The Daily Northwestern — October 24, 2022

Hindu YUVA celebrates Diwali

Student group sponsors musical performance, builds community

By CHARLOTTE EHRLICH and RUSSELL LEUNG daily senior staffers @charlottehrlich @rjleung7

The Hindu holiday Diwali celebrates a number of values, according to Hindu YUVA

first-year representative and McCormick freshman Aastha Patel — the triumph of good over evil, the burning away of negativity and the transition into a new year.

Though Diwali is widely celebrated across South Asia,

NULWU talks one year of action

Two months later, the union won its election, gaining formal recognition and kicking off its fight for fair wages and worker protections.

students on campus aren’t always able to fully commem orate the holiday’s traditions like they may at home, Patel said.

That gap in cultural expe rience partly inspired Hindu YUVA, a Hindu cultural youth

group, to host “Wildcat Diwali Ramleela: The Story of Ram,” a musical version of the Hindu epic Ramayana, at Cahn Audi torium Sunday.

The club commissioned

Reparations Committee hosts town hall for city

Residents talk about restorative housing, funding accessibility

By RACHEL SCHLUETER the daily northwestern @rschlueter26

The Evanston Reparations Committee hosted a town hall Saturday to address concerns about the city’s reparations program.

The committee invited Buddhist Council of the Midwest President Rev. Asayo Horibe, local historian Dino Robinson and Reparations Committee member Ald. Bobby Burns (5th) to answer questions about the reparations program at the Second Baptist Church.

Evanston’s Restorative Housing Program, the first reparations pro gram in the country, aims to repay Black Evanston residents who have experienced housing discrimina tion in Evanston. The Restorative Housing Program program cur rently offers housing assistance to “Ancestors,” which are Black residents who lived in Evanston between 1919 and 1969, and allows their descents to apply for funds.

However, only 16 of the 122 eligible Ancestors were paid in the city’s first round of payments, grant ing each person $25,000 to use on property purchases, mortgage pay ments or housing repairs.

Eva Holland-Switchett, a long time city resident and racial justice advocate, said she attended the Sat urday event because she has been helping other Evanston residents apply for the program.

Holland-Switchett applied for the first round of reparations pay ments but was denied. As a child, Holland-Switchett moved with her family from Belize to Evanston and is seeking reparation funds to help repair her childhood home, which she now owns.

Though she was initially frus trated, she said she plans to apply to the program again.

Robinson said the program is still in its beginning stages, and the city has not distributed all the funds it eventually hopes to give residents.

“When we start doing this work on local reparations, we start peel ing back the multiple layers of sys temic racism,” Robinson said. “That cannot be repaired in just a second.”

The panel also addressed resi dent concerns that the city has not made program information readily available to potential applicants.

Panelists noted that some resi dents are hesitant to apply due to limited awareness of the pro gram, and encouraged eligible residents to educate themselves.

Holland-Switchett said that being unaware of the reparations program shouldn’t be a barrier

By ISABEL FUNK daily senior staffer

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After more than two years of organizing — first in secret, then publicly — Northwestern Uni versity Library Workers Union is officially in the bargaining process.

A year ago, the Northwest ern University Library Workers Union publicly announced its unionization campaign to about 50 people gathered at The Rock.

Jamie Carlstone, authority metadata librarian and bargain ing committee member, said the University’s treatment of library workers during the pandemic was demoralizing and an impetus for change.

“The union really made all of us feel empowered again, like we could make changes in our work place and that we could support each other,” Carlstone said.

Five months into the pro cess — which involves regular

By ZHIZHONG XU daily senior staffer @zhizhong_xu

City Council requested the Administration & Public Works Committee work out two separate leases for the Harley Clarke Man sion and its garden during its Oct. 10 meeting.

Designed by pioneering Prairie style landscape architect Jens Jen sen, Harley Clarke Mansion is reg istered as a National Historic Land mark. Evanston-based nonprofit The Jens Jensen Garden in Evan ston has been working to refurbish the mansion’s surrounding garden, which includes the stonework of famed landscape architect Alfred Caldwell.

Artists Book House, a local non profit, recently secured a 40-year lease on the Harley Clarke man sion. The Council was primarily concerned about the feasibility of the Artists Book House’s current funding model ahead of reopening the mansion.

During the meeting, “The Time Traveler’s Wife” author Audrey Niffenegger, president and founder of Artists Book House, encouraged councilmembers to vote on revis ing the lease’s funding goals.

Niffenegger spent the summer revising fundraising benchmarks with the project manager and architect. The original fundraising benchmark for the organization was $2 million by May of 2022, but the amendment proposed changing the target to $1 million

by Dec. 31, which Niffenegger said is achievable.

Charles Smith, president of The Jens Jensen Garden in Evan ston, asked City Council during the meeting to table any action regard ing the lease.

“Recently, we’ve been engaged

in conversations with the city and with (Artists) Book House that may result in some additional alterations to the lease,” Smith said. However, Smith said he still hopes the Artists Book House has

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Hindu YUVA hosted the musical “Ramleela” on Sunday night to celebrate Diwali.

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Q&A: City Manager Luke Stowe talks goals, priorities

By JACOB WENDLER the daily northwestern @jacob_wendler

a months-long search that cost Evanston

of $95,000, City Council unanimously voted in August to appoint Luke Stowe as city manager.

who previously served as Evanston’s chief information officer and interim deputy city manager, will develop the city’s annual bud get and manage government operations, among other responsibilities.

The Daily sat down with Stowe to discuss goals for his tenure.

This interview has been lightly edited for clarity and brevity.

The Daily: Evanston has gone through doz ens of potential candidates since 2020 to fill the role of city manager. What are your short- and long-term goals in the role?

Stowe: When I first came into the role, there was a lot of instability in leadership, not just in the city manager’s office, but also in the police department. That’s been a big part of my first couple of months as permanent city manager, bringing some stabilization.

On a shorter-term basis, I intentionally tried to reach out to community groups and some critics of city operations to try to learn more about what their perspective is on certain issues. I’ve also tried to find common ground and have a professional, open, working relationship with those groups, so I can hopefully better calibrate and address some of the issues or concerns that they have. Longer-term, I’d love to maybe reeval uate, reinvent the budget process. I think there’s lots of room for improvement there.

The Daily: Considering residents’ dissatis faction with the lack of transparency in the city manager search process, how do you plan to prioritize transparency as city manager?

Stowe: I’ve talked with the mayor, council and staff about the whole notion of this “open by default” philosophy. I came up (to this role) through technology and open data, and so those are some of the things I’ve worked on in my career, even before we were talking about open government transparency. That was a big component of my earlier career and I want to continue to carry that on going forward.

The Daily: One of the biggest projects the city has undertaken in the last few years is its reparations program. How will you ensure the city continues to make progress on distributing reparations?

Stowe: We did innovative, nation-leading work. How do we continue that momentum?

I want to make sure that everybody across the staff feels that they are part of that pro cess going forward, and it’s not just a small group of staff that are working, collaborating, contributing. We’ve got 135 people or so that are on a waiting list — how do we speed that process up?

The Daily: Numerous city officials — including Mayor Daniel Biss — have expressed concerns about the proposed 2023 budget, specifically regarding a $42.1 million increase from last year. What are your thoughts on the

proposed budget, and what do you hope to see prioritized?

Stowe: Part of that $42 million increase is a once-in-100-year project with the water intake, which is a $45 million project. This year, we brought forward more of a full menu of selec tions (for City Council to invest in), knowing that the Council would not approve the full package and knowing also that staff would not be able to even execute on all of those projects. But we wanted to allow the Council to have greater say this year in the prioritization and choosing which projects go forward.

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TASA hosts annual night market event

By NICOLE MARKUS daily senior staffer @nicolejmarkus

A line of students flowed out of Norris Uni versity Center’s Louis Room on Sunday night as community members gathered to enjoy food, games and decorations at the Taiwan ese American Students Association’s annual Taiwanese Night Market.

The event celebrates Taiwanese culture by simulating the country’s popular night mar kets that offer street food to bustling crowds. TASA aims to provide a space for NU students to gather and experience the country’s culture.

Most of the food at the night market, which included red bean tang yuan soup, scallion pancakes, tea eggs and braised pork rice, was made by students. TASA also offered drinks like winter melon boba.

Medill sophomore Douglas Lee was excited to attend the event to eat traditional Taiwan ese food he typically enjoys with his family. One of his friends was involved in making the food, he added.

“I know she’s a really excellent cook, so I was like, ‘I have to come, I can’t miss out on this opportunity,’” Lee said. “It’s comparable to back home — this is the best you’re going to get in Evanston.”

In addition to the food, TASA hosted stu dent performance organizations like Refresh Dance Crew and the Treblemakers, NU’s East Asian-interest a capella group.

The club also provided a bingo board to attendees, which included action items like eating different foods, meeting volunteers, decorating lanterns and taking photos with the Taiwanese flag. Students who completed the bingo were entered into a raffle to win prizes like a month of free drinks from Happy Lemon in Evanston.

Weinberg freshman Amber Lueth made scallion pancakes in the communal Shepard Hall kitchen. The recipe is simple and easy to make, Lueth said.

“It’s a pretty traditional Taiwanese dish,

offered at a lot of night markets all over Tai wan,” Lueth said. “(It has) a layered texture of the pancake instead of just being a flat, onedimensional texture.”

Former TASA Social Chair and Weinberg senior Derek Wen said the club has been help ful for him in finding community at NU. The club hosts bonding events throughout the year like game nights and trips to Argyle, the Chi cago neighborhood which has its own night market.

Wen said the club split up responsibili ties for the event into cooking, transporting food and decorations and event logistics. He added that he was happy with the turnout of the night market.

“(The event) was kind of meant to be a way to introduce the general Northwestern community to different parts of Taiwanese culture,” Wen said.

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Indira Johnson highlights community in art project

By JACK AUSTIN daily senior staffer @jackaustinnews

Evanston artist and sculptor Indira Johnson offered Chicago Cultural Center visitors an opportunity to engage in an intricate community art project aiming to promote peace, unity and blessings on Friday and Saturday.

Over several hours, participants used rice flour, turmeric, dirt, flower petals and leaves to deco rate a Rangoli — a large traditional Indian floor art piece containing an assemblage of materials. Volunteers were given the same opportunity on Friday, Sept. 30, when Johnson kicked off the series.

“Some people say it’s very meditative,” Johnson said. “All together, you have made this beautiful pattern. And I think that’s a realization that people have that together we can accomplish so much.”

Rangoli is an ancient folk art form employ ing geometric and floral patterns and religious symbols, filled with vibrantly colored materials. Many people create rangoli as part of the celebra tion of Diwali, the festival of the lights, which is recognized by Hindus, Jains, Sikhs and some Buddhists. The intricate drawings are meant to give blessings and ward off evil spirits.

Rangoli drawings are temporary, a fleeting beauty, Johnson said. The Chicago Cultural Center held a closing ceremony Saturday, wiping away the elaborate artwork. During the ritual, par ticipants discussed the blessings they wanted for themselves and their communities, Johnson said.

Johnson is known for her sculptures of Bud dha heads that can be found across the Chicago area, including in Evanston. She said her father followed the teachings of Gandhi, a reason she explores nonviolence and peace through her artwork.

Johnson’s series at the center marks the 10th

anniversary of her multi-medium project pro moting public art, peace and civic engagement, “Ten Thousand Ripples.”

Johsnon said she has hosted about 30 rangoli drawings around the Chicago area and said the projects bring the community together.

Martin Bautista said the creation process relaxed him, instilling a sense of tranquility. Bautista said the materials made him feel a connection to the Earth.

A characteristic Buddha head was featured at the site of the drawing, and Johnson said she uses it as an icon of peace.

Antonio Nino, a California resident visiting his son in Chicago, attended the event and said he enjoyed creating for the sake of creating.

“It’s a special feeling that you’re doing some thing for the purpose of beauty,” Nino said. “I think it’s important (and rewarding) in terms of (how) beauty has a purpose by itself.”

A former publicist for the Chicago Cultural

Center, Kennon Reinard said she admires John son’s work throughout Chicago.

When Reinard came to the cultural center Saturday, she immediately wanted to smell the materials — particularly the flowers. Reinard, who was tasked with filling in dirt on a section of the drawing, said she was impressed with the overall design.

“It reminded me of a mandala … very organic floral,” Reinard said. “It starts off as a central core, jutts out and it keeps going and expanding like the Earth like the universe.”

Johnson said when the community walks over the drawing, it reflects the cycle of life.

Nino said the drawing experience was rewarding and that beauty has a purpose within itself.

“It has to live and disappear,” Nino said. “It’s beautiful.”

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‘Later Impressions’ highlights work of artists over 50

By KUNJAL BASTOLA the daily northwestern @kunjal_bastola

Curated in partnership with the Chicago Alliance of Visual Artists, Evanston Art Cen ter’s newly opened exhibit, Later Impressions, highlights the work of artists over the age of 50.

The Later Impressions exhibit is one of CAVA’s signature annual exhibits and will run from Oct. 8 to Nov. 5. Catering specifically to artists 50 years or older, CAVA currently has more than 250 members, primarily from the Chicago area.

“We provide opportunities for artists to exhibit their work, some learning and educa tional opportunities, and an opportunity to

meet other artists,” said Susan Bennett, CAVA’s treasurer and an exhibit co-manager.

During exhibit curation, a panel of judges reviewed each piece in the exhibit and selected works to receive different awards. The seven awards available are a Best in Show, three Awards of Excellence and three Honorable Mentions.

This year’s Best in Show was Norman Baugh er’s oil-on-canvas painting “California Table,” displaying fruit on a table along with the egg that Baugher said is a signature of his work.

“The subject is a still life, and it has very abstract concepts working behind it,” Baugher said. “One of the objectives was to develop a sense of balance, even if the image is asymmetrical.”

While Baugher focuses on still life, there is no designated theme the artwork in the exhibit must follow. Artists are encouraged to submit a

wide variety of mediums, allowing them to dis play paintings, sculptures, installation pieces, photographs and more.

Audrey Avril, the manager of exhibitions at the Evanston Art Center, said the exhibition highlights the diverse mediums and talents of the participating artists.

“There’s a lot of paintings in this collection, but they’re all very different subjects,” Avril said. “Some of them are pop culture-style paint ings, some of them are more abstract, and you get a wide range even within a single media.”

Pieces on display at the Later Impressions exhibit are also available for sale, with a portion of the proceeds donated back to the Evanston Art Center.

Colette Wright Adams, a co-manager of the exhibit, said CAVA has often sold artwork at

the Evanston Art Center in the past because the organization is a “thriving art community” that reaches many different people.

Adams said artists can find a home for their artwork at the Later Impressions exhibit, no matter their artistic style or preferred medium.

“There’s something for everyone in this show,” Adams said.

CAVA members can also meet and work with other artists at various events the organization hosts, including the Later Impressions Exhibit.

Baugher said he appreciates meeting other artists through CAVA.

“Part of the reason for CAVA is a camarade rie, an opportunity for artists to come together in the shows themselves,” he said.

Typhoon Dance Troupe blends popular dance, culture

By JAMIE KIM daily senior staffer

Weinberg senior and Typhoon Dance Troupe co-President Angelica Wang grew up in Beijing and began learning ethnic dances from a young age. When she transferred to Northwestern, she hoped to connect with a community interested in traditional Chinese dances. Her search led her to Typhoon Dance Troupe.

Typhoon aims to showcase the diverse cul tures of Chinese ethnic groups through dance. The dance group has two divisions honing different styles. A traditional dance division preserves traditional Chinese choreography and aesthetics, while a popular dance division blends modern dance genres with traditional elements.

Art Director Shushan Wu, a McCormick fifth-year graduate student, said Typhoon is beginner-friendly, with auditions resembling open classes.

“We would like to encourage and inspire more (of the) young generation of people who (are) more interested in popular culture to focus more on traditional Chinese elements to help spread the culture,” she said.

Dancers rehearse on a weekly basis, some times learning pieces beforehand and other times learning together. Before shows, the group conducts dress rehearsals and learns how to do hair and makeup properly. The group also records videos of every dance it practices, which Wu said helps to include all participants, whether they are performing at an event or appearing in a video.

year, Typhoon performed “Flying Apsaras” by dancer and former member of boyband EXO Lay Zhang.

“(C-pop artists) mix Chinese traditional

instruments into the song, and that is actually a great starting point for us to choreograph the dance,” Wu said.

McCormick senior Irina Cheng danced bal let for 14 years before enrolling at NU. While she decided not to pursue dance profession ally, she said dance remains an integral part of her life.

Cheng said she became used to structuring her life around dance, so having another form of dance to pursue at NU was important to her.

“I heard about Typhoon and thought it would be a nice way to continue dancing, but also connect to my heritage in a way that I haven’t had a chance to before,” Cheng said.

Within Typhoon, Cheng specializes in tradi tional Chinese dance. She said members learn the techniques and dances of the Han ethnic group, as well as other ethnic groups including the Dai people of Yunnan province.

Typhoon has performed at events like Celebrasia, Rock the Lake and the Chinese International Student Association’s New Year Show. The group’s annual spring quarter show incorporates 12 to 16 pieces selected based on skill levels, dancer interest and genre variation.

Wang said that looking at dance from a his torical perspective allows dancers to connect with their cultures and share their heritage with the wider NU community.

“These different styles are imbued with the histories, aesthetics (and) values of many of the minority ethnic groups in China, so we really wanted to bring this to a more global stage through the dances,” Wang said.

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Liner Notes: Taylor Swift keeps us up at night with ‘Midnights’

By ISABEL FUNK daily senior staffer @isabeldfunk

Taylor Swift has finally released the perfect album for sad insomniacs.

“Midnights,” Swift’s 10th studio album, released Friday at midnight EST. The album marked an interruption of her ongoing journey to re-record her first six albums and reclaim her masters catalog. Swift last released “Red (Tay lor’s Version)” in November 2021, the second of her re-recordings. “Midnights” is a return to original new music — the first she’s released since her surprise drop of “evermore” in Decem ber 2020.

The latest album release draws on strengths from across Swift’s career, which has traversed from country to pop to indie, dipping briefly into rock and country pop. Upbeat tracks like “Lavender Haze” would feel right at home on “1989,” while “Vigilante S–t” could just as eas ily fit on “Reputation.” At the same time, Swift slows down on contemplative tracks like “Sweet Nothing.” The album shows the artistic growth Swift underwent from her more experimental pandemic albums (“folklore” and “evermore”). While “Midnights” feels tonally like “folklore,” it aesthetically presents more like “1989” or “Lover.”

“Midnights” takes listeners on an emotional journey. The most devastating lyrics often come with synth beats and high energy, while the slower songs reflect the sweetness of love. On “Anti-Hero,” which Swift has described as the farthest she has dived into her insecurities, she characterizes herself as the problem, singing cheerfully about depression and anxiety. The very next track, “Snow On The Beach” (feat. Lana Del Rey) feels almost mournful, but the

lyrics reflect on the beauty of unexpected love (though Lana fans may be disappointed she doesn’t have her own verse).

While the original album featured 13 songs, Swift, known for surprising her fans, dropped an additional seven songs just three hours after the album’s initial release. “Midnights (3am Edi tion)” is just as filled with yearning, introspec tion and wondering what could have been.

The album has been critiqued by some for having less literary lyricism than “folklore” and “evermore,” (I’m looking at you, “Karma”) but Swift herself recently said her catalog can be categorized into three types of songs: Glitter Gel Pen songs, Quill Pen songs and Fountain Pen songs. “Midnights” features a number of Glitter Gel Pen Songs, which Swift said make listeners want to dance and “remind you not to take yourself too seriously.”

At the same time, “Midnights” is not lacking in Fountain Pen songs, which focus on “brutally honest” confessions and feel like “modern… poetry.”

Ahead of the album release, Swift took to Tik Tok to randomly announce the titles of the songs one at a time. Although a few of these announce ments were accompanied by descriptions of the songs’ meanings, the majority of “Midnights” was left unexplained and open to interpretation.

While Swift is well known for emotionallywrecking track fives, “Midnights” offers “You’re On Your Own, Kid,” which concludes on a seem ingly hopeful note. Set to a slow but light beat, Swift reflects on growing up feeling out of place and left behind, singing “I didn’t choose this town, I dream of getting out / There’s just one who could make me stay / All my days.” But soon, Swift realizes that the one who could make her stay never cared about her. By the end of the song, she changes her outlook, saying “You’ve got no reason to be afraid,” which concludes

that loss and pain only helps you move forward.

Swift marketed “Midnights,” a collection “written in the middle of the night,” as an album filled with deep confessions and personal reflec tions. Without releasing a lead single or music video prior to the album’s release, she managed to both exceed expectations and continue sur prising her fans.

On the closing track of the album, “Dear Reader,” Swift sings directly to her fans. She advises listeners to reinvent themselves, be cautious and keep their secrets. The song is the perfect ending to an album that both reveals Swift’s insecurities and emotions while with holding literal details of the events described. “Midnights” is a reflection of all the desire, heart break, love and grief that keep Swift — and the rest of us — awake at night.

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Wu said Chinese pop, or “C-pop,” style influences Typhoon’s dances, as choreogra phy is adapted from a popular performer to suit the number of dancers performing. Last

Illustration by Daniel He “Midnights” released Friday, marking Swift’s latest new album amid her re-recordings.

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Typhoon Dance Troupe performs traditional and popular dances.

Mandala South Asian Performing Arts, a Chicagobased organization, to present its production of the tale. The event also marked the second-ever official Diwali celebration at Northwestern, following a cer emony and musical performances last year.

“We just really wanted there to be a place you can go to have an authentic feeling of what Diwali is like and have a feeling of home,” Patel said.

Diwali marks the celebration of Ram — one of Hinduism’s most worshiped deities — returning to his village of Ayodhya after his great battle against the evil king of Lanka, Ravana.

According to the epic, Ram, along with his wife Sita and brother Lakshman, is exiled to the forest by his father to repay a debt to Ram’s stepmother, Kaikeyi. Ravana kidnaps Sita in the forest out of lust, which compels Ram to rescue her from the demon king’s palace and vanquish him.

McCormick senior and Hindu YUVA co-President Sparsh Gautam said Diwali celebrations are tied to light in several ways, with the holiday often deemed as the Festival of Lights.

“The day of Diwali actually falls on a new moon day,” he said. “In order for (Ram) to find his way back, a lot of villages and kingdoms… had lit it up entirely so that he knew his way back to his kingdom.”

To honor the celebration of lights, McCormick third-year graduate student and event volunteer Mythreyi Ramesh said she helped decorate the audi torium with colorful garlands and diyas, or small oil lamps. The group also displayed posters in the lobby

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to applying.

“For us to continue pushing for the reality that we must have, justice must prevail across the board,” Holland-Switchett said. “(Black residents should) come and get educated about the program.’’

The reparations fund comes from the city’s 3% tax on adult and recreational purchases of cannabis, but there is not yet enough funding to pay all of Evanston’s Ancestors at once. However, the Repa rations Committee has recently begun considering other funding sources that would allow for quicker reparations payments.

At an Oct. 6 reparations committee meeting, Robin Rue Simmons, the committee’s reparations chair, suggested pulling funds from the city’s general fund or utilizing American Rescue Plan Act dollars. She also mentioned restricting the graduate real estate transfer tax, which the city profits from when prop erties are sold, and designating some of that money toward reparations initiatives.

Horibe urged Black Evanston residents reluctant to apply for the program to recognize the discrimina tion them and their families have historically faced. As a Japanese-American Evanston resident, Horibe and her family were beneficiaries of reparations for

to teach attendees about the story of Diwali and the Ramayana.

Mandala performed the tale through instrumental music and without dialogue, so all audience members could follow the plot regardless of prior understand ing of the Hindu epic.

Gautam said Hindu YUVA partnered with Man dala for several reasons, but the performing arts com pany’s instrumental storytelling approach stood out to the club.

“We don’t only want to restrict this to Hindu stu dents celebrating the culture, but also provide a plat form and an opportunity for others to be educated and aware of the significance of Diwali,” Gautam said.

Before the musical, Hindu chaplain Amar Shah (Weinberg ’16), University chaplain the Rev. Kristen Glass Perez and McCormick Prof. Sanjay Mehrotra introduced the audience to the celebration. They dis cussed the importance of the holiday and performed traditions like lighting the first diya and reciting a holy mantra.

Ramesh said the Diwali performance motivated her to become more actively involved with Hindu YUVA. The event created a sense of camaraderie and belonging across the campus community that she hopes to see more at NU, Ramesh added.

“I’m just hoping that … everybody gets a taste of what it feels like to be in a festival environment that Diwali is,” Ramesh said, “and also learn more about the culture and stories that shaped many people’s childhood and even adult years.”

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Japanese-American internment during World War II.

She drew on her personal experience, saying that securing reparations was difficult and time-consum ing for her family, but a necessary step toward restor ing justice.

“Some people just want to put their head in the sand and not acknowledge that something bad hap pened,” Horibe said. “But we’re working to fix it. Evanston is a unique community because people are informed and want their community to be safe and welcoming.”

The panelists underscored the importance of Black Evanston residents communicating any con cerns with elected officials in events like Saturday’s town halls. Civil discourse will help enact change, Robinson said.

Robinson said Black residents who are skepti cal about the reparations program should remain optimistic as Evanston continues to grapple with its history.

“A lot of people look at these things as glass half empty. People start asking, ‘Who took my water?’ or ‘Why is my water half empty?’” Robinson said. “But what I’m asking is, ‘Where’s the pitcher?’ and ‘Where’s the tap where we get the water from?’ I want to see this applied to the future for Black (Evanston residents).”

rachelschlueter2026@u.northwestern.edu

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negotiation meetings between members of the bar gaining committee, library management and Univer sity administrators — NULWU has worked through most of its non-economic proposals. Bargaining begins with proposals that don’t require the NU to spend money before moving on to the economic proposals, which do call for University funding. For NULWU, non-economic proposals include union rights and meeting standards, among other demands.

STEM librarian Becca Greenstein, a member of the bargaining committee, said she expects the eco nomic proposals to take longer because they require a financial commitment from the University.

“Honestly, if you had asked me a year ago where we’d be, I probably would have said, ‘Oh, we lost. The union-busting campaign was too good.’ I’m an optimist, but I was also very scared,” Greenstein said.

But now Greenstein said she’s hopeful the bargain ing committee will be able to achieve some member demands in the contract. Before beginning negotia tions, Greenstein said NULWU surveyed members on contract priorities.

The committee works toward tentative agreements each session, which will eventually make it into the final contract that goes up for union vote.

“It’s a totally new way of approaching getting things changed in a workplace, from what I’ve experienced, because it’s just very open,” Carlstone said. “There’s all ranks and groups of people there and the University really has to hear what you’re saying — and not just hear it, but respond to it.”

NULWU’s biggest economic proposal is a wage that keeps up with the cost of living and raises that account for inflation. Bargaining committee members are also pushing for a path to promotion and policy that protects remote work options going forward.

One of the agreements reached by the com mittee thus far allows workers to receive overtime

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“phenomenal success” in transforming the house into a place for educational programming and public use. Ald. Eleanor Revelle (7th) supported amending the fundraising targets at the meeting, saying the revised benchmarks were more realistic.

“When the lease was first signed with Artists Book House, the fundraising targets that were set were pretty much aspirational and not really grounded in reality,” Revelle said.

Niffenegger encouraged Council to vote on amending the lease’s funding benchmarks at the meet ing, so the lease language can reflect what the Artist Book House “can actually accomplish.”

In lieu of passing the financial proposals at the meeting, Ald. Clare Kelly (1st) proposed separating the leases and sending the issue back to Administra tion & Public Works, which meets on Monday. The Council approved the motion 5-2, so the committee

compensation. Currently, Greenstein said if an employee has to stay late, they “flex their hours” and come in late the next day but get paid the same rate for their late hours. According to the new agreement, workers will be paid time and a half for overtime.

Carlstone said the committee brought a union member to bargaining who had previously experi enced this issue to talk directly to administrators and explain why overtime pay matters. She has appreci ated being able to uplift her coworkers, even with issues that don’t affect her directly.

Having a union means having a support system, Carlstone said, and NULWU has been able to help workers feel heard and find a place to bring their concerns.

Catalog Management Supervisor Daniel von Brig hoff said many negotiation meetings have focused on educating the University’s team about workers’ day-to-day realities to explain their demands.

While the bargaining committee has already reached several tentative agreements, von Brighoff said there have also been some challenges. In one instance, he said, the University’s team tried to restrict workers’ ability to participate in demonstrations related to labor, such as NU Graduate Workers’ rally earlier this month.

Ultimately, von Brighoff said NU’s team agreed to use the Universitywide demonstration policy rather than try to curtail specific demonstrations.

Still, he said the attempt to limit workers’ demon strations felt indicative of a broader administrative mindset.

“The University really realizes that we’re at this moment now where there’s a huge pro-labor push, and they can’t stop it, but they’re still looking for ways to put the brakes on it where they can,” von Brighoff said. “That, I think, was an attempt on their part to prevent solidarity between different unionization movements on campus.”

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will discuss separating the leases.

Kelly was also part of the nonprofit Evanston Com munity Lakehouse and Gardens, one of four groups that originally tried to lease the mansion in 2020.

Niffenegger said Artists Book House recently formed a relationship with local consulting group Sprout Partnerships to support its fundraising efforts.

She said Artists Book House has two new board members who have development experience and is in the process of hiring an executive director.

Niffenegger said she encourages Evanston resi dents and Northwestern students to visit Harley Clarke Mansion and schedule group tours through the Artists Book House website.

“My sense is that there’s plenty of people in Evan ston who really care about this place and would really like this to happen,” Niffenegger said. “The only thing that’s stopping us from getting into gear is that we need to somehow meet these people.”

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Sonya Dymova/The Daily Northwestern Weinberg freshman Andre Shportko is wearing a Ukrainian traditional costume, known as a Vyshyvanka. He brought it with him from his home. Vyshyvankas differ from one region to another: the colors central to the Kyiv region, for example, are red, black and white. In Ukrainian embroidery, red often represents joy and love, while black stands for wisdom and Chernozem, the black soil of Ukraine known for its fertility.

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Along with medications from back home, Evgeny’s mom gave him written instructions to make sure he knows when and how to take them. He appreciates that here he has the ability to express himself in all the ways he wants. But, for Evgeny, nothing is as healing as Russian medicine, and nothing is as de-stressing as watching Russian cartoons over a cup of black tea. This identity is something he does not want to leave behind either.

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Sonya Dymova/The Daily Northwestern Weinberg freshman Evgeny Stolyarov is a member of the LGBTQ+ community. He is closeted within Russian culture but is out at NU. He is holding a pride flag in one hand, and a Soviet propaganda poster promoting sobriety in another.

“Balancing my identities becomes difficult,” he said. “‘Is my voice too gay on this family Zoom call? Is my outfit too straight for the NU LGBTQ community?’ Those are questions that arise for me on a daily basis.”

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Sonya Dymova/The Daily Northwestern Weinberg sophomore Lauren Ferguson is part Polish. She is here for pierogi: half-circular dumplings stuffed with various fillings — sweet, salty, or spicy. The place and time of pierogi’s origin are disputed, but the first written account of its recipe in Poland dates back to 1682. This dish became one of the most prominent national foods and one of the culinary symbols of Poland.

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Cats grapple with in-conference opponents in overtime

By KATE WALTER daily senior staffer @katewalter03

In the 79th minute of a scoreless match against No. 6 Michigan (9-5, 4-3 Big Ten), junior midfielder Lauren Wadas readied herself at the stroke line after senior mid fielder Alia Marshall drew a penalty corner. Wadas masterfully sunk her shot, winning the game for No. 3 Northwestern (13-3, 4-3 Big Ten) and drawing roars from a home crowd at Lakeside Field.

“It was just smiles all around, like super exciting,” Wadas said of her gamewinning goal. “It took all 25 of us to win that game and I’m glad that I was able to put it away, but again…I have to give all the credit to my teammates.”

The top-ten matchup on the Wild cats’ Senior Day was a competitive battle between two teams that stack right next to each other in Big Ten standings.

Both teams were unable to put any thing in the cage over back-and-forth competition across four quarters and first overtime. With three missed shots, junior midfielder Maddie Zimmer’s attempts to put the Cats on the board in the first two quarters were foiled. Michigan missed five shots in the second quarter.

Coach Tracey Fuchs credited her team’s defense for fending off the

Wolverines’ attempts.

“I thought we held them in check today,” Fuchs said. “Anytime you can keep their best players off the score board is a great day.”

Locked in a stalemate at the end of regu lation, the game headed into overtime. A penalty corner by Marshall gave fifth-year forward Bente Baekers a chance to finish things for the Cats at the end of first over time, but her shot was blocked. Fifth-year back Kayla Blas stepped up to the line next, shooting just high of the goal.

Junior goalie Annabel Skubisz’s six saves, including two critical saves in double overtime, kept NU in the game.

Marshall’s penalty corner in the ninth minute of double overtime gave Wadas her moment, scoring her third goal of the season in dramatic fashion.

Blas, whose assists positioned Marshall for a penalty corner and Wadas for the shot, said the highly ranked battle was more of a physical game than anything.

“It just came down to who was more scrappy in the circle,” Blas said.

The Cats have had their fair share of overtime play recently. Before Friday’s match, three of their last five games ended in overtime, with NU beating Ohio State in the first overtime last week with a goal from senior midfielder Ana Medina Garcia.

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important lessons from these over time games.

“A big thing is just keeping posses sion,” Wadas said. “All six of us are going to move forward and attack, and all six of us are going to defend.”

NU also honored its seniors with a walkoff win in their last home game of the regular season.

Fuchs said she is proud of the class that helped the Cats achieve both their first No. 1 national ranking and national champion ship in program history.

“It’s an amazing class… It starts with Kayla (Blas),” Fuchs said. “She’s been our general, our field general, and just the workhorse of the team.”

The 2021 national champions will face Indiana and Miami (Ohio) in their last matches of the regular season, before moving on to the Big Ten and NCAA Tournaments.

Though neither the Hoosiers nor the RedHawks are ranked, Fuchs said NU cannot take its opponents lightly ahead of the postseason.

“We need to make sure we’re ready and do the same preparation for Indiana and Miami to set ourselves up to finish in the highest we can in the Big Ten,” Fuchs said. “There’s still a lot on the line and we want to keep getting better for NCAAs.”

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NU sweeps Maryland in rematch

By PALOMA LEONE-GETTEN the daily northwestern @pleonegetten

Several days made the difference between Northwestern getting swept by Maryland and Chicago’s Big Ten Team returning the favor.

The Wildcats (15-7, 4-6 Big Ten) took down the Terrapins (12-10, 3-7) in straight sets Saturday after a decisive Maryland victory just eight days prior. In another big conference battle, NU picked up its first road win of the week end Friday against Rutgers (7-15, 1-9).

A closely fought first set saw the teams trading points. While the Ter rapins’ ever-present block persisted, the Cats’ steady passing and dynamic offense made up for it. A perfectly-timed challenge by coach Shane Davis tied the game at 19, giving NU enough momen tum to take the set.

“I think last night and tonight (were) more about us being in rhythm and knowing what kind of set to expect in a lot of different situations,” Davis said. “Our attackers did a really good job of knowing what that is.”

The Cats, steady over the next two sets, split their kills between six play ers. Standout senior outside hitter Temi Thomas-Ailara picked up 18 for an aver age of six kills per set, well above her career average of 4.06. Freshman out side hitter Kathryn Randorf also had a big night, tallying 12 kills and hitting an efficient .385, while senior middle blocker Desiree Becker hit .500 on 10 attempts.

But what really set NU apart was confidence. Last week’s competition against Maryland was freshman setter Sienna Noordermeer’s first collegiate match, for which she had only a day to prepare, according to Davis. Still, Noordermeer seems to have settled in over the past week, guiding the Cats to victory against the Terrapins with 35 assists.

Davis said she has seen Noordermeer transform into a more confident setter in just a few matches.

“You’re just starting to see her mak ing that shift now from, (what) I always call ‘overhand ball distributor’ to being a setter and running schemes and running

plays,” Davis said. “(I’ve) really seen some good stuff there.”

Noordermeer was planning on red shirting, likely to avoid losing a year of eligibility while junior setter Alexa Rousseau, who is currently sidelined, competed with the Cats. However, for non-medical redshirting, playing just one point forfeits that option. With the timeline of Rousseau’s return to the court unclear, Noordermeer is NU’s setter for the foreseeable future. Tallying a career-high 45 assists in Friday’s win against Rutgers, she played a crucial role in both matches this weekend.

Thomas-Ailara picked up 19 kills against the Scarlet Knights, while fifthyear outside hitter Hanna Lesiak added 12, along with tying her career high of five blocks. Junior middle blocker Leilani Dodson was also part of seven of the Cats’ 13 blocks.

“Rutgers is tough at home,” Davis said. “They play in a great arena and an arena that we’ve never been in. Losing a tough set two battle, (seeing) some

good play by Rutgers (was hard), but the way we responded in sets three and four was great. It was big for us.”

Though NU dropped a close second set, it made short work of Rutgers in the third and fourth sets, winning 25-12 and 25-16, respectively.

These road wins indicate that the Cats are headed in the right direction going into the second half of Big Ten play, where they will face five top-25 teams in the next month.

Going into a tough stretch of the sea son, Davis emphasized the cruciality of momentum for his team.

“Any win on the road is a great win,” Davis said. “And (it) just feels good carrying over into next week at home against Purdue and Iowa, which are two really good teams. … So it’s just good momentum to take back with us home.”

NU looks to stay in the win column Friday against Purdue at Welsh-Ryan Arena.

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NU falls to Wisconsin in Senior Day battle

By ALEX CERVANTES daily senior staffer @cervantespalex

Surrounded by family and friends on a picturesque 70-degree day at Martin Stadium, Northwestern’s 12 seniors and graduate students gathered for a group photo Sunday ahead of their clash with Wisconsin.

“They’re all of the highest character,” coach Russell Payne said of his graduat ing upperclassmen. “They bleed purple. They’ve given tremendously over four, five years to this team. So we’re forever grateful to them.”

The matinee conference showdown was not only the Wildcats’ Senior Day, but also a match with significant postseason implications.

Entering the game in the basement of the Big Ten standings, NU (2-8-5, 0-5-2 Big Ten) needed a victory to leapfrog the Badgers and Michigan to seventh place in the conference. But the Cats ultimately fell short 1-0 to the Badgers.

Payne’s squad was on the front foot in the game’s opening minutes, as freshman midfielder Jason Gajadhar and junior mid fielder Joseph Arena combined for the first chance of the game. After Gajadhar stole the ball in the final third, he played a won derfully weighted pass in between Badger defenders to Arena. The New Jersey native’s shot was parried away by the Wisconsin goalkeeper, but NU looked bright.

The match flipped on a dime, as a selfinflicted wound from the Cats just two minutes later blessed the Badgers with possession in great field positioning.

Senior defender Jayson Cyrus’ errant touch was stolen by Badger Jack Finnegan, who proceeded to whip a ball across the face of goal. Graduate student goalkeeper Christian Garner was positioned at the near post and could do little to block the pass, while sophomore defender Brandon Clag ette was a step behind Wisconsin’s Maxwell Keenan. At the back post, Keenan tapped the ball in with the outside of his boot, securing a 1-0 advantage for the Badgers.

Payne subbed Cyrus out with 10 minutes remaining in the first half. As the Maryland native walked towards the

bench, he and Payne spoke briefly along the touchline.

“He was pretty down and (I was) just trying to lift him up,” Payne said. “We rise together, we fall together. I told him it could’ve been anybody (and) it’s on all of us.”

Senior midfielder Logan Weaver replaced Cyrus at left back in his first appearance of the season. Payne said Weaver has been sidelined with an ankle injury since May, and while the goal was to get him some minutes in last Wednesday’s match, the opportunity didn’t present itself.

Wisconsin carried the one-goal lead into halftime, but Payne expressed optimism at NU’s performance in the opening frame.

“In the first half we had some really good momentum,” Payne said. “We were connecting in some good areas. We got a lot of crosses into good spots and service into the box. I said at halftime, ‘They have more blocks than I’ve ever seen in a game this season.’”

Payne implored his squad to keep the same level of intensity and pressure in the opening minutes of the second half. He assured the Cats that if they were “a little bit more clinical and more composed,” they would find a goal or two.

But NU’s hopes for an equalizing goal never materialized. The Cats came out flat to kick off the second frame and took around 15 to 20 minutes to really get going, Payne said.

A flurry of attacking forays from NU in the game’s waning moments challenged the Badgers’ backline, but Wisconsin withstood the onslaught like a brick wall. Graduate student defender Ethan Dudley’s volley in the 73rd minute was the Cats’ clos est attempt at an equalizer, but his effort slammed off the crossbar.

NU finished the second half with 12 shots, four of which forced saves, but was unable to level the score, falling 1-0 to the Badgers.

It’s officially do-or-die time for the Cats ahead of next Sunday’s matchup with Michigan State. A win against the Spartans and a Wolverines defeat secures a postsea son berth; anything else and Payne’s second season in Evanston comes to a close.

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