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Ban on non-local bakeries rescinded
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ELECTION KICK-OFF
Residents criticize Y.O.U. over contracts
Bakeries outside city will be allowed at farmers’ market
Organization says construction project exceeds standards
By BILLY KOBIN
By RISHIKA DUGYALA
Evanston officials announced last week they will not implement a ban on non-Evanston bakers contributing to the Downtown Evanston Farmers’ Market despite city staff internally agreeing to such a restriction last summer. City manager Wally Bobkiewicz said in a memo on the city’s website on March 22 that the ban was put in place “based on complaints from some Evanston-based bakeries that there were too many out-of-town bakers represented at the market.” “Upon inquiry, I learned this change in rule was not shared in a timely basis by city staff with the bakers or the Friends of the Evanston Farmers’ Market,” Bobkiewicz wrote. “Bakers had already applied for the 2016 market and would have no ability to make other arrangements for the 2016 season when many learned of this change.” Seven out-of-town bakeries are set to appear again at this year’s market, which starts May 7 and is run by the city’s Parks, Recreation and Community Services Department. Evanstonbased Bennison’s Bakery and Great Harvest Bread Co. will be at the market as well. Skokie-based Sweety Pies Bakery has set up at the Downtown Evanston Farmers’ Market for the past four years, selling a variety of items including pies,
Community members are protesting the Youth & Opportunity United’s new construction project, asserting the organization has not employed enough local minority contractors. In building its new youth center and headquarters, which broke ground on March 21, executive director Seth Green said Y.O.U. surpassed Evanston’s goal to award 25 percent of contracts to minority-owned, woman-owned and locally-owned businesses. On its $4.5 million project, more than 30 percent of Y.O.U.’s contractors fit those categories, Green said. However, Lonnie Wilson, a protester and spokesperson for the Committee for Community Developmental Change, said although many of Y.O.U.’s hires are minority-owned, not enough minority-owned contractors are locally-owned. The benefit of working with locally-owned businesses is that they are are more likely to employ the residents of the neighborhood where the building is located, Wilson said. “We keep coming up with these programs and then we build these $4.5 million buildings in our neighborhood and we don’t allow the people who live there to be part of the process. It’s crazy,” he said. “You can’t have a program for the sons and the daughters and not have something for the fathers and the mothers.”
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HEAD TO HEAD Weinberg junior Joji Syed (left) and SESP junior Christina Cilento announced their Associated Student Government presidential bids Tuesday night.
Two juniors launch ASG campaigns By ERICA SNOW
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Weinberg junior Joji Syed and SESP junior Christina Cilento announced their bids to run for Associated Student Government president Tuesday night, beginning their nineday campaigns. Weinberg sophomore Archit Baskaran will run for executive vice president alongside Syed, and McCormick junior Macs Vinson will run with Cilento. Syed and Baskaran said they aim to better incorporate voices from different student groups and leverage
decision-making powers to aid them. Cilento and Vinson said they want to make ASG more responsive to marginalized students and make the University respond to those concerns. Both tickets emphasized a focus on amplifying underrepresented voices in student government. Syed currently serves as vice president for community relations, and Cilento is vice president for sustainability. Baskaran sits on the community relations committee and Vinson serves as vice president for student activities. Syed and Baskaran emphasized having a determined mindset and initiating a “paradigm shift” in how ASG works and impacts students on
campus, a platform highlighted by their slogan “A NU Deal.” “People (in ASG) tend to go with what has been successful in the past if something has been tried, and if it hasn’t been successful, students try to avoid that project,” Syed said. “For me, I’m very big on ‘give it a shot,’” she said of her involvement with the community relations committee, which she joined her freshman year. Syed said she was involved in bringing Divvy bikes to campus and collaborated with local elementary and middle schools to reach out to the Evanston community and make new resources available to students. » See ELECTION, page 6
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Judge rules Alstory Simon’s lawsuit can move forward
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HIS STORY Alstory Simon gives his account of his own conviction for double homicide in the documentary “A Murder in the Park,” released in July.
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Alstory Simon’s lawsuit against Northwestern and former Medill Prof. David Protess is allowed to proceed, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. In the suit, filed in February 2014, Simon alleges NU, his then-attorney Jack Rimland, Protess and a private investigator who worked with Protess’ Medill class “conspired to frame Simon for the murders.” Simon is seeking $40 million as redress for the time he spent in prison after he says he was wrongfully
incarcerated following what he says was a coerced confession to a double homicide. In a landmark case that garnered international attention and contributed to the end of the Illinois death penalty, a 1998 Medill class led by Protess found evidence that overturned a death sentence against Anthony Porter in the 1982 murders of Jerry Hillard and Marilyn Green. Porter was originally found guilty of the double homicide. Ciolino, the private investigator, obtained a video of Simon confessing to the killings. Simon pled guilty to charges of murder and manslaughter and was sentenced to 37 years in prison. However, Cook County prosecutors threw
out Simon’s conviction in October 2014 when questions were raised about the investigative methods of Protess’ class. Matthew Piers, Protess’ lawyer, stressed that the judge’s Tuesday ruling simply means that Simon can move forward with his suit, not that the allegations made by Simon’s lawyers in the suit occurred. He told The Daily he is confident Simon’s suit would not proceed further once the court could rule on “evidence rather than allegations.” University spokesman Al Cubbage declined to comment on behalf of the University. Neither Ciolino nor Rimland could be reached for comment. — Madeline Fox
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Around Town City to consider massage licensing
Local massage therapists take issue with ordinance By ROBIN OPSAHL
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Aldermen voted Monday to introduce an ordinance to license massage establishments, which some local massage therapists fear will perpetuate stereotypes of the massage industry. The ordinance would require massage establishments to pay a $50 licensing fee and provide identification and state licenses for each worker at the business, banning those with prior offenses involving sexual misconduct, violent felony convictions or the use of dangerous drugs or weapons from receiving licenses. The ordinance also bars sexual acts in the workplace and requires that workers wear opaque clothing while on the establishment’s premises. Although creating a massage licensing system and registry is supported among local massage therapists, the language in the bill purports an image that the massage industry is trying to distance itself from, said Sarah McLaughlin, a local massage therapist. “I’m very pro-regulation, but not
Police Blotter Two men arrested in connection with gun and marijuana possession
A 24-year-old man was charged in connection with aggravated unlawful use of a weapon when police discovered him and another person inside a vehicle early Sunday morning with a loaded gun. The man, from Hoffman Estates, Illinois, was charged when officers patrolling the 1700 block of Emerson Street noticed the two males sitting in a car drinking alcohol as well as the odor of unburnt marijuana, according to a
pro-regulation that automatically assumes that my industry is somehow sexual in nature,” McLaughlin said. “But the fact that in the licensing it says directly that we’re barred from committing sexual acts, well, that’s pretty offensive.”
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I’m very pro-regulation, but not pro-regulation that automatically assumes that my industry is somehow sexual in nature. Sarah McLaughlin, massage therapist
This ordinance follows a failed proposed zoning ordinance in 2012 that would require massage establishments to follow the city’s special use approval process. Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said the ordinance is meant to help officers distinguish between legitimate and criminal establishments, and will give more credence to the licensed businesses. Running a police news release. After searching the vehicle, officers found a loaded Colt .357 caliber revolver under the front passenger seat and took both subjects into custody, transporting them to the police department. The male in the passenger seat was charged with the felony for aggravated unlawful use of a weapon and the driver, also 24 yearsold, was charged with a misdemeanor for the unlawful possession of marijuana.
Skokie man charged with marijuana possession
operation on a massage establishment often costs thousands of dollars, Dugan said, and this ordinance would help police make sure they’re pursuing the right cases. “The intention of this ordinance isn’t to paint everyone with the same brush,” Dugan said. “It’s just necessary because it needs to be laid out that this is what we need to stop.” McLaughlin said if the goal of this ordinance is to prevent sex trafficking in the industry, it would be more effective to work directly with people in the industry. “If I was police chief … I’d want to sit down with local professionals and actually talk with them about what are the red flags for a safe spa versus an unsafe one in the environment.” McLaughlin said. Ald. Delores Holmes (5th) said that the ordinance is not meant to target massage therapists, but just make sure that businesses are in line with already existing laws. “It just makes sure that people are in compliance with the state licenses,” Holmes said. The ordinance will be considered for action at the City Council’s April 11 meeting. robinopsahl2018@u.northwestern.edu connection with possession of marijuana Tuesday morning when police discovered the substance in his car. The car was traveling east on the 500 block of Howard Street when officers on routine patrol stopped the driver after noticing him swerving into the westbound lane, said Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan. While inspecting the car, officers found a clear plastic bag of marijuana. The male was taken into custody for possessing 2.4 grams of cannabis and was charged with the misdemeanor, Dugan said.
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New program lets students borrow CTA passes By DAVID FISHMAN
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It just got easier for students to escape the “Evanston bubble.” Beginning on April 5, the Center for Civic Engagement will allow students to rent Chicago Transit Authority passes pre-loaded with 10 rides for the weekend. Along with free transportation to Chicago, the center has also planned two guided trips geared toward illuminating the city’s history, restaurant scene and diverse neighborhoods. “Chicago is ground zero for lots of challenges that big cities present,” said Dan Lewis, director of the center. “Lots of our students want to be very involved in creating social change and improving life opportunities for people. There’s literally no better city in the world to learn about those challenges.” English Prof. Bill Savage will lead the first trip, a free bus tour on April 2 which features a
visit to a classic Chicago-style hot dog stand. The tour will take students to parts of the city largely unexplored by tourists, Savage said, including the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair site, local stockyards and the National Museum of Mexican Art in Pilsen. “Chicago is a world metropolis. It’s one of the great historic cities of North America,” Savage said. “To spend all your time at Northwestern north of Howard Street would be like going to Paris and never getting around to going to the Eiffel Tower.” Since opening its doors in 2009, the center has built programs geared at increasing student civic engagement and public service. Savage said that graduating students often lament about their lack of familiarity with Chicago, having been stuck in the “Evanston bubble” for all of their years in college. Three undergraduate students launched “Spring into Chicago” this year, a pilot program to make trips into the Windy City easier and more desirable. Steffi Brock-Wilson, a Weinberg senior and co-coordinator of the program, is one
of the three students who helped launch the program and said the initiative would increase accessibility to Chicago through free transportation. “In the past we’ve focused on different themes such as food insecurity in Chicago or politics in Chicago,” Brock-Wilson said. “(This quarter) we’re focusing on increasing access. The city is really vibrant in the springtime and there’s a lot to learn and a lot of organizations to get involved with, but the first step is getting into the city.” The center partnered with a number of other organizations to co-sponsor the program, including Student Enrichment Services, Office of Campus Life and Associated Student Government. “I’m hoping that word of mouth … will get people thinking about the fact that when you get up on Saturday morning you’re not actually chained to your dorm,” Savage said. “This should be something you should do for fun, because you’ve got to balance the studying and the hard work on extracurriculars and internships with a little pleasure.” davidpkfishman@u.northwestern.edu
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FREE RIDE The “El” arrives at the Davis Street station in Evanston. Three undergraduate students spearheaded “Spring into Chicago,” a new program co-sponsored by the Center for Civic Engagement which will offer students free CTA passes and new ways to explore the Windy City.
Northwestern Memorial Hospital sued over patient death By MADELINE FOX
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A Chicago woman is suing Northwestern Memorial Hospital and the Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation, alleging negligence leading to the death of her son in 2014. Mara Berger, independent administrator of her son Adam Berger’s estate, alleges in the complaint filed on March 14 that the hospital and faculty foundation’s failure to treat her son for bacterial meningitis — inflammation of brain and spinal cord membranes — in a timely manner led to his death on April 1, 2014. She
is asking for compensation for damages exceeding $50,000, as well as the cost of the suit. The complaint alleges Adam Berger, age 44 at the time of his death, was admitted to the emergency room at the Feinberg School of Medicine’s primary teaching hospital the morning of March 31, 2014. He was told, according to the lawsuit, he had a virus and instructed to take antiviral medication used to treat the flu, and although one doctor named in the suit “believed Adam Berger required a physician reevaluation following laboratory and radiographic work-up by a physician,” he was discharged at about 3 p.m. without being reevaluated. Adam Berger and his mother returned to the emergency room that evening when his condition worsened
but were not seen by a triage nurse until 6:30 p.m., after waiting about an hour, the complaint says. The nurse told him he had the flu virus, as he had been told earlier, and he didn’t see an emergency room physician until 8:30 p.m. He began receiving antibiotics to treat bacterial infection after 9 p.m., which the complaint alleges was too late to prevent his death from cardiopulmonary arrest as a result of septic shock — widespread infection causing organ failure and dangerously low blood pressure. A spokesperson for Northwestern Medicine, the parent company of Northwestern Memorial Hospital, declined to comment, saying the organization does not comment on pending litigation. Mara Berger is suing for her family’s loss of Adam
Berger’s companionship and affection, as well as for his medical and burial costs, her lawyer told The Daily. Cases like this typically take three to four years to settle from filing and are expensive to pursue, requiring more than $100,000 in expenses, Berger’s lawyer said. However, the lawyer, Joseph Balesteri, said his firm has a “pretty strong track record” in cases like the Bergers’. “It’s very difficult on families and extremely costly to pursue these cases,” Balesteri said. “I wouldn’t put a family through relieving this pain if I didn’t think there was a chance of success.” Adam Berger is survived by his parents, sister and half-sister. foxm@u.northwestern.edu
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I refuse to identify as a ‘model minority’ in America HENRY CAO
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This essay is part of The Spectrum, a weekly forum in our Opinion section for marginalized voices to share their perspectives. To submit a piece for The Spectrum or discuss story ideas, please email spectrum@dailynorthwestern.com. During my formative years, I learned the rules of the game. To succeed in American society, I must reflect the ideals of the white community even though I’m not white. Throughout my childhood I saw my parents, Chinese-American immigrants, struggle to assimilate with American culture, despite arriving in America seven years before I was born. Institutional racism against Asian Americans has happened for centuries. The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 placed heavy quotas on Chinese immigration, essentially limiting the influx to skilled, male laborers. Just two months after the Pearl Harbor attack, President Roosevelt signed an executive order that relocated all Japanese Americans to internment camps. The problem now is that my community is expected to be silent about social justice, which makes it appear anti-black, anti-Hispanic and makes it harder to portray accurately
in the media. Over time, it dawned on me that unless I made a conscious effort to fight institutional racism toward Asian Americans, I would be seen as a perpetual outsider just like my immigrant parents were. Without a fundamental change in America’s racial consciousness, my process of assimilating into American culture will only end at the grave. As a Chinese American, I constantly feel the pressure to maintain the status of the “model minority,” defined as a historically marginalized group that has obtained economic success and social acceptance by embodying industrious and conservative values. To deviate from any institution — especially the legal system — will consign an Asian American of East-Asian descent to the realm of “Yellow Peril.” This term claims that East-Asian Americans are perpetual foreigners in America who have inferior cultural practices and hold lower moral and ethical standards. Consequently, many Asian Americans feel pressured to embody the “model minority” stereotype. Nonetheless, the “model minority” mystique is not a title that I proudly wear; it is a shield used by some members of the white community to deflect criticism of their inadequate treatment of all marginalized groups. Moreover, Asian Americans are denied fair treatment despite their achievements. Recent developments have exposed the double standards that Asian Americans face. My community is given broad economic rights, evidenced by its relatively high median income. However, it is not treated the same as its white counterpart in the legal arena. The shooting of
Akai Gurley by Officer Peter Liang is a recent example of this. On February 11, 2016, Liang, an AsianAmerican man, of the New York Police Department was of manUnless I made convicted slaughter and official a conscious misconduct in the shooting of Gurley, a effort to fight 28-year-old black man. institutional This conviction has been criticized by the racism comtowards Asian Asian-American munity for using Liang Americans, I as a scapegoat for all would be seen of the other white officers who were not as a perpetual convicted for shooting unarmed suspects. outsider... Liang was found guilty even though white officers Darren Wilson, who killed Michael Brown, and Daniel Pantaleo, who killed Eric Garner were not even indicted. In response, thousands of Asian Americans have stormed the streets in furious protest. Personally, I am not surprised by the response of the Asian-American community. Many older Asian Americans, including ones who I know, doubt the criminal justice system provides impartial justice for all Americans. My parents shared their reservations against the criminal justice system when I was younger. I did not believe them at the time, but now it is more urgent for me to join my community and face the shortcomings of our institutions. The white community controls a
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vast majority of the criminal justice system, meaning it bears the sword and the gavel. A single group of people cannot wield so much power. Rather, it must be shared by the people from all identities. The fact that my parents and countless other Chinese immigrants fled an oppressive regime in China only to confront a new system of oppression in America is a disgrace. Our society needs to judge people by their character, and not by the color of their skin. This is a vision that many white people, such as Abraham Lincoln, and people of color, such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., have died for. How many more people have to sacrifice themselves in order to elevate restorative justice and healing in America? I wonder what kind of history my children will inherit. Will they learn that our community finally stood up to unfair societal standards, or will they learn that we remained silently complicit with our role as the “model minority?” I want Americans to know that the “model minority” is being strangled by antipathy toward ourselves. I implore my community to take a serious look at the “model minority” label and take initiative to define its own merits of achievement. This will be a big step toward confronting institutional racism against Asian Americans. Henry Cao is a Weinberg sophomore. He can be reached at henrycao2018@u.northwestern.edu . If you would like to respond publicly to this column, 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.
Americans cannot succumb to fear in next election EDMUND BANNISTER DAILY COLUMNIST
In the aftermath of the Brussels attacks there are and will continue to be countless articles, studies and opinion pieces published about the implications of ongoing Islamist violence in the center of Europe. These articles will likely speak of domestic security failures, the radicalization of Muslim youths, the European refugee crisis and countless other topics both directly and tangentially related to the events in Belgium. Like many others, I am deeply disturbed by the ongoing capacity of terrorist organizations like ISIS to generate recruits and launch attacks in the heart of the West. I am even more unsettled by the ongoing chaos in the
Middle East, and the wholesale collapse of the Libyan, Syrian, Iraqi and Yemeni states. More and more, I grow increasingly pessimistic to the notion that my generation will see an end to terror and the war against terror in our lifetimes. After 15 years of war, the most powerful country on earth, and all of our many allies seem unable to contain the extremist violence metastasizing throughout the world. As we in the United States face the threat of jihadism, the most pressing long-term issue is how to psychologically and politically cope with future attacks. The fear generated by bombings and shootings in Europe and the Middle East, let alone the American homeland, is tremendous. If moderate, tolerant heads don’t prevail, this fear could pose a serious threat to our civil liberties, our values and our security. Increased violence doesn’t only swell the ranks of ISIS and Al-Qaeda. It also gives unprecedented political power to ultranationalist and xenophobic right-wing
politicians, both in Europe and the United States. The ever-increasing popularity of rightwing parties in Europe like the National Front in France, UKIP in the United Kingdom, AfD in Germany and Golden Dawn in Greece, directly coincides with the refugee crisis and the uptick in terrorism. The economic burdens of integrating refugees, fears of violence and underlying cultural tensions have introduced an increasingly radical element into the traditionally boring European political scene. Countries that have been bastions of civil liberty, tolerance, prosperity and democracy seem increasingly at the mercy of dogmatic, angry politicians whose policies infringe on the civil liberties of citizens and alienate European Muslims. The recent surge in nationalist sentiment and calls to close European internal borders are endangering the health and continued existence of the European Union itself.
United States should lower its voting age JOSEPH LAMPS
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Throughout the country’s history, voting rights have been extended to an increasing number of Americans: non-land owners, minorities, women and people age 18-21. Most of us appear now to believe that everybody who should be able to vote can. The purpose of democracy is to represent the will of the people. Therefore, anybody with opinions on how the country should handle different issues should have their voice heard. The voting age should be lowered so that anybody who is old enough to understand the responsibility of voting and understand the political system can vote. Voter turnout for people age 18-29 was only 40 percent in 2012, and well below 20 percent in 2014, showing that many new voters are too apathetic to make their voice heard, and that our politicians are representing the views of a small group of Americans. Lowering the voting age would likely increase turnout: If people have suffrage rights while still living with their parents they may be more likely to register and vote. Encouraging teens to vote could make
voting a long-term habit after they become adults. Allowing people to engage in the political process early could also spur interest in politics, possibly leading to more informed and more engaged voters. Finally, the interests of people under 18 should be represented because they have different interests which older people are unlikely to consider. Young voters can expect to live around six more decades, so they have different considerations than people who will not be around then. Because younger voters have to consider the future in a way older voters do not, this could also improve the quality of the electorate. This manifests itself in opinions on actual issues. For example, 52 percent of voters age 18-29 think climate change is a serious issue, whereas only 38 percent of those over 50 agree. It is outrageous for people under 18 to have to live in a world designed without their input. An obvious objection to lowering the voting age is that minors are simply too uninformed. However, this objection is inconsistent because this argument is never made against any other groups of people. Uneducated people, known extremists, new immigrants and some intellectually disabled people all vote, and to take this ability away from these groups would be considered a grave violation of rights. Lack of trust in their decision-making ability is simply not a
reason to restrict minors from voting. This objection can be further put to rest by evaluating what the likely effects of a lower voting age would be. Suffrage for minors would not have a dangerous effect; polls tell us that people under 18 would more often vote like their parents than choose an unorthodox candidate. According to a Gallup poll, 71 percent of Americans age 13-17 have political views about the same as their parents, 21 percent are more liberal, and seven percent are more conservative. This, in addition to the relatively small increase in the voting population from including people under 18, implies that the overall effect on voting outcome is likely to be small. Still, the issue of voting age should be particularly stirring for Northwestern students: Although most of us are old enough to vote, many of the politicians who are currently running society were elected before we turned 18. As people currently being governed by leaders we could not help choose, we should care about lowering the voting age. Joseph Lamps is a Weinberg freshman. He can be reached at josephlamps2019@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, 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.
In the United States, political conditions aren’t much better. The likely nominee of the Republican Party, Donald Trump, has shocked the world with his increasingly xenophobic rhetoric, directed at Mexican immigrants and Muslims. The second-strongest Republican candidate, Ted Cruz, has echoed Trump’s sentiments. At the present time it is unclear whether Trump and Cruz are actual zealots or merely political opportunists, exploiting public fear for their own political advancement. Either way, Trump’s tightening grip on the Republican Party proves the impact uncertainty and fear can have on an electorate. Edmund Bannister is a Weinberg freshman. He can be contacted at edmundbannister2019@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, 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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‘Wellness chair’ program to start in fall By FATHMA RAHMAN
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Last spring, Jason Arkin, a junior residing on the same floor as now-sophomore Isabel Schwartz, took his own life. He was the third Northwestern student in less than a year to do so. Schwartz said the incident gave mental health a new sense of urgency at NU and inspired her to create the “wellness chair” program. The Medill sophomore said the chairs will lead programming in various student groups around mental, physical, emotional wellness and discuss why students’ attitudes about mental health are how they are. She said different groups’ chairs will do different things, including meditation after meetings, relaxation breathing and checking in on members stress levels. The goal is to place wellness chairs in 50 different student organizations next fall, Schwartz said, and training will be scheduled for the end of Spring Quarter. Wellness chairs will begin a full-year term beginning next fall. “For me, I wasn’t seeing enough institutional change or top-down solutions that would impact students’ mental health and improve the situation on
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From page 1 scones and gluten-free treats, co-owner and business manager Jason Davidson said. In response to the city’s decision to initially ban Sweety Pies and other non-Evanston bakeries from the farmers’ market, Sweety Pies posted on Facebook on March 19 that it was “disappointed” and called it “flat out discrimination.” Davidson said the outpouring of support and concern from fans that contacted city officials helped in rescinding the ban.
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From page 1 Green said Y.O.U. was interested in incorporating community input from the project’s outset. He said this input resulted in a series of opportunities for local minority contractors including special orientation sessions for these companies, working with the city’s Local Employment Program to invite contractors to bid and, in some cases, awarding a bid that cost slightly more than its competitor because the bidder was a minority individual, a woman or a local. In response to the protest, Y.O.U. held in-person meetings with community members and updated its website to clarify how each contractor was chosen, he said.
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campus,” the Medill sophomore said. “Northwestern is a very high-pressure, intense environment and students are both put under a lot of academic pressure and put a lot of pressure on themselves to do it all.” In the fall, her main goal was to create a grassroots mental health project for a class assignment in which students design initiatives based on a problem they identify in the community, she said. The project, which began as a group assignment, became an independent initiative by Schwartz during the Winter Quarter, she said. Schwartz said she worked with CAPS executive director John Dunkle to plan out the logistics and training details of the program, as well as with members of NU Listens and Active Minds for feedback and improvements. The program’s oversight committee, which comprises 12 students, is currently preparing to reach out to a variety of student groups to have conversations about their involvement in the program, Schwartz said. NU Listens assistant director Brooke Feinstein, a member of the oversight committee, said wellness chairs will provide students an alternative resource with the organizations they’re involved in. “There are a lot of great resources at (NU) like CAPS, but I think that one of the problems that
some resources have here is that they’re often very overwhelmed or that students aren’t even aware that they’re there,” the Weinberg junior said. A large aim behind the idea of a wellness chair is to not have a “one-size fits all” approach to mental health, Schwartz said. How each wellness chair operates will be up to that student group, but each chair will be trained by CAPS in suicide-prevention, active listening and awareness programming. In addition to working with CAPS to create the chairs, Schwartz also brought the proposal to the Associated Student Government Student Life committee, where she is also a committee member. Although the wellness chair program is independent of any specific student group, ASG has been supporting Schwartz by reaching out to students and recruiting wellness chairs, said Wendy Roldan, ASG’s vice president for student life. “It’s really about bringing the conversation about mental health and wellness into the functioning of the student group,” Schwartz said. “Student groups impact students’ mental health significantly and there needs to be a greater level of awareness on their part of how their functioning impacts students’ wellness.”
“Obviously the firestorm that was created helped (city staff) realize what the public really wanted,” Davidson said. The Evanston ordinance governing farmers’ markets states that all bakers at markets must be licensed by the city and lists a series of stipulations regarding bread products sold at the market. However, Bobkiewicz wrote that vendors have regularly sold baked goods other than bread as well, as the ordinance has not been strictly enforced. “There’s still a battle ahead of us as far as getting the ordinance updated to be more inclusive of
non-Evanston-based businesses,” Davidson said. Bobkiewicz said he has asked Lawrence Hemingway, director of the city’s Parks, Recreation and Community Services Department, to work with “all interested parties” during the spring and summer to address issues and propose city code amendments to City Council no later than Nov. 1. “It is my goal that the market reflect the needs and standards of the community into the future and that rules be established that are fair to all concerned,” Bobkiewicz said.
Baskaran met Syed when he joined the community relations committee his freshman year. Their campaign will focus on social justice and accessibility of administration as well as emphasizing student groups’ voices to make ASG more relevant in their lives, he said. “ASG does not have salience in the majority of students’ lives … and that needs to change,” Baskaran said. “ASG doesn’t tackle some of the big picture solutions that a lot of students demand and want.” On the other ticket, Cilento leads ASG’s sustainability committee and is involved with Fossil Free Northwestern, a campaign that has called on the University to divest from coal companies. Cilento and Vinson said their background in campus activism allows them to listen and respond to students’ demands, a focus that has inspired their slogan “Don’t Settle.” Cilento and Vinson said they decided to run when they realized they were unhappy with the representation of student voices. “I’ve seen how ASG could potentially be used as a revolutionary tool,” Cilento said. “We both realized that if we were frustrated by the current way that things were in ASG, that that even strengthened our reason for running.” Vinson said, for some, ASG has had a bad reputation on campus as underserving marginalized communities and being a “hostile” place for underrepresented groups. He said ASG must work closer with the administration and student groups to reflect their opinions and be more responsive. “We’re challenging this idea of the university making decisions for us,” Vinson said. “We’re trying to shift labor – students should not be doing all of this labor. But we should make sure that our voices are heard.” Voting begins Thursday April 7 at 5 p.m. and ends the next day at 5 p.m.
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The center will be located at 1911 Church St., across the street from Evanston Township High School, and will continue to offer after-school enrichment, mental health counseling, community-to-school support and summer learning opportunities. Wilson said the organization has not been forthright and “changed the rules” when it decided to offer union contracts for the project after telling community members it would not. He said this decision excluded the majority of the neighborhood’s residents because they are not union members. Although the organization ultimately chose a union firm to manage the construction, Green said Y.O.U. also designated work to be done by non-union, local contractors. Bennett Johnson, who leads the Evanston Minority
Business Consortium, said Y.O.U. has not hired an optimal number of local minority contractors and residents to work with the organization. The Evanston Minority Business Consortium is primarily made up of local minority construction companies, Johnson said. Despite the group consistently approaching Y.O.U. to collaborate on the project, none of the members were offered major contracts, he said. Johnson said one of the group’s most reputable construction contract-managing companies was rejected in favor of a non-local company. Additionally, a contractor with a bid of $203,500 for excavation work was chosen instead of a local minority contractor’s bid of $185,750, Johnson said. “(It) would make a difference to a lot of families in the neighborhood if Y.O.U. focused on trying to be
consistent with the so-called mission of the organization,” Johnson said. However, Green said the minority contractor’s bid was actually $100,000 higher than it reported. He also said the project’s construction manager did not receive certain paperwork from the bidder, making the bid incomplete. “The dialogue that has taken place with the community has informed every aspect of the construction process,” Green said. “We will absolutely be inviting the people who have expressed concerns into our new building, hopefully having the opportunity to share with them the building and hopefully be in a place where we can build friendships across these lines.”
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Northwestern takes eighth place at The Goodwin By TYLER VANDERMOLEN daily senior staffer @tgvandermolen
Few tournaments in collegiate golf bring together a field as large or competitive as The Goodwin. Northwestern ended its spring break on a high note, playing its way to an eighth-place finish in The Goodwin’s 26-team field at Stanford this weekend, besting a number of NCAA powerhouses in the process. Coach David Inglis praised the Wildcats’ effort at the tournament particularly after a pair of lackluster showings in the prior two events left the team in need of success. “We were all very encouraged by what we were able to show this week, especially in a field that good,” Inglis said. “We’d had a few events in a row where we just hadn’t been able to put it together, and this was definitely a step in the right direction for us.” NU’s performance included important wins over the nation’s top ranked team, USC, as well as SMU and UCLA, two other highly highly-ranked programs. These victories are likely to bolster the team’s resume and ranking, which will be critical in determining its postseason status. The Cats finished with a tournament total of 14-over par, four shots behind seventh-place Pepperdine and three shots clear of ninth-place USC. UC Davis won the event at 13-under, followed by UNLV at 3-under and tournament host Stanford at 1-under. With the Big Ten Championships just over three weeks away, Inglis said he believes the team’s
Former NFL quarterback Mike Kafka joins Wildcats’ coaching staff
Former Wildcat and NFL quarterback Mike Kafka has joined Northwestern’s coaching staff as a graduate assistant, the program announced Tuesday. As a Wildcat, Kafka (Communication ’10) set single-game school records in both passing yards and rushing yards by a quarterback.
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NOT JOSHIN’ YA Josh Jamieson walks to his ball. The senior finished among the top 20 on each of the last two days of The Goodwin.
most recent performance provides further reason for optimism. “It seems like we’ve been saying it all year, but beating the top team in the nation just goes to show again that we can beat anyone when it’s our day,” Inglis said. “We’ve got the Big Tens coming up and we know we’ll see Illinois and a few other According to the release, he will work with the offensive staff with a focus on wide receivers. Following his career at NU, Kafka was drafted in the fourth round of the 2010 NFL Draft by the Philadelphia Eagles. He spent six seasons in the league and was most recently on an active roster with Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2014. In addition to Kafka, the program also announced the hiring of two more graduate assistant coaches. — Max Gelman
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top teams, so having that confidence and belief is important.” NU was led by a pair of top-20 performances from two of its usual standouts. Sophomore Dylan Wu paced the squad with a three-round total of 1-over par, good enough to finish tied for 13th place individually, while senior Josh
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In their final non-conference match of the season, the Cats fell 5-2, giving them a 2-8 non-conference record this season. Larner and Barnett stormed out of the gate at No. 2 doubles to take the first match of the day 6-2, but both No. 1 and No. 3 doubles dropped their matches 6-3 to once again give the opposing team the doubles point. The Cats couldn’t find their stroke in singles, as Texas won the first three singles courts
Jamieson finished tied for 17th at 2-over. Senior Andrew Whalen and freshman Ryan Lumsden both posted 6-over scores to finish tied for 41st, and sophomore Sam Triplett tied for 82nd at 12-over. Freshmen Luke Miller (15-over) and Pete Griffith (17-over) competed as individuals and finished tied for 105th and tied for 112th, respectively. The Cats’ performance at The Goodwin was a true team effort, with four players carding rounds in the 60s. Jamieson said this is particularly important at this stage in the season, as the team cannot simply rely on the top of its lineup to make a deep postseason run. “Dylan and Andrew have played really solid for us all year and we’ve found ourselves leaning on them pretty heavily at different times, which you just can’t do and expect to have much success,” Jamieson said. “Now with my game coming around and some of these other guys playing well, it seems like things might be coming together at the right time.” Despite the strong showing, Inglis said he does not believe NU has found its ceiling. Rather, he said his team’s best golf may very well be on the horizon. “The thing is that we really still haven’t put together a complete tournament where it all clicks,” Inglis said. “If we can get Dylan and Andrew and Josh all playing well at the same time, we are going to be really tough to beat.” The Cats return to action at the Kepler Invitational in Columbus, Ohio on April 9-10. TylerVanderMolen2018@u.northwestern.edu to decide the match. However, the scores were much tighter, as both Larner and junior Jillian Rooney lost their singles matches in 3 sets, and Barnett lost her match in a tough second set tiebreaker, going down 6-3, 7-6 (7-5). Despite the rough road trip, NU remains undefeated in Big Ten play, and now that nonconference play is over the team can focus on its conference opponents. The Cats will look to turn it around Saturday when they take on Nebraska at home. robinsonmarkus2019@u.northwestern.edu
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It’s going to be good to be home ... not always be playing against the opposing team’s crowd. — Jake Scheiber, junior outfielder
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Northwestern still building off best start in school history
By BENJY APELBAUM
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Following up a tough loss to a top-3 team to start Spring Break, Northwestern continued its dominance by going perfect in conference play. The No. 13 Wildcats (17-2, 3-0 Big Ten) won three times over the break, sweeping both Indiana (4-12, 0-3) and IUPUI (6-17, 1-0 The Summit) 4-0 at home along with defeating Purdue (12-5,1-2) 4-2. But the team couldn’t fend off No. 3 TCU (15-2), losing in a close 4-3 battle. TCU snapped NU’s 11-match winning streak last week. This match was rescheduled from Feb. 24, when the Horned Frogs were unable to make the trip to Evanston due to inclement weather. NU went into the TCU match looking to win its secondstraight match against a top-10 team. Earlier in the month, freshman Ben Vandixhorn rallied from a set down to clinch the team’s 4-3 victory over then-No.8 Illinois, marking the program’s first ever victory against a top-10 team. Against TCU, NU fell behind 3-0, and was on the brink of dropping the match. However, the Cats rallied, winning the next three singles
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Wildcats ready to open new ballpark By BEN POPE
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When Jake Stolley steps onto the mound Wednesday afternoon, he’ll accomplish two firsts with one pitch. The senior will make the first start of his collegiate career after 47 relief appearances over the past three seasons. And Stolley will throw the first-ever pitch in the renovated and renamed Rocky and Berenice Miller Park, which is finally ready for play after a year and a half of construction. “The whole team is really antsy. They said they’d let us in the locker room tomorrow after the game if we play well, so we’re excited for that,” Stolley joked. Behind Stolley, the Wildcats (6-18, 1-2 Big Ten) will seek to snap a slump of 14 losses in their last 16 games with their home opener against Chicago State (6-16, 0-3 WAC) on a momentous day for the program. Renovations on the formerly named Rocky Miller Park, originally built in 1943, have replaced the playing surface, built new locker rooms and a larger press box, enlarged spectator seating and improved other amenities. NU will debut the stadium Wednesday after playing its first 22 games of the season on the road. “It’s going to be great just to be home,” associate head coach Josh Reynolds said. “Guys can be in their own beds and in a routine; (They) don’t have to be in hotels and on buses eating out all the time. Being in our stadium and (with) our fans and even just getting that last at-bat is going to make a big difference.” The Cats dropped their first conference series to Ohio State (15-7-1, 2-1) last weekend, winning the Friday opener but then losing back-to-back games, including on a walk-off home run Sunday. Junior outfielder Jake Schieber said
although NU tried to keep focused against the Buckeyes, they were still distracted by thoughts of finally returning home this week. “It’s going to be good to be home, get some home fans coming too (and) not always be playing against the opposing team’s crowd,” Schieber said. The visiting Cougars have had their own struggles so far in 2016, losing six straight contests by a combined 58-12 score before beating Western Michigan 6-3 on Tuesday. They’ve also traveled the country extensively, playing series at Hawaii and New Mexico State this month. NU has enjoyed plenty of success against Chicago State in recent years, winning at least its last nine meetings dating back to 2012. The cross-city rivals will complete the second half of their 2016 home-and-home series on April 19. Reynolds, perhaps aware of the favorable matchup, said the coaching staff decided to start Stolley to help him regain control after a stretch of poor relief appearances. The senior has surrendered six earned runs in just 2.2 innings pitched over his last four games. “He’s kinda scuffled a little bit his last couple outings,” Reynolds said. “It’s been some pressure-type situations. (I want to) let him go through it from the starter’s standpoint where it’s 0-0; (he can) build his own momentum and go from there.” Facing a beatable opponent after a brutal first portion of the season, the Cats will hope to build upon the positives of last weekend’s tight series and earn a much-needed win. The day’s biggest story, however, won’t be the result of the game but the confines in which it is played. “We can’t wait and we know it’s going to be incredible,” Schieber said. “We just want to step out on that field.” benjaminpope2019@u.northwestern.edu
matches, including wins from junior Konrad Zieba and senior Fedor Baev who had to rebound after losing the first set. Vandixhorn rallied from a set down while the match set tied at 3-3. But this time he came up short. He lost lost the third set by a score of 6-2 to Trevor Johnson. The team then traveled to Purdue on Friday and got back on track with a 4-2 win over the Boilermakers. Antithetical to the team’s previous matchups, NU cruised to the doubles point with a pair of 6-1 victories at No. 1 and No. 3 doubles. No. 42 junior Sam Shropshire’s dominating 6-3, 6-1 win at second singles over No. 57 Benjamin Ugarte highlighted the match. Junior Strong Kirchheimer secured the fourth and clinching point with a 6-3, 4-6, 6-1 victory at third singles. On Sunday, the Cats returned home to play a doubleheader against Indiana and IUPUI. They improved to 3-0 in Big Ten play with their 4-0 sweep of Indiana. The match was NU’s first match played outdoors at the Vandy Christie Tennis Center this season. The nightcap against IUPUI which the Cats also won by a score of 4-0 was not nearly as competitive as the match against Indiana. NU did not lose any singles sets and won most of its matches without much drama. The Cats will return to the court and look to stay undefeated in Big Ten play on Friday at home against Wisconsin. bennjaminapelbaum2019@u.northwestern.edu
NU struggles in Texas over break By ROBBIE MARKUS
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At the end of their Spring Break road trip, the Wildcats once again found themselves in a slump. Although Northwestern (5-8, 3-0 Big Ten) came into spring break with a four-game winning streak, it dropped all three of its matches to Texas opponents last week as the theme of weak non-conference play continued to plague the Cats against Baylor, Texas Tech and Texas. NU started the trip in Waco, Texas, falling to Baylor (7-11, 1-1 Big 12) 4-2 on March 23. The Cats fought hard the entire match, but Baylor’s No. 2 singles player, Rhiann Newborn, won a second set tiebreaker to seal the win for the Bears. At first, Baylor came out strong with two dominant doubles wins, winning No. 1 doubles 6-0 and No. 3 doubles 6-3. But NU slowed down the Bears’
momentum when singles play started, as senior Alicia Barnett won at No. 3 singles in straight sets to even the match. After another Baylor win at No. 1 singles, sophomore Alex Chatt tied the score at 2-2, taking out sophomore Kelley Anderson in straight sets. This put all the pressure on the remaining three singles courts and the Cats couldn’t come through. Junior Brooke Rischbieth went down at No. 6 singles 6-4, 6-4, and sophomore Maddie Lipp dropped No. 2 singles 6-4, 7-6 [7-3] in a wellfought match to give the Baylor its seventh win of the season. After the Baylor match, NU looked to rebound in a tough contest against No. 13 Texas Tech (15-2, 0-1 Big 12) last Friday. Similar to their play earlier in the season, the Cats had a hard time competing against the top-notch Red Raiders, falling 4-0 in a rough match.
Like Baylor, Texas Tech jumped in early to take the doubles point, grabbing wins at No. 1 and No. 3 doubles. Both Barnett and sophomore Erin Larner at No. 1 doubles and Chatt and Lipp at No. 2 doubles put up strong fights, but the former pair fell 7-5 to give Texas Tech the first point of the day. Texas Tech picked up the pace further moving into singles, as they swept the top three singles courts to quickly take the match 4-0. Barnett was edged out 6-3, 6-2 at No. 3 singles, Lipp was ousted 6-1, 6-1 at No. 2 singles, and Larner was defeated 6-4, 6-3 at No. 1 singles. The match was called after Texas Tech won its fourth point, leaving singles courts 4, 5, and 6 unfinished. At the end of the road trip, the Cats looked to end strong in Austin, Texas, taking on the Texas Longhorns (9-5, 1-1 Big 12) on Monday. » See WOMEN’S TENNIS, page 7
Women’s Tennis
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TEXAS-SIZE TROUBLES Jillian Rooney lunges for the ball. The junior fought hard over spring break, but ultimately fell to her Longhorn opponent in the only match she completed in Texas.