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An ad hoc committee on academic freedom presented a report Wednesday to Faculty Senate recommending University responses to separate academic freedom cases involving Communication Prof. Laura Kipnis and former bioethics Prof. Alice Dreger. The committee was formed in response to the two cases, which caused lengthy disputes between Kipnis and Dreger and the administration. The committee was headed by law and political science Prof. Andrew Koppelman and also included performance studies Prof. Carol Simpson Stern, law and public policy Prof. Martin Redish and psychology Prof. Benjamin Gorvine. Dreger served as a guest editor for Atrium, a magazine edited and published by faculty in Feinberg’s Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program, in 2014 when medical school administrators asked to pull an article describing an author’s experience receiving consensual oral sex from a nurse after he was paralyzed. Dreger said at the time administrators urged the article to be pulled because it was “inflammatory” and against the Northwestern Medicine “brand.” Though the article was eventually republished online following faculty protest, the journal’s budget was cut, and the medical school created a committee that could review and veto faculty editorial decisions. Dreger, a part-time non-tenure-track professor, and another Feinberg professor resigned in protest after the administration failed to acknowledge the censorship of the bioethics magazine, Dreger said. The report critiques the actions of the University in handling the situation and urges the administration to issue an official apology to the professors who resigned. The report also advised the adoption of a » See FACULTY, page 7
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intensified their efforts to form a graduate student union at the university. Ward said he aims to bring graduate students from various disciplines together to create a unified voice on a fragmented campus. Though Northwestern raised the stipend for teaching assistants earlier in the academic year, from $22,992 to $29,000, Ward said there needs to be student input on decisions that affect stipends and
On the night of Feb. 6, University President Morton Schapiro logged online to check the news when he saw a security alert that he said shocked him. The alert, posted on the University’s website and sent in an email to Northwestern students from Chief of Police Bruce Lewis just after 8:30 p.m., notified students of anonymous reports alleging multiple sexual assaults and possible druggings at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house and another unnamed fraternity earlier in the quarter. It notified students that the University had received a report Feb. 2 alleging that four female students were possibly given a date rape drug at SAE on Jan. 21. The report, which a University spokesman later confirmed was anonymous, alleged that two of the students believe they were also sexually assaulted. The notification also said the University received an anonymous report Feb. 3 alleging that another female student was sexually assaulted, potentially with the use of a date rape drug, after attending an event at a second, unnamed fraternity house the previous night. “I was horrified to read about
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Grad student unionization effort diverges despite common cause By SAM KREVLIN
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As a graduate student instructor, LaCharles Ward always considered himself a Northwestern employee. The fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in the School of Communication grew up on the West Side of Chicago, where he said he saw the benefits of unions first hand. His grandfather was a union worker for
the city and helped build the thenSears Tower, Ward said. Unions have always helped Ward understand his family’s history, he said. “Unions are there to guarantee that workers’ rights are respected,” Ward said. “It is making sure that we have a way to express our grievances if we feel our rights have been breached.” In the past few months, Ward, along with his peers in Northwestern Graduate Workers, have
Steve Hagerty outspends Mark Tendam in race By DAVID FISHMAN
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Businessman Steve Hagerty has raised more money and far outspent Ald. Mark Tendam (6th) in Evanston’s mayoral race, according to campaign finance disclosures from mid-August to the end of the year. In that time period, Hagerty raised $109,079 — with about 53 percent coming from loans he made to himself — and he
spent $80,374, according to data from the Illinois State Board of Elections. Tendam, on the other hand, raised $16,245 — roughly 75 percent of which came from self loans — and spent $2,323. Since then, Hagerty has raised an additional $32,555 and Tendam another $5,000, according to finance disclosures for contributions over $1,000. However, Tendam said about two-thirds of his total funds have come from supporters who make mostly small donations. The next quarterly report is
due on April 15, after the general election. This campaign cycle has been significantly more expensive than when Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl ran roughly eight years ago. In that campaign — the last contested mayoral election — she spent more than $77,000 and loaned herself about $45,000. Hagerty said he would have “loved to have a campaign that cost less,” but that the primary » See FUNDRAISING, page 5
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AROUND TOWN Concerns raised about citizen complaint group
Residents discuss process of forming citizen-run committee to evaluate EPD’s complaint review process
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Residents expressed concern Thursday about the process of forming a citizen-run committee to evaluate the Evanston Police Department’s complaint review process. The meeting was the the second public discussion on the topic, as EPD officials presented last week on how the current review process works. On Thursday, city staff presented results of a survey taken on how the city should go about forming the committee. The process follows calls for reform of the complaint review process after the arrest of Devon Reid as he petitioned for the city clerk position in November, as well as the January release of a video showing the 2015 arrest of Northwestern graduate student Lawrence Crosby after a woman reported that he was stealing a car that turned out to be his. The citizen complaint working group would be tasked with assessing EPD’s current complaint review procedures and developing suggestions to increase transparency between the police and the community. Residents filled out the survey in small groups at a Feb. 23 meeting about the citizen complaint
POLICE BLOTTER Man arrested in connection with hit and run A man was arrested in connection with a hit and run accident early Wednesday morning in south Evanston, police said. No one was injured in the hit and run involving two vehicles, which occurred on Feb. 18 at 1:30 p.m. in the 300 block of Callan, but one
working group, answering questions on the structure of the group and skipping questions if desired. City staff will present responses to the survey and feedback from the two meetings to the Human Services Committee at its meeting on Monday, said Kimberly Richardson, assistant to the city manager. Richardson presented the survey results to residents in attendance at Thursday’s meeting. More than half of the 25 respondents said they felt the working group should have at least 15 members. Eleven out of 24 respondents said the working group should include people from “racially and historically oppressed communities.” Roughly the same amount recommended that City Council or the mayor select the members. Five respondents said they felt residents should select group members. Several residents at Thursday’s meeting expressed concerns over how quickly they felt the process of discussing the working group has gone. Some residents said they did not know their survey responses at the Feb. 23 meeting would be tabulated and presented to the Human Services Committee. As a result, some residents said instead of submitting their own responses, they let others in their small groups submit one response for the group.
Some residents also expressed concern over the small sample size of the survey, saying it is not representative of the entire city. Richardson said she would take those concerns and include them in her report to the Human Services Committee. She urged residents to also express their concerns at the committee meeting rather than solely to city staff. “We’re only here to provide feedback,” Richardson said. Ald. Eleanor Revelle (7th), who is on the Human Services Committee, attended the meeting and suggested that attendees organize their concerns ahead of Monday’s meeting and then present them as a group. “It will helpful for the committee to know that we’re not just hearing from individuals but that we’re hearing sort of the voice of the whole group,” Revelle said. Evanston resident Bobby Burns told The Daily he is trying to organize a meeting over the weekend of residents who attended Thursday’s meeting. Burns said he hopes the group can form a consensus on what to tell the Human Services Committee, adding it’s important for the working group to be formed in a transparent process. “If it’s not done properly from the beginning, people won’t trust (the group),” Burns said.
male driver fled the scene, Evanston police Cmdr. Joseph Dugan said. Just before 5:30 a.m. Wednesday, a patrol officer identified and arrested the man in the 1300 block of South Boulevard, Dugan said. He was charged with failure to remain at the scene and failure to give information, and his driver’s license was suspended.
vandalized on Wednesday morning. The vandalism complaint came from a neighbor on the 2000 block of Foster, who reported that the graffiti had been on the fence since November 2016, Dugan said. The fence has gangrelated graffiti of upside-down pitchforks on it. Officers were unable to get in touch with the property owner but left a card with the case number, Dugan said.
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ON CAMPUS ASG Senate sees rise in attendance By JONAH DYLAN
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Wednesday’s Associated Student Government Senate was the most attended Senate of the quarter. Throughout Winter Quarter, Senate has operated on the cusp of having the 25 senators necessary for quorum each week. Without quorum, Senate cannot vote on any legislation. At Feb. 22’s Senate, former Interfraternity Council senator Mike Seethaler and three substitute senators, all members of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, walked out of Senate right before a vote, leaving the room with only 21 senators and delaying the vote until Wednesday, when the resolution passed with 39 votes in favor and two abstaining. The resolution calls for greater accountability for sexual assault and names SAE multiple times. After Seethaler’s walkout, IFC’s executive board released a statement condemning his actions and publicly endorsing the resolution. Seethaler did not respond to a request for comment. On Monday, IFC and ASG released a joint statement announcing Seethaler had been removed and an IFC exec board member would replace him until a permanent replacement is appointed. In the wake of the walkout, Speaker of the Senate Nehaarika Mulukutla sent an email to senators notifying them if they didn’t consistently show up or appoint a substitute, they would be brought before the Rules Committee. In response, at least 41 senators showed up on Wednesday, well above the 25 needed for quorum and making it the most attended Senate of the quarter. “I love standing at the podium and seeing how interactive everyone is and talking to people about what they believe in,” Mulukutla, a Weinberg junior, said. “Even if there are 40 million amendments, that means that people are paying attention to what the student body wants and needs.” At the beginning of Senate on Feb. 22, parliamentarian Shelby Reitman resigned, citing the time
commitment. Senate later elected Weinberg junior Daniella Lumpkin as Reitman’s replacement, but she will only serve through the rest of the quarter. Lumpkin said with only a few weeks to implement her agenda as parliamentarian, she’s not planning on conducting any impeachment hearings for senators based on their attendance. She said it’s important for all student groups to be represented in Senate. “You signed up to do this,” Lumpkin said of senators. “You went out of your way to sign up to do this, and so the groups they’re representing. All these groups are worthwhile groups to be represented, so let’s get them represented.” Seethaler and the three substitutes walked out after Senate voted to conduct the vote in a roll call manner. However, Senate is moving toward using roll call during each vote. “We’re trying to move toward more of a roll call system anyways,” ASG President Christina Cilento said. “I’m totally in favor of roll call votes, and I think that’s really necessary.” On Wednesday, ASG vice president for services
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Diversity of black experiences should be highlighted RUBY PHILLIPS
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On Monday, I had the pleasure of seeing “Black Lives, Black Words” at the Ethel M. Barber Theater, which showcased eight plays written by black Northwestern students that examined the difficult question of whether black lives really do matter today. The themes ranged from ignorant interactions with friends or coworkers to the celebration of black history. I was struck by the overall emphasis on the nuances of the black experience. Oftentimes the media over represents black roles involving the prison system and poverty, creating and reinforcing reductive, racist stereotypes. At the same time, black people are disproportionately and systematically subjugated by virtually every aspect of society. Without ignoring the fact of institutionalized racism, we must remember and highlight that the black experience is a human experience that involves both beautiful and defeating moments. As I was watching the show, I was faced with the complexity of the black experience. Whether addressing intersectional feminism or colorism, the plays emphasized that black people need to be seen as individuals. I particularly appreciated that the
performance addressed mental health issues within the black community, which are often overlooked. As Black History Month has just ended, it is critical to both celebrate black achievement and success as well as understand the diversity among black people. After watching the production, I felt compelled to reflect on my own experience, particularly with my blackness in relation to white people. This concept is challenging to understand, and I feel strange discussing it, especially because I am a biracial, light-skinned person from a middle-class background. I recognize that my experience as a black person is unique and is largely informed by my socioeconomic status. As a more privileged biracial person, I found I have the ability to access certain, typically white spaces that others cannot and to try to fill it with blackness. I often find my white friends looking to me for advice when it comes to anything related to race. Yet it is not my responsibility to speak for the entire black community, nor do I have the ability to do so. Ta-Nehisi Coates addressed this when he came to speak at NU last month, pointing out that not only does he not have the answers to fixing racial inequality, and, particularly as a writer, he doesn’t want that role. His story should be his story and nothing else. Even though my experience is different and singular, there are times when I feel strong
commonalities amongst the black community. After Freddie Gray was killed in 2015, I felt a sense of despondency that I felt no one truly necessarily understood besides the black people I knew. This is not to say that when a black person is killed by police, all black people handle tragedy in it the same way. But there are certainly times when black people stand in solidarity with one other over things that white people will never fully understand, whether it is oppression, history, art or music. Rarely are stories surrounding white people seen as representative of their whole race. But white people often either lump together the experiences of black people, or they don’t see them at all. Never are black people seen as individuals –– and the effect of being invisible can be debilitating. Black people wouldn’t have to accept the job of having all the answers to the problems of racism if white people would stop seeing them as all the same. If white people are to truly act as allies, they need to stop burdening black people with questions and understand each as individuals. Obviously, white people can feel concerned about overstepping boundaries, but there are other opportunities for white people to seek information about race, such as coming to see performances like this. Yet there are still problems with allies using theater and art to try to understand an experience distinct from their own. Maybe a showcase of this
kind should be solely for black audiences –– sometimes black art isn’t for white people. Some white people might see shows like “Black Lives, Black Words” on Monday and then feel as if they have debunked all myths about black people. But learning about one experience, or listening to eight plays by black NU students, does not mean a person can generalize their understanding to an entire race. White people must recognize the nuance in black experience and avoid taking one story as representative of an entire race. Telling stories about the black experience could benefit from being more diverse. There are so many different ways to experience blackness, and including people of different skin tones and socioeconomic statuses would not only help people better understand intersectionality, but would also provide insight for audiences to the incredible diversity within the black community. Regardless, the black experience deserves to be highlighted because it is an enlightening and magnificent one. Ruby Phillips is a Weinberg freshman. She can be contacted at rubyphillips2020@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.
Warm February should renew climate change concerns MORIAH LAVEY
growth; environmental policies are concerned with the health and stability of human life. In the midst of the warmest winter on record, OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR in the third consecutive hottest year on record, our energy and focus, as well as that of politicians, I don’t have to be from around Chicago to must be on unifying against the biggest threat know that this and last winter are not normal. human existence has ever faced. The future is This January, for example, there were multiple uncertain and change is undeniable, but we have days where the actual highs and actual lows were the opportunity to react to these changes with more than 20 degrees just and sustainable warmer than average solutions. highs and lows of the I do not have past. Although these the answers, but as odd local weather a collective, we do. patterns are difficult As individuals on to discern, the overall this small campus trends of weather are in a small part of a testament to planethis globe, awareness tary changes resulting followed by personal from human-caused and political responsibility should shape climate change. our actions. Read a I remember how book (McKibben, many people this Hansen, or Klein are fall talked about the good starting places), upcoming winter subscribe to Insidebeing one of the Climate News, join worst on record in an environmentally Chicago. That forecast came from the focused organization Source: University Archives; Source: Moriah Lavey Farmer’s Almanac, on campus, start A February day in 1918 compared to one in 2017. Climate change has produced unpredictable winters, with abnormal weather patterns just one result of global warming. which predicted this conversations, call winter to be “numbyour senators and ing cold” and for snowfall to be above average. keep them accountable, guide your everyday deciHow does this relate to the poorly predicted Act that requires safe levels of mercury in the air. sions using an ecocentric rather than egocentric Given that I, and many others, wore shorts “Chiberia” winter? Storms are longer, more comPresident Donald Trump supports his efforts to mon and harder to predict. Precipitation patterns ideals and, most importantly, don’t lose faith. The during the sunny and warm last week of a mild roll back regulation and “overreach” by the federal that were once familiar are now changing. Worse, planet that sustains our very existence is worth February, the Farmer’s Almanac seems to have government, including the Clean Water and Air the change is self-reproducing in a feedback loop fighting for. missed its mark. Acts as well as Barack Obama’s 2015 plan to The Farmer’s Almanac has been published since that is tragically ironic (e.g. sea ice melts because combat climate change. of increased temperature, less ice cover attracts Moriah Lavey is a Weinberg sophomore. She can 1792 and is based on different patterns of climate Trump and Pruitt’s ideological fight against be contacted at moriahlavey2019@u.northwestern. that we are familiar with. Unfortunately, the planet more sunlight, which melts more ice). The botched regulation goes too far. Environmental regulations prediction of this winter is just one manifestation edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this we are living on is no longer familiar. Because of in the United States are nowhere near as stringent of the disconnect between the world we are used column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@ human’s incessant use of fossil fuels, the average as they should be to maintain “safe” levels of climate change, considered to be two degrees Celsius dailynorthwestern.com. The views expressed in this global temperature is up almost one degree Celsius to and the world we have induced through an above normal levels. Despite the belief of some, addiction to burning CO2. Yet despite this, our piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff (more than a degree and a half Fahrenheit). Some these regulations are not antithetical to economic political leaders are doing little to keep human members of The Daily Northwestern. results of this drastic change are an increase in thunderstorms, a decrease in Arctic ice, sea level rise, increased wildfires, droughts and other natural disasters. These issues challenge our current economic, social and political institutions and threaten our very existence. As Bill McKibben puts it in his powerful book, “Eaarth: Making Life on a Tough New Planet,” we are currently living in conditions unlike those any human civilization is accustomed to.
civilization safe. On Feb. 17, former Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt was confirmed as the head of the Environmental Protection Agency. Pruitt does not believe in anthropogenic climate change, has questionable ties to the fossil fuel industry and has been involved in 14 different cases suing the EPA for environmental regulations. For example, he fought against a provision of the Clean Air
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with five candidates forced him to spend more money. Hagerty received about 44 percent of the vote compared to Tendam’s 20 percent in Tuesday’s primary. The candidate spent roughly 68 percent of his money on some form of political consulting. About $36,000 was paid to KNI Communications, a Chicago-based consulting agency, for digital advertising, campaign consulting and voter data analysis. Another roughly $19,100 was paid to Evanstonbased consulting firm Powering Campaigns for field work, canvassing and flyer distribution. Tendam has spent most of his money on fundraisers at restaurants including Curt’s Cafe and Hecky’s Barbecue. He said he came into the primary
with better name recognition than Hagerty, but to stay competitive going forward he needs to double his current funds. “We have to reach out to the people who supported the other three opponents,”Tendam said. “I don’t have the means to (spend as much as Hagerty), so we have to be smarter about how we spend our money.” As the candidates move toward the general election, Tendam said he would place an emphasis on fundraising. Over the next month, he said, his campaign will launch a mailer, place more print advertisements and go canvassing. Tendam acknowledged his opponent’s fundraising advantage, but said he did not think spending big was the best way to run a campaign. “When the money’s not there, people donate their hours because they believe in the candidate,”
he said. “(Hagerty is) a businessman; he’s doing it the way he knows how to do business. I’m in politics; I’m doing it the way I believe politics should be done. “ For his part, Hagerty said his team would discuss fundraising as part of its strategy over the next month leading up to the April 4 general election. Creating the kind of name recognition enjoyed by Tendam costs money, Hagerty said, but he viewed his personal donations as an investment in Evanston. “I spent a lot of time with a lot of different organizations … and I support many of them financially,” he said. “I kind of view this bid for mayor in the same light.” Nora Shelly contributed reporting.
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McCormick Prof. Koray Aydin won the 2017 Young Investigator Program award from the Office of Naval Research for his work in nanophotonic materials and devices. Aydin, who is an assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science, will receive $510,000 over three years for his research in “the design of dynamic optical components that adapt to their environment,” according to a news release. The Young Investigator Program award is presented to scientists and engineers with the potential of conducting creative research. The money will be used for “novel optical components whose properties can be tuned and controlled with an external stimulus such as optical, electronic or thermal stimulation.” “This great honor recognizes our work at the forefront of nanophotonics,” Aydin said in the news release. “Our work has huge potential to advance technologies relevant to the Navy and Department of Defense.” Aydin’s work focuses on nanophotonics, which studies the behavior of light on a nanometer scale and how objects on the nanometer scale interact with light. Through his research, he is trying to not only understand the interaction between light and nanoscale photonic materials but also control and manipulate these interactions. Aydin expressed high hopes for the future of his research group following the award. “The award will not only support my research program, but it also will bring additional visibility to my research group,” Aydin said in the release. — Catherine Kim
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NU launches summer program combining English, Spansih
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Northwestern’s Center for Talent Development will launch a two-way immersion program that combines Spanish and English with improv classes for elementary school students this summer. The two-way immersion program, called “Jugando con el Lenguaje” or “Playing with Language,” will be held from June 25 through July 14 for fourth through sixth graders. Children who are fluent in either English or Spanish are put in a class together to learn and interact in both languages. In addition to learning how to perform, students will learn about stage performance as part of the improv class, said course designer Danielle Holtz. Activities will be added throughout the program to support their language skills development as well, such as dictating word choice in English or Spanish to help them learn how to have more deliberate control over their speech, she said. “The goal is to make them better communicators in the end,” she said. Evanston/Skokie School District 65 has been hosting two-way immersion programs since 2000 to “increase proficiency in both English and Spanish” and “help develop positive attitudes about language and multiculturalism,” according to the district’s website. Communication sciences and disorders Prof. Viorica Marian said, based on her study of Evanston bilingual students in two-way immersion programs, that those in this specific bilingual program have higher performance levels than their peers. She added that these multilingual classes can have several positive social outcomes for children. Not only do they lead to greater awareness of self and linguistic skills, but they also boost interpersonal skills, cultural awareness and confidence, she said. The classes break down barriers and help them have a better perspective of others, she said. “Anytime we interact with individuals from other cultures, other languages, it leads to better understanding of their similarities and things that unite us as people,” she said. catherinekim2020@u.northwestern.edu
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benefits. When the University makes decisions unilaterally, it decreases the security of students, he said. “The goal is to bring all of that into the fold and to speak as a unionized voice, which isn’t an easy task to do,” Ward said. Northwestern’s graduate student unionization effort picked up speed after Aug. 23, when the National Labor Relations Board ruled that graduate students working as teaching and research assistants at private universities have the right to unionize. The case, brought by Columbia University, overturned a previous decision made in 2004. But among the group of impassioned activists seeking unionization at NU, a divide has emerged about which union to rally around. This split presents a challenge for graduate students who simultaneously face University opposition to their unionization effort. Matilda Stubbs, a ninth-year graduate student in NU’s anthropology department, said she has felt discouraged by arguments among graduate students. And after the election of President Donald Trump,
FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 2017 processes,” Schapiro said. “I just think it’s a bad move.” Anthony Pinelli, a labor law attorney in Chicago, said graduate students are not independent contractors and must work in the confines of an institution that controls hours of work, payment plans and the rules that govern faculty-student interactions. “We have a system in this country where being an employee leads you to benefits,” Pinelli said. “The University has control over these individuals and they control conduct, yet they escape treating them as employees.” Troubles with communication In fall 2012, Stubbs said she learned that NU had substituted its dental insurance for an alternative plan that saved the university money. Stubbs said she received no information or communication from the University on the decision and added that the original insurance had reasonable co-pays and other coverage. Cubbage said the dental insurance program was discontinued because it was underutilized by the student body. TGS was not consulted on the decision, he said. Stubbs then reached out to administrators after
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Matharr Bayo stands in front of a crowd of union supporters at Loyola University Chicago. The Loyola junior said teacher’s rights directly impact his experience as a student.
graduate students are aware of the likelihood that a new conservative-leaning NLRB could reverse the decision. “In our current political environment, I don’t think we have the privilege to debate (which) union is better than another,” Stubbs said. “Well, look who is president. Do you really think we should take two years to distill our collective? No, we have to move forward.” Power struggle If not for federal grants and an employed spouse, Robin Hoecker (Communication ’16) said she would have had to drop out of The Graduate School. When Hoecker came to NU in 2010, she said the University offered no additional support for mothers like her. “I know a lot of single parents who at the time were trying to survive on $23,000 with a child,” Hoecker said. “It is just ridiculous.” In 2014, before the NLRB decided graduate students at private universities should have the right to unionize, Hoecker established the Student Parent Alliance at NU. She said she provided recommendations to the University for improving the lives of graduate student parents. But when NU created a task force in September 2015 to look into the recommendations, administrators did not include anyone from the Student Parent Alliance, Hoecker said. “They shut us out,” she said. “If you are going to advocate for my interests, I want to know that the person is independent of the University and doesn’t have an institutional backing.” Despite getting increased benefits such as longer parental leave and access to a child care grant in the fall, Hoecker said there needs to be a formalized structure for graduate student representation. Northwestern has taken an unwavering stance in opposition to graduate student unionization. University spokesman Al Cubbage told The Daily in an email that collective bargaining is not an appropriate method to address graduate student concerns. “While we recognize and respect the decision made by the NLRB, Northwestern University has always regarded its graduate students as students, first and foremost, and has been steadfast in its commitment to support, mentor, and train them,” Cubbage said in the email. In a January interview with The Daily, University President Morton Schapiro said unionization has the potential to weaken the relationship between professors and graduate students. Schapiro contrasted the graduate student unionization effort to NU’s nontenure eligible faculty unionization effort, which has been stalled for months over disputes about whether certain ballots qualified in a union election held in July. “In terms of grad students, I feel much more strongly that it’s a mistake, but I respect democratic
finding out about the change. “This lack of communication as our employer and health coverage provider deeply concerns me and I would like to know what steps can be taken to bring the previous dental coverage option back and in the future, improve transparency regarding changing policies of our employment benefits,” she said in a September 2012 email to TGS Dean Dwight McBride. McBride did not directly respond to a request for comment, but his executive assistant deferred to Cubbage. “When the TGS Dean was alerted of the change, the dental insurance program was immediately reinstated, and all students were advised that the plan was again available to them,” Cubbage told The Daily in an email. Stubbs said administrators reached out to her and other graduate students about their concerns and said the original dental insurance plan was reinstated later that year. A lack of communication between the administration and students has frustrated her over the last few years, Stubbs said. “We have (Graduate Leadership Advocacy Council), but they would even agree that they don’t actually make any decisions, and they aren’t really consulted,” Stubbs said. According to its website, GLAC aims to give students an opportunity to voice concerns to administrators and to participate in the decision making process. But many pro-union students have voiced concerns about its effectiveness. GLAC President Amanda Kleintop and Katherine Simeon, the council’s communication chair, did not respond to multiple requests for comment. Cubbage said TGS has and will continue to work closely with GLAC. He said the University would be open to establishing a formalized graduate student government similar to Associated Student Government, which is run by undergraduates. “The University has also welcomed and included our graduate students in the shared-governance process, such as identifying graduate students to serve on institutional task forces, offering a clear path by which to voice opinions and identify possible solutions,” Cubbage told The Daily in an email. Seeking representation Even before August’s NLRB ruling, sixth-year graduate student Jackson Bartlett had already been in contact with representatives from the Service Employees International Union, Local 73. SEIU was working with non-tenure eligible faculty at NU, and Bartlett said it made sense to him for the union to continue its efforts to work on behalf of graduate students. “We were well underway in the union authorization
drive,” said Bartlett, who is in the African American Studies Department. “There were not two unions on campus. There was one; it was us.” Meanwhile, NUGW decided to start a relationship with the American Federation of Teachers shortly after the NLRB decision. Since aligning itself with AFT at the end of Fall Quarter, NUGW has picked up momentum in the past few months, causing tension among some graduate students. “SEIU is an important union, and I wouldn’t want to be dismissive,” Ward said. “They have organized well with service staff and restaurant workers, but we didn’t feel that was enough to represent a graduate student body.” At an October debate sponsored by NUGW between AFT and SEIU, the two factions clashed on a public stage. Though Ward said the event was one of the best ways for graduate students to learn about the unionization process and get a better sense of which union to affiliate with, Bartlett said he believes debating publicly was misguided, as it put the two sides’ differences on display. This tension resulted in what Bartlett called a “sham election,” as NUGW left SEIU off the ballot on a vote deciding whether to affiliate with a union. Eli Lichtenstein, a member of NUGW and a firstyear Ph.D. candidate in philosophy, said he was in contact with SEIU representatives throughout the affiliation proposal process. SEIU’s proposal was submitted hours before the deadline, and he said it did not include enough information about a governance structure, how decisions would be made or the norms of communication. Bartlett said leaving SEIU off the ballot was not an accurate representation of the graduate student body, but exclusively NUGW members. Ward said almost all graduate students were aware of the vote before it took place. Lichtenstein said NUGW is comprised of some members who have sought support for unionization from sources other than SEIU. SEIU representatives ultimately chose not revise their affiliation proposal, and NUGW sent the proposal through its listserv the next day to inform graduate students about the group’s efforts. Graduate students in NUGW voted to affiliate with AFT, without an option for SEIU on the ballot. As reported in December, among the 115 people in NUGW, nearly 81 percent voted to affiliate with AFT, the largest higher education union in the country, and its state chapter, while just over 19 percent voted to not affiliate with the union. “They are trying to control the narrative,” said Bartlett, referring to NUGW members. “We have been surprised that they are out there telling the press that we are gone, that we are off campus. We are ready to go.” Though tensions run high on both sides, the two groups of graduate students see common ground in
“They are temporary residents so therefore a lot of students, depending on their background, could be hesitant to talking and speaking out,” Shankar said. “Under this current (Trump) administration you can understand the concerns and paranoia of not saying anything.” Shankar said he recognizes graduate students’ role as both students and employees but does not consider them separate. “I don’t see them as mutually exclusive,” Shankar said. “They are all part of an integrated and holistic philosophy of education.” Under the F-1 visa, students are unable to work outside of an on-campus job during their first year and may only work in off-campus jobs that are directly related to their studies and approved by the Designated School Official and United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. Shankar said teaching assistant stipends are important for giving financial resources to help international students. Narayan said she is most nervous about the current political climate and how it will affect immigrants. Though the University has to abide by federal laws, a union would allow NU to better support international students, she said. “Having a union to put pressure on the University to lobby the government or pay attention to these issues as it affects the campus could be very powerful,” Narayan said. “Being a part of an organized collective can only help with all the uncertainties that we are going to face in the next four years because of the political situation.” “Domino effect” Last winter, non-tenure eligible faculty at Loyola University Chicago and University of Chicago successfully filed with the NLRB to affiliate with SEIU. Last month, graduate students at Loyola followed in their footsteps. Juliana Locke, a second-year master’s student in the Divinity School at UChicago, said she sees similarities between the movement at UChicago and NU, as both have had to work around the fast pace of a quarter system. Locke said she is optimistic that graduate students’ efforts across the country will help create a “domino effect,” and that media coverage and an increased support for unionization will make it easier to organize. On Wednesday, SEIU hosted a rally at Loyola to show solidarity with graduate students and nontenure eligible faculty who are currently bargaining with the administration. Matharr Bayo, a Loyola junior who spoke at the rally, said he wants undergraduates from universities throughout Chicago to get involved in supporting both teaching assistants and non-tenure eligible faculty. “Chicago has always been a hotbed of political activism,” Bayo said. “It is up to us to continue that and organizing teachers all throughout Chicago, and it will
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Service Employees International Union, Local 73 supporters and representatives gather outside Cudahy Hall at Loyola University Chicago on Wednesday. Activists marched in solidarity with graduate students and nontenure eligible faculty who are in the process of bargaining with Loyola.
the ultimate goal of unionizing. Bartlett and Ward both said they would accept final outcomes if the NLRB conducts a vote. Until then, the two groups continue collecting union cards, hoping to gain enough to file with the NLRB. Graduate students would need 30 percent of the student population to sign union cards before filing. A precarious position Sneha Narayan, a fifth-year graduate student from India, said advocating for unionization leaves international students vulnerable. “I have had moments wondering if I should rock the boat in any way,” Narayan said. “We have a lot to lose because our visa status is entirely dependent on if we are enrolled in the University.” Ravi Shankar, director of the International Office, said some international students may be reluctant to speak out on controversial issues such as unionization.
be a great step to take back that power that was taken from us with this new (presidential) administration.” Based on the unionization efforts at Loyola and UChicago, it is unknown how long it would take for NU graduate students to sign a binding contract, said David Andrews, a member of Loyola’s non-tenure eligible faculty. Andrews said forming a union is only the beginning. Based on his experience, he said he fears graduate students are a long way from signing a binding contract. “The pace of negotiations is so slow we have been stuck on this one issue for almost six meetings,” Andrews said. “The people across the table seem to disagree with every single thing we say. We want to put the pressure on the university to stop stalling and quit trying to wait for Trump’s new NLRB to stop us.” samkrevlin2019@u.northwestern.edu
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policy barring administrators and public relations staff from participating in the editing or having control of the content of journals edited by faculty or students. “It is preposterous to ask that a public relations individual be enshrined on the boards of every publication that comes out of our institution,” Stern said. “That was a flagrant violation of Dreger’s academic freedom.” Kipnis published an op-ed in February 2015 critiquing policies barring sexual relations between faculty and students, citing a case in which two students filed sexual assault complaints against former philosophy Prof. Peter Ludlow and criticized the University for an insufficient sanction. Two philosophy graduate students filed Title IX retaliation complaints against Kipnis that March, stating Kipnis’ op-ed created a hostile environment for students who brought Title IX concerns to the University, including survivors of sexual assault. University-hired lawyers ruled in June 2015 that
Kipnis had not violated Title IX. The University has since revised its sexual misconduct policy, according to the report, stating the Title IX Office may close a case of alleged misconduct if the Title IX coordinator deems there is insufficient information following an initial inquiry into the report. The committee’s report states if this policy had been in place at the time of Kipnis’ case, “it is likely that no investigation would have taken place.” In response to the Kipnis case, the committee recommended the University adopt new language in its sexual misconduct policy specifying harassment must be “objectively unreasonable” and that expression occurring in an academic, educational or research context does not constitute harassment unless it is “targeted at a specific person … is abusive, and serves no bona fide academic purpose.” Although the report was presented to Faculty Senate, it was not voted on or endorsed by Senate and only represented the views of the members of the ad hoc committee, Faculty Senate President Laurie Zoloth told The Daily in an email. Prof. Baron Reed, a senator for the Department
of Philosophy, said though the report contained recommendations, it does not carry the status of a formal set of recommendations to the administration, which would have required further consideration from Senate. Dreger said she was happy with the recommendations related to her case, calling her experience “traumatic” and “terrifically disappointing.” Dreger said she did not want to resign from Northwestern, but was pushed into that position, having to choose between continuing the integrity of her work or caring for her colleagues, who she said feared their program would be punished by the administration for continuing their work. Dreger added that she did not have support systems at the time to challenge the administration’s actions and that the report demonstrated faculty finally standing up for her. She said the appeals process only focuses on protecting tenure-track faculty and despite her protesting the actions to the provost and dean of Feinberg, and “outing” the administration to the national media, no one at the time offered to help her challenge the administration except for the Feinberg professor who resigned
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Former Feinberg Prof. Alice Dreger speaks to Northwestern students in 2015 about her resignation. An ad hoc committee presented a report to Faculty Senate on Wednesday recommending the University issue Dreger an apology.
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those allegations,” Schapiro told The Daily in a February interview. “I couldn’t believe it.” In the month since those allegations came to light, Interfraternity Council suspended its social events, SAE’s national headquarters put its NU chapter under a “cease-and desist order” and students have made demands of the University through protest, petition and student government resolution. Students have called for changes ranging from bolstered resources for survivors to an immediate suspension of SAE. For nearly a month, these allegations have remained at the center of student activism on campus, sparking debate over whether Greek life should continue to exist at NU. The University has yet to make public any new developments in the investigation, but students and staff are focusing their efforts on new measures to help prevent sexual assault on campus and support survivors. Schapiro, who said there is a “wall” between himself and Title IX investigations, said he could see both the positives and negatives of fraternities and sororities on campus. “I think at their best they provide safe spaces, just like Hillel and Sheil and Black House and the Multicultural Center,” Schapiro said. “At their worst, they’re horrific.” Since 2008, the year Schapiro became university president, the University has removed one fraternity for student conduct violations. The University also temporarily suspended Delta Upsilon in 2013 — the chapter reopened at Northwestern a few years later — and two other fraternities were closed by their national chapters, Jason McKean, interim director of the Office of Student Conduct, said in an email. One of the fraternities closed by its national headquarters is Sigma Phi Epsilon, which has since returned to campus. In response to people writing to him asking why the University doesn’t kick SAE off campus immediately, Schapiro said he typically replies saying that the University needs to finish its investigation before taking action. “I just write, first thing is you investigate, and then you consider all options,” he said. “That’s what they’re doing.” SAE is under investigation by its national organization for “separate sexual-assault and alcohol violations regarding the group,” according to a statement from the national headquarters, which
is based in Evanston. IFC president Rodney Orr said he harbors his own criticisms of the institutions even as a leader in Greek life, noting the “toxic masculinity” that remains baked into much of fraternity culture. Orr said although a lot of fraternity members with leadership positions are engaged on issues of sexual assault prevention, it can be difficult to make sure the message resonates with all the general members. As IFC works with administrators and students to pinpoint how the institution might reduce the likelihood of sexual assault, Orr said there is currently no plan for lifting the suspension on social activities. “We really didn’t put a timeline on it,” the SESP junior said. “We think it’s more important to make sure that we can really create the structural change internally and make the community more of a safer place.” Molly Benedict, executive director of Sexual Health and Assault Peer Educators, said the group is still in the process of creating training material to present regularly to IFC. Meanwhile, the Weinberg senior said there have been increased requests for the group’s “Rape Culture 101” presentation. The group typically receives one request per quarter, and rarely from fraternities, she said. Following the safety alert, Benedict said three fraternities requested the seminar. Orr said IFC has been using the ban on social activities to reassess the council’s policies on risk management and alcohol. IFC recently passed an amendment to their constitution requiring a member of each chapter to be trained by Men Against Rape and Sexual Assault and SHAPE, Orr said. MARS President Dan Loizzo, a Weinberg senior, said no specifics of the trainings had been finalized, but the sessions would focus on how to be a responsible bystander in preventing sexual assault. Orr said the hope was that requiring each chapter have a member educated in talking about these issues would create a “grassroots” movement. IFC is also looking into centralizing policy concerning alcohol at off-campus events, Orr said, but has no concrete changes in mind. Panhellenic Association declined to comment for this story. As the director of the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life on campus, Travis Martin believes there is a place for Greek life on campus despite “valid concerns” about its systemic issues. Martin
said fraternities and sororities provide a space for students to call home and spend time with those they see as “like-minded people.” After the allegations were made public, Martin said OFSL has been working to educate students in Greek life on Title IX policy. “It takes one thing to overshadow all the good stuff we do,” Martin said. “We really can’t hide or put our heads in the sand about the bad things we have in our community by just saying, look at all the goods things we do.” This time, that “one thing” came in the form of the brief email notifying students of the alleged assaults on a Monday night in February. The alert came as a result of adherence to the Clery Act, a 1990 federal law requiring the University to release information deemed a “serious or continuing threat to the campus community” to students in a timely manner. Dan McAleer, deputy chief of administrative services at University Police, told The Daily that in his more than 35 years with the department, he does not recall another security alert involving
out of protest with Dreger. “That was absolutely ridiculous in terms of the expectations of us to bow to the brand of the hospital to decide what we would and wouldn’t publish,” Dreger said. “So I’m really hoping for an apology.” Provost Dan Linzer declined to comment for this story, saying Faculty Senate had not formally presented him a copy of the report. Linzer told The Daily in an email that he will not comment on the report before it is voted on in Senate. Feinberg Dean Eric Neilson did not respond for comment by the time of publication. Other faculty members critiqued the methodology of the report, which was based entirely on public information and did not involve reaching out to individuals involved in the incidents. Reed said though the report offered valid insight into general issues of academic freedom, he believes the committee did not adequately research the specific incidents to make a balanced assessment or recommendations as they only looked in publicly available information, Reed said. “The parts that were commenting on specific cases should have been left out of the report,” Reed said. “Instead they should have focused on the more general issues around academic freedom.” Kipnis also questioned the research behind her case in the report. The report said the current language used in NU’s sexual misconduct policy would have prevented the incident had it been in place at the time. Kipnis said the committee should have done more investigation into what authority had decided to pursue the Title IX case against her, and she questioned the decision to vest so much authority in the Title IX coordinator on whether to pursue cases. Stern, who served on the committee, justified the decision to only use public information, stating the purpose of the report was not to investigate the merits of any party of either case. Rather, it seeked to identify how the incidents escalated and propose measures to prevent similar incidents from happening in the future. Stern said she is optimistic the administration will heed the recommendations in the report. “(The administration has) no desire to find themselves caught up in either of those situations,” Stern said. “I think they’re going to welcome what’s been shared with them.” Koppelman, who led the committee, said he doesn’t concern himself with how the administration will respond and that the report was intended merely to provide an unbiased assessment. “We made mere recommendations. We have no power,” he said. “Now somebody who has the power to do something will have to actually do it.” matthewchoi2018@u.northwestern.edu fraternities. McAleer said crime alerts on cases of alleged sexual assault have been infrequent over his tenure, but have been issued. He said there were two sexual assault-related crime alerts sent out over the past three years, with one alleged to have occurred on campus. Gloria Graham, deputy chief of police, confirmed that UP received information about the anonymous reports alleging sexual assaults and druggings on Feb. 6, hours before sending out the safety alert. In alignment with University policy, UP can take time to consult with various NU offices before issuing a “timely warning” such as the one sent on Feb. 6. When asked whether he thinks Greek life — which more than a third of undergraduates at NU are part of — could ever be entirely disbanded at NU, Schapiro said he doubted it. “I think it’s really pretty unlikely,” Schapiro said. “I think they have a thousand beds.” juliajacobs2018@u.northwestern.edu norashelly2019@u.northwestern.edu
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Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity was put under a “cease-and-desist order” from its national headquarters after the University sent out an alert about an anonymous report alleging multiple sexual assaults and possible druggings there. The University said in early February that the Sexual Harassment Prevention Office is investigating the report.
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Hope for grand bargain dissipates in state Senate By NORA SHELLY
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Republican support for a package of “grand bargain” bills in the Illinois Senate unexpectedly dissipated this week after alleged interference from the governor’s office. Sen. John Cullerton (D-Chicago) said Wednesday that planned voting on the package of bills was postponed after he was told several Republican lawmakers were planning on voting down several of the bills included in the package. The grand bargain was negotiated by Cullerton and Senate minority leader Christine Radogno (R-Lemont) and has been working its way through the Senate since the new General Assembly was sworn in last month. The bills include measures to raise income taxes, reform pensions and consolidate local
governments in an attempt to alleviate the state budget impasse, which has been ongoing for nearly two years. A stopgap spending bill passed in June 2016 ran out on Jan. 1, cutting off funding for some state and social services. The grand bargain received hesitant bipartisan support and apparent encouragement from Gov. Bruce Rauner, who lauded senators for their work on it during his annual budget address earlier this month. The bills were designed to not go into effect lest all of them passed. On Tuesday, several bills included in the package were passed, except a pension reform bill which failed to get a majority of votes but was held for later decision. Cullerton said Wednesday that Radogno warned him several Republican senators were advised by the governor’s office to vote no on several of the measures in the package. “This has been a bipartisan venture, and it’s going to take support from both sides of the
aisle to pass this legislation,” Cullerton said Wednesday. “Unfortunately I’ve been informed that the governor has decided to interject himself in this process and doesn’t want this approved in this form.” Cullerton said he was still committed to working the plan through the Senate. Radogno remained hopeful about the plan, calling it the “most frustrating but rewarding experience” in her time as a legislator. “Our state is suffering so badly right now, and I know how many of us in this chamber — I think almost without exception — want us to get the budget together so we can move forward,” she said. “There is no question in my mind that we are going to bring this thing in for a landing.” During a news conference Wednesday, Cullerton expressed disappointment with the turn of events. He called the package “essential” to the governor’s budget plan, which accounts for
a millions-dollar deficit by reasoning the grand bargain plan will save the state money. Cullerton said he hadn’t yet talked to Rauner, but that the next move was the governor’s. “The compromise is there, the governor has got to realize this is as good as it’s going to get,” he said. “He’s got to grow up and get this solved; he’s the governor.” Cullerton said the package of bills was a “very fair” compromise and called on the governor to voice his concerns. In a statement, a spokesperson for the governor said they encourage senators “to keep working toward a good deal for taxpayers.” “We appreciate the hard work of the Senate in trying to pass a bipartisan agreement that can become law,” she said in the statement. “Some progress has been made, but more work is needed to achieve a good deal for taxpayers.” norashelly2019@u.northwestern.edu
Clerk Rodney Greene maintains passion for civic service By SYD STONE
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Originally from Washington D.C. and having lived in Atlanta for several years, City Clerk Rodney Greene said he never felt more at home than when he came to Evanston just shy of 30 years ago. The 66-year-old Greene said one of the things he loves most about Evanston is its diverse communities, especially where he lives in the 2000 block of Brown Avenue. Greene said he knows all his neighbors and feels like a “surrogate father” to the children who grew up on his block in west Evanston. “I find that the people in Evanston are very friendly and open,” he said. “They’re willing to lay out their heart to you and not feel like you are going to label them.” Greene worked at Emory University’s hospital in Atlanta as a research associate for four years before moving to Evanston. Although he originally came to the city to work as a research associate in cardiothoracic surgery at the Feinberg School of
Medicine, Greene said he quickly realized he was meant to play a larger role in the community. In 2008, Greene found an outlet for his passion for public service. Former Evanston mayor Lorraine Morton, who said she’s known Greene for decades, appointed Greene as interim City Clerk after then-clerk Mary Morris stepped down in the middle of her term in 2008. “Since then he’s had to run on his own,” she said, laughing. “I told him he needed to shape up that office and get it in the correct working order, and that’s what he did.” Since being appointed, Greene has become a certified Master Municipal Clerk and belongs to the International Institute of Municipal Clerks, through which he mentors other clerks. Greene said he’s sought this training so he can improve the office. “He’s gone to a lot of conferences to learn how to be a good city clerk, and I think those have helped him to understand the job,” current Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl said. Greene is very in touch with Evanston community members, Morton said.
“Working as a city clerk to me is all about the people themselves; what I can do for them, how I can serve. I have an open door policy where anybody can come in at anytime,” Greene said. “My job is more of an interpersonal relationship with those who come into my office.” From his conversations with residents, Greene realized that some people might not be physically able to come into his office to fill out necessary forms to sell their properties, so he introduced online forms to make it easier for everyone. Morton said she recalled one election day when Greene brought chairs for people who couldn’t stand while they waited in line to vote. “I have to give Rodney credit,” Morton said. “He’s very sensitive to the needs of the community. I think that’s very commendable.” When he isn’t working at the Civic Center, Greene enjoys photography, poetry, singing and acting. Greene, who also said he is a preacher, is involved in many sectors of the community. He reads to students at local elementary schools and works with the Foster Senior Club of Evanston,
local churches and the Kiwanis Club. “He’s affable too, he’s not a grouchy guy, and he’s not pompous at all,” Morton said. Greene, who is running for reelection this spring, said he has the training and education to do the job. Devon Reid, Greene’s sole opponent in the April municipal election, said he would try to turn the clerk’s office into a more public role, fighting homelessness and enhancing voter participation. Greene emphasized that the city clerk does not make policy or create ordinances or solutions. Essentially, Greene said, clerks are nothing more than “educated secretaries and librarians.” Greene said that he thinks promising Evanston residents new policies that cannot legally be instituted by a city clerk is a “disservice” to the community. “I’m not a politician, and I don’t make promises I can’t keep,” he said. Kristina Karisch contributed reporting. sydstone2020@u.northwestern.edu
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After an 18-year career at the Chicago Tribune and six years at Northwestern, Medill Prof. Louise Kiernan is finishing up the quarter at the University before starting her career as the first editor in chief of ProPublica Illinois. Although she said she loves teaching at NU, Kiernan had always told herself that if the perfect opportunity came along, she would like to return to the newsroom. As the nonprofit organization’s first regional publishing unit, ProPublica Illinois specializes in investigative journalism and is seeking to improve its journalistic efforts through state-based expansion, beginning with Chicago. “This was such a rare opportunity to work for an organization that I really admire,” Kiernan said. “And to build something new, that’s really unusual these days. It felt like the right time, too. It feels to me that there’s no better time to be a journalist than right now.” ProPublica announced its choice to make Kiernan editor on Feb. 21. She will lead a staff of about 10 journalists at the new Chicago-based headquarters starting April 4. Kiernan has won numerous awards and recognitions, including the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for her involvement as lead writer of a profile on problems with the American air traffic system. In addition, she has reported on topics including ex-offenders, mental illness and child homicide. She has also directed coverage on housing, immigration, welfare reform and juvenile justice during her time as the Tribune’s urban affairs team editor. Kiernan said she appreciates the fact that ProPublica is a startup, as it gives the publication an “energy and willingness to experiment” that a legacy media organization wouldn’t necessarily have. ProPublica credits its selection of Kiernan to her involvement at NU as well as her accomplishments during her career at the Tribune as a reporter and editor, according to a news
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release. She most recently served as the Tribune’s enterprise editor, leading her team to report on in-depth features in the city, before coming to NU in 2010. Medill Prof. Mei-Ling Hopgood said Kiernan’s involvement in the NU Social Justice News Nexus will shape her role as editor in chief. As the student fellowship director of the nexus, Kiernan helps graduate students and community journalists pursue in-depth stories on social issues. “She’s just incredibly creative and committed to investigative journalism and enthusiastic about what she does,” Hopgood said. “That will really carry over into her work at ProPublica.” Medill junior Nina Matti, one of Kiernan’s academic advisees, said she believes ProPublica’s focus on social justice issues makes it the “perfect” fit for Kiernan. Matti said Kiernan’s genuine desire for each of her students to succeed is a trait that will distinguish her role as a leader at the new unit. “Equality is something she definitely strives for,” Matti said. “She wants everyone to have an equal shot at success. She’s such a caring person — that’s what stands out to me most about her.” kristineliao2020@u.northwestern.edu
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From page 12 Moss’ energy. “Right off the bat I really liked his personality,” she said. “He was very forthcoming, very open, really easy to talk to.” Moss learned for two years under Schiller, who had been NU’s coach since 1978. Under Schiller’s guidance, the team finished in the top-ten in the country for 17 straight season. He also won Midwest Fencing Conference coach of the year 11 times, including his last two with Moss as his assistant. However, Schiller announced before the 20152016 campaign that it would be his final season. Moss was immediately named as his successor and took over after a year in which the Cats won the Midwest Fencing Conference Championships. Even though Moss had been around the program for two seasons as an assistant, he said he has still faced a learning curve. And even though he learned a lot under Schiller, he knows the program will be different with its first new coach in 38 years.
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From page 12 pick up the doubles point in three of their four toughest matches. “She’s grown and learned a lot,” Pollard said of Larner. “She’s worked really hard mentally and to improve her game and her serve has improved. … She’s going to get some big time wins. It’s just a matter of time.” Beyond Larner, the doubles team of juniors Alex Chatt and Maddie Lipp has added a layer of success to NU’s play. The Cats are 7-2 in doubles this
FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 2017 “Change is hard for people,” he said. “There’s no way I’m gonna be Laurie. Good or bad, I’m a different person, so getting upperclassmen on board is a challenge. We have a team of 11 seniors, so that transition and those changes are a hard thing to work through.” This season, the team has stayed in the top-ten nationally for the whole year. It’s been an up-anddown season, with losses to unranked teams but a near-upset of then-No 2. Princeton and a win over then-No. 4 Ohio State. NU finished behind the Buckeyes in the MFC Championships this past weekend, taking second place behind the conference powerhouse. Every time a new coach takes over, the inevitable question becomes: will the upperclassmen buy in? Or will they be disappointed that the coach who recruited them is no longer part of the program? Moss’ seniors said they have bought in, in part due to the fact that they knew him and worked with him before he became head coach. Senior sabre Cindy season, with the duo leading them to five of their doubles points. Still, NU needs consistency throughout its lineup to compete with the nation’s best. Thus far, the Cats have lost every match at Nos. 3 and 4 singles against top-25 opponents. But sophomore Rheeya Doshi, who is 0-4 at No. 3 against ranked competitors, said she is not worried. “We’re playing good schools,” she said. “I feel like it’s great competition. It’s making us tougher, so it should be good preparation for later in the season.” josephwilkinson2019@u.northwestern.edu
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Oh said Moss relies more on new technology like watching film, something that wasn’t widely used in fencing until recently. Oh said Moss’ laid-back personality is a stark contrast from Schiller’s intense approach. But she said his quiet demeanor doesn’t hold him back. “Zach is a little more passive,” she said. “He isn’t really in your face or super vocal, which is exactly what Laurie was.” Schiller said he hasn’t been very involved with the team this season and wants it to be that way because he doesn’t want Moss to feel like he has someone looking over his shoulder. Moss wants to build on the successful program Schiller built at NU and eventually compete for a national championship. “It’s a hard place to be, but that’s ultimately where I’d like to see the team going,” he said. And if Schiller’s lengthy term in Evanston is any indication, he’ll have more than plenty of time to get it done.
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only 5 points in the final period as Iowa charged and briefly took the lead. That’s when Coffey got some help from familiar sources. She and NU’s other standout seniors combined to score the last 10 points as the Cats came back from a 1-point deficit to retake the lead and ice the game down the stretch. Christen Inman’s jumper with 3:30 remaining came as part of a quiet 11-point outing and returned NU to the lead for good. Lauren Douglas and Ashley Deary then went a perfect 6-of-6 at the line in the final 15 seconds. The consistency at the line was a pleasant surprise for the Cats, who have been “streaky” at the stripe, McKeown said. Though NU is fifth in the Big Ten in free throw percentage, the Cats have had a handful of poor outings at the line, like a 5-of-12 effort at Michigan. Still, the coach said he was confident in his seniors in crunch time. “I like us at the line,” McKeown said. “I feel like they’re going to hit them in that situation.” It was an impressive win for NU, which has struggled as of late and endured a trying season. With the Cats’ seniors leading the way to one of their final wins, McKeown lauded them. “They’re going to walk out of here and be like, “Hey, we did this the right way,” McKeown said. “They’ve just had special careers here and they don’t want it to end.”
“That made a big difference. We got open looks.” Still, Coffey was undisputably the star of the show. She scored in a variety of ways, muscling past defenders for layups, knocking down midrange jumpers and getting behind the Iowa defense for easy fast transition buckets. The 6-foot-1 Coffey was unperturbed by 6-foot-3 Hawkeye forward Megan Gustafson, like Coffey a first-team All-Big Ten player. NU looked like a far different team than in recent games, like Sunday’s 61-59 loss at Purdue in which the Cats struggled to score on several occasions. NU topped 70 points for the first time in 10 contests; tellingly, the Cats scored more points through three quarters Thursday than they did in their 78-59 loss to Iowa last month. NU made a big statement in the second quarter, scoring 27 points to rebound from a messy first period in which the Cats committed seven turnovers and went scoreless for more than 3 minutes. “It was really important,” Deary said of focus after the first quarter. “Once we slowed the game down a little bit … and took care of (the ball), good things happened and we scored.” That changed in a big fashion after the quarter break, as Coffey poured in 15 of NU’s first 17 points of the quarter to help the Cats build a 10-point halftime edge. She had 21 before the break. The cushion was needed. Iowa managed to slow Coffey in the third quarter and used a 9-0 run spanning the third and fourth quarters to pull within one possession, then eventually took the lead as NU remained cold. “They started getting comfortable in their execution. We were letting them get the ball inside too easy,” coach Joe McKeown said. “(I thought), we’ve got to do something different. What we’re doing, it’s going to get us beat.” It was a brief advantage, however, as the Cats answered with a jumper from Inman with 3:30 to play and never lost the lead, aided by the late free throws from Deary and Douglas. On Friday, the Cats will face an Ohio State team that is ranked No. 9 and has won 11 straight games. But the two teams have played several classics in recent years, including a thrilling NU win in Evanston last season and another near-upset in January. “They’ve been great games the last two years,” McKeown said. “They’re capable of scoring. They’ve got a lot of depth, so we have to get some rest today.”
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Several Evanston/Skokie School District 65 parents, educators and community members have organized in support of the April referendum that could raise property taxes to support the district. The Committee to Save Our Schools launched following District 65’s January decision to introduce the referendum on the city’s municipal ballot this spring. If voted in, the referendum would raise property taxes by 0.59 percent, roughly $450 annually per Evanston property owner. While D65’s budget is balanced for the current academic year, it is projected to slump to a deficit of $114.4 million by fiscal year 2025, according to District 65 board documents. The committee’s website outlines the potential impact of such a stark deficit, including enlarged classes, teacher layoff s and school closings. The referendum has been met with significant community support so far. More than 80 percent of Democratic Party of Evanston members voted in favor of the proposal at a meeting last month. Regardless, District 65 parent Andrew Ross, who described himself as a spokesman for the committee, said it was important for the group to drum up approval for the referendum. “Obviously asking any property owner to pay more wasn’t a rash or easy decision,” Ross said, “but the consequences would be incredibly dire (if the referendum does not pass).” The budgetary increases the referendum could provide would impact the district in several significant areas, Ross said, such as implementing new classroom technologies, “investments in equity” and reducing the achievement gap. Ross said the committee has partnered with parent-teacher associations within District 65 to disseminate information about the
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Laurie Schiller was ready to make a hire. And in 2014, with his retirement looming, Northwestern’s coach of 38 years wasn’t simply looking for an assistant. He was searching for his eventual successor. There were about 30 applicants, from all over the United States and abroad, Schiller said. He knew almost all of them and was surprised to see an application from a high school coach in Minnesota named Zach Moss. Schiller said he met Moss when he was a kid, as he knew his dad, John, through the tight-knit fencing community for nearly 40 years. After going through the interview process, Moss got the job. “I hired him in the hope that he would prove himself in the couple of years that we gave him and that (athletic director) Jim Phillips would see that this was the guy that should replace me,” Schiller said. Last spring, Schiller retired and Moss was promoted to lead the program, ushering in a new era of Wildcats fencing and leaving the young coach with big shoes to fill. When he was 5, Moss asked his parents if he could start fencing.
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After one season at the helm, Zach Moss is looking to write his own legacy as the first new Northwestern fencing coach since 1978.
“I wanted to when I was five, and my parents told me ‘when you turn 6,’ assuming I’d forget,” he said. “I remembered.” The son of a lifelong fencing coach and referee, Moss was born in New Jersey but moved to Lee, New Hampshire, a town of about 4,300, when he was three. John brought his son to fencing
tournaments that he’d coach or referee in, so the younger Moss has spent his whole life around fencing. In fact, he said he recently met someone who said they had met at a tournament when he was just one year old. Moss, of course, didn’t remember. He started fencing locally when he
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was eight and nationally when he was just 10. In eighth grade, Moss had to decide between competing on the school’s basketball team or fencing. Even though his dad spent his whole life around fencing, he told his son he wanted him to continue with basketball. “He was like, ‘There’s no money in
being a competitive fencer,’” Moss said, laughing. “I kind of proved him wrong, I guess, because I ended up with a job in fencing.” Moss eventually earned a scholarship to fence at Duke University, where he was a four-year letterwinner. But after a collegiate career plagued by injuries, Moss left Durham unsatisfied. He moved to Minnesota to continue training, working as a fencing coach at St. Paul School and guiding the team to two state championships in his four years. To support himself, he worked full-time at the Concordia University library, where he also worked on his Master’s Degree in Sports Administration. “My typical day was wake up at 5 a.m., work out, go to work, go coach, come home, eat dinner, then go train for three hours,” he said. “So it was like 6 to 10 p.m. straight, Monday through Friday.” Eventually, Moss set his sights on a collegiate job. He said when he saw the opening to coach at Northwestern, he sent in an application, not expecting to land the gig. Moss said he knew when he was hired that Schiller had tabbed him as his eventual replacement. But added that he knew he’d have to prove himself. Senior sabre Alisha Gomez-Shah, a sophomore when Moss arrived, said the team was instantly impressed with » See MOSS, page 10
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After a nearly two-week long hiatus, the Wildcats are taking their show on the road, where they’ll face another pair of ranked opponents in Seattle. Northwestern will open the weekend with a showdown against No. 11 Oklahoma State on Saturday before squaring off against No. 25 Washington on Sunday. The games will be the Cats’ fifth and sixth against current top-25 teams this season. “We’re just getting a lot of experience at a high level,” coach Claire Pollard said. “We’re learning a lot about ourselves.” So far, NU is 0-4 against ranked competition. Its last road trip resulted in backto-back losses to now-No. 14 Vanderbilt and No. 10 Duke. Two weekends ago, the Cats suffered a home loss to No. 13 Baylor. “It has really challenged us to start raising our level early on in the season,” junior Erin Larner said. “We’ll see it day-in-and-day-out, so that when we get later in the season everyone starts to hopefully hit their peak.” Though the Cats are winless against ranked competition, Larner is 2-2 at No. 1 singles in those matches. She picked up both her wins against Duke’s Samantha Harris, whom she beat twice in straight sets. The junior also helped the Cats » See TENNIS, page 10
INDIANAPOLIS — Northwestern didn’t enter the Big Ten Tournament with much going for it. The Wildcats struggled through February, lost their finale on a heartbreaking buzzer-beater and fell to Iowa by 19 in their lone regular-season meeting. Against Iowa on Thursday, Nia Coffey changed that quickly. The star senior forward put NU (20-10, 8-8 Big Ten) on her back, scoring a season-high 34 points and willing the Cats to an 78-73 win over the Hawkeyes (17-13, 8-8) in the Big Ten Tournament. “She’s amazing,” fellow senior
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Lauren Douglas said. “I love playing with her. She makes everybody else’s job easier.” The win was NU’s first away from home in over a month and gives the Cats a Friday matchup with topseeded Ohio State. The Cats charged back from a brief fourth quarter deficit, getting a clutch layup from Coffey inside the final two minutes. NU made the final moments interesting, turning the ball over once and nearly doing so a second time, but senior guard
Ashley Deary and Douglas iced the game with two pairs of free throws. Douglas, a forward, continued her strong late-season play, adding 15 points, and senior g u a rd Christen Inman contributed 11 more. The Cats shot better than 45 percent, helped by Coffey’s impressive 15-of-26 line, and broke out with their highest scoring output since Jan. 14. “Not turning the ball over was a really big thing for us,” Deary said. » See BASKETBALL, page 10
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INDIANAPOLIS — Nia Coffey did the lion’s share of the work. Her teammates finished the deal. The 6-foot-1 forward scored a season-high 34 points to lead Northwestern to the brink of victory Thursday. Then, her fellow seniors made the necessary plays down the stretch to help the Wildcats (20-10, 8-8 Big Ten) top Iowa (17-13, 8-8) 78-73 in their Big Ten Tournament opener. “They want to go out on top,”
coach Joe McKeown said of his seniors. “They want to prove whatever there is to prove.” Against the Hawkeyes, it all started with Coffey. She shot a ridiculous 15-of-26 from the floor and exploded for 15 points in the second quarter to push NU to a 9-point halftime edge. From start to finish, the forward did most of her damage inside — she did not hit a 3-pointer and attempted only five free throws. Still, Coffey was effective in a variety of ways, hitting jumpers and layups with ease. “She got in a real rhythm in our zone. We couldn’t find her,”
Iowa coach Lisa Bluder said. “(Then) we went almost (man-to-man) exclusively … and we didn’t really have an answer for her.” The outing was only Coffey ’s latest showstopper against the Hawkeyes. She scored a career-high 35 points in a 102-99 loss to Iowa two seasons ago and tallied 20 points and 14 rebounds last season. Coffey was slowed somewhat In the second half. Hampered by foul trouble, she scored » See COFFEY, page 10
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