The Daily Northwestern — April 18, 2018

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University forms local news project Medill will lead partnership with 3 newspapers

By PETER KOTECKI

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The Kellogg School of Management, 2211 Campus Drive, home of Northwestern’s department of economics. The department voted unanimously Tuesday to classify economics as a STEM major.

Economics voted STEM major

Weinberg faculty committee to review department’s decision next

By JONAH DYLAN

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Northwestern’s economics department voted unanimously Tuesday to classify

economics as a science, technolog y, engineering and mathematics major, economics Prof. Mark Witte said.

The department decided to adjust the classification after a petition asked them to change it to help

accommodate international students applying for work visas.

Aashrey Tiku (Weinberg ’17), an international student, said he would be directly affected by the policy change.

“Currently, a lot of

employers don’t even accept applications from international students because they know that very likely, they might have to leave the country in a year,” Tiku said. “ » See STEM, page 6

Northwestern announced Tuesday it is launching a twoyear research and development project to strengthen local news business models.

To increase reader engagement and help improve trust in media, the Medill School of Journalism will lead the Northwestern Local News Initiative in examining how readers engage with local news online, according to a news release.

A $300,000 grant from Lilly Endowment Inc., along with other gifts from donors and alumni, will help support the initiative, the release said. NU will partner with three newspapers — the Chicago Tribune, The Indianapolis Star and the San Francisco Chronicle — to form “Learning Labs” that will be used to develop new tools for improving reader engagement and financial sustainability.

Tim Franklin, senior

associate dean at Medill and the initiative’s leader, told The Daily he wanted to partner with news organizations from different ownership groups.

The Indianapolis Star is owned

by Gannett, the San Francisco Chronicle is owned by Hearst and the Chicago Tribune is owned by Tronc. Franklin noted the San Francisco Chronicle’s proximity to NU’s new San Francisco campus and Medill’s long standing relationship with the Tribune.

Internal discussions about the project date back to last summer, Franklin said. He stressed the importance of local news and said he was involved in a local news project during his time as Poynter Institute president.

“There is no question that the shrinkage of local news coverage, I think, is one of the biggest crises facing local journalism today, and, I would also argue, a real issue for our democracy,” Franklin said.

The Medill IMC Spiegel Digital & Database Research Center and the Knight Lab will both participate in the initiative, according to the release. » See LOCAL, page 6

City reconsiders CTSS to host politics conversation housing agreement Jonathan Martin, Amanda Litman will speak at Thursday event Alderman hears residents’ concerns about nonprofit

By SAMANTHA HANDLER

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The city will consider entering into a new agreement with Open Communities — a nonprofit that provides landlordtenant services to Evanston residents — after concerns about staff changes and delayed response times.

At an April 10 City Council meeting, Evanston housing policy and planning analyst Savannah Clement said the nonprofit’s funding application was supposed to be on the Housing and Homelessness Commission’s agenda, but was held due to concerns about staffing and its ability to implement Evanston’s Landlord-Tenant Program.

Aldermen also said they had received feedback from residents saying their calls regarding concerns about mold in apartments and landlords illegally evicting tenants were not being returned.

Ald. Robin Rue Simmons (5th) told The Daily residents had expressed to her that they were either not receiving callbacks or useful assistance.

“That’s unfortunate because Open Communities for decades has been a resource on the North Shore,” Rue Simmons said.

“They’re notable for their commitment for affordable housing, and it’s clear there’s been some breakdown in operations and I’m confident that they will address it.”

Open Communities has had an interim executive director since David Luna stepped down in March after serving in the role for two years. Luna had taken over for Gail Schechter, who was the organization’s only full-time director for 22 years.

Interim executive director Kelly Kleiman said while there has been some staff turnover, that was not a factor in the issues with response time. She said they did not have any phone service, but resolved the problem on March 20. Rue Simmons said she has not received any more complaints in the last month.

Evanston housing and grants division manager Sarah Flax said the city is in discussions with Open Communities about addressing the level of services Evanston residents need. She said at the council meeting that the city can request a specific time period for responses in the new agreement. » See COMMUNITIES, page 6

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New York Times political correspondent Jonathan Martin and Run for Something co-founder Amanda Litman (Weinberg ’12) will discuss the state of American politics Thursday in a moderated conversation hosted by the Contemporary Thought Speaker Series and the department of political science, CTSS announced Tuesday.

The event — CTSS’ fifth of the year — will be held in Annenberg Hall, according to a news release. The conversation will be moderated by political science Prof. Laurel HarbridgeYong, the release said.

CTSS chose Martin, author of New York Times best-seller “The End of the Line: Romney vs. Obama: The 34 Days that decided the election,” because of his prominent career in political journalism and his “great Twitter presence,” Weinberg senior Ben Zimmermann, the CTSS chair, told The Daily.

Run for Something, which Litman co-founded, recruits and supports young, diverse progressives to run for office.

Litman is also the author of a book called “Run for Something” and served as the email

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Amanda Litman (left) and Ross Morales Rocketto (right) co-founded the Democratic recruitment group Run for Something. Litman, along with New York Times political correspondent Jonathan Martin, will speak at a Thursday CTSS event.

director of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, the release said.

Trevor Lystad, CTSS vice president of finance and development, told The Daily the two speakers will be able to provide a nuanced and interesting view on the current political climate.

“We all read and talk so

much about politics on this campus, and it’ll be good to hear from people who are interacting with American politics every day and interacting with the key players, but also the organizations and the systems that have made politics what it is this year,” the SESP sophomore said.

Lystad said he believes Litman and Martin will make a cohesive panel because Litman can speak to her experience working on political campaigns while Martin can provide a more nonpartisan perspective as a journalist. » See CTSS, page 6

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AROUND TOWN EPD talks homicide investigations with residents

By NIKKI BAIM

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There have been about 100 murders in Evanston since 1980, 30 of which remain unsolved, Evanston police Cmdr. Ryan Glew said at a Citizens’ Network of Protection meeting Tuesday.

Glew answered residents’ questions about homicide investigations at the Fleetwood-Jourdain Community Center, 1655 Foster St. He spoke about the process of closing homicide cases and what the Evanston Police Department does when a suspect dies.

Next month, EPD will review a 2013 double homicide case in which the suspect was killed by police, Glew said.

Multiple officers shot and killed an armed robbery suspect in downtown Evanston five years ago. Kevin Ross, 29, allegedly stole over $2,600 from Chase Bank, 901 Grove St., in September that year. Three months later, Ross attempted another robbery at the same branch. Police used a description provided by the bank teller to locate Ross, who was armed, in the 1500 block of Maple Avenue, Glew said.

Officers ordered Ross to drop his weapon, and, when he did not comply, shot him. He died a short time later at Evanston Hospital.

Police later learned Ross owned multiple guns including an AK-74 rifle that he carried around downtown Evanston in a guitar case. Between the two robberies, Ross frequented the Barnes and Noble located at 1630 Sherman Ave. to talk to the store’s

Pritzker, Rauner spend a combined $100 per vote cast in primary election

Gov. Bruce Rauner and Democratic gubernatorial candidate J.B. Pritzker combined spent the equivalent of $100 per vote cast in last month’s

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Evanston police Cmdr. Ryan Glew speaks at Citizen’s Network of Protection meeting Tuesday. Glew said there have been about 100 murders in Evanston since 1980, 30 of which remain unsolved.

security guard. He introduced himself to the guard as “Vlad” from Ukraine and faked an accent. Police eventually used the alias to identify Ross.

After his death, the FBI searched storage lockers in Ross’ home in south Evanston. They found a cigar box and the wallets of Mobeen Hakeem and

primaries, setting up a possible state record of campaign spending as the two billionaires prepare for the general election in the fall, according to the Chicago Tribune.

The two men poured a total of $105.2 million into the gubernatorial primaries.

Pritzker has largely self-financed his campaign, spending $76.3 million, more than the $65.3 million Rauner spent on the 2014 governor’s race, the

Tribune reported. Pritzker has spent $44.3 million on television ads and other types of media, $8.4 million on consulting, $6.3 million on salaries, $3 million on direct mail and $1 million in contributions to local Democratic organizations.

The Tribune reported that Rauner spent more than $20 million on television and radio ads, which he heavily used to attack Pritzker.

At the end of March, Pritzker donated his 10th $7

Azim Hakeem — two brothers who were murdered five months earlier in the basement of their store, Evanston Pipe and Tobacco.

Police plan to revisit the case because Farheen Hakeem, the late brothers’ sister, filed a Freedom of Information Act request, Glew said. The city denied Farheen the documents initially because the case is still open, but police may close it upon review next month. If the case is disseminated, she will receive thousands of pages of evidence, notes and reports.

But police are still missing one piece of evidence, Glew said — the gun Ross used to shoot the Hakeem brothers.

“It’s better to have (the weapon) than not, but, once it goes through a couple hands, it’s so far disconnected from a crime,” Glew said.

The Tuesday meeting was the second time Glew presented at a Citizens’ Network of Protection event.

Evanston resident Betty Ester, who coordinates the group’s meetings, said the conversation with police provides an educational component to CNP’s work.

“You can know what is being done in your community,” she said. “Not knowing is a bad thing.”

CNP wants an elected civilian board to oversee, investigate and review complaints against EPD. Evanston resident Madelyn Ducre — who attended the meeting — said conversations with Glew are the first step toward the relationship residents and police should have.

“The police have to be out more and talk and just sit down and discuss,” she said. “Citizens have to open up and be able to trust a little bit more.” nikkibaim2020@u.northwestern.edu million check to his own campaign since launching last year. The Tribune said Pritzker’s decision to selffinance his campaign — as opposed to his primary opponents state Sen. Daniel Biss (D-Evanston) and Chris Kennedy, who each raised campaign funds — was a major factor in his earning the support of labor unions and some other Democratic groups.

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ON CAMPUS Israeli journalist discusses economy

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Despite ongoing conflict in the region and high security spending, Israel’s economy is poised for more growth than the U.S. economy is, said Guy Rolnik (Kellogg ’98), a journalist and professor at University of Chicago.

He addressed about 20 students in Kresge Hall on Tuesday, as part of Northwestern’s Israel Week programming.

Rolnik, who founded the Israeli media organization TheMarker and is a deputy publisher of the daily newspaper Haaretz, is considered one of the country’s leading economic journalists. He is also a professor of strategic management at UChicago’s Booth School of Business.

“If you look at the last five or 10 years, (some economic) trends are positive in Israel,” Rolnik said.

“In the United States, I don’t see a lot of changes in that direction.”

Weinberg and Bienen junior Robert Belson, who invited Rolnik to campus, said he was interested in bringing Rolnik’s perspective on Israel’s economy to NU. Rolnik said at the event that Israel is often viewed as a “startup nation” due to its youth and is defined more by internal and regional conflicts than by the strength of its economy. But Rolnik stressed that Israel is “no different than most other countries” and should no longer be granted exemptions and waivers.

He compared the economies of Israel and the U.S., concluding that each country’s political system affects the way its industries are regulated and the prices for services in the country.

About a decade ago, Rolnik said, a handful of business tycoons controlled the Israeli market. Since then, however, he said the economy is now benefiting from healthy competition across industries, leading to lower prices.

In contrast, Rolnik said the U.S. market still relies on lobbyists who hold considerable influence

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University of Chicago professor and journalist Guy Rolnik speaks at an Israel Week event Tuesday. Rolnik discussed the Israeli and American economies, emphasizing the importance of competition in markets.

over members of Congress. He said lobbyists work in the interests of large corporations, so the U.S. has comparatively high costs for health care and telecommunications services, among others.

Rolnik said as a result, only a few companies control the U.S. market for certain services, allowing prices to skyrocket. He used the example of cellular data plans — for which prices in the U.S. easily triple those in Israel — and attributed the prices to a lack of competition in the American market.

“It has to do with power,” Rolnik said. “Who has the power to determine the rules of the game?

When you think about Israel … you tend to think of a lot of external factors. In reality, in a lot of areas, Israel looks much better than the U.S.” Rolnik also pointed to the discrepancy in health care in the two countries. Though the U.S. is widely considered a pioneer in medical technologies, its health care system remains much more expensive

than those of other developed nations. Additionally, U.S. life expectancy is significantly lower than Israel’s, Rolnik said.

Belson said he appreciated the ways in which Rolnik compared the two economies, saying he did it in “very relevant, tangible ways.”

“He showed there’s work to be done in a variety of industries here,” Belson said. “He posed some thoughtful yet challenging questions about things we take for granted in our daily lives.”

Medill freshman Daniel Konstantino, who helped plan parts of Israel Week and attended the event, said he appreciated Rolnik’s perspective, even though the hour-long event didn’t allow for much in-depth discussion.

“He stressed keeping an open mind when you’re looking at trends,” Konstantino said. karisch@u.northwestern.edu

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Financial aid should target low-income students, not upper-class In Heena Srivastava’s recent opinion piece, the author outlines many of the obstacles students have when trying to afford college tuition, especially when they have siblings already enrolled in college. She argues that Northwestern should do more for middleclass students, noting how it has already done so much for low-income students with initiatives like the “20 by 2020” campaign or removing loans from financial aid packages.

She describes how college expenses have risen faster than many things, including financial aid.

These are all valid points that reflect the pernicious effects of rising college tuition and the things NU has done to address them.

However, her article makes several overarching assumptions that dramatically neglect the realities of the American economic landscape.

Simply put, her definition of “middle-class” is out of touch with the new realities of American society, rife with booming income inequality and a dearth of social mobility. This makes her argument misleading, as she relies on a definition of middle class that does not reflect the actual American median income — something most Americans tend to do.

Last quarter, I took a course titled “Economics of Inequality and Discrimination,”

where we discussed at length the rise of inequality in America and job polarization.

Essentially, this means that without a college degree, one’s lifetime earnings potential is severely reduced, and changes in the economy have made it so many blue-collar jobs that once provided stable incomes no longer exist.

These changes have increased the income gap significantly. An app from The Wall Street Journal describes how wealthy one is compared to the rest of Americans based on income percentile. Earning $75,000 per year puts someone at the top 14 percent of income earners per this graphic, whereas $100,000 is the top 7 percent.

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The primary focus of financial aid must be to increase access to institutions of higher education for lowincome and marginalized members of the student body.

As you can see, most families in the United States are not earning anywhere close to $75,000 per year. While I do think it is unfair that a family making $80,000 per year has to pay more than half of that in college expenses, there are a variety of options available for loans and other funding sources that are more

easily obtainable when one is higher-income.

Historically speaking, credit is more readily accessible for this population, and students who are low-income may become victims of predatory loans easier than their wealthier peers.

Thirty-eight percent of students here at Northwestern don’t receive financial aid, according to NU’s Financial Aid Office website. The same website lists that yearly figure at just shy of $73,000. So, just to clarify, almost two-fifths of our school can afford to pay, annually, what around only 17 percent of the country makes per year. Having a wide range of income diversity at a school is not necessarily a bad thing. However, the hidden costs of college add up very quickly, and it can be ostracizing to have to stay in because you cannot afford going out with friends during the weekend.

I know that I have an EFC (expected family contribution) of $0, and I have worked since sophomore year to afford books and other necessary classroom supplies. Higher education has always been a conglomerate of privilege, whiteness and wealth, and many people on our campus who are low-income and/or students of color regularly feel left out of the larger campus culture. It is the duty of our higher-education institutions to foster inclusive environments where all students can learn, and while financial aid is one way of ensuring this transpires, it is not sufficient in and of itself to achieve this goal. Low-income students regularly under-attend prestigious

universities, and as a Quest Scholar I know firsthand many of my peers feel ostracized at places like Northwestern even in spite of the tremendous resources available, like Student Enrichment Services or Northwestern Career Advancement. Every day is a battle for validation.

Students of all economic backgrounds should be free to pursue a high-quality education without the bondage of sticker prices.

This is not to say that financial aid policies are fair to upper-income students, or that they necessarily account for all circumstances evenly. Certainly, they don’t. However, the primary focus of financial aid must be to increase access to institutions of higher education for low-income and marginalized students. There should be more organizations like Posse and Quest getting low-income students to apply to selective institutions, as well as more comprehensive oversight of financial aid policies so as to prevent scandals like what recently transpired at Howard University, where a student and several financial aid officers have been accused of embezzling several million dollars over the course of the last decade. This money was intended for low-income students, many of whom had to appeal their reward while money was fraudulently given out.

Students like me are already bearing the brunt of a complicated financial aid system, and institutions like Northwestern should use their resources to further support us.

— Kevin Corkran, SESP ’18

NU should market football season tickets to local schools NAASIR HALEEM

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At the unveiling of Ryan Fieldhouse on Saturday, April 7, a reporter from Rivals.com asked coach Pat Fitzgerald how the addition of the new venue changed the expectations for Northwestern Football. The answer the reporter received was both unexpected and telling.

“Our attendance isn’t top 15 in the country. Our atmosphere isn’t top 15 in the country,” Fitzgerald exclaimed. “We gotta get our students to come out and get things going.”

The frustration that Fitzgerald feels about the student body’s apathy toward football is understandable. The football team has won 27 games in the past three years. That win total ranks better than teams such as Michigan State, Notre Dame and Auburn.

Yet fan attendance at Ryan Field has been poor to say the least. The average attendance in 2017 for NU home games was 35,853, according to an NCAA report. That falls short of the 49,256-seat capacity of Ryan Field. It also does not help that most NU home games are attended by as many — if not more — fans who support NU’s opponent on any given Saturday.

For this reason, offering discounted season passes to students from Chicago-area colleges that don’t have football teams could serve to benefit the atmosphere at Ryan Field tremendously. Simply having more people

fill Ryan Field would lead to a noisier, more exciting experience than the typical sleepy games. In addition, a significant influx of students to the student section would force opponents to actually contend with crowd noise, something they often do not have to deal with today.

There are many colleges in close proximity to NU without football teams that could adopt ours. Take Loyola University Chicago for example, the school that captured the hearts of the nation during their run to the Final Four. While the Loyola campus may not have had a deep emotional investment in college sports prior to March Madness, it is likely that many students would enjoy that experience again — this time on the gridiron.

It would be advantageous for the University to capitalize on this newfound interest and offer non-NU students an opportunity to adopt a college football team they could support every Saturday. This same idea applies to universities such as DePaul and Northeastern Illinois — other colleges in Chicago that do not have football teams. Many of these schools have the option of taking the ‘L’ up to Evanston for every gameday.

As it stands, NU has the twin handicaps of being the smallest school in the Big Ten by a sizable margin and having a student population that is frankly not that invested in football. This means that after graduation there are fewer NU alumni that will attend football games compared to alumni of rival Big Ten schools. It does not matter how much success the football team has — if there are not enough dedicated fans in the immediate area, Ryan Field will remain sparsely populated

every fall.

This rings true for other schools of NU’s size and academic caliber. For example, in 2016, Stanford averaged 44,142 fans in attendance, which did not fill their 50,424seat stadium. This is despite the fact that Stanford fields consistently good-to-great football teams that often deliver success to their fans.

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There are far more fans of most other Big Ten teams in the Chicago area. To combat this, NU should create fans in the city by opening up our stadium to (local colleges).

In a larger sense, programs across the country have to face and respond to falling attendance, especially from college students.

In 2017, attendance across all Football Bowl Subdivision schools — which are essentially large colleges — saw their attendance drop by an average of 3.2 percent as part of an ongoing trend. By diversifying who is able to attend Wildcats football games, NU could buck this trend.

NU has tried to market itself as being “Chicago’s Big Ten Team.” Geographically, this is true: NU is the closest Big Ten team to Chicago. However, in practice, there are far more fans of most other Big Ten teams in the Chicago area, save for Rutgers and

Maryland, than NU fans. To combat this, NU should create fans in the city by opening up our stadium to them and enriching their college football experiences.

In the short term, NU should reach out to other local colleges to gauge the interest of their students in this type of partnership. It is not certain whether students at other schools would be willing to support a team that does not fly their colors, but it is definitely worth a shot and could pay remarkable dividends in the long run. Even if NU were to offer these season passes to outside students at a highly discounted rate, the profits would account for revenue that NU is not getting regardless.

It does not make sense that NU continues to disadvantage itself by primarily trying to encourage apathetic students to attend football games. Nor will fans of other college teams suddenly switch their allegiances because NU Football has a billboard on I-294. We will never achieve a “top-15 atmosphere” if we don’t put in more effort.

Instead, a drastic step must be taken that would involve selling season tickets at a discounted rate to students from schools like Loyola, DePaul and others without a home college football team. These changes would make the experience of a Northwestern football game truly one to remember.

Naasir Haleem is a Weinberg sophomore. He can be contacted at naasirhaleem2020@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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But if a student has a STEM visa, the employer can know that the student can stay in the country for three years, at least, guaranteed.”

Tiku said students who do not graduate with a degree in a STEM major have less time to apply for a visa to stay in the United States after they graduate. He said he is in the process of applying for an H-1B visa to stay in the U.S. after his current visa expires in August, but would get an extension if economics was classified as a STEM major.

Witte said the department made the decision because economics has added multiple new disciplines in recent years and has changed as a field of study.

“Over the years, we’ve added econometrics, we’ve added more intermediate micro, and I think we’re a pretty quantitative, mathematical and data intensive program and so we’re a closer fit for the new code than the old one,” he said.

Witte said a Weinberg faculty committee will review the economics department’s decision, and Provost Jonathan Holloway will then have to approve it. He said he wasn’t sure how long the process would take to be completed.

Associated Student Government executive vice president Rosalie Gambrah said in early April that fighting to make economics a STEMrecognized major was one of her favorite initiatives during her term.

“A lot of international students, if you are a STEM major you get an extra three years to apply for the lottery to become a citizen, so making econ a STEM-designated major allows for those international students who are in econ to be able to get that extra three years,” she said.

Tiku said he only had a 30 percent chance of getting an H-1B visa because of the way the lottery system works. But he added that because the STEM designation gives students three additional years, he would have more chances to apply for the visa. Most people he knows who have applied for the visa multiple times have gotten it, he said.

“I’m not sure what the next steps are and how fast the changes could be made,” Tiku said. “For me specifically, it really affects if I actually stay in this country beyond this year or not if I don’t get my H-1B visa.”

As the center analyzes anonymous data about readers’ engagement with news coverage at the Learning Labs, faculty and staff at the Knight Lab will interview residents in the local markets and gather data on news consumption.

Medill Prof. Tom Collinger, executive director of the Spiegel Research Center, could not immediately be reached for comment.

Franklin said he was interested in using existing resources at NU, particularly the Spiegel Research Center’s sophisticated data mining and analytics surrounding audience behavior. The center can detect tendencies including how often readers share content online and on which platforms they typically read news stories, he said.

“They can determine with great sophistication the behaviors that lead readers to become subscribers, to consume advertising or to cancel digital subscriptions,” Franklin said. “It’s incredibly valuable research and information that news organizations need these days.”

According to the release, research from the Knight Lab and the Spiegel Research Center will be used to launch the initiative’s product development and experimentation phase early next year.

Audrey Cooper, editor in chief of the San Francisco Chronicle, said in the release that her publication is “thrilled” to collaborate with Medill.

“Getting better insight into what readers need to know and how they want to learn about vital topics of the day is a key part of what will help us continue to serve the people of Northern California for generations to come, and I’m confident this project will go a long way in helping us reach those goals,” Cooper said.

Franklin would not say how much money

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“We are also assessing the level of services we need and just trying to get a better handle,” Flax told The Daily. “In any situation, you can have people who don’t get services sometimes or say they’re not responded to, but that doesn’t

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Fisk Hall, home of the Medill School of Journalism. Northwestern announced Tuesday it will partner with the Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle and The Indianapolis Star to launch a local news initiative.

NU has raised for the initiative, but added that fundraising efforts are ongoing. He said the data research will begin after non-disclosure agreements with the three Learning Labs are signed.

Although the initiative is launching as a partnership with three newspapers, Franklin stressed that it is a national project.

“We will be creating a new channel on the

Medill site and we will be sharing the learnings and best practices and successes and even some of the setbacks nationally so that the whole industry can learn from this work,” he said. “It’s not just three local news organizations that are trying to figure this out.”

Harbridge-Yong, the moderator, researches partisanship in American politics and is the author of “Is Bipartisanship Dead?”, the release said.

“The political science department is pleased to support thoughtful campus conversations about the state of politics in the 2018 elections as well as about how the Trump presidency has altered the media, candidate, and campaign landscape in this election cycle,” Harbridge-Yong said in the release.

Lystad said CTSS wanted to host a “totally

politics-driven event” because the organization has not held many political events this year despite the politically charged climate that exists on campus and in the country. Prior speakers this academic year included former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power, Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey, actress Lena Waithe and writer Roxane Gay. Given Litman’s involvement in active campaigns and Martin’s background, Zimmermann said he hopes attendees will gain insight into the 2018 elections.

Zimmermann also said he expects Martin and

Litman to discuss the changes occurring within America’s political system in addition to more topical events such as the Russia investigation.

With young people at the forefront of political and social movements, Zimmermann said the conversation will be both pertinent and interesting.

“There’s a groundswell of enthusiasm, energy and interest in politics for young people — people our age — who are typically not as attuned to politics,” Zimmermann said. “This is a really important time to talk about politics.”

necessarily quantify the problem at a very specific rate.”

Evanston first partnered with Open Communities to provide landlord-tenant services in 2011, according to city documents. The city most recently renewed the Landlord-Tenant Program last year, approving the continuation of a $40,500 grant that was funded through the Affordable Housing Fund.

Kleiman told The Daily that because aldermen decided to not consider the renewal of the grant for this year, the agreement will be changed to a contract for services the nonprofit provides, as Open Communities currently receives all housingrelated calls from Evanston’s 311 number.

She added that Open Communities will bid on the contract, but there is no guarantee that they

will make an agreement with the city.

“I don’t think there’s another agency that is capable of doing what we do, but that’s obviously up to the city when it looks at our proposal and maybe proposals from other agencies,” Kleiman said. “We certainly hope to serve Evanston.”

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Residence, restaurant advance past appeals board

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The Evanston Zoning Board of Appeals voted unanimously Tuesday to recommend that aldermen approve the opening of a new barbecue restaurant and the development of a multi-family residence.

Real estate management company Schermerhorn & Co. president Daniel Schermerhorn received approval from the board to build a 12-unit apartment building, to be named Highlands on Central — at 3233-3249 Central St. — after agreeing to make six first-floor units accessible according to the Americans with Disabilities Act. The vote on the development came after the board requested that Schermerhorn include an affordable housing unit to comply with the city’s Inclusionary Housing Ordinance, which specifies that a building of 10 or more units must have 10 percent of its units’ rent based on a percentage of occupants’ income.

Mary Beth Berns, chair of the Zoning Board of Appeals, said Schermerhorn would have had to charge $800 a month for an affordable unit in the building, but was unwilling to charge less than $2,500.

Berns said she made a trade-off with the developer to meet the ordinance by providing ADAaccessible housing in lieu of an affordable unit.

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Mary Beth Berns, chair of the Zoning Board of Appeals, speaks at the board’s Tuesday meeting. Members voted to approve Falcon Eddy’s Barbecue and Highlands on Central.

Berns and Schermerhorn had a heated exchange during the meeting over whether the building would include ADA accessible or adaptable units, the latter of which occupants would have to pay to adjust to make handicapped accessible.

“I took a broader view of what inclusionary meant to ... people with disabilities,” Berns said.

“By getting them to agree to make all of the units on the first floor handicapped accessible, they were broadening the scope of what they were going to provide for Evanston residents.”

The board also voted to recommend to City Council that Bat 17 co-owner Jim Pomerantz receive approval to open a new Texas-style

barbecue restaurant in downtown Evanston. The restaurant, Falcon Eddy’s, is set to be located at 825 Church St., the previous location of the southernthemed restaurant Dixie Kitchen and Bait Shop.

Pomerantz said he has been looking for a place to have “a real Texas dry rub kind of menu,” and the Dixie restaurant vacating its location around the corner from Bat 17 provided a prime opportunity.

He added that customers will place their orders at a counter, and the restaurant will not include a bar or sell liquor, but will carry “cool beers from Texas and out west.”

Zoning Board of Appeals member Violetta Cullen said the restaurant would provide a fresh fast-food option to the neighborhood.

“This (project) is gonna be one of the first of its type,” she said. “Hopefully it’ll be a better use for the space and stay a little longer.”

Pomerantz also said the new restaurant would hire 10 to 12 people and seat 46 to 48 customers.

Berns, the board chair, said by filling the currently vacant storefront, the new restaurant would increase the neighborhood’s real estate value and economic activity.

“An empty storefront does diminish the value of the property,” she said, “so by filling that storefront we are certainly re-increasing the value of the property in the neighborhood and creating a more vibrant downtown with more people who can come and spend their money.” christophervazquez2021@u.northwestern.edu

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Julissa Muñiz, a human development and social policy doctoral student in the School of Education and Social Policy, and Benjamin Chou, a JD/MBA student in the Pritzker School of Law and Kellogg School of Management, were chosen from a pool of 1,775 applicants. The fellows, both children of immigrants, will receive up to $90,000 in funding for their graduate studies. They were chosen for their potential to strengthen American society, culture or their academic field, according to the release.

Muñiz’s parents are Mexican immigrants, and as a child, she crossed the border every day to attend school, the release said. She was the first person in her family to graduate from high school, the first teenage mother to return to class at her school and the first student from her high school to be accepted to the University of California, Berkeley.

At Berkeley and in her later studies at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education and at SESP, Muñiz studied carceral spaces, according to the release.

Chou’s parents are Chinese and Taiwanese immigrants, the release said. After graduating from Rice University, Chou served as a fellow for House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, a policy adviser to the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus and the leader of former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley’s political action committee.

After graduate school, Chou said he plans to return to Texas and continue to work in politics.

“I plan to continue to work in electoral politics and government to ensure that all people are treated equally and have the economic opportunities to succeed,” Chou said in the release.

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U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) questioned Gen. Joseph Lengyel, chief of the National Guard, about the Trump administration’s deployment of National Guard troops to the Southwest border on Tuesday.

Durbin, who serves as the ranking member of the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, pressed Lengyel on the financial costs of deploying troops to the border.

“Many of us were also taken aback when the President tweeted he was deploying the National Guard to the border,” Durbin said at the subcommittee hearing. “The President’s claim that we face a crisis at our Southwest border is simply not supported by any evidence.”

Durbin said he is concerned the Trump administration is diverting the Department of Defense’s “limited” resources to protect the border so it can carry out Trump’s “deportation agenda.”

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Wildcats rally from 4-0 down, but still fall in ninth inning

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After tying Tuesday’s game in the bottom of the eighth inning to complete a comeback that took 36 plate appearances, Northwestern had some momentum on its side heading into the final frame.

But that momentum, as it has been often this season, was short-lived. Visiting Milwaukee promptly scored 2 runs in the ninth and handed the Wildcats (9-21, 1-11 Big Ten) a 6-4 defeat.

The first two Panthers (12-18, 6-6 Horizon) batters in the inning — Tyler Bordner and Joe Vyskocil — reached on a single and walk and then advanced to second and third on a sacrifice bunt. The fourth batter, Matt Quartel, lined out to sophomore second baseman Alex Erro for the second out of the inning.

During the next at-bat, senior pitcher Richard Fordon threw a wild pitch past senior catcher Jack Claeys that hit the backstop and scored Bordner from third.

Then, pinch runner Joey Scaffidi stole home to double the Milwaukee lead.

“We have to get that leadoff out,” coach Spencer Allen said. “If you look at any lateinnings rallies, it usually starts with a hitby-pitch, a walk or a non-play. That’s what we had. We had the non-play followed by a walk.”

Freshman right fielder Casey O’Laughlin had equalized the game with a two-out double in the eighth. O’Laughlin, who had not hit a double all season, roped a pitch into the right-centerfield gap and senior designated hitter Connor Lind managed to score from first without a throw.

“I was just trying to see a pitch up,” O’Laughlin said. “I tried to get a good swing on the ball and luckily it found the gap.”

Milwaukee scored all four of its runs in the first inning the same way: singles through the five-six hole in the infield. Ben Chally and Bordner both hit singles that scored one run, while Oakland Scanlan hit a grounder that just got past a diving Jack Dunn to score two Panthers.

The Cats got back into the game in the third inning with 3 runs as the Panther defense struggled to make plays. First, after junior center fielder Ben Dickey and O’Laughlin reached base, pitcher Elijah Goodman made a poor throw to first on a Dunn bunt, scoring Dickey.

The lead was then cut to two when Claeys singled in O’Laughlin. Then, junior first baseman Willie Bourbon hit a ground ball to Scanlan at first. Scanlan made a bad toss to Goodman, scoring Dunn.

For the second week in a row, NU used a bullpenning strategy for its midweek game, with sophomore starter Matt Gannon only pitching an inning and junior

reliever Tyler Lass the only pitcher who threw more than one inning.

Seven pitchers — seniors Tommy Bordignon and Fordon; juniors Danny Katz and Lass; sophomores Josh Levy and Sam Lawrence; and freshman Ryan Bader — made appearances out of the pen. The relief corps combined to give up only three hits, two walks and two hit-by-pitches. “(We were) really just attacking with the fastball, getting ahead and being able to throw that second pitch for a strike,” Bordignon said. “That’s why people were so successful, just attacking zone, not really walking any guys and being aggressive.”

The loss extends the Cats’ losing streak to four games and their record in April to 1-8. During this month, the team has scored only 16 runs while giving up 66.

NU’s struggles have not been contained just to the month of April. Since defeating Central Michigan on March 17, the Cats have won just twice.

“We are not playing competitive baseball right now,” Allen said. “We show moments, but we have to be ready to go. We have to play a full nine innings.” peterwarren2021@u.northwestern.edu

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Win streak on line Green eyes vacant superback job against Fighting Irish

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After winning both games against now-No. 24 Ohio State last weekend, Northwestern is looking ahead to its matchup with Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, on Wednesday.

With the series win, the Wildcats (25-13, 8-5 Big Ten) have now won three straight games. In each of those three games, NU has scored 10 or more runs.

Senior shortstop Marissa Panko has been a large part of the team’s success at the plate. In just two games over the weekend, Panko went 5-for-6 with three doubles and two RBIs. Her performance in those games earned her Big Ten Player of the Week, the first Cats player to win the award since Rachel Lewis earlier in the season.

“It’s an honor,” Panko said. “There are so many teams in the Big Ten and a lot of girls are deserving of it, so it’s nice that they thought I was deserving of it.”

However, Panko wasn’t the only player who had a successful weekend.

The Cats put up 17 hits in the two games. Coach Kate Drohan said their success at this point in the season is a result of understanding their identity.

“We understand how our offense works,” Drohan said. “Our tools were there, but we understand that no one needs to do it by themselves and how to generate and score runs (in) a lot of different ways.”

NU will need their bats to step up against Notre Dame (28-15, 11-6), a team that has won five out of their last eight games.

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The Fighting Irish’s key to success is pitching, as their staff has a 2.42 ERA, while their opponents have an 3.61 ERA against them.

The Cats will have to be prepared to face Notre Dame freshman pitcher Alexis Holloway, who is 16-10 with a 2.16 ERA and 142 strikeouts. Drohan said Holloway is really good at changing speeds and can throw her changeup at any time in the count.

Panko said NU will have to step up its game against the upcoming opponent to pull out a victory.

“Notre Dame is kind of a big rival for us that’s out of conference,” Panko said. “We enjoy playing them every year and we take it seriously.

They’re a good team as well and this is a big game for us.”

The Cats have not won against Notre Dame since 2013, as they’ve lost their previous three meetings. Looking ahead, this game could have major implications for the NCAA Tournament, as NU is ranked 36th in RPI while Notre Dame is ranked 39th.

Drohan reiterated that while this game is not in-conference, it’s still very crucial.

“It’s an important game to our program,” she said. “We’ve had a lot of back-and-forth affairs over the years. We’ve faced each other a ton in the regionals, so this is one of the biggest games we’ve scheduled all year. We’re going after it to win it tomorrow.” andrewgolden2021@u.northwestern.edu

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Cam Green had always been a receiver.

The now-rising junior was taught by his father, a former Chicago Bears running back, how to catch a football at age 2. From that point on, Green excelled throughout grade school at the position, earned scholarship offers from six Big Ten programs and enrolled at Northwestern in 2015.

But then, in the words of coach Pat Fitzgerald, “mother nature took over and he just kept getting bigger.”

Now, Green is the frontrunner to replace graduating Garrett Dickerson as the Wildcats’ starting superback — a tight end-esque position that relies as much on blocking as pass-catching.

“Cam is trying to work real hard on becoming a better blocker on the edge,” superbacks coach Bob Heffner said after

Saturday’s final spring practice. “He’s stronger and heavier than he was a year ago; he’s still fighting to get a little bit more.”

When Dickerson was battling through an injury during the middle of the 2017 season, Green saw his first game action, reeling in six catches for 49 yards on Oct. 14 at Maryland and six receptions for 76 yards and a score on Oct. 28 against Michigan State. He finished the year seventh on the team with 20 catches for 170 yards and two touchdowns.

After the breakout performance against the Terrapins, Fitzgerald greeted Green with a “big ol’ hug” in the locker room, the coach told reporters in Maryland. Following the contest against the Spartans, a statement win in triple overtime aided by a Green touchdown in the first overtime period, Fitzgerald named Green NU’s “Offensive Playmaker of the Week.”

Once Dickerson returned to full health, Green’s playing time dwindled

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Cam Green catches a pass during the Oct. 14 game at Maryland. Green hauled in 20 catches during the 2017 season but is in line to take over a bigger role in 2018.

considerably and he recorded no statistics in any of the Cats’ final three games.

The Buffalo Grove native nevertheless described his brief foray into the limelight as an invaluable learning experience.

“It really gave me a taste of what it’s like to be on the field all the time, going up against some of the best defensive ends and linebackers in the Big Ten,” Green said. “It was humbling to go out on the field and get my butt kicked sometimes, because you’ve got to learn that lesson, learn from your failures.”

Now practicing with the first-team offense during spring camp, Green is getting a daily dose of facing one of the conference’s best: he’s tasked with blocking junior-to-be defensive lineman Joe Gaziano during drills.

That challenging matchup, combined with the 6-foot-3, 230-pound superback’s continual efforts to gain weight — which he described as his biggest offseason focus — is helping Green improve his edge blocking prowess to match his zone and open-field blocking, which Heffner said are relative strengths in his game.

Nothing is yet set in stone. Heffner said the coaching staff is “experimenting” to see if they’ll need to make some schematic or positional role changes in the fall to “help him a little bit.” There are also seven other superbacks — including rising senior blocking specialist James Prather and highly touted recruit Trey Pugh, now a rising sophomore — in the mix for the job, and all seven weigh more than Green.

After nearly two decades as an aspiring receiver, though, Green said he’s now mentally seeking to “move forward to become a full-go superback,” embracing Fitzgerald and Heffner’s teachings about how to successfully do that.

“Coach (Heffner) was really getting on me last year to understand what I was doing wrong,” Green said. “He’s coached me up to where I’m starting to understand and we’re getting on the same page with everything.” benjaminpope2019@u.northwestern.edu