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Survey data finds alcohol inessential Risk-reducing attitudes increase among first-years

By ALEXIS WHITE & SUSANNA KEMP

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Nina Kavin attends a meeting. Kavin is the co-founder of the community activism group Dear Evanston.

Dear Evanston tells local stories 8,000 likes later, social media campaign becomes an activist force

By RYAN WANGMAN

daily senior staffer @ryanwangman

This story is part of a series of profiles of activist and community groups across Evanston.

Nina Kavin’s computer is full of unpublished interviews.

She estimates there are currently 20 to 25 files stuck in cyber purgatory, waiting to be

posted on Dear Evanston — Kavin’s local activism website — as she flies around the city organizing, attending and volunteering at events to make a difference in her community.

“I realized I couldn’t just tell stories over and over again,” Kavin said. “The stories in and of themselves are valuable and beautiful and powerful, but if you don’t follow stories up with action, then they’re just

stories.”

Dear Evanston launched as a social media campaign out of the Evanston Community Foundation’s “Leadership Evanston” program in 2016, where Kavin worked alongside five other community members to investigate youth gun violence in Evanston. The project was only designed to last three months, Kavin said, but after it officially ended, she

began running Dear Evanston on her own.

Almost three years later, Kavin has single-handedly grown the project into a trusted community source for news, events and discussions around central city issues.

Dear Evanston’s Facebook page has over 8,000 likes, and Kavin recently revamped the » See DEAR, page 6

First-year students are more likely to exhibit risk-reducing behavior than in past years, according to the AlcoholEdu survey of alcohol and drug use for incoming students.

The share of students who say drinking is not important to their social life increased five or six percent to two thirds total, said Kevin Meier, the coordinator of Alcohol and Other Drug Education and Outreach. Additionally, 99 percent of first-years believe it is acceptable to choose not to drink, up from 96 percent from last year.

The percentage of students who intended to set limits when drinking increased from the high 80s to 92 percent, Meier added.

However, the amount of students who believe it is unacceptable to blackout from drinking too much decreased a few percentage points to 79 percent.

First-years take the first portion of the survey in September and a follow-up segment later in the fall.

The First-Year Alcohol and Other Drug Social Norms Campaign, now in its fourth year, uses students’ answers to the survey to correct misconceptions they may

have about drinking and drug culture at NU, according to the campaign’s website. In September, the Health Promotion and Wellness department prints posters with data points from the first part of the survey, which resident assistants put up in dorms.

The percentage of students who abstain from consuming alcohol is consistently between 30 and 35 percent from year to year, Meier said. This statistic surprised Weinberg freshman Richa Shah, who said it changed her perception of drinking culture, which she expected to be more pervasive because of the media’s portrayal of drinking in college.

“Coming in, I wasn’t sure if I wanted to drink or not,” Shah said. “It was kind of reassuring to see that that number was so high.

I thought I’d be literally the only person (abstaining) on campus.”

This year, in addition to the statistical changes, Meier said HPaW used feedback from RAs, campus partners and students to change how the campaign is presented.

This included reducing the number of physical posters and campaign messages — including those that some students misinterpreted.

Every year, a conversion rate is calculated after first-years take the second installment of the survey later in fall quarter. Although firstyears are still in the process of taking the second part of the survey, Meier said the conversation rate » See ALCOHOL, page 6

Law School apps Residents concerned about cuts OPAL members express unease on youth services possible funding loss rise 19 percent

Pritzker, institutions across US experience growth in interest

By PRANAV BASKAR

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Sylvia Waghorne always knew she wanted to be a lawyer. Today, she’s one of the thousands of students across the country applying to law school this admissions cycle, and with a stronger job market and a new wave of political energy, that number is only rising.

The chief executive officer of the Law School Admissions Council, Kellye Testy, said applications nationwide jumped 8 percent last year — the first sharp increase since the Great Recession.

As close as Chicago, The Pritzker School of Law saw a 19 percent increase in applications last year, and Lynn Page, a pre-law adviser at Northwestern, said the number of pre-law

appointment requests have doubled.

Testy said recent growth and a tighter labor market can explain part of the turnaround happening now. Over the past 50 years, trends in applications have reflected the ups and downs of the business cycle, she said.

“After the Great Recession, law schools nationwide experienced a sharp decline in the number of applicants over historic levels,” Testy said. “When the economy is doing better, there are more jobs, so people get more interested, and I think that’s what we’re sort of seeing now.”

Pritzker Law Professor Ezra Friedman said more economic activity leads to more deals, more companies, more mergers and » See LAW, page 6

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By MADDY DAUM

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The Organization for Positive Action and Leadership on Thursday discussed the cuts in Evanston’s 2019 proposed budget regarding at-risk youth programs and mental health services.

OPAL hosted a racial equity in city budgeting meeting at the Grace Lutheran Church, located at 1430 South Blvd., open to members of the nonprofit and Evanston citizens.

The OPAL board presented a PowerPoint presentation addressing the proposed budget and how it would impact the department of Parks, Recreation and Community Services, as well as the Health and Human Services Department.

The budget will be finalized in the next few months after feedback from four upcoming budget meetings, which are open to the community.

OPAL board member Alex Morgan said this meeting was a start to assessing the city’s

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OPAL board member Alex Morgan at the group’s Thursday meeting. Attendees discussed their concerns regarding the proposed 2019 city budget.

priorities and engaging residents around topics that are important to them, specifically the youth outreach programs.

“I think the reason folks are

most attracted to (youth programs) in this organization is because we are talking about folks who are working with atrisk youth in our community,”

Morgan said. “While there are a lot of things that are really important in our budget, this is » See OPAL, page 6

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AROUND TOWN

On the ballot: Referendum on real estate transfer tax

By CLARE PROCTOR

daily senior staffer @ceproctor23

A referendum proposing to modify the real estate transfer tax so it becomes a progressive tax will appear on the November ballot in Evanston.

The current real estate transfer tax is a flat rate of 0.5 percent — or $5 for every $1,000 — for all property sales and transfers. If the referendum passes in November, the 0.5 percent tax rate will continue to apply to property sales less than $1.5 million. However, it would increase to a 0.7 percent tax rate for property sales between $1.5 and $5 million, and 0.9 percent for property sales $5 million or more.

A real estate transfer tax is a one-time tax charged whenever a property changes ownership, said Paula Worthington, a senior lecturer at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago who spoke on a panel Sunday about the proposed referendum. Sellers in real estate transactions carry the legal responsibility to pay the tax, she added.

“It’s very important to understand that this is a tax on a sale,” Worthington said. “This is a very different tax from a regular property tax, which is something that property owners are obligated to pay for every year that they own the property.”

The proposal arose as a way of generating additional revenue to help balance the city’s budget, which contains an estimated $7.4 million deficit for 2019, city manager Wally Bobkiewicz said. City staff brought the idea to City Council’s attention,

POLICE BLOTTER Items missing after man moves them to Evanston Evanston Police Department officers at 10:48 a.m. on Wednesday responded to a report of a theft in the 100 block of Clyde Avenue in south Evanston.

Bobkiewicz said, and Ald. Ann Rainey (8th) came up with the proposal, which was approved by the council in August to appear on the ballot.

“One of the challenges we have with everything we do is balancing revenues with expenditures,” Bobkiewicz said. “On the revenue side, we try to look at a balance of fees and taxes that help fund city operations, but at the same time aren’t so onerous that they have negative impacts on the community.”

The city anticipates an additional $800,000 in revenue if the referendum passes, said Hitesh Desai, Evanston’s chief financial officer and treasurer. The current transfer tax generates about $3.5 million in revenue, so the projected revenue would increase to about $4.3 million, he said.

Revenue generated from the real estate transfer tax goes toward the city’s general fund, Desai said.

It would then be put toward social services, such as public safety, the police and fire departments and infrastructure improvements, he said. “(The proposed tax) could definitely help us to continue to provide the same level of service,” Desai said, “Without cutting down some of the potential services or some of the services that are a core to Evanston residents.”

Progressive tax structures like the one being proposed are not common in states and localities, Worthington said, though they have been implemented in New York and New Jersey, among other places.

The resulting impact, she said, has been that buyers and sellers agree on a price point just below the increased tax threshold to avoid having to pay a steeper tax rate. However, it isn’t clear if having a progressive real estate transfer tax discourages

An Evanston resident hired a moving company to transport items from San Francisco to Evanston, and alleges that the employees from the company took several items from the boxes, said Evanston police Cmdr. Ryan Glew.

Glew added that the movers were never alone in the apartment with the items, and that the resident is currently seeking reimbursement from

Daily file photo by Colin Boyle

City manager Wally Bobkiewicz speaks at a meeting. The city is proposing a progressive real estate transfer tax referendum to be voted on in November.

certain high-value transactions from taking place, she said.

Worthington said relying on revenue from the proposed tax could present challenges in managing the city budget.

“This particular revenue source is potentially somewhat volatile from one year to the next,” she said. “If the number and value of higher valued transactions moves around a lot over time, then that revenue stream will move around a lot over time.”

Bobkiewicz said the city is “mindful” of the revenue’s volatility and would take note of the city’s economic state when determining the anticipated

revenue to go toward the fiscal budget.

Individuals selling property valued at less than $1.5 million would not be affected if the referendum passes, Bobkiewicz said. The impact, he said, would be on higher-priced transactions.

“It’s up to the voters of Evanston to evaluate what those impacts would be, its financial impact for those higher-priced properties,” he said. “Voters will start focusing over the next couple of weeks as they get ready to either early vote or cast their vote on Nov. 6, and we’ll see what happens.”

the company.

and stole a television, an Xbox, which were located in the basement and a wallet and purse, which were located upstairs on the kitchen table, Glew said.

The individual also took a bag of toys, which was later recovered on the 2300 block of Bryant Avenue, Glew added.

Items stolen from Evanston residence

Officers on Thursday at 11:04 a.m. responded to a report of a theft in the 1100 block of Grant Street in north Evanston.

A 43-year-old Evanston resident told officers that someone used force to get into the basement,

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Ahead of the November midterm elections, Daily reporters are speaking to students about issues they’ll take to the polls. In this article, students and faculty take on the United States’ budget deficit.

The United States federal budget deficit was $779 billion for the 2018 fiscal year, a 17 percent increase from the previous year. This has prompted uncertainty among Americans over how much longer the deficit can continue to increase without devastating consequences.

The deficit fluctuated during the Obama presidency, but has increased significantly during the period in which President Donald Trump has been in office, despite numerous promises he made during his campaign to pare it down.

“I think Trump is finding it’s a lot harder to carry out what he intended to,” Weinberg Source: Andrew Harnik/Pool/Sipa USA/TNS freshman Hitesh Juneja said. “The deficit is so large and has been a problem for so long Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) speaks at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on August that it’s going to take a long time before it’s 31, 2018. McConnell blamed the deficit on failure to contain spending on entitlements like Medicare, solved.” though he predicted a solution to reducing the gap wouldn’t come soon.

One major factor in the significant increase in the deficit is due to GOP sponsored tax the president is not necessarily to blame for solution to reducing the gap wouldn’t come cuts, which will add an estimated $3.8 tril- the increasing deficit. soon. lion to the deficit over the course of the next Weinberg freshman Sonia Bhattacharyya Regardless of the reason, the deficit con10 years. said she’s “not sure how much partisan poli- tinues to grow.

Economics Prof. Mark Witte said the econ- tics” has to do with the issue. She thinks Social In terms of what this growing deficit means omy is in “very good shape in most measures,” Security and the increase in the population of in the long run, Witte said what economists and that the tax plan wasn’t necessarily to older Americans is a bigger problem. are concerned about is the debt to GDP ratio. stimulate the economy.

As the Baby Boomer generation grows Because the ratio can help indicate whether With the economy at a peak, Witte believes older, the number of people qualified for a country has the means to pay back its debts, it is a “pretty good time to push towards a Social Security is steadily increasing. This economists consider this figure more impormore balanced fiscal position and try to con- puts considerable strain on the system. tant than the dollar value of the debt itself. tain and even reverse the growth of debt.”

Bhattacharyya’s comments echoed those of “If the debt grows forever, but at a slower “What the US is doing seems to go the Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell growth rate than the GDP, there’s no problem opposite from textbook economics,” Witte (R-Ky.), who earlier this week blamed the at all,” Witte said. added. deficit on failure to contain spending on entiHowever, there are some who believe that tlements like Medicare, though he predicted a ericrynston-lobel2022@u.northwestern.edu

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Nagel shines after rollercoaster career

By COLE PAXTON

daily senior staffer @ckpaxton

Things haven’t always gone smoothly for Flynn Nagel. He didn’t get his Northwestern scholarship offer until the brink of National Signing Day. His freshman campaign was truncated by injury. He fell into a funk at the start of his junior year, costing him a key role on special teams.

On each occasion, however, the senior receiver steadily built himself back up. His strong fundamentals and tireless work ethic have manifested into eye-popping numbers midway through his final season in Evanston: Nagel leads the Big Ten in catches and receiving yards. He’s outpacing other standout Northwestern receivers of years past and providing quarterback Clayton Thorson a major outside option, made especially important by Wildcats’ struggles to run the ball.

“My senior year means a lot,” Nagel said. “I want to really enjoy it and put everything into it that I could. … This is something that I’m not going to get to do my whole life.”

Nagel accentuated his strong play with a massive game against Nebraska last Saturday. His 12 catches and 220 receiving yards easily surpassed his previous career highs; the latter figure was the most yardage for a Big Ten receiver in five years.

In many respects, it was the loud announcement of Nagel’s arrival as a standout receiver, one that came despite a hardscrabble path that always seemed to follow him.

It began in 2013, when coach Pat Fitzgerald didn’t have a scholarship for Nagel — who watched two older brothers play for the Cats — until his commitment to Duke was nearly made official.

“I said, ‘Listen, don’t be upset at me that this opportunity is happening now, but it is. I hope you trust me, I hope you know what direction we have for you,’” Fitzgerald said this week. “‘We’ll have a scholarship here for you.’”

It didn’t take long for Nagel, a high school standout in south suburban Lemont, to meet his next challenge. Receivers coach Dennis Springer praised his physical and mental preparations as a freshman and he appeared in the first five games of the season, only to suffer a season-ending injury.

“That was a big point for me. I could’ve dealt with it (poorly),” Nagel said. “(But) I wanted to bounce back and play this game for a long time.”

Indeed, Nagel bounced back quickly. He earned a starting job as a sophomore, and finished the year second on the team in both catches and yards. He

was NU’s primary punt returner, and dabbled in kick return too. And he entered 2017 as the Cats’ leading returning pass-catcher, a player praised for his consistency who could marshal an expansive core of capable receivers.

But that didn’t pan out in the season’s early going. He struggled to make an impact in September games, and true freshman Riley Lees became the primary punt returner.

“I didn’t start (the season) the way I wanted to. … I just wasn’t playing the way I always do,” Nagel said. “I had dropped a couple balls in the first game that I normally never drop. It was kind of a test for me.”

Nagel passed the exam. He had a career-best 87 receiving yards and a third-overtime touchdown in the upset win over Michigan State, and rebounded from his September lull to again finish first on the team in catches and second in yards.

Soon after that season ended, Nagel began “embracing” the final winter workouts of his college career. Though he may not have suddenly developed flashy, newfound skills, his work off the field and deep connection with Thorson have contributed to his leap forward, Springer said.

“Flynn has always been a hard worker,” added Springer, who called Nagel the underrated “jokester” in the receivers room. “He has always loved the game of football and competing. … He was ready to step up and be that guy.”

The numbers have borne out that preparation.

He recorded the first two 100-yard games of his career against Duke and Michigan State. His 622 receiving yards through six games eclipses the midseason tallies of Austin Carr and other NU pass-catching standouts. Fitzgerald hinted that the 5-foot-11, 195-pound Nagel could get a chance to play in the NFL. Against Nebraska a week ago, Nagel jolted the Cats’ heroic, game-tying drive in the final moments of regulation with a 32-yard catch over his shoulder. The grab moved NU into Cornhuskers’ territory, and underscored the impact Nagel, four years after barely making it to Evanston, is having in his final games.

“When he ran the wheel route, he turned to me and said, ‘Throw me the ball,’” Thorson said after the game. “‘This is why I’m here.’” colepaxton2019@u.northwestern.edu

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Notebook: Fitzgerald praises redshirt rule

By BEN POPE

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The NCAA’s new rule that players can play in up to four games and still redshirt — thus essentially gaining a fifth year of eligibility down the road — has opened the door for more roster flexibility at Northwestern.

Freshmen running backs Isaiah Bowser and Drake Anderson have appeared in three games and one game, respectively, due to the sudden medical retirement of starter Jeremy Larkin that dealt a big blow to the positional group’s depth. Yet coach Pat Fitzgerald said after last Saturday’s win over Nebraska, in which neither played, that the new rule is allowing him to hopefully maintain their redshirts nonetheless.

Fitzgerald then doubled down on his praise of the change Monday.

“It’s terrific. I wish it was around when I was playing,” he said. “I was the best worst freshman in the country and I played like eight games and was terrible. I would’ve liked to play in four and maybe got a graduate degree. It’s a great rule: it gives us access to our entire roster.”

On the other side of the ball, defensive end Devin O’Rourke and defensive backs Greg Newsome and A.J. Hampton are among a handful of true freshmen who have made several appearances already but are still eligible — for now — to be redshirted.

O’Rourke has played in four games, meaning his redshirt status will be burned if he appears again over the remainder of the season, and said he isn’t sure if he will see the field or not. But he still had positive words to say about the new rule.

“Every freshman has the same opportunity to go in and play, and if they don’t play past their four games, they can still take advantage of the redshirt rule, so I think it’s affecting everyone in a positive way,” O’Rourke said. “ It’s not really affecting my mindset, it’s just a nice advantage to have.”

The Big Ten accompanied the nationwide redshirt rule change by adjusting conference policy and allowing teams to bring 74 players to road games,

up from 70 previously.

Fitzgerald said he hopes that traveling player limit will eventually be abolished completely.

“I watch our basketball team and they take everybody — the third nutritionist gets to go too, it’s crazy,” Fitzgerald said. And we’ve got 112 guys on the team and (38) have to stay home. It doesn’t make sense to me.”

Wildcats not overlooking Rutgers, despite Scarlet Knights’ record

NU (3-3, 3-1 Big Ten) will travel this week to face a Rutgers (1-6, 0-4) team that has lost five of its last six games by 21 points or more, including a 34-7 beatdown at Maryland last weekend in which the Scarlet Knights totalled five interceptions and eight passing yards.

That has been par for the course under coach Chris Ash, who has gone 3-19 in the Big Ten during his three years in Piscataway. This year, Ash’s squad has particularly struggled offensively, ranking 119th in the country in passing yards, 106th in rushing yards and 130th — dead last — in points per game.

Still, senior defensive tackle Jordan Thompson said the Cats will try their best not to look past Saturday and toward upcoming bigger contests against Wisconsin and Notre Dame.

“Rutgers is in the Big Ten, they’re a good team,” Thompson said. “Everyone has ups and downs, but that’s not an excuse to overlook them.”

Brown close to returning; Vault ruled out

Sophomore running back Jesse Brown, who rushed nine times for 64 yards and two touchdowns a year ago, has been sidelined all season so far with an undisclosed injury but practiced Monday and may return to game action soon, Fitzgerald has indicated.

The Cats’ body-lacking, success-starved backfield suffered another discouraging setback Thursday when senior Solomon Vault was ruled out for Saturday’s game. Meanwhile, junior John Moten, who departed the Nebraska game with an injury, was cleared by the athletic training staff for the Rutgers game, an athletic department spokesman told The Daily. benjaminpope2019@u.northwestern.edu

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18 QB Clayton Thorson 20 RB John Moten 88 WR Ben Skowronek 2 WR Flynn Nagel 8 WR Kyric McGowan 84 SB Cam Green 72 LT Blake Hance 66 LG Nik Urban 65 C Jared Thomas 71 RG Tommy Doles 70 RT Rashawn Slater

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97 DE Joe Gaziano 99 DT Jordan Thompson 92 DT Fred Wyatt 91 DE Sam Miller 28 LB Chris Bergin 42 LB Paddy Fisher 51 LB Blake Gallagher 24 CB Montre Hartage 41 SS Jared McGee 13 FS J.R. Pace 3 CB Trae Williams

8 QB Art Sitkowski 2 RB Raheem Blackshear 18 WR Bo Melton 7 WR Hunter Hayek 15 WR Shameen Jones 88 TE Jerome Washington 54 RT Kamaal Seymour 73 RG Jonah Jackson 55 C Michael Maietti 61 LG Mike Lonsdorf 65 LT Tariq Cole

Northwestern led Purdue late in the fourth quarter of its season opener, but the Wildcats were about to face a fourth down and a likely punt.

Then Lorenzo Neal threw sophomore running back Jeremy Larkin to the ground well after the whistle, and the ensuing unnecessary roughness penalty sealed the victory for the visitors.

After losing its next three games, NU — which had struggled mightily in the second half all season — blew a lead against Michigan State in the third quarter. After Naquan Jones lit up junior superback Cameron Green to force a third down in NU territory, he stepped over Green for no reason and drew an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty. The Cats scored seven plays later, and won the game.

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When NU does commit penalties, they’re almost never the ones ... that make you want to declare you aren’t a sports fan anymore.

After blowing yet another lead against Nebraska on Saturday, the Cats got the ball back inside their own 1-yard line, down 7 with just over two minutes left and no timeouts. And the Cornhuskers — the most penalized team in the country — proceeded to rough the passer to give the hosts some breathing room. NU drove down the field, scored and won the game in overtime.

All this isn’t to say that NU didn’t deserve to win these games. The Cats have played well at points of all their games, and their matchup with Duke was the only one where they trailed for much of the game. But all three of those penalties were ill-advised and completely unnecessary, and if they hadn’t happened, NU could be sitting at the season’s mid-point at 0-6.

By the way, the Cats are the second-least penalized team in the country, behind only Duke. And there’s something to be said for the fact that when NU does commit penalties, they’re almost never the ones — a roughing the passer in the end zone, an unsportsmanlike penalty or a late hit — that make you want to declare you aren’t a sports fan anymore.

Pat Fitzgerald’s ability to reign in this type of behavior is rarely talked about. NU’s impressively low penalty numbers are usually looked at as a footnote in a list of things the team does well. The Cats have been one of the top-15 least penalized teams for three of the last four years.

It’s more important than that, though. Winning these games — and not committing awful penalties — isn’t just a fluke. Can anyone remember the last time NU was flagged for a dumb penalty, especially one late in a game? I can’t.

Fitzgerald does a lot of things well as a coach, and that’s why he’s been at NU for 12 years and is under contract through 2026. He gets a lot out of the talent he has and he motivates his players at an elite level.

More important than all of this, though, might be the sense of discipline his players have on the field. In a lot of cases, that’s the difference between winning and losing, between making a bowl game and not making a bowl game and between competing in the Big Ten and being Illinois. jonahdylan2020@u.northwestern.edu

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something that I think will have larger ripples across the board.”

Roger Williams, OPAL’s president, emphasized the proposed department reorganization of the Youth and Young Adult Department, which serves clients that are majority black and low-income or have criminal records. In a priority-based budgeting survey of Evanston residents earlier this year, this program was ranked second-most valuable out of more than 50 city services, he said.

Williams also addressed the possible cancellation of city activity at the GibbsMorrison Cultural Center, which offers programs in the arts and fitness, in the 5th Ward, which has historically had challenges with city resources, he said, and is the only ward without a school.

“The main point is that both of these programs they cut, the Gibbs-Morrison and the reorganization of the youth and young adult program, those are affecting the most vulnerable people in this city,” Williams said.

“When you cut these programs you are cutting some people right down and their safety net is gone.”

Ariel Jackson, who is a victim advocate with the Evanston Police Department, said one of the biggest issues in the budget is the reorganizing of the Youth and Young Adult Department.

Jackson’s own position is also threatened by the possible budget cuts because of the proposed plan to contract out her job to other agencies in Evanston. She said she has collaborated with the department to work with crime victims and respects their work.

“Vulnerable populations are always the first ones recommended (to be cut),” Jackson said. “I think that is done strategically because nobody wants to talk about those problems.”

website on her own — a challenge for the selfdescribed “technologically incompetent” social media organizer.

She grew her network by interviewing people and telling their stories in new ways, giving them a platform to share them on their own terms.

“My passion is people and their stories, and compelling people to action through emotion,” Kavin said. “I think that that’s what people maybe get from Dear Evanston is that they feel my passion about the people in Evanston and about the issues in Evanston. It’s sort of like ‘I’m not a reporter, I’m just a person reporting what I feel and the people that I’ve met.’”

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From page 1 more investments — and all of those things require lawyers.

By the same token, in the absence of economic growth, the law profession has historically suffered, Friedman said. During the lead-up to the recession, banks and mortgage companies rushed to proliferate shaky financial packages known as mortgage-backed securities. Friedman said producing those financial packages took a lot of legal work — lawyers had to write up tons of contracts and memos for each security; when the recession hit, that source of demand for lawyers suddenly shrunk. Add to that a new wave of layoffs as law firms scrambled to compete and the automation of discovery work, and it made for a grim portrait for lawyers of the time, Friedman said.

However, Testy said she views the current influx of applications as more than a temporary spike in line with the business cycle. She said the Trump administration has inspired more people to become lawyers, structurally changing the profession.

“We saw law become very visible in the public eye, and we saw young people really clamoring away to make the world a better place and to make change for law,” Testy said. “If you think back to when President Trump took office, almost immediately we had the immigration ban. And, for the first time in a long time, we saw lawyers on the front page of the newspaper in very positive lights. We saw chants at airports: ‘Let the lawyers in.’”

While Waghorne had already decided she would apply to law school by the time Trump took office, she said the administration further encouraged her to put herself out there.

“It definitely emboldened me, made me angrier, and more passionate,” Waghorne said. “People see what’s happening on the news and they want to do something about it” Testy said she is hopeful that the gains law has seen this past year are part of a more permanent expansion of the legal sector.

“Our research shows that, overwhelmingly, it’s the passion for the common good and the passion for service that inspires people to pursue legal education,” Testy said. “Worries about climate justice, racial justice and economic justice are really at the forefront of our world right now — and those are all things that law has a very big role to play in.”

Danny Vesurai contributed reporting. pranavbaskar2022@u.northwestern.edu

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‘A real truth teller’

While Dear Evanston began as a platform to share stories about gun violence and provide actionable steps to combat it, Kavin said its scope widened organically when she realized she also needed to talk about the issues that were the underlying causes of the violence. As she listened to people tell their stories, she learned a lot about the history of injustice and inequity in Evanston and was motivated to become more of an activist in the community.

Though Kavin is not the first to tell these stories in Evanston, she is one of the first to have social media at her disposal and be able to share them with a broader audience.

She said Shorefront Legacy Center — an Evanston organization founded by Dino Robinson which focuses on preserving the North Shore’s black history — is one of the first places to gather similar stories from the community, and that she wants to help spotlight the work they and other organizations do.

Kevin Brown, the city’s community service manager, has worked with Kavin while managing Evanston’s Youth and Young Adult Division.

He said Kavin is highly intelligent, thoughtful and passionate. Brown praised Kavin for being a “real truth teller in the community” and for highlighting that everybody — regardless of background

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to a high-risk drinking level is typically in the low 30 percent range. However, data from the Core Institute’s 2016 survey indicates that as students move beyond their first year, they drink less.

Various initiatives to lower the conversion rate such as increased late-night programming, have been unsuccessful. Meier hopes the addition to the survey of two questions asking if students believe their behavior

— deserves an opportunity to succeed.

“She is really a community leader of a movement, she is very progressive in her thinking, she believes that people deserve an opportunity,” Brown said. “She is a stalwart fighting against injustice, highlighting examples of racism, sexism, I guess all of the isms that are out there. I think her platform is utilized to really try to bring people together, and that’s what I really love about what she does.”

Taking action for change

Dear Evanston has brought people together in big ways over the past few years. Kavin has helped organize groups to attend major events like the 2017 Women’s March on Washington, a gun control advocacy event with the state legislature and a rally at Fountain Square to celebrate the lives of those killed by gun violence.

Kavin, who hails from Johannesburg, South Africa, said the United States’ history with gun violence and its passion for guns is incomprehensible to her, and that she doesn’t want to let it continue as the status quo. Because of this, she feels compelled to fight against the “epidemic” in every way she can.

“Whether it’s street violence, or mass shootings at schools and mass shooting at churches, and police shooting young black men, it’s just something that you don’t see anywhere else,” she said. “There are a lot of people in Evanston who struggle silently, (and) I think youth gun violence in Evanston is very much tied to… historical inequity in Evanston and in the country.”

Brown said Kavin has always had an interest in the development of young people, and praised Dear Evanston for providing a “sincere portrait” of those who are striving to be productive community members.

“I think that she has belief in her own heart that she’s called to this work and she’s called to sort of be a voice for those people who might be voiceless,” Brown said. “She’s been great at vocalizing for young people their needs, their desires, their wants, and I think that’s given people information that maybe they wouldn’t have gotten elsewhere.”

influences NU’s culture around substance use will encourage freshmen to take responsibility in shifting the school’s culture.

Meier said the results from those questions weren’t included in the norms campaign, but they were shared with program assistants during Wildcat Welcome.

“There needs to be some onus within the community to say ‘No, we’re not going to allow this to be the norm anymore. We don’t want this to be what people think of us, or how we’re perceived even,’” Meier said.

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Pamela Cytrynbaum (Medill ’88) first became acquainted with Kavin on Facebook long before the two met in person. Cytrynbaum, a restorative justice coordinator for the James B. Moran Center for Youth Advocacy, said she began to see Kavin’s posts as a playbook for what she needed to keep track of in Evanston.

Cytrynbaum finally met Kavin at a march for gun reform in July that shut down the Dan Ryan Expressway in Chicago. Since then, they’ve run into one another frequently at community events.

The more Cytrynbaum has interacted with Kavin, the more she’s thought of her as someone who is really plugged into parts of Evanston, has accurate information and responds quickly.

“If I couldn’t trust her, then it wouldn’t have worked, even though it’s new-fangled social media,” Cytrynbaum said. “She has old school values which are: She wants to get it right, she wants to be accurate and she’s trying to tell the truth as she sees it…. That connected me and helped me trust her.”

Just as important, Cytrynbaum said, is that Kavin is active in the community; she isn’t just posting outrage on Facebook from her basement.

Over two years in, and hundreds of Facebook posts later, Kavin finds herself at a crossroads.

She is still unsure of whether she wants to find more people to help her grow the organization and keep up with the widening range of issues it covers, or if she will scale the group’s focus back down to create a more manageable workload for her one-woman crew.

She said it’s easy to lose the nuance among posts, shares and likes.

“The conversations you have on Facebook are so much more powerful and so much more meaningful and so much more authentic when you’re sitting face to face with people,” Kavin said. “So my dream for Dear Evanston would be to do less of it on the computer and more of it in the community.”

For Kavin and her computer full of interviews, there are never enough hours in the day. ryanw@u.northwestern.edu accurately the data from the survey represents NU students’ drinking habits. Eder said people act differently once they get to college, and the answers seemed to come from targeted questions.

“I think people answered generally honestly, but it was probably biased in the way they worded the questions, and some people might have lied,” Eder said. susannakemp2022@u.northwestern.edu alexiswhite2021@u.northwestern.edu

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NU looking for first Big Ten victory

By ANDY MARQUARDT

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Northwestern will return home this weekend to face off against Michigan State and No. 13 Michigan as they look to enter the win column in Big Ten play.

Following three straight road sweeps at the hands of against No. 7 Illinois, No. 9 Wisconsin and No. 3 Minnesota, the Wildcats are looking forward to facing a Spartans team fresh off a loss to Ohio State, and a Wolverines team that first has to face the Fighting Illini on Friday.

While Michigan State (15-6, 3-5 Big Ten) and Michigan (17-2, 6-2) present difficult challenges for NU (10-10, 0-8), freshman outside hitter Abryanna Cannon says the team’s last few tough matches will help the Cats’ pursuit of victory over the Spartans and Wolverines.

“We are coming off a stretch of playing a lot of top ranked opponents, and going into a stretch of opponents with lesser rankings,” Cannon said. “We’re going to look to capitalize on our experience and come out with some wins.”

Last year, NU traveled to Ann Arbor late in the season and came away with an upset win against the Wolverines. With 11 returning players from last year’s team, the Cats are looking to build on the momentum from last year’s victory as they look to once again come out on top against Michigan.

Sophomore middle hitter Alana Walker says that last year’s victory will be fresh on NU’s mind when they square off against the Wolverines on Saturday.

“This season is progressively getting better game by game,” Walker said. “We beat Michigan last year, so beating them again will prove to us that we are still improving.”

Prior to Saturday’s matchup against Michigan, however, the Cats will play host Friday to Michigan State. While no team in the Big Ten — college volleyball’s best conference — is to be taken lightly, the Spartans are the just the second Big Ten team NU has faced this season whose conference record is below .500.

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“Michigan State is a beatable team with a lot of freshman like us,” Walker said. “We match up against them well.”

Walker leads NU in blocks this season, and is third in kills behind sophomore outside hitter Nia Robinson and Cannon.

The Cats are home in Evanston this weekend for the first time since October 3. In all, NU has played 17 of their 20 matches on the road or at neutral sites.

Coach Shane Davis said he is excited for his team to get the extra rest and comfort playing at home provides.

“It’s going to be nice to be able to get back into our

routines, sleep in our own beds, and change the pace a bit for this group,” Davis said. “I feel good about our team and what we’ve been doing in practice this week.”

Both Cannon and Walker echoed this sentiment, with each mentioning their excitement to play in front of their families and to get a few more hours of rest to prepare.

Five of the next six matches for the Cats are against unranked opponents. Cannon says she is ready to see the work the team has put in show up in the win column.

“We deserve this,” Cannon said. andrewmarquardt2021@u.northwestern.edu

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After NU, alumna explores her passions for food, media

By ZOE MALIN

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Lauren Goldstein (Communication ’18) ventured into Chicago every week in search of woman-owned restaurants and bakeries during her time at Northwestern. After graduating, her passion for food and entrepreneurship became her profession.

Goldstein currently works for Cherry Bombe, a company that supports women in the food industry and produces a biannual magazine, a podcast and events. Looking back on her journey, she said always being herself, maintaining connections and valuing people’s help was key to her success.

While at NU, Goldstein created and executed the Sugar and Spice Summit, bringing together Northwestern students and prominent women in the food industry for panels, speeches and networking opportunities while enjoying food from “female fueled companies.” At the first conference in April 2017, Goldstein invited Kate Miller Spencer (Weinberg ’87) the director of business partnerships for Cherry Bombe. “(Spencer) mentioned how much my and Cherry Bombe’s missions aligned and suggested I reach out if I wanted to work with Cherry Bombe,” Goldstein said.

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In summer 2017, the magazine contacted Goldstein to feature her in the section, “Ones to Watch.”

The following season, she reached out to Spencer and landed an internship for Cherry Bombe’s annual Jubilee conference. She was also featured on the company’s podcast, Radio Cherry Bombe.

For the second Sugar and Spice Summit in April 2018, Goldstein invited Cherry Bombe’s editor and co-founder Kerry Diamond to be the keynote speaker. Goldstein said the second Sugar and Spice Summit went well and gave her an opportunity for Diamond to see her skills. Less than a week after the event, Goldstein got a call offering her a job at Cherry Bombe.

“I accepted it on the spot,” Goldstein said. “It was a long time in the making.”

As a student, Goldstein said she never attended a NU career fair. “Suit-and-tie” jobs were not meant for her, she said, so she focused on the relationships she built. She said students should not be afraid of working at a small company because there is a lot to learn in such a setting.

Goldstein’s biggest piece of advice to undergraduates on the job search is to “talk to strangers.”

“And remember,” she added, “networking is not a dirty word.” zoemalin2022@u.northwestern.edu

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Wildcats claim huge Big Ten victory over the Fighting Illini

By AVI VARGHESE

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Going into Thursday’s game against Illinois, Northwestern knew that a positive outcome would be crucial for its chances of making the Big Ten tournament.

The Wildcats had gained only four points in the standings in their last three games, but goals from senior forward Brenna Lovera and senior midfielder Marisa Viggiano propelled NU (10-4-3, 4-4-2 Big Ten) to a 2-1 victory.

The Cats needed to adapt to Illinois’ 3-5-2 formation, which coach Michael Moynihan said is unique in the Big Ten. After assessing NU’s options, Moynihan chose to switch to a 3-5-2 as well.

“It’s very difficult for the 3-5-2 to handle the three forwards on the transition, but on the flip side it’s very difficult for the 4-3-3 to handle the midfield with the 3-5-2,” Moynihan said. “So we made the decision to mirror what they were doing.”

One benefit for the Cats was the return of Viggiano. Having the 2017 First Team All-Big Team member back in the midfield gave NU the chance to get back into its rhythm and use Viggiano’s combination plays to find looks on goal.

“I love playing with Marisa,” Lovera said. “She’s always so calm and technical. I always seem to find the little angles between us… I just know if I get in the

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right spot, she’ll find me the ball and then she’ll always be there to support me.”

A pass from Viggiano to Lovera near the left corner of the Illinois (10-7-0, 5-50) box in the 13th minute was misplayed by a defender, giving Lovera a chance.

She turned around, found an opening and curved the ball into the right upper 90.

She said it was inspired by an attempt

by United States Women’s National Team forward Megan Rapinoe in Wednesday night’s CONCACAF Women’s Championship.

“I just picked it up and went for it and it was perfect,” Lovera said.

The rest of the half saw saves from freshman goalkeeper Mackenzie Wood and deep runs toward the Fighting Illini box from freshman defender Julietta Thron. Illinois continued to play its game, attempting to draw the Cats in and catch them out of formation.

In the 61st minute, a through ball by senior midfielder Aspyn Repp gave freshman midfielder Kaylee Titus a breakaway opportunity. Titus’ run was stopped when Illinois midfielder Hope Breslin committed a foul and gave NU a free kick from just outside the box. The referee handed

Breslin a red card.

Viggiano — the Cats’ dead-ball specialist — stepped up to take the kick and sent it into the bottom left corner.

“That’s a free kick spot that I’ve practiced a little bit during practice, so I knew how I wanted my run up to be, the number of steps I wanted to take and where I wanted to shoot it, so it just happened to work out,” Viggiano said.

Despite the Fighting Illini’s efforts to move the ball around, NU still managed to keep Illinois from getting good looks at goal — until the 76th minute. A corner from Morgan Maroney was punched up in the air by Wood, but midfielder Kelly Murray managed to find the ball undefended as it came down and headed it in.

The mood changed from there. The Fighting Illini began aggressively searching for ways to tie the game despite being a player down.

They came close, finding a pair of corners and back-to-back shots on goal, but the Cats managed to keep them out, maintaining their lead and closing out the match.

The win allowed NU to claw its way into the top eight in the Big Ten, though the Cats are just one point ahead of two teams: Michigan, which plays last-place Michigan State on Sunday, and Iowa, which will be playing NU.

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NU set to finish regular season Michigan State awaits

By GREG SVIRNOVSKIY

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After a recent skid in which Northwestern has dropped four of its last five games — including the last three by one goal each — all but eliminating any hope for an at-large NCAA tournament slot, the Wildcats head into a weekend tilt looking to prove their mettle.

No. 17 NU (8-8, 3-4 Big Ten) heads to No. 2 Maryland (15-1, 6-1) on Friday before returning to Lakeside Field to play Ball State (2-12) on Sunday.

Despite the Cats’ losing stretch, the mood surrounding practice this week was decidedly upbeat, with players and coaches looking to use the weekend as a barometer for the team’s Big Ten Tournament chances.

“We’re just trying to get better everyday and really just trying to bring the energy to practice,” coach Tracey

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Fuchs said. “I’m sure the players are a bit frustrated but they’ve come everyday and they’ve worked really, really hard and hopefully we’ll see some benefits from that whether it be at Mayland or in the first round of the (tournament).”

Fuchs said NU’s record doesn’t fairly reflect the talent of its players or the work they’ve put in to be better during practices. The team has no mathematical chance to top the Big Ten, so there’s no pressure to win over the weekend — a fact she said will allow the Cats to gauge their potential for postseason tournaments and gain confidence.

“We just need to find a way to finish the game and not have a bad spurt of five or 10 minutes,” Fuchs said. “We just need to go in, relax and play and

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Kirsten Mansfield carries the ball. The junior defender is a key member of the Northwestern defense.

see what happens and see where we are. Knowing we can’t win the Big Ten season, we’re preparing for the tournament.”

The team has failed to avoid defensive lapses in their last few games. But the past week of practice has given Fuchs confidence she’ll see a good effort against the Terrapins.

The week of practice has allowed Fuchs to address the team’s greatest liabilities, rebounds and corners. Junior goaltender Annie Kalfas and the rest of the defensive unit stayed on the field for an extra 15 minutes at the end of Wednesday’s practice to work on those issues.

The team, Kalfas said, isn’t disheartened by its recent one-goal losses.

Rather, they are a symbol for how close this season’s games have been.

“They’re all one-goal losses, so we just gotta get better at finishing our opportunities, making up (those) one goal differences and not letting that kind of supply us again,” Kalfas said.

Senior midfielder Eva Van Agt said the urgency the Cats displayed in the second half last week against Penn State is exactly how they need to play at all times.

Van Agt said though the results the team has seen in recent weeks have not been up to par, the manner in which they’ve been coming is encouraging.

“We just try to make it a positive thing,” Van Agt said. “Since Ohio State, we’ve been growing. I think Rutgers and Penn State were real battles and we’ve been putting up real good team efforts and we’ve been improving in play. I think it’s just a positive for us that we can match up against those teams.” gregorysvirnovskiy2022@u.northwestern.edu

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By STEPHEN COUNCIL

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Northwestern is ready to flip the script.

The Wildcats will return to Big Ten action this Friday in East Lansing, Mich. against No. 13 Michigan State. The Spartans have been a dominant force this season, and NU (4-74, 0-4-2 Big Ten) will look to come home with an upset victory.

The Cats fell on Tuesday night to Illinois-Chicago, 3-1. NU led for the majority of the game, but a trio of second-half goals by the Flames left the Cats winless in their last nine contests.

Coach Tim Lenahan knows Michigan State (10-2-2, 4-1-0) is a potent, successful side. The Spartans are second in the Big Ten and coming off a road win against lowly Ohio State last Friday.

“We gotta get ourselves recharged and get back tomorrow and get the body ready and go play another top-25 team,” Lenahan said.

NU had its fair share of chances against the Flames on Tuesday, but only fired off five shots to UIC’s 26.

Junior forward Ty Seager’s goal in the fifth minute was eclipsed in the second half when the Flames netted two goals in rapid succession.

Sophomore defender Garrett Opperman, who played the full 90 minutes against UIC, was disappointed with the result. However, he’s said he is looking forward to the contest with Michigan State.

“We’re excited,” Opperman said.

“This is a big week of preparation for us, that game’s gonna be a big game.”

The Cats have experience traveling to face a top team this season. On Sept. 26, they took a 1-1 game into the 87th minute against then-No. 2 Indiana. The Hoosiers came away with

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the 2-1 win after a late goal, but NU saw the level of competition they could match.

“A lot of us felt that we got kind of cheated out of a win at Indiana and Michigan State is another team of Indiana’s caliber,” freshman midfielder Richie Bennett said.

In East Lansing, NU will go up against a Spartans offense that has compiled 27 goals this season. Michigan State has managed at least 10 shots in each of its last six games, and suffered its only Big Ten loss to Wisconsin on Sept. 30.

The Spartans are led by goalkeeper Jimmy Hague and forward Ryan Sierakowski. The two are both in TopDrawerSoccer.com’s Midseason Top 100 player rankings, at No. 12 and No. 17, respectively.

The Cats’ offense had a rough time against UIC last game, but has been trending up recently. NU has averaged over 13 shots a game in its last four contests, a marked jump from its mid-season shooting woes. Junior midfielder Mattias Tomasino, sophomore midfielder Tommy Katsiyiannis and Seager have led the surge.

Though the Spartans are an experienced team — 10 seniors return from last season’s 13-4-4 team — NU looks at this Michigan State game as a good opportunity. The Cats could not only earn their first Big Ten win of the season, but make a statement.

“We want to show the country and show ourselves that we can be up there with the best,” Bennett said. “So a lot of us, I think all of us, are super enthusiastic to play this game.” stephencouncil2022@u.northwestern.edu