The Daily Northwestern – May 7, 2018

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A Tuition-Free Future?

As Feinberg surpasses initial ‘We Will’ fundraising goal, progress on tuition-free initiative lags behind

By PETER KOTECKI

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Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine made a rare announcement in 2014: It would create an endowment large enough to provide a tuition-free education to all medical students.

The initiative is part of the University’s “We Will” campaign, a $3.75 billion fundraising effort that has transformed Northwestern by supporting expensive construction projects, significant research endeavors and an expansion in global

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reach. For Northwestern Medicine, “We Will” entailed raising $1.75 billion toward endowed professorships, grants and fellowships, new facilities and the construction of a biomedical research building.

It also meant creating an $800 million endowment that could allow all students to attend Feinberg on full scholarships.

Several administrators said they support the tuition-free initiative, hoping it will better allow students to matriculate and ultimately specialize without being restricted by the prospect of heavy debt. » See IN FOCUS, page 6

Ty Dolla $ign electrifies A&O Ball Ex-ASG president Lil B, A-Trak energize crowd as DIAL UP performs between sets

By AMY LI

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At A&O Ball on Friday, Ty Dolla $ign asked hundreds of students to “put your (phone) light on if you don’t have an STD.” “You heard what I said,” Ty Dolla $ign added after seeing the puzzled faces in the crowd. Still, once the confusion subsided, hundreds of students turned their flashlights on, held up their phones and lit up the Riviera Theatre in Chicago.

A&O and For Members Only collaborated to host Ball for the third year in a row. The concert included performances by hip-hop artists Ty Dolla $ign and Lil B and DJ A-Trak. Northwestern artist collective DIAL UP performed between sets as well.

DIAL UP quickly turned up the energy in the venue, opening with an original audio sample from “Father Stretch My Hands Pt.1” by Kanye West before performing renditions of hit songs including “Look Alive” by BlocBoy JB, “T-Shirt ” by Migos and “American Boy”

by Estelle.

Continuing to pick up the heat, Lil B performed “Ellen Degeneres” to get the whole crowd feeling “swag” like he raps in the song.

After ward, students jumped up and down, swinging their hands in the air to the electric beats of A-Trak, which included a mix of West’s hit rap song “Fade.”

Ty Dolla $ign was the last artist to hit the stage with

starts mayoral bid 2009 SESP alum hopes to challenge crowded field

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Ty Dolla $ign performs during A&O Ball. Lil B and A-Trak also performed at the concert, which was held at the Riviera Theatre.

fiery performances of “Blasé,” “Ex” and a cover of “Worth It” by Fifth Harmony.

McCormick freshman Paul Brown said the concert was

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especially memorable because he went with his friends. The best part of his experience, he said, was “getting tossed around” in the crowded mosh

pit.

Despite the overflow of people during Ty Dolla $ign’s » See BALL, page 10

When Neal Sales-Griffin (SESP ’09) launched his 2008 campaign for Associated Student Government president, his goal was to initiate systemic change within ASG. Frustrated by a disengaged Senate and an executive board that was not responsive to student concerns, Sales-Griffin campaigned on a platform of transparency, accountability and access. Upon his victory over four other candidates, he set out to make ASG responsible and reliable.

A decade later, Sales-Griffin is again crusading for governmental transparency and reform — only this time, he’s running for mayor of Chicago.

“I could promise you all these nice bells and whistles, but if we don’t actually put our government itself in a position where it can actually be held accountable properly by the people and establish trust, then it might get better but it might not,” Sales-Griffin said, referring to his campaign strategy for both ASG and the mayoral race. “I’d rather design a system that’s designed for progress, no matter who is in charge and who’s leading it.”

Sales-Griffin, a tech entrepreneur and McCormick School of Engineering professor, has not worked in government since his ASG days. At only 30 years old, the Chicago

native will face a crowded field of seven other challengers, including incumbent Rahm Emanuel and former Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul Vallas.

Despite the qualified competition, Sales-Griffin said he brings a unique perspective to the race.

“From a lens of leadership and education, as well as in technology and business, I think there’s a lot more that we could bring to the table to make our government more efficient and more accessible to people,” he said.

Sales-Griffin grew up in the Kenwood neighborhood in Chicago’s South Side. After arriving at Northwestern in 2005, he quickly got involved on campus. He said as a freshman, he helped start the Institute for Student Business Education, where he now serves as a board member. Sales-Griffin also worked as a residential security monitor, Safe Ride driver and a library front desk attendant.

As ASG president, he started an initiative for a new student center, overseeing a research project on problems with Norris University Center.

Nate Perkins (McCormick ’10), who served as Sales-Griffin’s vice president for student services, said he remembers SalesGriffin as a charismatic voice with inspiring ideas.

“He really was able to rally a ton of students around his vision and campaign back then,” Perkins said. “He had a … big vision, big picture, big idea leadership style in student government and as president.” » See SALES-GRIFFIN, page 8

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D65 educator wins Golden Apple teaching award

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Evanston/Skokie District 65 superintendent Paul Goren said every time he visits Kristin Mitchell’s classroom, he can tell how much her students enjoy learning from her. When Mitchell received the Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching & Leadership, Goren said it could not have gone “to a nicer person.”

Mitchell has taught kindergarten at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Literary and Fine Arts School for 10 years. She received the award on March 23 from Golden Apple, an Illinois nonprofit that aims to celebrate and support teachers.

“It’s really a special thing to be honored this way,” Mitchell said. “It gives you a lot of that drive to keep moving. It feels like I actually am doing something and it makes me want to keep pushing to do more all the time.”

According to a March 23 news release, the organization received 650 applications this year — a record number — from students, parents, peers or administrators on behalf of kindergarten to third grade teachers. Mitchell was one of 10 teachers who received the recognition, and she will be honored at a May 19 gala.

Each award winner will have the chance to study at Northwestern for a quarter — free of tuition — receive a $5,000 cash award and become a Golden Apple Academy fellow, according to the release.

“Golden Apple is proud to recognize this year’s award recipients for their exceptional

POLICE BLOTTER Two athletic club thefts occur at roughly same time Two people reported theft Thursday afternoon, one at the LA Fitness at 1618 Sherman Ave. and the other at the McGaw YMCA at 1000 Grove St. At about 2:35 p.m., a 50-year-old Chicago man

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The Joseph E. Hill Education Center, 1500 McDaniel Ave. Evanston/Skokie School District 65 kindergarten teacher Kristin Mitchell received the Golden Apple Award for Excellence in Teaching & Leadership.

accomplishments in the classroom,” the organization’s president and CEO Alicia Winckler said in the release. “Each of the recipients is uniquely talented and epitomizes the dedication, skill and drive in the teaching profession.”

District officials, King Arts staff and Golden Apple representatives surprised Mitchell at an assembly, Goren told The Daily. Thinking she needed to find files for the superintendent, Mitchell said she rushed into the auditorium to discover

reported six keys and a $150 fitbit were removed from his locker at the YMCA between 12:10 p.m. and 2 p.m., Evanston police Cmdr. Ryan Glew said.

Among the six keys was the man’s key fob to his vehicle, which he later found placed next to his vehicle. The man told police that it did not appear that his vehicle had been entered, and his wallet

was still in the vehicle, Glew said.

The other reported theft occurred between 12:10 p.m. and 1 p.m. roughly four blocks from the YMCA at the LA Fitness on Sherman Avenue. A 33-year-old Evanston man reported the theft of two credit cards, a debit card, five keys and $60 in cash from his locker. There are no suspects and the case is pending further investigation, Glew said.

the surprise, and it was a “mortifying” and “wonderful” experience. Goren said he greeted her with the “highest level of congratulations” and a hug.

In deciding to be a teacher, Mitchell said she always wanted to be in the classroom, but she thought she would teach high school math. When she switched to elementary education, it felt right, she said. At the kindergarten level, she said, she focuses on building relationships between students and their families, a skill Goren took note of.

“I’ve talked to several parents, and they adore her,” Goren said. “She’s a really supportive teacher, and that really plays an important role in engaging families in the learning process as well.”

Mitchell has worked to close the achievement gap as a part of school environment and climate work by focusing on early literacy, according to the release. Now that she has two children of her own, Mitchell told The Daily she learned how to differentiate her curriculum for student needs, building off her relationships with students.

In the classroom, Mitchell said she teaches her students to try their hardest without being afraid of making mistakes.

She said she models these values and comes to class with a smile on her face every day to make students’ experience at school a positive one.

“Kindergarten is super special because we see so much happen in this year,” Mitchell said. “We see them come in and tell us that they don’t know how to read, and then they leave me (as) readers or they leave me as writers. Sometimes, it’s even a look in their face — it’s as if a window opens.” catherinehenderson2021@u.northwestern.edu Glew said there is a possibility of a tie between the two thefts, stating that EPD has received reports of multiple locker room thefts around the same time in the past. In 2012, LA Fitness had 48 thefts through the beginning of October, The Daily reported.

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ON CAMPUS NUBAA premieres film on Bursar’s

By TROY CLOSSON

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CHICAGO — Black students’ transitions to Northwestern in the late 1960s, their experiences on campus and the context of the national civil rights movement were highlighted in a full-length documentary on the Bursar’s Office Takeover commissioned by the Northwestern University Black Alumni Association.

The film premiered Saturday at the Swissôtel and was created in partnership with Digital Café — a Chicago-based digital media production company — to provide a platform for alumni to tell their stories, executive producer and NUBAA president Jeffrey Sterling (Weinberg ’85) said.

“The Takeover: The Revolution of the Black Experience at Northwestern University” features interviews with a number of takeover participants, University officials, staff and even current students.

In the documentary, Clovis Semmes (Weinberg ’71, Graduate School ’78), a student who was involved with the takeover in 1968, addressed the sense of urgency he and other students felt to make themselves heard by the University.

“I wasn’t thinking about being kicked out of school, I wasn’t thinking about being suspended,” Semmes said in the documentary. “That thought had come and gone.”

After the documentary, actor and former FMO coordinator Harry Lennix (Communication ’86) moderated a panel featuring Bursar’s Office Takeover participants Daphne Maxwell Reid (Weinberg ’70) and Joanne Williams (Communication ’71), as well as Digital Café founder Eric Seals.

Involving a black-owned business in the film, Seals said, created an environment in which alumni could be more comfortable recounting their experiences on campus “because the people who were behind-the-scenes looked like them too.”

For current students, knowing the history of previous students’ successes and struggles is essential, he said.

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Alumni Harry Lennix, Daphne Maxwell Reid and Joanne Williams join filmmaker Eric Seals (left to right) during a panel after the premiere of a NUBAA-commissioned documentary on the Bursar’s Office Takeover.

Takeover participants Maxwell Reid and Williams reflected on their time at Northwestern and its evolution since 1968.

“(Students) need to know what people who look like them went through 50 years ago,” Seals said. “The best way to get forward is to learn what happened before you got to Northwestern and then build from the generation before you so you can take those next steps.”

Throughout portions of the documentary showing, alumni teared up reliving their memories.

Maxwell Reid was Northwestern’s first black Homecoming queen, and scenes in the film tackled the oftentimes negative reactions she received from University officials and other non-black students. Due to her experiences on campus, she said that for a while, she couldn’t even “listen to the word ‘Northwestern’ … without getting mad.”

Although she didn’t know specifics of the plan to take over the Bursar’s Office long before it happened, Maxwell Reid said black students’ collective determination to take action and improve the climate at NU was evident.

“It was an accumulation of all the personal things that every one of us went through when we got to Northwestern combined with the energy generated by the loss of Dr. King, by the frustrations of not being able to be heard by the University — it all culminated,” she said.

While alumni primarily attended the weekend premiere, the film will also be shown on the Evanston campus later this month.

Sterling told The Daily he hopes students and members will engage with it, but the documentary is solely a “bookend” in NUBAA’s drive to allow Bursar’s Office Takeover participants to reclaim the stories and tell their first-person accounts.

“This is us re-capturing our history, and telling our stories in a way that provides balance to whatever misconceptions may exist about any part of the Takeover,” he said. troyclosson2020@u.northwestern.edu

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GOP lawmakers are disregarding democracy, corruption RYAN BOYD

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As Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into the Trump campaign advances, it has become increasingly clear that the Republican Party is, by and large, anti-democratic. Though news organizations have reported that President Donald Trump has repeatedly discussed firing the Special Counsel, Republicans — with a few exceptions, notably Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Thom Tillis (R-N.C), Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) — have refused to intervene. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell both said they will refuse to allow a bill protecting the Special Counsel to reach the House and Senate floors, respectively. And a number of Republicans, particularly those in tough primaries or in deep red districts, have outright called on Trump to fire Mueller. They know such an action would directly contravene the rule of law and enable an already reckless president, but they don’t seem to care.

In fact, if the past 10 years have shown us anything about the Republican Party, it’s that it is remarkably consistent in its desire to shatter America’s democratic norms, one by one. At the state level, strict, repressive and bigoted voter ID laws have prevented hundreds of thousands of black voters from participating in the electoral process. Extreme gerrymandering in red states — which even the conservative Roberts court has ruled against — has systematized the underrepresentation of people of color to lock in permanent Republican majorities. And recent Republican defeats in special elections have prompted some states to try to do away with special elections altogether. These lawmakers seem to believe that if a Republican candidate isn’t going to win, we shouldn’t bother having a race.

In Congress, the GOP’s authoritarian streak is even more pronounced. Recently, Ryan tried to fire the House Chaplain for calling for a tax code that benefits all, but still refuses to remove U.S. Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) from his post as head of the House Intelligence Committee. This is especially reckless given that Nunes spends his days undermining the Justice Department and making a joke of congressional oversight. Ryan is actively aiding and

abetting a campaign to discredit law enforcement in order to protect the wildly corrupt president. McConnell has done even worse: In his quest to take down then-President Barack Obama, McConnell used the filibuster in an unprecedented manner — holding up uncontroversial nominees, stopping bills supported by both parties and eliminating what remained of the Senate’s bipartisan collegiality. His refusal to even consider Merrick Garland’s nomination for the Supreme Court marked a point of no return; it was a crossing of the illiberal Rubicon.

The egregious decisions of GOP leaders reflect the will of rank-and-file Republicans.

They chose Ryan and McConnell. They chose dysfunction and democratic backsliding. They did not choose oversight and institutional strength. It is crucial to remember that this a problem that plagues the entire Republican Party, not just the president and congressional leadership.

What is even more disheartening is that when Republicans attack institutions, it isn’t collateral damage in pursuit of some greater goal. It is the goal. The GOP gerrymandered districts, protected an outrageously backward campaign finance system, subverted political norms and disenfranchised voters to obtain control of the presidency, the House, the

Senate, the Supreme Court, 34 governor’s mansions and a majority of state legislatures.

Yet, they have almost nothing to show for it except more corruption and more attacks on the rule of law.

As the midterm elections approach this fall, it is important to recognize the danger this poses to our democracy. Republicans and Democrats do not only differ on matters of policy. They are fundamentally opposed on issues relating to democratic institutions and corruption. If you are uncomfortable with quasi-authoritarian impulses and disregard for the rule of law, then you should be uncomfortable voting for Republicans.

If you want to see a return to normalcy — proper congressional oversight, a respect for the independence of the FBI and Department of Justice and a desire to slow the rising tide of influence peddling and cronyism — then you should enthusiastically vote for Democrats.

Ryan Boyd is a Weinberg freshman. He can be contacted at ryanboyd2021@u.northwestern.edu.

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Learning to live within the weather rather than against it ALEX SCHWARTZ

DAILY COLUMNIST

I’ve rarely had my privilege checked so intensely as I have this past week. I’m referring, of course, to the weather.

I wore a winter coat last Sunday, and within a mere six days I was basking on the lakefill in shorts and a T-shirt. Chicago’s climate is underratedly erratic, and last week it was on display in full force. But it made me step back and think about how I conceptualize the weather and nature in general.

I was born and raised in Central Florida where seasons are stretched out and compressed beyond recognition. What passes for “winter” amounts to about a week in either January or February, when the temperature dips below 50 degrees and drivers realize they’ve forgotten how to use their defrost vents. Coats, thermal socks and snow boots are virtually unheard of in daily outfits, instead displayed like museum artifacts in a select few outdoor stores.

I remember my mom dressing me for the “cold” when I was little. There was that one sweater, that one pair of gloves and that one beanie I never wanted to wear. Nevertheless, it was exciting to sit in a chilly car (normally stifling from the heat) and see my breath materialize like smoke in the still air. It was a change, and a few days later, it would be more or less over.

Last winter was my first at Northwestern (or, for that matter, above the Mason-Dixon Line). From what I gather, it wasn’t a doozy.

The temperature fluctuated so much that I experienced only two snow days, as well as several days when it climbed above 60 degrees. I had been warned time and time again about how stark of a change it would be, and I honestly felt a little let down.

This year was a different story. Still not the worst, I’ve heard, but snow in November and April sure was a departure from what I had been used to. And Winter Quarter was an almost uninterrupted progression of gray, frigid days. What I had thought of as winter lasted much longer than a week, and it got old very fast.

And then came last weekend, when it seemed as if the transition from April to May flicked a switch that turned on the heat. It was, again, a change. Almost everyone I knew was outside this past Saturday, darty-hopping, listening to live music on the lakefill or sunbathing at the still-technically-closed Evanston public beaches. I wore sandals and sunglasses the whole day, and by the time I came back to my room, my neck was sore from all the times I had turned my head back to face the sun, just to bathe in heat and light.

As poetic as it sounds, the day was nothing short of idyllic. Many of us jokingly say, “This weather cured my depression/anxiety,” and — while it may be problematic to say that mental illness can be so easily remedied — it was baffling to me that I actually felt that way after a total of maybe three days in sunny weather. I thought to myself: What

does that say about me, that my mood is so dependent on the weather?

I thought back to my winter excitement growing up, and I realized that it was essentially the same thing: I derived happiness not so much from the weather as I did from how it changed. Humans secretly love change, despite our collective resistance to it socially and politically. The more dramatic the change, the better. We don’t do well sitting for too long in the same place or under the same sky. That’s why we arrange our years into seasons, structuring our lives around different customs and traditions compartmentalized into different times of the year.

We build snowmen and drink hot chocolate in winter, plant flowers in spring, vacation in summer and pick apples in fall because we want to give ourselves something to look forward to, something to add more variety into our lives.

But at the same time, our love for seasonal change is at odds with how we live our lives.

We avoid slowing down the pace of work or school when the weather gets tough and our bodies become sluggish. And we don’t give ourselves time to enjoy nature when it’s beckoning us outside.

Partly to blame is our economic system that demands that we give 100 percent of ourselves to the creation of goods and the rendering of services, ignores our humanity and our need to be stimulated by the natural world. Also to blame is our perception of nature: the idea that we should primarily live our lives separated from it, only to interact with it at predetermined, even timed

intervals. That’s not to say we should give up our heating and indoor plumbing or even our walls, but we need to at least start conceptualizing ourselves as part of nature instead of trying to blockade it.

Yes, Seasonal Affective Disorder is real and can be caused by a number of winter’s physiological effects, such as lack of light and vitamin D production. But I think what really makes winter such a depressing time of year for all of us, whether or not we struggle with our mental health, is how we try to fight against it instead of live within it. Winter can be beautiful when we’re not hurriedly rushing through snowfall to get to class, when we instead choose to watch that snow collect on tree branches or listen to the crunch our boots make when we step through it.

So, for next year, I’ve decided I’m going to try to dissociate the ugliness from a cold, gray winter’s day, instead learning to appreciate how it was different from the day before or how it will be different from the next.

I’ve decided to try to treat each day as a new season, a new change. I’ve decided to take comfort in knowing that the weather changes, that there will be nice days and notso-nice ones and that each of those days will be different.

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MONDAY, MAY 7, 2018

Northwestern sophomore launches origami club

By JONAH DYLAN

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When he was in 5th grade, Robin Kim had to make origami for a class project. He was hooked, and ever since then, he’s been making paper cranes as a hobby.

Even though he continued working on cranes when he got to Northwestern, he never really thought he’d end up starting a club.

“I’d always talked about starting an origami club as, like, a joke, but then a couple of my friends were like ‘Hey, why don’t we actually do it?’” the McCormick sophomore said. “And then we just kind of ran with it. It was just mostly to do for fun.”

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It’s almost like meditation, it’s really great for the mind. Especially at Northwestern, where the stress levels are unbelievably high.

Drew Parson, NU ’gami chief technical officer

Kim, along with four other members of an executive board, recently founded NU ’gami, the first origami club at Northwestern. Kim said the club’s meetings have averaged about 20 members, with 10 to 15 regulars who attend meetings each week.

NU ’gami chief technical officer Drew Parsons, who designed the club’s website, said he was “shocked” at how many people have attended early

Three prominent journalists to discuss #MeToo at CTSS event

Journalists Megan Twohey, Lauren Duca and Erika Allen — who’ve been leading coverage on the #MeToo movement — will speak at a Contemporary Thought Speaker Series event on

meetings. He said many clubs at Northwestern can feel like a “chore,” so NU ’gami wanted to create a more laid-back atmosphere.

“We really wanted to facilitate an environment that would kind of feel like a break, and we thought origami was a great way to do that,” the McCormick sophomore said. “Because it’s almost like meditation, it’s really great for the mind. Especially at Northwestern, where the stress levels are unbelievably high a lot of the time, we think it’ll help the student body.”

Parsons said he was recruited shortly after the club was founded. He said he’d been exposed to origami in the past but was also interested in using his computer science experience to help create the website.

Chief design officer Kaitlyn Ko, who got involved shortly after the club was formed, said the team is planning some events to put origami around campus.

“In terms of campus beautification, we wanted to do a campus-wide thing where we could kind of bring that origami beauty to everybody,” the McCormick sophomore said. “Whether that be with putting a giant crane up at The Arch, or putting tons of cranes around campus.”

NU ’gami is planning an event this week for Mother’s Day, which Ko said could also involve letting students make cranes to decorate around campus — or to give to their mothers.

Kim said he hopes to expand the club going forward.

“For now, we think it’s a good stress reliever, therapeutic, especially during midterms and finals season, so that’s when we’ll work on setting up things for people to do, just casually, to relax,” he said. “We’re also looking into going out into the Evanston community and maybe working with youth and the elderly, because we think it’s a good creative project for them to do.” jonahdylan2020@u.northwestern.edu

Thursday, CTSS announced Sunday.

The discussion is titled “Media and #MeToo: the Reckoning and its Repercussions,” and will be moderated by Medill Prof. Mei-Ling Hopgood.

“This exemplary group of female journalists are leading the charge in the newsroom to tackle the most pressing and complex of questions that have emerged in this unique #MeToo moment,” CTSS vice president Amanda Gordon said in a news release. “We are really excited to bring such a

Source: Robin Kim

A paper crane advertising NU ’gami. The origami club was recently founded at Northwestern.

dynamic group of individuals to Northwestern. We hope the event will spark a meaningful dialogue among students and faculty.”

Twohey, a reporter for The New York Times, is an Evanston native and a winner of the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for her reporting on sexual abuse allegations against Harvey Weinstein. She was recently named one of TIME’s 100 most influential people.

Duca is a freelance journalist and a columnist

for Teen Vogue. She has also contributed to publications like New York Magazine, Vice and The New Yorker.

Allen is the managing editor of The Outline, a New York-based digital media company. She previously worked for Vice and The New York Times.

The event will take place at 7 p.m. in Harris Hall.

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Northwestern Medicine “We Will” campaign $2B $1.75 billion total goal

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Yet, despite Feinberg having reached its $1.75 billion goal this year — and setting a new target of $2 billion — donations to the scholarship fund have lagged behind the other fundraising areas, said Dr. Alan Krensky, vice dean for development and alumni relations.

He said the scholarship endowment currently stands at $180 million, or 22.5 percent of the desired amount.

The goal of a tuition-free Feinberg education is “aspirational,” Krensky said. And with less than one-fourth of funds raised, the program’s future remains unclear.

“We have gotten a lot done and it’s terrific, but I would say we still have a long way to go,” Krensky said. “We do like to sort of kiddingly say, ‘We are only one gift away.’”

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Twenty specialties with the lowest annual compensation $192K, Pediatric Infectious Disease $209K, Pediatric Hematology & Oncology $215K, Pediatric Endocrinology $222K, Pediatrics $232K, Preventive Medicine $232K, Medicine/Pediatrics $241K, Family Medicine $245K, Geriatrics $247K, Medicinal Genetics $255K, Pediatric Gastroenterology $260K, Internal Medicine $265K, Infectious Disease $266K, Endocrinology $268K, Psychiatry $270K, Rheumatology $274K, Pediatric Emergency Medicine $283K, Pediatric Cardiology $286K, Neurology $290K, Occupational Medicine $304K, Physical Medicine/Rehab

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Dr. Vivian Roy (Feinberg ’13) worked for a few years before attending medical school but said the money she saved was not enough to cover four years of tuition and rent in Chicago.

Roy preferred Feinberg over her other options for its curriculum and camaraderie: Everything “just fit well,” she said, except the money. Northwestern did not offer her any merit-based aid, but a different institution did.

After reaching out to Feinberg about her situation, Roy said she was told there was nothing they could do.

But several days later, she received another message with much better news: If she committed to Feinberg, the school would offer Roy $40,000 per year through a scholarship from the Satter Foundation.

“I got lucky,” Roy said. “I asked them to match the scholarship money that I had at this other school and they actually went above and beyond.”

The scholarship helped draw Roy to Northwestern, where she decided to specialize in physical medicine and rehabilitation after participating in a program through the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab. “That got me interested in the field of rehab, so that was actually kind of fortuitous because I don’t know if I would have been exposed to that field if I hadn’t come to Northwestern,” Roy said.

The field she chose is one of the 20 lowestpaying medical specialties, according to a report published in March by Doximity, a networking service for health care professionals. Roy said she probably would have specialized in this area regardless of the Satter scholarship, but having the aid made it easier because she left Feinberg without significant debt.

Last year, medical students at Northwestern graduated with a mean debt of about $181,000.

Nationwide, the mean medical education debt for the class of 2017 surpassed $206,000 among private institutions.

Krensky said debt can influence the field in which students specialize and where they choose to practice medicine. When planning Feinberg’s fundraising campaign, the school decided that helping students graduate debtfree should be a “centerpiece” of its efforts, he said.

“If you have the resources to offer free tuition to people, that does change the student body and who would choose to come, and make it possible to attract people who we may accept now but who don’t come for one reason or another,” Krensky said.

Currently, Feinberg’s financial aid packages can include loans, need-based grants and meritbased scholarships. Estimates for the total cost of attendance in the 2017-18 academic year surpass $85,000, with roughly $58,000 going toward tuition.

Cynthia Gonzalez, senior assistant director of financial aid at Feinberg, told The Daily in an email that the school is committed to increasing scholarships, as financial considerations are generally part of prospective students’ decision-making.

In her experience, however, she said she found that students typically choose which school to attend based on a “holistic overview,” not financial circumstances alone.

Still, University President emeritus Henry Bienen — chair of the Northwestern Medicine fundraising campaign — said medical students’ paths diverge after graduation. Although average wages among doctors are high, some doctors earn less by working in public health or lowincome communities, he said.

“If you are already coming to medical school with debt from undergraduate school, you could be very leery on taking on a lot more debt in the years you are in medical school,” Bienen said.

“It could be many years out before you get clear on your financial obligations.”

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Though large individual gifts are not the norm, some donations have had a significant impact on financial aid at Feinberg.

In 2015, Northwestern alumni Muneer Satter (Weinberg ’83) and Kristen Hertel (SESP ’86) donated more than $10 million to the University’s “We Will” campaign. Nearly $8.5 million went toward the Satter Foundation Scholarship program, which supports three first-year Feinberg students with merit-based scholarships of $40,000 per year through the end of their third year, according to the program’s website.

“Kristen and I are committed to the goal of assuring a Northwestern education to promising future physicians and medical scientists,” Satter said in a 2015 news release. “These scholarships are investments that will ultimately benefit medical science and humanity.”

By that point, the Satter Scholars program had already provided scholarships to several Feinberg students, including Roy. Krensky called the Satter gift one of the school’s “biggest leaps” toward the tuition-free initiative, adding that Feinberg has not received a scholarship donation on the same scale since.

Multiple Satter scholars said receiving the scholarship went a long way in allowing them to focus on academics.

Dr. Ashish Sarraju (Feinberg ’14) said attending medical school on this scholarship was a “tremendous” opportunity. After graduating from Feinberg, Sarraju moved to Stanford University for a residency in internal medicine, and he said he was lucky to have finished medical school without going into significant debt.

“One can’t overemphasize the role that taking away that financial burden (plays),” Sarraju said.

“You could really sort of go about your medical school days with a true smile on your face and a lightness in your heart. I think that’s a big deal.”

A 2018 study by the Association of American Medical Colleges projects that there will be a nationwide shortage of between 42,600 and 121,300 physicians by 2030. Among primary care physicians, the study predicts the shortage will be between 14,800 and 49,300 people.

Lower medical school debt could alleviate the physician shortage by encouraging students to pursue their desired medical field, regardless of future compensation, Sarraju said.

Dr. Patrick Hurley (Feinberg ’16) said the Satter scholarship was the reason he attended Northwestern. Cost was an important factor to Hurley, as his family was unable to pay for medical school, and the scholarship allowed him to take out loans only for living expenses.

Later on, Hurley said, he worried less about paying off those loans when he chose to complete his residency in psychiatry. The field is another one of the 20 lowest-paying specialties, according to the Doximity report.

Hurley added that he did not feel pressured to choose a higher-paying field to compensate for medical school costs.

“It really didn’t enter into my calculus,” he said. “I just chose it based on passion and enjoying treating psychiatric patients as opposed to which field would make me the most money.”

‘Revealed preferences’

Krensky, whose office raises money for the tuition-free initiative, said he and his colleagues focus on various forms of outreach, particularly to alumni.

Although Northwestern Medicine’s “We Will” campaign is ahead of schedule, Krensky said the influx of donations earmarked for scholarships has lagged in comparison to other areas. He added that he hopes Feinberg alumni will band together to support future medical students.

Bienen said some donors are strongly motivated by a desire to combat diseases like cancer and Parkinson’s, especially if they or their loved ones have been diagnosed. Other donors may prefer to support new institutes that can have a large impact on progress in research, he added.

“You’ve got a lot of priorities that you’re raising money for, and I think it’s a revealed preference,” Bienen said. “A lot of donors are more interested in putting the money into (faculty) chairs, putting the money into space and research than they are into financial aid.”

Krensky praised the campaign’s progress in

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MONDAY, MAY 7, 2018 raising money for various institutes, endowed professorships and innovation grants. He said a central component of the campaign was to “dramatically” grow Northwestern’s research endeavors, which required the construction of new buildings.

Following a $92 million gift from a Northwestern alumnus and his wife, Northwestern broke ground on the Louis A. Simpson and Kimberly K. Querrey Biomedical Research Center in 2015. The center, initially designed to comprise about 600,000 square feet, is slated to be completed next year.

“It is going to allow us to recruit new faculty, expand our research and expand the entire Northwestern footprint of research,” Krensky said. “It’s a very major part and that’s been our focus.”

Jay Walsh, NU’s vice president for research, said the University needs to regularly upgrade its facilities because of its “size and heft.” The biomedical research center, he said, will include space for Feinberg and the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, as well as room for scientists to conduct interdisciplinary work.

Using existing spaces for biomedical research can be challenging, as retrofitting buildings to handle current biomedical work requires significant effort, Walsh said.

Feinberg raises money in multiple ways, he added, from faculty members writing grant proposals to philanthropists making donations.

Walsh said donors can support needs like specialized equipment, for which the University cannot easily receive other aid.

Overall, Bienen said, donors tend to be driven by the desire to make a significant impact in a particular area, such as research.

“That’s a worthy priority, as is financial aid, but if you believe in revealed preferences, you look at the data … and it tells you something,” Bienen said. “But that doesn’t mean you give up. You just say, ‘OK, we’ll do what we can.’”

A long road

Although Krensky called the tuition-free initiative an “aspirational” goal, he noted Feinberg has created more than 60 new scholarships since the campaign began. It is impossible, however, to control the rate of donations toward the $800 million endowment, he said.

“There is the hope that some huge donor will get us there, but the reality is it’s many more smaller donors each year, class gifts, various alumni, things like that, that move us closer to the goal,” Krensky said.

It would be tough to reach the $800 million goal through individual donors, Bienen said. Profits from inventions coming out of the medical school, however, could quicken the progress, he added.

Bienen recalled the drug Lyrica, which originated in a Northwestern chemistry lab and was first approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2004. Due to an agreement with pharmaceutical company Pfizer, revenue from the drug significantly raised NU’s licensing revenue, money the University earns for allowing its copyrights and patents to be used by other companies.

Royalties from the drug brought roughly $1.4 billion into the University’s endowment, and Bienen said he used a significant portion of the windfall to support financial aid for Ph.D. students. Future University presidents, he added, could also funnel money toward scholarships.

Bienen said Feinberg has a number of discoveries “in the pipeline,” and that any future royalty streams could be used to increase financial aid for medical students, just as Lyrica helped those in Ph.D. programs. “(These discoveries) are not a certainty — it’s a long road,” Bienen said. “It took years and years from the initial discovery of Lyrica to the time that we started getting money from Pfizer and then monetized the flow with a big company.”

Walsh said some new drugs are in clinical trials, which help determine their efficacy and safety. However, trials can also reveal previously unknown side effects, he said, and it is impossible to predict whether “a big Lyrica 2” will come along and provide a large royalty stream.

“While we always hope that this will happen,” Walsh said, “we also recognize that that is certainly not a good way to budget.”

Barriers to entry

Lisette Corbin, who graduated from Weinberg in the fall, said she has felt discouraged by the medical school application process “every step along the way.”

The Medical College Admission Test costs more than $300 and test preparation courses can cost a few thousand dollars. Students then pay for primary and secondary applications unless they qualify for fee waivers, and often those who make it far enough in the application process are asked to interview, which can add further costs for travel and housing, Corbin said.

Despite these costs, she said, applying to medical schools doesn’t compare to the price of tuition itself.

To minimize future debt loads, Corbin said, some students aim for their state schools — which may offer lower tuition than private institutions — or strive for competitive private schools that can offer hefty scholarships or loan-free financial aid packages.

Annie Nielsen, who graduated from Weinberg in the fall, said it is also important to consider the costs of living during medical school, as they may generate an additional financial burden.

Some students, however, don’t have the freedom to choose between different cities or aid packages. Nielsen, who intends to begin medical school in the fall, said she received one acceptance and was placed on multiple waitlists.

As she prepares to submit her applications, Corbin said the medical school application process is yet another example of the way lowincome students are disadvantaged in higher education.

“A lot of schools are moving in the right direction by being loan-free and offering scholarships and trying to do what they can to reel in costs,” Corbin said. “But I think at the end of the day, it’s a system that favors the wealthy and the advantaged, and it makes it that much harder for people who aren’t from that privileged background to have a chance.”

A nationwide effort

Feinberg is not the only medical school trying to provide full scholarships for its students.

At the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, all students receive a full-tuition scholarship. The school enrolls roughly 30 new students each year.

Columbia University, meanwhile, received a $250 million donation last year from Dr. P. Roy Vagelos and Diana Vagelos. About $150 million of the gift is funding an endowment that will provide full-tuition scholarships to those with the greatest financial need and will eliminate

loans for those who qualify for financial aid, according to a Columbia news release. Columbia and Northwestern enroll a similar number of first-year medical students — just over 150.

Vagelos said he hopes the donation will allow medical students who graduate from Columbia to pursue specialties that are comparatively less lucrative, such as pediatrics and family medicine, according to The New York Times.

The tuition-free movement has also extended to the west coast. In 2012, Hollywood mogul David Geffen donated $100 million to create a scholarship fund for medical students at University of California, Los Angeles. The scholarship, given to roughly 20 percent of incoming UCLA medical students, covers full tuition and other expenses for all four years.

Some of these financial aid programs are need-based, but others like the Satter Foundation scholarship at Northwestern and the Geffen scholarship at UCLA are based on merit.

In a January interview, University President Morton Schapiro noted the push among some medical schools to provide a tuition-free education and said it is important for schools to take into account students’ financial needs.

Schapiro said letting students with “tremendous wealth” attend medical school for free would be a “misallocation” of scarce resources.

“But if it’s somebody from a lower-income family who is going to take out tremendous debt … I think reducing the price for people who don’t come from wealthy backgrounds makes a lot of sense,” he said.

Justifying the investment

While medical schools are expensive, their graduates have strong job security and “excellent” income potential, said Julie Fresne, senior director of student financial services and debt management strategies at the Association of American Medical Colleges.

With current loan repayment plans — in which borrowers pay based on income, not level of debt — Fresne said medical school graduates can pay a manageable amount each month.

“I am not discounting the high cost — or, for some people, the high debt — but of all professions that are out there, barring any unusual circumstances, these graduates should be able to get a job that enables them to not only repay their education debt, but to provide for (a) secure living and retirement,” Fresne said.

According to the U.S. Department of Education, direct unsubsidized loans for graduate or professional students currently have a 6 percent interest rate, which is 1.55 percentage points more than equivalent loans for undergraduates.

Some students’ debt levels play a moderate to strong influence on their specialty choice, Fresne said, but other factors tend to hold greater weight. It is more common to choose one’s specialty based on factors like a past mentor or a preferred lifestyle, she said.

Despite the rise in medical school tuition and the high mean debt, Fresne said she strongly believes that a medical education is still a good investment, particularly because of incomedriven repayment plans.

“There is no reason that a medical school

graduate should not be able to practice the specialty that speaks to them and expect to repay their student loans manageably,” she said. “Cost should not be a deterrent.”

Funding Feinberg

Sean Posada, who recently finished his third year at Feinberg, said he paid close attention to finances while applying to medical schools. If Northwestern relieved medical students’ debt or followed through on the initiative to provide free tuition, Posada said many students’ experiences would be much less stressful.

“I definitely think that the initiative Feinberg is doing is a very ambitious one, and one that I support 100 percent, because my undergrad experience was actually enhanced by the fact that I was lucky enough to receive a full financial aid package,” Posada said. “Whereas now in medical school, I still prioritize my studies — but finances are always on the back of my mind.”

Roy, the Satter scholar and 2013 Feinberg alumna, said the school’s initiative to provide more scholarships to students is “for the best.”

The Satter scholarship made it easier for her to pursue a fellowship after her residency, and Roy added it would have been harder to support her 2-year-old child if she still had debt.

She took out some loans to cover the cost of living in Chicago, but Roy said she was able to pay them off soon after graduating from Feinberg. As she nears the end of her fellowship, Roy said she plans on returning to Feinberg as a faculty member and physician later this year.

Universities’ efforts to subsidize tuition for other students can also address the national doctor shortage, although there is no simple solution to the issue, Roy said.

Roy said she believes she would not have ended up at Northwestern if Feinberg had not offered her the Satter scholarship about 10 years ago.

“This was the right school for me,” Roy said, “and I’m just glad that I was able to come here and chase my dream without really having to worry about student loans and paying off debt.” peterkotecki@u.northwestern.edu

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A Northwestern Medicine building in Chicago. Northwestern Medicine’s portion of the “We Will” campaign has entailed raising $1.75 billion toward endowed professorships, grants and fellowships and new facilities, among other things. The campaign also aims to create an $800 million scholarship endowment for students.

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After graduating with a degree in learning and organizational change, Sales-Griffin worked in venture capital at Sandbox Industries, but said he wanted to learn a new skill set. He said he taught himself computer programming and software design, and turned down an opportunity to work on Barack Obama’s presidential reelection campaign to launch Code Academy, a coding bootcamp now called The Starter League.

Sales-Griffin said through The Starter League, he helped teach more than 1,600 people software development and design. He sold the company in 2016, and currently serves as CEO of CodeNow, a nonprofit that teaches coding skills to underprivileged teenagers. In addition, he’s an adjunct professor at McCormick and at the Pritzker School of Law. Sales-Griffin said the idea to run for mayor came to him last year when he realized that members of his family were continually leaving Chicago. He said he started conversing with people and recognized that poor schools, poor safety and a lack of job opportunities were forcing people, especially African Americans in the south and west sides of the city, to move. The city government is not doing enough to improve the lives of its citizens, he said.

“We have entrenched forces that are at play that we’re not doing anything about because we don’t have term limits, because we don’t have campaign finance reform,” Sales-Griffin said. “I decided to step up and start talking about these issues and doing something about it.”

Though he did not mention Emanuel by name, Sales-Griffin’s frustration with the incumbent mayor’s leadership is evident. His website says he would only serve two terms — Emanuel is currently running for his third — and that his first priority would be to introduce campaign finance reform “to level the playing field.” Sales-Griffin said he actually wants to meet and talk to voters and speak with them about the state of the city.

Economics Prof. Mark Witte, who taught Sales-Griffin and still keeps in touch, said his outsider status could be beneficial. He said Sales-Griffin has new ideas and is willing to be innovative.

Witte said Sales-Griffin has always been drawn to leadership positions and was a creative student who never settled for an easy answer. He said he believed Sales-Griffin would make a good mayor.

“He’s always been very civically engaged and minded,” Witte said. “In his business enterprises, it’s about, ‘What needs does society have, and can I do that well while making it work?”

Ultimately, Sales-Griffin will face an uphill battle. Emanuel raised $24 million in his 2014 election, and the size of the candidate pool bodes well for the incumbent.

Sales-Griffin said voter turnout will be the biggest obstacle to his candidacy. The timing of the 2019 election, a disconnect between government and underserved communities, and the history of voter suppression in Chicago present challenges, he said.

Witte said though Sales-Griffin is “clearly a longshot,” he should not be counted out.

“He’s pulled off some wild things,” Witte said.

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Once completed, the patching program will improve the condition of about 27,000 total square yards of pavement, according to a city news release.

The project is monitored by the city’s Public Services Bureau.

Although work at most locations should only take a few hours, motorists should expect delays in construction zones as flaggers route traffic around

the work crews. Some locations will take longer where larger areas of pavement need resurfacing.

The city has previously worked with J.A. Johnson Paving, which specializes in commercial and municipal projects, including on a May 2017 pavement patching project on Chicago Avenue between Main Street and Greenleaf Street.

J.A. Johnson Paving employees will remove the top two inches of distressed and failing asphalt and

replace it with fresh pavement. According to the release, once the new asphalt is laid, compacted and cooled, streets will be open to traffic.

“No Parking” signs will be posted 48 hours in advance of when the restriction is enforced and will be specific to the daily work zones, according to the release.

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Evanston’s fleet operations unit was ranked 83rd of the 100 best fleets in North America by the annual “The 100 Best Fleets in the Americas” program.

Fleet operations in Evanston is a part of the city’s Facilities and Fleet Division in the Administrative Services department. Operations staff maintain repair services for the city’s approximately 350 pieces of equipment, including police and utility vehicles, according to a Friday news release.

The recognition was announced at the 2018 NAFA Institute and Expo among fleet and mobility professionals April 24 to 27.

The program recognizes “peak performing fleet operations in North America,” according to the news release. Technology, performance, collaboration, service turnaround time and accountability are all criteria for the award.

Evanston was recognized for its fleet management information system, training and its use of

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Evanston Police Department cars sit parked. Evanston’s fleet operations unit was ranked 83rd in North America and includes police and utility vehicles.

new technology and alternative fuels, among others.

The city was one of only six Illinois fleets to be recognized on the list, including Moline, Naperville, Forest Preserve District of DuPage County, Pace Suburban Bus and Chicago.

“From fighting fires to maintaining roadways to ensuring public safety, Evanston depends on an

efficient, reliable fleet to keep the city rolling,” Mayor Steve Hagerty said in the release. “Being recognized as one of the 100 Best Fleets shows the City’s commitment to continuous improvement, environmental stewardship and the use of the latest technology.”

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Locals buy produce at the downtown Evanston farmers market. The market opened for the season Saturday with nine new vendors.

Evanston residents flocked to the downtown farmers market Saturday, stopping by to stock up on everything from fresh bread and vegetables to crepes and homemade pies as they enjoyed the 80-degree temperatures.

The market, located in the parking lot on University Place and Oak Avenue, opened for the 2018 season Saturday with nine new vendors, bringing the total number of vendors to 61, according to the city’s website. Evanston farmers market manager Myra Gorman said the number of new vendors this year is in line with past years’ numbers.

For the first time this year, Collective Resource, an Evanston-based food scrap collection service that has partnered with the city, will be at the market each weekend. Collective Resource will collect food scraps from vendors, Gorman said, and market-goers will also be able to sign up for the composting service at the tent.

Edward Meliunas, owner of Windmill Ginger Brew, is one of this year’s new vendors. Meliunas makes and sells ginger beer in various flavors — such as pomegranate rosemary and guava — and is based out of Geneva, Illinois. He said he has stands at eight other farmers markets.

“We bring the product to new communities

and (the farmers market is) how we introduce our product to communities,” Meliunas said.

Meliunas said Windmill Ginger Brew is also being sold at Farmhouse, 703 Church St., and NaKorn, 1622 Orrington Ave. He added he is working to get his product into grocery stores.

Soap of the Earth owner Lori Hoyt is new to the Evanston farmers market as well but said she is in her 10th farmers market season selling her homemade soaps.

“I am familiar with some of the other vendors here and they recommended it to me,” Hoyt said.

“They thought I would do really well here.”

Shannon Sudduth, owner of Evanston-based chocolate business Noir d’Ebène, had been in the Evanston farmers market for several years but decided to take a break last season, noting that the market is a lot of work and that she is the primary operator of the business.

Sudduth said she returned this year and is excited to be back. She described her process for making chocolates as “bean to bar” — she imports whole cacao beans from around the world and roasts them to create her chocolate bars and other treats in a week-long process — and is based out of Family Focus Evanston, a community center at 2010 Dewey Ave. “The market is phenomenal. … We’re just really excited about the whole process,” Sudduth said. “We’re grateful to be here.” allysonmauch2020@u.northwestern.edu

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A&O co-chair Louisa Wyatt said she felt the concert went very smoothly, especially considering this is the first time the group has hosted three acts in a single show.

The Medill senior said A&O continued implementing measures this spring to increase accessibility and inclusion, such as the incorporation of an ASL interpreter and sponsorships from KIND and Boxed Water to provide students with free snack bars and drinks both

MONDAY, MAY 7, 2018 during and after the concert.

A&O and FMO also displayed a statement insisting that non-black audience members omit the N-word from their vocabulary.

SESP senior Michelle Sanders, former vice coordinator of programming for FMO, said the collaboration with A&O was an opportunity both to reach out to audiences outside of the black community and promote an environment where all students can feel safe during the concert.

“We were making sure that people know the implications of not being black and using the N-word,” Sanders said. amyli2021@u.northwestern.edu

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ON THE RECORD

“It’s not like regionals is a step up or a top-tier event that we’re not used to competing in ... we’ve proved ourselves all year.”

— Emily Fletcher, women’s golf coach

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NU upset in Big Ten semifinals, loses chance to host regional

By ELLA BROCKWAY

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No. 7 Northwestern’s Big Ten Tournament semifinal matchup against No. 16 Penn State opened with promise. The Wildcats won the first draw, and within 13 seconds were back in the draw circle, this time with a 1-0 lead off a goal from senior attacker Sheila Nesselbush.

The Nittany Lions controlled the next draw, and needed only 36 seconds to strike back with a goal of their own to tie the score. It was a sign of the boxing match between the two teams that was to come.

In the next three minutes, Penn State would score two more unanswered goals to build a 3-1 lead and begin a pattern that would last for the rest of the game: When NU threw one punch, the Nittany Lions hit back with two.

The Cats (13-5, 5-1 Big Ten) were knocked out of the conference tournament in a 21-16 loss to Penn State (10-9, 3-3) on Friday. The Nittany Lions’ 21 goals were the most NU has allowed this season, topping the 20 given up in an April 26 loss to No. 3 Maryland, and the most allowed in a game by the program since 2013.

NU’s attention now turns to the NCAA Tournament, where it will

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No. 16 Penn State

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No. 7 Northwestern

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face Richmond (16-3, 8-1 Atlantic 10) in a first-round game in Towson, Maryland. The Cats did not receive one of the tournament’s top eight seeds, and therefore will miss out on hosting first- and second-round action.

Redshirt freshman Julie Krupnick and junior Mallory Weisse split time at the goalkeeper position for the second straight game. Krupnick had eight of nine total saves between the two, but allowed 13 goals in the first half.

Junior attacker Selena Lasota scored a season-high 6 goals on seven shots in the loss, rebounding for a strong individual offensive performance after two yellow cards forced her early exit in the second half of the defeat against the Terrapins.

Senior attacker Shelby Fredericks finished with four assists and six draw controls, securing her position as the program’s all-time leader in draw controls with a current total of 474.

The Cats and Nittany Lions held fairly even in most offensive statistical categories in the game: the teams had 19 draw controls each,

and finished with 29 and 30 shots on goal, respectively. Penn State held the edge defensively, though, winning battles on saves (13 to 9), ground balls (19 to 16) and caused turnovers (13 to 6). The Nittany Lions’ defense held NU scoreless on nine of its 12 free-position opportunities.

Penn State went on a five-goal run midway through the first half to take a 10-5 goal lead. When NU answered with two goals hoping to close the gap before halftime, the Nittany Lions fired back with three straight scores in less than two minutes to make it 13-7.

The Cats managed to put one more goal on the board to end the first period, but Penn State scored another two to build its lead to seven early in the second half. Junior attacker Holly Korn scored to start a minute-long three-goal stretch for NU with under 20 minutes remaining, but the Nittany Lions punched back once again, taking advantage of two man-up situations to rattle off four goals and put the game away.

This was the first time in the four seasons since the Big Ten began sponsoring lacrosse that the Cats did not play more than one game in the conference tournament. They were also knocked out in the semifinals by Penn State during the tournament’s inaugural season in 2015. ellabrockway2021@u.northwestern.edu

WOMEN’S GOLF

Cats squander gains of NU heads to Madison regional 2018 in awful weekend

By JOSEPH WILKINSON

BEN POPE

DAILY COLUMNIST

When interviewing Lindsay Darrell for a preview of Northwestern lacrosse’s Senior Day game on April 21, I made a mistake.

I asked Darrell, a senior defender, how she was feeling about playing her final career home game. Darrell correctly responded that it probably wouldn’t be her final one, given that all projections at that time had the Wildcats hosting one of eight regionals in this May’s NCAA Tournament.

I can only imagine how Darrell, fellow senior leaders like Sheila Nesselbush and Shelby Fredericks and the entire rest of the Wildcats’ squad felt Sunday night. They have, it turns out, seen the last of Martin Stadium this season.

After easily dispatching Rutgers in that April 21 game, NU did the exact two things — the only two things — it could not afford to do. The team came out a step slow in the final game of the regular season, falling to No. 3 Maryland and dropping to the second seed in the Big Ten Tournament. Then the Cats turned in an even worse defensive performance against No. 16 Penn State in the Big Ten semifinals, losing a matchup they were thoroughly expected to win and had indeed won just a few weeks prior.

The scale of NU’s collapse, albeit against two perennially elite opponents, is difficult to overstate. The team conceded 20 goals on 48 shots against the Terrapins and 21 goals on 40 shots against the Nittany Lions; the program had previously only allowed 20 goals once in their 21st-century history and, prior to this season, hadn’t given up 40 shots in a

game since 2006 — as far back as the box score archives go.

The NCAA selection committee surely noticed this ice-cold finish to the season when deciding Sunday the Cats’ draw. They also likely docked NU for playing a schedule loaded with home games, for supposed toptier opponents like Southern California and Syracuse underperforming (worsening the Cats’ strength of schedule) and for a bad early-season loss to Duke, which didn’t qualify for the tournament at all.

For much of this 2018 season, NU seemed like they had returned to the powerhouse status that had eluded them each of the past two years. Hosting a regional for the first time since 2015 seemed essentially cemented, and would have put the team in a favorable position to advance at least to the national quarterfinals.

Now, the great improvements the Cats made from 2017’s 11-10 squad seem rather irrelevant, cast aside by one tough but excusable defeat, a second, more indefensible one, and a bit of Sunday misfortune. In last year’s tournament, the team cruised past a lesser-conference automatic qualifier (Albany) before running up against a superior team on its home field (Stony Brook); this year, despite a dramatically better regular season, the opponents will be different in name (Richmond and Towson, respectively) but the postseason storyline will be the same — and so, in all likelihood, will be the team’s fate.

Fans can call this a doublewhammy weekend of disasters for NU. Fans can’t call the box office for tournament tickets, though. Only intramural soccer will be gracing the turf of Lakeside Field next weekend.

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As Northwestern attempts to qualify for its sixth consecutive NCAA National Championships, the Wildcats will get to enjoy something different about this year’s regional tournament: It’s close to home.

Since 2013, the squad has been to regionals in Washington, North Carolina, Georgia and Alabama, but this year, they’ll be just two hours north in Madison, Wisconsin.

“It’s so much nicer,” senior Sarah Cho said. “It’s kind of a nice break.

I think that we always do a little bit better when we drive to the tournament.”

Of the 18 teams that will be playing the University Ridge Golf Course starting Monday, the top six will qualify for the National Championships following Wednesday’s third and final round. After struggling at the Big Ten Championships in April, No. 11 NU landed in a stacked field that includes No. 4 Duke, No. 5 Southern California, No. 15 Arizona State, No. 22 Illinois and No. 23 Iowa State.

The Cats have already played numerous high-level tournaments throughout the year with Duke, USC and Arizona State, and will also be familiar with Big Ten foes Illinois, Purdue, Wisconsin and Ohio State.

“We’ve competed against top competition all year,” coach Emily Fletcher said. “It’s not like regionals is a step up or a top-tier event that we’re not used to competing in this sort of quality field. It’s something we’ve done week (in) and week out and we’ve proved ourselves all year.”

Most recently at the Big Ten Championships, the Cats finished two strokes behind the Illini, tied

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Sarah Cho hits out of a sand trap. Cho will play her final NCAA Regional this weekend in Wisconsin.

with the Buckeyes and just two strokes ahead of the Boilermakers, but they’ll likely need a better performance if they hope to safely qualify for the National Championships.

Over the past three years, NU has shown a consistent ability to take its game to the next level during postseason play. In 2015 and 2017, the Cats finished second in their regional tournament; in 2016, they won the regional round, running away with an 18-stroke advantage over second-place Florida State.

Junior Janet Mao, then a freshman, won the individual title at that year’s event as well.

“Your game is never going to be the same from one week to the next, so I try not to make comparisons like that,” Mao said. “It always feels good to know that I’ve been able to play at a high level like that.

That was a moment where I really

exceeded my own expectations.”

Mao isn’t the only one with a history of success. Seniors Hannah Kim and Cho have been a part of all three of those stellar postseason showings. Last year, they each had their best individual finishes at regionals, as Cho tied for fifth and Kim tied for eighth.

As NU comes off a disappointing fourth place finish at Big Tens, Cho and the Cats will look to bounce back in Madison.

“One of my weaknesses from Big Tens was being able to go out there and compete, so even if I didn’t hit the greatest shot, being able to get up-and-down for par was something I struggled with,” Cho said. “We’ve been doing a lot of team drills where we’ve been doing a lot of up-anddowns, so that’s definitely helped us a lot for the past two weeks.” josephwilkinson2019@u.northwestern.edu