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ASG leaders announce proposal to replace residential seats with school-based caucus
TGS dean, student on recent funding change
Refugee family in Evanston relieved
NU econ waits on STEM approval Department may be reclassified as soon as Friday
Daughter’s request for stay approved before deportation
By JONAH DYLAN
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By JULIA ESPARZA
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A Salvadoran 21-year-old who was separated from her family members before they found refuge in an Evanston church will be able to remain in the U.S. until her case is reviewed by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. Yesica, who has been held in a Houston detention center for more than a year after attempting to cross the U.S.Mexico border, was set to be deported Friday. But on Thursday, the Board of Immigration Appeals approved her request for stay. The decision comes after her family, local community members and Illinois politicians put pressure on the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office director in Houston. “I’m relieved that we have more time to work on my daughter’s case,” her mother Ana told The Daily in Spanish. The Daily omitted the » See STAY, page 6
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Students eat at a Foster-Walker Complex dining hall. Chartwells Higher Education, which will replace some dining operations in the fall, said it will not participate in the federal E-Verify program.
Food provider won’t use E-Verify Compass Group subsidiary announces decision at ASG Senate By ALAN PEREZ
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A subsidiary of Compass Group North America said it will not participate in the E-Verify program when it takes over Northwestern food service operations in the fall. Michael Bennett, a district manager for Chartwells Higher Education, announced the decision Wednesday at an Associated Student Government Senate meeting. “We will not be doing E-Verify,” he said. “We have a broader agreement with the labor union.”
E-Verify is a federal service used to verify a person’s identity and eligibility to work in the country. Employers with federal contracts are required to participate. Among the demands released earlier this month, student activists had urged Compass to not use E-Verify for current campus dining workers. Chartwells, a subsidiary of Compass, will replace Sodexo as NU’s provider for dining halls and some retail operations on campus. A number of other Compass units will assume vending, athletics concessions and Kellogg School of Management dining. The news comes a few weeks
after the company struck a deal with the food service workers’ union, settling some concerns workers had raised about uncertainty during the transition. The agreement guarantees job security for Sodexo and Aramark employees who will now work for Compass. It also maintains benefits for the workers — including seniority, health insurance plans, pensions, vacations and sick days — though the full details of the agreement were not publicly announced. In April, about 70 workers marched to ask their current employers, Aramark and Sodexo, to provide support throughout the transition.
After UNITE HERE Local 1, the union representing NU food workers, announced the agreement, several food service workers praised the deal. “Thank you so much to the students that supported us every step of the way,” Allison Hall cook Hugo Lemus said in a May 9 news release by the union. “I have always thought that together we have the power and we did it this time.” It is unclear how many, if any, undocumented workers are at Northwestern, as the University does not publicly disclose that information. But the issue is salient, as workers » See E-VERIFY, page 7
Northwestern’s economics department could be classified as a science, technology, engineering and mathematics major as soon as Friday, International Office director Ravi Shankar said. The department voted unanimously to classify as a STEM major in April, but students and faculty did not expect the change to be officially approved for months. But the process moved much quicker than anticipated; Provost Jonathan Holloway already approved the code change, and it is currently being reviewed by the Department of Homeland Security. The code change would affect international students who are economics majors. After they graduate, international students can work in the United States for 12 months, after which they can apply for an H-1B visa to stay in the country. In STEM fields, however, students have up to 36 months. Shankar said he expects » See ECON, page 6
New charges filed Young the Giant to headline Dillo against ex-priest Alt-rock band joins Daniel Caesar, TOKiMONSTA, Whitney Charges relate to 2001 sexual assault incident By SYD STONE
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New charges were filed Wednesday against Kenneth Lewis, the former Catholic priest who was arrested last week in connection with a 2001 sexual assault incident in an Evanston hotel. Prosecutors issued the new charges at a hearing in Cook County court related to the same alleged assault. Officials were granted a Friday hearing to reconsider Lewis’ bond, the Chicago Tribune reported. The boy allegedly assaulted was a 13-year-old resident of Tulsa, Oklahoma, a Monday news release from Evanston Police Department said. Lewis — an Arvada, Colorado, resident who was a Catholic
priest at the time of the incident — was with the boy’s family on a trip to Evanston. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, the alleged assault occurred at 1501 Sherman Ave., the current location of the Holiday Inn Chicago North-Evanston. The boy’s parents reported the incident to Tulsa police in 2004, and Tulsa police then reported the incident to EPD. Lewis was not charged as part of the initial investigation because the state declined to charge him, Evanston police Cmdr. Ryan Glew told The Daily. Stephen Komie, Lewis’s private attorney, did not return a request for comment. According to the EPD release, the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office and the Evanston Police Juvenile Bureau reopened the investigation in 2017, which led to an arrest warrant for Lewis for predatory sexual assault of a child. The warrant was issued on » See LEWIS, page 7
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Alternative rock band Young the Giant will headline Dillo Day, Mayfest announced Thursday. Formed in Irvine, California, the band was initially known as The Jakes but changed its name to Young the Giant in 2009. The band released its eponymous debut album in 2010. Mayfest co-chair Keaton Sullivan said he was particularly impressed by Young the Giant’s live performances. “One of the things we’re really trying to focus on this year is picking acts and artists that give a truly special live performance, rather than an act that’s got really good songs but a mediocre, potentially weak live performance,” the Weinberg senior said. “So we thought Young the Giant
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Young the Giant. The alternative rock band will headline Dillo Day on June 2, Mayfest announced Thursday.
was a fantastic act.” Three singles from their debut album — “My Body,”
“Apartment ” and “Cough Syrup” — reached the top five on the U.S. alternative songs
chart. The band has played sold-out shows at venues like Radio City Music Hall and the Aragon Ballroom. Young the Giant has also been very active on the festival circuit, and has played a plethora of festivals, including Lollapalooza, Outside Lands and Governors Ball. Mayfest co-chair Andrew Hunter said he was impressed by Young the Giant’s sustained success. “They’re a band that really stood the test of time,” the Weinberg senior said. “‘Young the Giant,’ their major album to drop was dropped … back when we were in middle school, early high school. And there’s that recognition factor that everyone’s going to be really excited about.” In 2014, the group released their second album, “Mind Over Matter,” to critical acclaim. Their third album, “Home of the Strange,” was » See DILLO, page 7
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AROUND TOWN NU hoax, other police call targeted same couple By SYD STONE
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The couple that was targeted in a March swatting incident on Northwestern’s campus was also targeted by a similar hoax call to the Chicago Police Department, the Chicago Tribune reported. The Evanston Police Department has not yet identified the person who called and claimed to have shot his girlfriend in graduate residence Engelhart Hall on March 14, sending the Northwestern campus and Evanston community into panic. When the unidentified man called EPD, he claimed to be the boyfriend of a Pritzker School of Law student, using both people’s real names, Evanston police Cmdr. Ryan Glew told The Daily in March. Both the man and woman were later determined to be safe and are not thought to have been involved in the incident, police said. The March 14 event that was determined to be a swatting incident began at about 2:15 p.m. after EPD received two calls on the nonemergency line. Both calls came from the man who claimed to be the law student’s boyfriend. Meanwhile, at about 3:05 p.m. the same day, a woman called the non-emergency line at the Skokie/Lincolnwood 911 dispatch center saying that a man had shot a different woman in an apartment in the 4800 block of North St. Louis Avenue in Chicago, according to the Tribune. When CPD officers arrived at the address, nothing was found.
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Glew told the Tribune this week that the Evanston and Chicago calls are related to one another, and both addresses — Engelhart Hall and the apartment in Chicago — are tied to the targeted couple. Glew confirmed that the boyfriend now lives in the apartment on St. Louis Avenue and had lived in Engelhart Hall in recent years. In March, Glew told The Daily the call to EPD appeared to have come from near Rockford, Illinois, which is more than a 90-minute drive from Evanston. He added that swatting incidents can become dangerous. “It’s very dangerous, anytime that you have a response, that people, officers that are armed, coming with a SWAT response to what they believe is an active shooter, or somebody who has been shot,” he said. If caught, Glew told The Daily in March, the callers could face felony charges. He told the Tribune this week that the swatting response cost Evanston “too much.” “Nobody’s sat down and figured (the cost) out,” Glew told the Tribune, adding that “it’s in the tens of thousands” of dollars. Chris Carver, operations director for the National Emergency Number Association, told The Daily in March that callers sometimes use technology to make the call appear from either the location of the incident or nearby. He said the person making the call is often far away and targeting a specific person but in some cases means to disrupt larger communities. sydstone@u.northwestern.edu the 2800 block of Hartzell Street from 3 p.m. to 7:40 p.m. Wednesday, Evanston police Cmdr. Ryan Glew said. The garage door was left open and the car was unlocked. Glew said various documents — including registration cards, insurance information and receipts — were taken from the car’s glove compartment.
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Evanston police Cmdr. Ryan Glew speaks at the media station at the Hilton Garden Inn Chicago North Shore/ Evanston parking lot on March 14. The couple that was targeted in the Evanston swatting incident was also linked to a call regarding a fake incident in Chicago the same day.
Police have not yet identified any suspects.
Woman reports criminal damage to vehicle
Police responded Wednesday to a report of criminal damage to a vehicle in north Evanston. A 60-year-old Evanston woman notified police
at 3:16 p.m. that someone broke the rear door handle off her car, Glew said. The car was parked in the 2200 block of Central Street. The suspect, whom police have not yet identified, did not enter the vehicle. — Nikki Baim
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ASG to propose reform to caucuses
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Associated Student Government leaders will submit a proposal to replace residential senator seats with a caucus that proportionately represents students by school, according to a Thursday statement. The statement said the switch would be one of “the most substantive and historic changes to the structure of Northwestern’s Student Government in institutional memory.” Currently, Senate includes three representational bodies: the Residential Caucus, the Student Group Caucus and the Greek Caucus. However, the statement said the Residential Caucus has “notoriously been the least productive element of the Student Senate” due to lack of participation and attendance — even though it is the only one that represents the entire student body. The new proposal suggests eliminating all 20 residential senator seats for Fall Quarter 2018 and instead create an Undergraduate School Caucus, which will award representative seats based on the number of students in each school. According to the statement, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences would have nine seats; McCormick School of Engineering and School of
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Northwestern received a $10 million grant to fund research in quantitative biology, the University announced Thursday. The grant was funded by the National Science Foundation and the Simons Foundation. It will establish the NSF-Simons Center for Quantitative Biology, which will focus on collaborative research in mathematics and molecular, cellular and organismal biology.
Communication would each have three seats; Medill School of Journalism and School of Education and Social Policy would each have two seats; and Bienen School of Music would have one seat. At the beginning of every Fall Quarter, students would select representatives for their home school. “The goal is to achieve a better functioning scheme of representation for the undergraduate student body,” said ASG executive vice president Emily Ash. “Enrollment in a particular undergraduate school is a much larger determinant of the student experience than where you live in kind of an arbitrarily drawn set of districts.” Ash added that the current system does not give residential senators a clear pathway to continue involvement in ASG once they move out of their residential districts, which she said might contribute to Senate being largely made up of underclassmen. The changes were developed by the Senate Reform Committee over the last two quarters and will be presented as new business at Wednesday’s meeting by Weinberg sophomore Alex Smith, the senator for Political Union. “This will be the first time that the (ASG) body at large has heard it,” Smith said. “Whether the residential senators will support it is obviously a difficult answer … but I foresee that it will work out well.” Smith said this foundational change will likely be one of various reforms to improve attendance,
but he couldn’t yet share what else was in the works. ASG leaders will also host a Senate Reform Forum on Tuesday to hear student feedback about the proposal, according to the statement.
Molecular biosciences Prof. Richard Carthew will serve as the center’s director, according to a news release. “The center will apply mathematics to developmental biological research, which is uncommon today,” he said in the release. “The hope is that mathematics will revolutionize the study of biology in a manner emulating the impact that mathematics has had on physics research.” The center will bring together experts from different fields for the interdisciplinary work. A number of professors, including McCormick Prof. Madhav Mani and molecular biology Prof. Carole LaBonne, will work at the center. Researchers will study lab animals
— including fruit flies, worms and frogs — will focus on questions about how life develops and will examine cells and their development, the release stated. “Fundamental, discovery-driven science is at the heart of the center and is the essential foundation that translational and applied research can later build on,” LaBonne said in the release. “Curiosity-driven studies using these model organisms have led to 11 Nobel Prizes and fueled countless major discoveries that have both advanced medical research and transformed our understanding of the natural world.”
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GRADUATE SCHOOL FUNDING LETTER TO THE EDITOR
An open letter to The Graduate School Dean Teresa Woodruff
Dear Dean Woodruff, In your recent email to The Graduate School community, you tried to clarify the school’s decisions to deny funding requests for students beyond their fifth years, emphasizing that they are ineligible for interdisciplinary assistantships. You claimed that TGS has not changed its funding policy to deny these assistantships to such students, yet you also noted that exceptions have been made in the past. That TGS is no longer willing to grant such exceptions constitutes, in my view, a policy change that significantly impacts the already precarious stability of graduate students at Northwestern. I have questions, but I also want to make sure that I am fully informed before interpreting this decision as a lack of concern and understanding for humanities and social science graduate students and Ph.D. programs. The average time of completion for all degree programs under TGS is a little over six years, as indicated by TGS’ own statistics. Some individual programs, like history and my own department, religious studies, often go well above six years and closer to seven. Even
for departments in which the average is lower, they still almost universally take more than five years for degree completion. There are many reasons why a student may take more than five years: adviser issues, health concerns, family responsibilities and so on — let alone the grueling and abysmally depressing job market. TGS seemed to understand this in recent years, even if imperfectly. Yet, by doubling down on this policy change, you are sending a message that saving a small fraction of NU’s $2 billion-plus operating budget is more important to you than preventing graduate students like myself from entering potentially devastating financial circumstances. How much money does this decision save? Since the mandate on interdisciplinary assistantships affects me specifically, I’ll take those as an example. There are 16 assistantships listed on the TGS website, but this list is missing at least one other opportunity I’m aware of (the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities). Let’s round that up to 20 assistantships. We can also generously say that students receive $35,000 in yearly compensation for each of those (covering a stipend and health insurance). Assuming all 20 assistantships would be held by students beyond their fifth years (which is not usually the case), this amounts to $700,000 per year — let’s just round it up to $1 million. Our new provost, Jonathan Holloway,
announced in January that the University risks running a budget deficit between $50 million and $100 million this year. He also said, according to a January article by The Daily, that this was an “annoyance” — a “challenge” but not yet “a crisis.” So, what reasons exist for shaving off at most $1 million? Surely graduate students are not responsible for the University’s budget deficit. If a deficit of $100 million is a mere “annoyance,” why are desperate, struggling graduate students being made to bear a budget decision that saves less than $1 million a year? Even funding 10 times the number of assistantships at a cost of $10 million would be a drop in the bucket of the University’s $2 billion operating budget. Let me take this further. According to Northwestern’s 2017 Financial Report, NU has nearly $14.5 billion in assets. Three of the top seven highest-paid employees manage investments and all are paid well over $1 million a year according to the University’s 990 form data from 2016. Our fifth largest contractor, Wellington Management, is also investment-related. I wonder: Is this what was meant by another January story in The Daily, which said — reporting on an email sent by Holloway — the University will “focus on certain projects that align with NU’s ‘institutional priorities’” over others? What are those priorities, exactly? One would assume training graduate students
to enter their respective fields and contend with a daunting job market would be a high priority. Interdisciplinary assistantships were one opportunity we had to gain additional training outside of traditional academic jobs. As such, many of these assistantships are not available until one is an advanced graduate student. When I entered NU in 2012, I was under the impression that there would be internal funding available to me if I applied for it. I knew it would be competitive, and I knew it wasn’t guaranteed. But I also assumed (now wrongly) that it would be there. I worked extremely hard to put myself in a position to be offered an assistantship at the Searle Center for Advancing Learning and Teaching, co-leading the Graduate Teaching Fellows and Teaching Certificate Program — a position now no longer available to me due to the funding cutoff. I imagine every student currently in their fifth and sixth year came to Northwestern under the same impression, one that continued all year until your abrupt announcement to departments and other campus offices with assistantships that exceptions would no longer be made. Dean Woodruff, I implore you to reconsider this decision that harms graduate students and saves a seemingly cash-flush university comparatively little money.
or debate of your letter; what I do hope to provide is context for funding at Northwestern. The first point is that Ph.D. students at NU are fully funded through stipends, a full-tuition scholarship and a full subsidy of their health insurance premiums, for the time frame stated in their offer letters, which is at least five years. The stipend for Ph.D. students does not differ by discipline — as it does at some universities — and it continues to increase by 3 percent on average each year. I believe one of the things that has become muddled in this conversation is the way funding is delivered to our Ph.D. students. Northwestern, like all academic institutions, provides a combination of funding from central administration (TGS) as well as from individual schools and programs. The funding that you are concerned about is The Graduate School’s portion of that pie. Students beyond their first five years
have the opportunity to use banked quarters through their sixth year or obtain non-TGSfunded fellowships. Last year, interdisciplinary graduate assistantships were awarded outside of the fifth year to only 16 out of 3,105 Ph.D. students. While this seems like a small amount, it impacts our ability to treat all Ph.D. students consistently and equally when it comes to graduate student support. My fiduciary responsibility is to financially enable the maximum number of graduate students to pursue their education. Our academic programs work with each Ph.D. student in a personalized manner to identify goals toward their degree and the mechanisms for funding beyond their first five years. I appreciate, as does every dean before me, the differences between academic programs and the individual requirements that impact the time to degree. This funding does not restrict that time; it simply provides the starting point.
I attended the Big Ten Graduate Deans Spring Meeting this week, and I can assure you that — based on my conversations and internal research conducted by TGS — Northwestern offers the highest level of support for graduate education within our network and falls within the top five of our peer universities in the U.S. I am quite proud of the support that my alma mater provides to our Ph.D. students. You are our future, and supporting your financial security is important to us. I hope to meet as many students as possible and to hear your stories and aspirations. My door is always open; please feel free to reach out to my office to find time to talk.
— Joel Harrison
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
A response to Joel Harrison, open letter to NU graduate students Dear Joel and colleagues: Let me begin by thanking you for engaging with me in a conversation about funding models for graduate education. My goal is to ensure that you, and all graduate students, are able to pursue academic excellence. Your concerns suggest a level of anxiety that I would like to alleviate to allow your good work to continue. One of my goals in taking on my new role as dean of The Graduate School is to enable your success by advocating for equal funding across graduate populations, even in times when macro pressures exist. This response is not meant to be a point-by-point refutation
– Teresa K. Woodruff, Ph.D. Dean, The Graduate School Associate Provost for Graduate Education, Northwestern University
What I learned about friendship as a freshman at NU CASSIDY JACKSON
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I’ve recently realized what freshman year and the rest of this weird four-year period is all about: adjusting to the culture that permeates this campus and digesting a new pseudoadult life. It’s about being a metaphorical sponge, absorbing everything from the minute details to the grand themes of college life. When it comes to the small bits and bobs at Northwestern, I’ve learned the difference between residential colleges and residential communities, taken note of the high prevalence of Canada Goose jackets, concluded that
Allison is the best dining hall on campus (hot take) and gained an unlikely appreciation for doing laundry. The bigger things, of course, were more difficult to understand. My most valuable lessons this year come from hitting rock bottom. In high school, making friends seemed like child’s play, in that it didn’t take work to make a friendship flourish. But on campus, I learned that it definitely takes work. I’m someone who thrives off human connection and relationships. I had a number of meaningful friendships Fall Quarter, but I couldn’t shake the frustrated feeling that they weren’t as fulfilling as they could be. I just couldn’t wrap my head around the fact that, on estimation, I come into contact with 500 people on a daily basis and I was only forming significant relationships with a tiny subset of
that population. Yet I was blind to my dissatisfaction with my friendships until … I wasn’t. Whenever things end, I’m always forced to confront my true emotions: As Fall Quarter ended and I drove away from my dorm, I looked out my car’s rear window and just started tearing up. I will never forget that moment, the moment when it hit me that I was fully dissatisfied with my friendships, and that I was to blame. I wasn’t putting my real self out there — it was like I was fishing without bait. I wasn’t reaching out to people. I wasn’t saying yes to every invitation that was coming my way. I wasn’t taking risks. It’s so easy to paint yourself as the victim in situations like this, to place the blame on other people rather than see faults within yourself. As I went through the rest of the year, I vowed
to myself that I would take leaps. I would talk to the people I wanted to. I wouldn’t let life pass me by; I was going to seize it. I’ve learned to go after what I want, from extracurriculars to people to my career, etc. I only have four years here. And you can bet that when I graduate, I’m going to pack up my dorm, look out the rear window of my car and, instead of tearing up over what could have been, I’m going to look out that window proud of the risks I took. Cassidy Jackson is a Medill freshman. She can be contacted at cassidyjackson2021@u.northwestern. edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this op-ed, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@ dailynorthwestern.com. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.
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Commission talks need for equity in budget survey By ELIZABETH BYRNE
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Equity and Empowerment Commission members discussed Thursday the city’s priority-based budgeting survey, expressing a desire to have an active role in the drafting of the 2019 budget. Facing another multi-million dollar budget deficit, city staff released the survey on May 10, asking residents to rank their top 10 and bottom 10 budgeting priorities using a list of 46 items. Ald. Melissa Wynne (3rd), who serves on the commission, said the city is in the process of receiving feedback from residents about the 2019 budget. The survey closes June 7, and Wynne said City Council will discuss the results of the survey at a June 18 meeting. “These are going to be incredibly difficult choices at the council and no one is going to be happy at the end of the day,” Wynne said. “Making these cuts is essential to the health of Evanston.” Commission chair Jane Grover said moving
forward, it will be important for the commission to contribute to discussions regarding the 2019 budget because of its inherent equity perspective. According to a news release about the survey, Evanston staff ranked city programs based on demand, cost, dependence, equity and other factors to determine the 46 items listed on the survey. Some commission members voiced concerns about the fairness of the evaluation process. Commission member Julie Corbier de Lara said even though a program might only affect a small population, it could have a severe impact on that portion of the community. “You have to consider that some of these programs that help the disabled might not be very popular, but they do enormously affect a very small population of Evanston,” she said. Grover said city staff evaluated programs through an “equity lens,” a concept introduced by equity and empowerment coordinator Patricia Efiom. However, Corbier de Lara said she didn’t see that “equity lens” reflected in the original rankings by city staff. Grover said the budgeting process is “significant” and has “real-life
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Equity and Empowerment Commission chair Jane Grover speaks at a commission meeting Thursday. The commission expressed a desire to have an active role in the drafting of the 2019 budget.
implications for thousands of residents,” many of whom don’t have the ability to “speak up.” “I knew that the core function of the city is passing a balanced budget,” she told The Daily. “Because the municipal budget reflects
the values of the community, I was hoping that the commission would pick this up as an important task for us this year.” elizabethbyrne2020@u.northwestern.edu
Rainey, police stress need for residents to be vigilant By KRISTINA KARISCH
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In response to a recent spike in crime and gun violence in the 8th Ward, Evanston police officers and Ald. Ann Rainey (8th) said Thursday that residents should be aware and report all suspicious behavior to the Evanston Police Department. Speaking at an 8th Ward meeting at the Levy Senior Center, 300 Dodge Ave., Rainey told her residents to be vigilant of their surroundings. On May 18, two Chicago residents were shot in south Evanston. The two men who were shot were sitting in a parked car in the 300 block of Custer Avenue, unarmed, and were eventually taken to Saint Francis Hospital to be treated for non-life threatening
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gunshot wounds. “The buildings on either side of that car, on either side of Custer, got shot up,” Rainey said. “If you were sitting in either of those places, you could’ve gotten a bullet hole in your head.” Detectives Ken Carter and Mikhail Geyer said EPD’s quick response to the shooting would not have been possible without notification from residents.They urged attendees at Thursday’s meeting to submit tips anonymously through a texting service, call Evanston’s 311 or contact the police if they see anything suspicious. Rainey said although some residents may think that keeping track of unfamiliar cars or other changes is “too intense,” residents who are attentive can prevent violence from happening. Deputy police chief Aretha Barnes and her colleagues spoke to an increase in violent crime in the
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saved her life, said Shanti Elliott, Lake Street Church’s immigration justice leader. Yesica would have faced more threats from local gang members had she returned to El Salvador. Elliott said it is unclear how long the family and its supporters will have to wait until Yesica’s case is heard by the appeals court. “It’s hard for us to hope for the positive when all the responses until now have been negative,” she said. Ana said she still hopes U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) will step in and advocate for her daughter’s release. “I wish she could return to El Salvador, but it’s too dangerous for her in our country,” Ana said. “Really, I just want her to have the opportunity to enter (America) and be able to fight her case outside (of the detention center).” juliainesesparza2020@u.northwestern.edu
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about their future. “I realize I’m still in a very privileged position, because I work at a firm that has the means to at least try figuring things out for me,” she said. “But it’s really not like that for a lot of people. A lot of people who ended up working at firms which weren’t that big or weren’t in the realm of finance, it’s really hard for them to figure out plans after this one-year period.” Walia started a petition in November asking the economics department to classify as a STEM major, and said she hoped the change would be made so it can affect her graduating class. University President Morton Schapiro, who also teaches in the economics department, told The Daily on Thursday that he supports the change and that economics at NU is very quantitative. “You want a quantitative economics department? Try mine. There’s no question that it fits,” Schapiro said. Though she isn’t sure how it will affect her, Walia said she’s excited that the department is moving forward with the code change. “I knew starting it that it was a long shot for it to work out for my year, but I knew that no matter when Northwestern gets its act together, some class of people will benefit from it,” she said. “I feel very happy.” jonahdylan2020@u.northwestern.edu
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From page 8 inning and never looked back. The Fighting Irish added 3 runs in the fourth and 2 in the seventh to put the game out of the reach. Poor baserunning plagued the Cats as they only managed to score 1 run. The loss ended the Cats’ season with an 18-8 record. They have not played a single NCAA Tournament game since.
Going pro
For their efforts, Scheuerman and Broeker were named to the All-Big Ten first team. Broeker won the Big Ten batting crown with a .440 average, while Scheuerman finished the regular season a perfect 7-0 with a 1.06 ERA, which remains the best in school history. Chuck Lindstrom and Kennedy were named to the AllBig Ten second team. Following the season, three players — Chuck Lindstrom, Hook and sophomore Dave Hill — were offered contracts by major league teams and accepted them. Hook and Hill signed for bonuses over $4,000, so they were immediately placed on big league rosters. Hill debuted for the
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From page 1 Dec. 27, 2017. In a Tuesday statement, the Diocese of Tulsa said it received a complaint in 1994 claiming Lewis had engaged in “inappropriate behavior with an adolescent boy” that led to his removal from the ministry. Lewis was then investigated and spent time in a psychiatric treatment facility, according to the diocese. The Sun-Times reported that as many as six people made accusations against Lewis. Although those allegations were investigated at the time, authorities could not file charges because the statute of limitations had expired. Lewis was allowed to return to active ministry in 1995 until he resigned in 2002 after claims surfaced that he improperly touched young boys in 1993 and 1994. He was then barred from further work as an ordained minister, according to the Sun-Times. The diocese statement cited a 2002 report by then-Bishop Edward Slattery, in which he apologized “from the bottom of (his) heart” for the way the diocese handled the complaints against Lewis. Slattery said an investigation into the allegations
Kansas City Athletics on Aug. 22, while Hook appeared in his first game for the Cincinnati Redlegs on Sept. 3. Hill would only pitch in two major league games during his career, all during that 1957 season with the Athletics. Hook, however, pitched for eight major league seasons and is most wellknown for earning the first win in New York Mets history. Chuck Lindstrom would get only a cup of coffee in the major leagues, but it was one of the more remarkable appearances in baseball history. In his only major league at-bat in 1958, he hit a triple off the right-center field wall. The hit made him the first and only non-pitcher to hit a triple in his only major league at-bat. Chuck Lindstrom would play in the minors for a few more seasons before retiring at 24, but those seasons would not compare to his time in Evanston. “I enjoyed my Northwestern experience more than I enjoyed professional baseball,” he said.
Eternal enshrinement
The loss of the three seniors — Broeker, Pienta and Stranski — and the three underclassmen to the pros proved to be consequential for the Cats. against Lewis revealed “incidents of disturbing behavior and the exercise of poor judgement.” “If I had the information then that I have now, I would not have allowed Father Lewis to return to active ministry in 1995,” Slattery said in the 2002 report. “That was a mistake.” sydstone@u.northwestern.edu
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In 1958, NU dropped to ninth in the Big Ten and finished with an 11-15 record. Although the baseball team has periodically jumped into the top half of the Big Ten standings, the Cats have yet to win another Big Ten title, with the closest call coming in 1984. Fred Lindstrom would go on to manage NU for three-and-a-half more seasons before resigning in the middle of the 1961 season to become the postmaster of Evanston. Chuck Lindstrom said his father took the job because it supplied long-term benefits that his role at Northwestern could not provide. In 1976, Fred was given the ultimate honor bestowed upon a ballplayer when he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. While he was thrilled to be named a Hall of Famer, Chuck Lindstrom said his father was always honored to be linked to the University. “My dad always felt as if one of the best things that ever happened to him was to have the opportunity to be associated with Northwestern University and the many fine people that he worked with,” Chuck Lindstrom said. “He felt that way to his dying days.” peterwarren2021@u.northwestern.edu
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what NU values. While we may not be the best football school, we do send some students to the NFL. Northwestern is potential professional football players’ first experience in “the real world,” so while they’re here, they should be encouraged to speak their mind. If the University does what is morally right by backing players’ desire to protest, the decision will pay off for NU in the long run. The University will emerge as a leader in this national conversation and, even more importantly, foster individuals who are confident in their beliefs and ability to “kneel” for what they believe in. Andrew Golden is a Medill freshman. He can be contacted at andrewgolden2021@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to sports@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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circulated a petition calling on Compass to accept I-9 identity verification forms instead of using the E-Verify service. In a Thursday interview, University President Morton Schapiro credited students, who had urged Compass to not use the verification service, for bringing attention to the issue. “We’ve been very involved with that, and that was something that I praise the students in really putting on a front burner for us,” he told The Daily. “We have a moral responsibility to do what we can and I think we tried to exercise that the best we could.” At Wednesday’s Senate meeting, Bennett did not address workers’ concerns that they would leave positions they had held for years, but said workers can expect some changes in their work. “We want to give them a new sense of empowerment, new uniforms, new equipment, new strategies,” he said.
released in 2016, and the band is currently working on a fourth album. This is the second straight year that a band has headlined Dillo Day, after alternative rock band MGMT performed in 2017. In addition to Young the Giant, EDM artist TOKiMONSTA, R&B artist Daniel Caesar and indie rock band Whitney will perform, while the daytime headliner remains to be announced. In a news release, Mayfest director of concerts Grant Pender said Young the Giant consistently produces impressive live sets. “Whether you know all their deep cuts, or just their earlier hits, or more recent bangers, or have never heard of them, they have a consistent track record of delivering excellent live sets with a strong, charismatic lead singer, and put on energetic shows that can be widely enjoyed,” he said. Dillo Day is set for June 2.
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On Sept. 30, Northwestern football players locked arms as a form of protest before their game against Wisconsin. While I was happy to see that the Wildcats were using their platforms to speak out for what they believe in, I felt the gesture was inadequate. Individuals who felt strongly about the topic should’ve used their platform to publicly kneel. Professional players no longer have that opportunity. Yesterday, NFL owners unanimously agreed to a policy that requires players to stand and “show respect” during the national anthem or else risk being fined, according to a statement from commissioner Roger Goodell. However, the new rule does allow players to wait in the locker room until after the anthem is played. Colin Kaepernick, along with other NFL players, began kneeling in 2016 to protest police brutality against African Americans in the U.S. This trend spread around the country as kids of all ages — from middle school through college — wanted to follow the NFL stars. However, the protests received backlash from veterans, team owners and President Donald Trump. Usually, college football players are in the locker room instead of on the field for the national anthem due to the timing of pregame team introductions. At Northwestern, there are no specific rules that state whether a player can or cannot participate. But that doesn’t mean players shouldn’t — and making sure players feel supported to kneel is Northwestern’s responsibility. NU’s mission page states that “Northwestern is committed to excellent teaching, innovative research and the personal and intellectual growth
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If the University does what is morally right by backing players’ desire to protest, the decision will pay off for NU in the long run. of its students in a diverse academic community.” If NU really stands by this statement, then the University should actively encourage interested student-athletes to partake in national anthem protests. College is a place where young adults have the chance to think independently and take responsibility for their actions. NU students take classes that challenge their beliefs and present new perspectives on the world. Outside the classroom, we are encouraged to take these new, important lessons and apply them to our everyday lives. Because student-athletes have limited time to participate in clubs to express these feelings, sporting events may be their only platform. So if athletes feels strongly about social justice, they shouldn’t be worried about any backlash from the University. I do understand that NU is not a public university and faces greater pressure from donors and alumni it relies on. So if someone disagrees with the protests, the University would have a tough decision to make. But ultimately it comes down to » See PROTEST, page 7
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NU’s 1957 baseball team achieved something no Cats team has replicated since By PETER WARREN
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The history of Northwestern baseball features more lows than highs. Since the 1898 inaugural season of Big Ten baseball, the Wildcats have finished top three in the conference only 13 times. But there have been highs, and there has been no season with more success than the remarkable 1957 campaign. In addition to securing the Big Ten title outright for the first and only time in program history, 1957 was the only time NU ever made it to the NCAA Tournament. The Cats advanced to the final of its district, where they were stopped just short of a trip to Omaha and the College World Series. The season, which seems to have been forgotten over time, was one for the ages.
The father-son duo
No manager in Northwestern history has the pedigree of Fred Lindstrom, skipper of the 1957 baseball team. Lindstrom, who has born in Chicago, signed a professional contract at 16 and reached the majors with the New York Giants at 18. During his first season, the Giants made the World Series and Lindstrom became the youngest person to ever play in the event. He played 13 seasons — the majority of which was with the Giants — and was a career .311 hitter. After retirement, he managed for a few seasons in the minor leagues before becoming the Cats’ coach prior to the 1949 season. Over the next eight seasons, NU had only one losing year and an overall record of 98-85-1. “He also not only had the natural instincts of being a very gifted player, he was unique that he had acquired a very positive attitude and he was able to instill that attitude to his ball players,” Chuck Lindstrom, Fred’s son, said. Chuck Lindstrom was not only Fred’s son but also the star of the team. The catcher was nominated to the All-Big Ten first team in 1956 as a sophomore after hitting .415 in the conference and tying the previous Big Ten record for doubles with eight. The younger Lindstrom was a batboy for NU while growing up and attended New Trier High School. Chuck Lindstrom had declined offers from UCLA and powerhouse
Southern California to stay close to home to play for his father. “I chose to stay at Northwestern and play for my dad because I thought that he was a very knowledgeable and outstanding guy,” Chuck Lindstrom said. While Chuck Lindstrom may have been the team’s best player, the 1957 Cats were not a one-man wrecking crew. Usually hitting right above Chuck Lindstrom in the lineup was senior shortstop, center fielder and two-time captain Ed Broeker, and right after him was senior third baseman Harry Stranski. Two juniors — left-hander Tom Scheuerman and right-hander Jay Hook — led the team’s pitching staff.
When it rains, it pours
After a six-game Spring Break trip at the end of March, NU began its home season in April at Dyche Field with a doubleheader against the Chicago Illini (now UIC). Broeker was the star of the first game with three hits, including a grand slam home run, and the Cats won 18-2. However, the second game of the doubleheader was canceled due to cold weather as snow had begun to fall during game one. That cancellation was a harbinger of the next six weeks. “We had a lot of games that were snowed out or rained out,” Hook said. In total, 11 games were canceled due to weather that season. More than half of NU’s scheduled Big Ten games — including a matchup with the 1956 College World Series champions, Minnesota — were never played. But when the team got on the field, it found plenty of success. During a mid-April doubleheader, the Cats outscored Great Lakes 31-14 over two games. And they annihilated Glenview Naval Air Station by a score of 26-0 in May after their opponents committed 18 errors. “We just had an all-in-all, allaround good ballclub,” Chuck Lindstrom said.
Securing the title
On the last Friday of the regular season, NU travelled down to Champaign to take on Illinois. The contest was a nailbiter. The Cats got on the board in the fourth as Broeker scored on a Stranski single. That would be the only run scored by either team, as NU won 1-0 behind a complete-game shutout by Scheuerman. That Friday’s result meant a Big Ten title was in play for the Cats. NU
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Chuck Lindstrom (left) and Fred Lindstrom (right) chat during a preseason workout. Chuck said his father was a “fantastic” coach.
entered Saturday, the final day of the season, with a 5-2 record, while Iowa, the Cats’ main competition, entered with a 6-3 record. NU had two games at Purdue while Iowa had two games at home against cellar-dwellers Indiana. “I can remember that we were all standing around on the field, but there had been a heavy rain the night before, and the field was unplayable,” Chuck Lindstrom said. “We wanted to go out and rake the fields and do everything to be able to play because we felt confident that we had a good chance of beating them.” The field nonetheless remained unplayable, and with the Cats sidelined, all Iowa had to do was win both games over Indiana to secure the title. The Hawkeyes took care of business in Game One, as they beat the Hoosiers by a score of 1-0. However, the second game was disastrous for Iowa. Not only did catcher Don Bock get “knocked out in a fistic exchange” in the seventh inning, as described by the Chicago Tribune, but Indiana also won the game by a score of 8-1. The loss dropped the Hawkeyes to 7-4 in conference play, tying them with Michigan and Illinois for second and giving the NU the undisputed Big Ten title. For Hook, who had spent the winter winning only
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The 1957 Northwestern baseball team poses for a photo. It was the only team to ever make it to the NCAA Tournament.
six games on the basketball team, it was a big deal. “(Northwestern athletics) didn’t win a whole lot,” Hook said. “It was really a thrill to win something in baseball.”
To Kalamazoo
The Big Ten title gave the Cats a birth in the NCAA Tournament. They were placed in the District 4 Sectional in Kalamazoo, Michigan, along with Notre Dame (who had beaten NU twice during the regular season), Western Michigan and Alma College. The Cats’ first-ever postseason game was a disappointment, as a 7-run outburst from Western Michigan in the fourth inning sparked an 11-1 victory for the Broncos. NU came back strong the next day in its elimination game against Alma, defeating the school 11-2. Notre Dame beat Western Michigan later that same day in the winner’s bracket, setting up a rematch between the Cats and Broncos for a spot in the District Final. The game ended up being a classic. NU had a 5-3 lead heading into the top of the seventh, but Western Michigan exploded for 6 runs in the inning to take a 9-5 lead. After getting a run back in its half of the seventh, the Cats equaled the score in the eighth behind singles from Gary Bialk, Ron Smith and Broeker. Sophomore outfielder Jim Cooper, who had just 18 at-bats during the regular season, was the unlikely hero. In the bottom of the 10th, he singled in Chuck Lindstrom to give NU the victory and a spot in the Regional Final. The Regional Final was played later that same day, and the Cats sustained their momentum from earlier and beat Notre Dame for the first time all season, 9-2. Chuck Lindstrom proved to be the fulcrum for the offense, as he went 4-for-4 with a double and a triple. Because the loss was only the Fighting Irish’s first of the doubleelimination tournament, a second, winner-take-all game between NU and Notre Dame was scheduled for the next day. In that elimination game, Notre Dame jumped out to a 1-0 in the first » See 1957, page 7