The Daily Northwestern – January 19, 2016

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BLM demands lead to meeting

Students, admins to talk diversity

By FATHMA RAHMAN

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KING’S LIFE Kellogg Prof. Nicholas Pearce delivers the keynote speech during the Martin Luther King Jr. Day Candlelight Vigil. Pearce discussed the importance of working hard to promote justice and equality.

NU honors Dr. King’s legacy

By MATTHEW CHOI

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Candlelight and solemn voices filled Alice Millar Chapel on Monday during the 37th annual candlelight vigil honoring the life and legacy of Martin

Luther King, Jr. The vigil, started in 1980 by the Alpha Mu chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, is held every year in celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The result of a year of planning by the Evanston Campus MLK Commemoration Committee and Alpha Phi Alpha, this year’s vigil featured a keynote speech

from Kellogg Prof. Nicholas Pearce and a ceremony in which excerpts from King’s speech, “Where Do We Go From Here” were read.

In his address, Pearce spoke about the importance of using a college education to improve the greater community. Life should not be lived on » See VIGIL, page 6

Seven Northwestern students will meet with administrators Tuesday to discuss diversity and inclusion issues following a list of demands sent to University President Morton Schapiro that call for improving the experiences of students of color.

Administrators responded to the demands, published on the Northwestern Black Lives Matter Facebook page and sent to Schapiro in November, with an invitation for a select number of student representatives to be chosen to participate in a smaller discussion.

The students selected were Weinberg senior Hazim Abdullah, SESP senior Qunsia Daniel, Weinberg junior Marcel Hanna, Weinberg sophomore Jayleen James, Weinberg freshman Jamal Julien, Communication sophomore Darcelle Pluviose and SESP sophomore Michelle Sanders.

“The selection process was very secretive,” said Julien, who found out Dec. 22

he was one of the students selected. “We didn’t volunteer, we didn’t initiate this — we just sent emails with our names on it (to NU Black Lives Matter) and the rest was a secret. It was not an open or democratically selected process.”

Julien said the selected students will be going over the list of demands and speaking from their own experiences in a conversation he hopes will result in a more inclusive campus.

“It would seem that the administration wants to be diverse without working on inclusion,” Julien said. “It seems that most of the changes have been reactionary rather than proactive. Like with the Black House, no one really reached out to students. No one listened until we basically stormed the building in order to get someone to listen to us.”

Prior to publishing the list of demands, students had gathered outside the Black House on Nov. 13 to protest institutional racism and marched across campus to disrupt the groundbreaking of the lakeside athletic complex. Students read off a preliminary version of the list and officially posted it on Facebook on » See BLM, page 6

City celebrates MLK’s life through art, conversation

By NORA SHELLY

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Evanston residents celebrated the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. through song, dance, speech and conversation Saturday at the Fleetwood-Jourdain Community Center.

The Fleetwood-Jourdain Community Center, 1655 Foster St., organized two events to honor King’s life and work, the first of which was a ceremony featuring performances and speeches from members of the Evanston community. More than 125 city residents, including Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl and State Rep. Robyn Gabel (D-Evanston), came together to reflect on King’s life and ongoing racial tensions in the country.

“When we celebrate Martin Luther King, we are celebrating more than Martin Luther King,” said former Evanston mayor Lorraine H. Morton at the ceremony. “We’re celebrating

all the people — even people here in Evanston — who got on that bus and went to Selma.”

The ceremony featured performances from various Evanston youth, including The Evanston Children’s Choir and the Evanston Dance Ensemble. Attendees praised the youth performances, saying their involvement symbolizes how important it is for younger generations to understand and learn from King’s legacy.

“The young people should know the history, how far we’ve come and how far we have to go,” said Evanston resident Brenda Grier, who said she tries to attend all of the city’s events celebrating King.

A community discussion titled “King, Race, and the Arts” followed the ceremony and allowed residents to explore the influence of King and other Civil Rights leaders on modern racial relations. The discussion was hosted by members of the Evanston Arts Center along with

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representatives from FleetwoodJourdain Theatre, Making Evanston Equitable Together, Insight Arts and Black Lives Matter Chicago.

Much of the discussion centered around unequal representation of black art. Some community members argued that work produced by black artists was not presented or displayed as much as work made by white artists.

“I think we have to shift it that black art and black plays are Americana,” said Dr. Melissa Blount, an Evanston-based psychologist and cofounder of MEET. “That is America — it’s not a separate story.”

Although the premise of the community discussion was to examine inequalities in the arts and King’s influence, the participants delved into a variety of topics, including strategies for increasing the voting rate among minorities and limiting police violence toward the black community.

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significant portion of the discussion on the pervasiveness of what the discussion leaders referred to as nonviolent “white supremacy” in American culture. They explored the idea of “racism without racists,” which posits that racism is not always presented in the form of bigoted treatment from individuals, but is intrinsic in a social system that itself is unequal and prioritizes the needs of whites.

“Part of white supremacy is not recognizing that you have the choices that other people do not have,” said Lesley Williams, head of adult services at Evanston Public Library.

Several participants called for further education about the black experience for white people in America in hopes that it will lead to greater understanding of how racism works in modern society.

“My goal is to get people into the room to talk point by point about reclaiming King and talking about » See KING, page 6

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CELEBRATE The Fleetwood-Jourdain Community Center hosted a Day of Celebration honoring Martin Luther King, Jr.’s life and legacy on Saturday.

The events included a ceremony and community discussion, both of which explored the state of race relations in modern society and the arts.

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Around Town ‘Chi-Raq’ screening spurs gun violence discussion

By RISHIKA DUGYALA

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Around 50 Evanston residents discussed possible solutions to Chicago-area gun violence after city officials hosted a free screening of Spike Lee’s “Chi-Raq” at the Fleetwood-Jourdain Community Center on Saturday afternoon.

“Chi-Raq,” based on the Greek play “Lysistrata,” centers around a woman on the South Side of Chicago who convinces the other women in her community to abstain from having sex with men in two rival gangs until they agree to end the violence. Although a comedy, the movie explores the reality of gang and gun violence on the South Side.

Lesley Williams, head of adult services at Evanston Public Library and the discussion’s facilitator, used the movie as a framework to explore the issue of gun violence in Chicago and surrounding neighborhoods.

Williams probed the audience as to who was responsible for the deaths of certain characters in the film.

“The system!” an audience member shouted out.

“What makes up the system?” Williams asked.

“All of us,” the audience member replied.

Viewers shared their opinions on whether or not religion helps people cope with tragedy, how to create new jobs to counteract crime and poverty and how to strengthen the bonds of community — bonds that many elderly residents insisted were broken when guns and drugs first entered Evanston.

One of the attendees who spoke up was Carolyn Murray, an Evanston gun control activist who lost her

Police Blotter Two teens caught, not charged for attempted theft Two teenagers attempted to steal sunscreen Thursday from Whole Foods Market, 1111 Chicago Ave., Evanston Police Department spokesman Perry Polinski said.

A store employee reported the incident to EPD,

son, Justin, to gun violence in 2012. Murray talked about her loss and her role in organizing gun buyback programs as a way to reduce crime in Evanston.

“It was cheaper and easier for an Evanston youth to get a gun than it was for him to have an amount of money to go to a movie theater,” Murray said. “I had this idea (of a gun buyback program) because I was sick of gunshots outside of my house. It took murder, and I don’t call them deaths, I call them murders, because my son was murdered.”

“Chi-Raq” garnered a lot of criticism from local officials such as Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and activists who considered Lee’s approach to depicting the city’s gun violence problem to be inappropriate. They said the flashy, comedic nature of the film detracted from the severity of the situation.

This is the first time Evanston has screened a movie this controversial, said Porschia Davis, the city’s assistant youth and young adult program manager. Davis, who co-hosted the event, told The Daily “Chi-Raq” was chosen to allow people within the community the access to see the film because the local theater did not show the movie.

Linda Gates, head of voice in the Department of Theatre at Northwestern, provided some background and brief explanation of “Lysistrata” before the screening. Gates told The Daily it was important that audience members had at least a basic understanding of the play before watching and analyzing the film so they were able to draw parallels between the two and better grasp the important message of the movie.

“You can live your life and sort of not know or not be affected by (Chicago’s violence), and that’s why I think it is important that the whole Chicago but the grocery store decided not to file a formal complaint, Polinski said. The responding officers turned in the two 14-year-old boys to their parents, Polinski said.

The sunscreen was recovered and the boys face no further charges, Polinksi added.

Three cars burglarized on Dobson Street

Three cars were burglarized Thursday in the 1000

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TALKING POINTS Around 50 Evanston residents gathered at the Fleetwood-Jourdain Community Center on Saturday for a free screening and subsequent discussion of Spike Lee’s movie “ChiRaq.” The film, which was released in 2015, explores the issue of gun violence in Chicago.

community focuses on this,” Gates said. “The film is Spike Lee trying to deal with it. … At least somebody’s trying to do something, which is more than we can say for a lot of our politicians.”

The goal of the discussion was to bridge gaps in perception among Evanston residents and push them to dig deeper into the issues of violence seen in “ChiRaq,” Davis said. Participants were urged to reflect

on how they could change their own actions and, as individuals, create a safer and stronger environment.

“Think about the issue of blame,” Williams said at the end of the discussion. “Think about the difference between taking the blame and taking responsibility.

How do we as a community take responsibility?”

block of Dobson Street, police said.

The thieves entered two of the cars, a Toyota and a Honda, through unlocked doors and entered the third, an Acura, by breaking a window, Polinski said.

The only missing item was an iPhone charger taken from the Honda.

The owner of the Honda, a 23-year-old man, reported three suspicious juveniles checking car doors, but the burglars fled the scene when the

responding EPD officers arrived, Polinski said. The officers patrolled the area and eventually stopped two 15-year-old boys, but the Honda owner could not identify them, Polinski said.

One of the teenagers was turned over to his parents and the other was arrested for curfew violation, Polinski said.

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Alice Millar Chapel (1870 Sheridan Rd.) Join us as we hear from Dr. Nicholas Pearce, Clinical Assistant Professor of Management & Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management. There will be musical performances by Northwestern student groups and a reception to follow. The Candlelight Vigil is hosted by the Alpha Mu Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity.

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Grad students form bonds over meals

By RACHEL SILVERSTEIN

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Graduate Women Across Northwestern held its first Winter Quarter Meal with Strangers last week, an event at which six graduate and professional women socialize with peers from different departments to create relationships spanning fields of study.

The purpose of these dinners is to allow graduate students a chance to socialize across departments, said Corinna Wendisch, GWAN’s social chair and a graduate student in the Department of Mathematics. “(Attendees) talk about different career goals, or just current events in the world, and come together from their respective viewpoints,” she said.

Founded in Fall 2006 by the Kellogg School of Management’s Women’s Business Association, GWAN was created to give graduate and professional women at Northwestern opportunities for community building.

This quarter, the organization is hosting four Meals with Strangers in restaurants around Evanston. GWAN President Lynn Meissner, a second-year graduate student

NU granted free admission to Museum of Contemporary Art

A new partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago means members of the Northwestern community have another free museum to visit the next time they are in downtown Chicago.

NU students, faculty and staff who show their WildCARD will have free admission to the museum starting this month. The museum, which is located across the street

in the Human Development and Social Policy doctoral program, said the meals — at which six women go out to dinner paid for

by GWAN — take place at least four times a quarter.

Graduate students who have attended Meals with Strangers in the past can choose to host a dinner at a restaurant of their choice, and other graduate women can sign up to attend one of the dinners being held that quarter, Wendisch said. Generally, the organizers try to ensure that no two guests are from the same department of study to promote diversity of experiences and perspectives, she added.

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It’s nice to have time to meet up with people from different departments and see what challenges they’re facing.

Eureka Foong, first-year graduate student

Eureka Foong, a first-year graduate student in the Technology and Social Behavior program, attended the Meals with Strangers event

from NU’s Chicago Campus, features a collection of about 6,000 works spanning a variety of styles including minimalism, conceptualism and surrealism.

The museum is also home to MCA Stage, which features contemporary performances in its 300-seat theater, and a sculpture garden.

All students, regardless of undergraduate, graduate, professional, part-time or full-time status, will have access to the partnership’s benefits. This differs from the University’s collaboration with the Art Institute of Chicago, which began in 2013 and provides free admission during regular hours only to

at Table to Stix Ramen, 1007 Davis St., on Jan. 13 with five other graduate students. She said she had a great time and met women from the biology, Spanish and Portuguese departments.

“It’s nice to have time to meet up with people from different departments and see what challenges they’re facing,” Foong said. “It’s relatively low-barrier. You just bring people together with free food.”

Throughout the year, GWAN also sponsors workshops, speakers and other events directed at graduate women. Past events have included workshops on negotiating with an adviser, learning how to code and how to balance motherhood with a career, Meissner said.

However, Meals with Strangers continues to be the organization’s staple event. Wendisch said graduate students tend to have a difficult time meeting peers outside of their department, and Meals with Strangers is a good way for such students to connect with each other. “(Meals with Strangers is) a really good first step for people to get to know GWAN,” Meissner said. rachelsilverstein2019@u.northwestern.edu undergraduate students.

Other aspects of the partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago include discounts to performing arts events, as well as docent-led tours for faculty who request them in advance. With the new partnership, the Intercampus Shuttle will begin dropping off and picking up NU passengers in front of the museum.

The partnership was managed by the Student Organizations and Activities department within Campus Life, which also worked on the partnership with the Art Institute.

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Why Northwestern students must not give in to fear ALEXI STOCKER

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“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself,” President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared March 4, 1933 in his first inaugural address.

Less than four years before Roosevelt was sworn in as the 32nd president of the United States, the U.S. stock market crashed, putting an end to the “Roaring Twenties” and kicking off the Great Depression. Fascism was on the rise worldwide; Benito Mussolini had ruled in Italy since 1925, and in January 1933, less than two months before Roosevelt’s first inaugural address, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany.

With depression at home and chaos abroad, the world in 1933 was a frightening place. And yet, in the midst of the worst economic catastrophe in modern history, and on the eve of the most destructive war in human history, Roosevelt told the American people — frightened, hungry, jobless — they had nothing to fear but fear itself.

Today, the American people are once again afraid. Polls have found that Americans are afraid of mass shootings, terrorism and,

sadly, Muslims. A vast majority of Americans believe a large-scale terrorist attack on U.S. soil is likely to occur. Furthermore, a solid two-thirds believe the U.S is on the “wrong track.” Americans are afraid of economic collapse, corporations tracking their information and a whole litany of other things.

People in the U.S., including students at universities like Northwestern, are afraid. We have reached a period of heightened perceived conflict and fear, an era of uncertainty few expected in the triumphalist decade and a half following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Despite our fears, the world is now the safest it has ever been. ISIS, although horrific in its methods, does not present an existential threat to the U.S. the way Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan did. China, our greatest geopolitical rival, shares many of our economic interests. The Russian Federation, heir to the Soviet and Tsarist legacies, is a shadow of the former state’s might. And the Great Recession, which began in December 2007 and ended in June 2009, was not nearly as damaging to the U.S. economy as the Great Depression — although the initial collapse was faster and more dramatic, recovery has been swifter. The U.S. is not yet to pre-recession levels of employment, job growth, family income or household wealth, but the worst is over. The U.S. is still the preeminent global

superpower — politically, economically, militarily and culturally — but Americans are still afraid.

Fear in and of itself is not a problem. Fear is a natural reaction to perceived threats, a necessity for our early ancestors. We have developed as a civilization since our years as hunter-gatherers, and we now have the capacity to rationally evaluate and handle our emotions.

We have Fear in the wake reached a periodof a terrorist attack is understandable. It is of heightened natural. Allowing that fear to fester is danperceived gerous. Fear of terrorconflict and ism quickly becomes fear, an era of fear of Muslims, uncertainty few Arabs, darker-skinned individuals or any expected... individual deemed an “other.” This pernicious fear strikes at the very heart of what it means to be an American, and renders us servants of our emotions.

“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.” It is disturbing how accurately the words of “Star Wars’” Jedi Master Yoda describe the current state of fear in this country and even at this school.

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Students at institutions like NU are the future leaders of our generation. It is our duty, therefore, to stand up and say, without equivocation or hesitance, we are not afraid.

We must make it clear we are not afraid of terrorism, of economic collapse or of gun violence, because we know approaching these problems rationally is the only way to solve them. Politicians must know they cannot use minority groups — be it Latinos, Muslims, African Americans or LGBTQ individuals — as scapegoats for our economic, social and geopolitical fears.

In the 21st century, there truly is nothing to fear but fear itself. Fear is what the global enemies of civilization, freedom and peace — ISIS, al-Qaeda and North Korea — want us to feel. Terrorists and dictators want to divide us, because our fear, our anger and our hate can spread far more suffering than their meager arsenals and tiny followings ever could. Victory over terrorism, autocracy and hatred does not need a leader; we can all do our part, as students, leaders and humans, by refusing to give in to fear.

Alexi Stocker is a Weinberg senior. He can be reached at alexistocker2016@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.

Obama’s cancer moonshot is flawed, but necessary SAI FOLMSBEE

DAILY COLUMNIST

Last week, President Barack Obama gave the final State of the Union speech of his presidency. Interestingly, tucked between a discussion of economic policy and the impact of climate change, he made a rather bold medical announcement. He declared that “for the loved ones we’ve all lost, for the family we can still save, let’s make America the country that cures cancer once and for all.”

In this so-called moonshot initiative, his goal was to inspire American scientists to buckle-down, pull together and finally put together a meaningful cure for one of the most relentless diseases in humanity. Although this initiative may be shortsighted and not based in either scientific or medical evidence, it remains one of the most important scientific statements made on the national scale.

First, the idea that a “cure for cancer” will ever exist is pure fantasy. Not because cancer is inherently incurable, but rather because there is not one “cancer.” Cancer can strike

Letter to the Editor

Concerning the use of John Evans’ name on campus spaces

This letter is a response to the recent article on the petition to remove John Evans’ name from campus in which President Morton Schapiro is quoted as saying, “I think sanitizing history is a mistake, I think taking people’s names off as if they never existed is a mistake and I think at an educational institution people should be educated. I think the worst thing would be is you expunge names, so I think either you keep a name and tell honestly the history, good and bad, or you take off a name but say this used to be called (something else).”

It’s ironic that President Schapiro’s rationale for keeping Evans’ name is that he doesn’t want to sanitize history. The history of this university has long been sanitized (read: whitewashed).

The names of the people whose land this campus sits on have long been expunged. What’s especially frustrating is that part of campus, specifically Norris, was so close to rectifying this. Last spring, NAISA was approached by members of Norris’ social justice committee for input on renaming the Evans Room on the

in any organ system in a number of different ways. And even within a single tissue type, there can be huge varieties in the types of tumors present. For example, in breast cancer, there are lobular carcinomas, ductal carcinomas, inflammatory breast cancers and many more. These classifications serve a practical purpose — unique cancers respond in remarkably different ways to treatments, and each carries a different prognosis. This is why current cancer therapies for breast cancer can vary between hormonal drugs, biologic agents, chemotherapy, radiation and more.

Despite this, there persists an idea that if we simply study cancer more, we can find a cure. This myth likely still exists because this strategy has worked so well historically for other diseases. For example, the discovery of antibiotics allowed for the remarkable treatment of nearly all bacterial infections, and what used to be deadly viruses are now prevented with simple vaccines. But cancer is not as simple.

That is not because cancer isn’t being heavily researched. Right now, there are huge numbers of laboratories and scientists currently studying cancer, and the National Cancer Institute is one of the largest funded institutes from the National Institutes of

Health. But unlike the progress we have made with other maladies, the more we learn about cancer, the more we learn about how complex and diverse it is. We now know that some cancers can manipulate the immune system, alter the growth of its blood supply and spread through the body using any and every possible route. But each time we find something new, we discover that each aspect of cancer is much more complicated than we previously thought.

That doesn’t mean cancer treatment hasn’t improved greatly with research. Survival rates for most cancers have improved over the past few years. The major reason cancer remains the modern scourge is not that it is getting worse; rather, humanity has extended its life span so effectively that it’s becoming increasingly more likely we will eventually encounter some form of cancer in our lifetime.

Obama isn’t wrong to call for a cancer cure. In fact, he is doing what so few politicians are willing to do, which is value real scientific discovery. The federal government is one of the largest supporters of academic scientific research, and it should be proud of that fact. Americans need to know that the president calling for scientific research is exactly within the power and purview of the

government.

And research needs that support badly. In 2015, the NCI’s annual research budget was $4.95 billion. Although that may sound like a lot, it has remained largely stagnant over the past decade, averaging only $4.9 billion per year. However, for 2016, the projected budget will be $5.21 billion, an important increase of over $250 million. This boost is meaningful, because when funding dries up, the competition between labs intensifies and avenues of research are abandoned.

Obama is right to highlight cancer research in his State of the Union address, and this coming year may mark a turning point in appropriating real support for investigating cancer research. Though he may be wrong in his analysis of how a cure for cancer will ever arrive, he is absolutely right in making sure the American public knows that we need to support scientists if we ever hope to get close to one.

second floor of the student center. We were delighted to receive information in August that the room will be renamed as Potawatomi, in honor of the nation that inhabited these lands. However, we were told just two months later that the name of the room would remain Evans. This update was as confusing as it was infuriating. Somehow Norris staff came to the consensus that naming the room after Evans was problematic, agreed to reconcile the issue by renaming it and then decided that keeping Evans’ name was for the best. It seems that word came from somewhere higher up that Evans’ name should remain, which brings the administration’s commitment to reconciliation into serious question.

We agree with President Schapiro that historical erasure is not the answer, but it is important to consider what kind of history we are choosing to preserve and what kind we are choosing to ignore. To name a space after someone is one of the highest forms of honoring that person.

By naming the alumni center, the Norris room or a professorship after Evans, the university is complying with a historical narrative that is one-dimensional, and oppressive to Indigenous communities. Naming a building after Evans doesn’t tell the honest history about him as President Schapiro suggests. Instead it idealizes the individual by illuminating his achievements, so that his past wrongs are forgotten.

But history is only part of the problem. The naming of spaces has a very real and contemporary effect for people on this campus. The debilitating effects of Indian mascots on American Indians are well-documented. Mere exposure to Native caricatures has measurable effects on self-esteem and self-identity for Native populations. Is it so hard to believe that a bust of a man who was implicated in the worst act of genocide in American history has similar effects? University of Washington professor Karina Walters

had a very telling quote at an open forum during her visit to campus last week: “When you name a space after someone like Evans, what that communicates to Indigenous people is, ‘you don’t belong here.’” If Northwestern is truly committed to supporting Native students, faculty and alumni, then why does it allow this message to persist?

Sai Folmsbee is a Feinberg graduate student. He can be contacted at sai@northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.

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The man, 34-year-old David Palomares, was arrested in February 2014 after officers recovered 170 grams cocaine and $2,000 in cash from his Chicago home in the 7000 block of North Oakley Avenue, Polinski said. The bust was part of an ongoing EPD special investigation, and Palomares was charged with unlawful possession of a controlled substance and possession with intent to deliver, Polinski said.

Palomares remained in jail since the arrest and plead guilty at the Skokie Courthouse on Wednesday to the manufacture and distribution of cocaine, Polinski said.

Palomares’ sentence includes four years in prison, two years of supervision and $2,464 in fines, police said.

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Schapiro told The Daily last month he received nearly 60 emails with the demands. He said he was impressed by students’ dedication to speak out on issues that mattered to them.

“There are some issues that aren’t easy to resolve,” he told The Daily, “Most presidents would say this is an opportunity to make our schools better, and reflects well on (this) generation of students who care enough to disrupt their lives to not only make Northwestern better but to try to weigh in about national and global issues.”

Schapiro responded to the student body with an email signed by him and other administrators that listed steps the University has taken to improve diversity, equality and inclusion on campus, committing in the email to further progress through community discussions.

Although details about Tuesday’s discussion are not being released, Julien said the ultimate purpose behind the meeting is to develop an open relationship with the administration.

“We just want a relationship in which … all students, regardless of what they identify as, feel comfortable on campus and don’t have to fight for spaces, don’t have to fight for rights, don’t have to fight to be comfortable on their own campus,” he said. fathmarahman2019@u.northwestern.edu

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ASG speaks at Big Ten conference

By ERICA SNOW

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Three Associated Student Government leaders traveled to a student government conference at Rutgers University this weekend to discuss campus issues including shared governance, mental health and college costs.

ASG President Noah Star, Executive Vice President Christina Kim and Chief of Staff Simran Chadha attended the Association of Big Ten Students winter conference in New Jersey to interact with representatives from 13 other schools and hear about their work with their college communities.

The Northwestern representatives gave a presentation that focused on its relationship with the administration and student groups,

King

From page 1 … how King was making connections and to model that with the connections we can make in our given fields,” Keith Brown, director of education for the EAC and facilitator of the discussion, told the Daily. “I think there was some great dialogue and great exchanges.”

Participants at both events discussed how King had been an inspiration in their personal lives.

Rev. Dr. Gessel Berry Jr., the pastor of

Vigil

From page 1 autopilot, but should be built on the goal of bettering society, Pearce said.

“How you spend your days is how you spend your life,” Pearce said. “Don’t wait for applause.

You will sometimes walk alone. But you owe it to yourselves to dream big dreams … and walk boldly.”

In addition to being a professor at Kellogg, Pearce is also involved in several religious and community organizations across the Chicago area, including the Chicago Community Trust’s African American Legacy initiative, where he serves on the board, and the Apostolic Church of God, where he is an assistant pastor. “(Nicholas Pearce) just sort of brings to the community his own personal peace activism and ministry,” said Medill Prof. Charles Whitaker, co-chair of the Evanston Campus MLK Commemoration Committee and a former board member of Student Publishings Co., The Daily’s

and its formal structure to the full delegation.

“We’re the smallest school in the Big Ten, but we actually have one of the larger student governments,” Star, a Weinberg senior, said. “On other Big Ten campuses, much of the advocacy comes directly from student government. Our job is helping student advocates … and being advocates for their voices when they ask us to.”

Students discussed an affordable textbook resolution passed at Wednesday’s ASG Senate during a larger discussion about college affordability at the conference, and Star said the resolution was well-received by other campus leaders.

The conference also brought up issues that NU hadn’t considered before, like graduate student representation in student government, Chadha, a Communication sophomore, said.

Representatives at the conference were able to break out into smaller discussion groups,

which Kim, a McCormick senior, said she valued as a chance to learn about issues across campuses and compare resolutions.

Student government can vary widely between schools and it’s important to be exposed to those differences, Star said. He added ASG defines itself as “facilitating advocacy,” and realizes that there may be other experts student groups can work with besides ASG. “You get to see what other people are doing, what best practices work for them,” Star said.

“It can be an affirming space in that you see other schools trying other things. It can confirm great strategy and it can show you better strategy in areas in which you might be struggling.”

NU will also send delegates to the Big Ten on the Hill conference in April in Washington.

Sherman United Methodist Church, 2214 Ridge Ave., said he was influenced by King as he began his theological degree at Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary in September 1968, a few months after King was assassinated.

Berry, who was the keynote speaker for the ceremony, said he learned the importance of love, power and justice from King.

“Dr. King said let justice roll down like righteousness,” Berry said. “He said he was a drum major for justice and that’s what we need to do and to be today. All we have to do

is stand up.”

Alexis Harris, a child actress involved in the Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre, read an excerpt from King’s last speech at the ceremony and said she is influenced by King’s words and actions.

“Taking the time to celebrate Martin Luther King’s legacy is important to me,” Harris said.

“His life has changed my life, his words have changed my words and his heart has changed my heart.

parent company, “We like to, when possible, feature members of the Northwestern community in that particular address. We just thought he’s a wonderful choice.”

Following Pearce’s address, McCormick senior Joshua Wright, a member of Alpha Phi Alpha, read from King’s 1967 speech “Where Do We Go From Here” as attendees lit candles.

“I must confess, my friends, the road ahead will not always be smooth,” Wright read. “There will be rocky places of frustration and meandering points of bewilderment … Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.”

The event also included a musical performances by a cappella group Soul4Real and an invocation by Associate Chaplain Tahera Ahmad, who spoke about King’s relationship with Malcolm X and recited verses from the Quran.

Alpha Phi Alpha first started the vigil to commemorate King, who was a member of the fraternity, before the creation of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The vigil also provides an opportunity to reflect on the work of King and the work left to

be done toward racial equality, said Whitaker, who has co-chaired the committee for four years.

“There are some disturbing parallels between Dr. King’s time and the time in which we currently live,” Whitaker said. “That’s not to say there hasn’t been progress, but there’s still much more work to be done on the civil rights, social justice front, and this commemoration provides us with an opportunity to think about how we will continue to work to provide justice for all citizens.”

Since the first vigil, the celebration has grown to a week of programming commemorating King, including a day of service and a student orator contest. Alpha Phi Alpha Chapter President Damilola Arowolaju, who also served on the planning committee, said he was happy to see how far the celebration has progressed.

“It’s great that the entire community is joining arms in celebrating and commemorating the life of MLK.” Arowolaju said. “It keeps the spirit of Dr. King alive.”

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Women’s Basketball

NU unable to shut down hot Terrapin shooters

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At times on Sunday, Maryland’s basket looked twice as big as Northwestern’s.

The No. 8 Terrapins (16-2, 5-1 Big Ten) shot 45.3 percent from the floor, 52.6 percent on 3-pointers and used a balanced attack in an 80-62 win over the Wildcats (13-5, 2-4) in College Park.

NU’s defensive performance was uncharacteristically poor. The Cats entered Sunday’s game allowing opponents to shoot just 24.9 percent from 3-point range and 37.7 percent overall.

Maryland’s 80 points marked only the third time this season NU has allowed that many.

The shooting output was not, however, an anomaly for the Terrapins. Through 17 games, they have shot 49.8 percent from the field, the third best mark in the country.

Brene Moseley, who scored 17 points on Sunday on 6-of-11 shooting, has shot at least 50 percent from the field in 13 games this season.

“Maryland played really well,” coach Joe McKeown said. “They executed.”

Kristen Confroy’s performance, contrary to much of Maryland’s effort, was not expected.

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Overall, NU shot just 11.1 percent from long range.

“We just couldn’t get going,” McKeown said. “We were a little tired. We’re a better team than we showed today. It’s just frustrating more than anything else.”

The Cats showed a few signs of a potential comeback, but Maryland always had an answer. With time running out in the third quarter, junior guard Ashley Deary banked in a heave from beyond half court to

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in a single game, hit her first seven en route to a 8-of-10 performance from beyond the arc and 24 points.

Despite her blazing shooting, she routinely found ways to get open. Early in the fourth quarter, Shatori Walker-Kimbrough found Confroy open on a cross-court pass with five seconds on the shot clock. Confroy sunk the shot.

“There were two things that happened: We left her open — not on purpose — so that’s something we have to address,” McKeown said.

“And then she hit some tough shots when we did guard her.”

The Cats’ defensive performance on Sunday in some ways mirrored Thursday’s against No. 5 Ohio State. The Buckeyes scored 82 points and shot better than 47 percent from the floor.

NU, however, shot 45.2 percent against Ohio State, compared to just 36.6 percent against Maryland. The Cats made just 2-of-18 3s on Sunday.

“We had a lot of shots in transition that we normally make that we struggled with tonight,” McKeown said. “Good shots, too.”

NU’s main issue, however, was defense. The Cats will need to shore up their defensive work ahead of Wednesday’s trip to Minnesota, as the Gophers feature Rachel Banham, who is second in the Big Ten in both points per game and 3-pointers made. colepaxton2019@u.northwestern.edu pull NU within 12. Yet, the Terps went on a 6-0 run, bringing their lead back to 18, which would be the final margin.

“I actually thought we could get it down to single digits in the fourth quarter … maybe get in some transition, turn them over a little bit,” McKeown said. “But we never could get to that point.”

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When you shoot so poorly, a lot should be made of the shooting. But, to me, you’re not going to make shots if if you don’t have the right attitude starting the game.

— Chris Collins, men’s basketball coach

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By MAX SCHUMAN

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n another cold Evanston night against another Big Ten opponent, Northwestern was ice-cold early and couldn’t climb all the way back.

The Wildcats (15-4, 3-3 Big Ten) found no scoring rhythm of any kind in the game and suffered an ugly defeat at the hands of Penn State (11-8, 2-4), 71-62. NU shot just 38.8 percent from the field and 3-for-26 from 3 in another home conference defeat, this time at the hands of a Nittany Lions squad sitting near the bottom of the Big Ten. The loss to a Penn State team not expected to finish among the elites of the conference especially hurts for an NU team attempting to make the NCAA Tournament for the first time in school history.

Penn State forward Brandon Taylor, the Nittany Lions’ leading scorer, scored 19 points to lead the way for Penn State, while forward Donovon Jack had 14 points and 9 rebounds off the bench.

Meanwhile, senior guard Tre Demps scored 22 to lead the way for the Cats, while sophomore guard Bryant McIntosh scored 12 points and dished out 10 assists in his first career double-double.

Senior center Alex Olah returned from a foot injury after missing six games but wasn’t able to spark NU’s offense in limited minutes, going 1-for-4 from the field and struggling with touch after the long layoff. Olah finished with 5 points in 7 minutes.

Coach Chris Collins said Olah was overly anxious in his return to the court.

“I know how badly he wanted to be out there,” Collins said. “He took a couple rushed shots.”

The Cats started slow offensively, as they shot just 28.1 percent from the field and failed to make a 3 in 12 attempts in the first half en route to a 30-23 deficit at the break.

NU missed another 6 3-pointers before Demps finally connected from deep with 10:21 remaining in the game.

Collins said he told his team at halftime to focus on getting the ball to the rim and to keep shooting open shots.

“I told them to flush whatever happened,” Collins said. “I felt we were in decent position because we had made nothing and we were only down 7.”

Penn State led by as many as 18 in the second half, giving the Nittany Lions enough cushion to withstand a late NU run that made the final score more respectable for the home team. The Cats outscored Penn State 26-17 over the game’s final eight minutes.

Two 3s from Demps and freshman forward

Aaron Falzon cut the score to 57-46, breathed life into the stadium and forced a Penn State timeout with just under four minutes left in the game, but the Nittany Lions hit their free throws late and NU’s comeback attempt fell short.

Demps said a lack of confidence early kept the Cats from playing their best ball offensively early.

“It’s a good lesson for our team,” he said. “We have to get on the attack, be aggressive, be confident.”

NU tried to hang in the game despite its shooting struggles by winning the turnover battle and hitting the offensive glass. Penn State turned the ball over 13 times in the game to the Cats’ 4, while NU snared 12 offensive boards to boost their scuffling offense.

But NU’s inability to score early made the comeback too much to ask of the Cats, as the Nittany Lions did just enough late to hand NU a third Big Ten home loss in four tries.

The Cats will look to get back on track as they travel to No. 3 Maryland on Tuesday.

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Men’s Basketball

Poor 3-point shooting keys NU’s loss to Nittany Lions

By GARRETT JOCHNAU

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With just over 10 minutes remaining in Northwestern’s home contest against Penn State, Tre Demps watched his 3-point attempt find the bottom of the net. A packed Welsh-Ryan crowd exploded — the result of growing frustration after the Wildcats missed their first 17 attempts from deep.

But the senior guard’s shot failed to turn the tide for the Cats, who finished the night 3-of-26 from deep in Saturday’s 71-62 loss.

Freshman forward Aaron Falzon began the game with a miss from the

perimeter, and 40 minutes later, watched a garbage-time 3-point attempt rim out as the buzzer sounded. From start to finish, the Cats were hopeless from deep, and it showed on the scoreboard as they suffered their first truly terrible loss of the season.

“A lot’s going to be made of the shooting, and obviously, when you shoot so poorly, a lot should be made of the shooting,” coach Chris Collins said. “But, to me, you’re not going to make shots if you don’t have the right attitude starting the game.”

The shooting nightmare comes on the heels of a winning effort against Wisconsin, after which Collins stressed the team could win without relying on three-point shooting.

Against Penn State, however, the Cats dug themselves into too big a hole.

Coupled with a strong shooting performance from the Nittany Lions — who went 9-of-21 from deep against a struggling NU defense — the Cats’ 3-point effort ultimately proved to be their downfall.

“There was a lack of togetherness tonight,” Demps said. “I don’t know why or what, but I think… the key with our defense is talk, and there wasn’t as much communication as there was last game against Wisconsin. When there’s no communication, that’s when you lose guys.

And we lost guys. We gave them a lot of open threes.”

Falzon was easily Northwestern’s coldest player. He finished the night 1-of-9 from the perimeter, scoring just 5 points.

Demps similarly struggled, going

2-of-8 from three and failing to snap out of a slump that has plagued him over the team’s recent stretch.

And while a few of the misses were the result of a Penn State zone that pushed the Cats beyond the 3-point line, many came on open looks.

“I thought we got some looks… and then we just couldn’t make those,” Collins said. “When you’re at home, everyone knows you can’t hit a shot. Every shot becomes the groaning, and that is what it is. I’m doing that inside.”

As the night progressed, the expectation that every shot would fall off target became widespread. Eventually, the team gave in and relied on aggressiveness to get to the rim instead.

The ensuing run gave Welsh-Ryan a

final boost of energy, but it proved to be too little too late.

Fittingly, a Demps miss from deep with just under two minutes remaining sparked a fan exodus as NU’s fate was sealed.

If Tuesday’s win over Wisconsin inspired confidence in fans that NU was ready to compete on the big stage, Saturday’s loss did the opposite. The team resorted to its shot-heavy ways, and with a lid on the rim, the Cats watched a winnable game crumble before their eyes.

“The first thing Pat Chambers said to me at the end of the game (was) ‘we made shots and you missed them,’” Collins said.

“Sometimes it’s a make or miss game.” garrettjochnau2019@u.northwestern.edu

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By WILL RAGATZ

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Women’s Basketball Daily file photo by Katie Pach

NOT-SO-MERRY LAND Christen Inman leaps for the score. The junior guard was one of only three Wildcats to reach double-digit points on Sunday against Maryland.

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Last time Northwestern faced off against a top-10 conference foe, it started hot and held on for a victory. This time, the Wildcats started slow and couldn’t mount a comeback.

No 8. Maryland (16-2, 5-1 Big Ten) used a 26-13 first quarter and strong shooting to cruise to an 80-62 victory over the Wildcats (13-5, 2-4) on Sunday. “(I’m) just disappointed,” said coach Joe McKeown. “We didn’t play very well today. I don’t have a great reason because we played great Thursday night, beat Ohio State, and I thought that momentum would carry into tonight.”

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In the win over No. 5 Ohio State on Thursday, NU started on a 10-3 run and led by 18 at halftime, then spent the rest of the game staving off the Buckeyes’ comeback attempt. Against Maryland, Northwestern was the team forced to play catch-up.

Two Terrapins put up double-doubles against NU: guard Kristen Confroy and center Brionna Jones. Confroy hit eight 3-pointers, including her first seven attempts, for all of her game-high 24 points, while also adding 10 rebounds.

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Jones put up 14 points and 14 boards.

Guard Brene Moseley came off Maryland’s bench to add 17 points and seven assists. McKeown said Maryland’s hot shooting from the perimeter opened up opportunities for the Terps on the inside. “(Confroy’s shooting) just opens up offensive rebounding lanes for them and being able to throw the ball inside Brionna Jones,” McKeown said. “We had a hard time guarding her and those two really hurt us.”

Junior forward Nia Coffey led NU with 19 points and nine rebounds. Senior guard Maggie Lyon and junior guard Christen Inman chipped in 13 apiece for the Cats, although the two were just 1-for-9 from beyond the arc. » See SLOW START, page 7

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