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Parents call for D65 support for dyslexia Parents, students say curriculum is in need of change

By AVIVA BECHKY

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M., an Evanston/Skokie School District 65 parent, started seeing signs of dyslexia in her youngest child Peter in preschool. Peter struggled to identify and match sounds with letters, but his kindergarten teacher said he could catch up later.

M., who asked to use her first initial and a pseudonym for her child due to privacy concerns, said she was looking for signs because Peter’s father had dyslexia, an unexpected difficulty learning to read. When Peter was in first grade, his teacher suggested to M. that she begin the process to get an Individualized Education Program for Peter.

That year, Peter started receiving small group and reading specialist support.

But throughout his education at Orrington Elementary School, M. said Peter — now 11 and at Haven Middle School — still wasn’t receiving the instruction he needed.

“It was like a full time job for me to try and advocate for my child to get the services that he needs,” M. said.

“And he still wasn’t given those services.”

In District 65, some parents say the yearslong lack

of phonics-focused reading programs impeded their dyslexic children’s literacy and mental health — and they say a curriculum shift would benefit all students.

Now, the district is searching for a new curriculum and training more teachers in evidence-based reading interventions. But some children have already been left behind.

Aligning curriculum and science Zafiro Papastratakos, a former District 65 parent, said her son struggled with reading from a young age.

Despite his difficulties, she wasn’t aware the district’s curriculum was scientifically outdated until he was in third grade, when she encountered a reported podcast on systemic issues with reading education.

“I heard what she was saying and I recognized what she was calling as inappropriate instruction,” Papastratakos said. “I recognized it in the ways my son was being taught to read.”

Many schools use a threecueing method that encourages readers to use context clues to guess an unfamiliar word’s meaning. But developmental science Prof. Elizabeth Norton said prevailing science promotes phonicsbased instruction, where students learn to read by breaking words down into sounds and letters.

» See LITERACY, page 6

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Northwestern has started a number of programs to support students and faculty impacted by conflict situations following the Ukraine crisis, though some international students from other countries affected by war and violence said they do not receive the same support from the University.

Students say NU aid is inequitable Assistance to Ukraine differs from response to other countries in crisis

By AVANI KALRA

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Iryna Rekrut will travel from Kyiv, Ukraine to Evanston in September to pursue an international human rights fellowship at the Pritzker School of Law. She was one of several applicants from Ukraine and other nations permitted to apply outside the regular application cycle due to instability in their home countries.

“I’m really looking forward to making a lot of international connections and learning different people’s perspectives on similar issues,” Rekrut said.

This opportunity is one of several initiatives Northwestern

is launching to aid students and scholars affected by violence or disaster. But as the University has sponsored a string of Ukraine-related panels and aid initiatives in the past few months, some students from countries like Lebanon, Syria and Palestine say they have not received similar support from NU.

University supports Ukrainian students In addition to an extended application process, the Buffett Institute for Global Affairs is funding living expenses for students unable to return home this summer and hosting virtual scholars from Ukraine.

Rekrut said she is excited to

travel to the U.S. and learn more about human rights.

“I want to learn what other people are facing. I really want to share Ukrainian cultures, Ukrainian heritage, to really get people to know what it is like from firsthand,” she added.

Rekrut will live with Pritzker Director of Graduate and International Program Admissions Mary Beth Busby, who helped establish the initiative allowing Ukrainian students to apply outside the regular application cycle.

Looking for more ways to help, Busby added she offered to host Rekrut on a whim.

“It was a gut, almost a kneejerk reaction,” Busby said. “I felt like I wanted to do something.

You’re donating a couple dollars

here and there, but really, there’s no tangible way to help. This seemed like an opportunity.”

NU is also working to support students who remain in Ukraine.

Buffett Institute Executive Director Annelise Riles said professors in the Bienen School of Music have reached out to classical music students in Ukraine to offer virtual coaching and advising to doctoral students who are unable to attend school.

“Our faculty have just stepped up on their own without any financial support or really any organization and just done the right thing,” Riles said.

» See AID, page 10

ETHS senior stopped from walking at graduation After Nimkii Curley decorated his regalia, family members say ETHS’ policies indicate a need for change

By ILANA AROUGHETI and JORJA SIEMONS

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Content warning: This story contains mentions of anti-Indigenous violence.

Nimkii Curley was excited to walk at Evanston Township High School District 202’s graduation ceremony Sunday.

While he stood in line to receive his diploma, an ETHS event coordinator and a security guard pulled him out of line. Each directed him to remove his graduation cap.

Curley, who is Turtle Clan Ojibwe and Black Sheep Salt Clan Navajo, added an eagle feather to his cap, and traditional Ojibwe floral beadwork to his cap and stole. ETHS does not allow students to modify

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Recent ETHS graduate Nimkii Curley did not walk at graduation this Sunday after he was pulled out of line for adorning his cap and gown with an eagle feather and traditional Ojibwe floral beadwork.

their caps and gowns.

Administrators said Curley would be allowed to walk if he wore an unmarked cap instead.

Curley refused. His father Lawrence Curley, who is also Turtle

Clan Ojibwe and Black Sheep Salt Clan Navajo, attempted to intervene, but staff were unmoved.

“I couldn’t just give up my eagle feather in the hands of a

stranger,” Nimkii Curley said.

“I couldn’t give up my identity like that.”

Nimkii Curley stayed in the bleachers with his family for about three quarters of the graduation ceremony, leaving when it became unbearable to watch.

Nimkii Curley’s parent and SESP Prof. Megan Bang, who is Fish Clan Ojibwe, said Nimkii’s upcoming graduation was celebrated by the surrounding Native community as an act of deep generational significance.

She said ETHS’ graduation caps rule did not hold space for cultural freedom.

When Nimkii Curley was sent to the bleachers, his parents and siblings were gutted, Bang said, but were extremely proud of him for graduating and taking a stand of integrity and self-expression.“There are lots

of people saying it was the rules, you’ve got to follow the rules,” Bang said. “It doesn’t make any sense. And it’s not just for Native people… We have the right to have an eagle feather, period … It’s really important to our identities.”

The beadwork on the cap was a gift from a mentor and elder, one of Nimkii Curley’s namesakes, Bang said. It included cedar, one of four sacred medicines in Ojibwe tradition. Nimkii Curley was also wearing a traditional Navajo necklace gifted to him by a community mentor and elder, as well as a floral sash made by his family.

The eagle feather was particularly important, Bang said, as it’s emblematic of Ojibwe spiritual beliefs and is traditionally gifted to people stepping into a leadership role.

“For us, him graduating and

walking and doing what he’s done is an act of leadership,” Bang said. “It’s actually an act of community healing and familial healing.”

Bang said Nimkii Curley’s grandfather is a survivor of the boarding school system, as was his grandmother, who is now deceased.

Beginning with the 1819 Civilization Fund Act, the U.S. enacted policies establishing boarding schools with the aim of forcibly assimilating Native children into American society.

For more than 150 years, Native children underwent physical assault, verbal abuse, and forced labor in the schools.

Nimkii Curley’s grandfather never completed high school, Bang said, and the generational impact of boarding school

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Evanston prepares for Pride Month celebrations

By NIXIE STRAZZA

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As Pride Month approaches in June, Evanston is getting ready to celebrate. From car parades to youth engagement opportunities and events recognizing the hard-won battles of LGBTQ+ activists, local residents have much to look out for.

At the heart of this year’s Pride programming is Evanston Pride, the city’s first LGBTQ+specific nonprofit organization. The organization aims to uplift queer voices and advocate for underrepresented groups through community outreach, fundraising and inclusive events.

Evanston Pride’s 2022 celebrations will be centered around themes of unity, equity and visibility. Evanston Pride President Jackson Adams said the themes encapsulate the organization’s core sentiments and represents the Evanston it hopes to create.

“We as a queer community need to be united,” Adams said. “It goes back to representation for everyone and ensuring that all are welcome here.”

For the 2022 logo, Evanston Pride chose a rainbow rose with black and brown strikes to represent anti-racist action within the LGBTQ+ community and a section with the pink, white and blue stripes of the trans flag. It is designed

by Evanston Township High School graduate and local artist Agito Abbott.

Representative of the alarming rate at which trans people have been murdered, as well as those lost to violence, the rose will be a prevalent component of the Candle Lighting and Remembrance Ceremony to be held June 12, Adams said.

Adams said other forms of floral imagery will be incorporated into Evanston Pride with explanatory postcards. Green carnations, like those worn by Oscar Wilde to signal his sexual orientation, will be handed out at the parade.

Attendees are encouraged to dress in vibrant tones reminiscent of pansies.

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Businesses and organizations around Evanston are gearing up for Pride Month celebrations with a focus on inclusive events.

“We are encouraging everyone to come out in bright colors and be their authentic selves,” Adams said.

Additional Evanston Pride events on the docket include the Youth Car Parade on June 5 and the LGQBTQIA+ Community Picnic on July 30. Adams said businesses were required to submit an equity statement stating their commitment to equitable and inclusive practices in order to participate in, or financially contribute to, Pride celebrations.

The Graduate Hotel, which sponsors Evanston Pride, is hosting a Pride Happy Hour on June 3 with themed cocktails based on musicals for every color of the rainbow. Guests will be able to sip on a Moulin Rouge!-based red beverage or a “Wickedly” green cocktail while listening to live performance from Hannah “DJ Vitigrrl” Viti (Communication ‘20).

Proceeds from all bar sales and pop-up store

purchases will serve as a fundraiser for Evanston Pride, said Graduate Hotels Senior Field Marketing Manager Courtney Hunter.

With a “hyper-local” focus and a mission to be a meeting place for all, Hunter said The Graduate embodies the principles of Pride year round.

“The past couple of years, Pride has looked a little different ‘’ Hunter said. “It is exciting for us to be able to gather again and support a great community organization.”

Evanston Public Library also has a slew of Pride-related activities planned for residents of all ages including a Pride Fashion Sewing Session, a teens-only Pride Party and LGBTQ+ book talks. The library will also feature a Drag Queen Storytime, which will be led by Chicago-based drag artist Coco Sho-Nell and feature a post-story craft related to the reading.

Sho-Nell said Drag Queen Storytime gives

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children the opportunity to see diverse identities. She said fostering open mindedness from an early age through books encourages children to ask questions and embrace their inner “magic.”

“It’s okay not to know who you are or who you want to be,” Sho-Nell said. “As you’re growing, you’re expanding and you’re learning about the world. Letting kids know it’s okay to be different is a wonderful thing.”

Adams said for this year in particular, the Pride celebration is a response to increased attacks on LGBTQ+ freedoms such as Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill and threats against marriage equality, abortion rights and basic equality.

He said Evanston Pride will continue to support residents and visitors. Rather than diluting the historical lessons of Pride Month, Adams said there is room for residents to balance communitywide celebrations with calls to continue activism around the city.

Sho-Nell added no matter the way residents choose to engage in Pride Month, the exposure to new experiences and perspectives is part of the journey towards greater unity, equity and inclusion. “​​Once we have that exposure and that joy and love from these moments of interaction, then we’re going to have a better society as a whole,” Sho-Nell said. nixiestrazza2024@u.northwestern.edu

Setting the record straight An article published in Sunday’s paper titled “NPEP establishes bachelor’s program for the incarcerated” did not include Oakton Community College’s role in the Northwestern Prison Education Program.

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Schapiro talks globalizing Northwestern

By MAIA PANDEY

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University President Morton Schapiro discussed Northwestern’s efforts to diversify its student body and expand global outreach at a Tuesday Q&A. Schapiro, who will depart NU in August, said making the University more accessible and affordable has been a primary goal of his tenure. When he arrived in 2009, he said, 8% of the student body was first generation, and the number has now risen to 15%.

Thirty percent of the entering undergraduate class is Black, Latine or Native American, compared to 11% when he began at NU, Schapiro said. The percentage of international students in the incoming class has also risen from 4 to 11%, he added.

“I was a little surprised when I got here 13 years ago that our financial aid packages for a school as rich as this one were really bad,” he said. “If a student turns us down to go to Duke or Penn or Dartmouth or Amherst, and it’s a low-income student, that should be their choice … it should not be based on price.”

One of Schapiro’s first actions as president was to allocate more money to financial aid to ensure a needbased aid system, he said. In January, NU was sued for antitrust violations in collusion with 15 other U.S. universities to illegally reduce student financial aid.

One World \ One Northwestern, a group that connects University staff, hosted the Q&A event. “(One World) is meant to have us meet each other across departments … (including) those of us who work in international areas or who support faculty and students with their own international goals,” said Kim Rapp, assistant vice president for international relations.

Vice President for International Relations Dévora Grynspan, who moderated the conversation, said though many NU alums are highly positioned in foreign governments, the University has historically fallen behind in cultivating relationships with global alumni. “(The Kellogg School of Management), of course, has always been more international, and the law school does a lot, but Northwestern as a whole has lagged

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behind other peer universities (in international alumni outreach),” Grynspan said Schapiro said he partly credits this trend to a historical separation between NU and Kellogg.

Don Jacobs, Kellogg’s dean from 1975 to 2001, was among the greatest administrators in the history of NU and American academia, Schapiro said, but Jacobs’ approach to the job hinged partly on distancing Kellogg from the broader University.

“He had a very specific philosophy,” Schapiro said.

“Northwestern was a good school, and Kellogg was a great school, and then any time those two things came together, it helped Northwestern, which wasn’t part of his job description.”

In his early travels as University president, Schapiro said he found NU and Kellogg were “completely separately branded.” He has since worked with subsequent Kellogg deans Sally Blount and Francesca

Cornelli to strengthen Universitywide relationships, Schapiro said.

Schapiro added that he would miss the intellectual stimulation of teaching and writing at NU. After 43 years in academia — 22 of which he spent as president at NU and Williams College — Schapiro said he has taken a full-time job working on climate change investments and alternative and sustainable energies.

“I’ve become, safe to say, obsessed about climate change,” he said. “I want to look (children) in the eye and say, ‘Grandpa tried to do something about the destruction of this world that my generation is unfortunately leaving to you.’”

Iris Swarthout contributed reporting. maiapandey@u.northwestern.edu

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Nevo: Reflections on my time on the Opinion desk LILY NEVO

OPINION EDITOR

Over the past two years, the opinion section has given me so much. It’s allowed me to articulate deeply personal experiences in ways I wouldn’t otherwise have been able to. It’s brought me incredible friendships, both with Daily staffers and readers alike. It’s provided space for me to advocate for the kind of support that often gets overlooked.

But the joy of writing for this section makes it hard to acknowledge this is not a sustainable role.

I wouldn’t trade my time as opinion editor for the world, but I cannot say this job didn’t, at times, break me.

Yes, I experienced the usual hate mail and online criticism many opinion editors face. These moments are tough, but what is truly taxing is how the inherent duties of this role exist at odds with my personal recovery.

We often fail to acknowledge the emotional labor that goes into public-facing work. It is one thing to read a story that contains triggering content, but it is another to sit with the story for a week, analyzing every word. I do my best to support the writers of these pieces throughout the editing and publication process, but often I fail to recognize that I am not taking care of myself.

When Chanel Miller spoke as part of the Center experiences may not do the same, just as I am not for Awareness, Response and Education’s program- as sensitive as I could be to the pieces on topics that ming for Sexual Assault Awareness Month, I asked I will never understand. In vulnerability, though, her about just this: How these little things can do you balance being a make all the difference. survivor yourself while For me, writing about also being a public my experiences in this force for supporting section was instrumental to my healing, survivors?

How do you balance being a but only because I felt She said she will supported by my editors never not be sad about survivor yourself while also bemany readers. what happened to her ing a public force for supporting andRepresentation and and what continues empathy are undeniably to happen to people survivors? important, but they do everyday. When someone discloses a personal Opinion Editor not come without a experience to you, it is cost. I am proud of the okay to be sad because impact my own pieces what they are describhave on survivors, and I ing is devastating. Yet am proud others found it is also relieving to know that by telling you, the the courage to come forward themselves. Yet in this person has less of a burden to carry. work, I not only feel overwhelmingly helpless, but I In many ways, I am glad I am the editor responalso feel like I am never doing enough. I know one sible for these pieces. I know how scary it can be to story cannot immediately change campus culture, send an initial draft of your story to someone you and I also know not everything is going to resonate don’t know, let alone release it publicly. I also know perfectly with everyone, but I cannot help but feel what it is like to read a heartbreaking piece and to like I am letting people down. observe how students discuss it online. These days For a while, I felt guilty about publishing triggering content because I know how hard it is to are incredibly difficult for writers and readers alike, read. If people who are affected by these issues are and I try to do what I can to alleviate some of the harmed when we publish pieces relating to them, stress. who are we really writing for? Yes, opinion writing I also know that an editor without these

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is persuasive and often aims to change the minds of those who are unaffected by an issue, but we do not want to retraumatize in the process. Ultimately, I realized this concern paled in comparison to the potential impact of these pieces. Writing is empowering, and reading a piece you relate to, even if it is painful, can be comforting.

More importantly, when people share their stories of trauma, we have a responsibility to listen. If someone wants to share their story in this section, I cannot stop them from doing so because I believe it could be too triggering for readers. That assumption in itself is incredibly harmful.

I am immensely grateful for the writers who have written for this section; so many people feel less alone because of it. The power in these pieces would not be possible without their personal and shamelessly subjective nature, but we must also consider how the emotional labor required for their publication impacts all involved. Maybe this is a larger conversation on not expecting those with a specific trauma to be responsible for all activism on the issue, or maybe I am just burnt out. For now, I am excited to rest.

Lily Nevo is a Weinberg sophomore. She can be contacted at lilynevo2024@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.

Hiredesai: When will mass shootings in America end?

ANNIKA HIREDESAI

ASSISTANT OPINION EDITOR

Content warning: This story discusses gun violence and death.

I learned how to hide from gunmen as a 7-yearold when our elementary school first instituted code red drills. I think we were actually told that we were practicing how to hide from a wild animal on the loose, but we all knew why we were packed in the far corner of the room with the lights out and furniture against a locked door. The terrible truth is that in the United States, school children being gunned down is not just a nightmare, but our monstrous reality.

On Tuesday, my professor spoke about the evolution of domestic terrorism in the United States post 9/11 in light of the recent attack on a supermarket in Buffalo, NY, targeting Black people that left 10 dead.

He noted that increasingly, acts of terror are committed by lone gunmen targeting vulnerable civilians in public places. Just hours later, my phone pinged and I saw the notification reading “A shooting at an elementary school in Texas…”

Words cannot do justice to the staggering losses families have suffered at the hands of gun violence, to the fear and agony in the hearts of so many Americans. I am beyond frustrated that it is even necessary for me to write this. Still, I am here pleading with you to listen and use your voice.

One argument against gun control legislation is that reform is unnecessary because a mass shooting is the result of one sick individual’s actions. While I agree this country is in the midst of a mental health crisis, that is no justification for this violence. How can we reduce gun violence to the individual if there have been more than 200 mass shootings already this year? How can we reduce gun violence to the individual if violent people exist in every corner of the world, yet gun violence is a uniquely American plague?

There are also those who claim limiting gun

ownership targets the wrong group of people. They insist legally-purchased firearms are not the problem.

I need not look further than the gunman who killed 21 people on Tuesday in Uvalde, Texas, to suggest otherwise. Texas Sen. Roland Gutierrez said he was briefed that the shooter legally purchased two semiautomatic rifles on his 18th birthday. I do not think I am alone in asking how we can justify a teenager’s access to weapons capable of murdering nineteen children and two teachers.

Despite the political polarization and unwillingness to compromise that characterizes our legislative bodies, I am not — I refuse to be — without hope that change is within reach. I think back to March 2018 when I and millions other concerned people gathered outside high schools and city halls to march for our lives, one of the largest protests in American history. As we collectively walked out of class and spilled onto the sidewalk with posters clutched in our hands, I stood side-by-side with my peers as we voiced our fears and frustrations into the emotionally-charged air. These demonstrations were the catalyst for several steps forward in gun reform:

Crawford: Medill should work with SESP COLIN CRAWFORD

ASSISTANT OPINION EDITOR

Solutions journalism is a push within the journalism industry to report not only on social issues but also on how people are working to resolve these problems. This type of reporting is about the bigger picture behind a problem and if measures currently in place are working. The goal of solutions journalism is to provide readers with a deeper understanding of a problem and its potential solutions, thereby promoting informed citizenship.

For example, instead of just reporting on climate change, stories explaining why current policies are ineffective or what countries are doing to mitigate this problem are essential to providing a fuller picture of the issue.

Without these stories, the news is a source of anxiety for many. Solutions journalism is attempting to change that.

Organizations like the Solutions Journalism Network seek to inform people about what solutions journalism is and why it is important. Too often, reporters relegate success stories to the back burner and give preference to doom and gloom.

The Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications is definitely aware of this movement, and the first-year introductory curriculum touches on the topic. But even if Medill is educating its students about it, there seems to be institutional barriers to giving students the education

needed for this burgeoning section of the industry.

There is a clear pathway to achieving a solutions journalism education without making substantial curriculum changes within Medill. Instead, Medill needs to form a closer partnership with the School of Education and Social Policy, which includes a variety of classes that cover social policy. Imagine a world in which journalism students can also get extensive public policy education. This would greatly aid the movement currently revolutionizing the industry.

Medill students are highly encouraged to pursue second majors or minors, and students are also required to fill a Weinberg concentration of five courses in the same department to complete their degree.

But Medill students cannot double major in SESP or fulfill their concentration in a SESP program because the concentration is restricted to Weinberg programs only. This policy is restrictive, and the two schools should be working on a solution to this problem. This idea is an old one that has been brought up numerous times, but no real action has been taken in terms of strengthening the bond between Medill and SESP. In order to truly allow NU to become a university that follows the creed of “AND is in our DNA,” these barriers across schools should not be so strict. It is understandable that double majoring between Medill and SESP would require a substantial course load and would restrict the number of elective classes, but this doesn’t explain why Medill students can’t use SESP to fill their concentration requirement.

Medill prides itself on being the best journalism school in the country, and it has an amazing preprofessional program. But, I worry it solely prepares students for their role as heralders of the news rather

than their role as explainers and sense-makers.

It has become increasingly apparent that while the industry has evolved substantially, Medill has remained stagnant. It feels like Medill still thinks the road to a journalism career is in a brick and mortar newsroom, and as highlighted by Sama Ben Amer’s piece in North by Northwestern, an extremely white one at that.

It is no secret Medill has an accessibility problem.

In a world where media literacy is more important than ever, few Medill courses are open to Northwestern students outside of Medill. In doing so, Medill itself perpetuates this problem. Not only are other students unable to access Medill, but Medill students are also isolated from their peers.

Change is gradual, and Medill has a long way to go, but there are certain steps that should be taken sooner rather than later. Allowing students to pursue academic opportunities in SESP is one of them.

A Medill and SESP collaboration is what students deserve because it would allow us to enter the industry better suited to serving communities and informing people about issues in a fuller way. Medill has a unique opportunity to create a responsible reporter: one who listens, researches and delves deeper to find the bigger picture. The tools are all here, at NU — they just need to be used.

Colin Crawford is a Medill first-year. He can be contacted at colincrawford2025@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..

prohibition of bump stocks, gun safety groups outspending the National Rifle Association and historical midterm election youth turnout.

Still, these victories were clearly not enough to prevent future gun violence in America. Further legislation, particularly banning assault-style weapons, is necessary. We have accumulated so much trauma as a nation inundated with mass shootings. We note exits in movie theaters, feel anxious at concerts and sporting events and worry for our children in schools.

I encourage you to contribute what you are able toward aid for victims and their families. Moreover, take your anguish, your fury, your heartbreak, and use it to organize, march and vote for change — for life.

Annika Hiredesai is a Weinburg junior. She can be contacted at annikahiredesai2023@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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AASP senior symposium highlights student projects

By ASTRY RODRIGUEZ

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More than 40 people gathered to view the Asian American Studies Program thesis presentations at the annual Senior Symposium on Tuesday evening.

Seniors presented their work and answered questions at the event, held at Harris Hall.

The seven projects focused on studying different mediums including poetry, visual art and documentary.

AASP Director and Prof. Patricia Nguyen, who organized the event, said the diversity of student research shows the extensive opportunities for studies in the field.

“The symposium is the culmination of years of work from our Asian American majors, and it really highlights the importance of Asian American studies and the vast range of interdisciplinary types of research that can be done,” Nguyen said.

Nguyen said the senior immersion projects are each 40 to 60 pages long and reflect students’ efforts.

The seniors drew from materials in their AASP classes and personal research for their theses. They expored topics like immigration, intergenerational trauma, anti-fatness, feminism and workforce oppression in the Asian American community.

For her project, Medill senior Imani Sumbi studied three graphic novels that work against

African American Studies faculty unanimously vote to rename department African American Studies faculty voted unanimously on April 6 to change the department’s name to Black Studies, department chair Mary Pattillo told The Daily Monday.

In accordance with Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences rules for renaming a department, the change could take about a year to be finalized, Pattillo said in an email to The Daily. The department must first submit a formal proposal

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Seven students presented their immersion projects at the AASP senior symposium in Harris Hall.

archival silences, highlighting topics suppressed in Western academic institutions in favor of advancing Eurocentric accounts of major historical events.

The graphic novels covered a range of historical events such as the Vietnam War, and personal

topics like navigating white spaces as an Asian American. Sumbi said she read the graphic novels at least three times over.

She said graphic novels are not usually considered literature like traditional novels, but the visual books intrigued her because they entwine

to Weinberg Dean Adrian Randolph, who will review it and put it on the college’s faculty meeting agenda for readings and a vote. If the dean and faculty support the proposal, it will be submitted to the University provost and president.

Pattillo said conversations about a renaming have been ongoing for the past 10 to 15 years, with the department hosting a town hall every couple of years on the topic. She added that when the department announced the plans for a name change at its 50th anniversary celebration Friday, attendees responded with a standing ovation.

“The motivation comes from the fact that

the name ‘African American Studies’ privileges the Americas (over Africa, Europe, and other regions) and is most often read to mean the U.S., leaving out Latin America, Canada, and the Caribbean,” Pattillo said in the email.

To gauge community input, Pattillo said she sent out a survey this year to current African American Studies majors and minors, graduate students, faculty and students enrolled in the department’s courses. Of 151 respondents, only 36% thought the current name represented the people, content and curriculum of the department, Pattillo said.

The department hosted a session on March 30 to discuss these survey results, attended by

familial and national histories.

“There’s something poetic about using a subversive medium to tell a subversive story,” Sumbi said.

Weinberg senior Isabell Liu’s presentation, “The Weight of Our Liberation,” focused on the liberation of Asian American bodies from white supremacist and anti-fat views about the body.

While they mostly used scholarly sources, they said Twitter proved central to activism against systemic oppression of plus-sized people.

“Twitter is a great source for fat activism and fat liberation theory,” said Liu. “The interesting thing about Twitter is that it’s outside the walls of academia.”

Liu said their goal was for their thesis to serve as care work for their interviewees and for academics.

Nguyen said AASP started because of student protests over the University’s curriculum omitting Asian American experiences. A 23-day hunger strike by the Asian American Advisory Board and other students in February 1995 led to the creation of AASP in 1999.

Nguyen said the projects allow students to address issues that are important to them and further their representation in courses. “(The symposium) really highlights the way that students engage with the course material and also shows how creative and innovative they are,” said Nguyen. “They’re creating and analyzing their own work and research interests.” astryrodriguez2025@u.northwestern.edu about 40 people in-person and virtually, Pattillo said.

“At that meeting the clear consensus for a new name was Black Studies,” she said. “This name better reflects what many Black people call ourselves, and it encompasses the entirety of the Black Diaspora.”

The name is also more reflective of the 1968 demands of student activists for “a Black Studies course,” Pattillo said. These demands, issued in the aftermath of the Bursar’s Office Takeover, led to the creation of the department.

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“What is wrong with three-cueing is that it doesn’t give enough of a toolbox to decode new words,” Norton said. “Having that approach of being able to systematically attack a new word is better than being able to just guess.”

The Orton-Gillingham approach and Wilson Language Training, which offers multiple programs that engage students’ senses to teach reading, are both research-based.

While it may be particularly necessary for students with dyslexia, Norton said high-quality phonics instruction is the best method to reach all kids.

District 65 currently uses an updated version of the Lucy Calkins curriculum, which traditionally used a three-cueing approach.

Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction Stacy Beardsley said the district added more phonics about a year and a half ago and is now looking for a new curriculum.

Support for struggling students District 65 offers tiered interventions for students in addition to individualized support for students with IEPs and 504 plans. Donna Cross, District 65’s director of multi-tiered system of supports and social emotional learning, said those interventions often use small-group phonics-based approaches.

Romy DeCristofaro, the assistant superintendent of District 65’s student services, said she’s heard parental concerns that some students didn’t receive proper early intervention.

“We’ve been working really hard as a district to make sure that we are responsive and catching kids earlier,” DeCristofaro said. “I think we are doing a better job over the last couple of years.”

The district now has Wilson-trained or certified staff in every building, a recent change, DeCristofaro said. If students continue to struggle, she urged families to problem-solve with their schools.

Starting in first grade, Papastratakos said her son received level three interventions, the highest intervention that doesn’t involve a specialized plan.

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Papastratakos got an outside diagnosis for her son’s dyslexia at the end of third grade.

When she met with the school, she said the district did not have adequate data or review to guide its decisions to continue systems she felt were “clearly not working.”

In fourth grade, Papastratakos said her son was placed in a Wilson program by the district for half an hour twice a week. She pulled him out of the program a few months in.

“The Wilson (instruction) that they offered him had been provided to him, but it was ineffective because the teacher didn’t really have the ability to manage the class,” Papastratakos said.

If the school had given him proper instruction, Papastratakos said her son wouldn’t have needed remedial instruction or undergone the same level of emotional distress.

M. also faced challenges getting evidencebased instruction.

Though she requested multiple times that Peter receive support from an Orton-Gillingham-trained teacher, she said he never did.

“Any intervention that he was ever offered by the district was not an intervention that is evidence-based to be effective,” M. said.

Papastratakos and M., however, both said some individual teachers within District 65 were largely supportive despite a lack of training.

Peter agreed.

“The teachers gave enough attention,” he said. “The other curriculum that they teach was off of what I needed to learn.”

Dyslexia screening and diagnosis District 65 began offering universal dyslexia screening through Measure of Academic Progress Reading Fluency in the 2020-2021 school year, but used other universal screeners prior to that, according to Beardsley and DeCristofaro.

Beardsley said the district works further with students flagged through MAP testing.

M., however, got an outside evaluation confirming her son’s dyslexia. She said the district still didn’t put the diagnosis in his IEP to ensure he received support. “(If ) they actually said, ‘This child has dyslexia,’ then they legally are obliged to offer

support, which they don’t have,” M. said.

DeCristofaro said an outside diagnosis would generally be recorded in a document like a 504 plan or IEP. But because such diagnoses often require parental awareness and access to outside evaluation, Norton said students of color are likely underdiagnosed. Dyslexia diagnoses also often overlook bilingual students, she said.

In the 2019-2020 school year, 69% of District 65 students performed at or above grade level in English Language Arts, but the district saw significant disparities. Only 43% of Black students and 48% of Hispanic students met this benchmark compared to 90% of white students.

Additionally, only 23% of students with an IEP performed at or above grade level in ELA. Beardsley declined to provide numbers for districtwide dyslexia diagnoses. DeCristofaro said the District 65 system is designed to catch and support all students, regardless of diagnosis. “​​A child doesn’t need a dyslexia diagnosis to get the instructional support,” DeCristofaro said. “Most of the outside diagnoses that we get … are predominantly coming from white families.”

Starting this school year, the district also began using MAP to screen in Spanish, she said. District 65 also started offering Esperanza, a multi-sensory phonics approach to Spanish reading education, this year.

Leaving the school district Three weeks after Papastratakos’ son returned from remote learning with a new IEP last February, he came home and said school felt like a “fog.” Papastratakos returned him to remote learning and enrolled him in a literacyfocused school the next year.

“I felt really happy because I knew that wherever I was going to go next was somewhere where I was going to understand the learning,” her son said.

While she said his reading has improved, the cost of private school takes up to 70% of her income.

M. also pulled Peter out of Orrington during the COVID-19 pandemic, enrolling him in Redwood Day School. The Rogers Park school

tailors education for children with dyslexia. Six months there, she said, drained her savings.

Though Peter has returned to public school, M. said she thinks he needs at least another year of private education. She said his current supports mainly focus on his ADHD and educational supplements like text-to-speech.

“We can’t afford to send him to Redwood for two years,” she said. “But if we’re gonna have to send him, we want to send him in eighth grade, so they can sort of catch him up for high school.”

Beyond financial concerns, DeCristofaro said District 65 also offers other advantages.

“You might be giving up some of the great science, social studies and other types of fine arts curriculums that we have here in District 65,” she said. “You might be giving up certain types of inclusive experiences.”

Coming change As the district expands the number of teachers trained in evidence-based methods, Beardsley said teachers are also testing new materials in English classes to evaluate during next school year.

Meanwhile, Papastratakos is working on advocacy from the outside. She began Dyslexia Connection of Evanston to help dyslexic kids meet each other and discuss their strengths.

She’s pushing for change, including through a lecture series on dyslexia and reading. However, Papastratakos said she won’t return her son to District 65 schools as long as she can afford to keep him in private school.

“I want him to go to a school where I feel confident that they will execute the program that we put in place,” she said. “I do not feel that way at the public school at District 65 at all.” avivabechky2025@u.northwestern.edu Scan this QR code with Snapchat or your smartphone camera to view an accompanying video on PLEASE EDIT ME TY TY!!

HOME AWAY FROM HOME

McCormick sophomore Maria Charisi holds the Orthodox baptism charm she received from her mother when she was baptized as a baby.

Weinberg junior Chloe Lee wears a watch gifted to her by her grandmother after Lee saved her life.

“Every time before I leave Greece my mom always asks if I have it with me,” Charisi said, “She says that it’ll keep me safe. I’ve had the charm with me forever.”

Wang said the blanket reminds him of the home he finds in his friends and community, beyond the physical city of Shanghai. Growing up an American citizen but raised abroad among expatriates, Wang said the difference between nationality, identity and belonging has become interesting to navigate.

“I don’t really go to Korea that often anymore, but the one time I did go to Korea, my grandmother actually fell down the stairs outdoors, and if I wasn’t there, nobody would have known. It would’ve been a big tragedy,” Lee The books represent a cultural environment of “having all the time to create” that he grew up around, Ayoob said. He said he remembers going to his grandparents’ house, and the paintings in the books would be on the walls.

“A question that my friends and I will ask each other when we catch up is, ‘Have you changed the way you introduce yourself?’ It changes,” Wang said.

Charisi and her family bought matching shell bracelets on their last vacation together before she left for college. The bracelet reminds her of her family and her culture, she said, which she misses the most.

Weinberg freshman William Wang holds his class graduation gift from Shanghai American School, an international school in China. Wang and his friends agreed to bring their blankets with them to college.

“Everyone is very welcoming, loud and fun,” Charisi said. “Here, you might not even know your own neighbor.”

“We still keep in touch, and every once in a while you see this in the back of a video call and you’re like, ‘I have that too!’” Wang said.

“Everybody is into art and does art,” Ayoob said, “Even if they’re not that good at it. I feel like it’s a very not-American ideal to do something even if you’re no good at it.”

Both her parents worked, so Lee was raised by her grandmother. Lee’s childhood in Korea meant the most to her, she said. Though she moved to China when she was ten years old, Lee said she still considers Korea her home.

“I still find Korean most comfortable to use, even as of now,” she said.

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Weinberg sophomore Raza Ayoob looks through a Pakistani art monograph filled with colors that remind him of his hometown and his family.

“The colors that pepper my existence,” Ayoob said. “In these books and in these pages are things that inspire me, things that I look to for home.”

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City Council confirms Fournier as city manager

By ELENA HUBERT

the daily northwestern @elenahubert25

City Council and Mayor Daniel Biss voted 9-1 on Monday to appoint John Fournier as Evanston’s next city manager following a three-month search process at Monday’s meeting, amid backlash from residents.

His term is set to start July 10.

“I just look forward to… hitting the ground running and working with all of you and the staff and the community to achieve your very ambitious goals,” Fournier said at the meeting.

Fournier said Monday he was attracted to the position because of Evanston’s “commitment to really ambitious, progressive change.” He said he is excited to tackle civic initiatives including the climate crisis and budget reallocation.

City Council has discussed both topics extensively in recent months. The council declared a climate crisis in April, pushing its Climate Action and Resilience Plan to the top of the city’s priority list. Additionally,

the council finalized the 2022 city budget, designating final buckets for its federal American Rescue Plan Act funding package.

Fournier also said he is excited to engage with what he sees as the “urgent work” regarding diversity, equity and inclusion in Evanston’s city manager role.

Local activists have debated Fournier’s commitment to racial equity and staged a protest outside Palmhouse, where Mayor Daniel Biss delivered his first State of the City address Friday after the city announced they intended to appoint Fournier.

Jonah Karsh was one of seven residents who spoke during public comment to oppose Fournier’s appointment. Karsh said there were “very problematic” questions in a background check administered to potential employees when Fournier was the interim director of human resources in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

He referred specifically to questions asking candidates about personal history of underage drinking and prior presence at gatherings where illegal drugs were used.

“It says something about potential blind spots to equity which residents have repeatedly expressed as

the most important issue for the next city manager,” Karsh said.

The city of Ann Arbor ultimately cleared Fournier of all charges.

Ald. Bobby Burns (5th) responded that Fournier’s questions were “deeply concerning” — but not illegal.

During the interview process, Burns said he was impressed by Fournier’s answers on topics related to equity, including the need for a city equity commissioner, a currently vacant position. Fournier has also committed to initiating diversity, equity and inclusion training upon his appointment, bringing an equity lens to the role, Burns said.

“Equity is about outcomes,” Burns said. “We need somebody that can come in and is ready to take action.”

Carl Klein, a 3rd Ward resident, said most community members did not want Fournier to be the next city manager.

Upon independently reviewing results from the city manager candidate survey, Klein said he found the majority of wards favored the other finalist, Snapper Poche.

Attendees at the protest Friday representing

Evanston’s Community Alliance for Better Government told the Daily they felt Poche was the better choice because of his leadership experience and commitment to climate action.

Wendy Pollock, the co-chair of the city’s Environment Board, said she was impressed by Ann Arbor, Michigan’s climate change mitigation efforts and hopes that Fournier will be able to bring that experience to Evanston.

Pollock was the sole resident to speak in favor of Fournier at the meeting On the other hand, Ald. Clare Kelly (1st) was the only council member to vote against Fournier’s appointment.

Echoing that there was a clear majority of her ward in support of Poche, Kelly said she could not support Fournier due to equity concerns.

“I’m concerned that the background that we’ve all been able to see does not represent or will (not) lead us in the kind of change that the community would like to see,” Kelly said. elenahubert2025@u.northwestern.edu

Biss reflects on first year as mayor in State of the City

By JORJA SIEMONS

daily senior staffer @twitterhandle

Content warning: This article contains mentions of sexual assault.

Mayor Daniel Biss reflected on Evanston’s challenges and accomplishments during the past year at his first address at the annual State of the City Luncheon Friday.

“It has been an incredible education, a remarkable journey,” he said. “There have been times of real joy, (and) there have been times of real pain in our community.”

Biss took to the podium at Palmhouse amid a tumultuous month for the city. In recent weeks, city officials and residents have discussed fluctuating COVID-19 caseloads, high political turnover and mixed reactions to City Council’s intent to appoint John Fournier as city manager.

As guests filed into the venue on Howard Street Friday morning, about 20 residents protested the city manager selection process outside with signs like “I’m Pissed @ Biss” and “Outraged and Betrayed Again.” “(Ann Arbor, Michigan) has the exact same problems we have, and (Fournier) has been there for years, and I don’t see that he solved any,” Community Alliance for Better Government member and former 7th ward aldermanic candidate Mary Rosinski said at the protest. “They just came out of a scandal, they just came out of budget problems … it’s time we finally start with a clean slate here.”

The annual in-person event — canceled last year due to COVID-19 — was hosted by the Evanston Chamber of Commerce and sponsored by Rotary International, NorthShore University HealthSystem and Evanston RoundTable. Tickets for the event were $75.

Biss did not address either the protesters outside

or the city manager search itself in his nearly 50-minute speech. Early on, he praised the city’s Restorative Housing Program, the first reparations initiative of its kind nationally.

The program recently allocated $25,000 each to 16 residents, which they can spend on home improvement assistance, mortgage assistance or a home purchase. Black residents who lived in Evanston or had parents who lived in the city from 1919 to 1969 qualify.

While Biss acknowledged the program as “a small step,” addressing some critiques of the program’s scope, he said it sets an important precedent.

“It’s a game changer in terms of…what kind of bar we’ve set for other communities that want to truly grapple with their past,” he said.

Biss also highlighted another soon-to-be launched city initiative: a guaranteed income program.

Criticizing the ideology that “you can’t trust poor people with money,” Biss said the city is on the precipice of launching a program with funding from Northwestern’s Good Neighbor Racial Equity Fund.

Biss said the program’s guiding theory is that a community experiencing economic hardship should receive more resources.

“That theory, unfortunately, after a 40-year assault has started to feel radical,” he said.

In his speech, Biss also spoke about an increase in violent crime across the country.

Biss said people have become concerned about their own safety and their community’s climate — leading to resident sentiments that present false dichotomies surrounding public safety.

“The thing that worries me the most is that some of the communication that I get seems to suggest we’ve got to choose,” he said. “We’ve got to choose between safety and racial justice.”

Biss referenced the Reimagining Public Safety Committee, established in May 2021. Though the committee was originally tasked with offering

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Mayor Daniel Biss at May 24’s City Council meeting. Biss gave the annual State of the City address Friday at Palmhouse, addressing city councilmembers and residents alike.

recommendations for the 2022 city budget regarding the Evanston Police Department, it ultimately did not meet that expectation.

Biss said one critical public safety success is the city’s commitment to the creation of a Living Room Program, a walk-in mental health crisis center.

The mayor ended his speech by addressing the “unspeakable acts of abuse” at the city’s lakefront, referring to the allegations of a culture of sexual misconduct within Evanston’s lakefront staff.

Biss said he is proud to say he felt the city treated

the crisis with the seriousness it deserved, bringing in an independent third-party investigation.

He also acknowledged the tremendous amount of turnover in the city — and the high number of interim positions filled by staff.

“I don’t want that frustration and anger to lead into feeling like there’s something wrong with all that,” he said. “That turnover means that there is change coming to the city.” jorjasiemons2024@u.northwestern.edu

Local historical organizations celebrate Preservation Month

By XUANDI WANG

daily senior staffer @aaronwangxxx

The Shorefront Legacy Center unveiled two inaugural heritage site markers this month as part of a project seeking to recognize African American Heritage Sites and African Americans’ contributions to the Evanston community.

On May 14, residents gathered at Edwin B. Jourdain Jr. and Lorraine H. Morton’s homes to honor these sites in a milestone of this mission. The event was part of the Evanston Preservation Commission’s Preservation Month 2022: “People Saving Places” celebration.

Throughout May, the commission is hosting several events across the city.

Shorefront Legacy Center invited community members to designate historical places they view as vital to the community before reviewing the

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suggestions in a committee, according to co-Founder Morris “Dino” Robinson.

Robinson said he hopes this process will help residents regain agency in telling the area’s history.

“When you have groups or institutions who are unfamiliar with a population (that) are attempting to tell that story, they may not understand the nuances and particulars of this particular community,” Robinson said. “We want to put that control back in the power of the community, so that they determine what’s important. They write a narrative and justify it on their own terms.”

A former resident of one of the sites honored at the event, Lorraine H. Morton was Evanston’s first Black mayor. She began her career as a teacher at Foster School in 1953 and served the Evanston community for more than 50 years. Robinson said Morton advocated for economic growth in the downtown area during her administration.

In 1931, Edwin Jourdain — a former resident of the other heritage site — became Evanston’s first Black alderman, a position he held until 1947. Robinson said Jourdain was a driving force in the struggle against the city’s Jim Crow policies, desegregating movie theaters, public beaches and other public spaces.

Six additional Heritage Markers will be placed on sites in Evanston by the end of the year, Robinson said.

The designation of the historical markers was the first of three events held in Preservation Month. On May 12, the History Center hosted a presentation by transit historian Walter Keevil about the Yellow Line, and on May 19 and 22, the Frances Willard House, a national historic landmark, reopened for in-person tours.

Willard, a former educator and suffragette, was a founding member of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, which began in 1874. She faced criticism from anti-lynching activist and journalist Ida B. Wells, who said she used stereotypes of Black males misusing alcohol and attacking women to gain support for WCTU concerns in the South.

Lori Osborne, director of the Frances Willard House Museum, said although Willard was not a perfect leader, she promoted women’s rights and their quality of life. Osborne added that visitors are urged to take a close look at Willard’s life to understand the complete story of her work.

“At this particular moment in our history, we are grappling with what it means to honor leaders in our past,” Osborne said. “We’re trying to come to some understanding where we can really face the truth of people’s leadership, but while still recognizing them for the wonderful work that they did.”

Carlos Ruiz, the city’s preservation coordinator, helped organize Preservation Month. He said he hopes this month’s events can help citizens become more aware of the variety of people who contributed to Evanston’s culture and history.

With Preservation Month coming to an end, he hopes people will continue to learn about their own community’s history.

“Evanston has long prided itself in being a very diverse community,” Ruiz said. “So we try to make sure that we recognize everybody who has contributed regardless of their race or religion or ethnic background.” xuandiwang2022@u.northwestern.edu

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Council eliminates cannabis screenings for city jobs

By ILANA AROUGHETI

the daily northwestern @ilana_arougheti

City Council voted unanimously Monday to stop screening city employment applicants for cannabinoids. With this rule, recreational use of marijuana will no longer prevent residents from applying to city job postings.

Since marijuana is legal in Illinois, the council discussed how to regulate on-hours use — which could impair an employee’s performance — versus off-hours use, which Ald. Bobby Burns (5th) said is not illicit and beyond the employer’s purview.

Burns said the removal of a pre-employment screening would uphold privacy on off-hours. Caseby-case testing based on workplace behavior, meanwhile, would keep a check on employees during billable hours, though cannabinoid tests sometimes won’t come up negative until a day or two after use.

He compared this standard to the way that most workplaces approach employees’ alcohol habits.

“We’re allowing people to drink wine and beer and other alcoholic beverages during off-work hours, and if they behave out of the ordinary, then we can test them, which is essentially all this will do for cannabis,” Burns said. “So we’d be putting this in mind with how we treat another legal substance in Illinois.”

Since the city’s federal funding relies on a drugfree workplace policy, Corporate Council Nicholas Cummings said the city would be able to individually test employees based on abnormal behavior, even if they did not screen for cannabinoids before offering employment contracts.

This screening system could be sufficient for upholding drug-free workplace standards, Cummings said, as long as employees are trained in initiating screenings without bias.

“It is important that we train our supervisors and managers and areas of commitment from human

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Councilmembers discuss proposed ordinances at Monday’s meeting. When considering waiving cannabinoid screenings, the council considered safety-based exemptions, as well as differentiating between on-the-clock and recreational use of marijuana.

resources to do that to make sure we actually spot faults and we’re not targeting people,” Cummings said.

Ald. Peter Braithwaite (2nd) said he was cautious about stopping screening processes for some employees hired through the city — particularly first responders like police officers and firefighters, and those who operate heavy machinery.

In response, Cummings clarified that candidates for positions that require a commercial drivers’ license for major machinery could not skip the cannabinoid screening due to federal regulations. Similarly, he said, testing requirements for Evanston Police Department employees are determined by police union contract

negotiations and are not set by the city.

Chicago has similar procedures to the new ordinance. The city’s municipal government excludes cannabinoids from pre-employment screening with exceptions for union employees and “safetysensitive positions,” said Interim City Manager Kelley Gandurski.

Burns said Evanston’s Administration and Public Works Committee hotly debated the ordinance earlier that afternoon.

The city is currently hiring for 63 municipal positions, including police officers, school bus drivers and managerial roles in recreation, health and human

services. Most open positions are full-time.

The city used American Rescue Plan Act funds to bring back some municipal job openings after reducing overall staff size during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Reflecting recent national employment trends, multiple Evanston departments — notably, EPD — are now short-staffed.

“In case anyone hasn’t noticed, marijuana is legal in Illinois,” Ald. Juan Geracaris (9th) said. “And we shouldn’t be denying employment for people who partake.”

Department of Transportation to improve sidewalks near Evanston/Skokie School District 65 schools and along certain routes to the schools.

Funds from IDOT’s Safe Routes to School initiative will be used to repair sidewalks, reducing concerns of tripping hazards, water pooling and poor ice conditions near schools. About 24,000 square

feet of sidewalk will be affected.

The Safe Routes to School Program is meant to enable and encourage students to walk or bike to school, promoting active lifestyles and improving safety while reducing traffic and air pollutants near schools.

IDOT chose 57 projects from 102 applicants

from across the state this year, granting more than $12.3 million total in federal funds to education groups and local governments.

The city expects to complete design specifications for approval in 2023, with construction set for 2024.

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Here are Evanston’s summer food service programs

By AVANI KALRA

daily senior staffer @avanidkalra

In recent years, Evanston has expanded its availability of fresh fruits and vegetables for residents of all ages. This summer, residents can access meals through a summer food program and a number of food pantries and learn business management skills through food-related programs.

Summer food program Free cold breakfast and lunches will be available Monday through Friday for youth ages one to 18 from June 13 through August 12. Meals are available at the Dewey School, the Fleetwood-Jourdain Community Center, Mason Park, the Robert Crown Community Center, the King Arts School and Oakton School.

Breakfast will be served from 8 to 9:30 a.m. and lunch from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Meals for seniors The city provides meals year-long to people ages 60 or older in five-day frozen meal packs through drive through grab-and-go. Eligible Evanston residents can apply online or visit the Levy Center to

access the meals through its drive-through service.

Older adults can get meals delivered from the North Shore Senior Center. The program offers frozen meals and meals accommodating dietary restrictions during delivery from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Produce Mobile Interfaith Action of Evanston’s Produce Mobile visits Evanston the second Tuesday of every month from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. It distributes boxes of fresh fruits and vegetables to Cook County residents at the Robert Crown Community Center.

According to Mary Beth Roth, who volunteers for Produce Mobile, the Produce Mobile also gives out personal hygiene items like laundry detergent, bar soap and dryer sheets.

Food pantries Any Evanston resident can pick up food from food pantries around the city, subject to availability and a limited number of pickups per month.

Evanston residents can pick up food from Connections for the Homeless from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m weekdays; Evanston Vineyard Food Pantry from 6 to 7 p.m. Wednesdays; Hemenway United Methodist Church Pantry every second and fourth Friday from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m.; Hillside Food Pantry Wednesdays

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4 to 6 p.m. and Saturdays 2 to 4 p.m.; Faith and Food Bank Sherman United Methodist Church between 4 to 5:30 p.m. Thursdays; and the Giving Storeroom at Family Focus between 9 a.m. and noon.

Food as employment The YWCA Evanston began a 12-week job training program in 2019 to prepare clients for jobs in the food service industry. The program is free and allows for training in communication, interview practice, resume writing and basic money management. Participants earn a ServSafe Food Handler Certificate

and receive assistance with job placement.

Students do all of the cooking for residents in the YWCA’s domestic violence shelter, according to Erin Venable, vice president of marketing and communications at YWCA Evanston/North Shore.

“A lot of people cook, but this is the empowerment part of it,” Venable said. “You have skills that are employable and in demand. There is a huge food industry here and a lot of opportunities and resources to go with that. This is the launching pad for that.” avanikalra2025@u.northwestern.edu

Evanston Pour provides morning and night venue

By KRISTEN AXTMAN

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From 8 a.m. to 9 p.m., customers walk down Dempster Street into Evanston Pour to get a pastry or a coffee from the local bakery. But in the late afternoon, Pour dims the lights, places candles on tables and starts playing ambient music.

Evanston Pour, a new coffeehouse, opened near the Dempster train station about two months ago. When a Starbucks store of 23 years closed in December 2021, Evanston Pour owner John Stumbaugh and his business partners saw an opportunity to create the new European-style coffeehouse. It’s now open every day

serving coffee, tea, beer, wine, small plates and pastries.

“It’s pretty cool to see people ordering coffee drinks and somebody’s having a beer or wine and then a small plate all at the same time,” Stumbaugh said.

Stumbaugh said Evanston Pour offers connection and fun, whether customers are coming for a drink, a date or a birthday celebration.

“One of the most rewarding parts about opening a coffee shop is seeing how people come together,” Stumbaugh said.

The coffeehouse has dark walls with hanging lights and large windows that let in natural light.

The café bar is centered in the middle of the space with tables and chairs set up around it.

Evanston Pour partners with Evanston Made to rotate work from local artists each month. This month,

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the shop features Cie Bond’s colorful multimedia collage-style wall art. Stumbaugh said almost all of Bond’s art has already sold out.

Stumbaugh said his personal favorite drink on the menu is the cortado, a Spanish coffee drink that has equal amounts of espresso and warm milk.

Evanston resident Eilidh Geddes ordered a glass of wine and a cheese plate. She said she’s glad to have Evanston Pour close to her apartment. “(It’s a) nice sidewalk café,” she said. “Beautiful inside decoration.”

Evanston resident Allison Wolcott said she used to see the Starbucks sign every time she visited Blind Faith Cafe across the street. She was happy to see Evanston Pour replace the chain.

“I love it. This is the first time I’ve come here and I

was pleasantly surprised to see ‘Oh, there’s an independent coffee shop,’” Walcott said. “I was really excited to come in, and it’s beautiful inside and across the street.”

Walcott said she likes that the community has a space to have conversations with each other. The sidewalk seating and well-organized indoors are both draws as well, she said.

Stumbaugh said bringing Evanston Pour to the community has been exciting.

“We have fantastic coffee service. Our team is trained really well,” Stumbaugh said. “At night, you can come in and get a glass of wine, and you can get a charcuterie plate or a panini or a salad, and so it’s kind of the best of both worlds.” kristenaxtman2025@u.northwestern.edu

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Other students affected by unrest report lack of aid NU has not hosted any similar program to support students affected by violence in other countries like Afghanistan and Ethiopia, Riles said. She said this is partly because the COVID-19 pandemic provided the Buffett Institute the tools to host virtual visiting professors for the first time.

However, the Taliban took over Afghanistan in August 2021, which was more than a year after NU students started virtual classes.

University spokesperson Jon Yates said NU established a humanitarian fund after hearing several students express concerns about returning home following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The fund, which supports living expenses, is open to all students, he said.

Yates said the Office of International Student and Scholar Services has led past efforts to support students affected by crises or war. These initiatives included helping students navigate Temporary Protected Status and advocating for additional academic support, Yates said.

But some students say these forms of aid are not widely advertised.

A Weinberg freshman from Syria, who asked to remain anonymous for safety reasons, said they did not receive any communication about summer aid programs or violence-related support from the University.

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systems has remained.

“Symbolically, Native Americans have been asked to do that — to give up all that they are culturally so that they are able to be accepted in the community,” Lawrence Curley said.

Learning sciences fifth-year Ph.D. candidate Nikki McDaid, Bang’s advisee and a close family friend, said they’ve seen ETHS systemically gloss over the experiences of Native students.

Disallowing Native regalia on the basis of uniformity misunderstands the social justice frameworks ETHS tries to uphold in its curriculum, said McDaid, who is Shoshone-Bannock. “(The incident) ignores Indigenous tribal sovereignty in a way that they don’t understand what equity really means,” McDaid said. “That is an equality framework, not an equity framework, and certainly not one that upholds sovereignty of Indigenous people and our ability to live in our cultural lifeways in the institution of the school.”

Bang clarified ETHS has done a lot of equity work, but not around Native issues. Members of their family have experienced similar antiIndigenous acts at different schools, Bang said, including playground games modeling racist and violent relationships, exclusionary social studies curricula and assigned material portraying Native people as racist stereotypes.

“As a student coming from war, there wasn’t any support or mention of what’s happening there,” they said. “Nobody talks about the Syrian war. It’s normalized for Middle Easterners to live under tragedy, but when something happened for Ukraine, places like Syria, Iraq and Palestine were just ignored.”

As a prospective student, they said they were not informed of any opportunity to apply outside the regular application cycle or submit unofficial documents in place of official transcripts or test scores, even though potential applicants from Ukraine were allowed to do so this year.

They said seeing the University’s newsletters, statements and panels expressing support for Ukraine hurt.

“My family is still living under war,” they said.

“We’re not treated equally to Ukranians. We’re still seen as inferior to white people, and we still do not deserve the same rights of safety or access to normal things. Living a normal life is just not really seen as our right.”

They added they would’ve appreciated receiving communication from NU about summer funding opportunities or extended deadlines.

McCormick freshman and Daily Op-ed Contributor Wahib Charamand is from Lebanon, where the value of currency has deflated dramatically in recent years, making it difficult for him to access any money his parents had in banks for savings. He said using money from Lebanon abroad means losing 80% of its value.

Charamand added there is also significant unrest in Lebanon, making it difficult for him to return.

“We’re taking a big hit on the value of our money to be able to pay tuition,” he said. “There were elections a week ago that made everything very unpredictable. The vibe of the country is very, very different than the way I left it. It’s deteriorated very fast.”

Charamand said he did not receive any communication from NU about special programming available for international students impacted by instability. He will be returning to Lebanon this summer and said he would have looked into an opportunity, had he known about it.

“My kids have been to other schools,” Bang said. “Same stuff, different school.”

An ETHS representative told The Daily ETHS is currently reviewing its graduation guidelines in relation to “acknowledging the history and stories of Indigenous students.”

“While ETHS has consistently shared with seniors that additional apparel or adornment on caps and gowns is not permitted during the graduation ceremony, we are taking the opportunity to examine our past practices,” the representative wrote.

Dozens of members of the Chicago-area Native community came to Evanston to join the family in celebrating Nimkii Curley’s graduation.

Throughout Sunday night and Monday morning, Nimkii Curley’s sibling, Miigis Curley, who is also Turtle Clan Ojibwe and Black Sheep Salt Clan Navajo, said she heard from several ETHS students decrying the administration’s decision.

To support their brother, Miigis Curley began circulating a petition to raise awareness of the incident.

“I was thinking about, ‘What do I need to do for the future?’ ‘What do I need to do at my graduation?’” Miigis Curley said. “‘How can I hold this and recognize what Nimkii has done for me, my sister, other Native kids and other POC kids and minorities?’”

The petition calls out the disparity between ETHS’s commitment to anti-racism and the

school’s actions at graduation. At press time, it had received more than 11,000 signatures.

This week, ETHS Principal Marcus Campbell came to the family’s home to apologize and personally deliver Nimkii Curley’s diploma.

In an update to the petition Sunday, Miigis Curley said Campbell sent an email saying the school planned to allow future graduates to wear Native regalia on their graduation uniforms.

“I was contemplating ending the petition because we did get word of change at ETHS,” Miigis Curley said. “But I decided to leave it up, mostly because it’s a place for people to share support.”

Bang said the petition seemed to provide an opportunity for many non-Indigenous students to show their support, though some students remained unsupportive.

Nimkii Curley said this level of peer support has surprised him, as it hasn’t existed previously.

In his sociology class during his last quarter at ETHS, Nimkii Curley said he sent out a Google Form survey asking if students were in support of merchandise from the Chicago Blackhawks. The mascot has been widely decried as racist imagery.

Though many students said they would support removal, Blackhawks merchandise is frequently worn at ETHS, Nimkii Curley said.

“They let it happen,” he said. “They know it’s wrong — they said it’s wrong — but they don’t care.”

Students say curriculum-based support has been selective Riles said more than 20 NU professors have signed up to host Ukranian scholars in their classes to lecture virtually or conduct a remote project with Ukrainian students. This allows the Buffett Institute to pay professors who currently cannot work in Ukraine an honorarium and provide them with financial support, according to Riles.

She said more than 200 scholars from Ukraine applied to teach at NU virtually.

Though the institute originally planned to bring Ukrainian scholars to NU’s campus, Riles said she was surprised to hear most Ukranian professors wanted to stay in their country.

“It’s an act of intellectual sovereignty to say, ‘We’re still here and we’re going to keep going,’” Riles said. “But that’s hard to do when your university has been bombed or you’ve been displaced for different parts of the country. So we set up a really

innovative program.”

Riles said the Buffett Institute has hosted scholars from countries other than Ukraine in the past, citing an initiative earlier this year with Pritzker to bring visiting scholars from Afghanistan to NU. Through this program, NU hosted just one scholar from Afghanistan, Najia Mahmodi, chief prosecutor for the Attorney General’s Office of Afghanistan.

Medill junior Mubarak Hassan, a member of Students for Justice in Palestine, said he wishes the University provided curriculum-based support, like teach-in and visiting scholars, for Palestine.

Although he is not an international student, Hassan said he and other members of the group, some of whom are international students, have been disappointed with the University’s lack of response to the violence in the region.

He also said the University did not respond when Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, a Palestinian American, was recently killed while covering an Israeli Defense Force raid. While the IDF has maintained Akleh was caught in crossfire, an independent CNN report found the attack was likely a targeted move by Israeli forces.

“Medill has hosted a number of panels discussing the Ukrainian crisis, but when a prominent Palestinian journalist was killed, we didn’t have those kinds of panels or those moments of grief at an institutional level,” he said. “Ukraine is getting the attention it deserves, while other countries go silenced and ignored.” avanikalra2025@u.northwestern.edu Bang and Lawrence Curley said ETHS does a lot of general anti-racism work. But as the family moves forward, it’s looking for the district to move beyond apologies and commit to systemically improving the school’s climate for Native students.

The pair met with Campbell two weeks before graduation to discuss broad views of anti-Indigenous practices and Indigenous invisibility at ETHS. “(Campbell) committed to really including Native people in (the school’s) equity work going forward,” Bang said. “I look forward to being able to make sure that the school follows through on their promises next year.”

Nimkii Curley said he, too, is looking to ensure future Native students have better experiences.

Yet, he said being unable to walk during Sunday’s graduation was disappointing on a personal and generational level.

“My (grandparents) went to boarding school.

They didn’t get to graduate from high school. My father didn’t get to graduate. And I was up next. I guess it will have to be the next generation in our family before that happens,” Nimkii Curley said.

“That ethic of doing things for the next generation is always on my mind. But times like this, I wish that it didn’t have to be.” ilanaarougheti2023@u.northwestern.edu jorjasiemons2024@u.northwestern.edu

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English department changes degree requirements

By CAROLINE BREW

daily senior staffer @carolinelbrew

The English department will change its major and minor requirements to make them more “appealing and accessible,” it announced Friday.

The department will adopt “Historical Breadth” courses in favor of survey courses.

Specific identity and culture categories will also replace three former required class categories — Identities, Communities and Social Practice; Transnationalism and Textual Circulation; and American literature.

“No one, including the faculty, can remember what TTC and ICSP stand for, and the American literature requirement is no longer representative of our global moment in literary studies,” the email read.

While brainstorming department changes, English Prof. and department Director of Undergraduate Studies Julia Stern said she compared Northwestern’s curriculum with peer institutions. She found NU was one of the only schools requiring survey courses, which are panoramic overviews of a literary tradition for more than 200 years.

Stern said the department’s two introductory survey courses in English and American literature did not make use of its faculty’s expertise, as few professors could teach these courses.

“We had been hiring these fantastic young scholars in African American literature, in Latinx literature, in Asian American literature and in Native American literature,” Stern said.

“All of these people were teaching wonderful

NU researchers develop smallest-ever walking crab robot Crabs! Beetles! Inchworms! Oh my!

Northwestern researchers announced the development of the smallest-ever remote controlled walking robots in shapes resembling peekytoe

200-level courses that weren’t being counted toward the major.”

Now, with the “Historical Breadth” requirements, students can take any classes that cover at least two centuries of literature in a particular genre, tradition or theme.

Stern said her next goal was to reconceptualize the English department’s diversity requirements. She described the old categories — ICSP and TTC — as “blurry and confusing.” The new ones — Gender, Sexuality & Embodiment; Postcolonial & Comparative Literatures and Race & Ethnicity — are much more specific, she said. “ We got rid of these icky acronyms,” Stern said. “We now have more transparent terminology.”

After meeting with committees and drafting these changes for months, Stern said she felt relieved after the department approved the proposed changes in a 29-1 vote.

With the number of English majors declining across the country, Stern said creating less rigid department requirements is crucial to allow more students to study the field.

“We wanted to open things up as much as we could so that more people could come in, but also demand more in terms of making people more culturally diverse and well-rounded,” Stern said.

Current NU students can choose to follow the old or new major requirements, but those matriculating in or after fall 2022 must follow the new ones.

Medill sophomore Sriman Narayanan, who is double majoring in English, said he is happy about these changes because his favorite English classes covered focused topics.

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when you’re taking really specific, narrow lens classes,” Narayanan said. “Giving students the opportunity to take more of those specific Rather than using an outside power source, the robots are powered by their own elastic resilience.

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As for why crabs? Rogers said the robots could be made in almost any shape, but the crab was based on his students’ “creative whim.”

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By GABRIELA CARROLL

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Last year, Northwestern’s season came to a screeching halt in the NCAA semifinal, losing 21-13 to Syracuse.

The Wildcats (16-4, 5-1 Big Ten) already redeemed that loss this year, dominating Syracuse (15-6, 6-2 ACC) in the quarterfinal on May 19.

But North Carolina (20-0, 8-0 ACC), the tournament’s number one overall seed, will be the toughest task yet.

On March 6, the Tar Heels controlled from start to finish, ending the game by outscoring NU 12-5 in the second half. North Carolina hasn’t lost a game yet this season and defeated its first NCAA Tournament opponent, Virginia (10-10, 3-5 ACC), 24-2.

“They have a lot of weapons all over the field, but we do as well,” coach Kelly Amonte Hiller said.

“They’re a different team than they were when we played them early on, and we’re a really different team. All the adversity that we’ve hit has really helped us grow a ton.”

The Tar Heels showed flashes of weakness against Stony Brook’s

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(16-3, 6-0 America East) stingy defense in their quarterfinal matchup. The Seawolves held North Carolina to its lowest goal output all season, allowing just eight goals in the 8-5 victory.

Stony Brook deployed a 2-3-2 zone in the eight-meter, with a “rover” in the middle to knock down cross-crease passes. The Seawolves forced 18 turnovers in the game, almost seven more than their season average of 11.1. The Tar Heels made enough adjustments to win the game, but with how skilled NU is at the draw circle, that tight defensive style could help the Cats maintain possession.

NU’s defense, while not as prolific as Stony Brook’s number-one ranked defense, has been a team strength so far in the tournament, led by senior goaltender Madison Doucette.

Doucette made 11 saves and only allowed four goals in the quarterfinal matchup against Syracuse.

After the disappointing loss in the semifinals last year, the Cats’ defense is motivated by the matchup to play the best game possible, Doucette said.

“The coaches did a great job of preparing us as a whole (for the tournament),” Doucette said. “You’ve got to be ready for that moment and

execute when you get out there.”

The matchup between NU and North Carolina in the draw circle will be one of the stories of the game.

Both teams are among the best in the nation on the draw, with the Cats winning 59.7% of their draws this season, and the Tar Heels winning 58.4%.

There’s no formula to beat North Carolina — no team has managed it yet this season. The Tar Heels are elite in every aspect of the game. But last season, despite going undefeated up to the semifinal, Boston College defeated them in a low-scoring, 11-10 matchup.

This weekend marks the end of many NU’s seniors’ and graduate students’ careers. Doucette, who has not said whether she plans to utilize her extra year of eligibility, said she can’t think of a better way to end her senior season than in the Final Four.

“It’s incredible, just being in purple,” Doucette said. “We all came here because we wanted to compete for and win national championships, and thus far the season we put ourselves in an opportunity to play on championship weekend. We’ve played as long as we can thus far — we just want two more games.” gabrielacarroll2023@u.northwestern.edu

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Cats narrowly miss Fuchs on first NU championship Big Ten Tournament

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By LUCAS KIM

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Capping off a year of dramatic ups and downs — including a discouraging 2-10 start — and a new head coach, Northwestern once again did not have luck on its side this weekend.

After winning two of their last three games of the season, the Wildcats (24-27, 10-14 Big Ten) were in position as the eight seed to qualify for the Big Ten Tournament for the first time since 2017.

But following a Nebraska win, NU found itself in a three-way tie for eighth place and was forced out of playoff contention due to tie-breaker rules.

Despite the disheartening result, the Cats excelled in their last series of the 2022 season.

Playing Minnesota (16-36, 6-18 Big Ten) in a three-game series over the weekend, NU needed to do its best with the playoffs in sight.

The first game, however, did not go the Cats’ way as they lost a rollercoaster of a contest 15-14 last Thursday.

Despite hitting two three-run homers along with a game-tying grand slam by sophomore Jay Beshears in the eighth inning, NU couldn’t contain the likewise dominant Minnesota offense, allowing a run in the bottom of the eighth that sealed the Gophers’ victory.

The Cats rebounded in game two on Friday, with graduate student Michael Farinelli pitching one out shy of a complete game and earning the 11-9 win.

Senior Anthony Calarco started off the scoring with a two-run home run and ended with three hits for the day. The first-baseman led NU this season with a team-high 13 homers and 54 RBIs. In the season finale, the Cats finished strong with an impressive comeback victory –– a game representative of their resurgence during the season

following a disappointing start.

Down 5-0 entering the top of the eighth, NU scored two and six runs in the final two innings, respectively, to conclude the season.

Graduate student Ruben Fontes wrapped up a stellar weekend with a three-hit, three-RBI performance.

The outfielder earned Big Ten CoPlayer of the Week honors with a .583 average and 10 RBIs in the Minnesota series.

Ending with a 10-14 conference record, the Cats were caught in a three-way tie with Nebraska and Indiana. Due to its superior winning percentage against common opponents, the Hoosiers snuck past the other two squads to make the tournament as the last seed.

Had the Cornhuskers not won their game Saturday and Purdue lost against Maryland — the Big Ten Champions — in a game that was canceled due to inclement weather, NU would have qualified for the tournament.

That’s not to say the season was a disappointment. Following their 2-10 start, the Cats went a solid 22-17 to finish the year.

Sophomore Ethan O’Donnell and freshman Patrick Herrera earned a spot on the All-Big Ten Second Team.

O’Donnell led the conference in doubles with 24, breaking NU’s single-season record for doubles. Herrera led the team in batting average and on-base percentage in only his first year on the team.

Freshman Sean Sullivan also earned season honors, being named to the All-Big Ten Freshman Team and leading the team in strikeouts.

Although the Cats failed to make the Big Ten Tournament yet again, they achieved their second-highest win total over the last 15 seasons.

With a solid core of young talent, NU exceeded expectations in a transition year with an interim head coach and should now have high hopes for the future. lucaskim2025@u.northwestern.edu

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Tracey Fuchs, one of the most iconic field hockey players in the sport’s history and head coach of Northwestern’s field hockey team, grew up playing against boys.

“There was no ice hockey for girls, so I played a lot of street hockey with the guys next door,” Fuchs said. “I grew up playing field hockey, and then we would switch to football and then we would go over to a baseball field so I was just always playing (sports) from the age of five.”

Fuchs has been the University’s field hockey coach for 13 seasons. She led the Wildcats to an 18-5 record and the first national championship in program history on November 21, 2021, following successful title runs as a player at the University of Connecticut and coach at the University of Michigan.

Junior midfielder Sophie Thomas said many people call Fuchs “the Michael Jordan” of field hockey, given her legendary career and championship pedigree.

Thomas said Fuchs is especially caring toward her players and consistently encourages them to speak up.

“I’m an introvert so (Fuchs) is always like ‘what do you think about this, Sophie?’ which is helpful if I’m like ‘oh, I don’t know if I should say something,’” Thomas said.

She credited Fuchs with inspiring many of her players and giving them leadership opportunities.

Fuchs emphasized the importance of mental health amid the recent tragedies surrounding athletes such as Stanford University’s soccer captain Katie Meyer.

She said many athletes don’t want to admit they’re struggling, which makes checking in on her players that much more important.

“I think the best part about this generation is that they see their mental health and we see their mental health as as important as their physical health,” Fuchs said. “We need to continue to find ways to keep our athletes mentally healthy.”

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Field hockey coach Tracey Fuchs brought the first championship in program history to Northwestern this past fall.

Junior midfielder Ana Medina Garcia said as an international student, it was intimidating coming to the U.S. barely speaking English freshman year, but Fuchs made her transition easier.

She said Fuchs displays a certain willingness to listen and her coaching style constantly encourages people to step up.

“She’s a person that genuinely cares about how we do personally,” Garcia said. “She’s always providing those spaces to talk … so she’s been really helpful for building (the) culture that we have within the team.”

As this summer marks the 50th anniversary of Title IX, Fuchs also called out the discrepancies in the treatment of male and female athletes and said the United States still faces significant issues surrounding gender equity in sports.

One such example was the recent controversy surrounding men’s and women’s basketball in the NCAA tournament, she said. The women’s weight room featured far less equipment, resources and space than the men’s weight room, which reflected

budget inequities across men’s and women’s basketball.

“If I had been born a male, I would’ve been a 5-time Olympian,” Fuchs said. “It’s these things that lead me to fight.”

Fuchs said she knew this year’s team was going to be special even before the preseason began. She attributed NU’s draw in the NCAA tournament as a pivotal turning point.

She said she thought having to play the University of North Carolina would be the toughest matchup in the tournament. Seeing how excited her team was to play the NCAA’s reigning champion proved players had the right mindset heading into the tournament.

“You’re just so proud to see the smiles on their faces and all the work that they put (into winning an NCAA title),” Fuchs said. “This pandemic has really hit everybody hard. So to see all the work pay off … I was just so proud of them and so excited to bring a championship home to Northwestern.” andresbuenahora2024@u.northwestern.edu