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Provost defends counseling change Dan Linzer says Women’s Center changes make sense

By YVONNE KIM

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Intersex artist and activist Pidgeon Pagonis talks about issues surrounding sex assignment surgeries at Harris Hall Thursday. Pagonis was selected as the Rainbow Alliance’s weekly keynote speaker for Queer and Trans* Empowerment Month.

Activist critiques intersex surgery Pidgeon Pagonis talks bodily justice at Rainbow Alliance keynote

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Intersex activist Pidgeon Pagonis called for increased awareness on the impact of sex assignment surgeries on intersex individuals Thursday.

“It’s a social emergency,” Pagonis said during Rainbow Week’s keynote address.

Pagonis — who uses they, them, their pronouns — spoke to about 50 people in Harris Hall at an event hosted by Rainbow Alliance. Pagonis spoke on being intersex and

showed their documentary, “The Son They Never Had: Growing Up Intersex,” which was followed by a Q&A. Pagonis is Chicago-born activist who advocates for the intersex community and bodily justice. With over 10 years of experience, they

have been published in the academic journal Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics and were honored by the White House as an LGBTQ “Champion of Change” in 2015.

Pagonis used their personal » See PIDGEON, page 10

Committee punts on Stevens case

By JULIA JACOBS

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A Faculty Senate committee tasked with reviewing disciplinary actions decided it is unable to make a decision on political science Prof. Jacqueline Stevens’ appeal of her involuntary leave, according to a letter from the committee obtained by The Daily.

The Committee on Cause, chaired by School of Law Prof.

Ronald Allen, issued the statement dated Sept. 26, saying it is “impossible” for the committee to act without a statement of specific disciplinary actions against Stevens and that it does not consider sanctions after they are lifted. In a blog post published Oct. 7, Stevens made multiple objections to the committee’s rationale, saying she would appeal the decision.

Stevens was notified by Weinberg Dean Adrian Randolph at the end of July that she was being put on leave based on reports that

she was a threat to campus safety, claims that Stevens maintains are baseless. She attributes the University’s action in part to her political activism, including organizing the opposition to former ambassador Karl Eikenberry’s appointment to lead the Buffett Institute of Global Studies. Stevens was ultimately prohibited from visiting campus or contacting students — except those on a list for specific purposes of communication — until a fitnessfor-duty evaluation resulted in her

being cleared to return to teach this fall.

The committee was notified on Sept. 16 that Stevens had put forth an appeal of disciplinary action, the letter said.

“Professor Stevens may very well have been mistreated in numerous small and not-so-small ways; perhaps there is a hostile workplace environment actionable under law; but the Committee on Cause is not an appropriate » See STEVENS, page 10

Provost Dan Linz er defended recently-announced plans for Counseling and Psychological Services to absorb the Women’s Center’s counseling services, saying it makes more sense for the University to offer its mental health programs in one place.

Linzer said the Office of the Provost, which oversees the Women’s Center, does not have the “expertise” to oversee a health care practice.

“CAPS identifies what’s the best approach for students who need certain types of help,” Linzer said. “We’re putting all this investment into making CAPS absolutely terrific. Wouldn’t it make sense to combine the resources and really have a single umbrella over our student mental health programs that provide the best possible coverage we can?”

Some students had criticized the decision, concerned in part that CAPS — which specializes in short-term, rather than longterm, counseling — wouldn’t serve students as well as the Women’s Center does now.

Linzer pointed out that CAPS already provides longterm counseling to students when they need it, and that CAPS recently lifted its 12-session limit for students.

Linzer said the Women’s Center provides such a wide range of services that it was important to designate services it should continue and which ones could be “met in other ways that can be better for the University.”

Linzer also said the decision was made after a years-long

planning process, in hopes that “any health care that we are providing for students meets the highest professional standards.”

The email, sent Sept. 28, said the integration will be “facilitated by the increased number of counselors at CAPS,” and “a wide array of mental health services and other support … which were not immediately available in the Women’s Center.”

Still, SESP sophomore Liz Diamond, a member of Sexual Health and Assault Peer Educators, said she was referred out of CAPS during her first intake appointment and went to the Women’s Center instead.

She said she was “immediately disappointed” to hear the news because of how the Women’s Center helped her.

“I just remember feeling so drastically different (in CAPS) than in my intake appointment with the Women’s Center,” Diamond said. “CAPS is very cold and clinical, and the Women’s Center is just welcoming. It’s literally a house; it’s a home.”

CAPS staff said they were not available for comment.

The Women’s Center served roughly 80 students per year from 2013 to 2015, interim director Alecia Wartowski told The Daily in an email. Both clinicians and counseling externs meet with students.

Wartowski added that students of any gender can use the center’s services for up to 52 sessions.

“While I think it’s great that CAPS has removed the (12-session) limit, I think that wasn’t the only problem with CAPS,” Diamond said. “I understand the limitations of running a mental health service through the Office of the Provost. However, I do think there’s a compromise that could be made to maybe reduce liability … (while) keeping a warmer » See COUNSELING, page 10

Schakowsky urges students to not waste vote on third party

By SAM KREVLIN

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With fewer than four weeks until the presidential election, U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) visited the College Democrats on Thursday to encourage students phone banking for Hillary Clinton and to discourage students from voting for a third party.

Schakowsky — who represents Illinois’ 9th district in Congress — said this election is the most consequential in her lifetime, and grassroots advocacy to mobilize the vote will be the

deciding factor.

Schakowsky said the Clinton campaign has done a better job recruiting volunteers that make personal contact, make phone calls and knock on doors than her opponent, Donald Trump.

“We are never going to match them dollar for dollar unless we get rid of Citizens United,” Schakowsky said. “But we can outmatch them (with volunteers).”

But Schakowsky did say she worries some millennials will vote for third-party candidates such as Gary Johnson or Jill Stein. She said the election of George W. Bush over Al Gore in 2000, when Ralph Nader ran as a Green Party candidate, is the

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perfect example of how a thirdparty candidate can change trajectory of the country. The election of Gore, Schakowsky said, would have resulted in a better America with progress in climate change and without an Iraq war.

“That is a vote for Trump,” Schakowsky said of voting for a third-party candidate. “This is a choice between two people, and the consequences are too grave to vote third-party.”

Bryan Lee, an executive board member for College Democrats, also stressed the importance of voting for Clinton over a thirdparty candidate. He pointed out college students as a demographic are more likely to vote third party

than any other demographic.

“The most important thing is that millennials vote for Hillary and not a third-party candidate,” the Weinberg sophomore said.

“We don’t want to go to bed voting for Gary Johnson and waking up tomorrow to president Donald Trump.”

Schakowsky mentioned the recent recording published by the Washington Post that included lewd comments about women, which Trump defended as “locker room talk.” Schakowsky said it took her back to when she was an organizer and felt sexually violated by a major leader of » See SCHAKOWSKY, page 10

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U.S. Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) speaks to students about the effect of voting for a third party candidate in the upcoming presidential election. She urged students and faculty to support Hillary Clinton by continuing frequent phone banking and making a personal impact on undecided voters.

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AROUND TOWN University taps CPS teacher for STEM coordinator needs, developing programs that foster interest in STEM-related fields, extending opportunities to District 65’s students to learn from NU’s community and giving NU students more volunteer opportunities to interact with the younger students.

“We’re of the mind that whatever we can do to strengthen our schools is important,” said Alan Anderson, NU’s executive director of neighborhood and community relations. “We were glad to support the idea and the concept … we want to make sure it is aligned to the top priorities of the district.”

The early stages of the partnership will mainly consist of introductory meetings with different teachers and administrators of District 65’s schools to better understand the capacity and needs of each school, Anderson said.

Eventually, Lewin hopes to help implement additional STEM-related programming and curriculum that allows District 65’s students — especially those from underrepresented backgrounds — to have an opportunity to gain exposure to STEM fields, she said. She also hopes to create more direct partnerships between local schools and the University that foster learning, growth and creativity related to STEM. “She’s an incredibly community-focused educator,” said Michael Kennedy, director of the University’s Science in Society research center. “Not only does she understand science, engineering and math

By MADELEINE FERMANDO

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Northwestern has appointed a former Chicago Public Schools science teacher as the STEM coordinator between Northwestern and Evanston/Skokie School District 65.

Jennifer Lewin, a CPS schoolteacher for the past eight years, will act in the newly-created position as a liaison for District 65’s 18 schools and the University to provide resources in science, technology, engineering and mathematics programs in public schools.

Lewin said when she learned of the open job position as the STEM coordinator between NU and District 65, it was an opportunity she “couldn’t pass up.”

“It was an opportunity to get into a coaching role to bring the knowledge and love that I have for science to teachers,” Lewin said. “I know my skill set can be very helpful in that sense.”

In May, Northwestern and District 65 announced plans to start a new partnership office that will allow the University to extend its resources to the school district in support of its STEM programs.

Lewin’s main responsibilities will consist of working with the local schools to address each school’s

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pills in his pocket, which is suspected to be Alprazolam, the generic name of Xanax.

The man was charged with two counts of unlawful possession of a controlled substance. He was also charged with another count of unlawful possession Wednesday when an officer observed him ingesting a substance in his cell, Dugan said. Officers found four small plastic baggies in his shirt and pants pockets that tested positive for heroin.

Police searched him before he was held in the cell, and Dugan said police are reviewing camera footage to figure out where and how he brought the drugs into the cell.

Man arrested in connection with possessing heroin on CTA train car, as well as jail cell A man was arrested Tuesday after an Evanston police officer observed him sleeping on the floor of an “L” car with a rolled up $20 bill and a “clear white capsule” containing a white powder on his chest, police said.

At about 10 a.m., an officer near South Boulevard noticed the man sleeping and took him into custody for a narcotics investigation, Evanston police Cmdr.

Joseph Dugan said.The white substance tested positive for heroin. The officer also found one-and-a-half blue

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The Joseph E. Hill Early Education Center serves about 450 early childhood students and their families annually in District 65. Jennifer Lewin was appointed as STEM director to act as a liaison between the district and the University.

incredibly well, she really understands that education is about serving the whole child.”

Lewin grew up with a strong background in the sciences, with both of her parents in health science professions, she said. After receiving her bachelor’s degree in biology at Loyola University, she started working in a research lab before realizing she had a knack for explaining science, and she shifted her focus to teaching.

She worked at the Peggy Notebaert Nature

Museum as a Museum Educator where she led student and teacher programs and also coordinated outreach efforts before becoming a teacher in CPS. “She has really innovative ideas on how to support their learning,” Kennedy said. “She’s a great listener; she’s just somebody who is just a tremendous community asset. She’s a teacher through and through … she just goes to the ends of the earth for her kids.” madeleinefernando2020@u.northwestern.edu

Setting the record straight An article published in Thursday’s paper titled “Board talks turning cats against rats” misstated the number of animals taken in and euthanized by the Evanston Animal Shelter. The shelter has taken in 447 animals this year and euthanized 10.

The article also incorrectly stated the feral cat program would involve the cats killing rats. The cats would scare them away.

The A&E calendar published in Thursday’s paper misstated the opening night for the upcoming production of “The Great Gatsby.” The show premieres Friday at 7:30 p.m. and runs through Oct. 30.

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ON CAMPUS SpaceX, Tesla exec talks innovation

By ANNABELLE ZHANG

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SpaceX and Tesla executive Charles Kuehmann (McCormick ‘94) spoke to faculty and students Thursday about innovations in technology, such as electric cars and space exploration.

Kuehmann is the vice president of materials engineering for SpaceX, an aerospace

manufacturer and space transport service, and Tesla, a producer of electric vehicles.

Addressing roughly 400 people in Ryan Family Auditorium on Thursday, Kuehmann discussed his career and his ideas about how the world’s energy sustainability issues can be solved with materials engineering.

Kuehmann told The Daily he started studying aerospace engineering as an undergraduate because he was “enamored” with the U.S. space program and wanted to be an astronaut as a kid. But he moved on to materials engineering

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Charles Kuehmann (McCormick ‘94) speaks at Ryan Family Auditorium in the Technological Institute Thursday. He is the vice president of materials engineering at SpaceX and Tesla.

when he realized materials were the root cause of many challenges in aerospace design.

“Materials (engineering) is a very interesting idea that started 300,000 years ago,” Kuehmann said. “Most of our technological development was based on our ability to discover and utilize these materials.”

Since then, Kuehmann has founded three businesses including a new material designs firm, QuesTek. He also led a product design team at Apple.

Kuehmann’s talk was part of the Material Sciences and Engineering Prominent Alumni Series.

“We invited Dr. Kuehmann here because he is an expert in his field, and students can learn from his experience,” said Qingyuan Lin, a Ph.D. candidate for materials engineering in McCormick and event’s organizer. “I’m really happy with the turnout, and I think the event achieved its purpose.”

Divya Jain, a McCormick Ph.D. candidate for materials engineering, attended the talk to find out more about what is required of a material engineer and what lies ahead in the field.

“I very much look up to (Kuehmann) and what he has achieved,” Jain said.

During the talk, Kuehmann said at the speed technology is developing, everyone in the audience would be able to go on Mars in their lifetime. SpaceX is currently researching how to cultivate Martian soil to ensure survival of life on the planet, Kuehmann said.

“We’ll really see things start to change quickly,” he said. “It’s going to change quicker than people think.”

He urged the audience to work hard on their passions at NU. “Don’t be satisfied with doing just what is expected,” Kuehmann said. “Always take one step farther. Figure out how to do something that no one else has done.” shanshanzhang2019@u.northwestern.edu

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‘LOCKER ROOM TALK’

Trump’s comments are a byproduct of rape culture KATHRYN GARRETT

OP-ED CONTRIBUTER

“I did try and f— her. She was married.”

“I moved on her like a bitch, but I couldn’t get there. And she was married.”

“I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.”

These were words heard round the country, uttered by presidential candidate Donald Trump in 2005, and recorded in a tape made public by the Washington Post last Friday. During the following debate Sunday night, Trump repeatedly emphasized that what he said were “just words.” But what he seemed to miss, which moderator Anderson Cooper pointed out to him, was that these words constituted a description of sexual assault. There is simply no other way to classify “grabbing (a woman) by the pussy,” although Trump, and some of his more devoted Republican supporters, certainly tried to cloud the water.

Trump’s overriding defense: it was just “locker room talk.” He repeated this many times, suggesting that this is just the way men speak to one another when not in the presence of women. Trump’s most ardent defenders (Rudy Giuliani, Kellyanne Conway and Ben Carson, to name a few) also used this “locker room” argument and refused to acknowledge that Trump’s words

were a description of sexual assault in the first place. The failure to recognize Trump’s words for what they are demonstrates the pervasiveness of rape culture in this country — even when confronted with an explicit description of sexual assault, people deny its validity as assault.

Trump’s dismissal of his comments as locker room talk feeds into the rhetoric

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Trump and his supporters say that to focus on his words is a “distraction” from real issues. But sexism and sexual assault are among the largest issues facing our country today.

that justifies assault with the phrase “boys will be boys.” The fact that Trump made the comments only in the presence of other men does not diminish the danger of his words. Rather, it encourages men to think of sexual assault as something to be joked about and to picture women’s bodies as objects they can degrade and dehumanize.

Ultimately, it makes it all the more challenging to bring sexual predators to justice in a courtroom.

A popular response from men all over the country in the wake of this locker room

talk defense was essentially, “I’ve never heard anything like this.” Perhaps those men haven’t heard one another speak that way. If men think that, perhaps they should listen more closely to one another, because I have heard men speak this way. I have been directly spoken to by men this way.

Almost every single woman has a story, if not multiple, about instances in which they were verbally harassed, if not physically assaulted, by men. One in five women have been sexually assaulted in college. Not only are too many men saying horrible things, too many are doing horrible things.

I have had comments as degrading and objectifying as Trump’s shouted at me from groups of men in cars (“Come back with us and show us a good time”), from men on bicycles as they ride past me (“I want to take you home and f— you”), from boys at fraternity parties (“Are you horny tonight?”), when I walk past construction sites (“Come on, give us a smile”), at concerts (“What do you mean you don’t want to dance with me, you bitch?”) and on public transit (“Come sit next to me, baby”). I should never have to hear these things from a man, let alone a man running for president.

Trump and his supporters say that to focus on his words is a “distraction” from real issues. But sexism and sexual assault are among the largest issues facing our country today.

When one in five women is sexually assaulted, to claim Trump’s words are a “distraction” is to belittle and delegitimize the experiences and suffering of these women and all women who have faced any

sort of harassment from men.

As Hillary Clinton pointed out at the debate, these words highlight exactly who Donald Trump is as a person. He has insulted countless women, from Megyn Kelly to Rosie O’Donnell to Arianna Huffington to Carly Fiorina to Hillary Clinton to his own daughter, Ivanka Trump, whom he said Howard Stern could call a “piece of ass.” He has attacked victims of sexual assault in the military, breastfeeding mothers, Miss Universe contestants (whom he has admitted to watching change before competitions), female contestants of “The Apprentice” and any woman who dares to challenge him.

To Republicans just now withdrawing their support of Trump, I ask: What took you so long?

To the men who claim they have never heard other men talk this way, I beg: Listen more closely. You will hear these things.

And when you do, call your friends out on their sexist and objectifying rhetoric.

To the women who have experienced harassment and assault, and to whom Trump’s comments and the endless conversation about them may have been triggering: I am with you. I am looking out for you, just as I know you are looking out for me.

Kathryn Garrett is a Weinberg sophomore. She can be contacted at kathryngarrett2019@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.

‘Locker room talk’ is sexist toward women athletes DANNY COOPER

DAILY COLUMNIST

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Donald Trump is involved in a campaignthreatening scandal. In case you were stuck under a rock last weekend, you may have missed the video clip from 2005 of Donald Trump talking about how he, thanks to his fame, could “grab (women) by the pussy.”

Trump characterized his comments as “locker room banter,” language he continued to use to defend himself during Sunday’s town hall presidential debate.

This is an unacceptable excuse. Trump’s words have no place in locker rooms, frat houses nor any other male-exclusive space.

Implying that they should be allowed to exist in private, male spaces — and implying that locker rooms are only male spaces — perpetuates the existence and implications of rape culture, as noted by Kathryn Garrett in her op-ed.

Trump seems to be saying locker rooms, and sports facilities, are all-male spaces.

Has he heard of some of the greatest athletes in the world, like Serena Williams,

Katie Ledecky or Simone Biles? Or does he not think they use a locker room before dominating their opponents? Trump assuming that locker room conversations must be crude at best and solely between men disparages female athletes, professional and amateur. As Portland Trail Blazers guard C.J. McCollum tweeted on Sunday, he hasn’t “heard that one in any locker rooms.”

Neither has Christine Brennan (Medill ‘80, ‘81), a USA Today sports columnist and former editor at The Daily, who estimated she has been in close to 1,000 men’s locker rooms throughout her career. “From my 35 years of experience, in no way, shape, or form is that locker room talk,” she said.

Brennan said the comments were more extreme than anything she had ever heard.

“My worst locker room experience… amounted to some hooting and hollering.”

Brennan noted that female reporters are commonplace in men’s locker rooms now, and, as the mainstream coverage of women’s sports increases, more male reporters will be in women’s locker rooms.

The big difference between male and female locker rooms, she said, was that female athletes wait for the media to finish interviews before they get changed out of their sweaty uniforms, unlike their male

counterparts.

“Women are so happy to have any attention and any coverage,” she said. “Elena Delle Donne will sit there and do every interview, not only because she’s fantastic, but also because she realizes she is part of selling the product,” which male athletes, Brennan notes, do not have to worry about as much.

This difference in coverage stems from a sexist culture in which someone like Donald Trump can describe and attempt to legitimize repulsive comments as maleexclusive locker room talk. Locker rooms are a workspace for men and women, a necessary part of the sports world. They should not be thought of as places where hostility toward women can thrive because that is rarely the case and is always unacceptable.

Brennan and McCollum have spent their careers in locker room environments without hearing anything nearly as reprehensible as Trump’s comments. Brennan herself is an example of how ridiculous it is to suggest that the locker room is a space solely for men. Reporters like her fought to carve a space for women in locker rooms, and generations of female athletes have toiled in order to gain a share of the media attention from their male peers.

Moreover, sports thankfully ceased to

be the exclusive province of men long ago.

As Brennan asked rhetorically: “Maybe we should remind (Trump) of Title IX, and the

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Trump seems to be saying locker rooms, and sports facilities, are all-male spaces.

Has he heard of some of the greatest athletes in the world, like Serena Williams, Katie Ledecky or Simone Biles? fact that there are millions and millions of American girls and women playing sports, and in locker rooms, every day?”

Danny Cooper is a Medill sophomore. He can be contacted at danielcooper2019@u.northwestern. edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this column, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@ dailynorthwestern.com. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.

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Environmental Board to discuss initiative to prevent bird collisions

The Evanston Environmental Board met Thursday to discuss their initiative to prevent bird collisions with building renovations before tabling the issue for their meeting in November.

The planned ordinance was set to be presented to the public at Thursday’s meeting, but the board cited a lack of deeper research and pushed the issue to November. Environmental board member Noreen Edwards said that won’t kill the initiative, and the board is still working

to make sure it gets to City Council.

“We don’t have to have an ordinance to start trying to do things to help prevent bird collisions and deaths,” Edwards said.

Bird collisions have influenced Chicagoland building changes for years, according to Chicago Bird Collision Monitors, a volunteer conservation project focused on preventing unnecessary bird collisions. Many skyscrapers turn their lights off to protect migrating nocturnal birds. The Aqua Tower in downtown Chicago, for example, uses special glass and curved balconies to help birds see the building and avoid crashing into it. This technology can help address the issue in Evanston, Edwards said.

“There’s a little girl I know who goes to

Dewey Elementary and found two dead birds by windows at school. She was so upset,” Edwards said. “She’s running for student council, and she wanted to make this her platform, to save the birds.”

Although the board hoped to pass the ordinance as soon as possible, it conceded it needed more research into the costs behind the renovations.

“If we’re making an ordinance that’s going to affect building codes and spend a lot of money, we’re probably going to get pushback from developers,” Edwards said. “So we need to do all this background work before that can happen.”

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Board to consider tax on soda

By NORA SHELLY

daily senior staffer @noracshelly

Your can of soda may cost a little bit more next year, if the Cook County Board of Commissioners follows through on a proposal to tax sugary drinks.

Board President Toni Preckwinkle introduced the proposal on Thursday as part of her fiscal year 2017 budget recommendation presentation. The ordinance would impose a one-cent tax on every ounce of sweetened beverages. The revenue would help cover a $74.6 million deficit for the year.

Preckwinkle called the tax a “difficult but necessary choice” during her budget presentation.

“This is not a grocery tax,” Preckwinkle said.

“We are targeting beverages with high quantities of sugar and artificial sweetener, such as carbonated soft drinks, sports drinks and energy drinks.”

Preckwinkle said that if the tax was not implemented, “it would mean a thousand fewer positions in the criminal justice system,” which would include public defenders or sheriff ’s deputies.

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We are targeting beverages with high quantities of sugar and artificial sweetener.

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The revenue will also help fund public safety initiatives, infrastructure investment and economic development, Preckwinkle said.

The proposed ordinance would apply to any non-alcoholic beverage that is either carbonated or non-carbonated and contains sweetener, whether it is caloric or noncaloric. The tax would apply to purchases by consumers, rather than distributors.

Drinks not included in the potential tax would be weight loss rinks, infant formula or drinks that are 100 percent fruit or vegetable juice.

The tax is intended to both raise money and improve public health, Preckwinkle said.

The World Health Organization released a report on Tuesday that encouraged the use of such a tax. A sugary drink tax typically leads to lower consumption, according to the news release. Decreased consumption also can reduce obesity, type 2 diabetes and tooth decay.

A tax on sugary drinks can have a threefold benefit, said Elissa Bassler, CEO of the Illinois Public Health Institute. Apart from limiting consumption, money raised from the tax could go through diabetes prevention and other health initiatives, Bassler said.

“Sugary drinks we know are really unhealthy,” she said. “You can improve quality of life and reduce healthcare costs because people are healthier.”

Although some feels the beverage tax would improve the public health of Cook County, some feel it would hurt local businesses.

The No Cook County Beverage Tax Coalition is a group of businesses and citizens who feel the tax could lead to job losses for some.

“The last thing we need is to implement regressive policies that will slow growth, drive business out of the city and force businesses to raise prices,” said Tanya Triche, who is a member of the coalition and legal counsel for the Illinois Retail Merchants Association in a news release.

But Karen Larimer, president of the Metro Chicago Board of the American Heart Association, said during Monday’s meeting she has seen residents in the area’s most vulnerable communities suffer from “catastrophic” rates of stroke, heart attack, diabetes and cancer — diseases that are all linked to high consumption of too much sugar.

A tax on sugary drinks may help limit those incidents, she said.

“We could improve the health of Cook County residents and reduce the burden on all county taxpayers….(who) are the ones ultimately saddled with the cost associated with chronic disease,” she said. norashelly2019@u.northwestern.edu

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The National Labor Relations Board can’t seem to make up its mind.

In August 2015, the NLRB declined jurisdiction over the efforts of Northwestern’s football players to form a union, effectively punting on the issue of whether or not they were employees of the school. But a memo addressed to the NLRB Region 13 director released this week made the contradictory assumption that, for the purpose of amending NU’s social media guidelines for football, scholarship athletes are indeed “statutory employees.”

It’s a head-scratching memo, to say the least. The practical implications for the Wildcats are nil and the future legal ramifications murky, but what’s clearer than ever are the uncomfortable contradictions of the “studentathlete” model. Are FBS football players really employees of the school they play for, entitled to pay and other benefits, or can they still be treated as students?

That’s a question that (if it ever gets decided at all) will most likely be settled

by Congress, but the release this week of the memo opens the door for an interesting reform opportunity. Instead of having the federal government and NU tussle over what players can and can’t — or should and shouldn’t — tweet, teams should let the athletes decide.

I will note NU revised its player guidelines from the original handbook cited in the memo without being compelled to do so, softening rules into suggestions and dropping a provision stating athletes’ social media accounts “may be regularly monitored by a number of sources within Northwestern University.” But many players across the country, including those at public schools not under the jurisdiction of the NLRB, are still subject to such practices. My argument applies to them, too.

If athletes are to be subject to extra guidelines, they — and not coaches or administrators — should determine what they are because that’s how almost every other student group on a college campus functions. Greek organizations maintain formal bylaws, and all registered student groups at NU are required to have a constitution. Our football players should be extended the same ability of selfdetermination, even if the guidelines currently in place are favorable to them.

To those who would say students participating in something as high-stakes as FBS football aren’t equipped to determine such things on their own, consider that a college football team has an incredibly deep institutional memory. Locker rooms are stocked with fifth- and even sixth-year seniors, and the purpose of electing team captains is to organize this seniority and formalize leadership. Just as older players help younger ones along on the field, so too do they off the field.

After all, much of the point of college is to prepare high school graduates to be fullyfunctioning adults. The phrase “Prepared for Life” is prominently displayed inside NU’s team meeting room, but that’s not fully the case if athletes are directed what to do outside of the team setting.

Put the athletes in charge, and let them decide what non-sports-related policies should be. Coaches, of course, will always determine something like practice times, but there’s no need for them to control more than that aspect of an athlete’s life.

Greater athlete autonomy will help ease the tension inherent in the “student-athlete” definition and might even lead to some meaningful reforms. It’s also the only reasonable measure that can hope to maintain the amateurism status quo in place. Something has to change; otherwise, as the NLRB discovered, it will become harder and harder to not think of student-athletes as employees.

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Northwestern takes road mojo to Michigan State

By TIM BALK

daily senior staffer @timbalk

Maybe it’s because Ryan Field so often feels like a road venue, its north stands filled with the scarlet of Ohio State or the maize and blue of Michigan.

Maybe it’s because conference foes so often schedule their homecoming games when Northwestern visits, a time when their squads may not be at their most focused.

Or maybe it’s just something simpler. Good preparation, perhaps, or an attitude amenable to shutting up other teams’ fans.

Whatever the reason, over the past few seasons, NU has done most of its best work on the road.

In 2014, it took a visit to University Park, Pennsylvania, to shake the Wildcats out of an early season stupor. Sitting at 1-2, NU blasted a heavily-favored Penn State team 29-6, putting a damper on the Nittany Lions’ homecoming. The Cats continued to build their reputation as road warriors later that fall, squeaking out a 43-40 overtime upset of Notre

Dame in South Bend, Indiana, and then returning to the state a week later to pound favored Purdue by 24 points.

The beat went on for NU last fall; the Cats returned to Evanston with road victories at Duke, Nebraska and Wisconsin. When the Cats went down to Soldier Field to take on Illinois, they won there too.

NU’s first road game in 2016 was also its best performance of the young season: a 38-31 win at Iowa two weeks ago. After the season-stabilizing win, these Cats (2-3, 1-1 Big Ten) head to Michigan State on Saturday to take on the Spartans (2-3, 0-2).

The defending Big Ten champions are ferocious at Spartan Stadium. Michigan State has lost at home just three times since (guess who?) the Cats beat them there in 2012. And even though two of those losses for the Spartans have come this fall, the Wildcats face a real challenge against one of the Big Ten’s top programs at one of the league’s most hostile environments.

For the Cats to notch another big win, they’ll have to keep the good times going on the road. Going into the weekend, NU has won six of its last seven true road games.

Coach Pat Fitzgerald said during the bye week after the Iowa game that he researched how other teams approach their road games, and his team models its preparation off other programs.

“I think we do a good job preparing our guys for playing on the road,” Fitzgerald said. “Any time you play on the road it’s critically important that you start fast … and then you know that (the) home team is going to respond.”

Against Iowa, the Cats followed that blueprint, using a 47-yard punt return from sophomore Flynn Nagel two minutes into the game to set up an easy five-yard touchdown drive that gave NU an early 7-0 lead.

The big play from the sophomore wide receiver set the tone for the afternoon, just as a first quarter interception by Nick VanHoose, which also set up a touchdown, set the tone for the Cats’ 13-7 win at Wisconsin last November.

“Nothing really changes for us (in road games),” Nagel said. “It’s just that, going into the game, I think everybody’s prepared, ready.”

Against the Hawkeyes, that preparation produced a fast start. The last time NU visited the state

of Michigan, it did not.

When the Cats played Michigan last year, the Wolverines scored on the opening play, taking NU’s opening kickoff 96 yards to the house. Michigan went on to win 38-0.

To avoid a similar outcome when NU takes on Michigan State 65 miles northwest of last year’s blowout, a quick start would be huge. The Cats enter the week off a bye, so they should be all the more prepared for the contest against the physical Spartans.

And, of course, it’s Homecoming Weekend at Michigan State.

Senior defensive end Ifeadi Odenigbo, who helped ruin Iowa’s homecoming by setting an NU singlegame record with four sacks, said he is looking forward to the chance to knock off another Big Ten team on the road.

“You’re going to Iowa, Michigan State … 70-, 60,000 fans just screaming, they want your head off.

You kind of use that as motivation,” Odenigbo said.

“When you make a big play and hear the crowd be silent, it’s the best feeling out there.” timothybalk2018@u.northwestern.edu

Sports writers ruminate on ‘real’ Wildcats, bowl chances

By THE DAILY SPORTS STAFF

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The Daily’s football writers take a look at where the Wildcats stand as they near the midpoint of their season.

1. Northwestern has now lost to a MAC team (Western Michigan) and an FCS team (Illinois State) but also defeated a tough Big Ten opponent on the road (Iowa). Which team is the real Wildcats?

Max Schuman: Both? Neither? The reality for NU is somewhere in the middle of the high against the Hawkeyes and the low against the Redbirds.

The defense hasn’t touched the shutdown heights of last season’s squad, and the offense hasn’t proven reliable enough to consistently win. But the Cats were legitimately good against Iowa on both sides of the ball, and the final scoreline was only as tight as it was thanks to bad punt coverage.

We hadn’t seen sophomore quarterback Clayton Thorson and the rest of the offense locked-in like they were against the Hawkeyes in any other game this season, which makes me skeptical that we’ll now see that every week from NU. But the Iowa game showed that when the team is clicking, it can win games you wouldn’t expect. Don’t be shocked if the Cats pull off another surprising victory this year.

Tim Balk: It’s entirely possible that the only time we haven’t seen the real Cats was when the team embarrassed itself against Illinois State.

The Redbirds are not a good FCS team and have lost four straight since stunning the Cats. NU certainly did not play its best football against Western Michigan, but the loss is not horrible in retrospect; the Broncos enter this weekend undefeated and ranked No. 24.

The Cats have been a work in progress on both sides of the ball this fall, but the overall trend has been upward since the Illinois State loss. The offense seems to be finding its legs, and the performance against the Hawkeyes was the best of the season. More than likely, it was the real NU that stood up in Iowa City.

against Big Ten West Champion Iowa, Big Ten Champion Michigan State and perennial powerhouse Ohio State. The former two teams have struggled so far this year, and NU clearly took advantage two weeks ago against the Hawkeyes.

The Cats’ first two losses of the season were brutal, but it’s not like NU was blown out in either contest. Realistically, the Cats are one-yard and four inches from having a 4-1 record with their only loss coming against a top-10 team. Sure, the three losses are a stain NU probably wishes it didn’t have on its record, but I believe the Cats are closer to the team we saw in Iowa City than the one we did in the first two weeks of September. A win Saturday would go a long way in affirming that.

2. In NU’s last game against the Hawkeyes, its defense put up its best performance of the season, led by Ifeadi Odenigbo’s four sacks. Can fans expect another good defensive showing from the Cats?

Ben Pope: Michigan State has yet to announce a starting quarterback for Saturday’s tilt and may well turn away from inefficient veteran Tyler O’Connor in favor of unproven commodities Damion Terry or Brian Lewerke. NU has struggled against agile running quarterbacks like Terry in the past, and Lewerke is seen by many as the quarterback of the future for Michigan State. Not knowing whom to gameplan against, combined with the costly injury absence of defensive lineman Xavier Washington, could spell trouble for the Cats’ defense.

Bobby Pillote: NU must be wary of the big play. Game planning against an uncertain quarterback and losing a starting pass rusher could leave the Cats vulnerable, though they do

Balk: It’s all about the offensive line.

When the 2015 Wildcats were good — and at times they were extremely good — it was made possible by ragtag, injury-riddled offensive line playing above its pay grade. When the 2016 Cats have

Pope: The secondary hasn’t surrendered huge numbers on the box scores yet, but it’s at risk to do so in the coming weeks. Matthew Harris was still healthy for the Western Michigan game, Nebraska used the absurd 10-yard gap NU’s cornerbacks were giving its receivers to pass underneath the coverage and none of Illinois State, Duke or Iowa featured prolific passing attacks. When Trae Williams, Alonzo Mayo and Montre Hartage are matched up against the likes of Ohio State’s J.T. Barrett, Indiana’s Richard Lagow or even Purdue’s David Blough, however, they’ll need to grow up quickly.

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3. At 2-3, NU is improving but doesn’t seem to have it all together just yet. For example, in the win against Iowa the offense and defense both played well, but the special teams unit was notably underwhelming. What area do the Cats need to improve most to have a shot at a bowl game?

Gelman: So far this season, one of the Cats’ biggest weaknesses has been on special teams. Although sophomore Flynn Nagel has re-energized the punt return game and Hunter Niswander has improved his punting from last year, NU seems to have a knack for giving up large returns to its opponents on punts and kickoffs. This became particularly evident in their last contest against Iowa, when punt returner Desmond King and the Hawkeyes 254 racked up return yards, nearly matching their total offensive output of 283 yards. Once the Cats figure things out on special teams — they’ve already improved enough on offense and defense to be a six win team — they will be a complete team in all three facets.

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Schuman: Fans should expect a strong defensive performance against Michigan State. The Spartans have lost three straight games, have question marks at every position group offensively and are holding a mid-season battle for the starting quarterback job going into Saturday’s game. Their best offensive showing this season was against Notre Dame, which is true for a lot of teams.

NU had a chance to rest up and prepare thoroughly over the bye week, and confidence should be at a new high after the Cats locked down an Iowa run game that had given them fits in the past. I’d expect NU to handle the punchless Michigan State attack without much trouble.

struggled, the offensive line has disappeared, often against less than stellar defenses.

The group looked better against Iowa, allowing NU to diversify its offensive playcalling in the win.

Improvement will continue to be key entering a tough four-game stretch against highly competitive teams: Michigan State, Indiana, Ohio State and Wisconsin. Big Ten games are won in the trenches.

NU’s offensive line will need to come to play in every one of those games.

Pillote: Clayton Thorson must be consistent.

Strong performances from the sophomore quarterback could make the biggest difference in NU’s remaining schedule, especially against Indiana and Minnesota. Thorson is completing just 54.4 percent of his passes this season, barely an improvement from last season, but has a much more talented corps of wide receivers to work with than a year ago. If he can ignite an air attack and take some pressure off junior running back Justin Jackson, the Cats will achieve the offensive balance they need to make it back to a bowl game.

Max Gelman: Coming into this season, almost everyone looked at the October schedule and saw three tough games on the road

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Annual symposium explores environmental issues

By ZOE MILLER

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Speakers at the annual Northwestern Climate Change Symposium discussed local and international issues regarding water, energy and climate at Norris University Center on Thursday.

The goal of the annual event is to raise awareness about environmental issues. This year’s symposium, titled “Water-Energy-Climate Nexus,” was a collaborative effort between the Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern, the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and the Northwestern Center for Water Research.

“We got involved this year to develop this theme specifically relating water to climate,” said Aaron Packman, director of the Northwestern Center of Water Research, in an interview with The Daily. “It’s been an annual event … to really explore different dimensions of the climate change problem from different perspectives.”

Jessica Hellmann, director of the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment, discussed in her speech the 2015 Paris Agreement drafted at the COP21, an annual international conference about the environment. The agreement outlines a plan to cap the global temperature rise this century to below 2 degrees Celsius.

However, Hellmann said even a 2-degree change will have serious effects on the environment. Because cutting greenhouse gases alone will not be sufficient to deal with the effects of climate change, countries must create infrastructure such as wetland and irrigation to solve water issues caused by climate change, she said.

“We are working towards a 2 degrees goal that is about twice the amount of climate change that we have already,” Hellmann said. “We are essentially committing to continued greenhouse gas emissions for another decade. So if there was ever a time that adaptation was more solidified than ever, it’s coming out of Paris.”

Hydrologist Drew Gronewold spoke after Hellmann’s presentation about the effects of climate change on the Great Lakes. He said the Great Lakes’ water levels are declining as a result of global warming, a trend that is relevant to the Chicagoland area.

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The University of Minnesota’s Jessica Hellmann speaks at the annual Climate Change Symposium. She discussed international issues regarding climate change and greenhouse gases.

Gronewold said that, because climate change is a global issue, there is no one solution to address the problems it creates.

“There are a lot of important global and regional issues related to energy use and water use, and some of them are consistent across different regions, but there are also some very unique regional topics,” Gronewold told The Daily. “That makes it hard to create a consistent message on how we should respond to climate change and increase our efficiency of those uses.”

Other topics discussed at the symposium

included fracking, urban flooding and manufacturing and materials for clean water production.

Keynote speaker U.S. Rep. Mike Quigley (D-Ill.) spoke about taking action about climate change in the face of climate change denial.

ISEN associate director Jeff Henderson told The Daily that the symposium was not intended to be an overly-academic event; rather, its goal was to be an accessible form of information for attendees.

Packman said organizers wanted to give audience members ideas on how to take action to

combat climate change.

“I hope people have a clear idea what they can do with their personal lives and what we can do as a country to mitigate climate issues and to work more to solve these combined water-energy climate challenges,” Packman said. “One of the key messages is that personal action influences what we do in climate and that we know the political environment is very difficult, and we have to be active.” zoemiller2020@u.northwestern.edu

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experience to advocate against intersex surgery.

Pagonis said as a child they underwent “corrective surgeries” based on misinformation from doctors.

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not having a fully-formed penis or vagina. About 1 percent of people are intersex, which is roughly equivalent to the number of natural-born redheads, Pagonis said.

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forum to air such diffuse and wide-ranging disagreements,” the letter said.

Allen, chair of the committee, did not respond to requests for comment.

Stevens objected to the committee’s assertion that neither she nor the administration provided a “succinct list” of actions taken, releasing on her blog an email from her lawyer — dated Sept. 20 and sent to the committee — that included a discrete list of items Stevens wished to appeal.

Stevens told The Daily she appealed the administration’s action placing her on involuntary medical leave, objecting to the time it took to set up the required psychiatric evaluation that could clear her to return as well as the time it took to initiate the ban in the first place after colleagues took issue with her behavior. Stevens also said she sought to appeal the prohibition of contact with students and disruption of her work, citing interactions with colleagues that she called “abusive,” according to the letter.

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improvements while considering these concerns.

He added that the University has made “enormous” progress in diversifying therapists at CAPS. “They are a very diverse group who relate to students on a wide array of backgrounds, so many of the issues that have been raised have been recognized and have been addressed by enhancing

CAPS,” Linzer said.

The Women’s Center is currently discussing the transition with CAPS as students continue to receive long-term counseling at the Center.

The changes are planned to be implemented by Winter 2017.

gonads were not removed. Pagonis said they underwent a surgery during which their gonads were removed and as well as subsequent clitoral surgeries.

But Pagonis and their parents later learned that the surgeries were medically unnecessary.

Surgery is medically unnecessary in nearly 90 percent of intersex cases, Pagonis said during the presentation. Doctors often perform “corrective surgeries” in response to the birth of an intersex child, getting parental consent under the pretense of falsified health risks, they said.

As an adult, Pagonis said they are fighting back against intersex genital surgeries and “sex assignment.”

“Intersex surgery is a form of assault,” Pagonis said.

The problem with intersex surgery lies in misinformation, Pagonis said. They said children should have the right to choose their gender later in life, but if parents choose surgery, parents should have access to accurate information.

Those fighting against intersex surgeries have been hindered by the lack of data on the longterm emotional and physical effects of such surgeries, Pagonis said. But Pagonis still encourages

individuals to fight back against these surgeries and the gender binary that accompanies sex assignment at birth. They suggest protesting hospitals to stand against medically unnecessary procedures and supporting national legislation on the topic of intersex issues.

Thursday’s talk was part of Queer and Trans Empowerment Month, a larger movement on Northwestern’s campus, which is celebrated every October. The goal of the month is to educate and increase conversation about sexuality and gender.

“The intersex population is a very underserved one,” said Ross Cohen, a Communication junior and member of Rainbow Alliance’s executive board.

Communication junior Rachel Stamler-Jonas attended the talk and said the dialogue introduced by Pagonis is crucial.

“We need to talk to our friends about sex and gender,” Stamler-Jones said. “We can’t keep it a taboo topic.”

Upcoming events involving intersex issues include Intersex Awareness Day on Oct. 26 and Intersex Day of Solidarity on Nov. 8.

a union she was trying to recruit. She said just talking about it makes her uncomfortable, and she feels there are hardly any women who haven’t experienced a similar interaction.

Trump’s language and actions, Schakowsky said, make him unfit to serve. Although Schakowsky acknowledges that Trump supporters are hurting, she doesn’t believe Trump is fit to solve their problems. She said talking with civility isn’t something candidates should “just throw out the window.”

“The economy hasn’t worked for (Trump supporters), and they feel like no one hears them,” Schakowsky said. “They feel turning the whole thing upside down will somehow be helpful.

Unfortunately, with Donald Trump, those are the exact people he has stepped on like ants his entire life.”

College Democrat co-president Sydney Selix, who interned in Schakowsky’s office in 2015, said Schakowsky’s visit showed the importance of voting down the ballot. Selix, a SESP senior, said College Democrats will work tirelessly in the upcoming weeks to support U.S. Rep. Tammy Duckworth in her race against U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk. Phone banking, Selix said, ensures that students are doing everything they can to secure victories for Democrats.

“How many people do you know on campus that has shared an article about how horrific Trump is?” Selix said. “Most of us have. So this is the way to actually do something about that.”

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policy breach. The committee noted that it was given no statement meeting those guidelines but concluded a “disciplinary action has not been taken.” Stevens countered in her post that the administration can explain away actions against professors by calling them non-disciplinary.

Randolph’s letter to Stevens clearing her to return to campus, which Stevens made public on her blog, noted that Stevens may be subject to further disciplinary actions based on what he called “aggressive interactions” with colleagues — reports which Stevens maintains are without foundation.

Randolph said in an email to The Daily last month that the University will not be making public statements on the issue surrounding Prof. Stevens “out of respect for due process and to protect the privacy of those involved.” University spokesman Al Cubbage declined to comment for this story.

The committee noted that the University’s action toward Stevens was done with reference to the Medical Leave/Fitness-for-Duty section of the Faculty Handbook, under which the letter said “the Committee on Cause has no warrant to review actions taken.”

However, the Faculty Handbook reads, “If the faculty member declines to take a voluntary medical leave, the University may place the faculty member on

involuntary medical leave. Such an involuntary leave is considered a temporary suspension and is subject to review by the Committee on Cause.”

In response to that specific section of the handbook, Faculty Senate President Laurie Zoloth said in an email to The Daily that the committee met and reviewed the case, and its “report is confidential to protect involved faculty.”

“The role of the committee is not to evaluate medical leave, but to assure a fair review process of sanctions that are placed on a faculty member,” Zoloth said in an earlier email to The Daily.

The letter to Stevens points out that the committee, an advisory body, does not review sanctions after they are lifted, noting that Stevens’ prohibition of contact with students was “ameliorated almost immediately.”

However, Stevens said she could only contact certain students about particular issues over email, noting that the list was subject to Randolph’s approval and he had to be attached to all emails. During the duration of her campus ban, Stevens said she could not meet with students in person or communicate by phone or by mail.

Stevens also noted that the committee did not respond to her appeal request in August, while she was still on involuntary leave. If the committee considered

her case then, it would not be “after the fact,” as the letter states. In an email to The Daily in early September, Zoloth said the committee is always prepared to be called into action. Zoloth and Allen did not respond to questions about Stevens’ arguments against the committee’s rationale.

Additionally, Stevens wrote in her blog that the committee “inexplicably and irresponsibly ignores” the department’s withholding of her portion of Farrell Funds intended to be distributed to undergraduate researchers. The letter mentions the allocation of research funds as one of the “complained about matters,” but does not consider it a “minor sanction” as described in the Faculty Handbook. Stevens said she categorizes the removal of funds as a “major sanction,” which the committee can consider, according to the handbook. Stevens said she had appealed the removal of these funds in the spring but the committee did not act.

The committee made a note in the letter that the decision “neither condones nor condemns any person or action” involved in the issue.

Prof. Sara Monoson, chair of the political science department, did not respond to a request for comment.

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Oscar winner speaks about sound

By SYDNEY STONE

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Seven-time Oscar winner Gary Rydstrom stressed the importance of sound in storytelling, particularly in films, in a speech to students Thursday.

Rydstrom, who has designed and mixed sound for films such as “Jurassic Park” and “Toy Story,” addressed an audience of about 50 faculty and students at Annie May Swift Hall.

“Sound is a powerful emotional tool, and it is more powerful for the fact that people don’t realize that it’s there most of the time,” Rydstrom said. “This is the magic of sound, if you put sound against picture something magic happens.”

During the talk, Rydstrom remarked on the difficulties of sound editing and design, comparing it to “prospecting for gold.” He also played a series of clips from films with significant sound design, as well as a few of the sounds he created for Apple’s iOS 10.

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Seven-time Oscar winner Gary Rydstrom speaks to NU students and faculty about the importance of sound in storytelling. Rydstrom has created sound for movies such as Titanic and Jurassic Park.

Television and Film Prof. Jacob Smith said in his introduction to the speech. Smith is also the director of the new Masters of Arts in Sound Arts and Industries program, which put on the talk. The program is currently in its first year and has 12 graduate students.

Rydstrom was also the keynote speaker at Northwestern’s Sonic Boom Conference in 2014, which helped NU faculty and students connect with sound industry professionals.

“Not only did he inspire us at the Sonic Boom Conference, but he became an aspirational figure for us as we were designing this new program because he is someone who (thinks) about sound in terms of science, arts, technology and culture,” Smith said.

The MA students participated in a workshop with Rydstrom focusing on sound in filmmaking before the talk on Thursday, said Katherine Lelek, assistant director of External Programs, Internships and Career Services (EPICS) for the School of Communication.

The students will also have an opportunity to network with Rydstrom on Friday.

Smith said the new MA program was inspired by conversations he had with Barbara O’Keefe, dean of the School of Communication, about the opportunity to connect students and professors across disciplines within sound studies.

“We are very excited about continuing to work in this area, using sound as a bridge across different areas of interest as a way to approach sound arts and industries in a new way that combines science, studies and production,” Smith said.

Patrick Hockberger, one of the 12 graduate students in the MA program, said the students in the program are just starting to transition from theoretical sound arts to working on concrete projects, so Rydstrom’s talk was “perfectly” timed.

Lelek said that Rydstrom’s talk was just one of many future events in the MA program.

“We’re really excited to welcome other guests throughout the academic year to help these students develop their professional voice and to impact other departments within the School of Communication,” she said. sydneystone2020@u.northwestern.edu

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has already scored 15 goals this year.

When the two regional rivals hit the field, there will be few surprises.

“We’ve played them a bunch in the past, in the spring. We had a scrimmage with them, so we know how they play,” senior goaltender Lindsay von der Luft said. “We know that they’re a fast team, and they have good players.”

Following four straight games on the road and just two home matches in the last month, the Cats are excited to settle in for a stretch at home.

After playing on several unfamiliar fields and staying in hotels, NU hopes to take advantage of facilities and conditions it knows well.

“It’s going to be nice,” Curley said. “We need to get the Big Ten win at home. It’s so much better when we’re on our home turf, and we have our fans behind us.” colepaxton2019@u.northwestern.edu

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will return three starters, including a more confident McIntosh.

McIntosh said he needs to be more aggressive on offense this season. For the first time in his career, he will not have Tre Demps in the backcourt with him, but the junior said the trio of sophomore Jordan Ash, junior Scottie Lindsey and freshman Isiah Brown will work as a committee to fill the hole Demps left.

“It’ll be different, but the one good thing is you’ll get a couple different looks from each of them,” McIntosh told The Daily. “Where Tre and I were pretty consistent, we knew what we were going to get from us; those other guys can do different things.”

McIntosh told The Daily he has improved his game after spending time in the offseason at Golden State Warriors point guard Stephen Curry’s camp. He said he picked up different moves to add to his arsenal from “the most skilled player in the world.”

“I picked up a little range this summer,” McIntosh told The Daily. “We’ll see how green my light is this year.” danielwaldman2019@u.northwestern.edu

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By BEN LEWIS

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Even on one of its worst days, Northwestern had enough to get the job done.

After spending most of the game trapped on defense and struggling to keep possession, the No. 22 Wildcats (13-1-1, 6-1-1 Big Ten) were able to use a second-half goal off the head of junior midfielder Kim Jerantowski to secure a 1-0 win over Iowa (7-90, 1-7-0).

NU’s defense continued its run of dominance by securing its 11th shutout of the season. The back line

pulled off impressive feats of lastditch defending, highlighted by sophomore defender Hannah Davison’s lunging save in the 17th minute to bat away Iowa forward Rose Ripslinger’s shot at an empty goal.

Graduate defender Kaitlin Moore emphasized the Cats’ willingness to bail each other out as a key aspect of their defensive triumph over Iowa.

“I can count on my center backs to be there every time,” Moore said. “No matter if I get beat, they are always right there.”

Although the defense was solid as ever, the Cats’ transition to attack wasn’t at the same level. Throughout the first half, NU made great stands

on defense and then immediately lost the ball after crossing into the Hawkeyes’ half.

Coach Michael Moynihan said the Cats’ inability to put high pressure on the ball was the reason for NU’s problems getting forward.

“I wouldn’t say it was our best performance” Moynihan said. “We would win (the ball) in such a tight clump defensively and so far back that we weren’t able to keep it going forward.”

The game seemed to be heading for a scoreless draw, but as the second half opened up, a new NU team emerged. The Cats were able to put together consistent chances

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and pushed Iowa back on its heels for the rest of the game.

Moynihan said the key to NU’s aggressive play in the second half was junior Nikia Smith’s move from defense to central forward. Her presence was immediately felt up front, as her speed pressured the Hawkeyes’ back line.

Smith’s performance was capped off by a spectacular assist off a cross to Jerantowski, who nodded the ball into the net in the 57th minute to give the Cats the lead.

“You know it’s hard trying to change positions, but I’m a team player,” Smith said. “Whatever I can do to help the team is always great.”

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Now in a tie for first in the Big Ten and with Smith as a new attacking threat, NU will look to build on the victory with a matchup against Nebraska. With Huskers’ forward Jaycie Johnson near the top in the Big Ten in scoring, Moynihan said his team will face a different challenge Sunday.

“They have a very dangerous player up front that we have to be mindful of, so it’s gonna be a completely different style.” Moynihan said. “Now it’s rest up, recover as best we can, and come out with some good energy (Sunday).” benjaminlewis2020@u.northwestern.edu

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New-look NU ready for season Cats host Hawkeyes

By DAN WALDMAN

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WASHINGTON — After the departures of Tre Demps and Alex Olah, Northwestern is entering a new era.

Coach Chris Collins, along with co-captains junior point guard Bryant McIntosh and senior forward Sanjay Lumpkin, spoke about the transition Thursday at Big Ten Media Day, where Collins gave hints about how the Wildcats plan to replace the pair.

Although Olah leaves as NU’s alltime blocked shot leader, Collins said he is confident in the team’s current options in the middle. The Cats will be led down low by sophomore Dererk Pardon, who almost didn’t play last season. “ We had planned to redshirt him the first 11 games last year and decided to play him, and he went for (28 points and 12 rebounds) in his first game on the road,” Collins said.

“So great decision by me.”

Collins said center is the team’s youngest position, with Pardon and freshman Barret Benson tasked with replacing Olah. Collins also said junior forward Gavin Skelly could see time at center if the younger big men get in foul trouble early in games.

Lumpkin said Skelly has had “an amazing preseason” and fits a versatile role in the team’s system. Collins also told The Daily that Skelly could be “a guy who starts for us by the end of the season.”

Although there are questions inside, NU gets back sophomore

forward Vic Law. Collins called Law a “jack-of-all-trades” type of player because of his ability to rebound, score and stretch the floor and told The Daily he could even play some guard this season.

“He can be a double-figure scorer,”

Collins said. “But he’s a very good rebounder. He can be a versatile defender. He’s a playmaker … He just does a little bit of everything.”

Along with the return of Law, NU » See MEN’S BASKETBALL, page 11

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Chris Collins jumps on the sideline. Heading into his fourth season, the coach is looking for players to step into the holes left by the graduations of Tre Demps and Alex Olah.

aiming for rebound

By COLE PAXTON

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Last weekend, Northwestern did something it hasn’t done much this season: lose. This weekend, the Wildcats are seeking to return to what they’ve done often: win.

After consecutive losses dropped them in the national rankings, No. 9 NU (10-4, 4-1 Big Ten) hopes to regain its winning form Friday when it returns home to face No. 16 Iowa (9-5, 1-3) in a game that could have significant implications in the Big Ten title race.

“It’s really important that we have a good match Friday,” coach Tracey Fuchs said. “The game’s going to be a battle. It’s probably going to be a one-goal game for most of the game.”

The Cats could not capitalize on their opportunities against Indiana on Friday and ran into an excellent Louisville team on Sunday. NU stagnated offensively, scoring only one goal over the two games and totaling just four shots against the Cardinals.

Instead of panicking or sulking, the Cats say they returned to practice this week focused on making minor adjustments, such as on penalty corners, which NU struggled to convert last weekend.

“Tracey gave us a nice day off to recuperate from the road trip,” junior midfielder Elena Curley said. “We focused on what we can improve on from our two losses and

No. 16 Iowa vs. No. 9 Northwestern Evanston, Illinois 3 p.m. Friday

are really looking forward to Iowa.”

The Cats have long said their goal is to win at least a share of the Big Ten regular season title.

With the conference season more than half over, NU is in good shape to do just that, as it sits in a tie atop the standings with No. 6 Maryland and No. 5 Penn State at 4-1.

A win over the Hawkeyes would put the Cats in control of their own destiny ahead of next Friday’s showdown with No. 12 Michigan.

“We’re working on trying to be a little quicker with our decision making,” Fuchs said. “We know every game in the Big Ten is just going to be a battle. … We’ll be ready.”

Against Iowa, the Cats will see a squad that has struggled in conference play but remains among the top teams in the country. The Hawkeyes are 0-4 against current top-10 teams but recently won at Indiana and have scored 16 goals in their last two games.

NU will also be challenged by forward Natalie Cafone, whom Fuchs called “one of the best players in the country.”

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