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EPD transparency dashboard to update Community calls for better data, accountability

By ILANA AROUGHETI

daily senior staffer @ilana_arougheti

Five years after its inception, Evanston Police Department’s online transparency dashboard will enter its third iteration next month. As resident demands for departmental accountability have adapted and sharpened over the years, the dashboard has remained a point of contention.

The updated dashboard, which will now be largely automated, has a target release date of Nov. 1. However, after EPD denied some community groups’ demands, some residents say the proposed updates ignore their needs and fail to address the shortcomings of the current dashboard.

At an Oct. 14 meeting with residents and officers, Officer Enjoli Daley said the department began work on the dashboard in March 2021. The meeting was the first chance for residents to publicly share their thoughts on the dashboard.

Fewer than 10 residents attended that meeting — a decrease from past police

transparency meetings, Evanston Police Cmdr. Ryan Glew said.

Elizabeth Meadows, the vice president of Citizens’ Network of Protection — a local group dedicated to police reform and civilian oversight — said declining attendance levels should be taken as a sign to expand community outreach efforts, starting with greater notice before dashboard meetings.

Two days prior to the meeting, CNP presented a list of 13 demands at a private meeting between EPD and community groups. The demands called for greater transparency surrounding EPD’s interactions with residents from start to finish, and the departments’ community presence outside of responding to calls and incidents. These included requests that the dashboard present statistics on misdemeanor charges and school resource officer handcuff use, among other measures.

Nearly all of the demands were immediately denied, CNP Board of Directors member Neal Weingarden told The Daily. EPD told CNP it largely couldn’t expand the dashboard because they already purchased the software for the new database before hearing feedback from residents.

Glew confirmed that while

» See TRANSPARENCY, page 6

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Former 2020 presidential candidate and New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang spoke to students Tuesday. About 60 students staged a silent walkout at the event, led by Students for Justice in Palestine.

Andrew Yang speaks on campus Sixty students walk out over Yang’s stances on Israel and policing

By HANNAH FEUER and LILY CAREY

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2020 presidential candidate and New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang spoke on universal basic income, his recently-launched Forward Party and his rise to national political fame at a Northwestern College Democrats event

Tuesday.

About 60 students staged a silent walkout led by Students for Justice in Palestine, a student group that promotes self-determination for the Palestinian people, after Yang gave his introductory speech.

Dressed in all black and holding Palestinian flags, the group filed from the auditorium to protest Yang’s stance on Israel and Palestine, as well as his viewpoint on

policing.

SJP passed out flyers at the start of the event to audience members referencing a tweet Yang wrote in May 2020 standing with Israel after violence broke out in Sheikh Jarrah, which Yang later apologized for on Twitter. Yang did not acknowledge the walkout nor discuss the IsraelPalestine conflict at the event.

Yang answered questions throughout the rest of the evening

posed by history Prof. Michael Allen for a sold-out audience in Cahn Auditorium, which seats 1,000. Having recently left the Democratic Party, Yang said he seeks to offer an alternative to the two-party system and work against polarization with his new Forward Party. He said third parties have been proven to work in

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Last month, teachers demanded more transparent safety policies

Pulitzer Prize winner to headline MLK Dream Week

By OLIVIA ALEXANDER

daily senior staffer @oliviagalex

In their first joint meeting of the 2021-22 academic year, Evanston/Skokie School District 65 and Evanston Township High School/District 202 met Monday to share updates on the districts’ collaboration initiatives.

Last month, teachers from the District 65 District Educators’ Council demanded more transparent COVID-19 measures from the district. District 65 Superintendent Devon Horton said since then, the district has worked with board members and educators to identify the stressors that continue to affect the community.

“I’m thankful that we’ve been able to come to a position of support, and (are) finding ways to make sure that our teachers are not stressing,” Horton said. “Not to say that we can remove it all, but we were really conscious to put in time to land in a better place.”

The Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction for District 65, Stacy Beardsley,

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By JOSHUA PERRY

daily senior staffer @joshdperry

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District 65 and District 202 met to share updates on collaboration initiatives.

and District 202, Pete Bavis, then presented the beginnings of monthly meetings to take place between department leaders from each district.

Together, they reported updates from the first two meetings of this kind. Bavis said curriculum leaders from each district spent time building relationships with one another and

learning about each district’s equity and literacy work.

“We’ve done collaborative efforts in the past, we’ve done joint reporting in the past,” Bavis said. “What was really missing was this sort of structure where we could have frequent meetings, not just the two of us, but with our teams.”

On a practical level, Bavis said

the districts hope to implement a shared Google Drive to allow students to bring their work and learning with them as they move through the districts.

Beardsley reminded the boards of the districts’ joint literacy goal set in 2014, ensuring all students are proficient readers

» See SCHOOL BOARD, page 6

Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones will deliver Northwestern’s 2022 MLK Dream Week keynote address, the University announced in a Monday news release.

Hannah-Jones won the 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for The 1619 Project, published in 2019. The multimedia series explores the institutional legacy of slavery in the modern era 400 years after it began in the U.S. as well as the impact Black Americans have had on the country’s identity and culture.

In May, the University of North Carolina — Chapel Hill’s board of trustees denied Hannah-Jones tenure against the recommendation of the journalism department, a decision that sparked national controversy.

Faculty members of UNC’s Hussman School of Journalism and Media, along with hundreds of others across the university, issued a statement condemning the “concerning departure from UNC’s traditional process” and demanding that University leadership tenure Hannah-Jones.

Though UNC eventually granted Hannah-Jones tenure in the summer, she denied the offer and announced she will join the faculty of Howard University, a Historically Black College and University in Washington D.C, with tenure.

Hannah-Jones’s career in investigative reporting has spanned more than 20 years. She’s received several awards, including a MacArthur Genius Fellowship, three National Magazine Awards, one Peabody Award and two Polk Awards. She also co-founded the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting, a training program for reporters of color.

Throughout her career, Hannah-Jones has reported at numerous publications, including the Oregonian in Portland,

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Residents question funding priorities for 2022

By ALEX HARRISON and SHANNON TYLER

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Residents voiced concerns about the amounts allocated in the city’s proposed 2022 budget for key public buildings and residential facilities Monday during the first of two public hearings.

Many resident questions centered on funding priorities, saying the city was putting nonessential expenditures over health and safety needs like affordable housing and climate action. City staff were present to answer questions and discuss the budget with councilmembers.

The proposed budget is about $59.6 million greater than the 2021 budget. $30.4 million of that difference is derived from the American Rescue Plan Act — dollars that are earmarked for specific budget categories towards goals including community health and wellbeing and investment in infrastructure.

The proposed budget includes several consulting contracts for property development, including

$700,000 for the renovation or replacement of the Evanston Animal Shelter.

Resident Meg Welch said the city shouldn’t spend that much on the animal shelter before constructing a city shelter for those experiencing homelessness.

“People are leaving because we don’t have enough affordable shelter for human families,” Welch said. “I don’t want to be sad when I go into the animal shelter, thinking about how we don’t have enough affordable housing for my friends, or for people who might be forced out eventually, including me someday.”

Former City Council candidate Diane Goldring specifically criticized the increase in maintenance costs for unexpected repairs at the Robert Crown Community Center.

Goldring said parks staff requested funding for additional maintenance staff for the Crown Center at a special council meeting last week, citing wear and tear as more residents use the facility. She said she was concerned to hear the annual maintenance costs allocated for the community center have increased $350,000 from the initial projected cost in 2020.

“Any competent engineer should be able to project

maintenance requirements and build the costs into the budget project,” Goldring said. “The more we spend on these shiny objects like Robert Crown, the less we have for other urgent needs like affordable housing, economic development, climate action and the like.”

Later in the hearing, Ald. Clare Kelly (1st) questioned the urgency of the allocation of $500,000 towards tennis court repairs and recommended the city should instead repair the courts in phases.

Ald. Cicely Fleming (9th) pushed to prioritize the repairs,explaining it impacts accessibility for her ward’s residents.

“For the third year, people in South Evanston are having to drive to North Evanston to play tennis,” Fleming said. “That is an equity issue, even if it’s not the most vulnerable population.”

The next public budget hearing will be held on Nov. 8. Council has until Dec. 31 to approve a budget for 2022. alexharrison2023@u.northwestern.edu, shannontyler2025@u.northwestern.edu

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Some residents voiced concern for the proposed $700,000 Evanston Animal Shelter consulting fund at the city budget hearing.

Book clubs, literary drives expand youth literacy

By ILANA AROUGHETI

daily senior staffer @ilana_arougheti

Every year since 2015, a team of first through eighth graders have assembled at the Evanston Public Library (or more recently, over Zoom) to carry out a crucial literary mission — voting for the next Caldecott Medal winning picture book, or the next Caldecott Club pick.

EPL’s Caldecott Club is one of many programs, from book clubs to book drives, currently promoting youth literacy in Evanston. At each hour-long monthly Zoom, about 20 attendees read six picture books, discuss their illustrations and send two to the final Caldecott voting party in January.

EPL STEM Experiences Library Assistant Kennedy Joseph agreed that getting kids to engage with literature is a great way to promote emotional intelligence skills.

They said this helps kids practice empathy when working in fields such as science, technology, art and math.

“The idea is adding a type of emotional aspect,” Joseph said. “How are we interacting with these problems? And how are these problems affecting the outside world? How do we feel about the materials that we’re working with?”

This month, Joseph launched EPL’s newest programming: the Young Scientists book club. There, participants aged 8-10 discuss a STEM-focused monthly fantasy, science fiction or graphic novel pick. Afterwards, members do a science experiment together over Zoom.

Joseph prepares kits with all of the experiment components for pickup before meetings, which they think are essential in youth literary programming. To this end, they also try to select books centering characters of marginalized identities or with disabilities.

They said they hope to use youth literature as a tool

to normalize extra accessibility needs — even within science fiction worlds — and to inspire conversations among club members about a variety of social issues.

At its first meeting this past month, five participants read Gordon Korman’s “Masterminds” and discussed themes of censorship.

“Even if they don’t really have much to say, they just want to be in a space where other kids are, excited to talk about something that really interests them,” Joseph said.

For Derrick Ramsey, the co-founder of children’s book nonprofit Young, Black & Lit, getting kids excited about reading independently also means promoting access to characters and themes that ring true to their lives.

Young, Black & Lit, which was founded in 2018, brings free books centering Black voices to schools and community events around Evanston, Chicago and Cook County. One of its first ‘Lit Monthly’ drives took place at Oakton Elementary School, where students had a selection of about 150 picture books to

take home.

Currently, YBL also offers ‘Lit Year’ drives in Cook County schools, where K-3 students take home a book each month with the hope of building up a home library.

Only 12% of childrens’ books produced annually feature Black characters, Ramsey said. This, along with persistent negative media narratives surrounding Black youth, he said, means it can be especially affirming and promote confidence when young readers have increased opportunities to see themselves in the books they’re reading.

“Anytime we’re giving out books, you can see some kid who comes up to the table and says, ‘Hey, this kid looks like me. This kid, you know, represents me,’” Ramsey said. “It’s always a joy to see they’re seeing themselves in the stories they read (and) feeling secured by the stories they read.” ilanaarougheti2023@u.northwestern.edu

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Startup uplifts Black women’s hair care

By ELLA JEFFRIES

the daily northwestern @ellajeffriess

Growing up as a Black woman with naturally coily hair, McCormick senior Ayinoluwa Abegunde said she didn’t feel properly educated on how to care for her hair and lacked the tools, products and accessories to do so.

As a result, Abegunde launched her own brand in September 2020 in hopes of teaching other Black women to learn about and love their hair. She said she founded KOYLD, a start-up that began in The Garage “to drive the African woman’s full acceptance of the unique texture of her hair and reform the world’s perspective towards it.”

She said it’s essential to combat hair texturism — the idea that specific types of natural hair are perceived as more beautiful than others.

“I want people to respect … that other people have this unique texture and they want to wear it and they should not be discriminated against,” Abegunde said. “I want women with coily hair to be able to go into the workplace and not feel like they’re different

from anyone.”

As a chemical engineering major, Abegunde also said she hopes the brand will inspire young Black women to pursue STEM. She’s currently working on a book focusing on the science of coily hair and the psychology behind hair care.

A main pillar of KOYLD is promoting a joyful hair journey, she said, while also giving space to process the years of struggle, rejection and discrimination that African women have dealt with concerning their hair. She said the book will focus on working through these hardships so everyone can love their hair. Following the book’s launch, Abegunde hopes to create hair products specifically engineered for coily hair.

Abegunde works with two friends she met in the United Kingdom: Sefinat Opesanwo, who serves as art director and photographer, and Pelumi Obasaju, the marketing director.

Obasaju called her journey with KOYLD one of growth, saying it has contributed to her personal journey with her natural hair.

“I love how KOYLD effortlessly cultivates a confident joy, and I’m excited to see how the community evolves,” Obasaju said.

Opesanwo said her role primarily involves reviewing the brand’s photos and marketing material.

She works directly with Abegunde to realize the brand’s vision, Opesanwo said.

“I have to be able to see the vision laid out by the CEO and bring it to life as an artistic production,” Opesanwo said.

The brand also has an Instagram, @wearekoyld, which Abegunde said serves as a space for African women to learn, ask questions and share their own coily hair experiences.

Abegunde said some people have questioned why she started an Instagram for KOYLD before launching products, but she said creating a community space was important to her. She aimed to create a platform where everyone feels safe no matter how they wear their hair or its texture — especially given how personal hair care can be for Black women, she said.

“It’s a priority to continuously try and make it an inclusive space,” Abegunde said. “No matter where you are in your hair journey and no matter how you like to wear your hair, at a specific point you’re able to benefit from the brand and what we share.” ellajeffries2025@u.northwestern.edu

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Fall food guide: Bakeries and cafes add new items

By CHARLOTTE VARNES

daily senior staffer @charvarnes11

As the leaves begin to change color in Evanston, local bakeries and cafes are adding new autumnal items to their menu to celebrate the season. Here are some of The Daily’s top picks.

Coffee Lab & Roasters Coffee Lab & Roasters is ringing in the fall season with a variety of seasonal drinks and foods. Their drinks bring in several autumnal flavors, including an Apple Pie Latte, Peach Cobbler Latte, Maple Brown Sugar Latte, Pumpkin Spice Latte and Caramel Apple Cider.

This popular cafe features cupcakes and other baked goods from Karat

Cakes, a small business run by barista Kara Suckling (Bienen M.M. ’20) that specializes in cakes, cupcakes and other baked treats.

Halloween-themed treats. Its menu features spooky items like Coffin Cakes, Mummy Cake Pops, Vampire Donuts and Ghost Cups.

Patisserie Coralie

Coocoo Cookies

Patisserie Coralie, a downtown Evanston cafe and bakery specializing in French coffee and baked goods, is celebrating fall with a variety of specialty Nutella treats on their menu.

Their seasonal items include a Nutella Latte, Vanilla Nutella Sable Tart, Banana Nutella Monkey Bar and Nutella Sandwich Cookie.

One server said her favorite Nutella items on the menu are the strawberry Nutella Danish and the layered Nutella Crepe Cake.

Tag’s Bakery Tag’s Bakery, located just blocks from Hewn on Central Street, is serving up plenty of

Coocoo Cookies, a natural-ingredient based cookie company, is offering customizable Halloween and fall-themed cookies. Customers can either order fully-decorated cookies or paint-your-own cookies kits that allow recipients to decorate the treats themselves.

Owner Phoebe Huang said customers can request designs featured on the business’ website or work with her to develop customized cookies. Customers can order treats through Facebook or Coocoo Cookies’ website and pickup is available in downtown Evanston.

Cinnaholic

Cinnaholic, a bakery specializing in gourmet cinnamon rolls in downtown Evanston, added three seasonal cinnamon rolls for the fall: a Pizza Roll, a Pumpkin Spice Roll and a Fluffernutter Roll. Customers can order the rolls either in person, for in-store pickup through Cinnaholic’s website or for delivery through DoorDash, Uber Eats or Grubhub.

One server said her favorite among the seasonal items is the Pumpkin Spice Roll.

Bennison’s Bakery Bennison’s Bakery, a downtown Evanston staple offering everything from macarons to donuts to sandwiches, gave several of its treats a fall makeover. The bakery is selling Pumpkin and Skull Cakes, Ghost Cupcakes, Pumpkin Donuts, Halloween-themed Petit Fours and more at its storefront on Davis Street, through Halloween. charlottevarnes2024@u.northwestern.edu

Fall music guide: Get into the autumnal spirit

By JORJA SIEMONS

daily senior staffer @jorjasiemons

Feeling like autumn crept up too fast? Still need to get into the spirit of the season? Check out these 15 songs perfect for changing leaves, rainy days, pumpkin spice lattes and apple pies.

“Harvest Moon” by Neil Young With soft banjo-guitar chords and a harmonica solo, Young returns to his folk roots in this homage to the autumnal moon cycle. “Harvest Moon” feels like driving down a maple tree-lined street with your windows down.

“Autumn Town Leaves” by Iron & Wine “Autumn Town Leaves” drips in sweetness with lyrics like “Some want love and some want gold / I just want to see you in the morning.” Iron & Wine’s alternative indie style hits home in this stripped yet affectionate song perfect for latenight listens.

“Amoeba” by Clairo Clairo’s heavenly vocal harmonies shine through in this song from her latest album, “Sling.”

Between the funky electric guitar and consistent reverb, “Amoeba” is a song anyone can groove to.

“Stormy Weather” by Etta James Only Etta James could make rainy days and

gloomy moods sound this beautiful. The sentimental love song was originally written in 1933 by Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler, but James’ rendition stands on its own given her emotive tone and contralto vocal timbre.

“Apple Pie” by Lizzy McAlpine Looking for the perfect song to listen to in the kitchen this fall? Turn on McAlpine’s ballad for cozy vibes and charming lyrics such as “... you feel like / City life, apple pie baked just right / Home is wherever you are tonight.”

“Crimson & Clover” by Tommy James & The Shondells This 1968 classic from the psychedelic rock artist will help you achieve your main character moment one guitar riff at a time, painting the image of crimson leaves to match the trees outside.

“Boyish” by Japanese Breakfast “Boyish” is the perfect soundtrack for crying glamorously on a candlelit night. It feels like a flashback and it’s laced with nostalgia — ideal for late-night ruminations. “What do you want from me?” Michelle Zauner sings. “If you don’t like how I look, then leave.”

“Where You Lead” by Carole King The theme song for the beloved Y2K comedydrama “Girlmore Girls,” King’s earnest ballad will make you want to put on a Lorelai-esque cable knit or corduroy jacket. Curl up with a pumpkin

spice latte and binge the series.

“Dog Years” by Maggie Rogers “Dog Years’” music video encapsulates the song’s vibe perfectly: a rainy walk among autumn leaves. Rogers marries folk and pop seamlessly, adding in chimes, rattlesnake tail shakes and other unconventional sounds to make the song sonically complex.

“Fast Car” by Tracy Chapman Chapman’s famous 1988 song uses soothing rhythmic acoustic guitar with a bouncy downbeat to evoke escapist imagery. Listening makes you want to grab your love by the hand and vanish into a swirl of autumn leaves.

“Fancy Shoes” by The Walters The third song in their album “Songs for Dads,” “Fancy Shoes” has a stripped-down, acoustic quality akin to songs off The Lumineers’ album “Cleopatra.” Perfect for any autumn evening party, this song feels like kicking off high heels and dancing barefoot in the kitchen.

“Boomer” by Bartees Strange Amid all the seasonal downers on this playlist, “Boomer” feels like the cathartic release of a sunny day in the midst of fall. The indie rock anthem hints at the vocal stylings of Alabama Shakes, with sharp staccato and electric guitar for days.

“Tis Autumn” by Nat King Cole

The 1941 jazz ensemble was written by Henry Nemo and features soft piano with Cole’s gentle voice repeating the phrase “La-di-da, di-da-didum, ‘tis Autumn.” A soft-tempo makes the song calming and perfect for relaxing fall mornings.

“White Winter Hymnal” by Fleet Foxes The sonic accumulation of music in “White Winter Hymnal” will give you all the serotonin you need as the weather gets colder and wintertime knocks on our front doors. Its rhythmic electric bass and tambourine creates a seasonal spirit perfect for late fall.

“Halloween” by Phoebe Bridgers “Halloween” is haunting – in the best way.

Bridgers (whose signature skeleton jumpsuit screams spooky all on its own) contrasts ethereal vocals and dark lyrics to evoke a bittersweet aura.

Maia Spoto and Ilana Arougheti contributed reporting.

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Kapwa & Kapé event brings music, art to Coffee Lab

By APRIL LI

the daily northwestern @aprilshowers0

Live music and spoken word poetry filled Coffee Lab Evanston Saturday afternoon as residents and students gathered to celebrate Filipino American History Month.

A collaboration between Kitchen Table Stories Project, Kids Create Change, Studio 3 Evanston and Coffee Lab, the weekend-long Kapwa & Kapé event created an opportunity for community members to enjoy Filipino food, performances and traditional art.

“Kapwa means oneness, togetherness, mutuality with one another, and kapé means coffee,” said Abbey Monsalud, an art therapy intern at Studio 3 and one of the event organizers. “We wanted to create a space to bring everybody together to experience this oneness with each other.”

Filipino American History Month commemorates the arrival of the first Filipinos in America on Oct. 18, 1587. Monsalud and Melissa Raman Molitor, co-founding director of Kids Create Change and founder of Kitchen Table stories, both said they felt it was important to create an event recognizing the presence and culture of Filipino Americans.

While Molitor has created programming for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, she said she wanted to create a space that specifically highlighted Filipino American voices.

“It’s really important to celebrate the cultures that are underneath that larger umbrella so that people realize we’re not a monolith,” Molitor said.

The lineup of performers featured Sans

Miguel, Ayrie Gomez, Czaerra Ucol, Deneza, Dori-Taylor Carter, Ky Kami, Resurreccion, Aeriel Cabitac and Christian Aldana. The artists sang and read poetry on a variety of topics, including language, family, womanhood, sexuality and food.

Aldana, founder and creative director of local organization Luya Poetry, said art is a way for people to celebrate their personal cultural experiences. She cited Deneza’s songs about mental health and her mother, as well as Ucol and Taylor’s poetry as examples.

“To see Filipino people together celebrating, but also thinking about their own journeys and experiences and putting that in their art, is an important way to tell our stories,” Aldana said.

“It’s a process of reclamation.”

Aldana said they hope people will share their art more, especially young Asian artists who second-guess themselves because they believe they won’t have an audience. They said witnessing art by people who share identities with them makes them feel less alone.

Monsalud described feeling this way in response to the performances at the event, especially Aldana’s spoken word poetry.

“I felt sadness, anger, the feeling of being seen and a lot of validation through her words,” Monsalud said. “I feel a lot of kapwa with these performers because the stories that they’re telling cut close to home.”

Attendees could also create weavings with natural fibers like raffia, banana leaves and bamboo reeds, as well as other traditional materials like shells and wooden beads.

Monsalud and Molitor explained that weaving has a long history in the Philippines. Molitor said that with technology, younger generations don’t need to carry on the traditional labor-intensive practices, so the event provided an opportunity

for attendees to learn weaving and recognize how it brings people together.

Monsalud spoke about how celebration of Filipino traditions such as weaving can combat colonial mentality, which she described as the belief that one’s culture is inferior to the “dominant” culture.

“It’s very internalized, especially for the Filipino diaspora, and we often forget our roots,” she said. “As I get older, I definitely want to celebrate my heritage more. I want to fully immerse myself in the Filipino community and celebrate who I am because for so much of my life, I’ve pushed that to the side.”

Jay Costales, a first-year student at Columbia College Chicago, said they hadn’t been to Filipino events that featured weaving before and were excited about it.

Costales said they think it’s important for the diaspora to hold on to their heritage, especially with a resurgence of younger generations connecting back to their roots.

“Politics are a big part of why we are here,” Costales said. “And acknowledging that while also having some really good food and hanging out with friends is really important.”

The event continued on Sunday, when attendees made parols — Filipino Christmas lanterns.

Monsalud said she hopes people will leave the event knowing that Filipinos are worth listening to and worth celebrating. She also hopes the event will remind the Filipino community about how the arts can affect their lives for the better.

“It’s so natural for the arts to foster community and foster kapwa,” Monsalud said. “It’s not about competing against each other. It’s not about tearing each other down. It’s about lifting each other up.” liapril@u.northwestern.edu

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Johnson centers community, Indian influences in art

By SANJANA RAJESH

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For Evanston-based sculpture artist Indira Freitas Johnson, art and nonviolence have always been intertwined.

Growing up in Mumbai, she was influenced by her parents’ work. Her mother started a community development center and her father, a follower of Mahatma

Gandhi, was an artist. “(My father) would tell us stories about Gandhi’s nonviolent methods,” Johnson said. “That was a gift to me, and I wanted to pass it to others.”

Johnson’s first experiences with art were participating in her father’s community projects, but her formal education was in advertising. She attended the Sir J.J. School of Applied Art in Mumbai, and then earned a Master of Fine Arts in advertising design from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Eventually, she

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transitioned from the advertising industry to experimenting with sculpture making.

Since then, Johnson’s sculptures have been featured in the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, the Rhode Island School of Design Museum and the Mobile Museum of Art. She was also named a “Chicagoan of the Year” by Chicago Magazine in 2013 for her “Ten Thousand Ripples” sculpture project.

One of her biggest art influences came when she worked with Madhubani painters early in her career, Johnson said. Madhubani is a painting style practiced mainly by women in the northern Indian state of Bihar, characterized by its geometric patterns.

“That idea of folk art traditions is something that I am very interested in — how you can take some of those traditions which were meant to be family traditions… and make that into a community tradition,” Johnson said.

Johnson often engages in community art and collaboration, according to Paula Danoff, president and CEO of the Evanston Art Center.

Danoff referenced a project Johnson completed with Evanston residents last year as an example of the artist’s passion to intertwine community and art.

“She did a whole thing about decorating, painting and doing other designs on hosta leaves, and then they released them in the canal,” she said.

Danoff said Johnson’s collaboration with Chicago communities through her “Ten Thousand Ripples” project was an example of community engagement.

Through the project, which began in 2012, Johnson worked with communities in Chicago to place

sculptures of Buddha in 10 neighborhoods. The purpose of “Ten Thousand Ripples” was to motivate people to think about peace and nonviolence, Johnson said.

Cara Feeney, director of exhibitions at the Evanston Art Center, lived close by to some of the sculptures in “Ten Thousand Ripples,” which is how she came to know Johnson’s art.

Feeney and Danoff have been working with Johnson to bring her new exhibition, “The Resonance of Emptiness,” to the Evanston Art Center. The exhibition primarily contains sculptures made of found objects, exploring the concepts of emptiness and peace. They both shared that a notable piece from the exhibit was “The Empty Bowl,” which is an art piece that invites audience participation.

“Visitors of the gallery are asked to think about something that is weighing them down and pick a piece from a bowl and put it in a circle outside of the bowl,” Feeney said. “I’m able to see this circle around the bowl grow. It’s a physical representation of the community participating in her work.”

The exhibition is on display at the Evanston Art Center through Nov. 14.

Johnson hopes the exhibition’s focus on transforming everyday objects, such as stoves and seeds, will ultimately connect with the audience. “(It’s) the idea that they can place themselves in this flow of transformation, and be able to contemplate and think about the interconnectedness and the impermanence that is part of everyday life,” she said. sanjana@u.northwestern.edu

Musician Cary Kanno continues rich history in Chicago area

By PAVAN ACHARYA

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Cary Kanno was only a sophomore in high school when he decided to construct his very first guitar from scratch.

Kanno, a fan of hard rock and The Beatles, crafted the makeshift instrument from a shoe box, metal wires and improvised tuners. Now, he’s a fulltime professional musician with two solo albums to his name and over 15 years of experience singing and playing the guitar. The Chicago artist spent much of this time between two bands in the area: the hip-hop oriented Abstract Giants and funk band Doko Benjo. “(Abstract Giants) was the band that really convinced me that there was a future in music for me, and that it was possible to make money at being a musician,” Kanno said.

Kanno helped found the Abstract Giants after college, taking the lead of the group. Abstract Giants rapper Andrés Roldan, also known as RP, said Kanno played an integral organizational role

with the group.

“He worked on the other end as far as booking the shows, promotion and doing the footwork that a lot of people ask managers to do,” Roldan said.

Throughout his time with the Abstract Giants, Kanno and the band performed at multiple locations around Chicago, including the House of Blues and Congress Theater.

Kanno was also a central figure for the band Doko Benjo. According to the band’s bassist Rus Bass Ehler, Kanno wrote most of the music tracks for the band and also took on manager duties like booking gigs.

“There are millions of people out there who do what Cary does as far as music and playing cover songs,” Bass Ehler said. “But there’s very few people who have his range of songs.”

In 2009, Kanno began to focus on solo work, culminating in two solo albums: “Cary Kanno One” and “Cary Kanno Two.” According to Kanno, his shift to solo work was related to the needs of his growing family, saying he had to “prioritize certain elements” of his music career.

The music industry, he said, has changed in recent years due to the emergence of streaming,

as musicians can no longer rely on CDs to make money.

But Kanno adapted, instead focusing on music licensing and securing gigs. His music has appeared in a number of television shows and commercials in recent years, including “The Voice,” “The Discovery Channel” and in Nissan commercials.

During the summer months, Kanno said he performs between two to four gigs a week throughout the Midwest. He pulls from a library of around 700 songs he can perform at live performances, including both covers and original compositions.

When Kanno is not performing, he is writing and recording original music in his studio at his home in Elmhurst. He said he’s a lover of all music and will play almost any style, whether rock, hiphop, funk, rap or other genres. “(Sometimes) I’ll be in a creative drought or creative slump and I’ll hear something new that I haven’t heard, and I’ll be like, ‘Wow, that’s a really cool sound, that’s really inspiring,’” Kanno said. “I don’t try to emulate it as much as I try to use it as background inspiration.” pavanacharya2025@u.northwestern.edu

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other nations.

“Our system … is designed not to work,” Yang said.

“The duopoly is growing more and more extreme because the incentives actually reward (politicians) for (not) being … the compromising, collaborative type, but the inflammatory ... type.”

Ben Chasen, director of public relations for College Democrats, said the organization booked Yang before he left the Democratic Party. But Chasen, a Medill junior, still sees Yang as a champion of certain progressive policies.

Yang expressed pride in seeing universal basic income, a policy he said he has advocated for since 2013, enter the national political conversation. He added the government needs to replace existing welfare structures with his famous $1,000 per month financial cushion.

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and are college and career ready by the time they reach 12th grade. The districts’ aim is to achieve the goal in 12 years, or one cycle of students.

Other areas of collaboration focus include STEM, social sciences and 21st century skills, according to Beardsley.

District 202 board member Gretchen Livingston said she participated in the joint literacy goal’s creation in 2014. “Despite all best efforts,” she said the districts have not made enough progress since then.

“We just aren’t where we need to be,” Livingston said. “We need to see some comparison of the data to have an understanding as to where we need to go (and) what are the changes we need to make.”

While COVID-19 interrupted some of the work, Livingston said the pandemic cannot be the excuse, as the districts first established this goal seven years ago. Rather, she hopes COVID-19 can inspire the boards to move forward and make decisions based on the results of district collaboration.

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EPD hopes to work outside of the dashboard to make some of the changes CNP asked for, the existing design of the software was incompatible with most of the group’s requests. One of the demands EPD plans to incorporate is adding statistics on school resource officers and military weapons in the Police Issues and FAQs section of the city website.

“We have looked for different avenues and opportunities to address CNP’s concerns, when it’s where we can with the technology available,” Glew told The Daily. “We were pretty straightforward with what we could and could not do, (so) incorporation depends on how (accepting the demands) is defined and how people look at it.”

CNP’s concerns with the dashboard, however, stretch beyond its push for new data categories. The group said it also opposes EPD’s plan to change the way new data is processed before the site’s old data is clean — an oversight that could provide a bad foundation for holding EPD accountable to the past.

History of Data Discrepancy As the last dashboard vanishes from the city’s website on the eve of the new verion’s launch, the group’s concerns that inaccurate data is being uploaded to the dashboard persist.

EPD regularly sends traffic and pedestrian stop statistics to the Illinois Department of Transportation. The records submitted to IDOT for a given traffic stop are more extensive than those submitted for the dashboard, Meadows said. It’s only when working with IDOT that officers include an explanation of why each traffic stop was conducted and how thoroughly each search was carried out, including listing the specific actions taken during the search.

“If you look at the numbers, more and more Americans are getting pushed to the side, and the transitions that people imagine are happening according to classical economics are not happening in real life,” Yang said.

SJP Co-President AJ Shaheen, along with other students, also criticized Yang’s support for increasing the number of New York Police Department officers during his run for NYC mayor. Yang was also endorsed by a police union. In their flyers, SJP students wrote Yang supported activities to suppress Black and Palestinian activists.

“You can’t be progressive while failing to acknowledge genocide and what’s one of the worst human rights violations in the past several decades,” Shaheen said.

Chasen said the College Democrats weren’t expecting student protest. However, as a forum that encourages political dialogue, he thanked protesters for making their perspectives known. He added the College Democrats have no official stance on specific Although he did not participate in the literacy goal’s creation, District 65’s Sergio Hernandez said by focusing strongly on literacy, the districts neglected a more holistic approach to student learning. He said he looks forward to seeing the district prioritize STEM proficiency and college readiness resources, particularly for marginalized students.

“What I’m more interested in is these add-ons here that are really going to give us a holistic picture of how our child develops throughout both of our systems,” Hernandez said.

Pat Savage-Williams, president of the District 202 board, said District 65 sets the educational, social and emotional foundations for ETHS students. While the districts come together a few times a year, she said their relationship continues to exist outside the joint board meetings.

“Every level of our district is collaborating with colleagues across districts on a regular basis,” Savage-Williams said. “The collaboration is more formal this evening, but it’s ongoing as well.”

political issues.

SESP junior Hayden Harb, who is Palestinian, said he isn’t a fan of Yang. But Harb didn’t think the walkout was an effective way of engaging with him.

“Asking questions and making him answer for whatever you think he needs to answer for is much more effective,” Harb said prior to the event.

During the professor’s Q&A, an audience member interrupted and asked why Yang supported Israel and the NYPD. Yang didn’t answer, saying he would be happy to speak with the person after the event.

Other audience members critiqued Yang’s perspective on Asian American issues. When asked about anti-Asian racism, Yang emphasized the need to acknowledge the struggles of both perpetrators and victims.

“Anti-Asian racism is very real, of course,” Yang said, “but I think that we can approach this just by helping people who are struggling, and if we do that, that’s going to help people who may be victims of violence,

whether they’re Asian or any other background.”

An audience member said as an Asian American, she was disappointed by Yang’s response and felt like he was making excuses for perpetrators of violence.

She then walked out of the auditorium.

Though some students echoed this sentiment, others appreciated the perspective of a politician from an underrepresented community.

Throughout the event, Yang made a point to connect with the struggles of young people through his own range of experiences in the political arena. Chirag Goel, a first-year in the Feinberg School of Medicine, said it was inspiring to see a person of color run for president. He said he appreciated Yang’s perspective as an outsider politician.

“It made it seem that a person from any background could run for this position,” Goel said.

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ProPublica in New York and The New York Times, where she created The 1619 Project.

Many of the stage events, discussions, lectures and more held during Dream Week, a celebration of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr., will be open to the public, including Hannah-Jones’s keynote address.

Vice President and Associate Provost for Diversity and Inclusion Robin Means Coleman said Hannah-Jones’s work has done much to uncover the impacts and injustices of racism at a time of crucial change within our society, according to the release.

“The Dream Week 2022 committee was clear in their affirmation that Hannah-Jones’ keynote can provide us all with necessary insight into our national conversation regarding a call to action for social progress and change,” Means Coleman said in the release.

oliviaalexander2024@u.northwestern.edu Similarly, records relating to the number of stops and arrests made by EPD officers uploaded to Evanston’s Open Data portal do not match numbers reported on the Investigative Stops/Field Contact Cards section of the dashboard. In 2017, EPD reported 1,505 total arrests on the dashboard, but only 1,095 on the “Evanston Arrests” Open Dataset within the portal.

When asked by CNP to provide records for all use of force incidents in previous years, there were fewer incident reports the department could find than displayed on the dashboard.

In 2018, EPD reported 23 uses of force through midAugust to the dashboard and 27 through mid-August in their annual report, but provided CNP with records for 30 uses of force. They did not track arrests after midAugust on either the dashboard or the annual report in 2018. EPD reported 35 uses of force in their 2019 report but provided CNP with records of 47 distinct incidents.

EPD declined to comment on differences between data provided to IDOT, Open Data, CNP and the dashboard.

Based on Freedom of Information Act record requests filed by CNP, Weingarden said the data sent to IDOT also doesn’t match the dashboard. Automation could control for human error, according to Glew.

But Meadows said the department should update the current database to match traffic records submitted to IDOT. “We cannot in any situation make improvements unless we tell the truth about what has happened,” Meadows said. “The fact that we have inaccurate information is a problem.”

Glew said the department is expanding what types of data points are publicly available, especially with traffic data. One goal is to track the location of attempted traffic stops rather than the location of actual traffic stops.

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joshuaperry2023@u.northwestern.edu updates has been extremely labor-intensive in recent years, particularly after department staffers with database expertise left the city, Glew said. Once automated, the data should maintain itself and previous problems with personnel loss and dashboard use training can be avoided, Glew added.

However, any increased insight the new dashboard could provide will be stunted if residents are unable to access accurate historical data, CNP President Betty Ester said.

EPD’s traffic records are also the only ones stored in IDOT. If similar discrepancies exist between internal department records and dashboard records for other crime statistics, Ester said it would permanently impede residents’ knowledge about EPD activity.

To Ester, data discrepancy would be especially problematic in the dashboard’s use to identify “hotspots” where crime reports are highly concentrated. This would have a dramatic effect in Evanston’s 5th Ward, Ester said, as portrayal as a high-crime area can lead to decreasing property values.

“The 5th Ward was demonized as, ‘Oh, it’s really bad over there’, which has a negative impact on the people that live there,” Ester said. “When one of these negative reports comes out, (residents) have problems selling their property at the price they loaned it.”

A forward-looking view toward data updates could also make it difficult to assess the impacts of city policy changes toward policing, Weingarden said. In May, Mayor Daniel Biss established a new public safety committee with some oversight over the department, and also discussed reducing department funding and authority in the coming months. Last June, Ald. Cicely Fleming (9th) publicly committed to working to defund the department.

“If they don’t put old data back in the system,” Weingarden said. “Any policy moves that are made in the future, we will have nothing to compare it against.”

Expected updates While officers manually entered data into previous versions of the dashboard, the new version will be mostly automated. When records need to be entered by hand, officers will fill out survey documents, which an algorithm will then distribute to the database, Glew said.

The 2021 database will also include sections to track the internal diversity of the police force, and more detailed records examining what happens after officers initiate traffic stops.

Both of the latter were on CNP’s original list of demands. Glew said the department was ultimately able to take action on CNP’s points regarding more detailed records for use of force by officers.

CNP members said the database should also expand from crime to general police activity. This would include metrics like whether officers are Evanston residents, have been involved in motor vehicle accidents or have been the subject of administrative complaints. According to a CNP FOIA, Weingarden said only about 7% of the force actually lives in the city.

The current dashboard updates coincide with a software upgrade offered by Esri. Though the nature of the software update affected changes, Glew said updates still would have been made to the dashboard this year to fix bugs and IT support problems.

As concerns about data discrepancy and additional transparency needs persist, the dashboard has been unavailable since September, when it was taken down to start undergoing construction. At the time of this article’s publication, the website was still under construction.

“It shouldn’t be a crime dashboard,” Ester said. “It should be a dashboard about everything to do with the police.” ilanaarougheti2023@u.northwestern.edu

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Local artists explore racial justice in Evanston exhibit

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Noyes Cultural Arts Center’s newest exhibition, “What is Racial Justice?,” seeks to spark conversations around race, power and equity.

More than 20 artists from Evanston and the greater Chicago area contributed to the show, curated by Fran Joy, a member of Evanston Made and a former member of the Evanston Arts Council.

One of Joy’s pieces for the exhibition, “Spirit of Justice,” depicts a Black woman with angel wings.

Etched inside the wings are Joy’s conceptions of racial justice, like ending gerrymandering, redlining and unfair incarceration.

“Art crosses boundaries and brings people together,” Joy said. “You don’t have to go back 50 years to find racial injustice.”

Another one of the paintings, “Man in the Mirror” by Sarah Kaiser-Amaral, depicts a white policeman looking at himself in the mirror and developing a conscience, according to the painter.

Claudia Marter, a junior at Evanston Township High School, said social justice issues have become more important to her as she has grown as an artist. Marter added that more unity is needed to address social justice issues. Divided, she said, nothing will change.

For the exhibition, Marter created an oil painting of Simone Biles, which she said represented the gymnast’s strength and resilience. Marter highlighted the racial injustice that Biles faces, specifically that the International Gymnastic

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Sarah Kaiser-Amaral standing in front of her painting, “Serenity Prayer.” The painting is on display as part of the “What is Racial Justice?” exhibition at Noyes Cultural Arts Center.

Federation Judges lowered the difficulty level of moves Biles excelled at to even the playing field for gymnasts competing against her.

Biles is the only woman to attempt the Yurchenko double pike due to its difficulty. But Marter said judges diminished the difficulty of the move to unfairly restrict Biles.

“As soon as a Black woman steps up and is excelling in an area in which mostly White men had exceeded, they change the entire point system

to favor everyone else,” Marter said. “Racial justice means equity and equality.”

Joy said racism persists, and she tackles it in her art. The past 10 years of her artistic practice has focused on social justice issues. Two of her paintings from that period are featured in the show.

One, “Value My Life,” represents all children of color who lost their lives to gun violence.

When Kaiser-Amaral feels like the “world is on fire,” she often turns to painting as a way to

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“Art fills a lot of roles in society,” she said. “In really turbulent times, we need to use our art platform as a voice and try to make people aware, try to break through that bubble.”

In her painting of Biles, Marter conveys the struggles of the star athlete. An alternate title she considered for the piece, “Eloquent Silence,” reflects how Biles is peaceful and can exude such a strong presence without saying anything, the artist said. For Marter, Biles represents strength and growth. Marter said she was impressed by Biles’ confidence and will to succeed in spite of racial and gender discrimination, as well as mental health struggles. “(Art) should play a big role (in advancing racial justice). Art will eventually bring us together,” Marter said. “Art is the truest expression. It can be something everyone can understand because of how personal it is.”

Kaiser-Amaral and Joy paint images of children who lost their lives to gun violence for Faces Not Forgotten. The organization creates quilts composed of eight of these portraits, representing the eight children that die from gun violence in the United States every day.

The exhibition’s Oct. 15 opening brought together artists and members of the community together, Joy said.

“I wanted people to get in touch with their spirituality. Everybody came together to examine and explore this concept of racial justice,” Joy said.

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When Northwestern redshirt junior Bente Baekers approached the penalty stroke line, she placed her stick down and looked the goalie right in the eyes, ready to secure another goal over a gritty Michigan State team.

Penalty strokes are uncommon, so Baekers had to deliver. And when the whistle sounded, she did just that — sending the ball right past the goalie’s feet and calling the game with only a few minutes remaining. The Wildcats (12-4, 3-3 Big Ten) scored a stunning win over the Spartans, giving the Cats what coach Tracey Fuchs said the program needs some win with Big Ten foes Iowa and Indiana on deck this weekend. With these contests being the last two regular season games, NU will have a prime opportunity to set itself up for a successful postseason run.

“This is going to be a battle,” Fuchs said. “(Iowa) is feisty when it comes to shots and Indiana is consistent so we need to just play our game.”

The Cats commence their grand finale stunt against the Hawkeyes (16-0, 7-0) Friday for the teams’ first matchup this season. Although NU boasts two wins over Iowa from its 2020 campaign, the Cats dropped one to the Hawkeyes 3-1 in the 2020 NCAA tournament in May, a loss that ended NU’s season. Friday’s matchup

in Iowa City, Iowa, is not just a regular season showdown for the Cats, but a chance at revenge.

As NU closes out their bye week, Fuchs said the team needed to close in on many points of focus to earn a win over the Hawkeyes.

Fuchs felt the Cats must ramp up their shooting accuracy. In the win over Michigan State, NU made six out of its 28 shots, an area where Fuchs saw room for improvement. She said the Cats need to get more successful in shooting on goal as Iowa’s defense will give them challenges inside the circle.

And for a program that currently sits undefeated and at the top of the conference standings, defense is a specialty, something NU will have to contend with to score goals. With wins over No. 2 Michigan and No. 3 Rutgers, two teams who defeated NU this season, Iowa will apply the pressure Friday and attempt to keep the Cats scoreless.

Baekers and graduate student forward Clara Roth will be key players to look for in the contest. The two players currently lead the program in goals this season. For the Cats to avenge their postseason woes, NU will rely on this dynamic duo to make noise on offense against the Hawkeyes.

“I owe it all to my teammates who create lanes for me to take shots,” Roth said. “We took time to refocus our shooting against Michigan State and I think we’ll be ready for the games ahead of us.”

After the Iowa matchup, NU heads

back to Lakeside Field to host Indiana Sunday (10-8, 2-5) for its final regular season game. Roth said the team will have to shift mindsets to prepare for Indiana, since this team is “completely different” from the Hawkeyes.

NU’s last standoff against the Hoosiers ended with a two-game shutout sweep. Once again, Baekers was one of the main offensive threats, scoring two goals on Indiana in NU’s 2020 home opener. Her presence on the field Sunday will be not only a weapon, but will also create opportunities for other forwards to score, Fuchs said.

Following the Cats’ last two games, Fuchs highlighted Baekers’ performance, saying she was a “true leader ‘’ over the weekend. She praised the redshirt junior’s composure and energy on the field, which she said shifted NU’s momentum following a 32-minute scoring drought while playing the Spartans.

Roth agreed with the sentiment, adding this intensity is something the squad aims to bring to the Hoosiers with their postseason standings still in the air. Not only would a win be a step in the right direction for the Cats, but it would send a message to the rest of the Big Ten that the program has the pieces to win the title and clinch a spot in the NCAA tournament.

“Our goal is to make it to the Final Four,” Fuchs said. “Our success starts with us in trying to get there so we’ll be ready to play next week.” skyeswann2024@u.northwestern.edu

Swann: $35 is still too much for the Wildcats Classic

By SKYE SWANN

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When Northwestern football was crowned the 2020 Big Ten West champions, earning their spot at the Big Ten championship against Ohio State, I was ecstatic, even though the pandemic kept me from seeing the game in-person.

Then, the Buckeyes’ run game trampled over the Wildcats in a resounding 22-10 defeat.

The shock on my face after that game has become my default expression for this entire season as NU (3-4, 1-3 Big Ten) suffers loss after loss.

When I received an email from Northwestern Athletics saying I had to pay roughly $70 to attend the Wildcats Classic, I thought “immediately no.” Obviously, I wasn’t the only student who felt this way — the department sent an email Oct. 20 issuing a price reduction for tickets.

Tickets to the game and pregame tailgate at Lucky Strike are currently on sale for $35. But is that still worth it?

Honestly, the tickets should be free to students, just like all home games at Ryan Field. NU is getting obliterated in conference games, with a 56-7 rout to Nebraska and a 33-7 defeat to Michigan in Ann Arbor in their past two away games. With the prospect of facing a top Big Ten team, Purdue, that currently ranks third in the Big Ten West division, is it worth traveling to Wrigley Field when I can follow the game for free on my phone from the comfort of my dorm?

It would be a different situation if the team experienced more success,

like their 2020 campaign, but to pay out of pocket at all for a squad that delivers mediocre results... the athletic department is stretching.

To call the tailgate “free” is also a stretch, since students still have to purchase the $35 tickets in the first place to gain access to free food, beverages and games prior to the contest. The idea of bowling at Lucky Strike seems intriguing initially, but the costs of transportation into Wrigleyville and a ticket to a game makes it less appealing. With a majority of students leaving homestand games at halftime, it feels like I’m being swindled out of $35 for a game most of the student population isn’t

invested in.

The attraction to college football games, especially when your team is not doing too hot, comes from the tailgate and social aspect of it all. But with prices and time investment so high, the Wrigley Field turnout could well be less than the Ryan Field attendance. And if seeing Chicago sports events is the issue, students can buy cheaper tickets to see the Chicago Bulls, a professional team with an undefeated record four games into their season.

And, of course, there still is another factor to think about — winter in Chicago.

The Wildcats Classic is scheduled for Nov. 20, a time when the Midwest transitions into the core of its winter season.

With football contests lasting three to four hours on average, sitting outside at Wrigley Field in a Chicago winter is the epitome of unattractive. Not only am I spending my own money to

watch this game, but I run the risk of also catching a case of hypothermia.

As much as getting sick in winter before traveling home for Thanksgiving Break sounds splendid, my warm, cozy dorm room on campus might win this battle. I can easily hang out with friends, pack for break or spend time in downtown Evanston, while looking at the box score for the game, courtesy of technology.

In the grand scheme of things, NU’s marketing team is doing the student population a disservice by trying to profit from us

for the “special” game. It’s not realistic to expect hordes of students, regardless of their financial situation, to pay for a football game and travel expenses to get to Wrigley Field. Especially when that team is not often bringing home wins or even staying competitive against other Big Ten teams.

I understand the financial stakes of this game. The Wildcats Classic is a huge game played at the prestigious Wrigley Field, and the athletic department is counting on students to help foot the bill.

But the athletic departalso realize students ment must will push back against covering a bill they didn’t ask for, and likely won’t be willing to weather crummy outdoor conditions for a quality of football that might not be too pleasant.

For the superfans who attend every game in the first row and paint their faces purple for gameday, Wrigley might be a no-brainer. But for the sensible student, the Wildcats Classic remains a hard sell. skyeswann2024@u.northwestern.edu