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Some Methodists see split of church Evanston residents face decisions after anti-LGBT policies By ZAMONE PEREZ

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A security camera atop an emergency Blue Light on the Evanston campus. The University uses a number of cameras to surveil the campus, both indoors and out.

What we know about surveillance A Daily reporter examines NU’s recording and surveillance policy By CAMERON COOK

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When walking around Northwestern’s campus, students can expect to be watched,

and not just by their classmates. The University uses an unknown number of closedcircuit television cameras and other video recording devices to surveil public places on campus for the purpose of “safety and security,” according to the

University’s Video Recording UP Chief Bruce Lewis did not and Surveillance Policy, which respond to multiple requests University Police reviews seeking comment. annually. Here’s what we know — and The policy was last updated don’t know — about the Univerin January 2006, and it’s some sity’s surveillance procedures. of the only information available about campus surveillance. » See SURVEILLANCE, page 6

Many progressive Methodists in the Evanston community are facing difficult decisions after the church strengthened bans on LGBT-inclusive practices, with some predicting a possible split. At a special conference of the church in February, delegates of the United Methodist Church voted in favor of a plan that strengthened rules that bar the ordination of LGBTQ clergy and officiation of samesex weddings. The measure leaves some Methodists, such as Weinberg sophomore Katie Daehler, unsure which route to take — stay as a vocal minority within the church, or leave and reconcile the other branch’s LGBTQ policies. It is not an easy decision, Daehler said. She finds reasons to be in both, but she falls more towards the “leave” camp. “My faith is very much focused on welcoming all,” Daehler said. “So if that’s not what this denomination that we

are currently a part of is about, then I don’t know if I belong there anymore.” Delegates of the church from across the world convened for the 2019 Special Session of the General Conference to discuss LGBTQ inclusion in the denomination. During the meeting, the church presented three possible plans for its future. The Traditional Plan — the most conservative of the three plans — passed 438 to 384 votes. Delegates rejected the One Church Plan, which would have given local autonomy to individual congregations and jurisdictions over LGBTQ clergy and same-sex marriage. The Traditional Plan supporters were buoyed in large part by the 43 percent of delegates from overseas nations. Some two-thirds of American delegates — the Evanston Methodist community included — supported the One Church Plan. Julie Windsor Mitchell, the campus minister and executive director of University Christian Ministry at Northwestern, recalled the vote as almost a “play by play,” where students consistently texted her updates about the conference. Many of her students in the University » See METHODIST, page 6

D202 to open day school A&O to host award-winners School will serve 20 special education students By ANDRES CORREA

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Evanston Township High School/District 202 officials discussed at a Monday meeting the opening of new day school next month that will serve special education students. Lanée Walls, director of special education at ETHS, said the school is set to open next month ahead of the 2019-2020 academic school year. Located at 1233 Hartrey Ave., the new school is expected to receive 20 students next fall. “ While there are many good programs, around the area that we use and students of ours benefit from, I love that it is ETHS and our philosophy of how we educate children, how we treat children, how we integrate children and make them feel part of the community,” said board member Patricia Maunsell. Approved during the 2016-2017 school year, the day school will serve students with behavioral and emotional

needs. Since March 2017, the District Action Committee has met regularly to ensure that the logistics of the project remain up-to-date. In February 2018, after discussions with the city and 2nd Ward residents, the Evanston City Council approved the school’s special use permit. Upon receiving approval from the city, ETHS officials began to reach out to other stakeholders in the community by organizing various events at ETHS to discuss the day school. They offered information during incoming ETHS freshman night, parent information night and course selection night. In addition to on-campus communication, Lauren McArdle, an ETHS assistant director of special education, told the board that they expanded their outreach to individual families as they started scheduling IEP meetings for students who would be eligible to attend the day school. More recently, the team began providing tours for potential families and students of the day school. Placement decisions for

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the school are determined by an IEP decision team. When determining if a student is a right fit for the day school, ETHS officials will consider a student’s level of functioning, goals, accommodations needed and other factors. “There is no set profile, so to speak of student that we are looking at,” McArdle said. “But, we are being ... very mindful of who we are even considering for the programming. It doesn’t do us well, it doesn’t do the students well if we don’t believe we can implement that IEP well in our setting.” Students who choose to participate in the program will still fulfill their graduation requirement and be in line with the general curriculum at ETHS, McArdle said. The curriculum at the school would also provide electives like job skills, psychology and art. Staffing for the new school includes five teachers, three paraprofessionals, one school psychologist, practicum students and interns. » See D202, page 6

‘BlacKkKlansman’ to be screened before discussion By GABBY BIRENBAUM

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A&O Productions and the Contemporary Thought Speaker Series will host the screenwriter and author of “BlacKkKlansman,” a memoir adapted into an Academy Award-winning film, for a screening and conversation May 19. Ron Stallworth, the memoir author and protagonist of the film, and Kevin Willmott, the screenwriter whose script won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, will discuss the events of the book and film in a moderated conversation with Charles Whitaker, the interim dean of the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications. The event will be held in the Ryan Auditorium of the Technological Institute. “BlacKkKlansman,” which was co-written and directed by Spike Lee and received six Oscar nominations and one win, is based on Stallworth’s memoir about his time undercover in a local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan and as the first black detective in the Colorado Springs Police Department.

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John David Washington stars as Ron Stallworth in “BlacKkKlansman.”

Played by John David Washington in the film, Washington’s Stallworth and Adam Driver’s character, a white police officer, work together to collect information — Stallworth spoke to Klan leaders on the phone while the white officer appeared in person. In the film, Washington’s Stallworth speaks at length on the phone with Grand Wizard David Duke, successfully convincing Duke he was speaking to a white supremacist rather than a black police officer. As part of the climax of the film, Stallworth is assigned to protect Duke as his police escort when he has a speaking engagement in Colorado Springs, while Driver’s character must pretend to be the man Duke has been speaking to

on the phone, putting all three in the same room. Stallworth’s book, “Black Klansman: A Memoir,” became the basis for Lee’s film. “While speaking as himself to Klan members over the phone, Ron helped sabotage cross burnings, expose white supremacists in the military, and combat domestic terrorism,” A&O’s release said. “Even more incredibly, Ron also befriended (and fooled) Grand Wizard David Duke.” Wilmott, a film professor at Kansas University, co-wrote “BlacKkKlansman”with Lee, who he’d collaborated with before. An hour-long discussion will follow the film screening. gbirenbaum21@u.northwestern.edu

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Gyros Planet owners seek community By JULIA ESPARZA

Shot fired reported in South Evanston

A citizen who refused to give their name called EPD on Monday night to report the sound of a gunshot. Police responded to the call around 11:40 p.m. and checked the 600 block of Mulford St., Glew said. Responding officers did not find any bullets or anyone injured. Police do not have any suspects at this time. — Julia Esparza

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Gyros Planet, 1903 Church St. Co-owners Erika Castro Sanchez and Pablo Sanchez reopened the business with the hopes of building community.

Simmons (5th). “I was so grateful for their thoughtful and community-minded model and I wanted to give them all the support they need,” Rue Simmons said. “This is the type of hardworking family that I want all of Evanston to know exists.” Rue Simmons recalled a time when she called the restaurant and Castro Sanchez took her order, helped make the food and delivered it as well. She said the family is an important addition to the business community in Evanston. Part of the restaurant’s mission is to help foster the same community that has helped them grow,

The JEREMIAH and HELEN JAMES Lecture in Assyrian Civilization and Culture

Richard Payne “An Iranian Assyria: Empire, Religion, and Social Change in Late Antiquity” The late antique world (ca. 200–800 CE) witnessed both the submerging of ancient Assyria and the emergence of an Assyrian political legacy, both in literature and myth, that endured into the Middle Ages and beyond. The last surviving vestiges of the Assyrian Empire—the city of Assur and its cults—declined as Northern Mesopotamia became a province of the Iranian Empire and the region’s elites increasingly embraced Christianity. At the same time, these Christian aristocrats turned to the historical records, mythical memories, and physical remains of ancient Assyria to position themselves as the heirs to a great imperial tradition with respect to their Iranian rulers. The lecture examines the transformations of Assyria, as a historically (dis-)continuous set of political institutions and as an imagined political legacy, in the centuries between the disappearance of the cuneiform tradition and the rise of Islam. Richard Payne is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Chicago. A historian of the Iranian world in late antiquity, his research focuses primarily on the dynamics of Iranian imperialism. His book A State of Mixture: Christians, Zoroastrians, and Iranian Political Culture in Late Antiquity (University of California Press, 2015), was awarded multiple prizes, including the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History (American Philosophical Society) and the Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion (American Academy of Religion).

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Two separate reports of shots fired in South Evanston A 58 year-old Evanston man reported to the Evanston Police Department on Monday night that he heard the sound of a gunshot. The man told EPD officers that he heard the sound of a shot in the 1600 block of Cleveland St., Evanston police Cmdr. Ryan Glew said. Responding officers checked the area but did not find bullets or anyone injured. Police do not have any suspects at this time.

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The first thing Erika Castro Sanchez and Pablo Sanchez had to do when they bought Gyros Planet last month was learn how to make gyros. The husband and wife reopened the restaurant, located at 1903 Church St., in April after it was put up for sale by its previous owner. Castro Sanchez said her husband had always been a good cook but resisted the idea of opening their own place. But when the couple was looking for jobs in the area and the restaurant’s sale listing popped up, they decided “to go for it.” “This is everything that we have,” Castro Sanchez said. “We are putting everything here, our dreams, our passions.” Castro Sanchez immigrated to the U.S. from Colombia and her husband immigrated from Guatemala. In addition to the restaurant’s original menu, Sanchez has incorporated recipes he learned from his mother — including tacos al pastor and rice and beans. The diverse menu is meant to reflect and serve the multicultural community the in which restaurant exists, Castro Sanchez said. Additionally, she said they wanted to keep prices affordable so everyone feels welcome. “It’s not just making money, it’s making something special for people that come and they feel welcomed,” Castro Sanchez said. “It’s not just the food.” Castro Sanchez said she and her husband hope to foster community through the restaurant. She said she loves when Evanston Township High School students flood in after school ends and that the restaurant has already started building a list of regulars. She attributes part of their success to the community members who have helped spread the word of their new business, including members from St. Nicholas Church and Ald. Robin Rue

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Castro Sanchez said. In the future, the couple hopes to hire people from the community in an effort to give back. In the meanwhile, the couple is the restaurant’s only staff — aside from occasional assistance from their three children. Sanchez said it’s difficult to run a business six days a week all by themselves, but that they are motivated by their kids. “In the end I know we are doing something good for us, for our family and for the community,” he said. juliainesesparza2020@u.northwestern.edu

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SF Fed President calls for education By ALAN PEREZ

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Speaking to young people as future participants in the economy, Mary Daly asked incoming workers to recognize that non-traditional paths “are actually really valuable.” “What I find time and time again, is that young people from various backgrounds, they don’t understand how much they have to offer because they’re not exactly down that linear path that they think they should,” Daly, the president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, said Tuesday evening. “So if we could teach young people, all people, that your story, your whole self, the experiences, the lens which you look through — don’t alter that, just participate with it.” Daly gave her remarks to a crowd of about 25 people in Annenberg Hall in the second of the School of Education and Social Policy’s Nancy and Ray Loeschner Lecture Series. The first-term Fed president, who dropped out of high school before receiving her general education degree, called for an “inclusionary” economy that takes advantage of a diversity of backgrounds. “It’s not just important to have them around the table, to have optical diversity, we have to have inclusion so they have a voice,” she said. “If we don’t do that then we will not make the best policy.” The talk was moderated by SESP Dean David Figlio, who asked Daly what that vision looks like in an economy still grappling with the aftermath of the Great Recession. While the recovery from the Great Recession is set to be the longest on record, many workers haven’t reaped the rewards. Daly pointed to problems that began before 2008 but only added to the impact of the recession, such as an aging population that would hamper economic growth. This reduction in population growth — a contributor to economic growth — makes the recovery “not look

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as sluggish.” She also said that recoveries after financial crises tend to be different. Still, she added, that the U.S. has one of the lowest labor force participation rates of primeage workers among industrialized countries is a problem. Her vision would require addressing structural issues, like bringing in more workers from the sidelines and addressing structural shifts that have depleted jobs for workers without college degrees. Daly, a labor economist whose research includes income inequality and the black-white wage gap, called for greater investment in education. “Really, we’re underinvesting in our people,” she said. “We are leaving a lot of talent on the table. One thing I’d like to see us do is improve our investments so that more people can partake in the growth.” Daly also called for greater racial and gender diversity in the economics profession. She’s

been a prominent voice in addressing the field’s “diversity crisis.” Economics doctoral degrees to non-white students made up only 7.3 percent of those awarded in 2017, according to the American Economic Association. That figure was about 33 percent for women. The field has made little progress in the past 20 years, Daly said, adding that economists must hold each other “accountable” in addressing and making people aware of microaggressions and other elements that make environments unwelcoming. An inclusive and welcoming culture, she added, would attract more diverse economists. “You have to change the culture,” she added. “We want them to be one of us. And I want them to actually change us.”

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The Daily's newsroom reflects on its coverage of Evanston In this series, Daily staff members hope to provide more transparency about how we operate. If you would like to submit a question to be answered here, please send an email to eic@ dailynorthwestern.com.

The Daily’s tagline is “Northwestern And Evanston’s Only Daily News Source Since 1881.” The “Northwestern” and “daily” part of it is fairly self-explanatory: We’re the student newspaper on campus, and we publish five days a week. But The Daily is also the only daily newspaper in Evanston, and we thus serve as the city’s paper of record. Our coverage extends beyond Northwestern’s campus and into the city, where we cover everything from City Council meetings to elections, business openings, school boards and anything in between. We speak to

aldermen, residents and activists across Evanston, and contextualize state and national politics as they affect us locally. Our investigative pieces have looked into rising living costs, gun violence in Evanston, the push for a school in the 5th Ward and other issues across the city. Our city desk has covered wrongful arrests, the annual budget process, the Harley Clarke Mansion, affordable housing, library equity and more. Every winter, we rank the best restaurants and shops in Evanston, and last fall, we started Evanston Organizes, a series that profiles activist groups and individuals in the city. This coverage is both an immense privilege and responsibility, which we do not take lightly. We know that we’re a paper run by college students who parachute into a community for, most often, only four years, and then move on to careers and lives in different communities across the country and world. It would be easy for us to spend our years in Evanston in the Northwestern bubble, focused on our campus, and fail to engage with the community around us. But that would be a disservice to the work

that countless residents, city officials and activists in Evanston do on a daily basis to make their community a better and more inclusive place. In covering city news, we want to bring these stories to the forefront and help everyone in Evanston — whether it be a lifelong resident or NU first-year — be a more informed member of their community. And we want our reporters and editors to hold themselves accountable to telling these stories in an accurate, inclusive manner. In recognizing the city’s diversity across race, gender, class and religion, we must do more to adequately take into account all marginalized voices. Evanston communities are passionate and engaged and our reporting needs to reflect that energy. At the same time, we recognize that we are college students, tasked with reporting on difficult issues. We’re typically only here for a limited amount of time, we’re operating on different hours to most city officials, who have 9-5 jobs, and we’re all learning by doing. Covering a city — especially one as involved and vibrant as Evanston — is challenging. Our coverage has real-world

ramifications, and it has the power to damage reputations just as much as it can enact positive change. It provides our reporters and editors with experiences they can use in Evanston and beyond, and when we’re doing our jobs right, our coverage shows Evanston residents an accurate picture of the city they live in. We know our city coverage is not perfect; no coverage by a news organization can ever be faultless. But the reporters and editors who have run our city desk in the past and will lead it in the future are some of the most dedicated and committed writers at The Daily. We’ve gone to countless meetings and forums, pored over thousands of pages of documents and cultivated relationships with sources across the city. We’re constantly working on improving our coverage — by reaching out to communities that are historically undercovered and following up on past reporting, among other things — all in the hope of showing our readers just how involved and committed this city is. — Kristina Karisch

Modern laws should match our present, not our past CATHERINE BUCHANIEC

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In a letter to James Madison, Thomas Jefferson said that he believed the Constitution ought to have a deadline — 19 years, to be exact. At the time Jefferson’s letter was penned, a generational change occurred approximately every 19 years. According to Jefferson, this generational transition should correspond to a change in the laws, including the very basis of our government — the Constitution. Yet centuries after its ratification, the U.S. continues to work within the same framework it did when it was first approved. While some of those principles continue to have merit, not all are applicable to the world that we live in today. In the 230 years since the Constitution was ratified, people have walked on the moon, mapped the human genome and linked almost every corner of the globe through the internet. The world at large has transformed itself in ways inconceivable to those living in the time of the founding fathers, with the U.S. at the forefront of the aforementioned, and countless other, technological advances. Our society looks vastly different than it has historically, but for the most part, our Constitution has remained the same — it was built for life in 1789, not 2019. What

might have worked then fails to match the problems we face today. Jefferson wanted Earth to belong to the living, and not to the dead, but for the past few centuries, we have continued to define ourselves by our history and not our present. The Second Amendment, for instance, was ratified in 1791, and while those in charge of its wording might have anticipated development in terms of gun technology, they most certainly did not have the modern weaponry we know today in mind. At that time, a musket — the most popular weapon of choice — could fire approximately three rounds per minute. Two-hundred twenty-eight years later, mass shootings bombard our headlines and overall gun violence continues to plague the lives of citizens. Unlike the musket from 1791, an AR-15 — the type of gun used in the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, for example — has the ability to fire up to 400 rounds per minute with a bump stock. Yet, the same right of ownership applies to both. Every time we broach the topic of gun reform, people use the Second Amendment and the right to bear arms as the main defense for gun ownership, but there it is important to note that a musket is not an automatic weapon. Why should the Second Amendment apply to a weapon that was most likely beyond the imaginations of even the most forward-looking legislators from 229 years ago? If they saw what we see on a weekly basis — the carnage and bloodshed, the

devastation and tragedy — would they have worded the Bill of Rights in the same manner that they did? Furthermore, if those same legislators they saw the modern technology — aircraft carriers, nuclear submarines and hacking — utilized by the military and the NSA, would they still believe guns would protect people against governmental tyranny, which is the reason the 2nd Amendment was written in the first place? I am not arguing that the right to bear arms shouldn’t exist, but rather that it should be reevaluated under a modern perspective, especially in light of modern technology. Along the same lines, did the Founding Fathers anticipate the internet when shaping the First Amendment? Did they think about the age of smartphones when looking at when exactly a search warrant can be issued, as is detailed in the Fourth? Although the Constitution can be amended, the complex process for doing so has historically limited the number of alterations, and the process for proposing even the most minute of changes through amendment is automatically met with groans of exasperation. Furthermore, Jefferson expressed in his letter the importance of the present in shaping the law of the land. In 2019, our present is one defined by more inclusivity than has been seen at any other point in our history — inclusivity that should be considered in our laws. Although the Constitution applies to all citizens, not all citizens had their voice reflected in the rules they’re supposed to

abide by. Why should a document, which was entirely written by a group of land-owning white men from over 200 years ago, apply to women in 2019? To black citizens? To everyone excluded during the initial constitutional conventions? If we give our Constitution, or maybe even all legislation, an expiration date — say every 50 years instead of Jefferson’s 19 — we would be forced to revisit laws instead of waiting for someone to propose an amendment or a bill in Congress. We would be forced to evaluate the issue that was at the course of the initial legislation and the ways that the problem has evolved over time. I do not think the Constitution should be set in stone, rather, it should be a document that is regularly revisited and revised. We should be able to craft a document that suits life today, and while there might be some overlap in regards to rights our ancestors valued and ones we believe we ought to have, it is a conversation worth having. The Founding Fathers were not perfect and we shouldn’t view their work as such either. In 2019, life is different than it was in 1789 — the framework for our democracy should be, too.

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Communication prof. gets Mellon/ACLS fellowship By PRANAV BASKAR

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Communication Prof. Elizabeth Son has been named an inaugural recipient of the Mellon/ACLS Scholars & Society Fellowship, according to a Monday news release. The fellowship, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, helps support faculty who teach and advise doctoral students in a humanities-related research project. The award includes a $75,000 stipend, $6,000 for research-associated costs and $10,000 in funding for a selected partner organization, according to the release. In addition, recipients will receive additional funding for the year after they have used the fellowship in order to create programming on their campuses that promote the public value of scholarships in the humanities. Son, a theatre professor, is pursuing a book project called “Possessing History: Korean Diasporic Women and the Performance of Persistence,” according to the release. Son will be in residence at a women’s advocacy organization,

called KAN-WIN: Empowering Women in the Asian American Community. “I look forward to partnering with KANWIN, a local women’s advocacy organization doing tremendous work in the lives of survivors of gender-based violence,” Son said in the release. “One of my projects with them will involve building an archive of oral history interviews with KAN-WIN organizers and the women about their stories of survival.” Son previously participated in the Public Voices Thought Leadership Fellowship Program, a year-long program that provided a cohort of Northwestern scholars with resources and support in order to promote them as thought leaders in their respective academic communities. Her time as a Thought Leadership Fellow motivated her to search for opportunities to find support for research that exists at the intersection of social and cultural studies. Recipients of the Mellon/ACLS fellowship can find a residency at a “cultural, media, government, policy or community organization,” the release said. pbaskar@u.northwestern.edu

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MSA initiative connects NU students with Chicago communities

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Humboldt Park, a neighborhood on the West Side of Chicago. Multicultural Student Affairs is sponsoring trips to neighborhoods in the city.

A new program spearheaded by Multicultural Student Affairs will work to connect Northwestern students with Chicago communities through a series of trips to different neighborhoods in the city, according to a Facebook post by MSA. The program, called the MSA Excursion Series, will take place over two weeks and will help students analyze the role common spaces play in facilitating shared conceptions of cultural identity, according to the post. The program will include two weekend excursions, during which dastudents have the opportunity to connect with community groups such as AfriCaribe and the Division Street Business Development Association.

Aaron Golding, assistant director to MSA, said in the post that while building a reciprocal relationship between Chicago communities and Northwestern students is hard to do in just two weeks, he hopes the program will help students begin to form relationships with larger Chicago issues and learn how “allyship and activism can honor a neighborhood’s history.” “We had this idea of what does it look like to be in support of a community that is experiencing gentrification or lack of investment from the city of Chicago,” Golding said in the post. “We wanted to created opportunities for authentic and reciprocal experiences that didn’t feel like we were helicoptering in and then leaving.” The program features a number of different components: According to the post, participants will venture to areas like Paseo Boricua and engage in a teach-in, among completing other activities. — Pranav Baskar

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According to the surveillance policy, video can be recorded in a number of spaces including, but not limited to, building perimeters, entrances and exits, hallways, laboratories and cashier locations. There are also some cameras placed outdoors. The University has claimed to be combing through footage to solve cases of several racist incidents on campus, including the discovery of stickers sporting a white supremacist slogan — the fourth of which was found at The Garage in early May — and a noose found in Henry Crown Sports Pavilion in March. In the cases of two stickers found in Allison dining hall and Main Library, respectively, a University statement said UP officers “reviewed video surveillance but could not find evidence of the perpetrators,” implying the presence of security cameras in those locations. The noose’s presence was also subject to investigation, “including a review of security footage,” the University said in a statement. According to the policy, cameras in residential areas are placed so “any view given to the housing will be no greater than what is available with unaided vision.” The view of any housing also can’t “violate the standard of reasonable expectation of privacy.” Earlier this month, a Cook County Circuit Court judge ordered the University to preserve footage collected in March in connection to a campus sexual assault. Judge Lauren Edidin agreed to sign the order at the request of the defendant’s attorney but said she didn’t know if the University kept the footage. The University is “cooperating fully with authorities in the criminal case, including complying with any court orders,” spokesman Bob Rowley told The Daily in an email. According to the surveillance policy, the footage is deleted once the disk on which it’s stored is full, and the oldest footage is overwritten by the newest footage. But it can be “retained longer or transferred from the hard drive” if it’s connected to a criminal investigation, a legal proceeding or another case in which the UP Chief finds it necessary, according to the policy. The policy contains no mention of a time frame of footage preservation, or a length of time after which footage is typically overwritten. Footage is stored in a secure location, and only “authorized personnel” have access to it, according to the surveillance policy. The police department and other monitoring centers are configured to stop camera operators from “tampering with or duplicating recorded information.” Most of the time, it seems, the footage will remain untouched until it’s overwritten. Footage can be released on occasion, but usually requires a formal request authorized by the UP chief and the Office of General Counsel. Recordings directly related to criminal investigations or arrests “required under a validly issued subpoena or other lawfully issued court order” are not subject to this same requirement.

Christian Ministry are Methodist, and she said the vote came as a surprise to some. “I guess my initial reaction was disappointment and somewhat surprised, because I actually thought the One Church Plan would pass,” Mitchell said. “I really thought, apparently mistakenly, that we would be, as a denomination, able to live under a plan where we allowed local autonomy on certain matters.” The February session was meant to find a way forward regarding LGBTQ issues in the denomination. But now, many progressive Methodists in the Evanston community see no path ahead as a unified denomination, Mitchell said. Barry Bryant, professor of United Methodist and Wesleyan Studies at the GarrettEvangelical Theological Seminary, said he foresees a split within the denomination as well. Instead of the church being called the United Methodist Church, Bryant suggested that they “are the ‘Untied’ Methodist Church.” Though Bryant believes a split will occur in the near future, he does not think that a fracture would be permanent. He estimates that the church will come back together in about 25 years.

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From page 1 When it comes to social-emotional learning, ETHS officials said they would model their programming around the Illinois Social Emotional Learning Standards, which revolve around three main goals for development: self-awareness and self-management skills; social awareness and interpersonal skills; and decision-making skills. ETHS officials said they would also implement Positive Behavioral Interventions and Support –– a system to teach

Troy Closson will serve as next editor in chief of The Daily Northwestern

Troy Closson was named the next editor in chief of The Daily Northwestern, the paper’s publisher announced Tuesday night. The Medill junior is currently the In Focus editor for The Daily. He had previously served as opinion editor for two quarters and managing editor for two quarters. Closson spent Winter Quarter on his journalism residency working for the Chicago Sun-Times as a metro desk intern.

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Supporters for the Simple Plan hold banners and sing at the 2019 Special Session of the United Methodist General Conference. Some local Methodists are considering a split from the Church.

Regardless of the duration of the split, Taelor Hickey, a first-year Master of Divinity student at Garrett and observer at the General Conference, expects the division to be difficult.

“Are we going to schism? Probably,” Hickey said. “Is it going to be good or hopeful? It’s going to be messy.”

social-emotional learning. Barb Miles, whose son is a rising junior, said she hopes her son will be able to attend the day school. She said her son is looking forward to integrating with the community, making local friends and being close to home. “There (are) opportunities that he has just not been able to have that he will have as part of ETHS,” she said. Stephanie Kimmel, a community member, said she is glad the programming for students includes therapy. However, she said she was concerned that there are no social workers on staff. Still, she said that her biggest concern

revolves around the location of the facility. Kimmel is one of many Evanston residents, who have pushed back against the day school. In a Chicago Tribune article published in March of 2018, residents raised concerns that the location was not right for the project. “Why are locating this school in a business district blocks away from all the amazing facilities that we have here,” she said. “If this is such a good idea, why not embrace it and locate it on campus like they do at New Trier and other schools?”

Closson said he is interested in making the newsroom a more inclusive place, especially for staffers who hold marginalized identities, and communicating to people outside the staff the strides in community building and wellness The Daily has made over the few past years. “I want to change how people view The Daily on campus and shift our perception as a place where people come to all night just to work,” Closson said. “I want to show that people here can be friends too and can actually enjoy being here.” The Maryland native will serve in the role for the forthcoming fall and winter quarters. Closson will succeed SESP junior Alan

Perez, who has held the position for Winter and Spring Quarters. Perez said Closson is someone others in the newsroom look up to and that he has “impressive” people management skills. “Troy is really dedicated to improving this paper and increasing our engagement with the community,” Perez added. “I think he is the best person for the job. His commitment to diversity and inclusion has really shown while he has been here. I’m really hopeful and excited about what he will do to diversify our staff and make sure we are considering the widest range of perspectives in our coverage.”

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Lindsey Pulliam takes talents to Colorado Springs for team trials

Sophomore guard Lindsey Pulliam will pack her bags this weekend and head to Colorado Springs, Colorado to participate in the 2019 Pan American Games team trials. Pulliam, who earned first team All-Big Ten

honors last season, was one of 36 athletes selected to participate in the trials and one of six Big Ten players chosen. All of the student-athletes must be American citizens who are full-time college students and eligible for the 2019-2020 basketball season. Coming off of a solid freshman campaign, Pulliam was undoubtedly the offensive leader for Northwestern this season. She averaged 16.5 points per game, which ranked fifth in the conference and first among the Big Ten players attending

the trials. In the postseason, the sophomore guard from Silver Spring, Maryland was even more impressive, increasing her scoring to 18.3 points per game while grabbing 5.7 rebounds. Pulliam’s success was rewarded as she was named to the WNIT All-Tournament team, while also becoming the fastest player in program history to reach 1,000 points. The sophomore guard will have to compete with 20 other guards for a spot on the roster, including

National News Florida leaders say Air Force ‘misled’ them as to state’s chances to land Space Command HQ In a meeting room at Orlando International Airport just last week, dozens of state leaders spoke with certainty of Florida’s chances to host the newly formed U.S. Space Command. “We are space, you just gotta say it,” proclaimed Chip Diehl, a member of the Florida Defense Support Task Force. “Where else would you put a headquarters than the place that lives space?” The Air Force’s response came Tuesday: Not in Florida. The Air Force confirmed it was sticking to a previously released shortlist of six bases, which outlines the locations that are still in the running to become the headquarters for U.S. Space Command, the nation’s 11th combatant command that would coordinate space-related military activities across branches of service. Four locations in Colorado made the list, as well as one in Alabama and one in California. The shortlist is the same that surfaced in April through an internal memo reported by CNN. But state leaders refuted the validity of the list at the time, saying Florida still had a chance. At the summit last week in Orlando Airport, Lt. Gov. Jeanette Nunez said via a video message that, “The game is wide open, and Florida is absolutely in it.” That information came from U.S. Rep. Michael Waltz, R-St. Augustine, who was told the Air Force would follow a “strategic basing process,” meaning it would determine what criteria it was looking for in a base, make that information public and then decide on a shortlist. Waltz, who sits on the House Armed Services Committee and the Committee on Science, Space and Technology, was

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Frank DiBello, Space Florida president and CEO, speaks on Florida’s chances of hosting the U.S. Space Command during a summit of state leaders at Orlando International Airport on May 9, 2019.

leading Florida’s efforts on Capitol Hill. But Dale Ketcham, vice president of government and external relations at Space Florida, said it appears that information was incorrect. “As I understand it right now, the Air Force Legislative Liaison office has misled a number of members of our delegation as to what the process was, and that’s not a good thing,” Ketcham told the Orlando Sentinel on Tuesday. “This is the worst-case scenario because now Florida is not just disappointed _ it’s pissed off.” Waltz said in a statement to the Sentinel that he questions whether the outgoing Air Force Secretary, Heather Wilson, “forced this issue on her way out.” Wilson will resign her position by the

end of the month. “Florida’s communities and leaders deserve transparency and an open process, which the Air Force initially committed to in selecting the Space Command location,” he said. “Florida deserves a fair chance.” Since Vice President Mike Pence announced plans to establish a Space Command, Colorado has been widely acknowledged as the likely front runner for the headquarters. Bolstering that idea was the fact that President Donald Trump nominated four-star Air Force Gen. John Raymond to run it. Raymond is the current commander of Air Force Space Command, based in Colorado Springs.

four from the Big Ten. Fortunately for Pulliam, 2019 Pan American Games coach Suzy Merchant has had the privilege of watching Pulliam play as she coaches Big Ten foe Michigan State. From this weekend’s trials, 12 players will be chosen for training camp in Colorado Springs in late July before heading to Peru for the Pan American Games, which takes place from August 6-10. — Andrew Golden

Florida began mounting an aggressive campaign earlier this year to clinch the new Space Command headquarters. The Pentagon has estimated it would cost about $84 million to set up the unit, which would be comprised of about 1,200 personnel. Gov. Ron DeSantis sent a letter to President Donald Trump in February requesting he headquarter Space Command in the Sunshine State. And Space Florida, the state’s spaceport authority, was working to build a case for Florida that highlighted its position as a major launch site for military and commercial payloads, its large military population, proximity to ports and developing identity as a home for commercial manufacturing in the space industry. Now the headquarters appears to be out of Florida’s grasp. The bases on the shortlist are: In Colorado, Buckley Air Force Base, Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station, Peterson Air Force Base and Schriever Air Force Base; Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and the Army’s Redstone Arsenal in Alabama. “The next step will be to complete site surveys and analysis of each candidate location for its ability to meet mission requirements, capacity, environmental impact and cost criteria,” the Air Force said. It expects to approve the preferred location this summer. Ketcham said Florida still has a chance to benefit in some way from the establishment of Space Command by perhaps hosting some elements or responsibilities of the command. “We are more energetic about what Florida has to offer to the national security space arena than we were when we started this back in February,” he said. “I have little doubt that Florida is going to come out of this in pretty good shape.” – Chabeli Herrera (The Orlando Sentinel / TNS)

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NU falls to Notre Dame in final nonconference game By PETER WARREN

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Alex Erro fields a ground ball. The Wildcats fell to Notre Dame in their final nonconference game of the season Tuesday.

It may have only been Tuesday, but Northwestern was looking forward to the weekend. With a season-defining series against Minnesota starting Thursday, the Wildcats took a cautious approach to the home contest against Notre Dame, utilizing multiple pitchers and substituting out key starters early in the game. The Fighting Irish (23-26, 12-15 ACC) scored six runs in the first two innings to go up 6-0, and later sunk the dagger with six more runs in the sixth and seventh innings to defeat NU (23-25, 10-11 Big Ten) 12-4. “Obviously not the outcome we were looking for, but we were trying to rest most of the starters as much as we could and just make sure for the weekend,” junior infielder Charlie Maxwell said. “We are not too bummed about it. We have bigger things in mind.” Three days after starting the second half of Saturday’s twin bill against Rutgers, freshman southpaw Parker Hanks again got the start for NU. Hanks struggled in his one inning of work. He allowed the first three batters of the game to reach base to

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give the Notre Dame a bases-loaded opportunity with no outs. Hanks managed to force Daniel Jung into a sacrifice fly to center field, but the next batter, Eric Gilgenbach, slashed a triple into left-center to score the other two runners and make the score 3-0. Gilgenbach later scored on a Zack Prajzner single. Replacing Hanks for the top of the second was junior right-hander Nick Cauley — who made his first on-field appearance in two months. Cauley got the first two outs of the inning before giving up back-to-back homers to Niko Kavadas and Jack Zyska. The Cats almost reversed their fortune with a big fifth inning. Freshman designated hitter Michael Trautwein worked a leadoff walk and then stole second base. Three straight hits from juniors Leo Kaplan, Maxwell and Alex Erro scored Trautwein and then Kaplan while putting Maxwell and Erro in scoring position. After a groundout, freshman first baseman Anthony Calarco walked to juice the bases, and then senior right fielder Ben Dickey walked to force in a run. Following another out, freshman center fielder David Dunn stepped up to the plate. After falling behind 1-2, the Fighting Irish’s head coach, Mik Aoki, elected to make a pitching change, subbing in Tommy Vail for Evan Tenuta. Vail induced a

grounder to third but Kavadas made an error, allowing Erro to score and make the score 6-4. But Notre Dame again responded, this time with back-to-back threerun innings against sophomore righty Anthony Alepra and junior lefty Sam Lawrence. The extra insurance pushed the contest from a close game to a blowout. NU went with the “staff day” strategy for the game, using eight pitchers with only one throwing more than an inning. “Sometimes it’s tough when you go a staff day,” Dickey said. “We will get back to good baseball this weekend.” In addition to the bullpenning, coach Spencer Allen also made some defensive changes in order to give some stalwarts some rest to prepare for the weekend. Senior shortstop Jack Dunn — who has started every game since he stepped on campus — was taken out before the fourth inning and senior first baseman Willie Bourbon lasted one more inning before seeing his day end. Allen said the move to take out the two mainstays was planned. “We got to be healthy and got to win a game against the Gophers so that’s the key,” Allen said. “They were coming out regardless of the score.” peterwarren2021@u.northwestern.edu

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Lasota named finalist Cats to host NCAA Regionals for Tewaaraton Award By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

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The accolades just keep coming for Selena Lasota. The senior attacker, already one of the most prolific and decorated players in Northwestern history, was named a finalist for the Tewaaraton Award, the most prestigious honor in college lacrosse, last Thursday. Lasota was named Big Ten Attacker of the Year on May 6 and leads the conference with 79 goals, 23 more than anybody else. Her 95 points are also 20 more than any other Big Ten player, and her 4.35 goals per game are the fourth-most in the country. She was named Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week three times this season. In a game against Michigan on April 18, Lasota scored her 256th career goal, making her the Wildcats’ all-time leading goal scorer. She has been on fire over the past few weeks, having scored at least four goals in each of her last seven games. Not

coincidentally, NU has won six of those games. Lasota was also the fourth overall pick in the Women’s Professional Lacrosse League Draft on April 25. She has the most career goals among active collegiate players. The Tewaaraton Award is presented to the most outstanding American college lacrosse player, and the winner will be announced May 30 in Washington, D.C. Lasota is one of five finalists for the award, along with Boston College’s Sam Apuzzo and Dempsey Arsenault and Maryland’s Jen Giles and Megan Taylor. Apuzzo won the award last year, breaking a streak of six consecutive years in which the winner played for Maryland. Should Lasota win, it would be the sixth time an NU player has been honored and the first since Shannon Smith in 2011. The Cats won the award four straight times from 2006 to 2009, with Kristen Kjellman and Hannah Nielsen each winning twice. benjaminrosenberg2021@u.northwestern.edu

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Selena Lasota maneuvers around a defender. The senior was named a finalist for lacrosse’s most prestigious award last week.

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Northwestern did not play a game Sunday, but the Wildcats still picked up their biggest win of the season. NU (43-10, 21-2 Big Ten) was announced as the 16th and final national seed on the selection show Sunday night, meaning NCAA Tournament action will return to Sharon J. Drysdale Field for the first time since 2008. “There was definitely a lot of anticipation all day,” coach Kate Drohan said after the announcement. “It speaks to our body of work this year, it speaks to the commitment that our team has made, and it also speaks to the history of our program. A lot of things led up to this moment.” It has been a long road back to national prominence for the Cats, who were one of the most dominant teams in the sport from 2005 to 2008. During that four-year stretch, NU made four NCAA Super Regional appearances, won two Big Ten championships, and twice went to Oklahoma City for the Women’s College World Series. For the last three of those years, postseason softball was played in Evanston, with the 2006 and 2007 teams hosting both regionals and super regionals. But while the Cats have been consistent NCAA Tournament participants since then, they haven’t gotten back to the level of those teams. In fact, NU missed the tournament just two years ago, climbing from 25 wins in 2017 to 38 last season to 43 so far this year. The Cats have traveled across the country for the postseason over the past 11 years, from Waco, Texas to Seattle to Athens, Georgia. But this year, NU has earned the right to stay home. “It was pretty special,” junior Morgan Newport said. “All the hours we spent training and preparing, it just

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Lily Novak breaks out of the batter’s box. The Wildcats will host an NCAA regional this weekend for the first time in 11 years.

feels like it’s all come together.”

A close call

The No. 16 seed came down to the Cats and James Madison, which has a 47-7 overall record. What hurt the Dukes is that they play in the Colonial Athletic Association, a much weaker conference than the Big Ten, and had fewer opportunities to pick up quality wins. NU had 15 wins against the top 50 teams in RPI, while James Madison had just four. Brandi Stuart, who chairs the NCAA Division I Softball Committee, told Softball America that the Cats just barely squeezed into the top 16. “Northwestern still had four or five more non-conference results after taking Big Ten play out,” Stuart said. “That’s where Northwestern got the nod. It was a very slight edge over JMU.”

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Regional has an intriguing storyline. Louisville’s first-year coach, Holly Aprile, was one out away from making the NCAA Tournament last year with Pittsburgh before losing on a walk-off home run in the ACC Tournament championship game to Florida State, who went on to win the national title. Southern Illinois was one of the last four teams into the field of 64, a rare at-large out of the Missouri Valley Conference, while Detroit Mercy, who will take on NU in the opening round Friday, is making its first-ever tournament appearance. The Cats are keeping the focus on themselves, however, and Drohan is hoping for a strong turnout from the fans. “There’s no question we need the support of our community,” Drohan said. “It’ll be great for us to showcase what our student-athletes have been working for all year.” benjaminrosenberg2021@u.northwestern.edu