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Students light candles outside of Lutkin Hall in memory of first-year student Mohammed Ramzan. Ramzan passed away Monday during a Northwestern men’s crew team practice.

Community remembers Ramzan Hundreds gather at Lutkin Hall for student’s memorial service

By MARIANA ALFARO

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Family and friends of firstyear student Mohammed Ramzan remembered him as a curious, gentle and hardworking student who lived to make others’ lives better.

Ramzan passed away Monday after falling off a nine-person shell during crew practice on the North Shore Channel in Lincolnwood. Members of

Ramzan’s various Northwestern communities spoke during a memorial service held at Lutkin Hall on Wednesday.

Participants of the Freshman Urban Program, NU Quest Scholars, members of the Muslim-cultural Students Association, a member of NU men’s crew team and leaders of both Rainbow Alliance and Queer Trans and Intersex People of Color spoke during the service.

They all shared memories of Ramzan’s time at NU, emphasizing his energetic outlook on

Evanston group pushes for safety Go Evanston to advocate for safer transportation

By BILLY KOBIN

daily senior staffer @billy_kobin

A new Evanston group aims to advocate for sustainable transportation initiatives in the city as well as safety for pedestrians, bicyclists and drivers.

The group, Go Evanston, was founded in January by a small group of residents and held a kickoff event last week.

The group began to form during last year’s debate to remove the Dodge Avenue bike lanes, Go Evanston spokesperson Vickie Jacobsen said. Jacobsen said a group of citizens created a petition in support of the bike lanes that received more than 1,000 signatures.

“It got us thinking that the advocates for walking and biking and transit use needed a unified voice in Evanston,” Jacobsen said, adding there was a need to “make sure our elected officials were hearing the opinions of everyone.”

Go Evanston focuses on advocating for an increase in walking, bicycling and public transit use in and around Evanston. The group plans to offer educational sessions on bike and pedestrian safety, and wants to work with city officials and local organizations to achieve its goals.

Jacobsen said about 40 people attended the kickoff meeting and discussed the results of a survey Go Evanston distributed earlier this year to receive feedback on the group’s potential goals. The group received about 500 responses to the survey, which helped give the » See GO, page 7

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life, his love for his religion and his dream to one day become an AIDS researcher and doctor.

More than 400 people attended the memorial, which ended with a candlelight vigil outside of Lutkin Hall.

Luke Flores, director of the the BioEXCEL program — a summer program for incoming science students — met Ramzan during the program last year. Flores said Ramzan promised him he was going to make him proud.

“The gratitude that he had

and the excitement that he had to come here, to Northwestern ... was something he constantly expressed to me,” Flores said. “I am very proud that Mohammed was my student.”

Weinberg freshman Samantha Flood said she and Ramzan spent a lot of time together — hanging out in Chicago’s Boystown neighborhood, helping each other with work or simply grabbing a meal. Ramzan worked hard academically and

Mulukutla sworn in as ASG president

Weinberg juniors Nehaarika Mulukutla and Rosalie Gambrah were sworn in as the next Associated Student Government president and executive vice president during Senate on Wednesday.

Mulukutla and Gambrah won the election after running uncontested, garnering 76.8 percent of the vote. Only 894 students voted in the election, down from the 4,060 who voted last year.

After she was sworn in, Mulukutla said the pair are in the process of putting together a plan for their first 100 days in office. Their first priority is to ensure efficacy among the new ASG executive board, she said.

“The most important thing on our minds right now is electing an executive board that actually really does what they need to do and can purport our vision in the way we want them to,” she said.

Mulukutla and Gambrah

» See MEMORIAL, page 3 had met with the former president, SESP senior Christina Cilento, and executive vice president, McCormick senior Macs Vinson, before Senate to facilitate the transition. Mulukutla said she wants to work toward finishing the projects Cilento and Vinson weren’t able to complete.

Mulukutla said she and Gambrah plan to meet with vice president for student affairs Patricia Telles-Irvin “immediately” to discuss the

Chris Collins first tried making cider in his Evanston basement eight years ago using storebought apple juice.

“It didn’t turn out so great,” he said. “It was an early lesson on using the absolute best ingredients.”

Soon after, Collins bought his own apple press and began experimenting with different types of apples. This year, he opened Evanston’s first cidery.

North Shore Cider Company had its soft opening in south Evanston on Feb. 23. The cidery offers free tastings and allows customers to fill up growlers of cider to go, Collins said. He said all distilling and fermentation happens on the property, 707 Howard St. He also plans on having a monthly special event with full pours of cider and food. And the upcoming warmer weather will generate more business, Collins said.

Collins said his cider is “full of flavor” because it is made with fresh juice from apples grown at Earth First Farms in Berrien Center, Michigan.

He is currently the only employee at the cidery, but he hopes to expand eventually.

“I would love to grow to enable me to hire more people, and it’s something I foresee happening,” issue of sexual assault on campus. Earlier this month, the pair wrote a letter, signed by more than 100 students, urging the administration to increase resources for survivors of sexual assault.

According to an email sent to students Feb. 6, anonymous reports alleged four female students were given a date rape drug at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house on Jan. 21.

Two of the students believed they were sexually assaulted,

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Nehaarika Mulukutla is sworn in as Associated Student Government president. The Weinberg junior won the uncontested election last week.

he said.

When searching for a location for the cidery, he ultimately settled on Howard Street, a commercial corridor in Evanston’s 8th Ward, because he wanted to be a part of the Howard Street “restoration,” he said.

Evanston’s economic development division manager Johanna Leonard said Howard Street is looking for “destination” businesses to attract customers to south Evanston. She said there are already two prominent businesses on the street, Ward Eight cocktail bar and The Peckish Pig restaurant.

“It would be a natural fit for a cider business to want to open near those two businesses in Evanston because we’ve become increasingly a foodie destination,” Leonard said. “To not work to bring retail destinations, restaurants and service to that neighborhood is to do a disservice to economic development in Evanston.”

Collins said most of his customers are Evanston residents who are curious about the city’s first cidery. He added that a large number of his customers are “cider fans” from farther south in Chicago.

His ciders are also on tap at a number of local bars and restaurants, including Smylie Brothers Brewing Co. and Found Kitchen and Social House.

Brandon Lowe, head bartender at Found Kitchen and Social House, said the restaurant in downtown Evanston started carrying North Shore cider in March. He said he’s noticed that » See CIDER, page 6 the alert said.

Another anonymous report was received Feb. 3, Chief of Police Bruce Lewis said in the email. The report alleged that another student had been sexually assaulted, potentially with the use of a date rape drug, after attending an event at another, unnamed fraternity the previous night.

In an email to students on March 30, Telles-Irvin said no disciplinary action would be taken against SAE and the other fraternity for the original allegations of sexual assault and drugging.

On Wednesday, Senate also elected two senators to the selection committee for ASG’s executive board. The committee will make its nominations for open positions to Senate in two weeks.

Senate also passed legislation splitting the position of vice president for student life, which was filled by two co-vice presidents, into two new positions. The new positions are vice president for health and wellness and vice president for housing, dining, and facilities.

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AROUND TOWN

Evanston gelateria expands to Chicago North Side

By JULIA ESPARZA

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Frío Gelato, 517 Dempster St. The Argentine dessert shop has been in Evanston for two years and will open a location in Chicago on Friday.

POLICE BLOTTER Woman reports windshield broken, fender dented

A Winthrop Harbor resident reported damage to her vehicle Tuesday afternoon.

The 48-year-old female reported that the

front windshield of her 2013 Ford had been broken and the fender dented while it was parked on the 700 block of Austin Street, Evanston Police Department spokesman Perry Polinski said.

The only possible suspect is her daughter’s boyfriend, Polinski said.

Evanston’s only Argentine gelato shop will be expanding into a Lakeview location in Chicago on April 14.

Frío Gelato, whose Evanston location is on 517 Dempster St., serves a variety of Argentine desserts. The Evanston location closes every winter but still sells its products in select locations. However, the Chicago store will remain open throughout the year.

Co-owner Karla Koziura said Lakeview’s demographics and general support of small business made it an ideal spot for the new location, 3721 N. Southport Ave. She said the new location neighbors two other Argentine food establishments, 5411 Empanadas and Tango Sur. “If anyone wants the Argentine culinary experience they can go to that one street,” Koziura said.

Koziura said the family-owned establishment, which has served Evanston for the past two years, focuses on the quality of its product and an authentic atmosphere. The shop prides itself on “the three A’s” — Argentine, artisanal and allergen-friendly, she said.

Koziura, who co-owns the business with her husband Sebastián Koziura and his cousin, Enrique Schcolnik, said the business was inspired

by Sebastián Koziura and Schcolnik’s childhood experiences with gelato in Argentina. Koziura, who also heads marketing for the business, said a two-and-a-half year trip across the Atlantic gave them the courage to put their dreams into action.

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Operations manager Emily Schcolnik said Frío’s products are made fresh every day in a small kitchen on Simpson Street, the original location of the shop before it moved to the current Evanston location in April 2015. She said the Evanston community’s support and Northwestern’s international students, who have commonly patroned the shop, have contributed to the success of the business.

Even though Italian gelato is very similar to its South American counterpart, Schcolnik said the flavors of the gelato and the ambience of the shop are uniquely Argentine.

The store promotes traditional Argentine flavors as well as some of its own original creations, like Ahogado, gelato drowned in espresso, and Tramontana, a vanilla gelato with streaks of milk caramel and chocolate chips.

“We take traditional products like the alfajor, which is a traditional Argentine cookie, and put our own little twist on it,” Schcolnik said.

Inspired by the alfajor, they created “alfa-latos” — gelato sandwiched between two cookies.

This season, Frío Gelato added new items to its menu, including the cucurucho, a homemade waffle cone and crepes. Koziura said desserts in Argentina are influenced by both French and Italian flavors.

McCormick sophomore Sarah Wong, who visited the shop with her friend, said she was struck by the shop’s decor. Wong said she could “taste how rich it is.”

“If you want the good stuff,” she said, “go to Frío Gelato.” juliainesesparza2020@u.northwestern.edu when the iPad was stolen, Polinski said. Her front door was unlocked at the time of the burglary.

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Students, faculty discuss financial aid

By ERICA SNOW

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University administrators, faculty and students discussed concerns over financial support during a community dialogue Wednesday.

At the final community dialogue of the 2016-17 academic year, held in Allison Hall, students raised several questions about the University’s policies ranging from outside scholarships to student health insurance and the expected family contribution outlined in financial aid letters.

Vice president for student affairs Patricia TellesIrvin said the dialogue focused on undergraduate financial support because many questions were asked at the last dialogue in February about the issue.

Weinberg senior Ashley Wood, who serves as Associated Student Government’s vice president for academics, said she often meets with administrators to discuss student concerns. She said these types of dialogues are helpful because they bring many administrators from different offices together.

“I am really impressed because I’m on the inside in a way,” Wood told The Daily about her role in ASG. “Maybe here there aren’t direct answers, but

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at the job he took in a Rogers Park restaurant, she said. Regardless of his economic circumstances, Flood said, Ramzan was “internally motivated to succeed.” “(Mohammed) was the love of my life,” she said. “We could be doing anything and it would turn into a happy memory.”

Flood said Ramzan was aware his family was in a difficult financial situation but didn’t let that stop him from working hard and helping others.

Ramzan did not take anything for granted, she said.

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people are searching behind the scene. … I’m often surprised to see how proactive administrators are.”

Weinberg assistant dean for academic standing Constance Wright, who moderated the dialogue, said the points students make during dialogues are considered in subsequent meetings and guide discussions.

Students said the University should promote resources that aim to alleviate financial stress.

Administrators referenced Student Enrichment Services on numerous occasions as a resource for students. SES provides students with resources such as an online scholarship portal, laptop rentals and winter jackets.

However, due to its small size, SES needs help handling requests from all students, SESP adviser Meg Kreuser said. Kreuser said SESP has about 400 undergraduates, and she sends a lot of students who need resources to SES. Students also said it would be beneficial to know which textbooks are required for courses ahead of time, so they can better prepare and find cheaper alternatives. Administrators said they could encourage department heads to tell professors to list class materials in their course descriptions.

Michael Mills, associate provost for University enrollment, said with the growing diversity of each undergraduate class, he is working to improve the

undergraduate student experience by “evening out unevenness.”

Mills said the University will try to fix some institutional problems, including the “72-hour frenzy” when freshmen enroll in Fall Quarter classes at the end of Wildcat Welcome and have to acquire textbooks before they begin classes a few days later.

He said some required textbooks and technology are expensive, such as the software MATLAB, which is used in McCormick School of Engineering classes.

“We’re looking at discussing the possibility of institutional site licenses for this growing number of educationally pertinent software packages,” Mills said.

Multiple students asked personal financial aid questions, but administrators could not give specific answers because of the individualized nature of the aid, Angela Yang, director of operations at the Office of Undergraduate Financial Aid, told The Daily.

However, Yang said the dialogue was beneficial because people asked questions and were engaged in the topic.

“It is difficult to discuss financial aid,” Yang said.

“I know people are not always comfortable with our general response. They want to know what can be done for this quarter.”

of interfaith engagement Tahera Ahmad said when she first met Ramzan, she asked him if he knew what his name meant. Ramzan said yes, that he was named after the chief prophet of Islam. This conversation then led to discussions over root words and languages, topics that fascinated Ramzan, Ahmad said.

Ahmad said they used to talk about Urdu, a language spoken in Pakistan, his parents’ country of origin. Ahmad said they once had a conversation over a specific word, “asliat” — us-lee-uth — which is a word she said “begs one to question, ‘Who are you? Where are you going? What is the purpose and meaning of your life?’”

“We say in traditional culture that the asliat of a person is ‘What are they really made of ?’” she

said. “(Ramzan) questioned that while he was at Northwestern. He began a journey of spirituality with that question and so many of you are here today because we knew him at different intersections of that question that he was asking.”

Ahmad encouraged attendees to question where they are going and what are they really made of, to honor Ramzan. Mohammed, she said, means “the one who brings mercy,” and that’s what Ramzan brought to NU. “He was a son, a grandson, a nephew, a student, a lover of life (and) passionate,” Ahmad said. “He was of mercy, to all of us. We ask the divine, the almighty, to have mercy on him.”

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Pianist prepares to compete in Texas

By ELIZABETH BYRNE

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When she touched a piano for the first time 24 years ago, EunAe Lee had no idea she would one day be performing for hundreds of people at one of the most prestigious international piano competitions in the world.

After that fateful day in the early 1990s, Lee continued to take piano lessons casually until she was 9 years old

and discovered her love for performing in front of an audience.

“I really liked to play for people, but at that time I was pretty serious in swimming,” Lee said. “My mom thought I would swim, but instead I chose to do piano.”

Lee, a fourth-year doctoral student in the Bienen School of Music, is one of 30 young musicians from around the world invited to compete in the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Texas.

She is the first Northwestern student ever selected to compete. The 15th edition of the quadrennial competition will run from May 25 to June 10 at Fort Worth’s Bass Performance Hall.

Jacques Marquis, president and CEO of the Cliburn, the company that oversees the competition, said young musicians like Lee practice for years to build up the stamina and technical skill for music competitions like the Van Cliburn. The four and a half hours of playing needed to win the competition shows the jury the musician is ready to play professionally, he said.

Lee’s teacher, Bienen Prof. James Giles, said Lee’s work ethic and dedication to practice has helped her excel. In preparation for the competition, Lee practices anywhere from eight to 10 hours a day, he said.

“Her work habits are very admirable and she is always trying to get better, so she does get better,” Giles said. “Her talent has ripened over the years since I’ve known her.”

Lee said one of the hardest parts of the competition is not necessarily the music itself, but the amount of mental focus required for each round.

She said it’s easy to let outside pressures and opinions affect one’s performance.

The structure of the competition is eliminationbased. In the preliminary and quarterfinal rounds, contestants are expected to play a 45-minute concert. Those who advance to the semifinal round will

play a Mozart piano concerto with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra in addition to a 60-minute concert. The six finalists will perform with the Brentano Quartet and another concerto with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra.

Contestants are not allowed to repeat pieces from previous rounds as they advance. The six finalists will have performed more than four hours of music throughout the competition, according to the competition website. Marquis said stamina is a large factor in deciding if young musicians are ready for a professional music career. The three winners of the competition receive three years of individualized career management by the Cliburn that begins immediately following the announcement of the winners.

“In the world of international music competitions, the main mandate of any competition is to promote young artists,” Marquis said. “When you’re

like the Cliburn, we really focus on launching careers.”

Whatever the outcome, Lee said she is excited to participate in all aspects of the competition, including meeting the host family she is staying with in Texas and other young musicians.

“My goal is just to do what I can do, just do my best,” Lee said. “From that, the judges will do whatever they want.” elizabethbyrne2020@ u.northwestern.edu

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Cello students qualify to play in Brussels Two Bienen students qualified to compete in the first-ever Queen Elisabeth cello competition in Brussels, Belgium, in May. More than 200 cellists worldwide submitted audition tapes to be considered for the competition, according to the competition’s website.

First-year graduate student Sihao He and Bienen senior Brannon Cho, both students of Bienen Prof. Hans Jørgen Jensen, were among the 70 candidates selected to move on to compete in the first round of the competition in May. Although the Queen Elisabeth Competition has been around for more than 75 years, this is the first year the competition will feature a cello

category. The competition aims to launch toptier young musicians into international careers, according to its website. It is considered one of the leading international competitions for violin and piano, but has also expanded to include competitions in composition, voice and now cello.

Cho started playing cello when he was seven, and has been playing for 15 years. Cho said playing cello allows him to bring music to life on stage.

“I just love being an artist and being able to create experiences for audiences,” Cho said.

“The great thing about performing classical music is we’re able to study a work from 300 years ago and then bring it to life today in the concert hall and it’ll be just as moving.”

One of the main reasons He loves playing the cello is because of the tone. He originally began playing violin when he was nine but switched to cello after a judge suggested it.

Source: Sihao He

Source: Brannon Cho

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Sihao He

Brannon Cho

Cho said the Queen Elisabeth Competition is like “the Olympics or Wimbledon for violinists,” and the new cello category is an exciting opportunity. Cho took extra courses Fall and Winter Quarters to finish his classwork early and have additional time to prepare for the competition.

Since Winter Quarter exam week, Cho has been practicing at least eight hours a day, he said.

The competition consists of three different rounds, with each one getting increasingly more intense. For the final round, 12 selected cellists will have a week in seclusion to learn a piece specifically composed for the competition. The finalists will then perform that piece and a concerto of their choice, accompanied by the Brussels Philharmonic.

Preparing for the competition is both exciting and stressful for He, who said he is grateful for the opportunity to play in the competition.

“For me, (this competition) gives me an extra opportunity to perform for other people so I wouldn’t think about it as competing with other people,” He said.

“I’m just going to present my best to the audience, to the jury … it’s a quite interesting experience for me.”

In preparation for their trip to Europe, Cho and He will both perform in recitals on April 25 and April 26, respectively. The recitals will be held on campus and will be open to the public. Cho will perform three concertos with an orchestra, and He will perform repertoire for all three rounds of the upcoming competition, Jensen said.

To reach their fullest potential in the competition, Cho and He must push themselves to their limits, while also pacing themselves, Jensen said.

“When you prepare for a big competition, you have to push the level of your ability to the highest level,” he said. “Each time you do that, you grow from it. If you have success then you have your career to get other opportunities, but for me it’s always about how much … you grow.” madeleinefernando2020@u.northwestern.edu

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THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 2017

Three students featured in all-Asian, female play

By JANE YUN

the daily northwestern @_janeyun

As Hollywood continues to face criticism for using white women to play Asian roles, a group of Northwestern students will put on a play featuring an allAsian, female cast this week.

Vertigo Productions play “This Is Not a True Story” features three Asian women who have been misrepresented and dehumanized by white media, said cast member Mari Uchida, a Communication senior. The play’s main character is based on Takako Konishi, a woman from Japan who committed suicide in Minnesota in 2001. Although not much is known about her, Uchida said, the white media painted her as a “foolish” woman. The play was written by Communication junior Preston Choi.

Choi said the inspiration for the play came from the film “Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter,” which is about the fictionalized version of Konishi’s life.

“I found it odd that there was no other piece of art talking about who she was as an actual human and her actual life,” he said.

In the first act of the play, Konishi interacts with two fictitious Asian characters — Cio-Cio from the Italian opera “Madama Butterfly” and Kim from the musical “Miss Saigon” — created by white men. She interacts with them in an abstract space where their stories are focused on white narratives, Uchida said.

Gradually, the characters break away from these narratives and enter the real world, she said.

Characters like Cio-Cio and Kim lack the capacity to act individually because they were written to be a

“white man’s dream” of what an Asian woman would be, Uchida said.

Communication senior Sharon Wei said works like “Madama Butterfly” and “Miss Saigon,” written about Asian women by white men, lead to an “erasure” of history and culture.

“It’s so important to give minorities agency because in the real world, we all are fully capable people who have actions, who have motives, who have desires, and we don’t just fall into this idea that has been forced onto us,” Wei said.

For Uchida, the play is important in the fight against underrepresentation in the media. If Asian Americans do not take the initiative to tell Asian stories, then the lack of visibility will remain the same, she said.

Uchida said she has experienced the lack of Asian representation in theater firsthand, as this is her first time playing a character that reflects her Japanese identity.

“I have played all different characters on the, quote, ‘Asian umbrella,’” Uchida said. “I think the closest I got to Japanese in the past was when I played a fourthgeneration Japanese-American woman, which is not quite the same.”

Choi took care to accurately represent characters in the play by asking women for their perspectives and researching Japanese culture, Uchida said.

“Preston Choi is such a wonderful writer,” she said.

“He has done so much research and has given so much intricate care with the show … It’s really, really refreshing to walk into a room and see other people who are just like me with the majority of it.” janeyun2020@u.northwestern.edu

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Communication senior Sharon Wei performs in “This is Not a True Story.” The play, written by Communication junior Preston Choi, features an all-female Asian cast.

Professor wins award for Sonoran Desert documentary

By JANE YUN

the daily northwestern @_janeyun

Communication Prof. J.P. Sniadecki endured 115-degree heat and risked ruining film, but ended up with an award-winning film about the Sonoran Desert.

Sniadecki and Ithaca College Prof. Joshua Bonnetta won the Caligari Film Prize for their film “El mar la mar” at the 67th Berlin International Film Festival in February. Sniadecki also received a Guggenheim Fellowship last week, which is awarded to individuals who have demonstrated exceptional scholarship or creativity in the arts.

Sniadecki and Bonnetta’s film is about the Sonoran Desert, which runs through Arizona, California and Mexico. The heat of the desert

makes crossing it a dangerous trek, and many have lost their lives doing so. But others have survived, and Sniadecki said he and Bonnetta wanted to showcase all aspects of the desert.

Bonnetta did not respond to a request for comment.

The two began filming in 2015. Sniadecki split his time between teaching documentary techniques at Northwestern and traveling to the desert to film. Neither Sniadecki nor Bonnetta had extensive prior knowledge about the desert, Sniadecki said. They learned from walking around while carrying supplies like food and water and talking to locals and Border Patrol officers, he said.

Instead of focusing on structured storytelling, Sniadecki’s work is more about observation, witness and immersion, Communication Prof.

David Tolchinsky told The Daily in an email.

Tolchinsky and Sniadecki are colleagues in the

department of Radio, Television and Film, and Tolchinsky is the department’s chair.

“The idea is that there are some aspects of human experience, and there’s forms of knowledge that are best perhaps rendered through media, through visual means, through sound, rather than through written word, because words are abstractions,” Sniadecki said. “We don’t live in words, we live in our sensations and images and sounds.”

Sniadecki and Bonnetta hoped to present the natural, physical and political aspects of the desert and ask the audience to “actively be involved in understanding, interpreting and creating meaning from what they’re seeing,” Sniadecki said.

The title repeats the word for “sea” in Spanish. “‘El mar la mar’ is the masculine construction and then the feminine construction, so we’re trying to break down these dichotomous ways

of thinking about stuff, these binaries of masculine (and) feminine, good or bad, black and white, Mexico (and) U.S., and understand that region as a land far more complex than that,” Sniadecki said.

RTVF lecturer Clayton Brown said Sniadecki’s style is more experimental than Hollywood commercial cinema, so he helps students diversify their work and push boundaries. “(The documentary program) is geared to encourage cross-pollination between narrative work and documentary work, where you take experimental techniques from both and apply them together to make kind of hybrid documentary forms,” Brown said. “He’s a really good source of inspiration in that direction to kind of get the MFA students to challenge what the traditional notions are.” janeyun2020@u.northwestern.edu

Block receives collection of Edward Steichen photographs

By AMELIA LANGAS

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Northwestern’s Block Museum of Art received a gift of 44 Edward Steichen photographs from art collectors Richard and Jackie Hollander late last year.

Steichen is a 20th-century American artist who pushed photography’s potential, Block’s associate director of curatorial affairs Kathleen Berzock said. “(Steichen) was one of the first photographers to use (photography) for commercial purposes and for purposes during wartime,” she said. “He did aerial photography and worked during World War II, photographing from the air to help advance the

military objectives.”

Berzock said Steichen is best known for his photos of early Hollywood celebrities, who influenced what people think of today as “glamor.” He was also interested in abstract elements that are associated with the modernist movement and playing with light, Berzock said.

The 44 photographs gifted to Block add to the museum’s existing collection, which now contains 93 Steichen photographs, Block director Lisa Corrin said. In 2013, the Hollanders donated 49 Steichen prints to Block.

The museum now has a broad collection of Steichen’s work with pieces touching every area of the artist’s career, enabling Block to tell the full story of Steichen’s contribution to art history, Corrin said.

“We’ve never been able to do this with another

photographer in the collection … the Steichens are the most comprehensive snapshot of the work of an iconic photographer,” she said.

The expansive collection now displays photography as a medium, and the evolution of Steichen as a photographer, said Lindsay Bosch, the museum’s communications manager.

“That is very appealing to donors, this idea that the works donated to the museum will have a life,” she said. “They won’t be put in storage and they’ll have the opportunity to be in conversation with multiple other works and really kind of have a great continued usage.”

Pieces in the museum are studied and placed in interdisciplinary research in fields across Northwestern, Bosch said.

Art collectors understand that donating to

Block ensures the works will be analyzed and appreciated, Bosch said. Having more work by Steichen allows the museum to use the pieces to discuss and compare them with other pieces from around the world or during the same time period, she said.

Every time art is given to Block and made accessible to the public, it is a cause for celebration, Corrin said.

“We’re very fortunate at Northwestern that there is an art collection on campus that students and faculty can incorporate into teaching and learning,” Corrin said. “The Block is looking forward to sharing this new gift with the campus community.” amelialangas@u.northwestern.edu

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Evanston Public Library releases 2016 annual report

The Evanston Public Library released its 2016 Annual Report: Books and Beyond during National Library Week, which is from April 9 to 15.

The report details updates to the library’s strategic plan, which organized its work around four “service pillars” — access, learning and literacy, engagement and innovation.

In collaboration with the city, the library implemented scheduled reading time in city-run summer camps. In 2016, there were 1,080,000 checkouts and more than 600,000 library visits.

The library expanded computer classes in 2016, conducted a digital literacy survey and started a pilot program of Wi-Fi Hotspots that allow residents to borrow free internet routers to take home, according to a news release.The digital service Hoopla has made new books available to readers this year by allowing them to borrow digitally.

EPL also provided free legal service, jazz programming, tax preparation, workshops on affordable housing, a special needs family resource fair and a

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learning,” EPL director Karen Danczak Lyons said in the release. “Through our collections, programs and services, we continually strive to provide a safe place for everyone and to reflect and serve the diversity of our Evanston community.”

customers are interested to try the hard cider because it is brewed locally in Evanston.

The restaurant serves North Shore’s Bone Dry cider, which Lowe said goes well with its menu.

Lowe said Bone Dry cider uses champagne yeast, making it less sweet and easier to pair with food at the restaurant.

“We try to support the local and small batch stuff as much as possible,” Lowe said. “Finding a local cider was awesome for us, because that’s our philosophy here — everything we serve is coming from within 100 miles of our restaurant.”

Leonard said cider is currently a popular drink because it “builds off of the craft brewery movement.”

She said even nationally customers increasingly look for local small businesses to patronize.

As for the future of the cidery, Collins hopes to have a cider and cheese pairing event in late April.

“Most folks think of wine and cheese going well together, and I wanted to showcase that cider also has some of those properties that bring out the best of the cheese,” he said.

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The outside of Evanston Public Library. The library released its 2016 Annual Report during National Library Week.

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“During National Library Week, we remind the community that libraries play a key role in supporting early childhood literacy, digital literacy and lifetime

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For the first time since 2014, Northwestern has won four straight games after the Wildcats took down Bradley 6-2 on Wednesday night.

NU (12-20, 2-4 Big Ten) was paced by an impressive start junior Tommy Bordignon. He fired 6 innings, allowing only four hits and 2 runs on the day while walking just two.

“I just kind of went on there and relaxed,” Bordignon said. “I had a little bit more fun and just tried to forget about the last start I had and put it behind me and kind of move on.”

A clutch double from freshman infielder Alex Erro put the Cats ahead 4-2 in the top of the seventh, and the Cats never looked back

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The group has partnered with several local organizations, such as the McGaw YMCA and Downtown Evanston. Go Evanston plans on being at the YMCA Healthy Kids Day on April 29 to recruit more volunteers and expand its presence, Jacobsen said.

“We really want everyone to know that this is not just a bicycle advocacy group, and it’s not an anti-car group,” she said. “This is considering the balance and needs of safe streets for all users — pedestrians, bicycles, transit users and drivers.”

Go Evanston will also work with Citizens’ Greener Evanston, as the membership and missions of the two groups overlap in some ways, CGE president Jonathan Nieuwsma said. Nieuwsma said CGE is excited to work with Go Evanston to reduce the city’s carbon footprint.

“We’re just really looking forward to collaborating with them in any way possible,” Nieuwsma said. “We fully support their

on the way to victory.

Senior outfielder Joe Hoscheit had two RBIs of his own earlier in the game, with a sacrifice fly to score sophomore infielder Jack Dunn in the first and a single in fourth to score fellow senior outfielder Matt Hopfner.

“I was looking for a pitch over the plate, and I knew they were going to attack me with a fastball,” Erro said. “The catcher set up outside, so I kind of knew the general area where the pitch was going, and I just slapped it the other way.”

Bradley got 2 runs back in the fifth inning, but the NU bullpen shut the door to secure the win for Bordignon, as sophomore Tyler Lass, freshman Sam Lawrence and sophomore Danny Katz combined to pitch 3 scoreless innings.

In addition to his run scored, Hopfner picked up two hits of his own, including a

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Evanston Streets Alive, a festival in September along Main Street that highlights modes of transportation other than driving, will bring together Go Evanston, CGE and other organizations, said Katie Knapp, Evanston’s transportation and mobility coordinator.

Knapp said Go Evanston will add new perspectives to the conversation on transportation and sustainability.

John Hennelly, a volunteer with Go Evanston, said the group is interested in providing resources to people interested in using public transit and possibly providing bicycles to children who cannot otherwise afford them.

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double. The top four hitters in the NU order accounted for all six hits, including Dunn’s first inning double, Hoscheit’s two hits and Erro’s game-winning double.

“The guys are starting to believe a little bit,” coach Spencer Allen said. “I’m really proud of Tommy — he really struggled Friday and came back today, threw six strong.”

Up next for NU is a trip to Champaign to take on Illinois (12-18, 1-5 Big Ten) in the Cats’ third Big Ten series of the year. Last weekend, NU picked up two huge conference wins over Iowa in its quest to make it back to the Big Ten Tournament for the first time since 2010.

Previously in Big Ten play, the Fighting Illini allowed 41 runs in three games to Michigan State, but their lone conference win came against third-place Michigan.

“The biggest thing is just taking what the game gives us,” Allen said. “As we’ve been playing a little bit better, we’ve been really limiting the free bases, so I think that has to continue.”

Illinois has struggled on the mound beyond of the Michigan State series as well, posting a 6.23 team ERA for the season. Illinois hasn’t had much success hitting either, managing a team batting average of only .254.

The Cats aren’t looking past their intrastate rivals, however, and know the importance of the upcoming series.

“We’re just playing real good baseball right now,” Erro said. “Last weekend was sort of the turning point in our season, and I think with another Big Ten series win we’ll be in the driver’s seat.”

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out last year, but they’re 3-0, we’re 3-0, and this would put us in a really good spot for a good seed in the Big Ten.” Following their game against Penn State, the Cats will have a short break before hosting the Blue Devils, against whom they opened last season with a win. Amonte Hiller, however, said all the focus in on Thursday’s game, and the team will wait to worry about Duke until Friday.

“Our main focus is this Penn State game; we have to take it one game at a time,” Amonte Hiller said. “We have no leisure to look ahead to anything because all we have is now and every game is so important to us.”

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put the ball in the back of the net.

Last week against Ohio State, Stroup and Fredericks recorded career games, as the former scored a career-high 6 goals and the latter a career-high six points. The Cats scored 15 goals as a team, marking their highest goal total since early March.

Esposito said the team will have to come out with the same fire Thursday against one of the best defenses in the country.

“We just have to get after it and be really aggressive,” she said. “They’re not going to hold anything back. They want it, we knocked them

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defensive plays.”

NU played a rigorous non-conference schedule, which included six games against top-10 opponents and 11 contests against ranked opponents. Drohan said Wednesday that this year’s schedule has helped the Cats prepare for the Minnesota series.

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danwaldman@u.northwestern.edu Still, NU opened Big Ten play with just one win in series against ranked foes Wisconsin and Michigan. For that to change, Drohan said, the Cats will need to play error-free softball.

“The key to this weekend is not giving them anything with errors or walks, things like that,” she said. “That’s what’s going to be the difference, and that’s within our control.” colepaxton2019@u.northwestern.edu

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Thursday, April 13, 2017

Coffey prepares for draft day

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Former NU superstar is near-certain first round selection

By COLE PAXTON

daily senior staffer @ckpaxton

Nia Coffey has played in an NCAA Tournament and won dozens of games with Northwestern, but the most significant moment of her basketball career to date will come when her name is announced Thursday in a Manhattan auditorium.

There, Coffey will be selected in the WNBA Draft, kickstarting the professional career for arguably the best player in Wildcats program history. A near-certain first round pick, Coffey could be taken as high as No. 4 overall but is more likely to be selected midway through the round.

“She has tremendous upside,” ESPN analyst LaChina Robinson said during a teleconference last week. “I think she is the player who could make the biggest jump from college to what she will eventually become as a pro. She’s only scratched the surface of her potential.”

A versatile 6-foot-1 forward, Coffey averaged 20 points and 10.4 rebounds per game this season. She earned AllBig Ten first team honors all four years of her college career, and twice

was named Associated Press honorable mention All-America. She is the program’s all-time leading rebounder and second-leading scorer.

Though she primarily played at the ‘4’ spot for the Cats, Coffey can both shoot from the perimeter and post up defenders. She has led the fastbreak and developed a particularly effective midrange game in recent seasons.

“My overall ability to play different positions gives me an advantage,” Coffey said. “I’ve been just trying to work on anything that will help improve my game, shooting, dribbling, post moves, making sure I get my conditioning up.”

Unlike some players, such as presumptive No. 1 overall selection Kelsey Plum of Washington or South Carolina’s Alaina Coates, Coffey is not expected to make a major impact right away. Robinson and fellow ESPN analyst Rebecca Lobo both said Coffey profiles as a small forward at the professional level.

Robinson added that Coffey has the requisite skills and mentality to be successful in the WNBA, but likely needs to refine her game and adjust to a position change.

“She’ll need more development to get to that 3-spot,” Robinson said. “But

if she can develop (her ball handling) she’ll be more of a threat as time goes on because she can play the ‘3’ and ‘4.’”

For her part, Coffey said she was unconcerned about her eventual selection or positional fit, saying her focus was entirely on preparing for her career and displaying her versatility.

Her selection will also be significant from a program perspective. Only one NU player, Amy Jaeschke, has ever been drafted. She was a third round selection in 2011.

“It’s great for us,” NU coach Joe McKeown told The Daily. “To get drafted and have the opportunity to play, and already have her degree, it just sums up the things that we value here.”

Point guard Ashley Deary could also be taken and will likely attend a training camp after a standout performance at a pre-draft combine, McKeown said.

Still, Coffey, who has been linked to the Chicago Sky either as the No. 9 pick or through trade, is the center of attention.

“It would be amazing to stay in Chicago,” she said. “But making any team would just be a dream come true for me.” colepaxton2019@u.northwestern.edu

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SOFTBALL

NU picks up road win, Cats face demanding home test awaits tough weekend

By DAN WALDMAN

By COLE PAXTON

daily senior staffer @ckpaxton

Northwestern picked up one road win this week. Getting more will be a challenge.

The Wildcats (16-20, 3-6 Big Ten) pushed past Loyola (18-18) on Wednesday, handling the host Ramblers 6-3 in a game that sets up arguably NU’s toughest weekend of the season — a three-game set at No. 6 Minnesota (35-3, 8-1).

Still, the Cats looked impressive at their local foe. NU scored in each of the first two innings, then answered once Loyola tied the game, regaining its lead in the fourth and holding the Ramblers scoreless over the final 5 frames.

“I liked our attitude. I liked our approach,” coach Kate Drohan said. “The team was ready to play. … I really liked the way the team responded.”

Freshman pitcher Morgan Newport played a major role in that response. She threw a complete game, tallying seven strikeouts and issuing no walks. It was the first complete game win of Newport’s career.

She was effective despite scattering six hits, locking down after Jamie O’Brien’s second inning home run tied the game at 3. She held nine straight batters hitless over one stretch in the middle frames.

“It took me a little while to settle in, but my defense had my back the

entire time,” Newport said. “That made me feel really good, and I felt really confident in the circle because of it.”

Senior first baseman Alcy Bush was the Cats’ other major catalyst.

Hitting ninth, she recorded a pair of RBI doubles, including the go-ahead hit in the top of the fourth.

It was a sharp uptick in performance from Bush’s season’s efforts; she entered Wednesday hitting only .119 on the season. She had gone seven games without a hit, and her doubles against Loyola were Bush’s first of the year.

“It’s outstanding,” Drohan said of the senior’s production. “It’s the key really to our offense right now, to have different people step up. …

Everybody needs to understand that it can be anybody on any given day.”

Minnesota, however, presents a daunting challenge. The Golden Gophers have lost just one game against an unranked team all season; four of their eight wins against Big Ten teams so far have been truncated due to the run rule.

Much of that success is due to pitcher Sara Groenewegen. The senior ace has a 17-2 record and a miniscule 0.70 ERA, recording 11 shutouts so far this season and allowing opponents to hit just .166.

“Minnesota’s a great team,” Newport said. “We know that going in; we’re going to have to make the plays that we’ve been making, make great » See SOFTBALL, page 7

daily senior staffer @dan_waldman

Midterms approach next week for Northwestern, but the Wildcats won’t just be tested in the classroom as they take on two top-20 opponents in three days.

No. 18 NU (7-6, 3-0 Big Ten) will host No. 6 Penn State (13-1, 3-0) on Thursday in a showdown featuring two teams unbeaten in conference play as well as a rematch of last year’s Big Ten Tournament semifinals. Just two days later, the

No. 6 Penn State vs. No. 18 Northwestern Evanston, Illinois 7 p.m. Thursday

Cats will turn their attention to No. 20 Duke (7-6) in a rematch of last year’s season opener.

NU split its season series against the Nittany Lions last year, losing 17-13 in the regular season and winning 9-6 in the Big Ten Tournament. Coach Kelly Amonte Hiller said this year’s Penn State team is similar to last year’s, which means the Cats will need to capitalize on

Daily file photo by Katie Pach

Christina Esposito looks for an opening. The senior attacker and the Wildcats face a daunting two-game stretch this weekend. caption caption

every opportunity.

“They have a lot of weapons on the offensive end; they’re scrappy, and they move the ball well, so we have to play good team ball offense and defense,” Amonte Hiller said. “We have to be able to take advantage of the opportunities we have. That’s how we were able to beat them.”

When NU played the Nittany Lions in the regular season last year, the Cats couldn’t contain Penn State’s shooters, conceding 17 goals and letting their Big Ten foe control the tempo of the game. However, the teams’ second matchup went differently, as then-freshman goaltender Mallory Weisse commanded the defense, holding one of the hottest offenses in the country to just 9 goals.

Coming into Thursday’s contest, Weisse has held opponents to singledigit scoring in four of the team’s last five games. But the sophomore goaltender doesn’t take credit for the recent string of defensive dominance, instead crediting her defenders for shutting down scoring threats.

“They’re my best friends; I live with them,” Weisse said. “It’s a really great relationship, and it translates on the field pretty well. When I’m under pressure, they’re under pressure. We can see each other and count on each other when it comes down to it.”

But defense is only half the game, and NU will need its attacking trio of junior Shelby Fredericks and seniors Christina Esposito and Danita Stroup to work together to » See LACROSSE, page 7