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Wildcats advance to Final Four Northwestern beats Syracuse in NCAA quarters

By CHARLIE GOLDSMITH

daily senior staffer @2021_charlie

After the final horn sounded in Saturday’s NCAA quarterfinal and Northwestern clinched a spot in the Final Four for the first time since 2014, there were two celebrations.

On the field, the Wildcat players threw their sticks in the air and sprinted down the field before huddling in front of their net. Then on the sideline, coach Kelly Amonte Hiller hugged all of the coaches before finding athletic director Jim Phillips.

She told him two things: it felt good to be back and the Cats were not done yet.

“It’s been a grind to get us back to the level that she has set,” Phillips told the Daily.

“Lacrosse at Northwestern is Kelly Amonte Hiller, and the seven national championships that we have are because of her.

We’ve been really looking forward to this day of getting back where we belong.”

No. 4 NU (16-4, 5-1 Big Ten) led the entire way in a 18-14 win over No. 5 Syracuse (16-5, 5-2 ACC) and was up by two or more goals for all of the second half. The Orange keyed their defense on senior Selena Lasota, who was unanimously named Big Ten Attacker of the Year. While Lasota struggled to get open and scored only three times, seven players scored multiple goals, including a seasonhigh three from junior midfielder Megan Kinna.

Kinna started every game this season, but had only scored two goals in the Cats’ five prior games this season against the current top-5 teams. Amonte Hiller said she especially worked with Kinna on her shooting this past week, anticipating pressure on Lasota and freshman attacker Izzy Scane.

Kinna responded with the best game and the biggest goal of her career. With just over seven minutes left, she scored off an unassisted shot to extend the Cats’ lead to three and put the game away.

But Kinna wasn’t the only NU player who broke out in the Elite Eight. Freshman midfielder Elle Hansen hasn’t started a game all season or scored since Feb. 25. Amonte Hiller said she trusted Hansen to play Saturday because her

CYCLE OF INDECISION How the Harley Clarke Mansion became Evanston’s most hotly contested issue Evanston,” Mayor Steve Hagerty said. “This is a building that’s been here for about the last hundred years.”

Built in 1927, the Harley Clarke Mansion now transcends its original purpose: a home.

By SAMANTHA HANDLER

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Former 3rd Ward alderman Emily Guthrie could not believe what she saw on Election Day last November.

Unlike many in the country, she wasn’t focused on the results of congressional races, but rather the outcome of an advisory referendum on whether Evanston residents wanted to preserve the Harley Clarke Mansion.

Guthrie had closed two voting locations when her shift working the polls ended that night. When she got the numbers from the first precinct, the results were undeniably positive. Guthrie was shocked.

She had worked on referenda in Evanston before — including one to save the Civic Center in 2007 — and said they usually don’t result in landslides. Some people had even rallied against putting forward a referendum to preserve Harley Clarke, saying it would fail.

After the results came in, she texted Allie Harned, the chair of Save Harley Clarke — the group responsible for the thousands of signs that popped up around the city before Election Day, all bearing its name as a slogan. “Are you sitting down?” she texted Harned. The precinct’s results had come in at 84 percent.

“She wrote back, ‘No, I’m jumping up and down because every precinct in town is coming in like that,’” Guthrie recalled. “And we couldn’t believe it. I couldn’t believe it.

I still find it difficult to believe.”

Since the Evanston Art Center left the lakefront property in 2015, residents have fought over what to do with the mansion, but ultimately, the decision rests in City Council’s hands.

Compared to other pressing local issues — budget crises, gun violence, the school opportunity gap — one might think this would be an easy fix. In November, 80 percent of residents cast a ballot in favor of preserving the mansion and keeping it open to the public.

But it’s not so simple.

As aldermen have spent months upon months bickering about what to do with the property, it sits empty, racking up about $15,000 in yearly expenses. Businesses, nonprofits and private donors have offered solutions, but each has been rejected.

While residents vehemently disagree over the best use for the mansion — a hotel, an environmental education center, demolition to create more parkland — they all agree something needs to be done with the property. Now, the city has once again called for bidders to offer up proposals, but aldermen can’t guarantee the next plan won’t also fall victim to the Harley Clarke curse.

“Fighting over Harley Clarke is fighting over the soul of

» See LAX, page 8

Serving the University and Evanston since 1881

The house that Harley built

Before this century, the name “Harley Clarke” was often associated with Shakespeare and movies, not a mansion on the lake.

Harley L. Clarke was a powerful Midwest utilities magnate who used his fortune to sponsor the Chicago Civic Shakespeare Society, research the educational value of movies and, eventually, build the lakefront property that remains today.

It served as a home for his family until they moved out of Evanston in 1949. Feeling the effects of the Great Depression along with years of legal battles with his former company, Clarke owed taxes on his home and had to sell it.

Sigma Chi bought the mansion, turning it into a fraternity museum and headquarters. Just like that, the mansion was no longer a home, and would never be again.

Harley Clarke Mansion is tucked away off of Sheridan Road, practically on the beach. On the outside, it doesn’t look like it belongs in this time. The six towering chimneys and elaborate stonework echo back to the decadence of the 1920s, when the ivy-covered mansion was built — a time of great wealth, flappers and Gatsby.

The backyard opens to a completely unobstructed view of Lake Michigan. With Lighthouse Beach just beyond the grass, there’s nothing but sand and waves. This is prime Evanston real estate.

Other than a couple of long-forgotten skeletons in a closet — literally and figuratively — from when the Evanston Art Center moved out in 2015, Harley Clarke is empty.

While it’s not falling apart or crumbling, it’s lifeless. No books in the library. No seating in the living room. No art in the old gallery spaces. Its surfaces are all coated in dust, while cobwebs line the grand spiral staircase in the foyer. The lights in the basement no longer work. There are exposed wires, patches of peeling paint and holes in the walls.

To make a house a landmark

The 37,700-square-foot estate is one of the last of its kind, a three-story lakefront mansion built before the 1929 stock market crash.

Chicago Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin called the mansion a “rare architectural gem” in a 2018 column.

Kamin told The Daily the mansion’s interiors and rare stonework are what distinguish it from modern lakefront mansions. » See INFOCUS, page 6

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Residents talk Robert Crown costs Group collected questions, concerns for city

By JULIA ESPARZA

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A group of residents gathered Sunday afternoon to discuss their concerns with the financing and lack of city transparency surrounding construction of the Robert Crown Community Center.

Evanstonians for a Financially Responsible Robert Crown Plan hosted the meeting in the Fleetwood-Jourdain Community Center ahead of a Monday city meeting where city manager Wally Bobkiewicz will give an update on financing for the project.

Residents organized questions and demands that they wish to bring up during the meeting.

Attendees also discussed sources of funding for the center’s construction. Residents are largely concerned with the fact that when the project was proposed in August 2016, they were told it wouldn’t result in taxpayer burden. However, that changed as costs on the projects continued to rise.

In order to continue construction, the city has authorized the issue of one or more general obligation bonds that will not exceed $18 million.

This type of bond is issued under the assumption that the municipality will be able to repay its debt through taxation or project revenue.

“I am mostly concerned with how it is going to effectively commit us financially as a city to this debt service so that we do not have funds for human services… or affordable housing projects, victim services, youth services,” said Meg Welch, a resident of the 4th Ward, where the center is located.

Friends of Robert Crown, a volunteer-led nonprofit organization, was formed in 2016 and aims to raise $15 million to contribute to the project. The cost of the center is around $53 million, an increase from the initial $30 million anticipated in August 2016.

Other sources of funding have come in the form of a $500,000 gift from Wintrust Bank for naming rights to a field and conference room, as well as a $250,000 contribution from Valli Produce of » See FINANCE, page 11

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Vintage shopping event held in garage

By NATALIE CHUN

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Hundreds of people and around 70 vendors flooded the fifth floor of a downtown Evanston parking garage Sunday for Vintage Garage Chicago’s season-opening show.

Since 2012, Vintage Garage Chicago has served as a pop-up event that hosts to hundreds of vendors, looking to sell their vintage goods including clothing, jewelry, furniture, paintings, books and vinyl records. Originally located in Uptown Chicago, the event was moved to Evanston after the group lost their lease in the city. The first of three shows this summer, the event attracted people of all ages.

“We are very welcome to be here,” said Bobbi Kreger, an employee of Vintage Garage Chicago. “We love Evanston and the crowd’s amazing… Evanston is a destination town so tourists can come (to Vintage Garage Chicago) and then do other things as well.”

Though the setting of a parking garage is unexpected and greatly contrasts the bright colors of the vintage clothing, Kreger said it provides a convenient experience for vendors and shoppers.

Felicia Gibbs, a vendor who sold items at Vintage Garage Chicago’s old location, said the new location in Evanston wasn’t getting quite as much traffic as the previous location.

“I’ve seen it a lot busier,” Gibbs said. “But, I think people just need to find us here. It’s a new neighborhood, which is good.”

Molly Price, a customer who has attended Vintage Garage Chicago’s shows in the previous location followed the pop-up event to Evanston. Within 15 minutes of being at the pop-up event, she said she already purchased items from multiple booths.

She said vintage shopping is her favorite kind of shopping. However, she said events like this are hard to find in Evanston.

“I love the vintage effect,” Price said. “You just get unique things that you wouldn’t really

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Vintage Garage Chicago at 1800 Maple St. The shop moved this year from Uptown Chicago to Evanston.

find at boutiques or anything like that.”

Hillary Szewczyk, one of the vendors at Vintage Garage Chicago, sold bluetooth phonograph speakers and industrial architectural salvage at her booth. She said she started selling vintage items after she found a lot of old things around her house and noticed friends requesting custom orders.

Since then, she said she has been selling her vintage items at various flea markets for the past four years but has found Vintage Garage Chicago to be special.

“It’s really great as a seller, and we enjoy being here,” Szewczyk said. “The amount of people and the diversity that it brings… and the community of vendors have been great to meet and hang out with.”

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Similar to Szewczyk, Martha Ruhl also appreciated seeing the community come together. As a clothing vendor who often acts as a buyer at functions like this one, she said she enjoys watching people in the neighborhood spending time together while shopping, especially vintage shopping because of its unique experience.

She also praised the event for its diversity and the opportunity to meet new people.

“You get all kinds of people here,” Ruhl said. “Young, old, preppy, edgy. Me.” Vintage Garage Chicago will have two other shows coming up this season in Evanston on July 21 and Sept. 15. nataliechun2022@u.northwestern.edu

Gov. Pritzker offers capital improvement scheme

Gov. J.B. Pritzker has laid out plans for a $41.5 billion capital improvement plan to be paid through tax increases on gas, ridesharing, and other parking- and transportation-related industries.

NPR reported the plan proposes spending $28.6 billion on transportation projects, $5.9 billion on public education facilities and $4.4 billion for deferred maintenance on state facilities, along with other, smaller projects that would span six years. Pritzker would pay for this project by doubling the gas tax, raising rates on rideshares like Uber and Lyft by a dollar, and increasing rates on parking garage usage and license plate fees.

The plan would also provide $400 million for broadband expansion across the state, which would be offset in part by taxing cable and streaming services at a rate of 7 percent. Investments are also planned in renewable energy for state facilities and community health centers, totaling $190 million together.

The Pritzker administration emphasized that the plan was still in drafting stages and had received bipartisan support. “This administration looks forward to continuing to engaging in productive conversations before the proposal is finalized,” spokesperson Jordan Abudayyeh said in a statement to NPR. Lawmakers have set a target to get the plan through the General Assembly before the end of this year’s session on May 31.

— Joshua Irvine

Setting the record straight

An article in Thursday’s paper, titled “Former Biden aide calls for Dem unity,” misattributed a quote to Sheila Nix. Nancy Rotering said women come to college and decide not to take positions in political office in the future. The Daily regrets the error.

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ASB to end pre-orientation program

By ZOE MALIN

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Alternative Student Breaks will discontinue its pre-orientation trip after the upcoming academic school year, according to Joshua McKenzie, director for first-year experience. In an email to The Daily, McKenzie said New Student and Family Programs was made aware of ASB’s decision to “scale back” during Winter Quarter. He noted that ASB did not share any prior concerns or information about the matter with NSFP. ASB declined a request for comment.

“Looking at the interest of new students in the ASB-POP trip over the past 5 years, there has been a steady decline in interest,” said McKenzie. “NSFP did not have evidence to suggest [ASB] program directors weren’t making a sound decision.”

ASB is a student group that aims to educate participants about social issues through trips and events during the year. It offers service trips during winter and spring break alongside the POP trip for incoming freshmen and transfer students.

Because ASB operates as a student organization during the year, it was only partially connected to NSFP through its pre-orientation trip.The other preorientation programs like the Chicago Undergraduate Program and CATalyst exist fully under NSFP. This setup is fairly recent. In October 2017, Student Affairs moved pre-orientation programs to be under NSFP instead of the Office of Campus Life. McKenzie said this shift occurred to “bolster support and alignment of pre-orientation programs to the larger mission of Northwestern’s transition programs.”

Since 2017, McKenzie said NSFP worked solely with the ASB-POP co-chairs in organizing and launching the trip and the recruitment, selection and training of facilitators. ASB’s winter and spring trips, and its events, remained independent.

Medill first-year Saira Singh participated in ASB-POP during fall 2018. She went to St. Louis and volunteered at DOORWAYS, an organization

that provides housing and other services to those affected by HIV/AIDS. Singh said ASB-POP was “an incredible, positive experience.”

“After ASB-POP, I felt a great sense of comfort when I got to campus,” Singh said. “I had a family and we navigated the first few months of school together.”

In total, Singh said groups traveled to six different sites across three different cities to engage in service learning in 2018. However, this is different from how previous ASB-POP trips were structured — the program traditionally sent students to six different cities.

“Most changes (NSFP) made were efficiency changes to support a more sustainable program,” McKenzie said. He noted that reducing the number of cities was in response to student feedback, allowing groups to be larger in size and to share resources.

Additionally, while former ASB-POP trips sent students to cities eight to ten hours away from Evanston, NSFP prompted co-chairs to explore cities within a three-to-four hour range. McKenzie said sending students to cities closer to NU would make “all groups more accessible from campus if a situation would have arisen with incoming students.” ASBPOP co-chairs were also given a stipend, whereas in previous years, they were not paid.

Communication first-year Binah Schatsky participated in ASB-POP during fall 2018. She traveled to Detroit to work with Focus: HOPE, a nonprofit that aids community members overcome racism, poverty and injustice. Schatsky thought the trip ran “really smoothly.”

“I’m really appalled ASB-POP is getting canceled,” Schatsky said. “It was an extremely essential part of my freshman year. I met my best friends on the trip.”

ASB’s decision to discontinue its pre-orientation program comes months after NSFP decided that the Project Wildcat pre-orientation program would not be held in 2019. As previously reported by The Daily, NSFP instituted a yearlong planning period before the next hiking and backpacking trip.

McKenzie said The Outdoor Pre-Orientation Program Working Group has been meeting this year to determine next steps for PWild. Their final

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On a past ASB-POP trip in fall 2018, some incoming first-year and transfer students visited DOORWAYS, an organization that provides housing and other services to those affected by HIV/AIDS. However, ASB will no longer offer a pre-orientation program after 2019.

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recommendations will be submitted in October 2019, and McKenzie said their recommendations could include a PWild trip as early as 2020. As for the Chicago Undergraduate Program and CATalyst, McKenzie said he “does not know of any large-scale changes being made exclusively to the trips.”

McKenzie said there are 38 students who are registered to participate in ASB-POP during fall 2019, which to his understanding, is the final trip.The students will be divided into 6 small groups and they will participate in service learning across Chicago, South Bend, Indiana and Madison, Wisconsin.

“The current ASB-POP co-chairs have done so much work to put together a trip that will be impactful,” McKenzie said. “It truly shows care and compassion for the experience of the incoming students.”

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Etiquette, standards for upcoming pride celebrations A. PALLAS GUTIERREZ

ASST. OPINION EDITOR

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

As June draws nearer, some cities, including New York City, have begun their annual Pride celebrations. As I explained in my first 50 Years of Queer Anger, Pride parades and celebrations are an annual commemoration of the Stonewall Riots in New York City.

Stonewall was a turning point in the American queer liberation movement, as queer people decided they had put up with enough harassment and discrimination and began to demand equality.

This year, Pride is especially important because it is the fiftieth anniversary of Stonewall. Because of the significance of Pride, particularly this year, there are several things to keep in mind when attending Pride celebrations.

Pride is an intensely emotional experience: It can be heartbreaking for those who attended earlier Pride celebrations with friends who have since passed from AIDS, suicide, or other issues that plague the community. It can be enraging, since many protestors show up with homophobic and

offensive signs. It can be incredibly empowering for people who have been closeted or isolated from a queer community. There are a lot of possible responses to Pride, which is why it is crucial to respect any and all emotions people express.

Pride is not just a party. It’s a march.

It’s a protest. It’s a riot. Pride celebrations are a demand that cisgender heterosexual people allow queer people their rightful place in American society. If you intend to go to Pride to protest with signs, with support, or by simply existing as who you are in a society that represses you, go for it. If you want to go to Pride to be shirtless and drunk in public, go to a music festival or a block party. Pride is not the place for mindless partying. It is a celebration, but it is a protest first.

Queer people are under attack. In American history, queer people have pretty consistently been under attack. In the 1950s and ’60s, police officers raided gay bars, leading to involuntary outings in newspapers. This era was marked by general police harassment of queer people, including shootings. In the 1980s and ’90s, deliberate political inaction worsened the AIDS crisis, resulting in the deaths of more than 700,000 people since the epidemic began. In the 2000s and 2010s, there was a constant back and forth between protecting queer rights and deliberately removing them.

We are still locked in this battle. The current administration’s efforts to remove

trans people from the military, strip birthright citizenship from the children of queer Americans born outside the U.S. and removing questions to count queer people from the 2020 Census, among many other actions, show just how important this fight is right now. Being out is dangerous. Pride is dangerous. Queer people know this, and they still show up. It is important that any allies showing up are aware of this danger.

I went to my first Pride celebration in 2016, two weeks after the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando killed 49 people and wounded at least an additional 53. At the time, it was the worst mass shooting in recent American history, and impacted a queer community largely composed of people of color. As a young Latinx queer person, I was absolutely terrified.

Four of my friends and I had decided to go months before. We couldn’t back out.

More than that, we refused to. Were we afraid? Yes, and angry and sad. But we had to go. I felt a responsibility to put myself out there, to pay homage to all those before me who had celebrated and rioted and marched in the face of violence, ostracization and death. I needed to go.

My experience at Pride was incredible. I was in a community I had been a part of my whole life, but never fully integrated myself with. I took pictures and danced in the street and took a personal moment of silence outside Stonewall Inn and watched the march. I was constantly on alert for something to go

wrong. But nothing did.

The only negative emotion I felt that was justified was anger. I remember seeing floods of young people claiming Pride as their own personal party. They were drunk or high, laughing as they shouted lyrics to classic queer anthems and stripping down to their underwear at their fancy. These same people would bully, mock and exclude me and others like me for being queer, the very identity they claimed to be supporting at Pride. I was infuriated. I felt unsafe. I felt like I didn’t know who was a genuine ally, and who was simply there for a good time.

At the end of the day, Pride celebrations are for queer people. Yes, allies can and should come and celebrate, mourn or protest with the queer community. But they should always defer and listen to the community they are attempting to uplift and respect the people around them. Especially as Pride turns 50, and the community reflects on what has been achieved and what obstacles still remain to conquer, the position of allies is crucial. Our lives can depend on your support and respect.

A. Pallas Gutierrez is a Communication freshman. They can be contacted at pallas2022@u. northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this op-ed, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.

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On behalf of NU’s Organization of Women Faculty

To the editor, Like many university campuses, Northwestern has been targeted by bigotry and with white supremacist symbols in recent weeks and over the years. As members of Northwestern’s faculty, we stand against all words and acts of hate and in support of all members of our community. We believe that a diverse and inclusive Northwestern is a strong Northwestern.

We invite all Northwestern faculty, staff and students to sign our online statement against bigotry (northwestern.edu/nu-against-hate). We also encourage our fellow faculty members to pledge to take their own personal action against hate. Faculty may consider sharing this statement in class, placing it on their syllabi or course website, or posting it on a lab or office door. Together, let’s take a stand against hate and actively support everyone in our community.

— Signed, The steering committee of NU’s Organization of Women Faculty

Safe spaces demean students, slow intellectual growth

“Is it safe?”

“You’re talking to me?”

“Is it safe?”

“Is what safe?”

“Is it safe?”

“I don’t know what you mean. I can’t tell you something’s safe or not, unless I know specifically what you’re talking about.”

“Is it safe?”

“Tell me what the ‘it’ refers to.”

“Is it safe?”

“Yes, it’s safe, it’s very safe, it’s so safe you wouldn’t believe it.”

“Is it safe?”

“No. It’s not safe, it’s... very dangerous, be careful.”

So goes Dustin Hoffman’s Babe under interrogation from Laurence Olivier’s Dr. Szell (assisted by a very menacing dental pick) in the ‘70s classic movie “Marathon

Man.” Hoffman brings intensity, desperation and pleading into a performance that touches our deepest fears as he searches for the one answer to stop brutal, impending pain. This depth is in stark contrast to The Daily’s recent editorial (“Despite Schapiro’s advocacy, safe spaces are not guaranteed,” May 7) which only promotes an intellectually vacuous plea for yet more “safe spaces” on campus.

The notion of “safe spaces,” much less their propagation, only serves to demean Northwestern University and the concept of intellectual growth during college. If The Daily’s goal is to perpetuate a generational reputation of students unable to deal with the real world, then its advocacy only reinforces that idea. To say that the top high school graduates of this country and around the globe are clinically incapable of interacting with any human not identified as safe or similarly-identifying begs the question, “Why are you even going to college?”

More dangerously, this thinking changes the dynamic from the university as a

benign, administration in loco parentis to mommy-with-a-bottle. First, you must declare yourself part of one or more identity politics groups which, naturally, have some grievance. Second, the university must provide these self-identified victims a physical area for their exclusive use. Of course this space must be in a place of the person/group’s liking because… well aren’t we all entitled to the best real estate? And last, leaving the “safe space” is a de facto act of bravery into a hostile world of… just the outside world (or merely the confines of campus). The resulting contact would necessitate further counseling, mental health evaluation, and another “safe space” within the “safe space.”

And so in one last bit of irony, Olivier’s Szell remarks, “I envy you your school days. Enjoy them fully. It’s the last time in your life no one expects anything of you.”

Unfortunately for Northwestern, it seems everyone wants to drill into a live nerve.

— Sincerely yours, Alexander W. Stephens, WCAS ’87

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Danish landscape architect Jens Jensen was famous for redesigning Chicago’s open green spaces in the early 20th century. He and architect Richard Powers conceptualized the mansion’s grounds and building, respectively.

“It’s valuable architecturally and socially,” Kamin said. “It’s the only mansion along Evanston’s lakefront that’s open to the public. So it gives grand access like this to people who can’t afford to live in one.”

The mansion, added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976 and made a National Historic Landmark in 1998, anchors the Northeast Evanston Historic District on Grosse Point.

The house’s significance has little to do with Clarke himself, said Lisa DiChiera, the director of advocacy at Landmarks Illinois, a nonprofit seeking to preserve state buildings and spaces.

“It’s not so much that the building should be (an) homage to him — there’s a lot of wealthy famous people who were successful in business and life who lived in Evanston,” DiChiera said.

“It’s about the quality of the design, the quality of the architecture. Homes like this, you could never build again today.”

When Sigma Chi moved out in 1965, it sold the mansion and its land to the city for $750,000.

Evanston planned to extend the public beachfront, but ended up leasing it to the Evanston Art Center for a symbolic $1 a year. By taking control of the mansion and essentially making it public property, the city set off the current cycle of indecision.

‘A terrible landlord’

In 1966, the mansion was made public for the first time and the Evanston Art Center officially moved in. According to the Chicago Tribune, 1,500 guests attended the ribbon-cutting that kicked off the art center’s near 50-year run hosting classes and gallery showings.

Carlis Sutton, whose family has lived in Evanston since 1913, said the art center’s opening gave residents unprecedented free access to the lakefront.

Sutton was a teacher at multiple schools in the Evanston/Skokie School District 65. For field trips, he said he’d bring his students to the art center, where they had the opportunity to eat lunch on the lawn, work on painting projects and experience the lakefront, something many of them weren’t often able to do.

He called the trips some of the best outings teachers could give their students.

Problems arose, though, when neither the art center nor the city kept up with part of their lease agreement: maintenance. The lease

MONDAY, MAY 20, 2019 stipulated that the city was responsible for exterior repairs while the art center was responsible for the upkeep of the interior — but a 1977 city report showed neither happened.

The landscape around the house, the report said, was “largely neglected” and the city needed to think about future uses for the space.

Decades later, city officials are feeling the repercussions of their predecessors’ oversight.

Guthrie, who has also served on the Evanston Preservation Commission, said if the necessary money had been put in by the city and the art center to maintain the structure, Harley Clarke would need less rehabilitation today.

“The city really is a terrible landlord,” Guthrie said. “They just weren’t paying any attention.

They signed the lease and then kind of walked away.”

Ultimately, nothing was done until Wally Bobkiewicz became city manager a decade ago, and he said aldermen started to express concerns to him about incomplete building maintenance.

So, as the council began budget discussions in 2011, Bobkiewicz identified three possible facilities aldermen could consider repurposing to save money. Of those properties, Harley Clarke received the least public support.

Since that night, the future of Harley Clarke Mansion has been uncertain. But unlike today’s City Council meetings, there was an absence of widespread public comment in support of the mansion. In fact, it wasn’t until 2013 that people began coming to the meetings in droves to speak about Harley Clarke.

“It’s been interesting to me observing all of this, going from that point where the name Harley Clarke Mansion was never even attached to the building — it was just the plain old Evanston Art Center — to where we are today, that many people feel this is a singular cultural icon,” Bobkiewicz said. “That was not on anyone’s radar screen ten years ago.”

For the past six years, residents have been divided on the future of the property because of its versatility. At the same time, the council has struggled to act.

The art of no deal

To its credit, City Council has tried. But nothing’s worked.

In 2015 — the year the art center officially moved to its current location on Central Street — the city formed the Harley Clarke Citizens’ Committee to identify potential uses for the newly vacated mansion. Chaired by Hagerty, who was not mayor at the time, the committee held eight public meetings, made an email account to collect public comment and conducted a community survey.

The group found no public consensus about what to do with the mansion.

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Skeletons left over from the Evanston Art Center sit in a closet of the Harley Clarke Mansion at 2603 Sheridan Rd.

The committee identified five potential options for the mansion: retain and renovate for public use, demolish, sell for commercial use, sell to a residential developer, or sell or gift the building for restoration and public use. Every avenue, except selling to a residential developer, has come before the council.

The members agreed selling the building and land for residential development was the least desirable option, and said the building needs to be financially self-sustaining to lower city spending. Hagerty said he still believes the most feasible option for the mansion is private investment, such as a hotel or restaurant.

But in 2013, retired Army Lt. Col. Jennifer Pritzker of the billionaire Pritzker family presented such a plan — and it failed. The former Evanston resident offered to buy the property for $1.2 million and develop a 57-room boutique hotel with parking, restaurant and event space.

The debate began. Residents formed an opposition to the Pritzker proposal and put up yard signs saying, “Parks are for People, Not for Profit.” Though some residents appreciated that with Pritzker’s plan, the property could have “come back to life” with investment, DiChiera said many advocates opposed privatization of a public building.

Hundreds packed the council chambers on July 22, 2013 to show their disapproval, The Daily reported. Within the meeting’s first 20 minutes, aldermen denied the proposal 6 to 3.

The council needed a new option.

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The exterior of Harley Clarke Mansion. Residents and community members have long debated what the property should be used for, but ultimately, the decision rests in City Council’s hands.

Pandora’s box In 2014, Bobkiewicz hoped to enter into a long-term lease with the Illinois Department of Natural Resources, which planned to renovate the mansion and convert it into an office space and coastal management education center, city documents show.

Former 7th Ward alderman Jane Grover told the Evanston Roundtable at the time that the proposal “checked all my boxes” and its falling through would open “the Pandora’s Box of Harley Clarke.”

With the election of Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner, the plan did fall apart. Bobkiewicz’s contact at the IDNR left, while the state’s budget would soon enter a nearly three-year stalemate.

And so, Pandora’s Box opened.

Formed in December 2015, the nonprofit group Evanston Lakehouse and Gardens sought to find a solution for the property that would restore the mansion, make it financially selfsustainable and provide public access to the lake.

Tom Hodgman, the former president of Evanston Lakehouse and Gardens and current board member, said he and other members of the group decided to form a nonprofit to restore the structure after the Pritzker and IDNR plans failed.

In November 2016, the city formed the Harley Clarke Planning Committee, chaired by Ald. Eleanor Revelle (7th), to discuss next steps and recommend a future use for the mansion to the council.

Evanston Lakehouse and Gardens proposed a community space that would provide experiential environmental education, outdoor recreation and events. The group also suggested renting out parts of the property to small businesses to produce revenue.

After going through the committee process and being the sole respondent to the council’s request for proposal period, Evanston Lakehouse and Gardens eventually began negotiating a lease with the city in November 2017.

City staff and the nonprofit came up with a 40-year lease that would have required Evanston Lakehouse and Gardens to raise $2 million over the first three years of the agreement to fund improvements to the structure, adding up to a total of $5 million over 10 years. According to the plan, the mansion was expected to open to the public in May 2023.

But then, on April 9, 2018, the council suddenly denied the lease after months of negotiations. Only Revelle and Ald. Tom Suffredin (6th) voted to approve the agreement, while the other aldermen cited potential problems.

At the time, Ald. Robin Rue Simmons (5th) said she had concerns about donor fatigue, and Ald. Melissa Wynne (3rd) said there were insurance issues that posed a “significant risk” to the city. Wynne added that the 10-year time frame to raise $5 million would have had to be shortened for her to support the lease.

Unofficial estimates for renovation range from $400,000 to get the mansion up to safety codes, to $10 million for a complete refurbishment, DiChiera said.

Lori Keenan, an Evanston resident who has been involved with efforts to save the mansion since 2013, said Evanston Lakehouse and Gardens learned a few days before the vote that the council was not going to accept the lease.

She said members tried to reach out to aldermen before April 9, but could not “make any headway.”

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“I don’t know if it was miscommunication, exactly,” she said, “but it was just an unfortunate way the whole conversation evolved.”

Evanston Lakehouse and Gardens had also learned that another group of residents had formed months before the vote and had been lobbying aldermen to consider a much different course of action: demolition.

The case for demolition

Jeff Coney, who was a member of Evanston Lighthouse Dunes, said roughly 10 people came together to form the group in fall 2017. The group aimed to demolish the mansion, create more green space and open up the lakefront.

Coney said he didn’t believe donors would have been willing to fund renovations and wanted the opportunity to add parkland.

Just weeks after the council denied the Evanston Lakehouse and Gardens proposal, Ald. Ann Rainey (8th) requested that aldermen consider the alternative from Evanston Lighthouse Dunes after the group said they had secured necessary funding for demolition.

The group of about 100 donors included former aldermen like Delores Holmes and current aldermen like Rainey, and raised about $400,000. At the meeting, Evanston Lighthouse Dunes member Nicole Kustok said the group’s vision was to restore the Jens Jensen gardens.

They also wanted to return the dunes to their natural state and use the two fog houses as environmental labs and classrooms.

Emails released by the city show members of the Dunes group had been communicating with aldermen about their demolition idea in 2018, before the vote on Evanston Lakehouse and Gardens’ lease. In the emails, the Dunes group also expressed concerns over whether Evanston Lakehouse and Gardens could meet fundraising goals in a reasonable timeframe.

Some Evanston Lakehouse and Gardens members said the Dunes group was primarily serving the interests of immediate neighbors to the mansion.

In the emails, Rainey said she received at least 100 emails saying demolishing the “asset at the behest of a small group of wealthy neighbors is antithetical” to the values of Evanston.

Coney said the idea the Dunes group was just serving a small group of wealthy neighbors was “bullshit.”

“We had the ex-mayor of Evanston; we had ex-aldermen on our support group,” Coney said.

“We had people from a lot of wards. The donor list speaks for itself.”

The case for equal access

Many got involved in the effort to save Harley Clarke because there is limited access to the lakefront in Evanston: Private houses line the North Shore and the beaches require tokens, which prevents many low-income residents from visiting the lake.

At a recent City Council meeting, longtime civil rights activist Bennett Johnson emphasized the importance of opening the mansion to everyone in Evanston. He said he grew up next to Harley Clarke, yet was forced to attend a school far from the 7th Ward, where the mansion lies.

“As most of you know, the lake has been a white haven… for many, many decades,” Johnson said during a public comment period. “We have to do something about the public component and make sure every citizen of Evanston has access to this particular site.”

He said he wants the council to clarify what role the public will have in the process as aldermen decide what to do with Harley Clarke.

If the city or an organization were to provide free, public access to the lake through Harley Clarke, Sutton said, Evanston would make a small step toward equality.

DiChiera said the mansion is a “gift” to the public that needs to be invested in and maintained.

“The majority of Evanstonians cannot afford to live in a mansion on the lakefront,” DiChiera said. “But this has the ability to be everyone’s mansion on the lakefront.”

demolition effort. Her actions prompted an October Ethics Board investigation, which found her in violation of the ethics code. Rainey was not disciplined.

Some, like Evanston resident Darlene Cannon, said the ethics violations and the rejected Evanston Lakehouse and Gardens lease after months of negotiations undermined her perceptions of the council.

“I didn’t see what was supposed to be democracy taking place,” Cannon said. “I didn’t feel it was a fair and democratic process.”

A few days after the vote, Harned filed a petition to put a referendum on the mansion on the November ballots. This was when Evanston Lakehouse and Gardens’ Political Action Committee arm, Save Harley Clarke, formed.

When the referendum was up for vote in November, 80 percent of residents were in favor of preserving the mansion for public use, a result that is not legally binding. A month before, the Evanston Preservation Commission — which said the city did not meet any of its five standards for demolishing a public landmark — had also unanimously denied the city’s application to tear down the mansion.

Demolition was suddenly an uphill battle for the city. Not wanting to go through the process of appealing the Preservation Commission’s decision, aldermen unanimously reversed their own decision to tear down Harley Clarke in December.

“I think some of my colleagues thought that trying to pursue demolition in the face of that denial from the preservation commission was yet another hurdle that wouldn’t be productive,” Revelle told The Daily.

After the vote, Hagerty lamented that the city had come full circle. A commercial lease? Rejected. A nonprofit lease? Rejected.

Demolition? Rejected.

Everything, he posited, had been tried.

Now, the city is back where it was in 2015, when the art center first moved out. On Thursday, Evanston officially started its third request for proposals period.

The question now is whether this time, the proposal the council accepts will meet the same fate as the others.

One last push?

This time around, there’s one difference — residents are already organized.

An uphill battle

In June 2018, aldermen voted 6-3 to move forward with demolition negotiations and a month later, voted 5-3 to approve the demolition.

The released city emails also showed Rainey was supporting Evanston Lighthouse Dunes’

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Harley Clarke Mansion’s interior. Evanston residents are organizing to determine what should be done with the building.

Currently, there are several groups that support preservation: Friends of Harley Clarke, Harley Clarke Community, as well as Evanston Lakehouse and Gardens and Save Harley Clarke.

Some of them, like Harley Clarke Community, are focused on community engagement, but member Cannon said the group will consider supporting and raising money for a proposal in the future.

Evanston Lighthouse Dunes has disbanded. After the vote, they all went back to their day jobs, Kustok said.

“There are other groups who wish to save the house,” Kustok said in a statement.

“And, while we support the desire — ideas have never been in short supply.”

Evanston Lakehouse and Gardens is still involved in the process, and some Harley Clarke Community members have joined them. Guthrie — the current president of Evanston Lakehouse and Gardens — said the group plans to seek funds, make some changes to their proposal and present again. She said it’s important for the various groups to focus on different aspects of the property, such as the Jens Jensen gardens or the mansion itself, so donors can support distinct ideas.

“We all have to carve out an area so we can

distinguish ourselves from each other,” Guthrie said. “We just have to find a way to all work together out there, talking about all the various aspects and trying to find a couple million bucks right off the bat.”

Keenan said Friends of Harley Clarke is in the process of reorganizing and determining how to best support preservation and the future use of the property. She added that the group will back any proposal that satisfies the referendum.

Harley Clarke Community, which has held meetings on possible uses for the mansion, will hold a community forum to go over the new RFP with residents, Cannon said, and collaborate with another group to write a response.

Save Harley Clarke, originally established to lobby for the referendum, decided not to disband in case demolition ever came back on the table.

Since November, Harned said the group has been focused on gathering community members’ ideas on what the property should become.

After compiling information from those meetings, Harned said the group will present a report to City Council.

“We’re trying to be proactive and keep the city aware of the results of the referendum and what the referendum mandated,” Harned said.

“We want it to be for public use and obviously at little or no cost to the taxpayers.”

While the groups may not be in full collaboration or all support the same proposal in the end, their fight is not with each other.

Members of different organizations have stressed that overall, the residents and the city need to come together around a decision for Harley Clarke.

“The City Council doesn’t need to be our enemies,” Harned said. “They could join us and be a part of it. They’ve made themselves out to be enemies but they really don’t need to be. We prefer them to be allies.” samanthahandler2021@u.northwestern.edu

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‘BlacKkKlansman’ screenwriter, author discuss film

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“BlacKkKlansman” screenwriter Kevin Willmott and Ron Stallworth, the retired police officer the film is based on, discussed the Academy award-winning film on Sunday. The panel followed a screening of the movie in the Ryan Family Auditorium.

The panel, moderated by Charles Whitaker, the interim dean of the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications, was organized by A&O Productions and the Contemporary Thought Speaker Series.

Both the film and the memoir center on a black police officer — Stallworth himself, portrayed by John David Washington in the film — infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan. Posing as a fellow white supremacist, Stallworth spoke to Klan members and leaders, including then-Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan David Duke, on the phone — while a white officer posed as

Stallworth for in-person meetings.

Willmott detailed his journey from activist to screenwriter and how he incorporated his personal experiences with race into his films.

“When you put a face on someone calling you The Big N, it’s a different thing,” Willmott said. “That experience is a great thing for a writer,” said Willmott.

He said his work on previous films, “Ninth Street” and “C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America,” led him to eventually meet Spike Lee and write “BlacKkKlansman.”

Stallworth said he considered Wilmott’s treatment of the script quite true to life.

“Having your life told in a motion picture is beyond description,” Stallworth said.“There were tears in my eyes, especially at the end.”

Stallworth also considered the racial politics of his experience and film. Explaining his time as a police officer in Colorado Springs, he said people forgot he was a black man and that the black community even called him “a traitor.”

In a Twitter essay posted August 2018, “Sorry to

Bother You” director Boots Riley criticized the film for portraying the police too positively, calling Stallsworth “the villain.”

Stallsworth defended the film against this criticism.

He said police work is “an honorable position when done right” and the protagonist of the movie does much to improve his community.

When asked about Duke’s recent attempt at a comeback — during the run-up to the 2016 presidential election, the former Grand Wizard re-entered the public sphere — Stallworth cautioned the world against the dangers of “cordial” white supremacists.

“White supremacists don’t want to engage you,” Stallworth said.

He said Duke would change the subject away from white supremacy as soon as his arguments started to weaken, and asked the audience to be rhetorically diligent when facing hate groups.

The panel reiterated that American culture must continue to confront the existence of white supremacy and other hate groups, echoing back to the 2017 white supremacist rally and subsequent counter-protest in

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Medill interim Dean Charles Whitaker (left), Kevin Willmott (middle) and Ron Stallsworth (right) speak in the Ryan Family Auditorium.

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“Heather Heyer (who died in Charlottesville) was killed because people refuse to take hate seriously in this country,” Willmott concluded. spgr@u.northwestern.edu

‘CantoMando’ members share YouTube experiences

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Members of the popular YouTube channel CantoMando shared their experiences as Asian Canadians in the media industry at a Northwestern Chinese Students Association event Sunday afternoon.

CantoMando consists of three Asian Canadians: Sheldon Ho, Mike Wu and Edward Leung.

The channel has over 154,000 subscribers, as of this past Sunday. Their comedic skits, which range from making DIY bubble tea to Asian parents’ reactions to memes, represent their experiences as secondgeneration Asian Canadians.

Matthew You, an executive board member of the organization, said the group hopes that their events

reach beyond CSA members to the greater Northwestern community.

“CSA events are aimed at fostering ChineseAmerican community on campus, but some events are open to the public, which allows the public to better understand our culture,” the Bienen and Weinberg first-year said.

About 70 people attended the event, hosted in McCormick Auditorium in Norris University Center, including students from the greater Chicagoland area.

CantoMando performed a skit portraying the struggles they initially faced as YouTubers.

Ho, the founder of CantoMando, elaborated on the group’s struggles and explained how they ultimately decided to prioritize their YouTube channel over their jobs. He said he and other members of CantoMando quit their jobs and faced varying

degrees of backlash from their parents.

“We don’t know where we’ll be, we don’t know whether we’ll succeed, we don’t know if our parents will stop worrying for us,” Ho said. “But we do know that there is an opportunity for us right now, and we have to lay it all on the line, and that we won’t have any regrets doing it.”

During the event, the members of CantoMando also participated in a moderated Q&A session and answered questions from the audience.

Wu, who joined the group shortly after Ho, realized early on that they would face hardships in their rise to YouTube stardom.

“This is something that we loved to do,” Wu said.

“We loved to make videos. However, you start to see your friends going out and you realize there’s really only one person watching our videos, and it’s

probably Sheldon.”

Wu said that the group is always learning how to better curate their creative content and connect with their audience.

When asked how the trio finds inspiration for their videos, Leung said he is often influenced by talking to his mom, emphasizing CantoMando’s desire to provide relatable Asian Canadian humor in their videos.

The group gave the audience advice to take away from their own experiences, but also provided a note of caution to those hoping to follow in their footsteps.

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Civil rights activist discusses new memoir at EPL

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Legendary civil rights activist Timuel Black Jr. spoke about his over 70 years of civil rights work Sunday afternoon at the Evanston Public Library as part of the 2019 Evanston Literary Festival.

Black discussed his book, “Sacred Ground: The Chicago Streets of Timuel Black,” with an audience of around 50 people. He was joined by Bart Schultz, the book’s editor and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago, and Bennett Johnson, a fellow Evanston-based civil rights activist and good friend.

Black said he wrote “Sacred Ground” to inspire young people, regardless of “race or gender, or any of those things that tend to divide people,” and help them be aware of how the world is changing socially and politically so they can figure out what role they want to play in shaping that change.

He said he tells his story to encourage young people to strive towards a higher purpose and use their resources.

“You can make that change more what you would like for it to be, wherever you happen to be,” Black said.

The memoir recounts the almost 100 years he spent living on the South Side of Chicago after his family fled there in 1919 during the first wave of the Great Migration. When Black was only eight months old, he said his family left his hometown of Birmingham, Alabama as a result of violence and discrimination against African Americans. He discussed how that generation of African Americans fled with the hope of a better future, and better opportunities for their children.

Black and Johnson discussed their respective

Across Campuses Morehouse commencement speaker to pay off Class of 2019’s student loans ATLANTA — Billionaire Robert F. Smith, who received an honorary doctorate at Morehouse College’s Sunday morning graduation exercises, had already announced a $1.5 million gift to the school.

But during his remarks in front of the nearly 400 graduating seniors, the technology investor and philanthropist surprised some by announcing that his family was providing a grant to eliminate

childhoods and their joint work during the civil rights movement. The two met at Roosevelt College, and their friendship has spanned decades of joint work in the civil rights movement. Black called Johnson “an inspiration and a model.”

Both men helped King organize the March on Washington in 1963, where King delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech.

Black also discussed the accomplishments of former President Barack Obama, his friend and mentee. He said Obama’s presidency would not have been possible without the work of past generations of black people.

“We opened that door, and he was ready to walk in,” Black said.

Black also stressed the importance of young black people continuing to walk through that door, and continuing to work towards a more inclusive world, regardless of what barriers they may face.

He reminded all generations — especially young people — to have faith in this cause and to trust change can be brought about through continued social and political action.

Rick Parris, who attended the talk, said Black’s book and speech resonated with him. Parris agreed today’s youth can learn from Black’s generation and their recognition of “the importance of educating their youth and progressing.”

Parris said he believes “more should be done in the African American community to make sure that young people are aware of the opportunities they have,” whether those be educational, political or professional.

Evanston resident Mary Willis said she has followed Black’s career in activism for decades, along with with her husband, who is only 10 years Black’s junior. Willis said she and her husband, who are in an interracial marriage, have looked the student debt of the entire Class of 2019.

“This is my class,” he said, “and I know my class will pay this forward.”

The announcement came as a surprise to Smith’s staff and to the staff at Morehouse, and elicited the biggest cheers of the morning.

Tonga’s husband, Charles Releford Jr., is also a Morehouse graduate. He said their younger son, Colin, is a junior at Morehouse. He doesn’t know who the keynote speaker will be at Colin’s graduation ceremony but is hoping for a return performance by Smith, who is chairman and CEO of Vista Equity Partners, a software and technology

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Timuel Black Jr., a legendary civil rights activist, spoke about his over 70 years of civil rights work at Evanston Public Library on Sunday.

up to local activists throughout their relationship.

“It is amazing what Black has done in his long life, and how many amazing African American activists there are in Chicago,” Willis said.

Despite Black’s age and the fact that he has already written a memoir, he assured attendees he is not done with his work yet. Black said he intends to continue to work in the Chicago area to bring about the bright future that he has always envisioned.

He said he holds events like the one on Sunday to continue to inspire others to shape the world into the kind of world they want to live in.

“I hope that this conversation has been helpful to your thinking, and stimulating as well as informative and demanding of you,” Black said as he wrapped up his talk. “What kind of world do you want this to be?”

investment firm. “Maybe he’ll come back next year.”

Elijah Dormeus, a business administration major, said, “If I could do a backflip, I would. I am deeply ecstatic.”

A resident of Harlem in New York City, Dormeus, 22, was carrying $90,000 in student debt.

His five siblings all came to Atlanta to see him graduate, along with his mother, Andrea Dormeus, who drives a school bus.

Of the debt, mother Dormeus said, “I wasn’t too worried, because my faith in God is really strong.”

Aileen Dodd, spokesperson for Morehouse

College, said the gift is the biggest single gift in the school’s history.

In his commencement address, Smith said being on the bus toward success isn’t enough.

“You want to own it, you want to drive it, and you want to pick up as many people as you can along the way.”

He charged the Class of 2019 with doing its part to improve the lives of black America. “I’m putting some fuel into your bus, “ he said. “I’m counting on you to load up that bus.”

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Evanston for the right to name the center’s lobby. These gifts will be paid out over the course of 8 and 15 years, respectively.

Northwestern University has contributed $1 million to the project, according to the Friends of Robert Crown website. However, group member Clare Kelly said this is not a gift but rather payment for the University’s access to the planned ice rink. She said that price is about market price for the use of a rink, but that it doesn’t work to mitigate the cost of the project.

The city is set to install two NHL-grade ice rinks into the community center. The group proposed ideas for decreasing the cost of the project, which included building a less expensive ice complex. Other proposals include

constructing the center in phases – once funds become available or are raised – and installing a natural turf field instead of an artificial one.

“To just unfairly push all this money into this project without taking into consideration the things that the community has shown interest in, is not fair representation of our community,” 5th Ward resident Carolyn Murray said.

The group also plans to demand more transparency from the city and the ability to give more input on financing and stakeholders.

Murray said she wants to know the real cost of the project and exactly how it will affect her taxes.

The group plans to bring bring these demands, along with many other questions, to Bobkiewicz and other officials at Monday’s meeting. juliainesesparza2020@u.northwestern.edu

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This is a big step for our program, but we still have a lot ahead of us here. We’ve worked hard at all aspects of our game for this moment.

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NOT DONE YET

Cats advance to Super Regionals for first time since 2008

By ANDREW GOLDEN

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Despite being three outs away from sending Northwestern to its first NCAA Super Regional since 2008, freshman pitcher Danielle Williams didn’t seen rattled by the moment.

Even after Louisville center fielder Celene Funke hit a leadoff triple in the top of the seventh and let out a scream, the pressure didn’t seem to shake her.

The southpaw jumped up and down, grinning from ear to ear, as she returned to the mound after Funke’s hit. Williams retired the next three batters as the No. 16 Wildcats (47-11, 21-2 Big Ten) advanced past the Cardinals (35-23, 12-12 ACC) to face No. 1 national seed Oklahoma in the next round.

“She hits her spots,” Louisville coach Holly Aprile said. “She’s a lefty. She’s tough. She’s a fighter. She goes out there and she just keeps making her pitches.”

After annihilating Detroit Mercy 15-1 in the opening game of the Evanston Regional, NU was faced with a familiar opponent — Louisville, who it had faced three times earlier in the season.

Neither team could find the answers on offense, but the Cardinals jumped out to a 1-0 leadoff off a home run by Louisville pitcher Taylor Roby.

After a three-hour lightning and rain delay, Louisville tacked on another home run from Sidney Melton. The two homers were the only two hits Williams gave up

the whole game.

The Cats had plenty of opportunities to drive in runs, leaving seven runners on base in the first three innings. However, they were only able to score one run in the bottom of the seventh off a double from Maeve Nelson that scored Morgan Nelson.

With a chance to tie the game, freshman designated hitter Nikki Cuchran grounded out to shortstop, and NU fell 2-1. That loss meant they’d need to win three elimination games to advance in the tournament. “(Danielle Watson) threw a tough game (and) got some key outs early in the game,” coach Kate Drohan said after the Cats’ first Saturday game. “We didn’t do enough to win that game today.”

Due to weather delays throughout the afternoon, NU’s second game of the day against Southern Illinois (34-15, 17-6 Missouri Valley) started around 9:25 p.m. Under the lights at Sharon J. Drysdale Field, the Cats put together a 12-hit performance, anchored by Morgan Newport’s 4-for-4 performance. As the game moved past midnight, NU was able to stave off elimination and beat the Salukis 8-1.

On Sunday, with their backs against the wall once again, Williams put the team on her back as she had done all season.

The freshman pitcher gave up just two hits, like the first game, but this time the hits stayed in the park. She also got some help from her offense.

After four hits in the first game, the Cats broke through for seven runs on seven hits against Southern Illinois,

including four runs in the fourth inning.

Newport came in relief and finished the game, giving Williams a break before she pitched the final game.

“The thing with Danielle and why she was effective for two whole games today is because she has a lot of different looks,” Drohan said. “She has a lot of different ways she can spin the ball and we were able to mix it up.”

In their third elimination game of the weekend, Watson and Williams battled like they had in the first game. Both teams scored two runs and in the bottom of the fifth, Cuchran stepped up to the plate with the bases loaded and a chance to redeem herself.

The freshman designated hitter came through as she lined a single to center field that scored two runs and put the Cats ahead for good.

After surviving the weekend, Drohan said that NU had a narrow focus on one game at a time. But now, NU will have to shift toward the Sooners, a team the Cats lost to twice earlier in the season.

“This is a big step for our program, but we still have a lot ahead of us here,” Drohan said. “We’ve worked hard at all aspects of our game for this moment … a really driven group of women out there fighting hard for their school today.”

BASEBALL

NU’s season ends with series loss

By RYAN WANGMAN

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When Willie Bourbon came up to the plate with two outs in the bottom of the ninth of Northwestern’s season finale against Minnesota and his team trailing by a run, he had the chance to write a storybook ending for his senior campaign.

With a runner on first base, Bourbon represented Northwestern’s winning run.

As the Riverwoods, Illinois, native walked up to the batter’s box, the first baseman surveyed the crowd, taking note of the faces of the friends and family who supported him throughout his career.

“It (was) great to be at home, to play in front of our home crowd, to play in front of my family,” Bourbon said. “That was one of the biggest reasons I came here, was to be able to play in front of my family. And they’ve been to a lot of games.

But this one was special.”

While Bourbon’s ninth inning at-bat may have marked the apex of the Senior Day tension, the entirety of the Wildcats’ matchup with Minnesota was rife with drama. Heading into Saturday’s contest, NU had split the series with the Golden Gophers and were in a dogfight with three other teams — Ohio State, Maryland and Iowa — for the last three spots in the Big Ten Tournament.

In the end, Bourbon struck out swinging, and the Cats (24-27, 11-13 Big Ten) lost Saturday afternoon’s game 6-5 to the Golden Gophers (26-25, 15-9). Four seniors played in their last game: shortstop Jack Dunn, outfielder Ben Dickey, pitcher Danny Katz and Bourbon.

On top of that, inclement weather in Evanston led to a three-hour rain delay, where NU players watched the other two important contests in the clubhouse as they waited to resume play. After Ohio State fought off a comeback bid from Purdue and Maryland took down Iowa,

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Willie Bourbon swings. The senior first baseman played his final game for the Wildcats on Sunday.

the worst-case scenario for the Cats became reality and the picture became clearer: The team needed to win or they would go home.

“Our initial reaction is like how did both those teams sweep?” senior Ben Dickey said. “Both of them were, we felt, not good teams but played good baseball at the end of the year.”

This was the first class coach Spencer Allen has coached for all four years of their careers. Allen called the seniors a “special group” and praised them for all the work they put in during their time in Evanston.

“That’s how cultures get transformed,” Allen said. “It’s about the players and they, they’ve done it. They’ve just really delivered a really good job off the field on the field. They’ve all had big moments on the field. So I’m just happy for them. I didn’t want it to end.”

NU jumped to a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the second before the Golden Gophers answered with two of their own in the third inning. The game went back and forth from there, with Minnesota plating runs in four consecutive innings to snag the lead. The Cats fought to keep it close, never letting the deficit on the

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scoreboard reach more than two runs.

As Dunn reflected on his collegiate career, he said the most important takeaway was all the memories he made with his teammates.

“Every year, you come in and you form a bond with all your teammates that, if you’re not in that locker room, you don’t really understand,” Dunn said. “The most important thing is that all the guys, all the coaches I’ve met throughout the process they’re gonna be lifelong friends, lifelong teammates.”

Similar to Dunn, Bourbon said that in his final collegiate at-bat, all he could think about was his teammates. He tried to give them a special memory they would never forget with a clutch hit in a timely situation.

But when he didn’t, he lingered in the batters’box for a few seconds before dejectedly walking off the field for the final time and into the embracing arms of Dunn.

“It happens,” Bourbon said. “That’s the game. The game’s gonna knock you down.That’s the one thing I learned playing this game and playing life. Sometimes it doesn’t go your way and today it didn’t.” ryanw@u.northwestern.edu

WOMEN’S GOLF

Wildcats sit in eighth place after Round 2 of NCAAs

After a shaky first round and a suspension of play all day Saturday due to inclement weather, Northwestern responded with a 2-over-par team performance in the second round of the NCAA Championships on Sunday. The Wildcats now sit in eighth place overall, in prime position to advance to the match play portion of the tournament for the third consecutive year.

The stoppage of Saturday’s action forced the tournament’s stroke play portion to be shortened from 72 holes to 54 holes, meaning that all 24 participating teams will play again in Monday’s third round before the field is cut to eight teams for Tuesday’s match play.

Play was suspended before NU could even begin its second round Saturday. But the Cats came out strong when it resumed Sunday morning. Freshman Kelly Su led with

a team-best 1-under — the second time this season she’s shot a under par for a round.

Su began with a birdie, but then followed it with back-to-back bogeys on the next two holes. The freshman added one more birdie and finished the front nine even.

Fellow rookie Kelly Sim rebounded from a double bogey on the second hole to hit four birdies in a row and finish the front nine 1-under.

On the back nine, senior Janet Mao and junior Brooke Riley each had strong performances that pushed the Cats into the top-10 on the leaderboard. Mao shot three birdies and an eagle on the last nine holes, while Riley added three birdies of her own.

Both finished at 1-over for the round.

NU will play its final round Monday. The Cats, with a cumulative score of 23-over, are trailed by Auburn and Wake Forest, who both hold scores of 24-over. The tournament leader, Duke, shot a remarkable 11-under in the second round and holds a ninestroke lead.

— Ella Brockway

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Kelly Su watches her shot. The freshman shot a team-best 1-under in the second round of the NCAA Championships on Sunday.