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Here’s how to donate blood in Evanston

‘THE BLACK HOUSE IS BACK’

Residents, officials talk donating in a national shortage

By AVIVA BECHKY

the daily northwestern @avivabechky

Evanston resident Mike Kegler gave blood for the first time at a high school drive. Now, years later, he has turned blood donation into a habit, making appointments at Evanston Hospital every 10 weeks.

“You might be saving somebody’s life,” Kegler said. “It’s a small inconvenience, a small discomfort, for a potentially very large payoff.”

As the nation faces a blood shortage, prospective donors from Evanston have two local options: they can donate at Vitalant, which supplies blood to hospitals locally and nationwide, or at Evanston Hospital, which supplies blood to hospitals in the NorthShore University HealthSystem.

Hospitals canceled or postponed many elective surgeries at the beginning of the pandemic.

Now, those surgeries are happening again.

“In the last few months, the demand has shot way back up from the hospitals, but the donations are

» See DONATE, page 10

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After over two years of renovations, alumni, faculty and students celebrate the reopening of NU’s dedicated on-campus space for Black students

By MAIA PANDEY

daily senior staffer @maiapandey

In 1968, Herman Cage (Weinberg ’69, Kellogg ’73) protested with more than 100 other Northwestern students, calling for a dedicated space for Black students on campus. When the Black House was finally established, Cage said it was the first time he felt NU was

addressing his “fears, loneliness and isolation” as a student.

Cage stood on the porch of 1914 Sheridan Rd. Friday and declared to more than 300 cheering NU community members that, after two years of renovation, “The Black House is back.”

Friday’s rededication ceremony opened with speeches from alumni, faculty and administrators, followed by a ribboncutting and reception. Several

rows of seats on the lawn were reserved for members of the B100 — the group of students, including Cage, that participated in the landmark 1968 Bursar’s Office Takeover.

“The same space, the sacred space, that refuge is now available, whether you are an incoming freshman for the class of 2025 or you are a fifty-year alumni,” Cage said. “It’s yours and it’s our legacy to future generations.”

“Historical truth-telling”

After its initial closure for renovation in June 2019, the Black House reopened more than a year behind schedule due to pandemicrelated delays. But the renovation has been in the works for much longer. Development on the changes began in 2016, after students protested University plans to move administrative offices into the Black

» See BLACK HOUSE, page 10

Cinnaholic adds an Evanston store IFC extends ban Vegan cinnamon roll chain offers up sweet and savory treats for residents

By KHADIJA AHMED

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With 18 frosting flavors, 25 topping choices and a 100% vegan menu, the possibilities are plentiful at Cinnaholic Evanston.

Phillip Morales co-owns the Evanston location of the franchise along with his mother and cousin. After building on the success of their first location in Schaumburg, the management hopes to make a place for itself in Evanston after its Aug. 6 opening.

The Cinnaholic chain appeared on “Shark Tank” in 2014, where the idea for vegan cinnamon rolls caught the judges’ attention. While the co-founders did not ultimately take the offer they received on the show, the chain now includes dozens of locations nationwide and in Canada, with more set to open this winter.

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Some Northwestern students are already familiar with Cinnaholic from its Sept. 14 appearance on North Area Lawn, when the shop gave free samples to students.

Weinberg freshman Monica Jones said she waited in line for over an hour to secure a cinnamon bun.

“We got there right when it started and there was still a pretty long line,” Jones said.

“I’m not normally super interested in cinnamon buns, but that one was pretty good. Also, the frosting was really good, which was surprising because I really don’t like frosting, but it was a nice sweetness.”

The shop also wants to sweeten the deal for NU students by giving them a 20% Wildcard discount.

Morales has his own personal favorites from the store, including the banana cream pie version of the cinnamon roll.

» See CINNAHOLIC, page 10

on social events Recruitment ban also extended to at least Nov. 7

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Cinnaholic treats sit on the table. Cinnaholic participated in Big Bite Night earlier this month, offering free samples of its cinnamon rolls and cookie dough..

Northwestern’s Interfraternity Council extended its ban on chapter-sponsored social events until at least Jan. 3, 2022, the first day of Winter Quarter, the organization announced Friday.

IFC also extended its suspension on recruitment activities until at least Nov. 7. The organization and the University will review the recruitment suspension on Nov. 1 and decide whether to shorten or extend it.

The social ban applies to events with or without alcohol present, both onoff-campus. Chapters can still engage in alcohol-free education, philanthropy and member development programs after gaining approval from IFC and Fraternity and

Sorority Life.

The new policy builds upon an existing ban on IFC social events and chapter-sponsored recruitment events the University and IFC put in place from Sept.

25 to Oct. 17. Days after the University announced the initial ban in a University Police crime notice, students protested outside the SAE and AEPi houses, advocating for the permanent eradication of Greek life.

IFC President Nick Papandreou said the new policy, which the council passed unanimously, is the result of discussions between IFC and FSL. If a chapter violates the ban, it will be required to pay a $1,000 fine and moved to associate status for the following quarter, resulting in the loss of its ability to vote in IFC matters.

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MONDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2021

AROUND TOWN

Restaurant trivia nights gain popularity in Evanston

By NATALIE WU

daily senior staffer @_nataliewu_

Stop by Stacked & Folded Social House on a Thursday night and you’ll see the restaurant packed with students crowded around for one thing: trivia.

At the center of the chaos are Weinberg senior Willa Burnett and DePaul student Henry Maltezos, who host the game every Thursday at 7 p.m. Stacked & Folded began hosting themed trivia nights about a month ago and the event has only been getting bigger, according to Burnett. She first came up with the idea with another server after witnessing the popularity of trivia at Bob’s Pizza.

“There’s such a huge market for it, obviously, and people just want stuff to do after COVID,” Burnett said.

Though Bob’s may have claimed the trivia scene in the past few months, Stacked & Folded is not quite the same.

Every Thursday, the questions center around a different theme. This past week was 2000s themed, and the week before included movie trivia.

“I think the themes have really helped us to differentiate from other trivia places because we try to keep the questions different every time,” Burnett said.

The event lasts about an hour and includes a halftime mini-game. Seating starts at 6:30 p.m. and winners get their meal, except alcohol, paid for, Burnett said.

The questions themselves target a college-aged crowd. Burnett said she works with Maltezos for a

City Council to discuss allocation of relief funds to CARP policy goals Ahead of Monday’s City Council meeting and with a potential heap of federal pandemic relief funding on the table, Evanston’s environmental advocacy task force discussed Wednesday how to allocate budget dollars earmarked for economic recovery toward local environmental justice goals.

Evanston’s Climate Action and Resilience Plan

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Henry Maltezos and Willa Burnett tally trivia answers in between rounds. Stacked & Folded hosts themed trivia nights every Thursday.

couple hours each week to research and come up with next week’s questions.

“I wanted to make one where I could ask more pop culture questions, which would be kind of fun,” Burnett said. “I thought that was a hole that was missing.”

So far, Burnett said the trivia nights have been a great success. She added that students from Evanston Township High School, Northwestern and even DePaul come for trivia.

Resident Will Pingry said he first heard about the trivia nights through a text from Maltezos, and has since gone to three. His team, “FC crystal palace,” was Thursday’s defending champion after winning movie night the week before.

“We just decided to go one day and had a blast, so we kept coming back,” Pingry said.

The trivia nights have also been huge for business, Stacked & Folded’s General Manager Chris Rimer said.

aims for the city to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. The CARP Implementation Task Force is in charge of implementing broad policy plans to help the city achieve this goal.

Advocates have expressed concern that CARP lacks the funding necessary to stay on track. The city’s proposed 2022 budget represents an increase of nearly $60 million over 2021’s budget, most of which will come from the American Rescue Plan Act. The task force proposed at last week’s council that $5 million in ARPA funding should go toward CARP-centered projects over the next five years. But the federal government does not recognize CARP initiatives as a preset category for ARPA fund use.

Interim City Manager Kelley Gandurski recommended implementing CARP projects within existing ARPA categories, rather than allocating the money directly.

The task force discussed eligible projects for the fund, which include improving stormwater systems.

Board member Joel Freeman said that is particularly important to Evanston neighborhoods with a high concentration of affordable housing.

ARPA will fund a broad list of environmentalrelated projects when they pertain to Qualified Census Tracts. Those tracts are areas where 50% of households have incomes below 60% of the Area Median Gross Income or have a poverty rate of at

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Even before COVID-19 limited in-person events, Rimer said Stacked & Folded had trouble “attracting the college crowd.” But this year, an increasing number of students have been coming in to try the restaurant.

“It’s a different vibe,” Rimer said. “It’s a completely different energy around here than it was even before the pandemic.”

Rimer said the unexpected popularity of trivia nights impacts guests who order takeout or come for a more traditional meal. But he called every week a “learning process” and said he hopes increasing staffing will help.

In fact, Rimer said he is so enthusiastic about the success of trivia nights that he and Burnett are considering starting another event: open mic nights on Wednesdays. He said that customers can come and perform an act of their choice on a stage or watch the performances.

“We’ll provide two to five minutes for someone to do their material — whether they want to sing, dance, tell jokes, whatever,” Rimer said. “Just come in and do your thing.”

Rimer says he still has to figure out the logistics before committing to an open mic night, but “these are good problems to have,” he said.

As for right now, Rimer said he hopes trivia nights at Stacked & Folded will become an Evanston staple.

“People love trivia, and it really helps our sales so that’s awesome,” Rimer said. “I can’t say enough about how great that is.” nataliewu2024@u.northwestern.edu least 25%.

Evanston’s 5th Ward qualifies as a QCT and certain areas within the 8th Ward could also receive identification.

Leading into Monday’s City Council meeting, the task force plans to present councilmembers with examples of how economic and environmental justice intersect in Evanston.

An extended version of this article appears online at https://dailynorthwestern.com/2021/10/17/ city/carp-implementation-task-force-talks-environmental-justice-arpa-funding/.

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Medill celebrates 100 years of journalism

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Forty years ago, Charles Whitaker (Medill ’80, ’81) graduated from Northwestern with two degrees and set off to his first reporting job at the Miami Herald.

His time in professional journalism was wide-ranging, covering everything from politics to education for numerous publications. Ultimately, he ended up right back where he started: the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications. Now, Whitaker is dean of the school at which he not only learned, but taught for decades.

Whitaker and hundreds of other Medill alumni, current students and faculty gathered outside the McCormick Foundation Center on Friday to commemorate the school’s centennial.

The event, part of the University’s Homecoming and Reunion Weekend festivities, included live music, catered appetizers and beverages and a speech

by Whitaker.

For some attendees, the celebration marked their first time back on campus in decades. Kevin Sherry (Weinberg ’93, Medill ’95) frequents Evanston, but said this visit was still significant for him.

“It’s fun to get together with all your old friends and retrace your steps back to where you first met,” Sherry said. “Northwestern is home to so many people — even if I don’t know the person next to me, it’s great to feel like family.”

Whitaker, the first alumnus to become the journalism school’s dean, highlighted Medill’s legacy and its students during his speech. He also noted Medill’s annual fund increased by 23% since last year.

In addition, Whitaker previewed several new initiatives, including the launch of a third master’s degree program in digital media strategy, a new audio and podcast program in collaboration with the School of Communication and the opening of a Medill outpost in New York City this spring.

“We’ve had an exciting and unparalleled past, but I’m also happy to say we have an unlimited future,” Whitaker said.

He also praised the University’s student-run media outlets as well as cornerstone programs like the Journalism Residency, which attendee Jeffrey Kosnett (Medill

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Kosnett completed his JR at the Evansville Press — now the Evansville Courier & Press — and currently serves as a senior editor at Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, a finance magazine. “(During Journalism Residency), you’re out there alone dealing with tough stories and real-life situations,” he said. “That experience was invaluable, and I would do it all over again.”

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me and reminding me how to be a good journalist, which is really, really amazing — but also no surprise, because Medill is the best,” Brennan said.

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A look into the civic laws zoning where we live, the relationships defining who we live with, the scenery that impacts how we live and the reasons why we keep building, from dorms to co-ops to neighborhoods.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2021

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For some students, ADUs have significant downsides

By ILANA AROUGHETI

daily senior staffer @ilana_arougheti

At first glance, the most unique part of Weinberg junior Sarah Brown’s off-campus house on Pratt Court is the swirling, colorful paintings decorating the wall next to her staircase.

Perhaps if Brown didn’t live on this particular street in Evanston, the staircase itself — a bulky exterior addition built along the side of the house and leading straight to the second floor — would be more notable in and of itself. But on Pratt Court, Brown’s house joins a long string of duplex and triplex houses occupied by Northwestern students. These lie under civic codes allowing accessory dwelling units, or small contained living spaces, within larger dwellings.

Residents and advocates have long argued that accessory dwelling units, or ADUs, are a particularly intense issue in areas with high concentrations of student housing. A six-month moratorium was proposed on the construction of new internal, non-landlordoccupied ADUs in July. Ald. Clare Kelly (1st) called the developments “mini-dorms” because of their reputation to pack student areas in the First and Second Wards.

Upperclassmen, however, are more than aware that the converted attics and basements they call home have a reputation for being very independent with very bad amenities — and for some, the balance is worthwhile.

For Brown, the social aspects of living in her upstairs ADU outweighed any preferences about living style.

“We didn’t even look anywhere else because we knew that our friends were downstairs,” Brown said. “(The house) is not ideal; there are a lot of things that are missing. But we were kind of going to live here anyway, no matter what happened.”

Brown’s landlord renovated the flooring and repainted the walls before she moved in. Still, she said the house’s age showed. Dirt and odor lingered, and she still wishes she had sprung for a house with a dishwasher.

While Brown said she probably wouldn’t have lived in a duplex on her own, sharing space with her friends downstairs allowed the house to circumvent two of the biggest concerns cited by ADU opponents: noise and privacy. Her house treats the downstairs living room as a relaxation space for everyone, coming together to watch games and use a roommate’s extensive sound system.

Brown said her housemates have received the noise

complaints commonly cited by families in ADU-heavy student areas. But for her, the advantages of having a common gathering space in the form of a backyard still justify the pains of the old duplex in her mind.

“I think I’d be definitely way more hesitant to live in a duplex if I didn’t know the other people in the place and not having that same total comfortability with who I’m talking to, who I’m keeping (outside) spaces with,” Brown said.

Ald. Peter Braithwaite (2nd) said at a September City Council Meeting that he hoped, with proper care and a more consistent presence from landlords, ADUs could have a stabilizing influence on neighborhoods.

For Weinberg juniors Emily Abt and Natalie Jarrett, a

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greater connection with their neighbors and the shared lawn was a major draw in their decision to move into a duplex on Foster Street.

“In order to be a part of the community, to have the backyard I wanted with the dog and to be with my friends, I was like, ‘Okay, you know what, I’ll pay this much for a much smaller space,’” Abt said. “But the amount of issues with the house itself were outrageous.”

In the process of signing their lease Abt, Jarrett and their roommate were surprised by constantly changing estimates of how many students the house could accommodate.

The trio ended up committing to split the house’s entire rent three ways. While they had more than enough space, they were surprised to hear that two groups totaling seven people had fit in the space the previous year.

“There was one kind of attic bedroom where I don’t think you could probably stand up straight,” Jarrett said.

Abt and Jarrett continued to face structural issues.

Their porch was disconnected from their house, the internal door separating the two duplex units no longer locked and the house had air quality and black mold concerns. They were told they weren’t allowed to open the windows of their apartment to avoid further exacerbating the mold and ended up moving out within a week.

Though Brown plans to stay in her duplex next year, Jarrett isn’t sure she’ll live in a house again. Abt joins the bevvy of Evanston residents calling for better maintenance of ADUs so her experience isn’t repeated by future students.

“They’ll put an extra bedroom in a house,” Abt said, “but that doesn’t take away from the fact that the conditions students are living in are unsafe for them.” ilanaarougheti2023@u.northwestern.edu

MOSAIC co-op offers alternative communal living

By OLIVIA ALEXANDER

daily senior staffer @oliviagalex

From January to June, Communication junior Clay Lawhead enjoyed living in an environment he felt was “almost like socialism.”

Lawhead, a former Daily staffer, lived for those six months in MOSAIC, a housing co-op close to Northwestern’s campus that has long maintained two houses: “Zooo” and “Treehouse.” There, members shopped together, cooked meals for one another and helped each other with cleaning responsibilities and house upkeep. He compared the experience to living in a residential college and said the people living in the Zooo were willing to “put in work for the community.”

However, Lawhead was also one of the Zooo’s last residents. The house closed its doors in July after operating for 17 years.

Lawhead said affordability originally drew him to the co-op.

“I get more and more angry every day about affordable living in the city of Evanston specifically,” he said. “It’s a college town, and I would really love to see the co-op up and running again.”

During his time living in the Zooo, the cost of renting a room rose to match the cost of living in other Evanston apartments and houses.

This made recruiting new residents difficult, so MOSAIC had to leave the house.

MOSAIC’s second location, the Treehouse, will remain operational this year.

Weinberg senior Aili Simpson, who lived in the Zooo at the same time as Lawhead, applied to live in the co-op in early 2020. She said the idea of living with people in an intentionally cooperative community initially drew her to MOSAIC. She most looked forward to sharing meals with interesting people.

When she moved in during early September 2020, she said the Zooo’s 10 to 13 quarterly residents met to establish a set of strict pandemic guidelines designed with everyone’s living needs in mind. The residents ranged from

sophomore students to Ph.D. candidates, and all went in with different ideas for what “social distancing” and “safety” meant, she said.

The rules included a strict ban on going into others’ homes or allowing guests into the Zooo.

Taking public transportation also required other residents’ approval. There was no housewide COVID-19 outbreak during the 20202021 academic year, but Simpson said residents clashed over the way the house’s COVID-19 guidelines were executed. According to Jessica Kang (McCormick ‘21), two people left the house over COVID-19 concerns last fall.

Co-op members typically recruit new residents through social media campaigns and word-of-mouth. But Simpson said this slowed down due to high resident turnover last year.

Ultimately, she said it became unsustainable for Zooo’s remaining residents to keep the house running, especially since there’s often a learning curve to the co-op living style.

“Not many people wanted to stay on for another year,” Simpson said. “Essentially, if we had continued or somehow worked that out,

the burden of teaching everyone else to live in a community, in an intentional community, would have been on just one or two people who chose to stay in the co-op, and that’s too much to ask.”

Kang, who started living in the Zooo in fall 2020, also noted rising rent prices brought residents stress, especially as necessary housing repairs became more pressing. The house is so old, she explained, that the cost of maintaining a comfortable living environment can cause rent to spike faster than some co-op residents expect.

Although it wasn’t perfect, Kang said she enjoyed her year living in the Zooo. Her memories of going on group walks, making pumpkin pies during Halloween and even teaching one roommate to swim defined her time at Northwestern, she said.

“I’m really sad that the Zooo couldn’t continue,” Kang said. “I hope some people one day decide to bring it back.” oliviaalexander2024@u.northwestern.edu

Students move to Rogers Park as an alternative to Evanston

By LAYA NEELAKANDAN

daily senior staffer @laya_neel

This winter, Communication senior Carly GriffinFiorella and their roommate, Medill senior Avery Adams, started to feel “a bit choked” living in their offcampus housing in Evanston.

“I had gotten to a place where not being in Evanston all the time felt like a good idea,” Griffin-Fiorella said.

By the spring, the roommates had moved into an apartment in Rogers Park. Now, they are among a handful of Northwestern upperclassmen who commute to campus from Rogers Park, a 20-minute CTA ride south of campus.

Griffin-Fiorella said they don’t regret moving out of Evanston. She only goes into campus for classes and club activities, usually commuting on the CTA Purple Line. Most weekdays, they board at the Howard Street CTA station at 11 a.m. and return at 10 p.m.

“I feel like I get to go to school (now), versus ‘I am of the school,’” Griffin-Fiorella said.

The balance of living closer to the city and having the opportunity to explore while still being able to visit friends and attend events on campus is what drew Griffin-Fiorella to the idea of commuting.

“The commute doesn’t necessarily bug me that much,” Griffin-Fiorella said. “It’s so nice to have access to a space that’s not just the Northwestern and Evanston bubble that Northwestern has eaten away at.”

Echoing their roommate’s sentiments, Adams said they work in Lincoln Park, they said they never felt like they fit in on campus or in Evanston when they lived in the dorms and off-campus housing. Instead,

Maia Spoto/Daily Senior Staffer

The Loyola CTA station. Upperclassmen living in and commuting from Rogers Park to campus every day say their location allows them to be intentional about creating a work-life balance that better fits their changing needs.

they wanted to spend more time getting comfortable around Chicago.

Adams said their priorities have changed since arriving on campus as a first-year, especially regarding what they want in a living space. Instead of defining their entire identity as “student,” they now feel they are someone who has the opportunity to attend classes while being intentional about when they want to go

to campus.

“I’d much rather have my home, comfort and community outside of the community of Evanston,” Adams said.

To separate school from other parts of their life, Adams said they only go to campus every Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.

Living away from campus comes with its downsides,

though. Because the CTA Purple Line is often unpredictable and shuts down between 1 and 2 a.m., the roommates said they sometimes have to stay over at friends’ houses or take rideshares back to their apartment late at night. However, they both agreed that for them, the pros outweigh the cons.

SESP senior Elizabeth Curtis, who moved to Rogers Park with their partner this fall, said Evanston’s high rent was the deciding factor. Because they’re graduating in December, Curtis said it also made sense for them to transition into post-graduate life by moving out of Evanston.

Curtis drives to campus every day, attending classes and packing multiple meals per day.

“Even though I feel like it’s worth it setting myself up for the next part of my life, commuting is really difficult,” Curtis said. “Being further away, it’s not possible for me to come home in the middle of the day. Having to pack an entire day’s worth of food is a much bigger consideration. If I forget my computer charger, it’s a much bigger inconvenience.”

Curtis is a fifth-year senior, so most of their friends have already graduated. Because club meetings are usually in the evening, and they return home after class, they are unable to attend.

However, they said they still have a strong community on campus through the relationships they have formed with NU students over the past few years.

“In a way, I do probably have the same connection I felt being near campus all throughout the pandemic when students weren’t here,” Curtis said. “For me, (living in Rogers Park) is worth it, especially because I will be done in six weeks.” laya@u.northwestern.edu

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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2021

GREEK HOUSING TRANSFORMED Northwestern offered six new residency options to undergraduates this academic year. The new residence halls formerly housed members of the Panhellenic and Interfraternity Council, including those previously used by the Greek chapters of Delta Upsilon, Sigma Nu, Phi Delta Theta, Gamma Phi Beta, Pi Beta Phi and Zeta Tau Alpha.

Weinberg sophomore Kate Rooney, who lives in

the former Zeta Tau Alpha house at 710 Emerson St., said she is pleasantly surprised by the house, but still feels the remains of Greek life.

“It doesn’t feel like a dorm, but it doesn’t feel like it could have been a sorority either,” Rooney said.

— Joanne Haner

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2307 Sheridan Rd. The former Delta Upsilon house, now known as 2307 Sheridan, welcomes its residents with empty trophy cases in the main room of the building.

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One of the communal spaces in 710 Emerson, formerly Zeta Tau Alpha, includes a variety of snacks and books, in addition to a framed copy of the ZTA creed.

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The Zeta Tau Alpha house kitchen, formerly used with the Greek life meal plan, lies empty and unused in 710 Emerson. Rooney said since the house was originally not meant to be a typical dorm, it lacks certain amenities including water fountains after its renovation.

The stone exterior of 2307 Sheridan blends in with other houses in the fraternity quad. The building previously housed Northwestern’s chapter of Delta Upsilon.

A crown lamp in the entrance of 710 Emerson references the logo of Zeta Tau Alpha, the sorority that previously resided there. “I thought that everyone in ZTA had disaffiliated, but my neighbor is still in ZTA,” Rooney said.

Willard accomodates many dietary needs, students say

By FUMA UEDA

the daily northwestern @fumaueda0103

Housing assignments can often make or break students’ lives on campus, especially those with dietary restrictions, according to Lisa Carlson, Northwestern’s campus dietician.

“The most important thing is for students with food allergies to speak up and share their food allergies with their roommate, friends, residential assistants and other key people,” Carlson wrote in an email to The Daily.

In Willard Residential College, this means checking in with the student residential board, which executes most dorm programming. Medill sophomore Jennifer Ren, the residential college’s food and fireside chair, said she factors in her peers’ allergies while organizing Willard’s weekly munchies event. Every week, Willard

residents gather to socialize while “munching” on doughnuts and other snacks.

When shopping for supplies, Ren said she avoids purchasing products with nuts because it’s a common allergy for students. She said she tries to put a lot of care and consideration into snack preparation by baking and storing vegan and allergy-free options separately to avoid cross-contamination.

“Knowing and being aware of not just the kinds of allergies people have, but also of other needs of vegans and vegetarians helps us accommodate them in our events,” Ren said, “I just want to make sure everyone feels included.”

Willard resident Sanjana Rajesh, a Medill freshman, has over a dozen allergies. But thanks to the efforts of community members like Ren, that has not stopped her from participating in and enjoying the events held at the residential college. Rajesh said she put Willard as her first choice when applying for on-campus housing

because Carlson recommended it as the dorm whose food and eating practices would fit the most of her needs.

“Willard has been great. Every single munchies event, I have been able to eat something because they always have a vegan or allergy-free option,” Rajesh said. “(Ren) made special nut-free vegan cookies for our last event, which was really nice because I’m not always accommodated for.”

According to Carlson, dietary inclusivity is being realized in the University’s dining halls as well as dorms.

The Pure Eats station at NU’s dining halls was introduced in 2019, offering meals that avoid gluten and the top eight food allergens. Educational tools like the Wildcat Food Allergies and Special Diets Toolkit as well as the Food Allergy passport were also created to accommodate students’ needs.

The toolkit is a guide breaking down not only life at NU as a student with allergies, but also how

students can support others with dietary restrictions.

The Food Allergy passport is a resource provided for students with allergies to communicate their individual needs through a written list, and can be used not just in dining halls but at on-campus housing locations as well.

Rajesh said the Willard community has done a lot to make her feel welcomed despite her dietary restrictions.

She also said there is more to be done across campus when it comes to accomodations.

“My allergies are complicated by the fact that I’m vegetarian,” Rajesh said. “I think that makes things harder because Pure Eats doesn’t have a vegetarian option. They have vegetarian sides but not a meal, and a lot of times, I’m allergic to the food at the vegan section.

People without health conditions have the option to have preferences, but I don’t.” fumaueda2025@u.northwestern.edu

Students talk life in 1835 Hinman as a quarantine dorm

By AVANI KALRA

the daily northwestern @avanidkalra

Medill freshman Isabel Harkins was walking to last month’s Fall Organization Fair when her phone rang.

Harkins had just completed a COVID-19 test after feeling under the weather, and the voice on the other end told her she tested positive. She had 30 minutes to report to the front door of 1835 Hinman.

After Harkins took a University-provided car to the building’s front door, a Northwestern quarantine and isolation housing coordinator let her into 1835 Hinman and gave her a key. Harkins said she spent most of her next two weeks alone inside a double dorm room, accompanied by a large box of snacks.

“I wasn’t really allowed to leave, except to go to the bathroom,” Harkins said.

For undergraduate students who test positive for COVID-19, 1835 Hinman becomes home for 10 to 14 days. While quarantine takes place inside standard dorms, life looks completely different, with new neighbors, routines and problems to navigate.

McCormick sophomore Ria D’Souza, who entered quarantine on Sept. 29, said Residential

Services did not provide her with many rules. She said NU staff instructed 1835 Hinman residents to wear masks while outside their assigned rooms and stay inside during housekeeping visits. But they were permitted to utilize common areas and interact with others.

D’Souza said she received a daily call from a quarantine and isolation housing coordinator, who asked brief questions about her health and well-being. The call also gives quarantined students the opportunity to share concerns or request toiletries and cleaning supplies, she said.

Hinman residents can fill out a daily survey to obtain recreational items like yoga mats, and two staff members are always “on-duty” to address immediate requests via phone call, according to D’Souza.

Sophomore Aldiery Gonzalez said he was impressed with Hinman’s accommodations and felt comfortable during his stay.

“They have laundry, extra towels, sheets, toiletries — anything that you need,” Gonzalez said.

Despite the resources provided, Harkins said she faced some obstacles at Hinman: she didn’t have hot water for three days.

“The adjustment was kind of hard, knowing who to call when,” she said. “It was a lot

of self-advocacy. I couldn’t shower. I called the front desk a few times to try to get that worked out and they were in touch with maintenance.

There was a lot of back and forth.”

Gonzalez said the only mental health support he was directly offered during his stay at 1835 Hinman was an email from quarantine staff about Counseling and Psychological Services.

Gonzalez, quarantined for 11 days, was permitted to go outdoors once, when the fire alarm went off.

The food service offerings were a highlight for Harkins. Students recieve hot meals twice a day, and have access to a microwave. They also use a dining form each day to request food from any of the usual NU Dining options, and are able to make substitutions or request extra food or snacks. As a gluten-free student, Harkins said she appreciated the flexibility of the ordering process.

Though she said she was anxious to get back into the classroom and her dorm, D’Souza said her time spent watching Netflix and sleeping until noon in 1835 Hinman was almost nostalgic.

“It feels a lot like two years ago, when quarantine first hit,” she said. avanikalra2025@u.northwestern.edu

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Students who test positive for COVID-19 embark on a new life in 1835 Hinman - for ten days, at least.

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Breaking down Evanston’s infamous Brothel Law placing numerous students in danger of eviction. After months of student outcry and tense relations between the city and the University, the issue died down, and no Brothel Law-related evictions occured. The city has not attempted widespread enforcement since.

By ALEX HARRISON

the daily northwestern @alexhairysun

How many roommates would you want to live with in your first apartment?

To upperclassmen living off-campus who juggle rent, compatibility and square footage, that’s a common social and financial question. But in Evanston, where students, landlords and tenants have to work around the city’s three-person occupancy limit, it’s a legal question, too.

Here’s a dive into the past, present and possible future of Evanston’s three-unrelated rule, also known as the “Brothel Law.”

How does the law affect Evanston residents?

What is the “Brothel Law”?

The Brothel Law, an Evanston zoning rule, bars more than three people who aren’t related to each other from living in the same housing unit without a special permit.

The specificity of “housing unit” is important. More than three unrelated people could live within the same house, as long as they don’t live in the same division of that house or on the same lease. In Evanston, multilease houses most frequently occur in the form of separated apartments, or accessory dwelling units.

What are ADUs?

Accessory dwelling units are small housing units placed on a property that already exists. They’re fully independent from the main house on the property, and must have their own kitchen, bathroom, outside entrance, and sleeping and living space. If you’re a student living in an off-campus house, your house may contain multiple ADUs. ADUs can be built from scratch either as standalone structures or on new floors of the house. They can also be created by renovating a section of the property itself.

They exist for various functions, like expanding an existing home, converting a garage into a livable space or creating a rental property within a home.

In Evanston, many ADUs are located near

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Northwestern’s campus and upperclassmen rent them as off-campus housing. Since Northwestern has a 2-year live-in requirement, all underclassmen live in dorms, and most move off-campus junior year, when dorms are no longer guaranteed. Multiple ADUs can exist in one student house. Elsewhere in Evanston, ADUs grant independent living space to elderly parents or relatives with disabilities.

Why does the law exist?

Despite its memorable moniker, the law has nothing to do with brothels, nor does it specifically target women and sex workers, as the nickname and urban legends would suggest. Instead, the Brothel Law’s advocates say it prevents landlords from turning residential houses near campus into student housing, thus preventing noise complaints.

During an April 2018 City Council meeting, former Ald. Judy Fiske (1st) argued the law prevents student housing from taking over neighborhoods, disrupting and driving out permanent residents.

“No one is trying to keep students from having good, clean, safe affordable housing,” Fiske said. “It’s just, how do we do that and protect the residential neighborhoods and make permanent residents feel comfortable? It’s a balancing (act).”

How does the law affect students living off-campus?

Most rental properties in Evanston are compliant, so off-campus students often can’t live with more than two roommates in their apartments or houses. That limits the number of ways roommates can split rent, increasing the share each one must take on to pay for housing in Evanston’s already expensive market — or incentivizing students to keep their names off leases and rent or sublet under the table, opening themselves up to financial liability or eviction.

Some rental properties in Evanston have found ways around the law, but, for most of its existence, it has gone relatively unenforced. In 2011 and 2012, however, the city recommitted to enforce it en masse,

Housing advocates argue the Brothel Law prevents the expansion of affordable housing in Evanston, and also fails to achieve its stated goal of managing and limiting the proliferation of student housing.

During discussions last spring, community organization Joining Forces for Affordable Housing demanded the council repeal the law, arguing it discriminates against residents who wish to live outside nuclear family structures.

“The insistence that we preserve our neighborhoods for ‘regular’ and ‘normal’ families is reminiscent of the racist propaganda that was used in the 1950s to promote single-family home ownership and the American Dream for the white middle class,” the statement reads.

Have city officials attempted to change the law?

They’ve certainly attempted.

The law is a recurring topic of conversation for City Council, which considered proposals to reform or repeal it in 2011, 2013, 2018 and most recently in spring 2021. Sue Loellbach, manager of Advocacy for Connections for the Homeless, wrote an op-ed for Evanston Now last April asking the council to repeal the law to allow for easier access to affordable housing.

“Sharing housing has always been a survival strategy for people who cannot afford housing on their own,” Loellbach wrote. “The three-unrelated rule prohibits this strategy, even criminalizes it.”

A proposal for repeal or reform has never reached a full City Council vote. Until that happens, Evanston’s Brothel Law will remain on the books, rarely enforced but easily felt throughout NU and Evanston communities. alexharrison2023@u.northwestern.edu

Students discuss living with their significant others

By KATHERINE MCDONNELL

the daily northwestern @katherinemcd33

Weinberg senior Grace Hauser and McCormick senior Zaddeen Benaissa are gearing up to celebrate their three-year anniversary at home –– in the “Frisbee House,” which they share with 10 of their fellow teammates.

The couple lived together in Hauser’s family home over portions of the pandemic and said they felt prepared to move in together for the entire year. Since they have eight housemates, Hauser said she feels grateful to have a partner to vent to about roommate problems.

“With your partner, you can talk about issues in the house and figure out what boundaries you would like to create during house meetings,” Hauser said.

Hauser said living, practicing and competing with team members and a significant other has been a positive experience so far, though it requires communication and patience.

“A really big concern is that if bad stuff is happening between you and your significant other it will affect other people in the house,” Hauser said. “If you’re working stuff out with someone, you don’t want to bring negativity into the entire space.”

For another couple living in the Frisbee House, balancing a new relationship in a house of friends takes priority. Weinberg senior Nick Manting started dating SESP junior Olivia Poole in August. The two agreed that starting a relationship while also moving in together could pose challenges.

Like Hauser, Manting said living in a communal space with a partner and teammates requires effective communication and lots of reflection.

“When you do live with a significant other, you’re

spending a lot of time with each other,” Manting said. “If anything becomes an issue, it becomes an issue faster.”

As a co-captain of the women’s ultimate frisbee team, Hauser sets an example for fellow teammates by applying what she’s learned through her relationship to leading a team.

She said setting intentional boundaries regarding space and time with your significant other can help foster a healthy relationship and a positive team atmosphere.

“Be cautionary about still making social time outside of each other,” Hauser said. “It can be very easy to seclude yourself to only having social time with that person, or to isolate yourself from other friends.”

Manting said he views conflict resolution as a constant work in progress, both at home and on the field.

Poole agreed that living with a significant other, regardless of how long you’ve been dating, teaches lessons that can apply to all kinds of relationships, whether

romantic or platonic. She’s learned to prioritize finding time to be alone with herself and pursue her hobbies and interests.

It’s also important to make time to surround yourself with different people, she said.

“You want to navigate being in a relationship and being able to see that person 24/7,” Poole said. “But also navigate spending time with other people who are important to you.”

Despite the challenges that come with navigating a new relationship in a new house, Manting said he has faith that listening to and understanding the other people he’s living with, including his girlfriend, will alleviate any issues that may arise. “(Relationships) can be tough and they can be a lot of fun, and that’s only amplified when you’re living with each other,” Manting said. katherinemcdonnell2025@u.northwestern.edu

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WELCOME TO MY CRIB From apartment complexes to one-story houses, Evanston offers a wide range of housing options. Whether you’re looking to be in the center of downtown Evanston, next to the Chicago Transit Authority Purple Line or

neighboring Northwestern’s Evanston Campus, there are plenty of residential dwellings around town.

— Angeli Mittal

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1432 Elmwood Ave., painted blue, rests across the street from Living Hope of Calvary Baptist Church.

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One block from Evanston Public Library and The Arch, 614 Clark St. adorns a green door distinct from other residential buildings in the area.

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919 Foster St. features a white tub growing green flora in front of a matching white house.

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Directly in front of the Foster Street CTA station, the facade of 829 Foster St. is adorned with a mural by Ryan Tova Katz, featuring falling purple hearts from a painted window.

A maroon-and-light-brown residence at 1401 Elmwood Ave. is surrounded by flora — green bushes, trees and grass soon to showcase fall colors in the coming months.

Residents debate merits, detriments of high rises

By WILL CLARK

daily senior staffer @willsclark01

Since 2006, developers have built 10 buildings with nine or more stories in Evanston.

High rise apartment complexes continue spreading through downtown Evanston and developers continue proposing new projects to the city’s Planning and Development Committee.

Recently, some residents and business owners are growing concerned about the effect developments are having on the city’s affordable housing market and small businesses.

In 2020, these concerns came to a head amid multiple months of public hearings surrounding a proposal for a 17-story luxury building on Chicago Avenue. Many residents expressed strong opposition to the project on the grounds that it would disrupt the neighborhood’s character and exacerbate Evanston’s affordable housing problems. Following the hearings, the high rise development proposal was unanimously rejected by the Planning and Development Committee.

Rachel Angulo, the owner of La Cocinita, submitted a public comment arguing that by displacing small businesses, the development would harm local business owners. If built, the proposed high rise would have been constructed on top of La Cocinita’s current location.

“We are so saddened by the possibility of having to start from scratch at a new location, and sincerely hope that this does not go through,” Angulo said at a May City Council meeting. “Our family’s livelihood — and that of so many others from our team and those in

our neighboring buildings — depends on it.”

Resident Claudia Perry said the city needs to prioritize supporting small businesses moving forward, rather than building high rises on top of existing stores — especially given how much they’ve suffered during the pandemic.

Protecting small businesses is beneficial for Evanston’s pocketbook, Perry said, but it also preserves the character and history of the area.

“I really think it would be a big mistake for Evanston to rip the heart out (of the downtown) by taking these big developers and having them steamroller existing businesses,” she said.

Danny Michael, the founder of Horizon

Realty Group, leads the organization that submitted the rejected 2020 high rise proposal.

Michael said the project would have brought “overwhelming” financial benefits to the community through tax and revenues.

But some residents worry that more luxury high rise development will price middle- and lower-income residents out of Evanston.

Lily Ng (Weinberg ‘24), who grew up in Evanston, said she doesn’t have strong opinions about the aesthetic effects of high rises. Rather, she’s concerned about expensive housing being built when many Evanston residents already struggle to find affordable housing units.

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Developers continue building new luxury high rises in downtown Evanston. But some residents and business owners worry that the developments are exacerbating Evanston’s affordable housing problem.

“Nobody’s making affordable housing within those high rises,” Ng said. “That’s my biggest gripe about them, I’d say, is it’s definitely very much like … they don’t want (lower socioeconomic status people to be) a part of that exclusive echelon that they’re trying to create.”

Affordable housing is classified as housing that costs less than 30% of residents’ income. But in Evanston, 40% of residents are living in housing that doesn’t meet those standards.

In 2019, City Council implemented an Inclusionary Housing Ordinance, which requires residential developments to include a certain percentage of dwelling units that are priced affordably for “low- and moderate-income households,” or to contribute to the city’s Affordable Housing Fund.

Chloe Chow (‘23), who also grew up in Evanston, said in her experience, affordable units in luxury high rises are often too small for families or multiple residents.

“The rent for one unit is very expensive,” Chow said. “They have to legally do affordable housing… (But) then you’re getting a studio (and) it’s like 50 square feet.”

Perry said developers should prioritize designing buildings that include affordable housing options, aim to harmonize with existing streetscapes and are designed in ways that create a sense of community.

She’s not sure that more high rises will do that.

“One of the things that you lose … in a high rise is that sense of community,” Perry said.

“With a low rise building, you can have an opportunity within your building to know your neighbors or at least be able to say ‘Hi’ to them as you’re passing by, but if you’ve got a building that has a ton of units … you just lose a real sense of community.” williamclark2024@u.northwestern.edu

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OPINION

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Rathnavel: Lake Michigan impacts coastal housing SHRUTI RATHNAVEL

OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR

Lake Michigan’s coastline is an ever-changing landscape. Land is created and shorelines are reshaped in the form of lakefills and piers.

As this happens, houses are shuttled back and forth — sometimes pulled away from the coastline to protect them from erosion and the wind, other times succumbing to the waves and falling into the water.

In attempts to protect property along the coast, homeowners and the state finance seawalls, sandbagging and other barriers against the waves. Still, we cannot ignore the threats to lakefront property as the lake’s water levels continue to rise. The higher waves and warmer water have made erosion worse, especially as the extraordinary level of modification witnessed by Lake Michigan’s coastline have destroyed natural barriers to erosion and lake encroachment.

Wetland areas such as beaches, dunes and bluffs, which used to exist in Evanston and other coastal Illinois towns, have been replaced by structures such as jetties and seawalls. These can protect shorelines in the short term, but they exacerbate damage to beaches in the long term. In July 2019, water levels were almost three feet higher than average summer levels, and in summer 2015, they were only a few inches shy of Lake Michigan’s highest recorded water level since 1998.

Many homeowners see permanently

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moving their houses away from the coast as a longer-term solution to reinforcing the eroding shoreline. As a result, building movers throughout Illinois have seen a huge spike in demand.

However, the costs of moving a house can be even more prohibitive, and sometimes insurance companies refuse to help. In January 2020, Michigan Live reported that one woman who had watched the shoreline overtake the woods, dunes and beach by her house went so far as to put her house on cantilevers. Others

in similar positions have opted to demolish their homes.

Homeowners can thank lakefill structures, similar to Northwestern’s Lakefill, for the erosion that has caused their current predicaments. Constructing a lakefill displaces huge amounts of sand and changes the course of the waves, which alters the shape of beaches and wetlands. The layer of sand protects the underlying clay soil from the waves, and its absence erodes the lake bed. The more the lake bed erodes, the better conditions become

for larger, more violent waves.

It was on these grounds that environmentalists vehemently opposed Loyola University Chicago’s proposal for a lakefill that would have expanded its campus by about a third in the 1980s. State officials had already sold the university the required land, but an environmental lawsuit that pointed out the long-term potential for erosion halted the process.

Despite the increasing instability of housing along the coastline, demand for lakefront housing has only increased. Michigan Live reported last year that in Saugatuck, 44 properties sold along the shore in 2020 compared to only 10 in 2019, and that potential homeowners seem less worried about the potential for erosion in years that water levels lower slightly, even if the overall trend has been increasing sea levels.

The Lakefill effects of lake erosion hasn’t received a lot of airtime in Evanston, where a vast majority of civic time and energy goes into attacking other housing issues such as student housing, vacancies, property taxes and affordable housing.

But Evanston is a coastal town all the same, and new real estate built in the city should think of the lake before even more Lake Michigan housing projects — and public spaces — end up less than watertight.

Shruti Rathnavel is a Weinberg junior. You can contact her at shrutirathnavel2023@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.

Ramos Bechara: Bikes are essential to off-campus living DIEGO RAMOS BECHARA

OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR

Picture this: you live in an off-campus apartment in Evanston for the last three weeks of the summer after your freshman year, and your life savior? A bicycle.

Life is great. You’re living with some friends, you can blast Nicki Minaj as loud as you want without drawing attention from your resident assistant, you stay up watching movies until 3 a.m. and Northwestern is paying you to be a tour guide.

Everything’s great, as long as you remember to wake up early for your 9 a.m. tours.

Every morning on tour day, you set your alarm for 7 a.m. so you have enough time to shower, eat breakfast and make it to the office at 8:45 a.m.

Now, picture this as a … somewhat less hypothetical situation. Did I wake up at 7 a.m. every day this summer? Oftentimes, I kept on hitting snooze and didn’t wake up.

When that happened, I only had 15 minutes to get back to campus and greet incoming families.

But my ever-faithful bike saved the day.

Thus, my point. Bikes are essential to having a successful off-campus living experience.

Every single day of my summer, my bike saved me. I could travel the four blocks from the Carlson Building to Segal Visitors Center

in under five minutes. I’d wake up late, bike there with a bit of time to spare and even make a quick coffee for the road.

My bike wasn’t just useful in helping me get to work on time; it established a routine. I knew just how much time it would take me to get from point A to point B, and the swiftness involved from getting to those points made me actually stick with biking every day.

With a limited lunch break, it often wasn’t possible to go back to the apartment for a quick bite before my next tour. But with my bike that issue could be averted. I could finish a tour, get back to my apartment in five minutes, have 35 minutes to make a quick lunch, take a nap and then get back with 15 minutes to spare.

Wanted to go to Peet’s Coffee for a quick

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For an off-campus commuter, early-morning grinds and faraway day trips feel a lot less daunting from behind the front wheel of a bike.

coffee break, but only had 30 minutes? Bike.

Needed to get from South Campus to North Campus really quickly? Bike. Had to meet up with my friends at the Davis Street CTA Station to catch a train before it left? Bike.

Most of my weekends consisted of going on bike rides with my friends to either the Bahá’í House of Worship or around the Lakefill.

These are probably some of the best memories I had of my time in Evanston this summer, and it really expanded the reach of where I was able to explore from the places I spent the most time in while living on campus.

Point being, getting a bike was one of the wisest off-campus living decisions I ever made, and certainly made my living experience so much more enjoyable, accessible and convenient. Now that I’m looking to move off-campus for my third year at NU, having a bike is something I already know will make living off-campus so much easier.

After all, living off-campus is already stressful enough, especially for your first time. You’re fully independent, have to pay rent, deal with your landlord, maintenance and food, so why add transportation to the growing list of inconveniences?

Simply don’t. Get a bike!

Diego Ramos Bechara is a Medill sophomore. You can contact him at diegoramos-bechara2024@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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House the previous year.

Along with canceling the office restructuring, a committee including faculty, staff and alumni hosted forums in 2015 allowing community members a space to voice their concerns. These sessions led then-Vice President for Student Affairs Patricia Telles-Irivin to ask Julie Payne-Kirchmeier, her future successor, and LesleyAnn Brown-Henderson, current executive director of campus inclusion and community, to explore a possible renovation.

Brown-Henderson also chaired the Black House Renovation Steering Committee, which has met monthly since 2016 and saw the renovation through from beginning to end.

“This renovation has seen every challenge, including a global pandemic, so the last five years have not by any means been easy,” Brown-Henderson told The Daily.

“As students have begun to experience the space, I can definitely say that it has been worth it (and) one of the most important things that I will probably do at Northwestern.”

The committee focused primarily on providing feedback on proposed renovations and gathering renovation ideas from community members, BrownHenderson said. “Historical truth-telling” throughout the house was a priority, she added.

The entryway features four portraits of NU’s first Black students, with text underneath reading, “We’ve

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are still kind of at that leveled-off period,” said Matt Pitcher, Vitalant senior recruitment manager.

Pitcher said supplies of Type O-negative blood are especially low. O-negative “flies off the shelves” because hospitals typically give it to patients in emergencies before they can determine the patient’s blood type, he added.

Blood supplies also must be regularly refilled, which compounds the shortage. Platelets expire in five to seven days after collection, according to Dr. Thomas Gniadek, the medical director of NorthShore University HealthSystem’s blood bank. Red blood cells have a lifespan of about 35 to 42 days, he said.

“We have not gotten to the point where we are canceling surgeries because of a blood shortage,” Gniadek said. “Although we’ve been asked to implement measures to decrease our usage.”

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handed out free samples Oct. 3 to introduce new NU students to local businesses.

The day after, Cinnaholic stores across the nation offered a buy one, get one free discount on cinnamon rolls in honor of National Cinnamon Roll Day. “It’s nice that there’s all these events that are giving

been here.” Further into the first floor is the “Quibbler’s Club Family Room,” named for the racially integrated and gender-inclusive student group founded in 1926 to advocate for Black students.

“Part of the historical truth-telling is to say Black students aren’t a new community to Northwestern,” Brown-Henderson said. “The first Black graduates that we know of graduated in 1883, so it’s really cementing the place that Black students — Black people — have had at Northwestern for a long time.”

Artist and former football player Dwight White (Communication ’16, Medill M.S. ’17) painted a walllength mural for the family room, titled “Undivided Legacy.” The two flights of stairs ascending to the third floor feature pictures of Black NU students from the mid-1960s to present day, leading to the B100 wall on the top floor.

Along with excerpts of the May 4 agreement between student protesters and administrators, the B100 wall includes a QR code that visitors can scan to visit library archives and learn more about the agreement.

B100 member Joanne Williams (Communication ’71) was among more than a dozen of the 1968 student protesters who attended the rededication.

“We had no place to gather, no place to go (before the Black House),” Williams told The Daily. “The original house was around the corner, much smaller than this — we would sit around and talk, and you could probably get the entire population of Black students at Northwestern in that house.”

“Beautifully Black, unapologetically human”

Gniadek said those measures include more carefully auditing blood usage and possibly holding off on giving a transfusion when a patient’s hemoglobin or platelet count is in a borderline range.

Before giving blood, donors answer a questionnaire and undergo a quick physical screening, which Pitcher said involves checking blood pressure, iron levels and heart rate. The process also involves testing for infectious diseases, Gniadek said.

Depending on the blood donation location, donors can choose whether to give whole blood or a specific part of their blood, like platelets. Gniadek said he generally recommends first-time donors at NorthShore give whole blood.

Giving whole blood at Evanston Hospital takes 30 to 45 minutes, including the time someone spends filling out the questionnaire, Gniadek added. The whole blood donation process takes an hour total at Vitalant, according to its website.

Both Vitalant and NorthShore follow the Food and

Drug Administration’s regulations on blood donation. Donors must be at least 16 years old, at least 110 pounds and generally healthy. Certain medical conditions and medications can affect eligibility, as can travel or residency in certain countries, and different donation types often have additional requirements.

FDA guidelines recommend that donation centers have donors self-report “male or female gender” on donor history questionnaires. This can create barriers for transgender and non-binary potential donors, according to the Association for the Advancement of Blood and Biotherapies.

Individuals who in the past three months have used intravenous drugs or had sex in exchange for money or drugs, as well as those who were incarcerated for longer than 72 hours within 12 months, are also ineligible.

Men who have had sex with another man in the past three months, or women who have had sex with such men within three months, are currently ineligible

to donate blood under FDA guidelines. Legislators and organizations including Human Rights Campaign have denounced this rule as discriminatory because it perpetuates a stigma against queer men, rather than screening people based on engagement in unprotected sex.

Before making an appointment, Pitcher recommends looking at a full list of criteria online. Donors can make an appointment through Vitalant’s website and can also fill out the health history questionnaire online rather than during the appointment.

To donate at Evanston Hospital, people should email or call Evanston Hospital Blood Bank to make an appointment. Gniadek said openings are generally between 8 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. on weekdays.

“Blood impacts everyone,” Pitcher said, urging residents to donate. “The need is constant. You never know when you or a family member might need blood.”

us exposure so that students know where we’re at,” Morales said. “I just invite everyone to come on in.”

Weinberg freshman Cara Chang previously visited the Schaumburg location near her hometown because it was offering cinnamon rolls for $1. Now that she’s at NU, she’s eager to visit the Evanston location as well.

“When they made their Instagram account for Cinnaholic in Evanston, I followed them even before they opened,” Chang said.

In addition to expanding its fanbase, the Schaumburg location helped the Evanston owners acclimate to running a business during a pandemic. Morales said they will continue to take safety measures seriously for both customers and staff.

At the time the Evanston location opened, the city’s mask mandate had just been reinstated. The management made sure its employees knew the importance of masks and did its best to make sure customers were

aware as well, Morales said.

When it came to choosing a new location, Morales said Evanston felt like the perfect place.

“We knew it would fit, especially in the downtown area,” Morales said. “We knew that the area had been hit hard by the pandemic, but we just felt like we could go in there and help bring things back.”

The Black House moved in 1972 from 619 Emerson St. to its current home. Before 1966, an average of five Black students enrolled in each incoming class. In the fall of 1968, after the Bursar’s Office Takeover, the incoming class included 70 Black students.

Remembering the legacy of the takeover and the 2015 conversations about moving administrative offices into the house, Alexandria Bobbitt (SESP ’16) said serving on the Steering Committee was personally meaningful.

“To see all of the care and intentionality and perseverance that was required for this project was healing for me, as a student and as an alum,” Alexandria Bobbitt said.

Alexandria Bobbitt attended the rededication with her mother Kecia Ellis Bobbitt (McCormick ’87) and aunt, both alumnae who said the Black House was a central space during their time at NU. Ellis Bobbitt’s husband also attended NU, and their son is a current student. With the house reopening, she said she hopes today’s Black students will feel more connected with one another.

“The Black House was truly the place that allowed us to feel love and feel like we’re at home and have energy and unity with other students,” Ellis Bobbitt said. “I hope that the reopening of the Black House will bring some of that back, and everybody will remember why it started.”

Not having that space during the pandemic and the beginning of Fall Quarter was challenging, SESP

senior Glory Aliu said. She serves as a student and coordinator of For Members Only, NU’s premier Black Student Alliance, which holds events at the Black House. Aliu said the space was a regular stop for her before the pandemic.

FMO recently held its first in-person event of the 2021-22 academic year, a “Black to School BBQ” on the Lakefill. Despite the event’s success, Aliu said it felt “strange” to gather in a more public place on campus.

“All these people were staring or were very confused as to why all these Black people were right there on the lake, or you would have people come over who were non-Black and try to infringe on this space,” Aliu said. “There’s not a lot of spaces that you feel like you can relax in a (predominately white institution) — you’re kind of wondering where you’re allowed to exist.”

Jazzy Johnson (Communication ’13), who served on the Steering Committee, encouraged Friday’s crowd to remember the Black community members who fought for the “refuge” of the Black House before it was even created.

The house is both a piece of history and a promise to current and future Black students, Johnson added. “(At Northwestern), you will be developed academically and professionally, and you will continue to resist and challenge this institution,” Johnson said, “but in this pure place, may you be beautifully Black and unapologetically human.” maiapandey@u.northwestern.edu

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Seesaw Theatre creates audience-centric productions

By RAYNA SONG

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When Communication senior Ilana Abusch served as an adventure guide in Seesaw Theatre’s spring show her freshman year, she was paired up with a little boy who did not like to be touched.

Abusch kept her distance at first, but she said the boy gave her a hug after entering the theater space, and they ended up lying down together to look at the decorations on the ceiling.

“At the end of the show, when it was time for him to leave, the teacher came up to me sobbing and hugged me. It was like, he never does that,” said Abusch, who now serves as Seesaw Theatre’s artistic director. “An environment where kids feel completely at ease is the magic that I’ve seen with our in-person work.”

Founded in 2012, Seesaw Theatre at Northwestern creates multi-sensory, immersive theatre experiences for children with autism or other disabilities in the Chicago area. Typically, Seesaw Theatre holds its annual Inclusive Theatre Festival in Fall Quarter and creates performances in Winter and Spring Quarters.

“What we prioritize most above all else is agency for our audience members and giving them an hour of experience that they truly want,” Abusch said.

Abusch said Seesaw Theatre has not held any in-person performances since March 2020 because many of its audience members are immunocompromised. But virtual events have come with some silver linings, she said.

Last winter and spring, Seesaw Theatre sent out over 450 prop boxes to their audience members, so the children could engage the props while they watched video components of the virtual performances. Children could keep the props, too.

Seesaw Theatre reached more audience members with the virtual format — about five times as many as they did the winter before the pandemic, Abusch said.

Executive Director Julia Hogan Laurenson said Seesaw Theatre performances are “the most extreme form of improv.”

“We’ll create a whole show and be so ready to share it, but then our audience members will

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Northwestern students interact with audience members during a Seesaw Theatre production.

come into the space. And if they decide that they want to do something that’s completely unrelated to the show, we are so ready to do that,” the Communication senior said.

Seesaw Theatre’s Sixth Annual Inclusive Theatre Festival will happen virtually Nov. 20 to 21 and will include presenters from different backgrounds and fields. For example, one presenter this year works in occupational therapy and researches the effects of theatre for disabled people.

The Inclusive Theatre Festival connects people throughout the industry from different

parts of the world, according to Molly McDermott, Seesaw Theatre’s Conference and Engagement Director and a Communication junior.

“That’s more of a celebration of accessibility and inclusion in the arts with other professionals, other educators,” McDermott said. “(The festival is) less geared towards the children that we’re working with, but definitely families of the children that we’re working with.”

The festival will feature eight presentations this year, including one from Seesaw Theatre, McDermott said. Some presenters will do a performance, while others will do a more

traditional presentation.

Abusch said theatre can be a very selfish industry — actors often focus only on themselves and see themselves as the stars. But Seesaw Theatre is different, she said.

“What I really love about Seesaw is it’s wholly unselfish. It is only for the audience members. It just reminds you over and over again that it’s not about you, but you have the opportunity and the pleasure to make it for someone else,” Abusch said. raynasong2023@u.northwestern.edu

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NU gets first Big Ten victory, defeating Rutgers

By PATRICK ANDRES

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Against the co-inventors of college football, Northwestern reinvented itself.

On the heels of a 56-7 beatdown at the hands of Nebraska, the Wildcats regrouped over their bye week.

The result was a Homecoming performance that showcased NU’s offensive and defensive talent and a 21-7 win over Rutgers — the Cats’ first Big Ten victory since December 12, 2020 against Illinois.

NU (3-3, 1-2 Big Ten) clamped down on a Scarlet Knights (3-4, 0-4 Big Ten) team that started the season 3-0 and played Michigan tough in a 20-13 loss on September 25. The Cats forced nine Rutgers punts, the Scarlet Knights’ most since December 12, 2020 against Maryland.

“We’ve played some really good quarters in some games defensively, but this was probably our best game collectively as a defense,” coach Pat Fitzgerald said.

“That group’s got a ton of pride. We’re getting a little bit more experience now as the season goes along.”

The defense set the tone in the first quarter, as Rutgers’ first four drives gained 11, -1, 20, and 10 yards, respectively. The Scarlet Knights’ first drive ended when junior defensive lineman Adetomiwa Adebawore brought down

quarterback Noah Vedral for a loss of four. Graduate student linebacker Chris Bergin blew up the second drive by breaking up a Vedral pass on third and 11.

Adebawore finished with seven tackles, a career high that equaled his combined output against Ohio and the Cornhuskers. Bergin racked up nine tackles, his eighth consecutive game with eight or more dating back to the 2020 Big Ten Championship Game.

Rutgers, hounded by Adebawore and Bergin as well as sophomore linebacker Bryce Gallagher, tallied its only touchdown on an 18-yard Vedral strike to wide receiver Bo Melton midway through the second quarter. The Scarlet Knights didn’t score again. “[The most important thing is] physically executing what our coaches have instilled in us and put in the gameplan, and most importantly just having fun,” Bergin said. “We had a lot of fun out there today and it showed.

The defense’s dynamism allowed the offense to open up the playbook to an unprecedented extent. Sophomore quarterback Ryan Hilinski threw for 267 yards — his most since November 9, 2019 against Appalachian State while at South Carolina — and two touchdowns, recording the fourth multitouchdown game of his college career.

Junior wide receiver Malik Washington, who took a Hilinski pass to the house for a 64-yard touchdown in the first quarter, credited the defense’s

success with making the offense’s job easier.

“We love those guys,” Washington said. “When they’re making plays, we’re able to make plays. When they’re making those stops, we know we need to be able to capitalize on that and make a touchdown.”

Graduate student running back Andrew Clair and sophomore running back Evan Hull both contributed to a robust running game, despite the fact that NU ran for just 135 yards. A 27-yard Clair run in the second quarter was the longest of the day by either team, and the former Bowling Green Falcon rode three straight carries on first and goal to the Cats’ final touchdown with 7:33 to play. Hull added 53 yards on 25 carries and a 12-yard reception.

“The best thing about those two guys is they’re physical,” Hilinski said. “It’s good to have those guys in the backfield because one, they’re tremendous runners, and two, they can close out a game just like they did today.”

Despite a sound afternoon from defensive coordinator Jim O’Neil’s unit, Fitzgerald stressed that NU had more work to do — especially with a top-10 Michigan team looming next Saturday.

“We still gotta get better with our eyes, and we still gotta get a little better fundamentally,” Fitzgerald said. “Still, there was a lot of positive growth today.”

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Cats fall short against Rutgers NU rebounds after last meet’s performance

By ALEX CERVANTES

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Northwestern was unable to pull out a win against Rutgers despite a second-half offensive push, falling to the Scarlet Knights 2-1 on Friday at Martin Stadium.

The loss marked the Wildcats’ (4-7-2, 1-5 Big Ten) second-straight conference loss. Despite the outcome, coach Russell Payne praised NU’s efforts.

“The spirit and the intent that we played with in the second (half ), that’s what I told them over there,” Payne said. “I said, ‘I’m extremely proud of you guys.’”

The Cats struggled against the Scarlet Knights’ (8-3-2, 2-3-1) offensive efforts from the start. Rutgers junior midfielder Jackson Temple kicked off the scoring in the 21st minute, putting a curling shot past the outstretched arms of NU graduate goalkeeper Miha Miskovic.

NU has faced first-half offensive troubles all season, as opponents have outshot them 181-99 through 13 games. The matchup against the Scarlet Knights was no different, with Rutgers outshooting the Cats 5-2 in the first period.

Despite a lackluster first 45 minutes, NU came out swinging in the second period. After recycling play, senior midfielder Bardia Kimiavi whipped a ball into the 18-yard box.

The pass found the head of graduate defender Spencer Farina, who flicked it over to sophomore midfielder Rom Brown. Brown put the finishing touches on the play, kicking the ball in the back of the net from point blank range and brought the match level, 1-1.

“I was sitting at the top of the box waiting to clean up anything,” Kimiavi said. “Once the ball came to me I knew that the first order of business was just to put it back in a dangerous

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Northwestern sophomore Justin Weiss and Rutgers senior Thomas DeVizio battle for possession of the ball in a Friday matchup. The Wildcats fell to Rutgers 2-1 despite a second-half offensive push.

area.”

Both the Scarlet Knights and the Cats threatened to score in the final third for the rest of the match, but it was Rutgers that capitalized on the attacking side. In the 81st minute, forward Ritchie Barry headed home a Nick Cruz cross, giving the Scarlet Knights a lead they would hold on to until the final whistle.

Despite the final tally, NU put its emphasis on the offensive attack in the second half. The Cats doubled their shot total from the first to second period, putting two on frame — including Brown’s goal. Still, Rutgers finished the game with 12 shots, five on goal, while NU attempted just six, three of which were on goal.

The Scarlet Knights’ defense targeted sophomore forward Justin Weiss, the Cats’ leading scorer this season, throughout the game. The

sophomore had a Rutgers defender marking him all game, holding him to just one shot.

NU will hit the road to face Wisconsin in Madison, Wisc. on Tuesday.

The Badgers sit in third place in the Big Ten with 10 points thanks to their 3-0-1 record in conference play and have a 7-3-3 record overall.

Wisconsin’s defense has conceded just six goals this season, despite opponents attempting 117 shots.

Weiss said paying special attention to offensive efforts will help the Cats succeed.

“It’s finding our forwards, laying it off, getting it wide, getting crosses in early,” Weiss said. “If we stick to our game plan and continue with that, there’s no reason why we won’t be very productive in the final third.” alexcervantes2024@u.northwestern.edu

After a disappointing showing at its last meet, Northwestern rebounded at Friday’s Penn State National Open, finishing third among 16 programs in State College.

The Wildcats performed well at the event, placing three runners in the top 10 of the Women’s 6K race on the course where the Big Ten Championships will be held later this year.

This showing comes on the heels of the team’s disappointing result at the Joe Piane Invitational earlier this month, where NU finished 24th out of 25 teams.

Coach Jill Miller said while the Cats’ performance wasn’t perfect, she was proud of how the team came back following the invitational. “ We made some major errors out there,” Miller said. “I’m excited that we’ll be able to clean those up before the championship the following friday.”

NU placed third overall with 109 points, falling behind No. 8 ranked Michigan and unranked Georgia Tech, which received votes in the most recent Coaches’ Poll. The Cats finished second out of all Big Ten competitors, triumphing over host Penn State, Rutgers and Maryland.

Graduate student Lotte Van der Pol, junior Kalea Bartolotto and senior Rachel McCardell all placed in the top 10 of a field with over 150 runners. NU was the only team besides first-place Michigan to attain this result.

McCardell, NU’s third runner at Penn State, said the team was pleased with its performance, but felt the Cats “have a lot more there.”

Van der Pol finished sixth with a time of 21:10, crossing the line

as NU’s first runner and achieving her highest finish this season. She believes there is area for growth in her individual performance but is looking forward to running the hilly course again at the Big Ten Championship. “(This was) certainly a nice breakthrough for Lotte,” Miller said of Van der Pol’s performance. “I’m really proud of her (race) execution.”

Bartolotto and McCardell came in seventh and 10th, respectively, with times of 21:12 and 21:16. Sophomore Katherine Hessler and senior Hannah Hall rounded out NU’s top five, placing 43rd and 46th.

McCardell, typically the team’s top runner, said she’s had “better days” and echoed Van der Pol’s sentiment about the difficulty of the course terrain.

“It was definitely the hardest, hilliest, most brutal course we’ve been on in my memory of racing at Northwestern,” McCardell said.

The Cats have not seen the last of the Penn State Blue and White Golf Courses. They will return for the Big Ten Championships in a couple of weeks on Oct. 29. A main objective of the race this weekend was to gain experience with the course ahead of that pivotal meet, McCardell said.

In that sense, she believes the Cats accomplished what they intended to.

As NU looks to the postseason, Miller compared the adrenaline rush of the weeks ahead to the excitement surrounding the holidays.

“I always say that championship season is like Christmas morning and it’s something we get really excited for, just like a kid would to run downstairs and see what presents are under the tree,” said Miller. “This is what we’ve been working so hard for. Excitement levels are high.” katewalter2025@u.northwestern.edu