2021 Graduation Issue

June 7, 2021

The Daily Northwestern Class of 2021 Graduation Issue

The Next Chapter

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Letter from the editor // Everyone has a different story of why they joined the school newspaper: some walked right in, others found it later in their college career. I’m not going to pretend I was coy or reserved about joining: I wanted to be a journalist and The Daily Northwestern seemed like the best way to do that.

But after three years of working here, I didn’t realize how much The Daily would prepare me for real life — and how much it couldn’t.

As I worked my way from opinion editor to managing to editor in chief, creating a new position from scratch along the way, I built a family, just as many of my peers did. And in between the long nights spent editing and joking around, late snack runs and countless episodes of monologuing in front of the edit board was a growing confidence in our newspaper.

People seemed to be noticing that The Daily was trying to cover more perspectives than before (though we still made mistakes along the way, aiming to do better each time).

Students and residents were more represented than ever in our reporting, even after a major pandemic shifted our entire mode of operation.

But no matter my pride in the work we were doing, the world made it known I was different from my peers.

Whether it was pitching stories, handling conflicts with managers or using community ties to report, I learned to do things on my own terms. Medill did not consider teaching marginalized students how to navigate being

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“the only one” a high priority — especially considering I was “the only one” in a couple journalism classes.

Beyond showing me how to report, write, edit and communicate, The Daily made me understand a major life lesson many reporters of color have had to learn: how to survive and still be yourself. This journey wasn’t easy.

Within the newsroom, even as I rose in positions, I started to not love the paper anymore. Though we all worked similar hours, I felt that much more exhausted from my extra nightly tasks. I edited from not just my point of view, but from everyone and their mothers’ perspectives too. I prepared presentations on covering communities people on our staff don’t belong to. I gave feedback on pieces that would be rejected when it came from me, but not from my male colleagues.

At one point, I stopped wanting to come into the office. It wasn’t because I hated my fellow staffers, but rather the unspoken pressure to be the perfect editor. I had fun just like everyone else, but there were other factors that specifically held me back — particularly the constant stream of constructive and notso-constructive online feedback I received that no other White staffer did. Above anything, I wanted to push myself to be the Best Journalist and the Best Coworker, who broke barriers and records and always said the right thing and made the newsroom a fun place.

And it was exhausting. I loved being editor in chief, but it was hard to balance my own humanity with it. Being in the seat to make decisions for the historic campus newspaper,

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Hurricanes affect students’ move-in Harvey, Irma wreak havoc, ruin hometowns

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As Hurricane Irma approached Florida, Weinberg freshman Kamryn Moe scrambled to pack her belongings — her new flight to Chicago was scheduled to leave in just five hours.

Moe and her parents changed their flight plans so they could avoid the hurricane and make it to move-in day. When Hurricane Irma hit their hometown of Naples, Florida, on Sept. 10, Moe watched news coverage from her parents’ hotel room at the Holiday Inn in Evanston.

“It’s absolutely unreal watching everything happen in Naples right now,” Moe said Sept. 10.

“Even though I’m in a safe place and a safe city, I can’t help but want to be home with my dad and my best friends that are still there.”

Moe moved in to Shepard Hall on Sept. 7. She was one of about a dozen incoming students from Florida who moved in before the regular Sept. 11 move-in date,

Dajae Coleman shooter found guilty of murder

A local man was found guilty on all counts in the murder trial of 14-year-old Dajae Coleman on Friday, nearly five years after the Evanston Township High School freshman was shot on his way home.

A Cook County jury convicted Wesley Woodson, 25, of murder and of seven counts of

Dean of Students Todd Adams told The Daily in an email.

Just 16 days prior to Hurricane Irma’s landfall, Hurricane Harvey hit Texas on Aug. 25, devastating the Texas coast and Houston area.

More than 1,000 miles away in Chicago, Weinberg senior Elaine Parizot could only watch as her hometown of Houston was devastated by the hurricane. Parizot said the hurricane left her childhood home submerged in two feet of water.

She said it was stressful being out of town while her home began to flood because she only got “sporadic” updates from her parents. “(I would get) a picture and text saying, ‘The water just started coming in,’ and then no response for five hours because they were busy running around trying to get prepared,” Parizot said.

Parizot flew home to Houston after her summer internship ended to see her family, but she had an added responsibility — to help clean up the flooded first floor.

“It’s exhausting and tiring, but it’s better to be with my family and know exactly what’s going on,” Parizot said.

She said many of her neighbors » See HURRICANES, page 7 attempted first-degree murder for shooting into a crowd of minors, according to the Chicago Tribune.

In September 2012, about 150 teenagers — including Coleman — were walking away from a high school party, deputy police chief Jay Parrott said in a news conference days after the killing.

The party had been broken up by a parent after an altercation at 10 p.m. between two attendees. Additional fights occurred at some point after, Parrott said.

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Evanston Township High School, 1600 Dodge Ave. This year, students can wear commonly banned clothing like yoga pants, spaghetti straps and hats.

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As students across the country shed their tank tops and flip flops for T-shirts and sneakers Parrott said a person Woodson knew was involved in one of the fights, so Woodson grabbed a nine-millimeter handgun and confronted Coleman’s group, who were walking east in the 1500 block of Church Street.

He mistook the group for the one involved in the altercation with his acquaintance Coleman was shot in the back as he was running away, Parrott said. Police arrested Woodson within the week, and the community response was strong in its support for Coleman’s family.

to comply with school dress codes, Evanston Township High School is taking a different approach.

Though there are still restrictions, this year’s dress code allows hats, hoodies, pajamas, yoga pants and spaghetti straps. The revised

code calls on ETHS staff to refrain from body-shaming, instead favoring constructive dialogue and explanation of the rules.

Monique Parsons, vice president of the District 202 school board, said the changes were “a

Once the guilty verdict was announced Friday, Coleman’s mother — and founder of the Dajae Coleman Foundation — Tiffany Rice said the verdict provided “a little bit of relief,” The Tribune reported.

A post on the Foundation’s Facebook page stated the sentencing would be in one month.

“Thank you for all of your thoughts, hopes, heartbeats of love, and prayers,” the post read.

“Justice was served today.”

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Latinx community celebrates heritage

By KRISTINA KARISCH

daily senior staffer @kristinakarisch

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Residents look at informational stands at the Evanston Latinx Business Alliance’s first annual Hispanic Heritage Month celebration. The event featured food, activities and resource booths at Kamen Park.

To kick off Hispanic Heritage Month, the Evanston Latinx Business Alliance hosted the city’s first annual celebration in Kamen Park, complete with informational stands and local food vendors.

The event, which drew dozens of local residents, focused on making the alliance visible to the community and celebrating Latinx heritage by showcasing local businesses.

Ana Vela, co-founder of Amanecer Breakfast Tacos, said the alliance wants to inform the community about Latinx business owners in Evanston and enable “those that are interested in supporting the diverse community to

know who these businesses are.”

The alliance began meeting last December, said Evanston economic development specialist Paulina Martínez, who started working for the city a year and a half ago. Martínez said she was inspired by the Black Business Consortium of Evanston/Northshore to get together Latinx business owners for a similar alliance.

Together with Vela and Linda Del Bosque, editor of Evanston Woman magazine, Martínez grew the alliance to include 20 Latinxowned businesses in Evanston.

“As a minority woman business owner, it is an honor that the city of Evanston recognizes the need to embrace its Latino community and reinforces the importance of supporting Latino » See HERITAGE, page 7

long time coming.” She said they gained momentum after a group of students voiced concerns that the dress code was more harshly enforced for girls and people of color. » See DRESS CODE, page 7

Faculty union calls NU unfair

By ERICA SNOW

daily senior staffer @ericasnoww

Northwestern’s non-tenure eligible faculty filed unfair labor practice charges Thursday against Northwestern because the University has not begun collective bargaining negotiations with the union.

“I am disappointed by the administration’s refusal to recognize the (non-tenure eligible) faculty union and to participate in the negotiations planned for this Fall,” Italian lecturer Alessandra Visconti said in a news release. “We ask that it reevaluate its decision and serve as a model of fairness and excellence for faculty, students and the entire Northwestern community.”

In June 2016, faculty at Northwestern filed for an election to form a union representing non-tenure eligible faculty.

Due to several contested ballots, majority support for joining Service Employees International Union was not confirmed until May. According to a National Labor Relations Board document obtained by The Daily, 229 non-tenure eligible faculty voted in favor of joining SEIU and

219 voted against it. Twentyfive ballots remained uncounted after being challenged by SEIU. Northwestern appealed the 25 ballots with the National Labor Relations Board, University spokesman Al Cubbage told The Daily in July. He said the University won’t begin bargaining until all the ballots have been counted, and the appeal is still pending.

Provost Jonathan Holloway said in a statement this week that he was “disappointed by the union’s stance.”

The University has asked SEIU to “withdraw its objections” to the 25 ballots, Holloway said in the statement. Every ballot must be counted so the University and non-tenure eligible faculty can move forward with certainty, he said.

“We have strong working relationships with unions that represent a number of Northwestern employees, and should the final results of this election indicate a majority of the nontenure eligible faculty voted for a union, we are committed to forming a productive relationship with this new union as well,” Holloway said in the statement. ericasnow2019@u.northwestern.edu

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with its equally historic numbers of mess-ups, is a little bit harder when you look less like your staff and more like the people The Daily used to wrong.

I’ve seen the outside world — it still has a long way to go to match the inclusivity a lot of our staffers have trained for years to cultivate. That makes me confident in The Daily and its future, but scared to enter the professional world, where there’s a lot more inequality than there ever was when I worked in the newsroom.

But during my senior year, I read an Audre Lorde quote that changed my life. “When we speak, we are afraid our words will not be heard nor welcomed, but when we are silent, we are still afraid, so it is better to speak,” she wrote.

I’ve never been a silent person — my friends and family know I can ramble about pretty much anything for days — but I didn’t know how much weight my words could actually hold.

There’s a lot to be proud of after my time here. I’ve helped change a newsroom’s culture, and have coached dozens of college students on diversity best practices from across the country and world.

All I did was speak the truth, even when it was hard to hear.

I entered The Daily to learn how to be a better reporter, but I left with a new sense of purpose. To paraphrase Lorde again, my silence will not protect me but speaking out will. And I learned it all on the third floor of Norris.

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The line that “the journey is the destination” is easy to overuse. You hear it plenty of times in sports — it’s not about the fact that you lost on a goalkeeper penalty in the Europa League Final, or had your buzzer-beater out-buzzer-beatered in the national championship game. (They still hurt.) It’s about what you learned on the way there.

My career at the Daily sports desk started not on the sidelines or in a crowded press box, but sitting alone at a table in Norris, watching a slightly-delayed stream of a game happening a few states away, with a blank stat sheet and a Starbucks iced tea.

It was October 3, 2017, and I was covering a men’s soccer game against Notre Dame. The older editors on the sports desk said I could come watch in the newsroom, but I was a freshman too nervous that I would mess up in their presence.

There was also the fact that at that point, I’d always seen sports journalism as a solitary endeavor. In high school, I’d essentially run a onewoman sports desk on my seven-person newspaper, and when I freelanced for a local site covering sports, I was both the only woman and the only person under 30. I thought sports journalism, and journalism more broadly, was something I was meant to do on my own.

The Daily changed that. I started to feel like journalism wasn’t something I had to or should do on my own anymore. I found a community of people who shared a passion for journalism and making a product we could all be proud of.

I moved my game-watching location from my dorm room to the newsroom — still with a Norbucks iced tea, of course — and my editors and colleagues would go on to become some of my best friends.

I laughed; smiled; cried; convinced the newsroom to play HQ nightly; traveled around the country following both winning and losing teams; drove through the Midwest on road trips to Iowa and Minnesota and places in between; argued about the baffling style guide of the New York

It’s difficult to reflect on four years’ worth of college experiences when the last year and a half was so distinctly different from the first few.

After years of growth and independence, most of us spent six months or more in our childhood bedrooms. When we did come back, it was to a changed reality. Instead of spending my nights in a shunted-off back room of Norris making a newspaper, I was speaking to Edit Board through my computer screen. I would walk to the Jacobs Center hoping to maybe see an acquaintance, and then realize that between my bad eyesight and masks, I probably wouldn’t be able to spot them anyway.

And so many of the places that made Evanston what it was for me — evening walks to Andy’s, studying at Unicorn Cafe, belligerently stumbling into Burger King for late-night chicken nuggets — were gone.

And I did not feel that the institutions that are supposed to serve our community did so with good faith. Last spring and over the summer, the University laid off and furloughed dozens of staff members, leaving some without pay or the freedom to take sick leave. Administrators cracked down on student-led protests, with our president even going so far as to call students an “abomination” and a “disgrace” for claiming their space and a stake in their safety. And despite hundreds of people coming forward to share stories of how Greek organizations have been harmful, violent forces in their lives, many chapters went ahead with recruitment this winter.

This is disappointing, but not entirely surprising.

My years here before the pandemic were marked with troubling behavior from the University and organizations within it. From admissions to handling the deficit to underfunding mental health services to dealing with racist incidents and personnel, I’ve consistently seen profit prioritized over community, particularly when it comes to the most marginalized members.

I originally intended to use this column to address how that profit-oriented attitude manifests

Times sports section; bylined many a story about uniforms or the Royal Family.

But most of all, I learned from the people I met along the way. I was surrounded every day by an incredibly talented team of writers, editors, photographers, designers and creators at The Daily.

I found unexpected communities in the student sports journalists I met on Twitter and at our small but mightily supportive Association for Women in Sports Media chapter. My interactions with coaches and athletes turned the world of Northwestern athletics into a classroom of its own.

That’s not to say my experience at The Daily was perfect. Five years and 15 quarters separated my stint as sports editor in the spring of 2019 and that of Ava Wallace, the last woman to hold that position before me. From 1997 until 2020, only two of The Daily’s 25 Gameday editors were women.

I’m proud of the improvements that have been made — three women covered last weekend’s lacrosse Final Four for The Daily, and there are more women working across the different Northwestern student sports media outlets now than at any time in my four years here.

But as the recent events on this campus and in the sports world more broadly have repeatedly shown us, there’s so much more work that needs to be done to support and elevate women and minorities in sports media, and in sports in general.

The last game I covered for The Daily was this year’s Citrus Bowl in January. As I had for the Senior Day finale against Illinois and the Big Ten Championship Game earlier that season, I covered it from my desk in my childhood bedroom in New Jersey. It was similar situationally to how I’d covered my first-ever game for The Daily, but even though that was the same, I wasn’t.

These last four years have shaped me as a reporter, a writer and a person, and so much of that has been thanks to The Daily. I’ll always be grateful for that.

in the use of physical space around campus. Having access to the shared space of The Daily’s newsroom has made an immeasurable difference in my college career, facilitating so much personal and professional growth and allowing for life-changing friendships — and it’s tiny. I wish other groups had access to space, or larger amounts of it, as well — like a FGLI space other than the SES Office that has been discussed but unpursued thus far, or something more intentional for queer students than the GSRC, a small room on the third floor of Norris.

But instead, I would like to celebrate the ways in which students have created their own communities and spaces, even when the University has failed them.

The 2020-21 school year was incredibly difficult.

Collectively, we contended with so much loss — of loved ones, of the spaces we did have that were now unsafe to use, of friendships that did not survive distance, of time with each other, of opportunities, of a traditional senior year.

As the world has opened up and I’ve seen so many more classmates, I feel a sense of shared joy and optimism, an acknowledgement of the resilience we’ve displayed and the camaraderie we feel.

I’m proud of us, and particularly the organizers among us, for so many things. I’m proud of everyone who stood up in favor of community safety over police violence through protests in the Fall, and of everyone who helped raise funds for displaced workers when their employer, the University, did not provide for them. And I’m proud of the little things too — just making it through this year with good friends and a semblance of emotional functionality is a massive achievement, and we deserve to celebrate that.

While I feel bittersweet about graduating, I hope that the day is able to capture the immense pride we should feel for building community in the toughest of times. And even if the University is unable to convey that, I’m not worried — it’s the joy we created for ourselves that has always been more impactful.

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Peter Warren / To All the Stories I’ve Loved Before And Never Told On a snowy Saturday in January 2019, Vic Law and the men’s basketball team traveled to Madison to take on Ethan Happ and the Wisconsin Badgers. Charlie Goldsmith, Andrew Golden and I traveled to cover the game along with Alison Albelda, who was photographing from the sidelines.

Andrew, Charlie and I had never traveled before to cover a game, and we were all a little nervous. We walked timidly around the arena, trying to find our way around, locate the pregame snacks and claim our seats. There are three press areas at Kohl Center. One is down near the sidelines. One is in the second deck near center court. And one is in the second deck and way off to the side.

The three of us were in the latter area, all by our lonesome except for one random dude covering the game. It was not what we expected, but we were having fun in the first half, chatting about lineup rotations and wild fans while jotting down notes and potential sentences. We felt like we were in our own world.

When the halftime buzzer rang, Charlie got up to get some food, but I told him to wait a second. We have to see if there’s a halftime show, I said.

We watched with confusion and excitement as arena attendants brought large trampolines onto the court. The next thing we knew, there were 15 to 20 people running, jumping, flipping, dribbling and dunking all over the floor for an acrobatic basketball performance.

We ate it up. I have only cheered in a press box once, and it was at this spectacular display of athleticism. Charlie ooo’d and ahh’d at the flips and spins of the dunkers. Andrew pumped his fist as the acrobats slammed home dunk after dunk. I had my hands on top of my head for almost the entire show. We cheered along with the crowd, and wondered aloud how this group is not as big as the famous Red Panda.

I don’t remember much else about that game that I didn’t first Google beforehand, but that halftime show will forever live in a

rent-controlled condo in my head.

Across my four-ish years covering sports at this newspaper, I have written a lot of cool stories. I wrote about a mysterious food poisoning at a Chicago nightclub, clubhouse antics and a basketball game that ended in a tie. I covered the reopening of Welsh-Ryan Arena, two Big Ten Championships at Lucas Oil Stadium, a Midwest Fencing Championship and more. There have been so many awesome stories, and I’d like to think I did a good job telling them.

But there is almost always something interesting that is left on the cutting room floor and is never published in The Daily.

Sometimes it’s a description of a play that occurred early in the game and appeared to be important but lost relevance as the game continued. Other times, it’s a funny quote that has no place in a story. It’s an anecdote about someone’s life that just doesn’t fit into the narrative of the story, or something that’s happened to us reporters that will be fun to tell our friends later while sipping ice cold

Ginger Ales.

It’s these stories that I think of as I reflect on my time in Evanston.

It’s easier to remember the stuff that’s made the final draft of a story than the stuff that doesn’t make the cut. I have a record of what happened that I can rely upon if my mind gets hazy. For these, you hope you don’t forget the minor details, as life continues and other stories fill your mind.

But these stories tell as much about sports as the big, oft-remembered moments. They reveal what we love about sports, what we find important about them, what we find engaging about them and what we think is worth remembering.

Most people would have forgotten about that halftime performance in Madison. But I can’t forget it. It perfectly encapsulates what I love about sports: the camaraderie of friends, enjoying the moment and savoring an unexpected twist in the action.

We all have moments like that — even if they don’t make it on the back page.

Charlotte Walsh / The house that Holly and John built I didn’t join The Daily because I wanted to. I joined because it was the only club that would take me.

When I got to Northwestern my freshman year, I was the most depressed I’d ever been.

I felt lost, looking for a home on campus that somehow resembled the tight-knit group of friends I’d had in high school. In my head, I mapped out the best places on campus to cry, and would visit them in between classes (if you’re interested, the willow on the Lakefill is wonderfully semi-private).

In my quest for meaningful friendships, I tried to join as many clubs as possible, though everyone who knows me knows I’m not particularly passionate about satire or tennis or fashion writing. But I’m sure recruitment chairs could smell that desperation, and I was rejected again, and again and again (and again, and again and again). So I went to the one place I knew had an open door policy: The Daily Northwestern. I wrote my three stories, graduated devo and watched upperclassmen chit-chat in

the newsroom while I sat on Norris’ third floor couches.

But The Daily, for all its flaws, did more than take me in — it gave me the home I was so desperately looking for. On those third floor couches, I found some of my best friends, giggling as we shared a love for middle-aged women, moderated by Andy Cohen, yelling at each other and munched on second dinners from Norbucks and the Kiln. I discovered that I really loved slashing articles to bits, and then rebuilding them. I learned secrets (some from a basket), and then told some of my own. I watched Taylor Swift music video premieres, drafted and charted Daily editors in every configuration possible and sang the praises of the Garden State to anyone who’d listen.

On the last night of pub in Winter 2020 — the only one I was ever able to stay up all the way through — Andrew, Peter and I stole away some time in the 10:30 to 11:30 p.m. range and ran over to Main Library. I don’t remember if

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we had work to do or just wanted to get out of the newsroom, but we ended up on one of the computers, loudly messing around on Facebook. In an attempt to embarrass Andrea, we found a photo of her from freshman homecoming, sweetly posing in her glasses and a cardigan (to keep it appropriate). We combed through the bottom of our Instagram feeds and our mothers’ social media accounts to find equivalents for everyone — giggling gleefully at eighth grade trips to Washington D.C. and middle school mall photo shoots — and printed them out in black and white glory.

When we got back to the newsroom, we made a big show of plastering the photos on the walls just as we, unknowingly, were about to leave them forever. Though many attempted to take them down, those images sat there the rest of the night, as we drank wine, practiced TikTok dances and watched the sun rise. They also sat there, collecting dust, through the many months of quarantine, as the campus was shut down due to the pandemic, happy faces who

didn’t know what lay ahead.

Now, back in the newsroom to help put together the graduation issue, the photographs are gone. Many other tacked-up memories remain: a tweet about the dot com, a portrait of the Laidy Northwestern a.k.a. the Real Housewives, all my favorite Monthlies. But as I think about those pictures now, I find it strange that those people didn’t know The Daily yet, didn’t understand it as something that would consume their college career, mostly for the better.

Now, I don’t need the newsroom as a physical home anymore — it’s pretty much a closet, after all. Instead, we have Vintage Splendor, or the Pratt Street porch, or the Garnett ping pong table (or even mini golf, despite my bad luck). So, to anyone looking for your home on campus, I encourage you to find the places that’ll just take you, because it’ll end up so much better than you expect (and you’ll find much, much better company than the willow on the Lakefill).

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Benjamin Rosenberg / When sports writing is a symbiotic relationship I was the only print reporter in the Sharon J. Drysdale Field press box on April 25, 2018, as Northwestern softball hosted Loyola in a midweek non-conference game.

That wasn’t a shock. The Wildcats were playing well at the time — and they kept up their winning ways that day — but it was a relatively meaningless game on an unseasonably cool weekday afternoon. Coach Kate Drohan was, of course, fully aware of this, and she made sure to thank me for being there after our postgame interview.

Counting briefs, I’ve been fortunate enough to write about 15 of NU’s 19 teams during my time at The Daily, including football and men’s and women’s basketball. But softball was the team that kept drawing me back in, and I’ve come up with a few different explanations for why.

First, the game itself is extremely compelling. The field dimensions are small compared to baseball, so every play on the infield is close.

And the energy is always high, both in the dugout and the stands. But what made it such a fulfilling

experience was the people.

Everyone I met around the program loved the sport and was excited to share that passion with a young reporter who was barely aware of softball coming in. This team was never short on storylines, either. As many of them as I was able to tell, there were so many more that I just didn’t have the time for.

The story of NU softball is the story of Sabrina Rabin, who used a deadly combination of speed and bat control to become one of the Cats’ most decorated players. It’s the story of Sammy Nettling, who was such a great leader as a senior catcher that interviewing her felt like talking to another coach.

It’s the story of Rachel Lewis, who is so athletic that she picked up bobsled on a whim and tried out for the U.S. national team. Of Emma Bartz, who returned for a fifth season in 2021 even though she knew she’d still be just a pinch runner and backup outfielder. Of Morgan Newport, who quickly became one of my favorite players for both her kindness and versatility — even before

she put together a career year as a fifth-year senior.

Take just about any so-called non-revenue sport at Northwestern, and you’ll find plenty of stories like these. But unless a team is having a truly historic season, hardly any professional media will bother to tell them.

That’s what has made being around this group so rewarding for me. I’ve felt like a professional beat reporter and a valued source of information on the team, and I’ve been treated like one. And I have plenty of memories to prove it.

The first game I covered in person was in mid-April 2018 against Ohio State. Then-sports information director Doug Meffley, who I credit for helping me feel comfortable around softball and the Cats during that season, described the weather as “Disturbance in the force.” The translation: temperatures barely in the 40s, with gusting winds and occasional sideways precipitation.

A few weeks later, I covered a Wednesday game at DePaul, which was delayed mid-game by a thunderstorm for an hour or so. The storm resumed as I dashed back from the train station to

the newsroom to write my story, and at one point I tripped and fell, scraping my knee.

The following year, I practically lived in the Welsh-Ryan Arena media room during the 2019 NCAA Regional. Weather delays forced Saturday’s nightcap to begin close to 9:30 p.m., and it ended after midnight. I filed my story around 2 a.m. and had to come right back early the next afternoon. It was exhilarating.

This was good training for what I hope will be a lengthy career as a sports journalist. I’ll have to cover plenty of games at odd hours and in bad weather. But it never stopped being fun. College athletics, at Northwestern and everywhere, is big business, but somehow, covering softball seemed much more pure compared to football or basketball.

Maybe it’s the intimate atmosphere, maybe I’ve just done it for long enough to feel like I know the coaches and players as more than just coaches and players. Either way, I’ll always be grateful to the team that made me love sports writing all over again.

Andrew Golden / Reflecting on my four years at The Daily My journey at The Daily got off to a rocky start.

I walked into the tiny Daily Northwestern newsroom for the first time freshman year for an open house, and my heart was beating out of my chest.

My best friend Marissa Martinez strode with confidence into the room and immediately introduced herself to editors, made small talk and got herself involved.

I, on the other hand, couldn’t begin to gather my thoughts and figure out what to say. I eventually found myself standing in front of the sports desk and the sports editor at the time: Jonah Dylan.

Jonah introduced himself and we began to talk, but he was whisked away by another editor. I was left standing in the middle of a loud, crowded room, yet felt alone and lost. So, I walked out of the room.

I often joke with Jonah that the reason I joined The Daily so late was because he ignored me at that open house. In reality, I didn’t think I was worthy of writing for The Daily.

What I did promise myself as I made the trek back to my dorm was that I owed it to myself to go back in the future and give it a chance.

A few months later, I sauntered back into Norris and made my way up the elevator. This time, I had much more success. I walked up to the sports desk with confidence, albeit not that much more than before, and was able to talk to the new sports editor Joe Wilkinson.

The decision to come back to The Daily was the greatest decision I have ever made.

Each time I walked into that newsroom, I left it knowing I was better than when I entered. It wasn’t always perfect; I had stressful deadlines, had stories torn apart and ones that I’ve had to rewrite completely. But I knew that as long as I gave my best effort on every story, I could be satisfied with the results.

It also helped that the people in the newsroom had my best interests in mind and pushed me to be better. A tall, quiet, curly-haired guy who lived in my freshman year dorm, a few girls who I went to a high school summer camp with and random classmates working on other desks became some of my closest friends.

During my time at The Daily, I have had the opportunity to travel to places I would never have

imagined visiting when I first got here: Palo Alto, Lincoln, Bloomington, Iowa City, Madison and Champaign among others. I even had a chance to cover a Final Four as a sophomore and take photos with no experience at all.

Being at The Daily has taught me a lot of things aside from journalism: how to form meaningful relationships, how to build community and how to advocate for myself and what I believe in.

If I’ve had one qualm with my time at The Daily, it’s that I notice the same issue at each sporting event I cover across the country. I am one of, if not the only, Black person in the press box. I often have this same experience in my classes at Northwestern.

This feeling of isolation is a truly awful feeling.

It constantly baffles me that in sports that I have covered, like football or basketball, the race of the journalists covering events doesn’t represent the race of the players on the field or court.

The same goes for positions of power within newsrooms. When I became sports editor in fall of 2019, it was the first time that a Black person had been sports editor since Khadrice Rollins was in

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the fall of 2015. Before him, Ava Wallace was the sports editor in the Winter of 2014.

This is a Northwestern problem, but also a problem with journalism in general. The 2018 AP Sports Editor Report Card found that 85% of sports editors were white and 82.1% of sports reporters were white.

Moving forward, Northwestern needs to commit to not only bringing in Black journalists, but also making concerted efforts to make its Black students feel welcomed.

I’ve had a lot of great experiences here and felt supported at times, but have also been called the wrong name in front of my parents by a professor who mistook me for another Black student in the grade above me. I know from talking to other Black classmates that I’m not alone in these negative encounters.

Since my time as sports editor at The Daily, we’ve had another Black sports editor, Sophia Scanlan, who did an incredible job. I hope there continues to be more Black sports editors after me, and it’s not another four years before we have another leading the desk.

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FOUR YEARS IN HEADLINES January 11, 2018 Provost informs Faculty Senate of budget deficit When then-Provost Jonathan Holloway first informed faculty members that the University was operating on a budget deficit, he classified the problem as “an annoyance.” But the University’s budget woes continued for quarters, leading to the layoffs of 80 staff members in July 2018, budget cuts for all academic and administrative units, and even closing the ice skating rink at Norris University Center. Northwestern did not see a budget surplus until the 2019 fiscal year ended.

November 6, 2018

Democrat J.B. Pritzker elected governor of Illinois Democratic challenger J.B. Pritzker won the Illinois gubernatorial election, defeating Republican incumbent Bruce Rauner. Pritzker, a Chicago businessman and entrepreneur, ran on promises of a graduated income tax and expanded access to affordable health care across Illinois. “I am so grateful tonight to everyone here in this room and those watching at home,” Pritzker told the crowd.

“Voting is an act of optimism that the levers of our democracy still work. You embody that optimism.”

March 14, 2018

May 21, 2018

Swatting incident leaves campus on edge After police responded to a call from a man who claimed he had shot his girlfriend at Engelhart Hall, a graduate residence, the gun threat was determined to be a hoax. But students across Northwestern’s Evanston campus spent more than an hour in lockdown after an emergency alert came out about 2:40 p.m. warning people to seek shelter. Many barricaded themselves in classrooms and offices, refreshing social media feeds for updates and texting friends and family. The event occurred on the same day as students at Northwestern and across the country participated in walkouts advocating for gun control.

Northwestern parents implicated in college admissions scandal The parents of a Northwestern student were charged in a $25 million cheating and bribing scheme that facilitated college admissions for wealthy students, becoming one of the largest scandals of the year. Manuel and Elizabeth Henriquez, who live in Atherton, California, were accused of paying for a proctor to help their two daughters cheat on college entrance exams. They would go on to be portrayed in a Netflix documentary about the scandal and serve time in prison.

Actress Meghan Markle (Communication ’03) married Prince Harry in St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle, becoming the first American to marry into the royal family since 1937. The royal wedding drew lots of attention at Markle’s alma mater, as did the saga that followed — the birth of their son Archie, their decision to step down as senior royals, and an explosive 2021 interview with Oprah Winfrey in which the pair detailed the mistreatment, mental health challenges and racism they encountered within the royal family.

January 28, 2019 Northwestern cancels classes due to polar vortex Northwestern students said the University made the right choice to cancel school due to forecasts of sub-zero temperatures –– a rare move for a school that has only closed six times in the last century because of the winter weather. From a Tuesday evening to a Thursday morning, classes were canceled due to the temperature reaching negative twenty degrees, with the wind chill pushing it between negative thirty and negative fifty below zero.

April 2, 2019 March 13, 2019

Northwestern alumna Meghan Markle becomes British royalty

Lori Lightfoot elected Mayor of Chicago Lori Lightfoot defeated Toni Preckwinkle to become the mayor of Chicago in a landslide victory. Lightfoot received 73.70 percent of the vote to become Chicago’s first black female mayor and first openly-gay mayor.

November 6, 2019 Students protest Jeff Sessions’ speech, police presence Students protested Northwestern College Republicans’ decision to host former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, chanting outside Lutkin Hall before attempting to interrupt Sessions’ talk by climbing through open windows and pushing through doors.

Around 150 protesters, some holding signs reading “No conSessions, No racism, No KKK, No Facist USA” and “SE$$ION$ I$ A TRAITOR,” gathered outside the lecture hall before Sessions was scheduled to speak at 7 p.m., booing and yelling as attendees entered the building. Protestors were met with police violence, including being tackled and knocked to the ground.

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November 26, 2019

March 13, 2020

April 6, 2020

Evanston City Council passes local reparations fund

Northwestern reports first case of COVID-19

Northwestern announces Spring Quarter will be entirely virtual

After administrators cancelled Dance Marathon and encouraged professors to offer takehome exams instead of in-person finals due to cases of the novel coronavirus rising in the United States, Northwestern reported its first case. An employee in the Kellogg School of Management’s Global Hub tested positive for COVID-19. The case was the first confirmed on Northwestern’s campus, and initiated a self-isolation and contact tracing protocol that would become the norm for over a year.

City Council passed a historic resolution to establish a $10 million fund for local reparations, including revenue from the recreational cannabis retailers tax.

Starting on Jan. 1, 2020, all of the city’s recreational cannabis retailers tax will be transferred to the reparations fund until the fund has reached $10 million in revenue from this source. The fund was eventually committed to be used as grants for housing assistance to Black Evanstonians who either lived in Evanston or have direct ancestors who lived in Evanston between 1919 and 1969. It became a source of national and local debate, as local activists opposed the use of the term reparations to describe the program and pushed for stronger policy.

After the first day of remote learning, Northwestern extended remote learning for the rest of Spring Quarter due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “The latest guidance from local, state and federal officials makes clear this will not be feasible. Therefore, with heavy hearts, we are announcing that we will maintain the current, remote format for the entirety of Spring Quarter,” read administrators’ email.

May 31, 2020

September 7, 2020

October 31, 2020

Evanston protests the murder of George Floyd, police brutality

PHA calls for Greek Life to be abolished

Police pepper spray Northwestern Community Not Cops protestors, arresting one

Evanston joined the ranks of cities nationwide protesting against police brutality in the wake of George Floyd’s death.

Over a thousand residents gathered outside the YWCA Evanston/North Shore, at Church and Ridge on a Sunday afternoon. Protesters then marched throughout Evanston and congregated in a parking lot across from Evanston Township High School. Evanston youths organized the protest to address police brutality and the death of Floyd. A white police officer killed Floyd, a black man, by kneeling on Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes while arresting him.

Over the summer of 2020, the Abolish NU IFC/PHA Greek Life Instagram account facilitated communitywide discussion on the harm that Greek Life inflicts on members of the NU community, prompting internal debate among many Greek chapters. Northwestern’s Panhellenic Association, which governs 11 chapters, released a statement acknowledging its harmful history and current movement to abolish Greek life on campus, calling the harm the organization has done “irreparable” and saying PHA “furthers exclusivity, classism, racism and homophobia in the community.”

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Northwestern Community Not Cops, a group calling for the disarmament, defunding and disbandment of the Northwestern University Police Department, held daily actions in Fall 2020 to pressure administrators into abolishing NUPD. At a protest on Halloween, Evanston police and Illinois crowd control officers, deployed in riot gear with K-9 support, used chemical ammunition and made one arrest. Students reported fearing for their safety and credited a divisive October email from President Morton Schapiro as the catalyst for increased police presence.

November 8, 2020 Evanston celebrates as Joe Biden is declared presidential election victory When President-elect Joe Biden was announced as the projected winner for the 2020 presidential election, Evanston residents erupted into cheers. Hundreds flocked to Fountain Square, some draped in American flags. A spontaneous car parade streamed across Davis Street while onlookers danced and embraced, pumping Biden/Harris 2020 signs in the air. A bus driver honked their horn in solidarity. One person launched a confetti cannon. Another climbed to the top of an emergency blue light to sing “FDT (F–k Donald Trump)”

by YG and Nipsey Hussle, a protest song criticizing President Donald Trump.

February 23, 2021

March 4, 2021

May 21, 2021

Daniel Biss elected mayor of Evanston

University President Morton Schapiro announces retirement

Northwestern reports no new positive cases for first time in pandemic

Former state Sen. Daniel Biss was elected Evanston’s next mayor.

Prior to his mayoral candidacy, Biss served in the Illinois state House for two years, and was elected in 2012 to represent the state’s 9th district, including Evanston, in the Illinois state Senate. He also mounted a Democratic gubernatorial campaign in 2018, but eventually fell short, coming in second in the party’s primary to current Gov. J.B. Pritzker.

After 13 years at Northwestern, University President Morton Schapiro will end his tenure on August 31, 2022. During his time at Northwestern, annual research funding rose 86 percent and Northwestern broke the top 10 ranked universities in the country.

In months leading up to the announcement, Schapiro faced backlash from students and faculty around his response to the Northwestern University Community Not Cops protests. In the daily protests to abolish University Police in the fall, students repeatedly called on Schapiro to resign.

After administering nearly 300,000 tests since August, Northwestern repor ted no confirmed COVID-19 c a ses f ro m May 14 to 20.

This marked t h e f i r st week with no cases in the 202021 academic year.

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Well done, Class of 2021!

President Morton Schapiro, Dean Marwan M. Kraidy, faculty, and staff of Northwestern University in Qatar congratulate the graduating Class of 2021, wishing this year’s graduates exceptional success in their future careers and aspirations.

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GWYNNE SHOTWELL SpaceX president and COO Gwynne Shotwell (McCormick ‘86, ‘88) will address the class of 2021 at a commencement ceremony to be held June 14, according to a Thursday news release.

Shotwell, a member of Northwestern’s Board of Trustees, will also be awarded with an honorary degree, along with #MeToo founder and activist Tarana Burke, medical researcher and Pfizer board member Helen Hobbs, and George R.R. Martin (Medill ‘70, ‘71), author of the popular “Game of Thrones” book series and producer of its HBO adaptation.

“The class of 2021 should be incredibly proud of what they have accomplished, particularly in light of the many challenges they faced over this last year,” Shotwell said in the release.

“I am honored to deliver this year’s commencement address and I look forward to celebrating the graduates and getting them excited for the future.”

In a short video created from a “dragon capsule”, Shotwell shared her pride for SpaceX, which has flown astronauts to the International Space Station three times this year. In her role, she manages daily operations and was responsible for overseeing the development of the company’s Falcon vehicles, which have seen more than 100 launches and generated over $15 billion.

SpaceX, the private space exploration company founded by billionaire executive Elon Musk, was founded in 2002. Shotwell, 57, joined the year of the company’s founding as its eleventh employee, coming from rocket building organization Microcosm, where she directed the space systems division. Prior to that, Shotwell spent over a decade at the Aerospace Corporation, working on space systems engineering, technology and project management.

In a story in Wired, Shotwell recalled that her initial meeting with Musk lasted only 10

minutes, but she was impressed by his knowledge of the aerospace industry despite being a technology executive. It was an inflection point in her life — she had two young children, was recently divorced, and was much more settled in life than the college graduates Musk had been hiring. But she decided to take the risk, appreciating Musk’s capacity for boldness in an industry known for its slow-moving ways.

The SpaceX executive was born in Evanston, but she was raised in Libertyville. Upon attending a Society of Women Engineers event in high school, Shotwell began to take an interest in mechanical engineering — which led her to pursue two degrees at the McCormick School of Engineering. According to Wired, Shotwell only applied to Northwestern — even though the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology sent her a personalized letter urging her to apply. She graduated in 1986 with a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering, and then continued by earning a master’s degree in applied mathematics.

At SpaceX, Shotwell’s first task involved created a sales plan to sell the Falcon series rockets to the national government and other customers. The program went on to achieve enormous success.

At Northwestern, Shotwell initially struggled to maintain good grades because of the pressures of having an active social life. And she wanted to ensure she was not socially penalized for her major. But, she told Wired, she now fully embraces it.

“I wanted to make sure I was not a nerd,” she said. “That mattered to me at the time. Now I celebrate my nerdiness; I celebrate my children’s focus on engineering. My husband’s an engineer. My ex-husband is an engineer. His parents are both engineers. We revel in engineering now, but the world was a very different place.”

Courtesy of SpaceX

COMMENCEMENT SCHEDULE Saturday, June 12 9 a.m.

Class of 2020 Graduation Celebration Ryan Field

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School of Education and Social Policy undergraduate convocation Ryan Fieldhouse

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School of Communication’s undergraduate convocation Ryan Field

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McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science convocation Ryan Field

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Bienen School of Music convocation Ryan Fieldhouse Baccalaureate Service Virtual

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3/18/18

REWIND THE TAPE 12/2/18

Football wins Big Ten West, plays in Big Ten Championship Game

Olivia Rosendahl wins back-to-back national titles Olivia Rosendahl finished her collegiate career as one of the most accomplished individual athletes in Northwestern history, and with good reason. Rosendahl won two

straight NCAA titles in 1-meter platform diving in 2017 and 2018, and became the first Wildcat to ever earn Big Ten Diver of the Year honors.

11/2/18

Welsh-Ryan reopens after renovation It was a weekend to remember in Evanston. After a 20-month, $110 million renovation, the new Welsh-Ryan was broken in with a men’s basketball exhibition win over McKendree.

The grand reopening coincided with

Northwestern’s first football game against Notre Dame at Ryan Field since 1976, and capped off a grand year for Northwestern athletics — in April, the $270 million Ryan Fieldhouse training facility on the lake opened its doors.

5/3/19

5/19/19

Northwestern finished the season 47-13, its best record since 2007, and the Wildcats’ 21 Big Ten wins were their most in program history. From late March through early May, they won 20 straight games, led by rookie phenom Danielle Williams. In the postseason, Northwestern took home its first NCAA Regional title since 2008, inserting itself back into the national spotlight and creating a palpable buzz on campus.

For the first time in five years, Northwestern was back playing lacrosse on Memorial Day weekend. The 2019 season saw the Wildcats return to the form of their peak dynasty days: Star attacker Selena Lasota was one of five finalists for the Tewaaraton Award, given to the sport’s top college player; freshman Izzy Scane broke out onto the scoring scene; and the Wildcats won their first-ever Big Ten title, taking down longtime rival Maryland.

Softball wins programrecord 21 Big Ten games

2/29/20

Women’s basketball wins Big Ten for first time since 1990

Daily file photo by Noah Frick-Alofs

The Wildcats capped off a memorable regular season with a Senior Day win over in-state rival Illinois in front of a 4,016-person crowd at Welsh-Ryan Arena, its largest for a women’s game since its reopening in the fall of 2018.

Led by junior Lindsey Pulliam, sophomore Veronica Burton and seniors Abbie Wolf and Abi Schied, Northwestern set a record for program wins and earned a spot back in the national women’s basketball conversation.

Daily file photo by Joshua Hoffman

12/19/20

Football returns to the Big Ten Championship Game 1996 — for a very brief moment, the Wildcats were even in the College Football Playoff conversation.

Northwestern fell again to Ohio State in December, this time at a fanless Lucas Oil Stadium, but it still ended the season with a win over Auburn in the Vrbo Citrus Bowl.

May 2021

Daily file photo by Kelsey Carroll

3/8/20

Rivera and Deakin win conference titles Northwestern had one of the best 1-2 punches in all of college wrestling during the 2019-20 season.

At 133 pounds, Sebastian Rivera won his second individual Big Ten title, despite an injury-riddled campaign, and Deakin finished with a conference

crown and a perfect 21-0 record. Both were slated to be the No. 1 seeds in the 2020 NCAA Championships before COVID-19 cancelled the tournament, but Deakin and Rivera cemented their places as two of the best wrestlers in program history.

3/12/20

12/14/20

As COVID-19 cases and concerns rose nationally, the NCAA and the Big Ten announced the cancellation of all upcoming games and a pause on all recruiting efforts.

Northwestern had 13 sports in season, and those campaigns all came to an abrupt end.

Women’s basketball was expected to earn a topfour seed and host NCAA Tournament games in Evanston for the first time since 1993, but both the men’s and women’s tournaments were not played.

After more than 12 years at Northwestern, longtime athletic director Jim Phillips was named the new commissioner of the ACC. Under Phillips, Northwestern had seen unprecedented levels of success, from national championships and bowl games to facility upgrades and marketing strides.

Before Phillips departed, he brokered a tenyear contract extension for Pat Fitzgerald that’ll keep Northwestern’s most recognizable face in Evanston until 2030.

Jim Phillips departs to become ACC commissioner

3/24/21

Women’s basketball makes first NCAA Tournament since 2015 After its chance at a postseason run in 2020 was cut short, Northwestern didn’t throw away its shot in 2021. Behind the scene-stealing duo of Pulliam and Burton, the Wildcats finished with a 15-8 record and earned a No. 7 seed in the NCAA Tournament. Northwestern won its opening matchup against UCF — its first tournament win in 28 years — but their season ended with a loss to Louisville in the second round. In April, Pulliam became just the third player in program history to be selected in the WNBA Draft, going to the Atlanta Dream in the third round.

Amid controversy, Mike Polisky named AD, but resigns 10 days later On May 3, Northwestern announced that its search for the university’s next athletic director was complete. Deputy AD Mike Polisky was promoted to the top job, having served under Phillips for nearly a decade, but the decision was met with campus-wide backlash that garnered national attention.

Polisky was named in a federal lawsuit in which a former cheerleader alleged sexual exploitation and racial discrimination inside the cheerleading program. The University administration and some in the athletic department defended the hire, but students, faculty and staff staged protests after the appointment. Polisky eventually resigned from the job on May 12. On June 4, Derrick Gragg, the NCAA’s senior vice president for inclusion, education and community engagement, was named the next AD.

The 2018 football season had its highs and lows, but the December trip to the Big Ten Championship Game in Indianapolis might be the one that lives most vividly in the memory.

A senior-heavy team guided the Cats through the Big Ten West gauntlet, clinching the division title for the first time in program history and setting up a date with Ohio State for the conference crown. Northwestern lost the game, but it gave its fans a day to remember — the university offered free tickets and transport to undergrads, and more than 3,000 students watched live.

The season ended on a high with a surreal comeback win over Utah in the Holiday Bowl in San Diego.

Lacrosse returns to Final Four for first time since 2014

Big Ten cancels all sports until 2020-21 academic year

Led by grad transfer quarterback Peyton Ramsey and one of the country’s top defenses, the Wildcats rebounded from an ugly 2019 season to win the Big Ten West again, and take a trip back to Indianapolis. At one point, Northwestern was as high as No. 11 in the AP Poll, its best ranking since

MONDAY, JUNE 7, 2021

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5/24/21

Lacrosse advances back to Final Four after historic regular season

Illustration by Carly Schulman

The world first saw glimpses of Izzy Scane’s talent in 2019, but 2021 was the year the Scane Train really left the station. The junior scored a program-record 98 goals and 124 points, powering Northwestern to an undefeated regular season and back to the Final

Four. Scane became the program’s latest Tewaaraton finalist — the only junior in the group of five nominees. The Wildcats fell again in the national semifinal, this time to Syracuse, but with Scane returning in 2022, they’re sure to come back with a vengeance.