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Students line up to receive samples at the Black Hair Expo. The event was held Sunday in Louis Room and showcased vendor booths and free hair care products.

Black Hair Expo held in Norris

Vendors set up booths and tables with samples of hair care products

By MARISSA MARTINEZ

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Around 50 people came to Northwestern’s first Black Hair Expo this Sunday. Held in the Louis Room in Norris, vendors set up booths and tables with

samples of hair care products made for black hair.

The event ran from 3-5 p.m. and was sponsored by Impact at NU, a black Christian organization. One of its main goals was to support fellow students, said Cameryn Farrow, an organizer of the event.

The Weinberg junior said it

can be difficult to find salons that cater specifically to black hair around campus. Even of the “gems” students can find in Evanston, she said, it’s hard to know what to trust, and that prices can generally be expensive. This is one of the reasons Impact wanted to hold the expo.

“We thought one thing that should be consistent within the black community, regardless of your gender identity or anything, is your hair,” Farrow said. “We want to create an opportunity for people to learn about nearby hair salons, » See HAIR, page 6

The cafeteria is so overcrowded at Nichols Middle School that a student eligible for free-and-reduced lunch brings food from home, said Julie Cutter, a parent of a sixth- and eighth-grader at the school.

“He actually cannot make it through the hot lunch line and then eat his meal without having to scarf it down,” Cutter said of the student, whose name has been withheld for his privacy. “This is a family with not a lot of means… To me, that’s an equity issue.”

In the 2015-16 school year, 580 students were enrolled at Nichols, located at 800 Greenleaf St. The enrollment number has grown to 797 students in the 2018-19 school year, about a 37 percent increase over the last four years. The capacity is set at 800.

Nichols parents raised their enrollment and capacity concerns in a letter addressed to

the Evanston/Skokie School District 65 Board of Education in April. Cutter is one of over 200 current and future parents who signed the letter.

Cutter said her son talks about “getting bumped around” in the hallways. She said she signed the letter to demand physical safety and fair access to resources.

The letter highlighted the strain increased enrollment has put on student safety, learning environments and social service needs.

In response to the letter, District 65 Superintendent Paul Goren said his team is conducting an analysis of enrollment numbers and patterns at Nichols. Goren said he wants to better understand the root causes of the enrollment increase. He said he is still determining the timeline for the scope of the work.

“I appreciate the letter, I appreciate the concerns… the work that needs to be done is not a critical, quick fix,” Goren said.

Goren emphasized the need to contextualize the enrollment concerns at Nichols with other middle schools in the district. Enrollment numbers at Haven Middle » See ENROLLMENT, page 5

Profs. talk 10 years Wildcats move on to NCAA quarters of Latinx studies LACROSSE

Visiting, NU professors discuss, reflect on changes

By WILSON CHAPMAN

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When Arianna Hermosillo (Medill ‘10) first enrolled at Northwestern, she had no intention of being an activist. All she thought about was doing her homework and keeping in touch with her mom. But when she felt homesick and wanted to find a community at Northwestern, she signed up to join a committee to help fight for the establishment of a Latina and Latino Studies Program. Despite joining on a whim, working with the group became one of her most meaningful experiences at Northwestern.

“What’s enduring for me is just the fact that it’s okay to ask for more. It’s okay to ask for better,” Hermosillo said of what she learned from her time in LLSP during a Friday panel discussion of LLSP alums. “It’s always okay to strive, and push and challenge leadership and challenge those people in power to advocate for

you and for others around you.”

Hermosillo spoke in a panel as part of a symposium celebrating the first 10 years of the Northwestern’s Latina and Latino Studies Program. The event took place in Norris University Center, where Latinx studies professors from different schools spoke, along with students, current and former faculty and alumni. The speakers discussed the initial push 10 years ago to establish the program and the current struggle to sustain the program without department status.

The department status of Northwestern’s Latina and Latino Studies program has been a highly contested issue over the last year. A student activist group, the Latinx Asian American Collective, has been pushing for program departmentalization, arguing that the lack of tenure for professors results in high turnover rates and the lack of funding cripples the program’s effectiveness.

During the symposium, many faculty members expressed similar viewpoints of the collective, and said the program needs to demand » See LATINX, page 5

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Coach Kelly Amonte Hiller strolled into the postgame news conference staring at her phone as if the content on the screen was the most important thing in the world.

Minutes after beating Notre Dame on Sunday in the NCAA Tournament Sweet 16, Amonte Hiller had already turned the page to the Elite Eight. The 18th-year coach was fixated on the ongoing SyracuseGeorgetown game since the winner would play Northwestern in the next round.

Watching that game was icing on the cake for the No. 4 Wildcats (154, 5-1 Big Ten) after their 13-10 win over the Fighting Irish (14-5, 5-2 ACC), a matchup where the hosts got out to an early eight-goal lead before staving off a Notre Dame

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The Wildcats celebrate after a goal. NU beat Notre Dame in the second round of the NCAA Tournament at home Sunday.

comeback in the second half.

“It wasn’t perfect,” Amonte Hiller said. “But hopefully it will be better next week.”

NU outscored the Fighting Irish

8-0 over the opening 20 minutes, led by two goals apiece from freshman attacker Izzy Scane, senior attacker Selena Lasota and junior attacker Lindsey McKone. The start was so

overwhelming that with 12 minutes left in the first half, Notre Dame’s bench erupted in celebration just for » See LAX, page 5

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Council to approve Evanston police union contract

By JULIA ESPARZA

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Aldermen are set to authorize the city manager to execute an updated contract with the Fraternal Order of Police Union at Monday’s City Council meeting.

The contract includes a 1 percent wage increase to go into effect December 31 this year, with a 1.5 percent increase following the next day, and two 2.25 percent increases in 2021 and 2022.

The contract “was agreed upon during mediation and has been ratified by the Union and represents a fair compromise between the City and the Union in light of the current financial situation of the City,” according to city documents.

The agreement also includes an increase in employee contributions to insurance premiums that will go into effect on 2020. For PPOs, that contribution rises to 15 from 10 percent and to 12 from 10 percent for HMOs. The city and union have also agreed to raise the annual education incentive to $2,000 from $1,900 until 2022 and reduce the maximum paid sick days to 420 from 440 hours beginning in 2021.

The contract will go into effect immediately and expire December 31, 2022.

“The four-year term will provide both parties with

Northlight Theatre plans to move back to Evanston

Northlight Theatre has signed an option agreement to purchase and demolish an existing Evanston building and build a new theater in its place, according to the Chicago Tribune.

The organization presents five mainstage productions a year, according to its website, which also says it has over 6,000 subscribers and audiences totalling over 50,000 each season.

union security and stability,”according to city documents.

“Furthermore, the lengthy term provides the City with the ability to properly and reasonably budget for salaries and expenses associated with these employees.”

Aldermen will also review and place on file the city’s 2019 First Quarter Financial Report.

In the city’s General Fund, revenues sit at 31.5 percent and expenses at 26.3 percent of budget. The revenue numbers are above the three month target of 25 percent due to first installment of property tax payments in March. According to city documents, 51 percent of property tax revenues have been received.

Heavy snow early in 2019 have resulted in high overtime spending in the Evanston Police Department, Evanston Fire Department and the Public Works Agency. As of March 31, the snow and ice business unit had expenses of $991,242 — 88.2 percent of the budget. Predicting poor conditions in November and December this year, city staff estimates expenses will be $300,000 over budget.

“Staff will continue to monitor these expenses closely as well as opportunities for savings in other areas,” staff said in city documents.

The city’s water fund is still in flux because of an ongoing suit between Evanston and Skokie. The city currently charges Skokie 78 cents per 1,000 gallons, but following litigation, hopes to increase that rate to $2.06, representing a possible increase in revenue.

As of March 31, the city’s Insurance Fund shows Northlight plans to demolish an existing building located at 1012-1016 Church St. and is embarking on a $20 million campaign to fund a new 300-seat low-rise theater, according to the Tribune. The Tribune also reported that future plans include a new black-box theater and additional office space.

While Gregory Kandel, Mike Nussbaum and Frank Galati founded the theater in Evanston in 1974 under the name Evanston Theatre Company, it relocated to the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts in Skokie in 1997.

For those taking public transportation, however, the current location requires a change from the

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Evanston Police Department squad cars. The city is expected to approve a police union contract that will be in effect until 2022.

a negative fund balance of $10.5 million and a negative cash balance of $5.9 million. According to city documents, there were many high expenses in the first quarter from legal fees and settlements.

The city has been combatting a deficit totaling $7.4 million in the 2019 budget.

“I don’t think you would find anyone who would

say it’s a perfect budget,” Mayor Steve Hagerty said at November 19 council meeting. “There is sacrifice that has been made across the board in terms of programs, as well as for taxpayers, but it’s good work that’s been done.”

Yellow Line to CTA bus route 97 or to another bus that drops off at Old Orchard across the street.

The theater does not recommend taking public transportation for weekend evening performances, due to early final departure times for the bus.

The plans to build a new theater were suggested

by Amy Morton, who runs The Barn Steakhouse in Evanston, according to Northlight’s executive director Tim Evans. Morton’s restaurant would be located adjacent to the new building.

“There has been a drumbeat for Northlight to come home,” Tim Evans, Northlight’s executive director, told the Tribune.

This isn’t Northlight’s first attempt to relocate

to Evanston. In 2017, Farpoint Development worked with Northlight to propose a 37-story building on Sherman Avenue, which would include the new theater as well as a boutique hotel, a restaurant, residential units and a parking facility. Developers eventually backed off of the development in 2018 due to local backlash, including concerns the high-rise would displace local businesses.

Northlight hopes to open a new theater in the fall of 2021 around the end of the current lease with the North Shore Center.

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Saturday, May 18 Derek Hartman, piano 12 p.m., Regenstein Master Class Room

Monday, May 13 Adam Maloney, double bass 8:30 p.m., Galvin Recital Hall

Nanao Yamada, violin 12 p.m., McClintock Choral and Recital Room

Tuesday, May 14 Jennifer Woodrum, clarinet 6 p.m., Regenstein Master Class Room

Jonathan Platt, double bass 2:30 p.m., McClintock Choral and Recital Room

Wednesday, May 15 Jonathan Kraft, trombone 8:30 p.m., McClintock Choral and Recital Room Luke Lentini, violin 8:30 p.m., Regenstein Master Class Room Thursday, May 16 Ben Roidl-Ward, bassoon 6 p.m., Galvin Recital Hall

Matthew Tichy, trombone 2:30 p.m., Regenstein Master Class Room Jessica Cao, violin 6 p.m., Regenstein Master Class Room Saetbyeol Kim, piano 6 p.m., Galvin Recital Hall Evan Lee, piano 8:30 p.m., Regenstein Master Class Room

Benjamin Smelser, trombone 6 p.m., McClintock Choral and Recital Room

Jane Recker, soprano 8:30 p.m., Galvin Recital Hall

Friday, May 17 Zion Lee, violin 6 p.m., Regenstein Master Class Room

Sunday, May 19 Jacob Mezera, trombone 12 p.m., Regenstein Master Class Room

Rachel Johnstone, flute 8:30 p.m., McClintock Choral and Recital Room

Erica Mina Cha, guitar 6 p.m., McClintock Choral and Recital Room Mark Trotter, horn 8:30 p.m., Galvin Recital Hall

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Storage startup back for second year

By MEGAN MUNCE

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Student-run startup Litterbox is back for its second year of operation to serve the Northwestern community as an NU-specific storage solution.

McCormick sophomore Peter Dorward, the CEO and co-founder of Litterbox, said the company exceeded expectations last year with 78 customers served, a 98 percent on-time delivery rate and a 4.9 satisfaction rating out of 5. This year, he said the company has made numerous changes to improve upon its success.

“We identified a lot of our weaknesses last summer, and we’ve been able to spend all winter just optimizing our process,” said Weinberg sophomore Yash Agrawal, co-founder and the chief financial officer of the company.

Many of these changes involve what customers will receive. According to Dorward, Litterbox will now provide packing tape as well as a packing guide to each of its customers. He said the company also switched to a different box manufacturer to provide stronger boxes that are double-walled.

“This year, you could stand on our boxes,” Dorward said.

Some of the other changes deal with how students sign up for Litterbox. According to Dorward, Litterbox responded to student feedback that the order form was too long by simplifying their sign up process and business model. In the new model, customers can reserve their spot on the website for a $25 fee to receive packing supplies. Once they have an idea of how many boxes they’ll need to store, they can fill out the order form.

Dorward also said the team spent “hours and hours and hours” on their back-end scheduling systems to handle the amount of customers Litterbox expects to sign up.

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From left to right: Litterbox CFO Yash Agrawal, CEO Peter Dorward and COO Andy Grossman. The three collaborated on changes to their distribution and marketing moving into the company’s second year.

totally worth it,” Andy Grossman, a SESP freshman and chief operating officer of the company, said. “We’re able to make tweaks to it whenever we need to to see what went well, what went wrong and what we need to improve.”

Grossman got involved with the company this year after hearing their pitch during a matchmaking event at The Garage. As a freshman, he said he was previously unaware of the need for summer storage solutions in college.

Marketing-wise, Agrawal said Litterbox is focused on emphasizing the unique advantages of using a student-run storage company.

Dorward said part of this goal is becoming more affordable by offering a standard package

versus a premium package. The standard package offers drop-off and pick-up locations, while the premium package includes door-to-door service.

Litterbox also expanded their marketing by holding a Chick-fil-A promotional deal earlier in the year, offering every new customer free Chick-fil-A. Dorward said they also plan to roll out promotional codes to attract new customers.

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Trans-inclusive language is vital to national discourse A. PALLAS GUTIERREZ

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This is the thirteenth column in “50 Years of Queer Anger,” a series examining LGBTQ+ issues in the United States since 1969.

The abortion ban bills introduced in Georgia and Alabama have added further fuel to the national debate around reproductive health. News outlets have pointed out misunderstandings and misinformation being spread across social media, and celebrities have weighed in with Tweets, both serious and satirical, expressing their beliefs and proposing responses. However, all the mainstream coverage of this debate I have seen has had the same flaw: referring to reproductive health as a women’s issue or as something concerning women’s health.

We live in a binarily gendered society. In particular, we live in a society where gender and sex are assumed to be linked unless someone openly declares otherwise and comes out as transgender. According to a Williams Institute study from 2016, around 1.4 million adults in the United States

identify as transgender, which amounts to about 0.6 percent of the adult population.

This group is definitively too large to ignore, both in rhetoric and in practice.

Referring to reproductive health as women’s health or as a women’s issue is trans erasure. Not all women have uteruses, and not all people with uteruses are women. To claim otherwise is an act of violence against the trans community, either purposefully or ignorantly.

This rhetoric around reproductive health is obviously not new, just as the equation of gender and sex is not new. There has been a large, ongoing debate about biology-based signs at protests like the Women’s March.

Slogans like “pussy grabs back” and “pussy power,” can be empowering to cis women, but feel reductive to trans people. While reproductive health laws obviously impact anyone with a uterus, and such laws are often the main focus of the Women’s March, equating gender and sex actively erases trans people. This biology-based rhetoric tells trans women that they don’t belong in the women’s movement, and tells all trans people that they are not valid.

While people making signs are often well-meaning and simply not thinking of — or aware of — trans experiences, there is a more malicious brand of trans erasure.

Trans-exclusionary radical feminists do not believe that gender identity and sex are different; if an individual is assigned male at birth, that individual is a man in the eyes of TERFs. This rhetoric is extremely dangerous.

TERF rhetoric goes beyond the dismissal of trans identities, which is already heinously disrespectful and harmful to trans individuals. TERFs also believe that laws protecting trans rights are infringing on the rights of or otherwise endangering cis women. Worse, they claim trans rights endanger children.

Although there is no evidence to back up either of these claims, TERFs are stubborn in their beliefs and actively fight any legislation that protects trans people.

There is a long history of trans-exclusion, both inside and outside the queer liberation movement. The role of trans women of color in starting and advancing the queer liberation movement has long been ignored. It can be extremely hard to identify trans people in history because of a lack of terminology and self-identification before the 20th century.

This makes trans erasure even easier because historians can claim that there simply isn’t evidence of trans people, even in the face of people assigned female “living as” male.

Even today, trans people are misgendered after death. Trans roles are given to cisgender

actors. Trans people are interrogated about their bodies. This harassment only continues erasure and ridicule of trans lives, which allows for a pattern of violence against trans people.

Including trans people in rhetoric and policies is vital. There are more trans people in the United States than there are residents of either Alaska, Delaware, Maine, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, Wyoming or Washington, D.C. Ignoring trans people is reckless and dangerous.

Gender neutral rhetoric may feel unnatural at first, because American society commonly uses terms like “women’s health,” but non-gendered alternatives are available. For women’s health, there’s reproductive rights.

For brother or sister, there’s sibling. Using gender-neutral language in policy discussions makes them inclusive of everybody, and puts society on the right track to trans-inclusion.

A. Pallas Gutierrez is a Communication freshman. They can be contacted at pallas2022@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.

Asking ‘Why’ will improve fulfillment and joy in life ALEXANDRA HUANG

DAILY COLUMNIST

I recently picked up Simon Sinek’s book “Start With Why” and found it very inspiring. Sinek gives the example of the company Apple, which continues to succeed no matter how fierce competition gets. Sinek proves to us with demonstrated examples that the companies that have a “why,” a purpose and a mission, are the ones that will succeed. In this case, Apple’s “why” is to always challenge the status quo. Apple does not define itself as a computer company: that’s simply what they do. Instead, Apple defines itself with a higher mission: to challenge the norm, defy the status quo and innovate.

Having a “why” is equally important for personal life. It brings clarity and can serve as a compass that will always point us to where we need to and want to be. It helps us stay motivated and fulfilled in a long-term, sustainable way. The success, or the “what,” will fall naturally in place, if we know our why.

Not knowing “why” can injure the quality and duration of striving for success. For example, in a pre-professional college setting, someone who goes to work for McKinsey & Company, a prestigious management consulting firm, because they want the status and success obtaining that position symbolizes might burn out quickly and feel unfulfilled after a short amount of time.

On the other hand, someone who goes to McKinsey knowing why they are entering that position will have a different experience working there. For some, it’s because they love understanding business challenges so that they can accumulate experience and open their own business one day. For others, it’s to meet talented people and make great connections in order to kick off their career trajectory. No matter what, knowing “why” will make work more fulfilling and emotionally sustainable.

Those who have a “why” won’t be upset if they don’t get a job at a prestigious firm. For those people, working a company like McKinsey is just one way for them to realize their ultimate “why,” no matter what that might be. On the other hand, those who are lost

in the status and power game but don’t have clear “why” in mind will burst into anger at not being given their desired position. They will not have a suitable alternative because of their focus on the “what.” They might even lose themselves because they are not driven by a “why.” The “what” is all they know and it’s the only goal they’ve had in mind.

Personally, personal growth is one of my goals. When I see opportunities for growth, I would seize them and give my best. For

me, that’s a more sustainable and fulfilling purpose than simply being “successful.” Success in the conventional way is defined by our society, but personal growth is something we can all experience and benefit from. For example, learning something new on a topic that interests me is so much more enjoyable than reading a popular book only so that I can talk about it during dinners and cocktail parties.

Having a clear “why” in your everyday life is important because you will experience true fulfillment and joy. The process of selfactualization, growth, and self-improvement is much more fun and fulfilling than chasing the empty glory of power, status, and wealth.

Those things should come as a result of your “why,” not the other way around.

Alexandra Huang is a SESP freshman. She can be contacted at Alexandrahuang@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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LATINX

From page 1 more from the University if it’s going to succeed.

Monica Russel y Rodriguez, assistant provost for diversity and inclusion, said she was impressed by the way students have contributed to creating the program in the first place, but she thought students should not have to advocate for this cause at all.

“I’m looking forward to the creation of the department and a structure that ... will not require students to spend their free time (protesting) when they should be studying,” Rodriguez said.

One of the panels during the symposium saw several professors discuss the implications of the term “Latinx,” which has been widely adopted by academics and younger generations.

Brown University Prof. Ralph Rodriguez said the term is queer in origin, originating from LGBTQ+ friendly spaces on the Internet to refer to and include non-binary people. Rodriguez said while the widespread use of the phrase to be inclusive is well-meaning, he worries it has made the phrase generic and robbed it of the queer context

LAX

From page 1 getting a defensive stop against the Cats.

Following the seventh goal of the game, Notre Dame switched goalies and subbed in Bridget Deehan for starter Samantha Giacolon. The move impacted the flow and momentum for the Cats’ offense, said Lasota, who finished with five goals. Deehan was a smaller and quicker option than Giacolonand and held NU to fewer

it used to have.

University of Arkansas Prof. Yajaira Padilla said she sees the term as the natural way in which language evolves to become more inclusive, noting several phrases and terms for people from Latin America such as “Chicano” — which used to be used to widely refer to Mexicans before falling out of use — have come and gone.

However, she said she thinks the phrase “Latinx” shouldn’t be used for everyone who has origins in Latin America, as multiple communities, such as Indigenous peoples and AfroLatinx aren’t necessarily included under such a widespread label. She said she expects the phrase will eventually be replaced as the community continues to evolve.

“The ‘x’ stands for still what is not stated,” Padilla said, “what we don’t know. — for what comes next, and for where we’re going next.”

The final panel was a discussion about the future and struggles of Latinx studies beyond Northwestern, with three professors from other schools discussing changes they want to see occur in the field.

Michigan State University Prof. Yomaira Figueroa said while Latinx studies have been marginalized, certain intersectional identities such as indigenous people and Afro-Latinx have been marginalized within Latinx studies. Figueroa said, Latinx studies needs to include more studies of these intersectional identities and have a more diverse range of professors if the field wants to evolve.

New York University Prof. Darrel Alejandro Holnes agreed with Figueroa, saying Latinx studies have traditionally ignored the wide variety of ethnic groups that fall under the Latinx umbrella.

Holnes said he hopes the future of Latinx studies is one where the people teaching it more accurately reflect people with Latin American origins and the rich diversity of the Latinx population.

“I hope the future of Latinx studies is one of radical compassion and empathy,” Holnes said.

“One where we seek to blur the lines of how we define community, rather than build walls around it.”

goals in 45 minutes than Giacolon allowed in the first 15 minutes of play.

A 6-1 Fighting Irish run made it a three-goal game, and Amonte Hiller said that stretch in the second half showed the Cats that they need to improve offensively.

“We could have really put our stamp on it towards the end of the first half, and we let a lot of opportunities go,” Amonte Hiller said. “We got a little bit stale on offense, and we’ve got to really work on that.”

After NU scored three consecutive goals in 10

minutes during the middle of the second half, Notre Dame made another run of its own to bring the deficit back to three goals, capped off by a goal from Notre Dame attacker Samantha Lynch with two minutes to go. But goalkeeper Mallory Weisse had five second-half saves and stopped three free-position shots to keep the Cats advantage.

NU’s defense had one of its best outings of the season, forcing 16 turnovers. But despite keeping the Fighting Irish to a limited amount of opportunities

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Panelists speak at the Latinx studies event. The symposium saw faculty reflect on the first 10 years of Northwestern’s Latina and Latino Studies Program.

at the net, Weisse said the Cats need to improve their overall consistency on that end.

“Overall in the first half, we really dominated on defense,” Weisse said. “That’s something we need to work on, having a full 60 minutes.”

With the win, NU advances to the Elite Eight for the second consecutive season. The Cats will face Syracuse on Saturday in Evanston — Amonte Hiller watched the Orange pull away in between answering questions — and will vie for their first Final Four appearance

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Northwestern University congratulates the winners of the 2019 University Teaching Awards

Clockwise from top left: Kevin Boyle, Mesmin Destin, Mitra J. Hartmann, Sara Owsley Sood, Danny M. Cohen

Charles Deering McCormick University Professors of Teaching Excellence KEVIN BOYLE MESMIN DESTIN MITRA J. HARTMANN Charles Deering McCormick University Distinguished Professors of Instruction DANNY M. COHEN SARA OWSLEY SOOD

School, located at 2417 Prairie Ave, have also increased, but overall enrollment is relatively flat, Goren said.

According to the letter, teachers have been burdened by the increased enrollment. The entire eighth grade switched floors, and many teachers are now without a dedicated classroom. Special education classrooms that used to be assigned to one teacher now accommodate up to four.

According to one Nichols parent, Jennifer Leigh, several learning spaces have been divided.

She said her seventh-grade daughter took art in the fall. Her daughter’s class shared the room with another class section and was without a functioning sink.

When her daughter needed counseling last year, Leigh said the school’s social worker was very responsive and even encouraged walk-in sessions. But every time her daughter has since tried to stop by, a social worker has never been available, Leigh said.

Leigh credits this absence to a shortage of staff. The district has not increased the number t of social workers or psychologists allotted to the school since the enrollment increase, according to the letter.

Leigh, the co-president of the Parent Teacher Association at Nichols, said she and the PTA executive board had been putting together enrollment data and gathering stories since the start of 2019.

The letter called on the administration to reevaluate enrollment and offered long-term and immediate solutions.

Specifically, the letter recommends halting all mid-year and permissive transfers — in which students request to enroll in a school outside their designated area. In the current school year, 59 students from the permissive transfer list enrolled in Nichols, and the school continues to accept mid-year transfers. Leigh said the PTA executive board saw addressing transfers as a quick, easy and cost-effective fix.

“There’s enough space in the district,” Leigh said. “I can understand why parents want their kids to go to Nichols, but...the district needs to look at (D65 schools) overall.”

Long term, Leigh urges the district to holistically look at attendance area boundaries.

District 65 has historically struggled with overcrowding. In 2012, the school board approved major renovations at Haven and Nichols to address overcrowding issues. The Nichols project increased the number of classrooms and expanded the student cafeteria. Renovations at Chute Middle School, 1400 Oakton St., were completed two years later in 2014.

Nine years ago, Steve Jones watched Lincoln Elementary School, in the Chicago Public Schools system, work to alleviate overcrowding issues. Jones, then a parent at Lincoln and now a parent at Nichols, urged the district to address the issues at Nichols in a more rapid and effective way than CPS had done.

“I’m now seeing a middle school undergoing the same kinds of pressure of enrollment, of resources,” Jones said at the April board meeting.

“I hope that in this situation it doesn’t take a full two to three years of coming to meetings, of lobbying and discussing.” snehadey2022@u.northwestern.edu

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Imani Minor, a Weinberg sophomore, came up with the idea after talking with her brother, who attends the University of Notre Dame, where a similar expo was held. In addition, she said she is part of a psychology lab that studied black hair and its importance in young women’s lives.

Minor said she usually goes to Howard Beauty Supply in south Evanston to get products.

MONDAY, MAY 13, 2019 However, the process of reaching out to local businesses made her realize there were salons across the city catering to black hair. While black students often use group chats or online forums to share advice and recommendations, Minor said sometimes those spaces don’t hold all the answers.

McCormick junior Lawan Aladefa heard about the expo through mutual friends and the Facebook event. He picked up new products to try out and got information from booths like Studio SLK and Curls and Company — places he had never visited because he does his hair by himself.

He said it was hard to name the potential options for black students to go to in Evanston, partially because the businesses are underpublicized, which is why exposure is so crucial. He said in the future, it would also be nice to show examples a little farther out, in nearby places like Rogers Park or Skokie. However, he did learn about new stores and salons to potentially visit in the future.

“Knowing that there’s places that I could go if I wanted, say, if I got a big interview, and I want to make sure that fade’s icy, get those curls right,” Aladefa said. “It would mean I know there are

places around I could go to.”

Aladefa also said the lack of publicity and knowledge about products and businesses who specialize in black hair made the event necessary.

“It’s good to have an event like this where you can know there’s some relatively close by,” Aladefa said. “Just to let people know these resources are available because this is a facet of black/POC culture. If other people can have easy access, we should be able to, at the very least, know.” mmartinez@u.northwestern.edu

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MONDAY, MAY 13, 2019

SOFTBALL

Despite loss in Big Tens, NU to host NCAA regional

By SOPHIA SCANLAN

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This weekend’s Big Ten Tournament brought ups and downs for Northwestern.

Though the Wildcats steamed past Indiana in Bloomington in the quarterfinals, they fell to Minnesota in the semifinals, marking the fourth straight year the Golden Gophers have knocked NU out of the tournament.

The Cats (43-10, 21-2 Big Ten) beat the Hoosiers (36-21, 10-13) 2-0 on Friday thanks to a one-hitter from freshman pitcher Danielle Williams and clutch hits from freshmen Jordyn Rudd and Nikki Cuchran.

Saturday’s game against Minnesota was the opposite outcome, however — the Golden Gophers (41-12, 20-2) shut out NU 4-0.

In the quarterfinal against Indiana, the contest was

scoreless until the bottom of the third, when Rudd singled to center to score freshman shortstop Maeve Nelson.

“I was seeing the ball really well, and it’s hard to get people in without someone else being on base, so a lot of our girls were doing really good at the same time,” Rudd said. “It was a lot of fun.”

In the fifth inning, Cuchran bumped the score to 2-0 with an RBI single that knocked in senior left fielder Morgan Nelson, who originally reached base on a walk.

In the circle, Williams threw her 13th shutout of the season, pitching a complete game, striking out nine and allowing only one walk.

“We always have another pitcher ready, but I thought she had excellent command of the game,” coach Kate Drohan said.

Though Williams performed well on Friday, Drohan decided to go with senior pitcher Kaley Winegarner for the start against Minnesota on Saturday.

She added she knew the Cats would use several pitchers on Saturday to combat a powerful Golden Gopher lineup.

“We’d just come off a three-game series with (Minnesota), so they’d seen our pitchers a lot, and we liked (Winegarner’s) matchup with them,” Drohan said.

However, in the first inning, Winegarner gave up a two-run homer to sophomore Hope Brandner, and an inning later she allowed a solo shot to junior Katelyn Kemmetmueller. In the meantime, Big Ten Pitcher of the Year Amber Fiser racked up 13 strikeouts against NU, tying her career-high.

Though the Cats saw Fiser in all three games last weekend, they still couldn’t break open the game against her.

“Nothing was too different (from last weekend),” Rudd said. “We just really needed to have a little bit more confidence in each other and knowing that if you can’t get it done, the person next in line can get

it done.”

With Saturday’s loss, NU missed qualifying for the conference championship game where Michigan beat Minnesota 3-2.

Despite their performance in the conference tournament, the Cats will still host a Regional this weekend as the 16th overall seed in the NCAA Tournament. NU will face off against Detroit Mercy (31-26, 16-8 Horizon) on Friday, with Louisville and Southern Illinois battling in the other opening game.

Looking forward toward the weekend, Drohan said she hopes the team’s power can return, since the Cats had no extra-base hits this weekend and only one last weekend.

“We just need one person to spark us and get us going again and get us back on track,” she said. “I think it’ll happen.” sophiascanlan2022@u.northwestern.edu

BASEBALL

Cats win crucial weekend series over Scarlet Knights

By PETER WARREN

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Since the beginning of last season, the top two pitchers in the Northwestern rotation have been junior Hank Christie and sophomore Quinn Lavelle. But with both players battling injuries, coach Spencer Allen has called upon sophomore left-hander Ryan Bader and freshman right-hander Mike Doherty to pitch the first two games of the weekend over the past two weeks.

Last weekend, Bader had his best game of the season, jump-starting an important series win over Nebraska. This weekend, it was Doherty who put in a masterpiece to lead the Wildcats to another crucial series victory, this time over Rutgers.

Doherty lasted into the ninth inning Saturday, giving up four hits and two walks while throwing only 87 pitches. The Massachusetts native saw only one

baserunner reach third base before handing the ball off to junior Sam Lawrence, who closed out the 4-0 victory for NU (23-24, 10-11 Big Ten), clinching a series win for the Cats over the Scarlet Knights (20-28, 9-11). “(Rutgers’ hitters) were aggressive but the height of his ball, they just couldn’t really elevate it to drive it and then (Doherty) just really started mixing towards the middle of the game,” Allen said. “That was a very, very impressive outing and it was fun to see.”

Doherty faced the minimum of three batters six different times. He found success by inducing fly balls — Doherty got 13 outs via the flyout, compared to eight groundouts and two strikeouts.

Senior right fielder Ben Dickey got the scoring started in the fourth inning when he roped a double into left field that scored junior third baseman Alex Erro. Freshman center fielder David Dunn knocked in another run in the frame with a sacrifice fly. In the ninth, Dickey added some insurance runs, mashing his

second double of the game to score senior first baseman Willie Bourbon and then touching home on a groundout from freshman catcher Michael Trautwein to make the score 4-0.

In Friday’s lidlifter, Bader was a little shaky to start and Rutgers got out to an early 3-0 lead. But he settled down and finished the day with a solid 6.1-inning performance. When the Cats’ best chance to swing momentum presented itself, they seized the chance.

With the bases loaded and two out in the seventh, sophomore designated hitter Jack Kelly walked up to the plate. Allen called the sophomore’s emergence over the last few weeks “huge” and Kelly exemplified that with a two-run single through the right side to extend the inning.

“It was kind of fortunate that second baseman was playing a little bit out of position holding that runner on,” Kelly said. “When some teammates in front of you get on base, it puts pressure on the defense and then it opens up some holes.”

In the final game of the series — which was moved from Sunday to Saturday due to impending weather — the Scarlet Knights got the initial lead and never relinquished it. The Cats managed to bring the deficit to within one run, but did not take advantage of their opportunities enough and lost 5-4.

The two wins moved the Cats into sole possession of seventh place in the Big Ten standings, putting them in good position to earn a berth in the eightteam Big Ten Tournament.

With the status of Christie and Lavelle unknown going forward, NU will again have to rely on the duo of Bader and Doherty to solidify that postseason berth.

Doherty said he has been ready for this opportunity.

“Both of us know that we have the talent to be weekend guys and be effective and be good — maybe really good,” Doherty said. “I’m happy for Ryan and glad I’m in this position right now.” peterwarren2021@u.northwestern.edu

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AS NCAA TOURNAMENT BEGINS, WILDCATS HONOR THE LEGACY OF HIGH SCHOOL COACH ANGIE KENSINGER

By ELLA BROCKWAY

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It was impossible to watch last Sunday’s Big Ten Tournament final between No. 1 Maryland and No. 5 Northwestern without noticing the pigeon.

The bird stayed on the field for the entire game, flying around, fluttering in the faces of players and even perching atop the Wildcats’ goal. It became a hashtag on Instagram: #laxpigeon. It became, jokingly, an excuse, as the Terrapins lacrosse Twitter account posted a score update when NU was up 15-9 in the second half with the kicker “We blame the pigeon.”

In the heat of the team’s biggest game of the season, coach Kelly Amonte Hiller found senior defender Nell Copeland on the sideline and pointed toward the bird.

“Nell, that’s Coach K!” Coach K was Angie Kensinger, the longtime head girls lacrosse coach at the St. John’s School in Houston, the alma mater of Copeland and three other current Cats. Kensinger and her husband, Stuart, died in a plane crash in Texas on April 22, and two weeks later, hearts around the lacrosse world were still heavy.

Copeland knew exactly what Amonte Hiller meant.

She had been guarding a Maryland player when the bird flew between them, forcing her opponent to drop the ball, and was convinced that its presence was more than just a coincidence. Lindsey McKone, a junior attacker and a 2016 St. John’s graduate, swore the bird was “Coach K, Mr. Coach K, or both of them.”

“The facilities person at Hopkins, when I was coming out of halftime onto the field, she was like, ‘We’re really trying to get that bird off the field for you guys,’” Amonte Hiller said. “I go, ‘Don’t get that bird off the field! That bird’s with us.’”

The pigeon stayed on the field until the very end of the game, when the final horn sounded and NU claimed its first win over Maryland in seven years, and its first-ever Big Ten title. It was a milestone moment in the program’s history, and the pigeon, the Cats insisted, was a part of it — a sign, McKone said, that someone was looking down on them.

In more than 20 years coaching at St. John’s, Kensinger won 11 conference and 12 state championships, all while successfully guiding dozens of players into the college ranks. In the past eight years, she’d sent five players from St. John’s to NU — Jessica Carroll, who played

for the Cats from 2012 to 2015, and current players McKone, Nell Copeland, sophomore defender Carson Copeland and sophomore midfielder Kate Copeland.

“She wasn’t trying to get us to go to Northwestern for glory or anything or to make her look like this coach who sent multiple girls to play at one of the top programs in the country,” Nell Copeland said. “She wanted what was best for us.”

In Texas, a state where an East Coast-centric sport like lacrosse was still growing, Kensinger was a pioneer.

Amonte Hiller first encountered Kensinger when recruiting Dallas native and eventual NU star Taylor Thornton. At the time, Kensinger ran the lone girls lacrosse club team in Texas with Thornton’s high school coach and Amonte Hiller’s former college teammate, Patty Wick. As NU began to recruit more and more in the Lone Star State — even playing a game at Cowboys Stadium in 2011 against William and Mary — Amonte Hiller’s relationship with Kensinger grew.

“The biggest thing that I was struck with, as a college coach, is just really how, no matter if it was one of her kids or like someone that didn’t play for her, she was just so genuinely trying to help the kids from the Texas area get to play in college,” Amonte Hiller said.

“She was really into developing people and getting them to find their niche and their passions and their strengths inside themselves.”

Kensinger’s relationship with the NU program didn’t stop when the recruiting process ended. She co-ran one of Amonte Hiller’s camps in Houston, and made numerous trips to Evanston — including a handful this season — to watch the Cats.

She had followed the team’s success this year, her former players said, always texting them after games to tell them how proud she was of what they’d been able to accomplish, and how excited she was to keep watching.

Amonte Hiller recalled hearing how after NU clinched top-10 wins over Michigan and Notre Dame in April, Kensinger talked with McKone’s mother, full of excitement about the direction in which the Cats’ season was heading.

“They had just been talking on the phone, and (Kensinger) said that she booked hotels for the Final Four, just in case,” Amonte Hiller said. “That just speaks to her link to the program. She was like family.”

It’s been three years since she played her final game for St. John’s, but McKone still vividly remembers the captains’ lunches at Kensinger’s house, and her personality — she pictures Kensinger giving advice to the

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Kate Copeland’s ladybug-laced cleats after Sunday’s game against Notre Dame. The Houston native wore the laces in honor of the late Angie Kensinger, her high school lacrosse coach.

players before a game, and then dancing.

Nell Copeland remembers the boxes of cookies that Kensinger would personally deliver to each player’s house every Christmas, and how she knew that if she wanted to play lacrosse in college, she had to play for Coach K. Kate Copeland remembers the texts Kensinger would send her, before and after she left for college, about anything from lacrosse to career advice to what

Copeland said. “It’s amazing that me, Kate, Nell and Lindsey all ended up in the same place, and that Coach K, we literally would not be here and we wouldn’t be best friends without her.”

After Kensinger’s death, Carson Copeland bought sets of ladybug-patterned shoelaces for herself and the other St. John’s alums.

Ladybugs were a Kensinger trademark — she used to take her St. John’s teams on spring break trips to

Courtesy of St. John’s School

St. John’s celebrates its 2015 Texas Girls High School Lacrosse League Championship. Current Wildcats Lindsey McKone, Nell Copeland, Carson Copeland and Kate Copeland all played on this team.

classes she was taking at NU. “She was just like a second mother to me,” Kate Copeland said. “She was this figure who was really influential in my life, and she was able to shape who I am now. She’s honestly the reason why I’m at Northwestern.”

Dating back to when Carroll first arrived in Evanston in 2012, eight years of NU teams came to know Kensinger. Many of the older players on this year’s squad had met Kensinger on her trips to Evanston, and after her passing, the team gathered in the locker room and encouraged the St. John’s alums to share their memories and stories.

The Cats all wore athletic tape on their wrists to honor Kensinger in their first game after her death — a 17-12 win over Ohio State to close out the regular season on April 25. The players understand the impact that Kensinger left, even if they themselves didn’t go to St. John’s.

“We’re really fortunate that we got the opportunity to go to a school that understands that, and has such a pipeline through St. John’s,” McKone said. “We’re really lucky that people can understand the impact that she had not only on our lives, but on the sport of lacrosse, especially being from Texas.”

They’ve even tried to incorporate a little bit of Houston into their practices and games in recent weeks.

Every year during the first week of May at St. John’s, Kensinger would lead a themed practice called “Cinco de Michael,” complete with piñatas, tortillas, Mexican candy and Michael Jackson music. The day before the Big Ten Tournament final, the Cats held their own Cinco de Michael practice.

Through the end of the regular season and the conference tournament, they emphasized Kensinger’s lessons of playing with dignity, grace and above all, having fun.

“She introduced (lacrosse) to us as more of a method of just really enjoying ourselves, having fun, building relationships and friendships,” Carson

Vero Beach, Florida, where her mother lived on Ladybug Lane, and the program adopted ladybugs as its second mascot. Before big games, Kensinger would bring bags of live ladybugs to practice, and her players would release them in the center circle so that every time they lined up for a draw, they would see a ladybug.

The shoelaces were a way for the Houston-area players to carry Kensinger’s memory with them through the end of NU’s season. After Copeland’s first purchase, Amonte Hiller bought ladybug laces for the entire team, so that everyone would be able to honor her legacy.

With ladybugs on their cleats, their sneakers and their backpacks, both the Kensingers were on the Cats’ minds as they began their NCAA Tournament run Sunday. NU, the fourth-seeded team in the tournament, beat Notre Dame 13-10 in its second-round matchup at Martin Stadium.

“It gives them perspective of how special each day is and gives them a great sense of gratitude for what we have,” Amonte Hiller said. “And right now, all we have is one week. We have one week together, and we’ve got to play as hard as we can on Sunday so that we can get another week together.”

As the team continues its run into the postseason with a quarterfinal matchup against Syracuse next Saturday, Kensinger may not be there in person, but her impact will be there in the way she taught her players to take the field with dignity, grace and character, Kate Copeland said. The Cats may not have a pigeon on the field with them when they faces the Orange next week, but they’ve seen her in smaller ways, too.

At practice the Saturday before the final against Maryland, senior attacker Selena Lasota found something on her stick, and called the rest of the team over to see what it was.

It was a ladybug. ellabrockway@u.northwestern.edu