The Daily Northwestern — April 30, 2019

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Over 100 students attended Northwestern’s Freedom Seder, the first since 2014. The event discussed several topics including the similarities between Jewish, Palestinian and black struggles.

Students revive Freedom Seder

After 5-year absence, groups convene to discuss ‘freedom for all’

By AUSTIN BENAVIDES

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Interspersed with songs, prose and allegories to the struggles of the Jewish, black and Palestinian communities, Monday marked the first Freedom Seder since 2014.

The Freedom Seder is a ceremony with a 50-year history whose goal is to connect the liberation struggles of various disadvantaged communities and discuss ways to achieve freedom for all, said Jessica Schwalb, a co-organizer of the event and a

former Daily staffer.

Parkes Hall was filled with over 100 students of various groups and backgrounds. Organizers represented several campus organizations including the Seder’s three co-sponsors: the Jewish Progressive Alliance, For Members Only and Students for Justice in Palestine, as well as members of JStreet U and Alianza.

At the center of every table in the room was a plate adorned with several fruits and vegetables that represented different oppressed peoples. An orange in the center represented solidarity with the LGBTQ+ Jewish community and others who are marginalized

Admins reflect on last decade, future

Provost and president discuss goals for NU

By GABBY BIRENBAUM

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When University president Morton Schapiro was appointed in 2008, he took the reins of a school about to embark on a new decade. Northwestern looked different then — it had a 26 percent acceptance rate, tuition was $38,000 per year and BobbMcCulloch Hall was, well, still Bobb-McCulloch, which Schapiro acknowledges.

Now in his tenth year, with the school again on the cusp of a new decade, Schapiro said the changes to both the University and academia at large are noticeable.

In particular, he noted Northwestern’s climb in the ranks

and establishment as a research powerhouse. Crediting his predecessor Henry Bienen, Schapiro said Northwestern went from being ranked 41st for National Institute of Health funding to 21st by the time he took over in 2008. During his tenure, NU has reached 15th place. Over the past decade, his priority for Northwestern has been to continue to raise the school’s research profile while re-emphasizing the undergraduate experience.

“It was time to refocus on undergrads, to improve the quality of the dorms, improve the quality of the health center, improve the quality of career services, and just put more money into the undergraduate experience,” Schapiro said.

Though Schapiro said undergraduate tuition now makes up only 8 percent of Northwestern’s budget compared to 12 percent » See DECADE, page 6

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in the Jewish community. Beside it was an olive, which symbolizes the olive trees that are torn down due to “Israel’s occupation of the Palestinians,” according to Weinberg sophomore Jihad Esmail.

Yams finished the plate, being used to show both the horrors of the slave trade and the resilience of the African peoples.

Esmail, member of SJP and a co-organizer of the event, said including Palestinians in the ceremony was an “amazing” opportunity that benefited campus discourse. The Seder was a way to reframe these individual struggles for freedom as one single fight for liberation, he said.

“It’s one thing to acknowledge and respect the struggles of others,” Esmail said. “To understand what others are going through (and) understand what liberation means for others is another thing.

Our goal in this event was to understand that collective liberation is not just about the respect of other people’s liberation, it’s about understanding that it is one liberation. It is one mission and is one goal, and we’re all in it together.”

Throughout the event, the room would burst out into singing “songs of resilience” like “This » See FREEDOM, page 6

City Council filed a report on its efforts to expand affordable housing options at Monday’s special meeting, which discusses work to create new housing opportunities, increase affordability in current developments and support low-income residents.

Increasing affordable housing is a City Council goal set for the 2019-2020 year, along with infrastructure, city financing, job development, and equity and empowerment. The report is the first of four, scheduled for the end of the year’s first quarter.

The city has made multiple efforts to offer new housing opportunities, according to city documents. Aldermen approved the rental of coach houses to non-family members. The amnesty period for rental registration opened March 1 and will run through May 31.

Housing and grants division manager Sarah Flax said Monday that the rental registration was not only for coach houses, but also for accessory dwelling units like condos and single-family homes. She said the city continues to promote the amnesty period.

Flax also asked the Council for direction on small lot

housing and development, as well as occupancy of attached accessory dwelling units. Currently, the Zoning Ordinance only allows the development and occupancy of detached accessory dwelling units, but the Zoning Board of Appeals has recently approved multiple detached ADUs on a case by case basis.

Flax recommended the city amend the ordinance to allow the development of all detached accessory dwelling units.

“It would take a great deal of burden off the ZBA staff,” Flax said. “It really gives a, on a small scale, additional inclusionary affordable units, but we’re being careful not to overburden property owners.”

Aldermen expressed their support for inclusionary housing ordinance bonuses for affordable attached accessory dwelling units. Flax also recommended using a site on 2122 Darrow Ave. to experiment with small lot housing. She said there were a lot of “odd-shaped areas we honestly don’t make good use of right now.”

Residents and housing developers expressed interest in small lot housing development at the last 3rd ward meeting, said Ald. Melissa Wynne (3rd).

“There was quite a bit of interest from people...I think we’ll see this coming back again,” said Wynne.

City staff has also worked to expand affordability in the current market. An amended » See REPORT, page 6

Aldermen approve lot, amend tax Measures taken to priortize, advance affordable housing in Evanston

By EMMA EDMUND

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Aldermen discussed affordable housing plans during a Special City Council meeting Monday.

Aldermen approved a resolution for the city manager to acquire a vacant lot on Church Street for a potential affordable housing development site, introduced an ordinance amending the Demolition Tax and discussed a new mixedincome senior housing complex.

Aldermen approved a resolution that would allow city manager Wally Bobkiewicz to execute a Deed in Lieu of Foreclosure Agreement to acquire a vacant lot at 1805 Church St. The lot was identified as a development site for affordable or mixed-income housing.

Ald. Eleanor Revelle (7th) raised initial concerns about

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Sarah Flax. Flax discussed the details of the environmental remediation for the Church Street lot during Monday’s City Council meeting.

environmental contamination at the site. Sarah Flax, Evanston’s housing and grants division manager, said that the site had been remediated and gasoline-leaking tanks removed. She said further action is needed only if a developer builds into the ground.

“As with any kind of site that has contamination, there’s certain capping of certain things,” Flax said. “If somebody wanted to build down and build a basement or something like that, then they would have to dig up material and put in a barrier.”

Aldermen also introduced an

ordinance to amend the City Code to increase the Demolition Tax, with the funds going toward affordable housing efforts. The ordinance would increase the demolition tax to $15,000 from $10,000 for a » See HOUSING, page 6

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Newly elected District 202 board members sworn in

By JULIA ESPARZA

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Th ree newly elected Evanston Township High School/District 202 board members were officially sworn in Monday during a board meeting at Evanston Township High School.

Newcomers Stephanie Teterycz and Elizabeth Rolewicz joined incumbent Monique Parsons in assuming their seats on the newly reorganized D202 board, which also includes a new student representative. The three women were elected to the roles April 2 in an election where each member received over 20 percent of the vote.

Following Monday’s ceremony, six of the seven elected seats on the board are filled by women.

Before the new members took the oath of office, meeting attendees said goodbye to former board members Mark Metz and Jonathan Baum.

Metz was appointed to the board in 2009 and elected in 2011. During his 10 years of service on the board, Metz held the role of president from 2011 to 2012 and vice president from 2013 to 2016.

“I’m absolutely certain that ETHS has never been a better school,” Metz said. “It doesn’t mean we’re there, there are challenges still there to keep going, to stay the course until we can say that this is an excellent school for every child… we’re on the right path.”

Baum, who was elected to the board in 2011,

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Newly elected board members Stephanie Teterycz, Elizabeth Rolewicz and Monique Parsons take the oath of office. The three women won the April 2 election with more than 20 percent of the votes each.

is retiring from the board alongside Metz. Baum graduated from ETHS in 1974.

During the meeting, Pat Savage-Williams

was re-appointed board president — a position she has held since 2015. Parsons, who was seated next to her, was likewise re-appointed as board

Officers responded to a call from the Hilton Orrington at 12:10 a.m. to find a woman refusing to leave the hotel lobby, Evanston police Cmdr.

Ryan Glew said. The officers found the 53-yearold Chicago resident sitting in a chair in the lobby.

Glew said a security guard had called the police.

The woman claimed to be a resident of the

hotel and told officers she did not want to leave, Glew said. The security guard informed police that the woman was not a guest at the hotel.

Glew said the security guard informed the police that he wished to file a complaint if the woman did not leave. The officer informed the woman of this, to which she reaffirmed her

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vice president, a role she previously occupied.

In her welcome address to the new board, Savage-Williams reiterated the board’s first goal.

It states that ETHS will “strive to eliminate the predictability of academic achievement” based on race, income, disability and status as English language learners.

She said the board sets policy and continually challenges the administration to provide student achievement at all levels.

“It’s always about the students,” she said.

“There is no greater contribution than serving as a member of the leadership team that provides education opportunities for students in our ETHS community. I anticipate that this will be a rewarding yet challenging experience for you.”

During the meeting, the board also said farewell to senior Phoebe Liccardo, the outgoing student representative.

Parsons said she has been impressed by Liccardo throughout her tenure on the board and while she has been active in the community.

Parsons said it was especially evident when sat with Liccardo on the hiring panel for the new Evanston Police Department chief of police, Demitrous Cook, who was appointed on December 11.

“Thank you for serving and thank you for just being who you are inside this building and within the community,” Parsons said.

Following an election by the ETHS student body, the board swore in junior Echo Allen as the new student representative. juliainesesparza2020@u.northwestern.edu choice to remain.

Police arrested the woman at 12:20 a.m. and transported to the EPD station. She faces one misdemeanor charge of criminal trespassing.

Her court date is set for May 30.

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Provost on academic vision, funding

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On April 22, three members of The Daily’s editorial board sat down with Provost Jonathan Holloway. Jeri Ward, the vice president for global marketing and communications, also sat in on the meeting. Holloway talked about funding his academic vision and interdisciplinary learning. His answers have been edited for clarity and brevity.

Portions of the interview have been excluded from this transcript that have been withheld for future Daily articles. A transcript featuring another part of this interview can be found online.

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The Daily: How do you connect your academic vision to the University’s seven-year financial plan?

Holloway: When (vice president for business and finances) Craig Johnson came on board, we really started thinking more carefully about not just putting out the fires that he and I had each inherited when we showed up, but building a structure for the future so we can be much better predictor(s) of where we’re going and what the risks are at any different moment in time. And one of the risks was related to capital projects.

Right when I started, we were about to put shovels in the ground on (Donald) Jacobs (Center), but then everything came to a screaming halt. We’re not breaking ground on new things.

This Northwestern you see now may look like this for another couple of years, but it will be changing, getting back up to speed and renovating buildings and taking things down and putting some things up. We need to have a plan to execute upon that, and so that’s the seven-year capital plan. And that will always be seven years moving forward.

That was an important piece of infrastructure. When we gut and renovate a building on North campus, and we’re gonna do that in five years, we need to know now to have the finances ready in five years. And that kind of long-range

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Jonathan Holloway. The provost said he works with vice president for business and finance Craig Johnson to ensure academic plans have proper funding ahead of time.

forecasting is really something that at least in the last previous few years, we had gotten away from, for one reason or another.

Then, layering on top of that, is actually the academic plans. We’re gonna start doing different buildings. So, my team and Craig’s team work closely together, and I went to the Board of Trustees in March to present my academic vision for the University. I said here’s the academic vision, but now these are the buildings that are affected, and, in order, what has be done.

The Daily: How does the necessity of connecting capital projects and academic vision change for different departments?

Holloway: When it comes to the faculty, we are excellent in the field of chemistry — one of the best schools in the country. And, we are really quite strong in history as well. The resource base to hire one chemist versus one historian is very different. The space requirements for one chemist versus one historian is radically different. Even for a starting assistant professor for chemistry and a Pulitzer Prize-winning

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senior historian — that chemist is still way more expensive than the historian, and the chemist needs way more space than the historian.

So, there’s no single answer, and it’s incredibly complex.

My office, Craig’s office and (vice president for research) Jay Walsh’s office have to be in really close contact when it comes to space demands. That’s really the trickiest thing of all. It is more finite than cash. We have to be in conversation so all of our units are engaged with the deans in the relevant spaces to make sure we’re being as efficient as possible in how we use space, and we just have to pay attention.

There is no specific answer because historians need a library and a salary and very modest research budget. Chemists, depending on the kind of chemist they are, need a laboratory space.

An engineer may need both of those things, depending on what kind of engineering he or she is doing. A theatre professor needs a black box. So it really kind of just depends.” gbirenbaum21@u.northwestern.edu

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Sorority alcohol policies affect safety and autonomy

KATHRYN AUGUSTINE

DAILY COLUMNIST

Fraternity houses on college campuses host a barrage of underage drinking events each weekend. Dark, dingy basements of fraternity houses are the setting for copious amounts of alcohol being served by brothers.

Sorority houses, by contrast, do not host such events. They are meant to uphold an image of purity and to appear upstanding. They are restricted from allocating funds to alcohol, consuming alcohol in an on-campus sorority house or hosting an event with alcohol in the house. This raises certain questions: Why are sororities subjected to a vastly different set of standards than fraternities? Why are institutions willing to turn a blind eye to the illicit activities of fraternities yet punish sororities for acting in an identical manner?

The rules set forth by sororities and fraternities and the level to which these rules are adhered to should not differ on the basis of gender. For instance, in 2012, Delta Delta Delta at University of Virginia was placed on probation for possession of a keg — not even with the intent of hosting a party, but rather for casual drinking within the house.

Transporting a keg into a fraternity house,

however, is not an admonished activity — it’s commonplace.

Besides the fact that subjecting fraternities and sororities to different rules is blatantly unfair, giving fraternities this privilege while not allowing the same privilege to sororities means that men are given control over the social scene and women are restricted from increasing their personal safety and autonomy by hosting their own events.

Underage drinking on college campuses is inevitable. Therefore, females are inadvertently dependent on males to attend parties that serve alcoholic beverages since hosting at a sorority house is not a plausible option. By forcing sororities to distance themselves as institutions from alcohol, a power dynamic emerges with females in the inferior position. There will always be females who desire to go out and drink, and with the current regulations set forth by the National Panhellenic Conference,

women are indebted to fraternities to do so.

Arguably, sorority parties may present less danger than the stereotypical fraternity party.

In the case of a fraternity party, women enter the space with no definitive idea of everyone who will be there or their intentions. The host of the party is able to control the individuals who enter, and so fraternities are in the position of power.

With sororities as hosts, however, this means that select men who have made members of the chapter feel either uncomfortable or violated can be easily banned from attending, increasing the sense of safety for partygoers as a whole. Though females are also capable of inducing discomfort in men and sexual assault, women are at a greater risk.

According to the National Institute of Justice, belonging to a sorority is a risk factor for sexual assault — 25 percent of sexual assault survivors surveyed belonged to a sorority. The risk presented is real, and whether or not you agree with the concept of Greek organizations, women do not deserve to be subjected to such amplified dangers simply for belonging to these. Men can belong to fraternities without facing an increased risk of assault and the same should hold true for women.

While sexual assault and the multitude of other risks attached to parties no doubt remain, females would gain more control over who will be present in order to protect themselves and their friends.

Another benefit of sororities serving as hosts is that the alcohol served can be better regulated. Every female has heard the many horror stories of fraternities spiking a woman’s drink and taking advantage of her. And these stories are rightfully repeated as warnings, given that women are 56 percent more likely than men to have drinks or food spiked by a stranger, according to Alcohol.org, an American Addiction Centers subsidiary. And, 46 percent of women reported having drinks spiked at a house party. If sororities host and women are behind the bar pouring drinks, they can greatly reduce the chance that a woman finds herself in such a situation.

Granted, sororities still may opt to not host parties given the immense responsibility for others and resulting mess. However, I believe that at the very least, sororities need to be given the option, because enforcing significantly more stringent standards regarding alcohol on females is sexist. If standards are to be relaxed for fraternities surrounding alcohol and party culture, then sororities deserve that same privilege.

Kathryn Augustine is a Medill first-year. She can be contacted at kathrynaugustine2022@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, 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.

The trouble with using the ‘identity politics’ accusation ANDREA BIAN

OPINION EDITOR

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a column about how the Medill faculty needs more women of color. I detailed how I wanted to learn from journalists whose experiences might more closely parallel mine if I enter the journalism industry. I had hoped to add to a broader conversation about how representation and diversity matters in academia.

I don’t think my column necessarily failed to do that. However, I received quite a bit of pushback regarding the column and its adherence to “identity politics.”

Here’s why I disagree, and why I think identity politics is an often incorrectly used accusation built on shaky logic.

The definition of identity politics, according to Merriam-Webster, is “politics in which groups of people having a particular racial, religious, ethnic, social, or cultural identity tend to promote their own specific interests or concerns without regard to the interests or concerns of any larger political group.”

This definition, as it appears in the dictionary, describes a harmful version of identity politics. I do think that identity politics can often be used in a way that is divisive rather than inclusive.

This version of identity politics — where people use their identities as a way to shut out other identities in pursuit of policy and ideas that benefit them — can be hurtful to the success of

a larger group of people.

But the definition of identity politics is often conflated, as I saw in response to my column regarding the homogenous faculty population in Medill. Multiple people sent me messages and responses accusing me of using identity politics to support my desire for more women of color to be hired as Medill faculty members. I heard a response that I’ve heard countless times before when it comes to people standing up for people of their own identities: “Be above identity politics.”

I’d like to clarify that I did not mention that the current state of Medill faculty is subpar in any way — in fact, I specifically mentioned that the caliber of Medill faculty in terms of industry experience and knowledge is unparalleled.

Medill is one of the top journalism schools in the nation, and I think because of that, diversity should be taken more seriously here.

I don’t think that identity politics, as it is officially defined, apply to the point I was trying to make in the column. When hiring faculty, I’m sure Medill has multiple priorities — first and foremost, hiring people who are qualified and can offer indispensable knowledge to Medill students. Diversity is not one of their priorities, or, at least, it appears not to be, given the largely homogenous makeup of the current faculty.

I also don’t think that the hiring of qualified faculty members and the hiring of diverse faculty members are mutually exclusive. There are countless women of color fit to be on Medill’s faculty.

Saying that by hiring women of color, Medill would be undermining its commitment to having quality faculty members is not only untrue but represents a view that is profoundly racist.

The journalism industry, as it stands right now, is one that really doesn’t look anything like me. I am well aware of that, and I believe that in order to increase diversity, women of color need to see people who look like them teaching their classes. This premise isn’t only meant to further the success of people with my own identity without advancing the success of anyone else, quite the contrary. A more diverse newsroom benefits everyone. As I stated in my last column, a diverse newsroom helps staff diversify their coverage, bringing events and issues that affect more people to the forefront.

I don’t see how that is inherently negative, or how that idea would at all decrease the quality or integrity of the journalism industry.

Being told to “be above identity politics” is not only impossible, it’s demeaning. Interpreting a disregard for someone’s ethnic or cultural identity as a superior ability to “rise above” can only come from a place of privilege. I can’t be above so-called “identity politics,” because my identity affects me every day and will continue to affect me should I pursue journalism. Saying

that I should simply rise above concerns about my identity has a similar connotation to “why can’t we all just get along?”, suggesting that people who want increased diversity in a certain industry or landscape are inherently bad at agreeing with other people.

If you can be above identity politics, that’s indicative of your privilege, not that you possess a certain skill that other people don’t. Identity politics, often used to describe a downfall of political issues relating to people of color, is no longer an issue specific to people of color. Thirty to 40 percent of white Americans identify with their whiteness in a politically meaningful way, according to Duke political science Prof. Ashley Jardina.

If white Americans now identify with whiteness in a way that affects their political views, how widespread is identity politics? How much does it affect the very people who claim to be unaffected by it?

Identity politics are inevitable if a community feels threatened. Harshly accusing people of color of relying on identity politics is a way to undermine their arguments. It’s a way to belittle people into silencing their concerns about diversity, and a way to silence them. I understand my purpose in speaking out about diversity concerns, and no accusation of “identity politics” will deter me from continuing to do so.

Andrea Bian is a Medill first-year. She can be contacted at andreabian2022@u.northwestern.edu.

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Little Light of Mine” and traditional Seder melodies like “Dayenu.”

The audience discussed more serious topics as well.

At one point during the ceremony, people were asked to examine the Biblical Ten Plagues as well as several alternative plagues such as The Ten Plagues of the Occupation and the Ten Plagues of Racism and

TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 2019 Colonialism. They were then asked to examine the other side of liberation, those who are affected when enslaved people become free, and afterwards instructed to make their own list of plagues that affect struggles seen in society today.

Northwestern’s Freedom Seders started in 2003 and continued until 2014 as partnership between Northwestern Hillel and FMO, but ceased after a contentious ASG vote deciding to divest funds from organizations that sold weapons to Israel that would

be used in Palestine.

Since then, Hillel has independently hosted smaller Seders touching on themes that would have normally been discussed in a Freedom Seder, like reparations and the refugee crisis. This year, Hillel was not a cosponsor of the Freedom Seder.

Michael Simon, executive director of Hillel, said although Hillel was involved in the early planning process of the Seder, a disagreement had occurred regarding other groups getting involved with the

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Inclusionary Housing Ordinance was adopted by city council in October 2018 and went into effect January 1. A development located at 2111 Maple Ave. is the first project covered by the amended ordinance, and was recently submitted for zoning review, according to city documents.

In order to overcome rental barriers for lowincome residents, Flax said the city made an effort to leverage external resources. Flax pointed to the city’s impending acquisition of a vacant lot at 1805 Church St., which will be used for affordable or mixed-income housing.

City staff also discussed the Landlord-Tenant services, which includes an initiative to provide legal counsel to local tenants and landlords. The city approved a contract with the Metropolitan Tenants Organization and Lawyers’ Committee for Better Housing in September.

The program began October 1, and is scheduled to run for 12 months.

In the first sixth months, MTO handled 137 cases, only three of which dealt with landlords.

when he arrived — and the rate keeps decreasing — devoting time, energy and resources to undergraduate is a necessity considering how selective the school has become, and how talented the current student body is.

Going into the next decade, Schapiro said Northwestern will continue to prioritize both research and the undergraduate experience.

“I believe we can continue to improve the teaching and the living experience in a more inclusive manner than we’ve had and you could still be a major research machine,” Schapiro said. “So, that’s what I’ve tried to do. And as long as I’m here, I’m gonna try to do both of those things.”

Provost Jonathan Holloway said Northwestern will be defined by how it adjusts to nationwide demographic changes among those attending elite colleges. In the next decade, he said, students will mostly be from the southern and western United States, decreasingly white and increasingly stratified between upper and lower classes, often to the detriment of the middle class.

Northwestern is already seeing the result of changing financial aid and demographic commitments — the average financial aid package is now $51,913 as opposed to $29,411 in 2008-09, according to the University’s Common Data Set. He said both students who can afford the price of admission and those with limited resources can attend the University if they are admitted, which for the latter is made possible through financial aid packages. Though middle-class applicants are admitted, the inability of the school to provide requisite financial aid makes them increasingly less likely to attend.

Holloway said the isolation of the middle class will be exacerbated in the future. The larger lowincome population will force the University to meet new challenges, some of which they are already facing. “(It’s) going to mean something different for the University in terms of services that are needed, especially a Southwestern population that doesn’t need winter coats (at home),” Holloway said. “There are more students who have basic needs to be a successful student. And the University has to catch up in terms of providing. That’s now. That’s a today problem. And if we aren’t being careful about that, that’ll be a humongous problem in five years, ten

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single-family detached residential structure and implement either a $15,000 or $5,000 per unit tax for each unit of a multi-family, single-family attached or two-family residential structure, whichever tax costs more.

Ald. Donald Wilson (4th) expressed his support for the tax.

“When we look at how we’re going to use the money down the road, I think we should proceed with this tax,” Wilson said. “That does provide us with a pool of money to potentially work with tenants who are being displaced.”

The aldermen also discussed plans for a new mixed-income senior residence at 1900 Sherman Ave.The Housing Authority of Cook County presented potential plans for the development.

Richard Monocchio, the Executive Director of HACC, said that the property would be limited to residents aged 55 and over.

“The rubber is hitting the road with this building,” Monocchio said.

The presentation described units for three types

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Ald. Melissa Wynne (3rd). Wynne said some of her residents expressed interest in small lot housing development.

Ald. Robin Rue Simmons (5th) urged the city to work more closely with landlords.

“We should be working harder with our independent landlords...often times it is a burden for them to really be providing affordability,” Rue Simmons said. snehadey2022@u.northwestern.edu of residents: those who can pay market rate rent, the “missing middle” – those who cannot afford market rate rent but who also do not receive an affordable housing subsidy – and low-to-moderate income residents.

The average potential monthly rent for a onebedroom unit with an average of 700 square feet, would be $2,000 for market rate, $1,666 for the “missing middle” and $1,450 for low-to-moderate income residents, who would only be required to pay one-third of that price.

The presentation also mentioned that the development might jump to 15 floors, above the planned 11.

Mayor Steve Hagerty said that it was an honor for HACC to consider Evanston as a potential site.

“We feel very, very honored that the Housing Authority of Cook County is looking really, really seriously at our community,” Hagerty said, addressing HACC. “I know lots of the other mayors around here would die for the opportunity to have the kind of investment that you’re looking to put into our community.” emmaedmund2022@u.northwestern.edu

organization of the event.

“In terms of the Freedom Seder, we’re glad that there will be many students who are involved in Hillel who are excited about the themes of the Freedom Seder,” Simon said before the event. “We hope that what happens (Monday) is a really meaningful experience for all of them and for the broader campus community.” austinbenavides2022@u.northwestern.edu years.”

The incoming change is comparable to the effects of opening up elite college admissions to black students in the 1960s and women in the 1970s, Holloway said, though he noted Northwestern had allowed both groups long before. Diversifying universities created “radical” changes to culture, curricula and pedagogy.

While Northwestern’s black undergraduate population has only experienced a meager increase from 5.50 percent to 5.75 percent over the last ten years, increases in the Hispanic and multiracial populations have made NU a majority-minority school. White students now make up 44.82 percent of the undergraduate population, as opposed to 57.87 percent in 2008-09. Additionally, the University recently met its goal of having 20 percent of the incoming class be Pell-eligible by 2020.

Like in past eras, the demographic changes will require the Northwestern of tomorrow to be more sensitive to the needs of increasingly larger groups — which will not be easy, Holloway cautioned.

“With the demographic change coming, it’ll force new questions to be asked,” Holloway said.

“It’ll force new practices to be put into place to make sure students can thrive, and it’s going to be bumpy.” gbirenbaum21@u.northwestern.edu

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Across Campuses Trinity College student leaders reject club applicaton’s recognition request HARTFORD, Conn. — Trinity College student leaders rejected a request by the Churchill Club for recognition as a campus organization Monday, responding to a flurry of student and faculty complaints about the group.

The Student Government Association announced its decision in an email to students and faculty at the liberal arts school in Hartford, where there have been mounting political and racial tensions.

The club had been seeking to become the first campus chapter of the Churchill Institute, a controversial 3-year-old organization based in Hartford and led by Trinity political science professor Gregory B. Smith, who has been criticized for referring to on-campus cultural houses for African American, Asian American, Latino, Muslim and Jewish students as “tribal enclaves.”

The Churchill Institute is “dedicated to the preservation, dissemination and extension of the Western moral and philosophical tradition.” The group is named for Winston Churchill, the British statesman whose legacy of fortitude during

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U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) led a bipartisan congressional delegation to Iraq last week to meet with Iraqi officials and receive operational and intelligence updates from American

Fistfight leads to Friday afternoon arrest in Lincoln Street brawl

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Evanston Police Department officers responded to a report of fighting around 2 p.m.

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“Many students from a wide variety of communities within our campus have come forward to share their discomfort with this club being approved,” wrote Lexi Zanger and Trinna Larsen, the respective vice president and president-elect of the Student Government Association.

“The Churchill Club has, during the process of requesting approval, referred to members of the community in degrading terms, including but not limited to calling concerned students ‘militant.’”

A request for comment was left Monday for representatives of the Churchill Institute.

In a letter sent the day before the student government deliberations, more than 40 faculty members raised concerns about the rhetoric and purpose of the Churchill Institute.

“The website explicitly promotes the superiority of ‘Western’ ideas and civilization, a position that often accompanies the demeaning and devaluing of other ways of knowing,” the letter said. “Students have expressed concern that the Institute, named after a known racist, imperialist and white supremacist, and the bellicose claim that Western Civilization is ‘under attack,’ reinforces the daily marginalization of many students on campus.”

The letter went on to say, “The Churchill Institute claims that its members’ political views are being policed by students, faculty and administrators. However, an uncritical celebration of Western civilization perpetuates its own intellectual, cultural, and racial exclusions -- ones laden with a long history of power asymmetries and violence.”

The school’s administration had previously recommended that student leaders delay voting on the application until the fall so the college could bring in a consultant to examine the situation, but the SGA went ahead with its deliberations Sunday night.

“Of course issues concerning race are challenging on our campus. Are they any less challenging elsewhere in American society?” Trinity President Joanne Berger-Sweeney wrote in an op-ed Monday published in The Hartford Courant. “This is a challenging moment on our campus and, as we see daily in other reports, on campuses across the country.”

It’s been a turbulent month at the college, where a longtime political science professor Johnny Eric Williams tweeted on Easter that “whiteness is terrorism” and referred to Barack and Michelle Obama as “white kneegrows.”

Williams took a paid leave of absence in 2017

after making racially charged social media posts, which drew death threats and led to the rescinding of $200,000 in donations to the college. The black professor was slammed by conservative commentators, including Tucker Carlson, a Trinity graduate and Fox News host.

Student government leaders said in their rejection letter Monday that the Churchill Club had been heavy-handed.

“The adviser of the Churchill Club has threatened members of the Trinity College student body with legal action, curbing the rights of those students to exhibit free speech,” Zanger and Larsen wrote.

Despite not being sanctioned as an official campus organization, the group is still free to organize and discuss “Western Philosophy,” the rejection letter said.

Coleman McJessy, a freshman who is involved in the Trinity College Democrats, applauded the move.

“I’m pleased that the Student Government Association listened to the concerns of the campus community and rejected the Churchill Club and their rhetoric,” McJessy said. “It’s certainly a step in the right direction.”

diplomats and military commanders in the region.

Duckworth, along with U.S. Sens. Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) and Angus King (I-Maine), traveled to the cities of Baghdad, Taji and Erbil, and paid visits to troops deployed across the country. The three senators also met with Kurdish leaders to “reiterate the importance of our nation’s alliance with our Kurdish partners who fought alongside American forces against ISIS,” according to a news release from Duckworth’s office. She has publicly

urged President Donald Trump to protect Kurds in the region, following the president’s announcement that he would order a withdrawal of troops from Syria earlier this year.

For Duckworth — a combat veteran who reached the rank of Lieutenant Colonel during her time in the Army — it was the first time returning to Iraq since she was shot down in 2004 while flying a Blackhawk helicopter during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

“Fifteen years ago, I deployed to Iraq as an American Soldier to fly helicopter missions,” Duckworth said of the trip. “This week, I returned in a role I never expected: as a United States Senator leading a bipartisan delegation to show our support for the people of Iraq and express our hope that Iraq will be an independent, strong country and a close ally of the United States for many years to come.”

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Glew said officers witnessed a 19-year-old man and his 53-year-old father holding down an 18-year-old man.

According to interviews conducted by police, the 18-year-old Skokie resident confronted the 19-year-old Evanston resident in his yard regarding a prior dispute, Glew said.

The 18-year-old man reportedly swung an ice scraper at the 19-year-old man while taunting the other man.

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man and wrestled him to the ground, receiving a blow from the ice scraper in the process, Glew said. The Evanston man’s father witnessed the two on the ground and ran to help his son, Glew said. It remains unclear who called the police.

Glew said after police broke up the fight, all three men received medical attention. The 18-year-old man and the 19-year-old man both suffered abrasions to their hands, Glew said.

Glew said the Skokie man had been harassing the Evanston man for some time. According to police reports, the Skokie man claimed

the Evanston man had stolen money from him previously and had rushed the suspect with the intent of fighting him. The Skokie man does not appear to have filed a complaint against the Evanston man.

The Evanston man, however, did sign a complaint. Police arrested the 18-year-old Skokie man and charged him with one misdemeanor count of assault, Glew said. His court date is set for May 29.

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When Northwestern football’s director of video operations Darby Dunnagan attended the NFL’s Women’s Careers in Football Forum in 2018 — a two-day event that connects women working in college and professional football — she said she left with one main message: help other women receive the professional opportunities that she had, and, to quote one of the speakers at the forum, “send the elevator back down.”

This February, Ashley Cohrs took the elevator back up.

Cohrs, an operations assistant for the Wildcats, was one of 40 women invited to this year’s forum, held in Indianapolis ahead of the NFL Scouting Combine. The event featured panels and guest speakers from organizations like the NFL, the NCAA and the CFL — including four head coaches, three general managers and a host of league executives.

“These programs are setting us up and helping us,” Cohrs said. “They’re guidelines to help us to get to the next level. And there’s a big push for it right now.”

Cohrs grew up in a football family — her father was a walk-on at Florida State, and she spent her childhood

traveling around the country for Seminoles games — and when she herself entered college, she began to turn that love for the sport into a career. She spent two years as a recruiting operations intern at Florida State, and after graduation, wrote NU’s then-director of operations Cody Cejda a letter asking about an internship.

She was hired, and started in Evanston last April, working with the program through its historic, divisionwinning run in the fall and eventually being accepted to attend the forum in the winter. Along the way, she also experienced something many women in similar positions don’t always have the opportunity to do — work in a maledominated sport with other women.

When Dunnagan was hired as NU’s director of video operations in 2013, she became the first woman to ever serve in that role in a Power Five conference, and is the president of the Collegiate Sports Video Association in addition to her current role with the Cats. Alex Knisley, who also attended this year’s forum, worked as an assistant director of video operations for two years at NU before she was hired as the head of video operations at Kansas in January.

“It’s really empowering,” Cohrs said.

“And that just speaks to, you know, once you set your mind to it, it’s not impossible. There are people doing it and setting great examples for all of us.”

The increased presence of women in

college football doesn’t apply to every area of the sport. The percentage of women working in support or administrative roles far outweighs those in strength and conditioning or on-field coaching positions — in 2018, Dartmouth’s Callie Brownson became the first-ever female full-time coach at the Division I level, and the breakdown by conferences makes NCAA-wide initiatives difficult.

But women who work in the industry say that events like the forum, hosted by the sport’s most influential entity, will help to spark top-down change and put more women in key positions.

“The biggest thing is making sure that women know about the job opportunities, and then that they are given the same fair shot as the men that are applying for the same position,” Dunnagan said. “The longer that you see women in these roles, the more natural it becomes, and organically you’ll see more women entering the profession that way.”

Kasia Omilian, a scouting assistant at the University of Washington, met Cohrs last year while visiting the Evanston campus. As two women working in a typically male-dominated sport, they connected, and eventually both attended the forum this February.

The forum gave them an opportunity to connect with other women from across the NFL and the college football world, a chance that’s not always

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Northwestern football operations assistant Ashley Cohrs. She was one of 40 women invited to this year’s NFL Women’s Careers in Football Forum.

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“As females in football, we continue to find each other,” Omilian said. “It’s a different medium and a different space to talk to one another and talk about certain situations that you’re in. If you can do the work, you can do the work.”

Two months after the forum, Omilian is working for the Indianapolis Colts, and Cohrs will soon head east to be a training camp intern with the Buffalo Bills — the same organization that made history in 2016 as the first to ever hire a full-time female coach.

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The opportunities are there, Cohrs said, more than ever before. The next step is to enter the elevator and seize them.

“There are a lot of teams out there that want to help you. You just have to prove to them that you can do it,” said Cohrs, who aspires to one day be an NFL executive. “You just have to make yourself valuable … These people do want you in the program, you just have to put yourself out there.” ellabrockway@u.northwestern.edu

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NU earns spot in NCAA tourney Cats finish secondBy ELLA BROCKWAY

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For the fourth year in a row, Northwestern’s Big Ten Tournament hopes were crushed by an elite Michigan team.

After a second-round 4-0 win over fourth-seeded Ohio State to open their postseason conference play, the fifthseeded Wildcats fell in a 4-1 semifinal loss to the Wolverines on Saturday.

While disappointed with the end result, coach Claire Pollard said she was pleased with the rejuvenated effort she saw from her team, especially after a late-season losing stretch slid NU from a battle for first place into fifth.

“Every player, every coach, we really dug in and asked ourselves, ‘Why is this happening, and what do we need to do to make sure it doesn’t happen?’” Pollard said. “I felt like everyone really owned up to the things that were hurting them and did a good job. The girls worked really hard to turn it around.”

The Cats (15-10, 7-4 Big Ten) kicked off their first match in Lincoln, Nebraska against the Buckeyes (19-6, 8-3) with two doubles wins to claim the first team point. Freshman Clarissa Hand picked up her sixth ranked win of the season in a 6-2, 6-3 takedown of No. 55 Isabelle Boulais — just a week earlier, Boulais had beaten Hand in three sets.

Junior Julie Byrne topped another ranked opponent at No. 2 singles, and it was sophomore Caroline Pozo at No. 5 singles who clinched the Cats’ ticket into the semifinals with a twoset win.

A day later, NU matched up against top-seeded Michigan (18-5, 11-0). The Cats kept it closer than during their previous meeting with the Wolverines this season — a 6-1 loss to Michigan on April 6 that started that four-match losing streak — but still fell, the only wins coming at No. 6 singles from Hannah McColgan and No. 2 doubles from the pair of McColgan and Byrne.

“We were back more like ourselves, and consistently over both days we had good, solid performances, whereas over the last month we’ve been a little bit up and down,” she said. “It was good to see us play back-to-back good matches.”

For the record 24th year in a row, NU will have the chance to stretch its season beyond the Big Ten Tournament. On Monday, the Cats earned a bid to this year’s NCAA Tournament and will face Princeton (18-4, 7-0 Ivy League) in the opening round Friday.

The winner of that match will face off against the winner of the matchup between Washington — the No. 10 overall seed in the tournament and host of the first two rounds of matches — and Army.

The Tigers participated at the Wildcat Invite in October, which was NU’s opening event of the season. The threeday competition did not feature any team matchups, and there were only two matches between the two teams over that weekend.

The doubles team of freshman Vanessa Streng and Pozo fell 6-3 to Princeton’s Clare McKee and Nathalie Rodilosso. Pozo also faced off against Nicole Kalhorn — the current No. 5 singles player for the Tigers — and won, 6-4, 7-6.

“The girls are really excited,” Pollard said. “It’s elimination time, so you’ve got to play your best.” ellabrockway@u.northwestern.edu

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A week ago, coach David Inglis was hopeful Northwestern could bring home a title in the “wide-open field” at Big Ten Championships. But as the weekend in Pennsylvania progressed, the Wildcats fell apart over the tournament’s three days.

NU finished in 13th place out of 14 teams, in what Inglis called the team’s “worst” showing of the year.

“We just did not perform anywhere near our expectations,” Inglis said. “I’ll be racking my brain trying to figure what happened. It was just a really disappointing that we couldn’t even just stem the tide and grind out a respectable finish. It was just a bit of a disaster really.”

The Cats finished 62-over-par, one stroke behind 12th place Maryland — but far off the 28-over final team score of first-place Illinois, which won its fifth straight conference title. As has been the issue all season, turbulent showings from four of the team’s five golfers hurt NU throughout the at the Philadelphia Cricket Club.

After Day 1 of the conference championships, the Cats sat in ninth after shooting 15-over on the back of freshman David Nyfjäll’s 2-over performance.

Nyfjäll also knocked in one of the afternoon’s two eagles. While sophomore Eric McIntosh, junior Everton Hawkins and freshman Lucas Becht all shot 4- or 5-over, senior Ryan Lumsden struggled on the Wissahickon Course’s back-nine — carding three bogeys and one double bogey to finish 8-over.

Nyfjäll also shot 8-over in round two, before the freshman shot an even-par 70 Sunday to end the weekend tied for 11th place. Inglis called it a “solid performance.”

The same couldn’t be said of NU’s four other golfers.

Though Lumsden went 6-over in

round two — second-best on the team — the next day, he bogeyed or double bogeyed holes 13 through 16 to end a team-worst 9-over.

He and the team’s other golfers struggled on Par 4s as the Cats went 73-over on those holes, the second-worst of the tournament behind last-place Wisconsin. That ultimately made the biggest difference, Inglis said, as Illinois took 30 fewer strokes on the Par 4s.

With 25 mile-per-hour wind gusts Saturday, Inglis called the conditions the “toughest we’ve seen all year.” And the team struggled to rebound, he said, once things started to go south as a result.

“We let our emotions get the best of us at times,” Inglis said. “We get too frustrated too quickly. And we weren’t, we weren’t able to just hang in there and persevere.”

Though Inglis said Lumsden was disappointed after the trip to the East Coast, the Scottish international did receive some good news earlier in the week.

After he was named a finalist for the Byron Nelson Award last month, Lumsden was announced as the winner Thursday. The award recognizes a nominee’s “entire collegiate academic and golf career as well as his character and integrity while in college.” Though four other Wildcats golfers — including Dylan Wu last year — have been tapped as finalists, Lumsden’s the first from Evanston to win.

“It really goes to the most outstanding senior in college golf,” Inglis said.

“So for him to win was really special and something that means a lot to all of us.”

What’s next for NU won’t be clear until Wednesday night, when the team finds out whether it has done enough for a bid to NCAA Regionals. Inglis said he’s optimistic when looking back at the entire season, but that hasn’t made the wait easier: “It’ll be a nervous couple of days.” closson@u.northwestern.edu