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However, mention of G4S’ involvement in Palestine and human rights violations in the resolution made some students uncomfortable with the resolution even though they supported divestment from private prisons, said Ross Krasner, a residential senator and co-president of Wildcats for Israel.

Krasner, who said he abstained, said he met with other members of Wildcats for Israel throughout this week and did not feel comfortable with the ties between NU Divest and Unshackle NU. “It was the toughest decision I’ve made since being president of Wildcats for Israel or being an ASG senator,” the Medill sophomore told The Daily. “The message I want to send to pro-Israel students is that you can support prison divestment and support Israel’s right to exist but I don’t think that this was

A discussion with film director Spike Lee sparked conversation about the satire in his latest film, “Chi-Raq,” and incited controversy among the sold-out crowd in Cahn Auditorium on Wednesday night.

The event, hosted by the Contemporary Thought Speaker Series, the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Political Science, began with a screening of the movie, a modernday adaptation of the ancient Greek play “Lysistrata” that satirizes and illustrates gun violence in Chicago. A talk with Lee and two former Chicago gang members who played minor roles followed. Lee, a two-time Oscar Award nominee who has gained fame as a producer and director of politically charged films, spoke to the audience of nearly 1,000 about the issues in South and West Side Chicago neighborhoods that were portrayed in the movie.

But during the following Q&A, several audience members criticized the film for belittling and oversexualizing women, mocking the serious topic with frequent humor and portraying Chicago in an overly negative light.

“Chi-Raq” features Nick Cannon as a misguided gang leader and Teyonah Parris as the leader of a sex strike, in which she recruits the entire female population to practice abstinence until inter-gang violence ends.

Lee said he decided to make the movie to bring attention to gun violence in the city, which has cost more lives than the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan combined during the same time frame — inspiring the name for the movie. Calling Chicago “ground zero” for gun violence, Lee said

» See RESOLUTION, page 8

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Proposed ‘10-5-5-10’ change stalls with lack of faculty support Sophie Mann/Daily Senior Staffer

By BENJAMIN DIN

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Faculty members are overwhelmingly against the proposed “10-5-5-10” calendar change, Faculty Senate president Ed Hughes said, slowing the progress of potential changes to the quarter system.

At Wednesday’s meeting of the Faculty Senate, the Kellogg professor said 15 departments had submitted reports related to the recommendations made in the January findings of the 2015 Faculty Task Force on the Undergraduate Academic Experience. The reports were an “unequivocal rejection” of the proposed academic calendar, he said.

In a Friday meeting with University President Morton Schapiro, Hughes said Schapiro promised the Senate Executive Committee he would not go against faculty members’ wishes, effectively putting a halt to the calendar change recommendation.

“The president issued a very significant statement: ‘We won’t do anything against the will of the faculty,’” Hughes said of the meeting. “This is a major, major breakthrough.”

Hughes said prior to meeting with Schapiro, it seemed as if the calendar change was the direction the University was headed in. However, things have now changed with the faculty’s widespread displeasure with the recommendation, something he said Schapiro acknowledged in a separate staff meeting.

University spokespeople did not immediately respond to requests for comment after the meeting.

Religious studies Prof. Laurie Zoloth, the Senate vice president and the Senate representative to the task force, said feedback from faculty has caused her to change her mind about certain proposals the task force put forth.

“I have to say it’s a very humbling experience to have such great ideas and then find out they’re wrong,” she said. “We made some mistakes. We hadn’t thought through some of our exciting ideas, and they’re more exciting than they are practical.”

The faculty discussed potential alternatives to the calendar change, including extending lectures by 10 minutes, which would increase instruction time and shorten the length of a quarter.

Preliminary survey data presented at the meeting indicated faculty were not interested in teaching a five-week course, a sentiment Spanish and Portuguese Prof.

Heather Colburn echoed to The Daily. Colburn, who teaches only undergraduates, said her department has had a variety of concerns with the calendar change, but » See QUARTER SYSTEM, page 8

DIVESTMENT DEBATED SESP freshman Sky Patterson speaks Wednesday night at Associated Student Government Senate in support of Unshackle NU’s resolution. The resolution passed 28-5.

Unshackle resolution passes Senate supports private prison divestment

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A resolution presented by Unshackle NU supporting divestment from companies it said support mass incarceration passed 28-5 with 8 abstentions in Associated Student Government Senate on Wednesday.

The vote, recorded by secret ballot, came after more than an hour of debate over proposed amendments to certain provisions of the resolution.

The resolution called on the University to divest from specific companies the resolution’s authors said promote mass incarceration and the oppression of people of color, such as G4S, one of the world’s largest security companies. The University currently has less than $1 million invested in G4S, William McLean,

Northwestern’s chief investment officer, told The Daily in a January email.

“You claim to be the voice of the student body,” said Weinberg junior Marcel Hanna when addressing Senate before the vote. “We’ve had a campaign, we’ve had support for that campaign, so it’s your job to amplify those voices.”

The secret ballot, used when proposed representation reform failed Feb. 17 and when Northwestern Divest narrowly passed a divestment resolution last year, did not enforce accountability, some senators said.

“At the end of the day, abstaining isn’t being neutral,” Yusuf Kudaimi, senator for the Muslim-cultural Student Association and Persian American Representatives of Students, told The Daily. “If you’re abstaining, you’re basically saying there’s nothing that needs to be done about this very obvious problem of mass incarceration.”

Landlords oppose new, revised ordinances

By ROBIN OPSAHL

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While city officials try to increase accountability and decrease crime in Evanston housing through two new ordinances presented to City Council, local landlords said the measures unfairly punish landowners for the crimes of their tenants.

On Feb. 22, city staff introduced the Neighborhood Integrity Ordinance and amendments to the Rental Licensing Ordinance to Council. The Neighborhood Integrity Ordinance is meant to provide property owners a method to prevent and deal with violent crimes and nuisances in their buildings. Amendments to the Rental Licensing Ordinance create a citywide grading system for rental properties into two tiers.

Tier I properties satisfy all rental property requirements and have reduced licensing fees. Tier II properties, however, are those in violation of requirements.

They are subject to yearly inspections and

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increased fees, and landlords must take a Neighborhood Integrity and Community Responsiveness Training course.

Ald. Ann Rainey (8th) hosted an event Wednesday night at the former Evanston Police Department Outpost, 633 Howard St., where landlords in the 8th Ward and beyond discussed the ordinances. More than 35 landlords and community members attended the meeting, led by Rainey and two other city officials. Rainey said she is “not on board” with the ordinances, and wanted to hear from local landlords on how to effectively address community problems.

“Certain alderman have pushed the Neighborhood Integrity Ordinance, but I’m just not sure this is the right answer,” Rainey said. “I couldn’t imagine how we would administer it and enforce it.”

Much of the discussion centered on criticisms of the tiered system introduced in the Residential Licensing Ordinance revisions. Landlords feared if their buildings were in or near those classified as Tier II, property values would permanently suffer. Because the properties are sorted based on inspection, landowners

also feared they would have to pay increased fees and be forever labeled as a “bad landlord” that attracts more bad tenants.

“I can understand why people would think a Tier II begets Tier II tenants,” Rainey said.

However, it is important to keep in mind that landlord accountability is a pivotal piece in larger affordable housing narratives, said Jes Scheinpflug, director of communications for Open Communities. She said issues of property maintenance and inconsistent housing costs were big issues for poorer tenants in Evanston rental units.

“These issues are present in rental properties throughout the North Shore, but it’s important to understand how these issues are different for people where rent makes up a bigger part of their income,” Scheinpflug told The Daily last week. “The (new Evanston) initiatives are another step to make housing more accessible in the city.”

Landowners at the 8th Ward meeting » See LANDLORDS, page 8

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LOTS OF DISPUTES Ald. Ann Rainey (8th) attends a City Council meeting.

Rainey and two other city officials hosted a meeting discussing two ordinances that were introduced about problems in Evanston rental housing.

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THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 2016

Around Town Thrift store reopens after renovations

Police Blotter Evanston woman reports attempted burglary

An Evanston resident reported Tuesday an attempted burglary to her apartment in the 1200 block of Elmwood Avenue, police said.

The 34-year-old woman told police around noon she had noticed Monday that a trash can outside her unit had been moved under her window and the screen had been pushed up, Polinski said.

The window was locked so the attempted burglar could not enter, he said.

There are currently no suspects, Polinski added.

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POPPIN’ TAGS Thrift House, a Junior League of Evanston-North Shore program, recently reopened after undergoing renovations. The thrift store has been around Evanston for more than 75 years. houseware.

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Ever since its beginnings in 1940, Thrift House, a Junior League of Evanston-North Shore program, has served as a low-cost thrift store serving the community’s women and children.

The business has been at three different locations throughout Evanston over its 75 year lifespan. Its current location, 920 Chicago Ave., where it has been since the 1980s, recently underwent “extensive” renovations, said Rebecca Garces, chair of the Thrift House’s ad hoc renovations committee and past Junior League president.

Junior League President Anna Pappas said after a period of five weeks these changes were unveiled at a ribbon cutting ceremony Feb. 26 attended by Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl. The local non-profit thrift store celebrated its official reopening to the public Feb. 27.

“Now it’s very welcoming,” said Thrift House committee member Mare Fitch. “It has a warm feel when

you walk in. It gives the community an elegant place to shop, but it’s not real expensive like an elegant place would be.”

The Thrift House sells low-cost clothing, books and houseware, with 100 percent of the profits going back to the community through grants, scholarships and other charity programs, such as a partnership with Mary Lou’s Place, a domestic violence shelter in Evanston Pappas said. Programs like these have marked the Winnetka-based Junior League of Evanston-North Shore as an organization that has helped women and children in the community since its creation in 1924, she said.

Sara Ridder, the Junior League’s Thrift House chair, said in the five-week span, the space’s transformation surpassed her expectations. Without these renovations to revitalize the shop, the Thrift House might have had to consider closing its doors altogether, she said.

With synthetic wood floors replacing the old carpeting, new shelving and lighting, a reconfigured store layout and renovated dressing rooms, the shop is hardly recognizable, Garces said.

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Pappas said these renovations hold a two-fold objective: to attract volunteers and to attract shoppers.

“I think it’s going to strongly re-engage our own members by creating a visually appealing place for them to want to come and donate their time to,” Pappas said. “Secondly, we’re hoping it reinvigorates our commitment to the Evanston community and brings a lot more people who didn’t find it an appealing place to shop at before giving us a second chance.”

The space is now set up to give it a “homey” atmosphere divided into sections like “Her Closet,” “Her Shoe Closet” and “The Great Room.” One goal of such a redesign was to create a more welcoming environment and counter the negative preconceived idea of a thrift shop, Garces said.

“One of the drivers of upgrading the space was to make sure those women have a nice place to come to get merchandise to help restart their lives,” Garces said. “We wanted it to be a place where they could relax. Just because you go into a thrift store doesn’t mean it has to feel like a thrift store.”

Setting the record straight A headline in Wednesday’s print incorrectly characterized police shootings.

Three men remembered at the vigil were killed by an unknown shooter, while a teenager also honored at the event was injured in a police shooting in Utah.

An article in Monday’s print edition titled “Admins look to add inclusive food options” misstated who was involved in the creation of the kosher station. The station was the result of collaboration between various campus partners and Northwestern dining.

In the Feb. 10 edition of the paper, a Letter to the Editor misstated Karl Eikenberry’s position at the Hoover Institute.

He is a member of the institution.

The Daily regrets the errors.

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Climate change goes far beyond planetary science, said author Naomi Klein at an event hosted by the Buffett Institute for Global Studies on Wednesday night.

“Capitalism vs. The Climate,” co-sponsored by NU Community on Human Rights and the Institute for Sustainability and Energy at NU, was the second talk of a three-part series on human rights hosted by the Buffett Institute. Klein, who authored “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate,” discussed climate change and the forces working to both address and profit from it. During the talk, Klein commended efforts both at NU and in the Chicago area in addressing climate change. Nearly 600 people attended the event in Leverone Hall, which was followed by a Q&A with the audience.

Klein, who was in Paris during the 2015 Paris Climate Change Conference, began by discussing the efficacy of its resolutions. Though the conference outlined goals necessary for the planet’s survival, Klein said, the conference did not provide ways to reach those goals.

“It was a diplomatic breakthrough seen from its own logic, and it is simultaneously an ecological disaster,” Klein said. “And that’s the moment we find ourselves that we’ve waited for so long and procrastinated for long, that we can actually see some pretty bold action from our politicians and it still be wholly inadequate from a scientific perspective.”

Neoliberal capitalism — the variety of free market capitalism popularized in the 1980s that promotes deregulation, privatization and low taxes — now allows private corporations to benefit from natural catastrophe, Klein said.

Following Hurricane Katrina, for example, private investors used the destruction to close public housing and 90 percent of public schools and replace them with residential developments and private schools, she said, disproportionately affecting black residents of the city.

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CHANGING CLIMATE Author Naomi Klein talks about capitalism’s connection to climate change at an event hosted by the Buffett Institute.

“It’s become a little trendy on colleges to speak about intersectional politics,” Klein said. “I really want to speak up about intersectional politics here. We have to get out of our silos and see how climate change, racism, economic inequality, mass incarceration, austerity are all interconnected and how the road we’re on leads to the deepening of all of these crises.”

Some people are working to address these problems. Klein commended Fossil Free NU for its campaign to encourage the University to divest from fossil fuels. She called on the audience to discuss solutions to climate change that are socially responsible.

“Don’t take no for an answer,” Klein said. “We are right up against the deadline, and half measures are not good enough.”

Bringing Klein to NU so soon after the Paris Climate Change Conference was timely in creating dialogue on climate change, said political science Prof.

Brian Hanson, director of programs, research and

strategic planning at the Buffett Institute.

“One of our missions is to promote discussion on important issues of the day and it’s hard to imagine one more than climate,” Hanson said. “People may agree or disagree with Naomi Klein and her position, (but) what I hope people do is talk to one another about this issue and how it affects their lives, our world and what they might want to do in order to address the issue.”

Weinberg junior Alex Kirschner, who is involved in Fossil Free NU, said he appreciated Klein’s message of socially responsible change.

“Climate shouldn’t just be about action on climate change but on justice in general,” Kirschner said. “We’re going to switch away from fossil fuels eventually, but if it’s not just, then we won’t create the world we want to create.” matthewchoi2018@u.northwestern.edu

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Sororities should be granted greater social leniency ALANA FARKAS

DAILY COLUMNIST

Of the many issues about sexism in Greek life, one is paramount: Fraternities are granted much more leniency around alcohol regulation.

Being a member of a sorority is a piece of my identity I hold with pride. Yet, a degrading issue I and other women continue to face is the male social supremacy in Greek life.

Equal leniency around social events should be granted to sororities and fraternities in order to reduce power imbalance in Greek life.

In 1998, the National Panhellenic Conference, which oversees 26 sororities, declared that sororities are not permitted to organize planned parties with fraternities where alcohol is present. Northwestern’s Panhellenic Association strictly abides by these rules.

“Fraternities are (also) supposed to be dry,” Interfraternity Council president Will Altabef

said.

Therefore, both fraternity and sorority houses should be completely dry. But here is where the inequality comes in.

“Sororities have a live-in house director, or a house mom, whereas only one fraternity (on campus) has that,” Altabef said.

Although sororities are under constant

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Not only does greater leniency for fraternities give men the upper hand, it may also cause women to behave in ways in which they are uncomfortable.

surveillance of alcohol inside the house, most fraternities are not. Altabef added that IFC’s surveillance works differently.

“As a member of IFC doing rounds at night, if I can’t see alcohol or any clear signs of a social function that’s not registered, I’m not

allowed to go into someone else’s residence,” Altabef said.

This IFC regulation protects fraternities from alcohol surveillance unless there is probable cause to think drinking is occurring inside the house. Most fraternities host parties with sororities, and as long as drinking is not evident and no public disturbances are being made, the party will not be investigated. This stricter rule enforcement decreases sororities’ ability to host equal parties to fraternities in terms of alcohol availability.

Social inequality like this creates power imbalance among men and women.

Not only does greater leniency for fraternities give men the upper hand, it may also cause women to behave in ways in which they are uncomfortable. Women may feel obligated to impress fraternity brothers so their sororities continue to receive invitations to fraternity mixers. In an environment where students are drunk and men have more power, students are also much more vulnerable to sexual violence.

According to a 2007 study by the Department of Justice, women who attended fraternity parties were significantly more likely to be

sexually assaulted. Another study conducted in 2014 by the University of Oregon indicated that women in Greek life experienced nonconsensual sexual violence more frequently than women unaffiliated with Greek life.

IFC and PHA should coordinate a system of equal rules surrounding social events. Perhaps if more leniency was granted to sororities, women would be more likely to throw their own parties instead of attending fraternity mixers. This would, in turn, help improve women’s safety against sexual violence.

Gender inequality and sexual assault continue to be significant issues across the country.

Changing unfair systems on college campuses is the first step to eventually granting full equality and power to women and men.

Alana Farkas is a Weinberg freshman. She can be contacted at alanafarkas2019@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.

The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.

Yik Yak reflects issues with censorship, bigotry at NU DANNY COOPER

DAILY COLUMNIST

At least 10 times throughout my day, I scroll through Yik Yak, which is largely a stream of innocuous comments and complaints about school and life in general. Amid posts about the broken doors at the Technological Institute and roommate complaints, however, I will come across a post about race, sex, gender or any similar topic, which can quickly turn controversial.

Nothing good comes from these conversations. They are just left to rot in cyberspace, a fading relic of the intolerance that exists, often silently, on our seemingly welcoming campus. The back-and-forth responses are typically impassioned, but never is anything learned from them.

Though the contents and sentiments behind these posts vary from misguided to malicious, there is one constant: It would be difficult to find such a conversation occurring in real life at Northwestern.

In the past, perhaps these debates could have been played out in lecture halls and discussion sections, giving people the opportunity to see varied perspectives on an argument and hopefully learn something from it.

However, the strong pressure to completely self-censor one’s ideas at NU plays a significant role in stifling these conversations and forcing them behind the anonymous veil of Yik Yak, where open-mindedness and learning usually takes a backseat to name-calling and bigotry.

This isn’t an issue specific to our school, but NU has been criticized recently for restricting speech. NU was recently named one of the 10 worst schools in the nation for free speech by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education due to the Title

IX investigation into Communication Prof.

Laura Kipnis and allegations of censorship of Atrium, a magazine edited by Feinberg School of Medicine faculty.

In response to the ranking, NU referred to a statement made in June 2015 by University President Morton Schapiro and Provost Dan Linzer on academic freedom, which cited NU’s dedication to “vigorous inquiry and robust debate.” I don’t doubt this dedication is real and important to University administration.

I also agree with Schapiro’s statement in a January op-ed for the Washington Post, that “students don’t fully embrace uncomfortable learning unless they are themselves comfortable.” I’m not suggesting students feel uncomfortable in what should be a safe learning environment.

However, I do think uncomfortable conversations are occasionally worthwhile.

When people feel unable to voice unpopular opinions, those opinions end up expressed

negatively through an outlet like Yik Yak, in an environment where little learning takes place.

People shouldn’t be as cruel as they are on Yik Yak. Hearing such terrible things in person would be devastating for anyone targeted, and it’s likely most of the nasty comments posted online would never be said face-to-face.

But if these conversations are occurring, we should at least try as a community to hold them in a more productive, sensitive manner.

Driving intolerance further underground has dangerous consequences, and this is reflected in the sea of bigotry that is NU’s Yik Yak. Danny Cooper is a Medill freshman. He can be contacted at danielcooper2019@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.

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We must be open to the possibility of changing beliefs JOSEPH LAMPS

DAILY COLUMNIST

Irrational beliefs cause a great deal of harm. Unfortunately, many of us are reluctant to change our minds on important issues. This tendency results in many of humanity’s problems.

Each of us has a set of beliefs: social, political, personal and religious. For many, these beliefs would be different if we belonged to a different race, religion, nationality or economic background. Each person’s life experience is unique, so if people base their beliefs solely on their own circumstances, they will rarely agree.

This dissonance is best alleviated when people go out of their way to hold rational beliefs which stand up to scrutiny in light of

other perspectives.

Eliminating irrational beliefs by being open to changing our minds would eliminate unbridgeable differences. It would soothe petty disagreement, selfishness, conflicts and oppression.

I find it important to subject my beliefs to harsh scrutiny in order to counteract my own inherent biases.

A few weeks ago, I learned my belief that eating large amounts before swimming causes leg cramps was false. About a month ago, my view on TSA racial profiling in airports changed during a 30-minute conversation: My belief that profiling was acceptable to reduce terrorism was demonstrated to rest on faulty thinking and a misunderstanding of facts.

Harmful beliefs, in turn, lead to harmful political and societal consequences; I would have supported harmful policies when I held a harmful belief about profiling.

Many of our current practices as a society

are harmful and based on falsehoods. A look into the past uncovers unending amounts of harm which could have been prevented by elimination of harmful beliefs: oppression of minorities and women, unjust wars and more.

It is inconceivable that our modern society has transcended irrational thinking. Objective thinking exposes many modern injustices just as abhorrent as those of the past.

One reason we don’t always think objectively is because it is difficult. It takes time and energy to think clearly about hard issues, and doing so can be uncomfortable. Most people are too busy with their lives to be searching for harmful beliefs they hold.

However, because irrational thinking is harmful, it is imperative people make an effort to analyze their views.

It is also embarrassing to change one’s mind. Holding firm to one’s beliefs is viewed as strong. This is a snag our society needs to transcend: Social acceptance of frequent

changes of mind on large issues would undoubtedly prompt more people to change their minds with evidence, and normalizing changing minds would help ease cognitive dissonance.

I challenge you to think about whether you have changed your mind on any important topics recently. If you have not, I suspect you are doing less than you could to weed out false and harmful beliefs.

Failure to think because of societal norms is not an excuse. We should meet all topics with an open mind and be willing to frequently change our minds based on evidence no matter how cherished a belief is.

Joseph Lamps is a Weinberg freshman. He can be reached at josephlamps2019@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com.

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As a child, Sheldon Harnick wrote comedic poems that were published in his grammar school’s newspaper.

Now, two Tony Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, and two Grammy’s later, Harnick, 91, continues to charge ahead as a lyricist in the musical theater world. Known most notably for writing lyrics for the 1964 musical “Fiddler on the Roof,” Harnick (Bienen ‘49) has recently worked on several shows, including “She Loves Me,” which will open March 17 at Studio 54 in New York City.

“He’s 91 and I’m almost 90,” said actress Charlotte Rae (Communication ‘48), a friend Harnick has known since his time at Northwestern. “He was like a young boy then and he’s like a young boy now. He’s fresh and young and enthusiastic. It’s a pleasure to be friends with someone who is full with the love of life.”

Though Harnick has worked mainly as a lyricist, he said his original passion for music began with the violin. Growing up in Chicago, he began taking lessons in grammar school and continued to play throughout high school. At the time, he said he thought violin was what he wanted to do with his life. But, he added, he simultaneously continued to write sketches, poetry, song parodies and eventually song lyrics.

After serving in World War II, Harnick said he decided to study at NU mainly because he was intrigued by the Bienen School of Music and the annual Waa-Mu show, NU’s annual student-written and produced musical that began in 1929.

Harnick, who majored in violin, said that he wrote lyrics for parts of the show each year he was at NU. “The first year I was there, I had one song (in the show),” Harnick said. “By the time I graduated, I wrote (almost) half of the show, including a sketch or two.”

Through the Waa-Mu show, Harnick met Rae, who

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is also still acting and is known for her work on the long-running television show “The Facts of Life.” She ultimately persuaded him to take up lyric writing instead of violin as a career, he said. She introduced Harnick to the music from “Finian’s Rainbow” after she herself saw a production of the show in New York City, Rae said.

“I was so dazzled by the lyrics,” Harnick said. “I thought, ‘That’s what I want to do. I want to be a lyricist and write for musical theater.’”

After working in Chicago for a short time after graduation, he moved to New York City in 1950 to pursue a career as a lyricist. After a series of shows, Harnick wrote the lyrics for “Fiddler on the Roof,” which premiered on Broadway in 1964.

The idea for “Fiddler on the Roof” was adapted from the book, “Tevye’s Daughters,” by Sholem Aleichem, he said. The original production was highly regarded and won nine Tony Awards.

“Fiddler on the Roof” is set in Tsarist Russia in 1905 and follows a father, Tevye, as he tries to uphold tradition in his family while living in a changing political and social landscape for Russian Jews.

Since the original production, “Fiddler” has been performed thousands of times around the world. Alexandra Silber, who is playing Tzeitel in the current Broadway revival of “Fiddler,” said she first met Harnick when she was working on the West End’s Savoy Theatre’s production of the show in 2008.

Silber, who described Harnick as an “artistic grandfather,” compared his work as a lyricist to that of a sculptor’s.

“The best sculptors in the world look at a piece of rock and see a David inside of it and set the David free around it,” she said. “He has the ability to look at a lump rock and extract its essential beauty and humanity.”

Harnick said he writes almost exclusively for the musical theater stage, and when writing, he tries to think partly like a lyric writer and partly like a playwright.

“I am not somebody who writes songs to be song

hits,” he added. “I need the impetus of a story. My process is to find a story that interests me, so that I can contribute to it with my own feelings and experiences.”

His work, like that of “Fiddler,” has been presented in many ways across the world in the time since it first opened. However, Harnick said that with all of its success, the revivals of “Fiddler” have generally remained true to the original production.

“Luckily over the first 50 years, audiences still respond to it in the same way,” he said. “Something about those stories moves audiences in many countries and over the years.”

In his lifetime, the lyricist said over the years lyricists have tended to incorporate more music into the plot of shows. He added that lyricists have also started to incorporate more current music into shows, referencing the current production of “Hamilton” on Broadway, which features music with rap, jazz and pop influences.

Harnick now resides in New York with his wife. He attributes his work with musical theater for all these years as a result of a simple passion for the songwriting process, and said that his age is not stopping him anytime soon.

Besides his work on the revival of the production “She Loves Me,” which originally premiered in 1963, Harnick said he will premiere an opera about Lady Bird Johnson at Texas State University in April.

“Thank god I’m in good health,” he said. “I’m 91 and I feel the same as I have in years. … I hope that while I’m alive I hope to continue writing because I love it and enjoy it.”

Silber added that Harnick has a sort of eternal presence about him.

“Something about him is in touch with something that has always been in existence,” she said. “His observation of humanity will live on long after he’s gone — you feel that when you’re in his presence. amandasvachula2018@u.northwestern.edu

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Lipstick Theatre show addresses 1950s sexuality

By KELLEY CZAJKA

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Shanley Pavilion will be transformed into a 1956 feminist society meeting place this weekend for Lipstick Theatre’s production of the satirical comedy “5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche.”

The play satirizes and breaks down stereotypes of what it meant to be lesbian in the 1950s, Lipstick Theatre activism co-chair Jenna Perlstein said.

“It explores sexuality in a very specific time period of the 1950s,” the Communication junior said. “And it’s a satire, so it’s not satirizing necessarily being gay (or lesbian), but rather our conceptions of what being a lesbian means in this sci-fi, utopian 1950s frame.”

In the play, five women come together for a feminist society meeting over a breakfast of quiche. Halfway through, the building goes on lockdown and the women’s secrets begin to come out as they spend time in the building, the show’s director Hale McSharry said. The Communication junior added that the show touches on themes such as the fear America felt in the 20th century and the ways women were affected by gender policing and stereotypes.

These stereotypes are satirized through jokes intended to convey the absurdity of the stereotypes they are mocking, Perlstein said.

“There’s a line in the show where it’s like ‘No, you’re not that, you’re not a lesbian, you’re just a 30-year-old unmarried woman who likes to play softball every once in awhile,’” she said. “They’re really legible to us, we know what they mean, but we also know that

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TASTE OF THE TIMES Students rehearse for the upcoming Lipstick Theatre production of “5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche.” The production addresses sexuality stereotypes in a 1950s setting.

because they’re so satirical and ridiculous and absurd.”

The audience will also play an important role in the play, as they are intended to be members of the committee at the meeting. Each “committee member” will be handed a name tag with a woman’s name as they enter Shanley, McSharry said. He added that at times, members of the audience will be addressed one-onone and expected to interact with the cast.

Two events leading up to the play further explored

the idea of queerness onstage today and in everyday life during the 1950s.

About midway through the rehearsal process, the cast and several crew members of the show listened to a presentation by Gender and Sexuality Studies Prof.

Lane Fenrich on 1950s lesbian subcultures and other historical context from the era. This gave the actors and director a better understanding of gay and lesbian culture in the time period, Lipstick Theatre outreach

chair Sophia Sinsheimer said.

“I think we have a lot of preconceived notions of that time period and of gays and lesbians,” the Communication sophomore said. “To hear from an expert about what it was actually like and what the social movements were like in that time period gives the actors more specificity to play on, so that you aren’t just going off of stereotypes, which is so important especially for a project where there are queer characters.”

The other event, “Quiche and Conversation,” was a community event held Feb. 25 at the Women’s Center.

Members of NU’s queer and theater communities came together to eat quiche over an open dialogue about queer representation on stage, Perlstein said.

Sinsheimer said Lipstick Theatre’s fall show, “For Colored Girls,” sparked conversation about representation on stage — especially diversity of race and sexuality.

“The theme of the conversation was to talk about queer representation in theater more specifically and connect it to some of the dialogues that had been sparked by ‘For Colored Girls,’” Sinsheimer said.

Though the show addresses serious topics, it is also a comedy, and McSharry said he hopes audience members can recognize the effectiveness of comedy as a theater form.

“I really hope that it is — first and foremost — fun and an escape from the end of the quarter anxieties,” he said. “I hope they see the immense talent of these hilarious and funny women and that they get to see a new perspective on mid-20th century American life, womanhood and queer identity.” kelleyczajka2019@u.northwestern.edu

Tony award nominee, NU alumna returns to Chicago

By JENNIFER HEPP

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Making her first appearance in Chicago since graduating from Northwestern, Tony Award nominee Kristine Nielsen will star in “The Matchmaker” at the Goodman Theatre starting this weekend.

The play, which inspired the hit musical “Hello, Dolly,” tells the story of Dolly Levi, a widowed woman who becomes a relationship matchmaker in 1896 in New York City. Nielsen (Communication ‘77) plays the role of Levi, an Irish immigrant who is trying to survive and figure out how to live in a world dominated by men.

“In a sense, she figures out that the way to make herself happy is to marry a man that’s well-to-do, that will fight with her and put life back in her,” Nielsen said. “She describes herself as an artist, as a painter who fixes the world, makes it more livable.”

Nielsen has appeared on Broadway multiple times and received a Tony award nomination in 2013 for her role as Sonia in Christopher Durang’s “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.”

Lawrence DiStasi (Communication ‘88) joins Nielsen as a cast member of “The Matchmaker.” He said he admires Nielsen’s talent and how she is willing to make big acting choices on stage.

“She’s really willing to stick her neck out,” DiStasi said. “She really makes use of the rehearsal time in an impressive and brave way.”

The play deals with the issue of money and the disparity between different social classes. DiStasi’s character represents the poor, downtrodden side of society, while the lead male character, Horace Vandergelder, is a very wealthy, greedy and unpleasant person, DiStasi said.

Although “The Matchmaker” was originally produced in the 1950s, the themes it presents are still relevant to the contemporary world, said Neena Arndt, dramaturg for the production. Her role is to make sure everything in the play is historically accurate.

She said this version of the play will be very different than the original 1950s production as the cast includes several actors of color, one transgender actor and one actress with a disability.

“In the past, it was sort of assumed that people in plays were white, able-bodied and weren’t transgender,” Arndt said. “I’m excited to use this play to explore our present and the diversity that has always been present in human culture but has not always been represented onstage.”

Nielsen added that the play has a dark soul, but said it is inherently American in nature and very optimistic.

“It has a rich fabric of characters that are very American in the sense of all the different walks of life,” Nielsen said. “People are desperate, but also the opportunities are so rich for them that they ultimately choose the right doors, they listen to their inner voices and become happy, and it’s very rewarding in that way.” jenniferhepp2020@u.northwestern.edu

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MAKING OF THE MATCHMAKER Kristine Nielsen (Communication ‘77) (left) rehearses for the Goodman Theatre’s upcoming production of “The Matchmaker.” The Tony award nominee will star in the production starting this weekend.

Northwestern production combines film, live performances

By EMILY CHIN

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A show debuting next week on campus will feature both on-stage video and live performance in a study of how the two art forms complement each other.

“Alien,” which looks at the intersection of physical and virtual reality, features simultaneous video footage and dance pieces throughout the entirety of the show.

“Dance, although it’s a physical art form, is more grounded in psychological reality,” said director Samantha Spoll. “Film is more of a virtual reality, whereas dance can be seen more as portraying someone’s mind.”

The Communication senior said she formed the idea for the show last spring and decided to create “alien” as an independent study on the intersection between film and performance. She also received a research grant to look at what has been done professionally with the interaction between the two art forms and what difficulties arise in combining them.

In using both mediums, Spoll said she hopes to learn more about the space between the different kinds of reality and what it means to watch different types of performances.

“We either watch a film or we watch a show most of the time and what combining those elements does is it takes you on a surreal journey,” Spoll said. “There’s less of a logical narrative and more of a surreal dream-like

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ACTING ALIEN Students perform in a rehearsal for the new show “Alien.” The show was created by a student for an independent study project that aims to explore the intersection between film and live theater.

journey.”

A video showing dance pieces performed by the ensemble, daily activities and clips from pop-culture videos will play in the background throughout the entire performance. Video designer Cemre Paksoy said dancers will occasionally interact with the screen and, at times, ignore its presence.

Paksoy, a Communication junior, said she is using

the video to enhance the dynamics of each scene and reflect the theme each is portraying.

“It’s taught me a lot about taking more creative freedom with this media,” Paksoy said. “It’s not necessarily watching for continuity or making it logical, but creating an experience through video. We’re talking about that in abstract and thematic terms and translating that into a visual.”

Spoll said through the process she has let her ensemble take more creative freedom and provide input on the themes that are present in the show. She added that she started rehearsals without a clear direction on what the show would look like, but was able to draw themes from the rehearsals.

Because many people have not been exposed to shows where video and performance are occurring simultaneously, Spoll said she is interested in the audience’s reaction. She said she will hold interviews with audience members after the performance to hear their thoughts on the show.

Producer Katie Chang said she is excited to see how people react to the show, and is interested in people’s honest opinions because the show is part of research.

“If people are coming to it from a theater background or a dance background, they’ll have an appreciation for it,” the Communication junior said. “But people like my parents are coming and they have no theater background and sometimes their thoughts are more compelling.”

Though the team has been producing both elements of the show separately since January, they have not put the two together yet, Chang said. She added that she’s excited to see it come together at the performance next week at the Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts.

“We’re dealing with what we think could be reality,” she said. “It’s very compelling to me.” emilychin2018@u.northwestern.edu

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Unity, NU Active Minds partner for gallery night

By KELLEY CZAJKA

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An electric guitar blares as people mingle and look at photos on the walls of the Noyes Cultural Arts Center gallery — some wearing T-shirts decorated with slogans such as “I pledge to be strong for myself and for others” and “I pledge to love not judge.”

The people donning the T-shirts are Unity Charity Fashion Show models, who partnered with NU Active Minds for a gallery night Wednesday to talk about the importance of eliminating negative stigmas around mental health.

The event was part of Stress Less Week, a week of activities hosted by NU Active Minds. It featured a gallery of photos of the models wearing these T-shirts, as well as musicians from Sheridan Road Records, two student speakers and a dialogue with the founder of NoStigmas, a Chicagobased global peer support network devoted to reducing stigmas around mental health.

“It’s cool, it’s like the intersection of art and mental health, which is really interesting,” said Weinberg senior Sarah Moss, co-president of Active Minds.

Each model was asked to decorate a white t-shirt with a mental health-related slogan and the hashtag “#nostigmas” and then participate in a photoshoot to display during the event. Photographer and Weinberg senior Shiven Samant said he asked each of the models to act out the message on the shirt in the photos.

Halfway through the event, people gathered as the speakers began sharing their stories about experiences with mental illness and mental health.

The first speaker was Weinberg-Bienen senior Jacob Pope, who told the audience about his battle with depression. He emphasized the importance of creating an atmosphere of empathy and compassion surrounding mental illness. He said events like this are critical to helping create this environment at Northwestern.

“It’s a pet cause of mine that I really care about,”

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GOING TO THE GALLERY Students observe photography of Unity models displayed at a gallery night at the Noyes Cultural Arts Center. The event was held by Unity Charity Fashion Show and NU Active Minds to support the removal of negative mental health stigmas.

he told The Daily. “I really felt like sharing my story and maybe helping someone else.”

NoStigmas founder Jacob Moore also spoke at the event, but in a discussion format. After discussing his struggles with mental health in high school, he led a brainstorming session about ways people can reduce distance in their relationships and be intentional and genuine in the way they connect with people.

“This was just a really genuine beginning of starting conversations about mental health, which these events are always supposed to do,” Moss said. “I always forget how meaningful they end up being until I’m here.”

These type of events are important because they help remove negative stigmas related to seeking help, Pope said.

“You don’t make fun of a cancer patient because

they had to go through chemotherapy, and in the exact same way, it’s not fair for us to ostracize people who have mental illnesses just because their illnesses don’t leave the same marks,” he said. “Groups like Active Minds are fighting that and that’s what today’s about, and it’s of such vital importance to people who are fighting this fight.” kelleyczajka2019@u.northwestern.edu

Northwestern alumni make mockumentary in Evanston

By KELLI NGUYEN

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Through their creation of a mockumentary entitled “boyband,” two Northwestern alumni are hoping to strengthen a local presence in film and television.

Colleen Griffen (Communication ’88) produced and directed the series — which is currently in the midst of its second season — with help from her husband, executive producer Joe Chappelle (Communication ’86), who also executive produces and directs “Chicago Fire.” The mockumentary was filmed over the past two summers almost exclusively in Evanston, and features an Evanston-based cast and crew.

“We want to make sure that film stays an alive art form in Chicago,” Griffen said. “It’s very important for me personally to use the people in this town because we live here and we believe in them and I work with these people, I’ve known them and I just felt like they would do a good job and they did a great job.”

“Boyband” features a new episode every Sunday

on YouTube, and is centered around five boys who come together to make music. The mockumentary follows the band’s road to fame after they win a boyband competition.

Communication sophomore Lucia Godinez worked both on and off camera as part of the series’ season two cast and crew. On screen, she plays Lulubell, a member of the rival girl band that emerges during the second season. During filming, when she was not in front of the camera, Godinez worked as a production assistant for the mockumentary.

“It was a total blast because I got paid to hang out with my best friends,” Godinez said. “That was my job, to put on makeup and put on outfits and sing with literally my three best friends in the world. I can’t even imagine anything better, it was so fun.”

The cast members of “boyband” are friends and graduates of Evanston Township High School.

Griffen’s son, who also appears on the show, performed with them in ETHS Theatre’s annual YAMO show, a student-written and -directed musical-comedy revue.

After seeing this show, and coming across One Direction music videos, Griffen said she decided to

CALENDAR thursday Lipstick Theatre presents: 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche at 8 p.m. in Shanley Pavilion Danceworks 2016 at 7:30 p.m. in Louis Theater Screening of Volta á Terra at 7:00 p.m. in the Block Museum of Art

friday Lipstick Theatre presents: 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. in Shanley Pavilion Danceworks 2016 at 7:30 p.m. in Louis Theater Screening of In the Underground at 7:00 p.m. in the Block Museum of Art The Titanic Players present: Dance Phonathon at 8 p.m. in McCormick Foundation Center

saturday Lipstick Theatre presents: 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. in Shanley Pavilion Danceworks 2016 at 7:30 p.m. in Louis Theater Northwestern University Chamber Orchestra at 7:30 p.m. in Pick-Staiger Concert Hall

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recruit her son’s friends and create the series.

“I looked at them and I was like, ‘you guys look like you should be in a boy band,’” Griffen said.

“Boyband” is a hybrid of written narration and improv segments, said Griffen. She explained that the beginning and end of each episode feature improvisation, while the body of the episodes is scripted to exemplify the qualities of a comedic documentary.

“It gave them a chance to flex their improv muscles and (practice) learning lines and saying it the way a writer wrote it for them,” Griffen said. “Putting the juxtaposition of those two I think is really fun.”

The mix of improv and script could have been problematic had it not been for the show’s focus on the storyline and character identities, Chappelle said.

He said although he was initially skeptical of the mockumentary, he was pleasantly surprised when the project was completed.

“I didn’t think (the characters) would be so endearing and it turned out to be a very sweet show,” Chappelle said. “I can’t stress how impressed I was with (the actors). They were true professionals.” kellinguyen2019@u.northwestern.edu

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disagreed, saying the housing ordinances promoted discrimination against minority tenants. Property owner Tina Paden said the provisions discourage good landlords from providing housing in low-income neighborhoods or in Section 8 housing, which places public housing-eligible residents in privately owned buildings, as it puts the burden on the owners to prevent and address crimes in their buildings through the tiered system. Paden said the proposed revisions create a situation where landlords have to work as police in order to not get fined.

“We all want to work with police, but it’s not our role to be deputized and directly stop these crimes out of fear of being punished with fines if you don’t,” Paden said.”

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From page 1 330 people were wounded or shot and 65 were murdered in Chicago during the 39-day span in which the movie was filmed last summer. Lee also described instances of criticism from influential figures. During a meeting with Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the mayor critiqued the movie’s title for portraying a negative image of the city, and Chance the Rapper publicly criticized the movie when it was released in December. Lee responded by calling him a “fraud” due to his father’s involvement in the Emanuel administration and his silence on the controversy surrounding the mayor.

“You can blast the film, but you can’t say anything about the mayor’s policies?” Lee said. “It’s a punk-ass move.”

Curtis Toler and Brandon Jackson, the two former gang members who appeared in the movie and have

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one main concern really stood out.

“At the heart of our response was that we are concerned that the calendar switch might actually exacerbate student stress levels rather than alleviate them,” she told The Daily. “Our primary concern is always really around our students.”

Keeping the quarter system as is would allow students to go through a collective undergraduate experience, she said. Assessment would also be uniform, so some students wouldn’t have to deal

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Even considering the problems discussed, the two ordinances address issues that have been consistently brought up to the city, said city manager Wally Bobkiewicz, who co-introduced the ordinances to council.

Residential licensing has been brought up three times in the last eight years to council, and in 2012 a citizen task force was launched to address landlord accountability issues, Bobkiewicz said.

“The council knew that something needed to be done,” Bobkiewicz told The Daily last week. “These are issues that really revolve around what is the appropriate role of landlord, what’s the responsibility of a tenant and how state law applies.”

Despite criticizing the new ordinances, landlords said they are willing to work with the city to make more appropriate measures to address the problems discussed without alienating or hurting landlords.

Stuart Garland, a local property owner and

developer, said he personally uses crime-free and drug-free policies in his buildings, modeled after Skokie’s Crime-Free Lease Addendum, which is that city’s version of the introduced ordinances. He said he understands the problems the city is trying to address, but it would be more beneficial if they set up more discussions with landlords to make sure the proposed ordinances would effectively create a safer community.

“These problems would get solved a lot easier if the city were cooperative with landlords,” Garland said.

“Come to me with a threat of a fine, it’s going to be difficult. But come to me and put your arm around me and say we have a joint problem, and we’ll solve it together.”

experienced gang violence, talked about their newfound commitment to bettering Chicago neighborhoods with high crime rates.

“I was a part of the problem; now I’m part of the solution,” Jackson said. “Killing our own ain’t gangster.

Raising our own and taking them through school is gangster.”

During the Q&A, the crowd’s focus quickly shifted back to Lee, however, whose opinions divided the audience. The majority of the crowd gave loud applause for his proclamations about the divide between the prosperous and poor regions of Chicago and his right as a filmmaker to portray that how he wished. Lee responded critically to comments, saying that much of the movie’s criticism is “bulls—.”

Annette Nance-Holt, who attended the screening as one of the Chicago mothers with murdered children who were consulted by Lee prior to the movie’s scripting, said she was disappointed by the Northwestern student body’s reaction.

“I thought younger people would be a little bit more open to a movie like that,” Nance-Holt said. “To get it to a diverse audience so they can see some of the issues that are in the community (is important) because the movie addresses different issues — a young lady with no parents, a young man with no father, … two gangs, how we don’t have education in the community and gun violence.”

Despite the critical comments, Ben Zimmermann, co-chair of CTSS, said the screening and discussion accomplished the goal of shedding new light on several crucial modern-day issues.

“This school year, (what) people have talked about the most is this issue of race relations,” the Weinberg sophomore said. “That issue coupled with gun violence … is so prevalent today, and the movie addresses all of these issues. His talk with the audience, while it did get a little heated, started a really interesting conversation.”

inclusive of that view.”

Several amendments to the legislation were introduced, the first by Unshackle NU to acknowledge oppression of indigenous people and the involvement of NU founder John Evans in the Sand Creek Massacre.

Weinberg senior Jonathan Kamel, an Interfraternity Council senator, proposed an amendment adding a list of seven countries’ names that he said also violated human rights, including Australia, the United Kingdom and India.

Including other names of countries where G4S is active, he said, would clarify the resolution and help Unshackle NU when presenting the resolution to administrators.

However, the mentioning of only some of the countries committing human rights violations showed “cherry-picking” and took away the resolution’s focus on anti-blackness and mass incarceration in the United States, Unshackle NU members said.

Debate about the resolution was mostly centered on amendments, many of which were proposed by people Kudaimi said were not involved with Unshackle NU. The Weinberg sophomore added that he was glad the resolution passed, despite the slow process.

“There was huge conversation two weeks about centering marginalized students’ voices,” Kudaimi said. “This resolution will be remembered as passed in spite of ASG, instead of thanks to ASG. We had the chance to really elevate these students, their opinions on campus, and really we just created a hindrance.”

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with having to take a final for a class while trying to juggle other assignments, she said.

“The entire undergraduate community is going through the same rituals and experiences of undergraduate life at the same pace or at the same time,” Colburn said.

However, Weinberg senior Riko Ohashi, the Associated Student Government vice president for academics and a member of the task force, told The Daily faculty may have been too quick to make their decisions and should give serious consideration to why students would want to propose such a change.

Ultimately, faculty support is key to pushing

forward a substantial change to the calendar, Ohashi said.

“All of the really big academic changes at our university comes from faculty,” she said. “If we want the faculty to do something but if they’re not willing to do it, then it just doesn’t happen.”

Instead of dropping the issue, Ohashi said it is important to continue the discussion and see what the best way is to implement such a change.

Although the proposed calendar has been the most widely discussed recommendation from the report, Zoloth said it is important to take a thoughtful look at the other recommendations that were

made, including reducing the number of credits required to graduate and increasing the number of staffers at Counseling and Psychological Services.

As for a potential change in the calendar, Zoloth agreed with Ohashi, and said this was not the end of the issue.

“Discussion has to continue because we keep hearing other ways to address the problem of getting out earlier, having a later start,” Zoloth told The Daily. “The task force is just the beginning of a discussion.”

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Faculty split over Karl Eikenberry’s hiring

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Faculty members could not come to a consensus Wednesday regarding the appointment of Karl Eikenberry as the first-ever executive director of the Buffett Institute for Global Studies.

Eikenberry, a former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, was named to the position last November and is slated to start in September. The decision was met with strong backlash from faculty members who believe his non-academic background and lack of research and teaching experience make him unfit for the job.

At Wednesday’s Faculty Senate meeting, those against the appointment made their appeals to the Senate, which was attended by Provost Dan Linzer; Jake Julia, associate provost for academic initiatives; and Jay Walsh, the University’s vice president for research.

French and Italian Prof. Michal Ginsburg said she brought the matter before the Senate because of the administration’s lack of response to faculty protests about the appointment.

“Our most important task as senators is to protect the interests and rights of the faculty,” she said during the meeting. “When a search overseen by the central administration produces an appointment that a large number of the faculty finds unacceptable … it seems only appropriate that the Senate will look into the matter.”

Political science Prof. Jacqueline Stevens and Spanish and Portuguese Prof. Jorge Coronado — neither of whom are on the Faculty Senate — presented after Ginsburg’s introductory remarks.

Instead of addressing concerns regarding Eikenberry’s scholarship, Stevens said the University has attempted to put a spin on his record by listing his associations with academic associations where the barriers of entry seem higher than they actually are.

However, Linzer refuted the professors’ claims. He said the search committee did its best to put forward three high-quality candidates for the position, from which Eikenberry was chosen.

“The remarks wove together a number of comments from different contexts from different sources that lead to what seems to me to be a conspiracy

theory,” he said.

During the meeting, Ginsburg questioned University President emeritus Henry Bienen’s involvement in the search. Bienen, who chaired the search, submitted Eikenberry’s name for consideration without him applying, which Linzer said was something that happened often in these searches.

By appointing Eikenberry to the position, Linzer said the University would be able to accomplish the goals it hoped to achieve with the appointment: to enhance student and faculty opportunities.

“If we hired another person who was similar in nature to other senior faculty, that would be great for adding another faculty scholar,” he said. “It would not have created the breadth of opportunities that someone who comes from a different background can create.”

When discussion about the topic opened up to the other Senate members, Communication Prof. Carol Simpson Stern said, based on the evidence provided, she did not think anything was wrong with the search committee’s process.

“I find it extraordinarily narrow-minded to think that the definitive qualification is a Ph.D.,” she said. “I don’t think that’s compelling. Everything I’ve heard this evening convinces me this was a properly conducted search.”

Although Stevens said she was glad they were able to further educate their colleagues about the situation with Eikenberry’s appointment, she told The Daily she felt Linzer did not directly address the concerns brought up.

Ultimately, she said she is not against Eikenberry being at Northwestern. Rather, her issue is with the selection process that considered a candidate without extensive research experience to lead a research institute. She said she would support finding a different position at NU where students and faculty can benefit from Eikenberry’s connections that is better aligned with his experiences in the field.

“I am hopeful that in response to this there may be new arrangements made to find an alternative position for Karl Eikenberry at Northwestern,” she said. “I’m hopeful that there will be some further rethinking about the position and his fit with Northwestern.” benjamindin@u.northwestern.edu

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Northwestern achieves three-peat, sets three records

By JOSEPH WILKINSON

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Northwestern continued its dominance at the Hurricane Invitational this week as the Wildcats set three school records and claimed their third-straight tournament title.

No. 7 NU finished 24-under-par for the tournament, 21 strokes ahead of second place No. 16 Iowa State, and sophomore Hannah Kim won her first individual championship, shooting a program-record 14-under 199 in the process. That performance was seven strokes better than the previous record held by freshman Stephanie Lau. The record-setting showing was buoyed by Kim’s 7-under 64 on Wednesday, which also happened to be a school record.

“Usually, when I’m going low for the day my heart starts thumping really hard, but for some reason today I felt really relaxed and calm,” Kim said. “I just went with it, and it was really cool to see the results.”

The Cats led from the start, shooting a 7-under 277 as a team to take a four-stroke lead over the Cyclones on Monday. Unlike Iowa State, however, NU didn’t let up on Tuesday, posting a 9-under 275, the best round of the tournament and also the best round in program history in any event.

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KIM POSSIBLE Hannah Kim tees off to start a new hole. The sophomore helped the Wildcats win another Hurricane Invitational and set three program records.

The dominant second round opened up a 15-stroke lead going into the final day, when the Cats also shot the top round of the afternoon — an 8-under 276 — to solidify the championship.

Of course, that 8-under received a significant boost from Kim’s outstanding round.

“Hannah’s performance was second to none. It’s the

most dominating thing I’ve ever seen in our program’s history,” Emily Fletcher, in her eighth year as the team’s coach, said. “She just was a machine out there, and, as low as she shot, she could’ve been better. She hit so many good shots.”

Kim wasn’t the only one responsible for NU’s crushing victory, as junior Kacie Komoto shot 4-under to

tie for fourth place and sophomore Sarah Cho added another top-10 finish to her resume, finishing 1-under and tying for eighth.

For Komoto, the top-5 finish didn’t come easily, as she struggled to overcome recent issues with her swing.

“I wasn’t striking the ball very well this week, so going into this tournament I just told myself that I have to play with it, I have to manage it, and I can’t really fix it,” Komoto said. “I normally depend a lot on my swing always being on point. This week it wasn’t, so I was really happy with the way that I still managed to play well and use it as one of my strengths.”

Behind Kim, Komoto and Cho were Lau, who shot 1-over-par to finish tied for 14th, and senior Suchaya Tangkamolprasert, who, after playing to an impressive 4-under 67 on Tuesday, dropped back to a tie for 20th after finishing 3-over.

There may have been eight top-50 and two top-25 teams in the field in addition to Cats, but no one was a match for Kim’s commanding performance.

“I couldn’t be happier for Hannah,” Fletcher said.

“She works tirelessly, and I think that’s one of the most rewarding things as a coach — to see your players who put in so much time effort, to see them get something out of their game out on the course like they did the last three days is just really, really fun.” josephwilkinson2019@u.northwestern.edu

Business as usual as Wildcats continue Big Ten schedule Northwestern vs. Rutgers

By MIKE MARUT

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Piscataway, New Jersey 11:30 a.m. Friday

After a couple of close victories last weekend, Northwestern came back this week with a fresh, but unchanged, mindset.

The Wildcats (3-5, 1-0 Big Ten) came away with victories over both Illinois and Georgia Tech, their first since the beginning of the season — Jan. 23 over Arizona State. After being “desperate” for wins, some teams may see the past weekend as a weight off their shoulders, but not for NU. Instead, it’s business as usual. “(Coach Claire Pollard) spoke to us about focusing on what we do well and not being so hard on ourselves,” senior Alicia Barnett said. “We are a very perfectionist team. … It was good we had a really tough fight on both days because it keeps us on our toes and made us work for (the wins).”

But with the wins, the Cats can exhale. “(We are) finding everything we’ve worked hard for is shining through in matches,” Barnett said.

The Cats won at a crucial time as the match

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against the Fighting Illini was the first of conference play. After a tough postseason in the Big Ten last year, NU is looking to reclaim its success in the conference. With a win over a decent Illinois team (4-4 before Friday’s match), next on the list are Maryland (3-6, 1-0) and Rutgers (4-3, 0-1).

Last season, the Cats trounced the two Big Ten newcomers in their conference debuts, 5-2, 6-1 respectively. Because of low turnover from 201415, NU has replaced only one player and thus has plenty of veteran experience returning to give both the Terrapins and Scarlet Knights another run for their money.

“There are a lot of strong teams in the Big Ten,” sophomore Erin Larner said. “Every team that we

play is an opportunity. I think they see the same with us, so we’re going to have to go out and give it our all.”

This season, Maryland struggled out of the gate but swept Rutgers over the weekend. After a sound victory over the Scarlet Knights, the Terrapins will be looking to keep their conference confidence high with a win over the Cats.

For Rutgers, despite a good opening to the season, its three match win streak was stunted last weekend, so they will be hungry for another win — especially when trying to establish their spot in a strong tennis conference.

But the biggest key for NU is to keep confidence high going into the weekend. For Pollard, no one match is more important than another — that includes Big Ten matches compared to non-conference matches.

“Every match has a role in your season,” Pollard said. “It’s all sort of a big process that we go through with the whole season. I’m not sure we put any more emphasis or any more importance on conference versus non-conference competition.” michaelmarut2016@u.northwestern.edu

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ERIN IT OUT Erin Larner smashes a forehand shot. The sophomore won her No. 1 singles match sunday against Georgia Tech, helping the Cats claim their first winning streak of the 2016 season.

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Wildcats enter home stretch eyeing first-round bye Northwestern vs. Penn State

By GARRETT JOCHNAU

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University Park, Pennsylvania 8 p.m. Thursday

After watching his Wildcats trounce a helpless Rutgers squad Saturday, coach Chris Collins outlined his goals for the regular season’s final two games.

With Northwestern’s closing slate featuring Penn State and Nebraska — two teams the Cats are competing with for Big Ten Tournament seeding — Collins said the burden falls on the team to win out and guarantee itself a first-round bye in the tournament.

“We’re going to find out this week,” Collins said.

“Do we want to make a push and come in ninth or are we going to come in 11th?”

Thursday’s road contest against the Nittany Lions will serve as NU’s first test. When the teams last matched up in mid-January, the Cats watched icecold shooting doom their chances for a win.

At the time, Penn State was something of a conference afterthought and the loss served as one of NU’s first reality checks after a strong non-conference campaign and the program’s best start to Big Ten play since 1968.

But expectations have since softened for the Cats, who now get a shot at revenge with a chance to earn the coveted first-round bye in the Big Ten Tournament. Getting that first-round bye, senior guard Tre Demps said, comes down to desire.

“When you get to this point in the season, it’s just a matter of who wants it more,” Demps said. “I don’t think it has to do too much with game plan and

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execution because you’ve already played so many games. I think, at this point, it’s just about competing, playing hard and also playing smart.”

But Demps isn’t going to go into Thursday’s contest ignoring the outcome of the teams’ first meeting.

Penn State prepared for NU defensively, and in addition to increased drive, Demps recognized the Cats’ execution will have to improve to secure a win.

“This time, we have to just do a better job of not being so hesitant against their extended zone and just try to attack earlier,” Demps said. “Hopefully we can just get some penetrate and kick 3s and drives to the basket. Just to try to get them on their heels a little bit defensively.”

And after posting 24 points, shooting 6-of-8 from deep against Rutgers, Demps will have the spotlight shining directly on him during the final regular season road bout of his career.

He will join senior center Alex Olah in that regard, and the two will look to close their careers on a collective high note.

“You always see a sense of urgency with the older guys the last month of the season,” Collins said. “The seniors, they feel it the whole year, but they really feel it the last month, because they know this is the last go-around.”

Though they’ll have a chance to finish strong in

No. 10 Northwestern vs. No. 11 Louisville

Draw controls, defense key to Northwestern’s chances at Louisville

Louisville, Kentucky 12 p.m. Thursday

Northwestern isn’t fooling anybody with its 1-2 record.

A rocky start is all part of the program for the No. 10 Wildcats, who will continue a string of ranked battles when they take on the No. 11 Louisville Cardinals (5-0) on Thursday in Louisville, Kentucky. Louisville will actually be the lowest-ranked team NU has faced off against this season, with the team already tacking

contests against then-No. 4 Duke, then-No. 10 Virginia and then-No. 2 Syracuse to its resume.

That the Cats prevailed over the Blue Devils by just 3 goals and lost to the Cavaliers and Orange by a combined 6 is indicative of how competitive NU’s early schedule has been. Thursday’s tilt figures to be no different, though the Cats may hold a slight psychological edge.

NU’s match against Syracuse turned into a chippy one, with coach Kelly Amonte Hiller asking game

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THE FINAL COUNTDOWN Tre Demps races down the court for a breakaway layup. The senior guard will be playing the last two regular season games of his career this week.

the Big Ten Tournament regardless of their regular season finish, earning that bye would make that path significantly easier.

And at the very least, the prospect of earning it will give the team an added push during the season’s home stretch.

“You always want to have something to play for, and fortunately enough, we’ve done enough to have

something to play for,” Demps said. “We have an opportunity to go ninth in the league, be the winningest team in Northwestern basketball history, and we still want to accomplish those things.”

officials to examine the sticks of certain Orange players at halftime. Referees determined two players had been using illegal sticks, and the Cats started the second half with a two-player advantage. But the edge wasn’t enough to mount a comeback, and NU will be looking to redeem itself.

Draw controls were the sore spot against Syracuse, with the Orange taking 11-of-15 in the opening frame before Amonte Hiller asked for a stick check. Winning draws has been a problem for the Cats throughout the first three games of the season.

Success in the circle is a necessary ingredient for the Cats’ deliberate offensive pace, but NU has won just 30 draws to opponents’ 41 thus far. Amonte Hiller’s squad faces yet another challenge against Louisville, which has converted a staggering 78 percent of its

draws this season.

Better ball control may also provide a much-needed boost to the Cats’ besieged defense. Going up against some of the toughest competition certainly hasn’t helped, but NU uncharacteristically ranks No. 61 in the country with an 11.3 goals against average. The Cats have attempted about as many shots as their opposition this season, but opposing teams are finding a way to make more out of their opportunities.

Whatever the solution, NU could use a pickup in the final leg of a brutal opening stretch. If the Cats want to meet the lofty expectations which have become the norm for the program, they need to beat — not just compete with — other top teams around the country.

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By COLE PAXTON

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INDIANAPOLIS — In a season where Northwestern repeatedly fell apart in crunch time, the Wildcats came through in the opening round of the Big Ten Tournament.

Junior guard Christen Inman and junior forward Nia Coffey each scored 18 points, and NU (16-15, 4-14 Big Ten) overcame the absence of senior guard Maggie Lyon to defeat Wisconsin (7-22, 3-15) 76-72 in overtime in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament Wednesday in Indianapolis. With the win, NU, the No. 12 seed in the tournament, advances to play fifth-seeded Minnesota on Thursday.

The team announced shortly before the game that Lyon, who had started every game this season before Wednesday, would not play with a lower-body injury. She wore a walking boot on her left foot before the game.

Coach Joe McKeown went deep into his bench in Lyon’s absence. Sophomore guard Lydia Rohde started just her second game of the season, and played a season-high 36 minutes.

Several other reserves played extended minutes, especially as several NU players, including junior guard Ashley Deary and freshman forward Pallas Kunaiyi-Akpanah dealt with foul issues in the first half.

“Just a wild basketball game,” coach Joe McKeown said.

“A lot of rollercoasters.”

At one point the Cats had freshman guard Jordan Hankins, freshman guard Amber Jamison and junior forward Allie Tuttle on the court at the same time. Though Jamison and Tuttle made only minor contributions, Hankins had a significant impact.

Hankins hit a pair of 3-pointers late in the second quarter, scoring NU’s only points in almost the last 3:54 of the half.

Before Wednesday, Hankins had only made seven 3-pointers this season. “(Jordan’s) a really good shooter and we have ultimate confidence in her,” Inman said. “Her just coming in and doing what she does best was really just what we needed her for and wanted her to do.”

The first half as a whole included 12 lead changes, and neither team led by more than 5 before the break, but the Badgers, who held a 33-32 halftime lead, built a 10-point lead in the third quarter.

The Cats, however, took their first second half lead with 6:33 to play. The Badgers temporarily regained the lead a moment later, but NU retook the advantage shortly thereafter.

With the score tied late in the fourth quarter, Wisconsin guard Dakota Whyte hit a long jumper with 40 seconds remaining to give the Badgers a 67-65 lead, but Inman evened the score with a layup on NU’s next possession. Wisconsin failed to get a shot off on in the final 20 seconds to send the game into overtime.

“We knew we were going to have to get stops and rebound, and then after we got rebounds we really wanted to score in transition,” Deary said of the second half run. “I think that made all the difference, it was just being disciplined on defense and focusing on getting stops.”

The Cats struggled at times to rebound. Wisconsin won the rebounding battle 49-48 and though NU had 15 offensive boards to 13 for the Badgers, Wisconsin did far more damage with its second opportunities.

The Badgers totaled 21 second chance points to just 7 for the Cats, scoring twice on second opportunities late in the third quarter when NU was making a run.

The Cats also struggled to corral Wisconsin forward Michala Johnson.

The senior scored 16 points in the first half and finished with 22. She shot an efficient 9-of-15 from the field and added eight rebounds.

“We tried. She had a big day,” McKeown said of Johnson. “I thought we did a better job of making it hard for her to get the ball in the second half.”

Despite the struggles on the glass, NU never trailed in the extra period. Clutch free throws by Inman and Deary, in addition to a block with 4 seconds left by Jamison, ultimately sealed the victory for the Cats and ensured their advance to the next round.

After the game, McKeown said he was “still trying to figure out what happened today,” before adding that he would quickly turn his focus to Minnesota. Rohde, however, said she was already looking ahead to Thursday.

“We’re already focused on tomorrow,” Rohde said. “I’m so ready.” colepaxton2019@u.northwestern.edu Keshia Johnson/The Daily Northwestern

Northwestern bench steps up big in overtime win

By WILL RAGATZ

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INDIANAPOLIS — With less than a minute remaining in overtime and the game knotted at 69, freshman guard Amber Jamison caught a pass and calmly swished a mid-range shot to put Northwestern ahead. Then, with time running out and the Cats clinging to a 2-point lead, Jamison swatted Wisconsin guard Nicole Bauman’s layup attempt to seal the victory.

Jamison was one of three underclassmen forced into action with NU’s second-leading scorer, senior guard Maggie Lyon, unable to play with an injury on

Wednesday. Jamison, sophomore guard Lydia Rohde and freshman guard Jordan Hankins combined for 22 points and made numerous key plays in NU’s 76-72 overtime victory over Wisconsin in the first round of the Big Ten Tournament. “(Jamison) knocked down shots when she got the opportunity, she was a big helpside presence and made a big block at the end of the game,” junior guard Ashley Deary said. “She just came in and did what she needed to do.”

Without Lyon, the Wildcats were essentially left in uncharted waters. Lyon started each of NU’s 30 games this season, playing 36.5 minutes per contest and contributing 16.5 points and 5.7 rebounds per game.

In her absence, all three fill-ins saw

major upticks in playing time. Rohde made her second career start and was on the court for a career-high 36 minutes, while Jamison played a career-high 25 minutes off the bench and Hankins played 15, her highest total against a Big Ten opponent.

Rohde, who finished scoreless in nine of NU’s 18 regular season conference games, stepped up in a big way in Lyon’s starting spot with 8 points and an assist.

“She was ready to play,” coach Joe McKeown said. “I didn’t have to say a whole lot. Just (told her to) shoot the ball and be aggressive, and that’s what she’s good at. I thought she played with a lot of poise, and that’s what we need from her.”

After knocking down a pair of 3-pointers in regulation, one of which came when

the Badgers had stretched their lead to 10 points, Rohde started off overtime by drawing a foul and hitting both free throws.

But Rohde wasn’t the only guard to step up and help fill the void left by Lyon.

Hankins also provided a major spark off the bench late in the first half. The freshman knocked down a pair of 3-pointers in the final two minutes before the break to keep the Cats close.

“We always have confidence in players coming off the bench,” junior guard Christen Inman said. “When they come in we expect them to be steady … be a part of the offense, part of the defense and really just understand what we’re trying to accomplish, and that’s what Jordan did today.”

But it was Jamison who made the biggest impact in the victory with her tenacity on the glass and clutch playmaking. She finished with 6 points and six rebounds, three of which came on the offensive end.

When NU needed someone to step up late in the game and fill Lyon’s shoes, she did it.

“I just go out there and do what I can do with the time I have on the floor,” Jamison said. “I don’t really worry too much about minutes. I just go out there and play hard.”

With Lyon’s status unclear for NU’s second-round matchup with Minnesota on Thursday, all three players may need to step up once again. williamragatz2019@u.northwestern.edu