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Poets examine dual cultures in event Event followed series of Indigenous poetry workshops By MAIA SPOTO

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Local poets, musicians and storytellers Thursday shared their experiences living in both Native and Chicagoan cultures in “A Winter Night of Indigenous Tellings.” The event followed a series of Indigenous poetry workshops led both online and in person by Dave Spencer (Mississippi Chata/ Diné) and Vincent Romero (Laguna Pueblo) at the American Indian Center of Chicago. Spencer and Romero partnered with Kathleen McDonald, executive director of Mitchell Museum of the American Indian, to hold the performance in the Mitchell Museum’s library. The museum focuses on North American Native people’s art, history, culture and current events. At the reading, participants with varying levels of poetic experience engaged with the legacy of established local Native American poets, such as the late E. Donald Two Rivers (Ojibwa), as they exercised their own voices. Audience

members also shared poetry in an open mic session at the event’s conclusion. “We have a number of talented, wonderful, fantastic storytellers in the Chicago Native American community,” said Romero, the event ’s emcee. “Tonight, you’re going to hear from just a few.” He said Native American culture sees winter and its “frigidity” as a time to celebrate indoor traditions like oral storytelling. A self-described daydreamer and a storyteller since ear ly childhood, Romero performed poems that bantered about aging, examined spirituality and contemplated nature. He also shared a piece about the legend of La Llorona, which he wove into a conversation on the importance of examining historical context in modern storytelling. Romero said when European conquerors arrived, they distorted traditional narratives. “The heroes of that particular culture… suddenly became evil,” he said. “Someone who will take your soul. When we talk about (the heroes and the villains), please keep in mind, to the people of that culture, it might be something totally different, historically and culturally.” » See POETRY, page 7

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Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx. Foxx spoke to Evanston residents at a Thursday event about restorative justice and equity within communities.

Kim Foxx talks restorative justice Cook County State’s Attorney spoke to Evanston residents at forum By JACOB FULTON

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Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx, Ald. Cicely Fleming (9th) and Nathan

Norman, the interim program coordinator of Evanston’s Youth and Young Adult division, spoke to residents about the importance of restorative justice and community safety at a Thursday forum. The event, hosted by The

People’s Lobby, Reclaim Evanston and the Organization for Positive Action and Leadership, comes during Foxx’s run for re-election in a highly contested primary for the Cook County state’s attorney position.

She faces three challengers: former prosecutor Donna More, former Chicago Ald. Bob Fioretti and former Assistant State’s Attorney Bill Conway. » See FOXX, page 7

Collins: Russian withdrawal from Ukraine unlikely Retired Col. Liam Collins outlined 2014 invasion of Ukraine to NU community members at Scott Hall event By LINUS HÖLLER

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Retired Col. Liam Collins discussed Thursday how Russia perfected its technique of hybrid warfare, culminating in the invasion of Ukraine in 2014. Collins spoke in Scott Hall at a Russia Policy Forum series event — sponsored by the Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies

Research Program and the political science department, saying Russia has a reliable method for wreaking havoc on its neighbor states and gaining political control over them. It is Russia’s key goal to prevent neighboring countries from entering the European Union or NATO, he explained. The country’s armed forces had advanced these methods through a series of conflicts starting with the Chechen war, Collins said. While the Russian use of cyberwarfare has received a lot

of publicity in recent years, Collins said what made the technique effective was Russia’s multipronged approach, known as “hybrid warfare.” He said there is no clear definition of what hybrid warfare is, though generally it is used to describe the combination of conventional, indirect and information warfare. “Russia showed us how you use cyber at the tactical level,” Collins said.

He explained that combining cyberwarfare with conventional, kinetic weapons is what proved highly effective for Russia in Ukraine. In March 2014, Russia annexed the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine following the earlier arrival of unmarked soldiers. Later, they provided covert support to armed uprisings in the country’s Donbass region in the east. In total, over 10,000 people have been killed.

A tentative peace agreement known as the Minsk Protocol has been in place since 2015, however daily clashes continue at the frontline. Russia carried out hybrid warfare in Ukraine by mixing the use of volunteers and unmarked soldiers — irregular warfare — with open military support from Russia and a concerted propaganda effort, Collins explained. He said while cyberwarfare received lots of media attention in

the West, many methods deployed by Russia failed or had limited success. “Ukraine was a testing ground for new Russian technology,” Collins said. Collins said hybrid warfare had never been deployed as successfully by Russia prior to the Ukraine conflict. The first major example of a cyber strike came in the form of an attack on Estonian banks » See UKRAINE, page 7

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AROUND TOWN City-School Liaison Committee reviews programs By EMMA YARGER

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School and city officials discussed future sustainability programs, summer youth activities and construction and legislative updates at Thursday’s Evanston City-School Liaison Committee meeting. City staffers and members from District 65 and 202 met at Evanston Township High School to discuss and walk through updates between the school and the city. Eric Witherspoon, superintendent of Evanston Township High School District 202, led and facilitated the meeting, which also included various city staffers and members of Evanston/Skokie School District 65. Chief Sustainability and Resiliency officer Kumar Jensen updated the committee about sustainability efforts in the city and schools, which has been a standing item on agendas since their last meeting was held on November 19. At the November meeting, students and community climate action groups came to show their support of city-school environmental action. They advocated for more climate awareness education throughout schools and changes in to school policy that could be environmentally beneficial. One initiative already in progress is the transition from traditional light bulbs to LEDs in

POLICE BLOTTER Man witnessed taking Tide Pods, alcohol taken from Whole Foods

A package of Tide Pods valued at $10.79 was taken from Target on Wednesday around 7 a.m. The store, 1616 Sherman Ave., was reviewing surveillance footage later in the day when they

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Evanston Township High School, 1600 Dodge Ave. City staffers and members from District 65 and 202 met at the high school to discuss updates between the school and the city.

the school buildings. Jensen said he will be working with Mayor Steve Hagerty to draft a more defined list of policies and procedures to implement the city’s various number of environmental goals. Jensen is set provide an update about these sustainability efforts at the Feb. 24 City Council meeting. Witherspoon said the different groups plan to work together on their various

environmental goals, which will be shared in the coming months. “We can keep coordinating and keep our awareness going between and among us,” Witherspoon said. Pete Bavis, assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction for District 202, said there will also be new STEM classes added for high school students attending summer school.

noticed the retail theft. Security recognized the man as someone who has been seen taking items from the store in the past, Evanston police Cmdr. Brian Henry said. The man was not at the store at the time, so that case will continue to be pursued. Henry said the alcohol and cleaning supplies sections at Target have high rates of theft, so those

aisles are more carefully surveilled.

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A bottle of wine, a 3-pack of beer and cleaning wipes were taken from Whole Foods Market on Wednesday around 3:20 p.m. A man was stopped after being witnessed putting the items in his bag and walking past the last

“We also are going to have a science research methods course, for the first time, which allows kids to really participate in a lab setting conducting real, real-world research and using science at a level that they wouldn’t necessarily be able to do otherwise,” Bavis said. Some committee members expressed concern that construction over the summer could affect school functions such as middle school graduations or other large city meetings. According to Interim City Manager Erika Storlie construction to resurface a section of Howard Street will begin July 4, and should not disrupt any school events. The ETHS auditorium remodeling will also affect the school system. Witherspoon said the space will not be available for city or school use as its light system undergoes renovations during the summer of 2020. Finally, the committee discussed a possible property tax decrease mentioned in the Gov. JB Pritzker’s State of the State address. Pritzker said “property taxes in Illinois are simply too high,” and expressed his goal of lowering property taxes statewide. Hagerty said the city and the school can get on the same page to lobby against Pritzker’s proposal, which Witherspoon called a “threat.” “We don’t like the idea either,” Hagerty said. “We like our sovereignty.” The next City-School Liaison Committee meeting will take place May 7. emmayarger2023@u.northwestern.edu point of purchase. The theft prompted security to intervene and the police were called. The items taken totaled less than $40. The suspect was released with a citation for violating a city ordinance, and was told to not return to the store. — Molly Burke

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ON CAMPUS Cenziper speaks about recent book By RYANN PERLSTEIN

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Medill Prof. and Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Debbie Cenziper spoke Thursday about her book “Citizen 865: The Hunt for Hitler’s Hidden Soldiers in America” in the McCormick Foundation Center Forum. The book, which was released in November 2019, follows a team of Nazi hunters from the United States Department of Justice as they worked to investigate killers known as Trawniki Men, named after the Polish village where they helped murder entire populations of Jews. Cenziper, who is also Medill’s director of investigative reporting, said she discovered this story at a cocktail party in 2016, where she said she “fell into conversation” with a DOJ lawyer. She said he told her about the work of the department that spent decades searching for Nazi war criminals that lived in the U.S. after World War II. “I was fascinated by it because I remember thinking, ‘How is it possible that there are still Nazi war criminals, collaborators, murderers, living in the United States more than 70 years after the war?’” Cenziper said. While the book focuses on Nazis living in the U.S., there is also a parallel story that follows two teenagers, Feliks and Lucyna. They lived in Lublin, a Polish town that was “decimated by the Nazis” until they fled to Warsaw. Cenziper said they eventually made it to the U.S. in 1950, just one year before Jakob Reimer — the primary Trawinki man who Cenziper follows in the book — moved to America. Cenziper said Reimer was known as Citizen 865, his Nazi identification number, which inspired the title of the book. Cenziper said she decided to include the story of Feliks and Lucyna to give the story an element of humanity. “These were people who were impacted,” Cenziper said. “It’s this love story, it’s this incredible story of two survivors. I could not stop until I heard their story, it

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Medill Profs. Alex Kotlowitz and Debbie Cenziper in the McCormick Foundation Center Thursday. Kotlowitz moderated a discussion of Cenziper’s book “ “Citizen 865: The Hunt for Hitler’s Hidden Soldiers in America,” which follows a team of Nazi hunters in the U.S. Department of Justice.

was that incredible to me.” The conversation was moderated by Medill Prof. Alex Kotlowitz, who called the book a “triumph” of storytelling. He added that despite the dark setting of the war, Cenziper’s ability to find a sense of “hope” and “light” in this period was an accomplishment. “I was given it on a Friday and had devoured it in a matter of a couple days,” Kotlowitz said. “It really is a masterpiece of storytelling, of narrative.” Cenziper’s research process was another part of what audiences found fascinating about the book. She said she spent hundreds of hours interviewing individuals, including DOJ employees, as well as going on multiple trips to Europe — particularly Poland — and scanning historical documents from the era. Medill junior Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff attended the

event and he said he appreciated how emotionally attached Cenziper was to Feliks and Lucyna’s story in the book. “I thought it was really interesting to hear how she went about doing the reporting, and just the process of finding the story,” Rosenzweig-Ziff said. Ultimately, despite the horrific events of the Holocaust, Cenziper said the book does have a “happy” ending. “It’s a story about hope,” Cenziper said. “The fact that there were men who were brought to justice — not just the men of Trawinki, but more than 100 Nazi collaborators living in the US were identified by this tiny unit inside the Justice Department despite widespread pushback both here and abroad — it’s a story that needed to be told.”

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As the 2020 Census approaches, Northwestern and Evanston take steps to record everyone

The city’s job...

Evanston has formed a Complete Count Committee to ensure that as many of its residents as possible are counted in the 2020 Census, beginning on April 1. The committee’s primary job is to analyze areas in Evanston that are expected to have lower response rates, which has historically been among undocumented immigrants and low-income households. The Constitution mandates that every resident of the United States participate in the census, which has been conducted every 10 years since 1790. The U.S. Census Bureau recently released a fact sheet that outlines the importance of the census, calling it a “civic duty.” The census results are used to reapportion members of the House of Representatives, redraw legislative districts based on population shifts and redistribute money to support community programming, among other things. Evanston housing and grants division manager Sarah Flax said the city of Evanston has planned targeted efforts to ensure all Evanston residents are counted, including making city computers available to respond to the census and staffing libraries with people who can explain the importance of the census. Flax said it’s imperative to reach out to older residents as well, because they tend to be undercounted. She said they may not know how to fill out the census given its changes from 2010 to 2020. “In 2010, mailings were sent to every address that the Census Bureau has and people were told to fill out the paper form and send it back,” Flax said. “This year, people will receive a mailing that will ask them to go online and fill out their census.” In July, President Donald Trump’s proposal to add a citizenship question to the census was blocked by the Supreme Court. Experts warned the question could have resulted in lower response rates by noncitizens and Latinx residents, which could largely impact redistricting. U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Evanston) said her office has been preparing for door-to-door work to persuade residents to respond to the census. She said tensions have risen in her district’s growing immigrant population. Because of the Trump administration’s attitude toward undocumented residents and green-card holders, many immigrants are frightened to mark their names down as residents, she said. “Because we are a magnet for refugees and immigrants from all over the world, we’re going to have to work harder,” Schakowsky said. “Requiring people to sign a citizenship question enhances the concern that people have that they will be discriminated against if they’re not (citizens).” The Chicago Urban League released a study in May detailing the importance of the census and getting an accurate population count in Illinois specifically. Its findings show that Illinois’ population has decreased over the decade, and an undercount in the 2020 census could result in a loss of up to two Congressional seats. Kareem Butler, the group’s 2020 Census Project Coordinator, said Evanston in particular could be at risk for a census undercount because of its high population of renters. He said many renters are vulnerable to be missed in the census because many renters don’t update their mailing address, live below the poverty line, or belong to a racial or ethnic minority that is historically undercounted. “It’s really important to know the community and its demographics to understand where those hard-to-count populations lie,” Butler said.

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Northwestern students and faculty are preparing to ensure as many people as possible in the community are counted in the 2020 census. University outreach and involvement in the census is especially crucial this year, as it is the first to be available online. Between March 12 and 20, every United States resident will receive a

of U.S. adults said they definitely/probably will participate in the 2020 Census* letter inviting them to fill out a census form online. While the University is responsible for counting students living in on-campus housing, there is a big concern for students living off-campus as they have to navigate filling out their first census on their own. NU’s Center for Civic Engagement launched just before the previous census occurred, so 2020 will be the first year that the Center will work with campus partners to secure resources and ensure everybody is counted. Director Robert Donahue said the Center has been preparing for the census since Spring 2019. They hosted a conference for representatives of college campuses across the Chicago area to discuss the important role that colleges and universities will play in ensuring an equitable and complete count in the 2020 census. Donahue said the digitization of the census form will change how people engage with the census and invariably have an impact on response rates. He added that the Center is making a special push

to ensure the state has a complete, comprehensive count. “We all have a responsibility to get educated on what’s going on and make sure folks know how to respond appropriately,” Donahue said. “The census is really important in terms of where federal dollars go to different communities. If we have a significant undercount, it could really disadvantage our own community.” Weinberg junior Katherine Daehler, a fellow at the Center, said she has been providing general program support for marketing and outreach as the Center transitions to focus on support for the census. She said the Center is still in the early planning stages for the census, but they’re having conversations with administrators in government relations to understand the University’s approach to engaging the local and broader NU community in the census. “While the census isn’t necessarily a regular part of (civic engagement) like voting — it’s a once in 10 year thing — it’s a big deal and a big part of your civic responsibility because of all the consequences with the (undercount),” Daehler said. SESP Prof. Dan Lewis, former director of the Center, is leading the effort to create learning opportunities for NU students by teaching a class this quarter called “Saving the Census.” The class is designed for students to pinpoint a demographic in danger of being undercounted in the census — undocumented immigrants, communities of color and off-campus residents. The students will break up into small groups for their final project, he said, which would each pragmatically develop methods to reduce the undercount in different endangered communities, such as door-to-door canvassing. Lewis said he was inspired to teach this class because the U.S. Census Bureau is already under financial, political and statistical constraints to reduce the undercount, so he was excited to see the role college students could play in increasing participation. He said it’s important that his students are engaging in face-to-face communication with vulnerable communities, because public service announcements from the Bureau don’t attract enough attention. “None of this is easy, because it’s always the second or third thing on your priority list,” Lewis said. “So we’re trying to raise its visibility.” *According to the Pew Research Center

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Students talk SPAC fitness classes, experiences By RAYNA SONG

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Some group exercise classes hosted at Henry Crown Sports Pavilion are so popular among students that they are sometimes turned away, SPAC staff said. NU’s Department of Athletics and Recreation offers around fifty fitness classes every week, ranging from Latin Dance Workout to Aqua Fitness. Julia Catrambone, a Weinberg freshman, said she goes to classes twice a week. SPAC offers around 50 free fitness classes every week. “I was in the cycling class, there were like twenty people who tried to come in, but the room was too small,” Catrambone said. “(The classes) are so fun, they are so good, and they are free.” For the classes, no reservations are needed and students can simply walk-in, leading to the overflow of some classes, such as BODYPUMP. Roman Svintitskyy, a Weinberg freshman, goes to SPAC three times every week, usually for the BODYPUMP Express class. He added that fitness classes with a set time give him the motivation to work out because he is able to schedule his day around each class he takes. Fitness class is also a place where students learn to work out or to use the equipment correctly,

Svintitskyy said, because the trainer can show them the standard usage. “If I were doing it on my own, I wouldn’t know if I were doing it right,” Svintitskyy said. “If you don’t do it correctly, you could harm yourself.” Weinberg freshman Isabel Azpiroz, who also takes BODYPUMP Express classes, said the classes help her do exercises she “wouldn’t do” herself. “It (classes) motivates me to do more, because there is someone yelling at me to go faster,” Azpiroz said. Even though students are mostly positive about these classes, improvements can be made to offer a better experience. Svintitskyy said sometimes many are turned away from the BODYPUMP class because there is not enough space. “We can only accommodate as many people as the room will comfortably hold… we have recommendations to set the room to accommodate as many people safely as possible,” said Amie Simmons, the assistant director of fitness & wellness at SPAC, “that’s about all we can do.” Because the class size is so large, Svintitskyy said, it might be difficult for the trainer to focus on individual students. SPAC is working to accommodate more people

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SPAC offers around 50 free fitness classes every week.

safely in its fitness classes. “For BODYPUMP, which is very popular, we try to have the instructors lay out some of the equipment ahead of time, so people are only taking up as much space as they need,” Simmons said. Simmons added that a few of the trainers are Northwestern students who have teaching

certificates, but probably 85 percent or more are professionals. “All of our fitness instructors as well as personal trainers, they all have nationally accredited fitness certifications,” Simmons said. raynasong2023@u.northwestern.edu

State law seeks to improve harassment protection at work By MAIA SPOTO

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A state law that took effect at the beginning of the month will regulate harassment prevention in the workplace and increase protections for sexual assault survivors. Sponsored by State Rep. Ann Williams (D-Chicago) and State Sen. Melinda Bush (D-Grayslake) in response to the #MeToo movement, the anti-sexual assault omnibus law SB75 requires public and private businesses to conduct

annual sexual assault training for all employees. Additionally, the law prohibits businesses from using non-disclosure agreements to silence sexual assault survivors who come forward with allegations. Businesses can no longer force employees to waive their rights surrounding harassment and assault as a condition of employment. “Victims of workplace harassment and discrimination have for too long been silenced and unable to confront the often horrific circumstances they have experienced,” Bush said. “We are working to change our culture, preventing abuse and discrimination from happening in the

first place while empowering victims to come forward when it does.” Per the law’s requirements, the Illinois Department of Human Rights will provide free curriculum for the assault prevention course, which is required to be interactive. IDHR will release online videos to aid the program later in the year. Businesses will face fines up to $5,000 for noncompliance. Restaurants and bars are required to provide a separate harassment prevention course, according to the law. They will also need to install panic buttons for employees working in isolated spaces.

Furthermore, the law improves the process for taking complaints to IDHR, providing resources for individuals who seek help and instituting protections at each step of the complaint process. Williams said the law will “expand the scope” of harassment prevention to include broader categories of individuals. In addition to antisexual assault measures, the law also strengthens protections against discrimination on the basis of gender, race, age and sex, and extends protections to contract workers.

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Reconsider rejection of Trump’s Mideast peace plan WESLEY SHIROLA

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The Trump administration finally unveiled its Middle East peace plan on Tuesday after over two years in the making. The plan, which had been delayed several times, is meant to represent a solution to the never-ending Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It gives Israelis much of what they have always sought while also giving Palestinians a path to nationhood under specific terms that was immediately rejected by the Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud Abbas While far from perfect, Trump’s plan provides a useful starting point for civilized negotiations between the two groups after President Barack Obama’s was rejected by Israel and President George W. Bush’s largely failed to materialize. Such negotiations could yield a compromise more satisfactory to Palestinians. As such, they shouldn’t have turned down the peace plan so quickly. In a highly celebratory reveal ceremony of the so-called “Deal of the Century” on Tuesday, President Donald Trump was accompanied on stage by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “Today Israel is taking a giant step toward peace,” Trump said. Palestine, on the other hand, boycotted the event. Abbas dismissed the plan from abroad. “We say a thousand times: no, no, no to the deal of the century,” Abbas said. “We rejected this deal from the start and our stance was correct.” This was a grave mistake. To appreciate the extent of the hostilities surrounding the Middle East peace plan and why Palestinians should reconsider their

adamant rejection of the plan, it is first necessary to understand the Israeli-Palestinian conflict itself. The conflict is one that has gone on for nearly a century primarily because of a dispute over land. It all started after WWI when Britain took control of an area of land known as Palestine after the ruler of that part of the Middle East, the Ottoman Empire, was defeated.The area was inhabited by both a Jewish minority and an Arab majority. The international community eventually gave Britain the job of establishing a “national home” in this land for Jewish people. This caused tensions to boil, as both groups claimed ownership of the land. For the Jewish people, however, it was, importantly, their ancestral home. The Jewish population in the area would steadily grow, and then massively expand post-WWII as many Jews fled Europe after the Holocaust. The conflict almost came to an end in 1947 when the United Nations voted for Palestine to be divided into two separate states, one Jewish and the other Arab, with Jerusalem becoming an international city. The Jews, for their part, accepted the plan. The Arabs, though, rejected it outright. War broke out between the two groups in 1948, which ended with Israel gaining additional territory. After this Arab-Israeli war, Palestine was divided into three parts: The State of Israel, the West Bank (of the Jordan River) and the Gaza Strip. Smaller wars that led to only small changes in territorial possessions continued throughout the next few decades. The next significant war, the Yom Kippur War, broke out in 1973 when Egypt and Syria initiated a blitz attack on Israel as a result of Israel’s occupation of two disputed territories: the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights. The fighting had ceased by the end of the year,

but the war didn’t officially end until 1979 with the signing of President Jimmy Carter’s Camp David Accords which bound Egypt and Israel in a peace treaty. By no means was the conflict over, however. An increase in violence and uprisings among the Palestinians began shortly thereafter and still continues today. The first intifada occurred in 1987 consisting of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians living in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Tensions were once again calmed in 1993 with the signing of the Oslo Accords which established a plan for the Palestinians to selfgovern as well as relations between the newly founded Palestinian Authority and Israel’s government. A second, more violent, Palestinian intifada began in 2000. More violence between Israelis and Palestinians occurred in 2015, at which point Abbas, the then and current Palestinian Authority President, declared that Palestine would cut ties with the Oslo Accords. The United States has been trying to bring peace to the region for years, where many have been killed and thousands have been injured over the years. The Trump administration has made it a top priority and the Middle East peace plan has the ability to make it a reality. The plan, which Trump calls a “win-win opportunity for both sides,” is arguably the Palestinians’ best chance at statehood to date, considering the failures of Obama’s and Bush’s plans. As part of the plan, the U.S. will recognize Israeli sovereignty over territory that the plan envisions as comprising part of Israel, as well as make a Palestinian capital on the outer edges of eastern Jerusalem, where the U.S. would open an embassy. Furthermore, the plan claims to increase the size of the current Palestinian territory. Most importantly, it will give Palestinians the opportunity to establish

their own individual state, comprising over 15 percent of what the Palestine Liberation Organization deemed “historic Palestine.” Finally, the plan would name Jerusalem Israel’s undivided capital. It’s the latter of these two points that most upsets Palestinians and, based on the history between the two groups, this is certainly understandable. If a group believes all of a disputed land to be theirs, but another group believes all of it to be theirs, it is certainly rational that a group be unhappy with a plan that gives it only a fraction of said land. But a compromise is a compromise. Even if one finds the plan to be skewed toward Israel, rejecting the plan outright is not the answer. Instead, the Palestinians should come to the negotiation table and renegotiate the plan until both sides are satisfied. I foresee no future scenario where Palestine will have a more favorable opportunity to become an internationally recognized state and legally own some of this land. Any peace plan, whether this one or the next, will by its very nature involve compromise. As such, the Palestinians should be prepared to compromise, whether by accepting the current proposal as is or offering to negotiate. There is absolutely no reason to drag this deadly conflict out further. The Palestinians must quickly reconsider their decision to avoid negotiations at the cost of peace in the Middle East. If they don’t, they will likely forever remain in second place. Wesley Shirola is a Weinberg junior. He can be contacted at wesleyshirola2021@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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Science and engineering are inherently creative and explorative fields. For every question that a scientist answers, they find themselves with thousands more, ushering in further innovations and discoveries. For every problem an engineer solves, there are many more opportunities to amend and optimize the solution. These fields encourage participants to think originally in order to expand the database of worldly knowledge. However, I don’t think most people around me feel this way. To many, science can seem cold and sterile while engineering is just the path to a high-paying tech job. The very idea of “whole-brain engineering” rests on the fact that science and engineering are traditionally considered to require an analytical as opposed to a creative mindset. Recently, I mentioned to friends that I see science as one of the most creative fields, and I was asked for further explanation accompanied by a skeptical glance. In order to change this unflattering image of science, I believe STEM should be taught

in a manner that highlights its curious and imaginative qualities. I’ve sat in many lectures that feel more like history lessons explaining the abstract thoughts of men who have been dead for hundreds of years with no concept of how their innovations still impact our world. No one wants to have equations and derivations read out to them if they aren’t being told how this math can be applied to understand physical observations. I have found that the most effective classes that teach science as both applicable and inventive have been those that either let students focus on completing individual research or those that constantly connect lecture material with demonstrations or advancements in the field. In my experience, more and more courses are doing just that. During high school, I was part of a science research class that completely altered my view of science, evolving it away from the static and stoic perception I had acquired from traditional science classes. This program allowed me to perform an experiment or complete an engineering project of my choosing to independently further my knowledge of a subject. When searching for

a project my junior year, I stumbled upon the field of materials science, conducted an original experiment that I loved and haven’t looked back since. I honestly am not sure if I would be studying engineering now if I hadn’t been exposed to such an explorative environment where I was encouraged to pursue my interests. Some of the courses I’ve taken at Northwestern have also promoted this type of learning. During the second quarter of general chemistry, half of our lab sessions were used to conduct an experiment that our lab groups selected and developed. My group analyzed a method of removing chromium from water — a topic of interest — as dangerous states of chromium can be found in drinking water all over the country, including in Lake Michigan. We not only learned valuable lab techniques that aided us with other assignments throughout the quarter but also gained a deeper understanding of chemical concepts that we could apply to the lecture portion of the class. I have also taken classes where my professors showed videos or performed experiments during lectures to reinforce how the atomic and molecular phenomenon we

discussed on a microscopic scale could be witnessed in everyday life. These professors also made a conscious effort to point out how the concepts learned could be useful in a variety of engineering fields which made the class much more engaging and reminded us why we familiarize ourselves with all the equations, graphs and models. By shifting our focus to this type of learning, science classes will not only be more interesting but be more accessible to the students in them. Taking out some of this abstraction shows us just how explorative and innovative this field is while simultaneously helping conceptualize the equations and material taught in a lecture setting. With these various approaches, students can have a higher understanding of the material and of the potential that science and engineering have to change the world. Simona Fine is a McCormick Sophomore. She can be contacted at simonafine2022@u.northwestern. edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this op-ed, 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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From page 1 As he lead the poetry workshop, Romero said he saw participants who hadn’t written anything before find their creative voices. One such poet, Ben Krause-Decorah (HoChunk), said he struggled initially with writing fictitious narratives, but he loved telling stories. He said the workshop allowed him to marry

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From page 1 Throughout the race, the incumbent has faced scrutiny for her handling of the 2019 Jussie Smollett case, in which Smollett, an actor best known for his appearance on the show “Empire,” allegedly staged a hate crime. Foxx’s office dropped the charges in March 2019, an action which has been a constant source of criticism throughout her re-election campaign. The panel focused on the role institutions can play in wreforming and re-evaluating the criminal justice system to improve community inclusion and deal with racial inequities. Foxx’s prosecutorial record was not mentioned at the event. She said safety doesn’t revolve around policing,

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following the relocation of a statue in Tallinn, the country’s capital. Russia “failed the information war” in the invasion of Georgia one year later, Collins added. However, Collins said Russia learned from its mistakes, pouring a substantial amount of resources into propaganda outlets such as RT and Sputnik, which are aimed at foreign audiences. In Ukraine, the vast majority of Russian-language stations were Russian-owned, giving them a significant information advantage, he said. “Russia had a war plan for Crimea sitting on the shelf, and they were just waiting for an opportunity to go for it,” Collins said. Political Science Prof. Jeff Rice attended the talk, saying that it was a “wonderful opportunity” to hear the analysis of someone who had such insight into both sides’ thinking.

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his mother’s Native American roots and his father’s experience with poetry. “Ho-Chunks, traditionally, have always been able to tell stories,” Krause-Decorah said. “It’s been a really important part of who we are as people.” Krause-Decorah shared two pieces. One highlighted his war veteran relative’s marriage to a member of the U.S. Air Force overseas, and

the other described a storm sewer’s love affair with a rain gutter. Bill Buchholtz (Algonkin and French Canadian), a friend of Romero’s, accompanied a few of the performances with his flute music, shifting keys and rhythms to complement the different moods each piece evoked. Buchholtz has been playing Native flutes for over 20 years. He said he loves “jamming” and

uses his music to facilitate unity in a divided world. “It’s my way of giving back to not just my community, but all communities,” Buchholtz said. “We need to understand each other. If we don’t talk to each other and do things with each other, how’s that going to happen?”

but it is essential to cultivate systems that support all members of a community. “The notion of safety is built around healthy, thriving communities,” Foxx said. “When people feel like their needs are being met, there’s less of a tendency for people to do things to meet those needs.” Norman said this change begins in schools. In his division, he said he is actively seeking to reduce the school-to-prison pipeline by informing students of the possible consequences of their choices as well as teaching restorative practices. However, Norman said the problem takes place at the institutional level as well. He said some of the patterns are perpetuated during training for police officers, which indicates a need for systemic change. “We see young people being walked out of

school in handcuffs, and this becomes normalized,” Norman said. “When the resource officer doesn’t utilize proper procedures, this becomes normalized. It institutionalizes our children to be okay with this.” Fleming said the existence of an achievement gap and a racial disparity in disciplinary actions within schools are affected by choices at an administrative level. She said this can cause students to feel unwelcome in learning environments and lose a sense of community. As a result, she said it is clear that city and school resources should shift their focus to uplift marginalized communities. She said this doesn’t always occur, citing the city’s lack of translations of documents for immigrants and Evanston/ Skokie School District 65’s classroom policies for non-English speakers as indicators of a need

for change. “The idea that we all live here in diversity and everyone is equal — it’s not the treatment our children are getting in District 65,” Fleming said. “It’s not the treatment people are getting from the police.” Foxx said this shift in mindset cannot only occur at the administrative level — instead, it is essential for the entire community to support marginalized communities and released inmates to reduce incarceration and recidivism rates. “We have to wrap our minds around the idea that it is okay to deal with conflict outside the courthouse,” Foxx said. “That’s what restorative justice requires — community members who are proximate to these issues.”

“In the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, today’s talk provided a rigorous analysis of the logic behind Putin’s support for separatist rebels and Russian occupation of part of Ukraine,” Rice said in an email to The Daily. The annexation of Crimea took just a few days and was carried out with minimum violence. The same can’t be said for the separatist areas of Eastern Ukraine, where fighting persists. Despite little strategic value in the land itself, Collins said Russia is unlikely to withdraw its support for the self-proclaimed people’s republics. “There is no chance that Russia will withdraw from the Donbass if they are going to lose face,” Collins said. “There is relatively little cost for them to just hold onto the land.” linus.hoeller@u.northwestern.edu

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While Radley feels similarly supported by her family, now that she is away for school, she has taken on a larger role in managing her mental health independently. Guzman, along with Weinberg sophomore Jill Radley, shared their mental health struggles with The Daily Northwestern’s podcast, Speak Your Mind. There is not a uniform path to seeking help on campus and each student’s experience is unique, whether overwhelmingly positive or negative. — Kathryn Augustine

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Lindsey Pulliam doesn’t remember exactly when it happened. But at some point in the third quarter, the junior guard went into Northwestern’s huddle and told her teammates to start getting her the ball. The Wildcats had lost their double digit lead in the third quarter, so Pulliam got the attention of her teammates, and her teammates listened. They passed the ball to Pulliam and watched her play one of the best games of her career. Pulliam scored 32 points in No. 23 NU’s (18-3, 10-2) 81-73 win over the Wolverines (13-7, 4-5), with the junior guard leading the Cats on a fourth quarter run that sealed the win. After the game, NU athletic director Jim Phillips found Pulliam in the locker room and told her that her idol, Kobe Bryant, would have been proud of the performance. “That game was for Kobe Bryant,” Pulliam said. “That guy means so much to me, and I took so much from him in terms of my mentality and some of things in my game. Dr. Phillips just said it in the locker room –– 24 plus 8 equals 32.” The Cats trailed 45-44 in the third quarter, and then Pulliam led NU on

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a 28-17 run. Pulliam scored 20 of her points in the second half, including four late free throws that put the game away for the Cats. NU used a small lineup with senior forward Abi Scheid down the stretch as a way to create more space for Pulliam and the rest of the offense, and the lineup led the Cats to one of their best scoring quarters in conference play. “We started to loosen up their zone and getting better shots,” coach Joe McKeown said. “Scheid and (Pulliam), they were crafty and didn’t rush. They waited and were patient, and then they knocked down shots as we did a better job getting them the ball.” Scheid added 13 points and made three three-point shots, and senior center Abbie Wolf had 12 points and seven rebounds. NU shot 45.9 percent from the field and finished the game with seven made shots from beyond the arc. For the fourth time this season, the Cats won by single digits, and the win moved them back into second place in the Big Ten standings, behind only

No. 18 Iowa. After watching several conference games slip away in the final few minutes last year, McKeown said the team has proven that it has learned how to win in the Big Ten. Led by Pulliam,

NU is off to its best start of McKeown’s tenure and is currently slated to be a top-four seed in the NCAA Tournament. “The Xs and Os become somewhat irrelevant, and you’ve got to be

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Coach Chris Collins has said he has everything he needs to be successful –– a new arena and practice facility, a young core with potential and a Big Ten schedule filled with opportunities for season defining wins. But suddenly the Wildcats are missing their fans. Entering Saturday night’s primetime game at Welsh-Ryan Arena on Saturday against Purdue (11-10, 4-6 Big Ten), NU (6-14, 1-9) is attracting the smallest crowds of the Chris Collins era. On pace for a second consecutive last-place finish in the Big Ten, the Cats have sold an average of 5,504 tickets per game this season, down 18 percent from the previous low point under Collins. The previous low mark was set in Collins’ first season as NU’s head coach, the 2013-14 campaign. That year, the Cats averaged over 6,700 fans at every game. In 2019-20, NU is selling over 1,200 fewer tickets per game than the school did in 2013-14. Even when Collins was just starting his coaching career or when NU played at the off-campus Allstate Arena, the Cats had much bigger crowds than they’ve had this season. After Michigan State packed the 7,039-seat Welsh-Ryan Arena for a Big Ten game in December, Spartans coach Tom Izzo noted NU’s attendance problem. “Collins has a damn good team,”

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Izzo said in December. “People should get out and see them. They really should, they should pack that place with purple because (Northwestern’s) got the kind of guys that’d be fun to follow.” The Michigan State game was just one example of the smaller Northwestern fan base at games this season. NU had fewer than 6,000 fans at a game only once last season –– a December non-conference game against Chicago State. This year, the

Cats have drawn fewer than 6,000 fans at eight of their 11 home games. Since Collins was hired in 2013, NU has sold out multiple games every season, and its average attendance per-game had never dipped below 6,000 fans. That has changed this season. The Cats sell haven’t sold more than 6,750 tickets for a single game in the 2019-20 campaign and regularly have empty spaces in the crowd. Based on the attendance figures announced by the athletic department

at each game, NU sold a total of 121,580 last season its first year in the new arena, and the Cats have sold more than 110,000 tickets in each of the previous six seasons. This year, the Cats are on pace to sell just over 88,000 tickets over their 16-game home schedule. As interest in the program wanes, Collins said he still sees a bright future. charliegoldsmith2021@u.northwestern.edu

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amassed 4,265 passing yards, 887 rushing yards and 30 total touchdowns over his career. 49ers national scout Justin Chabot, who was a starter on Northwestern’s 1995 Rose Bowl team, will also be making the trip to Hard Rock Stadium. Chabot started 41 games on the Wildcats’ offensive line from 1993 to 1996, captaining the team that went

SOFTBALL

Wildcats ranked 14th in NFCA preseason poll

Last year, Northwestern finished 12th in the country, falling to then-No. 1 Oklahoma in the Super Regional round. They open this season ranked 14th in the NFCA preseason coaches poll. Four conference teams made the list, released Jan. 28. No. 8 Minnesota joins NU as the only other Big Ten squad in the top 15. The Cats’ underclassmen are poised to make a big impact in the coming season. The incoming freshman class was ranked 12th in the country by Softball America — and Sydney Supple, NU’s highest-rated prospect, is the fourthranked pitcher in the class. The sophomore class is led by pitcher Danielle Williams, last season’s NFCA National Freshman of the Year. On Wednesday, she was named to the Collegiate Player of the Year Watchlist by USA Softball. “We have great pitching right now, and that’s going to elevate a program really quickly,” coach Kate Drohan said in October. “We’re excited about our growth, but I still think we have a long way to go.” The Cats will face tough competition ahead of Big Ten play, with eight ranked matchups in their first 16 games, including games against No. 1 Washington and No. 3 Oklahoma. NU is also ranked 13th in D1Softball. com’s preseason poll, and 15th according to USA Softball. They open the season on Feb. 7 against Utah in the Arizona State hosted-Kajikawa Classic. — Carlos Stinson-Maas

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football alums are among those making the trip to Miami Gardens, Fla. Among those is the Kansas City quarterbacks coach, Mike Kafka, who works with last season’s league MVP Patrick Mahomes. The signal caller played as a Wildcat from 2005 to 2009 and led the team to the Outback Bowl during his senior season as the full-time starter. He

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willing to say, ‘get me the ball and get out of the way. I got this,’” McKeown said. “And that’s why I recruited Pulliam. That’s what she does.”

to the Citrus Bowl in his final season. In 1996, he was voted first team all-Big Ten by both the media and coaches. “Of course it’s difficult to leave,” Chabot told The Daily in 2004. “I spent five years as a player and another five on the staff.This is a place that has been very good to me. But the opportunities that the 49ers provided are great.”

Kansas City’s offensive quality coach David Girardi, a former defensive graduate from the Cats, as well as 49ers area scout Ryan Kessenich — who was a consultant for the team after spending time with the Chicago Bears — will both also have a stake in Sunday’s championship. — Troy Closson