The Daily Northwestern – February 20, 2019

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Students call for dialogue revamp ASG, Quest+ submit format recommendations

By ELIZABETH BYRNE

daily senior staffer @lizbyrne33

Associated Student Government and Quest+ submitted recommendations to Northwestern administrators to use a new format for Community Dialogues, an ASG press release announced Friday.

Community Dialogues were created during the 2015-2016 academic year in response to student demands for open meetings with faculty. Since their creation, Community Dialogues are held each quarter in a town hall format, where students can engage directly with NU administrators.

The new format will be implemented at the Winter Quarter Community Dialogue on Feb. 27 in the Foster-Walker Complex.

Agneska Bloch, the ASG vice president for academics, and Madisen Hursey, Quest+ co-president, wrote the new recommendations in collaboration with Vice President for Student Affairs Patricia Telles-Irvin and Chief Diversity Officer Jabbar Bennett. Bloch said she decided to collaborate with Quest+ on

the new format after attending the last Community Dialogue in September and feeling frustrated.

“I felt like the dialogue was not at all living up to the name ‘dialogue,’” Bloch said. “I felt like it was really confrontational between administrators and students… it was just a really missed opportunity for us to collaborate and move forward together as students and administrators.”

The new recommendations, Bloch said, will foster more conversation with both students and University administrators.

Instead of having one microphone passed around attendees, students and administrators will sit in tables organized by themed working groups with an ASG member taking notes during the meeting, Bloch said. Some of the themes include academics, campus life and climate and student activities.

Bloch added that she wanted ASG to partner with Quest+ so that the recommendations better allowed underrepresented students to voice their opinions. She said there will also be a debrief at the end of each dialogue so attendees can talk about the topics discussed in the focus groups.

Hursey said she’s attended the Community Dialogues since their creation and that they’ve » See DIALOGUE, page 10

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University President Morton Schapiro discusses his faith with Taylor Brown at Canterbury House. Schapiro said he would not be able to be University president if not for his practice of attending Shabbat services every week.

For Schapiro, faith comes first

University president speaks on religion at Canterbury House event

By GABBY BIRENBAUM

daily senior staffer @birenbomb

University President Morton Schapiro emphasized the importance of his Jewish faith, which he said comes before his roles as an academic and as the University’s president, during a

Tuesday event.

The event was held at Canterbury House, Northwestern’s Episcopal campus ministry, as Schapiro talked to an audience of about 15 people about how faith impacts all facets of his life.

“I would never do anything that was contrary to my faith,” Schapiro said. “If it came down to my principles of what I think

makes a good person versus my job as president of Northwestern, I would never do anything that I thought was going against the right thing.”

Taylor Brown, Canterbury House’s program coordinator, told The Daily she could identify with Schapiro’s ideology of having one’s faith come first.

“We have something about

our life that governs the other parts of our life,” the McCormick junior said. “We’re always thinking about that bigger part.”

Schapiro said he would not be able to do his job if not for his practice of attending Shabbat services every Friday night and Saturday morning. Calling » See FAITH, page 10

Sigma Chi temporarily suspended Wage law rollout National headquarters investigating alleged policy violations

By CAMERON COOK and CATHERINE KIM daily senior staffers @cam_e_cook @ck_525

Northwestern’s chapter of Sigma Chi fraternity has been temporarily suspended pending an investigation by their national headquarters into alleged violations of Sigma Chi’s policies.

The suspension, which went into effect Tuesday, will remain until the national organization’s executive committee reviews the allegations. SESP junior Trevor Lystad, president of the chapter, said he cannot comment on the details of the situation.

“We are in the process of investigating the validity and extent of the policy violations and, pursuant to our standard process, have placed the chapter on an interim suspension while we investigate,” Michael Church, the executive director of Sigma Chi International Headquarters, said in an email to The Daily. Church also declined to share details of the alleged violations.

While suspended, the fraternity is not allowed to hold functions such as social events, initiation, intramurals and

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The Sigma Chi house. The fraternity was suspended Tuesday by its national headquarters due to an alleged policy violation.

officer elections, according to an email sent to the fraternity from national headquarters. The fraternity, however, will still stay in its current house, serve meals and meet “financial commitments,” the email added.

Lystad said his chapter has been in contact with Interfraternity Council and University officials and “welcome them to be part of the process going forward.”

Although the fraternity was

Serving the University and Evanston since 1881

not suspended by the University, the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life does help enforce sanctions handed down from an organization’s national headquarters, FSL Director Travis Martin said.

IFC President Connor Echols told The Daily in an email that under IFC’s internal policies, Sigma Chi will remain a member of IFC during their period of temporary suspension.

“IFC has been in contact with Sigma Chi leadership, and we will continue to monitor the situation going forward,” Echols said. “At present, the situation only concerns the local chapter and their national organization.”

Elizabeth Byrne contributed reporting. cameroncook2021@u.northwestern.edu catkim@u.northwestern.edu

Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a bill Tuesday morning to increase the minimum wage in Illinois to $15 by 2025, but Illinois residents expressed concern over the rollout of his law.

Illinois will be one of the first states to set a minimum wage this high, joining California, Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York, which all plan to rollout the raise over several years. Pritzker campaigned heavily on this promise, though the law passed the Illinois legislature without a single vote from a Republican representative.

About 1.4 million Illinois residents will receive higher wages as a result, with wages rising from $8.25 to $9.25 on Jan. 1, 2020, $10 in July 2020 and then increasing one dollar every year until 2025.

“Today is a victory for the cause of economic justice,” Pritzker said during a ceremony at the Governor’s Mansion in Springfield,

Illinois where he signed the bill.

For Chicago resident Fredricka Bowman, these changes can’t come soon enough. Bowman, who has worked minimum wage jobs in the past, said the minimum wage doesn’t pay enough to cover rent, gas and lights, especially as the cost of living in Chicago and Evanston continues to rise. She said she is glad the minimum wage is going up, but people need a living wage sooner than 2025.

“Minimum wage to me is not what I call living,” Bowman said.

“If I was governor or if I was a legislator, I would make a difference for people… At least they’d have a living.”

Bowman said she also works with One Northside, a community organization focused on affordable housing, economic justice and education in Chicago, and as an advocate, she knows challenges other community members face while on minimum wage.

On the other hand, Nina Barrett — the owner of Bookends and Beginnings, an Evanston bookstore — also said she supports a living wage, but she emphasized the financial pressures she and other small business owners experience with legislation like the new » See WAGE, page 10

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EPL vending machine dishes out books, movies

By SOPHIA SCANLAN

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While traditional vending machines typically offer snacks like candy and chips, a “booklending machine” provided by the Evanston Public Library gives city residents the option to borrow books and DVDs. Located at the current Robert Crown Community Center, 1701 Main St., the EPL’s vending machine offers a variety of materials, ranging from children’s stories to young adult novels to new movie releases. EPL library card holders can rent out materials by scanning their cards at the location, and rented material can then be returned at any EPL branch.

The library opened the machine in the summer of 2017 as a way to advertise the new branch of EPL, which is set to open at the new Robert Crown later this year, said Tim Longo, the library’s access services manager.

“We wanted to get people excited for the physical library that’s coming,” Longo said.

“It’s also a high traffic spot where parents and kids are killing time.”

He said EPL librarians originally stocked the machines mostly with books for adults.

After reviewing circulation trends, Longo said they realized that the children’s and youngadult books in the machine were most popular.

The machine now mainly offers genres appealing to a younger audience of readers, he said.

The system has had its challenges, Elizabeth Bird, the collection development manager at

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The Evanston Public Library’s “book lending machine” at the Robert Crown Community Center, 1701 Main St. The machine allows library card holders to borrow books and movies.

POLICE BLOTTER Evanston man arrested for damage to property An Evanston man was arrested Friday after he damaged property at his apartment complex in the 1400 block of Howard Street.

Multiple residents of the complex called the police

EPL, said. Bird said the layout of the machines sometimes makes it hard for patrons to get the book they actually want.

Someone could see a book or DVD they want, but they’d have to check out a couple books in front before they could reach it, she said.

Friday to report sounds of glass breaking and fighting near the rear of the building, said Perry Polinski, the 911 communications coordinator for the city.

Evanston Police Department officers arrived at the scene and found a couple fighting in the apartment. The man had broken two windows, and he was arrested and brought into custody, Polinski said.

The Evanston man was charged with criminal

damage to property.

“Sometimes they get frustrated with (the machine) because sometimes, it doesn’t understand what you’re trying to do,” Bird said.

“Generally, we’ve had a good response.”

EPL’s neighborhood services manager Connie Heneghan said that, even though the lending machine doesn’t offer the full services available at a library, it helps provide easy access to materials in an area away from the main branches.

She added that Robert Crown’s long hours — open from 5:30 a.m. to midnight — allow people using the machine to check out materials, even when the public libraries might not be open yet.

“We’re trying to do more to expand our services,” Heneghan said.

Heneghan added that other programs have also been helpful for providing easy access to library materials, such as the book bikes, which bring library programming around the city in warmer weather, and the Pop-Up Libraries that allow residents to download titles to their smartphones or tablets for free.

Though there are currently no plans for more book lending machines, Longo said the library is satisfied with how Evanston residents have utilized the machine at Robert Crown.

“The city has liked (the machine) so far, and it serves its purpose,” Longo said. “We’re excited that it’s there, and mostly excited to have a physical location. The construction is underway.” sophiascanlan2022@u.northwestern.edu

Man steals items from Walgreens

earlier in the day had returned to the store, Polinski said. EDP officers arrived at the scene and examined security footage that confirmed the original theft.

Officers arrested the man and took him into custody, Polinski said. He was charged with retail theft.

A man was arrested Monday for stealing items from a Walgreens in the 2100 block of Green Bay Road.

A Walgreens employee called the police after a man who had stolen over-the-counter medication

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Secondary teaching major still stands

By AVI VARGHESE

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In 2015, the School of Education and Social Policy faculty voted to shut down the secondary teaching major at Northwestern. Contrary to many faculty members’ expectations and the vote, which still stands, the program has continued to run into the 2018-19 school year thanks to a rebound in enrollment counts.

The department faculty had initially decided to shut down the major after a dramatic drop in enrollment rates for the 2014-2015 academic year, according to Tim Dohrer, director of the master of science in education program. Only one incoming freshman had declared the major that year, he said, when the program ranged from 25 to 30 in the past.

Taking into consideration the enrollment count, nationwide survey data that indicated low career interest in teaching among high schoolers, and the beginnings of a major teaching candidate shortage nationwide that has yet to see an end –– the faculty voted to halt the major.

“For pedagogical and economic reasons, it’s hard to run a class of three students,” Dohrer said.

Despite the vote, the admissions office agreed that year to aggressively recruit students to the major for the coming admission season. Two months later, more than 10 admitted freshmen declared the secondary teaching major, a boost to the program. As a result, then-Dean Penelope Peterson decided to “forego implementing the decision” to see how the situation progressed, Dohrer said.

The removal of the major would not have affected undergraduates’ ability to receive a secondary teaching license, according to Bradley Wadle, assistant director of the master of science in education program. Students have the ability to receive a bachelor’s degree through the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and take additional SESP classes to qualify for the license program.

“There were never any discussions about taking away the ability for undergraduates to get a teaching license,” Wadle said. “(The Weinberg pathway) was

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A table in Annenberg Hall, which houses SESP offices. Despite a vote to end the secondary teaching major during the 2014-2015 school year, the program has continued due to an uptick in enrollment.

always going to continue to be possible.”

Despite this, the specific major affords more flexibility to students who are set on secondary teaching, said SESP sophomore Henry Lang, a secondary teaching major.

Lang plans to become a high school English teacher, and going with SESP allowed him to avoid various Weinberg requirements to focus on specializing in American literature. He also cited personalized advising and the strong community of teachingfocused students and faculty as benefits to being a SESP student.

“As a teacher obviously you are passionate about working with kids regardless if you are in SESP or doing a teacher’s certificate,” Lang said. “I just really enjoy that I am surrounded by people who are interested in making change.”

Dohrer said the decision would not have had a negative effect on the master of science in education program, which shares many of its classes with the secondary

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The faculty are still watching the numbers, Dohrer said. Despite the fact that the original vote still stands, he said the faculty is likely to hold a second vote on whether to keep the major, possibly this spring or next year.

For Dohrer, however, the problem is much largerscale and longer-term, and it doesn’t begin or end with the fate of Northwestern’s programs.

“The bigger story is the number of young people and old people who are choosing to not go into teaching,” Dohrer said. “On the West Coast, in the Southwest and now here in the Midwest, we have a real shortage of teaching candidates because those candidates are not coming to university to get trained.

This is an indicator of a much bigger national issue, which is: What is our view of teachers?” avivarghese2022@u.northwestern.edu

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I won’t apologize for believing survivors of assault ANDREA BIAN

ASST. OPINION EDITOR

With the rise of the #MeToo movement comes a grievance almost as pervasive as the movement itself: What about lies and false accusations?

It’s a concern I’ve seen time and time again, on social media and even in the words of President Trump, who said last year that it’s “a very scary time for young men in America” due to the possibility of false accusations of sexual assault. In incidents where contradicting stories or pieces of evidence are provided, the differences can cause some to doubt the accuracy of reporting.

The concern extends to other assault incidents too — as shown this past week in the reported hate crime in Chicago against actor Jussie Smollett. On Jan. 29, Smollett, who is black and gay, alleged that he was hospitalized as a result of a physical attack by two men yelling racist and homophobic slurs. Following initial reports, social media erupted in an outpouring of support from celebrities and politicians alike.

In the weeks after, though, two brothers who were originally persons of interest in the

investigation suggested that Smollett may have orchestrated the attack by hiring them to stage a hate crime. The Chicago Police Department, which previously confirmed his report, has now said they wish to re-interview Smollett following these allegations. Smollett is now being represented by defense attorneys and has stood by his original claims that he was assaulted.

The inconsistencies in the Smollett story undoubtedly undermine its veracity. Politicians have walked back their initial statements, saying they’re waiting for more evidence before making further comments. Many on social media have already accused Smollett of lying and staging the attack. No matter what happens, the media storm surrounding the Smollett incident can damage the trustworthiness with which the public views all hate crimes.

When I first heard about Smollett’s attack, I immediately believed it to be true. Now, I acknowledge that I can’t say what exactly happened to him because, of course, I wasn’t there. But I also can’t automatically believe the Chicago Police Department, which has seen corruption, police brutality, civil rights violations and a city-wide scandal, where they covered up the shooting death of Laquan McDonald for a year before being pressured to release details to the public.

While evidence can, in some rare cases,

stack up to overwhelmingly support the accused rather than the accuser, I don’t believe in walking back or apologizing for initially believing survivors.

Regardless of what President Trump

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If an allegation of assumption was ultimately false, people wouldn’t put themselves through the harsh harassment that accompanies the allegation.

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might say about now being a “scary time” for men, false accusations are proven to be rare.

According to the National Sexual Violence Resource Center, false reporting for sexual assault occurs only 2 to 10 percent of the time, numbers which are often frequently exaggerated due to “inconsistent definitions and protocols.” Statistically, when I believe survivors, it’s extremely likely that what happened actually happened.

People who speak up about assault

routinely receive widespread social harassment — take, for example, the numerous death threats made against Christine Blasey Ford when she testified against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh prior to his confirmation. Kavanaugh was confirmed to the Supreme Court soon after despite these allegations. Especially when the accused is in power, the assumption that those who speak up are lying makes it much more difficult to speak up. If an allegation of assumption was ultimately false, people wouldn’t put themselves through the harsh harassment that accompanies the allegation.

No matter the outcome of the Smollett case, I won’t change my outlook on believing survivors of assault. Reporting assault is not easy — for some, it takes months or even years to find the strength and courage to relive a traumatic event they never deserved to live in the first place. And instead of doubting whether it actually happened to them, I hope I would be able to offer support to people who, after reporting assault, need it the most.

Andrea Bian is a Medill f irst-year. She can be contacted at andreabian2022@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.

In long classes, professors should give students a break WESLEY SHIROLA

COLUMNIST

As someone who studies social sciences, most of my classes are 80 minutes or longer.

It doesn’t seem like all that much time in hindsight, but those of us who have taken a class of that length know that it is often unbearable. I’d go so far as to say that it can be pure torture. For a long time, I thought I was the only one who had this issue. The more of these classes I take, however, the more certain I am that I’m not the only one who struggles to make it through 80-minute classes.

This epiphany came to me after observing my fellow classmates in a philosophy course last quarter. For the most part, students would make it through the first 40 minutes or so relatively engaged with the professor. Questions were asked, comments were offered, and pens were put to paper. But I began to notice that the second 40 minutes were an entirely different story. Some

students would be on their phones. Others would be staring at the ceiling in a trancelike state. And still others would be sound asleep, peacefully dreaming without so much as a care in the world.

Alas, some of us, myself included, would still be paying attention to the lecture. But, were we really? A recent study by Dr. William S. Helton, psychology professor at George Mason University found that focusing our attention for too long can wear us out. In other words, prolonged work appears to be depleting. You begin to fade out and performance declines. Scientists don’t yet know exactly what causes these declines in performance, but according to Helton, the brain “operates as though there’s a ‘mental fuel’ that gets burned up.”

Now, you may be thinking that this is an issue confined to the back few rows of the lecture hall. After all, we all know the stereotypes of the students who call those rows home. However, I’ve noticed these occurrences spread rather uniformly across the classroom.

As you’d suspect, running low on mental

fuel can have a huge impact on academic performance. A team of researchers in the UK and Denmark studied standardized test data from Danish public schoolchildren.

They found that when tests were given right after a short break, scores improved to a degree equivalent to 19 extra days of school. All of us should know the importance of breaks. After all, we all took the ACT or SAT to get here. Imagine taking those tests without so much as a snack or stretch break. I certainly wouldn’t have gotten the score I did without those crucial respites.

I have no doubt professors truly want us to succeed in their classes. But, if they were so dedicated to seeing this become a reality, they wouldn’t force us to sit through their 80-minute classes without even a moment or two to reset and refuel our brains.

I’m already halfway through my sophomore year at Northwestern, yet in all that time, I’ve only had one professor — Susan Hespos in the psychology department, who was very likely aware of the risks of cognitive decline in long classes — that gave us

three or four minutes to stand up and relax at the midpoint of the class. As a result, we were more engaged, and the class was more fun.

Charlotte Fritz, a professor in the psychology department at Portland State University in Oregon, says breaks improve our moods, overall well-being and performance capacity. Powering through without a pause does more harm than good. The breaks don’t even have to be long — all it really takes is a few minutes.

It’s evident that short breaks are crucial to academic and professional success. Join with me in calling on all professors of classes 80 minutes or longer to just give us a break.

There’s simply no reason not to.

Wesley Shirola is a Weinberg sophomore. He can be contacted at wesleyshirola2021@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.

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NU has sophomore Brennan Dwyer fi lling big shoes

By KARIM NOORANI

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Mass euphoria hit Northwestern with 15 seconds left to play in Sunday’s game against Duke.

The Wildcats’ celebration was not set off by one of their late-game goals or big defensive stops. The play at the center of NU’s excitement was actually a game-sealing draw control from the hands of sophomore midfielder Brennan Dwyer.

The Cats (3-0) gained the last possession as a result of Dwyer winning the draw, which features one player from each team sparring in the center circle for possession after a goal. When the midfielder came away with the ball, it was a deflating blow to the Blue Devils, who are ranked as the nation’s top draw control team.

But the play was unsurprising to anyone who knew Dwyer. Coaches and teammates described the midfielder as an unfailing bigmoment player. “(Dwyer) was so clutch down the stretch,” coach Kelly Amonte Hiller said. “She is a clutch player and anytime the game is on the line, she steps up for us.”

Dwyer was a high-profile recruit coming out of Loyola Academy, having four-time allstate honors under her belt. In her senior year, Dwyer led her high school lacrosse team to a fourth consecutive state championship and went on to become the first female Under Armour All-American from the Midwest in three years.

As one would expect, her high school statistics were extremely impressive. Dwyer tallied 395 goals, 238 assists and 876 draws in her high school career. On the defensive end, she turned the opposition over 202 times, proving to be almost as big a force on that side of the ball as she was when she had it in her hands.

To start her collegiate career, D wyer played behind graduated attackers and midfielders Shelby Fredericks and Sheila Nesselbush, but Dwyer earned more responsibility as the season wore on. At the end of the season, Dwyer had accumulated 36 draw controls, which was the second highest total on the team and the sixth highest all time for a freshman player.

In the season’s final game against UNC, the midfielder had earned a consistent rotation spot inside the circle for the Cats.

In her second season, Dwyer has already established herself as NU’s top draw control specialist. She won a career-high 12 draw controls in the Cats’ regular season opener against Louisville. The second-year player has recorded 23 total draw controls this season, a mark that is currently third in the country.

But the void Dwyer is tasked with filling is extremely long. Fredericks, who graduated after last season, is NU’s all-time leader in draw controls with 496. In her junior season alone, Fredericks accumulated a program-high 165 draw controls, and she added 58 goals and 104 assists as well.

Fredericks also acquired some of the sports most prestigious awards, bringing home recognition as one of the best in the Big Ten as well as the entire midwest region. In her final season, Fredericks was selected on the third team of Inside Lacrosse Media’s All America list. But Dwyer isn’t shying away from the shoes she is being asked to fill. “(Dwyer) does a really great job of getting to know what each draw person is doing from game to game,” sophomore midfielder Lauren Gilbert said. “She obviously practices a lot each week, but she has to adjust to what each person is doing.”

In recent years, NU has placed an added emphasis on gaining a faster and more efficient offense. Thus far in the season, the Cats hold the second-best scoring offense in the entire country. Led by Gilbert, NU has dramatically increased its shot percentage, now converting more than half of the shot attempts this season.

To continue at this offensive pace and fulfill their postseason goals, the Cats will need Dwyer to continue to win them possessions inside the circle. If the game against the Blue Devils was any indication, opposing teams will need to take note of the midfielder unleashing NU’s offense.

“Our ability to generate offense and score goals at will is really helping us,” Amonte Hiller said. “(We’re) never really out of a game in this sport. We can score goals quickly and as long as we can gain possession, we can get back in it.” karimnoorani2022@u.northwestern.edu

Cats’ freshmen are making names for themselves

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

daily senior staffer @bxrosenberg

Coming into this season, Northwestern knew it would have to replace four position player starters. The Wildcats’ deep freshman class has been up to the challenge so far.

Ranked as the ninth-best class in the country by FloSoftball, the freshmen have made an immediate impact in all phases of the game to help NU to a 7-2 start.

“It’s important for our freshmen to know that we don’t think of them as freshmen,” senior left fielder Morgan Nelson said before the season.

“We have so much talent in that class. We’re really looking for them to step up.”

Freshman catcher Jordyn Rudd has replaced Sammy Nettling behind the plate and kicked off her collegiate career with a bang — literally.

Rudd, the No. 45 overall recruit according to FloSoftball, hit a three-run double in her first at-bat of the year against Utah State, and then hit two home runs in her second game against Pacific.

Rudd batted .467 with 10 RBIs in the Cats’ first tournament of the year in Fullerton, California, after which she was named Big Ten Co-player of the Week. She is also tasked with handling a deep, talented staff that has pitched to a 1.79 ERA so far.

“They’re an awesome pitching staff and everyone is so different,” Rudd said after the Titan Classic in Fullerton. “I’ve learned quite a bit from this bunch, so it’s a lot of fun to catch all of them and grow with them.”

Designated hitter Nikki Cuchran is NU’s leading hitter, batting .423 after two weekends of play. Cuchran was the highest-rated recruit in the Cats’ freshman class, ranked No. 30, and hit .600 or above every year in high school. As a senior in high school, Cuchran hit .711 with 17 home runs and 86 RBIs. While that power has yet to manifest itself at the college level, Cuchran has hit safely in every game but one, and she is currently riding a six-game hitting streak.

“We’re all going through the same thing; we’re

all learning the ropes,” Cuchran said. “I knew my team was there cheering for me, and that made me feel a lot more comfortable in the box.”

Pitcher Danielle Williams has had the biggest impact among the freshmen. Williams, the 44thbest recruit nationally according to FloSoftball, was one out from a no-hitter in her first collegiate start against Pacific and ended up with a one-hit shutout. She followed that up with a two-hit shutout against Louisville the next day, striking out 13.

This past weekend at the ACC/Big Ten Challenge in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Williams had two more complete-game wins — an eightstrikeout, no-walk performance in a 9-3 win over the Tar Heels and a seven-strikeout, one-walk effort in a 4-2 win over the Cardinals. She also has two wins in relief and is 6-0 on the season with a 0.81 ERA. “It’s nice having a great defense behind me,” Williams said. “I’m able to trust my pitches more because I know they’re behind me. They trust me and I trust them.”

While Rudd, Cuchran and Williams have been the stars, other freshmen have also contributed to the Cats’ success. Skyler Shellmyer has been strong defensively in center field, and shortstop Maeve Nelson hit a go-ahead homer in extra innings to complete a comeback win over Louisville on Friday.

Coach Kate Drohan, now in her 18th season at the helm of the program, is hoping these freshmen are able to put NU over the top in postseason play. While Drohan has won two Big Ten Championships and made appearances in back-to-back Women’s College World Series, including advancing to the championship series in 2006, the Cats have not appeared in the Super Regionals since 2008.

She said the team’s returning players have welcomed into the program the incoming class, which has considerable upside.

“I knew (the freshmen) had great talent, and I knew they loved the game,” Drohan said.

“They’ve been very coachable and have a real love of Northwestern, so that makes it really fun.” benjaminrosenberg2021@u.northwestern.edu

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NU is rising after a slow start to the 2019 season

By ERIC RYNSTON-LOBEL

the daily northwestern @ericr_l

Coming into 2019, Northwestern had started a season with a loss just twice this century. In both of those years, the Wildcats quickly responded by winning their next match.

This season, NU found itself in uncharted territory, beginning its season with four consecutive defeats.

With question marks surrounding a team coming off of a difficult campaign last year, there was reason to think this could be a long season. However, NU (8-5, 1-0) rallied back from that inauspicious start, winning eight of its last nine matches. At 8-5, the team is already one win away from matching its total from all of last season with 14 matches still to play before the postseason.

After the Cats lost to Vanderbilt 5-2 on Jan. 18, sophomore Nick Brookes said the team is at its most dangerous when it’s “relaxed and we’re trying to show ourselves off as best we can on the court.” Winless at the time, NU’s best was yet to come.

With losses to North Carolina State and Alabama following the loss to the Commodores, the Cats finally filled the win column by defeating Auburn 4-2 on Jan. 27. Following the victory, freshman Trice Pickens, who won his singles match 7-6, 2-6, 6-3, provided a simple explanation for his success: “I just competed, worked hard.”

Pickens is one of two freshmen on the team along with Simen Bratholm. Both have demonstrated significant improvement during the team’s turnaround. Pickens has won seven of eight singles matches since that first win of the year, while Bratholm has won five straight.

One of the Cats’ biggest struggles out of the gate was in doubles play. Since the 0-4 start, though, coach Arvid Swan said he’s seen all-around improvement in his team that continued to work hard despite not seeing the

results early on.

“Doubles has certainly gotten significantly better, and we’ve been winning a lot of doubles points recently,” he said. “Overall, the teams are just meshing better. They’re used to playing with each other.”

Regarding singles play and the development of his younger players, Swan said both — along with improved doubles play — explain why the team is where it is right now.

As on any team, playing time is not equal.

However, Swan noted every member of the team as playing a vital role in the recent success.

“We have great leadership from our senior class. They work really hard every day in practice and have done a really good job in terms of day-to-day making sure we have the right mindset in practice,” he said. “It’s been a collective effort. … It all starts on the practice court pushing each other, and I think we’ve done a really good job of that.”

While NU defeated Purdue 5-2 on Feb. 10 for its first Big Ten win of the season, the Cats will not face another Big Ten opponent until March 1, when they take on Indiana.

Under Swan, the Cats have compiled a 173-113 record in seven seasons, including six consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances. But last year, NU struggled to a 9-17 record and won only four conference matches, including the final six of the season. With the majority of the young squad returning, Swan has watched his team respond from a difficult season and a difficult start.

Regardless of who’s on the schedule, though, Swan said his mindset is still focusing on the next match and not looking too far ahead.

“I know that sounds cliché, but I think that’s probably the appropriate thing,” he said. “We know we have a lot of good teams that we’re playing coming up, so we’re looking forward to that. … The goal is just to keep improving as a team, playing together as a team and enjoying the process.”

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New-look team is having the same old success this year

By CHARLIE GOLDSMITH

daily senior staffer @2021_charlie

Clarissa Hand is a freshman.

But nine matches into her collegiate career, she’s already established herself as a fixture in No. 11 Northwestern’s (5-4) No. 1 singles and No. 1 doubles spots.

She’s already advanced to the semifinals of the Intercollegiate Tennis Association Midwest Regional. Last weekend, Hand defeated two ranked players, No. 70 Livia Kraus and No. 26 Kenya Jones. She earned Big Ten Women’s Tennis Athlete of the Week on Tuesday for the second time this year.

Replacing program legends Erin Larner and Alex Chatt, Hand’s emergence has helped lead the Wildcats into the next era for the program.

So far this season, she’s held the No. 1 spot for NU as the school earned its way to its first ITA National Indoor Team Championships appearance since 2014. The Cats have also beaten No. 22 UCF, No. 17 Miami and No. 18 LSU.

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Hand is the only freshman receiving consistent playing time, though NU has received considerable contributions from other underclassmen.

Sophomores Caroline Pozo and Inci Ogut have held down consistent singles spots, and Pozo leads the singles starters in winning percentage.

No. 72 Julie Byrne is the only other ranked singles player on the highly-ranked team, and she’s 7-4 in singles this year, playing at the No. 2 spot.

The Cats are lead by Claire Pollard, now in her 21st season in charge of the program. She had led NU to the NCAA Tournament each season. In her own playing career, Pollard participated in the Wimbledon and U.S. Open Championships as a singles player, so she has common ground with Hand and the rest of the team’s emerging core.

The Cats open Big Ten play this weekend with a home match Friday against Iowa (7-0). Following last year’s conference championship, NU will have the chance to match 2018’s 11-0 record in conference play and continue to establish itself as a powerhouse in the Big Ten. charliegoldsmith2021@u.northwestern.edu

Junior Aubrey Roberts is taking the Cats to new levels

By TROY CLOSSON and JONAH DYLAN daily senior staffers @troy_closson @thejonahdylan

Northwestern’s focus is set on strong individual performances.

After placing seventh at the Big Ten Championships last fall, the Wildcats won’t compete in the conference championships for indoor or outdoor track. But that doesn’t mean they’ve stopped running.

Since becoming the first All-American in program histor y at the NCAA Championships last fall, junior Aubrey Roberts kept running into NU’s record books this winter.

And she’s shown no signs of slowing down in the spring.

The Wisconsin native will look to qualify for the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Austin, Texas, this June after narrowly missing out last season. At last year’s NCAA West Regional Preliminary, she competed in the 5,000-meter race, crossing the line in 15:53.85

at 14th place, two spots out of a trip to Oregon for the NCAAs. Junior Kelly O’Brien also competed at the NCAA Preliminaries last year. O’Brien led the Cats in the 1,500-meters at every outdoor track event of the season and set a program record in the event last May. She’ll also be looking for a trip to the Lone Star State after finishing 11 spots back in the 1.5K race from going to the championship event last year.

The juniors will be backed up this spring by fellow third-year Sarah Nicholson, who finished right behind Roberts at every meet this fall and was the runner-up in the 3,000meter race at this month’s GVSU Big Meets with a time of 9:53.61. The team’s talented freshmen including Sielle Kearney, Sara McCoy and Rachel McCardell will also look to make their mark in their first collegiate outdoor track season after shining earlier in the year. troyclosson2020@u.northwestern.edu jonahdylan2020@u.northwestern.edu

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NU has a number of options to start, finish games

By RYAN WANGMAN

daily senior staffer @ryanwangman

Long before the spring warmth thaws Evanston’s snow and frost and baseball returns to Rocky and Berenice Miller Park in March, Northwestern’s pitching staff will look to melt away memories of last season’s conferenceworst team ERA. It won’t be easy, but the Wildcats (2-2) do have something in their favor: Every pitcher who started a game for Northwestern last season returns this year. And with such a big returning presence, coach Spencer Allen isn’t afraid to set lofty goals in the wake of a 17-32 season.

“We want to be one of the top 64 teams in the country, you know,” Allen said. “That’s this team’s goal, we have not shied away from it.”

With the latter half of the rotation up in the air, Allen said he expects to use a wide range of names in the starting pitcher slot on the lineup cards in the season’s early goings. Junior right-hander Hank Christie, who entered this year with 29 starts under his belt, surpassed sophomore lefty Quinn Lavelle as the ace in the rotation. Despite Lavelle leading the team in innings pitched last year, now, he figures to get the ball on Saturdays as the No. 2 pitcher in the rotation.

After the team’s top two returners, the water gets murkier. Sophomore lefty Jack Pagliarini started eight games last season and led all NU starters with a 3.99 ERA. Based on past performance alone, Pagliarini would appear to be a favorite to reclaim a starting role, but in the offseason he transitioned to a bullpen role.

In this weekend’s season-opening, Pagliarini came out of the bullpen twice in four games.

Sophomore Ryan Bader and junior Sam Lawrence have brought themselves into the conversation after strong offseason work and seem the most likely to replace him on Sundays. Neither pitched particularly well last

season, as both finished with ERAs above 7 and WHIPs near or above 2. However, Allen said Bader had “made strides” as a sophomore and that Lawrence had elevated himself from bullpen constant to consideration for a starting nod. Also, freshman right-hander Mike Doherty could receive an opportunity later in the season if others struggle.

After telling reporters he wasn’t trying to “play games,” Allen admitted that even he wasn’t sure how the rotation will look.

“What we’re trying to do is get guys to compete,” Allen said. “We’ll figure it out. The game will tell us who deserves to play and who deserves to throw on the weekend.”

As the only pitcher with two previous years of experience in the starting rotation, Christie is the most capable player to usher the new starters through the transition. Christie said he focused on developing his leadership skills during the break, as he felt a similar presence was lacking on the team last season. In addition to his personal efforts, Christie said Allen instituted a “leadership council” for the team over the offseason, which divided the team into small groups of roughly five to eight guys across position groups and grades.

The idea, Christie said, was to encourage open dialogue among teammates and to give younger players the opportunity to foster connections with older ones. As a result, the players spent a lot more time together this year than last year and are much closer, he said.

“On top of that?” Christie said. “The changeup always needs work.”

While Christie hopes to establish his locker room presence, pitching coach Josh Reynolds is already impressed with the stability on the mound that the Oak Park, Illinois, native has shown “from day one.” Reynolds said nothing rattles Christie on the bump and that he cares more about getting the opportunity to start than about what spot in the rotation he receives.

He said while Christie’s stats might not have looked great last year — he sported a 3-5

record and a 4.61 ERA — he was a few innings or at-bats from a much different stat line. “ We like his consistency,” Reynolds said. “We know what he’s going to do.

He’s going to go out and throw strikes. He’s gonna make the other team beat him, so they’re going to have to swing the bat. And ultimately, that’s what we want all of our guys to be.”

The young players, Allen said, are hungry for opportunity. The older guys are motivated after an inspiring run to the 2017 Big Ten Championship was followed by 2018’s second-to-last conference finish. Allen said he wants to make sure all of the pitchers, especially the ones he uses regularly, are attacking the zone, a skill they only showed flashes of last season.

“There’s also a good mix of guys who are returning who did have some success and were you know, maybe, for lack of better word, a little bit embarrassed,” Allen said. “It’s just who’s going to be consistent... and making sure that we’ve got eight to 10 arms that can go and just continue to attack no matter who the opponent is.” ryanw@u.northwestern.edu

Cats hope to find more constant production this year

By PETER WARREN

daily senior staffer @thepeterwarren

Northwestern has the talent to win. What the Wildcats need is to find a high level of consistency.

NU played in four tournaments in the fall and is currently in the middle of its second of the spring. The five tournaments the Cats have finished have been a mixed bag. On one hand, NU has finished in first, second and third place with three individual first-place finishes. On the other hand, the Cats have slumped to very disappointing eighth- and ninth-place finishes in the other events.

The team is highlighted at the top of the card by senior Ryan Lumsden and freshman David Njyfäll. Lumsden is a two-time All-Big Ten First Team member who has eight career top-five finishes and the third best stroke average in school history. Njfyall has won two of his first five career events — the Chatham Hills Collegiate and UNCG/Grandover

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Collegiate.

But the Cats are deeper than those two.

Junior Everton Hawkins has finished in the top-25 in half of his career events. Freshman Lucas Becht illustrated promise during the fall. Sophomore Eric McIntosh has two top-10 finishes so far this season. Senior Pete Griffith performed well at the Big Ten Match Play Championship and said he is driving the ball the best he has in his four years.

That first-place finish at the Marquette Intercollegiate at Erin Hills showed the promise of this squad. Behind an excellent performance from Lumsden — who finished ahead of world amatuer champion Alex del Rey to claim the individual crown — NU topped powerhouse Arizona State for the win.

It is more than two months until the Big Ten Championships in Philadelphia. While that seems far away, the consistency the Cats show over that time frame might be the difference between a successful championship season and a disappointing one. peterwarren2021@u.northwestern.edu

NU is entering the program’s next wave on the links

By ANDREW GOLDEN

daily senior staffer @andrewcgolden

After a successful 2017-2018 campaign, Northwestern will prepare to pick up right where it left off last season. The Wildcats finished in the top-10 of the last four NCAA Championships.

However, the Wildcats will have to get used to playing without arguably the best player in program history.

Hannah Kim, who graduated after last season, holds NU’s record for career scoring average, single-season scoring average and lowest 18 and 54 hole score in program history. A three-time AllBig Ten Selection and two-time Big Ten Player of the Year, the Wildcats will have big shoes to fill. NU also graduated Sarah Cho, who has the third lowest scoring average in program history.

However, despite those two losses, the Cats have a lot of returning talent to mix with their new recruits. NU boasts a four-person senior class, including Janet Mao, who was First Team All-Big Ten last year, and Stephanie Lau, who made the

second team All-Big Ten roster. The seniors are rounded out by MacKenzie Hawkes and Monica Matsubara.

NU also bolstered its roster with three recruits.

The Cats brought in Jane Lu, Kelly Sim and Kelly Su, who could all have an immediate impact for NU. The Cats are led by coach Emily Fletcher, now in her 11th season in command of the program.

Under Fletcher, NU has qualified for nine consecutive NCAA Regionals and have appeared in five straight NCAA Championships. In preparation for postseason play, Fletcher has organized a challenging nonconference schedule this year.

In the fall of the 2018-2019 season, the Wildcats played in four tournaments, finishing in the top-4 in three of them. NU finished in fourth place at the Lady Puerto Rico this past weekend and have four more tournaments remaining before the Big Ten Tournament. The Wildcats have high expectations and with a talented senior class, the Wildcats have a potential to a make another run in the NCAA Tournament. andrewgolden2021@u.northwestern.edu

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Journalist talks Voting Rights Act after 2013 ruling

By CAMERON COOK

daily senior staffer @cam_e_cook

After examining data from 18 counties and looking at travel times between residences and polling places, journalist Rob Arthur discovered what he expected: polling place closures hit people of color harder.

“After the Voting Rights Act got shut down, areas that had been doing terrible Jim Crow things went right back to it and started closing polling places all over again,” Arthur said at a Tuesday event organized by the Residential College Board.

During the event, held in the McCormick Foundation Center Forum, Arthur elaborated on an October piece he co-authored for VICE — titled “How the gutting of the Voting Rights Act led to hundreds of closed polls” — in which he describes how the 2013 Supreme Court case Shelby County v. Holder changed the makeup of the electorate for the 2016 election.

In Shelby, the Supreme Court ruled part of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 unconstitutional. The section the Court struck down required certain states, counties and localities to have any changes to their local voting procedures cleared by the U.S. Attorney General because of a history of voter suppression. The 2013 decision removed

preclearance requirements, allowing the places on the list that formerly needed their procedures checked to make changes without federal approval.

The resulting changes, which include alterations to voter registration laws and closures of polling places, stop large numbers of low-income and non-white people from voting, Arthur said.

“It ends up locking a lot of people out of the electoral process,” he said. “And that’s not an accident.”

When Arthur decided he wanted to “quantify voter suppression,” he looked at polling place closures. Arthur and Allison McCann, a visual journalist for The New York Times, compared the number of open polling places in 2012 — before the Shelby case — and in 2016. What they found was that counties that used to be subject to preclearance, there were 10 percent more people per polling place in 2016 than there were in 2012.

Arthur said that’s what he expected to find.

“The more people you have per polling place, the longer the lines are, the harder it is to get to vote and the longer you have to get to polling places,” he said. “So this was confirmation for us.”

Arthur said he also found that states with legislatures under Republican control were much more likely to have discriminatory practices than those with state legislatures under Democratic control.

He added that even since 2006, the last time the Voting Rights Act was renewed, increasing accessibility to polling places has become a “partisan thing.”

Arthur said there was “some hope, maybe” for a Voting Rights Act replacement that could potentially include a new preclearance list and cover more areas of the U.S. Medill first-year Virginia Langmaid, who was a poll worker in her home state of Georgia during the 2016 election, said hope for a replacement was her main takeaway from Arthur’s talk.

“A lot of times the conversation can tend toward to, ‘And then in Shelby v. Holder we ended the VRA,’” she said. “And that’s true. But things evolve, and there are people trying to reinstate the VRA, and we should be listening to their proposals and actually be having critical opinions on them.”

Weinberg senior Joseph Kim, Residential College Board’s vice president for academic affairs, said he reached out to Arthur to speak because he thought people would be interested in what Arthur had to say.

“We discussed the topics he’d feel comfortable covering, and this pertained both politically to recent times, and Northwestern is a relatively politically active campus, so I thought it would be kind of a fun thing,” Kim said. cameroncook2021@u.northwestern.edu

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Rob Arthur talks about voter suppression in the McCormick Foundation Center Forum at a Tuesday event. Arthur found that recent changes made to voting procedures have been more detrimental to communities of color.

ACIR urges NU to divest from oil, gas

By PRANAV BASKAR

the daily northwestern @pranav_baskar

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In the first proposal ever submitted to the Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility, members of Fossil Free Northwestern called on the University to divest itself of all holdings in the top 100 oil, gas and coal companies, demanding a commitment to sustainable investment in renewable energy.

The proposal — which was presented at the committee’s Tuesday meeting held in Scott Hall — cited millions of dollars in University investments to the fossil fuel industry, which includes $3.9 million to coal companies and $45.4 million to oil and gas firms.

Weinberg senior Carolina Laguna, a member of Fossil Free Northwestern, said the goal of the plan was to create a feasible scheme for the University to transition away from fossil fuel-based investments as expeditiously as possible, while simultaneously allowing it to diversify its investment portfolio.

The proposal, if ratified by the Board of Trustees, would require the University to “stop future investments (in fossil fuel companies), implement a five-year plan to phase out existing ones and roll out a reinvestment strategy for green energy,” Laguna said.

“Investing in fossil fuels is simply not compatible with socially responsible investment,” Laguna said.

“How is it possible that we are preaching and publicizing our commitment to end climate change while investing millions into an industry that is directly causing it? This is hypocrisy.”

Communications senior Leo Gallagher said he and other members of Fossil Free Northwestern submitted the proposal to the ACIR in January. He encouraged the committee to be transparent about its consideration of the proposal, pledging to a concrete, clear timeline for making headway on the plan.

ACIR secretary Jared Spitz said the committee “fully respects” the time students have put into the proposal and that he hopes to have a final recommendation by the end of the academic year. He added that the ACIR is currently in the process of soliciting community feedback by publicizing the proposal on its website to drive further conversation.

“We’re going to try as hard as we can to go as fast as we can,” he said. “Ultimately, though, we are beholden to the Board of Trustees’ schedule.”

Indeed, even if the ACIR’s final recommendation on Fossil Free Northwestern’s proposal does arrive by the end of the year, the committee has no enforcement power; the decision to actually approve and follow through on the plan lies with the Board of Trustees.

In that interim, students are concerned.

“Not a day goes by where we don’t witness the disastrous effects of climate change,” Medill senior and Fossil Free Northwestern member Audrey DeBruine said. “As a planet we have passed the threshold of what is considered catastrophic environmental damage. Any financial incentive to fossil fuel companies is antithetical to what we need to be doing.” pbaskar@u.northwestern.edu

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From page 1 it his time to “recharge,” he said the hours he spends at temple are the only times in his week when he is able to be alone. The solitude he partakes in there allows him to be energized and present in his work, he said.

Schapiro also addressed the skepticism he feels that religious people often face at secular institutions.

He said it may be easier for him to be the president of a Jewish college or organization, but he enjoys the effort of working in the secular world.

“There’s something about the challenge of being yourself in the secular world that’s kind of a useful challenge from time to time,” Schapiro said. “But, never check your faith at the door.”

Despite the added work, Schapiro said he finds Northwestern to be a stronger and more welcoming community toward people of faith than other places he has worked. He attributed that strength to the overlapping values that both faith and the Midwest provide — empathy, civility and humility.

As University president, Schapiro said his faith’s emphasis in humility keeps him away from the

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varied in structure over the years. She said that a more open format where students can bring up any issue to be discussed, was the most effective way to organize the Community Dialogues.

“People were not always able to engage meaningfully with each other because they were shouting into a microphone across the room and then there was an audience, which made some students feel uncomfortable because they weren’t always willing to push back which they might do in a smaller setting,” Hursey said.

Bloch said she was “excited” to see more of a lasting relationship between students and administrators out of Community Dialogues with the new recommendations moving forward. She added that she thinks they will bring “real dialogue and conversation” to the space.

Hursey said both Telles-Irvin and Bennett were open to feedback on the Community Dialogues that

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Three Northwestern professors were named Sloan Research Fellows, a prestigious award given to members of the science community who are early in their careers.

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temptation of an inflated ego, which he said is common among people in a powerful position.

“There’s a Hebrew saying — know before whom you stand,” Schapiro said. “I see those words… and I always think, I’m in front of God now… it just reminds you — you’re not that special. You’re not that great.”

Schapiro said he engages in many interfaith dialogues, but his goal is to learn about other religions rather than reach a common agreement on values.

He said he finds the discussions most stimulating when people are honest about their feelings toward other religions.

Kai Kuo, the president of Canterbury House, told The Daily that the ministry is committed to engaging with differences, and that though they are Episcopalian and Schapiro is Jewish, the two are united in being people of faith.

“Interfaith dialogues are important because a lot of what faith gives people are the same across religions,” the SESP junior said. “Morty was talking about empathy and humility, and those are things I get in my faith as well.”

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Indeed, it was the impact of small businesses that led Republicans and business leaders to oppose the measure.

“It’s very disappointing that a major issue of this type, which is one of the biggest policy decisions we’ll have made in some time — that it’s going to have an impact on every business small and large, every public institution, every nonprofit — that there is absolutely no desire to negotiate with Republicans,” Jim Durkin, the Illinois House minority leader, told reporters last week. “The consequences, short-term and long-term, are going to be very, very devastating upon the state of Illinois.”

For Barrett, an important part of the rollout includes tax breaks to ease the burden on small businesses of increasing minimum wage — tax breaks

frequently granted to “juggernaut, monopoly” corporations like Amazon.

According to the new law, businesses with 50 or fewer employees will be able to claim a tax credit for 25 percent of the cost in 2020, though the benefit phase out over the next several years.

Barrett said Bookends and Beginnings would not have a problem with increasing minimum wage, but other small businesses might struggle. She described two pressures on “brick and mortar” retail businesses: they are squeezed out by Amazon and other large companies, and simultaneously, their rents continue to rise. Hopefully, the law will not lead to local businesses closing or cutting hours, Barrett said.

“We all agree, I think, that people should be paid living wages,” Barrett said. “You just have to be careful of the unintended consequences of legislating things that are a good idea, but they’re not a good idea if you haven’t figured out the details of how everyone is supposed to get there.” catherinehenderson2021@u.northwestern.edu

gabriellebirenbaum2021@u.northwestern.edu led to the new recommendations.

“They wanted to know the logistics and how we forsaw them being implemented to make sure that they were doing it to the best of their ability and actually taking our advice and directly translating it rather than having a meeting and running off and doing it by themselves,” Hersey said.

She added that it’s a “big deal” to have spaces like the Community Dialogues where administrators can interact with students who wouldn’t necessarily be heard because they’re not in a leadership position.

“Students have been able to get meetings because they went to Community Dialogues, said their grievance and then got a meeting either with someone who could help them that they didn’t know they could be connected to before,” Hursey said. “Staff members and different offices are thinking about that moving forward and are keeping those students in mind when doing things that the student might be involved in.”

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Hundreds of protesters rally for a $15 an hour minimum wage on Sept. 4, 2014 in Chicago. On Tuesday, Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a bill to increase the minimum wage in Illinois to $15 by 2025.

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“Sloan Research Fellows are the best young scientists working today,” Adam F. Falk, president of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, said in the release. “Sloan Fellows stand out for their creativity, for their hard work, for the importance of the issues they tackle, and the energy and innovation with which they tackle them. To be a Sloan Fellow is to be in the vanguard of 21st-century science.”

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Rivnay, who was selected as a fellow in chemistry, is developing new materials and devices to bridge the gap between living tissue and traditional electronics.

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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Counselor talks bringing hygge into relationships

By MADDY DAUM

the daily northwestern

Monica Isaac, a family, marriage and individual counselor, offered a new take on relationship advice Tuesday night: to practice hygge through receptive listening, empathy and self-awareness.

Isaac spoke at shared office space Industrious Evanston, located at 909 Davis St., as a part of Downtown Evanston’s inaugural Hygge Fest. The hygge events will continue through Feb. 22., and focus on the Danish concept of coziness through daily lifestyle choices.

Isaac said that hygge is counter-cultural for Americans, who are less likely to factor happiness into their everyday activities. Isaac outlined three main areas of hygge in relationships — pleasure, presence and participation — which help individuals be present in the moment.

People often go through life “on autopilot” and hygge helps to focus on being present, Isaac said.

Isaac said putting less emphasis on the things you are bad at and using your skills to help or relationships will produce a sense of belonging.

“Just focusing on the gifts that you have and the things that you do well,” Isaac said. “Then using that skill or gift for other people creates a domino effect of happiness and of being present.”

In relationships with spouses or friends, people

Evanston deputy city attorney appointed to regulate Ill. real estate

Gov. J.B. Pritzker appointed Evanston’s deputy city attorney Mario Treto, Jr. to the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation Tuesday, as part of his most recent wave of personnel appointments.

Treto will serve as the department’s director of real estate, where he will regulate the state’s real estate industry. Evanston city manager Wally Bobkiewicz said in a news release that Treto will oversee almost 100,000 licensees in real estate professional education, licensure, regulation and discipline.

Bobkiewicz said he takes “great pride” in Treto’s appointment. “Mario Treto is the third Latinx and

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Monica Isaac, a family, marriage and individual counselor, speaks at Hygge Fest. Isaac spoke about hygge in relationships and how to enjoy small everyday moments.

continue to embody different roles within a family, Isaac said. Attachment theory explains how people bring issues with their family life into their adult relationships.

Isaac said self-awareness about attachment theory can allow both partners to be more present. She said reflexive listening, which involves restating what the other person said, can help correct problems that arise second openly LGBTQ state director appointee,” Bobkiewicz said.

In his current position as the city’s deputy attorney, Treto provides legal counsel to the city’s staff, departments and elected officials. He was promoted to this position last July after serving as assistant deputy attorney, and he has worked in Evanston’s law department since 2013. Before working for the city, Treto worked for Chicago-based law firm Tristan & Cervantes, where he worked in residential real estate, corporate law and commercial transactions.

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from the psychological phenomenon.

“Choose to be there and engage the person in a different way, really listen and try to see how is this person different than the role that (you are) usually in,” Isaac said. “That can really help create a different way of being in relationship with people.”

Katrina Meckes, a community manager at Industrious Evanston, said she spent last summer

in Denmark and picked up on elements of their culture that contribute to Hygge. She said that the most Hygge thing you can do in a relationship is share experiences.

She said that in Denmark, potluck dinners on Friday nights are an example of hygge. Attendees cannot talk about politics or other polarizing topics and focus on shared stories.

“It’s going to be something almost impossible for us to just turn around and be 100 percent hygge but the shared experience of eating and talking about things that you are not used to talking about… that aren’t your children, your spouse, your work,” Meckes said.

Evanston resident Kerrigan McCarthy said that he has been told that the way he lives his life is similar to hygge and came to the event to do more research into the concept. He said that he is looking to strengthen the parts of himself that already embody hygge.

McCarthy was looking to delve more into the hygge community and said that he found better dialogue to share it more efficiently. “(The presentation) had some really great things mentioned but there wasn’t a real solid thread to follow,” McCarthy said. “I definitely enjoyed the presence of the presenter … you could tell that she was interested in the concept but also seemed very fresh to the concept.” madisondaum2022@u.northwestern.edu

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Mario Treto at a city meeting. Gov. J.B. Pritzker appointed Treto to the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation on Tuesday.

SPORTS

Wednesday, February 20, 2019

ON DECK FEB.

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Men’s Basketball NU at Ohio State, 7:30 p.m. Wednesday

ON THE RECORD

Before you can even think about (the NBA), you’ve got to try to get better every single day. That’s what I try to do.

— basketball recruit Robbie Beran

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Incoming freshman Robbie Beran could be the star Northwestern needs

By GREG SVIRNOVSKIY

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On the basketball court, Robbie Beran is smooth. When he’s relaxed, entranced in the flow of the contest and the ball in his hands, the game turns easy. It’s effortless.

Seconds into his high school team’s regular season matchup against Trinity Episcopal, Beran collects the ball from a teammate, cuts back inside the post and nails an easy layup at the basket.

Smooth.

“Lot of energy, especially to start the game,” Beran told the Daily. “It was good to kind of get off the ball screen, see one go in.”

Beran, who committed to Northwestern (12-13, 3-11 Big Ten) in October, is the highest recruit in the program’s history, ranked as the nation’s 79th-best high school basketball player.

To get here, he’s built a life around basketball and academics, transferring high schools and spending an estimated 30 hours a week or more around the sport.

Beran is a senior at Collegiate School, a Virginia preparatory school which has most recently produced quarterbacks Russell Wilson of the Seattle Seahawks and Wilton Speight from UCLA. He transferred over from John Randolph Tucker High School, repeating his junior year in the process to get more basketball exposure and recruitment opportunities.

At his new school, he plays powerhouses like the Trinity Episcopal Titans twice a season. After falling 56-50 on the road in the first matchup of the 2018-19 season, Beran got a second chance in front of his own raucous student section, surrounded by green and yellow.

“Definitely a lot of takeaways from that game,” Beran said. “We turned the ball over a lot. Kind of the main thing coming into this game was just ball security.”

Playing point guard for most of the game, Beran led the team to its thrilling victory by pouring in 35 points. The Cougars battled back from 14 down to take a two point lead down the stretch, with Beran sinking 21 of his 25 free

throws attempts to put his team over the top, 62-60.

One second, he was smooth, driving the lane and drawing yet another foul. Another, he was explosive, like when he charged down the court for a chasedown block in the third quarter to keep Collegiate’s deficit at 6. At the end of the game, he showed he was cool, sauntering off the court drowning in the pandemonium of teenagers celebrating a close win.

And as it heads toward a losing season, Northwestern needs cool.

‘A comes before B’

Robbie’s mother Paula likes to joke that he’s been exposed to sports since before birth. She played softball and indoor soccer for fun with her doctor’s consent until the seventh month of her pregnancy.

“We’re a sports family,” Paula said.

“I believe wholeheartedly that sports is a great segue into real life. You’ll learn to compete and be the best you can be but at the same time you have to learn to cooperate and work with others. To me that’s what life is all about.”

Sports matters — a lot. But to the Beran family, academics is an even bigger deal. At John Tucker High School, where Robbie spent his first three years of high school, he had a 4.23 GPA, he said. At Collegiate, he sports a 3.88.

“One of my favorite things has always been ‘A comes before B,’ you get A’s before you play basketball,” Paula said.

Robbie got As. Now, he gets basketball.

Annemarie Beran, Robbie’s sister and a junior basketball player at Christopher Newport University, said she can’t remember a day when they didn’t play basketball growing up.

The two would face off in one on one games constantly. Sixteen months older, Annemarie had an advantage initially.

She’d just back him down for easy baskets, the Shaq to Robbie’s lanky preteen self. Things changed as he grew.

They haven’t played since she first saw him dunk.

“I could just never ever ever let him have that satisfaction of dunking on me,” Annemarie said. “Once Robbie hit that growth spurt, I was like ‘Oh no, I’m

Photo courtesy Robbie Beran’s Twitter

not letting him do this.”

‘When I feel it I’ll know it’

Forty schools extended official offers to Beran, but his family didn’t always know he was good enough to play at the Division I level. First, he received offers from only Division III schools because while he had height and basketball IQ, he hadn’t yet grown into his body.

After Beran decided to transfer to Collegiate, the offers started rolling in. Established basketball schools like Georgia Tech, Boston College and Virginia Tech extended offers and invitations for official visits in a short timespan.

“It was like that feeling of, we’d been seeing it all along,” Annemarie said. “We’re biased, but at the same time, I know the work that Robbie’s put in. It’s just been so rewarding to see him be happy and have these successes.”

Beran took advantage of the interest, heading off on unofficial visits

throughout the country to build relationships with coaching staffs and see campuses. At NU, he said it all clicked. The academic context was a major reason Beran chose NU over more established basketball programs with bigger fan bases and more NBA prospects, but not the only one. Not even close.

Beran made his official visit in late September, which was his second visit to campus within a month. He interacted with his future teammates, met with the coaching staff and felt comfortable.

“I was able to interact with the guys and it really kind of felt like home,” Beran said. “I guess since day one I’ve always kind of said, when I feel it I’ll know it. That’s kind of what I found.”

NU needs a player like Beran.

The Cats endured through two light recruiting classes from 2016 and 2017 — sophomore Anthony Gaines and junior Barret Benson are the only remaining players. Last year’s class

was better, yielding first years Miller Kopp, Pete Nance and Ryan Greer, but none of those players have had the type of seasons that leads to first team All-Freshman recognition in the conference.

With the Cats losing seniors Dererk Pardon and Vic Law, their top two scorers, at the end of the season, they need someone to fill the offensive gap.

Beran could be that guy. A dynamic positionless presence who can play point guard on a team that badly needs one. And maybe, one day, he’ll represent NU in the NBA. “Obviously I came a long way but there’s still a long way to go,” Beran said. “Before you can even think about that, you’ve got to try to get better every single day. That’s what I try to do, what I try to live by. If that opportunity presents itself I’ll be very grateful for that. And then obviously, you’ve gotta get even better.” gregorysvirnovskiy2022@u.northwestern.edu

Wildcats swimming for a chance at the Big Ten crown

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

daily senior staffer @bxrosenberg

Daily file photo by Noah Frick-Alofs

A Northwestern swimmer dives into the water. The Wildcats are looking to improve on last year’s seventh-place finish at the Big Ten Championships.

Northwestern finished seventh at the Big Ten Championships each of the past two years, and will try to move up in the standings at this year’s meet in Bloomington, Indiana.

The Wildcats (5-5, 2-4 Big Ten) have not competed since Feb. 2, so they will be well-rested and have been physically preparing for the final full-team event of the season.

“It’s involved a lot of stretching, a lot of foam rolling, a lot of mentalization, visualization,” freshman Miriam Guevara said. “Some yoga, a lot of fast swimming. College swimming is very intense, very fast, so that’s been an adjustment, but the coaching staff has been really great about prioritizing your taper as an individual.”

Guevara has been one of Northwestern’s strongest newcomers this season and holds the Cats’ top time in the 100-yard butterfly, an event she has won four times this year. Her six overall first-place finishes rank tied for third on the team behind sophomore Calypso Sheridan’s 14

and senior diver Olivia Rosendahl’s 12. Sophomore Sophie Angus also has six wins, all in the breaststroke events.

Junior Malorie Han has five individual wins this season across three different freestyle events, and sophomore Ilektra Lebl and freshman Tara Vovk each have single victories in four different events.

Sheridan said she is looking forward to seeing the freshmen put up some good times, especially in the relays, which are worth more points than individual events.

“I like to define success in terms of season-bests as well as being happy with the race,” Sheridan said. “If everyone comes into it swimming faster than they did at the TYR Invitational, it’ll be an amazing meet.”

The three-day TYR Invitational in November, which NU won, was the only time the Cats participated in a meet longer than two days. To prepare for the Big Ten Championships, which consist of seven sessions over four days, NU scheduled meets in Louisville and Cincinnati on back-to-back days in late January and then a two-day tri-dual the following weekend against Minnesota and Purdue.

Coach Jeremy Kipp said he scheduled the two-day meets so that his team could get used to competing on a tight turnaround.

“If you have a great swim in the evening at finals, it’s really hard to go to sleep and then you’ve got to get up the next day and be able to perform,” Kipp said. “We try to take it one session at a time. We try to approach each session individually.”

While this is the last time the Cats will compete as an entire team, some team members are trying to qualify for the NCAA Championships in late March. Chief among them is Rosendahl, who is seeking a third straight national championship in the platform diving.

Last year, Rosendahl and Sheridan were the only swimmers to represent NU on the national stage.

“We’re going to see how many people we can qualify for the NCAAs,” Kipp said. “If we break some school records, and the relays are on point, that’s going to start the ball rolling. If kids are swimming their fastest now, they’re peaking, that’s the idea.” benjaminrosenberg2021@u.northwestern.edu