The Daily Northwestern – October 25, 2017

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Residents mixed on theater return

By JAKE HOLLAND

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Evanston residents voiced approval for the return of Northlight Theatre to the city, but expressed concerns over the mixed-use development and its potential impact on the downtown area at a Tuesday discussion.

The community dialogue, organized by Mayor Steve Hagerty and hosted at Bangers & Lace, allowed residents to engage with both Northlight directors and building developers. Hagerty said the discussion was meant to give developers feedback before they formally introduce it to the Design and Project Review Committee.

The proposed mixed-use development — located in the 1700 block of Sherman Avenue between Clark Street and Church Street — would include two theaters, a street-level restaurant, a boutique hotel, residential units and a parking garage.

The project would bring back the nonprofit theater company — originally founded in Evanston — from Skokie, where it has been for the last 20 years. However, it would also force several businesses like Campus Gear,The Gap Inc. and Bookends & Beginnings to either relocate or close.

Constance Porteous, an Evanston resident who attended the discussion, told The Daily that while she “loved” Northlight and supported its return to the city, the current project raised some issues.

“My major concern is the change of the look of Evanston,” Porteous said. “As someone

pointed out, (the project) comes to look more like LA or downtown Chicago than the quality town that it has been in my years living here.”

BJ Jones, Northlight’s artistic director, said moving to a location in Evanston with smaller “laboratory” spaces would allow the company to do more new, experimental work.

“We’re looking for the opportunity … to do that work in a smaller space where the economic impact and pressure is not so heavy on our bottom line,” Jones said. “We need a theater lab and a couple of rehearsal spaces to be able to do stuff in development without disturbing our regular five-play season.”

Jones said the project — which includes both a mainstage and a black box theater — might allow Northlight to put on an additional play each year.

He said the project would allow Northlight to work year-round on the mainstage while also renting out the second stage to smaller theater companies that are economically challenged.

He added that the proposed location, which is more accessible by public transit than the current Skokie location, would increase inclusivity by attracting people without cars.

The project — spearheaded by Farpoint Developers, Skidmore Owings & Merrill and RATIO Design — would generate about 200 full or part-time jobs per year and more than $100 million in spending over a 10-year period, according to a 2015 economic impact study conducted by » See NORTHLIGHT, page 5

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Housing in the sorority quad. PHA president Karalyn Berman said chapters will partner to create presentations about different values.

PHA makes changes to Preview

By ERICA SNOW

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Potential new members of the Panhellenic Association will now visit only half of its chapters to learn about different values during Recruitment Preview in November.

The 12 chapters partnered to create presentations about six values, instead of creating individual presentations about

their own chapters, PHA president Karalyn Berman said. The Weinberg senior said the change will make Preview about an hour shorter, which will make the process less stressful for PNMs. Berman said the revised Preview will help address some of the “more toxic, competitive elements” during recruitment.

“We are one community,” Berman said. “We will all succeed when we can bring the members who want to be in our chapters into our community as

a whole. Moving towards these collaborative presentations … will more explicitly draw that line.”

Chapters will stress six values: sisterhood, inclusion, service and philanthropy, wellness, leadership and campus involvement.

Previously, PNMs visited all 12 PHA chapters to learn about them individually before the formal recruitment process in Winter Quarter. This year, the presentations are less personal to each chapter and instead focus

on the entire PHA community, Berman said.

Hayley Miller, president of Zeta Tau Alpha, said her chapter will create a presentation with Kappa Alpha Theta about sisterhood. The Medill junior, who is a former Daily staffer, said the change will help stress the PHA community as a whole to PNMs. Miller, who did not attend Preview as a freshman, said some PNMs can feel connected to a » See PHA, page 5

ACLU director discusses civil liberties Luxury building garners criticism

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The national legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union said the responsibility of advocating for civil liberties falls on everyone, not just public officials, at an event Tuesday.

David Cole’s talk, titled “We’ll See You in Court: The Defense of Liberty in the Era of Trump,” was the 28th annual Richard W. Leopold Lecture.

Cole spoke in Cahn Auditorium to more than 100 people about the opportunity to use the present “threat in Donald Trump” as a motivator to increase political activism.

“The ultimate defenders of liberty are not the formal structures of government,” Cole said.

“They’re not even the courts.

They are us. They are all of us.”

Cole said it was important to have a system of checks and » See ACLU, page 5

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David Cole, the national legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union, speaks at an event in Cahn Auditorium. He argued that individuals outside the formal scope of government have the responsibility to fight for the protection of civil liberties.

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Residents expressed overwhelming concern for a 25-story building proposal at a 1st Ward meeting Tuesday.

Developers for the building presented their plans to an audience of about 80 people at The Merion, a luxury senior living home across the street from the planned development. The proposed building would include 215 residential units and surpass Park Evanston as the highest building on the block by about 25 feet, said Tim Kent, a partner at the architectural firm that developed the plans.

Jeff Michael, owner of The Merion and the site of the proposed development, said the luxury residential complex would target higher-income and “empty-nested” residents.

However, he added that he is open to considering other resident populations. Michael said he hopes to change the current “tired” retail center at 1621 Chicago Ave. and fill the “missing tooth on an otherwise beautiful block.”

“Our vision is to build the most beautiful and most luxurious residential tower that has ever existed in Evanston,” he said.

“It will change the complexion of this block for the better and provide a level of living experience and services that simply do not exist anywhere else in Evanston.”

Kate Poole, an Evanston resident who attended the event, said she disapproved of the building’s height and the shadows it would create.

“You are changing the nature of our downtown and our community,” Poole said. “The farther you go, the more opposition you will get.” » See BUILDING, page 5

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AROUND TOWN Association for county, city governments instates Bobkiewicz as region VP

Evanston city manager Wally Bobkiewicz was instated Tuesday as midwest regional vice president of the International City/County Management Association.

The association aims to advance local professional government management globally through “leadership, management, innovation and ethics,” the organization said in a Tuesday news release.

Bobkiewicz was elected to a three-year term on June 23, according to the release. He said in the release that people need to alter their

ETHS officials discuss procedure for review of educational curriculum

Evanston Township High School/District 202 officials discussed the school’s curriculum review process at a joint meeting with Evanston/Skokie School District 65 on Monday.

Pete Bavis, District 202’s assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction, said he is partnering with the district’s equity analyst, Lauren Hamilton, to create a “mechanism” that aims to elevate the

POLICE BLOTTER Cell phone, money stolen in south Evanston

A 30-year-old Chicago woman’s cell phone and money were stolen Monday in south Evanston.

The woman, who called police around 12:30 p.m. from the McDonald’s in the 1100 block of Howard Street, said she left her backpack in a restaurant booth for a moment, said Evanston Police spokesman Perry Polinski.

After returning to the booth, the woman noticed her backpack was gone, Polinski said.

view of local government, and as an ICMA midwest regional vice president, he hopes to implement that change.

“This is a critical time for local government,” Bobkiewicz said in the release. “The jobs that we do are getting tougher and tougher, and too few people, particularly young people, look at local government and see themselves or understand what it is that we do.”

As one of 18 vice presidents — three of whom are also from the Midwest — Bobkiewicz will represent the organization to state associations of local government management, and will maintain the group’s relationships with similar organizations, the release said.

Bobkiewicz has been a member of the association since 1985 and has served on a number

of the organization’s task forces, committees and advisory boards. In 2014, he was awarded the ICMA Service Award in recognition of his 25 years of service to local government.

The organization comprises about 11,000 members from local governments across the U.S. as well as 32 other countries. Educators and students are also members.

“We are honored that Wally will join the ICMA Executive Board as Midwest Vice President,” said ICMA executive director Marc Ott in the release. “The individuals who serve on the ICMA Executive Board are outstanding leaders, not only in their own communities but also in the field of professional local government management.”

voices of students of color to influence curriculum development.

Bavis said the school plans to form focus groups by the beginning of second semester.

“We have a very rich history at ETHS going back over a hundred years of … making decisions about African-American achievement, curriculum for students of color and for all of our students,” he said.

Bavis said the focus groups will inform the curriculum development and review processes. He said he had researched ways to implement the focus groups, but found that ETHS was alone in the initiative.

The 2017-18 Superintendent’s Joint Achievement report — also discussed at Monday’s meeting

— contained data that sought to predict student success in high school based on certain eighth grade benchmarks, and success in college based on high school benchmarks.

The report revealed achievement gaps between both black and white students as well as gaps between Hispanic and white students.

Using student voices in curriculum development reflects part of the high school’s attempt to “take action” in response to the report, Bavis said.

The woman reported seeing a man in a black hoodie hastily leaving the McDonald’s, but told police she wasn’t sure if he was involved with the theft.

The backpack was discovered shortly after in the men’s bathroom, Polinski said.

The woman’s cell phone and $110 in cash were missing from the bag.

and Monday morning.

The car’s owner, a 24-year-old Evanston man, called police Monday around 8:30 a.m. after noticing a hole in the rear window, Polinski said, but nothing was missing from the car. The resident told police he parked in the 700 block of Brummel Street around 4 p.m. on Sunday.

Officers who arrived at the scene saw a twofoot by two-foot hole in the window, but could not say what had caused it, Polinski said.

Car window broken in south Evanston

The rear window of a car was broken in south Evanston between Sunday afternoon

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Setting the record straight A story in August’s Orientation Issue titled “Explaining NU sororities, preview, bids” incorrectly identified the affiliation of recruitment counselors, and misstated the length and stages of formal recruitment. Recruitment counselors are disaffiliated members of Panhellenic Association chapters, the process takes a total of seven days and is divided into three sets, not including Preference Night and Bid Night.

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ON CAMPUS Northwestern wins 5 national awards for civic engagement, voting rate

Northwestern won five awards for civic participation Oct. 19, including one for the highest increase in voter registration among U.S. universities, according to a news release.

The ALL IN Challenge Awards Ceremony, held in Washington, D.C., recognized colleges and universities for promoting civic engagement. The challenge uses voter registration data and tracks participation rates from more than 1,000 colleges and universities to determine award winners.

NU also won the awards for the highest voting rate among large, private four-year institutions and the standout administrator award.The accolade recognized work done by Rob Donahue, associate director of the Center for Civic Engagement, according to the release.

“We’ve worked with colleagues across campus — students, faculty, staff, administrators and community partners — to try to make responsible civic engagement a cultural norm at Northwestern,” Donahue said in the release.

Ninety-one percent of eligible NU undergraduate and graduate students were registered to vote in 2016, compared with a 71 percent average across U.S. institutions, according to the release. Additionally, 64 percent of eligible NU students voted in 2016, compared to 50 percent across institutions.

The voting rate at NU increased by 15.2 percentage points between 2012 and 2016.

Pritzker, Kellogg partner on immersion program based in San Francisco The Pritzker School of Law and Kellogg School of Management will partner to create a San Francisco Immersion Program open to Pritzker students, the University announced Tuesday.

Participating second- and third-year law students will spend the first 10 weeks of the 2018 spring semester in San Francisco taking both Kellogg and

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NU Votes volunteers speak to students at a voter registration booth in September 2016. Northwestern won five awards for civic engagement at a ceremony Oct. 19, including the highest increase in voter registration among all U.S. universities.

“Folks often dismiss young people as apathetic,” Donahue said. “But this work demonstrates that when young people are given a consistent, accessible and understandable opportunity to register to vote, the vast majority will choose to do so. And that, in turn, has a substantial impact on the youth vote.”

Donahue attributed the University’s success to the Center for Civic Engagement’s NU Votes program.

The program, created in 2011, hosts student registration stations and events throughout the year to create “awareness and enthusiasm” for civic engagement, according to the release. The center also runs “Voter Vans,” which shuttle students to polling stations during elections.

This year, NU Votes representatives held voter registration stations throughout campus on move-in

day. By the end of the day, more than 96 percent of eligible freshmen were registered to vote.

Steffany Bahamon (McCormick ’17), a former Center for Civic Engagement fellow, told The Daily that NU Votes not only promotes the importance of voting, but also makes the process easy.

Bahamon, who volunteered with the voter registration stations and “Voter Vans,” said the awards mean a lot to her personally and to the University as a whole.

“It means that the Center for Civic Engagement has made a pretty big difference on campus,” Bahamon said. “It shows that Northwestern students are also becoming more civically minded and more engaged with the world at large.”

Pritzker courses, a University news release said. The program will focus on the legal and business environment of startups, venture capital firms and technology companies.

Northwestern’s satellite campus in San Francisco, which began offering classes in Winter Quarter 2017, will be open to students in the immersion program, according to the release.

Courses from Pritzker offered in the program will include “The Business and Law of Venture Deals” and “Competition Policy: Antitrust and Intellectual Property,” the release said. Kellogg will offer “Launching and Leading Start-Ups” and “Social Dynamics

and Network Analytics,” among others.

While taking classes, students will also participate in a “legal externship” for 10 to 15 hours per week with a high-tech company in the Bay Area.

“This exciting development complements our growing array of offerings at the intersection of law, business and technology, and augments our resolute efforts to prepare our students to think entrepreneurially, no matter the career path they ultimately choose,” Pritzker Dean Daniel Rodriguez said in the release.

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It’s time we stop gambling innocent lives over guns CALVIN ANDERSON

DAILY COLUMNIST

Three weeks have now passed since the shooting in Las Vegas, and, unsurprisingly, talk of gun law reform has died down with no serious attempts at legal change in sight. After years of tragedy followed by little to no reform, those of us who desire change have exhausted all appeals to reason or sympathy. They all fall short of whatever impossibly high threshold has been set by corrupt lawmakers, and at this point there is no doubt they have been strongarmed by the National Rifle Association. Even corruption, though, should falter against the pity that comes with this repetitive, irrational bloodshed. At this point, I can think of only two explanations for how America’s gun laws have withstood their constant testing.

To understand the first, we can look at “Saturday Night Live’s” response to the Vegas shootings. The Oct. 7 episode began with Jason Aldean, the country musician on stage when the shootings began, singing a cover of Tom

Petty’s “I Won’t Back Down,” both a statement about the violence and a tribute to the rock star who died the same week as the Vegas victims. Though in one respect this was a tasteful gesture, the chorus of the song is a perfect example of what is wrong with American gun rhetoric: “I won’t back down/Gonna stand my ground.” America sees itself in a winnable battle where good guys with guns have to “stand their ground” against bad guys with guns, or in the case of the man who shot Trayvon Martin, against a 17-year-old with a bag of Skittles.

America may see itself as the complicated superhero that sacrifices the lives of a few innocent people to uphold greater values of justice and freedom, but it looks more like a poor gambler with a bad addiction. It loses again and again, and yet it thinks that just maybe, if it puts more money down, if it develops and legalizes more violent weapons, it will win back everything on the next hand. The problem is that innocent lives are not in the pot to win back; they are gone. Further, this is a rigged game. We are never given the upper hand. No matter how many hands we play, no matter how many lives we bet, we will never win. We must fold.

A second possible explanation for our lawmakers’ irrationality is an effect of corruption by the NRA: Perhaps, corruption has become so ingrained that it leads politicians to benefit from effects of these shootings in a way that is almost sadistic. Of course, none of them are sitting back and taking pleasure at the deaths of thousands of Americans, but some politicians garner support from the small percentage of the population that reacts to these atrocities by saying “give me more guns so I can stand my ground.” It’s no secret that some politicians receive money from the lobbyists who consolidate those few voices into one. All that support increases precisely in times following some of the worst mass shootings, and so, while no politicians cheer gun violence, there are certainly some who benefit from its side effects.

This point becomes more clear when you think beyond publicized mass killings. Politicians respond en masse to shootings that kill middle-to-upper income, predominantly white men and women. But the sympathetic rhetoric is often missing when politicians, particularly Republicans, talk about gun violence in lowerincome areas. Those discussions often focus on

the “stand your ground” sentiment that rallies support for gun ownership. For example, there was President Donald Trump’s racist campaign refrain about the dangerous streets of Chicago.

Has he done anything to reduce violence here since his election? It seems more likely that he wanted to anger people into buying more guns so he could sit back and watch his power consolidate from behind the secure walls of the White House.

To blame Republicans alone, though, would not be fair. The blood is also on Democratic hands, who are either equally corrupt or have sat back and let the “stand my ground” attitude prevail. It is time that we as a nation choose to back down from our unwinnable fight for “freedom” and stand our ground against the power-driven, violent inertia that has killed thousands across the country.

Calvin Anderson is a Weinberg junior and copresident of College Democrats. He can be contacted at calvinanderson2019@u.northwestern.edu. If you would like to respond publicly to this op-ed, send a Letter to the Editor to opinion@dailynorthwestern.com. The views expressed in this piece do not necessarily reflect the views of all staff members of The Daily Northwestern.

Trump’s actions in Turkey present dim future prospects ROBERTO VOTTA

OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR

On Oct. 4, Turkish authorities arrested Metin Topuz, a United States Consulate employee, on charges of espionage and treason, with alleged links to the Gulenist movement, the group the Turkish government holds responsible for the failed coup attempt last summer.

The next day, the U.S. Embassy in Turkey released a statement condemning the arrest, and followed this up by indefinitely suspending all nonimmigrant visa applications Oct. 8, which includes F-1 and J-1 student visas for future incoming Turkish students. Turkey replied titfor-tat with a similar statement of visa suspension later the same day.

If the relationship between the world’s most powerful nuclear nation and the world’s most powerful non-nuclear nation was growing tense at any other point in time, heads would immediately turn. However, this is a time when the news cycle seems to be the Twitter feed of the Doomsday Clock, so it is not likely for news related to U.S.Turkish relations to make the front pages of U.S. newspapers.

Yet, it is worth examining not only what happened, but how things have been handled since then by the current U.S. administration. It turns

out that it was handled exactly how you’d imagine: with all the diplomatic intent and tact of a man at war with Saturday Night Live.

When the news broke Oct. 8 that non-immigrant visas were being suspended between both countries, President Donald Trump was tweeting at Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), much like the way a senile grandfather yells at the television. On Oct. 9, The New York Times, seemingly acting like the country’s new secretary of state, took it upon itself to lay out the grievances between the U.S. and Turkey, while the White House was busy releasing self-congratulatory statements of praise from cabinet members about immigration reform policies.

Then, other parties joined the fray. Stephen Bryen, touted as “a thought leader on technology security policy” and a senior fellow at the American Center for Democracy, a Washington-based think tank, published an op-ed Oct. 13 calling Turkey’s future in NATO “uncertain.” Instead of denying or contradicting this claim, as they have previously done with other think tanks that exposed the nature of their reverse Robin Hood tax plan, Republicans and the White House focused on what seemed to truly matter to them: pissing off Iran.

The State Department decided to do something Oct. 19, in what to me seems characteristically Republican: finding a foreign policy mess and making it worse. That same day, State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert released a statement saying “We’ve expressed to the Turkish

Government our concerns on many occasions about this trend — the trend of curbs on free speech, detentions, the overall erosion of democratic society there.” Careful and tempered wording for a delicate situation.

One could accurately argue, though, that Turkish-American relations fluctuate constantly.

In a 2008 Pew Research poll conducted in Turkey, 76 percent of responders said they were worried the U.S. could become a military threat, with 68 percent also saying that the U.S.’s influence was negative in the world.

However, there are two reasons why the current crisis is worse. The first is that the numbers in the polls decreased to 54 percent and 45 percent respectively by 2009. Public opinion was so low due to there being a highly unpopular president in office — President George W. Bush — and it went back up when Barack Obama became president. In June, the Pew Research Center reported that eight in 10 Turkish people have an unfavorable opinion toward the U.S. This time around, the U.S. president has only been in office for a year.

The second reason is that experts say relations have not been this bad since 1974, when Turkey invaded a U.S. ally in Cyprus and clashed with the U.S.-led Cypriot junta. This time, all grievances are diplomatic and, up until this incident, have been indirect.

Why does any of this matter? Turkey, a NATO ally since 1952, is key to stability in the Middle East, as it is one of the most stable countries in

Hate mail lowers level of debate, discourse ALEX SCHWARTZ

DAILY COLUMNIST

As an opinion writer, I’m fully aware that people who read my columns are not in any way obligated to agree with them. That’s kind of the point of this desk: Through voicing our own opinions, we columnists tend to compel others to voice theirs in return.

Still, it’s easy to feel dejected when I receive an anonymous, unpunctuated email calling me a fascist or a vague Facebook comment that just says “bad” in response to one of my columns.

Hate mail and comments don’t bother me because they’re mean or offensive; they bother me because they’re unproductive.

When someone responds rudely to a balanced and respectful column, they lower the level of debate I intended to set.

In no way am I trying to discourage people from writing respectful comments that disagree with my ideas. I don’t intend for my columns to exist in an echo chamber, and I welcome critical responses as a necessary component of informed debate. But what is the point of sending me a nasty Facebook

comment that adds no new ideas to the conversation?

That said, people like me who intentionally voice their opinions, especially on the internet, shouldn’t expect to publish anything without receiving insulting responses. There will always be hate mail, and I’ve had to learn to address it.

I remind myself that a response that does not contribute anything of value should not be given much weight. If someone isn’t confident or passionate enough about their own ideas to write a balanced, thought-out response to my balanced, thought-out column, why should I validate their statement in the conversation I’m trying to start?

I don’t reject these comments blindly upon detecting the slightest ounce of negativity.

At first, I try to disconnect tone from content. I think to myself, “Is this person trying to introduce new ideas, or are they just trying to negate mine?” Though commenters aren’t always respectful, they could have a point, and I am cognizant of that.

People tell me to just ignore the responses I get, saying I shouldn’t care what other people think. But I do care, not necessarily because of my own feelings, but because I want to have a meaningful debate. I don’t want to write into a void, but I don’t want to write into a cesspool of negativity either.

Herein lies my problem with hate mail and, in a larger context, hate speech: not only is it incredibly offensive, but it fails to add valid, fact-based ideas that are enriching to a debate. Hate speech is purposefully destructive to individuals and the larger cultural narrative. We shouldn’t tolerate it, we shouldn’t perpetuate it and we shouldn’t force ourselves to engage with it.

I want to foster a constructive conversation, whether it be in a string of Facebook comments, email responses or in person on campus. Hate mail is a derailment of that conversation — it isn’t good for whomever writes it, and it isn’t good for whomever is affected by it.

So, the next time you comment on a column, article or really anything online, think hard about what you’re saying. Think not only about how the person you’re talking to will feel when they read it, but whether you’re really adding something to the conversation.

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

the region, despite all internal conflicts in the past years. It is the most powerful non-nuclear nation in the world, the fourth-most powerful nation in NATO and can field the second-largest army in NATO. So, if not for the emotional component of using the nation as a negotiating piece back in 1962, the relationship between the U.S. and Turkey should be saved for the great strategic value it holds.

Now let’s be clear, nobody is saying that Turkey is free of any blame. Trying to exonerate the Turkish president would be like trying to persuade the police you didn’t commit the murder while wielding the victim’s head. And while lambasting U.S. officials and calling the U.S. the problem itself does not help tensions, the Turkish president has attempted to patch the relationship between both countries by asking the secretary of state to find a diplomatic resolution. In an attempt to make amends, the secretary of state said both countries can “resolve (the) issues with mutual understanding.” The ball is now in the U.S.’s court, but the country’s leader seems to be too busy tweeting about the NFL.

Roberto Votta is a McCormick freshman. He can be contacted at robertovotta2021@u.northwestern.edu.

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She added that though PHA should stress community, it faces a “short-term problem.”

“My big concern with presenting about the PHA community and what PHA is as a whole is that it might not feel super, super genuine,” Miller said. “I know the PHA experience is different for different people in different chapters. ... I do believe it’s a little bit of a stretch this year, how much we’re focusing on the PHA community.”

Berman said the new collaboration will help promote “cross-Panhellenic spirit.”

PNMs will not miss anything by seeing half of the chapter houses, she added.

“Right now, I feel like there is a stronger sense of Panhellenic community than I was aware of

when I was younger,” Berman said. “I feel like we’ve grown, and there are a lot of different spaces for our members to interact with the Panhellenic community as a community these days.”

Alpha Phi president Lyndsey Armacost said PNMs can learn about a chapter’s personality during individual conversations at Preview.

The Medill senior said her chapter will partner with Gamma Phi Beta to discuss inclusion, and that the partnerships display a greater trend of increased community within the council.

She added that she would’ve enjoyed the change if she were going through the recruitment process because Preview will be shorter than in past years.

“I would’ve had a more positive experience because I wouldn’t be seeing each chapter and trying to discern … what each chapter seemed like on that day,” Armacost said. “Panhellenic Preview should be focused on joining Panhellenic, rather than joining individual chapters.”

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Despite this, several residents voiced concern about the project’s size and its impact on Evanston rent prices, echoing similar criticism of other major development projects.

Susan Barrett-Kelly (SESP ’11), an Evanston resident who attended the event, told The Daily she worried that developers might not adequately support the businesses that would have to close or relocate.

Still, Barrett-Kelly said she supported the project in light of future challenges the city may face, like declining retail sales. She said though she enjoys the shops at the proposed site, the project would create a more robust downtown area “for years to come.”

“One of the things you can’t get in a box from Amazon is live theater and a dinner out,”Barrett-Kelly said.

“I want us to be vibrant for the next 25 years.”

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… but hopefully they’ve listened to us.”

Once Michael submits a formal application, the plans will go to a project review committee before recommendations are made to City Council.

balances that come from informal institutions such as the press and nonprofit advocacy groups.

These communities are a “critical resource” in advocating for civil liberties, he said.

Weinberg senior Mariel Soto Reyes, who attended the lecture, told The Daily she’s still nervous for what will happen to civil liberties in the remainder of President Donald Trump’s term.

She said she appreciated Cole’s optimism for the continuation of civil liberty advocacy during the current political era.

“I always find it interesting and also somewhat inspiring to see how people are capable of turning even the darkest of situations into a positive,” Soto Reyes said. “I guess the result is people are banding together to make an impact in a big way.”

Cole added that both liberal and conservative groups responded to threats toward their civil rights after Trump’s election by mobilizing to influence constitutional law. For example, he said National Rifle Association members are always ready to take action and protect their gun rights.

Evanston resident Virginia Carr, a gun control advocate, told The Daily she saw how large numbers of people who consistently support the same issues can generate change. She said her church advocated for responsible gun laws in 2000, but it was an isolated event that didn’t continue the following year.

“It can’t just be a demonstration one time,” Carr said. “It’s got to involve constantly doing something … to show that there are more of us than (NRA members).”

ACLU membership has increased from 400,000 to 1.6 million since January, Cole said.

He said he sees this increase as an indication people want to “engage in a fight” to protect their civil rights.

Cole added that he believes the nation can use the present state of the political world to protect these liberties, seeing this as a time for growth.

“Ten years from now,” Cole said, “(We might) come together and look back on this time as a dark time, a time when we had a president who seemed to show little respect for and understanding of even basic constitutional norms, civil rights and civil liberties, but (also) a time that affected the transformation in American politics.”

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After receiving applause for her comments, Poole urged Michael to explore alternatives that would lower the building’s height.

Michael, however, said the building would fit with the rest of the Evanston skyline. He said he is “all for … preserving the charm and the history of this community.”

Though some residents supported the luxury tower — which includes amenities such as a fitness center, outdoor grilling area, swimming pool and valet parking service — others expressed concerns about traffic and interference with the existing bike lane.

A porte cochère would allow cars going to the tower to avoid stopping in the bike lane when pulling off the main road, Michael said.

However, Evanston resident Carl Klein said, cars would still have to cross the already dangerous bike lane, which is located on a busy street.

Evanston resident Michael Poulos said towers like this one do not belong in Evanston.

“I don’t think Evanston should be a city of skylines,” Poulos said. “If you want high-rises, we have a place for it –– downtown Chicago.”

Ald. Judy Fiske (1st) echoed her constituents’ concerns about the building’s height and asked Michael to consider residents’ opinions before submitting a formal application.

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Ald. Judy Fiske (1st) addresses residents who expressed concern about a proposed tower on Chicago Ave. Fiske invited the building’s developer to a meeting to discuss the proposal.

Fiske spoke directly to meeting attendees and said she called the meeting to confirm the sentiment she suspected from 1st Ward residents.

“We need our downtown to keep renewing itself but in a way that doesn’t destroy the character of Evanston,” Fiske said. “We can’t say no to a developer

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Biss to introduce sexual harassment training legislation with Wallace State Sen. Daniel Biss (D-Evanston) will partner with State Rep. Litesa Wallace (D-Rockford) to introduce legislation that would require all legislators, legislative staff and lobbyists to undergo sexual harassment training.

Biss said in a news release Tuesday that increased attention to issues of sexual harassment provides an opportunity to enact lasting change. He said it was important to acknowledge the “toxic culture of sexual harassment in Springfield.”

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Local medical marijuana dispensary lease reduced due to legal uncertainties

PharmaCannis, a licensed medicinal marijuana dispensary located in downtown Evanston, will have its lease term reduced from three years to one year.

In April 2015, City Council approved PharmaCann’s lease through a subsidiary company, PharmaCannis. The change to PharmaCann’s agreement — approved by City Council at its Sept. 25 meeting — means its lease will expire on Dec. 31, 2018 instead of Dec. 31, 2020.

PharmaCann asked to reduce the lease due to uncertainty with the medical marijuana pilot program in Illinois. The program, which allows for the production of medicinal marijuana to treat approved medical conditions, was originally slated to end Dec. 31 of this year but was extended by Illinois legislature in August 2016 to run until 2020.

“Rather than waiting for the lease to expire, and then re-upping for a lengthy 3-year term, we simply asked Evanston to shorten our

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State Sen. Daniel Biss (D-Evanston) speaks at an event. Biss will introduce legislation requiring all legislators, legislative staff and lobbyists to undergo sexual harassment training.

option terms to accommodate the extension of the program,” said Jeremy Unruh, PharmaCann’s general counsel, in an email to The Daily. “We have no plans to vacate, close up shop, or change our business. We simply wanted to be more nimble with our business if the need ever arises.”

PharmaCann opened the first medical marijuana dispensary in Evanston after the program was approved, according to the Chicago Tribune. According to its website, PharmaCann was founded in 2014 and has dispensaries across Illinois and New York. Its dispensary in Evanston is one of four in the state, and the company also has two cultivation facilities in Illinois.

The medical cannabis pilot program was approved by state legislature in 2013. The program includes a list of illnesses that make patients eligible to use marijuana as a medical therapy. Patients can petition the Illinois Department of Public Health to add medical conditions to the existing list.

Amelia Langas contributed reporting.

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PharmaCannis is Evanston’s medical marijuana dispensary located at 1804 Maple Ave. PharmaCannis will have its lease term reduced from three years to one year.

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improve upon things we did well and not think about things we didn’t do well and keep getting better at our own game.”

Coach Shane Davis, looking for improvement in his second season at the helm of the program, said NU needs to focus on learning how to play with leads.

“We have done a great job, it has been a little bit of a theme, of getting a lead against really good teams and then giving up an easy run,” Davis said.

“This week and this next few matches we got to figure out how to not only get a lead, which we have been doing a good job with, but keep that lead and allow ourselves to finish off those sets.”

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in danger of falling to sixth with a loss. NU’s seed in the conference tournament, which starts Sunday, will also depend on five of the other six Big Ten games Wednesday. The Cats currently trail Penn State and lead Wisconsin, both by two points. The matchup between the Nittany Lions and Badgers will likely have an effect on where NU falls.

The Cats’ hot stretch began after a disheartening loss against Illinois, the No. 210 team in the RPI. Coach Michael Moynihan said though the loss hurt NU’s NCAA Tournament resume, the three-match win streak that followed reflects the team’s improved play.

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Alana Walker takes a swing. The freshman middle hitter the the Wildcats will face Rutgers on Wednesday.

“There was a little stretch in the season where we were letting some of the little details get away from us and we were sloppy,” Moynihan said.

“When the rest of the team sensed that, we’ve really picked it up these last three games, and they’ve executed really well. … I don’t know the RPI ins-and-outs, but I know that this streak has given us a good chance.”

If the team lets its guard down and falls to Michigan State, its tournament resume will likely suffer. The Spartans have won their previous two home games, but their victories came against unranked Big Ten opponents. Their goal differential is the worst in the conference, as they have conceded 27 times in nine conference games.

The Cats, meanwhile, have allowed just seven in

conference play and 15 on the season.

Despite a relatively weak matchup with the postseason looming overhead, Moynihan said he hopes the team ignores playoff implications. The players echoed his message, and maintain they are focused on the game ahead.

“We’re still there. We can still make it in the Big Ten (and) earn our way into the NCAA Tournament,” senior defender Kassidy Gorman said. “Our morale is really high. We’re not where we want to be yet, but the Cats are still in the fight and we know that.”

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for dear life.”

Nine minutes into overtime, NU gave up its second foul inside the box, allowing Loyola another penalty kick attempt. The Cats turned to White, who has tallied 44 saves in just seven games this season.

The junior saved both Loyola defender Grant Stoneman’s initial penalty kick and forward Alec Lasinski’s shot attempt on the rebound with 70 seconds left in the first overtime period. The two clutch saves gave NU a boost heading into the second overtime.

“When Robbie saved (the penalty), we didn’t help him out either on the rebound (and) weren’t on top of our game,” Katsiyiannis said.

“But he made another save, and if he was willing to put it all on the line for us, then we were going to do the same for him.”

The Cats needed just four more minutes to push forward offensively. Sophomore forward Mac Mazzola sent a ball ahead to Seager and Katsiyiannis on the counter attack, and it was Seager’s cut that allowed the freshman to break forward and score one-on-one against Loyola goalkeeper Evan Konermann.

The win gives NU some much-needed momentum heading into its final matchup of the regular season at Penn State. The Cats are still fighting for the No. 7 seed in the Big Ten Tournament, and a win over the Nittany Lions would secure that spot.

“It’s a playoff game,” White said. “It’s probably our biggest game of the season right now, and we’ve got to perform.” ellabrockway2021@u.northwestern.edu

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Clem recognized as top Big Ten defensive player for 2nd consecutive week

Senior goalkeeper Lauren Clem was named Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week and freshman forward Kayleigh Stahlschmidt earned freshman of the week honors, the conference announced Tuesday.

Both played key roles in Northwestern’s 1-0 win

over Nebraska on Saturday. Stahlschmidt came off the bench to score the lone goal, the first of her career, while Clem made three saves to keep her eighth clean sheet of the season.

Clem won her award for the second-straight week, continuing an excellent late-season stretch.

Her shutout against Nebraska was her third straight, and she moved to fifth in NCAA history with 45 career clean sheets.

She has now held opponents scoreless for 291 consecutive minutes, a period reminiscent of her 2016 campaign, in which she conceded just

seven goals all season and led the nation in save percentage.

Still, despite her individual success, Clem said earlier this month that clean sheets involve far more than just herself.

“To me, it’s a team stat first,” she said after NU shut out Minnesota on Oct. 12. “While it’s nice to have my name on it, it’s definitely nice to get Northwestern up there in the standings. It’s definitely a team effort for sure.”

Stahlschmidt, meanwhile, took advantage of a scramble in the box in the 65th minute, tapping a

loose ball into the net after junior defender Kayla Sharples outjumped the Cornhuskers’ goalkeeper.

She has appeared in 12 games this season off the bench, but entered Saturday’s game with just two shots on goal and one assist.

The win was significant for the Wildcats, who have won three straight games to charge up the Big Ten standings after a slow start to the season. NU now sits third in the conference ahead of its regular season finale at Michigan State on Wednesday.

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There’s no trophy or anything, but it’s a little thing that you always want to kind of be the best team in the area.

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Wildcats win home finale behind Katsiyiannis’ golden goal Loyola

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Northwestern’s first home game of the 2017 season was a 2-1 overtime win over Valparaiso on Aug. 25. It was only fitting the Wildcats ended their home season almost exactly two months later in the same fashion.

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There’s no trophy or anything, but it’s a little thing that you always want to kind of be the best team in the area.

Tim Lenahan, Coach

Freshman midfielder Tommy Katsiyiannis scored the golden goal in the second overtime period to give NU (6-10, 1-6 Big Ten) the 2-1 win over Loyola (6-6-3, 2-3-1 Missouri Valley) in its final home matchup of the regular season on a cold and rainy Tuesday night. Junior goalkeeper Robbie White saved back-to-back shots in the 99th minute to turn the tide in the Cats’ favor, and Katsiyiannis capitalized

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on the opportunity.

The win was NU’s first over the Ramblers since 2013, and completed the team’s season sweep over the three other Chicago area programs, which include DePaul and Illinois-Chicago.

“There’s no trophy or anything, but it’s a little thing that you always want to kind of be the best team in the area,” coach Tim Lenahan said.

“Loyola’s been the best team the last two years, so to get this result against them and to sweep that group was something that, looking forward, we can talk about.”

After a scoreless first half, the Cats opened the second period on a strong note, taking a 1-0 lead in the 49th minute on a header from sophomore forward Ty Seager.

Following Seager’s goal, the Cats battled wind and heightened pressure from Loyola. A string of plays that included two corner kicks in less than two minutes resulted in Loyola’s only score of the night.

Midfielder Aidan Megally’s header in the 76th minute brought the game to a tie.

The Ramblers’ second major offensive threat came in the 82nd minute when NU senior defender Riley Kelliher committed a foul

in the box and Loyola earned its first penalty kick. The Cats caught a lucky break when midfielder Kyle Thomson’s penalty kick hit the crossbar, the game keeping at 1-1 with under 10 minutes left in regulation. Their defense held to force overtime for the third time this season.

“I was taking my gloves off because I was getting ready to shake hands with

the coach, to be honest,” Lenahan said. “We talked about how we have to work on our defending post-penalty kick if the keeper makes the save, so that’s something you work on in practice every day. It was just (us) hanging on Noah Frick-Alofs/Daily Senior Staffer

» See MEN’S SOCCER, page 7

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WOMEN’S SOCCER

NU looks to snap skid Cats prep for regular season end against Scarlet Knights

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By JONAH DYLAN

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Northwestern is starting to fall back into a familiar pattern.

After going 3-17 in the Big Ten a season ago, the Wildcats (12-10, 2-8 Big Ten) have lost eight of 10 conference matches to start this season. But a matchup with lowly Rutgers (5-17, 0-10) on Wednesday could help NU right the ship.

“We have been through it all as a team,” senior outside hitter Symone Abbott said. “We have been through really highs and also really lows … and those lows can really ground everyone and we just start building from the ground up.”

This will be the second meeting this season between the Cats and the Scarlet Knights. On Sept. 29, NU stormed into Piscataway, New Jersey, and easily dispatched Rutgers with a 3-0 sweep.

Abbott led the way with 13 kills on just 23 attempts, freshman middle hitter Alana Walker added seven kills on 10 attempts and senior setter Taylor Tashima had 32 assists.

Since that win, NU has won just five sets in seven matches and now sits third to last in the Big Ten, ahead of only Indiana and the Scarlet Knights.

The Cats bested the Hoosiers on Oct. 6 for their only other conference win of the season.

Going into Wednesday’s match, Walker said NU is still confident in its abilities.

“Rutgers is a team we have seen before and we won, but we definitely need to capitalize on the fact that we have seen them before,” she said. “This would be a good win for us, going into

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it with a full set of confidence but also playing to our abilities and taking advantage of knowing that we are the better team.”

The Cats will need to lean on Abbott, who leads the Big Ten with 4.34 kills per set, and freshman outside hitter Nia Robinson, who sits at 12th in the conference with 3.35 kills per set. NU is one of only two Big Ten teams with multiple players in the top 12.

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The NCAA women’s soccer selection committee will soon analyze Northwestern’s qualifications for the field of 64, but the Wildcats are not interested in their playoff standing.

They just hope to extend their winning streak to four on Wednesday and guarantee their postseason starts in Evanston.

Northwestern vs. Michigan State

East Lansing, Michigan 5 p.m. Wednesday

NU (9-6-2, 6-3-1 Big Ten) travels to Michigan State (6-10-1, 2-7-1) with a chance to clinch a top-four seed in the Big Ten Tournament and secure home advantage in the first round.

Despite the exciting stretch ahead, senior goalkeeper Lauren Clem, who earned Big Ten defensive player honors for the second-straight week, said

the Cats believe in the “one game at a time” mantra.

“That’s exactly what we’re doing and that’s how we play our best,” Clem said.

“At the start of this little three (game) streak, we knew from here on out we had to get a result in every one. Michigan State is next; whatever result we get then we’ll look forward from there.”

Entering the regular season finale, the Cats sit third in the Big Ten, within striking distance of second but » See WOMEN’S SOCCER, page 7

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Rutgers is a team we have seen before and we won, but we definitely need to capitalize on the fact that we have seen them before.

Alana Walker, Freshman middle-hitter

NU is coming off a pair of particularly tough weekend matches, where the Cats were swept by both No. 7 Nebraska and Iowa. But Abbott said the team is still looking forward to the rest of the season.

“You need a short memory in this conference,” she said. “We need to » See VOLLEYBALL, page 7

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McKenna Angotti fights a defender for the ball. The freshman midfielder and the Wildcats will face Michigan State on Wednesday.