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Graduate students march for funding Protesters demand adoption of sixthyear guarantee By CAMERON COOK

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New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman speaks at an event Thursday. Haberman emphasized the need for strong local news and truthful political reporting.

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NYT White House correspondent talks shifting norms in current era By JOSIAH BONIFANT

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New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman doesn’t ever have a “typical” day. In the hectic Trump administration news cycle, she splits her

time between New York and Washington, keeping up with breaking news that develops at breakneck speed. In the 24-hour news cycle, Haberman is practically attached to her phone and email, and she’s had to take “more and more forced breaks” away from them. One such break came

Thursday night, when she spoke to a crowd of roughly 100 Northwestern students, faculty and Evanston residents at an event hosted by Northwestern Hillel. The event, which was held at the McCormick Foundation Center and co-hosted by the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing

Communications, consisted of a discussion moderated by Medill Dean Charles Whitaker and a Q&A session. Whitaker began by asking Haberman how she became such a key figure in journalism; last year, she won a Pulitzer Prize for her reporting on » See HABERMAN, page 6

Graduate students rallied Thursday and presented a list of demands of The Graduate School during Northwestern University Graduate Workers’ first public action to lobby for guaranteed sixth-year research funding since it was discontinued last spring. Protesters marched from The Rock to Rebecca Crown Center, where Sergey Kucherenko, TGS’s associate dean of finance, met them to receive their demands in place of Dean Teresa Woodruff, who Kucherenko said was in Chicago. Kucherenko told the protesters he could “guarantee” their voices would be heard. Fifth-year graduate student Kitty Yang handed Kucherenko the demands and told him the students expected a response and timeline for action “within a week.” Kucherenko told Yang she and the other students could expect a response within “a couple of days.”

“These are not demands that are new,” Yang told Kucherenko. “TGS knows that sixth-year funding is really important.” NUGW, the University’s graduate student union, has been pushing for guaranteed funding since TGS stopped granting funding to sixth-year students through assistantships — which include research and teaching positions — last May. Though assistantships are only available to second through fifth-year students, in the past, some students were granted exceptions. In an email to graduate students last year, Woodruff said the school would no longer make those exceptions. In response, NUWG put together a letter campaign that fourth-year math graduate student Perry Kleinhenz said garnered over 250 graduate student signatures. “A lot of us need a sixth-year of funding to get degrees and good jobs,” Kleinhenz said to cheers at the rally. “We haven’t been able to make our voices heard. We don’t have a seat at the table. So this is what we have to do.” Especially in the humanities, completing a doctoral degree is rarely something » See SIXTH-YEAR, page 6

Executive order’s Piven Theatre works with inmates NU impact unclear Organization leads weekly acting workshops for incarcerated women Trump orders colleges to promote free speech or lose funds By ALAN PEREZ

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President Donald Trump last month issued an executive order directing colleges that receive federal funding to promote “free inquiry” or lose the funding, a clear step in addressing what the Trump administration says is an effort in higher education to undermine the views of conservative students and speakers. The order mandates that public schools comply with the laws and regulations related to the First Amendment and that private schools like Northwestern abide by their own institutional policies regarding freedom of speech. It calls on 12 federal agencies to work with the White House Office of Management and Budget to ensure schools comply with these laws and policies, though it was scant on details of its enforcement. The president offered few additional details, but said at a signing ceremony that it was necessary amid the “censorship

and coercion” some campuses have placed on students. He referenced a February incident when a conservative activist on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley was punched in the face after recruiting for a conservative organization. “We’re delivering a clear message to the professors and power structures trying to suppress dissent and keep young Americans, and all Americans… from challenging rigid, far-left ideology,” Trump said. But any change in policies or procedures at Northwestern is unclear. While public colleges are bound by the First Amendment, private colleges are not, though the federal government has legal authority to impose such measures to schools it funds. The order directs the OMB to “take appropriate steps” to ensure private schools comply with their “stated institutional policies regarding freedom of speech” or risk losing federal research grants, though it kept safe money related to federal student aid programs. University spokesman Bob Rowley said the right to freedom of expression and speech is “part of our values, and it predates the » See ORDER, page 6

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Gillian Hemme is not one to “skip her 9 a.m.’s” — especially on Tuesdays. She wakes up as early as 5 a.m. to ensure she arrives on time at 8. Once she parks, she leaves her cell phone and computer in her locked car, knowing they’d never make it inside. Even so, it takes at least 30 minutes to get through security clearance at Cook County Jail, and another 30 minutes to gather the women from around the jail and bring them to the chapel, where her class is held. Hemme, who is an education and community partnerships manager at Evanstonbased Piven Theatre Workshop, leads a weekly acting class with inmates from the jail. Founded in 2014, the group, Ensemble Play in Cook County Jail, provides weekly workshops for female inmates as an escape from their daily lives. “We wanted to do the thing that we do best, which is this Piven technique of improvisation, story theater and theater games because we’ve seen and experienced ourselves what a

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Women in Cook County jail work with members of Piven Theatre Project. The weekly workshops allow the women to express themselves in an environment where such chances are rare.

difference it makes,” Hemme said. “Whoever wants to be involved, we try to make space for.” Given Piven’s work within the jail, it was a natural choice for Piven to produce “Hopelessly Devoted” for its 20182019 capstone project. It’s a play about the experience of women in prison. “Hopelessly Devoted” tells the story of Chess, a woman

facing a long prison sentence, separated from her children and isolated from other inmates. The play, written by Kate Tempest, is based on her experiences visiting a women’s jail in London, and runs from April 6 May 5. “ There’s an immense amount of pain around it,” said Linda Stevenson, a volunteer with EPIC. “When the women talk about their

children, it’s very painful... how do you explain? How do you parent from a jail?” According to the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, over 80 percent of incarcerated in Illinois women are mothers. Stevenson said many incarcerated women face emotional challenges when separated from their children and families. » See PIVEN, page 6

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Local music outlets to celebrate Record Store Day By JAMES POLLARD

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Music enthusiasts around the world will celebrate Record Store Day this weekend, and Northwestern University students will not be left out of the vinyl-sleeve-searching, musty-smelling, needle-dropping fun. Entering its 12th year, Record Store Day supports the unique role that independently owned record stores play in their communities and support music artists. With indie shops participating in every continent except for Antarctica, festivities include special performances and record-releases. This year, over 600 limited titles are set to be released, said Steve Kay, owner of Vintage Vinyl, which is located on Davis Street in Evanston. This list includes material from David Bowie and The Grateful Dead to Courtney Barnett and Anderson Paak. The list features labels like Third Man Records and Easy Eye Sound to Atlantic and Parlophone. Record Store Day “is a way to get people to come into record stores the way it was back in the pre-internet days,” Kay said. “So that there would be a community available, there would be people working in record stores that know all about the music that they sell.”

POLICE BLOTTER Woman charged with obstructing identity, driving with suspended license A woman was charged with obstruction of identification and other offenses after a traffic stop Wednesday morning. Officers on patrol at the corner of Davis Street and Orrington Avenue observed a car with a temporary license heading westbound on Davis, said Evanston police Cmdr. Ryan Glew. After the officers learned the vehicle’s registration had expired, Glew said they conducted a traffic stop in the 600

In addition to selling some of the 600 titles available for Record Store Day, Vintage Vinyl, featured in the 2000 rom-com High Fidelity, will host White Wolf Sonic Princess, a psychedelic, folk-rock band that will perform live at the store’s location on Davis. Communication first-year Wes Park, an artist whose music averages over 1,500 monthly listeners on Spotify, said he’s bought records from Vintage Vinyl. Park said the record shop is “cool and convenient.” A collector of old jazz records, the musician said he also recommends Reckless Records, which recently relocated to Belmont Avenue in Chicago from Broadway. Park said he buys records because it is nice to have a physical copy of the music, especially by his favorite bands, as a show of support for them. And with his fixed-up, JVC JL-a20 turntable, he says the sound quality is “better than streaming.” McCormick senior John Williams, general manager of the student-run WNUR radio station, said his favorite record store is Gramaphone Records on Clark Street in Chicago, and that he might buy “a record or two” from them Saturday. He added that artists do not make much money from streaming services. “On WNUR, we listen to a lot of underrepresented artists, artists who may have been historically marginalized or are not on mainstream media platforms.” Williams said. “They’re really

block of Davis Street. Glew said officers spoke to the driver and her female passenger and requested the driver’s license and auto insurance. The driver was unable to provide a license and instead gave officers a false name, Glew said. However, officers did not discover this until later. After detecting the smell of cannabis, Glew said the officers searched both the driver and her passenger but did not find any contraband. A search of the vehicle found only trace amounts of cannabis. The driver and her passenger were allowed to

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Vintage Vinyl. The store will have some of the 600 plus special releases available for purchase on Record Store Day.

not making very much money at all for all the hard work they’re putting in. Buying physical merch is one of the best ways that you can support those artists.” Squeezebox Books and Music, located on Main

Street in Evanston, will also be celebrating with sales, several music performances and the select Record Store Day titles.

depart, Glew said. Officers were dispatched to her home after it was discovered that she had given a fake name and had previously had her license suspended. The officers did not find the driver, Glew said, but she later contacted officers and promised to turn herself in to be charged, which she did later that day. The driver was charged with obstruction of identity, driving with a suspended license and failing to renew the registration on her vehicle, Glew said. Her court date is set for May 3.

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President boasts rankings, grad rates By ZOE MALIN

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University President Morton Schapiro discussed topics ranging from his goal to equalize the undergraduate student experience to NU’s “groundbreaking” research projects in the second installment of “Conversations with the President” this year a speaking series featuring Northwestern officials. Schapiro began by noting the University’s high standings in relation to peer institutions. “You don’t want to be a slave to the rankings,” Schapiro said. “But when you’re recognized, people are proud.” The Thursday event, held in the McCormick Foundation Center, was hosted by the Northwestern University Staff Advisory Council. President Schapiro was joined by Provost Jonathan Holloway; Craig Johnson, the vice president for business and finance; and Jeri Ward, the vice president for global marketing and communications. Schapiro spent much of his opening remarks speaking about how Northwestern is one of 26 private research universities that are a part of the Association of American Universities, an organization comprised of leading research universities. He added that he’s “proud” of NU’s differential graduation rate — the graduation rate for undergraduates who are Pell Grant recipients versus those who are not. “We are one of the few schools whose differential graduation rate is equal,” Schapiro said. “We have a 94-percent graduation rate for non-Pell recipients and a 94-percent graduation rate for Pell recipients. The typical research university in AAU has a gap of about five or six percentage-points.” However, Schapiro said he feels Northwestern is “a little under-appreciated” when it comes to ranking research universities. In response, Ward said her office is committed to communicating the University’s reputation to distinguish it as a

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renowned global university. “There is so much impactful work that happens at this University, and we need to tell those stories,” Ward said. Schapiro said he talked “at length” about the University’s ongoing budget deficits in his remarks at NU’s Chicago campus April 3, and apologized again to those affected by the deficit. “A year ago, I stood here and people me asked about layoffs and the budget, and I told them we seemed to have our arms around it. We didn’t,” Schapiro said. “I’m sorry for all of the promises I made that we had to go back on.” Now, however, Johnson said NU’s business and finance office now has a “good handle” on the University’s financial information and is looking closely at its seven-year financial plan. Overall, Johnson said he thinks good ideas have been proposed in order to emerge from the deficit while maintaining the University’s “core values.”

Moving to the topic of diversity, equity and inclusion, Holloway said the University has seen progress over the last year. He said campus-wide diversity, equity and inclusion is a “pillar” of Northwestern, emphasizing his office’s commitment to working on mental health. “We want to hear from the Northwestern community and find creative, basic, innovative ideas that will help us become a healthier community,” Holloway said. Holloway added that the University is working to “amplify” resources on campus, including Counseling and Psychological Services. To close his speech, Schapiro said he is “very optimistic” about the future. “I’m as excited about the future now as I was in year one,” Schapiro said. “Maybe even more excited.”

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Anti-vaccine stance is dangerous, a threat to society MARCUS THUILLIER

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On April 9, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio declared a public health emergency after a measles outbreak hit the region, infecting 285 people, of which 21 were hospitalized. This outbreak, and others like it, comes after the disease had been declared eradicated by the Pan American Health Organization in 2016, and is the latest outbreak in a series of cases that have popped up across the country. The situation mirrors an outbreak Washington state in January 2019, when Democratic Governor Jay Inslee was forced to declare a state of emergency after 55 cases of measles were reported. Most of the infected were children under ten. That such diseases still appear throughout the United States is an absolute shame, and their outbreak continues to put vulnerable people at unnecessary risk. Throughout the U.S., 17 states allow for philosophical or personal belief exemptions to vaccinations, and in recent years, more and more parents have stopped vaccinating their children, out of fear of perceived negative effects of vaccines — including now-debunked claims that some may cause autism. Countless studies and extensive research have disproven such claims, and

shown that not immunizing children ends up putting those with medical exemptions to vaccines at risk. The more people you vaccinate, the less chance you have of a disease breaking out in that population. This concept is referred to as herd immunity and protects those who cannot get vaccinated for medical reasons as they are less likely to come in contact with the disease. To achieve herd immunity for measles, for example, 95 percent of the surrounding population must be vaccinated.

But now, with the growth of the antivaxxer movement, the number of immunized people is shrinking, putting the whole population at risk of contracting diseases that continue to kill thousands of people yearly. Reasons for forgoing vaccinations vary from religious beliefs to personal freedoms to valid medical reasons for why a child cannot be immunized. Three states — California,

Mississippi and West Virginia — currently only allow medical exemptions to vaccines. In states that only allow medical exemptions, like California, strict laws have proven to work, reducing measles cases from 125 in 2015 to 24 in 2016 after the introduction of new laws. That is good news for all people who attend school, go to work, or otherwise frequent public places. When vaccination is taken as a matter of public health, and not a matter of freedom of thought or religion, everyone is better off. This extends into our daily lives as students here at Northwestern University. Although Illinois state law requires full and half-time students to submit their immunization records, the same is not true of parttime students, who qualify for their status by only taking one class. This would not be a problem if those students did not step foot on campus. But they do. On top of that, Northwestern University also grants medical or religious exemptions based on that same law, which can further endanger unvaccinated students with medical conditions. Northwestern University abides by Illinois state law in requiring those who are full-time students to provide their immunization records, but it is at the institution’s discretion to grant the exceptions. The school is therefore complicit in putting students — who are medically exempt from receiving vaccinations — in danger if they happen to interact with unvaccinated students who do not have a reason to be unvaccinated.

This is not an issue easily fixable at the state level, because Northwestern is a private university. The change must come from the administration, who must take action to protect its medically exempt student body. Allowing unvaccinated students to attend on-campus classes represents a threat to the student population that could be easily prevented. Besides improving health standards at Northwestern, we can do more at every level. The government needs to address this issue like it is: a public health emergency. The states need to do the same, and it should be schools’ responsibility to set an example to prevent the future spreading of preventable diseases. If you do not vaccinate your child based on unsupported claims or other non-medical reasons, you represent a menace to the American population — everyone that allows this to happen is complicit. Parents will still continue to fail to vaccinate their children without concrete laws in place, giving lawmakers and administrators the responsibility to protect those who are at risk as a result of this failure. Marcus Thuillier is a first-year graduate student. He can be contacted at marcusthuillier2019@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.

Cheating scandal highlights glorification of elite schools EMILY WONG

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To preface, I know we’ve probably heard too much about the college admissions scandal since it broke about a month ago, but repeated mentions of Lori Loughlin’s predicted jail time in my news feed constantly remind me how relevant it remains to the public. The morning after the story came out, I remember opening Reddit to find a reference to the scandal in almost every post, either in the form of sarcastic jokes or outraged reactions. One particular response that caught my eye was by author and screenwriter Danielle Paige, who tweeted, “Watching this college admissions soap opera and flashing back to buying a book about how to get into an Ivy League school when I was a kid and then doing absolutely everything I could to get there.” Although I understand the frustration she was trying to express, I find Paige’s statement to be problematic in its own way. Why is it so universally accepted to idealize admission to elite institutions, particularly those with a fancy label like the Ivy League? Independent of Catherine Buchaniec’s valid argument that college admission is skewed to favor students from privileged backgrounds, there seems to be a consensus among many admitted students that

the process is likely arbitrary and not at all indicative of a student’s actual qualifications or abilities. Yet there’s so much pressure on students to get into a school with a name respected enough to impress their peers, relatives and parents’ friends. I recently rewatched the movie “The Social Network,” and one of my main takeaways was the grandeur with which they portray its main setting, the Harvard University campus. Through repeated mentions of the high-power families with enrolled children, as well as the pervasive depiction of attractive and poised students, the film makes Harvard look more like the world from the sci-fi movie Gattaca — where society has begun to genetically modify babies through in vitro techniques so they are all born in peak physical condition — than a campus full of 18-22 year-olds. I realize films are made to be dramatic and idealized. However, while it’s unlikely that viewers will find this portrayal any more believable than the lives of the gorgeous teenagers in Gossip Girl, there are inevitable effects from the mainstream, pop culture depiction of elite universities: where getting in means you’re worthy of an elevated level of success, and where attending “X” college — be it Harvard, Stanford, or any other top ten institution — will help you get there. I don’t think it’s a shock to anyone that it’s possible to find a quality education outside of the Ivy League, but nonetheless, the intensity surrounding elite college admissions suggests an unspoken belief that any

other college will provide a subpar education. A 2002 article from the Brookings Institution found that there were “possibly a hundred” colleges that provide an excellent, high-level education. The same article also observed that “as non-elite colleges have improved in educational quality and financial resources, and favoritism toward top-school degrees has faded, getting into an elite school has nonetheless become more of a national obsession.”

I would argue that the majority of the blame for this phenomenon should fall on the attitudes of parents and students who are making critical evaluations of universities. These attitudes are pervasive across the board, and apply not only those who go so far as to commit a crime in order to achieve a spot at whichever one they choose. I appreciate the secondhand indignance on

behalf of students whose “spots were taken” by those admitted unfairly. But I don’t think that should be the focus of the situation. We know it’s not possible for a college to admit every student who deserves to attend. As a college counselor once told me and my classmates senior year of high school: universities don’t want well-rounded students; they want a well-rounded class. Because of this, I think it’s important to acknowledge that while many qualified students may apply to a university, only a fraction can be admitted. Regardless of wealth or status, there’s always an element of luck involved in a student’s acceptance. Making Harvard and other elite universities out to be the key to or an indicator of success is in and of itself exclusive and alienating to those who didn’t have the sheer good fortune to fulfill the admissions office’s needs that year. That’s in no way to associate the glorification of top-ranked universities with the exploitation of affluence to cheat the system. But maybe if we didn’t place so much value on a handful of schools just because we know they’re selective, they wouldn’t hold so much power over us and our perceived worth. Emily Wong is a Medill sophomore. She can be contacted at emilywong2021@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.

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ASG candidates emphasize ‘justice’ in campaign By ATUL JALAN

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Izzy Dobbel’s experience sitting on Associated Student Government’s funding reform committee was an illuminating one. At the time, ASG-funded groups by dividing them into A- and B-status organizations based on various factors, including size and history on campus. Groups included in the former category, Dobbel explained, received approximately $38,000 on average, leaving only about $300 per group in the latter. That made a mark on the SESP junior. Dobbel said the inequality she witnessed within ASG’s funding process was one of the reasons she decided to run for ASG president. For the campaign, Dobbel tapped SESP junior Adam Davies as her running mate. Davies said they have a history of campus activism focused on fighting the additional hardships faced by marginalized students at Northwestern. “The big thing that I’ve learned from that is how much institutional support there can be for marginalized groups and how hard it is to access that,” they said. Their history of pushing for policies to further financial and gender equality on campus has led them to form a campaign that is focused on increasing “justice” for marginalized students and prioritizing mental health for students on campus. The campaign stresses three areas of policy: academics, community and health. Dobbel said that as president, she plans to introduce policies to ensure NU’s pass/fail policy

extends to classes that count for distribution credits. She also plans to require that professors make textbook costs available before students sign up for a course. “Disclosing the costs of textbooks before you register for a class — it’s actually a law. It’s the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008,” Dobbel said. “It should be as transparent as possible. People should know exactly what the bang to their wallet is going to be every single quarter because there are times that I take a class with a professor who literally wants me to rent a book for $300.” In addition to textbook affordability, Dobbel said she will push the University to provide Cat Cash to students on food stamps, another step to reduce barriers faced by low-income students. However, Dobbel and Davies said they have yet to decide the specific conversion ratio the University should use to determine the amount of Cat Cash that will be given to each student depending on their food stamp allocation. On the community level, Davies said that they and Dobbel will advocate for the creation of more spaces for different groups, especially racial minorities and low-income students, who often find themselves marginalized on campus. As part of their push for health, Dobbel and Davies have proposed at least two policies. They are urging NU to add three more Counseling and Psychological Services personnel — a policy that ASG has pushed for previously — to help shorten response times for student counseling requests. Dobbel and Davies said they will also advocate for the creation of “mental health sick days,” through which students will be able to miss classes and receive excused absences, no questions asked.

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SESP junior Izzy Dobbel and her running mate Adam Davies, also a SESP junior. The two are currently running uncontested for ASG president and executive vice president.

The number of sick days a student receives per course in a quarter will be equal to the number of times the class meets per week. “We want to recognize mental health problems as significant as physical health issues, as mental health is a real, legitimate problem facing our

generation,” said Weinberg junior Henry Molnar, Dobbel’s and Davies’ campaign manager. “We need to start recognizing the fact that Northwestern is a really stressful place.” atuljalan2022@u.northwestern.edu

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Thinking like an economist could help solve the problems of modern democracy, Northwestern President Morton Schapiro and Slavic languages and literatures Prof. Gary Morson wrote in a Wednesday op-ed in The Washington Post. In the piece, Schapiro and Morson — who coauthored the book “Cents and Sensibility: What Economics Can Learn from the Humanities” — argue that many politicians today are thinking “almost theologically” and are unwilling to compromise on their positions. “That is not an economist’s way of thinking,” Schapiro and Morson wrote. A “recommitment to prudence” is necessary if any progress is to be made in the face of issues such as climate change and determining the future of the minimum wage. “With politics becoming a secular religion, and its practitioners taking similarly inflexible stands, affording little discernible benefit to the nation, it might be worthwhile to consider how an economist would approach some of the vital issues today,” they wrote. “Scarcity exists, and imperfect choices must be made.” Schapiro and Morson referenced policies supported by both the far right and far left, making sure to note drawbacks of both sides’ ideologies. Taxes, for instance, would lose their effectiveness if either raised or lowered to the extremes, they argued. The Green New Deal, would be more realistic if it didn’t call for “guaranteed jobs along with suitable housing and healthy food for all.” If people were to think like economists, Schapiro and Morson wrote, they would be more likely to “identify approaches more likely to be effective in attaining good goals — and so are justified ethically as well as practically.” This isn’t the first time Schapiro has used national news as a platform to convey his political beliefs — in January 2016, he wrote a piece in The Post defending safe spaces as a way of making marginalized students more comfortable, and therefore more prepared to learn. He also clarified his position on campus protests in the Los Angeles Times later that year, shortly after a letter The University of Chicago Dean of Students sent to incoming first-years — which decried the use of safe spaces and trigger warnings as a barrier to free thought — became the subject of controversy. — Cameron Cook

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President Donald Trump’s potential connections to Russia. Her response was unexpected. “I did not want to be a journalist,” Haberman replied. Haberman said her experiences growing up with her journalist father, who was constantly working, turned her away from the field — despite her innate desire to write. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with a degree in English and creative writing. But at her first job working on the New York Post’s copy desk, she was given weekly opportunities to write. After reporting on city hall, she said she was “hooked.” Haberman said she wrote for other publications — like the New York Daily News and Politico — before beginning to report for the New York

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that can be accomplished within five years, said Anna Dumont, a fourth-year art history graduate student. Dumont said she doesn’t know anyone in her department that finished their doctorate in five years. While she said she knew she was entering a precarious situation by joining a graduate program, she began her research at NU assuming there would be options to apply for funding beyond her fifth year.

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From page 1 Abby Pierce, director of “Hopelessly Devoted,” said that the Piven Theatre introduced the play through their workshops, where Cook County women performed it in class. She added that the women had a strong emotional response to the play, and felt it was very true to them. “(‘Hopelessly Devoted’) really prompts a conversation around mass incarceration and the way we’re treating people in the prison and jail system,” Pierce

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From page 1 executive order — and this practice continues at the University as it always has.” The vagueness of the order has worried some higher education groups that implementation would be inconsistent across schools and points of view. Others said the problem was nonexistent. “No matter how this order is implemented, it is neither needed nor desirable, and could lead to unwanted federal micromanagement of the cutting-edge research that is critical to our nation’s continued vitality and global leadership,” Ted

FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 2019 Times in 2015, where her work has focused on Trump’s candidacy and early presidency. In an interview with The Daily, Haberman said Trump has effectively “poured accelerant on an already sped-up news cycle.” “This President has shattered a lot of norms related to how our democracy has functioned,” Haberman said. “And I think his election has been a reminder to a lot of people that our system is largely norms and not laws.” These shifting norms have come at a time when Trump has taken aim at the press — particularly the New York Times, an organization which he has repeatedly called “the enemy of the people.” SESP sophomore Jacob Jordan, who attended the event, said he considers journalism to be a safeguard for democracy, adding that he has made sure to follow journalists like Haberman on Twitter. “I want to hear how factfinders like herself are

defending themselves against the largely baseless attacks,” Jordan said. “It’s essential that we have a free and accurate press in order to check the actions of rulebreakers, such as our president.” Haberman received several audience questions about her experiences dealing with the president and the backlash the Times has received from him. “To Trump, the Times represents the elites who don’t approve of him,” Haberman said. “But I think this is actually a great time to be a political reporter.” She said that holding public figures accountable has never been as important as it is now — both on a local and national level. Haberman said that when she first started reporting in the late 1990s, the newspapers she wrote for focused more on state and local politics and less on federal issues. Now, she said that has reversed. “National news can’t fill the void of local

reporting,” Haberman said. “Local journalism is vital and essential to a working democracy.” Haberman added that while this presidential administration has provided many stories to pursue, The Times is reconsidering how pervasive their coverage should be. She said too much reporting on Trump can lead the public to minimize individual stories’ importance. Medill first-year Virginia Langmaid said she appreciated Haberman’s success story. “Journalism can be such a drag, so it’s nice to go to events and see there’s a light at the end of the tunnel,” said Langmaid. “There are people who actually did this and now have a career doing what they wanted to do.”

Now, she’s having second thoughts about a project in which she’s deeply invested because of the travel costs associated with it. To make up for that, Dumont said, she’s had to apply for large numbers of fellowships — a task that distracts her from her research. “Your work basically stops for that period of time, which makes it even more difficult to finish in the period of time the administration for some reason thinks it should be possible,” Dumont said. “We’re constantly in a state of limbo where we don’t know if six months from now, we’ll still be funded to do our research.”

The fight for sixth-year funding takes place in the midst of a $94 million budget deficit, which has led to cuts University-wide. TGS — like the undergraduate schools at the University — was directed to make a five percent cut to its budget. Regardless, many graduate students believe the University is still in a position to fund their research. “We know the University can afford this, so it seems particularly cruel that they’re choosing not to,” Dumont said. “It’s the case that we’re not responsible for the deficit. The leadership of the University made decisions that lead to it, and now

they’re trying to pass those costs onto the people at the University who are the most vulnerable.” Many of the students also expressed frustration that administrators weren’t listening to them. It was “ridiculous,” Yang said, that graduate students had to resort to letter writing and petitions to receive recognition from University leadership. “This is the first public action for sixth-year funding, but it will not be our last,” Yang said to cheers during the rally. “We are workers. We have a right to have our voices heard.”

said. “I think that’s probably the biggest success.” Hemme said women in Cook County Jail are often awaiting trial, and some have been behind bars for years because they can’t afford to pay bail. She added that the women felt they were in a constant state of “liminality,” an ambiguous terrain difficult for them to navigate emotionally and logistically. She said the women of EPIC supported one another and were one of the most generous audiences she said she had ever seen. “We want to make sure that we’re equipping them with tools they can use to navigate that

ambiguity a little bit better,” Hemme said, adding that Piven tried to ensure women were given an opportunity to be encouraged, supported and challenged in creative ways. Jordan Coley spent over a year and a half in Cook County jail and had the opportunity to work with Piven in the time that she was there. Coley added that without Piven, she and other women would not have any other outlets for expression, opportunities which are few and far between for those who are incarcerated. Coley said she felt as if she didn’t always know how to express herself vocally, but through Piven’s

activities and plays, she learned to express herself and find a more artistic form of who she is. “It was amazing, it was the best thing I think I’ve ever experienced...it made me feel liberated,” Coley said. “We played, we felt free — they literally gave me about two and a half hours of freedom.” Hopelessly Devoted is showing at the Piven Theatre Workshop in Evanston on April 6-May 5, and will be performed for women at Cook County Jail on April 30th.

Mitchell, the president of the American Council on Education, said in a statement. “To minimize the order’s ill effects, we urge the Trump administration to consult with a diverse set of stakeholders and take a wide range of views into account before implementing its provisions.” University President Morton Schapiro stopped short of directly criticizing the order, though he questioned whether the act would enhance free speech on college campuses. “It’s essential that our colleges and universities continue to promote freedom in scholarship and in expression,” he said in a statement to The Daily. “It’s unclear whether an executive order is a

constructive or necessary means toward that end.” Under the leadership of President Schapiro and Provost Jonathan Holloway, Northwestern has shown itself to be a staunch supporter of free speech. Holloway has stood by his decision to let a controversial visiting scholar — whose past work has been criticized for promoting racist and sexist views — stay at NU over objections from many students and faculty who say his presence is actively harming the University environment. The weekend the executive order was issued, Holloway was invited to speak at Emory University in Atlanta during a free speech and academic freedom conference. A recording of his speech was

not available, though he said Northwestern will “continue to abide by our practice of welcoming ideas from across the spectrum and respecting the right of people to speak up.” “When we invite people, they will have their invitation respected,” he said via email, referring to invitations offered to guest speakers. “The vast majority of the time, this invitation will garner little attention or controversy. Every once in a while, as you know, the situation is different. In those occasions, we will still strive to honor our core principles respecting academic freedom and free speech.”

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Weinberg Prof. chats gentrification in Rogers Park By AUSTIN BENAVIDES

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Bill Savage has rented and lived in Rogers Park for the past 55 years, but when he made the decision to become a homeowner, a question dawned on him: “Am I gentrifying Rogers Park?” The Weinberg professor spoke Wednesday to a group of about 20 students in this month’s installment of Justice Talks, a monthly dialogue hosted by Northwestern’s Neighbor2Neighbor Initiative to foster conversations about social issues. Savage explained that gentrification is the process by which people — usually hailing from high-income backgrounds — purchase houses or condominiums in predominantly rent-based neighborhoods, thus driving out lower-income renters. He said that in Chicago, the issue has become a major concern. Savage framed the dialogue through the lens of his own personal experiences. He’s spent his whole life in Rogers Park, moving between houses and apartments eight times. Savage said the past two residences he’s lived in have been located near Loyola University Chicago, in an area that has faced massive change over the past few decades. “One of the things that people forget about gentrification and about urban renewal is how often universities are the motors of that,” Savage said. Some schools, like the University of Chicago, heavily promote ways for students to get involved in their neighboring communities — in this case, Hyde Park — said Val Buchanan, assistant director of leadership development and community engagement at the University. Buchanan, who organizes the Justice Talks’

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dialogues, said while Neighbor2Neighbor and other initiatives promote city involvement, Northwestern has not yet organized engagement to UChicago’s level. “I think we have a lot of work to do in terms of our connection to Evanston,” Buchanan said. “The undergraduate experience tends to be very campus-centric. There’s not a lot of pathways to understand and connect with community-based organizations and get involved with their neighbors in Evanston as a whole. For many Northwestern students, they’re on Sherman Avenue, campus, and that’s it — and that’s not true of Evanston.” During the talk, Savage asked the crowd of students to consider their effects when moving into a new neighborhood. He advised students to take a walk through the neighborhood before deciding to rent and said it’s important to check out how old the businesses are — if they’re all under five years old, then that might be a sign of gentrification. “Be a neighborly person, wherever you go, and you’re going to have a richer experience even if you end up finding out that five years later, you’re considered the first gentrifier,” Savage said. “In those five years, get to know your neighbors. Maybe it won’t feel quite so bad.” Weinberg sophomore Katie Daehler, who attended the event, said that while the gentrification conversation usually is focused on its effects in Chicago, Evanston and Northwestern have a role in it as well. “It’s really easy to just look at the price of a place and look at its location be like, ‘Oh, hey, that’s pretty great,’” Daehler said. “But in reality, the decisions you’re making have a lot more weight to them.” austinbenavides2022@u.northwestern.edu according to a Monday news release. This filling was made with the Illinois Commerce Commission. It’s the fourth decrease out of nine rate requests since the Energy Infrastructure Modernization Act (EIMA) or “Smart Grid Law” was enacted in 2011. Each year the utility company requests rate changes to aid the company in reaching its goals required by law. According to ComED, the law was designed to

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Weinberg Prof. Bill Savage spoke to a crowd of students. He gave a talk Thursday about gentrification and his experiences as a Rogers Park native.

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No. 6 Cats fall to No. 2 Terrapins in key Big Ten matchup NO. 2 MARYLAND

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Despite the 24 goals evenly traded between the two top-five ranked teams in the first 47 minutes, the hour-long lightning delay that moved the last 13 minutes indoors and the six-goal performance from senior attacker Selena Lasota, all that mattered Thursday was that Northwestern lost its chance to claim the 2019 regular season Big Ten Championship. The No. 6 Wildcats were tied with No. 2 Maryland at twelve when a lightning strike moved a home lacrosse game indoors for the first time in the history of the program. After a chaotic scene that featured NU representatives ranging from athletic director Jim Phillips to baseball infielder Alex Erro preparing Ryan Fieldhouse to host the final minutes, the Terrapins (15-0, 7-0 Big Ten) scored three goals in just over five minutes to win 17-13 against NU (9-4, 3-1) and continue their undefeated season. “It came down to a couple of mental lapses, and you just really can’t have that against a good team like Maryland,” coach Kelly Amonte Hiller said. “We have a

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group that is learning how to play at this level, and it takes time to learn the focus that you need to be able to win a game like this.” In the final 12 minutes of the game, Maryland recovered all four ground balls, took seven of the last 11 shots and drew seven fouls on a team playing its first close game against a Big Ten opponent all season. The Cats missed four of the five shots they took in the indoor portion of the contest, though they lost three additional chances after the officials reversed three different foul calls from against the Terrapins to against NU. Since the Cats weren’t able to keep the lead they held for most of the first half, they dropped into a tie for second place in the Big Ten with two conference games left in the season. Maryland hasn’t lost against a Big Ten opponent in the regular season since it first joined the conference in 2014. With Thursday’s result, NU likely won’t receive a regular season title or the top seed in the Big Ten Tournament this season. “We weren’t even paying attention to that (possibility),” Lasota said. “But we proved to ourselves that we need to get better. That was the only thing that was proven today. We need to get better

moving forward so we can see them again in the future.” NU gave a more competitive showing this time around than it did against the Terrapins last year, when it scored only seven and allowed 14 goals in the first half of a 20-16 loss. Amonte Hiller attributed the team’s initial success this year to the play of senior goalie Mallory Weisse — who was in net the entire game despite not starting a game all season — and sophomore midfielder Brennan Dwyer’s ability to win the majority of the team’s draw controls. And then lightning struck. During the hour-long break right in the middle of a tightly-contested game, every player went back to their own locker, sitting quietly before Amonte Hiller addressed the team. It was the Terrapins who responded, Amonte Hiller said, showing how they’ve dominated the conference for five seasons. “We had a great effort, obviously, but we just need a few more inches at the end in terms of our focus,” Amonte Hiller said. “It comes down to experience, and now we have that experience and we know that’s something we can do.” charliegoldsmith2021@u.northwestern.edu

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NU prepares to face Lau plays at Augusta National fourth-place Wisconsin By CHARLIE GOLDSMITH

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This weekend, Northwestern will try to defend its first-place standing and perfect record in the Big Ten as fourth-place Wisconsin comes to town for what will be a decisive series. The Wildcats (30-7, 9-0 Big Ten) and Badgers (30-5, 7-2 Big Ten) both enter riding an eight-game win streak, and will face off for the first time since last May, when Wisconsin beat NU in the final game of the regular season. “We know we’re going to have a tough weekend,” coach Kate Drohan said. “Wisconsin is a very good team, a very talented team and very well coached, so we’ll certainly have our hands full.” The Badgers, fresh off a sweep of Iowa last weekend, come to Evanston with powerful bats. Junior Kayla Konwent tops the Big Ten with a .505 batting average and .962 slugging percentage, and freshman Taylor Johnson is in the midst of a 19-game hitting streak. Wisconsin’s pitching is also impressive, with a team earned run average of 1.47. “It’s no secret they’ve got power in their lineup — they’re really successful with the long ball,” Drohan said. “We’ll try to limit that, and the key for us will be to get to their pitching and be able to put the ball in play and generate some pressure on their defense.” The Cats will counter with strong pitching of their own. Freshman Danielle Williams leads the conference in ERA at 1.04, opponents are hitting only .157 off of her, and she’s pitched four one-hit complete games in 2019. Drohan said she appreciated her players’ focus in practice Thursday, and she wanted NU to keep that focus through the weekend. “The games behind you don’t matter, the games more than a day ahead of you don’t matter, so it’s about us taking one pitch at a time,” Drohan said.

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Kenna Wilkey takes a swing. The sophomore was confident about the Cats’ chances heading into a weekend series with Wisconsin.

Sophomore pitcher Kenna Wilkey said she isn’t worried about about the Cats’ performance going forward. “We’re doing a really good job,” she said. “We’re beating good teams, (and) we’re stringing together all these hits — our bats are on fire.” NU had a solid hitting week with a grand slam from freshman Nikki Cuchran and a two-run homer from sophomore Rachel Lewis highlighting last weekend’s sweep of Nebraska. The Cats also had a six hits — including a pair of doubles — against Notre Dame on Tuesday in their coaches’ 600th career win with NU. Wilkey said NU’s recent success — including winning the past 13 of 14 and eight straight — has given the team more confidence and helped them work well together. She said she’s looking forward to the series this weekend. “I’m stoked to go out there and play with my teammates, get some more wins, and stay undefeated in the Big Ten,” Wilkey said. sophiascanlan2022@u.northwestern.edu

They call it “Redbud.” It’s the 16th hole at Augusta National where Tiger Woods hit the most famous shot of his career — a chip shot that hung on the rim of the hole forever before dropping into the cup — and has been where several Masters favorites have cemented or ruined their chance at a green jacket. It’s also one of Stephanie Lau’s favorite holes in the country. The Northwestern senior participated in the inaugural Augusta National Women’s Amateur last week, which meant Lau played Redbud and the other 17 holes at the famous golf course. Her struggles earlier in the week at the Champions Retreat Golf Club, which hosted the first two rounds of this event, meant this would just be a practice round of golf, but Lau shot a 72 at Augusta National and parred the 16th hole. “With (Redbud’s) tee position on Sunday’s, it’s really fun to watch the ball hit that hill (off the drive) down the right side of the pin and see the ball funnel down it,” she said. “I just love watching shots go in on that hole.” After shooting 159 the first two rounds Wednesday and Thursday, Lau missed the cut by 12 strokes. On the first day of competition at Champions Retreat, Lau was one of four women in the field of 72 golfers to shoot over an 80. In the second round, Lau improved her score by three strokes, but she still finished tied for 69th in a competition that featured the best amateur female golfers in the country. Coach Emily Fletcher flew to Georgia on Wednesday night to help Lau plan for the rigorous week ahead. In a seven-day stretch, Lau played three different courses — Champions Retreat, Augusta National and the Silverado Resort and Spa in Napa, California.

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Stephanie Lau lines up to putt. The senior played in the inaugural Augusta National Women’s Amateur last week.

When Fletcher spoke with Lau on Wednesday and Thursday, she said she didn’t see any indication of nervousness before playing against some of the top amateurs in the nation. Fletcher said she was encouraged to see Lau decrease her shot total on the second day at Champions Retreat and finish strong in Augusta, which the entire NU team tracked shot-forshot online. “(Lau) just get she got off to a bad start that first day and just never could quite recover enough,” Fletcher said. “But we had a chance to talk after the round and she just really was very poised, and was able to see that there was a lot of good to take away from

her experience that week.” After leaving Augusta on Friday, Lau met up with the rest of her team in Wine Country, where she shot a 217 in three rounds at the Silverado Showdown and tied for fourth place in that entire field. Even though she had to travel across two time zones to get there, Lau helped lead the Cats to their first tournament win of the season. “I tried to eat meals on Pacific time while I was still on the East Coast,” she said. “I tried to make it so I didn’t sleep on my flight. I just wanted to get on to Pacific time as soon as possible.” charliegoldsmith2021@u.northwestern.edu