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NU gathers for ‘groundbreaking’ Symbolic ceremony precedes Black House renovations By ALAN PEREZ

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Banners urging University action in commemoration of the Bursar’s Office Takeover hang outside the Multicultural Center. On Thursday, students released a list of 47 demands for improvement in black student experiences, departmentalization efforts and the campus dining transition.

Students deliver NU 47 demands List urges action on black experience, ethnic studies, dining change By TROY CLOSSON, RISHIKA DUGYALA, and JONAH DYLAN daily senior staffers @rdugyala822 and @thejonahdylan

Students released a list of 47 demands Thursday — the 50th anniversary of the Bursar’s Office Takeover — urging the University to improve campus culture for black students, departmentalize the Asian American Studies and Latina and Latino Studies programs, and provide a smooth transition for food service workers. The list, organized by Black Lives Matter NU, the Latinx Asian American Collective and

Students Organizing for Labor Rights, said the students want administrators to “clearly and definitively” indicate within two weeks whether they will fulfill the requests. “We hereby condemn the University’s hypocritical cooptation of the Bursar Takeover Commemoration,” the list of demands stated. “We conclude these demands with the promise that failure to comply and take immediate action in enacting them will result in continuous confrontation and direct action.” University spokesman Al Cubbage told The Daily in a statement that administrators will continue to meet with students and alumni

Gala to honor Art Encounter founder Joanna Pinsky helped create nonprofit in 1978

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Most days after dinner, Joanna Pinsky works in her studio until midnight, creating images of the Cuban national hero José Martí and architectural fragments that will eventually float on walls of galleries. Pinsky said being alone in the studio can be isolating and feel self-indulgent. When in 1978 she founded Art Encounter — a nonprofit dedicated to spreading creative thinking to youth and senior citizens — with two other Evanston artists, she found a way to connect more with others. “When you start something,

you just have an idea you want to try out and you don’t think, ‘I’m going (to) try this out and hope that it’s going to go on for 40 years,’” Pinsky said. “Our hope was to keep it going for a year, a couple of years, then five years, then maybe 10 years and then it just (kept going). Now I would like to just see it continue.” Part of her desire to create the organization, Pinsky said, came after some friends told her and her co-owners that they were intimidated by going to art galleries. She said Art Encounter has helped her balance her life as it has grown over the past 40 years. The organization offers programs in Evanston and Chicago, and Pinsky continues helping others — specifically children and senior citizens — see that art can be interpreted like books, » See PINSKY, page 7

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to further understand their points of view and work together. “We agree on the critical importance of these topics, and we also agree they merit further examination and additional solutions, wherever possible,” Cubbage said. “This discourse is fundamental to the dynamic nature of Northwestern.”

Black Lives Matter NU demands Black Lives Matter NU called for the University to increase representation and resources for students, faculty and staff as well as acknowledge the history of student activism involved in the evolution of black student

experiences at NU. Among the group’s list of 36 demands were ones urging the University to fully acknowledge its oppositional role throughout aspects of the Bursar’s Office Takeover. Many students and alumni said not enough has changed over the years, expressing concern with the parallels between the demands presented to administrators in 1968 and those developed after the disruption of a groundbreaking ceremony for the lakeside athletic complex three years ago. And Thursday’s list brought up many of the same issues as » See DEMANDS, page 6

University officials, students and alumni gathered Thursday at the Black House for a symbolic groundbreaking ceremony on the 50th anniversary of the Bursar’s Office Takeover, though the construction phase of the building’s renovation won’t begin immediately. “Everybody remembers the events of 2015 and the University responding quite favorably to improve the conditions of the Black House,” Jeffrey Sterling (Weinberg ’85), president of the NU Black Alumni Association, said moments before digging a shovel into the ground. “Symbolically and practically, we’re about to engage in a major renovation that has taken a lot of people to put input into.” The renovation process began about two years ago, after students criticized the University’s plans to move administrative offices into the Black House and the Multicultural Center, as the changes would have reduced the space available for students. Administrators held listening sessions, and a committee charged with facilitating the process gathered feedback and conducted a feasibility study, said Lesley-Ann Brown-Henderson, executive director of Campus Inclusion and Community and cochair of the renovation committee. Brown-Henderson said the

committee is now in the schematic design process, in which tentative plans are presented to students and alumni to gather more feedback. The ceremony was just one piece of this week’s events, organized by NUBAA to commemorate students who took over the Bursar’s Office in 1968. Those students, many of whom were in attendance for the day’s events, were protesting the University’s inadequate response to the demands of black students. After 38 hours, students and administrators came to an agreement that included a provision saying the University would create a space that black students could call their own. On Thursday, Sterling stood outside the Black House alongside Kimya Moyo (SESP ’69), For Members Only coordinator Kasey Brown, chief diversity officer Jabbar Bennett, Provost Jonathan Holloway and University President Morton Schapiro. Alumni and other ceremony attendees then followed Sterling inside for a presentation about the upcoming renovations. Sterling also presented a plaque donated by NUBAA that listed the names of those who participated in the 1968 demonstration. He said the piece is meant to honor the participants’“courage, commitment and vision.” “I’m about to cry, so I’m not going to say too much, but I know God has blessed us this day for being able to take this house, our home, back again,” said Alice Palmer, former director of the department of African American Student Affairs. » See CEREMONY, page 7

EDM artist to perform at Dillo Day 2018

EDM artist TOKiMONSTA will perform at Dillo Day, Mayfest announced Thursday. The California native’s third album, Lune Rouge, was released in 2017 and garnered critical acclaim. She has also collaborated with a number of other artists, including Jessie Ware, Anderson .Paak and Kelly Rowland. TOKiMONSTA, whose real name is Jennifer Lee, released Lune Rouge after she was diagnosed with Moyamoya, a rare neurovascular condition, in 2015. She released the album after undergoing two brain surgeries. “During its creation, I faced some of the most difficult and uplifting moments of my life,” she said in a Mayfest news release. “Seeing myself at the edge of my own mortality and how I chose to move past is a story told in this album.” In the release, Mayfest director of concerts Grant Pender said TOKiMONSTA has consistently released interesting albums and

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TOKiMONSTA performs on the Parlor stage at the Panorama Music Festival on July 23, 2016 in Randalls Island, N.Y. The EDM artist will perform at Dillo Day, Mayfest announced Thursday.

said she would bring energy to the Lakefill. “(TOKiMONSTA is) also interesting because she’s a very versatile electronic act; she doesn’t just fit into the box of ‘EDM,’” Pender said. “Her repertoire contains everything from ambient/ psychedelic tracks, to beats she’s produced with hip hop artists, to more traditional pop/dance

tracks.” The EDM artist is the second act announced for Dillo Day. Last week, Mayfest announced that R&B artist Daniel Caesar will also perform. Mayfest co-director of promotions Sarah Wong said the group is excited to host TOKiMONSTA at Dillo Day. “It’s a rare and fortunate

opportunity to introduce a female EDM artist to Dillo Day, especially because there are so few in this genre,” the McCormick junior said. “TOKiMONSTA’s music offers a different kind of energy to the lineup, which we’re really looking forward to hearing.” Dillo Day is set for June 2. — Jonah Dylan

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AROUND TOWN Housing commission talks needs assessment report By VICTORIA LEE

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The Housing and Homelessness Commission reviewed the city’s efforts to increase affordable housing at a Thursday meeting at the Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center. Commissioners discussed the Inclusionary Housing Ordinance Subcommittee’s financial workshop coming up on May 30. They also discussed producing an affordable housing needs assessment report as part of the the city’s 2018 initiative of expanding affordable housing. Evanston resident Tracy McKeithen told The Daily she came to the meeting because she wanted to stay informed on the Inclusionary Housing Ordinance Subcommittee’s current developments. McKeithen said the IHO has the potential to be more effective and needs to be updated. “There could be specific guidelines to assist the very low-income people in the community,” McKeithen said. “So as developers are developing projects and new buildings, there are specific units set aside for those people that earn or have an income below 30 percent of the area’s median income.” The IHO sets requirements for affordable housing units in new market rate developments, said Savannah Clement, a housing policy and planning analyst for the city. Developers have the option to provide affordable units on site, provide a fee-in-lieu

POLICE BLOTTER Police investigating burglary valued at $400 Police are investigating a burglary that took place Wednesday night in the 2200 block of Ridge Avenue. A 21-year-old Evanston woman reported to police her backpack was missing from her bedroom when she came home, Evanston police Cmdr. Ryan Glew said. The backpack contained a DSLR camera, telescopic

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Ellen Cushing, chair of the Housing and Homelessness Commission, speaks at a meeting. During a commission meeting Thursday, members reviewed the city’s efforts to increase affordable housing.

payment, provide an alternative equivalent proposal or petition for a reduction of requirements. However, many developers have opted to pay the fee rather than offer affordable units, leading to a strong pushback from residents, Clement said. The subcommittee is reviewing the ordinance and will look into revisions such as raising fees, enforcing on-site requirements or looking at additional revenue sources for the Affordable Housing Fund, Clement told The Daily.

She added that the subcommittee has already met twice but decided to postpone other meetings until after the financial workshop. The panelists in the workshop have experience in real estate, housing development and finance, and are meant to provide the subcommittee with guidance as they try to amend the IHO, Clement said. “This will get everyone on the same page as to what really goes into the costs and financing of housing development,” Clement told The Daily.

lens and cash — all of which was valued around $400. The woman left her bag unattended in her bedroom with the door closed from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., Glew said. Her roommate, who was home at the time of the burglary, said she was in her own bedroom with headphones on. The back door of the residence was unlocked. The woman told police her neighbors said a man walked into their apartment around the same time that the burglary occurred. He asked, “Where’s Tony?” and left when the neighbors said they didn’t know

Tony, Glew said. Police have not yet identified the suspect.

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Police responded Wednesday to a report of severe damage to a bush in south Evanston. A 46-year-old Evanston woman said someone broke several branches off a 10-by-10 bush on her property in the 1400 block of Monroe Street between April 30 and May 2, Glew said. She told police the

Commission chair Ellen Cushing said the commission should come up with a concrete needs assessment report, which would evaluate the current affordable housing plans already in place — such as the 2009 Plan for Affordable Housing — and clearly define the city’s needs and resources available to better serve the commission’s goals. Cushing said she will build off the city’s previous work to review and incorporate past research. However, the commission should use its own needs assessment instead of depending on another organization’s, she told The Daily. Commission members will work together with staff, existing city task forces and other local organizations dedicated to affordable housing to compile their comprehensive assessment, Cushing said. The needs assessment is scheduled to be finished by the end of this month, Cushing said. During the public comment section, some audience members expressed their frustration with City Council’s attitude toward the affordable housing scarcity, accusing council of not prioritizing the issue. But Cushing said she commends the council for setting aside special meetings for affordable housing. “Like most things in life, (affordable housing) is a process, and it’s not always the road that everyone would choose to go,” Cushing told The Daily. “But I think in the end, we’re all going to end up in the right place.” victorialee2021@u.northwestern.edu suspect “destroyed the profile of the bush.” At the residence, officers observed someone had intentionally stripped off branches that were hanging over the public sidewalk, Glew said. The woman installed a camera on her property on May 1, but she has not seen any footage of a suspect yet. She told police she will press charges of criminal defacement of property if the suspect is identified. Glew said the bush will likely need to be replaced. — Nikki Baim

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ON CAMPUS Panel recalls Bursar’s Office Takeover By JONAH DYLAN and ALAN PEREZ

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Provost Jonathan Holloway welcomed participants of the 1968 Bursar’s Office Takeover decades after they set the course to transform the black student experience at Northwestern. “Welcome back, I’ve been waiting to meet you for a long time,” he said Thursday introducing a panel discussion about the demonstration. “Through your bravery and your faith, you were determined to say that this house should become your home. I know that for some of you it did become that, I know for some of you it did not. My hope is that in this weekend … it will become home for everyone.” Holloway asked all former students who participated in the sit-in to stand up, and they were met with a round of applause by the audience. Panelists discussed the events that took place that consequential spring day, with details on how students planned meticulously for a successful demonstration. Kathryn Ogletree (Weinberg ’71, Graduate School ’76), who led the Bursar’s Office Takeover in 1968, said black students didn’t feel safe on Northwestern’s campus. Ogletree had beer cans and pens filled with urine thrown at her as she walked down Sheridan Road, she said. She also noticed institutional racism when it came to the housing selection process. “(There was) the humiliation that we would feel, particularly as black women, when we would move into our rooms and a white girl would come in, take a look at us and then leave,” she said. “And it took some time before we realized what was happening, that they could opt out of rooming with us if they didn’t want to or their mother or other parent did not want that.” These experiences were “dehumanizing,” she said. University President Morton Schapiro also spoke during the panel; he said NU has hired

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more staff for the Office of Student Affairs to work with vice president for student affairs Patricia Telles-Irvin. He added that maintaining a dialogue with students is very important. “We always have to make sure that with so many more staff members, that we don’t create layer upon layer, and we don’t hear the voices of the students,” he said. “That would be a disaster, and students deserve better.” However, Jeffrey Sterling (Weinberg ’85), president of the Northwestern University Black Alumni Association, said many of the issues

raised during the takeover are still prevalent today. “We hear so much, and so much is promoted about things that are different now, it’s almost cold, as an excuse to try to move in a different direction,” Sterling said. “But the truth of the matter is that the phraseology is so similar today, in today’s students, as they were for you guys. The word ‘isolation,’ in different contexts, is very much still present today, but for different reasons.”

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Student activists denounce co-optation of Bursar’s Office Takeover

This week the university has been commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Bursar’s Office Takeover, when about 120 students occupied the Bursar’s Office on May 3, 1968, in order to demand improvements in the conditions of Black students on campus. Throughout the commemoration process, Northwestern has taken credit for the work of radical Black students whose demands it never fulfilled, essentially co-opting student activism. Converting the takeover into a feather for the university’s cap aligns with its general penchant for tokenizing students of color to superficially appeal to neoliberal values of diversity and inclusion. Meanwhile, they force those same students to endure the white supremacist structures this administration maintains through its decision making. We write on behalf of three student groups who have had enough of the university’s posturing. The Latinx Asian American Collective (LAAC) was born from outrage over a Northwestern professor’s decision to host a public relations representative of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as a class speaker last spring. Students united in response by occupying the classroom and preventing the representative from speaking. University President Morton Schapiro and then-Provost Daniel Linzer subsequently condemned the students’ actions as “disrespectful, inappropriate and contrary to the values of the University.” Administration followed this statement with disciplinary action against a handful of involved students and a stricter protest policy. LAAC recognizes the glaring hypocrisy of the university commemorating the Bursar’s Office Takeover while simultaneously punishing students who engage in similar actions today. Northwestern’s Asian American Studies Program (AASP) and Latina and Latino Studies Program (LLSP) owe their very existences to such action. AASP’s formation was a direct

result of an almost month-long student hunger strike in 1995; it would be another decade before three years of student activism spearheaded by Alianza led to the establishment of LLSP. Upon these programs’ establishments, however, the administration has refused to support their sustainable operation. Despite the university’s repeated refusals to properly fund the programs; hire sufficient faculty to teach for the programs; and otherwise serve the students, faculty and staff within the programs, LLSP and AASP have continued to attract students of color and serve as spaces for transformative academic work. Since their establishment, every gain made by these programs has resulted from the tireless work of students, faculty and staff of color. It is similarly with no help from the university that staff and students have mobilized to protect the workers on this campus. Students Organizing for Labor Rights (SOLR) sees how the university has repeatedly proclaimed its support for the undocumented members of our campus community, which includes not just students, faculty and administrative staff, but also the workers who form the backbone of this school. However, the university’s mission to foster community and inclusion directly contradicts with its participation in E-Verify, which electronically verifies the information that newly hired employees provide on Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification. At the community dialogue on April 30, vice president of human resources Pam Beemer stated that the university is not legally obligated to use E-Verify campus-wide on the more than 5,700 Northwestern workers that comprise our campus community; rather, the university is only legally obligated to E-Verify a small fraction of that figure, specifically workers that are employed through federal contracts. We find it ludicrous that the university willfully neglects to critically evaluate its institutional practices. For years, students and faculty have been demanding Northwestern halt participation in E-Verify and, thus, our tacit complicity in perpetuating fear and violence. How can we as students celebrate our investment in a university

that voluntarily threatens the well-being of its most vulnerable populations, dividing communities instead of bringing them together? How can we invest in a university that refuses to listen to our calls for justice and safety? How can we feel proud to attend a university that claims support for vulnerable members of our community only when it is convenient for its image? How can we feel proud to attend a university that failed to support students — and condemned demonstrators — last spring when they protested a faculty member inviting a representative of a violent state apparatus to campus? How can we justify attending a university that has voluntarily participated in a fear-provoking hiring program for the past eight years? Most of all, how can the university engage in its celebration of the Bursar’s Office Takeover — attempting to position itself as sympathetic to the grievances of our community’s marginalized members — while its administration continually fails to take action to support them? We are exhausted with the rhetorical flourishes of the university’s statements claiming its commitment to the well-being of marginalized people on this campus; instead, we want action. Action, however, first requires transparency. NU’s commemoration of the Bursar’s Office Takeover may seem like an attempt to acknowledge the university’s cyclical inaction, but it reflects its use of marginalized bodies and neoliberal multiculturalism. Over the course of 50 years, it has become apparent that when NU continues to “work diligently every day to ensure that our campus remains a place of inclusion and equality,” it does so through empty promises, through brochures plastered with faces of students of color who it otherwise neglects. All the while, NU has maintained and upheld whiteness. Black students must continually fight to not only be in this space, but also to have the ability to take up space. Black students bear the weight of this university’s historical revisionism, negligence and ignorance. Northwestern has no issue allocating funds for superfluous construction projects, but grits its teeth when Black students ask them to invest in their well-being. The legacy of the Bursar’s

Takeover is not just the Black House and the African American Studies department; it is the Black students who continually fight to be not only heard, but also answered fully. Black students walking this campus today are living the reality that the demands from the Bursar’s Office Takeover remain unfulfilled. We demand that this university celebrate the legacy of the Bursar’s Office Takeover by remembering its responsibility to the campus’s Black community. It must deconstruct its white supremacist echo chamber and attend to those who feel an acute magnification of their marginalization on this campus. The university seems to be trying to rewrite its history as a white supremacist institution. If it truly want to make amends for its history, we have presented it with a number of avenues through which it can make reparations. For example, we demand the university redress its original stance in opposition to the Bursar’s Office Takeover by revisiting and publishing to its homepage the original preamble of the May 4th agreement, acknowledging and condemning its hostile and antagonistic racism. In complying with all the demands presented by Black students, the university can finally recognize that Black students are always in crisis and it is action, not listening or speaking, that will absolve this continuous and critical situation. The university’s celebration of radical Black student action serves its progressive image, masking the reality of the administration’s complicity in suppressing both students and disciplines that seek to unsettle white supremacy at NU. We students reject this narrative built on lies and refuse to be used as tools in its construction. Our demands implore Northwestern to follow through on its lofty rhetoric by making real, tangible and institutional changes to improve the conditions of marginalized peoples on its campus, whether it be those within AASP and LLSP, campus service workers or Black community members. Anything short of these demands is unacceptable. — Latinx Asian American Collective Students Organizing for Labor Rights Black Lives Matter NU

Think twice before attending Cinco de Mayo darties HEENA SRIVASTAVA

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With the simultaneous onset of “darty season” and Cinco de Mayo this Saturday, college students across America will be whipping out their best guacamole recipes and stocking up on Coronas. And while Americans see the day as an opportunity to enjoy tacos and drinks, the party culture surrounding it has led to practices that disrespect Mexican culture. This year, the weather, the weekend and the distasteful sombreros create a perfect storm for cultural appropriation. The holiday has previously been misrepresented by newscasts and morning shows. In 2014, MSNBC aired a correspondent perpetuating Mexican stereotypes by shaking maracas, donning a sombrero and taking swigs of tequila. This weekend, Chicago will host bar crawls for 20-somethings — complete with sombreros and oversized margaritas — to

shake up their Saturday nights. Cinco de Mayo, however, is not celebrated by the majority of Mexicans — or even throughout the majority of Mexico. SESP sophomore Alex Macedo says he learned about the holiday in elementary school but that when he asked his Mexican parents about their family’s plans, they said they do not even celebrate it. Even though the day commemorates The Battle of Puebla, a battle Mexico won, Macedo says it makes sense that it is not significant. “It’s like celebrating every minor battle won in the United States,” he says. The celebration has become vastly Americanized, but nonetheless stems from Mexican culture. For Macedo, it is frustrating that a day associated with his culture is devoted to drinking. “There are many other ways to celebrate it besides drinking,” he says. “And the idea of somebody else celebrating or trying to celebrate something from my culture irks me because of the fact that I don’t even celebrate it.” Macedo believes the association stigmatizes Mexican culture as being heavily reliant on drinking. “This has been happening,

this is not anything new,” he says. “But I do think people need to start seeing this and try to create change with the way that they celebrate it.” The distortion of the holiday’s original meaning makes students of Mexican heritage uncomfortable, and this alone should be enough for American celebrators to tone down their actions. Macedo says we should focus more on observing traditional Mexican holidays. “Instead of celebrating Cinco de Mayo, it should be the day that the war was over. Or even putting more emphasis on when the Independence started,” he says. People of Mexican descent may interact with their culture in different ways: Macedo does not celebrate Cinco de Mayo at all, but there are countless other people of Mexican heritage that have their own separate opinions on the holiday. This should remind us that while no group of people is monolithic, we should see any hint of discomfort at our behavior within another culture as a red flag. One person’s willingness to share their culture with us does not give us license to take ownership of it.

The significance of a holiday like Cinco de Mayo should be left in the hands of the people it came from. This is more than a stereotypical costume — these celebrations devote an entire day to misrepresenting a culture and, by consequence, reinforce racial and ethnic power dynamics. Cinco de Mayo is another example of Americans using holidays as excuses to get drunk, and in this instance, it isn’t even our holiday to disrespect in the first place. So as you venture off to darties this Saturday, keep in mind how you’re enjoying yourself. Make sure not to contribute to a history of stigmatization, and call your friends out for any problematic behavior they’re exhibiting. Don’t wait to stop the disrespect until someone of Mexican heritage tells you to do so. Heena Srivastava is a Medill freshman. She can be contacted at heenasrivastava2021@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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Evanston was recertified as a 4-STAR community in the STAR Community Rating System, a scale evaluating the social and environmental sustainability of local governments, city manager Wally Bobkiewicz said at a City Council meeting Monday. STAR Communities — the nonprofit organization that administers the rating system — gave Evanston four out of five stars. The city first received the 4-STAR rating in 2014 and is the first U.S. city to be recertified after the organization redesigned its rating system this year. Catherine Hurley, the organization’s board secretary, said the new version holds local communities to a higher standard than the original system. She said she was with STAR four years ago when Evanston received its first award. “Evanston being recognized again as a 4-STAR community and recognized for national excellence in community sustainability is really a wonderful accomplishment,” Hurley said at council. The organization allocates points according to seven categories: the built environment, climate and energy, economy and jobs, education, arts and community, health and safety, natural systems, and innovation and process, according to the group’s website. Evanston gained points for residents’ access to off-road trails, porous pavement and energy efficiency, among other areas, according to a report

Evanston Arts Council opens applications for summer pop-up exhibits

The Evanston Arts Council opened applications for local artists to create “pop-up” exhibits for display throughout Evanston during the summer. According to a Tuesday news release, the council is looking for temporary art projects focused on “community values.” Though it will consider uncompleted proposals with a timeline, the release said the council prefers completed

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Evanston resident Verzell James holds up sign in protest at City Council meeting Monday. Fifth Ward residents expressed frustration that the city received the award as it planned to install a water pumping station in their neighborhood.

from STAR. “We worked very hard,” Bobkiewicz told The Daily. “One of the reasons that the City Council is so excited about continuing our efforts as a 4-STAR community is that it’s a very comprehensive approach to sustainability. … (STAR) is not only (about) climate but everything that makes a

good livable community.” Within the eight categories, Evanston scored the lowest percentage in equity and empowerment, garnering less than 50 percent of the possible points. Within that category, the city scored lowest in human services. At the Monday meeting, some residents pushed

work. The council will provide three grants of up to $1,000 per artist for materials and other exhibit-related costs. In the release, the council outlined criteria that will be used by a committee to evaluate proposals: creativity, innovation, diversity, accessibility, equity, planning and public benefit. “Is the project fun, imaginative, vibrant?” the release said. “What does this performance or exhibition add to Evanston? How does it demonstrate ‘fit’ for our community values of livability, creativity, equity and sustainability?” The release instructed artists to include a narrative explaining the project, a budget, a plan to execute the project as well as pictures, descriptions or

renderings of the visual. The release also emphasized that artists should describe the public benefit of the project, specifically how it serves historically marginalized populations in the community. According to the release, artists can suggest a location, but the arts council and city officials will determine the final placement based on public access, safety and other scheduled activities. City staff will also help schedule and promote the events and exhibits. The release suggested both performances and visual art pieces as possibilities. For performance pieces, it specified applicants should include weather precautions and safety guidelines. The Evanston Arts Council started a similar

back against the award in reaction to a planned pumping station in the 5th Ward, arguing the city failed to consider the lives of the people who would live closest to it. In early February, the city announced plans to build a water pumping station at 2525 Church St. Since then, residents have attempted to halt the construction, saying residents were not given sufficient warning or opportunities for input. Members of the West End Area Pumping Station Impact Task Force attended council to express frustration over the 4-STAR rating, holding up signs saying, “4 star hypocrisy” and “Where are the independent impact studies for the pumping station?” Task force member Verzell James said they wanted to show that Evanston is not worthy of the award. In response to the backlash, Bobkiewicz said people are entitled to their own opinions, but the STAR report was comprehensive in showing how Evanston is connected to the community. James said the mostly silent protest showed council the task force would not ease its pressure to stop the pumping stations development. “Now other people know, and that’s our goal,” James said, “to make sure as many people in the 5th Ward and in Evanston know there are some serious things going on that are wrong with how our government in running and how they’re treating the citizens.” Samantha Handler contributed reporting. juliainesesparza2020@u.northwestern.edu program to decorate community spaces two years ago. Jennifer Lasik, cultural arts coordinator for the city, said she launched the program in 2016 after noticing public spaces needed art on walls. “Evanston has 10 times the national average of artists living in it, which is amazing, so we have a lot of talent and creative resources to pull from,” Lasik said at the time. “It’s pretty untapped and it’s a new program, so at this point I would hope that it continues for the long term.” The application closes May 15, and notifications will go out June 1 before projects go on display between June 10 and Aug. 31. — Catherine Henderson

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the 2015 protest. “These demands reiterate the concerns raised in 2015 by Black Northwestern students addressing this institution’s continuous failure to listen to Black students, internalize what they have to say, and act on their recommendations,” the list stated. Last year, NU established steering committees based on the Black Student Experience Task Force Report’s 14 recommendations. Although three were prioritized for the 2017-18 academic year, associate provost and chief diversity officer Jabbar Bennett told The Daily in April that the University is “already making progress” on the rest. Still, not all of Thursday’s demands harkened back to the disruption of the groundbreaking ceremony. For example, BLM NU urged the University to offer departmental status to a number of current programs — including Gender and Sexuality Studies — by the 2019-20 academic year at the latest. The group also touched on the Housing Master Plan, addressing the importance of a clear plan regarding building accessibility, as well as cultural competency and privilege training for faculty, staff, administrators and University Police. Overall, students addressed a desire for greater transparency and accountability by the University in improving marginalized students’ experiences on campus, and called for monthly progress updates to students and faculty. “They must focus on the tangible results of measurable actions to repair the University’s relationship to the Black community on campus and the wider Evanston and Chicagoland area,” the list stated. Latinx Asian American Collective demands The Latinx Asian American Collective, a joint

effort by the Asian Pacific American Coalition and MEChA de Northwestern, insisted the University create an Asian American Studies Department and a Latinx Studies Department. Students and faculty have said that without departmental status, the programs lack adequate funding to conduct research and hire tenure-track faculty, which limits the availability of courses and forces professors, as well as the program directors, to split time with other departments. “We have reached this level of crisis due to the repeated failure of the administration to listen to and take seriously the concerns of faculty, staff and students within these programs,” Thursday’s list of demands stated. “Therefore, we demand that University administration remain attentive and responsive … to ensure that both (programs) are continually supplied with necessary institutional support in the present and future.” The departmentalization effort began last fall, when students initiated meetings with faculty members to identify what was lacking in the programs. Soon after, the group began a social media campaign and finalized a proposal petition. Weinberg sophomore June Choe said in April that the movement had gained widespread approval from students, receiving more than 1,000 petition signatures and statements of support from more than 30 student groups. And although the program directors have also stood behind departmentalization efforts, as demonstrated in a February letter to the editor, Weinberg Dean Adrian Randolph has said faculty members are not all on the same page. On Thursday, Randolph said in an email to students that the administration is “taking the right steps.” He said administrators have raised the operating budgets of both programs since last year and are currently reviewing hiring plans and engaging with faculty members about whether the programs should serve

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A sign hangs from The Arch. University spokesman Al Cubbage said administrators will continue to meet with students and alumni to further understand their points of view and work together.

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Student activists hold a banner in front of the Multicultural Center. Students said they want administrators to “clearly and definitively” indicate within two weeks whether they will fulfill the requests.

as “tenure homes.” Randolph’s email came the same day as the hanging of a banner reading “Dean Randolph, who do you value?” outside the Multicultural Center. The message was clear: Students were asking for funding, new hires and departmentalization “now.” “On the question, whom I value?” Randolph said. “I realize that the academic structures that exist may appear to embody my individual values, but the current landscape, as well as future developments of Weinberg College’s cultural and ethnic studies, do not reflect my values. They reflect the collective values of faculty, students and staff that comprise the College.” Later in the day, Randolph told The Daily in an email that the University has not ruled out offering tenure to faculty members who are not in recognized departments. He also pointed to the foundation of the Center for Native American and Indigenous Research, which he said he feels “passionately” about. Randolph added that he sent the email to explain himself to students. “I absolutely take the students with whom I have spoken about Latinx Studies and Asian American Studies seriously,” he said. “My email was meant to convey my respect for their input and my desire to respond to them openly and sincerely.” Students Organizing for Labor Rights demands Students Organizing for Labor Rights demanded that in the dining transition process, both Compass Group North America and Northwestern stop using the service E-Verify — which checks if employees are eligible to work in the U.S. — for current campus service workers. The group also demanded that Sodexo and Aramark, NU’s current food service providers, transfer all I-9 forms for campus service workers to Compass. They also urged Compass to not perform background checks on current employees and create and maintain hiring programs to employ workers with disabilities.

Northwestern announced on April 13 that it would move from Aramark and Sodexo to Compass in the fall. University spokesman Jon Yates told The Daily in an April email that Compass will ask all current workers to join the company with the same pay, benefits and seniority, though he did not specify whether that is a requirement in the company’s contract with NU. Since NU announced the change, students and food service workers have expressed concern about the transition process. On April 20, about 70 workers gathered in Norris University Center and later marched to Sargent Hall to present a petition to a Sodexo official asking for support during the transition process. Elizabeth Arreguin, a Sodexo employee in Allison Hall, said at the march that she and many of her coworkers didn’t want to leave their dining halls. “We want to stay the same and to keep our job … because we have been working for 30, 15, 20, a lot of years,” Arreguin told The Daily in Spanish. “We know the work, that’s why we want to stay. I want to stay because I’ve worked (in Allison) for 17 years. And the truth is I’m not ready for another job.” In the Thursday list of demands, students urged NU to treat every employee like “valued members of our community.” “Although Northwestern hides behind its contracts with independent food service providers … it is ultimately the University that decides how workers will be treated with dignity and respect,” the list stated. “If we are a school that accepts and includes everyone, we should firmly stand against conducting background checks and drug tests on members of our campus community. We demand Northwestern halt our campus-wide participation in E-Verify, a divisive, fear-provoking program.” troyclosson2020@u.northwestern.edu rishikadugyala2019@u.northwestern.edu jonahdylan2020@u.northwestern.edu

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From page 1 with many different points of view. In light of her work, Pinsky will be honored Sunday during Art Encounter’s 40th Anniversary Gala at the Woman’s Club of Evanston. Donna Bliss, Art Encounter director of development and communications, said she doesn’t know anyone other than Pinsky who has made connections with different people on so many levels. She said Pinsky has a saying — “There are many ways to see” — that has resonated with her. “Because I am an artist and I’ve been to many museums, I thought I knew how to look at art,” Bliss said. “But working with Joanna, she has totally opened my eyes.” Over time, Pinsky said, she was able to expand the organization’s mission to include travel programs that allow people to explore art and culture around the world. To date, Pinsky has led 15 trips to Cuba and will lead another to Montreal this fall. The trips aim to help attendees see how art affects other cities, and it gives people a more personal connection than if they were to travel alone, Pinsky said. She added that although seeing art in galleries and museums all over the world may seem intimidating, she finds it liberating. She said she led Art Encounter’s first trip to Cuba in 2000, partly because it was forbidden, but also for the art, culture, dance and architecture. On a personal note, that Cuba trip shaped Pinsky’s own art, which is often comprised of architecture fragments. Pinsky said photographing the crumbling buildings in Havana provided a starting

point for her projects. She took pictures of doorways, broken statues, the Malecón — the old city wall in Havana — and images of Martí, the Cuban national hero who fought for independence in the late 19th century. Pinsky said she then used the photographs to create colorful, seemingly threedimensional versions in her studio. Even now, Pinsky said, she likes to mix pieces from Cuba and Illinois, and she is working on combining her Martí pieces with her pieces of Abraham Lincoln — who served in the state legislature prior to his presidency. She is particularly interested in creating work that depicts them with different emotions, she said. Because of her experiences with Art Encounter, Pinsky said she became comfortable with an “everything goes” approach in her own work. “It’s been freeing in many ways,” Pinsky said. “I understand so many different ways of seeing, having led this program for so many years. It just helps me get into what I want to do and feel free to do it.” James Mesplé, a Chicago artist who first met Pinsky on an Art Encounter tour in 2000, said it is difficult for organizations like Art Encounter to get people engaged, but he admires her determination. He said he wishes Art Encounter and Pinsky could reach more people in the Chicago area by having tours or gallery visits on a weekly basis. “It’s a slogging, slow process, but she has continued all these years to promote a growing interest in art,” Mesplé said. “She’s probably planted seeds that none of us know about with people who will then encourage their children and grandchildren.” samanthahandler2021@u.northwestern.edu

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Standing inside the Black House, Palmer noted that the building has hosted poets, singers and many others who lent credibility to the work and activism of the students who took over the Bursar’s Office in 1968. “I cannot tell you how seriously we took what you did and what we intended and what we hoped we carried out during the years that you were here to maintain what you gave us,” Palmer said. Brown-Henderson told The Daily in April that she anticipates that the Black House construction will begin “in the near future.” The design still has to be approved by the Board of Trustees, which will meet in June. Once the University receives the necessary allclear, administrators will put together a construction timeline, she said. “For me this is a really, really important project,” she said Thursday. “This hits me right at my core, and I take a lot responsibility in serving as one of the two leaders leading our university in thinking about how we honor the legacy of the Black House as well as how does it serve the students who came before, the students who are currently here and the students who we will serve in the future.” Troy Closson contributed reporting. aperez@u.northwestern.edu

Bienen awards pianist Marc-André Hamelin with performance prize

The Bienen School of Music awarded pianist Marc-André Hamelin its Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in Piano Performance, according to a Northwestern news release. The prize is awarded every other year to pianists who have received high levels of recognition, the Wednesday release said. It includes a $50,000 cash award, two residency periods at Bienen and a public recital. Hamelin’s first residency — in which he will engage with students and faculty through lectures and music coaching — will take place May 1-3, 2019, with his recital occuring May 3. His second residency will occur during the 2019-20 academic year. “It was a truly unexpected pleasure to be offered the Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in Piano Performance this year, and I am deeply honored to be in such illustrious company,” Hamelin said in the release. “I know these residencies will be a wonderful opportunity to interact with students and the musical community, and I intensely look forward to this experience.” Hamelin is known for his technique in classical music performance. In the 2017-18 concert season, Hamelin, a Montreal native, played at Carnegie Hall, with the Seattle Symphony and at Yale University. He records for Hyperion Records. Bienen Dean Toni-Marie Montgomery praised Hamelin’s musicianship and said she is excited to welcome him to campus. “Marc-André Hamelin is a virtuoso of the highest order,” Montgomery said in the release. “His selection as the winner of the Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in Piano Performance continues the Bienen School’s tradition of recognizing exceptional artists with this prestigious prize.” — Gabby Birenbaum

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NU heads to Big Ten Tourney By BEN POPE

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Early in the second half of last week’s game at Maryland, Northwestern was in a bind. The No. 7 Wildcats trailed the No. 3 Terrapins by 8 goals. Redshirt freshman goalkeeper Julie Krupnick had been tagged for 15 goals on 20 shots, resulting in her worst single-game save percentage since seizing the starting job from junior incumbent Mallory Weisse at the start of the season. Coach Kelly Amonte Hiller decided to make a move: For the first time in a non-blowout game this season, she put Weisse in for Krupnick. “We were just trying to get a little bit of a spark,” the coach said. “We didn’t have our best game defensively and I don’t think Julie had her best game, and we have a lot of confidence in Mallory … and she did a phenomenal job.” Entering this weekend’s highstakes Big Ten Tournament — in Friday’s semifinal, NU (13-4, 5-1 Big Ten) will face No. 16 Penn State (9-8, 3-3) for a chance to rematch either Maryland or Johns Hopkins in Sunday’s championship game — the goalkeeper situation has been thrust into some cloudiness. Although Krupnick has started

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all 17 games for the Cats in 2018, Amonte Hiller declined to name a starter for Friday’s contest. “For right now, we’re still assessing it and going to make our decision when game time comes,” Amonte Hiller said. “It’s been a great dynamic, they’re very supportive of each other and I think they’re both ready.” After missing all of the 2017 season with an injury, designated as a redshirt season, Krupnick’s return to health last fall created the goalkeeper competition. She said she and Weisse pushed each other throughout the offseason in a “neck-and-neck” position battle before earning the job. Krupnick’s save percentage remains an impressive .471 on the season, well above Weisse’s marks of .419 and .432 during her prior two seasons as starter. “We’ve pushed each other all week, it’s been a great week of preparation, so we’re excited for this weekend,” Krupnick said. In last year’s tournament, NU faced the exact same semifinal matchup and prevailed 12-11, with now-sophomore midfielder Megan Kinna scoring the winner with 59 seconds left to avenge a regular-season loss against the

Nittany Lions. Junior attacker Selena Lasota, like Krupnick, was forced to watch that thriller from the sidelines as she recovered from a season-ending injury. Lasota said she’s “so thankful” she’ll be able to put her stamp on this year’s tournament, held in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She certainly made an impact when the Cats and Penn State met last month in Pennsylvania, registering 2 goals and two assists on a team-high nine shots to help NU win 17-13. When watching film this week, Lasota said, the team identified turnovers and pace of ball movement as two key things they struggled with in the first contest and must improve in Friday’s rematch. A victory Friday would essentially ensure NU would host first- and second-round games during the upcoming NCAA Tournament and, in all likelihood, set up a Big Ten championship game between the Cats and Terrapins for a third consecutive year. But for now, the team’s focus rests squarely on the Nittany Lions. “We need to do what we do well offensively — moving the ball, sharing the ball, finishing our shots and really making sure we come up with draw controls,” Amonte Hiller said. “That’s going to be a key factor.” benjaminpope2019@u.northwestern.edu

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Julie Krupnick makes a pass from the goal. The redshirt freshman goalkeeper has started all 17 games this season, but was benched during last week’s game at Maryland.

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Northwestern is 4-14 in the Big Ten this year, so 14 times Leo Kaplan noticed something missing. The ease in which big hits came in the later innings last season hadn’t translated, the sophomore outfielder said. But sophomore second baseman Alex Erro said the Wildcats (14-25) are now showing the consistency they need to continue their success in this weekend’s series at Purdue (24-16, 10-4 Big Ten). “Finishing out the year strong after a slow start will probably say a lot about us,” he said. “At this point,

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we’re just fighting for the pride of the program.” He said that fight was more difficult earlier in the season, when the Cats lost 11 out of 12 games and couldn’t come up with any momentum changing at-bats. Though the team lost 26-15 against Western Michigan in a strange midweek game Wednesday, NU has won five of its last six and Erro said the team feels positive momentum. Coach Spencer Allen said he’s been excited to see batters at the bottom of the lineup and

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Leo Kaplan sizes up a pitcher. The sophomore outfielder had three hits in Northwestern’s two midweek games.

relievers play with more confidence than they had been. “That’s what teams that are playing good … continue to do,” he said. “You get some big holds from certain guys coming out there to pitch and then closing it down there in the ninth. That’s what we need.” Entering last week’s game against Illinois-Chicago, NU hadn’t won a 1-run game all season, but against the Flames and Penn State over the weekend, the Cats won three games by that margin. In the series opener against the Nittany Lions, sophomore infielder Charlie Maxwell’s triple in the top of the ninth capped one of the most exciting wins of the season. “The team is confident after Penn State and that little winning streak we went on,” Kaplan said. “This season hasn’t been what I think any of us envisioned to be after last year … That sweep was important to get.” Kaplan said Tuesday’s 9-7 win against Chicago State felt important, even against a non-conference opponent in a low-tier conference. When the teams played in March, NU had an early 5-1 lead but lost 8-7 after senior outfielder Jacob Vanitvelt’s walkoff single in the ninth. “We expect to play against Chicago State and beat them by a lot of runs every time we play them,” Kaplan said. “And I think earlier in the season it was pretty shocking to all of us.” So after he hit a homer to tie the game in the seventh in Tuesday’s win, Kaplan said he felt better about this team, one that he hopes can look more like last year’s for the next two weeks. “I want to make sure we finish this thing,” Allen said. “We (need to) play hard and continue to learn and help with the evolution of the program.” Ryan Wangman contributed reporting. charliegoldsmith2021@u.northwestern.edu

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With three games remaining in the regular season, Northwestern has already achieved its highest win total since 2014. When the Wildcats travel to Madison, Wisconsin, this weekend to take on the Badgers, they will look to secure a first-round bye in next weekend’s Big Ten Tournament. NU (33-14, 13-6 Big Ten) is tied for fourth in the conference standings with Ohio State. If the Cats stay there, they will earn a bye in the first round of the conference tournament, which will also be held in Madison. The Cats own the tiebreaker over the Buckeyes, having swept them in a weather-shortened series in April. Ohio State travels to first-place Michigan this weekend, giving NU a good chance at holding onto fourth if it takes care of business against Wisconsin. Key to achieving that goal could be junior left fielder Morgan Nelson continuing her recent offensive surge. Nelson has been an RBI machine lately, driving in 22 runs in her last 12 games. She has 6 home runs in that span, perhaps none bigger than a go-ahead 3-run blast Wednesday to help NU beat DePaul. Her position in the lineup has helped drive up her RBI total. Senior center fielder Sabrina Rabin, the Cats’ leadoff hitter, is batting .392 for the season. Freshman second baseman Rachel Lewis, NU’s biggest power threat, bats second. If opposing pitchers want to pitch around Lewis, they will have to deal with Nelson, the No. 3 hitter, behind her. “If I hit the ball hard, that’s a win for me,” Nelson said. “As long as our bats stay hot and our pitching (stays) on track, we just trust our defense, we’re going to be good.”

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NU’s bats have been firing on all cylinders lately, averaging 8.6 runs over its last 12 games. But the Cats’ offense will be tested this weekend against Wisconsin (25-19, 9-8), a team with a pair of solid pitchers in Haley Hestekin and Kaitlyn Menz. Hestekin is the Badgers’ ace, with a team-leading 14-6 record and 2.04 ERA. Menz was outstanding in her last start, striking out six and allowing just one hit over four shutout innings in a victory at Nebraska. That win completed an impressive sweep for Wisconsin, a series in which the Badgers outscored Nebraska 28-7. Wisconsin’s offense is led by Kelsey Jenkins, who is tied for the Big Ten lead with a .411 batting average. Brooke Wyderski also ranks in the top 10 in the conference, hitting .375 for the season. “It’s going to be tough,” coach Kate Drohan said. “They’ve been hitting well lately, so we’ve got to manage a couple people in their lineup and limit the free passes.” NU’s pitching staff seems to have righted itself after a rough stretch early in the Big Ten season, however. Behind sophomore Morgan Newport and freshman Kenna Wilkey, the Cats are allowing just 2 runs per game over their last five. Newport and Wilkey should both be fresh for the weekend, as neither was overworked during the Cats’ victory at DePaul. “We’re all coming together as a team, and I think that’s what’s really helping us,” Wilkey said. “Our defense and offense are on fire and if we can just keep that going, I don’t think anything’s holding us back.” benjaminrosenberg2021@u.northwestern.edu