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Q&A: New Mitchell Museum executive director talks space for Native history Vigue, member of the Oneida Nation, named director

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Students carved pumpkins at Norris University Center during a Thursday event.

NU students celebrate Halloween

Halloweekend preview: Pumpkin carving, trick-or-treating, costume parties

By ISABELLE BUTERA

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It’s that time of year again: Northwestern students are busting out their best costumes and getting scared by more than just their midterms.

While some NU students plan to celebrate the holiday on campus, others are turning to offcampus entertainment for Halloween. About 140 students plan on attending Six Flags Fright Fest Friday night, to enjoy haunted houses and Halloween decor at the theme park. NU Nights, an organization that caters to students looking for

options beyond the party scene, is hosting the trip with Student Organizations & Activities.

NU Nights President Alex Manka, a McCormick senior, said accessibility was a primary goal when planning the event.

“We are a substance-free, barrier-free alternative to parties on Friday nights for

students who don’t fit in that crowd or want to do something a little more inclusive,” Manka said.

Communication junior and self-described “horror geek” Kylie Boyd said she’s excited to attend Fright Fest, especially

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The Mitchell Museum of the American Indian announced last Wednesday Kim Vigue will be its new executive director. An enrolled member of the Oneida Nation and descendant of the Menominee Tribe from Wisconsin, Vigue has worked to further Native health and education through the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Indian Education and other public and private organizations for nearly two decades.

The Daily talked with Vigue about her new role and the importance of creating a space for Native education and voices in Evanston. This interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.

The Daily: Why did you want to be executive director of the Mitchell Museum?

Vigue: I had been doing some work for them through my consulting agency, Wolf River Consulting Group, and fell in

love with the staff and the focus of their work. I was completely drawn to them because of their mission and commitment to allow Native people to lead the way and share from our own lived experience. That’s the focus of my whole career — Native people have this voice and are able to share their own perspectives.

The Daily: What do you envision as you think about the museum’s future?

Vigue: It’s really important to me that Native people have a voice, but also that we educate non-Native people about the issues we face and where we could use strong allies. You have such a greater understanding and a greater willingness to support a cause, or movement if everybody feels included and everybody feels educated in the same way.

So, there’s a whole range of social injustice issues. We talked about the boarding school era and its impact on the subsequent generations of Native people in my first week there. There are a few other issues that we’re addressing in the short-term, like environmental rights and Indigenous Peoples’ Day and the miseducation of American

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Shorefront records Comedian Azhar Usman performs local Black history McSA Fall Entertainment Event features features jokes, philosophy, advice NU graduate students help collect oral histories

By AVANI KALRA

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When Dino Robinson said he was challenged to write an article about local Black history, he struggled to find records of Black communities in the North Shore.

With the information lacking, he was inspired to found Shorefront Legacy Center, an archival center aimed at preserving these stories.

“We want to put local history in a common lexicon,” Robinson

said. “When I first started doing research, when you Googled ‘Black history,’ you couldn’t find much. Now, the first few pages are filled with local Black history, most of it generating from Shorefront.”

Shorefront has documented the experience of Black residents across Chicago’s North Shore suburbs since 1995 and has compiled an archival collection of photographs, documents and oral histories. The group is now partnering with graduate students affiliated with Northwestern’s Center for Civic Engagement to expand the community-based archive, beginning work next Friday.

» See SHOREFRONT, page 10

By HENRY ROACH

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Azhar Usman, a stand-up comedian of Indian descent and a Skokie native, performed Thursday at the Muslim-cultural Students Association Fall Entertainment Event in Harris Hall.

Two students opened the evening with a recitation and translation of a passage from the Quran, which Usman joked about as he began his set.

“I’ve gone to so many comedy events, and every (Muslim student association

event) is always great,” Usman said, proceeding to imitate an announcer. “‘We’ve got a great comedy show for you.

Before we get started, here’s some verses to remind us of the hellfire.’”

Usman delivered an animated set, exploring topics like the pandemic, cryptocurrency, cultural appropriation and media corporations.

Weinberg junior Hisham Ahmad, McSA executive vice president, recruited Usman to speak for the event after seeing him perform in Chicago.

He contacted Usman through MUSE Bookings, a booking agency for Muslim speakers run by Northwestern alumni.

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Azhar Usman. The comedian performed in Harris Hall Thursday night as part of McSA’s Fall Entertainment Event.

A h mad s a i d Us man accepted McSA’s payment offer for his time despite it

being lower than his normal

» See USMAN, page 10

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Council approves 5th Ward TIF, denies D65 IGA

By ILANA AROUGHETI

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City Council approved a tax increment financing district in Evanston’s 5th Ward Monday night in a 5-4 vote, following months of controversy.

The final TIF excludes an intergovernmental agreement with Evanston/Skokie School District 65, which had previously inspired the council to delay voting on the TIF as the IGA was finalized.

The council approved a consulting study for the TIF in February, which kicked off a period of extended debate. For some community members, the TIF represents an opportunity to raise property values and improve infrastructure in the 5th Ward. Others, however, see it as a catalyst for accelerated gentrification at a particular cost to longtime, low-income and Black homeowners.

A TIF is a zoning tool that collects all taxes above a baseline amount in an area for 23 years.

The collected money is then used to fund public works and community development projects within that area.

The Five-Fifths TIF is projected to bring in a gross profit of about $77 million before school and library contributions, according to Nina Coppolla of Kane, McKenna and Associates, the city’s TIF consultant. The region primarily encompasses the historically Black 5th Ward and includes commercial corridors as well as residential neighborhoods. It is Evanston’s fifth active and ninth existing TIF. Ald. Devon Reid (8th) commended Ald. Bobby Burns (5th) at Monday’s meeting for the TIF’s historic slate of usage restrictions. It is the first to prioritize residential areas over commercial areas, and will be overseen by a resident advisory committee, with three out of seven committee members required to live in the TIF district.

The 5th Ward TIF would have been the first to be accompanied by an intergovernmental agreement uniting Evanston/Skokie School District 65 and City Council over key planned uses of TIF funding.

The final proposed agreement affirmed that District 65 would make a good-faith effort to establish a school within the boundaries of the

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The tax increment financing district in Evanston’s 5th ward is expected to raise property values in the ward, which has sparked months of controversy amidst concerns that the TIF will accelerate gentrification.

TIF area in the 5th Ward. The agreement did not specify whether the school would have been built using TIF funds — a major point of contention for District 65 in the prior weeks.

The agreement also reaffirmed the city’s plans to prioritize using funds for projects supporting home ownership, affordable housing and workforce development. But the city will not use funds for eminent domain, funding a new Civic Center or developing luxury residences “out of character with the existing community.”

Many residents at Monday’s meeting called for clearer language defining affordable housing, in order to ensure housing developments funded

by TIF dollars legitimately prioritize and protect low-income residents.

Former teacher Trisha Connolly suggested that the proposal could have been more specific by focusing on residents earning 30% to 60% of the Area Median Income. This is similar to the standard Cook County uses to determine eligibility for rent relief.

The inclusion of the terms of the IGA in the final TIF passed 5-4 earlier in the council’s session. But at the very end of debate, several agenda items after the TIF discussion had already closed, Ald. Peter Braithwaite (2nd) called for a revote.

He said he made an error before and wanted to switch his vote, failing the IGA 4-5.

In earlier sessions of the council, the vote on TIFs was held to give more time for a finalized IGA. District 65 Board President Anya Tanyavutti had said the IGA was essential to make sure that the TIF was equitable and protected district interests.

Ald. Clare Kelly (1st) said she shared many concerns with community members and teachers regarding the financial impact of the TIF. She said it will divert money from school districts and public service budgets over time.

“We need to figure out how to budget for our priorities,” Kelly said, “and not use a tool that has such a long history — and a pervasive history — of negatively impacting communities.”

The TIF district is slated to accrue $900,000

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by 2025, according to Paul Zalmezak, the city’s economic development manager. About 12% of this will be collected from the senior living development at 1815 Ridge Ave. Another 8% will come from the Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center, provided the building is refurbished and converted into housing, Zalmezak said.

Former aldermanic candidate Darlene Cannon called for a more detailed plan to protect Black, brown and Indigenous residents from being priced out of their current homes following the TIF’s effect on property values. She questioned whether the final version of the TIF did enough to reflect the city’s stated priorities towards affordability.

“The TIF is a tool of economic development,” Cannon said. “However, it’s not harm-free. By continuing to use this tool, I ask, does our city leadership desire to complete the gentrification project in Evanston?” ilanaarougheti2023@u.northwestern.edu

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When SESP sophomore Sally Kim got COVID-19 last spring, her flu-like symptoms were “not too bad.” Seven months later, her physician diagnosed her with asthma resulting from the virus and she now uses an inhaler every day.

While most patients recover within weeks of contracting COVID-19, some continue to deal with a wide range of new or returning health problems that can last four or more weeks after the initial infection, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. These post-COVID-19 conditions are informally known as “long COVID.” Out of more than 4,000 study participants, 13.3% of participants reported symptoms lasting at least 28 days, 4.5% lasted at least 8 weeks and 2.3% lasted at least 12 weeks, according to a March study.

Feinberg Prof. Igor Koralnik, chief of neuroinfectious disease and global neurology, opened the Neuro COVID-19 Clinic at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in May 2020. Feinberg third-year graduate student Jeff Clark, who conducted research with Koralnik, said they focused primarily on neurological manifestations in COVID-19 patients.

Clark said the most common neurological symptom associated with long COVID is “brain fog,” a term used to describe a patient’s decreased ability to work at their usual capacity, in addition to increased difficulty with attention, memory and multitasking. Other common neurological symptoms include fatigue, headache, change in taste and smell, depression and anxiety.

When Weinberg sophomore Kate Austin had COVID-19, she was not hospitalized but said she had what felt like a “bad cold that lasted way longer than it should have.”

Around a month after her recovery, Austin said she developed altered senses of smell and taste. Certain fruits like strawberries and watermelon, as well as her fruity-scented shampoo,

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Sally Kim, a SESP sophomore who experienced lingering side-effects from COVID-19, found out she had COVID-19 during a routine rapid test she took on campus during spring 2021.

started to taste and smell like “wet dog.” These distorted senses lasted several months, but are a common side effect after infection, according to a September 2021 study.

Kim found out she had COVID-19 during a routine rapid test she took on campus during Spring 2021. She said after the required 11 days of quarantine, she felt “totally fine” besides some wheezing and shortness of breath.

However, when she got back on campus in the fall, she began to pay more attention to her shortness of breath and lung-related side effects as she and her peers began coughing a lot.

“People believe there’s something within the walls of the dorm,” Kim said. “I was coughing like crazy, it was really bad.”

Kim said she went to her physician, who gave her several tests and diagnosed her with asthma from COVID-19. She said she now uses an inhaler every day.

Clark said post-COVID-19 chronic cough and shortness of breath are fairly common among the subset of people with long-lasting symptoms, and there is strong evidence for long-lasting lung damage in people who have had COVID-19. But because the disease is relatively new, there is not much scientific literature about a direct link of COVID-19 to asthma.

It’s difficult to get a truly cross-sectional survey, Clark said, because many people with COVID-19 were asymptomatic, weren’t hospitalized or didn’t test positive.

“For our studies, we’ve been drawing the population from the people who’ve sought care in the COVID clinic,” Clark said. “But that’s a specific subset of people, so you have to keep that in mind.” janyasundar2025@u.northwestern.edu

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SJP: Holding Andrew Yang accountable for stances STUDENTS FOR JUSTICE IN PALESTINE OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR

Northwestern College Democrats hosted Andrew Yang, a faux progressive who recently left the Democratic Party, as their fall speaker earlier this week.

While Yang is seen by many of his supporters as progressive, he fails to extend his progressivism to policing and Palestinian liberation. To bring these issues to the forefront, Students for Justice in Palestine and our allies organized a silent walkout during his Tuesday event. Before the event began, we passed out leaflets detailing his staunch support of Israel during a specific time of heightened oppression this spring. As we walked out, more than 60 of us wore Palestinian keffiyeh scarves, a historical symbol of resistance, and proudly held up Palestinian flags.

We walked out to call attention to Yang’s vocalized support of the state of Israel, which came during a time when the Israeli government was carrying out large-scale violence

against Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah and Gaza.

We walked out because Yang refuses to condemn Israel’s war crimes and apartheid policies — specifically its forced evictions and ethnic cleansing, which are key markers of the genocide against Palestinians.

Last year, when asked by a Spectrum News NY1 reporter about his stance, Yang failed to explain why Israel was bombing Gaza and also refused to condemn Israel’s airstrikes. Yang has never acknowledged the overwhelming number of Palestinian lives lost. He has chosen to avoid speaking about the deteriorating Palestinian condition due to the Israeli apartheid. Rather, his only references to Palestinians are in relation to terrorism, a common tactic used to frame Israel as the victim.

We also wanted to bring to light Yang’s domestic pro-police views, which are inextricable with militarism and the Israeli occupation of Palestine. During Yang’s campaign for New York City mayor, he supported increasing the number of New York City Police Department officers and was endorsed by the Captains Endowment Association, a union that represents high-ranking NYPD executives.

According to the Deadly Exchange Research Report, NYPD and the Israel Defense Forces

share infomation and tactics on how to suppress both Black and Palestinian activists. During the event, we sought to collectively increase visibility of these issues by making our bodies, symbols and flags visible. Information was shared online and in person prior to the event with flyers. These flyers included Yang’s tweet expressing support for Israel and information about his stance on increasing policing, with an explanation of our opposition to his stance.

We did not protest Yang’s invitation to speak.

We encourage discourse and debate. However, speaker events with major politicians like Yang do not facilitate the open exchange of ideas. Yang comes with a preconceived political narrative that he is not looking to revise based on input from students. He has voters and financiers to cater to, and we wanted to make it known, loud and clear, that it is unacceptable to lie to the public about the devastation in Palestine. Our target audience was the students who came to see Yang speak, as well as Yang himself. Many people call themselves progressive, yet hypocritically fail to stand up for Palestine.

College Democrats advertised the event as a Q&A and “Conversation with Andrew Yang.” But students could only submit questions to Yang through an online form, which was screened

in advance. The advertisement was deceptive, since no productive engagement was actually allowed to take place. Yang was dismissive when an audience member asked a question on their own accord about his views on policing and the genocide of Palestinians, responding, “I can talk to you later about this privately.” After the event, he refused to speak to students and dodged reporters’ questions about both the walkout and Palestine.

SJP will continue to advocate for Palestinian liberation on NU’s campus. We hope our peers of all political identities will take time to reflect on the purpose and context behind Tuesday’s action.

Yang failed to take the progressive, moral stance for Palestine — Northwestern students should not allow themselves to make the same mistake.

Until liberation, Northwestern’s Students for Justice in Palestine Students for Justice in Palestine is a student organization advocating for Palestinian liberation. SJP can be contacted at nusjp1@gmail.com. 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.

NUGW: Blank will continue Schapiro’s legacy of harm NORTHWESTERN GRADUATE WORKERS OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR

On Oct. 11, Northwestern announced Rebecca Blank, currently chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, as University President Morton Schapiro’s successor. Presidentelect Blank’s track record at UW-Madison is deeply concerning and very familiar. According to J. Landis Martin , chairman of the Board of Trustees, NU’s Search Committee sought a “transformational leader,” yet it selected a candidate who perpetuates the profits-over-wellness approach to university governance.

The President Position Profile called for a candidate with a commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion. Nothing about Blank’s record indicates transformational change on these fronts. On the contrary, her record shows Black and Indigenous students and staff that they can expect further institutional violence. We cannot reconstruct how the search committee saw the qualities they claimed to desire in Blank. She may be NU’s first woman president, but her identity does not automatically mean she creates equitable policies.

Schapiro leaves NU in disgrace, yet Blank’s actions at UW-Madison mirror Schapiro’s failures toward the University community in three major

areas: privatizing university funding, violent and harmful responses to anti-racist activism and the undermining of faculty and labor groups.

At UW-Madison, Blank sought to privatize university funding and push those costs onto students.

She refused to broadly distribute American Rescue Plan funds to support students during the pandemic and stonewalled student leaders who tried to divert student segregated fee funding to COVID-19 relief.

Furthermore, her administration tried to refuse pay to international students telecommuting during the pandemic.

Blank also funded UW-Madison’s new recreation center by raising student fees instead of asking the lucrative Big Ten Athletics Department to contribute. Similarly, Schapiro also prioritized getting a return on stock investments over the wellbeing of the NU community. Our analysis of the University’s financial report details the continued growth of NU’s assets, in addition to the University’s recent announcement of its record fundraising. Yet, at the same time, NU’s administration frequently emphasizes the need for austerity, both before and during COVID-19.

Blank’s response to anti-racist activism at UWMadison has been violent and harmful. After the murder of George Floyd and the killing of Breonna Taylor, Blank made activists in UW-Madison’s Black, Indigenous and People of Color Coalition wait months to meet with her after promising two meetings a semester. She backed out of meetings where BIPOC students were presenting. She refused to

listen to criticism from Black and Indigenous students about UW-Madison’s Police Department and the impact of a campus statue of Abraham Lincoln.

Regarding the statue, Blank made the incredibly violent comment that “(Lincoln) could have killed more (Native Americans)”. Similarly, when repeatedly asked by students to remove a racist rock monument, she merely moved it to a different piece of university-owned property.

This violence toward Black and Indigenous students has also been a common theme under Schapiro’s leadership at the University. He has repeatedly insulted and ignored BIPOC student activists and responded to protests outside his home by calling them abominations in an email to the entire NU community. Similar to Blank, he also made Black activists who proposed changes on campus after the murder of George Floyd and the killing of Breonna Taylor wait months to get a meeting with him.

Blank ignored and undermined faculty and labor groups on UW-Madison’s campus. Leaked emails reveal she lambasted faculty who wanted to maintain strong tenure policies at UW-Madison after the enactment of Wisconsin’s Act 55, which gutted tenure across the Wisconsin university system.

Her actions at the time, in the words of one UWMadison professor, “indicate that faculty voice is to be curtailed, managed, and controlled when it does not match our current leaders’ goals.” Her administration repeatedly ignored the graduate union’s

Bhardwaj: An unnerving intro to campus DIVYA BHARDWAJ

OP-ED COLUMNIST

After struggling through a surprisingly exhausting first four days of classes, my friends and I were looking forward to enjoying the weekend. But as we got ready to go out, our carefree mood was interrupted when a notification popped up on my phone: “Crime Notice.”

Huddling around the screen, we read that multiple people had reported being drugged at an Alpha Epsilon Pi on-campus fraternity house event the previous night. Hearing that students faced such abuse saddened and angered me, but, naively, I trusted that Northwestern would hold the perpetrators accountable.

I tried to enjoy my night, but I could not stop thinking about the incident. I managed to convince myself that surely such an occurrence was not commonplace. The next day, however, I received a nearly identical email.

Another person reported being drugged at an on-campus fraternity house event, this time at Sigma Alpha Epsilon.

It’s strange for crime notices to contribute to your first impression of social life at NU.

As a freshman, I wanted to meet new people, attend social gatherings and make campus feel like home, but being surrounded by strangers and trying to navigate a new environment made me anxious. Reports of drugging only exacerbated these uncertain feelings, as it sickened me to think that such abuse could happen to anyone. Not only that, but it was also frightening to see that I could not expect accountability on campus.

I believe the terms under which the University investigates these incidents should be determined by the people who report being drugged, and I hope that is the case. I cannot speak to how the investigation is being handled internally, but from an external perspective, it appears NU is prioritizing the wrong people.

Instead of centering survivors, the University seems to protect abusers. Its commitment to minimizing fraternities’ responsibility was immediately apparent in the crime notices — instead of mentioning fraternities by name, it simply listed the street addresses of their oncampus houses. If NU will not even name the fraternities involved, why should I believe that those responsible will face any consequences?

Furthermore, after numerous students protested Greek life after the incidents, the University chose not to act. NU had previously instituted a ban on chapter-sponsored

social events and recruitment activities, but I found it disappointing that the University did not further acknowledge students’ concerns.

NU has made it clear that it is committed to working with fraternities, but I would be more reassured to hear the University is prioritizing survivors’ voices.

It is frightening and alarming that not only did people report being drugged during my first week of classes, but also that the University is unwilling to acknowledge the root of the problem: the inherent power that fraternities unfairly hold. I am not calling for NU to abolish Greek life immediately, but I would expect both fraternity and university administrators to at least recognize that we should be working to ameliorate systemic issues. Focusing on the experiences of those who have faced mistreatment at the hands of Greek life instead of deflecting blame from those responsible would help restore my faith in NU’s justice system.

Divya Bhardwaj is a Medill freshman. She can be contacted at divyabhardwaj2025@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.

concerns about increasing student fees. Her disdain for student and faculty input will continue Schapiro’s legacy at NU. As recently as this month, University personnel locked the NU Library Workers Union [CQ][CQ] out of the provost’s office, sided with abusive subcontractors in negotiations with food service workers only to back down at the threat of a strike and used private security to prevent worker solidarity actions.

NU Graduate Workers’s hopes remain in the solidarity movements led by students and employees of Northwestern. NUGW’s mission is to create better working and living conditions at the University, centering the needs of historically excluded and underrepresented graduate students, particularly Black, Indigenous, people of color, queer, transgender, undocumented, low-income, first-generation, parenting students and students living with disabilities or chronic illnesses. We work to build a fair, equitable NU from the grassroots up, whether or not the person at the top lends their support. We challenge President-elect Blank to show true support to labor movements and activists on campus, but we won’t be holding our breath.

This letter was written by Northwestern University Graduate Workers. 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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Experience may define NU-Minnesota matchup

By DREW SCHOTT

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In the third quarter of its season opener against Ohio State, Minnesota lost star running back Mohamad Ibrahim to a season-ending lower leg injury.

Just over one month later, Trey Potts — Ibrahim’s replacement who rushed for 552 yards and six touchdowns in five games — was ruled out for the year after his hospitalization for an undisclosed injury. But the team’s rushing attack is currently the fourth-best in the Big Ten, averaging 210 yards per game. Part of the reason why the Golden Gophers’ reserves are succeeding on the ground is a veteran offensive line whose starters are all in their fourth, fifth or sixth years of college football.

Minnesota returned 80% of its production for the 2021 season, one of the highest marks in the country. The Golden Gophers’ (5-2, 3-1 Big Ten) returning core has paid early dividends, as the squad is currently tied for first in the Big Ten West heading into a Saturday afternoon matchup with Northwestern (3-4, 1-3 Big Ten).

“This is probably the most experienced team in the Big Ten this year, and it shows,” Fitzgerald said.

“I think they’ve got like 500 starts between their offensive linemen. It’s really impressive to watch them play collectively.”

Fitzgerald would know, considering he has coached in the league for 20 years. His Wildcats team returned 39% of production from last year — the lowest mark in the Power Five.

While Minnesota brought back 10 starters on both sides of the ball to start the season, the Cats had to break in new first-teamers at running back, wide receiver, tight end, left guard, right guard, defensive end, linebacker, cornerback and safety. At Big Ten Media Days in July, Fitzgerald addressed speculation about his roster’s readiness to compete for its third Big Ten West title in four years.

“I knew the focus a little bit today would be on

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Northwestern players run after a win against Indiana State. The Wildcats returned the lowest amount of production in the Power Five from the 2020 season this year.

what we have lost,” Fitzgerald said. “I couldn’t be more excited about what we have.”

However, NU’s new roster experienced early growing pains. The Cats cycled through three quarterbacks in their first three games. New defensive coordinator Jim O’Neil’s group gave up more than 500 yards to its first three Power Five opponents, including a Fitzgerald-era record 657 against Nebraska.

Players such as sophomore quarterback Ryan Hilinski, senior linebacker Peter McIntyre and sophomore safety Coco Azema have solidified their roles as starters. But some position rooms are still in flux.

The Cats are already down two of their starting three wide receivers from their Week 1 projected depth chart. The other, graduate student wide receiver and leading wideout Stephon Robinson Jr., may not play Saturday because of a lower-body injury.

However, senior center Sam Gerak, in his fifth

year with the Cats, has been impressed with players in new, increased roles despite the team’s sub-.500 record.

“Taking practice reps is very different than taking in-game, Big Ten live reps,” Gerak said. “Getting that experience under a lot of guys’ belt that haven’t been in the arena before is really good for them. Guys have continued to mature and learn the game better.

It’s been good to see.”

Player development has been a hallmark of Fitzgerald’s program. This tenet is epitomized through athletes such as Gerak and graduate student linebacker Chris Bergin, who currently leads the Big Ten in tackles and is on track for the All-Big Ten status of former teammates Paddy Fisher and Blake Gallagher.

A similar trend is underway in Minneapolis with coach P.J. Fleck. During the 2019 matchup between the two Big Ten West rivals, wide receiver Chris

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Autman-Bell reeled in one catch for eight yards and defensive end Boye Mafe notched one tackle.

Today, Autman-Bell is the Golden Gophers’ leading receiver, and Mafe is one of the top defensive players in the Big Ten. Minnesota shows flashes of the 2019 team that was one win away from the Big Ten Championship and NU is on track to potentially miss its second bowl season in the last three years. Saturday’s matchup may have massive implications for the final stretch of conference play.

The Golden Gophers’ experience could be the X-factor that lifts them past NU and toward a division title. But Bergin has a solution to counter it.

“We got a lot to clean up,” he said. “But effort, you can’t teach. So we got that. We’ll take care of the rest.” drewschott2023@u.northwestern.edu

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Evan Hull searches for answers

By PATRICK ANDRES

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It seems unreal at first glance — the kind of college football statistic that pops up on occasion and demands a double take. But the numbers are correct, and they are a microcosm of Northwestern’s season.

Sophomore running back Evan Hull has rushed for a career-high 643 yards in seven games this season, the fifth-highest total in the Big Ten. A little over 25 percent of those yards — 165 in all — have come on two scrimmage plays.

Like the Wildcats, Hull’s performance has been up and down this year. At times, the Maple Grove, Minn. native has showcased a penchant for big plays.

A particularly prolific day against Ohio led coach Pat Fitzgerald to suggest further success would put him “in the conversation of being an All-Big Ten back.”

On other occasions, though, opponents have held Hull in check. The 75-yard touchdown run in the second quarter that provided NU’s only score of the afternoon notwithstanding, Michigan limited him on Saturday to six yards on five carries. His secondlongest runs of the day were a pair of two-yard pickups early in the first and second quarters, although he did take sophomore quarterback Ryan Hilinski’s pass 26 yards on third and 16 early in the third. “(Finding more consistency) is something I’ve been working on myself,” Hull said. “It comes down to taking those one- to two-yard plays, and turning them into four- or five-yard plays. It comes with running hard, making no contact. Those are the things I’ve been working on.”

Hull was not widely projected as the Cats’ top running back entering the 2021 season. That honor was supposed to fall to sophomore Cam Porter, who gashed Illinois for 142 yards in the 2020 regularseason finale as a true freshman and added 98 more against Auburn in the Citrus Bowl. Porter, however, sustained a lower-body injury in fall camp and NU ruled him out for the season on Aug. 17. The Cats pressed the veteran Hull into service atop the depth chart for the opener against Michigan State.

Results were mixed: Hull was only marginally involved in the first half against the Spartans, carrying the rock just once for two yards in the second quarter.

He wound up with 87 yards on the ground to go with 23 receiving yards, but Fitzgerald told reporters after the game that Hull was nursing a lower-body injury suffered in camp.

“It was a matter of just easing back into it (after my injury),” Hull said. “I was gaining confidence with every carry. I just had to take it slowly.”

Gradually, Hull’s role increased. He burned Indiana State for 126 yards and two touchdowns, and registered a career-high four catches in the loss to Duke.

Then came his 2021 coming-out party against the Bobcats: 216 yards (his most since 2019) and two touchdowns, headlined by NU’s longest run since 1961. Hull’s 90-yard gallop came just two minutes and two seconds after his other rushing touchdown, a 17-yard score that put the Cats ahead 7-0.

“It built confidence for the entire offense,” Hull said of his banner day. “There have been some plays in previous years where I’ve been caught before I was able to finish a run like that. To finally finish one was a great opportunity.”

Hull’s explosion against the Wolverines is his only touchdown since the Ohio game. Nebraska clamped down on him for just 31 yards on seven carries.

Against Rutgers, he turned a career-high 25 carries into just 53 yards.

Some of NU’s intermittent rushing futility may be attributable to injuries and struggles on the offensive line. Senior offensive lineman Sam Gerak, who has been around long enough to have blocked for longdeparted quarterback Clayton Thorson, emphasized the Cats’ need to get back to fundamentally sound line play. He cited Hull’s big run against Michigan as plays that the offensive line needs to help sustain.

Meanwhile running backs coach Lou Ayeni singled out consistency as a point of emphasis for NU’s running game, a unit in need of shoring up ahead of a difficult closing stretch.

“A lot of times in the run game, it’s one-man

breakdowns. It can be a misstep here, it can be a missed block here, it can be a missed read… The more finetuned everyone is, when everyone’s locked into the same picture, we’ll be better off,” Ayeni said. “We gotta do a great job of putting guys in good situations, and our guys have to take advantage of those situations.”

Though numerous backs have seen carries for the Cats this season — freshman Anthony Tyus III and graduate student Andrew Clair each have over 200 yards, respectively — Hull has unquestionably been the focal point, and has won effusive praise from his teammates and coaches for his day-to-day conduct. “(Evan) has taken everything we’ve coached him on here and applied it not just to football but to his life,” Ayeni said. “He’s taking his work ethic, and learning the schemes and the culture and what it means to be a great player.”

Tyus III added that Hull has been a mentor to the running back room and the team as a whole because of his great attitude and energy.

Hull will get another chance to shine against Minnesota, his hometown team, against which he amassed 51 yards in a losing effort in 2019. He has come a long way since then, and is focused on living up to NU’s expectations both on and off the field.

“I didn’t always have people to show me the right way to go about things … so if I can, I show a younger guy how to do things better and build him up,” Hull said. “It’s a great opportunity, not only for him, but for the collective group.” patrickandres2023@u.northwestern.edu

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Evan Hull looks upward. The sophomore running back’s 643 rushing yards rank fifth in the Big Ten.

Northwestern rebounded from a lopsided 56-7 road loss to Nebraska by holding off Rutgers 21-7 Oct. 16, earning the Wildcats their first Big Ten win and giving the home crowd something to celebrate on Homecoming weekend.

After another blowout road loss to Michigan, NU (3-4, 1-3 Big Ten) will again look to find its footing at Ryan Field. But Minnesota (5-2, 3-1) is no easy opponent. The Golden Gophers are currently tied atop the Big Ten West standings and will pose a tough test in the trenches for the Cats. “(We have a) huge challenge against the Gophers this weekend,” coach Pat Fitzgerald said.

“They are physical, I’m really impressed with both sides of the line of scrimmage.”

Minnesota will come to Ryan Field with momentum on its side, boasting wins over conference opponents Purdue, Nebraska and Maryland in its past three matchups. A stingy run defense forged its path to the top of the Big Ten West standings. While the Golden Gophers have allowed only 85.7 yards per game on the ground, NU gives up a Big Ten-worst 218.3 rushing yards per game.

Minnesota’s offensive game plan to open the year seemed simple — pound the ball with 2020 All-Big Ten running back Mohamed Ibrahim.

But his season-ending leg injury in the Golden Gophers’ opener against Ohio State dealt the team a major blow. More than a month later, running back Trey Potts, who averaged more than 100 yards per game, also suffered an undisclosed season-ending injury.

Still, the Minnesota rushing attack has carried the offensive load, ranking fourth in the Big Ten in rushing yards per game amid a pedestrian season from quarterback Tanner Morgan. The Golden Gophers have also held up along the offensive line, allowing just nine sacks in seven games.

“I’m really impressed with their backfield,” Fitzgerald said. “You’re down your top two backs, but I don’t think that matters. Last week against Maryland, they had a three-headed monster going there pretty successfully.”

NU’s rushing attack provided the team’s lone offensive highlight against the Wolverines last Saturday on sophomore running back Evan Hull’s 75-yard house call at the end of the first half, but the running back core has struggled to find consistency against Big Ten opponents.

Hull, who hails from Maple Grove, Minn., has emerged as the Cats’ big play threat in the backfield, with runs of 75 and 90 yards this season and 643 yards on the season, fifth in the Big Ten. But despite a couple of gaudy rushing performances against NU’s Football Championship Subdivision opponents early in the season, Hull has yet to break 100 yards in a conference game. The Cats will also look to get graduate transfer Andrew Clair and freshman Anthony Tyus III active in the rushing attack to take pressure off sophomore quarterback Ryan Hilinski.

“We got to be able to move the ball consistently and then obviously score points. That’s what everybody’s identity wants to be,” Fitzgerald said. “Number one, (we want) to try to have consistency and establish the line of scrimmage and be able to make explosive plays.”

The rivalry between the two Midwest programs returns after a one-year hiatus, with last season’s matchup canceled due to coronavirus concerns within the Golden Gophers’ program. The Cats have won two of three games since Minnesota coach P.J. Fleck’s arrival in 2017, though the thenNo. 11 Golden Gophers pummeled NU in a 38-22 rout in the most recent matchup in 2019.

Saturday’s afternoon game will also mark the first of five consecutive Big Ten West contests to close NU’s regular season, with the division’s top two teams taking trips to Evanston on backto-back weekends. The homestand offers the Cats the opportunity to either climb out of the division’s cellar and into bowl contention or deal what has been a disappointing season to date a crushing blow.

With NU searching for answers and looking to both familiar and fresh faces to step up, Fitzgerald is preaching consistency in the thick of the Big Ten season.

“One of the biggest things is just staying steady and making sure that all you have to do is your own job and do it well,” senior center Sam Gerak said. “That’s going to lead to winning games.” johnriker2023@u.northwestern.edu

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Wide receivers ready to step up following injuries

By LAWRENCE PRICE

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Heading into its season opener against Michigan State, Northwestern announced its Week One Projected Depth Chart, consisting of returning faces, different numbers and new players.

The revamped roster included a wide receiver group including sophomore Bryce Kirtz and graduate Stephon Robinson Jr., both making their starting debut in purple and white. The decision paid off for the Cats, as the two led the receiving corps in yards for five weeks — Robinson Jr. with 309 and Kirtz flexing 203.

However, entering their eighth matchup of the season against Minnesota, the Wildcats’ duo will not take the field together Saturday due to injuries. After a 33-7 loss to No. 6 Michigan last week, coach Pat Fitzgerald announced Kirtz will miss the rest of the season with a non-contact injury. Robinson Jr. left the game early, and his status for Saturday is unknown.

Although a major blow to offense, wide receivers coach Dennis Springer emphasized that the unit has a “next man up” mentality and its players will be ready when their number is called.

“This team needs everybody,” Springer said. “We feel like we’ve prepared everyone for an opportunity to play, and when your opportunity comes, it’s time to step up and make those plays.”

Ahead of the Minnesota matchup, NU’s projected depth chart lists wide receivers junior Malik Washington and senior JJ Jefferson as the starters along with Robinson. Since Kirtz’s early exit against Nebraska,

Washington has engraved himself as an essential piece of the offense, averaging over 60 receiving yards in the last three games and totaling 318 on the season.

Jefferson will line up for his third contest of the year after making his season debut against Rutgers.

Although not suiting up in 2020, the veteran already holds credibility to his name, posting back-to-back 150 yard seasons in 2018 and 2019.

The Houston native understands Kirtz and Robinson Jr.’s talent and skill can’t be replaced, but he said he is excited to be back on the field.

“We just have to adapt,” Jefferson said. “We still have an opportunity to make a bowl, we still have an opportunity to go, with the right circumstances, to the Big Ten Championship, so every game matters and we’re going to take it serious, one play at a time.”

After its battle against the Golden Gophers, only Big Ten West opponents remain on NU’s schedule. While the Cats may not make it to the Big Ten Championship, it will be vital for the wide receiver room to be on the same page as sophomore quarterback Ryan Hilinski in the chase for a bowl game.

The group has flashed signs of consistency at various times during the year, but has struggled to find its stride. Coach Pat Fitzgerald said by taking the season practice by practice and trusting the game plan, the wideouts’ confidence will grow and translate to the field.

“They just need to play up to their potential,” Fitzgerald said. “I know those guys would never want an opportunity based on someone else getting injured, but I know they are excited to play.”

Unlike NU, who lost last year’s starting receiving corps to the NFL Draft and the transfer portal, Minnesota’s back end defenders flex veteran experience.

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JJ Jefferson runs after the catch. The wide receiver was elevated to Northwestern’s starting lineup following injuries.

Each starter in the secondary is a junior or older.

Although facing an experienced group, sophomore wide receiver Genson Hooper-Price is eager for himself and the room to step up in their teammates’ absence.

Understanding the team is not where it wants to be record wise, Hooper-Price said the Cats have two roads to choose from. He hopes they will choose the road to victory.

“Everybody’s pointing the finger at themselves and figuring out what they can do to improve,” Hooper-Price said. “This offense is going to reach new heights and reach new levels as we continue to work, continue to grow as a group and reach our potential.” lawrenceprice2024@u.northwestern.edu

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Spectrum Theatre Company brings joy, healing

By JORDAN MANGI

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After more than a year and a half of the COVID-19 pandemic, the teams behind Spectrum Theatre Company’s Firelight Festival of Devised Work projects knew the Northwestern community needed two things: joy and healing.

Firelight Festival is comprised of two devised shows, “Project Heal” and “Project Joy,” which means directors and casts wrote them collaboratively. “Project Heal” goes up Friday and Saturday at 5 p.m. in Norris University Center, and “Project Joy” will go up Saturday at 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. in Shanley Pavilion.

“Project Heal,” directed by Communication junior Joyce Pu, explores themes of loss and grieving during the pandemic. As an international student from China, Pu experienced the pandemic in two countries and was intentional about including international student collaborators in the show.

Through research, interviews and art-making, Pu and the cast created an interactive, movement-based play. Pu conducted research over the summer on loss during COVID-19,

and she brought it to the cast as a jumping-off point.

“Structure-wise, I would tell the cast I was coming in with a skeleton of this house, and we’re going to build this house together,” Pu said.

The show does not follow a concrete plot, instead focusing on individual stories tied together by the experience of grieving.

“Project Joy,” directed by Weinberg sophomore Victoria Grisanti, took a somewhat different approach to devising.

Similar to Pu, Grisanti researched over the summer to prepare for rehearsal. She said she read scientific articles on joy as well as “The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World” by the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu and Douglas Carlton Abrams. Grisanti also watched lots of joy-related TikToks.

“We were looking at joy as a very broad, encapsulating feeling that doesn’t have to just mean ‘happy’ and can hold a lot more than that,” Grisanti said.

When the cast came together in the fall, it wrote a narrative-driven play, drawing on its own experiences.

The story follows a girl named Lily as she packs up her childhood bedroom and reflects on moments of joy brought up by

different items of clothing she tries on. The cast members reenact each moment, in all of its complexities.

“We would start with an idea for what a memory might look like, like coming home for Christmas, and then we play with it,” said Communication sophomore Maggie McKenna, one of the “Project Joy” cast members. “Then we took that and what we learned from that and we wrote a script, each of us contributing different sections.”

Spectrum Theatre Company has produced a devising series for several years. Pu, who is also the company’s literary manager, said the board prioritizes devising because it sees collaboration as an important part of theatre-making.

While the two projects this year took on different directions and tones, both teams focused their energies on creating shows around what they thought audiences needed this fall.

“It’s important to have a communal response to this communal trauma that we’ve all gone through,” Pu said. “I really don’t think there’s another better way to do it other than devising: we get up and get a group of student artists to make art together in response to something.” jordanmangi2023@u.northwestern.edu

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children. I’m hoping to give the people who are on the ground doing that work a platform to share with everybody.

The Daily: For you, what is the importance of a place like the Mitchell Museum that’s dedicated to Native history, voices and culture?

Vigue: Where do I start? It means so many things to me. Native people have dealt with and still deal with this issue of invisibility. People don’t even know we exist anymore. Everything that’s been taught about us has been taught in the past tense. And that affects everything from how we’re talked about in an educational setting, in health care, regarding the environment — I mean, it impacts every part of our lives. Personally, I want to make sure visitors have this true, authentic Native American experience that’s provided by Native people.

I think about what a responsibility this feels for me to be in this role, because every Native person I know has sat in a classroom and heard educators misrepresent us. This is a real opportunity to introduce the people in Evanston and the greater Chicago area to the history of the Native people that originally inhabited this area. And then to teach them there is this thriving, very large Indigenous community within the area — that we’re still here.

speaking fee. The comedian went on to perform an extended set.

“He really, really delivered and went above and beyond,” Ahmad said.

In a Q&A following the set, Ahmad asked Usman about his career change from law to comedy. Usman shared the best advice he learned as he shifted his career: Instead of asking what you want to do with your life, ask how you want to spend your days.

The comedian also spoke about Muslim stereotypes in television, especially on the show “Ramy,” for which he is a staff writer and coexecutive producer. A lot of content on the show is controversial, Usman said, but at the

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end of the day, it’s about “personal taste.”

“Would I rather live in a world where ‘Ramy’ on Hulu exists, or would I rather live in a world where ‘Ramy’ on Hulu does not exist?” he asked. “I would rather live in a world where ‘Ramy’ on Hulu exists. So I take the good with the bad and I pray that God forgives us and guides us to get better.”

Usman told The Daily he enjoys speaking at colleges, especially when he spends time with young Muslim people. He said he feels like an uncle sharing his experiences with listeners who might benefit from hearing his mistakes.

McCormick junior Fardeem Munir said he enjoyed the event. Munir was one of the audience members Usman called on, leading the comedian to riff about his name, which the student said was “an honor.”

Munir said the combination of funny and serious topics during the comedy set and Q&A was perfect for the student audience.

“It was very funny, but also very deep,” Munir said. “As he said, Northwestern’s full of a bunch of nerds — but we also want to have fun.”

Ultimately, Usman talked about creating art, and specifically stand-up, that will appeal to all audiences and stay relevant.

“The goal is to make art that will last and will stand the test of time, and the way to do that is to make things that are timely, but also timeless,” Usman said. “One of the great paradoxes of stand-up comedy is the more hyper-specific the comedian makes their act, somehow, miraculously, the more universal.” s3d5w4@u.northwestern.edu

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The partnership with NU graduate students will build on Shorefront Voice, a collection of oral histories that Robinson recorded with Black residents in the North Shore.

Robinson said using audio as a medium is more conversational and can help interviewees feel more comfortable.

“The outcomes of our audio stories are more precious and intimate than they are with any other medium,” Robinson said.

About 10 students will interview community members. Third-year Ph.D. candidate and Shorefront graduate student assistant Alexandra Gonzalez will guide the students through the process.

Gonzalez said she hopes graduate students can

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create deeper relationships with the community through the program.

“It’s harder for graduate students to feel connected to Evanston,” Gonzalez said. “I hope (they) make genuine personal connections with Evanston residents.”

The idea for an audio project came following student involvement in an oral history project in summer 2020.

Through the project, graduate students recorded conversations with Evanston older adults about their experience during the pandemic. But they found interviewees were more interested in speaking about other experiences.

Gonzalez said most conversations covered the impact of redlining on Evanston neighborhoods and changes in the Evanston school system over time.

“There was a lot of rich, vivid detail in there that we weren’t expecting,” Gonzalez said. “We were

like, ‘Okay, this isn’t just about COVID.’ ” Ruth Curry (The Graduate School ’19), a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Civic Engagement, said the legal documents the University drew up granted the school rights to a narrator’s recorded words within the project. She said the center wasn’t comfortable with that and halted the project.

She and Gonzalez considered a partnership with Shorefront to be the best way to continue on with the project, since Robinson had been recording similar histories for decades.

“It felt like it would be really special to continue collecting those stories,” Curry said. “We knew it didn’t make sense for Northwestern to be the housing agent, though.”

This is Shorefront’s fourth year of partnership with the Center for Civic Engagement. Shorefront has worked with three summer interns from the center, each of who documented the story of a

specific person or organization located in Chicago’s North Shore.

Last year’s intern, Ana Rosado (The Graduate School ’16, ’21), created a website to memorialize Doria Dee Johnson, a Ph.D. candidate in U.S. History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Johnson successfully pushed for the U.S. Senate’s official apology on lynching inaction. Her articles and publications are preserved on Shorefront’s site.

Robinson said he wants the materials on Shorefront Voice to renew the relationship between the Black community and NU. “I want Northwestern students to realize the longevity of Black families’ involvement in all walks of life here,” Robinson said. “I want people to really understand how pivotal the history of the Black community near Northwestern is.”

explained the Senate has two Whips: one for the senators representing student groups and one for the senators representing undergraduate schools.

Whips help students in committees work through writing legislation, bond with each other and learn more about Senate functions, Bartol said. Katie He was elected as the Whip for student group senators and Armaan Ajani was elected as the Whip for undergraduate schools senators.

Senators then voted on nominees for the four

Wellness Board positions. The Wellness Board seeks to prevent exceptionally high-stress or time-consuming obligations within ASG’s internal operations by administering wellness infractions, which can lead to disciplinary action against parties in the Senate.

Weinberg sophomore Laura Solano-Flórez, one of four elected Wellness Board members, said she wanted the position because she is deeply invested in advocating for mental health.

“Even though this is just pertaining to ASG, I think

that wellness around campus in general needs to be addressed more,” Solano-Florez said. “I’m passionate about reforming (Counseling and Psychological Services) and other legislation regarding wellness.”

Senators attended the meeting in Halloween costumes and held a competition for the best one.

Campus Life Chair Jason Hegelmeyer won for his ancient Roman senator costume.

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“I’ve always been a horror fan, and what I like about Fright Fest is that it’s legitimately scary and the actors are all in creepy makeup,” Boyd said.

“Instead of just fun, spooky Halloween scary, it’s actually scary.”

For a more nostalgic Halloween option, trickor-treating at Norris University Center is open to all students. The Big Candy Grab will run Friday from 4 to 6 p.m. — the last of the multi-day Halloween programming at Norris, which included pumpkin carving and craft making.

Some NU students have different plans off campus. SESP sophomore Abby Nudell is attending a Zedd concert Friday night at the Aragon Ballroom with several friends. Nudell said she only listens to Zedd occasionally, but she’s looking forward to the energy of an inperson concert after spending more than a year and a half in smaller spaces.

Nudell and her friends will dress up as cast members from the dating reality show “Love Island,” complete with homemade body microphones.

“I really like dressing up, even though it can be stressful,” Nudell said. “I think it can be fun to make a little group costume with your friends.”

Other NU students will celebrate the holiday with their teammates. Weinberg freshman Amelia Dungey said she’ll celebrate Halloween with NU’s fencing team after their tournament in St. Louis.

While the fencing team will compete all weekend, it plans to celebrate with a costume party Sunday. As a freshman, Dungey is excited for her first Halloween on campus.

“I don’t really know what to expect, and I’m going in with no expectations,” Dungey said.

Medill sophomore Jimmy He said he’ll celebrate Halloween with his teammates from NU Swim Club at a costume party Friday. He said he’s looking forward to celebrating after grinding all week for an economics midterm.

For He, costumes are an important part of the holiday. His costume is the Greek god Hermes, complete with a white toga, Air Force 1s and gold body and face paint.

“I really like exploring my own creativity and seeing everyone (in costume),” He said. “It’s a really unique way to express yourself.”

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Northwestern looks to secure postseason berth

By ALEX CERVANTES

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Northwestern men’s soccer will battle Michigan State in its regular season finale on Sunday, with postseason hopes on the line.

Sunday’s match against the Spartans (6-7-2, 2-3-2 Big Ten) bears significant weight for the Wildcats (5-8-2, 2-5). NU is currently tied with Ohio State for eighth place in the Big Ten standings, but only one of the teams can advance to the Big Ten Tournament.

In normal years, there would be a play-in game between the No. 8 seed and No. 9 seed, but it’s not happening this fall. Instead, should Ohio State and the Cats remain tied after Sunday, the Big Ten would use the teams’ matchup earlier this month as a tiebreaker. In that game, NU defeated the Buckeyes 1-0.

But coach Russell Payne said he and his team will have all eyes on the Spartans before worrying about the Buckeyes. The first-year coach looked to the Cats’ 2-0 win against Wisconsin earlier this month as the playbook for defeating Michigan State.

“Wisconsin had only conceded six goals when we played them,” Payne said. “But it was about how

we approached the game. We were very aggressive with the ball, we were very clean, we moved as a unit and we didn’t second-guess. We just trusted in the process.”

NU is coming off the heels of a sloppy 2-0 nonconference loss to Villanova last week. Despite the final score, the Cats will look to build on their strong offensive second-half run against Villanova. Despite a stagnant first half, NU had a wealth of opportunities in the second period, taking eight shots and forcing three saves.

Although the Cats failed to get on the scoreboard, the turnaround was one of the few positive takeaways from the game. Senior midfielder Bardia Kimiavi said the team hopes to maximize its offensive versatility against a Spartan backline that has conceded the most goals in the Big Ten. “We have some very talented attacking players, and it’s a matter of playing to their strengths,” Kimiavi said. “We have guys who can find the half-spaces in between the lines and guys like me and (sophomore forward) Justin (Weiss) that can stretch backlines. Then especially with this new formation, we’ve got guys like (senior forward) Jose (Del Valle) and (freshman midfielder) Collin (McCamy) that can fly down the wings. So it’s just about putting those pieces together.”

NU will have to stay strong defensively to defeat a solid Michigan State attack. The Spartans have scored 19 goals on the season and put 31.5% of their shots on target. Michigan State forward Farai Mutatu has netted six goals, tied for third-most in the Big Ten and assisted on another three.

Regardless of what tactics the Cats may use to stymie the Spartans, graduate student goalkeeper Ethan Bandre said not only does the backline need to stay disciplined in its approach — but the team also needs to “start the way we finish.”

While the play on the field falls on Payne’s squad, the environment in the stadium may come down to the turnout of the NU student body.

The game kicks off at 3 p.m., several hours before any Halloween evening festivities students may attend. The temperature is expected to hover at about 50 degrees with a low chance of precipitation.

Payne said he certainly hopes the NU community will support the team and come out on Sunday.

“It’s Halloween and it’s before anybody goes out trick-or-treating,” Payne said. “We should pack the stands and come out in full force.

It means a lot, and these guys will respond to that.”

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SPLASH Northwestern men’s and women’s swim and dive teams have been hosting and attending competitions all fall. The women’s team is 2-1, with wins against Illinois and Illinois-Chicago, while the men’s team has a 1-1 record with a win over UIC. Our photographers were at the Indiana and UIC meets to capture the action.

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Cats approach Big Ten Championships

By KATE WALTER

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It’s championship season for Northwestern cross country — or the most wonderful time of the year, as the team likes to call it.

“Coach Jill (Miller) always says Big Ten’s are like Christmas morning,” said senior Rachel McCardell, one of NU’s top finishers this season.

“We’ve done the work, and now it’s time to reap the rewards and have fun with it.”

The Wildcats will kick off the postseason competing in the 6K distance at the Big Ten Cross Country Championships, which will be held at Penn State on (or beginning) Friday. NU faces stiff conference competition in University Park, Penn., facing nationally ranked teams No. 6 Minnesota, No. 9 Michigan, No. 20 Michigan State, No. 22 Wisconsin and No. 25 Illinois. As of Oct. 18, the Cats are unranked nationally but are fifth in the Midwest region, trending up two slots from their previous ranking.

The deep field of the Big Ten, which Miller said is one of the most competitive conferences in the nation, will pose challenges for the Cats. But Miller feels her team is ready to meet the moment.

“Our training has progressed so much from even a year, two years ago,” she said. “This is what we’ve been working for.”

Historically, NU has finished in the middle or rear of the pack at the Big Ten Championships. The Cats placed seventh out of 10 teams in the 2020-21 competition and 13th out of 14 teams in 2019.

Friday marks Miller’s third Big Ten Championships at NU since she became head coach in 2019. Junior Kalea Bartolotto said Miller has “fostered such a positive and exciting team

culture” during her tenure.

While the Cats may have been counted out in the past, Miller has focused on teaching her runners to believe in themselves and their training. McCardell recounted a moment, during Miller’s first season in 2019, when she asked the team why it had set low expectations for the Big Ten Championships.

“Our response was, ‘We’re not good enough to be any better,’” McCardell said. “And the past three years, she has absolutely knocked that out of our brains … (Miller) instilled in us a sense of confidence that we didn’t have as a program before her.”

So far, the season’s results have been evidence of NU’s progress, despite a rocky performance at the Joe Piane Invitational. The team placed second at both the Hawkeye Invitational and the ISU Redbird Invitational, with a third-place finish at the Penn State National Open.

The Cats also have the benefit of having already raced on the championship course two weeks ago at Penn State. Graduate student Lotte Van der Pol said she was “grateful” to race on the course ahead of time.

McCardell said the race provided the team an advantageous opportunity to scope out the course. “(Running at the Penn State National Open) gives a lot of insight on race strategy and tactics we’ll have to employ going into (the championship),” McCardell said.

NU has the chance to make the Big Ten Championships a holiday to remember and carry that momentum all the way across the finish line. To do so, it will have to embody what Miller has been working toward over her time with the Cats.

“Jill’s here to make history,” Barttolotto said. “And I think we’re all in support of that.” katewalter2025@u.northwestern.edu