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Community notified after new incidents Lewis sends email alert after two reported incidents By ALAN PEREZ

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Northwestern University is warning the Evanston campus community of two reported incidents that occured Tuesday night. The first incident occurred just before 5 p.m. in the 1900 block of Sheridan Road, according to an email sent by University Police Chief Bruce Lewis. Two female individuals reported that two white men approached them and “made a rude comment to them.” One of the men was reported to be wearing a gray jacket, while the other one wore a red jacket. Both had “distinctive European accents.” The two “made a disparaging comment” and walked away after the two female individuals did not respond to the original comment that was made. The incident was reported to UP at 6:50 p.m. and is under investigation.

The second reported incident, the University said, occurred at 5:10 p.m. near 1700 Chicago Avenue. A female individual was walking southbound when two white men made a comment to her and then grabbed her arm. The woman ran south and the two men — in their mid20s to early 30s — proceeded north. The incident was reported to the Evanston Police Department at 9:08 p.m. and is under investigation by the department. NU alerted the community last week to three different reports of men grabbing women from behind at night. UP increased its patrol in response. In one incident, two men approached a female student in the 1800 block of Hinman Avenue Thursday at 5:30 p.m. and grabbed the top handle of her backpack. The student was able to run away from the two men, who fled away from campus. University and Evanston police patrolled the area, Lewis said in a different email, but were unable to » See EMAILS, page 6

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Comedian Vanessa Bayer at Hillel’s Annual Speaker Event on Tuesday. Bayer discussed her work on SNL and growing up Jewish.

Bayer speaks at NU Hillel event Former SNL cast member discusses career in comedy, Judaism By CAMERON COOK

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To be successful in comedy, one should be nice, be relatable and be “out in the world,” said actress and comedian Vanessa Bayer Tuesday at the

Northwestern Hillel Annual Speaker Event. Bayer, a seven season Saturday Night Live veteran, addressed her quick rise to fame, her experience working on SNL and how her experience growing up Jewish shaped her comedy. One of Bayer’s most famous

sketch roles, “Jacob the Bar Mitzvah Boy,” is based on the memories of the Bar Mitzvahs for 13-year-old boys with whom she grew up. “Seventh grade is too young for a boy to be normal,” Bayer said to a laughing audience. “They haven’t figured out where to put their hands. They don’t

know what to do. So I was sort of impersonating those boys.” Beyond “Jacob,” Bayer’s Jewish heritage helped define her career at SNL. Though there was always what she described as “a Jewish sense around the place,” she found herself the » See BAYER, page 6

Research funding grows

NU receives over $700 million, the highest ever Northwestern continued its trend of sponsored research funding growth last fiscal year after receiving $702.1 million, the highest amount granted to the school ever. Federal government awards grew 12.8 percent to $519.5 million total, according to data from the Office of Research. Awards from industry shrank more 26.6 percent to $83.7 million, while other nonfederal awards declined three percent to $98.9 million. The trend can be attributed to the school’s “culture of excellence” and a decision to invest in research

infrastructure during the Great Recession, said Jay Walsh, vice president for research. Andrew Ott, director of Core Facilities, said in an email that Northwestern’s research infrastructure is unique because of its emphasis on collaboration and its financial resources. “ We have a culture of collaboration and resource sharing that allow faculty to undertake massive interdisciplinary projects,” he said. “We have the physical infrastructure and cutting-edge equipment readily available to complete projects that would be difficult or impossible to complete elsewhere.” With a research office that guides faculty through

complicated procedures for securing funding, researchers can focus on working on their topics instead of bureaucratic technicalities, Walsh said. Faculty requested more than $3 billion of grant money through the Office of Sponsored Research last fiscal year, which concluded at the end of August. Feinberg Prof. Marcus Peter said he was “very privileged and happy” to have received a grant from the Natural Cancer Institute last year. With the funding, he and his research team recently discovered that nature’s answer to cancer — a sequence of toxic nucleotides in RNA — exists in every cell, which could revolutionize

“critical genes” of a cancer cell, so the cancer cell could never survive. “The results of most anticancer therapies is always the same: Cancers respond initially, then become resistant and kill the patient,” Peter said. The research follows a study from October 2017 where Peter and his team found that introducing specific types of small

RNAs — microRNAs — into cancer cells would kill them. The researchers then tested sequences of six nucleotide bases in the microRNAs to find what would kill cancer cells most effectively. They plan to develop artificial microRNAs that would be even more toxic than the naturally found ones by using the most toxic nucleotides. The researchers now seek to

find investors who can finance the concept and eventually bring it to cancer patients. “What we’re looking for is a better chemotherapy,” Peter said. “We believe we found this way to treat cancer by bypassing all the effects of chemotherapy. It’s a different form of therapy without being toxic.”

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Northwestern’s sponsored research funding increase in the past decade can be attributed to the school’s “culture of excellence” and a decision to invest in research infrastructure during the Great Recession.

NU professor finds potential cancer treatment

Northwestern researchers believe they’ve found nature’s answer to cancer — kill codes that exist in every cell in the body. The research could lead to a more effective form of cancer

treatment than chemotherapy because the kill codes aren’t resistant and don’t have malignant side effects, said lead author and Feinberg School of Medicine Prof. Marcus Peter. “We’re very successful as a species, so cancer on a global scale, on a species scale, isn’t a problem for us” he said. “So there’s gotta be a mechanism that’s very powerful, there must

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be something that attacks the cancer at the most fundamental level.” Chemotherapy can lead to harmful side effects like damaging DNA and causing different types of cancers to occur later in patients, Peter said. Cancers also develop resistance to chemotherapy, but the new potential treatment is anti-resistant because it simultaneously attacks all the

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Commission discusses Harley Clarke By RUIQI CHEN

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The Evanston Preservation Commission reviewed and approved findings for the preservation of Harley Clarke Mansion at Tuesday’s meeting, following their unanimous denial of the city’s application for demolition last month. The Harley Clarke Mansion is located on the lakefront in north Evanston and has been a source of debate in the city since 2015, when the Evanston Arts Center vacated the building. Since then, residents and city officials have been discussing possible renovation and restructuring of the facility, as well as options for demolition. In July, City Council voted 5-3 to move forward with demolition of the mansion. In October, commissioners were allowed to inspect the mansion’s interior before unanimously denying the city’s application to demolish the mansion. This decision was corroborated by the referendum last week in which 80 percent of Evanston residents voted to preserve the mansion. Commission member Carlos Ruiz presented an updated Certificate of Appropriateness for the Demolition of the Harley Clarke

POLICE BLOTTER Tip jar taken from Starbucks Between 10:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. Monday, the tip jar from the Starbucks at 1901 Dempster St. was stolen. At around 1:20 p.m., a Starbucks employee called the Evanston Police Department to report the theft of the tip jar, containing about $40, Evanston Police Cmdr. Ryan Glew said. The officers responded to the call and talked with the manager who said a group of high school-age individuals had entered the

Mansion to eight members of the 11-member commission. The document included transcripts of comments that had been made to the commission at its previous meeting, where 35 expert architects and historians, as well as Evanston residents, had urged the commission to deny the application for the certificate of appropriation application, as well as specific examples of why Harley Clarke does not meet demolition requirements. The version of the document reviewed at the meeting stated that demolition would be “detrimental to the public interest and contrary to the general welfare of the people of the City and the State,” and that the “lack of proper maintenance over the years did not reach a point where rehabilitation and restoration are not physically or financially possible.” The commission ended the meeting by approving the document — with the caveat that it would be reviewed and edited again in the morning by a few members of the commission before being submitted to the City Council by 5 p.m. Wednesday. Evanston resident Lori Keenan spoke at the meeting, where she expressed her satisfaction that the commission was denying the City’s application for demolition, but added that she was worried about the hasty approval. Starbucks, taken a lap around the coffee shop and grabbed the tip jar before leaving. The manager offered to further description of the individuals, and police are looking into obtaining security camera footage.

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Pritzker, Rauner to appear at party marking Illinois bicentennial

49 mph in a 35 mph zone. The officer stopped the vehicle at the intersection of Salem Circle and Golf. The officer informed the woman that she had been speeding and asked to see her license and insurance. However, the woman stated she did not have her license. She provided the officer with valid photo identification and the officer was able to establish that her license had been suspended. The woman was given citations for speeding and driving on a suspended license.

To commemorate the Illinois bicentennial, Gov. Bruce Rauner and Governor-elect J.B. Pritzker will be making a joint appearance at the state’s 200th birthday celebration. The party will mark 200 years since Illinois was founded on Dec. 3, 1818, becoming the 21st state to join the Union. Following the Nov. 6 election, both Pritzker and Rauner have been emphasizing state unity. Pritzker won the election ahead of Rauner, the incumbent, by a margin of 15 points. Both Pritzker and Rauner’s campaigns were marked by controversy, and each used the election cycle as an opportunity to criticize the other’s policy proposals and past actions. In a news release, Pritzker emphasized that residents of all backgrounds will celebrate the bicentennial as “one Illinois.” “We are the land of Abraham Lincoln and Barack Obama, home to the world’s leading companies and universities, an economic powerhouse of the Midwest and agriculture powerhouse of our country,” Pritzker said in the release. “Together, we will ring in our third century with hope and optimism and strive to build on the progress of the 200 years before us.” Rauner echoed Pritzker’s statement, saying the state should view its 200-year anniversary as an opportunity to look to the future. “There is no better place to start uniting than at an event that celebrates the greatness of Illinois,” Rauner said. “The state possesses a legacy of invention, persistence and economic vitality. This is the time to reflect on those assets and come together to put them to work for the people of Illinois.” The bicentennial celebration will be hosted on Dec. 3 at the Aon Grand Ballroom at Navy Pier.

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The Harley Clarke Mansion. Preservation Commission members will submit a finalized denial of the city’s certificate of appropriation application to City Council on Wednesday.

“I’m concerned about them approving a document that hasn’t been finalized, especially given the importance of that document,” she said. “If it’s the only thing that council reads, then I think they really need to get it right… it needs to be more comprehensive.” ruiqichen2020@u.northwestern.edu

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Students talk NU alcohol campaign By SUSANNA KEMP

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One in three first-year students chooses not to drink. That’s according to surveys overseen by the Health Promotion and Wellness office, which posts colorful posters with phrases like this on the walls of residence halls and displayed on screens in dining halls. Many students find the posters — part of the University’s Alcohol and Other Drug Social Norms Campaign — an ineffective way of reducing student alcohol and drug consumption. Some say the posters don’t change how they approach situations involving alcohol and drugs. Resident Assistants put up the posters, which include statistics from the AlcoholEdu for College survey, in dorms at the beginning of each year, according to Kevin Meier, the assistant director of HPaW. After the results from the second segment of the survey are released in the winter, HPaW prints new posters, he said. Meier said said some RAs take the first round of posters down before the second round is released, while others wait until the second round comes out to replace the originals. This year’s campaign includes eight “messages” — statistics from the survey — but uses only four on printed posters. This is the campaign’s fourth year. According to HPaW’s website, the campaign attempts to clarify misconceptions incoming students may have about alcohol and drugs at NU. Generally, social norms marketing campaigns at colleges aim to reduce student drinking and drug use by correcting their perceptions of their peers’ behaviors surrounding alcohol and drugs. Medill freshman Katherine Gu said the posters get lost among all the other papers people put up around campus. “I don’t think these posters are that conspicuous, so I don’t really pay that much attention to

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them,” Gu said. Helen Radoff, a Weinberg freshman, said many of her peers glanced at the posters at the beginning of the year but don’t think much about them anymore. “They don’t really have an impact on how I think about anything. They’re just kind of something that is there,” Radoff said. “I don’t think they’re genuinely going to make people really evaluate their decisions.” On the other hand, Medill sophomore Jacob Muñoz thought the posters could be reassuring for incoming first-years who aren’t sure if they want to drink in college, although he wasn’t sure how effective they actually are. Weinberg sophomore Margot Ricketts believes the posters are less effective because it can be unclear where the statistics come from — though they include source information at the bottom of the graphic, Ricketts was personally unaware they were from the AlcoholEdu survey. Gu said the alcohol and others drugs True Northwestern Dialogue (TND) that incoming students are required to attend is a good way

to reach a large group of students and provide relevant information about alcohol. Radoff believes that for the most part, students at NU don’t feel pressured to drink if they don’t want to, and that it is more important for the administration to promote safe drinking like staying with others. “The TND, with the AlcoholEdu, I feel like that was a good way for people to understand that they can do what they want. But make sure they’re doing it in a safe and informed way,” Radoff said. Muñoz said there’s not much NU can do as an institution to reduce drinking beyond the initiatives the school takes already. “Students who want to know more about if their drinking habits or their non-drinking habits are acceptable on campus, it’s something they have to discuss with other students,” Muñoz said. “You learn much more from interacting with your peers and people that you come to trust and know over time than any poster could tell you.” susannakemp2022@u.northwestern.edu

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Do not assume everyone knows how to network ALLIE GOULDING

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In this series, a writer explores the everyday struggles of being a low-income student at Northwestern. In my last column, I discussed the requirement I saw on many internship applications: “Previous internship experience is required.” This creates an unnecessary barrier to students who can’t afford to have previous unpaid internship experience. One of the pieces of feedback I received on that column was to still apply to those internships, regardless of experience, in order to network your way into an internship. While I agree that networking is important, I want to echo one thing the comment said: “Knowing to do this or having connections in the first place is an unseen benefit of growing up rich.” In high school, I visited a few journalism conferences and workshops in my hometown of San Antonio and throughout Texas, but never once did it occur to me to network with the professionals there. At the time, I

didn’t even know what networking was, or how to do it. So instead, I left high school with a total of three connections to the journalism industry — my yearbook advisor, another journalism teacher and a journalist from the San Antonio Express-News that visited our classroom once. Then, I came to Northwestern and my perception of networking changed entirely. I quickly learned what it was: a combination of your family having connections, attending networking events and exchanging business cards. The biggest thing I realized, though, was that networking meant knowing someone in the industry already, whether that was through family, friends or previous interactions. The more people you knew, the better. During my sophomore year, I remember sitting in one of my classes when my friend pulled up this spreadsheet full of journalists, photographers and editors he knew at various publications in Chicago and around the country. I was amazed. I had no idea it was even possible to know that many journalists. How could one student know so many people in the industry as just a sophomore? My main question, though, was, “Where do you even begin to compile a list like that?” I tried to make a list for myself: a reporter at the San Antonio Express-News, my Journalism 201-1 and 201-2 professors. But how many

of those people would actually remember me, considering I didn’t know to connect and build a networking relationship with them? I quickly gave up on my list and decided that wasn’t the best way for me to network. But then the question popped up: How do I network? What was the best way for me to network? Networking isn’t necessarily something that is taught in any of my classes. Nor did I have connections from my family that could be passed down to me (considering my dad is a garbage man, my mother is a work-fromhome accountant and my stepdad owned his own mini golf course). They didn’t have connections in the journalism industry, let alone ones that could help me land an internship. I’ve tried to attend career fairs — sponsored by both Medill and Northwestern — but they didn’t cater to my interests in reporting, design and photography. They primarily focused on STEM, public relations or traditional journalism jobs. I’ve also had people suggest that I attend out-of-state conferences where the main purpose of the conference is to network. While this is a great opportunity that Medill sometimes helps support financially, it is still not easy to plan when you take into consideration work and travel time. It’s also not easy during the summer, since I live in a region that doesn’t host a lot of conferences.

Networking can certainly help get you where you want to go. But for those who don’t know how to navigate the networking sphere, it can be a challenge and a barrier to internship and job opportunities. While being at Northwestern is a privilege in and of itself and boosts the ability to network, in order to truly network properly, you need to be able to get your foot in the door by knowing at least one person in the industry. Unfortunately, that’s not something taught at this university. Unless you grow up in the networking sphere, it’s extremely difficult to understand it. I learned the most about networking from my Journalism 301 professor, Karen Springen, who would invite guest speakers to class, and then give us a moment afterwards to send them a “thank you” note and follow them on Twitter. Hopefully in the future, more professors will discuss networking in class without assuming that students already have these skills. Allie Goulding is a Medill junior. She can be contacted at alliegoulding2020@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.

My parents didn’t finish college, but they knew I would A. PALLAS GUTIERREZ

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My mother was accepted to University at Albany as a pre-med student in the early 1980s. She attended for two years, hated the program environment and didn’t go back. She started working in theatres in upstate New York running spotlights. Now, she’s the head electrician at a major Broadway theatre. In fact, she was the first woman head electrician at any theatres owned by her company, Jujamcyn. My father went to Cuyahoga Community College, but did not complete a degree. He got a job working at a theatre in Cleveland, and worked on the set crew for a few movies. Now, he works at a scene shop building sets for everything from Broadway musicals to cruise ship laser tag arenas. Despite not finishing college, my parents are book smart. My mom watches The Great Courses and reads biographies of historical figures (right now she’s super interested in Lincoln). Both my parents can discuss my classes with me, even when I talk about niche subjects like Latinx adaptations of Classical Greek plays. This can only reflect my experience, but the assumption that noncollege educated people are unintelligent is baseless.

They both also have incredible technical intelligence. My dad can look at a piece of wood or metal and tell you its approximate dimensions, usually within 2 inches. My mom can replace any iPhone screen better than some repair shops. At my high school on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, many kids’ parents were highly educated and had “normal” careers, like being lawyers or running restaurants. While no one at that school ever said anything explicit to me about my parents’ lack of college degrees, there was always a moment of pause when it came up for the first time. During the college application process, having to explain multiple times that I had no legacy anywhere was exhausting in the face of peers who had dual legacies at Yale. By no means did everyone at my high school have highly educated parents, but there was definitely an aura of judgement around people who lacked those connections. While neither of my parents finished four years of college, my decision to do so wasn’t a dramatic one to them. According to Northwestern, I am a first-generation college student, but in a more real-world interpretation, I am not. Student Enrichment Services provides incredible, important resources for students determined to be first-gen and low income, but I don’t feel like I need or even deserve those resources. My dad’s father has an engineering degree and worked for NASA, and my grandfather on my mother’s side has a Ph.D. in psychology and taught statistics at

Adelphi University for many years. My older brother just finished his Ph.D. in psychology at the University of Connecticut, and most of my older cousins have college degrees. It was not a surprise to anybody in my family that I planned to go to college. People make assumptions when my last name is combined with the statement that neither of my parents have four year degrees. They assume that my parents immigrated here, that they have low paying jobs, that I grew up in a low-income house. My parents were both born in New York State, my dad in Schenectady and my mom on Long Island. And while my life has been impacted by the financial crises over the past twenty years, I have still never lacked something that I needed. My parents have weird jobs that create weird hours. As Broadway stagehands, they usually started working at 5 p.m. and wouldn’t get home until 11 p.m. or midnight. Growing up around Broadway people definitely shaped my view on higher education; most chorus dancers and singers I’ve met don’t have college degrees, but a lot of stars do. Many stagehands started working right out of high school, but designers often have MFAs. There was a period in my life when I thought about not going to college and instead getting a job or going on tour as a stagehand. Ultimately, I decided that college was the path for me: I’m an academic person, and I want to learn more about the world before I go out into it. I’m glad for my parents’ backgrounds.

They are supportive of and excited about me going to college; they understand that it’s the path that makes sense for me. But if I had decided not to go to college, they would have supported that too. Unlike some other “firstgeneration” college students, I was never pressured to either go or not go to college; I was allowed to choose the path that made the most sense for me. My parents encourage me to pursue my academic dreams, like an MFA in dramaturgy, and my other goals, like creating great theatre, becoming a better fencer and crocheting blankets for my friends. I never wish that my parents’ paths were different, because I wouldn’t be the person I am if my parents had traditional educations or jobs. As is true with many other groups of people, there is no one first-generation experience that can be extrapolated to represent all others. Some first-generation students are first-generation Americans, are immigrants themselves and/or are low income, but by no means are first-generation students a homogenous group; it is only one word to describe a multiplicity of experiences. A. Pallas Gutierrez is a Communication freshman. They can be contacted at apallasgutierrez2022@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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Students discuss different attendance requirements By CADENCE QUARANTA

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Present or absent? Attendance is a straightforward question. How it’s taken, however, is not so simple. For some professors, attendance is extremely important — research shows that students who attend class get better grades. For others, it’s is necessary for group-work and class participation. And still, for others, attendance is neither taken nor required. These policy differences have even taken the national stage, with educators debating whether attendance requirements are ultimately harmful or beneficial. At Northwestern, professors also vary greatly in their attendance-taking styles. Medill Prof. Patti Wolter said her attendancetaking methods do more than simply provide her with information about who is present. “When I take attendance, the attendance-taking tools are explicitly for student engagement,” Wolter said. Wolter uses Poll Everywhere, a software in which students can answer questions on an electronic device. These answers are then combined electronically and broadcast for the entire class to view. She also collects notecards, asking students to

write their response to a prompt. “The notecards allow me to greet everybody at the door,” Wolter said. “It gives everybody a chance to sit and collect their thoughts before a prompt, which means far more people participate. Because not everybody thinks of an answer on the fly when I ask a question to the crowd, but if you’ve thought about it, and you’ve written it down, you’re much more likely to answer.” Wolter added she believes attendance in lecture is crucial; so crucial, in fact, that she factors it into student grades. “Most of the graded work is in lab, and I want there to be an incentive to come to lecture,” Wolter says. SESP Prof. Lilah Shapiro, however, disagrees. She believes student attendance for lectures is less vital. “Ideally they are there for lecture… but lecture slides can be downloaded. That’s not as crucial,” Shapiro said. “It is not necessarily so essential that the person be sitting in one room physically in order to hear the lecture.” More important, she believes, is student attendance in participation-based classes. Most SESP classes, she added, are rooted in discussion or collaboration. She said many of her own courses heavily involve group work, which makes it necessary for students to come. “I try to give them a fair amount of time in

class to work as a group...with the assumption that they are all going to be there,” she said. “So at least in class, I know everybody is able to make a contribution.” She often takes attendance through a head count or a sign-in sheet, valuing it less as an engagement tool. However, Shapiro added that her methods vary based on what class she is teaching. Students seem to agree that attendance policies should vary depending on what class is being taught. Medill freshman Sarah Tani said her Spanish class is only 15 people — and for that reason she can understand the emphasis on attendance. “The class can’t really function if it has less than 15 people in it, so it makes sense that they would need you to be there,” she said. But for lectures, Tani believes there is no reason attendance should count toward her grade. Her EECS 110 course — a lecture-style class — does not take attendance. Although going to class is beneficial to her learning, she said it isn’t necessary to come all of the time. Wolter, the Medill professor, said she often receives appreciative feedback for her attendancetaking methods in her Journalism 201-1 lecture. “I often get comments from people, ‘thank you for doing these cards, it allows me to express my opinions and ideas, but I’m never going to be someone who speaks up in class.’” For Wolter, however, attendance is more than

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just a tool for student engagement; it’s a way for her care for her students. “If someone is missing a lot, it is a red flag for possibly other issues,” Wolter said. “It allows me, even if I have 200 students, to be a professor who can care for individuals.” cadencequaranta2022@u.northwestern.edu

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only one pitching sketches about things like Rosh Hashanah. “I never thought of myself as so Jewish,” she said. “But if no one else is going to do it, I’ll have to do it. We can’t just talk about Easter.” The magic of Bayer’s content is in its relatability — middle-aged men, she said, would often come up to her after she performed “Jacob” and tell her how much they enjoyed it, which she attributes to being a little boy “they all remember.” In fact, Bayer’s relatability is one of the reasons Hillel decided to bring her to NU. Hillel religious life vice president Matthew Wertheim said Hillel’s executive board chose Bayer for the event after narrowing down speakers they thought would be a good fit. “We thought she’d be a really good speaker, and relatable to students,” the McCormick junior said. Another point Bayer stressed was that part of creating relatable comedy — or any art for that matter — requires involving oneself in the “real world.” Working a nine to five job during the day and doing improv at night was tiring, but necessary to create content, Bayer said. “It’s so good to go out and work in the

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From page 1 cancer therapies. Northwestern’s historically strong financial position allowed it to expand its research operations during the Great Recession — it constructed buildings, hired faculty and bought equipment at lower costs than normal during that time, Walsh said. Thus, Northwestern’s research funding has increased around 60 percent since 2008, even as federal funding has remained flat and other universities haven’t expanded as much, he said. “We were expanding when everyone else wasn’t, so we’ve gone through a significant expansion in the last 10 years,” Walsh said. By comparison, Harvard University’s sponsored research funding grew 24 percent in the same period, from $714 million to $885 million. Of the $702.1 million granted to NU, the majority — $484.6 million — went to Feinberg, which Walsh said is typical. The majority of accepted research grants comes from the National Institute of Health, which increased 13 percent last fiscal year. Still, the money doesn’t come without preconditions. Sponsored funding often comes with restrictions and compliance regulations, Walsh said, which helps the federal government and

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companies keep track of what happens with their money. Just as the Office of Sponsored Research helps faculty apply for grants and secure funding, the Office for Research Safety, helps faculty comply with regulations. Walsh said he doesn’t think regulations deter researchers. Regulations are more analogous to traffic laws, which create an environment where someone can safely drive, he said. Similarly, regulations create an environment where faculty can safely research. Even as President Donald Trump and acting EPA administrator Andrew Wheeler aim to decrease federal science funding, Walsh said he doesn’t think NU’s sponsored funding from the government will falter. An omnibus bill Trump signed this March marked significant increases for federal research funding, according to a report by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. “The new knowledge that’s generated by fundamental research is knowledge that is the foundation for the expansion of the economy,” Walsh said. “Both sides of the aisle recognize that.” Walsh said he expects research funding to continue growing in the future. “Our faculty do world-class work and the impact of that work is equally world-class,” he said. “There is a tremendous drive to continue to do work that is changing the world.” dvesurai@u.northwestern.edu

world, because that’s where comedy is,” she said. “People are so funny. And also your comedy — or whatever creative thing you’re doing — is more relatable, if you’ve had real experience with people doing real things.” Bayer’s emphasis on being in the real world struck a chord with Courtney Chatterton, who had been looking forward to attending the event since she learned about it. “You can’t write comedy if you’re never around people,” the Communication senior said. “You’ve got to get your hands dirty, and get out there and talk to people.” Bayer’s rise to success was quicker than that of most comedians. After performing in a Chicago SNL showcase, it was only around a month before she was moving to New York to start working for them, she said. Now, having left SNL, been nominated for an Emmy and starred in a handful of movies, Bayer enjoys a certain sense of having “made it.” She added that the way her life has changed really hits her when she comes back to Chicago and sees places she used to work and perform. “When I’m back for things like this, and a car is picking me up and taking me here?” she asked. “It’s surreal.” cameroncook2021@u.northwestern.edu

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Stop consuming milk recently? You’re not alone By EVAN ROBINSON-JOHNSON

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Many students change their study habits, sleeping habits and even personalities when they come to Northwestern. But a change in one part of their lives can often go unnoticed: milk consumption. Dining halls offer students an exciting array of choices, ranging from fruit-infused water to Starbucks coffee. But milk is not often as popular of a choice. In fact, students may be less likely to drink milk once they come to campus. Americans today — at every age group — are drinking less milk than previous generations, according to a 2013 study by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. National survey data also shows milk consumption decreases as Americans move into adolescence and adulthood. Sarah Eisenman, a Weinberg freshman, was drinking milk in Hinman Dining Hall last week because her mother had suggested it in a recent conversation. But Eisenman wasn’t surprised that many college students are drinking less milk. “Because we often have cartons of milk in the fridge at home, it’s easy to take it out and have with meals,” she said. “Here you don’t really have that, and there

Across Campuses UC Berkeley Law will move to strip the name of Boalt Hall because of its racist taint

The University of California, Berkeley’s elite law school will move to drop the name of its famed Boalt Hall after a century because it honors a man now known to have been an anti-Chinese racist, the dean announced Tuesday. Dean Erwin Chemerinsky said he struggled for months over the school’s close ties to the name of John Henry Boalt, a 19th-century San Francisco attorney who described the Chinese laborers coming into California as unassimilable murderers and thieves and successfully pressed for an 1882 federal ban on Chinese immigration. Details of Boalt’s unsavory past were widely disseminated for the first time after Charles Reichmann, a Berkeley law lecturer, last year published an op-ed and, later, a law review article. In a letter to the law school community Tuesday,

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are other drinks like soda and juice so people choose to go that route.” Eisenman’s mom also suggested she switch to 2 percent milk because the higher fat content is healthier. A 2016 study published in the American Journal of Nutrition found that people who consume full-fat dairy weigh less and are less likely to develop diabetes. Medill freshman Saira Singh has also reduced her milk consumption. “At home I would have milk everyday, sometimes twice a day, whereas here I have it twice a week.” Among reasons for the drop, Singh described eating less breakfasts at Northwestern than she did at home.

For many Northwestern students, the inconvenience of the dining halls — compared to the kitchen at home — can lead to less breakfasts, and as result, less milk. “I’m just not inclined to go the dining halls just to get a glass of milk, whereas at home I could go downstairs and grab some,” Medill freshman Marleigh Thorn said. For some students, the drop in milk consumption has less to do with convenience and more to do with an upset stomach. Many have some degree of lactose intolerance — including over 30 to 50 million Americans according to National Institutes of Health

Chemerinsky said he changed his mind several times as he sorted through hundreds of “passionate, persuasive messages on both sides.” About 40 percent wanted to keep the name and the rest wanted to drop it. Some argued that many historical figures, including Thomas Jefferson, had mixed legacies. Others feared that dropping the Boalt brand would hurt the law school or that it would dishonor Elizabeth Josselyn Boalt, who donated $100,000 for the original law school building in her late husband’s name. (The law school moved to another building in 1950.) In the end, Chemerinsky said he was most persuaded by those including many students and alumni of color who were pained by the continued use of the Boalt name. “I was moved by the many who wrote me expressing their discomfort with honoring someone who expressed vile racism, especially without anything to point to that would justify honoring him as an individual,” Chemerinsky wrote. He said he would ask the campus building

committee to drop the Boalt name from the law school’s classroom wing. The committee will launch its own review, which will include a public hearing, with a decision by UC Chancellor Carol Christ expected next spring. UC President Janet Napolitano then would have the final say. Chemerinsky said the law school will cease using the name in most other cases on school directories, its Facebook page, the title of lecturer positions and will encourage student and alumni organizations to do likewise. He added that the school will find ways to make sure that Boalt’s racism is remembered. The dean made no recommendation on removing the Boalt name from two professorships endowed by Boalt’s widow, who is not known to have shared her husband’s bigotry. (Changes in the terms of philanthropic gifts require approval of the state attorney general.) Chemerinsky said the school would continue to honor her generosity and her portrait would remain on a wall in the classroom wing. Alumni many of whom proudly call themselves “Boalties” are free to continue using the name as they

— and though they do not all choose to avoid dairy completely, the intolerance still plays a prominent role in their dining decisions. “At home I still wanted the calcium so I’d take Lactaid,” said Kelly Miller, a lactose intolerant freshman in Weinberg. “Here I kind of just do soy milk in my cereal.” While Compass, Northwestern’s dining service provider, does offer small amounts of Lactaid and rice milk at select dining halls, many lactose intolerant students are forced to either use soy milk or go without. “I try to avoid milk as much as possible. I never formally got diagnosed as lactose intolerant, but every time I would try it I would always feel really bad afterwards. Now I haven’t had milk for a couple years,” said Weinberg freshman Daniel Lee. Despite the broad trend of decreased milk consumption, dining staff say the beverage is still quite popular. On average, Northwestern dining locations see a consumption of milk around 650 gallons per week, Compass marketing director Georgene Sardis said, with chocolate milk making up one third of the total milk consumption volume. “Everybody loves milk!” added Abby Noush, a member of the Hinman Dining Staff. erj@u.northwestern.edu wish, the dean wrote. Chemerinsky’s decision gratified Tar Rakhra, cochair of Berkeley Law’s Asian Pacific American Law Students Association. He said he was impressed by a law school committee’s deliberative work in examining the issue over more than a year, with the help of a town hall and survey to students, alumni, faculty and staff. The committee made the recommendations that Chemerinsky ultimately accepted. Rakhra, a second-year law student from Yorba Linda, Calif., said he empathized with alumni who feel a close link with the Boalt name and acknowledged that their donations to the school could drop. “It’s a tough, painful thing for them,” he said, “but we have to do the right thing and the right thing is to acknowledge John Boalt’s racist past.” Reichmann, who wrote the op-ed, said he is thrilled to have made a difference. “It’s part of society’s ongoing obligation to consider its history,” he said. -Teresa Watanabe (Los Angeles Times/TNS)

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If Northwestern’s season was split into quarters, each segment would tell a very different story. The first quarter of the season would be the first month of the campaign when the Wildcats travelled to nonconference invitationals and won 10 games. The second quarter would be the first eight games of the Big Ten slate, where NU (15-13, 5-11 Big Ten) failed to win a contest and won only four sets total as the Cats played six games against top-25 teams. The third quarter would be a stretch of six games where NU went 4-2 in conference play — its best six-game Big Ten record in the coach Shane Davis era — and proved to the rest of the conference

they are no pushover. Now, the Cats are in the middle of the last component — the return to Welsh-Ryan Arena for the final six games of the regular season. NU started off this run successfully by splitting a pair of weekend matches at Welsh-Ryan with a loss to No. 7 Penn State and a victory over Rutgers. A pivotal point in this stretch comes Wednesday as No. 4 Illinois (24-3, 13-3) travels north on Interstate 57 to play the Cats in a midweek rivalry game. The Fighting Illini enter the game as one of the hottest teams in the country, riding an impressive nine-game winning streak. Their hot spell includes wins over No. 7 Wisconsin, No. 19 Michigan, No. 6 Nebraska and No. 7 Penn State. As a result of their successful stretch, Illinois has vaulted to No. 2 in the NCAA RPI rankings. That places them above Minnesota — who is undefeated in Big Ten play

— and BYU — who is undefeated for the whole season. NU and the Fighting Illini first played on Oct. 6 in Champaign and Illinois pulled out an easy 3-0 sweep. Outside hitter Jacqueline Quade led the Fighting Illini with 11 kills as the team as a whole had a hitting percentage of .372. “Illinois is a really good team,” freshman outside hitter Abryanna Cannon said after the loss. “We were hammering a lot of balls and they were just digging and sending them back. We need improvement as far as attacking goes.” On the opposite side of the net, the Cats struggled to get kills and finished with only 24 kills and a .034 hitting percentage. That percentage is easily the worst of the season for NU with the 24 kills also being a season low. But a lot has changed in the five weeks since the two teams last matched up, especially with the

Wildcats. Sophomore outside hitter Nia Robinson has had six games with double-digit kills, including one contest where she had 26 kills on 54 attempts, and is currently ranked fifth in the conference in kills per set. Cannon has had four 10-plus kill games during that span as well. Sophomore middle hitter Alana Walker has continued to be the rock of the team, playing in every set and starting every game. During the past six games, she has not had a hitting percentage below .350 and is top-12 in the conference in hitting percentage and blocks during Big Ten play. But Davis still thinks the Cats can do better offensively. “I like what our block and defense is doing,” Davis said. “We just need to find some better rhythm offensively and find some point production.” peterwarren2021@u.northwestern.edu

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For the first time this season, Northwestern is ranked No. 22 in the latest college football playoff rankings. After beating Iowa, clinching the Big Ten West and securing a spot in the Big Ten championship game, the Wildcats (6-4, 6-1 Big Ten) were placed in the rankings for the first time since being ranked No. 17 at the end of last season. NU was also ranked No. 24 in the Associated Press rankings on Sunday. The Cats got off to a rough start to begin their season. After beating Purdue to open the season, NU lost three straight games to Duke, Akron and Michigan, who is ranked No. 4 in the CFP rankings. Since

Prior to Northwestern’s game at Rutgers on October 20, most Wildcats fans probably did not know the name Isaiah Bowser. Now, the freshman has become the featured running back for NU’s offense, rushing for 483 yards and four touchdowns on 112 carries over the Cats’ last four games. He totaled just two rushing yards on two carries in NU’s first six games. Bowser had a career day on Saturday at Iowa as the Cats clinched the Big Ten West title. He carried

their 1-3 start, NU has gone 5-1 with their only slip up being against undefeated Notre Dame, who came in right above the Wolverines at No. 3 in the rankings. The Wildcats have relied on a balanced offensive attack in their last 6 games, giving more carries to freshman running back Isaiah Bowser to take the pressure off of senior quarterback Clayton Thorson. Aside from Michigan and NU, only two other Big Ten teams made the top 25 rankings: No. 10 Ohio State and No. 14 Penn State. NU has two more regular season matchups against Minnesota and Illinois before looking ahead to the Big Ten Championship game, where they will get a rematch with the Wolverines or face the Buckeyes, who the Cats haven’t faced since 2016. — Andrew Golden

the ball 31 times for a career-high 165 yards, including a go-ahead 34-yard touchdown in the third quarter. He also caught three passes for 33 yards. For his effort, Bowser was named Rose Bowl Big Ten Player of the Week. “I was waiting for my turn, trying to get better every week at practice,” Bowser said after Saturday’s win. “The Rutgers game, when I first started to play, I got in there and made a couple plays and that’s when I started to become more confident.” Bowser has revived a NU rushing attack that had been dormant after sophomore Jeremy Larkin was forced to medically retire from football. In the three games after Larkin

retired, the Cats rushed for a total of 68 yards, including just eight on Oct. 6 at Michigan State. But NU decided to burn Bowser’s redshirt season and feature him prominently. On Saturday, he surpassed Larkin as the team’s leading rusher for the season, and his touchdown, which put the Cats on the board after they were shut out in the first half, provided a muchneeded spark to the NU sideline. “After I scored, the whole sideline was going crazy,” Bowser said. “Coming out and scoring in the second half, that was big for our offense and big for our defense too, knowing that we were in the lead.” — Benjamin Rosenberg

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Saturday, the New York Times published an opinion piece entitled “I Miss Northwestern Football’s Losing Tradition” by Carmel McCoubrey, a Northwestern alumna. To this point, McCoubrey (Weinberg ‘86) cites the dangers presented by college football and the concern that Northwestern is spending a large amount of money on it (specifically, as many have, citing the new Walter Athletics Center). She notes that as Northwestern’s success has increased, so have the players’ injury risk (due to playing in more games) and the national exposure that leads to football-centric donations. These are explosive, interesting takes that could use more detailed explanation. Instead, however, the article is framed from an anti-fan perspective in which the best way to reconcile the fact that college football is “not healthy” is to root for your team to lose. First, the men out there in purple and white (and occasionally, for some reason, gray) almost all had offers from other schools to play football. If they didn’t attend Northwestern, they’d be facing the same safety concerns, just wearing a different uniform while they did so. Additionally, McCoubrey’s focus solely on the safety of Northwestern athletes is misguided. After all, if the Wildcats are not playing in these extra football games, someone else will be. Is their safety less important simply because they don’t have “Northwestern” written on their jerseys? Certainly not. McCoubrey also wrote that she was hesitant to donate, for worries that the university is “willing to risk its students’ health and happiness for a share of television revenue.” That derogatory reference to “television revenue” ignores that said revenue is essential in helping the university to fund other teams — from the field hockey team that she shouts out to the women’s golf team that almost won the national championship two years ago. Football is dangerous in any quantity. Whether the Wildcats play 44 games (as they did in McCoubrey’s four years at the university) or 53 (as they will in my four), every moment will be dangerous. Those extra nine games (and corresponding weeks of practice) should not be taken lightly. McCoubrey is not necessarily wrong about these things. To argue that college football is a morally bankrupt and dangerous enterprise is a valid point. Similarly, to claim that the amount of money poured into college football, possibly at the expense of other funding, is detrimental to universities is eminently defensible. I am not the best person to criticize how someone reconciles their college football fandom. I know these dangers and moral bankruptcy of the institution, yet I still watch for 12-15 hours every Saturday (and plenty more hours on weeknight games). But McCoubrey’s solution is not a moral justification. Whether the Wildcats win or lose has no influence on the overall health of the college football playing population. After all, the Big Ten Championship, and all 39 bowl games this year will occur whether Northwestern is a participant or not. josephwilkinson2019@u.northwestern.edu