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Residents discuss SESP junior Kenzie Krogh dies three-unrelated rule

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‘Brothel law’ reviewed at joint ward meeting

By CATHERINE HENDERSON

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Community members and Northwestern students voiced hopes and concerns for the possibility of changing the three-unrelated rule, a current city ordinance stating that more than three unrelated people cannot live together in a single unit unless the landlord has a special-use permit approved by city council.

Over the past couple months,

the three-unrelated rule, sometimes called the “brothel law” has surfaced in the discussion about affordable housing, as some argue it makes housing too expensive, particularly for students. About 60 residents of the 1st and 5th Ward met with Ald. Robin Rue Simmons (5th) and Ald. Judy Fiske (1st) on Friday night at the Evanston Civic Center.

“What Robin and I are here tonight to do is listen to you so that we can take the information you give to us back to council and make an informed decision,” Fiske said.

Under the current city law, if the city finds a rental unit in violation of the three unrelated rule, the

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SESP junior Kenzie Krogh died Sunday morning, an Evanston police official said.

Krogh died about 9 a.m.

Sunday after being taken to Presence Saint Francis Hospital by her friends, Evanston

police Cmdr. Ryan Glew told The Daily.

Dean of Students Todd Adams informed students of Krogh’s death in a Sunday email. Krogh was from Durham, North Carolina, and involved in different campus organizations including Greek life and club sports, according to the email.

She also served as a teaching assistant with the Kellogg

School of Management.

No cause of death has been determined, according to the email.

There will likely be an autopsy Monday morning, Glew said, although toxicology reports may delay the result for several weeks. EPD is investigating Krogh’s death, Glew said.

The University has been in

touch with Krogh’s family and close friends, and will be releasing information about community gatherings and services as it becomes available, Adams said in his email.

Ryan Wangman contributed reporting. madelineburakoff2020@u.

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House to hear gun control legislation

By SAMANTHA HANDLER

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Illinois state representatives will introduce legislation on several gun control measures on Wednesday, following many constituents’ calls for action to combat gun violence after the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, earlier this month.

House Speaker Michael Madigan (D-Chicago) will call votes on a proposal that has been stalled

since last year to require gun shops to have licenses from the state, as well as a bill allowing law enforcement or family members to ask a judge to take away a person’s weapons if they believe the person poses an immediate threat, according to an Illinois Senate Democratic Caucus news release. There is also legislation, which was still being written as of Friday, up for consideration that would prevent people under the age of 21 from » See CONTROL, page 6

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Texas medical student Shyam Murali teaches Texas Two Step CPR to passersby in Foster-Walker Complex. The training event was part of a national effort to increase knowledge of bystander intervention technique.

CPR training event comes to NU

Nationwide initiative aims to train 10,000 in a single weekend

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The capitol building in Springfield, Illinois. Illinois state representatives will consider several gun control proposals Wednesday.

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Forty people were trained in CPR at Northwestern on Friday as part of a nationwide initiative to train 10,000 people in a single weekend.

The training took place at Foster-Walker Complex from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., with several student volunteers and Texas medical student Shyam Murali training passersby using CPR mannequins.

The event was part of Texas Two Step CPR, an annual effort founded in 2015 by a group of medical students in Texas to spread a simple, hands-only

CPR technique to the public.

Instead of formal CPR certification, which can take around three hours, the initiative concentrates on simple, five-minute bystander intervention. Weinberg junior Anne Krall, who brought the event to NU, said NU is one of just two undergraduate institutions participating in the initiative.

Krall said Texas Two Step CPR is based on the idea that spreading a small amount of knowledge and training can decrease the number of cardiacrelated fatalities nationwide.

“Having the ability to know what to do in an emergency is so powerful,” Krall said. “I don’t know any way to put it so plainly than that every single

person can save someone’s life without any training beyond these five minutes.”

Krall said she first got involved with the initiative through her work with Illinois Heart Rescue — an effort to improve cardiac health statewide — where she was put in touch with Murali, who is on the board of directors for Texas Two Step CPR. Murali said the program left Texas and went national for the first time this year, adding medical studentrun stations in six additional states.

Murali, who came to NU on Friday to assist with the CPR training, said the goal of the program is to teach CPR to as many people as possible. This

CPR method consists of two simple steps: The first is to call 911 and the second is to provide chest compressions until help arrives. This method eliminates mouth-to-mouth breaths, a decision Murali said was made for maximum effectiveness.

“In the literature and science, (the compression part) has been shown to do the most amount of good,” he said. “The breaths aren’t as effective anymore, and the most important thing is to make sure the blood is flowing to the heart and the brain.”

Murali said the project is driven by medical students nationwide, and that other » See CPR, page 6

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AROUND TOWN Council to review landlord program, hiring policies

By RYAN WANGMAN

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Aldermen will look to vote on a proposal providing landlords with financial assistance to repair and improve low-income rental units, as well as examine hiring policies for applicants with criminal records, at Monday’s City Council.

The rental assistance program, which functions as part of the city’s efforts to increase affordable housing options, would support improvements and repairs for landlords who are committed to rent to households earning 60 percent of area median income, according to city documents. The proposed program budget is $200,000 for the 2018 fiscal year, which is 25 percent of the year’s total uncommitted cash balance in the Affordable Housing Fund.

The funding would be provided in the form of a forgivable loan, with a term of the loan ranging from 10 to 20 years depending on its value, according to city documents. The program would provide eligible participants with funding for 50 percent of the project’s costs after their approved work is completed, for up to $50,000.

City staff recommends the Housing and Homelessness Commission review applications and send them to a standing committee and then City Council to be approved.

Ald. Robin Rue Simmons (5th) told The Daily in January that it is challenging enough for landlords

POLICE BLOTTER Window broken, items stolen from Evanston woman’s car Evanston Police alerted an Evanston woman that her car had a broken window Thursday morning.

Officers observed a car with a broken-out window parked in the 700 block of South Boulevard at 5:30 a.m. Thursday. They alerted the owner, a 30-year-old Evanston woman, who arrived on the scene around 6 a.m., said Evanston police Cmdr.

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Ald. Cicely Fleming (9th) speaks at a meeting. Fleming spearheaded efforts to update the city’s hiring policy regarding applicants with a criminal record.

to make improvements and repairs, and that the city should provide money upfront to landlords so that the steps could be completed more quickly.

“The landlords that we’re talking about are moderate-income themselves, so they don’t have the money for the improvements (and) they can’t qualify for home

improvement loans,” Rue Simmons said in January. “If we manage the funds — not necessarily just give them a check to do the work — we can have them provide the bids, and we will pay the contractors directly.”

Ald. Cicely Fleming (9th) also suggested in January that the program place a cap on the number of

Ryan Glew.

The woman told police she left the car parked on the street at 1:30 a.m. that day, Glew said. She discovered her purse was missing, along with a green wallet that contained $380, credit cards, her passport and her driver’s license.

Police do not have any suspects at this time.

that items were missing from her car Thursday.

The woman told police she left her car parked in the 700 block of Hinman Avenue around 5 p.m. on Feb. 19 and returned to find items missing around 4 p.m on Feb. 22. She told police there was about $30 missing from her car.

Glew said officers were not able to determine a point of entry and that there are no suspects at this time.

Car burglary reported in south Evanston

A 40-year-old Evanston resident alerted police

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times an owner can apply for funding to make more resources available for more landlords. As proposed currently, there are no stipulations on the number of times an owner can apply for funding.

She added that in the context of the discussion about affordable housing, the program is a way for council to get more low-cost units on the market.

“Nothing that we’re going to do is perfect and going to solve our problems tomorrow, but this is a great start,” Fleming said in January. “We have city funds that taxpayers give us so we … have to be very diligent about (how we spend them), so this is one way in which we’re trying to help.”

Also at the meeting, aldermen will discuss adopting a new hiring policy which would consider factors in evaluating how applicants with criminal records would be suitable for employment. Fleming spearheaded the efforts to update the city’s policy, and city staff met with her and interested community members to gather input on current best practices, according to city documents.

If the new hiring policy is adopted, there will no longer exist a lifetime disqualification from city employment for certain felony convictions, according to the documents. There is also an additional opportunity for a “thorough review” of an applicant’s background if they have a rehabilitation certificate or are working with the Youth and Young Adult program.

If enacted, the policy would have an effective start date of March 1, 2018. ryanw@u.northwestern.edu

Setting the record straight An article in Friday’s paper titled “Mayor hosts gun violence talk” incorrectly identified the day Yakez Semark was killed. He was killed Feb. 8.

The Daily regrets the error.

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ON CAMPUS Native lawyer talks law, environment

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The status quo of indigenous communities has become increasingly “precarious” as their legal status of autonomy is continuously challenged, said a prominent Native lawyer at a campus event Friday.

Stacy Leeds, dean of the School of Law at the University of Arkansas, formerly served as a justice on the Cherokee Nation Supreme Court. Leeds discussed the tension between tribal communities and the United States government on issues of autonomy and jurisdiction Friday at Harris Hall. A crowd of about 20 attended the event organized by the Colloquium of Indigeneity and Native American Studies.

Leeds pointed to the controversy surrounding the building of the Dakota Access Pipeline, an underground pipeline running near the reservation of the Standing Rock Sioux — who protested the pipeline, which would endanger their drinking water supply and disrupt sacred sites. The project sparked mass protests from Native communities and their supporters across the nation, which Leeds said exemplified the predicament tribes face today.

“The tribes raised the same exact environmental justice concerns that any community would likely raise when you talk about the siting of the pipeline,” Leeds said. “Nobody wants others to use the backyard.”

Leeds said the objections from indigenous communities stemmed not only from fear that a pipeline leak could contaminate the water sources nearby, but also from discontent with the state’s encroachment on tribal treaty rights.

In August 2016, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe sued the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which approved the Dakota Access Pipeline project to go near the Lake Oahe reservoir, for commencing work without adequately consulting tribe members in violation of the National Historic Preservation Act. The legislation stipulates the need to consult impacted tribes before starting projects on tribal land.

However, she noted that land under the proposed

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Thousands of Native Americans, veterans and environmentalists created an encampment in rural North Dakota to protest the proposed Dakota Access oil pipeline. Stacy Leeds, dean of the School of Law at the University of Arkansas, spoke about the pipeline conflict and other issues of Native jurisdiction at a Friday event.

pipeline doesn’t legally belong to the tribes despite their proximity. Consequently, the groups had “no legal say” over whether the construction work was legitimized, she said.

“To this question ‘Is this land your land?’ … (the tribes’) ability to be a gatekeeper and their ability to put a stop to that were severely limited,” Leeds said.

“It was based on where the United States law drew the boundaries as far as where the Standing Rock Sioux reservation goes.”

Treasurer of the Colloquium Alissa Baker-Oglesbee told The Daily the organization invited Leeds as a guest speaker to join the collective movement of “national building” fueled by indigenous people across the country. The Dakota Access Pipeline conflict helped bring t the narrative of Native Americans to light, whose voices are often neglected by the mainstream, she said.

Baker-Oglesbee also cited the approval of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 as a landmark effort to maintain “cultural commonalities” between Native children removed from their tribes — 75 percent of whom she said were placed in foster care — and their tribal communities. The law requires a preference be given to a member of the child’s extended family or tribal member in adoptive placement of

Native children under state law.

The indigenous community has historically struggled with Congressional law related to tribal courts’ jurisdiction over criminal cases, Leeds said. However, changes have been made recently that “wouldn’t even be thought possible” in the past, she said, like 2013 updates to the Violence Against Women Act. Prior to the 2013 amended version of the law, tribal courts possessed civil jurisdiction but no criminal jurisdiction in handling litigation that involved non-members. After the act was reauthorized in 2013, tribal courts are now recognized in dealing with non-Indian perpetrators of domestic violence situations in certain circumstances.

Postdoctoral fellow Sarah Dees said besides the “negative and lasting effects” caused by federal assimilation policies, she appreciated that Leeds mentioned revisions of Congressional law that seek to address indigenous governance.

“In a lot of cases, I’m always kind of suspicious that the U.S. federal government has its own interests and doesn’t have any community interests in mind,” Dees said. “So I’m glad she (pointed to) some positive developments.” limingwan2021@u.northwestern.edu

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Arming teachers would only create more problems MARISSA MARTINEZ

DAILY COLUMNIST

Combined, my parents have 45 years of experience in public education. From teaching in Chicago and Evanston schools to working in district-wide administration to effecting change on a national level, my immediate family has extensive education ties. Including my extended family, nearly half of my close relatives on both sides work in education. And before I discovered journalism, I wanted to follow in my family’s footsteps and be a teacher too.

This is why it’s that much harder for me to swallow the proposition that teachers should be able to carry guns in school to prevent further mass shootings. The most egregious example recently was when President Donald Trump suggested arming 20 percent of teachers Wednesday. While the idea has gained additional traction on social media after the Parkland school shootings, the debate isn’t new.

Back during 2017 senate nominations, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos infamously suggested teachers carry guns to protect themselves from grizzly bears.

There are enormous financial implications for arming even 20 percent of U.S. teaching populations. Each state has different standards for legally owning and carrying a firearm as a citizen — rather than as a police officer, for

example. In Chicago, for instance, it can cost hundreds of dollars to complete the process: applying for a Firearm Owners Identification Card ($10), completing firearm safety classes ($100-150), applying for an Illinois Concealed Carry license ($150), purchasing the gun itself (often $300-400 for used guns) and officially registering the firearm ($15). The cheapest initial costs for an individual gun owner in Chicago would likely be at least $575, not including factors like maintenance, additional courses or storage boxes that would all drive up the price significantly.

Implementation in a national public education system, already struggling financially, would be disastrous to implement. Arming even 10 percent of the 35,619 Chicago Public Schools employees — not limited to teachers — could cost $1.87 million dollars, based off the numbers above. That’s not a good look for a school system with more than $8 billion dollars in debt.

However, beyond its potential financial flaws, arming teachers has a lot of social implications to be considered. There has been a long history of security guards and school officers showing racial and religious bias toward children during school hours. Moreover, there are many incidents of teachers calling students the N-word or otherwise overreacting using harsh language or even violence. In- and out-of-school suspensions are already given at higher rates to black and Latinx students. Adding guns into that mix would be that much more toxic: Angry teachers might impulsively reach for one in a tense

situation and show bias in doing so.

Dozens of concerning situations beyond this systematic discrimination come to mind. What happens when police mistake teachers — especially teachers of color — for the active shooter?

What if shooters target teachers first because they might be armed?

Human error must also not be overlooked: Statistics show numerous unintentional shootings occur yearly.

The potential for accidentally harming a child will always exist if teachers can’t undergo full, comprehensive training. Even if all precautions are taken, everyone has off-days and a loaded gun could be within reach of a child any number of ways. On a day-to-day basis, teachers’ worst problems should be misplaced quizzes, not misplaced guns.

Further, it is simply not the sole responsibility of teachers risk their lives for their students.

As a nation, we would scoff at the idea of arming 20 percent of community religious leaders, festival workers or club owners, even though tragic mass shootings have occurred at their places of work as well. Educators already have a lot on their plate beyond teaching an entire nation. On top of all that, our president now expects teachers to be the first line of defense against school shooters, while ignoring the need for better pay, resources and support.

As opposed to police officers whose jobs involve protection and threat assessment, teachers — who have countless other priorities and responsibilities — shouldn’t have to devote time and energy to learning how to diffuse a school

shooter situation with a firearm.

This ill-conceived proposal is yet another example of the national disdain toward public school teachers. As sociologist Eve Ewing tweeted Thursday night, “Some of this rhetoric comes from the fact that many people already don’t see teachers as fully human. They see teachers as disposable pawns.” Many teacher groups have already reacted negatively to the proposed firearm introduction into schools, claiming that schools already ask educators to do so much for students. We already have a shortage of dedicated teachers — numbers would likely drop further if acting as a soldier was tacked on to the responsibilities list.

I would be equally proud and devastated if one of my family members died to protect their students. But, I cannot imagine a world where they would be forced to handle or carry a firearm at school. Instead of feeling safer, I would be even more on edge when they went to work, regardless of how likely a school shooting is at any given moment. As a nation, we need to take a serious look at this reckless, ill-considered proposal that regards teachers with little respect and truly decide how we want our schools to develop moving forward.

Marissa Martinez is a Medill freshman. She can be contacted at marissamartinez2021@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this op-ed, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@ dailynorthwestern.com. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.

Let’s take a critical look at why we love Adam Rippon JACK HUME

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The media can’t take its eyes off of Adam Rippon, the American Olympic figure skater from the U.S. delegation at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. Rippon’s face has adorned news outlets for the last two weeks: A piece in The New York Times offers to reveal the secret to Rippon’s “Olympic abs,” outlining his daily gym routine and favorite exercises. Britain’s The Guardian claims Rippon’s “witty remarks and defiant politics” are reason enough to give him a medal, and Time Magazine has even labeled him “America’s New Winter Olympics Star.” He’s the center of attention — America loves the self-proclaimed “glamazon b—ready for the runway.”

He’s not just an Olympian — Adam Rippon is gay. And Adam Rippon is exactly what the U.S. loves in a gay man: He is a figure-skating Ken doll. His political beliefs are gay; his coiffed hair and white teeth and chiseled body are gay; his sport is gay. What more could you ask for? He is the portrait of

“gay” the world is comfortable with, someone bedazzled and perfect and domesticated to the ice rink, seen only behind the safety of a television screen.

Now break for a moment and keep this in mind. Think back to October, when sexual assault allegations against Kevin Spacey were just beginning to surface. Spacey’s case stood out from others — his accusers were men. As such, his written statement stands out from those of others accused of assault. In the first half, Spacey acknowledges the allegations brought against him. In the latter half, he comes out as a gay man, claiming the incident has caused him to “address other things” about his life.

This was an interesting choice, a gamble whose dividends likely wouldn’t pay off in immunity, but one that, it was hoped, could place Spacey in the group of the Adam Rippons of the world: the foreign others, the intriguing museum exhibits, the circus troupe.

Whether he was successful in doing that is beside the point.

Adam Rippon and Kevin Spacey are two different people, and both have been in the spotlight for radically different reasons. Nevertheless, the two reflect how deceptive today’s “acceptance” of gay people is in the United

States. At first, it’s hard to understand why the obsession with Adam Rippon is flawed. Rippon is a celebrated figure — people are fascinated by him. He’s a gay man in the Olympics.

And if everyone loves it, isn’t that acceptance?

In reality, the obsession with Rippon only reveals how deeply uncomfortable Americans are with gayness, and how the concept of being gay is marred by absurd stereotype.

We have yet to learn the obvious lesson as it pertains to gay men that’s beginning to be understood with women: that humans aren’t Barbie dolls. Gay people don’t have to be clear-skinned, white figure skaters, and there’s no necessity for them to live up to that image in order to be treated like human beings.

Again, it’s easy to view Rippon’s situation with optimism. Celebrating a gay figure skater is obviously better than silencing gay athletes or banning them altogether. But if we let the cement harden around the growing understanding that gay people are human ice fairies, we risk creating a world where gay people are exoticized and fetishized if they’re pretty enough, but silenced if they’re not.

If that becomes the standard by which we “accept” gay people, we will strip them of their humanity.

There’s nothing inherently wrong with

While I appreciate publishing opinion pieces from all sides, I think Jacob Rowden’s column on gun control leaves out a lot of important facts.

To start, only a few comprehensive, published studies on the subject exist because we are widely prevented from studying gun violence and control measures as these efforts have been long stifled.

However, the quantity of mass shootings per capita and the amount of guns owned per capita are directly correlated across the globe. While other factors may play a role, it’s apparent none do more than enacting actual legislation that would help decrease the amount of guns owned and purchased in our country.

In terms of the other concerns mentioned, most are already dealt with in a variety of ways. The media takes certain precautions when covering a shooter, and these usually involve considerations about publishing their names or manifestos when possible. Increased security does not always prevent shootings: That’s why they still occur at a school with an armed guard, or at military institutions

Jack Hume is a Weinberg freshman. He can be contacted at johnhume2021@u.northwestern.edu.

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Adam Rippon being celebrated. On the contrary, it is the implications of confusing acceptance with exoticization that has so many negative repercussions. Look no further than Kevin Spacey for an example of how that happens, and why it’s something to be avoided. Spacey’s coming out was pathetic and cowardly and wrong — somewhere in his subconscious, he hoped coming out as gay would absolve him of some of the responsibility a straight Kevin Spacey would’ve faced for sexual assault.

And that’s scary — it means the society we’re creating, one that claims to embrace gay people with open arms, is propping up and reinforcing the understanding that gay people are too different to be human. While the cameras are at the Olympics on Adam Rippon’s shining visage, today’s gay acceptance is an easy thing to celebrate. Elsewhere, it’s something to mourn.

like Fort Bragg. While some mention how our culture might drive violence, this is a cop out as well: Many of the aspects of entertainment media we have in the U.S. are present in other countries as well, and “culture” here is code for people who are different.

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While other factors may play a role, it’s apparent none do more than enacting actual legislation that would help decrease the amount of guns owned and purchased.

The examples cited about standing up to the government with guns are also not applicable.

Yes, we’ve seen democracies shift to violate human rights, but the Nazis were able to take control in Germany because the people voted for the individuals in power. The Vietnam war was so long ago, and military strategy has changed drastically since then. Our military failures come from an assumption that the government cares about people’s lives.

When it doesn’t, the situation changes: See the effects of a nuclear bomb.

Acting as though our constitution is immutable and always correct is not accurate. The understanding of the Second Amendment changed dramatically in the 70s and with the push of conservatives and the National Rifle Association, from dealing with states rights to a militia to individual rights.

The language is ambiguous and hard to understand, and a controversial Supreme Court decision led to where we are today.

Most importantly, consistently, people against gun control attempt to bring up other arguments to conflate the issue and prevent real change. We don’t have unlimited rights in our country, and saying that we need to have unlimited rights prevents any real change from happening. Many of our gun laws need to change — all making it harder to buy guns and restrict access, to even instituting a gun buy-back program. But saying we have to study the other potential factors before making any decision delays action and is the argument used by those who don’t want change — and therefore they bare some culpability. As the Onion headline says after every mass shooting: “‘No way to prevent this,’ says only nation where this regularly happens.”

— Matthew Altman, School of Communication ’10

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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Reporters discuss representation, diversity in media

By ALANE LIM

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When NBC 5 Chicago reporter and fill-in anchor Christian Farr worked as a television news reporter in Dayton, Ohio, about 20 years ago, he read a description on-air about a suspect.

After he finished, a director told him, “I hope you realize the Dayton police are coming to arrest you … because you just read a description of yourself.”

That was how vague the description was, Farr said, adding that media still report vague descriptions — like “black male” — of police suspects today.

Farr was one of four panelists who spoke at “Being Black in Broadcast Media/Entertainment,” an event held at the Levy Senior Center on Saturday. The discussion, moderated by

Medill Prof. Ava Thompson Greenwell, covered topics including the lack of diversity in higherlevel media positions, representation of black people in the news and the need for audiences to advocate for unbiased and complete coverage.

The event was the fourth and final session of the 2018 black history lecture series sponsored by Evanston Branch NAACP, African American History and Genealogy Study Group of Evanston, Shorefront Legacy Center and Haitian Congress to Fortify Haiti.

CBS 2 Chicago political reporter Derrick Blakley said there is a “pronounced lack of African American presence” in higher level positions like managers and producers. These people decide what goes on the air — such as the order of stories, the length of individual segments and their presentation to the public, he added.

Farr said having diverse decision makers is essential in properly covering stories about underrepresented areas. He added that not

everyone living in the South and West Sides of Chicago is violent, as they are sometimes portrayed in the media.

“You can’t simply … say, ‘Oh, this is a dangerous neighborhood,’ because it may not be,” Farr said. “Unfortunately, we don’t have people in the newsroom who are decision makers there to say, ‘Hey, we need to cover it this way. We don’t need to be covering it that way.’”

NBC 5 News special contributor Art Norman said having black reporters who know the communities they were covering, like the South Side, makes a difference in the newsroom.

Blakley added that the news media is partially responsible for the public’s perception of black people’s socioeconomic status in the United States.

“People of color, particularly black people, have become the face of poverty in America,” Blakley said. “And white poor people have been erased from our popular culture and our popular

consciousness even though they far outnumber black poor people.”

People should communicate when they think a story does not provide an unbiased, complete picture, Blakley said. He added that managers are aware that when one person contacts them, that person is representing the opinion of many people, not just their own.

Fox 32 Chicago producer Tasha Ransom said people who have opinions on a news outlet’s coverage can call in and send emails, adding that “it can’t just be one time; it has to be a constant.”

“We need you to be advocates for fair coverage, especially when you see something you think is not fair or is biased or does not give a complete picture,” Blakley said. “Something can be fair in the narrowest sense but still give a distorted picture in the wider sense.” alane.lim@u.northwestern.edu

Mental health initiative wins Improve NU Challenge

By ALEXIS WHITE

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The inaugural Improve NU Challenge, hosted

by Associated Student Government, featured more than two dozen teams in a Saturday pitch competition for prize money and residency in startup incubator The Garage.

Students had the opportunity over the past week to work in teams of up to four to identify and propose solutions to problems they see on campus.

The top three winners received money to help start implementing their ideas over Winter and Spring Quarter with ASG support.

The Ad Meliora Initiative, the first-place team, won $750 in prize money and a residency at The Garage. AMI will also receive $7,000 from Student Affairs to implement their ideas.

The group — whose name means “towards better things” in Latin — will create resilience programming to improve students’ mental health, creator Neha Basti said. Basti said AMI became an

idea last spring, and since then has partnered with the Health Promotion and Wellness office. However, the group decided to participate in Improve NU because Basti said it felt limited and thought ASG could provide more resources.

“We want to give students the tools and techniques that will help them handle whatever struggles college life brings,” the Weinberg sophomore said. “It’s kind of the preventative, proactive approach to mental health supplementing whatever treatment that (Counseling and Psychological Services) may provide.”

Basti said AMI hopes to begin a trial program Spring Quarter. During the first four weeks of the quarter, students would attend 90-minute sessions focused on personal awareness and values, perfectionism and imposter syndrome, building resilience, and maintaining and building meaningful relationships. In the last five weeks of the quarter, Basti said there would be drop-in sessions for students, culminating in a reading week check-in.

Basti said this programming can hopefully expand with its new resources and help marginalized communities that “feel like the mental

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health programming that exists doesn’t really fit their needs.”

Second-place winner N.Struct received $500 in prize money plus $3,000 from Student Affairs.

Weinberg juniors Emily Zaniker and Laura Derenge created N.Struct to address the lack of teaching experience opportunities for undergraduates. They suggested an expansion and rebranding of student-run classes.

The third-place winner, Wildcat Wellness, received $250 in prize money, in addition to $1,000 from ASG for implementation. McCormick senior Brian Gonzalez and Weinberg sophomores Matthew Urban, Christopher Holland and Ash Mahenthiran pitched the idea to install vending machines with hygiene and sexual health goods in student housing.

Groups began semi-final presentations before three judges, usually two administrators and one student, at 9 a.m. Saturday in Norris University Center. After a lunch break and feedback session with the judges, nine finalist teams pitched to 10 judges until about 4 p.m.

ASG Chief of Staff Lars Benson was one of the

student judges. Benson said some of the judges’ evaluation criteria were ASG’s values, the University’s plans, accessibility, inclusion, implementation and cross-discipline engagement.

“The thing that excites me most about this is that we have winners, which is fantastic,” the Weinberg senior said. “But everyone who came today I think has the potential to really move on with their project and make a difference, and we want to help all those people do that.”

ASG Senator Sid Ahuja pitched the idea for this competition to ASG last fall based on his participation in a similar program at University of Texas at Austin, where he transferred from this year. Ahuja, a McCormick sophomore, said it was “a dream come true” to see all of the ideas presented at the competition.

“The best thing that we could have happen is to have great ideas pitched,” Ahuja said. “All of these students are working toward improving Northwestern. I talked to these teams, and they’re all so invested in their ideas.” alexiswhite2021@u.northwestern.edu

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Vacant building collapses in 5th Ward due to high winds Sunday morning

The Evanston Fire Department responded to a building collapse in the 5th Ward on Sunday.

EFD sent an alert at 5:46 a.m. that a onestory vacant building at 1829 Simpson collapsed this morning, and no injuries were reported. Building and Inspection Services division manager Gary Gerdes said he believes the collapse was caused by high winds.

According to WillyWeather.com, which aggregates weather data, winds ranged from about 16 to 24 miles per hour around the time of the collapse. ABC7 News Chicago reported that high winds, which reached over 50 miles

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Residents voiced concerns Friday night that the city enforced the ordinance disproportionately, SESP junior Michael Deneroff said during the meeting that the quality of residences has nothing to do with whether or not people are related. Deneroff noted other laws maintain Evanston’s neighborhoods, from noise violations to property maintenance standards.

“Students are looking for affordability, and that’s really why students are violating this ordinance,” Deneroff said. “If we go to city hall and ask for

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purchasing military-style assault rifles, according to the Chicago Tribune.

The proposal to license gun shops passed the Senate last year, according to the Tribune, but was not called for a vote in the House after opposition argued that the bill would increase the price of guns due to the costs of obtaining a state license.

In response, a Senate committee has presented a bill that would limit licensing fees to $1,000 for a five-year period, according to the Tribune. Gov. Bruce Rauner has not commented on the issue, though the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional

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per hour in some areas, caused damage in the Chicago area. A metal facade broke off of the eighth floor of a building in the 300 block of West Illinois Street, and a fallen tree damaged a parked car slightly and blocked the road at 61st and Champlain, ABC7 reported.

EFD worked to secure the site and clean up the area, according to a Twitter post from the fire department that morning.

“We have cordoned the area off. We have the building department structural engineer for the city coming out to investigate,” EFD division chief Dwight Hohl said to ABC7. “We’ll get some other city departments here with some equipment so we can start clearing this up and also do an investigation.”

Colin Boyle contributed reporting.

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The demolition of the collapsed building at 1829 Simpson St. The vacant building collapsed Sunday morning.

an inspection, we could be scared of being evicted ourselves. Really all this ordinance is doing is creating a culture of fear in Evanston.”

However, 1st Ward resident Mark Metz said changing the ordinance would not necessarily improve rents and may hurt people looking for single-family homes.

Metz expressed concern over the creation of “student ghettos” where students do not maintain the quality of their homes and the neighborhood sees deteriorating home values. He said properties could become more valuable by operating as rooming houses for students but not for single-families.

“Does the city win when it deteriorates, when it loses the character of the neighborhood?” Metz said at the meeting. “The students don’t win. The residents

don’t win. The city doesn’t win. … You’re going to ruin our community even further.”

Deneroff argued that students don’t want to live in bad homes either, but lifting the three-unrelated rule could permit students to help with enforcement of other city ordinances.

There are only three city inspectors, but community members said at the meeting that inspectors were needed for more than just student homes. In order to maintain housing quality across Evanston, students need to be able to complain, Deneroff said.

“The cons massively outweigh the benefits of the three-unrelated rule because we already have property maintenance standards that can be enforced if students are able to join the enforcement regime and mechanism,” Deneroff said. “Students are just scared

to go to city inspectors.”

Fiske told The Daily students have resources at NU for housing questions but noted many students are not aware of them. She said the city should help students by opening a dialogue with the university and students about making smart decisions when signing leases.

Fiske said the meeting was important for people to hear both sides of the argument. She said she started to realize the complications of changing the ordinance and she would take that knowledge back to council.

“This is what I like best about Evanston,” Fiske told The Daily. “These folks didn’t need to come out on a Friday night, but here they are.”

Regulation — which would oversee the issuing of the licenses — has come out against the proposal, according to the State Journal-Register.

Another piece of legislation up for consideration, the Lethal Violence Order of Protection Act, would allow judges to revoke someone’s firearms or Firearm Owners’ Identification card if the person’s access to weapons poses an immediate threat. The bill received initial approval by a Senate panel, including some Republican support.

The State Journal-Register reported that Republicans have “hailed” the act as a gun control proposal they could support.

“There are reasonable things that we can and should do as a state in response to the tragedies … and this is

one of them,” State Sen. Chris Nybo (R-Elmhurst) said to the Register. “I think it’s reasonable, and I think it’s a great step forward.”

Madigan said the public furor from students and families “whose lives have been forever changed” was the reason for the Democrats to push for a vote on these proposals now, the Tribune reported.

The vote will follow a high school shooting that left 17 dead in Parkland, Florida on Feb. 14, after which many Illinois politicians called for more concrete action, and the death of a Chicago police officer who was killed while off-duty Feb. 13 .

Students and gun control activists have since planned marches and school walkouts to urge politicians to take steps to prevent gun violence.

An Evanston contingent will travel to Springfield on Wednesday for an event organized by the Illinois chapter of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, where Illinois residents will have the opportunity to meet with legislators and advocate for gun reform.

“Their voices need to be heard,” Madigan said, according to the Tribune. “Because it’s now clearer than ever that while it’s the politicians who are refusing to act, it’s our children who suffer the consequences.”

next year to more cities and increase the number of student volunteers involved.

This year, more than 7,500 people were trained nationwide, with at least 1,200 in Chicago alone, Krall told The Daily on Sunday.

At NU, with Krall’s help, some undergraduate

students got involved as volunteer trainers. Kate Sprengel, one of NU’s student volunteers, said the project was important because of the difference timely bystander intervention can make in emergency situations.

“It takes up to 10 or 20 minutes for EMTs

to arrive usually, so if anyone has low blood flow your brain only has a couple of minutes before it’s gone forever,” the Weinberg junior said. “Bystander intervention literally saves people’s lives.”

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Students take part in a “lie-in” on the road in front of the White House last week after a Florida gunman killed 17 people the week before. Disciplinary action for participation in political demonstrations will not impact admission decisions, the University announced on Friday.

Second ‘Black Lives, Black Words’ to feature food drive, performances

After helping bring black students’ work to the stage in last year’s “Black Lives, Black Words” play festival, Communication Prof.

Aaron Todd Douglas said he is expanding the event this year to collaborate with other groups and bring people together from across the campus.

Suspensions and other school-imposed disciplinary penalties for peaceful political action will not affect admission to Northwestern, the University admissions office announced in a Friday Facebook post.

In response to questions about “schoolimposed repercussions linked to walkouts, particularly those happening in response to gun violence,” the Office of Undergraduate Admission issued guidance to students awaiting decisions.

“While we’ll continue to review all applicant and admitted-student disciplinary actions on a case-by-case basis, rest assured that a schoolissued penalty for peaceful participation in such protests will not jeopardize your admission to

Northwestern,” the post said.

Students across the nation have organized for legislative action after a gunman killed 17 people at a school in Parkland, Florida. Students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where the Feb. 14 shooting took place, have advocated from the forefront of the movement for gun reform, speaking at meetings with Florida lawmakers and a CNN town hall. Parents and survivors have also met with Washington lawmakers.

Student activists have staged walkouts, “dieins” and other demonstrations across the country in the past week. A nationwide walkout is scheduled for March 14, and is already set to gain support from Northwestern students.

Stoneman Douglas students will return to the classroom Wednesday for the first time since the shooting, according to a Broward County Public Schools news release, but other students in the country have organized by missing or disrupting class.

According to the Supreme Court ruling Tinker vs Des Moines, federal law protects students’ political speech, as long as it does not infringe on others’ rights or “materially and substantially interfere” with the school’s operation. But some high school officials have threatened students with disciplinary action for engaging in political demonstrations, according to a CNN Feb. 21 article.

Other peer schools, including Brown University and Boston University, have issued similar guidance.

Schools had the option to report disciplinary history to the admissions office before the Jan. 1 application deadline, according to the Common Application, but new information of student misconduct can still impact admissions.

Final admission decisions will be released beginning late March.

“My hope and vision for it was to really come into greater contact with different sections of the campus community at Northwestern, and bring people together who otherwise may not come into contact with one another,” Douglas said. “As well as to make it an inclusive event to anyone who had interest in gaining a greater perspective on the African American community.”

The event, which will be held at 7:30 p.m.

Monday, will feature original work by students responding to the question, “Do black lives matter?” Douglas — who is producing the show

along with Communication Prof. Laura Schellhardt and students Bryana Barry and Allie Woodson — said most of the performances are plays or monologues, although all forms of artistic expression are welcome.

This year, Douglas said the production will add performances by gospel choir Northwestern Community Ensemble and a cappella group Soul4Real, and partner with Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. to hold a food drive for Hillside Food Pantry in Evanston. DJ Danté Gilmer will also perform, according to the Facebook event.

Last year was the first time the event had

partnered with a college campus, Douglas said.

The 2017 event brought in about 250 audience members, he said, and this year he hopes to fill up the nearly 450 seats in the Ethel M. Barber Theater.

“It’s designed to be a celebration as well as an impactful performance,” Douglas said.

“The style of the pieces sometimes is often very funny and silly, and sometimes very touching. Often the perspective is unexpected and enlightening.”

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Sophomore guard Isiah Brown and freshman guard Anthony Gaines were asked to do more offensively and they struggled to generate consistent offense, shooting 7-for-25 while committing five turnovers. Gaines played the entire game, while Brown played a season-high 33 minutes. Collins said McIntosh’s injury was too serious for him to continue to play Sunday.

“He probably shouldn’t have been out there in the Wisconsin game the other night, but he’s a senior, and it was senior night,” Collins said. “He’s the kinda kid, you’re going to have the rip the jersey off (of ) on senior night. … He tried to gut it out, I appreciate him doing that, but you could see it really early. He was dragging his arm, he was trying to play one-handed.”

Those depth issues cause Collins to turn to some new lineups — at one point even inserting walkon redshirt freshman Tino Malnati into the game in the first half. Centers Dererk Pardon and Barret Benson, who usually split time at the position, shared the court for much of the second half.

The loss was NU’s sixth-straight as the team has been in free fall since losing at Maryland earlier this month. While the Cats haven’t been playing well of late, Collins was happy with their effort to rally in the second half.

“I was proud of my guys for continuing to fight,” he said. “You get down 20-plus points on the road in a game that’s the last regular season game, heading into the tournament. It would have been very easy … to kind of lay down and let Iowa run away, but we kept fighting.” josephwilkinson2019@u.northwestern.edu

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From page 8 conference season that he thinks he thinks his role on the team is based on his confidence.

“At the beginning of the year, I wasn’t as aggressive — I was still learning and getting used to the style of play and just how teams are defending and the pacing, everything,” Gaines said. “Once I got to learn that more, my confidence grew, I became more aggressive and started bringing a lot more energy to the team, and I think that’s what’s helped me be on the floor more.”

Following that logic, Gaines’ increase in confidence has clearly paid off in plentiful playing time, especially while the rest of the team has suffered through an onslaught of injuries. Gaines’ selfdescribed mentor, junior forward Vic Law, has missed the last two games. McIntosh’s usual backup, junior guard Jordan Ash, is out for the year, opening up even more opportunities for Gaines. And Sunday, McIntosh himself could only last for seven minutes, giving Gaines and sophomore Isiah Brown full reign of the ball-handling duties.

“To be honest, it was hard to prepare for the game,” Collins told reporters in Iowa City. “When you have so many injuries, and guys can’t even practice, you’re (just) doing a lot of walkthrough.”

The coach evidently made up for those preparatory challenges by placing his trust in the team’s youngest contributor — and although it didn’t pay off with a losing-streak-snapping win, Gaines showed yet again positive signs for the future of the program. benjaminpope2019@u.northwestern.edu

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Lindsey’s career night not enough as Cats drop 6th straight

By JOSEPH WILKINSON

daily senior staffer @joe_f_wilkinson

Northwestern may have walked into Carver Hawkeye Arena locked into the No. 10 seed in the Big Ten Tournament, but the Wildcats were anything but locked in defensively in their 77-70 loss to Iowa.

The visitors were playing without junior forward Vic Law, who missed the game with a foot injury, and spent most of the evening without senior guard Bryant McIntosh, who played only seven first half minutes, and senior forward Gavin Skelly, who played eight.

NU (15-17, 6-12 Big Ten) allowed 45 points in the first half, the most points the Cats have allowed in a half since they

Northwestern

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77 gave up 68 in the opening frame against star guard Trae Young and Oklahoma back in December.

“Give Iowa credit, I thought they had great energy early,” coach Chris Collins said. “Our energy really wasn’t where it needed to be. … They have a lot of firepower on the floor.”

Guard Jordan Bohannon led the Hawkeyes (13-18, 4-14) with 25 points, 20 of them coming in the first half, and shot 7-for-14 from the field. All 14 of Bohannon’s shot attempts were 3-pointers.

Bohannon, however, wasn’t even the leading scorer in the game due to a magnificent performance from senior guard Scottie Lindsey. Lindsey put up a careerhigh 32 points on 10-for-14 shooting while making nine of his 11 3-point attempts. Twenty-one of those points came in the second half, as McIntosh and Skelly sat.

“We’re really a MASH unit right now,” Collins told reporters after the game. “We were down to six guys for most of the game and into the second half.”

Lindsey’s 32, however, weren’t enough for NU to overcome a mess of an offensive performance otherwise. Other than Lindsey, the Cats shot 39 percent from the field. » See LINDSEY, page 7

Gaines steps in due to injuries

By BEN POPE

daily senior staffer @benpope111

As Northwestern’s regular seasonending collapse has doubled its conference loss in a matter of weeks, freshman guard Anthony Gaines has quietly seen a ton of the court.

For that, coach Chris Collins deserves credit.

Gaines is undeniably a “big part” of the Wildcats’ (15-16, 6-12 Big Ten) future, as Collins said after last weekend’s loss to Michigan State. And while

soon-to-graduate seniors Bryant McIntosh and Gavin Skelly sat for most of Sunday’s 77-70 loss at Iowa, (13-18, 4-14) it was Gaines — one of several players who will be expected to fill their vacated minutes next season — who played a complete 40 minutes.

The freshman from New York didn’t put up a gaudy stat line Sunday: He was 4-for-11 from the field for 9 points, two rebounds, three turnovers and an impressive six assists. That’s not atypical for a freshman, though, and especially not a defensively-oriented freshman like Gaines.

More noteworthy has been Gaines’

frequent playing time. After playing fewer than 18 minutes in each of NU’s previous five games, Gaines has played 30 or more in each of the last five and recorded his first-ever full game Sunday.

In that time, he’s shot 48 percent from the field, shown a newfound passing expertise (tallying 17 assists), recorded his sixth multi-steal game of the season and taken strides towards becoming the well-rounded ‘2’-guard the Cats will need him to be in Scottie Lindsey’s absence next year.

Gaines told The Daily earlier in the » See GAINES, page 7

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Cats snag 4th Big Ten victory Hopkins’ performance

By CHARLIE GOLDSMITH

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Pallas Kunaiyi-Akpanah’s eyes followed her finger down the stat sheet in front of her, analyzing it until she found the numbers she was looking for.

It took a couple seconds for her to find her stat line: 12 points, three steals and four blocks. And then she saw she had 20 rebounds.

“Damn,” Kunaiyi-Akpanah said when she noticed the number.

Moments later, after coach Joe McKeown looked at the same piece of paper, he praised her for the physicality and leadership that helped Northwestern (11-19, 4-12 Big Ten) through its eightgame losing streak, a host of injuries and the aftermath of junior captain Amber Jamison’s departure from the program.

In the Wildcats’ 63-50 win over Rutgers (19-11, 7-9), Kunaiyi-Akpanah set the school record for rebounds in a single season with 355, though she had to check the math afterwards to be sure. Then, as she did after taking an elbow to the gut in the opening minutes and getting the very next rebound, the junior forward continued to not back down.

“We still have some growing up to do but definitely we showed that we can handle any situation thrown at us,” she said. “And for a lot of the same reasons we think we can be one of the greatest teams in Northwestern history.”

Optimism like Kunaiyi-Akpanah’s was prevalent after NU picked up its most impressive win of the season. Freshman guard Lindsey Pulliam led the Cats with 23 points by hitting several contested pull-ups, and senior center Oceana Hamilton said her teammates see her as a future star in this conference.

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NU out-rebounded the Scarlet Knights by 19, and Kunaiyi-Akpanah said they’ve finally learned how to stay aggressive for forty minutes.

For most of the season, the Cats haven’t had a reason to be this confident.

After Jamison left NU in November and senior guard Lydia Rohde injured her foot five weeks later, NU had lost both of its captains. The Cats, with only eight healthy contributors since, lost by 27 in their Big Ten opener against Minnesota as well as 12 of their 16 conference games.

Before Sunday, their only Big Ten victories came against the two teams below them in the standings, and NU lost by 34 to No. 14 Ohio State just four days ago.

But coach Joe McKeown said he has seen his team mature enough to succeed in the postseason. His optimism doesn’t end there.

“When we move into Welsh-Ryan next year, you’re going to see my team and you’re going to see the depth,” he said. “You’re going to see us be a top 20 team again. So look out. Don’t schedule us next year.”

When McKeown first put Pulliam, Kunaiyi-Akpanah, freshman guard Jordan Hamilton and sophomore forward Abi Scheid together in the preseason, he said he envisioned them playing as well as they did against Rutgers. He anticipated this defensive intensity and explosiveness as he “baptized them by fire” against the Big Ten. But, according to Her Hoops Stats, their offense and scoring defense have both been below average.

Ready or not, the Cats are set to face

No. 13 seed Wisconsin on Wednesday in the Big Ten tournament, and the Badgers beat NU by 12 last month in Madison.

If they advance, the Cats will face No. 5 seed Iowa, who beat the Cats 70-61 in Evanston.

Two seasons ago, the Cats advanced to the tournament semifinals after winning just four games in conference play, upsetting Minnesota and Indiana at Bankers Life Fieldhouse.

Oceana Hamilton, who was on the bench for the games against the Golden Gophers and the Hoosiers in 2016, said NU is confident enough to overcome the latest adversity the Cats have to deal with.

Like Kunaiyi-Akpanah, she doesn’t back down from the challenge ahead.

“Who’s next?” she said. “We can be whoever we want to be. … We have that mentality of ‘just go out there and play.’”

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helps power NU to win

By JOSEPH WILKINSON

daily senior staffer @joe_f_wilkinson

Last year as a freshman, Bryana Hopkins played 26 minutes all season. Now, she averages 22 per game, bolstered by a 39-minute, 12-point performance in Sunday’s win over Rutgers at Beardsley Gym. The sophomore forward got it done on both ends of the court for Northwestern (11-19, 4-12 Big Ten), racking up four steals, two assists and seven rebounds along with her 12 points.

“She made really good glue plays for us,” coach Joe McKeown said, “And just kind of connected the dots with her teammates.”

Hopkins’ new central role in the team has come thanks to injury — senior guard Lydia Rohde has missed the past 14 games — and circumstance, with Amber Jamison stepping away from the team for personal reasons.

At times Hopkins has struggled, but against the Scarlet Knights, she thrived. She finished above her season average in almost every statistical category

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Pallas Kunaiyi-Akpanah runs the floor. The junior forward scored 12 points and grabbed 20 rebounds in Sunday’s win over Rutgers.

— she scored 12 points for the thirdhighest total of her career, shot 3-for-5 from the field and 6-for-7 at the free throw line and was a key part of the team’s defense effort that limited the visitors to 34 percent shooting from the field.

Against Rutgers, her main defensive assignment was guard Tyler Scaife, the fifth-highest scoring player in the Big Ten. Scaife led the Scarlet Knights with 17 points, but it took her 21 shots to get there. Hopkins was able to bother Scaife with her quickness and length, and also defended without fouling too often. The visitors attempted only seven free throws on the day, with Scaife accounting for zero of those seven attempts.

“She guards everybody,” McKeown said of Hopkins. “She guarded one of the best players in the league tonight. …

She’s guarded post players, point guards, so she’s tired after games.”

Recently, McKeown has even started moving Hopkins into the point guard role. At 6-foot 2-inches tall Hopkins is taller than the Wildcats’ listed starting guards, Jordan Hamilton and Lindsey Pulliam, but she’s proven herself to be a somewhat reliable ball-handler recently.

That versatility has been crucial for NU, and McKeown said it makes preparing to face the Cats harder for opponents.

“When you watch tape, if you’re scouting Northwestern, you’re like, ‘This kid plays every position,’” McKeown said.

NU faces a monumental task next week — winning five games in five days at the Big Ten Tournament if it hopes to keep its season going — and Hopkins will undoubtedly play a crucial role in that effort. josephwilkinson2019@u.northwestern.edu