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Anxiety Abroad Students call for better resources navigating sexual harassment, mental health issues on study abroad programs

House passes marijuana legislation Bill would decriminalize drug throughout Illinois

By ROBIN OPSAHL

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By PETER KOTECKI

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While Victoria Ledford and Kassamira CarterHoward were studying abroad in Morocco, unfamiliar men would often harass and catcall them.

When a man followed Ledford home, she asked women in her host family for help.

“They’d be like, ‘That’s happened to me before,’” the SESP junior said. “‘Here’s what you can say in Moroccan Arabic to tell them to piss off.’”

Men would yell at Carter-Howard as she walked down the street, calling her “Mama Africa” and the N-word. One man followed her home and

tried coming up the stairs. She asked the School for International Training, the program organizing her trip, for help. But they directed her to a male therapist who she said dismissed her concerns. “(The counselors) told the girls we just need to smile more and that we should probably cover our head if we don’t want to be harassed,” the Santa Clara University junior said. “Pretty much anything that we were feeling was invalidated.”

Carter-Howard and Ledford were among 35 students — four from Northwestern — who studied abroad on an SIT program in Morocco last fall. Students said street harassment was a frequent problem, and Carter-Howard said SIT was not properly equipped to deal with it.

She and 15 other students signed an email to

SIT’s Title IX coordinator in November saying the program staff had failed to adequately respond to their “repeated complaints of gender discrimination and sexual harassment,” according to a copy of the email obtained by The Daily.

Taieb Belghazi, the Morocco program’s academic director, said the program provides mental health resources to students who ask for help.

“We have always offered in-country psychological and counseling services on our program, as well as access to SIT’s mental health counselor in Vermont,” Belghazi told The Daily in an email. “In response to students’ requests, we have expanded our local support network from two » See STUDY ABROAD, page 6

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A bill that would decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana and establish a new marijuana intoxication standard for driving passed the state House of Representatives on Wednesday, and now awaits approval from Gov. Bruce Rauner.

The House moved for the state to go from arresting and jailing people caught with small amounts of marijuana to a ticket-based system. The bill proposes that instead of making arrests for possession of 10 grams or less, offenders would receive tickets between $100 and $200 per offense. Anyone ticketed would also automatically have their record of the incident expunged six months after receiving the ticket.

“Illinois is long overdue for creating marijuana policies that treat our residents more fairly and free law enforcement up for more serious crime,” Rep. Kelly Cassidy (D-Chicago), who sponsored the bill, said in a statement. “We should not spend our resources arresting and jailing people just for the possession of a small amount of marijuana.”

Although a similar bill was vetoed by Rauner last year, the governor told AP reporters that he would “probably be comfortable” » See MARIJUANA, page 8

Eikenberry to talk at Buffett Institute event this month

Former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry will speak at Northwestern on May 31 at an event hosted by the Buffett Institute for Global Studies in recognition of Military Appreciation Month.

Titled “America and Its Military: Drifting Apart,” Eikenberry will discuss the challenges of an

“all-volunteer force model” in the United States military and its political, economic and foreign policy impact.

Eikenberr y was selected in November to become the first executive director of the Buffett Institute and was set to begin this September.

Following concerns about his appointment voiced by students and faculty, Provost Dan Linzer announced in an email to Buffett Institute faculty last month that Eikenberry would no longer fill the position.

In a letter to The Daily in February, 46 faculty called for the University to rescind Eikenberry’s appointment, arguing that he was incompatible with the center’s “core mission of independent research.”

In response, University President Morton Schapiro and Linzer wrote a letter to The Daily in support of Eikenberry. Buffett Institute directors also wrote a letter supporting Eikenberry’s appointment.

Faculty Senate passed a resolution backing Eikenberry’s appointment, and a resolution was introduced to

Associated Student Government Senate calling for the University to rescind Eikenberry’s appointment, though senators never voted on the resolution after the email announced he would no longer fill the position.

Eikenberry served in the U.S. Army for 35 years and now works at Stanford University. He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and earned master’s degrees from Stanford and Harvard University.

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Around Town Anti-violence effort looks to expand

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The “Dear Evanston” social media campaign is wrapping up its official project after three months, but organizers are looking to continue the conversation they started.

The campaign, which began in February, aimed to bring community awareness to youth violence in Evanston as part of the Leadership Evanston project, which connects people from the city interested in learning leadership skills and forging connections with other residents, program director Jennifer Moran said.

The 10-month program is run through the Evanston Community Foundation and organizes the participants into groups to address issues such as youth employment, access to mental health services, affordable housing, social equity and safety and violence. The “Dear Evanston” project arose from the last theme.

“It’s really about the process of learning how to work with people you don’t really know,” Moran said.

“It’s really about the process and not just the product.”

The “Dear Evanston” group members — along with others involved in this year’s Leadership

Police Blotter Shots fired reported on Lee Street

Officers investigated Wednesday a report of shots fired in the 1200 block of Lee Street, five blocks from Washington Elementary School.

Around 9:25 p.m., a 49-year-old man reported the shots fired from Lee Street, Dugan said. The man was in the house with his 48-year-old wife and 18-yearold son when someone shot five bullets on the street, which entered through their front kitchen window.

There were no injuries, Dugan said.

No one had observed anything besides the sound of the gunshots and the evidence that came through the residence’s window, Dugan said. There are currently no suspects.

Evanston class — presented their project to a crowd of over 35 people Thursday morning at Evanston Public Library.

The group said they originally didn’t know how to address safety and violence issues in Evanston.

In the end, the common theme among all of their ideas was giving the community a place to speak out about violence, said group member Nicholas Gehl, the chair of the department of fine arts at Evanston Township High School.

“We modernized the concept by coming up with this idea of a social media platform,” said group member Juliet Bond, the executive director at Caring Outreach by Parents in Evanston, which provides support to Evanston students in need and their families. “We hoped we would capture various aspects of the community.”

Although they said they were pleased with the overall outcome, the group hit a few snags, including some community opposition.

During the presentation, Mitchell Smith, a member of “Dear Evanston” who is also on the ministerial staff at Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal, 1109 Emerson St., played audio from a 5th Ward meeting he attended earlier this year, in which attendees can be heard vocally criticizing the group’s approach.

“It just speaks to the idea of how it’s a hot button topic,” Smith said. “There are people who are on the

ground in the fight who are tired and who are hurting but don’t know what to do.”

The group also had trouble at first engaging people on the social media platforms, said Nina Kavin, another group member who is also on the board at Curt’s Cafe.

“One of the challenges was … getting anybody to initiate connection with us,” she told The Daily.

“I was like, ‘We’ve got to get out there,’ so we moved ourselves into the community and found people.”

To counter this, the “Dear Evanston” team started to reach out into the community and conducted interviews concerning violence with city officials such as Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl and others involved in anti-violence activism.

They compiled portions of these interviews, as well as comments and posts from the group’s Facebook page, into a video.

“It really connected people to stories and histories they may not have ever heard about,” Moran said. “It was very powerful.”

Although they are pleased with the interactions on their Facebook page, some members of the group said they are hoping to take the dialogue off social media and initiate person-to-person conversations.

“Now, the real work begins,” Smith told The Daily.

Man charged with battery to police officer, resisting arrest

police car “without a fight” and that “they’re going to have to earn their money,” Dugan said. The man resisted efforts by the officers to place him in the back of the police car by making his body stiff and digging his feet into the ground. When one of the officers reached down to grab the man’s leg, he struck the officer multiple times with his foot.

Police eventually got him in the car and brought him into the police station, Dugan said.

Dugan said the man was charged with three misdemeanors for battery, resisting arrest and driving on suspended license, and he received a citation for blocking the alley. His court date is set for June 30.

A man was charged with battery to a police officer, as well as resisting arrest and driving on a suspended license Wednesday.

Around 7:30 p.m. officers observed a car sitting in the middle of an alley while patrolling the 1800 block of Main Street, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said. When officers pulled up behind the vehicle, the car moved into a parking space to let them pass. However, when officers drove by they recognized the driver, a 21-year-old Evanston man, for having a suspended license.

They stopped the man, told him he was under arrest and to get out of the car.

The man told officers he was not going into the

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Student starts sex positivity talks in IFC chapters

By SHANE MCKEON

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Standing in front of roughly 90 men in a fraternity house chapter room, Jess Guenzl gives her usual presentation. But her presentation is anything but usual.

For one, unlike most workshops like this — often sponsored by groups such as Sexual Health and Assault Peer Educators or Men Against Rape and Sexual Assault — Guenzl is on her own: The Weinberg senior designed, piloted and presented the session by herself.

Guenzl, who has presented to most of NU’s Interfraternity Council chapters, estimates she’s reached roughly 400 men since her first presentation Feb. 14. In the presentation, she rarely discussed rape or sexual assault explicitly, instead focusing on data on sexual activity and survey results — namely, results from a survey she conducted about what women in Northwestern Panhellenic Association chapters think about sex in the Greek community.

That got guys’ attention, she said.

“20-year-old guys didn’t want to hear me drone on about sex,” she said at the Campus Coalition on Sexual Violence meeting Tuesday.

Guenzl conducted surveys with both men in IFC fraternities and women in PHA sororities.

During her presentation, she circulated handouts with a few quotes from the surveys, conveying what women who responded said men have said to them.

“I won’t give you the wifi password unless you make out with me,” one women relayed. Another: “I’m actually like really good at pulling out.”

Guenzl said her presentation focuses mostly on sex positivity, which she defined as “understanding what good, safe, respectful, consensual sex is.”

“It’s a lot easier to learn the good things about something than avoid the bad things,” she said.

“I think it’s important to know the pros of sex and not just the cons.”

Erin Clark, assistant director of the Center for Awareness, Response and Education, acted as a “sounding board” for Guenzl.

Clark said CARE approaches sexual health from two main angles: combatting sexual violence and promoting positive, healthy sex. She said workshops for students often focus on the former but that Guenzl’s discussion of the latter is also essential.

Clark said she thinks the two approaches “need to go hand-in-hand or else neither really works.”

“Jess chose one pretty powerful way, which is really meeting people where they’re at,” said Clark, who is also SHAPE’s adviser. “That’s a great way to approach it, to have conversations about consent in a really positive way.”

McCormick senior Scott Sandler, a member of Sigma Nu, said he appreciated that Guenzl’s presentation “felt like a conversation, rather than being lectured to.”

Sandler was one of roughly 80 men who attended Guenzl’s presentation during a Sigma Nu chapter meeting. He said he appreciated Guenzl’s coming to speak at the house.

“People have a connotation that this is where most of these things happen, so having it in the house is nice,” Sandler said. “Whenever you’re in the room, you can think about that talk.”

IFC announced earlier this month a new fouryear sexual assault education program for all its members, following controversy surrounding banners that were hung from its chapters’ houses for Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Some students found the banners in poor taste due to the prevalence of sexual violence within fraternities.

Will Altabef, IFC’s president, said Guenzl’s presentation lines up with some of the other topics IFC educates its members on.

“What does being an IFC man mean? Part of it is not viewing sex as some sort of conquest or something that you go talk about and brag about,” Altabef said. “Sex is supposed to be in the context of healthy relationships with other people. Her message helps move that forward.”

Guenzl said the presentation seems to have

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TALKING BODIES Weinberg senior Jess Guenzl stands in the fraternity quad. Guenzl has given presentations to spark sex-positive conversations in fraternity chapters.

made an impact. She said sometimes men will approach her and ask if she is the “sex and consent girl.”

For better or worse, that nickname might not last long: Guenzl is graduating after this quarter, and she said there are no plans for a successor.

Still, she said she hopes men in the IFC community will continue these conversations about

sexual health after she graduates.

“I preach communication, because there are a lot of negative things that can happen during sex,” she said. “The only way to navigate that is with communication, and respectful communication.”

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Donald Trump is not a true conservative politician JOSE TREJOS

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Now that Donald Trump is the presumptive Republican nominee, conservatives like me are forced to come to terms with a disgusting choice: throwing away our vote on a third-party candidate or having to come to terms with supporting a liberal, cowardly sellout like Hillary Clinton or a lunatic like Trump. At this point, I personally favor Clinton, but I cannot judge anyone’s choice in this election. However, as Trump continues to drag the name of the Republican Party through the mud, I hope to make one thing clear to Northwestern students: Trump is no conservative.

This election will not only determine the new president but also the composition of the Senate, and Democrats have happily used the rather dirty tactic of equivocating Republican candidates to Trump. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is already releasing ads using this trick against Republican incumbents; Illinois’ own Sen. Mark Kirk has distanced himself from his own party’s nominee as any politician can get away with. Yet, his rival, Tammy Duckworth, has insisted on tying him to Trump throughout his entire campaign. This is despite almost the entire Republican party — from former nominees such as the Bush presidents, John McCain and Mitt Romney, to leaders such as Paul Ryan, to almost the entire 2016 presidential field — repeatedly condemning Trump. I can certainly see the appeal in tying conservatives to Trump. He is a cartoonish embodiment of everything liberals like to accuse the Republican Party of: racism, ignorance, hypocrisy, extremism and demagoguery. Although he does provide some schadenfreude for liberals, he does not stand for the ideals they claim to oppose, and pretending he does is just a cheap way to escape real debate.

Trump is indeed a bigot, but his bigotry is entirely his own. Republican candidates have been accused of racism for years, sometimes with real merit and sometimes as a cheap attack. When Trump announced his idea for a ban on Muslim immigration, however, the response was clear. It was the first time Ryan broke his rule of not intervening in the primary to say that is not what the Party stands for. Jeb Bush called Trump “unhinged,” Marco Rubio called it “wrong

Letter to the Editor

Response to Altstadt column on open student group announcement

This past weekend, the Office of Campus Life announced that it would require student groups to eliminate applications in the coming years. The University already “strongly discourages exclusive groups,” according to a Daily article on the release (how strongly is questionable, as one group admitted about a third of 200 applicants this spring, according to the same article, and the sub-group of another admitted only 9 percent).

Soon afterward, columnist Jacob Altstadt argued that it would “cripple the entire worth of extracurricular life” at NU. I respectfully disagree. In this letter, I’m going to directly counter some of his arguments.

Jacob first argues that many organizations “derive their value from their selectivity,” and that members of clubs work hard because they feel like they’ve earned their places in the club through a competitive application process. So groups can’t have motivated members without being selective?

I’m not sure why we’d want groups to derive their value from selectivity — shouldn’t they derive value from the work that they do, the friendships they create and the passions they inspire in students? If a group only offers selectivity, its value is inflated.

Additionally, I hope that people are motivated to do work for a group not based on how important they feel for being a member of a selective group, but rather because they care about the group. Acceptance into an

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and immoral” to ban Muslim immigrants and John Kasich called for more respect toward American Muslims. When Trump failed to disavow the leader of the Ku Klux Klan for endorsing him, Mitch McConnell declared he “condemns (their) views in the most forceful way.” After Trump’s sexist attacks spilled from female reporters to Cruz’s wife, Cruz now refuses to urge supporters to vote for his own party’s nominee.

To be fair, those are simply condemnations of Trump’s bigotry. What about Trump’s actual policy proposals? In this regard, he is even more strikingly opposed to Republican ideals. NU’s liberals are surely opposed to “heartless” Republicans trying to cut entitlements like Social Security for the sake of the national budget. Whatever one might think about such policies, Trump is the only

Republican candidate to have said he refuses to consider cutting entitlements. In fact, its quite the opposite: He calls himself a fan of single-payer health care systems, the model Bernie Sanders wants to implement in this country. Trump repeatedly attacks corporations in his rallies and excites his crowds talking about evil corporations buying politicians. Trump is also a proud isolationist, arguing for withdrawing American forces worldwide and almost hoping to start a trade war. The fiscally conservative, pro-business, interventionist ideals Republicans have defended for decades are simply abandoned in Trump’s proposals.

The broader point here is that Trump is not, as many an opportunistic liberal has claimed, the ultimate result of conservatism.

Nor is he a liberal. He is simply an example

exclusive group certainly affirms people, but this affirmation isn’t necessary for us to work hard at something. On the other hand, if selectivity entails motivation (which I also doubt), then by Jacob’s argument, removing applications would incite no one, not everyone to join: groups are less selective, hence joining less valuable.

Next, he reprises the familiar argument against “coddling” students: “removing (rejection) from the college experience hinders … growth.” He envisions a “dystopian future where students will graduate having never faced… adversity.”

I have nothing against rejection per se. It’s important to learn how to deal with it. But between job and graduate school applications externally, and special programs and academic awards/honors internally, we don’t need more opportunities for rejection. Let’s stop fetishizing rejection as “character building” and remember that groups are not the sole, or main, source of selectivity in our lives.

Moreover, saying that removing applications is equivalent to handing out “participation medals” is blatant elitism. People being rejected from these groups are likely underclassmen, who haven’t had the opportunity to differentiate themselves from other students given their limited time here. On what actually-meaningful merit could they be judged?

They’re all Northwestern students, who are at least “pretty smart” if you trust the admissions office.

He also sees a problem with NU committing externally to selectivity but internally to inclusivity: “the sense of accomplishment felt from admission to one of the country’s most selective schools would not be felt in the student groups within the school itself.”

Jacob conflates correlation and causation here: It’s not the case that I — and, I hope, many readers — feel accomplished as an NU student because the admissions rate was low, nor is it the case that NU is a high-quality institution because of its selectivity. NU is a high-quality undergraduate institution mostly because it’s a Research 1 university with a huge endowment — its low admissions rate is a consequence of general institutional quality, if a link exists at all.

He closes by noting that the application process ought to require some “will to take on challenges knowing full well that failure is (possible),” which he calls “courage.”

Open admissions does not remove the possibility of failure. Under open admissions, people could join groups more easily, but could fail in their work in the groups just as well. Continued involvement, rather than applying, should be the courageous action.

Jacob seems to argue that the main work of a student hoping to get involved is applying, and the main value of a group as dwelling not in what it does, but in how selective it is. He wants NU students to face unnecessary failures and stress so that we can build our character. I disagree with all of these sentiments entirely; they reveal many of the negatives to our selective student group culture — such as elitism, fetishizing adversity and exclusivity for the sake of exclusivity — that I’ve noted throughout.

Abruptly changing a single group’s structure would lead to pushback; abruptly changing most groups would lead to a lot of it. But why should we shirk from doing things that are difficult now but beneficial later, apart from comfort with tradition?

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of the glitch of democracy: a populist. Do not use his ignorance to attack Republicans. Do not take Trump as an excuse to stop evaluating the ideas you disagree with and take liberalism as proven truth, as too many college students already do. And please, do not associate the rare example of an actual racist candidacy with people who disagree with you about the nature of government. Want to truly fight Trump? Treat your opponents with respect, and debate every issue with the nuance it really deserves.

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Kresge Hall to open ahead of Fall Quarter 2016

By KELLI NGUYEN

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Kresge Hall will open its doors in September prior to the start of Fall Quarter 2016, after nearly two years of being closed for renovations and additions.

The upgraded space will feature a forum, cafe, faculty offices, high-tech classrooms, art studios and new furniture among other updates and additions to the building. It will serve as a space for more than 20 Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences departments and programs that were relocated for its renovation, including Art Theory and Practice, Asian American Studies, Classics and Spanish and Portuguese.

“We anticipate the Kresge-Crowe complex, along with surrounding buildings, will serve as a focal point for all kinds of student activity,” Weinberg Associate Dean for Facilities and Planning Joel Trammell wrote in an email to The Daily.

In its renovation, Kresge has been “restacked”

to group together Anyone who classrooms, art studios experienced classes and of f ice in the Kresge prior spaces, said to renovation will be Bonnie Humphrey, amazed. director of Bonnie Humphrey, design and director of design and construction construction for Facilities for Facilities Management Management.

The new building will also feature green technology in the hopes of achieving Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design gold certification.

If approved, Kresge will join the 10 other LEED certified spaces on Northwestern’s campus.

“Anyone who experienced classes in the Kresge prior to renovation will be amazed,” Humphrey said. “(With its) transformation to a modern, 21st century, state-of-the-art classroom building compared to the 1950s building … the comfort will be significantly enhanced

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from the old Kresge Hall.”

Because Kresge will house Weinberg departments and programs, they will be given first priority in the allocation of learning space, said Dustin Levell, associate business systems analyst for the Office of the Registrar. Open classrooms will still be available for students, faculty and staff to book. “(Weinberg classes) will be weighted first priority to be there,” Levell said. “So the departments that live there are the first choice and then after that it will be open for any other department.”

Construction on the building will be completed over the summer, followed by technology and other installations to prepare the space for incoming students.

Humphrey said the renovations are going as planned due to working collaboration and communication with the general contractor, architects and Weinberg officials.

“It’s been a really great team effort,” Humphrey said. kellinguyen2019@u.northwestern.edu

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COMPLETING CONSTRUCTION Kresge Hall is nearing the end of its two year renovation and addition project. The upgraded building will open to students Fall Quarter.

Trio of students launch website to buy, sell course notes

By JULIA DORAN

the daily northwestern @_juliadoran

Northwestern students launched Monday an online marketplace to buy and sell notes and study materials.

NoteShark, created by Medill sophomore Derrick Lee, Weinberg sophomore Russell Marriott and McCormick sophomore Wyatt Cook sells class notes, study guides, summaries and other study materials created by NU students, said Lee, NoteShark’s strategy lead.

“It really came from the realization that a lot of people have these kinds of materials saved in their laptops just rotting away when they could find more use for them by selling them to someone who would actually need them,” he said.

Lee said the NoteShark team met through NU’s

entrepreneurial branch of the Institute for Student Business Education. The trio first thought of the concept after realizing there weren’t tools to help students study large amounts of course content efficiently, he said.

“In high school, there were a lot of resources available like SparkNotes and CliffNotes,” Lee said. “But there’s not really anything comparable for college level courses.”

To purchase materials on NoteShark, buyers select a course listed on the website to reveal what materials are currently available, Lee said. They can then view a preview image and description of the item before adding materials to their cart, purchasing them and downloading the files.

Students who want to submit materials send their notes to the NoteShark team to be edited and approved before becoming available for purchase on the site. Lee said study materials must be reviewed to ensure current, well-organized and high-quality

content. “(Buyers) are going to see that the notes are diligent and they’re very thorough,” said Marriott, NoteShark’s marketing lead.

Marriott said prices vary depending on the length and content of material, averaging roughly $10 for a full set of course notes. He said NoteShark contributors earn half the profit made off their study materials.

Ronald Braeutigam, associate provost for undergraduate education, said he doesn’t believe NoteShark violates the University’s academic integrity policy. He said this would only be the case if materials included “intellectual property” directly from a course.

Marriott said the NoteShark team consulted lawyers through The Garage to ensure that their business model did not violate any intellectual property rights.

He said slides, notes and other materials distributed by the professors during the course are never sold verbatim.

“We’re not selling professors’ class materials,” he

said. “There are no direct copies. It’s all the students’ work.”

Marriott said the site currently features materials from large lecture courses like Introduction to Buddhism and Introduction to Microeconomics. He said they hope to continue adding more courses to the site as the business develops.

Marriott said the site is particularly well-suited for NU’s fast-paced quarter system. He said the notes can ensure students won’t fall behind if they miss a class.

Marriott added that NoteShark materials can serve as not only replacements, but also supplements to notes students take during class.

“NoteShark fills void,” he said. “It can be really successful because it makes learning much more efficient.”

Peter Kotecki contributed reporting. juliadoran2018@u.northwestern.edu

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to six counseling professionals, including four women counselors.”

Kate Casa, editorial manager at SIT, declined to comment on particular conversations between counselors and students but said she was confident the conversations would have been “culturally sensitive and appropriate.”

Students said the program lacked resources to help them navigate mental health and harassment issues that come from moving to a different country.

“It wouldn’t surprise me if this were a repeated problem, especially (with) companies that are based in the States,” Ledford said. “There is a disconnect between the host countries of different programs and the people that are running them in the States.”

In interviews with The Daily, students expressed similar concerns about a variety of study abroad programs, including ones in South Africa, Jordan and the Czech Republic.

SIT, a nonprofit educational institution based in Vermont and Washington, D.C., operates a graduate school and study abroad programs for undergraduates. Many NU students travel on programs abroad run by organizations such as SIT. The Morocco program is one of 10 SIT programs affiliated with NU. Transylvania University junior Dakota Porter also experienced sexual harassment in Morocco and saw several of her classmates struggle to find resources.

“I was scared a lot of the time and I was frustrated a lot of the time,” she said. “I felt stuck there, getting sexually harassed on the street every day.”

‘The worst situation possible’

Street harassment isn’t unique to Morocco. Barnard College junior Erin Quinn, who also attended the SIT program, said she experienced it in New York City as well. But she said the lack of streetlights and winding, narrow roads amplified it in the part of Morocco the students lived.

“It just set it up to be the worst situation possible for a lot of women,” she said.

One of the worst parts of the program was the lack

FRIDAY, MAY 20, 2016 of sufficient psychological support for female students, Quinn said. Women often came to class and cried because “there was no other safe space to do so,” she said.

“In the orientation of the program, they told us that this is part of the culture, it’s something that has to be accepted and is nothing out of the ordinary,” she said.

“But I think that it got to a point where there was a line that was crossed.”

Four NU administrators traveled to Morocco in December to explore the possibility of starting a University-run program there and talk to students and staff on the SIT program.

NU Study Abroad Office associate director Alicia Stanley was unable to disclose any concerns shared by individual students due to privacy laws, but she said the NU administrators had a lengthy conversation with staff in Morocco about how SIT will address concerns.

“We do take it very seriously, and if a student felt physically in danger, we would want them to bring that forward and seek assistance from the program on-site, let us know as soon as possible so that we could also be involved,” she said.

Moving forward, NU will implement additional check-ins with students aside from its own orientation to help them cope with anything they may be experiencing on the program, said Jessica Fetridge, assistant director of the Study Abroad Office.

Stanley said no NU students are studying abroad on this SIT program this spring or next fall.

Bill Anthony, director of the office, said NU takes students’ concerns very seriously. The University has an internal evaluation process for all study abroad programs, and every student has to submit a program evaluation to receive credit.

A few years ago, a student reported the director of a program in West Africa was making “absurd” statements about health, safety and women, and Anthony said NU dropped the program immediately.

“It’s incumbent on any office and any program to take fast action, whether it’s academic quality, safety, housing issues,” he said.

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‘Red carded’

After the Morocco program ended, Belghazi wrote to Porter, the Transylvania University student, and some of her peers saying the program had been “red carded” and may be shut down in the future, according to interviews with students and a copy of the email obtained by The Daily.

Belghazi said “red carded” is not an official SIT status. However, some aspects of the program have been flagged because they require attention, he told The Daily.

Stanley and Anthony both said they were unaware the Morocco program was “red carded.”

Anthony said he hopes students bring any complaints forward to the Study Abroad Office.

“Had somebody said that this is a program that needs attention, we would have jumped in there feet first,” he said.

After students reached out to SIT with their concerns, SIT sent a letter on Nov. 6 to students’ universities, Ledford said. Students on the program did not receive a copy, she said.

The letter, sent one day after 16 students signed an email to the SIT Title IX coordinator, listed resources available to students, according to a copy obtained

by The Daily.

GESI program in South Africa

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“It has been somewhat challenging for us to investigate these reports as we have recently received the first and only report of physical street harassment to our local staff,” the letter said.

Students who emailed the Title IX coordinator, however, said they brought multiple complaints to administrators beforehand.

Stephen Sweet, SIT’s Title IX coordinator, said he received two separate emails on Nov. 5 — one from a single student and another from a student who copied 28 others on the email. Both were addressed as Title IX complaints. SIT investigated and stopped the alleged incidents to the best of its ability, he said.

“We believe our students when they say that they

are experiencing problematic harassing behavior. Students were disappointed that SIT was not able to stop the behavior that was being witnessed or experienced in the streets of Rabat,” Sweet told The Daily in a statement. “Because every instance referred to in these complaints involved non-affiliated local community members, SIT has limited or no ability to take direct action against the alleged perpetrators.”

The Nov. 6 letter said Belghazi met with students the previous day to reiterate the support mechanisms SIT has in place, and it mentioned other initiatives to support students as well. It also said Graiouid met with the students on the program.

“Said Graiouid our Dean for the Middle East, is

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Hannah Zweig had her purse stolen and got sick multiple times while studying abroad in Prague, incidents that showed the “true colors” of program administrators.

The Communication junior, who studied abroad last fall on a Council on International Education Exchange program, said administrators were not intentionally negligent but did not adequately provide support in these situations.

Zweig’s purse was stolen while she waited for a train back to her apartment. She was upset about losing her valuables and knew it would be difficult to retrieve her keys and credit card. Zweig returned to her apartment and called program staff, who were initially sympathetic, she said. They helped her get a new insurance card but were not helpful beyond that.

She needed the help of her “flat buddy” — the program’s term for Czech college students hired

by CIEE to live with students and assist them — to make a new key and go to the post office to pick up money her parents had wired. However, the flat buddy refused, she said.

She asked administrators for a translator to accompany her, but they told Zweig to go with her flat buddy instead.

“It took me three trips to the post office because I had no one to translate,” she said. “It was a mess.”

At another point, Zweig got sick and was in bed for a week. She needed to see a doctor but didn’t know when pharmacies were open or how to read drug labels in Czech. Administrators helped her get

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a doctor’s appointment, but the doctor didn’t understand her due to a language barrier, Zweig said.

“I still don’t know what medicine I was taking,” she said.

Bill Bull, the vice president of program management at CIEE, said flat buddies are meant to serve as a first line of assistance with tasks such as going to the doctor or visiting the police. It is uncommon for flat buddies to not help students in need, he said.

Flat buddies need to speak English to be hired, and if a flat buddy is unable or unwilling to help, the CIEE staff will step in and assist the student, Bull said.

“Of course we want to assist our students when such things happen,” he said. “They’ve already been victimized.”

Mental health resources

Abbey Kutlas said she was concerned by the lack of mental health care on the Prague program.

The SESP sophomore said her program did not even include a conversation about mental health.

Some students required mental health support, but Kutlas said the resources CIEE provided were “pretty shaky,” as administrators gave students the phone numbers of a few private therapists in the area.

Although the program directors told students they were always available to talk, they didn’t offer any on-site professional help, Kutlas said. No staff member was a mental health professional, she said.

“I am someone who has struggled with mental illness and takes advantage of mental health resources on campus at Northwestern, so that was concerning to me,” Kutlas said. “If I were to need some sort of service while I was in Prague — thank God I didn’t, but if I were, I have no idea where I would find that.”

CIEE has identified medical personnel at all of its

study centers for students to talk to, Bull said. These professionals’ names are made available to students, but some students prefer to follow an insurance policy of their own or use a family contact, he said.

The professionals are not hired by CIEE, but the organization has worked with them for years, Bull said. CIEE looks for professionals who speak English, he added.

“If you’re having a mental health issue, you don’t want to describe that in another language, unless you happen to be fluent,” Bull said. “We identify the best English-speaking professionals available.”

Students who go abroad in the fall may not remember all of the resources available for them, as the required pre-departure materials are completed during Spring Quarter, said Julie Friend, NU’s director of global safety and security. Months go by before students are able to utilize the resources they were told about.

“I don’t know how to fix that problem,” Friend said. “I totally understand it, but it creates a huge disconnect.”

NU is able to provide mental health support for students through HTH Worldwide, the international health insurance all students studying abroad are required to have, Friend said.

Kutlas said HTH may have been mentioned in the pre-departure orientation last spring, but she didn’t remember it existed while she was on the program.

Buddy troubles

In one of the students’ apartments, a flat buddy was fired for not doing his job, Zweig said. Before leaving, the Czech student trashed the apartment, ripping out cable cords and taking the Internet box with him, she said.

Administrators did not know what to do about the situation, and the flat buddy was not replaced by a new hire, Zweig said.

Flat buddies who leave near the beginning of a program are replaced by new buddies, CIEE spokeswoman Sarah Day said. If a flat buddy leaves later in the program, someone who is already working as a buddy will take over to help the study abroad students, she said.

Bill Anthony, director of the NU Study Abroad Office, said issues with flat buddies in Prague have previously been reported in program evaluations.

As a member of CIEE’s advisory board, he can make recommendations to improve this system, such as suggesting that the flat buddies receive more training, he said.

Zweig noted that only a few students had serious issues with their flat buddies, but she said CIEE did not have a system in place to figure out what to do about a bad flat buddy.

“There wasn’t enough accountability, and they didn’t have enough systems in place if something did go wrong,” she said.

Weinberg junior Sharon Borden said the main issue with CIEE in Prague was the disorganization among administrators.

“At one point, our entire program got emailed everybody’s passport numbers, which is very problematic,” Borden said.

The distribution of passport numbers has never happened before and an apology was sent to all students, Bull said.

“That was highly unusual and something that caught all of our attention because that’s not something we do,” he said. peterkotecki2018@u.northwestern.edu

fully aware of the situation and has met with the group to address the concerns and will continue to address the issues with the students,” the letter said.

In an email from Nov. 10 obtained by The Daily, however, Graiouid emailed the students and thanked them for meeting with him the previous day. Casa, the editorial manager, confirmed that Graiouid met with students on Nov. 9 but said the Nov. 6 letter does not indicate he had already met with students before it was sent to universities.

Supporting students

Several students who attended other SIT programs said they felt supported by the on-site staff.

McCormick junior Jesse Vega-Perkins, who traveled to Ecuador on an SIT program, said she had a great experience and felt prepared by the program.

Sexual harassment happened in Ecuador as well, but students on Vega-Perkins’ program could seek help from Leonore Cavallero, an intercultural specialist for SIT programs in Ecuador, a country where Cavallero has spent a lot of time. INFOCUS-02-01 Vega-Perkins said Cavallero addressed all nonacademic concerns and helped her through a personal crisis that almost required her to leave early.

Cavallero, who was raised in the U.S., said she leads sessions on cultural adjustment, living with a host family, appropriate behavior, safety and more.

She said, as far as she knows, Ecuador is the only country in which SIT has an intercultural specialist.

It’s “quite rare” for study abroad programs to have intercultural specialists, she said. Sometimes no one on the program staff is American and they have trouble understanding the issues students face when navigating a new culture, she said.

“It’s difficult for the staff in other countries to really understand what’s going on for the students, that this is scary and that this is something that they don’t want to have to deal with, and they really don’t know how to deal with,” Cavallero said.

Gabriela Carr, a Weinberg junior who went to Ecuador with Vega-Perkins, said Cavallero was only a phone call away at all times and was an important female figure for women on the program.

“The vast majority of the programs don’t have this cultural liaison, which is sort of mind-blowing,” Carr said.

Although not every SIT program has a formal intercultural specialist position, all staff are “dedicated to promoting and enhancing intercultural communication and competence,” Priscilla Stone, vice provost for study abroad at SIT, told The Daily in a statement.

Cavallero said she wishes every SIT program had an intercultural specialist and hopes to train more SIT staff in Latin America to work with students who experience issues abroad. It is easy to forget that many problems students encounter abroad are not academic, she said.

“I really strongly believe in the hierarchy of needs,”

Cavallero said. “If you don’t feel safe, if you don’t feel secure, if you don’t feel healthy, academics are not going to be more important for you. You have to have these bases covered. You have to feel that you can talk to someone.”

Beyond Morocco

Students who studied abroad in Jordan and South Africa also encountered problems related to the way their programs addressed sexual harassment.

Molly Benedict said NU’s pre-departure materials did not fully prepare her to study abroad in Jordan.

Benedict, who went on a Council on International Education Exchange program last fall, said the predeparture work required by NU focused on travel to Europe. The assignments were broad and not applicable to her experience in Jordan, she said.

Prior to her departure, the Weinberg junior said she also attended an orientation session for all NU students traveling on CIEE programs. Most of the students at the meeting were traveling to Prague; Benedict was one of only three students going to Jordan. The session was not very helpful, she said.

“In Jordan, sexual harassment was much more than I was expecting ... it was overwhelming,” she said. “My program was really supportive, but it wasn’t something that the Study Abroad Office here really prepared me for.”

At the time, NU required students to attend a predeparture session, Stanley said. The sessions were led by representatives from affiliated programs, NU study abroad peer advisers and students who had attended the programs.

For study abroad organizations with which NU offers multiple affiliated programs, Stanley said the sessions are meant to cover all of those programs. NU no longer requires these sessions based on students’ feedback.

CIEE had a thorough orientation in Jordan at the beginning of the program, Benedict said. The staff was supportive and available, and students were told how to react to situations such as taxi drivers saying inappropriate things.

During her study abroad trip to South Africa last summer, gender discrimination was also common, Amanda Meyer said.

Meyer (Weinberg ‘15) and McCormick sophomore SueSan Chen were two of nine students on their Global Engagement Studies Institute trip — eight were female.

“We were at a rugby game when someone tried to buy one of our friends from us to marry,” Meyer said.

Chen said men frequently catcalled her. She and her peers reached out to a program staff member for emotional support and were told the catcalling is a normal occurrence. Although it was good to know the catcalling wasn’t perceived as harmful, Chen said it was difficult to get on-site staff to empathize with the students’ discomfort.

Patrick Eccles, associate director of global engagement programs at GESI, said NU’s partner organizations

oversee and supervise students on GESI trips. Students are still in touch with NU faculty through Canvas and email, he said.

Eccles did not recall receiving reports from students about problems in South Africa, but he said there is a broad network of support for students on GESI programs. He added that GESI focuses on supporting students’ well being while they are abroad.

workshops on sexual misconduct, street violence and other forms of harassment, mental health and disability support. The dean also reviewed the scope of resources available to students.

Communication junior Irene Jiang said the street harassment seminar at the beginning of the program covered all the necessary information to deal with it.

She knew the harassment was mostly harmless because the program told her what to expect. And limited mental health resources are endemic to Morocco, not just the SIT program, Jiang said.

When her peers became frustrated with a lack of mental health resources, Jiang said administrators in Morocco “responded immediately” and SIT addressed each of the students’ demands.

Jiang, who spent six months in Morocco because she participated in a different program over the summer, said things would have gotten better for the other students if they stayed in Morocco longer. She said she got used to the sexual harassment around the fourth month.

“If you decide to go to a country like Morocco, you go in with the knowledge that everyone gets sexually harassed. It’s not going to be unique to you,” Jiang said.

“It’s a fact of life there, and you have to accept it. You have to consider it when you’re adjusting. And the students on my program didn’t do that.”

Ledford said she never reached out to SIT for support, as she wasn’t sure if the organization could help her more than her host family did.

“That said, it was pretty appalling, the lack of response that other students were receiving, because other students were having a much more difficult time,” she said.

Men on the streets would often get uncomfortably close to Georgia Butcher, a junior at Colgate University, and comment on her appearance, particularly her blonde hair.

“Men would say things like, ‘Oh my god, I love your pussy. I love your eyes. I love your ass,’” she said. “They didn’t have any problem getting up close and personal with you if they felt that you were ignoring them.”

Quinn, the Barnard College junior, reached out for support later in the program, but the male psychologists invalidated the experiences of students who explained that their interactions were traumatizing, she said. The psychologists said these problems are just a part of Moroccan life, Quinn said.

Casa, the editorial manager at SIT, would not comment on conversations between staff and students. SIT has worked with two counselors in Morocco for several years and is “confident that their conversations with students are culturally sensitive and appropriate,” she told The Daily in an email.

Quinn was eventually given the name of a female psychologist in Morocco, but she said they struggled to communicate due to a language barrier.

“She gave me the same narrative of, ‘Oh, it’s just Morocco. The same thing happens to me. It’s just something that you have to accept that will happen here,’” Quinn said.

She said Belghazi reached out to check in with her, and although he was supposed to function in an academic capacity, he went out of his way to also be a counselor and friend. Nonetheless, she said she thought there should have been additional support staff to address non-academic issues.

Living in the medina

“We really focus on a holistic preparation for students so that they have emotional, intellectual and practical preparation before they go abroad,” Eccles said.

Reaching out for help

Upon arriving in Rabat, the capital of Morocco, students had one sexual assault and harassment training, which didn’t adequately address how race and sexuality relate to harassment, said Carter-Howard, the Santa Clara University student.

“As a black woman, I experienced a lot more harassment than a lot of my other peers and that contributed to my negative experience,” she said.

With only male Moroccan psychologists available at first, students reached out to SIT for mental health support. Among the provided resources was a one-time Skype session with a counselor from SIT’s Vermont headquarters.

Graiouid, the SIT dean overseeing the program, said last fall was the first time SIT received complaints regarding the lack of an on-site female counselor.

He traveled to Morocco in November to meet with students about their concerns. In response to students’ requests, SIT added female counselors to its support network, said Belghazi, the academic director.

In February, Michael Smallis, SIT’s dean of students, went to Morocco and trained staff on race, diversity and inclusion, Belghazi said. Training included

Looking back on her time in Morocco, Quinn said she enjoyed being in the country but would have gone on a different program if she were to do it again.

Porter recalled going on runs with Butcher, seeing men drive their cars slowly behind the two students and shouting from rolled down windows.

Given that some students felt unsafe in the medina of Rabat — the area of the city where students lived with host families — Porter said there were better places for study abroad students to live in Morocco.

Several programs are based at universities, where students live together, she said.

“They are surrounded by other students in more secular and liberal areas of the city, whereas we lived in the medina, which is the most concentrated area of patriarchal, traditional, conservative views, and that definitely heightened the experiences we were having,” Porter said.

Rabat is a UNESCO world heritage site with diverse architecture — while some parts were built in the 20th century, areas such as the medina are more than 800 years old. The medina is surrounded by high walls and contains traditional shops and cafes.

In a Nov. 10 email to students on the Morocco program, Graiouid acknowledged living in the medina could be “overwhelming” and laid out initiatives to report and track incidences of street violence students experienced, according to a copy of the email obtained by The Daily.

As of this term, SIT has also expanded its homestay options, and students can now indicate where they prefer to stay, Belghazi said.

Ledford said she enjoyed parts of her time in Morocco, but has regrets about participating in the SIT program.

“It was definitely hard, while I was there, to not feel like I was actively wasting a quarter of financial aid, actively wasting a quarter where I could have been intellectually challenged at Northwestern,” she said.

“I had thought, actually, that it would have been more of a net positive if I had taken a quarter off and just gone by myself.” peterkotecki2018@u.northwestern.edu

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with passing the decriminalization bill, but didn’t make any guarantees. Some of the changes between the current and previous legislation came from Rauner’s recommendations from his previous veto, such as lowering the amount of possession from 15 grams to 10 grams, as well as raising fines from between $55 to $125 to between $100 and $200.

Currently, possession of up to 10 grams of marijuana is a class B misdemeanor that could result in up to six months in jail and fines of up to $1,500 under state law. However, Evanston, like Chicago and other metropolitan areas in the state, has already passed local ordinances similar to the bill’s proposals that police can use in place of the state law, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said.

“We aren’t just disregarding state laws,” Dugan said. “We have different options; we don’t have to go with the state charges. There are certain criteria we look at, like if someone has a previous conviction or if someone has another charge that we take into consideration when we decide what to charge someone under.”

In addition to possession laws, the bill also looks to change the state’s zero-tolerance policy for driving under the influence to look only at current levels of intoxication. Under current law, a driver can be charged with a DUI if any trace of marijuana is found, which can stay in one’s system for weeks after ingestion, even if they show no signs of impairment.

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IN RAUNER’S HANDS PharmaCannis is Evanston’s medical marijuana dispensary located at 1804 Maple Ave. The Illinois House of Representatives passed a bill Wednesday to create a ticket-based system to fine people caught with small amounts of marijuana rather than arrest them.

The new legislation proposes police test the driver’s level of THC in their blood and saliva to determine whether they should be given a DUI. Evanston does not have any local ordinances regarding this, Dugan said, and may

have to change how they operate if the law were to pass.

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Across Campuses Sexual assault survivors find themselves under suspicion at BYU

PROVO, Utah — Madeline MacDonald was a freshman at Brigham Young University when she was sexually assaulted.

The 19-year-old from Seattle had met a man through the online dating site Tinder. He said he was Mormon, which put MacDonald at ease, and she agreed to meet him for hot chocolate.

They never made it to a cafe, though. Instead, the man drove her up into the mountains and molested her.

Campus officials opened a sexual assault investigation. But they also opened an inquiry to determine whether MacDonald had violated the private Mormon university’s Honor Code, which requires that student adhere to the school’s strict rules for proper behavior _ no swearing, caffeine, tobacco, alcohol or premarital sex.

Suddenly, MacDonald said she felt like a suspect.

“At BYU, everybody feels like it’s so safe. It’s ‘the Lord’s school,’” she said. “To acknowledge that I’m telling the truth requires admitting it’s not that safe.”

MacDonald, now a junior, is among several women calling for greater protections for sexual assault victims at BYU _ including amnesty from potential honor code violations. A growing number of women say such policies are discouraging reports of sexual assault because they place women in jeopardy of expulsion or other academic punitive measures.

The outcry at BYU started after Madison “Madi” Barney, a 20-year-old sophomore, went to the Provo police to report that she’d been raped at an off-campus apartment in September. Her attorney said she was startled when she was suddenly called by school officials who threatened to forward her case to the Honor Code Office.

Nasiru Seidu, 39, the man charged with assaulting Barney, told police the sex was consensual and shared the police report with a Utah County sheriff ’s deputy and former BYU track coach who then gave it to college officials, according to court records. The deputy and the accused rapist were charged with witness retaliation, but the charges were later dropped. Seidu has yet to stand trial for rape.

BYU spokeswoman Carri Jenkins said the school’s overriding concern is protecting students, especially victims. “When a student reports

a sexual assault, the primary focus is on the victim’s safety and well-being. ... The victim of a sexual assault will never be referred to the Honor Code Office for being a victim of sexual assault.”

Still, Jenkins added, “sometimes in the course of an investigation, facts come to light that a victim has engaged in prior honor code violations.”

Tribune Newspapers does not typically name sexual assault victims, but MacDonald and others asked to be identified to draw attention to their cases.

Barney, who grew up in Indio, Calif., was told she could complete the semester but would be barred from enrolling in future classes “until the (honor code) issues are resolved.” She has since filed a federal complaint against the school alleging it failed to comply with Title IX, the federal law aimed at protecting people from sex discrimination at schools and universities.

“BYU’s position is the honor code violations have nothing to do with the rape. But they were acquired from the report about the rape,” said Barney’s attorney, Liesel LeCates. “They’re putting the whole entire community at risk by deterring rape reporting.”

MacDonald said that when she first reported the alleged sexual assault, she was directed to the

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school’s Title IX office. But MacDonald said the Title IX coordinator seemed to doubt her story and suggested that female students sometimes cry rape when they regret consensual sex.

Jenkins said the coordinator denied making such a statement to MacDonald or to any other student.

BYU is one of the largest private universities in America, with an enrollment of about 30,000. It also has campuses in Salt Lake City, Hawaii and Idaho, all church-owned with the same honor code. Other private or religious colleges have honor codes that include amnesty clauses that shield sexual assault victims from punishment.

Jenkins said BYU is now “looking at everything in regard to our own procedures.”

“It’s not the honor code that’s the problem, it’s the implementation of the honor code,” said LeCates, who is Mormon and attended BYU in Idaho.

Last month, after Barney and others spoke out at a campus rape awareness conference, supporters posted a petition online calling for an amnesty clause and gathered more than 113,000 signatures.

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Independent testing concluded Wednesday that Evanston Township High School meets federal standards regarding water lead levels and water quality, according to an email superintendent Eric Witherspoon sent to school staff, students and families that day.

In addition to annual testing done by the city, Gabriel Environmental Services analyzed four samples of drinking water taken in intervals between 9 a.m. and 9:20 a.m. on April 8, according to an ETHS water analysis document. Based off these tests, the environmental consultant found the district to be in compliance with laws and regulations.

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National News GOP chides Obama transgender bathroom rule as executive overreach

WASHINGTON — Republican senators are calling President Barack Obama’s recent guidance allowing transgender students to use the bathroom that matches their gender identity as just another example of executive overreach.

“Every transgender person is someone’s child and should be treated with respect. But that does not justify a federal executive agency acting as a national school board telling 100,000 public schools how to resolve this issue,” 25 GOP senators wrote in a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Education Secretary John King.

Obama’s administration issued the guidance last week, amid dueling lawsuits between the Justice Department and North Carolina. The Tar Heel State is defending a recently passed law that prohibits transgender individuals from using a bathroom that does not coincide with their gender at birth. Both North Carolina GOP senators, Richard Burr and Thom Tillis, signed onto the Thursday letter.

Public schools are not required to follow the administration’s guidance, but the districts do face a threat of losing federal education funds if they do not comply.

— CQ-Roll Call

FRIDAY, MAY 20, 2016 information to our families as reassurance about our water safety at ETHS,” Witherspoon said in the email.

These nationwide concerns were fueled by testing done by Hurley Medical Center, which revealed last September that the proportion of infants and children with above-average blood lead levels almost doubled after the city of Flint, Michigan, switched water sources in 2014.

In Illinois, there have been 19 cases in the past three years in which the lead levels exceeded federal standards among community water supplies. State officials have decided to improve how lead levels are currently tested and monitored in order to avoid future violations.

Evanston specifically has not had issues with water quality or lead levels since 1992 and only has to sample the water for lead every three years as a result, the city’s water production bureau chief Darrell King told The Daily last month.

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Republicans go very last-minute on religious freedom vote

WASHINGTON — The floor of the U.S. House of Representatives descended into brief chaos Thursday morning after the defeat of an amendment on religious freedom.

Reps. Darrell Issa, Jeff Denham, Mimi Walters and David Valadao, all California Republicans, switched their votes from yea to nay on stripping discriminatory language out of a defense authorization bill after the clock ran out on their time to vote, according to the office of Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. It was unclear why Republicans were allowed to switch their votes while Democrats chanted, “Shame! Shame!”

If the amendment had been declared approved or defeated right after the clock ran out, it would have been approved by a vote of 217-206.

The amendment, proposed by Rep. Sean Maloney, D-N.Y., would have prohibited the use of federal funds to enforce a provision that was part of the Defense Authorization Act, passed by the House on Wednesday night.

The provision overturned an executive order

by President Barack Obama, saying religious institutions that receive federal contracts and grants cannot be discriminated against on the basis of religion. Conservatives believed the provision would protect religious liberty,

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but Maloney and other Democrats said it was against the LGBT community, because religious institutions would be able to fire employees based on their sexual orientation or gender identity while receiving government funds.

Maloney’s amendment would have effectively repealed that provision.

“House Republicans’ outrageous and cowardly actions today utterly expose the reality of their hateful agenda,” Pelosi said. “The American people will not forget how hard Republicans worked to target LGBT Americans for discrimination.”

Issa, Denham and Walters did not respond to request for comment on the allegations that they changed their votes. Valadao’s press secretary, Anna Vetter, declined to comment on his behalf.

Matt Sparks, a spokesman for House Majority Whip Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., defended the last-minute vote changes.

“The vote was still open,” he said. “Happens often, even after time runs out.”

Democrats used social media accounts to further criticize their Republican counterparts after the controversial vote.

Democratic Reps. Ami Bera, Janice Hahn, Mike Honda, Alan Lowenthal and Mark Takano were among the California lawmakers who spoke out on Twitter.

“I have many words to describe what

transpired on the floor today,” Takano said. “ ‘Shame’ is the only one I can use in public.”

California lawmakers tasked with shepherding the defense authorization bill through the legislative process say they anticipate that the discriminatory language will be stripped from the bill before it reaches Obama, rendering moot the last-minute vote switch.

Reps. Susan Davis, and Rep. Loretta Sanchez, both California Democrats and House Armed Services Committee members, expect to confer with Senate leaders in the coming months and put the final touches on the legislation. House and Senate lawmakers craft two versions of the defense authorization bill every year and then merge those two bills together during a closed-door conference.

“I’ve been in every conference committee for the last 20 years and there’s been no bigger fighter in there with respect to equality both for women and LGBT and minorities and everybody else than Loretta Sanchez,” Sanchez said.

“So we will get into that conference committee and we will endeavor to fix the language, just as we tried to fix it today on the floor.”

“I believe that this isn’t going to see the light of day in the Senate,” Davis said. “I could be wrong, but I really don’t think it will.”

— Maggie Ybarra and Kate Irby (McClatchy Washington Bureau/TNS)

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Wilimovsky From page 11

the 10 kilometer national title, his first seniorlevel national championship.

In the summer a few months later, he swam a perfectly executed race in Russia. He swiftly glided from the back of the pack to the lead, Kelsheimer said, and pulled away to win the U.S.’s first championship in the event since 2005.

“He was focused and dialed in and ended up being a world champion, and that didn’t even faze him,” said Catherine Vogt, the U.S. open water coach at both the 2015 World Championships and the Rio Olympics. “He just set out to do exactly what he wanted and was really successful.”

After the biggest win of his career, Wilimovsky didn’t rest. Instead, he returned to the U.S. to swim at the national championships, less than two weeks after his win in the 10 kilometer race. He won the event by more than 13 seconds, and though many of the top swimmers at the event did not compete, it was all part of his plan to prepare to swim both events in Rio. “It’s what we’ve been practicing since 2012 in different versions,” Kelsheimer said of swimming the races back-to-back.

Unique challenges

With no lane lines, chlorinated water or walls to push off of, open water swimming has far more variables than pool events.

Most courses include a loop or circuit that

swimmers complete several times, successfully maneuvering around a handful of buoys to stay on course. Races also have feed stations, which require swimmers to grab and consume a food or drink package while still swimming.

Weather conditions and water temperatures can also vary, as can water quality.

“I always say that a big part of a challenge of the 10K is being able to manage different stressors that happen in the middle of the race that you can’t control,” Vogt said. “That’s what Jordan does really well.”

One significant challenge he can’t control is being barreled into by other swimmers. As crowds gather during a race, being undersized like Wilimovsky can be a distinct disadvantage.

“His size is definitely a factor where there are no lane lines and people regularly are aggressive, jostle your space and try to manhandle you as opposed to just beating you based on how fast you are,” Kelsheimer said.

Training is an additional challenge of open water swimming. Since it is impractical to swim in open water every day, Wilimovsky does most of his training in the pool. He must then transition back to the open water on race days.

That has led him to some creative training patterns. At NU, Schroeder often removed the lane lines from the pool and directed Wilimovsky to swim in circles around the pool’s edges. He would skip weight room sessions to spend more hours in the pool, swimming far more yardage than his teammates.

Wilimovsky, however, doesn’t mind that at all.

“Personally, I like to do all my training in the pool … because it’s easy to measure and quantify times and yards,” he said.

The United States is the most successful Olympic swimming nation of all-time, far outclassing every other country. Its open water performances, however, pale in comparison to pool results.

The U.S. men do not have an Olympic medal in the 10 kilometer event, which joined the Olympic program in 2008. Before Wilimovsky’s win last summer, American men had won open water world championships only in 1991 and 2005.

“It would be incredible,” said Rowdy Gaines, a three-time gold medalist from the U.S. and NBC Sports swimming analyst, if Wilimovsky wins the Olympic gold. “To be the very first American to win gold in the 10K would be something that he can hang on his hat for the rest of his life.”

Wilimovsky is the defending world champion, and the Olympics are less than three months away. Nonetheless, he said he feels no pressure, saying the unpredictability of open water swimming means “there isn’t really a favorite.” He won’t deny, however, the possibility of returning to Evanston in the fall with an Olympic medal.

Possibly gold.

“It would obviously be really cool and awesome,” Wilimovsky said. “I’d be beyond stoked.

But I’m just excited to go down to the Olympics and take in the Olympic experience.” colepaxton2019@u.northwestern.edu

Softball

From page 11

Daily file photo by Leeks Lim

BOTTOM OF THE NETT Sammy Nettling swings at the ball. The sophomore catcher has started 39 games for the Wildcats this season, hitting .250 with 7 doubles.

“Our key is to play to win, we’ve talked a lot about it as a team,” Drohan said. “So it’s about playing good softball, being the tougher team, understanding what to expect and playing in the moment.”

Although NU will face the Cowgirls in its first matchup, the weekend will prove to be interesting, as the possibility for a rematch against No. 19 Georgia looms in the distance.

The Cats lost a close one to the Bulldogs before conference play in a game that both Drohan and Letourneau said the team could’ve won.

Drohan said NU’s tough strength of schedule leading into conference play will give the team the extra advantage needed to win.

Women’s Golf From page 11

If the Cats are to make it out of the stroke play rounds this year, they’ll need an improved match play performance over their only previous competitive match play tournament this year.

NU took sixth place against a similarly stacked field in the Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic in early April.

The team had a unique plan in order to get additional match play practice again against strong competition.

“We played a little match play against our men’s team last Friday,” Fletcher said. “We had a good round. The boys beat us, but it was really competitive.”

NU comes into the tournament ranked No. 7, but the championship field is led by No. 1 Alabama, No. 2 USC and No. 3 UCLA. The Cats faced the Trojans at the Liz Murphey, losing 4-1 in match play, and also played the Crimson Tide and Bruins at the Ping/ASU Invitational the next week and finished far behind their top-ranked competitors.

Recently, however, NU has stepped up its performance compared to top competition, shooting 21 strokes better than the top-seeded Crimson Tide in their regional tournament.

“I’m really proud of the girls’ efforts and what we’ve done this year,” Fletcher said. “They’ve had their sights on this for a long time.” josephwilkinson2019@u.northwestern.edu “Playing a schedule like we’ve played this year, you know what to expect,” Drohan said.

“You understand the speed of the game and how to prepare, we won’t see any surprises this weekend.”

As the Cats look to play to win, they’ve yet to abandon their “one game, one pitch” philosophy.

Freshman third baseman Morgan Nelson said the team must stay aggressive in order to pull off big wins this weekend.

“When it comes down to the grind, it comes down to playing every pitch. If you sit back and you let the game happen to you, that doesn’t help,” Nelson said. “We have to attack every single pitch this weekend, I think that’s going to be the difference maker.” melissahaniff2016@u.northwestern.edu

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He tries to relax. If you just hung out with him, you wouldn’t pick him out as a world-class distance swimmer. — Stephen Shull on Jordan Wilimovsky

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Northwestern swimmer Jordan Wilimovsky prepares to compete in 2016 Olympics

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By COLE PAXTON

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When he jumped in the water at the 2015 World Championships in Kazan, Russia, Jordan Wilimovsky’s goal was to finish in the top 10. The Olympics were just over a year away, and Wilimovsky knew that if he snagged a top-10 result, he would secure his spot on the United States’ team in Rio de Janeiro.

Nearly two hours later, the rising Northwestern senior was a world champion. He blew away the competition to win the 10 kilometer open water swim by around 12 seconds, the largest margin in the history of the event. Three months after his 21st birthday, the unassuming Wilimovsky had not only secured his Olympic berth, he established himself as the best open water swimmer in the world.

“It was awesome. I was pretty stoked the whole last 1,000 (meters),” Wilimovsky said. “You get out of the water there and the stands are right behind you. Everyone’s cheering and stuff, so that was pretty cool.”

Wilimovsky took this academic year off from NU to live at home in Southern California and train with Dave Kelsheimer, who has coached

Wilimovsky since 2010.

Under Kelsheimer’s tutelage, Wilimovsky is also attempting to make the Olympic team in the 1,500 meter freestyle, the longest event in the pool.

To qualify in that event, Wilimovsky will need to finish in the top two at the U.S. Olympic Team Swimming Trials in early July.

“There’s not really any pressure for me to do well in that race,” Wilimovsky said. “If I do well and I make it, it’s kind of a bonus. We’re kind of just focusing on Rio and looking forward to that.”

‘Not an athlete of note’

Wilimovsky wasn’t a swimming prodigy from a young age. He decided to start taking lessons at age 9, after he couldn’t join his friends at a summer camp because he failed a swim test.

As he grew older, however, Wilimovsky honed in on swimming. When he joined Kelsheimer in 2010 he had developed the work ethic to be an elitelevel swimmer, his coach said.

“We came in with a new program that was going to double (the swimmers’) training time,” Kelsheimer said.

“There were a lot of people who were struggling with that concept, and he was the first guy to say, ‘Let’s do this.

I’ll train as much as it takes to have a real chance of being world-class.’”

The increased training helped

Wilimovsky. Though he also had the requisite natural swimming ability, Kelsheimer said, he did not become a superstar overnight.

“He was a junior Olympic level semifinalist,” his coach said. “He was not an athlete of note.”

By the summer of 2012, however, Wilimovsky was making waves in the swimming community. He won open water silver medals at U.S. Nationals and the World Junior Championships, and he was the American junior champion in the 1,500 meters.

He also swam at the 2012 U.S. Olympic trials. A year before he made the open water world championship team in 2013, Wilimovsky and his coach spoke of what the future looked like.

“Looking forward in 2012, we had a conversation that in four years time (Wilimovsky) could be heading to the Olympics in the 10K and in the pool,” Kelsheimer said of the discussion.

Wilimovsky found success right away once arriving at NU. Just a month into his college career, his 1,650 yard freestyle time ranked second in program history. By the end of that season, he held the school record in the 1,650.

But Wilimovsky wasn’t expected to make such a huge impact so quickly.

“He wasn’t a highly sought-after recruit,” NU coach Jarod Schroeder

Wildcats seeking national title

By JOSEPH WILKINSON

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Last year, Northwestern’s 10th-place finish in the NCAA Championship was good enough, as the Wildcats set a new school record for best finish in the tournament.

This year, 10th place won’t cut it for the players.

“They’re very proud of what they’ve done, but certainly you can tell by their general mood and attitude that they’re not just here to partake and be a participant,” coach Emily Fletcher said. “They’re here with a goal in mind of making it to the Elite Eight and competing in the match play and actually competing for a national championship.”

Last year, NU fell four strokes shy of competing in the eight-team match play bracket. Two time Big Ten Player of the Year, sophomore Hannah Kim, struggled mightily, shooting 14-over par on day one of the tournament before turning in significantly better performances in rounds three and four.

This year, the team is counting on Kim to improve on that performance, and she’ll have to be up to the task if the Cats want to match up with the top teams in the country.

said. “The summer before he enrolled here he won junior nationals and set the junior nationals record, and we look like geniuses (for) recruiting him.”

By his sophomore season, he was an All-American, finished fourth in the 1,650 at the NCAA Championships and had NU records in three events.

He further improved his junior season, winning the Big Ten title in the 1,650 and finishing third at NCAAs. Despite his lengthy successes in the pool, Wilimovsky often seems like a normal guy on dry land, said his teammate, junior Stephen Shull.

“He doesn’t take things too seriously. He tries to relax,” said Shull, who has swum some of the same events as Wilimovsky. “If you just hung out with him, you wouldn’t pick him out as a world-class distance swimmer. He’s just a chill guy who’s fun to be around.”

Unlike superstar swimmers such as Michael Phelps and Missy Franklin, Wilimovsky is not often recognized even within the swimming community. At just 5-foot-10-inches and 150 pounds, Wilimovsky doesn’t look like an imposing, world-class athlete.

“If you met him on the street, you would never guess that he’s the best in the world at what he does,” Schroeder said. “I point him out at meets to some kids and they’re like, ‘That’s Jordan?’”

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“We know that we have a chance to play better than last year,” Kim said.

“Just the learning experiences from last year will really help the team this year.”

The rest of the NU lineup includes junior Kacie Komoto, sophomore Sarah Cho and freshmen Stephanie Lau and Janet Mao, who led the team in their regional victory.

Komoto was NU’s second-best performer in last year’s tournament, behind now-senior Suchaya Tangkamolprasert. Tangkamolprasert won’t be

on the roster in Eugene after struggling for much of the year, leaving Komoto as the team’s only upperclassman in the lineup.

“Our team is comprised of leaders, and we know how to lead ourselves,” Komoto said. “I don’t think there’s any pressure on me to take care of them.

Everyone takes care of themselves, and we take care of each other, so it’s just a really great team dynamic.” » See WOMEN’S GOLF, page 11

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FORE-SHADOWING? A Northwestern golfer looks out from the tee. The Wildcats believe they are ready to compete for a national championship.

As Wilimovsky climbed the college ranks, he also racked up impressive international results. He won three medals at national championships during the 2014 summer, and qualified for the Pan Pacific Championships in Australia in both the 1,500 meter freestyle and the 10 kilometer open water event.

He finished No. 16 in the open water at that meet behind three other Americans. But focusing on that result, Kelsheimer said, overlooks Wilimovsky’s emergence as an elite 1,500 meter swimmer.

He set three personal bests that summer, Kelsheimer said, and became the seventh fastest American ever in the 1,500. Most importantly, Wilimovsky dropped nearly 30 seconds in a year and cracked 15 minutes in the event.

“To get under 15 minutes is a big deal in the 1,500 for an athlete,” Kelsheimer said. “To drop that much time in a span of a couple months is pretty huge. … That was the most significant improvement for him.”

In 2015, Wilimovsky established himself among the best swimmers in the world. Just a month after the NCAA Championships, he effortlessly pulled away from a small pack to win

Softball

By MELISSA HANIFF

Women’s Golf

Rising to the top

As Northwestern heads to Athens, Georgia, its goal is simple: play to win.

The Wildcats (26-26, 15-8 Big Ten) will face Oklahoma State (2924, 6-11 Big XII) on Friday, before a potential matchup against either No. 19 Georgia (40-17, 12-12 SEC), or Maine (28-19, 12-5 America East).

For NU, the at-large berth to the tournament didn’t come easy, as the Cats had to go 15-5 through Big Ten play in order to make it to .500 and be considered for a spot.

Senior pitcher Amy Letourneau said the team’s mentality and work ethic is at an all-time high as it prepares to take on non-conference opponents.

“It’s like our postseason started three weeks ago, we knew we had to win and we did it,” Letourneau said. “This year we struggled with our record, but I think we learned a lot of lessons from it, and I think

Northwestern vs. Oklahoma State Athens, Georgia 12 p.m. Friday

we really figured out how to win.”

Strong play from Letourneau and the rest of the Cats’ five-pitcher bullpen will be imperative if the team wants to beat the Cowgirls’ high-powered offense on Friday.

Oklahoma State currently has eight batters with double-digit RBIs, and is led by sophomore Vanessa Shippy, who is hitting .430 through 53 starts.

However, the Cats’ rotation has a combined ERA of 3.91 — lower than the Cowgirls’ best pitcher, senior Kacy Freeze.

Led by Letourneau and senior ace Kristen Wood, NU will look to shut down Oklahoma State’s offense by relying on its dominant pitching.

Coach Kate Drohan said she expects the team to show grit and toughness as the Cats prepare for Friday’s matchup. » See SOFTBALL, page 11