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EFBL, NUCNC honor Adam Toledo and Daunte Wright in march for police abolition

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Following months of separate actions and organizing, Evanston Fight for Black Lives and NU Community Not Cops joined in protest Sunday to honor the lives of Daunte Wright and Adam Toledo and advocate for the abolition of police.

“The city of Evanston and Northwestern

intentionally divide us,” an EFBL organizer said. “They want to keep Northwestern community members separate from Evanston community members because they know that together we can win.”

The protest came days after Chicago Police Department released footage of an officer killing 13-year-old Adam Toledo in late March, and just over a week after a Brooklyn Center, Minn. police officer killed 20-year-old Daunte Wright.

The crowd of over 700 included

toddlers in strollers, Evanston Township High School and NU students, elderly residents, bikers and several dogs. Organizers expressed frustration with Sunday’s turnout — which was less than a fifth of the size present in June 2020 — and called on those present to sustain their activism between protests.

“When George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery were murdered

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Pitcher throws 5th NU vaccine hunters assist their peers perfect game ever Students help each other secure COVID-19 vaccine appointments Williams pitched the 5th perfect game in history

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Having retired the last 20 batters she faced and up 0-2 in the count, junior pitcher Danielle Williams had history in her sights.

Iowa’s Denali Loecker watched as Williams’ final pitch sailed past her into junior catcher Jordyn Rudd’s mitt, completing the 7-0 shutout and fifth perfect game ever for

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Northwestern softball — and the first in over 15 years.

“I went straight to Jordyn — I honestly don’t remember, really,” Williams said. “I feel like I went straight to her because I see her every pitch, we go there together.”

Williams was efficient throughout the afternoon, only needing 90 pitches — her lowest per-inning count in 10 pitching appearances — to shut out the Hawkeyes. Even though she struck out only six, Williams rarely allowed any balls to leave the infield and received great defensive help from her teammates.

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Weinberg freshman Nina Petrouski had been struggling to find a vaccine appointment when her friend put in touch with vaccine booker Eli Karp.

Karp, a Medill junior, had found an appointment on hold at a Mariano’s in Lincoln Park. The vaccine appointment was booked within a matter of minutes.

Although Illinois expanded eligibility to those aged 16 and older on April 12, Northwestern does not yet have enough supply to vaccinate the entire student body The University

recommended students stay patient or seek vaccination opportunities off-campus.

Some students like Karp have become adept at vaccine hunting, helping other students find appointments off-campus.

McCormick freshman Marcos Rios said he began learning about the “confusing” appointment booking process when he went to sign up for his own vaccine. It took him about two or three hours to book an appointment within reach due to differences in state and federal government vaccine systems, Rios said.

After getting his vaccine,

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Some students have become experts in the online maze of vaccine hunting and are now helping their peers book appointments.

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Summer sports resume at ETHS with mask regulations

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When COVID-19 shut schools down last year, it didn’t just move classes online — it forced student athletes to put their sticks down, mitts away and rackets to the side as all high school sports came to a halt.

But now sports at ETHS have more fully returned.

This year’s summer sports include baseball, track and field, ultimate frisbee, lacrosse, softball, girls’ soccer, boys’ tennis, boys volleyball and wrestling, according to the school’s athletic department.

The summer season started April 8 with COVID-19 precautions in place. ETHS tried to incorporate modified sports seasons earlier this year, but it suspended all winter sports on November 19.

For Evanston Township High School senior Chuck Rogers — who said the pandemic “took away junior year” — last year’s shutdown meant that his frisbee team’s hopes to qualify for nationals were squashed.

Now, Rogers is back on the field. He said every member of the frisbee team wears masks and selfmonitors their symptoms through the myETHS website. Especially as many team members get vaccinated, Rogers feels safe.

“I haven’t seen a single nose, a single mouth,” Rogers said.

However, students competing in other “low-risk”

Evanston and Skokie enter new water contract after price disagreements Evanston and Skokie are entering a new 20-year water contract, which increases the total rate Skokie pays Evanston to $1.26 per 1,000 gallons, according to a Friday press release.

Evanston will continue to supply Skokie with water from the Evanston Water Treatment Plant, Skokie’s

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The girls badminton team made posters for graduating seniors. They were able to play against five other high schools during their regular season, which started early this March.

outdoor sports — like baseball, softball, tennis and track and field — are no longer required to wear masks during competitions, after a decision by the Illinois High School Association board. Officials and athletes on the bench must continue to wear masks at all times, though.

ETHS senior Becky Arden, who played badminton in the spring, said wearing masks while playing was not her “favorite thing in the entire world,” adding it makes the cardio and conditioning during

practices more strenuous.

“You have to take a lot more breaks,” Arden said.

“And even while playing, like at a conference, you might have to just breathe for an extra second that you might not have.”

Despite the physical challenges, Arden, who was initially cautious to rejoin the team during a pandemic, said everyone on the badminton team this spring was diligent about wearing masks to keep each other safe. Some of her teammates double

water source since 1941. The contract was negotiated after the previous agreement expired in 2017.

The village’s wholesale purchase rate has increased by over 15 percent from the previous rate of $1.09 per 1,000 gallons — a rate that was “achievable due to good faith negotiations” between the municipalities and Evanston’s addition of several neighboring communities as water supply customers, according to the release.

The agreement comes after several lawsuits and disagreements over water rates. Previously, the city has said Skokie underpriced Evanton’s water, and in

2017, Evanston filed a lawsuit against the village to enforce increased water rates after the municipalities were “unable to mutually agree on a reasonable rate to pay,” the city’s complaint said.

Less than a year later, in 2018, Skokie filed a lawsuit against Evanston claiming the increased water rates set by the city violated the rights to due process and equal protection under the law.

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masked, which made her more comfortable at practices, she said.

Emily Ho, another senior on the ETHS badminton team, said getting back into the sport for spring was a mental battle — she had to balance not only school and sports, but also the global pandemic.

“It was just always knowing there was a chance that you would get COVID,” Ho said.

Ho said she would always wash her hands before and after a match, and sometimes in the middle of practice, as well. To keep safe, the team spread out, which made it harder to foster community, she added. But Ho said she’s still glad to be playing.

Rogers is also happy to be back with the team that has been welcoming to him, he said, and he’s excited to introduce new underclassmen to the intricacies of the sport.

“I’m really looking forward to actually competing against other schools,” Rogers said, “I want to see how this team will grow and coalesce together.”

To boost team spirit, Rogers said he’s been able to give his teammates elbow bumps on the field while following safety guidelines.

Last spring, Rogers and his teammates were getting ready for a “breakout year.” While the pandemic interrupted that goal, he said he’s still incredibly grateful to be able to play this summer and that the team “gels” really well.

“Here in the senior year, my final year, the last hurrah — I just want to put everything on the field,” Rogers said. yimingfu2024@u.northwester.edu ensuring Evanston taxpayers are fairly compensated for the substantial costs of providing this essential service,” Mayor Steve Hagerty said in the release.

The new contract also provides the city access to Skokie Fire Deparrment’s training tower “in exchange for Evanston continuing to operate, control and provide records for Skokie’s water pumping stations.”

Evanston City Council will consider the contract at its April 26 meeting, and the Skokie Village Board will also do so Monday, according to the release.

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An emergency Associated Student Government session resulted in a vote delaying the election period by two weeks.

The Thursday meeting was originally spurred when Senators Joe Maino and Cindy Shou announced plans to reenter the presidential race after dropping out before the initial campaign period officially started. The Maino and Shou slate withdrew its reentry by the end of the meeting.

While the slate Teresa Vergara Miranda and Daniel Rodriguez are currently running unopposed, the Election Commission will accept new candidates for president and vice president until April 23.

The voting period will now begin April 29 and end May 1. Candidates will also be allowed to ask for signatures through private and group messages, an amendment Donovan Cusick, election commission chair and SESP freshman, called a necessary update.

Cusick said a complaint was filed against the Vergara Miranda and Rodriguez slate for seeking signatures in a group chat.

“In a digital world, it’s necessary that candidates (should) be able to reach out to the student body, digitally,” he said. “This was a great opportunity for us to change the language and allow candidates to use group messaging, without any snags or setbacks in the future.”

The original amendment sought to extend the voting period by 24 hours but senators on Thursday changed the extension to two weeks.

Additionally, the Election Commission had planned to host a town hall with the slate Maino and Shou as they did with Vergara Miranda and Rodriguez when they were running unopposed.

If more people decide to file for candidacy, Cusick said, the commission will now host a debate between the candidates where voters can submit questions.

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While the original slate is currently running unopposed, the Election Commission will accept new candidates for president and vice president until April 23.

senator and Weinberg sophomore, said the Election Commission sought to be flexible about campaign timelines to accommodate different schedules.

“I think it’s important that we recognize the context of that and take that into consideration how we made this decision for the election commission,” Hegelmeyer said in the meeting.

However, the meeting quickly pivoted to discussions of student government visibility after Maino suggested an amendment to shorten the voting period from 48 to 24 hours, citing that Sunday is a day of rest for many people.

Senators then proposed a delay of the election cycle to allow for a more robust campaign period. Adaeze Ogbonna, an African Students Association senator, said the adjusted timeline may allow for proper campaigning “Quite frankly, I have no idea who is running,” Ogbonna said. “This election was rushed. And I don’t think we should have a rushed election.”

Senators agreed that ASG visibility was an

issue, and many people were not aware of the existence of the election. Even though delaying the presidential cycle may be unprecedented, Cusick said he hopes ASG would be able to better promote the election to the larger student body with more time.

“I don’t think that anything like this has ever happened before,” Cusick said.

Through this unprecedented change in the timeline, he said he hopes more students will be able to participate and attend election and ASG events.

Cusick said ASG wants more participation and excitement from the student body regarding its elections and events because many students don’t realize the ways the organization can enact change in the University. “(ASG) does impact what goes on in the school,” he said. “It impacts students’ lives more than I think people realize.” yunkyokim2022@u.northwestern.edu

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Carceral solutions won’t protect Asian Americans ALEX CHUN

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The shooting in Atlanta on March 16 was the latest tragedy in a year filled with about 3,800 reports of anti-Asian violence, with countless more unreported.

I’ve become less and less shocked with each report of violence, but I hesitate to even regard this past year as a “rise” of anti-Asian hate. The hate has always existed, and following the example of a blatantly racist president and an incessant need to scapegoat Asian Americans as the harbingers of viruses, people are feeling more emboldened than ever to turn that hate to violence.

In response to the recent reports of anti-Asian violence, many Asian American activists have turned to carceral solutions, namely calling for anti-hate crime legislation and task forces. To some extent, their calls have been answered. In late March, the New York Police Department announced a new initiative to combat anti-Asian hate crimes in New York City. In addition to expanding its hate crimes task force, the police department has begun deploying more “plainclothes officers” to police the streets.

Anti-Asian hate has deep roots in American history, and it needs to be addressed. But an effective response to that hate is contingent on racial solidarity, and through these carceral responses, I wonder how effective it is to quell violence with more violence.

I wonder how those actions might be feeding the White supremacy we are so intent on dismantling.

Many Asian Americans are obstructed from realizing that we cannot combat violence by clinging to the false safeties offered by a carceral state intent on upholding White supremacy. In doing so, we only perpetuate more violence against communities of color.

In response to NYPD’s newfound investment in their hate crime task force, the Asian American Feminist Collective wrote an open letter denouncing the

carceral expansion, saying, “We do not support any initiative that expands the power of police nor do we believe in carceral responses to address racist violence.”

The letter cited NYPD’s history of racist violence against Asian Americans. It mentioned the mid-1990’s, when CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities reported that in over 70 cases of anti-Asian violence, police officers were the primary perpetrators in nearly half. Police officers also disproportionately target sex workers and immigrant communities, meaning that an expansion of law enforcement would only subject the very communities we are trying to protect to even more violence.

Additionally, “tough on crime” legislation, such as anti-hate crime laws, do little to actually deter crime.

In fact, studies show the opposite. This legislation is often used as a tool to target Black and brown Americans and expand the prison-industrial complex. It’s a capitalist business in which White supremacy profits off the incarceration of non-White Americans.

The Marshall Project reported that in 2019, Black Americans were accused of nearly 24 percent of hate crimes by law enforcement, despite making up only 13 percent of the population. White people, making up over 60 percent of the population, were accused of fewer than 53 percent of hate crimes.

Anti-Black violence resulting from Asian Americans’ failure to reject pervasive White power structures that seemingly promise safety is nothing new. In fact, Asian and Black American conflict is a deliberate product of White supremacy.

Asian Americans are uniquely racialized — posited between a construction of White and Black in America. Because of this, Asian Americans have often been used as a political tool to further marginalize Black Americans and uphold White supremacy.

In her essay “The Racial Triangulation of Asian Americans,” political science professor Claire Jean Kim explains that this racial triangulation is the product of two deliberate, linked processes. First, the dominant racial group (White Americans) valorizes a subordinate group (Asian Americans) relative to another, (Black Americans) while simultaneously

ostracizing that subordinate group as “immutably foreign and unassimilable with Whites.” Thus, Asian Americans become a “model minority,” capable of proximity to Whiteness but unable to ever truly reap the benefits of being White. They also become display items — examples of how non-White Americans ought to be.

So how does this relate to carcerality?

By ingraining in Asian Americans the belief that White power structures, such as the carceral state, protect and benefit them, Asian Americans unknowingly buy into a system that only serves to disenfranchise non-White Americans.

In “Asian-American Studies in the Age of the Prison Industrial Complex: Departures and Renarrations”, Dylan Rodríguez expands on this line of thinking in his explanation of how the model minority myth has grown the prison industrial complex by criminalizing Black Americans and decriminalizing White Americans. Rodriguez explains how the model minority myth manufactures a “whiteAsian alliance that manifests conspicuously in such instances as the 1980s and 1990s neoconservative movement to end affirmative action policies and the post-1992 rapprochement between the stubbornly brutal Los Angeles Police Department and the prominent Korean/Asian American community leaders.”

When Asian Americans subscribe to the model minority myth, they cling to a system that values them based on their proximity to whiteness and behavior as “good” Americans. And this whiteness feeds the prison-industrial complex. When turning to hate crime legislation and carceral solutions, Asian Americans look for illusory comfort in a system that isn’t interested in protecting them. Ultimately, hate crime legislation, and even the phrase “hate crime,” fails to acknowledge the capitalist, racist systems that led to the production of violence in the first place.

In “We Do This ‘Til We Free Us”, a collection of essays written by abolitionist Mariame Kaba, Kaba explains, “Even if the criminal punishment system

were free of racism, classism, sexism, and other isms, it would not be capable of effectively addressing harm. It does nothing to change a culture that makes this harm imaginable, to hold the individual perpetrator accountable, to support their transformation, or to meet the needs of the survivors.”

Punitive justice does little to stop systemic issues where they start, deflecting blame onto the individual rather than the oppressive systems that put them there. And this punitive justice has disproportionate consequences for Black Americans and other nonwhite Americans.

So how do we move forward?

We need anti-violent infrastructures that aren’t replicates of the carceral state. We have to learn to turn to each other for support. We have to support local and national groups that work to address the harms of police violence. Find resources. Donate.

Start conversations.

I’ll be honest. Non-carceral solutions to violence existing in a carceral system are hard to come by.

They exist in inherent discord with our present society. Abolition is a long-term movement that few of us will be around to see. But Mariame Kaba writes about the importance of hope and how “hope is a discipline.”

“It’s work to be hopeful. It’s not like a fuzzy feeling,” Kaba explains. “But it matters to have it, to believe that it’s possible, to change the world. We don’t live in a predetermined, predestined world where like nothing we do has an impact. We’re constantly changing. We’re constantly transforming.

And so, because that’s true, we have an opportunity at every moment to push in a direction that we think is actually a direction towards more justice.”

Alex Chun is a Medill sophomore. He can be contacted at opinion@dailynorthwestern.com. 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.

Northwestern sororities are plagued by lookism and fatphobia YUJIA HUANG

OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR

We all know that racism and sexism are oppressive, but what about lookism and fatphobia? For those who have never heard of these terms before, let me explain. Lookists discriminate against others based on their physical appearances and how they dress, while fatphobic people discriminate against others based on their weight. Because I haven’t heard many people say in protest, “that’s fatphobic,” or, “that’s lookist,” I think it’s time that we start calling these discriminatory statements out.

As fierce debates across the country and on Northwestern’s campus arose about whether Greek life should be abolished, I found myself reflecting on

my experience with sororities as well. As a freshman who knew nothing about sororities, I went through recruitment to find out more about these mysterious organizations. But as difficult as it is to see what’s wrong with sororities from the outside, it’s just as hard to see from the inside as well — at least, at first.

During the recruitment process, students were given no information on how sororities actually select new members. The only explanation that was repeatedly thrown around was, “There is a system for it.”

“What is this ‘system’?” I wondered. “And why is there no real explanation on how selection works?”

Throughout my recruitment process, I gradually realized that while the rules were not written out explicitly, they weren’t that difficult to comprehend once you observed closely.

One of the biggest problems with the Panhellenic Association’s sororities is that some of them are extremely lookist and fatphobic. In one sorority I visited, almost every active member was extremely

skinny. There was little diversity in how the members dressed or what their bodies looked like. Even a girl with a size six was hard to find. In addition, compared to some other Panhellenic sororities, that one was almost exclusively White. Girls of unique facial features, body sizes, and races were put on an unfair hierarchy, and only the ones who fit certain criteria were selected. Specifically, potential new members who had an above average body size or were not White would probably be dropped by that particular sorority.

The exclusivity and lookism at certain NU sororities reflects a larger pattern of these forms of discrimination in our society. From the dolls that young girls play with to the female celebrities in commercials, there is an implied beauty standard that places certain body types on an unfair pedestal. Our society has trained us to prefer girls who are skinny over those who are not. It has also shown us more White models than Asian or Black ones. Victoria’s Secret, a brand that is known for hiring overly skinny models

Pedaling toward Evanston’s beauty with my bike STERLING ORTIZ

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During my first year and a half in Evanston, I found both getting around the city and around campus onerous. From my first day at Northwestern to now, I live at North Mid-Quads, firmly in the heart of South Campus. With friends, every excursion around the school feels like a flash, but alone? Alone you could text a friend, “I’ll be at Norris soon” and be there a long 15 minutes later. God forbid you got a morning class in Technological Institute and have to speed walk half-asleep to make the 10 a.m. bell.

And sadly, public transportation isn’t the best over here either. The Purple Line is only worth walking to Foster or Noyes to go south of Dempster, and the 201 Central/Ridge bus comes every 30 minutes.

And if you miss the 201 going to Ryan Field or even across campus, you’re out of luck.

However, an electric bike fixed my transportation problem. I did not know how to ride a bike since I never thought that would be helpful in my hometown of Palm Beach County, Florida. I grew up in a

“Village by the Sea,” where the roads were almost as large as the Atlantic Ocean, and the cars drove faster than German torpedoes. At Northwestern, a top-10 university in this country, we should have top-10 bike lanes. Sheridan Road realizes this mandate with its bright green paths and protected barrier. I believed I’d be safe biking on Sheridan, and I also thought I’d be safe biking all over the roads of Evanston.

Thankfully, my hopes were not only realized but exceeded. I’ve had a blast riding through Evanston, beyond the street boundaries of Ridge Avenue to the west and Davis Street to the south that most students adhere to. I regularly pedal onwards to the North Shore Channel Trail to the west and Howard Street to the south. It’s hard to describe the thrill it is to bike on Church Street by Evanston Township High School while the breeze is a tailwind, pushing you along. Getting to see the natural beauty around Evanston quickly is a unique experience only biking affords you.

Let me be honest. Buying my Boulevard at Volton Bicycles in Morton Grove cost my family and me a lot of money, and that’s not an option for many students at Northwestern. So I hope that the higher powers, including the city of Evanston and the state of Illinois, will extend a refundable credit towards buying electric bikes, like the San Francisco Bay Area

did. Even with the lack of state support, I’m happy to spend a pretty penny on the Boulevard instead of a dirty dime on Ubers or owning a car.

I’m also satisfied with taking care of my bike and the responsibility of bike ownership. In my life up to now, I haven’t had a lot of responsibility — I didn’t have to pay the rent, cook all the meals, or take care of the family cars. I came into college life expecting to take on responsibility, like feeding myself and discovering classes to take. So, taking care of a bicycle?

Making sure that it’s locked every night and I have the keys? That’s light work to me.

I fully support every cyclist, both original and electric, and I fully encourage everyone reading this article to consider biking on campus. I got my bike at Volton, and I know that Wheel and Sprocket at 1027 Davis Street sells e-bikes. You can also order other quality rides online. However or wherever you find your electric bike, you’ll have a great experience.

Sterling Ortiz is a School of Education and Social Policy, Class of 2023. He can be contacted at sterlingortiz2022@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.

who adopt compulsive diets, still has a bigger global market share than any other lingerie brand.

I don’t know if sororities should be completely abolished, but what I do know is that the toxic lookism and fatphobia in certain sororities has to go. While it is appropriate to acknowledge that we all have different races, facial features and body sizes, it is oppressive and hurtful when we create a hierarchy around those differences. Society is finally starting to change, more companies in the fashion industry celebrating and increasing body, facial and racial diversity. It is time for the lookist and fatphobic sororities to follow suit and stop their discriminatory practices as well.

Yujia Huang is a Weinberg junior. She can be contacted at yujia@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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Women’s Center focuses on mutual aid education

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This year’s Women’s History Symposium emphasized mutual aid in light of the growing need for community support to address the disproportionate impact of the pandemic on marginalized communities.

The March 9 event, hosted by the Women’s Center, was the capstone to a programming series on mutual aid. When it came to selecting this year’s theme, mutual aid was an easy choice, Women’s Center program coordinator melisa stephen (Weinberg ‘15) said.

“A basic definition of mutual aid is people showing up for each other for the common good,” stephen said.

“It’s also done in tandem with social movements, so there’s open critique of the systems that are failing us.”

Prior to the symposium, stephen, along with other students, faculty and staff, participated in a reading group for the book “Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During this Crisis (and the Next)” by author and activist Dean Spade, one of the speakers at the symposium.

Sarah Brown, the Women’s Center’s program manager and a panel moderator, said reading the book as a group allowed for more complex conversations about mutual aid. To Brown, mutual aid recognizes that there is not a separation between “deserving” and “undeserving” people.

“One of the most radical interventions of mutual aid groups is to get away from this model that you have to prove that you should receive support,” Brown said.

Brown added that this distinction changes the way people think about help. Existing systems demonstrate they need reform, she said, because they require members of the community to come together to support one another.

University to expand vaccine distribution to students this week Northwestern’s vaccine clinics will start prioritizing students starting next week but do not have enough vaccine supply for every student with need, Luke Figora, vice president for operations, announced in a Friday University release.

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As the pandemic has highlighted and exacerbated the struggles of people of marginalized identities, the term mutual aid has become more popular, and the Women’s Center worked on this theme over the past year.

Weinberg junior Aaliyah Berryman conducted two of the Facebook livestream interviews leading up to the symposium. Berryman said hosting these interviews allowed her to learn more about mutual

aid work already being done in the surrounding community.

Berryman said mutual aid is “pending revolution.”

Although mutual aid works to make up for deficiencies

The University expects to offer 600 first doses of Moderna COVID-19 vaccines next week, the email stated, and will invite students directly to vaccination events based on participation levels in on-campus testing.

Furthermore, starting next Monday, NU will send vaccine invitations to students who are living in on-campus housing and registered for in-person classes.

“We will then invite undergraduate and graduate students based on their engagement level on

campus, prioritizing those who have been the most actively engaged,” Figora wrote.

The email reaches the NU community as the Illinois Department of Public Health announced a state-wide mass vaccination program to encourage public and private university students to receive COVID-19 vaccines. The initiative comes after reports that residents in their 20s have seen the highest COVID-19 infections in the state throughout April.

Students have the option to partake in the state

in surrounding institutions, Berryman said working in mutual aid means to work to create a society that no longer needs it.

“We do the work to not have to do the work eventually,” Berryman said.

SESP senior and panel moderator Eliza Gonring said dismantling systems of oppression is central to the practice of mutual aid.

Those who identify outside of the gender binary, Gonring said, still experience gender violence that stems from the patriarchy. Gonring added that she appreciates how the Women’s Center is inclusive to all groups who experience gender-based violence.

“If you’re just limiting the groups you’re supporting to women, you’re leaving out so many people that are suffering from the effects of the patriarchy,” Gonring said. “By being inclusive, (the Women’s Center is) allowing themselves to better support the communities that they’re serving.”

Brown said the idea of mutual aid is “inherently feminist,” and the idea that someone is not doing well because they are undeserving is patriarchal, and denies the existence of systemic racism and of gender oppression.

Ideas of scarcity and competition push people to “vie against” one another for basic necessities, Brown said. She said believing that the world is a meritocracy invalidates the role of the systems of inequality in society.

“Mutual aid rejects the notion that everyone who isn’t doing well, isn’t doing well because they don’t deserve it,” Brown said. “It doesn’t have the word women or women’s history in the name, but it hits some of the core principles of what feminist change really means right now.” katrinapham2024@u.northwestern.edu program, and the University has also established a webpage to notify students of these mass vaccination events. Additionally, NU will continue to work to distribute student vaccines in the coming weeks, Figora wrote in the release.

“If you are not invited to a Northwestern vaccination event next week,” Figora wrote, “we ask you to be patient and await an invitation in the coming weeks as supply continues to increase.”

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last year, 5,000 people came out in Evanston to march and demand change. I don’t see 5,000 people out right now,” an EFBL organizer said.

“Where are they today? And what has changed?

Nothing.”

Organizers also discussed the University’s failure to meet NUCNC’s demands to defund and disband University Police and invest in life-giving institutions for Black students. Last fall, the organization hosted more than 30 consecutive days of action advocating for police abolition.

EFBL, a youth abolitionist organization led by recent ETHS graduates, formed in late spring 2020 and has since held protests, sit-ins and other actions working toward abolition. They’ve called on City Council to defund the Evanston Police Department by 75 percent.

About 10 EPD vehicles were present during the action, including an arrest van. Protesters reportedly saw vehicles affiliated with the Northern Illinois Police Alarm System on Green Bay Road as they dispersed.

At the height of the march, the crowd spanned

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“She set that tempo clearly in the beginning of the game,” coach Kate Drohan said. “Our defense made a couple of big plays early, and then we really got a lot of momentum on the defensive side of the ball.”

The Wildcats (19-6, 19-6 Big Ten) were up to the task on offense as well. Graduate utility player Morgan Newport launched a two-run home run past the center field fence, Rudd went 3-4 with three runs-batted-in and senior second baseman Rachel Lewis was a double away from hitting for the cycle.

“Rachel hitting a home run (in) the second at-bat of the game, I feel like that was a big trigger for us,” Williams said.

Understandably, there was growing enthusiasm among NU’s players as the game progressed. By the

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Rios said he shared his experience and the resources he used on Twitter. That night, five people direct messaged him asking for help booking their appointments, and he found all of them appointments around Evanston, Rios said.

Since April, he has helped at least 25 individuals get vaccinated using his go-to website, COVID-19 Vaccine Spotter, he said.

“It’s just a matter of refreshing the (appointment) page,” Rios said “Refresh on the hour, every single o’clock, or at midnight stuff will open.”

approximately three blocks. Protesters participated in a variety of chants, played music and held up signs. The action drew residents to their porches and lawns; some joined in the protest, while others filmed on their cell phones.

The march ended at the Weber Arch, where community activist Michael James led the crowd in a chant while drumming. An organizer then read a land acknowledgment, which was followed by speeches from EFBL and NUCNC organizers.

One EFBL organizer related the action to the traditions of her mother’s homeland, where villages honor the death of a community member by marching together. The speaker said the purpose of marches is to not only advocate for abolition, but also to build community and support one another. “(Marching together is) an acknowledgment that grief and loss, while felt deeply at an individual level, can be shared as a community,” the speaker said. “Many of us are out here because we have been holding on to so much grief and so much loss this year. It feels good to be together and to express that grief.”

Additionally, organizers asked the crowd to make calls on behalf of protesters still in jail time Williams struck out all three batters in the 5th inning, the entire Cats team was sensing something special.

“The golden rule is, ‘You can’t talk about it, you can’t say it out loud,’” Drohan said. “But the cheers got a little bit every time she was ahead in the count, or a swing and a miss, there was a lot more excitement and energy in the dugout.”

Following the victory, NU still has three more showdowns against Iowa (14-11, 14-11 Big Ten) this weekend, including a doubleheader on Saturday.

That means it’s back to business for Drohan and the Cats.

“Right now, it’s all about the next game,” Drohan said. “I’m sure after the weekend, we can reflect a little bit about the achievement.” nathanansell2022@u.northwestern.edu Ph.D. candidate Zoha Syed, member of the Northwestern COVID-19 Committee, an organization that has advocated for NU postdoctoral and graduate students during the pandemic, also helps students find appointments. NUCC has also compiled a guide on its website — which updates daily — that has information on appointment locations, times when new appointments will publish and forms of identification people need to bring, Syed said.

For those who can’t afford to leave campus to get their vaccine, Syed said NUCC is working with Luke Figora, vice president for operations, to streamline information about appointment booking and help identify populations on

after Brooklyn Center police arrested over 100 of those demonstrating following Daunte Wright’s death. Between speeches, protesters called Brooklyn Center’s attorney and sheriff to demand prosecutors drop all charges and immediately release those jailed.

Among the crowd of protesters were former 2nd Ward aldermanic candidate Darlene Cannon, 4th Ward alderman-elect Jonathan Nieuwsma and former mayoral candidate Sebastian Nalls.

Cannon told The Daily she protested in solidarity with Adam Toledo — and with her son in mind.

“I live in fear every day that because he has dark skin, a cop is gonna be judge, jury and executioner against him,” Cannon said.

She said she hopes the next City Council will allocate more funding toward affordable housing, social services and de-escalation strategies to reduce violence in Evanston.

Cannon also said she’s gained a following from her aldermanic run and plans to continue engaging with the community to hold council accountable.

“I think Evanston does a really good job of talking about equity and inclusivity,” Cannon

Podculture: Oops, the media did it again— dissecting Britney Spears’ legacy, nearly 20 years later With the release of “Framing Britney,” audiences and publications alike are re-thinking the role media plays in the lives of prominent female celebrities. This week, Podculture breaks down how and why the spotlight can mistreat stars like Britney. The hosts discuss how her “breakdowns” were documented and perpetuated by the media, and how she’s been the blueprint for several other celebrities, including Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hilton. Even a professor chimes in, explaining campus in need of the vaccine.

Syed said while she recognizes it can be hard for some students to travel off campus for a vaccine, there are now enough vaccines available nationally that students going off campus are not taking doses from others who may be more at risk.

“If you get an appointment, take it,” Syed said.

“I know that comes from a place of privilege, but we’re so close to getting over this really horrific event in our country. I think it’s worth the sacrifice in the short-term for the gains you’re going to get in the long-term.”

Because of the unpredictable nature of vaccine appointments, Karp has never publicly

said. “We talk the talk, but we don’t walk the walk.”

In March, Nieuwsma told The Daily he supports reallocating police department funding to human and social services.

Nieuwsma, who attended the march with his wife and children, told The Daily Sunday he felt it was his responsibility as an aldermanelect to be present at the action to ensure Evanston’s public safety budget aligns with residents’ values.

“It’s important to see the support that exists in the community for radically rethinking how we approach public safety,” Nieuwsma said.

EBFL and NUCNC organizers concluded the event with a call to action, urging attendees to treat each other with love and respect to build a community without police, and to continue to fight for abolition.

“We demand that it ends here and now,” an EFBL organizer said. “We demand the destruction of all police and prisons, and we need you all to stand with us each and every day.” waverlylong@u.northwestern.edu, emilysakai2023@u.northwestern.edu, maiaspoto2023@u.northwestern.edu how women are often treated as either “Can-Do” or “At-Risk” girls, perpetuating harmful narratives about women.

The episode also breaks down the conservatorship that her father holds over her, explaining how the law works and how, years later, Britney still doesn’t have the ability to make her own decisions without her father’s approval.

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advertised his help, but he’s been able to connect over 70 individuals with the vaccine since he started in late February, he said.

Karp said he uses primarily a Facebook group called Chicago Vaccine Hunters to track down appointments for his friends and community members.

“Every person who gets a vaccine makes themselves and the people around them safer,” Karp said. “Think about all the things you want to do — you want to be able to go out and eat again, go have house parties and enjoy college life.” nataliewu2024@u.northwestern.edu

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The Latino Union of Chicago held a protest Thursday in front of the office of Evanston-based construction company Continental Construction, demanding the company pay the wages a day laborer says he is owed.

The Latino Union of Chicago is a workers’ center that advocates for non-unionized workers, including day laborers.

Ramirez, who asked that only his last name be used, said he was contracted by Continental Construction to do work on a local baseball field and two houses, one in Evanston and another in Winnetka. He said the owner of the company, Thomas Andrews, agreed to pay him $4,000 for the work, which he completed in October 2020.

But after months of fighting, Ramirez said that Andrews has only paid him $1,500 and still owes him $2,500 for his work. “(Andrews) is stealing from me,” Ramirez said. “He is taking advantage of (the pandemic).

Like Latino Union says, ‘A day worked is a day paid.’ But he never honored that. He never paid me when I was supposed to be paid.”

Mauricio Huertas, the director of development and communications for the Latino Union, said Continental Construction has given a number of reasons why it has not yet paid Ramirez in full, such as financial difficulties due to the pandemic, an explanation Huertas said is disproved by the fact that the

Evanston municipal elections draw one fourth of eligible voters Approximately 13,000 Evanston residents cast ballots in last Tuesday’s municipal elections, a drop in voter turnout since the 2017 election, City Clerk Devon Reid said at City Council Monday night.

This year, around 25 percent of the city’s registered voters cast a ballot — a 5 percent increase

company is still operating and actively contracting workers.

Evelyn Vargas, a labor organizer for the Latino Union, said the Union knows of at least three other workers whom the company has not fully paid.

“This is urgent because I need my wages,” Ramirez said. “I can no longer wait on (Andrews’) promises, his lies. It is urgent that I be paid now.”

Continental Construction did not immediately respond to The Daily’s request for comment.

At the protest, demonstrators taped a copy of a letter from the Latino Union to the company’s door. Vargas said the Union has tried to give letters to the company before, but the demonstrators were denied entry.

“This (letter) is for everybody who is walking by to see that Latino Union and Evanston was here to demand payment and let everybody know exactly what this company is like,” Vargas said.

The letter included a list of demands for the company to address the situation, and that included a call for Continental Construction to fully pay Ramirez by the end of May 2021.

The letter also demanded the company use contract agreements with dates, names and a business address for future agreements with workers. Huertas said this would create a more solid paper trail than simply relying on verbal agreements, as Ramirez said was done in his case.

Additionally, the letter demanded

from the voter turnout in the February primaries.

In 2017, around 18,400 ballots were cast, which made up nearly 37 percent of registered voters.

The 6th Ward saw the highest turnout rate in all of Evanston, where 35 percent of registered voters cast a ballot. Ald. Tom Suffredin (6th) won 62 percent of the vote in the 6th Ward aldermanic race, defeating challenger Katie Trippi.

Reid said the city hopes to increase voter turnout in the future, especially in the 5th Ward, which had the lowest voter participation rate this election. “We have something to strive toward in the next municipal election,” he said.

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Organizers speak at the protest. The Latino Union of Chicago held a protest Thursday to demand Evanstonbased construction company Continental Construction pay a worker wages.

Continental Construction stop paying workers through check-cashing services without providing a business card or other attributable business information. Huertas said without this information, it is difficult for workers to contact the company if there is an issue with a payment.

The letter also called on the company to pay all its workers the agreed-upon amounts at the agreed-upon time.

Several Evanston and Chicago-based organizations, like St. Nicholas Church and Multilingual Connections, signed the letter.

Vargas said the Latino Union is organizing a phone campaign for Friday, during which organizers want people to call Continental Construction and demand they pay Ramirez the rest of the money.

Huertas said phone campaigns are “a way of letting (companies) know that their community members, their neighbors, the people in the communities they are working in are concerned with their business practices.”

Nick Francis contributed reporting.

So far, three City Council newcomers have won aldermanic races and will sit on the dais for the first time this May. In the 4th Ward, Jonathan Nieuwsma will succeed Ald. Don Wilson (4th), who was ousted in the February primaries.

Bobby Burns defeated Carolyn Murray in the race for the 5th Ward seat, currently filled by Ald. Robin Rue Simmons (5th). Last weekend, Matthew Mitchell conceded to Reid in the 8th Ward.

As of Thursday, challenger Clare Kelly leads Ald. Judy Fiske (1st) by 27 votes, a margin that has tightened since last week. Ald. Peter Braithwaite

(2nd) currently has a 72-vote lead on Darlene Cannon — a race that has also gotten closer since initial numbers were announced.

Incumbent Alds. Melissa Wynne (3rd), Suffredin, Eleanor Revelle (7th) and Cicely Fleming (9th) appear to have all won reelection to their seats.

About 6,800 Evanston residents voted in the 2013 municipal elections, in which the entire council was reelected and about 10,400 residents voted in 2009.

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No. 2 Northwestern took down Michigan 19-10 on Sunday, finishing the regular season with an undefeated record.

The Wildcats (11-0, 11-0 Big Ten) jumped out to an early 5-0 lead over the Wolverines (3-6, 3-6 Big Ten), in large part due to winning five consecutive draw controls to start the game. Each one led to a score.

Despite giving up a goal and a few draw controls, the Cats continued to dominate the pace of play and jumped out to an 8-1 lead. However, NU’s sticks then went cold for over 12 minutes.

“We definitely have a lot to work on, in terms of cleaning up some of the sloppy plays and focusing the full 60 minutes,” junior attacker Izzy Scane said. “We’re nowhere close to our potential.”

Michigan attempted to claw back into the game by scoring three straight goals to pull it to 8-4. But graduate attacker Lindsey McKone scored a

goal with just five seconds left in the first half to put the Cats back up by five.

Six different NU players scored in the first half, a stark contrast from the Cats’ most recent game, on April 8 against Ohio State, where all of the early goals came from Scane. Scane still scored twice in the first half, but NU also got goals from senior attacker Lauren Gilbert, sophomore midfielder Erin Coykendall, senior midfielder Brennan Dwyer, freshman attacker Leah Holmes and McKone.

That offensive diversity helped NU withstand the quiet stretch. And in the second half, the Cats returned to their dominant, early game form.

The team responded to an early free position goal from the Wolverines with another draw control and a goal from Scane. The Michigan native’s ability to make plays both for herself and for her teammates helped the Cats continue to score even when they struggled to find offense at times.

Scane scored her 70th goal of the season against the Wolverines, a nation-leading total. She struggled early on, going 1-for-6 on her first seven shots, but still finished the game with six goals.

“It all comes down to my teammates busting their butts in practice and making plays open up for me in practice and that goes over into games,” Scane said of her scoring success. “As long as we keep working while together and having the connection we have on and off the field, I think we’ll do great things.”

The Cats pulled away in the second half, rattling off six consecutive goals in the final fifteen minutes to bring the NU lead to 19-9, before Michigan scored one final goal in the closing minutes.

Now, the Cats have a 12-day break before they begin the Big Ten Tournament as the top-seeded team. Their dominance in the regular season has NU right where it wants to be for a long postseason run.

“We are a force to be reckoned with,” coach Kelly Amonte Hiller said.

“There’s a lot of good teams across the country, but I think we are definitely one of them. We have a lot of great experience. We have a lot of depth, we’re very dynamic, and we’re ready to compete.”

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Going into this weekend, Northwestern was looking for its first series win since March. But the Wildcats couldn’t get it done, dropping two of three to Indiana and slinking down to .500 on the season.

NU (12-12, 12-12 Big Ten) started off the weekend with a 5-4 loss to the Hoosiers (15-8, 15-8 Big Ten), but the Cats bounced back on Saturday to defeat Indiana 8-5. Sunday’s contest ended in the Hoosiers giving NU its first shutout loss this season.

“We just can’t keep digging holes early,” coach Spencer Allen said. “(We’re) just trying to look for a faster start offensively and not having to try to get runs late, and then just making sure we’re not giving them free stuff.”

Friday’s matchup was an exciting one, even though the Cats failed to pull out the win. The game started out poorly for NU, with junior pitcher Mike Doherty allowing two runs in the third inning and gaining another two earned runs in the top of the seventh. Headed into the bottom of the inning, the Cats trailed 5-0.

But that didn’t stop them.

A leadoff walk from redshirt junior designated hitter David Dunn got the rally started, and then four back-to-back singles drove in a pair of runs. With two outs, and the score at 5-2, sophomore left fielder Stephen Hrustich stepped to the plate.

And the Georgia native — with a .646 slugging percentage this season — delivered. Hrustich ripped a ground-rule double to left, bringing home graduate student right fielder Leo Kaplan and freshman center fielder Ethan O’Donnell.

NU battled the rest of the game, but could not put together a win, despite having a runner on second base during the bottom of the ninth.

“The guys did a good job making the adjustment getting a little bit flatter to the baseball,” Allen said. “The wind was blowing in and we hit the ball well.

Their guy did a good job keeping us

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Northwestern players huddle in the outfield. The Cats dropped two of three to Indiana this weekend.

off-balance, too.”

However, NU made up for it on Saturday in its win over Indiana. Freshman second baseman Vincent Bianchina stole the show, blasting two home runs in as many innings.

Junior catcher Michael Trautwein said Bianchina’s emergence as an offensive contributor has been an encouraging development this season.

“He came in and from the jump immediately made a huge impact,” Trautwein said. “It’s awesome to have that guy holding down that sixth hole and give some offensive production in the middle of the lineup.”

The victory also featured strong outings from redshirt junior pitcher Tyler Uberstine, sophomore pitcher Reed Smith and graduate student pitcher Sam Lawrence, who combined to throw eight strikeouts.

Trautwein praised the pitchers’ performances.

“Their pitches came in and filled the zone up with strikes,” Trautwein said.

“When you do that, you can get a lot of guys out.”

On Sunday, the Hoosiers silenced the Cats, giving up no runs and only two hits — both singles from Kaplan and

freshman third baseman Tony Livermore. Indiana pitcher Gabe Bierman took a no-hit bid into the sixth inning and allowed just four baserunners across 7.2 innings before the Hoosier bullpen closed out NU. The Cats lined up an opportunity to close the deficit in the eighth inning.

NU got runners aboard with a walk and a single off Bierman to bring up junior first baseman Anthony Calarco.

Junior shortstop Shawn Goosenberg — who’s tied for the most home runs in the Big Ten — waited in the batter’s box.

Instead, Calarco was caught looking on a full count for an inning-ending strikeout. Indiana then retired the final three Cats batters to seal a Hoosier series victory.

“That’s the best pitching performance we’ve seen,” Allen said of Bierman’s outing. “He’s a Friday-night type arm. You just can’t have quick outs, you have to really try to battle and fight — foul off pitches and see if there’s any free stuff he’s going to give you because he did a great, great job.” sophiascanlan2022@u.northwestern.edu johnriker2023@u.northwestern.edu

Facing No. 16 Illinois in the final match of the regular season, Northwestern jumped out to an early 3-1 lead. However, the Wildcats (12-6, 11-5 Big Ten) couldn’t close the door on the Fighting Illini.

Five of the six NU players were able to take the first set off Illinois (17-2, 14-1 Big Ten) in singles, but some of the Cats started to falter as the match progressed. The Fighting Illini picked up crucial points in the final three sets for a 4-3 overall victory.

“We got down some breaks early in second sets,” coach Arvid Swan said. “That resulted in three-set matches, where maybe we could have won in two sets. But (with) two evenly matched teams, they came out on top today.”

For the 12th straight match, NU started off by gaining the doubles point. Graduate students Chris Ephron and Dominik Stary beat Illinois’ Noe Khlif and Siphosothando Montsi for their 10th consecutive victory as a duo, while sophomore Natan Spear and junior Steven Forman quickly defeated the Fighting Illini’s Alex Petrov and Vuk Budic.

Singles play started in the Cats’ favor as well. Stary took down the Fighting Illini’s Alex Brown without having his serve broken. Then, freshman Presley Thieneman persevered through a light drizzle and a second set back-and-forth tiebreaker to give NU the individual contest, 6-2, 7-6 (9-7). However, senior Nick Brookes fell to Illinois’ Zeke Clark.

“The energy of the team, those guys on the side were really loud, pumping me up,” Thieneman said.

“I was just trying to keep it one point at a time, not trying to think too much.”

With his victory over Illinois’ Lucas Horve, Thieneman ended

the regular season with a perfect 10-0 record in singles. He credited his success to working on his net game and forehand throughout the season, as well as his serve.

“It’s definitely been good for my confidence, winning these matches, getting some experience,” Thieneman said, “But I think the most important thing is just doing my job for the team. It’s bigger than me.”

But it all fell apart for NU. Forman and Ephron never recovered from sluggish starts in their third sets, while junior Trice Pickens couldn’t capitalize off serves at the end of the decisive match.

“Give them credit for how they finished,” Swan said. “I think that’s probably our biggest takeaway, we just got to try to win the first set and then get up a break in the second.”

The Cats will have a weeklong gap in their schedule before the Big Ten Tournament begins on April 29.

This year, Nebraska will host the event, meaning that Swan’s squad will need to adapt to the Cornhuskers’ slower courts, particularly if the weather makes indoor play necessary.

“We have pretty solid game plans for each opponent,” Swan said.

“Adjustments are more on the conditions rather than the teams we play.”

Before the match, NU honored four athletes playing their final collegiate tennis in Evanston for Senior Day. Stary, Ephron, Brookes and senior AJ Joshi all walked to the center of Court 1 to receive plaques and a formal announcement of their achievements as Cats.

“It’s tough to see those guys go.

They’ve been really great leaders for the team, really great players, too,” Thieneman said. “Being able to have them as my role models for this year, it’s been really cool.

But I’m hoping that we can keep going for them and make a run in the tournament.” nathanansell2022@u.northwestern.edu