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Quarantined students discuss experiences with class accomodations By RALPH DESTIN

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After testing positive for COVID-19 the same day inperson learning resumed, Communication freshman Gavin Shaub said he spent the first week of classes learning mostly through lecture

notes and class assignments. W hile Wildcat Wellness allowed students who tested positive for COVID-19 to have an uninterrupted learning experience, that luxury is no longer an option for those quarantining at 1835 Hinman. With fewer virtual options available to him, Shaub said he had a difficult experience.

“There was no equivalent to keep up with my work,” Shaub said. “All my teachers were nice, but they didn’t really have many resources to do the work that I needed to catch up.” Many professors decided not to provide hybrid learning environments, despite the COVID-19 positivity rate rising the week the University

ended mandatory testing. Other students had less difficulty adjusting to quarantine. Bienen freshman Daniel Zitomer said going into quarantine was not as bad as he expected, because it gave him a break from the stress of his midterm exams. While Zitomer reported

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When councilmembers Ald. Clare Kelly (1st), Ald. Jonathan Nieuwsma (4th), Ald. Bobby Burns (5th) and Ald. Devon Reid (8th) were elected to the dais for the first time last April, they promised increased affordability, environmental sustainability, equity and transparency. Since their 2021 appointments, Evanston’s new councilmembers have proposed a series of referrals, or agenda items, to advance towards those goals: Devon Reid (8th) Reid ran for the council to prioritize transparency and accountability in Evanston. Since his election, Reid has proposed 36 referrals, the most of any councilmember seated last year. Four of his referrals have been adopted, including the implementation of free weekend beach passes for Evanston residents. The city will provide free admission to city beaches for Evanston residents every day

during the 2022 season. Reid’s measure eliminated beach tokens, which required beachgoers to pay for access to Evanston beaches, altogether. Beach tokens are the result of historical discrimination along Evanston’s lakefront. Nieuwsma amended Reid’s measure to restrict free-beach access to Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays. Reid also proposed a successful redistricting measure to redraw ward boundary lines, which the city has not updated since the 2000 Census. He volunteered to serve on a committee to develop a new redistricting strategy and process. He proposed two more successful referrals: one to permit food trucks on the lakefront and another to review committee chairs. Since he was elected, Reid has proposed six referrals that were ultimately rejected by the council. Three of them addressed City Council procedural processes. The council has not yet voted on the rest of Reid’s referrals. Three have been discussed, but there has been no vote. Councilmembers debated instituting a lakefront fee, ending the distribution of the daily crime bulletin and decriminalizing drugs.

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The Week Ahead: SASA Show takes the stage at Cahn Feb. 6-13 events Show highlights NU’s South Asian dance, a cappella comedy groups What’s coming up in the city of Evanston this week By AVANI KALRA

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Here are some ways to celebrate Black Histor y Month and avoid the outdoors this week in Evanston as the weather remains below freezing. Winter Wonderland Feb. 1 - Feb. 28, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Evanston Made is hosting an art-making and community-building event at Canal Shores Golf Course all of February. The group is working to turn the golf course into an outdoor gallery of art installations. Celebrate Black History Month at Evanston Public Library Feb. 1 to March 1

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Here’s a list of programs this week at Evanston Public Library to celebrate Black Histor y Month. Events include “Make your Own Cartoon Glass Painting” and “Make Your Own BasquiatInspired Crown.” Seek & Find — Black History Themed Scavenger Hunt Feb. 1 to 28 The Main and Crown Branch libraries will be hosting an indoor mini scavenger hunt all month dedicated to Black history in Evanston. Keynote Speaker: Ayanna Legros Feb. 7, 6:30 p.m. Ayanna Legros is a historian of 20th Century Caribbean and Latin American history. She is studying oral histories, radio show transcripts, cassette tapes and songs to tell the story of

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The South Asian Students Alliance hosted its annual show featuring South Asian dance, a cappella and comedy acts Saturday at Cahn Auditorium. SASA Co-President and Weinberg junior Simrun Varshney said the show offers South Asian students at Northwestern the opportunity to come together to celebrate shared culture. “Being able to have my culture represented on campus and have events where I know there are other people who understand my culture and understand me is really cool,” Varshney said. “It feels comforting.” The annual production was virtual last year due to COVID19, so Varshney said she was especially excited to see performers on stage together again. A variety of groups came to perform, including Brown Sugar a cappella, NU Bhangra, NU Raas, NU Deeva and NU Ahana Dance Project. Audience members had the opportunity to nominate friends for awards such as “most spirited” or “cutest couple” by

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The junior class dance at the South Asian Students Alliance Show.

donating to SASA’s fundraiser for Pratham, a nonprofit organization based in India that provides children with affordable education. Weinberg junior Richa Shah is co-captain of NU Bhangra, which performs traditional Punjabi dance at competitions nationwide. She said the SASA show was an exciting opportunity for performers to showcase their talents. “We individually compete, especially the dance teams, but we never really get to see each other dance, or we never get to

really support one another’s performance as much, just because we don’t have a central meeting place,” Shah said. “It’s really just exciting to see what the other teams are putting out and what their year has been looking like.” McCormick freshman Sahaana Rajesh said finding a community of fellow South Asian students to share and celebrate her culture with was enjoyable as it allowed her to express different parts of her identity. Doing theater throughout

high school, Rajesh said joining Bhangra was a way for her to maintain her hobbies despite them not being her major. “I loved dancing and performing, and I especially loved that it was Indian style dancing. Coming from a fairly white town, I didn’t have many Indian friends, so it’s been really great to be part of SASA and get more involved in Indian culture,” Rajesh said. Rajesh said performing as

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D65 program centers Spanish language development By ISABELLE BUTERA

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Evanston/Skokie School District 65’s TwoWay Immersion program has enriched the bilingual education of native Spanish and English speakers. The program places English as a second language students in a bilingual classroom rather than an isolated class. It has helped native Spanish speakers grow fluency in Spanish as well as English for more than 20 years, according to the district’s Bilingual and ESL Program Director Amy Correa. Correa is a native Spanish speaker and Cuban refugee. She said it’s important for students to retain their home language because it is an essential part of cultural identity. “This program is for the Spanish-speaking community,” Correa said. “It is based around them.” About half the students in the program’s classes are native Spanish-speakers, who are automatically placed into the program according to Correa. The other half are native English speakers, admitted through a lottery system. According to a 2020 study, native Spanishspeaking students enrolled in two-way immersion programs generally reached English proficiency faster than students in programs that did not support native-language use, leading to higher GPAs in fifth grade. “The goal of the TWI program is for students to develop strong literacy skills and language proficiency in both English and Spanish, in order for

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them to become bilingual, biliterate and bicultural,” according to D65’s website. Instruction in these programs are a mix of Spanish and English. In kindergarten and first grade, 80% of the day is taught in Spanish, including science, math and literacy classes. By fourth grade, instruction time is evenly split between English and Spanish. The program is offered K-5 at Dawes, Dewey, Oakton, Washington, and Willard schools. The Dr. Bessie Rhodes School of Global Studies only offers it from K-3 but is expanding the program. District 65’s curriculum employs visuals, publicly available at no cost. The masks are highly effective due to their tight fit and high particle filtration rate. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has updated its guidelines on masking Jan. 14, suggesting that N95 and KN95 masks provide the “highest level of protection.” The city will be providing KN95s on a firstcome, first-served basis on Tuesday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Residents can pick up their free masks

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multimedia and a focus on speaking skills to teach bilingualism through other class subjects. Correa explained the program focuses on making explicit comparisons between the structures of English and Spanish, specifically through teaching common Latin roots. A year and a half of virtual instruction created difficulties for the program. According to Charlise Berkel, the bilingual content facilitator for District 65, some students are only exposed to Spanish instruction in the classroom “The level of interaction that could take place at the following locations: — Levy Senior Center, 300 Dodge Ave. — Evanston Public Library, 1703 Orrington Ave. — Evanston Police Department, 1454 Elmwood Ave. Evanston will host additional mask distribution events in the future as supply permits.

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in e-learning was not quite as interactive and engaging, conversational-wise and discussionwise, as being in a live classroom,” Berkel said. The immersion program is part of a large effort at District 65 to promote equity and inclusion. Instructors use a culturally responsive approach, meaning that TWI teachers come from diverse backgrounds and literacy classes use picture books from Latin American writers, not just translated English materials and the teaching staff. Correa said that Spanish-speaking students benefit from being in a classroom with nativeEnglish speakers, rather than an isolated ESL class. “There’s this sense of others having to look to them as the knowledgeable other,” Correa said. In non-immersion classes, ESL students are still working to improve their English, whereas in Spanish immersion classes, peers turn to ESL students as role-models and teachers. To Correa, this is an essential social-emotional element of the program. Berkel said the Two-Way Immersion program also allows students to progress in English without losing their native language or cultural identity. “You’re educating the whole child with bilingualism as a norm, not something that is from a deficit perspective, that has to be fixed because you are not up to the level of a monolingual English speaker,” Berkel said. “It affirms their identity and provides ways of sustaining and growing that identity as a bilingual.” isabellebutera2025@u.northwestern.edu The federal government began initial distribution last week for N95 respirator masks. Residents can pick up three free N95 masks at some health centers and pharmacies like CVS and Walgreens. There are currently eight Walgreens pharmacies in Chicago providing free N95s. Select CVS, Target and Meijer locations will also have these respirator masks available. — Angeli Mittal

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How ASG exec advocates for legislation By EMMA ROSEUNBAUM

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Ever since her freshman year as a senator, Weinberg senior Margot Bartol said she has been wondering if Northwestern’s administration cares about the legislation Associated Student Government passes. While ASG passes several pieces of legislation every quarter, the administration often does not implement these policies. However, Bartol still said legislation is important. “I’ve actually realized it’s given a lot of weight and that they do genuinely believe ASG is the voice of students,” Bartol said. Once the Senate passes legislation, the ASG executive office meets with the appropriate administration about taking action. They have regular meetings with Vice President for Student Affairs Julie Payne-Kirchmeier and Provost Kathleen Hagerty and typically meet with the administrator whose job best fits the legislation. In addition to Bartol, ASG’s executive office includes President Christian Wade, Vice President Adaeze Ogbonna, Executive Officer of Justice and Inclusion Karina Karbo-Wright and Chief of Staff Donovan Cusick. “They’re extremely honest and receptive,” Cusick said. “They want to hear what we have to say and they want to work with students. At the end of the day, they want to make the University a better place for students.” Since the start of Winter Quarter, the Senate approved legislation calling for the reinstatement of the Credit/No Credit grading policy as well as mandatory virtual class alternatives and weekly testing. The executive office met with Hagerty about the Credit/No Credit policy, who ultimately rejected it. The administration implemented the policy last year because students were navigating different learning environments, many not on campus, according to Bartol. With most students on campus this year, Bartol said the

administration doesn’t see Credit/No Credit as an appropriate response. The Provost’s Office also told the executive office it cannot require faculty to provide virtual options, which Bartol attributed to the administration wanting to give faculty flexibility on running their classes. Bartol said the administration is only strongly encouraging professors to do so. The administration not having the power to enforce change is only one roadblock to passing legislation, Bartol said. She said bringing legislation to life can be much more complex than it initially seems. For example, when one member of the executive board brought up eliminating the mandatory unlimited meal plan for freshmen, they discovered the change needed to be approved by the Board of Trustees. “I now retroactively look back on stuff and I think, ‘Wow, that would be really freaking hard to do,’” Bartol said. “Does that mean that it’s not worth it? No. But I do think we as students don’t always have a lens into that.” Bartol added most of ASG’s successful legislation starts with committee work, goes through the Senate and then through the executive board. She said the expansion of genderopen housing is an example of the executive office working with administration to make legislation happen. Rainbow Alliance’s external president Jo Scaletty is working with administration on legislation passed last February to relocate the Gender and Sexuality Resource Center from the third floor of Norris University Center to a house on Sheridan Road. Scaletty authored the legislation when they were the Rainbow Alliance senator. Now the Quest+ senator, Scaletty said they and the current Rainbow Alliance senator will meet with Payne-Kirchmeier, the director of Campus Inclusion and Community, and the director of Multicultural Student Affairs in March to discuss a temporary location for the GSRC. Once the Donald P. Jacobs Center is renovated, offices occupying houses on Sheridan

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Road will be moved there, making room for the GSRC. Scaletty said Rainbow wants to ensure formal queer spaces are more prominent on campus. However, they said they’re not sure if the project will be done any time soon. “This honestly seems to be a project that Rainbow is working on and fighting for for future Northwestern students,” Scaletty said. While the administration is unable to implement all legislation, Bartol said it still serves as a reflection of what students want to see from the University. She added this is the reason it’s important that senators are effectively communicating with constituents and getting feedback. “(Legislation) isn’t always most effective when it comes to really creating action,” Bartol said. “And part of the work that happens there is just figuring out how to logistically make things possible … But I think the Senate acts as a powerful tool of cohesion in that way because it’s treated as the voice of the student body.” emmarosenbaum2024@u.northwestern.edu

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Bhardwaj: The Royal family, a celebration of colonialism DIVYA BHARDWAJ

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On Feb. 6, Queen Elizabeth II will celebrate her Platinum Jubilee, commemorating seven decades spent on the throne. According to Buckingham Palace, the anniversary of her accession date marks her “70 years of service to the people of the United Kingdom, the Realms and the Commonwealth.” To me, the milestone underscores the bizarre disconnect between a world hoping to abolish racism, elitism, colonialism and an outdated monarchy dragging society into the past. While there may be a level of service Queen Elizabeth provides for UK citizens that I, as an American, do not recognize personally, I find it difficult to quantify the “service” the Royal Family provides people of the Commonwealth. Before all else, the mere concept of a Commonwealth is a disgraceful relic of imperialism. Why should countries who resisted for decades before

finally managing to break free from oppressive Younger royals, particularly former working British rule still be in any way associated with the royals Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, the United Kingdom? Duchess of Sussex (Communication ‘03), have The Royal Family will emphasize how wonattempted to prove the Royal Family’s social derful they are for paying visits to formerly and historical awareness by highlighting their colonized countries commitment to humanitarianism and to Comand hosting extravagant events for people monwealth nations. In of Commonwealth fact, they have remained nations, but they will involved with the never acknowledge Queen’s Commonwealth The atrocities of the British the role the monTrust even after their Empire are not as distant as the archy has played in move to California. Royal Family’s public relations slavery, colonization However, I find their and numerous other efforts hollow at best team would like us to believe. human rights violaand patronizing at worst. tions. The atrocities of Harry and Meghan have DIVYA BHARDWAJ, virtually zero expertise the British Empire are not as distant as the Assistant Opinion Editor on climate change, Royal Family’s public COVID-19 vaccines, the relations team would influence of social media like us to believe. Even today, there are ongoing or any other topics they are fond of speaking border disputes caused by their oppressive rule, about — they only get a platform due to their jewels, artwork and cultural artifacts they have prior roles in the British Royal Family. We commoners are supposed to listen to them lecture yet to return and blood money that forms their on topics they know little more than a layperson livelihoods.

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about simply due to the family they were born or married into, just as we are supposed to listen to the Queen, Prince Charles, Prince William and the rest of the royals. While Harry and Meghan have gone to great lengths to distance themselves from the Royal Family, the role they hope to occupy today is painfully similar to the role they left behind as working royals — just another iteration of the elite preaching to everyday citizens. Ahead of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, it’s clear that there is no way for royal family members — current and former — to truly separate themselves from the racist and elitist institution that supports them all, unless they choose to face their history head-on instead of turning a blind eye. For their sake, I hope they can. Divya Bhardwaj is a Medill freshman. She can be contacted at divyabhardwaj2025@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.

Li: The United States has lost its sense of community GRANT LI

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Last week, Republican Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson made comments about government assistance for childcare costs, saying, “I’ve never really felt it was society’s responsibility to take care of other people’s children.” What is immediately clear is Johnson’s hypocrisy when it comes to his supposedly pro-life politics, as with many of his colleagues in the Republican Party. Beyond that, Johnson’s comments are emblematic of an attitude that celebrates a lack of commitment to others. Nobody desires, or even feels obligated, to help anyone else. It sometimes seems as if the prevailing ethos of American civil society is how much you can maximize being a jerk until you toe the line of illegality. We can trace much of this to the triumph of neoliberalism, or free-market capitalism, in the final decades of the 20th century. Ronald Reagan’s election brought about the era where every success was self-made, and every failure was self-wrought. It was a distinct turn from the final calls of an earlier political era that did not worship the economy, as embodied in the Great Society programs set by Lyndon B. Johnson.

By emphasizing individual responsibility within the context of free-market radicalism, neoliberalism hacked away at the sense and systems that helped connect us as citizens to each other. It ate away at the notion that we as citizens had in some way a shared fate and turned America into a gladiator arena where you are glorified if you become a millionaire, no matter how many people you bulldoze along the way. Perhaps it might have been the case before, but after neoliberalism, there was no question that the primary indicator of America’s success was the status of its most well-off, its GDP and the welfare of its largest corporations rather than the wellbeing of its poorest. Rather than America, the country, we became America, the market. Through this lens, we can interpret Johnson’s reluctance to provide economic assistance to parents as a manifestation of America’s still strong neoliberal attitude. On a deeper level, though, there simply is nothing to compel people like Johnson to have any commitments at all. From the nature of America’s constitution, we have oriented our politics toward rights. These rights enshrine the concept of negative liberty, which simply prevents the state (or other people) from doing certain things to you. There are no obligations to anyone else with negative liberty, and people are free to wield these rights in any way they want, even to the detriment of others. In effect, rights operate to clear a space

of all moral claims, commitments and obligations to again create an arena where people can behave however they want. Because of this, we get people against vaccine mandates and masks. They could be right in some respects. Vaccine mandates might actually violate some concept of rights. There are some simple and quick rebuttals, such as the fact that vaccine mandates to attend school have been around for decades, and those complaining about masks probably weren’t complaining about other dress codes before the pandemic. But we should go further than that. We should think about what it means to be part of a community. To be part of a community means having some sort of commitment to others. You should be willing to help, and even potentially make, sacrifices for others in your community. What would it entail for us as citizens to think of America as primarily a community over all else? What are our commitments and obligations to our fellow citizens? Rather than individual economic aggrandizement and the arbitrary maximal exercise of rights, we might want to actually care about others. In the midst of a pandemic, that could involve wearing a mask and getting your recommended vaccinations. The combination of neoliberalism and the fetishization of rights has atrophied our sense of commitment and obligation to others in our community, or politeia, that is America. It is deeply discouraging, to say the least, to see that

the most urgent concern of many people seems to be that their mask is uncomfortable when over 893,000 people have died in this pandemic. This isn’t to say that rights, freedom and negative liberty are bad. They’re entirely compatible with a sense of community that cares about others. Nevertheless, to forge a real community forces us to think beyond just rights. That is to say, rights shouldn’t be the limit to how we define our politics and society. How, then, should we approach the issue of providing assistance to parents for childcare costs if we are to think of ourselves as members of a community? As citizens of our American community, we should help out parents who might need it. It is our commitment to do so. We all — as parents, children and members of the same community — share an intertwined fate. We all have a stake in the wellbeing of our community. To live life free of commitments is to live outside the community. Community demands of us obligations and responsibilities, but it also yields many fulfillments and rewards. Grant Li is a Weinberg junior. They can be contacted at grantli2022@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.

Ortiz: In the U.S., the gentry profit off of the working class STERLING ORTIZ

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This article is the first part of a two-part series regarding the role of the aristocracy in modern American life. Throughout my life, I’ve seen wealth beyond imagination around me. When I was a toddler in New York City, I attended daycare at the Fed Kids Child Care Center, whose location also hosts the New York branch of the FBI and other government programs. In my 12 years in South Florida, while my household rose the ranks of American wealth, I always felt inferior to my peers because I lived in a one-story house while my friends lived in oceanside mansions or exclusive country clubs. While I do not know many wealthy students personally at Northwestern, I know based on viral stories and public percentages of students paying full tuition, elite children roam the same grounds I do. I feel my experience rubbing shoulders with wealth makes me qualified, in some small part, to dissect a very particular kind of American wealth. I write this article inspired by historian Patrick Wyman’s article “American Gentry” in

The Atlantic, and as such, I will use the term “American gentry.” Wyman defines the American gentry as those who make vast amounts of profit from their ownership of land and assets and utilize this private ownership for their gains. Rare examples like the Lakefill notwithstanding (where the University literally created valuable land), the land is a fundamentally scarce resource and land ownership comes at a premium in all countries. Examples of this gentry class include restaurant owners, homeowners and people who own agricultural property. Because of the broad definition of the American gentry, there are infinite examples here. In contrast to the professional working class, the American gentry gains wealth by accumulating their assets. For example, as people immigrate to South Florida, homeowners and condo owners gain wealth because the demand for housing increases while the supply of existing land stays the same. In the same vein, using a restaurant as an example, as more people want to live in South Florida, the gentry gets rich from owning the land and the booming businesses that become more attractive under an urbanizing world. I find the now-public role of the American gentry in college football fascinating via the name, image and likeness legislation passed in July 2021. Immediately, we saw car dealerships and restaurants jump at the chance to sponsor these athletes, such as Oklahoma quarterback

Spencer Rattler with Fowler Automotive Group and Wright’s Barbecue in Northwest Arkansas funding Arkansas offensive linemen. Before summer 2021, these gentry businesses still made these deals to benefit their favorite college football team, just under the table, as the college football journalist Steven Godfrey reported in his “bag men” article and videos. The gentry have an outsized influence in these NIL deals because of their desire to exert power in their region. Yes, in my time in South Florida, I met many working-class rich people, doctors and lawyers especially. And they are rich because of their labor. I believe there are some fundamental differences between this kind of wealth and the gentry because the gentry do not work for their paychecks. Whether the land is owned by private individuals or by the government, in some cases, is simply a question about who is lucky. There are a lot of clear adverse outcomes that come from a powerful gentry in place of a powerful state or civic government. In the next installment of this series, I will delve deeper into these effects and what can be done to counteract them. Sterling Ortiz is a SESP fourth-year. You can contact him at sterlingortiz2022@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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part of NU Bhangra was rewarding but the opportunity for each class of students to perform their own class dance offered creative freedom and expression for her and fellow first-year students. The class dances, some accompanied with videos like the senior farewell montage for seniors, offered students the opportunity to meet new members from their class beyond their own groups. Rajesh added that the celebrational, comedic and light-hearted feeling of the night felt amazing for both performers and audience members alike. Some attendees brought signs to support their friends on stage, while others brought flowers and gifts to give after the show. Weinberg freshman Katie Sandhu said seeing her friends perform was a highlight of the night, but she also enjoyed learning about new groups through their performances. “It’s fun seeing everyone come out with their friends and come out to support,” Sandhu said. “I’m not used to having such a warm celebration of South Asian and Indian culture, so it’s really nice to have.”

the Hatian people’s political vision for the nation in her dissertation, “Echoes in Exile: Hatian Radio Activism in New York City (1969-2002).”

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Clare Kelly (1st) Kelly campaigned on affordable housing, ending wasteful tax spending and negotiating a more fair tax contribution from Northwestern. She promised to focus on community-focused growth and making Evanston more affordable for middle class residents. Since her appointment, she has made eight referrals, four of which were adopted. Kelly’s first successful referral proposed a separate fund to account for the receipt and disbursement of American Rescue Plan Act funding, a onetime COVID-19 stimulus. Kelly also halted city property tax levy increases in a successful referral for 2022 and allowed dogs at outdoor restaurant patios. She proposed creating a subcommittee of the Planning and Development Committee to look into rental properties’ zoning, codes and standards. She said her referral for an accessory dwelling unit moratorium would stop landlords from buying up single-family homes, though the measure was rejected. Still, the Planning and Development subcommittee intends to find solutions to affordable housing issues facing Evanston renters. Kelly’s most recent referral would create a Payment in Lieu of Taxes program Task Force which will examine the relationship between the city and tax-exempt institutions — namely Northwestern.

Black History 24/7/365: Black Women of American History Feb. 8, 12 p.m. The Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre will broadcast a profile of a Black woman who impacted America each Tuesday at noon for the month of February. You can watch each episode at fjtheatre.com. Mental Health is Essential — Seasonal Affective Disorder Feb. 8, 7 to 8 p.m. The Naomi Ruth Cohen Institute for Mental Health Education at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology will host Tracy Levine, a licensed clinical social worker, to discuss community mental health. Levine Some think NU doesn’t pay enough to the city because the University ranks among the richest universities, yet ranks low when it comes to financial contributions to its host city. The task force would reevaluate how institutions like the University can compensate local governments for some or all of the property tax revenue lost because the University and other institutions have high tax exemptions. The referral about the task force has not been scheduled, but Kelly said she wants to see it brought to the council by the end of February. Jonathan Nieuwsma (4th) Nieuwsma’s campaign for 4th Ward alderman was centered on equity and social justice, environment and sustainability, and economic development and engagement. Since his election in May, Nieuwsma has referred one proposal to the council. He aimed to improve lighting under the Davis Street Metra station and generally update the appearance of Metra stations in Downtown Evanston. Nieuwsma proposed the use of ARPA funds to fund these improvements and sought further staff recommendations on how to beautify Evanston’s downtown. There has not been any action on the measure. Bobby Burns (5th) During his campaign, Burns promised to address the effects of redlining on 5th Ward, diversify community voices in decision making processes and advocate for a more equitable delivery of public

will discuss Seasonal Affective Disorder, the impact of COVID-19 and self-care strategies and resources. A Conversation with Dr. Ava Thompson Greenwell, Director of Mandela in Chicago Feb. 10, 7 to 8 p.m. Medill Prof. Ava Thompson Greenwell will discuss her documentary “Mandela in Chicago.” The documentary chronicles Nelson Mandela’s trip to Chicago in 1993 one year before he was elected president of South Africa. Terra Femme (2021) live documentaryperformance with Courtney Stephens Feb. 11, 7 p.m. The Block Museum is screening a live documentary-performance hybrid, Terra Femme, which documents the history of female travel filmmakers from the 1920s to 1950s. It draws on archival materials to investigate the relationship between gender and genre. avanikalra2025@u.northwestern.edu services like COVID-19 testing. Of the 16 referrals Burns has made, two were adopted, four failed and 10 have yet to be discussed by the council. In August, Burns successfully proposed to keep Ingraham Park a public space in the 5th Ward. The action followed residents’ concerns about the impact of the city’s Tax Increment Financing district on the park. Burns’s other adopted referral consolidated the Plan Commission and Zoning Board of Appeals into a new Land Use Commission. Of the 10 referrals awaiting discussion, three address housing issues in Evanston. Burns proposed creating an anti-displacement and anti-gentrification subcommittee, a fund for emergency situations including eviction and an evictions notification policy change. The council’s anti-displacement and anti-gentrification “Here-to-stay” subcommittee would identify immediate actions that can be taken to reduce the involuntary displacement of longtime residents. Burns also proposed an evictions notification policy change that would require landlords to notify the Health and Human Services Department about an eviction 30 days in advance. The victims fund referral will create a fund to pay for emergency hotel rooms and other relevant expenses for those in emergency. Neither of these referrals are scheduled, but Burns briefly discussed them in an Oct. 4 Human Services Committee meeting. avanikalra2025@u.northwestern.edu, shannontyler2025@u.northwestern.edu

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being symptomatic, the opportunity to quarantine allowed him to sleep more and receive extensions from his professors for most of his assignments and midterms. “Honestly, I needed a break,” Zitomer said. “The fact that I got COVID during midterm week is terrible and also super lovely because it means that I get four or five days where everything gets pushed back.” Zitomer said his professors were responsive to and understanding of his emails, which he said isn’t always the case with some professors. However, the downside to being in quarantine for the Bienen percussionist is that he’ll have to miss several important musical performances. “(The gigs) were extra performances that I’m unfortunately missing within the next week depending on when I get out, ” Zitomer said. Communication freshman Talya Braverman said learning options across her classes were inconsistent, with only a few professors offering an integrated in-person and remote learning environment. “It was a little rough for a few classes because there wouldn’t be a Zoom option,” Braverman said. “(Professors) would just either record it and say watch it later or there was just no recording at all.” Braverman said despite the inconsistency of virtual learning options across her classes, professors were still accommodating and were responsive to her concerns about being absent. Shaub, however, said while his professors were understanding of his situation, the lack of recorded lectures or hybrid learning while in quarantine made it difficult to keep up with new content. “For (my economics class), all I could do was look at the notes after,” he said. “Now I’m in my midterm week and I don’t feel like I’ve learned as much as I should have.” Shaub said doing work while in quarantine was difficult because he couldn’t break up his school work with socialization. Similarly, Braverman said she found it difficult to be motivated and focused on her work, especially because students in Hinman are advised to stay in their rooms and not travel to other floors. “Something I realized that was really important to me was just getting up and walking to different classes,” Braverman said. “Being in the same room, you just get very lethargic. I was just at this stagnant position. ralphdestin2025@u.northwestern.edu

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Northwestern (4-4, 2-4 Big Ten) won its first Big Ten home match of the season against Maryland (5-11, 0-7 Big Ten) Sunday. The Cats won all but two of their eight matches against the Terrapins, triumphing 29-7. The Wildcats will compete against Michigan State on opponent turf Friday.

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After a four-game losing streak and a 2-5 record in their last seven contests, the pieces finally clicked back into place in Northwestern’s 80-67 win against Purdue yesterday. Just about everything the team was missing in the past seven games came back in full force in the Wildcats’ victory. NU held the Boilermakers under 70 points. They forced 16 turnovers and hauled in 11 steals (six of them coming from senior star and Big Ten steals leader Veronica Burton). With the Cats holding the lead for most of the game, things felt right again for Coach Joe McKeown’s team. “We did a really good job of attacking the basket and getting to the foul line,” McKeown said. “That was one of our goals going into this game. And having Veronica Burton — she’s such a great playmaker. She just gets people the ball at the right places.” Burton contributed 26 points and six rebounds to her steals total. It was her first 20-point contest since the team’s big upset against Iowa on Jan. 6. “She’s an incredible leader,” said McKeown. “She

just makes everybody better every day in practice. And you know, when your best player is your hardest worker — that’s what we were dealing with.” Three other pieces — Lauryn Satterwhite, Laya Hartman and Caileigh Walsh — put up doubledigit points (11, 13, and 11, respectively), which was the first time the team has done that since Dec. 17, 2021 against Temple. This time, the Wildcats put up a season-high 80 points. It has been a tough stretch dating back to midDecember. The team had more than two weeks of games and practices shut down because of COVID-19, and after knocking off Iowa, the Wildcats have had several postponements and other scheduling changes. This game was supposed to be played on Thursday, but weather had delayed it one day. And now, with one less day to prepare, NU travels to University Park on Sunday to play Penn State. Despite these schedule changes, Friday’s performance showed no signs of fatigue or feebleness. “We’ve been playing well,” McKeown said. “We’ve been practicing well. We’ve just lost a lot of games. We just haven’t played a lot, so it’s hard to get momentum.” Angeli Mittal/The Daily Northwestern

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Cats’ shooting sinks Nebraska Pickens, Forman lead By LAWRENCE PRICE

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Northwestern’s offense had a gruesome first half on Saturday against No. 24 Illinois. In a defensive battle, neither team reached the 25-point mark by the break. But a week later, the Cats (11-10, 4-8 Big Ten) embraced the saying “strike while the iron is hot” against Nebraska (6-17, 0-12 Big Ten) — yet this time, the “iron” never cooled off. Behind junior guard Boo Buie’s 16, the team dropped 30 more points than last weekend by halftime, scoring 49. Alongside NU’s bench — which tallied 24 of the team’s 49 — the largest factor was its three-point success. “That gave us the separation,” coach Chris Collins said. “Anytime you can hit double figure threes in a half, and couple it with some pretty good defense, we had that 20-point lead there, and it was just really important.” The Cats were on fire from deep in the first half against Rutgers on Tuesday, knocking down six of 13 threes. However, the team took it to another level in the first half against the Cornhuskers, going 10 for 23 from three, two threes shy of its season high in a

game. This dominance carried NU to a 22-point lead by the half, as Nebraska couldn’t find the same success in the category, shooting 4 for 11. This three-point shooting served as a driving force for the entire offense overall. While Nebraska held the lead 10-8 early on in the contest, sophomore Ty Berry proceeded to knock down back-to-back threes, returning the momentum to the Cats’ side. Following Berry’s first make, the team went on a 15-3 run, extended their lead to 13 and forced the Cornhuskers to call a timeout. “In the first half in particular, I sensed that their defense was really packed in and we made the right plays,” Collins said. “We hit so many shots early and we were able to stop them from making a big run.” It didn’t take much time for the team to pass its season high in threes, as Buie continued to make it rain from deep. He hit two more in the first minute of the second half and led the team with six to go along with his season high of 27 points. Although the Cats went silent from deep after redshirt junior Chase Audige’s three-pointer with 15:24 to go, getting nothing to fall from behind the arc for the rest of the game, it extended the team’s lead to 24.

Even with the large lead, NU is no stranger to the big cushion, nor making room for the other team on the couch after letting up a 24-point lead to Rutgers last game. This time, though, the Wildcats closed the door completely, producing on the offensive end and maintaining its lead for the rest until the buzzer, winning the matchup by 24, 87-63 — the program’s largest Big Ten road win since 2009. NU’s 13-three performance is a hard task to recreate, but it does provide insight to a trick or a skill the team has up their sleeve. The Wildcats set their previous season-high of threes in a game against Penn State exactly a month ago with 12, so it’s possible this type of electric deep shooting at a high clip may just be a once-a-month occasion. However, after knocking down 10 versus Rutgers and now 13 against Nebraska, this could become a new normal for the Cats’. “The thing I was really proud of was we hit 10 threes in the first half,” Collins said. “We really don’t have that one guy every night that we lean on like some of the teams do to get 20 to 25, it can be a different guy each night.” lawrenceprice2024@u.northwestern. edu

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NU to three victories By NATHAN ANSELL

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If a handful of shots had landed differently, Northwestern men’s tennis might have had a very different weekend. The Wildcats (8-2, 0-0 Big Ten) faced three opponents in a three-day stretch of matches, two of which came down to the wire. Strong doubles play proved vital on Friday and Sunday. “(Our) guys have worked really hard and been dedicated over the last few weeks, trying to improve doubles,” coach Arvid Swan said. “Good to see the hard work paying off.” Doubles against Princeton (2-3, 0-0 Ivy League) was decided by slight margins. Senior Trice Pickens and junior Natan Spear claimed a 6-2 set at No. 3, but a loss at No. 1 put the spotlight on freshman Felix Nordby and senior Steven Forman. The duo coolly handled the final game, taking the set 6-4 for the match’s first overall point. “I’m so proud of them for their (doubles) effort,” Swan said. “It was critical.” In singles, No. 104 senior Simen Bratholm notched a two-set victory against No. 26 Karl Poling to double the Cats’ advantage. The 2019 Ivy League Rookie of the Year was the highest-ranked singles foe that Bratholm had defeated in a dual. Forman played a perfect tiebreak to give NU a 3-0 lead. After the Tigers got on the board at No. 4, Pickens, ranked No. 92 in the country, executed a stylish return to put the match beyond reach. The Tigers won two more singles contests to finalize a 4-3 scoreline. “Simen served great, played super aggressively,” Swan said. “Building on the results he had at Arizona State, that was a big win for us and gave us momentum early in the match.” Doubles against Duke (3-2, 0-0 ACC) was similarly even. Bratholm and graduate student Brian Berdusco defeated No. 39 duo Andrew Zhang and Michael Heller, their first dual win together. Nordby and Forman were bested, but Pickens and Spear secured another tiebreak for another important doubles point. The Blue Devils and Cats both took early singles points — Duke’s Connor Krug leveled the score by

defeating sophomore Presley Thieneman, but NU retaliated with Pickens’ convincing 6-4, 6-1 win over No. 38 Faris Khan. Berdusco then earned his first singles win in purple, controlling a tiebreak and second set for a 7-6 (7-1), 6-1 triumph. Throughout the showdown, one chair umpire was moving between Berdusco’s court and a neighboring one. “It was hard to stay calm when I thought there were some tight calls on the other side. Luckily, in the tiebreaker, the umpire went up in the chair,” Berdusco said. “Then I was able to focus on my game and not worry about what was happening on the other side.” Duke, however, had a 5-2 third set lead on all three remaining courts. Nordby allowed some impactful breaks and Bratholm’s late surge wasn’t enough. The Cats turned to Forman to save the day against No. 76 Garrett Johns. Forman saved multiple match points to set up a thrilling climax, prevailing in yet another tiebreak for a 6-7 (0-7), 6-1, 7-6 result. “It’s just unbelievable,” Forman said. “It’s always great to make it worth it, not have those great performances like Trice and Brian go to waste.” Later that evening, Swan’s squad welcomed Illinois-Chicago (1-5, 0-0 Horizon League) to Evanston. NU extinguished the Flames in doubles, riding a 6-0 from Forman and Nordby and a 6-1 from Bratholm and Berdusco. Singles was just as lopsided. All six Cats had big leads — Forman and Pickens clinched the match at No. 1 and No. 2, but Berdusco’s dominance on the far-left court was the cherry on top to the tune of a 6-0, 6-0 victory. “When I wasn’t playing, I couldn’t do anything except for keep practicing hard,” Berdusco said. “I got a chance today, and I was able to play well and execute.” Next up for NU: a road trip to face Oregon (3-1, 0-0 Pac-12) and Notre Dame (4-1). The Cats won’t play again in Evanston until March. NU has their work cut out for them ahead of the flight to Eugene, Ore. “Every match is a little different,” Forman said. “You can’t take too much from individual matches with different conditions and different players.” nathanansell2022@u.northwestern.edu