The Daily Northwestern – February 21, 2017

The Daily Northwestern Tuesday, February 21, 2016

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3 CAMPUS/Activism

Losses to ranked opponents spoil record

Petition calls for increased supervision of Greek life, more sexual health resources

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Course packets should be eliminated

DPOE supports Reid in election

City worries of tax freeze

By NORA SHELLY

daily senior staffer @noracshelly

Group endorses in clerk race, but not in mayoral contest

By BILLY KOBIN

daily senior staffer @billy_kobin

The Democratic Party of Evanston voted Sunday to endorse Devon Reid for city clerk and to support a referendum to increase property taxes to fund a deficit in Evanston/ Skokie School District 65’s budget.

More than 80 percent of the members in attendance voted in favor of the upcoming District 65 property tax referendum that will be placed on the April municipal ballot and would help the district combat a projected $114.4 million deficit by fiscal year 2025. Reid received 88 votes, which amounted to 75 percent of votes cast, while current City Clerk Rodney Greene received 15 votes. Fourteen members voted not to endorse in the race.

Reid said he is “extremely excited ” to receive the endorsement from DPOE and that he thinks voters want to have a more efficient and transparent city clerk’s office.

He said he thinks DPOE » See DPOE, page 6

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Keynote speaker Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez speaks at Lutkin Hall on Monday. Rodriguez provided words of healing as she addressed issues of navigating predominantly white institutions as a Latinx student.

Event centers on Latinx voices Students gather for discussion entitled ‘Dear Woke Brown Girl’

By YVONNE KIM

daily senior staffer @yvonneekimm

More than 130 people gathered Monday night for student performances and a keynote talk focused on discussing the experiences of Latinx students in white-majority institutions.

In an event titled “Dear Woke Brown Girl,” keynote speaker Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez — founder of online platform Latina Rebels — addressed topics of race and identity in her personal life with a primarily Latinx audience. The talk was hosted by Campus Inclusion

and Community, Interfaith Advocates and Lambda Theta Alpha Latin Sorority, Inc. Weinberg senior Yoseline Huerta, a member of Lambda Theta Alpha and Interfaith Advocates, planned the event and described it as a way of creating “a space that’s geared toward brown women specifically.”

“At the university, it’s kind of exhausting to navigate a predominantly white institution,” Huerta said. “You become tired and exhausted and there’s a need to recharge. And sometimes there’s a need to recharge in community, and to listen to people like Prisca who have created these spaces online to make sure … you feel

you’re not the only person who feels the way you do.”

The first half of the event provided a space for four students — both NU undergraduates and students from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary — to share music, spoken word poetry and personal narratives regarding Latinx and immigrant identities.

Rodriguez, an immigrant from Nicaragua, then shared her personal story about the struggles she encountered as a minority graduate student navigating Vanderbilt University. It was her first time in an environment that was not primarily Latinx, she said.

“A lot of my work around

healing is naming the hard stuff, giving a thing to the names that hurt you, to the institutions that hurt us,” she said. “Attending white-serving institutions is awful.”

Rodriguez said she began Latina Rebels — an online Tumblr and Facebook community

dedicated to solidarity between brown women — in 2013 as a result of the pent-up anger she felt at Vanderbilt. She is currently taking time off from school to recover from the challenges she faced, and said she is using writing as a means of healing.

She dedicated her talk to » See KEYNOTE, page 6

Students increase engagement in mayoral race

Despite history of separation from local races, students rally around 2017 candidates

By JONAH DYLAN

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Adam Gross walked into an Evanston mayoral debate on Feb. 7 with no idea whom he would vote for. After the debate, not only had he made up his mind, but also he wanted to do more.

The Communication junior, along with Weinberg junior Raghav Narula, started NU Students for Brian Miller for Mayor, a Facebook page campaigning for the 9th Ward alderman in the upcoming election. They are part of a group of students who have taken a special interest in this year’s municipal elections in the wake of Donald Trump’s victory in November.

Ross Krasner, Associated Student Government vice president for community relations, said he

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has seen an increased interest in local politics from students since the presidential election.

“Many students were obviously disappointed with the outcome,” the Medill junior said.

“They realized that involvement now is more important than ever, and local elections are certainly a very effective way of engaging in the political process and making a decision.”

City clerk candidate Devon Reid said a small group of students is working for his campaign and stressed the effect students can have on local elections.

“When Northwestern students are in town, they make up about 25 percent of the population,” he said. “Young folks and millennials make up 36 or 37 percent of the city, and young people, students being involved in the process is critical to making sure our democracy reflects

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In the past, students have not played a very active role in local elections. Gross said he has observed that students tend not to engage in local politics, despite their potential influence. Northwestern has more than 8,000 undergraduate students on its Evanston campus.

But now, due in part to a renewed focus on local politics at the start of Trump’s administration, students are starting to engage with Evanston’s mayoral candidates. Both Miller and Steve Hagerty, another mayoral candidate, have groups of NU students helping to get them elected.

“There’s an increasing hunger among the student population to want to do something that could possibly affect society in general,” » See STUDENTS, page 6

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Jeff Smith (Weinberg ’77) is one of five candidates in the Evanston mayoral race. The primary election is set for Feb. 28.

A proposed statewide property tax freeze could impact police and fire pension funds, city manager Wally Bobkiewicz said.

The property tax freeze has been floated by Gov. Bruce Rauner in response to a “grand bargain” set of bills designed to end the state budget impasse.

In a budget address last week, Rauner said he would not support an increase in taxes on groceries and medicine included in the package of bills. Rauner also said he would not support a proposed income tax increase without a complementary property tax freeze.

A property tax freeze would make the income tax increase a little easier on residents, Rauner said.

“We need a permanent property tax freeze in Illinois, just like the one the House passed last month,” he said. “Over time, as our economy grows and revenues expand, any increase in the income tax could be stepped down — dedicating future surpluses to taxpayers, not more government spending.”

At an Administration and Public Works Committee meeting in October, aldermen were told by an actuarial firm hired by the city that both funds are both funded at under 50 percent. An actuarial firm hired by the city suggested adjusting the mortality tables for the pension plans.

Currently, the funded ratio for the fire plan is 43.6 percent and 46.6 percent for the police plan.

Bobkiewicz said the city is currently putting in more money into the funds than is required annually to try to overcome issues in fully funding the pensions.

“The prioritization of the council has in the past been to put more money aside for pensions to try to make up some of the deficits there over the years,” Bobkiewicz said. “Under a worse case scenario … one of the options may be to stop doing that in order to continue to fund current operations at the same level.”

Bobkiewicz said it was unclear whether the proposed increase in income taxes would benefit the city. Currently, Evanston keeps roughly 9 percent of the revenue raised in income tax, down from 10 percent in previous years according to Bobkiewicz.

If an increase in the income tax would allow the state to leave more of the revenue to municipalities, it could offset the potential negative impacts of a » See BUDGET, page 6

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AROUND TOWN

Mentoring program matches first class of students

By NORA SHELLY

daily senior staffer @noracshelly

A mentoring program for high school juniors matched its first class of eight participants with professional mentors last week.

Business owner Hecky Powell started The Evanston Work Ethic program through the Forrest E. Powell Foundation. The program at Evanston Township High School was launched with help from the Evanston Community Foundation and the Evanston Chamber of Commerce.

Powell, who is running the program with executive director Nancy Baker, said he started the program to help students who may not know a proper career path.

“Not every kid is made to go to college nor is every kid made to go to trade school,” he said.

“One of the things that is pushed, especially at ETHS, is college and college prep schools, but we have kids that aren’t interested in going to college, but want a career or a trade.”

The eight ETHS juniors in the first class of mentees were chosen out 31 total applicants, Powell said. Th e program directors tried to match students with professionals in industries the teens had interest in, he said.

Eve Smith, a mentee and junior at ETHS, said she believed the program would help her start out her career in the culinary industry without needing to go to college.

POLICE BLOTTER Police respond to several gunshots reports Patrolling officers responded to several gunshots Friday afternoon just outside of downtown Evanston, police said.

At about 4:20 p.m., officers heard the gunshots while on patrol in the 1600 block of Foster Avenue.

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Business owner Hecky Powell started The Evanston Work Ethic program through the Forrest E. Powell Foundation. The new program is meant to help high school students find success in a specific trade without needing to go to a four-year college.

“The program is really about being successful, and they’re saying it’s OK to step out of the norm and go your own route to find success,” Smith said. “It’s opening a door for kids and showing them that the four-year college route

is not the only option.”

She was matched with a mentor who works at Hearth Restaurant at the Homestead Hotel, and said she was looking forward to using the program to help guide her to her career goal as

When they arrived on the scene, Dugan said, officers did not locate any offenders but found that two houses had been struck by bullets. One house was in the 2000 block of Jackson Avenue and the other in the 1900 block of the same street.

Based on a blurry video, Dugan said police suspect a group of five or six teenagers were fighting when one pulled out a handgun and started shooting.

No one was injured and there are no suspects.

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Some Schools of Effort and “Seeing” with Aracelis Girmay

Wednesday, February 22, 2016 5:15 p.m.

Harris Hall, Room 108 1880 Campus Drive • Evanston, IL Reception to follow.

Free and open to the public.

No tickets or reservations required.

For more information, contact Elizabeth Foster at wcas-events@northwestern.edu.

Aracelis Girmay is the author/illustrator of the collage-based picture book changing, changing, which was published by George Braziller in 2005. She has also written three books of poems: Teeth (Curbstone Press, 2007), Kingdom Animalia (BOA Editions, 2011), and the black maria (BOA Editions, 2016). Girmay is on the faculty of Hampshire College’s School for Interdisciplinary Arts.

Before joining Hampshire’s faculty, Girmay taught community writing workshops with young people for several years, at which time she worked with the ACTION Project, a teen arts and social justice program in the Bronx.

She received her B.A. in documentary studies from Connecticut College and an M.F.A. in poetry from New York University. For the past few years, she has been studying texts and other materials that, through form, language(s), diction, and gesture, perform and think about place and loss of place (or displacement), and what this sometimes has to do with the sea.

Man arrested in connection with alleged domestic battery

Officers responded to a report of domestic battery Thursday in west Evanston, police said.

At noon, responding officers were dispatched to the 1800 block of Darrow Avenue after receiving a call about a domestic battery, Evanston police

a personal chef.

Mentor Jason Saini, Owner of Greenwood Motorsports and Wagons, which specializes in repair, sales and modification of cars, said he became involved with the program after hearing about it through a friend.

Saini said his goal was to expose his mentee to as many different facets of the industry as possible and open doors to them in the industry.

“There is a myriad of different ways that you can get involved that aren’t the conventional path,” Saini said. “I’m just excited to show somebody who is already enthusiastic about automobiles what those opportunities are.”

Saini said that for some students, an apprentice-like training experience would be more beneficial than a regular college path, and the program was “creative and interesting.”

“There is only one path that people feel is the way to get ahead and to have a career,” he said, referencing college. “There are so many skills out there that you can mentor someone (in) … and they can learn a skill and start earning a wage instead of accruing a debt.”

Powell said the onus would fall on the students to succeed in the program.

“These kids have to meet us halfway,” Powell said. “We’re not trying to force anything on any of these kids, but they have to demonstrate that they will meet us halfway. ” Kristina Karisch contributed reporting. norashelly2019@u.northwestern.edu

Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said. When they arrived, they found a 32-year-old woman with external injuries, Dugan said. The woman told police she had been battered by her husband, he said.

The 33-year-old man was taken into custody and charged with domestic battery, Dugan said. He will appear in court on March 8.

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ON CAMPUS Petition calls for additional resources

By MATTHEW CHOI

daily senior staffer @matthewchoi2018

A group of students published a petition Monday calling for increased supervision over Greek life and additional resources promoting sexual and mental health after the University notified students about anonymous reports of multiple alleged druggings and sexual assaults at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and another unnamed fraternity earlier this quarter.

Demands in the petition include appointing a member of the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life to oversee SAE while it is under a cease-and-desist order, and disbanding SAE if its members are found guilty of assault or druggings. The petition also demands more structural changes such as reinstating counseling at the Women’s Center, expanding programming and resources at the Center for Awareness, Response, and Education, and creating more educational programing for fraternity members on sexual assault and consent. About 50 students had signed the petition as of Monday night when it launched.

“Our organizers are women, queer, transgender, and non-binary folks, and men,” the petition said. “We are immigrants, we are people of color, we are white folks. We are members of PHA, MGC, NPHC, and non-affiliated students. And of course, we are survivors.”

The petition also calls for the creation of a task force to reassess how the University oversees student events. The recommended task force would also reconsider the University’s alcohol policy and discuss ways to change Northwestern into a “wet campus.” The petition calls for student and staff representatives from various groups including Interfraternity Council, Panhellenic Association, Campus Inclusion and Community, the Title IX Office, Students for Sensible Drug Policy and others to serve on the proposed task force.

The petition comes after a Feb. 6 announcement notifying students that the administration had received a report alleging that four female students were possibly given a date rape drug at SAE on Jan. 21. The report alleges that two of the students believe they were also sexually assaulted, according to an email to students from the University’s Chief of Police Bruce Lewis.

SAE’s national office ordered its Northwestern chapter to cease chapter activities Feb. 9 until further notice as it conducts its own investigation.

Lewis said the University also received an anonymous report Feb. 3 alleging that another female student was sexually assaulted, potentially with the use of a date rape drug, after attending an event at a second, unnamed fraternity house the previous night.

The Sexual Harassment Prevention Office is investigating the reports, according to the email.

The petition is based on demands originally conceived while planning for a protest march held in front of the SAE house and SAE’s national headquarters, said Amanda Odasz, outreach chair of Sexual Health and Assault Peer Educators and one of the original organizers of the protest. Odasz said organizers planned their demands, which they read during the protest, over social media in response to the allegations.

Organizers continued to meet after the protest to create a more detailed list of demands, Odasz said, with more targeted structural reforms.

“Anytime you’re in a situation like this, it’s important to ask big. And that’s what we’re doing,” the Communication senior said. “We’re taking this very seriously, and I anticipate and expect the University will take it seriously as well.”

Associated Student Government President Christina Cilento said she and Macs Vinson, executive vice president of ASG, found the

petition aligned with their views and had several tangible measures to address the allegations. Cilento and Vinson posted a statement Feb. 8 calling for the immediate suspension of SAE while allegations are investigated. ASG Senate also introduced legislation Wednesday calling for the expulsion of students and organizations found guilty of sexual assault.

“The nice thing about the petition is that it outlines some pretty clear steps the University can take moving forward to not only address the situation but also turn toward prevention for future situations,” Cilento said. “It was pretty comprehensive in terms of the things it’s asking for.” matthewchoi2018@u.northwestern.edu

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Course packets at Northwestern should be eliminated DANNY COOPER

DAILY COLUMNIST

When I look through a syllabus for the first time, I always scan the required readings to see if there is a course reader. Though these course packets may be beloved by the owners of Quartet Copies, who seem to have a monopoly on producing them, they are completely unnecessary.

Not only are they a massive waste of paper, these typically heavy, often disorganized packets can be a financial barrier for people interested in certain classes. It is time for Northwestern professors as a whole to officially do away with course packets in favor of the cheaper, more eco-friendly alternative of simply uploading files to Canvas.

Course packets are a serious misuse of paper. If

a document is in the course packet, it presumably exists as a digital file that could be uploaded to Canvas without printing a single sheet of paper.

Instead, these files are compressed into large collections, which might be lugged around for the quarter but afterward will sit under your bed gathering dust for the remainder of your time at NU (my packets from Fall 2015 can attest to this). Eliminating course readers would prevent future students from contributing to this waste.

Unlike textbooks, course packets are not typically resold by students after they have taken the course, since the collection of documents and assigned readings can vary too much from year to year. One rarely finds a course packet listed on Textbook Exchange or Free & For Sale, meaning they are rarely used beyond one quarter. This short-term utility makes course packets an even more wasteful investment. Getting rid of course packets will also enable professors to switch up their readings more readily if needed.

It does not make sense to mandate students purchasing these packets when the readings could be made available for free online. As it is, course packets constitute a financial disincentive for taking otherwise promising classes. Other textbooks and school materials are expensive enough; if professors upload readings to Canvas, students will not have to worry about potentially dropping a class for an avoidable reason.

Most of my classes already function this way and it simply makes life easier. Instead of paying for and carrying around heavy packets to class every day, I can organize readings and take notes digitally. If a professor finds an interesting article or study to include in the assigned readings, it can be added in seamlessly. And after I take the class, I do not have to worry about what to do with the packet.

I understand some people prefer taking notes on paper, and these students can continue to do so.

However, they should have to order course packets at their own expense. Professors could offer

to arrange for a limited number of packets to be created if specifically requested by students. In that case, students would still have a method to learn in their prefered way but the environmental and economic costs would not be required in order to take a class.

My hope is neither to inconvenience students or professors, nor bankrupt the good people of Quartet. However, the NU academic system’s reliance on course packets is an antiquated practice. If NU professors stop using course packets, it would be a great step toward making the university a more modern, streamlined and inclusive learning environment.

Danny Cooper is a Medill sophomore. He can be contacted at DanielCooper2019@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.

Socially conscious children’s media helps improve society ALEX SCHWARTZ

DAILY COLUMNIST

Script One of my favorite CDs as a kid was “Free to Be…You and Me,” recorded by Marlo Thomas and featuring other famous actors and musicians from the 1970s. I rarely listened to anything else, and soon I knew most of the songs by heart –– I still remember them today. What I didn’t realize back then was how important it was to listen to such accepting and compassionate language at such a young age.

“Free to Be…You and Me” was originally released as an effort to combat gender inequality; it features songs about boys playing with

dolls and princesses not wanting to get married.

From listening to the soundtrack, I soon learned that crying should not be seen as weak and that both mothers and fathers should have any job they want. While the soundtrack’s second-wave feminist origins meant its language didn’t go as far as to combat the existence of the gender binary, “Free to Be…You and Me” still made me question gender norms. I began to think about situations in which I was told that boys did one thing and girls did something else. Without even knowing it, listening made me more conscious of societal sexism at a young age.

Without the influence of “Free to Be…You and Me,” I might have needed to make a lot more effort to become accepting of and empathetic toward experiences that weren’t mine. Regardless of how many times I came into contact with, and in some cases derived privilege from, systems that perpetuated gender inequality, I had the mental capacity to understand what I was experiencing from a very young age.

Music like “Free to Be…You and Me” is much more than just lullabies and nursery rhymes. It’s a

vital step in creating more accepting children and, by result, a more accepting society in the future.

There has been much discussion on Northwestern’s campus recently about how to combat pervasive rape culture and the patriarchy in general, and much of it focuses on teaching college students more about toxic masculinity and consent.

Educating adults is important for a short-term solution to patriarchal problems, but we should also focus on engaging in dialogues about equality at much younger ages.

Progressive media has increasingly adopted this idea recently, particularly through children’s movies. “Zootopia” introduced characters with complicated identities and the notion of fear politics; “Moana” features a teenage woman of color without a love interest as its protagonist; and “Inside Out” worked to destigmatize mental health. There was even a Kickstarter campaign in 2015 created by a woman who is writing an album of intersectional feminist children’s songs.

Creating children’s media that is accepting and socially conscious changes society for the better.

It takes a lot for people to change the beliefs

they developed as children, so providing them with progressive media at a young age means the worldviews they develop will be ones of acceptance and empathy for all people instead of rigid glorifications of backward cultural norms.

This kind of media also has a place on college campuses. Though people our age may not be the target audience, we can still appreciate the messages in movies like “Moana” and records like “Free to Be…You and Me.” Songs about gender equality and movies about acceptance aren’t meant to tell us how we should combat each instance of social injustice; their goal is to teach people how to be human.

For children and adults alike, that’s the start of a better world.

Alex Schwartz is a Medill freshman. He can be contacted at alexschwartz@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.

We can fight climate change outside of government policy HANNAH DION-KIRSCHNER DAILY COLUMNIST

Alongside social media accounts and White House web pages, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention conference on health and climate change was yet another casualty of America’s new political climate. The conference was cancelled without explanation in anticipation of Donald Trump’s anti-environmental policies, and the cancellation was described by the director of the American Public Health Association as a “strategic retreat.” However, environmental leaders including Al Gore organized a new meeting, not sponsored by the government, as a replacement for the conference. The meeting was held last Thursday, with members of the CDC, the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Institutes of Health, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in attendance.

The story of the resurrected conference is hopefully a promising start for non-governmental climate action. In the first weeks of Trump’s presidency, it has become clear that his administration does not support federal efforts to combat climate change. But the stance of the White House does not need to preclude environmental progress for the next four years.

Last week’s Health and Climate Meeting sets a powerful example. Strong voices from the private sector and academia were able to organize a large-scale event to replace what would, in a different political climate, have been hosted by a government agency. Without the usual funding and support for science-related government agencies, non-governmental groups will need to step up and replace usual government function.

It is particularly striking that members of the CDC, the EPA, the NIH and NOAA were among the 300-some attendees of the meeting. These government agencies are currently experiencing significant political pressure from the White House and Capitol, from hiring freezes to social media bans to funding cuts, but employees could not be

prevented from participating off-the-clock — at least, not yet.

The National Park Service has also shown that government employees can play a role in filling the gaps in federal environmental efforts. After tweets from the official Badlands National Park Twitter account were removed (presumably because they contained facts about climate change) an account called “AltUSNatParkService” was opened. The account has since gathered more than 80,000 followers. During the transition of executive agencies, EPA employees have been ordered not to post on social media or communicate with the press, and other departments with scientific duties have received similar but less harsh directives. The National Park Service’s unofficial Twitter account attracted significant media attention and helped raise public awareness of these social media bans.

(Notably, limitations on media transitions are common for executive transitions, but this focus on science-related agencies is unique and concerning.)

Outside of the government, meanwhile, scientists and other concerned citizens are gearing up for a March for Science, scheduled to take place in

Washington on April 22. The event was primarily organized over social media, but has since been publicly backed by major institutions, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Geological Union.

These steps taken by governmental and non-governmental organizations are promising, and they help continue the discussion of climate issues even without the support of government agency heads.

In particular, Thursday’s conference sent a powerful message that progress can be made regardless of the White House’s position on the environment. Now, more environmental groups must take their cue, maintaining momentum and following through on discussion with concrete action.

Hannah Dion-Kirschner is a junior in Weinberg and Bienen. She can be reached at hannahdionkirschner2018@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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“I’m honored to be the only candidate who was able to walk out of there yesterday with their endorsement,” Reid said.

More than 20 candidates for the numerous contested city positions gave brief speeches to more than 200 people in attendance at the DPOE endorsement meeting Sunday, held at the Unitarian Church of Evanston, 1330 Ridge Ave. Current members of DPOE could fill out forms at the meeting stating which candidate they think the organization should endorse in each contested race. There was also a “no endorsement” option for each race.

If more than two-thirds of voting members agreed on an endorsement for a candidate or voted to not endorse, then DPOE would follow suit.

DPOE will not endorse a candidate in the city’s mayoral race or any candidates in contested aldermanic races after its members voted on endorsements Sunday evening because no candidate did not receive the required number of votes.

In the five-way mayoral race, Steve Hagerty received the most votes, with 38 members, or about 28 percent, voting for Hagerty. Ald. Brian Miller (9th) followed closely behind with

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reading prose she had written during and about her experiences at Vanderbilt, and the ways she felt hurt by and coped with institutional oppression.

“This isn’t just one story,” she said. “You all have different stories and different ways you had to adapt to institutions to make it work for you.”

Leslie Campos, a Latino studies minor at Aurora

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Gross said. “People are starting to realize that their vote literally means a ton.”

After the November election, McCormick senior Sean van Dril said he wanted to get involved after realizing how important local politics are. He reached out to all five mayoral candidates, but only Hagerty responded, van Dril said. After a meeting with Hagerty’s campaign manager, Van Dril decided to get involved and try to get his candidate elected.

Van Dril said students that haven’t previously engaged with local politics are finding that they’re more relevant now than ever.

“The issues that matter to us students at the national level, issues like social justice, diversity and

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City clerk candidate Devon Reid speaks at the Democratic Party of Evanston’s endorsement meeting on Sunday. DPOE members voted to endorse Reid at the meeting.

36 votes; Ald. Mark Tendam (6th) received 32 votes; Jeff Smith (Weinberg ‘77) received 17 votes and Gary Gaspard received two votes.

Thirteen members voted to give no endorsement in the mayoral race.

“I’m proud to have won the most votes for mayor at the DPOE endorsement session,” Hagerty said. “DPOE members reflect the progressive values I cherish — social justice, women’s rights, sensible gun safety laws, good

University who attended the event, said the event was “eye-opening” in helping her feel connected to other women with similar experiences.

“It made me more aware that I’m not the only one going through all of this,” Campos told The Daily.

“You honestly feel like you’re the only one, but … there’s other people there with you.”

Rodriguez concluded her talk by providing words of encouragement to other students and women.

Students of color face specific challenges, and it is

important to channel energy into doing things one loves, she said.

“We (students of color) are told to beat the odds,” Rodriguez said. “But look at the rates of retention at any school. The students of color drop at astronomical rates, and there’s a reason for it … I needed people in my life telling me it was okay to go home, and I’m so happy I had them.”

inclusiveness, those kinds of things, they’re implemented at the local level,” he said. “The government that we interact with most on a day-to-day basis is the government here.”

Van Dril added that in this mayoral election, all five candidates, including Miller, Hagerty, Ald. Mark Tendam (6th), Gary Gaspard and Jeff Smith (Weinberg ’77), have similar political ideologies. Local officials should be accessible to their constituents, he said, and he felt Hagerty felt the most accessible to him.

Hagerty said students are constantly interacting with their local government in a variety of ways that are often overlooked.

“Walking on the sidewalk, crossing the street, streetlights, snow removal, the CTA — all these things the government is involved in and students interact with,” he said. “They may not realize it.”

Both Miller and Gross said social media is a particular aspect of campaigning that students can help with. Gross’ Facebook page has only been around for a little more than a week, but it has already garnered attention by relaying the video of Lawrence Crosby’s arrest that Miller pushed to have released earlier this year.

Hagerty said students are just as important to him as any other group of people.

“Students are just as much a constituency as any other constituency,” he said. “They come here and they live in our fine town for at least four years while they’re at Northwestern.”

government and environmental stewardship.”

The only uncontested aldermanic positions in the upcoming election are the 2nd, 4th and 7th ward positions. No candidate in any of the contested aldermanic races received a twothirds majority in the DPOE vote. The vote for the 1st Ward race between incumbent Ald. Judy Fiske and Lee Cabot was close, with Cabot receiving 41 votes and Fiske receiving 39 votes.

In the 5th Ward voting contest between five candidates vying to replace Ald. Delores Holmes, Robin Rue Simmons received 56 votes, or about 60 percent. Misty Witenberg followed in second with 11 votes. Ald. Ann Rainey, who is running for re-election against Rob Bady in the 8th Ward race, received about 51 percent of the votes.

Though it did not endorse any mayoral or aldermanic candidates, DPOE said on its website that it was pleased with the consensus among candidates in protecting Evanston’s values.

“As a party, we were proud to see every candidate commit to stand up to Bruce Rauner and Donald Trump’s agendas and keep Evanston a Sanctuary City even if it means losing federal funding,” it said in a statement.

Early voting for the Feb. 28 mayoral and 5th Ward aldermanic primaries continues now through Feb. 27. The general election for all races is April 4. williamkobin2018@u.northwestern.edu

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potential property tax freeze.

Overall, the city is choosing to “wait and see” until more specifics about the plan come out, Bobkiewicz said. Rauner has been criticized by state Democrats for not presenting a detailed budget plan.

State Sen. Daniel Biss (D-Evanston) said in a statement following Rauner’s address that the governor’s proposal includes “unpalatable options like harmful cuts to key programs and tax increases on the middle class.”

Bobkiewicz said he and other city officials are in contact with Evanston’s elected officials in the General Assembly. He and Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl plan to go to Springfield in a few weeks with other municipal officials to discuss state funding issues further, Bobkiewicz said.

“It’s difficult to speculate because it has been so long since we’ve started having these discussions,” he said. “We are paying attention, and we want to make sure we are spending Evanston tax dollars responsible as always, but at this point we’re just going to continue to take a wait-and-see.”

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City group plans expo of black-owned businesses

By KRISTINA KARISCH

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The Black Business Consortium of Evanston/ Northshore will host its second annual “Le Tour de Noir Entreprise Evanston” and Black Business Expo on Saturday.

The event will include a bus tour that drives by local black-owned businesses and an expo event held at the Levy Senior Center, 300 Dodge Ave. The day is being organized in collaboration with the city’s Economic Development Department.

This year, the city is paying for the bus tour, the buses themselves and the space for the expo, said Jean Murphy, co-founder of the Black Business Consortium.

“We’re excited about the co-sponsorship of the city,” Murphy said. “This benefits them, so they can say they support minority-owned businesses, female, African-American businesses, but it’s a win-win situation. We’re excited and thrilled about it.”

Murphy is the co-owner of YoFresh Yogurt Cafe, 635 Chicago Ave. She founded the Black Business Consortium along with her husband Larry Murphy and local ice cream parlor owners Wendy and Clarence Weaver. She said the motivation for creating the consortium and the event was to provide a place in which business owners can network and support each other, as well as promote sustainable business

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Hecky Powell is the owner of Hecky’s Barbecue. His and other businesses will be featured at the Black Business Expo held with Le Tour de Noir Entreprise Evanston.

development.

She said some black owners of small businesses may feel intimidated by going to the Chamber of Commerce for help and that the consortium was there to provide another way of support.

Since the event was first held last year — featuring a bus and virtual tour — the tour has nearly doubled in size and expanded to feature 82 local businesses, Murphy said. She added that this year’s tour will focus

on the legacy of black entrepreneurship in Evanston.

“We’re focusing on the legacy of black-owned businesses,” Murphy said. “(We’re documenting) the fact that there is this 150-year legacy of entrepreneurship. Many people don’t know about the variety and types of black-owned businesses.”

The expo will feature a space for businesses to set up and feature their products and services, and it will include food sampling, free entertainment and

a panel discussion.

There will be performances from Evanston Township High School students and a spoken word group.

Additionally, jazz musicians Kamila Muhammad (Bienen ’16) and Medill and Bienen fifth-year student Thaddeus Tukes are scheduled perform at the event.

Hecky’s Barbecue will have informational flyers available at the expo. The restaurant has been in Evanston for the past 33 years and prides itself on being a longstanding member of the black business community, owner Hecky Powell said.

Though he was against the separation of the black business community from the Chamber of Commerce, Powell said he felt the consortium was important to help make the community aware of black-owned businesses.

Vivian Killebrew, who owns Stepping Out on Faith Consignment, 1632 Orrington Ave., joined the consortium and said she found others whose businesses were similar to hers and was able receive support in the group.

Her store will be represented at Saturday’s expo, where she will showcase some of her merchandise and give out information to visitors.

“It’s people just like me, you know, small businesses just trying to make a living,” Killebrew said. “(They’re) supporting each other, and networking and bringing good opportunities to the community.” kristinakarisch2020@u.northwestern.edu

Weinberg junior Peter Kotecki to be next editor in chief

By TIM BALK

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Peter Kotecki will serve as the next editor in chief of The Daily Northwestern, the paper’s publisher announced Monday.

The junior is currently a managing editor and will assume the position of EIC for Spring Quarter and next Fall Quarter. After joining The Daily during fall of his freshman year, Kotecki went on to serve as development and recruitment editor and campus editor before becoming

a managing editor this winter. Kotecki, who studies integrated science and legal studies, is the first editor in chief of The Daily to come from a school outside of Medill since Ciara McCarthy, who served from fall 2014 to winter 2015.

“I look forward to expanding the digital side of The Daily, particularly the video desk and our reach on social media,” Kotecki said. “I’m very excited to work with a talented staff, and I plan to focus on recruiting students from all undergraduate schools.”

Kotecki will succeed Medill junior Julia Jacobs, who has led The Daily over the past

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two quarters. Jacobs said she thinks Kotecki’s strengths include his work ethic and his attention to detail.

“As a reporter and editor, Peter has deep institutional knowledge of the university,” Jacobs said. “He’s a strong leader and he has great ideas for The Daily’s digital presence. I’m excited to see his ideas come to life.”

Kotecki’s In Focus on the discovery of the drug Lyrica in a Northwestern laboratory and its subsequent impact on the university received the first-place award at this year’s Illinois College Press Association Awards for in-depth reporting in the daily newspaper category. Kotecki

also wrote an In Focus about mental health and sexual harassment resources on study abroad programs.

The board of Students Publishing Co., The Daily’s parent organization, interviewed Kotecki Monday evening.

“We like Peter’s organizational ideas. We like (his) digital and social media emphasis,” said board member Ed Bryant, who chaired the selection meeting. “The Board looks forward to Peter’s successful term in office as editor in chief.” timothybalk2018@u.northwestern.edu

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Losses to ranked opponents spoil Wildcats’ undefeated record

By AIDAN MARKEY

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Coming into the weekend, Northwestern appeared poised to make a run at a championship against some of the nation’s best programs. Three losses later, the team knows it still has room for improvement.

The No. 7 Wildcats (10-3) dropped their trio of matches at the ITA National Indoor Championships this weekend, marking their longest losing streak since a three-match skid in the early weeks of the 2015 season. NU fell to No. 12 Oklahoma State, No. 14 Oklahoma and No. 16 Mississippi State during its winless weekend.

Coach Arvid Swan said the team is grateful to have had the opportunity to compete in the renowned event.

“It was a great opportunity for our guys to be able to play three of the best 16 teams in the country,” Swan said.

“We’re disappointed to have not won all or one of them, but the experience was very good.”

The Cats faced the Cowboys (8-3) to begin the event Friday. NU dropped the doubles point at the start of the match, the first time it had done so this season. Though the Cats fought back to trail just 3-2, an Oklahoma State victory at No. 1 singles over senior Strong

Kirchheimer dealt the Cats their first loss of the season. Senior Konrad Zieba and sophomore Jason Seidman tallied wins in the defeat.

Seidman said the Cats have to be in sync as a team to notch victories over such strong competition.

“We always put up a fight whether or not we are playing well,” Seidman said.

“Overall, though, each and every guy has to be on their game in order to win a match against a top quality opponent.”

Saturday’s contest with the Sooners (9-2) proved just as competitive. NU dropped the doubles point for the second consecutive match, but again clawed its way back after singles victories from Zieba, sophomore Ben Vandixhorn and Kirchheimer, who ranks No. 26 nationally.

With the score locked at 3-3, the decision came down to Seidman’s match at No. 6. But in a third set battle, he fell in a tiebreak, and the Cats’ record dropped to 0-2 for the weekend.

Seidman said though the close loss might sting, the team is confident it will learn from the situation.

“Next time we’re in that type of situation, we’ll have more experience,” Seidman said. “And we know we’ll be in that situation again.”

The weekend trend of close, gritty matches continued Sunday against the Bulldogs (5-3).

NU jumped out to an early lead

thanks to doubles wins from Vandixhorn and freshman Chris Ephron, as well as Kirchheimer and freshman Dominik Stary. After a pair of singles wins, the Cats led 3-1, and stood on the cusp of leaving Charlottesville with a win. But a forceful Mississippi State run foiled NU’s hopes, and the team dropped its third straight match 4-3.

Ephron said though the losses were disappointing, the Cats can use them to their advantage.

“Moving forward, we can learn, and we now know the things to focus on,” Ephron said. “Hopefully by the end of the year, those losses become wins.”

Following their first defeat of the 2016-17 campaign, NU needs to recover before the losses compound with a matchup against Notre Dame and a rematch with Oklahoma State on the horizon.

Swan said though the Cats are confident after gauging their talents against the nation’s best teams, the results indicate NU has a ways to go.

“We can play with the best teams in the country, it’s no question,” Swan said. “But we have some things we need to learn and improve based on this experience.” aidanmarkey2019@u.northwestern.edu

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NU snaps skid, splits weekend With Lindsey back,

By ZACH KOONS

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Following a brief respite from match play, Northwestern returned home this weekend looking to halt a three-match skid.

But the No. 23 Wildcats (5-4) got off to a slow start and were overwhelmed 5-2 on Friday by a previously undefeated Baylor (6-1) team, before bouncing back Sunday to dominate Big Ten rival Illinois (3-6 Big Ten) in a 6-1 rout.

Despite eventually falling to Baylor, NU began the weekend on a brief high note. During doubles play, NU grabbed the first match at No. 2, with a 6-3 win from the sophomore duo of Rheeya Doshi and Lee Or. Both of the remaining doubles matches moved into tiebreaks, with the junior pairing of Maddie Lipp and Alex Chatt finally pulling out a 7-6 (7-5) win.

Chatt ended the match with a decisive cross-court overhand shot.

The success at doubles gave NU an early advantage.

“Having depth in doubles or singles is really key,” junior Erin Larner said.

“Knowing that you can find wins at spots every day is definitely beneficial.”

However, the Cats immediately struggled at singles against Baylor’s powerful attack. NU dropped the first set in four of the six matches.

The Bears were led by No. 9 Blair Shankle and her undefeated teammate Rhiann Newborn. The two both won their respective matches over Larner and Lipp. “(Rhiann) is really tricky and really smart,” Lipp said. “Every (Baylor) girl on every court is going to make you hit a lot of balls, so if you’re going to win your match you really have to earn it.”

Forced to play from behind, the Cats never found a rhythm. Despite scoring the decisive winner in doubles play, Chatt was overwhelmed in her match at No. 4 singles and fell to the Bears’ Theresa Van Zyl 7-5, 6-4 as Baylor clinched the match.

“I thought Baylor exposed a little lack of toughness … and I think they outhustled us,” coach Claire Pollard said. “I was glad to get (those issues) exposed in February so that we can work on them and identify them.”

NU didn’t have to wait long to bounce back. The team fired on all cylinders against in-state rival Illinois on Sunday,

whom it had beat in each of the teams’ last 16 meetings.

The Cats jumped out to a 1-0 lead behind 6-2 wins from the pairings of Chatt and Lipp, and Larner and senior Brooke Rischbieth.

NU entered singles play with its foot firmly on the gas. The Cats flipped the script from the Baylor match and were able to pick up a first set win in five of the six singles matches.

Larner bounced back from her loss Friday to grab the match-winning point for the Cats against the Fighting Illini’s Louise Kwong. Doshi and Or also tacked on wins to bring the final tally to 6-1.

“Louise is a tricky player to figure out,” Larner said. “I kept having to try and raise my level throughout because she kept coming back and wasn’t going away.”

The victory snapped NU’s losing streak and gave the team a 1-0 start in Big Ten play.

“Every match is important and wins are getting harder to come by,” Pollard said. “We need to continue to do things better in order to give ourselves opportunities and chances to win good matches.” zacharykoons2020@u.northwestern. edu

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Juniors Alex Chatt and Maddie Lipp celebrate a point. The doubles duo notched a pair of wins over the weekend.

Cats head to Illinois

By BEN POPE

daily senior staffer @benpope111

For two weeks, Northwestern’s leading scorer, Scottie Lindsey, watched the Wildcats play and watched other college and NBA teams play.

But while suffering from mononucleosis, the junior guard couldn’t play himself.

“Bored, frustrated — I went through everything,” Lindsey said. “I wasn’t that sick when they diagnosed me, and the weeks I was out I wasn’t really that sick either. But that’s what they diagnosed me as, so the risk of rupturing my spleen was too big for me to keeping playing even though I felt pretty good.”

After winning six consecutive games prior to Lindsey’s diagnosis, NU (20-7, 9-5 Big Ten) lost three of four during his absence, including this season’s first meeting with Illinois (15-12, 5-9) on Feb. 7.

Finally cleared to return to practice last week, however, Lindsey played 24 minutes and scored 6 points in Saturday’s narrow victory over Rutgers. He said he’s feeling “awesome” entering Tuesday’s rematch with the Fighting Illini.

“The thing that can get me back to 100 percent is just my game legs,” he said. “My wind is fine. I’m not really getting that tired in the game.”

Lindsey’s presence will not only bolster the Cats’ starting lineup, it will also allow secondary contributors like freshman guard Isiah Brown and senior forward Nathan Taphorn to shift back into bench roles.

“Hopefully it’ll be a little bit more seamless of a transition, knowing that we played a big chunk of our season with that rotation,” coach Chris Collins said. “It gives us more depth, and that’s something we’ve got to lean on.”

That rotation adjustment could help counterbalance a deep Illinois roster

Northwestern vs. Illinois

Champaign, Illinois 7 p.m. Tuesday

that outscored NU 30-13 in bench points in Evanston earlier this month.

That night, Malcolm Hill tallied 14 points and 9 rebounds and junior guard Bryant McIntosh committed four turnovers in the game’s final three minutes as the Fighting Illini upset the Cats.

Senior forward Sanjay Lumpkin, who was held off the scoresheet that game, said his team is seeking revenge Tuesday.

“We’ve got to fight them,” Lumpkin said. “Everything kind of goes out the window in a rivalry game … We know we dropped one at home against them, which made it even worse for us, and it definitely is a motivating factor.”

Against the Big Ten’s second-worst shooting percentage defense, the availability of Lindsey should be a major advantage for NU. Collins said he hoped, but failed, to restrict Lindsey to 20 minutes against Rutgers, but won’t have him on a time limit against Illinois.

“You’re talking about a guy who, until he got sick, was putting up an all-league-type season,” Collins said.

“We’re not on a pitch count or a minutes restriction or anything like that, it’s more just (based on) feel.”

And for Lindsey himself, who went home twice to visit his family in Hillside, Illinois, while being held out of action, that freedom is sweetest of all.

“I wanted to be out there and help my team in games I thought we could win with me or without me, so playing against those top teams and just watching from the sidelines was tough,” he said. “I love being able to be out there again.” benjaminpope2019@u.northwestern. edu