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By YUNKYO KIM

Expanding health services, increasing accessibility to facilities and supporting identity are among seven recommendations outlined in a 82-page report compiled by members of Northwestern’s Gender-Queer, NonBinary, and Trans Task Force.

The report includes key requests, action items, desired outcomes and deadlines in order to put equity into action to support transgender, non-conforming and non-binary individuals at Northwestern.

“We assessed the current landscape to identify gaps in policies and resources, and to recommend strategies that will facilitate an accessible, safe, and welcoming campus environment for trans and gender-nonconforming students, faculty and staff at Northwestern,” the report said.

The task force was led by Sekile Nzinga, interim chief diversity officer and director of the women’s center and Héctor Carrillo, sociology professor and co-director of the Sexualities Project at Northwestern. A team of more than 70 students, faculty and administrators convened monthly from October 2018 and June 2019 to compile research for the report.

The report highlights recommendations like affirmations of names and identities and expansion of health services and resources. The University further needs to prioritize cultivation of gender-inclusive environments as well as facilities, promote genderinclusive residential services and support the community by creating consistent conversation and collaboration, it said.

Carrillo said when he was asked to chair the initiative, the task force was working with the foundation of research conducted by student groups.

In the 2018-2019 year, the LGBTQ+ Advisory Board at Multicultural Student Affairs conducted a survey to 123 students who identified as genderqueer, non-binary, transgender.

The results contributed to identifying the recommendations.

The Northwestern community can achieve this by taking specific actions, the report states. For example, it proposes the University creates a “onestop” mechanism that standardizes names, pronouns and name

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student-run academic conference focused on Gender and Sexuality, as well as advocacy and collaborative efforts with other affinity-based graduate student organizations.

Her work at QPGSA has given her a sense of pay-off and

The Investment Committee of the Board of Trustees rejected Fossil Free Northwestern’s divestment proposal calling for the University to divest from any of the top 100 coal and oil and gas companies, the committee announced in a Thursday statement.

The proposal, which was recommended for board consideration by the Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility in June 2019, also called for Northwestern to reinvest in non-fossil fuel companies, particularly those with an emphasis on renewable energy.

The decision comes just days after Fossil Free Northwestern held a die-in protest and environmental justice teach-in as part of Global Divestment Day, criticizing the University’s financial investments and instructing others about the impact of the fossil fuel industry on marginalized communities.

The Investment Committee wrote in their statement that the proposal did not meet the divestment criteria outlined in the Statement on Investment Responsibility. That statement was adopted by the board in November 2019, several months after Fossil Free had submitted its proposal to the board.

“The Investment Committee does not believe the proposed divestment would generate tangible and positive change toward FFN’s goals related to climate change,” the statement regarding the decision said. “The recommended sale of Northwestern’s holdings in these firms would not have any impact on the ability of the targeted companies to conduct their businesses.”

Divesting would not change the demand for fossil fuels, the statement also said, which it argued is the true determiner of fossil fuel companies’ products.

In 2015, the board also rejected another Fossil Free Northwestern proposal, one that solely called on the University to divest from coal companies.

Other peer institutions have chosen to partially or fully

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Community members interact at a Environment Board and Equity and Empowerment Commission meeting. Board members proposed changes to the most recent draft of the Environmental Justice Resolution.

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The Environment Board met with the Equity and Empowerment Commission on Thursday to review and propose changes to the Environmental Justice Resolution, which they will present

to City Council in the coming months.

The resolution specifies priorities for future city environmental policies and practices, including an emphasis on public participation.

The Environmental Justice Resolution is the first step in a larger plan for Environmental Justice Evanston, a subgroup of

Citizens’ Greener Evanston that worked on the resolution before collaborating with the city to make amendments.

Acting Assistant City Manager Kimberly Richardson said the draft should take specific action to include all communities.

If City Council approves the resolution, EJE will work with

other groups and stakeholders to draft an Environmental Justice Ordinance.The ordinance would specify actions the city must take to facilitate environmental justice in Evanston.

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A look into QPGSA’s advocacy Profiling efforts of Queer Pride Graduate Student Association

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When Addie Shrodes first came to The Graduate School at Northwestern, she was already looking for spaces where she could meet other LGBTQ

Serving the University and Evanston since 1881

students.

The Queer Pride Graduate Student Association soon became her home, as it has for over 400 graduate students.

Founded in 2005, QPGSA is involved in advocacy as well as academic, social and servicebased efforts to assist Northwestern graduate students.

“It’s easy to feel isolated in graduate school, and it’s also easy to feel like you’re never gonna accomplish what you want to accomplish,” Shrodes, the QPGSA president, said.

As an active member of the group for the past three years, Shrodes worked on organizing Queertopia, a graduate

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Nonprofits aim to collaborate despite competition

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For all your nonprofit needs, look no further than Evanston.

There’s Books & Breakfast, a before-school program that offers breakfast and homework assistance to Evanston students in need of additional support.

The Center for Independent Futures aims to promote equal opportunity for people with disabilities, and Bundled Blessings partners with local social service organizations to supply diapers to families in need.

For practically every social issue, from homelessness to substance abuse, there’s a passionate nonprofit hoping to provide solutions.

Evanston has a “vibrant” nonprofit sector, said Kellogg School Center for Nonprofit Management director Donald Haider. But local nonprofits’ abundance often forces them to compete, leaving those with overlapping missions vying for attention, resources and clients.

“Paradoxically, the not-for-profit sector is often called the collaborative sector, the partnering sector, the civil society,” Haider said. “But the truth is notfor-profits do compete. They compete for customers, and they compete for funding.”

Illinois’ roughly 60,000 nonprofit organizations employ about 578,000 people, or over 11 percent of the state’s workforce. A 2015 Nonprofit Finance Fund study found that 73 percent of Illinois nonprofits

POLICE BLOTTER Driver failed to secure child An officer arrested an Evanston man Wednesday evening in connection with failing to present a valid driver’s license after he was stopped for driving without securing a child in a safety seat.

As an officer observed traffic in the 1200 block of Howard Street, they saw a small child standing in the backseat of a white 2018 Toyota Camry, Evanston police Cmdr. Brian Henry said. The officer stopped the driver around 7:20 p.m. at Ridge Avenue and Brummel Street.

reported an increased demand for their services, but only 53 percent said they had the ​funding to meet that demand. Competition, which is compounded by the Trump administration’s reduction of annually appropriated grants, often requires nonprofits partner or merge, Haider said.

Jean Butzen, the president of Mission + Strategy Consulting, which facilitates nonprofit mergers, partnerships and affiliations, said the low cost of entering the sector makes for a competitive market.

“Just like if you go into the for-profit sector, you see lots and lots of plumbers out there,” she said. “The market’s really easy to get into.”

For nonprofits hoping to expand their services and intensify their impact in an abundant sector, partnerships may prove useful. Evanston Cradle to Career is a partnership of over 40 nonprofit, civic and faithbased organizations that intends to rectify inequities for low-income children and families of color. EC2C groups like-minded organizations into teams — from the Parent and Caregiver Empowerment Team to the Learning on Track Action Team — that pursue mutually reinforcing goals.

EC2C executive director Sheila Merry said the partnership has especially succeeded in advancing early childhood programs. Collaborating nonprofits conduct joint training and share referrals. As part of the new baby visit program, healthcare organizations and nonprofits, including Bundled Blessings, collaborate to ensure families receive a home visit a month after their baby’s birth.

“None of the organizations could do this on their own,” Merry said. “But together, they’re able to absorb the increased number of demands on their resources in order to provide this service. It’s only because of collaboration that we could make this happen.”

Bundled Blessings co-chair Sue Hagedorn said the nonprofit hasn’t competed with other organizations because few diaper pantries exist. Still, she said collaboration magnifies nonprofits’ voices in communities and makes residents aware of organizations’ common goals.

A successful merger — either when two or more nonprofit boards agree to dissolve and form a new organization or when one board votes to dissolve and transfer its assets to another organization — can reduce back office operations and administrative costs, Haider said. But attempting to pool the resources of two nonprofits with disparate missions may lead to an unsuccessful merger.

In the 2016 Report from the Metropolitan Chicago Nonprofit Merger Research Project, Haider, Katherine Cooper and Reyhaneh Maktoufi attempted to dispel the common belief that a merger represents a nonprofit’s failure to achieve its mission.

“There’s a negative connotation for mergers in the not-for-profit sector,” Haider said. “The merger is a tool and it can be used in a successful way to enable organizations to grow and to get more mission out of both organizations.”

Haider added that while mergers are one tool to increase a nonprofits’ effectiveness, they aren’t the only option. Although Bundled Blessings hasn’t merged

Henry said the 6-year-old child standing in the car was likely the driver’s grandchild. If the driver had been able to present a valid drivers’ license to the officer, he would have received a ticket for the violation instead of an arrest.

“We don’t see these kinds of arrests all that often,” Henry said. “But they do happen occasionally.”

The man is scheduled to appear in court on March 11.

for driving 44 mph in a 25 mph zone.

The driver, arrested on Tuesday around 1:20 p.m., is an Ohio resident who was driving a friend’s black 2019 Hyundai Elantra, Henry said. He was stopped at 1030 Ridge Avenue.

“Ridge is a place where we enforce traffic on a regular basis,” Henry said. “It’s two lanes each way, it’s narrow and it’s a high accident area.”

The man is scheduled to appear in court on March 20.

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A view of Evanston from above. Evanston boasts a wide variety of nonprofits, which tackle issues ranging from substance abuse to homelessness.

with another nonprofit, Hagedorn said she appreciates the connections she’s forged with other EC2C partner organizations.

“Collaboration is always better than working alone,” Hagedorn said. “We do better when we do things together.” evaherscowitz2023@u.northwestern.edu

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Program tackles perinatal depression

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A Northwestern program aims to tackle the issue of perinatal depression, which strikes before and after pregnancy and affects as many as one in five mothers.

The program, called Compass, enters all women referred to it, often by their doctors or midwives, or those who seek it out themselves into a patient registry and screens them regularly for depression electronically through self-reported surveys every two to four weeks. At weekly multidisciplinary meetings, the Compass team talks about all the patients in the registry that are still having depressive symptoms and discusses ways to change their care plans to ensure they are getting the best care possible.

Compass was created three years ago by Dr. Emily Miller, a maternal-fetal medicine specialist and assistant professor at Feinberg. Miller said she got the idea after seeing strong evidence supporting the ability of collaborative care to improve mental health outcomes and wanted to apply that in the context of prenatal and postpartum care.

“We wanted to build upon what we learned from our internal medicine and psychiatry colleagues but apply it to the unique aspects of our population and our health system,” Miller said.

Compass is funded by Friends of Prentice, which works with Northwestern Medicine Prentice Women’s Hospital to advance the quality of women’s healthcare by funding research focusing on areas of women’s health.

Compass was the largest project Friends of Prentice funded in its over 30-year history, as it put $840,000 towards the project, said Kristin Field, executive director of Friends of Prentice.

Field said Friends of Prentice runs a “competitive grant process” and that Compass was a project the organization felt strongly about.

“It’s been so impactful and we really believe that what Dr. Miller is working on is extremely

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Feinberg assistant professor Emily Miller created the Compass program to help combat the issue of perinatal depression.

important,” Field said. “And it’s bringing a light to mental health and an area of critical care for women that is not usually addressed and it’s bringing it to the forefront.”

Field added that Friends of Prentice gave Compass the seed money because it wanted to expand the program and watch it “flourish and grow.”

Rachel Ostrov, a clinical social worker with Compass, said she hopes that Compass is able to help more women in need of these services, especially with Compass being replicated in other places.

“I hope that we continue to be able to reach as many women who are seeking these services as possible,” Ostrov said. “And I’m also excited

about the idea of the program being replicated across the country.”

Miller said Compass was implemented at five clinics at Northwestern and that the team is seeing promising results. She said the next step was to see what happened if Compass was replicated in different places, evaluate if it was still effective and get other obstetrics clinics to do the same thing.

“We’re disseminating our results, we’re presenting and doing workshops with many different academic hospitals, to meet with their sought leaders in obstetrics and psychiatry, to start to think about how we can adapt what we’ve learned here to what their local setting is,” Miller said.

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A rundown of Democrats after the Nevada debate ZACH KESSEL

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We’ve seen this movie before.

Things got heated in the Wednesday night Democratic debate before the Nevada caucuses.

However, instead of casting their ire towards frontrunner U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), the candidates lined up in a circle, faced each other, and shot.

Anyone who’s followed electoral politics over the past five years understands what the circular firing squad does.

Back in 2016, when Donald Trump held a commanding lead in the polls, his Republican opponents had two options: either take direct shots at Trump in hopes of chipping away at his lead, or try to stamp out any non-Trump opposition. Each Republican candidate chose the latter, aside from former Wisconsin governor Scott Walker — who dropped out much earlier than expected, ostensibly thinking that other Republicans would do the same and voters would coalesce around a non-Trump candidate. We all know how that worked out.

Wednesday night, the Democrats took the second approach as well. Instead of attempting to knock down Sanders ahead of an incredibly important primary state, they turned on each other. Heading into the Nevada caucus, and after a streetfight of a debate, it’s worth looking at where each of the eight remaining candidates stand.

Bernie Sanders RealClearPolitics’ polling average has Sanders as a ten-point favorite, polling at 28.6 percent nationally. In Nevada, he’s doing even better, coming in at an even 30 percent and leading Joe Biden by 14 percentage points.

Sanders was the clear winner of Wednesday’s debate. The frontrunner escaped any serious attacks and was able to communicate his message

effectively and clearly. This is where the Democrats’ strategy needs to change.

Sanders has a high floor, but also a low ceiling.

While he can definitely poach most of U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-Mass.) supporters if she drops out, it’s hard to see any supporters of other candidates rallying to his side. Wednesday night was when the Democrats should have tried to chip away at his lead. Former South Bend, Ind. Mayor Pete Buttigieg (D-Ind.) and former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg were the only candidates who made concerted efforts to go after him, but each had rough nights themselves.

Sanders, many have written, is running a campaign very similar to Trump’s in 2016 — the clear leader of one wing of the Democratic Party facing myriad candidates in the more mainstream wing.

If any of the moderates want to defeat Sanders, their best move would be to drop out. What the moderates need is one candidate. The issue, though, is that it’s not clear who that candidate will be, which brings me to the former frontrunner.

Joe Biden The former Vice President had perhaps his strongest debate yet, but it may not be enough.

After disappointing — though not damning — finishes in Iowa and New Hampshire, Biden desperately needs a strong showing in Nevada.

If he doesn’t place a strong second, his campaign is effectively over, regardless of how he does in South Carolina. This debate should be a boon for him, but momentum is not on his side, and at this point in a primary, momentum is everything.

Speaking of momentum...

Mike Bloomberg Bloomberg’s long-awaited debate debut did not go as planned. While he held his own when discussing electability, the environment and gun safety, he was woefully unprepared to defend his record on sexual harassment allegations, his answer when probed by Warren on non-disclosure agreements left much to be desired for his supporters and multiple other candidates hit him hard on stop-and-frisk. The question is: does that matter?

Bloomberg did have some good moments, like when he brought up the fact that he was the only candidate on the debate stage who has started a business, and when he hit Sanders with the line, “the best known socialist in America is a millionaire who owns three houses.”

Bloomberg’s strategy thus far has been a massive ad campaign, and that campaign has worked.

Since January 1, Bloomberg has risen from 4.8% in the polls and in fifth place to 15.9% and creeping up on Biden’s second-place spot. For the majority of voters, who don’t watch the debates, Bloomberg’s stumbles won’t have much of an effect. There is still a compelling case to be made that he is the most viable of the moderate candidates, seeing as he polls far ahead of Buttigieg and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.).

If anything does get him, though, it’ll be the sexual harassment allegations and NDA questions.

Elizabeth Warren At this point, she should drop out.

Yes, Warren had a good performance last night attacking Bloomberg’s record, but that shouldn’t be her strategy. Maybe if she had positioned herself as a more mainstream Democrat from the outset, her campaign wouldn’t be flailing, but here we are.

Warren’s only hope was to cut into Sanders’ lead among progressives. She certainly can’t gain any traction in any other lane, seeing as Buttigieg and Klobuchar performed well in Iowa and New Hampshire. Warren’s lack of an ability to go up against Sanders means that she is no longer a viable candidate, and it’s too late for her to come back.

Pete Buttigieg Buttigieg is one of the more interesting candidates still left in the race. He had a strong performance, save for his spat with Klobuchar about her forgetting the name of Mexico’s president. For a candidate whose major weakness is the appearance of ambition and condescension, that could have been a moment to — to use Marco Rubio’s ill-fated expression — “dispel with this fiction.”

Instead, he came off as a pompous Ivy-leaguer. A bad-faith attack like that will only serve to highlight his perceived disingenuity. Though he’s done well through New Hampshire, his low national polling numbers should give moderates pause.

Amy Klobuchar The Bulwark’s Jonathan Last put it best when he wrote that “the tone of her voice suggested she would not be unhappy if Buttigieg tripped and fell into a wood chipper.” His line of attack was baseless, but Klobuchar’s defense wasn’t great, either. The only thing viewers gained from watching her Wednesday night was the knowledge of where Post-Its were invented. Though she has #Klobmentum or #Klobucharge or whatever you want to call it, her polling numbers should be worrisome to those who think she could be the last moderate candidate standing.

Tom Steyer It still doesn’t really make sense that he’s running, but for some reason, he’s doing very well in South Carolina. Whoever finishes after him in that state is going to look terrible, which may mean the end for a campaign or two.

Tulsi Gabbard Doing a good job of getting herself a Fox News gig after the election is over.

After Wednesday night, it is clear that Sanders is a strong front-runner, but his main challenger remains to be seen. Nevada will clear that up — if Biden performs well, he can regain the ground he’s lost. If not, even with the NDA attack, the moderate vote is Bloomberg’s for the taking. The moderates won’t have a chance, though, if they don’t go after Sanders. Come Saturday, we may see a field without Warren or Biden, and perhaps then voters will coalesce around an alternative to Sanders.

Zach Kessel is a Medill freshman. He can be contacted at zachkessel2023@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this op-ed, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.

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Gen Z needs to better acknowledge heteronormativity

TANISHA TEKRIWAL

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I’m tired of hearing things like “I support the queer community, but don’t want my partner to be bisexual.”

Though I always venture to argue that Gen Z is more progressive than its older counterparts, that is often true only statistically. Relative progress is not enough progress. Just because we are collectively attempting to undermine social constructs of race, gender, patriarchy, organized religion and others does not mean we are individually immune to the less explicit and more insidious forms of these very institutions.

Remarks like that always infuriate me, and I have to teach myself patience because exasperation doesn’t help nip these malignant tropes in the bud.

So for the hetero women out there saying that — hetero men, I’ve noticed, tend to fetishize rather than ridicule same-sex tendencies — know that you are complicit in furthering stereotypes.

I suppose what one means through a statement

like that is that they prefer ‘Masc’ behaviour rather than ‘Fem’— which I respect and can accept. However, assuming that all bisexual people project the latter or that discovering someone’s sexual orientation would change the way you see them is not a personal preference; it’s simply a prejudice I cannot respect or accept.

Look around a room and definitively identify a stranger’s orientation or pronouns. You might have a lucky guess, but the truth is, you can’t tell something like that. And by trying to, you’re playing into heteronormative ideology because you’re boxing people into what you think are definable categories of who’s queer and who isn’t. Yes, there are stereotypes of what gay or lesbian people act like or are supposed to act like, but they’re stereotypes for a reason.

Androgyny means nothing that its bearer doesn’t want it to — there is no such thing as “gay behavior” or “straight behavior” — only stereotypes.

One of the biggest demands the LGBTQ community and their allies are making is asking people to realize that personality is in large part unaffected by gender identity or sexual orientation. They are not a break from the heteronormative “default,” but very much part of everyday and our “normal.” If you liked someone when they were or you thought

they were heterosexual, and suddenly don’t when you learn they’re bi/pansexual or non-binary, you’re doing exactly what Gen Z is always accusing boomers of: not supporting people and their choices.

The second most common thing I’ve heard along this tangent is the outright attack on nonmonogamy, the umbrella term for polyamory and open relationships. The reason heteronormativity and monogamy fall in the same category is because they’re both outdated notions that have a parasitic relationship with each other and are predicated on Western gender binary classifications.

Just because you don’t want to or are too insecure to be in a polyamorous relationship does not give you the license to judge someone else’s choices. For all those harping on “disloyalty” and “unfaithfulness,” polygamy is not cheating, just the way a threesome is not cheating. How relationships work is that people agree on a common ground, and all parties willingly participate. If you don’t understand how going behind your partner’s back is not the same thing as this healthy agreement, I cannot help you — though some common sense might.

There was a time when homosexuality was punishable — in many parts of the world it still is — and many of the ones who went along with these

schemes of oppression have now changed their tune, which is okay. It is better to accept one’s mistakes and grow than to hold onto one’s ego. Be apologetic if you couldn’t be ahead of the curve, but do not blame your shortcomings on your circumstances. “A product of my time” is just a euphemism for “unable to think for myself.”

The truth is we are all guilty of living comfortably in an age of state-sponsored monogamy and statesanctioned erasure of identity on an unimaginable scale, both of which are closely tied to the institution of colonialism. Forced assimilation along a variety of tangents has long been the lifeblood of pervasive European institutions of governance and living. Many don’t know or ignore how entrenched the gender binary is in the enduring imperial trajectory and the white male dominance it has birthed.

And we all know how well that story is doing.

Tanisha Tekriwal is a Weinberg freshman. She can be contacted at tanishatekriwal2023@u.northwestern.edu.

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Northwestern eyes top-four finish in the Big Ten

By CARLOS STINSON-MAAS

the daily northwestern @thepresidito

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It’s been almost 20 years since Northwestern finished with a winning record.

But the Wildcats are entering this season with high expectations. Multiple players and coach Spencer Allen believe the team can finish within the top four of the Big Ten. To do so, NU will likely need to have its best season since 2000.

“I think we have a good chance to not only make the Big Ten Tournament, but to put a run up and compete for a championship,” sophomore catcher Michael Trautwein said. “We’re gonna impress a lot of people who’ve been doubting us.”

The Cats’ pitching staff is one of the reasons expectations are so high. Pitching coach Josh Reynolds says this is the deepest rotation he’s seen, led by redshirt sophomore Tyler Uberstine, a transfer from USC. On opening weekend against Omaha, Uberstine

allowed one run in five innings, earning the win in NU’s lone victory in the series.

Offensively, the Cats will need to replace leading hitters Jack Dunn and Alex Erro, who were both selected in the 2019 MLB Draft. Sophomore shortstop Shawn Goosenberg and Trautwein are in position to fill the void on offense, and they led off the lineup in each of NU’s first three games, combining for 10 hits and eight RBIs. Freshmen infielders Stephen Hrustich and Evan Minarovic will also have an opportunity to make an immediate impact –- they each had multiple hits against Omaha.

Despite the Cats’ confidence, Baseball America and D1Baseball.com both project NU to finish outside of the top nine in the Big Ten. Junior pitcher Quinn Lavelle said the team is only focused on winning.

“This is the best group that we’ve had,” Lavelle said. “The expectations are higher than ever. I think top four is very realistic for us.” carlosstinson-maas2023@u.northwestern.edu

Topping last year’s success a priority for the Wildcats

By SOPHIA SCANLAN

daily senior staffer @sophia_scanlan

It would be hard to top a season like last year.

After a 20-game win streak, a National Freshman of the Year accolade for pitcher Danielle Williams and a NCAA Regional win at home, Northwestern set the bar high in 2019. But this year’s squad is ready for the challenge.

“We have a lot of players who are working really hard to contribute any way they can, whether it’s a pinch hit or playing defense late in the game,” coach Kate Drohan said. “We’re working our tails off.”

The Wildcats (4-5) started out the season in Arizona for the Kajikawa Classic, where they took two games out of five. A week later, at the ESPN Clearwater/St. Pete Tournament, NU took two of four, beating No. 5 Florida State 6-2 along the way.

Drohan called the game against the Seminoles the squad’s best game thus far, and she said it represented the “cohesiveness” of the team.

“When we were down against Florida State, I’d say our dugout single-handedly changed the momentum of that game,” Drohan said. “They’re having fun in there, and so when we have 23 people really committed at that level, we can really generate momentum in a lot of ways.”

The Cats will need to keep that momentum going through a few more weekends against talented teams. At the Mary Nutter Classic this weekend, NU will face No. 2 Washington and No. 7 Florida, and a week later, the team will face Oklahoma, who knocked them out of the NCAA last year.

In the regular season, the Cats will also face powerful Big Ten squads in Michigan and Minnesota, the first- and second-place finishers in last year’s conference tournament.

Drohan said she is optimistic about the season ahead and thinks NU is ready for the challenge.

“Our team likes to play tough competition,” coach Kate Drohan said. “This (season) is a marathon, and we want to be sprinting at the end.”

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After Final Four run in 2019, Cats sets sights even higher

By GABRIELA CARROLL

the daily northwestern @gablcarroll

LACROSSE Daily file photo by Joshua Hoffman

Northwestern came into the season with high expectations after last season’s Final Four campaign.

In early play, the Wildcats have astounded, but underperformed in their biggest game against Notre Dame.

In NU’s opening weekend, they scored 54 total goals, including a record-setting 30 against Detroit Mercy in their first game. But the Fighting Irish stifled the Cats’ offense and NU only scored 15 goals.

NU’s schedule only gets tougher from here. Two of NU’s next three games are against ranked teams — No. 7 Syracuse on Saturday, and No. 1 North Carolina on March 9. And in order to win a Big Ten Championship, the Cats will need to defeat No. 4 Maryland, last year’s national champions.

“We play the toughest schedule,” coach Kelly Amonte Hiller said. “We pretty much play the whole

entire ACC and our own conference as well, which are the two toughest conferences in the country. That’s good for us, because we get battle-tested and we learn as we go.”

In the opening weekends of college lacrosse, three of the original top-5 teams lost –– only the top ranked Tar Heels came out unscathed, and despite not losing, formerly-No. 5 Princeton dropped four spots. In order to win in this competitive field, NU will rely on their stars to perform against tough teams.

Sophomore attacker Izzy Scane and senior attacker Lindsey McKone lead the charge on offense as the team leaders in goals and assists respectively. Junior midfielder Brennan Dwyer got a program-record 21 draw controls in a single game against Arizona State Sunday.

The Cats’ offense, led by Scane and McKone, has proven its scoring capabilities. Now, it needs to show it is capable of more than just racking up points against weaker opponents. gabrielacarroll2023@u.northwestern.edu

NU aims for first conference crown in more than 3 years

By CHARLIE GOLDSMITH

daily senior staffer @2021_charlie

Coming off a 13th-place finish in the NCAA Championships last season, Northwestern has high expectations for its 2020 campaign. Returning several of their top golfers, the Wildcats have big ambitions –– competing for a Big Ten and a national championship.

“Our team has really worked hard in the offseason,” coach Emily Fletcher said. “We’re beginning to see some real improvement all the way through the lineup. Any time you see some results come from your hard work, that’s an affirmation of what we’re trying to do.”

NU struggled during its fall season, finishing ninth place or lower in all four of its matches. But the Cats opened their spring season by winning the Lady Puerto Rico Classic. Freshman Irene Kim led NU by putting up the top score in the

tournament field, playing the best round of her young career.

“It was the best I’d seen her putt since she came to school,” Fletcher said. “This was the first time she’d led a college tournament going into the final round, and to go out and shoot a 67 really speaks to her talent.”

The Cats’ season continues next week at the Bruin Wave Invitational in California, and NU will play in three more tournaments before the Big Ten Tournament at the end of April.

Senior Brooke Riley and sophomores Kelly Sim and Kelly Su are coming off impressive seasons last year, providing veteran leadership for the Cats.

Fletcher is in her twelfth season as NU’s head coach and has led the Cats to ten consecutive NCAA Regionals and six straight NCAA Championships. NU hasn’t won the Big Ten since 2016, but this year’s team has the potential to break that trend. charlesgoldsmith2021@u.northwestern.edu

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Cats aim to make tournament run post strong fall

By ANDREW GOLDEN

daily senior staffer @andrewcgolden

Heading into the spring, Northwestern men’s golf has high expectations as they try to make another deep run into the NCAA Tournament. Last season, the team made it to the third round of the NCAA Tournament before falling short.

Coming in, the Wildcats are carrying the momentum of an up-and-down fall period in which they had success and setbacks. After starting off the season slow, NU had two top-three finishes to end 2019 at the Marquette Intercollegiate and the Crooked Stick Collegiate.

The Cats picked up right where they left off a few weeks ago when they took first place out of 13 teams at Big Ten match play, but just this week finished in the bottom half of teams

at The Prestige. Now, NU will have four more opportunities to tune up before the Big Ten and NCAA Championships.

Leading the team will be a mix of veteran talent and new faces on the roster. NU is anchored by junior Eric McIntosh and sophomore David Nyfäll, who combined for five top-25 finishes in the fall season, including two top-five finishes for Nyfall.

The team also has a good mix of youth talent who has shined early on. Freshmen golfers James Imai and John Driscoll III, who each had two top-25 finishes themselves in the first part of the season, showed maturity for their age in their first NCAA events of their careers.

With a balanced roster, coach David Inglis will have a lot of talent to work with as the Cats make a run at a Big Ten title and another deep NCAA Tournament run. andrewgolden2021@u.northwestern.edu

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Roberts returns as NU stays sharp in offseason meets

By JOHN RIKER

the daily northwestern @thejohnriker

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Northwestern cross country circles the Big Ten Championships as its most important day of the year. For each of the other 364 days, the goal is building back up to succeed on the biggest stage.

In NU’s first year under coach Jill Miller, the Cats struggled in the conference championships, placing 13th out of 14 teams. The disappointing result concluded an inconsistent season for the young Cats, who were without All-American Audrey Roberts and placed in the top half of their races in just one regular season race.

NU is the only Big Ten school without a track and field team, meaning that cross country training is a year-round affair for the Cats. Still, NU is staying sharp through the winter and spring seasons with a slate of competitive meets, and the early returns have been positive.

The most promising development is the return of Roberts, who was forced to redshirt her senior season due to injury. Competing in the indoor

track 5,000-meter run, Roberts placed fourth in her heat at the University of Washington Invitational with a 16:14, then dropped seven seconds to 16:07 and eighth place at the Boston U Valentine’s Day Invitational two weeks later.

The Cats’ younger runners have also had the opportunity to test themselves against the competition this winter. At the Boston U Valentine’s Day Invitational, freshman Kalea Bartolotto won the unseeded heat in the 5,000-meter run in 17:29.

NU flooded the standings in the 3,000-meter at the Gene Edmonds Invitational, with graduate transfer Clare Severe winning in 9:56 as an unattached runner, while freshman Kayla Byrne, sophomore Hannah Hall and junior Amanda Davis all finished in the top eight.

The Cats’ spring schedule offers further opportunities to gauge their progress, including the Raleigh Relays in March and the Penn Relays in April. While their ultimate test is still months away, a strong spring season will go a long way in building the foundation for a smoother ride next fall. johnriker2023@u.northwestern.edu

Northwestern looks for turnaround after rocky start to year

By GRAYSON WELO

the daily northwestern @graysonwelo

Northwestern has a history of winning.

Under the leadership of coach Claire Pollard, the Wildcats have qualified for the NCAA Tournament over 20 times and claimed more than a dozen Big Ten tournament titles. This season, NU hopes to add to its long list of successes, but so far the team’s had a rocky start.

With an overall record of 3-4 and no backto-back wins, the Cats have yet to find their rhythm. But their losing record does not reflect the close matches and tough competition they’ve faced early on this season. The Cats have only fallen to ranked teams, many of which include older, more experienced players, while NU’s eight-player squad is young, consisting of two freshmen and three sophomores.

New faces often allow for experimentation,

and so far Pollard’s changed the singles and doubles lineups most matches. This trial period will likely continue until the Cats find which combination of players provide the most consistent and successful results.

While senior Julie Byrne, junior Inci Ogut and sophomore Clarissa Hand have claimed the top three singles spots respectively, the other three singles spots alternate between the rest of the team. Byrne is NU’s only ranked player at 63rd in the nation, but at the first singles spot, she often plays the top ranked players in collegiate tennis, so securing wins at the fourth, fifth and sixth singles spots will be crucial when the Cats face ranked opponents in upcoming matches.

This weekend, NU has one last non-conference match against Baylor, another opportunity for the Cats to test their lineup before competing against Indiana (6-4) in their first Big Ten match of the season on February 28. graysonwelo2023@u.northwestern.edu

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On heels of strong start, Wildcats strive to take steps to top

By PATRICK ANDRES

the daily northwestern @pandres2001

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Two constants have largely defined Northwestern’s squad in the opening acts of its 2020 season: beating the teams it’s supposed to beat, and losing to the teams to which it’s supposed to lose.

Since topping Illinois State 6-1 in Evanston on January 15, the Wildcats have recorded wins against Memphis, IUPUI, Louisville and Kentucky, all of whom are ranked behind NU (or not at all) in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association rankings.

On the flipside, however, the No. 42 Cats have tasted defeat against No. 9 NC State, No. 19 Duke and No. 36 Oklahoma State. Where NU has been dominant in its wins, rolling up 22 victories in 28 completed matches, losses have been a completely different story: just a

single match win against the Wolf Pack, Blue Devils and Cowboys.

At the individual level, senior Dominik Stary is ranked No. 113 by the ITA among male singles players; the Czech Republic native played arguably his best singles match against NC State, fighting No. 96 Tadas Babelis to a 5-7, 5-3 stalemate before the match was abandoned. Other stars for NU include sophomore Trice Pickens, who picked up a singles victory against the Wolf Pack, and sophomore Steven Forman, a highly-touted recruit who has played well since transferring from Michigan.

The Cats enter a tough stretch before settling into conference play: NU has matches scheduled against No. 32 Vanderbilt, No. 14 Harvard (in Cambridge), and No. 7 Columbia.

The slate, however, is backloaded, with matches against No. 2 Ohio State and No. 4 Michigan to come April 10 and April 17, respectively. patrickandres2023@u.northwestern.edu

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Central Street establishes new Special Service Areas

By ZOE MALIN

daily senior staffer @zoermalin

Central Street officially established two Special Service Area districts on Jan. 25 of this year. The districts join Downtown Evanston and the Main-Dempster Mile, each of which established SSAs in previous years.

A Special Service Area is a designated district that provides additional services like marketing, events and beautification. An annual tax on the district’s commercial property owners pays for the services. Money the SSA raises can only be spent within the district’s boundaries.

Mari Barnes, owner of Notice fashion boutique, has belonged to Evanston’s Central Street community for years. She said the area’s local, independently owned establishments make it a great place to shop and dine.

However, she believes Central Street needs

additional support from resources and funds.

“These days, people seem to only wander into an area if there’s a reason to,” Barnes said.

“Central Street hopes to give people reasons to visit us with this SSA.” Central Street established two SSAs in 2020.

SSA 7 runs along East Central Street between Hartrey Avenue and Eastwood Avenue. SSA 8 runs along West Central Street between Central Park Avenue and Ewing Avenue.

Central Street’s SSA boundaries center around commercial blocks, excluding residential blocks and condominium units. Central Street’s two SSAs will function as one, forming a cohesive identity.

Paulina Martínez, Assistant to the City Manager, said the Central Street Business Association, a volunteer organization of which Barnes is the president, approached the city’s Economic Development Committee about establishing an SSA in 2017. City staff walked the group through the process, which included community

meetings and signing a petition that asked Evanston to commission a feasibility study.

After the city issued a request for proposals, it selected Teska Associates, Inc. to perform the study. Scott Goldstein, principal at Teska Associates, Inc., said the study took about a year to complete. Evanston City Council then held public hearings about the SSAs before voting to establish them.

“The credit goes to the businesses,” Goldstein said. “They stood up, believed in this and showed that it’s important.”

For now, Barnes said the Central Street Business Association will continue to help establishments in the neighborhood. In the future, the group may dissolve because hired staff will run the two new SSAs. Commissions comprised of property owners and businesses will govern the SSA. Martínez said driving foot-traffic to the area is one of the main challenges Central Street faces. She said the general state of retail shows

that online shopping threatens the success of brick-and-mortars. Barnes added that there are vacant storefronts on Central Street, too.

With the money raised through the SSAs, Central Street aims to solve these problems.

Among other plans, Central Street will add signage throughout the area, host more events and maintain sidewalks and plantings.

Martínez said she believes the SSA can help Central Street defend itself against e-commerce, giving the area a “competitive edge.”

Over the next year, Barnes said she looks forward to seeing what the SSA brings to Central Street. She invites people to enjoy what the community has to offer.

“This is our opportunity to take an in-depth look at the future of Central Street,” Barnes said. “We want the area to be on people’s radars, and the SSA is a necessary step to get us there.” zoemalin2022@u.northwestern.edu

FENCING

Fencers head to Junior Olympics ahead of postseason

By DREW SCHOTT

the daily northwestern @dschott328

Throughout the season, No. 9 Northwestern battled against some of the best programs in the country as a team. But last weekend in Columbus, Ohio, the Wildcats sent only two fencers to face off individually against some of the top athletes in the sport.

At the Junior Olympics — a tournament reserved for fencers 20 years old or younger— sophomore Abigail Swallow finished 35th in the sabre event, while freshman Celia Crompton took 93rd in the foil event.

Coach Zach Moss was pleased with the performances of Crompton and Swallow, who attended the competition to prepare for postseason play.

“They fenced really well,” Moss said. “The real

goal of the tournament was for them to get experience and get comfortable working on their fencing.

I saw a lot of growth from them and development within their fencing.”

At the Junior Olympics, fencers began the tournament by facing off against six competitors in pool play. Facing opponents in five-point bouts — as in a normal tournament — Crompton and Swallow both flourished, as the freshman went 4-2 and the Seattle native went undefeated.

Crompton and Swallow then advanced to the elimination bracket, where they faced opponents in 15-point bouts.

Crompton defeated her first opponent 15-8, but fell to North Carolina commit Tarleton Hunt 15-14.

Swallow — after a bye in the first round thanks to her 6-0 record in pool play — won her opening bout 15-10. But the sophomore lost by the same score in the Round of 64 to Vera Kong of the Laguna Fencing Center.

The sophomore, who was three places away from receiving national ranking points, was happy with her pool performance and credited her loss to the fact that Kong didn’t perform as well as expected in her pool. She added that the tournament helped her get into a postseason mindset.

“I definitely think it was helpful to get on the strip,” Swallow said. “This week of practice helped me know what I needed to work on and what I needed to do to get ready.”

At the Junior Olympics, which is filled with young and skilled talent, NU’s fourth-year head coach spent most of the weekend trying to recruit fencers to NU, enabling assistant coach Eric Momberg to give tactical advice to Swallow and Crompton instead of Moss.

This weekend, the Cats will travel back to Columbus to begin postseason play at the Midwest Championships, an event NU has won for two straight years. The tournament starts with

individual play on Saturday before moving to team play on Sunday.

Moss said NU hopes to defeat No. 4 Ohio State — a team the Cats have fallen to twice this season 14-13. He said NU is capable of beating the Buckeyes because each weapon has won at least one match against Ohio State this year. To obtain their third Midwest Championship title in a row, Moss said the Cats must “be dis ciplined and fight very hard and be the most consistent versions of ourselves.”

Fencing in her final Midwest Championships, senior epee Shirley Luong hopes the event will end on a high note.

“I definitely want back-to-back-to-back championships,” Luong said. “But no matter if we win or not, this is a great celebration of our team and the culmination of all the hard work we’ve put in.” drewschott2023@u.northwestern.edu

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Alum Ryan Huffman runs for state Rep. seat

By ISABELLE SARRAF

the daily northwestern @isabellesarraf

Once an intern for then-U.S. Sen. Barack Obama, Ryan Huffman (Medill ‘08) is following a similar path by running for a State Representative seat in Illinois’ 54th district.

Graduating from Northwestern right during the 2008 financial crisis, Huffman said it was tough to break into the job market as a journalist. His postgraduation internship set him on the path for a politically-driven career, he said.

Emily Murskyj, Huffman’s friend and campaign super volunteer, said she had been working with Huffman in 2016 around the time of the presidential election. She said she could sense that Huffman was going to enter the public sphere and be proactive in politics because of how shocked and upset he was the day after the election.

“You could kind of already tell then that the fire inside him was building,” Murskyj said.

The Palatine resident decided to run for a Congressional seat in Illinois’ 6th district in 2018. He said he decided it was time to step up and make some of the changes he wanted to see in his community and country.

Though Huffman lost the Democratic primary for that race, he said he was motivated to run for state representative of his home district in 2020 after educating himself on the incumbent — a “very far-right Republican” — State Rep. Tom Morrison (R-Palatine). “(Palatine) happened to be one of the few districts in this area that did not turn blue in this last election,” Huffman said. “It became a pretty obvious target for me if I’m going to go to Springfield and really make a difference. We can do a lot better than what we’ve got currently.”

Tristan Angulo, Huffman’s nominal campaign manager, said the people of District 54 are looking for a change. He cited Morrison spearheading legislation in 2016 that denied transgender children access to the restroom of their identity as one of the many reasons why Huffman believes he would be a better representative of the Palatine community.

Angulo added that Huffman’s campaign is focused on rooting out corruption and offering solutions to the problems that younger generations are inheriting.

“What really motivates me,” Huffman said, “is trying to restore Illinois’ faith that the government can be a force for good in their lives and that it can operate in a really democratic fashion that it’s not currently doing.”

Natalie Freeman, a long-time friend of Huffman’s, said it became apparent when Huffman was running in 2018 that money was a key factor in that race. She said this motivated him to run in 2020 on a platform rooted in systemic change like campaign finance reform, removing conflicts of interest from elected leaders and using public office as a force for public good.

“There’s a big piece of him that is not complacent with living with things the way that they’ve been,” Freeman said. isabellesarraf2022@u.northwestern.edu

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Ryan Huffman (Medill ‘08) is running for a state representative position in Illinois’ 54th district.

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“It just felt like, ‘Wow, we’re doing something together that we couldn’t have done alone,’” Shrodes said.

The first Queertopia event she helped organize in 2018 saw the biggest turnout in the event’s history, bringing in 75 attendees from across the country.

Since then, the event has attracted upwards of 100 delegates, enabling dialogue between graduate students and practitioners who are working in the field of LGBTQ empowerment.

“It’s thinking about the connections between research and practice,” Shrodes said, “and wanting to create a space where we can talk across what are often constructed as silos within the academy.”

Erique Zhang, the advocacy chair of QPGSA, had been involved with LGBTQ activism before her involvement with the organization.

Zhang was a member of the Gender-Queer, Non-Binary Transgender Task Force, a group that made recommendations of immediate actions for the university to take to support its non-binary population.

Despite the completion of the task force’s report in October, it was released by the University on

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pronunciation in all university platforms, and in turn transfers this information to class rosters, canvas and the directory.

Another proposal states that guidelines and trainings be implemented in collaboration between different University departments to foster an inclusive environment for learning and working. Furthermore, the University should designate and install all-gender bathrooms in, accompanied by education

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divest from fossil fuels, including Georgetown University and Stanford University.

J. Landis Martin, the chair of the Board of Trustees, said that other schools’ divestment

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Action and Resilience Plan, so it is important that they know the resolution and ordinance are only part of the solution.

“It wants to prepare Evanston so, as climate change proceeds, we’re not caught without any forethought,” Nelson said.

Members met in small groups before deciding as

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“The University will drag its feet when there’s no pressure on them,” Zhang said. “That’s why we’ve been trying to make relationships with specific offices and people who are willing to be our allies.”

Matthew Abtahi, assistant director for Multicultural Student Affairs who works with the LGBTQ population, is a part of those efforts.

Abtahi said organizations such as QPGSA are born from a need to build community, but eventually foster advocacy-based discussions and fulfill activism-based roles in addition to social ones.

“This collective of voices allows people to realize that the experiences they’re having are not actually singular but rather systemic issues that haven’t been addressed,” Abtahi said.

The lack of all-gender bathrooms across campus is an issue QPGSA is trying to help resolve.

The issue came to light in QPGSA’s survey of nonbinary students, which is published on the group’s website.

Zhang described the case of a survey respondent who was a graduate student tasked with successive hours of TA duties in a building without a gender neutral bathroom. Waiting until a break between classes led them to developing a UTI, Zhang said.

Though some wanted to map out the bathrooms on campus, Zhang was concerned over expending student labour to carry out such a task.

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The Graduate School. Queer Pride Graduate Student Association is a community for LGBTQ students at Northwestern.

“Part of my worry about advocacy efforts is that making students do all the work is not a fair way to do advocacy,” Zhang said.

Abtahi said he sees his role as collaborating with students to bring about justice, and that each individual or group plays a different role in

creating positive change.

“I dream of the day when students don’t have to do that work,” Abtahi said, “and I know that our continued dedication toward that will eventually get us there.” anushuya@u.northwestern.edu

in allyship.

The report also listed all relevant, specific University offices that should work to enact each of these changes.

“Now, we think all of them are important,” Carrillo said. “But we also understand that this is very comprehensive (and) it’s going to take some time.”

Putting together the report was a months-long process, he said. The task force compiled the report between Fall Quarter and Spring Quarter in the 2018-2019 school year and presented the findings in the summer. It was then submitted to the

University for review.

The report was subsequently published following a Feb. 18 meeting at the Provost’s Office.

SESP senior and member of the task force Adam Davies said they co-led a core working group of LGBTQ students, faculty and staff. In conjunction with the campus climate survey conducted by the Office of Equity, they said, the University community will have more accurate statistics on sexual harassment and assault of transgender and gender non-conforming individuals.

Even though the report touches on many

comprehensive issues in the transgender and gender non-conforming community, it is just the start, Davies added. Progress on these action items should be accompanied by campus-wide education.

“People need to start listening,” Davies said. “If you are a Northwestern faculty or staff person, then you should read the entire report, and if you’re a Northwestern student, then you should at least read the article that describes why the report is important.”

decisions and the impact of climate change are both factors the Investment Committee likely considered.

The statement points out other contributions to the fight against climate change Northwestern has made, from signing the United Nationssupported Principles for Responsible Investment

and incorporating “environmental, social and governance” principles into investment decisions.

Still, however, the divestment proposal and its advocates argue that Northwestern is ignoring the negative impact of climate change by continuing to invest in fossil fuel companies.

“By investing in these industries,

Northwestern is ignoring the desperate call of last resort to save our planet — plans to reduce fossil fuel emissions and switch to renewables must begin immediately in order to meet these goals,” the proposal said.

a whole to alter wording in the resolution’s clauses to specifically acknowledge climate change.

Some members were concerned that the wording of earlier drafts generalized the experiences of people of color in Evanston.

“I don’t want to lump us all as one monolith and say that because you’re people of color this is the truth for every one of us,” Richardson said. “We do recognize that there are people that are not able to have the same representation or engagement, so I do want to make

sure that we recognize that and that we are making the effort to reach out to those individuals.”

Equity and Empowerment Commission member Kathy Lyons said her group needs to collaborate with other boards in Evanston, especially the Environmental Board, to ensure the city’s operations keep equity in mind.

She said climate change is predicted to disproportionately harm marginalized communities.

“Equity and empowerment needs to be embedded

in every organization,” Lyons said. “It is not something you can segregate.”

The groups will likely review the Environmental Justice Resolution again before presenting it to Council.

“I would love to see this go to City Council and have a 9-0 vote, and we begin the work as an organization to make sure that what we are committing to, we are doing,” Richardson said.

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Wildcats seek to avoid 11-game losing streak

By CHARLIE GOLDSMITH

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Chris Collins has never been afraid of uncharted territory.

It wasn’t that long ago that he took the head coaching job at a school that had never made the NCAA Tournament, or that he turned a group of three- and four-star recruits into a No. 8 seed that almost beat second-seed Gonzaga in the second round of the Big Dance.

Collins is an optimistic coach with a positive outlook for Northwestern’s future, even with his team on the brink of the longest losing streak in Collins’ coaching career.

The squad hasn’t won since January 11, and if the Wildcats (6-19, 1-14 Big Ten) fall to the Golden Gophers (12-13, 6-9) on Sunday, they would lose a staggering 11th straight game.

“Especially when you have a young group and you’re in a league like ours, these are the moments that test your mettle,” Collins said. “We’ve been here before, and we fought to a really good place. That’s what we’re going to do with these guys.”

Collins promised a win was coming. After NU lost an 8-point lead in the last five minutes against Purdue, Collins said the Cats players were too invested and too talented to keep losing.

That was three weeks ago, and NU still hasn’t won a game.

But he’s been in this position before, and he’s referenced that experience all season. During the 201415 campaign, the Cats lost 10 straight games with a youthful roster featuring freshmen Bryant McIntosh, Scottie Lindsey and Vic Law. Collins called that 10-game stretch the hardest time of his tenure with the Cats, but that team snapped the streak with an overtime win over Iowa.

McIntosh scored 18 points against the Hawkeyes –– one of his best performances as a freshman –– and NU finished that 2014-15 campaign by winning four of its last six regular season games.

This season, the Cats are running out of time to

end the year on an upward trajectory.

One more loss on Sunday would give the Cats their longest losing streak since 2000.

NU has five games left this season, and most of them are against teams either projected to make the NCAA Tournament or right on the tournament bubble.

But Minnesota has lost its last three games and has just one road win all season, making Sunday’s game an opportunity for Collins to deliver on his promise from the beginning of February.

During the time of year when teams are jockeying for tournament seeding or a better spot on the bubble, Collins said he just wants to finish the year on a positive note.

“Hopefully I can draw upon experiences where we’ve been through that in the past,” Collins said.

“Here are things that were good and here are things I could do differently. That’s what a coach has to do, continually evolve and be the best he can for his team.” charliegoldsmith2021@u.northwestern.edu

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Chris Collins watches from the sideline during a game.

If the Wildcats lose to Minnesota on Sunday, they’ll reach their longest losing streak of Collins’ career.

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No. 6 Wildcats look to beat No. 7 Syracuse at home

By GABRIELA CARROLL

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Northwestern will face off against its second tough, top-10 opponent of the season Saturday, when No. 7 Syracuse comes to Evanston.

Both teams come into Evanston with 3-1 records and losses to other top-15 opponents. The Wildcats’ offense, which has scored over 20 goals in every game except for Notre Dame this season, and the Orange’s defense, which has allowed more than 6 goals in only one game this season, headline what promises to be an exciting match.

The game against the Fighting Irish was not NU’s strongest performance, according to coach Kelly Amonte Hiller. Despite the 17-15 score, Amonte Hiller was critical of her team’s composure in tough stretches.

“Every time we crawled back into it, I feel like we kind of lost composure a little bit and tried to play too fast,” Amonte Hiller said. “We weren’t able to get that next level because, you know, we get the draw control and then maybe turn it over, so just finding the balance between playing fast and wearing them down a little bit.”

Many of the Cats’ offensive players missed passes and took poor transition shots due to Notre Dame’s aggressive defense. Syracuse plays in a similar style, said Amonte Hiller, and she hopes the game against the Fighting Irish helped them learn how to move the ball against tougher defenses for Saturday.

NU’s offense returned to top form against Arizona State Sunday, and junior midfielder Brennan Dwyer set

a program record for most draw controls in a single game with 21, after her and senior attacker Lindsey McKone struggled with them against Notre Dame.

“It was a good turnaround from Friday because the draws weren’t really as strong,” Dwyer said. “So in our game on Saturday, it was definitely a good start to kind of get back to where we want to be.”

Dwyer said she sees the game against the Fighting Irish as a wakeup call. Coming into this weekend, the Cats have an opportunity to make a statement and rebound from that disappointing loss.

The Cats came into the Notre Dame game with a lot of hype surrounding them. Coming off a 54-goal weekend, and a Final Four appearance the season prior, expectations for NU were only getting higher. Ryan Fieldhouse was packed at the game against the Fighting Irish, and NU has had healthy crowds at each of their games this season.

Dwyer said she thought the Cats lacked focus in that game, a feeling junior defender Kate Copeland agreed with. Copeland said she felt the Cats allowed the anticipation for the game to distract them in their preparation.

Against Syracuse, another top-10 opponent, there is sure to be more of that same enthusiasm.

“We love our fans, like we’ve been wanting to get more people to come to our games,” Copeland said. “But I think that when that happens, we just need to remember that this is a game, like, we don’t need any extra factors, how we play or what our intensity is.” gabrielacarroll2023@u.northwestern.edu

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The Wildcats during a 2019 game. Northwestern will face off against its another top-10 opponent of the season as the team takes on No. 7 Syracuse.

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By DREW SCHOTT

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Last February, Northwestern ended its 12-game losing streak to Penn State under coach Joe McKeown, beating the Nittany Lions 78-63. With four regularseason games left, the Wildcats were tied for fourth place in the Big Ten with their NCAA Tournament aspirations still very much alive.

But instead of embarking on a winning streak, the Cats collapsed. Losing three of its final four games, NU dropped to eighth in the conference and fell in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament.

Even though the team made a run to the WNIT title game, it bugged McKeown to know that the Cats came that close to making the Big Dance for the first time since 2015.

As a result, the 11th-year head coach wanted his players to be hungry for a national tournament berth this season.

“We want to finish it off,” McKeown said. “I think that’s how our players feel, which is what you want if you’re me. You want them to have a little bittersweet outlook on this year.”

Now 26 games into the regular season, the No. 18 Cats look like one of the best teams in the country. NU — who topped its 2018-2019 season win total in midFebruary — is half a game back from first place in the Big Ten and is a projected No. 4 seed in the NCAA Tournament, according to ESPN bracketologist Charlie Creme.

In addition to having the conference’s second-best scoring defense, many of the team’s players are having career years. The Cats’ leading scorer, junior guard Lindsey Pulliam, is one of 10 finalists for the Meyers Award, given to the nation’s top

shooting guard. Senior forward Abi Scheid is the top 3-point shooter in the country with a 48.1 percent clip from behind the arc. And sophomore guard Veronica Burton — who has the eighthmost steals nationally — was named to the Midseason Team for the Naismith Defensive Player of the Year in January.

McKeown — who was named to the Late Season Watch List for the Naismith Coach of the Year on Wednesday— called this NU team one of the best he’s coached in recent years.

“These guys are resilient,” McKeown said.“Any adversity you throw at them they seem to handle. I’m really proud of them.”

This Saturday, the Cats (23-3, 13-2 Big Ten) will head to Madison to face Wisconsin (11-16, 3-13) and try to get their second seven-game win streak of

the season. In the first part of a twogame road trip, NU will face a struggling Badger squad that has lost their last five games.

Even though Wisconsin has the conference’s ninth-best scorer in forward Imani Lewis, the Badgers’ offense — ranked 12th in the Big Ten — will be challenged by the Cats’ defensive unit.

Despite Wisconsin’s substandard conference performance, McKeown knows NU can’t underestimate its opponent, especially since the Cats are playing at the Kohl Center.

“It’s a gauntlet in the Big Ten and we’ve just gotta be ready to play every night,” McKeown said. “Our league is crazy, one through 14.” drewschott2023@u.northwestern.edu

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Sydney Wood dribbles the ball. Wood and the Wildcats will head north to face Wisconsin this weekend.

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By SOPHIA SCANLAN

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Northwestern has always circled the Mary Nutter Classic on the calendar as one of its favorites of the season, coach Kate Drohan said.

“It’s a great environment for our game,” she added. “It’s a great opportunity in February to check in and see where you are against other elite programs, and it has some playoff environment to it.”

At this year’s tournament in Palm Springs, Ca., the No. 25 Wildcats (4-5) will battle some of the top rosters in the country. On Friday, NU will face Auburn and No. 7 Florida, and on Saturday, the Cats will take on Long Beach State and No. 15 Oregon.

The pitching staff for the Ducks (11-0) will be especially hard to beat.

Three of Oregon’s four pitchers all have ERAs below 2.00, with senior Samaria Diaz clocking in at 0.31, junior Brooke Yanez at 1.38 and freshman Makenna Kliethermes at 1.91. The fourth pitcher, junior Jordan Dail, is still at 2.25.

NU has been preparing for tough pitchers this week in practice, and the squad realizes it might see faster pitching than it’s used to, junior second baseman Rachel Lewis said.

“It’s all about preparation,” she said. “( We’re) just trusting what we’ve done the whole off-season — just trusting that we can hit whatever pitch.”

No. 2 Washington on Sunday will

be another tough opponent for the Cats. The Huskies (10-1) were a force to be reckoned with last season, reaching the semi-finals in the Women’s College World Series and boasting a 52-9 record on the year.

And this year, Washington seems just as hot. The Huskies have scored runs in the double digits in more than half of their games, and one player — senior Taryn Atlee — is already hitting .467 after 30 at-bats.

Despite all that, NU has some impressive things going for it, too.

Last weekend at the ESPN Clearwater/St. Pete Tournament the Cats picked up their first win against a top-5 team since 2016 after beating No. 5 Florida State. Lewis earned a Big Ten Player of the Week accolade after putting up an .867 slugging percentage in Florida. And freshmen are already coming through with clutch hits.

Freshman outfielder Gracie Huff, who went 5-for-10 last weekend, said she thinks her class brings “a lot of everything” to the team.

“Our freshman class — they’re great people,” she said. “They bring a lot of skill to the game. It’s super beneficial to the team attitude-wise, game-wise — everybody’s just ready to go in and do their part.”

Huff added that she knows NU has what it takes to do well against these other highly-ranked teams.

“We are right there,” Huff said.

“This weekend will be really helpful for the team…to just give it all we have.” sophiascanlan2022@u.northwestern.edu