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Holmes praised Simmons’ preparedness. “She is always professional,” the statement reads. “She has educated herself on the issues. She knows and understands the Ward and its residents. She is easy to engage with, open to partnering with others and is inclusive, effective, informed and willing to work with everyone.” Holmes told The Daily that she was impressed with Simmons’ regular attendance at ward and council meetings, as well as her work with Sunshine
State Sen. Daniel Biss (D-Evanston) announced legislation Thursday that would create a public matching system for campaign donations. The bill would create a publicly-funded matching program for small campaign donations in the state, but would not limit candidates from forgoing the program and sticking with the traditional system. Candidates who choose to participate in the small-donor matching program would be required to limit the size of individual contributions. Biss said at a news conference that the bill would encourage candidates to refocus their political efforts on “ordinary people.” “Our political system is one where power is concentrated in the hands of a very small number of people,” he said. “We want to elevate the voices of ordinary people whose role in politics has been nearly silenced for too long.” The program would match donations from $25 to $150 at a 6:1 ratio, Biss said, and would limit individual contributions to $500. Candidates for governor would be able to receive a maximum amount of $5 million. The limit is $1 million for attorney general candidates. Candidates for the state senate would have a limit of $300,000, and those running for state representative would be limited to half that. The legislation is based off a similar system in New York City. Biss said candidates, while not forced into accepting the publicly-matched funds, would be encouraged to do so. The smalldonor matching system was “the people’s way” to campaign, Biss said. “Candidates are scared not to opt into the matching system,” he said. “This creates pressure on people without taking away anybody’s constitutional right to do things the old way.” According to information
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(Right) Students, faculty, staff and Evanston residents gather in front of the Technological Institute to protest President Donald Trump’s executive order barring citizens of certain Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S. (Top left) Evanston Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl addresses protesters, urging them to continue to resist Trump’s executive order. (Bottom left) Organizers from the Iranian Students Association speak at the protest on how the executive order affects Northwestern students.
City officials, students protest against travel ban By JONAH DYLAN and CATHERINE KIM the daily northwestern @thejonahdylan, @ck_525
More than 200 Northwestern community members and Evanston residents, including Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl, protested Thursday on campus as part of a nationwide movement against recent immigration actions by President Donald Trump, which temporarily barred citizens of
seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States. The event, organized by Academics United and co-sponsored by 21 student organizations, was held in response to the executive order, which barred citizens of Yemen, Sudan, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Libya and Somalia from entering country for 90 days, prevented refugees from entering for 120 days, and Syrian refugees indefinitely. On Thursday, a federal appeals court ruled Trump’s travel
ban will remain blocked. In addition to marching and protesting on campus, organizers presented a list of demands to the Northwestern administration urging more support for students affected by the executive order. Amir Maghsoodi, a thirdyear applied physics graduate student who holds both Iranian and American citizenship, helped organize the protest. He told The Daily the goal of the event was to show that the community is
united in support of affected students. “We don’t stand for injustice,” he said. “We don’t stand for racism, discrimination. We know what our ideals are. We know what our values are as Americans, as Northwestern students.” The protest started at The Rock, where protesters repeated chats such as, “No hate. No fear. Immigrants are welcome here.” After several students and faculty addressed the crowd, decrying
the executive order, organizers led a march up Sheridan Road to the front of Technological Institute. At Tech, a series of speakers, including Tisdahl, four of the five current Evanston mayoral candidates and Ed Yohnka, American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois director of communications and public policy, addressed the crowd. “It’s so critical as a beginning » See PROTEST, page 6
Cilento, Vinson look back Holmes endorses By JONAH DYLAN
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Associated Student Government President Christina Cilento and executive vice president Macs Vinson always wanted to connect with a wide range of students on campus. But the beginning of their term proved divisive, Vinson said. “Christina and Macs as a concept is scandalous,” said Vinson, a McCormick senior. “We started this campaign by literally saying, ‘We are centering this campaign on marginalized students.’ We decided that this is what our focus is going to be.” Shortly after Cilento and
Vinson were sworn in, ASG’s election commission ruled they had obtained information on the voting margin before polls had closed and failed to disclose the information to the election commission and their opponents. Senate voted to punish the two soon afterward, adding extra challenges for the beginning of their term, Cilento said. Economics Prof. Mark Witte, ASG’s adviser, said before Cilento and Vinson could move forward, they had to win over students supporting Joji Syed and Archit Baskaran, who ran against Cilento and Vinson. Witte said many students who had supported the losing ticket felt betrayed by the election process. “They worked for something for
years, and then on the decisive day something crappy comes along and messes it up,” Witte said. But Cilento said the duo was up to the challenge and made sure they didn’t let the extra hurdles interfere with their agenda of raising marginalized voices. She said she felt they have accomplished a “decent amount” and had accepted the idea that they had to work harder to gain back some students’ trust. After a variety of initiatives, from working with administrators to increase the number of low-income students on campus in the future to advocating for responsible investment decisions from the Board of Trustees, the » See ASG, page 6
Simmons in race By KRISTINA KARISCH
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Ald. Delores Holmes (5th) announced her endorsement of Robin Rue Simmons, a candidate for 5th Ward alderman, on Thursday. Holmes, who is not running for reelection, said she decided to endorse Simmons after listening to all five candidates for the position present their policy ideas in a series of forums over the past few weeks. In a statement addressed to residents of the 5th Ward,
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Candidates talk relationship with state By BILLY KOBIN
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Evanston’s mayoral and city clerk candidates discussed town-gown relations and how to work with state and federal officials in the future at a forum Thursday evening. The forum, held at Haven Middle School, 2417 Prairie Ave., and attended by about 75 people, was hosted by the Central Street Neighbors Association. Two mayoral candidates, Ald. Mark Tendam (6th) and Steve Hagerty, did not attend the forum. The mayoral candidates in attendance — Ald. Brian Miller (9th), Gary Gaspard and Jeff Smith (Weinberg ’77) — said the mayor must work well with aldermen in helping set policies and find solutions to problems. Miller said although the city has a “weak mayor” system in which most of the power goes to City Council and the city manager, the mayor still has veto power and
influence in setting agendas. Smith said he would look into introducing legislation as mayor. He pointed to his experience on various local boards as proof of his ability to work with different groups to bring about change. In terms of the city’s relationship with Northwestern, the three mayoral candidates at the forum said they do not want to go back to the days when high tensions characterized the relationship. However, Smith said the city must exercise its authority when needed in dealing with the University. “Evanston would not be what it is without Northwestern University, but we can’t be a pushover either,” Smith said. Miller said the city could focus on utilizing more of the University’s resources to solve city problems. He pointed to Northwestern’s Transportation Center as a resource to use in addressing the city’s traffic problems, and Miller said The Family Institute at Northwestern could help provide counseling to youth in the city who
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Ald. Brian Miller (9th) speaks at a forum for mayoral candidates Thursday evening. The three candidates in attendance discussed how to work with state and federal officials and town-gown relations in the future at a forum Thursday evening.
are prone to violent behavior. Gaspard said he told University President Morton Schapiro that his good relationship with Tisdahl would continue with Gaspard as mayor. “(Northwestern) gives us a good name, and we have to find a way to work with them,” Gaspard said. City clerk candidate Devon Reid said he wants the city clerk position to become more active in shaping policy and clearing up the local election process. Reid said he would also encourage high turnout in local elections and would create a legislative tracker so citizens can more easily follow legislation going through City Council. “I believe that when residents have the information necessary to keep their officials accountable, we here in Evanston can fight injustices (and) fight for police accountability,” Reid said. Incumbent City Clerk Rodney Greene said the position is not responsible for pushing policy but is supposed to provide information and services to citizens. Greene said he has helped citizens during his time in office and would work to clear up local election guidelines in the future. “I have been there for you,” Greene said. “I’ve given you what you needed when you need it and how you need it.” Regarding Evanston’s connection with state and federal politics, Gaspard said creating positive relationships with state lawmakers is key, adding he wants to talk not only with Democrats but with Republican lawmakers as well. Miller said Evanston needs to stand up for what it believes in, even if the Trump administration attempts to intimidate Evanston. “We fight for our values,” he said. “As mayor, I will fight any efforts to intrude on those values.” The mayoral primary is Feb. 28, with early voting set to begin on Feb. 13. If no candidate earns over 51 percent of the vote, a general election will be held on April 4. The election for the city clerk race will also be held on April 4.
POLICE BLOTTER 2 cell phones stolen in south Evanston A package was stolen from a home in southwest Evanston on Tuesday, police said. A 21-year-old woman reported a package from her phone insurance company was missing, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said. The woman said the package went missing between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Feb. 7. It contained two iPhone 7s, Dugan said. Each phone is valued at $600.
Jewelry, coins stolen from apartment
An Evanston woman reported a home invasion in south Evanston on Wednesday, police said. The 56-year-old woman said she left her home on the morning of Feb. 8 and returned home in the evening to find her apartment in the 100 block of Ridge Avenue in disarray, Dugan said. The woman said she had locked her apartment doors, but there were no signs of forced entry, he said. An unknown amount of jewelry and coins were taken. — Sophie Mann
Setting the record straight An article published in Monday’s paper titled “Jeff Smith runs for mayor on progressive platform” misquoted mayoral candidate Jeff Smith. He said a place with “intellectual capital” like Evanston should exert leadership on the political landscape. The Daily regrets the error.
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ON CAMPUS Sheil panelists discuss faith, policing Police detective, others talk role of Christianity in combatting racism By ERICA SNOW
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People of faith have a responsibility to speak out against discrimination and police brutality, panel members said at Sheil Catholic Center on Thursday. Aireale Rodgers, the diversity and inclusion program director at The Graduate School, said the informal panel was supposed to facilitate dialogue about people’s experiences with police in a safe space. Throughout the panel, attendees asked questions of the five-person panel, which included an Evanston Police detective, professors, alumni and religious community members. Rodgers asked panelists to create a sixword story about their interactions with police officers and then asked how Christians should support those around them. Evanston Police detective Loyce Spells, who was one of the panelists, said he initially had concerns about joining the police force because he never had positive interactions with police growing up in the West Side of Chicago. Spells said he felt a religious conviction to become an officer, but he had to reconcile with his negative perception of police. He said his six-word story, “First the target — now the solution,” outlined his feelings now. “There (was) no way that I would be called to such a profession not knowing that it was the best thing ever for me,” Spells said. “Every time that we turn on our television and we see another (police killing), it is knocking the scab off of healing wounds from yesterday, and I am blessed with the opportunity to be a part of that solution today.” Others on the panel said combatting racism means assessing privileges and asking what
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Evanston Police detective Loyce Spells speaks about Black Lives Matter at a panel on Thursday. Spells said Christians must combat racism and care for fellow people.
the individual can do with them. Nancy Bedford, a theologian at GarrettEvangelical Theological Seminary, said Christians should be concerned for the “flourishing” of humanity. “We each have gifts, graces and sometimes privilege,” Bedford said. “So can those things be used, even things that are negative, such as white privilege? … How can white bodies be put to work for justice?” Defying stereotypes can also defy racism, panelist Jonathan Little said. Little works with restorative justice projects through the
Precious Blood Ministry of Reconciliation to talk with at-risk youth. Little said he doesn’t watch television news because the negative coverage of Chicago crime paints a violent narrative. “Every African-American with dreads are not the same,” Little said. “One of my main goals is to put out there in the media that it’s not all negativity where you come from in our community. There are a lot of positive things, people that are trying to work together.” ericasnow2019@u.northwestern.edu
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FRATERNITY INVESTIGATIONS
After reports, NU must take action CARA LEWIS
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It is extremely upsetting for me to write about my experiences with sexual violence and suicide, especially because I know others who share these stories can be deeply upset by reading about them. In the light of recent news, however, I feel obligated to share my story. When I was 14 years old, my first boyfriend took my virginity without my permission. I woke up in the middle of this experience, in a strange house, on New Year’s Day, with nobody to stop him or to help me. I stayed silent. In the following few months, my mental health took an unsurprising but publicly unexplained downward spiral. I ended up trying to kill myself and voluntarily undergoing a stay in a mental hospital, followed by mandatory outpatient therapy. I never told anyone what had happened to me and never sought support specifically for the rape until many years later. My first tattoo was a semicolon on the inside of my left wrist. It’s part of the Semicolon Project, a suicide-awareness movement that poses the metaphor of life as a sentence. A semicolon marks a point at which the author could have ended the sentence but instead decided to keep going. The idea is that you are the author and the sentence is your life. It took me until I was 18 to share my experience in detail with a sexual partner, my boyfriend at the time. He told me that most men his age hadn’t thought deeply about the significant influence an incident of rape can have
on one’s psyche long term. It did not change how I felt about him, and I did appreciate that he changed and learned from exposure to me and my experiences, but it did not make me feel more patient with the apathy apparent in so many people’s reactions to hearing or seeing either news of rapes and assaults or, worse, the acts themselves. After seeing the news of these latest alleged assaults committed on our campus, what do we do now? I have seen people calling for Sigma Alpha Epsilon to be banned from campus. I agree that they must be banned, but I do not think banning one fraternity will solve the problem. I have seen people calling for more training for new fraternity pledges. Yes, they must be better trained, but I do not think this goes far enough either. The question we must truly face is this: How do we stop the repeated assaults that burgeon in organizations like SAE? The University has to stand up for what is right and actually do something productive. The Greek chapters under the umbrella of the Interfraternity Council are granted official power and privilege in the form of physical space via housing on our campus (regardless of whether their national organization owns the property), financial and social support both through Northwestern and outside sources, as well as the legitimacy conferred upon them through their interactions with the University, despite their well-known circumventing of campus alcohol policies. Their violations — in both alcohol infractions and sexual violence — go repeatedly unor minimally punished with no lasting changes effected on the organizations or the culture of
their chapters, and I only anticipate that the University will continue to dangerously underreact to the threats posed by fraternities here. What if NU were no longer a dry campus, and parties had more oversight? What if we banned all IFC member organizations from campus? Though we individually play our respective roles in shaping Northwestern’s culture, the administration alone has the power to address the ongoing systemic problems and must do better than mere trainings and empty words. My second tattoo says “hasta que el aire se me acabe,” which means “until the air leaves me.” When I got it, I was hoping it would mean that I would keep fighting against the silence, pain and violence of sexual trauma until I die. The more these things go unpunished and the longer their social context goes unchanged, the more it feels like my tattoo actually means that I will keep seeing this same kind of horrific story happen to others. To the administration, I say: Please prove me wrong. I beg you to do what is needed to protect students, not just the bare minimum of what is necessary to save the University’s reputation as these despicable acts are amplified by the national spotlight. Transgressions against campus safety cannot be ignored any longer; we cannot continue to be silent. Cara Lewis is a Weinberg junior. She can be contacted at caralewis2018@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.
Injustices demand thoughtful change GIDEON GOLDBERG
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In response to the recent reported events alleged at Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, many have joined together to demand that Interfraternity Council be eliminated on our campus. However, these fraternities are more entrenched than students might imagine. If we are truly interested in securing students’ safety, we should focus our challenge on Northwestern policies that allow such unsupervised autonomy in IFC spaces. The news of alleged sexual assaults and possible distribution of a date rape drug at SAE and another unnamed fraternity is jarring. Even though the University is requiring IFC chapters to get live-in house directors when they renew their on-campus house leases, the vast majority of fraternities currently remain unsupervised. And when groups of men are entitled to live together in on-campus housing but have little to no monitoring, we can expect these incidents to continue. Stressing accountability and threatening to remove the culpable Greek organizations is a shallow fix; when one fraternity is removed from campus, another will come to fill the void. In the face of such injustices, compounded by the problems of classism and sexism in the IFC and Panhellenic Association communities, it is compelling to advocate burning the whole thing to ground. As someone who is not in Greek life, I have many friends who hope to pull the Greek
institutions out by their roots. Aaron Boxerman reflected on whether IFC should have a place at NU in an October op-ed; while this is a great theoretical exercise, IFC’s deep-seated involvement and powerful alumni networks likely prevent its removal from NU. In the meantime, we should move our efforts to addressing the administration’s unsafe policies. NU’s most direct involvement in Greek life regulation is through IFC, a group of students within the Greek system that develops standards and policies. The council toes a thin line to permit the fraternities to put on parties, while ensuring they can plead ignorance in the case that anything goes wrong. This careful ignorance has gone on too long, with too many students suffering the consequences. On many a Friday or Saturday night, the fraternity quad is packed with people standing in lines outside of frat houses or walking in circles to avoid attracting attention. Generally speaking, each house has alcohol, unless the party has been registered with IFC (and even in this case, pre-games are saturated with alcohol). But removing these communities, and the parties they host, merely pushes them to off-campus nooks where supervision is harder, and University regulation is non-existent. This would-be solution only introduces more problems. Instead, we must push the University to introduce greater supervision at Greek parties, similar to the supervision we have in any standard on-campus dorm. IFC fraternities are likely to continue to hold their parties in their
homes on campus because they won’t be shut down for sound complaints, they have large space and can avoid having to deal with the Evanston Police Department. The live-in house director policy has yet to be implemented across the fraternity quad. It should be. Further, the University should consider adding a program like one at Cornell University requiring Greek parties to admit well-trained members of a student group against sexual assault to monitor parties. Programs like these combat the dangers that emerge when unsupervised students drink together in fraternities. As we protest injustices inherent to IFC and stand with the victims of sexual assault, I challenge the student body to be expressive in our anger but thoughtful in our politics. When the only way we challenge IFC is by calling for it to be eliminated, we overlook the infeasibility of this goal and the consequences of removing these institutions from our campus. Instead, we should focus on pressuring the University to establish policy, such as mandatory supervision in fraternity houses, that will communicate the message that the administration will not tolerate these injustices. Gideon Goldberg is a Weinberg senior. He can be contacted at GideonGoldberg2017@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.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Interfraternity Council misses mark with social probation
Disclaimer: I write this letter as president of an Interfraternity Council chapter. I do not speak for anyone other than myself. IFC’s recent response, highlighted in a Feb. 8 article from The Daily, to allegations of sexual assault within two fraternity houses is troubling. To me, as a so-called leader within the community (I am the currently President of Lambda Chi Alpha and voted against the probation), the response is particularly troubling. To suggest that a cessation of parties will solve the greater cultural issues is naive, and fails to acknowledge the greater problem at hand. When we cast an umbrella punishment, prohibiting something trivial like a mixer or bar night, we fail to acknowledge the broader culture that helps attribute to the development of damaged, violent and dangerous men. We fail to view each chapter individually, sorting the bad apples from the good. This punishment does nothing to change the men already damaged from a culture promoting violent masculinity. If a man is immersed in a fraternity that promotes a culture of toxic masculinity, and as a result of that culture acts violently toward women, he’s not going to stop his actions and way of thinking just because he can’t go to a mixer. IFC is just deflecting the problem onto someone else. We are not helping anyone. We are putting others in danger. IFC, this solution does not help. Plain and simple. We have the opportunity to make real cultural change –– instead, IFC has decided to slap itself on the wrist, in a move that several IFC exec board members described as a symbolic gesture in Tuesday’s biweekly meeting between the exec board and the IFC chapter presidents. Now is not the time for symbolism. Now is the time for substance. So, let’s look at the substance of this so-called social probation. The social probation applies to all parties and mixers and all future events involving third parties, unless those events have already been planned. If this is truly a community-wide issue that can be helped by ceasing to hold social events with alcohol, IFC should have zero tolerance for any and all events, currently planned or otherwise. IFC seems not to care about events that have already been planned, so clearly, the parties and bar nights must not be that big of a deal. This hole in the policy seems like either a glaring acknowledgment of this policy’s inefficacy, or an indication that the policy’s aim is to inoculate individual organizations from direct punishment. Instead of sanctioning specific organizations, IFC has taken the responsibility upon itself as a whole community. In doing so, IFC has inoculated organizations within our council. By sharing the blame among 18 organizations, no single organization can be held culpable. This policy sets the dangerous precedent that a fraternity will never be held liable for their actions, because the community can always take the fall. This is not the IFC I joined. This is not the IFC that inspired me to become a leader in my chapter. Signed, Josh Livingston President, Lambda Chi Alpha
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District 202 candidates focus on education equity
Current board members, challengers discuss achievement gap among students ahead of April election By RYAN WANGMAN
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Candidates for the four open spots on the Evanston Township High School/District 202 board affirmed their commitment to promoting equity in education, a much-discussed topic in the district community. Several of the candidates said they wanted to continue on initiatives the board is already acting on. Three current board members are running for reelection: Anne Sills, Gretchen Livingston and Pat Savage-Williams, the current board president. Three challengers have also joined the race: Patricia Maunsell, Jude Laude, and Russell Kohnken. For years, the school board has said it has been working to bridge the achievement gap among students. In the 2011-12 school year, the previous board removed advanced level tracks from freshman humanities and biology classes in favor of mixed level classes that reproduce a “rigorous instruction” regardless of students’ test scores. Savage-Williams said, in making that decision, the board wanted to make sure that all students have the same opportunities to succeed. “Equity for ETHS is everything,” SavageWilliams said. “Everything we do, we look at the impact of equity on the students.” Through his eight years of experience as a high school counselor at Chicago Public Schools’ North Lawndale College Prep, Jude Laude said he has worked with similar demographics of students who tend to face more challenges in Evanston. At North Lawndale, Laude said, there is a focus on restorative justice, which emphasizes changing students’ behavior over traditional punitive discipline. He said students feel they’re stakeholders in the institution, and they benefit from a safe and peaceful community. “(You’re able to) more personalize the experience for all students, especially for those that need better outcomes,” Laude said. The board’s pursuit of equity comes at a time
where the ETHS student population is at its highest in 30 years. Additionally, the percentage of Hispanic and Latino students and the percentage of Asian students are also at all-time highs, according to a statement released on the school’s website. However, Russell Kohnken, a former teacher at ETHS, said the board should take more steps to prepare students to perform well in the classroom. Though he said he supported the board’s current goal of improving early childhood
literacy, he said there was no simple way to solve the equity problem. “At this point in time, there’s no magic bullet,” Kohnken said. “If there was, we would’ve solved this problem long ago.” To address the equity problem, some candidates called for increased collaboration between District 202 and the community. Patricia Maunsell, current chair of the McGaw YMCA board of directors, said it is important for the school board to be transparent
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There are four open spots on the Evanston Township High School/District 202 board in its April election. Several of the candidates said they wanted to continue some initiatives of the current board.
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and to engage in dialogue with all members of the school community. She said although communication isn’t necessarily lacking at ETHS, staying attuned to student concerns and being intentional about improving that dialogue is critical. “You need to build a culture of two-way communication,” Maunsell said. “Everyone needs to be involved in the effort to support to improve schools and to support students.” In 2014, officials brought Cradle to Career to Evanston, a long-term education initiative geared at achieving more equitable outcomes for families, with a focus on community literacy. The initiative is backed by partnerships from both District 202 and District 65, and Gretchen Livingston was on the ETHS board that approved that partnership. Livingston said although there have been successes in raising the program’s profile in the community, the Cradle to Career collective impact effort is a long-term project, and it will take many years to achieve the goal. The board has identified goals highlighting “equitable and excellent education” along with fiscal responsibility and community engagement. Livingston said the board’s focus should be in furthering its already-established goals. “All of those things are important in completely different ways,” Livingston said. “The number one focus of the district and the school board needs to remain on the students.” Sills, who was appointed to the board in 2015 to fill an empty spot after Bill Geiger’s resignation, emphasized the capacity in Evanston to “change the predictability of failure” at ETHS. The culture of “loving a child for who they are” and supporting them from pre-kindergarten to 12th grade is a result of the combined capacity of the community, she said. “As a board member, a member of the leadership team at the high school, we all play our parts in individual matters within that (community),” Sills said. Election Day for the District 202 school board candidates is on April 4.
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point to engage people, to help them understand what the facts are and to help them understand what’s at stake,” Yohnka said. Ald. Mark Tendam (6th), Gary Gaspard, Steve Hagerty and Jeff Smith were present at the demonstration. Ruth Martin Curry, one of the organizers and a sixth-year comparative literature graduate student, told The Daily that the event was necessary because the travel ban restricted academic freedom, which should be protected by the institution. By barring students’ mobility, the government is threatening their freedom to education and free thought, she said. “This is us standing up as academics and members of the academic community to stand with our colleagues directly affected by the ban but also to stand for the core values of higher education,” she said. Amanda Kleintop, president of the Graduate Leadership and Advocacy Council, which cosponsored the event, directed a list of demands at NU administration, urging more accessible legal assistance. Kleintop said the University should hold town hall meetings and create programs to raise awareness about challenges that have arisen for students affected by the executive order. “These procedures should be transparent, consistent and designed in collaboration with affected students like the Iranian Students Association,” she said. The Iranian Students Association, which is mostly made up of Iranian graduate students, was one of the groups co-sponsoring the protest. Along with a message to the University, the speakers also urged students to help their peers who are affected by the order. Tisdahl said Evanston was one of only a handful of “welcoming cities” — a city that prohibits law enforcement from asking about immigration status — in the state, along with Chicago and Oak Park. Though Trump signed an executive order pulling federal funding for sanctuary cities, Tisdahl said the best way to combat Trump’s actions was to get more
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2017 cities to adopt the status. She specifically asked NU students to urge their hometowns to adopt “welcoming city” ordinances. “I need your help because you come from all over the country,” she said. “Get on the phone tonight, call your parents, call your great aunt Sally, call your aunts and uncles and ask them to promote ‘welcoming city’ ordinances in their communities. Because we can be safe from Donald Trump pulling our funds if cities all across the nation do this.” Yohnka also said it was important for students to continue their willingness to engage and be empathetic. Though he said he is confident the executive order will be permanently struck down, students need to engage in the issue and look out for what will come next, he said. Tisdahl said Evanston would not give up, no matter Trump’s actions. “I pledge to you, that if everything fails and Trump pulls the funds, the Evanston City Council will stand strong,” Tisdahl said. Trump wrote on his Twitter account Monday that the executive order is intended to secure the U.S. from potential terrorists. “The threat from radical Islamic terrorism is very real, just look at what is happening in Europe and the Middle-East. Courts must act fast!”Trump wrote on Twitter. No citizens of any of the countries targeted in the executive order have committed a deadly terrorist attack in the United States. Ultimately, it is crucial to stay united in times like this, said Ald. Mark Tendam (6th), a mayoral candidate. Though he said the Trump administration may try to fracture the population with “successful tactics used by Hitler or Mussolini,” it is crucial to learn from history and stick together, he said. “We said never again after the Second World War,” Tendam told The Daily. “This is it. This is the time to prove that never again. This is 1933. I’m sorry it’s scary, but I have the ultimate faith in our people that they will choose right over wrong.” jonahdylan2020@u.northwestern.edu catherinekim2020@u.northwestern.edu “(The current system) has shifted the attention of politicians unduly to the interests of the wealthiest individuals in our society,” Melton said during the news conference. “Those are the people they have to keep the most happy because those are the people that gave them the money to run for office and to stay in office.” Alexis Vega, a student at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, said during the news conference a small-donor matching program would increase student involvement in politics. “Students who donate a small amount of money will have more of influence in the political process,” she said. “(It’s) a new avenue for political participation for those on the lowest end of the spectrum.” norashelly2019@u.northwestern.edu
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From page 1 pair feel they have accomplished a lot of that goal. Witte said he agreed that Cilento and Vinson have succeeded in amplifying marginalized voices on campus. The pair tried to make events and groups across campus more affordable, so that all students can receive a similar college experience, he said. “They ran on trying to stay in touch with the parts of the student body that don’t always get heard from, and I think they’ve stayed very true to that,” Witte said. Since taking office, Cilento said she feels the pair has also successfully reacted to issues and concerns on campus and in the country, supporting students who were most impacted. Among them is the distribution of free menstrual products after an ASG survey showed a high demand among students, and the distribution of free bike helmets after the death of first-year student Chuyuan Qiu, who was killed in a bike accident on Sept. 22. As their term nears its end, Cilento said she and Vinson are still pushing for more transparency between senators and their constituents. Cilento said the pair is planning to launch a webpage in March that would allow students to see how their ASG
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From page 1 Enterprises, an organization that provides training in business management and development to local entrepreneurs. She added that Simmons had come to her for advice when she first announced her run. Simmons views Holmes’ endorsement as the most important one she will get during her campaign. “She has served in this capacity so well for so many years,” Simmons said. “To get her approval to build on all the great work that she’s done meant a lot.” Simmons added that if elected, she will continue to look to Holmes as a resource and adviser, leaning on her many years of experience as an alderman. Her focus as alderman would be to increase jobs and small business support in the ward, Simmons said, as well as redistributing funds for affordable housing support to increase homeownership. “We have a need for additional opportunities for affordable housing for seniors,” Simmons said. “That is something that is at the top of my list of priorities.” There are four other candidates running against Simmons for the position of alderman: Misty Witenberg, Carlis Sutton, Carolyn Murray and Daniel Featherson. Several candidates are focusing their platforms on affordable housing and economic development in the ward. Witenberg said she would center her work on providing social mobility for working families, prioritizing policies to ensure family stability and help single parents.
senators vote on legislation. Though the pair has always wanted to encourage engagement between the student body and ASG, they both said there remains a lot of work to be done. Cilento and Vinson are also focused on a funding reform that could increase the student activities fee to allow A-status and B-status groups more money to fund student organizations. They plan to propose their plan to the Board of Trustees before their term ends. “A lot of the efforts we’ve undertaken as a student government really reflect this desire to keep students involved and keep them in the conversation,” Vinson said. Ultimately, Cilento and Vinson said, they want to stay true to their campaign goals and involve all perspectives in ASG. Vinson said he hopes the next administration rededicates the organization to focusing on students with marginalized identities. “We want to see someone who’s going to come into this position and think critically about how this job works,” Vinson said. “I want to see someone who gets me excited for the future of ASG because I think that’s one of the reasons why every day I can get myself into it.” jonahdylan2020@u.northwestern.edu “There are so many tradeoffs that families are making all the time, and I want to make sure that I’m giving city leaders and Evanston at large a real opportunity to understand them,” Witenberg said. At a forum held on Feb. 4 by the League of Women Voters of Evanston, Murray said she would help make sure housing is affordable for those trying to settle in Evanston by reviving the “first-time buyer program.” The program, which Murray used to buy her first house when she moved back to Evanston, was designed to help individuals purchase their first house in Evanston. At the same forum, other 5th Ward candidates spoke about raising the minimum wage in Evanston to help with economic development and housing. “More people would be able to live in Evanston if they had a ‘liveable wage’ to afford higher rents,” Sutton said. He added that his concerns lie with rising rent prices, and he thinks higher wages would be able to combat this issue. Echoing the other candidates’ calls for investment into the Ward, Featherson said he would use his experience in real estate to bolster investment in the ward and its residents. “That’s where I think I can come in,” Featherson said. “(I would) get people to invest into our community, which is a very strong and prosperous community as a whole.” Residents will vote for 5th Ward candidates on Feb. 28. If no candidate reaches more than 51 percent of the vote, the top two will move on to the general election in April. kristinakarisch2020@u.northwestern.edu
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From page 8 Year award in Washington. “Isiah played every game against a box-andone, double-teams, triple-teams, so he scored those 35 points a game when everybody was game-planning for him,” Gerald Brown said. “To me, that was probably what was most impressive.” By February of his senior season, Brown had scored more career points than anyone else in conference history, including NBA stars Jamal Crawford, Jason Terry and Brandon Roy. “From a legacy standpoint, I don’t think there will ever be a greater player to play at Lakeside,” Robinson said. And like NU, which for decades watched the dominance of Big Ten programs like Indiana and Purdue and is now coached by the son of a former NBA No. 1 pick, Isiah Brown has benefitted from a number of connections to basketball fame. Gerald Brown played for the University of Alaska-Anchorage in the 1980s, enjoyed a brief European professional career and then coached now-NBA player Mario Chalmers at an Anchorage high school. He said he was able to use his experience to personally teach his son basketball as a child rather than having to take him to a trainer. Isiah Brown began attracting college attention at an unusually young age, and picked up his first scholarship offer — from the University of Washington — in eighth grade. San Jose State and California-Irvine, as well as Northwestern, extended offers later on. Even the likes of Crawford and Roy got to know Isiah Brown as a regular observer at their off-season workouts. “We’d sit in the stands and we’d be the only ones sitting there watching Jamal Crawford and Brandon Roy and Isaiah Thomas and these different guys just play,” Gerald Brown said. “That started at a pretty young age, and then as he got older, he was actually able to get out there and play with them more and more.” During his final summers in Seattle, Brown said he scrimmaged with the region’s fraternity of NBA stars almost every day, learning “anything and everything about the game” from his millionaire workout buddies. By that point, nearly every aspect of basketball in the Emerald City had Brown’s stamp on it. But then came college, and now Isiah Brown and the Wildcats find themselves in the first year of a marriage that, while promising, hasn’t
yet been perfect. As a freshman, Brown is shooting just 32.3 percent from the field. That’s remarkably inefficient on a national scale — out of the 1,340 players countrywide with at least 150 field goals attempts to date, only 11 have a lower shooting percentage. Coach Chris Collins is aware of those numbers. But he’s not about to tell his top 2016 recruit, who has stepped into a backup point guard role behind junior Bryant McIntosh, to stop shooting. “The worst thing in the world I can do is have him play on his heels or play afraid to make a mistake, because then I’m robbing him of what he’s best at,” Collins said. “With him, it’s about continued film work, continuing to teach him — while still being aggressive — when you can pick and choose your spots.”
Brown has nonetheless had good outings — 15 points on 5-of-10 shooting against IUPUI, 11 points in an otherwise lethargic first half for the team against Rutgers — mixed in with the bad. He logged his first career start last week, too, in a 34-minute, 11-point effort against the Boilermakers. Through it all, Brown has maintained the aura of confidence and unflappability that seems to follow him everywhere he goes. “When you’re only thinking about winning, you do a lot of things that you may not think you’d do,” he said after the Jan. 26 win over Nebraska. “When I get in those situations, I don’t think twice. That’s what the game is about — you go and you try to make as many plays as you can, and if you can’t do it confidently, you probably shouldn’t be doing it.” Perhaps that confidence stems from Brown’s
adoration of NBA icon Steph Curry, whom he and McIntosh — a mentor to Brown in practice and a roommate on road trips — together watch religiously. Perhaps it stems from the 1,500-mile plane trips just to play AAU games as a child, or from blasting a lineage of previous Seattle stars out of the record books in high school, or from his ties to NBA regulars across the country. Or perhaps it simply stems from a love of basketball that is as innate to Isiah Brown as purple is to NU. “I’m not really thinking about where I am, who I’m playing against, whatever — I just try to see the play and make the best play for my team,” he said. “How I’ve always been raised, and how I’ve always been, is to not fear the game.” benjaminpope2019@u.northwestern.edu
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From a childhood in Alaska, where sub-zero winter temperatures hindered driveway shootarounds, came Isiah Brown. From an elite Seattle high school, he graduated having transformed a conference bottom-dweller to a state title contender. And up from the comparable depths of Big Ten ineptitude, where Northwestern has meddled for nearly a century without snapping its infamous NCAA tournament drought, Isiah Brown is determined to pull his new team. “Anytime you’re in a place that’s trying to do something that’s never been done before, to be a part of that is amazing,” the freshman guard said. “You just want to have a positive impact and keep taking it one game at a time. When we get to the end, we’ll look up and hopefully see what we did.” Indeed, parallels between Brown’s 19 years of life and NU’s 112 years of basketball abound. Like NU, long an afterthought in the crowded Chicago sports universe, Brown comes from a place where basketball is foreign and lacking. His hometown of Anchorage, Alaska, is located in the only state with zero Division I basketball programs and limited youth basketball resources. Yet Brown, at a young age, was immediately hooked on the sport. “He’s always been obsessed with the game,” said his father, Gerald Brown. “At Christmas, he’d end up playing with the five-dollar ball he had instead of some of the nicer gifts that
we thought he’d gravitate towards.” Christmas in Alaska, of course, was rather cold — but that also wasn’t an issue. “It’d be in the negatives — negative-10, negative-15 — and I’d go outside, put my gloves on and try to get some work done,” Isiah Brown said. For years, he was forced to play for traveling AAU teams based as far away as Houston and Seattle. Then AAU rules changed to prevent kids from playing on teams outside of neighboring states, so the Brown family simply moved to Seattle. Like NU, Brown’s small, private Seattle high school, Lakeside School, had enjoyed a tremendous history in the classroom — boasting Microsoft co-founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen among its notable alumni — and a far worse one on the court. Brown’s arrival quickly turned things around. “The thing that set him apart in high school was his ability to keep people off-balance,” Lakeside coach Shea Robinson said. “He could shoot the three with range. His ability to jump off either foot when driving would make it really hard for defenders to time him. … He never was one to shy away from the ball or the spotlight.” After Lakeside stormed to the state championship game, which he started as a freshman, Brown stepped into a larger role as a sophomore and averaged 26 points per game. He upped that to 28 points per game the following season, leading the Seattle Metro League in scoring, then to 33.8 points per game as a senior, winning the Gatorade Player of the » See BROWN, page 7
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On the surface, Northwestern’s NCAA Tournament resume is strong: 17 wins and six losses with February just underway and a fourth place spot in the Big Ten. Dig deeper, and it doesn’t look so rosy. An extremely weak Big Ten, unspectacular non-conference schedule and Sunday’s bad loss against Penn State mean the Wildcats sit firmly on the bubble with Selection Monday just a month away, facing an uphill battle to sneak into the field of 64 with a daunting road trip looming. It is undoubtedly cruel that an NU team that has fallen on its face just once and will easily surpass 20 regular season wins probably needs three road victories in the next week to get itself back on the right side of the bubble. But that’s the reality for a team with no signature win, playing in a down conference. Examine, for example, the Cats’ results against the best teams in the country. There is no shame in NU’s losses to ranked teams like No. 3 Maryland and No. 13 Ohio State, but an 0-4 mark against the RPI top 40 leaves the Cats without a resume-solidifying victory and docks their overall strength of schedule. Instead, NU’s resume is based on top100 wins. Home wins against Indiana and Purdue help, but will not singlehandedly get a team in the tournament. The Cats’ November win against then-No. 16 Florida was supposed to offer that marquee moment, but the Gators have plummeted since. That’s why Sunday’s putrid performance against Penn State is so
damaging. NU’s only other defeat against an unranked foe was at Gonzaga, a tournament-bound team. Before Sunday, the Cats could hang their hat on carrying no bad losses. That dynamic is now gone: the Nittany Lions are mired in mediocrity and at risk of dropping out of the RPI top 100. It’s also why the next week is particularly critical. A win Saturday at Indiana gives NU a season sweep against the Hoosiers, pushing the Cats up the bubble and knocking Indiana — a fellow bubble dweller — down. The same goes for Thursday’s game at Iowa, among the first teams out in ESPN’s latest projection. A loss to either and the Cats all of a sudden look less attractive to the selection committee than their vanquisher. Ranked No. 51 in RPI, NU can’t afford to drop much further. Time is ticking to return to the high-30s or low-40s, likely the tournament cutoff. Losses to teams like the Hoosiers and Hawkeyes
wouldn’t knock the Cats down much, but wins would go a long way toward solidifying their resume. The same goes for Monday’s matchup at Minnesota, a team stuck near the bottom of the Big Ten but high in the RPI thanks to a challenging non-conference schedule. The final three games of NU’s slate are decidedly less challenging, though a trip to Purdue will be tricky. The Big Ten Tournament will probably offer the Cats another chance to snag a victory against a team like Iowa or Michigan State and a potential statement win against Maryland or Ohio State. Still, NU likely needs to make its push now. Coach Joe McKeown said after Sunday’s loss that his team is in position to make a February run. If that run is going to secure an NCAA Tournament berth, it needs to start now and continue until the calendar flips to March. colepaxton2019@u.northwestern.edu
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On the heels of a difficult loss to Penn State, Northwestern will travel to Indiana on Saturday in dire need of a win. Not only does the contest offer the Wildcats an opportunity to get back on track, a victory would also bolster their resume with the Big Ten Tournament approaching. Standing in NU’s way is Hoosiers guard Tyra Buss, a playmaker the team cannot afford to take lightly, senior guard Ashley Deary said. In order to hold off Buss and come away with a second win against Indiana, senior forward Nia Coffey said the Cats need to focus on tenacious defense and grabbing defensive boards. “We have to get defensive stops and just be a hard-nosed team on defense,” she said. “Just make sure we get our stops, we get our rebounds and then we get the flow onto the offensive end.” NU struggled mightily offensively in its loss to Penn State on Sunday. Despite a strong defensive effort, the players struggled to maintain their stamina and put points on the board toward the end of the game. In preparation for the upcoming slate, the team has been working on staying focused and pushing through fatigue during practice, Deary said. “Learning to shoot when we’re tired, I think that’s one of our biggest issues,” she said. Deary and Coffey were the only
Northwestern vs. Indiana
Bloomington, Indiana 11 a.m. Saturday
two players to score in double-digits in the loss to the Nittany Lions, with Coffey tallying 28 points and grabbing 17 rebounds. The two players combined for 69 percent of the team’s total points. With no word about injured senior guard Christen Inman’s status, Coffey said she has to “work hard on both ends of the floor,” focusing on the team’s game plan and defensive schemes. The Cats will have to fight even harder without the support of a home crowd. “It’s always harder on the road,” Deary said. “We have to just go with that underdog mentality and know that we have something to play for that’s bigger than just ourselves.” The game is a rematch of the Cats’ Jan. 18 showdown with the Hoosiers. The contest was the team’s first after the death of guard Jordan Hankins, and a crowd filled the lower bowl of Welsh-Ryan Arena as NU topped Indiana. Weeks later, Hankins’ memory still drives the team. “Moving forward now, it’s just continuing her legacy,” Deary said. “Playing for her, playing strong and knowing that we’re capable of beating these teams.” taliahendel2020@u.northwestern.edu