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Evanston residents gather to discuss redlining at the Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center. The event was the first in a series the city is holding.

Evanston ref lects on redlining

Event sparks open dialogue on equity, discrimination in Evanston

By JACOB FULTON

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Evanston community members engaged in an open discussion about redlining, racial

discrimination and positive change Tuesday night at the Lorraine H. Morton Civic Center.

The event was the first in a series hosted in conjunction with the “Undesign the Redline” exhibit on display at

the Civic Center. Designing the We, a design studio with a focus on social activism, created the exhibition, which travels across the nation. The exhibition details the history of redlining — a form of systematic discrimination through

which racial minorities were refused loans for housing in the 1930s. Redlining has had lasting implications into the present.

As visitors walk through the » See REDLINE, page 7

The Emergency Aid fund — formerly known as the SEEN Fund and previously administered through Student Enrichment Services — is now being processed through the Office of Undergraduate Financial Aid, according to SES’s website.

There was no public announcement of the change — many students found out about the switch via their Twitter feeds.

Julie Payne-Kirchmeier, the interim vice president of student affairs, said the decision to file emergency aid applications through the financial aid office was intended to streamline the application process.

“By moving the disbursement and request process to financial aid, the counselors there have access to a larger variety of options for helping students,” PayneKirchmeier wrote in an email to The Daily. “In some instances, the financial aid office is able to help in alternate ways by reviewing existing application materials.”

Despite the improvements outlined in the email, some

students have reported they have experienced complications with the fund, which only led to further stress and uncertainty.

The Emergency Aid fund is intended to relieve unexpected expenses that cause significant hardship and stress for students.

Additional aid can be given to meet special circumstances, according to the financial aid office’s website.

Cayla Clements, who identifies as a low-income student, had to visit her grandmother, who was sick, at the end of Spring Quarter this year. The Medill junior had been assured by SES that the flight expenses would be covered by the Emergency Aid fund.

However, after she filled out an application form for funding, Clements said received an email from financial aid stating that she wouldn’t receive the aid because the quarterly refund check she was given by SES was meant to cover flight costs. Clements said she was given the check at the beginning of the quarter and had used it for expenses like textbooks and medicine and put a portion of the money in her savings account.

“The job that I have and that part of the refund check is basically all I have to sustain myself throughout the quarter,” Clements said. » See SES, page 7

University urges EPL leads multilingual tech training DACA protection Classes offered in English, Spanish to address city’s digital divide Colleges join together in SCOTUS brief

By AMY LI

daily senior staffer

Northwestern University joined an amicus brief with 18 other prominent colleges and universities in defense of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program — a program President Donald Trump has attempted to rescind and called “illegal.”

The brief was filed in the height of the presidential campaign season and amid anticipation over the U.S. Supreme Court’s new term beginning this week. The Supreme Court will take up a number of high profile issues, including deciding on the future of the Obama-era DACA. The program has protected around 700,000 undocumented children of illegal immigrants who were minors when they were brought into the country — often called “Dreamers” — from near-term

deportation. DACA allows children who were under 16 when their parents brought them to the U.S. to remain in the county — as long as they arrived by 2007.

The amici includes Yale, Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, and Duke, among other distinguished U.S. colleges and universities.

The brief argues that rescinding the DACA program would impose a direct harm on the universities’ current students and alumni and deprive the country of the benefits of DACA students’ considerable talents and contributions. “ The DACA students at amici institutions were selected because they are outstanding students,” the brief states. “Like their classmates, these young people were valedictorians, student government leaders, varsity athletes, inventors, academic award winners, accomplished artists, and role models for younger children in their own communities.”

President Donald Trump » See DACA, page 7

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This fall, the Evanston Public Library is focusing on computer training in both English and Spanish, aiming to address Evanston’s digital divide.

About 14 percent of Evanston residents do not have internet access at home, according to a 2017 library report. EPL added the Spanish-language classes “to close all demographic gaps,” the library wrote in a press release.

Anyone in the area, even those without a library card, can call the library and set up a 45 minute, one-on-one training appointment. The training sessions can be on “any subject of your choice” with any device in either English or Spanish, said technology associate Susan Arden.

Sergio Gonzalez, one of the library’s technology trainers, holds about 20 sessions per week. He said the individualized sessions are

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Evanston Public Library Volunteer Computer Class Teacher George Lowman helps a student figure out ways she can get more storage on her iPhone.

best for resolving specific issues with technology, such as setting up a new smartphone or understanding how to use a workplace database.

“You use the computer for anything,” said Gonzalez. “If you want to learn, just come.”

At Evanston Township High School, Gonzalez also

teaches a computer class in Spanish designed for parents.

The class began last year » See DIGITAL, page 7

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Evanston certified as Community Wildlife Habitat

By HANNAH McGRATH

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As it begins to feel like fall, Evanston residents gathered to celebrate trees and the city’s designation as the first National Wildlife Federation Community Wildlife Habitat in Illinois.

Natural Habitat Evanston put on the event, named “OAKtober,” on Saturday morning at the Evanston Ecology Center. Residents enjoyed music, food, family activities, a giveaway of 115 trees and shrubs, and they browsed informational displays about trees and other environmental issues.

Tiffany Carey, a representative from the Great Lakes regional office of NWF, formally presented the city with its certificate.

“Evanston has truly stepped up to the plate,” Carey said.

The city joins 127 communities across the U.S. as a Community Wildlife Habitat. To receive this honor, a community must have a number of Certified Wildlife Habitats: properties like schools, parks and even backyards that support nature by providing food, water and shelter to raise young animals. Evanston had 220 of these certified properties throughout the city.

Jerri Garl, a committee member for Environmental Justice Evanston, said although Evanston residents are aware of environmental issues, the city has struggled to adopt an environmental justice plan overall.

Environmental Justice Evanston aims to ensure that no neighborhood bears a

POLICE BLOTTER Chicago resident issued ticket after Target theft A 49-year-old Chicago resident was issued a city ordinance ticket Monday after an attempt to take three Grey Goose vodka bottles from Target, Evanston police said.

disproportionate burden of environmental hazards,. Issues like air, water and soil pollution don’t affect all areas of Evanston equally, she added.

“There is a very specific definition for environmental justice put out by the EPA” Garl said.

“We want to expand our definition to include real environmental benefits. We want people to feel respected and acknowledged.”

Garl also hopes that the city can provide more concrete responses to its residents’ environmental concerns, as well as more opportunities for meaningful public involvement, with events that occur when more working residents, children and families can attend.

At the event, Evanston mayor Steve Hagerty said the accomplishment was an “inspiring and positive effort on the part of citizens.” He said becoming a Community Wildlife Habitat on a list of 144 action items for the Climate Action and Resilience Plan, a city initiative to address the impacts of climate change. But he also acknowledged that the community has a long way to go.

Hagerty stressed that as the climate is changing, it’s more important than ever to protect wildlife and reduce our environmental impact.

This certification, while a testament to Evanston’s various environmental efforts, is just one of many future plans.

“We all know how fragile the ecosystem is,” Hagerty said. “We have a lot of work ahead of us.” hannahmcgrath2021@u.northwestern.edu The man concealed the bottles, worth about $180 total, in his backpack and tried to walk out of the store, 1616 Sherman Ave., when he was detained, said Evanston police Cmdr.

Ryan Glew.

A 28-year-old Target employee reported the theft Monday at around 4:16 p.m. and knew the man from prior thefts, Glew said.

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Police arrived, issued the man a ticket and said he was not allowed to come back to Target.

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A 37-year-old Skokie resident reported that his bike was stolen from the Davis CTA station at 1618 Benson Ave. The man locked his Trek Navigator bike

in front of the station at around 1:30 p.m. on Monday, and when he returned around 4 p.m., the bike was missing, Glew said. The bike is worth around $300.

There is no more information on who took the bike. ­— Samantha Handler

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Law Profs. work with Netflix subject

By JAMES POLLARD

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Two Pritzker School of Law professors are petitioning Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers to grant clemency their client Brendan Dassey, featured in the hit Netflix series “Making a Murderer.”

Attorneys Laura Nirider and Steven Drizin have been representing Dassey since 2007, when Dassey was sentenced to life in prison for the 2005 murder of Teresa Halbach. At age 16, he confessed to law enforcement officers that he was complicit with his uncle, Steven Avery, in the rape and murder of Halbach. With no physical evidence linking Dassey to the crime, the confession proved crucial to his conviction.

The 29-year-old is ineligible for parole until 2048.

Nirider said Dassey, a special education student who needed help understanding teachers’ spoken sentences in 10th grade, was “bombarded” with 1,500 questions over three-and-half hours and coerced into giving a false confession. Dassey was interviewed four times in 48 hours without a parent or legal representation, according to a CBS article.

“They should have talked to Dassey’s teachers to learn about how disabled he was,” said Drizin, the founder of the Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth. “They were in the school for the first interview, so that’s just asking someone a couple of questions. Brendan had severe learning disabilities.”

Drizin co-authored a 2004 study that found younger people and people with intellectual or learning disabilities are much more likely to falsely confess when pressured by police than adults.

Although anyone could be coerced into a false confession, today’s psychological interrogation tactics quickly overwhelm people in those groups, he said.

“It’s a situation that any teacher, anyone wellversed in the needs of a special education student and the needs of those with intellectual disabilities,” Nirider said. “It’s a situation that is rife for a false confession, and that’s exactly what happened here.”

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Northwestern’s Pritzker School of Law. Attorneys and NU Profs. Laura Nirider and Steven Drizin have been representing Dassey since 2007, when he was sentenced to life in prison for the 2005 murder of Teresa Halbach.

However, in December 2017, judges from the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a previous panel’s decision to overturn Dassey’s conviction.

Later, in June 2018, the Supreme Court decided against hearing the case.

Now, clemency is Dassey’s “best hope,” Nirider said.

Nirider, co-director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth, highlighted Evers’ background in education. She said the former teacher and state superintendent of public instruction understands special education students like Dassey.

Nirider said the legal team is asking the governor to consider two forms of clemency: a commutation and a pardon. A pardon, Nirider said,

would immediately release Dassey and erase some of the legal disabilities that come with being a convicted felon, such as the inability to vote and serve on a jury. A commutation, she added, would only shorten his sentence.

“When there’s someone in prison who is actually innocent like Brendan, who has served 13-anda-half years of his life based on a confession that is almost universally regarded as false, those are special circumstances,” Nirider said. “Those are the kinds of situations — the kinds of rare and deeply troubling cases — that the clemency power was made for.” jamespollard2022@u.northwestern.edu

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The argument for the privatization of Social Security ZACH KESSEL

OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR

The Old-Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance program, more commonly known as Social Security, has long been said to be American politics’ proverbial third rail. The only real way to avert impending economic doom while avoiding deep benefit cuts, massive borrowing or economy-gutting tax hikes is to privatize Social Security.

Every single attempt at reform has failed, from former president Bill Clinton and House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s 1997 secret agreement to former president George W. Bush’s 2005 plan for partial privatization.

Social Security reform is the furthest thing from political expediency but is absolutely necessary for America’s future. Without serious reform, Social Security will be the meteor that wipes out the dinosaur of the American economy.

The baby-boom generation is retiring, and the ratio of workers paying into Social Security to retirees benefitting from the program is rapidly shrinking. For comparison, in 1940, 159 workers’ payroll taxes funded one Social Security recipient’s benefits. In 2013, the estimated ratio was 2.8 workers to each recipient. In fact, because of the shrinking ratio, the Social Security trust fund itself is slated to become insolvent by the year 2034.

When the fund empties, the only source of funding for Social Security will be the

payroll tax, and payouts will become astronomically smaller.

The problem does not end there.

When Social Security beneficiaries receive smaller payments, they will, in turn, purchase fewer goods and services. It isn’t just those receiving benefits who rely on that money.

Less money in the hands of consumers means less money in the hands of producers and lower tax revenue for the government.

When the well runs dry, the whole village goes thirsty.

Earlier in the column, I wrote that the only ways to keep the current system and stave off Social Security’s insolvency are to cut spending in other areas, to raise taxes, to borrow more money or some combination thereof.

All three would have disastrous consequences.

No reasonable tax increase or budget cut could comprise the $945 billion Social Security costs yearly. Borrowing presents a

more concerning problem. The U.S. has an immense amount of debt, for which we have not yet seen the consequences. While investing in the U.S. economy is and always has been the safest bet in the world, it should not be treated as a certainty. In fact, the most likely outcome in the event that the U.S. goes the borrowing route is that the U.S. would default on its loans, crashing the world economy. It is not outlandish to suggest that, if unreformed, Social Security could cause global societal collapse.

Critics of privatization say that it would hurt the poor. That is not the case.

In his 2011 Wall Street Journal editorial “Private Accounts Can Save Social Security,” former Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers Martin Feldstein wrote that, with a private account amassing a comparatively modest 5.5 percent rate of return, “someone with $50,000 worth of real annual earnings during his working years could accumulate enough to fund an annual payout of about $22,000 after age 67, essentially doubling the current Social Security benefit.”

Regardless of income, private accounts would do a much better job than bureaucratic management. Rather than hurting the poor, privatization would work to their advantage. Under the current system, those who live shorter lives — most notably the poor — effectively see their benefits transferred to those who live longer and are thus able to collect more money.

Privatization would — through increased rates of return and the ability to pass down

unused funds in the account — allow all Americans to live comfortably and guarantee that their progeny have money as well.

Those who read my last article know that no column of mine is complete without my groaning about government mismanagement.

This shall be no different.

Americans put money into the fund with no guarantee they will ever see it again, and the government uses their money to pay earlier investors. Now, the system could have worked in perpetuity, were population not to change, but that is not the case. In the past, the federal government has used Social Security surpluses to fund other spending, including the purchase of Treasury bonds. Private accounts cut out all of this chicanery. They simply allow your money to grow, and ensure that you see it when you retire.

Social Security’s impending insolvency is arguably the most pressing issue the U.S. faces, and one that will likely never see a solution until far too late. All attempts to touch that third rail have failed thus far, and with President Donald Trump’s Republican Party abandoning fiscal conservatism, it seems that any hope for change has been lost.

Zach Kessel is a Communication freshman. He can be contacted at zachkessel2023@u.northwestern. edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this op-ed, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@ dailynorthwestern.com. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.

Naturalization can be a hurdle for disadvantaged applicants MARCUS THUILLIER

DAILY COLUMNIST

Yesterday morning I was sworn in as an American citizen.

I took all the right steps and committed to the naturalization process. However, I am not writing this column to flaunt my achievement. I am writing this because I know and recognize the reasons my green card and naturalization process went so quickly. I am aware of the incredible privilege I benefited from all the way through my application and how that privilege has defined my experience completing the naturalization process.

I’m white and from a Western European country. I have a college education. My parents have a college education. When the immigration officers reviewed my documents, they didn’t see me as another immigrant from an underdeveloped country. They saw me as a prime candidate with little to no risk to this country.

The road to U.S citizenship is a long and treacherous road for any immigrant. The average time for naturalization takes on average between 14 and 20 months, assuming there are no delays, denials or any other problems. If everything works out well, after 5 consecutive years of living in this country with a green card and a $725 fee, you can become an American citizen.

I first set foot in this country in 2011.

I came on an L2 visa as a minor when my father moved to the Bay Area for work. He got an L1 visa for intra-company transfer when his company in France was bought by an American company and they moved him over. A little over a year later, I got a green card. Seven years later, I applied for citizenship.

Nine months after, I got naturalized.

I’ll take a minute to try to express what this means to me.

This country is full of opportunities.

It is a beautiful country, with a high level of education, beautiful landscapes and magnificent cities. It has warm, diverse and interesting people. There are so many different cultures represented here and the people from different backgrounds make the prospect of living and working here in the future that much more enjoyable. I am incredibly thankful for the opportunity to contribute to this country with everything that I have.

Often, that is a point of contention for some who suggest that the immigrant’s country of origin has a bearing on their capacity to contribute to the American society. They can’t tell me that someone fleeing tyranny in another country, risking their life, if they spent just a second more in their home country, is a “worse” immigrant than me or that they don’t somehow deserve to live in this country permanently. It comes down to this.

The system is broken if you’re not a candidate like me.

Two main factors hold applicants back.

First, the wait time on green cards can get so long that the State Department keeps statistics on how many applicants die while waiting for their application to be processed.

For citizenship applications, wait times are increasing, too. However, the most problematic part of the naturalization process is the costs attached to it.

For people applying for citizenship, the filing fee might be a limiting factor. Or maybe you need to provide more documentation, which can be an additional financial burden. A new regulation to be implemented suggests producing ten years of travel history instead of five, a perfect example of the

additional cost for some people. Overall, this would restrict more lower-income applicants from even considering applying in the first place.

Both the cost and the long waiting times put people in a complicated situation. As citizenship applications rise during presidential election years, longer waiting times can keep potential citizens from voting and can swing elections. Maybe cost will force families to choose which of their family members “need” the citizenship the most. This could also force people into living or working situation changes that directly impact their application, essentially sending them back to square one.

I feel incredibly grateful today that I was given the opportunity to become a citizen of this country. However, I understand that I didn’t exactly have the odds stacked against me. Just because I’m now a citizen doesn’t mean I won’t continue to point out the inequalities and inefficiencies in the system.

This is especially important, since this system continues to favor and fast-track people like me while reducing everybody else’s chances.

Marcus Thuillier is a second-year graduate student.

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Bienen alumni design for students with disabilities

By HANNAH SONG

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Inclusive Instruments, a project spearheaded by recent Bienen School of Music alumnus Ryan McCaul (Bienen ‘19), provides free electronic musical services and technologies for students with disabilities.

As a senior undergraduate at Western University in Ontario, Canada, McCaul began creating instruments to combine his skills in software development and his passion for music education. The project took off two years ago, when he came to Northwestern for a graduate program. He worked with current doctorate student Patrick Horton for a class project, building musical software from scratch.

“After a year of headaches and feeling like this wasn’t going anywhere, we were finally able to get it to where other people could use it,” McCaul said.

“That was a huge relief.”

McCaul’s instruments cater to students with disabilities. The entrepreneur createwwd an instrument that allows students to tilt a tablet or smartphone to change the pitch and tone of any sound and one that automatically autotunes voices spoken into a microphone.

McCaul and Horton worked with the Park School in Evanston/Skokie District 65 to engage with students with disabilities.

McCaul described an interaction with a student, who teachers considered reserved. After giving him a microphone and playing chords on a keyboard, the student rapped for 20 minutes straight and only stopped because he had to.

Evanston to begin construction part of new water supply

Eanston will begin construction on part of a new water supply on Hartrey Avenue and Oakton Street.

The city will build roughly 2,500 feet of a 24-inch water transmission main and a belowgrade flow meter vault. Bolder Contractors, Inc., is the contractor in charge of the construction,

“Accessing this creativity and musicality,” McCaul said, “it was just an amazing way to see them shine.”

After taking a Northwestern entrepreneurship class, McCaul decided to apply for a residency at The Garage to develop his project.

Mary Lewis (Bienen ‘19) became involved with Inclusive Instruments when she attended a meeting at The Garage in McCaul’s place.

“I feel really lucky to be a part of this,” Lewis said. “Ryan was really gracious to invite me to join the project, so I feel really, really grateful to have worked with him on it.”

Lewis said The Garage gave them “amazing” support and that working on the project was a great way to apply what she was learning in the classroom.

McCaul said the next step for the team is to continue working with Northwestern’s legal services — which has been providing him with pro-bono legal assistance — to obtain a 501(c) non-profit status.

McCaul and Lewis have also been pitching their products to other Chicago nonprofits and local schools, but they’ve struggled to access these organizations, despite their similar goals.

Lewis said they’ve considered providing their instruments for general education and for therapy purposes.

“It’s important throughout the entire process to be testing things out on different people and different users and to constantly question your ideas and assumptions about how people are going to use it,” Lewis said. hannahsong2023@u.northwestern.edu and the city’s Capital Planning and Engineering Bureau will monitor the project.

The new construction is part of the creation of a new water supply to the Village of Lincolnwood.

Lincolnwood switched its water vendor from Chicago to Evanston in July 2018 after multiple rate increases, according to the Chicago Tribune.

The Tribune also reported that the initial agreement between Evanston and Lincolnwood lasts 39 years, with the possibility of 10-year extensions.

Construction of this portion of the new water supply will continue along Hartrey Avenue between Cleveland Street and Oakton Street, and

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Northwestern’s Bienen School of Music. Inclusive Instruments is a project led by a recent Bienen alumnus that provides free electronic musical services and technologies for students with disabilities.

along Oakton Street between Hartrey Avenue and the North Shore Channel.

Evanston officials anticipate construction beginning on Oct. 15, but the city will mark the exact start date on “no parking” signs a minimum of 48 hours before work begins in the area.

On the affected part of Hartrey Avenue, drivers will only be able to go one way, headed north, and will be prohibited from parking. Business owners can coordinate driveway access as needed for the duration of the project.

Along the affected part of Oakton Street, traffic will be restricted in most areas to one lane each

way because construction work will take place on the north side of the street. The city will also temporarily change the signal patterns at the intersection east of the gas station at 2494 Oakton St. Throughout construction, though, people will still have driveway access to the businesses on Oakton Street.

This area is expected to be completely restored in the spring of 2020, and concrete road restoration will be in place as soon as construction is complete.

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Scientists examine risk of earthquakes in Illinois

By EMMA EDMUND

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On July 8, just after California experienced a 7.1-magnitude earthquake, the Illinois Emergency Management Agency issued a statement encouraging residents to prepare for possible local quakes. While Illinois has experienced over 600 recorded earthquakes, according to the 2018 Illinois Natural Hazard Mitigation Plan, officials and scientists continue to examine whether the state has a dangerous quake risk.

Illinois’ history is dotted with decently sized quakes. Bookended by two seismic zones on its eastern and southern border, the Wabash Valley Seismic Zone and the New Madrid Seismic Zone, the state has recorded 406 earthquakes magnitude 2.0 or higher since 1795, according to the mitigation plan.

A series of such earthquakes occurred in the New Madrid zone between 1811 and 1812, often considered some of the largest quakes since the country’s settlement by Europeans, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The quakes are estimated to have had magnitudes of over 7.0, and the USGS reports they had an area of strong shaking 10 times as large as the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. With the seismic history of this zone, some officials worry an Illinois earthquake with a similar magnitude to California’s could cause severe damages on large swaths of land.

Seth Stein, a professor in the earth and planetary sciences department at Northwestern, argues evidence points to a low major earthquake risk, and that the small quakes that southern Illinois experiences are just aftershocks of the 1811/1812 quakes.

“When you have an earthquake on the San Andreas fault, the two sides are moving,” Stein said. “That motion between the two sides rapidly wipes out the effects of the last earthquake.

But in the middle of the continent, where nothing much is happening geologically, the biggest effect is still the earthquake from 200 years ago.”

Around 20 years ago, Stein said he used GPS receivers to analyze the ground in the New Madrid zone.

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Northwestern’s Lakefill overlooks downtown Chicago. Chicago and its surrounding northern area has a lower risk of earthquakes than southern Illinois, according to Douglas Wiens and Seth Stein.

“The ground is not storing up any of the energy that will be released in a future earthquake,” Stein said. “That implies that there’s no good reason to believe there’s a big earthquake coming anytime soon.”

Stein still believes, though, that there is a moderate earthquake hazard for part of the state, but “nothing to lose sleep over.”

Stein adds it might be useful to adapt building codes in the southern part of Illinois to accommodate for earthquake risk, emphasizing a common saying in seismology: Earthquakes don’t kill people, buildings do.

However, northern Illinois doesn’t face any major risk of a dangerous quake, according to Stein. One of his previous classes did an analysis and concluded that the money Chicago residents spend anchoring their water heaters as earthquake protection, as recommended by the IEMA in its recent statement, would be better spent in the state lottery.

Douglas Wiens, a professor of earth and

planetary sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, agrees that northern Illinois faces a low risk.

“A moderate level of concern would be appropriate for the southern part of the state, because there is some reasonable hazard of a magnitude 6-type earthquake that could damage buildings, especially buildings that are poorly constructed,” Wiens said. “But for the Chicago area, I don’t think that there’s much hazard. We can’t rule ever out earthquakes anywhere in the world, but the area around Chicago seems to be remarkably stable.”

Wiens recommends, though, that residents should have some preparation if they live right near the seismic zones, such as keeping emergency supplies if they live in a quake-prone area or having a plan if they get caught outside during a quake.

Residents who want a little more practice with an earthquake situation can participate in the Great ShakeOut, an international

earthquake drill on October 17 at 10:17 a.m.

Over two million people have registered in the central U.S., with over 18 million participating total.

Robert Bauer, an engineering geologist at the Illinois State Geological Survey who helps to coordinate this event, said the drill is designed to help participants figure out how to behave if there was an actual emergency.

“A drill imprints on your brain what to do, versus at the time kind of being lost,” he said.

“If you’re outside the building, to move away from buildings or away from underneath power lines. If the shaking is really intense you want to get out and away from underneath trees. So you’re imprinting that.”

The Federal Emergency Management Agency also has a packet of other preparations residents can take to secure their homes from danger. emmaedmund2022@u.northwestern.edu

NU students, officials speak on cannabis legalization

By ZACH BLANK

the daily northwestern @zachblank22

In June, Illinois passed the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act, legalizing the possession of up to 30 grams of cannabis for residents of Illinois who are 21 years of age or older. When the law goes into effect in January, however, it will still be against Northwestern policy for any student, regardless of age, to possess cannabis.

According to the University’s webpage on cannabis policy, the school must abide by the DrugFree Schools and Communities Act in order to remain compliant with federal — not state — law.

“Northwestern University prohibits the possession, use, manufacture, cultivation, dissemination, and storage of cannabis by students, faculty, staff, and visitors on all of Northwestern University’s campuses and properties and at University-sponsored events,” the school policy states.

Even medical cannabis prescribed by a licensed doctor is prohibited on Northwestern campus,

according to the guidelines.

Despite the University’s strict stance against cannabis, Angela Mitchell, the director of Northwestern Health Promotion and Wellness, said the organization takes a different approach.

“Since this was one of the things that Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker campaigned on, we anticipated when he was elected that there would be a change in the law,” Mitchell said. “So we’ve been talking about how we will educate the community about what this means for Northwestern students and the Northwestern community at large.”

According to Mitchell, HPaW focuses on harm-reduction rather than law enforcement.

With the goal of educating the student body about drugs, the organization does not promote the possible health benefits of cannabis but rather informs students on the effects of the substance on the body.

“While we certainly want to educate students and the larger community about the risks of using any substance, we acknowledge that everyone has free will,” Mitchell said. “If students do make the choice to use cannabis or any other substance,

that they do so in the safest and most informed way possible.”

Northwestern’s Annual Security Report has shown a decrease in the number of drug-related incidents on campus. On the report’s category of “drug law violations referred for disciplinary action,” the number of violations on the school’s Evanston campus went from 48 in 2016, to 1 in 2017 and 5 in 2018.

Northwestern’s Chief Risk and Compliance Officer Luke Figora, who organized the report, said this trend may not continue come January.

“I wouldn’t expect those numbers to decrease over the next year as policing strategy and the community changes,” Figora said.

While the school has plans in place for when cannabis sale is legalized, some students are skeptical that the legalization of the substance will make much of an impact on campus.

Medill junior Evan Ochsner from Colorado, the first state to legalize recreational cannabis use, said the legalization of cannabis didn’t actually change much about the way people talk about the drug in Colorado.

“Even if legalization did change student life, I think that would have to be a gradual thing,” Ochsner said. “Just because the law might change doesn’t mean that, overnight, there’s going to be a huge change in the way people act.”

Outside of the University, the legalization of cannabis may affect how student groups talk about the substance. For Peer Health Exchange, an organization that sends college students to teach health classes at nearby under-served high schools, reduction of substance abuse is a common conversation topic.

Weinberg senior and student coordinator for NU’s PHE chapter Mary Cormier, said although the organization currently lacks programming centered around cannabis, they are open to readjusting in 2020 upon direction from their national chapter.

“Because each of our classrooms are different, we kind of let the students decide what to talk about,” Cormier said. “If (cannabis) is something that’s super relevant in their lives, and they want to bring it up, we can talk about how to use it safely.” zacharyblank2023@u.northwestern.edu

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exhibit, they can read stories about the creation and enforcement of redlining by both governments and communities. Historical documents detail how the issue was dealt with over the past 90 years, while interchangeable maps and graphs can be customized to focus on the current location of the exhibit.

The Evanston Equity and Empowerment commission sponsored the exhibit in May. In addition to the displays, a local designer also created a panel about how Evanston has been affected by redlining, which will be a permanent fixture in the Civic Center.

The city partnered with Evanston Cradle to Career’s Advocates for Action to hold the

Tuesday event in hopes of bringing conversations about equity and empowerment to the forefront of the community’s mind. EC2C is an organization that trains leaders in the community and strives to create systemic improvements throughout Evanston.

Northwestern Prof. Stephen Carr, an Evanston resident of 50 years, lived through the civil rights movement and said he has witnessed many periods of transition through the country’s history. He said the exhibit highlighted trends he’d observed throughout his life.

“This shows the underlying codification of it all,” Carr said. “There were laws against segregation, but they were allowed to evaporate.”

Patricia Efiom, Evanston’s chief equity officer, said the discussions she has had so far indicate a genuine interest from some Evanston residents to

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She said the “emotional labor” required to repeatedly ask for aid while her grandmother was ill was “a traumatic experience.”

Clements tweeted about the complications, and a student sent a letter advocating for her right to receive the funding to SES and financial aid.

“Why does it take 20 people or more sending emails to the school?” Clements said.

Other low-income students said they are still uncertain how the changes will affect them, especially regarding health care bills. Payne-Kirchmeier confirmed in the email that students could submit any medical need, regardless of health care provider, for funding, but students said they would like more information about the process.

Medill junior Mia Mamone, who identifies as a first-generation, low-income student, said she was worried about her health care coverage when she first arrived on campus.

Mamone said the best way the University can help FGLI students is to make sure they have access to money when they need it and to keep any processing complications to a minimum.

“Some people might think, ‘Oh, that’s the easy way out,’ or ‘Why would people deserve that?’”

Mamone said. “(FGLI students) know what necessities are and what we need. And I don’t think there’s any chance of misuse of any funding like that from the University. It helps people feel like they’re on a more level playing field.”

with computer basics, such as how to use a computer mouse and keyboard, but progressed to more advanced topics such as Google Docs later this fall, he said.

He also teaches technology skills specific to parents, such as online forms for school events or academic portals.

Gonzalez emphasized the importance of having these opportunities available in both Spanish and English.

“The idea is to make (students) comfortable with using the computer,” Gonzalez said.

“People feel more comfortable when you speak

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DACA

From page 1 first ordered the termination DACA when he took office two years ago, but attempts to shut it down were blocked in lower federal courts.

DACA proponents argue the Trump administration failed to cite adequate reasons for the program’s termination, while the Justice Department has said DACA was always meant to be a temporary solution.

The brief also wrote that DACA empowers undocumented students to talk openly about their lived experiences, without which students would be silenced out of fear of retribution, thwarting higher education goals in facilitating meaningful and robust exchanges

gain a greater understanding of the issue.

Efiom said she hopes the exhibit and event series can start to encourage systematic change within the city, which last month approved recommendations to explore reparations for black residents but still struggles with housing discrimination, as well as the wealth and opportunity gaps.

“Our goal is to begin the real work of dismantling racism,” Efiom said. “There’s no simple answer to that. But these should be a series of conversations and engagements, in which we have to recognize barriers that all of us face, black or white, to ending racism.”

As the first partner in the discussion series, EC2C hoped to share about how it creates positive change in the community. According to Kimberly Holmes-Ross, EC2C’s community engagement manager, one of the ways the organization

goes about making change is through a series of grants, ranging from $250 to $1000, given to leaders in the community that may not have received funding anywhere else.

Holmes-Ross said that the group also partners with over 40 organizations in the area to improve the quality of life for all Evanston youth. She said the group’s focus on enhancing opportunities aligned well with the intent of the exhibit, and that a partnership seemed natural.

“These exhibits and discussions are a step,” Holmes-Ross said. “We’re moving into action.

And part of what we do is to give community building grants. Giving the grants to individuals and groups is a way to not only empower them but empower their communities.”

their own language.”

Additionally, the library offers free technology tutorial classes on Thursdays throughout the year, according to George Lowman, a volunteer who teaches weekly technology classes at EPL. The classes cover a wide variety of topics, ranging from basic classes like “Why would I want a smartphone?” to more sophisticated sessions like “How can I sync my iPhone with Windows 10?”.

Other local phone stores in Evanston also recommend the classes to customers who have purchased new devices, Lowman said.

Each session tends to average about 10-15 people, though Lowman noticed a rush of of ideas.

“The policy reversal places (DACA) students, many of whom these threats to DACA have silenced, in a position wholly at odds with the principles of academic freedom to which amici are fervently committed,” the brief wrote. “These students should not have to risk their own physical liberty — and that of their families — in order to tell their stories.”

Another 165 colleges and universities — among them Swarthmore, the University of Maryland, University of Michigan — also joined forces to file a separate amicus brief urging the Supreme Court to protect DACA. amyli2021@u.northwestern.edu

jacobfulton2023@u.northwestern.edu attendees coming to classes after technology changes. He taught a class on the new iOS 13 update last Thursday.

Technology services offered by EPL are free. In the future, Gonzalez said the library hopes to offer certification in Microsoft Office Certification to show proficiency in the platform for prospective employers.

Gonzalez said services offered by EPL are changing the definition of a library, no longer making it just a place to get a book.

“There are a lot of services here that people don’t know,” Gonzalez said. “Come here and learn something.” andrewrowan2023@u.northwestern.edu

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Northwestern joined 18 other prominent U.S. colleges and universities in an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to protect DACA, a Tuesday University release announced.

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MEN’S SOCCER

Cats prepare to face off against former assistant

By CHARLIE GOLDSMITH

daily senior staffer @2021_charlie

Almost ten years ago, coach Tim Lenahan heard about a high school goalkeeper who was allegedly “pretty good.” But instead of flying to Potomac, Maryland to see him for himself, Lenahan sent his top assistant, Neil Jones.

“That goalie turned out to be Tyler Miller,” Jones says now. “I was very impressed.”

After Jones and the rest of Northwestern’s coaching staff convinced Miller to play for them, the goalie from New Jersey became a four-year starter. Now, he plays for the LA Galaxy and the U.S. National Team.

It was Jones’ biggest get on the recruiting circuit.

Jones was such a successful righthand man that he left NU after three seasons to coach Loyola’s men’s soccer team. He’ll bring the Ramblers (5-3-1, 2-1-1 MVC) to Evanston to face the Cats (5-5-1, 1-2-1 Big Ten) and his former mentor Wednesday. Jones said Lenahan showed him how to coach an NCAA team.

“I’ll never forget he said to me after my first season in 2010 when we weren’t that successful, that, ‘You’re doing a very good job with

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the on-field coaching,” Jones said. “‘But they don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.’”

Jones’ response?

“You’re 100 percent right.”

When NU hired Jones in 2010, he said he experienced a little culture shock. His former program, UC Santa Barbara, consistently developed pros and competed for national championships. Since almost all of his players had MLS aspirations, Jones’ biggest responsibility was bringing the most out of star talent.

But Jones said Lenahan and the Cats had a different philosophy. In addition to being a high-level soccer program, the players had more unique interests off the field and pursued careers outside of soccer.

Lenahan wanted Jones to know all of the players’ hobbies and aspirations.

“It’s a different student athlete (at Northwestern),” Jones said. “I didn’t do a good enough job connecting with our student athletes. I was very soccer-oriented at first.”

Since that conversation in 2010, Jones prioritized building more meaningful relationships with the

players on his roster. It worked with Miller, who grew into one of the best players in the Cats’ history. In 2012, Jones left NU to become the head coach at Loyola, and he said he took Lenahan’s lessons with him.

The Ramblers have more in common with the Cats than USBC in producing pros. Miller has been the exception rather than the rule for the Cats, and Loyola is in a similar situation. But further south in Chicago, Jones has turned around the Loyola program.

The Ramblers won an MVC title in 2016 and have become one of the best teams in the conference. Jones knows none of this would have happened if Lenahan hadn’t changed his perspective on coaching college soccer.

“We both want our players to play hard and play well, but also play for something bigger than themselves,” he said. “He taught me a lot and made me realize it’s not all about coaching.”

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VOLLEYBALL

Cats finish 2nd at tournament Wildcats look for first

conference win at home

By PATRICK ANDRES

the daily northwestern @pandres2001

After a slow start in the first round of the Marquette Intercollegiate in Erin, Wisconsin, Northwestern flourished in the second round and put it all together in the third to surge to a second-place finish.

Big Ten foe Purdue edged the Wildcats by two strokes to claim the title. UCLA finished third, two strokes behind NU, with South Florida and Indiana rounding out the top five.

Individually, sophomore David Nyjfäll was the Cats’ top scorer, delivering a trio of below-par rounds and finishing tied for fifth with UCLA’s Eddy Lai at 4-underpar. A final-round 70 firmly secured Nyjfäll’s place in the top five, as the sophomore from Sweden matched his lowest round of the season.

“David’s a great player,” coach David Inglis said. “He feels like he could even have been a little bit sharper. He’s really playing well enough to challenge to win these tournaments. He’s on the right track.”

Nyjfäll finished three strokes behind individual co-champions Luke Gifford of South Florida and Hunter Eichhorn of Marquette.

Junior Eric McIntosh was just a stroke behind Nyjfäll at 3-under, finishing tied for seventh. McIntosh was one of five NU golfers to improve his score from Monday to Tuesday, and he recorded his third top-25 finish of the season.

But the most dramatic improvement from the beginning of the tournament to its end belonged to freshman John Driscoll III who shot 5-over and 2-over before carding a 6-under 66 on Tuesday.

Driscoll’s third round — the Cats’ lowest score this season and the lowest of any player in the entire

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David Nyjfäll hits the ball. The sophomore finished in fifth place with a score of 4-under at the Marquette Intercollegiate.

tournament — catapulted him from 41st to 17th and drew praise from Inglis. “(Driscoll) wanted to play great today,” he said. “He’s out there kind of leading the way for everyone else… He brings a real contagious energy and enthusiasm to our team.”

The freshman’s 13 birdies were tied for fourth in the field.

Senior Everton Hawkins tied for 30th, freshman James Imai checked in at 47th and sophomore Yannick Artigolle, competing as an individual, was 35th. Like McIntosh and Driscoll, Artigolle shaved strokes off his score every day of the competition.

The key for NU was dominance

on par-4 and par-5 holes. The Cats had the tournament’s lowest score to par on both types, with Driscoll and McIntosh leading the way.

However, Inglis acknowledged par-3 holes as an Achilles heel, as NU tied Miami (Ohio) in recording the tournament’s worst score to par at 17-over. The sixth-year coach noted the team is usually “pretty good on par-3,” but practice could help them “find a little bit of distance control.”

“When we put it all together,” Inglis said, “we’re a pretty good team.” patrickandres2023@u.northwestern. edu

For the third time in four years, Northwestern has an 0-4 conference record. And, with four consecutive matches against ranked opponents coming up, the Wildcats are in danger of falling to 0-8 in the Big Ten for the second straight year.

NU (9-7, 0-4 Big Ten) kicks off its difficult stretch against No. 7 Wisconsin on Wednesday at Welsh-Ryan Arena. The Badgers (8-4, 4-0) have momentum on their side after upsetting then-ranked No. 5 Penn State and No. 2 Nebraska last week.

Wisconsin setter Sydney Hilley was named National Player of the Week by the American Volleyball Coaches Association following superb performances in those two matches. The Badgers also have a slew of other offensive weapons, with three players in the top 15 in the Big Ten in kills per set.

The Cats, on the other hand, lost in straight sets to No. 17 Purdue last Friday before losing to Indiana 3-1 on Saturday. Despite the losses, NU remained competitive, scoring more than 20 points in six of seven sets.

Coach Shane Davis said the team needs to find a way to win the close games.

“We struggled at executing in high-pressure situations,” Davis said. “We did a great job getting to some good points in those matches, but we did a poor job of executing when it mattered. That’s the next thing to cross — when the set’s on the line, the game’s on the line, can you execute your touch, your play?”

Execution will be paramount against Wisconsin, as the Cats have recorded 296 attack errors while the Badgers have only 196 this season.

Historically, NU has struggled

No. 7 Wisconsin vs. Northwestern Evanston, Illinois 6 p.m. Wednesday

against the Badgers, with the Cats’ most recent victory over the Badgers coming in 2012. NU also hasn’t beaten a top-25 opponent since 2016.

Nonetheless, Davis said he believes his team has a chance to pull off some upsets as the season progresses.

The Cats have shown some promise, as they have outpaced opponents in kills, hit percentage, assists, and digs this season. Freshman outside hitter Temi Thomas-Ailara, who currently ranks second in the Big Ten in kills per set, said team chemistry is a big part of the team’s success. “ We’ve spent so much time together that we’ve become like sisters,” Thomas-Ailara said. “And it’s really nice being in a sisterhood in a new environment.”

Other players have contributed as well. Junior outside hitter Nia Robinson joins Thomas-Ailara in the top-10 in kills in the Big Ten, and graduate setter Payton Chang ranks eighth in the Big Ten in assists.

As it stands, NU will play eight games against ranked opponents over its final 16 games. Even if the Cats drop all eight of those matches, they still have a chance to finish the season with a winning record and make the NCAA tournament. Davis said he feels optimistic about the team’s improvement.

“They’re going about it the right way,” Davis said. “They believe in themselves, believe in what they’re doing, fighting for one another and getting each other better along the way.” carlosstinson-maas2023@u.northwestern.edu