation on generations of Indigenous children, a practice of cultural genocide that intentionally divided families and deprived communities of their linguistic and cultural heritage,” the website reads.

Hopinka took his own footage of the fort,

combined with historical drawings from the prisoners, in “Cloudless Blue Egress of Summer.” The artist said it was important to him to tell the story of the Indigenous prisoners, though it took a lot of research and time to shoot the footage.

Michael Metzger, the exhibition’s curator, said he wanted to focus on “ways art can approach questions about history” through this exhibition and its accompanying exhibition, “Who Says, Who Shows, What Counts.” Metzger said he met Hopinka when he was a visiting artist at Northwestern in 2018 and knew immediately that he wanted to feature the artist’s work at The Block.

“I immediately recognized the relevance of this work to not only the historical theme driving our acquisition program at that point, but also how it presented many different opportunities that relate to our teaching mission as an institution,” Metzger said.

Metzger said although the initial plans were to install the exhibition in fall 2020, the timing was delayed due to COVID-19. But, he said, the installation “couldn’t have come at a more opportune time” because of the country’s reckoning with colonial violence.

Because the exhibition has only been open for

about two weeks, Metzger said he is excited to hear visitors’ feedback on the exhibition.

“We’ve seen over the last several months, particularly in Canada, reckoning with the boarding school system with the discoveries that have been made,” Metzger said. “Sky’s work really addresses many of these questions and themes, and it’s a really powerful moment to be presenting this at The Block and to be creating these conversations.”

Metzger said he is also excited to screen Hopinka’s feature film in November at The Block, which he said provides a counterpoint to “Cloudless Blue Egress of Summer.”

Ultimately, Hopinka said he hopes viewers of the exhibition will interpret his art in whatever way they choose.

“There’s a number of things an audience could get out of it, so I’ll leave that up to them to decide,” Hopinka said. “(The title) comes from a line of a poem I wrote called ‘Perfidia,’ which relates to colonial history and Indigenous memory and being present in spite of those traumas, or maybe because of them.” laya@u.northwestern.edu

New exhibit honors Block Museum’s 40th anniversary

By ALEXA CROWDER

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In 1990, artist Louise Lawler released “Who Says, Who Shows, Who Counts,” an exhibit of three wine glasses etched with the titular phrases commenting on exclusion and gatekeeping in the art world.

In honor of its 40th anniversary, The Block Museum opened an exhibition this fall inspired by and named after Lawler’s work. Composed entirely of works in the museum’s collection, “Who Says, Who Shows, What Counts” questions art’s relationship with history.

One of the first decisions co-curators Kate Hadley Toftness and Essi Rönkkö made to organize the exhibition was to take a step back. As curators, they

wanted the exhibition to speak for itself.

“We really wanted to think about decentering the curatorial voice and look to the artistic strategies that artists have used to question the ways that narratives of the past are told,” said Rönkkö, the associate curator of collections at The Block.

Curators would usually author the explanatory labels in the galleries. But in line with the curators’ goal, a group of Northwestern students, alumni, faculty and staff wrote descriptions for each piece in the gallery.

The majority of works in the exhibition were created by people of color, according to History Prof.

Sarah Maza, who offered a contextual introduction at the Wednesday opening keynote. Many of these artists’ works challenge white, mainstream historical narratives.

For his drawing “Of White Bread and Miracles (Gett’n Down),” Chris Pappan, an artist of Kaw,

Osage, and Cheyenne River Sioux heritage, repurposed a racist image of an appropriated Native American dance ritual originally published in a Boy Scout manual. He superimposed the drawing over a historical municipal ledger of Evanston, replicating a traditional artistic practice of Plains tribes.

“Our culture is not stagnant. Our culture is not kept in the past,” Pappan said during the roundtable portion of the keynote. “We continue to innovate. We continue to make our work relevant, and we continue to make our work a symbol of who we are today.”

Tonika Lewis Johnson, a Black artist known for her Folded Map Project, spoke in conversation with Pappan about her piece, “6329 S. Paulina and 6330 N. Paulina.” Part of a series of similar photographs, the two pictures depict the residences at corresponding addresses on the North and South Sides of Chicago, illustrating racial and economic disparities.

“Racism is literally built into our urban environment,” Johnson said in the roundtable. “In my work, I tend to focus on how that impacts us today.”

Given that one of the exhibition’s four sub-themes is “critiquing institutions,” some pushback on the concept and habits of museums themselves, including The Block, is inevitable.

Andrea Carlson, an Anishinaabe artist, called museums an “arm of colonization.” It follows then that the inclusion of Native American contemporary art in museums is a radical act, she said in the keynote roundtable.

“Institutions are made of the people who run them, and collections are moral archives,” Carlson said.

“Whenever a museum does an exhibition from its own collection, it seems to be a self-portrait of itself.” alexacrowder2024@u.northwestern.edu

‘Merrily We Roll Along’ tapped for 79th Dolphin Show

By LAYA NEELAKANDAN

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On Friday, The Dolphin Show announced the selection for its 79th annual production: “Merrily We Roll Along.” The show will premiere in January 2022 and is produced by Communication seniors Simran Deokule and Owen Kiley and directed by

Nora Geffen.

The producers said they are excited to work on the show because of the message it brings across.

“It is such a moving show that, at its core, reminds us to cherish the relationships we are forging as college students, and to hold onto this unique form of love and support for the rest of our lives,” they said in an email to The Daily.

“Merrily We Roll Along” will mark The Dolphin Show’s official return to the in-person stage in over a

year, following its reorganization prompted by institutional issues. The disagreements resulted in multiple resignations and internal rearrangements to foster inclusivity.

The directors said the organization has focused on increasing accessibility and diversity and incorporating audience immersion into the show. “‘Merrily’ is about the people we meet at 20 and their impact on who we become and how we move through the world as we ‘grow up,’” Geffen said. “This

year, being able to bring Dolphin back into Cahn, we’re excited to put the focus in our process on fostering those connections and asking how we can show up for each other in ways that the characters in ‘Merrily’ often fail to do.”

The Stephen Sondheim musical will be performed from Jan. 21-23 and Jan. 28-29 in Cahn Auditorium at 600 Emerson St. laya@u.northwestern.edu

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Olivia Reis makes on-screen debut in ‘Only Murders’

By RAYNA SONG

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Most Northwestern students don’t start their last year at the University by seeing themselves on the small screen, but Communication senior Olivia Reis has had a different experience. She portrays Zoe Cassidy on “Only Murders in the Building,” a Hulu series starring Selena Gomez and Steve Martin. The mystery series features flashbacks of Cassidy’s life leading up to her murder, which took place years before the show’s timeline. Although Reis has acted on stage before, this was her first time on screen. The Daily asked Reis about her experience on the show, advice for her peers and how NU prepared her for this milestone in her career.

This interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.

The Daily: Is it fair to describe the series as revolving around three people brought together by their love for crime podcasts and a murder?

Reis: That’s a pretty accurate description. I’d emphasize the nature of the show as driven by the

idea of these people finding each other over a shared passion, and that passion leading them into meaningful relationships with each other. Steve Martin’s character is someone who has been alone for a long time. It’s a lot of fun to see a character like that beginning to open up while coping with Martin Short (Oliver) and Selena Gomez (Mabel).

The Daily: What’s your interpretation of your character, Zoe Cassidy?

Reis: Zoe is a girl who has always had everything. Her parents (are very wealthy). She’s so rich that stealing is the only way that she can feel like she’s earning anything, because she’s not making her own money.

I think her parents have also not given her as much attention as she’d like, so she ended up in this kind of more ragtag group with Mabel and the others.

The Daily: What is your favorite part about the series?

Reis: (The show is) really not afraid to lean into some of the darker moments. I think it has done a really good job of mixing tragedy, mystery and comedy, which led to some really interesting material, especially with point-of-view episodes, as we see in episode seven, which plays from Theo’s point of view.

The Daily: The majority of episode seven is in American Sign Language, since Theo is deaf, and the character Zoe also knows sign language. What was your experience acting in this episode?

Reis: I was really excited when I learned that episode seven, which I’d been told I was going to play a bigger part in, was going to be in ASL. I was really excited to learn the lines and practice with the interpreter. And then once we got to set, I saw there were certain technical things that I was learning along the way. You don’t look at someone’s hands when you’re talking to them. Conducting an episode

entirely in ASL is not something I personally have ever seen before on TV, so it’s very exciting to see this on such a major network, because it opens the door for more inclusive media.

The Daily: How did NU theater prepare you for “Only Murders in the Building”?

Reis: Student theater has a feeling of camaraderie, which I was very pleased to find reflected in “Only Murders in the Building” cast and production crew.

And we’re all in this together, which might have been emphasized by the fact that we were in the pandemic and filming this.

The Daily: Do you have any advice for NU theater students?

Reis: I would tell them to be informed by all of the classes they’re taking and the experiences they’re having. Allow all of that to inform the work they’re doing in their acting or playwriting or directing, because so often these life experiences change our voice or our perspective as artists.

FALL INTO ART

Evanston Made, a nonprofit organization supporting Evanston artists, hosted a Fall Studio Tour highlighting the work of over 50 artists. Various studios around town opened their doors to the public on Saturday and Sunday, showcasing a plethora

of art mediums, including sculpture, painting, drawing and film.

One of this weekend’s open studios was home to pottery artist Liz Cramer. Whether she’s making vases or coffee mugs, Cramer has come to cherish the practicality of her art in

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day-to-day life. Cramer is co-director of Evanston Made and reflects on how the collective of the city’s creatives has become a support system for so many.

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date the previous Friday. The employees, represented by UNITE HERE Local 1, continued to pressure Compass for a variety of workers’ rights, including a living wage of $19.88 and guaranteed health insurance, Espinosa said. Almost two weeks earlier, 95% of workers authorized a strike as a strategy should Compass continue failing to meet their needs.

As negotiations continue, Espinosa said the prospect of a picket line becomes more and more material, and almost inevitable, especially as the workers feel they are not gaining traction with Compass. “(Espinosa) also wants to thank us for the support that we’ve given so far,” a student translating for Espinosa said. “She’s almost certain that ultimately they will have to strike.”

In addition to workers losing their wages and risking their employment status, students might also be directly impacted by a strike.

SOLR member and SESP junior Neva Legallet is concerned that the University may not reimburse students should campus dining options close during a strike.

However, Espinosa emphasized that she and the other workers care deeply about the students, and that simple gestures like greeting employees and asking about their day shows valued support.

“When you’re going to dining halls, telling workers that you’re on their side and you support them is so important,” Legallet said.

The ministry partnered with SOLR and UNITE HERE Local 1 when the workers voted to strike, offering to support them by hosting gatherings because their building is not technically on University grounds.

Town hall moderator Jordan Muhammad said while the ministry is an explicitly Christian organization, its support of labor rights is an example of bridging gaps between specialinterest groups on campus.

“We need to be a community and we need to be engaged, especially in issues that really matter to everyone,” the Communication sophomore said. “I do hope that other organizations can see their subjects and roles as porous, especially to issues that are so important.”

Espinosa said the actions and dedication of the students are pivotal to achieving long-overdue needs for the campus worker community.

In her closing statements, she thanked those in the crowd for their attendance, and shared how hard it was to recount her personal experience. “(Achieving our goals is) very important for this because we have to set down measures for the company: we are strong,” Espinosa said.

“We are people. We are human beings that need more.”

action, including an apology from councilmembers. In the past, Ald. Cicely Fleming (9th) said a formal apology was prevented by the city’s corporate legal response, though Ald. Devon Reid (8th) publicly apologized at the July 26 City Council meeting.

The apology came during a special session of City Council and the memorandum preceding the meeting did not list it as its own agenda item, meaning the public did not know it would be read. There was a lack of resident response to the apology in public comment.

Biss addressed how the apology’s delay may have had its own impact on survivors.

“When you showed the courage to come forward, you were not treated with the compassion and respect you deserved,” Biss read from the

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in the 5th Ward for the next 23 years.

“We all, as elected officials and community members, would not like to see people displaced and want to find ways to keep people here,” Burns said. “But the barriers to staying in Evanston, when considering the cost of living here, (are) hard to navigate.”

The subcommittee would seek to preserve naturally occurring affordable housing in the city by supporting current owners, providing the funds necessary to maintain home repairs and navigate property tax hikes, according to Burns.

The group would also continuously scan for any affordable housing units at risk of bankruptcy in order to purchase them before they enter the real estate market, preventing developers from repurposing the land.

It would also devote time and resources to finding locations in Evanston that are already mostly dedicated to housing, as opposed to commercial land or nature, where vacant properties could be delegated as affordable housing projects funded by the city. Attempts to build these projects from scratch in less dense areas, sometimes in the form of larger multi-family homes, have been historically opposed by neighbors, Burns said. Vacant properties also pose their own challenges without some party clearly responsible for funding repairs.

The subcommittee would also encourage first-time home ownership in Evanston by establishing funds for other parts of the housing process beyond rent, like down payments, student loan forgiveness or home repairs. Ald. Peter Braithwaite (2nd) said prioritizing affordable home ownership resources for residents is extremely important. But he would like to see the committee focus on attracting new residents as well, including new families and employees at Northwestern.

apology. “As these incidents have come to our attention, residents understandably have lost some faith in the ability of their government officials to handle delicate and serious situations. We take responsibility for the situation, and we’ll do everything in our power to right the wrongs moving forward.”

At the council’s Sept. 20 meeting, in which Gandurski was eventually confirmed as interim city manager, Evanston residents expressed anger regarding the lack of a formal city response.

“Mayor Biss, the silence is deafening,” resident Trisha Connolly said during public comment at the Sept. 20 meeting. “How much longer are we going to wait for this minimal request for an apology from the city of Evanston for the dismissive treatment of those who were harmed while employed at the beach?”

The city’s apology concluded with a series of steps for officials to confront the culture of sexual “Attracting new people is something you should pay attention to if building a strong community is the root goal of what you’re trying to do,” Braithewaite said.

The proposal, which will move to City Council for debate in the coming weeks, coincides with the ending of the Illinois eviction moratorium. In response, Burns posed a new policy meant to handle the wave of evictions which he expects to see in the coming weeks.

Burns recommended that landlords be required to provide the city health and human services department with 30 days’ notice if they were planning to evict a tenant. Since the moratorium’s end, same-day evictions have already become a problem in the 5th Ward and other areas, he said.

“There’s not much that I can do, that our health department can do and that our community partners can do when it’s a same-day emergency situation,” Burns said. “So my thought was, what policy could we create to identify these evictions earlier so that we as a city…can create a plan for these individuals?”

Neither the subcommittee nor the policies will be put into place at this time. First, they’ll move to City Council for discussion, then for action, meaning a final decision on all proposals involved in the Here To Stay subcommittee is still weeks away.

Ald. Cicely Fleming (9th) urged committee members to bring any input on further affordable housing policy ideas to Director of Health and Human Services Ike Ogbo, in order to make the policy as strong as possible by the time it gets to residents.

“People are not going to eviction court right away because they’re backed up already, so that still gives us some time,” Fleming said. “(Committee members) have to make something that’s going to work.”

harassment. This includes implementing mandatory sexual harassment prevention training for seasonal staff, participants and employees in the mayor’s summer youth employment program.

The city has also commissioned an independent investigation into the government’s response.

The apology states that the city will share investigation outcomes with the public while protecting the identities of survivors.

After he finished reading the statement, Biss personally thanked Ald. Jonathan Nieuwsma (4th) for his role in shepherding the statement through the hands of councilmembers. Biss also acknowledged Reid, who initially spurred the council to take this action.

“I want to be very, very, very clear that this letter is not an end by any means of our commitment nor of our intended action,” Biss said. jorjasiemons2024@u.northwestern.edu

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Yik Yak is back: Popular app returns to NU’s campus

By JOSHUA PERRY

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And you thought you’d yikked your last yak.

After a four-year pause, the social media app Yik Yak is back. Is it here to stay? Particularly popular on school campuses, Yik Yak lets users create short, anonymous posts visible only to those within a 5-mile radius. Originally launched in 2013, Yik Yak shut down in 2017 following instances of cyberbullying and harassment. But in August, Yik Yak relaunched and returned to the App Store, and students at Northwestern are posting once more.

Yik Yaks often range in form and content, but they tend to share a unique sense of humor.

“Gonna go eat an apple in the quiet section of (Mudd Library) just to feel something.”

“Heard a white straight guy didn’t major in Econ so they neutered him.”

“The football players’ moped speed should be proportional to how many games they win.”

Communication freshman Jeff Snedegar downloaded Yik Yak just after he arrived on campus.

He said its sense of confidentiality and freedom sets the app apart from competitors like Twitter or Instagram.

“It’s entirely anonymous, so students can be as filthy or vulgar as they want and they know this isn’t gonna be traced back,” Snedegar said.

“It’s a fun time.”

Yik Yak’s content mixes crude humor, clever quips and inside jokes based on the NU community’s shared experiences, according to Snedegar.

That sense of camaraderie is part of what has made it so popular here, he said.

NU to provide $2,000 in pandemic-era relief for each eligible student Northwestern will distribute more than $15 million in federal aid to over 7,500 students for pandemic-related costs, according to a Tuesday news release.

Students are eligible for the fund if they fit

The Yik Yak logo is pasted over a woman’s face with the caption, “I bet you thought you’d seen the last of me.”

Communication junior Maggie Grond downloaded the app less than a week ago. She said the way everyone on Yik Yak is prepared to share their deepest thoughts and yearnings has taken her aback.

While she can see it being popular for a while in specific social circles on campus, Grond said she doesn’t have much faith Yik Yak will really take off at NU. “I think it’s just a trend,” Grond said. “I don’t think it has the same draw that something like TikTok or Twitter does. It’s gonna be a couple of months, maybe, and people are gonna get sick of it.”

Weinberg sophomore Aviva Kaplan downloaded the app earlier in the quarter because she noticed it was taking off at other schools. She said she appreciates how rapid-fire and accessible its content can be.

At the same time, Kaplan said she’s not sure whether anonymity policies are healthy for students.

“It can definitely be problematic,” Kaplan said.

“I also could see there being a good side to it at all but, honestly, I don’t know how supportive it is to people’s mental health.”

Grond said the anonymity and mystique of Yik Yak make it a little thrilling to use, and she can see how the app’s secrecy and privacy would appeal to students at NU. But she doesn’t see herself getting any more engaged with the app in the future.

Snedegar also questions Yik Yak’s longevity.

For him, whether or not the app is here to stay comes down to chance.

“I could see people really trying to be creative on Yik Yak for another week or two, but then into one of the following categories: currently enrolled undergraduate students who received need-based aid this academic year, Ph.D. students, DMA students or full-time MFA students.

Qualifying students will receive a one-time payment of $2,000, which they can use for costs related to COVID-19 including tuition, food, housing, health care and childcare. The University will send eligible students details regarding the distribution of the funds later this week, the release said.

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Yik Yak, the anonymous gossip app. Popular on college campuses, relaunched this summer and is gaining the attention of students.

when midterms roll around, everybody just kind of loses it,” Snedegar said. “But I don’t know — people still use Instagram and Twitter, and those

are stuck around. Maybe Yik Yak will, too.”

The money comes from the federal Higher Education Emergency Relief Funds, which provides aid in response to the pandemic.

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“The challenges facing our students during the pandemic have been substantial, and we are very proud of the resilience of our graduate

community of scholars,” Kelly Mayo, dean of The Graduate School and associate provost for graduate education, said in the release. “We hope this financial assistance will help ease some of the pressures facing these advanced-degree students as they continue to make extraordinary progress along their academic journeys under the difficult circumstances wrought by the pandemic.”

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NU splits pair of weekend games, remains optimistic

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Northwestern redshirt junior forward Bente Baekers ended her conference season scoring drought by securing a goal and assist in College Park, Md., giving the Wildcats a 3-1 win.

After surrendering a 2-1 loss to Rutgers at a Sept. 24 home game, NU needed a reset. The team worked on shooting miscues and penalty corner mistakes before battling one of the top competitors in the conference in Maryland. With the Cats heading into their first away matchup against the Terrapins in two years, the stakes were high.

But NU dominated.

The Cats (9-3, 1-2 Big Ten) successfully defeated No. 7 Maryland (7-4,1-3), controlling the pace of the game, attacking the cage each quarter, after the first, and scoring a goal. The offensive dominance was a team effort. Along with Baekers, sophomore midfielder Maddie Zimmer and graduate student forward Clara Roth scored.

“We’re pretty strong (in the offensive zone),” coach Tracey Fuchs said. “We had some great chances at Maryland.”

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To complement her signature reverse backhanded goal, Baekers played a critical role in the offensive zone, continuing her momentum from a successful 2020 campaign.

Fuchs added that Baekers’ versatility inside the circle gives the squad an offensive weapon.

Heading into Sunday’s square off against Penn State, Baekers found the cage again, scoring the lone goal for the Cats. Although NU fell short in overtime, Fuchs said there was a plethora of shooting opportunities.

“We weren’t able to capitalize at Penn State,” Fuchs said. “We had 11 corners and lots of chances. The good thing is we were able to stay in the game, tie it up late and get into overtime.”

The redshirt junior’s goal forced the Cats into overtime, saving the game in the remaining two minutes.

But after getting outshot by the Nittany Lions 17-15, NU slipped up in double overtime, dropping another nail biting 2-1 loss in conference play.

Despite splitting the weekend, Fuchs remained optimistic about the Cats’ upcoming game in Ann Arbor, Mi., facing the No. 2 Wolverines.

Another tough matchup, Michigan was crowned 2020 Big Ten Champions and 2020 NCAA finalist this spring.

With an entire week before the

contest, Fuchs said recovery and practice are two components the Cats will focus on in preparation.

She also felt shooting accuracy was an area NU still needed to work on due to the amount of shots missed in the past game.

NU split its series with the Wolverines last season, going 1-1 on the road. A win over the top tiered program is something Fuchs and the team want and would make a statement of NU’s intentions to return to the NCAA tournament.

Although the upcoming battle appears challenging, Fuchs said she has extreme faith in her team to come out victorious if they excel in shooting, defensive tackles and penalty corners — areas the Cats struggled with against Penn State.

Just a few games into the regular season, NU stands in the middle of the conference. Big wins against top teams in the division could give the squad the momentum needed to earn a high seed in the Big Ten Tournament and claim their spot in postseason play.

“Michigan is obviously undefeated, so this game is gonna (test us),” Fuchs said. “They’re fast and solid in every position but I think we’ll be up for the task.” skyeswann2024@u.northwestern.edu

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Cats fail against top Northwestern tops Ohio State teams in South Bend

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Northwestern fell short in its race to victory against some of the nation’s top teams at Friday’s Joe Piane Invitational, finishing 24th in a field of 25 teams and last among all Big Ten programs.

The Wildcats faced 12 of the top 29 teams in the country as well as four other Big Ten programs on South Bend’s Burke Golf Course. The performance moved NU down two slots from No. 5 to No. 7 in the Midwest region.

Coach Jill Miller said she felt the race was the most competitive meet that her athletes had faced in their college careers, and was also an important learning moment.

“What we saw was a huge inexperience with competition of that level,” Miller said. “With that said, I’m grateful for the experience because we will have to learn how to manage that sort of environment if we’d like to compete at a national championship.”

Senior Rachel McCardell led the NU runners, finishing 13th in a field of nearly 200 competitors with a time of 16:33.3. McCardell said her result was “exciting” and “validating,” adding that she wants to approach the rest of the season with the “same type of energy.”

Miller said she was proud of McCardell’s resilience during the latter half of the race, and believes that she has a “huge margin of growth” still ahead of her this season.

Behind McCardell, junior Kalea Bartolotto finished second for the Cats with a time of 17:26.6. Following her, graduate student Lotte Van der Pol, freshman Abbie Draheim and freshman Amanda Mosborg rounded out the scoring for NU, contributing to a final score of 556.

Bartolotto said the Cats’ performance did not fully represent their

abilities. The team was “unprepared” for the difficulty of their competition and the challenging course, she said.

“It was not a testament to our fitness,” Bartolotto said. “We can perform better than that, we can do better than that, we can run a lot faster than that.”

Friday’s race took place on a flat, narrow golf course. This was a significant change from NU’s previous races this season, which both had fields of less than 15 teams and on hilly, wide courses.

McCardell said the team was surprised by the style of race because it had been a long time since the Cats competed in that sort of setting, but the team learned from the experience.

Miller agreed, adding that it was a “great experience” despite the difficulties NU faced.

“No matter how much time we spend on visualization of race environments, until you’ve been in one like that, it can be really challenging to manage,” Miller said. “It was certainly a shock to the system in terms of course setup, which was very flat, very fast, very narrow — not a typical cross country course.”

The Cats also faced a challenging test from Big Ten foes, competing against Purdue, Indiana, Illinois and Minnesota. Among these programs, Purdue and Indiana finished closest to the Cats, taking 18th and 17th place respectively.

Miller said she doesn’t want Friday’s result to change the team’s hopes for the Big Ten Championship later this month.

While the race was difficult, she didn’t feel it should be a catalyst to completely reexamine the team’s progress.

“Training is going really well and energy is in an incredible place,” Miller said. “There are so many things this team is doing well right now. I don’t think it’s time to say, ‘Stop in our tracks. We have to figure out a new way forward.’ ” charlottevarnes2024@u.northwestern.edu

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Northwestern and Ohio State found themselves stuck at 0-0 for most of Sunday’s rainy match. With a strong defensive battle on both sides of the ball, the game stayed scoreless until sophomore forward Justin Weiss broke the tie in the 85th minute.

The sophomore received the pass from senior forward Jose Del Valle and then made the most of the opportunity. Weiss’ bottom left kick cleared OSU’s goalie Keagan McLaughlin’s dive, giving Weiss his fifth goal of the season. He now has the most points (12) in the Big Ten and is tied for first in goals.

“It’s a whole team effort,” Weiss said. “It started from the defensive pressure, to Jose touching the ball forward, seeing me through, playing me a beautifully weighted ball. I just had to do the easy job and put it in the back of the net.”

The late goal was too much for Ohio State to overcome, awarding NU (4-5-2, 1-3-0 Big Ten) its second straight victory and first Big Ten win under coach Russell Payne this season.

NU’s victory didn’t come easily, though, as OSU (4-5-1, 0-2-0) applied pressure on offense up until the 90th minute. During period one’s scoreless half, the Buckeyes consistently attacked the Cats’ defense. Compared to NU’s one-shot attempt, Ohio State tested Cats’ graduate goalie Miha Miskovic with six shots, including two on goal.

OSU doubled its shots in period two, finishing with 18 to NU’s six. But even after tripling the Cats’ count, the Buckeyes couldn’t capitalize on their looks.

“A big thing coach (Payne) stresses to us is that it is a 90-minute game,” Weiss said. “If you stay consistent throughout the game and finish the chances you need, it doesn’t matter how many shots the other team has. It

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Junior midfielder Vicente Castro fights for ball and position against Ohio State defender. Northwestern picked up its first conference win of the season versus the Buckeyes, 1-0.

matters who puts the ball in the back of the net.”

Losing the shot battle has been a recurring theme for the Cats’ all year, as opponents have outshot NU in nine of 11 matches this season.

However, the Cats have found a way to win four of those 11 matches — a testament to the team’s ability to play with strong, consistent defense.

On top of not allowing a single goal in this match, Miskovic captured six saves in the contest, one shy of his career-best. Miskovic is tied for second in the Big Ten with his shutout record (three) and has given up the third least goals in the conference (seven).

“It was great to step up for the guys,” Miskovic said. “They did the work up top and we were able to get the win. It’s one game we won today, and we will focus on Maryland.”

Heading back on the road, the Cats

will travel to College Park to face on Friday what coach Payne called a “high-powered offense.” The Terrapins enter with one of the best attack units in the conference, ranking second in the Big Ten for goals (16) and taking the most shots with 145.

With Maryland standing at the top of the conference with a 7-2-1 record, NU will have its hands full dealing with the Terrapins’ electric offense.

However, the defense isn’t as sturdy as the squad’s offense, averaging the least amount of saves per game (2.73) in the conference.

“If we can limit the gifts we give at times and make teams really beat us in those moments, then we’ll be in games,” Payne said. “The guys are getting used to believing that we step across the white line to win every game.” lawrenceprice2024@u.northwestern.edu