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POINTING OUT PRIVILEGE Robin DiAngelo speaks about white privilege, asking white audience members to be open to criticism. She was the keynote speaker at the YWCA Evanston/North Shore’s first Racial Justice Summit.
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Robin DiAngelo remembered being able to clearly observe racism in her community, but her feelings of inferiority kept her from speaking up. DiAngelo said she grew up in poverty, worrying about having enough food to eat as she went through the cycle of
homelessness and the foster care system. One day, she said she realized her silence was “maintaining white solidarity,” that her silence was “colluding with racism.” So DiAngelo, the director of equity for Sound Generations, a nonprofit that helps senior citizens in the Washington area, dedicated herself to combatting racism with her educational background in white racial identity and race relations, she said. Thursday evening, DiAngelo urged white individuals to open their minds
to an honest appraisal of their internalized superiority and racial privilege at the YWCA Evanston/North Shore’s first Racial Justice Summit. More than 50 people gathered at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, 2121 Sheridan Road, for the “Mirrors and Methods: Tools for Creating Racial Equity” summit to hear DiAngelo’s keynote speech. » See SUMMIT, page 5
The Department of Radio, Television and Film is transitioning to a new, department-driven film grant system, drawing criticism from some RTVF students and student filmmaking groups. Communication Prof. David Tolchinsky, who chairs the department, said in an email to The Daily that the new system aims “to end student-to-student direct funding,” with a committee comprising four RTVF faculty and three students selecting which projects get funded. In the past, Tolchinsky said, the department was not involved in funding extracurricular films, which were largely funded by student filmmaking groups such as Studio 22. However, it did, and continues to, fund films made in RTVF classes. By contrast, Tolchinsky said the new system allows the department and its faculty more input into the funding process than before. Communication Prof. Laura Kipnis said the changes came in part from students’ concerns about filmmaking groups such as Studio 22 having too much power in determining which students received funding. “There were a lot of students who thought that the process was unfair or dominated by cliques,” Kipnis said. Through the new system, the department awards Media Arts Grants, which can be used to fund both student films and other media projects.
Dog beach disappears as water level rises By NORA SHELLY
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The water level of Lake Michigan is rising, and Evanston residents — both four-legged and two — are seeing the effects at the dog beach. The beach, located off Sheridan Road south of Northwestern, did not open as usual on April 1 due to the rising water of Lake Michigan, causing much of the beach to be submerged. “The dog beach is underwater,” assistant city manager Marty Lyons said. “That’s a Great Lakes problem, not just an Evanston problem.” The water will likely continue to rise, said Jon Shabica, the vice president of Shabica & Associates, a firm that specializes in coastal science and engineering for the Great Lakes. Shabica gave a presentation at the Human Services Committee meeting Monday, one of many presentations he said he has given recently on the rising lake levels. “Everybody in the community is kind of raising their hands and going, ‘What happened to the lakefront?’” he said at Monday’s meeting. “We need to recognize that Lake Michigan is a dynamic environment.” Lake Michigan goes through high and low water-level cycles, Shabica said, and levels reached a low in 2013. Extreme storms on the lake, such as Hurricane Sandy in 2012, brought more sand to the shorefront and increased beach size, but
water levels have “increased dramatically” since then, he said. Shabica told The Daily the rise could be due to increased wintertime ice coverage, changes in water temperature or evaporation. The speed of the increase is unusual, he said. “We don’t know enough to be able to pinpoint one exact source,” he told The Daily. “What we can say is that this increase has broken some of the previous records for how fast the lake has gone up.” There will likely be little damage to property, Shabica told The Daily, as the entirety of Evanston’s shoreline is engineered with steel groins — which create beaches by extending into the lake from the shoreline to catch sand — and large stone barricades that line the coast. Shabica told the committee that other dangers resulting from a rising lake could include safety issues related to increased water depth at public beaches as well as risks with “submerged hazards,” or anything in the lake such as old docks or boat launches that are now under water. Although all Evanston beaches are losing ground as a result of the rising levels, the dog beach is taking the biggest hit, Lawrence Hemingway, the city’s director of Parks, Recreation and Community Service, told The Daily. “The only issue really was that the water rose at a much faster rate than anyone anticipated,” he said. “Right now all the remaining beaches are on schedule to be open for the season come
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said. Third Ward resident Betsy Sagan, who said she had recently started to bring her dog Buster regularly to the beach, said she understood why the city would be wary of bringing in more sand, but that she would still like to see a space on the water for dogs. “It’s a great resource for dog owners and their families, and I hope that there’s a way we can find a beach or a place where dogs can play without their leashes on,” she said.
Former Northwestern freshman Matthew Kafker pled not guilty to two dozen criminal charges, including 12 hate crime charges, related to the March 11 vandalism of Alice Millar Chapel. Kafker and former Northwestern freshman Anthony Morales were charged in March with institutional vandalism, hate crime to a place of worship and criminal damage to property. They were each released on $50,000 bond March 12. A grand jury indicted the two men on the 24 criminal charges last week. The criminal charges include four counts of burglary, four counts of institutional vandalism and two counts each of criminal damage and criminal defacement of property in addition to the 12 charges of hate crime to a church, synagogue or place of worship. University Police found homophobic, anti-Semitic, racist and other offensive graffiti inside Alice Millar Chapel on the morning of March 11, including in the chapel’s offices. It included a swastika, drawings of male genitalia and the word “Trump.” University spokesman Al Cubbage told The Daily last month that Kafker and Morales are no longer enrolled. Morales, who was not scheduled to appear in court Thursday, will enter his plea when he is arraigned May 11 at Skokie Courthouse. Kafker and Morales will appear together on June 24, Kafker’s next court date.
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BYE BEACH The Evanston dog beach, located just south of Northwestern, is rapidly losing ground as water levels of Lake Michigan rise. Marty Lyons, assistant city manager, said city officials would present a plan for the beach at next week’s City Council meeting.
Memorial Day.” The city is looking into all possible solutions, Hemingway said, which could include reallocating another space on the lakefront for a new dog beach or creating a permanent dog park at another location, which would likely not be on the water due to limited shoreline. Lyons said although bringing in sand to rebuild the dog beach at its current location is still on the table, it is not the city’s most preferred option. City officials are working on a contingency plan for the beach to present before City Council on May 9, Lyons
This year, Kipnis said, the department awarded 22 grants, which generally top out at $1,500. The new system also encourages MAG recipients to apply for supplemental funding from filmmaking groups such as Studio 22. Tolchinsky said the department is still transitioning to the MAG system and gathering feedback from student groups. “None of our goals or plans involve removing students from the decision process — on the contrary, we are working to involve a broader community of students in both grant-making and media-making,” Tolchinsky said his email. “Students will always play central roles in organizing projects and allocating funding.” But some students criticized the department’s new direction, saying it minimizes students’ role in the filmmaking process and lacks transparency. Communication junior Isaac Sims, who served on Studio 22’s executive board last year, said the new system has “turned the department upside down.” “A lot of this boils down to the idea that the department is not really comfortable with students giving (other) students $3,000 to $7,500 for a single grant,” Sims said. “Agency and independence is being taken away from these student groups, and the department is starting to really reach their hands into how money is distributed on campus.” The new system has also increased the number of films being made at any given time, said Communication junior
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Around Town Rauner, other Republican officials to skip GOP convention
Gov. Bruce Rauner will not attend the Republican National Convention and is not endorsing the likely Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump, multiple news sources reported Thursday. The convention is set to take place in Cleveland from July 18 to 21. With Trump looking like the next GOP nominee, other Republican leaders have said they too will not endorse the real estate mogul and reality TV star. Rauner joins U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) in skipping the convention. Kirk, a first-term senator, is running for re-election against Democratic challenger U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.).
A spokesman for Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush wrote in an email to the Texas Tribune this week that neither former presidents will comment on the election, and House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said during an interview on CNN that he was “just not ready” to endorse Trump. According to the Illinois Republican Party, the state’s GOP will send 69 delegates to this year’s convention. Three RNC members and 12 at-large delegates that are sent are bound to vote for Trump as he won the state’s primary in March. Three delegates each are elected from the state’s 18 congressional districts, and must list a preferred candidate on the ballot. They are then obligated to vote for the candidate they selected, unless that person drops out of the race. — Nora Shelly
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Two Evanston men injured in Thursday morning home invasion
A 76-year-old man and his 39-year-old son were injured during a home invasion late Thursday morning in the 1300 block of Dewey Avenue. The two called 911 around noon after a man entered their residence through the front door and battered them, the Evanston Police
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A 30-year-old Chicago man attempted to steal about $457 in goods Tuesday morning from Target, 2209 Howard St. The man placed his own price stickers over those on three toys, a duvet cover and flatware, said Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan. He then used the self-checkout, with the total for the items adding up to $12.46
Department said in a news release. Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan told The Daily the man went room-by-room through the house asking where guns were hidden. The man then left the house through the back door and fled the area on foot. Responding EPD officers searched the area but were unable to find the man, whom the victims described as roughly 6 feet tall, 180 pounds and 30 years old. The man was dressed in all black except for red gym shoes. Dugan said it was unclear whether the suspect had any relation to the victims, and they
are not yet sure why the residence was chosen, although they do preliminarily believe it was targeted. There is no reason to believe there was any illicit activity occurring at the house that may have led to the break-in, Dugan said. The older man had a minor neck injury, and the son had a cut on his face. The two victims were taken by paramedics to Evanston NorthShore University Hospital, where they were treated and released.
with the fake price stickers, Dugan added. A store security guard caught the man after he paid his price for the items, Dugan said. He was charged with one count of felony retail theft.
were dispatched to the area and found pry marks on the front door and on the bedroom door, Dugan added. EPD was unable to locate the owner and left the scene without notifying her. The owner of the apartment noticed it had been broken into when she returned to the residence at around 8:30 p.m., but did not report anything missing, Dugan said. There are no suspects, Dugan added.
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On Campus NU Dining adopts programs to boost sustainability By KELLI NGUYEN
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Northwestern Dining has increased its efforts to promote sustainability through the introduction and development of several dining initiatives. NU Dining is considering an initiative that would offer reusable bags and water bottles in C-stores. Both projects are currently under consideration, said Margot Zuckerman, a Weinberg sophomore and Sodexo sustainability intern who is working on the projects. NU Dining is hoping to bring reusable bags to C-stores soon, but still needs more research on a project that would phase out disposable water bottles and replace them with reusable ones, Sodexo spokeswoman Rachel Tilghman said. The University announced in November plans to eliminate bottled water in C-stores by the end of this academic year. “I hope to promote a non-throwaway culture at Northwestern,” Zuckerman said. “It’s not that much effort to make the switch to reusable water bottles rather than buy a new one each day.” This year NU Dining unveiled a food sampling program, which lets students sample dishes before fully committing it to their plates. It is an effort to decrease the amount of food students waste, Tilghman said. “You should never feel guilty about your food choices,” Tilghman said. “But we do want people to be conscious about what they’re taking. That’s the kind of culture shift we’re trying to make by doing the sampling.” Additionally, Weigh the Waste is an event that measures how much waste students produce at any particular dining hall during lunch. Under the program, the tray lines that collect used dishes and leftover food in dining halls are temporarily decommissioned. Sustainability interns instead set up tables and help students separate their waste into four different categories: liquid waste, compostable waste, non-food items and paper products. Leftovers and trash are studied to identify which categories produce the most waste, and NU Dining
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uses that information to improve its operations, Tilghman said. “We normally find that on average, Northwestern is on par with what the average American wastes, which is one-third of a pound per meal,” Tilghman said. Beyond residential dining, Northwestern Catering has begun working with clients to incorporate elements of sustainability into catered events. The Green Steps program offers to cater events using china or compostable tableware to reduce waste, said catering
manager Stephanie Klafert. “The idea is to create a zero-waste event,” Klafert said. “There are products out there that are recyclable, but compostable … goes so much further than recyclable does.” The University’s goal is to reduce its landfill waste by 20 percent by 2020. Through developing and introducing sustainability programs in dining, NU Dining hopes to contribute to this movement, Tilghman said. NU Dining’s sustainability programs aim to not only decrease waste, but also educate students about
sustainability, said Julie Cahillane, manager of sustainability and resource management. “Food waste is a significant portion of our waste stream,” Cahillane said. “If we want to reduce how much waste we extend to the landfill and increase our diversion rates, food waste is an obvious thing we’re going to tackle.” Julia Doran contributed reporting. kellinguyen2019@u.northwestern.edu
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My experience existing outside of the gender binary SYD SHAW
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This essay is part of The Spectrum, a weekly forum in our Opinion section for marginalized voices to share their perspectives. To submit a piece for The Spectrum or discuss story ideas, please email spectrum@dailynorthwestern. com. “I am not female. I am not male. I am nonbinary, and I am finally OK with that.” As a journalist, I start every story with research. This time it was my own history, a look back through months of journals. I remembered “coming out” to myself, but the early date of the entry, November 2014, surprised me. Looking through my notebooks, I realized I was hoping to show myself I had known all along. Certainty is an important part of the narrative, a way of assuring strangers our identities
are real. Yet, I am not always certain. “I am afraid to come out because there is no taking it back.” Another journal entry, this time from last spring. It took a long time for me to embrace my identity. To accept that private questionings did not take away my right to public respect and that how I understood my gender was separate from how I explained it. Eventually, I accepted that I didn’t owe an explanation at all. Last quarter, I did a story for class called “Navigating Non-Binary.” I asked all the obvious questions: How long have you known? Who have you told? My subjects were wonderfully patient with me. In a way, it was a search for validation. If you can be trans, if you can exist here, maybe I have the same right. Existing at Northwestern has gone well, mostly because I am selective with whom I come out to. I was lucky enough to grow up in Southern California, a very liberal part of the country. I was confidently out as bisexual by my sophomore year of high school. Yet gender was different, even among the queer community. It was a distant, murky frontier. It was something you tried very hard to avoid talking or thinking about. I vividly recall telling someone in high school I was “female by default.” I learned what
transgender meant when my boyfriend came out in high school. I learned what non-binary was as an afterthought, the little plus sign that follows the LGBT. By the end of senior year, three of the four trans kids at my school had transferred out. This made it clear to me that being trans in high school was taboo. I came out as trans in my senior year to a handful of close friends. I used the name Felix for a month or so, but it felt wrong. Female. Male. I felt like I was checking off a box of things I was not. When I finally settled on non-binary sometime this January, my friends were amazingly supportive. Yet my family does not know and probably never will. Most people on campus know me as Syd. I don’t know how many assume it’s just a nickname. Names are often an important part of the trans community, a way to announce and claim our own identities. I have a complicated relationship with my full name, but I ultimately decided to modify instead of change it. It still creeps up when talking to parents or professors. It’s still a part of my NU email, still an unavoidable part of my life. Words are important. Names, pronouns and labels will vary from person to person. Some find comfort in them, others find power in rejecting them. I could write an entire column
on the subtleties of pronoun preferences. I use they/them/theirs pronouns because it makes me more comfortable, and that is enough. I can’t speak for anyone else’s preferences. Trans as a blanket term — not just for transgender but non-binary, genderqueer, agender and many others — is something that takes getting used to. In a world where trans people face violence and discrimination, publicly identifying as trans feels like setting up a target. Despite this, finding a word to describe myself was a breath of relief and a reminder of solidarity. I firmly believe that coming out is a myth. There will always be people who don’t know. There will always be a snap decision between visibility and simplicity, dysphoria and safety. I don’t remember the first person I told, but the process has not stopped since. My identity has changed from transgender to genderqueer to non-binary, but with each change, I feel I have come closer to representing who I am. Finding oneself is a process. Syd Shaw is a Medill freshman. They can be contacted at sydneyshaw2019@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.
Stop laughing at Donald Trump’s presidential campaign JOSE TREJOS
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This Wednesday, Donald Trump won the Republican nomination for president when his final opponent, John Kasich, dropped out. This news is simply tragic for people like myself, who generally support the Republican Party but are just disgusted by Trump’s shameless ignorance and demagoguery. Certainly, his victory will probably have very negative repercussions on the future of American politics. Some people, especially liberals, try to find a silver lining in this development by claiming that Trump will certainly lose against Hillary Clinton, so at least the White House will not fall into the hands of a lunatic. A recent column in The Daily even went as far as to suggest Democrats should root for Mr. Trump because his nomination would guarantee a Democratic victory. The reasoning behind this confidence is relatively easy to understand: matchup polling has Clinton a solid seven points ahead of Trump and he has a hilariously high unfavorability rating of as much as around 70 percent. It may seem hard to imagine a candidate so universally
despised going on to win the White House. However, this line of reasoning is quite naive. Trump has a clear path to win the presidency – stealing the Sanders coalition. Many people who do not follow politics may be surprised to see Sanders supporters described as a potential Trump demographic, since the stereotypical supporter is a college student not majoring in economics. However, Trump himself has said he plans to try to win over Sanders supporters as a key strategy against Clinton. Ideologically, they are quite similar candidates. Both of these candidates are isolationist candidates that have shamelessly perpetuated the unscientific idea that free trade hurts the US economy, largely in order to obtain votes from unskilled bluecollar workers. Both of these candidates have propagated the idea that the US government is “bought” by politicians and marketed themselves as the only honest candidates in the race. Both of these candidates demonstrate a ruthless ability to promise programs that are objectively completely impossible, such as single-payer health care systems without rationing and multitrillion-dollar deficits or great border walls that will be paid for by Mexico. The many blue-collar workers, anti-establishment independents and gullible people that have joined the Sanders campaign will probably find Trump’s platform to be very appealing.
I remember hanging out with some friends watching the Super Tuesday results back in March, back when primaries were enough of a novelty to be interesting. One of my friends is not very political, and we were excited to show him Trump’s presumably hilarious speech. What we saw instead was a presidential and dignified speaker. Many observers have noticed this trend: Whenever Trump feels he is winning, he stops sounding crazy. In national politics, there is the concept of a shift to the center, in which a candidate acts like an extremist to win their primary, then attempts to sound reasonable to win the general election. Trump, who seems to be running with absolutely no ideals behind him except a Machiavellian desire to win at any cost, would likely manifest this behavior to an extreme. I’m fairly certain that, after he wins the nomination, calls for Great Walls and Muslim immigration bans will become rather rare. Instead, Trump will likely shift to more widely marketable pitches: unrealistic promises in the style of Bernie Sanders, ad hominems against “Crooked Hillary,” populist drivel against corporations and the rich and mantras about how successful and awesome he is. The average person does not follow politics all that closely and would probably find it easy to forget the outrageous statements Mr. Trump has made. Then there is his opponent. Clinton is,
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quite simply, the best opponent anyone could realistically ask for. Her unfavorability rating is an amazingly high 55 percent, which, while lower than Trump’s, still makes her a historically despised nominee. The ongoing FBI investigation into her emails feeds her reputation of untrustworthiness and may even lead to an indictment. She is considered a member of the establishment in an anti-establishment year. Worst of all is the fact that, quite simply, nobody likes her; it is oft-noted that there is almost no enthusiasm among her followers, and her frequent flipflopping on different issues have fed the perception that she is extremely untrustworthy and corrupt. So will Trump win the election? Probably not, if you ask me. But it is far from impossible. Trump got this far largely because no one took him seriously early enough to stop him. How could they? The man is a clown. But if you spend this election year laughing at him or sulking with the Bernie or bust lunatics, you will see how funny it really is to have Trump as president of the United States. Jose Trejos is a Weinberg freshman. He can be contacted at josetrejos2019@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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“I want to draw your attention to the fact that I’m white, so check it out,” DiAngelo said. “Very seldomly are white people asked to look in the mirror at themselves. And when I looked in the mirror, I would see many things about myself but that I was white was not one of them.” People will have the chance to explore how to combat racism with the help of additional speakers and facilitators in breakout sessions Friday, Eileen Heineman, co-director of racial justice programs at the YWCA, told The Daily. The summit will also feature keynote speaker Brittney Cooper, an assistant professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Africana Studies at Rutgers University. About 175 individuals signed up to attend the summit over the course of the two days. It was created to encourage collective action that would eventually change the “system of racism,” Heineman said. DiAngelo said her speech was an address primarily to the white individuals in the audience to help them better understand the issues people of color face and the inherent privilege they may not notice in themselves. She countered dominant white racial narratives such as the phrases “I was taught to treat everyone the same” and “This happened regardless of race,” and said the “racism is bad” attitude that permeates modern society makes white people defensive when confronted with in-depth conversations about racism. DiAngelo also talked about how children pick up on the message that it is better to be white and how, even today, people of color are very underrepresented on boards of major institutions, including the U.S. Supreme Court. “I’ve devoted my life to anti-racist work,” DiAngelo said. “But I do not call myself an anti-racist, and I do not call myself an ally. That is for people of color to decide.” Audience members mainly questioned how to stop conceptualizing solutions and start taking action against racism. “(DiAngelo) had some insights that, as an African American, wouldn’t have occurred to me because I have an African American lens,” Carmen Corbett, a member of the YWCA board, told The Daily. “If we’re ever going to get to a better place, we all have to be able to get in the other person’s skin. It’s important for me ... to go to the extent that I can to try to understand what they don’t understand.” rishikadugyala2019@u.northwestern.edu
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NU’s Shameful Holocaust Stain Though it is fashionable to protest ills far removed from campus life, there is one in your midst that lingers with little fanfare. His name is Engineering Professor Arthur Butz. He is best known not for anything from the world of engineering, but rather from the world of hate and deceit. In short, Professor Butz(head) is a “Holocaust denier.” I repeat, a learned professor in your midst is a “Holocaust denier.” In 1976 he penned a book titled “The Hoax of the Twentieth Century” denying the Holocaust took place. Denying 6 million Jewish girls, men, grandmothers, babies, uncles, neighbors, women, fathers, friends, sisters, colleagues, cousins, lovers, boys, mothers and aunts — 6 million human beings — were murdered. For perspective, consider this: if you read each victim’s name — taking just two seconds per name — it would take you 139 days to complete the task. Start today and you will not finish until you return for classes in the fall. But that is only if you never stop to eat, drink or sleep, much like the conditions the victims endured. In 2006, former President Henry Bienen issued a statement condemning Butz and said “Butz's opinions are his own and in no way represent the views of the University.” But let’s be clear: these are not “opinions,” these are historical facts.
Hiding behind tenure policies and “the right to free speech” is equal parts cowardly and dumb. To remind: the First Amendment prevents the government from limiting your speech; it does not prevent a private university from firing a professor. To put things in perspective, what would be the reaction on campus if a group of "antebellum revisionists" claimed African-Americans were never slaves? That blacks were never sold, lynched, beaten, raped and bartered? And suppose these "scholars" claimed the whole idea of a black slave trade was simply a hoax devised by blacks to garner sympathy. How would we respond? I would like to think that I would be joined by everyone, no matter their ethnicity, in obliterating such a lie. I would like to think that the “revisionists” would be called racists. And I am pretty sure such a “professor” would be (rightly) run off campus. Yet Butz persists in your midst. No protests. Intellectual hypocrisy at its worst. Lest they died in vein, take a moment to remember the victims as Holocaust Remembrance Day was commemorated this week. Better yet, if Butz can freely exercise his right of expression, why not take five minutes and walk by his office and peacefully exercise yours? WILLIAM CHOSLOVSKY CHICAGO William.choslovsky@hotmail.com
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Erin Manning, an incoming Studio 22 executive co-chair. Manning said the influx of projects has made it difficult for some students to find a full crew for a film. Manning added she is unsure the MAG committee’s process does enough to measure how feasible a project is. She said Studio 22, on the other hand, requires applicants to submit a script along with their pitch and to come in for an interview. “We don’t even know if they read the scripts,” said Manning, who will also serve as a co-chair of the Undergraduate RTVF Student Association next year. “For better or worse, it has altered the work that all of the different student groups are doing within the department.” According to the MAG application, students must submit “a synopsis” of the script. In addition, one of the application’s criteria is its “feasibility” and “prospect for completion.”
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2009. Most recently, when the Cats faced off against Purdue in the quarterfinals of last year’s Big Ten Tournament, NU was able to squeak out a 3-0 victory. In that game, Fecho went up against the Cats’ own standout pitcher Kristen Wood. Although Fecho struck out 10 in six innings pitched, she got tagged for 2 runs in the first inning thanks to a Filler single and an Amy
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Hoscheit, who boasts 6 RBIs in his last four appearances, will face a struggling cast of Purdue starting pitchers in the series: Gavin Downs (1-4, 5.06 ERA) on Friday, Matt Frawley (1-5, 3.05 ERA) on Saturday and Shane Bryant (0-3, 5.72 ERA) on Sunday. Mason (2-5, 4.17 ERA) and junior Joe Schindler (1-1, 4.15 ERA) will go for NU on Friday and Saturday, respectively, with Sunday’s starter yet to be announced. Both Cats starters produced quality outings in last weekend’s series at Indiana, with Mason allowing just 2 runs in six full innings and Schindler striking out 3 in 5.2 scoreless innings.
Tolchinsky said an applicant’s script most likely has been developed in one of the department’s screenwriting classes, or that the faculty mentor attached to the proposal has looked at it. Communication senior Sam Spahn, who has worked on films funded by both a MAG and Studio 22, said the new system allows more students to make films. “In theory, (the MAGs) are a bigger opportunity for people to make more movies,” he said, “but the thing that’s a little worrisome is that it’s quantity over quality.” The ultimate goal, Tolchinsky said in an email, is “for everything to flow through MAG in some way.” But he emphasized that the transition is ongoing. “Every time you move from one system to another, yes, there will be strong feelings,” Tolchinsky said in an email. “We’re trying to make whatever funding system the best it can be.” agorakis@u.northwestern.edu shanem@u.northwestern.edu Letourneau double. The 2 runs were more than enough support for Wood who went the distance in the game, surrendering only three hits and striking out six in the process. The Cats will need more of the same from the three seniors this weekend. “I want us to play good softball, to focus pitch to pitch,” Drohan said. “I want us to have the balance of good focus and good aggressiveness and I think that’s what we have to get back to.” martinjohnson2019@u.northwestern.edu The bullpen rotation has struggled to match the starters’ effectiveness, however. NU has lost two of its last three games on ninth-inning walk-offs and used 17 different pitchers this season — 12 of which have ERAs of 6.67 or higher. Nevertheless, junior reliever Cooper Wetherbee said he remains optimistic about the state of the team as the season begins to wind down. “There’s a mental side of it that, as a pretty young team, we’re still struggling to pick up,” Wetherbee said. “With all the talent that we have in the building, there’s no reason for us not to be competitive going forward, and we’re just figuring out how to … come out consistently every game we play.” benjaminppope2019@u.northwestern.edu
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One down, two to go. No. 15 Northwestern (9-8, 3-2 Big Ten) cruised to an easy 20-5 victory against Michigan (6-12, 0-5) in the quarterfinals of the Big Ten Tournament on Thursday. With the win, the No. 3 seeded Wildcats — who are hosting the tournament — advanced to the semifinals where they will play No. 2 seed Penn State on Friday night. NU’s rout of No. 6 seeded Michigan also guaranteed that the Cats will go .500 or better on the season, securing them NCAA Tournament eligibility. “It was a good team effort,” coach Kelly Amonte Hiller said. “Everyone that went in was focused and really stuck to our game plan.” After a spirited, albeit sloppy, first minute of play, junior attacker Christina Esposito fired from the edge of the crease, putting the Cats on the board just 1 minute 29 seconds into the contest. Just over a minute later,
sophomore midfielder Selena Lasota — usually known for her own scoring abilities — threaded a tricky pass to freshman attacker Leighton Yenor, who scored from right in front of the cage. Despite the strong start, the Cats fell into an early game lull, going scoreless for the next 10 minutes and letting in a Michigan goal. With little more than half the period left, senior midfielder Kaleigh Craig cut across the 8-meter fan, splitting a pair of defenders and firing a shot from a low angle to end the Cats’ scoring drought. From there, it was all NU. The Cats went on a 5-0 run over the next 3 and a half minutes, seeing goals from four different players, including 2 from Lasota. Lasota, who was named Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week, was able to shake intense defensive pressure in order to tally three assists and 3 goals on the game. “Initially, right when I got the ball, I was seeing that they were playing a backer on me,” Lasota said. “Kelly’s been giving us a bunch of tools about
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One hundred sixteen years ago, Northwestern trounced Purdue 10-3 in Evanston in the two universities’ first-ever baseball game against each other. “The Purple,” as the Wildcats were known until 1924, and the Boilermakers have played 198 times since then. But when senior pitcher Reed Mason takes the mound to begin the 200th alltime meeting Friday, the only significant title on the line will be one that both teams will be fighting desperately to avoid: last place in the Big Ten. The 2016 season hasn’t treated either NU (10-34, 2-16 Big Ten) or Purdue (7-34, 2-16) kindly. Since March 20, the two teams have lost a combined 45 of 53 games to plummet into the basement of the Big Ten standings. This weekend, however, one of them is guaranteed to pick up its first conference series victory of the season. The Cats are hoping to claim that elusive first win for themselves. “We’re still focused on this season,” said coach Spencer Allen following Wednesday’s 5-4 loss at Illinois-Chicago. “We’re just trying to continue to develop and learn how to win. We need to win a Big Ten series, and that’s something that we
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haven’t done this year, so we’ve still got some things that we’re trying to … accomplish as a team. The trio of games at Miller Park against the Boilermakers should offer the best opportunity of the year to do so. After being swept by Ohio State last weekend, Purdue has lost six straight games, sports a 3-20 road record and is the only other Big Ten team besides the Cats with a cumulative ERA above 5.00, making them the weakest opponent left on NU’s schedule. But success in the series is still far from certain. The Wildcats mustered just 4 hits in its fourth consecutive 1-run loss Wednesday, and junior outfielder Joe Hoscheit said the Cats will need a renewed focus on batting to return to the win column. “When you’re swinging at pitches out of the zone, myself included, it’s pretty uncharacteristic of our team,” Hoscheit said. “We just need to take a step back and really understand what we’re doing at the plate and I think that’ll help us this weekend.” » See BASEBALL, page 7
what to do when there’s a backer on me or Kaleigh (Craig). I tried to draw as much attention as I could and keep
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my head up at the same time.” The Cats dominated every statistic except for saves, recording almost double the number of shots, draw controls and free position shots that Michigan tallied. Defensively, NU was all over the middle of the field, forcing Michigan to turn the ball over 15 times, applying suffocating pressure on the ride. In the fight on the ground, NU scooped up
19 ground balls to Michigan’s 14. Esposito chalked up this fierce defense play to pure effort. “It’s just all heart and hustle,” Esposito said. “We’ve really been focusing in on our ride and as an attack unit we take pride in not even letting our defense have to play defense. So as much as we can slow them down, our defense can get settled and get in there.” Armed with a huge lead in the second half, the Cats were able to cycle in fresh players who usually don’t see playing time. Amonte Hiller said in a tournament scenario, utilizing fresh leg is crucial. “Playing three games in four days, if we were to ever get the opportunity to, is definitely a challenge physically,” Amonte Hiller said. “We’re just focused in on Friday night, we have a tough test in front of us. We kind of just have to put every piece of our energy into that.” clairehansen2018@u.northwestern.edu
Cats to end season at Purdue By MARTY JOHNSON
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Northwestern’s objective in its final series of the season against Purdue this weekend is simple: sweep. The Wildcats (22-25, 12-8 Big Ten) need to win all three against the Boilermakers (27-24, 8-12) to finish the regular season at .500, a mark that they will need to even be considered for an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament. However, NU could also finish the regular season under .500 and win enough games
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in the Big Ten Tournament next week to gain eligibility. “(We) learn from the past but keep moving forward,” senior shortstop Andrea Filler said. “We have to keep our eyes on the games in front of us and how we’re going to beat Purdue and hopefully get the sweep.” At first glance, the Boilermakers seem like low-hanging fruit for the Cats. Purdue has lost four of its last five games as it dropped series to
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WOOD CHUCKS Kristen Wood delivers the ball to the plate. The senior pitcher gave up 4 runs in her last start Saturday against Wisconsin but only 1 was earned.
Ohio State and Nebraska. The team is last in the Big Ten with 328 hits, a batting average of .247, an on-base percentage of .320 and has struck out a conference-leading 277 times. But although the Boilermakers’ bats are meek, their pitching is not. The team is third in the Big Ten with an ERA of 3.00, second in strikeouts with 329, and fourth in opponent’s batting average — conceding an average of .245. Purdue’s pitching prowess is largely in part to senior Lilly Fecho (18-11, 1.89 ERA), who the Cats will most likely have to face multiple times over the weekend. Fecho has been a workhorse for the Boilermakers this year, striking out 205 batters in 200 innings pitched, with 22 complete games and five shutouts. Against Fecho, batters this season are hitting a meager .228. She’ll pose a challenge for a Cats team that has a stout batting average of .284. “Fecho will be tough, and it’s about wearing her down and not trying to do too much with the pitch,” coach Kate Drohan said. “Defensively, we’ve got to take care of the ball.” That being said, the Cats have played against Fecho and the Boilermakers the past couple of seasons. The Cats have won the last 10 meetings between the two teams, with Purdue’s last win coming April 18, » See SOFTBALL, page 7
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