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President Barack Obama called upon Illinois state legislators to escape the “poisonous political climate” of partisan politics and work across party lines in his address to the Illinois General Assembly on Wednesday afternoon.

Obama’s speech marks nine years since his presidential campaign announcement in Springfield, a campaign marked

by Obama’s expressed desire to promote bipartisanship. The country’s political climate, however, is still highly polarized today, he said, and it is up to legislators in office to make peace and move forward.

Although most of his discussion on gridlock was aimed at Washington, the topic was salient to the state assembly, currently on its eighth month without a budget.

“If we can’t compromise, by definition we can’t govern ourselves,” Obama said.

He also said legislators need to be asking themselves, “What can we do, all of us, together, to try to make our politics better?”

The president also talked about changes he wanted to strive for in his last months in office, including ending gerrymandering of congressional districts, making it easier to register to vote and limiting the power of big money on politics. Obama brought up the possibility of a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision in his speech.

“A handful of families and hidden interests shouldn’t be able to bankroll elections in the greatest democracy on Earth,” Obama said. “I’m not saying the folks with a lot of money should have no voice; I’m saying they shouldn’t be able to drown out everybody else’s.”

Rep. Robyn Gabel (D-Evanston) told The Daily the speech was well received by both Republicans and Democrats in the

As part of the Center for Awareness, Response and Education’s focus on prevention education, coordinator of men’s engagement Paul Ang is launching a six week program for dialogue on masculinity within the next two weeks.

Ang, whose position was funded by the second of two $300,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice, said the program, “NU Men,” is a collaboration with residence director Dan Amato.

“It’s a masculinity dialogue group focused on providing men a space to explore, rethink and challenge their own masculinity and learn about some of the systemic links between masculinity and violence,” Ang said.

In addition to funding Ang’s role, the second grant which began in September 2014, focuses on prevention education, said Erin Clark, assistant director of CARE. Money from the first grant was allocated toward response programs, allowing CARE to fund its response and advocacy services between 2011 and 2014, she added.

“Prevention (education) is vital to addressing sexual violence on campus,” Clark said.

Ang said he is also piloting a program with a few Interfraternity Council chapters. The program, which Ang developed and facilitated at Syracuse University, looks at how masculinity is tied to violence, he said.

Ang said he is also working with members of Men Against Rape and Sexual Assault. Although MARS’ presentations for new members in

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NEW LEADERSHIP The Buffett Institute, which will be under the leadership of former ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry starting September. Faculty are protesting Eikenberry’s appointment, calling on the University to withdraw the offer for his position.

Faculty contest selection of Eikenberry

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Forty-six Northwestern faculty members called on University administrators to withdraw their appointment of Karl Eikenberry as executive director of the Buffett Institute due to his incompatibility with the center’s “core mission of independent research.”

In a letter to The Daily, organized by political science and legal studies Prof. Jacqueline Stevens and Spanish and Portuguese Prof. Jorge Coronado, the faculty outlined a number of reasons for why Eikenberry should not have been selected for the position, including what they said was an opaque search process by the University and concern about using the humanities and social sciences to advance U.S. soft power. Undersigned faculty concluded the letter

by requesting a new search process chaired by “an independent faculty member” from the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences or a committee appointed by the president of the Faculty Senate.

“All important administrative positions in the University — deans, the provost, the president — these are scholars who are engaged in the primary mission of research and teaching,” Coronado told The Daily. “And so we have deep concerns about what it means for someone who doesn’t come from that background to lead an institute which has been so central to non-qualitative social sciences and humanities research.”

University President emeritus Henry Bienen, who chaired the search committee that hired Eikenberry, refuted the faculty’s accusations, and said he couldn’t recall anyone voicing dissatisfaction until the letter.

Although he acknowledged Eikenberry’s non-academic background,

Bienen said the appointment was “sensational” and expressed full confidence in the former ambassador’s leadership ability.

“I find the letter more than disappointing,” Bienen told The Daily. “I actually find it uninformed, narrowminded and extremely foolish.”

University President Morton Schapiro and Provost Daniel Linzer acknowledged the concerns expressed by some faculty, but said they “strongly disagree” in a separate letter to The Daily published Wednesday night. Eikenberry, they wrote, “will broaden access to people and information for faculty and students” and said faculty that met with Eikenberry expressed “quite a different set of comments.”

Eikenberry currently works at Stanford University, where he has more departmental associations than any other faculty member. Prior to » See EIKENBERRY, page 10

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Evanston’s economic report from the final three months of 2015 was released Tuesday, showing overall economic stability, city officials said.

Thirteen new businesses opened in the city and 60 jobs were generated during the economic quarter, which stretched last year from Oct. 1 to Dec. 31. Seven of these businesses are located in downtown Evanston, according to the report.

Johanna Nyden Leonard, manager of the city’s economic development division, said the continual emergence of new businesses and entrepreneurship is impressive considering Evanston’s size of about 76,000 residents.

“Evanston doesn’t have a large shopping mall such as Old Orchard so it’s important

to offer a diversity of things to people in Evanston, such as the startup showcase we had this quarter,” Nyden Leonard said. “We do all these things that aren’t typical for a suburb our size but we have a dynamic composition in our city.”

Businesses such as Coffee Lab, which moved from 922 Noyes St. to 910 Noyes St. in October, were considered to be new businesses in the report due to their relocation to larger spaces.

Despite the creation of 60 new jobs in the final economic quarter, Nyden-Leonard said Evanston’s unemployment rate has risen by about 0.5 percent to remain under 4.5 percent, as compared to the national rate, which is about 4.9 percent.

She said residents should not expect to see any drastic rises in unemployment in the near future due to steady economic growth in the city.

Beyond business creation, Nyden Leonard said the most noteworthy aspect

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of the report was its information regarding the number of vacant industrial spaces in Evanston. She said there was a sharp drop in industrial vacancies from eight to one between the third quarter and fourth quarter, which was largely due to the opening of a sizeable Autobarn car facility, which took up 128,000 square feet of previously vacant space. Retail and office space vacancies also declined during the quarter, but at a much smaller rate.

Nyden Leonard said she was impressed with the city’s decrease in vacancies compared to numbers from other north suburbs.

“We had about an 8 or 9 percent vacancy rate for industrial space in previous quarters, and that dropped significantly,” she said. “This shows that a big facility occupying space can have a pretty big impact and we should feel pretty good » See REPORT, page 10

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Around Town Author discusses Medill Innocence Project lawsuit

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Author William Crawford discussed his book’s exploration into the accusation that the director of the former Medill Innocence Project falsified evidence in a criminal investigation at an event hosted by the Evanston Public Library on Wednesday night.

Crawford, who spent 23 years working for the Chicago Tribune before writing “Justice Perverted: How the Innocence Project at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism Sent an Innocent Man to Prison,” provided an overview of his book before reading an excerpt from it and taking questions from the audience.

“Justice Perverted” explores the events surrounding the controversial exoneration of Anthony Porter in the 1982 murders of Marilyn Green and Jerry Hillard in Chicago’s South Side.

The exoneration, spearheaded by former Medill Prof. David Protess, director of the then-Medill Innocence Project, came after what Crawford argues was the coerced and forced confession of Alstory Simon.

The project, after Protess’ departure from Northwestern, was taken over by Medill Prof.

Alec Klein and is now called the Medill Justice Project.

Simon was exonerated of the crime after Cook County prosecutors threw out his

Police Blotter Graduate student arrested for choking wife A Northwestern graduate student was arrested for choking his wife following a dispute at their Evanston residence early Monday morning, police

conviction in 2014 following the suspension of Protess for allegedly falsifying evidence relating to a subpoena in another wrongful conviction case. Upon being freed, Simon sued Northwestern for $40 million, a suit that remains ongoing.

In his overview, Crawford described his book as “moderately epic in scope” but warned the story it tells was a “tangled yarn” he was trying to keep as straight as possible.

Some audience members said the event illuminated new concerns with America’s criminal justice system.

“It was really shocking,” Adrienne Lieberman, an Evanston resident, told the Daily. “I haven’t read the book yet, so I don’t know a lot about it, but after hearing this, it certainly left me with plenty of questions.”

Chicago Police Department officer and writer Martin Preib, who attended the event, said Crawford’s talk reaffirmed his existing concerns with the criminal justice system.

“Bill really opened the door, (exposing) much of the wrongful doing in the criminal justice system,” Preib said. “This is an important story and needs to be told. Our criminal justice system is broken. We need to just follow the evidence, keep it in the courtroom, and leave the media circus out of it.”

Crawford said his talk at EPL was just one of several engagements he has planned to promote his book.

“We were up in Glencoe (and) we’ll be in Chicago in a few weeks,” Crawford said. “We’re trying to market the book at big libraries to really get the message out there.” said.

The 29-year-old husband turned himself in to University Police an hour and a half after the incident at approximately 1:30 a.m., Evanston Police Department spokesman Perry Polinski said.

University Police contacted the Evanston police to carry out his arrest, Polinski said.

The man is due in court on March 9.

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WRITTEN TESTIMONY William Crawford, author of “Justice Perverted: How the Innocence Project at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism Sent an Innocent Man to Prison,” speaks at Evanston Public Library on Monday.

Event coordinator Russell Johnson, a librarian at EPL, said the library hosted Crawford because it wants to provide a space for authors to share with the community the issues discussed in their books.

“We want to be a place where people can

come to share their books and the issues,” Johnson said. “It’s a local author about something that happened here, and there’s lots of questions right now about the criminal justice system.”

Man steals wallet, withdraws $500 from ex-girlfriend’s bank account

when she asked him to leave following a verbal dispute, Polinski said.

A man who fit the description was spotted 20 minutes later by police in the 600 block of Howard Street, Polinski said.

The man is due in Skokie court on March 2.

A 30-year-old Evanston man was arrested early Monday morning for stealing his ex-girlfriend’s wallet and withdrawing $500 from her bank account, police said.

The woman — a 27-year-old Evanston resident — told police her ex-boyfriend grabbed her wallet

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A new relaxation and wellness space should be incorporated into the area the student center relocates to, Associated Student Government senators proposed Wednesday.

Legislation was introduced to support the creation of a wellness space once the student center temporarily relocates to the Donald P. Jacobs Center where the Kellogg School of Management is currently housed.

This transition is expected to begin in 2017 when the University Commons construction project begins.

Co-sponsor Danielle Hojnicki, a Weinberg freshman senator, and student life committee member Nehaarika Mulukutla presented the resolution and said the room could provide a place for students to de-stress and possibly serve as a location for Take Time mental health programs, which are organized by the student life committee.

A wellness center called the Library Room previously existed in Norris University Center, Mulukutla said, but had to be removed to make space for other student groups. The new wellness center could include meditative music, coloring books and a relaxation station, the Weinberg sophomore said.

“This is one facet of what student life is doing as a whole to increase mental health awareness and mental health regulation at Northwestern,” Mulukutla said. “This isn’t the only thing that we’re doing and by no means are we saying that this is going to be the end-all-be-all solution.”

Earlier, ASG scheduled an open forum to discuss senator representation for next week before senators vote on an amendment to the ASG constitution that would equalize Greek senators, decrease offcampus representation and increase student group representation.

The forum, to be held at 6 p.m. on Feb. 17, will hopefully encourage students to voice their opinions on the proposed representation reform, speaker of the Senate Matt Clarkston said. The location of the forum is undecided but may be in the Northwestern

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TAKE A BREAK Weinberg sophomore Nehaarika Mulukutla introduces legislation supporting the creation of a relaxation room. The room would be in the new student center once Norris University Center relocates to the Donald P. Jacobs Center.

Room of Norris University Center, where Senate meetings are normally held, the Weinberg senior added.

“ASG can always do its job better the more people let us know what’s on their minds,” Clarkston told The Daily. “This concerns a lot of different groups on campus so I’m hoping that people from those groups will show up and give their two cents.”

The forum, which is required when an amendment to the constitution is introduced, will replace the four caucus meetings before Senate, Clarkston said. Students attending the forum may stay for Senate afterward when senators will vote on the amendment.

“A lot of people in and out of ASG feel like there are things we can do to better represent students,” Clarkston told The Daily. “People have a lot of

different ideas of the reform … and the changes that we should make to do that better. So I’m hoping that we’ll have lots of different ideas tossed out and a really fulfilling discussion on if this is a change that we want to make.”

The amendment, introduced by senators Kevin Luong and Erik Baker last week, would provide all four Greek associations with two senators each. Currently, Multicultural Greek Council and National Pan-Hellenic Council each have one seat in the Greek caucus while Interfraternity Council and Panhellenic Association each have five. Six senators would be added to the student group caucus, increasing representation from 15 senators to 21. Off-campus representation would decrease by two senators. ericasnow2019@u.northwestern.edu

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nne Waller’s grandfather played on Northwestern’s 1899 football team. Her mother also attended NU. When it was time for her to go to college, the choice seemed obvious.

However, there was one problem: Waller wanted to study classical guitar, something that wasn’t offered at the University then.

So, Waller ended up studying guitar performance at Macalester College. She didn’t return to her NU roots until 1985, when she came to NU to start the guitar program at the Bienen School of Music.

“It fell to Anne to come and start this program at Northwestern,” said her husband, Mark Maxwell, who has been teaching classical guitar at DePaul University since 1986.

This Sunday, Waller and her husband — who met at Southern Methodist University as graduate students — will take part in a concert for the Segovia Classical Guitar Series as the Waller and Maxwell Guitar Duo. The guitarists, who have been playing together for 35 years, will take the stage at the Mary B. Galvin Recital Hall in the Patrick G. and Shirley W. Ryan Center for the Musical Arts, where they will be joined by Waller’s former students.

Waller started the series in 1993, named after guitarist Andrés Segovia — often considered to be the father of the modern classical guitar movement — to commemorate his 100th anniversary.

Sunday’s concert will feature guitar playing from the duo, as well as two quartets and an octet. The diverse concert set will span about two centuries worth of guitar repertoire, Maxwell said.

Jesse Langen (Bienen ‘96, ‘97), a former student of Waller’s who will be in the concert, said he is excited to get a chance to play with other guitarists, a rare opportunity for an instrument with a repertoire geared toward soloists.

As most of the guitar repertoire is written for soloists, Waller said it is often more challenging for two or more people to play together and coordinate the timing because, compared to instruments like the piano, a plucked instrument does not produce as resonant a sound. Playing in a duo, however, allows for a greater variety of pieces to play, she said.

Waller’s love for and foray into the guitar began at an early age. She played her first guitar — an electric guitar — when she was nine, but quickly realized it didn’t suit her. Instead, she discovered her love for classical guitar, which was cultivated through music her mother often played at home by Segovia.

She hasn’t looked back since, even in times when she has had to struggle for acknowledgement from other musicians.

“There’s always been for guitarists in the classical music world a little bit of a challenge to be taken seriously,” she said.

What strikes Langen about Waller is her love for music, no matter how difficult or how simple the piece is.

“It could be three lines of music written for an eight-year-old, and it’s the same for her,” he said. “It’s the same thing as the most impressive and daunting piece for guitar.”

Waller said she hopes that people will realize and appreciate how vast the classical guitar literature is. For aspiring guitarists, Waller emphasized the importance of experiencing music live.

“It’s important to get out of the house and really go hear live music, and it’s important for those of us who really appreciate this art to make it happen,” Waller said.

Waller and her husband have shown their appreciation for the art by playing as a duo in the U.S. and internationally.

She said one of her favorite memories is playing in Italy for an event hosted by a member of the Medici family.

Even though the two have been playing as a duo for longer than they’ve been married, they sometimes still have to schedule appointments with each other, given their busy schedules, Maxwell said.

However, the special bond they have as both duo and life partners makes playing all that much better, he said.

“There’s a special connection that you have,” he said. “You can almost close your eyes and play with a free tempo — tempo rubato — and play all the notes together, because you’ve been doing it for so long.” benjamindin@u.northwestern.edu

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The upcoming production of “Equivocation” will combine historical suspense with metadrama — a genre which showcases a play within a play.

The show, directed by second year directing graduate student Michael Cotey, premieres Friday in the Wallis Theater as part of the 2016 MFA Lab Series.

The series partners theatre directors from Northwestern’s MFA program with designers in the MFA program in stage design.

“The play is sort of like a historical thriller,” Cotey said. “There’s a ton of inside humor that Shakespeare nerds will absolutely love. It has plays within plays within plays. The structure of the play really blurs the line between what is reality and what is fiction.”

The play, set in 17th century England, focuses on William Shagspeare, a fictional William Shakespeare. He is coerced into writing a

propaganda play about the historical Gunpowder Plot of 1605, which threatened to assassinate the king and take out major powers in England at the time.

As Shagspeare and his acting troupe try to put the play together, they realize the government’s version of the story can’t be true, said Communication junior Dan Stompor, who plays Shagspeare.

As they come to this realization, they must decide what to include in the plot of the play.

“It’s a play that starts at a high velocity and never really slows down,” Stompor said.

“Equivocation” draws on tragic elements from “King Lear” and “Macbeth,” two of Shakespeare’s most famous plays, in seriousness and scope, said cast member Sam Douglas, a Communication senior. There are references to characters from the plays in the show, he said.

He added the setting of the show moves back and forth between multiple places, from the Globe Theatre to the Tower of London, as the play within the show starts to come together.

Four out of the six actors in the show function

as multiple characters — both plotters with stakes in the alternate history and players in an acting troupe.

Douglas said finding ways in which all the characters he plays are connected has been his favorite acting challenge during the process, and he hopes audience members come away with a sense of compassion for the characters.

“It’s been funny and so much fun to play everyone from the highest status men in the country to a man … in this dungeon, being tortured, but who maintains the belief that he is in the right, even if what he did was wrong,” Douglas said.

In addition to the Shakespearean elements, Cotey said the script explores the beliefs and passions of people who believe strongly in their own versions of the truth — what they believe in and what they find worth fighting for. “(The playwright) was inspired to write something true, but this play isn’t factually accurate,” Cotey added. “What does truth mean, when we’re not just defining it as a litany of facts?” rachelholtzman2018@u.northwestern.edu

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Prof reimagines gender, social stereotypes in Sondheim show

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“A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,” a Stephen Sondheim musical that originally premiered on Broadway in 1962, will open Friday at Northwestern’s Ethel M. Barber Theatre.

Traditional gender and social stereotypes will be reimagined in NU’s production of the musical, which includes a mix of romance and comedy.

The Daily spoke with Communication professor Matt Hawkins, the director of the production, about the musical.

The Daily: What is special or unique about your modern take on a traditional musical?

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FACT OR FICTION Cast members rehearse for an upcoming production of “Equivocation.” The show, featured as part of the MFA Lab series, combines historical suspense with metadrama.

Racial tensions explored in ‘Old South’

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When a friend told communication Prof. Danielle Beverly about a fraternity moving into a historically black neighborhood in the Deep South, she said she couldn’t pass up the opportunity to document the story.

“It had a lot of topic areas that I’m personally invested in: race, there’s a substory of gentrification, injustice and history,” said Beverly, who began teaching at Northwestern University in Qatar this past fall.

The result was Beverly’s film, “Old South,” a documentary that was filmed over the course of three-and-a-half years and follows the journey of two groups who attempt to coexist in the same neighborhood.

However, the documentary, filmed from 2008 to 2011, makes no mention of the specific years it took place to keep its themes relevant for any time period, Beverly said.

She added the film is timely as people across the country question the legitimacy of Confederate or other racially charged symbols.

“The sad occasion is that this story has resonance no matter what year it happened in,” she said.

In “Old South,” when the Kappa Alpha Order fraternity — which Beverly said is known for its love of the Confederacy and its annual antebellum parade — decides to live on a block in one of the oldest black neighborhoods in Georgia, members of the community and the fraternity find themselves at odds.

Protagonist Hope Iglehart, a fifth-generation funeral director, fights to establish official historical designation for the neighborhood. As the fraternity moves in, Iglehart and others develop relationships with people they otherwise would not have interacted with, she said.

“People have to broaden their scope as far as meeting and welcoming people into their lives and not have a narrow view,” Iglehart told The Daily.

“Everybody in the process grew, and that’s what the documentary shows.”

The self-described “one-person crew” of her documentary, Beverly produced, directed, filmed and recorded sound for the film, which cut production costs and allowed her to capture more personal

footage, she said.

“There’s an intimacy one can get when there’s only one person with a camera, rather than a director, a camera person, a sound person,” she said.

Beverly said one of the most challenging parts of filming “Old South” was gaining the trust of the community, a sentiment that Iglehart echoed.

“I’m a white northerner,” Beverly said. “I did not grow up there, I was not known in the town and gaining trust is always, first and foremost, the most important thing when one makes a documentary.”

Communication Prof. Kyle Henry, who worked with Beverly on her first documentary feature “Learning to Swallow,” said Beverly is one of the most empathetic documentary filmmakers he has worked with. After seeing a rough cut of the film, he said that her latest documentary is no exception.

“Danielle has this quality of being able to reflect and to be part of many different subjects’ lives, and to capture moments that are really beautiful and

truthful and emotionally compelling,” Henry said.

The documentary, which debuted March 2015, is currently available online. It was broadcast Feb. 2 on the World Channel as part of Black History Month and was the season four premiere for “America ReFramed,” a weekly documentary series that highlights the nation’s social issues.

Beverly said deciding she had done enough filming for “Old South” was sparked by indications the two communities were finally showing signs of coming together.

Ultimately, she said she hopes the film will spark sustained dialogue over issues related to racial tension.

“Racial reconciliation can occur,” Beverly said.

“It takes generosity, It takes humility, It takes the willingness to walk in someone else’s shoes, and, most importantly, it takes time.” benjamindin@u.northwestern.edu

Hawkins: It was originally done in 1962 and we are obviously doing it in 2016, so we are taking on a little bit more of a modern, sensible look at the old play.

We’re reimagining something that is old into something that is new and applicable to our time of day. We really hit the stereotypes head on as far as gender and sexuality go.

The Daily: How are you challenging these stereotypes?

Hawkins: We’re not changing the plot, but we have women playing men characters and we have men playing female characters. There is a song called “Everybody Ought to Have a Maid.” It’s sung by all men originally, and it’s very misogynistic. And it’s really exciting because there’s a moment, the way it’s cast, where there are five women on stage singing the song. It’s really fun and inviting.

The Daily: What are you hoping to accomplish by taking a more modern approach to a traditional musical?

Hawkins: The hope is that we have taken a stereotypical, traditional musical and we have made it relevant with social issues and gender issues and sexuality issues that are very, very present in our world right now. Stereotypes exist for a reason. We’re always trying to break them, but we sometimes can’t get away from them. I’m excited for the social conversations that will happen.

The Daily: What are you most excited for with this show?

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Danielle Beverly

Hawkins: I’m excited for the educational experience, and especially for some of the young actors on stage. If we look at our student population, there are tons of young women in our department. What happens a lot of times is we try to produce plays that students don’t relate to, and there are tons of roles for men and not enough for women. We took that and we flipped it on its head so we could make opportunities for all of these talented women to have great parts and great stage time and learn what it’s like to play the opposite sex for a change. It also gives an opportunity for these men to literally walk in the shoes of women.

The young women really get to show their talent, even though the original script would not have given them access to do that. jenniferhepp2020@u.northwestern.edu

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Celebrasia to ring in Chinese Year of the Monkey

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MONKEY BUSINESS Dancers perform at Celebrasia in 2014. This year’s show will be monkey-themed in honor of the start of the Chinese Year of the Monkey.

By KELLEY CZAJKA

the daily northwestern @kelleyczajka

Audience members walking into Cahn Auditorium’s lobby on Saturday night will have the chance to take selfies with a huge, Chinese paper lion head.

The mythical creature, propped up by bamboo sticks and a crew of people, will kick off the festivities of Celebrasia: Year of the Monkey.

The Chinese Students Association and Taiwanese American Students Club annually host the Celebrasia show to celebrate the Lunar New Year. This year’s show features both professional and student acts and is themed “Primates of the Caribbean” in honor of the Chinese Year of the Monkey, which started on Feb. 8.

Chinese Student Association external president Leo Zhu, a Weinberg senior, said Celebrasia is based off of the Chinese New Year tradition in which people

see a long show with dancers, singers, and other performers.

“I see pictures of everyone having massive banquets back in China and I’m like ‘Oh I’m missing out,’” Zhu, who is from China, said. “So this is kind of to make up for that.”

Celebrasia will include student performances by Refresh Dance Crew and the East Asian interest a cappella group the Treblemakers. There will also be four professional performers including singer-songwriter Kina Grannis and America’s Best Dance Crew runnerup Kinjaz.

Although the performers may not blatantly incorporate the show’s “Primates of the Caribbean” theme, it will be evident in decorations and student videos in between acts, Zhu said. He added the videos, which feature a play on the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise, will present a story that has comedy, action and romance.

“It’s telling its own story,” he said. “The point is to

have one coherent arc throughout the show to wrap it all up.”

TASC president Austen Bhayani, a McCormick senior, said the clubs worked to make this production of Celebrasia the most polished it’s been. To improve the audience experience, he added, the groups decided to feature more professional acts than previous years in order to make sure the acts are unique and something new that people haven’t seen before on campus.

CSA internal president Jonathan Lo, a Weinberg senior, said he hopes the additional professional performances, increased from previous years, as well as monkey-themed decorations will impress audiences.

“Every year I do the show, my friends come up to me and say, ‘Hey man, that was the best show I’ve seen at Northwestern,’” Lo said. “From the moment you walk in the decorations seem more than just another student group, same with the flyers and the acts that we bring out and the programs — everything

is a little more than what you would expect from a student group.”

Besides just holding the performance, another way the groups bring together the Chinese community is by reserving seats for young children in China Care, Lo said. NU’s chapter of China Care works with local adopted Chinese children to give them exposure to Asian culture which they might not get in homes or at their schools, he said.

Bhayani said although the show is about seeing great performances, it is also about instilling family values.

“That’s one of the big things for us as the presidents because we’re all seniors and so we’ll be leaving and just cherishing the moments we still have on campus with the people that we get to interact with every day,” he said. “So (coming together as a community) is going to be one of the big themes I think for our show.” kelleyczajka2019@u.northwestern.edu

Chicago a capella group performs Shakespeare in song

By EMILY CHIN

daily senior staffer @emchin24

Audience members at “Shakespeare a capella” in Evanston this weekend will be transported back 400 years to the streets of London to learn life lessons from Shakespeare’s works.

Nine singers from Chicago a capella, an a capella group with an eclectic repertoire that includes two Northwestern alums, will bring “Shakespeare a capella,” a performance of choir pieces based on Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets, to Nichols Concert Hall, 1490 Chicago Avenue.

The performance is part of the Shakespeare 400 Chicago festival. The year-long festival that began in January, organized by Chicago Shakespeare Theater, will bring 1,000 artists together in different events throughout the Chicago area to observe the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death.

“This is so exciting because Shakespeare’s words are so rich and so deep and for hundreds of years composers have been inspired

by Shakespeare,” said Jonathan Miller, founder and artistic director for Chicago a capella. “We have a love song, we have a fierce song, we have somber meditations on death … any song that makes it has to have a particular quality that just reaches out and grabs you.”

Miller first started putting together “Shakespeare a capella” in 2003 when he put out a calling for music based on Shakespeare’s texts that had been written in the past 25 years, he said. He received music from all over the world,

including pieces that had been composed specifically for “Shakespeare a capella,” he said.

The final repertoire consists of more than 15 pieces, each of which illuminates a different aspect of Shakespeare’s sonnets, he said. Often, composers will take parts of a play that call for music and create their own melody for Shakespeare’s words, he added.

This weekend’s performance differs from Chicago a capella’s regular performances in that two actors from Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Barbara Robertson and Greg Vinkler, will perform monologues in between choral performances to create transitions and illuminate what each song is about.

“It has really brought an element of worth and humanity and playfulness, so Barbara and Greg will make the emotions in the song that we’re singing more readily available to touch people’s hearts,” Miller said.

Emily Price (Bienen ‘02), a mezzo-soprano in the show, said the actors’ lines in between songs will create a longer arc to the performance because the pieces will be more drawn out, as opposed to having applauses in between each number.

She added this will create a more dramatic element on stage than most of the group’s normal programs, and it will also give the performers more energy.

“It feeds the characterization and keeps the mood suspended,” she said.

As part of the Shakespeare 400 Chicago festival, the performance will help emphasize the different ways Shakespeare can be interpreted and the relevance of Shakespeare’s plays and

Source: Spencer Blair

SINGING THE SONNETS A capella singers in Chicago a cappella will be performing a program of pieces based on Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets. Their performance is part of Shakespeare 400 Chicago, a celebration of Shakespeare’s death that involves 850 performances around the Chicago area in the next year.

sonnets in today’s society, festival producer Doreen Sayegh said. She added throughout the year-long festival, artists will emphasize these themes through the use of different mediums including theatrical performances, music and food.

“It’s interesting to see how different genres interpret the plays and use them to convey human messages,” she said. “It’s why we’re still excited by these texts 400 years later, because these stories ring true across generations, across disciplines.”

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Vertigo presents: Record at 7:30 p.m. in Shanley Pavilion A Funny Thing that Happened on the Way to the Forum performance at 7:30 p.m. in Ethel M. Barber Theater

Vertigo presents: Record at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. in Shanley Pavilion A Funny Thing that Happened on the Way to the Forum performance at 7:30 p.m. in Ethel M. Barber Theater

Sig O presents: (Not Your) Significant Lovers at 11 p.m. in Jones Great Room

saturday Celebrasia 2016 - Year of the Monkey at 7 p.m. in Cahn Auditorium Vertigo presents: Record at 4 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. in Shanley Pavilion A Funny Thing that Happened on the Way to the Forum performance at 7:30 p.m. in Ethel M. Barber Theater

sunday A Funny Thing that Happened on the Way to the Forum performance at 2 p.m. in Ethel M. Barber Theater

Sayegh said organizers are expecting the festival to reach more than 500,000 people. She added she thinks Shakespeare really resonates with the city of Chicago.

“You see how his works, his command of grit and endurance and human passion, lives in the way Chicago takes itself as a city,” she said.

“Everyone has been affected by Shakespeare in one way and I think there’s real life for Shakespeare in Chicago.” emilychin2018@u.northwestern.edu

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Schapiro, Linzer support appointment of Karl Eikenberry

The Daily Northwestern yesterday published a letter to the editor by a group of faculty regarding the appointment of Karl Eikenberry as executive director of the Buffett Institute for Global Studies. As we have communicated previously to faculty members, their concern about his appointment is noted, but we strongly disagree.

A search committee that included senior faculty and that was led by President Emeritus Henry Bienen, himself one of the leaders in global studies as a political scientist, selected a small group of finalists from an impressive list of candidates. The committee

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found that each finalist was well “above the bar” for leadership of the Buffett Institute, and we agree completely with that assessment. Among the finalists, and consistent with our goal for this new position, Karl stood out in his global engagement and visibility; access to a broad array of scholars, government officials, and world leaders; and ability to integrate the diverse backgrounds and viewpoints of the military, diplomatic corps, and academia. President Obama appointed him as Ambassador to Afghanistan.

Karl will broaden access to people and information for faculty and students involved in global studies. Indeed, the goal was to identify someone who would complement, and not simply supplement, the expertise we already have at Northwestern, and Karl will do exactly that. Throughout his career, Karl has demonstrated a leadership style that effectively engages diverse sets of stakeholders, and we are confident he will do that as Executive Director of

the Buffett Institute. Karl will join the already strong leadership team of Institute directors Bruce Carruthers and Brian Hanson, along with others, to collaborate with faculty, students and staff in shaping the trajectory of the Buffett Institute.

Although not a traditional academic, Karl is in his fifth year at Stanford as the William J. Perry Fellow for International Security. He has taught both undergraduate and graduate courses, while conducting research on international security and foreign policy.

Karl was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he is also a member of the Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences, set up by Congress to represent United States institutions and civic organizations on how the arts and humanities contribute to America’s global success.

In addition to the faculty who were on the search committee, a number of faculty met with Karl during on-campus interviews. We received from

those faculty quite a different set of comments than expressed in the letter that was published in The Daily Northwestern yesterday. It is to be expected that a range of opinions will be found across the faculty; it is also to be expected that members of our academic community will engage new colleagues and opportunities with open minds, and will reach conclusions based on their own, direct interactions.

The concern expressed by faculty who signed the letter makes clear the importance of the Buffett Institute and the impact it has within and beyond the University. The active engagement of faculty on this matter also demonstrates how Northwestern provides an environment that enables strong differences in perspective to be debated.

— Morton Schapiro, President and Professor

Dan Linzer, Provost and Professor

Why college needs to make students comfortable TIM BALK

DAILY COLUMNIST

Last week, in an article for the New York Times titled “Why College Is Not Home,” A. Douglas Stone, a Yale physics professor, and Dr. Mary Schwab-Stone, a retired faculty member of the Yale Child Study Center, tackled the Erika Christakis controversy at Yale. The pair took a good stab at making sense of the incident, which involved Christakis’ infamous email criticizing the act of telling students what to wear on Halloween, and the fallout that followed.

In the end, though, the two seemed to reach the same dubious conclusion that many others have reached: that colleges are changing for the worse because they are overly concerned with making students comfortable. Proponents of such a view have some basic ideas right. It is true college students are extremely sensitive,

though I doubt that the college students of past generations had skin much thicker. It is also true that censorship of unpopular views on college campuses remains a significant issue, with many colleges rendered philosophical echo chambers.

Yet, neither of these are the result of colleges trying to make their students feel more comfortable or at home. In fact, comfortable students are less likely to be overly sensitive and more likely to engage in open discussion.

Stone and Schwab-Stone zero in on the issue of college as a time of growth into adulthood.

They wistfully reminisce on what college purportedly once was. “For previous generations, college was a decisive break from parental supervision; guidance and support needed to come from peers and from within,” they write. In their view, college has lost its purpose as a transitional period into adulthood, thanks to a loss of independence caused by technological advances and sheltering on the part of schools. Apparently, this is a bad thing.

I say hogwash.

The college experience is different today and

does, in fact, serve a different purpose. Back when college served such a role, students were a much more homogeneous group. Today we come from a vast array of backgrounds, and arrive with different levels and types of preparation. Colleges no longer are four-year learning grounds for white folks of predominantly the same gender.

And that’s a good thing!

With a more varied group comes a greater need for institutional structures to make it work.

College today is certainly pre-professional, but its role is not principally pre-adulthood. In the current model, students need to feel as safe as they did back when everyone had a common experience and ideology.

The ongoing glorification of college as an experience of “growing up” is misguided and has its roots in a time when college was not as available to the larger population. Furthermore, in the past, some students likely felt alienated and unwelcome, even if they were not large enough in numbers to be heard by the student body at large.

Colleges should obviously not infantilize their students or censor unpopular viewpoints. But

colleges do need to be homes to their students.

For colleges to educate and challenge their students, those students first need to feel at home and to feel like they belong on campus.

The Christakis email was not wholly misguided, and she made many fair points. There is no question that some Yale students overreacted to it, but critics of the Yale students seem to ignore context. Christakis should certainly have a right to offer a dissenting opinion, but there is a difference between offering a view in a classroom environment and offering the same view over a blast email to residents of a residential college.

The Yale students were not wrong in their desire to feel at home on their campus.

That is not an unfair request. In fact, it is a necessary request for optimal learning to occur.

Tim Balk is a Medill sophomore. He can be contacted at timothybalk2018@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.

Problem with Republican establishment stalemate BOB HAYES

DAILY COLUMNIST

It perhaps seems odd for the overwhelming winner of a political vote to only receive a 35 percent share of voting support. Yet, that is exactly how Tuesday’s New Hampshire primary unfolded, with Donald Trump finishing with the Republican victory just eight days after Texas Sen. Ted Cruz won the Iowa Republican caucus with only 28 percent of the vote.

Beyond Trump’s win, the big story arising from the Republican vote is the secondplace finish by Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who gained 16 percent of voting support in New Hampshire. Following Kasich were Cruz and a handful of candidates, none of whom topped 12 percent. These low individual shares of votes are the products of the Republican race’s continued collective issue of overlapping candidates.

Though Iowa and New Hampshire often precede the vote of more Republican establishment states, the fact that Trump and Cruz have secured substantial shares of delegates – and continue to lead polls for future states – while the moderate-establishment candidates have split the vote in several ways is a problem for many Republicans who oppose a Trump or

Cruz candidacy.

More specifically, the trio of current or former governors consisting of Kasich, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie— who dropped out Tuesday after struggling in both Iowa and New Hampshire — have each cannibalized the collective voting bloc of centrist establishment voters. It is fair to add Florida Sen. Marco Rubio to the mix of candidates who have more establishment support than Trump or Cruz, though he falls further right on ideological score. Similarly, FiveThirtyEight’s “Republicans’ Five-Ring Circus” depicts Kasich, Christie and Bush as moderate-establishment candidates, while Rubio tends to draw voters further right, closer to Cruz’s voting bloc. Beyond nebulous ideological scores, that these four candidates have each received more endorsements from current politicians than either Cruz or Trump shows us where the party’s interests lie.

Though having a plethora of options is initially a nice problem to have among voters with centrist establishment ideologies, come voting time, the voting bloc’s split among the candidates causes less preferable options to ultimately gain a larger share of delegates. This is precisely the reason third-party candidates struggle to gain electoral success: Voters realize that selecting an independent candidate in favor of their preferred Democrat or Republican means their major-party candidate loses votes in favor of the voters’ least preferable

candidate. Ultimately, choosing between established alternatives leads to a more amicable outcome.

What this means now is the two governors (and Rubio) continue to collectively split the moderate-establishment vote, while Cruz and Trump take home more delegates from their unique voting blocks. If just one candidate represented the not-Trump-or-Cruz voting bloc, that candidate would begin to rack up delegates and make a push for the nomination.

Although Christie dropping out certainly helps, the continued presence of three candidates who represent similar voters causes the problem to persist. The longer the vote splits, the taller task it will be for an establishment candidate to win the Republican nomination.

FiveThirtyEight’s David Wasserman wrote on Tuesday, “The real delegate prizes are in March, which is do-or-die time. That’s why South Carolina and Nevada are the last best opportunity for anti-Trump/Cruz voters to coalesce… If South Carolina and Nevada don’t make up for New Hampshire’s failure to clarify the establishment field, the odds of a contested convention go up dramatically.”

When evaluating this split establishment problem, we must understand that its solution is not nearly as simple as calling out all but one candidate to drop out of the race. At this point, each of these candidates (save for Christie) has attained enough voting, donor and endorsement support to justify individually staying in

the race. While their decisions to pursue the nomination make sense at the individual level, the dilemma exists at the collective level of the establishment voting bloc. Interestingly, it is reasonable to assume that each of these establishment candidates would prefer any of the others to Trump or Cruz, yet the further they each push on, the more likely we are to see Trump or Cruz extend their current delegate leads and win the nomination.

At this point, it is essential for these establishment candidates to look past their individual incentives of winning the nomination and for all but one to drop out. Voters, too, understand this and consider abandoning hope for candidates who go on to struggle and choose to support a moderate-establishment candidate with more voting support.

Eventually, primaries concluding with Kasich leading the establishment pack with just 16 percent become a major problem. The longer the establishment stalemate lasts and consolidation is postponed, the more unlikely it becomes that the Republican establishment will see one of their own lead the party this fall.

Bob Hayes is a Weinberg junior. He can be reached at roberthayes2017@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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Liberals need to support free speech

Letter to the Editor

JOSEPH LAMPS

DAILY COLUMNIST

According to a 2013 survey, 51 percent of incoming Northwestern freshmen identified as either liberal or far left, while only 11.4 percent identified as conservative or far right.

It’s not surprising that NU students generally support the liberal principle of freedom from government trying to legislate morality.

However, polls show Democrats are more likely than Republicans to support censoring offensive speech, and this is problematic. Support for freedom of speech follows directly from the aforementioned liberal principle.

Because us liberals want to be accepting and avoid offending people, it is easy for us to support censoring offensive language. However, this is not the best way to counter hateful speech. Rather, we should respond to offensive ideas with rational rebuttals. If we are confident that we have rational arguments on our side, we should support allowing people to voice offensive opinions in order to show why those opinions are mistaken. Censorship suggests we have something to hide and that we may be wrong, but don’t want people to know.

Censorship is a method used by authoritarian regimes worldwide when regimes know free

Letter to the Editor

Response to Ettinger on sorority recruitment being a form of hazing

After reading a recent article in The Daily on hazing during sorority rush, I found myself unsurprised to hear that some people have a hard time during the process. That’s a well-known fact; however, I have never heard of the idea that this would qualify as “hazing.”

Picture a room filled with other people. You’re required to be there, but you aren’t sure exactly

speech would result in the people speaking out against the government. Freedom to express unpopular ideas is a key indicator of a free society. If liberals truly oppose the government legislating morality, Because censoring offensive lanus liberals guage should be seen want to be as contrary to liberal principles. accepting and It could be argued avoid offending that, even if most speech should be pro- people, it is easy tected, some hateful for us to support and harmful speech censoring should still be censored. This sounds offensive like a good position language. in theory, but when it comes to censorship there are very sharp boundaries which would be too easy to cross. For censorship laws aimed at protecting minorities to spill over into censoring criticism of ideas, such as religious or political beliefs, would be tragic for individual rights. This is easy to imagine happening; those with discretion over how to carry out even a cautious speech censorship law have personal biases and may be tempted to censor speech they happen to dislike.

Furthermore, enforcement of censorship laws would be almost impossible. Having the

government come after you for something you say or post online sounds like something out of a George Orwell novel. However, there is no other way to enforce hate speech laws.

It could be argued that holding free speech as an absolute right with no gray area is irrational.

However, support for the right to voice controversial and offensive opinions does not mean free speech is absolute. It should still be illegal to directly threaten somebody or directly harm them with falsehoods. Overall though, speech needs to be free insofar as it does not directly hurt an individual. Speech, even when offensive, is an inherently nonviolent act and therefore should not be limited by governments.

Furthermore, nobody is in a position to judge for an entire populace which opinions are worthy of being censored. Views considered by many to be very harmful are often espoused by large sections of the population. To ensure that no valid opinions are censored, and to avoid marginalizing views of sections of the public, it is necessary to refrain from censoring any opinion.

why. All of a sudden, a man walks on stage and starts asking people to stand up if they’re part of a group mentioned. “Rich,” “Poor,” “Mentally Ill,” “Addicts,” he applies labels to all sorts of people.

You start getting uncomfortable and emotionally conflicted. You don’t have to stand up, but you know if you don’t, people will judge you even more.

This activity is the Diversity and Inclusion ENU, which, yes, falls under NU’s definition of hazing, even though it was probably the most liked of any of the ENUs. NU sees hazing “defined as any … situation created, intentionally or unintentionally, whether presented as optional or required, to produce: mental, physical, or emotional discomfort; servitude; degradation;

embarrassment; harassment; or ridicule for the purpose of … affiliation with … in [an]… organization, regardless of an individual’s willingness to participate.”

What else falls under it. A sports team? An acapella group? If you mess up during an audition and feel like you embarrassed yourself, does that mean you were hazed? If SHAPE asks you to discuss your personal experiences with peer educating, if you get uncomfortable does that mean you were hazed?

Of course not. The University definition isn’t this wide so it can be applied to everything, it’s this wide so that any weird, awful offense not normally under the definition can be treated as such, and appropriately prosecuted. Calling everything

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Response to Mims’ Spectrum column, Phonathon experience

The students who work for Northwestern’s Phonathon program are some of the University’s most important ambassadors. By sharing their personal stories with alumni, they strengthen the ties between alumni and students and help alumni understand how their support for NU enables today’s students to pursue their passions and become the leaders of tomorrow.

Most Phonathon conversations are rewarding for both the student caller and the alumnus/ alumna. Unfortunately, students occasionally encounter someone who makes inexcusable and reprehensible remarks, as junior Cheron Z. Mims described in a column in The Daily Northwestern last week. We are deeply sorry that Cheron had to experience an alumnus’ disparaging remarks, and we commend her for having the courage to write about her experience with dignity and strength.

Student callers such as Cheron represent the very best of NU. We are thankful to Cheron and her fellow Phonathon callers for all their hard work on behalf of the University, and we offer our full support to each and every one of them.

Joseph Lamps is a Weinberg freshman. He can be reached at josephlamps2019@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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hazing simply delegitimizes actual cases of hazing that happen on this campus, and works against solving the problem, not for it.

I’m not writing this to be condescending, but people have to understand that the sisters that participate in rush put seemingly endless hours toward meeting new people and picking new members. They aren’t doing this to “haze,” they’re doing this to bring a new pledge class into their family. Much of the drama is based off of stereotypes of certain organizations, not the organizations themselves. In fact, at the end of the day, the only remaining complaint is the weather.

And I’m afraid that’s a little trickier to solve.

— Ben Connelly, McCormick sophomore

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HOMECOMING President Obama speaks to the International Association of Chiefs of Police in Chicago in October. On Wednesday, Obama addressed the Illinois General Assembly in Springfield, where he declared his presidential candidacy nine years ago.

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From page 1 assembly and his speech provided a framework for a “more productive and mature” political environment.

Gabel said she was pleased to hear him mention legislation she and Sen. Andy Manar (D-Bunker Hill) have proposed to register eligible citizens to vote when they apply for their driver’s license.

“He talked about voter participation, which I think is at the root of our democracy,” Gabel said.

Obama also reminisced on his time as a state senator in Springfield and the friendships he was able to make across party lines. He said in order for politicians today to succeed and make progress, they need to stop calling each other “idiots and fascists,” and be willing to compromise.

The consequences of having a government unable to compromise will soon hit Illinois public agencies, as the state will not have funds to provide certain services or renew grants as the budget stalemate continues. City manager Wally Bobkiewicz said the lack of budget causes uncertainty about how to provide services in

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that, he spent 35 years in the U.S. Army working his way up to lieutenant general before retiring in 2009 to become President Barack Obama’s ambassador to Afghanistan. Eikenberry is slated to become the Buffett Institute’s first executive director in September.

“I look forward to working collaboratively with the outstanding group of leaders, faculty, and fellows at the Institute and across the University — including those who are currently skeptical — to help increase opportunities for high quality research and studies across the academic disciplines,” Eikenberry wrote to The Daily in an email.

the future still without a budget.

“We have made the decision that we need to continue to serve the residents of Evanston,” Bobkiewicz told The Daily last month. “When we know whatever the final resolution is and what the impacts are we’ll deal with it and in the meantime … we’re just trying to keep things status quo while still doing things.”

Despite his negative experiences in trying to overcome the country’s political bipartisanship, Obama said he believes in America’s ability to cooperate, and said ability was the cause of his presidential successes, such as healthcare reform and bailing out the auto industry.

“Even as we change the way system works, we also have a responsibility to change the way that we, as elected officials and as citizens, work together,” Obama said. “This democracy only works when we get both right — when the system is fair, but also when we build a culture that is trying to make it work.”

Marissa Page contributed reporting. robinopsahl2018@u.northwestern.edu But Coronado and Stevens said Eikenberry, who comes from a non-academic and military background, wasn’t the right fit for directing a research institute.

“There’s this clubby network of people who are tied into the Northwestern board and to the military industrial complex who made a decision to appoint somebody who is not a scholar, and who has no experience running academic institutions to lead the premiere research institute of global studies at Northwestern,” Stevens told The Daily.

Bienen told The Daily in January he recommended Eikenberry for his unorthodox background after meeting him five years ago at a conference in New York. He said a diverse group of humanists, administrators and

that our industrial vacancy rate is lower than comparable areas.”

Ald. Donald Wilson (4th) said he was pleased with Evanston’s entrepreneurship participation as compared with other suburban areas as well. He cited Sunshine Enterprises’ business academy program, which discusses subjects such as small business owners in minority communities, as a good example of the diversity in economic initiatives in the city.

“Initiatives such as (Sunshine’s) have a nice impact on small businesses and start-ups in Evanston,” he said. “That is something we are definitely trying to focus on, helping people get off the ground at the grassroots level.”

Evanston’s economic growth is not likely to be severely impacted by the eventual solution to Illinois’

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From page 1 IFC fraternities — covering topics such as consent, sexual violence and bystander It’s a intervention — are not new, Ang said masculinity organizers are lookdialogue group ing at creating a focused on more formal protocol for presentation providing men to ensure consistency. a space to He added he is interested in working explore. to better engage older Paul Ang, fraternity members in CARE coordinator conversations about masculinity and violence after the first year of MARS training.

Clark said the second grant also allows CARE to focus on collaborating with other nonprofit organizations. On April 1, CARE will host a speaker from the Stalking Resource Center for a daylong training session to kick off Sexual Assault Awareness Month, she said.

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social scientists narrowed down a list of candidates to three, and then Schapiro and Linzer made the final decision.

Nevertheless, Stevens said the process did not include enough faculty input and ultimately failed at picking a suitable executive director. Stevens said she and Coronado met with Jay Walsh, the University’s vice president for research, Wednesday morning and had a “very productive” meeting, which she left feeling “heard and respected.”

Following the administration’s letter, however, Stevens and Coronado said the two messages seemed inconsistent.

“The recent letter by Schapiro and Linzer trots out the same platitudes that upset faculty,” Stevens said.

state budget stalemate, though it is difficult to gauge the exact impact the crisis has on the local economy, Nyden Leonard said. The state has been operating without a budget for eight months, threatening cuts in social services and other city services across Illinois.

Nyden Leonard said Evanston’s relatively small size reduces the impact of financial disturbances that are visible on regional levels.

Wilson said Evanston’s unique reputation for being economically progressive sets it apart from other suburban areas and creates optimism in entrepreneurs.

“We create a positive work environment and we are not focused on one model or format for businesses,” Wilson said. “We are open minded and willing to listen to anything anyone brings to the table.” elenasucharetza2018@u.northwestern.edu The expert will discuss stalking specifically in relation to college campuses, she added.

During Sexual Assault Awareness Month, CARE hopes to host an event that will involve local nonprofit organizations, allowing students to listen to outside perspectives from experts on different kinds of interpersonal violence, said Carrie Wachter, coordinator of sexual violence response services and advocacy at CARE. Wachter said CARE hopes to include something similar to a clothesline project — the decoration of t-shirts with messages related to violence — in the same space as the speaker event. CARE also hopes to host a t-shirt making day for NU students to write about their own stories or create messages of support for survivors of interpersonal violence, she said.

“Our hope is that we bring the community partners to campus, and that each of them has their own version of a clothesline,” Wachter said. “They would each bring things from their own clients, their own survivors that they have served.” peterkotecki2018@u.northwestern.edu “Putting this kind of spin on Eikenberry’s background is corrosive and misleading. …. These kinds of affiliations are being manipulated to convey an inaccurate characterization of Eikenberry’s qualifications.”

Schapiro and Linzer expressed no plans to open a new search process and called on faculty to draw their own conclusions based on direct interaction.

“It is to be expected that a range of opinions will be found across the faculty; it is also to be expected that members of our academic community will engage new colleagues and opportunities with open minds, and will reach conclusions based on their own, direct interactions,” they wrote in their letter. davidpkfishman@u.northwestern.edu

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Cats open 2016 slate with Lady Puerto Rico Classic

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Northwestern hasn’t played in any competitive tournaments since October, but the grind didn’t stop in the interim months for the No. 6 Wildcats.

The long layoff ends Sunday, as the reigning Big Ten champions return to the course in the Lady Puerto Rico Classic.

“I’m just excited to see us compete again,” coach Emily Fletcher said. “Obviously, we look forward to getting outside. It’s a great trip, this is a good group, and any time you can go to Puerto Rico in February that’s a good thing.”

The field in Puerto Rico is stacked with top competition, but NU is no stranger to the best teams in the country.

The Cats’ most recent tournament was the Stanford Intercollegiate, which featured three of the top four teams in the country. In Puerto Rico, NU will be up against No. 5 Georgia, No. 8 Arkansas and No. 9 Kent State along with six more top-30 teams.

The Cats, however, aren’t worried about the competition as much as they’re excited about returning to competition.

“Just being outside in the warm again I hope will be fun,” junior Kacie Komoto said. “Playing and competing again, I’m most excited for that.”

The field also features conference opponents Michigan, Indiana, Purdue and Maryland, which will help NU gauge its standing in the Big Ten hierarchy.

Last season, the Cats split the Big Ten championship with Ohio State, with then-freshman Sarah Cho winning the individual title. Now Cho is looking to follow up her impressive performances in the spring of last

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seconds later to restore the Cats’ 3-point edge.

Scaife missed her chance to respond but Rutgers guard Briyona Canty chased down the rebound and hit a 3-pointer falling back to again level the game with 11 seconds to play.

The down-to-the-wire finish proved fitting for a contest in which the two teams were almost inseparable throughout. The largest lead for either team was 6 points and the final box

year and the fall of this season with another good start.

“Starting well gives everyone, not just me, but as a team, confidence,” Cho said. “That translates into our individual play, so I think that’s important.”

In addition to its strong play to finish last season, NU opened the fall season with a string of impressive performances.

Along with their fourth-place finish at Stanford, the Cats won the Windy City Classic in Wilmette and took second at the Mason Rudolph Championship in Tennessee as well as at the Dick McGuire Invitational in New Mexico. Cho won the latter tournament as well, shooting 8-under par while sophomore teammate Hannah Kim, the reigning Big Ten Player of the Year, shot 6-under to tie for third place.

Given the team’s solid showings in its most recent matches, Fletcher’s overall outlook for the team in this tournament is a bit surprising.

“I think that we have high expectations, and we’re going to go grind it out,” Fletcher said. “I expect us to play well and play smart, but I also know that we haven’t competed in a couple months. I think we’ll be competitive, but I don’t put too much stock in what we’re doing as an end-all and be-all right now. It’s part of the process.”

Many teams claim to be looking at the schedule one step at a time, but NU is taking a different approach so far this year.

While Cho, Komoto, Kim and the rest of the team prepare for the trip to Puerto Rico, coach Fletcher is already looking way ahead.

“As I’ve told the girls and as we’ve talked about together, we’re looking to be our very best come Big Tens, Regionals and Nationals,” Fletcher said. “And if that means we’re going through a bit of a learning curve right now that’s okay.” josephwilkinson2019@u.northwestern.edu score reflected almost identical stats on both sides: Rutgers out-rebounded the Cats 41-38, turned the ball over 12 times to NU’s nine and matched the Cats 6-6 in steals and 24-24 in made field goals.

After dropping 106 points in a double-overtime loss to Minnesota on Sunday, the Cats took a step back offensively in the first half and trailed 27-24 – shooting just 30.3 percent — at the break.

The pace picked up as the game progressed and NU appeared poised to take control of the game midway through the fourth quarter before

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the Scarlet Knights rallied back.

Scaife scored 17 of her 24 points in the second half to lead the Scarlet Knights while Copper chipped in 20 points and eight boards. Only five players scored for each team.

Despite the loss, McKeown wasn’t dissatisfied with his team’s performance.

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the tough schedule hasn’t discouraged the team.

“We all have it in our minds and know that they’re the national champions, but we’ve been playing a tough schedule to start the season,” Larner said. “It’s another top opponent, a great opportunity for us and we’re going to have to work really hard.” robinsonmarkus2019@u.northwestern.edu

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The game was tied with 11 seconds left when Northwestern inbounded the ball to its leading scorer, Nia Coffey. The junior forward bodied up against a Rutgers defender, turned

toward the net and attempted to win the game with a layup.

Then the fair ytale ending unraveled.

Coffey’s shot was blocked by Scarlet Knights center Rachel Hollivay, leading to a fast break the other direction. Forward Kahleah Copper fed her teammate, Tyler Scaife. Scaife outran Ashley Deary and lofted in

the game-winning layup with 1.9 seconds left. Senior guard Maggie Lyon’s desperation half-court attempt ricocheted off the backboard.

And with that, the Wildcats (1411, 3-10 Big Ten) fell 61-59 in heartbreaking fashion to Rutgers (15-10, 6-7) on Wednesday night — their seventh loss in their last eight games. “(It was a) really bizarre finish,

really hard on our team,” coach Joe McKeown said. “I feel like we did everything to win the game. We just didn’t finish it.”

Coffey and Lyon each contributed 19 points but took a combined 40 shots to get there, failing to help NU’s poor shooting percentage of 36.9 percent. Junior guard Christen Inman added 11 points and freshman center

Pallas Kunaiyi-Akpanah pulled down a game-high nine rebounds.

The teams had entered the fourth quarter tied 44-44 and the end-toend final seconds concluded a wild minute of 3-pointers.

Scaife tied the game at 56-56 with 42 seconds left, but Lyon answered 13 » See LATE LOSS, page 11

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Scarlet Knights’ Cooper, Scaife too much for Wildcats

By COLE PAXTON

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With the game on the line, the combined play of Rutgers’ Kahleah Cooper and Tyler Scaife proved to be too much for the Wildcats.

Cooper gathered a loose ball with less than 10 seconds to play and passed ahead to Scaife, who hit the gamewinning layup and propelled Rutgers (15-10, 6-7 Big Ten) to a 61-59 win over Northwestern (14-11, 3-10) on Wednesday in Piscataway, New Jersey.

The layup brought the duo’s combined

point tally to 44.

“Everybody ran to the ball and Rutgers got a layup at the very end,” coach Joe McKeown said of the final moment.

In a game in which both teams struggled to shoot the ball, Cooper, a senior forward, and Scaife, a junior guard, were inefficient in their scoring. They shot a combined 17-of-39, accounting for more than 60 percent of the Scarlet Knights’ shots.

In crunch time, however, the pair shined. In just over a minute of play late in the fourth quarter, Cooper scored a layup and Scaife hit a 3-pointer to tie the score after the Cats had a 5-point lead.

In the final seconds, Cooper dribbled to half court and passed to Scaife, who beat NU junior guard Ashley Deary down the court for the winning points with 1.9 seconds to play.

“We certainly did everything … I felt we executed from the game plan standpoint,” McKeown said. “We just got to finish 40 minutes.”

Junior forward Nia Coffey and senior guard Maggie Lyon combined to score 38 points for the Cats. However, they largely disappeared in crunch time.

Though Lyon hit a 3-pointer in the final minute to temporarily put NU ahead, she and Coffey were otherwise held scoreless over the last 4 minutes.

Coffey missed three jumpers and had a layup blocked in that span.

Despite their offense inefficiency, Cooper and Scaife had an aboveaverage night based on their body of work this year. They surpassed their combined 33.9 points per game they averaged entering Wednesday, and both scored at least 20 points in a single game for just the second time all season.

The pair went a perfect 6-of-6 at the free throw line and added 10 rebounds.

Coffey and Lyon, meanwhile, were just 1-of-3 at the line and totaled thirteen boards.

The Cats will return to action

Sunday against Maryland, who boasts its own dynamic duo in junior guard Shatori Walker-Kimbrough and junior center Brionna Jones. The two combine for 34.5 points per contest for the Terrapins.

After struggling to stop one pair when it mattered most against the Scarlet Knights, McKeown said he expects his team to be ready to combat Maryland and its two stars.

“Every game in the Big Ten is a war,” he said. “They’re coming in having a great year. We’re at home; we’ll be ready to play.” colepaxton2019@u.northwestern.edu

Northwestern hosts defending national champs Vanderbilt

By ROBBIE MARKUS

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RETURN TO SENDER Alex Chatt readies for a return shot. The sophomore is looking to help Northwestern snap a three-game losing streak against Vanderbilt.

After a rough loss against UCLA last weekend, Northwestern is hoping to get back on track as it takes on Vanderbilt at home Sunday.

The Commodores will be the No. 25 Wildcats’ toughest opponent yet, as Vanderbilt is the defending national champion, and is currently ranked No. 5 in the nation. The last NU win against Vanderbilt was in early 2012, when the Cats took out the Commodores 5-2. No players on the current roster have been a part of a Vanderbilt win.

This year, Vanderbilt has shown the same talent that helped the team win it all last year. The Commodores are coming into Sunday red-hot off a dominant 4-0 rout of No. 7 Virginia.

On top of that, they had a commanding 4-0 win against No. 14 Duke, a team that beat NU 4-3 two weeks ago.

But the Commodores have

recently shown some weaknesses.

Their 14-match win streak was ended Saturday by No. 16 Ohio State, as the Buckeyes edged out Vanderbilt 4-3 in the ITA Indoor Championship quarterfinals.

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We’re going into our practices even more competitive and more hungry than normal.

Alex Chatt, sophomore

“They lost the Indoors to a Big Ten team. A ranking is a ranking, it doesn’t mean a whole lot at this point in the season,” coach Claire Pollard said. “We’re more focused on ourselves and what we need to do, and not really concerned about our opponent”.

Although Vanderbilt’s coming off a huge win, the Cats are attempting

to rebound from a 6-1 loss to No. 21 UCLA. Although NU has three straight losses, the players have shown they have the talent to compete, as the Cats started the season strong with two big wins over thenNo. 27 Arizona State and then-No. 15 Alabama.

Despite the losses, NU is aware of the importance of the Vanderbilt match. Sophomore Alex Chatt said it is vital to stay aggressive against a tough opponent.

“We’re going to go into our practices even more competitive and more hungry than normal,” Chatt said. “I hope we can lay it all out on the court, compete as hard as we can, and get better after this match.”

The Cats have yet to play an unranked opponent this season, and Vanderbilt, their fifth-straight ranked opponent, is certainly a huge obstacle.

But sophomore Erin Larner said » See WOMEN’S TENNIS, page 11