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Administrator response was inadequate

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Admin condemn racist incidents Email sent to students follows ASG resolution

By CAMERON COOK

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Vince Staples performs at A&O Ball. The rapper, who was voted the top choice for the event, performed for a full house.

» See BALL, page 3

Patricia Telles-Irvin, the University’s vice president for student affairs, condemned recent incidents that she said “involve repugnant symbols of hate and intolerance” in an email to students Friday morning.

The email comes just days after Associated Student Government passed an emergency resolution calling on the University to publicly denounce the incidents and acknowledge its “failure to adequately address them, as well as its failure to support Black students.”

The message from TellesIrvin, also posted as an unsigned statement on the Northwestern website, stops short of admitting insufficient action, but says it takes seriously “concerns that more must

be done to make all members of this community feel safe and informed.” It also said administrators take “pride” in the response from community members.

The discovery of a rope fashioned into a noose found at Henry Crown Sports Pavilion last month and the discovery of a sticker sporting the white supremacist slogan “It’s okay to be white” in Allison Dining Hall earlier this month are being investigated by University Police.

A student reported that she left a rope she was using for a class project in the sports complex, Telles-Irvin said, adding that a still unknown person fashioned it into a noose.

Police have reviewed surveillance footage in both buildings, Telles-Irvin wrote, but have not yet found any evidence of perpetrators.

Police have been “unable to corroborate the reports made through social media” of the presence of the “It’s okay to be white” sticker, she added, but searched the campus and found no other stickers. » See EMAIL, page 6

Another white supremacist sticker discovered on campus Sticker is second to be found on Evanston campus this month, after students expressed safety concerns

By ALAN PEREZ

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A student reported finding another “IT’S OKAY TO BE WHITE” sticker late Saturday night, the second to be found on the Evanston campus this month.

Weinberg senior Samuel

Webber said he found the sticker, which has ties to neoNazi and white supremacist groups, on the middle stall of the men’s bathroom near Main Library’s Information Commons area, located at the entrance of the building.

The finding comes after some students have expressed concern that two other racist incidents in the past two

months have made the campus feel less safe.

The posting of the slogan on college campuses and public spaces originates from the online forum 4chan as a trolling campaign to provoke a response, especially from liberals and the media, according to the Anti-Defamation League. The goal is that an “overreaction” to this seemingly

harmless phrase would reveal hypocrisy from the left.

But the phrase is historically tied to white supremacist movement, dating back to at least 2001. Neo-Nazi and white nationalist groups often participate in circulating the phrase.

Webber noted that he found the sticker on the same date Adolf Hitler was born, a day on which

many hate crimes are reported.

Webber said he reported the incident to University Police after finding the sticker just after 6 p.m. He said police searched the building for more stickers, though he was unsure whether they found more.

Contacted late Saturday night, a UP receptionist declined to comment, referring The Daily to Northwestern’s

media relations office.

Some students have criticized the University for being slow to react to recent racist incidents, calling for more transparency and a stronger response. After the Associated Student Government demanded the University acknowledge its “failure,” » See STICKER, page 6

ASG candidates Climate change increases risk to lake win uncontested Environmental harm to the area could be worsened, experts say Izzy Dobbel, Adam Davies win 3/4 of vote

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SESP juniors Izzy Dobbel and Adam Davies won the uncontested election for Associated Student Government president and executive vice president Friday.

The pair garnered about 75 percent of the vote, election commissioner Margot Bartol told The Daily.

Approximately 25 percent of voters voted no confidence, about 2 percentage points more than in the last uncontested presidential election

two years ago.

Bartol said 852 students voted this year, the lowest voter turnout in at least 10 years. This year’s turnout was a decrease from 2017’s uncontested election in which only 894 students voted, and significantly less than last year’s contested election, in which 2,272 votes were cast.

“I didn’t vote because I don’t know what ASG is exactly doing and I don’t feel comfortable voting for something that I don’t really know,” said Weinberg freshman David Sten. “To be honest, I didn’t even know elections were going on.”

Davies attributed the lack of turnout at least partially » See ELECTION, page 6

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Lake Michigan is experiencing negative environmental harm that could worsen with climate change, according to scientists.

In a recent report by the Environmental Law and Policy Center, a team of 18 scientists and experts outlined the negative environmental effects caused by climate change in the entire Great Lakes region. Issues of invasive species and extreme weather events pose particular threats to Lake Michigan and the Chicago area.

Lake Michigan serves both recreational and economic needs » See LAKE, page 6

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Lake Michigan. Both extreme weather events and invasive species pose a risk to Lake Michigan and the surrounding Chicago area.

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MONDAY, APRIL 22, 2019

AROUND TOWN

Evanston council to consider 2018 budget increase

By JULIA ESPARZA

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Aldermen will discuss amendments to the 2018 budget to account for overspending and will consider changes to the city code during Monday’s Council meeting.

Budget adjustments are needed for 11 city funds whose actual expenses were higher than their budgeted amounts, according to city documents. The funds with the largest proposed adjustments are the Debt Service Fund, Crown Construction Fund and the Insurance Fund.

City staff has recommended that Council increase the Debt Service fund to $21.8 million.

The $7.5 million increase is due to the refunding of a number of bonds in the city’s bond issue.

This increase is offset by $7.6 million in revenue from the fund, according to city documents.

In 2018, the Crown Construction Fund had expenses over budget of $1.46 million according to city documents. Aldermen will discuss a $2.5 million increase to account for construction costs.

This modification is necessary because “the construction schedule for the project was still in progress” when the 2018 budget was created, according to city documents. The Robert Crown Center has recently attracted attention from residents who believe the cost of the development has risen too much.

“The Crown Construction Fund received

POLICE BLOTTER Man charged with possession of a controlled substance A 27-year-old Evanston man was arrested and charged with possession of a controlled substance Thursday evening.

At 6:40 p.m. Thursday, Evanston Police Department officers and paramedics responded

$27,062,051 in revenue in 2018 to fund the project, primarily through the 2018A bond issue,” according to city documents. “These bonds will continue to be spent down as the project continues in 2019.”

The amendment also calls for a$4.7 million increase to the Insurance Fund. This increase is necessitated by $4 million dollars spent on legal services and higher-than-budgeted spending on health insurance premiums.

Aldermen will discuss the total budget amendment of $18.6 million during Monday’s meeting.

Aldermen to discuss trash collection ordinance

A proposed ordinance would modify the language of the City Code to “make it clear that property owners are responsible to clear snow and ice around trash receptacles so that the trash can be properly and safely collected,” according to city documents.

Council members first considered these changes to the code at a Feb. 18 Council meeting. City staff proposed these language clarifications following this winter’s storms — including the polar vortex — and acknowledged the “challenges and operational issues impacting trash collections,” during these extreme weather conditions.

“Last winter many businesses did not clear snow around their trash receptacles making it impossible for the trash to be collected,” city to a man unconscious in the bathroom of the train at the Central Street Metra station, EPD communications coordinator Perry Polinski said.

A subsequent investigation determined the man had overdosed and he was transported by fire ambulance to the hospital.

Polinski said a search of the man revealed a couple of bags of a white, powdery substance in his pockets, suspected to be heroin. After he was

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City manager Wally Bobkiewicz. Councilmen will discuss budget amendments at Monday’s City Council meeting.

documents read. “As a result, there were numerous sites where trash was overflowing the receptacles causing a potential health issue.”

These modifications are meant to “improve the safety for the general public and improve

services,” according to city documents.

Council will consider these and other policies during Monday’s meeting.

medically discharged, the man was transported to the police station and charged with possession of a controlled substance.

140 Chicago Ave. The resident reported that the man was wearing a hooded sweatshirt and blue Nike gym shoes, according to Polinski. Polinski said both Evanston and Chicago were officers deployed to the area, but they could not find the person in question.

Man with gun reported at Chicago Avenue gas station

At 10:20 p.m. Thursday, the Chicago Police Department notified EPD that a resident reported a man with a gun at a gas station at

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MONDAY, APRIL 22, 2019

ON CAMPUS

Vince Staples take stage at A&O Ball

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Mounting a stage lit with LED lights, rapper Vince Staples performed at A&O Ball 2019 to a venue full of screaming audience members Friday night.

Staples was the winner of a poll A&O Productions sent to Northwestern students asking what musicians they wanted to see perform at Ball this year. Over half of the respondents requested the artist headline the show at Metro Chicago theater. The California-based rapper has been releasing music since 2011, and his three full length albums — “Summertime ‘06,” “Big Fish Theory,” and “FM!,” — all received critical acclaim and appeared on numerous year-end lists of best albums.

A&O co-chair Isabella Soto told The Daily the concert sold out, and interest was so high that when A&O put unclaimed tickets back on sale, all of them were taken. Soto said it was a big accomplishment to get the most requested artist on the poll, and A&O was excited to have that opportunity.

“It’s pretty rare that we get to bring the artist that tops the poll, so that felt especially good, to be able to have someone who students really wanted to see,” Soto said.

During Staples’ hourlong set, the rapper performed in front of a live feed of himself and the audience, and used disco and strobe lights for a visually dynamic performance. The rapper encouraged audience participation several times; near the beginning of his set, he told the audience to “give it up” for the opening act, and during one song instructed everyone to clap with their hands in the air, resulting in a full minute of nearly every person in the theater clapping along to the beat.

After Staples’ set, the show concluded with footage of late rapper Mac Miller performing as a tribute to him. Staples was friends with Miller, who died last year, and the two collaborated on a mixtape, “Stolen Youth,” in 2013.

Atlanta-based artist Kodie Shane performed the opening set. A 20-year old rapper, Shane released her

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debut song “Sad,” in 2016, and in 2018 released her first full-length album, “Young HeartThrob.” Soto told the Daily a lot of A&O members were fans of Shane and were excited to have her perform.

“Getting to support a Black, LGBTQ+ identifying woman artist is something we were thrilled to be able to do with the lineup,” Soto said.

During her hourlong set, Shane improvised many times, such as calling out to audience members who were just arriving and holding hands with a fan during one song. Near the end of her set, she stopped shortly after beginning a song and told the audience they needed to take out their phones, turn on the flashlight and wave them in the air. She then called out people on the balcony level of the theater for not doing it, saying they weren’t “special” and that she wanted everyone to join in.

When the song was over, she said this audience might be her favorite ever, because no audience before had kept waving their phones for the entire song.

“A lot of you didn’t know who the f--k I was when I walked on stage,” Shane said. “But this turned out to be so much fun.”

Earlier in her set, Shane handed out red flowers to audience members in the front row during two of her songs. McCormick first-year Mathias Reweta was one of the audience members who received a flower from Shane, though he told The Daily it got trampled by the dancing audience members during the show.

Reweta said he was a fan of Staples before the show, and even though he didn’t know Shane’s music, he was going to start listening to her because he was so impressed by her set. Reweta said the show approached the quality of concerts he had paid to attend.

“It was amazing,” Reweta said. “I cannot believe I came here for free.” wilsonchapman2021@u.northwestern.edu

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Monday, April 22, 2019

EDITORIAL

University response to racist incidents was inadequate In the past few weeks, our student body has seen three racist incidents on campus. On March 15, a rope fashioned into a noose was found in a common area in Henry Crown Sports Pavilion. On April 6, a sticker with the slogan “IT’S OKAY TO BE WHITE” was discovered in Allison dining hall, and another was found in Main Library on April 20.

These racist occurrences prompted a rapid student response, including a petition backed

by Associated Student Government — which called for immediate University denouncement of the acts — and social media posts condemning the presence of racism on campus.

The noose and stickers are unquestionably concerning. While the rope was not initially left in Henry Crown in the form of a noose, someone later found it and decided to fashion it into one, according to a University statement. Also, the “IT’S OKAY TO BE WHITE” slogan comes directly from white supremacist groups. In 2017, the slogan appeared on the online platform 4chan as a means of provoking social unrest and promoting a white nationalist perspective.

Both incidents are inherently racist and anti-black, and do not belong on our campus.

Pretending otherwise undermines the perspectives of marginalized people, black students in particular, and the way in which the slogan can make such groups feel attacked

and unsafe.

Considering the urgency of the incidents, Northwestern’s response has been extremely disappointing. At first, administration was slow to send out any statement regarding the rope and stickers: students and families were forced to get their information through word-of-mouth and social media, rather than University administrators. Following the incidents, NU provided two statements to The Daily, and we included quotes from them in our coverage. However, these releases were only accessible to The Daily, even though they contained information relevant to our entire community, and should have been made public in full. Additionally, there was no direct response from the administration that addressed the whole student body.

In not immediately addressing the incidents, administrators alienated Northwestern’s marginalized groups. People who felt unsafe due to these events were systematically ignored, and growing public concern over the overt presence of racism on campus went unaddressed. Given the absence of a widespread, public response from the University, students were left to wonder whether administrators were taking action, or even cared about their concerns at all.

Patricia Telles-Irvin, the vice president for student affairs, sent an email to the Northwestern community condemning the acts — five weeks after the noose appeared

in Henry Crown, and nearly two weeks after the sticker appeared in Allison.

“Acts of hate, whether premeditated or not, will not go unchallenged at Northwestern University. Those who choose to be a part of the Northwestern community are expected to abide by a code of conduct that does not tolerate such acts,” the email read.

Despite this attempt to quell fears, such an email should have come much earlier — it came only after ASG passed the emergency resolution. In the gap between the incidents and the email, students — particularly black students — were forced to petition and call attention to things that should have already been a top priority for administrators.

The resulting email did not include an apology for the anxiety administrators caused students by failing to respond in a timely manner. It did not recognize the petition, or the labor of marginalized communities to call attention to the events. Instead, it was a cursory acknowledgment of the racism that occurs on campus — a hasty response created only in hopes of quieting numerous critics.

Telles-Irvin’s email linked to a webpage which included two unsigned statements previously provided to The Daily, claiming the statements were issued “immediately” following the discovery of the noose and sticker. It was not up front, however, about the fact that these statements were initially provided only to The Daily — and that they

were not directly accessible to students until the Friday morning email. This discrepancy undermines the transparency a university should always strive to achieve. While our news coverage did quote these statements, the Northwestern community deserved to be able to read the full statements after their release.

Racist incidents are not going away. A student found another sticker in Main Library the day after Telles-Irvin’s email, and said contacting officials and University Police was difficult. This is why it is so crucial that administrators listen to student concerns surrounding transparency and response time. They need to create a public plan to quickly acknowledge and denounce racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic, ableist and other discriminatory actions to make students and other members of the Northwestern community feel safe, valued and heard.

If students are forced to experience racist incidents on campus, the least we can ask of our administrators is an attentive, clear and meaningful response that shows active concern for their well-being.

This piece represents the majority opinion of the Editorial Board of The Daily Northwestern. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members or Editorial Board members of The Daily Northwestern.

The evolution of ‘Queer’: From slur to rainbow umbrella A. PALLAS GUTIERREZ

ASST. OPINION EDITOR

This is the tenth column in “50 Years of Queer Anger,” a series examining LGBTQ+ issues in the United States since 1969.

The word “queer” has a complicated history of oppression and liberation. Some older nonstraight cisgender people remember it being leveled against them as a slur. Some remember it as a scream of defiance and pride: “We’re here, we’re queer, get used to it!” Younger people use it to describe their sexuality. Academics use it as a catch-all to avoid leaving out any specific identity.

But as a reclaimed slur, queer has a complex history and nebulous acceptability.

The earliest forms and meanings of the word “queer” all meant curved or twisted, long before the word “straight” came to mean heterosexual.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, “queer” emerged

as a modifier meaning strange or bad. John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensbury, may have been the first person to use “queer” derogatorily against a gay person. In a letter to his son, Lord Alfred Douglas the Marquess blamed the death of his other son, Francis, on “Snob Queers like Rosebery.” His use of “Queers” referred to Archibald Primrose, who had allegedly been romantically involved with Francis before his death.

(If the name Lord Alfred Douglas looks familiar, he was having an affair with Oscar Wilde at the time, for which Wilde was later prosecuted under England’s gross indecency laws.)

“Queer” in its current meaning — to describe non-heterosexual people — first appeared in print in the United States in a 1914 article in the Los Angeles Times. By the 1950s, queer was, in the words of LGBTQ+ historian Lillian Faderman, “interchangeable with other homophobic words such as ‘fairy’ and ‘bulldyke.’”

By the end of the twentieth century, the term “queer” was beginning to be reclaimed. In 1990, the activist group Queer Nation proudly

displayed the formerly taboo word in efforts to reclaim the term queer from homophobes, as well as to use more inclusive language than “gay” and “lesbian,” which were seen as exclusionary. It also popularized the now iconic slogan, “We’re here, we’re queer, get used to it.”

By now, the word “queer” is part of American pop culture and academia, from “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” to queer studies being an accepted field of research. In the acronym LGBTQ+, “queer” is one of the multiple meanings for the Q. But that general acceptability does not erase the treacherous and hateful history of the word “queer.”

Personally, I have no problem with the usage of the word “queer.” It has never been used against me hatefully and captures the nonnormativity that defines many parts of my life experience succinctly. Many of my friends have identities that fall outside the five privileged letters of LGBTQ+, and “queer” allows them to feel included in the community, rather than an afterthought. The non-normativity and

inclusivity of “queer” are why I decided to title this series “50 Years of Queer Anger.”

But I understand people who don’t want to be described as queer. I imagine that it may be a similar experience to the sinking feeling I feel when someone calls me a slur: a combination of confusion, isolation, nausea, and fear.

People should be allowed to use words that encapsulate their experiences to describe themselves. If someone says that they identify as queer, be accepting. If someone says not to call them queer, don’t. Words carry hateful meanings from earlier times that, while not always obvious to the person using them, reverberate in the consciousness of historically oppressed groups and can make them feel unvalued and unsafe.

A. Pallas Gutierrez is a Communication first-year.

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MONDAY, APRIL 22, 2019

National News Prosecutors are in LA looking to nab more parents in admissions scandal LOS ANGELES — Prosecutors in the college admissions scandal are in Los Angeles this week as they continue to widen their investigation in the farreaching scam.

Sources and court records indicate they are mulling new charges against parents they believe used the services of William “Rick” Singer, the admitted mastermind in the bribery and cheating scheme that allowed the children of the super wealthy to get into top colleges.

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A University Police vehicle. UP is investigating a robbery on the Chicago campus.

Police investigating Chicago campus robbery of cell phone

Police are investigating a robbery on Northwestern’s Chicago campus reported to have taken place Sunday morning, according to a Northwestern crime alert.

The incident, which took place in the 300 block of East Erie Street, was described to both the Chicago and Northwestern police departments. Witnesses said a man departed a nearby silver four-door Chevrolet at about 9 a.m. before approaching a person on the street and forcibly removing their cell phone without the use of a weapon. The man then returned to the silver Chevrolet, before fleeing the scene eastbound on Erie Street.

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Responding officers have not located the man or the vehicle. Chicago police are leading the investigation by reviewing the cameras at the scene of the crime.

The robbery follows a series of strong-arm robberies, which occurred March 12 on the Chicago campus. One of the robberies from last month involved two men exiting a similarly-described silver sedan before punching a Pritzker School of Law student in the face and stealing his iPad. There was another series of robberies at the Chicago campus in October 2017, which resulted in increased security measures. At the time, UP chief Bruce Lewis attributed the crime spike to an overall increase of crime off campus in the general vicinity of Chicago.

The 18th Ward of Chicago, which includes Northwestern’s Chicago campus, has reported 112 robbery complaints in 2019 to date. This is an increase of 87 percent from the 60 reported by this time in 2015.

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Prosecutors said in a recent court filing that they’ve collected evidence that can be used to charge additional people in the case. In a request for a protective order on evidence that will soon be turned over to defense attorneys, they said the wiretaps, financial documents, emails and surveillance photographs they have amassed contain information about “targets of the investigation who have not yet been publicly charged.”

Sources told the Los Angeles Times that federal prosecutors from Boston have interviewed people in Los Angeles this week, asking about additional students whose parents have not been charged in the admissions scandal.

The prosecutors, led by Assistant U.S. Attorney Eric Rosen, are interviewing potential witnesses in L.A. to bolster their existing cases and to build new ones, according to two sources who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the talks publicly.

Two parents are now helping prosecutors

A Bay Area couple have signed formal cooperation deals with prosecutors. Bruce and Davina Isackson of Hillsborough, Calif., are accused of paying $600,000 to rig a college entrance exam and slip their two daughters into UCLA and the University of Southern California as recruited athletes.

Prosecutors want to know whether anyone at UCLA or USC knew about the athletic recruiting scheme beyond the coaches and officials who have already been indicted, a person familiar with the matter said.

Of the $250,000 the Isacksons allegedly spent to ensure their older daughter was admitted to UCLA as a soccer player, $100,000 went to Jorge Salcedo, the school’s former men’s soccer coach, according to an

indictment that charges Salcedo and six other college coaches and officials with racketeering.

Bruce Isackson will plead guilty to fraud conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy and conspiracy to defraud the Internal Revenue Service. Davina Isackson has agreed to plead guilty to one count of fraud conspiracy. If prosecutors decide the couple provides useful information, they can recommend that a judge lighten their sentences.

In his plea agreement, prosecutors recommended a sentence for Bruce Isackson at the “low end” of sentencing guidelines that call for 37 to 46 months in prison. For Davina Isackson, they suggested a sentence at the low end of 27 to 33 months in prison.

In a statement last week, the couple said they were “profoundly sorry,” having “harmed and embarrassed” their children and disappointed their family and friends.

“We have worked cooperatively with the prosecutors,” they said, “and will continue to do so as we take full responsibility for our bad judgment.”

Other parents are making deals

Prosecutors in Boston have secured guilty pleas or agreements to plead guilty from 18 of the 50 people charged in the scheme, including Singer, a Newport Beach college consultant, who pleaded guilty to money laundering, obstruction of justice, racketeering and conspiracy to defraud the United States.

Thirteen parents and one University of Texas tennis coach agreed to plead guilty earlier this month.

Among the parents was actress Felicity Huffman, who is accused of paying $15,000 for Singer’s accomplice to fix her daughter’s answers on the SAT. The actress maintains her daughter knew nothing of the scheme and said in a statement she was ashamed and remorseful at having committed “a transgression” toward her daughter and the public.

Meanwhile, prosecutors have made clear they also are looking at potentially new evidence against parents already charged.

Earlier this month, 16 parents were indicted on charges of money laundering and fraud conspiracy, according to prosecutors.

Those parents _ including actress Lori Loughlin; her husband, designer J. Mossimo Giannulli; financier Douglas Hodge; and Hot Pockets heiress Michelle Janavs _ now face two charges: fraud conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy.

If convicted, the indicted parents will likely face weightier sentences than those who already have agreed to plead guilty.

Loughlin and her husband have pleaded not guilty.

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From page 1 of local residents. In Evanston, the Parks, Recreation & Community Services Department operates five beaches, manages a boat launch and hosts aquatic camps and other lake activities.

Lawrence Hemingway, the director of the department, said that while the city spends anywhere between approximately $850,000 to $900,000 annually operating the lakefront, it generates approximately $1 million in revenue.

“The lake is a recreational asset for our community,” Hemingway said.

As a whole, tourism generates $16 billion for the Great Lakes region and regional fisheries generate $7 billion, according to the report.

In Lake Michigan, however, boats associated with these industries and others have introduced invasive species as they move between bodies of water, according to Steven Pothoven, a fishery biologist from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory.

Lake Michigan’s most prevalent invasive species — the zebra and quagga mussels — take energy out of the base of the lake’s food web by eating all of the lake’s algae, cutting off energy flow to much of the rest of the lake’s species.

While the government can take preventative steps to keep such species out of the lake, Pothoven said there’s not much the region can do to stop invasive species once they’ve arrived.

“Usually once they’re in, you’ve let the cat out of the bag,” Pothoven said. “There’s research about ways mussels can be controlled, but that

MONDAY, APRIL 22, 2019 takes a really long time.”

The range for invasive species could increase as the area around Lake Michigan warms with climate change. For Aaron Packman, a Northwestern professor and contributor to the Great Lakes report, another one of the biggest environmental impacts on cities in the Great Lakes are extreme weather events, which are also projected to increase with climate change.

Packman said the flooding associated with increased precipitation is highly disruptive to the cities near the Great Lakes, including Chicago.

In the summer, heat waves pose a potentially life-threatening risk to vulnerable populations.

Both Pothoven and Packman said there are steps individuals can take to help the lake. While Pothoven said legislative action is needed for wide scale prevention of invasive species, individuals can be cognizant of not releasing fish from their personal aquariums into the lake or transporting plants or animals attached to their boats as they move between bodies of water.

Packman also said individual action can be useful combined with ongoing investment in infrastructure to combat the effects of climate change.

“The best thing that each of us can do is change our own behavior in ways that contribute to sustainability and resilience and reduced impact,” Packman said. “A lot of issues are driven by consumer demand, so if you make choices that are typically healthier for you, that are broadly lower-impact, lower-resources, that has a benefit everywhere.”

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SESP juniors Izzy Dobbel and Adam Davies won the ASG presidential election with about 75 percent of the vote, though only 852 students voted, a 10-year low.

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to student disillusionment with ASG as an institution, which they cited as a reason why they left ASG their sophomore year. Davies explained that it has been difficult for students with marginalized voices to feel represented within ASG, though changing that perception will be a major focus for the pair going forward.

Dobbel said turnout was likely lower because the election was uncontested, which created a feeling that the stakes were lower since the outcome of the election was already largely determined. A second campaign would have also raised the number of people working to engage students, Dobbel added.

“If we had 10 people talking to folks over two days, we’re able to reach about 852 people,” Dobbel said. “If there was two campaigns, that would already be larger because it’s just more interactions and a larger team of people.”

Dobbel and Davies ran a campaign focused on increasing “justice” for marginalized students, mainly through their three campaign pillars of academics, community and health.

The pair’s short-term goals include the implementation of “mental health sick days,” in which students would be able to miss a certain number of classes throughout the quarter and receive excused absences, no questions asked.

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On Friday,Telles-Irvin asked the community to come forward with information about the incidents.

“Acts of hate, whether premeditated or not, will not go unchallenged at Northwestern University,” Telles-Irvin wrote. “Those who choose to be a part of the Northwestern community are expected to abide by a code of conduct that does not tolerate such acts.” cameroncook@u.northwestern.edu

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Patricia Telles-Irvin, the vice president for student affairs, condemned the “repugnant symbols of hate and intolerance” in a public statement, though didn’t concede any shortfalls.

The slogan has appeared on college campuses around the country since at least 2016,

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Patricia Telles-Irvin, vice president for student affairs, speaks at convocation Fall Quarter. In a Friday email, Telles-Irvin denounced recent racist incidents on campus after students urged administrative response.

when it was popularized by users of 4chan.

The phrase was last seen on Northwestern’s Evanston campus earlier this month and again in 2017.

The ADL recorded 1,187 incidents of white supremacist propaganda in the U.S in 2018, up 182 percent from 421 incidents in 2017. aperez@u.northwestern.edu

They also plan to work with New Student and Family Programs to create a mentorship program that connects new students with older peers in their major, and a survey that connects students with groups around campus based on student interests and identities.

Major long term-goals include the allocation of spaces to various groups, such as those that are identity-based, around campus and the creation of a University-recognized “student hiring and firing committee” that could make recommendations regarding faculty. The committee is mainly a response to the University’s refusal to dismiss visiting scholar Satoshi Kanazawa, whose past work has promoted racist and sexist views.

Dobbel is the former vice president for A-status finances and Davies is the current secretary for Men Against Rape and Sexual Assault. The pair will be sworn in Wednesday, May 1 during ASG’s Senate meeting following a two-week transition period.

“I’m really excited,” Davies said, discussing the pair’s win. “I think this is a really big step for Northwestern. Thinking about the experiences that Izzy and I have and us holding this position on campus means that we can really work to empower students on Northwestern’s campus to continue to fight for the justice that they need.” atuljalan2022@u.northwestern.edu

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Wildcats drop three games on the road to Michigan

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Change is good. For David Dunn, that maxim has rung true. The freshman center fielder underwent a change in his stance in advance of Northwestern’s series against Michigan, bringing his hands down a bit lower on the bat for comfort’s sake.

On Saturday, Dunn batted 2-for-4, an indication of what he hopes that renewed swing will bring as he warms into it. “(I) felt good at the plate and just went out there and hit the pitches I needed to hit,” Dunn said.

“That’s kinda where I want to be.”

But change takes time to manifest, as evidenced

by Dunn’s performance a day later. NU (16-20, 5-7 Big Ten) and Michigan (28-11, 8-3) faced off in a double-header Sunday, after a contest scheduled for Friday was pushed back due to inclement weather. This time, Dunn struggled, failing to record a hit in six at-bats. The center fielder’s offensive showing was in tune with that of his teammates, as the Cats mustered just 13 hits and only three runs combined during the two games.

NU lost all three contests in the series and has now dropped five straight, a stretch that dates back to April 13, and has dropped the team four games below .500. Dunn said the Cats need to focus their efforts on getting two-out hits, tiring out

VP for research is finalist for head of University of South Carolina

Jay Walsh, the University’s vice president for research is one of four finalists to be the next president of the University of South Carolina.

Walsh began at Northwestern as a biomedical engineering professor at the McCormick School of Engineering. He served as McCormick’s associate dean for graduate studies and senior associate dean before becoming the University’s vice president for research in 2007, a position he’s held ever since.

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David Dunn steps up to bat. The freshman had only two hits in 10 at-bats during NU’s series loss to Michigan this weekend.

the opposition and increasing offensive pressure.

“We just need to put together innings where we can create more than one or two runs,” Dunn said. “The two-out hits, it’s huge in college baseball and we need to do that a little bit more. Just string

some at-bats along, pass it on to the next guy and get some runs on that scoreboard.”

Coach Spencer Allen said NU’s loss came down to the team’s lack of playmaking throughout the series.

In his current role, Walsh oversees Northwestern’s research apparatus and manages its budget, which exceeds $500 million per year. He is also in charge of all University-wide research strategic plans and the network of Northwestern’s research facilities, from the Buffet Institute for Global Studies to the International Institute for Nanotechnology.

Under Walsh’s leadership, the University has made strides in its research capacity, moving up research funding rankings to the point that University president Morton Schapiro said he expects the school to crack the National Institute of Health’s top ten list soon at a speaking event earlier in April.

Schapiro said he was very proud of his colleague.

Though Schapiro will miss Walsh’s commitment to

the University if he were to get the job, he said, he hopes Walsh is chosen.

“I adore the guy,” Schapiro said in a Friday interview with The Daily. “He’s just a class act. All five of his kids went here, all five of his kids, to my knowledge, married classmates … There’s nobody more purple than this guy.”

Walsh will visit USC on Monday, making him the first of the four candidates to do so. The other candidates are John Applegate, the executive vice president for University academic affairs at Indiana University; Robert Caslen Jr., the senior counsel to the president at the University of Central Florida; and William Tate IV, the dean of the graduate school at Washington University in St. Louis.

To turn things around, the Cats need to limit their errors and walks. The team recorded seven errors and the pitching staff allowed ten walks in three games.

“We have to have all three phases going,” Allen said. “At times, we’ll pitch it well and at times we’ll swing it well, but of late the bats have gone a little cold. We’ve gotta get those going, creating options a little bit. Ultimately we have to make sure we’re not coming from behind because of what we do defensively.”

In the first game of the series, the Cats couldn’t end their poor run of form despite Dunn’s hits and a sixth quality start of the season for sophomore pitcher Quinn Lavelle — who struck out six and allowed just two earned runs in six innings.

The team lost 4-1, their only run coming when freshman Shawn Goosenberg’s single drove Dunn home in the sixth inning.

NU fell again in the first game of Sunday’s twin bill, letting a tie game slip out of its fingers in the seventh inning and dropping a close 3-2 decision.

In the second matchup, the Cats were wallopped

by Michigan, surrendering 14 hits in a 10-1 loss.

“You look at a series like this, it makes it seem like we’re really far away,” Allen said. “We’re not.

We’ve shown that we can play at a high level. Ohio State took two of three away from Michigan, and we swept Ohio State, so I don’t think we’re that far off. We have to continue to play good baseball.” gregorysvirnovskiy2022@u.northwestern.edu The finalists are competing to the succeed current president Harris Pastides, who served for 11 years and announced his intention to retire in October. A decision is expected at the end of the week, Schapiro said.

If Walsh were to be chosen, he would be the 10th employee to report to Schapiro to go on to a university presidency. Based on their practice interview, which ran almost an hour, Schapiro said he believes Walsh would be a great choice.

“If he ends up at University of South Carolina, they will have gotten a real jewel,” Schapiro said. “I really hope he gets the job, and based on my practice with him, man, he is ready.”

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Northwestern sweeps Purdue, extends win streak to 14 games

By SOPHIA SCANLAN

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Will Northwestern ever stop sweeping? It doesn’t seem like it.

The No. 23 Wildcats accomplished their fifth series sweep of the season with three wins over Purdue this weekend, extending their win streak to 14 and perfecting their conference record to 15-0 — the best start to Big Ten play in NU history.

The Cats (36-7, 15-0 Big Ten) opened the series with an 11-1 victory Friday over the Boilermakers (30-20, 6-11), fueled by freshman catcher Jordyn Rudd’s first-inning grand slam and senior left fielder Morgan Nelson’s three-run homer in the third. Game 2, an 8-2 win for the Cats, featured another slugfest, with NU scoring five of its eight runs in the first inning.

“I really liked our balance in the batter’s box,” coach Kate Drohan said of those first two games. “We put a lot of pressure on them just by generating runners, and a lot of different people throughout the lineup stepped up to come up with the big hit. It took a bit longer (on Sunday).”

Though the Cats ultimately beat the Purdue 6-3 in the final game of the series, they trailed the Boilermakers by

the third inning after failing to smash any hits. Freshman pitcher Danielle Williams ultimately broke open the offense in the fourth with a single to left field, which the outfielder fumbled, allowing Rudd to score and Williams to advance to second.

Freshman center fielder Skyler Shellmyer came to the plate and bunted, which Purdue third baseman Jenny Behan scooped up. However, her throw flew over the first baseman Lexi Huffman’s head into right field, allowing Williams to score easily. Shellmyer, sprinting around the bases, followed her teammate by sliding home safely for a “Little League” homer.

“Initially I was thinking ‘I’ll just get three,’ and then I look up rounding second base and see (Drohan) waving her arm,” Shellmyer said.

“Then I saw the ball was nowhere near the infield, so I was really happy about that.”

Drohan said she wanted Shellmyer to try for home because the team needed to pick up some runs.

She called the moment a “pivotal play” in the game and added that she knew Shellmyer could beat the throw.

“She can scoot,” Drohan said. “At that point in the game, we weren’t really getting any hits, so we needed to put pressure on them.”

Though Williams gave up three runs of her own — two of which came from solo shots by Boilermaker freshman Kendall Chase — the Cats kept the lead, scoring runs off walks and fielder’s choices.

Sunday’s matchup also included a pregame ceremony to honor seniors Morgan Nelson and Lily Novak in one of their last home games. After a video montage of Nelson and Novak played, their families joined them on the field and the coaching staff presented them with framed jerseys.

Drohan said she appreciated the leadership Nelson and Novak showed this season.

“They’ve (led) in such an authentic, very real and very caring way,” Drohan said. “And I think our younger players have thrived in the environment that they’ve created in the locker room for us.”

The senior duo has played over 300 games for combined, and they’ve hit over 30 home runs for NU. Shellmyer said she’s grateful to have played with this year’s seniors.

“They’ve been so welcoming, inclusive, and understanding of our freshman problems and not getting mad at us for making mistakes,” Shellmyer said. “I love them.”

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NU upsets Notre Dame

By CHARLIE GOLDSMITH

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Since Northwestern started its season in September, every team huddle over the last seven months has ended the same way. One golfer says, “one, two, three,” and the rest of the team responds “Big Ten Champs.”

This served as a constant reminder for the top ranked team in the conference. Regardless of what would take place during the 2018-19 season, what mattered most was the three rounds of golf in late April at the TPC River’s Bend outside of Cincinnati.

But the No.15 Wildcats didn’t even get to play three rounds. In the middle of persistent rain and cold Friday, NU’s golfers played a first round that lasted six hours as a result of constant weather delays. That led to an unusual amount of bogeys for a team that hasn’t played a match in the Midwest since October.

Then, Saturday’s round was canceled because of the rain and not rescheduled, so the Cats didn’t get the extra opportunity to improve on their 11-stroke deficit.

In the final round Sunday, NU shot 8-under-par — the best round any Big Ten team had all weekend — but there weren’t enough holes to make up for that lost ground. Having only 18 holes to come back from the deficit, NU finished at 6 over and in sixth place of a tournament it was heavily favored to win.

“It would have been completely different if we had been able to play yesterday,” junior Brooke Riley said.

Playing one round fewer than she expected, Riley said she didn’t know how she would assess her play. Usually, she accustoms herself to the course in the first round and spends the next two making adjustments. Because the second round of the tournament was canceled, she did not have that opportunity. Still, after a strong round Sunday highlighted with an eagle on

By KARIM NOORANI

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Daily file photo by Alison Albelda

Brooke Riley surveys the slope. The junior finished tied for eighth at the Big Ten Championships.

her 36th hole, Riley led the team with an even-parscore and finished tied for eighth in the field of 84.

According to freshman Kelly Sim, who shot 2-over, the Cats struggled in the first round because it was “hard to keep ourselves warm.” Their last three matches took place in California, Arizona and South Carolina, a sharp contrast to the weather in Cincinnati.

After the first round Friday, the Cats shot 14-over, but they improved that score Sunday to 6-over, which allowed the team to bounce three spots in the standings on the second and final day of the tournament.

“We really wanted to win Big Tens of course, but today we really had that great team effort we want to see,” Sim said. “We just made a ton of birdies on the back nine today, and we can take that momentum going into regionals

in a couple weeks.”

In the NCAA Regionals last year, NU finished in sixth place and qualified for the National Championships after another suboptimal performance in the Big Ten Tournament.

Riley, who led the Cats to that result in the 2018 NCAA Regionals, said the team has the ability to build off the success it had Sunday in its next tournament, where it will actually be able to play all three scheduled rounds. “(Coach Emily Fletcher) was saying after my round today to not to disregard the way we all played today, which was really well,” Riley said.

“Some teams just played better in the weather on the first day, and that was the only difference for us between winning this and not.” charliegoldsmith2021@u.northwestern.edu

Northwestern is rounding into form at the perfect time. After getting trounced by No. 2 North Carolina earlier in the season, the Wildcats showed this weekend they have the talent to outperform the best teams in the country on any given day.

After handling its business against No. 8 Michigan Thursday, NU (11-4, 4-1 Big Ten) turned around and outplayed No. 4 Notre Dame (13-3, 5-2 ACC) on both sides of the ball, leading to a 15-11 win on the road Saturday.

Though coming into the game with a top-two defense, the Fighting Irish gave up more goals to the Cats than any other opponent this season. NU’s offensive aggressiveness especially paid dividends in garnering free-position shots, where it almost doubled Notre Dame’s output.

Senior attacker Selena Lasota led the way for the Cats with five goals for the day, but NU stuck to their staple of scoring by committee and had multiple players on the scoreboard. Sophomore midfielder Lauren Gilbert chipped in three goals and extended her scoring streak to 15 games, while freshman

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midfielder Izzy Scane added another three.

The biggest surprise for the Cats came on defense, where senior goalkeeper Mallory Weisse racked up a career-high 14 saves. For most of the game, sophomore defender Kate Copeland face guarded Fighting Irish attacker Maddie Howe, who scored four goals in last year’s matchup but was limited to one point on Saturday.

Sophomore midfielder Ally Palermo suffered a lower-body injury with a little over 13 minutes left in the second half.

Palermo had to be helped off the field and did not return to the game. Her status moving forward is uncertain.

NU will have five days of rest before traveling on the road to play Ohio State in its season finale. With a win, the Cats would finish the regular season with a .750 win percentage, their best mark since 2013. karimnoorani2022@u.northwestern.edu

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Selena Lasota makes a move. The senior’s five-goal performance helped lead the Cats to an upset win over Notre Dame on Saturday.