The Daily Northwestern — April 11, 2018

The Daily Northwestern Wednesday, April 11, 2018

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Fiji house suspends operations until fall Chapter alumni, headquarters cite low membership

By ALAN PEREZ

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SESP junior Justine Kim (left) and Weinberg junior Sky Patterson speak during Tuesday’s debate. The candidates for ASG president discussed mental health and the role of ASG structure in policy.

Kim, Patterson debate platforms ASG presidential candidates discuss mental health, reform plans

By GABBY BIRENBAUM

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Associated Student Government presidential and executive vice presidential candidates debated mental health policy

and the merits of internal ASG reform at their first debate Tuesday.

About 30 people gathered in Technological Institute for the debate, which was moderated by The Daily.

The candidates spent significant time on mental health.

SESP junior Justine Kim and her running mate, SESP sophomore Austin Gardner, said they aim to change campus culture through initiatives such as reinstating a former Counseling and Psychological Services policy of bringing therapists from Evanston and Chicago to campus. In

addition, Kim said she plans to make a comprehensive guide to AccessibleNU for students and faculty that is specific to each undergraduate school in order for all parties to better navigate the office’s resources. » See DEBATE, page 6

The international headquarters of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity temporarily suspended operations of its Northwestern chapter until fall, removing 25 members despite their objections.

The headquarters handed down the suspension due to low membership, according to a Tuesday statement to The Daily.

The decision was made by some alumni of the NU chapter and headquarters staff, according to the statement.

“We appreciate (Fiji members’) acceptance of the decision,” Erwin Aulis (Weinberg ’80, Kellogg ’82), speaking for the involved alumni, said in the statement. “This new approach is the most promising path to return the chapter to a position of strength and as a great contributor to Northwestern.”

Yet Fiji members disputed the statement and said they were not given an option, three members told The Daily.

The members said they believe the involved alumni and headquarters staff disliked the chapter’s

rejection of mainstream Greek life behavior.

“We did not agree with their decision to do this, as we feel they had no real grounds upon which to oust us other than a personal distaste for our culture and dissatisfaction with our lack of campus competitiveness,” Thomas Hinds, the former recruitment chair, told The Daily in an email. “We do not believe in bureaucratic, aristocratic Greek culture. We intended to be a frat for everyone, but our lack of avarice was unsettling to them.”

NU was not involved in the decision but worked with Fiji headquarters to support them throughout the process, Charles Andrean, assistant director of fraternity and sorority life, told The Daily in an email.

University spokesman Al Cubbage told The Daily in an email that NU appreciates the Fiji alumni who “invested so much” to ensure that the chapter remains strong.

A $5.8 million renovation began in the summer and is underway at the Fiji house on campus.

Many of the members were planning to move in after the renovation was complete but are now forced to find a new residence, said Weinberg junior Aaron Zimmerberg, the former treasurer. » See FIJI, page 6

Evanston, NU end City revisits parking garage fence economic program Staff will consider safety measures following attempted suicide Collaboration to stop after more than 30 years

By CATHERINE HENDERSON

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After more than 30 years of collaboration between Evanston, Northwestern and other local institutions, the city announced on April 4 the end of the Evanston Inventure partnership.

The formal partnership between Evanston, NU, Evanston/Skokie School District 65, Evanston Township High School/District 202, NorthShore University HealthSystem and others centered on economic development in Evanston. The program started with the creation of the Northwestern University/Evanston Research Park, which is now closed.

Economic development manager Paul Zalmezak said the research park was a center for startups from NU to develop in Evanston instead of moving to Chicago or other cities.

He said other universities use the same concept to encourage professors and students to

contribute economically to local communities. “(A research park) involves turning some of the work that researchers were doing into profit such as startups and growth companies,” Zalmezak said. “It’s basically the commercialization of university research.”

Zalmezak said NU’s research park may have closed because the timing was off or real estate became more valuable. Still, he said the city no longer needs a partnership like Evanston Inventure because NU and Evanston communicate without the program.

Alan Anderson, executive director of neighborhood and community relations at NU, reiterated Zalmezak’s point that the city no longer needs such a formal partnership with the University. He added that The Garage at NU now serves the same purpose as the former research park.

“We’re continuously looking at ways to be a good partner to the City of Evanston around economic development,” Anderson said. “We’re supportive and want to work closely with the city about how best to do that.” » See INVENTURE, page 6

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City staff will explore ways to add safety measures to the Sherman Plaza Parking Garage after an attempted suicide in January, city manager Wally Bobkiewicz said at a council meeting Monday.

In January, a woman was taken to the hospital after she stood close to the edge of the parking garage for several hours. Ald. Judy Fiske (1st), whose ward encompasses the downtown area, said while the response from the Evanston Police Department and Evanston Fire Department was substantial, “clearly something needs to be done with the roof of the Sherman Avenue parking garage.”

Fiske requested that aldermen revisit the discussion of installing a 6-foot fence along the roof of the garage, which would cost nearly $25,000, according to city documents.

“This is going to be an ongoing problem,” Fiske said. “The fence is a deterrent. It’s not going to prevent suicides, but it is going to give people the time to pause that might be the difference

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Ald. Judy Fiske (1st) speaks at a council meeting on Monday. Fiske requested that aldermen revisit the discussion of a 6-foot fence along the Sherman Plaza Parking Garage roof.

between life and death.”

Aldermen previously denied proposals for netting and fencing in 2014, saying they would not be sufficient in suicide prevention. From November 2013 to May 2014, two people died from

falling from the top of Evanston parking garages and one after falling from a condominium at 1720 Maple Ave. City Council considered building the fence again in January 2017, but no action was taken.

Bobkiewicz said the proposed fence does not have any barbed wire, but curves at the top, which would make it more difficult for someone to climb over the fence. » See FENCE, page 6

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 2018

AROUND TOWN Evanston Arts Council talks Robert Crown plans

By WILSON CHAPMAN

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The Evanston Arts Council discussed plans for public art displays at the new Robert Crown Community Center development during a meeting in the Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center on Tuesday.

Engineering and capital planning bureau chief Lara Biggs told The Daily that talks about building the new center began in 2016, although discussions about renovating the facility date back to the early 2000s. She said senior project manager Stefanie Levine started the proposal as a way of addressing overcrowding within the current building.

“The number of people who utilize (Robert Crown) has grown to the point where it is very cramped,” Biggs said. “The facilities are simply too small to effectively meet the needs of the Evanston community.”

The new building will focus on creating a sense of connection for local residents, Biggs said. It will be almost twice as large as the old building and feature most of the same facilities, she said, including a gymnasium, ice rinks and art rooms.

Biggs said the building was designed to make facilities connected and accessible: A library is located in the main lobby, and the ice rink and gymnasium areas are clearly visible.

This design is intended to emphasize that the interests of Evanston residents are intertwined with one another, and the people who utilize

POLICE BLOTTER Man reports vehicle being ‘ransacked’ An Evanston man reported his items in his car were tossed about when it was parked near his home in the 1400 block of Wesley Avenue.

the center can receive support from fellow city residents, Biggs said.

Construction will begin later this year, Biggs said, and the building is expected to be finished in 2020.

Andy Tinucci of Woodhouse Tinucci Architects presented both building plans and various art that could be displayed in the building, including statues, illuminations, projections and murals. Tinucci said even though the budget set aside for art pieces is currently small, committee members will still be able to acquire “incredible” pieces for the center.

“The idea that people could come to this facility for not only recreation and not only knowledge and not only community but also art is incredibly exciting,” Tinucci said.

Council members said they will form committees to select artwork for the building. They emphasized making the space both childfriendly and aesthetically pleasing.

Although the Arts Council often provides feedback on public art displays, its involvement in the Robert Crown project is unique because members play an important role in decisions about the art on display, Arts Council co-chair Lisa Degliantoni said. She said this is due to the nature of community centers as hubs for Evanston and the need for the art displayed to be inclusive and representative of all residents.

“Community centers are Evanston’s center,” Degliantoni said. “The art should appeal in a broad community sense.” wilsonchapman2021@u.northwestern.edu The man told EPD he left one car in his driveway and another parked on the street outside his home from 9 p.m. Sunday to 6:30 p.m. Monday, Evanston police Cmdr. Ryan Glew said. The man said he found the contents of the car’s glove compartment “ransacked.”

The man also reported that nothing appeared

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Architect Andy Tinucci walks the Evanston Arts Council through his design for the new Robert Crown Community Center. The council met Tuesday to discuss potential public art displays in the future building.

to have been taken, Glew said.

Police do not have any suspects at this time.

Cosmetics stolen from CVS

A man entered CVS Pharmacy – 101 Asbury Ave. – at about 12:50 p.m. on Monday, took cosmetics and then exited without paying.

Police responded to a call from a CVS employee who said he followed the man out of the store but soon lost him. Police canvassed the area but did not find the man, Glew said.

Police do not have any suspects at this time. ­— Julia Esparza

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 2018

ON CAMPUS Waa-Mu to feature captioned show

By CAMERON COOK

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As part of an effort to expand accessibility to audiences who are deaf or hard of hearing, one performance of the 87th annual Waa-Mu Show, “Manhattan Miracle,” will for the first time feature open captioning and display all the words and sounds of the show on a screen above the stage.

The decision to add captions was made by Communication seniors Andrew Restieri and Sarah Ohlson, two of the four co-chairs for Waa-Mu — the largest student-written and produced musical in the country. Restieri and Ohlson said it can be very beneficial to those who are deaf or hard of hearing.

“We were looking for a really targeted, specific way and tangible way to make our show more accessible,” Restieri said.

Last year’s Waa-Mu Show was interpreted in American Sign Language, Restieri said. However, he said not everyone who is hard of hearing is fluent in ASL, making it a limiting form of translation.

“We wanted to find a way that was even more accessible to even more communities,” Ohlson said.

“We’re hoping to pave the way for future Wirtz productions and future Waa-Mu (productions) to have captioning.”

Restieri, Ohlson and the rest of the Waa-Mu team said they are marketing the performance specifically to deaf and hard of hearing audiences in the Chicago area. Older patrons, some of whom have been attending Waa-Mu performances for decades, can also have trouble hearing the dialogue in shows, Restieri said. Ohlson and Restieri said they hope captions displayed above the stage will solve that problem.

Waa-Mu’s community relations co-directors, Communication junior Ziare Paul-Emile and Communication senior Vanessa Strahan, said they reached out to the Chicago Cultural Accessibility Consortium, a nonprofit organization with the mission of making Chicago cultural spaces more accessible to those with disabilities, for help in acquiring

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Students perform at the 86th Waa-Mu Show, “Beyond Belief: A Superhero Story.” Waa-Mu will hold a performance of the 87th waa-Mu show with open captioning.

equipment.

CCAC partners with the Steppenwolf Theatre Company to loan equipment to Chicago-area organizations that are looking to perform more accessible shows.

However, Strahan and the Waa-Mu executive board decided to use the screen already available in Cahn Auditorium to ensure all audience members will be able to see it. Because seats are priced differently based on location, Strahan said Waa-Mu wanted to make sure the captions are visible from everywhere in the auditorium.

Strahan said Waa-Mu didn’t want price to affect whether audience members could see the screen, adding that the CCAC is still involved in training members of Waa-Mu to use the equipment it already has.

“The last thing we want to do is shut people

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away because we are not able to provide for them,” Paul-Emile said. “For us, it takes that extra step to be sure that things are accessible to them. Not every performance does that.”

An increase in accessibility is only one part of Waa-Mu’s attempt to be more inclusive, PaulEmile said. The organization’s community relations department was created to increase diversity in every aspect of Waa-Mu productions, from the writing room to the stage, Paul-Emile said.

“Access to art is a universal human right, and (this is) a really simple step for us to take,” Strahan said.

“Manhattan Miracle” opens May 4 in Cahn Auditorium, and the captioned production will take place May 12. cameroncook2021@u.northwestern.edu

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Social media adds to college loneliness phenomenon CASSIDY JACKSON

DAILY COLUMNIST

On Nov. 4, 2017, a month and a half into my freshman year at Northwestern, I made a fatal mistake. I created a Facebook photo album, and titled it “GO U! GO NU!” — which I mistakenly thought were the lyrics to our school’s fight song. Along with the tragic title, I added a sappy blurb about my college experience and posted around 30 pictures from my experience on campus thus far.

I was sitting in Mudd Library procrastinating homework and scrolling through Facebook when I saw something in my feed. I saw three girls update their NU-themed photo album with over 50 pictures. You know those people who add hundreds of photos every week, while you sit there wondering, “How the heck did they go downtown on a Tuesday, hit up Old Orchard on Wednesday and somehow manage to go to the Bulls game on Thursday?” — that was them. Every time I would see their posts, I would immediately question myself and the significance of my own friendships. Checking

social media would push me into a lonely spiral.

Right after I clicked “post,” I immediately regretted it — and I mean really regretted it.

For one, my blurb on campus life was utterly cringeworthy and cliché. I described college as a rollercoaster marked by highs and lows and almost included some sort of alliteration about how being a Wildcat is a “wild ride.” Thankfully, I didn’t.

But I did say that my college highs outweighed the lows “a million to one.” And upon reflection, that wasn’t fully true.

Through the message I posted, I was giving my Facebook friends a peek into my reality by saying college wasn’t all sunshine and rainbows.

On the other hand, I was desperately trying to convince both them and myself that I was thriving nonetheless. I understated my lows, because at that point, I was not thriving.

My anxiety had returned at an extreme level.

I missed my family like crazy. Most importantly, I was struggling to adjust to NU’s social scene.

I constantly grappled with foreign feelings of loneliness. I was a mess, but managed to hide the reality of how I felt by making myself as busy as possible.

Yet when I made that photo album, I was forced to confront reality. The whole reason I

made that album in the first place was because I felt the need to compare the state of my college friendships to what I saw on Facebook.

That’s the thing about social media: It’s rarely ever empowering, because comparison is social media’s devil, and he looms constantly. Sitting in Mudd Library, I felt so down in the dumps.

So many negative thoughts were triggered: How do these people have so many friends? Is there something wrong me? Why were high school friendships so much easier?

I usually don’t feel great after doing my daily social media intake, and that day wasn’t any different. I felt rejected and less than. So I decided to do something. I wanted to project what I wished my life actually was in that moment.

I posted a sappy message and a collection of photos all with a grinning Cassidy in the center.

It was a defense mechanism to the pain I was feeling.

On campus, the transition period from high school to college can be deemphasized, while partying and finding friends quickly become normalized. I couldn’t help but wonder where these relationships came from. It’s hard, almost impossible, to not internalize what you see on social media as the norm and anything outside of that as being abnormal. I can’t even count the

number of nights I wished my number of close friends magically jumped from five to 20. That was the majority of Fall Quarter for me.

Then I realized that it’s all subjective.

Those three girls’ squads seemed to represent best friend goals. But at the same time, the next girl could be looking at me, thinking I have the coolest friends. The girl I’m Facebook stalking could also be wishing she had better relationships than she does now.

Recently, I considered hiding that album from my timeline or deleting it completely, because it’s a nasty reminder of a not-so-great point in my life. I don’t because it was a point in my life nonetheless. Now, whenever I get in those fits of friendship comparison and feel myself wallowing, I try to put it into perspective and remember that everyone is experiencing this transition just like me. Then I turn off the screen.

Cassidy Jackson is a Medill freshman. She can be contacted at cassidyjackson2021@u.northwestern. edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this op-ed, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@ dailynorthwestern.com. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.

Stop romanticizing trauma, mental illness in your life RUBY PHILLIPS

DAILY COLUMNIST

Yesterday, I found myself on the Greyhound bus at 9 a.m., openly crying reading Junot Díaz’s new article in The New Yorker entitled, “The Silence: The Legacy of Childhood Trauma.” I have loved his writing for a long time, but unlike his other work, this essay wasn’t fictional. Díaz normally paints complicated images of the lives of immigrants going to new places and returning home.

He takes you into his stories and makes you reevaluate what your real home is. His stories show real people and real problems, and yet the reader can always take comfort knowing that maybe they weren’t written from his perspective.

I’d like to first encourage you to read the article, with the strong warning that it describes sexual assault and depression vividly.

In it, Díaz revealed in a raw and authentic way his traumatic past experiences of suffering from depression and being raped at 8 years old. This article was very meaningful to me because it reminded me that I had become complicit in the romanticization of trauma.

There is nothing particularly enticing about sadness. Sometimes, society tells us that

a sad story has to have a beginning, middle and end, with an introduction to the characters and their problems, an arc and a resolution. We think sad stories are something to be learned from and that make us strong rather than the ugly, neverending experiences they can feel like. Díaz’s article reminded me I shouldn’t feel comfortable when hearing about pain and sadness.

2017 was a hard year for me. I lost months that I’ll never get back and I still can’t understand why. Like Díaz wrote in his article, “Then darkness took me, and I strayed out of thought and time, and I wandered far on roads that I will not tell.” Sadness doesn’t look the same for everyone. For me, it changed the way I thought. My brain literally created new lines of logic that I thought made sense. I started sleeping less and prioritizing my work over everything. I soon became mean to my friends and to myself. I became obsessed with LinkedIn, resumes and internships. I compared myself to everyone I saw on Sheridan Road.

It felt like my career and my entire life were dictated by how I lived on this campus.

That’s the problem with how we define and value logic and thinking: When you can’t even delineate what is true, everything is logical if there is even the most insignificant piece of evidence to back it up. The truth becomes subjective, and everything turns into

Post-it notes all over a cork board with pieces of string connecting them.

I’m sure hundreds of students at this school and across the country deal with this every day. I told myself that I wasn’t the first millennial to attend an elite private school, and learn they weren’t special, so I convinced myself my problems didn’t deserve to be taken care of. I didn’t want to unload on my friends because I knew they were navigating their own issues, and I felt like my feelings would consume our friendship and burden their lives. But then I read Díaz’s story yesterday, and I was reminded that just because something is normal doesn’t mean it is OK. More importantly, my friends deserved all of me; that would be how I was going to get better.

It can be difficult at this school to admit when you aren’t as smart or as durable as you thought you were. The ways we perceive sadness and depression make us think that asking for help is weak. But our conceptions of mental problems cannot be limited to the corporatized and patriarchal narratives that we see on TV and in books — narratives that tells us it is sexy or twistedly hot to be “messed up” or sad. We see so many examples of relationships that begin on the premise of one partner saving the other. These ideas can make us think that to be interesting or loved, we need to have gone through something

On college campuses across the country, two of the issues I find to be imperative in the current moment are the fight against campus sexual assault and the creation of more spaces for queer students — especially queer students of color — to create community.

To work against sexual violence and allow for the creation of these spaces, I believe that students and faculty at Northwestern will need to unite the forces of activism with tangible changes to campus policy. As the founder of a new queer and feminist magazine on campus, I am hoping to encourage students to engage in more expressive activism at NU through my organization, becoming on-the-ground, vocal advocates for causes they are passionate about. We can no longer consider snapping Instagram photos at the Women’s March an effective form of activism.

My knowledge about student government and inciting policy change, however, is limited, and that’s why I will be voting for Sky Patterson and Emily Ash for student body president and executive vice president

Ruby Phillips is a Weinberg sophomore. She can be contacted at rubyphillips2020@u.northwestern.edu.

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Sky and Em are unafraid to address sexual assault, create more queer spaces

profound. Moreover, it seems like the only way to find salvation from those feelings is through love, romantic or otherwise. I internalized this myth for so much of my life that when I actually started facing problems with my mental health, I was surprised when no saved me.

I used to think having an illness would make me special until it became real and, when I tried to ignore it, it became worse. I’ve been the luckiest person in the world because I have the most amazing friends in the world.

They don’t romanticize my feelings or expect me to defeat them. They waited with me, sat with me and helped me take back my moments, millisecond by millisecond, when I needed to. I learned from Díaz and from all the amazing people who support me that to explore your feelings and your sadness, to look at the ugly parts, is to find out how you can get better. Even though it was scary, I was able to trace the distorted lines of my logic and I had people who followed them with me.

They never let go.

in the upcoming Associated Student Government election. Admittedly, I’m a Policy Roundtable Leader on their campaign. But Sky and Emily are the only candidates for these positions that have incorporated new and refreshing policies around sexual assault and gender and sexuality inclusion into their platform — which are absolutely necessary components of anyone leading a progressive student government on campus in 2018.

Rather than calling for ASG funding reform, which is perhaps a necessary conversation but rarely palatable to the average student and already a reform in action, Sky and Emily advocate for ways to create gender-inclusive spaces including genderneutral restrooms, promote healthy sexuality through increased funding for the Center for Awareness, Response and Education and evaluate the way the University can support the creation of spaces to party off campus with grants for groups who want to practice risk management policies at their events.

Furthermore, both Sky and Emily have proven themselves to be excellent advocates for women and the queer community in the past, through Sky’s creation of a trans-inclusive spaces guide which has been distributed to all faculty, and their condemnation — along with the rest of the ASG executive board and Senate, respectively — of the actions reportedly committed by Alec Klein

and the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.

Looking to the future and the University that I hope Northwestern will become — since we all know it has much improvement to do — it is integral that we seek to create a more equitable and inclusive school that seeks to eradicate one of the largest problems at universities today, sexual assault. Sky and Emily are prepared to chase this goal, with well-crafted policies not only for these issues, but also CTEC reform, academic reform and course affordability.

Additionally, as a student searching for new ways to engage in campus activism, their platform includes support for continued efforts to support free speech on campus, which will allow them to become the policydriven force that will work beautifully alongside what they refer to as “a vibrant culture of protest” at Northwestern. As the election nears, I encourage fellow students to educate themselves on the platforms created by all of the candidates, but also to keep in mind the candidates with the most original, inclusive platform and the candidates who are fighting for a safer, more equitable and worthier Northwestern.

— Brock Colyar Medill sophomore Policy Roundtable Leader on Sky and Em’s campaign

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 2018

ASG releases results of March smoking referendum

By JONAH DYLAN

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A March 16 Associated Student Government referendum said 51 percent of students believe the University should not change anything about smoking policy on campus.

According to the referendum, 38 percent of students strongly disagree that smoking on campus is a nuisance, while 27 percent of students strongly agree that it is.

Weinberg freshman Bassel Shanab, who spearheaded the legislation for the referendum, said he wanted to get students talking about cigarette policy at Northwestern. He added that while he doesn’t understand all the reasons why some students smoke, he wants to ensure that students who choose not to don’t have to inhale secondhand smoke.

“Maybe they have an addiction, maybe they’re smoking for social pressure, maybe they just smoke just to try it,” Bassel said. “We also have the right not to smoke as they have the right to smoke.

They’re making a decision on my behalf when they smoke so that was a main concern of mine.”

Although ASG Senate tried to pass legislation to make NU a tobacco-free campus in 2013, it was rejected. After Illinois banned smoking on state university campuses in 2015, Senate tried to pass similar legislation but failed again.

University President Morton Schapiro said in March that the issue of smoking on college campuses can be more complicated than it seems.

“When it came up about five years ago … I was like, ‘Sure, yeah, we should ban it. I can’t stand the smoke,’” Schapiro said. “But then I started thinking more about it, and I’m just not sure that we

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin brings up data privacy in Zuckerberg hearing

At a joint Senate Judiciary and Commerce Committee hearing Tuesday, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) brought up the issue of data privacy by asking Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg if he

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ASG Senators Bassel Shanab (left) and Emerson Carlson speak at an ASG meeting about a smoking referendum. The referendum said 51 percent of students believe the University should not change anything about smoking policy on campus.

have a moral right to tell people that.”

According to the referendum results, 25 percent of students believe the University should enforce 25-foot limits more often, while 24 percent of students believe the University should ban smoking on campus.

Shanab said some ASG members “tend to

forget” that this referendum was just a survey sent to the student body, not a definitive policy. While he said he was disappointed by some of the referendum results, he felt he accomplished the main objective of getting people to talk about the issue of smoking on campus.

“As long as we have people discussing this issue,

that’s all I care about, because we don’t want to have archaic rules deciding our health because I’m here for four years,” Shanab said. “I just want to make sure that the next kids that are coming in, they know that we did do something about this.”

would publicly disclose private information to the committee.

Zuckerberg testified to lawmakers about Facebook’s role in a data breach involving Cambridge Analytica, a UK-based firm that harvested private data of up to 87 million Facebook users through an outside researcher. Additionally, senators investigated Facebook’s role in alleged foreign meddling in the 2016 presidential election, following the discovery of Russian-operated sites that had distributed partisan

political content.

To make a point about the information Facebook allowed third-party organizations to make public, Durbin asked Zuckerberg if he would share personal information with the committee.

“Mr. Zuckerberg, would you be comfortable sharing with us the name of the hotel you stayed in last night?” Durbin said.

Zuckerberg hesitated before telling Durbin he would not be comfortable sharing the information

publicly, and similarly would not want to publicize the names of people he had messaged in the past week.

“I think that may be what this is all about: your right to privacy — the limits of your right to privacy, and how much you give away in modern America in the name of, quote, connecting people around the world,” Durbin said.

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DEBATE From page 1

Kim and Gardner’s opponents, Weinberg juniors Sky Patterson and Emily Ash, argued their initiatives better attack the root causes of students’ mental health problems. The ideas they proposed include creating spaces for students to explore their identities and having a sliding fee for therapy.

“We do not want to look at Band-Aid solutions,” Patterson said. “We don’t think that dialogue is sufficient enough.”

Patterson’s campaign also addressed the two violations her campaign committed. She said while she takes full responsibility, she also has “screenshot” evidence that a member of the election commission has been “actively advocating on behalf of the other ticket.”

Election commissioner Dillon Saks declined to comment on the allegation.

Kim told The Daily that while she will look into the allegation, she doesn’t believe the commission has been biased.

“I personally believe the election commission has taken every single step possible to make sure that this election is as unbiased as possible,” Kim said. “I also strongly believe that the belief that it’s biased also has to do with the fact that they were the ones who received violations themselves.”

The role of ASG structure in policy was another contentious issue. Patterson said her platform is less focused on making changes within ASG and instead aims to bring change to individuals and student groups.

Kim said although ASG reform is not the only facet of her platform, changing its structure, particularly regarding finance, is important. A significant part of her campaign has involved meeting with student groups that have had poor experiences with ASG

in the past and collaborating on how ASG can be beneficial to them. One such initiative is a concept she called a hackathon, which Kim said is a method to engage student groups not previously involved with ASG and provide them with a platform to publicize their events and programming.

Gardner said proposing internal ASG change is important because it creates a framework for future initiatives.

“You can put two new leaders in office and have a mentality that you can make changes for a time, but if you want to see sustainable, systemic change, you need to put in some structural (changes) to maintain that implementation,” Gardner said. “So, a lot of our policies are focused on outreach.”

Patterson reiterated that her campaign is concerned with looking outward from ASG. She said receiving endorsements from Rainbow Alliance and Wildcats Advancing Total Campus Health was a

INVENTURE From page 1

City manager Wally Bobkiewicz said the director of the Evanston Inventure program retired several years ago, but a small group kept the program alive “in name only.” The program itself had no hired staff but operated mainly through other economic programs within individual institutions, he said.

Since the beginning of the program in 1984, Evanston has evolved and no longer needs the organization, Bobkiewicz said. Still, he emphasized the importance of its impact.

“Evanston Inventure helped lay some important groundwork between the city and the University to collaborate more in general,” Bobkiewicz said. “That work will continue without Inventure through the close partnership between the city and

FENCE

From page 1 Ald. Peter Braithwaite (2nd) said if the fence had barbed wire or something else that would prevent someone from climbing over, he would be more inclined to explore a solution. He said he is concerned the city could not build a fence high enough to deter someone inclined to jump from the garage.

Braithwaite added that before he can support a fencing plan, he wants to make sure the city places the safest fence possible that will not make Evanston liable in the event of an incident. But Bobkiewicz said if the city builds a fence, it would be liable and not the contractor.

“No one wants this to happen whether it’s on that rooftop or any other rooftop,” Braithwaite said. “It’s just a very tough reality that we have to deal with.”

Ald. Ann Rainey (8th) said the city should conduct more research to see if there is anything

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The Phi Gamma Delta house at 2331 Sheridan Rd. Fiji headquarters suspended the NU chapter’s operations and removed members.

FIJI

From page 1 Zimmerberg said the decision was sudden and especially disruptive for new members who are subject to the University’s two-year live-in requirement, which began in the fall.

“We have recommended that IFC re-evaluate (Fiji’s) membership in the council, and that students considering going Greek be aware of the ruthless actions this organization has taken to override undergraduates and force their will onto this chapter,” Hinds said.

Hinds added that the chapter has a “fantastic record of staying off probation” and an “incredibly eclectic 90 year history.”

According to its statement, headquarters staff will visit campus for about six weeks to recruit new members in the fall — when the renovations will be complete — and this year’s members have been given privileges and status as alumni.

Jonah Dylan contributed reporting. aperez@u.northwestern.edu

result of such student-oriented policies. For her part, Kim said she was proud of an endorsement from QuestBridge.

Patterson and Ash said their academic equity policies show their commitment to students. Patterson said she will advocate for the use of open-source textbooks and for partnering with the library to get licenses for services that STEM students currently pay for themselves, such as WebAssign. Ash said their campaign proposes a fund to provide grants to low-income students who have to choose between student leadership and a traditional paid job.

“Sky and I don’t want to be leaders of the student government; we want to be leaders of the student body,” Ash said. “We see the value in advocacy on behalf of the entire student body, not necessarily the individuals within ASG.” gabriellebirenbaum2021@u.northwestern.edu the University. … The Inventure model served its purpose and we’re happy to move on and remember the good work that it did.”

According to a news release, the group will donate its last $12,000 to the Elevate Evanston workforce development initiative.

Bobkiewicz said the resources for Evanston Inventure will be best used elsewhere in the city, and he praised the group’s final action. He said the University and the city have worked closely in job training programs in recent years.

“Prior to Inventure’s involvement, this regular, easy interaction between the city, the University, the hospitals and the school district just wasn’t happening,” Bobkiewicz said. “The legacy that Inventure leaves is that healthy environment where collaboration takes place on a very regular basis.” catherinehenderson2021@u.northwestern.edu — including netting and fencing options — that will substantially deter people from “taking a leap.”

However, Braithwaite raised concerns that they are now “opening up Pandora’s box.” By looking to increase the safety of one garage rooftop, he said the city will then need to look at all of the parking garages in downtown Evanston.

Bobkiewicz said the fence seemed to be the best solution when officials last talked to experts about the situation, but added that they can revisit the research to see if there are any new developments.

He said the aldermen can also consider different strategies like putting up signs or providing emergency phone services. The city will come back with more information at a council meeting in May, Bobkiewicz said.

“While the Sherman garage seems to have more activity than the rest, it is not exclusive,” Bobkiewicz said. “There are issues around all of them.” samanthahandler2021@u.northwestern.edu

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Selena Lasota named Big Ten Co-Offensive Player of the Week

Junior attacker Selena Lasota was named the Big Ten Co-Offensive Player of the Week after finishing with 9 goals and three assists in Northwestern’s wins over Ohio State and Notre Dame last weekend.

Lasota scored 4 goals and added one assist for the Wildcats (11-3, 3-0 Big Ten) in Friday’s 20-6 win over the Buckeyes. With the assist, she became the 11th NU player since 2002 to tally 200 career points.

The junior had seven points in a 20-10 win against the Fighting Irish on Sunday, tying her season high. Her 5 goals and two assists led the Cats to their sixth straight victory.

This marks the second time this season

Lasota has earned a Big Ten weekly honor, and the fifth time in her career. She was named the Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week during the first week of this season, after she totalled 6 goals and seven draw controls in NU’s first two wins of the year over Canisius and Detroit Mercy.

Lasota is the second straight NU player to be named Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week. Senior attacker Sheila Nesselbush earned the honor for scoring 9 goals in three wins over Syracuse, Johns Hopkins and Penn over Spring Break.

Lasota and Nesselbush join midfielder Taylor Pinzone and goalkeeper Julie Krupnick, who were each previously named the Big Ten Freshman of the Week this season, as the four Cats who have received Big Ten weekly honors in 2018.

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Erin Larner strikes a serve. The senior is this week’s Big Ten Women’s Tennis Athlete of the Week.

Erin Larner named Big Ten Women’s Tennis Athlete of the Week

For the second time this season, senior Erin Larner has been named the Big Ten Women’s Tennis Athlete of the Week. It is the fourth time in her career she has been recognized with the honor.

Playing at Michigan State and then-No. 24 Michigan last weekend, Larner, who competes at No. 1 singles and No. 1 doubles with fellow senior Maddie Lipp, won all four of her matches.

Against Michigan State on Saturday, the senior defeated Aslina Chua 6-0, 6-2 in singles play; she and Lipp defeated the duo of Emily Metcalf and Davina Nguyen 6-2. On Sunday, Larner beat No. 29 Kate Fahey 6-4, 6-3 for her

third victory this season over a top-50 opponent. In doubles, Larner and Lipp defeated the team of Fahey and Brienne Minor 6-1.

On the season, Larner is undefeated in both singles and doubles in conference play. She is ranked No. 35 in the country in singles, while the team of Larner and Lipp is No. 4. As a team, Northwestern (15-4, 8-0 Big Ten) is ranked No. 9 in the country and sits atop the Big Ten standings.

The Oregon native’s previous recognition this season came after the Wildcats defeated Illinois and Iowa in early March. Other than her two honors this season, she won the award once her freshman year and once during her sophomore campaign.

NU will play its final home matches of the season this weekend against Wisconsin and Minnesota.

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Selena Lasota makes a move. The junior attacker was named the Big Ten Co-Offensive Player of the Week for the second time this season.

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“We needed to start to build some momentum going into Big Tens, and really competing better and doing a better job of fighting for every shot.”

— Emily Fletcher, coach

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BASEBALL

NU’s pitching keeps improving before Notre Dame

By CHARLIE GOLDSMITH

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Jack Pagliarini delivers a pitch. The freshman leads all Big Ten pitchers with 22 strikeouts against conference opponents.

The math doesn’t look right: Pitcher Quinn Lavelle has a 2.75 ERA but only three wins all season.

The freshman went the full nine to secure his most recent victory with a complete game shutout against Maryland two weeks ago, earning the Big Ten Pitcher of the Week honor for his performance. But the pressure was even greater against Michigan, which was looking to extend its 12-game winning streak in last weekend’s series opener.

On Saturday, after Lavelle and Michigan pitcher Tommy Henry traded four scoreless innings, that burden started to show as the Wolverines tacked on four runs in the fifth. The trend continued Sunday when Northwestern entered the ninth inning tied but lost 7-3.

“The fact that it’s tied puts too much pressure on the pitchers,” coach Spencer Allen said. “We’ve had some young guys show some good things.

That’s all you can ask for because we’re just not clicking.”

After being swept last weekend by the Wolverines, the Wildcats (8-17, 1-8 Big Ten) play Wednesday

Northwestern vs. Notre Dame

South Bend, Indiana 5:05 p.m. Wednesday

at Notre Dame (14-18, 5-10 ACC).

Throughout last weekend’s series, NU’s offense didn’t give Lavelle and the pitching staff any breathing room, scoring just three runs in three games.

Junior infielder Willie Bourbon said the pitching staff ’s performance was a positive takeaway from the series, as starters Lavelle, sophomore Hank Christie and freshman Jack Pagliarini kept throwing with confidence while the offense faltered.

“Obviously we’re pretty deflated after the last three games,” he said. “(But) they really filled the zone, they really threw all their pitches for strikes and they controlled and kept us in the game.”

The Cats, who lost to the Fighting Irish 3-2 last season, have been better on the mound than at the plate all year. In 804 at bats this season, NU has just 181 hits, 14 home runs and 198 strikeouts. And though the team’s three regular starting pitchers are underclassmen, Christie, Lavelle and Pagliarini have started 20 of 25 games and opponents are hitting below .270 against each of them.

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Allen emphasized how his pitchers “fill the zone,” meaning they utilize several different pitches on opposite sides of the plate. By denying the hitter the ability to anticipate what’s coming, the pitchers have been able to keep their ERAs down.

But Christie, Lavelle and Pagliarini each ran into the same problem last weekend against Michigan — getting through the lineup a second and third time. The trio gave up just one run in the first four innings of each game in the series, but nine runners crossed the plate in the fifth and sixth innings over the three games.

As the Cats continue to navigate one of this season’s most difficult stretches, with this game and a weekend series against No. 10 Indiana coming up, junior infielder Jack Dunn said the team is counting on its pitching to help turn around its season.

“Our pitching has come a long way. All three starters have attacked the zone and filled up the zone pretty well. They gave us a chance to win,” he said. “Our offense, we’re lagging right now. We need to find a theme to our offense, and right now we haven’t found it.”

Peter Warren contributed reporting. charliegoldsmith2021@u.northwestern.edu

CROSS COUNTRY

Wildcats place 6th in California Northwestern cruises

at Chicago area event

By JOSEPH WILKINSON

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Northwestern has been the picture of consistency this season, and the Wildcats continued their solid play at the Silverado Showdown this week, holding their own by finishing sixth in a talented field.

No. 11 NU was joined by No. 2 UCLA, No. 5 USC, No. 6 Stanford, No. 7 Texas, No. 13 Arizona State and No. 14 Arizona in Napa, California. The Cats finished ahead of Texas and Arizona State, but came in behind the other highly-ranked opponents. USC won the tournament by 10 strokes.

“It was challenging,” coach Emily Fletcher said. “Overall, I was very pleased. I wish we could’ve hung in there with another two or three shots. Finishing sixth seems a little maybe not great, but really we played very well the next two days.”

Senior Hannah Kim, who tied for the individual title in Napa in 2017, finished in a tie for 15th at 2 over par. Kim ended the tournament 10 strokes back of this year’s co-champions, USC’s Jennifer Chang and UCLA’s Patty Tavatanakit.

She was also one stroke behind fellow senior Sarah Cho, who tied for 12th at 1-over. Cho was NU’s most consistent golfer of the weekend, playing her final two rounds at even par after coming in 1-over after the first round.

“The biggest thing is to just try not to play too aggressively,” Cho said. “There are a couple tee shots where you can honestly hit a little bit shorter and not have to pinch it down the fairway. You need to be aggressive on the approach shots on to the green, but other than that, playing it … pretty safe was the key.”

Finishing just outside the top 25 were juniors Stephanie Lau and Janet Mao, each of whom carded scores of 5-over-par for the tournament to come in a tie for 28th.

For Mao, it was an up-and-down competition. She carded a first round

By BEN POPE

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Sarah Cho begins her backswing. The senior tied for 12th at the Silverado Showdown.

78, the highest score on the weekend among the five golfers competing for the team. However, she then bounced back with a final round 3-under-par at 69, which was the lowest score of any Cats golfer.

“I couldn’t even put my finger on the difference,” Mao said. “It was just a little bit of adjustments here and there with my swing and then a couple changes in decisions. I hit three-wood off the tee on a couple holes that I didn’t on the first day.

And then just getting more reps in the putting game, doing a little better with the speed and matching my speed with my lines.”

NU has now completed its regular season schedule, but with the team’s recent history of success, its season is likely far from over. The Cats head

to the Big Ten Championships in Maineville, Ohio, in two weekends looking to qualify for NCAA Regionals, and from there possibly onto the National Championships for the sixth straight year.

Fletcher said the key to the team’s improvement will be its attention to detail.

“We needed to start to build some momentum going into Big Tens, and really competing better and doing a better job of fighting for every shot,” Fletcher said. “At times we’ve picked wrong clubs and we’ve picked bad targets and we’ve just done some sloppy stuff ... To the girls’ credit they did a really good job the last two days of really tidying it up.” josephwilkinson2019@u.northwestern.edu

In its second weekend of the outdoor track and field season, Northwestern placed runners all over the top of the leaderboard in the 800- and 1500-meter races at the Benedictine Invitational last weekend.

Taking advantage of playing the event close to home in the western Chicago suburb of Lisle, the Wildcats swept the top three spots in the 1500. Sophomore Kelly O’Brien won the event with a time of 4:29.39 seconds, fellow sophomore Aubrey Roberts took second place after finishing barely over a half-second behind and senior Isabel Seidel snagged third.

“I was pretty happy because I feel like I executed what the coaches had set out with the plan,” O’Brien said. “But I couldn’t have done it without Aubrey helping the pace down.”

Sophomore Sarah Nicholson, senior Brooke Pigneri and freshman Hannah Tobin also grabbed top-10 finishes in the event.

For most of NU’s runners, the meet was unusual: the 800- and 1500-meter races were significantly shorter distance events than they usually run.

But O’Brien, who specializes in the 1500-meter, also ran and placed sixth in the 400-meter as a way to get similar experience. She said the 400-meter race allowed her to practice starting fast and closing strong, two important skills she can translate to future 1500-meter races.

“I haven’t done (the 400) since high school, so it was fun to jump in and practice speed,” she said. “This was a speed, not necessarily workout because we were going all out, but just a change of pace for everybody.”

In the 800-meter, Roberts earned her second overall runner-up finish of the day — she was barely edged out by Loyola’s Laura Bestul — and recorded the fifth-fastest 800-meter time in school history by running the race in 2:19.48 seconds.

Freshman Amanda Davis (fourth), Seidel (fifth), Nicholson (sixth), Tobin (seventh), Pigneri (eighth) and senior Andrea Ostenso (ninth) also racked up top-10 finishes.

“Our teammates all just lined up at the line and we all raced each other, and it was a good speed workout,” Roberts said. “Sometimes it’s hard to run really fast workouts in practice, so this race was a fun meet to boost the morale and get in some quality speed work.”

Since the Cats only entered runners in the three aforementioned races — and do not field competitors in other “field”related events such as long jump and pole vault — NU finished fifth overall as a team with 55 points in the invitational.

Loyola won the women’s team title with 144 points, cruising past second-place Wisconsin-Oshkosh.

Still, the meet provided a welcome break from the Cats’ frequent trips to other states for competitions, Roberts said.

“It’s always fun to go to meets in California, but it was great for some girls’ parents to come out to the meet, and it was a lot less travel,” she said. benjaminpope2019@u.northwestern.edu

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Aubrey Roberts leads a pack of runners.

The sophomore finished second in the 1500-meter and 800-meter races.