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Abortion law requires minors to notify guardian By NATALIE CHUN

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lecturer on medicine at the Harvard Medical School and a higher education administration fellow. In his time as chief diversity officer, Bennett created the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion. Since its inception, the office has sponsored and taken part in the University’s first Staff Engagement Survey Recommendation Implementation Team for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. “It is irrefutable that Jabbar has helped the University to better articulate, refine and focus its global diversity and inclusion efforts over the past several years,” Provost Jonathan Holloway said in a University news release. Bennett expanded the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion to host

For the past six years, Illinois has enforced the Illinois Parental Notice of Abortion Law, which requires minors to notify a parent, grandparent, step-parent or legal guardian before they may get an abortion, but some groups are pushing for the law to be repealed. In March of last year, a bill was brought to the Illinois legislature to repeal the law, and has since passed the Senate Public Health Committee. The bill is now awaiting a full vote in the Senate. Personal PAC, a statewide prochoice PAC, has supported this bill and the repeal of the Parental Notice of Abortion Law. Personal PAC CEO and President Terry Cosgrove said the group hopes to have enough votes early in the Senate General Assembly’s spring session for the bill to move to the House. Cosgrove said he takes issue with the law because it limits the type of health care young women can receive. He said when a young woman becomes pregnant in Illinois, she can carry the baby to term and have a cesarean section, all without telling her parents. The only medical decision that a pregnant minor cannot make without parental notification is having an abortion, according to the Illinois Health and Hospital Association. “It is wrong, and it puts the health and lives of teenagers at risk,” Cosgrove said. “She can ask for PrEP, the HIV prevention pill, contraception, suicide counseling, HIV testing, a whole bunch of services, but the only thing that she has to involve her parents in is the abortion decision, which is designed solely to prevent young women from getting the medical care they need and deserve.” Cosgrove also said fear is often the most traumatic part of the abortion process, especially for minors experiencing physical or sexual abuse at home. Mary Kate Knorr, executive director at Illinois Right to Life, said she agreed that in cases where the guardian abuses the pregnant minor, “the law is flawed.” However, she also said the law addresses these flaws with some exemptions for parental abuse. If minors live in abusive homes or feel unsafe notifying a parent or guardian, they may present their

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Junior guard Lindsey Pulliam drives the ball. Northwestern won 71-69 over Indiana in overtime in a game that places the Wildcats at the ton of the Big Ten.

By CHARLIE GOLDSMITH

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Before Northwestern upset Indiana and before the Wildcats became the first place team in the Big Ten, Veronica Burton fell down to the court with her right arm bracing the

fall. Down three points with 28 seconds left, the sophomore forward just helped NU get a pivotal stop and made an andone layup on the other end of the floor. But she still had to get up and make the free throw to tie the score and send the game to overtime. Burton said that hit left her sore the rest of the

game, but she made the free throw and scored four more points in the extra period to lead NU to its most unlikely win of the season. The Cats have faced adversity several times this season, and Thursday they trailed by 12 points in the middle of the fourth quarter. This time, it was Burton who kept NU’s

NCAA Tournament aspirations on track. Burton scored 15 points to lead the Cats (15-2, 5-1 Big Ten) to a 71-69 win over the No. 15 Hoosiers (14-4, 4-2), making NU the first place team in the conference. “I knew I didn’t want to go through all that to lose that game,” Burton said. “No matter

what, no matter how I was feeling, I had to put them in the net. We all were laying it out there on the line.” The Cats haven’t made the NCAA Tournament in four seasons, and last year they lost four of their five conference games decided by five or fewer » See WBALL, page 6

Loew talks Native history Jabbar Bennett Prof. emphasizes inclusion at Wednesday event By ANUSHUYA THAPA

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Director for Native American and Indigenous Research and Medill Prof. Patty Loew emphasized the history of Native Americans in Evanston at a Wednesday event at Reprise Coffee Roasters. The talk was the first of “Drinks and Thinks,” an event series sponsored by the cafe. Loew spoke to an audience of a dozen people as a member of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe. She recounted her encounters with various Native people and their stories as well as answered questions about Native American representation. Loew discussed the sense of place central to the Native conception of community. “History is not about time,

it’s about place,” she said. “And every Native community that I’ve encountered has a place that is the essence of who they are. And everything worth remembering… is conceived of around that place.” Hunter Owen, manager of Reprise Coffee Roasters’ branch on Main Street, said Loew embodied “the idea of connecting to your community,” which coincides with the cafe’s mission to be connected to the city. Despite the low turnout, Owens was not discouraged from hosting events like this in the future. “It’s not like we filled the cafe up,” said Owens. “But I think that the people that were present were really engaged and super interested.” During the talk, Loew also discussed her appreciation for oral tradition, developed from hearing about Evanston’s history from Native orators.

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She played video clips of Native elders like Nelson Sheppo, who explained historical events such as the Treaties of Chicago and the Indian Removal Act of 1830, which forcibly relocated Natives to the west of the Mississippi River. “These were forced marches,” said Loew. “In some cases they were marched in chains to the west.” The talk also highlighted the history of successful Native Northwestern alumni like James Johnson, the first Native “AllAmerican” football player and Carlos Montezuma (1889), the first Native American student to be admitted to NU and to earn a medical degree. Loew spoke against a “monolithic notion” of who a Native person is, and said to avoid keeping them “frozen in » See PATTY, page 6

to step down Chief Diversity Officer to leave role in mid-Feb. By AUSTIN BENAVIDES

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Northwestern’s provost for diversity and inclusion and chief diversity officer Jabbar Bennett is stepping down mid-February, the University announced Wednesday. Bennett began working at Northwestern in 2015 after serving as associate dean for recruiting and professional development at the Graduate School at Brown University, where he was also an associate dean for diversity in the division of biology and medicine. Before that, he was a

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Gotta B Crepes named in new Yelp ‘Top 100’ list By ZOE MALIN

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When Ryan and Kathia Jones, co-owners of Gotta B Crepes, woke up on Jan. 7, they did not expect to receive a national accolade for their small business on Central Street. To their surprise, Gotta B Crepes was named one of Yelp’s top 100 places to eat in 2020. It is the first and only eatery featured from Chicago’s North Shore. The restaurant joins those from across the country, many of which are independently owned. “Folks like us are making things we love and that mean something to us,” said Ryan Jones. “All the places on Yelp’s list are worth eating at.” Angela Schaffer, community director for Yelp Chicago North Shore, said this is the seventh year the list has been published. Yelp’s data science team used ratings and the number of reviews in 2019 across the United States to determine the list, according to information on their website. Yelp community managers then curated the list. “Yelp’s Top 100 is powered by the people,” Schaffer said. “It celebrates places that have gotten great recognition from customers.” The Joneses met in 2005 while working at the Magic Pan Crepe Stand in Northbrook. The eatery went out of business in 2010 and the pair didn’t skip a beat; they sold crepes out of their house in Chicago. The Joneses then moved to Evanston

POLICE BLOTTER Phone taken at Evanston Hospital, power tools stolen in Home Depot parking lot, woman arrested for revoked license A phone was stolen from Evanston Hospital between Tuesday at midnight and Wednesday at 7 p.m., Evanston police said. The owner of the phone, valued at around $500, was not in possession of the device at the time, Evanston police Cmdr. Brian Henry said.

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Ryan and Kathia Jones founded Gotta B Crepes in 2010. They opened their restaurant location at 2901 Central St. in November 2018.

and operated out of commercial and production kitchens. They expanded by selling their crepes at farmers markets and other locations. Gotta B Crepes opened its restaurant at 2901 Central St. in November 2018. The space features

an open kitchen and lots of seating. Gotta B Crepes specializes in made-to-order crepes. The menu is split between sweet and savory options, and customers can add or subtract ingredients when they order. Kathia Jones developed

The crime, which occurred in the 2600 block of Ridge Avenue, was reported following the discovery of the theft. There is no description of the suspect.

a couple of days after the incident, which took place at 2200 Oakton St. around 3:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Tuesday.

Power tools stolen in Home Depot parking lot

Woman arrested for revoked license

Power tools and equipment were stolen from an unlocked tool box from the back of a 2008 Ford pickup truck at the Home Depot parking lot. The suspect is still at large and there is no description, Henry said. The theft, valued at around $2500, was reported

A female Chicago resident was arrested for a revoked license violation after being stopped for cell phone use while driving. The arrest took place at 1959 Howard St. around 3 p.m. on Tuesday, Henry said. — Molly Burke

some menu items around flavors she grew up eating in Mexico. She also created recipes for homemade sauces. Additionally, Gotta B Crepes offers classic, gluten free, vegan and herb and kale batters. It has a dedicated area for preparing gluten-free and nut-free crepes, too. A fundamental part of Gotta B Crepes’ operation is working with local farms. They cook using butter and goat cheese from Midwest producers, and get eggs from a longtime friend at Swing Belly Farm. The Joneses purchase vegetables from a variety of growers, including The Talking Farm in Skokie, IL. “We love to work with other people whose passion is what they do,” said Ryan Jones. Weinberg sophomore Caroline Forbess said she looks forward to visiting Gotta B Crepes at the Downtown Evanston Farmers’ Market. She said everything she orders is delicious. “Watching my crepe made right in front of me is an exciting experience,” said Forbess. “The staff is so generous and accommodating.” Ryan Jones said Gotta B Crepes is thankful for Yelp’s recognition. But, satisfying people’s hunger is what inspires him. He said he is confident that Gotta B Crepes will be a part of the Evanston community for years to come. “We believe you only get so many meals in your lifetime,” said Ryan Jones. “You have to make each one just the way it’s gotta be.” zoemalin2022@u.northwestern.edu

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ON CAMPUS Author talks lessons from Jewell case By JACKSON MILLER

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Journalist and author Kevin Salwen spoke about his recent book investigating the 1996 Summer Olympics bombing and the subsequent negative media barrage against Richard Jewell in the McCormick Foundation Center Forum on Thursday night. Salwen (Medill ‘79) co-authored “The Suspect: An Olympic Bombing, the FBI, the Media and Richard Jewell, the Man Caught in the Middle” with Kent Alexander, former federal prosecutor who investigated the bombing alongside the FBI in 1996. In a Q&A, Salwen said Jewell’s press coverage holds a number of different lessons for the media today. The 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta were “the largest peacetime event in history,” drawing 15,000 journalists and athletes from 197 countries, Salwen said. Security guard Richard Jewell discovered a hidden pipe bomb at a concert held during the Games. He quickly cleared the area of its densely packed visitors, saving the lives of all but one civilian. Since he was the first to discover the bomb, Jewell became the FBI’s top suspect for the bombing. After a source leaked the information to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the publication was the first outlet to break the story. Other publications picked up the story, some personally attacking Jewell and treating him as guilty. Salwen said the bombing occurred during the time when major news outlets such as The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal were going online and channels such as Fox News and MSNBC were launching. “So the pace inside newsrooms and the pressure inside newsrooms completely ratchets up,” Salwen said at the event. “If you think about it, it’s also the year we as news consumers start

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Richard Jewell as depicted in the 2019 film “Richard Jewell”. Salwen said what happened to Richard Jewell remains relevant today.

changing our expectations for what publications and media outlets should be doing.” Salwen said he tries to avoid guiding readers toward moral conclusions with his book. While discussing AJC’s decision to run the Jewell story, he said the publication was correct in naming Jewell as the FBI’s top suspect, but audiences falsely concluded Jewell was guilty. One columnist at the time even compared him to a child murderer. “The question I think for journalists is, ‘Are facts and truth the same thing?’” Salwen said. Salwen added that journalism students should learn from this lesson and “slow down.” He said reporters who prioritize accuracy over speed ultimately earn the most respect. Medill freshman Maria Caamaño said Salwen’s discussion demonstrated why that’s the case and that breaking a story first isn’t the most important thing — at least not always and

shouldn’t come before everything else. She said she had always been interested in Richard Jewell’s story and was excited to come to the talk. “This just reinforced that for me, how you have to check everything is correct before you publish or break a story,” Caamaño said. Joshua Perry said he was unfamiliar with Jewell’s story. The Medill freshman said he has yet to develop a clear vision for his journalism career, but hearing Salwen’s advice gave him a better sense of what life would be like as a breaking news reporter. “I definitely learned a lot of new things about how to report ethically and how to, like he said, tell the truth as well as the facts,” Perry said.

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Why we need to cancel color-blindess when it comes to race TANISHA TEKRIWAL

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The beautiful thing about cancel-culture is that one color-blind tweet from a respectable person can suddenly put all of society into perspective. This is because these situations help expose the farce of our progression for the truly half-hearted effort made on the part of humanity. Specifically, on the part of the white male (often American) consciousness. Stephen King is the latest to be canceled for his insensitive tweets on the 14th of January: “For me, the diversity issue — as it applies to individual actors and directors, anyway — did not come up. That said I would never consider diversity in matters of art. Only quality. It seems to me that to do otherwise would be wrong.” Of course the issue of diversity did not come up for King. He is a heterosexual white man. King, formerly honorable in my eyes, is now championing tropes of the white conservative who never cared about diversity in the first place, and the white liberal who cares only about token diversity. Diversity is digestible and acceptable as long as it stays to one per category, preferably the ones that don’t get as much traction and completely outside the Directorial or Best Picture scene. The debate on diversity at Awards Shows is not new — and has the same implications as

parallel ideas such as affirmative action — but the debate on diversity in cinema itself is older than even that. Stephen King, I believe represents the category of people unaware of the fact that people of color, women, the LGBTQ+ community, and other underrepresented minorities are not afforded the same resources and opportunities than their conventional counterparts are. There aren’t even as many roles for these people, and when these roles are created, they are often never offered to them. Remember the time Scarlett Johansson thought she should be allowed to play any role, tree or animal? Yeah, it doesn’t work like that. The running cliche of the white protagonist and black sidekick — who faces tragedy by the end of the movie should it come to that — divulges the other foolish argument that conservatives bring forth: That is what audiences want to see. Which audiences were you even thinking of again? The white? Reaffirming stereotypes and only showing people what they expect is a subversion of the point of art, which is to not appease, but defeat its audiences, to challenge them. Another very disturbing trope revealed by King’s remark, and the horrifying 60,000+ likes that have validated it, is his separation of diversity and quality. Diversity does not mean the absence or reduction of quality. White people will not be doing Bong Joon-ho any favours by watching his mind-bending film “Parasite”: art from non-white sources does not need the validation of the “default.” The only favours here

are the ones you are performing to yourself by breaking away from a boxed narrative.

The exclusion of Parasite actors from the Best Supporting Actor/Actress categories is resounding too. The thing is, I doubt many of the voters for the Oscars or the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the group determining the Golden Globes, are as acquainted with “foreign films” as they ought to be. When you don’t have people who understand the cultural contexts that often set the important backdrops for some international films, how can we even expect them to appreciate it? This extends not merely to the movie’s language — though that too is a consideration. Joon-ho’s clever comment, made while accepting his award for Best Director at the Golden Globes: “Once you overcome the one-inch-tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many more amazing films.” While this is quite apt, I believe that sometimes just watching a film with no knowledge of the circumstances it arises out of and addresses is not enough. Growing up in India, I have watched in equal part Hollywood and Bollywood films. In fact, I would say I’m better versed in the world of the former than the latter. This is the bequest of both colonialism and the growth of the Anglophone realm. Globalisation has not, however, helped a reverse absorption of other cultures. For the most widely-viewed film industry in the world, Bollywood had not managed to penetrate the Western hemisphere as natural progression and globalisation dictated. Why?

Simply because people are not as open to ideas that might not fit their preconceived nations of the world. Who’d want to watch the serious and nostalgic or dark noir that also comes out of Mumbai’s studios when it is easier to picture all those South Asian productions as a flurry of well-dressed people dancing and singing? The Oscars’ “Foreign-Language Film” category will thankfully be released from its archaic nomenclature and renamed as “Best International Feature Film” 2020 onwards. However, this introduces another paradox: that “foreign” is defined not by the sensible “non-American” but by a colonially-reminiscent “non-English.” This creates an othering of the non-Anglophone world, whitewashing the diverse identities in the United States with the English-speaking, settler-descendent idea of “American,” and thus whole populations, pushing them to the periphery. “The Farewell” being nominated for “Foreign Film” at the Golden Globes presents a disturbing idea: the story of an Asian American immigrant is still not American enough. (Or is the verdict not white enough?) So Stephen King, I know you tried to make up with some lukewarm excuses after that disastrous tweet, but you’re canceled. Tanisha Tekriwal is a Weinberg Freshman. She can be contacted at tanishatekrwail2023@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.

Books and Breakfast — an initiative about confidence LAURISA SASTOQUE

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Every student has experienced insecurity at some point during their academic lives. Whether it is a matter of doubting their talents, comparing themselves to others, or feeling challenged by a certain topic, the fear of not being enough is always looming at the back of a student’s mind. Insecurity is the inseparable shadow that a student’s self-consciousness casts onto their aspirations. Although the presence of this shadow is natural, an individual’s interaction with these threats of self-deprecation impacts their development in the academic world. The approach given to feelings of insecurity could mark the difference between choosing to pursue one’s dream career or conforming with a non-fulfilling path. When it comes to acquiring the right mindset for an academic encounter, I believe that confidence encompasses the secret to success, coupled with the right resources and support. Unfortunately, these resources are not always available to young students. The education system’s characteristic instruction of masses rather than individuals perpetuates the development of insecurity in the classroom. Educational institutions define a student based on their performance on largely standardized curricula, completely overlooking their sense of individuality. Thus, the crucial ages in which personality emerges are bombarded with confidence breakers. Addressing this issue could be the key

to transforming the narrative of education from nightmare-like to growth-oriented. Last quarter, I found out about an educational initiative called Books & Breakfast, which operates in several elementary schools (Dewey, Kingsley, Lincoln and Lincolnwood) around the Evanston area. This before-school program offers a healthy breakfast and academic support to students who may need it based on the recommendation of their teachers. But I have found that the purpose of the program goes beyond that. By volunteering frequently at the Dewey site over the past few months, I have had the opportunity to observe the effect that this program has over the kids who enthusiastically wait outside the Multipurpose Room and take out their math homework as if it were artwork. In my personal experience, I feel that beyond serving as an academic tutor, I have gotten to sympathize with the students and support them in the validity of their doubts. A good example roots from the fact that the way math is taught at school nowadays differs greatly from how it was taught ten years ago. This has caused me, and most of the other tutors I have met, to feel challenged by the problem-solving strategies that the students are familiar with. In these situations, I have found that letting a student know that you also struggle with the material can be a very powerful thing. Not only does it allow you to connect with them, but also it teaches the kid that even adults struggle with learning, and that having doubts does not make them any less competent. Subjects like math are approached in a constructive way that focuses on developing learning

techniques and preparing the students for class later in the day. However, this preparation is not only about teaching a kid multiplication hacks, but also about listening to their weekend adventures or reading them a fun book. Activities like these have led me to regard childhood in a much more integral manner. If someone had told me six months ago that I would be dealing with six-year olds and reading them stories I would have laughed in their face, because it had always been very hard for me to connect with kids those ages. These experiences have really opened my views towards the importance of this stage of life. Last week, Books & Breakfast had an event where all tutors from all sites got to know each other and learned new strategies for teaching the kids. I got to meet the executive director, Kim Hammock, whose words about the mission of the program really resonated with my vision: “Our hopes for students are that they would start the school day ready for learning (physically, emotionally and academically), that they would feel more connected and included in their school community, and that ultimately they would experience greater success in the classroom.” By building a nurturing environment where acceptance, support and resources are abundant, not only does Books & Breakfast prepare students for the rest of the day, but also for the rest of their academic journey. Implementing resources like Books & Breakfast helps students build a better image of themselves when approaching scholarly material. The culture of self-deprecation that characterizes present-day academic environments could be allayed if confidence is instilled in students from a

young age. I equate the role of the volunteer to the roles of the different mentors who have helped me through my college experience and have helped me adapt to my new environment. In Kim Hammock’s words, “In addition to providing academic support, volunteers help to create an authentic and supportive community where every student is valued and empowered.” Not only is it beneficial to the students, but also to those who engage in the community by devoting time to the initiative. It is in circumstances like Books & Breakfast that the cliché of teachers learning from the students makes complete sense. Books & Breakfast is undergoing new implementations to extend this effort to stages of development beyond childhood. In February 2020, B&B will launch the program at Haven Middle School. This expansion will come with renewed challenges and operational planning, but the initiative’s genuine and caring spirit will enable it to thrive for years to come. “The middle school model will continue our focus on daily school readiness, but will provide a greater focus on building executive function skills and mentoring opportunities. Haven B&B will meet Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 7:30-8:20 beginning on February 3, 2020,” says Kim Hammock. Laurisa Sastoque is a Weinberg Freshman. She can be contacted at laurisasastoque2023@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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Residents speak out against Welsh-Ryan hosting By JACOB FULTON

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Evanston residents debated possible solutions to parking controversies surrounding professional events at Welsh-Ryan Arena during a Thursday meeting. The 7th Ward meeting was held in response to residents’ concerns about potential obstruction of neighborhood parking during highcapacity events held at the arena. City Council voted on Nov. 11 to allow Northwestern to host seven new for-profit professional events. Ald. Eleanor Revelle (7th) and Michael Rivera, the city’s interim parking manager, presented the plan that suggested the city could issue a separate annual parking permit for the area surrounding the stadium

that would allow residents to park along the street during events.. All other cars would be ticketed. However, some residents have already purchased street parking permits, which would affect their parking status during special events, Revelle said. “The residents who are already in a residential parking district would already be part of the residential parking restriction details,” Revelle said. “They don’t need to buy a new permit — the restrictions would cover their parking.” Resident Laurie McFarlane said she has already seen the effects of NU basketball games and other late-night events, emphasizing that an increase in scheduled programming could cause crowding problems if parking remains unchecked. She said it was important she ensured her voice was heard as the city works to find a

solution. “I’ve often had the experience of coming home from running an errand in the evening and finding my block is parked up because there’s some Northwestern event,” McFarlane said. “I don’t mind the events going on. I think they’re nice, but it’s difficult to be able to find a place to park, so hopefully this system will encourage people who attend those events to park somewhere else.” The first parking permit plan is in its most preliminary stages, Rivera said. He said he was open to altering the city’s course of action. Residents suggested an alternative based on the city’s license plate recognition technology. “We have to start somewhere,” Rivera said. “We need a basis to start. This is a pilot. We can expand from here to more blocks and different plans, but we need to start somewhere.” McFarlane said she felt the residents’

suggestion to use license plate recognition was easier for attendees to understand, and hoped it would be more convenient and effective in ensuring non-residents are ticketed for street parking. “It’s always a little difficult for residents in a busy area to manage the trade-off between freedom to park and expense of paying for permits,” McFarlane said. “The LPR system seems to offer a way to manage parking without some of the expenses of a permit system, so I hope to see the LPR system going forward.” Both plans will be shared with the ward in Revelle’s 7th Ward newsletter, and the city will continue to collect responses from residents before presenting a proposal at a Transportation and Parking Committee at a later date. jacobfulton2023@u.northwestern.edu

The Garage hosts regular startup matchmaking event By YUNKYO KIM

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The Garage, which serves as a matchmaker between NU-based startups and students interested in entrepreneurship, hosted its most recent networking event this Tuesday at Segal Visitors Center. The University’s business incubator presented 14 student-founded startups with around 50 people in attendance. The Garage has been holding these events every quarter since 2017. While most Garage events are held at its North campus location, it migrates once a year to recruit students studying humanities. The matchmaking event started when students involved in Garage startups asked to collaborate with students with diverse skills, said Elisabeth Wright, The Garage’s marketing manager. She said she also started receiving requests from students interested

in entrepreneurship who had no ideas, but wanted to gain experience by joining an existing group. “We thought, ‘How about we just put both of those groups of people in the same room for an hour and give them dinner?’” Wright said. Each startup founder pitched their business ideas before they mingled with potential team members. Startups included Kago Kitchen, creator of superfood jerkies and City Health Tech, which develops wireless sink attachments to encourage handwashing in elementary schools. Naomi Pieczulewski, a McCormick junior and member of MakerGirl, an educational nonprofit that teaches 3D-printing to young girls, said she came to the event to look for volunteers with experience in media and marketing. “We’re looking for people interested in our mission,” Pieczulewski said. “As a bunch of us are engineers and scientists, we’re not really used to the (marketing) side. We’re trying to recruit more diverse groups.”

The nonprofit, which collaborates with schools and youth community partners in Chicago, plans to expand its outreach through its location in Evanston. The startup is planning to host more off-campus STEM sessions to make events more accessible, Pieczulewski said. Wes Jiao, a McCormick sophomore, said he was already involved with programs at The Garage without working in an existing startup, but was compelled to attend the event as he knew many of the startup founders from traveling to San Francisco with The Garage. “It’s interesting to see ideas that my peers and Kellogg students are working on,” Jiao said. “I am mostly looking to hear insight and general ideas.” While he said he wasn’t looking to join a startup, Jiao said he is doing research to create a company that generates an aggregation program for people to personalize and give better gifts. He said he was interested in seeing other people’s ideas and networking with existing startup founders while developing his

own product. Indira Ramos — a graduate student studying communications and co-founder of Mentee, a web service connecting mentors to high schoolers during college applications — said the startup was in the process of developing an app. “I’m really excited to build a community that people find reliable, raw and honest for high schoolers,” Ramos said. “We know how stressful (college applications) can be.” To develop an app, she said, Mentee needs supporters as well as developers and students with experience in finance. Wright said events like The Garage’s matchmaking session are necessary as student entrepreneurs can easily find eager collaborators without hiring from outside of Northwestern. “It’s great that rather than hire somebody to do that, they can tap into the pool of talent that already exists at Northwestern,” Wright said. “It makes The Garage already more diverse.” yunkyokim2022@u.northwestern.edu

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cases to a judge and have the notification waived, though doing so could take time or resources a pregnant teenager might not have. Additionally, Knorr said a parent, guardian, grandparent or step-parent must be notified 48 hours before the abortion, but does not have to agree or sign off on the procedure.

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From page 1 the past.” “Native people dynamic, we’re contemporary,” she said. “So I challenge (my students) to pull these stories forward.” Though Loew said NU has “put effort in

FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 2020 The Illinois Judicial Bypass Coordination Project runs a hotline for pregnant minors who need legal assistance to obtain an abortion. However, Jillian Edmonds, staff attorney of the project, said the parental notification requirement is still enough to create fear. “Running the bypass hotline, we do know that notice, in a lot of cases, is tantamount to consent,” Edmonds said, “because parents have grounded minors, taken away car keys and other things to

prevent them from getting to their appointment.” Knorr, the Right to Life director, said the notification law is important because she believes minors are not mature enough or developed enough to make such important decisions on their own. In the same way the law prohibits actions like smoking or voting, Knorr said we should not allow a “17-year-old girl to kill the child that is inside of her.” Ed Yohnka, the director of communications and public policy for the ACLU of Illinois, is also pushing

for the law to be repealed. He said this law has existed since 1995, but has only been enforced for six years, so repealing it is “reasonable.” “Last year the Illinois legislature and the governor signed a bill that treats reproductive healthcare as a fundamental right,” Yohnka said. “We should make that consistent for everyone, and that’s really what this repeal is about.”

pulled away in overtime. “Throughout the whole time, no matter what the score was, we never really gave up,” Burton said. “I’m not sure there was one specific turning point, but there was never a time we doubted we were going to win the game. As you saw this entire season, no matter what the score is, we know it’s never over.” After struggling to score during the second and third quarter, NU trailed the Hoosiers 57-45 with 7:22 left in the fourth. The Cats went on a 17-5 run

over the rest of regulation, with Burton making the and-one that sent the game to overtime. The extra period came down to the last 40 seconds, when Burton stole the ball on defense, drove to the rim and drew another foul. She hit both of those crucial free throws as well to give the Cats a two-point victory. NU entered the game just outside the NCAA top-25, and the win will likely vault the Cats into next week’s top 25 poll. Even though NU hasn’t

been ranked since January 2016, McKeown said the team is capable of accomplishing even more the rest of the season. “Our league is crazy one through fourteen, so I don’t really get caught up in that and I don’t want our team to get caught up in that,” McKeown said. “But we deserve some of the accolades that are coming our way.”

creating initiatives” to make Native people visible, she also acknowledged challenges present in their advancement. Loew gave the example of a Navajo woman who began a presentation for a job at the University of Wisconsin-Madison by speaking of religious ceremonies involving trees before getting into her quantitative research. The audience of

professors, which Loew said consisted mostly of white males, regarded her presentation as “unfocused” and “not mature enough.” “Being willing to not just tolerate but embrace people who bring a different way of knowing... that’s where it’s not happening,” Loew said, referring to academia. Nikki McDaid-Morgan, a Native American

graduate student at Northwestern, said that she attended the event in support of Loew’s work and her nuanced storytelling. “Every time (I hear Loew speak), I learn something new,” she said. “She’s really a great storyteller, which is part of our traditions.”

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more than 75 annual events and initiated discussions around diversity with an emphasis on web communication and promotion. He also worked to improve the annual diversity and inclusion report, which provides updates on the progress of Northwestern initiatives to promote institutional equity. Bennett is also leading this year’s Martin Luther King Jr. commemoration activities. In an email to The Daily, University spokesman Jon Yates said the University “does not expect” that Bennett’s stepping down will affect any current annual events the office manages this year. Bennett also managed the implementation of the 2016 Black Student Experience Task Force report, and helped facilitate efforts to encourage and increase the success of first-generation, lowincome and marginalized students through Undergraduate Student Lifecycle Planning Committee. A strong supporter of Northwestern communities of marginalized identities, Bennett sponsored the drafting of recommendations at the GenderQueer, Non-binary and Transgender Support Taskforce. This however, is yet to be released by The University. The University said it will start the search to fill his position soon.

tight end Travis Kelce, now the best player in the NFL at his position. Kelce caught 45 passes for 722 yards in his senior year, and the Bearcats had backto-back ten win seasons with Bajakian running the offense. “Kelce was gonna be great no matter what scheme we ran,” Collaros said. “(Bajakian) knew that, but he also made it a priority we get him the ball.” When Bajakian became the offensive coordinator at Tennessee, he had better athletes across almost every position of the roster, like future Pro Bowl running back Alvin Kamara. The Volunteers ran a “shotgun spread offense with pro style principals,” Dobbs said. That meant Tennessee ran most of the same formations Bajakian used at his previous two stops, but the plays were designed for the quarterback to get the ball out more quickly to a playmaker in space. “That system prepared me for the next level,” Dobbs said. From 2015-2018, the Buccaneers were a vertical passing team that featured Winston throwing the ball down the field regularly to playmakers like Mike Evans. Then at Boston College last season, Bajakian’s offense ran the ball over 50 times per game. All ACC running back A.J. Dillon rushed for 1,685 yards

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before declaring for the NFL Draft in December. Bajakian has coached almost every mainstream offense, but he’s proven to be successful at getting star players to be even more successful. “In general, he always likes to get the ball out really fast to his playmakers,” Lett said. “He lets them make plays. He’s big on recruiting speed and playmakers by getting the ball out quickly.”

He remembers the glory days of his career fondly

Bajakian likes to talk about the time he was the quarterback for the Chicago Bears. He never, you know, was actually on the roster, or any NFL roster. But Bajakian got close enough. Bajakian was the Bears’ offensive quality control coach from 2004-2006. In 2006, the Bears had one of the best defenses in NFL history and made a run to the Super Bowl. The team was also short on quarterbacks. So one week, head coach Lovie Smith had Bajakian run the scout team offense. “He claims he completed all his passes as the scout team quarterback,” LeFevour said. “I think I’ve heard that story five or six times. That’s the one story that he always likes to brag about.”

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Veronica Burton comes up clutch for the Wildcats By DREW SCHOTT

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Down by three to No. 15 Indiana with nearly 30 seconds left, Northwestern needed a defensive stop. And sophomore guard Veronica Burton delivered. As the Hoosiers’ leading scorer Ali Patberg lost control of her dribble, sophomore guard Sydney Wood picked up the loose ball and quickly passed it to Burton, who raced down the court and laid up a shot before being fouled by Indiana’s Jaelynn Penn. While the Massachusetts native fell to the ground, her shot slowly rolled around the tip of the rim before falling into the basket, cutting the Wildcats’ deficit to one and giving her a chance

to tie the game. As Burton nailed her ensuing free throw to make it 62 apiece, she put the finishing touches on a 17-5 run for NU that sent the squad’s biggest game of the season into overtime. “No matter what the score was, we never really gave up,” Burton said. “There was never a time where we doubted we were going to lose the game. We know it’s never over until the buzzer sounds.” Burton’s stellar play continued into the final five minutes, as her two free throws with 33 seconds left in overtime gave the Cats a lead it would never relinquish. NU’s 71-69 win over the ranked Hoosiers not only elevated the Cats to a first-place tie in the Big Ten, but also likely will lead to their first appearance in the AP Top 25 this season. Without Burton’s clutch performance, NU may not have prevailed in its first road win against a Top 15 opponent since 1994. “We just dug in in overtime,” coach Joe McKeown said. “The huge play Veronica made… just to

keep the ball in play is incredible. A lot of teams that didn’t show our toughness would’ve gotten beat. But this team is tough… they’re relentless.” Coming into last night’s game at Assembly Hall, the sophomore was performing strongly on both sides of the ball. This season, Burton has averaged a career-high 8.7 points, led the team in steals, and is currently third on the squad in rebounds. Burton had a quiet first quarter and missed her first three shots as NU’s early nine-point lead turned into a 31-24 halftime deficit. Over the next ten minutes, Burton’s two steals and four points weren’t enough to slow the conference’s third-best scoring offense, as Indiana had a ten-point lead into the final quarter. Despite the Cats facing a 12 point deficit in the middle of the fourth, Burton shined. The sophomore grabbed three rebounds — including the one that sent NU to overtime — and made a stellar block on Hoosier forward Brenna Wise.

She also helped stabilize NU’s offense late in the game as leading scorer Lindsey Pulliam struggled from the field and senior center Abbie Wolf fouled out. Burton finished with 15 points, eight rebounds and five steals — a performance that helped lift the Cats to their biggest win of the season and into national recognition. The guard said the team’s “underdog” mentality has guided them to upset wins and the top of the Big Ten. But she emphasized that to continue winning hard-fought games, the team must stay resilient. “It’s definitely a great accomplishment for us to be there right now,” Burton said. “But I think it’s definitely harder to stay there so we got to focus on each game as they come and not really get ahead of ourselves.” drewschott2023@u.northwestern.edu

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Northwestern entered January facing a slate of Big Ten games that promised to be brutal. Then the schedule –– which included four games over a recent 10-day span –– lived up to its billing. The Wildcats (6-10, 1-5 in Big Ten) took steps forward by winning their first conference game versus Nebraska and nearly upsetting Indiana on the road. But NU’s workload showed in their final game of the stretch, as the team saw a loss Tuesday to Iowa. “In the second half (Tuesday), we were gassed,” coach Chris Collins said. “We were hanging around, but we could never find the

energy and the fight that’s needed to beat a team like Iowa.” Against the Hawkeyes, the Cats surrendered 27 points to center Luka Garza and struggled to stop him in the second half. The majority of his points came after the break, and turned a tightly contested game into a blowout. The Cats have three consecutive days off and will have a chance to recover for Saturday’s road matchup against instate foe No. 24 Illinois (12-5, 4-2). Jump-starting the offense will be essential for Northwestern in turning around their season this year. Northwestern is without freshman guard Boo Buie long-term right now, and though forwards Miller Kopp and Robbie Beran and graduate transfer guard Pat Spencer have shown improvement, the Wildcats have yet

to be able to find a consistent go-to scorer thus far. Shooting struggles have hurt the Cats late in games — in the second halves of the past three, NU scored just 28, 20 and 27 points, respectively. “We certainly miss his scoring,” Collins said of Buie. “You take that out of the lineup and it’s going to hurt. I’m proud of what the other guys have been doing and we have to find a way while he’s out to continue.” The Fighting Illini are ranked for the first time since December 2014 and will prove to be an especially challenging and difficult test for NU’s offense. Illinois’ defense has led to the team winning consecutive victories against Purdue, Wisconsin and Rutgers, and the Fighting Illini have jumped to second place in the competitive Big Ten.

After struggling to defend Garza on Tuesday, the Cats’ frontcourt is tasked with containing freshman center Kofi Cockburn, who is averaging a near double-double with 14.8 points and 9.5 rebounds. Sophomore guard Ayo Dosunmu, a Chicago native and the leading scorer for the Illini with a 15.5 point-per-game average, figures to command the attention of the undermanned NU backcourt. Over the past couple weeks, the Cats weathered injuries, travel, lack of rest and tough competition. But Kopp said the team isn’t letting itself make any excuses. “This stretch was a really tough stretch,” Kopp said. “Number one, that’s no excuse. That’s what we signed up for. No one’s going to be sorry for us on the court.” johnriker2023@u.northwestern.edu

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Jameis Winston needed a ride home. It was the summer of 2015, and it was late. These were Winston’s first days as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ starting quarterback after being selected first overall in that year’s NFL Draft. Winston didn’t even have a car yet, and by now all the other teammates and coaches had left. Winston would stay in the facility long into the night to watch film with his quarterbacks coach, Mike Bajakian. Most nights, Bajakian drove Winston home. “Mike and Jameis had some really good years,” said Zach Grossi, the Buccaneers’ former offensive quality control and coach Bajakian’s right hand man in Tampa Bay. “Jameis wanted to learn, he wanted to be great. So he stuck around with Mike.” Now Hunter Johnson, Andrew Marty and Aidan Smith will be taken under Bajakian’s wing. Bajakian was hired as Northwestern’s offensive coordinator in December, bringing over a decade of coordinator experience with him.

Bajakian has a daunting challenge ahead of him at Northwestern. But those who know him say he’s up for it. “He’s one of the smartest people that I know,” said Dan LeFevour, Bajakian’s star quarterback at Central Michigan and one of the leading passers in NCAA history. “In all the times he’s called plays, he’s ran a different offense every time. And he’s been effective every time.”

In the film room, he’s a “mad scientist crossed with a high school teacher”

On Joshua Dobbs’ first day at Tennessee in 2013, he walked into the quarterbacks’ meeting room expecting to be overwhelmed. It can be difficult for a freshman quarterback to learn a new offense, new formations and new teammates. But Bajakian didn’t want to talk about any of those things. Bajakian surprised Dobbs by pulling up defensive film instead of offensive film. Bajakian explained the difference between a Cover 2 defense and a Cover 3 defense. Listening to Bajakian methodically explain basic football principals, Dobbs says he suddenly felt at ease.

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Bajakian called plays at Central Michigan (20072009), Cincinnati (2010-2012), Tennessee (20132014) and Boston College (2019) in addition to working with Winston as Tampa Bay’s quarterbacks coach from 2015-2018. Taking over one of college football’s worst offenses,

“He was really teaching us ways to defeat those coverages,” Dobbs said. “He was teaching me the other side of the ball to understand a defensive coordinator’s mind. That really helped me learn the game of football. He expanded my mind.” Bajakian prioritizes teaching quarterbacks why

they need to make certain decisions, Dobbs said. Eventually, he ran some of the most detailed film sessions Dobbs has ever been a part of. Bajakian enjoys spending 15 or more minutes dissecting one play. He’ll test his quarterbacks’ knowledge by asking questions like, “If the safety blitzed on this coverage instead of dropping back into coverage, what would you do differently?” Those in-depth film sessions worked for Dobbs, who now plays for the Jacksonville Jaguars. And they worked for LeFevour who threw for 12,905 yards at Central Michigan and was drafted by the Chicago Bears in the sixth round. Bajakian also left a lasting impression on former Cincinnati quarterback Zach Collaros, now one of the best quarterbacks in the Canadian Football League. “He knows playing the quarterback position is not necessarily how well you throw the ball,” said Derrick Lett, Bajakian’s former assistant at Tennessee. “You’ve got to know when to throw it, why to throw it. He does a really good job teaching the quarterbacks how to get into his head on why he’s calling a play.

He’s one of the biggest personalities on the football field

According to Lett, Bajakian isn’t a “normal” offensive coordinator. If the offense looks sluggish in practice, Bajakian will substitute himself in on defense with no pads, cleats or helmet. He’ll play cornerback or linebacker alongside the scout team to try to provide some energy. During strength training sessions at Tennessee, Bajakian would go up to the offensive linemen working out and dare them to throw him off his feet to the ground. Bajakian hasn’t played football in over two decades, but he’s taken his fair share of hits as a coach. “As long as players want to learn, they’re going to love playing for Mike Bajakian,” Lett said. “He’s going to keep teaching every day no matter what the circumstances are, and his level of preparation is never going to change.” Bajakian brings the same energy on gameday. As the quarterbacks coach in Tampa Bay, he wouldn’t watch Winston warm up before a game. Instead, Bajakian took reps right alongside Winston, and Bajakian competed with Grossi to see which of the assistant coaches could complete the most passes. “That was something we always looked forward to, just getting to sling it in all these cool stadiums,” Grossi said. “Sometimes you had to battle the elements, or your shoulder was a little sore. We never had much sleep, so you always had to battle that. And the quarterbacks would always

get into it with us.”

He’s proven to be a great recruiter

In December of 2012, Joshua Dobbs was sitting in French class wondering where he was going to attend college. He’d committed to Arizona State, but Dobbs was having second thoughts. All of a sudden, Bajakian knocked on the door and pulled Dobbs out of class. They talked for an hour. “I thought that was just one visit and then he was going to be off telling the same thing to the next quarterback down the street,” Dobbs said. “But he came two more times that week. He was the reason I went to Tennessee.” Dobbs wasn’t the only great quarterback Bajakian recruited to Tennessee. Bajakian recruited Nathan Peterman, who eventually started 8 games in the NFL. And Bajakian recruited Riley Ferguson, who transferred to Memphis after Bajakian left for the NFL, and Ferguson became a first team all-conference player. “It was important for me to have a coordinator who was very hands on with the quarterbacks,” Dobbs said. “The way he communicates brought the best out of me. He says what he wants from you and shows you how you fit into that puzzle.”

As a play-caller, he had all the answers

When Bajakian became Central Michigan’s offensive coordinator in 2007, LeFevour was a sophomore. In the first meeting between the coach and the starting quarterback, LeFevour had a point he wanted to get across. “I told him ‘I’m a fast guy, you want to add some quarterback runs or anything?’” LeFevour remembers. “And he was like, ‘we’ll see.’” LeFevour had run for 521 yards the previous year. But he wasn’t the only weapon in the offense –– Central Michigan had two star running backs on the roster and Antonio Brown starting at wide receiver. In Bajakian’s first season, they all wound up having career years. Running a traditional spread offense, LeFevour threw for 3,562 yards and ran for 1,122 yards. The two running backs, Ontario Sneed and Justin Hoskins, combined for 1150 yards on the ground. And Brown caught 102 passes for 1,003 yards. “(Bajakian) is very confident in how he wants to attack defenses,” LeFevour said. “I can’t remember a time he was incorrect.” When Bajakian was hired to run the offense at Cincinnati, he tailored the spread offense to » See BAJAKIAN, page 6