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Schapiro reportedly considered for USC Report says Morty is on shortlist for vacant presidency By ALAN PEREZ and ELIZABETH BYRNE daily senior staffers @_perezalan_, @lizbyrne33
University President Morton Schapiro is on the short list for the University of Southern California’s next president, according to a report by 247Sports affiliate USCFootball.com, a role the school has been slow to fill since its embattled chief executive stepped down more than six months ago. USC’s board of trustees is considering Schapiro, a former administrator and professor at the Los Angeles-based university, to be its next president, the online sports news website reported last week. He is one of two leading candidates, including the current Northeastern University president, Joseph E. Aoun, according to the report. In a statement sent to The Daily by a University spokesperson, Schapiro said he hasn’t been in contact with USC. “While I spent a wonderful eleven years at USC, I haven’t spoken with anyone on their search committee or on their
board,” Schapiro said. “Even though I am completing a decade as president of NU, I am still having a great time here and there is much left to accomplish.” USC did not respond to multiple requests for comment. A return to USC would complete a full circle for Schapiro, who was appointed to be dean of USC’s Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences in 1994 after chairing the school’s economics department. He also served as the private school’s vice president for planning. The higher education economist began his career in academia as a professor of economics and assistant provost at Williams College, where he later served as president after his stint at USC. He became Northwestern’s 16th president after the board appointed him in 2008, citing his “grasp of the issues facing higher education, the complexities of a research university (and) his impressive record of academic achievement.” In an interview with The Daily last week, Schapiro reflected on his NU career. He is now entering his 10th year as » See USC, page 6
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Students working on a set in Locy Hall. The Undergraduate Radio/Television/Film Student Association plans to open a new props closet in hope of reducing waste and making film production more financially accessible.
URSA plans shared prop closet
New RTVF initiative aims to increase accessibility, decrease waste By AMY LI
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The Undergraduate Radio/ Television/Film Student Association plans to open a new closet for Department of Radio,
Television and Film students to share prop resources and increase financial accessibility for students while eliminating waste within the department. Students will be able to donate props they no longer need and rent out props other students have donated –– free
of charge –– from a communal storage space near campus. The project is a response to reusable props sitting idly in storage while new props are purchased only to be used once or twice, said Madeline Hertz, the co-chair of URSA. The Communication senior added that
URSA is looking into a storage space near Green Bay Road and hopes to open the closet by spring of 2019. Communication senior Jen Schonberger said she believes the closet would decrease waste » See PROPS, page 6
Evanston kicks off first Hygge Fest Startup provides
Residents cozy up with warm beverages, Danish vocabulary By ASHLEY CAPOOT
CatsWork intends to make career recruitment easier
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In the back room of Bookends & Beginnings on Saturday, Evanston residents kicked off Downtown Evanston’s first-ever Hygge Fest, cozying up with warm beverages and practicing the pronunciation of the tricky Danish word. There is no direct English translation for hygge, but it encompasses the feeling of comfort that comes from moments like reading a book on a cold winter night or having a candlelit dinner with close family and friends, said Anne Petersen, who facilitated the event. Downtown Evanston’s Hygge Fest, which includes a knitting event and a wine and game night, will continue through Feb. 22. Petersen said they lived in Denmark for a year to learn Danish and have a long lineage of family members from Denmark. They explained that hygge is pronounced “hue-gah,” and that it is regularly used as a noun, verb and adjective. “It’s part of what makes it
career resources By PRANAV BASKAR
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Sweaters and hot beverages are an important part of hygge. Downtown Evanston kicked off the first Hygge Fest this weekend.
such a versatile word because it can be used in combination with so many other things,” Petersen said. “People will
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have hyggebukser, which are hygge pants, so they’re pants that aren’t super publicacceptable, but they’re super
comfy.” The Spice & Tea Exchange » See HYGGE, page 6
A new startup called CatsWork, headed by two NU undergraduates, is aiming to ease NU students’ career transitions by equipping them with tailored resources to navigate the career recruitment process. The organization, based in The Garage, was started by Weinberg junior Vincent Park and McCormick sophomore Nicholas Tan. According to its website, CatsWork provides “end-to-end recruitment resources that are affordable, quality and curated for Northwestern students.” Part of the product is a Google Chrome extension, which Tan said is “free for NU users.” Students can use the extension to automatically gather and store key information for the networking process. “Let’s say you go to LinkedIn to figure out who you should reach out to as a part of your networking journey,” Park said. “Then, while you’re on a person’s profile page, fire
up our chrome extension and click the LinkedIn autofill button. Our (product) will autofill networkingspecific fields — name, undergraduate school, firm information, position, etc. — and compile it in a Google Sheet which is part of your Northwestern Google suite.” Tan said because it’s important to expand your network during the networking process, finding internships and job opportunities inevitably includes reaching out to many people. Through the extension, Tan said students will be better able to organize and centralize their contacts, allowing them to pinpoint firms they haven’t reached out to and avoid feeling overloaded. Students can also use the extension to steer their career processes. For example, Park said, one student may look at their personalized spreadsheet and see they’ve reached out to five contacts at J.P. Morgan but none at Goldman Sachs. That student can use analytics from the extension to diversify their networking strategy. CatsWork also provides informational guides with tips for students to navigate the recruitment process.These informational guides are currently relayed to students in » See CATSWORK, page 6
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AROUND TOWN Author draws parallels between cooking, cancer By MADDY DAUM
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In her book “All the Wild Hungers: A Season of Cooking and Cancer,” Karen Babine intertwined food metaphors and stories about her mother’s cancer. The author answered questions and discussed her new essay collection at Bookends & Beginnings on Friday night. Babine, who taught fourth grade for 15 years, read chapters from her essay collection to an intimate audience at the bookstore as part of a book tour. Babine said she usually writes a lot about nature, but she applied her connection with place and setting to a newfound love for cooking in the series of essays. After Babine’s mother was diagnosed with cancer, the author said she began to cook for the rest of her family. She researched what she could feed her mother and picked up cookbooks from the different places she traveled. “I would just feed her anything she would eat, because the chemo was so bad that we had about 24 hours before she would crash for at least about three days,” Babine said. At doctor’s appointments, Babine said she noticed the doctor constantly used food metaphors to describe the size of the tumor and how it was growing. Babine said she was getting “really irritated” with the metaphors and
Police report 13 percent reduction in crashes on Ridge Avenue
The Evanston Police Department announced last week a 13 percent reduction in crashes on Ridge Avenue in 2018, following efforts from the city and the EPD to reduce danger on the road. According to a news release from the city, 241
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Bookends and Beginnings, 1712 Sherman Ave. The bookstore hosted Karen Babine to discuss her book “All the Wild Hungers: A Season of Cooking and Cancer.”
started to write about her experience with her mother’s cancer, which turned into the book. The book is broken up into short four to five page chapters, which Babine said came out of her editing process. English instructor at McHenry County College Lisa Crizer said she read the book and drove an hour and a half
to listen to the author because of the book’s poetic language. “I really love the way that (the book is) structured, the short little pieces that kind of make up the whole, and it felt like I kept moving through the whole thing,” Crizer said. “I think that when she described it as prose
crashes occured in 2018 from Howard to Emerson Streets, compared to 278 in 2017. In 2018, the city and the EPD coordinated a traffic initiative to increase safety and address traffic complaints, according to the release. The EPD and city also used press releases, social media, message boards and speed display signs to emphasize the importance of traffic laws on Ridge Avenue, the release said. In 2018, EPD officers issued 4,311 traffic citations along the road, including 1,339 speeding tickets.
In February 2018, the city also reduced the speed limit from 30 mph to 25 mph and added left-turn arrows to traffic signals at the intersection of Lake Street and Ridge Avenue in April 2018. Lara Biggs, the engineering and capital planning bureau chief for the city, emphasized the importance of controlling traffic in an interview last February. “We really are hopeful that this is going to have a big impact on the number of accidents that have
poetry, that’s very accurate.” Babine drew similarities between the food language that doctors used to describe her mother’s tumor and her sister’s pregnancy and combined her newfound cooking interest with the prevalence food has in her life. Nina Barrett (Medill ’87), the owner of Bookends & Beginnings, said “All the Wild Hungers” is a “beautiful piece of writing” that explores how food grounds us during uncertain times. Barrett said she reads a lot of food writing, but this book was especially outstanding. “I found this (essay collection) really unique in the kinds of connections it makes between what food means to us, what it does in our bodies and how it connects us and the images of growth, which are not always positive,” Barrett said. “It makes a lot of connections in really ingenious creative ways that I haven’t seen before.” Babine said she didn’t try to make her book into a story, as there is nothing unique to her about her mother getting cancer. She said the cancer alone was too universal for her to write about, which caused her to focus on the ideas behind the narrative. “It was really a goal to make (the book) something universal enough so that someone who has experience with this could find a toehold in this,” Babine said. “There was enough in there, both brain and heart, to make it go.” madisondaum2022@u.northwestern.edu been occurring on Ridge,” Biggs said. “We’ve been fortunate that the public has been really supportive in that these changes have been made for safety. So we hope that continues, (and) that people sort of maintain patience while we make these changes.” The release said the city and EPD will continue its efforts to increase safety on Ridge. They will focus on speeding, disobeying traffic laws, distracted driving and seat belt requirements. — Catherine Henderson
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Most Americans think they know what their country looks like: a union of states stretching from sea to shining sea, said history Prof. Daniel Immerwahr. But, as he argues in his new book, it’s not so straightforward. Immerwahr has spent the last few years writing his latest book, “How to Hide an Empire,” in which he describes the United States’ complex and violent relationship with its overseas territories — a relationship many mainland Americans know little about, he said. “From the mainland, it’s really easy never to think about U.S. empire and the U.S. territories,” Immerwahr said. “From the territories, it’s impossible to miss.” Even the name “United States” is misleading, he added. Since its founding, the U.S. has been a “union of states and territories.” Today, the U.S. possesses five populated territories — Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the Northern Mariana Islands — which are home to over three million people. The territories cannot send voting representatives to either Congress or the Electoral College and exercise little sovereignty over their own affairs. For most of their history, Americans have hidden the existence of their territorial possessions — even from themselves, Immerwahr said. American classrooms and textbooks use the classic “contiguous blob” map of the mainland United States next to Alaska and Hawaii, but that familiar figure accurately represented the United States for only about three years, he said. Immerwahr wants Americans to draw their mental maps of the United States anew — and by doing so, rethink major events in American history. The book, he said, tries to “use what we know to see U.S. history differently.” “How to Hide an Empire” has been reviewed not only in the academic press, but also in The New
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History Prof. Daniel Immerwahr with his new book “How to Hide an Empire.” Immerwahr said Americans need to consider U.S. territories when thinking about the history of the United States.
York Times, The New Republic and The Times. The Guardian also published an excerpt as one of its weekly “Long Reads.” Immerwahr said he deliberately chose to write for a wider audience to promote new conversations about U.S. history. Kevin Boyle, a history professor at Northwestern, called Immerwahr’s book “brilliant.” “Professor Immerwahr’s new book does a remarkable thing: It makes you see the history of the United States in an entirely new way,” Boyle said. Immerwahr has not been without his critics. Paul Kramer, a history professor at Vanderbilt University, published a scathing article on Immerwahr’s body of work in the journal Diplomatic History in 2018. “Immerwahr’s claim that U.S. overseas colonialism has long been inadequately studied is
completely without basis,” Kramer wrote. “Academics, policymakers, intellectuals, writers and activists in both the United States and its overseas colonies have subjected U.S. colonial empire to study … beginning in 1898 itself.” Immerwahr said that the book is meant to be “perspectival” rather than “archival.” There are new stories in the book, he said, but the primary contribution is thinking about the United States and empire in a new way — about territory, not simply about global influence. “There are countless books about U.S. empire, but a lot of them are about something different than what I’m writing about,” Immerwahr said. “I am interested in describing the shape of the country, not the character.” aaronboxerman2018@u.northwestern.edu
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Northwestern should eliminate single use plastics CATHERINE BUCHANIEC
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This is the first in a series about sustainability at Northwestern University in light of the 2018 UN Intergovernmental Climate Report. In the report, scientists concluded that greenhouse gas pollution must be eliminated by 2050 to mitigate the major effects of climate change. This past October, Northwestern won the 2018 Illinois Sustainability award for having “implemented outstanding and innovative sustainable techniques or technologies.” However, as seen by the UN climate reports released last fall, the timeline to make real progress against future climate catastrophes has shrunk. If we want to actually make comprehensive change, there is no later — there is only now. The bar needs to be raised for cities, corporations and college campuses, NU included. Since releasing its Strategic Sustainability Plan two years ago, the University has increased its electric vehicle usage and diverted a significant portion of waste to recycling and composting programs. Furthermore, new construction projects like 560 Lincoln and the Kellogg Global Hub as well as Kresge Centennial Hall, which was renovated in 2016, have received Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design awards for their energy efficiency. Ultimately, NU aims to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent from its
2012 base line by 2030 and achieve net zero emissions by 2050, according to NU’s Sustainability Roadmap. For NU, 2050 is not soon enough. The phenomenal measures NU has implemented these past few years deserve the recognition they have received; however, more needs to be done, both at the administrative and student level. We can’t say next year or in a few years — we are running out of time now. On the administrative side, the University needs to be more mindful of the place of single-use plastics on campus, especially in regards to beverage containers. Instead of handing out four different t-shirts during Wildcat Welcome, the University ought to cut a t-shirt or two and provide each student with an eco-friendly hot and cold thermos that could be used at the Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts in Norris University Center or at other on-campus coffee locations. For one thing, the Starbucks at Norris, like other branches, offers a 10 cent discount if you bring your own container — for regular purchasers, those 10 cents can add up over the course of four years. More importantly, this measure disrupts NU’s contributions to the ever-growing global plastic buildup. Unlike other materials, plastic was made to last forever. It can take centuries to decompose, taking up space in landfills and finding its way into ocean habitats. We don’t have infinite space for a product meant to last an eternity. Our daily coffees, teas and frappuccinos add up, especially when consumers, including some students and staff, do not put in the effort to recycle. Bringing along a thermos to
class or work should become second nature. It might not be the most glamorous practice, but it certainly has the potential to help alleviate the amount of waste we add to local landfills. Along the same lines, in 2015, NU planned to phase out bottled water from campus C-stores by the end of the academic school year; yet, from my observations, this effort was not fulfilled. If you walk down to the Fresh Market, Lisa’s Cafe or Tech Express, you will see countless bottles of overpriced Smartwater. Although the effort to ban water bottles at NU hasn’t achieved the level of success originally proposed earlier this decade, the place of single-use plastic bottles on our campus should still be debated. For me, plastic bottles, have no place on a college campus. Each new student in fall 2018 received a water bottle during Wildcat Welcome — it’s hard to justify buying water so frequently, especially when there are many hydration stations with clean water available in campus buildings. Even if a building doesn’t have a water bottle filler, the Illinois Department of Public Health ensures that Evanston’s tap water from Lake Michigan is safe to drink. As a person who has been drinking water from Lake Michigan her whole life, I promise that it tastes just fine. The last time a ban-the-bottle campaign made its rotation around campus, some argued that the banning of water would lead to more people consuming soda; however, do we really need to sell separate bottles of
carbonated beverages in vending machines? We have carbonated beverages in soda dispensers at every dining hall and we do not need to make contracts with beverage companies to sell them in vending machines as well. Additionally, when negotiating contracts with vendors such as MOD Pizza, we need to make sure that they’re not selling bottles of water when a water fountain is twenty feet away. Even if you’re someone who frequently misplaces things, the cost of a typical reusable bottle is equivalent to that of two bottles of water from MOD or the Fresh Market. Chances are, even if you lose a bottle every month, it would still be more eco-friendly to keep buying reusable a few times per year rather than regularly adding a bottle to your MOD purchase. From the straws in Starbucks cups to the bottles of Coke in a vending machine, we still have room to grow as a university. As students, we need to use the recycling bins provided in our dorms and around campus, and we need to work toward decreasing our overall consumption of plastic products. It might be the administration’s job to lessen the harm done to the environment by Northwestern University, but it is up to students to lessen the harm done by ourselves. Catherine Buchaniec is a Medill first-year. She can be contacted at cbuchaniec@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.
Why does the NFL value player performance over women? KATHRYN AUGUSTINE
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In November of 2018, TMZ Sports released graphic surveillance video of thenKansas City Chiefs running back Kareem Hunt shoving a 19-year-old woman, Abigail Ottinger, in the hallway of a Cleveland hotel. Problematic yet predictable, Hunt was neither charged nor arrested the night of the incident. Upon the footage’s release, Hunt was placed on the Commissioner’s Exempt List by the NFL and, as a result, was banned from practicing with the Chiefs. On Nov. 30, the Chiefs then bluntly announced in a statement that “Kareem was not truthful in those discussions” with their management team when the incident initially occurred. The fact that the team let Hunt go — albeit months too late given that they knew of the incident earlier and did not investigate further — was a small step forward in holding men accountable for their actions, regardless of their immense wealth and fame. That step forward was overridden by a large stride back on Feb. 11, when the Cleveland Browns offered Hunt a one-year contract reportedly worth more than $1 million. Browns general manager John Dorsey defended signing Hunt with the fact that
he was remorseful, saying, “If you talked to anybody who’s been in the locker room with Kareem Hunt, they’ll tell you he was a really good teammate.” This implies that just because Hunt was a solid teammate and apologetic — apologetic out of obligation — his past actions can be erased. Hunt’s violent assault of Ottinger is indisputable. There is video evidence plastered all over the Internet that anyone can freely access. Yet, he was rewarded with a second chance to press restart and earn a sum of money the average American will not earn in an entire lifetime. While Hunt’s case is currently under investigation by the NFL, given the NFL’s track record, at worst he will likely only sacrifice pay for a handful of games. Colin Kaepernick’s decision to protest the mistreatment of minorities within the United States cost him his NFL career and caused blatant character assassination. Meanwhile, Hunt, who was filmed assaulting a woman and was linked to other violent incidents, remains a part of the league, and many are willing to simply overlook his past actions. This begs the question: Why is non-violent protest judged as a more serious offense than the abuse of women? By giving the Hunt the privilege of a clean slate, the NFL is implicitly answering that the safety of women is secondary to success on the field. Hunt’s talent and what he can bring to the Browns outweighs treating women humanely.
A Browns’ tight end, David Njoku, said he “is really excited” that he can now call Hunt a teammate, and, frankly, that is disturbing. And Njoku is not alone. Dez Bryant, a wide receiver for the New Orleans Saints, went as far as to share his support for Hunt through Instagram because “nobody is perfect.” The prioritization of the success of a team over a teammate’s personal characteristics is ingrained in the world of professional athletics. The children and young adults — especially boys — who revere NFL players like they are superhuman will see that Hunt is given a second chance after less than a year without repentance. They will see the immense support from Hunt’s new teammates, like Njoku. And most significantly, they will absorb the message that the rights of women — their safety, their physical health, their mental health — will always be an afterthought to powerful corporations like the NFL. While the NFL’s arrest rate is 13 percent relative to the national average for men ages 25 to 29, its domestic violence arrest rate is 55.4 percent and its non-domestic assault arrest rate is 16.7 percent, according to a 2014 FiveThirtyEight study. The study also found that assault is the second-most common cause for arrest among NFL players. Given that the punishment for a first time instance of assault, according to the NFL
Personal Conduct Policy, is a “baseline suspension without pay of six games,” perhaps it’s not surprising that we continue to see players act violently without concern for their victims or the punishments they will face. Simply stated, Hunt should not have been signed to the Browns. What he decided to do to Ottinger was no mistake or a misunderstanding. Rather, his violent actions were intentional and reprehensible. In order to cultivate a culture in which women do not need to fear being abused by the hands of a man, we need to hold men, especially those who are in the public eye like Hunt is, accountable. While it’s valid to care about how your team performs in order to make money, that should never come at the cost of a woman’s wellbeing. Instead of handing out second chances freely, we need to actually punish members of the NFL who mistreat women. The next generation of boys who idolize these players should grow up receiving the message that violence toward women is not something that will be tolerated, ever.
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National News Lawmakers expect vote to block Trump’s emergency order, and then face a veto WASHINGTON — U.S. lawmakers said Sunday that there may be support in Congress to disapprove Donald Trump’s order declaring an emergency to secure funding for a border wall, but not enough votes to overturn an expected veto. Trump issued the order Friday to divert certain military funding for wall construction, after Congress approved only $1.375 billion of the $5.7 billion he sought in a bipartisan budget bill to avoid a second partial government shutdown. House Democrats may soon pass a resolution opposing the declaration, and Democrats in the Senate, while in the minority, could force a vote on it. Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., and Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, both said on ABC’s “This Week” Sunday that they expect a resolution in Congress opposing Trump’s order to have enough votes to pass their respective chambers by simple majorities. White House aide Stephen Miller suggested on “Fox News Sunday” that Trump would then issue the first veto of his presidency. “He is going to protect his national emergency declaration, guaranteed,” said Miller, one Trump’s most hawkish advisers on immigration. He said U.S. law gives Trump the power to make the declaration.
Jordan said on ABC’s “This Week” that while he thinks the resolutions will pass, “when the president will veto them, I don’t think there’s any chance that the veto will be overridden.” Duckworth also questioned whether a Trump veto could be challenged. “Now, whether we have enough for an override and veto, that’s a different story,” Duckworth said. “But frankly, I think there’s enough people in the Senate who are concerned that what he’s doing is robbing from the military.” At least three lawsuits have already been filed to block Trump from diverting funds previously approved by Congress. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said on ABC’s “This Week” Sunday that his state “definitely and imminently” will be suing to challenge the emergency declaration. “We are prepared, we knew something like this might happen,” he said. “And with our sister state partners, we are ready to go.” Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said the president may have doomed his legal arguments in any court challenge by asserting, during a rambling press conference in the White House Rose Garden, that he declared the emergency simply to make his border wall project move faster. “I could do the wall over a longer period of time. I didn’t need to do this. But I’d rather do it much faster,” Trump said Friday. “And I don’t have to do it for the election. I’ve already done a lot of wall for the election. 2020.” Trump is “pretty much daring the court to strike this down,” Schiff said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “It’s hard to imagine a poorer case.”
Trump’s emergency declaration will allow him to redirect $3.5 billion Congress approved for the Defense Department’s military construction budget. He’ll also use ordinary executive authority to reprogram $2.5 billion from the Defense Department’s drug interdiction efforts and $600 million from the Treasury Department’s drug forfeiture program, a senior administration official said Thursday. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, said he’s heard from Republicans concerned that Trump’s declaration is unconstitutional and might take money from government projects they’ve supported. “Republican after Republican is telling us that privately,” Brown said on CNN. “We will have a vote on this, likely in the next two or three weeks, to see if those Republicans show the backbone they’ve generally haven’t shown in standing up to the president in the past. This is more serious because it’s a constitutional question.” House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., echoed other Republicans who said the president has the authority to declare an emergency to stop human trafficking, and drugs and migrants from crossing the southern U.S. border. “It is a crisis and emergency along our border,” McCarthy said on Fox’s “Sunday Morning Futures.” Ben Brody, Tom Schoenberg and Hailey Waller contributed to this report. -Mark Niquette and Christopher Condon (Bloomberg News/TNS)
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Artist Karl Johnson said people do not stop to look at the Earth enough. “We put blinders on ourselves,” Johnson said. In his work featured as part of a new series at the Evanston Art Center, Johnson built sculptures to resemble natural elements using “discarded” industrial materials from a junk pile. He said his pieces attempt to give these used-up materials “a spirit, an animation.” The Evanston Art Center premiered this new series exploring industrial design on Saturday, including pieces from Johnson, C. Stowe Myers and Jessica Gondek. The exhibitions will be on display through March 24. Johnson said he grew up surrounded by nature in Libertyville, Illinois, where his family owned an arborist business. Over the years, Johnson said he has seen the ecosystem decline, and has also seen people forget to appreciate nature. Johnson, Myers and Gondek use different mediums — sculptures, design models and 2D art, respectively. Nathan Florsheim, a photography instructor at Evanston Art Center, said the different mediums reflect the diversity of artists at the Evanston Art Center. “It’s this really nice collage from different components of the art world,” Florsheim said. ”We really want to open up our space to those different components.” The late C. Stowe Myers’ son Charlie Myers curated his exhibit. Charlie Myers said his father was “some sort of a legend” as an industrial designer in the late 60s, and his design of voltage meters was featured at the Louvre. Growing up, Charles Myers said, he didn’t have a full grasp of what his father did. He said he used to see his father as “magician” because of the “amazing illustrations” his father produced so quickly, and recalled his father trying to explain he could not touch the product models because they were not toys. Godek’s exhibition “Enterprising Machines” uses 2D art to explore industrialism. The exhibition looks at the “amalgamation of the hand and the machine,” and Gondek said she was inspired by domestic utilitarian objects featured in vintage trade catalogues. Godek also said she tried to find the physical objects in flea shops, and the works of art produced are “an amalgam of those different experiences with the forms.” In her creative process, Gondek used both current technology, like 3D modeling software and Photoshop, and mechanical approaches, like charcoal and pastel drawings. “These works hold in common a marriage of both traditional media and digitally mediated computer approaches intrinsic to the development of the images,” Gondek wrote in her artistic statement for the exhibition. snehadey2022@u.northwestern.edu
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“The Bird in Fright,” a work by Karl Johnson featured at the Evanston Art Center. Johnson said the materials and the subject emphasized the contradiction of industrialism and nature.
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From page 1 of Evanston provided warm drinks and pastries to emulate the tangible components that are often associated with hygge, and the attendees asked Petersen questions about how to incorporate hygge into their own lives. Evanston resident Irene Ziaya said she learned a lot at the event and will attempt to make hygge a more active part of her dayto-day life. “The whole concept of being welcoming and cozy and all that … that’s something that I’m consciously trying to build more in my life,” Ziaya said. “It gives me some really good ideas to approach it a little differently.” Nina Barrett (Medill ‘87), the owner of
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University President Morton Schapiro speaks at an event in Fall 2017. In response to a report by 247Sports site USCFootball.com, Schapiro said he has not spoken with members of USC’s presidential search committee.
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From page 1 president, which he says is “uncharted territory” because it’s the longest he’s served in the same role at a university. “I didn’t plan to come here as president; it just sort of happened. … I know I make a lot of mistakes, but every once in a while I get something right,” he said. “I always try to learn from my mistakes and do a better job.” USC has been in turmoil since its chief executive, C.L. Max Nikias, stepped down in August amid outcry over his handling of reports that the school’s gynecologist had mistreated students for decades, as uncovered by the Los Angeles Times.
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From page 1 in the RTVF department by having a consolidated place to keep and share resources. “I had a gallon of fake blood sitting in the basement for like a year just because I used it on one set and didn’t know what to do with it,” Schonberger said. “So I think having a prop closet is a really good way to eliminate waste in the community.” Hertz said she has personally experienced the issue when she worked in production design and hopes the new space will alleviate the stresses of purchasing and storing new props for students. “I’ve had random props littering my space,” Hertz said, “and sometimes they’re really odd things where you go like, ‘Maybe another designer could use this.’” The closet also aligns with URSA’s long-term goal of making production more financially feasible for RTVF students, Hertz said. In addition to the props closet project, URSA is also trying to make productions more affordable by negotiating with RTVF administrators to make the Media Arts Grant –– a funding system to support
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The private school also faced criticism after the Times revealed that the former medical school dean had used drugs on campus and partied with prostitutes. Well into the school year without a permanent president, USC’s board of trustees is still looking for a person to bring stability back, although the board is reportedly struggling with some internal conflict of its own. USC’s leadership has said it would take four to six months to pick a new president, though it is well into its seventh month of searching.
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alanperez2020@u.northwestern.edu elizabethbyrne2020@u.northwestern.edu NU student filmmakers –– more accessible. For the grant program, students are required to front their expenses and receive the grant through reimbursements, which poses a financial burden for filmmakers who cannot afford to withdraw large sums of money, even temporarily. “It’s not feasible for people to front $1,500 for their movie and get it back in reimbursements,” Hertz said, “so we’re working on that to try to find a different way for the Media Arts Grant money to be given to students, and the prop closet is another way to help with that financial accessibility.” Beyond the group’s efforts for financial accessibility, however, Andrew McCabe, a Communication junior, said he is excited to increase creative options for students as well. The closet will bring a new collaborative element to the RTVF department, he said. “As a film major, we only have certain equipment,” McCabe said. “Props are where creativity comes to play. It’s exciting to see how people are going to collaborate. We’ve been waiting for something like this for a while.” amyli2021@u.northwestern.edu
the form of videos, but Park said CatsWork is currently in the process of expanding to include podcasts and other multimedia formats. “We find successful people at Northwestern who have been through the recruitment process already, and then deliver their personal insights to people on Northwestern’s campus,” Park said. Park added that he was inspired to create CatsWork when he observed a shortage of NUspecific resources for the career process. He said there’s a gap between what students want and what students have as they’re going through their recruitment journey. “All of this is coming from a purely Northwestern-focused angle,” Tan said. “There’s plenty of resources to tell you how you can ace technical interviews online, but they don’t tell you how you can use the specific experiences, resources and connections you get (at Northwestern) to your advantage.” To bridge that divide, Park added that CatsWork is in the process of considering partnerships with
Bookends & Beginnings, said she became a believer in hygge when she visited Copenhagen, Denmark. She said she has hosted hygge-related events in February for the past two years and was thrilled to kick off the 2019 Hygge Fest in her store. Barrett said this is the first year that Downtown Evanston has hosted a Hygge Fest, and an unprecedented number of people expressed interest in hygge this year. “I am awestruck by the number of people who showed up for this,” Barrett said. “The store is not always that packed, that was just a really fantastic number of people. I’m really glad that that so many people got excited about it, and it felt like it was a real community event.” ashleycapoot2022@u.northwestern.edu Northwestern Career Advancement. He said by the end of this year, CatsWork hopes to tap into 30 to 40 percent of the projected market of undergraduate students. Both Park and Tan emphasized the importance of CatsWork’s nine-person team, stating that the success of the organization has only been possible due to the group’s hard work. For both Park and Tan, CatsWork has been a huge team effort. Hayes Ferguson, the associate director of The Garage, said in an email to The Daily that she applauds CatsWork’s “efforts to come up with solutions to problems.” She said the team at The Garage would be happy if the business is successful in creating a practical solution to ease students’ career transitions. Now, Tan said CatsWork is constantly searching for ways to better serve its users. “We want to create resources specific to Northwestern students and offer them tools and ways of improving their experiences,” Tan said. pbaskar@u.northwestern.edu
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The CatsWork team. CatsWork helps students keep track of their professional connections and supplies them with Northwestern-specific tools and tips to tackle the career process.
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Northwestern’s bats are alive against ACC rivals By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG
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Lily Novak settles in at the plate. The Cats went 3-1 this weekend at the ACC/Big Ten Challenge.
Last season, Northwestern developed a habit of coming from behind late. Five times, the Wildcats trailed by multiple runs entering the seventh inning and won. NU (7-2) is starting to establish a similar identity this year. In the first game of the ACC/ Big Ten Challenge on Friday in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, the Cats trailed Louisville 8-3 in the seventh and turned it into a win. NU tied it with five runs in the seventh before a go-ahead blast from freshman shortstop Maeve Nelson — the first of her career — in the ninth gave the Cats a 9-8 victory. “Their poise in that moment and their will to win is what made that happen,” coach Kate Drohan said. “Nobody tried to do it by themselves; it’s just about passing the bat. It’s really a product of last year. Once a team learns how to (come back), then that becomes the mentality.
We just feel like we’re never out of a ball game.” The dramatic win helped propel the Cats to a 3-1 record against the Cardinals (4-5) and host Tar Heels (5-3). NU beat North Carolina 9-3 on Friday evening. Senior left fielder Morgan Nelson opened the scoring with a solo homer in the first inning, and junior pitcher Morgan Newport extended the lead to 5-0 with a two-run shot in the third. The Cats broke it open in the seventh on a basesclearing double by freshman catcher Jordyn Rudd and an RBI triple from freshman designated hitter Nikki Cuchran. North Carolina came back on Saturday to shut out NU 5-0 behind star pitcher Brittany Pickett, who threw a four-hit shutout. Sophomore pitcher Kenna Wilkey and Newport were both solid in the circle, but the Cats’ defense made four errors and kept giving the Tar Heels extra outs. “(Wilkey) had a very good start to the game, and Newport’s been doing a heck of a job coming in relief,” Drohan said. “It’s our defense that needs to step up for them. That’s how that game got away from us — it was our defensive
miscues.” NU rebounded on Sunday to beat the Cardinals 4-2 to close out the weekend. Freshman pitcher Danielle Williams had a shaky first inning, loading the bases with nobody out, but got out of the jam with just one unearned run scoring. She was excellent the rest of the way, and even helped her own cause with a two-run double in the second to give the Cats the lead they would never relinquish. NU added an insurance run in the third on an RBI double by Cuchran, and another in the fifth on a run-scoring single by senior first baseman Lily Novak. Louisville brought the go-ahead run to the plate in the seventh, but Williams retired Celene Funke on a fly to left to close out the win. “We’re learning about how to control momentum during the game,” Drohan said. “We have created a long list of what we need to do this week in practice. We need to shore up different parts of our game, and I like our motivation for that.” benjaminrosenberg2021@u.northwestern.edu
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After conference play, Wildcats heading to California By PETER WARREN
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Northwestern is already an esteemed program. Over the next few days, it will look for something more tangible — Prestige. Specially, a championship at The Prestige at PGA West in La Quinta, California, this week. The three-day, three-round tournament will have some of the best teams in the country going toe-to-toe at the Club at PGA West. Three of the last four NCAA champions will be in the tournament field — LSU, Oklahoma State and Oregon. And seven of the top 30 finishers at last year’s NCAA Championship — Arkansas, Iowa State, Oklahoma State, Oregon,
Stanford, UCLA and the Wildcats — will be in the field. NU is coming off a disappointing start to its spring at the Big Ten Match Play Championship, finishing in eighth place and failing to win one of its three matchups. Coach David Inglis said the team was not ready to compete, but the competition can be treated as a learning experience. “It was disappointing not to have better results, but from a training perspective it was all good reps,” Inglis said. “Ultimately it will move us further along.” At last year’s tournament — which was only two-rounds due to high winds on the first day — NU finished in sixth place, ahead of Southern California and Iowa State. Senior Ryan Lumsden had tied for tenth place at 1-over-par. The Prestige at PGA West will be played on
the Greg Norman Course, the newest links at the La Quinta club. Designed by the two-time Open Championship winner, the course is not an easy one. It features water on half of its holes, tight fairways and 102 bunkers. Most of the teams in the tournament come from warm-weather locations, giving them an advantage over the Cats, who have been practicing indoors all winter. Senior Pete Griffith said working indoors gives plenty of time to work on mechanics, which he said is a good thing. “For us we are just coming out of the time of the year where a lot of us are working on our mechanics,” Griffith said. “But it’s also a time, this time of year in particular, where we need to begin to transition from the mechanical side of things to being able to take those games outdoors and compete.”
Inglis said the message of practice this week was going to be about taking advantage of their time at practice. Inglis said NU’s “No. 1 sustainable advantage” is maximizing its time at practice, as well as being more efficient and doing a better job than any other player or program in the country. While the spring may not have started the way he expected it, Griffith said he feels the start does not reflect where the team is at or where the team will be at the end of the season. “All of our guys games right now are in a position to have a really good spring season like last year,” Griffith said. “I know that we are all planning on having a better spring season than last year. We all just feel really good about out games.” peterwarren2021@u.northwestern.edu
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By CHARLIE GOLDSMITH
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The game was already out of hand when the best player on Nebraska gave Northwestern a literal smack across the face. Down ten points with 25 seconds to play, junior forward Aaron Falzon drove to the basket, where the Cornhuskers’ Isaiah Roby was setting his feet and winding up his arm. He blocked Falzon’s shot into the face of junior forward A.J. Turner. Doink. And in primetime on a rainy night in Lincoln, Nebraska, NU (12-13, 3-11 Big Ten) lost its sixth straight in conference play, as Roby led Nebraska (15-11, 5-10), the fourthworst team in the conference, to a 59-50 victory. Double doink. With an offense that again struggled to surpass 60 points and a star player, senior forward Vic Law, that was held in check by a guard seven inches shorter than him, the Wildcats had another long night. Law led the team with 15 points on 6-for-15 shooting, and only two other players cracked more than five points.
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“We’re having a hard time scoring,” coach Chris Collins said after the game. “That’s been the script with us for most of the year … Our defense wasn’t the reason we lost. The reason we lost is we really struggled to score the ball, and that little stretch of turnovers against the zone was really killer for us.” On the other side, the Cornhuskers were led by Roby, the most talented and the most athletic player on the floor. Facing a highly-regarded NBA prospect who could crack the first round in this year’s draft, Collins toggled through several of his frontcourt options to try to keep him in check. But Roby was much more aggressive than he has been in recent games, said Nebraska coach Tim Miles, and Roby finished with 19 points, 16 rebounds, five blocks and two steals. “I got challenged by my teammates a lot just to be more aggressive on both ends,” Roby said. “I would say that’s what was working for me … Everybody (challenged me). Those are my brothers, so I expect them to keep it real with me. I appreciated that.” While the Cats couldn’t do much to stop Roby, Glynn Watson, the
Cornhuskers’ 6-foot point guard, guarded Law for most of the game, tracking him around the perimeter and contesting his shots in the paint. With Watson limiting NU’s leading scorer by himself, Nebraska was able to key the rest of its defense on stopping senior center Dererk Pardon, who had 13 points on 12 shots and against a number of double-teams. Before Saturday, Pardon averaged 16.6 points and 11.4 rebounds in games against Nebraska, including a career-high 28-point performance in his first matchup against them in 2015. Despite Pardon’s significant size advantage over Roby and the Cornhuskers’ front line this year, he missed seven shots Saturday. With the loss, NU falls to 13th place in the 14-team Big Ten, having missed an opportunity to leap Nebraska in the conference standings. After the game, Miles said he thanked Pardon for sparing him from another monster performance and helping the Cornhuskers rise from the bottom of the Big Ten. “I told him, ‘Tonight might be the first night you didn’t get 30 (points) and 20 (rebounds),’” he said. “I was joking, but it’s true.” Daily file photo by Noah Frick-Alofs
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Gaines’ assertive style Cats fall to Purdue in last second is a relief in NU’s loss 61 By ANDREW GOLDEN
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Almost a month ago, after back-toback wins against Rutgers and Indiana, it seemed that Northwestern had gained some momentum in conference play. But after the Wildcats’ 59-50 loss to Nebraska on Sunday, NU (12-13, 3-11 Big Ten) is now searching for answers after losing its sixth straight game. NU’s struggles offensively have been holding them back over the past six games, where the Cats have averaged only 55.8 points. On Saturday, NU scored 50 points on 34.5 percent shooting from the field. Only three players reached double figures and once again the offense looked stagnant. The Cornhuskers contained senior center Dererk Pardon, causing him to have an unusually inefficient game. Pardon scored 13 points on 5-for-12 shooting, forcing the Cats to look for other offensive weapons. For the Cats, scoring woes have been a struggle all season, as they’ve scored fewer than 60 points in five of their last six games. NU has continued to put an emphasis on perimeter shooting, despite the fact that the team is in the bottom half of the conference in 3-point percentage. The Cats are currently 10th in the Big Ten in percentage, but have attempted 563 threes, the sixth-most in the conference. NU has attempted at least 17 threes in every conference game this season and took 25 in Lincoln, Nebraska against the Cornhuskers, the secondmost of any Big Ten game thus far. Everyone was taking shots from behind the arc — from senior forward Vic Law, who attempted eight, to
freshman forward Miller Kopp, who added two. Even the centers took their chances: Pardon made one of his two and junior Barret Benson took one, but missed badly. However, the player who took his chances the most from behind the arc was sophomore guard Anthony Gaines. Gaines, whose primary offensive use is to attack the basket, didn’t just take one or two shots from the behind the 3-point line — he took seven. The sophomore guard scored the first points of the game on a 3-pointer. But that didn’t change Nebraska’s game plan of letting the visiting team fire from deep. When Gaines had the ball in his hands to facilitate the offense, the Cornhuskers gave him lots of space, almost begging him to shoot it. For the rest of the game, Gaines attempted six more threes, but made just one. Despite the percentage, if Gaines stays this aggressive from the field, he could emerge as an integral part of the offense. With the Cats’ top three scorers leaving next season, the question for them will be who is going to carry the offensive load. While there could be potential options on the current team or in the incoming recruiting class, Gaines is taking an opportunity to expand his game and become a more relevant choice. Coming into the game, Gaines had not attempted more than three 3-pointers in a game all season. In this game, coach Chris Collins clearly showed his confidence in Gaines, giving him the green light to attempt seven 3-pointers. Gaines is already one of the best players on the team when it comes to attacking the basket. If Gaines works on his three-pointer during the offseason, he could become an extremely potent weapon for NU moving forward. andrewgolden2021@u.northwestern.edu
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The last time Northwestern played Purdue, the Boilermakers got ahead by as many as 13 points before the Wildcats made a furious comeback. In the end, sophomore guard Lindsey Pulliam missed the shot that would’ve put NU ahead, and Purdue narrowly escaped with a three-point victory. On Sunday, this time with NU on the road, the situation was reversed. The Cats jumped out to a 10-point lead in the third quarter, but the Boilermakers cut into it, eventually tying the game by the end of the third quarter. Purdue had the lead for most of the fourth, but with less than a minute remaining, Purdue couldn’t stop Pulliam as she came through with a clutch bucket this time around to knot the score at 58. Still, in the end, Purdue got the best of them. Boilermakers’ guard Karissa McLaughlin hit her ninth 3-pointer of the game with 1.4 seconds remaining to hand NU another heart-wrenching 3-point loss to Purdue, this time 61-58. “The kid made a great shot, but we had a great look too that would’ve sent it to overtime,” coach Joe McKeown said. “(It was) just a hard-fought Big Ten game … just one that we had opportunities (to win), but just couldn’t close.” Both teams struggled to shoot the ball at the start of the game. In the first four minutes of action, freshman guard Veronica Burton scored the lone basket on a 3-point field goal. However, the Cats and Boilermakers eventually got going, as the two teams traded leads back-and-forth throughout the first quarter. The scoring was pretty even throughout the first half and by the time the game reached halftime, NU only had a two-point lead on Purdue at the break.
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In the second quarter, sophomore guard Jordan Hamilton twisted her ankle on an opposing defender’s foot and was eventually helped off the floor. “Losing Jordan Hamilton in the second quarter was hard,” McKeown said. “She’s a great player and I think people stepped up to help.” Despite the fact that the Wildcats got help from freshman guard Sydney Wood, Hamilton was still missed by her teammates, but not by McLaughlin. Purdue’s sophomore guard had one of the best games of her career, scoring 28
points, and all of her made field goals came on 3-pointers. The Cats played good defense on her at times, but, in other cases, left her open due to miscommunications defensively. The absence of Hamilton proved costly on defense and on offense. NU had a 10-point lead with just over six minutes remaining in the third quarter but couldn’t keep its lead without Hamilton. After being down 42-32, the Boilermakers went on a 29-18 run to close the game. McLaughlin herself scored 16 points during that stretch, knocking down five of her nine 3-pointers, including the game-winner. “I don’t think our offense was the big problem,” McKeown said. “We just had breakdowns defensively at the wrong time and they made tough shots.” andrewgolden2021@u.northwestern.edu
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Lindsey Pulliam tries to work through traffic. The sophomore guard scored 16 points in Sunday’s loss against Purdue.