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SHELVING A LEGACY Howard Cohen sits in his bookstore, Howard’s Books, which is set to close at the end of next month.

The bookstore has been an Evanston institution for 35 years.

Local bookstore owner to close 35-year-old shop

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Kellogg graduate student Smit Naik entered independent bookstore Howard’s Books on Tuesday afternoon with a wide grin. He perused the wooden shelves striped with multicolored spines, selecting a couple of books and striking up a conversation with the owner, Howard Cohen. Naik said he was taken with the wide variety Howard’s Books had to offer.

“The sale sign brought me in,” he said.

“What kept me here is the collection.”

The sale is the result of the impending closure of Howard’s Books, one of the

city’s few independent bookstores. The 35-year-old shop will shut its doors by the end of February.

Cohen, who is also the founder of the store, said he decided “it makes economic sense” to close the store. The bookstore, 2000 Maple St., is currently reducing the price of all $5 books to $1 and offering discounts of 50 percent on all other books.

When asked why he thinks it makes sense to close, Cohen shrugged and brought up his biggest competitors, namely chain booksellers such as Barnes & Noble.

“The chains are somewhat scary,” Cohen said. “The chains hurt the independents, and then Amazon comes along and hurts the chains.”

Howard’s Books, formerly named

Booksellers Row, once had many stores dotted around the Chicago area. However, as interest dwindled in certain areas, Cohen said he was forced to downsize and move the last remaining store to its current location in Evanston. Cohen reflected on the appeal of owning an independent book store.

“Bookstores, for years before the (personal computer), were one of the fantasy businesses people wanted,” said Cohen.

Cohen said he plans to sell his sizable stock of remaining books through an online platform. While he usually operates the store alone, his daughter, Laura Cohen, is helping him by repairing books » See BOOKSTORE, page 9

Dave Linhardt never made it to teach the third meeting of his Principles of Entrepreneurship class.

On Jan. 12 and Jan. 14 — only the second week of the quarter — Linhardt, who was an adjunct professor, sent two emails, obtained by The Daily, to his class that said he had been asked to stop teaching at Northwestern after a student had complained about an alleged sexual harassment incident involving Linhardt and someone outside of the NU community.

Linhardt, the founder and CEO of startup incubator FounderSensei, was teaching the entrepreneurship course when a student submitted a complaint about him after coming across a blog post he had written before coming to NU. The post — which is no longer online — was an exaggerated and embellished account of a past relationship, which, he said in his emails, the student misconstrued as sexual harassment.

“Let me make this absolutely clear,” Linhardt wrote in his email. “I have never sexually harassed any one (sic), in any way, ever. No one has ever accused me of sexual harassment, ever. The person that I referred to in the blog post has never accused me of sexual harassment.”

He said in his emails that he was asked

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NU student activists Rauner pushes bipartisanship add 15 demands to list

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In a meeting last Tuesday discussing how to make Northwestern more inclusive, student activists re-introduced a list of demands from last quarter with 15 additional provisions.

The original list of 19 demands posted on the Black Lives Matter NU Facebook page, which has since been changed to BLMNU Presents Unshackle NU, asked students to email the list to University President Morton Schapiro. Two weeks prior to the initial release of the demands, students organized outside of the Black House on Nov. 13 to protest institutional racism and stand in solidarity with other black students fighting for racial justice in America.

After the protest, there was an evening town hall meeting with Patricia

Telles-Irvin, vice president for student affairs, and Jabbar Bennett, associate provost for diversity and inclusion, which featured one of many open dialogues between students and administrators about diversity and inclusion efforts on campus.

The new demands included adding the Black House, Gender and Sexuality Resource Center and Multicultural Center to campus tours, increased transparency on renovations in Norris University Center to ensure safe spaces and increased recognition of the differently abled community.

In response to the emails sent to Schapiro with the list of demands, numbering about 60 as of Dec. 17, administrators reached out to the student activists to organize a sit-down meeting with select students and administrators to discuss issues of diversity and inclusion at NU. » See DEMANDS, page 9

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As Illinois nears the end of its seventh month without a budget, Gov. Bruce Rauner focused on the need for bipartisan cooperation while pushing for changes that he says the state needs to become economically competitive during his State of the State address Wednesday morning.

The governor said he was willing to work with Democrats on initiatives “creating more quality school choice options” for low-income students and pension reform, but did not move on his antiunion, pro-business budget positions.

“I understand that union leaders and trial lawyers are putting pressure on you to keep the status quo,” Rauner said, “but if we don’t offer a competitive environment for businesses, pretty soon the unions won’t have any more jobs to unionize and the trial lawyers won’t have any more businesses to sue.”

Rauner continued his push to allow

local governments to take away bargaining rights from public employee unions, following suit with other Midwestern right-to-work states such as Michigan and Wisconsin. However, Illinois Working Together, a state labor coalition, said

taking away unions’ powers wasn’t a compromise, but a way to take power from working class citizens.

“He has repeatedly shown an inability » See RAUNER, page 9

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CALL FOR COMPROMISE Gov. Bruce Rauner speaks to a crowd of supporters the night he was elected governor of Illinois. Rauner gave his second State of the State address Wednesday morning.

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After Evanston residents identified depression as a point of concern in the community, Evanston Township High School students chose to tackle the subject in a state STEM challenge.

A group of 10 students enrolled in the school’s Health Science Rotation class, led by Linnette Hill, coordinator for ETHS’ job shadowing program at Evanston Hospital, will represent the school in this year’s Illinois Science and Technology Institute’s STEM Challenge. The challenge establishes a partnership between Illinois high school students and employees from a company in the industry to allow students to take on scientific research.

ETHS students chose to tackle depression for their project after the results of a city assessment conducted in May revealed that residents felt depression was a leading health concern in the community, Hill said.

For the rest of the spring semester, the class will work with industry mentors to identify solutions relating to medication adherence. Because of the curriculum, Hill said the students will study depression in the context of physiology, anatomy and workplace skills.

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An anonymous caller reported a man with a handgun in the 1100 block of Dewey Avenue around noon Tuesday, police said.

The man, described to officers as a black male in his late teens, allegedly pulled up to the corner of Dewey Avenue and Thelin Court in a dark-colored minivan, Evanston Police Department spokesman Perry Polinski said. Polinski said the caller reported that the man then exited the minivan and got into a four-door sedan carrying the gun. The caller reported

“We’ll look at kind of making the connections and roundabouts from a mind, body and spirit viewpoint,” Hill said.

Hill’s class was paired with Takeda Pharmaceuticals, a Japanese company that has its North American headquarters in Deerfield, Illinois. Takeda is working with ETHS and two other high schools throughout the initiative. This is Takeda’s second year participating in the STEM Challenge, said Daaron Dohler (Communication ‘96, Kellogg ‘03), Takeda’s vice president head of operations, research and development strategy and professional affairs.

“We’re really looking forward to the creativity and the energy that the high school students bring,” Dohler said.

Dohler and the rest of the Takeda mentors met with the ETHS students Tuesday to discuss the project and brainstorm approaches.

“The future begins with you,” said mentor Annette Chavez, Takeda’s associate director of regional medical strategy and planning, to students at the meeting.

“We want to know what you’re thinking. Help us tackle this.”

The students, having already started their research on depression, spent time asking questions about industry examples. One student asked about the difference in developing medications in liquid and pill forms. Another wanted to know how doctors figure out why patients stop taking medication.

The STEM Challenge, which began in 2012, involves nearly 30 Illinois high schools and 10 industry partners. This is the first year ETHS is participating in the challenge.

Emily Cooper, Illinois Science and Technology Institute’s director of programs, said schools are required to apply for the challenge but are not typically turned away. The application, she said, is more so that the school and ISTI can evaluate how the program would work if implemented.

In the case of ETHS, though, Cooper said things were different. Cooper, an ETHS alumna, approached the school about the possibility of working with ISTI. Cooper said ETHS has two teams working on separate ISTI challenges: Hill and Takeda’s team, and another team led by engineering teacher Cindy Curtis that is working with Argonne National Laboratory to assess aspects of teen technology use.

At the end of the school year, groups across the state present their projects to their industry partners, some of which will then be selected to present at Merchandise Mart in Chicago.

“The value is as much in the opportunity for them to present as it is in them taking the semester to do their research and get their hands dirty,” Cooper said. “It’s purposefully messy. It’s a real problem, not something we cooked up. There is no right answer.”

seeing a second man, also described as a black male in his late teens, in the backseat of the minivan, Polinski added.

The caller reported seeing the sedan heading eastbound on Dewey Avenue toward Greenwood Street, Polinski said. Police checked the area but neither the cars nor evidence of firearms were found, he said.

Dodge Avenue when he heard footsteps behind him and saw two people running toward him, Polinski said. The attackers struck the man in the head with an unknown object and stole $60 from him, Polinski added.

Polinski said the man reported the robbery around 1:45 p.m. that day and told police he woke up at home with head and body pains, at which point he realized the money was missing. Because he could not remember how he got home, the robbers presumably knocked the man unconscious, Polinski said.

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Two attackers robbed an Evanston resident shortly after midnight Tuesday on the corner of Dempster Street and Dodge Avenue, police said.

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First female black senator speaks at Northwestern

By EMILY ASH

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Former Illinois Sen. Carol Moseley Braun — the first and only U.S. African American female senator — spoke at Northwestern on Wednesday night in honor of the political science department’s centennial.

The talk, attended by approximately 60 faculty members and students, was part of a series of events to celebrate the department’s 100 years.

During her talk and the hour-long Q&A session that followed, Moseley Braun shared a selection of stories from her nearly 40 years of public service.

Moseley Braun recounted her time occupying the Senate seat once held by Stephen Douglas, an Illinois senator infamous for defending slavery throughout the Lincoln-Douglas debates in 1858.

“It was my privilege to sit in the very seat that Douglas once occupied,” Moseley Braun said. “I scooched around to make sure he knew I was there.”

But Moseley Braun maintains that political change is not just a matter of storytelling.

“Stories just illustrate a core value or point.

I hope I communicated that individuals can and do make a difference,” she told The Daily.

“Individuals reaching outside of themselves to create community, to do for somebody else. That

Northwestern researchers work on drug to prolong life

Northwestern researchers may have found a method for avoiding, or at least deterring, life’s most inevitable characteristic: aging.

Researchers in Japan who developed a new drug

matters.”

Moseley Braun represented Illinois in the U.S. Senate from 1993 to 1999. Since then, she has served as U.S. Ambassador to New Zealand and was a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2004 Presidential Election. After returning from New Zealand in 2001, Moseley Braun launched Ambassador Organics, a line of organic food and drink products.

“I still don’t know what I want to be when I grow up,” Moseley Braun said in her talk. “But I’m working on it.”

Moseley Braun is the first and only African American female U.S. senator and the first and only female senator from Illinois. She has been a champion of progressive causes including gun control, inclusivity in representation and abortion rights, said Weinberg senior Pam Keller, co-chair of the Political Science Undergraduate Council, when introducing Moseley Braun.

The former senator was selected as a guest speaker because the values that drive her career are things NU is known for, said Daniel Galvin, director of undergraduate studies for the political science department.

“She had this vast range of experiences, which made her a great choice for this lecture,” Galvin said. “She’s worked at the local level, at the national level and the global level to advance causes and to develop policies to address the problems that really drive us as political scientists.”

Weinberg sophomore Sabrina Williams, who to prolong life have partnered with Feinberg Prof.

Douglas Vaughan’s lab to bring their findings to the United States. The drug has the potential to control the pace at which one ages by blocking a protein – plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 – that is produced by aging cells, according to a Chicago Tribune article.

The drug has been successful in longevity experiments with a strain of mice, extending their lifespans by four times what is expected, according

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CENTENNIAL CELEBRATIONS Former U.S. Senator Carol Moseley Braun addresses the political science department as a visiting speaker to celebrate the department’s centennial.

Moseley Braun spoke to the importance of social engagement and inclusiveness.

asked Moseley Braun about her undergraduate life during the Q&A session, said she enjoyed learning from such an influential figure.

“For me, it’s perfect because as you’re here you’re continually reflecting on your undergrad

experience,” Williams told The Daily. “It’s really awesome to listen to people who have lived a life that you might want to emulate.”

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Thus far, clinical trials involving about a dozen healthy humans have begun in Japan to test the safety of the drug. The next phase, which has yet to begin, will test the drug on a larger, non-healthy group. Through the NU partnership, researchers hope to begin clinical trials in North America by the end of 2016, according to the article.

The researchers are also competing against nearly 30 teams from across the globe for a $1

million prize sponsored by the Palo Alto Longevity Prize.

The life science competition dedicated to end aging involves two categories: restoring homeostatic capacity of an aging mammal to that of a young adult and extending a mammal’s lifespan by 50 percent. The winner of each category will receive $500,000.

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Celebrating 135 years of The Daily In 1964, The Daily uncovered Northwestern’s Office of Admission had a quota for the number of Jewish students it would admit. The reporting led to the end of the quota.

This legacy of impactful reporting continues to drive The Daily’s mission of serving as the primary news source for both the NU and Evanston communities.

As this issue marks The Daily’s 135th year, this commitment remains unchanged. The way we tell stories, however, continues to evolve. We recognize the necessity of utilizing multiple platforms to supplement our daily print edition to provide the most compelling content for our readers.

Therefore, as we celebrate 135 years, I’m excited to announce new initiatives to improve our digital presence and reach a wider and more diverse audience.

We created an audio desk that is spearheading weekly podcasts and audio storytelling. With these podcasts, we hope to provide alternative ways for members of the community to engage with our content. Additionally, we relaunched our video desk to enrich our visual storytelling.

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Northwestern’s search for who we are TIM BALK

DAILY COLUMNIST

It seems like Simon & Garfunkel’s “America” is having a moment.

Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders used the quasi-protest classic from 1968 in the 60-second commercial he released last week for the upcoming Iowa caucus.

And over the summer, The New Yorker published a wonderful satirical analysis of the song’s lyrics as Donald Trump would read them, written by John Kenney.

“I looked at the scenery for maybe ten seconds. What kind of loser looks at scenery? I have no time to look at scenery. I own the scenery, O.K.?” Kenney wrote in Trump speak. It was awesome.

When Art Garfunkel was asked on CNN whether the song’s message was concordant with Sanders’ campaign platform, Garfunkel responded, “I don’t know if there’s a specific thing, except we’ve come to look for the country and we don’t really know who we are … how do we fuse and become a United States of America?”

That is perhaps in part the role of political elections: to make some sort of statement on what America represents at a given moment.

But America is much more than any politician or election cycle or political party.

America is the triumph of liberty and the latent legacy of discrimination and slavery. It’s a “Greyhound in Pittsburgh” and a basketball court in Saginaw, Michigan.

It’s Donald Trump, and it’s Bernie Sanders.

Even if their supporters might seemingly live on different planets, they are nonetheless all part of the American constellation.

America runs 2,680 miles horizontally and 1,582 vertically, and encompasses endless ideals, millions of people and a wide range of geographies and biographies.

Northwestern is not located in the northwestern sector of the country, but it is, culturally, on the nation’s edge.

Younger, more liberal and better educated than the rest of the country, its student body occupies its own niche within the broader American tapestry.

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I’ve come to look for NU and found it, and I think that NU’s cultural multiplicity should be embraced, not bemoaned.

But it should be noted that the same principles that apply to America apply to our school.

NU is not a monolith, and its student culture can’t be singularly pigeonholed.

What NU is, however, is an Under Armourattired athlete, a beer-guzzling frat boy and a thoughtful SESP radical.

NU is North Campus and South Campus. It’s off-campus too, and all those dingy apartments on and around Ridge. It’s a Big Ten school and a journalism school.

At times it is a progressive faux utopia, and at others a forbiddingly unsympathetic neoliberal environment.

Like America, NU is imperfect.

It’s the sunny days of Fall Quarter and, well, it’s also the stone-sky days of Winter Quarter.

It took me some time as a freshman to accept that.

For all the glitzy tours, inspiring info sessions and snazzy packets handed out by the admissions department, NU is hardly paradisiacal. It has crummy dorms, boring professors and a nasty addiction to construction.

More than that, it has a student body that is diverse and dynamic, but also not unified in its personality.

As a result of this, NU can feel, at times, strikingly disjointed. The North-South campus and on-off campus divides do not stem merely from the imaginations of NU students.

No matter, I’ve come to look for NU and found it, and I think that NU’s cultural multiplicity should be embraced, not bemoaned.

NU is great because it is not just one dorm, one student or one class. It is the shared experience of thousands of students.

As for the search for America? Well, Donald Trump’s America is in fact an unmistakable piece of the nation. But America is more than that. I think in 2016 we’ll find that America is, at long last, a woman in the White House, not a billionaire cartoon goon.

Tim Balk is a Medill sophomore. He can be contacted attimothybalk2018@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.

We shouldn’t judge each other over regional stereotypes ALANA FARKAS

DAILY COLUMNIST

“Where are you from?”

It’s such a simple question, but it has so much meaning behind it. We usually ask this question when we meet a person for the first time, and it appears in other forms on various organizations’ applications.

Even if done subconsciously, the asker immediately makes judgments based on where the responder is from. These judgments can be harmless, such as, “she is from New York, so she is a United States citizen,” but they can also lead our minds to draw conclusions that may not be accurate about a person. Further, judgments can stem from stereotypes about the person’s place of origin.

I have experienced judgment based on my birthplace. This Fall Quarter, I asked a male

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acquaintance of mine, who thought he knew everything about sororities, which sorority he believed was the best fit for me.

He responded with a question: “Where do you come from?”

Long Island, New York, was my answer, and he laughed and immediately said I’d fit in one of the houses “where all the Long Island JAPs go.”

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There is not just one single word to describe someone’s personality. We are all multidimensional beings.

A JAP is defined on Urban Dictionary as “Jewish American Princess; a … spoiled, …

Jewish female raised in a wealthy household, selfish.” This was certainly not the first time I heard the acronym, but hearing it directed toward me was hurtful.

He assumed that just because I come from a certain part of the country, I automatically encompass a specific personality. And he went even further to assume that I would belong in a specific sorority because of this presumed personality of mine.

Yes, I am Jewish, and yes, I come from Long Island. But why should that have to mean that I am spoiled or selfish? Why did he stereotype me, place me into a box, so I could not possibly be anyone else but what my place of origin seemed to make me?

There is not just one single word to describe someone’s personality. We are all multidimensional beings with various thoughts, feelings and emotions.

I still hear certain stereotypes like people from the South are racist, people from the West are laidback and people from the greater New York area are rude.

Although certainly less pernicious than racial, religious or ethnic stereotyping, geographical stereotyping is still a significant issue. It can negatively impact students’

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confidence and cause real discomfort.

I believe that one of the main purposes of college is to get out of your small, hometown bubble and experience different types of people from all over the world. You may think you know what people are like from a certain place, but truthfully, you do not really know a person until you truly get to know him or her. Give people a chance.

We should all strive to put our judgments aside until we really experience a person — his or her strengths, accomplishments, talents and weaknesses.

It is easier to act like we know people based on stereotypes, but it is much more rewarding to truly, deeply get to know someone.

Alana Farkas is a Weinberg freshman. She can be contacted alanafarkas2019@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.

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Before starring alongside comedians like Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, Greta Lee (Communication ’05) was a renaissance woman at Northwestern — a lead singer for Mee-Ow, an opener for George Clinton on Dillo Day and an actor in the Waa-Mu Show.

Lee, now 32, has a role in the recent movie “Sisters,” playing the nail salon worker who becomes a prominent figure in the film.

She has also appeared in TV shows including “New Girl,” “Girls,” and “Inside Amy Schumer.”

“Sisters” brou g ht Lee together with comedy veterans Poehler and Fey, as well as fellow NU alumnus, director Jason Moore (Communication ’93).

Her character Hae-Won, a Korean nail salon worker who is revealed to be a committed partier, has received public attention for a more complex view of the stereotypes the movie presents, and how the character is attempting to overcome those preconceptions.

“I’m pleasantly surprised that that character is getting so much attention in the scope of racial dynamics and stereotypes, and that’s great to be a part of that conversation, but at the same time it’s a comedy,” Lee said. “I don’t think anyone was waking up and thinking ‘Okay, we’re going to systematically bring down preconceived notions of nail salon workers to shine the light on the real humanity of this person.’”

This is not the first time Lee has taken on a more complex character than many

of the generic female roles she sees in auditions, she said. In 2012, Lee played Amanda in “4000 Miles” at Lincoln Center, where she caught Lena Dunham’s eye. Dunham came to see the show and Lee was asked to come in for a table read right before the series premiere of Dunham’s HBO series “Girls.”

Though the original character Lee read for was cut, Dunham still wanted to cast her and wrote her the role of Soojin, a fired assistant who opens an art gallery.

“That was the first time someone saw me as just me, and not frankly like the more stereotypical guess of what I’d be able to play, and I think that’s why that got so much more attention than some of the other things I was doing,” she said. “(Soojin is) much more of a richer role to play than some of the other things I, unfortunately, had under my belt.”

Lee has also been featured in “Inside Amy Schumer” since its first season and said she has been fortunate to have been in so much of the female-centric comedy that has become popular recently.

“There’s so little that I can control in terms of this weird career,” Lee added.

“But one of the things I maybe can try and have a say in is trying to work on stuff that is good and honestly it just happens to be that most of the things that are by women right now.”

Lee said while working on “Sisters,” she admired Poehler and Fey’s strong work ethics and support of women in comedy.

However, when Lee first joined the cast, she said one of the aspects she was most excited about was the ability to work with Moore. He felt similarly about Lee, as he had known her from his time directing in New York and had been wanting to work with her, Moore said.

“When it came time to cast the role in ‘Sisters,’ I thought of her almost immediately because I knew that she would be smart and funny and have a twist on it,” said Moore, who also directed “Pitch Perfect” and “Avenue Q.” “She has a fierce sense of humor and a fierce, strong will and personality.”

For “Sisters,” Moore cast actors with strong comedy and theater backgrounds who would be able to improvise at Poehler and Fey’s level, he said.

“She was, of course, brilliant and is a great (improviser) so she could really play and hold her own with Amy Poehler and Tina Fey and be in the moment with them,” Moore said. “They were huge fans

of hers.”

At NU, Lee studied theater and art history, completed the Music Theatre Certificate and was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. Lee said she came to NU as a theater major to become a Broadway star and experience college life simultaneously.

“I realized like ‘Oh, yeah, I want to have a true college experience,’” Lee said.

“I want to drink out of a keg … take a Shakespeare class that’s uber serious and theatrical, and also have a liberal arts education.”

Her closest friends and her husband Russ Armstrong (Communication ’06) are from NU, she said. Armstrong, who was part of Mee-Ow, met Lee when she was the lead singer of the band that played in Mee-Ow’s comedy show.

Armstrong is now a writer for MTV’s “Uncommon Sense with Charlemagne tha God,” and he and Lee live in New York man, with their dog Batwhom Lee bought on sale at Thee Fish Bowl, 600 Dempster St., during her senior year.

“It was becoming clear that I was going to have to I had move to New York and so I this freakout moment, adult did what any sane would do in a moment of stress and I bought this dog,” she said. tion Communicaprofessor emeritus David Downs, Lee’s acting teacher at NU, said she had a strong sense of self and purpose and has kept going despite the early challenges of entering the theater world.

“For Greta, what I admire is the ability to persevere in those several years after you graduate when you really have no idea what the world is throwing at you,” said Downs, who also taught David Schwimmer (Communication ’88) and Zach Braff (Communication ’97). “She’s beginning to know where the doors are that are opening.” racheldavison2018@u.northwestern.edu

Source: Greta Lee

COMEDY QUEEN Greta Lee (Communication ‘05) stars in the Tina Fey and Amy Poehler film “Sisters.” Lee has appeared on TV shows including “Girls” and “Inside Amy Schumer” since graduating from Northwestern.

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Recent grad cast as Boq in ‘Wicked’ on Broadway

By JENNIFER HEPP

the daily northwestern @Jenniferhepp97

Performing in a Northwestern production of “Into the Woods” in August 2015, Zach Piser (Communication ‘15) had no clue that in a short six months, he would be standing on a much more acclaimed stage — the Broadway production of “Wicked.”

“I thought I would have to pay my dues,” Piser said. “That’s what you learn at Northwestern, this concept of working your way up to the top. It’s definitely been a surprise. I feel It’s pretty very hashtag blessed.” much been After graduating in June, Piser moved to my lifelong York City around dream to be on New September and started Broadway, and taking auditions whenI did not think it ever and wherever he could. Originally from would happen California, he said that this soon at all. he had to get used to the more cutthroat acting Zach Piser, scene in NYC. actor “It is a little bit of a different ballpark,” he added.

After a few months of auditioning for major casting agencies in New York, he received a phone call with the news he had been cast to play the role of Boq in the hit musical “Wicked.”

“I kind of just exploded with happiness and confusion,” Piser said. “It’s pretty much been my lifelong dream to be on Broadway, and I did not think it would happen this soon at all.”

Piser will make his Broadway debut Feb. 2.

His character, Boq, is a quirky Munchkin who is involved in romantic drama throughout the musical. Boq eventually turns into the character commonly known as the Tin Man in “The Wizard of Oz.”

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Piser said he didn’t realize he wanted to pursue acting until his senior year of high school, when he played the role of Jean Valjean in the musical “Les Miserables.” It was only after this performance that he even considered theater as a potential career, he said.

When Piser decided to attend NU, he did so because of its theater program, but also because of other opportunities. He pursued a double major in theater and a pre-veterinary concentration in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences.

“It was very important to me to be a wellrounded person, so that really quickly narrowed my college search down to Northwestern,” Piser said. “Pretty much only Northwestern allowed me to study at a conservatory level while also being a great research school.”

Piser said that NU did a fantastic job of preparing him to be a professional actor.

Communication Prof. Amanda Dehnert said she was not surprised when she heard her former student was cast on Broadway.

“Zach has great emotional accessibility and vulnerability that he’s not afraid to show on stage,” Dehnert said. “He’s very confident about what he knows, and he’s very curious about what he doesn’t know. When you put all of that together, it just makes him a really great actor.”

At NU, Piser performed in numerous productions including the Waa-Mu Show, “Little Women,” “The Wild Party.” He was also a part of the acappella group The Undertones.

Communication Prof. Melissa Foster, Piser’s voice teacher at NU, said she got to know him well because she spent a lot of one-on-one time with him over the course of his undergraduate experience.

“Zach’s voice changed a lot in the four years that we worked together,” Foster said. “I would always be sort of encouraging him not to settle and to be better.”

After his contract for “Wicked” ends, Piser said he wants to continue auditioning for shows and eventually build up a name for himself that can provide him with more sustainable

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NO PLACE LIKE HOME Zach Piser (Communication ‘15) performs in Sit & Spin’s 2012 production of “The Wiz.” Piser will make his Broadway debut in “Wicked” on Feb. 2.

employment.

“I still have to pinch myself every single day that I have to go into rehearsal,” Piser said. “I don’t think I’m going to believe it even when it’s happening, because it all honestly feels like

some weird, different reality. Mostly I’m just excited at the prospects of kind of living out a dream of mine.” jenniferhepp2020@u.northwestern.edu

Lipstick Theatre joins Student Theatre Coalition early

By REMY AFONG

the daily northwestern @remyafong

Northwestern’s feminist theater company, Lipstick Theatre, was approved a year early to join the Student Theatre Coalition, contributing a new element of diversity to the now 12-group collective.

Lipstick Theatre is dedicated to exploring women’s issues and providing female theatre artists opportunities for artistic expression and growth on campus. The company is currently in its third full season.

StuCo exists to supply resources to theater groups on campus, facilitate dialogue and program events that serve the theatre community as a whole, said StuCo co-chair Tristan Chiruvolu, a Communication senior.

He added StuCo also facilitates auditions for all productions, even if they are not produced

by StuCo groups.

“StuCo makes a lot of decisions that affect our board and how we function, so it just makes sense logistically (for us to join),” said Lipstick Theatre executive co-chair Avril Dominguez, a Communication junior. “It also gives us a voice to have some say in what happens in the theater community.”

Lipstick Theatre previously petitioned to join StuCo last year but was denied admittance on the grounds of having to prove sustainability,

Chiruvolu said. diversity and inclusion. They “B ecause (Lipstick delivered statistics on the amount of women in Theatre) was so new, directing, production members of StuCo and theater manageexec at the time ment roles, he said. wanted Lipstick “They laid out to wait until the the percentages founding memand said, ‘It’s on bers graduated a rise, but if Lipand a year had passed,” he said. stick were to join it would be even However, Lipstick Thehigher,’” Chiruvolu said. a t r e’s board After the prebelieved it could prove sustainabilsentation, StuCo’s ity without waiting board deliberated an additional year and came to a unaniSource: Christopher Ruetten and informed StuCo of mous decision, Chiruits desire to petition this volu said. quarter, said Lipstick Theatre He added it was a very short activism co-chair Jenna Perlstein, process because they were all on a Communication junior. the same page to accept Lipstick Theatre The group submitted a written applias a member. cation that included its con“They have also proven stitution, mission, ticket sales themselves as a consistent and and finances, she said. The covaluable member of the comchairs delivered a presentation munity even while not being a to the StuCo executive board part of StuCo,” he said. “So just on Jan.19. having them as now an official In the presentation, Chiruvolu said member is really great.” the co-chairs showed how Lipstick TheArtistic co-chair Ben Weiss will repreatre could contribute to StuCo’s goals of sent Lipstick Theatre at StuCo executive

board meetings.

The Communication junior said a need for more communication with the rest of the theater community was a driving factor in the group’s decision to petition to join.

“There are just certain decisions and conversations that happen in those StuCo exec meetings that affect not only those boards, but the entire programming and student theater community,” Weiss said. “We felt like sometimes by not being in the room, everything we (found) out (was) through the grapevine.”

This partnership will also make it easier for the company to access technical resources and book spaces for shows, Perlstein said.

Weiss said acceptance into StuCo makes him feel proud of how much Lipstick Theatre has grown and is excited that it now has the power to influence other theater boards.

“Because we haven’t been a part of StuCo, we’ve made a lot of connections with organizations on and off campus that can be beneficial to other boards and help all of us broaden our audiences,” he said.

The three co-chairs said being a part of StuCo solidifies Lipstick Theatre’s presence in the NU community.

“These issues are here to stay,” Perlstein said.

“Women’s voices in theater and diverse presentation and inclusion won’t be forgotten because we’re in the room.” remyafong2019@u.northwestern.edu

2nd Act Players debut revised version of ‘Remembrance’

By KELLEY CZAJKA

the daily northwestern @kelleyczajka

Major celebrities and historical figures may be remembered forever, but ArLynn Leiber Presser’s play “Remembrance” explores what happens to everyday people once there is no one left on Earth who remembers them.

Evanston’s 2nd Act Players will present a revised version of “Remembrance” this weekend at the Noyes Cultural Arts Center, 927 Noyes St. “Remembrance” was originally shown at the Winnetka Community House last April. Presser has since changed the ending, and the 2nd Act Players will debut these changes, co-producer and 2nd Act co-founder John Frank said. He

added it will also feature some new actors, a greater emphasis on the female lead and different staging to accommodate the new venue.

The show takes place in Remembrance, a place where deceased people go until there is no one left on Earth who remembers them, Frank said.

“It’s a very poignant look at what life after death might look like,” Frank said.

The play follows a man named Seneca Paris, a retired military general who dies of a heart attack at the beginning of the show and goes to Remembrance. There, he encounters a woman named Georgia, the love of his life, who he had left to return to the army and now has a second chance to be with.

“There are complications because her first husband is there, too,” Frank said. “It’s sort of

an afterlife love triangle.”

Frank was an actor in last year’s production and liked it so much that he wanted to bring it to a new audience in Evanston, he said. He said this will be the first play performed by the 2nd Act Players that he didn’t write.

“The mission of the 2nd Act players is to spotlight emerging talent telling stories about second acts of people’s lives,” Frank said. “The afterlife is sort of the ultimate second act.”

Co-producer Marion Scully, who produced the Winnetka production, said although there are some changes to the performance, the show will be similar to the original in many ways.

“This play will reach all emotions in the audience: happy, sad and everything in between,” she said.

After receiving positive feedback about the

first production in which he performed, codirector Chris Johnson said he hopes the audience will be affected similarly and taken on an emotional journey.

Before the show, audience members will have the chance to write on Post-It Notes the names of their loved ones who have died. The notes will then be placed on a board outside of the theater, Scully said.

Johnson said he hopes the audience will come into the theater and think about people who have passed on and how those people are in their minds as they’re watching the play unfold.

“Remembrance is an emotional play,” he said.

“And we’re looking forward to the opportunity to evoke some emotion in our audience.” kelleyczajka2019@u.northwestern.edu

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Alumnus directs adaptations of CPS student stories

By AMANDA SVACHULA

daily senior staffer @amandasvachula

A Chicago theater company hopes to break down socioeconomic barriers by working with Chicago Public Schools students one story at a time.

The company, Barrel of Monkeys, will present its latest series of Sunday matinee performances, directed by Brandon Cloyd (Communication ‘07), starting Feb. 14. The series, titled “That’s Weird Grandma: Winter Wonderland Matinees,” features a variety of professional sketches and songs all adapted from CPS students’ original stories.

“It is a collaboration that doesn’t exist anywhere else,” Musical Director Gwen Tulin said.

“Especially in a time in a Chicago where we are so divisive, this is an example of no matter what neighborhood or background, we can make something that is truly joyous.”

The upcoming series will feature lighthearted sketches — like the story of a character made of bacon who is getting an F- on his report card — with more serious numbers, like one featuring a ballet dancer running through the snow, Cloyd said.

Music will be intertwined throughout the show in various styles depending on what the musicians choose to do in adapting the stories.

“It’s been an incredible community to be involved in,” Cloyd said. “Not just for work, but socially, too. I’m constantly being challenged by my peers and fellow actors to try new things and take risks. It’s the type of company you join, catch the bug and stick with it.”

Cloyd said he first heard about Barrel of Monkeys in a Northwestern theater class as an undergraduate student and thought it sounded

like an interesting opportunity. He said he then saw a Barrel of Monkeys show and was very impressed, inspiring him to take more classes involving storytelling and children’s theater.

Once he graduated, he was set on the idea of working with education and theater, Cloyd said.

Cloyd joined Barrel of Monkeys in 2007 as a performer and has remained with the organization in various positions ever since. This is his first time directing a round of the company’s matinee series, which has run year-round for the past 15 years, except for a brief break this month.

Since its founding in 1997, Barrel of Monkeys has worked in 60 CPS schools with a focus on the creative process in the classroom. More than 8,000 lower-income elementary school students have participated in its programs, which offer them a chance for creative expression in the form of storytelling.

“We work mostly on Chicago’s West and South sides,” said Artistic Director Joseph Schupbach. “We’ve worked at some schools for 10 to 15 years. It is important for us to give a voice to young people who may not have a platform.”

The company holds creative writing workshops in third to fifth grade classrooms and requires students to write several stories. By the end of a season of workshops, students altogether will have written around 900 stories, Schupbach said.

It is up to the teachers and performers to narrow down these stories to around 20 to be adapted and performed.

The stories are then presented in different art forms in school shows or public shows, like “That’s Weird Grandma.” Although general artistic interpretations may vary, the artists and performers in the ensemble try to stay as true as possible to the original story, Cloyd said.

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STORYTIME Brandon Cloyd (Communication ‘07) performs in a Barrel of Monkey’s Matinee performance. He will direct a new round of the company’s matinees which opens Feb. 14.

“In the rehearsal room, all of the actors and the director will gather around the stories,” Cloyd said. “Someone who is a dancer might take a piece and say, ‘I might change this into a ballet number.’ A musician might take something and make it into a rap or hip-hop piece.”

One great thing about the program is that many of the teachers are also performers, Cloyd said. Because of their closeness to the classrooms, the teachers are able to tell the other actors about the kids so they adapt with an insight into their personality, he added.

Everyone, from clowns to musicians to

improvisers to dancers, contributes to the program’s work. These professional artists make the stories written by elementary school students accessible to anyone, no matter their age, Schupbach said.

“One of the funniest things about coming to the matinees is that there are a ton of kids in the audience,” he said. “It’s fun for adults to be in the room, hearing the voices of kids (cheering).

There is an automatic connective between the audience, child and the child’s work on stage.” amandasvachula2018@u.northwestern.edu

Bienen pianist brings Chopin concerto to the stage

Source: Hyejin Joo

MAJOR KEY Bienen graduate student Hyejin Joo performs her senior recital in Korea. After winning the Northwestern Concerto/Aria Competition in April, Joo will perform a solo of Chopin’s Concerto No. 1 with the NU Symphony Orchestra.

By EMILY CHIN

daily senior staffer @emchin24

On a typical day, Hyejin Joo sits at a piano in a small Bienen practice room for about five hours, perfecting her performance of Frederic Chopin’s Concerto No. 1 in E minor.

Joo, a Bienen doctoral student, was selected to perform with the Northwestern University

Symphony Orchestra this weekend after winning the Northwestern Concerto/Aria Competition last spring.

“I’ve always wanted to perform with the school orchestra because it means a lot,” Joo said. “You can represent the school and you get to meet and work with your colleagues and the conductor.”

Joo will perform the Chopin concerto — which she played at the competition — at the Symphony Orchestra’s performance. This is her first time performing with an orchestra.

She originally chose to perform Chopin’s concerto for the competition because it was a piece she heard and wanted to play since she was in elementary school, Joo said. She first heard the second part of the concerto in a TV series, and was struck by its lyrical quality, she added. Joo said she loved the piece even more after listening to the entire 30 to 40 minutes.

The concerto comes in three movements; the first movement is fast and majestic, followed by a sorrowful second movement and completed with a third movement in syncopated rhythms. Joo tries to capture the different musical styles throughout her performance, she said.

“I really want to represent all the colors and all the contrasting characters in this piece,” Joo said. “I really want people to hear all those aspects of Chopin’s music. It has that love and affection to it. I want to make those three characters as one.”

Joo learned the notes of the piece years ago, but said she really started practicing it deeply four months before the competition.

“It’s a difficult piece for the pianist and requires an elegant sensitivity and technical athleticism and she does this all beautifully,” said Bienen Prof. Alan Chow, Joo’s piano teacher.

Chow works with Joo to help her vision come alive and bring out the positives that he hears in her music, he said. Joo has been working on putting both her feelings and Chopin’s feelings into the piece, she said.

Similarly, Director of Orchestral Programs Victor Yampolsky, who will conduct Joo’s performance with NUSO, said he hopes to bring Chopin’s rich persona to the stage.

“Every time I go onstage accompanying this particular concerto I’m touching the soul of a human genius, which is a very thrilling moment in life,” he said.

CALENDAR thursday Contemporary Thought Speaker Series presents: Junot Diaz at 7 p.m. in Ryan Auditorium

friday Big Love performance at 7:30 p.m. in Josephine Louis Theater The 74th Annual Dolphin Show presents Gypsy: A Musical Fable at 8 p.m. in Cahn Auditorium

saturday Chopin Concerto night at 7:30 p.m. in Pick-Staiger Hall Big Love performance at 7:30 p.m. in Josephine Louis Theater The 74th Annual Dolphin Show presents Gypsy: A Musical Fable at 8 p.m. in Cahn Auditorium The Blackout Begins at 8 p.m. in the McCormick Foundation Center Forum

sunday Big Love performance at 2 p.m. in Josephine Louis Theater

More than 50 string players and more than 20 wind and brass players will perform the concerto with Joo. She said being accompanied by all of these additional musicians will make this performance of the concerto more difficult than she is used to.

“It’s definitely more challenging,” she said. “When I play by myself I can sing on my own, but the whole thing about doing an orchestral performance is that it’s one unit.”

Chow said Joo’s performance with NUSO is a huge opportunity and will most likely be one of the highlights of her time at NU. He said he admires the artistry and maturity that come out in her playing, the product of 20 years of practice and performance.

Yampolsky said he also admires Joo’s ability to interpret Chopin’s elegant melodies and harmonies in the concerto.

“I’m thrilled because I’m going to witness the outstanding talent of our pianist Hyejin,” he said.

“Being a young and petite girl, she may not realize how (gifted of) a concert pianist she is, but I’m truly honored to be able to accompany her because she has amazing talent.”

Aside from Joo’s solo, NUSO will also perform Stanislaw Moniuszko’s Fairy Tale and Antonin Dvorak’s Symphony No. 7 in D minor, two pieces that complement Chopin’s concerto and make for a thematic homogeneous performance, Yampolsky said.

The concert will take place Saturday at PickStaiger Concert Hall.

“Learning this dramatic work is a very high challenge for our students, so we’re working really hard trying to deliver an impressive and satisfying performance of the symphony,” Yampolsky said. “I’m telling my students, ‘discover the meaning and purpose for every note you play.’” emilychin2018@u.northwestern.edu

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Senate backs Asian American Studies proposal

By ERICA SNOW

the daily northwestern @ericasnoww

Support for last week’s measure to create an AsianAmerican studies major was passed unanimously

by Associated Student Government on Wednesday.

“We have the amazing opportunity to support faculty as the Faculty Senate is voting to approve the proposal,” senator Kevin Luong said, referring to the proposal of the major presented at a faculty meeting. “We’re discovering histories and pasts that are clearly there. They’re just basically ignored by a lot of the history we learn in high school and a lot of college courses.”

Luong, the senator for four Asian-identity based groups, presented the resolution with Erik Baker, the senator for four sexual health and assault-related groups. Luong, a Weinberg senior, led a petition for the major in October 2015.

He said the major would support Northwestern’s history of supporting ethnic studies and would be created by grouping pre-existing classes into a unified major.

“The fact that so many people don’t really have a clear picture of what Asian-American Studies would actually consist of speaks to the importance of

Asian-American studies,” Baker, a Weinberg senior, added.

A group of faculty members proposed the creation of the major Jan. 13 as part of a major-creating process within the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences that will be voted on in late February.

An election commission led by commissioner Lauren Thomas also presented guideline changes that will be voted on next week. Each year, the seven-person election commission oversees the ASG executive president and vice president campaign and election in April to ensure candidates are running ethically.

In addition, a change was proposed to prohibit outside donations to candidates and cap campaign money as reimbursable by ASG. The student activities fee, $174 per year included in each student’s tuition, is the limit for campaign spending per candidate and will be reimbursed by ASG, according to the guideline changes. The money can be used on pins, stickers and other promotional material.

Other internal changes were passed, including the timeline for student group seat apportionment and changes to ASG code. The code changes were made to match current practice and change many required actions to recommended ones, such as quarterly open forums by residential senators with constituencies, Parliamentarian Scott Spicer said.

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ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES Weinberg seniors Kevin Luong and Erik Baker explain to Associated Student Government the importance of an Asian-American Studies major. Luong represents four Asian-identity based groups and Baker represents sexual health and assault related groups.

“The broad idea is that a lot of things that were originally mandatory that we don’t do anymore were made optional,” Spicer, a Weinberg senior, said. “The fact that we don’t do them doesn’t actually violate the code.”

Another internal matter was passed as senators

approved the timeline of student group apportionment. Student groups can apply for a seat every Winter Quarter, according to code. Applications will be available in the coming week. ericasnoww2019@u.northwestern.edu

YWCA begins campaign to clarify focus, mission

By BILLY KOBIN

the daily northwestern @Billy_Kobin

YWCA Evanston/North Shore launched an awareness campaign this week to reaffirm the organization’s social justice focus.

Karen Singer, president and CEO of YWCA Evanston/North Shore, said the effort aims to reintroduce YWCA’s goals to the public and highlight how the YWCA “On a Mission” campaign will help empower women and combat racism on both a local and national scale.

“We’re on a mission to improve the lives of women and girls in our communities,” Singer said. “We’re on a mission to achieve racial

equity, so it’s a very activist-oriented kind of way of describing our work and our impact.”

Singer said the campaign promotes the continuing mission of the YWCA and its focus on the organization’s three major areas of outreach work: racial justice and civil rights, empowerment and economic advancement of women and girls, and health and safety of women and girls.

As part of the effort, Singer said YWCA Evanston/North Shore, 1215 Church St., along with YWCA USA, is rolling out a new format to the organization’s look, brand and the way the organization talks about its work.

Communications director Julie McBratney said YWCA Evanston/North Shore has a new banner outside its building on the corner of

Ridge Avenue and Church Street to help advertise the mission. YWCA staff has also spread awareness through social media, she said.

“A lot of people are confused about what we do, so we’re trying to clarify what we do and put our stake in the ground as a social justice organization,” McBratney said.

YWCA originally stood for Young Women’s Christian Association, but the letters no longer stand for anything to avoid excluding other faith-based communities. Rather, the letters are meant to represent the social justice movement the YWCA aims to perpetuate, said Nancy Anderson, communications strategist for YWCA Evanston/North Shore.

YWCA Evanston/North Shore serves more than 10,000 people annually in more than

15 communities in northern Cook County, according to a news release. The organization’s work in empowering women began in the 1930s, when it provided housing to young women who had arrived to the area from rural areas.

Singer said the new awareness campaign hopes to promote the continuous work the YWCA has done to help women and combat racism.

“It’s not that we’re changing our work,” she said. “Our work continues just as it has in the community since the 1930s. It’s just that we are hoping to talk about our work in a much more clear and impactful way.” williamkobin2018@u.northwestern.edu

THIS WEEKEND IN MUSIC 30 SAT 29 FRI

Garrick Ohlsson, piano, 7:30 p.m.

Mary B. Galvin Recital Hall, $30/10

The San Francisco Classical Voice hails Garrick Ohlsson as “a titan among titans of the piano.” Since winning the 1970 Chopin International Piano Competition, Ohlsson has established himself worldwide as a musician of masterful interpretive and technical prowess. He is the recipient of the 1994 Avery Fisher Prize, the 1998 University Musical Society Distinguished Artist Award, a 2008 Grammy Award, and the Bienen School’s 2014 Jean Gimbel Lane Prize in Piano Performance. Ohlsson’s concert highlights last season included performances of Scriabin’s sonatas as well as Busoni’s Piano Concerto with the BBC Symphony Orchestra. His program features music inspired by paintings, including Goyescas by Granados and Pictures at an Exhibition by Mussorgsky.

JAN 29–31

Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra, 7:30 p.m.

Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, $8/5 Victor Yampolsky, conductor; Hyejin Joo, piano Stanisław Moniuszko, Fairy Tale Frédéric Chopin, Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minor Antonín Dvořák, Symphony No. 7 in D Minor

Garrick Ohlsson

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Bookstore From page 1

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CLOSING SHOP Howard Cohen, owner of Howard’s Books, smiles while sitting at his desk.

Cohen said it made “economic sense” to close the store at the end of February.

Rauner

From page 1 or unwillingness to work together, instead forcing conflict and demanding divisive policies that benefit the wealthy at the expense of the rest of us,” Illinois Working Together said in a statement. “He said nothing today to change that.”

Because more than 70 percent of Evanston public employees are unionized, switching Illinois to a “right to work” system would have a big impact on city employees, assistant city manager Martin Lyons said. Lyons said changes to unionization practices will have a big impact on upcoming negotiations for union contracts in 2017.

“There’s a very strong union presence in Evanston,” he said. “If Illinois goes like Wisconsin, it’ll

definitely change our negotiations.”

While some of Rauner’s proposed changes will have big impacts on Evanston, Lyons said the lack of budget is not affecting the city yet. None of the city’s revenue was being withheld, and Evanston continues to receive tax funds, Lyons said. The main financial effect the city will see from the budget crisis will be in state grants, he added.

“Evanston receives smaller grants from the state government, which may fall through with the budget impasse,” Lyons said. “However, the grants we do rely on are federal, and will not be impacted.”

Teamwork across party lines was not limited to budget talk during the address. Rauner highlighted the bipartisan criminal justice reform commission founded last year and discussed goals to decrease the prison population by 25 percent by 2025. Included

that are in too fragile a state to sell. She said her father had been a bookstore owner for as long as she can remember.

“I’ve grown up sometimes taking it for granted,” Laura Cohen said. “I’ve just assumed that it would continue to be a mainstay within culture.”

Many of the books still in the store date back to the 17th and 18th centuries, and need to be maintained to prevent irreparable damage, she said. She took a small, leather bound novel from a pile of fixed books and noted the quality of the pages and the appeal that comes with the sensation of handling an old book. in his expressed plan were efforts to enhance rehabilitation programming in jails and prisons, and offer more support for ex-offenders as they try to re-enter society.

“These and other reforms will lead to fewer victims of crimes, a better pathway back for ex-offenders and safer communities for all,” Rauner said in the address.

As Rauner emphasized his own concessions, he called on the Democrats in the Illinois Congress to work similarly towards a deal.

“To achieve a grand compromise, we must cast partisanship and ideology aside,” Rauner said. “We must break from the politics of the past and do what is right for the long term future of our state.” robinopsahl2018@u.northwestern.edu

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“There’s a feeling of preservation,” Laura Cohen said. “There’s really a lot of beauty and history. These books have character.”

Laura Cohen said she has a very close relationship with the store. She said although it might not have the quantity and variety of a Barnes & Noble or other big chains, every visit is an adventure. Howard’s Books is a destination for bookworms to find a hidden treasure they didn’t know they wanted, she said.

“At a bookstore like this you can find something unexpected, things from different eras,” Laura Cohen said. “Some of the fun is finding something you wouldn’t find at a new bookstore.” benjaminwinck2019@u.northwestern.edu

Demands From page 1

“The purpose of the meeting was to try to go forward in a productive fashion with a smaller group of students who could likely represent the larger group of students that sent emails to the president,” Telles-Irvin said.

The list includes demands from and regarding multiple student groups and organizations on campus, including Northwestern Divest, Native American and Indigenous Student Alliance, LGBT community, the National Society of Black Engineers, the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers and more.

“Our inclusion in their demands speaks to how intersectional our campaign has been from the start,” said Weinberg sophomore Yusuf Kudaimi, who is a member of NU Divest. “We believe fully in each other’s causes because we understand the similar roots of these racist systems of discrimination, from this campus to the West Bank.”

The additional demands also came from students who attended at the Concerned Student Townhall earlier this month as well as some from students who sent them in but couldn’t attend, Weinberg junior Marcel Hanna said.

“We told the University that they need to be held accountable,” Hanna said. “There’s a lot of work that needs to be done at this University and they can’t claim that they have made strides when there are communities literally screaming for them to be heard.”

Hanna said they gave administrators until Tuesday, Feb. 2 to respond to their list of demands and say what they will be doing about each one on the list.

“Our hope is that we can do more than just listen but show how we are moving forward,” Telles-Irvin said. fathmarahman2019@u.northwestern.edu

Professor From page 1

years, to teach the course and that he was teaching it without pay. Now that Linhardt is no longer at NU, Marasco is teaching the course with McCormick Prof.

Mark Werwath.

Linhardt, who declined to be interviewed for this story, told The Daily in an email, “The only thing else I’d like to say is that I’m glad this nightmare is over.”

According to Linhardt’s emails, Title IX investigator Colleen Johnston contacted him on Jan. 11 to discuss the complaint against him. Under federal law, the University is required to investigate all sexual harassment complaints.

“It was clear to me that Ms. Johnston was following up on the student’s complaint and was conducting an investigation,” he wrote. “It was also clear to me that I was not being provided a presumption of innocence in this matter.”

As a part of the University’s investigation, he said he was asked to disclose information about not only his personal life, but also the personal life of the other person mentioned in the post. However, he said he had done nothing wrong and the investigation was “without merit and completely unreasonable.”

“I refused to participate in this baseless witch hunt and intrusive investigation into my personal life and the life of the other person,” he wrote. “I don’t deserve to be treated this way, and neither does she.”

Because of his lack of cooperation, Linhardt said he was fired from the University. However, the administration claims he quit from his position, he said in his emails.

Both Johnston and Marasco deferred comment to University spokesman Al Cubbage, who declined to comment on the personnel matter. Provost Daniel Linzer said he is not aware of who Linhardt is.

Linhardt said he has moved on to his other endeavors and is focusing on spending time with his family.

NU’s “indelible commitment to political correctness” makes it impossible to attract genuine entrepreneurs to teach at the University, he added.

“Unfortunately, I also saw tremendous bulls--- at Northwestern,” he wrote. “I was there to teach entrepreneurship. I am not there to appease overly-sensitive bureaucrats about meaningless bulls---. I just don’t have time for that crap. There are too many other sources of meaningful activity for me that I’d rather be doing.” benjamindin@u.northwestern.edu

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 2016

Wildcats confident in selves to upset Buckeyes again Northwestern vs. No. 7 Ohio State

By WILL RAGATZ

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Women’s Basketball

Columbus, Ohio 6 p.m. Thursday

Last time Northwestern faced Ohio State, it snapped a two-game losing streak with a signature victory that seemed likely to turn the Wildcats’ season around.

Since then, however, things have only gotten worse. NU (13-7, 2-6 Big Ten) has lost all three of its games following that upset, and heads into Thursday’s rematch with the No. 7 Buckeyes (15-4, 7-1) as its hopes for a second consecutive NCAA tournament berth slip away.

Two weeks ago, the Cats knocked off Ohio State in stunning fashion, 86-82, at Welsh-Ryan Arena. In that game, NU dominated the first half both offensively and defensively.

“That game showed how good we can be,” said coach Joe McKeown.

The Cats were unable to turn that performance into a trend. They followed the upset victory with a flat performance in a loss at No. 8 Maryland, which was by no means unexpected, but then also dropped contests against unranked Big Ten opponents Minnesota and Indiana.

In those losses, NU struggled mightily on defense. It surrendered at least 80 points to all three teams, including more than 90 each to the Golden Gophers and Hoosiers.

“It’s been a combination of things, sometimes turnovers, sometimes fouls, we haven’t defended

the three-point line great, we gotta do a better job there,” McKeown said about his team’s struggle with stopping opponents.

NU’s potent offense has looked consistent during the losing streak though. Against Minnesota, the Cats knocked down 50 percent of their shots, including 11 3-pointers. And against Indiana on Sunday, junior guard Ashley Deary and junior forward Nia Coffey combined for 57 points.

Yet despite putting up high point totals, NU has been unable to slow down teams on the other end.

“Our biggest challenge right now is defensively, how we can get better,” McKeown said. “We’ve shown so far in the league that we can score, but we just have to get better on defense, and I think everyone’s committed to that.”

Facing Ohio State will continue to challenge the Cats’ leaky defense. The Buckeyes are the third-highest scoring team in the country, averaging almost 86 points per contest. NU got a taste of that in the last matchup when Ohio State put up 52 points in the second half to nearly complete a massive comeback.

Ohio State guard Kelsey Mitchell will again be the player to watch Thursday. The nation’s third leading scorer dropped 28 points in the first meeting.

Lumpkin

that it’s a strong and physical game in college.”

Lumpkin missed the first four games of the season with mononucleosis, recorded a total of four points and four rebounds in four appearances, and then was lost for the season with a broken wrist.

While riding the bench, he bonded with the man who had so jarringly introduced him to Division I basketball – Crawford, who was nursing a torn right shoulder labrum at the time.

The Cats eventually sputtered to a 13-19 record that year. Bill Carmody, the coach who had recruited Lumpkin to NU, was replaced after the season by Collins. After missing the season, the forward returned as a redshirt freshman in 2013-14.

Lumpkin’s injury, combined with the coaching change, functioned as a reset button on his college career. After he fully recovered, Lumpkin lived with Crawford off the court and learned from him on it.

“It’s really easy to mentor a guy like (Sanjay) because he really soaks everything up and … he works extremely hard,” Crawford said. “You enjoy playing with, and enjoy leading, a guy like that.

He’s willing to do everything in his power to help the team.”

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selfish on defense; he was a great team defender.”

By his senior year, Lumpkin found himself on a high school team sporting six players who would go on to play basketball in college (including longtime friend and now-Creighton starter Isaiah Zierden). The group rolled to a 27-2 record with Lumpkin dominating on both sides of the ball, scoring 19.5 points per game, leading the team in rebounds and finishing second in assists.

Nevertheless, Lumpkin came to Evanston the following autumn as a mere two-star prospect according to ESPN, the worst of NU’s four-member 2012 recruiting class. His first winter didn’t spell much promise either.

In his first collegiate practice, he was reaching for an offensive rebound when the forearm of Drew Crawford, then one of the team’s biggest stars, slammed him in the chest. Crawford got the board.

“That was his welcome to college,” said Crawford, who graduated in 2014 and now plays professionally in Israel. “Ever since then, he’s understood

Daily file photo by Courtney Morrison

“WHEN WE FALL DOWN…” Ashley Deary lifts a jump-shot. Despite the Wildcats’ struggles, the junior guard leads the nation in steals per game.

McKeown said the rematch will be different than the previous contest because the two teams will be more familiar with each other.

“You know their tendencies just like they know yours,” McKeown said. “(We need to focus on) execution now, second time around. The things that we did well against them (last time), we want to continue to do on Thursday.”

Since falling to NU, Ohio State has gotten back on track by winning three straight games. The Buckeyes’ only loss in their last 12 games came

at Welsh-Ryan.

Despite the opposite directions the two teams have headed in since the first time they met, junior guard Christen Inman is confident that NU can pull off another upset.

“We’re making sure we’re going into Ohio State not dwelling on these past games,” Inman said.

“We’ve beaten Ohio State before. We know we can do it (again).”

Even as recently as last season, though, Lumpkin struggled to consistently find his place in NU’s lineup.

Up until Jan. 15, 2015, the forward was averaging 27.4 minutes and four shots per game; after that date, he averaged just 17.4 minutes and 1.8 attempts per game. By the time the Cats traveled to Minnesota the next month for Lumpkin’s annual homecoming game, he played just 15 minutes, hauled in just two rebounds and attempted just one shot: a miss.

“He’d worked on his game and probably wanted to do a little bit more,” Collins said. “I didn’t feel like last year he was as committed to being that dirty work guy. He and I had a lot of conversations about that.”

But this season, Lumpkin – now a team captain – and his gritty, defensive role have been inseparably espoused since the season’s opening tip-off.

Lumpkin has averaged just under 25 minutes per night for the Cats, establishing himself as arguably the most important piece of NU’s unusual zone-man hybrid defensive scheme. As a forward playing closer to the baseline, he’s not only responsible for covering his area of the court but also for

communicating instructions to the guards farther upcourt.

“If you’re in one of those (forward) spots, you have to talk, because there are a lot of things that other guys can’t see behind them,” Lumpkin said.

“We’re directing everyone and telling them where to go.”

In an odd twist of fate, Lumpkin has become the central figure in one of the most oft-mentioned statistics of NU’s season for, of all things, his offense: in games this season in which Lumpkin has made a 3-pointer, the Cats are 8-0.

His family reunion at Minnesota is one of those eight. The team’s visits to Virginia Tech and DePaul in December – when Lumpkin scored 12 and 14 points, respectively, helping the visitors pull out overtime wins in both ympkin’s role to expand offensively. But Collins isn’t convinced.

“His value is not ever gauged by his numbers,” Collins said. “He’s a lunchpail guy, he’s a dirty-work guy, he embraces it, he loves it, and because of that he’s carved out a nice niche for himself on our team and in our program.”

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It’s really easy to mentor a guy like (Sanjay) because he soaks everything up and ... he works extremely hard.

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FINDING HIS Sanjay Lumpkin emerges as Cats’ defensive leader

By BEN POPE

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On Jan. 9, a crowd of 10,436 at Williams Arena in Minneapolis watched Northwestern rout Minnesota. More than 70 of those spectators had their eyes on one specific player: No. 34 in purple, Sanjay Lumpkin.

And in front of dozens upon dozens of family and friends, the former Minneapolis prep school star and native of nearby Wayzata, Minnesota, pulled in a game-high 10 rebounds and hit one 3-pointer to help the Wildcats to a 77-52 victory.

Lumpkin’s performance that Saturday afternoon has proven emblematic of his role in this 2015-2016 NU squad: a difference-maker within the Cats’ complex defensive schemes, a strong rebounder and, as coach Chris Collins put it, the “heart and soul” of the team.

Yet despite starting all 21 games to date and leading the team in rebounding, Lumpkin averages just 4.7 points per game, attempts the fewest shots per minute of any player other than freshman walk-on Charlie Hall and is often

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half-forgotten underneath the chatter that surrounds playmakers Bryant McIntosh, Tre Demps and Alex Olah.

“The good thing I love about (him) is he understands who he is.

Sometimes that’s tough for guys,” Collins said. “He’d love for me to design stuff to get him shots … but he knows that’s never been the case and that’s never going to be the case.”

From a young age, focus on defense has been an integral part of Sanjay Lumpkin.

He grew up around two former professional athletes, both defensive specialists in their own respective sports. His father, Sean Lumpkin, was a first-team AllBig Ten safety at Minnesota and a defensive back in the NFL for five years. His stepfather, Jim Petersen, spent eight seasons as a center and power forward in the NBA and currently is an assistant coach for the WNBA’s Minnesota Lynx.

During Lumpkin’s younger years, the pull to various different sports was strong. He played baseball and hockey, but fell in love with golf after Petersen introduced him to it at age 4.

“When he (only) worked for the Minnesota Timberwolves he had the summers off and we would

always play,” Lumpkin said. “We played 18, 36 (holes) a day.”

However, as a high school freshman at BenildeSt. Margaret’s – his father’s alma mater and a school with alumni connections to the NFL, NBA and NHL – Lumpkin needed to commit to a single sport.

He chose basketball.

The decision more than pleased John Moore, Benilde-St. Margaret’s longtime men’s basketball coach, who immediately noticed Lumpkin’s skill.

“I saw from day one that he was a really good defensive-minded player,” said Moore, noting that Lumpkin’s footwork when moving laterally made him a unique talent.

“Defense was always who he was. Most people lead on the offensive end; he led on the defensive end.

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» See LUMPKIN, page 10

Northwestern seeking help from secondary scorers

By MAX SCHUMAN

Men’s Basketball

daily senior staffer

Daily file photo by Jacob Swan

DRIVING TO THE BASKET Bryant McIntosh drives to the basket. The sophomore guard has averaged over 35 minutes per game this season, second-most on the team.

In Sunday’s blowout loss at the hands of then-No. 25 Indiana, the lone bright spot was the play of two struggling seniors: guard Tre Demps and center Alex Olah.

But while the duo combined for 36 points and shot efficiently, the rest of the Wildcats scored just 21 points in the 89-57 loss.

Sophomore guard Bryant McIntosh shot poorly on the day, and without other players picking up the slack, Northwestern (15-6, 3-5 Big Ten) couldn’t keep up with the potent Hoosiers. It’s been an all-toofamiliar story for the Cats in conference play, as NU has scored just 61.6 points per game in the Big Ten after averaging 79.9 beforehand.

Coach Chris Collins said the key to fixing his team’s offense is getting points from the Cats’ complementary players.

“We’ve been at our best when (freshman forward Aaron Falzon) is a double-figure scorer,” Collins said. “Guys like (sophomore guard) Scottie Lindsey, guys like (sophomore forward Gavin) Skelly and (junior forward Nathan) Taphorn … we’ve got to find ways to have them lessen the load.”

Pegged as NU’s leading 3-point threat, Falzon has struggled to find his way against Big Ten defenses. The freshman has canned

No. 12 Michigan State vs. Northwestern Evanston, Illinois 8 p.m. Thursdsay

37 percent of his 3s in conference play, but his shooting has been streaky with opponents running him off easy looks.

When his shots don’t fall, Falzon hasn’t offered much else offensively for the Cats, as 74.2 percent of his shots in the Big Ten have been from distance. Collins said Falzon’s lack of familiarity with the college game has been a factor in his struggles to score consistently.

“A lot of it is youth,” Collins said. “(He is) a freshman, and (he’s) going through this thing for the first time.”

Meanwhile, Lindsey has rarely been a factor in the conference slate, averaging 3.8 points in just 18 minutes per game in Big Ten play. Junior forward Sanjay Lumpkin’s offensive output has tailed off mightily after a strong start to the season, while Taphorn has averaged just 8.6 minutes per game against more athletic conference opponents.

With two or more of Falzon, Lindsey, Lumpkin and Taphorn on the floor at almost all times without offering a consistent threat, opponents from keying on NU’s lead guards, something McIntosh said he has noticed.

“They’re doubling my ball screens a

lot, making me give it up,” McIntosh said.

“When I give it up, we have a 4-on-3 at some point … we haven’t done a great job taking advantage.”

With No. 12 Michigan State (17-4, 4-4) coming to Evanston on Thursday, the Cats’ headliners will have a tough time outplaying Spartans star guard Denzel Valentine.

The senior is a well-rounded force and Wooden Award contender, averaging 18.4 points, 7.9 rebounds, and 6.6 assists per game.

Additionally, Michigan State is wellequipped to keep NU from easy points on the offensive glass and in transition. The Spartans have the second-best rebounding margin in the Big Ten and are near the bottom of the country in possessions per game.

Olah said he expects a physical battle inside against Michigan State.

“We had a really good practice yesterday where we used pads, we used everything, to get tougher,” he said. “I feel we can match up with them on every possession.”

Against thewww rugged Spartans, finding a way to squeeze offense out of every player on the floor could be crucial for the Cats’ hopes of mounting an upset bid. But if NU fails to find a way to complement its stars, the team could be in for another long night offensively. maxschuman2018@u.northwestern.edu