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As a vote on the Equal Rights Amendment stalls in the state house in Springfield, local activists are taking matters into their own hands. The constitutional amendment, which guarantees equal rights for all citizens regardless of sex, passed the Illinois House Human Services Committee along party lines 7-5 Wednesday and now awaits a vote on the House floor. State Rep. Lou Lang (D-Skokie), who proposed the measure, needs 71 House votes to make Illinois the 37th state to ratify the amendment, which was first proposed in 1972. Representatives from Indivisible Evanston have been calling on Gov. Bruce Rauner to publicly support the amendment even before the legislation is on his desk. Indivisible Evanston is one of more than 5,800 Indivisible groups nationwide formed in the wake of the 2016 election with the mission to resist a conservative agenda on local, state and national levels. Linda Tate (Weinberg ’76) said she, along with other representatives from Indivisible Evanston, has been calling constituents in other districts that are not as much of a “blue bubble” as Evanston is. She said ratifying the amendment is “absolutely critical.” “As a woman that’s been in the business world … there was a lot of discrimination against women, and it still exists,” she said. “It’s really important that women are treated as equal to men.” Tate said she has personally been calling Rauner’s office to ask him to publicly support the ERA. She said Rauner has been “a little back and forth” and has not been an “impassioned supporter” of women’s rights. In a Thursday statement, Democratic gubernatorial candidate J.B. Pritzker called out Rauner for not supporting the ERA. “Today I want to call on this governor to get off the sidelines and finally, finally summon the courage to lead,” Pritzker said. “This isn’t hard — women are asking for some basic rights.” Tate said Pritzker’s statement is important because voters should know where the candidates stand on the ERA.

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One year after petition, Bienen students, faculty push to diversify music curriculum By ALLY MAUCH

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Since she began playing the flute in fifth grade, Julia Clipper remembered only ever playing one piece composed by a woman. That was until this past April, when the Bienen senior, frustrated with the lack of representation in classical music, performed what she called an “intersectional feminist recital” with pieces created exclusively by women. The repertoire included contemporary African-American composer Evelyn Simpson-Curenton, 19th-century German composer Clara Schumann and contemporary Japanese composer Yuko Uebayashi. Clipper, who studies flute performance and music education, said she handed out a list of more than 200 female composers along with the recital program to challenge the notion that female composers do not exist. People on campus still maintain this idea partly because the Bienen School of Music’s curriculum is mostly made up of white, male, European composers, Clipper said. Many Bienen students agree. In spring 2017, more than 300 students and alumni signed a petition asking administrators to diversify the curriculum. While some professors are taking personal steps to update their class materials, students continue to look for increased representation of women and people of color in the music they learn. Classical music is a historically male-dominated field and continues to be so today: A survey of 85 American symphony orchestras in the 2016-17 orchestral season found that music by female composers made up 1.3 percent of all music performed, and women conducted only 8.8 percent of concerts. For the 201819 season, New York’s Metropolitan Opera will feature 28 conductors and 27 composers — none are women. Students said Bienen reflects this national issue, as many believe the school too often teaches only work by figures like Bach and Beethoven instead of lesserknown composers from marginalized backgrounds. In her recital, Clipper said she chose music composed by six different women from varying time periods and backgrounds to showcase the strong pieces, not simply because they were written by women. “In the classical music world, the voices of musicians are their compositions,” Clipper said. “So when we only play music by men, we’re shutting out the voices of women.” Clipper said she has found that if Bienen students want to find pieces written by minority composers, they often have to look on their own because the music is

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not regularly taught in their classes. “Basically in Bienen and most of the classical music world, the music that we play is written by white men who are mostly dead,” Clipper said. “It’s not representative of the voices that the current world has.”

Wanting more than ‘dead white men’

For many Bienen students, the mandatory music history sequence — three courses typically taken during sophomore year — demonstrates the music department’s lack of curricular diversity. Bienen sophomore Shannon Johnson, who is taking Music History this year, said most of the pieces discussed in the course sequence were written by well-known “dead white men.” “It makes me less aware of performers who aren’t white men,” Johnson said. “There could be more of an effort to just find composers that aren’t in this canon that we’re so familiar with.” For one section of the Music History course this fall, male composers made up about 93 percent of the required listening on the curriculum, according to a copy of the syllabus. One Winter Quarter class fared similarly — about 95 percent of the music was written by men. And this spring, only eight of the required 73 composers and performers outlined on the course syllabus were female. Megan Rohrer, a Bienen senior, said she remembers discussing only two or three female composers when she took the music history sequence. “The way the curriculum was chosen says a lot about what the school or the professor thinks is valuable,” Rohrer said. “The most frustrating thing for me was just that we didn’t talk about identity at all.” Linda Jacobs (Bienen ’97, ’04), Bienen’s assistant dean for student affairs, said she has not had any students come talk to her specifically about a lack of diversity in their core classes, but said faculty “are more than happy to talk to students about their course content.” Bienen Prof. Scott Paulin, who currently teaches Music History, told The Daily in an email that he has tried to include a more diverse array of composers in his course, but acknowledged that, in terms of compositions, the field is primarily represented by European men. “In teaching music history, I am most dedicated to educating students about the musical values of the past, and the ways in which, and reasons why, certain music has been ascribed value and meaning in certain historical contexts — and why other music has not, and what that tells us about our musical culture today,” Paulin said. » See IN FOCUS, page 4

The Trump administration moved last week toward heightened visa restrictions that would make it easier to bar international students from re-entering the country. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services issued a policy memorandum revising its guidance regarding F-1 and J-1 visa holders. Those found to be violating the terms of their immigration status will begin accruing unlawful presence the day after they discontinue authorized activity. The guidance proposal will go through a public comment period until June 11. If moved forward by the agency, the final policy will go into effect Aug. 1. “USCIS is dedicated to our mission of ensuring the integrity of the immigration system. F, J, and M nonimmigrants are admitted to the United States for a specific purpose, and when that purpose has ended, we expect them to depart, or to obtain another, lawful immigration status,” USCIS Director L. Francis Cissna said in a May 11 news release. “The message is clear: These nonimmigrants cannot overstay their periods of admission or violate the terms of admission and stay illegally in the U.S. anymore.” The new draft policy is a stark departure from past guidance, which determined that visitors began accruing unlawful presence the day after the agency or an immigration judge issued a formal violation. International students and other visiting scholars with more than 180 days of unlawful presence in a single visit can be prohibited from entering the country for three years. The federal government issues visas to scholars from abroad on specific conditions of authorized activity, including study, research and work with some restrictions. Northwestern depends on these visas to host its roughly 4,000 international students and 1,600 visiting scholars, said Ravi Shankar, director of the International Office. Shankar said the University » See INTERNATIONAL, page 7

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Art, dessert crawl features local pop-up galleries By CLARE PROCTOR

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Almost 40 businesses on the Main-Dempster Mile hosted pop-up galleries featuring local artists for an art and dessert crawl Thursday night. Katherine Gotsick, executive director of the MainDempster Mile, said the inaugural Sauce Walk paired participating businesses with artists from Evanston, Chicago and the North Shore. The walk was a “littlesister event” to the Main-Dempster Mile Wine Walk, which takes place in the fall, she said. Profits from the Sauce Walk will go toward the business district’s public art fund, and will specifically support a mural the district plans to install on Chicago Avenue in the fall, Gotsick said. One of the stops on the walk — the Autobarn Alfa Romeo and Fiat of Evanston, 1034 Chicago Ave. — showcased the work of six muralists in consideration for the project, Gotsick said. Patrons could vote for their favorite muralist, and she said the results will be taken into account when making a final selection for the mural. In addition to serving an economic interest, Gotsick said the Sauce Walk aligns with the Main-Dempster Mile’s mission to support small businesses as well. “What I love about it is that people walk into shops that they’ve never walked into before, and they go, ‘Oh

POLICE BLOTTER Undercover police investigation leads to prostitution arrest A 51-year-old Chicago woman was charged with prostitution Tuesday in north Evanston. Her arrest comes as a result of a long-term undercover investigation of Massage on Central, 2807 Central St., in partnership with the Cook County sheriff ’s office, Evanston police Cmdr. Ryan Glew said. An undercover officer encountered the woman on May 2, May 9 and May 15, Glew said. On each meeting, she agreed to perform a sex act of “touching and fondling” the officer in exchange for money.

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A woman looks at art at the Sauce Walk. The art and dessert crawl, held Thursday night, featured local artists and businesses.

my gosh, I had no idea you were here,’” she said. “I love the opportunity to have people walk into shops and just see how cool they are. If they get a chance to look at some art and eat some good food in the meantime, that’s all the better.” Jaime Leonardi, co-owner of Stumble & Relish at 1312 Chicago Ave., said having a dessert offered while looking at art ensures that “all of your senses are being utilized.”

Stumble & Relish hosted two local artists during the Sauce Walk — Risa Posner, a stylist and painter, and Ben Blount, a letterpress artist. Leonardi, who selected these artists herself, said featuring local artists at small businesses was a “good marriage of local resources.” “People in Evanston know it’s a creative community,” she said. “I don’t think they realize how many different artists there are.”

Glew said there is no more information about the arrest at this time, but EPD might pursue an investigation.

and a second man were shoving each other earlier in the night. The officers handcuffed the man in the red hat, Glew said. He was then escorted outside for a pat-down and interview. No weapons were found. The man’s girlfriend, a 26-year-old Chicago woman, told police her boyfriend had been unarmed the entire night, Glew said. She added that another man tried to start a fight with her boyfriend, but the boyfriend said he did not get in an argument with anyone. Police did not arrest the man.

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Police responded to a report of a man with a gun at Bar Louie early Thursday morning. An anonymous caller told police a man at the bar on 1520 Sherman Ave. had a gun in his waistband, Glew said. Police arrived at the bar at 12:19 a.m. and identified a man wearing a red hat who fit the caller’s description. Witnesses told police that the man in the red hat

The idea for the event came from a partnership with Northwestern’s campusCatalyst program, a student group and Business Institutions class where students consult for nonprofit organizations, Gotsick said. Students recommended the Sauce Walk as a potential fundraiser for the district’s public art fund, she said. Evanston resident and artist Kristen Neveu — who typically produces mixed-media paintings — showcased her work at Secret Treasures Antiques & Collectibles, 605 Dempster St. When the owners asked her to set up her art in their shop, she said it was a “perfect fit.” “I’ve known (the owners) for five or six years because I’ve kind of been a collector of antiques or knickknacks myself,” she said. “My daughter works there part-time sometimes. It’s a community-related store, and it’s down the street from where I live.” Neveu said the pop-up galleries of the Sauce Walk made artwork more accessible to the public because the work was featured in “everyday” locations, not just art galleries. The Sauce Walk showcased the “eclectic” art culture existing in Evanston by featuring a variety of different artists, Leonardi said. “You don’t have to go to Chicago,” Leonardi said. “You can, but you have so many people that are right in your community, right on your (doorstep).” clareproctor2021@u.northwestern.edu

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Due to incorrect information from the Chicago Tribune, an article in Thursday’s paper titled “EPL lovebirds’ eggs to hatch soon” misstated how many eyasses survived by the end of last spring. The falcons did not fledge any young in 2017. The Daily regrets the error.

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Northwestern Career Advancement and Medill Career Services are transitioning to a new career platform, the two jointly announced in emails earlier this month. CareerCat and MEDILLINK — NCA’s and Medill’s current career platforms — will be replaced by Handshake. The new system opened to employers earlier this month and will roll out to students June 5, said Geni Harclerode, NU’s director of employer recruitment and engagement. NCA keeps a close eye on vendors in the higher education and career services industry, and Handshake was a well-known name among its staff, Harclerode said. About a year ago, they started reaching out to peer institutions who have used the platform and heard positive responses about its usability and user-friendly interface, she said. Harclerode said Handshake offers an easier user experience for both employers and students. The platform is more personalized to the individual experience and will highlight opportunities based on students’ preferences and use on the platform, she said. “It’s one of those interfaces that the more students are using the platform, the more that their experience is going to feel really tailored to them,” Harclerode said. “The interface feels more modern and probably more close to what students are used to seeing when they log into other social media platforms.” Dorina Rasmussen, senior director of student services at Medill, said Medill followed NCA’s decision to switch platforms because they felt MEDILLINK wasn’t meeting the needs of all students and alumni. Rasmussen said Handshake is a “smarter” system, and described its profile function as a cross between Facebook and LinkedIn. “Handshake in general seems a little more intuitive,” Dorina said. “Several of the features look very familiar, so I think students might be more comfortable building out those profiles and building up their presence in Handshake more so than they have in

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MEDILLINK.” Medill junior Will Fischer said he never applied for jobs on MEDILLINK and the platform was never a primary way he found opportunities. Although he hasn’t heard of Handshake, he said he is glad NCA and Medill are trying something new. “It’s good they’re changing it if they want to make it more helpful to people,” Fischer said. “I hope they’re talking to students and … trying to actually fit their needs instead of just doing another platform that’s going to be a similar thing.” NU joins more than 500 university career centers that use Handshake, including Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon University and University of California Berkeley, according to Handshake’s website.

The platform supports more than 250,000 employees and 9 million students worldwide. Harclerode said NCA has conducted multiple trainings with its staff and is learning more about the system’s main features. Handshake, she said, will hopefully allow NCA to better serve NU students. “Any time we can roll out a tool that will strengthen that partnership, I think we’re really excited about it,” she said. “We’re really hoping that one of the things that this allows students to do is spend less time searching and surfacing opportunities and more time applying to things that really feel tailored for them.” madeleinefernando2020@u.northwestern.edu

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Saxophonist Steven Banks (Bienen ’17) has studied at two music schools — an undergraduate program at Indiana University, and the master’s program at NU — but recently realized that he didn’t know of many female composers or composers of color. This, he said, sparked a “massive change” in his perspective on music and music education. So, Banks created the petition urging professors and administrators to include a wider range of composers in music classes, specifically those centered on music history and theory.

those who signed the petition had not actually taken Music History yet. “Some of the accusations are not true, but nonetheless they made their points,” Davies said. “It is important to be open and consistent about talking about diversity and inclusion issues — and not do it on one day, but to do it every day.” Davies added that Bienen’s curriculum is overall more diverse than the petition signers claim, but there is still room for improvement. Joon Park, a Bienen and Weinberg fifth-year student studying music composition and physics, joined Banks in his meeting with the dean because the petition resonated with him. Park said the issues of diversity and identity presented in the petition “rang true” for him because he is Korean. “If you really look at the list of composers that I’m a huge fan of … I can only pick out like a handful … of Asian composers from that list,” Park said. “So there’s definitely a deficit.” Park said there was “positive reception” from administrators at the meeting and they discussed making updates to the core curriculum that would include more traditionally underrepresented composers in course syllabuses. Rohrer, who also attended the meeting, said administrators were helpful and told students they would continue addressing the issue at the start of this academic year. She said the petition is well-known among Bienen students, who now seem overall more aware of the lack of diversity in music than last year. However, she added that it’s “pretty common to not engage with that conversation.” “I still think most people are kind of just like, ‘Well, this is how classical music is,’” Rohrer said.

all-male a cappella groups on campus. The letter, signed by six students, said the male focus of the seminar excluded women and further perpetuated “the erasure of women in Bienen curriculum.” The letter proposed two solutions to the problems identified: change the syllabus to remove the “male-centric aspect” of the course or do not teach it. “While we applaud our peers for taking initiative in their passions, it has raised questions of concern in regards to the exclusion of female contributions to the field, in addition to the perpetuation of a ‘Bienen Boy’s Club,’” the letter stated. After receiving the letter, Badion said he and Bucky spent about two days discussing their options before ultimately deciding to cancel the course because they did not have enough time before Spring Quarter to appropriately alter their syllabus. “Once we got (the letter) we kind of took a step back and realized how we were framing the class and certainly how we were selling it,” Badion said. “It made us … look at actually what was the content of it.” Bucky added that they meant to study the “rich history” of men’s choirs, not to focus solely on men’s contributions to music. But Bucky acknowledged that they did not properly communicate their intentions, and they took “complete responsibility” for that. Johnson said the men “responded with nothing but complete understanding” and were apologetic after receiving the letter. About a dozen students registered for the class before it was canceled, including one female student, Bucky said. He added that he and Badion would still be interested in teaching a modified version of the course in the future, but would involve a “more diverse group of people to steer (them) in the right direction.” “If we were to teach it, we would definitely include female voices in the planning process because the pitfall of two men teaching a class

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Johnson said the proposed a cappella class harkens back to a tendency to accept the lack of diversity in classical music because it has historically been ignored. “It’s one of those things that’s just like ‘Well, this is the way that music has always been. We can’t change the fact that Mozart is more well-known than his sister is, or that we tend to perform operas that are written by men,’” Johnson said.

Finding solutions

Rohrer said she has continued to meet with musicology faculty this academic year to exchange

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Fighting the Bienen boys’ club “Not all of the important classical musicians throughout history were white men, yet most music students I know would not be able to name a black, Latino or Asian composer, and many may not know any female composers,” he stated in the petition. Banks collected more than 300 signatures before he and other students presented it to Bienen Dean Toni-Marie Montgomery during a meeting at the end of Spring Quarter 2017. Montgomery declined to comment for this story. Even though Banks was a graduate student when he wrote the petition, he pushed for the greatest change within the undergraduate program. “I wanted to … make sure the administration knew that it was a concern among the students that they receive a more holistic and historically accurate music education as they are going through Northwestern,” Banks said. Bienen Prof. Drew Davies, who serves as the director of graduate music studies in Bienen and teaches a section of Music History, said many of Rachel Kupfer/The Daily Northwestern

MEGAN ROHRER

“That conversation” of increasing representation felt all too necessary for Johnson when two male students announced their plans to lead a seminar this spring titled “History of Men’s A Cappella.” The course would have required students to sing lower voice parts typically held by men. Johnson said the student-organized seminar — announced during one of her voice major classes in the winter — was a “complete oversight” and reflected classical music’s systemic lack of diversity and opportunities for women and people of color. “There was just this reaction in the room that was kind of like ‘Yikes,’” Johnson said of the class’ response to the course announcement. “It was something that just stuck with me for the rest of the day because it’s not OK.” Later, the men leading the course referred to it as “A History of TTBB A Cappella,” highlighting the vocal parts tenor, baritone and bass, to make it less gendered, said Bienen junior Elio Bucky, one of the students who created the class. Johnson and several other female-identifying students wrote a letter addressed to the course’s creators — Bucky and fellow Bienen junior Joe Badion. Both Bucky and Badion are members of

JULIA CLIPPER about men’s a cappella music is that there’s just a lack of representation in the planning,” Bucky said. “We wouldn’t try to do the same thing again and just hope that no one remembered.” Still, Johnson noted that it was disheartening to see that the course had been approved by faculty and administrators with “basically no second thought.” Jacobs, the assistant dean for student affairs, said she approved the student-organized seminar because it followed normal procedure. The seminar was given an all-clear by a faculty adviser and a department head before reaching her desk, Jacobs said. She said she did not view the class as exclusionary. “Having courses and performance opportunities that are both diverse and inclusive would mean that a project on music written for men’s voices should also have its place at the table,” Jacobs told

ideas that could diversify the composers in Bienen’s curriculum. The Bienen senior said she, along with other students, attended a faculty meeting in the fall in which professors spoke about ways they could alter their courses, like by providing sight reading examples written by composers of different backgrounds. There are also larger-scale discussions among faculty about modifying the curriculum, Davies said. He is on a musicology committee, which was assembled by the Bienen dean during Winter Quarter to formulate and implement changes to the core curriculum within the next few years, he said. Davies said one possible solution could come in the form of a Bienen freshman seminar course that would serve as an “open forum” on musicianship, focusing on identity and diversity.

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FRIDAY, MAY 18, 2018 He added that it would be a “huge advantage” for new students to learn about these issues “right at the beginning.” Davies said the class would provide a closer look at the context of the music and the composers studied. “What does it mean to be a composer who is a woman in 2018? What did that mean in 1200? What did that mean in 1700? What did that mean in 1900?” Davies said, giving examples of topics a seminar might tackle. “Because of course, it’s different.” He said he hopes the first iteration of the course will be taught Fall Quarter 2019. Rohrer called the seminar the “most concrete” idea she has seen come out of the petition. But Jacobs, who has overseen several curricular changes in her time as an assistant dean, said she has not received a formal class proposal. She said changes typically take about a year to implement because of an approval process that involves the program, department, a curriculum conference committee and select faculty members. Davies said the “slow pace” is frustrating because current students may not get to see a modified curriculum. In the meantime, Davies said, professors can still individually diversify their syllabuses by featuring a more varied array of composers and implementing discussions about identity. These additions have made a difference. Banks, the student who started the petition, said even

though he has graduated, many of his friends at NU often call to tell him about conversations of identity or diversity they have had in their classes. He said this news is “amazing.”

Asking faculty to do ‘double their job’

Banks is now a professor of saxophone and jazz studies at the Baldwin Wallace Conservatory in Ohio, and said he tries to include a “diverse array of composers” in his own performance classes. He said becoming a professor has made him realize that asking faculty to change their syllabuses and teaching plans is telling them “to do double their job.” “Seeing it from the other side of the coin, I see how much time and effort that takes, so I am more appreciative now of the efforts that they have already made,” Banks said. “While there have been a lot of challenges, (Bienen has) also made a lot of substantial steps.” Jacobs said Bienen already offers electives to study diverse musicians, so her department is working to publicize these classes. She referenced “Women Rock” as an example of a class that explores identity. Jacobs said she would like to make these courses more visible on the Bienen website because CAESAR can often be confusing. “There’s quite a bit of diversity in what we offer,” Jacobs said. “One of the things that we have tried Rachel Kupfer/The Daily Northwestern

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I’m currently in my last quarter at Northwestern. These last four years have been both tumultuous and amazing: I’ve made lifelong friendships, invested my time in things I’m passionate about and grown as a human being. But there is one thing that has always kept me from having a truly fulfilling college experience: my depression. It took me a very long time to come to terms with it, and it didn’t just suddenly appear when I came to NU — I’ve been living with it for a very long time. Now I’m more open about it to my friends, and they’ve been extremely supportive, especially my closest friends who stood by my side when I was suicidal. My depression comes with guilt and shame. I used to slip into these episodes for weeks at a time and not know how to snap out of them. I missed meetings and work, lost weight and failed exams. I remember sitting with my Weinberg adviser and being asked what I could change and do better to pass my classes. This was difficult for me to answer. On the one hand, I was incredibly

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For the past few weeks, Evanston’s City Council agenda has included an item of great importance to many Northwestern students: the brothel law. Don’t let the thought of scattered garter belts or callers in the dead of night fool you — if you live in an apartment with more than two non-related roommates, you’re apparently a denizen in one of Evanston’s many illegal “brothels.” The threeunrelated ordinance, as it is properly known, has long attracted ire from students, who point out that the rule makes it difficult for them to find affordable housing off campus without leaving one or more roommates off the lease. At a meeting of the Planning and Development Committee about two weeks ago, as well a meeting on Monday, Ald. Donald Wilson (4th) and Ald.

ambitious just like my peers and I wanted to succeed. On the other, I felt that I was to blame for my failure, and I didn’t know how to fix myself. I went to Counseling and Psychological Services four times in three years, but the thing no one tells you about seeking treatment is that it takes time, it takes money and — if you don’t have a strong support system — it’s draining. Culturally, I come from a place that doesn’t understand mental illness; it’s something I’ve been taught to push through. For most of my life, that’s what I did, but it came at a price. By Winter Quarter of my junior year, I was still pre-med, and I hit the lowest point of my entire life. I had constant suicidal thoughts. I didn’t want to exist anymore. I stopped eating. I couldn’t get out of bed. I would have an anxiety attack whenever I tried to leave my house. I remember going to a chapter meeting for my sorority, locking myself in the bathroom five minutes after I got there and crying. In one of my classes, when I had to present a piece I’d written, I had an anxiety attack in front of my entire class. I felt like people could tell something was wrong with me, and that made me ashamed of myself. I didn’t want anyone to see me. I didn’t want them to think I was weak or crazy. I’m fortunate to have met people at NU who

love me despite my illness and who take time out of their busy lives to check in on me and get me help when I need it. I’m lucky I have a mother who puts my happiness above everything else, coming to Evanston to take care of me even though she couldn’t understand what was happening to me. I’ve been in therapy for nine months, and while therapy has helped tremendously with unpacking my past trauma, I also had to realize this quarter that sometimes I get severely depressed for absolutely no reason. It was at this point that my therapist suggested I try medication to supplement therapy. Medication was always a last resort for me — being prescribed it was hard because I didn’t want to believe that I was sick. I couldn’t control sickness, and that lack of control made me feel broken. But I decided to go on sertraline because I knew I wouldn’t make it to graduation if I couldn’t get a handle on my depression. After having spent six weeks on it, my friends and professors can see a difference. And, more importantly, I feel like myself again. Everyone’s experience with mental illness varies, but I wish someone would’ve told me that it isn’t my fault, I can get better and I shouldn’t be ashamed. If you’re dealing with mental illness,

consider taking medical leave (although I know it’s not feasible for a lot of folks). My one regret at NU is that I was too stubborn to take a quarter off to get help. Had I sought treatment sooner, I think I wouldn’t have missed out on so many opportunities and chances to connect with people. My decision not to take care of myself was driven by fear. I felt pressured to work myself to exhaustion to fit in with the culture at NU. I’m also a low-income, first-generation college student, and I felt that I had to live up to an expectation from my family to graduate on time and strive for perfection. I managed to get through four years without significant damage to my academic career, but my mental health was a different story. As an outgoing senior, I urge students to prioritize their mental health. Productivity culture here can guilt you into not seeking treatment, but remember that you should be thriving instead of just surviving.

Cicely Fleming (9th) spoke in favor of repealing the ordinance. And while some Evanstonians support the proposed ideas of eliminating the ordinance or raising the limit to a four-unrelated maximum, the brothel law will not continue as an item of formal council discussion because Ald. Judy Fiske (1st) refused to agree to schedule a future discussion of the matter. The 1st Ward encompasses most of South Campus and includes those students living in South Campus dorms or apartments in downtown Evanston. Her reasoning for supporting the ordinance is questionable: At Monday’s meeting, she noted that “we need to educate students about how to sign leases, how to enter into leases, how to protect themselves.” She has also argued that the city cannot consider the future of the ordinance without waiting to see how the new two-year housing requirement at NU will affect off-campus housing. While Fiske’s opposition seems like the product of some odd but well-intentioned reasoning, it’s important to know that Fiske has a contentious history regarding students. In 2005, after losing her bid for the aldermanic seat to Cheryl Wollin by 81

votes, Fiske filed a lawsuit against Northwestern, claiming the University bribed students by throwing a pizza party to raise awareness about the election, and as a result, 200 student votes needed to be thrown out. The pizza party, it turns out, was open to students who didn’t vote as well as those who did, and Fiske’s lawsuit was dismissed in 2006 after many months of drama. It can be difficult as a student to muster up the energy to follow or care about local politics — school is stressful and all-encompassing, many students are more invested in the local politics of their hometowns and a lot of what goes on in City Council is, honestly, pretty boring. But issues like the brothel law create problems for students every year, and if we don’t pay attention and stay involved, we end up with representatives who don’t actually represent us as students. What I’d like Fiske to realize is that the brothel law unfairly discriminates against those who need to live with roommates and share bedrooms in order to affordably live in Evanston. In my time at Northwestern, I’ve known multiple students who had to leave a roommate off the lease or even find new

housing at the last minute because of this poorly designed ordinance. My fellow students are I are shrewd and resourceful and can be assisted by some combination of parents, siblings, friends, mentors and the University’s Off-Campus Life Office in figuring out how to sign a lease. And deferring even a discussion of the ordinance while the two-year housing requirement unfolds doesn’t make sense. Students aren’t living with many roommates due to a lack of available off-campus apartments; they’re doing it because it is more affordable and more convenient that way. Fiske, I know that we students are likely not long-term residents of Evanston and that we aren’t fluffy, misunderstood creatures like the local skunks for whom you have so nobly advocated, but at the end of the day, we’re your constituents, too. If you can’t at least schedule future discussion in committee for a policy change that a large portion of your ward ardently supports, then we may have no choice but to vote against you in 2021.

Elizabeth Torres is a Weinberg senior. She can be contacted at elizabethtorres2018@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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From page 1 “It’s an election year, and we need to know where the candidates stand on this critical issue,” Tate said. “It’s important for anybody who’s going to be voting to know if Bruce Rauner stands for equal rights.” Evanston resident Rosie Rees, co-leader of Indivisible Evanston, went into Chicago with another Indivisible Evanston leader on May 7 for a Health and Human Services subcommittee meeting to “make a noise” and show support for the ERA. Rees said “a lot of passionate people” attended to support the amendment’s passage.

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is developing plans to prepare for possible outcomes of the monthlong comment period. Should the policy recommendation go through in its current form, he said, the International Office will organize education and outreach to visa holders before the policy is scheduled to take effect. “Our main goal is to make sure that the students don’t fall out of status,” he said. “Even without this rule, we are very diligent and disciplined. … We will have to be very vigilant on this issue.” Though the responsibility of compliance falls to international students and scholars, Shankar said the office tries to minimize the number of students committing violations like unlawful presence. Staff meet with students to double-check registration before they report it to the federal government, he said, and offer an approval process to students needing to take a medical leave without violating registration requirements. Part of a broad effort to restrict immigration to the U.S., the Trump administration’s move

signals a crackdown on high-skilled immigrants, ones for whom the president himself has expressed favoritism. Immigration advocates say the policy proposal is contradictory, and that it’s addressing an issue that arises infrequently. “Like American students, international students should be allowed to complete their studies at their chosen institution, without the stress or fear of being deported based on some oversight of which they may not be aware,” Jill Welch, deputy executive director for public policy at NAFSA: Association of International Educators, said in a May 14 statement. “This is a solution to a non-issue.” Shankar said few students commit violations, and most who do are not doing so intentionally. USCIS estimated a 5.48 percent visa overstay rate during the 2016 fiscal year. “International students are one of the most heavily regulated populations in the country,” Shankar said. “This is not a crisis, so I’m not exactly sure why the administration wants to do this at this time. I can only think there’s a political motivation behind it.” alanperez2020@u.northwestern.edu

DURHAM, N.C. _ Duke University President Vincent Price apologized Thursday for a campus climate marred by recent racial incidents, and he said he was sorry a senior administrator’s complaint about rap music at a coffee shop got two baristas fired. In an email to students, faculty and staff Thursday, Price said: “Something has to change,” adding, “I will simply say that I am deeply sorry that we are not where we want to be as a university.” He described a series of recent incidents that have made the campus feel “angry, discouraged and disappointed” _ a racial slur scrawled on a dorm door, a social media post that used “abhorrent language,” anti-Semitic posters distributed in Durham and workers on Duke’s campus being treated unfairly. He said these things represented a disturbing trend. “Duke should be a place where these things don’t happen,” Price wrote. “They are a painful reminder that we have more work to do to make our community the dynamic, diverse and welcoming community of students, faculty, and staff we aspire it to be: a place where our daily challenges are grappling with a new concept, a new idea, or a new way of thinking _ and not with how someone has behaved, or how we ourselves have behaved, that has caused others pain or hurt.” Price said he was consulting with a diverse group of students, faculty, staff, alumni, friends and critics to gather ideas about how Duke should move forward in the fall semester. He invited people to send thoughts to dukepresident@duke.edu. “Having now completed my first academic year as president, I am reflecting on these problems of basic decency, and our legacies

“It’s so disappointing to me because I was a young woman when this first was proposed,” she said. “It’s been proposed for 50 years. It’s horrendous to imagine it has not passed the states.” Tate said she was “blown away” after learning about the “misinformation” spread at the hearing surrounding the ERA, like that it is an “abortion-driven” piece of legislation. However, she said she was also impressed by how passionate ERA supporters were at the hearing. “We’re half the country, and we deserve to be treated on an equal and fair basis,” Tate said. sydstone@u.northwestern.edu of racism, intolerance and xenophobia, that continue to follow us, and indeed all of society,” Price’s email said. “They do not lend themselves to easy answers or quick fixes. But they will continue to plague us unless we address them directly, honestly, in good faith, and with a healthy dose of courage.” Anger has bubbled up at Duke after the firing on Monday of two baristas at the Dukebased Joe Van Gogh coffee shop after Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta visited the shop and complained about a rap song that included multiple profanities and use of the n-word. The situation led to a protest on campus Thursday, with students marching to Moneta’s office. Someone also painted graffiti that said “Dump Moneta!” on the walls of a tunnel on Duke’s campus. The owner of Joe Van Gogh, Robbie Roberts, apologized Wednesday and said he was making an effort to rectify the situation, though he did not say what steps he was taking. One of the baristas, Britni Brown, said she did not want to return to a job at Duke or at Joe Van Gogh. Price said it’s important that people are held accountable for their conduct and words. “At the same time, we cannot and will not succumb to a rush to judgment that demands instant retribution absent context and deliberation,” he wrote. Price took decisive action at the beginning of the academic year when he had a sculpture of Robert E. Lee removed from the entrance to Duke Chapel after it had been vandalized. The removal happened quietly overnight in the aftermath of deadly violence during a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., last August. “Getting this right is hard work,” Price said. “I am committed to doing that work, and I ask for your wisdom and engagement as we move along these paths.” -Jane Stancill, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)

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Northwestern’s NCAA Tournament run and 2018 season came to an end with a loss to Duke in the Round of 16 on Thursday. The 14th-seeded Wildcats (23-6, 11-0 Big Ten) were eliminated from the tournament by the third-seeded Blue Devils (26-3, 13-1 ACC) by a match score of 4-0. The Sweet 16 loss in Winston-Salem marked the first time this season NU failed to earn a tally on the scoreboard. “We haven’t seen a team as good as Duke in a long time,” coach Claire Pollard said. “That was credit to them. … They were really good from the start, and we didn’t capitalize on some early breaks that we had at one and three doubles. We got beat by the better team today.” Having relied on the doubles point nearly all season to secure the necessary four for a match win, the Cats were unable to get wins out of their No. 1 and No. 3 doubles pairs, putting Duke up 1-0 heading into singles play. On the backs of the nation’s fourthranked doubles pair of seniors Erin Larner and Maddie Lipp, NU had

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won the doubles point in 16 consecutive matches before Thursday’s bout with the Blue Devils. Boasting the sixth- and-ninth-ranked pairs, Duke proved too much to handle and grabbed a point that would prove crucial later in the match. “It’s certainly a point that we’ve relied on and enjoyed this year,” Pollard said. “I didn’t think we did a great job in doubles today.” The Cats put up a strong fight in singles. Larner at No. 1 singles and Lipp at No. 3 singles had both pushed their matches into third sets when the Blue Devils clinched the match. With five out of its six players ranked in the nation’s top 120, Duke’s singles talent ultimately overwhelmed an NU team that didn’t get its normal support from its doubles pairs. “That doubles point was definitely really important,” Larner said. “Duke has had a solid team all year with strong doubles as well, so we knew it was going to be close and a battle. A

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few points here and there, we came up just short. … I think that’s a match that could’ve gone either way, honestly, if we had gotten that doubles point.” The Blue Devils marked the first top-10 opponent the Cats had lost to this season, racking up three such wins in a four-week stretch earlier this season. “It was one of our best seasons,” Lipp said. “We beat the first seed, Vanderbilt, and we beat Georgia Tech who is top-five at this tournament, so it’s obviously hugely disappointing to lose today, but we had huge wins this year. It was an awesome year.” While NU’s season as a team ended with the loss to Duke, Larner and Lipp still have much to compete for individually. Larner, ranked No. 38, will participate in the NCAA Singles Championship next week before pairing up with Lipp for a final time in the NCAA Doubles Championship. “I’m going to miss the sport, but I’ll miss playing for the school and Claire (Pollard) the most, probably,” Lipp said. “But, if Erin (Larner) and I win the doubles, then we get to play at the U.S. Open. That’s the end goal.” bretthaensel2021@u.northwestern.edu

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Northwestern’s 2018 season can be split into B.N.C. and A.N.C.: Before North Carolina, and After North Carolina. The Wildcats’ 18-13 loss to the Tar Heels on March 17 — in which NU (15-5, 5-1 Big Ten) held a one-goal lead at halftime but then allowed North Carolina (16-3, 6-1 ACC) to score five straight unanswered goals as the game fell away — became a turning point in the Cats’ season. Before North Carolina, NU hadn’t quite found its offensive rhythm yet, dropping a close road game in February to Duke and falling to Stony Brook at home. The Cats had converted on less than 40 percent of their shots in three of their first six games, and played without senior attacker Shelby Fredericks for four of those six. After North Carolina, the Cats rattled off eight consecutive wins, five against ranked opponents, and scored at least 11 goals in every game. NU now averages the fourth-most draw controls per game in the country and sports a top-10 scoring offense. Ahead of Saturday’s rematch against the No. 2 Tar Heels in the NCAA Tournament quarterfinals, coach Kelly Amonte Hiller said this is a different — and better — team than the one that lined up on the field that afternoon in Evanston two months ago. “We’ve gotten a lot better offensively,” Amonte Hiller said. “Defensively … we’re more dynamic in that area. As the season grows, you grow as a group. UNC has grown as well, and they’re really firing on all cylinders at this point, so it should be a good game.” This is the first time since 2015 that NU has made it to this stage in the tournament. The eyes of the lacrosse world will be watching the Cats this weekend with piqued interest after last weekend’s 45-goal record-breaking performance in first- and second-round wins against Richmond and No. 7 Towson.

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The Cats have recently been experimenting with a new strategy in the draw-control circle: They rotate three players — senior attacker Shelby Fredericks, junior attacker Selena Lasota and freshman midfielder Brennan Dwyer — in the circle rather than rely on one single player to get the job done every single time. That depth might give the Cats an edge in the circle on Saturday. While North Carolina midfielder Marie McCool won a game-high 13 draw controls in the Tar Heels’ second-round win over Virginia Tech, she also took the draw on 20 of North Carolina’s 27 attempts. “Having three people that can do a lot, but also have their own things that they’re very, very good at, it’s hard to stop that,” Fredericks said. “If some person is struggling against a specific way that the other person’s taking it, then it’s no sweat. It’s the next girl up, and she’s just as good and can do her thing.” Once they win the draw, it’ll be a fight for the Cats to find the openings in the North Carolina defense. After beating Towson’s zone last weekend

by finding open cutters and relying on steady ball movement, North Carolina’s man-to-man defense may force the Cats to focus more on drives and isolation plays. Junior attacker Claire Quinn scored four unassisted goals against the Tar Heels in March, and said the team’s improved confidence offensively will benefit them this time around. “It’s (about) really being aggressive and doing everything with a purpose,” Quinn said. “They’re slow to slide, so if you’re aggressive, you’re going to find those openings in their defense.” With a trip to the Final Four and the season on the line, facing North Carolina and its 10-game win streak is no easy task. The Tar Heels are just two years removed from their last national championship, and are still seeking revenge after Navy knocked them out in the quarterfinals last year. Fredericks agrees with Amonte Hiller: These teams have both grown since they last met. If the Cats have it their way, there’ll be a different result this time, too. “We’re a completely different team and so are they,” Fredericks said. “That’s why this opportunity is so awesome, because they really haven’t seen us and we haven’t seen them.” ellabrockway2021@u.northwestern.edu

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In the past three years, Northwestern has consistently improved upon its finishes at the National Championships, racking up the three best finishes in program history. If they pull it off again, the Wildcats will be the 2018 National Champions. “It was a lot to live up to this year with the expectations,” coach Emily Fletcher said. “Our players felt some pressure, and they’ve earned this. They’re looking forward to going and playing.” NU finished as national runnersup in 2017, falling 3-1-1 to Arizona State in the final of the match play bracket. In 2016, the Cats finished ninth; in 2015, they came in 10th. The Cats are returning four of their five golfers from last year’s near-championship squad, with seniors Hannah Kim and Sarah Cho and juniors Stephanie Lau and Janet Mao all returning. Meanwhile, sophomore Brooke Riley will step into now-graduated Kacie Komoto’s spot. Riley has already proved herself by finishing fourth in the team’s regional event and dropping a sparkling 6-under final round to secure the Cats’ qualification at the national event. “We played two great rounds of golf at regionals,” Fletcher said. “It’s just about getting the moment going at the right time … We played as good as any team the last two days.” Kim and Cho will close historic collegiate careers as they play in their fourth straight National Championships. The duo has been part of every record-setting squad at NU.

After they both finished outside the top 50 their freshman year, both Kim and Cho played crucial roles in last year’s second-place run. Kim went shot-for-shot with individual champion Monica Vaughn in the final, while Cho picked up wins in the quarterfinals and semifinals to help propel the Cats into that final match. “Being in the final two last year gave us some insight into what it would be like if we do it again this year,” Kim said. “Instead of thinking of it as unknown, it’s something that we are looking forward (to) and something that we’re really excited to do again.” It won’t be exactly the same as last year’s run, however, as the 2017 Championships were held just a short drive away in Sugar Grove, Illinois. This year, NU will fly out to Stillwater, Oklahoma, and face a course none of the players or coaches had seen before Thursday’s practice round. While the course may be new, the competition certainly won’t be. NU’s three match play opponents from last year — Kent State, Southern California and Arizona State — will all be back, as will perennial powers Alabama, Duke, Stanford and Big Ten rival Ohio State. The Cats aren’t the only ones returning championship-caliber talent, either, as the Sun Devils will bring back three of the five starters from their National Championship squad. Even with all the intensity and pressure, Cho and the squad are still having fun. “It ’s kind of a bittersweet moment because it’s (Hannah’s and my) last one,” Cho said. “Obviously we’re all really grateful to get here. And also we’re going to Oklahoma, and some of haven’t been there yet, so it’s also really exciting.” josephwilkinson2019@u.northwestern.edu