The Daily Northwestern — January 22, 2020

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Holloway officially set to leave for NJ Provost spoke on hopes for the role, to start on July 1

By TROY CLOSSON

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Pritzker Prof. Deborah Tuerkheimer speaks about the legal issues surrounding the #MeToo movement and why victims and survivors often resort to informal reporting.

Prof. talks reporting in #MeToo era Tuerkheimer discussed the rise of informal reporting in the movement

By VIVIAN XIA

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Prof. Deborah Tuerkheimer spoke on Tuesday in Harris Hall about the rise of informal reporting in the #MeToo movement.

The Center for Awareness, Response & Education and the Women’s Center hosted the talk. During the talk, Tuerkheimer highlighted the “woeful inadequacies” of formal

channels for reporting sexual assault and harassment.

“My argument is that the failings of these formal systems lead victims and survivors to turn increasingly to back channels,” Tuerkheimer said.

Tuerkheimer said formal reporting “often exacts a significant toll on survivors,” and survivors often find going to authorities “costly” and “useless.” Prosecutors would have to prove that the crimes were committed beyond a reasonable doubt — which can often be a

difficult process, she said.

As a result, victims and survivors resort to using unofficial communications channels for allegations of abuse. These include the different whisper networks and the court of public opinion. The #MeToo movement has illustrated how women often use “whisper networks” with one another, which can allow survivors to share their accounts with select insiders. » See ME TOO, page 7

After reports surfaced over the weekend that he was set to leave Northwestern to become the first black president of Rutgers University, Provost Jonathan Holloway reflected on his journey to the role — from his time as a doctoral student to now — at a press conference Tuesday in New Brunswick.

“Mom, I got the job,” toward the end of his emotional speech.

The Rutgers Board of Governors unanimously approved his appointment Tuesday morning at a joint meeting with the school’s Board of Trustees.

Holloway will start his role as president on July 1. In his speech, Holloway spent time opening up about his initial apprehension coming into the role, discussing his hope for strong relationships with those on campus in his role and outlining a vision for the athletic department of NU’s Big Ten rival. He also addressed becoming the school’s first black president.

“The fact is, we are still living in an era of firsts and

that comes with an awesome responsibility, which is exciting and very flattering. And also shameful, to be honest,” Holloway told NJ Advance Media.

“But this is the work that is in front of me.”

In a Monday statement, Northwestern president Morton Schapiro called Holloway an “indispensable member of my senior leadership team.”

“Since he joined Northwestern,” Schapiro wrote, “he has led with vision, empathy and integrity while ensuring our core values remain intact.

He has developed our educational policies and academic priorities and recruited several outstanding new deans to the University’s academic leadership team.”

In his two and a half years in Evanston, Holloway implemented a new review process for deans, helped start the Undergraduate Student Lifecycle Initiative to support firstgeneration and low-income students and launched Books for Cats as a program to loan students STEM textbooks. He also served as provost through Northwestern’s budget deficit and during student pushback to visiting professor Satoshi Kanazawa last winter.

Schapiro said in the statement more details on the plan for finding Northwestern’s next provost will be shared in the next few days. troyclosson2020@u.northwestern.edu

Explaining NU’s Rabbi Bernstein announces departure new budget surplus After f ive years, he’s planning on leaving Northwestern Hillel NU makes some cuts permanent, reinvests in CAPS

By GABBY BIRENBAUM

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In the two years since Provost Jonathan Holloway disclosed the University’s budget deficit to Faculty Senate, administrators made cuts to academic departments’ budgets, laid off dozens of staff members and even cut down on some holiday tree lights and students’ beloved ice rink.

With a budget surplus estimated to be $66.5 million in a January 9 email to the Northwestern community by University President Morton Schapiro and $68.7 million in the 2019 Financial Report, administrators now have a “small but important” fund with which to make needed investments while

maintaining some of the controls that helped balance the budget, Schapiro wrote.

“A challenge we always face is to balance short-term interests with the commitment our University has made to serve future generations as capably as this one,” Schapiro wrote in the email. “Discipline remains essential, as our revenue streams and endowment are subject to shifts in the economy. Thus, we have asked campus leaders to continue with prudence in their Fiscal Year 2021 resource planning.”

Vice president for business and finance Craig Johnson told The Daily earlier this month that his office will be using the surplus money to “layer (spending) back in” to a few areas of need that did not receive sufficient investment during the two-year budget deficit. One such area is Counseling and Psychological Services. Johnson said » See SURPLUS PAGE 7

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Rabbi Brandon Bernstein will be leaving Northwestern Fiedler Hillel after five years as campus Rabbi.

Bernstein’s duties included leading religious and spiritual life on campus for Jewish students, but many felt his impact on campus went beyond that.

He spearheaded initiatives relating Jewish life to social justice and mindfulness, added creative activities during holiday services and much more.

“I hope that students are able to recognize that Judaism is very flexible and robust, and can survive academic inquiry and change,” Bernstein said.

“There’s no such thing as one Judaism but rather many different Judaisms, and I hope that more students feel that they can be part of the ongoing » See RABBI, page 7

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Northwestern Fiedler Hillel. Rabbi Brandon Bernstein has made a profound impact on the Northwestern Jewish community in his five years as campus rabbi.

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AROUND TOWN Council tackles affordable housing Tuesday night

By JULIA RICHARDSON

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City Council members focused heavily on affordable housing at Tuesday’s meeting, with aldermen voting to pass two housing-related ordinances and also placing on file two other project reports.

The council unanimously approved two housing ordinances, one of which proposed construction of an addition to the CJE SeniorLife Building, which would include 60 affordable units for adults 62 and older. The other ordinance will allocate $2 million for a senior housing project.

Margaret Gergen, a member of the AgeFriendly Evanston Action Plan working group, presented the the Age-Friendly Evanston Market Assessment for Independent and Assisted Living Needs in Evanston.

The report described a previously approved plan that focused on three parts: providing more affordable housing units for independent seniors, providing affordable assisted living units for seniors and expanding shared-housing options for seniors.

Gergen said that the Age-Friendly Action Plan needs more implementation, and to do this, independent and assisted living would be combined into one project. Fifty units of affordable independent living, 50 units of affordable assisted living and 50 units of market-rate assisted living were part of the original plan, but the current plan includes a smaller number of unit additions due to lack of funding and feasibility issues.

Ald. Cicely Fleming (9th) expressed support

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A 62-year old Evanston man was arrested Saturday evening and charged with battery.

The man reportedly shoved a 31-year-old

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Ald. Ann Rainey (8th). Rainy inquired about the possibility of home sharing in Evanston.

for the plan.

“I am very supportive and I would love to help you push on our state elected officials,” she said.

“Thank you so much for doing this and for pointing this out, and hopefully you guys will come back

and present us some real peaceful options that we can move forward.”

Ald. Ann Rainey (8th) brought up large-scale home sharing and inquired if there had been any research done in regards to brining that concept to

female victim, who fell down and injured her shoulder, Evanston police Cmdr. Brian Henry said. The man was arrested on the scene of the incident, which took place around 7:15 p.m. at 1427 Chicago Ave., Henry said.

The man is now in custody, and is scheduled to appear in court on Feb. 14.

Hair care items stolen from Choice Beauty Supply

A group of teenagers entered Choice Beauty Supply at 319 Howard St. on Saturday and stole an unknown amount of items, police said An employee told officers the teenagers came into the store at around 2:15 p.m., and took various hair

Evanston, and Gergen said that she and her team had looked into it.

“There are actually some, I think you could call them, prototype models of that in Illinois,” Gergen said. “Those are areas we did not do a site visit for, but perhaps that will be on the agenda coming up. It seemed like a very affordable way of living.”

City Council voted to accept the assessment and place it on file.

However, a waiver of building permit fees, which Fleming proposed, for coach houses and accessory dwelling units was held for further discussion. If accepted, these fees would have been waived if the owner agreed to rent out the ADU at an affordable rate to income-eligible households.

Ald. Melissa Wynne (3rd), said she understands why people want to waive the fee, but also explained her concerns.

“These are all things that we’re recouping the cost of what it takes to inspect and make sure that things are constructed properly,” she said.

The council also accepted the Affordable Housing Work Plan, presented by Sarah Flax, the city’s housing and grants administrator. The plan included highlights including City Council approving a zoning ordinance at its Jan. 13 meeting.

The ordinance proposed zoning changes to facilitate construction of ADUs/coach houses.

Many housing projects are also underway, and revenues for affordable housing increased with the new year.

“Those are steps,” Flax said. “Small, but nonetheless there.” juliarichardson2023@u.northwestern.edu

care related items, Henry said.

The employee was unsure about the items, quantities and approximate value of what was stolen, and said the store did not have surveillance footage of the incident.

As of now, there is no one in custody.

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ON CAMPUS Sexualities Project reflects on progress

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This year marks the tenth anniversary of the creation of the Sexualities Project at Northwestern, which supports research and education in studies related to human sexuality and sexual orientation by providing funding to Northwestern professors, graduate students and other relevant programs.

Sociology and gender and sexuality studies Prof.

Héctor Carrillo and sociology Prof. Steven Epstein founded SPAN in 2010. Carrillo said they were compelled to propose SPAN and seek an endowment after they noticed many individual — but not collaborative — research efforts about sexuality across departments at NU. “We saw this initiative and this effort as a way to try and bring together — not necessarily under one umbrella, but rather under a kind of constellation — interested people at Northwestern that would help us consolidate a little bit of work that was happening,” Carrillo said.

Carrillo said SPAN was important for strengthening and expanding the field of sexuality studies, an understudied field because of past stigmatization. He said sexuality is a window through which to look at society as a whole, including broader issues like culture, politics, discrimination and other societal issues.

“SPAN is important as a way to suggest that this is important work precisely because sexuality is such a central and important aspect of the human experience,” Carrillo said, “and one that for some reason, compared to many others, academia has been reluctant to fully explore.”

Since 2010, SPAN has supported research opportunities for graduate students, including over 200 conference trips. The scope of the research, all somehow related to gender and sexuality studies, is not limited to one department at NU. Addie Shrodes, a SESP graduate student, said she’s used SPAN to help support her dissertation research on transgender and gender-expansive

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SPAN provides crucial funding to graduate students and faculty members to conduct research related to sexuality studies.

teens who use social media. She said SPAN’s support is incredibly valuable to the work she’s doing.

“I have never seen another university, personally, that offers that kind of funding, specifically for research on sexualities,” Shrodes said. “It really opens up a lot of doors for grad students who are trying to do that work and are not supported financially by their own departments.”

Shrodes said she wants to understand the learning, literacy and identity work happening when teens engage with social media. She said the potential theories that come from research such as hers may help design learning environments to better support students, especially marginalized students.

SPAN also supports the work of faculty across the University. The project has funded eight postdoctoral fellows and over 30 different faculty research projects.

Communication Prof. Jeremy Birnholtz said he received SPAN funding multiple times to research how people share information about themselves

online in a process called presentation. He has been focusing on LGBTQ+ communities, specifically, because their involvement in this phenomenon hasn’t substantially been researched, Birnholtz said.

“It’s often hard to get funding to do work with marginalized populations, and there hasn’t been a lot of work in that space, in part because it’s hard to get funding to do it,” Birnholtz said. “And so (SPAN) really enables us to do work.”

Carrillo said it’s clear based on the number of people applying to the program that the need for the program exists, so SPAN wants to continue its current initiatives. Some changes in the future could include the project looking to partner with other sexuality studies programs at NU. “SPAN has been quite successful during these past 10 years in actually doing what we wanted to do,” Carrillo said, “because it has put Northwestern on the map of sexuality studies, nationally and internationally.”

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No states should have bicameral legislatures in the U.S. ZACH BRIGHT

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This is the second column in “Democracy DoOver,” a weekly series exploring and making the case for improvements in how we elect public servants and ensure effective representation by all levels of government.

Anyone who’s taken an American history or government class knows the story of why our Congress has both a House of Representatives and Senate. It goes something like this: Delegates to the Constitutional Convention from less populated states favored equal congressional representation regardless of the number of residents. Conversely, highly populated states wanted representation to

reflect population. The compromise? A bicameral legislature with a Senate that gave two senators to each state and a House that was proportional to population.

Now the story ends here, and this resolution might seem like a sensible solution given the situation the Constitution’s framers were handed (barring modern-day advocates against this model). If we look at state governments, nearly every single one has a bicameral legislature as well. However, there was no dilemma of representation for which compromise within states was required.

Yet, because Congress seemed to be structured efficiently, states followed suit in creating their constitutions. But because state legislatures are largely the bodies that draw their own district lines for their own state House and Senates, what is the point?

The argument for bicameral state legislatures is feeble at best. At a federal level, the two bodies have certain defined responsibilities. For instance, while only the House

can introduce appropriations bills and draft articles of impeachment, the Senate is key in approving most presidential appointments and holding a trial if a president is impeached. At a state level, the substantive differences between a state House and Senate are limited and can easily be carried out by a single legislature.

Simply put, having two houses of a lawmaking body is nonessential representation, an unneeded layer of government. Having just one body would mean that taxpayer money doesn’t have to fund hundreds of unnecessary bureaucratic positions.

Nebraska got it right when it held a 1936 referendum to unify its bicameral legislature. Today, it’s the only state that only has a Senate. It’s still able to legislate just like any other government. Meanwhile, other states have the chance to experience greater levels of gridlock, as a House and Senate both have to pass a bill for it to be sent to a governor’s desk.

That’s not to say that changing this is easy. The people who would be responsible for this change are the same lawmakers who would be out of a job if they moved to unify their legislatures. Moreover, it might appear to be less of a salient issue when change clearly isn’t high on a list of agenda. But it’s not impossible. This type of restructuring could be carried out by posing the question to voters, as was the case with Nebraska, or even at a federal level.

If this kind of low hanging fruit weren’t so low on the government’s agenda, this change might actually be able to come about.

Zach Bright is a Medill sophomore. He can be contacted at zachbright2022@u.northwestern.edu.

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What I learned about life from rapper Mac Miller BEN BORROK

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What does it mean to live? Beyond surviving, what are we meant to be doing here with the time we are given? Existential questions like these were common themes of the late Mac Miller’s albums. Starting his career as a classic “fratty” rapper with hits like “Knock Knock” and “Nikes On My Feet,” Miller grew into a dynamic force in music over the course of the last decade, culminating with the posthumous release of “Circles” this past weekend.

His tragic death at the hands of an accidental overdose shouldn’t overshadow his impact on his fans and his fellow artists, especially when his story is hardly an anomaly in this day and age.

Miller struggled with addiction. It’s not a secret, and to avoid its discussion would be a disservice to him. Young people resonate with him because of how candid he was regarding his own demons. Isolation commonly becomes a coping mechanism for those suffering a similar struggle and shame usually follows.

Following his initial battles with drug use, Miller wrote the albums “GO:OD AM” and “Swimming,” that display his ability to reflect on the mistakes he made and the future he envisions for himself.

Unlike so many artists today, Miller exhibited an ability to grow with his followers. His rap career began at age 15, far before maturity could be expected. What was so special about his career was that he refused to let himself get labeled as one-dimensional. It’s the first lesson he taught me: Don’t live your career for someone else.

Instead of appeasing the initial fans of his music by reproducing the same generic form of hip-hop, he invited the world to come along with him on his own musical journey.

Too often, we cede control of our fate to others, living a life chasing the ambitions

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Malcolm James McCormick, AKA Mac Miller, onstage at the Coachella Music and Arts Festival in Indio, Calif., on April 14, 2017.

and expectations of the people that surround us. We seem to lose sight of what is actually important in our quest to merely survive.

Miller’s final two albums were a step in a new direction, embracing his singing ability that he had hidden away for so long.

“Circles” is deeply personal. It exposes the insecurities of an artist who inspired such confidence in the people who were in contact with him and his projects. Despite all the success he had achieved in his career, the new album reveals a plethora of concerns he had about himself and the world around him. It’s the second lesson he taught me: Question everything.

As a college student, there isn’t a day that goes by without some sort of anxious thoughts regarding my future. Will that feeling of inadequacy ever go away? Will I learn the skills required to be successful? Will my career make me happy? Much of the sentiment in

these questions is reflected in Miller’s music.

He sings of hoping to make it through the day without sadness, to escape from the fears and anxieties that riddle his head. He wonders, outloud, if there is a path to normalcy.

The anguish in his songs was hidden within him for so long, fueling his addiction. To come to terms with these ongoing concerns was a form of therapy, possibly a message from Miller himself to anyone out there going through a similar situation.

Hearing him mirror my concerns gave me comfort in my discomfort. I realized that there is nothing wrong with seeking answers and trying to decode the world. To worry about life is part of the human experience.

No matter how old you are or how much success you have, life has a way of reminding you that no one is perfect. If Mac Miller, with his musical success, following of loving fans, and tight-knit group of friends didn’t have it

figured out, then what pressure is there for me to put it all together?

In the lead up to “Circles,” a video of Miller surfaced online in which he encouraged fans to have an optimistic outlook on life. “Life is great. Your life is great too.

Have a good time, man, have some fun.” he exclaims. The video ends with the most important lesson he taught me: It’s okay to have fun.

I transferred to Northwestern from a small school where I was deeply unhappy. I couldn’t find my place in their ecosystem and knew that I needed a fresh start. But while I was there, I compounded my unhappiness by comparing it to the lives of my friends on social media. I punished myself for being alone by further isolating myself. I denied myself a chance to create memories and connections.

Arriving at school this year, I knew that I needed to change my mindset. Miller laid it out so simply. All I had to do was relax.

Whether I was in the company of friends or enjoying quality time alone, there was nothing stopping me from doing the activities that make me happy. I am responsible for my own fun, and that isn’t as daunting as it used to be.

There are some people that will believe these lessons are invalidated by the drug addiction that ultimately killed him. But to understand Miller’s life as a tragedy would be to misinterpret his ethos. No one is perfect, he had his flaws, but we are all just trying to live the best we can. Taking inspiration from others helps us feel like we aren’t alone on our own respective journeys.

There may be times when you haven’t seen the sun in a while, but Mac Miller wants you to remember that the sky is still blue.

Ben Borrok is a Weinberg sophomore. He can be contacted at benjaminborrok2022@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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At Northwestern, MLK Dream Week began yesterday as NU’s celebration of black history through public events, lectures, discussions, service initiatives and art showings. The recognition of Martin Luther King Jr. Day extended past campus into Evanston as well, with a number of different events.

Northwestern’s Alpha Mu Chapter of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity hosted its 41st annual candlelight vigil. Evanston students also participated in Eva Jefferson Day at the Norris University

Center for a Monday afternoon aimed at racial empowerment.

Later that day, historian Jenny Thompson emphasized the human side of history during her Monday book presentation about the 1968 Bursar’s Office Takeover at the Evanston History Center.

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Year of Chicago Music to promote range of artists

By SAMMI BOAS

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2020 will be the Year of Chicago Music, according to Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot and a Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events announcement.

Led by Department Commissioner Mark Kelly, the Year of Chicago Music aims to establish Chicago as one of the music capitals of the world and to connect its musician community.

“This is the first time that leaders in the classical world are connecting with those in hip hop, those in jazz and blues and the list goes on,” Kelly said.

“So how do we create a more integrated culture that looks more like a sector and not just an array of individuals doing good work?”

As a part of the initiative, Chicago will hold an 18-day music celebration across the city from May 21 to June 7, incorporating the already existing House Music Festival, Gospel Fest and Blues Fest among other performances.

Kelly said he hopes the music festival will become one of the more popular music festivals over the course of the next five years.

“It’s a festival that’s about both our legacy and how music lives across genres today,” Kelly said. “Everyone’s going to be part of it, everyone’s excited and it’s about to be unleashed.”

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Kanye West performs at the 57th Annual Grammy Awards at Staples Center in Los Angeles on Sunday, Feb. 8, 2015. West is famously from Chicago, along with other popular artists like Chance the Rapper and Common.

The year’s initiative will also provide building grants to the South and West Sides for music industry infrastructure and professional

development workshops on topics such as copyright and iTunes music publication.

Joan Hammel, a committee member for the

Year of Chicago Music, said people can find performers for bookings or other events on a new online band roster.

“A part of the initiative is to bring together people who otherwise wouldn’t necessarily partner together,” Hammel said. “They’re hoping to put music in places, particularly for young people who might not otherwise be exposed to live performances.”

Kelly said he wants music to define part of the Chicago lifestyle for young people. The initiative will ensure Chicago’s youth can access instruments, lessons and music experiences in the city.

Jake Trussell, a member of the marketing, professional development and research and policy working groups for the initiative, said throughout the year, the research and policy working group will investigate possible gaps in Chicago’s music industry.

Trussell said musicians often move from Chicago to the coasts in pursuit of better career opportunities. He said the new initiative will sustain Chicago’s vibrant artistic community by building a brand that highlights the city’s history and future.

“One of the cool things about Chicago is that we don’t brag about ourselves,” Trussell said. “It’s this great incubator for incredible talent and even businesses, but it tends to just do the work and not spend too much time bragging about it. And so, I think that the opportunity for the Chicago music brand is to kind of continue that legacy.” samanthaboas2023@u.northwestern.edu

EPL panel discusses various mass protest movements

By MAIA SPOTO

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Honoring Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy of direct action, Evanston Public Library and Northwestern University’s International and Area Studies program partnered to host a panel discussion about protest movements throughout the world Monday evening.

Rising tides of activism and authoritarianism are clashing in one of the largest waves of nonviolent mass movements in world history, said moderator and assistant director of International and Area Studies Danny Postel. In the panel and Q&A, professors from Northwestern, University of Illinois at Chicago and DePaul University examined mass movements in Lebanon, Chile, Hong Kong, India and Iran for an audience of about 150 community members.

Librarian Lorena Neal said she hopes the panel will inspire Evanston residents to consider how their actions affect change in their communities. Neal said Martin Luther King Jr. warned against prioritizing order over justice in his “Letter from Birmingham Jail.”

“The Martin Luther King holiday… (has) often provided an occasion for diluting his radicalism in favor of a more sanitized legacy,” Neal said. “In all of the celebrations … to judge others by the content of their character and not the color of their skin, it’s easy to forget that in 1968, shortly before his death, Martin Luther King had a public disapproval rating of 75 percent in

Northwestern women’s basketball finally enters AP Poll at No. 22

The wait is over.

Northwestern woke up to good news Monday morning: After spending the entire season thus far on the outside — and in the past few weeks specifically, only receiving votes despite

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DePaul University professor Kaveh Ehsani. Ehsani spoke as part of a panel of five professors at Evanston Public Library Monday afternoon.

the United States.”

The panel discussed movements that fight for justice across a broad spectrum of socioeconomic issues, from economic corruption and mismanagement to failed democratization and sectarianism. In India, protests have taken a distinctly political shape, DePaul professor Shailja Sharma said.

To understand the movement in countries like India, Sharma said individuals need to understand the

protesters’ identities. Broad swaths of the country have formed unlikely coalitions to provide intersectional support for the repressed Muslim minority in India, she said.

“An extremely diverse group of people… in terms of religion, age, background and origin (are protesting),” Sharma said. “This profile has made it very hard for the government to push back, because they don’t know which buttons to push to divide this crew.”

holding one of the Big Ten’s best records — the Wildcats were finally ranked in the AP Top 25.

NU (16-2, 6-1 Big Ten) received the No. 22 spot in this week’s AP Poll. It is the first time the Cats have been ranked in an AP Poll since Jan. 4, 2016, and their first appearance in any national ranking since Jan. 18, 2016, when they were ranked No. 20 in the USA Today Coaches Poll.

This is the third season in which the Cats have been ranked in the AP Top 25 during coach Joe

McKeown’s 12-season tenure in Evanston. NU was ranked for four weeks during the 2014-15 season, which ended in a trip to the first round of the NCAA Tournament. During the 2015-16 campaign, the Cats spent nine weeks in the Top 25, reaching as high as No. 12.

NU’s all-time best AP Poll ranking came on Dec. 10, 1990, when the Cats were named the No. 6 team in the country. NU won its first and only Big Ten title that season.

The Cats are one of three Big Ten teams in

Postel said America plays a role in the unfolding narrative of global activism, as groups have mobilized to support progressive causes in the past decade. He said last weekend’s Women’s March, youth environmental activism and the March for Our Lives were examples of high turnout generating change.

However, audience member Elise Auerbach said she feels American activism often fails to achieve the scale of disruption produced by protests in, for example, Hong Kong and Lebanon. She said while Americans turn out to protest in large numbers, they don’t succeed in actually impacting government officials, so a wide segment of the population remains “complacent.”

“I go out to some of these protests, myself,”Auerbach said. “You march around with the sign, you chant and you go home.”

DePaul University professor Kaveh Ehsani said many protests today are lacking a vision of “utopia” around which to mobilize. He said American protests need to envision an alternative future that challenges the status quo.

A successful protest, Ehsani said, will generate bottom-up solutions instead of asking for people in power to implement incremental, top-down changes.

“We need to think of alternatives collectively,”Ehsani said.“That comes from street protest. It won’t come from Davos (World Economic Forum), or corporate elites or political elites simply discussing it. It has to be built as a grassroots movement.” maiaspoto2023@u.northwestern.edu the Top 25. Indiana — who the Cats beat in overtime on Thursday — dropped two spots to No. 17, while Iowa — who demolished NU on Jan. 5 — moved up three spots to No. 19.

NU won’t face either of those teams again this regular season, but it will play No. 20 Maryland on the road on Jan. 26, a rematch of the Cats’ big upset win over the then-No. 12 Terrapins in December.

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From page 1 “Victims, survivors alleging sexual abuse through unofficial channels can find their accounts validated in important ways,” Tuerkheimer said.

These whisper networks also allow for victim empowerment and are often very survivor-friendly places, Tuerkheimer said, providing victims and survivors with catharsis, validation and solidarity.

The increased use of technology has helped further foster the use of those networks. They have been conducted through invite-only Facebook groups, for

SURPLUS From page 1

the University will be “deploying more resources” to add positions to CAPS, including a sports psychologist, with more details to be announced soon.

Construction on building projects that had been put on hold — such as the Donald P. Jacobs Center, the James Allen Center and the top floors of Mudd Library — will resume. The surplus will also be put toward funding the Faculty Pathways Initiative and implementing recommendations from the Undergraduate Student Lifecycle Committee toward improving the experience of first-generation, low-income students on campus, including dedicating a community space.

Johnson said spending on information technology and the faculty and staff compensation pool were among the first cuts in 2018. With new cash on hand, the University is planning to fund new IT infrastructure to defend against

RABBI

From page 1 conversation of what is this tradition that we’ve inherited.”

Northwestern Hillel executive director Michael Simon, said he has witnessed the impact Bernstein has made on many people’s lives of many people through his teaching.

He noted Bernstein’s ability to take creative approaches to celebrating the holidays through activities like making edible Torahs,making the holidays feel more relevant to students.

Simon said Bernstein has gone above and beyond his job as campus Rabbi, and has formed relationships with people and other faith

example, and sorority women at Yale University have used other platforms in a similar manner.

“The spread of technology has allowed traditional whisper networks to flourish, even in the absence of face-to-face encounters,” Tuerkheimer said. “And that’s because information can be disseminated rapidly across workplaces and large college populations.”

This talk was hosted in preparation for the visit of Tarana Burke, the founder of the #MeToo movement, to campus next Monday. Both CARE and the Women’s Center wanted to inform people about the legal side of the #MeToo movement, Carrie Wachter,

the director of CARE, said.

“We also, at the same time, have been seeing more and more of these informal disclosures, and then unfortunately some legal ramifications that come as a result of that,” Wachter said. “So what we wanted to do is provide a resource — being Deborah Tuerkheimer — to come and talk through what that could look like.”

Wachter added if people feel inspired after seeing Burke, it would be useful for them to also know the legal side of the #MeToo movement.

Some members of the audience, including Communication freshman Kara Toll, found the talk to be

very informative and enjoyed learning about the legal side of the #MeToo movement.

“It was extremely informative and I really enjoyed learning about these different things that I don’t really know very much about given that I don’t really know a lot about the legal aspects of disclosing or how informal versus formal disclosing works,” Toll said.

Toll said she felt that it was very beneficial for her to go forward knowing more about these processes so that she can be a better ally to survivors.

cyber-attacks and provide for maintenance updates.

The July 2018 layoffs of 80 staff members was arguably the toughest and least expected consequence of the deficit. While no faculty members were laid off, Johnson said the faculty salary increase pool was a “modest 2 percent” with a salary freeze for administrators, deans, managers and other high-earners, and a 0 percent merit raise pool to ensure there would be no layoffs.

The rate of inflation for 2019 was 2.3 percent.

The University paid out about $19 million more in salaries, wages and benefits in the 2019 fiscal year than 2018, which represents the modest 2 percent salary increase pool and a 1 percent decrease in staff salary spending due to the layoffs. Johnson said in the years before he arrived in 2018, that ‘salaries’ line item was regularly increasing around 8 percent.

“We were finally able to bend that cost curve,” Johnson said. “But, it took a lot of hurt.”

For the schools that rely on the University for

funding, which includes all of the undergraduate schools, budget administrators will “get the full amount possible” for salary increases and merit raises, he said. The new funds will be distributed equally across departments.

The deficit was also curbed by the controls placed on expenses, including the 5 to 10 percent cuts to operating budgets across the University, including all academic units, student groups funded through the University or departments and administrative units. Those budgets won’t return to their pre-cut levels, Johnson said.

While the cuts contributed to ending the deficit, the surplus was created through greater earnings in a number of revenue streams. Between the 2018 and 2019 fiscal years, the University earned $30 million more in tuition, $20 million more in unrestricted private gifts and $48 million more in payouts from grants and contracts from federal and other sponsors this year. Some of that revenue was nullified by the $19 million more the University paid in salaries, wages and benefits, a

modest increase compared to other years, the $18 million more it spent in interest on its debts, the $15 million more in depreciation expenses and the $36 million less it took in investment returns designated for the operating budget.

Ultimately, the differences resulted in the $60plus million surplus.

In order to ensure the University stays in the black, Johnson said administrators have centralized the budgeting process and imposed controls on units’ budgets so that they function more like checking accounts where there are mechanisms to prevent overspending. All requests for new funding are handled through a centralized system, so relevant administrators are all aware of spending and funds are not coming from different sources with different amounts of information.

“There’s infrastructure in place,” Johnson said, “to ensure commitments don’t get made without figuring out how we’re going to pay for it.”

organizations outside the Northwestern Jewish student community. Families have asked him to perform marriage ceremonies and funerals because they see him as their community Rabbi, Simon said.

Bernstein has taught a course called Breathing Torah, which allowed students to talk about Judaism in connection with mindfulness.

“He helps students to sometimes just slow down and remember that you’re not just here to rush through and ... do all the activities,” Simon said, “but also to take some time for yourself to really think about who am I trying to become and what really is important to me.”

Weinberg senior Abigail Wolfe, a member of the Hillel student executive board, has

worked closely with Bernstein on several of his initiatives.

“He is such a kind human being,” she said.

“He’s really compassionate. He really cares about his students so in that way he’s always had a really profound effect on me.”

Wolfe commented on Bernstein’s innovative programs, particularly around social justice. He is currently co-teaching the social justice version of the previously existing Jewish Learning Fellowship with Hillel’s social justice coordinator.

Bernstein said he is confident that after his departure, Jewish life at Northwestern will continue to prosper.

“One of the goals of being campus rabbi, I think, is to make oneself no longer necessary,” he

said. “It is a sign of a healthy, robust community when individuals can leave and the place can continue to function.”

Bernstein said he hopes to move to the West Coast to be closer to his family, but will be at Northwestern Hillel through the end of this academic year.

“For any student I haven’t yet gotten the chance to meet,” he said, “if you happen to read this, and want to talk about Judaism, your life, something that you are struggling with or thinking about, I love sitting down and getting to talk so I hope people come and meet with me while we still get to share some time on this campus.”

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Northwestern loses lead, drops to Terrapins at home No. 17 Maryland

By JOHN RIKER

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By the numbers, Northwestern’s effort Tuesday looked like a winning one. Battling No. 17 Maryland, the Wildcats shot 50 percent from the field while limiting the Terrapins to a 35.7 percent clip, muscled their way to a 30-12 advantage in points in the paint and held a 14-point halftime lead.

But, the statistics didn’t add up to a victory. NU (6-12, 1-7 in Big Ten) was outscored 51-26 in the second half and lost to Maryland (15-4, 5-3) by double digits, 77-66.

“Tonight, to have a lead that we did and to let it slip away in the second half, the message was a little more stern,” coach Chris Collins said. “Not being negative with the guys, but just about how tough you have to be in this league. It requires not just good play, but requires a lot of toughness.”

Early on, the Cats’ momentum from a near-upset of No. 21 Illinois seemed to have carried over.

NU scored the game’s first 10 points and didn’t let up. The Cats found success inside and out, scoring 18 in the paint as well as knocking down a quartet of three-pointers.

On the other side, the Terrapins took 17 of their 25 first-half fieldgoal attempts from beyond the arc and made just five, and down low Maryland center Jalen Smith was

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held to just 1-for-6 shooting and two rebounds. By halftime, the NU advantage was up to 14.

NU maintained a comfortable lead for the first eight minutes of the second half despite its hot hand cooling off. Then, Maryland took off, blitzing the Cats with a 15-2 run over a four-minute stretch to reverse a 10-point deficit into a 3-point lead.

Graduate transfer guard Pat Spencer, a Davidsonville, Md. native, kept NU in the game with scores in three consecutive possessions, but Smith finished the Cats out with resounding dunks and a perfect 9-for-9 from the free throw line. NU failed to convert on a field goal in the final 3:53.

“We shot ourselves in the foot a few times and gave them momentum,” Spencer said. “They turned it into threes on the other end. Those are the things that separate wins from losses.”

The game continued a frustrating trend for the Cats — an inability to close out games. NU fumbled away their lead with eight turnovers in the final frame and allowed Maryland to score 51 points over that span, including 21 by Smith.

The return of freshman guard

Boo Buie was a bright spot in defeat.

Though Buie showed rust with just three points over his 16 minutes, Collins saw the star freshman’s return as a promising sign for the offense going forward.

“It’s good to have him back out there,” Collins said. “He’s a huge part of what we’re doing for the future and its these games, this experience where he can get better.”

With the late collapse, the Cats fell to 1-7 in Big Ten play and remain in last place in the conference. Though the recent results have been disappointing, NU is taking the disappointments as part of the process.

“I’ve seen this before, I’ve been a part of this before,” Collins said. “Usually with young groups, the final thing you see is wins and losses. You see development, you see growth, but it ’s really hard to win at this level. The last step is learning how to break through and win these conference games.”

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MEN’S TENNIS

Inside Buie’s return to the Cats NU wins two matches

By CHARLIE GOLDSMITH

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Boo Buie was being pushed around, and the most important thing was that it didn’t seem to phase him. He was the first player on the court Tuesday, working out with assistant coach Emanuel Dildy two hours before Northwestern’s tipoff against Maryland.

Whenever Buie drove the lane in his pregame workout, Dildy whacked him with a crash pad. Sometimes, Dildy would defend him one-on-one and give the freshman guard a forearm to the chest or an elbow to the ribs. Buie took every hit, making it look like he hadn’t missed the Wildcats’ last five games with a left foot fracture or lost a step at all.

Buie showed no hesitation in pregame warmups, and 30 minutes after he went back to the locker room, he was officially active to play his first game since December 29.

The best-case scenario was for Buie to hit the ground running and carry the team like he did throughout the back half of December, or for Buie to provide the same scoring punch that nearly carried NU to victory against No. 11 Michigan State and DePaul.

But coach Chris Collins knew these might have been unrealistic expectations. Buie finished with just 3 points on seven shots Tuesday in his first game back, NU’s (6-12, 1-7 Big Ten) 77-66 loss to No. 17 Maryland (15-4, 5-3). Buie couldn’t recapture the magic he created in crunch time earlier this year, even though the Cats desperately needed it as they lost a double-digit lead in the second half.

“To expect a freshman who’s been out a month to come in and be on fire, I knew there was going to be

some rust,” Collins said. “Anytime you’ve been out like that, it takes some time to get your rhythm back.”

Buie was out long enough to lose that rhythm. After suffering a foot injury in December, he couldn’t practice for 18 days.

Buie watched from the sidelines as NU’s offense waned in the first half in early January at Minnesota, and he watched the Cats fade down the stretch and blow a second half lead at Indiana. Buie ended up missing five games, and his loss was a big one.

In the three games before he got hurt, Buie averaged 21 points per game on 53 percent shooting.

Against the Spartans, he made five threes to spark a second half comeback, and Buie went toe-for-toe with Big East Player of the Year contender Charlie Moore in a close loss to the Blue Demons. Buie was NU’s leading scorer in the month of December.

Iowa head coach Fran McCaffery called Buie one of the best freshmen in the country and credited the Cats’ struggles in Big Ten play to Buie’s injury. He had a point –– NU only scored more than 70 points in one of its five games without its sharpshooting lead ball-handler.

But NU didn’t rush Buie back. A stress fracture like Buie’s gets worse as it takes more wear and tear, and Collins said he wanted to ensure this wouldn’t be an issue going forward.

“It was a stress injury, and a big part of (healing) that is rest,” Collins said. “We didn’t want the pounding and we had to listen to the doctors and make sure he stayed off it, which he did.”

Buie was cleared to return to the court for some light work last Friday, and he worked out on the floor at Illinois before the Cats’ game against the Fighting Illini last Saturday. Buie was cleared Sunday to get reps and full speed and contact, and he also practiced with the team

Monday. Buie would come off the bench against the Terrapins, but he wasn’t on a strict minutes restriction.

Despite Buie’s physical pregame workout designed to prepare him for a matchup against one of the best teams in the Big Ten, the freshman guard wasn’t as dynamic as he was before in his return to action.

He only played 16 minutes against Maryland, and Buie had the secondworst scoring total of his career.

He checked in for the first time five minutes into the game, and Buie called his own number on his first possession. He blew by his defender and got an open floater off the drive, but that attempt bounced off the side of the rim. Buie made his next shot –– a 27-foot three-point shot –– but he didn’t make another the rest of the game.

Collins said NU needed Buie’s shot creation in the second half, so he had the freshman guard on the floor for the most important minutes of the game. The Cats led by 14 points at halftime, but their offense couldn’t keep it up in the second half. NU made just three field goals in the last ten minutes, and Buie was 0-for-1 from the field during that stretch.

Buie entered the game for the final time with 4:27 left and the Cats down 2 points. Even though NU needed the heroics Buie had provided earlier this season, he wasn’t able to save the Cats in his first game back.

After Buie’s up-and-down performance, Collins said Buie showed signs that he’ll quickly regain his footing as a dangerous Big Ten point guard.

“I believe in him,” Collins said.

“He’s a big shot taker and a big shot maker. That’s what he’s going to do in his career, and he’s got to be in there and work through some successes and failures.” charliegoldsmith2021@u.northwestern.edu

By PATRICK ANDRES

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A loss to a ranked opponent on Friday torpedoed Northwestern’s chances of getting through the weekend unbeaten, but the Wildcats recovered with a pair of Sunday wins to run their record to 3-1.

No. 23 North Carolina State’s 4-1 win over NU marked the Cats’ first loss of the young 2020 season. It was a rough outing overall for the home team, as the Wolf Pack claimed all their singles wins in straight sets while bowling over NU in both completed doubles matches, 6-4 and 6-2.

“It was a quality opponent, and our guys fought really hard,” coach Arvid Swan said in assessing the season opener.

“It gave us a sense of where our team is and what we need to improve on.”

A bright spot for the Cats, however, was the continued strong play of sophomore Trice Pickens. The North Carolina native, who was sharp in the season opener against Illinois State and earned praise from Swan as “a really hard worker,” handily beat NC State’s Robert Turzak 6-1, 6-3 in singles. In doubles, Pickens put up a good fight alongside sophomore Steven Forman, trailing 5-4 when the match was abandoned.

Two days later, staring down a Memphis team looking for its first win of the season, it was Forman’s turn to shine.

The Michigan transfer, in tandem with senior Chris Ephron, orchestrated a 6-4 doubles triumph; after Pickens and senior Dominik Stary dropped their set 6-3, junior Nick Brookes and sophomore Simen Bratholm edged out the Tigers’ David Stevenson and Oscar Cutting in a thriller, 7-5.

“He’s been fantastic since he came over from Michigan,” Swan said of the highly touted Wolverine State native. “He’s a great student, and a great student-athlete, and like Trice, he’s a hard worker…There’s such a high ceiling for him.”

Despite capturing the doubles point, NU wasn’t out of the woods yet. Indeed, Memphis took the first two singles matches, with the Tigers’ Jan Pallares beating Stary 6-2, 6-3 and Stevenson taking care of Pickens, 7-6 (3), 6-3.

From this 2-1 deficit, however, came a Cats avalanche. First, Forman put away James Story in straight sets, 6-2, 7-5.

Bratholm followed by downing Patrick Sydow 6-4, 7-5. Before long, Brookes had secured a clinching 6-3, 4-6, 6-2 win over Cutting.

Hours later, NU was back on the court, battling IUPUI in the nightcap of the first of five doubleheaders on the Cats’ schedule this season. The team scored its most authoritative win to date, taking the doubles point and then winning three singles matches in straight sets.

The match took just 92 minutes to complete, 40 percent shorter than the shortest of NU’s previous three matches on the year. Junior AJ Joshi and freshman Russell Berdusco, both seeing their first action of the weekend, bounced Reed Plunkett and Eric Hollingsworth 6-1, and the Forman-Pickens duo finished off Sean Bailey and Ethan MardanusBudio 6-2 shortly thereafter.

The Cats proceeded to ravage the Jaguars in a lopsided singles round, keyed by Joshi, who delivered NU’s first double bagel of the season against Michael Koch. Bratholm made quick work of Colton Morehart, 6-1, 6-3; Brookes finished with a dominant win over Bailey, 6-1, 6-3, giving the Cats their first shutout since March 10, 2019 against Illinois-Chicago.

All in all, Swan characterized NU’s maiden voyage as “a great opening start to the season.”

“What I was most happy about, (is) we played our best tennis of the year on Sunday,” he said. “I’m excited for these upcoming matches on the road. I think overall it’s a really good start to the season, and I think the guys feel that way too.” patrickandres2023@u.northwestern.edu