The Daily Northwestern – February 13, 2019

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live in Evanston now grew up here — were raised here — so that also says something about the community,” she said. “A part of the mission of (Bookends and Beginnings) is to get all kinds of discussions going, and I can have literary people from all over the world come to the store.”

Elizabeth Bird, the collection development manager at Evanston Public Library, agreed that residents think books are important.

When she worked at a branch of the New York Public Library in downtown Manhattan, she could

A former Evanston Township High School security staff member was charged Tuesday with sexually assaulting a 17-year-old female student in November 2018.

Michael Haywood, 33, turned himself in to Evanston police and was charged with criminal sexual assault by a person of authority, a felony. Evanston Police Cmdr. Ryan Glew said in a news release that the Nov. 23 incident occurred in the 1800 block of Dodge Avenue, not on ETHS property or during school hours. Haywood is no longer employed at ETHS, Glew told The Daily.

ETHS staff originally reported the incident in January after receiving an allegation that a staff member had an improper relationship with a student. Glew said EPD investigated the allegation and attempted to contact and

» See READ, page 6

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Evanston resident Sandy Horton reaches for a book at the Evanston Public Library. The city has a strong reading culture, and around 185 people signed up for a city-wide book club.

Evanston boasts strong reading culture

Local libraries, bookstores support bibliophiles’ city-wide interest in reading

By SOPHIA SCANLAN

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Though it’s a city with a population of about 75,000 people, Evanston has a lot going on for people who like books, reading and everything in between.

Nina Kavin, the founder of the Dear Evanston Racial Justice Book Group, started the citywide book club three years ago to encourage dialogue about racial justice, and today, it has grown to include 185 people. On Tuesday, the club discussed “White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism” by

Robin DiAngelo.

“People are hearing about the book group more and seeing that we do really good books,” Kavin said. “It’s a way to get out of the house, meet people and socialize.”

With 12 bookstores, an extensive public library system and many avid bibliophiles, Evanston outreads many U.S. cities with a similar population. In comparison, New York City has a people-tobookstore ratio of about 10,000 residents per bookstore. Evanston boasts a ratio of 6,250 residents per shop.

Kavin also said she thought the city’s high interest in books partially stems from a well-educated

population. She added that having a “huge, world-class university” in the city probably contributes to Evanston’s readership.

For Kavin, she said she has received support from the reading community in Evanston. Local bookstore Bookends and Beginnings gives a 15 percent discount to people purchasing books for Kavin’s book club, and the store gives her five free copies of the chosen title.

Nina Barrett, the owner of Bookends and Beginnings, said she thought the book club was so successful because many people in Evanston want to discuss race relations.

“There are people who want to have a look at what the tougher issues in society are, and they believe books are a part of that,” she said.

When Barrett first moved to Evanston in 1985, she was “mystified” to discover that most of the most of the bookstores in the city were chains, like Borders and Barnes and Noble. Because of her passion for independent bookstores, Barrett decided to open her store.

Barrett added that part of the reason she chose Evanston in which to open a business was the number of authors nearby.

“A lot of authors who don’t

ASG to vote on Local establishments prep for holiday housing resolution Evanston businesses ready for you and your boo this Valentine’s Day

Student gov’t pushes for genderopen housing

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Associated Student Government will vote on a resolution Wednesday calling for the expansion of genderopen housing on Northwestern’s campus.

The resolution, co-sponsored by 68 students and nine faculty and staff members at the time of publication, requests changes to student housing policy that would make gender-open housing more attainable and affordable. A draft of the resolution was presented at an ASG Senate meeting on Feb. 6. If passed, the resolution will be sent to University administrators for consideration, said Elynnor Sandefer, the author

of the resolution and a Rainbow Alliance senator.

“Right now the system is built around cisgender people and the gender binary, and that’s just how it’s constructed,” Sandefer said. “It should not be this difficult.”

According to the Residential Services website, gender-open housing is primarily intended for queer and transgender students, but it is available for anyone who wants it regardless of sex, gender or gender identity.

For the 2018-19 academic year, gender-open undergraduate housing contracts were restricted to Foster-Walker Complex, Kemper Hall and 560 Lincoln, which feature singles and suite-style living. The ASG resolution states that this policy drives up prices for students who want to choose genderopen housing. According to the Residential Services » See HOUSING, page 6

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From special outdoor seating to themed meals, businesses throughout Evanston are preparing for Valentine’s Day this Thursday.

Evanston businesses will offer lovers special deals on interesting gifts and dinners for couples celebrating the holiday, which is the third-highest spending holiday across the nation behind Mother’s Day and the combined winter holidays of Christmas and Hanukkah.

Americans are expected to spend $20.7 billion this upcoming Valentine’s Day, according to the National Retail Federation.

Saville Flowers is a “classic flower shop,” according to store owner Mark Jones, whose greatgrandfather opened the shop 77 years ago. For Valentine’s Day — the shop’s busiest time of the year — Saville is selling a variety of bouquets. Jones said his personal favorites are the “gorgeous” imported, multicolored roses,

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Saville Flowers, 1714 Sherman Ave. Saville is one of many Evanston businesses preparing for one of the

putting a unique spin on the classic red rose.

Jones said the tradition of buying red roses for Valentine’s Day is part of the iconography of the holiday. He said it is especially fun for younger generations to join in

on that tradition.

“Romance equates to a red rose,” Jones said. “There’s a lot of artistic nature behind it, and I think now, in modern days too, people like the idea of something kind of natural.”

In 2018, romantics across America spent an estimated $2 billion on flowers for Valentine’s Day, but an estimated $3.7 billion was spent on an evening out. In » See VALENTINE, page 6

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Council adopts four goals through 2020

By EMMA EDMUND

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During a special City Council meeting Tuesday, aldermen adopted and made plans to develop four goals through the end of 2020, including expanding affordable housing options and stabilizing long-term city finances.

The goals are to “invest in city infrastructure and facilities,” “enhance community development and job creation,” “expand affordable housing options” and “stabilize long-term city finances,” according to city documents.

Ald. Judy Fiske (1st) emphasized balance as the key to achieving these goals.

“We’re in a place now historically where we’re really thinking outside the box,” Fiske said. “This is a sort of transformational point in our history that personally I haven’t seen since about the 1920s, but it’s exciting; it’s challenging. As all of these things go together — you can’t separate economic development from affordable housing from job creation from relations within the community and police …

How we balance them is going to be our challenge moving forward.”

The Council narrowed its new list of goals from the previous year’s six, leaving out prior goals of furthering “police/community relations initiatives” and ensuring “equity in all city operations,” according to city documents.

Aldermen also opted to leave out equity objectives and sustainability objectives outlined in the Climate Action and Resilience Plan (CARP) as their own goals, instead opting to weave them into the overarching four. Ald. Melissa Wynne (3rd), however, argued for the CARP objectives to be outlined in a separate goal.

“I also understand (CARP) needs to interweave with all of these,” Wynne said. “We keep talking about preparing, preparing, preparing, because it’s coming — it’s here. It’s already happening.”

The aldermen also discussed the importance of obtaining data to create more quantitative objectives

POLICE BLOTTER Woman escapes after attempting to steal from Jewel-Osco A woman who attempted to steal from the Jewel-Osco in Evanston escaped before police could reach the scene.

A store employee said he saw the woman try to steal $250 worth of various items, but he managed to stop her. The employee tried to restrain her and call the police, but the woman pulled away from the employee and fled in a black Jeep Grand Cherokee waiting outside the store, Evanston Police Cmdr. Ryan Glew said.

EPD officers responded to the store, located at 2485 Howard St., but there is no suspect and no one is in custody, Glew said.enim

Man arrested for driving with a suspended license

An EPD officer arrested a man Monday after he was seen driving a Freightliner Trucks vehicle in a no-truck-route on Ridge Avenue.

Glew said the 37-year-old driver stopped his truck when the officer activated his lights, but he had been driving with a suspended license, leading to his arrest by an EPD officer.

The truck was towed, and the man was cited for disobeying a traffic device and driving under a suspended license, Glew said.

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Ald. Donald Wilson (4th) sits in City Council. He and the other aldermen met for two hours Tuesday to create the city’s goals for the next two years.

to meet these goals. Their discussion included overcoming barriers that keep businesses from coming into Evanston and whether building more housing units is an effective way to help low-income residents.

In addition to the four overarching goals, City Council plans to discuss specific objectives within each goal during the coming months. Aldermen will meet with city staff to discuss each goal in-depth.

However, the work City Council needs to do is far from over. Ald. Donald Wilson (4th) said the Council still needs to collect a lot more data to create more objectives.

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than when I got here,” Wilson said. “We’re on track and we’re doing a good job, but there’s a lot, a lot, a lot of work to do. We don’t have quite the trajectory we need to have.”

Wilson expressed hope, though, that the Council and city could take concrete steps to achieve these goals over the next two years.

“We’re a leader in lots of different ways,” he said.

“Let’s keep that going. It’s going to require work, it’s going to require dedication, but I think we have that from this group.” emmaedmund2022@u.northwestern.edu

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Setting the record straight A column published in Tuesday’s paper titled “Americans’ disconnect with government unlikely to change” incorrectly identified the president of the United States who did not know the price of a gallon of milk in 1992.

The president was George H. W. Bush.

The Daily regrets the error.

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Handshake nearly doubles job postings

By SAVANNAH KELLEY

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It’s peak job search season, and the thought of securing a summer job or internship looms large in many Northwestern students’ minds.

Handshake, the career platform that Northwestern Career Advancement provides to students, is one way to manage this stressful process. The new platform was implemented in June, replacing both CareerCat and MEDILLINK. Mark Presnell, the executive director of NCA, said he is pleased with how the transition to Handshake has gone so far.

“We’re close to posting twice as many jobs and internships in the first six months of this year as we did all of last year,” Presnell said. “So from that perspective, we’ve seen a significant increase in the opportunities available to Northwestern students.”

Presnell said that there have been over 20,000 jobs posted on Handshake since the beginning of this year, compared to the yearly average of 10,000 to 12,000 posted on CareerCat. Presnell added that Handshake is a more userfriendly platform than CareerCat. “CareerCat was very dependent on the student doing the search,” he said. “Handshake brings that artificial intelligence piece to it, so it can match your interests with the opportunities that are available.”

Communication sophomore Delaney McCallum said she prefers to use Handshake because the social networking platform LinkedIn can be overwhelming and “scares” her.

Anna Blakley, a McCormick junior, said she is “very big on LinkedIn,” and has been growing her profile since she was 16. She found that Handshake was not useful for finding internships in her field of study.

Blakley explained that Handshake has “very limited options” in terms of majors to choose from when filtering through jobs. Because she is in a unique field of study — she designs her own course of study from classes offered through McCormick and the Segal Design Institute — there is no option on Handshake

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for her to put her specific major.

“The options that come up for recommended jobs don’t really relate at all to what I’m studying,” Blakley said. “I was just looking a few minutes ago and something offered to me was a policy manager at a police station, which has no relation to anything that I’m studying.”

Blakley said this was typical of her Handshake experience. Most of the time, she is given “completely unrelated, completely out of left field recommendations.” She added that she has friends who are “dedicated” to Handshake, but it doesn’t work for her.

Presnell said students are utilizing the platform more often and it has been easier for employers to post job openings. He noted that students have

“adapted very quickly to the new system.”

He added that student feedback has been positive and NCA has had an increased number of satisfaction surveys following career appointments, which are completed through Handshake.

For SESP senior Liana Pickrell, Handshake has proved useful. Pickrell used Handshake to look for jobs this past fall. She said that when searching for jobs on Google, she often found “random things that just don’t look legitimate.”

“If it’s on Handshake, it should be a legitimate position, which is honestly more than you can say from just Google,” Pickrell said. savannahkelley2021@u.northwestern.edu

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The Daily’s publisher must hold itself accountable TROY CLOSSON

Op-Ed Contributor This winter’s been the first quarter in over a year I haven’t been on The Daily’s editorial board because I’m on Journalism Residency. In all that time, there’s only three things I ever really cared about here: making the newsroom a more enjoyable place, improving racial diversity and inclusion and having that reflected in our coverage.

When I first got here, every time I walked into our newsroom, I was the only black person here.

When I joined our editorial board the next fall, I was the one black editor. And for a long time, part of me hated being here.

But I forced myself to stay, out of fear that future black staff members would leave too after feeling the same way. I worried that the conversations I’d hoped would take place surrounding racial diversity and inclusion would never get started without people of color here to drag them to the table. And for the most part, that’s no longer the case. Looking in from the outside, I’m sure it’s not always evident.

We still have a long way to go, but so much has changed internally over the past few quarters.

More and more though, I’ve realized all of that means nothing if those who make up the leadership of our newspaper’s owner and publisher — Students

Publishing Company (SPC) — don’t reflect the people who work here. The nonprofit’s majoritywhite board, composed largely of alumni and faculty, selects editors in chief and considers greater structural questions about promoting diversity in the newsroom, among other things.

And, in my eyes, the board still operates under expectations that people of color — rather than the newsroom as a whole — should take charge when it comes to racial diversity and inclusion. Back when I was the opinion editor — and the only black editor — members of SPC’s board singled me out in what felt like placing the responsibility of making the newsroom “diverse” on me. The editor in chief and managing editors — the people actually in charge — weren’t brought into those conversations when they should’ve been. And I’ve been in other discussions in which members place the burden on underrepresented racial minorities in the newsroom alone to “solve” strained relationships between The Daily and marginalized groups on campus.

Last quarter, members of the board spoke with the editor in chief, other managing editor and I about programs to create a more inclusive environment that supports and retains people of color and those with other marginalized identities. But of all the nights I felt crushed under the pressure of being the only black person in the room at a paper with a history of poorly covering the campus’ black community — of all the times I considered quitting — I never wanted to quit more than after how I was made

to feel by members of the board last winter. And the environment in the newsroom itself was the only reason I stayed.

When I was opinion editor, I was emailed asking for advice on what the board could do to help achieve greater racial diversity and inclusion here.

I never responded because I was so annoyed that I, as one of the few black people here, was relegated to dealing with this — regardless of whether it was

”

Having more people of color on the publishing board that oversees this publication could help prevent the few on the editorial board and staff that produces it every night from leaving.

Troy Closson, Op-Ed Contributor

something I care about. Last quarter though, I realized there’s only one thing to say in the first place: Having more people of color on the publishing board that oversees this publication could help prevent the few on the editorial board and staff that

Discovering my growth mindset at NU ZARIA HOWELL

Op-Ed Contributor During the fifth week of my freshman winter quarter at Northwestern, at around roughly 12:30 pm, I found myself sobbing my eyes out in one of the over-engineered bathroom stalls of the Kellogg Global Hub. Throughout my entire eighteen years, I have been told I was smart. The cream of the crop. A child prodigy, if you will. Yet, rather suddenly, I found myself with a failing grade in my microeconomics class. I received a bad grade on my midterm, and that was it — that’s all it took. My world was crumbling, and I was ready to reassess my entire life, who I was and how I’d been spending my time. It only took this one test to essentially send me into a spiral of self-reflection, which I’d hoped the Oprah podcasts I listened to every morning would do for me.

Welcome to the plight of the “smart kid.”

If you’ve taken any Intro to Psychology course, it’s simple: The kids who were told their whole life that they were smart, capable, untouchable — typically by their parents and influential figures within academia, such as teachers — have grown into adults who possess fixed mindsets. In textbook terms,

a fixed mindset is one in which individuals believe that their abilities or intelligence are fixed traits, while an individual with a growth mindset believes that they can develop these abilities through effort.

In other words, when we encounter an obstacle, people with a fixed mindset detach, assuming any obstacle must mean a flaw somewhere within the individual, rather than presenting an opportunity to learn. Now, for a student attending a prestigious, top-10 university where even the simplest assignments require hours of preparation and then even more hours of self-recovery, this poses an issue.

“What was I doing wrong?” I asked myself as I wiped back tears in the aforementioned bathroom stall. I had “done” the work. Study groups, drop-in tutoring, Khan Academy videos. It wasn’t enough. Something wasn’t clicking.

It hit me: I wasn’t truly absorbing and interpreting the material. Instead, I was superficially “studying,” if you can call it that, hoping that at some point the super-human, child prodigy, magic brain juice I was told I had would kick in. Life simply does not work like that. Brains do not work like that.

I had to reboot. I finally realized that I simply must reprogram my mind. And so should every other college student who was told that they are the best and the brightest as a child.

Welcome to Northwestern, where literally every student is the best and the brightest.

Here’s how I’ve begun to fix the issue: Recognize that good things take time, and put in that time. In hindsight, I realize that I once did possess a growth mindset, and it was this mindset that allowed me to excel academically and get into a prestigious institution. However, at some point along the way, between all the accolades and ego trips, I lost it.

Now, I must rediscover the passion for learning that I once held and was able to use to my advantage, while still being kind to myself, slowly ditching the self-loathing tendencies I used to possess.

Frankly, I’m tired of allowing this mindset to hold me back and keep my emotions captive. The world is brighter when you’re able to encounter obstacles and view them with optimism rather than fear. Northwestern is already way too dim during the winter for my mindset to make my environment any darker.

Zaria Howell is a first-year. She can be contacted at zariahowell2022@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.

produces it every night from leaving.

And that’s where the SPC board needs to start. It’s no surprise that with the board’s overwhelmingly white composition, the last time we had a black editor in chief was nearly 15 years ago, and this quarter’s the first we’ve had a person of color lead the paper in years.

That’s not to say those people applied, but even creating an environment where people of color feel comfortable doing so in the first place can come from who is — and isn’t — represented among the leadership of The Daily’s publisher.

It’s pretty apparent perspectives are being lost among the homogeneity of its members. And that affects our newsroom.

I do believe Students Publishing Co.’s board cares about increasing diversity and inclusion at The Daily. But good intentions mean absolutely nothing.

At least they didn’t for me.

The impact does, and the racial makeup of the board is part of the problem its members hope to solve.

Troy Closson is a Medill junior and a former managing editor at The Daily. He can be contacted at closson@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.

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Women benefit from close-knit group in workplace

By NEYA THANIKACHALAM

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Women who have a tightly-knit inner circle comprised mostly of women are more likely to be successful in getting high-ranked positions during their job search, according to a study by researchers at Northwestern and the University of Notre Dame.

Kellogg Prof. Brian Uzzi, a co-author of the study, said he and his collaborators wanted to look at networks among successful women because there weren’t many studies about how women in graduate programs are placed in executive positions. “(A graduate) program is essentially endorsing the fact that the individuals who graduate are indistinguishable in their managerial skills’ prowess, so you got this equalization of power,” Uzzi said. “That allows us to really take a look at whether men and women differ in the factors that determine their placement.”

The researchers found that women with both a larger, more centralized network –– which men tend to have –– and a tighter-knit network of predominantly women are 2.5 times more likely to get a leadership position at a company than women with a smaller central network and a maledominated inner circle.

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According to the study, over 75 percent of women leaders have this private network, as it provides them with gender-specific information that they wouldn’t know without it.

Uzzi said a widespread network helps women

access public information about job placement, like salaries and recruitment, but the inner circle gives them access to private information that can affect their decisions in the job search. This includes knowledge on discrimination and organization

cultures, he added, which are details women are more uniquely sensitive to than men.

“You can’t just have the relationship that men have, which is ‘Hey, tell me what’s going on at Apple,’” Uzzi said. “(Women) need a relationship which is like ‘What have you heard about this firm? What do people say about it?’”

Study co-author Nitesh Chawla, a professor of computer science and engineering at Notre Dame, said this private network needs to have non-overlapping contacts — or people who don’t have any relation to each other — to actually help women.

“If you have non-overlapping contacts, then you’re having a much broader, a much wider sort of a network than what you’d have otherwise,” Chawla said.

Both Uzzi and Chawla said that until the business world becomes more inclusive and diverse, women will still need an inner circle to privately receive information for their success.

This inner circle is women’s informal way of handling issues in the professional world, which still needs to change, Uzzi added.

“Every year, women take on more and more leadership roles,” Uzzi said. “The good news is, yes, it’s changing, and it’s changing in a direction where there’s more equality. But there’s still a long way to go.” neyathanikachalam2022@u.northwestern.edu

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With the Chicago mayoral election only weeks away, multiple candidates running for office have faced new controversies in the home stretch.

Amara Enyia, Toni Preckwinkle and Susana Mendoza — three of the 14 candidates currently running for mayor — have all been subjects of headlines this week exposing disparities in campaign messages they’ve spread individually. Candidates will face elections on Feb. 26, and a runoff election will take place April 2 if no candidate wins the majority of the vote in the general election.

Enyia’s campaign has emphasized her background as a competitive runner. Until Monday, her website said she completed an Ironman, a triathlon comprised of a 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile bike and a marathon.

But the organization Marathon Investigation challenged this claim, saying that Enyia had not competed in an Ironman-branded triathlon, but rather a halftriathlon, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.

A recent campaign ad for Preckwinkle stressed her background as an educator serving “hundreds of CPS students” as a teacher. However, the Chicago Tribune reported that Preckwinkle only worked in Chicago Public Schools part-time for a year, and the rest of her 10-year teaching career was at Catholic and Montessori schools.

Illinois comptroller Mendoza has been linked to a federal civil lawsuit in Pennsylvania, WBEZ reported on Monday. The lawsuit involves “front companies” connected to Chicago Ald. Danny Solis (25th) that have profited off of an arrangement with the state, according to WBEZ. Mendoza received campaign contributions from these companies in 2018, though she returned the donations to the firm, WBEZ added.

“The comptroller’s office is not required to know about any lawsuit brought against a state vendor before processing a payment to that vendor, nor can it stop a payment because of such a lawsuit,” a spokesman for Mendoza said in a written statement to WBEZ. — Clare Proctor

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560 Lincoln and Kemper Hall. Northwestern’s gender-open housing policy currently includes rooms in 560 Lincoln, Kemper Hall and Foster-Walker Complex.

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website, dorm rooms that fit those constraints cost $11,318 for the 2018-2019 academic year, which ranges from $1,208 to $2,397 more for a room per year than any on-campus double rooms.

The resolution also emphasizes the difficulty of receiving gender-open housing that matched students’ requests. Sandefer, a Weinberg sophomore, said that in talking to students negatively affected by the current policy, she found that students encountered difficulties making requests through the housing selection portal. She added that students of different genders cannot choose the same room during the housing selection process.

SESP junior Adam Davies, a member of the Gender Queer, Non-Binary, Transgender (GQNBT) Task Force said he thinks NU’s current policy “creates barriers” and some students aren’t aware of the policy.

Elizabeth Sperti, a Weinberg senator and

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“Evanstonians are great library users,” Bird said.

“If we get a complaint, it’s that our hours aren’t long enough.”

Bird added that the close proximity to Chicago contributes to why so many residents enjoy and engage with books, since many big-name authors hold events downtown.

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that department, Evanston restaurants Next of Kin and Koi have unique plates prepared.

Next of Kin, having just celebrated one year of operation in early February, will serve its normal dinner menu on Valentine’s Day, but from Thursday through the weekend, chef Marco Bahena will prepare a special menu, said Emily Paulsen, the director of marketing and sales for L3 Hospitality Group, the Chicago restaurant company that owns Next of Kin. The menu will consist of oysters and champagne. Alaskan king crab legs for two will also be served, as well as Chicken Lover Toast, a play on Chicken Liver Toast, Paulsen said. She added that oysters and champagne are a fun, indulgent meal for a holiday.

“It’s always nice when a holiday falls a little bit later in the week,” Paulsen said. “You feel like you have a little bit more freedom to go out and have fun.”

To accompany its American cuisine, the restaurant offers three patio domes: outdoor, iglooshaped spaces with space heaters that seat six to eight people. “(They) are kind of designed like a cozy, bungalow feel in there,” Paulsen said.

If couples aren’t interested in American food, Koi — voted Best Chinese Food in North Shore Chicago from 2015 to 2018 by Make it Better Magazine — will be serving a three-course, prefixed dinner that includes two glasses of champagne and dessert from Bennison’s Bakery.

Owner Sandy Chen said the restaurant, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this month, will prepare a Valentine’s Day entree called “Dragon and Phoenix,” consisting of General Tso’s chicken and shrimp with lobster sauce and served on a heart-shaped plate. “(The Dragon and Phoenix) represents (a) long relationship,” Chen said.

first-year, said the resolution is the first step in a long-term effort to adapt school policies to the needs of gender non-conforming students.

“Everyone is hoping that this is a step in a larger process of multiple things that everyone would like to see changed with CAESAR, with the housing application and just the way that housing is set up in general,” Sperti said.

The resolution also requests that one or more floors of pre-existing dorms on South Campus that include double and triple rooms be designated for students of differing gender identities.

It also requests that every single- and multi-stall bathroom facility on the floors be designated for all-gender use.

“A lot of the hesitation from residential services was coming from concerns about how to handle the question of bathrooms,” Sandefer said. “I know that also it can be difficult to work with the software company that currently handles the housing application, so I think that’s probably another source of concern — that it’s always difficult to change a software.”

In considering revisions to the legislation,

Sandefer said the timing of the GQNBT Task Force, which was first instituted during this academic year, meant that substantive change could be made this year. She said she plans to introduce an amendment to the senate on Wednesday that would provide a more immediate time frame for requested changes. If implemented, changes would have to be communicated to students before the housing application process opens.

ASG President Emily Ash said if the resolution is approved, NU administrators will be invited to a future Senate meeting to discuss gender-open housing. She added that the conversation will continue and hopefully result in “immediate action.”

“What we’re seeking is a commitment to implementing the immediate-term changes for Fall 2019,” Ash said. “By the end of my term, I would seek a commitment to implement as students are selecting throughout this quarter and next and seeing that option be available and lived in this fall.”

Skokie School District 65 and Evanston Township High School/District 202 also helps, she said.

“Every school in Evanston has a school librarian,” Bird said. “If you have librarians in schools, the people in the schools become readers, and that’s a fact.”

SESP first-year Claire Koster said she also loved the reading atmosphere of Evanston. She appreciated the size of the library in particular and the number of free services it offers beyond books, like the new social worker.

The number of bookstores and quality of the library even played a role in her college decision,

she said.

“I would have made do, but the fact that we’re so close to really wonderful bookstores and a really good library all within a 10-minute walk is pretty idyllic and wonderful,” Koster said.

And for a lot of residents, the reading institutions are what make Evanston special.

“I keep a happy patron file (in my email),” Bird said. “I got an email from someone who said ‘Evanston Public Library is easily the thing I like best about this area.’”

interview Haywood, but he instead turned himself in with his attorney and did not make a statement.

ETHS officials were made aware of the allegation after another student reported it, Glew said.

The Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office approved charges for criminal sexual assault Tuesday. Haywood will appear in bond court on Wednesday at the Skokie Courthouse.

ETHS officials were not immediately available for comment Tuesday evening.

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Residents push back on Reese Ave. development plan

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Evanston residents raised concerns about a possible development in the 2600 block of Reese Ave. at Monday’s City Council meeting, after the Zoning Board of Appeals denied the developer modifications to zoning rules.

Property owner William James proposed a 1,018 square foot home on the corner lot. According to city documents, James asked for exceptions to the side yard setbacks — the horizontal distance at a right angle to the nearest wall of the building.

He also requested excess building lot coverage.

The Zoning Board of Appeals said the proposal failed to meet standards for major variation, arguing the development would impact neighbors’ property values, according to city documents. The city also recommended eliminating one parking spot to reduce the excess building lot coverage.

James sent in a revised proposal Monday morning. Ald. Thomas Suffredin (6th) called the revised submission “unusual” because of the quick turnaround time, and he asked city staff to review the updated proposal at another City Council meeting.

Suffredin said he wanted to maintain a fair policy to other applicants. Ald. Don Wilson (4th) agreed and asked for discussion at a future meeting.

“I don’t feel like I (had) enough time,” said Wilson.

Evanston resident Richard Horsting lives on the south side of James’ lot. Horsting described the development plan as “deceptive and fraudulent.”

IPR director elected to selective National Academy of Education

SESP Prof. Diane Schanzenbach has been elected to the National Academy of Education, a selective team of scholars committed to advancing “high-quality research to improve education policy and practice,” the University announced in a news release Monday.

Schanzenbach, who is also the director of the

He said James has not portrayed his home accurately and emphasized that aldermen should carefully examine the new proposal.

Horsting added that the development process has been “a little ridiculous, a little tiring.”

“The amazing amount of stress it’s putting on me … I get literally five people a day … realtors or lawyers thinking my house is going to be torn down or is involved,” Horsting said. “I’ve been (in) the house 33 years. My family has owned this (property) for over 100 years.”

Resident Kathy Miller said neighbors in the area have met to discuss their concerns about the development plan and agreed the development lacked permeable surfaces for water runoff, exceeded the maximum lot coverage and would possibly require cutting down trees in the neighborhood. Miller added that the neighbors also felt that placing a parking garage in such close proximity to a commercial alley was a potential hazard.

Miller emphasized that the new proposal failed to address any of their concerns.

“We do not feel this gentleman is answering our concerns on these issues,” said Miller. “What we think is fair is any new proposal should go to the Zoning Board of Appeals. They’re your experts.”

Resident Joseph Paradi said James turned down his offer of $25,000 for the property. Paradi said he wanted to ensure it “remained undeveloped for the good of neighbors.”

Paradi also stressed the need for “greater transparency” from the city.

“Lengthy letters from the applicant… were withheld from city staff until the packet was issued, thus not allowing any response from citizens of

Institute for Policy Research and SESP’s Margaret Walker Alexander Professor of Human Development and Social Policy, will join ten other NU academy members as a part of NAEd. Her election to the organization recognizes her research contributions in the field of education, the release said.

Schanzenbach’s scholarship has examined policies targeted at improving long-term outcomes for children in poverty. Her studies have analyzed school finance reforms and demonstrated the importance of quality formative education in shaping success for students, in addition to other research questions.

Evanston,” said Paradi.

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Ald. Thomas Suffredin speaks at City Council. Suffredin listened to concerns from his constituents about a proposal for 2626 Reese Ave.

“Most recently, her work has focused on how income-support programs such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, (formerly the Food Stamp Program) offer vital long-term benefits to children,” the release said.

“Her articles have appeared in leading economic and policy journals.”

Before coming to Northwestern as the director of IPR, Schanzenbach served as director of the Hamilton Project, an economic policy initiative, at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. The National Academy of Education — an organization with over 200 members — tackles

research projects focused on “pressing educational issues,” according to the organization’s website. As an academy member, Schanzenbach will work to train other education scholars and continue her own research.

“These leaders are at the forefront of those helping to improve the lives of students in the United States and abroad,” Gloria Ladson-Billings, the academy’s president, said in the news release.

Schanzenbach will be inducted as a formal member of the academy in November 2019.

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The Cats’ record this year isn’t connected to the aftermath of their 2017 run, it’s a consequence of how long it took to — columnist Charlie Goldsmith get there.

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What’s the reason for Northwestern’s 2019 slide?

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Ryan Taylor didn’t come to Northwestern to lose basketball games.

He played in the Missouri Valley Conference last season, but the Wildcats are on pace to have a worse record than Taylor’s Evansville team did in 2017-18.

After falling to 12th place in the conference standings, this is the reality for NU (12-11, 3-9 Big Ten): The team hasn’t won as much as the coaches promised. The five new players haven’t met expectations that were probably unrealistic, and it’s hard to find someone who’d argue that this season has gone according to plan.

Heading into the year, opposing Big Ten coaches were more curious than intimidated by the Cats. The intrigue stemmed from the fresh faces, including several that were heavily recruited by other coaches in the conference. Indiana coveted Taylor, a native of the Hoosier State. Freshman forward Pete Nance picked NU over Michigan. Tom Izzo recruited junior forward A.J. Turner.

On the other side, there’s coach Chris Collins, now in his sixth season at the helm. All five of this year’s incoming players, plus redshirt Ryan Young, committed after NU’s 2017 NCAA Tournament appearance. Unlike last season, the Cats’ record this year isn’t connected to the aftermath of their 2017 run — it’s a consequence of how long it took to get there.

Among the high school graduates NU recruited between 2015 and 2017,

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Ryan Taylor dribbles the ball. After transferring twice, the guard averages 11.6 points in his only season at Northwestern.

only three have started double-digit games in Evanston — Dererk Pardon, Aaron Falzon and Anthony Gaines.

Forward Rapolas Ivanauskas and guard Isiah Brown transferred this spring before playing significant minutes, and junior center Barret Benson has never scored in double-digits in a Big Ten game. Before suffering a seasonending injury earlier this year, senior guard Jordan Ash never earned a consistent role in the rotation.

It’s not that Collins and his staff made an individual mistake on the recruiting path that set the program back. In Evanston, there are no tales of picking Bowie over Jordan. But there is an opportunity cost that’s beginning to

haunt NU. It’s February, and NU lacks a starting point guard, 3-point shooting and playmaking on the perimeter. There is nothing that can be done to immediately right the ship. Against Iowa on Sunday, Collins started centers Pardon and Benson together. That’s as wacky, and also desperate, as it gets.

In a difficult season of his own in the 1990s, legendary NCAA coach Skip Prosser was asked by a reporter why he wasn’t able to instigate a significant improvement for his team. Prosser’s response was an instant classic.

“I play the players I’ve got.”

You don’t make trades in the NCAA. As Rick Pitino once said, “Larry Bird is

not walking through that door.” A prototypical point guard isn’t, either.

That door closed for the Cats when the freshmen came to campus in September. After finishing 15-17 last season, they added the highest-rated recruiting class Collins had ever signed at NU, including Nance, Young, forward Miller Kopp and guard Ryan Greer.

Before contracting mono and being ruled out indefinitely by the team, Nance struggled to earn minutes in close games for NU. Ranked as the No. 85 player in the Class of 2018, Nance is averaging 3.4 points and 1.6 rebounds 18 games into his career, and he’s shooting 28.1 percent from beyond the arc.

Kopp has started 16 games this season, but the No. 113 player in the Class of 2018 had his role lessened once conference play began. He’s averaging less than five points per game. In 10 minutes per outing, Greer averages less than a bucket. Young redshirted the season.

As for the transfers, Taylor has added a much-needed aggressiveness to a struggling offense. But of all the players in power conferences who take as many threes per game as Taylor, only one has a worse 3-point shooting percentage.

While Turner shoots much less frequently than Taylor, he’s even less efficient, scoring 8.3 points per game on an average of seven shots. Neither Taylor nor Turner has scored over 16 points in a Big Ten game.

Ironically, NU’s leading scorer shouldn’t even be here. Senior forward Vic Law redshirted his second season on campus, and had he graduated with his recruiting class last season, the Cats would be down their best perimeter

defender, who also happens to score 15.4 points a game.

There have been two waves of players following the McIntosh-Lindsey-Skelley-Law recruiting class of 2014. The pre-tournament recruits and the posttournament recruits. So far, one group hasn’t outperformed the other.

And then there’s the third group to potentially place blame upon — Chris Collins and the coaching staff. In the slice of life between 2017’s NCAA Tournament berth and the 2018 opening of Welsh-Ryan Arena, Collins spoke of promises, expectations and a new normal. So far this year, that hasn’t been delivered.

While the incoming freshmen for next year have already been signed, the Cats are expected to be active on the graduate transfer market again this spring as over 60 percent of the team’s scoring is graduating. But Collins’ selling points to transfers, as well as the class of 2020, are growing weaker as success becomes a more distant reality.

With nine games to go before the Big Ten Tournament, NU is stuck between a rock and a hard place. The coaches as well as the players — old and new — might not be able to do anything other than decide who the rock will hit first.

Charlie Goldsmith is a Medill sophomore. He can be contacted at charliegoldsmith2021@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.

“One-on-One” chat with top-ranked Sebastian Rivera

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Welcome to One-on-One, The Daily Northwestern’s new sports interview series where The Daily sits down with a Northwestern athlete for a conversation about athletics, their interests and more.

Sebastian Rivera is an All-American wrestler who has yet to lose a match at 125 pounds this season and started the season with 20 straight victories until bumping up to 133 pounds to face No. 1 Stevan Micic. At the Midlands Championships in December, he defeated No. 2 Spencer Lee in the f inal to win the 125 pounds title. This interview has been edited for clarity.

The Daily: Over the last few weeks you’ve had opportunities to face some of the best wrestlers in the country, but for what seems like different reasons — whether it be a forfeit or sending in the secondary guy — you haven’t faced some of those guys including Spencer Lee. What goes through your mind when you don’t get to face those guys?

Rivera: When I get a forfeit, I’m just like, I don’t know, it sucks. You train all week for this one guy and then he doesn’t show up or you don’t get to wrestle him. I didn’t have a match for like two weeks. My first match was Iowa and that’s crazy to think that in the middle of the Big

Ten season, I can have that many forfeits, like a whole weekend without wrestling somebody. I mean it sucks.

You train all week to wrestle these guys and they don’t show up. What are you going to do, different reasons, injuries, they got to do what they gotta do. So, it’s tough.

The Daily: Do you think they’re avoiding you?

Rivera: In some cases, it’s obvious.

I won’t say which ones. I know others that have had concussions, stuff like that. But other cases I know they’re just avoiding wrestling.

The Daily: Do you think that dodging is good for the sport?

Rivera: It’s the worst for the sport.

I mean you see everybody saying it. It’s not good for wrestling. You want these big time matchups that get people watching, get people that maybe don’t know much about the sport. They see a big time matchup, they’re like ‘Wow I like wrestling now’ and now they’re interested in wrestling. But when we were dodging these big time matchups, it’s tough to get those other people that aren’t really in the sport to come in and chime in and watch.

The Daily: When do you find out if you’re not going to wrestle somebody?

Rivera: Weigh-ins. If they dont weight in, it’s pretty simple there.

Or if you don’t see them warming up.

Some of these guys will have street clothes, when everyone else is warming up. So that happened twice last week against Wisconsin and Minnesota. Nothing you can really do.

The Daily: If Coach Storniolo ever came up to you and said they’re going to sit you for a coach’s decision, as some of these coaches called it, what would go through your mind?

Rivera: You gotta respect it in some sense. But then you also got to be like, if you want to go, they can’t tell you that you can’t go. There’s some times where coaches told me you don’t have to go and I’m like probably the best decision for me because I didn’t feel that great. But if I felt ready to go and he told me to sit, I’m gonna have something to say about it. Most times when they tell me to sit they say it’s the right decision so I respect it but I can see the other side where you’re like, ‘Coach, I’m ready to go. You’re not sitting me this match.’

The Daily: Now you’re probably are going to face these guys later down the road, definitely Big Ten championships, maybe even NCAAs. Does this give you extra motivation to sort of show them what you got?

Rivera: Yeah they haven’t felt the hands yet. sports@u.northwestern.edu

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Sebastian Rivera gaines control over an opponent. The sophomore is one of the best wrestlers in the country.