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Witness says NU football player paid Bribery witness allegedly paid multiple athletes By ELLA BROCKWAY

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Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at 1922 Sheridan Rd. Weinberg is poised to change its degree requirements for the first time in decades.

Weinberg may change curriculum What you need to know about the potential changes to requirements By CAMERON COOK

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After decades of the current curriculum, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences is poised to update its degree requirements.

The new set of requirements, proposed in December by the school’s ad hoc Committee on Degree Requirements, would not go into effect for two to three years, said legal studies Prof. Laura Beth Nielsen, chair of the Curriculum Policy Committee. Students who enter

Northwestern prior to the onset of the new requirements will not have to complete them. The changes will also likely be implemented incrementally, said Ann Bradlow, the associate dean for academic initiatives. Here, The Daily breaks down the biggest changes and what they

mean for students. These overarching imperatives “express some guidelines,” Nielsen said, but how they’ll actually affect the changes is yet to be determined. The goal, she said, is to set requirements for each department » See REQUIREMENTS, page 6

A former financial advisor testified in a college basketball bribery trial Tuesday that he paid football players from several colleges, including Northwestern. Louis Martin Blazer, a witness for federal prosecutors, said he gave anywhere from several hundred to several thousand dollars to associates or family members of football players from Alabama, Michigan, North Carolina, Northwestern, Notre Dame, Pitt and Penn State between 2010 and 2014. The payments were made in the hope that the players would choose Blazer as their financial advisor upon turning professional, said Adam Zagoria, who is reporting on the trial for the Arizona Daily Star. Blazer also said he had never paid a college football coach. While other schools were mentioned in further testimony — Blazer gave examples of interactions and relationships with players at Penn State and North Carolina — Northwestern was not named other than on Blazer’s initial list. “Northwestern University is

not aware of any misconduct related to this report, however we take any allegation seriously and actively investigate,” a University spokesperson said in a statement. In 2017, Blazer pleaded guilty to wire fraud, securities fraud, lying to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and aggravated identity theft. He faces up to 67 years in prison for those charges, and as part of a plea agreement, is cooperating as a witness in the federal government’s investigation into bribery in college basketball. The FBI’s investigation into bribery and corruption in college basketball became public in September 2017, when the Justice Department announced it had indicted and arrested 10 people, ranging from business managers and Adidas employees to assistant coaches. The trial that began Tuesday in New York is that of former agent Christian Dawkins and former Adidas consultant Merl Code, both of whom were sentenced to six months in prison in the investigation’s first trial in March for bribing and paying players’ families to steer them toward certain schools. This trial is set to focus on bribes made to college basketball coaches. Blazer will continue his testimony Wednesday. ellabrockway@u.northwestern.edu

Advocacy org says Separate admission process for some NU should reform President Schapiro says he looks at some legacy, donor applications Nonprof it urges stop to legacy, donor admissions By GABBY BIRENBAUM

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In recent years, Northwestern has made low-income admissions a priority, creating and achieving its “20 by 2020” Pell-eligible initiative to have a minimum of 20 percent of incoming classes be made up of Pell-eligible students. Education Reform Now, a national education advocacy organization, believes that while Northwestern has certainly made strides, more can be done to make the University more fair and affordable for low-income and working-class students. “The rise of Pell grant student enrollment at Northwestern is something to be celebrated,” Michael Dannenberg, the organization’s director of strategic initiatives for policy, told The Daily. “But we also have to recognize that a meaningful

commitment to diversity, with respect to the student body, involves not just enrolling more Pell grant-eligible students, but also doing away with a lot of policies that may not make admissions to the University as fair as it could be for middleclass, working-class, low-income students.” Education Reform Now suggests highly-selective private schools like Northwestern reform its admissions. Dannenberg said he would advocate for the University to reform its early decision process and end legacy preference in admissions. Northwestern admits approximately half of its incoming classes through early decision, which leaves middle-class and working-class students and families “overwhelmingly disadvantaged,” Dannenberg said. Early decisions creates a paradox for those students — applying early vastly improves one’s chance of acceptance while also forcing students to commit to the financial aid package they receive instead of being able to » See REFORM, page 6

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Of the over 40,000 applications Northwestern receives for undergraduate admissions, the vast majority are read by Christopher Watson, the dean of undergraduate admissions, and his staff. This year, a select pool of about 550 applicants had their files read and their admissions decisions made by University President Morton Schapiro. Schapiro said in an interview with The Daily last week that he is not entirely sure how the application files that arrive at his desk are chosen, but the breakdown among applicants is not random. The group includes legacy students, children whose family members have donated to NU and connections of his who ask him to read their child’s or relative’s application. “They’re suggested by all

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Segal Visitors Center. A select pool of about 550 applicants had their files read and their admissions decisions made by President Morton Schapiro.

sorts of people,” Schapiro said. “Politicians to famous alums to trustee members. Many, many people.” The revelation comes as

the admission practices of elite schools across the country — which are often kept highly confidential — are being placed under intense

scrutiny. The college admissions scandal exposed the bribing of college officials » See ADMISSIONS, page 6

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Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church turns 125 By ZAMONE “Z” PEREZ

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As Christians around the world finished celebrating Holy Week on Sunday, Evanston Mayor Steve Hagerty proclaimed April 21-28 to be Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church week. Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church is celebrating its 125-year anniversary this week. The church began as a “church plant” of Second Baptist Church. Eventually the congregation broke away from Second Baptist Church and established

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Alberta Seals, custodian for Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church. Seals has been a member of the congregation since 1984.

POLICE BLOTTER Man arrested for domestic battery after he called the police

Evanston Police Department officers arrested a 19-year-old man on battery charges Saturday after he called police to report an altercation with his girlfriend. Officers responded to the Evanston man’s

a separate ministry on the fourth Sunday in April of 1894. In the beginning, the congregation met at a local plumbers union hall which is now the downtown branch of the Evanston Public Library.Eventually, the members purchased a plot of landat the corner of Clark Street and Greenbay Road, where the church still stands today. The parish now contributes to a variety of causes, including Evanston Own It, an organization that helps students find summer jobs and criminals expunge their records to get “second chances,” said Reverend Taurus Scurlock, senior pastor of Mount Zion. “Mount Zion is a church of families,” Scurlock said. “We have a very strong youth ministry. We have children who have acted on college stages and have played in Carnegie Hall.” The church’s generosity often extends to its own members and staff. Alberta Seals,known as “Mother Seals” by many congregants, is a custodian at Mount Zion and has attended the church since 1984. After preparing an all-church meal one day, Seals said the church threw her a surprise birthday party and even flew her daughter to attend the event. “I come upstairs to tell them ‘I’m done cooking, and they start singing ‘Happy Birthday,’” Seals said. “It was amazing.” On Saturday at 6 p.m., the church will host a night of celebration with performances from community groups and choirs. This week’s celebration is part of a larger yearlong affair, said former 5th Ward alderman Delores Holmes. Holmes said she been a member of Mount Zion since 1953. residence after he called police at approximately 10:30 p.m. from the 1800 block of Washington Street, Evanston police communications coordinator Perry Polinski told The Daily in an email. The man reported an altercation with his 18-year-old girlfriend at their shared residence, the email said. Further investigation determined that the man had physically assaulted the woman during the

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The pipe organ inside Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church. The property the church was built on was purchased in 1916, after the members had worshipped in a plumbers union hall.

Over the course of the year, the congregation has hosted guest speakers during their Sunday services at least once a month. The church will also host two services this weekend to celebrate the occasion. Both Hagerty and Ald. Peter Braithwaite (2nd) said they will attend the service this Sunday. Braithwaite, whose ward includes the church, said Mount Zion’s presence over the years have helped many residents in Evanston and he “looked forward” to worshiping with congregation on Sunday. “The church is one the oldest black churches city-wide, and it has a long history of providing

support and services to families within the community through their mission work,” Braithwaite said. “As well, they have served as a meeting location for my downtown constituents.” Holmes said she could not hold back her love for a community that has seen more than a century of missions, discipleship and community, including her own children’s baptisms. “Of course I love my church. We are a small, family church,” Holmes said. “It’s just a way to celebrate a milestone, and 125 years is something special.”

incident and the man was arrested and charged with aggravated domestic battery.

police that her bicycle, valued at $380, had been secured to a bike rack in the garage of the building. The bike was taken between April 15 at 7 p.m. and Saturday at 4 p.m., the email said. The email did not indicate if any suspects had been arrested or in any persons were in custody.

Bicycle stolen from garage

A 29-year-old woman reported Saturday that her bike had been stolen from the 600 block of Grove Street. Polinksi said in the email that the woman told

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Rapper A$AP Ferg to headline Dillo By GABBY BIRENBAUM

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Rapper A$AP Ferg will headline Dillo Day 2019. Ferg, a Harlem, New York native and member of the A$AP Mob hip-hop collective, has long been a target of Mayfest. He was slated to be a daytime performer at 2015’s Dillo Day, but that year’s show was cancelled. Mayfest director of booking Koyote Meiners-Rios said in a release the group knew they had to bring him back as a headliner as his star began to rise. “We’re very excited to be bring A$AP Ferg to headline this year’s Dillo Day,” Meiners-Rios, a Communications senior, said in a Mayfest release.

“He’s a legend with a distinct voice, heavy beats, and more than a few classics….He’s charismatic and high energy, and has proven to give an engaging live show, which is a lot of what we look for in a headliner. From his established discography to the promise of new music, Ferg has the passion that can carry a lineup.” Along with famous members such as A$AP Rocky and the late A$AP Yams, Ferg and the A$AP Mob as responsible for hits such as “Get High” and “Ghetto Symphony”. As a solo artist, Ferg is known for singles including “Work”, “Plain Jane” and “Shabba.” Mayfest co-director of promotions Nicholas Khang said Ferg’s discography is full of “bangers.” “When you hear the signature ‘HOOT HOOT HOOT,’ you know the party is about to go up,” the Weinberg junior said in the release.

Meiners-Rios said hip hop/rap has been the top vote-getter among genres in Mayfest’s annual poll for the last few years, so landing a hip-hop artist as the headliner is an accomplishment. Ferg has released two albums and two mixtapes since signing a solo record deal in 2013. His debut album “Trap Lord,” released in 2013, landed him the “Rookie of the Year” award at the 2013 BET Hip Hop Awards. Most recently, he released the mixtape “Still Striving” in August 2017. Khang said he has a gut feeling Ferg’s next album will be his best, and feels excited to get to see him perform before he releases new music. “Keep your eye on A$AP Ferg and get hyped to see him at Dillo Day 2019,” Khang said. gabriellebirenbaum2021@u.northwestern.edu

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Why do we have to die before NU changes policy? GABRIELLE BIENASZ

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There was a time at this school when the names of four students who had died here were written on the tree by the rock. One of them was Chuyuan Qiu, who was hit by a cement truck while riding her bike on Sheridan Road in 2016 – before we had a bike lane. But students knew that biking on Sheridan Road was a problem before then. So did the administration. In 2011, after increased instances of non-fatal accidents due to construction and congestion, cyclists expressed frustration with the dangerous choice between “dodging pedestrians” on the sidewalk or biking on traffic-heavy Sheridan Road. In 2017, in an article for The Daily, reporter Colin Boyle wrote, “The push for bike lanes on Sheridan Road gained renewed attention after the 2016 death of Chuyuan Qiu.” Chuyuan Qiu should not have been a martyr to the cause of bike safety on campus. But she is hardly the only student whose death has prompted the administration to take more aggressive action to solve an issue. Looking at campus-specific problems, like funding CAPS, it appears the University changes policies to better support students only after a student death underscores the problem. But this is a University, not a war zone — so why do we have to die before Northwestern changes the rules? Jason Arkin died by suicide in 2015 after being referred to the CAPS waitlist. In 2016, NU lifted the 12-session limit and added capacity to see students for short-term appointments. Dean of Students Todd Adams

said “student voice was paramount,” when deciding to remove the limit, and articles covering the development noted students had been pushing for the change for years. Why did Arkin have to die before they listened? (A 2012 Daily headline looks remarkably familiar in 2019: “After Weaver suicide, Schapiro assures ‘close look’ at Northwestern’s mental health services.”) My years at this University have been marked by student suicide, at least one per year. Scott Boorstein. Ananya Agrawal. Kenzie Krogh. Jordan Hankins, to name some of them. This academic year, the Fund our Care Collective has re-centered the campus conversation around the issue of mental health as a fatal one and stressed that it especially impacts marginalized students. They have organized actions on campus in the past and will host an upcoming town hall on how the administration can “help students ‘stay alive,’” by funding mental health services. I admire their work and wish to add to the conversation from my own perspective, not to take any credit for their ideas. I’ve been in ASG since my first starry-eyed step on this campus: I nabbed an unwanted seat in the Senate in the now-defunct freshman residential caucus, (Senators now represent the undergraduate schools) served on the public relations committee and on two campaigns, and I am now vice president of public relations. Through all of this, I have seen and participated in quite a bit of dialogue with the administration and student groups. It seems there are three ways to change things on this campus: die; emphasize a crisis of some sort that is validated by concrete numbers or headlines in national news outlets; or devote an unreasonable amount of time to student activism, through involvement with

student government or another student group. None of these are reasonable, nor should they be required of us. But all evidence points to these being the only three avenues through which to effect change. Each one is filled with problems, traps, obstacles. Many of them are only accessible to students with a certain amount of privilege. As for method two, we see the University change reactively in moments of crisis. After students on campus were grabbed by men, SafeRide lifted its three-block distance minimum. When the 2015 Campus Climate Survey revealed the rates at which students at NU were experiencing sexual violence, the Office of Equity and the Center for Awareness, Response, and Education, office was created. The SAE allegations in 2016 that generated headlines in major news outlets seemingly prompted another administrative reckoning around sexual violence, which is reflected in the 2019 Campus Climate Survey. That was also the result of concerted student activism in the wake of the events. But why did it take an event that traumatized the entire campus to motivate a reissue of the survey? Some students turn to advocacy addressing administrators through student groups. In my experience, student government requires about 15 hours of work a week to be effective. It demands a ludicrously difficult combination of relationship-building with administrators, of working with the Senate, of working with other committees in ASG, and on and on and on. And even then, we only get something small. As for the administrators we work with: many of them care and they want to help. But the ones who care about students are not the ones who have power who assist us in the way we most need: a structural reallocation of resources toward departments

and programs that keep us safe, mentally and physically well and provide vital spaces to find community, like CARE, the Office of Equity, the Women’s Center, Student Enrichment Services and Quest, to name a few. As my colleague in ASG put it recently, it’s MSA, CARE and students versus the board of trustees. It’s grossly outmatched. It’s the suffering students and the adults who care for them versus the people with the money and the power. We are up against people who are more worried about a suicide headline getting into the Chicago Tribune than wondering why students here are dying. The question of why our students are dying should pervade policymaking and money allocation at this University; it should preoccupy members on the board of trustees. Look at our peer institutions: why are their students not dying? In April 2017, Chuyuan Qiu’s mother wrote, in a tribute to her daughter: “Your death reminded everyone of the importance of bike safety and encouraged Northwestern to provide its students with a safer environment.” A student has died every year I have been at NU. Four of their names used to be painted on the tree by the rock. There used to be a white bike on Sheridan Road; there used to be a student here named Chuyuan Qiu. But not anymore. I have no reason to believe that matters to the people who have the power to fix it, without our unimaginable and unrealistic sacrifice. Gabrielle Bienasz is a Medill junior. She can be contacted at gabriellebienasz2020@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.

Workplace protections crucial for LGBTQ+ community MARCUS THUILLIER

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It is about time that the LGBTQ+ community is included in workplace discrimination protections. The Supreme Court will finally hear cases in its next term to determine if a federal employment discrimination law banning discrimination based on sex also applies to sexual orientation and gender identity. Never mind that it has been a long time coming, it also comes on the heels of a couple of increasingly dangerous years for the LGBTQ+ community in the United States. It should be a fundamental right that employee discrimination laws extend to protect all those who are discriminated against, and that includes the LGBTQ+ community. In its next term, the Supreme Court will take on three different cases that deal with the protections granted by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which protects people against discrimination based on their “sex, race, color, national origin, and religion.” Two cases, Bostock v. Clayton and Altitude v. Zarda, deal with sexual discrimination, and the last case, R.G. and G.R. v. EEOC, focuses on gender identity. Those cases will come four

years after the groundbreaking Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015, which legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. However, a major factor will be the changed makeup of the Court, which has swung more conservative with the appointments of Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, who replaced Justice Antonin Scalia after his death in 2016 and Justice Anthony Kennedy after his retirement in 2018, respectively. A conservative court seems unlikely to extend protections that are not explicitly stated in existing legislation, but failure to do so would exaggerate the growing target the LGBTQ+ community has on their backs. Since gaining federal marriage equality in 2015, the LGBTQ+ community has been subject to more violence and arguably more scrutiny than before. 2017 saw a continued rise in anti-LGBTQ+ violence. According to the FBI, 17 percent of victims of hate crimes were targeted because of their sexual orientation or gender orientation. This threat that LGBTQ+ people are subject to extends into the workplace, where 30 states do not have laws explicitly protecting these workers against discrimination. When over 6.5 million employees in the United States identify as LGBTQ+, according to the American Bar Association, it is a big deal that they face “widespread discrimination” according to nationwide surveys. About

four percent of the American workforce is at risk of losing their jobs at any time based on their identity. Why isn’t more being done to protect those employees? About 40 percent of countries in the world have comprehensive laws prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation and or gender identity. The United States is not one of them. An additional 12 percent of countries offer some sort of worker protection, usually against discrimination based on sexual orientation. Again, the United States is not one of them. Both Mexico and Canada offer full protection against discrimination for members of the LGBTQ+ community. The United States has to follow suit. Extending protections to the LGBTQ+ community is not even such a novel or controversial idea to a majority of Americans: 67 percent of Americans support federal laws protecting transgender people from employment discrimination and 71 percent support protecting LGBTQ+ people from discrimination in housing, public accommodations and jobs. The LGBTQ+ community needs these protections. Transgender people have a higher unemployment rate than the national average, according to data from Out & Equal workplace advocates. One in 10 LGBTQ+ employees have reported leaving a job because of the unwelcoming environment. Over half of LGBTQ+ employees report the negative

impact that discrimination has on their work environment. All those numbers show the need for legislation and workplace protection. The U.N. Human Rights Council affirmed the protection of equal rights for LGBTQ+ individuals in a statement in 2011, but the United States’ disregard for this document is going against the equal rights that the Human Rights Council stands for and that this country is theoretically founded on. The Supreme Court taking up the three cases outlined above is a step forward in the battle that LGBTQ+ people wage to get equal rights. If change does not come from that — and the language of the Civil Rights Act makes that seem likely — it at least opens up the possibility of a change of legislation, backed by a majority of the population, to give the LGBTQ+ community equal protection against discrimination in the workplace. It is the right thing to do and would be a big step forward in achieving equality for all in all ways of life. Marcus Thuillier is a first-year graduate student. He can be contacted at marcusthuillier2019@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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Police cars outside of Norris University Center on Tuesday. A third “It’s okay to be white” message was found in a women’s bathroom inside the building.

‘It’s okay to be white’ message found in Norris, the third one this month

A third “It’s okay to be white” message was found taped to a hand towel dispenser in a women’s bathroom in Norris University Center, University police chief Bruce Lewis confirmed to The Daily. The racist message was discovered Tuesday afternoon. Two stickers displaying the same phrase, which is tied to neo-Nazi and white supremacist movements, have been found on the Evanston campus this month. The first was found in Allison Dining Hall April 6, while the second was discovered in a men’s bathroom stall in Main Library on the evening of April 20. “The University encourages whoever is doing this to stop,” Lewis said in a statement to The Daily. “The slogan has recently been adopted as code on the part of white supremacist and neoNazi groups, and makes many in our community feel unsafe.” Earlier this week, University provost Jonathan

Holloway and senior vice president for business and finance Craig Johnson said in an email to students that recent racist incidents, including the stickers and the discovery of a rope shaped into a noose in Henry Crown Sports Pavilion, are “unacceptable.” They also correctly predicted more stickers displaying the “It’s okay to be white message” could be discovered in the days and weeks to come. It took three days for the message to be found on campus again, though it did not come in the form of a sticker. The slogan’s appearance on college campuses and public spaces can be traced since at least 2016 to the online forum 4chan, who aimed to provoke an “overreaction” from liberals and the media to reveal their hypocrisy as a result of the trolling, according to the Anti-Defamation League. “It’s okay to be white” dates back to at least 2001, as white nationalist groups have circulated the phrase. The message was found on Northwestern’s campus in 2017 as well as in the three incidents this month. — Gabby Birenbaum

The Institute for Sustainability and Energy has launched the Program on Plastics, Ecosystems and Public Health Program, a science initiative that researches the lifespan of plastic products, its implications on the environment and searches for solutions to alleviate the impact of plastic. According to an ISEN release, the program will prioritize researching the effects of plastic on public health and exploring alternative materials that are environmentally neutral or restorative. With more plastic waste being produced than ever before, the environment and its inhabitants are feeling the effects, according to the release. Estimates show the ocean will have more plastic than fish by 2050, if recent trends continue, and microplastics have been found in everything from tap water to seafood to the human digestive tract. The program will investigate these air, land and water dynamics and attempt to solve them through materials and product innovation.

“The scientific community recognizes the problem of plastic pollution, but more research must be done to understand how it moves through the environment and the extent of its impacts, and to discover deployable, cost-competitive solutions,” said engineering Prof. John Torkelson, a member of the program. The program will bring faculty from a variety of academic departments at Northwestern and join their work with that of academic, civic, government and industrial partners. ISEN managing director Demetria Giannisis said the interdisciplinary effort the program employs is one of its strengths. “Operating through an agile innovation network is essential to our goal of accelerating discoveries at global scale to protect our vulnerable ecosystems and address uncertain human health impacts,” Giannisis said in the release. “Robust interdisciplinary collaboration is at the heart of this Program. We will continuously build and re-build our network to incorporate new partners from academia, industry, NGOs and funding sources as progress is made across the domain from basic research to breakthrough discoveries and solutions.” — Gabby Birenbaum

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Plastic in Manila, Philippines. The Program on Plastics, Ecosystems and Public Health aims to investigate the effects of plastic usage.

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that ensure students get a wide range of learning. Currently, all Weinberg students are required to complete two seminars during their first year to demonstrate writing proficiency. The proposed changes would remove the writing requirement from one of those seminars and replace it with a higher-level course in the student’s specialty that teaches “effective communication, be it through writing, speaking or other modes of communication,” according to the proposal. This change was made, Nielsen said, because some students take seminars during their first year that aren’t a part of their major, making it unclear whether a student is able to proficiently write in their area of study. For some more writing intensive majors, some students already have to take classes that focus on majorspecific writing or communication. For majors such as math or chemistry, though, new classes could be added or assignments added to already existing classes. The Earth and Planetary Sciences department, for instance, has already developed a writing class in anticipation of the change, said Mary Finn, the associate dean for undergraduate academic affairs. Natural Sciences, Social and Behavioral Sciences and Historical Studies would keep their current names, but Formal Studies would become “Empirical and Deductive Reasoning,” Ethics and Values would become “Ethical and Evaluative Thinking” and Literature and Fine Arts will become “Literature and Arts.” While the classes that fall into each new area are likely to be similar to their analogous distribution now, each department will have to evaluate which new classes fall into each Foundational Discipline before the changes take effect, Bradlow said. The learning goals for each distribution were also modified, Finn said, but the structure and accepted classes will be largely the same. In the past, students “called for a requirement that centers issues of race, gender, sexuality, class, disparities, inequalities, and struggle” sociology and African American studies Prof. Mary Pattillo told The Daily in an email. Classes that satisfy “When Cultures Meet” goals are broken down into two sections: U.S. and Global. Early debates centered around what exactly the goal of the overlay would be, which is why students would be required to take one class in each concentration, Nielsen said. According to the proposal, those courses that fill the U.S. requirement would help students learn about the country by analyzing the intersection of different identities in public and private spheres, while the globally-focused classes would have students study beliefs and practices of multiple cultural traditions “through a lens that emphasizes cultural meetings.” “This ‘When Cultures Meet’ thing? We’re late to that party,” Nielsen said. “Especially with some of our other strategic goals, we’ve got to be there.”

and coaches, and the trial against Harvard University exposed the advantage of applicants whose parents donated to the school, a problem persistent in many elite institutions. The news is a rare disclosure for Northwestern, which is often tight-lipped about its admission practices. It paints a clearer picture of a decision process that only admits about 9 percent of its applicants — including a system of deliberations that looks different for some. “Northwestern has reviewed our admission processes, as we are constantly reviewing those processes, and we are confident in the measures we take,” University spokeswoman Jeri Ward said in an email. Watson declined an interview for this article. As an admissions officer, Schapiro considers himself to have high standards. For every student accepted to the University, 11 are rejected, he said, so he has to consider whether each student he admits is worth rejecting 11 others for. He did not say how the acceptance rate for the select pool of applicants he considers compares to the overall acceptance rate. He said his level of involvement in admissions is unusual for university presidents, and means he has to take accountability for rejected students, whereas other presidents can obfuscate or deny knowledge. But he said

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view other offers from other schools. Even worse than early decision, Dannenberg said, is legacy admissions. The lack of public information about how many legacy students Northwestern admits concerns him, and his organization would advocate for doing away with considering legacy status altogether. “It does not reward diversity; it does not promote diversity; it does not reward achievement,” Dannenberg said. “It’s fundamentally unfair. It is a vestige of the aristocracy. At least everyone, theoretically, can apply early decision. But when it comes to the legacy preference, that is a matter of birth.” Quest+ co-president LaTesha Harris agreed that both early decision and legacy admissions are harmful to first-generation, low-income students. By considering if a student’s parent went to Northwestern, legacy admissions unfairly privileges those with connections to the University, the Medill senior said. “Legacy admissions (are) definitely a huge barrier to students who don’t have the resources that some students do,” Harris said. “They know what college is and they know what classes are and have connections at different places.” To reform some of these inequities,

he believes his participation and his strictness are his responsibility as president. “I’m pretty tough on those decisions,” Schapiro said. “But, at the end of the day, I’m the one who should make them.” To maintain separation, the admission office does not communicate with the Office of Alumni Relations and Development, whose responsibilities include coordinating and courting donors, as well as alumni outreach and running “We Will. The Campaign for Northwestern.” Admission staff is “not aware of potential donors when they’re reviewing applications,” Ward said. In creating a wall between those two offices, admission staff can’t take a family’s donor potential into account. But with President Schapiro, that wall does not exist — he reads applications and interacts with highlevel donors to the University. “President Schapiro is frequently involved in dealing with principal donors to the University, but not always,” Ward said in the email. Robert McQuinn, the vice president of alumni relations and development, forwarded a request for comment to NU’s media relations office but did not respond to an interview request. Though donors are kept secret from admissions officers, parents’ education background — including alumni status — are not. “While we like to know if an applicant had a parent

attend Northwestern, our goal is to determine if the applicant will be the first in their family to graduate from college,” Ward said. Schapiro said that when reading applications, he considers what a student can add to the Northwestern community rather than the potential for their parents to contribute to the University’s budget. However, he is unique as an admissions officer in that he, unlike Watson and the rest of the admissions staff, has access to donation information. In addition to reading applications, Schapiro also interviews 50 or 60 prospective students per year, he said. The interviews often vary: Some students are eager to express genuine enthusiasm for the University, some don’t have the GPA or test scores to get in and others, Schapiro can tell, are “just there ‘cause (of ) their grandma or something,” he said. While he said interviewees often assume they have an admissions advantage because they spoke to the president, he said if they don’t impress him, they’ve seriously hurt their chances. “Some people think if they get (into my office) and spend an hour with me, that somehow gets them a leg up,” Schapiro said. “But if I really don’t like them,” he said, pausing to laugh, “It doesn’t. It really doesn’t.”

Education Reform Now is urging both the U.S. Congress and the Illinois state legislature to pass the Access, Success and Persistence in Reshaping Education Act. The ASPIRE Act, introduced in the Senate in 2017 by a bipartisan coalition of Sen. Chris Coons (D - Del.) and Sen. Johnny Isakson (R - Ga.), would penalize colleges whose enrollment of Pell-eligible students remains in the bottom 5 percent of colleges. While Dannenberg said Northwestern’s improved efforts in increasing low-income enrollment would mean the ASPIRE Act, which has not been passed and is not expected to receive attention until after the 2020 election, would not initially affect it, Education Reform Now is also urging universities to become more affordable for students whose families earn less than $30,000 per year. Northwestern’s average aid package for those families is $65,080, according to the undergraduate admissions’ website. When subtracted from the total cost of tuition, room and board and fees at 2018-2019 rates, those families are still left to pay around $6113. Dannenberg said that figure is significantly higher than many peer institutions, including Harvard University, Duke University and the University of Chicago. Though the bill seems to be stalled federally,

Katlyn Riggins, a policy research analyst at Education Reform Now, said it could be used as a model for Illinois state legislatures to pick up and address problems of inequity. However, Illinois is lagging behind Congress. “I would say (the state bill’s) even more in the beginning phases,” Riggins said. “This has just been introduced on the state legislator’s side.” In the meantime, Dannenberg said Northwestern students and alumni have real power to influence the University’s decision-making on access and affordability for low-income students. At the University of Virginia, a student-led campaign of petitions and contacting donors, state legislators and local school districts successfully led administrators in Charlottesville to heighten their commitment to financial aid. Dannenberg said the UVA model could be applied at Northwestern. “Students have mobilized successfully to get their institutions to make a greater commitment to student financial aid and low-income student enrollment,” he said. “That’s the kind of thing that one could imagine folks at schools like Northwestern or the University of Chicago pursuing as well.”

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National News College scandal: 2 more, including former USC coach, agree to plead guilty LOS ANGELES — Two more people will plead guilty in the college admissions scandal, including a former University of Southern California soccer coach who has agreed to cooperate with the government’s widening investigation, federal authorities said Tuesday. Laura Janke, an assistant soccer coach at USC from 2007 to 2014, will plead guilty to a racketeering charge and cooperate with prosecutors, the U.S. attorney’s office in Massachusetts said. Her cooperation could open a key line of inquiry for investigators, who are continuing to probe the admissions scam perpetrated by a Newport Beach consultant, William “Rick” Singer. Fifty people, including 33 parents, have been charged in the far-reaching scheme. But prosecutors have signaled, in court filings and interviews with witnesses, that they are expanding the scope of their investigation. As the Los Angeles Times previously reported, prosecutors from Massachusetts were in Los Angeles last week, asking about students whose parents had yet to be charged. And a San Francisco Bay Area couple who brokered a cooperation deal has been questioned about who at USC and UCLA knew of an athletic recruiting scam, people familiar with the talks have said. Singer has admitted to bribing university coaches and officials to slip the children of his clients into their schools as phony athletes. Janke, 36, was for years deeply involved in the recruiting scheme, according to charging documents filed in federal court. She often served as Singer’s liaison with the coaches allegedly on his payroll, and created athletic profiles, replete with lies and fake accolades, for the children of his clients, prosecutors allege. Janke negotiated a formal cooperation deal, indicating that prosecutors believe she has provided, or will provide, credible information that is useful to

their investigation. With fake credentials and doctored photographs, prosecutors say, Janke passed off actress Lori Loughlin’s daughter as a recruited rower; the daughter of a USC dental professor, who was in fact a cheerleader, as a recruited lacrosse player; and the son of a San Diego media executive as an “elite school pole vaulter,” among other shams. The purported pole vaulter’s application was accompanied by a photograph of someone else, prosecutors say. Janke conspired with Singer while she was the assistant women’s soccer coach at USC, and continued after she left in 2014, according to charging documents filed in federal court. Most recently, she was employed as the director of girls soccer at the Geffen Academy at UCLA, a college prep school affiliated with the public university. A grand jury has indicted her former boss, Ali Khosroshahin, on a racketeering charge. Prosecutors say Janke and Khosroshahin reaped $350,000 from the scheme. Khosroshahin has pleaded not guilty. Khosroshahin led the women’s soccer program at Cal State Fullerton, where he coached Janke, before taking charge of the USC women’s soccer program in 2007. He was fired in 2013. Under the terms of her plea agreement, Janke will forfeit $134,213. Prosecutors said they will recommend a prison sentence at the low end of a range between 27 and 33 months. If they decide Janke provided information that furthered their investigation, prosecutors can recommend that she receive a sentence below that range. Toby MacFarlane, a Del Mar title insurance executive, also will plead guilty to a fraud conspiracy charge, the U.S. attorney’s office said, bringing to 14 the number of parents who have admitted taking part in Singer’s scheme. In announcing she would plead guilty, actress Felicity Huffman admitted to using Singer’s services to fraudulently inflate her daughter’s SAT score

and expressed remorse for what she called a “transgression” against the public and her daughter, whom she said had no knowledge of the scheme. Nineteen parents, including Loughlin and her husband, J. Mossimo Giannulli, have been indicted on charges of fraud conspiracy and money laundering conspiracy. They all have pleaded not guilty. Prosecutors say MacFarlane, 56, paid Singer and his associates $450,000 to ensure his two children were admitted to USC as recruited athletes. His daughter was recruited to the university as a soccer player in 2014 after submitting an athletic profile that said — among other falsehoods — she was a “U.S. Club Soccer All-American” for three years, according to a criminal complaint charging her father with fraud conspiracy. MacFarlane paid Singer $200,000 for the scam, prosecutors allege. Singer, the scheme’s admitted mastermind, even wrote an essay for MacFarlane’s daughter that described her as intensely competitive on the soccer field, “the one who looks like a boy amongst girls with my hair tied up, arms sleeveless, and blood and bruises from head to toe.” In truth, prosecutors say, MacFarlane’s daughter did not play the sport competitively. When the student was asked by the USC women’s soccer coach why she had not shown up for practice, she was told by Singer to say she had plantar fasciitis, prosecutors say. She graduated in 2018, never having played soccer at the university. MacFarlane paid an additional $250,000 in 2017 to ensure his son, who is 5-foot-5, was recruited to USC as a basketball player, prosecutors allege. Despite his height and the fact he did not play on his high school’s varsity team until his senior year, MacFarlane’s son was admitted to USC as a basketball recruit in 2017, according to the FBI affidavit. He attended the school briefly before withdrawing in 2018, prosecutors say. — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times

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Cats stretch win streak to 16, take both vs. Illinois By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

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Danielle Williams steps up to the plate. The freshman hit her second home run of the season against Illinois on Tuesday.

It doesn’t matter if the game is lopsided or tight. Northwestern just keeps finding ways to win. The No. 21 Wildcats (38-7, 17-0 Big Ten) blew out Illinois 8-0 in the opener of Tuesday’s doubleheader, but were clinging to a 4-2 lead in the seventh inning of the second game. Junior Morgan Newport, pitching in relief of freshman Danielle Williams, put the first two Fighting Illini (2719, 6-11) on base before retiring the next three to nail down the win. “We like the lefty matchup against their team,” coach Kate Drohan said. “We knew were going to go heavy with our lefties today. She’s really tough in that situation, so we had a lot of confidence in her.” Williams pitched the first 10 innings of the day before Newport took over for the final two. The freshman threw a five-inning shutout in the first game, which was shortened by the run rule because NU’s offense jumped on Illinois’ pitching staff. Sophomore second baseman Rachel Lewis singled and senior left fielder Morgan Nelson walked to lead off the first inning. A double steal put the runners at second and third before Lewis scored on an infield grounder. Th e Cats added two more in the inning when senior fi rst baseman

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Lily Novak reached on an error to make it 3-0. NU then put on a power display to break the game open. Williams proved she can do more than just pitch with a two-run, opposite-field homer in the third, and a two-run blast by freshman shortstop Maeve Nelson and a solo shot by freshman catcher Jordyn Rudd in the fourth accounted for the final margin. Williams took care of the rest, giving up four hits without a walk and striking out nine. After throwing just 74 pitches in the opener, Williams started the second game as well, holding Illinois scoreless for the first three innings. The Cats’ offense took a bit longer to get going than in the first game, but NU would only need one big swing to win. That swing came in the bottom of the third. The Cats loaded the bases with nobody out and the heart of the order coming up, but Fighting Illini ace Sydney Sickels came back to strike out both Maeve Nelson and freshman designated hitter Nikki Cuchran. Rudd, however, would not suff er a similar fate. Facing a 1-2

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count, she turned on a Sickels offering and launched it over the center-field wall for a grand slam, and suddenly NU led by four. “The one big thing about our team is we have each other’s back,” Rudd said. “So when two of them didn’t do as well they wanted, I knew I could be there and help out. She laid it a little too high, so it worked out pretty well.” Illinois finally broke through against Williams for two runs in the fourth, but Williams came back with a perfect fifth. With the meat of the Fighting Illini lineup coming up in the sixth, Drohan turned to Newport, who got through Illinois’ toughest hitters without much trouble before working out of the seventh-inning jam. The win was the Cats’ 16th in a row, their longest streak since 1985, and they lead the Big Ten by one game over Michigan with six games remaining. “Today was strictly about the matchup,” Drohan said. “Danielle’s having a heck of a season, but we have a great staff behind her.” benjaminrosenberg2021@u.northwestern.edu

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The NBA Draft Combine is the most important part of the pre-draft process — so important that the league expanded it from a two-day event in Chicago featuring 60 prospects to a four-day happening that now includes 80. For the players who don’t get that invitation, one of the biggest stages they can perform on during the predraft process is the Portsmouth Invitational Tournament, where the NCAA’s top seniors participate in a four-day, eight-team event attended by a large contingent of NBA representatives. This tournament — held last week in Virginia — was the first opportunity for Northwestern’s Vic Law and Dererk Pardon to show where they stand as they start their tenures as professional basketball players. For the first time in their careers, Law and Pardon played alongside comparable talents on teams that ran NBA-style off enses. According to Mark Hall, who coached Law’s team in the tournament, the former Wildcats forward particularly fared well in front of NBA scouts. “On the defensive end, he was able to lock down a wide variety of guys,” he told The Daily. “He proved very pivotal in our games. He was able to guard one through four without a problem.” That defensive ability, Hall said, was what first caught his attention when he watched film of Law in the leadup to the tournament. In their team’s first game, Law started off guarding a lesser perimeter-threat, but after former Virginia Tech guard Ahmed Hill made a few consecutive baskets, Hall switched Law onto him. “After that, there was nothing else for that kid to do,” Hall said.

Perhaps even more importantly for Law, who averaged 11.3 points in the tournament, the 6-foot-5.75-inch forward made over half of his 15 3-point attempts. Hall said he didn’t expect Law to be much of a shooter, but by the end of the tournament Law was running off screens looking for catchand-shoot opportunities. Pardon, who worked all season on expanding his offensive game, settled into a more traditional role by posting up less and running the pick-androll more. He led his team in scoring in the first game with 14 points and finished with averages of 10.7 points and 6.7 rebounds. The tournament also provides official measurements, and Pardon was listed at 6-foot-6.5 inches tall, a shorter height than the 6-foot-8 he had been measured as at Northwestern. After Portsmouth, Pardon and Law will spend the next two months training privately or attending smallgroup workouts at NBA facilities. Jeremy Woo (Medill ‘15), who covers the NBA Draft for Sports Illustrated and attended the Portsmouth Invitational, cited Law’s inconsistent 3-point shooting and Pardon’s limited athleticism as factors that make them “longshots” to be drafted in June. Woo told The Daily that a best-case scenario for the two would be going undrafted and receiving an Exhibit 10 contract, which would allow the team that signs them to keep them on their G League team throughout the season and increase their salary above the G League minimum. “If that’s what ends up happening, that’s great, but no matter what I think they’re both guys who can provide value overseas,” he said. “Realistically, they’re both longshots who will get workouts between now and the Draft.” charliegoldsmith2021@u.northwestern.edu

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Revenge is a dish best served on a cold afternoon in Evanston. Only a few weeks after Northwestern suffered a dampening defeat to Illinois-Chicago, the Wildcats put together a well-rounded performance en route to a 6-1 victory over their crosstown rivals at Miller Park. “(UIC’s) a good program,” coach Spencer Allen said. “They usually pitch us really, really tough too — and so we’ve never blown them out.” In fact, NU (17-20, 5-7 Big Ten) has rarely beaten the Flames (18-16, 11-6 Horizon) as of late, with Tuesday afternoon’s victory marking only the second time in the last nine tries the Cats have taken down their Windy City foes. With two runs on four hits in the first inning, NU matched its total offensive output from its previous matchup against the Flames. Cats starter Parker Hanks cruised through the first two innings of the game, inducing groundouts from five of the first eight batters he faced. Then in the third inning, the freshman worked his way out of a jam, allowing only one run after UIC loaded the bases with just one out. Hanks faced an identical situation in the fourth inning and escaped unscathed, forcing UIC third baseman Matt Bottcher to ground into a tailormade 4-6-3 double play to end the frame. The southpaw said he’s worked to utilize the natural sinking motion of his pitches to attack hitters and make them come over the top of the ball. “In those times, you really need to work on going after the guys and just letting them put the ball in play because you never want to walk a guy in that situation,” Hanks said. “Most of the time that they put in play, good things happen for the defense.” With the bases loaded in the bottom of the seventh inning, senior first

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baseman Willie Bourbon hit a towering fly ball to Flames left fielder Chris Papapietro, scoring shortstop Jack Dunn from third. NU added another run on a wild pitch from UIC righty Ryan O’Reilly. The offense kept rolling in the bottom of the eighth, as junior left fielder Leo Kaplan smashed the first pitch he saw over the Koldyke Field sign in left, plating two runs and placing an exclamation point on the Cats’ rivalry win. Kaplan, who has struggled at the plate and is hitting below the Mendoza Line this season, said he’s been working on choosing the pitches he swings at more selectively. As a junior,

he said every opposing pitcher he faces understands and is able to attack his weakness, so he’s had to adapt. The dinger could have been the perfect time for a celebratory bat flip, but Kaplan wasn’t taking his chances with the wind howling in. “I knew like, if I bat flip, and this hits the fence, and I get thrown out at second, I’ll never see the field again,” Kaplan said. “I hit the ball, I saw it go over and I was just like, I want to get in the dugout, see everybody.” Coming off a series in which NU was swept by Michigan, Allen said the win was huge because the team had to “earn it.” “There was no speech, I didn’t say anything,” Allen said. “It wasn’t … anything about the coaches, you know, the guys just — they know what they need to do and they’re real professional about it. They just went out and took care of business.” ryanw@u.northwestern.edu

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