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Multicultural Student Affairs office assistants describe a lack of support and action from professional staff, call for more consideration of student-driven needs and requests

By LAYA NEELAKANDAN

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Content warning: This story contains mentions of threats of gun violence.

When SESP freshman Zoe Lewis arrived on campus last fall, she knew she did not want to work directly

for Northwestern through her work-study. Coming to a compromise, she decided to apply for a job at Multicultural Student Affairs, a work environment she thought “should be better” because of its mission to support marginalized students.

However, Lewis said working at MSA did not meet her expectations. She said professional staff failed to listen to her concerns and took actions she believed were harmful to students. As a result, Lewis left her office assistant position in Winter Quarter.

“I signed up for this job because I thought it was supposed to be better — it has not turned out that way,” Lewis said. “Honestly, (the staff ) made my life so much harder first quarter where it probably negatively impacted how I was existing and being.”

As office assistants, students working at MSA primarily staff the front desks at MSA’s three locations: the Black House, the Gender and Sexuality Resource Center and the Multicultural Center.

Lewis isn’t the only community member who’s had

negative experiences with the office. Over the past academic year, multiple students have said they’ve felt unsupported and ignored by MSA professional staff members.

Weinberg freshman and former Daily reporter Alexis Schwartz said there’s “far too much responsibility” placed on office assistants.

Because MSA staff isn’t always around when office

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From caddying On D202’s next superintendent: to a community Marcus Campbell’s years at ETHS NU Evans Scholars talk social Campbell is set to assume the role this July after 21 years at the school experience, Greek life affiliation

By IRIS SWARTHOUT

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Tucked away in the sorority quad, the Evans Scholarship House hosts more than 40 students required to live on campus for all four years of their college life with one shared experience: golf caddying.

The Evans Scholarship is awarded yearly by the Western Golf Association to high school seniors and college freshmen with caddying experience, academic achievement, leadership qualities and financial need.

NU is one of about 20 schools

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nationwide that participate in the program but was the first institution to award the scholarship in 1930, when amateur golfer Chick Evans (NU 1913) created the fund to send caddies to college.

Though women have been eligible for the scholarship since 1954, it wasn’t until 2010 that they were allowed to move into the Evans Scholarship House. The building is affiliated with the Interfraternity Council — a relationship that dates back to the 1970s.

Weinberg junior and Evans Scholar Britney Pham was part

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By OLIVIA ALEANDER

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Marcus Campbell first arrived at Evanston Township High School/District 202 as an English teacher in September 2001. More than 20 years later, he’s set to become the district’s next superintendent this July.

“I’m just thrilled and grateful and honored that the board feels confident to move in this direction,” Campbell said.

“I’ve been here a long time,

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and I’m just grateful for the opportunity.”

Going into his tenure as superintendent, Campbell said he’s contemplating how best to move forward after what he referred to as difficult years for the district. He said ETHS students and staff need a sense of reassurance and a sense of family, which he hopes to provide.

Campbell acknowledged the challenges of working through the pandemic. He said every decision became significantly more demanding than it would have been before.

“We did our best, and now we have to continue to pick

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Marcus Campbell will be Evanston Township High School/District 202’s next superintendent. He has worked in the school since 2001.

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AROUND TOWN

Evanston residents push for better bike accessibilty

By LILY CAREY

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John Fervoy, an avid cyclist and Evanston resident, used to occasionally bike from Evanston to downtown Chicago for work. But hazardous bike routes and poorly marked streets made his commute consistently a “hassle.”

“Dead ends and our manmade infrastructure — the channel and the railroad embankment that runs through town — block off easy transit for bikes, making (biking options) mostly the busier streets,” Fervoy said. “There’s a challenge getting around those.”

Fervoy is a member of the local biking and structural advocacy organization Evanston Transit Alliance. He said members of the alliance have designated Evanston as the place “where the trails end” because of their struggles navigating local bike routes.

ETA joins a handful of Chicago-area organizations working to reduce bike transit barriers.

These groups advocate for the city to upgrade roads and infrastructure to support usable bike networks, which would allow cyclists to travel safely throughout Evanston, Chicago and beyond.

With rapidly changing public transit mask mandates and climate plans in Evanston and Chicago calling for infrastructure shifts, organizers said now is the perfect time for bike network upgrades.

“The whole point of this mission going forward is getting people to reduce the number of car trips and have them walking, biking, using public transit — really making sure the number of (car) dependents goes down in the city,” said Alex Perez, the advocacy manager of Active Transportation Alliance.

Active Transportation Alliance, an organization dedicated to promoting this type of infrastructure in the Chicago area, has worked closely with transit activism groups all over the region, including ETA, to push local governments to fund better bike infrastructure.

According to Perez and Fervoy, ETA is

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Local biking organizations are seeking to improve bike trails and infrastructure in Evanston, Chicago and surrounding areas.

currently pursuing a plan to extend the North Shore Channel Trail by 1.5 miles northeast from its current ending point off Green Bay Road. The proposed route would connect the trail to the Wilmette Harbor and the start of the Green Bay Trail.

The plan would create a bike trail that runs along the channel’s embankment, allowing cyclists to pass through the stretch of channel banks without passing through the Canal Shores Golf Course or nearby roads. Fervoy said Evanston and Wilmette city officials are considering the plan.

Fervoy said the North Shore Channel and the

Metra line running through the city both cut biking routes in Evanston. This mirrors other city structures in Evanston, like redlining, that have disproportionately cut off low-income and marginalized communities from accessible transportation paths.

Connecting the Wilmette community along the Green Bay Trail and the Evanston community along the North Shore Channel Trail is also essential, he emphasized.

“Right now, the trails that we have are kind of separate recreational facilities for different communities,” Fervoy said. “If you’re able to connect

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Skokie Bike Network, a Skokie-based transit alliance, is also working on similar infrastructure projects. Charlie Saxe, a founding member of Skokie Bike Network, said the group’s biggest undertakings include rebuilding a portion of Crawford Avenuebetween Golf Roadand Oakton Street, and adding bike lanes to Church Street.

Saxe, a bike commuter himself, said the group is committed to creating safer, more accessible bike routes along roads with heavy traffic.

“People who are experienced and confident cyclists can manage with that (traffic),” he said.

“But if you have people with young kids, for example, or if you have people who are not as confident or a little more intimidated by the traffic, that becomes pretty much a barrier.”

Optimizing public infrastructure to encourage cycling also has major environmental benefits, organizers said. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, transportation made up 27% of U.S. greenhouse emissions in 2020. Greenhouse gas emissions from transportation primarily come from burning fossil fuel for cars, trucks, ships, trains and planes, said the report.

On Monday, Evanston City Council declared a climate emergency and pledged to move its Climate Action and Resilience Plan to the top of its agenda. The plan which was passed in 2018, includes a transportation and mobility focus area, which aims to reduce carbon emissions and facilitate greater use of public transit and biking trails.

However, Perez and Fervoy both said Evanston and Chicago have failed to prioritize ecofriendly transit as part of their respective climate action plans. As infrastructure upgrades continue, Perez said bringing sustainability to the forefront is crucial.

“What’s really important now is advocating for specific plans, like giving us a network of protected bike lanes, giving us a network of bus lanes in the timeframe of these climate benchmarks,” Perez said. lilycarey2025@u.northwestern.edu

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ON CAMPUS

SOLR calls for respect of dining contract

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Students Organizing for Labor Rights publicized a petition Monday advocating for Northwestern and its food service provider, Compass Group, to respect dining and service workers and honor the contract they ratified in October 2021.

According to the petition, managers have made scheduling changes that increase worker responsibilities and have provided workers late notice of scheduling shifts. The workers’ contract stipulates they must be given four days’ notice of scheduling changes, but because this has not been respected, the lack of communication has led to workers missing shifts or being late, the petition said. As of 6 p.m.

Monday, about 200 NU community members have signed the petition.

“Over the course of the pandemic, neither Northwestern University nor Compass Group genuinely listened to service workers’ concerns until Compass workers voted to strike,” the petition said. “Workers should not have to threaten labor actions, putting themselves at risk, to be heard.”

Valentina Espinosa, a housekeeper at the James Allen Center, said rather than allowing staff to work their full 40 hours, Compass brings in temporary workers, and managers sometimes do the employees’ work. She said these temporary workers don’t always know how to do the job right, leaving tasks unfinished because Compass wanted to cut permanent employees’ hours.

“The main problem with not having enough employees right now is that some employees are taking on the job of more than one person,” Espinosa said through a translator. “One person is doing the job of like two or three.”

Compass also does not respect seniority with regard to overtime and working hours, Espinosa said.

According to the workers’ new contract, Compass is required to offer overtime to workers in order of seniority, but the petition states Compass has ignored those who do want to work overtime while forcing overtime on those who don’t.

The new Compass contract stipulates that workers

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A worker in Allison Dining Hall. A Students Organizing for Labor Rights petition says Compass Group has failed to honor their recent contract.

are provided one free, hot meal during shifts, according to the petition. However, the petition states that workers are routinely receiving “meager portions, unbalanced meals, or nothing at all.” Workers also have sometimes received the same food for several days — meals that are more likely to be leftovers that are spoiled and unhealthy, the petition states.

Compass did not respond to a request for comment.

Along with the center staff, SOLR has heard about staffing shortages from workers at the Kellogg Global Hub and campus dining halls, according to the petition. Medill senior Harrison Tremarello, a SOLR organizer and former Daily staffer, said the group decided to issue a petition after speaking to workers across campus and realizing these were recurring issues. “(Workers) told us there were some issues with the contract that might be a violation of the contract,” Tremarello said. “But even besides the contract, managers were definitely not taking into consideration workers’ feedback.”

Compass workers are represented through UNITE HERE Local 1. Espinosa, who is a union shop steward, also said Compass has been ignoring her and the

other workers.

Espinosa and other shop stewards are workers who represent other employees for the union, but rather than working with them, Compass has focused on contacting union headquarters.

“I have to be there for my coworkers in certain cases, when we’re talking to managers or supervisors,” Espinosa said. “They say they’ll work on the problem, but they never actually get to working on the problem.”

Given the yearslong struggle to regain their new contract, Tremarello said SOLR will continue to push Compass toward honoring its agreement.

Though workers are subcontracted through Compass, it’s important to note they are a “major part” of the NU community, Tremarello added.

“The University and Compass really should be taking into consideration what service workers are saying because they’re the ones who make this campus run,” he said. “By taking their concerns into account, it makes it better for everyone.” isabelfunk2024@u.northwestern.edu maiapandey@u.northwestern.edu

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Horowitz: NU’s Title IX process protects perpetrators ANNIE HOROWITZ

OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR

Content warning: This story discusses sexual assault and rape.

According to Northwestern, someone can penetrate you without your consent but not be a rapist.

The person who penetrated you can pour liquor down your throat until you can’t consent. Even after the University determines he endangered your life, it still won’t call him a rapist.

Last spring, I visited NU after I was accepted as a transfer student. An acquaintance invited me to his party, on a mission to get me wasted. He forcibly poured alcohol down my throat. He did this at least three times.

I became blackout drunk. I have a vague recollection of being in his bedroom, then nothing. Hours later, a stranger found me alone passed out in the living room covered in vomit. I filled in the rest: My acquaintance penetrated me without a condom, then he and his friend dressed me and carried me to the couch. I was unresponsive. While someone checked my breathing and rolled me onto my side so I wouldn’t choke, my acquaintance went to the beach.

My cousin and I paced her kitchen the next morning while researching how to get a rape kit. I sent my mom selfies in my hospital gown to reassure her I was okay. When she picked me up and asked how I was doing, I told her through tears my favorite shorts were in a police locker.

I hired a lawyer and filed a report. I had every advantage navigating the Title IX process. The investigators concluded I was credible; they caught him in several lies and found he colluded with his friends to align their stories. They could not trust his account. They interviewed witnesses who saw me incoherent, immobile and profusely vomiting within five minutes of the penetration.

But none of this mattered. The Office of Equity determined he penetrated me without consent, and I was not in a position to consent due to alcohol and marijuana consumption. However, they also decided a sober person would not have necessarily known I was unable to consent.

According to NU’s Interim Policy on Title IX Sexual Harassment, “Consent is not present when an individual does not have the capacity to give consent.” So within the same breath, the Office of Equity acknowledges I was raped, but refuses to hold the rapist accountable.

Instead, they found him responsible for mere “endangerment.” By pouring liquor down my throat, he put me in danger of something very bad happening, but he wasn’t responsible for doing the bad thing. And I was told that because endangerment is

not a crime of violence, I have no right to be heard by the sanctioning committee or be informed of his

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I came to NU excited. I now know it as a place where my rapist remains welcome, yet I can’t help wondering if I still am.

- ANNIE HOROWITZ, OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR

punishment. If there was one, I still don’t know.

He incapicitated me, then used my incapacitation to mount his defense. Even though the Office of Equity knew he lied about what happened before and after, they decided to believe his account about what happened in-between. He claimed to have believed I not only coherently, but enthusiastically, consented to having unprotected sex with him. I was too drunk to remember, so his unreliable and unbelievable testimony went unrebutted.

The Office of Equity made indefensible

inferences from the facts, particularly about the likelihood of my consent. I believe they did this because they were desperate to avoid finding a student guilty of rape. My experience highlights fundamental problems with the University’s approach to campus rape.

There is a very dangerous loophole in NU’s policy that allows rape to occur without a rapist. If you get someone so drunk, rape them and claim you couldn’t tell they were drunk, you will get away with it.

I am tired. I am tired of hearing my assailant’s lies about a sexual encounter for which I was not mentally present. My friends, my family and I are exhausted trying to make sense of a senseless conclusion. When I repeatedly asked the Office of Equity why I was not entitled to the outcome of my own case — to know whether my rapist was on campus — I was left unanswered. So, when I saw him in a 9:30 a.m. lecture on the first day of Spring Quarter, I was caught completely off guard. He is still in the class, and I am not. And this was the best NU could do. NU has not, and will not, protect me from him.

I came to NU excited. I now know it as a place where my rapist remains welcome, yet I can’t help wondering if I still am.

Annie Horowitz is a Weinberg sophomore. 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.

Podolsky: I came forward. I don’t owe you anything else.

ISABEL PODOLSKY

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I’ve retold the story of what happened to me on Sept. 23, 2021 to the point where it doesn’t feel like my story anymore. I initially thought this was a coping mechanism. Detachment is a feeling I came to know well after the release of my op-ed detailing my experience with Evanston Hospital.

In the following weeks, I was overwhelmed by a barrage of interview requests from journalists and calls from Northwestern administration and investigators. People (re)entered my life to offer support, condolences, or, in rare but upsetting cases, attempts to insert themselves into the narrative.

This was on top of managing my typical academic and extracurricular workload (and sanity). So, I had no choice but to take myself out of the equation.

It’s become clear to me over the past few months that my self-imposed separation from my story stems from something less easily identifiable than trauma. Mirroring the circumstances that led me to write my op-ed in the first place, I was hurt by institutions I trusted to treat me with respect.

To say all I received were “interview requests” would be facetious. My inbox was flooded, though I intentionally did not provide readers with any contact information. I received inquiries from journalists on Facebook and LinkedIn. A producer from a nationally-televised morning show got ahold of my personal phone number and called me multiple times per day requesting an interview, even offering to fly me to New York so I could share my story in the show’s studio. A Chicagobased radio station emailed my academic advisor urgently requesting my contact information, just because my name is listed on the department’s website. My family, too, received requests in a similar vein. Apparently, when I signed my name

to my story, I and those closest to me gave up our right to privacy.

I’m lucky my mother has years of experience with handling media inquiries, or else I would have buckled under the sheer number of requests I received. I was able to deflect or ignore most requests without feeling guilty. However, the inquiries I did accept did a number on my mental health. I was misquoted in one prominent publication; when I called to request for that mistake to be removed from the article, all they did was delete

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I have to live with a retelling of the worst night of my life being the first thing people see when they look up my name. I also gave up the right to anonymity in the resulting investigations of my allegations. The bottom line is that I shouldn’t have to put anything else out there, not unless I explicitly declare that I want to.

- ISABEL PODOLSKY, Op-Ed Contributor

my last name. I broke down on the phone with an education reporter from a different national paper when she pressed too far down a line of inquiry that brought back memories I was not ready to reckon with personally, let alone in front of a national audience. After both calls, I felt hollow,

helpless and as exposed as I’d been on that hospital cot weeks before.

Was I a person or a story to these reporters? I ask this with genuine curiosity, because I do not believe any of the reporters acted with malice.

Whenever I doubt this conclusion, I think about how the morning-show producer, whose actions were the most invasive, profusely apologized to my mother after she confronted him about his behavior. I haven’t heard from him since. And, I’m not deluding myself by thinking these reporters were supposed to be my friends; they had a job to do.

Yet, I refuse to believe that apologies after the fact are enough. My story was sensitive, and it should have been obvious that I was too. I hope this producer, as well as the other journalists whom I interacted with, understand where I’m coming from. I doubly hope they prove this by acting with genuine compassion (and I mean genuine, not just as a means to an end) toward future interviewees.

This starts and ends with not invading their privacy in the manner that mine was breached.

If you’re reading this looking for an outpouring of trauma, that is not — and never was — what I want to provide. I’m definitely not asking for pity.

I’m glad that, for the most part, I’ve been able to distract myself and move on as news coverage has.

I did have a disappointing engagement with the Office of Equity. Its final report was littered with language affirming my credibility, but it refused to hold anyone accountable for what happened. I was, for better or for worse, expecting that.

Yet, there is a part of me that still feels exploited by how little say I had over my body and my words, and another less rational part of me that’s upset I couldn’t fulfill the expectations some of those journalists had for me. All I had to share were the words I’d already written, yet people came to me expecting more, like some scathing takedown of Greek life. That’s not the story I wished to tell, nor the one that fit my experience that night and the nights after. So why do I feel like, in some way, I failed?

How could I have not already said enough?

The truth is, I wrote my op-ed so I wouldn’t have to say anything else to anyone else. There, in writing, was my experience in its purest form, wielded as a weapon. In calls with administration, I could tell I was being brushed off, and I was fed up. I didn’t want to go public with my ordeal, but I knew I wouldn’t be listened to otherwise.

Unfortunately, my assumption was proven right.

I’m confident my article caused positive change to the operations of Evanston Hospital, so I have no regrets about what I did. But I have to live with a retelling of the worst night of my life being the first thing people see when they look up my name. I also gave up the right to anonymity in the resulting investigations of my allegations. The bottom line is that I shouldn’t have to put anything else out there, not unless I explicitly declare that I want to.

A few days ago, the editor of this section asked me what The Daily could’ve done better in the aftermath of my experience. Honestly, I was taken aback by this question. Through all the stress I underwent in the wake of my op-ed’s publication and its resulting virality, The Daily and the student-journalism community as a whole was an integral part of my support system. Without the help of students far more engaged in the world of journalism than I’ll ever be, I can’t imagine I would’ve even written about my experience. So, I had, and have, nothing negative to say. I just hope all of the future journalists at this school maintain this empathy, because if they do, I’m optimistic about the future of the press. It’s possible that, sometime in the next few decades, people like me will not be forced to retell their story until it ceases to feel like theirs.

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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SHPE looks to build community for Latine engineers

By STERLING ORTIZ

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Since Northwestern’s Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers first formed in 1992, the organization has provided community and career support to Latine students taking classes in the McCormick School of Engineering.

Now, with an 18-member executive board and events attended by over 100 students, the group is also seeking to diversify internally and engage more of the NU community.

Ellen Worsdall, the group’s adviser, has been working with the NU chapter of the national organization since October 2000. She said the students’ ambition is one of the things she appreciates most about working with SHPE, Worsdall said. “(NU and the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers) tend to attract unbelievably dynamic individuals who really believe in making a difference in the world,” Worsdall said.

McCormick junior and SHPE President Antonio Rocha said he joined SHPE to advance his academics and find a strong community on campus.

“We try to be like a community for the freshmen (to) get them to know one another and get some leadership experience on their resume,” Rocha said. “That would be helpful to do things over the summer, like (an) internship in the future.”

One of the group’s recent priorities has been increasing the number of female students in the organization as a whole and on its executive board. McCormick sophomore and co-Outreach Chair Vianey Guadian has been working on this effort.

Guadian said she was raised in Brighton Park, a neighborhood of Chicago that’s 81% Latine. When she arrived at NU last year, she said the contrast in diversity was stark. At NU, she’s a Latina at a predominantly white institution and a woman in a majority male field of study.

“In the core classes, which is generally what McCormick students take, you see 30% of the class are women,” Guadian said. “This disparity made me uncomfortable.”

Even within SHPE, Guadian said she didn’t immediately feel comfortable. When she first joined, she said she was hesitant to attend meetings because it was very “male-dominated,” with only about 25% of the group identifying as women.

However, she and her friends ultimately decided to join in an effort to change that demographic.

“We wanted to see more women from the same backgrounds as us in positions that help Latino and Hispanic students connect to Northwestern,” Guadian said. “(We also saw it as) as a good way to find a support system with people that I could relate to (and) a way to network with other students and companies.”

Though it has not always been the case in the

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SHPE members pose with Project LETS members after a mental health event.

past, women currently comprise around half of the organization. Rocha, Guadian and Worsdall all said they are proud of the increase in gender diversity the organization has seen over the past few years.

Members also take pride in the organization’s outreach efforts, both to other NU organizations and to Chicago-area schools like Evanston Township High School. The group is also hosting a Lakefill soccer tournament Saturday for its members and the larger NU community.

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Rocha said he enjoys participating in these events because he sees it a way of paying his education forward. “(When I was in high school), people from SHPE came and held an engineering event to bring awareness about what engineering was and things like that,” Rocha said. “Once I came to college, I wanted to see if that was a thing that existed.” sterlingortiz2022@u.northwestern.edu

NU announces search committee to find next SESP dean Northwestern announced the formation of a search committee to choose the next School of Education and Social Policy dean Monday.

The 12-member committee will include current students, alumni, faculty and staff, who will identify a slate of suitable candidates. Provost Kathleen Hagerty will oversee the committee, which will also include members like Executive Assistant Lorraine Cassis and Director for Strategy and Policy Mearah Quinn-Brauner.

“The committee will begin its work immediately and will engage the SESP community to obtain input on the desired attributes and experience of the dean, understand the community’s needs and collect nominations of potential candidates for the role,” a University news release said.

Members of the broader NU community can submit input and nominations to the committee through a dean search email.

The committee will also receive assistance from WittKieffer, a global executive search firm that appoints candidates to a variety of fields including healthcare, life sciences and education.

SESP Prof. Emma Adam will chair the committee. Adam is a developmental psychologist with a specialization in child, adolescent and young adult well-being.

The search for a new dean follows current SESP Dean David Figlio’s announcement of his departure.

Figlio, who assumed his position in 2017, will depart NU on May 15 to serve as provost of the University of Rochester.

Dan McAdams, the Henry Wade Rogers Professor of Psychology and a professor of human development and social policy, will act as interim dean until the appointment of the next dean.

— Joanna Hou

Northwestern Memorial shuts down after armed intruder threat alert Northwestern Memorial Hospital paused operations Sunday night after an armed intruder alert, according to Northwestern Medicine spokesperson Christopher King.

“Hospital Security, Chicago Police Department and Northwestern University Police responded promptly and confirmed there was no active threat,” King told The Daily in an email.

Located in NU’s downtown Chicago campus, the hospital is the primary teaching affiliate for the Feinberg School of Medicine.

The lockdown was implemented at about 8:40 p.m. after the hospital received a phone threat to its building at 251 E. Huron St., according to a CPD spokesperson.

According to reports from the scene, a SWAT team was present among the responders.

The hospital resumed normal operations at about 10:30 p.m., King said. NM has not provided any further information about the nature of the threat.

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assistants work late-night shifts, student workers are sometimes left to independently address major issues, such as threat assessments and the relaying of student concerns.

“When you sit at the front desk, you have to bear the brunt of whatever decisions the professional staff makes, which is, in my opinion, incredibly unfair,” Schwartz said. “We signed up to nurture a multicultural space at Northwestern, to help this community to be a positive influence and create positive change.”

Scheduling struggles MSA was founded in 2004 after years of suggestions from external consultants and the African American Student Affairs Strategic Planning Committee, according to MSA’s website.

The office assistant position is open to all students and hires many employees through the Work-Study Program. According to the application, responsibilities include opening and closing buildings, “general office duties as assigned” and other programming assistance.

While the 2021-22 office assistant application says the job requires eight to 12 hours per week and weekend availability, some students said MSA’s scheduling processes are disorganized. At the beginning of each quarter, students indicate preferred times and locations for shifts, though most students work in multiple buildings.

When Schwartz filled out her preferences, she said she requested to be placed in the GSRC and MCC on morning shifts.

However, Schwartz said two of her three weekly shifts were scheduled in the Black House, and the staff placed her on consistent late-night shifts. “(Working late shifts) was honestly taking a pretty significant toll on my mental and physical wellbeing, as well as my ability to perform academically,” Schwartz said.

Lewis said MSA staff members were “absolutely horrendous” with scheduling. As a biracial student, she said she also felt uncomfortable working at the front desk of the Black House without any anti-racism or sensitivity trainings.

Schwartz and Lewis said many office assistants raised this issue, and the students who frequent these spaces also brought these concerns to MSA staff.

According to MSA Director Alejandro Magaña, who took over the role in October 2021, staff can’t intentionally place students in certain spaces based on identities due to human resource laws regarding discrimination. However, Assistant Director Aaron Golding said MSA does consider how office students’ identities factor into their work experiences.

“We’re very mindful of how identity plays out, obviously, in the spaces that we oversee, so (we’re) thoughtful of that as well,” Golding said.

A Weinberg senior and former office assistant, who asked to stay anonymous for privacy reasons, said they didn’t understand why MSA staff asked for office assistants’ preferences if they weren’t going to honor them. “(Office assistants) clearly chose the preferences so that people could go and be in communal spaces that they feel the most comfortable in,” they said. “(Staff ) should’ve thought about what would be best for students and take student commentary into consideration.”

‘A Black student was banned from the Black House’ Schwartz and Lewis said a student approached them during one of their shifts in January to ask why they were working in a space meant for the Black community.

The student, a SESP fifth-year who asked to remain anonymous for privacy reasons, was an office assistant for over two years until they were fired in November 2021.

According to the student, MSA said they were fired because their values did not align with the office’s.

Alleging that they stole a portrait of Barack Obama from the Black House and opening an investigation with the Office of Community Standards, MSA also banned the student from the space in January.

In the time they worked as an office assistant, the student said MSA transformed from an organization supporting Black autonomy to one collecting information about the students it serves — a change they attributed to new leadership.

Unlike this past academic year, they said their first two years at MSA were rewarding and enjoyable, and office assistants were close with the staff. But they said they feel priorities have shifted.

“What they want to do is surveil and not necessarily create a community where there’s accountability and trust,” they said. “MSA is just … disconnected from the Black community and is also engaging in anti-Black practices.”

After Schwartz and Lewis’ conversation with the SESP fifth-year, the pair brought the student’s concerns to the professional staff, hoping to find actionable solutions.

At the time, Schwartz said it seemed the staff took the issue seriously. But on Jan. 28, office assistants received an email from Austin Gardner, an administrative assistant at MSA, informing them the student had been “temporarily restricted” from entering the Black House.

“We recognize that there might be feelings around having to do this,” the email read. “We want you to know our goal is to reset boundaries and to support the wellness of OAs.” The email said MSA expected office assistants to

notify staff if the student entered the space rather than physically restricting their access, but office assistants still said they were uncomfortable with the situation.

“A Black student was banned from the Black House,” Schwartz said in apparent disbelief. “We were to help enforce a ban against a Black student being in the Black House.”

Schwartz said she sent a “pointed and long” email to the professional staff about MSA’s ban. She said multiple office assistants were prepared to quit within the week if the student did not receive a formal apology and reinstated access to the Black House.

As director, Magaña said he could not comment on why MSA decided to ban the student due to privacy reasons. Although their access to the Black House was reinstated in February, the student said they have not received an apology from MSA staff.

Upset by the lack of action, both Schwartz and Lewis quit their jobs at MSA by the end of the week.

“I don’t feel comfortable working in a place that bans someone from their own affinity space and also ignores students coming in to voice their concerns,” Lewis said. “If you say you’re there for a group of students, you should be.”

Other students were also angered by MSA’s actions. The anonymous Weinberg senior said receiving the email about the incident from Gardner was “a slap in the face.”

“Already, this campus is so white and so dedicated to preserving and upholding whiteness,” they said.

“For them to prevent a Black student and a Black activist from entering one of the few Black spaces on campus is so violent.”

Complaints and confusion Days after the anonymous SESP fifth-year approached Schwartz and Lewis in the Black House, both students said they received emails from the Office of Equity regarding the incident, asking if they wanted to file an official complaint against the student.

According to a Jan. 26 email obtained by The Daily, the letter said the office learned about “a concern involving identitybased conduct by another student.” Neither Schwartz nor Lewis reported the incident, and they said they were surprised by the email.

W hile Schwar tz acknowledged the pair’s conversation with the anonymous student was “rather intense,” she said she never felt threatened or targeted. Both students said they still don’t know who notified the office, but have expressed frustration over the fact that the office was notified on their behalf without their knowledge.

“Now that’s something that Northwestern has my name attached to with zero consent or conversation at all,” Schwartz said.

Magaña said he could not comment on the matter

because issues involving the Office of Equity are personal and confidential.

The email from the Office of Equity suggested next steps for both students to take, including meeting with the office to file an official complaint.

However, Schwartz and Lewis said they ignored the communication.

“No one ever asked us if they could refer our name to the (Office of Equity) or anything like that,” Lewis said. “It wasn’t a conversation before or after that was mentioned to us.”

On April 21, the anonymous SESP fifth-year also received an email from the Office of Equity detailing allegations filed against them for “race-based harassment.” The student said they did not know who notified the office or why they received the email two months after their previous investigation was closed.

The email outlined patterns of conduct in the allegation, including calling student employees at the Black House to ask about their race and advocating for non-Black employees to be fired. The student said they did not discriminate based on race when asking questions and did not advocate for anyone to be fired.

Reporting a gun threat On Feb. 22, a student notified an office assistant of a threat written on a whiteboard at the Multicultural Center. The message read, “I am insane, also I have a gun.”

As one of the office assistants working that evening, Communication sophomore Aleah Vega said she tried to contact her supervisors to determine what protocol to follow. She said her supervisors were not immediately available, as the incident occurred at about 7 p.m., hours after they went home for the day.

Left to assess the situation and take action without extensive safety preparations, Vega said she and her coworkers decided to check the whole building to make sure no one was hiding with a gun, eventually calling University Police. After UP arrived 20 minutes later, Vega said the officers performed the same inspection and then deferred to the students for potential next steps.

Vega eventually locked up the MCC, and her coworker closed the Black House as well. All MSA spaces remained closed for days following the incident.

“Northwestern pushes so hard for police presence, and the one time police presence would have been kind of clutch, they didn’t really do anything,” Vega said. “It was just taken so nonchalantly. It was just really bizarre … Why does no one know what to do right now?”

Vega said she could only get in touch with the professional staff after the situation was diffused. While her supervisor invited her to follow up with staff, she said she was not comfortable returning to the building — or her job.

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though it was serious to the students present that night.

“It’s almost like it never happened,” Vega said.

“What happened was definitely the University’s fault and MSA’s fault, and then it was kind of skipped over, and the next week, it was like it didn’t even happen.”

Magaña said the office assistants did what the staff would’ve wanted them to do by alerting UP, contacting staff and closing the space.

Since the incident, Magaña said the staff has been working to change its protocols so office assistants are prepared in the future.

“We’ve looked at additional measures across our spaces and in collaboration with folks in different offices around what additional safety measures and protocols can be put in place,” Magaña said. “We’ve installed panic buttons in the space. We’ve activated the administrator on call to be a resource for students — especially in the evenings — to have a first point of contact.”

University spokesperson Hilary Hurd Anyaso said the University takes threats and acts of intimidation seriously but was unable to find a suspect.

“Unfortunately, the investigation did not identify any individual(s) who may be responsible for the writing on the MCC whiteboard, and due to the lack of actionable information, the investigation has been closed,” she said in an email to The Daily.

Vega said she does not plan on returning to her job at MSA, and her only point of staff contact since the incident has been Golding. Although she was told to go to Counseling and Psychological Services, she said she felt isolated by a lack of institutional support because “CAPS ain’t shit.”

“It’s just very ironic that the multicultural spaces, the jobs that are supposed to be for multicultural students, (are) so unsafe and so unregulated and unorganized,” Vega said. “It just feels very weird, intentional.”

Pay delays and training troubles These workplace issues aren’t the only problems MSA office assistants face. In the fall, multiple student employees said they experienced delays in work compensation. The anonymous Weinberg senior

said their first paycheck was more than a month late, even though they were supposed to be paid on a biweekly basis.

They said the compensation delay was worrying, especially for students who rely on their paychecks to cover bills and other costs.

Lewis said she and other office assistants also experienced payment delays, and her first paycheck was for $13 per hour instead of the advertised $13.60 per hour. She said navigating these issues outside of work took an additional toll.

“When I left work, I was trying to be done because that wasn’t a possibility most of the time,” Lewis said. “It was so much emotional stress outside of work.”

The payment problem was eventually resolved, Lewis said, but she still felt like she was working unpaid for the majority of Fall Quarter 2021 because her check did not arrive until just before Thanksgiving.

According to Magaña and Golding, the return to in-person operations during the 2021-22 academic year caused Universitywide delays in processing payments. Magaña said the backlog in human resources caused delays and errors in paperwork processing.

“As we become aware of those situations, we work on the back end to remedy those as quickly as we can with HR to make sure that everyone gets compensated for their work,” Magaña said.

Months have passed since the anonymous SESP fifth-year first brought up concerns regarding nonBlack students working in the Black House, especially without training. But Weinberg sophomore and current office assistant Nélianne Warner said MSA still has not initiated any meetings or trainings for office assistants.

Warner said she has had a “fairly neutral” experience working at MSA, but the staff has not prepared office assistants to address situations involving cultural differences.

“It’s disappointing to keep seeing things happening for minority students and in minority student spaces and then never really getting fully resolved,”

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Warner said.

Golding said the lack of training is a symptom of reopening MSA spaces after almost two years of virtual services.

The staff has coordinated meetings with office assistants to discuss the legacy and importance of the Black House, Golding said. Still, Warner said MSA has not equipped non-Black students with the tools needed to work in a Black space.

“One thing that we are navigating is a scaling up of our procedures, our operations, in a big way,” Golding said. “Making sure that we are able to get everyone in the same space at the same time has been a challenge that we’re figuring out as we go along.”

Lewis said she wishes the staff would have given office assistants proper training, but she still believes MSA should hire more Black students to work in the Black House.

At one point, Lewis said MSA staff told her not enough Black students applied for the role. But she also said she knew multiple Black students who were rejected by MSA. “I’m not sure how that adds up at all,” Lewis said.

“It’s an office assistant position, you’re sitting at a desk — literally anyone at Northwestern could’ve gotten that job.”

A need for broader change These issues aren’t exclusive to NU. At Harvard University, students have been advocating for a physical space dedicated to serving students from marginalized backgrounds for almost half a century, according to The Harvard Crimson.

According to the article, past Harvard administrators have countered these calls by arguing that a separate space would cause racial separation. However, the article states that the current administration is listening to student perspectives as it considers creating a multicultural center.

At the University of Michigan, a Black graduate student sent a letter to administration frustrated that white organizations were reserving spaces at the school’s Multicultural Center, “kicking Black

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and brown students out,” according to The Michigan Daily.

A month later, a white student responded to the letter by claiming it was racist toward white people in an article published in The Michigan Review, sparking controversy.

While NU’s MSA issues are specific to the University, students’ demands across different universities echo similar concerns about the institutional treatment of marginalized students in affinity spaces.

For the office assistants who left their jobs at MSA last quarter, their demands are clear.

Lewis said she wants the professional staff to acknowledge its wrongdoings and apologize for its actions. Schwartz said she thinks there needs to be a better system in place so there isn’t as much responsibility and burden placed on office assistants, especially after 5 p.m.

The anonymous Weinberg senior emphasized that office assistants are just students, whether they are trying to pay their bills, manage a crisis or navigate bans on other students.

“The whole point (of MSA) is to support students with the means that you have, financially and spatially, and so if they’re not even doing that … then why have the MSA?” they said.

Lewis said she won’t return to an NU workstudy job because of her MSA experience. She now works in Evanston because she no longer believes there are any “good subsections of Northwestern work.”

Like Schwartz and Lewis, Vega said she approached the role expecting a completely different experience than the one she had.

“I went into the job thinking that it was a safe space, but now I just completely feel like they’re on the regular Northwestern agenda,” Vega said.

“I would criticize them for claiming to be a space that’s safe for students of color to work, but using that as a mask to just be like any other place in the school.” laya@u.northwestern.edu

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NU, 7th Ward group talk Ryan Field rebuilding

By CHARLOTTE VARNES

daily senior staffer @charvarnes11

When Northwestern plays at Ryan Field, 7th Ward resident Ken Proskie said his house looks like a movie set. The lighting from the field shines directly into his bedroom, making it seem like the middle of the day well after the sun has gone down.

Proskie, who has lived east of Ryan Field since 1985, has been vocal about NU athletics’ impact on the 7th Ward. He said he previously protested to City Council in 2019, when the University sought permission to hold for-profit, professional events at Welsh-Ryan Arena.

The rebuilding of Ryan Field, first announced in September 2021, marks a new chapter in the relationship between 7th Ward residents and NU. As part of a working group of residents collaborating with the University, Proskie is trying to make sure the next chapter is an improvement from the past.

“It’s the first time that Northwestern and the neighbors have sat down together and tried to work together positively in a transparent, honest way and rebuild some trust,” Proskie said.

Ald. Eleanor Revelle (7th) said Dave Davis, NU’s executive director of neighborhood and community relations, first approached her about forming the group after he spoke about the rebuild at a 7th Ward meeting. The pair created the group as a forum for residents to share input about the rebuild in a timely manner, she said.

The working group, which first met in February, includes four residents from the east, west, south and north sides of the stadium. Davis and a few NU representatives are members as well.

City stops no- mowing initiative to support native plantlife, local pollinators Evanston will no longer participate in No Mow May, a national initiative designed to support native plantlife and local pollinators, the city announced Wednesday.

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Ryan Field. Evanston residents and Northwestern have worked alongside each other to discuss concerns about the Ryan Field rebuild.

Proskie, who serves as the representative for the east side, maintains an email list reaching 84 residents as a way to solicit feedback. He said there are three main areas of resident concern so far: parking, the physical design of the stadium and the construction process.

The new parking lot has been one of the biggest concerns among residents. Some residents’ hopes for the revamped east parking lot include installing proper stormwater drainage, refraining from building a parking garage and maintaining the current structure of Wildcat

Alley, which is a green space near the stadium where fans host tailgates.

Angela Shaffer, the executive director of Central Street Evanston, called parking a “big issue” in the area and predicted it will be a concern for the businesses surrounding Ryan Field.

Both Revelle and Proskie said they have heard concerns about the design of the stadium, including the impact of lights and video boards on residents living nearby. For many, Proskie said it’s important that the stadium reflects and respects its surroundings in a residential

The initiative would have encouraged residents not to mow their lawns during the month of May. Studies from national organizers show letting grass grow uninterrupted protects pollinators and the plants they need to live, in addition to keeping chemicals out of the ground.

An Evanston ordinance typically limits lawn growth to 8 inches citywide. City parks are mowed regularly, which Friends of Lovelace Park organizer Sigrid Pilgrim told The Daily

in an April interview can prevent native plants from forming permanent root structures.

The city had planned to enter into a landscaping contract which would include mowing in Butler, Harbert and Twiggs parks. At a Monday City Council meeting, Ald. Devon Reid (8th) unsuccessfully proposed modifying the contract to start in June to accommodate No Mow May. Other councilmembers including Ald.

neighborhood.

Construction is important to residents as well, Proskie said, but it hasn’t been discussed at working group meetings. He said neighbors worry about noise after the building of Ryan Fieldhouse. Often contractors would crowd the parking lot at Ryan Field, making noise in the neighborhood as early as 5 a.m., he said.

Shaffer said she hasn’t attended the working group but feels well-informed by attending University-run meetings about the rebuilding.

At Central Street Evanston, she has previously worked closely with NU Athletics and hopes to continue doing so throughout the rebuild process.

“The working group has met five times since February, and the meetings have served as a useful forum for neighbors to share issues, concerns and suggestions about the Ryan Field project,” University spokesperson Jon Yates said in an email to The Daily.

Proskie said the working group has been a positive way to rebuild trust between NU and Evanston residents. He said it has mostly been residents providing feedback while the University listens, and he hopes to hear more about NU’s plans soon.

Revelle said Davis has been sincere and willing to listen to residents throughout the process. She said the working group has been helpful so far and expects the rebuilding to become a more prominent issue in years to come.

“This working group is a really good way to proceed,” Revelle said. “It shows the University is really interested in hearing from the neighbors at the beginning of the process…

This is probably as good a process as I could picture for us.” charlottevarnes2024@u.northwestern.edu Jonathan Nieuwsma (4th) and Ald. Bobby Burns (5th) expressed reservations about changing the landscaping contract, citing upcoming events the city plans to host in the parks in May. At Monday’s meeting, Acting Public Works Director Edgar Cano said if left unmowed, grass in city parks would be expected to grow 6 to 10 inches tall during the month of May.

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City Council declares climate emergency in Evanston

By AVANI KALRA

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City Council unanimously passed a resolution declaring a climate emergency in Evanston and implementing an immediate mobilization effort to restore climate stability on Monday night .

The resolution passed following a statement from Mayor Daniel Biss, who acknowledged the family of Adam Abaijan, the city’s recreation program manager of Lakefront Operations. Abaijan died on Wednesday.

The resolution says the city will increase its commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. It calls for City Council to implement the Climate Action and Resilience Plan as a primary council goal. CARP’s goals include 100% renewable electricity for all properties by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2050.

The climate emergency resolution was introduced jointly by Mayor Daniel Biss, Alds. Eleanor Revelle (7th) and Jonathan Nieuwsma (4th) and the Evanston Environment Board.

“I wholeheartedly endorse the concept of the climate emergency, especially since it’s paired with 22 concrete steps we’re committed to taking this year,” Nieuwsma said. “I’m less frustrated and more optimistic now after this vote passed.”

The city adopted CARP in 2018, setting sweeping goals to combat climate locally. However, more recently some residents have criticized the plan for being too vague.

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City Council unanimously passed a resolution Monday night declaring a Climate Emergency in Evanston.

Monday’s resolution will provide the city with a more specific schedule of legislation and projects. The council hopes to remain accountable and on track.

Shortly before City Council voted on the climate emergency resolution, Cara Pratt, Evanston’s sustainability and resilience coordinator, presented a CARP update. She said the city has achieved its goal of 100% renewable energy for municipal operations by 2020.

“City government is more nimble than other levels

of bureaucracy while also having the authority to enact creative legislation that has a tangible impact on the lives of our neighbors and our neighborhoods,” Pratt said. “At the same time, the urgency for action on climate change is growing.”

Pratt said the city is also on track to meet many CARP goals including reducing building energy consumption by 2025, achieving 100% renewable energy supply for all properties in Evanston by 2030

and reducing building energy consumption by 25% by 2025.

However, the city is not on track for other key goals within CARP such as a zero waste, carbon neutrality for municipal operations, increasing the community waste diversion rate and the planting of 500 net new trees by 2025.

Pratt said achieving these goals will cost hundreds of millions of dollars.

“That isn’t to say it should cost taxpayer money locally,” Pratt said. “I think it’s to say that we, as a team, need to think about creative solutions for finding ways to finance as well as to continue to robustly staff many city departments that have a stake in different aspects of this plan.”

Pratt said the most urgent hires include a staff member who can enforce the energy and water benchmarking ordinance and additional staff on the forestry department.

Some Evanston Township High School students came to speak in favor of Resolution 32-R-22. One sophomore read testimonials written by high school attendees at ETHS’ first Climate Justice Conference.

They said CARP’s implementation is crucial for young people especially.

“CARP would allow for the children of Evanston to experience a higher quality of life,” they said. “One student wrote: ‘I am terrified for our future. I’m terrified of the irreparable damage and lives lost to climate change, and I’m terrified of being complacent.” avanikalra2025@u.northwestern.edu

EPD officer founds artisan Badge Brew Coffee Roasters

By ELENA HUBERT

the daily northwestern @elenahubert25

Working around the clock as a detective requires caffeination. For Evanston Police Department officer Mike Jones, that often meant convenience store coffee loaded up with milk and flavoring to make it palatable.

“It’s just not the natural way the coffee was intended to be consumed,” Jones said.

Last July, after 10 years of thinking about getting into the coffee business, Jones formed Badge Brew

Coffee Roasters. Jones said he originally intended to leave policing out of the company.

But he later changed his mind.

“It didn’t make sense to take a part of who I am and what I committed for the last 20 years and not continue that in my life,” Jones said.

Badge Brew offers four signature blends with police-themed names like “The Recruit” and “Full Pursuit.”

Proceeds from sales go toward the 100 Club of Illinois, which offers long-term support for families of officers killed or injured in the line of duty, and Blue H.E.L.P., which focuses on mental health awareness for police officers.

To focus more on Badge Brew, Jones transitioned to working as a community police officer last August after spending 10 years as a homicide detective. He said the time he spends working at EPD and operating Badge Brew total around 80 hours per week.

“He just really has a passion for it, to the point that this is something he committed himself to while he still works full time,” his wife Brandy Jones said.

Tosha Wilson serves as a sergeant at EPD and has worked alongside Mike Jones for the past 15 years. An aspiring entrepreneur herself, Wilson said it is important for business owners to support each other.

“There’s not a lot of Black people, let alone Black men, pushing to brew their own coffee or roast their

own beans,” Wilson said. “I thought it was cool.”

Evanston, Skokie and Wilmette Police Departments drink Badge Brew, as does a U.S. military base on the Horn of Africa, Jones said.

Jones said his original plan was to have Badge Brew fully operational by the time he retires in about three years from now, a goal he said the company has almost reached.

“It’s always been a vision of mine, I’m the type of person (where) if I put the effort into it, I can accomplish it,” Jones said. “The only thing that surprises me is it moves so fast.” elenahubert2025@u.northwestern.edu

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of the Chicago-based WGA Caddie Academy — which works to encourage women to join the maledominated profession.

“The whole reason why I caddied was to get a scholarship here,” Pham said. “I was basing off my decisions on the Evans Scholarship so I was looking at other schools too, but Northwestern was … one of my top (choices).”

Social life in the house Though scholars are assigned classwide orientation groups their freshman year, their living experience is quite unique. Most freshmen live in dormitories with randomized students, while Evans Scholars freshmen move in with those they’ll spend up to the next four years with.

This makes the Evans Scholarship House community relatively secluded from the rest of campus, according to Medill senior and previous Evans Scholars President Olivia Evans.

Although the program’s upperclassmen encouraged her to make friends around campus, Evans said she spent most of her time with her housemates, making it hard to connect with others on campus.

This experience was also exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result, incoming freshmen like this year’s Evans Scholars president David Wells had an entirely different experience.

Wells, now a Weinberg sophomore, said COVID-19 created an even more secluded environment for Evans Scholars, but he valued living with upperclassmen.

“Living with seniors was super impactful and helpful because they had so much experience they could share,” Wells said. “Especially last year, I valued that. It was really nice to have during COVID.” Typically, the house puts on social events ranging from paint nights to formals for scholars and their invitees, according to Pham.

“Freshman year, I felt like I didn’t have a sense of community, but with Evans there was,” she said.

“There’s a circle of us that would appreciate each other … my roommate is one of my closest friends here.”

Navigating meal plans and working in Greek life Prior to the pandemic, Evans Scholars could purchase a meal plan — unless it was covered by financial aid — or work for their meals by performing kitchen duties inside sorority houses.

Students who work for their meals, like Evans, earn two meals a day during the weekdays on top of a paid salary.

There are steep socioeconomic differences between sorority members and the Evans Scholars who work for them. According to Wells, Evans Scholars are the only members of

Fraternity & Sorority Life who work for other people in FSL. “Sororities are typically associated with more upper class … and we’re on low-income scholarships,” he said. “There were a lot of differences there that really stood out.”

Evans also said working for her peers within sorority houses created a “weird dynamic.”

For her, the idea of befriending classmates she worked for felt abnormal.

“There were some times where I would be doing a work shift and then would go to class with people that I was washing their dishes,” Evans said. “It felt awkward for some reason.”

Since the pandemic began, Evans Scholars have not been able to to work for meals due to COVID19 restrictions.

Seeking removal from the IFC Since the early 1970s, NU’s Evans Scholars chapter has been part of IFC on campus. Back then, Wells said, on-campus Evans Scholars consisted entirely of men who were “a lot more fratty” and joined IFC to feel more connected to NU. Today, he said, their relationship with Greek life is virtually nonexistent. The house is co-ed, and incoming scholars do not participate in a rush process.

During FSL meetings, Evans Scholars have unsuccessfully attempted to create a council within FSL that would only include themselves and the music-interest Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity.

Evans Scholars have previously been impacted actions outside of their control due to their connection to the IFC. When druggings at campus fraternity houses in fall 2021 resulted in a social ban on all chapter events, the Evans Scholarship House was punished.

Until recently, scholars had to pay dues to IFC, Wells added. The Evans Scholarship House has also attempted to separate itself from Greek life by moving off campus.

However, Wells said the lease for an off-campus house would have to fit within the WGA’s budget as the organization is already paying for their current building.

According to Wells, other Evans Scholarship Houses across the U.S. are not associated with their campus Greek scenes.

“It’s definitely a lot more difficult working with Northwestern and FSL in general,” Wells said. “It’s kind of felt like you’re just stuck emailing people and waiting for responses and you never really ever get to talk to people.”

Evans said disassociating from Greek life has been an ongoing goal since she came to NU. “I have optimism, but I also wouldn’t be surprised if it takes a lot longer than it should,” she said.

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up the pieces,” Campbell said. “Academically, relationally, emotionally — we have to put ourselves back together.”

Campbell completed his tenure as an English teacher in 2011, when current Superintendent Eric Witherspoon promoted him to the position of director for student supports and racial equity. Since March 2013, he’s been District 202’s assistant superintendent in addition to serving as ETHS’ principal.

Campbell was still an English teacher when Witherspoon first joined the school in 2006.

Early on, Witherspoon said he saw Campbell’s leadership, talent and intellect, and he was excited to move Campbell into higher level administrative positions. Witherspoon said Campbell is “hugely qualified and prepared” to be the next superintendent.

“He is a renowned equity leader. He’s a renowned educational leader,” Witherspoon said. “He is the kind of person who has gained the confidence and respect of everybody in this school.”

Witherspoon said he doesn’t expect Campbell to rely much on his advice. Instead, he sees his successor as a visionary, courageous leader who will continue improving the school and taking it “to the next level.”

“When I came in, that was my hope,” Witherspoon said. “I knew (ETHS) was a great school, but I wanted to take it from where it was to the next level and see it soar into more greatness. I absolutely know that’s what Dr. Marcus Campbell is capable of and can make happen for ETHS.” District 202 Board of Education President

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Pat Savage-Williams echoed these sentiments, saying Campbell undoubtedly has a large amount of institutional knowledge about the school.

Savage-Williams said she’s been impressed

by Campbell’s leadership, specifically when it comes to furthering the district’s commitment to equity — a priority he and Witherspoon have long shared.

“They work as a solid team. They all work well together. They support each other. They don’t always agree,” Savage-Williams said about Witherspoon and Campbell. “That’s always important — when folks have the integrity to speak the truth.”

Olivia Levitas (ETHS `20) said as a student, she always looked up to Campbell. Before the pandemic, Levitas said she often saw Campbell in the halls talking with students. In these interactions, she said Campbell treated every student as his equal.

During school closures at the start of the pandemic, Levitas said some educators brushed students off and stopped communicating, while Campbell did not. She said she could tell Campbell always cared deeply about ETHS students.

When she heard Campbell was to become the district’s next superintendent, Levitas said she wasn’t surprised.

“He worked a lot with Dr. Witherspoon. He knows why he is such a loved superintendent and what great work that he could do,” Levitas said. “Because of that, I believe he will also be able to carry on that legacy.”

Ilana Arougheti contributed reporting.

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Marie Cacho talks settler colonialism in Hawaii

By PAVAN ACHARYA

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Content warning: this story contains mentions of police violence.

University of Virginia Prof. Lisa Marie Cacho discussed how the criminalization of houseless Native Hawaiians in Hawaii enforces settler colonialism in a Council for Race and Ethnic Studies event Tuesday evening.

Cacho began by recounting the police shooting of Delmar Espejo at the Hawaii Capitol Building in 2019.

A deputy sheriff killed Espejo, a houseless Filipino man, after he allegedly held the officer in a chokehold. Cacho said police likely falsified accounts of the event and potentially distracted from the biases that caused the incident.

“What does the process of investigating the coverup cover up?” asked Cacho, who teaches American Studies. “What if the truths that happened that night are less important than the reasons why he was able to be murdered and then ignored and then forgotten?”

Cacho’s talk addressed these questions as she examined the criminalization of houseless Kanaka Maoli people in Hawaii. She said she uses the word “houseless” rather than “homeless” since Hawaii is home for

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many of these individuals.

Cacho discussed past violent attempts to remove Kanaka Maoli individuals from their Native land, including those made by former Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell.

When law enforcement evicted Kanaka Maoli people from their homes in Kalama Valley in the 1970s, she said their resistance “was not legible in self-defense law” as the state did not see them as owners of their land.

The state criminalizes houseless people and

sometimes subjects them to violence due to its interpretation of land as property, Cacho said.

“Justifications for police killings of all marginalized groups in Hawaii rely on Western epistemologies and assume land is always and only property,” Cacho said.

According to Asian American studies Prof.

Patricia Nguyen, an event organizer, the CRES has been more active in inviting speakers to campus recently.

Nguyen said the CRES welcomed its first keynote speaker, University of California, Riverside Prof. Dylan Rodríguez, last year and is hosting an event with artist William Estrada next week.

“Our hope is to bring in speakers who are scholars, artists and organizers who are at the forefront of really thinking about race and ethnic studies to come to campus to share with us their current research and work,” Nguyen said.

Latino studies Prof. Elvia Mendoza said her students appreciated Cacho’s book, “Social Death: Racialized Rightlessness and the Criminalization of the Unprotected.” “(Cacho’s work) interrogates the ways in which human value is both ascribed and denied relationally along racial, gender, sexual, national and spatial lines,” Mendoza said. pavanacharya2025@u.northwestern.edu

NU to host blood drive amid national blood shortage

By SELENA KUZNIKOV

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Amid nationwide blood donation shortages, the Versiti Blood Center of Illinois is partnering with Northwestern Athletics to host a blood drive in Norris University Center on May 3.

Blood donation centers in the U.S. are facing the worst blood shortage in over a decade, according to the American Red Cross. After the start of the COVID19 pandemic, the U.S. saw a 62% drop in college and high school blood drives, and the share of student donors from the total population has decreased by 15

percentage points since 2019.

Versiti Blood Drive Recruiter John Wielgosz said the drive will be open to both NU community members and Illinois residents.

“It’s so crucial that we’re building up donors,” Wielgosz said. “For every blood donation, you can save up to three lives, because blood can be split into plasma, platelets and red cells.”

On Jan. 11, the Red Cross declared a national blood crisis in light of the COVID-19 omicron surge.

The organization saw a 10% decline in the amount of people donating blood across the U.S. since March 2020.

Wielgosz said Versiti wants to make donation drives more accessible and hopes to partner with NU

Athletics to host future events for donors throughout still showing your support by showing up to these the upcoming academic year. blood drives.”

“We want to get people used to donating and conThe University previously partnered with nonprofit tinuing to donate for the rest of their lives,” Wielgosz organization Vitalant in January 2020 to host a Purple said. “That would be great.”

Pride Blood and Marrow Drive.

Student groups Alianza and Omega Delta Phi Ryan Donlon, business development manager for recently partnered with the Red Cross to organize a NU Athletics, said the organization has averaged about blood drive at Norris in February due to the country- 30 to 40 donors in past blood drives, but is hoping for wide shortage. a higher turnout in the upcoming drive.

Alianza Outreach Chair and McCormick senior “Our students are helping save lives for their neighGilberto Guadiana said he was apprehensive before bors,” Donlon said. “That to me is the most important donating, but was ultimately glad he decided to do so element to this partnership — it’s a phenomenal cause because of the shortage. to be able to be involved in.”

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Northwestern places 11th in national competition

By SKYE SWANN

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From a young age, Weinberg sophomore Eve Gold knew she wanted to play tennis as long as possible. After committing to Northwestern, Gold said one of her first missions was finding the University’s Club Tennis team.

However, her journey to find the team was sidetracked when NU announced a virtual Fall Quarter due to COVID-19 in 2020. It would be three months before the Maryland native reached her destination after being allowed on campus in January 2021.

“For me, Club Tennis was one of the very few social outlets I had at the beginning of COVID,” Gold said.

Spending some time off the court during quarantine, Gold experienced some apprehension going into tryouts. Although an elite player in arguably one of the most highly contested tennis locations — Bethesda, Maryland — she knew NU’s program was highly competitive.

But after taking some warmup hits, Gold said she said she found her groove.

After making callbacks and completing rigorous tryouts, she made the team, to her joy.

From there, Gold said practices started off socially-distanced at the Combe Tennis Center. Even so, she said they were an excellent bonding experience, adding that her teammates would also play a couple rounds outside of practice. One of her friends and teammates, McCormick

sophomore Mark MacGuidwin, agreed, calling his teammates some of his best friends.

Despite practicing throughout the 202021 season, there were no in-person competitions due to the pandemic. MacGuidwin said the lack of competition inspired the team to push each other in preparations for the return of these matchups.

“When you have people playing a sport we all enjoy three or four times a week, we hang outside of school and form really close bonds,” MacGuidwin said.

The program kicked into high gear in the 2021-22 season, according to President and Weinberg senior Josip Apostoloski. As one of the team’s leaders, Apostoloski said one of his goals for this season is to help new members prepare themselves for real competition. Although two of his seasons were put on hold due to the pandemic, Apostoloski wanted his last effort to focus on breaking the program’s records, including going to nationals.

Apostoloski said the USTA Midwest sectionals in February were the team’s biggest test. Because it was the program’s first meet, the squad had a huge obstacle to overcome, he said. With heavy hitters like Ohio State and Michigan at the meet, the group was facing its biggest battles to date, being considered an underdog in the faceoff.

But the squad came out victorious, winning the title of “Best Team In The Midwest” and clinching a bid to USTA Nationals. MacGuidwin said it was an amazing feeling, thinking back on all the team’s hard work from the previous season. With this huge obstacle tackled, he noted the team’s preparation for the biggest competition

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of the season.

“We knew we were strong going into it, but we just didn’t know how we’d measured up against the other sectional winners,” MacGuidwin said. “So Nationals was this test to say ‘we haven’t been here in years,’ let’s see how we do.”

About two months later, the squad headed to compete at Nationals in Orlando, Florida for the first time in four years, according to Apostoloski, who said this was the entire team’s first experience at this level of competition. With nerves

skyrocketing, he said the main goal was to have fun but stick to the game.

After contested squareoffs, NU finished 11th in the nation, setting a new program record, according to Apostoloski. The team was ecstatic, commenting on the great accomplishment and the University’s pride to put the team on the map. Apostoloski detailed the program’s journey, mentioning its underdog status, and expressed his pride for every competitor.

Reflecting on his four years as a tennis player, Apostoloski said nationals was an

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amazing experience for furthering his tennis career and forming meaningful connections. As he finishes his presidency later this quarter, Apostoloski expressed excitement for what the squad will accomplish next season.

“It’s been a beautiful journey for me,” Apostoloski said. “A lot of growth. A lot of challenges that had to be overcome. But the club is in good hands, and the biggest thing is that (the team) has fun.” skyeswann2024@u.northwestern.edu

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NU run-rules Illinois-Chicago Spartans fall to NU in

Saturday doubleheader

By MARYKATE ANDERSON

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Coach Kate Drohan said Northwestern is focused on not letting a moment feel too big, but the Wildcats’ latest victory was pretty monumental.

NU (35-7, 15-2 Big Ten) took down crosstown rival Illinois-Chicago (1027, 7-12 Horizon League) on Tuesday by a score of 21-2 — in just five innings. The run-rule victory marks the second most runs scored in a single game in program history, falling just one short of the 2016 record.

The Cats came out swinging in the first inning, scoring ten runs in what felt like an offensive masterclass. While the team’s usual standouts provided their fair share of hits and RBIs, the highlight of the inning was freshman infielder Ayana Lindsey’s first career home run — a grand slam to cap off a string of successful at bats.

Although Lindsey said the reality of her major milestone had yet to set in, senior infielder Nikki Cuchran was all smiles for her teammate’s impressive accomplishment.

“It’s awesome,” Cuchran said.

“Especially knowing the feelings and seeing the younger girls grow and develop, it’s so cool.”

As the game progressed, the team’s ever-growing lead gave Drohan the opportunity to utilize players from her bench relatively early on. With the deep talent among NU’s reserve players, Drohan said she knew she could rely on their ability to make big plays when they did step into the game.

One such play was senior outfielder Lauren Caldrone’s three-run homer in the second inning, which extended the Cats’ lead to 15-0.

These key pinch hitters found ways to get on base throughout the rest of the game, stacking on runs as hits continued to fly into the outfield. “(Our depth) strengthens our

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program on all levels,” Drohan said.

“There’s just so much development happening. Everybody’s working so hard in practice right now to be ready to go, and it showed today.”

UIC’s two-run homer in the third inning put the Flames on the board, but failed to combat the momentum NU had been building all game long.

The Cats cemented their victory with five runs in the fourth inning.

After a series of base hits from her teammates, Cuchran knocked a threerun blast out of the park and closed out NU’s scoring for the day.

The Cats’ defense also proved crucial in their win. They didn’t dominate for lack of UIC baserunners — the Flames stranded a total of seven

players on base. NU pitchers and fielders worked themselves out of jams and got their team back to the plate.

Freshman pitcher Lauren Curry pitched a quick top of the fifth and wrapped up the Cats’ win, sending fans and players into celebration mode.

NU has three series left in the regular season before the squad sets their sights on a run in the postseason, starting with a weekend series in Evanston against Iowa.

“It’s just about getting better every day, not taking a moment for granted,” Drohan said. “It’s just being where we are right now and working to get a little bit better every day.” marykateanderson2023@u.northwestern.edu

Hoping to build momentum off of a home victory early in the week, Northwestern (19-17, 6-6 Big Ten) hosted Michigan State (17-21, 3-9 Big Ten) for a three game series last weekend, with thunderstorms postponing Friday’s game and resulting in a Saturday doubleheader.

Despite the schedule change, the Wildcats had a successful day, sweeping the doubleheader by a combined score of 18-3 against the Spartans. NU’s bats came out hot in the first game, putting up 14 runs, its second highest total of the season.

The Cats led from the onset, courtesy of junior first baseman Stephen Hrustich’s three run homer in the bottom of the first.

Hrustich’s three-run homer was his second in consecutive games.

Interim head coach Josh Reynolds raved about Hrustich’s recent high level of play and the poise he has shown overcoming a sluggish start to the season.

“When guys are competitors, they put a lot of pressure on themselves because of slow starts,” Reynolds said. “That was what he was doing. He’s always stayed confident in himself. He just had some approach and mechanical changes to make.”

Capped by freshman catcher Bennett Markinson’s grand slam, NU added seven runs in the fourth, propelling the team towards a comprehensive game one victory.

Freshman left-handed pitcher Sean Sullivan did not allow the Spartans to make any comebacks. He pitched seven and two-thirds innings, allowing one run on four hits with four strikeouts. The Cats ultimately cruised to a 14-2 victory on Saturday morning.

NU also matched its morning success later in the afternoon. Graduate right hander Michael Farinelli led the Cats with a dominant performance, pitching eight and one-thirds innings of one run ball, allowing

seven hits.

On the offensive side of the ball, sophomore outfielder Ethan O’Donnell stood out with a pair of solo home runs.

O’Donnell’s homers in the first and fourth were all NU needed to pull off the victory, coming out on top with a score of 4-1.

After having already taken the series against Michigan State, the Cats had the chance to sweep the set on Sunday. The Spartans, however, avenged their offensive struggles from Saturday and topped NU, 11-7. The Cats had a pair of two-run leads in the first and fourth, but Michigan State immediately responded, scoring four runs in the fifth and three runs in the seventh.

After an inter-conference series victory, NU welcomed Milwaukee (14-21) for a lone Tuesday matinee matchup.

Through explosive offense and dominant pitching, the Cats continued to see tremendous success. Similar to Saturday, NU was on top right away, thanks to graduate student outfielder Ruben Fontes’ three-run homer in the second. The Cats continued to extend their lead, adding one run each in the third and fourth innings.

The pitching staff put in a true team effort. Six pitchers combined for a fourhit shutout, keeping Milwaukee in check throughout the game. NU capped off a complete 8-0 victory through the long ball, as Hrustich, who homered this past weekend, went deep again.

Reynolds now has his sights on this weekend’s slate of games, hoping his team can continue playing up to its capabilities on the road.

“We have talked all year long from the fall about just playing a better brand of baseball in all three phrases (pitching, hitting and fielding),” Reynolds said. “If we do all three phases and still get beat, it’s just baseball.”

The Cats will travel to College Park to play a three-game set against Maryland (33-8, 9-3 in Big Ten). aayushyaagarwal2024@u.northwestern.