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NU cancels Dance Marathon over coronavirus concerns University also halts international Spring Break trips, restricts travel due to viral outbreak By ISABELLE SARRAF
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As universities across the country re-evaluate plans for spring break and large events, University
President Morton Schapiro said in a Wednesday email that Dance Marathon 2020 will be canceled “given the uncertainty surrounding COVID-19,” also known as the novel coronavirus. “The decision was not made lightly,” the email read. “We felt
it was important to prioritize the health, safety and well-being of our students, Evanston community members and the University as a whole.” The 30-hour annual philanthropy event was scheduled to begin Friday evening. More than
1,000 students typically participate. Schapiro’s email said the cancelation was made in consultation with Northwestern’s COVID-19 policy group and health professionals, along with consideration of national recommendations on the virus.
“Given the prolonged duration of Dance Marathon, the close proximity of dancers and the strain it puts on participants, health experts thought those in attendance could have been at greater risk for illness had the event continued as planned,” the
email read. NUDM 2020 executive cochairs Eliana Scobey and Rachel Cantor addressed the news in a Wednesday email to dancers, expressing sadness over the » See CANCELLATIONS, page 6
SEEN NOT HEARD After split from Cru, Impact looks toward future at Northwestern
By CASSIDY JACKSON
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When Sarabi Woods (Weinberg ’18) saw a lack of racial diversity in religious groups on campus, she took matters into her own hands. The year was 2017, and Woods decided to form Northwestern’s chapter of Impact, a black Christian organization. But by the end of her time at Northwestern, the group became more than a space for prayer. “Oh man, Impact is some of my best memories of college, like watching our freshman girls turn into sophomore girls and start leading Bible studies of their own, and watching them growing deeper in their faith,” Woods said. “All of those were just wonderful memories. College overall was not the best, but Impact made it worth it.” As Woods reminisced on the group’s beginnings, however, she couldn’t separate its start from the conflict that surrounded it.
For the past three years, Impact functioned as a subsidiary of Cru, an interdenominational Christian organization. But those ties ended this past summer after ongoing tensions came to a head. The two chapters parted ways on Northwestern’s campus, and Impact student leaders said the decision wasn’t mutual — after Impact members expressed frustrations with various Cru practices, meetings between the groups went awry, students felt manipulated by full-time staff members and communication went from strained to nearly nonexistent. The schism was announced at Cru’s annual Leadership Summit, where few Impact members were present. However, Weinberg junior Nadia Hundley said the split is for the best. “It’s not good to be in a relationship where you’re giving all you can and nothing is really being reciprocated back,” Hundley said. “Being separate, we really have the freedom to come into our own ... especially now that we have recognition from the University.” Last November, Impact applied to be recognized as an official student organization for the third time
and was finally accepted. The organization hosted their first Bible studies in Lunt Hall, and while Woods said it wasn’t the nicest room, it was a muchneeded home for the group. “I think in the beginning it was like, ‘Okay, this room is kind of dusty,’” Woods said. “But then after us being in it for our first meetings, it was like, ‘All right, this is our room. This is our spot. You know where to find us.’” During Fall Quarter, the organization expanded their programming to include a new series called Chat & Chew. A few times a month, Impact members discuss the intersectionality of culture and Christianity. For SESP junior Chestan James, Impact has served as a safe space centered around God’s love. “Life has been tough and just to be there ... and being encouraged by them and showing the hope that we have in Jesus was just an intimate time where we were able to come together within our struggles and experience hope together,” James said. “That helped me through last night and through
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today, and that’s happened countless times within Impact.” Impact’s been a safe space for Hundley as well. Before the organization’s split from Cru, Hundley was able to vent about her experience in Cru with other members of Impact. “We would hang out and I was like, ‘Wow, I really like these people. They don’t make me feel like I feel in Cru,’” Hundley said. “They let me vent when I needed to vent and they made me feel heard. And now people in Impact are like, we’re a good squad. Impact’s going strong.” cassidyjackson2021@u.northwestern.edu Scan this QR code with Snapchat or your smartphone camera to listen to episode one of an audio InFocus about Impact’s split from Cru
ASG proposes legislation Sports games to continue Resolutions on census, GQNBT report introduced
No plans to cancel athletic events due to COVID-19
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By CHARLIE GOLDSMITH
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Associated Student Government Senate introduced three resolutions Wednesday regarding the census count, protection of students’ freedom of speech and the widespread release of
a task force report that details institutional actions supporting genderqueer, non-binary and transgender students at NU. They also passed a bill, introduced by ASG parliamentarian and Weinberg sophomore Elizabeth Sperti in a Feb. 26 session, that proposed the creation of an ad hoc committee to consider establishing a one-stop advocacy
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office for all student concerns. Wednesday’s session marked the Senate’s penultimate meeting of Winter Quarter. ASG officials were eager to roll out resolutions before the end of the term and elections season, which officially starts in the spring. Weinberg junior James » See ASG, page 6
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Despite uncertainty on Northwestern University’s campus surrounding COVID-19and the school’s recent cancelation of the annual Dance Marathon event, there are no plans to cancel
Northwestern men’s basketball’s home game Saturday against Penn State at Welsh-Ryan Arena. A Northwestern athletic department spokesman told The Daily the department will work closely with the University to determine future plans for all athletic competitions. “Any decisions about Athletics
and Recreation events or travel would be made in lockstep with Northwestern University administration” the spokesman said. “At this time, no adjustments have been made but we continue to monitor the situation and will announce any changes should they become necessary.” » See ATHLETICS, page 6
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AROUND TOWN Evanston groups endorse State’s Attorney candidates By ANDREW MYERS
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In the upcoming 2020 election season, the Cook County State’s Attorney race may not be receiving the same media attention as the Democratic presidential primary, but the race is certainly becoming one the most-watched in Illinois. It has grabbed the spotlight in Illinois politics, with millions of dollars from billionaire financiers dominating the Democratic primary. The Cook County State’s Attorney is responsible for leading the second-largest prosecutor’s office in the nation with more than 1,100 employees. The office is tasked with prosecuting all misdemeanors and felony crimes committed in Cook County, one of the largest counties in the U.S. Four candidates are running for the position on the Democratic side: incumbent Kim Foxx, who has served since 2016; DePaul University professor Bill Conway; attorney Donna More and civil rights lawyer Bob Fioretti. However, it has become a neck-and-neck battle between Foxx and Conway, a former assistant state’s attorney. In a recent February poll, Foxx was narrowly ahead of Conway, 28 percent to 26 percent, with More and Fioretti each polling in the single digits. Both Foxx and Conway have received multimillion dollar contributions they have used to flood the airwaves with a consistent stream of online and TV ads. Foxx received the backing of George Soros after he gave $2 million to a PAC
POLICE BLOTTER Battery charge leads to arrest A 31-year-old Evanston man was arrested for battery Tuesday at around 5 p.m. on Lake Shore Boulevard. The incident, which occured on Feb. 12, was
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Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx. Foxx won the Democratic Party of Evanston’s endorsement in the Cook County State’s Attorney race.
supporting Foxx. Conway has been particularly scrutinized over his primary campaign contributor, his billionaire father William Conway Jr., who has given $7.5 million to his son. Conway Jr. is the cofounder of the Carlyle Group, one of the largest private
equity firms in the world. He has an estimated net worth of $3.1 billion. The Democratic Party of Evanston has endorsed Foxx for the position. Michelle Jordan, the president of the DPOE, explained why she believed DPOE members “overwhelmingly”
at a soup kitchen at Beth Emet The Free Synagogue, 1224 Dempster St. An elderly woman was volunteering when the man, who Evanston police Cmdr. Brian Henry said was intoxicated, spat on the volunteer. The man was known to police and a warrant was put out for his arrest. After being identified,
he was arrested and charged with battery.
Man arrested for possession of crack cocaine
A 58-year-old Evanston man was arrested at around 1 a.m. Wednesday for possession of a controlled substance.
voted to endorse Foxx. “The reason (Foxx) got the endorsement is she got 82 percent of the vote,” said Jordan. “Foxx has put justice first and foremost and I think that is appealing to our members.” Foxx has also been bogged down with questions over how she handled the Jussie Smollett case of early 2019, primarily over whether she acted improperly when charges were dropped against Smollett in March 2019. Last November, Foxx said she “fell short” in the Smollett case. On the Republican ticket are Patrick O’Brien, the former Cook County Circuit Court judge from 2006-2015, and attorney Christopher Pfannkuche, who ran on the Republican ticket in 2016. The Evanston GOP has endorsed Pfannkuche for Cook County State’s Attorney. Blair Garber, the organization’s committeeman, expressed optimism that Pfannkuche has a good opportunity to win the election. “(Pfannkuche is) a Republican that has run before and got 600,000 votes running against Kim Foxx last time, and has some name recognition,” said Garber. “He also has pretty extensive experience.” Pfannucke, prior to losing the 2016 election to Foxx by 43.4 points, had spent 31 years in the Cook County Attorney’s office prosecuting thousands of criminal cases. The Cook County State’s Attorney primary election is on March 17, along with the presidential primary. The general election takes place on Nov. 3. andrewmyers2022@u.northwestern.edu Police pulled the man over on Oakton Street for failing to stop at a stop sign and noticed a clear bag they identified as crack cocaine. Additionally, the police found a glass pipe used for smoking crack cocaine in his possession, Henry said.
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Justin Gillis, a former New York Times environmental reporter and author of the award-winning Times series Temperature Rising, discussed factors that contribute to climate inaction Wednesday in the McCormick Foundation Center. In his talk, “Environmental Collapse: What Now?” Gillis advocated for a coalition of reporters and scientists to better communicate the urgency of ecological issues to the general public. Gillis addressed several recent natural disasters and the extent of the current environmental crisis. He discussed the wildfires in Australia and California, the melting of the Arctic and floods, all of which are factors that have influenced public perception about climate change. Rising sea levels, in particular, signify an impending refugee crisis as vulnerable coastal communities will be forced to relocate, Gillis said. Global institutions, he said, are unprepared for this. “I don’t particularly like this term ‘collapse,’ but you can start to see how many collapses might happen,” Gillis said. Despite these visible indicators of climate change and ecological disruptions, Gillis said there remains a large disconnect between the available science and the general public. Only one-fifth of Americans are aware that over 90 percent of climate scientists have concluded that climate change is real and a result of human action, he said. Journalists are failing to convey this scientific consensus and bridge this disconnect, he added. Gillis said the fossil fuel industry knows that journalists attempt to be objective and present both sides of the story, so the industry creates a false narrative debunking climate change. By giving equal weight to both arguments, journalists obscure the scientific consensus that confirms climate change, he said. The inability of scientists to communicate effectively with the general public is another factor Gillis said should be considered. Aleia Bellcross, a doctorate student studying atmospheric chemistry, worries
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about the disconnect and distrust between scientists and the general population. “Academia, especially in the sciences, is kind of this ivory tower that is super inaccessible to the general public, especially the lesser-educated public,” Bellcross said. To rectify these issues, Gillis suggested a campus coalition of climate scientists, journalists and social scientists. He said these alliances will help students better understand how to best communicate climate change and its urgency to a reluctant public. There need to be more people in the room, contributing to the conversation of environmental issues, he said. One of the main focuses of Gillis’s talk was on the University’s role in the climate crisis. “The failure to tackle the climate crisis is the most visible example of humanity’s failures of ecological stewardship,” read a summary of the talk distributed to Medill students. “As the situation seems to grow
worse by the year, how can a university like Northwestern respond?” Gillis’s talk comes two weeks after the Northwestern Board of Trustees rejected Fossil Free’s divestment proposal to divest the University’s holdings from any of the top 100 coal and oil and gas companies around the world. Divestment strategies aim to decrease the political power of fossil fuel companies and have been successful in increasing fossil fuel stock prices and costs of capital. Sympathizing with student activists, Gillis urged members of the NU community to continue to hold the University to higher energy consumption standards. “Don’t let the frustration completely paralyze you, look for other ways to move forward,” Gillis said.
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Dancers rehearse in “Danceworks.” The show opens March 4.
‘Danceworks 2020’ spotlights the things that matter By WILSON CHAPMAN
daily senior staffer @wilsonchapman6
When Communication Prof. Joel Valentín-Martínez was selecting a theme for “Danceworks 2020,” he wanted something that would be inspiring for the choreographers, but would also let them create the art that interests them. Ultimately, Valentín-Martínez settled on “Things That Matter,” inviting his artistic collaborators to create something that explores the things that matter to them. “With choreographers, we all have different ways of approaching dance,” he said. “I don’t want to overpush our choreographers to do specific things. I want them to feel free, and I give them an opportunity to fill in the gaps in our canvas.” Danceworks is an annual dance showcase at Northwestern that features original work by both faculty and guest choreographers. This year’s edition opens Wednesday in the Josephine Louis Theater and will run through Sunday. This is Valentín-Martínez’s fourth year in a row as artistic director of “Danceworks.” For some of the choreographers, exploring the
things that matter means exploring social issues. One of the guest choreographers in the production is Miguel Angel Gamero Ortega, the choreographer of Mexico City’s dance company Barro Rojo Arte Escénico. In his piece, Ortega decided to focus on the struggles of women. In the dance, the choreographer uses imagery of a sports field and the movement of his female dancers to highlight how women are stereotyped and denied the freedom that men are granted. Ortega said this reflects an ongoing and developing discussion within Mexico about gender roles and how people treat one another, and was inspired by several women in his family. Most of the choreographers of “Danceworks” rehearse with their dancers twice a week for most of the winter. However, because of scheduling and traveling issues, Ortega rehearsed his piece with his students every single night during a two week period early in the quarter. He said although his dancers had a limited time to work with him, they showed great enthusiasm, and proved adapt at exploring the themes Ortega was working with. “They were not only intellectually engaged, but also physically engaged, and really took on the work,” Ortega said. “I was very proud of them.”
Other choreographers used the theme of things that matter to explore broader ideas. Communication Prof. Jeffery Hancock looked at the passage of time in his piece “Torque.” The entire dance is structured around a spinning plate, where one 360-degree spin of a plate represents a unit of time, and the dancers perform both choreographed and improvised movements based on the movement of this plate. Hancock said it was a unique experience to create the piece at Northwestern, where students are chronically overscheduled and struggled to make time for rehearsals. Over the course of the process, Hancock only had two rehearsals where everyone was able to be in the space, and his students’ struggles with time made their way into the piece. Hancock said he wanted to use this piece to explore how time changes relationships, and especially how it affects people’s empathy with one another, something he says he has noticed in his own life. “The way I experience people in space walking down sidewalks and down the street is different than it was five years ago, and certainly different than it was ten years ago,” Hancock said. “I find a lack of empathy in people’s bodies that to me reads as a negation of the agreement that we are living and all civilized and we will work together, and I find that
really disturbing. And I think it has to do with a sense of ‘I got to get mine in the time that I have.’” For Valentín-Martínez himself, what matters is how the music we love can be used as a refuge from hate. For the show, he choreographed a piece called “Pop Refuge,” which tells a narrative of a young woman experiencing internalized homophobia who finds comfort through popular music. ValentínMartínez includes music from the 80s, when he was a teenager, in the narrative such as Grace Jones and Boy George, as well as a modern pop song from Lizzo. Valentín-Martínez said as artistic director, his responsibility is to choose the order of the disparate pieces, as well as just provide general oversight to ensure that the show goes smoothly. He said, although this job is a bit stressful, he is proud of the work his students have done to make the show possible. “When you come into the theater, you simply sit there, you hear a bit of music and the lights begin to dim,” Valentín-Martínez said. “But it took hours of practice by all our student crews, designers and dancers to make this concert as seamless as possible.” wilsonchapman2021@u.northwestern.edu
Students find competition, community on NU ‘Survivor’ By JENNIFER ZHAN
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Blindsided and ready to burn – that’s how one contestant felt after being eliminated from Northwestern’s version of the iconic reality competition franchise “Survivor.” In fact, they felt so betrayed that they set their “buff ” — a bandanna representing their tribe in the game – on fire. Looking back though, they said being voted off mostly felt bad because they’d been having so much fun. “Survivor: Northwestern - ‘Cats Collide” began shooting with 22 participants on Jan. 17, under the direction of Communication senior Chase Reed. Filming will continue through late May, and the show is set to launch on YouTube by December 2020. The project takes the tribes, competitions and councils of “Survivor” and puts them onto Northwestern’s campus. According to Weinberg senior and contestant Jackson Adler, the show attracted several big personalities to join and compete for the cash prize — and the pride — of becoming the “Sole Survivor.” He said he expects the mix of characters to result in a show that is both intense and humorous. “People are definitely more action-oriented and in it to win it than trying to joke around on camera, but there are a good number of theatre majors who are putting on a show,” Adler said. So far, challenges have ranged from physical tournaments to memory challenges and puzzles. Winners of each weekly competition are granted immunity from elimination, leaving the losing tribe to vote out one of their own. All contestants are expected to attend challenges
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The cast of CBS’ “Survivor.” Communication senior Chase Reed brought the show to campus, and is currently filming a full season of the show.
and film video diaries that act as confessionals. Ahead of “tribal council” meetings, Weinberg senior Jessie Serody said many participants spend a large amount of time strategizing and forming alliances to shape the game in their favor. “Even outside of meeting people, (you’d) just be thinking about it non-stop, and there’s paranoia — are other people talking right now, am I in the right conversations?” Serody said. “It’s definitely difficult to balance having a full course load and
also playing the game.” Communication junior Paia Amelio said competing on Northwestern Survivor has given her immense respect for Survivor castaways who actually compete on an island without the option of going home, eating real food and taking a break from the game when they need to. Still, Amelio said the Northwestern competitors are putting their heart and soul into every challenge. That’s definitely the case for Weinberg junior
Carson Knoer, who pushed himself so hard during a physical challenge that he threw up when the cameras stopped rolling. “It felt bad, but at the same time, I’d do it again,” Knoer said. “I’m a competitive person; it’s just my nature.” Knoer said the other contestants showed genuine concern for his well-being during the experience. Although “Survivor” is a competition, Knoer said he feels like part of a community and has made connections that are “bigger than the game.” Adler agreed that bonding over the the show has led to real off-camera friendships. Before one of the challenges, he and his fellow tribe members got together for brunch. “It’s been really nice to meet people from all different years and schools that I never would have otherwise,” Adler said. “I definitely see myself running into (people) around campus and being excited to see them now because we’re doing ‘Survivor’ together.” At the beginning of Spring Quarter after the halfway point of the show, the two tribes will merge and contestants will begin competing individually. Each person eliminated after the merge will join a jury that will eventually select the show’s winner. Amelio said the many twists of the game so far have resulted in an entertaining competition viewers will enjoy. Personally, she’s looking forward to seeing some of the sillier moments of the competition, such as when she led her tribe in a dramatic dance and chant while entering a challenge. “Being able to have this record for years later of this fun, stupid thing that I did in college is very valuable,” Amelio said. “I’m glad it’s gonna be on the Internet forever.” jenniferzhan2022@u.northwestern.edu
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THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 2020
After succesful 2018 run, ‘A Mother’s Song’ remounts By VIVIAN XIA
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When Tania Azevedo and Finn Anderson were commissioned to write a musical centered around family in 2018, they wanted to explore a woman’s identity in relation to motherhood. Directed by Azevedo and written by Anderson, “A Mother’s Song” was initially developed as part of the Northwestern University’s American Music Theatre Project’s partnership with the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. The show made its world premiere at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in the summer of 2018. Now, Azevedo and Anderson are mounting a new, further developed version of “A Mother’s Song,” this time on Northwestern’s campus. After weeks of rehearsals, readings of the musical will be presented at the Mussetter-Struble
Theater in the Virginia Wadsworth Wirtz Center for the Performing Arts on March 14 and March 15. “After the successful production [at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe], we saw a lot of potential in the piece and AMTP wanted to continue our international partnership,” producing director of the show Brannon Bowers said. “We found that there were a lot of things left unexplored and things we wanted to change about it to make it more viable for other performances and other productions.’’ “A Mother’s Song” is centered around the stories of three different women at different points in history - one in Scotland, one in Ireland and one in New York - who belong to the same family tree. All three of the women struggle to adjust with becoming a mother, and their stories are linked through songs passed down by their family. Anderson said the inspiration for “A
Mother’s Song” came from musical traditions such as folk music and folk singing that originated in Scotland, developed in Ireland and made their way to America. “The music is very much inspired by kind of traditional Celtic folk songs which traveled over to Appalachia,” Anderson said. “It’s inspired by traditional Appalachian music and bluegrass music but also very much embracing a sort of pop, like pop country style, in places too, so this feels very contemporary.” The 2018 production ran for about an hour and featured a cast of 15, but the upcoming production will run 40 minutes longer with a completely new cast of six. The overall story remains the same, with alterations that provide added depth to the characters. “I feel a lot clearer on who the characters are and what they want and what’s standing in their way,” Anderson said. “How the different stories play against each other feels a lot clearer
than it used to be.” Azevedo said she and Anderson are excited to be working with AMTP again because the project provides an incredible amount of support to the artists who work under it and because it is exciting to be “working with someone across the pond.” She added that she had high expectations because of the sense of professionalism she has seen in students in the Northwestern theater department, which she has found both impressive and inspiring. “In terms of expectation, I certainly have high expectations of what will happen over these two weeks, but I don’t think that they are underfunded,” Azevedo said. “They are coming from a place of knowing that the people we have in the cast are people that are equally as passionate about the project.” vivianxia2023@u.northwestern.edu
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The cast of the 2018 production of “A Mother’s Song.” The show is remounting at Northwestern, with reading presentations March 14 and March 15.
Source: Lori Glen
Max McLean in “C.S Lewis Onstage.” The show performed at Northwestern’s Cahn Auditorium for one night only on March 4.
Max McLean talks Christianity, conversion By REBECCA AIZIN
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For one night only on March 4th, Max McLean’s “C.S Lewis Onstage: The Most Reluctant Convert” came to Northwestern’s Cahn Auditorium. McLean, who wrote and stars in the one-man show, is the founder and artistic director of the Fellowship for Performing Arts, a theatre group that tells stories from a Christian worldview, with a particular interest in C.S. Lewis, the famous author of the “Chronicles of Narnia” book series. The show features McLean as Lewis, performing a monologue adapted from his writings. The show has received rave reviews in past productions and was nearly entirely sold out by Northwestern students for its one-time premiere. The Daily chatted with McLean about his work on the production. The interview has been edited for clarity. The Daily: How did you come up with the idea for this show? M ax McLean: I’ve adapted two C.S. Lewis novels, “The Screwtape Letters” and “The Great Divorce,” to the stage, and they’ve played New York, Chicago and around the country. Each reveals aspects o f Lewis’ adult conversion to Christianity. Given that it was a pivotal moment of his life and the subject of so much of his writings, I wanted to explore his actual
conversion journey in theatrical form. Plus, conversion stories are inherently theatrical. The Daily: What makes this show special? McLean: We have heard many “come to Jesus” conversion stories. Many are compelling but mostly come from an emotional place. Lewis’ conversion was different. It took a long time. The story covers the death of his mother when he was 9 years old to taking Christmas communion at age 32. Second, it was driven by both his intellect and his need to overcome his unbelief. He was a first-class intellect who read everything from the Greeks to the moderns and had a steel-trap mind so that he could recall nearly everything he read and translate it into astonishingly lucid prose and speech. The Daily: Why should Northwestern students care about C.S. Lewis and be interested in seeing the show? McLean: Nearly everyone I know who embraced Christianity as an adult has been influenced by what seemed to them to be the probability of God’s existence accompanied by something like a religious experience. The intellectual assent converts religious experience from something strange to something desired. Intellectual arguments do not, in themselves, lead to conversion. They remove an inhibition that was preventing a move from skepticism to belief.This often happens, one way or the other, during university years.
The Daily: What’s the greatest challenge you’ve faced, both in your career as well as during the production of this show? McLean: Overcoming preconceived notions about what a religious theatrical production might be. Lewis himself wrote that he felt that challenge in his own experience and tried to write in a way that might overcome built-in prejudice and stigmas. The Daily: Is the show targeted at a religious audience? If yes, how so? McLean: Yes and no. People with faith often like to have reminders of a thoughtful conversion experience. They want to know if another’s experience is similar to their own. Non-religious people sometimes want to test their own unbelief to see whether it stands up, emotionally as well as intellectually. The Daily: What is the process like being both the actor and the director? McLean: W ell in this case, I had a co-director, Ken Denison, who helped immensely in shaping the final look and feel of the show. As both an actor and as a director, the objective is to engage and entertain the audience. As Harold Clurman, the dean of the American theatre, once said, “Make them laugh. And while their mouths are open pour truth in.” rebeccaaizin2023@u.northwestern.edu
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decision and saying fundraising will continue for both beneficiaries, Children’s Home & Aid and the Evanston Community Foundation. “Our hearts are broken over the sudden news of Northwestern’s decision to cancel NUDM,” their email read. “While we understand it would have been a health risk to hold NUDM this weekend given the spread of coronavirus, it doesn’t make knowing that our year-long fundraising and service efforts won’t culminate in the love, community, and home of the 30 hour experience.” The executive co-chairs declined to speak to The Daily regarding the logistics of the cancellation. Schapiro’s email didn’t discuss a potential rescheduling of the event but said in the upcoming weeks, University administrators will work with Dance Marathon’s executive board to “determine our next steps.” McCormick senior Jenny Kim, NUDM production team member and stage manager, said she was shocked to hear that NUDM was canceled just two days before the scheduled start. With the tent already raised outside Norris University Center, lights put up inside and hundreds of merchandise items ready to be distributed, NUDM dancers were not expecting to receive Schapiro’s email Wednesday afternoon, she said. “This is my fourth year in DM and in the production committee,” Kim said. “I was really looking forward to being in the tent one last time. To have to miss out on that is really devastating.”
Spring Break trips halted, student quarantined
While students on Northwestern’s campus prepare for finals, Weinberg sophomore Sydney Matrisciano is spending her week in quarantine. Matrisciano was studying abroad for Winter and Spring Quarters in Florence, Italy through a Syracuse University affiliated program, but it was canceled,
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From page 1 Crisafulli introduced a bill, supported by four Senate members, to affirm that ASG will commit to acknowledging and increasing outreach efforts toward collecting accurate information on Northwestern students for the 2020 census. It also says ASG will help students fill out census forms and fight miscommunication. “Our biggest goal with the resolution is just that people on ASG are sort of so tapped into offcampus life and student body and different organizations,” Crisafulli said, “that we just want them to be more aware of (census collection) as an issue and being able to spread awareness about the census coming up.” The census is a constitutionally mandated count of U.S. residents that occurs every ten years. It is particularly important for political representation of college students, because there is a misconception that they will be counted by their households, when in
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forcing her to evacuate the country. When she arrived home in Mississippi, Matrisciano said she had to start quarantining herself for potential exposure to COVID-19. Northwestern issued a statement Wednesday that all University-related travel to Italy and Iran are prohibited, adding to existing travel restrictions to China and South Korea. Additionally, it issued another statement that it “prefers” NU employees avoid any nonessential travel abroad. Any faculty or staff planning to travel must first seek approval from their vice president, dean or immediate supervisor, according to the release. The University restricts travel to countries deemed high risk by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which have issued Level Three travel advisories to those four countries. Matrisciano said despite the abrupt return, University officials have been helpful in getting her home safely. She also said her experience in Italy made her more aware of the precarious nature of the COVID19 outbreak. She witnessed the tourist-heavy streets of Florence empty and saw grocery stores run out of food, water and supplies. “Northwestern had a very strong and coordinated response to my issue. I think within 24 hours, my flight had been rebooked,” Matrisciano said. The University has also made accommodations for her coursework, Matrisciano said. She has the option to take online courses while living on Syracuse’s campus for the rest of their spring semester, continue online classes while living at home or withdraw from the program and return to Northwestern in April at the start of Spring Quarter. The University also released a statement Wednesday canceling NU-sponsored undergraduate and graduate international spring break trips. The University has created a website dedicated to updating the community on COVID-19’s impact. Five of these trips were meant to be integral to Medill’s Global 301 “Journalism in Practice” course,
for which about 80 students planned to travel to Chile, Cuba, Barcelona, London, Israel and Palestine over spring break. The class spans the last five weeks of Winter Quarter and the first four weeks of Spring Quarter, with the spring break trip an essential component of a culturally immersive opportunity. Medill sophomore Maya Mojica said she was supposed to travel to Barcelona, Spain over spring break for her Global 301 course — which had already been rerouted in January from its original destination of Shanghai. She said many parents expressed growing concerns this week about the global spread of COVID-19, especially after Spain reported around 200 cases as of Wednesday. Because the trip was canceled a little over two weeks before spring break, Mojica said she is unsure where she is staying over the break because her sorority house will be closed. “Flights home are expensive,”Mojica said.“I’m probably not going to get to go home, which is a little sad.” Medill sophomore Isabel Gitten said she was upset to hear that her Global 301 spring break trip to Cuba was canceled. She said she applied to Northwestern because the course was a “staple” of the Medill experience. Gitten said it was frustrating, that the University was making it out to seem like traveling throughout the U.S. was safer than traveling abroad when there were more reported COVID-19 cases in her home state of Massachusetts than her original spring break destination. “I really hope that Medill allows us to (go on the trip) next year because I feel like never letting the Class of 2022 go would be a huge takeaway from the entire Medill experience,” Gitten said. “It’s something that sets Medill apart, and to deprive an entire class of that — although it’s not completely their fault — is unfair and is taking away from our (experience). This class relies so heavily on the trip.” isabellesarraf2022@u.northwestern.edu
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fact, off-campus students are responsible for counting themselves, he said. Another resolution, authored by ASG chief of staff Henry Molnar and SESP senator Daniel Rodriguez, Bienen senator Megan Radcliffe and SESP senator Jenn Beardsley, proposes that the University establish concrete protection of freedom of speech. The lengthy set of proposals, which have been crafted by a Senate committee entitled FreeSpeechNU, chronicled recent campus incidents concerning free speech, such as the anonymous demonstration at The Rock and protests against Jeff Sessions’ visit to campus, which both occurred in Fall Quarter. “It’s basically a really comprehensive (bill) looking at a bunch of different free speech policies at Northwestern and trying to expand those,” Molnar said. The resolution condemns the University’s repainting of The Rock and issuance of citations, which were later dropped, to student protestors at the Sessions’ speech. The bill proposed the University extend free
speech policies to apply to The Rock. It added that the University should amend its demonstration and advertising policies to remove limitations on political expression as well as set clear policies on students’ and University employees’ conduct during a protest. The final bill of the meeting concerned the University’s release of the report by Gender Queer, Non-binary and Transgender Task Force, which was released last month. The 82-page report details key requests, action items, desired outcomes and deadlines to improve conditions of life for GQNBT individuals at Northwestern. Co-authored by ASG vice president Adam Davies, Rainbow Alliance senator Alyssa Peterson and three other Senate members, the resolution proposes the administration disseminate the report through a University-wide email and that it clearly states the transgender and cis-gender leads of the task force, cementing its commitment to advancing GQNBT causes. Peterson said even though the findings in the report
were important and relevant to students at NU, it was listed as the third item of the University newsletter. The University should take responsibility and take the forefront in promoting its results, Peterson said. “Normally, a report of this scale would have been given a campus-wide all-scale email of its own separate from the newsletter,” Peterson said. “As Northwestern has demonstrated in the past, they continue to skirt from the experiences of the genderqueer nonbinary and trans student body under the rug.” As it is an emergency resolution, which according to ASG’s laws, means that it is voted on during the same session it was introduced, the bill was passed. The other two resolutions, which are on census collection and freedom of speech protection, will be put to a vote at the final meeting of Winter Quarter. Isabelle Sarraf contributed reporting.
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Two Division I universities announced Wednesday that they would not participate in games this weekend. University of Missouri-Kansas City, which is coached by former Northwestern assistant Billy Donlon, will not play its road game Saturday at Seattle University. Chicago State will not play at Seattle University or at Utah Valley because out of precautions related to the virus. The school also cancelled its upcoming women’s home games this weekend. “Chicago State athletics views our decision as a reaffirmation of our commitment to the wellbeing, health and safety of our student athletes,” the school’s athletic director Elliott Charles said in a statement. After convening a group of senior administrators to lead Northwestern’s response to the coronavirus outbreak, the University canceled this weekend’s Dance Marathon. More than 1,000 students were expected to participate in the 30-hour event scheduled to begin Friday night. “The decision was made in consultation with the University’s COVID-19 policy group and health professionals, and based on national recommendations about this rapidly changing situation,” the statement said. There are currently no plans for Northwestern to cancel or reschedule any of the University’s upcoming athletic competitions. The women’s basketball team left Wednesday afternoon for this weekend’s Big Ten Tournament in Indianapolis, and Northwestern has additional athletic competitions this weekend in South Carolina, Arizona, New Jersey, Ohio and Kentucky.
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Armadillos and artists: An afternoon in Rogers Park By MAIA SPOTO
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For $2.50 and 18 minutes on the ‘L,’ Evanston residents can spend an afternoon wandering the tree-lined streets of Rogers Park, Northwestern’s closest Chicago neighborhood and the home of Loyola University Chicago. A few blocks north of the Loyola CTA station is a used bookstore called The Armadillo’s Pillow. Handpainted signs and neon lettering beckon from the storefront, and a shelf of novels that boasts “one book one buck” deals nestles beneath an alcove. Inside, stars and cozy lights dangle from a sloping roof. Where books don’t stack from the floor to the ceiling, a medley of art, plants and vintage items hug the walls. Betsey Boemmel co-owns the over-25-yearold shop with her partner Matt Ebert. The bookstore takes its name from the John Irving novel “A Prayer for Owen Meany.” In the story, a group of children trade a stuffed armadillo back and forth between each other. “It’s a symbol of friendship and reciprocity,” Boemmel said. “I like the idea that (in The Armadillo’s Pillow) these are books somebody has already loved.” She said The Armadillo’s Pillow draws a diverse
audience, attracting Rogers Park residents as well as students from both Loyola and Northwestern. She added that local bookstores garner enthusiasm and loyalty, and The Armadillo’s Pillow carries on a beloved tradition of “Chicago bookishness.” If reading makes you hungry, Boemmel praised Rogers Park’s restaurant scene, which she said spans the globe. The nearby Devon Avenue hosts businesses that serve dishes from India, Pakistan, Iraq and Russia. In addition, dishes like tapas, kebabs, bubble tea and sushi all can be found at the intersection of Sheridan Road and Pratt Boulevard. Fewer than three blocks north of that intersection lies XO Marshmallow. Lindzi Shanks and Kat Connor founded and co-own the shop, which transitioned from an online store into a brick-and-mortar in 2017 and is Chicago’s first-ever marshmallow cafe. Bloggers frequent the dreamlike store, whose bubble-gum and mint tones pop against an instagrammable pillowy interior. “I love you s’more,” proclaims the neon cursive sign above the register. “We say XO Marshmallow is about living your sweet life,” Shanks said. “That’s not just about the sugary treats we provide. That’s also about the feeling you get when you come through the door, that you are smiling and happy.” Alongside 13 flavors of the classic marshmallow, the shop sells rose gold rosé marshmallows (with an edible
gold coating), CBD marshmallows, toasted marshmallow lattes, cookie dough cups and pints of marshmallow fluff called “Ooey Marshmallow Goodness.” All of its products are homemade and hand-packaged, and its peanut-free kitchen a few doors down uses exclusively kosher gelatin to craft the marshmallows. However, Shanks said her typical customer comes to XO Marshmallow with more than tasty treats in mind. “She wants to come in to have an experience,” Shanks said. “To feel the mission behind the brand, know that she’s supporting women-owned (businesses), know that she’s supporting small (businesses). She cares more about where her dollar goes … when you support a small business, your dollars impact the community at a much larger rate than another kind of company.” After boosting your blood sugar, turn left on Sheridan Road, right on Morse Avenue and left on Glenwood Avenue to reach the Rogers Park Art Gallery, 6902 N. Glenwood Ave. Eileen Burns, an artist who specializes in wreaths, nature paintings and hand-painted greeting cards, has run the gallery for the past five years. “I opened it, intentionally, to give artists an opportunity,” she said. “Because I was an artist, even in high school, so I know what it’s like. I never even thought I could be in a gallery.”
From July to December, the gallery exhibits a show featuring 15 to 20 artists. For the rest of the year, Burns rents out studio space weekly, giving each artist free rein over the gallery. She said the rotating artists hold their own shows, conduct open houses and teach art classes in her space. Burns has a background in business management, and she said her approach to running Rogers Park Art Gallery is decidedly “not corporate.” She said the gallery does not charge its participant artists a lot of money to show their work. Instead, she asks her artists to come work in the gallery for six hours each month. “It’s good for them to be around the customers and interact,” she said. “People love to buy from the artists.” Burns also maintains the Glenwood Sculpture Garden, 6900 N. Glenwood Ave, just outside of her gallery. Repurposed construction materials comprise its “found art” sculptures, which the late Andy DeLaRosa built. As the sun sets, take a stroll down the neighborhood’s vibrant and surreal “Mile of Murals” on your way to the Morse CTA station. While the train carries you north, watch the modernist architecture shrink away and observe the intricate patterns chiseled into the neighborhood’s facades. In Rogers Park, art is everywhere. maiaspoto2023@u.northwestern.edu
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Pete Nance steps up his game in loss to Badgers By GABRIELA CARROLL
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Sophomore forward Pete Nance was benched against Rutgers on Feb. 9 and hasn’t started since, but despite coming off the bench, he’s found a new rhythm. Northwestern (7-22, 2-17 Big Ten) was down 28-11 to No. 24 Wisconsin (20-10, 13-6 Big Ten) on Wednesday with just under eight minutes left in the first half. They’d shot 3-for-18 up to that point, and the bottom was about to fall out. Then, following a three from freshman forward Robbie Beran, Nance nailed his own shot from behind the arc for six consecutive points to spur the Wildcats’ rally to pull the game to within four, and to go into halftime with only a six-point deficit. “I’m proud of our guys,” coach Chris Collins said. “After a real tough start getting down I think 28-11, we put together a really nice stretch to get ourselves back in the game at the end of the first half.” Since getting benched, Nance has had four games in double-figures,, including a 14 point performance against the Badgers. Against Nebraska on Sunday, Nance only scored six points, but had a seasonhigh 14 rebounds. Nance has grabbed more than five rebounds in five of his last eight games, with seven, 14 and seven rebounds in his last three games. Nance is the best recruit in school history, but didn’t play for a significant portion of his freshman season due to injury. For most of the season, Nance underachieved, scoring in double figures only four times in the 13-game stretch between the start of Big Ten play and when he got benched, but was an overall consistent starter. But as of late, Nance has provided a crucial spark off the bench more efficient scoring. Against Wisconsin, Nance worked through Wisconsin’s tough defense to find open looks, and those six points changed the entire team’s play, with points from Beran, freshman guard Boo Buie and freshman center Jared Jones. Earlier in the season, Nance looked lost. He was missing the aggressiveness that made him the top-rated recruit in NU’s history, and one of its current starters. With the emergence of Buie and the consistency of graduate guard Pat Spencer, and fellow sophomore forward Miller Kopp’s improved scoring, Nance needed to be at the top of his game to stay in the lineup. But Nance’s recent performances suggest he’s almost there. His play against Wisconsin and Nebraska show a willingness to shift into different roles –– a scorer against the Badgers, a defender against the Cornhuskers –– and Collins sees that effort paying off. “He’s been putting the time in, his attitude has been great,” Collins said. “And he wants to be a good player. He’s just got to keep working and keep finding it.” gabrielacarroll2023@u.northwestern.edu
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Coming off a tight overtime victory over Nebraska on Sunday, Northwestern hoped to top off what had already been a successful road trip with a win over No. 24 Wisconsin. Though the Wildcats (7-22, 2-17 in Big Ten) battled back from an early 17-point deficit, the Badgers (20-10, 13-6) endured NU’s defense and foiled its upset bid, 63-48. “Our defense did enough,” coach Chris Collins said. “It was just our inability to score and keep us within striking distance.” Wisconsin started off hot and opened up the game early. The Badgers made six of their first seven shot attempts to take a 16-5 lead five minutes into the game, while the Wildcats managed a single Ryan Young layup and a trio of free throws over that span. The strong shooting didn’t stop for Wisconsin as the Badgers stretched their lead to 17 and seemed poised to run away with the contest. Instead, freshman forward Robbie Beran blocked a Wisconsin shot and made the ensuing three to spark the NU offense, and on the ensuing possession sophomore forward Pete Nance connected on a triple of his own to cut it to an 11-point game. In the final six minutes of the half, the Cats outscored Wisconsin 17-6 and trailed just 34-28 at the break. Wisconsin’s offense struck in the second half when Badgers Micah Potter and Brevin Pritzl knocked down threes on back-to-back possessions to move their lead back to double digits,
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but the story of the second half was the NU’s inability to get anything on the scoreboard. The Cats went nearly 10 minutes of the second half without a field goal and couldn’t take advantage of the Badgers’ modest offensive output. Though NU wouldn’t let Wisconsin run away with the game — only forward Nate Reuvers scored in double digits for the Badgers — the Cats couldn’t put together a run to make a serious late-game threat and fell to 2-16 in Big Ten play. Aside from the five-minute stretch at the end of the first half, NU’s offense struggled to convert looks from both short- and long-range and finished shooting 31.5 percent from the field and 20 percent from behind the arc. Nance tallied 14 points off the bench and freshman center Ryan Young had nine points and six rebounds, but the Cats’ backcourt was held in check by Wisconsin. Guards Boo Buie and Pat Spencer were held to a combined nine points on 14 shot attempts. Sophomore forward Miller Kopp, NU’s leading scorer this season and its primary perimeter threat, finished 1-for-9 from the field. “We didn’t really shoot the ball well all night,” Collins said. “Even in the first half, we were 10-for-27 and we had a couple point-blank layups where we ran great offense and rolled a guy to the basket. They don’t give you a lot of easy stuff, so when you do execute and
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get a shot you have to take advantage and knock them down.” NU will close out its regular season at home Saturday against Penn State ahead of next week’s Big Ten Championships in Indianapolis. Up against
a Nittany Lion team ranked third in the conference in scoring average, the Cats’ ability to convert offensively will be essential once again. johnriker2023@u.northwestern.edu
Pulliam is the best baller in the Big Ten As Lindsey Pulliam and Joe McKeown sat at a table in the Welsh-Ryan Arena media room with the Big Ten trophy between them on Saturday, just minutes after claiming a share of the title, McKeown took a moment to acknowledge the junior captain. “Not only is this the best player in the Big Ten,” McKeown said, “this is the best leader in the Big Ten.” And after the season Pulliam’s played, it’s tough to disagree with him. Some people are born to do certain things. Billy Joel was born to play the piano. Andrelton Simmons was born to play shortstop. “Pullup” Pulliam was born to shoot. As McKeown, one of the best quotes at Northwestern, said last winter, “She probably led the state of Maryland in scoring in her crib.” She’s scored the ball at will this campaign, but she’s done even more on the court too. Heading into the season, Pulliam was already a national name. She was All-Big Ten first team as a sophomore, played on the U.S. junior national team at the Pan American Games over the summer and was put on the watch list for the Ann Meyers Drysdale Award, which is given to the best shooting guard in the country. Everyone knew she was great, but there were questions about if she could reach that next level.
It’s really tough for a guard to be elite if they can’t hit a triple, and heading into the season, her 3-point shooting was easily the weakest part of her game. She shot a dismal 18 percent on 77 attempts as a sophomore. But she grinded over the summer, and now it’s a strength in her offensive arsenal. She’s third on the team in 3-point shooting at 35 percent with 119 attempts. When the ball is in her hands, there’s now no way to stop her. All defenders can do is hope and pray. “She has whatever the light is past green,” McKeown said after a win in November. “Neon green? I don’t know. There’s probably another color that she has. And she’s gonna have that ‘til she graduates.” While she improved the weakest aspects of her game, she still continues to add to her strengths as well. She’s averaging just over 19 points per game with career-highs in assists, rebounds and steals and playing some of the best defense since she first put on the purple and white. Even when she is off her game, Pulliam still steps up. Against Nebraska a few weeks ago, the Maryland native did not have the hot hand: she didn’t hit a single shot for the first 39 minutes of the game. But with the game tied at 56, Pullaim wasn’t afraid. She nailed a turnaround jumper — her first make of the day — around the free
throw line with 28 seconds left to give NU a lead it wouldn’t surrender. A month prior, she hit the gamewinning layup at the buzzer despite another off-shooting night against Minnesota. Not only is she fearless in the clutch, but she’s got the ice in her veins to back it up. But Monday, Iowa guard Kathleen Doyle was named Big Ten Player of the Year. Doyle led the Hawkeyes to a 23-6 mark while averaging 18.2 points, 6.4 assists and 4.7 rebounds. Doyle won the award over Pulliam, Maryland’s Kalia Charles, who averaged 15.0 points 7.7 rebounds and 2.1 assists, and Michigan’s Naz Hillmon — who averaged 17.1 points and 8.6 rebounds. Doyle, Charles and Hillmon are fantastic players, but I find it difficult to believe they were better than Pulliam this year. This is especially true when considering the role Pulliam has had as a leader on one of the biggest surprises in college basketball. Northwestern was not projected to finish in the top five of the Big Ten by either the media or the coaches. And now the team is Big Ten Regular Season champs with a chance for a conference title this weekend, and is all but guaranteed to host a regional in a few weeks’ time. Pulliam played as big a role as anyone in that rise.
Her hatred of losing was something that stuck out to McKeown while he recruited her, and that has changed the dynamic of the program. She wants to win so badly, and it’s rubbed off on everyone. “She wants to tell you I’m going to score on you,” McKeown said. “She, more importantly, wants to tell you, I play for a great team.” Now I have no idea how Doyle, Charles and the other team leaders in the Big Ten perform in those roles. But I have seen firsthand the respect Pulliam’s teammates have for her, and the drive, determination and dedication to the game of basketball she demonstrates on a daily basis. It’s admirable and incredible to watch. While she didn’t win Big Ten Player of the Year, Pulliam was a unanimous All-Big Ten first team selection, and she could see even more awards in her future. As McKeown says so frequently: “She’s a baller.” And, to me, she’s the best baller in the Big Ten. Peter Warren is a Medill junior. He can be contacted at peterwarren2021@u. northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to sports@dailynorthwestern.com. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.