The Daily Northwestern — February 23, 2017

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Walkout halts vote on ASG resolution Vote postponed on sexual assault accountability

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Olympic fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad speaks to a crowd about her experiences as a black, Muslim-American athlete. The event, part of McSA’s “Discover Islam” week programming, was held in Technological Institute.

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Fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad discusses athletic career in McSA event

By JAKE HOLLAND

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An aversion to losing drove Ibtihaj Muhammad during low points in her career, the Olympic fencer said during a talk Wednesday.

Muhammad, the second speaker in the Muslim-cultural Students Association’s annual “Discover Islam” week, discussed her personal journey

as a black, Muslim-American athlete. As the first MuslimAmerican woman to win a medal at the Olympic Games, Muhammad captured bronze as part of the Women’s Sabre Team in Rio de Janeiro last summer. Muhammad is a fivetime World medalist, having won gold with Team USA at the 2014 Senior World Championships.

While previous speakers at “Discover Islam” events have been comedians or other

figures in popular culture, McSA co-president Rimsha Ganatra said hosting a high profile Muslim-American athlete like Muhammad helps students dismantle the notion that all Muslims have similar backgrounds.

“We’re all not just pre-meds at Northwestern,” Ganatra, a Weinberg senior, said. “Showing the diversity within the Muslim community is super important.”

Although Muhammad’s

mother pushed her to do sports at an early age, she stumbled on fencing through chance after seeing a group of practicing fencers while stuck in traffic at the age of 12, she said.

Upon graduation from Duke University in 2007, Muhammad trained “relentlessly” but failed to qualify for the London 2012 Olympics.

Last summer, however, she » See MUHAMMAD, page 6

Final forum for Marketing leader 5 candidates held discusses career

By RYAN WANGMAN

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Evanston mayoral candidates discussed how they would further current Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl’s legacy while creating unique programs and policies at a forum hosted by Rotary International on Wednesday.

The mayoral forum, the last before Evanston’s Feb. 28 primary, centered on housing affordability, urban sustainability and helping at-risk youth. The five candidates — Steve Hagerty, Ald. Brian Miller (9th), Ald. Mark Tendam

(6th), Gary Gaspard and Jeff Smith (Weinberg ’77) — are vying to succeed Tisdahl, who is not running for reelection.

Tendam highlighted the success of Tisdahl’s summer youth employment program, but said he would like to see it expand. He wants to get employers to train and hire students without plans or the means to attend college, he said.

“Then it becomes real jobs, becomes a real future,” Tendam said. “(Then) it’s not just jobs for kids who are really going to fulfill their dreams another way.”

Gaspard praised Tisdahl for » See FORUM, page 7

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Lizette Williams discussed her experiences as a woman of color in corporate America, celebrating the concept of “black girl magic” in a speech Wednesday.

“Black girl magic is beauty and resiliency and

tenacity,” Williams said.

“Black girl magic is innate strength, and so we celebrate that tonight.”

Williams (Kellogg ’07), the multicultural marketing leader for multinational cor poration Kimber l yClark, spoke to an audience of about 50 people as the keynote speaker for the Black History Month events organized by Multicultural Student Affairs.

Williams, who grew up in the South Bronx, became the first person in her family to » See WILLIAMS, page 6

Associated Student Government Senate did not vote on a resolution promoting accountability for sexual assault after four students walked out of Senate on Wednesday, leaving the room short of the 25 senators needed for quorum.

The students walked out after after Senate decided to conduct the vote on the resolution as a roll call. The resolution calls for the University to immediately issue a cease-and-desist order to the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and another unnamed fraternity while investigations for alleged sexual assault and druggings at the chapters continue. It also calls for the University to remove individuals found responsible of sexual assault from Northwestern and asks for increased funding for the Center for Awareness, Response and Education.

The resolution comes after a Feb. 6 announcement notifying students that the administration had received a report alleging 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 Chief of Police Bruce Lewis.

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

Lewis said in the email that the University also received an anonymous report Feb. 3 alleging 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.

Four students, including IFC senator Mike Seethaler and three IFC substitute senators, walked out after the roll call was requested on the resolution vote Wednesday night. Senate will revisit the resolution again next week.

Seethaler, who is a member of SAE, told The Daily the substitute senators were not “necessarily comfortable” having their names attached to a vote.

“This was based on roll » See ASG, page 7

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ASG senator Lars Benson speaks on behalf of a resolution promoting accountability for sexual assault. The resolution vote was stalled when four students walked out after a roll call vote was requested.

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AROUND TOWN New Kabul House proposal approved Economic Development Committee approves reimbursement for restaurant

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A new proposal to reimburse Kabul House for all its liquor and tax revenues up to $50,000 is being moved for approval in City Council following an Economic Development Committee meeting Wednesday.

Kabul House is an Afghan restaurant scheduled to open at 2424 Dempster St., the former site of Chicken and Waffles, which closed in April 2015.

It had previously applied for a $50,000 storefront modernization grant, but the application was denied at an Economic Development Committee meeting on Feb. 1.

The new proposal would provide the restaurant with up to the amount requested in the original modernization grant application, assistant city manager Marty Lyons said at the meeting.

Additionally, city documents show a clawback provision in the proposal that would require the restaurant to operate in Evanston for at least five years. Otherwise, it would owe the city the money it requested.

Ald. Ann Rainey (8th) said she supports the proposal if it acts as a rebate paid out by the city after a year of operation.

“I support it as a rebate,” Rainey said. “They pay it in and we rebate it.”

Lyons said it would be possible to front the money to Kabul House and forgive it as the revenue comes in, or work with a milestone or reimbursement to help the restaurant with funding.

The money — without which Kabul House could technically still open — would go toward advertising, employee hiring, training and kitchen equipment. If the reimbursement proposal falls through, the restaurant would have to take cuts in those areas.

Mary Beth Berns, chair of the Zoning Board of Appeals, praised the incentive.

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Ald. Melissa Wynne (3rd) speaks at a candidate forum. She and other Economic Development Committee members proposed a reimbursement for Kabul House’s liquor and tax revenues up to $50,000.

say how much I love it,” Berns said. “You’ve actually given them an incentive to push alcohol. If they push alcohol, they can pay off those rebates, and they can pay that money back sooner.”

Kabul House would also have to commit to hiring Evanston residents for part of its planned 20-person staff expansion to help the city further its local employment goals, Lyons said.

The reason for the original grant’s denial follows the current rules of the city’s modernization program, which dictate that no one property can receive more than one grant from the city in a 10-year span. Chicken and Waffles, the previous owners of the Kabul House property, applied for such a grant in 2012 and were approved, according to city documents.

That approval disqualified Kabul House from

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Because the city ended up losing money from the loan to Chicken and Waffles, officials were reluctant to accept a new loan that technically violated its regulations.

Ald. Melissa Wynne (3rd) defended the decision to reject the proposal at the last meeting, saying caseby-case analysis could cause inequities.

On Wednesday, however, Wynne and other committee members supported the new reimbursement proposal submitted by city staff.

“This program, this rebate idea, is an excellent one,” Wynne told The Daily after the meeting. “It incentivizes them to improve the business and stay in business.” kristinakarisch2020@u.northwestern.edu

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Jordan Horowitz’s first memory of his stint in the Northwestern film scene was portraying a high school agent who helped students find dates for the prom.

Now, Horowitz, 36, (Communication ’02) is one of the youngest producers hoping to win at this year’s Academy Awards. The film “La La Land,” which he co-produced with Fred Berger, Gary Gilbert and Marc Platt, is vying for 14 Oscars on Sunday, tying the record for most nominations received by a single film along with 1997’s “Titanic” and 1950’s “All About Eve.” “La La Land,” written and directed by Damien Chazelle, is a romantic musical film that follows an aspiring actress, portrayed by Emma Stone, and a jazz musician, played by Ryan Gosling. The film reinvents the classic tale of trying to make it in the City of Angels.

“The film was all of our collective journeys and very much the idea of transplants, coming to L.A. and pursuing your dreams,” Horowitz said. “We definitely pulled from our own experiences of having moved to L.A. and wanting to be in the film industry.”

From Shanley to Hollywood Like many other theater majors who have come through Northwestern, Horowitz spent most of his formative years at college in Shanley Pavilion.

“There were many times when I got locked into or out of — or broke into or out of — Shanley,” he said. “It was just a box … and it afforded a lot of opportunities for just changing the shape and making the design of the space tie into the piece you were working on.”

Primarily an actor, but also dabbling in a cappella, Horowitz said he tended to stay away from mainstage, faculty-directed productions.

The collaborative atmosphere bred in the black box was what made him respond more to original work, and what kept him loyal to the tight-knit theater community, he said.

That’s not to say he couldn’t tackle the

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Producer Jordan Horowitz rises to new heights with ‘La La Land’ fame classics. Acting Prof. Mary Poole said Horowitz could master Shakespeare and the Ancient Greeks like few others, silencing the room every time he performed with his rich, low voice.

“He was just ferocious,” Poole said. “He was a very strong-willed young man as a person, and he really understood persons fighting for what they wanted.”

Poole recognized Horowitz’s desire to get involved with contemporary work, and she encouraged his plan to move to New York out of college, where he started a theater production company with alumna Maureen Towey (Communication ’02).

When Horowitz and Towey weren’t earning a living at their day jobs, they would rehearse works such as “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” an adaptation of a Mark Twain short story, in a church basement cafetorium daily with other NU alumni.

“We had to wait until the people there finished playing bingo before we could set up our show,” Towey said.

A couple festivals later, though, Horowitz still didn’t feel at home.

“I realized pretty quickly that being a theater producer wasn’t going to take me where I wanted to go,” he said. “A lot of the producers in New York that I respected had come from money or from a family with a history of working in theater, and I didn’t.”

So, he said he eventually flew to Los Angeles — where he has been living for the past 11 years — and took a shot at filmmaking, riding by on confidence wherever he lacked the technical knowhow.

Towey said filmmaking marked the “natural evolution” of Horowitz’s career.

“He is ballsy, and he’s brave in his beliefs and the work that he supports,” she said. “Jordan has always been the type of person that you just really want to have on your team.”

The path to “La La Land” Now a “business artist,” a term he coined to refer to the theater department’s encouragement of artists working behind the scenes on stage and screen, Horowitz said he is interested in meaningful, authentic pictures that

speak to the goodness of people.

“Passion speaks volumes, specificity speaks volumes, and that tends to be a driving force for me,” he said.

Much of Horowitz’s career in L.A. has been defined by indie movies holding up these values, though not all of them have been big-scale successes like “La La Land” or the dramedy “The Kids Are All Right,” a 2011 Best Picture nominee for which he received his second producing credit.

Yet, he said he always stops to reflect on why other movies didn’t go the distance — a trait Poole traces back to Horowitz’s college years — in order to improve future projects.

Many of these indie pictures were released in the five to six years that “La La Land” was in development, during which the directorial vision didn’t sway from the original pitch.

Horowitz said it is a modern musical that tells a love story without cynicism.

Horowitz added that the reason why the film has resonated with audiences — earning over $135 million in the domestic box office — is because, apart from being of a genre that people have grown up to, it is a feel-good movie grounded in human emotion.

“There is a real undercurrent of sadness and loss and compromise in ‘La La Land’ that pulls it back down to this authenticity,” he said. “That’s why people have broadly responded to it from young to old, male to female.”

Despite the challenge “La La Land” was to develop — due to high Los Angeles production costs and the long time the film was in development — Horowitz said everybody in the cast and crew did their best work.

On the early morning of the Academy Award nominations found Chazelle, his three co-producers and the film’s protagonists all scattered across different cities and time zones, tuning in to the live stream.

With every category announcement — “La La Land” receiving nods in 13 categories — Horowitz said they cheered together, grateful that everyone’s work was honored.

“There was a lot of love on set, and » See CITY OF STARS, page 4

Ryan Gosling as Sebastian and Emma Stone as Mia in a scene from the movie “La La Land,” which was nominated for a record-tying 14 Oscars.

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Winter show retells Chinese myth

Lovers and Madmen’s ‘The White Snake’ tells story of love, overcoming doubt

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Lovers and Madmen’s winter play, “The White Snake,” hopes to prove that love will always prevail, even for snake spirits.

The play, which opens Friday in the Louis Room of Norris University Center, is inspired by an ancient Chinese legend. The White Snake, a spirit who resides in the mountainside, transforms into a human to explore the mortal world and falls in love with peasant Xu Xian. Theater Prof. Mary Zimmerman wrote the play.

Producer Ele Hagermoser said the show is a “culturally literate rom-com,” in that it depicts the love and doubts of White Snake’s relationship with her husband Xu Xian, and the struggles she experiences while hiding her identity as a snake spirit.

“It’s something that you see as a romcom on the weekends with your best friend,” the Communication sophomore said. “It’s a story that really makes me happy, but also really exciting intellectually as well.”

As someone who did not grown up in a Chinese family, director and Communication junior Tatiana Dalton said an

From page 3 we all remained close at the aftermath of the film,” Horowitz said. “The first thing I thought (when the nominations came out) was how amazing it was going to be to go to the Oscars with our entire crew.”

Recalibrating the narrative Horowitz said his commitment to positive storytelling was reaffirmed after this year’s presidential election, when he realized filmmaking can have an important role in

New theater group preps for readings

important part of putting the show together was ensuring the proper representation of Chinese culture. Dalton and Hagermoser said they consulted colleagues of Chinese heritage, including stage manager Faye Oyang, to avoid misrepresentation.

Communication senior Mari Uchida, who plays the role of White Snake, said she is passionate about the play and hopes it will inspire more representation for all ethnicities and races, as well as let people of color know they have a place in the performing arts.

“Where we come from and our heritage is a strong part of everyone’s story, and if this show can also inspire others to tell their story or their heritage’s story or where they come from in general, I think that would be a huge honor,” she said.

Uchida said she was eager to play a character who is resilient, passionate and loving.

Hagermoser also emphasized White Snake’s strength, from

saving her husband from death numerous times to overcoming the fear of her cosmic mismatch with a mortal. “(White Snake) makes her own destiny and doesn’t always do things that people say she should do,” Hagermoser said.

Dalton said she hopes the audience empathizes with the complex emotions White Snake must confront. Navigating complex feelings plays a key role in White Snake’s attempt to understand herself.

“That’s something I think about a lot, especially in terms of when are my flaws a liability to those who I love?” Dalton said. “When will I hurt people that I love?

What will I do about that? She ends up taking the plunge anyways; she goes for it.”

advocating meaningful and powerful messages.

The morning after the election, Horowitz posted on his Twitter account that he was “going quiet for a bit,” tweeting scarcely until his return in late January. He said he backed away from social media to retain a more reflective stance on the current events.

“Except for Instagram, because that’s really just pictures of my son,” he said. “I felt there was no harm in that, and my mother would be upset if I stopped posting on Instagram.”

In the weeks that followed, Horowitz returned his attention to the people — his son and wife — and projects that mattered

most to him. He removed himself from work that he felt failed to contribute to society in a meaningful way.

“I also looked at ‘La La Land’ then, and thought I was really happy to be able to bring this picture out into the world,” he said, as the film had not been released outside of film festivals at the time of the election.

Horowitz added that more movies espousing similar values to “La La Land” of promoting empathy over cynicism will continue to be made in Hollywood, especially in the four years to come. Producers are among the few people in the industry who are in “control of their own destiny,” so it is their responsibility to choose the right stories for the audiences, he said.

Despite the “institutional hurdles” that exist at the studio and agency levels, Horowitz said he will not stop championing original stories and upcoming writers and directors.

His upcoming projects include “Fast Color,” a movie directed by his wife, Julia Hart, which he produced and co-wrote, and the T.V. series “Counterpart,” which he produced.

“People are a little tired of spectacle, things blowing up and people dying,” he said. “I don’t think that’s where our collective conscience is right now, so I’m hopeful that we’ll see stuff that’s more reflective of where we want to go.”

Poole said she is pleased Horowitz is producing quality work and supporting artists with a unique voice. She said she knows Horowitz will not lose his path in Hollywood — she said would trust him with her life and retirement fund — and he will stand up for the values he believes in.

And she said she is vouching for him to go home with the big prize on Sunday.

“Someone who remains honest and interested in quality in the midst of that, I think, is somebody who deserves to be admired,” Poole said. “I want to see him get up there.”

One year after its founding, Ground Floor Theatre Company will debut its first production in the form of two student-directed staged readings.

The group aims to create an all-inclusive environment for actors and directors to develop their skills, executive director Jon Mathias said.

“It’s kind of surreal to think that we made this happen,” said the Weinberg junior, who founded the company with Communication junior Danny Bar-Lavi. “We started (it) to provide people who may not otherwise get an opportunity to be able to get experience and exposure in a theater community that’s really competitive and sometimes even toxic.”

The event aims to showcase process-oriented theater, Mathias said. During the readings, actors are allowed to have their scripts with them on stage, which gives them the opportunity to focus on just acting rather than memorizing lines, he said.

The readings, which will be held in the Jones Residential College Great Room on Friday, will feature two plays. “And They Dance Real Slow in Jackson,” directed by Communication sophomore Kelsey Phalen, centers on a young girl crippled at birth with polio. “Women in Heat,” directed by Weinberg junior Taylor Beck, is a one act play about a threesome.

“One of the things we’ve been saying recently is we’re not showing you a finished product,” Mathias said. “We’re showing you a finished process of, ‘this is what we look like at the end of a rehearsal process and this is the actor’s growth.’”

In addition to supporting actors, Mathias said the company also reached out to students who would not normally think about directing plays.

He said both Phalen and Beck had never directed prior to the readings. Phalen said she would not have been comfortable directing a play outside of Ground Floor.

“They definitely took a chance on me and believed in me,” Phalen said. “That’s allowed me to grow a lot more, because breaking into the theater scene at school is definitely really scary.”

The company aims to be an inclusive environment for all races and genders, Mathias said.

Ground Floor casted every actor who auditioned this season, and the company employs gender open casting, allowing for flexibility with assigning roles, he said.

Communication junior Nina Jayashankar, Ground Floor’s diversity and inclusion chair, said it’s important for theater groups to reach out to communities of color on campus.

“The hope is that us working with a more diverse group of individuals will in turn also sort of feed more diverse individuals into the theater community at large,” said Jayashankar, who is also the company’s artistic director. “By working on improving that within our small group, we’re making a step towards making that improvement at Northwestern in the theater community at large.”

Ground Floor is planning on putting on another show in the spring, and is currently applying for official student group status.

“At the end of the day, it’s about meeting whatever need there is in the Northwestern community for people who want to perform,” Mathias said.

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“La La Land,” produced by a team including NU alum Jordan Horowitz, is a romantic musical centered on a jazz musician and an aspiring actress. The movie has resonated widely with audiences, earning about $135 million in domestic box office sales.

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• “Copenhagen,” Krause Studio in Annie May

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• “Copenhagen,” Krause Studio in Annie May

Swift, 8 p.m.

Great room, 7 p.m.

Swift, 2 and 8 p.m.

• “Urinetown,” Ethel M. Barber Theater, 7:30 p.m.

• “Copenhagen,” Krause Studio in Annie May

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Swift, 8 p.m.

• “Robin’s Hood,” Shanley Pavilion, 10 a.m. and

• “The White Snake,” Louis Room, 8 p.m.

• “Robin’s Hood,” Shanley Pavilion, 7 and 10 p.m.

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• “SigOldies,” Lutkin Hall, 9 p.m.

• “The White Snake,” Louis Room, 7 and 10 p.m.

• “The White Snake,” Louis Room, 2 and 7 p.m.

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Sophomore stars in Chicago ‘Macbeth’ adaptation Communication sophomore Caroline Chu appears in high-school version of classic Shakespeare play

By MADDIE BURAKOFF

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For her lead role in a Chicago play, Communication sophomore Caroline Chu returns to senior year of high school. But this time around, the stakes of the college application process reach Shakespearean proportions.

Chu currently stars in First Floor Theater’s production of “peerless.” The play follows the plot of “Macbeth,” but instead of Lord and Lady Macbeth vying for the throne, it follows twin sisters whose driving ambition is to get into “The College.”

Chu’s character, L, is the equivalent of Lady

King Duncan, BF for Banquo and Fleance, and Dirty Girl for the three witches.

Though the story does not have an overarching message, Chu said it functions as commentary on the college application process and a cautionary tale on the dangers of ambition.

Director Hutch Pimentel said it reminds people of the fine line between language and action.

“Teenagers always say, ‘Oh my gosh, I could totally kill him.’ In this play, they actually do,” Pimentel said. “It’s an interesting twist on teenage hyperbole.”

The play is written by Jiehae Park, an AsianAmerican woman, and stars two Asian women.

This representation of women of color was part of what drew Pimentel to the play, he said.

Chu, who is half Asian, said she also thought

necessarily, but the act of putting on a play by an Asian woman about Asian women is important,” Chu said.

Despite its dark content, Chu said, the show

especially in the unique interactions between the twins L and M. The twins often finish each other’s sentences, bouncing back and forth with lines that are one

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Communication sophomore Caroline Chu (left) stars in First Floor Theater’s production of “peerless.” The play retells the story of “Macbeth” in the context of twin sisters applying to college.

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In “peerless,” Caroline Chu’s character L and her twin M speak in their own unique style and even finish each other’s sentences. Chu said she and costar Aurora Adachi-Winter had to spend a lot of time working to become completely synchronized.

Macbeth, while her onstage twin M, played by Chicago-based actress Aurora Adachi-Winter, corresponds to Macbeth. There are only three other characters in the show: D stands in for

it was important to bring exposure to voices like Park’s. This is the first role written specifically for an Asian woman that Chu has played, she said.

“It doesn’t really have an activist message

includes a lot of humor. She said the playwright described it in his notes as “a comedy until it’s not,” as it devolves from funny to scary.

The play is the first professional production Chu has acted in outside of school, she said, which has been an “unforgettable process.” Chu said she is the youngest in the five-person cast.

Cammy Harris, one of Chu’s friends at Northwestern, said Chu has been a “reverent fan” of Chicago theater for years and had already known of many of her costars from seeing their work.

“She has been so deeply entrenched in that community her whole life,” the Communication sophomore said.

Chu said she has faced some challenges working on “peerless” due to its fast-paced dialogue,

or two sentences long, Pimentel said.

To get the two actresses in sync, Pimentel said, they rehearsed facial expressions in front of a mirror and Chu dyed her hair to match Adachi-Winter’s more closely. These days, Pimentel said, the two actresses have grown close and even unintentionally dress alike sometimes.

Though Chu doesn’t think she has much in common with L — Harris described Chu as “an adorable human being” — she said she enjoys portraying a complex and slightly evil character.

“There’s a quote I read from Alan Rickman, who was one of my favorite actors growing up: ‘If you judge a character, you can’t play it,’” Chu said. “I’ve really gotten to understand that now.” madelineburakoff2020@u.northwestern.edu

Danceworks explores politics with movement, visuals ‘Current Rhythms’ show aims to highlight contemporary political climate through music, dance

By JENNIFER HEPP

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This year’s Danceworks concert, “Current Rhythms,” is designed to highlight the current political climate through music and dance, artistic director Joel Valentín-Martínez said.

The annual production features dancers from the Dance department in collaboration with the Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts. This year it features four original modern and contemporary pieces, two

by guest choreographers and two by faculty choreographers.

Valentín-Martínez, the director of Northwestern’s dance program, chose with the political theme.

“I wanted to see what choreographers could come up with that involve current events, current state of mind, current thoughts about themselves both as humans and as artists,” Valentín-Martinez said.

“I wanted to reflect on the mood that I have about our state of being as a society.”

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choreographer and costume designer, said he responded to the theme in his piece “smear” by taking an abstract look at the aggressive ways people interact online and drawing design inspiration from science fiction. To incorporate rhythm in the dancing, Hancock employs human rhythms such as a heartbeat, breath and pre-recorded rhythms such as drums.

“The title is a little reference to what I feel like is happening between people, politicians and reality,” Hancock said. “(They’re) all becoming very smeared.”

Guest choreographer Eduardo Vilaro is the artistic director of

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Weinberg sophomore Michelle Skiba dances in “With My Face to the Wall,” one of four pieces in “Danceworks 2017: Current Rhythms.” The piece, choreographed by guest choreographer Eduardo Vilaro, artistic director of New York City’s acclaimed Ballet Hispanico, explores fierceness in femininity.

New York City’s acclaimed Ballet Hispanico.

His piece, “With My Face to the Wall,” features six female dancers and is centered around fierceness in femininity. Costume designer Amanda Gladu created costumes resembling military uniforms.

The third piece in the program, “Her Words Masquerades as Me” is by guest choreographer Onye Ozuzu, dean of the School of Fine and Performing Arts at Columbia College Chicago.

The original jazz work is a tribute to Afrofuturist writer Octavia Butler, known for her near-future alternative perspectives that leverage the everyday experiences of black people.

Ozuzu has put together a physical interpretation of one of Butler’s works.

The final piece in the program, ValentínMartínez’s “Distracted by Distraction from Distraction,” is a commentary about people’s reliance on technology and the isolation it creates. Gladu said all dancers have phones and earbuds as part of their costumes and that the dance has an abstract, urban feel.

In the past, Danceworks has typically featured six or more pieces, but having four has increased the time each piece has for both performance and polishing.

“To see four separate voices and to have time to absorb each of those worlds that people fill is unusual,” Hancock said. “This year is an opportunity for people to absolutely dive into each one of these worlds and really be able to let it wash over them in the process of observation and really be left with time to absorb what that person is saying.”

Gladu said though all four pieces fit the same theme, each choreographer finds a way to make it their own.

“Each choreographer has a different perspective on what the current rhythm is of the time, and it’s really interesting to see the variety of pieces in the show,” Gladu said. “They’re responding to the current political climate in regards to race and gender, but it takes a totally different tone in each piece.” jenniferhepp2020@u.northwestern.edu

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secured one of the three spots on the women’s fencing team, ranking second in the United States and seventh in the world in 2016.

Muhammad said though the United States Olympic Team is “the most diverse team in the world,” maintaining her visibility as a black Muslim woman remains one of her primary objectives as an athlete.

“I want our youth and our kids to see themselves in spaces where they’re underrepresented, to see themselves in spaces where we haven’t always been welcome,” Muhammad said.

In addition to her athletic career, Muhammad also discussed her modest fashion line, Louella. Muhammad is the first U.S. Olympic fencer to compete in a hijab. She also said she signed a book deal last week to produce an adult memoir, a child mini-series and a young adult memoir.

strains it put on her.

“Fasting while fencing is so hard,” she said.

“But for me, I’ve always felt that my religion comes first.”

Jeremy Kaish, co-president of Northwestern men’s fencing team, attended the event and said he found Muhammad relatable despite her fame. The McCormick junior added that he found Muhammad’s determination inspiring.

“I really admire the way she talks about persistence and how she tells herself that she is a champion and that she can do basically whatever she wants to do,” Kaish said.

graduate from college. She then went on to work at IBM, S.C. Johnson, PepsiCo and, most recently, Kimberly-Clark, which manages brands such as Huggies, Kleenex and Kotex.

“The key tenant of black girl magic is that we lift as we climb,” Williams said.

“We move up and we pull each other up as we do that.”

Heather Browning, assistant director of MSA, organized the event and said the goal of MSA for this year’s Black History Month was to offer programs that present different aspects of black identity, such as the intersection of race and gender.

This intersection creates for women of color in business what Williams called a “concrete ceiling.”

In her current role at Kimberly-Clark, Williams works to include people of color in marketing initiatives.

As an Afro-Latina woman, Williams said, her primary strength in the role is her ability to empathize and communicate with the diverse consumers she targets.

“My life and professional goal is to change the face of advertising and how people of color are depicted in the U.S.,” Williams said. “I owe it to the people who came before me, who allowed me to be in this position, and I owe it to the generations after me, to truly change how we are depicted and viewed.”

Princess-India Alexander, president of the Northwestern chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists and editor in chief of BlackBoard Magazine, ran the Q&A portion of Williams’s talk.

Alexander stressed the importance of having role models such as Williams who are women of color, particularly at a predominately white institution like Northwestern.

“Growing up as a person of color, you don’t always see the people that represent your future, and if you don’t see that it’s really hard to push through,” Alexander, a Medill junior, said. “Seeing someone like Lizette that has made it and that has had all these struggles is really encouraging.”

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call,” he said. “This didn’t have anything to do with the bill itself. It was simply the choice to have the vote done in a roll call manner.”

Speaker of the Senate Nehaarika Mulukutla told The Daily she’s never seen senators use quorum as a way to disrupt a vote.

Mulukutla, who asked senators to be respectful of each other before the debate on the resolution began, said she thought all sides were fair to each other during the debate. The loss of quorum at the end of the meeting was counterproductive, the Weinberg junior said.

“What happened at the very end completely destroyed everything that we worked for … to create that atmosphere and to create a respectful Senate,” Mulukutla said.

During a Senate that lasted more than three hours, senators made multiple amendments to the resolution, which was originally introduced last week. Mulukutla told The Daily the amendments made will stay in place.

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keeping young adults engaged in jobs, and said he would like to move her youth employment program forward by expanding it to a year-round program. The program currently employs more than 700 adolescents and young adults in summer jobs.

Gaspard, a 34-year Evanston resident who briefly lived in the United States on an expired visa after immigrating from Haiti, affirmed his commitment to protecting undocumented immigrants.

“It would be a good idea for (voters) to send a message to Donald Trump: We Evanstonians, we elected a non-born citizen to be mayor of Evanston,” Gaspard said.

Miller called for doubling the number of youth outreach workers to reach more young people at risk of committing violence, as well as increasing their access to mental health counseling. He described the strategy as “targeted deterrence,” which involves reaching out to at-risk youth, building relationships with them and then connecting them with social services.

“What we do in Evanston … we stand up for what we believe in,” Miller said. “We stand up for our local

identifiable survivors, the Weinberg sophomore said.

“SAE has been the subject of harassment, death threats have been found on the internet, and to overlook that and to keep this going is really discounting the rights of the accused,” Seethaler said.

Medill freshman Gabrielle Bienasz, who coauthored the bill along with Weinberg sophomore Lars Benson, said the pair proposed amendments after listening to questions at last week’s Senate.

Bienasz said the main goal of the resolution was to promote accountability for sexual assault cases on campus. Although SAE was named specifically, the resolution can be applied campus wide, she said.

“This is a bill designed to address a pervasive culture of sexual misconduct, sexual assault and, frankly, rape culture that has invaded Northwestern’s campus,” Benson said.

Benson expressed disappointment at the members who left at the end of the meeting.

“If you can’t stand for what you believe in, and put your name beside your vote,” he said, “you do not deserve to be a senator in ASG.” jonahdylan2020@u.northwestern.edu communities.”

Hagerty, who received Tisdahl’s endorsement, praised her work on making Evanston more affordable for low-income residents. He said he hoped to continue to build on Tisdahl’s efforts to develop affordable housing.

“We need to be focused on maintaining (Evanston’s) diversity over time,” Hagerty said. “And part of that is looking at affordability.”

Smith said he thought Tisdahl has expanded the mayor’s role, specifically as an ambassador to other towns and to political leaders throughout the state. He also praised her leadership on the issue of sustainability.

“Environmentalism is not my only issue by a long shot, but it is foundational to everything else,” Smith said. “If we lose the planet that we aspire to live on, there are a lot of other issues that are going to go by the wayside.

Early voting is already open, and the primary will be held Feb. 28. If one candidate receives 51 percent of the primary vote, he will win the election outright.

Otherwise, the top two candidates will face a runoff on April 4 to decide the position. ryanw@u.northwestern.edu

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The first 14 games of the conference season have done little to settle Northwestern’s place in the Big Ten. That makes the last two contests particularly important.

With the Big Ten Tournament only a week away, the Wildcats (18-9, 7-7 Big Ten) sit among a jumble of six teams jockeying for a high placing and preferential seeding. Thursday’s home finale against Rutgers (6-21, 3-11) and Sunday’s matchup at Purdue (17-11, 8-6) will determine whether NU earns a coveted double-bye in the conference tournament, drops as low as 10th or finishes somewhere in the middle.

Despite the muddle, senior guard Ashley Deary said the Cats are unconcerned with other results.

“We just have to focus one game at a time and take care of business and let the rest of it fall into place,” Deary said. “Lots of teams are up in the middle right now. All we can control is what we do and be concerned about what is going on here.”

Given the Scarlet Knights’ struggles — they have lost eight-straight games and fell to NU in late January — the Cats have a prime opportunity

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to push up in the standings. The winnable contest comes on the heels of NU’s win over Illinois, which snapped a four-game skid.

The Cats won by only 13, and the Fighting Illini came within 8 early in the fourth quarter, but continued to show an ability to top the Big Ten’s cellar dwellers.

Coach Joe McKeown said NU needs to be sharp and focused mentally for that to continue.

“Th e main thing is going to be playing well, in sync with the scouting report, in sync with people playing multiple positions, (which) we’ve had to do because of injury,” McKeown said. “Just understanding roles as we go forward is going to be really important for us.”

The Cats’ losing streak, which included an unsavory home defeat to Penn State and a historically ugly loss at Indiana, knocked them from the right side of the NCAA Tournament

bubble to a team with only the faintest hopes for a tournament berth. NU likely needs a miraculous late-season recovery, complete with a signature win over a top-12 team like Maryland or Ohio State and help from other teams to revive its NCAA chances.

Nonetheless, senior forward Nia Coffey said the team’s best avenue for success is to be unconcerned with the future.

“We’re just trying to focus on taking it as a single game and not look at it too big picture so we don’t get distracted,” Coffey said. “We’re finishing our season right now, but we’re trying to stay focused on (Rutgers) right now.”

Recent history shows a miraculous run is possible for the Cats, who — as the No. 12 seed — won three games in three days at the Big Ten Tournament last year. With a decorated senior class and postseason possibilities still unsettled, McKeown said his team is primed for one more late-season push.

“We have a lot out there for us,” McKeown said. “They’ve proven they can step up in March, and that’s every team’s goal. It’s been a little crazy, no question, but we’re showing some resilience and some toughness, and that’s what it’s going to take to compete.” colepaxton2019@u.northwestern.edu

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After going undefeated through its first 10 games, Northwestern suffered its first setback of the season last weekend, losing three close matches in as many days.

But the road does not get any easier for the No. 13 Wildcats, (10-3) who have an away match with Notre Dame (7-3) on Friday and a home rematch with No. 8 Oklahoma State (8-3) on Sunday.

NU fell to the Cowboys 4-2 in its first round match of the ITA National Indoor Championships last weekend, and senior Sam Shropshire is looking forward to a chance at revenge in Evanston and the opportunity to nab a top-10 win.

“I personally am (excited), and I know everyone else on the team is also, so it’ll be nice to be able to play them at home,” Shropshire said. “It’ll be a little bit different.”

Each of the Cats’ three matches at the ITA Indoors were tightly contested. In addition to the Oklahoma State loss, the Cats lost 4-3 to both No. 5 Oklahoma and No. 20 Mississippi State in the consolation rounds.

Although competing closely against the nation’s top teams showed NU’s competitiveness, coach Arvid Swan said the Cats could make adjustments to better close out tight individual and team matches.

“We need to do a few things better at the end of matches where we’re playing a bit more aggressively within our game style rather than hope a team gives it to us,” Swan said. “We can finish a little better in matches, but we know we can play with the best teams in the country.”

The Cats went into the tournament as the No. 6 seed and were ranked No. 7 in the country. At the time, they were the favorites in each of their three matches in the program’s first-ever appearance at the ITA Indoors.

After getting out to a record 10-0 start, senior Strong Kirchheimer said

the team may have been overconfident and derived a valuable lesson from the disappointing weekend.

“We learned humility. We started out pretty hot, and everyone thought that we were a little better than we were, and we kind of paid for it there going 0-3,” Kirchheimer said. “Hopefully we can bounce back from that this weekend.”

To do so, the Cats will need to put forward a complete team effort. That starts with the opening doubles point, which NU lost for the first time this season over the weekend.

With a competitive stretch looming, Swan said he is optimistic about his team’s resilience as it looks to return to its winning ways.

“We know that the results this weekend are not acceptable,” Swan said. “All you can do is try to make some small adjustments and be ready for the quality opponents that we have coming up this weekend.” benjaminapelbaum2019@u.northwestern.edu

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NU gets swept by Arizona State in season-opening series

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A lack of plate discipline cost Northwestern in its opening series of the season, as the Wildcats lost all three of their games to Arizona State over the weekend.

NU (0-3) tallied only 10 hits in 27 innings, and scored 6 total runs as the Sun Devils (3-1) racked up 13. Second-year coach Spencer Allen attributed the outcomes partly to his lineup chasing pitches and not capitalizing on advantageous counts.

The Cats did find ways to get on base despite only recording three hits; in the first game, the team drew four

walks and was hit by three pitches.

But NU stranded seven baserunners throughout the game and ultimately lost 3-1.

Allen said he was pleased with the team’s baserunning efforts, however. In the final game, sophomore shortstop Jack Dunn and freshman catcher Nick Paciorek each stole bases.

“We didn’t look out of place on the bases,” Allen said. “It was just tough getting there.”

Senior Joe Schindler, who spent much of last season serving a suspension, had a strong debut as the Cats’ opening day starting pitcher. He lasted 5.1 innings, allowed two runs on five hits, and struck out four.

“I wasn’t happy that we lost,” Schindler said. “But it gives me

something to build off of, and hopefully next week I can go deeper into the game. I’d like to get to seven innings each time. … That’s my mark.”

This season, Schindler will help lead a young pitching staff that Allen said has been exciting in the early going.

Right-hander Hank Christie and southpaw Matt Gannon, both freshmen, performed well over the weekend in the first pitching opportunities of their careers. Christie started the second game, throwing 3.2 scoreless innings and striking out three, while Gannon started the third and allowed one run in two innings. “(Christie) has ice in his veins,” Allen said. “He’s not going to blow up the radar gun, but he commands the baseball in and out, and he doesn’t

get rattled. … (Gannon) came out and threw strikes. Most importantly, all our pitchers didn’t walk or hit many people, and if we can keep that trend going, we’re going to be OK.” NU will next travel to Tennessee on Friday to face Middle Tennessee, Belmont and Lipscomb in the annual Mule Mix Classic round-robin tournament.

Junior third baseman Connor Lind, who recorded one hit and two RBIs during the series, agreed with Allen’s sentiments and said he thinks that better, more patient at bats will be essential if the Cats hope to make a turnaround on the road trip.

“This week, we’re working on hitting better in advanced counts, line drives, putting balls in the gaps,” Lind

said. “One weekend won’t define us.

We’re trying to move on. We’re working hard, and it’ll show this weekend.”

Allen said his goal is to have a .500 record by the Cats’ first home game against UIC on Mar. 7.

After the trip to Tennessee, the Cats will travel to Santa Clara for another three-game series. NU must win five of those next six games to reach Allen’s target.

“It’ll come down to our pitching and defense,” he said. “We need to stay consistent in those areas. I think all of this is for naught if we’re not winning ballgames. If we’re around .500 when we come back home, we’ll be in good shape.” evanaugeri2020@u.northwestern.edu