The Daily Northwestern — February 15, 2017

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Aftermath of NU-Q student’s mental health crisis highlights differences between Evanston, Qatar sites

By OLIVIA EXSTRUM and STEPHANIE KELLY daily senior staffers @oliviaexstrum, @stephaniekellym

Rhytha Zahid Hejaze arrived at Northwestern University in Qatar in August 2013, excited to study journalism at a top

university. She did not expect that eventually she would face academic suspension at the end of her third year, much less spend a night in a Qatari jail cell.

During her freshman year, Hejaze began to struggle with her mental health.

She started counseling with Patricia Collins, NU-Q’s only on-campus counselor,

in fall 2013.

In October 2015, Hejaze registered with AccessibleNU-Q, formerly called Services for Students with Disabilities.

Her academic accommodations included extra time for tests and in-class assignments, breaks during exams and lectures, as well as the ability to reduce her course load

or withdraw from the current semester “without financial or academic penalty,” according to a letter shared with Hejaze and dated Oct. 13, 2015.

Despite these accommodations, Hejaze, who is from Pakistan and formerly was a columnist for The Daily, said she continued to battle mental health symptoms,

SAE ordered to cease activities

Fraternity’s headquarters orders NU chapter to halt operations

By NORA SHELLY

daily senior staffer @noracshelly

Nor thwestern’s S igma Alpha Epsilon fraternity chapter has been ordered by its national headquarters to halt chapter operations “until further notice,” after the University notified students last week of an investigation into a report of multiple alleged sexual assaults and possible druggings at the fraternity house.

Brandon Weghorst, a spokesman for SAE’s national organization, said they made the decision to issue a “ceaseand-desist order” to the chapter on Thursday. The measure comes amid the headquarters’ own investigations into “separate sexual-assault and alcohol violations regarding the group,” according to a statement on the headquarters’ website.

Weghorst said in an email to Th e Daily that the order was part of “routine protocol,”

meaning chapter activity must halt until after the organization’s investigation is complete.

SAE is prohibited from participating in any social activities or university events under the order, Weghorst said, but chapter members will be able to stay in the SAE house as of now.

The SAE house is under private ownership, Weghorst said, and the national organization has no control over it.

Th e sanction comes after the University issued a security alert to students on Feb. 6 saying it had received a report alleging four female students were possibly given a date rape drug at the SAE fraternity house on Jan. 21. The report alleges that two believe they were sexually assaulted. University spokesman Bob Rowley told The Daily that the SAErelated report was anonymous at the time the alert was sent to students via email. “ W hen incidents are brought to our attention, we take immediate action, and will

not hesitate to take corrective actions or impose sanctions on any member or chapter that fails to follow the stringent guidelines we set forth,” the statement from SAE headquarters said.

The headquarters sent The Daily a statement last Tuesday saying the national organization had launched an investigation into the Northwestern chapter, separate from Northwestern’s investigation.

“We are looking at everything for the chapter from a health and safety standpoint,” Weghorst said. “(We) want to look at the chapter’s social events and how they have conducted them, and whether or not they are complying with what we expect.”

Weghorst said any potential future punitive actions would depend on the circumstances of the investigation but that the SAE national organization typically does not recognize groups not recognized by the university.

The email, sent by Chief of

Police Bruce Lewis, also said the University received another anonymous report on Feb. 3 alleging that a female student had been sexually assaulted and potentially given a date rape drug at a separate, unnamed fraternity house the previous night.

On Friday afternoon, hundreds of students staged a protest demanding the removal of SAE’s chapter from campus, marching from the house on North Campus to the headquarters’ building on Sheridan Road. The SAE headquarters’ statement said it “respects the rights” of those who planned to participate in the march.

The Interfraternity Council executive board and chapter presidents decided on Feb. 8 to suspend social events indefinitely following the reports.

NU’s SAE chapter president did not respond to requests for comment. Interfraternity Council president Rodney Orr declined to comment. norashelly2019@u.northwestern.edu

including anxiety and depression. She said she withdrew from classes and tried different medications.

On May 31, 2016, during a meeting with a professor, Hejaze ran into a bathroom, crying. According to a University » See IN FOCUS, page 4

Lawmaker seeks to end cash bail

By DAVID FISHMAN

daily senior staffer @davidpkfishman

A state representative from Chicago introduced legislation to the Illinois House on Friday that would eliminate cash bail in the state.

The bill would also allow people charged with nonviolent crimes to be released under a promise that they show up in court and would provide pretrial support to ensure those charged make it there. However, the bill would still permit judges to detain or electronically track defendants deemed too dangerous for unconditional release.

“There’s a coalition of folks in my district who think that the way we currently do jail is pretty silly,” state Rep. Christian Mitchell (D-Chicago) said. “You’ve got folks primarily who are in there not because they pose a risk to society pending their trial, but because they’re poor. That doesn’t make much sense; it’s

not keeping us safer.”

Mitchell said 95 percent of people held in Cook County jails were awaiting trial and 62 percent could not pay their money bonds. It costs at least $150 per day to hold prisoners, making pretrial detention a “terrible waste” of taxpayer resources, he said.

Prof. Alexa Van Brunt, a lawyer at the MacArthur Justice Center at the Pritzker School of Law, said she applauds the new legislation, but that it does not go far enough.

“Any real reform needs to include a presumption of release for all people,” she said. “When you eliminate cash bonds altogether and only create a presumption of release for a certain segment of offensives, then … a large segment could just be detained full stop.”

Last fall, Van Brunt and other lawyers filed a class action lawsuit against Cook County Sheriff Thomas Dart and several judges » See BAIL, page 7

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House Dems write Rauner on ACA The 11 Illinois Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives sent a letter to Gov. Bruce Rauner Monday urging him to fight against a potential repeal of the Affordable Care Act. The effort was lead by Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.), according to a news release from Schakowsky’s office. It urges Rauner to work to find “constructive improvements” to Illinois’ healthcare system and to oppose measures that would potentially limit access and affordability to mental health care.

“Repeal would undo the real progress we’ve made,” the letter read. “Repealing the ACA would also lead to massive losses in insurance coverage, reducing funding for essential providers including our state’s hospital system and limiting access to critical health care services.”

The letter highlights that the uninsured rate has dropped from 12.7 to 7.1 percent in Illinois since the passage of the Affordable Care Act. The letter was written in response to comments Rauner made to the Daily Herald editorial board raising concern over the act’s potential repeal.

According to the article, Rauner argued against

a full repeal, saying it would put Illinois in a “very tough dynamic.”

“There are things that are good that have been working and many things that have been bad and have not been working. The costs are through the roof,” he told Herald reporters. “We have strongly recommended that they just don’t remove the Affordable Care Act. I think we need to have something (in place).”

According to the letter sent by Schakowsky and other House Democrats, a repeal of the ACA would result in a loss of healthcare for 1.2 million Illinois residents. Additionally, the act has helped 260,000 in the state gain financial assistance in the healthcare marketplace, the letter said.

The letter also said a repeal would threaten the Medicaid expansion accepted by Illinois, which has led to 671,000 Illinois residents gaining access to healthcare. The letter also warned the governor of potential impacts on behavioral healthcare a repeal would mean, referencing a waiver the Rauner administration applied for that would expand access to behavioral health services for Medicaid users.

The letter comes as Republicans in Congress are taking steps to repeal the act. Last month, Senate Republicans passed a budget framework that limits the ability of Democrats to filibuster a repeal of the law.

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More than $300 worth of alcohol stolen from Jewel-Osco

Items stolen from parked car

By NORA SHELLY

daily senior staffer @noracshelly

A Skokie man was arrested Monday in connection with stealing more than $300 worth of alcohol from the Jewel-Osco supermarket in southwest Evanston, police said.

At 1:10 p.m., a security guard observed the 27-year-old man placing bottles of alcohol in plastic grocery bags into his shopping cart at the grocery store at 2485 Howard St, Evanston police Cmdr.

Joseph Dugan said. The security guard saw the man push his cart out of the store, at which point the guard stopped the Skokie resident, Dugan said. The man

input from the state’s representatives in Congress.

Earlier this month, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) criticized Rauner for a letter sent from his administration to Congress regarding the issue and asking him to oppose a repeal of the Affordable Care Act. Their letter was in response to correspondence sent to Congress by the Rauner administration, at Republican lawmakers’ request.

In a letter, Jennifer Hammer, the state’s acting director of insurance, said, “major structural flaws in the ACA have forced higher insurance rates and separated families from trusted physicians and hospitals.” Durbin and Duckworth said they were “disappointed” the letter did not include information about potential negative impacts of a repeal of the Affordable Care Act. Durbin, Duckworth and the House Democrats have all said they would be willing to work with Republicans to restructure the Affordable Care Act. “We recognize that the ACA is not a perfect law, and we stand ready to work with you to find ways to make constructive improvements to the law,” Illinois House Democrats said in their letter.

“However, we strongly urge you to work with us to prevent the repeal of the ACA and to protect access to healthcare for all Illinoisans.”

An Evanston man reported Monday that someone had stolen various items from his unlocked car in south Evanston.

The 46-year-old man parked his 2009 Toyota in the 500 block of Kedzie Street on Saturday at 2 p.m., Dugan said. When he returned to the car on Monday at 8 a.m., he noticed the front interior was in disarray and that his Apple EarPods and a flashlight were missing. The man also reported that $2 in loose change had been stolen. ­— Syd Stone

norashelly2019@u.northwestern.edu

Setting the record straight

An article published in Tuesday’s paper titled ‘Students weigh Greek life merits’ misstated Sabrina Williams’ year, David Gernon’s title and the final vote count, and misattributed a statement saying off-campus activity would be more difficult for the University to monitor. Williams is a junior; Gernon is co-president of Political Union; the final vote count was 15 in favor, 14 against and eight abstaining; and Weinberg freshman Jake Gordon made the statement.

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Grad students provide care at Rogers Park clinic Feinberg students coordinate free Chicago clinic

By JAKE HOLLAND

the daily northwestern @jakeholland97

Students at the Feinberg School of Medicine are putting their skills to use and administering care at a free clinic in Rogers Park.

The Indian American Medical Association of Illinois Charitable Foundation Clinic, or the Devon Clinic, provides primary care services, lab tests and medication, offering services to the area’s predominantly South Asian population, said Ankita Devareddy (Weinberg ’16), a co-coordinator of the center and first-year Feinberg student. Both Feinberg students and students from Rush Medical College in Chicago provide care at the clinic alongside volunteer physicians every Sunday, Devareddy said.

The clinic is one of the seven Chicago-area community clinics staffed by Feinberg students.

Chintan Pathak (McCormick ’15), another cocoordinator at the Devon Clinic, said though the center is effective in treating patients, the fact that the clinic is free and frequented by low-income patients poses unique challenges.

“A lot of patients don’t have insurance, so if they need to get referred to get higher levels of care, a lot of times their only referral options are Cook County, which often has a really long wait time,” Pathak said.

The second-year Feinberg student also said Devon Clinic does not always carry medication patients need.

Still, volunteers help patients find places that sell medication at discounted prices.

Both Pathak and Devareddy said they were inspired to become co-coordinators of the Devon Clinic after volunteering as undergraduates with Devon Clinic Translators. The translation program, organized through the Northwestern Community Development Corps, allows NU students to offer translation to South Asian patients in languages such as Hindi, Telugu and Gujarati.

Marcus Byrd, a first-year Feinberg student who volunteers at the Devon Clinic, said he wanted to work at the clinic to help patients from disadvantaged

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Byrd said though Medicaid covers much of the care for low-income patients, it doesn’t always provide the necessary resources for recent immigrants or those who may be visiting family in the United States.

Volunteer clinics such as Devon Clinic helps alleviate that gap in care, he said.

“But for these patients, who might have language barriers or extra barriers to care, the existence of this clinics is really everything,” Byrd said. “For a lot of patients, this is their one-stop shop for getting their health looked over.”

The clinic also focuses on aspects outside of traditional primary care, Pathak said. Patients at the clinic often suffer from chronic conditions like hypertension and diabetes, he said, and though both can be managed with medication, the clinic also works on care through encouraging lifestyle changes such as diet and exercise.

“The push has been to get more of an educational outreach out to the patients as well, and not just a strictly medical approach,” he said.

He cited educational pamphlets written in Hindi or Gujarati, two languages spoken by many patients, as well as weekend health classes as examples of preventive care.

Going forward, the Devon Clinic plans to expand beyond primary care. Though the clinic currently provides eye care services once a month, Devareddy said members are currently discussing the implementation of other services like blood pressure education.

Devareddy added that though medical students can often become overwhelmed with work, volunteering at the Devon Clinic allows them to keep their guiding goal in mind.

“People join medical school with the interest of helping people and patients who wouldn’t otherwise have access … Sometimes when you’re caught up in studying or you have an exam, it can be a little bit easy to lose sight of that,” Devareddy said. “Just having the ability (at the clinic) to reconnect and remember why you started this in the first place was a big thing for me.” jacobholland2020@u.northwestern.edu

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4 NEWS | THE DAILY NORTHWESTERN

2006 2006: Plans for NU-Q set in motion

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2017

2007: Trustees skeptical of Doha site

2008

2007: 2008: NU signs NU-Q opens agreement to its doors open NU-Q

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IN FOCUS From page 1

investigative report obtained by The Daily, Collins called medical personnel out of concern for Hejaze’s welfare. The report said “allusions” to suicide made by Hejaze to NU-Q officials and other evidence gathered during the investigation indicated that “members of NU-Q administration had ample reason to be concerned for (her) well-being.”

The professor that Hejaze was meeting with when she ran out of the room, Amy Kristin Sanders, did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

Upon the arrival of emergency personnel, Hejaze resisted efforts to transport her to the hospital and NU-Q officials then called the police, the report said.

Hejaze, who plans to graduate in 2018, said she did not resist help from medical personnel, but that she resisted “what NU-Q’s idea of helping me was,” which she said was “forcing” her to go to the hospital.

“It’s traumatizing to have a student be in a hall with everyone watching.” she said. “It’s like a freaking show.

Do not make a spectacle of someone who is already having a hard time.”

Although Hejaze told The Daily that at the time she was not doing well, she maintained she was not suicidal.

“Just because someone has told you at some point in their lives that they have experienced suicidal ideation, does that mean that’s always going to be?” Hejaze said.

“The precedent this sets is if a student ever has suicidal ideation they cannot talk about it.”

The police accompanied Hejaze to the hospital May 31, where she remained in the urgent care unit until June 4, according to the report. The report stated that she was then taken to a police station to spend the night of June 4 in a cell.

“At this point, and without any advance notice to anyone at NU-Q, (Hejaze was) transported to the (Al Rayyan Police Station) where (she was) placed in a cell overnight,” the report said.

Hejaze spent the night of June 4 at the police station and was released the next day, traveling back to the university accompanied by Qatar Foundation security guards, she said. On June 5, she met with Whitney, who gave her a letter of suspension for one academic year. The letter, obtained by The Daily, said the suspension was in part due to “failure to make satisfactory progress toward completion of degree requirements.”

Nanci Martin, director of strategic media and marketing for NU-Q, said NU-Q does not comment on students’ academic or personal records.

“It is important to note, however, that the University is committed to the health, safety, and welfare of each of its students and the student body collectively,” Martin told The Daily in an email. “While University policy and federal regulations prohibit us from commenting on individual students, University faculty and staff regularly assist any student who may be having difficulty or those who may need disability accommodations.”

Operating more as an extension of NU’s Evanston campus than a separate institution, NU-Q features a well-respected journalism program in a country where criticizing the emir or vice-emir can mean imprisonment or fines.

Multiple NU-Q students interviewed by The Daily

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praised the opportunities they received throughout their education. But as the University looks to expand its brand across the globe, Hejaze’s story highlights the challenges of opening an international school in a place with different cultural norms than the U.S. Creating a school In 2007, the NU administration signed an agreement to open a school in Doha, Qatar’s capital, with the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development, a non-profit organization that founded Education City. An initiative spearheaded by the wife of the former emir of Qatar, Education City is located at the edge of Doha and includes several American schools, such as NU-Q. NU-Q opened to students in 2008. Provost Dan Linzer, who played an instrumental role in NU-Q’s founding, said Doha is a destination for leaders and organizations from around the world to convene and discuss global issues.

“Education City is a rather protected space.

There are things written in law (in the U.S.) that are not enforced in practice and there are things written in law in Qatar that I have not seen enforced.”

— Dan Linzer Provost But in the near decade since its founding, NU-Q has been subject to controversy due to limits to academic freedom in the country. In a 2015 report published after visiting NU-Q, former Faculty Senate President Stephen Eisenman praised the commitment to education shown by NU-Q faculty and students, but also expressed concerns about restrictions on academic and press freedom.

“The ethics of establishing a campus in an authoritarian country are murky, especially when it inhibits free expression, and counts among its allies several oppressive regimes or groups,” he wrote.

Qatar, a peninsula country located in the Middle East between Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf, has a population of 2.2 million people, according to the CIA’s website. The country is geographically small, but one of the wealthiest in the Middle East, with much of its income coming from vast oil and gas reserves.

NU-Q’s class of 2020 is 56 percent Qatari,

2012: NU-Q student arrested after reporting on fire

according to an August news release. Qatari nationals can have most of their tuition paid for through sponsorship under government entities and corporations.

NU-Q’s website notes that besides Qatari natives, NU-Q hosts students from 20 different countries in its current freshman class.

Tuition at NU-Q is the same as at its home campus: $52,004 for the 2016-17 academic year.

Whitney deferred comment to Martin, the director of strategic media and marketing for NU-Q. In the end, Hejaze was not convicted of a crime, and went home to Pakistan a few days later. After a months-long appeals process, her suspension was overturned and she returned to NU-Q for the spring 2017 semester, which began Jan. 8. She maintained that she felt her suspension “came out of nowhere.”

Operating under the law Because Qatar has more restrictions on public speech than the U.S., Education City sometimes faces issues surrounding academic freedom. In addition, controversy surrounding Qatar’s alleged mistreatment of migrant workers has sparked international debate.

After telecom providers blocked online access to the Qatari news organization Doha News in November, NU-Q students raised concerns about the country’s media freedom, The Daily Q reported in December.

In 2014, Education City students and faculty reported to The Daily Q that books were removed from course syllabi because they were held by the government for review of controversial material.

Situations involving mental health issues can face added uncertainty because attempting to commit suicide is illegal, according to the government’s penal code.

According to the investigative report, Hejaze expressed suicidal thoughts to Collins “about 3-4 times per semester since (Collins) started counseling (Hejaze) in fall 2013.” Hejaze said she talked to Collins about having suicidal ideation, but did not recall the specifics of the conversations.

“It’s legally right to call the police. But can’t you see how wrong that is?” Hejaze said. “There are professors looking at me, there are students looking at me. And I’m getting taken away by the police. Everything that is legally right shouldn’t be done. I wasn’t threatening to hurt someone; I wasn’t threatening to hurt myself.”

Hejaze said she did not realize at first that she was in a jail cell. There were suitcases and mattresses on the floor of the cell, unlike jail cells she had seen in movies, she said.

In emails obtained by The Daily, Hejaze notified D. Charles Whitney, NU-Q’s associate dean of academic affairs, when she was sent to the Public Prosecution, the country’s judicial body, on June 4, before she went to the police station and after her hospital release.

She continued emailing him upon her arrival at the police station.

After emailing him four times over about two and a half hours starting at 6:58 p.m., Whitney responded to Hejaze about eight and a half hours later, writing, “I am terribly sorry about this. As of now, others in (Qatar Foundation), (Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Education City), and NU-Q are responsible for your welfare, and I hope and trust you’ll be released this morning.”

Hejaze was not allowed on campus during her suspension, as she was no longer an NU-Q student.

In an email on June 6, she asked Whitney if she was allowed to say goodbye to anyone on campus. He replied, “You may text or email people and ask them to meet you at the front desk of the dormitory or, if you can arrange it with (Qatar Foundation) security, meet at the Student Center. No, sorry, you are not allowed in the building.”

Across cultures In an interview, Provost Linzer said Education City is a “rather protected space,” similar to NU’s Evanston campus.

“There are things written in law (in the U.S.) that are not enforced in practice and there are things written in law in Qatar that I have not seen enforced,” Linzer said.

He cited U.S. laws against underage drinking as a comparable example. “We don’t go around and arrest all of our students (in Evanston),” he said.

But whether in Evanston or in Doha, if students violate laws there could always be consequences regardless of different cultural expectations, Linzer said.

The 2016 Annual Security and Fire Safety Report for NU-Q, compiled by University Police, warns that “NU-Q community members are subject to the laws and regulations of the country in which they are located, which may differ substantially from and not offer the protection laws offer in their resident country.”

Qatari law includes strict regulations on activities common on college campuses, like drinking and “obscene language.” The security report also warns that conviction for “homosexual activity” may result in prison time or deportation.

Jim Sleeper, a political science professor at Yale University, has written several articles opposing Yale’s partnership with the National University of Singapore due to the country’s “tight-fisted governance that generates a subtle but pandemic self-censorship among its citizens,” he wrote in 2014.

He told The Daily universities must be prepared for conflicts that may arise when establishing international sites in countries with different values.

“Universities have to be sure to drive hard bargains, because they don’t want to lose their autonomy,” he said. “You can’t go for the gold without making sure that you’re keeping your values and pedagogical principles.”

Sleeper said universities can be especially enticed to opening an international site when the host government is willing to subsidize it.

“It’s catnip to the Americans,” he said. “It makes them feel cosmopolitan and worldly.”

Bridging the distance Although NU-Q is located about 7,100 miles and a nine-hour time difference from Evanston, Linzer emphasized the role NU-Q plays within the University system.

“NU-Q is not a campus, it’s not a satellite, it’s a school of the University,” he said. “(NU-Q has) to operate as one of the schools of the University, just as I oversee the law school and the medical school and Kellogg, not just the undergraduate schools and graduate schools.”

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2017

2014 2014: The Daily Q reports book censorship

2015: Faculty Senate president publishes concerns

2015

2016 2016: NU extends agreement with Qatar Foundation

2016: Task force publishes report

2016: Doha News blocked

2017: Students move into new building

2017

Daily file photo by Rafi Letzter, Graphic by Jerry Lee

Linzer rejected the phrase “international branch campus,” a catch-all term for institutions that establish a physical presence in a foreign location, to describe NU-Q. As provost, Linzer said he communicates frequently with all NU deans, including NU-Q Dean Everette Dennis. He said NU-Q often coordinates with departments in Evanston. Part of the Qatar Foundation’s contract with NU-Q, Linzer said, stipulated that some of NU-Q’s budget helps support employees back in Evanston who help manage operations in Qatar.

“I think my traditional skepticism about international programs, about depreciating the value of the brand, about not creating the same values, I think is not the case (at NU-Q).”

— Morton Schapiro University President For example, Linzer said, if there is a facilities issue at NU-Q, it will go to Jean Shedd, associate provost for budget, facilities and analysis, in Evanston. Similarly, security concerns are communicated to NU’s Executive Vice President Nim Chinniah and the University’s Chief of Police Bruce Lewis.

The security report said although UP has no formal agreement with Qatari local and state law enforcement, it periodically requests information about any situations that could “pose a serious or continuing threat” to the NU-Q community.

UP Deputy Chief of Police Gloria Graham said while information about incidents at NU-Q is often relayed to her back in Evanston, “most of the logistics of a response is handled locally in Qatar.”

Graham said if a student in Evanston is having a mental health crisis, UP will sometimes carry out a hospital transport. Deputy Chief of Police Dan McAleer said if a student is unwilling to go, UP may be required to take them into protective custody and transport them against their will. McAleer said emergency medical personnel administer some of these transports as well, especially if the incident occurs off campus. He said the Evanston Police Department often refers incidents with NU students to UP. McAleer and Graham both said no student in Evanston has ever been detained solely due to mental health problems to their knowledge.

“I can say for our department (in Evanston) there

has definitely not been a scenario where someone has been taken to jail or to a holding facility for a mental health issue,” Graham said.

After learning the University had suspended her, Hejaze said she believed she was discriminated against

by NU-Q because of her mental health issues. Hejaze said that soon after the incident she began contacting NU’s Office of Equal Opportunity and Access, located in Evanston, to investigate the University’s handling of the situation.

On Oct. 27, 2016, about five months after the incident, Abel León, the investigator working on Hejaze’s case, sent Hejaze an email informing her of his findings.

According to a report on the investigation obtained

by The Daily, there was no evidence that NU-Q officials sought assistance from Qatari police because of a discriminatory bias toward Hejaze based on her mental health.

“The sequence of events that unfolded after you admittedly resisted medical attention from the paramedics, including your subsequent detention and the stationing of guards outside your dormitory, appear to have stemmed from the involvement of police authorities,” it said.

Hejaze maintained in an interview with The Daily that she allowed medical personnel to examine her and that NU-Q did discriminate against her, treating her differently in the days that followed the incident.

Hejaze said she blames NU-Q for the events that followed May 31, including being taken from the hospital to the jail without the University’s notice.

León found that the suspension failed to “adhere to the accommodations granted to (Hejaze) in fall 2015 and spring 2016,” the report said.

The report added: “Although you suggested that the suspension letter issued to you was a direct result of your emotional reaction to the May 31 conversation with Professor Amy Sanders, I reviewed several e-mails, dated May 30, 2016, which reflect that Whitney was in the process of drafting your suspension letter the day before the meeting with Sanders.”

“Nevertheless, the incidents that developed starting on May 31st, discussed below, after your meeting with Sanders made it impracticable to deliver the letter to you until June 5, 2016,” it said.

According to the report, Whitney indicated to León that when the suspension letter was issued, he was unaware of Hejaze’s accommodations that would have “precluded” the academic suspension.

Hejaze noted a May 24 email sent by Sanders to other NU-Q officials, including Whitney, that detailed Hejaze’s psychological state during a meeting with Sanders. Hejaze said this email shows Whitney was aware of her mental health struggles before the suspension letter was issued.

Hejaze said that NU-Q should have been able to foresee the consequences that calling the police would have on her.

“The whole police thing added to everything else that I was dealing with,” Hejaze said. “It just traumatized me more.”

León found that University officials’ decision to contact medical personnel and the police “was based, not on any stereotypes or discriminatory animus, but on an individualized and informed assessment of the risk you posed to yourself and out of a genuine concern

for your overall wellbeing.”

Hejaze said although it was technically legal for NU-Q to call the police on her, she does not believe it was the “sensible” thing to do.

Writing on behalf of León, Sarah Brown, the OEOA’s director, said the office does not discuss individual cases publicly when asked for comment

by The Daily.

As a result of the investigation, Dennis told Hejaze in a letter dated Oct. 26 that he was overturning the suspension.

“Although you were not making satisfactory progress toward completion of degree requirements at the time of the suspension, I find that it was improper to penalize you academically for having taken a reduced course load, in light of the accommodations that were offered,” he wrote.

The email said Hejaze could return as a student beginning in the spring 2017 semester, which began on Jan. 8.

Several NU-Q administrators, including Whitney and Collins, deferred requests for comment to Martin, the director of strategic media and marketing. Martin responded to requests for comment on behalf of Dennis and other administrators.

“When you want to help someone … you do not suspend them. I felt that then, and I feel it now.”

— Rhytha Hejaze NU-Q journalism student Beyond NU-Q In an interview with The Daily in October, University President Morton Schapiro said when he first arrived at NU in 2008, he was skeptical of the benefits of international sites to the University.

“When they recruited me for this job in winter 2008, I said, ‘Please tell me you don’t have any global campuses,’” Schapiro said.

However, he said, over time he has warmed up to NU-Q. “It’s really hard to do it right,” he said. “That said, I think NU-Q does it right. … I think my traditional skepticism about international programs, about depreciating the value of the brand, about not creating the same values, I think is not the case there.”

In November, a University task force recommended NU establish up to three new international locations over the next five years. Unlike NU-Q, these locations could take the form of an office or meeting center with NU’s name on the building, Linzer said, rather than the form of a school.

Linzer appointed the task force to strategize how NU can have a better global reach, he said.

“Having that better projection of NU makes people feel included in a global enterprise and proud to be part of the institutions, and that helps us build and maintain a better university,” he said.

Kellogg School of Management Dean Sally Blount, who co-chaired the task force, told The Daily in an email that the University will not open a site of the same magnitude as NU-Q in the next five years.

“Our goal is to broaden, rather than deepen, our global reach,” Blount said.

In a November interview with The Daily, Blount said she “personally would be a big fan” of establishing international sites in places like Southeast Asia, Africa and South America.

In an interview with The Daily, Ronald Braeutigam, the associate provost for undergraduate education, said the Qatar program represents one international site, but he is unsure how future locations would be structured.

Linzer, who was provost at the time of NU-Q’s opening, said several reasons factored into NU’s decision to establish a site in Doha. For several years, NU had been building up its Middle East studies program, and Doha proved itself to be a safe learning environment for students wanting to study in the area, he said.

Second, schools such as Georgetown University and Carnegie Mellon University had already established schools in Education City, influencing NU’s decision to have a site there, Linzer said.

Finally, NU wanted to educate students in a more “objective way,” he said.

“The third reason was somewhat ridiculously longterm, naive, altruistic, whatever you want to say,” Linzer said. “But I think it fundamentally drove the thinking as the strongest reason, which is universities like Northwestern exist to have an impact.”

In a January 2009 speech, Schapiro said he planned to create a globally-minded campus during his first public appearance on campus after he was named NU’s next president the previous month.

“In order to educate anyone — undergraduates, graduates, whomever — you have to prepare them for a global world,” Schapiro said in the speech. “It’s a scary world, but we’re not properly doing our job as educators unless we prepare them for that world.”

In December 2014, the University launched a comprehensive website consolidating all of the University’s global opportunities.

While NU-Q is the University’s first location of its magnitude outside Illinois, NU has established several smaller operations throughout the U.S. At a November town hall discussion on the task force report, some faculty members expressed concerns about funding and resource allocation for new global sites.

Other faculty members at the meeting said they were worried their voices were not represented in the report.

The student perspective Several NU-Q students who have visited the Evanston campus through various NU programs said the two schools differ in certain ways.

For one thing, NU-Q is much smaller, said Jemina Legaspi, a senior studying communication. Legaspi said she does not feel restricted by living in Qatar or attending NU-Q, adding that there are just certain » See IN FOCUS, page 7

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Art is often the best tool for expressing emotions ISABELLA SOTO

Script Art has the distinct capability of conveying and communicating emotions that we struggle to put into words. When words fail, there always seems to be a song, a movie, a painting or a photograph that manages to say infinitely more than words can capture. I understood, in theory, the power of theater to engage audiences and provide a unique emotional experience. But, Quiara Alegria Hudes’ play, “Water By the Spoonful,” which will be performed this coming weekend in McCormick Auditorium and which I was lucky enough to be the dramaturg for, still completely transformed my perceptions of theater and its power to translate these experiences.

The story is centered around Odessa, who runs a chatroom for those addicted to crack

cocaine. And a majority of the play’s scenes take place in this online sphere where the struggles of drug addiction are segmented through the lives of those in the chatroom.

The play also focuses on Yaz, a Puerto Rican adjunct music professor and Elliot, a disabled Puerto Rican war veteran, and their relationship to their mother, Odessa. The story touches deeply on the issues of drug addiction, loss and trauma and how interpersonal relationships complicate these things. While it is not new to explore these topics in art, it’s still profoundly impactful to think of how art is capable of translating these visceral struggles to audiences.

Elliot’s character suffers from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, which manifests itself through haunting memories of his first kill while serving in the Iraq War. Elliot, however, refuses to seek out psychiatric help out of sheer pride and this prideful attitude can be attributed to the exaggerated, toxic male cultural identity that is prevalent within Latinx communities. This emphasis on machismo is a defense mechanism against vulnerability (and by extension femininity). The aggression, emotional repression and isolation that define machismo are only compounded when in

tandem with trauma such as the PTSD Elliot is faced with. The way this form of toxic masculinity is presented in the play should make us reflect on its role in our communities on campus and in our lives, especially given the recent increase in discussions on the environment that fraternities create and the culture and actions that arise from it.

The play also makes reference to music, specifically the music of John Coltrane. The main point the show makes with Coltrane’s music is centered around dissonance, or the music term for a lack of harmony among music notes. Dissonance is mostly discussed in the scenes where Yaz is teaching about free jazz, but it’s especially valuable to examine the concept of dissonance in terms of the lives of the characters. In the play, Yaz says, “Dissonance is still a gateway to resolution.” While the line relates to music theory that she’s discussing with her students, it doubles as a way to think about the relationships between those in the play.

There’s the dissonance between Elliot’s knowledge and recognition of his PTSD with the idea that if he goes and seeks out help he is somehow weaker for it. There’s the dissonance between the characters in the real world

and how they portray themselves online, as well as the dissonance between them wanting to use drugs but knowing it’s inherently harmful.

This dissonance also plays into our lives as college students. Too often we project a certain version of ourselves on social media, often in an attempt to make our lives look different than how they really are. We also tend to make decisions that we know are either unhealthy or unsound. The fact that the play lays its issues bare rather than depicting them symbolically is refreshing.

Telling the story of these struggles through art and providing a space where the audience can physically see and feel these issues makes them all the more powerful and visceral. It allows us to more thoughtfully engage with the implications of these often-painful experiences, albeit in a beautiful way.

rape culture, then no rape allegation — especially an anonymous one — merits action.

If one holds fast to a belief that anonymous complaints are less legitimate or potentially unverifiable, then people will be disincentivized to report their peers’ trauma.

This letter selectively cites Rolling Stone’s article as context for the Northwestern community’s response to recent events. Numerous studies find statistics on false reporting to be between 2 and 10 percent, according to The Washington Post. The National Sexual Violence Resource center cites three separate studies concluding 7.1 percent, 5.9 percent and 2.1 percent. And still, the anomalous Rolling Stone incident was selected as evidence.

NU treats anonymous reports seriously, giving people the option to file a report electronically. As members of the NU community, so must we.

The letter refuses to hold hegemonic

structures accountable for their endorsement of misogynistic masculinity and subsequent dehumanization of female-assigned bodies.

This unwillingness is connected to the structures that secure white, cis privilege among faculty at institutions such as NU. These are the very structures that produce a confirmation bias against and invalidate survivors.

The rhetoric that demands “we know exactly what happened” before taking action is trauma-inducing for survivors. I would hope any educator would feel that same obligation toward allyship to their students, some of whom are among the survivor community.

I survived rape twice. Once, I was asleep in a room full of people. Once, I was immobilized by a partner I stayed with. It wasn’t long before I came to Northwestern, and I didn’t yet have the knowledge to call it what it was. I have not reported. As a non-binary, the paradigm of Rape Trauma Syndrome

informed me that my assaults were validations of my body as legible. I continue to grapple with this notion.

I cannot sleep in the same location for more than two nights in a row. I have to see the door in every classroom I am in. I cannot be approached from behind without experiencing a panic attack. My RTS, PTSD and internalized transphobia — in concert with my punitive self-harming behaviors — have informed every day I have spent on this campus, and the two quarters I spent away from it.

I am infinitely grateful to all the professors, advisers and mentors on this campus who told me they believe me. That it is not my fault; that they see me. I feel safe knowing they would say the same to any survivors on this campus.

Isabella Soto is a Medill sophomore. She can be contacted at isabellasoto2019@u.northwestern.edu.

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I want to begin this response to the letter to the editor published Monday in The Daily entitled “Wait for the facts before rushing to judgement based on unverified accusations” with a very explicit trigger and content warning for rape and sexual assault.

As a two-time survivor, I want to foreground this letter with the stakes of victim blaming for the survivors on campus I call my sisters, brothers and non-cisters — the most resilient people I have ever known. I am a survivor, not a victim, because of the survivors on this campus.

In accordance with the definition of “confirmation bias” in Monday’s letter, if we refuse to believe that campus culture is a

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laws or processes students need to follow. For instance, it is sometimes difficult to get permission to film at certain locations, she said.

Vibhav Gautam, an NU-Q senior studying communication, and Mohammad Qandas, a junior studying communication, said the environment in Doha forces students to think creatively about how to pursue stories.

Qandas, who is currently studying on Evanston’s campus, said the law in Qatar has not been an obstacle for him.

Qandas arrived in the U.S. at the beginning of Winter Quarter 2017. Although he said he noticed the size of the student body immediately, other differences, such as resources, were also apparent.

“I’ve heard about CAPS here, which is pretty impressive that CAPS as a whole is available for students,” he said. “On our campus, we do have a counselor, and she’s great and does a really good job, but it’s impressive seeing a department for that.”

Omar Al Ansari, an NU-Q senior studying communication and a friend of Hejaze, said he was present when Hejaze was taken to the hospital. He said there were “a lot of rumors floating around” about what had happened.

Al Ansari said he believes the University should not have called the police.

“This whole chain of events happened

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because the University mishandled the situation,” he said. “Her suspension was overturned … they knew they messed up, and that shouldn’t have happened from the beginning.”

Despite access to a counselor, Al Ansari said there is a significant stigma around mental health issues in Qatar.

“Most people don’t talk about it,” he said.

“There are a lot of people who still see it as something that’s wrong with you.”

Hejaze is now back at school for NU-Q’s spring semester and taking classes. She has seen improvements in her well-being, she said, by focusing on activities like sprinting and playing the guitar. She still copes with anxiety, she said.

She said she dislikes having to communicate with the administration. NU-Q officials who were unhelpful in the past are still the people she has to go to for information or guidance.

She no longer uses in-class accommodations because they added more stress than relief, she said.

Looking back on what the University could have done differently, Hejaze said the University could have done a better job communicating with her instead of calling the police and assuming her intentions.

“When you want to help someone … you do not suspend them,” Hejaze said. “I felt that then, and I feel it now.” exstrum@u.northwestern.edu stephaniekelly2017@u.northwestern.edu Van Brunt pointed to the criminal justice system in Washington, D.C., as a model for reform. The district does not use cash bonds, she said, but people still usually return to court with help from pretrial services.

“D.C. is an urban area — they have a lot of crime — yet they have very high return rates,” she said.

“People go to court. It’s really been wildly successful.”

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Before Sunday, Northwestern’s outlook had suddenly turned bleak after a promising start to the season. It took just one game for the narrative to flip back.

Sunday’s win over then-No. 7 Wisconsin snapped the two-game losing skid the team sustained without junior guard Scottie Lindsey that threatened to derail NU’s tournament hopes. And heading into Wednesday’s home matchup with No. 23 Maryland (21-4, 9-3 Big Ten), the Wildcats (19-6, 8-4) are not only back in the postseason picture, but confident in their ability to hang with another top 25 team.

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“There’s a tendency to lose some confidence,” coach Chris Collins said. “Under the circumstances, with Scottie out, coming off two losses, it was a really important game for us to get back on track and regain some of our confidence that we’ve had most of this season.”

The Wisconsin victory legitimized NU’s playoff aspirations, but a secondconsecutive win over a ranked team would prove that the upset wasn’t a fluke and further solidify the Cats’ NCAA tournament resume.

Even so, NU is staying grounded amid the renewed hype.

“We hear a lot of people saying, ‘Their ticket is punched,’ and all these brackets are coming out with us in it,” sophomore forward Vic Law said. “It gives us confidence that we’re playing the right brand of basketball right now, but we still got so many more games left that … we could just as easily be an NIT (team) or just another one of these Northwestern teams that were so close but then got bounced out.”

But these Cats aspire to be different from their predecessors, and a first-ever conference win over the Terrapins would further separate this year’s iterations from prior disappointments.

NU has not won against the Maryland since it joined the Big Ten before the 2014-15 season, though the Cats took Maryland to overtime in College Park

last year and fell by just one a year earlier.

“They can score from all five positions, they have three guys, three terrific playmakers in (Melo) Trimble, (Anthony) Cowan and (Kevin) Huerter,” Collins said of the Terrapins. “They’re definitely one the top teams not only in our league, but even nationally.”

Anchored by center Damonte Dodd, the Terrapins’ defense also threatens to hamper an NU team that has been inconsistent offensively without Lindsey, who Collins said will be out against Maryland.

Junior guard Bryant McIntosh is fresh off a 25-point outburst against the Badgers, but might need help from his teammates after playing a full 40 minutes Sunday.

“They do a great job of trying to take away your initial actions,” McIntosh said

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in assessing Maryland. “They try and make you take shots that you don’t necessarily want to take, so you really have got to make them work defensively.”

A loss wouldn’t derail NU after its big win in Madison; the Cats have proved they have the ability to bounce back and are no longer in dire need of a signature win.

Even so, McIntosh and company know what a victory could mean for momentum, and for the team’s resume.

“At the end of the day, it was only worth one win in the Big Ten,” McIntosh said of the victory over the Badgers. “It’s an 18-round fight, and one is no more important than the other. We lose the next one, we’re just right back where we were.” jochnau@u.northwestern.edu

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While Northwestern limped to a dismal 15-39 record in coach Spencer Allen’s first season in the dugout last spring, Matt Hopfner tore up opposing pitchers to the tune of a .355 batting average.

This year, the senior right fielder with the second-highest batting average among returning Big Ten hitters feels like the rest of the team is ready to match his success.

“One year under the belt with the new coaching staff, we know what to expect,” Hopfner said. “Everything is a lot more efficient right now in the way we practice. And obviously the addition of the 10 new guys, which I think will have an impact right away, blended with some of the older guys who have experience — it’s a pretty good chemistry we

have this year.”

That group of 10 newcomers includes freshmen infielders Alex Erro, a Florida state semifinalist in high school last year, and Charlie Maxwell, a product of Evanston Township High School, who together will fill a void of left-handed hitters in the rotation.

They aren’t the only changes to the squad. Sophomore Willie Bourbon, who started 52 games at second base as a freshman, is shifting over to replace the graduated Zach Jones at first base, which Allen said will give the Wildcats’ defensive lineup more athleticism.

Either Erro or Maxwell will be expected to fill the vacancy at second.

With last year’s regular Friday starter Reed Mason also gone, pitching coach Josh Reynolds is looking to junior Tommy Bordignon, who made 17 of his 20 appearances in relief last season, to successfully transition into the No. 1 starter role.

“I think we’re going to give him the

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Matt Hopfner readies for a pitch. The senior will look to help Northwestern improve in 2017.

ball and say, ‘Let’s go, Tommy, let’s see what you can do,’” Reynolds said. “He’s motivated, he’s a different guy than last year, and … he’s starting to figure out this is what pitchers have to do, this is what I have to work on.”

Bordignon said starting will better fit his skill set than coming out of the bullpen did.

“One of my strong suits has been being able to maintain my velocity through multiple innings,” he said.

“The biggest thing for me has been keeping my strength throughout the later innings. (I’ll) hopefully be able to go deeper in ball games this year.”

Senior Joe Schindler, who missed most of 2016 due to suspension, and freshman Hank Christie, who Reynolds said has stood out most among the five freshmen arms, will also be tasked with improving a pitching staff that has nowhere to go but up. NU ranked dead last in the Big Ten last season in both team ERA and total strikeouts.

“We didn’t hide from the fact that we did struggle last year,” Allen said. “You start throwing losses together, and we weren’t able to just stop it and play the game that day.”

The second-year manager is making a point to emphasize a one-day-at-atime mentality this season.

The Cats may need it just to survive a challenging 15-game stretch to start the season — 14 of those games are outside of Evanston, and 11 are in the Pacific time zone, including a three-game series at Arizona State this weekend. Reynolds said he’s hoping to use the surplus of innings to get freshmen experience without “burying them” in pressure situations.

And with the new personnel, the wins might not be too far off.

“Yes, they’re coming this year,” Hopfner said with a smile. benjaminpope2019@u.northwestern. edu

1-4 to open season NU struggles through weekend after opening victory against Tulsa

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After losing four of their five games to open the season, the Wildcats left Tucson, Arizona in agreement: They need to be more aggressive.

Northwestern (1-4) kicked off the Hillenbrand Invitational over the weekend with a 3-2 win against Tulsa (1-4), but subsequently suffered a series of hard-fought losses against tougher opponents. No. 21 Baylor (3-2) secured a close 7-6 win in extra innings, and No. 10 Arizona (5-0) defeated the Cats 11-3 in five frames.

Fordham (4-1) and Cal State Northridge (1-4) also turned in wins over NU, 4-3 and 7-5, respectively.

Coach Kate Drohan said the team showed promise in its ability to fight back during the games, but described the overall performance as “inconsistent.”

“We have a lot of room for growth between weekend one and weekend two,” Drohan said. “I saw some moments with our team that were excellent, but in the end … we put ourselves in a hole in a lot of the games and there were a lot of opportunities for us to shore up our game.”

Senior pitcher Nicole Bond made two appearances over the weekend, matching her total from last season. She fared well in a seven-inning

start against Tulsa, earning the win but struggled against Arizona.

Sophomore infielder Morgan Nelson impressed in the batter’s box, tallying two home runs, four hits and 10 RBIs. Junior outfielder Sabrina Rabin, the Cats’ best contact hitter in 2016 with a .358 batting average, went 6-18.

With seven players from last year’s roster gone and three new additions in the mix, NU experimented with a new team dynamic on the field — something that takes some adjustment, Rabin said.

“We have a lot of talent, we just need to start working together as a team,” Rabin said. “We have a lot of speed in this order, we have a lot of good agility, mobility. I think we just need to use it.”

Rabin and Bond both said the team needs to be more aggressive for all seven innings, not just in spurts, in order to turn things around next weekend.

Bond said it’s best to identify areas for improvement early in the season before the start of Big Ten play. She said having the time to improve upon this past weekend will have a major impact down the road.

In preparation for the ACC-Big Ten Challenge, where the Cats will take on No. 3 Florida State and newly-ranked No. 24 Pittsburgh, Drohan said the team will focus on taking it “one pitch at a time” in order to make solid adjustments for this coming weekend.

“A big strength of ours right now is that we’re healthy and we’re very athletic,” Drohan said. “It makes a work week like this week very productive.” fathma@u.northwestern.edu