The Daily Northwestern – January 28, 2019

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David Blight speaks about Douglass book Yale professor talks research, writing process at ETHS

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An image of Norris ground floor. New dining options include The Budlong, Wildcat Deli and Asiana Foodville.

Norris christens new ground floor Grand opening celebration highlights dining options, technology

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Despite the below-freezing temperature, long lines of students, faculty and staff formed in Norris University Center on Friday to celebrate the

official grand opening of the new ground floor.

The new space has been under construction since last summer in partnership between Northwestern Dining and Compass Group, the University’s new food provider. The renovation includes the opening of several local food establishments,

new seating arrangements and the introduction of the latest technology.

“Now that the construction is almost finally complete, we want to give everyone a chance to sample the new great menu items, get acquainted with the collaboration spaces and everything that Norris has to offer,”

said Georgene Sardis, the marketing director of Compass Group.

First-year Weinberg students Sally Hong and Soo Min Lee spent their time at the event grabbing as many samples as possible before posting all of

» See OPENING, page 6

Author and professor David Blight said at a discussion at Evanston Township High School on Friday that he struggled to portray a different side of Frederick Douglass because of the powerful narrative Douglass himself constructed in his autobiographies.

Blight, a history professor at Yale University, spoke about his newest book, “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom,” which explores Douglass’ life after the Civil War. Family Action Network, a group that organizes a speaker series for the greater Evanston area, hosted Blight as part of their programming.

“Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom,” was a Wall Street Journal, Time and New York Times Top 10 book of 2018.

Blight has written 16 other books and received awards including the Frederick Douglass Book Prize and the Connecticut Book Award for non-fiction.

Marcus Campbell, the assistant superintendent and principal of

Evanston Township High School, interviewed Blight. The two began the evening by discussing the Walter O. Evans Collection, a series of documents that inspired Blight’s book.

The collection primarily consists of about 10 family scrapbooks that contain thousands of newspaper clippings, family letters and documents. Douglass’ sons kept them, and Blight was one of the first historians to use them for research.

“It particularly opens a window into this older Douglass,” Blight said. “I ended up finding the older Douglass — maybe it’s because I’m getting older — to be increasingly fascinating.”

Blight’s most recent book took him 10 years to finish, and he said his writing process is always idiosyncratic, not just moments of pure inspiration.

Blight said he starts his day by reading a secondary source about his subject to get in the right headspace, and then revises the work he did the day before. However, he said his physical space is just as important as his mindset.

“I need the right space. I need my notes in one place, I need the right books in one place and...I need those flat toothpicks,” Blight said. “They’re my tension release.” » See DOUGLASS, page 6

Spoonfoolery offers NU Memes for Decompressing Teens foster meals to furloughed Memes community, but Restaurant offered food during gov’t shutdown

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Mamata Reddy went to the grocery store last week and bought ingredients for homestyle recipes in bulk: mac and cheese, garlic-roasted broccoli and brownies. She then cooked 40 meals and prepared to distribute them to furloughed federal workers.

Reddy — owner and executive director of Spoonfoolery, a teaching kitchen and event space

in Evanston for kids ages 3 to 14 — distributed free to-go meals to furloughed federal workers Jan. 21 and Jan. 25. Meals were available for pickup at 2113 Greenleaf St. for people with proof of federal employment.

The federal government shutdown began Dec. 22, leaving roughly 800,000 federal employees across the country without pay. After 35 days, the government reopened on Jan. 25, passing a spending bill to fund the government for three weeks, which should result in these employees being compensated for the work they did without pay.

However, in the meantime, many workers remain uncertain » See SPOON, page 6

some warn of harm

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In today’s digital age, memes have developed as a safe way for students to share their opinions and find a community online.

At Northwestern, students have created and shared memes that cover a variety of topics, ranging from mental health to finals week, on different social platforms. Memes allow people to grapple with frustrations and express their feelings in unconventional ways — according to a recent BBC article, for example, millennials used memes to help

cope with the recession.

The most popular platform for NU memes is Facebook, where students can often be seen tagging their friends in the comments. The most popular Facebook page, Northwestern Memes for Networking Teens, has over 14,000 members. There’s also an Instagram page — @northwestern_memes — although it has not been active since May 2018.

For McCormick senior Charlie Collar, who is an administrator for Northwestern Memes for Networking Teens, memes serve as a form of distraction from reality, but don’t necessarily keep him from feeling stressed.

“A lot of memes on our page tend to be very critical of Northwestern as an institution or the culture that there is,” Collar

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D65 board members launch uncontested campaigns

By CLARE PROCTOR

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Evanston/Skokie School District 65 board members plan to continue pursuing equity in District 65 schools and engaging with parents in the district, candidates said at a campaign event Sunday.

Board members Sergio Hernandez, Rebeca Mendoza and board vice president Anya Tanyavutti are all up for reelection on April 2, and all three are running uncontested. The candidates held a campaign kickoff event at YoFresh Yogurt Cafe, where they were joined by about 25 community members.

The candidates spoke about their goals for their upcoming terms, including improved social and emotional learning, kindergarten readiness and sustainable equity work.

Hernandez, who has served as a board member since he was appointed in 2017, said in an interview that listening to people from different backgrounds is important to the board’s equity work.Though the election is uncontested, he said it provides an opportunity to reach out to the community.

“We shouldn’t take public service for granted,” Hernandez said. “As public officials, we have a responsibility to the public to be able to put ourselves out there and listen, and to be able to incorporate community voice in our decisions and all the work that we do.”

Hernandez said he is focusing on development in social and emotional learning for students, beyond simply academic development in reading and writing.

Meagan Novara, a parent and employee in District

POLICE BLOTTER Evanston man charged with theft from Target A 27-year-old Target employee reported Thursday that an item was stolen from the Target on the 1600 block of Sherman Avenue.

He said that a man entered the store and took a vacuum cleaner valued at $80 and fled in a Cadillac

65, said she is glad the election is uncontested.

“They’re some of the best,” Novara said. “I want them in there. I feel like there has been a dramatic shift in sort of how we push for equity in this district.”

Novara said a part of that shift was the board’s work to have all District 65 staff go through Beyond Diversity training — a two-day seminar to build community and teach protocol for discussing race. She said she hopes the board continues to advocate for these values across the district.

As a board member, Tanyavutti said she has seen that diversity and equity have, and will continue to be, priorities of the board.

“If we want to have a governance body that is truly representative of the best that our community has to offer, we have to listen to our community, even when it’s difficult,” Tanyavutti said. “Even if we anticipate that folks may not all be in agreement that that is okay.”

Tanyavutti added that this disagreement in the initial stages of discussion can help create a better policy product.

Mendoza, who spent parts of her childhood in Evanston, said she is thankful for the “amazing education” she received in the city. But when she returned to Evanston after college, she said she realized “everything was the same” for the Latino community.

“We were still challenged with graduation rates, still challenged by getting our Latino community visible in Evanston,” Mendoza said. “We still have a challenge with that.”

Working for various education and child development groups within Evanston — District 65, Family Focus, Youth & Opportunity United and others

with tinted windows.

The Evanston Police Department put out a description to officers, and an officer spotted the vehicle near the 600 block of South Boulevard, EPD Cmdr. Ryan Glew said.

The officer stopped the vehicle and told the man to exit the car. The officer identified the vacuum, and brought the man to the EPD. The Target employee identified the offender, who was charged with misdemeanor retail theft.

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Rebeca Mendoza and Anya Tanyavutti speak at a campaign kick-off at YoFresh Yogurt Cafe Sunday. The three members of the District 65 school board up for uncontested reelection in April plan to use their campaigns to engage the community.

— Mendoza said she realized there was little communication about kindergarten readiness resources available for community members.

She said a commitment to early childhood development and connecting parents with kindergarten readiness resources is “at the top of my list.”

“If we get early childhood, right, we have a chance

at closing the (education) gap in our city,” Mendoza said. “If we create strong learners from the start, and strong families who know how to work the system who know how to be the best advocates for their kids, I really think that that would make a huge difference.”

Man charged for driving with suspended license

The man denied that he had been driving, and officers discovered his license had been previously revoked. They arrested him and transported him to the EPD. He was charged with failure to give information to an unattended motor vehicle, driving without insurance, driving too fast for conditions and driving while license was suspended or revoked.

A 2019 black Toyota with a smashed front end was reported driving the wrong way down Harvard Terrace on Thursday.The driver was fleeing from a hit-and-run incident near the 100 block of Asbury Avenue.

EDP officers identified the vehicle parked outside of St. Francis Hospital and located the driver, Glew said.

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ON CAMPUS NU places in Mars habitat contest

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As NASA prepares to send its first batch of astronauts to Mars, it issued a challenge to the public: find a way to build a livable habitat on the red planet. There was a caveat — the facility needs to be autonomously 3D-printable and made from materials found on Mars.

This challenge, announced in 2015, has three phases. The first two focused on the concept of the facility and the third focused on the finished virtual design and the partial construction of the habitat.

Northwestern joined the challenge at the beginning of the third phase and placed fifth out of 18 teams in the first round, winning a cash prize of over $17,000 and becoming the highestranking university in the competition.

Matthew Troemner, a second-year civil engineering graduate student, led the project with McCormick Prof. Gianluca Cusatis. To work on the habitat, Troemner and Cusatis led the Martian 3Design Team, which Troemner said is made up of undergraduate and graduate students across disciplines, ranging from civil engineers to political science majors.

Shaped as a dome, the habitat proposed by the NU team was designed to be both resilient and efficient, Troemner said. He added that if all the required materials were readily available to the printer, it would only take 15 days for a facility to be completed.

Jonathan Meehan, a McCormick junior and the virtual design team leader, said he joined the team in January 2018 and worked to create a realistic model of the interior of the habitat.

He said when he first started, he worked on the model two to three times a week. During the summer, Meehan added, he worked on building the model every day.

“Once winter break hit, we knew we had a lot to get done,” Meehan said. “We had a good framework of what we needed, but we didn’t have

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The 3D printer used by the Martian 3Design team to create the model of the Mars habitat. The team placed fifth in the first round of the NASA challenge.

the video completed. I was probably working five to six hours a day over break.”

The Martian 3Design team was up against companies dedicated to 3D printing, architecture and engineering, said Hokyin Kong, a member of the virtual design team.

“All the other teams are real companies and super serious,” the McCormick junior said. “We were kind of like the underdogs.”

Troemner said unlike the rest of the top five competitors, he was the only full-time worker on the project. The rest of the team still had to attend classes and work on this project in their spare time.

The Northwestern team did have one trick up its sleeve, though.

Prior to entering this competition, Cusatis and Lin Wan (McCormick MS ‘15) pioneered the creation of a material called Martian Concrete, or “Marscrete” for short.

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Made from a combination of sulfur and a Martian soil simulant — or soil found on Earth that has similar properties to its Martian counterpart — this new type of concrete was much stronger than regular water-based cement and could dry in minutes instead of hours. The NU team utilized the Marscrete in their final design.

Cusatis said that the progress of the project is mostly because of the dedication of the students on the team.

“Everything that was achieved was because of the students,” Cusatis said. “Most of the time it’s volunteer work so I think it’s amazing where we are now compared to where we started.”

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Anonymous comments have no place in online discourse CATHERINE BUCHANIEC

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Last week, I watched Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) interview with Stephen Colbert on YouTube. Then I scrolled to the comments section to read what people had to say.

“This girl behaves and speaks like an 8th grader...and is a member of the United States House of Representatives?” said the elusive A B. “This dingbat waitress is an embarrassment...” commented Uncle Putin — a bold claim from someone claiming to be a relative of one of the world’s most powerful leaders.

Within the first few days of the video’s posting, these were the average critical comments — though tame in comparison to others. Yet both of these comments were made by figures hiding behind their respective screens.

In the digital age, the internet has

empowered people, for better and for worse.

Protests can be organized in a matter of hours. I can order a textbook and have it arrive the next day. People have an unimaginable amount of access to information and, moreover, each other.

Being anonymous online has the potential for good, especially for those living under authoritarian regimes in other countries. It can provide a forum for people who otherwise would have been subjected to censorship.

However, in more cases than not in the United States and other parts of the globe, anonymity leads to Twitter wars, internet trolls and incendiary comments. With the invention of the internet came the opening of the floodgates — those too afraid to say their position out loud now had a curtain to hide behind. When everything can be shared in seconds, people are more likely to click the button that sends their message to the rest of the world, many times hiding behind a false name.

Herein lies the problem: if you wouldn’t say that in person, why would you say it online?

When someone is hiding behind a phone,

tablet or laptop, it is easier to publish the first things that come to mind and forget the consequences. In the case of anonymous YouTube accounts, it leads to racism, sexism, homophobia and anti-Semitism. It leads to hate.

I have a hard time believing that people would say half the things face-to-face that they post online if given the opportunity to do so.

Nowadays, the comments section only unshackles the bigotry that lurks in the shadows of physical conversation. It gives power to those who otherwise would have remained festering in silence due to the norms of social conversation.

There’s a difference between talking to someone — even arguing with someone — in person as opposed to online: It is harder to forget your interlocutor is a human being. A person with feelings and emotions. A person you might even share common ground with on some issues or in life experiences.

Debating in-person provides context — you can see facial expressions and hear tone.

Online abuse and cyber trolling, especially on YouTube, have no place in our society. However,

even when one is countering a statement they find bigoted by responding, it only feeds into the hate, forming a snowball of anonymous argument. Ultimately, this only fulfills the goals of the A Bs and Uncle Putins of the world: normalizing perturbing rhetoric.

In a polarized society, we should stand by our words and own what we say. If you can connect a person to the commentary, humanity can be reintroduced into the conversation.

People are allowed to disagree; discourse remains a vital component of any functioning society. Nonetheless, anonymous comments do not accomplish anything. They are simply a means for people to share hate and dehumanize interaction.

Catherine Buchaniec is a Medill first-year. She can be contacted at cbuchaniec@u.northwestern.edu.

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Let’s erase stigma surrounding psychiatric medication KATHRYN AUGUSTINE

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A clear double standard exists in our conversation about mental health. In the eyes of society, actively avoiding treatment for physical health issues seems self-sabotaging. However, deciding not to take medication for mental health issues is, to a certain extent, encouraged by societal norms.

The stigma surrounding taking medication for mental illness is nuanced. There’s the myth that mental illness exists only in the mind of the person and that the individual is at fault, so the need for medication seems absurd. Some believe anxiety or depression can be “fixed” through other means like a weekly yoga class. Others are concerned with image: “What if your employer thinks you’re crazy? Is there something wrong with you?” Outsiders can even accuse people on medication of taking the easy route to recovery.

As someone who has taken medication, I’ve never felt that I can be open about this. Personally, while taking medication has helped me significantly by reducing my anxiety throughout my day-to-day life, I feel that discussion around the topic is uncomfortable and awkward even with my close friends. However, I do wish that I could have a dialogue with others about mental health freely without fear of being judged. I wish that it wasn’t something that I had to actively hide.

Should someone with anxiety avoid taking medication and live in a constant state of stress just to avoid societal backlash? Should someone with depression actively conceal the fact that they take medication to feel socially accepted?

In today’s climate, perhaps those seem to be the best options. However, it is blatantly unacceptable for society to continue to look down on those who garner the courage to seek treatment as less competent or weak.

For this reason, people may avoid taking medication altogether or decide to stop during treatment. This can have detrimental consequences as

extreme as suicide, permitting the issues at hand to worsen. Without medication, many people would not be realistically able to hold a job, maintain relationships or participate in everyday life. Society’s toxic culture should not be the factor that holds individuals back from something that can improve their daily life.

The fact of the matter is that mental illness is not brought on by the individual. Quite often, mental illnesses arise from biological causes.

And while therapeutic programs are helpful to a certain extent, supplementing with medications can physically address those biological issues and shape the functioning of neurotransmitters in the brain.

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, commonly known as SSRIs, block the reabsorption of serotonin, a neurotransmitter with many roles including regulating mood. The result is that serotonin is available in greater quantities, easing symptoms of disorders like anxiety or depression.

By continuing to spread and support the message that taking medication for psychological

issues is something to be ashamed of, to be kept private, we ensure that mental illness remains an obstacle for many people, thereby dampening their quality of life. Beyond that, we are restricting conversations that people with mental illness can have about mental health when they are bounded by the thought that taking psychiatric medication is something they shouldn’t discuss.

One in every four young adults ranging from the age of 18 to 24 has a diagnosable mental illness. The leading cause for not seeking help?

Stigma. Given how widespread this issue is, we need to normalize the use of psychiatric medication.

alienating comments from my white classmates. The worst came when a teammate on the freshman baseball team told me that I’d look good hanging from a nearby tree (I’m not kidding). The comments hurt, and the first two years of my high school career were pretty rough. Unbeknownst to me, the majority of my classmates’ remarks didn’t come from a place of malice, but rather from ignorance and discomfort. What I failed to realize until the second half of high school was that, for many of my white classmates, I and the other black students in my year were the first black classmates they’d ever had. All they knew about black culture came from the media’s laughable depiction of it. Their social defense mechanisms were problematic, but they themselves, for the most part, were OK as people. Diversity in these educational environments, be it teachers of color or fellow students, is paramount — and something Sandmann and his classmates don’t have in their school.

What my white classmates needed wasn’t some Twitter troll telling them that they were scum of the Earth. They needed an education of the world outside of the homogeneous, sheltered, whitewashed Christian bubble that they had been raised in.

This leads me back to Sandmann and the other kids with him. Wearing MAGA hats was their first mistake. Regardless of what political views they might possess, their ignorance blinded them to what that hat has come to mean to so many people in this country, especially people of color (e.g. Native Americans). By hurling slurs at Sandmann and his friends, the Black Hebrew Israelites only made matters worse. Then came Phillips and the Indigenous Peoples March. Whether Phillips approached the group or Sandmann blocked his way is moot. Made uncomfortable when faced with something that was genuinely foreign to them, the kids from Covington Catholic put up their walls. Unsurprisingly, these walls manifested themselves with

racist overtones.

Sandmann, along with his classmates, could very well be some of the unfortunate Americans who just want to watch the world burn. But my gut tells me this isn’t the case.

Instead of being educated on how his actions were hurtful and problematic, Sandmann was allowed to go on to the Today Show and have his actions justified. Now, he will learn nothing.

Call his actions what you’d like. Ignorant.

Rude. Disrespectful. Racist. None of these words are inaccurate. But as liberals, we need to be better. Getting angry and putting whoever we think is culpable on blast via social media is the easy thing to do. But is it the right thing to do? Feeling angry when a personal identity is threatened and attacked is valid. Instead of using anger as a soapbox to preach with, maybe we should try harder to use it as a syllabus to educate.

Kathryn Augustine is a Medill first-year. She can be contacted at kathrynaugustine2022@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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The Covington Catholic students need education, not affirmation

Obviously I don’t know Nick Sandmann, the teenager who went viral for his standoff with Native American elder Nathan Phillips at the Indigenous Peoples March in Washington, D.C. last week. But I do know kids just like Sandmann, armed with conservative upbringings, arrogance and, most dangerously, ignorance.

Like Sandmann, I went to an all-boys Catholic high school, mine in St. Louis, Missouri. Four years at a predominantly white institution — including me, there were less than two dozen students of color in my class of 270 — taught me, among other things, lessons that are salient to last week’s events.

As a freshman at my high school, I was bombarded with racist, offensive and

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OPENING From page 1

them on their social media accounts. Despite not knowing what the ground floor looked like before its renovation, the duo said Norris has been a central place where they can get away from the dining hall food and the stressful library.

“I come here to eat when I get sick of the dining hall food, and I just come here to study sometimes too,” said Hong. “It’s a really nice space for collaborations as well.”

One of the new local food establishments is The Budlong, a Chicago-based restaurant chain that features Nashville-style hot chicken. Though best known for its fried chicken, the restaurant will be adding new menu items starting next week, said Ryan Territo, the restaurant’s director of operations.

This includes Budlong biscuits, secret menu options and other specials for the student body.

Other new food options include MOD Pizza, which offers customizable pizzas and salads; Asiana Foodville, a pan-Asian cuisine restaurant; and Wildcat Deli, which offers sandwiches with meats supplied by organic provider Applegate.

In addition to the new food restaurants, the University introduced new food products that will be sold at various stores and cafes across campus. One of those products includes Joyböl, a smoothie bowl

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Jeffrey Mullins, a 26-year-old Skokie resident who attended the event, was familiar with Blight’s work from his time at Howard University. He said he was excited to read the book and was impressed by the presentation.

“It was very insightful, very interesting,” Mullins said. “I love Frederick Douglass. I love to to read about the Civil War and the history of racism in our country.”

offered in different flavors –– including strawberry almond quinoa crunch with granola clusters. “( Joyböl) aligns really nicely with whom we designed this for –– young, busy, aspiring professional,” the company’s co-founder Jon Agay said.

The new renovations have also upgraded the technology on the ground floor. Sadis said the most popular technological addition has been the Rockbot, an application that allows students to request music from their smartphones.

The ground floor has also added several features that make it a collaborative space, such as the new farm tables with outlets. Students can catch up on sports and news through televisions at the booths.

McCormick junior Jack Pieterse said he has mixed feelings about the renovation, even though he now spends most of his time on North Campus and doesn’t visit Norris frequently. He said old Norris reminded him of his first year at NU, where he spent his time browsing in the bookstore and going to meetings in the building.

Nevertheless, McCormick junior Cristabella Wolff said she ultimately approves of the renovations.

“The layout just has more flow to it,” Wolff said.

“You can just walk through, and I think they added more seating, which is always nice.”

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After 20 furloughed federal workers picked up meals on Monday, Reddy decided to continue distribution on Friday and donated the leftover meals to a local church.

“I was really honored (that workers) had heard about me, that they trusted me,” Reddy said. “I got thank-you notes and texts later.”

Reddy graduated from the French Pastry School in downtown Chicago in 2005, and has worked as a pastry supervisor at the United Center and a culinary instructor at the Gary Comer Youth Center. At the youth center, Reddy said she saw the impact of food insecurity when she worked with students who had to regularly go without meals.

Parul Gupta, an OB-GYN at Northwestern Medicine, helped Reddy prepare the meals. Gupta first met Reddy at Gupta’s South Asian Women of Evanston group.

“I wanted to support (Reddy) and her business,”

Gupta said. “And I wanted to help federal workers furloughed.”

To cover the cost of groceries, Reddy started a GoFundMe page. In just eight days, the page had garnered 118 shares and raised over $1,600. Reddy said she would donate the remainder of the money to the city to promote food security.

Reddy said that while she could provide the labor and facilities to prepare meals for furloughed workers, she lacked the financial means to buy ingredients because her “young business” just opened last September. She said she was “grateful” to have both the resources from the community and a professional kitchen to help federal employees.

Riva Feshbach, one of the 40 donors to the fund, wrote on the page that this initiative brought a positive perspective to the government shutdown.

“The only good thing about the whole awful mess is seeing the way people are stepping up to help each other,” Feshbach said in the post. snehadey2022@u.northwestern.edu

andrescorrea2022@u.northwestern.edu Evanston resident Alyce Barry serves on the board of the Organization for Positive Action and Leadership, a nonprofit based in Evanston that helps ensure racial equity is a priority for people in positions of power.

Because of her role as an activist, Barry said she has read several books about Douglass and is looking forward to reading new material.

“It was excellent,” Barry said. “I could’ve listened to him for several more hours.” ashleycapoot2022@u.northwestern.edu

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From page 1 said. “So it kind of brings up a lot of difficult subjects, which I think is healthy, but I don’t think is destressing necessarily.”

Collar said that the admin’s role of monitoring content is not too difficult, as members are usually respectful when they post memes. As an admin, Collar filters accounts to make sure they aren’t fake and checks content to make sure that posts unrelated to Northwestern aren’t posted.

Weinberg first-year Amirah Ford finds memes about Northwestern funny because she likes the idea of a shared community bonding over Northwestern experiences.

“It’s like an inside joke among all of Northwestern,” Ford said.

As meme pages have gained popularity, other digital spaces for NU students have emerged. Pages such as NU Crushes and Confessions, a page that publishes anonymous NU “gossip,” provide a

platform for students to post relatable content to a familiar audience –– a trait it shares with other meme pages.

However, Medill junior William Kang, who is an admin of the Facebook page Northwestern Memes for Cultured Teens, said that while viewing and creating memes is entertaining, scrolling online and looking at them too much can actually be harmful.

He added that while some may use darkhumored memes as a coping mechanism, it can never be the solution to the viewers’ problems.

Rather than looking at a depression meme when sad, he said walking outside or even looking at a meme with a more positive message is more helpful. “(Memes are) kind of an expression of people, how people live their lives,” Kang said. “But sometimes when you get too into meme culture, then it becomes too isolating more than anything, because you end up just existing in the online mainly.” neyathanikachalam2022@u.northwestern.edu

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MEN’S TENNIS

NU gets first win of the year, goes 1-1 on weekend

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

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After spending the weekend in the much warmer state of Alabama, Northwestern returned back to frigid Evanston on Sunday having picked up its very elusive first win of the season.

Despite losing to Alabama (6-0) 5-2 on Friday to fall to 0-4, the Wildcats (1-4) defeated Auburn (7-2) 4-2. Winning the doubles point for the first time this season helped give NU an early lead heading into singles play, where the Cats won three of the five completed matches.

Junior Dominik Stary said the energy the team

brought was key in jump-starting the match in its favor.

“We finally played with more energy in our doubles matches,” he said. “We were able to play really well from the beginning so you’re not behind in any of those sets and we tried to stay ahead of our opponents.”

As for Stary individually, he said he played Sunday despite being sick. Fortunately for NU, he was able to battle through the adversity and contribute to the team’s success in doubles playing with junior Chris Ephron.

While winning the doubles point accounted for only one of the four points the Cats tallied on the score sheet, the team’s performances in singles was just as strong. Catapulted by the performance of freshman

Trice Pickens, who won his singles sets 7-6, 2-5, 6-3, NU was able to take advantage of winning its first sets. Including Pickens, five of the six singles players won their first sets.

Having also won his singles match on Friday against the Crimson Tide, Pickens said he sees how he’s developed over the course of the season.

“I’ve gotten better as a player,” he said. “The coaches have helped me a lot, adding more tools to my game and learning how to play in pressure situations.”

Head coach Arvid Swan said that Sunday’s win was all about continuing to improve as a team. He said he felt as though the team moved in the right direction despite the loss to Alabama on Friday, and now “guys are just learning what it really takes to win at this level.”

Moving forward, Stary said that he hopes the team can carry the momentum from Sunday’s win into next week, when the Cats host Duke and Chicago State for their first home matchups of the season.

“Hopefully we’re gonna be able to keep up the level that we play(ed) today,” he said. “Hopefully we’re going to be able to play like that next week as well.”

Both of those matches next week will be played on Sunday, so having played two matches in under 48 hours this past weekend seemed like a good stamina test for NU. Pickens, when asked how he felt physically, shrugged off the notion of fatigue.

“I’m fine,” he said. “There’s nothing we can’t handle.” ericrynston-lobel2022@u.northwestern.edu

WRESTLING

Cats’ stars shine against Iowa, but team loses a blowout

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

daily senior staffer @bxrosenberg

Northwestern has wins against ranked Virginia Tech and Wisconsin teams this season but has struggled against teams in the upper echelon of the Big Ten, easily the nation’s best wrestling conference.

That trend continued Sunday against No. 4 Iowa (10-0, 5-0 Big Ten), as the Wildcats’ only wins came from their two wrestlers ranked in the top five in their respective weight classes.

Sophomores Sebastian Rivera and Ryan Deakin won their bouts at 125 and 157 pounds, respectively, but NU (3-7, 1-4) was otherwise kept off the scoreboard and fell to the Hawkeyes, 32-7.

“We were close to pulling away a couple of big upsets today, but you don’t get points for almost,” coach Matt Storniolo said. “We’ve got to find a way to close those ones out.”

The match started well for the Cats, as Rivera defeated Iowa’s Perez Perez by major decision, 11-1. Rivera is ranked No. 1 nationally in his

weight class, and he was originally scheduled to take on the No. 2 wrestler, Spencer Lee. However, Iowa rested Lee by coach’s decision and Perez took his place. After a slow start, Rivera won easily to give NU a 4-0 lead.

Rivera improved to 18-0 for the season, including a win over Lee at the Ken Kraft Midlands Championships in December.

“I expected to wrestle (Lee),” Rivera said.

“They’re going to do what they’ve got to do to get him ready for the end of the year, and he just didn’t want to wrestle today.”

After Rivera’s win, Iowa won the next three bouts to take a 10-4 lead in the match. The Cats nearly picked up a victory at 149 pounds as freshman Yahya Thomas took Iowa’s No. 13 Pat Lugo into overtime. But Lugo outlasted Thomas 2-1, which put NU in a big hole.

Deakin, ranked No. 3 in his class, gave the Cats another win just before intermission, beating the Hawkeyes’ Jeren Glosser 6-1 at 157 pounds. Like Rivera, Deakin thought he would be up against a highly-ranked wrestler, but No. 5 Kaleb Young did not compete and Deakin took advantage of his lesser opponent.

Also like Rivera, Deakin defeated Young at Midlands to secure a title. The Colorado native is now 19-2 on the year.

“I definitely thought I’d have (Young),” Deakin said. “There’s a lot of positives to take away from it, but definitely some stuff to work on too.”

Deakin’s win was the last of the day for NU. Junior Zack Chakonis, who came in just 3-12 this season, came closest at 197 pounds against Iowa’s No. 5 Jacob Warner, but wound up losing 4-2.

The schedule does not get any easier for the Cats, who host No. 2 Ohio State next on Feb. 3.

“It’s about making the improvements you need to make in the practice room and then applying that to these last few matches,” Storniolo said. “Yahya Thomas wrestled a tough match.

Zack Chakonis, same thing. He’s wrestling a top-10 opponent and had him on the ropes.

We had a chance to capitalize and we didn’t.

But that should open something up mentally for Zack that he sees he can compete with the best kids in the country and find a way to win.” benjaminrosenberg2021@u.northwestern.edu

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By ANDREW GOLDEN

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MADISON, Wis. — On a chilly day in Madison, snow flurries, negative temperatures and blistering winds made it unbearably cold outside. But the only thing colder than the weather outside was Northwestern’s offense inside the Kohl Center on Saturday.

The Wildcats (12-8, 3-6 Big Ten) had a woeful game on the offensive end and Wisconsin’s balanced offensive attack was too much as NU fell on the road, 62-46.

“The story of the game was our inability to score,” coach Chris Collins said. “I actually thought, defensively, we did pretty well against them.”

Headed into their weekend matchup against the Badgers (14-6, 6-3), the Cats recipe to recent success had been stellar defense, as NU had held its opponents to an average of 61.5 points per game in the last two games.

Against Wisconsin, the Cats knew that they had a big challenge in front of them: senior forward Ethan Happ. The 6-foot-10 forward is one of the most accomplished big men in Big Ten history — two-time first team All-Big Ten selection, two-time Big Ten All-Defensive Team pick and a 2017 All-American.

Early in the game, NU was successful containing Happ offensively, mixing

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one-on-ones in the post and double teams. Happ scored just eight points on 4-8 shooting in the first half. But with the Cats’ defense focused on the senior forward, it left the three-point line vulnerable — and the Badgers made NU pay.

Sophomore guards D’Mitrik Trice and Brad Davison were left open due to double teams and neither of them shied away from their opportunities. Trice hit all three of his shots from behind the arc in the first half and Davison added two threes of his own.

On the other side of the ball, NU was able to keep the game close early in the first half. Struggling to get the offense going, Collins put in freshman guard Ryan Greer to give the Wildcats a spark off the bench. The backup point guard, who hasn’t seen many minutes this season, persistently attacked the rim and was tied for the team lead with six points in the first half.

“In practice, I’ve been working with the coaches,” Greer said. “(I’m) just becoming more confident in my game. I’m getting more reps.”

An Aaron Falzon three-pointer gave NU its first lead of the game 22-20 with

6:26 remaining in the game. But once the Cats had the lead, Wisconsin went on a 14-2 run to end the first half, with Greer scoring NU’s only points during the run.

The end of the first half was a microcosm for what was to come in the second half. NU shot 7-for-30 in the second half allowing the Badgers to pull away with ease in the second half. None of the Cats finished with more than 10 points, and senior Vic Law and sophomore Anthony Gaines combined to shoot 5-for-22 and NU’s offensive struggles continued Saturday.

“Especially at the start of the second half, I thought we were getting a number of stops early,” Collins said. “We just could not score…we also had a number of open looks that, if you want to win on the road, you gotta knock them down.”

Neither team scored in the first two and a half minutes of the second half, and, once again, the Wildcats played extremely well defensively. But Wisconsin relied on Happ and its guards to carry them — the senior forward finished with his second triple-double of the season and the duo of Trice and Davison each added 18 to put the Wildcats away.

“You’re not going to win scoring 46 points,” Collins said. “We got to get better on that end of the floor. We got to get ourselves ready and run a quick prep to go up to Maryland and get another opportunity.” andrewgolden2021@u.northwestern.edu

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Ryan Greer dribbles the ball. The freshman guard scored six points in the first half on Saturday.

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MADISON, Wis. — Vic Law looked like he could have broken through the hardwood and onto the cold, hard ice underneath the Kohl Center’s floor as he stomped to the sideline when he subbed out of Saturday’s game for the last time.

Coach Chris Collins slapped the senior forward hard on the backside as Law walked off the court with 1:55 to go and Northwestern down 15 points to Wisconsin. Then Law stared in awe at the scoreboard after turning in a sixpoint performance.

This was frustration at its fullest at the end of the Wildcats’ (12-8, 3-6 Big Ten) 62-46 loss to the Badgers (14-6, 6-3).

Wisconsin is a unique matchup for Law. Because of the nature of the Badgers’ lineup around star forward Ethan Happ, Law would either start the game defending 6-foot-11 forward Nate Reuvers or 6-foot-3 guard Brad Davison. Law would either be defending a traditional post-up player or a shifty pick-and-roll ball handler with a bag full of tricks he uses to create separation.

There are rewards to being a team’s tried-and-true defensive anchor, including the satisfaction of helping limit potential NBA lottery pick Romeo Langford to 12 points on 40 percent shooting inside a captivated Welsh-Ryan Arena.

And then there are moments that are less appealing — the early afternoon games in unenergetic buildings being asked to play post defense against a team’s fourth option. Law started the game on Reuvers, and when Reuvers picked up two early fouls, Law spent more time defending Davison and guard D’Mitrik Trice.

After an offseason focused on Law’s growth on the offensive end, Law is now asked to play an interesting yet undefined role on a team having an up-and-down season.

For four years, he’s left his fingerprints everywhere as a primary defender, an aggressive rebounder and as a general nuisance to everyone in the conference. Against Wisconsin, Law finished with 11 rebounds, an assist and a steal, but the Cats couldn’t break 50 points for the first time all season as Law struggled from the field.

It’s said that a team goes as far as it’s best player, and as a result of some impressive player development and a little osmosis, Law has that role this

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Vic Law attacks the rim. The senior forward scored six points Saturday against Wisconsin.

season.

Over the first 10 games of the season, he averaged 19.7 points and displayed his new-found growth as a dynamic off-the-dribble player. And then he suffered an injury, which the Chicago Tribune’s Teddy Greenstein reported to be knee tendinitis. Law eventually missed a game against Michigan but returned to action following 10 days off the court.

He’s played in three games since he missed the game against the Wolverines, shooting 17.2 percent from the field. Friday, before the road trip to Madison began, Law arrived more than 45 minutes early to practice Friday and to work on his shooting form. Then, in the Kohl Center, Law finished 2-11 from the field and had a dunk blocked by the rim in the second half.

After the game, he was not made available to the media, and an athletic department spokesman told the Daily he was receiving treatment but did not specify Law’s status.

According to an interview done by Cavs.com with former athletic trainer Max Benton, “repeated training on a hard surface” is a potential cause of knee tendinitis, and the injury’s primary systems are pain and tenderness. “If you do not rest properly,” he said, “the pain, inflammation, and tenderness of the tendon will be present before, during, and after activity and will increase in intensity.”

If Law were solely focused on his professional career, you could argue he’d be best suited shutting it down and recovering for the pre-draft process.

Projected lottery pick Darius Garland recently did just that following a knee injury of his own. But that doesn’t sound like Vic Law. After Law graduated this past June, he could have transferred to a higher profile program to gain more exposure.

Instead, he decided to see things out in Evanston. For one of the best players in the conference, it only gets more difficult from here.

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By RYAN WANGMAN

daily senior staffer @ryanwangman

Even down by 11 points to in-state rival Illinois in the final seconds of the third quarter, freshman guard Veronica Burton knew no one on the team had given up.

So she gave Northwestern another reason to believe when she stole the ball off an inbounds pass, took a few steps and then fired a shot from the half-court logo before the horn sounded. “(Bryana Hopkins) definitely made the initial defensive play that allowed me to get the steal in the first place,” Burton said. “I just looked up at the clock and knew I had to put something up. It felt good after that because I hadn’t really hit anything all game, so it was definitely getting momentum back on our side.”

The desperation buzzer-beater proved a much-needed catalyst for a Wildcats (13-7, 6-3 Big Ten) team missing two key starters due to injuries. It sparked an 18-0 NU run marked by stifling defense and aggressive finishing close to the basket.

The Cats, who trailed for over 30 minutes of the matchup, dominated in the game’s final act, holding the Illini (9-11, 1-8) to just 5 fourth-quarter points en route to a 64-56 win Sunday afternoon.

The victory in Champaign, Ill. is the latest in a string of successes for NU, winners of four straight games against conference opponents. The Cats have performed under less than ideal conditions, as junior forward Abi Scheid missed the past two weeks with an undisclosed injury and Jordan Hamilton was a scratch for Sunday’s contest.

After hitting 13 wins on the season, the team has already surpassed its win total from a year ago.

The winning streak has coincided with the insertion of junior forward Bryana Hopkins into the lineup, and against Illinois, she had one of the best games of her career. She recorded a double-double

on 11 points and 10 boards. Senior forward Pallas Kunaiyi-Akpanah praised Hopkins’ performance in place of the usual NU starters.

“Bree did a great job,” Kunaiyi-Akpanah said. “With her double-double, she crashed the boards. Every time I didn’t get a rebound, I would see Bree there getting the rebound. So I was really proud of her.”

The Cats scored a mere 25 points in the first half of action and frequently settled for contested jumpers, while at the same time giving up high-percentage opportunities to Illinois. Part of the reason was a difficult shooting performance from sophomore guard Lindsey Pulliam, who led the Cats with 14 points but was 5-for-21 from the field. At halftime, Kunaiyi-Akpanah said the team evaluated its mistakes and identified ways to get better looks than the Fighting Illini.

Once NU’s shots started falling in the second half, she said it gave the team motivation on the defensive end of the floor.

“We wanted to come out from the jump hard and intense, and just play good defense the entire time,” KunaiyiAkpanah said. “(We) started off a little slow, a little shaky on defense. But that fourth-quarter run we made, shots were falling in the fourth quarter and that really got us going both on offense and defense.”

Although the Cats’ defensive performance was a match highlight, their weak shooting from the charity stripe — the team shot 12-for-24 in their trips to the line — is undoubtedly an area for improvement. Coach Joe McKeown said while he liked the team’s effort in drawing fouls, converting those opportunities would be a focus in practice for the upcoming week.

“All day every day,” McKeown said.

“It’s a key component, especially in our league where you’re going to be in a lot of tight games. But we’ll get there. I’m confident that we’ll get better from the line.” ryanw@u.northwestern.edu