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Junot Diaz mulls immigrant life

By JEE YOUNG LEE

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Immigrants of this generation should dig deeper into their parents’ experiences in order to comprehensively understand their identity, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Diaz said in a speech Thursday night.

“You’ve got to know the conflicting stories that might have produced you,” Diaz said. “If the Caribbean can teach us anything, it is that you can build the most powerful creative culture in the world based on fragments.”

The event was part of the Contemporary Thought Speaker Series, a student committee that brings intellectuals across disciplines to campus to speak about their fields. Recent speakers include founder and CEO of Khan Academy Sal Khan and Eva Moskowitz, founder and CEO of Success Academy Charter Schools. » See DIAZ, page 6

District 65, ETHS administrators talk ‘State of the Schools’

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with other Illinois cities, a willingness to work cooperatively,” he said. “Flint is experiencing a once-in-a-city-lifetime tragedy and we think it’s worth the effort to help out.”

Lyons said the money will most likely come from a mixture of general funds and the city’s water fund.

He said the amount, $5,000, was not selected arbitrarily but was based off a calculation of how much water the money would provide.

“It’s not a small number, but it’s also not a large number,” he said.

Tisdahl encouraged Evanston citizens and businesses to donate as well.

Residents can go to the city’s website or the city collector’s office at the Civic Center to donate. All the money goes to the fund and there is no administrative processing fee on donations, according to the release.

Lyons said the city will send the $5,000, combined with whatever donations they receive from Evanston businesses or citizens, next week.

Jonathan Nieuwsma, the vice president of Citizens’ Greener Evanston, said the Flint crisis is also a social justice issue.

“Environmental justice is a critical component of social justice,” he said.

“It’s a sad unfortunate fact that environmental problems have a disproportionate impact on economically disadvantaged communities, such as that in Flint.”

Nieuwsma said Citizens’ Greener Evanston will discuss the crisis and how they can help at their board meeting next month.

“In Evanston we’re blessed with access to clean, fresh Lake Michigan water,” he said. “This incident in Flint should serve as a reminder that we can’t take that for granted.”

Evanston/Skokie School District 65 and Evanston Township High School District 202 officials discussed Thursday their concerns about future school funding and achievement gaps at their second annual State of the Schools event.

District 65 Superintendent Paul Goren and District 202 Superintendent Eric Witherspoon spent the evening at ETHS discussing their respective programs, goals and challenges, as well as inter-district collaborations and how both districts have grown since last year.

Marcus Campbell, ETHS principal and assistant superintendent, opened the event by emphasizing the schools’ foundation in the community. Both districts have low income enrollment of over 40 percent, and each has a large minority population, reflecting Evanston’s diversity, he said. Campbell also pointed out the number of Evanston residents who attended ETHS themselves.

“There aren’t too many places in this country where more than 16,000 alumni of the city’s only public high school live and work in the city they grew up in,” Campbell said.

Both superintendents discussed their school district’s unique offerings and focused on budgets and financial stability, along with the racial and socioeconomic achievement gaps, as being crucial issues.

Goren said roughly three-quarters of his $124 million operating budget comes from local property taxes, adding that he is concerned about the financial outlook for the coming years.

“Beginning in 2017-2018, District 65 is facing multi-million dollar deficits that must be addressed at the structural level,” Goren said. “We are committed to engaging our community around budget conversations and long-term planning.”

Witherspoon echoed Goren’s financial concerns particularly with regard to the state’s budget crisis, but emphasized that ETHS administration will do what it can to make sure the school’s funding remains as stable as possible.

“We will keep this district financially sound no matter what the state of Illinois throws at us,” Witherspoon said.

Later in the evening, when answering a question from the crowd regarding the state’s financial situation, Witherspoon focused on potential policies that would change the way both districts are funded. He spoke extensively about proposals to equalize education funding throughout the state, which he referred to as a “Robin Hood approach” because

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FINDING JUNOT Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Diaz (right) speaks about the importance of compassion in overcoming immigrant challenges. His talk, held at Ryan Family Auditorium on Thursday, was moderated by English Prof. John Alba Cutler.

Ex-Medill Innocence City to donate $5,000 Project client released to Flint Water Fund

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Willie Donald, a former client of the Medill Innocence Project, was released from prison Thursday morning after his 1992 conviction for robbery and murder was overturned.

Donald, 47, was sentenced to 60 years in prison for a series of armed robberies — in which one victim was shot and later died from his injuries — in Gary, Indiana, on Feb. 27 of that year.

One of the robbery victims, Rhonda Fleming, identified Donald as the robber in a 1992 lineup but later recanted her testimony, first to members of the Medill Innocence Project and later in a 2013 deposition, said David Protess, former head of the Medill Innocence Project and founder of the Chicago Innocence Center, formerly called the Chicago Innocence Project.

Protess said he was thrilled to hear of Donald’s release.

“It seems like this kind of thing happens all the time from news reports, but it doesn’t happen nearly enough,” Protess said of Donald’s exoneration.

The Medill Innocence Project, renamed the Medill Justice Project in December 2012, agreed to take Donald’s case in March 2007, Protess said, with the full-blown investigation beginning that fall when students arrived on campus. After Protess left the Medill Innocence Project in 2011 following ethical questions about its investigation into the murder conviction of Anthony Porter, Protess said the Chicago Innocence Project picked up Donald’s case.

Following Donald’s conviction,

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there were several hearings in Crown Point, Indiana, to determine whether law enforcement withheld evidence in the case, said Thomas Vanes, Donald’s defense attorney, who took over his case in 2006. Donald then filed an appeal with the Indiana Court of Appeals, Vanes added. He also said the prosecution’s case rested heavily on Fleming’s later recanted testimony.

“He is innocent,” Vanes said. “I don’t use that word lightly or recklessly, but this is one case where it fits.”

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COMING HOME Willie Donald embraces his mother, Lillie Donald, as he exits the Lake County Jail in Crown Point, Indiana. Donald was exonerated of robbery and murder charges after serving more than 23 years in prison.

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Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl announced Thursday the city will donate $5,000 to help those affected by the water crisis in Flint, Michigan.

The donation will go to the Flint Water Fund, which is managed by the United Way of Genesee County. The Fund provides bottled water, filters and support services for those without a clean water supply.

“There is nothing more important than access to safe, clean drinking water,” Tisdahl said in a news release. “I am proud to lend the City of Evanston’s support to this effort, and I thank each and every individual and organization that makes a contribution.”

The Flint water crisis has been ongoing since April 2014, when Flint city officials chose to switch their water sourcing from Lake Huron to the Flint River, which is highly corrosive.

The river’s water corroded the water pipes, causing lead to contaminate the city’s water. Drinking lead-contaminated water carries high health risks, particularly among children, according to the Flint Water Study. Recently, a state of emergency was declared in Flint and in the surrounding county, allowing for the Federal Emergency Management Agency to help out.

Assistant city manager Marty Lyons said Illinois cities have a history of helping out each other — and cities around the Midwest — in times of crisis. Thus, he said the city felt it was important to help out Flint residents, calling it a “humanitarian thing to do.”

“Evanston is demonstrating, along

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Around Town Local billionaire receives recognition for landmark preservation

Evanston billionaire Jennifer Pritzker will be recognized by Landmarks Illinois, a nonprofit that aims to protect state and cultural landmarks, for her dedication to the preservation and renovation of landmark buildings.

Pritzker is one of three honorees who will receive “landmark” status from the organization at its 11th annual Legendary Landmarks Celebration.

The ceremony will be held March 7 at the Hilton Chicago Grand Ballroom, 720 S Michigan Ave. “Our three honorees have made significant contributions in cultivating Chicago’s cultural heritage as the sustaining pivot for the city’s growth,” said Bonnie McDonald, president and CEO of Landmarks Illinois, in a news release.

Pritzker, who serves as president and CEO of the investment group Tawani Enterprises, has funded the restoration of properties such as Chicago’s Monroe Building and Stone Porch by the Lake, 300 Church St., an Evanston bed-and-breakfast.

In 2013, City Council rejected Tawani’s bid to purchase the Harley Clarke Mansion, a 1927 city-owned mansion that currently sits vacant at 2603 Sheridan Rd., following citizen pushback.

Landmarks Illinois cited Pritzker’s investment in historic real estate as an impetus for positive change in Chicago-area communities.

“Not only does Jennifer Pritzker value historic preservation, she willingly acts as a catalyst for change,” McDonald said in the release.

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Evanston library series to feature panel on children’s literature

The Evanston Public Library will host a panel on children’s literature Feb. 13 moderated by children’s author and book reviewer Betsy Bird.

The program, “Publishing Children’s

Police Blotter Contents of two packages stolen from apartment complex The contents of two packages were stolen Wednesday from the common room of an apartment complex in the 1100 block of Davis Street, police said.

One package, delivered to a 23-year-old male resident of the apartment complex, contained shoes valued at $50, and the other package, delivered to a 22-year-old male resident, contained travel mugs valued at $32, Evanston Police Department spokesman Perry Polinski said.

The boxes were left empty, Polinski added.

Both residents reported the thefts around

Books in the 21st Century,” is part of the library’s new Literary Salon series centered around children’s literature, which launched at the beginning of the year with a presentation from Bookends and Beginnings coowner Jeff Garrett. Bird, who joined EPL last summer as the library’s collection development manager, leads the monthly program.

The panel will feature literary agent Gemma Cooper; author Sara Shacter, assistant regional adviser for the Illinois chapter 6:30 p.m. Wednesday night, Polinski said.

There are currently no leads on suspects, he said.

Two credit cards stolen from YMCA locker A 26-year-old Evanston man reported Wednesday two credit cards stolen from his locker at the McGaw YMCA, 1000 Grove St., Polinski said.

The locker was left unlocked for about three hours before the man noticed the cards were missing around 9 p.m., Polinski said. Police checked the area but did not find the thief, he said.

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of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators; author Eileen Meyer, SCBWI’s network representative; and Terri Murphy, illustrator coordinator for SCBWI. The participants will discuss the trials and tribulations of children’s literature, including how to approach writing and publishing books for kids, EPL announced in a news release.

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Setting the record straight An article in Tuesday’s paper titled “Diving accident mars otherwise successful meet” misstated the record which an NU diver broke. She broke the 1 meter record.

Due to an editing error, an article in Thursday’s paper titled “ETHS students analyze depression” misstated Daaron Dohler’s undergraduate degree. He holds a degree from McCormick.

The Daily regrets the errors.

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On Campus Panelists discuss importance of consumer choices

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College students can do more than merely hope for change — they can help create it, lawyer Chipo Nyambuya said in a talk as part of Northwestern’s Human Trafficking Awareness Week.

About 20 people gathered Thursday in Harris Hall to learn how consumers’ shopping choices and employers’ business practices affect the lives of millions. By purchasing cheap products, shoppers reinforce companies’ decisions to offer low wages and perpetuate poverty among those desperate for work, said panelist Brad Jeffery, founder and CEO of Chicago-based apparel company Causegear.

Jeffery was one of three speakers who all work in corporate social responsibility brought to campus

by Fight for Freedom, a student group advocating against human trafficking.

Nyambuya, one of the panelists, said people tend to not engage with solutions to problems of human trafficking.

“A lot of us don’t speak out,” she said. “We’re not intentional about our values being aligned with how we engage — silence equals consent.”

Change starts by looking into our daily lives, Nyambuya said. Easy ways to help include noticing where our money is spent, the topics we post about

NU joins new program to increase amount of Latino professors

Northwestern is joining a new University of Pennsylvania program to increase the number of Latino professors in the humanities.

Pathways to the Professoriate, a program launched by the Center for Minority Serving Institutions at Penn’s Graduate School of Education, will help prepare 90 undergraduate students from

on social media and the ways we stay informed about the world, she added.

Panelist Amy Silverstein, chief of staff for Deloitte’s social impact practice — which helps clients grow businesses with an emphasis on societal change — also said consumers’ ignorance perpetuates exploitation of workers.

“It’s better understanding the connection between your purchases and how they were produced,” Silverstein said. “I just asked my daughter at dinner, ‘How do you think Forever 21 got that $20 sweater to you?’”

When people demand better business practices with their wallets, corporations will listen, Silverstein said.

As the panelists told the audience to consider their impact, they recommended that students research where their products come from. However, the lack of options and high costs of fair-trade products–items produced by workers who are paid fair wages–can be frustrating, Jeffery said.

Jeffery asked the audience and the other panelists how many people were currently wearing a fair-trade produced shirt.

“Nobody,” he said. “And I would guess the reason is because there isn’t a brand out there that meets your requirements of price and quality.”

The other panelists agreed with Jeffery and suggested working toward a solution by making small changes. Silverstein said the sum of people’s

small choices will force companies to offer better working conditions, fair wages and sustainable products.

As the panel came to an end, Subin Hwang, president of Fight for Freedom, offered a personal observation to the audience.

“The biggest thing I’m realizing is that it is about awareness,” the SESP junior said. “Businesses just don’t know the impact they’re having or the impact

they could have.”

Hwang wasn’t the only one to walk away with a new perception.

“I didn’t realize how big of an impact individual consumers like me can make,” said Abby Durgan, a SESP junior. “Now I feel like I can make an impact — even as a broke college student.”

Hispanic-serving institutions — schools with an enrollment of at least 25 percent Hispanic full-time undergraduates — for doctoral programs at research institutions over a five-year period.

“We appreciate the opportunity to join in this important work and are committed to continuing to enhance our efforts toward creating a more diverse and inclusive Northwestern,” Provost Daniel Linzer said in a news release.

The initiative is a result of demographic trends in higher education toward a scarcer amount of Latino professors, according to the news release. Latinos make up only 4.1 percent of the professoriate, but

20 percent of the general population aged 18-44.

“We firmly believe that there can be no truly excellent environment for the training of scholars and practitioners unless that environment includes diverse individuals, with diverse intellectual interests, and from diverse backgrounds and perspectives,” Linzer said.

Students in the program will participate in summer research programs and conferences and receive guidance for the graduate school admissions process.

The program, funded with a $5.1 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, includes three Hispanic-serving institutions — Florida

International University, the University of Texas at El Paso and California State University, Northridge — and five research institutions — NU, Penn, New York University, University of California-Berkeley and University of California-Davis.

“Diversity and inclusion rest at the heart of our institutional values and strategic priorities,” said Jabbar Bennett, associate provost for diversity and inclusion, in the release. “President Morton Schapiro has repeatedly identified diversity and inclusion in our community as one of his top priorities.”

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Intentionality necessary to avoid gentrification CHARLIE LUCKE

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I want to move to Logan Square when I graduate. I go there to dissolve into difference, to wriggle out of the hyper-structured stranglehold of my suburban upbringing. I think that is also what I was doing when I chose to study social policy, chose to explore nonprofit work with a nonprofit salary. I sense the other white people there are doing the same thing: the tattoos, cigarettes, microbrewery bartender gigs are all minor methods of excusing oneself from systems of privilege that are difficult to understand and uncomfortable to acknowledge. Putting oneself in proximity to working-class people and people of color — like those who have inhabited Logan Square for years — is perhaps a symbolic attempt to disown this problematic past we’ve inherited.

But it’s not that easy; dissolution works on all parties involved. Last year, I was a mentor at a

majority-Latino middle school in Logan Square.

Over the course of the school year, I watched several single-family homes and apartment buildings on the block facing the school vanish, replaced with sleek new three-flats — upmarket additions that cast a shadow on the school before them and the original homes at their sides. These houses weren’t affordable housing units for the neighborhood’s working class families; they were upmarket, imported from Lincoln Park for people like me.

I’m coming to recognize that my moving to Logan Square will make it, in some way, less of the neighborhood that I love. My presence, my whiteness, carry weight — simply spending time somewhere destabilizes that place, changes its face, helps a trend become a status quo.

If I move into a two-bedroom apartment in Logan Square with my barista friend for $750 a month (a steal because my parents agreed to pay my utilities for a year), a Latino family that relied on a rent of $650 moves out. When I am joined by hundreds of like-minded suburbanites with middle-class parents craving that tenable energy of places like Logan Square, the Latino family’s departure aggregates with others into a mass cultural exodus.

In five or 10 years, the bodegas and taquerias are gone, the cheap rents are gone and we are gone, too, probably to business school (“La Vie Boheme” can burn out quickly) or back to the

suburbs. And the energy, the dynamism that drew us in has been sopped up, packaged in photographs and remembered five years later on reminiscent amblings through our Instagram feeds.

Gentrification seems to be the ultimate expression of privilege — that a person, or group of people, can enter a community and take it over, transform it and reap financial benefits from the relative poverty of other people (cheap rent, cheap tacos). The energy and dynamism that makes gentrifying communities like Logan Square attractive is like the last burst of light from a dying star. That edge of change, where the stock of businesses and houses are changing quickly and privileged residents can feel like insiders as new spots pop up on their block, is ultimately just the strangely exhilarating process of gentrification.

I fully recognize I am as much at risk of becoming a gentrifier as any other white, collegeeducated person contemplating a move to a major city. Perhaps more so: In the darkest sort of irony, my choice to study social policy — and the structures that create and perpetuate inequality — has left me with few lucrative employment options. I find myself in a peculiar bind, as pursuing a career in a social justice-oriented organization would force me to rely on the low cost of living in gentrifying places, to live in a way that perpetuates the very inequality I would be attempting to combat.

I’m sure my peers wanting to enter the arts or journalism, or simply to live decently beneath

massive student loan debt, can sympathize.

I’m uncomfortable when I reckon with this.

I’m realizing now how hard it will be for me to live unproblematically as a white person in a city so marred by segregation. But though it will be difficult, I don’t think it is entirely impossible.

I’m hopeful there is a way to live intentionally, to recognize the weight of my privilege in a sensitive community and use it to lift people up; I was crossing my fingers that I would have figured out said way by the end of this essay.

Since college-educated young people are the darling of digital industry and the drivers of trend, we are afforded much more space and a much stronger sway over our communities, especially we who are white. As we descend from the suburbs into our cities of choice, I think we have a responsibility to become acquainted with the weight of our privilege — be it racial, class, educational or some combination of these — and learn to wield it in ways that do not wipe out people, places and lifestyles.

Charlie Lucke is a SESP senior. He can be reached at charleslucke2016@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.

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Discussion sections must accommodate quiet students SARA HOLLORAN DAILY COLUMNIST

It’s an issue introverts are all too familiar with: You find a class led by a professor with positive CTECs, with subject matter that sounds intriguing, only to read over the class description and see participation is a huge chunk of your grade. From that moment on, you’re counting the participation part of your grade as a liability, calculating how well you must do in the rest of the class to make up for that dead weight. Your attitude is practical rather than defeatist, as you know your written work will surely impress more than your few oral contributions.

I fully understand that participation grades are designed to discourage students from being disengaged and inattentive, but quieter students often find themselves becoming collateral damage in this fight. They must contend with not only their own anxieties and nervousness about speaking in public, but

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also the louder voices that inevitably come to dominate every class discussion. We’ve all been in a discussion section where that one person, or those few people, never stops talking, making everyone else look negligent in comparison. Even worse are the professors and teaching assistants who try to catch students off guard by calling on them when they are clearly unprepared to answer the instructor’s question, leaving the students to stumble over their words in front of the whole class. This is a particularly ineffective tactic for sparking conversation because once a student has been publicly embarrassed, his or her level of comfort speaking in front of his or her peers decreases, regardless of the student’s personality type. Through a variety of tactics, TAs moderating discussion sections can better accommodate quieter students.

To their credit, almost all of my instructors have in some way attempted to adapt their courses to make more reserved students feel welcome. At one extreme, some of my professors and TAs informed their students in the beginning of the course that discussion was encouraged, but “engaged listening” would suffice for quieter students. I have tended to

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do better in these classes, where I can sit back and absorb rather than nervously listen solely to find somewhere to sneak into the conversation. However, classes and discussion sections that adopted this policy were usually on the larger side, meaning there were enough talkative students to keep the conversation going.

My smaller sections and classes have normally required everyone to speak at least once.

However, some of my instructors have made this task easier to accomplish by splitting the class into even smaller groups and monitoring discussion within those clusters. Without the pressure of the entire class listening, I’ve found that I can think through my answers more and in turn, make more worthwhile and complex contributions to my small group’s discussion. One of my professors in a required discussion-driven class, on top of utilizing the small-group tactic, also let her students write down and submit their thoughts from discussion at the end of class for their discussion grade. This strategy has flaws, such as how hard it is to pay attention while writing, but it allows students to think through their answers and display their strengths.

To some extent, I’m grateful for discussion

components of classes which have helped me overcome some of my anxieties about speaking in class. However, I know that no matter how hard I try, I’ll never be able to contribute continuously. I’m sure many other students are in the same position, eager to take courses in the humanities but know their shyness will be misinterpreted as apathy. No student should have to feel they are mortgaging their passion in history or sociology or English — or even their desire to take a distribution requirement in one of these areas — with their social anxieties. Students with a lot to say should certainly be recognized for their exemplary participation, but instructors can and in many cases, have done more to understand that quiet does not necessarily mean disengaged.

Sara Halloran is a Weinberg sophomore. She can be contacted at sarahalloran2018@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.

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After a mixed bag of results last weekend in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Indoor Championships, Northwestern is hoping to build off its positives as the Wildcats face No. 14 Duke at home Sunday.

Although NU fell to isableuke last year 5-2, the team is hoping to use what it has done so far this season to take it to a new level.

For the Cats, doubles will be a primary focus.

Last year, NU lost the doubles point to Duke, but the players are looking to turn the tide this season.

Sophomores Alex Chatt and Maddie Lipp won 6-2 last Sunday against Oklahoma State’s No. 1 doubles team — also ranked No. 9 in the country — and the rest of the Cats played solid doubles as well throughout the weekend.

Coach Claire Pollard said she was proud of the way NU played on the doubles court last weekend.

“I don’t think there’s anything we need to do differently,” Pollard said. “It’s so short that execution right from the start is so critical.”

Chatt also discussed the perceived strength in doubles on the team.

“Going into Duke, we’re pretty confident in the doubles point in general,” Chatt said. “We’ve all been working really hard outside of our matches to improve our doubles skills and strategy.”

Although the Blue Devils started last season as the No. 2 team in the nation, they had an off year, ending the season at No. 19. However, after having the No. 2 recruiting class in the country, Duke is loaded with young talent.

The Blue Devils are coming off a great weekend in Durham at ITA Championships, but the Cats are looking to stop them in their tracks as they have the home-court advantage this year.

The last time the Cats played Duke in Evanston was 2011, when Duke was ranked No. 6. This was the closest NU has gotten to defeating the Blue Devils in the last five years, going down in a tight 4-3 match.

Alicia Barnett, the lone senior on the team, said

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the Cats have to match the intensity from the previous weekend going into Sunday. “(The team needs to) bring the energy that we brought last (weekend), compete really hard, and have some fun,” Barnett said. “We’re just trying to get the best out of ourselves at the moment.” robinsonmarkus2019@u.northwestern.edu

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After a series of tough losses, Northwestern’s outlook is bleak as it takes on No. 20 Minnesota and Purdue this weekend.

That does not mean the team has lost hope, however. In fact, the Wildcats are quite proud of past outcomes as swimmers have continued to improve with each race.

“The thing that I really liked about the last two weekends is that we’ve improved weekend to weekend,” coach Jarod Schroeder said. “If we would’ve swam against Notre Dame (two weeks ago) the way we swam against Iowa (last week) we would’ve won that meet (against Notre Dame).”

The ranked Golden Gophers are coming off wins against Denver and Brigham Young in a triple dual in Colorado. Purdue lost its last meet by a small margin to No. 9 Indiana.

The Wildcats are 3-7 in dual meets so far this season, with all their wins coming in a single quadruple dual meet against the University of Chicago, University of Illinois at Chicago and Denison in late October. Their record is unlikely to improve this weekend, as even Schroeder

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it would take money from wealthy areas such as Evanston and give it to poorer areas, such as those in southern Illinois.

Both superintendents said any kind of statelevel funding equalization, paired with a freeze on property taxes, would cost their districts millions.

“It is possibly the perfect storm,” Witherspoon said.

Another major theme of the night was testing and achievement gaps. Goren pointed out that although District 65 students test well above the national average, minority students and students of low socioeconomic status are disproportionately represented in the lowest national quartile for standardized testing.

He said although the 2014-2015 school year showed these students improving at the same rate as their peers, the district has named closing the achievement gaps a priority and has implemented programs to address it, including tracking students who test below the 50th percentile and working directly with students in the bottom 25 percent. Witherspoon echoed a commitment to structural change based on

overturned Monday, and he was released Thursday — after serving more than 23 years — after prosecutors declined to further pursue his case, Vanes said.

Donald, at home with his family, said Protess and the Medill Innocence Project went “full tilt” on his case, with some students continuing to check in on him even after they graduated.

He particularly noted a letter from Eimear Lynch (Medill ’08), who worked on Donald’s case for the Medill Innocence Project until her graduation in June 2008.

“One time when my spirits were kind of low, Eimear Lynch wrote me a letter giving me some encouragement,” Donald said. “I still have that letter. I took it out anytime I felt low.”

Donald, who earned a bachelor’s degree in prison, said he would like to pursue a master’s now that he has been cleared of all charges.

Protess, too, said he hopes Donald will be able to resume his life now that he has been released.

“It’s a big day for justice,” Protess said. “I’m very hopeful that he will adjust well.”

“Junot has always been at the top of our list of someone we wanted to bring,” said CTSS co-chair Ben Zimmermann, a Weinberg sophomore. “His works touch on a lot of really important themes of the day, such as immigration, class differences and ethnicity.”

English Prof. John Alba Cutler moderated the event, attended by more than 500 people, in the Ryan Family Auditorium.

Diaz described his early years as an immigrant to the U.S. — where he was grew up primarily in an African-American community in New Jersey — from the Dominican Republic. Not many people understand more than the general experience of being an immigrant, he said.

“Sometimes, it’s hard to keep in mind even to yourself the kind of excruciating particularities of experience,” Diaz said.

He said cliches and generic narratives about immigrant life sometimes make preserving his own memories difficult, an issue he struggled with as he developed as a writer.

“You have to parse out often how much of cultural shorthand you have brought into your own memory system,” he said. “As an artist, I think that has been part of my journey.”

Although people believe they can undermine white supremacy by raising awareness about immigrants in the U.S., Diaz said doing so often has a negative effect on people’s perceptions of immigrants. He called the racial system in the U.S. “underpinned by fantasy” and therefore resistant to opposing arguments.

Diaz’s works include “Drown,” “This is How You Lose Her” and “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,” which won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 2008.

When asked about his novels, Diaz said the final interpretation of a book is up to readers.

“The novel is not mine,” he said. “Every book you read, every poem you read, every article you read, has a blank last page. On that page, you are the person to write the last page of the book.

Everybody’s book is different.”

Tsehaye Hebert, an NU alumna who attended the speech, said she was excited to hear Diaz talk because she appreciates his creativity and candor.

“He really tells about a world that some people just don’t know about, an American story if you will,” said Hebert (Communication ’86).

As Diaz spoke about the complexities of immigrant identity and emotional difficulties, he emphasized the value of self-love and compassion. In a society that only values a certain type of identity, immigrants have trouble finding beauty in themselves, he said.

“Ultimately, the revolution against this system is people of color finally achieving self-love,” Diaz said. “The funniest part is that the struggle of ours, in fact, it’s a romance novel.”

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acknowledges that both Minnesota and Purdue are objectively stronger teams than the Iowa team that rolled over NU last weekend.

With a young and relatively inexperienced team, Schroeder said he hopes the Cats will learn from a third consecutive meet against significantly faster opponents.

“When you step up on the blocks and you know you’re up against a swimmer who’s faster than you, you can’t give anything to him,” Schroeder said. “Sometimes when the young guys are swimming against faster people they kind of give (the race) to them. You’ve got to go in with a mindset that you can win.”

Although NU has lost both of the last two meets against strong opponents, the team has increasingly found this racing spirit.

Freshman Carter Page has tapped into a winning vein in the distance freestyle events, winning the 500 and 1,000 yard freestyles at each meet since winter break. His classmate Anthony Marcantonio has also found a formula for speed, setting new personal best times in the 200 yard research.

“Assessment is not a bad word, but we deal with a lot of mandated things right now, so we’re trying to figure out how to work within that context,” Witherspoon said.

Both districts emphasized their unique programs and opportunities. Enrollment at ETHS is up this year, Witherspoon said. He said out of the school’s 250 courses, 143 are honors options and 29 are Advanced Placement, and the school offers seven nationally recognized certifications.

Goren discussed his district’s efforts to improve the school’s inclusivity. This year, the district opened a “whole child” council, which works to evaluate and improve the schools’ abilities to educate children socially, emotionally and culturally, he said. Another current project is the implementation of “restorative justice practices” over the next few years, such as the utilization of peace circles and sharing circles in the classroom, Goren added.

“Despite our challenges, we have identified opportunities for growth and are looking forward to the exciting work ahead,” Goren said.

“Every day there are great things happening in our schools, and we have much to be proud of.”

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freestyle in both meets this January, achieving times Schroeder said the team hasn’t seen in years.

“Everybody’s done really well the past couple meets,” freshman Ryan Tate said.

Schroeder concurred, and noted several other swimmers who have been consistently achieving impressive times. He said that in the past, upperclassmen were swimming at the level that many of the team’s younger swimmers are now achieving.

That should give the Cats a strong base to build the program back up over the next several years.

This weekend will be the Cats final dual meet before the Big Ten Championships next month.

That means it is their last chance to earn fast seed times, as well as an opportunity to test their speed midway through the taper.

“We’ve been getting some really good racing in, both in meets and practice,” freshman Will Hofstadter said. “This will be our last opportunity before Big Tens, but I think we’re ready, we’ve had a lot of practice with those race skills.” samueljohnson2019@u.northwestern.edu

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failed to hamper a streaking Michigan State squad in the slightest.

“I thought our defense was pretty good, initially in the first half,” Collins said. “I think what we could have done better is deny (Valentine) the ball… I thought we allowed him to get it a little too easily.”

And yet, through much of the first half, NU remained close enough that a comeback remained possible, pending a reversal in the teams’ fortunes.

That reversal never came. The Spartans exploded

out of the break and extended their lead to 20 with over 12 minutes remaining in the contest. From there, they capitalized off NU’s continuous struggle to find offensive consistency and broke away with the 31-point win.

But while the loss may effectively kill the final lingering hopes of an NCAA Tournament bid, Collins isn’t ready to hang his head and will look to rebound on Sunday against Iowa.

“You can’t let these games put you in a tailspin,” Collins said. “You’ve got to try to stay positive.” garrettjochnau2019@u.northwestern.edu

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nor corralled a rebound in the fourth quarter, and after the Buckeyes took the lead for good with 1:47 to play, Coffey split a pair of free throws and had a crucial turnover before sinking a mostly meaningless 3-pointer in the final seconds.

“We were able to get shots, get the ball inside-out, attack them a little bit,” McKeown said. “But we just didn’t finish the game, so I’m really disappointed in that.”

Similarly strong performances from the frontcourt players could be critical in Sunday’s game against Iowa.

The Hawkeyes outrebound opponents and allow just 69.4 points per game. Iowa’s frontcourt starters average 18.6 points and 9.8 rebounds per game.

On Thursday, however, Coffey and Kunaiyi-Akpanah were both successful. It wasn’t, however, enough to propel the Cats to a victory. colepaxton2019@u.northwestern.edu

Valentine proves too much for punchless Cats to handle

By BEN POPE

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The Wildcats did many things wrong Thursday.

They shot a woeful 12-of-58 from the field and 4-of-23 from 3-point range. They were dominated 42-33 on the boards and 30-9 in points off the bench. And they frequently lost track of Michigan State’s dangerous shooters.

But even if Northwestern (15-7, 3-6 Big Ten) had played a far better game, it may well have still lost to the No. 12 Spartans (18-4, 5-4) for one reason: Denzel Valentine.

Valentine, Michigan State’s NBA-bound senior guard, surpassed his already impressive 18.4 points-per-game average by dropping 19 points along with seven assists and six rebounds Thursday night. He thrashed the Cats’ unique matchup zone defense not by finding gaps in the coverage but by simply shooting over it.

NU managed to keep a defender on him for most of the game, but Valentine made shot after shot past the defender’s fingertips and into the twine.

When sophomore guard Bryant McIntosh pulled the hosts within 7 points midway through the first half, it was Valentine who delivered a responding blow with a 3-pointer. Minutes later, after seemingly taunting NU to guard him back near the midcourt line, he drained a shot from almost 40 feet as the shot clock wound down to extend the Spartans’ lead to 13.

Valentine’s halftime total of 14 points, would have tied McIntosh as NU’s leading scorer for the entire game.

“We were trying to deny him, but … you know, he’s really good,” coach Chris Collins said. “Inside of 10 seconds (on the shot clock), he’s going to go get it. I thought we allowed him to get it a little too easily (and) he made some huge end-of-shot-clock plays.”

By the time Valentine made his final shot of the night — a long jumper that put the visitors up 61-36 with 6:40 to play — there wasn’t reason to celebrate or even acknowledge the conversion. Perhaps disappointed it wasn’t a 3-pointer (a category in which he went 5-for-7 on the night), he simply fast-stepped back to play defense.

19 points isn’t close to extraordinary for Valentine. In fact, its tied for his lowest total over Michigan State’s past four games. His 63.6 percent shooting efficiency tied his best mark in that regard since November, but he committed six turnovers.

After the game, Spartans coach Tom Izzo called out Valentine for that lone negative and seemed altogether displeased with his star’s overall play. Izzo, however, did give Valentine and the rest of his team one compliment for their 31-point demolition.

“I’m learning more and more … if you make a shot, it takes away all evils,” Izzo said.

On Thursday, Valentine and the Spartans did just that. Northwestern did not. benjaminpope2019@u.northwestern.edu

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Northwestern fought until the final buzzer, but couldn’t quite knock off Ohio State for a second time this season.

The No. 7 Buckeyes (16-4, 8-1 Big Ten) pulled out a back-and-forth victory, 76-73, over NU (13-8, 2-7) on Thursday night. The loss was a missed opportunity for the Cats to pick up a big resume-boosting victory.

“We really just fell apart in the last couple minutes,” said junior guard Christen Inman. “We played a really good game up until then, so building off of the 38 good minutes we played and carrying that over (will be important).”

With 2:01 left in the game, NU went ahead 67-66 on a pair of free throws by senior guard Maggie Lyon. Ohio State then went on a 10-3 run, aided by three

NU turnovers, to put the game away.

Ohio State star guard Kelsey Mitchell dominated the second half to lead the Buckeyes to victory. The sophomore scored 26 of her 27 points in the final two quarters. “(Mitchell) made big shots…gotta give her credit,” coach Joe McKeown said. “She just keeps coming at you. I thought we did a pretty good job on her too, especially in the first half.”

Junior forward Nia Coffey led the way for NU with 23 points, and junior guard Christen Inman added 18. Freshman forward Pallas KunaiyiAkpanah grabbed a career-high 16 rebounds.

With 22 seconds to go, Lyon had a look at a 3-pointer that would’ve pulled the Cats within a point, but the shot rimmed out, and with it, NU’s hopes at sweeping Ohio State this season.

“Ohio State’s a really good team, and I think if we can play 40 full minutes of how we played the first 38 (tonight), then we’ll beat any team in the league,”

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The first quarter was extremely sloppy, as each team committed six turnovers. NU held Ohio State to just 13 points but was only able to build a 5-point lead.

Unfortunately for NU, foul trouble became a major issue in the second quarter. Junior guard Ashley Deary, who had a career-high 28 points and 10 assists against Indiana, picked up her third foul and was forced to the bench midway through the quarter. Then, with less than a minute until halftime, Inman picked up her third foul as well.

Yet, Northwestern played Ohio State just about shot for shot in the second, and entered the break with a 34-30 advantage over the Buckeyes. Coffey put up 13 points in the first 20 minutes and was the only player on either team with double digits.

The third quarter was dominated by big runs. Ohio State got it started with an 8-0 run, but the Cats responded with a 14-0 run minutes later. When

the quarter ended, NU’s lead was unchanged at 4 points.

However, NU was unable to hang with Mitchell and the Buckeyes in the final period, and were outscored 26-19.

It was close down to the wire, but Ohio State made just enough shots to pull out the win.

The loss was the Cats’ fourth straight and dropped the team to 2-7 in Big Ten contests. It was another game NU had a chance to win in the fourth quarter, but was unable to finish.

Despite the team’s continued struggles, McKeown said he still believes the Cats have time to turn things around.

“I’ll bring this up all weekend to our team: last year, we went undefeated in February,” McKeown said. “February’s gonna be a big month for us, and I think we have the resolve and the resiliency to do it.”

The Cats will look to shake off the loss on Sunday when they host Iowa. williamragatz2019@u.northwestern.edu

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Late in the second quarter, Nia Coffey missed a layup from close range. Pallas Kunaiyi-Akpanah was right there, however, to grab the offensive rebound. She put the ball back up and sunk the shot to extend the Wildcats’ lead to 5.

Northwestern’s starting frontcourt — junior forward Coffey and freshman forward Kunaiyi-Akpanah — shined for much of Thursday night, finishing with a combined 29 points and 25 rebounds, but it was ultimately in vain as the No. 7 Buckeyes (16-4, 8-1 Big Ten) defeated the Wildcats (13-8, 2-7) 76-73 in Columbus.

Coffey led NU with 23 points on 8-of-21 shooting and added a trio of 3-pointers.

Kunaiyi-Akpanah, meanwhile, recorded a career-high 16 rebounds, 14 of which came on the defensive end.

“It was a hard-fought game, we played really well, we were determined,” coach Joe McKeown said.

Coffey, who scored at least 20 points for the 12th time this season, was an authoritative presence on the offensive end. Beyond sinking the 3s, she showed her versatility by making a selection of layups and midrange jumpers.

The junior added nine rebounds, though it was Kunaiyi-Akpanah who made the biggest mark on the boards. Her 16 rebounds led all players, and she was the only double digit rebounder for the Cats.

Kunaiyi-Akpanah was strong on the glass, frequently boxing out opponents and grabbing rebounds forcefully out of the air. She also added 6 points on 3-of-4 shooting.

“They’re not an easy team to rebound against,” Ohio State coach Kevin We were able to McGuff said get shots, get the of the Cats.

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Thursday marked her third game with at least 10 rebounds; senior forward Christen Johnson, who started 14 games this season, has not recorded more than five rebounds in a single game.

But for all of their strong play, Coffey and Kunaiyi-Akpanah largely disappeared in crunch time.

Kunaiyi-Akpanah neither scored

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SPARTY HARD Alex Olah tussles with defenders. The senior was shut down by the Spartans on Thursday, missing all of his shots from the field.

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Once again, Northwestern found itself engaged in a perimeter battle in which it simply couldn’t compete.

Northwestern (15-7, 3-6 Big Ten) hosted No. 12 Michigan State (16-4, 5-4) Thursday night, and before the midway point of the first half, the visiting Spartans had claimed the 3-point line as their personal territory. Shooting 8-of-11 through the opening period and 16-of-26 on the night, Michigan State downed NU 76-45, handing the Wildcats their fourth-straight loss.

Denzel Valentine, a John R. Wooden Award nominee, put on a remarkable effort that no Cat could replicate. Sophomore point guard Bryant McIntosh’s team-high 14 points, on a rough 4-of-15 shooting night, weren’t enough to match the Spartan superstar’s 19 points, especially with the rest of NU silent.

“We have to do a better job of running guys off the 3-point line,” junior forward Sanjay Lumpkin said. “Especially when they’re hot like that.”

Just one game after showing signs of life amid a slump, senior guard Tre Demps again failed to emerge as a viable offensive option for the Cats. Scoring just 4 points,

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his 0-of-7 effort from deep was a microcosm for NU’s overall 4-of-23 output from deep.

Senior center Alex Olah — who coach Chris Collins said is far from healthy and not practicing — similarly struggled on the heels of a 19-point performance against Indiana, his third game back after a foot injury sidelined him for six contests. He ended Thursday night with 4 points, all of which came from the free throw line. “(Olah) is trying to get what he can,” Collins said. “I thought (Deyonta) Davis’ presence at the rim bothered him… I thought he had a couple of chances where he was right there. I just thought their length and activity really bothered him.”

The rest of the NU roster fell into its usual patterns. Freshman forward Aaron Falzon was inconsistent from deep despite scoring 11. Freshman center Dererk Pardon didn’t fill up the stat sheet but was efficient in his time on the court. And junior forward Sanjay Lumpkin provided a strong defensive effort, albeit one that » See MEN’S BASKETBALL, page 7

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