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University President Morton Schapiro announced in an email to the Northwestern community that senior administrators have formed a committee to find a successor for Provost Jonathan Holloway. Amid rumors that Holloway will leave Northwestern, Schapiro announced earlier this week that the provost is set to become Rutgers University’s 21st president. Holloway has been at the University since August 2017 and formerly served as dean of Yale College. In his statement, Schapiro said the committee seeks to find a replacement by the start of the next academic year. Holloway will continue to serve as a provost until the end of Winter Quarter. In the meantime, Kathleen Hagerty, Associate Provost for faculty and former interim dean of the Kellogg School of Management, will serve as interim provost starting April 1. Hagerty has also served as a senior associate dean of faculty and research, chair of the finance department and faculty director of Ph.D. programs at Kellogg. The search committee will be spearheaded by Schapiro and includes Craig Johnson, senior vice president for business and finance, Jeri Ward, vice president for global marketing and communications and other University officials. In his email, Schapiro encouraged students to contribute to the provost hiring process by reaching out to members of the search committee with nominations. “The committee welcomes input from across our campuses,” Schapiro said in his email. As Rutgers welcomes its first black president next academic year, Northwestern will lose an important member of the community, Associated Student Government vice president Adam Davies said. The SESP senior said during Wednesday’s meeting they were working on drafting legislation to expand student inputs around the hiring process. “We would like to make sure there’s sufficient student representation,” Davies said.

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While Medill rebuilds its investigative journalism program, shadow of damaged legacy still lingers By CLARE PROCTOR

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Anthony Porter had two days left to live. He had been found guilty of murdering a young couple on the South Side of Chicago in 1982. Porter was set to be executed in September 1998. Porter’s lawyers were able to get him a stay of execution from the Illinois Supreme Court, on the basis that Porter, who had a low IQ score, may not have comprehended that he was about to be executed. Immediately after the stay was issued, David Protess, then an investigative reporting professor at the Medill School of Journalism, began investigating the case. Porter was released in 1999, largely due to investigative reporting conducted by Protess and his students. Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan later pardoned Porter. Protess worked with a group of students on Porter’s case in a class that would later be known as the Medill Innocence Project and become one of Medill’s most renowned programs. Since the early 1990s, students have dug up evidence on potential wrongful convictions, and under Protess’ oversight, students’ work led

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Medill alum Philip Jacobson detained in Borneo By AUSTIN BENAVIDES

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Northwestern graduate and environmental journalist Philip Jacobson was arrested Tuesday by Indonesian authorities for an alleged visa violation. Jacobson, an editor for the environmental science website Mongabay, was arrested in the city of Palangkaraya on the island of Borneo. Immigration authorities based their case on his use of a multiple-entry business visa instead of a journalism visa. Mongabay CEO Rhett Butler told the Chicago Sun-Times he did not know why Jacobson didn’t have a journalism visa but said attaining one is difficult. He added that Jacobson was not in Palangkaraya for any “specific journalistic assignment,” and he found it surprising that Indonesian authorities would arrest Jacobson for what he called an “administrative matter.” Jacobson was first detained Dec. 17 in Indonesia last year after attending a hearing at the parliament a day prior between government officials and the local chapter of the Indigenous Peoples Alliance of the Archipelago. Immigration officials then confiscated his passport and interrogated Jacobson, ordering him to stay in the city pending their investigation. It would take another month before Jacobson would be formally arrested by Indonesian authorities last Tuesday. “It’s a very unusual situation for them to take this very severe approach,” Butler said. “It’s not commensurate with what they’d accused him of doing.” According to the Sun-Times, as of now, Mongabay is covering all of Jacobson’s attorney fees as well as other costs. Jacobson is being represented by a local attorney. Jacobson graduated from NU in 2011, and he worked at the Jakarta Globe after his graduation. In recent years, he divided his time between the United States, Southeast Asia, and Indonesia, according to the Sun-Times. “( Jacobson has) been fully cooperative with authorities, he hasn’t been adversarial at all and we held off on saying anything publicly for over a month,” Butler told the Sun-Times. “It was only when he was put in jail that we went public.” austinbenavides2022@u.northwestern.edu

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AROUND TOWN Plan commission votes against rezoning changes By HENRY ROGERS

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Members of the Evanston Plan Commission voted 4-1 against two proposed amendments to rezone a residential area in the center of the 5th Ward at a Wednesday meeting, citing precedent and concerns of spot zoning. The amendments — which affect an area north of Emerson Street — would have reclassified the area’s zoning designation and reduced the maximum height limit in the area from five stories to 3.5 stories. The commission’s vote comes eight months after a developer’s plans for a 102-unit development sparked community backlash. Although the plan was ultimately scrapped, an aldermanic referral was filed in response that proposed the two amendments, according to a plan commission memorandum. Victoria Kathrein, the property owner of the scrapped development’s proposed location, spoke against the proposed amendments, because she plans to develop residential properties within the area into condominiums. She was accompanied by her attorney, Thomas Ramsdell, and zoning consultant George Kisiel. “We can all see what’s happening,” said Kathrein. “Everything is moving out of downtown.They’ve built out downtown already and it’s moving in all directions.” If the two amendments were passed, the reduced height limit would account for a 33 percent loss of development rights in terms of gross floor area, Kisiel said. Ramsdell, Kathrein’s lawyer, said his client had no

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knowledge of the scrapped development plan until after it was announced by the developer, Domanus Development. He said she intended to construct a much smaller development that would consist of only

44 to 52 units. Dozens of community members also attended the meeting, and most expressed support for the amendments or opposition to Kathrein’s planned

at the scene and the individual was warned against trespassing, Evanston police Cmdr. Brian Henry said. The incident occurred on Wednesday, at about 3:45 p.m., in the 2400 block of Main Street. The bottles, valued at about $42, was an amount small enough to avoid arrest.

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A 24-year-old Evanston male was arrested Wednesday around 10 a.m. on a charge of theft. The man is accused of stealing a phone, valued at around $700, from 2440 Main St., Henry said. The theft was reported in November 2019, after an individual placed their phone on a counter in Fifth Third Bank. After leaving for a few minutes,

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development. Carolyn Dellutri, the former executive director of Downtown Evanston, said she strongly supported the amendments and urged the planning commission to consider the 600 housing units scheduled to come online in the downtown district in the near future. She also referenced a 2005 report from City Council that outlined goals to foster neighborhood pride and consider community vision when revising the zoning map to justify her support of the amendments. Kathrein, a former resident of the USSR, voiced disappointment with the community’s opposition to her proposed development and described having higher expectations for real estate development in the United States. “I come from the former Soviet Union where anyone can step in and take what you built, take what you created and destroy it,” said Kathrein. “I never thought I would be faced with something like this.” Despite her attempts to sway public opinion against the amendments, community members stood firm in their opposition throughout the meeting, which resulted in the eventual rejection of the amendments. In justification of their vote against the two amendments, commissioners Jennifer Draper and Brian Johnson cited the Commission’s precedent of not downzoning residential areas, especially if not part of a comprehensive rezoning plan. “I can’t think of any properties (that have been downzoned),” Meagan Jones, the Evanston neighborhood and land use planner, said. “Typically, if there’s a kind of zoning change, it’s usually going to be a higher density or have a different type of use.” henryrogers2022@u.northwestern.edu the individual returned to find the phone missing. The bank had security cameras that were used to find the suspect. Police used the surveillance from the cameras and arrested the suspect after he was identified. The suspect will have a court date on March 6. — Molly Burke

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Main Library celebrated its 50-year anniversary this Thursday with an event commemorating the construction and its architect, Walter Netsch. The event was held on the fifth floor of Main Library and organized by public services librarian for the Transportation Library Rachel Cole. Iker Gil — the executive director of a Chicagobased design firm called MAS studio — spoke about the library’s original architect Netsch and the extension of University Library, which opened in January 1970. During the event attended by faculty, students and local residents, Gil said he had encountered Netsch in various aspects of his professional life. Gil completed his master’s degree in architecture at the University of Illinois-Chicago in a building designed by Netsch. After graduating, Gil worked at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, a Chicago architectural firm where Netsch worked for 42 years. Gil described Netsch’s design of the Cadet Chapel at the United States Air Force Academy and parts of UIC’s campus prior to building at Northwestern. He said Netsch’s brutalist style of architecture incorporated the geometry of rotated squares with intermediate platforms and radial spaces. “It is not only about storing objects,” Gil said. “It’s about bringing people together, creating informal spaces for people to come together to collaborate.” Starting in the 1960s with the University’s master plan to remodel campus buildings, Netsch designed several projects like the Lakefill and the Rebecca Crown Center. His designs were intended to be consistent with other buildings on campus, but also incorporate the brutalist trait of concrete blocks, Gil said. Gil said Deering Library, which was built in 1933, couldn’t accommodate the growing number of books and students. The new library was

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built partly to extend the space to store the book collection, he said, while incorporating the use of open stacks. Janet Olson, assistant university archivist, planned an exhibit on the first floor of the library honoring the anniversary. Pulling from the archives, Olson displayed photographs and documents relating to the construction of Main Library. “The thing that interests me most is why Deering and University Library are so different,” Olson said. “This library was supposed to be forward thinking.” Ana Skolnik, who studied architecture at Columbia College said she saw the event on Gil’s Instagram on her train ride home. Skolnik said she was unfamiliar with Main Library and thought it

was interesting that the library was built as three towers, with books compartmentalized into each tower based on the subject. Describing the construction of the towers, Gil said Netsch wanted to create something that was independent yet cohesive. Gil said the library can be interpreted as an “expandable network” and a “prototype for the organization of large-scale programs.” “Buildings have a strong identity and a strong idea,” Gil said. “They can be adapted. You just need to understand how they came together, what were the ideas behind them.” samanthaboas2023@u.northwestern.edu

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The program has been rebranded twice, first in 2012 as the Medill Justice Project and most recently as the Medill Investigative Lab in Fall 2019. Though the most recent shift wasn’t “entirely predicated” on Klein’s exit, Medill dean Charles Whitaker said his departure pushed Medill to “ask critical questions” about the school’s investigative journalism curriculum. Now, Medill faculty and administrators are seeking to broaden the program’s investigative scope, reshaping the mission of the Medill Investigative Lab to look beyond wrongful convictions. Meanwhile, the program’s tumultuous history remains in the not-so-distant past, and Klein is writing a book about the aftermath of the allegations against him. In what became known as Medill’s #MeToo moment, 10 women signed a letter saying they had “experienced harassment or bullying at the hands of Alec Klein.” Across Protess’ and Klein’s tenures, students said the program operated with little administrative oversight or checks and balances. Past students also said they felt pressured to produce investigations that would lead to exonerations on tight deadlines. “There weren’t really rules,” said Jennifer Merritt (Medill ’98), who took Protess’ investigative journalism course as an undergraduate. “They were just guidelines… which is part of the problem that I think existed.”

FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 2020 reached out to Protess about Caine’s case. She even emailed former dean Loren Ghiglione calling Protess’ motivations into question, arguing investigative journalism at Medill shouldn’t be about “fame and a gotcha.” Merritt said she never received a reply. Caine was released in 2011, due in large part to the work of students at the University of Chicago Law School’s Exoneration Project. The year after Caine’s release from prison, he reached out to Mer-

“It occurred to me, ‘Wow, students are not just good in class, but also in fieldwork,’” Protess said. “I could incorporate outside Medill reporting about wrongful convictions with the teaching of investigative reporting.”

Getting off the ground

Former Medill Prof. David Protess traced the program’s inception back to the early 1990s, though the official Medill Innocence Project launched in 1999. He began teaching at Northwestern in 1981. Protess, who taught a traditional course on investigative reporting, was also a contributing editor at Chicago Lawyer magazine where he looked into potential wrongful convictions. “It occurred to me, ‘Wow, students are not just good in class, but also in fieldwork,’” Protess said. “I could incorporate outside Medill reporting about wrongful convictions with the teaching of investigative reporting.” In 1996, Protess’ students investigated the Ford Heights Four case, ultimately resulting in the high-profile exoneration of four men wrongfully convicted for a double homicide in 1978. By then, the course “had become a wrongful convictions class,” Protess said. And when the Alphawood

ritt through his lawyer. Years later, Caine told Merritt that Protess never returned his mail, Merritt said. Protess said he stayed in touch regularly with Caine while he was in prison, and they have remained close since his exoneration. He said he wishes there was more they could have done to expedite Caine’s release, but ultimately, it was “out of our hands.”

Fine ethical line

The Medill Innocence Project continued to pore over potential cases of wrongful convictions. Though not all their work found defendants to be innocent, Protess oversaw over a dozen exonerations in his time at Medill. “(Protess) was the face of the University — not only Medill, but the damn Foundation, a Chicagobased grant-making organization, offered to financially support the class’ work, the Medill Innocence Project grew exponentially. “We were not flush, by any means,” Protess said. “We were a small innocence program, but it was enough to keep us going.”

‘Fame and a gotcha’

Even prior to its branding as the Medill Innocence Project, Merritt said it was challenging to enroll in Protess’ investigative journalism class. “I remember getting there maybe an hour and a half before registration,” Merritt said. “Already three people were sitting there, waiting to get in.” Merritt was one of about 20 who enrolled in Winter Quarter of 1998. Shortly after the class began, she started reporting on the case of Aaron Patterson and Eric Caine, co-defendants convicted in the 1986 murder of a Chicago couple. Patterson was sentenced to death, and Caine was sentenced to life in prison. Working on the case, Merritt said she thought Protess “cared much more” about wrongful convictions for inmates on death row, like Patterson, than those who faced life in prison, like Caine. Protess said in an email to The Daily that he “cared equally” about all prisoners, but “there was more immediacy to cases where prisoners were facing death.” That didn’t mean neglecting cases with life sentences like Caine’s, Protess said. The former professor said he referred Caine to a lawyer, for example, and shared evidence with that lawyer. Patterson was pardoned and set free in 2003, but Caine remained in prison, serving 25 years of his life sentence. Merritt said she “repeatedly”

However, in May 2009, the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office — then led by Anita Alvarez — subpoenaed the students’ notes, emails, grades, voice memos and videos, among other items. Alvarez also accused Protess and students in the Medill Innocence Project of unethical reporting tactics, including bribing witnesses and flirting with them for information. Benn thought Alvarez was tired of being embarrassed by the Medill Inno-

University,” said Paul Ciolino, a former private investigator who worked with students in the program on certain cases. The case of Anthony McKinney — who was convicted of killing a security guard in Harvey, Illinois, in 1978 — seemed worthy of investigation, but ultimately, the class’s work did not overturn the conviction. Protess’ students looked into the case from 2003 to 2006, making headway in 2004. In that year, Evan Benn (Medill ’04) and other students investigating the case identified a potential alternative suspect named Anthony Drake. The students met the man in a park in downstate Illinois, where Drake confessed on video to being present when the security officer was killed, adding that McKinney wasn’t there. Having secured Drake’s tape, Benn was “exuberant” and expected a swift release for McKinney. The result couldn’t have been further from that. Court documents filed in 2009 stated Drake recanted his confession, saying the Medill Innocence Project paid him for his statement in the form of a cab ride. After Benn graduated, lawyers from the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office came to Miami to meet with Benn, who then was working at the Miami Herald, to interview him about the McKinney case. At the time, he still thought the attorneys were working to release McKinney.

cence Project and decided to “put her foot down” and derail them. The accusations that students bribed witnesses or flirted with them were “patently false,” he said. Protess also said there was not a “single circumstance” where students bribed a source. Benn — who has continued to stay in touch with his former instructor — said Protess’ first concern over the subpoena could hinder the Medill Innocence Project’s pending cases. McKinney died in prison in 2013. Alvarez, who now works for a consulting firm, did not respond to multiple requests for comment. Over the course of his time teaching investigative reporting, Protess faced other allegations of “questionably ethical reporting tactics” including an incident where a student posed as a worker from ComEd, an electric utility company. Protess defended the student’s use of undercover reporting as part of a “long tradition” in investigative reporting used to identify the whereabouts of a source. Protess said he discussed ethical decision-making in class before sending students into the field, in accordance with the Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics. Even Merritt, who disapproved of

provided evidence supporting McKinney’s innocence only to his defense attorneys and not to the state prosecutors, contending they had acted as attorneys instead of as journalists. Protess said they had shared evidence with the Center on Wrongful Convictions at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, assuming the prosecutors would obtain the evidence on discovery through a routine subpoena. It was “unprecedented,” he said, for prosecutors to go after student journalists, requesting their grades and memos. After further review, the University’s stance shifted. In an April 2011 news release, then University spokesperson Al Cubbage (Medill ’78, ’87) said Protess “knowingly misrepresented the facts” and “caused the University to take on what turned out to be an unsupportable case.” “They were accusing me of something that was pretty terrible,” Protess said, “that I was lying and misleading my University that I loved and still love and am loyal to.” Protess said there was, however, a single valid claim alleged against him: He altered an email regarding who had access to memos before forwarding it to the University’s lawyers, having been instructed not to include false information, but he didn’t tell them it was altered. “I wasn’t trying to deceive anybody. I fucked up,” Protess said. “I feel badly about it to this day.” He retired from Northwestern in August 2011.

Another legal battle

Even after his departure, there was another skeleton in Protess’ closet: the Porter case. Ciolino, the former private investigator who worked with Protess on some cases, confronted alternative suspect Alstory Simon in 1999 in Milwaukee and filmed Simon’s confession to killing the Chicago couple Porter had been convicted of murdering. Simon was sentenced to 37 years in prison, but the Cook County Circuit Court vacated Simon’s convictions after he served 15 years. Simon recanted his confession and claimed he had been coerced by Ciolino. Ciolino said Simon made eight more written confessions after the initial confrontation in 1999. “There was no interrogation,” Ciolino said. “There was no threat, there was no animosity, there was no raised voices.” In February 2015, Simon filed a $40 million lawsuit against Northwestern, Protess and Ciolino, among others, seeking redress for his time in prison. “Simon was writing letters from jail, thanking (Protess), thanking me, telling me I treated him well,” Ciolino said. “Does that sound like a guy that I stuck a gun in his ear and made him confess to something he didn’t do?” The suit was settled in June 2018, but Ciolino continues to fight back. He filed a defamation countersuit at the federal level that was dismissed in 2017. He then filed a second suit at the state level. While the circuit court dismissed the case for failing to meet the statute of limitations, an Illinois appeals court reversed the decision last week, sending it back to trial court. “The only thing that’s going to stop me is when I’m dead,” Ciolino said. “I’m not quitting.”

New leadership

Following an announcement from the University that Protess would not be teaching investigative journalism in Spring Quarter 2011, he took a

“It’s one thing to read all of these #MeToo stories that I had been following in The New Yorker, New York Times and all these national outlets,” Max said. “But then to see one that literally hit so close to home made me question and think back on everything.” Protess’ handling of the Patterson and Caine case, said Protess never suggested any unethical reporting tactics. “As much as I disagree with (Protess) . . . I never had seen him as someone lacking ethics,” Merritt said.

Turning tides of the University

At first, in handling the 2009 subpoena, the University put “a lot of money and moral commitment into making that fight,” defending its students and Protess by claiming protection under reporter’s privilege, Protess said. Alvarez argued the Medill Innocence Project had

leave of absence and went on to found the Chicago Innocence Project, continuing to work on wrongful convictions. Medill Prof. Alec Klein took over the investigative journalism class, having taught business reporting and investigative reporting at the University for about three years. Klein, a former investigative reporter at the Washington Post, made the program his own. A trademark dispute over the term “innocence project” provided an opportunity for a rebrand, and the program was renamed the Medill Justice Project in December 2012. “I just wanted to try to help and keep (the project)

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 2020 going because it was so important,”Klein told The Daily, “given the fact that there is actually quite a bit of suffering that goes on all over the country and in the world among those who have been wrongfully accused and wrongfully convicted.” The program still investigated potential wrongful convictions, including shaken-baby syndrome cases, where serious brain injury results from shaking an infant or toddler. Klein said he began looking into them after talking with a lawyer about it at a conference.The cases are challenging to investigate, Klein said, because there are often minimal witnesses and evidence. Similar to its predecessor, the Medill Justice Project became a selling point for the University. Kara

Stevick (Medill ’19), a former student in the program, said she noticed the University using it to recruit new students, including advertising it to the Medill-Northwestern Journalism Institute for high schoolers. The Medill Justice Project relied on outside donors, whom Stevick understood to be the program’s “primary” source of funding. Stevick remembered speaking to donors at a lunch, updating them on the status of cases and encouraging them to continue donating. Whitaker said the Medill Justice Project, as well as the new Medill Investigative Lab, was funded by several alumni donors as a part of his new fundraising strategy. Stevick said she sensed a tension between Medill’s administration and Klein because the program operated outside of Medill’s supervision but still was integrated under the school. While that “free rein” often allowed for investigative breakthroughs, Stevick said she believed it was likely “part of the problem.” Klein said the school’s administration was “very supportive, but it was mostly hands-off ” of the Medill Justice Project’s work.

‘Whisper network’

Growing up watching Dateline, investigative journalism had always piqued Hayley Miller’s (Medill ’19) interest. Miller took the Medill Justice Project course Fall Quarter 2017 — the quarter before 10 women accused Klein of “harassing” and “predatory” behavior in “Medill’s #MeToo moment.” She said she “thankfully … was never faced with anything that crossed the line.” Still, she did hear a “couple of rumors” about the program’s director even before applying. “Particularly as a woman, you never want to be in a position where you feel like you can’t get the education that you want because you’re scared of something,” Miller said. “So I just made a conscious decision that it was worth it for me to learn.” In February 2018, 10 women sent a letter listing their allegations against Klein to Northwestern administrators. Their allegations included Klein’s “controlling, discriminatory, emotionally and verbally abusive behavior,” as well as his attempts to kiss a thenprospective female employee and talking about his sex life, among other accusations. More than a month later, 19 additional women reached out to the Medill Me Too group with their own experiences. One woman, who remained anonymous like many of the letter’s authors, wrote to the Medill Me Too group in 2018 that Klein’s behavior made her feel “so

“It gives us an opportunity to fill a need in journalism,” she said. “It gives us an opportunity to write stories that impact more people, especially people who live in marginalized or disenfranchised communities.”

horribly uncomfortable” that she skipped Medill’s graduation ceremony so she wouldn’t have to see him. “I thought I was the only one,” the woman wrote. “When I stopped working for him, I accepted the futility of pursuing a journalism career. For three years I was afraid to even enter Fisk (Hall), to speak with other professors about recommendations or finding a new advisor, terrified I might run into (Klein).” Multiple women who authored the letter did not wish to comment for this story. Some of the allegations referred to 2015, when an administrative assistant who worked for the Medill Justice Project accused Klein of harassment after she left the position. A University investigation did not find sufficient evidence to support the woman’s allegations in 2015. The matter was settled and made confidential because Klein, who was a tenured professor, said the University “didn’t want it to be used against me.” Samantha Max (Medill ’18), who interned for the Medill Justice Project in the summer of 2017, said she remembered the day the Medill Me Too letter was published. She said she was “blindsided” when she heard about the “whisper network” that she “had not been tuned into.” “It’s one thing to read all of these #MeToo stories that I had been following in The New Yorker, New York Times and all these national outlets,” Max said. “But then to see one that literally hit so close to home made me question and think back on everything.” There is a non-disclosure agreement on the University’s findings in the investigation into Klein, Whitaker told The Daily. But Whitaker said Klein “was presented with the findings and chose to resign.” Klein told The Daily he was never sanctioned by the University and resigned because the situation was taking a “huge toll” on his family. He said his portrayal in the media is “far from the truth.” Klein is writing an autobiographical book about the experience, slated to be released later this year. The book isn’t a defense of himself, Klein said, but rather tries to find “goodness” from his own experience. “I’m a flawed and imperfect person. And I’m sorry for whatever anybody may feel towards me,” Klein said. “I’ve done a lot of soul searching to try to find a different way of doing things and approaching things.” When Klein’s book deal was made public in September, it sparked a backlash, with some taking to

Twitter in response. “Men don’t get cancelled,” Natalie Escobar (Medill ‘18) wrote on Twitter. “They get book deals.”

Program in limbo

Klein took a leave of absence in February 2018. Medill Profs. Patti Wolter and Peter Slevin took over for the rest of Winter Quarter, picking up a case about halfway through the term. Though it was “dramatic on all fronts,” Wolter said she gives the students a “huge amount of credit” for their maturity and commitment to the work. Medill decided to continue the class in Klein’s absence, and the students published a 3,500-word story in the Los Angeles Times. Even though Slevin said the allegations detailed in the two letters were “unforgivable,” he added that Klein’s departure “presented a great opportunity” for the University to expand its investigative efforts. The Medill Justice Project continued for Spring Quarter 2018, with Medill senior associate dean Tim Franklin, Prof. Desiree Hanford and George Papajohn of The Chicago Tribune instructing. Allisha Azlan, a member of the Medill Justice Project office who had worked with the program under Klein, also joined them. Hanford and Papajohn continued instructing the course in the fall, after Klein voluntarily resigned from the University in August 2018. Hanford and Medill Prof. Yukari Iwatani Kane taught the course in Winter Quarter 2019, with Kane continuing into the spring. “We all brought different strengths to the table,” Hanford said. “It seemed like a good approach to take.”

A new era

With the introduction of the Medill Investigative Lab in Fall Quarter 2019, Whitaker thought investigative journalism could take on a broader scope. While focus-

ing on wrongful convictions was a “worthwhile enterprise,” Whitaker said much of Medill’s investigative work was “rather narrow.” “There was a whole world of investigative reporting that we weren’t paying much attention to,” he said. In its inaugural class, the Medill Investigative Lab offered project-based investigative reporting. Joining Hanford to instruct the course was Debbie Cenziper, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist who writes for the Washington Post and became Medill’s director of investigative reporting in September. Rather than focusing on potential wrongful convictions, the Medill Investigative Lab will examine social justice issues more broadly, Cenziper said. “It gives us an opportunity to fill a need in journalism,” she said. “It gives us an opportunity to write stories that impact more people, especially people who live in marginalized or disenfranchised communities.” Cenziper and Whitaker are also working to make the investigative journalism curriculum at Medill more robust by offering additional classes. The lab will eventually be expanded into a 20-week course, giving students the opportunity to spend one quarter in Evanston and one quarter in Washington D.C., though details about how the program will work with students’ Journalism Residencies — a quarterlong professional internship program — and other scheduling particulars are still up in the air. “It takes three passes for any class to really be cemented and sort of figure out what it’s going to be,” Whitaker said. Right now, changes are still being made to the course offerings. In the meantime, students have continued seeking investigative journalism opportunities. Although students applied to the Medill Investigative Lab for Winter Quarter, they are now enrolled in Intro to Investigative Reporting. Students in the fall Medill Investigative Lab reported and traveled as a team, as the former program traditionally did, but students in the Winter Quarter class are reporting individual stories. Still, Hanford said the class has to move forward, despite being aware of what happened under Klein and Protess. “I don’t think it’s fair to put that kind of pressure on anyone,” Hanford said. “Whether it’s the faculty or the students, it’s like an Etch A Sketch every quarter: You shake the sketch, and you start over.” clareproctor2021@u.northwestern.edu

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‘We see miracles here’: local groups tackle addiction By EVA HERSCOWITZ

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For the 160 or so patients receiving medication-assisted treatment for opioid addiction in Evanston, curbing dependence has become part of their daily routine. Every day, these patients go to the Davis Street substance abuse treatment center PEER Services, where nurses dispense methadone, a prescribed oral medication that minimizes withdrawal symptoms and reduces cravings. Because these patients require long-term, controlled doses of methadone — which is also an opioid — most of them will return to PEER Services every day. “It’s an incredibly painful withdrawal experience,” said Erin Tegge, PEER Services’ prevention program coordinator. “It is absolutely horrible for the person going through it. That’s where the methadone comes in — it’s able to manage those withdrawal symptoms so that the person can actually function in their daily life.” Opioid addiction poses a particularly potent threat to the Chicago area. More people died from fentanyl overdoses than homicides in Cook County in 2019, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office. In the county, fentanyl toxicity killed 789 people last year, compared to 580 people killed by guns. Paul Polep, Evanston Fire Department’s deputy chief, said overdose deaths in Evanston haven’t risen to a crisis level. Polep said there were six heroin overdoses in Evanston last year, though four were the same person. While fire department paramedics are trained to administer Narcan — a life-saving medication that can reverse an opioid overdose — he added that the department doesn’t target opioid addiction’s root causes. “In the city of Evanston, it’s not as big of a problem as a lot of other communities,” Polep said. “Do we have heroin overdoses? We do. Do we have an epidemic in Evanston? We do not.” Still, community organizations and addiction therapists have stepped up to treat North Shore residents, providing care and counseling for community members impacted by opioid addiction. Therapist Tom Ross, who specializes in treating addiction, focuses on the trauma or self-esteem issues that may drive his patients’ addictions. In Evanston, while traditional causes of opioid addiction, such as genetic risk factors and easy access to prescriptions, are at play, he said opioid dependency also manifests in the area in more unique ways.

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Prescription pill bottles. In Evanston, PEER Services treats patients for opioid addiction, often using methadone, itself an opioid.

The community can get competitive, he said. When people feel pressure to “keep up with the Joneses,” they may turn to opioids to cope. “You have very rich and very poor living in the same community,” Ross said. “The people that come into my office tend to be middle- and upper-middle-class people with resources and with means, and with reputations to protect. You have parents that are very high achievers who expect a lot of their kids, which can be really daunting and really stressful.” While PEER Services executive director Maureen McDonnell hasn’t noticed an uptick in patients in line with national trends — opioid overdose deaths were six times higher in 2017 than in 1999 — she said there’s a “steady stream” of people who seek out PEER Services’ treatment. “It’s not at the same rate or pace that you hear about in other states with much higher per capita rates of overdose deaths,” she said. “But it isn’t uncommon either. Especially when

I started here two and a half years ago, I would hear, ‘Yeah, boy, we never expected to be dealing with that here.’” Evanston operates a medication and needle disposal service based out of the police headquarters and fire headquarters. Residents can drop off medications and needles at the fire department and medications at the police department, which remains open 24 hours a day for collection. Evanston fire department chief Brian Scott said public education on the risks of synthetic opioids may help reduce addiction in Evanston. In addition to medication-assisted treatment, PEER Services offers a slate of programs ranging from individual outpatient treatment to group therapy to cognitive behavioral therapy. The center opens early and closes late, so patients have ample opportunity to schedule care, and offers family support and early adolescent intervention services to prevent addiction from developing early.

But for low-income people, seeking treatment can be especially challenging. Even though PEER Services doesn’t deny treatment to people without insurance, Ross said many low-income people may not be aware of existing networks, making it difficult for them to connect with resources and referrals. As a result, many turn to federal or state programs with long waiting lists, while others forgo treatment, Ross said. While overdose rates are easy to measure, McDonnell said the number of people in recovery is more difficult to quantify. However, this number, she said, is significant. “A lot of people have been getting into treatment in the last few years because of the opioid epidemic and the expansion of services available,” she said. “I want people to know recovery is a real thing. We see real miracles here every day.” evaherscowitz2023@u.northwestern.edu

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Northwestern broke the internet in more than one way last week. Just a few days before the No. 22 Wildcats (17-2, 7-1 Big Ten) cracked the AP Poll for the first time in four years, a TikTok featuring a group of NU players reenacting the iconic “Potter Puppet Pals” YouTube video went viral. The 42-second video is up to more than 800,000 views, 145,000 likes and nearly 500 comments. This is the story of how the Cats became the most famous college basketball team on TikTok. These answers have been lightly edited and condensed for clarity. SYDNEY WOOD, sophomore guard/Severus Snape: It was Byrd’s idea, I’m pretty sure. We were sitting at the same table on the Indiana road trip and just said “Oh, we have a TikTok idea.” ABI SCHEID, senior forward/Albus Dumbledore: Byrdy brought that (video) up and was like, “I think this would be funny. We should get a few people to do it.” BYRDY GALERNIK, senior guard/ Ron Weasley: I’ve been into TikTok recently, just making some goofy bits with the buds. It’s really popular right now. You can go on it for like three to four hours, and it’s addicting. So honestly I was just thinking of that (Potter

Puppet Pals) video, and I was like, “Hey, we should make a TikTok!” COURTNEY SHAW, sophomore forward/Hermione Granger: I honestly hadn’t even seen the video we were remaking. “Potter Puppet Pals: The Mysterious Ticking Noise” is a two-minute video uploaded in 2007 as part of a puppet show web series based on the characters of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter. The original video currently has more than 190 million views on YouTube. DAVE JORGENSON, Washington Post video producer/writer who tweeted out the TikTok: I really like sharing TikToks that the audience will understand. This one was especially good because it’s a video from a generation ago. I remember watching Potter Puppet Pals almost a decade and a half ago. It’s an OG internet meme, so it was fun to see an updated version for 2020. WOOD: The rest of us had seen the video, so we were watching it. And then everybody started calling parts. BROOKE PIKIELL, junior guard/ Harry Potter: I was just told I should be Harry Potter, ’cause I’d be good at it. We were laughing the entire time. SCHEID: Whoever was standing around us just kind of jumped in. And then we all added our own little move to it.

WOOD: It took maybe three, four tries, but we went through a couple runs, everyone adjusted their parts a little and that’s how it came. JOE MCKEOWN, Northwestern coach: I’m surprised they didn’t put me in it. They really owe me. We were doing it in the hotel in Bloomington, and we were crawling up on curfew, and they were like, “Coach, we’re almost done, we’re almost done.” They got in about two minutes under. Galernik posted the video to her TikTok feed on Jan. 16, the same day NU upset No. 15 Indiana in Bloomington in its biggest win of the season. The video didn’t go viral right away. GALERNIK: We only got, like, 100 views (after) two days. PIKIELL: I’m in a few others of Byrd’s (TikToks), but they hadn’t really blown up. They got, like, 10 views. But by the weekend, TikTok’s magic algorithm had gone into effect. GALERNIK: I came back from practice and I got these texts like, “Dude, your thing is going viral.” And I was like, “What?” SHAW: We’re very confused, to be honest. WOOD: One of my friends from home sent me the video, and I was like, “Oh my god, how did you see it?” So we all got back on and we saw it had

so many views, so many likes. It started popping up everywhere.

their own little fan section in the comment section.

GALERNIK: After practice that day, it was at like 46,000, and I was like, “Wow, this is sweet.” Wake up (the next day), it’s like 200,000. Every two minutes, it was going up by 2,000. I’m like, “This is legit.”

PIKIELL: I got “Harry Potter girl fumbled the bag.” They were either really mean or really loved it. There was no in between.

The fame only increased when Jorgenson, the Post’s “TikTok guy” who has 33,000 Twitter followers, tweeted out the video on Jan. 18. SHAW: We didn’t know how people were even seeing it, so it was pretty cool. Now it’s like just under 800,000 views or something like that. AMIT MALLIK, assistant director of athletic communications: Plus 40,000 on Twitter. JORGENSON: It grabs your attention right away and it keeps you interested. There’s just more and more to take in as you watch it. Just like the original Potter Puppet Pals video, you feel a need to watch the video from every character’s perspective. And after rewatching it a zillion times, you’re ready to take a step back and watch it all over again. MCKEOWN: They think they’re funny, and they are. So the way it’s exploded, we’re just going to have fun with it. SHAW: There’s comments like, “Oh my gosh, Hermione!” Everyone had

GALERNIK: It just kept going. So yeah, I guess I’m famous now. I expect to go to class and get some high-fives. The team’s next TikTok, a short clip of the team dancing after practice to Roddy Ricch’s “The Box,” hasn’t yet gone viral, but the Cats say the videos will continue. WOOD: There’s definitely more TikToks to come. GALERNIK: The best part about TikToks is that making the videos is so funny. It’s so hard to make them because everyone’s laughing, and that’s the best part. WOOD: It shows the character of our team. It’s a certain type of humor, so it’s funny, but it’s a fun thing that we did together. MCKEOWN: Maybe they’ll call me in for the encore at the end of the year. They would be like, “Coach, just stand there and shut up,” so I would probably be in the silent movie part. But I’ve still got some moves. Peter Warren contributed reporting.

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No. 22 Wildcats roll over Spartans on the road By DREW SCHOTT

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Throughout the season, No. 22 Northwestern has looked like the best team in the Big Ten. But in the opening minutes of their conference matchup against Michigan State, the Wildcats didn’t seem like the squad with six conference wins and a Top 25 ranking. Missed mid-range jumpers, overthrown passes and numerous blown layups by NU allowed the Spartans to take a 5-2 lead with nearly six minutes remaining in the opening quarter. But by the end of the first, the Cats completely flipped the script, going on a 15-2 run that put the game out of reach for Michigan State. “We were a little jumpy,” coach Joe McKeown said. “We missed a couple layups and some wide-open looks. But we… settle(d) down a little bit and soon we were knocking down the same shots that we missed. We really got some momentum.” NU (17-2, 7-1 Big Ten), who played the next thirty minutes like the Big Ten’s top squad, beat the Spartans (118, 4-4) 76-48, winning six road games

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Veronica Burton drives up the court. The sophomore guard scored a game-leading 22 points and also had six steals and eight rebounds on Thursday.

in a row for the first time in over two decades and ending Michigan State’s undefeated home record. Junior guard Lindsey Pulliam and sophomore guard Veronica Burton led the way with 22 points each, and the Cats are now tied at the top of the Big Ten as they head into a crucial road game against No. 20 Maryland on Sunday.

Pulliam proved at the Breslin Center why she is one of NU’s best scorers. In the second quarter, the junior drained three fadeaway jumpers in a row and had 11 points by the end of the half. Meanwhile, Burton — who also had 11 points after twenty minutes — helped anchor the Cats defensively, grabbing four steals and six rebounds by halftime. Up 33-23 after 20 minutes, NU

broke away in the third quarter. The Cats went on a 26-9 run that started with six straight points from senior center Abbie Wolf — who finished with 14 — and saw Pulliam and Burton score seven and nine points, respectively. The Big Ten’s second-best scoring defense went into high gear, limiting Michigan State to shooting just 26.7 percent from the field and go

0 for 6 from behind the arc. The team also forced five Spartan turnovers. Up by 27 at the beginning of the fourth quarter, McKeown gave his bench players significant minutes for the second game in a row as NU cruised to its 28-point win. Burton, who was named to the Naismith Women’s Defensive Player of the Year Midseason Watch List early Thursday, certainly performed like one of America’s best defenders. On top of her 22 points, she had a team-high six steals, along with eight rebounds and two blocks. Burton said the award didn’t create any additional pressure to play well against the Spartans. “I treat every game the same,” Burton said. “I come in with the same mindset. Stay the course on the defensive end. I did what I had to do to get a W tonight.” The last time the Cats and the Terrapins played, NU upset then-No. 12 Maryland 81-58 at Welsh-Ryan Arena in December. As the Cats travel to College Park on Sunday with Maryland ranked second in the conference, the winner of this Big Ten matchup will likely decide who heads the conference. The last time the Cats and the Terrapins played, NU upset then-No. 12 Maryland 81-55 at Welsh-Ryan Arena in December. Pulliam says NU can’t be distracted by the Terrapins so they can continue to improve before they take the court. “We’re not satisfied with what we’ve done yet,” Pulliam said. (We need) to focus on us and not who we’re playing.” drewschott2023@u.northwestern.edu