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Ex-prof. Klein to release new book Klein resigned amid allegations of misconduct

By JAMES POLLARD

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Alec Klein, the former director of the Medill Justice Project who resigned last year amidst allegations of sexual misconduct, will release a book about the “hope and ultimate redemption” he found after his life was “razed” by a “‘guilty until proven innocent’ culture.”

In February 2018, 10 former students and employees sent an open letter to administrators, accusing Klein of “controlling, discriminatory, emotionally and verbally abusive behavior.” Over the next month, 19 more women came forward with similar allegations. And after a University probe into his behavior ended last June, Klein resigned last August.

His book, titled “Aftermath: When It Felt Like Life Was Over But It Wasn’t,” will be published by Fidelis Books and set to be released in January. Klein has denied the allegations outlined in the letter, pointing to his positive CTEC reviews, and continues to do so in the 208-page book.

“When a well-respected professor at a top university is falsely accused of being

abusive to students, how will he pick up the pieces and rebuild his life?” the book description says.

Fidelis Books and Klein did not immediately respond to requests for comment. In March 2018, however, Klein’s lawyer described the allegations as “wholesale butchery of the life of Prof. Alec Klein.”

After alumna Natalie Escobar (Medill ‘18) shared the news on Twitter, other alumni and members of the media expressed their opinions.

Escobar wrote that “men don’t get cancelled, they get book deals.” Others pointed out grammar and spelling errors in the description.

“I am obviously aghast at this for many reasons but since when was aneurysm spelled ‘aneurism’” Morgan Kinney (Medill ‘16) wrote.

Klein joined Medill’s faculty in 2008 after working as an investigative reporter for the Washington Post and teaching journalism at Georgetown and American University. After former director David Protess resigned in 2011, Klein took over the investigative project at Northwestern.

Klein told The Daily in 2011 that he wanted to restore trust in the class and project, calling the Medill Justice Project a “crown jewel for Northwestern.”

But the 2018 letter » See KLEIN, page 10

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New first-year and transfer students gather on Hutcheson Field to pose for the annual class photo. This week, Northwestern welcomed over 2,000 firstyears and 200 transfer students during the annual Wildcat Welcome orientation week.

Students turned away from dining halls Saturday

When students went to eat lunch on Saturday afternoon, they were turned away from the only dining hall open, Foster-Walker West, leaving them to pay for food off campus or wait until dinner.

A copy of the Peer Advisers’

schedules, obtained by The Daily, suggested that new students would be able to eat lunch from 12:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.

“New Students are expected to eat breakfast at the tailgate, but all dining halls will be open; only Foster Walker will be open for lunch” the schedule read.

But Northwestern Dining’s online calendar had a different time table. According to the calendar, the Foster-Walker West dining hall was the only dining hall open between 11 a.m. and

1:30 p.m. on Saturday. The Allison, Elder, Plex East and Sargent dining halls were all closed during typical lunch hours. Some students headed to eat at Plex West after 1:30 p.m., under the impression it would be open until 2:30 p.m.

Weinberg sophomore Shane Persaud said he arrived at Plex West after halftime of Saturday’s football game against Michigan State. The line was long, but he was able to eat for about 40 minutes.

“On my way out, the dining hall staff started to turn people away,” Persaud told The Daily in a text.

New students were unable to use dining dollars, so some waited until 5 p.m. for dining halls to reopen or bought lunch at a retail location on campus or around Evanston.

Procurement administrator Sheila Watkins did not respond immediately to a request for comment.

— James Pollard

Bobkiewicz leaves Evanston Summer in Evanston recap City manager honored for decade-long tenure

Mayor asks for criminal probe of City Council

By KRISTINA KARISCH

By SAMANTHA HANDLER

After a decade in Evanston, city manager Wally Bobkiewicz heading to Issaquah, Washington, where he will start as the new city administrator at the end of the month.

To honor the occasion, city and state officials and members of the public gathered at the Levy Senior Center, 300 Dodge Ave., Friday to thank Bobkiewicz for his 10 years of service in Evanston and to reflect on the ways the city has changed under his management.

Bobkiewicz came to Evanston in 2009 from Santa Paula, California, where he had served as city manager. Ald. Ann Rainey (8th), who was on the search committee to hire Bobkiewicz ten years ago, said Friday that Evanston “won” with Bobkiewicz as its city manager.

Rainey, who is the

Mayor requests criminal investigation into City Council, staff

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City manager Wally Bobkiewicz. He will be leaving Evanston after ten years to start as the city administrator of Issaquah, Washington.

longest-serving member on City Council, said that of the five city managers she has worked with during her career, Bobkiewicz has by far been the best. She said

Serving the University and Evanston since 1881

Bobkiewicz meets individually with each alderman every two weeks to discuss their needs. » See BOBKIEWICZ, page 10

Mayor Steve Hagerty asked the Cook County sheriff to conduct a criminal probe into City Council, city staff and outside attorneys after confidential city documents were leaked in July.

Documents from a July 8 executive session meeting — including claims of workplace harassment, threatening behavior and retaliation against City Clerk Devon Reid — first appeared on a resident’s blog site, Evanston Leads, run by Misty Witenberg.

In a letter to the sheriff, Hagerty said the city discovered the executive session meeting minutes were leaked

the night of July 15. Hagerty said those documents were not subject to Freedom of Information Act disclosure laws. By July 16, the documents were public on Evanston Leads.

Hagerty wrote that the only people with access to the documents included him, the nine aldermen, city manager Wally Bobkiewicz, seven of the city manager’s staff and Robbins Schwartz, the law firm that conducted the investigation into Reid. He added that if someone did leak the information, the action would qualify as Official Misconduct under the Illinois Official Misconduct Act, which would be a Class 3 felony.

“The release of the July 8 privileged and confidential Executive Session package, containing detailed information on the employee complaints and eavesdropping allegations and attorney-client privileged communications, is

an extraordinary act of misconduct,” Hagerty wrote. “I have reason to believe that packet was released by an individual Aldermen acting without authorization of City Council.”

The Cook County’s sheriff ’s office received Hagerty’s letter and started to review his request in July, according to The Chicago Tribune.

The office did not immediately respond to The Daily’s request for an update on the investigation.

A staff member Reid allegedly wanted to replace and two city law department employees filed complaints against Reid on April 26, alleging the clerk had “hostile debates” about “FOIA matters.”

The law firm Robbins Schwartz investigated the claims and found that two of the complaints were filed » See SUMMER, page 10

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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

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ETHS students join climate strike

By KALEN LUCIANO

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Evanston Township High School students chanted “there’s no planet B,” as they marched to Fountain Square, joining a worldwide, youth-led movement to raise awareness about the dangers of climate change.

Their chants echoed through the streets, all the way down to where residents stood at Fountain Square, where they were greeted by the applause of parents, public officials and residents. The banners of the marchers and the signs of the onlookers blended in the square, where their chants grew louder.

In solidarity with over 5,000 marches across the world, nearly 400 Evanston residents gathered in the square Friday to assert the urgency of the climate crisis.

Many student organizers at the strike felt a renewed sense of urgency after the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report found that there are only 11 years left until the effects of climate change will be irreversible.

“For a very long time, climate change has been in the back of everyone’s minds, but if

we don’t start now, we will never start,” ETHS junior and student organizer Jacob Brodsky said. “If not now, when?”

Even though Chicago organized a strike, Aldric Martinez-Olson, an ETHS senior and one of the student organizers, said it was important to have one in Evanston that was easily accessible to the community.

“We just want to support climate action, educate (residents) about climate justice and involve the community,” Martinez-Olson said.

Illinois Rep. Robyn Gabel (D-Evanston) and state Sen. Laura Fine (D-Glenview) joined the call for action. Both spoke about carbon pollution and years of the country and state failing to take action. While they both have worked to pass state legislation to reduce emissions and fight climate change like the Clean Energy Jobs Act, they recognize the importance of listening to the organizers of these marches — young people.

“We can’t do this alone. We need to do this together,” Fine said. “Now is the time to have the adults in the room listen to our kids.”

Though students called for action on climate change, they also focused on climate justice, talking about how low-income people and people of color are disproportionately affected by the impacts of climate change. In

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Evanston police officers responded to reports on Thursday afternoon that liquor was stolen from the Jewel-Osco on Chicago Ave. The store’s manager reported to police that two individuals stole liquor, said Perry Polinski, Evanston police communications coordinator.

Police located the two men, who were together, around Elmwood Avenue and Lee Street, near the store’s location at 1128 Chicago Ave.

Police recovered the liquor, returned it to the store and warned the individuals not to return or they would be charged with trespassing, Polinski said. One was a 29-year-old Evanston resident and the other was a 48-year-old Chicago resident. Both were issued city ordinance violation tickets for theft.

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Evanston, for example, the only waste treatment facility is located in the 5th Ward, in which a majority of residents are people of color.

ETHS senior and student organizer Bella Hubbard saw the impact of environmental injustice firsthand, when she studied in Ecuador and found plastic everywhere. Now, as she watches the Amazon Rainforest burn at unprecedented rates after government neglect, she said the indigenous communities who rely on the land will suffer the most.

“If you want to live on Earth in a healthy way, you have to care about this. It’s not really an option at this point,” ETHS junior and student organizer Callie Stolar said. “This is our home. If you want to have kids, this is their home, and you want them to have a home to grow up in.” kalenluciano2022@u.northwestern.edu

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four days, police said.

The woman parked her car in a lot in the 200 block of Brown Avenue on Sept. 15 around 9 p.m. When she returned to the car on Thursday around 6 a.m., she found damage on the driver and passenger’s side of the car. Polinski said the report did not go into detail about the type of damage or give any information about a possible offender. ­— Samantha Handler

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NU insurance changes to lower mental health costs

By CAMERON COOK

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Aetna, Northwestern’s health insurance provider, has agreed to amend the Student Health Insurance plan after students expressed concern over an increase in the cost of mental health treatment, Julie Payne-Kirchmeier, interim vice president for student affairs, announced in an email Saturday.

The University and Aetna renegotiated the terms of the plan to reinstate a $20 cap on in-network mental health care that had been previously removed for the 2019-2020 academic year, as well as increase the coverage on out-of-network care from 60 percent to 80 percent, Payne-Kirchmeier wrote. She emphasized the impact of student feedback that came through “a few channels” including administrators from The Graduate School and in Student Affairs.

The changes will be made retroactively, so claims made prior to the change will be revisited and Aetna will issue refunds where applicable, according to a University “FAQ” document. It will take about three weeks before the system is updated.

The original changes to the plan sparked outrage among students who could see their costs go up by at least $13 per appointment.

Before renewing the insurance plan, Northwestern worked with Aetna to “evaluate alternative

Medill Justice Project to rebrand into new investigative lab

Just over one year after former Medill Justice Project director Alec Klein resigned from the University, the journalism program he led is rebranding as a new investigative reporting lab, the school announced in a release on Sep. 18.

options to satisfy the compliance requirement,” University Spokesman Bob Rowley told The Daily earlier this month. The changes to mental health treatment costs — which removed a $20 cap on innetwork appointments and increased the patient contribution on out-of-network appointments — were “identified to be the most cost-effective and least disruptive solution.”

However, after hearing students were unhappy, the University asked Aetna to revisit alternative solutions, Payne-Kirchmeier wrote. Aetna’s compliance team “developed a solution to create a short term fix” for the current plan, and it’s unclear whether the rates will change in the future, something that has already left students worried.

Though students have responded well to the news, some are taking to Twitter to voice confusion over whether the University could have asked Aetna to make the change sooner.

Members of Northwestern Graduate Workers, some who reached out directly to administrators asking for information before the recent change was announced, are “very concerned” that the policy went through in the first place, organizing member Kitty Yang told The Daily in an email, as well as the short-term nature of the solution.

“If it was this easy to go back to the copay cap, then it should not have been changed in the first place,” she said. “There are students, myself included, who will have to wait for a reimbursement that did not have to happen. Lastly, it’s pretty clear from Julie’s email that she is setting up for this

The new Medill Investigative Lab will be led by Prof. Debbie Cenziper, who joined the school last spring from The Washington Post, and will continue to be offered as a class.

Unlike the former program, students will also have opportunities to work on investigative stories and projects over multiple quarters.

“Investigative reporting is the bedrock of our journalism, and uncovering facts and bringing them to light is the essential role for the press in our democracy,” Medill Dean Charles Whitaker

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Searle Hall, home to University Health Service. Northwestern renegotiated its plan with Aetna to lower the cost of mental health treatment after students expressed concern over initial changes to the 2019-2020 plan.

to possibly come back next year, which is something we want to fight.”

The changes will be made retroactively, so claims made prior to the change will be revisited and Aetna will issue refunds where applicable,

according to a University “FAQ” document. It will take about three weeks before the system is updated.

said. “The broad focus of the Lab allows Medill to expand our storytelling and investigations beyond what we were able to do through the Medill Justice Project limited scope.”

The program — initially the Medill Innocence Project — previously rebranded as the Medill Justice Project soon after former Prof. David Protess stopped teaching at the school following concerns about the reporting tactics used by him and his students.

Klein took over the program in 2011 and led the

class until last year when a group of former students and employees accused him of “controlling, discriminatory, emotionally and verbally abusive behavior.”

“Students in the Medill Investigative Lab will pursue timely, high-impact topics that affect communities across the country,” said Cenziper.”We hope to build strong partnerships with professional news organizations to give these stories a broad audience.”

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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Council to vote on sales tax, search for city manager

By SAMANTHA HANDLER

daily senior staffer @sn_handler

Aldermen at tomorrow’s City Council meeting will vote on increasing Evanston’s sales tax to 1.25 percent and will consider approving a contract with a firm to conduct the search for a new city manager.

City staff recommends that aldermen approve raising the municipal retailer’s occupation tax rate from 1 percent to 1.25 percent in 2020. According to city documents, the additional revenue would go to the city’s general fund, adding $1.5 million in revenue.

The tax affects businesses selling retail. Most food sold at grocery stores, medical appliances, vehicles and other items taxed at different rates would not be affected by the increase.

City documents state that the current total sales tax rate in Evanston is 10 percent on general merchandise, which includes items like food purchased at a restaurant. Out of the total 10 percent, 6.25 percent goes to Illinois, 1.75 percent goes to Cook County, 1 percent goes to the Regional Transit Authority and 1 percent goes to Evanston. If aldermen vote to increase the municipal rate, the total would go up to 10.25 percent.

Other municipalities, including Skokie, Chicago and Niles also have a total sales tax rate of 10.25 percent.

For the new tax rate to go into effect, the city must approve the ordinance and file it with the Illinois Department of Revenue by Oct. 1.

At the Sept. 9 City Council meeting, Evanston Chamber of Commerce member Nasuta Mabwa said 72 percent of businesses were against the proposal, according to a survey the chamber conducted.

“From the retailer’s perspective, it’s just one more thing that makes shopping in Evanston more expensive,” Evanston Chamber of Commerce president Roger Sosa said to The Chicago Tribune. “That’s how they look at it.”

Alds. Judy Fiske (1st) and Tom Suffredin (6th) previously voted against the motion to introduce the proposal.

Council at tomorrow’s meeting will also discuss approving a contract with the firm GovHR USA to conduct the search for Evanston’s new city manager.

City staff recommends allocating $23,500 for the Human Resource Recruitment budget, which has a current budget of around $20,000, according to city documents. GovHR USA is an executive recruiting firm that provides interim staffing solutions and human resource consulting to nonprofits and local

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City Council members engage in discussion. Council is slated to vote on a potential sales tax increase.

governments. The company is based out of Northbrook, Illinois.

Council will also authorize an employment contract with Interim City Manager Erika Storlie. Mayor Steve Hagerty said residents will have a part in the recruitment process, and there will be a community-wide panel with the final candidates.

“Once a search firm has been hired, we will begin a process of seeking community dialogue, obtaining input on what skills, experience and traits residents would like to see in the next city manager,” Hagerty said at the Sept. 9 meeting. samanthahandler2021@u.northwestern.edu

ETHS faces sexual abuse lawsuit against security guards

By TROY CLOSSON

daily senior staffer

A federal lawsuit filed on Aug. 19 alleges two Evanston Township High School security guards sexually abused female students and that the school district didn’t do enough to prevent it.

In the 22-page suit, a June 2019 graduate of ETHS and her mother claim the high school’s principal — along with the school district and its superintendent — failed to protect the female students and should have known the security guards were a risk to the student body.

“Defendants’ conduct, failure to act, and failure to exercise reasonable care are directly responsible for giving former ETHS Safety Officer Michael B. Haywood unfettered access to minor girls within the building and grounds of ETHS,” the lawsuit says.

Evanston Township High School and District 202 officials could not immediately be reached for comment.

One guard named in the suit — Michael Haywood — was charged with criminal sexual assault by a person of authority in February for an incident in November 2018 with a different 17-year-old female student. The lawsuit says Haywood started

sexually targeting the plaintiff — along with at least two other female students — after his 2018 hiring while parents weren’t fully informed of the allegations against him after he was fired in January.

The other security guard Marvin Rhone — who was fired from the district in 2016 — engaged in more than 50 “unwanted and unauthorized sexual acts” with the plaintiff over two years, the lawsuit alleges.

The city of Evanston and Evanston Township High School District 202 are among the defendants named in the suit. Evanston Police could not immediately be reached for comment.

“Plaintiffs seek to be made whole for the damage

caused by Defendants’ willful, reckless, and negligent conduct in refusing to address systemic failures,” the lawsuit says, “and documented patterns and practices of sexual abuse of minor female students at ETHS.” In January, ETHS/District 202 reached a $100,000 settlement to improve existing programs “that address sexual assault awareness, reporting, and prevention” in a lawsuit charging sexual abuse by a against former drama teacher in the 1970s and 1980s. The school denied officials knew of the abuse and admitted no wrongdoing. city@dailynorthwestern.com

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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

NU finalizes one-year pilot deal with Via rideshare

By CAMERON COOK

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Northwestern’s agreement with the rideshare service Via has been finalized, the University announced in an email Wednesday.

The email, signed by Julie Payne-Kirchmeier, interim vice president for student affairs and Associated Student Government President Izzy Dobbel, revealed the deal is a one-year pilot program, during which Safe Ride will be replaced by Via and its drivers and dispatchers.

The University will “engage key stakeholders“ in further talks concerning the future of the Safe Ride program, Payne-Kirchmeier and Dobbel wrote.

In the meantime, they wrote, administrators expect service to improve under the partnership with Via. “Consistently, students told us that Safe Ride’s wait times were too long, potentially compromising student safety,” Payne-Kirchmeier and Dobbel said in the email. “By partnering with Via and utilizing an increased number of Safe Ride-dedicated, trained drivers each night, students will see a 38% increase in the total number of hours that drivers are available.”

The Division of Student Affairs first announced

that it was “very close” to signing an agreement with Via on Aug. 12 in an email to Safe Ride employees. Late August, Students responded to the news by organizing an email campaign and template, from which Roberts said he has received about 125 emails.

The emails called for “further details explaining the incoming contract with Via” and for administrators to take action regarding the financial security of the ex-Safe Ride employees by the end of August.

“This last-minute announcement – within the context of numerous student calls for administrative transparency – is disrespectful and unacceptable,” the email template read. “Specifically, we demand the University ensure students will be returning to campus with jobs with similar perks that came with (Safe Ride).”

In response, the University’s Executive Director of Division Services Jim Roberts told concerned students in an email on Sept. 1 that the Safe Ride schedule is “unhealthy” for student employment, but some students pointed out that Safe Ride’s 7 p.m. to 3 a.m. schedule provided their only opportunity to get a job, and that losing the income would put an extra burden on low-income students.

According to the Wednesday email, the Via drivers assigned to the Northwestern program will be subject to background checks and be required to “display clear signage” to identify themselves

Source: Caroline Hawkins

A Via vehicle. Northwestern’s deal with Via has been finalized and will be a one-year pilot program.

as Northwestern drivers. Students will be able to request rides using the Via app.

The email also addressed the job prospects of the ex-Safe Ride employees, many of whom have expressed frustration regarding the decision.

“All drivers with whom we have connected and who wanted a new on-campus job have been

successfully paired with a role, or are currently vetting their options,” Dobbel and Payne-Kirchmeier wrote.

More information will be available on the Safe Ride website by Tuesday. cameroncook@u.northwestern.edu

Northwestern slots in at No. 9 in U.S. News rankings

By AMY LI

daily senior staffer

Northwestern was ranked the 9th best U.S. university this year in U.S. News & World Report’s annual Best Colleges list, marking the third consecutive year Northwestern has moved up a spot.

Northwestern is one spot ahead of Duke and just below Stanford, the University of Chicago and the University of Pennsylvania — which all tied for sixth. NU landed in the top 10 last year for the first time since 2002.

University spokesperson Bob Rowley told The Daily that although rankings rise and fall, moving

up in the top 10 is a ‘tremendous milestone.” In a Northwestern release, Rowley added that the University’s record $797.8 million in sponsored research funding contributed to its success in the rankings.

The rankings introduced a new Top Performers on Social Mobility ranking but the added factor didn’t dislodge universities like Princeton and Harvard from their leading spots.

Northwestern ranked tied for 251st by the metric.

Social mobility is scored based on the proportion of students who graduate with Pell Grants, which are federal grants awarded to students whose adjusted gross family incomes are less than

$50,000. The two indicators used were the Pell Grant graduation rate and a comparison between the Pell rate and the non-Pell rate, both of which were adjusted for the total share of students who receive the Pell Grant.

Similar metrics used to assess social mobility were criticized last year because they disregard the total number graduated low income students, meaning a college can score well with a smaller proportion of low income graduates compared to total graduates, as long as the low income students perform well throughout their education at the university.

The 2020 rankings also feature changes to the Carnegie classification system, the classification

U.S. News employs. A “professional practice” category was added into doctoral universities and institutions in U.S. territories became rank-eligible for the first time, increasing the number of institutions considered by more than 25 percent.

Northwestern also ranked 14th in Best Value Schools and 76th in Best Undergraduate Teaching.

“We see it as a wonderful external endorsement of what our extraordinarily talented community of faculty, staff, and students does every day to make Northwestern one of the leading research universities in the world,” Provost Jonathan Holloway said in a release. amyli2021@u.northwestern.edu

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Elaine Welteroth’s memoir was no highlight reel CASSIDY JACKSON

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Elaine Welteroth is a trailblazer. At 29, she became the youngest and first black editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue. After landing jobs in the beauty and fashion departments at Ebony and Glamour, Welteroth transformed Teen Vogue into the socially conscious platform it is today.

Welteroth made history, and in June, she published a book titled More Than Enough: Claiming Space for Who You Are (No Matter What They Say). The book chronicles her groundbreaking rise to the top — and all the unspoken pain that comes with breaking barriers.

I’d like to say I’ve been following Welteroth’s career for years, but in truth, I met her through this book. “The Breakfast Club” formally introduced us. As I packed up my sophomore year, I was shuffling through their YouTube videos, a not-so secret joy of mine.

After watching an Amanda Seales interview, I clicked on a video titled, “Elaine Welteroth Describes Why You Are ‘More Than Enough,’ Her Journey From Intern to Editor + More.” The video title made me feel like an “Iyanla: Fix My Life” moment was coming on, a moment I desperately needed.

As sophomore year started to wrap up, I was unraveling, feeling more lost than I’d felt

in awhile. I needed to hear why Welteroth thought I was “More Than Enough.”

By the end of that 30-minute interview, I was hooked. I pressed pause on packing, walked a few blocks to Barnes & Noble and bought the book. Coughing up $26 for the shiny hardcover edition broke me a little bit, but somehow, I knew it would be worth it. I wasn’t wrong.

I was metaphorically seen, understood and embraced by Welteroth in every page of her story. In each heart-wrenching, laughable or applause-worthy moment, I saw a piece of myself, whether it was middle school Cassidy discovering the cruel realities of race or recent moments where I’ve started to step into my power.

I saw myself so much in this book that I faced a paradox. I desperately wanted to speed through the pages in a day’s time but also didn’t want the story to end.

When I first Googled “Elaine Welteroth’s resume,” I was speechless … and exhausted.

At just 32, she’d climbed to the top of Teen Vogue, helped mold the magazine into an empowering space for youth, joined Project Runway as a judge and wrote a book. I wondered, “How am I, a 19-year-old college kid, supposed to relate to this book?”

But Wetlteroth’s book isn’t a sequenced highlight reel. She’s intensely candid, and you get a taste of Welteroth’s grit while hearing the challenges she faced along the way.

It’s a coming-of-age tale — not a fairytale.

Welteroth details romantic capades that went awry, moments where she felt

incompetent at work and times when her self-worth needed a boost. All the while, she weaves in stories of triumph from meeting her fiancé to fulfilling part of her purpose at Teen Vogue. It’s a perfect balance between divulging the hustle and the success and painting it how it actually was: difficult at times.

One part I have highlighted two times over is her brutal honesty around being crowned editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue.

Being the youngest and first black editor-inchief, she was undeniably making history and the internet applauded her for it. But Welteroth’s reality was different.

“In the press, I was being held up as a symbol of progress and exalted publicly as a token win for diversity (again),” she writes.

“But behind the scenes I had been asked, on the spot, to assume an ill-defined position that broke from a tradition that I felt devalued my role.”

Reading those sentences reminded me of when I was accepted to Northwestern. My mom recorded my college acceptance reaction and shed more tears than I thought possible. I was exalted by the aunts and uncles who’d never received a college degree or a high school diploma. It was a whole ordeal.

And I was proud of myself, but the moment wasn’t as magical as I thought it would be.

Part of me regretted applying to Northwestern Early Decision, not looking more into other colleges and choosing a school close to home. I also felt so unsure of myself going into freshman year. I didn’t want to leave high school’s safety net behind. But I

kept a smile on my face in front of my parents and relatives. I needed to be grateful. I needed to be grateful to have what many of my relatives never did.

That’s how Welteroth writes the chapter on being appointed editor-in-chief. Here was a remarkable opportunity, but it wasn’t spotless like outsiders believed it to be. Elaine feels reachable, touchable and most importantly, relatable.

And she was the same way when I met her in person.

The story of how I met Welteroth begins in an Uber, like most great stories do. On June 28, I sat back in an Uber Pool, going to Welteroth’s Chicago book tour stop at Wilson Abbey. As the driver sped down Lake Shore Drive, it started pouring rain. When my Uber pulled up to the venue, I saw black girl after black girl frantically protect their hair from the rainstorm and race into the building, myself included.

When Welteroth walked out and took the stage, the first thing she said to the beautiful black and brown audience was, “You guys came here even in the pouring rain. Now, THAT’s black love!”

So, yeah, she’s pretty relatable.

Cassidy Jackson is a Medill junior. She can be contacted at cassidyjackson2021@u.northwestern.edu.

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Expanding Northwestern’s Vision for Global Health Last week, Northwestern announced the opening of its new Institute for Global Health, with the stated mission of “improving health in middle- and lower-income countries around the world.” While we enthusiastically support Northwestern’s decision to deepen its commitment to global health, we believe that for the Institute to achieve its mission, it must broaden the scope of its research agenda to better reflect the multidisciplinary nature of global health itself.

Currently, the Institute primarily supports biomedical research, and its leadership has not expressed any intention of collaborating with the social sciences or humanities in a research capacity. At face value, these priorities may make sense to you. After all, health is predominantly a medical issue, right?

As global health students, we recognize that global health does not fall under the purview of medicine alone. Global health is commonly defined as “an area for study, research, and practice that places a priority on improving health and achieving health equity for all people worldwide.” With such a far-reaching scope, the field of global health is inherently multidisciplinary because our health and the health of others around the world are not shaped solely by the field of medicine. Socioeconomic status, access to healthy food and water, political turmoil and violence and other

social and environmental factors also significantly impact health outcomes worldwide.

For these reasons, we hope Northwestern leaders will push beyond the Institute’s decision to structure its objectives around the Millenium Development Goals (MDGs).

At their conception, the MDGs were revolutionary because they sought to reach an agreement on a global scale about how to tackle global health issues. However, a major fault in the MDGs is that the goals did not actively take into consideration the impacts that social issues have in shaping health outcomes. Rather, they presented poverty, health disparities, gender inequity, and other critical challenges as independent rather than interrelated issues.

Furthermore, the MDGs are outdated, as the international community departed from the MDGs to rally around the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in 2016. The switch from MDGs to SDGs was in part an acknowledgment of the importance of social and historical contexts and the unsustainability of short-term, exclusively medical or “vertical” public health interventions.

Countless research findings have demonstrated the reductionist nature of the MDGs and the often unintended but detrimental effects of these initiatives. Adopting a more multidisciplinary approach will enable the Institute to carry out a research agenda that better aligns with existing global health knowledge and the new priorities of the international community.

For the Institute to construct a more well-rounded vision for global health and

accomplish its mission, it must support and build upon the relevant and important work that economists, anthropologists, political scientists, sociologists and other scholars are carrying out across the University. For example, the faculty of the undergraduate Global Health Studies Program are researching water insecurity in sub-Saharan Africa, international clinical volunteerism in Tanzania, psychological trauma in post-war BosniaHerzegovina and other issues lying at the intersection of health and the social sciences.

Northwestern’s Global Poverty Research Lab and Buffett Institute for Global Studies, as well as other programs at the university, offer further opportunities for academic and philanthropic collaboration.

Moreover, a more multidisciplinary approach is necessary for the Institute’s leadership to achieve their goal of creating a “topranked international institute”. Other leading global health organizations established by our peer institutions, such as the Global Health Institutes at Harvard and Duke, house and support the research of faculty across the STEM fields, social sciences and humanities.

The Harvard Global Health Institute’s mission statement is quite clear: “We believe that solutions that will move the dial (in reducing global health disparities) draw from within and beyond the medicine and public health spheres to encompass design, law, policy, and business.”

In addition, having a more integrated institute that incorporates the perspectives of humanities and social science scholars who have invested their careers in the global health

field along with medical professionals can enhance the undergraduate experience. A truly multidisciplinary institute can bridge the gap between the Chicago and Evanston campuses, offering opportunities for medical students and undergraduates, who are the world’s future researchers, doctors and leaders, to connect and collaborate with current professionals on challenging global health problems.

The establishment of the Institute for Global Health is an important step in the right direction. The research that the Institute currently supports will surely play an important role in improving the health of disadvantaged and marginalized populations.

That being said, every stakeholder in the new Institute stands to benefit from a more multidisciplinary approach to global health. Professors will have access to greater opportunities for scholarly collaboration and support for their research. The Institute’s beneficiaries in developing countries will benefit from a more comprehensive strategy to improve health outcomes. The Institute’s leadership will be able to align the structure of the organization with other leading academic global health institutions. Lastly, both undergraduate and graduate students will be able to participate in more robust learning and research experiences.

A true multidisciplinary approach to global health will better serve the world’s vulnerable populations and the Northwestern community.

— Zach Hennenfent ‘19, Grishma Reddy ‘19, Nihmotallahi Adebayo ‘19

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Adam Schiff Congressman Adam Schiff represents California’s 28th Congressional District, and throughout his tenure in Congress he has focused on growing the economy, bolstering national security, helping small businesses, and improving education, safety and health care for our children. In his 10th term in the House of Representatives, Schiff currently serves as the Chair of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and is on leave from the House Appropriations Committee.

In addition to his committee work, Schiff has been a leader on national security and foreign policy issues in Congress. He has advanced efforts to ensure the safety of all Americans by addressing nuclear proliferation, and is the author of the Nuclear Forensics and Attribution Act. Schiff has also been a leader on human rights, and a forceful advocate for recognition of the Armenian Genocide of 1915–23. Schiff also co-founded the Congressional Caucus for Freedom of the Press in May 2006, a bipartisan, bicameral caucus that he chairs.

Before he was elected to Congress, Schiff served as State Senator for California’s 21st State Senate District, chairing the Senate Judiciary Committee, the Senate Select Committee on Juvenile Justice and the Joint Committee on the Arts. He previously served with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles for six years, most notably prosecuting the first FBI agent ever to be indicted for espionage.

Adam graduated from Stanford University and Harvard Law School. He and his wife Eve (yes, it’s true—Adam and Eve) have two children, a daughter, Alexa, and a son, Elijah.

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described an environment devoid of trust. Among other allegations, the signees accused Klein of attempting to kiss a prospective employee, making sexually graphic remarks at work, pressing for explicit details about others’ sex lives and making unwanted physical contact.

“We have seen many men of great talent — even some of our journalism heroes — fail,” the authors of the 2018 letter wrote. “But know this: Alec Klein is no hero. And journalism, especially the emerging journalists who come to Medill to learn in a safe space, will be better served without him.”

University spokesman Bob Rowley said the University is “committed to fostering an environment in which all members of our community are safe, secure and free from sexual misconduct of any form” in an email statement.

“Northwestern is aware of the pending book release by Alec Klein. The University investigated the allegations against him thoroughly, following established procedures designed to ensure fairness to all parties,” Rowley said. “The decisions of some Northwestern students to come forward with their complaints undoubtedly were not easy ones, and we commend them for having had the courage to do so.”

Rainey said she and other aldermen recently met with the mayor of Issaquah, Bobkiewicz’s soon-to-be boss. The town is located about a half hour east of Seattle and has a population of approximately 39,000.

“We asked her: ‘Why do you find him so interesting and why do you want him?’” she said. “She said: ‘After I read about Evanston and his career in the town, I said this guy is exactly what we need in Issaquah.’”

Mayor Steve Hagerty, a number of former and current aldermen, Cook County Commissioner Larry Suffredin, State Sen. Laura Fine (D-Evanston) and State Rep. Robyn Gabel (D-Evanston) attended Friday’s event and read letters to thank Bobkiewicz for his collaboration in matters concerning Evanston and the state.

Hagerty said it is “bittersweet” to see Bobkiewicz moving on.

“We are blessed and have been blessed to have one of the best city managers in all of America,” Hagerty said. “It’s the toughest job in the city. You have 10 bosses you have to listen to; 10 bosses, some of them telling you completely contradictory things. But you’re the CEO of the city and the buck does stop with you. And having the buck stop with you over the last 10 years means that Evanston has gotten a lot safer.”

Under Bobkiewicz’s leadership, Hagerty said,

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three days before Reid’s attorney sent a letter to the city demanding the city comply with the clerk’s interpretation of FOIA laws, according to Patch. After disclosing the results of the investigation, the mayor asked aldermen to censure Reid at the July 15 council meeting.

Northwestern seeks zoning change for pro-events at Welsh-Ryan arena

Despite vocal opposition from Evanston residents, the city’s Plan Commission recommended that City Council approve Northwestern’s proposal that would allow for professional sporting and entertainment events at the Welsh-Ryan Arena.

The NU proposal requests a zoning change to “pursue hosting nationally recognized sporting events” at the arena, which can hold around 7,000 attendees, according to city documents.

Residents expressed concerns about traffic, parking, noise and safety at a meeting in June.

They also restated their objections to the proposal at a City Council meeting last week, saying the area is too residential to accommodate such events.

NU initially wanted to hold professional sports events and concerts at Ryan Field as well

but backed off earlier in the summer because of the resistance from neighbors. The issue also came up in 1996 when aldermen unanimously rejected a bid to host the Ameritech Cup, a women’s tennis tournament, at Welsh-Ryan Arena.

Ald. Eleanor Revelle (7th), whose ward encompasses the arena, told The Daily in June that she has been listening to her residents.

“I need to support my residents, so I’m a no vote at this point,” Revelle said in June. “I would like to think what happened in 1996 would be what happens again.”

University officials said the proposal is a “two-year pilot program” that the University, city and residents could revisit later.

Dave Davis, the University’s executive director for neighborhood community relations, told The Chicago Tribune that NU is looking to host family-friendly events that “align with the unique culture” in Evanston.

“I’m sensing a lot of mistrust,” Davis said at a June community meeting about the proposal.

“We know we have to regain trust. Yes, we’re asking you to trust us, and that’s a big ask.”

Aldermen will have the final say on the proposal, though it is not on the agenda for the upcoming council meeting. samanthahandler2021@u.northwestern.edu

crimes like murder, robbery and aggravated assault in Evanston have dropped more than 30 percent over the last decade. The Evanston Fire Department has risen in national ranks, most recently boasting a Class 1 Public Protection Classification, the highest ranking of ten.

Bobkiewicz also established the Evanston 311 program, which allows residents to access city information through a centralized phone system.

Hagerty and a number of other speakers mentioned the improvement of the relationship between Evanston and Northwestern University under Bobkiewicz’s tenure. He and former mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl were instrumental in bettering town and gown relations between the city and the University, Hagerty said, a coexistence which could previously be described as “a bad marriage.”

Rainey said that because of Bobkiewicz, town and gown relations improved so much that Schapiro now knows all the aldermen by name.

“There is not another (University) president in my 30-plus years working in this town…that would have ever known my first name, last name or even my face,” Rainey said. “You and (former mayor Tisdahl) made that happen.”

In honor of his work with Evanston and Northwestern, Bobkiewicz received the 2019 Evanston MashUp Catalyst Award winner, recognizing individuals and groups for their service to the University and city communities.

In the video honoring Bobkiewicz for his win, University President Morton Schapiro called

Bobkiewicz “loyal and passionate and sincere.”

“I’m just incredibly grateful to have had the opportunity to have worked with him so closely over a decade,” Schapiro said in the video.

Assistant city manager Erika Storlie, who will take over as interim city manager once Bobkiewicz leaves Evanston, said the city and its staff won’t be able to realize how much Bobkiewicz improved the city until they look back on his tenure years in the future.

“You never really always remember the things people did or they said but how they make you feel,” Storlie said. “I knew I was going to work harder for this person than anyone in my whole life, and I’ve done that for ten years.”

After Bobkiewicz listened to speeches honoring his career and received a number of gifts from different city departments — including a custom firefighter’s helmet, Hawaiian lei, custom NU football jersey and golden library card — he took time to thank the city staff and officials for their work over the past decade.

“One of my Wally-isms is ‘Don’t ever apologize for doing your job,’” he said. “It’s a difficult job, but you and all who are members of the community need to know how dedicated we all are, elected and appointed alike, how much we truly love this community and that we are always working for it to be a better place … It’s our privilege to contribute to the betterment of the city of Evanston.” karisch@u.northwestern.edu

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Mayor Steve Hagerty speaks at a city meeting. This summer, Hagerty called for a criminal investigation into the full City Council. Also, Northwestern is seeking zoning for professional sporting events in Welsh-Ryan Arena.

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OUTMATCHED

After three straight series victories, Cats fall to the Spartans

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With under two minutes left in the second quarter and Northwestern on the verge of crossing midfield, sophomore quarterback Hunter Johnson made an ill-advised throw towards the far sideline, and Michigan State’s Josiah Scott intercepted the pass.

Over the next two-plus quarters, the Spartans scored 24 unanswered points while the Wildcats failed to gain any significant yardage against a Joe Bachie-led defense until the game was out of hand. By the start of the fourth quarter, Michigan State (3-1, 1-0 Big Ten) was on cruise control to a 31-10 victory, which snapped NU’s (1-2, 0-1) three-game winning streak in the series.

“Being able to beat them my senior year after not beating them for the past three, it feels pretty good,” Spartans quarterback Brian Lewerke said. “At the beginning of camp, we go around and give our senior speeches and (linebacker Tyriq Thompson’s) MSU fact was ‘haven’t beaten Northwestern since 2013.’ That was something that we focused on.”

Michigan State started the game well, going up 7-0 on a nine-play, 75-yard drive. On Elijah Collins’ five-yard touchdown run, the tailback looked like he was stopped at the line of scrimmage, but kept his legs moving as a hole opened and he scampered into the endzone.

After a stalled Cats possession, Spartans returner Cody White fumbled on the punt return and junior Travis Whillock recovered the football at the 27-yard line. NU drove the ball to the one-yard line, but stagnated there.

Sophomore Isaiah Bowser ran the ball for no gain on second and third down, and Johnson was stopped

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immediately on fourth down as the Cats tried to run the speed option.

Coach Pat Ftizgerald said the team did not correctly execute a blocking assignment on the edge.

“On the road you need stops like that, and we were able to do that, so that was huge,” said Bachie, who had 14 tackles, one sack and one interception in a dominant performance. “If they score that touchdown on the goal line, it might be a completely different ball game.”

After forcing a stop on the next possession, NU got the ball back and marched down the field. Johnson made big throws on third down to juniors Ramaud Chiaokhiao-Bowman and Kyric McGowan, but the drive fizzled at the 21-yard line. Kicking against the wind, junior Charlie Kuhbander’s 39 yarder just pushed itself over the crossbar.

After five straight second quarter punts, NU got the ball back with about six minutes left and crossed midfield a few minutes later. But a first-down holding penalty pushed the offense back into its territory, and two plays later Scott intercepted Johnson.

“We don’t need the interception,” Fitzgerald said. “We got a check down right in front of us. Check it down, it ends up being 4th-and-12, I may just go for it. What the hell. I’ve done it before, or I might punt and play field position.”

With the drive starting at its 38-yard line, Michigan State went down the field with relative ease. After hitting Darrell Stewart on a crossing route on a critical 3rd-and-16, Lewerke found White on another

third down in the corner of the endzone for the touchdown.

The Spartans came out of halftime re-energized, while the Wildcats looked flat. Each team had three full possessions in the third quarter. NU had three three-and-outs. Michigan State drive deep into Cats territory each time.

Matt Coghlin missed a 40-yard field goal on the first possession, but bounced back to connect on a 26-yard kick on the third possession. In the middle, Lewerke led the Spartans down the field until finding Matt Seybert for an eight-yard score.

“We really think that for us, we need to go out and make plays and that can jumpstart the rest of the team,” senior defensive end Joe Gaziano said.

“We are not thinking about we need to rely on other phases. We are thinking about how we can be a catalyst instead of someone who reacts to other things happening on the field.”

Following the 26-yard field goal that put Michigan State up 24-3, Fitzgerald benched Johnson in favor of junior Aidan Smith. Smith was under center for four possessions. On the first, he tried to throw a screen pass, but the ball was knocked into the air and intercepted by Raequan Williams.

A few plays later, Lewerke hit Seybert from seven yards away to go up 31-3.

On his second possession, Smith was hit as he threw and the ball floated into the arms of Bachie. On the third, redshirt freshman Drake Anderson rushed the ball six times and scored on a two-yard run. On the fourth, the team turned the ball over on downs.

“We were sputtering a little bit, kind of like going to the bullpen, let’s see if we can get a little bit of a spark in this game,” Fitzgerald said. “Then also thinking big picture, we got to get him some experience.”

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Michigan State’s run defense stifles Northwestern

By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG

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Michigan State’s Joe Bachie tackles redshirt freshman Drake Anderson. Anderson led the Wildcats with 91 rushing yards.

Just five minutes into the game and with Northwestern already trailing by a touchdown, the special teams unit created the play the Wildcats needed to give their offense new life.

Sophomore cornerback Cameron Ruiz forced Michigan State punt returner Cody White to fumble, and junior safety Travis Whillock recovered the ball at the Spartans’ 27. Suddenly, with a short field, NU had a golden opportunity to tie things up.

But after advancing to the 1-yard line, the Cats grounded to a halt.

Sophomore running back Isaiah Bowser twice tried to punch the ball in, to no avail, and on fourth down, sophomore quarterback Hunter Johnson tried a speed option that was snuffed out immediately.

Michigan State (3-1, 1-0 Big Ten) took over on downs, and NU (1-2, 0-1) was never able to tie the game, ultimately losing 31-10.

“We thought we had a pretty good plan coming in as far as taking what the defense would give us,” coach Pat Fitzgerald said. “There were opportunities that we missed. We get the ball down inside the 1 and go backwards.”

The failure to score on the goal

line epitomized another poor overall offensive showing. Yes, the Spartans’ run defense is excellent — Michigan State entered Saturday allowing a nation-leading 0.9 yards per carry.

But the Cats, who had beaten the Spartans the last two years behind a strong passing attack, still decided to run the ball 40 times, compared to 37 passing attempts.

Spartans linebacker Joe Bachie had a monster game, finishing with 14 total tackles, including two for a loss, to go along with an interception and two pass breakups.

Despite the offensive ineptitude, NU trailed just 14-3 at halftime, after the Spartans drove 62 yards following a Johnson interception to extend their lead. With the Cats getting the ball to start the second half, a comeback seemed quite plausible.

But by the end of the third quarter, the game was completely out of hand — because NU failed pick up a single first down during the period.

The Cats gained just 19 yards on nine plays covering three possessions.

Four of those plays were rushes, which netted a combined four yards.

The offense’s inability to sustain drives led to Michigan State starting each subsequent possession outside its 40-yard line. The Spartans turned those short fields into 10 points, and it would have been more if not for a missed field goal.

“We knew it was going to be

critical that we sustain drives and win field position,” Fitzgerald said.

“We had to win the first 5-10 minutes of the second half, and obviously we lost it.”

To start the fourth quarter, with the Cats in need of a spark, Fitzgerald turned to junior Aidan Smith, who had not thrown a single pass at the college level, to replace Johnson.

But the spark never came. Smith threw an interception on his second attempt, then threw another on NU’s following possession after Michigan State extended its lead to 31-3.

Even with a garbage-time touchdown run by redshirt freshman running back Drake Anderson, the final numbers for the quarterbacks were not pretty — a combined 19-for37 passing for 126 yards and three interceptions. NU actually managed 3.2 yards per rush, with Anderson leading the way with 91 yards, but much of that was achieved late in the game against the Spartans’ secondstring defense.

“It ultimately comes down to execution,” senior center Jared Thomas said. “We’ve got to move the line of scrimmage, especially in goal-line situations. We left some points out there, and we have to execute better down the stretch and in the red zone so that we can set ourselves up to be successful.” benjaminrosenberg2021@u.northwestern.edu