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Admin discusses medical leave policy Associate dean talks advancements, program challenges By ATUL JALAN

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Investigative journalist David Kidwell spoke to students in the McCormick Foundation Center at an event sponsored by NU’s chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists.

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Reporter analyzes Illinois corruption and press transparency By AUSTIN BENAVIDES

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On Wednesday, reporter David Kidwell, whose investigative pieces led to the arrest of former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich and revealed a $2 million Chicago bribery scandal, spoke about corruption in Illinois and his effort to keep government officials transparent to students at an event hosted by Northwestern’s chapter of the Society of

Professional Journalists. Kidwell began his 35-year career at the Iroquois County’s Times-Republic, working almost every position available at the publication, and went on to spend the majority of his time as a reporter at the Miami Herald and later at the Chicago Tribune. Currently, Kidwell works as the special projects editor at the Better Government Association, a nonprofit government watchdog organization. During the event, Kidwell stressed the importance of

persistence with investigative reporting. While working as a beat reporter, he said, he would “always have something long-term going” in case he was given the chance to write an indepth piece. “The only difference between an investigative reporter and a real reporter is time,” Kidwell said, “I have the luxury of time. I don’t have any extra skills. I don’t have any extra talent. If you produce enough and you do well enough on beats and covering general assignments, and you hone those skills, if you

want to take six months of story that’s when you’re more likely going to be able to do it. That’s when they’re going to give you the time to do it. ” One of his earliest successes in deeper investigative pieces was an article he wrote at The Tampa Tribune, where he exposed a scandal in the sheriff ’s department in which they spent “$30,000 in taxpayer funded lap dances,” under the guise of an “undercover investigation.” » See KIDWELL, page 6

Mona Dugo, Northwestern’s senior associate dean of students, discussed advancements in the University’s medical leave of absence program and remaining challenges it faces during Associate Student Government’s Wednesday Senate meeting. Throughout Dugo’s six-year tenure, she’s worked to improve the University’s processes for medical leave from “rows and rows” of disorganized binders containing various students’ names to a coordinated operation that engages deeply with individual students to offer financial support and create plans for treatment during their leave. Dugo said 529 students took medical leave between Fall 2014 and Spring 2018. The top two reasons for leaving were anxiety and depression. Black, Hispanic, first-generation and low-income students were all overrepresented in the percentage of students who took medical leave, Dugo said, demonstrating the need for continued effort toward combating the unique challenges faced by traditionally marginalized groups. Increased financial assistance has been a signature achievement for NU’s medical absence programm Dugo said. Her office provides funds for housing,

healthcare and other necessities, she said. She’s arranged health insurance for about 60 students since the start of the school year, she added, and her office has paid out approximately $38,000 in medical co-pays and fees. “If we have students who don’t have health insurance, we’re never going to put treatment requirements in place for students that they can’t meet because they can’t afford them,” Dugo said. “If a student doesn’t have insurance, I’m going to work really hard to get them student insurance and we have a couple mechanisms for doing that.” Increasing transparency has been an issue, Dugo admitted. McCormick sophomore Spencer Colton, ASG’s vice president for technology, discussed obstacles students on leave have faced when they return to campus due to a lack of information. “There’s been at least one person who’s come to me and asked for information about medical leave of absence because I was part of ASG,” Colton said. “She did end up going through with it but then when she tried to come back to the University, there was some kind of lack of communication and she missed the deadline… She ended up just transferring elsewhere because she felt like she couldn’t do it here anymore.” Dugo’s office, in response, has been working with the Office of the Registrar to centralize information for all different kinds of leave students can » See SENATE, page 6

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Committee looks at affordable housing solutions By CASSIDY WANG

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The Affordable Housing Plan Steering Committee discussed using smaller developments and accessory dwelling units as affordable housing solutions at a Wednesday meeting. Housing and grants manager Sarah Flax gave a presentation on the changes needed to allow for smaller developments and ADUs. She said one way to allow for such developments is eliminating single-family zoning, which Minneapolis’ City Council did last December. Flax said the policy is “really just low-density zoning,” as opposed to eliminating single

family homes. She described the policy as “adding density to single-family neighborhoods.” Flax said such policies could help integrate affordable housing in different communities within the city. “When you look at how much of our city is zoned R1 and R2, that’s a lot of land and a lot of lots,” Flax said. The policy “helps integrate affordable housing units in some of our highest-cost housing areas because large lots, single-family neighborhoods tend to be expensive.” While inclusionary units in larger downtown developments integrate affordable units with market rate housing, Flax said adopting new policies could promote integration of affordable housing in lower-density areas. Flax also suggested using ADUs to address affordable

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With a new Chicago City Council set to take office next week, Democratic Socialists hosted a panel at the Levy Senior Center on Wednesday where they discussed their platform and its local implementation. Hosted by Evanston’s city clerk’s office, the event was mediated by the city clerk Devon Reid. Panel guests included Chicago Ald.-elect Rossana RodriguezSanchez (33rd), Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa (35th) and Lucie Daily file photo by Colin Boyle Macias, co-chair of the Chicago Democratic Socialists of America. Sarah Flax. Flax discussed the details of the environmental remediation for the Church Street lot during The event is the first in a planned Monday’s City Council meeting. series aimed at discussing political ideologies and their impact on parliamentary procedures — but by discussing the role socialism to running water. She said she municipalities. we think that’s very important — played in their youth. watched her father organize with “We host a number of events and some things more exciting, Rodriguez-Sanchez said neighbors and advocate for access. throughout the year that dis- like democratic socialism at the she attended her first protest at This was the first time she was cuss various things,” Reid said. local level.” age 6 when her community in “Some that are really boring like Panelists began the event Puerto Rico did not have access » See SOCIALISM, page 6

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Evanston report says drinking water was safe in 2018 By EMMA EDMUND

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Evanston reported clean drinking water in 2018, according to its Water Utility Report. The report — which tracked substances detected in Evanston’s drinking water in 2018 — stated the city’s tap water met all drinking water health standards set forth by the Environmental Protection Agency and the State of Illinois. The report cited no violations. The report’s detected substances included fluoride, sulfate and hexavalent chromium, among other chemicals. Contaminants can come from several sources, according to the report, including urban storm runoff, livestock operations and pesticides. The main threats to Evanston’s source of drinking water, Lake Michigan, are pollution from air, rain and snow, as well as industrial runoff. Darrell King, Evanston’s water production bureau chief, said he has no concerns about potential drinking water contamination. “Our treatment process here at Evanston is very effective against the removal and reduction of contaminants,” King said. “The water that we put out is of high quality, and it meets and exceeds all safe drinking water standards.” Water undergoes several processes once it

POLICE BLOTTER Armed robbery in 1800 block of Lyons Street A man called police to report he had been robbed at gunpoint early Wednesday morning. The 25-year-old Evanston resident told police he exited his residence in the 1800 block of Lyons Street at 4:05 a.m. to move his car closer to his home, Glew said. While standing at the north side of Lyons Street, the resident observed a man approaching on a small-frame silver

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Lake Michigan. Evanston receives its drinking water from Lake Michigan, which the report said has vastly improved in water quality over the past 25 years.

leaves Lake Michigan and before it enters residents’ taps. First, water is taken from the lake and stored in wells by the shore. Then, low-lift

pumps carry the water from the lake to a level where it can flow naturally to the treatment plant. Once inside, the water receives treatments of

bicycle from the east. As the resident unlocked his car door, Glew said the man on the bicycle stopped behind the resident and drew a black semiautomatic handgun. Glew said the resident pushed the attacker back, who grabbed the resident’s Guess backpack as he fell. The resident relinquished the bag and ran east on Lyons Street screaming for help, Glew said; the resident later returned home and called 911. The resident told police he would sign a complaint against the attacker if the man was found,

Glew said. Police have no suspects and no one in custody.

Man arrested on charges of battery, trespassing

Police arrested a man Tuesday morning after he was found trespassing at a mental health clinic in the 1400 block of Chicago Avenue. Officers responded to Greenwood Care, located at 1406 Chicago Ave., after an administrative assistant at the facility called to report that a man returned after being previously barred from

chlorine, fluoride and aluminum sulfate. Chlorine is used for disinfection, fluoride to prevent dental decay and aluminum sulfate to form precipitates that will settle out suspended solids. Next, the water undergoes various mixing processes which allow for sedimentation, where King estimates 80 to 90 percent of the particles will be removed. The other 10 to 15 percent of the particles will be removed via filtration, and the water will receive another dose of chlorine and a corrosion control chemical to guard against old lead pipes. “Since 1992, Evanston has been feeding a corrosion control chemical,” King said. “In ’92, we actually exceeded the lead and copper rule action level of 15 parts per billion and since we’ve began feeding that chemical, our 90th percentile lead concentrations have been five or below.” While King doesn’t anticipate any contamination, he said Evanston does have an emergency response plan in place should contamination occur. King said officials can notify the media, send out phone calls to residents and update social media with contamination alerts. The report said the EPA considers Lake Michigan water quality vastly improved over the past 25 years. All 63 miles of Illinois shoreline are considered in good condition. emmaedmund2022@u.northwestern.edu the facility following a violent incident, Evanston police Cmdr. Ryan Glew said. The victim of that encounter had reported an incident of battery to police the previous day, Glew said. Glew said the man was lying on a bench on the facility’s property when he was found by police. Officers arrested the man and transported him to the Evanston Police Department, where he was charged with trespassing and battery. His court date is set for June 6. — Joshua Irvine

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Startup bloXroute exceeds $10 million By AMY LI

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A blockchain solution startup co-founded by Northwestern and Cornell University networking experts announced May 9 that the company has exceeded $10 million in investments. The latest round of funding for bloXroute, a blockchain scalability solution that aims to solve networking problems in the current blockchain ecosystem, came from leading venture capital hubs around the world, such as Pantera Capital, Coinbase Ventures and Fenbushi Capital. The company works on solving the scalability “bottleneck,” a term the company uses to describe the limits in processing cryptocurrencies and blockchain. To achieve this, bloXroute maximizes the transaction volume of a given blockchain by a thousand-fold increase. The company essentially created a network that propagates information more quickly and smoothly to make the world of blockchain work “better and faster,” said Computer Science Prof. Aleksandar Kuzmanovic, a co-founder of the company. Kuzmanovic said the company idea originated from blockchain research he was doing with former doctoral. student Uri Klarman. The NU professor and student found that the blockchain network could benefit from a more optimized solution, prompting them to reach out to Cornell Prof. Emin Gün Sirer and Cornell Ph.D. candidate Soumya Basu, another co-founder, about a startup that applies his research in a real-world context. “I am an entrepreneurial character,” Kuzmanovic said. “I always wanted to make things actually work in the real world, so this is really a dream come true for me.” Basu said through bloXroute, his first and only startup experience, he found that research and real world application are two different processes and present different challenges. In academia, Basu said more funding generally means better outcomes. However, startups face

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with each other. Basu and Kuzmanovic said they see a lot of promise in the future of cryptocurrency and bloXroute’s role in it. Kuzmanovic said he believes the company is providing a unique service to the entire blockchain network, and hopes the company can help the entire technology of cryptocurrency move forward. By building clearer and more intentional architectural designs, bloXroute can layer a more organized network beneath the chaos of blockchain, Basu said. “A lot of things are being done in an ad hoc way,” Basu said. “People are coding in their own ways and doing thing from their guts. bloXroute looks at the network and says ‘alright, if we were to do this properly, what does that look like?’” amyli2021@u.northwestern.edu

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Northwestern students perform in the 88th annual Waa-Mu show, based on Amisha Padnani’s series “Overlooked.” .

NYT ‘Overlooked’ series inspires Waa-Mu show By ABIGAIL SUTTER

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No one speaks ill of the dead — especially those who were never spoken about. But after New York Times editor Amisha “Amy” Padnani joined the obituary desk at the prestigious paper, she decided to shine a spotlight on the stories that were being kept in the dark. “For The Record,” the 88th annual

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Waa-Mu show, explores these unheard voices, which is based on Padnani’s series “Overlooked.” To continue the dialogue the show creates, Padnani participated in a talkback after last Thursday’s production — a unique experience for most theatergoers. The musical tracks a young journalist researching historical women who did not receive an obituary from her publication. It draws directly from Padnani’s series, which was intended to give attention to women and people of color who were not granted an obituary by the New York Times. Padnani said she had been thinking about the project since 2017, when she joined the newspaper’s obituary desk. “I thought, ‘I’m a woman of color, I’m a journalist, I really ought to do something to help advance this conversation,’” Padnani said.

Padnani noted the response from readers was overwhelming, but after publication, some staff members still weren’t sold. Although her boss had only been running obits for 12 years, and according to Padnani, “can’t be blamed for 168 years of bigotry,” he was still fearful the problem she addressed would appear to be his fault. “They felt it was self-flagellation of the New York Times,” Padnani said. Similarly to Padnani, the Waa-Mu show also decided to face its own problems, and has worked to diversify this year’s production team. Communication Prof. Stephen Schellhardt directed the musical and said there was an emphasis placed on inclusivity even before the show was written. There were equal numbers of male and female writers, and he brought Chicago-based director and choreographer Amanda Tanguay on as assistant director and choreography mentor to make sure several voices shaped the show. “I think that’s why the show is so strong, because without their voices it would feel odd,” Schellhardt said. “When you have a collaborative and positive process with women’s voices, men’s voices, a diverse group of voices in the room, the product is better.” Tanguay said the show married her two favorite interests: history and musical theater. She noted the show feels “very timely and 2019,” adding that she finds musical theater and journalism alike because they both record current events for present and future

audiences. “It’s really important to show women accomplishing great things because it inspires younger generations to do the same,” Tanguay said. “It also inspires allies to highlight these achievements of women and support women in leadership roles.” Communication senior Marielle Issa, who played the lead role of Andi, noticed the change Schellhardt worked to create. Issa discussed how the female representation in rehearsals made a difference. This is the first Waa-Mu show she has been in with a female assistant director, and Issa said having a woman in the room meant a lot to her. She added there were more women involved in Waa-Mu this year — from leadership roles to orchestra members — than ever before. “There’s a new generation of amazing players and writers who are just going to own Waa-Mu, which is awesome,” Issa said. All involved agreed they felt nervous when Padnani came to visit. Issa said she felt she was the most nervous of the actors, while Schellhardt and Tanguay said they experienced a multitude of emotions including excitement, nerves and pride in what they created. For Padnani, the experience was humbling. “It was really such an honor,” Padnani said. “It was a lot of fun, it was very meaningful. It was inspiring for me too.” abigailsutter2022@u.northwestern.edu

Artists to hold pop up at The Garage By AARON WANG

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Communication sophomore Delaney McCallum said she has been making art for as long as she can remember, writing songs and drawing since she was seven. She never thought she would be working at a “business and STEM-based” place like The Garage — until SESP sophomore Olivia Hernandez reached out to her about the Artists in Residence program. This Friday evening, The Garage’s first ever pop up will showcase the artwork of student artists across campus. Hernandez said the event features artists from “across the board,” displaying a variety of media from graphic design and sculptures to interactive, webbased pieces and even music production gloves that allow you to make beats with your hands. After working with The Garage during her first year, Hernandez did not feel the entrepreneurial space was welcoming to more artistically-driven people and also felt the need for a campus community of independent artists. To combat this, she started the Artists in Residence program at The Garage this fall to foster a community of students who want to monetize their work and “make it” in the digital age. “I really wanted to have this be a space where anybody could showcase anything,” Hernandez said. “There’s a huge population of people who don’t really fit into those segments perfectly and have very multimedia outlooks on their art and want somewhere to explore all sorts of media.” Currently completing a module on media and game design, McCallum falls into that category. She said she has a hard time categorizing herself as an artist, and her portfolio reflects her eclectic style. On

Friday she will be showcasing a choose-your-ownadventure, creative coding piece, as well as some prints and films. Throughout the school year, she has been working on projects every week with other students in the program. She said the experience has pushed her to find an audience and publish her content. “It’s been incredible and validating to have new people follow my art Instagram,” McCallum said. “It’s also pushed me to work in new mediums.” Communication sophomore Anna Cohen said she was also approached by Hernandez. She will be launching a startup on Friday that focuses on mental health care products for young adults. This includes a gumball machine that replaces medication management tools like the sterile, orange pill bottles or daily sorters. She will also be showcasing foil prints with positive mantras. Cohen said she’s always enjoyed crafting, but she credits Hernandez for helping to bring out another side of her art. “Just making foil prints was fun but didn’t incorporate the larger motivations I had for wanting to create art and contribute to society,” Cohen said. Hernandez said she plans to expand the group in the coming years, hoping to create a formal application process to widen their NU reach. “Being an artist is one of the most entrepreneurial things you could ever do,” Hernandez said. “I felt like there really needed to be a strong presence of artists in a space like that where so many ideas are being created all the time.” xuandiwang2022@u.northwestern.edu

Artwork by Delaney McCallum. She is one of the artists whose work will be featured in The Garage’s first ever pop up showcase.

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Soul4Real continues the magic 10 years later By MARISSA MARTINEZ

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It’s an average Thursday evening, yet the third floor conference room in the Black House is brimming with bright voices and tangible energy. Laughs populate the space just as harmonies do. This electricity is due to Soul4Real, Northwestern’s premier African-American a cappella group. The organization is preparing for its spring show, “The Glow Up,” which will be held in Fisk 217 on May 24. The performance will mark the group’s 10-year anniversary. Singers don’t have to be black to join — President Rekhia Adams said all that’s required of interested members is an appreciation for black culture and understanding of the importance of Soul4Real’s inclusive space. The group’s arrangements includes songs from a variety of genres, ranging from soul to R&B to gospel music. Some of Adams’ goals as a leader are recruiting new voices and increasing the group’s wider recognition. While Soul4Real has been on campus for a decade — even performing for President Obama in 2014 — many students don’t know it exists. Adams said she wants to continue to build the “amazing” community she joined freshman year. Many of members said the best part of Soul4Real was the tight group dynamic. Omari Benjamin said part of her love for the

group comes from having different people to say “Hi” to on campus. But more than that, the Weinberg first-year said she has made discoveries about her identity while spending time with her fellow singers. “I’ve learned a lot about myself as a woman of color as well, because I’ve learned so much about black culture just by being in this group,” Benjamin said. “Like, I didn’t know what a durag was until I was introduced to it in Soul4Real. There’s just small moments like that where I feel like there’s always something new to be felt here.” Medill sophomore Salina Tsegai said her other extracurricular on campus fosters more “superficial and quick” interactions compared to Soul4Real. The community she found in the group, however, is more defined by its characters and individual personalities. She said there is no “mob mentality,” and she doesn’t have to force herself to come to practice — she wants to be there. Ikechi Ihemeson said he enjoys singing with the group because his home school, Bienen, is a “very white space.” He said his energy and the way he expresses himself in those environments is suppressed, an experience many people in the group shared. “It is very much a release,” Ihemeson said. “We enter that energy into the music that we do and the time we spend together. Every performance we have is a collective story for us to tell that people aren’t used to hearing in such a beautiful, virtuosic yet silly way. And that’s

always exciting to get together with a group and have that happen.” Mia Hodges said she noticed this same excitement during auditions, when she saw Ihemeson playing music besides the songs people usually perform. She fell in love with Adam’s and Soul4Real’s energy, she added, and could tell other members wanted her to join, not just for her voice, but because they liked her as a person. Adams said throughout her three years, the dynamics shift as singers come and go. She said there was a moment in the fall where the group considered how the new relationships would form — at times, the connections felt “unsure.” But Adams said Soul4Real has grown to adapt to the ongoing cycle of goodbyes and hellos that come with college groups. These goodbyes are not permanent though — alumni will to return to campus for the upcoming show. In light of this support, Adams reflected on the importance of a black group singing black songs. She said she hopes the graduated students see growth and appreciate the evolving sound of the organization they were a part of years ago. “That’s a celebration of music made by us, for us,” Adams said. “Especially in a PWI, the fact we have survived so long is great. Because of how small the black community is, there are niche groups that sometimes won’t survive outside of the black community. It’s good to know we still exist 10 years later.” mmartinez@u.northwestern.edu

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Q&A: Luminosity talks Battle of the DJs win, upcoming set at Dillo Day By STEPHEN COUNCIL

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Last Thursday, six Northwestern DJs brought raging energy to the Evanston Rocks stage, competing for a chance perform at the ever-anticipated Dillo Day. Communication junior Caroline Hughes, whose stage name is Luminosity, won Battle of the DJs, Mayfest’s annual pre-Dillo competition. The Daily found Hughes in the afterglow of her win, ready to talk about the art of DJing and her upcoming set at Dillo on June 1. This interview has been lightly condensed and edited for clarity. The Daily: How did you first get into DJing? Luminosity: I started kind of DJing on a virtual studio type thing when I was in middle school and kind of did that for a long time, really got into producing music. And then last summer I went ahead and bought my first deck, which is what I play on now. The Daily: What style of music do you prefer to play?

Luminosity: I think I’m a pretty good mix. My biggest two are definitely EDM and dubstep, but I like to throw a lot of different stuff in there. So, recently I’ve been looking a lot into like trap music and incorporating that into EDM, as well as a lot of Spanish music. The Daily: How did you prepare for your set at Battle of the DJs? Luminosity: A lot of hours putting stuff together, for sure. I tend to, whenever I prepare for a situation like that, I try to mix as much as I can and record it so I can kind of hear it back. I use my roommate and my friend back home, and I sent them mixes every day asking for feedback and whatnot until I got it just right. The Daily: How did it feel to perform in front of such an energized crowd? Luminosity: It was really, really great. It’s really easy to really get into it when the crowd’s feeling the energy as well. I have my teammates to thank for that. I’m on the field hockey team and so I had basically all my teammates there cheering for me — to the point I couldn’t hear myself they were screaming so loud. The Daily: How did it feel to find out you won?

Luminosity: That was amazing. I was kind of in shock, and it still doesn’t really feel real yet. I was in the car with my dad because he came and helped me move my stuff and whatnot, and I was in the car just like freaking out, just like calling my mom, calling my sister, texting my teammates that I won. It was quite great.

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The Daily: Have you started thinking ahead to your Dillo Day set? Luminosity: I have. I’ve started layering some stuff together, trying to see what are some good transitions. When I’m DJing, I never make the same set twice. So, all my sets will be almost completely different. I use some of the same songs but like, for the most part, I try to incorporate new things, as well as bring back some crowd favorites. The Daily: Have you ever performed for anything of that size? Luminosity: Never. I’ve been slowly progressing, I went from like a house party to Battle of the DJs and now this, it’s kind of — it still feels unreal … to perform for a crowd that big, on a stage that big. stephencouncil2022@u.northwestern.edu

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The success of his Tampa Tribune article landed him a spot on the Miami Herald’s staff, where he would continue to pursue investigative pieces. In one instance, Kidwell refused to testify about an interview he had with a murder defendant, leading to his arrest and two weeks spent in jail. In 2005, Kidwell began writing for the Chicago Tribune, where he was almost immediately given the assignment to find any information on thengovernor Blagojevich. His investigation revealed that Patricia Blagojevich, the governor’s wife, ran a real estate listing that was “a conduit for bribes” for her husband. Kidwell’s story would be one of the many used as the basis of a federal investigation into the governor that allowed for a wiretap, which eventually exposed Blagojevich’s attempt at

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take. The website for medical leave of absence will also be undergoing major revisions this summer to increase transparency in the medical absence

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introduced to the word “socialist.” She said she grew up with a very special notion of what a socialist meant and an idea that was organic rather than something that was taught. “The socialists in my community were the people that organize so that the people in the community could have the resources that they deserve as human beings,” she said. Similarly to Rodriguez-Sanchez, Ramirez-Rosa attended his first protest at age 3 where he fought for equitable funding for public schools. Growing up, he

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From page 1 housing needs and integrate inexpensive units into other neighborhoods. ADUs can take on the form of housing in any way — functioning as a basement apartment to a tiny house in a regular home’s backyard. Flax said ADUs could be used to diversify and expand the city’s housing stock, making more efficient use of existing developments through subdividing them. “A lot of our houses were built for larger families,” Flax said. “Our housing doesn’t necessarily meet the needs of our households. So how can we look at existing housing stock and maybe modify it?” While Flax said the goal of ADUs are to put small, modest homes on the housing market, community member Tina Payton questioned whether

THURSDAY , MAY 16, 2019 selling Barack Obama’s vacated Senate seat and led to the governor’s arrest. Six years after Kidwell’s investigation into the governor, he was involved with another investigation into the city of Chicago’s contract with a redlight camera company, which revealed a $2 million bribery scandal that led to the arrests of six people. Medill Prof. Ceci Rodgers, the faculty advisor for SPJ, “really appreciated” Kidwell’s advice to start one’s journalism career at a smaller publication first where the risk level is lower. One point he stressed was the significance of transparency and the Freedom of Information Act, especially with the ushering in of new Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot, Rodgers said. “What he had to say about really urging the state of Illinois and the city of Chicago to do away with the current restrictions on FOIA, would do a whole lot more to root out corruption than almost

anything else,” Rodgers said. Those restrictions, Kidwell said, allow the city to permanently exempt any piece of information that was made or said before a vote from being released to the public. He advised journalism students to not jump at the opportunity to join a large news organization, but to instead be the “bigger fish in a smaller pond” and learn your craft at a small, local publication. Co-president of SPJ Bryana Quintana, said Kidwell’s visit to NU was important because “journalism isn’t just for journalists,” and even non-journalists consume news wherever they go. Quintana said Kidwell’s sacrifices as a journalist, especially his time behind bars, was a clear example of journalism’s goal to bring justice. “It just really shows how he’s really dedicated to his craft and he’s really dedicated to trying to

bring about the truth,” the Medill sophomore said. Despite reporting on those in power, Kidwell never felt “seriously threatened,” he said. The closest he came to being intimidated was after he exposed a fake I.D. ring during his stint in Miami. Federal investigators called him to inform him that after they raided the I.D. ringleader’s home, they found a post-it note on his computer that said, “Kill David Kidwell.” The pressure of investigation never preoccupied Kidwell too much, he said. He never dwelled on larger partisan effects because only a few weeks later he would have to begin another six-month investigation. “What I do is I listen to these people and when they lie to me, I write about it. That’s all. That’s all I can do,” Kidwell said.

process, include student testimonials and information regarding financial support options and provide checklists for students who are planning on returning to campus to complete. The office has not done as much to combat the stigma associated with medical leave, Dugo

conceded, though it plans to work with student groups such as NU Active Minds in the future. The concession came in response to a question from NU Active Minds senator Matthew Cho concerning how students who choose to leave must fight a culture that stresses academic achievement.

“I understand that stigma is really difficult to address, naturally,” Cho said. “But, personally I believe the institution does have a big role to play the stigmas of its community.”

said he was constantly having conversations about making a more “just world.” He said he found most of those conversations about equality in socialist movements. He said his interactions with socialism influenced him to become an activist in his community because change comes from below and “requires working class people to make a better tomorrow.” The panelists also discussed common misinterpretations of democratic socialism. Lucia Macias said the most hardworking and passionate people she has ever met are socialists. She said popular notions of socialism are rooted in a misconception of laziness and fear of the people fighting power.

“We are truly a Democratic organization and that is the foundation of what we are,” she said. “(We want) a more just world, where people don’t have a value based of their production and the fact they can just do a job.” When it comes to localizing democratic socialism in Chicago, both Aldermen said they are preparing to unveil their plans for their first ‘100 days’ in office which they created with United Working Families. One of the first pieces of legislations they said they want to introduce concerns housing, which include The Home for All and Development for All ordinances. These ordinances seek to expand and protect public housing, which Rodriguez-Sanchez said should be a public good.

Raymond Diaz attended the event and said he came partially to hear Rodriguez-Sanchez speak. He said the event was well done and he was excited to see more minorities in Chicago politics. Diaz said he is concerned about the ways in which the panelists will increase the number of minority, working class people participating in democratic socialism. “In general, I feel like coming to these events make it so that this is not just the status quo of older white people coming to these events,” he said. “It’s more a younger generation trying to come in and really try to affect something.”

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Sarah Flax. The Housing and Grants manager presented ideas of using smaller developments and accessory dwelling units as affordable housing solutions at an Affordable Housing Plan Steering Committee meeting Wednesday.

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Students, faculty share memories of legendary Prof By THEA SHOWALTER

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Chris Forbes performed the Dahl Concerto for Frederick Hemke during a masterclass in 2017. At one point, as the professor offered critique and suggestions for improvement, Forbes remembers Hemke standing close behind him and wrapping his arms around to hold Forbes’ saxophone while Forbes blew into the horn — the infamous “Hemke Hug.” “He did the Hemke Hug (to me) for the first time,” Forbes said. “It’s an iconic thing that you hear about for years and to have it done to you — it’s just a really funny thing to experience — this giant, 6’3’’ person wrapping his arms around you so that he can play your saxophone.” Younger saxophone players tend to use an inconsistent airstream when blowing into the horn and pushing the keys at the same time, Forbes said, which isn’t ideal. Hemke used the technique to show students how to separate moving their fingers from blowing their air. Forbes added that the Hemke Hug was famous in the saxophone world because Hemke was such an imposing figure — many smaller saxophone professors physically couldn’t reach around students the way Hemke could. In the saxophone community, Hemke was a legend — the first American to ever receive the Premier Prix du Saxophone from the Conservatoire National de Musique in Paris. But students, friends, and faculty remember Frederick Hemke, who passed away in April, as larger than life — a towering man with an even bigger personality. “He was kind of overpowering. I would see him around and I just remembered he was just a big presence,” said Sharon Rich Peterson, a Bienen staff accompanist who met Hemke as a Master’s student in 1979. “He was so tall, had a big voice, and was outgoing. You noticed him.” Rich Peterson said she remembered the way that Hemke taught students in private lessons every week. His skill as a teacher, she said, really set him apart. He had a talent for picking apart even the most confident saxophone

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Frederick Hemke works with Eric Zheng, during a 2018 masterclass. The saxophone professor taught generations of students during his decades at Northwestern.

players, and working with them to close the gaps in their practice. But Hemke’s greatest value as a teacher was not in his ability to teach the saxophone, Rich Peterson said. His teaching style was very “philosophical,” and Hemke cared more about teaching music and communication than how to simply play the instrument. “Many teachers focus on playing the instrument well. Instead his focus was always on, ‘are you saying anything with your music?,’” Rich Peterson said. “‘Are you getting through to the people listening?’ That was what was important, not that you were a good saxophonist.” Hemke’s skill as an educator extended beyond his techniques for helping younger students visualize proper technique, Forbes said. Hemke, born in 1935, had met and befriended composers that had written some of the saxophone’s most important repertoire. When teaching, Forbes said, Hemke could recall the way those composers had wanted

their music performed while they were still alive — making Hemke’s insight highly valuable to musicians who had come along after those composers had gone. “It was kind of a crazy thing for me to hear about how there are people living who knew and worked with some of the composers who wrote our most notable saxophone repertoire,” Forbes said. “That was just like a really aweinspiring moment for me.” Without Hemke, Forbes said saxophonists “lose those connections to the past.” He added that what Hemke had done for saxophonists was so special it could never be replaced or replicated. Hemke began teaching at Northwestern in 1962, and in that time he taught “generations” of saxophone players, Bienen saxophone Prof. Taimur Sullivan said. “He just had an incredibly inspiring personality,” Sullivan said. He “would just inspire his students naturally to do better.”

Sullivan added that Hemke cared about teaching more than just the saxophone — he always ensured that his students were “growing as artists and intellectuals.” Teachers and faculty who worked with Hemke remember him as a “Renaissance Man,” with interests in a wide range of topics outside music, such as visual art and learning northern European languages. “He of course was a brilliant musician and saxophonist and pedagogue. But he also was a very visual artist,” Sullivan said. “He was a painter — his students have artworks of his.” Rich Peterson remembers how Hemke taught himself Swedish and Norwegian from a children’s book so he could communicate with the students he taught each summer in Europe, and that Hemke had a cherished collection of handmade sweaters his Norwegian students had given to him in gratitude for his teaching. Hemke’s relationships with his hundreds of students, grown over his decades of teaching, are what Rich Peterson remembers most. “He loved to go over to the cafeteria to have lunch with the students. He also liked that that offered time to ask questions,” Rich Peterson said. “He loved to tell stories. He really liked the informal gathering times.” Hemke took great joy in attending and playing at his students’ weddings, she added. He had played part of the Creston Sonata at one student’s wedding, and was “tickled pink” to attend another student’s service in Alice Millar Chapel. Many of the students whose lives Hemke touched will travel back to the chapel June 2 to celebrate his life at a memorial service. Sullivan said that while Hemke’s legacy to Northwestern is “irreplaceable,” the world is so much richer because of Hemke’s time at Northwestern. “He was always asking them to look outside of just being saxophonists but growing as artists and intellectuals,” Sullivan said. “He really valued worldliness and creating the whole artist and the whole person beyond just being a good saxophonist. That was something he would always talk about.”

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I just love being around it. There’s not anything specific about the game. It just feels like home ---- it’s family to me. — Allyson Darragh, director of baseball operations

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A league of her own

In male-dominated field, Northwestern’s Allyson Darragh paves her own way By SOPHIA SCANLAN

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When Allyson Darragh was in high school, she would sneak into her school’s press box to update the scoreboard during every baseball game. “I loved the head coach, (but) he did not allow females to be managers, so this was my contribution,” she said. “It seems silly, but I just wanted to be a part of it.” Darragh’s love for the sport started

at a young age after constantly watching her older brothers play Little League and the Boston Red Sox — her family’s favorite team — play in the majors. Though she never played baseball, Darragh’s appreciation for the game developed as she got older, she said, and her desire to be around it grew. Now the director of baseball operations at Northwestern, Darragh spends her days working in the sport she loves. She organizes logistics for the Wildcats’ away games, plans

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Allyson Darragh chats with senior Willie Bourbon before a game. Darragh said her favorite part of her job is the connections she’s made with the players.

alumni weekends and fundraisers and assists with recruiting visits. The Indiana native also serves as the liaison between the coaching staff and external departments like academics, marketing, communications and development. “The coaches focus on everything in the lines, like literally on the field, and I am everything outside the lines,” Darragh said. Darragh first stepped into the world of baseball operations as a freshman at St. Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana. Though St. Mary’s had no baseball team, Notre Dame — located across the street — did, and they accepted female managers. Before she even arrived on campus, Darragh set up an appointment with head coach Mik Aoki to see how she could assist the team. The coaching staff decided to take her on and help with video analysis. While everyone was outside for practice, Darragh stayed inside, learning video software and tagging games. Her knowledge of the software earned her the chance to travel with the team to every away game, since she knew it better than the rest of the staff. When Notre Dame joined the ACC during Darragh’s junior year, the team hired Tad Skelley as its director of baseball operations. Skelley oversaw Darragh as a student manager for two seasons and said she flourished, despite being the only woman on the

male-dominated staff. “It didn’t matter that she was a female,” Skelley said. “It mattered that she understood the game, and she worked really hard and she had a really big passion for baseball.” Skelley was the one to bring Darragh to NU after he took the volunteer assistant coach position under head coach Spencer Allen in 2016. Allen said he hired Darragh because he found her organizational skills and eagerness to join the staff impressive, adding that she’s strengthened the program over the past few years. “She’s just challenged us not to accept mediocrity — that’s the biggest thing,” Allen said. “She wants the guys to have a good experience, and she knows pushing in other areas is ultimately going to give them a good experience. She’s, overall, a great person.” Darragh said she’s learned a lot about the game during her tenure at NU that she didn’t realize as a fan. In particular, she’s learned more about pitching and hitting mechanics, pitch sequencing or — from a scout’s perspective — what to look for in a player in terms of off-the-field makeup. Her favorite part about the job now, though, is her connections with the players. “There’s just a mutual respect between us,” Darragh said. “I respect the hell out of what they do every day, and they respect me making their lives a little easier — or trying to, at

least.” Junior third baseman Charlie Maxwell said he and the other players think of Darragh as a sister. “She keeps us in check when we get a little out of line, and she’s there when we need her,” he said. “She’s (also) the best organizer I’ve met — she’s an organizational wizard.” Darragh said being the only female on the staff was strange when she first started the job, since she was only 22, the same age as a fifth-year senior at the time. The director of baseball operations position was also a new role, so the players didn’t understand what her purpose was either. But now, Darragh said she doesn’t mind being the only woman. “The players don’t treat me differently than they do the other coaches,” she said. “You just have to be able to ‘hang,’ as they say.” Though she is happy with her job at the moment, Darragh said she thought she’d be doing herself a “disservice” if she didn’t try to work on the professional side of the game at some point. Even if she doesn’t know exactly how she wants her career to pan out, she said she knows she wants it to include baseball. “I just love being around it,” Darragh said. “There’s not anything specific about the game. It just feels like home — it’s family to me.” sophiascanlan2022@u.northwestern.edu

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Q&A: WNBA coach speaks on Kunaiyi-Akpanah By CHARLIE GOLDSMITH

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Earlier this month, Pallas KunaiyiAkpanah took the first step on the path to playing professionally, scoring an invite to training camp with the WNBA’s Chicago Sky. Kunaiyi-Akpanah’s tenure with the Sky was short-lived — she was cut three days into camp — but The Daily spoke with James Wade, the Sky’s head coach and general manager, about what the soonto-be Northwestern graduate showed and whether or not she has a chance to play in the league this year. This interview was lightly edited and condensed for clarity.

The Daily: Why did you bring her into camp?

Wade: While she was here, she was the most athletic player in the gym. I was pleased with her attitude, I loved her three days that I had her. But it just was a problem with numbers and having more experienced players. She just needs time. The Daily: What did you see from Pallas when she was here? Wade: I saw who a player who I think has the tools. She needs more experience, but she’s very athletic, a willing learner and she had great energy

when she was here. And I told her that we’ll keep up with her, because I don’t think this is the end of her coming into WNBA training camps. The Daily: Did any play she made any time in practice stand out? Wade: We were doing a drill and she was supposed to run a play, but I told her that she needed to always be in triple-threat and ready to attack. She caught the ball at the 3-point line, and our post player was guarding her, and she was so explosive to the rim that she ended up laying it up and everybody was still in the same place, but she was at the rim. She was that quick off the first step, so that was impressive.

The Daily: How did Pallas look defensively?

Wade: It’s just about execution. It’s hard to defend on this level because there’s so many rules that coincide with the speed of the game, so you have to be able to do things faster. That’s one thing I think she’s not used to and will probably take her a little time. The Daily: What can she do between now and the end of the season to be a midseason pickup somewhere? Wade: She can stay in shape and continue to watch the games and get ready to play overseas. But for her to

be a midseason pickup, she has to stay in shape. And she has to work on her jump shot. I told her that. Because she’s someone who has one of the quickest first steps that I’ve seen, and if she had deeper shot credibility, it’d be something that could make her even better. The Daily: Did Northwestern prepare her well for the WNBA? Wade: Yeah. I could say I was pleasantly surprised with how well she took things, how well she was able to get to the next play. I know the coaching staff, and they did a great job. charlesgoldsmith2021@u.northwestern.edu