The Daily Northwestern — January 27, 2017

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City clerk candidate sets lofty goals for job CTA fix Devon Reid seeks to combat homelessness, enhance voter participation in city

By DAVID FISHMAN

daily senior staffer @davidpkfishman

At 12 years old, Devon Reid left his life in Evanston for a homeless shelter on the South Side of Chicago after his mother was incarcerated.

It was a “culture shock” for Reid, who lived with his grandmother in a tight-knit community at the shelter alongside other young boys and mothers.

Four months later, with the support of a middle school counselor, he said he moved into an apartment with his grandmother and quickly became her caretaker: buying groceries, postmarking bills and picking up her medication.

But soon the pair had to forgo that medicine for other essentials, and his grandmother’s mental health deteriorated. Eventually, Reid, then a high school freshman, could no longer manage and entered into foster care.

“Being homeless let me know that I want to serve the public,” Reid said. “I’d bring a new perspective. … There aren’t many folks who have gone through a similar experience to mine.”

After six years in foster care, Reid returned to Evanston and is now running for city clerk, the city’s principal records keeper.

Reid is challenging incumbent Rodney Greene, who has held the office for nearly nine years.

The clerk is primarily responsible for filling FOIA requests and organizing elections, but Reid wants to transform that position into the “face of government,” a mouthpiece for groups whose lack of representation have turned them away from the “system.”

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Evanston city clerk candidate Devon Reid, 24, stands outside of Coffee Lab, 910 Noyes St. He is running on a platform to combat homelessness, increase government transparency and enhance voter participation.

Reid has three major goals: combat homelessness through affordable housing, increase government transparency, and enhance voter participation with a “get out the vote” program.

But his foray into local politics has not come without roadblocks.

In December, two people challenged Reid’s candidacy on technicalities, including Greene’s wife,

McCormick prof passes away at 92 Gilbert Krulee dies after more than 40 years at university

By ALLY MAUCH

the daily northwestern @allymauch

McCormick Prof. emeritus Gilbert Krulee, who spent more than 40 years at Northwestern and helped introduce a computer science department to the university, died Jan. 18 at age 92.

Krulee, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science, came to Northwestern in 1960 as a member of the industrial engineering department, as a computer science department did not yet exist.

In 1971, when the computer science department was

created, Krulee served as chair of the department — now known as EECS — and helped hire its first faculty. Krulee also taught Weinberg courses in linguistics and psychology.

He held a bachelor of science in chemical engineering and a doctorate in industrial engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as a masters in psychology from Springfield College. Prior to attending MIT and Springfield College, Krulee served as a U.S. Navy engineering officer during World War II, from 1943 to 1946.

Krulee served as an active fellow at Lindgren Hall, the science and engineering residential college prior to the creation of Slivka Residential College in 2002. Prof. Alan Sahakian, current chair of the » See KRULEE, page 6

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Lynne Greene. Both objections were later rejected.

And earlier that fall, while collecting signatures in the city, Evanston police approached Reid and accused him of violating an ordinance that prohibits soliciting on Sundays. When Reid told the officers he was petitioning to run for office and declined to share his birthdate when asked, they

arrested him for disobedience.

The city quickly dropped that charge and launched an internal investigation. Following the incident, Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl apologized and Police Chief Richard Eddington took disciplinary measures against one of the officers — who is appealing the decision — while the other officer involved retired.

Reid said his arrest points to a culture in Evanston that discourages young black men from running for office. To combat that culture, he wants to increase transparency in the police department by proactively releasing videos.

Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said the department only releases videos after a FOIA request to prevent “tarnishing (the) case.”

While Reid said someone else might be discouraged by those experiences, he said they only further cemented his mission to serve underrepresented communities.

Bobby Burns, a political consultant and supporter, said Reid had an “unwavering” devotion to public service. He added Reid grasped onto politics as a means of controlling his future and undertook the effort with “superherolike discipline.”

Immediately after graduating high school and still in foster care, the 18-year-old launched an ambitious aldermanic campaign in the 26th Ward of Chicago, which covers part of Humboldt Park.

“What he can turn around and produce in 24 hours would take some folks a week,” Burns said.

“They’d have to take a breath, but … (Reid) will just bury himself in his research.”

Reid lost that election, but won 17.6 percent of the vote despite spending only $3,000 compared with his opponent’s more than $200,000, according to a 2011 report by a Medill graduate student. Nevertheless, Reid said that experience gave him an understanding of the political process and laid the groundwork for his current campaign. » See REID, page 6

Candidates attend forum

Mayoral, aldermanic candidates talk city issues

By ZOE MILLER

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Evanston mayoral and aldermanic candidates discussed police violence, racial equality and affordable

housing at a forum held Thursday to increase voter awareness ahead of the upcoming election.

The forum, held at Chute Middle School, 1400 Oakton St., was hosted by the Organization for Positive

Action and Leadership of Evanston, a group aiming to educate voters and encourage civic engagement. Three aldermanic candidates and all five mayoral candidates » See FORUM, page 6

Jeffrey Wang/Daily Senior Staffer

Mayoral candidates Mark Tendam (left), Jeff Smith (center) and Gary Gaspard (right) talk Thursday night at an election forum at Chute Middle School, 1400 Oakton St. The forum was intended to increase awareness about mayoral and aldermanic candidates ahead of the upcoming elections.

may be Trump priority Purple, Red Line modernization in leaked documents

By NORA SHELLY

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A document leaked Tuesday appears to show the Red and Purple Line modernization project as among President Donald Trump’s administration’s infrastructure priorities.

According to documents obtained by McClatchy’s Kansas City Star and The News Tribune, the administration has a preliminary list of 50 projects they are looking to prioritize, originally provided to the National Governor’s Association. According to the document, the modernization project will create 2,100 jobs and cost $2.1 billion.

The modernization project already received a $1.1 billion grant in the final days of the Obama administration for the first phase of the project. Construction in the first phase will include overhauling about a mile of track, adding elevators to every station and creating a “flyover” for the northbound Brown Line where it intersects Red and Purple Line tracks near the Belmont Station.

The project, which will likely occur in three phrases, is intended to reduce overcrowding and delays on one of the busiest and oldest lines in the system. Additional phases will include rebuilding tracks between the Belmont and Linden Street stations.

According to the McClatchy article, a White House spokesperson did not confirm the veracity of the documents.

Kyle Whitehead, government relations director for Active Transportation Alliance, a nonprofit advocacy organization that advocated for the project, told The Daily that traffic near the Belmont station becomes a “chokepoint” for the entire system.

“If you get a delay on the North Side often that can have ripple effects throughout the system and downtown and throughout the West and South Sides,” he said.

“We think the system as a whole will operate more effectively if you upgrade the infrastructure on the north side.”

Whitehead and the Active Transportation Alliance helped Chicago secure local funding for the project. Chicago created transit tax-increment financing districts to help pay for the project.

City manager Wally » See CTA, page 6

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AROUND TOWN Senate vote on ‘grand bargain’ delayed

By NORA SHELLY

daily senior staffer @noracshelly

Although the Illinois Senate didn’t bring their “grand bargain” package of budget bills to a vote this week, Senate President John Cullerton (D-Chicago) said they can expect to vote after returning to Springfield on Feb. 7.

The package of 13 bills includes measures to raise the income tax, freeze property taxes, reform pensions and add multiple new gambling sites. It was negotiated by Cullerton and Senate minority leader Christine Radogno (R-Lemont).

The pair created the package to put in place a

budget for the state, as Illinois has been without an official budget since July 2015. In June of last year, the General Assembly ended the year-long stalemate by passing a temporary spending bill.

However, that expired on Jan. 1, once again leaving the state without a budget plan.

Cullerton and Radogno had originally proposed the bills during a lame-duck session earlier in the month before the new General Assembly was sworn in. Senators balked, however, so the two refiled the bills in the new session and pushed for a vote on Wednesday after Gov. Bruce Rauner gave his “State of the State” address. The vote never came to fruition after senators took issue with various parts of the package.

Although no vote was taken, Cullerton said

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Gov. Bruce Rauner speaks at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield in August. Rauner urged lawmakers in his “State of the State” address to cooperate in order to reach a “truly” balanced budget.

on the Senate floor Thursday that the progress was “encouraging.”

“It’s really progress that might have seemed impossible just a few weeks ago. So, if we need more time to pull us together I’m going to consider that encouraging,” he said.

Cullerton said caucus members had “a bunch” of questions about the package, which they said they would try to get answered.

Radogno echoed similar sentiments in speaking on the Senate floor, saying the ability to pass a balanced budget was more important than the individual bills in the “grand bargain” package.

In what she called a “pep talk,” Radogno urged members to listen to their constituents, but to not cave in to external pressure.

“This is hard, and none of us are going to like this in the end, but we have to get the state on a path with a sustainable, balanced budget, and the reforms that are going to keep us there,” she said.

Radogno said just because the Senate was “not ready” to take a vote, they were not backing off their effort. The minority leader said she was “heartened” by support they were receiving and knew both caucuses were committed to passing the package.

In his annual address Wednesday, Rauner praised the Senate’s work.

“Let’s build on that cooperation to achieve a truly balanced budget and changes that really move the needle on job creation and property tax relief,” he said.

The governor has not commented publicly on the specifics of the package but has signalled support for the bipartisan effort. It is unclear whether the Democratic leadership in the House is supportive of the measures.

Cullerton urged quick action on the package.

“The problems we face are not going to disappear. In fact, they’re going to get more difficult every day,” he said. “So when the Senate returns to session the week of Feb. 7, everybody should be ready and prepared to vote.” norashelly2019@u.northwestern.edu

Police Blotter Evanston woman arrested in connection with domestic battery

A 19-year-old Evanston resident was arrested in connection with domestic battery at her family home in south Evanston Tuesday, police said.

The woman called the police at about 11:40 a.m. after a verbal argument between her parents supposedly became physical, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said.

Dugan said the woman told police she exited her bedroom after she heard her father slap her mother, at which point she said her father punched her in the side of the head.

However, her mother, 46, and father, 59, reported that there was no violence between them, but that the daughter had slapped and kicked her father, Dugan said. The police found no bruises or marks on the daughter’s head when they arrived.

She was arrested and charged with domestic battery, he said.

Local man’s TV stolen in south Evanston

An Evanston man reported Wednesday that his television had gone missing from his home, Dugan said.

The 44-year-old man said he had locked the door when he left his home at 12:30 p.m., but when he returned at 6:30 p.m., he found the television — a 50-inch Samsung — was missing, Dugan said.

Nothing else was missing or tampered with, Dugan said. ­— Sophie Mann

Setting the record straight An article published in Tuesday’s paper titled “Rapper Noname to play A&O Chicago Benefit ” misspelled Rebecca O’Neal’s name. The Daily regrets the error.

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Photographer documents Native lives

By YVONNE KIM

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Matika Wilbur’s goal to “change the way we see Native America” first began when she sold everything in her Seattle apartment and set off in an RV to travel the country, she said in a talk Thursday.

Wilbur — who is Tulalip and Swinomish — spoke at the McCormick Foundation Center to a crowd of more than 70 people about her experiences interacting with Native people all over the nation.The talk was hosted by the Women’s Center, the Native American and Indigenous Peoples Steering Group, the Buffett Institute and the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences.

Wilbur continues to travel the country as part of Project 562, which is named after the number of Native tribes that existed at the time of the project’s inception. Her goal is to visit all tribes in the country.

“We had one major goal,” she said. “To drive conversations about the ubiquitous appropriation of Native American culture and to encourage our collective consciousness about our own indigenous communities.”

Wilbur showcased photos of and told stories about

Feinberg professors develop applications to improve mental health

Researchers at the Feinberg School of Medicine have designed phone apps that aim to help users reduce depression and anxiety by interacting with the apps only a few times a day.

Kathryn Noth Tomasino, who co-authored a study that formed the basis of the apps, said the 13 IntelliCare apps addressed different aspects of users’ mental health through simple tasks.

“Different apps focus on different strategies, and people can pick and choose what works best for them,” she said. “All the apps are skills-based, and

indigenous people. She spoke about the lessons she learned from her travels, describing the importance of language, nature and ancestry to Native people.

Though Western culture does not always require people to preserve oral history, the stories of ancestors “live on” inside Native societies, she said.

“The past is always happening,” Wilbur said. “In indigenous societies, when I sing a song, I acknowledge who taught me the song and whose song it belongs to. And when I do that … that’s how (our ancestors) live on. That’s how our stories live on.”

By showing photos of Native people she had met, Wilbur said she hoped to change perceptions and recognize the diversity among Native peoples.

Ninah Divine (Weinberg ’16), who is Cherokee and coordinator of the Native American and Indigenous Peoples Steering Group, described Wilbur as “a strong Native woman who advocates for contemporary Native art and … people.”

Due to Northwestern’s location and the history of its founders, everyone at Northwestern intrinsically has a history with Native people, Divine said. She said it is important for everyone to recognize and interact with contemporary Native people.

“So many of the issues that Native academics (and) community members talk about are just universal,” Divine said. “We talk about the environment. We

talk about human rights. We talk about relationships. … We’re talking about topics that are very interdisciplinary and that can really connect to a lot of different things.”

Marissa Uri, a Weinberg freshman who is Cherokee and Choctaw, also said the way people perceive Native Americans is important and that Wilbur helped encourage a more informed understanding of Native peoples.

“It’s really important to think about how we envision Native Americans today,” Uri said. “(Many people) tend to see them as this archaic, uncivilized culture. So I really liked how she is countering that narrative … especially talking about stories of hope over devastation.”

Wilbur concluded her talk discussing the current conflict in Standing Rock, where Native people continue to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline, which could potentially contaminate the water source for nearby Native land. She said though the situation is terrible, it is important for demonstrators to remain advocates of peace.

“Out of this really ugly thing came this really strong resistance,” she said. “We have strength amongst us.”

they focus on helping people do things. There’s not a lot of reading or content so it’s just practice of a lot of these different skills that we know to be effective when dealing with depression and anxiety.”

The apps are all different, but each is designed around the idea that the user should spend most of their time doing things outside of the app, like going for a walk or calling a friend. Tomasino said most users only looked at an app for about a minute at a time, but still found them to be effective.

Tomasino said one app, called “Thought Challenger,” lets users input specific thoughts they have and track patterns to form a plan to improve their mental health.

“You might think, ‘I never have any good days,’ if you’re depressed,” she said. “Your thinking might be really distorted in that way, so what Thought

Challenger does it just has you enter that thought and then it walks you through step by step the process of coming up with a label for that pattern.”

The original study had about 100 participants and lasted eight weeks, Tomasino said. About 90 percent of the participants completed the eight-week trial of the apps, which are available on the Google Play store and are still being developed for iOS. There was no control group for the study, so the apps still need to go through more testing, which is currently underway, Tomasino said. She added that she was pleased with the outcome of the first trial.

“What we saw was that depression and anxiety dropped by about 50 percent,” she said. “That’s equivalent to what we see with therapy and medication.”

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Trump’s wall hurts both sides of border ISABELLA SOTO

DAILY COLUMNIST

I’m originally from a town called McAllen, Texas. My home is 9.1 miles from the international bridge that straddles the Mexican city of Reynosa and Hidalgo, Texas. While I’m now more than 1,400 miles away at Northwestern, my home felt painfully close when I read about President Trump’s executive order to begin construction on “the wall.”

Trump’s campaign promises are no longer ideas floating around the political sphere; they are concrete actions being taken by the leader of this country. It has been less than a week since he was sworn into office, yet it feels like an eternity.

On Monday, Trump signed executive orders that attacked reproductive health, both domestically and abroad, when he set his promise to repeal the Affordable Care Act in motion and signed an executive order defunding American-supported health institutions that perform or promote abortions in foreign nations.

On Tuesday, the Environmental Protection Agency was ordered to freeze all grants and must now submit all studies and data for review by Trump’s staff before publishing, as well as placing a social media gag order on the agency. On Wednesday, he made good on

some of his main campaign promises, doubling down on his plans for a border wall between the United States and Mexico. He also plans to strip sanctuary cities of federal funding and set in motion immigration restrictions for seven majority-Muslim countries, implementing a 30-day halt on visas.

Moreover, the Economist’s Intelligence Unit now ranks the United States as a “flawed democracy” as opposed to its previous ranking as a “full democracy,” due to a rise in populism and a lower trust in the government.

We should be concerned, to say the least. It’s hard to not feel hopeless and dispirited as the barrage of executive orders slowly erodes our belief in a just and representative democracy.

But we have to resist. And for me, resistance begins at home.

For those who weren’t aware, there is already a border fence in Texas. The fence spans 700 miles of the 1,900-mile border with Mexico, 1,254 of those miles being between Mexico and Texas. The Rio Grande Valley is one of the most biodiverse places in North America, with two major flyways for migratory birds converging along the border. This biodiversity contributes $463 million per year to the local economy, as avid birdwatchers frequently travel to the area. Increased militarization along the border is unnecessary, given that the Valley is already crawling with Border Patrol officials.

On any given day, one can see more familiar green and white Border Patrol SUVs on the

highway than actual police cars.

There has never been a moment where I have felt threatened in McAllen, despite the prevailing narrative that the border is a “lawless” and dangerous place. To those who insist the wall is our only protection against the false claims Trump has made about Mexican people, I ask you this: what does it say about the U.S. when children grow up along the border with iron bars looming over their swingsets, a symbol of our antagonism toward Mexico, and immigrants are denied safe haven in our country?

The current fence has already raised concerns about displacing the flora and fauna that are essential to South Texas, not to mention its impact on residents on both sides of the border.

These effects will only be amplified by Trump’s supposed “impenetrable, physical, tall, powerful, beautiful” wall. It will hurt my home. It will hurt this country. If we want to take action against the social forces threatening our country, we must resist the belief that immigrants are responsible for our deteriorating democracy.

The only walls that should be going up are those to resist Trump’s ill-used executive power.

Isabella Soto is a Medill sophomore. She can be contacted at isabellasoto2019@u.northwestern. edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@ dailynorthwestern.com. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.

President’s insults won’t help Chicago EDMUND BANNISTER

DAILY COLUMNIST

On Tuesday, Donald Trump tweeted, in his typically aggressive yet vague style, about Chicago’s alarming homicide rate — and threatened to send in “the Feds” in order to stop the violence.

Trump vowed that, “If Chicago doesn’t fix the horrible ‘carnage’ going on, 228 shootings in 2017 with 42 killings (up 24% from 2016), I will send in the Feds!”

To his credit, the recently inaugurated president got his statistics right. The Chicago homicide rate has risen since the end of 2016, a year in which murders rose to a 19-year high of 783. Trump is also right that this level of violence is unacceptable in an American city.

People, especially those in underresourced neighborhoods where crime is highest, have the right to live without fear.

However, any common ground I have with Trump ends there. I suspect, as did many who read Trump’s tweet, that he has no practical plan for Chicago. Instead, the purpose of his statement is to inspire fear, especially among the white, non-urban voters who form his political base. I believe that President Trump intends, à la Richard Nixon, to turn minority communities into a symbol of lawlessness in the media, using it as yet another political weapon.

In his speech on the Capitol steps, Trump made a solemn vow that “this American

carnage stops right here and stops right now.”

His lament over the “carnage” in Chicago suggests Trump views Chicago and its “inner city” neighborhoods as the supreme example of what is wrong with America. The fact that Chicago and the state of Illinois have never, and will likely never, vote for him suggests that Chicago is playing the role of the foil, a convenient (liberal) villain for Trump to slay.

Trump’s swashbuckling statements ring hollow because he lacks any real plan for dealing with inner-city crime. In an exclusive interview on ABC, Trump said the problem in Chicago was “easily fixable” and that the real problem was “political correctness.” Instead of speaking about community policing, providing rehabilitation, statistically mapping crime, increasing communication between law enforcement agencies or lowering high school dropout rates, Trump went instinctively to race. His fondness for New York City’s now defunct stop-and-frisk program is well known, as is his predilection for racial profiling. Presumably, these are the types of programs that Chicago’s “political correctness” is preventing it from implementing.

Hopefully I am not the only one who thinks it ludicrous to accuse the Chicago Police Department of being too “politically correct,” when the agency was recently revealed by the Department of Justice for having routinely violated constitutional rights.

Trump apparently believes that the problem in Chicago is that the police are not being forceful enough.

This belief, devoid of subtlety and policy knowledge, reveals the shallow nature of his concern for the city. His proposed solutions

are the epitome of arrogance and demonstrate his utter disdain for the efforts of criminal justice experts and the people living in the communities he claims to help.

If Trump truly wants to help the people of Chicago tackle the problem of crime, he would do well to start by withdrawing Betsy DeVos as his nominee for education secretary. Any fool can see that gutting the federal budget for public education in favor of school vouchers is a poor strategy to lower crime rates on Chicago’s South Side.

It seems unlikely that Trump will change his pick for the Department of Education or that he will embrace a holistic approach to crime fighting. His concern for Chicago is as fleeting as his hairline — the people who live in and around this city would do well to remember that. As Sky Patterson wrote last quarter, residents of the wider Chicago area, including politically-inclined Northwestern students, should push back against Trump’s cynical effort to use Chicago and its minority citizens as a prop to trigger fear in the hearts of white suburbanites. Fear kills compassion and common sense. Fear reduces political analysis to the level of skin color. Fear divides us and renders us pawns in the games played by men like President Trump.

Edmund Bannister is a Weinberg sophomore. He can be contacted at edmundbannister2019@u. northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Response to column on link between climate change, national security I read Ms. Dion-Kirschner’s op-ed on climate change and national security with interest. I agree that climate change is a risk and can be a destabilizing force. Opposing carbon emissions, however, may have some very serious unintended consequences in the near-term for our national security and the economic growth and financial solvency of Illinois, one of the five largest coal-producing states and a vital transportation hub for oil and natural gas for the North American continent.

Unknown to most Americans is the key role that Saudi Arabia and other oil-exporting Gulf states play in boosting the purchasing power of the dollar.

Ever since the collapse of the international monetary order in 1971, when Washington came to the realization that to allow all the countries to redeem their dollars in gold would wipe out the once gigantic U.S. gold reserves, the U.S. has used Saudi oil to strengthen the demand for the dollar and thereby empower the American consumer.

In the 1950s, the U.S. Treasury had about 20,000 tons of gold, which was most of the world’s monetary gold. Less than 20 years later the Treasury had less than half of that, and there was no end in sight to the drawdown. The U.S. had simply issued far too many dollars in the post-war period to adhere to the monetary agreement to deliver an ounce of gold for every $35. Understandably, this led to a crisis of confidence in the dollar and a global run on the U.S. gold vaults. Because of other shocks to the global economy at the time, the purchasing power of the dollar plunged. We remember this as the stagflation of the 1970s.

To restore confidence in the plunging dollar Washington chose to back the dollar with another strategic commodity: Saudi oil. In this arrangement with the Saudi kingdom, the U.S. promised to provide military support to the kingdom and, in exchange, the Saudis would refuse all currencies except the dollar in their oil trade. This meant that European and Asian countries would need to sell their goods to the US and acquire dollars if they wanted Saudi oil.

In a few short years the dollar pulled out of its death spiral and, by the mid-1980s, stabilized at about $350 per ounce of gold or $1/350th of an ounce of gold, down about 90% percent from its initial 1/35th of an ounce of gold exchange rate. Not long after, however, this arrangement with Saudi Arabia was put to the test. In 1990 Iraq invaded Kuwait and threatened Saudi Arabia with a large invasion force. The kingdom was in danger. The future of the dollar was in doubt. The US went to war and was victorious, at least for a while.

And so here we are, more than a quarter-century later, the dollar’s future again in doubt as Saudi Arabia is threatened once more but this time by longtime rival Iran and growing concerns about climate change undermining of demand for oil, and thus the demand for the dollar itself. In another crisis of confidence in the dollar, the American middle class, especially those in Illinois, benefiting indirectly from the North American demand for fossil fuels, will likely face untold hardship. Something to consider.

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EECS department, was the master of the former science and engineering residential college and said Krulee was very involved there.

“He had many talents, and he really did interact with students and faculty,” Sahakian said.

Krulee hired Prof. Larry Henschen in 1971, once the computer science department was established. Until Krulee’s retirement in 2000, Henschen worked closely with him in the area of artificial intelligence. They co-authored several papers and served on each other’s doctoral student committees.

Henschen described Krulee as, above all, “a gentleman and a scholar.”

As one of the earliest scholars in his field, Krulee attended the 1969 First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Washington and wrote a book on computer science, “Computer Processing of Natural Language,” published in 1991.

For Sahakian, Krulee was a mentor. He said he helped him — and others in the department — in course development and guided Sahakian in his early years as a professor at Northwestern. Krulee also served as an effective mentor for his students, Sahakian said, many of whom went on to have successful careers in academia and industry.

One of Krulee’s students in the early ‘70s developed one of the first successful computer networks, Henschen said. This was evidence of Krulee’s skill and encouragement as a teacher, he said.

“He was interested in knowledge, and he was interested in encouraging the students and faculty in his department,” Henschen said. “He encouraged me a lot in the early years, before I became established, and that is very characteristic of him.”

In addition to his academic career, Krulee is remembered for his kindness and his passion for music.

Engineering sciences and applied math Prof. Alvin Bayliss, who joined Northwestern’s faculty in 1986, never worked professionally with Krulee but recalls seeking him out after hearing he played the trombone.

Bayliss’s daughter was also interested in music at the time, and Bayliss said he discussed this with Krulee.

“I’m sure most people will find it boring just to hear a father bragging about his daughter, but Gil always listened patiently to me,” Bayliss said.

Krulee is survived by his wife of 46 years, Carolyn Krulee, his three daughters and four grandchildren.

Bobkiewicz said Evanston was in communication with CTA officials about the project and will likely start discussing specifics at the end of the year, as the project moves into planning for the second phase.

It is not yet clear how the city will come up with matching local funds for the project. Bobkiewicz said they were hoping state matching funds would be available when it came time for the Evanston portion of the project.

Although Evanston is eligible to create transit TIFs as created by the state legislature, the discussions of which funding route to take would not start until the end of this year or the beginning of 2018.

“In the meantime, we are remaining in touch with the CTA, and they know our desire to make sure the project continues through the city,” Bobkiewicz said. “We’re going to continue to be vigilant. The Purple Line is a critical element of the transit in this community.”

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“Running for alderman let me know that one of the best ways to (make change) is through the electoral process,” Reid said. “Because I jumped in so early, it led to me being a 24-year-old who feels comfortable running for city clerk.”

After a series of public service jobs geared toward affordable housing and automatic voter registration, Reid hopes to turn out voters his age.

On Tuesday, Evanston Township High School senior Maya Madjar invited Reid to speak at a walkout she organized to protest President Donald Trump.

Madjar said she first heard about Reid after his widely-publicized November arrest and saw him as an example of how young people could effect change without “reinventing the wheel.”

“We have the same mission,” she said. “Younger people really can make a direct impact in their local government.”

Other ETHS students are also backing Reid, with some even volunteering for his campaign. Senior Jack Henry Lickerman, who spends two hours a week working for Reid to fulfill his class community service requirement, said he also learned about Reid’s campaign after the arrest.

Since then, Lickerman said he connected with Reid through discussions about music and culture.

He also took to the candidate’s plan to raise money for affordable housing through a $2 increase in the real estate transfer tax.

“It’s really empowering to see someone who is pretty close to our age running for city clerk,” Madjar said. “He’s not some old guy that’s been in politics for 30 years; he’s fresh. … He lives in our world.”

attended the forum.

Though candidates disagreed on some topics, most expressed support for expanding affordable housing in Evanston. According to a city report from 2012, at least 10 percent of Evanston’s population is either homeless or at risk of becoming homeless.

“If we want to continue to have diversity in our community, we have to pay more attention to how we’re addressing (affordability),” mayoral candidate Steve Hagerty said.

The candidates spent most of the time answering audience questions, which ranged from racial equality to police misconduct.

Ald. Brian Miller (9th), a mayoral candidate, said he has long called for police reform.

Earlier this month, Miller pushed the city to release a video depicting the arrest of Lawrence Crosby, a Northwestern graduate student who in 2015 was arrested in connection with stealing a car that turned out to be his own.

The video has since gone viral and sparked a debate over proper police procedure and racial bias in Evanston.

Mayoral candidate Gary Gaspard also addressed police misconduct and said he would make community relations with police one of his top priorities.

But Jeff Smith (Weinberg ’77) — who is also running for mayor — said he did not support additional policies to prevent police misconduct. He said incidents of police wrongdoing are not representative of the Evanston police as a whole.

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“Compared to other departments, we’re definitely one of the better departments,” Smith said.

Many forum attendees’ questions reflected anxiety over President Donald Trump’s impending policy agenda. One audience member asked the mayoral candidates how they would deal with potential threats to women’s rights.

Trump campaigned as a pro-life candidate and on Monday signed a memorandum that bans U.S. aid to any group that promotes abortion abroad.

In Evanston, all the mayoral candidates expressed support for reproductive rights.

“We certainly want to be a safe harbor for women who choose to exercise their right to carry or not carry a child,” said Ald. Mark Tendam (6th), a mayoral candidate.

First Ward aldermanic candidate Lee Cabot (Kellogg ’86) applauded Evanston’s efforts to remain an open and welcoming city and pledged to expand those efforts as alderman.

“I was proud of Evanston for staying true to our values,” she said, referring to City Council passing a “welcoming city” ordinance in November. “Most of us have been horribly disheartened by the federal election. But what a lot of us have said is, ‘I can double down locally.’ … That’s a way that we can say ‘stop’ to things that don’t align with our values.” zoemiller2020@u.northwestern.edu

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A global affairs expert Michael Tiboris debated whether access to water is a human right at a Buffett Institute for Global Studies discussion on Thursday.

Tiboris addressed about 25 people on issues related to worldwide water distribution as part of a Buffett Institute series on human rights issues.

Tiboris is a global water fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and also serves as a public fellow at the American Council of Learned Societies.

Understanding worldwide discrepancies in access to clean water is important for all people across the world — and in the United States in particular, given the recent water crisis in Flint, Michigan, said SESP sophomore Jessica Saffold, an undergraduate fellow at the Buffett Institute who helped organize the event.

“Access to clean water is something that we may think is kind of an issue that’s more global, (but) it’s also a local issue,” she said. “Letting people engage with that issue is super important.”

complicated than “absolutely” yes. He said if water is considered an inherent right, then states should be obligated to uphold that right through

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redistribution efforts to provide water in areas of need.

In reality, however, water is not always thought of as a human right, he said. Rather, it can be seen as a good or service.

Making contaminated water usable requires considerable economic resources, Tiboris said.

Although some countries do not have the resources to produce clean water, it is not the responsibility of “water-rich” states to redistribute an economic good to places that experience water stress or scarcity, he said.

Still, there is a moral obligation to assist people without access to clean water, Tiboris said. But if it is considered an economic good, then it should be the responsibility of non-governmental organizations, not states, to provide it, he said.

“People deserve our help,” Tiboris said. “And we can do something about it.”

Weinberg freshman Ivy Chen, who attended the event, said she felt she had learned a lot from Tiboris’ discussion.

“I came in very ignorant about water rights, so it was very informative and also very accessible,” Chen said. janeyun2020@u.northwestern.edu

Provost’s office recognizes faculty diversity initiatives

By YVONNE KIM

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Multiple faculty members were recognized this week for their work on diversity initiatives at Northwestern, receiving a total of nearly $165,000 through the Office of the Provost, the University announced.

The awards were created to recognize and promote efforts by faculty to foster diversity among undergraduates, according to a news release. The Provost Award for Faculty Excellence in Diversity and Equity was awarded for the first time this year, granting $5,000 each to Profs. Loren Ghiglione and E. Patrick Johnson. An additional 12 faculty groups and individuals received the Provost Grants for Faculty Innovation in Diversity and Equity, with grants ranging from

$5,000 to $20,000.

Johnson, chair of African-American Studies in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, is the founder and director of the Black Arts Initiative, a project that fosters an interdisciplinary approach to black arts. Ghiglione, who first became involved in inclusion efforts through his involvement with the Native American Outreach and Inclusion Task Force in 2014, is a member of the Native American and Indigenous Peoples Steering Group.

Ghiglione said though he is still unsure how to allocate the award money, some of his future goals include increasing outreach to tribal colleges, assisting in the creation of a research center for Native issues and creating a space — similar to the Black House — for Native students and communities.

“The Native community was virtually invisible (when I first came to the University),” said Ghiglione,

who first taught at Northwestern in 2001. “It’s still a challenge because the Native community is so small in terms of numbers, but it’s less invisible than it was. … It seems there is certainly more effort being made, and that’s important.”

Among the recipients of the Provost Grants was Communication Prof. Aymar Jean Christian. Christian is the founder of Open TV, an online platform for independent artists he started after researching media development and distribution on the web.

“I thought, ‘Why don’t I create my own platform specifically focused on the exploration of intersectionality?’” Christian said. “Making small-scale, local, identity-based television actually leads to further innovation and expands our understanding of television.”

He described Open TV as a platform “specifically focused on the exploration of intersectionality.”

Profs. Marcelo Worsley, Anne Marie Piper and Liz Gerber were also recipients of the award for their work developing “Making and Inclusivity,” a seminar-style class to develop prototypes for people with disabilities.

Worsley, a SESP and McCormick professor, said the goal of the class is to “promote accessibility” and “address concerns and challenges that people who have special needs may have.”

“It’s a matter of equity,” he said. “A number of these spaces and the way they’re set up and the tools that they have available aren’t accessible to everyone.”

The Provost Awards and Provost Grants will continue to be awarded annually, according to the news release.

Jonah Dylan contributed reporting. yvonnekim2019@u.northwestern.edu

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Northwestern keeps finding ways to win.

The Wildcats (17-4, 6-2 Big Ten) overcame poor shooting nights from two of their top three scorers and turned on the jets late in a 73-61 victory over Nebraska (9-11, 3-5) on Thursday.

A series of explosive plays in the final minutes ignited a crowd of 7,108 at Welsh-Ryan Arena, highlighted by a fastbreak alley-oop from junior guard Bryant McIntosh to sophomore forward Vic Law with 4:38 to go.

The bucket, which came off a McIntosh steal, was part of a late 18-3 run that buried the Cornhuskers.

“When Bryant got it, my eyes kind of lit up,” Law said. “Could you hear anything after that dunk?”

Law posted a team-high 20 points despite a quiet first half. But it was sophomore center Dererk Pardon who stole the show for NU, tallying 19 points and 22 rebounds in a career effort.

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Pardon has consistently impressed against Nebraska. He scored 28 points and posted 12 rebounds against the Cornhuskers in his Big Ten debut last year and pitched in an efficient 13 points when the two teams met earlier this season.

“It must be something about the color red,” coach Chris Collins said.

“I’ve got to figure out a way where he thinks every team we play wears red.”

The performances from Law and Pardon allowed NU to thrive despite struggles from McIntosh and junior guard Scottie Lindsey, who was bothered by back problems and lacked his usual “balance and pop,” per coach Chris Collins.

Lindsey scored a season-low 5 points, and McIntosh managed just 9 on 3-of-13 shooting. With Nebraska keying on Lindsey as well as Law, and succeeding in shutting down the Cats’ wings for much of the game, NU went to work in the paint against a Nebraska team without injured leading rebounder Ed Morrow.

The Cornhuskers never truly seemed comfortable against the Cats, though they did hang with the hosts for much of the game. After NU jumped out to a 12-6 lead thanks to quick starts from Law and Pardon, Nebraska used a run to take the lead seven minutes into the contest.

Nebraska hung onto the lead for

stretches in the first half, but never extended it to more than 2. NU eventually pulled ahead and took a 32-29 lead into the break.

In the second half, the Cats found their legs offensively and never trailed.

Law dropped 14 points after hitting just two shots before halftime and Pardon continued to roll, connecting on 5-of-6 shots from the floor. All told, the Cats put up 41 points in the second half, putting away Nebraska with the dominant run in the final minutes.

Nebraska coach Tim Miles said his team’s inability to get defensive stops against NU’s high-powered offense made the difference in the game.

“These guys are a tournament team,” Miles said of the Cats. “A good tournament team.”

With each passing win, NU gets closer to making Miles’ words a reality.

Thursday’s victory gave NU five straight Big Ten wins for the first time since the 1965-66 season. To extend that streak, they’ll likely need to be at their best when they face Indiana at home Sunday.

“Every win in this league is really tough,” Collins said. “Got two days to get rested up and get ready for a highpowered, explosive Indiana team.” timothybalk2018@u.northwestern.edu

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The rebounding section of Northwestern’s record book hasn’t seen much revision in the past 50 years.

Jim Pitts, who played from 1962 to 1966, recorded four of the program’s top eight single-game totals ever. Three others came between 1956 and 1960.

But then came Dererk Pardon, whose 22-rebound eruption on Thursday against Nebraska moved him into a three-way tie for sixth in program history in the category.

“I just thought he was getting every rebound,” coach Chris Collins said. “He’s got a knack for the ball; he plays off; he knows the angles; he’s long. He’s always been a great offensive rebounder. To get 16 defensive rebounds … is most impressive.”

The sophomore center also pulled down six offensive rebounds and added 19 points on 8-of-11 shooting to round out his historic performance, powering the Wildcats (17-4, 6-2) to a 73-61 win over the Cornhuskers (9-11, 3-5).

Pardon has consistently managed to elevate his play against Nebraska.

In just his second career appearance last season, he exploded for 28 points and 12 rebounds in a victory in Lincoln. Earlier this month, he scored 13 points on 6-of-8 shooting in another win over the Cornhuskers.

But to continue that trend of dominance, Pardon had to recover from a recent dud against Ohio State in which he shot 1-for-7 and committed four fouls and two turnovers.

“Dererk did not play his best at Ohio State, and he took it really personally,” Collins said. “For him to

come home and put the gym time in the last two days and come out and have this kind of performance is just incredible.”

Pardon said he was confident entering Thursday’s game for two reasons: a belief that his shooting luck would inevitably improve, and the knowledge that Nebraska’s leading rebounder, Ed Morrow, was out with an injury.

“We knew we had a big advantage inside and that was the big thing that we focused on during our prep,” Pardon said, “so we had to just capitalize on that.”

Capitalize they did. Although NU only won the overall rebounding battle 43-41, Pardon exploited a matchup against Nebraska forward Michael Jacobson — who Nebraska coach Tim Miles called “more of a 4-man” than a center — to record second-chance point after second-chance point throughout the night.

The most important putback came with the Cats up 5 with 6:13 left. To his right, Pardon saw junior guard Bryant McIntosh release — and miss — one of his patented mid-range floaters.

Pardon knew exactly what to do.

“When I saw B-Mac shoot the shot, I saw (Nebraska’s) big help up to contest the shot … so I knew I was open rebounding,” Pardon said. “My job was to go up and get that rebound, and I was open (and) got the and-1.”

His layup jumpstarted a 20-6 NU run that put the game comfortably away and cemented the final brick of one of the most impressive outings Welsh-Ryan Arena has seen in years.

“Last year, he had the first Dererk Pardon game,” sophomore forward Vic Law said. “This is the second one.” benjaminpope2019@u.northwestern.edu

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Northwestern has cruised through its early non-conference slate, collecting a string of expected wins, but the team’s competition will get much tougher this weekend when it travels to Durham for the first stage of the ITA tournament.

The regional is hosted by No. 10 Duke and includes Tulsa and William & Mary — two teams that have also racked up collections of easy victories in their respective non-conference seasons.

Tulsa received votes in this week’s ITA team rankings.

“We’ve seen some teams that have had some good competitors,” junior Erin Larner said. “But on a team like Duke or Tulsa or William & Mary, those teams you’re going to have all the girls across the board playing their hearts out.”

The ITA Kick-off Weekend is the qualification round for the ITA Indoor National Championship, which starts in mid-February. The tournament features 15 regional brackets, and the winner from each region advances to the national stage.

But winning the region won’t be an easy task for No. 25 NU (3-0) as the Cats take on a series of tougher teams.

“We really like challenging matches, and it’s just fun to be part of a tough schedule,” coach Claire Pollard said.

“We’re hungry to go to indoors. We put a lot of emphasis on that at the start of the season.”

Last year, the Cats drew a similarly tough regional group, defeating Arizona State before losing 4-0 to then-No. 11 Oklahoma State — the host of the regional.

This year, NU has faced a more forgiving opening schedule after competing against ranked teams like TCU and Alabama in last year’s Wildcat Duals.

Although the Wildcat Duals didn’t count towards the team’s season win total, it still

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gave the Cats a taste of more challenging competition than this year’s early slate of Akron, Chicago State and Harvard.

“We’ll need to be close to our best,” Pollard said. “It’s early in the season to be at that point, so we have to really get going quickly. It’s no different than it’s been every year, so we’re ready for that.”

NU has dropped just a single point in its first three matches, but its opponents this weekend have turned in similar performances.

Tulsa picked up every possible point against Oral Roberts and Arkansas-Pine Bluff, and William & Mary beat Richmond 6-1 and Elon 7-0. Duke has yet to play a dual match, but has impressed nonetheless, earning the privilege of hosting the tournament.

“So far we’ve been working really

hard, pushing ourselves individually and as group,” sophomore Rheeya Doshi said.

“We just have to continue doing that during kick-off weekend. It’s going to be tougher because we’re playing better teams, so just being there for each other is going to be very important.”

The kick-off weekend is only the start of a tough upcoming schedule for the Cats.

Following the regional, NU will hit the road again, taking on No. 9 Vanderbilt during the first week of February.

If the Cats win their region this weekend, the team’s subsequent matches will come at the ITA Indoor National Championship at Yale in February.

“The level’s going to be a lot higher, so we’ll have to up our level as well,” Doshi said. “We’ve been doing a good job during practice, so we just have to keep it going and continue doing what we’ve been doing. josephwilkinson2019@u.northwestern. edu

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