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SustainNU hosts Repair & Reuse Fair The fair promoted sustainability on and around campus

By JOANNA HOU

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Students pressed city politicians about Evanston’s commitment to meeting climate goals at a panel during the Climate Justice Conference on Wednesday.

Leading climate justice panels

ETHS students organized the first ever Climate Justice Conference

By AVIVA BECHKY

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Student activist Emmet Ebels-Duggan said they

wanted students to leave Evanston Township High School’s inaugural Climate Justice Conference feeling energized, educated and hopeful.

“Information is just so key to everything political, to every

movement,” Ebels-Duggan said. “We want to talk about climate justice specifically, and how climate crisis intersects with other forms of injustice.”

Ebels-Duggan, the communications coordinator for

ETHS climate activism group E-Town Sunrise, was among many student activists who worked with administrators to coordinate Wednesday’s

» See CLIMATE JUSTICE, page 6

First-year chemical engineering graduate student Sarah Friedman sorted through a box of reusable pottery and picked out pieces to take home at Wednesday’s Repair & Reuse Fair hosted by sustainNU. “(I practice sustainability by) trying to recycle as much as I can, and I try to reuse my containers as much as possible,” Friedman said. “I feel like there’s always something more you could do.

And I’ve learned that by coming to this fair.”

The fair, hosted at Norris University Center, aimed to place emphasis on reusing and reducing waste, according to sustainNU’s Associate Director Julie Cahillane. It featured booths showcasing a range of campus initiatives, student startups and local organizations. Apart from learning about different projects, students could also repair their own items with sewing services or take home reusable goods like water bottles.

Cahillane said though it can be difficult for students to implement sustainable habits in their routines, she hopes the fair showed students applying simple changes is easy.

“It isn’t hard to be more sustainable,” Cahillane said. “When you look at your own lifestyle … you’re probably already doing some things that are more sustainable. So recognize that and appreciate, ‘Okay, I’ve got this one thing down, I ride my bike everywhere.

But what else can I do?’”

Madeline Amonick, Hillel’s social justice fellow, ran a booth for Cats Who Compost, a student initiative promoting composting efforts on campus.

The group has two compost centers on campus where students drop off a variety of items and is looking to establish a third center, Amonick said. The compost then goes to Collective Resource Compost, where it turns into nutrientrich soil.

“Something we see as really important for Cats Who Compost is to help change the culture around composting,” Amonick said. “(Collective) can compost way more materials than if you just did it in your backyard, like meats, bones, hair … the reason why people don’t know is because

» See REPAIR, page 6

Focusing on second chances

‘A bit of home’ for Pakistani students

Rebuilding Warehouse centers repurposement

By PAVAN ACHARYA

By ELENA HUBERT

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At the Evanston Rebuilding Warehouse, second chances aren’t just available — they’re foundational.

Dedicated to offering new opportunities through employment and material repurposement, the nonprofit organization has offered workforce training, home deconstruction and discounted reclaimed goods for just over a decade. “(The goal is to) bring people in and have them … think of reuse as the first option versus buying new,” Community Outreach Manager Nancy Bennett said.

Founded in 2011, the warehouse operates a retail location at 1245 Hartrey Ave. selling second-hand materials either donated or sourced from deconstruction, an alternative

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to demolition where materials are saved for reuse.

According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the country generated 600 million tons of construction and demolition debris in 2018, 90% of which were from demolition.

Evanston Rebuilding Warehouse aims to divert construction materials from the waste stream through its deconstruction and resale efforts.

With most inventory priced at around half of market value, the warehouse offers new life to items reclaimed from deconstruction, including appliances, windows, cabinets, flooring, furniture, lighting and lumber.

Homeowners can both buy and donate to the warehouse.

They can also contract staff, mainly members of the transitional employment program, for home deconstruction or smaller projects such as kitchen deconstruction. Materials donated to the warehouse from deconstruction are tax-deductible. “(Deconstruction) is more expensive than demolition but

» See WAREHOUSE, page 6

NU students founded the Pakistani Students Association in March the daily northwestern @pavanacharya02

A group of Northwestern students discussed the possibility of a Pakistani-focused student organization over dinner at Tapas Barcelona early Winter Quarter. That possibility became a reality in March when the Pakistani Students Association was born.

“It started to provide a space for students of Pakistani descent or from Pakistan who didn’t feel like they quite fit into the present spaces for the South Asian identity,” McCormick sophomore and PSA President Hajra Malik said.

Malik said PSA holds a different approach to programming than other campus groups, like the South Asian Students Alliance, which is the largest cultural organization on-campus for South Asian students.

Malik said because SASA is a more Indian- and Hinducentric group, it doesn’t always cater to Pakistani students. She said PSA will provide a more

Pakistani-centric experience for students.

“We want to be able to offer a bit of home for everyone from Pakistan,” Malik said. “That’s easier to achieve as PSA than try to incorporate that into SASA, which is already trying to do so much.”

Malik said PSA plans to collaborate with SASA and the Muslim-cultural Students Association, including for a cultural event set for late April.

“The night before Eid is called Chaand Raat, and everyone gets together and celebrates, and there’s lots of food involved,” Weinberg freshman and PSA Secretary Zahra Hussain said. “It’s a very fun, festive atmosphere.”

Hussain said she celebrated Chaand Raat in her hometown of Lahore in Pakistan, and PSA’s goal is to recreate the event’s atmosphere at NU. PSA also plans to host other events throughout the quarter including a Basant Kite Flying Festival, which is an event held to celebrate the start of spring in Pakistan, and game nights every other weekend, according to Communication junior

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Communication junior and PSA Treasurer Neeha Rashid designed the organization’s logo to represent both Pakistan and Northwestern University. The phrase written at the time in Urdu, the national language of Pakistan, loosely translates to “Pakistan Students Association,” according to Rashid.

and PSA Treasurer Neeha Rashid. Rashid is an exchange student from Northwestern University in Qatar and will be leaving Evanston by fall 2022.

Game nights will feature traditional Pakistani games, Rashid said, including the board game Ludo and tabletop game Carrom.

Though all plans for events

are tentative and subject to change, Rashid said PSA wants to start with events before potentially moving into weekly meetings.

“We want it to start off as event-based so that once people know what the organization is about, they can come

» See PSA, page 6

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AROUND TOWN

Growing food, growing activism: West End Garden neighbors will get the first pick of food. EFBL came together with Hovland Court residents to establish the garden in the aftermath of neighborhood discussions following a shooting on the street last March. They hoped the park could become a safe zone for neighborhood children.

As organizers resumed in-person gardening early April after their winter hiatus, kids played games in the grass beside them. Neighbors also joined in to help clean up the garden. Fifteen-yearold Nevaeh Ransom said she walked down the street from her Hovland Court home to contribute.

“I hope I get to learn more about gardening,” she said. “I always had the need to just help out and do something.”

The garden also attracts youth from Evanston Township High School, which is less than a 10-minute walk away. For ETHS sophomore Gabi Evans, West End Garden is a place for her to practice her dream career: farming.

But it’s also a place where she can care for her community.

Between pulling out weeds, she reflected on what the word “abolition” means to her.

“We need to grasp things at the root,” she said, referencing a quote from famous abolitionist Angela Davis. “It’s our best hope. We need a fresh start.”

By MAX LUBBERS

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In a corner of Perry Park, Evanston residents gather to pull out weeds and plant new seeds at West End Garden. But beyond the soil, something else is growing: a community grounded in abolition.

Master Gardener Tiffany Christian said abolition involves tearing down prisons and getting rid of policing, but it also extends to making land and food accessible.

“We want to make sure that people live happy, healthy and safe lives,” she said. “Sometimes people think of these issues as very separate, but they address the whole person.”

Organizers of the abolitionist collective Evanston Fight for Black Lives and edible garden group Evanston Grows said they formed West End Garden last May. As the garden approaches its one-year anniversary this spring, organizers said they’re continuing to reimagine gardening as an act of liberation. They said they focus on centering Black residents and their experiences with the environment.

During the winter, organizers created a book club to read about agricultural resistance and Black freedom. Christian said she hopes the garden itself can also serve as a place of healing for Black residents.

“Land was the site of Black people’s oppression through enslavement, but it also was a site where they could take refuge because gardening is a part of living,” she said. “The ability to grow your own food, be outside and get to know the place you live is very liberatory.”

Since the garden’s opening, organizers said they’ve harvested 300 pounds of produce — a number they’re hoping to beat this year. On April 23, the garden will host a “Build Day” where community members can help construct new soil beds, adding to the current four.

EFBL Organizer and Co-founder of West End Garden Nia Williams said it’s incredible to see a community spring up around the space.

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Master Gardener Tiffany Christian presses on a soil bed during a clean up of West End Garden on April 3. Youth learned how to weed and plant seeds at the event.

“The main reason why I do this work is being able to form connections,” Williams said. “We say ‘grounded in abolition,’ but you can’t always be shouting theory to people. You got to actually do what you’re preaching.”

Providing food is an act of care that’s especially important for food-insecure people, Williams said. Located at 1741 Hovland Court in Evanston’s 5th ward, the garden is in a census tract where 2041 people — about 44% of the tract’s population — are low-income and

must travel at least a half-mile to access a supermarket, according to 2019 data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Of that 44%, nearly two-thirds are Black.

Everything grown in the garden is donated to residents, Williams said. Organizers partner with C&W Foundation, which provides free grocery pick-up for older adults. They also stock EFBL community fridges, providing free fresh produce in four locations across Evanston.

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Students criticize sexual health TND

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The Office of Student Transition Experiences is re-evaluating Wildcat Welcome amid student criticism of the True Northwestern Dialogue centered on sexual health programming.

Some students have expressed that the 30-minute YouTube video serving as the foundation of the sexual health TND lacks nuance. Director for Student Transition Experiences Josh McKenzie said the office plans to re-examine this programming, along with other aspects of Wildcat Welcome.

“Each year … we revisit the previous year’s programs and review what worked, what didn’t and what additionally needs to be considered for this upcoming population,” McKenzie said.

“Regardless of how well any one program did, tweaks are always planned.”

The video features students acting out a skit on Zoom, as they discuss sexual assault, health and wellness.

The skit features a student making jokes about the COVID-19 pandemic. Other students join him on the Zoom call and discuss various aspects of sexual wellness.

“Many of you might be thinking, it’s strange to be talking about sexual violence prevention during a global pandemic,’ ” the student says in the video.

“Maybe you can’t imagine being closer than six feet with your fellow Wildcats, much less being sexual with them in-person right now.”

The Office of Student Transition Experiences worked with NU’s Center for Awareness, Response and Education, Sexual Health and Assault Peer Educators and Masculinity, Allyship, Reflection, Solidarity to produce the TND video.

The “Student Body” TND is one of three orientation modules shown annually during the weeklong Wildcat Welcome orientation programming in September. Along with sexual health, TNDs cover diversity and inclusion and mental health.

To measure TND’s efficacy, students completed a survey at the end of Wildcat Welcome, McKenzie said, and about 95% of students successfully

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Members of the class of 2025 and transfers sit with their peer advisers during Wildcat Welcome. The Office for Student Transition Experiences will work with peer advisers to revise the sexual health True Northwestern Dialogue after student criticisms.

identified the five key components of consent.

But some students and peer advisers said the TND did not succeed in its stated goals. Medill freshman Erin Palmero called the TND “disgraceful.”

After watching the video, Palmero said her PA group’s discussion focused on critiquing the video’s structure.

“The video on Youtube, that could be really damaging,” Palmero said. “It was pretty disgusting to watch sexual assault … become a joke.”

During Medill junior Vaibhavi Hemasundar’s freshman year, the Student Body TND was performed as an in-person musical. Hemasundar said the presentation was “engaging” and led to important discussions.

To adapt to pandemic restrictions implemented in the months leading up September’s WIldcat Welcome, McKenzie said the office worked to decrease the large, indoor gatherings — which led to keeping the TNDs in mostly video format.

Hemasundar, who was a PA for the past two years, said the current issues surrounding the TND arose from the pandemic-related change in format to a Zoom-based skit. While the followup discussion was in-person this year, the skit was still shown as a video, rather than convening the

entire freshman class for a performance.

“Part of the reason that the reformatted TND was not received well was because it came across as not being taken seriously by administration,” Hemasundar said.

McKenzie said there will be additional spaces for this year’s PAs, many of whom were freshmen during Wildcat Welcome 2021, to share their feedback as the University navigates bringing the TND back to a fully in-person format.

“What we found from student feedback, such as the post-Wildcat Welcome surveys, was that change in format from in-person to virtual meant nuance of messaging and content was lost in delivery and was not received as it had been when in person,” McKenzie said.

Hemasundar said changing the TND back to an in-person space could alleviate some of the criticisms associated with the messaging.

Palmero said the virtual format of the TND was not conducive to learning.

“I think the TND should be run by PAs and should not be accompanied by a video,” Palmero said. “The video, as it is now, creates (a) conversation of critique.” nicolemarkus2025@u.northwestern.edu

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Van De Loo: Domestic abuse and accessibility obstacles JONATHAN VAN DE LOO

OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR

Content warning: This story contains mentions of physical, verbal and emotional abuse.

There were a lot of different ways I thought about writing this. If you told me I was going to be doing this six months ago, I probably wouldn’t have wanted to write it, much less post it anywhere.

While living at home during the first COVID-19 quarantine in 2020 and until the beginning of 2021, one of my family members became physically abusive. In the fallout from this experience, I have reflected greatly on what it means to receive support and accommodations from the University while going through emotionally traumatizing experiences.

When we first got the emails campus was shutting down and we would be sent home, I felt my stomach drop as I read it. Though at that time, physical abuse was not an aspect of my household, there were already dynamics at home that made me afraid and nervous about living there full time. I was determined, however, to make the best of the situation.

Dysfunction and behavioral issues are a part of every family, I said to myself. These are things people go through all the time.

Looking back on that time, the word dysfunction does not begin to cover what was going on at home. I’ve spent a lot of time in therapy unpacking the fact that abuse can still be abuse before it gets physical. It is still hard for me to grasp that what started out as aggressive but relatively harmless outbursts decades ago could become something dangerous and life-threatening. How was I supposed to call someone I grew up with a bad person? How could they be capable of hurting me?

I had a hard time learning to call what happened to me abuse because it was the only thing I knew. People I call loved ones continue to maintain very close personal relationships with this relative, a person whose interactions

with me began to frequently consist of physical threats, attempts to cause physical harm and the use of slurs.

This person called me slurs to my face and threatened to kill me while chasing me around the house where I grew up, banging on locked doors and windows, telling me that I “couldn’t hide forever.”

The behavior and moods had no schedule.

They didn’t account for anything anyone else did that day. For the person, the thought of compromise, of having to share a living space, meant having total control over everything.

At one point, this relative and friends of theirs had stolen enough of my things that I started to lock the door of my childhood bedroom from the outside whenever I had to leave my room for any reason, hoping they wouldn’t find another way to break in.

I remember seeing signs my relative was going to have another outburst during the start of Finals Week in Fall Quarter 2020. I put together an overnight bag and went to a relative’s house. What was supposed to be one day ended up being a week. I remember the growing fear of having to return home, mixed with the growing fear of not being able to finish finals, mixed with the anxiety over how much I should or shouldn’t tell my other relative about the situation at hand. At one point, I tried to bring things up with the person I was staying with, but the examples I gave did not phase him. He called them “stressful, but nothing too major.”

I was also unsure of what I should tell my professors, or if I should tell them anything at all. There were some weeks where the house was manageable, and I had a surprisingly great amount of time to get assignments done. During other weeks, being in my house wasn’t an option, and I had to find a way to leave and a place to stay last minute. Sometimes, there was no way to leave. The storm just had to be waited out.

I wish this was something professors, campus leaders of all kinds and my peers took into account everyday as they go about their days, make their syllabi and work on projects together. The pandemic has and continues to ask a lot of us. Even though being away from

home has been the best thing over all, many more complications come with navigating life, school, work, doctors and insurance, taxes and incredibly difficult family circumstances mostly alone.

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The media and the general public’s representations of abuse do nothing to capture the subtleties, the cycles and the manipulative nature of living with abusive family members.

- JONATHAN VAN DE LOO, Op-Ed Contributor People have a hard time conceptualizing what happens in abusive households. The media and the general public’s representations of abuse do nothing to capture the subtleties, the cycles and the manipulative nature of living with abusive family members. Media outlets reporting on domestic violence are quick to include intimate and specific details about the violence, yet do very little to explore the reasons the violence came about in the first place. As a culture, we demand that survivors of many types of violence disclose intimate details about what happened to them, leaving the court of public opinion to decide whether it was abuse without ever considering how the impacted person feels themselves. Look at any comment section, and you will see strangers’ opinions are often given more credibility and weight than a survivor’s own words.

Myself and others I know with similar experiences struggle when it comes to asking for help, since we ourselves are still processing and learning how to explain our own situations. I know from personal experience how frustrating it can be to have your story misrepresented. Having loved ones ignore, downplay

and lie about what has happened is part of my and many others’ experiences relating to domestic violence.

I have had many family members shy away from these conversations, expressing they “do not want to get into details” and not seeing what happened as abuse. One individual left me a voicemail telling me I had no integrity or character because of my decision to leave an abusive situation. With these experiences in mind, how do I even begin to approach this conversation with a professor, who is basically a stranger to me?

This quarter, I am taking a class for the first time in which the professor had a completely asynchronous way to earn class credit laid out in their syllabus. They include ways to complete the course completely in person, completely asynchronously and a few suggestions on how to mix both to best accommodate your needs for the quarter. The vast majority of students show up to class regularly.

When I read this syllabus, I was so touched by the level of care that was put into it. I immediately thought of how helpful it would be if more classes were like this, or even if a majority of classes were like this. Had I been taking classes structured this way at home, I would have been able to navigate my complicated personal circumstances and academics much more easily.

I encourage professors to learn how difficult family circumstances impact students’ academic experiences and to incorporate flexibility into their syllabi in a way that is appropriate and supportive of students’ needs. Navigating institutional systems takes time and makes it difficult for students to access helpful, tangible resources. There is a chance for you to step in here, and you have no idea how many lives you would be changing if you take it.

Jonathan Van De Loo is a Communication junior. Van De Loo can be contacted at jonathanvandeloo2023@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.

Porter: Discussing ASG’s “big issues” reveals big differences CHLOE PORTER

OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR

One of my earliest memories of life at Northwestern is from Halloween 2020. I was not on campus at this point — until September 2021, I had never set foot in the city of Evanston.

However, my Instagram timeline on that Saturday night gave me a glimpse at what my life on campus would look like.

Stories from Black and Brown upperclassmen revealed student protests against police brutality peppered with tear gas and brutal physical violence. At the same time, posts from my white classmates recapped Halloween costumes and drinking games held in apartments mere blocks away from the protests. My own guilt at not being able to support student protests was quickly overshadowed by anger at students who, despite being fully present, chose not to get involved.

Contrary to what Wildcat Welcome might lead incoming students to believe, there is no singular unifying NU experience. Diversity in class, race, gender, sexuality and so much more creates differences in the way one chooses to navigate the university. To me and thousands of students whose identities shape our perspectives in salient ways, these differences have never been a secret. However, last week’s Associated Student Government debate made the diversity of experiences at this University more visible than ever.

Last Tuesday, The Daily and Northwestern News Network co-hosted a debate for the president and vice president of Associated Student Government. I logged onto Instagram to watch the debate with the full expectation that I would be voting for Jason Hegelmeyer and Donovan Cusick. Their campaign began releasing its platform on April 11 with four campaign pillars centered around marginalized

students, COVID-19, campus life and the Black woman who receives financial aid and is upcoming University presidential transition. employed by the University, Wi-Fi is something Hegelmeyer and Cusick successfully gained the I think about, but it is certainly not one of my endorsements of several student organizations, greatest concerns. including For Members Only, Black MentorHowever, imagine a scenario where, in a ship Program and Alianza. terrible turn of events, my race and financial Hegelmeyer and Cusick’s opponents, David aid status were transformed — if I were a Grow and Camila white, cisgender, Vicens, released a heterosexual student platform centered paying for my tuition on improving menand room and board tal health services, out of pocket, what addressing late-night would my biggest If I were a white, cisgender, rideshare and campus issues be? Hegelmeyer’s work as FMO safety, promoting heterosexual student paying for senator would have accountability and fixmy tuition and room and board no impact on me; ing Wi-Fi on campus.

Despite their campaign out of pocket, what would my Cusick’s commitment to first genpillars being shorter biggest issues be? eration, low-income than Hegelmeyer and students would no Cusick’s, Grow and longer bear any Vicens addressed several of the “big issues” meaning.

Op-Ed Contributor that are important to If my identity was every student at NU. completely different, Although I voted the issues I face on for Hegelmeyer and NU’s campus would Cusick, I can admit that Grow and Vicens’s be too. This put Grow and Vicens’s campaign platform makes sense. I could not lie about into perspective: to students who are conthis if I wanted to; several students have seen nected to activist spaces, affinity groups and and heard me complain about Wi-Fi and long programs for FGLI students, Hegelmeyer and Cusick’s campaign addresses the big issues, Safe Ride wait times before. However, this is but, to everyone else, Wi-Fi and Safe Ride the beauty of Grow and Vicens’s campaign: are the big issues. For some students, generic all of their campaign promises are rooted in University-wide problems are the only probideas nobody dislikes. Almost every student, lems they face. regardless of identity, uses Wi-Fi, thinks As I shared on Twitter, Tuesday’s debates about their own mental health and values only affirmed my decision to vote for Hegelaccountability. This is a campaign strategy meyer and Cusick. I wish Grow and Vicens’ that, if executed properly, could have made campaign team — and the two candidates themtheir campaign difficult to attack. selves — the best. However, I cannot pretend During the debate, however, Grow and their campaign did not reveal what Black and Vicens made comments that weakened the Brown students have known all along. foundation of their policy platform and opened There is no single “NU experience.” There is it up to scrutiny. Vicens frequently stated that only a purple-tipped iceberg hiding a plethora of their campaign is attacking the “big issues.” problems for Black, Brown, APIDA, LGBTQ+ At first, this comment made me laugh. As a

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- CHLOE PORTER,

and international students under the surface.

Chloe Porter is a Weinberg sophomore. She can be contacted at chloeporter2024@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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Theme Park group wins ride design competition

By ALEXA CROWDER

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McCormick sophomore Jasmin Ali-Diaz spent April 9 running back and forth between two rooms in the Ford Center. She and her teams were virtually presenting their theme park ride designs in two separate national competitions: the University of Florida’s Swamp Thrills and Iowa State University’s Ride Engineering Competition.

Ali-Diaz is a co-president of Northwestern’s Theme Park Engineering and Design Group, a student organization founded in 2020 that offers theme park enthusiasts an introduction to the industry. The club meets throughout the year to prepare for competitions and other projects. This month, it won first place in Swamp Thrills, a national amusement ride design

competition that focuses on the conceptual and artistic aspects of themed entertainment.

This year’s theme was time travel, and TPED’s entry was a robotic arm simulation ride called “Rewind.”

In “Rewind,” hypothetical riders board a robotic arm fixed to a track. Set in the future, the ride represents a cheap time travel machine — but this technology soon malfunctions and sends riders to unexpectedly face disastrous moments in history.

“For these kinds of competitions, it’s not (about) building something physical. It’s trying to see how creative your idea is, how feasible it is,” said McCormick senior Nigel Nicholas Chew, a co-founder of TPED. “We come up with the story, the concept art, the ride vehicle, the schematics, the layout of the attraction and those kinds of things.”

ISU’s Ride Engineering Competition has many engineering-based requirements like dimensions, ride type, continuous operation

time and acceleration force. Teams are judged based on their systems engineering report, functional model and final live presentation.

TPED built a swinging pendulum ride called “Monsoon Mayhem” for the competition.

Riders would board a claw-shaped attraction that swings them back and forth at increasing heights. Although the team did not place, its model succeeded in running for the required eight hours during the competition day.

McCormick sophomore Maia Traub, TPED’s competitions and external events chair, said this competition was the club’s first in-person project since its founding during the pandemic.

“In terms of learning hard skills and being able to present something physical, this is the first project we’ve done, which I really enjoyed,” Traub said.

Despite pandemic restrictions, TPED was still able to complete major projects over the past two years. For example, the club partnered

with Shedd Aquarium in 2021 to redesign its outdoor garden spaces.

Several members of TPED, including AliDiaz and Chew, said they hope to join the theme park industry in the future. The club hopes to continue growing and expand its presence on campus, Ali-Diaz said.

The club is working toward Associated Student Government recognition to gain funding, and its next big projects at NU include building a themed sensory space on Dillo Day and a haunted house in the fall.

“I’m from Orlando, Florida, so I definitely frequent theme parks, and the theme park industry is where I want to take my career after college,” Ali-Diaz said. “(The club) is such a great opportunity, not just for the love of theme parks, but also (because) the people in TPED are really amazing.”

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people can…write off the value of the materials that we get,” Bennett said. “Some of these homes could be adding up to tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars of stuff.”

The materials sold in store are sourced from donations or deconstruction projects completed by members of the warehouse’s transitional employment program.

The warehouse offers two programs that aim to remove barriers to employment for participants: a pre-apprenticeship program and transitional employment program. The five-month transitional employment program is an on-site initiative that teaches participants the skills necessary to enter the construction industry. The pre-apprenticeship program lasts for six to eight weeks and prepares trainees to take entrance exams for apprenticeships in trades groups.

Director of Workforce Training and Deconstruction Anne Nicklin estimates around 40% of participants in the transitional employment program were formerly incarcerated.

“We want to make sure we get those barriers removed, make sure that we get the supportive services in place,” Nicklin said. “So that they get into a job, and they’ve got their gas figured out. They’ve got their childcare figured out. They’ve got everything ready to go because they’ve practiced it.”

The transitional employment program connects participants with local employers, which allows them to support themselves and their families.

The program has a job placement rate of over 80%, Nicklin said.

However, the individuals themselves are the basis of their success, Nicklin said.

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they don’t realize they can do this.”

Second-year business graduate student Kate Sanner ran a booth for Beni, a web extension for secondhand clothing options. After struggling to thrift clothing she liked, Sanner said she joined Beni to help fill a gap in the sustainable fashion industry.

The extension allows users to shop directly on their favorite retailers’ websites, but provides a list of alternative secondhand options related to the new items the customer selects. Users can then see similar clothing items on online thrift platforms.

Sanner said before recycling material, the most sustainable practice is to use an item for as long as possible.

“We want to make sure that as many people can use an item while it’s still in good condition, and resale is really the way to do that,” Sanner said. “But we want to make it easy.”

Vivek Doshi, board president and assistant executive director of the Chicago Tool Library, also ran a

“We give them training, we connect them to employers, but we’re not creating anything that’s not there,” Nicklin said. “At the end of the day, they’re the ones who are going out there, and we don’t have any golden tickets.”

In March 2021, the warehouse merged with the Rebuilding Exchange in Chicago, which offers a similar warehouse-based workforce training program and also sells materials reclaimed from deconstruction.

Shannon Toupin said she came to the warehouse’s retail location from Fort Wayne, Indiana with her husband to find reclaimed materials for their new home. They want the house to look like it’s always been there, Toupin said, and she finds reusing is a way to stay sustainable while achieving a unique style in her home.

“There’s so many different styles you can find all in one spot,” Toupin said. “When you go to a big box store, it’s just all the same things.”

The warehouse also hosts workshops where participants can repurpose reclaimed materials into items such as cold frames for gardening from windows or vases from cypress wood. An on-going educational series of hands-on workshops aims to teach participants how to reuse materials themselves, craft things from wood and make their own repairs.

Nicklin said community-building is central to the nonprofit’s mission.

“We are here to build opportunities for the community to get connected to the materials, to get connected to the building industry and to find opportunity,” Nicklin said.

elenahubert2025@u.northwestern.edu booth. The community-based organization runs a pay-what-you-can membership program and loans tools out to members for a week at a time.

Apart from classic tools, the library also provides cooking appliances and camping gear, Doshi said.

“We think that everyone should have access to the ability to determine the space around them,” Doshi said. “That involves offering tools and expertise.”

Even though individual effort is important in sustainability initiatives, Cahillane said she recognizes corporations need to make bigger changes. On campus, sustainNU is working to reduce operational energy consumption, and NU is engaging in global climate research efforts, she said.

However, she said thinking about small changes is a good place to start.

“If you do it and everyone else in your residence or your apartment building or your town or your country starts to do it, then that becomes the same as a corporation,” Cahillane said. “It’s a collective, expanding effort when we all do our part.” joannahou2025@u.northwestern.edu

to weekly meetings if they want to connect more with people inside the organization,” Rashid said.

Currently, PSA is looking to add members to its executive board. All members of the current executive board are founding members of the group.

Executive positions in PSA, as well as

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wall-day event.

About 50 students attended the morning workshops, and between 200 and 300 came to an afternoon panel with city politicians about local environmental policy. Members of student groups like E-Town Sunrise, Students Organized Against Racism and the Emerge Leadership Program organized the conference.

Keynote speaker Josee Starr, the director of operations at the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian, gave a short speech about nature rights laws, which allowed the White Earth Band of Ojibwe to file a claim on behalf of nature in a tribal court.

“We have attorneys, advocates and guardians who are protecting nature,” Starr said. “As destructive as humans are, we have the same power to fix this because for the first time in our human history, nature is fighting back, and we are helping.”

School of Education and Social Policy Prof.

Matt Easterday, a faculty mentor for progressive grassroots group Indivisible Northwestern, spoke afterward about building up systems for sustainable activism.

After the keynote speakers, students selected two workshops from six options on topics like environmental racism or art and expression in the climate crisis.

During a workshop Ebels-Duggan led about local environmental justice, participants wrote testimonies about their experiences with climate change.

“It’s encouraging to see how concerned students are, but also how aware they are of the real problems, and how nuanced their testimonials were,” Ebels-Duggan said.

Some testimonials will be read at the next City Council meeting, they said. Councilmembers will vote Monday on the Climate Emergency Resolution, which would declare a climate emergency and start a mobilization effort.

After lunch, students filed into the Upstairs Theater for a panel with Mayor Daniel Biss, Evanston Sustainability and Resilience Coordinator Cara Pratt and four councilmembers to discuss the city’s commitment to the Climate Action and Resilience Plan. CARP aims to bring city operations to net-zero emissions by 2050

general involvement in the group, is not limited to just undergraduates, Malik said.

“I hope that we are able to project how much we want this to be an open space for literally everyone and anyone,” Malik said. “We want it to be a space for graduate students, undergraduate students and people who miss home to be able to do the things they’d be doing at home.” pavanacharya2025@u.northwestern.edu

and prioritize sustainable infrastructure for vulnerable communities.

Members of Emerge coordinated the panel.

Emerge Facilitators Hannah Finkelstein and Caroline Klearman said they wanted students to be involved in bigger-picture advocacy around climate change beyond their own choices.

“Kids can only change their individual actions,” Klearman said. “For climate change to slow down, what needs to happen is more government action.”

Emerge moderators and audience members pressed the panel of city politicians and officials about government failures to meet CARP goals, fund reallocations to CARP, ways to develop incentives for sustainable action for residents and what it means to treat the climate crisis as an active emergency.

“The tone of this conversation was the tone that I appreciate and agree with. It’s kind of, ‘Y’all haven’t done as much as we want you to have done,’” Biss said at the panel. “(But) there’s this giant list of things. They’re sort of all in process. We wish they were all a little bit further ahead, but they are moving.”

Lily Aaron, one of the conference organizers and the hub coordinator for E-Town Sunrise, asked why none of the councilmembers currently sit on the city’s Environment Board.

“We should move to make that happen,” Ald. Clare Kelly (1st) said in response.

She and Ald. Bobby Burns (5th) both said they would be willing to sit on the board, while Ald. Jonathan Nieuwsma (4th) said he would consider doing so but was overscheduled.

At the end of the event, organizers passed out fliers to attendees promoting action steps like contacting an alderperson about the Climate Emergency Resolution and attending E-Town Sunrise’s Earth Day Walkout on Friday.

Ultimately, Ebels-Duggan said they want to see the conference grow into a larger annual event.

“My first takeaway is I want to do this again,” Ebels-Duggan said. “The conference this year set a really good basis for what this could be in years to come. It could be just a really, really incredible opportunity for ETHS students to learn and engage with the climate crisis.” avivabechky2025@u.northwestern.edu

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Local leaders reflect on Evanston’s reparations effort

By AVANI KALRA

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More than a year after City Council approved the Restorative Housing Program, some local leaders who disapproved of the original plan still say housing grants do not constitute full reparations.

On March 22, 2021, City Council passed the program, which was the first step of a larger reparations plan that aims to repair decades of institutional harm toward Black Evanston residents. The plan was criticized by many, including former Ald. Cicely Fleming (9th), who was the sole councilmember to vote against the measure. In a statement after the vote, she said the program was “a housing plan dressed up as reparations.”

The plan for the housing program allocated $25,000 to 16 residents each, which they can spend on home improvement assistance, mortgage assistance or a home purchase. Black residents who lived in Evanston or had parents who lived in the city from 1919 to 1969 qualify for the program.

At the April 7 Reparations Committee meeting, committee members announced all of the 16 residents had decided how to use their money after one-on-one meetings with city officials.

“Go back to the people,” Fleming said in a March statement. “We need to hear from the community (for more than just one night) and allow Black Evanstonians to tell us what they want. Don’t make them come to us.”

Fleming emphasized that input from Black residents is essential in a reparations plan. She said the program is paternalistic in the way it tells Black residents what they need and how they will receive it. She added that it was rushed to a vote and neglected to respect the self-determination of Black people.

As of April 6, Evanston has verified 146 qualifying residents. The city needs to follow up with 56 more residents who may qualify for the program but have not presented all of the required documents, said Tasheik Kerr, the assistant to the city manager.

Sebastian Nalls, a 21-year-old Purdue University student who ran for Evanston Mayor, has lived in Evanston since he was 1 year old. He said the measure lacked input from Black Evanston residents.

In winter 2020, Nalls began the online group “Evanston Rejects Racist Reparations” along with other residents including former Evanston community service

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A year after the passage of the Restorative Housing Program, some local leaders still say housing grants do not constitute full reparations.

manager Kevin Brown and Cannon Fine Arts founder Rose Cannon. The group aimed to push councilmembers to vote against the housing program or delay the vote until a new City Council took to the dais in 2021.

“What our job needs to be now is to conduct thorough research and have community participation and community input from those that lived during that time period (1919 to 1969) and those who are descendants of those individuals,” Nalls said.

The city should then reach out to those people to see what repair looks like to them, what would help most, and what would give them the most economic freedom, Nalls said.

Nalls said cash grants would be a better form of reparations in Evanston because Black Evanston residents should be able to choose a destination for their reparation funds.

“I firmly believe that it’s not up to me to decide what repair is for someone else,” he said. “Especially when it comes to cash payments, saying ‘oh, you can use this money to fix your house, but you can’t use

this money to fix your business’ – to me, that seems really antithetical.”

Other Evanston residents, including Evanston Live TV co-host Meleika Gardner, have advocated for direct cash payments.

Gardner said housing assistance, such as the grants offered through Evanston’s program, should be available everywhere, instead of constituting a program specifically intended to repair harm to Black residents.

She said the measure was more of a political choice for councilmembers to use toward their reelection campaigns rather than a conscious attempt at reparations.

“Getting new windows should not represent all of the pain (of Black people),” she told The Daily this month. “I don’t understand who at the city told the Reparations Committee it had to be about housing because there’s no other way to prove that a Black person has experienced racism or discrimination.”

Though Gardner thinks the program will make some positive improvements for homeowners in

Evanston, she does not think those changes serve as sufficient reparations. She said the program is hurtful since it forces Black Evanston residents into accepting housing repairs, and it demands Black residents provide excessive documentation of harm in exchange for minimal repair.

In a Reparations Committee meeting on April 7, Ald. Peter Braithwaite (2nd) responded to criticisms of the program and clarified this initiative is just the beginning of Evanston’s reparations initiative.

“This is just a reminder to everyone that we are in our infancy stage, and we are limited by our budget” Braithwaite said at the meeting. “Throughout this past year, our direction and focus has been in this program. What we’re doing here is so much bigger than a $25,000 grant, as we’re in this first stage, and I’m looking forward to hearing more about that.”

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Northwestern crew took home the Illinois state rowing championship Saturday for the first time since the Illinois Collegiate Rowing Invitational’s inception in 2012.

The team won six events on Saturday, placed second in three events and placed fourth in two others.

The Illinois College Rowing Invitational was NU’s second race of the spring season.

Weinberg junior Andrew Katchmar, who competes in the Men’s Novice 8+, said the race was a strong rebound after their previous regatta, the Lubbers Cup. “(The Lubbers Cup) was my personal first race ever and the first race of the spring season for the rest of our boat,” Katchmar said. “It was disappointing that our performance was somewhat lackluster to what we had hoped for. We had some hiccups, but I think it definitely motivated all of us to not let those mistakes happen again.”

Crew team President and Communication senior Sarah Pickles said the team also dealt with some unique challenges.

The regatta did not use stake boats, which allow the teams to line up all together and start from the same position.

Instead, some of the boats started a full length behind the other boats in the race, leaving them with an uphill battle to start.

After the team won at the ICRI, Pickles said the team’s morale is high. Despite the tougher and larger fields at the remaining regattas this season, Pickles said the win in this race is motivating for the challenges ahead.

“It’s motivating going into it being like, this was a really good race,” Pickles said.

“Let’s not lose speed. Let’s keep forging ahead, keep on improving, keep on getting faster.”

Despite competing in different events and different boats, Weinberg senior Elaine Botros, coxswain for the Men’s Varsity 8+, said there’s a lot of collaboration between the different varsity boats, as well as between the varsity and novice boats.

“There’s so much mentorship that goes on,” Botros said. “Many people who join crew have never rowed before. There’s a lot of literal education. The seniors on the team will give the freshmen advice about either their rowing, talk about a race together, give each other tips on nutrition and how to tape up their hands for blisters.”

A lot of that collaboration comes during winter training, according to Botros.

She credited their strong offseason as a big reason for their early spring success.

The crew team works out six days a week, even in the winter season, Botros said, and those physical sessions help the team stay in shape to win races in the spring.

For members like Katchmar who joined during or just prior to the pandemic, the spring and fall seasons this year were their first opportunity to race.

But for seniors like Botros and Pickles, this season was an opportunity to return to their favorite sport, and Botros said her appreciation for the team and the ability to be out on the water is so much higher.

“Compared to freshman year, I appreciate being able to race so much more,” Botros said. “Spring season is my absolute favorite part of rowing. The races are shorter, they’re faster, they’re more intense.

For my senior season to be going this well with our team is so great.”

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Wildcats take down Saint Louis NU struggles in singles

against No. 14 Harvard

By AAYUSHYA AGARWAL

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By NATHAN ANSELL

A disappointing weekend for Northwestern (16-16, 4-5 Big Ten) would be an understatement. The Wildcats dropped all three games in an away weekend series against Illinois, halting the momentum sparked in the games prior. Entering the weekend slate, NU had won 13 of its last 16 contests. The series against the Fighting Illini was the Cats’ second against Big Ten competition.

The weekend started off promising, as sophomore infielder Jay Beshears hit a go-ahead grand slam in the top of the ninth, to turn a 5-2 deficit into a 6-5 lead.

But unfortunately for NU, costly errors and timely hits caused the game to quickly slip away, and the Illini walked it off to take the first game of the series.

Sparked by a dramatic walk off the day prior, Illinois led from the onset of the second game, snagging a 3-0 advantage after the first inning. In the third, the Cats scrapped two runs but immediately gave them back in the bottom half of the inning. NU’s attempt of triggering a comeback in the 7th after junior catcher/first baseman Stephen Hrustich went deep was ultimately in vain. Illinois answered with three more runs in the bottom half of the inning.

The Cats conceded three more runs in the final two frames, ultimately losing the second game 11-6.

While already dropping the series, Sunday’s game offered NU a chance for a consolation prize. However, the Cats’ bats went cold, generating just three hits on zero runs, ultimately falling 3-0.

The pitching was a bright spot, however. After two higher scoring games, NU’s relievers combined for four scoreless innings. Sophomore middle infielder Vincent Bianchina’s performance was another silver lining over the weekend,

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hitting .385 and accumulating 5 hits in the three game set.

Led by an impressive 8-1 home record, the Cats hoped they could put the weekend’s results behind them and continue their high level of play at home.

NU welcomed Saint Louis (15-17) for a lone Tuesday matinee matchup to begin a five-game homestand.

The Cats wasted no time getting back on the right page. NU quickly jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the second, when sophomore middle infielder Tony Livermore hit a clutch, two-out, two-run single. In the next bottom half inning, the Cats took advantage of the Billikens’ inability to find the strike zone by drawing four walks, which led to three more runs.

In the bottom of the fourth, NU began using the long ball to further extend its lead to 8-1. Staying consistent with his performance this past weekend, Hrustich hit another homer, this time a three-run shot, which followed back-toback singles.

Saint Louis ended the game scoring four unanswered runs two-a-piece in the fifth and the eighth, but the Cats’ relievers steadied the comeback attempt for a 8-5 victory.

NU now turns their sights to a home three game series against Michigan State (13-19, 1-7 Big Ten) with hopes of playing at the level of Tuesday’s performance. aayushyaagarwal2024@u.northwestern.edu

After its match against No. 14 Harvard was postponed in February, Northwestern waited two months to face the Ivy League-leading team.

Separated by just one ranking spot at the original date, the Crimson showed why there was a 14-spot gulf between the two on Wednesday.

The Wildcats (16-9, 4-3 Big Ten) had the uphill task of facing Harvard (16-4, 5-0 Ivy League) in Cambridge, Mass., where the Crimson haven’t lost in three years. This was the 18th clash between the teams, a series NU leads 10-8.

Senior Trice Pickens and junior Natan Spear got the Cats halfway to the doubles point, posting a 6-4 victory.

“We were in pretty much every single one of their service games, from a trend standpoint,” coach Arvid Swan said. “It was continuous pressure on each of their opponent’s serves that allowed us to get the win.”

Harvard tied the score with a 6-2 win on court two, putting all eyes on the remaining court. Senior Steven Forman and freshman Felix Nordby faced off with the No. 34 duo of Brian Shi and Daniel Milavsky.

Forman and Nordby broke early, but Shi and Milavsky broke back at 4-4. Unfazed, NU’s last pairing took the next two games for the match’s opening point.

“We served well, only got broken once,” Forman said. “We were able to return well enough to get a couple of breaks.”

Singles, on the other hand, was an arduous task. No. 63 Harris Walker

grabbed a straight-sets win to tie the overall score, and Nordby lost his showdown shortly after. The Cats had lost all of their momentum.

Sophomore Presley Thieneman was the only NU player to win his first set.

“It put pressure on us to win three of the remaining four,” Swan said.

“Credit Harvard, I thought they played very well on those two spots.”

Graduate student Brian Berdusco, who was broken multiple times as singles started, dominated his second set 6-1. No. 39 Forman lost his first set to No. 31 Henry von der Schulenberg by narrow margins, but he managed to force a third set as well.

Forman credited minor adjustments for getting him back into his singles contest.

“I was able to convert, get some balls back and make him play a few more shots,” Forman said. “That led to a couple breaks.”

But the Crimson took over from that point. No. 124 Pickens was broken late for the second set in a row against No. 64 Shi, and Berdusco lost the match on his own serve.

The Cats will play the remainder of their regular season schedule at home. NU will play host to Purdue (9-12, 2-5 Big Ten) on Saturday before welcoming Indiana (5-15, 0-7 Big Ten) on Sunday for Senior Day. Swan said that he has enjoyed coaching an “outstanding group of young men” this season.

“They’ve made a lot of progress in their games while at NU,” Swan said.

“And they’re great people off the court, so it’s important to recognize all they’ve done for the program.” nathanansell2022@u.northwestern.edu