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Evanston Pride adopts city park City’s rst Pride Park, St. Paul’s Park, provides place of solidarity

By LILY CAREY daily senior staffer @lilylcarey

Decked out in rain ponchos and rainbow gear, a crowd of onlookers cheered as members of Evanston Pride snipped a

gli ery ribbon ursday night, marking the o cial adoption of the city’s rst Pride Park.

Evanston Pride, a nonpro t organization dedicated to supporting the city’s LGBTQIA+ community, recently adopted St. Paul Park.

As LGBT History Month

Boutique offers up vintage styles

The Asbury Avenue boutique’s vintage clothing reflects Mary Toussaint’s love for unique pieces.

kicks o , Evanston Pride board president Jackson Adams said providing a welcoming space like Pride Park — a “passion project” of his over the past several months — is especially important.

“It’s a beacon of light, it’s a representation,” Adams said.

“It’s like, we’re out here, and people that identify as being queer, it shows them that Evanston is an open and welcoming community.”

Sporting an Evanston Pride shirt with the organization’s

NUGW starts cardsigning campaign

Union affiliates with United Electric Workers

By ISABEL FUNK daily senior staffer @isabeldfunk

A er six years of grassroots organizing and building community support, Northwestern University Graduate Workers launched its formal union drive at a ursday rally. e organization announced that 95% of its members have voted to a liate with United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America.

More than 300 NUGW members and supporters lled Deering Meadow for the “Rally for More Pay and More Say,” distributing bright-yellow “NUGW” shirts, raising signs, cheering and joining in chants of “We don’t want your wine and cheese, pay Northwestern employees” and “We are unstoppable, another world is possible.”

Unions can achieve legal recognition in one of two ways: workers show majority support and win an election conducted by the National Labor Relations Board, or the employers can voluntarily recognize the union.

“When Northwestern says we are ‘students rst and foremost,’ they wash their hands of

their responsibility to us as an employer,” fifth-year chemistry Ph.D student and NUGW co-chair Emilie Lozier said. “As a union, we are standing up together to say we deserve be er.”

Working toward unionization

NUGW’s A liation Committee began researching national a liation throughout spring and summer. e commi ee selected UE, which also represents graduate worker unions at universities across the country, including the University of Chicago, where graduate workers announced their campaign for unionization in a liation with UE last week.

NUGW members began signing union cards — which show a member’s interest in being represented by NUGW-UE and support for an election to make that possible — Wednesday night a er the weeklong vote to a liate with UE. By the end of ursday, more than 1,300 graduate workers had signed union cards, according to former NUGW co-chair and h-year sociology Ph.D. student Rose Werth.

“ e things that we are asking for and ghting for, we needed yesterday,” Werth said. “We’ve been doing a lot of work behind the scenes and basically we just

RSL hosts Beyoncé Mass for pop icon e worship service used music to center

By ESTHER LIM the daily northwestern @eshlim1213

By DIVYA GUPTA the daily northwestern @divsgupt

Minouchic Boutique, full of sparkling dresses and vibrant patterns, is the manifestation of owner Mary Toussaint’s dream.

Toussaint went to school in Haiti before moving to Evanston at age 12 with her younger sister, Marie Lynn Toussaint. Mary Toussaint then went to fashion school and worked in the modeling business. She said she has fashion designs that she would love to see created, though that’s not her strong suit.

“I’m not good at (sketching),” Mary Toussaint said. “But I can visualize and tell somebody to make it.”

Instead, she fulfilled her aspirations in fashion by opening Minouchic Boutique in November 2013.

Even though it was her dream, she said her sister supported her in creating the business.

“We had been planning, finding a space and collecting clothing,” Marie Lynn Toussaint said. “It was a team effort.”

Marie Lynn Toussaint’s 15-year-old son, Mardochee Jean-Charles also helped start the boutique. When the boutique first opened, Jean-Charles said he would come to the boutique from school and see a new wall built in the boutique, creating a fitting-room or storage space.

Now, he said he finds pieces within the store that he loves and takes home to build his own wardrobe.

“Sometimes I just go around browsing,” Jean-Charles said. “I get jackets, pants and shoes.”

The boutique is split into

As the lights dimmed in Cahn Auditorium on Sunday, a traditional Christian worship service unfolded: a choir, a brief sermon, communion and, of course, music from pop icon Beyoncé.

Beyoncé Mass is a service that uses the artist’s music to center the worship experience around Black women. Hosted by Religious and Spiritual Life, the program was created and curated by the Rev. Yolanda Norton, a visiting professor at the Moravian Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania. Along with the Beyoncé Mass team, Norton led Sunday’s service.

Norton told The Daily the idea originated from a “Beyoncé and the Hebrew Bible” class she taught at the San Francisco Theological Seminary. One of the assignments was constructing a worship service, but it became clear her students hadn’t previously been able to practice centering

Black women’s experiences.

“The (assignment) was a tool for them to think about how to center Black women and their narratives as sacred,” Norton said. “The idea was, ‘Let’s put together this worship service. We’re going to tell Black women’s stories, and we’ll use Beyoncé’s music to do it.’”

When one of her students’ chapels requested they put on the service in 2018, the project went viral. Now, it tours churches and campuses worldwide.

The Rev. D’ana Downing, assistant University chaplain, reached out to the Beyoncé Mass team to bring it to Northwestern. Downing said this year was perfect for the service.

“Traditionally, folks are more used to a more buttonedup, conservative type of experience,” Downing said. “Northwestern is at an excellent time with new administration, new things, new ideas. Why not?”

The service featured live music from musicians, singers and a choir of NU students as well as readings from womanist

texts.

Weinberg junior Chloe Porter, who grew up in a traditional Black Baptist church, said many aspects of Beyoncé Mass were unfamiliar to her, including a modified version of the Lord’s Prayer. Yet, she still found familiarity and comfort through its message.

The use of the song “Break My Soul” particularly struck Porter, she said.

“The message of ‘Break My Soul’ made so much sense for

this service,” Porter said. “The idea of uplifting Black women and making sure that in a world that tries to bring Black women down, your soul isn’t broken.”

Bienen junior and RSL programming assistant Olivia Moyana Pierce was able to participate in the service by reading the womanist texts for the congregation. They said they appreciated the service’s direct address of Black women.

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Evanston Pride board president Jackson Adams cuts the ribbon, marking the o icial adoption of St. Paul’s Park by the LGBTQIA+ advocacy nonprofit.

Owner Toussaint fulfilled her lifelong dream

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Toward the end of the service, attendees were invited to participate in communion regardless of their identities.

By ARIA WOZNIAK the daily northwestern @ari_wozz

Mason Park was abuzz with Evanston resi dents enjoying music, food, games and raffles Friday night — part of a new initiative to cel ebrate and further the city’s restorative justice efforts.

The First Friday series, a monthly festival, started this summer. Evanston founded the pro gram with local organizations to celebrate the city’s youth and promote a restorative justice approach to misconduct or crime.

An alternative to a punitive discipline model, restorative justice seeks to repair harm by giv ing the harmed and those responsible for the harm an opportunity to communicate with one another and address their individual needs.

Jermey McCray, Evanston’s outreach super visor, said events like First Friday and weekly block parties aim to provide children with community and extracurricular activities. All of the entertainment and food at these events were free.

According to the U.S. Office of Juvenile Jus tice and Delinquency Prevention, extracurricu lar activities can help support the development of a youth’s resilience and discourage crime.

“It’s just been a great way to keep engaged with our community and keep an eye on some of the youth that (could be) having some issues,” McCray said.

Many local organizations partner with Evan ston’s restorative justice initiatives, including First Friday, by offering resources to those in need. Curt’s Cafe supports youth who have been incarcerated, people experiencing house lessness and people who are experiencing men tal illness.

The cafe is also a supporter of Evanston’s My City, Your City, Our City initiative to help at-risk youth in workforce development and employment.

“We’re looking forward to just being a force in supporting the youth… and making sure that they know that this is a resource that they can

count on,” Malik Kemokai, executive director of Curt’s Cafe, said.

Along with First Friday, Evanston has imple mented several other restorative justice ini tiatives, like connecting families for employ ment, housing, alternative recreation and civic engagement. Two new drop-in centers at Fleetwood-Jourdain Community Center and Robert Crown Community Center have also supported the youth in the community.

McCray said he is almost hesitant to talk about the positive effect each restorative effort has made since “it’s kind of like knocking on wood.”

Still, he said these efforts have helped the

community to come together in positive ways and find unity in the face of hardship.

Stacey Moragne, an outreach worker for the city, said that middle and high school kids often come into the drop-in centers to do homework, play games, utilize the basketball court, watch TV, or talk to a therapist. The centers work as an alternative to a paid after-school program where all of the resources are free.

“The foundation and the avenue that my superiors have built through this program… are allowing people that have made mistakes to come into our system and be in the proper lane to be successful,” Moragne said.

He said the project aims to help kids pursue

more positive paths and dissuade them from destructive behaviors. Evanston has designed its programs with the youth in mind, he added, as officials sat down with teens to learn what activities or opportunities would most engage them.

Together, the city, its partner organizations and youth participants came up with events like First Friday, block parties and drop-in centers.

“We’re gonna keep building on this,” Mor agne said. “It’s our way to engage families and the youth there and just build some strong rela tionships, so it’s been great.”

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The city of Evanston founded the First Fridays program with local organizations to celebrate the city’s youth and promote restorative justice.

Obama speechwriter discusses new book

By EMILY LICHTY the daily northwestern @emilymlichty

Alumni, students and faculty gathered in McCormick Auditorium Friday for a discus sion with Cody Keenan (Weinberg ‘02), for mer chief speechwriter for President Barack Obama, as part of Northwestern’s Reunion Weekend.

Keenan, who majored in political science, wrote with Obama for nearly 14 years as his director of speechwriting at the White House and then as a post-presidential collabora tor. Now, Keenan teaches Political Science 394-LK, a speechwriting class, as a visiting professor.

Weinberg Dean Adrian Randolph led the discussion with Keenan. The event was part of NU’s Reunion Weekend programming.

“I found the conversation really inspiring and interesting,” Erin Shields (Communica tion ’82) said after the event. “I loved the way he talked about his relationship with President Obama and how they worked on speeches together.”

Randolph focused the conversation on the release of Keenan’s new book, “Grace: Presi dent Obama and Ten Days in the Battle for America.” Following the discussion, Keenan signed copies for attendees.

Keenan’s book, released Oct. 4, follows sev eral pivotal events that occurred during 10 days of Keenan’s career in the White House, including the terrorist attack in Charleston, South Carolina, as well as Supreme Court decisions on both the Affordable Care Act and marriage equality. It provides insight into his work as a speechwriter and behind-the-scenes moments with the former president.

“One of the reasons I wrote it is for it to do what books did for me when I was a Northwestern student, and that is to convince young people that politics is worth (their) time,” Keenan told The Daily. “We’re just fed this steady diet of cynicism all the time … so I want to break through that cynicism and

convince young people that (politics) is worth your time and effort.”

Besides his new book, the discussion also focused on Keenan’s time as an NU student, his experiences writing with Obama and his return to the University to teach in 2018.

Weinberg freshman Jessica Dean said she enjoyed the new perspective on political sci ence, her field of study.

“(Keenan’s discussion of) being able to write in someone else’s voice and not your own was interesting to me because I’ve only ever given speeches myself when I’ve also written them,” Dean said. “I’ve never really thought about how to fully immerse yourself in someone else’s viewpoints and be able to properly express those in a way that sounds like that person.”

Keenan said he returns to NU frequently, as he currently makes the 4.5-hour commute from his home in New York to teach speech writing. Additionally, he’s spoken at many NU events, including Weinberg Convocation in 2018.

Keenan attended Reunion Weekend while touring for his new book not only to speak, but also to celebrate his 20th college reunion.

“It’s important to me that the first Chicago event is at Northwestern, just because it means so much to me,” Keenan told The Daily. “It’s just a really great chance to remind people what Northwestern education can do, and why it’s such a wonderful school to be able to go to.”

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Arts Alliance puts on ‘Into the Woods’ in Shanley

those characters.”

Although “Into the Woods” began with a narrator saying “Once upon a time” to a crowded Shanley Pavilion audience, the musical was anything but a clas sic retelling of the Brothers Grimm

Presented by Arts Alliance at Northwestern University’s Garden Party this weekend, the Stephen Sond heim musical weaves the plots of several classic fairy tales into a single narrative via separate intertwining vignettes.

“It allows for audience members to feel specific connectedness to all the different stories and empa thy for all the different aspects,” Communication junior and Pro ducer Lauren Gunn said. “That could meld together to feel like that warm cup of soup feeling in your heart of hearts.”

Communication senior Lucia Miller directed “Into the Woods” and said they selected the musical because other NU groups have produced it in the past. Miller especially enjoyed seeing the show their freshman year.

“Into the Woods” was the first studentproduced musical to premiere this school year — which Miller said gets the theatre

community excited. Though the team has been preparing for about five months, it only had a few weeks on-campus to rehearse together, Gunn said.

“Into the Woods” modernizes characters such as Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, an evil witch and two handsome princes.

Cinderella questions her feelings for a prince after attending a festival with him, and intentionally leaves her slipper behind to see if he will pursue her. After her grandmother is almost eaten by a wolf, Little Red Riding Hood exchanges her red cloak for the mon ster’s pelt and wields a dagger.

“It’s a story that really grows with you,” Miller said. “Every time you’re working on it or engaging with it, you might find yourself identifying with a different character.”

The show also turns storytelling on its head. Characters kill off the narrator to save them selves, posing questions about the permanence of stories and who gets to tell them. During Act Two, several characters realize they exist in a vacuum, and they’re only happy under the circumstances determined by their narrator.

By the end of the musical, each character confronts their immoral choices, which lead to blame, guilt and a catastrophic climax. The witch, the musical’s primary antagonist, is one of the only characters who takes accountabil ity for her actions, rendering her more likable than the classic fairy tales’ protagonists.

Communication senior Molly McDermott, who played the baker’s wife, mentioned how some versions of “Into the Woods” cut off after Act One, where everyone lives happily ever after.

“I see it as a story that’s full of hope, but not in a way that’s sugar-coated. There’s a lot of tragedy, and there’s a lot of heartbreak in the show,” Gunn said. “You feel empathy for

Shanley shows are predisposed to be more intimate, so even this larger-scale musical included actors within mere feet of the audi ence, she said.

The play’s costuming included multiple elaborate masks, an embroidered cape for Little Red and a gown for Cinderella with hand-sewn string lights. The costume team even repaired pieces backstage during each show.

“The focus was to honor a lot of the high, elevated extravagance of a lot of tra ditional ‘Into The Woods’ styles …. but also to take somewhat of a more contem porary approach to it by mak ing it more tangible,” Gunn said. “These are real people.”

Arts Alliance’s “Into the Woods” marks McDermott’s fourth time acting in the play, prompting her to realize how her perception of fairy tales has changed.

“I think that’s part of what fairy tales are — you connect to one thing about them when you’re younger,” she said, “and then as you’re older, you begin to realize some of the lessons that maybe you didn’t realize were there in the first place.”

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Lacy’s tour brings ‘number-one energy’ to Chicago

By OLIVIA ALEXANDER daily senior staffer @oliviagalex

Alternative R&B singer, songwriter and producer Steve Lacy brought the feels to Radius Chicago Wednesday night in the third stop of his second headline tour.

“Welcome to the ‘Give You The World’ tour,” he said to the crowd packed into the warehouse-esque venue in Chicago’s East Pilsen neighborhood. “Let’s get this sh-t.”

The 24-year-old guitarist opened his show with “Buttons,” the fourth track from his second fulllength album, “Gemini Rights.” He then launched directly into the album’s lead single, “Mercury,” dur ing which he played acoustic guitar as concertgoers grooved with their friends, families and partners.

Lacy wrote “Gemini Rights” after breaking up with his boyfriend. The lyrics touch on his feelings of anger, sadness, longing and confusion, but his words are “all out of love and all laughable, too,” he said to Apple Music.

“‘Gemini Rights’ is me getting closer to what makes me a part of all things, and that is: feelings,” Lacy said in the statement. “Feelings seem like the only real things sometimes.”

Still, Wednesday’s set paid respect to the full scope of Lacy’s career, as he played nine songs from past projects.

“I just dropped an album a couple months ago called ‘Gemini Rights.’ I’m gonna play some shit from that,” Lacy told the audience at the beginning of Wednesday’s show. “But y’all know that ain’t my first piece of work right? I dropped some sh-t a couple years ago called ‘Apollo XXI.’ Let’s drop some of that.”

During his rendition of “Only If” from “Apollo XXI,” Lacy smoothly sang, “If I could travel through time, I think I / Would tell myself from the past, ‘You’ll be fine,” — before moving into a rhythmic performance of his funk hit “Playground.”

Delving back into songs from “Gemini Rights,” Lacy sharply delivered the bitter lyrics from “Static,” the album’s opening track, with just a quiet piano instrumentation in the background.

“Hope you find peace for yourself / New

boyfriend ain’t gon’ fill the void,” Lacy started, before stopping to reflect aloud he was “pissed off that day” and restarting the song.

Next, the artist played two songs from “Steve Lacy’s Demo,” a 13-minute project he released in 2017, along with one song from his 2020 project “The Lo-Fis.” On “Infrunami,” Lacy begs his ex to come back into his life, but “Ryd” finds the singer and a girl going for a drive.

Throughout the show, Lacy added subtle interjec tions, engaging the audience and making for a positive concert experience. Before playing “Infrunami,” Lacy encouraged the crowd to smile and lighten up.

“Show some teeth! Goddamn we’re silly,” he said. “Stay silly your whole life.”

And after playing the track, he offered his fans a compliment.

“Damn you guys are amazing,” Lacy said. “ You make me feel like I’m amazing. Let’s just trade amazingness.”

One of the set’s most memorable moments came during Lacy’s performance of “Sunshine,” which he began solo. Show opener Fousheé then suddenly skipped back onto the stage and joined

her close friend for a soulful rendition of one of the two artists’ many collaborations.

When Lacy began the tour last week, he had just hit another major career milestone: his track “Bad Habit” became his first single to cinch the number-one spot on the Billboard Hot 100 for the week of Oct. 2. That’s his first number one single.

“I really got the number-one song in the country right now. Make some f—ing noise,” Lacy said before playing “Bad Habit.” “It’s really cool that I get to celebrate it here with you guys. I’m gonna need some number-one energy.”

Lacy directed his encore toward his longtime fans. He stepped away from the heartbreak-ridden “Gemini Rights” to close the show with two tracks about falling in love: 2015’s “C U Girl” and 2017’s “Dark Red.”

Through the middle of November, he’ll make 24 more stops across North America, spreading his feelings of anger, longing and desire to audiences at each show.

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Chicago festival uplifts and amplifies Latino voices

By ASHTON GOREN the daily northwestern @ash_goren

When Ana Velazquez was growing up during the 1980s in McKinley Park, her family was one of only a few Mexican American families in the Chicago work ing class neighborhood. As her interest in theatre grew throughout high school and college, she sought to embrace her identity as a Latina from Chicago.

But Velazquez said there weren’t many opportuni ties to tell stories she could relate to early in her direct ing career.

On Sept. 22, “Alma,” a play about a single, immi grant mother that Velazquez directed, premiered at the American Blues Theater as a part of Destinos, Chicago’s annual Latino theatre festival.

“It’s almost overwhelming when you discover how many stories are out there,” Velazquez said about meet ing other Latine artists. “There are so many people just itching to have a platform to tell their stories.”

Destinos’ mission is to uplift and amplify the voices of Chicago-based Latino theatremakers, according to Sara Carranza, communication director for the Chicago Latino Theater Alliance.

Latines are one of the city’s largest growing demo graphics, and Destinos seeks to ensure the performing arts scene reflects the stories of Chicago area residents.

“We aren’t just a border story, we aren’t just an urban story and we aren’t just a sob story, which is often what we are portrayed as,” Carranza said. “Having Latinos write their stories and having Latinos on stage is how to adequately tell Latino stories.”

Showcasing 13 productions over the course of five weeks, Destinos is organized by CLATA members, who provide sustainable support for Latine artists in addition to running the annual festival.

CLATA has contracted more than 50 Latine art ists and 100 technicians for Destinos this year. Out side the festival season, the organization introduces partnering artists to funders, invites them to grant application meetings and provides occupational development training.

“We’re creating an ecology between big theaters and small theaters to really uplift Latino voices and artists, when for a long time they’ve been relegated to the sidelines,” Carranza said.

Carranza said the nonprofit also builds a sense of ongoing community for theatremakers. Staff members at CLATA often check in with partnering artists to see how they are doing personally.

During the pandemic, CLATA introduced Velazquez to Arts Midwest, an artist residency pro gram in Indiana. At the end of the residency, Destinos staff members drove to Indiana to view Velazquez’s final project.

“It’s not every day that you have people who support

you every day both as an artist but also as a person,” Velazquez said.

Carranza said part of Destinos’ mission is to foster cultural exchange between different areas of Chicago through performance and storytelling.

Although the majority of the festival’s audience is Latine, Carranza said she is proud of the event’s acces sibility and open-door policies. All Spanish-language performances at Destinos have English subtitles to invite non-Spanish speaking audience members.

Destinos also seeks to combat stereotypes that group the Latino community into a monolith, according to Carranza. She said she is excited to showcase holistic, new work that presents indi vidual Latino experiences.

“We are not just about catering to our com munity,” Carranza said. “(Destinos) is also about showing to the city who we are. Stories can have big, overarching, identifiable themes. With specific ity, there’s universality.”

Velazquez said she is excited that “Alma” bridges a connection between the American Blues Theater and CLATA.

Her vision when directing “Alma” revolved around her personal experience, she added. As the daughter of one parent born in Mexico and another born and raised in Chicago, Velazquez said she connected to the main characters and wanted to portray them as honestly as possible.

“We all have our own journeys, and even if you aren’t uncodumented, it’s important to know what risks they take, what are the circumstances and what they leave behind,” Velazquez said.

Xavier Custodio is the director of “Sancocho,” a play about two sisters who share family secrets while cooking. The play will open at Windy City Playhouse on Oct. 8.

Custodio is also the artistic director of Visión Latino Theater Company in Chicago, an innovative theatre company that aims to portray perseverance through its characters and stories. He said he is excited to be a part of an ongoing support system for Latino theatremakers.

“We don’t have a million dollars, and we have to rely on each other to make (theatre) happen,” Custodio said. “We’re the youngest theatre company in the group working with everyone… and (Destinos) has given us a voice in the theater landscape.”

This year’s festival will also honor the memory of Myrna Salazar, Destinos’ late executive director and co-founder, who died in August.

Salazar was “larger than life” and a maternal figure for Chicago Latine artists at CLATA, Carranza said.

“(Salazar) laid an amazing groundwork, and the only reason we didn’t postpone the festival is because she wouldn’t have allowed it,” Carranza said. “She truly cared about not just our work but the people.”

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NU highlights student performers at Homecoming pep rally

By VALERIE CHU the daily northwestern @valerieychu

Northwestern held its annual Homecoming pep rally Friday, concluding with the crowning of its Home coming Wildcats at Deering Meadow.

Medill senior Coop Daley and Weinberg senior Hannah Zimmerman were crowned the Homecom ing Wildcats — a gender-neutral title used in place of Homecoming King or Queen.

The pep rally also included food, games, custom license plate making and performances from a vari ety of a cappella and dance groups, as well as the NU Marching Band.

Weinberg sophomore Becca Muro, who performed as part of Dale Duro Latin Dance Co., said she enjoyed dancing at the event.

“We didn’t have a lot of time to prepare, so I’m really proud of what we got out of having only two and a half rehearsals,” Muro said after the performance. “I (also) just really like listening to the a cappella groups that are going on right now. I’m a big fan of music and love listening to all the arrangements they do.”

Ellen Carpenter (Medill ’02) agreed. Carpenter came to the pep rally after attending one of the alumni reunion events that were a part of Homecoming Week programming.

Carpenter, who performed with Significant Others A Cappella as a student, especially enjoyed hearing the

a cappella groups.

“Hearing the a cappella groups was really fun because I feel like it’s such a big part of collegiate life,” Carpenter said. “And then having all the empanadas and swag — what could be better? I feel like (the pep rally) is a great way to bring people together.”

Weinberg senior and NUMB member Grace McDonnell was one of the students nominated for Homecoming Court. She said she was excited to accept the nomination because she was inspired by past marching band members who were on Home coming Court.

“They were so involved, and they just brought such an energy to the university,” McDonnell said. “When I was nominated, I really wanted to do that for everyone else here at Northwestern.”

McDonnell said the community at NU provided a place where she felt like she belonged and being nomi nated gave her a chance to do the same for others.

When NUMB finished playing, McDonnell, along with Homecoming Wildcats Daley and Zimmerman, went onstage in full uniform.

McCormick senior and NUMB clarinet music sec tion leader Chima Aharanwa said it was “just spectacu lar” to see that both the Homecoming Wildcats were also in the marching band.

“It increases our visibility, and I’m always for some thing like that because band is a hidden gem at North western,” Aharanwa said. “I have lots of purple pride in me right now.”

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Alum forges career as music writer and TikToker

By JENNA WANG daily senior staffer @jennajwang

Freelance writer and TikToker Ashlee Mitchell (Communication ’22) has already interviewed big names in the music industry, including BTS, J-Hope, NCT 127, TWICE, NIKI and Saweetie — all without any formal journalism training.

Her journey into K-pop started when she first watched an online performance of BTS at the American Music Awards in 2017. The following year, she attended a BTS concert in Chicago.

“I bought a ticket the day of, and I’m like ‘Wow, that was the best concert experience I’ve ever had,’” Mitchell said. “From then on, I got super obsessed.”

After attending more than 10 K-pop concerts while studying abroad in Korea for a quarter in 2019, she said she wanted to find a way to work in the music industry while simultaneously majoring in communication studies and African American studies at Northwestern.

Mitchell began volunteering behind the scenes at K-pop concerts before the COVID-19 pan demic hit. Amidst Black Lives Matter movement protests in 2020, she received help from K-pop journalists on Twitter looking to mentor Black

writers, allowing her to start her own column with The Kraze and land her first byline at Teen Vogue.

From there, Mitchell pitched and accumulated as many bylines as she could at publications like The Grammys and MTV. The more celebrities she interviewed, the more she realized her position as a K-pop fan had changed, she said.

“I don’t think I can be a fan in the same way that I was before,” Mitchell said. “With a fandom, you need this level of fantasy and separation that I don’t have, so I can’t see (celebrities) in the same way that I used to.”

She recalled her first K-pop interview with Tae min of SHINee in 2020. Since then, she said she’s met him multiple other times, and each encounter has been different.

Conducting so many interviews began feeling like a business exchange, according to Mitchell, because she felt artists displayed a different version of them selves to media publications versus their fans.

“A lot of K-pop companies are super strict,” Mitchell said. “A lot of (the interviews) feel rehearsed and not super authentic, which is part of the reason why I don’t view K-pop the same.”

One of her most memorable K-pop interviews included BM of KARD, who wished her luck on her finals during an unmonitored conversation, she said. Mitchell also said she enjoyed her first

in-person interview with J-Hope at his Lolla palooza performance where she said she sat on a couch next to him and felt the authenticity in his answers.

Despite the opportunity to interview idols, Mitchell said she isn’t disillusioned by K-pop’s notoriety with the cultural appropriation of Black culture and decided to stop working with artists she found problematic.

“I expanded to work with other people like Saweetie and UMI and Black artists that are rel evant as well,” Mitchell said. “I try to think, ‘How can I do this article different from how a white writer would do it?’”

Mitchell also began an online consultation ser vice to help others break into the entertainment journalism industry.

As a client, University of Illinois Chicago grad uate student Mahveen Jahan said she looked up to Mitchell as an inspiration in finding opportunities outside her own path in the medical field.

“You don’t see a lot of people of color doing what she does,” Jahan said. “It’s inspiring to see how she started so young and was able to break into the field working with these big name artists.”

Writer and aspiring record label executive Daryn McElroy (Communication ’22) also credits Mitchell with her interest in music

journalism after studying communications during college.

After the two met their freshman year and connected over K-pop, McElroy said they have remained friends throughout college and beyond.

“I’ve done a couple of interviews with K-pop idols as well, and I don’t think I would’ve had that opportunity if I didn’t witness her doing it first,” McElroy said. “That definitely helped move my way into the industry.”

Mitchell said she realized being a journalist was never a career goal but a means to get in contact with her favorite artists.

She has since acted and modeled in Los Ange les, Calif. and Seoul, Korea and created a Tik Tok account, where she has amassed more than 200,000 followers. In the future, she said she wants to act in movies and host her own show where she interviews celebrities on-camera — something she’s unable to do when writing articles.

For now, Mitchell said she prioritizes forging her own path beyond the educational system or others’ advice.

“People always tell you, ‘You have to go this way,’” Mitchell said. “I’m stubborn, and I don’t like to wait. I just dove headfirst.”

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Debra Thompson discusses ‘The Long Road Home’

By RUSSELL LEUNG daily senior staffer @rjleung7

When former African American studies Prof. Debra Thompson first accepted an offer a few years ago to become a political science professor at Montreal’s McGill University, she experienced mixed emotions about returning to her home country of Canada. She said she felt relief at leaving the U.S. during a turbu lent political moment but also a sadness at “escaping” America — just as her enslaved ancestors did via the Underground Railroad.

That unease inspired Thompson to publish an essay in The Globe and Mail about racism and migration in the U.S. and Canada in June 2020. The essay formed the basis for her new book “The Long Road Home: On Blackness and Belonging,” a hybrid memoir-non fiction published Sept. 6 interweaving her personal

experiences with scholarship on historical Black migra tion. The Daily spoke with Thompson about her book, the writing process and her time at Northwestern. This interview has been lightly edited for brevity and clarity.

The Daily: What is the importance of roads and migration in Black history?

Thompson: (Canadian activist) Harsha Walia wrote a book called “Border and Rule” on migration politics, and one of the points she makes is the freedom to move and the right to stay are really at the heart of democratic politics. And people of African descent are a freedom-seeking people. Geography intersects with our understandings of freedom. Canada and the U.S. both had essentially white-only immigration poli cies for a really long time. And yet Black people, we’ve always been on the move. You can think about the origins of the trans-Atlantic slave trade as being about

coerced, violent movement and the ways in which Africa-descended people have always sought freedom by moving to new places and trying to find sanctuary and peace and belonging.

The Daily: How did you balance personal memoir and academic research in “The Long Road Home”?

Thompson: I’m trained as a political scientist, and in political science we are often told, “It’s research, not me-search,” and so the idea of having this personal nar rative really goes against many of the norms of my disci pline. The reason why I came around to incorporating more of the personal was twofold. The first reason is because storytelling is one of the strategies I’ve always used in my teaching. The second reason is because centering ourselves in our stories has long been part of what we’ve seen as being necessary to Black studies, in part because there are so many forces that seek to dehumanize us. I’m trying to honor that tradition in

many ways by including myself in the narrative, even as I’m still deeply, deeply uncomfortable with it.

The Daily: Did your time at Northwestern influ ence this book in any way?

Thompson: I have a chapter on my time in Chicago. I worked at Northwestern from 2015 to 2017, so it was brief, but those years were quite momentous, both in terms of politics and in terms of my life. I tell this story of how I taught this first-year seminar on Black Lives Matter. Social movements isn’t my area of research, and so my students and I were learning at the same time. And by the end of the quarter, we all came to the same conclusion: abolition is really the only way forward. The criminal punishment system is so corrupt. It needs to be destroyed. And I write in the book about how it was my students who made that more radical turn possible.

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Gorillaz lights up United Center like rhinestones in the sky

By KELLY RAPPAPORT the daily northwestern @thekellyreport_

As “Hello? Is anyone there?” rang out through the United Center Monday, crowds bathed in green light and rallied to answer the call from the Gorillaz’ 2001 classic “M1 A1.”

The Chicago stop in Gorillaz World Tour 2022 featured a setlist that showcased the U.K.-based virtual band’s diverse discography, borrow ing mostly from its 2005 chart-topping album “Demon Days” and 2010’s environment-focused record “Plastic Beach.” The band also teased a few tracks from its upcoming album, “Cracker Island.”

Composed of animated frontman 2D, bassist Murdoc Niccals, drummer Russel Hobbs and

guitarist Noodle, Gorillaz’s members might be entirely fictional, but their music is as real as the massive crowd of people gathered to see them perform.

In lieu of animated characters performing, frontman Damon Albarn brought a live band with him: bassist Seye Adelekan played for Niccals, Jeff Wootton was on guitar for Noodle and Femi Koleoso took the drums for Hobbs. The show featured opener EARTHGANG and guest artists included Bootie Brown, Sweetie Irie, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble and Peven Everett.

Albarn brought energy and spunk to the stage, while live band members performed alongside classic Gorillaz illustrations and videos by Jamie Hewlett. Gorillaz is commonly acknowledged as the most suc cessful virtual band due to its 2013 Guinness World Record for the highest-selling virtual music group.

“Rhinestone Eyes” — a 2010 song that has found new life on TikTok — was a headbanger with lights dousing the floor in red, blue and green to match the accompanying music video. Part of Gorillaz’s appeal is the band’s history of deep, serial music videos with complex lore and back story, and the concert experimented with fusing animation and reality.

Hewlett’s music videos and animation set the tone for the concert. Fans always had something to look at, whether it was Albarn’s crowd-interac tive performance or the hypnotic videos on the screen behind him.

“O Green World” began in stark contrast to the colors of “Rhinestone Eyes.” Only a single white light shone on Albarn playing piano, and the stadium went dark. Albarn crooned out the first verse — and then came a burst of visuals, zombie

green light, thundering drums and discordant piano. Ravens soared on the screen in a music video as dark and gothic as the song playing.

When the band began playing their unreleased track “Skinny Ape,” the second teaser for “Cracker Island,” all eyes were glued to the stage.

Albarn also waited until the last two songs of the encore to give the audience what they were waiting for: “Feel Good Inc.” and “Clint East wood.” Despite the songs being 17 and 21 years old, respectively, the crowd sang along as though they were still topping the charts today.

Gorillaz’ new album “Cracker Island” is set to release Feb. 24, 2023 with features from artists including Tame Impala, Bootie Brown, Stevie Nicks, Thundercat and Bad Bunny.

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Fusion

By MAYA RAVI the daily northwestern

When Weinberg senior Tasha Lee joined Fusion her freshman year in 2019, she didn’t realize how integral the dance group would be to finding community at Northwestern.

The COVID-19 pandemic caused Lee to move back to her home in Hong Kong, China her freshman year. Returning to campus her junior year, Lee turned to Fusion for a source of social support.

“It was really hard for me to integrate back into college because I was only here for like six months, and then I had to leave,” Lee, Fusion’s external relations director, said. “Fusion as a whole has really helped me a lot in making friends and getting to know new people … and finding the people that I truly click with.”

The 40-person collegiate dance team per forms in a wide array of styles, including but not limited to hip-hop, popping, waacking, jazz and contemporary. The team is known on campus

for its shows in ReFusionShaka, one of North western’s largest performances, as well as its own spring event, which sold out in 2022.

McCormick junior and Fusion Company Manager and Social Chair Mika Ng said Fusion’s executive board prioritizes wellness and inclu sion, as well as community, especially given its diverse members.

Ng said students from different majors come together to support each other’s degrees and interests by going to their teammates’ acapella performances and doing photo projects with journalism majors.

“Overall, you can never have too many people focusing on improving the wellbeing of North western students,” Ng said. “I really wanted to make Fusion a place that people would be able to feel is their home.”

Ng said she especially enjoys when she can dance to songs that everyone on and offstage are familiar with, like when she performed the “Boss Ladies” dance from “Dance Moms.”

The sense of community Fusion prioritizes is what made Communication junior Maddie

Morse want to audition for the dance company even before she attended NU.

“When I was applying, I was looking at their YouTube, I was looking at their Instagram and there was so much cohesion, there was so much energy,” Morse said. “There was so much that you could see and tell from a video about their relationship to each other.”

Morse said she appreciates the team’s abil ity to create a safe and supportive space for its members, and she has enjoyed being able to help create that environment. She was inspired to support fellowFusion members this year as the team’s co-PR chair.

Weinberg freshman and new Fusion member Jamila Sam said she felt included in Fusion from the beginning, even during the competitive audi tion process.

“What I loved about it was they’re so welcom ing,” Sam said. “Even when the roster of new members came out on Instagram, I had so many DMs saying, ‘We’re so excited to have you!’”

Sam said she also found support through Fusion’s “parent” system. All new members are

of dancers

paired with upperclassmen to support them throughout their time in the dance group.

Now rehearsing regularly with Fusion, Sam said she is excited for the team’s upcoming per formance in ReFusionShaka. She is inspired by her Fusion “parents” to choreograph in the future.

“You have someone to mentor you and you have someone that you can always go to,” Sam said. “It’s almost like a built-in little community before you even really get started.”

Sam’s “parent,” Bienen sophomore Justice Gardner, said the system is what makes Fusion’s community special to him, especially since he gets to see everyone succeeding in different stages of their college careers.

Gardner’s “family” in Fusion has made the team the highlight of his college experience, he said.

“A lot of my best friends are in Fusion — or I guess a lot of Fusion is my best friend,” Gardner said. “I wouldn’t trade any of it.”

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Eight Counts Ballet Company makes dance accessible

By JAMIE KIM daily senior staffer

Communication sophomore Amanda de la Fuente started her dancing journey at age 5. Over a decade later, she came to Northwestern for her fresh man year and wanted to participate in theater and dance at the same time, but couldn’t find a balletcentric club.

Soon after, de la Fuente and Medill sophomore Angel Jordan began working together to form their own club.

Eight Counts Ballet Company aims to create a little “corner of the ballet world” where anyone can learn ballet and have fun dancing, de la Fuente said.

As company manager of the dance group, de la Fuente organizes logistics and serves as a mental health resource for dancers.

The pair combined efforts with Weinberg junior Elliana Teuscher and Medill junior Natalie Wu, a former Daily staffer, who were in the process of cre ating another group, to found Eight Counts Ballet Company.

This will be Eight Counts’ first full academic year since its creation in 2021. The club has evolved since its founding, starting to host regular classes in the spring and establishing plans for new shows. After a year of running what felt like an “independent project,” de la Fuente said she is excited the ballet company is opening a Student Organizations and Activities account and is up and running.

As the artistic director and co-founder of the

company, Teuscher plays an administrative role and helps with advertising and recruitment. She also teaches classes.

In high school, Teuscher trained full-time at the Joffrey Ballet in Chicago. During the pandemic, she decided to attend college classes instead and dance recreationally. While it is possible to take dance classes at NU, Teuscher couldn’t find a ballet club.

Eight Counts offers classes for beginners and those with varying levels of ballet experience every Saturday in the Wirtz Ballroom. Classes are open to anyone, Teuscher said.

In addition to gig performances like Rock the Lake and the UNITY Charity Fashion Show inter mission, de la Fuente said Eight Counts is aiming for two shows — one in the winter and one in the spring.

Weinberg junior Stephanie Shields has known Teuscher and Wu since starting at NU. When she heard they were starting a ballet company, she was excited to get involved.

Shields had no dance experience prior to taking Eight Counts classes and said she had “no idea what to expect.” She said the class was very welcoming and found it interesting to learn different forms of ballet from new instructors.

“It’s much more accessible and approachable for a brand new student like me,” Shields said.

Although her body was not used to the move ments of ballet or the jumps, stretches and coordina tion required, Shields said the instructors were able to break down terms and the movements into small adjustments she could control.

Teuscher said she wanted to give the opportunity

of ballet dancing to “many generations” of future NU students. Several students who had never danced before participated last year. Others had lots of experience.

“We’re excited to welcome the freshman class

into our club and hope that we can reach more people who haven’t had experience and introduce them to ballet,” Teuscher said.

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Reel Thoughts: Plot of ‘Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile’ falls flat

By ANDRÉS BUENAHORA daily senior staffer @andresbuena01

Warning: This article contains spoilers.

A singing crocodile who loves caviar and bubble baths befriends a lonely boy in New York City — that’s the bulk of “Lyle, Lyle, Croc odile.” Based on Bernard Waber’s children’s books series, the film is simple, but what it lacks in complexity, it makes up for with music.

Lyle (Shawn Mendes) is a crocodile who communicates exclusively through song, which allows for a brilliant combination of Mendes’ voice and lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul,

the acclaimed songwriting team behind “The Greatest Showman.”

The movie, which releases Friday, follows the Primm family’s move to Manhattan, where their son Josh (Winslow Fegley) struggles to make friends at his new school. When he discovers Lyle living in his attic, everything changes for the better.

It’s unclear exactly why Josh’s life goes from zero to 100 after meeting a crocodile with an affinity for pop music. This shift in dynamic is never really explained, and Josh’s own insecuri ties never fully developed.

The film spends less time crafting the under lying motivations behind the Lyle-and-Josh narrative and more time portraying Lyle’s bond with Josh’s mom and dad through their

respective interests.

Mrs. Primm’s (Constance Wu) career as a chef and her husband’s (Scoot McNairy) glory days as a high school wrestler appear bizarre and without direction. Their past doesn’t come to fruition beyond a three-second sequence of Mr. Primm tackling the film’s antagonist Mr. Grumps (Brett Gelman) in the middle of a courtroom after the family wins a trial allow ing them to keep Lyle as their pet.

Even still, moments like these are silly and unrefined, with unfinished arcs and question able filmmaking decisions ameliorated only by the acting prowess of Wu, Academy Award winner Javier Bardem and I wish I could say Mendes, but let’s face it, he’s a CGI crocodile without any dialogue, although his singing car ries the film time and time again.

Bardem plays Lyle’s charismatic owner Hector P. Valenti, who meets the Primms and reunites with Lyle just as Mr. Grumps threatens the family’s newfound crocodile-involved bliss.

From beginning to end, Bardem brings a certain joie de vivre to his role, equipping Valenti with a performative warmth and a vernacular that blends elegance and self-seeking amicability.

“My whole life, I’ve been scared because you’ve been scared,” Josh tells his father after Lyle is taken away by authorities.

This line could have invoked far greater emo tional resonance if Mr. Primm’s fears or anxieties had been weaved in throughout the film. But all we really know about him is that he’s a math teacher and former wrestling champion.

Exploring a character giving up their dream to support their loved ones has the necessary com plexity and framework for an entire film — and likely should’ve been expanded enough through out the story to induce greater tension in this

pivotal scene.

What would be an otherwise flat storyline is strengthened by the film’s consistently heartfelt tone and frequent hilarity, like Lyle trading his usual crimson scarf for a Florida Gators jersey. This proves to be the perfect disguise for a day out, making him appear to be not just a die-hard fan of “The Orange and Blue” but an even more lifelike version of the university’s mascot.

Coupled with a talented cast and upbeat music from a musician of Mendes’ caliber, “Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile” is flawed yet fun, silly yet entertaining from Lyle’s very first belting solo.

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Wildcats on the run: NU students race in marathon

By JESSICA MA the daily northwestern @jessicama2025

Last November, McCormick sophomore Cate Mathews and her friends entered the lot tery for the Bank of America Chicago Marathon as a “funny, mutually-assured-destruction plot.”

Mathews received an acceptance email the following month, but she was the only one who got one — meaning she’d have to run without her friends.

“It was sort of a mutual, ‘Let’s talk ourselves into doing this crazy thing,’” Mathews said. “I was the only one who had to end up doing the crazy thing.”

Mathews is one of several NU students who participated in the race this year. More than 40,000 runners took on the 26.2 mile-trek, which began Sunday in Grant Park.

This was Mathews’ first full marathon. She particularly enjoyed the training process for the race, which she said was an engaging mental and physical challenge. Though she competed in high school cross country, Mathews said she was never an accomplished runner.

“This has been a cool experience, to say, ‘It doesn’t matter what pace I’m going and it doesn’t matter how much skill I have coming into this — I’m a runner,’” Mathews said. “It was an excuse to see how committed to this one project (I can) be.”

Though she had to run the race alone, Mathews said her friends helped with her train ing. She motivated herself by pushing toward a personal goal, but didn’t have ambitions for a particular time. Instead, she said she just wanted to finish.

Weinberg senior Lucy Gund ran to fundraise for the Chicago chapter of Girls on the Run. The organization provides programming for elementary and middle school students, aiming to build confidence, kindness and decisionmaking skills.

“Athletics was really central in my life, and (I) definitely learned so many valuable skills and valuable lessons from it,” Gund said. “Being able to provide those opportunities to young girls across the country, it’s such a great organization and I’ve always wanted to get more involved.”

Bienen senior Alex Carroll ran for the American Cancer Society. Cancer has deeply impacted his life: he lost three of his grand parents to cancer, and a high school role model died from stomach cancer last spring.

To fundraise, Carroll spoke to professors after class, discussed with friends and more. By the time he ran, he had fundraised more than $2,750.

Carroll, who plays double bass, said he sees connections between music and running, such

as their requirements for body awareness.

“When I try to go faster — when I try to play bass so hard, really grip these strings — that doesn’t work,” Alex Carroll said. “I had one run that I felt really sick afterwards just because of how hard I tried. That’s not the way you do it. Your body will take care of things.”

Carroll’s older sister Elizabeth coordinated a watch group for her brother’s run. She said she was proud to see her brother race for the

American Cancer Society.

The running community ultimately brings people together, she said, which the marathon also reflects as a whole.

“Everybody’s working toward a goal,” Eliza beth Carroll said. “(It’s amazing) to be able to support people while they do that, whether it’s finishing the first mile or finishing 26.2 miles.”

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Runners in Sunday’s Chicago Marathon race across the pavement as onlookers spectate.

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2022 theme slogan — Unity, Equality, Visibil ity — Adams danced in the rain at Thursday’s event, greeting passersby and inviting them into the park.

As the ribbon fell to the ground amidst cheer ful applause, one onlooker was smiling even wider than the rest. Agito Abbott, an Evanston resident and Evanston Pride board member, was proud to see his designs printed on three large posters hanging along a fence at the back of the park.

Abbott started working on the designs months ago to reflect the Unity, Equality, Vis ibility theme, bearing slogans such as ‘Proud to Say Gay’ and ‘We Fight for our Trans and NonBinary Community’.

Decorated with roses and pride flag patterns, the posters aim specifically to show solidarity with transgender and non-binary individuals, who Abbott said are often targeted by violence and excluded from the LGBTQIA+ community.

“I wanted to make it very clear that Evanston Pride is for all of us and is not just for the people that are seen as the most acceptable to society,” they said. “We’re here and we’re queer, and we’re not going to go anywhere.”

He added that the roses on the poster are a reference to the quote, “Give us our roses while we’re still here.” Commonly used while observ ing Trans Day of Remembrance, Abbott said the quote refers to the practice of leaving roses on a grave, symbolizing acts of violence committed against transgender people.

Last year’s theme focused on celebration and being your authentic self, but after events that have impacted the LGBTQ+ community in the past year, Adams said Evanston Pride really

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two sides. Mary Toussaint said the vintage side contains clothing such as blazers, shoes and other items she found online or in estate sales, while the new side fills the room with colorful African-patterned pieces.

The boutique’s walls are covered with art work, mostly by Haitian artist Herold Alvares, who paints with his hands and feet. Mary Tous saint said she wants to support Haitian art and culture around her store.

Mary Toussaint said she implemented Afri can-patterned clothing in the store about four years ago because customers were showing interest in those patterns. Though she doesn’t have a lot of customers from Haiti, she said she found Evanston residents really enjoyed her selections.

Mary Toussaint said she loves the vintage side, especially the dress slips. Minouchic Boutique features a whole section dedicated

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wanted to “dig deep.”

“There’s so much legislation going on, espe cially with the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law in Florida, and other legislation that are attacking the trans and the non-binary community,” he said. “So we really wanted to make sure that we were including our whole community in this year’s theme.”

From its founding, Evanston Pride has been focused on inclusivity, according to board mem ber Patty Finley.

As the city’s first group dedicated to LGBTQIA+ advocacy, forming its own organi zation has allowed it to have a lasting impact on the rest of the city, she said.

“We’ve seen a lot of positive energy coming towards us, a lot of positive commentary,” Finley said. “The fact that Evanston never had anything like this before — many people were telling us, ‘Thank you for having us, thank you for being here and being inclusive and equitable for everybody.’”

As the group’s influence grows, Adams said leadership aims to host several more events in 2022, including a National Coming Out Day Sto rytelling Event on Monday.

While board members came to clean up Pride Park a few times in September, Adams said the organization is hoping to work with landscapers to fully transform the park, creating a “beautiful safe space” for Evanston’s LGBTQ+ community along the city’s main thoroughfare.

He added that Pride Park is not just a place of celebration: Evanston Pride wants the park to be a place of reflection and remembrance.

“We want to be the voice for Evanston and for the queer community,” he said. “Hopefully, we’re helping folks with whatever their struggles are, lifting them up and celebrating them.”

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to embroidered white slip skirts and dresses.

“(My mother) always said, ‘Put a slip under your dress,’” Mary Toussaint said.

Now, Mary Toussaint said she enjoys wear ing slips alone as skirts, something of which she said her mother would disapprove.

Mary Toussaint said COVID-19 is still influ encing the boutique’s business, as the number of customers has decreased in recent years. Even though she loves the location, Mary Toussaint said foot traffic has decreased significantly.

Coming out of the pandemic, she said she is trying to bring customers back to the boutique by using social media platforms including Ins tagram, Facebook and Yelp.

The boutique will celebrate its nine-year anniversary during the upcoming Black Friday weekend, so Mary Toussaint said she hopes business will pick up again.

“Lately it’s been pretty slow, very slow, too slow,” she said.

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NUGW RALLY

realized we’re ready — it was time to bring it public.”

Members of NU Library Workers Union and Students Organizing for Labor Rights attended and spoke at the rally to show support and solidarity. UE General President Carl Rosen also spoke to welcome NUGW and congratulate the workers on taking this step.

Prioritizing workers’ needs

At the rally, NUGW listed demands like paid sick days, extra pay for work beyond official respon sibilities, clarity on compensation for workplace injuries and coverage of visa renewal costs for inter national graduate workers.

The organization launched a graduate student needs survey in spring 2022 and received more than 2,000 responses. Lozier said a team of researchers analyzed the responses, and NUGW then used the findings to determine workers’ greatest needs, which became the foundation of its platform.

NUGW’s platform has five pillars: comprehen sive health care, support for international students, professional lab and classroom standards, com petitive pay through graduation and power and protection in the workplace.

Fifth-year chemistry Ph.D. student Qining Wang, who is from China, spoke at the rally about the need to hire additional staff who assist interna tional workers with paperwork and greater financial support.

“A round trip to China right now can cost up to two of my paychecks, which I will not be able to afford if there’s ever a family emergency that I must travel back for,” Wang said. “Starting your life in a foreign country is already stressful enough. There shouldn’t be another layer of financial anxiety on top of that.”

Sixth-year learning sciences Ph.D. student Ally Reith, who has been organizing social ser vices graduate workers since 2018, spoke about NUGW’s health care demands. She said the out-ofpocket insurance maximum of her health care has nearly doubled since 2017, and the cost of coverage for dependents — such as children — can amount to about 17% of a graduate worker’s pay.

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“I just got so used to people not talking about me when they’re speaking to everyone in the room,” Pierce said. “It was really crazy to be in a room where … they were specifically talking about Black women.”

Since her hiring as the first-ever Black woman as assistant University chaplain, Down ing has been active in trying to incorporate

cards last year, Reith added. When she asked the crowd which of them would go another year with out visiting the dentist, more than a dozen people raised their hands.

“Our health has an enormous impact on how best we are able to learn, and as a learning scien tist, I could certainly back this up with empirical research,” Reith said. “But the truth is, you don’t need to be an expert to know this … We can not learn if we are sick. We cannot work if we are stressed and burnt out.”

Calling for University change

NUGW co-chair and fourth-year music Ph.D. student Sara Bowden called out the University for its spending decisions.

NU’s minimum annual stipend for Ph.D. stu dents for the 2022-23 academic year is $35,196, which is about a 3% increase from the previous academic year — but annual inflation in the U.S. is currently above 9%.

“Northwestern will boast this $16.1 billion endowment, and our grad students are doing our research on 10-year-old laptops, broken equipment without secure access to Wi-Fi and no guarantee from Northwestern that we will ever be paid a living wage,” Bowden said.

Lozier said NUGW also spent the summer host ing panels and information sessions to explain its goals and the process of unionization and collective bargaining. NUGW leaders wanted to make sure members fully understood what a vote would mean to encourage members to participate, she added. Lozier said she wants NUGW to remain driven by “rank-and-file” members.

Lozier said she was overjoyed and overwhelmed at the size of the support at the rally. Seeing the momentum and success from graduate workers at universities across the country has encouraged NUGW, she said.

A unionized graduate student body will ulti mately benefit the entire University, Bowden added.

“We (will) show the University that our work ing conditions are our research conditions. Our working conditions are our students’ learning conditions,” they said. “We are tired of asking nicely.”

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Downing said they see Beyoncé Mass as part of these efforts.

“It’s also something for me to show up as the first Black woman to hold this role here at Northwestern University,” Downing said. “Representation matters. And so I wanted to amplify the voices and center the lives and experiences of Black women with this service.”

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Pritzker, Bailey square off in gubernatorial debate

By AVANI KALRA daily senior staffer @avanidkalra

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) spent much of Thursday night’s gubernatorial debate debating Republican candidate Darren Bailey about the SAFE-T Act, a sweeping criminal justice reform package that will abolish cash bail in Illinois starting January 1.

WGN9 TV moderators asked the candidates about the outcomes of the act during last week’s debate at Illinois State University, as well as Pritzker’s rumored presidential run and the future of Illinois’ police funds.

According to a poll published by Emerson College, nearly 48% of Illinois’ residents expect the bill will increase crime.

“I have the full support of the police on this bill, because they know exactly what this does,” Bailey said. “The SAFE-T act must be repealed because it lets violent criminals and murderers out of jail before trial.”

Before the debate, Pritzker said he would consider changes to the bill. At the debate, he said he would only consider “clarifying changes” that would help with disinformation surrounding the bill’s intentions and would not make any tangible legal changes to the bill’s contents.

Politicians like Bailey argue that the bill will further increase crime in the state, though Pritzker disagrees.

“Crime rose substantially during the pan demic and I take that very seriously,” Pritzker said. “The criminal justice system that Darren Bailey and Republicans are standing up for is one that allows murderers and rapists and domestic abusers to buy their way out of jail and that’s unsafe.”

He argued that the bill is intended to keep perpetrators of violent crime behind bars. Pritzker said rapists, documestic abusers and murderers will no longer be given the option to utilize the cash bail system while a poor young mother who shoplifts could return home with out paying a fine.

Pritzker said Illinois’ current cash-bail sys tem is more dangerous than that proposed by the SAFE-T Act.

“If you want to reduce crime, you have to solve crime, and do what I’ve done,” Pritzker said. “Which is to increase the number of state police, build state of the art crime labs and make sure that we’re funding violence prevention,”

Pritzker also emphasized that the SAFE-T Act will provide more funding for police and does not hinder officers’ ability to solve crimes.

Funding included in the SAFE-T act will go toward crime-solving technologies and labs.

Pritzker said his administration has been able to handle a number of unprocessed rape kits during his four years in office because of technology investments. He said when he took office, there were nearly 2000 unprocessed rape kits that had not been tested within six months.

Healthcare professionals use these kids to col lect DNA from body, clothes and belongings after a reported sexual assault.

Bailey interrupted Pritzker’s remarks, argu ing the lack of abundant police support for the

SAFE-T bill indicates that Pritzker has not been entirely successful in preventing and resolv ing crime during his tenure. He added that law enforcement needs to be involved in drafting any legislation similar to the SAFE-T Act.

“The SAFE-T act was concocted at 4 a.m. in the wee hours of the morning without any police involvement whatsoever,” he said. “Behind closed doors.”

Bailey did not provide evidence to support these claims.

WGN9 moderators asked Bailey if he would support any version of abolishing cash bail ––the biggest component of the SAFE-T Act. Though he did not answer directly, he said any similar measure would need input from everyone with a stake in the game, including law enforcement.

Bailey said Pritzker’s law will strip police of state-funded training and require them to pay for their own body cameras, while increasing

property taxes statewide. Pritzker said those claims were largely untrue.

“I provided more money for police, I pro vided more money for our municipalities, two million dollars more for local governments and for police during my time,” Pritzker said.

Pritzker added that when Bailey served as a state senator, he voted against funding for more police officers. Bailey, who intends to cut state spending significantly if elected, accused Pritz ker of reckless spending. Bailey said Pritzker made the same kinds of irresponsible funding decisions with police increases this year.

Bailey said budget re-prioritization could lead to better outcomes for the state without cuts to social services.

“He’ll throw more money and hire more police, but they won’t have the money to do their jobs,” he said.

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NU climbs to first in Big Ten standings after win

By LUCAS KIM daily senior staffer @lucaskim_15

No. 6 Northwestern didn’t disap point in a highly anticipated matchup between the Big Ten’s top two teams, taking down Wisconsin 2-1 Friday.

Facing a Badgers squad with an eight-game win streak, the Wildcats didn’t seem fazed. NU fed off the energy of the homecoming week end crowd, filled with students and alumni alike.

With the victory, the Cats (11-12, 5-0-1 Big Ten) overtook Wiscon sin (10-2-2, 5-1 Big Ten) as the top team in the Big Ten standings while also handing the Badgers their first conference loss. NU is now riding a program-record 12-game undefeated streak.

Early offense has been the name of the game for NU this season, and Friday was no exception.

Just six minutes into the match, junior forward Meg Boade took advantage of Wisconsin’s failed clear attempt. She sidestepped a defender, hitting the ball into the right side of the net for an early lead. With the goal, the Cats have now scored in the first 10 minutes in five out of their last seven games.

“Any offense is good offense. We’ll take it anytime it comes,” coach

Michael Moynihan said. “We’ve got some great ball movement and move ment off the ball, so I think a lot of teams maybe get caught off guard a little bit in the opening minutes. But our team also comes out with a tre mendous amount of focus, and it’s nice to be able to capitalize like that.”

The goal was also Boade’s fourth in the past six games.

NU kept up its offensive pressure throughout the first half, generating several scoring opportunities. This was due in part to its dominant back line, which features senior captain Danika Austin, sophomore Emma Phillips and junior Nicole Doucette. The Cats only let up one shot on goal in the first half.

“A lot of the other teams that get high press, they’re kicking the ball out,” senior forward Aurea del Car men said. “Our team — Dani, Emma, Nicole — they win the ball, and we’re playing it out of the back immedi ately. There is so much confidence back there.”

Graduate goalkeeper Mia Raben has also anchored an NU defense that has only conceded eight goals in 14 games. Raben leads the Big Ten in save percentage with .879 and ranks second in goals against average with .475.

This support from the defense paid off throughout the matchup, particularly when del Carmen

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knocked a shot in from point-blank range in the 69th minute to extend the Cats’ lead.

To the Badgers’ credit, they were never out of the game. A goal from reigning Big Ten Freshman of the Week Rylee Howard brought Wis consin back within one goal in the 73rd minute.

But NU was able to maintain its composure and hold onto the lead, expertly defending several corner kicks and catching the Badgers off side on a would-be equalizing goal in the 83rd minute.

For the Cats, being No. 6 in the country has not stopped players from adopting an underdog mentality entering each game. Just two months ago, NU was ranked 11th out of 14 in the Big Ten preseason poll.

“We knew this was a big game coming in. It was a statement win, and I think we’ve had to prove our selves every game,” Boade said. “We’ve had people doubting us and confused (about) how we turned our season around from last year to this year, so that’s been something that every game we come out to prove — that we should be number one in the Big Ten.”

The Cats will look to continue their strong season Thursday as they take on Michigan in Ann Arbor.

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QB switches bring mixed results

By CHARLOTTE VARNES daily senior staffer @charvarnes11

When sophomore quarterback Brendan Sullivan made his college football debut against Wisconsin Saturday, settling in took time.

Northwestern’s offense initially sputtered when Sullivan entered the game. After throwing three straight three-and-outs in the first half, he was benched. But, when Sullivan entered in place of injured junior quarterback Ryan Hilinski in the third quarter, it was like an entirely new player took the field.

In the second half alone, he threw a 31-yard pass to Bryce Kirtz. He tal lied a touchdown pass. He ran for 39 yards, leading the Wildcats (1-5,1-2 Big Ten) in rushing. For Sullivan, hit ting his stride came with time.

“Those first couple of drives, I’m running around like a chicken with his head cut off,” Sullivan said. “(With experience I was) settling down and trusting the guys next to me.”

In a lopsided, 42-7 loss against the Badgers (3-3, 1-2), NU’s offense didn’t do much to capture viewers’ attention. But a quarterback switch early in the second quarter – and another change near halftime –brought renewed attention to the position. Offensive inconsistency and miscues haunted the Cats, ultimately leading to just one touchdown in 60 minutes of play.

Hilinski started the first quarter going 3-for-8 with just a handful of successful passes to junior tight end Thomas Gordon and senior wide receiver Donny Navarro. He ended the period with an interception into double coverage, handing Wisconsin the ball and fueling a series that ulti mately ended in a touchdown.

When NU regained possession in the second quarter, Hilinski was sidelined — but not because of the interception. Coach Pat Fitzgerald said he planned to substitute Sullivan for Hilinski on the third series of the

game regardless of what happened on the field. He said he was disappointed it happened after a turnover.

“Part of the plan was to get him out there and get him into the mix, see if we could get a spark,” Fitzgerald said.

But, after three consecutive threeand-outs, Hilinski hit the field again. He came out firing, getting the Cats in field goal territory to end the second quarter, and he managed four completions to kick off the third. However, soon after, Hilinski threw an interception and was tackled so roughly that he left the game due to concussion protocol.

Sullivan stepped in to finish what Hilinski had started. In his first series in the third quarter, he managed to complete three passes and rush for 20 yards before he fumbled and the Badgers regained possession. Despite the fumble, Sullivan said he felt much more comfortable and “ready to go” as soon as he took the field in the third.

A short pass to sophomore running back Anthony Tyus III finally landed NU on the board for Sullivan’s first

touchdown pass with the Cats.

Sullivan’s success on Saturday reig nited a quarterback battle that began over the summer, when he was a sur prise contender to Hilinski for NU’s starting quarterback spot. In recent months, Sullivan said he and Hilin ski have pushed each other and made each other better players. He also said he’s picked Hilinski’s brain about the game, citing Hilinski’s Big Ten and SEC playing experience.

Fitzgerald said concerns about quarterbacks are often exacerbated when the team isn’t winning. He said Sullivan’s success was heartening, but it’s ultimately on the team to help him and Hilinski succeed in games.

“We’ve got to help them up front,” Fitzgerald said. “We’ve got to help them with catching the ball, getting open for them and timing. We’ve got to have balance and be able to run the ball – and then they’ve got to do their jobs.”

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Cats draw against No.8 Maryland Terrapins

By ALEX CERVANTES daily senior staffer @cervantespalex

Sixty minutes into Nort hwestern’s 1-1 draw against No. 8 Maryland on Sunday, the door the Wildcats (1-6-4, 0-3-2 Big Ten) had been knocking on all game swung open.

Streaking down the right flank, graduate student midfielder Bardia Kimiavi received a pass, took two touches and chipped a ball across the face of goal.

The cross initially sailed just beyond freshman forward Christo pher Thaggard, but sophomore mid fielder Paul Son was there to redirect it. His effort was knocked down by a Maryland defender, but Thaggard arrived just in time, tapping the ball into the back of the net for his first career collegiate goal.

Thaggard’s emergence couldn’t have come at a better time. NU’s leading goal scorer, junior forward Justin Weiss, and leader in assists, senior midfielder Vicente Castro, are both sidelined due to injury. Thag gard bagged the opener in Weiss’ typical position up front.

“Thaggard’s first goal of the season was huge,” graduate student defender Ethan Dudley said. “(He’s a) 17-yearold, it’s pretty impressive what he’s able to do to step up and do a guy like Justin’s role. I’m really proud of him.”

In just his third start of the season, Thaggard became the ninth Cat to score a goal in 2022. He notched NU’s only score in a game where the Terra pins outshot the Cats 15-8 – including seven to three shots on goal.

Coach Russell Payne heralded Thaggard’s work effort navigating his first season in Evanston.

“Now you’re starting to see him settle in and gain confidence,” Payne said. “Initially, it’s really hard to fig ure out how to help somebody that comes in and is just trying to figure

everything out. … We know how to help him specifically (now), and I’m really proud of him today.”

NU’s backline successfully sty mied Maryland’s attacking options for most of the match. The Terrapins entered the game second in the Big Ten in goals scored (21), and their roster boasts two of the top-10 goal scorers in the conference — neither of whom scored Sunday.

Dudley said that both pregame film studies and the backline’s con certed effort to defend as a group led to the solid performance this weekend.

“It’s all about everyone defending as a collective unit (and) moving as a unit,” Dudley said. “It’s my job to communicate that to make sure everyone is kind of on a string with me in the back, side-to-side, backto-front, keeping everything tight.”

After falling to a 1-0 deficit, the Terrapins ramped up their attack ing pressure. With just a quarter of the match left, the Cats caught an unlucky break. A Maryland cross inside the six-yard box bounced once before finding Stefan Copetti at the back post. He dove, leading the ball to ricochet up and sneak into the opposite side netting to bring the game level, 1-1.

The score would hold even for the rest of the game, despite some late attacking forays from both squads.

NU looks now to a midweek road trip against Northern Illinois before resuming Big Ten play at Ohio State next Sunday. Following a pair of con secutive draws against ranked oppo nents, the Cats have something to build on with the Big Ten Tourna ment fast approaching.

“We’re getting better,” Payne said. “We’re finding more moments of play … We’re creating a lot of chances because we’re a little more composed, and we’re confident in our play.”

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