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ETHS, NU continue class parternships Even as school leaders depart, the programs prevail By AVIVA BECHKY

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Graduate students on NU’s Chicago Campus have said administrators have not followed up on ongoing demands for a dedicated lounge space.

Graduate students call for space

TGS students continue to advocate for accessible lounge areas By PAVAN ACHARYA

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When sixth-year Driskill Graduate Program in Life Sciences student Patrick Madden arrived at Northwestern in 2016, students in The Graduate School could access two lounges in NU’s Chicago Campus. Just a few years later, they could not access any. These lounges have been

opened up to the broader Chicago Campus or allocated specifically to Feinberg School of Medicine students. Since 2018, Madden and others have attempted to increase access to lounges for TGS students, with little success. “This is not a burden on really anyone because it would literally take (the University) five minutes to give us access,” Madden said. “All they need to do is tell the facilities people to activate our Wildcards.”

Students report disadvantages of lacking a space The only spaces on the Chicago Campus TGS manages are a conference room in Abbott Hall and a few adjacent office spaces, according to University spokesperson Hilary Hurd Anyaso. However, this conference room is not a dedicated lounge space — though TGS students can reserve it for meetings and small group

events, Anyaso said in an email to The Daily. Second-year DGP student Carla Patricia Reyes Flores said the lack of a TGS lounge space contributes to a lack of community among graduate students. “If you don’t purposely seek out your community and your people, you — in the most literal sense — won’t see them,” Flores said.

» See GRAD SPACE, page 6

Every week, Northwestern and Evanston Township High School students sit and study side by side during School of Education and Social Policy 251: Community Based Research Methods. The class, which switches location this spring between NU and ETHS, is co-taught by staff from both schools. “It’s really innovative,” said Kristen Perkins-LaFollette, the NU/ETHS partnership coordinator. “I feel like Northwestern students are learning every bit as much from ETHS as the ETHS folks — students and staff members — are learning from Northwestern.” The class is one of many partnerships between ETHS and NU overseen by the NU/ ETHS Partnership Office. Perkins-LaFollette said the office manages between about 85 and 100 partnership programs each year with the intent to facilitate mutually-beneficial relationships between the high school and University.

Following a 2012 event recognizing a successful collaboration that placed University graduate students in Evanston classrooms, Perkins-LaFollette said University President Morton Schapiro and District 202 Superintendent Eric Witherspoon wanted to take the partnership further. Schapiro and Witherspoon, both of whom will depart their roles this year, led the creation of the partnership office. “The mayor, the superintendent and the president talked about, ‘How do we grow this partnership in that way, intentionally looking for opportunities for that synergy and that mutual benefit?’” Perkins-LaFollette said. Longstanding disputes over student housing and University taxes have strained the relationship between NU and the city. The NU/ETHS Partnership Office is tied to the University’s Good Neighbor initiative, which aims to improve the University’s relationships with Evanston. While Perkins-LaFollette works for the University, her office — complete with a purple wall and Northwestern seal — is at ETHS. “President Schapiro had a vision early on that he wanted to formalize partnerships between NU and the high school. And

» See ETHS/NU, page 6

Sex Week event Project shows ASAPIA experience covers education The Kitchen Table Stories Project ‘holds space’ in history for residents Tanner discusses expansive sexuality, role in education By YIMING FU

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You may want to throw out everything you know about sex. As part of a Tuesday NU Sex Week event, licensed sex therapist Casey Tanner presented a discussion titled “Expansive Sexuality: Brave sexuality in a world that’s afraid of sex.” They discussed how people learn about sex, the limitations of traditional sex education and more holistic ways of teaching and learning about sex. They said learning about sex should always center pleasure and joy. “My work is based on my core belief, which is that we are all born expansive, and we are all born with the ability to fantasize and to play and to imagine,” Tanner said. Everyone has an intrinsic sense of who they are and what they like, but the general public

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may shame, deny or neglect these preferences, they said. Tanner asked participants to reflect on where they learned what they know about sex. Sex education goes beyond what is taught in schools, they said, and includes learning from friends, from text and videos on the internet and from observing family dynamics. Tanner said most of the sex education they received focused on what could go wrong, like teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections. A 2010 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study on sex education for teenagers surveyed participants on whether their curriculum covered four categories — birth control, STDs, HIV/ AIDS and saying no to sex. “Although the impact of formal sex education on teenagers’ behavior is harder to assess and depends on its content, studies show it can be effective at reducing risk behaviors,” the study said. Tanner said the emphasis on fear in sex education is “strange,” as most other classes are meant to

» See EXPANSIVE, page 6

By NIXIE STRAZZA

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Signed by Gov. J.B. Pritzker in July, the Teaching Equitable Asian American Community History Act made Illinois the first state to mandate Asian American history be taught in public schools. Following the passage of the bill, the Kitchen Table Stories Project teamed up with the Evanston History Center to create an archive of Asian, South Asian and Pacific Islander American histories from the Evanston community. Established in light of the legislation and increased violence against Asians during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Kitchen Table Stories Project is a multimedia healing- and justicebased art project meant to foster collective power and “claim space” by showcasing ASAPIA stories in a creative fashion. The ongoing archive project — a combination of oral history and historical data — can be used as a resource by teachers looking to bolster ASAPIA

representation in K-12 curricula by spotlighting overlooked identities in American history, Founder Melissa Raman Molitor said. Molitor said she wanted to give others the opportunity to combat the feeling of unbelonging, which she has experienced herself. After struggling with her inability to share personal experiences based on her Filipino and Indian heritage, Molitor saw a gap in historical resources related to her identity. She said this lack of representation in academia and the arts amplified her feelings of “perpetual foreigness” and “outsider” stereotypes used to uphold systemic racism. “The ASAPIA community have been considered foreigners in the U.S. regardless of how long they’ve been here,” Molitor said. “This placemaking project is one way for us to disrupt that narrative.” The curriculum requirements under the TEAACH Act will go into effect for the 2022-23 school year with curriculum guidelines left largely up to the individual districts. Molitor said the archive is a way to help ASAPIA-identifying

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In response the TEAACH Act, the Kitchen Table Stories Project and the Evanston Historical Society teamed up to create an archive of ASAPIA histories in Evanston to combat cultural erasure and “perpetual foreigness.”

students and community members feel seen in a learning environment often dominated by the stories of white figures. She said emphasizing the diversity of the Evanston community to students from an early age is a vital aspect of creating a culture of equitable and anti-racist education within the city’s schools. English Prof. Michelle Huang said the TEAACH Act emphasizes the integral role ASAPIA

contributions played in the formation of the nation’s art, culture and history — which she’s excited to see translated into the classroom. Accurately depicting the experiences of Asian Americans at a time when children are developing their understanding of cultural identity helps combat bias and feelings of exclusion

» See ASAPIA HISTORY, page 6

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AROUND TOWN

In Evanston Grows, community starts to bloom By HALEY HANDELMAN

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Left with 1,000 pounds of fresh produce from the Fleetwood-Jourdain Community Center gardens at the start of the pandemic, long-time gardener Jean Fies decided to distribute the leftovers to District 65 families picking up lunches. The experience made Fies realize the potential Evanston gardens have to combat food insecurity. She reached out to like-minded organizations and residents in a collaborative effort that eventually evolved into Evanston Grows, for which she is the board president. Founded in April 2021, Evanston Grows aims to fight food injustice through urban gardening alongside a board, contracted workers and a network of community growing groups, including Curt’s Café and Edible Evanston. “We decided that the best structure would be a collective,” Fies said. “(This structure) could help support the groups’ ongoing efforts and create new projects together that would even more significantly address food insecurity and health equity.” Evanston Grows works with multiple partnership gardens — a range of revitalized sites, newly built spaces, land owned by the city and private property. Group members, local neighbors and community volunteers maintain the gardens through a joint effort. While some of the harvested produce goes to neighbors, Evanston Grows also has a farmstand that distributes free produce every Wednesday at FleetwoodJourdain. The collective plans to open another stand this summer in South Evanston at 300 Dodge Ave. Evanston Grows coordinates with the city and District 65 social workers, who identify and contact residents

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The Eggleston Park Food Forest. Evanston Grows built raised garden beds and fences in the park last week, providing enough space to grow approximately 2,000 pounds of produce.

who may struggle with food insecurity to share the pickup locations with them. Fies said the weekly produce bag pickups from the farmstand fulfill produce needs throughout the 20-week growing season. “We’re leaning heavily on the city to communicate with the community centers and identify residents struggling with food insecurity,” Fies said. “We don’t know who they are — our job is to harvest, package and put it out.” Last week, Evanston Grows’ members built raised An article published in May 2nd’s paper titled “91st Waa-Mu show explores family relations and loss” misspelled Sadie Fridley’s name. An article published in May 5th’s paper titled “Parham: Being Black and female in Evanston” implied that Black Evanston residents did not

garden beds and fences in Eggleston Park, providing enough space to grow an estimated 2,000 pounds of produce. According to Fies, more than 30 individuals volunteered, including students from Evanston Township Highschool, Loyola University and Northwestern. “It really was an amazing collaborative effort,” Fies said. “Together we’ll plant, grow, harvest, distribute amongst neighbors, and we’ll also put extra produce from there in the community fridges.” Fies said the community impact is undeniable. have access to swimming lessons in the 1940s because they were banned from the ETHS pool. The ETHS pool did not exist until 1958, yet Black Evanston residents still did not have equal access to swimming lessons because they were barred from other Evanston pools in the 1940s.

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Last spring, Evanston Grows worked with the affordable housing complex Emerson Square Apartments to revitalize their garden beds. Residents came together to weed, water and harvest a range of produce: tomatoes, cucumbers, romaine lettuce and squash. Emerson Square resident Denise Johnson said the gardens have helped her create new friendships with her neighbors, introduced more greens to her diet and cut down her grocery bill — especially important due to inflationary prices. “I never had anything to do with gardening before,” Johnson said, “But now I just love it — learning how to grow plants (and) vegetables and take care of them.”” Mary Collins, director of strategy for Evanston Grows, said remaining hyperlocal and forming community partnerships is essential to the group’s viability and impact. Fies said she is writing a grant alongside Evanston Public Library staff to install hydroponic gardens in the library to grow space-efficient produce without soil. She said the collective has also partnered with Evanston Fight for Black Lives to develop the West End Garden in Adam Perry Park. “We want to develop opportunities and make space for people in the neighborhoods adjacent to the gardens to be able to participate,” Collins said. Collins added that since the gardens are in a semidense urban area, Evanston Grows must be mindful of public interaction with the gardens as a place for recreation. While Evanston Grows is still navigating its relationship with the community, Johnson said access to fresh produce has made cooking much more convenient. “If I need something for a salad,” said Johnson, “I just run out and grab romaine or a cherry tomato from the garden.” haleyhandelman2024@u.northwestern.edu An article published in Sunday’s paper titled “Flo Milli, Dreamer Isioma bring in the party for A&O” incorrectly stated Kay Cui’s stage name. The correct name is “Vitamin K.” The Daily regrets the errors.

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Garage leaders write on entrepreneurship By MOISES ATTIE

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Since 2015, The Garage has inspired creators by opening its doors to entrepreneurs, becoming home to more than 1,000 student-founded initiatives. Looking to expand the resources available to student entrepreneurs, Melissa Kaufman, executive director of The Garage, and Associate Director Mike Raab (Communication ’12) wrote “Founded: The No B.S. Guide for Student Entrepreneurs.” The book breaks down the process of building a venture and provides readers with first steps. “We just want the book to get out there. We wrote it to solve our problem, which is to help Northwestern students get up to speed quickly,” Kaufman said. After advising students with their startups for almost seven years, Kaufman said she and Raab looked for a resource to familiarize new students with entrepreneurship, but they couldn’t find one that aligned with their ideas and experiences. Like any pair of entrepreneurs, Kaufman and Raab didn’t turn down a new challenge, deciding to create their own resource during the pandemic, ultimately publishing their book in January. “We saw putting together this book as an opportunity to expand our reach of students that we can help,” Raab said. “(Now), any student across the country or world has access to this practical, tactical, easy-to-read resource when they have an idea.” Kaufman and Raab described the process of making the book as more of an entrepreneurial endeavor than a writing project. Just as they encourage their students to, Kaufman said the pair worked to find a problem space and reacted by writing something that people wanted. The duo also consulted experts and performed market research by talking to students to gauge their interests and previous

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knowledge about entrepreneurship. After three months of writing, the book was done. McCormick sophomore and Litterbox CEO Charlie Tanas said The Garage staff made his time “one of a kind,” when he created Litterbox, a startup that seeks to provide convenient and reliable storage for NU students. “My experience in the startup world has been one of constant, unexpected obstacles, and the staff at The Garage have always been there to guide me,” Tanas said. In January, Kaufman announced she will be leaving NU on May 15 and moving to Hawaii, where she will teach a high school entrepreneurship class and take some time to decide what comes next.

“This has been my absolute most favorite job and one of my proudest professional accomplishments,” Kaufman said. “I get so much joy from the students and seeing them succeed.” NU announced it has formed a search committee to find a new executive director for The Garage in a news release. In the meantime, Raab will be serving as the interim director. Raab said, as an NU alum, he is a passionate community-builder, and that has been his mission at The Garage since the beginning. “I’m honored and excited to continue the traditions (Kaufman) has built, focusing on serving our students first,” Raab said. attie@u.northwestern.edu

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Cabral: Writing serves a different purpose than therapy EMILIO CABRAL

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Content warning: This story contains mentions of conversion therapy. I was 15 years old when my mother asked me if I was gay. The copy of André Aciman’s “Call Me by Your Name” I borrowed from my sophomore English teacher sits in her lap, and tears slide down her cheeks, dripping onto the cover of the book as she rocks back and forth in her favorite rocking chair. A dozen lies spring to mind, but what comes out of my mouth is the truth. Syllable by syllable, word by word and sentence by sentence, I break my mother’s heart. By the time I finish, I am crying too. My hands shake as I reach for her, but I barely graze the cold skin of her hands when she stands and shuffles to her room, leaving me alone with Elio Perlman and his tragic love affair. Two weeks later, I am in a too-cheerful room with a therapist whom I have decided to hate on sight and principle. The couch I am sitting on is pink, the walls are pastel yellow and the therapist’s dress boasts a rainbow-colored polka dot pattern. It would be funny if she wasn’t the therapist my

parents sent me to in the hopes that my “sudden” homosexual tendencies were the result of stress, depression or teen angst. She tries to get me to open up — chirping at me in a lilting voice that pounds against my head like a sledgehammer — but I pull out a notebook and a pencil from where I’ve smuggled them in the waistband of my jeans and tally the number of times my mother said we were only going out for ice cream. I was 17 years old when I wrote down every use of the word “therapy” in Garrard Conley’s memoir “Boy Erased: A Memoir.” When Conley’s parents use it as a synonym for “cure,” my stomach turns. When the people at Love in Action, a gay conversion therapy program, use it as a synonym for divine will, I clench my teeth. When Conley uses it as a synonym for “pain,” I throw the book against my wall. The word “therapy” connects us in a way that no two people should ever have to be connected. Every time I flip a page, my thumb burns with the sensation of a papercut. But instead of blood, what comes out is memory, and I put a hand over my mouth to muffle my sobs as I wonder how close I myself came to being able to write “Boy Erased: A Memoir.” I was 19 years old, and in the middle of my application to be a creative writing major, when someone told me writers need to learn writing is not a replacement for therapy.

Not only does the comment make me flinch, it implies that I am broken and attention-seeking. It implies that my writing derives its worth from someone else’s approval. It implies that the sole purpose of my writing is to provide an outlet for my emotions.

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I write to immortalize experiences that, for better or worse, have changed my life. I write in an attempt to hold on to what I’ve lost. I write to create stories that might make people feel seen.

- EMILIO CABRAL, Columnist

And while the walls of my room are indeed covered in sticky notes where I’ve written down the intrusive thoughts that wake me up in the middle of the night, the reality is that there is no box big enough to fit every single niche that writing fills in my life.

I write to immortalize experiences that, for better or worse, have changed my life. I write in an attempt to hold on to what I’ve lost. I write to create stories that might make people feel seen. And even if I choose to write about my time in a pastel yellow room with a bubbly therapist, what makes my writing more juvenile, less impressive, than heart-wrenching works like “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous” by Ocean Vuong which recount tales of abuse, addiction and familial trauma? Perhaps this piece will only vindicate those who believe writers use their art as a sort of bloodletting — a dumping of their emotional trauma onto their readers that turns them into unwilling therapists. But, while I’ve shared why the word “therapy” will always make me flinch, nothing I’ve written here is meant to imply that it is something innately harmful. Instead, I simply want to show how foolish it is to try and claim that writers believe that the words “writing” and “therapy” — which hold different meanings and significance for different people — are somehow the same. Emilio Cabral is a Weinberg sophomore. He can be contacted at EmilioCabral2024@u.northwestern. edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this op-ed, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@ dailynorthwestern.com. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.

Li: Increasing accessibility of Bienen practice rooms GRANT LI

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The problem of practice room access is not new to the pages of The Daily’s opinion section. In 2019, Kelly Miller wrote an op-ed about the difficulty to obtain access to practice rooms. But since then, nothing has changed. The Bienen School of Music does not allow nonmusic majors to access practice rooms unless they participate in an ensemble or are enrolled in lessons. The lessons cost about $300 a quarter, depending on the type of lesson. Students should not have to join an ensemble or take lessons just to be able to play their instrument. These ensembles and lessons can be taken for credit, which indicates the time investment they take. Not everyone has time to practice the way ensembles or lessons with Bienen instructors might demand. Regardless of rigor, ensembles and lessons are not the way everyone likes to engage with music. A lot of people enjoy having more say over what they play or practice. For me, it was only after I quit piano lessons and

could choose for myself what I’d be playing at the piano bench that I started really enjoying it. It also goes without saying that not everyone has $900 per year to spend on lessons. Financial burdens should not prevent students from being able to engage with music. It does not make sense for Bienen students to pay tuition while

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It also goes without saying that not everyone has $900 per year to spend on lessons. Financial burdens should not prevent students from being able to engage with music.

- GRANT LI, Columnist

non-Bienen students would get lessons from the same instructors on the cheap, but we could at least make practice room access free.

I do understand if Bienen is concerned about the influx of students who would use practice rooms if they were to be open to everyone, but there are many ways to compromise. For example, Bienen could restrict open access to practice rooms to hours when Bienen students frequent them the least, and prevent any access near Bienen students’ midterms or finals. The school could also work on putting more practice rooms in residence halls. I currently live in Rogers House, and there’s no piano. It’s obviously a small community, but every day I see beautiful grand pianos while walking to classes that I have never once heard being played. I doubt the school furnishes the pianos for some of these organizations whose residences I pass by frequently, but the school has more than enough resources on its hands to provide pianos for the residence halls it does manage. The closest piano to me I can use is in Willard Residential College, but that is certainly no practice room, and the one in Foster-Walker Complex is honestly falling apart. However NU might choose to go about it, the school is immensely resourced. As a transfer, I have been on a campus with a topnotch music school and far less space that accommodated non-music students just fine.

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There is no way NU is incapable of working out some sort of solution. I constantly hear various alarm bells about how classical music or various genres are suffering from a decrease in popularity. It’s disheartening to attend a school with plenty of resources and students enthusiastic about music that works to keep most of the student body away from something that would help maintain, develop and engage their passion for music. It doesn’t take much imagination to understand how being able to practice a piece I liked might make me want to attend a Bienen recital featuring the work, and then maybe even go to a Chicago Symphony Orchestra performance. You would think a school with a premier music program like Bienen would understand how to better foster and support music on campus. It’s too bad it appears not to, or just doesn’t want to. Grant Li is a Weinberg junior. They can be contacted at grantli2022@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this op-ed, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern. com. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.

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Students, instructors talk Arabic course protocols By IRIS SWARTHOUT

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Communication freshman Rama Darayyad, a communications sciences and disorders student, hopes her major will help her travel abroad and provide hearing aids to kids in places like Lebanon and Jordan. Darayyad is among many planning to work abroad during or after their time at Northwestern. But in order to connect with the cultures of non-English speaking countries, students need language proficiency. Palestinian by heritage but Chicago born and raised, Darayyad is a native Arabic speaker. “Right now, I speak it with my family, and I speak it colloquially,” she said. “But in the professional world, I would like to know some vocab, like in medicine.” Until a year ago, Modern Standard Arabic, which is largely used in professional settings, was taught in classrooms. But this version does not encompass the entirety of the language; Ammiyah Arabic, the common spoken language, was missing from the University’s language curriculum, according to Arabic Prof. Ragy Ibrahim Mikhaeel. Due to this discrepancy, NU has adopted a new teaching philosophy over the past year based on the book “The Integrated Approach to Arabic Instruction” by Munther Younes. It allows students to learn both Ammiyah and written Arabic so they can converse with Arabic speakers fluently and also understand the more formalized language. “(Students) get to their study abroad experiences, and they start to communicate with people using the written format of the language and (native) people start to laugh,” Mikhaeel said. “Students feel they are betrayed

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(and say), ‘You told us we can communicate this, now people are laughing at us, why?’” The difference between spoken and written portions of languages are usually relatively subtle: for instance, German has little differences between the two, according to German Prof. Franziska Lys. She said Arabic functions differently in that there are various versions of the language used when communicating. Apart from the MSA and the Ammiyah, there is also FusHa, an older written version used primarily in the Quran. “But that’s not the language that people use when they speak to each other when they are in the street,” Lys said. And according to Mikhaeel, some terminology within spoken Arabic dialects are not interchangeable or connected with aspects of the written language. The professor said some are against the adoption of Ammiyah Arabic teachings in the classroom because they claim that learning two languages is confusing for students. “ W hat’s wrong if it’s a learning curve?” Mikhaeel said. “Probably after the first year, this is my personal feedback, students learn how to separate (Ammiyah Arabic) from (written Arabic).” The misuse of written Arabic in spoken dialect can even have political consequences, Mikhaeel said. Around 15 years ago, U.S. ambassadors to the Middle East with only a written-language proficiency were unable to translate both spoken meetings and written documents. That’s why Mikhaeel said changing the way Arabic is taught in American classrooms is important. “You don’t go to Rome and speak in Latin,” he said. “So through these 17 to 18 years, I’ve found a huge change in the way Arabic is being positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday night, Northwestern announced Wednesday. Schapiro was originally supposed to appear at New York Will. Celebrate, a Thursday event in New York, N.Y. celebrating the conclusion of We Will. The Campaign for Northwestern. However, on Wednesday afternoon, attendees

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taught.” Now, Mikhaeel teaches a class called Arabic 125-0: Media Arabic, which Darayyad has taken. She said NU offers plenty of upperlevel Arabic courses that are embedded in the culture of the Middle East and North Africa. The Integrated Approach of Teaching Arabic at NU has broadened the program to a more globalized scale, according to Mikhaeel.

NU students are passionate about learning and perfecting their Arabic completely — whether it’s in the professional or colloquial sense, he added. “Our students are smart, and they absorb and learn more than what we can expect,” Mikhaeel said.

received an email announcing that the event had been canceled due to Schapiro’s positive test. Schapiro, who is fully vaccinated and boosted, said he is taking precautions in line with CDC and University guidelines. “I’m resting comfortably with moderate symptoms and gratitude for caring family and

friends and effective vaccines,” Schapiro said in a Wednesday Leadership Note. “I encourage everyone to keep up to date on boosters and take other precautions as necessary as we continue to care for one another.”

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early on, Huang said. She said the Kitchen Table Stories Project’s focus on documenting ASAPIA stories in the Midwest will specifically help expand the expectation of Asian Americans being primarily relegated to the coastal regions or industrial cities. “The Midwest is seen as predominantly white in our imaginations,” Huang said. “It is a particular site of importance for working-class Asian Americans rather than the populations concentrated in the financial sector or engineering on the coasts.” For Evanston History Center Director of Education Jenny Thompson, the project is more than a collection of information — it’s a way to spark dialogue between a variety of perspectives and sources. “We are starting to build relationships and collaborations with residents, other organizations, archives and historical societies,” Thompson said. “This is only the beginning.” When collecting material for the archive, Thompson first looked at primary sources like census data, student records and newspaper clippings from the 1800s. The information led her to learn a lot about the stories of specific individuals throughout history. Thompson said she hopes to publish their narratives as a learning tool to combat ASAPIA erasure in the historical sphere. Thompson said the organization is eager to continue collaborating with the community. She said she hopes residents will reach out with their own stories and family histories, which could be added to the archive. In addition to historical endeavors, the Kitchen Table Stories Project also promotes community connection through social gatherings, including the upcoming Umbrella Arts Festival at Fountain Square on Saturday. The free event celebrating ASAPIA Heritage Month will feature art, food, performances, local vendors and guest speakers — including State Rep. Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz (D-Glenview), a member of the Asian American Caucus. Molitor said both the archive and the organization’s events are part of her mission to solidify a sense of belonging for ASAPIA students from the classroom to the general Evanston community. Between contributing information for a new unit in AP United States History or introducing residents to Afro-Indian fusion band Funkadesi at the Umbrella Arts Festival, the Kitchen Table Stories Project is carving out spaces for critical conversations to occur. “The stories we as a nation chose to tell formulate our notions of identity and possibility,” Thompson said. “Especially for younger generations, we need to be willing to talk to them about everyone.”

inspire and encourage students to learn more. The sex education most people recieve is isolating and alienating, Tanner added, excluding those with margnalized identities such as queer and trans people, people of color and people with disabilities. This can also affect the way health care professionals work with them, they said. To heal, Tanner recommended looking at the origins of harm, understanding early educational experiences and introducing accurate information. They also recommended engaging with pleasure activism, which involves recognizing pleasure as a fundamental human right and reclaiming one’s own right to their pleasure, bodies and language. Above all, Tanner emphasized that sex doesn’t have one specific defintion, and it’s open for whatever the individual wants it to be. “It can be physical, or it can be emotional. It could be both,” Tanner said. “Maybe it’s romantic. Maybe

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Flores, who serves as advocacy chair of the Chicago Graduate Student Association, said a space on the Chicago Campus for TGS students could help resolve this problem. NU only has one lounge for TGS students, which is located seven miles from Chicago on the Evanston campus. Even the conference room in Abbott Hall and office spaces can sometimes be difficult to secure because they are shared with medical students, Flores said. She said it’s a “constant struggle and competition” to book these spaces. Madden, a former member of the DGP Student Council, said finding space to study on the Chicago Campus can be challenging. Though TGS students have access to the Galter Health Sciences Library, he said the space is often “monopolized” by medical students. TGS students also do not have a dedicated space to eat lunch, CGSA President and fourthyear DGP student Tanvi Potluri said. “We don’t have any graduate student-specific place for us to meet,” Potluri said. “There is nothing we can call ours.” Past and current efforts to secure a lounge Flores said CGSA is pursuing efforts to advocate for a lounge space for DGP and TGS students. However, she said many of the steps CGSA is pursuing are similar to past efforts, which have been unsuccessful. Flores said administrative turnover every few years and high real estate prices in Chicago are some of the reasons these efforts have stalled in the past. Prior to 2018, TGS students had access to the Traisman Medical Student Center in the Tarry Research and Education Building. However, in 2018, without warning, TGS students no longer had Wildcard

it’s not. Maybe it involves a penis, or maybe it involves a strap-on. Maybe it involves penetration, maybe it never does … But whatever you want it to be, it can be. Nobody gets to tell you what sex is or isn’t as long as it’s consensual.” Weinberg senior and Sex Week Organizer Karina Karbo-Wright also outlined the expectations for participants of Sex Week programming at the event, which include active consent and confidentiality. “While consent is typically thought of in sexual situations, we can and should try to act with consent in mind for all of our actions,” a document distributed at the event read. Active consent means consent is freely given, ongoing, informed, enthusiastic and specific, KarboWright said. NU Sex Week will host other events this Friday including a B.Burlesque workshop, a period sex trivia night and a panel discussion on crip sexuality and disability justice. yimingfu2024@u.northwestern.edu access to the space, Madden said. “The crazy thing was that they didn’t tell anyone,” Madden said. “They could have told the DGP administration that they were removing our access, but they didn’t.” Similarly, when the Simpson Querrey Biomedical Research Center opened in 2019, TGS and DGP students were not given access to one of the building’s new lounges, Kabiller Student Commons, while medical students were, Madden said. Madden said Diane Wayne, then-dean of medical education, would not allow TGS students access to the new lounge, even though the Feinberg Student Senate supported expanded access. He said CGSA members were later told Wayne’s decision was impacted by the fact that Feinberg would soon be undergoing its accreditation process. “We were subsequently told that the Office of Medical Education was worried that the medical students were going to complain,” Madden said. In December 2019, Madden and the DGP Student Council conducted a survey for Chicago graduate students regarding student lounges. The survey, made of responses from 255 students, found 82.3% of respondents found space to connect with other TGS students was “lacking or non-existent.” There was no follow-up from the NU administration regarding the contents of the survey, Madden said. Madden also said administration members have denied requests in the past to give TGS students access to any Chicago Campus student lounges, including in the Simpson Querrey Biomedical Research Center. “There are graduate students who spend 80 hours a week working in that building that don’t have access to that student lounge,” Madden said. “That just never made sense.”

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thanks to his efforts, it actually supports a partnership office,” Witherspoon said. “These two entities can magnify what we accomplished by working together.” ETHS junior Caroline Klearman, a group facilitator in the student-run Emerge Leadership Program, said a group of four NU students, including three ETHS alumni, attend monthly meetings and brainstorm ideas for social justice initiatives. “They’re really helpful. It’s just nice to have a different opinion,” Klearman said. “And it’s definitely easier to connect with them.” The partnership has evolved over the past 10 years. At its inception, Perkins-LaFollette said the partnership focused heavily on science, technology, engineering and math, but it recentered its focus about four to five years into the program. The office set four priorities: identity and social consciousness, college access and career preparation, diversity in STEM and inclusion of arts and design in science. Among the programs aligned with the new priorities is Advancement Via Individual Determination. AVID is the Evanston chapter of a national college readiness program for firstgeneration ETHS students and students from underrepresented backgrounds. “The way that the collaborative inquiry activity is set up by the AVID program, the idea is that the tutors are currently enrolled college students,” said Myles Leggette, the student supports program assistant. “That way, they can really give our high school students the most direct knowledge transfer in terms of what it’s like being a college student, what the expectations are.” With retirement impending for Schapiro and Witherspoon, Perkins-LaFollette said she is excited to work with their successors: Rebecca Blank, NU’s next president, and Marcus Campbell, ETHS’ incoming superintendent. Perkins-LaFollette said she has already worked closely with Campbell on partnership programs such as Black Men LEAD. Part of her job will include working with the new leaders and familiarizing them with her office, she said. Perkins-LaFollette said she’s seen the relationship improve over the decade the partnership has been running. “I’m really optimistic that … we’ll continue to come to the table together,” Perkins-LaFollette said. “(I’m optimistic) that we have the same goal in mind of having a vibrant, wonderful community here in Evanston that we’re all a part of.” Olivia Alexander contributed reporting.

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Residents find community in Dungeons & Dragons By JESSICA MA

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On Tuesdays, Library Assistant Morgan Patten leaves the real world for a few hours to become Chime, a charismatic kenku warlock. Chime is her character in Dungeons & Dragons, a fantasy role-playing tabletop game. Across town, Evanston residents gather to play the beloved game in libraries, cafes and other community spaces. First released in 1974, D&D has seen continued popularity through the years. In the game, players create their own characters and embark on fictional adventures by rolling dice. The Dungeon Master serves as the game’s referee, guiding the storyline. “(D&D) is such a unique way to explore creatively. I love … the collective storytelling aspect of it,” Patten said. “It’s almost like watching a movie that you get to be part of in the moment, but there’s no pressure of being an actor.” At the Evanston Public Library, Patten runs weekly D&D sessions for teens on Saturdays. As the Dungeon Master, Patten moderates the game. Patten said D&D teaches young adults problem-solving and communication skills in an engaging way. They also explore ethical questions like how to conceptualize good and evil, she said. “From a teen point of view, teenagers are at this point in their life where they’re trying to understand their own identity,” Patten said. “Every character they try, they’re almost exploring a different aspect of their personality.”

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Evanston Games and Cafe hosts sessions through D&D Adventurers League, an officially organized play campaign for the game, on Thursday evenings. Through setting guidelines and creating premade adventures, the D&D Adventurers League provides a common framework for running games. Players can bring their characters to any D&D Adventurers League-affiliated location to play, according to Eli Klein, the owner of Evanston Games and Cafe. Store employee Gavin Kramer manages the cafe during the D&D Adventurers League sessions. The players are usually young, but they run the games themselves, Kramer said. In the cafe, players sit around tables with colorful dice and glossy D&D handbooks laid out in front of them. At each table, the Dungeon Master guides the game’s storyline behind a plastic wall, hiding their notes and dice rolls. In one adventure, players combatted gnolls, a species of hyena-like humanoids with a taste for blood. When characters got trapped in a magical forest, players worked together to solve riddles and freed their characters from the enchantment. “(D&D) gives a shared social outlet to people who otherwise might not have anything in common,” Klein said. “It becomes a much more close social experience.” Hawke Young, who plays at Evanston Games and Cafe, said he loves to meet new people through the game. After receiving D&D books for Christmas, siblings Bodhi and Hawke Young said they wanted to learn to play. Hawke Young said their mom convinced them to come to the sessions at Evanston for Evanston Township High School District 202 Tuesday. The District 202 Board of Education approved the appointments at a Monday meeting. Kinzie currently serves as the district’s associate principal for student services. She came to ETHS in 2004 as a social worker in the Special Education Department and later became a dean of students. Kinzie also works as a Spanish/English bilingual licensed clinical social worker. “Dr. Kinzie’s empathetic and compassionate

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Games and Cafe. “I read all the books, and they made it sound so amazing and cool,” Bodhi Young said. Hawke Young said he plays video games less often compared to other kids, which allows for more free time to play D&D. Ultimately, Kramer said nothing compares to

playing games together in person. “I don’t think board games and tabletop games … are something that’s going to be truly replicated by technology,” Kramer said. “You can’t replace real-life human experiences.”

leadership has already made a tremendous impact on our community,” Marcus Campbell, incoming ETHS superintendent and current assistant superintendent and principal, said in a news release. “We are excited and fortunate to have her continued leadership and care for our community in the new role of assistant superintendent and principal.” Bramley is currently the ETHS associate principal, a role he has served in for the past eight years. He also serves as the district’s interim chief human resource officer, a position he has

held since October. He started at ETHS in 2012 as the department chair for English and Reading and later served as associate principal for Instruction and Literacy. “Dr. Bramley is a systems thinker and problem solver who leads with humility,” Campbell said. “ He is consistently looking for ways to improve processes and support ETHS students and staff.” Kinzie and Bramley will assume their new positions July 1.

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If you only saw No. 8 Northwestern’s first two games against Minnesota, you might struggle to understand how the Wildcats were named Big Ten champions over the weekend. Sunday’s performance against the Golden Gophers, however, was much more representative of NU’s season. The Cats (39-9, 19-4 Big Ten) were only able to take one of three games against Minnesota (26-23-1, 11-12), but that was enough to clinch the program’s first regular season conference championship since 2008. “It’s been a long time coming for the program,” graduate right fielder Rachel Lewis said. “It’s really cool to bring it back into the hands of Northwestern.” The Golden Gophers scored in four consecutive innings during Friday’s opener, taking advantage of multiple defensive errors and senior pitcher Danielle Williams’s uncharacteristically poor performance from the circle. Every Minnesota batter reached base at least once, and NU only managed three hits in the 8-0 loss before the mercy rule took effect in the fifth inning. Williams earned her third loss of the season, and her first in over a month. “She got better the more she pitched over the weekend,” coach Kate Drohan said. “There were a few things that we were working on.” Saturday’s contest was just as lopsided. Designated player Lauren Espalin homered in the Golden Gophers’ first at-bat, setting the tone for the entire game. That home run was Minnesota’s only extra-base hit of the day, but a collection of singles and walks were enough to run up the score again.

The top of the Cats’ lineup went cold, as none of the first five batters managed a single hit, and NU eventually suffered its second 8-0 run-rule loss in a row. “A lot of it was the pressure that they put on us defensively,” freshman second baseman Grace Nieto said. “We were on their game plan.” The Cats were up to the task in the series’ final game. Apart from one solo home run, Williams was nearly untouchable, allowing just four hits while pitching all seven innings. Lewis reached another milestone too, recording her 100th career stolen base. She now has 22 stolen bases this season, tied for second in the Big Ten. All of NU’s offensive production came in the first inning. Senior catcher Jordyn Rudd opened the scoring with a sacrifice fly, and senior shortstop Maeve Nelson hit the scoreboard in the next at-bat for a two-run home run. Nelson and Nieto each had multiple extra-base hits, but the Cats benefitted just as much from quality defensive contributions across the entire team. “From the minute we got to the field, our team shook off some of the challenges we had the first two days,” Drohan said. “They were able to play in a really aggressive style.” Drohan’s squad turns its focus to the Big Ten Tournament, which will be held in Lansing, Michigan, this year. As the top overall seed, NU has a first-round bye and will face either Wisconsin or Minnesota. Despite the series loss, Nieto said she isn’t concerned about a potential rematch. “If we do rematch them, good — we’re going to see those pitchers and we’re going to hit them so hard,” Nieto said. “I’m really excited for it.” Daily file photo by Joshua Hoffman

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In an up-and-down year marked by volatility and streakiness, Northwestern’s past few games were nothing out of the ordinary. Just more than 48 hours after getting swept by Ohio State (17-28, 6-13 Big Ten) — a series that included a lopsided 25-9 loss — the Wildcats (21-23, 7-11 Big Ten) achieved their highest-scoring victory of the year, beating Milwaukee 21-8. This past weekend’s series sweep was NU’s first home series loss this year, and the team extended its losing streak to five games, as the Cats were outscored 45-20 in the series. Coach Josh Reynolds said the team must expand on its pitching and holding onto leads in key circumstances throughout the game. “We just have to pitch better,” Reynolds said. “We have to put guys away with two strikes, we got to be able to put guys away with two outs and not allow runs to score in those situations. That’s how you win games.” The series, however, was not as one-sided as the final scores indicate. Game one went down to the wire with the teams tied 6-6 entering the top of the ninth. Sophomore Jay Beshears led NU, erupting with a pair of two-run homers and a triple in his first three at-bats. Despite their offensive firepower, the Cats were unable to contain a hot Buckeyes offense that notched eight runs in the ninth, ending with a final score of 14-6. Game two saw yet another aboveaverage showing from NU’s offense, as senior Tommy D’Alise led the charge with a two-run homer and

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Center fielder Ethan O’Donnell hits a ball in play. The sophomore leads the Big Ten in doubles and ranks 10th in slugging percentage

three-RBI triple. But nine runs were insufficient as NU allowed a seasonworst 25 runs, including 10 runs in the second inning. The Cats’ pitching got back on track in Sunday’s series finale, as starting pitcher first-year Grant Comstock pitched four and one-thirds innings, and allowed three earned runs. Entering the bottom of the sixth down 4-1, NU put up three runs to tie the game up, scoring one more in the seventh to go up one. The Cats couldn’t hold onto their lead, giving up a run in the eighth and ninth each which completed the sweep. Against Milwaukee on Tuesday, NU’s offense stepped up again, this time in a winning effort. The Cats scored three or more runs in four different innings in their 21-point outing. D’Alise had another stellar performance, going five-for-six with a couple

two-run home runs. The infielder has 12 RBIs in his last three games. Going 2-6 in its last eight games, NU is tied for ninth in the Big Ten standings, falling three spots since last weekend. The Cats must move into the top eight in the conference to make the Big Ten tournament in late May. NU will host Purdue (27-16, 7-9 Big Ten) this weekend for its last home series this year. Purdue sits just one spot ahead of the Cats in the Big Ten standings, a fact Reynolds said was not important to the team. “We just have to focus on us. Play our style of baseball,” Reynolds said. “The last eight games have not been good, so we have a chance the next two weeks to fix that, and the guys individually have to go out and make those adjustments.” lucaskim2025@u.northwestern.edu

Northwestern captured a massive haul when the Big Ten announced this year’s All-Conference accolades. For the fourth time in her career, coach Kate Drohan earned Coach of the Year honors. The 20-year-veteran has won the award more than any other coach except Michigan’s Carol Hutchins. Drohan led the Wildcats (39-9, 19-4 Big Ten) to their first regular season Big Ten title since 2008 this season. Graduate right fielder Rachel Lewis was voted Player of the Year by the 14 head coaches in the Big Ten. Lewis tops the conference with 20 home runs and 50 runs batted in, and she is tied for second in the Big Ten with 22 stolen bases. Senior Danielle Williams was a unanimous choice for Pitcher of the Year. Williams is also among 10 finalists for the national USA Softball Player of the Year award, and leads the Big Ten in a litany of categories, including wins, saves, strikeouts and earned run average. Lewis and Williams were the only two unanimous selections to the first team All-Big Ten. Lewis earned the distinction, her fourth All-Conference selection in total, for the third time in her career. Williams has done so three times in four years, twice unanimously. There were no AllConference awards in the pandemicshortened 2020 season.

Joining Lewis and Williams on the first team All-Big Ten are senior catcher Jordyn Rudd, senior first baseman Nikki Cuchran and sophomore third baseman Hannah Cady — the five NU players are the most of any Big Ten team represented, and tie a program record. Rudd picked up her third career selection and claimed a place on the All-Defensive Team. Cuchran and Cady were firsttime honorees. The former is tied for second in the Big Ten with 48 runs batted in during the season, while the latter was named conference Player of the Week for her series performance against Iowa earlier this month. Two seniors, shortstop Maeve Nelson and right fielder Skyler Shellmyer, took spots on the second team All-Big Ten. Nelson was responsible for a walk-off home run against then No. 3 UCLA, while Shellmyer, a first-team selection in 2021, has more hits than any other Cat this season. Every starting infielder was recognized by the conference Wednesday, as freshman second baseman Grace Nieto was the lone NU player on the All-Freshman Team. Nieto has at least one hit in nine of her last 10 games. Senior outfielder Lauren Caldrone was chosen for the Cats’ Sportsmanship Award. The honorees will take the field Thursday in a Big Ten Tournament quarterfinal against Wisconsin. nathanansell2022@u.northwestern.edu