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By RUSSELL LEUNG and MAIA PANDEY daily senior staffers @rjleung7, @maiapandeyContent warning: this story contains mentions of death.
More than 50 community members gathered at The Rock on Friday for a vigil honoring Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman who died in police custody in Iran last week after officers apprehended her for allegedly
wearing a hijab too loosely. Amini’s family said the Ira nian “morality police” beat her into a coma, killing her. Iranian authorities allege a heart attack induced the coma, though Amini’s family said she did not have any prior
The Iranian Student Asso ciation, a group primar ily composed of graduate students, hosted the event. Organizers painted The Rock with the green, white and red of the Iranian flag and wrote
“#WomanLifeFreedom” along its embankment.
IrSA member Foroogh Farhang, an eighth-year anthropology Ph.D. student, opened the event by reading a
Schenita Stewart will be Evanston’s next police chief, the city announced Friday.
Stewart currently serves as the deputy chief of police for the East Dundee Police Depart ment. In its news release, the city highlighted her focus on positive community partner ships and budget development and management.
“I’m thankful for the oppor tunity to be able to serve the community that raised and supported me my entire life,” Stewart said in the release.
“This great city of Evanston is the lighthouse community that my great grandparents fled to from Abbeville, SC for a bet ter life.”
City Manager Luke Stowe appointed Stewart after a sixmonth candidate recruitment process, which included a community survey, public candidate forum and panel interviews with police chief candidates.
Interim Police Chief Rich ard Eddington will continue to serve until she assumes her new role on Oct. 10.
Evanston’s history of commu nity involvement in climate activ ism transformed the city into an environmental leader, according to Jack Jordan’s (Weinberg ’22) honors thesis.
The American Studies paper, titled “Participation in Change,” details the local organizing that informed city climate action plans in 2008 and 2018 in concert with global efforts including the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement.
Jordan presented his thesis, which he said will be published in mid-October, to Evanston’s Climate Action Resilience Plan Working Group and Mayor Dan iel Biss.
Jordan, who said he interviewed over 20 activists and alderpeople, said action plans are one of the best mechanisms for cities to address climate change.
“The biggest reason why (the climate plans) were successful was a long history of residents, almost always on a volunteer basis, who were super passionate about cli mate activism,” Jordan said. “Evan ston (has) a lot of climate profes sionals and professors.”
Evanston was one of the first cities in the country to have a cli mate plan and meet its preliminary environmental goals, Jordan said. The thesis attributes the plan’s success to passionate local volun teers: many activists involved in the 1990s remained involved through the mid-2000s.
In 2005, Evanston organizers successfully convinced former Mayor Lorraine Morton to sign The U.S. Mayors’ Climate Protec tion Agreement, committing the city to the Kyoto Protocol’s green house gas reduction goals.
Environmental Justice Evan ston co-chair Jerri Garl said a key finding of the thesis is that 2008’s action plan enjoyed larger public participation, while 2018’s plan was an insular process conducted mostly at the city level. Over 100 people, including many residents,
By KRISTEN AXTMAN the daily northwestern @kristenaxtman1
Evanston Township High School students joined about 250 people to protest for divestment from fossil fuels at this year’s Fri days For Future global climate strike at Pritzker Park.
Activist Greta Thunberg’s youth-led climate organization, Fridays For Future, sponsored the global strike that took place across the globe. Friday’s strike in Chicago was centered around the theme “#PeopleNotProfit.”
Demonstrators marched down town to the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago to protest the role of banks in the climate crisis. They called for divestment from fos sil fuels, regulation of fossil fuel financing and investment in sus tainable climate change solutions. The protesters stopped at the Fed eral Plaza and adjacent Chase Bank before returning to Pritzker Park.
Danica Sun, co-head of the Fri days for Future Chicago chapter and Climate Chicago Youth Coali tion, said the protest was also spe cifically advocating against a bill recently introduced by Sen. Joe
Manchin (D-WV). Sun said the current legislation would invest in fossil fuel infrastructure.
“We were really urging people to call their representatives and tell them to vote that (bill) out,” Sun said.
Erris Maguire, a leader of ETHS-based climate activ ist group E-Town Sunrise, said there was a large youth presence at Friday’s protest from multiple Chicago-area schools. Maguire’s
group works to advocate for better local climate legislation that creates lasting change, she said.
It is important for youth to organize, she said, because they are the ones that will bear the brunt of future catastrophic climate events.
“Our generation as a whole is really afraid and really concerned for the future,” Magurie said. “I know that everyone in our group really cares a lot about Evanston and wants to see Evanston taking
real steps to fight the climate crisis.” The climate strike began with a staged flash mob to the song “Stayin’ Alive” by the Bee Gees. Maguire said the song choice was intentional to emphasize that the climate crisis is about life and death. The protesters then performed a “die-in,” lying on the ground for two minutes. Par ticipants stood in solidarity with
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— Avani Kalra Mahsa Amini died in police custody, community members call for change
Jack Jordan discusses history of Evanston’s climate policies, workIllustration by Olivia Abeyta Jonah Elkowitz/Daily Senior Staffer A photo of Mahsa Amini surrounded by candles. The Iranian Student Association organized a vigil to honor her life on Friday.
In 1859, Frances Willard graduated as part of the first class at North Western Female College. She pushed for equal coeducation at unaffiliated Northwestern University before becoming the first dean of women at NU.
Now, the Frances Willard House Museum and Archives is honoring her legacy with its new pro gram and content theme for the year: Knowledge is Power. The theme covers the history and prehistory of women’s higher education in Evanston, in rec ognition of the 150th anniversary of Willard’s role as president of the Evanston College for Ladies.
Janet Olson, archivist at the museum, said she previously worked on an exhibit highlighting the history of women’s fight for equal education at NU.
“This power base of influential women in Evanston at this time (late 1800s) really set a tone that enhanced the growth of women’s education here,” Olson said. “Evanston’s history with women’s education is typical of its time in that it developed from a female seminary model, but it was also unique because of the way Evan ston was formed as a center of education.”
Fiona Maxwell, director of museum operations and communications at the Center for Women’s History and Leadership, said the museum wanted to recognize the “trailblazing” efforts of schools in Evanston with the museum’s theme.
Maxwell also said the museum wants to high light women of color and international students in the Evanston community at the time, who she said historically are underrepresented.
“We’re debunking the myth that education at this time was only for the elite,” Maxwell said. “Highlighting the diversity of women’s experiences at Northwestern is definitely going to be a part of this. We do want to make sure that those women’s stories are highlighted.”
The museum also intends to help recognize Willard’s derogatory statements about Black men, published in 1890 of the New York Voice as part of this effort.
In 2019, the museum released “Truth Telling:
Frances Willard and Ida B. Wells,” a community history project that explored a rift between Willard and Wells that occurred after Willard’s remarks.
“Well, she really was a racist,” Olson said. “So we’ve been wanting to explore such a big topic, and we wanted to figure out a way to address it.”
Coeducation and education opportunities for women in general during the mid-to-late 1800s were scarce in the United States, Olson said. Female seminaries were private educational insti tutions and were the most common method for
women to receive an education, but women who attended only received certificates, not degrees.
In Evanston, North-Western Female Col lege helped women propel themselves into the realm of higher education, Olson said. The col lege granted degrees to women as early as 1856.
Lori Osborne, director of the Frances Wil lard House Museum, said Evanston encouraged women’s leadership and contributions during the mid- to late 1800s.
Osborne said the city’s history is important
in understanding the progression of women’s education throughout the United States.
“Evanston was leading the way and provid ing this place where women can feel that their contributions to public life are important,” Osborne said. “Their education is important and what they’re going to do with their edu cation is important. That is not true in most towns in America at this time.”
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The Frances Willard House Museum and Archives is honoring Willard’s legacy with its new program and content theme for the year: Knowledge is Power.
The Gender & Sexuality Studies Program and the Sexualities Project at Northwestern held an LGBTQ+-focused monkeypox con versation Friday after concerns arose that NU administration was not providing necessary information on the virus.
In an email sent to students Aug. 9, NU Medicine Student Health Service said mon keypox is not linked to sexual activity or ori entation. English and Gender & Sexuality Studies Prof. Nick Davis said NU’s original message was careful to avoid stigmatized lan guage, which meant it became “neutralized.”
“The impression was that it would be left to us to make sure that information got out,” Davis said.
According to Davis, the University has since proven to be collaborative, with a revised mes sage sent by administration Wednesday. How ever, Davis said, GSS felt it was important to speak in an informal setting to students and faculty about community care and preven tion advice.
Medill Prof. Steven Thrasher and history Prof. Chad Horne led the event. The discus sion focused on which community members are most at risk, what the risk factors are and how to prevent that risk.
The discussion also followed an op-ed published in The Daily by 26 gay and queeridentifying faculty that outlined specific actions individuals could take to reduce risk of contracting monkeypox, including self-education.
Though anyone can contract monkeypox, the virus is predominantly affecting men who have sex with men. Currently, 99% of cases are in men, according to Horne. To reduce risk, individuals should have conversations with their sexual partners, reduce the number of new and casual partners and use a condom.
While it’s important to use stigma-free
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The Friday monkeypox discussion focused on which community members are most at risk, what the risk factors are and how to prevent that risk.
language, Thrasher said officials must remain clear about which activities primarily spread monkeypox or else they risk creating unnec essary panic.
“Being near each other is not how this spreads,” Thrasher said. “If you don’t name that it’s moving sexually, that opens the door for, ‘I don’t want to sit next to a gay student, I don’t want to dorm with them, I don’t want to eat with them.’”
Thrasher and Horne said vaccine supplies and information about where to get vaccinated
were sparse over the summer. Horne said focusing on vaccinating those most at risk is important to reduce the virus’ spread. Mon keypox has affected Black and Latine commu nities at a higher rate than white communities. Thrasher said this might be because white men are receiving more vaccines.
“With almost any distribution channel that you pick, relatively more privileged people are able to get those vaccines,” Thrasher said.
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On a 360-degree stage in Shanley Pavilion, an actor said, “The show will begin when someone says, ‘Start the f—ing play.’”
Very soon after, an audience member shouted, “Start the f—ing play!”
Sit & Spin Productions, an unconventional theatre group, ran Aaron Posner’s “Stupid F—ing Bird” on Friday and Saturday. The play explores the meaning of life, love and art, alongside the pro tagonist’s experience with depression and suicide.
“Theatre is about visceral feeling,” director and Communication junior Declan Collins said. “I really just want audience members to be along for the ride and feel these overpowering emotions and
get a full spectrum of what it means to be alive.”
The play is metatheatrical, meaning characters are aware they are in a play, according to Collins. They said this “blurs the lines between actors and audience.”
Actors like Communication junior Reilly Oh, who played protagonist Con, broke the fourth wall and interacted with the audience during the play. Con even asked the audience’s advice for how to win back his love interest Nina, so the dialogue played out differently each show.
Characters also addressed the value of newer forms of theatre and art — just like metatheatre, according to Oh.
“Theatre can be something big and meaning ful, but also something just super silly and dumb and absolutely delightful, and both are extremely important,” he said.
The play also repeated the line “so much feeling” multiple times throughout its three acts, referring to characters’ intense experiences like heartbreak and unrequited love.
Producer and SESP senior Cormac Callanan said he said the crew wanted to deliver something “fresh” to the audience. The final product was unlike anything Callanan said he had ever seen before.
“I hope people are able to come out of it think ing about their relationships of love, whether that’s familial or romantic or platonic,” Callanan said. “I hope it’s jarring.”
Communication freshman Hailey Silva had never been to a Northwestern theatre performance but saw the highlighter-yellow seagull poster adver tising the show.
After seeing it the first night, she got back in line for the second showing and came back the next day, too — all three shows were standing-room only.
“The people who didn’t see the show really missed out because the impact that it had on me really made me think about life,” Silva said.
Sit & Spin also offered a sensory-friendly per formance on Thursday. The show included flash ing lights, yelling and explicit mentions of suicide,
Collins said, which they knew might make some viewers uncomfortable.
For the Thursday showing, the board worked with Seesaw Theatre, which produces multi-sen sory theatre for disabled audiences. Seesaw lent Sit & Spin sensory packs for audience members, including sunglasses, headphones and fidget toys, according to Callanan.
“I want to make sure as many people can see the art as possible,” Collins said. “I’m really excited to see all student theatre boards incorporate sensory friendly performances … because I think it’s time for that to happen.”
Toward the end of the play, Con was in emo tional turmoil over his perceptions of love and society and said he might attempt suicide. He was debating this when he said, “Stop the f—ing play.” What went on from there is up to the audience’s interpretation.
The lights switched off and the room fell silent.
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“I’m feeling ecstatic and very optimistic. It’s a new year, and we saw a lot of new faces in the audi ence,” Titanic player and Communication junior James Cavanaugh-Gialloreto said. “Hopefully we’re gonna get a lot of people who are interested and keep building that audience.”
The group has several teams that each perform for 20 minutes. Players start by asking for audiencesuggested words and then jump from one storyline to the next.
On Friday, The Titanic Players only had two teams: Pee Shy and Dirt Birth.
Communication senior Sam Buttress in Pee Shy said the teams stay together throughout their time at Northwestern. As seniors graduate, some teams get smaller and eventually no longer exist, making room for the next batch of players. Buttress said Fri day’s performance was an adjustment since some members have graduated or are studying abroad.
Pee Shy started its performance by asking the audience for a word that describes something they are looking forward to. An audience member said “Jeff.” After that, performers made up scenes about going to a bad dentist, getting lost in a department store and a garage band whose drummer can’t do a cartwheel.
Cartwheels were a running joke throughout Pee Shy’s performance. Buttress said his favorite part of the show was rediscovering his talent for cartwheeling.
“I knew I could cartwheel,” Buttress said. “But then when I did it, I was surprised by how effort less and good it felt. Like, I was on one hand at one point.”
Dirt Birth has five members, who performed first with the audience-sourced word beginning with a “d”: dinosaur.
Dirt Birth created storylines about a girl whose dinosaur egg was smashed by her friend and an awkward promposal. Players acted out a scene where two daughters competed for their mother’s affection, which finished with a passionate kiss between two pigs.
Audience members said they enjoyed the group’s wild storylines and jokes. Joe Scott, a parent of a NU student, said it was a great comedy show.
“(It was) amazing, absolutely amazing. The cre ativity, the spontaneity, the facial expressions, the acting,” Scott said. “It’s fun for all adult ages, quite honestly. I don’t think it’s just college students.”
By SHANNON TYLER daily northwesternTwo pigs discovering love, a drummer who can’t do a cartwheel and a case of a smashed-up dino saur egg were just some of the scenes The TitanicPlayers came up with during the group’s first show of the year. The long-form improv group performed at the McCormick Foundation Center Forum Friday night. The players used their first show to encour age people to join and attend more of Titanic’s shows. It also served as a welcome back to the group’s dedicated fanbase. Joanne Haner/Daily Senior Staffer Shannon Tyler/The Daily Northwestern Titanic Players performed in the McCormick Foundation Center Forum.
Chicago Southside artist Malika Jackson’s art work exploring serenity, faith and hope is on dis play at the Evanston Arts Center this fall.
“Whisper of a World Without Words,” curated by Evanston artist Fran Joy, is open at the center from Sept. 10 to Oct. 9. The exhibit uses stylized realism to portray the quiet strength of individuals and to tackle issues like race.
While Jackson often works with clay, wood and paint, the Evanston show is almost entirely composed of her paintings. This exhibit marks the fourth and final show featuring BIPOC artists in Evanston Art Center that Joy has curated. Next year, the space will be used for exhibits comment ing on contemporary issues, Joy told The Daily.
Audrey Avril, manager of exhibitions at Evan ston Art Center, said she enjoyed the vibrancy of Jackson’s two-dimensional work. She said the work resonates with the heart and mind.
“I think her work, especially this work, has a lot to do with stirring emotions and stirring the conscience,” Avril said. “As soon as you look at the work, it’s bright and vibrant, sort of arresting. And it makes you more open to the fantastical elements of the universe.”
For Jackson, the exhibit reflects the marginalized position of Black women and how their voices are not always able to be heard. It is also a testament to their strength, she said. Her three-piece painting, “Quiet Storm,” is a tribute to her daughter — who she said is a quiet but powerful person.
Due to space restraints, this exhibition is an abbreviated show of the full “Whispers of a World Without Words,” first displayed at Hyde Park Art Center. Poetry that originally accompanied many of the works is not on display in Evanston, accord ing to Jackson.
“If (viewers) have the poetry that goes along with it, it would give it more depth, and they would really be able to understand what some of the pieces mean to me,” Jackson said.
The only sculpture included in the show is a col orful assembly of thin bodies decorated with beads on their heads. Jackson said she likes to use sculpture for the depth and emotionality it adds to her work.
As Joy reflected on her last curated show for this year’s series of BIPOC artists, she said she wanted to offer opportunities to emerging artists that were lesser known on the North Shore.
“I wanted to bring in different artists than what the art center (has) normally brought in,” Joy said. “It’s been a labor of love. It’s been interesting. It’s taught me a lot as a curator.”
jonathanaustin2023@u.northwestern.eduAnd the Netflix executives looked upon their romantic-comedy-starved, content-hungry Gen Z audience and said, “Let us satiate their hunger with a movie so delicious, so daring, so unexpected that they won’t believe it’s on Netflix.”
They approached modern TV icons Camila Mendes and Maya Hawke and said, “Bring forth unto us a performance that can only rival the likes of Lindsay Lohan, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Bynes and all those other early ‘00s teen movie stars.”
Thus, on the sixteenth of September in the year 2022, Netflix released “Do Revenge,” ushering in a new era of iconic teen movies.
At least, that’s how I imagine this incredible movie was conceptualized.
“Do Revenge” centers on high school students Drea (Mendes) and Eleanor (Hawke), who team up to wreak vengeance on their enemies. They “do” this revenge by targeting each other’s nemesis instead of their own, an idea created seeking to avoid punish ment for their actions.
It’s nearing the end of junior year and Drea is no longer the “Head Bitch in Charge” of her posh private school, Rosehill Country Day, after her boyfriend leaks her sex tape. To make matters worse, Drea, who attends the school on scholarship, finds her applica tion to Yale threatened by the aftermath of the situ ation. (She, rightfully, punched the ex-boyfriend.)
That summer, Drea meets Eleanor at a tennis camp Drea works at. The two connect when Eleanor reveals she was outcast after a false rumor that she forcibly kissed another Rosehill student, Carissa. She also divulges that her parents are forcing her to transfer to Rosehill for senior year, prompting the two to team up as revenge partners.
Inevitably, hijinks ensue. Their paths are destined to be bumpy from the start, and what begins as a simple revenge plan is complicated by new relation ships and past resentment.
Replete with Gen Z humor, star cameos and an iconic soundtrack, “Do Revenge” is a case study in making an original film in 2022. Amid the countless sequels, reboots and generally poorly written movies coming out these days, this film feels like a breath of fresh air. The jokes don’t come off as written by an adult trying to poke fun at Gen Z culture, nor does the plot feel like a formulaic attempt to go viral (“She’s All That,” I’m looking at you). The movie is a bit out rageous at times, but what rom-com doesn’t involve some suspension of disbelief?
Still, the film pays homage to its predecessors. In one scene, Drea and her new love interest, Russ, throw paint-filled water balloons at each other, invoking the infamous paintball scene from “10 Things I Hate About You.” The uniforms at Rosehill also feature
pastel plaid ensembles, reminiscent of Cher’s yellow set in “Clueless.” A movie is only as iconic as its styling, and “Do Revenge” delivers.
But what sets these references apart from feeling like recycled content is that they are subtle. They work well within the film, which blends originality with beloved cultural moments. I didn’t recognize many of the references until much later, which speaks to the film’s ability to appear unique. The references I did understand made me sentimental, as I recalled the heartfelt moments that made me fall in love with the genre in the first place.
So, if you’re tired of movies where teenagers don’t speak like real people, you hate when influencers pretend to be real actors or you’re just looking for that next classic rom-com, check out “Do Revenge.” I think Oscar Winner Olivia Colman would defi nitely agree.
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BLACKPINK is once again back in your area. Two years after its last album release in 2020, argu ably the world’s biggest girl group released “Born Pink” — an eight-track album featuring a variety of girl crush songs about love and being a badass.
Was the wait for only eight songs worth it?
As one of BLACKPINK’s biggest fans since 2016, I was skeptical at first. When the group pre-released “Pink Venom,” I was disappointed by a lackluster cho rus with a dance break that repeated the lyrics “Ratatata, ratatata.” There wasn’t anything particularly innovative about the structure of the song nor the lyrics.
Perhaps that song was meant to ease into the best
of what BLACKPINK had to offer.
When the four-member group released the title track “Shut Down,” I fell in love. The song samples instrumentals from the famous classical piece “La Campanella” by Niccolò Paganini, combining it with heavy bass and hard-hitting beats. It’s clear all members had a chance to shine, with Jisoo and Rosé singing the chorus.
Even though the Jenlisa rapping duo killed it once again, I still found some lyrics uninteresting, like the repetition of “whip it.”
However, the song’s message is still clear, as Jennie demonstrates in her lyric, “It’s not a comeback since we’ve never left.” This diss track did a killer job of shut ting down the haters and proving that BLACKPINK’s members are the quintessential queens of K-pop.
The music video also makes visual references to past BLACKPINK songs, including “Kill this Love” and
“Playing with Fire.” Fans have speculated this may hint at the group’s future disbandment because it reflects on the girl group’s journey since its debut.
The rest of the album takes listeners through the ups and downs of love, including heartbreak, rejec tion and rediscovery. “Typa Girl” is one of the most popular songs on the album — and for good reason. Lisa solidifies her reputation as one of the best rappers in K-pop. Period.
“Yeah Yeah Yeah” has an instrumental that will sound euphoric on the band’s upcoming world tour -– the “largest world tour in the history of a K-pop girl group,” according to management company YG Enter tainment. The song beautifully captures the experience of falling in love and the anxiety and fear of the hurt that can accompany it.
Many will agree the standout song of the album is “Hard to Love,” sung by Rosé. This solo captures what it
is like to worry if one’s insecurities inflict pain on others. Even though I would have liked to see Jisoo sing a solo, Rosé killed this one.
“The Happiest Girl,” exuding major sad girl vibes, describes the experience of trying to forget the pain of heartbreak and savor the happiness of the relation ship. Lisa proved how much of an all-rounder she is by showcasing her vocal potential beyond rap and dance.
The badass energy returns with “Tally,” which is about self-love and not changing for anyone. Jennie’s deep voice is a welcome sur prise, especially with her explicit lyric, “I say f*** it when I feel it.”
The album finishes with “Ready to Love,” which comes full circle as the women are once again hopeful about the future.
BLACKPINK leaves its fans feeling just as optistimic as its world tour kicks off. For many, including myself, the wait was well worth it.
The band’s songs in English are representative of their massive influence on the world and how, after two years, the members can still hold onto their crowns as the world’s most iconic girl group.
statement in support of protests sparked by Amini’s death. Thousands of Iranians have participated in demonstrations in the past week, with many women burning their headscarves and cutting their hair in protest.
“We all have seen waves of protests coming out of Iran for different reasons,” Farhang said. “The important thing about this protest is that it started from the hijab, which basically means the women are basically the face of this new wave of protests.”
Vigil participants chanted phrases like “Justice for Mahsa” and “Say her name.” One attendee held a sign reading, “The Islamic Republic is kill ing Iranians.”
Though Amini is from Kurdistan and belongs to an ethnic minority, the protests spread across Iran. According to The New York Times, police have violently cracked down on the unrest, and videos posted online show officers beating and shooting protesters.
“This is not directed by anybody from outside of Iran because this is the reason that the Iranian regime is using to basically murder people, being like, ‘This is hijacked. This is pro-West, pro-U.S.,’ and that is just not the case,” Farhang said. “The whole protest is actually a grassroots movement from all different towns and cities in Iran.”
A McCormick second-year Ph.D. student and IrSA member, who asked to stay anonymous for safety concerns, said many Iranian students are constantly scrolling through social media to moni tor conditions in Iran.
The McCormick student said after years of various protests against the Iranian government,
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were involved in the 2008 plan, while only 17 work ing group members contributed to the 2018 plan, Garl said.
“I really believe (Jack’s) thesis was influential,” Garl said. “People on the (CARP implementation) task force acknowledged that he had made some excellent points about the need for engagement, especially in terms of implementation.”
According to Garl, the city lacks a much-needed coordinator for education and engagement on CARP and climate efforts. Filling this position, she said, will hopefully increase community involvement.
Jordan’s research revealed a major reason for the different levels of public input in climate policy between 2008 and 2018 was their political climates. After former President Donald Trump announced the U.S. would withdraw from the Paris Agreement in 2017, Evanston joined municipalities nationwide to show solidarity for climate action. Under these circumstances, former Mayor Steve Hagerty and City Council felt they needed to move quickly.
“(Councilmembers) said quite honestly, they had
students are hoping for a complete change in leadership.
“The Iranian students … they’re worried about their own cities, they’re worried about their fami lies,” the McCormick student said. “Everyone is obviously sad and devastated but also hopeful.”
A third-year Ph.D. student and IrSA member, who also asked to remain anonymous for safety concerns, said he was especially shocked by the news because many of his fellow graduate students are a similar age as Amini.
He said he hopes the vigil provides Northwest ern community members a clearer picture of the IrSA and Iranian people at large.
“We are not against hijabs, we support freedom. Everyone can wear hijab or not wear hijab, it’s up to them,” the third-year student said.
The student also said IrSA hopes the University will address the protests to the NU community at large. Last week, The Graduate School sent individ ual emails of support to Iranian graduate students, but neither TGS nor NU administrators have sent a campuswide message.
Farhang, who came to NU in 2015, said she has noticed the University’s Iranian population shrink ing since former President Trump’s 2017 travel ban. Still, she said, the IrSA is committed to making sure voices are heard within the NU community.
“If there are protests happening in other places in the world, people at Northwestern are involved, emotionally and intellectually,” Farhang said. “We are researchers going around the world … Not for getting about this connection that takes us beyond the borders of the U.S. is very important.”
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no idea what it would cost or how implementation would occur,” Garl said. “They knew we needed an implementation plan, but they wanted to vote on it to send a message.”
According to Jordan, Evanston’s most important climate action has been to engage in Community Choice Aggregation, providing the city clean elec tricity. Evanston purchased 100% renewable energy in 2014 through a contract with a local provider. Addi tionally, Citizens’ Greener Evanston ran a grassroots campaign in 2012 enabling residents and small busi nesses to opt into renewable energy, a key factor in the city achieving many of its climate goals, the report shows.
Jordan found Evanston climate activists were mainly older and white from professional, educated backgrounds. While educated organizers have helped Evanston’s climate efforts, diversifying the volunteer force will help meet more of the community’s needs, Jordan said.
“I think the policies will actually become much more effective and practical because they’re really made with the everyday person in mind, rather than just someone who’s been in the field,” Jordan said.
Bob Heur, chairman of the Democratic Party
of Evanston’s Climate Action Team, said the thesis could have a large impact on local environmental organizing moving forward. Heur also said Jor dan’s research needs to be shared with surrounding municipalities.
“All (of) Cook County needs to see this story, and we need to be moving on this,” Heur said. “I mean, it’s like, ‘How do we organize young people under this climate umbrella?’”
Jordan’s thesis calls for collaboration with neigh boring communities, including Skokie, with whom he said Evanston shares resources, supply chain networks and electricity grids.
Evanston presents a unique story that cities across the country can learn from, Jordan said. He said he wants the city’s environmental history to be available for both local organizers and other cities’ leadership to learn best practices from.
“I want people outside of Evanston and Chicago land and Illinois and across the United States to be able to look at the kind of experience of this one city,” Jordan said. “No city has gone further down the path (than Evanston).”
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people who have died from natural disasters and climate related issues, Maguire said.
Sun said she felt high school students should not have to protest against climate change. But adults in power failed to protect the environment, she added, so participating in strikes and advocacy events is now necessary for the future of the planet.
“(Generations before us) created an environment where my generation doesn’t feel like we have a safe and sustainable future, so we have to step up and do what they aren’t doing,” Sun said.
Carla Winterbottom, a protester with the envi ronmental group Extinction Rebellion, said she is heartbroken for the next generation as s she protests alongside groups of students and young people. She said that the current state of the climate often leads people to experience anxiety and fear for the future.
“Action addresses eco-anxiety,” Winterbottom said. “It’s not the environment. It’s our environment. We all need to gather together.”
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Participants of this year’s Bike the Ridge enjoyed the freedom to bike up and down Ridge Avenue this Sunday — without cars.
The stretch of road between Howard and Church was shut down between 8 a.m and 2 p.m. Sunday to make room for the event, which lasted between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. Evanston sponsored the event, which featured food and music at Ridgeville Park, in collaboration with Ridgeville Park District and Northshore Uni versity HealthSystem.
For residents like Kellogg Prof. Klaus Weber, Bike the Ridge was perfect for his family of bikers.
“We always go with the kids because they get a kick out of it,” he said. “Being able to bike on a road that is otherwise non-bikeable … it feels like one day in the year you can actually own the city and enjoy it.”
Unlike other Evanston traditions, the event has occurred throughout the past few years despite the pandemic. Students from School of Rock Evanston performed covers at Rid geville Park, the epicenter of the celebration. Local businesses like Cocina Azteca and Soul & Smoke set up food stands for attendees.
The food and entertainment were accents to the community experience of biking down Ridge Avenue. Michael Miro, the event chair for Bike the Ridge, said the event started around 2008 when former 8th Ward Ald. Ann Rainey felt South Evanston needed a community event.
“You just look at Ridge in a new way when there’s no cars because it’s kind of a tough street to ride on (with them),” he said. “But when you’re just biking (without cars), you really appreciate the historic nature of Ridge and how beautiful it is.”
Miro isn’t employed by Evanston or Rid geville Park District. Instead, he works with the two organizations to officiate Bike the Ridge.
Ridgeville Park Program Director Natalie Sallee said partnerships like the one between the city of Evanston and Ridgeville Park Dis trict help expand community programming and
involving a Northwestern student, the city announced this weekend.
introduce collaborations with other groups, like School of Rock Evanston.
Though Sallee said community is an impor tant aspect of Bike the Ridge, the event is also rooted in environmentalism and fitness.
“It’s a good chance (for) local, young high school students to celebrate their talents
for “serious injuries” but has since been released.
because they’re all really great,” she said. “I think it’s about being outside (and) celebrating the end of warm weather … getting your blood flowing, moving your body as a community together.”
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Evanston Police Department charged a Chicago man with a hit-and-run traffic crash
The student, identified as an 18-year-old male by EPD, was struck by an SUV traveling southbound near The Arch on Sept. 17. Police responded to the collision at about 12:40 a.m., and Evanston Fire Department transported the victim to a local hospital. The victim was treated
EPD Traffic Unit and University Police iden tified 52-year-old Javier Castaneda-Vargas as the driver of the Jeep Compass that allegedly struck the student following an investigation. After admitting to the hit-and-run during a Sept. 20 police interview, Castaneda-Vargas was charged with a felony count of failure to
report an accident with serious injuries and a citation for failure to exercise due care for a pedestrian.
Castaneda-Vargas’ bond was set at $100,000. His next court date is scheduled for Sept. 29 at the Skokie Courthouse.
Russell Leung Iris Swarthout/Daily Senior Staffer The city closed a stretch of road between Howard and Church to cars Sunday for “Bike the Ridge.”EPD charges Chicago man in hit-and-run with Northwestern student
From a 21-0 first-half deficit to Duke to start Northwestern’s stretch of Sep tember games to a run of 10 unanswered points that gave Miami (Ohio) a late win and mercifully ended the month, the Wildcats’ winless three-game homestand has derailed what looked to be a promis ing and program-defining season.
In a span of three weeks, non-confer ence opponents Duke, Southern Illinois and Miami marched into Ryan Field as significant underdogs and used the Cats’ self-destructions and lapses to come out victorious. In those losses, NU’s iden tity as a football program has crumbled, imitated more closely by their string of
opponents than themselves.
“We beat ourselves three straight weeks,” coach Pat Fitzgerald said. “That’s what we used to do to people: we turn people over, we give ourselves a short field. The recipe to winning is still the same.”
Lingering in this month’s malaise doesn’t do much to help the Cats (1-3, 1-0 Big Ten) move forward, though, and Fitzgerald said in his postgame press conference that pushing the panic button won’t be constructive or “solve problems” with eight games still left on NU’s Big Ten slate. What’s next for the Cats in recovering from their disastrous September? Reflection, dedication on the practice fields and a growth mentality.
The process of turning the season around, in part, starts with identifying the issues that have led to the defeats.
The most obvious correction is ball security, a hallmark of NU’s brand of football. The offense has fumbled in the fourth quarter of each of the three defeats, and without an abundance of big plays on defense, the Cats have ceded the turnover battle to their opponent in all three games.
Against Miami, a red zone fumble by receiver Malik Washington doomed an NU drive with the potential to open up the game for the Cats and give them the cushion they’ve lacked in their four games so far. RedHawk defenders mis played a couple of would-be intercep tions, and Washington’s second fumble sealed the defeat.
Explosive plays — whether given up on the defense or absent from the offense — have proven similarly damaging to the Cats’ hopes.
NU’s defense held steady for most of Saturday evening and held Miami under 60 passing yards, but RedHawk running back Keyon Mozee tore a 66-yard rush up the right sideline to spark Miami’s 10-0 run across the final eight minutes.
Fitzgerald cited drops, missed targets and failed one-on-one matchups as reasons why the Cats’ offense couldn’t break the game open with big plays of its own. In NU’s 34-31 win against Nebraska, those explosive plays on offense were a major reason the Cats came out on top.
“It just comes down to explosives and us taking care of the ball and just doing what we have to do to win foot ball games,” junior quarterback Ryan Hil inski said. “This is not what Coach Fitz deserves, not what the defense deserved tonight, and it starts with me.”
Two of the team’s leaders, Hilinski and
junior defensive back Cameron Mitchell, added their own insights into what the team needs to improve from their van tage point on the field.
Hilinski said the offense’s obsession with getting individual assignments right at the expense of hustle and tempo was a reason why the unit couldn’t find its rhythm, while Mitchell longed for inten sity in the final minutes as a way to com bat the Cats’ late-game woes.
“We’ve got to find a way to finish these games,” Mitchell said. “I don’t think it’s a conditioning thing or a gas thing, we have to finish and find a way to fight.”
These issues were also present dur ing NU’s previous two losses, though, and actually improving on those areas is different from simply identifying what went wrong.
Fitzgerald doesn’t believe the Cats’ struggles stem from a flawed approach in practice, but rather the translation to gameday execution. NU’s coaches have emphasized protecting the football and winning one-on-one battles, for example, but neither priority came to fruition on Saturday.
“The guys are working incredibly hard, we’re just not executing on game day for whatever reason,” Fitzgerald said. “What’s frustrating to me is what we saw today, across the board, is that it was exactly what we practiced.”
What more can the Cats do to adjust at this point? Hours after another demoralizing loss, even they don’t fully know.
Hilinski said that all of the Cats’ goals are “still in sight” with Big Ten play resuming next weekend and NU hold ing a 1-0 conference record. That’s true, but the Cats will have to find a lot of answers to the questions that have cap sized their season, and quickly — a road game at Beaver Stadium to take on No. 14 Penn State is NU’s next challenge.
“We’ve just got to come in and have that mindset that we want to get bet ter, that we actually want to turn this ship around, that we actually want to go win football games because if you don’t, then get the F out,” Hilinski said. “It’s as simple as that.”
johnriker2023@u.northwestern.eduAfter a hot non-conference start, Northwestern stumbled in its first foray into Big Ten play.
The Wildcats (11-3, 0-2 Big Ten) fell in straight sets against No. 6 Wis consin and Illinois on Friday and Saturday, respectively. The matches marked NU’s first consecutive losses this season and the first instances they were swept in three games.
The Cats initially kept pace with the Badgers (7-2, 1-0). In the first set, NU tied the contest three times within the first few minutes. But the Badgers soon took control, scoring four straight points and never sur rendering the lead after.
NU managed a four-point lead at one point in the second set and scored the opening three points in the third. Still, the Badgers’ potent defense – ranking third in the coun try in blocks per set – and balanced offense proved too much for the Cats to handle.
Saturday was a quick turnaround as NU traveled to Urbana-Cham paign. The Fighting Illini (7-5, 2-0)
overwhelmed the Cats in the first set, scoring the first four points. The Cats attempted to claw back, led by junior setter Alexa Rousseau’s well-rounded effort contributing numerous assists and blocks. The teams took it to the wire, tying 24-24, but Illinois even tually prevailed, taking the first set.
The second set was initially a back-and-forth affair, featuring eight different ties. The teams tied at 17-17, but a series of six NU offen sive errors put the Fighting Illini over the top in the second set. The third set was similarly competitive until late into the matchup, but the script was nearly the same. Late offensive errors by NU again benefited Illinois, allowing it to take the final set 25-20.
Despite these losses, senior out side hitter Temi Thomas-Ailara shined. She led the Cats in kills, recording 27 total over the weekend – including a match-high 16 against the Fighting Illini. Rousseau looked dangerous as well, totaling a matchhigh 30 assists against Wisconsin as NU sought an upset.
The Cats will seek to return to their winning ways on Wednesday at Minnesota.
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Self-inflicted wounds told the tale of Northwestern’s 3-1 loss to Michigan Fri day night.
“We’ve got to regroup quicker,” coach Russell Payne said. “We’ve got to reset after down moments or after goals, and we didn’t do that. So therefore, we gave ourselves a bigger hole to dig out of.”
Fresh off a 4-2 away loss to Rutgers the previous weekend, the Wildcats entered the contest in desperate need of a victory. In its second year under Payne, NU has struggled out of the gate, going 1-4-2 in its opening seven matches. Each game has included mishaps and moments devoid of composure, which have hindered the Cats from clicking early in the 2022 campaign.
NU’s struggles weren’t evident at kick off, though.
The energy at Martin Stadium was palpable. The cool weather brought out droves of supporters from students and the Evanston community alike. The sta dium speakers implored the home crowd to pump the energy up — and attendees did just that. Seconds before the game began, NU’s bench clattered as players banged on the overhead cover, creating a cacophony of noise as the official blew his whistle.
“This is a Big Ten school that needs Big
Ten support and our student body is awe some,” Payne said. “We do great things at this university. And so I want to see (them) packing the stands, bleeding purple.”
The Cats looked dangerous at first. Early darting runs from senior midfielder Vicente Castro, junior forward Justin Weiss and sophomore defender Brandon Clagette threatened the Wolverine back line. The trio crossed balls into dangerous areas inside the 18-yard box — but no NU player could seize the opportunity.
Momentum shifted to the visitors 30 minutes into the first half. After playing a ball out wide from a free kick, Michi gan’s Inaki Rodriguez whipped a ball into the box that Cats sophomore midfielder Collin McCamy leapt up to meet. But his header went awry, squeezing through a sea of white jerseys to find the bottom left corner — an own goal.
Disaster struck again just 60 seconds later. A miscommunication on another header allowed Michigan’s Kevin Buca to chase down the ball in the final third. He took advantage of the miscue, slotting home a shot to give the Wolverines a two goal advantage in a matter of minutes.
The Cats limped into halftime down 2-0, searching for a quick response out of the intermission.
Payne said he knew NU would get back into the match, and Castro provided the answer. In the 50th minute, standing over a free kick around 35 yards from goal, Cas tro found the back of the net from distance.
Facing just a one-goal deficit, the Cats exchanged chances with the Wolverines for the next 15 minutes. But NU’s third self-inflicted wound of the night put the final nail in the coffin. Michigan was awarded a penalty and the Wolverines’ Quin Rogers hammered the shot home to make it a 3-1 game.
“Our guys probably had some of the best fights, the best moments, in terms of pressing, winning the ball, moving it and playing to our strengths versus an oppo nent that gave us an area where we could capitalize,” Payne said. “Tonight we found something that we thought we could get after.”
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