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ASG urges space for FGLI students Senate resolution calls on NU to create student center

By ATUL JALAN

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Associated Student Government passed a resolution asking Northwestern to establish a firstgeneration and low-income student center during its Wednesday Senate meeting.

The resolution comes in the wake of an open letter authored by the co-presidents of Quest+, Christian Reyes and Madisen Hursey, and ASG President Emily Ash. The letter outlined the necessity of a centralized building that can “enhance current social, financial and emotional support” for first-generation and low-income students, or FGLI students.

The letter gathered over 300 signatures from students across Northwestern as of Wednesday night.

Spaces for FGLI students and the University organizations that serve them are currently scattered throughout campus.

Student Enrichment Services, which assists over 1,100 students,

works out of a series of converted singles and a lounge in FosterWalker Complex. The residential building is set to close for renovations in 2022, according to NU’s Housing Master Plan, adding urgency to the necessity of a new space, Ash said.

Ash said the current setup hinders the operations of SES and other FGLI organizations, which need a larger and more permanent space.

“The work that SES does is uniquely capital intensive,” she said. “They simply do not have adequate space to run the programs they’re tasked with running, let alone build up community.”

The resolution asks that administrators allocate one of the soon-to-be free houses on Sheridan road to serve as the FGLI student center, complete with office space, lounges and classrooms. The University has said it plans to move many of the academic and administrative offices that are currently housed on Sheridan Road into the Donald P. Jacobs Center after it completes construction on the latter.

Stephanie Uriostegui, the Quest+ senator and co-author of the resolution, said such a space » See SENATE, page 6

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The Black House Renovation Project is set to complete its design development stage during Spring 2019. However, the renovation committee has yet to determine a temporary replacement location for the house.

Black House to close for summer

Students concerned that replacement space remains undetermined

By ANDRES CORREA

the daily northwestern @aocorrea1

As the Black House Renovation Project is anticipated to begin construction over the summer, some

black students are concerned about Northwestern finding a temporary replacement for the space.

The project is set to complete its design development phase this spring. The Board of Trustees previously reviewed and approved the budget and proposed renovation

design in December 2018. The project was initially approved in July 2016.

However, the renovation committee has yet to determine a temporary replacement location for the house, Lesley-Ann Brown-Henderson, the executive director of

campus inclusion and community and co-chair of the Black House Renovation Steering Committee, said in an email to The Daily.

Whether it’s doing homework, attending organization meetings » See BLACKHOUSE, page 6

Maria Hadden takes 49th Ward seat Resident concerns

Long-time incumbent ousted in North Side neighborhood election

By MADDIE BURAKOFF and CATHERINE HENDERSON

daily senior staffers @madsburk, @caity_henderson

Chicago’s 49th Ward — the North Side ward that borders Evanston and includes Rogers Park, Edgewater and West Ridge — saw an upset in last night’s city election when political newcomer Maria Hadden unseated incumbent Joe Moore, who has served in the role since 1991.

Hadden, Moore’s only challenger in the election, ended the night with about 64 percent of the vote. She is the first openly gay black woman to be elected alderman in Chicago.

Val Buchanan, the assistant director of leadership development and community engagement at Northwestern, is a resident of the 49th ward in Rogers Park. She voted for Hadden in the election and said the results made her feel “encouraged.”

During his nearly three decades as alderman, Moore has pushed for affordable housing in the ward and more community input on the ward’s budget, including the final decision on how $1 million of the ward’s annual budget would be spent. “(I’m) just looking back at all

mount over center Robert Crown cost of construction rises by $20 million

By SNEHA DEY

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Maria Hadden, who was elected last night as the alderman for Chicago’s 49th Ward. Hadden unseated 28-year incumbent Joe Moore in the North Side ward, which borders Evanston.

we’ve been able to do in this neighborhood,” Moore said at an election night party after announcing his concession. “Working together with all the strong people in this community … to really transform Rogers Park in a way, but also to

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continue to enhance what has made this neighborhood so special, which is its economic and racial diversity.”

Still, Hadden said there were “gaps” in Moore’s record as alderman that she was looking to fill.

Moore has been criticized for growing too close to Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who will end his term this spring.

Hadden said she is looking to » See HADDEN, page 6

When Evanston first decided to replace the 45-year-old Robert Crown Community Center, many residents agreed to use $30 million to fund the project. Since this initial estimate in 2015, the cost has jumped to $53.2 million to accommodate amenities like a library and a turf field.

At a community meeting this month, over 20 Evanston residents lined up to speak against the project. Many of those same people also attended Monday’s City Council meeting and Mayor Steve Hagerty’s town hall meeting last Wednesday.

Over a year ago in February 2018, City Council unanimously approved the Robert Crown Community Center project at $48.5 million. The recreation center would offer a library branch, a turf field and other smaller amenities. Community members and city officials broke ground on the project in July.

Evanston resident Mary

Rosinski said in an interview that the city failed to formally announce the price change. Rosinski said she and other Evanston residents still do not know why or how the cost of the project increased.

“The people in this town are confused. The information that has been coming from the city is just a mess,” Rosinski said. “The numbers are nebulous… there is no way that anyone without a lot of additional effort…could ever figure out where this project is at and who is driving it.”

Why did the cost estimates go up?

City officials have discussed restoring Robert Crown since 2000, when the Parks, Recreation and Community Services department requested renovations. The center was built in 1974, and over the past 45 years, pieces of equipment started to fail due to the building’s age, said Andy Tinucci, an architect working on the new Robert Crown Center.

City staff estimated the restoration project to cost $18 to $30 million in February 2015, according to city documents.

Major renovations to the existing » See CROWN, page 6

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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2019

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Prof talks black voters’ influence in JFK’s election

By CASSIDY WANG

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While the story of John F. Kennedy’s victory in the 1960 presidential election often emphasizes his charisma, his elevated family background and his commitment to fostering a new era, Northwestern history professor Brett Gadsden took a different approach to the 1960 election: crediting the influence of black voters.

At the Evanston Public Library on Wednesday, Gadsden presented a condensed version of the first chapter of his upcoming book, “From Protest to Politics,” which examines the role of black people in the 1960 campaign and election of Kennedy.

Although their influence is not popularized in history textbooks, black people helped elevate Kennedy’s campaign, Gadsden said.

Kennedy’s black campaign advisers — Louis E. Martin, Frank D. Reeves and Marjorie Lawson — tried to swing opinion in support of Kennedy, at a time when many black voters had reservations about Kennedy’s stance on liberalism and civil rights, Gadsden said. They worked to tap into voter registration and get the support of black newspapers and prominent black figures, including Martin Luther King Jr., he said.

“It’s difficult to imagine Kennedy’s victory but for his strong showing among African-American voters,” Gadsden said.

Before 1960, a considerable percentage of black

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voters went Republican, but in 1960, they voted Democrat by 70-30, Gadsden said. Kennedy won certain states — including Maryland, Illinois and Michigan — because of black votes.

Researching Kennedy’s black campaign advisers uncovers a “new and exciting interpretation” of the 1960 presidential election, Gadsden said.

“In Lawson, Reeves, Martin and others, we see the importance of figures who have been systematically overlooked in the presidential histories,” Gadsden said. “But their work mattered and influenced the outcome of this dramatic chapter in our collective past.”

Megan Skord, who attended the event, was particularly intrigued by how Kennedy’s compassionate call to Coretta Scott King following the arrest of her husband shifted public support for Kennedy.

“It seems like a very small event, or something that only took a very short amount of time, that created a huge shift in our politics,” Skord said.

During the 1960 presidential election, attendee Charlene Shaw (Weinberg ‘70) lived in Skokie, Illinois and said she did not know about the history of black people in Kennedy’s campaign.

“Living in an all-white community, it didn’t occur to me,” Shaw said.

At the time, Shaw’s knowledge and perception of the 1960 election was filtered “through the eyes” of television and news media. She said she mostly remembers the presidential debates and Kennedy’s subsequent victory.

Gadsden emphasized the revolutionary nature reporting a possibly armed man in the 2400 block of Main Street. The caller described the man and said he was by a white Volkswagen, according to a Feb. 22 news release. Officers responded to the area at 11:50 a.m. on Feb. 21.

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Brett Gadsden speaks at an event at Evanston Public Library. Gadsden explained the influence of black voters in electing John F. Kennedy in 1960.

of the 1960 campaign.

He said looking at Kennedy’s election reminds us of the choices candidates make between “crafting moderate appeals to the existing base” and “recognizing shifting political winds.” When faced with this decision, Gadsden said Kennedy’s black

campaign staffers chose the latter to set the country on a more promising path.

“They might serve as models for us today,” Gadsden said.

Identification card for the weapon, issued by the Illinois State Police to legally possess firearms or ammunition.

While talking with the man, EPD officers saw a Glock 19 9mm handgun in plain view on the floor of the man’s backseat, EPD Cmdr.

Ryan Glew said. The man told officers that the Glock was loaded.

To carry a gun in this fashion, with the weapon easily accessible and loaded, requires

a concealed carry license, Glew said.

“If you don’t have one, if you transport a gun off your own abode or place of business, you have to have it locked and unloaded,” Glew said.

Officers arrested the man for unlawful use of a weapon, because of the handgun but not the rifle, Glew said. The man appeared in bond court Feb. 22, Glew said.

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NU holds first dialogue in new format

By CAMERON COOK

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Students and administrators discussed campus climate, mental health and financial aid at the Winter Quarter Community Dialogue on Wednesday. This was the first dialogue held in the new format Associated Student Government and Quest+ recommended to administrators.

Instead of having a microphone passed around to attendees, the new format featured students and administrators at tables organized by themed working groups, each with an ASG member taking notes and a staff member facilitating the discussion. Participants at the tables talked about student activities, health and wellness, academics, and campus life and climate.

Jabbar Bennett, the associate provost and chief diversity officer; Agneska Bloch, ASG vice president for academics; and Madisen Hursey, Quest+ co-president opened the dialogue and briefly addressed the changed format.

“If you hate it, we want to know,” Hursey said.

“If you love it, we want to know.”

Bloch and Hursey wrote the recommendations in partnership with Bennett and Patricia Telles-Irvin, the vice president for student affairs, after Bloch and others were frustrated by the old format of Community Dialogue.

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

Before starting the discussions, Hursey said “issues of financial resources or social justice” should come up at every table in the room, which is why there wasn’t a table specifically dedicated to financial aid or social justice issues on campus.

After an hour-long discussion, one student from each table shared the group’s main takeaways.

Students’ mental health was a hot-button topic — almost every table’s representative mentioned an aspect of mental health on campus. At one of the health and wellness tables, participants discussed how the culture of toxicity of perfectionism at Northwestern isn’t adequately addressed “from the top down.”

Students and administrators also discussed changes to course evaluations, graduation requirements, the applicability of skills learned in work-study jobs and different ways to alleviate pressures on low-income students, like having washers and dryers in Norris University Center.

Hursey said she was glad most students focused on the same issues.

“Even though it would have been nice to see more of a variety, it’s nice that there’s a unity in what students are feeling passionate about,” she said. “Hopefully that will send a message to administrators.”

Most of the issues students brought up have been on ASG’s agenda, Katherine Conte, ASG’s vice president of analytics, told The Daily. Conte said she was pleased the larger student body was thinking about the same things.

Overall, Hursey told The Daily, the dialogue went well, because more students had the opportunity to speak and the event was less “adversarial.” The new format allows for more of a real dialogue between students and administrators, she said.

Bennett, who said he has attended every dialogue since its founding during the 2015-2016 academic year, also enjoyed the new format. He said the table system allowed voices to “be heard at a particular table, but also across the entire room.”

Bloch said she was happy about the number of “action items” that came out of the conversation, both at her table and in the room at large. She also liked that the format allowed students to speak directly to administrators who care about the same things they do.

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Katherine Conte, ASG’s vice president of analytics, talks at the Winter Quarter Community Dialogue on Wednesday. The dialogue was the first held in the new format recommended by ASG and Quest+ earlier this month.

was hoping for,” Bloch told The Daily. “They were able to have a direct interaction about it and I think that was super productive.”

On the administrative side, Bennett told The Daily that the challenge is “following up” and making sure the recommendations make it to the correct administrators so they can take action.

“We have to … make sure that we collect all these recommendations, and figure out what we can do to address the concerns we heard this evening,” he said. cameroncook2021@u.northwestern.edu

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Dancers perform the last piece of the Danceworks 2019 showcase. The concert opens Friday and runs through March 10 in the Josephine Louis Theater.

Danceworks to showcase ‘palette of different ideas’

By VY DUONG

daily senior staffer @vyhduong

Ever since her first year at Northwestern, Weinberg senior Michelle Skiba has been carving out space in her calendar every Winter Quarter for Danceworks. Looking forward to her last show, Skiba said she is excited for people to see “a palette of different ideas and flavors” of the dance scene in Chicago.

Danceworks is an annual concert bringing together students, faculty and outside choreographers. The 2019 show opens Friday and runs through March 10 in the Josephine Louis Theater.

In this year’s performance, Northwestern dance Profs. Jeff Hancock and Joel ValentínMartínez will be joined by Chicago-based artists Paige Fraser and J’Sun Howard in creating four pieces with a variety of styles. Skiba said

the choreographers will hold a “talk-back” at the end of the opening night to interact with the audience.

As a fourth-time dancer in Danceworks, Skiba said what draws her back to the concert every year is the opportunity to hone her skills and challenge herself. She added the show’s caliber of dancing and production allows the cast members to fully reach their potential.

“We really have to reach the highest technical ability that we can achieve and the highest artistic quality that we can muster out of ourselves,” Skiba said.

Medill junior Amelia Langas, a former Daily staffer, said dancing was her “whole identity” before it started fading away when she became a journalism major at NU. She said she hopes to take back that part of her life and reconcile with her passion through Danceworks.

Langas said she is also drawn to the “adrenaline rush” of performing onstage that Danceworks offers. She added that she is excited to

feel the the presence of the audience behind the luminous spotlight.

“Being on stage brings out a whole other part of people,” Langas said.

McCormick sophomore Helena Haddad said while she has enjoyed being in previous student-run performances, she wants to gain more professional experience with Danceworks’ 2019 show. She said the longer rehearsal period has enabled her to fully immerse herself in the pieces and explore a variety of ways to portray them.

Working with faculty members and acclaimed choreographers has been both challenging and rewarding, Haddad said. She added that while the intensity can be stressful, she loves seeing how the process evolves from mapping out raw ideas to piecing the puzzles together.

“I feel accomplished,” Haddad said. “I have grown so much in this process, just from collaborating with different people and doing different movements that I have never done before.”

Skiba noted that it is not always easy to instantly form a connection with the performance, but she tries to “dig deep as an artist” in order to make the story as earnest as possible.

She said she hopes the audience can take something away from the performance, whether it is viewing the world through a different lens or reflecting on the past, present and future.

Describing the cast as a family, Skiba said everyone has funneled a lot of time and energy into this year’s concert. She said she has enjoyed getting to know other dancers and watching them flourish after starting the rehearsal process as very timid.

“Like a butterfly becoming its own, we started out just little caterpillars in the beginning,” Skiba said. “As we work more with the choreographers, the dance becomes more a part of our bodies. And when we add that extra layer of artistic voice, we become beautiful butterflies.” vyduong2021@u.northwestern.edu

Co-host of hit Paul McCartney podcast to lecture at NU

By ANDREA MICHELSON

daily senior staffer @amichelson18

When Ryan Brady (Weinberg ’08) started “Take It Away: The Complete Paul McCartney Archive Podcast,” he said he would have rated himself as a seven- or eight-out-of-ten level Paul McCartney fan. But after interacting with “mega-fans” on the internet, he realized that in comparison, he’s a two or three at best.

While Brady doesn’t have a McCartney shrine in his home or a complete collection of every Beatles record ever released, he has an above-average knowledge of the British rock legend. He and Bienen Prof. Chris Mercer launched “Take It Away” in September 2016, and have since released over 30 podcast episodes analyzing McCartney’s body of work.

Brady, who currently works in Los Angeles, will return to campus to give a lecture about “Take It Away” with Mercer on Thursday. The lecture will take place at 7 p.m. in Annie May Swift Hall.

Brady and Mercer met in a music production class at Northwestern. When Brady quoted a lesser-known McCartney bootleg in a sound collage project, Mercer said he was surprised to hear that reference from a 21-year-old student.

“I asked him about it after class — ‘Hey, that wasn’t “Cage” in your project, was it?’” Mercer said. “He was like, ‘How do you know about “Cage”?’ And I said, ‘I’m the Gen X-er here, how do you know about “Cage”?’”

The pair kept in touch after Brady graduated, spending hours on the phone talking about The Beatles and music in general. After listening to some podcasts in his free time, he said he thought about starting one himself — “If these guys do it, then Chris and I can do

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Ryan Brady and Chris Mercer interview Denny Laine of Wings at NU in August 2017. Brady and Mercer co-host “Take It Away: The Complete Paul McCartney Podcast.”

it,” Brady said.

Brady said he and Mercer record their phone calls for the podcast, then Mercer edits and puts the recordings together. He said they initially recorded several episodes to release on a weekly basis before switching to a monthly schedule.

“In the beginning, we didn’t know who we were speaking to,” Brady said. “We thought maybe we’d listen to it and enjoy it, maybe our friends … But now there are people in other countries and throughout the United States that write us, and they tell us we’ve affected their lives.”

Early on, a typical episode of “Take It Away” would get five to 15 downloads, Brady said.

But now, he said each episode gets anywhere between 1,000 to 10,000 downloads — and that’s just within the first week of release.

Mercer said they receive most of their listener feedback via Facebook and email. While most of the feedback is positive, he said they’ve gotten some backlash, particularly when he argued that McCartney’s beloved album “Flaming Pie” is overrated.

“It really shows you how hardcore the fans are,” Mercer said. “Some opinions about these albums and these songs are like articles of faith in a way, so you get in a little trouble if you push back against that.”

“Take It Away” is not the only podcast geared toward McCartney fans, but Brady said their podcast has a unique “stickiness” to it, perhaps because he and Mercer maintain a voice that is both casual and honest.

Communication Prof. Jacob Smith, who will moderate the lecture on Thursday, said he is excited for Brady and Mercer to share their expertise with a Northwestern audience. He said he is a fan of “Take It Away” and has learned a lot from the podcast.

“Ryan and Chris’s podcast is a lot of fun because they bring so much knowledge to each Paul album and individual track, putting McCartney’s career in context with reference to reviews, chart positions, tons of production information and really keen ears,” Smith said.

The co-hosts credit the podcast’s success in part to McCartney’s prolific music career.

When asked about the rockstar’s timeless appeal, Brady quoted Sir McCartney himself.

“Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs. What’s wrong with that?” andreamichelson2020@u.northwestern.edu

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SMILE to unite student groups for benefit show

By JANEA WILSON

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As an opportunity for over 250 student performers to come together in one benefit show for the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, the SMILE Spring Showcase is the first of its kind at Northwestern.

The showcase will take place April 5 through 7 in Cahn Auditorium. The weekend will feature 16 student acts ranging from magic to jazz orchestra to a cappella.

Communication senior Daniel Bunning said he was surprised by how many student performance groups he knew of, but hadn’t seen live. He said his desire to bring those groups together inspired him to organize the showcase.

“It doesn’t make sense that even if I’m in the theater community, I haven’t seen so many of these great performers from NU,” Bunning said. “There should really be a space for all of this.”

SMILE, or Students Making Inpatient Life Entertaining, is a nonprofit organization that was started by Bunning and SESP senior Bennett Robinson this school year. Some of the groups performing at the SMILE Spring Showcase include Thunk, Boomshaka, Northwestern Bhangra and Mee-Ow. The showcase will also feature some solo acts.

Holly Hinchliffe, the president of Thunk a cappella, said she is excited for her group to work with Freshman 15 a cappella for the event.

“It’s an amazing opportunity for collaboration between groups across campus who often

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A cappella group Thunk rehearses for the SMILE Spring Showcase. Thunk is one of 16 acts performing in the showcase, which will take place throughout the first weekend of spring quarter.

times have separate shows,” Hinchliffe said.

“To put them all in one space for performances is a very community-based thing.”

Hinchliffe said she received an email fall quarter asking if Thunk wanted to participate in the

showcase. She said the group had to send in an audition video before being formally accepted.

Weinberg senior Louisa Dangoor, a recruitment chair for the showcase, said she spent much of fall quarter reaching out to student

groups and spreading the word about SMILE. Since SMILE is a new group, Dangoor said her job included not only forming relationships with student groups, but also explaining the proposed impact of the organization.

SMILE is working with Bridge Out, a student group on campus that connects nonprofits with NU students and facilities, to produce the show, Robinson said.

All of the proceeds from the show will benefit Lurie Children’s Hospital, which Bunning said is an organization close to his heart.

“I thought it would be cool to have all these groups coming together to raise money for something,” Bunning said. “I’ve had a lot of health issues growing up, so it was an obvious choice for me to choose Lurie Children’s.”

Bunning also enlisted the help of Communication senior Michael Kelleher, who was the executive producer of last year’s Dolphin Show, to produce the showcase.

Kelleher said he has faced some difficulties in producing the event, especially because it involves so many people.

“One of the big challenges is that there are 250+ performers and we have to figure out how we’re going to coordinate all their schedules and get them all rehearsed so we can make the show totally seamless,” he said.

Despite the logistical issues, Kelleher said he is excited for the showcase. He said it has the potential to do a lot of good for the children at Lurie’s Children Hospital, as well as for NU. “It gives us moments to come together and celebrate the best of what Northwestern can do,” Kelleher said. janeawilson2022@u.northwestern.edu

Lovers & Madmen bring fresh take to biblical tale

By DAISY CONANT

the daily northwestern @daisy_conant

How does one retell a tale as old as time?

Communication junior Jeremy Sutherland thinks he has the answer — with vibrant colored lighting, 40 to 50 compelling musical cues and a cohort of 15 “crazy talented actors” narrating the story from a modern perspective.

Student theatre company Lovers & Madmen hopes to present a fresh take on a classic old series with its winter mainstage “Children of Eden,” bringing its adaption of the biblically-inspired musical to McCormick Auditorium this Friday and Saturday.

The musical follows the first nine chapters of the Book of Genesis, from the stories of the creation of man and the Garden of Eden to Noah’s Ark and the Great Flood. Sutherland, who directs the show, said this particular adaption of the Bible interested him because it delves into why the characters make the choices they do.

Thematically, “Children of Eden” highlights generational conflict, following God — named “father” in the show — through his children and their children’s lives, Sutherland said. He noted that the plot allows audiences to see the impact of how parents set up the world for their children, as well as how each generation takes that world and makes it their own.

“Within the original text you get facts about what’s happening — Eve ate the apple, Cain killed his brother — but not a whole lot of that

investigation into what is really happening for the characters in those moments,” Sutherland said.

“We get to do a lot of that in the show, which is really exciting.”

Sutherland said he emphasizes reflection on

the work by directing the show’s narrators to express their own opinions in their storytelling.

While this direction is not explicit in the original script, Sutherland said having the voices of Northwestern students come through in the

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• Bienen School of Music, “Stravinsky’s The Rake’s

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Two actors portray the characters of Adam and Eve in Lovers & Madmen’s winter mainstage “Children of Eden.”

The biblically-inspired musical will run in McCormick Auditorium this Friday and Saturday.

COMING UP Pavilion, 7 & 10 p.m.

• Bienen School of Music, “Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress,” Cahn Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.

• Lovers & Madmen, “Children of Eden,” McCormick Auditorium, 7 p.m.

• Wirtz Center, “Danceworks 2019,” Josephine Louis Theater, 7:30 p.m.

• Wirtz Center, “Guys and Dolls,” Ethel M. Barber Theater, 7:30 p.m.

Pavilion, 7 & 10 p.m.

• Bienen School of Music, “Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress,” Cahn Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.

• Lovers & Madmen, “Children of Eden,” McCormick Auditorium, 2 & 7 p.m.

• Wirtz Center, “Danceworks 2019,” Josephine Louis Theater, 7:30 p.m.

• Wirtz Center, “Guys and Dolls,” Ethel M. Barber Theater, 7:30 p.m.

characters helps to “build out the world beyond the sometimes very straightforward lyrics that we get.”

To follow that direction, cast member and Communication freshman Maddie Novak said she performs her narration role as “half Maddie, half storyteller” on stage.

“Something I’ve never really had to do before is infuse some of my own perspective into the character,” Novak said. “That’s been a challenge for me, the blending of the two that we’re experimenting with in this show… But it’s really cool to see the story brought out in this way.”

Another difficulty the production team faced is scale, said Ilana Zahava Abusch, the show’s accounts manager. The Communication freshman explained that the musical runs for two and a half hours and is almost completely sung through, giving the cast only four weeks of rehearsal to choreograph, block and perfect over 20 musical numbers.

However, Abusch said the group worked well throughout the process and the show is “perfect” for the cast. She added that this musical plays especially well into Lovers & Madmen’s mission to produce classically inspired work from a fresh perspective.

“It’s a beast of a show… but it’s a magical show,” Abusch said. “It really captures the art of adaptation and taking classical stories — stories that have been heard over and over and over again — and making something new and beautiful out of it.” daisyconant2022@u.northwestern.edu

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or talking to people, for Medill sophomore Emma Evans, the Black House feels like home. Evans said she first found out about the renovations last year during the 50th anniversary of the Bursar’s Office Takeover. She added that while the renovations are necessary, she is concerned with where the temporary space will be next year.

“If we are not going to have the same space next year, we should be aware of that,” Evans said. “We

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is necessary given the number of organizations that exist to assist FGLI students, including SES, Purple Pantry, Quest+, Gates Scholars and Ryan Scholars.

A centralized building, Uriostegui added, is also crucial to creating a sense of community.

“Space has been an issue also because people don’t know where our space is,” Uriostegui said. “It

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return to the “culture and legacy” of Rogers Park by being an independent progressive voice in the City Council.

“I’m humbled for the opportunity to serve the 49th Ward,” Hadden said Tuesday night. “And I look forward to being the independent progressive voice that they elected me to be.”

Buchanan voted for Hadden because of the

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From page 1 building would cost $18 million, but replacing the entire structure without any expansions would be about $30 million, said Pete Giangreco, the secretary for the Friends of the Robert Crown Community Center.

Inflation raised the cost estimate from $30 to $36 million, Giangreco said. Construction costs go up by four to five percent annually, explaining the $6 million hike over five years.

Residents also advocated for additions to the project, including a library branch and turf field, among other additions, which also raised the cost of the project, Giangreco said.

Giangreco added that most of Evanston’s current library branches are located in the affluent parts of Evanston, while the new Robert Crown Center would be located closer to low-income residents.

The expansions could lead to 50 percent more programming at the center, according to city documents, but the additions cost an estimated $12.5 million. The contract City Council approved in February 2018 included these expansions and the price increase to

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2019 don’t know what that space will be.”

Patricia Telles-Irvin, the vice president for student affairs, told The Daily in November that renovations are expected to be completed in Fall Quarter 2020.

Brown-Henderson said in her email that the renovation committee has engaged in conversation with Facilities Management to help identify an appropriate space. In deciding the temporary space, there are several considerations the University has to take into account, including square footage, physical location, building codes and structurally sound spaces, she said.

Once the committee determines available options,

she said, the committee will engage with students in determining the location.

“I’m working with my team to determine some of the space specifications that will be necessary for the temporary location to meet the needs of our students and overall operation in the interim,” Brown- Henderson said.

While Evans said she understands there is not that much free space on campus, she said she still wants a house, or as close to a house as possible. Though the space will be not be the same as the Black House, she said she wants it to have the same “feeling.”

Similar to Evans, Christian Wade, a Weinberg first-year, said he wants a space that feels like home.

While he’s heard some members of the NU community suggest using the Donald P. Jacobs Center or other buildings for the temporary space, Wade said he would prefer the location to be in a house.

“A lot of black students want a place where they can get away from the, for lack of a better term, whiteness of everything,” said Wade. “That space is like a home.”

just isn’t great for integrating the whole community together. It’s better to have one central location just so everybody knows where to go instead of just having multiple locations because we have Plex and Parkes.”

The resolution notes that many peer institutions, such as Brown University and the University of Pennsylvania, have already constructed expansive FGLI student centers. The University of California, Berkeley opened its Basic Needs Center on

Monday.

Northwestern has already demonstrated commitment to FGLI students by meeting its “20 by 2020” pledge, which seeks to increase the percentage of accepted students who are Pell Grant eligible to 20 percent, two years early. But the University still has a long way to go to increase inclusivity, said Weinberg senator Noah Scantlebury.

“Whenever you promote first-generation, lowincome legislation, the first thing in mind is that

access to resources is very limited for students of color across the country,” Scantlebury said. “This was the first step to ensuring that access to resources was increased for the long term or at least allowed for organizations like Quest (and) Posse as well as a bunch of other organizations to really get the resources that they need to reach out to as many students as possible.”

candidate’s support for local, neighborhood public schools and her emphasis on “development without displacement,” bringing economic growth without gentrification. She also said Hadden promised a higher level of transparency and distinguished herself from the stereotype of Chicago politics.

Finally, Buchanan said Hadden will bring a refreshing perspective to the 49th Ward and City Council as a gay black woman.

“Maria is really good at drawing people together to work together to think about challenging the

reputation that Chicago politicians have,” Buchanan said. “Maria is a politician who’s been entering this race to challenge that.”

In her role helping Northwestern students engage with Chicago, Buchanan said now is a great time to get involved. She highlighted the Neighbor2Neighbor program, which connects students with Rogers Park community organizations for service and learning opportunities.

Buchanan said the border between Evanston and Chicago is not a hard line with people moving back

and forth to live and work. The election on the south side of Howard Street impacts Northwestern and Evanston as well.

“Being involved and connected to our closest Chicago neighbor would be really important for Northwestern students to consider,” Buchanan said.

“Chicago politics, Chicago economics, Chicago social concerns affect Evanstonians as well.”

$48.5 million.

However, since the contract was approved, the cost estimate increased by $4.5 million. This was due in part to a $500,000 increase in steel prices, a $1.5 million construction contingency and an ordinance requiring $400,000 worth of public art at the building, Giangreco said.

In addition, Tinucci said developers discovered the poor soil at the site, requiring a foundation system which will further increase the cost of the project. He emphasized that lead contamination is not the issue, despite resident misconceptions.

The project now totals more than $53 million.

“The building is built on an extremely challenging site,” Tinucci said. “A lot of the cost of the building you don’t even see or acknowledge.”

“Nothing has changed for taxpayers,” Giangreco said.

To date, the group has raised about $12.1 million. Giangreco said $5.4 million of that money is secure in the bank and the remaining $6.7 million has been pledged through letters of intent. Giangreco emphasized that he is confident donors will honor their pledges and said money from pledges is coming in faster than expected.

To meet the $15 million goal, Giangreco said Friends of Robert Crown is committed to raising the $2.9 million left through ongoing fundraising.

On the Friends of Robert Crown website, the group refers to the City of Evanston as a “partner.”

But no memorandum of understanding — an official documentation of the partnership — is in place, Evanston resident Clare Kelly said.

Kelly said any city partnership needs a signed contract, especially concerning such a large sum of taxpayer money. She said she has made a Freedom of Information Act request for a memorandum, but her request was denied.

Kelly described breaking ground on the project without a memorandum as “gross negligence.”

Is the opposition too late?

Wilson said the opposition group is coming in late.

At the February 2018 meeting, 18-year-old Zoe Lydon was the only resident to comment about construction for a new Robert Crown Community Engagement Center.

Then a senior in high school, Lydon played for the Evanston Township High School girls’ ice hockey team, and she said expanding Robert Crown could offer girls at ETHS a chance to participate more in sports.

“Our team is only a few years old and we need all the help we can get to continue building it up,” Lyons said at the meeting.

Wilson emphasized that local news outlets reported on the price changes throughout the planning process.

Since January 2016, the city has held 31 public meetings, and seven of these meetings were designated for residents comments and concerns.

“Contrary to a small number of people who were coming into it late in the game, this really has been a community-led effort,” Wilson said. “This is going to be a great facility….not just for any one given group, (but) for everybody.”

The city’s partnership with Friends of Robert Crown Friends of Robert Crown, a non-profit citizen group, committed to fundraising $10 million for the project. Giangreco said the group raised the $10 million by October 2017 to relieve the city’s debt payments and agreed to raise an additional $5 million to offset new costs, he said.

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efficient bigs in the country. But despite being two inches taller than his teammate, Benson has a more difficult time powering through post defenders and putting up a smooth hook shot.

Benson has also been inconsistent on putback attempts, shooting only 50 percent on those lightly contested layups following an offensive rebound.

“He’s not shooting the percentage that he would like or I would like or our team would like,” James said. “It’s all about confidence, getting reps, getting his game back.”

But NU trying to play a copycat small ball style wasn’t working either. The Cats don’t have the shooters to accomplish that, but they are one of the few teams in the Big Ten that has two traditional post players. Enter Benson. Looking forward to Thursday’s game against Minnesota, James said he envisions a Benson-Pardon starting front court to match up with the Golden Gophers’ Jordan Murphy and Daniel Oturu.

Murphy scores 14.9 points per game and is one of the best offensive rebounders in the country, while Oturu is an elite shot blocker and excellent dunker. Pardon will likely start defending Murphy, and Benson will take the 6-foot-10 Oturu.

Whether the Cats will be able to crack 60 points on Thursday with this lineup remains to be seen, but James said it gives the team the look it’s going to need.

“Even though we may not be as fluid offensively (with Benson at the four), we at times are better defensively when he’s in,” James said. “You have to find that balance. If you get stops, then we get run outs in transition.”

Since this experiment started, James said he’s analyzed NU’s lineup data, comparing how the team looks with Benson at the four with how it looks playing a more conventional lineup.

Over the last five games, the Benson-Pardon lineup is the Cats’ most used frontcourt, but playing them together hasn’t helped the team’s offense on paper. James said there are other factors than point differential that he analyzes, including the shooting efficiency and shot quality of both teams.

That data gives the coaches more confidence playing two bigs together, despite the offense continuing to struggle.

At the end of the season, NU will lose its three

leading scorers in senior forward Vic Law, graduate guard Ryan Taylor and Pardon. So the lastplace team in the Big Ten will have to replace its most dynamic playmaker off the dribble, its most aggressive perimeter shooter and the post player the team centers its offense around.

That leaves two choices for the coaching staff.

They could plug Benson into Pardon’s center spot next season and roll with the experienced big. Or the Cats, who’ll be an extremely young team in 2019-20, could make a 180-degree turn.

Looking at the team’s projected rotation next season, NU’s most talented players will be sophomore guard Anthony Gaines, freshmen forwards Pete Nance and Kopp and incoming freshmen Robbie Beran, a sweet-shooting forward ranked No. 80 in his class by 247Sports. While all four of them are capable perimeter shooters, that core features no point guard or traditional center. You can only start five players, so the lineup can’t have both a lead ball handler and a rim protector.

Next season, Collins will have to answer a fundamental question about how he wants to play — specifically whether he’d prefer spacing and shooting or defensive rebounding and rim protection.

If, for the sake of player development, Collins decides to start those four guys, that leaves one spot left in the starting lineup. He could choose Benson and run an offense similar to the fouraround-one motion offense he used at the start of the season. Or he could scrap that.

A lineup featuring Nance and Beran at the four and the five is almost certain to have a difficult time defensively, as neither of them are strong enough yet to defend traditional post scorers or keep the best rebounders off the glass. But Nance and Beran can spread the floor and handle the ball better than any other forward Collins has recruited, opening a world of possibilities if the skilled forwards play together.

Also, redshirt Ryan Young and incoming freshman Jared Jones offer more explosiveness than Benson at the center position and could gain significant minutes as well.

If Benson’s post attempts start falling down the stretch of this season, and if he shows signs of becoming a more complete post player, Benson could become a major part of NU’s plans for next season. He has four regular season games remaining, and with this starting role he has the opportunity to begin reshaping the

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Barret Benson looks to pass. The junior center has started five games this year.

narrative that he can be a part of a high-octane offense.

But even though he’s a starter now, Benson’s role remains in flux. The Cats go away from Benson when they face high octane teams that feature a perimeter shooter at the four.

Saturday against Wisconsin, Benson played just three minutes despite the Badgers starting a 6-foot-11 forward, Nate Reuvers, since Reuvers rarely posts up or crashes the glass.

Starting a smaller lineup featuring Kopp at the

four, NU had 1.02 points per possession, which was its third-highest figure in Big Ten play all year.

If the Cats commit to playing that uptempo style full-time next season, it remains to be seen how Benson would fit into the rotation.

Benson himself has no clue what to expect.

“I don’t know if I’ll start next year,” he said.

“We’ll see what happens.” charliegoldsmith2021@u.northwestern.edu

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The junior big man’s development is a major 2019 subplot

By CHARLIE GOLDSMITH

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Nearly four years ago, back when the old Welsh-Ryan Arena was still kicking and before he started growing his signature afro, Barret Benson had to try to coexist.

The 6-foot-10 center, ranked No. 79 in his high school class, was invited to an NBA Players Association Top 100 camp. When he got there, Benson realized he’d be playing with internet sensation Thon Maker, a 7-foot-1 big from South Sudan whose highlight reel reached over one million views on YouTube.

Maker could post-up, face-up and knock down threes. In his YouTube reel, he resembled a taller Kevin Durant, and Maker was drafted No. 10 in the 2016 NBA Draft without playing a game of college ball, a selection based solely off his potential.

Benson was highly accomplished in his own right, ranked by ESPN as the No. 3 player in Illinois and the No. 22 center in his class. But he was no Thon Maker. So at the camp, coached

by Garrett Temple of the Los Angeles Clippers, Benson played out of position on a team that also featured a guard (Michigan’s Zavier Simpson) and a forward (Michigan State’s Xavier Tillman)

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who can’t shoot the three-ball much better than Benson can.

“Most of the time, we just gave it to Thon, of course,” Benson told The Daily.

“It was just like give it to him and let him go to work with his faceup, post game, anything.”

Benson struggled in a role that sounds identical to the one he has as a junior at Northwestern (12-15, 3-13 Big Ten).

Benson has been in and out of the starting lineup over the last few weeks.

Either he shares the floor with senior center Dererk Pardon, a commanding force like Maker in the lane, or Benson gets spot minutes when the 13.7 point per game scorer needs a breather.

Despite the Wildcats having an offense that’s been worse than their defense, coach Chris Collins said he made a defense-first move in starting Benson and Pardon together against Rutgers on Jan. 18. After a brief hiatus, they’ve started together 4 of the last 6 games, and in the contests Benson has started, NU averages just 59.8 points per game.

Benson said he thinks those lineups have had success because they present unique mismatches to both small teams and big teams.

“With two options in the post now, they’re going to have to guard both of us,” Benson said. “And do it with someone smaller. For smaller teams, we pack

it in. And then of course we match up with other two-big teams really well.”

When Collins and assistant coach Brian James decided to give Benson a shot with the starters, they realized they would have to remodel parts of the playbook. It was hard enough finding open shots when the starting lineup featured two consistent perimeter shooters. But in some matchups, the team needed Benson’s rebounding and energy more than it wanted freshman forward Miller Kopp’s perimeter shooting. So they went to the drawing board to design an offense for a starting lineup that would now include just one deep threat.

“We have more plays in our playbook the other way, but we’ve done some good things with our double big lineup,” James told The Daily. “We’re probably right now just not as fluid offensively as we are doing the other just because we have more experience playing two smaller forwards and a center.”

James acknowledged that Benson hasn’t been the consistent offensive player he was in high school in his first three seasons in Evanston. Benson averages 2.3 points on 37.5 percent shooting as a junior, and he shoots just 52.9 percent at the rim.

Benson practices several of the same moves as Pardon, one of the most » See BENSON, page 7

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The season has only been running for three weeks, but it’s already clear that the core of Northwestern’s offensive production will come from two players with the same last name.

Senior shortstop Jack Dunn and freshman outfielder David Dunn have held their own in the lineup through the first seven games. Jack is batting .414 in the leadoff spot, and his brother David leads the Big Ten with a .478 batting average and a .538 on-base percentage.

Heading into a weekend series against Georgia Tech (5-3), the Wildcats (3-4) are averaging 4.9 runs per game and have shown the ability to win a ballgame behind the plate. And so far the Dunn brothers have been leading the team to that success at the plate.

“I think that’s my family’s dream,” Jack said. “(It) has been the dream all along for us to get on the same team and win and play well and play with each other.”

After redshirting last season following an injury early in the year, David is poised to have continued success in 2019. Before getting hurt last year, he started all ten games he played, batted a .324 average and had five RBIs. For NU, he said he’s had success attacking fastballs to get on base consistently. Following three starts against Duke in a 2-1 series loss last weekend, David said he’s growing more confident in his play.

“Last year, being injured, was the first time I have ever not been on a baseball field,” David said. “You have to learn how to deal with that

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stress. Honestly, it made me look forward to this season even more.”

Over Jack’s four years, he’s started every game so far for the Cats and has developed into a consistent leadoff hitter. He has a .273 career batting average with 25 doubles and 109 runs scored. Dunn was named to the Third Team AllBig Ten last season, which also included a 14-game hitting streak.

He’s occupied the leadoff spot so far this year, and Jack said it’s the ideal spot to take advantage of his approach at the plate.

“I have just been put there since my freshman year,” he said. “When I am going well I am seeing a lot of pitches and helping the guys behind me figure out what the pitcher’s got. And hopefully I can get on base and steals some bags and create havoc on the basepaths.”

The Dunns will be playing in their home state this weekend against the Yellow Jackets. Georgia Tech lost two of three games last weekend at home against UCLA, but the team is projected to finish near the top of the ACC this season.

To win the team’s first series of the season, coach Spencer Allen said he hopes to see an improved approach at the plate.

“For the most part, I’d like to be a little bit better situationally, but guys did a really good job, we got some two-out hits, so happy with the progression especially against the type of arms we faced.” charliegoldsmith2021@u.northwestern.edu

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“Our plan works.”

That’s what coach Pat Fitzgerald called his biggest takeaway from the 2018 season, one in which Northwestern went nearly perfect in conference play, advanced to the Big Ten Championship Game and took home its third straight postseason trophy with a 31-20 win over Utah in the Holiday Bowl.

“What we do and how we do things works to a championship level,” Fitzgerald said. “And now to become consistently at that level, what it’s going to take to consistently do the things to get there is now the challenge.”

Just over two months since the final whistle blew that rainy night in San Diego, the Wildcats opened spring practice on Tuesday at Ryan Fieldhouse. The Daily was there to hear from Fitzgerald, senior defensive lineman Joe Gaziano and redshirt sophomore quarterback Hunter Johnson as the preparations for the 2019 season began.

Spring practice injury report

Ten players were listed as injured for the start of spring ball: offensive players Ramaud Chiaokhiao-Bowman, Bennett Skowronek, Jace James, Trey Pugh and Charlie Kuhbander, and defensive players Cam Ruiz, Alex Miller, Paddy Fisher, Blake Gallagher and J.R. Pace.

Of those ten, five are out for the entire spring: Pugh, a junior superback; Fisher, a junior linebacker; Gallagher, a junior linebacker; Pace, a junior safety; and Kuhbander, a junior kicker.

Superback Cameron Green announced his retirement from football Monday, citing a family history of concussions and head injuries.

Spring football consists of 15 practices, nearly half of which are live-contact, and runs through the second week of April.

Higher expectations

Coming off of its first trip to Indianapolis

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Northwestern’s defense faces off in the Big Ten Championship game. The Wildcats will return several starters this season.

for the Big Ten Championship game, NU has certainly set the standard for the program’s expectations. The class of 2019 led the Cats to a program-record 36 wins over the last four seasons.

“We raised the bar last year, and credit to the seniors who helped us get there,” Gaziano said. “At the end of the day, it’s still fundamentals and still getting in the weight room and grinding every day, so the process hasn’t exactly changed. But I think the broad scope at how we look at things has changed slightly.”

Along with captains Clayton Thorson, Montre Hartage and Tommy Doles, NU has lost an additional eight starters. The Cats will now have to figure out how to fill the holes and play up to the standards of the past four years.

The Hunter Johnson era begins

When the Cats kick off against Stanford on Aug. 31, it’ll be the first time in five seasons that Thorson — NU’s all-time winningest quarterback — won’t be on the sideline wearing purple and white. Thorson

left his mark on the program, and now it’s time for someone new to take the reins.

Many fans believe that job will fall into the hands of Johnson, a highly-touted transfer. Johnson was ranked the No. 1 quarterback in the class of 2017, according to ESPN, and spent the entire 2018 season running the scout team and watching from the sideline.

“All the guys really looked up to him and respected him. He was here for a long time and he earned that,” Johnson said about Thorson. “Just earning that type of respect to getting to that point and onward, it takes time, and he was a perfect example of that.”

However, Fitzgerald said every quarterback will get an opportunity to compete for the job.

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